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Source:
www.fold3.com
Production-block:
B-17G-70-BO: 43-37674 to 43-37873
Manufacturer:
Boeing
- Bomb Group:
- 381st Bomb Group
- Bomb Squadron:
- 535th Bomb Squadron
- RCL: MS-J
Missions: 17
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History of
B-17 43-37704 / Button Nose
Delivered Cheyenne 13/5/44; Kearney 24/5/44; Dow Fd 6/6/44; Assigned: 535BS/381BG [MS-J] Ridgewell 16/6/44; battle damage {17m} Cauvincourt 8/8/44 Pilot: Beackley; aircraft abandoned near Caen, 9RTD. BUTTON NOSE.
Last updated: 17. November 2018
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28. November 2023 access_time 1:44
My wife’s grandfather, Oscar (Sam) Meyerscough was the primary pilot of this plane. He was the one who named it after my wife’s grandmother because of her button nose. He and his crew fortunately were on leave when it was shot down. I would greatly appreciate if anyone has any information about him, his crew or this plane to send it along to me.
31. January 2024 access_time 13:30
I have found this information on the 381st war diary page. That name comes up often, including the date he was transferred out.
Lts Tuz (with Barnicle), Lang, Roberts, Jarvill, O’Connor, Demagalski, Stalling Long and Hatherley. 1st Lt Broderick, mickey-navigator, flew with Lt Col Hall in the 532nd’s lead PFF bomber.
The story on Barnicle is short but of some interest. Flak hit his ship, “Button Nose” hard on the way to the bomb run, started a fire in the bomb bay after doors were open and tore an extinguisher out of T/Sgts Glover’s hand as the engineer went out to fight the blaze. Barnicle pulled out of the formation and headed back. When fire in the bomb bay and right wing got out of control he ordered the boys to bail out, leaving last himself.
The plane crashed into a schoolhouse near the Canadian side of the line close to Caen. Exploding bombs fortunately caused no casualties. Barnicle and his crew came down rather widely separated, a few hung up in trees, but none was more shaken up or bruised a bit.
The officers and men were gathered up by the British – a private climbed the tree in which Lt Long was hanging, helped extricate hime from his harness, and spent the nigh at a C-47 base, where Barnicle won several hundred francs in a crap game. All but two were flown back in a transport the next day. The latter are in Allied hands and will be home soon.
07. December 2023 access_time 23:35
This is not much information I know, but who knows each little bit might matter.
Maybe 15 or 20 years ago I was at a Barnes and Knoble in St Cloud Mn. I helped an elderly gentleman and wife. He was looking through B-17 nose art books. Specifically for this plane Button Nose. We didn’t find anything then and the Internet wasn’t quite as prevelent as it is now. I don’t remember if he told me his name. It seems to me that his position in the plane may have been waist gunner. Periodically I have checked the Internet for this plane. This is the first time I’ve seen it. I don’t know which of the crews he was with. Hope this helps that’s all I know.