At 1130, 12500 feet, just before the I.P. A\/C No. 42-29778 from this Group, received a head on attack from an FW 190 and No. 3 engine caught fire. A\/C left formation under control, and later all four engines began to burn. A\/C was seen to hit ground. As many as 9 chutes were reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is reported by S\/Sgt. Leonard L. Gibbs.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Delivered Denver 18\/2\/43; Salina 10\/3\/43; Smoky Hill 15\/4\/43; Dow Fd 18\/4\/43; Assigned: 338BS\/96BG Grafton Underwood 25\/4\/43 GREEN FURY; Transferred: 322BS\/91BG [LG-M] Bassingbourn 24\/8\/43; MIA Anklam 9\/10\/43 Pilot: Alex Stewart, Radio Operator: Bob Smith, Ball Turret Gunner: Bill Keefer, Waist Gunner: Durell Clayton, Waist Gunner: Len Waldron, Tail Gunner: Carl Chase (6KIA), Co-Pilot: Don Strunk, Navigator: Bill Turcotte, Bombardier: Jim Brown, Engineer \/ Top Turret Gunner: Leo Severson (4POW); Enemy aircraft, crashed close to Neu Brandenburg, Germany. MACR 897.","protected":false},"featured_media":9709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"airplane-status":[136],"status-date":[168],"status-day":[1886],"status-month":[1849],"status-year":[1894],"production-block":[25],"manufacturer":[130],"delivered":[],"project-number":[],"bomb-group":[270,293],"bomb-squadron":[351,364],"raf-service":[],"b17tags":[695],"class_list":["post-9708","b17database","type-b17database","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","airplane-status-lost-by-enemy-aircraft","status-date-09-10-1943","status-day-1886","status-month-october","status-year-1894","production-block-b-17f-70-bo-42-29732-42-29831","manufacturer-boeing","bomb-group-91st-bomb-group","bomb-group-96th-bomb-group","bomb-squadron-322nd-bomb-squadron","bomb-squadron-338th-bomb-squadron","b17tags-slide"],"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\/9708","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=9708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"airplane-status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/airplane-status?post=9708"},{"taxonomy":"status-date","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/status-date?post=9708"},{"taxonomy":"status-day","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/status-day?post=9708"},{"taxonomy":"status-month","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/status-month?post=9708"},{"taxonomy":"status-year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/status-year?post=9708"},{"taxonomy":"production-block","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/production-block?post=9708"},{"taxonomy":"manufacturer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manufacturer?post=9708"},{"taxonomy":"delivered","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/delivered?post=9708"},{"taxonomy":"project-number","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project-number?post=9708"},{"taxonomy":"bomb-group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bomb-group?post=9708"},{"taxonomy":"bomb-squadron","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bomb-squadron?post=9708"},{"taxonomy":"raf-service","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/raf-service?post=9708"},{"taxonomy":"b17tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b17flyingfortress.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/b17tags?post=9708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}