{"id":14637,"date":"2019-10-04T02:00:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T00:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/?post_type=b17database&#038;p=14637"},"modified":"2025-09-27T19:53:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T17:53:56","slug":"42-31359","status":"publish","type":"b17database","link":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/b17\/42-31359\/","title":{"rendered":"42-31359"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mid-air-collision with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/b17\/42-102662\/\">B-17 #42-102662<\/a>&nbsp;on 21 June 1944.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Following statement obtained by S-2 Section, 452nd Group at interrogation after return of mission:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At 1040 hours two B-17s flying #4 and #6 position in the Low Squadron of the 452nd \u2013 B Group collied at 52\u00b052\u201c \u2013 13\u00b010\u201c. Both planed went down at 52\u00b055\u201c \u2013 12\u00b050\u201c. Just after bombs away, in making a right turn, the #4 plane (662) was caught in a prop wash and the #6 plane (359) whose tail assembly was already damaged by flak run into the first plane and chowed up its tail. One plane blew up and the other went down in a tight spiral. 6-7 chutes were seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source: MACR 6238<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Delivered Cheyenne 25\/10\/43; Walla Walla 9\/11\/43; Assigned: 731BS\/452BG Deopham Green 3\/1\/44; MIA Berlin 21\/6\/44 Pilot: Harry Lerum, Melvin Van Gundy, Ken Salsbury, George Slessman (4POW); Dick Dean, Paul Young, Fred Thomas, Ed McGrath, Dick Graham, Willard Johnson (6KIA); mid air coll w\/42-102662 (452BG), crashed Rheinsberg, Germany. MACR 6238.","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"airplane-status":[133],"status-date":[187],"status-day":[1880],"status-month":[1873],"status-year":[1892],"production-block":[45],"manufacturer":[130],"delivered":[1813],"project-number":[],"bomb-group":[275],"bomb-squadron":[350],"raf-service":[],"b17tags":[],"class_list":["post-14637","b17database","type-b17database","status-publish","hentry","airplane-status-mid-air-collision","status-date-21-06-1944","status-day-1880","status-month-june","status-year-1892","production-block-b-17g-15-bo-42-31332-42-31431","manufacturer-boeing","delivered-cheyenne","bomb-group-452nd-bomb-group","bomb-squadron-731st-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\/14637","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=14637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"airplane-status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/airplane-status?post=14637"},{"taxonomy":"status-date","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/status-date?post=14637"},{"taxonomy":"status-day","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/status-day?post=14637"},{"taxonomy":"status-month","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/status-month?post=14637"},{"taxonomy":"status-year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/status-year?post=14637"},{"taxonomy":"production-block","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/production-block?post=14637"},{"taxonomy":"manufacturer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manufacturer?post=14637"},{"taxonomy":"delivered","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/delivered?post=14637"},{"taxonomy":"project-number","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project-number?post=14637"},{"taxonomy":"bomb-group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bomb-group?post=14637"},{"taxonomy":"bomb-squadron","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bomb-squadron?post=14637"},{"taxonomy":"raf-service","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/raf-service?post=14637"},{"taxonomy":"b17tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/b17tags?post=14637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}