On bomb run of mission on 8 December 1943, I glanced over at A\/C in 13 position and noticed he was releasing bombs; that he was early or I was late, since my indices were still five seconds apart. I noticed two of his bombs dropped in train, then train stopped. Immediately after there was an internal explosion in bomb bay of A\/C. The left bomb bay door was blown off and the right shattered. Segments of right door were protruding outward, further proving the explosion was internal.<\/p>\n
Later, the ship passed under us and back, I noticed that there were no holes in top or sides of fuselage. Just before shop went out of sight I saw three parachutes come out and open.<\/p>\n
1st Lt. Charles R. Glenn, Bombardier on positon 12 A\/C<\/strong><\/p>\n On mission of 8 December 1943, I saw A\/C 42-3137 peel of from the left wing. It circled slowly below us; five parachutes came out in quick succession. After that, the A\/C went into a slow spin and as it neared the water it exploded. This happened about a mile off shore. In as much as the flak was not in the vicinity of the A\/C, I believe the accident was due to an explosion fragmentation bombs in the A\/C.<\/p>\n S\/Sgt. Adolph G. Bauman, Ball turret gunner on positon 12 A\/C<\/strong><\/p>\n On mission of 8 December 1943, it locked as though smoke was coming out from between No. 1 engine and the fuselage. As it pulled over to our right, out of formatio, I saw six parachutes leave the A\/C 42-3137. After which it went over on its left wing and glided down. When it was approcimately 1,000 feet above the water it blew up. I think this accident was caused by the explosion of a fragmentation bomb in the bomb bay.<\/p>\n S\/Sgt. Hamilton A. Moore on positon 21 A\/C<\/strong><\/p>\n Source: MACR\u00a01481<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Delivered Cheyenne 11\/2\/43; Morrison 29\/4\/43; Assigned 353BS\/301BG St Donat 22\/4\/43; Oudna 6\/8\/43; Cerignola 7\/12\/43; Missing in Action {38m} Athens 8\/12\/43 with Jack Scott, Rousselle, Niemiec, O\u2019Brien, Morgan, Ross (6 Prisoner of War); Patton, French, Tyson (3 Killed in Action); flak hit in ball turret, eight bailed and then ship exploded; Missing Air Crew Report 1481.","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"airplane-status":[135],"status-date":[1218],"status-day":[1863],"status-month":[1865],"status-year":[1894],"production-block":[39],"manufacturer":[131],"delivered":[],"project-number":[],"bomb-group":[276],"bomb-squadron":[438],"raf-service":[],"b17tags":[],"class_list":["post-8091","b17database","type-b17database","status-publish","hentry","airplane-status-lost-by-aa-flak","status-date-08-12-1943","status-day-1863","status-month-december","status-year-1894","production-block-b-17f-25-dl-42-3074-42-3148","manufacturer-douglas","bomb-group-301st-bomb-group","bomb-squadron-353rd-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\/8091","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=8091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"airplane-status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/airplane-status?post=8091"},{"taxonomy":"status-date","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/status-date?post=8091"},{"taxonomy":"status-day","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/status-day?post=8091"},{"taxonomy":"status-month","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/status-month?post=8091"},{"taxonomy":"status-year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/status-year?post=8091"},{"taxonomy":"production-block","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/production-block?post=8091"},{"taxonomy":"manufacturer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manufacturer?post=8091"},{"taxonomy":"delivered","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/delivered?post=8091"},{"taxonomy":"project-number","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project-number?post=8091"},{"taxonomy":"bomb-group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bomb-group?post=8091"},{"taxonomy":"bomb-squadron","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bomb-squadron?post=8091"},{"taxonomy":"raf-service","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/raf-service?post=8091"},{"taxonomy":"b17tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/b17tags?post=8091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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