{"id":7036,"date":"2018-06-08T02:00:50","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T00:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/?post_type=b17database&#038;p=7036"},"modified":"2021-08-22T10:03:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T08:03:03","slug":"43-38473","status":"publish","type":"b17database","link":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/b17\/43-38473\/","title":{"rendered":"43-38473"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>B-17 #43-38473&nbsp;collided with <a href=\"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/b17\/42-97400-little-stinker-aka-fuddy-duddy\">B-17G &#8220;Fuddy Duddy&#8221; #42-97400<\/a> near target on 30 December 1944. Which was believed to be caused by &#8220;prop wash&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Remarks or Eyewitness Statements:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aircraft #42-97400 and 43-38473 collided at 1502 hours at 5055N-0910E at 26500 feet, in vicinity of I.P. #478 flying in No. 2 position of low section im lead squadron and #400 flying #4 of low section lead squadron. #473 lost altitude and #400 gained altitude at the same time. Reason for this is unknown, but believed prop wash responsible. #400 had fuselage cut into two and went into clouds in uncontrolled spin. Elevators of #473 were sheared off and it, two, disappeared into clouds out of control. No chutes observed from either plane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source: MACR 11240<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Delivered Cheyenne 7\/8\/44; Lincoln 17\/8\/44; Grenier 2\/9\/44; Assigned 708BS\/447BG Rattlesden 8\/9\/44; Missing in Action Kassel 30\/12\/44 with Bruce Bates, Herb Nachman, George Mixon, Bob Cordell, Jim Toler, Bill Lindsey, Bill Wheeler, Clair Palm, Ben Torre (9 Killed in Action); mid air coll, crashed St\u00fcrzenhardt (57km SE of Darmstadt; 57km SW of W\u00fcrzburg), Germany. 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