I was the cameraman aboard ship # 526. We had been under oxygen for several minutes and I was looking out the right window of the radio room. We ran into some overcast and I saw a ship about four or five hundred yards behind us at about five o’clock level. Then I looked over at our wing ship and the overcast had just about covered it. When I looked again at the ship behind it was blazing all over. About two hundred yards above it there was a smoking mass that appeared to be a P-38 but could possibly have been the tail of #470. The B-17 was falling almost vertically and soon disappeared through the clouds. The other burning object followed it through the clouds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
S\/Sgt. Leonard Y. Trapp I was flying as tail gunner on aircraft number 42-29775. At 12:35 hours our Squadron flew into a cloud bank and aircraft number 42-5470 was about a half mile behind us. When we hit a clear spot in the clouds I saw some P-38’s turn in towards our formation at three o’clock and then head out at a four o’clock angle from our aircraft. One of these P-38’s collided with what I believe to have been aircraft number 42-5470.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It appeared that the P-38 hit this aircraft at the escape hatch. Aircraft number 42-5470 turned over on its back. A piece of wing fell off, and then some objects fell out that may possibly have been three members of the crew. One of the objects appeared to be on fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cpl. James D. Gysan Source: MACR 1820<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Delivered Denver 14\/12\/42; Morrison 31\/1\/43; Assigned 346BS\/99BG Navarin 3\/3\/43; Oudna 4\/8\/43; Tortorella 11\/12\/43; Missing in Action Piraeus 11\/1\/44 with Joe Donahue, Lilly, Schroeder, Broggs, Ritter, Branz, Douglas (7 Killed in Action); Raftery, Sherris, Trinoskey (3 evaded capture & Returned to Duty); crashed Kalavrya, Greece. Missing Air Crew Report 1820. RESTLESS BESS.","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"airplane-status":[133],"status-date":[231],"status-day":[1858],"status-month":[1860],"status-year":[1892],"production-block":[75],"manufacturer":[130],"delivered":[],"project-number":[],"bomb-group":[295],"bomb-squadron":[457],"raf-service":[],"b17tags":[],"class_list":["post-10512","b17database","type-b17database","status-publish","hentry","airplane-status-mid-air-collision","status-date-11-01-1944","status-day-1858","status-month-january","status-year-1892","production-block-b-17f-50-bo-42-5350-42-5484","manufacturer-boeing","bomb-group-99th-bomb-group","bomb-squadron-346th-bomb-squadron"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.0","language":"en","enabled_languages":["de","en"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/b17database\/10512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/b17database"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/b17database"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"airplane-status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/airplane-status?post=10512"},{"taxonomy":"status-date","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/status-date?post=10512"},{"taxonomy":"status-day","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/status-day?post=10512"},{"taxonomy":"status-month","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/status-month?post=10512"},{"taxonomy":"status-year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/status-year?post=10512"},{"taxonomy":"production-block","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/production-block?post=10512"},{"taxonomy":"manufacturer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manufacturer?post=10512"},{"taxonomy":"delivered","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/delivered?post=10512"},{"taxonomy":"project-number","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project-number?post=10512"},{"taxonomy":"bomb-group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bomb-group?post=10512"},{"taxonomy":"bomb-squadron","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bomb-squadron?post=10512"},{"taxonomy":"raf-service","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/raf-service?post=10512"},{"taxonomy":"b17tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/b17tags?post=10512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
B-17 #42-29526<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Tail Gunner B-17 #42-29775<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n