Production-block:
B-17G-45-DL: 44-6126 to 44-6250
Manufacturer:
Douglas
- Bomb Group:
- 463rd Bomb Group
- Bomb Squadron:
- 772nd Bomb Squadron
MACR: 9717
History of
B-17 44-6194 / Berlin Sleeper III
Delivered Tulsa 27/5/44; Hunter 21/6/44; Dow Fd 2/7/44; Assigned 772BS/463BG Celone 12/7/44; Missing in Action Ploesti 19/8/44 with Gordon Heap, Co-pilot: Jim Terry, Navigator: Warren Laufe, Waist gunner: Edgar Baker (4 Killed in Action); Bombardier: Sylvan Levey, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Tom Goode, Radio Operator: Rolland Nuber, Ball turret gunner: John McGlynchey,Tail gunner: John Creviston (5 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed Ploesti; Missing Air Crew Report 9717. BERLIN SLEEPER III.
Last updated: 11. June 2018
03. May 2019 access_time 15:03
This was my grandfather’s plane before he was sent home. His name was Robert M Kilmark. He was a pilot with the four sixty-third 772nd out of foggia