Aircraft
42-32035
815thlost with another unit after transfer, 24 April 1944
- Type
- B-17G-35-BO (Boeing)
- Assigned to the 483rd
- 13 March 1944
- Transferred
- {'date': '1944-03-31', 'text': 'transferred 416BS/99BG Tortorella'}
- Sources
- Association page · American Air Museum · b17flyingfortress.de
History
- 16 January 1944Delivered Cheyenne
- 1 February 1944Kansas City
- 5 February 1944MacDill
- 9 March 1944Morrison
- 13 March 1944Assigned 815BS/483BG Tortorella
- 31 March 1944transferred 416BS/99BG Tortorella
- Missing in Action {10m} Ploesti 24/4/44 with Henry Schmaltz, Co-pilot: Gerald Briggs, Navigator: Chas Paglieri, Bombardier: Marvin Lorder(?Lober), Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Verne Shive, Radio Operator: Fred Engel, Ball turret gunner: John Itzcak, Waist gunner: Chas Webb, Waist gunner: ChasWheeler,Tail gunner: Bill Dooley
- enemy aircraft, crashed Ploesti
- Missing Air Crew Report 4390
Dates and events from Dave Osborne's B-17 Master Log, as published by b17flyingfortress.de; wording condensed to the facts.
Reports filed by other units
- MACR 4390 · 99th BG 416th BS; 42-32035 · National Archives
Photographs and loss sheets
- B-17 42-32035 B-17 G 35 BO · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17 42-32035 B-17 G 35 BO · view at 15thaf.org
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