Production-block:
B-17G-55-DL: 44-6501 to 44-6625
Manufacturer:
Douglas
- Bomb Group:
- 483rd Bomb Group
- Bomb Squadron:
- 817th Bomb Squadron
MACR: 13242
History of
B-17 44-6538 / Miss Prissy
Delivered Hunter 2/9/44; Grenier 22/9/44; Assigned 817BS/483BG Sterparone 28/9/44; Missing in Action Ruhland 22/3/45 with Ralph Bates, Kallock, Fischer, Jacobs, Brewer (5 Returned to Duty); McCauley, Thaen Kwock Lee, Brennan, Piersall, Pickard (5 Prisoner of War); jet enemy aircraft, crashed Breslau; Missing Air Crew Report 13242. MISS PRISSY.
Last updated: 2. March 2019
B-17 44-6538 / Miss Prissy Details
Waist gunner S/Sgt. Thaen Kwock Lee.
He recalled that he and his crew bailed out in their parachutes and while descending back to earth, they were attacked by German Me-262s:
Three fighters came after me. The first one missed and the second also missed. When the third one came by I was too low for him to shoot at me. When I hit the ground a burst of machine gun was fired at me. I hit the dirt fast. Then German soldiers came and drove me on a motorcycle to a building. On the way we passed a row of dead American airmen, about twelve of them covered with blood soaked parachutes. I knew they were shot dead on the way down.
Quelle: Attacks on parachutists, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Attacks_on_parachutists&oldid=796869488 (last visited Oct. 8, 2017).
28. April 2022 access_time 14:42
my father,though he isnt mentioned ,was the ball turret gunner,staff sgt thomas piersall
.he was captured and spent the rest of the war in a pow camp.along with the other pows ,they were starving to death when they were abandoned