Production-block:
B-17G-65-BO: 43-37509 to 43-37673
Manufacturer:
Boeing
- Bomb Group:
- 100th Bomb Group
- Bomb Squadron:
- 349th Bomb Squadron
- RCL: 5383
MACR: 5383
History of
B-17 43-37591
elivered Cheyenne 2/5/44; Hunter 2/5/44; Dow Fd 24/5/44; Assigned 349BS/100BG [XR- ] Thorpe Abbotts 27/5/44; Missing in Action Abbeville 5/6/44 with Chas Peterson, Co-pilot: Jim Keefe, Navigator: Elmer Vishion, Bombardier: Jim Jones, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Carl Phillips, Radio Operator: Paul Zima, Ball turret gunner: Jim Heller, Waist gunner: Dick Sawaya,Tail gunner: Corwin Alspach (9 Killed in Action); Waist gunner: Andy Addison (Prisoner of War); mid air coll with 42-107095 (100BG); crashed two miles E of Hardelot, four miles S of Boulogne, Fr. Missing Air Crew Report 5383.
Last updated: 25. September 2017
B-17 43-37591 Details
Mid-air-collision with B-17 #42-107095 ‘Little Bit’ on 5th June 1944.
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