Aircraft
42-32062
815thlost with another unit after transfer, 2 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
- 18 January 1944Delivered Denver
- 21 January 1944Cheyenne
- 5 February 1944MacDill
- 9 March 1944Morrison
- 13 March 1944Assigned 815BS/483BG Tortorella
- 31 March 1944transferred 416BS/99BG Tortorella
- Missing in Action {1m} Steyr, Aus. 2/4/44 with Joe Moffitt, Co-pilot: John Guldan, Navigator: Phil Melnik, Bombardier: Bob Wort (Nori?), Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Lester Malone, Radio Operator: Edsel Barker, Dailey (7POW?)
- 2 May 1944Vernon Baldwin, Gene Fast, Frank Cramer (3 evaded capture), ret
- enemy aircraft, two engines out, crash landed Oglin, Yugo
- Missing Air Crew Report 4909
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 4909 · 99th BG 416th BS, 2 Apr 1944 Steyr, before the 483rd flew its first mission; 42-32062 · National Archives
Photographs and loss sheets
- B-17 42-32062 B-17 G 35 BO · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17 42-32062 B-17 G 35 BO · view at 15thaf.org
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