B-17 Flying Fortress B-17 43-38043

History of
B-17 43-38043

Delivered Cheyenne 19/6/44; Kearney 28/6/44; Grenier 15/7/44; Assigned 350BS/100BG [LN-T]; Thorpe Abbotts 17/7/44; Missing in Action Ruhland 11/9/44 with Howard Schulte, Ball turret gunner: George Berg, Waist gunner: Walt Budziszewski (3 Killed in Action); Co-pilot: Dick Kiern, Navigator: Jerome Hutcheson, Bombardier: Ken Summers, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Carl Harre, Radio Operator: Lester Swink,Tail gunner: Otto Reichl (6 Prisoner of War); hit by 20 mm shell then by flak, crashed Machern, E of Leipzig, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 8814.

Last updated: 12. October 2017