B-17 Flying Fortress B-17 43-37572 / Sassy Lassie

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 43-37572 / Sassy Lassie
General
Manufacturer: Boeing
Production-Block: , B-17G-65-BO: 43-37509 to 43-37673
Operational History
Bomb Group: , 100th Bomb Group
Bomb Squadron: , 349th Bomb Squadron
RCL XR-S
MACR 7878
Fate: , Lost by flak/aa-fire
(05 August 1944)
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History of
B-17 43-37572 / Sassy Lassie

Delivered Cheyenne 30/4/44; Kearney 11/5/44; Grenier 27/5/44; Assigned 349BS/100BG [XR-S] Thorpe Abbotts 30/5/44; Missing in Action Halberstadt 5/8/44 with Tony Gallagher, Co-pilot: Gordon Bowen, Navigator: Bill Edmondson, Bombardier: Ralph Ingalls, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Joe Lucas, Radio Operator: Albert Prince, Ball turret gunner: Walt Wittendorf, Waist gunner: John Zaher,Tail gunner: Herman Hartmoor (9 Killed in Action); flak hit as bombs were released and ship disintegrated, crashed Magdeburg, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 7878. SASSY LASSY.

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