
Production-block:
B-17G-105-BO: 43-39074 to 43-39273
Manufacturer:
Boeing
- Bomb Group:
- 487th Bomb Group
- Bomb Squadron:
- 838th Bomb Squadron
- RCL: 2C-P
MACR: 13110
History of
B-17 43-39173 / Lecherous Lou
Delivered Hunter 23/12/44; Dow Fd 10/1/45; Assigned 838BS/487BG Lavenham 19/2/45; Missing in Action Ruhland 17/3/45 with Paul Kohr, Walter Moore, Bill Crow, Dick Moore, Tom Emerson, Dick Sprock, John Atkinson, Chas Felker, Bob Gutschow (9 Returned to Duty); flak, crash landed Kamenz, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 13110. LECHEROUS LOU.
Last updated: 22. August 2017
01. January 2024 access_time 21:08
I worked with Chas Felker at the Pentagon in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He told me he was a tail gunner on a B-17, and his plane was shot down in 1945. That’s all I know. Can anyone please tell me more about the plane, the mission, what happened to the crew? Were they captured? Sent to a Stalag Luft POW camp? If so, for how long and when were they liberated? Thank you for any information!
16. January 2025 access_time 3:53
I worked with Chas Felker at the Pentagon in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He told me he was a tail gunner on a B-17, and his plane was shot down in 1945. That’s all I know. Can anyone please tell me more about the plane, the mission, what happened to the crew? Were they captured? Sent to a Stalag Luft POW camp? If so, for how long and when were they liberated? Thank you for any information!