Aircraft
42-102939
lost or wrecked with the 483rd, no report located, 16 March 1945
- Type
- B-17G-60-BO (Boeing)
- Sources
- b17flyingfortress.de
Flags. loss or accident during 483rd service known from the Master Log (it cites MACR 10353); no Association sheet not on the Association aircraft pages; known from the databases
History
- 20 April 1944Delivered Cheyenne
- 1 May 1944Hunter
- 15 May 1944Dow Fd
- 20 May 1944Assigned 483BS Sterparone
- 17 July 1944transferred 340BS/97BG Tortorella
- Missing in Action Vienna 16/3/44 with P: Donald G. Wilson – KIA
- CP: Camile Kelley – RTD
- NAV: John B. Turner – KIA
- BOMB: Arthur G. Drago – RTD
- ENG/TT: Elmer D. Heater, Jr. – KIA
- RO: Wesley M. Herborn – KIA
- BT: Nicholas A. Catello: KIA
- WG: Mack D. Rupard – RTD
- WG: Joseph R. Cornett – KIA
- TG: Irving Shankles – RTD
- coll with 44-6757, ditched Adriatic Sea
- Missing Air Crew Report 10353
Dates and events from Dave Osborne's B-17 Master Log, as published by b17flyingfortress.de; wording condensed to the facts.
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