Aircraft
42-32058
840thlost with another unit after transfer, 13 April 1944
- Type
- B-17G-35-BO (Boeing)
- Assigned to the 483rd
- 13 March 1944
- Transferred
- {'date': '1944-03-31', 'text': 'transferred 96BS/2BG Amendola'}
- Sources
- Association page · American Air Museum · b17flyingfortress.de
Flags. the two republications of the Master Log line differ; AAM text kept, b17flyingfortress.de text in log_variant
History
- 22 January 1944Delivered Cheyenne
- 5 February 1944MacDill
- 9 March 1944Morrison
- 13 March 1944Assigned 840BS/483BG Tortorella
- 31 March 1944transferred 96BS/2BG Amendola
- Missing in Action 9m Gyor, Hung. 13/4/44 with Ken Reeves, Co-pilot: Pat Kelly, Navigator: Thurman Comer, Bombardier: Bob Pioli, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Melbourne Riddle, Radio Operator: Roy Wohlbruck, Ball turret gunner: Marshall Feltner, Waist gunner: Jarrel Clendenin, Waist gunner: Cornelius Stinson (KIA),Tail gunner: John Pezel (9 Prisoner of War)
- flak hits plus enemy aircraft fired rocket, #3 engine on fire, aircraft exploded. Waist gunner murdered by Hungarian civilians. Missing Air Crew Report 3917
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 3917 · 2nd BG 96th BS, Amendola; 42-32058 · National Archives
Photographs and loss sheets
- B-17 42-32058 B-17 G 35 BO · view at 15thaf.org
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