{"id":2936,"date":"2017-06-24T10:02:17","date_gmt":"2017-06-24T08:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/?post_type=b17database&#038;p=2936"},"modified":"2020-02-28T18:36:51","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T17:36:51","slug":"42-38204","status":"publish","type":"b17database","link":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/b17\/42-38204\/","title":{"rendered":"42-38204"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Statement of S\/Sgt. Samuel C. Ross from MACR 4271<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On the mission to Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, on 24 April 1944, I was the tail gunner on A\/C #<a href=\"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/b17\/42-38051-my-yorkshire-dream\/\">42-38051<\/a> which was flying in #6 position in the high squadron in the high group in the 41st &#8220;B&#8221; Combat Wing. A\/C #42-38204, the missing A\/C, was flying in #7 position in the same squadron. The relative positions are shown in the formation below. Three or four minutes after passing Strasbourg, we received our first fighter attack. Four E\/A concentrated on the missing A\/C and knocked out one of its engines. The propeller on this engine was immediately feathered. Shortly thereafter it dropped back out of formation and jettisoned its bombs. Apparently the missing A\/C could not rejoin the formation because within a short time it turned off to the right toward Switzerland. When last seen, it was headed in that direction at an altutude of about 15000 feet.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-17957\" src=\"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/42-38204_formation-1024x512.png\" alt=\"42-38204 Formation\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/42-38204_formation-1024x512.png 1024w, https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/42-38204_formation-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/42-38204_formation-768x384.png 768w, https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/42-38204_formation-1536x768.png 1536w, https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/42-38204_formation-2048x1024.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Delivered Denver 14\/1\/44; Gr Island 31\/1\/44; Assigned 358BS\/303BG [VK-H] Molesworth 29\/2\/44, then 360BS [PU-H]; Missing in Action Oberpfaffenhofen (19m) 24\/4\/44; enemy aircraft &#038; flak KOd #3, crash landed Cointrin Afd, Geneva, Switz; Missing Air Crew Report 4271. 10 INT","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"airplane-status":[136,149],"status-date":[179],"status-day":[1878],"status-month":[1843],"status-year":[1892],"production-block":[67],"manufacturer":[131],"delivered":[],"project-number":[],"bomb-group":[277],"bomb-squadron":[336,339],"raf-service":[],"b17tags":[1232],"class_list":["post-2936","b17database","type-b17database","status-publish","hentry","airplane-status-lost-by-enemy-aircraft","airplane-status-interned","status-date-24-04-1944","status-day-1878","status-month-april","status-year-1892","production-block-b-17g-30-dl-42-38084-42-38213","manufacturer-douglas","bomb-group-303rd-bomb-group","bomb-squadron-358th-bomb-squadron","bomb-squadron-360th-bomb-squadron","b17tags-interned-in-switzerland"],"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\/2936","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=2936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"airplane-status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/airplane-status?post=2936"},{"taxonomy":"status-date","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/status-date?post=2936"},{"taxonomy":"status-day","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/status-day?post=2936"},{"taxonomy":"status-month","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/status-month?post=2936"},{"taxonomy":"status-year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/status-year?post=2936"},{"taxonomy":"production-block","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/production-block?post=2936"},{"taxonomy":"manufacturer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manufacturer?post=2936"},{"taxonomy":"delivered","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/delivered?post=2936"},{"taxonomy":"project-number","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project-number?post=2936"},{"taxonomy":"bomb-group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bomb-group?post=2936"},{"taxonomy":"bomb-squadron","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bomb-squadron?post=2936"},{"taxonomy":"raf-service","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/raf-service?post=2936"},{"taxonomy":"b17tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/b17tags?post=2936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}