B-17 Flying Fortress B-17 42-97893 / Minnie The Moocher

History of
B-17 42-97893 / Minnie The Moocher

Delivered Tulsa 27/3/44; Kearney 23/5/44; Dow Fd 30/5/44; Assigned 360BS/303BG [PU-M] Molesworth 12/6/44; 427BS; Missing in Action Magdeburg 28/9/44 with John Matheson, Co-pilot: Jim Johnson, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Jim Smith, Ball turret gunner: Lloyd Hagan,Tail gunner: Chas Coughlin (5 Killed in Action); Navigator: Chas Gould, Bombardier: Lorin Hamann, Radio Operator: Leo Jeanbey, Waist gunner: Bill Fredenburg (4 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Schladen, near Homburg, S of Brunswick, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 9413. MINNIE THE MOOCHER.

Last updated: 7. September 2017