Aircraft
42-32068 Heaven Can Wait
840thlost with another unit after transfer, 28 July 1944
- Type
- B-17G-35-BO (Boeing)
- Names
- Heaven Can Wait
- Assigned to the 483rd
- 13 March 1944
- Transferred
- {'date': '1944-03-31', 'text': 'transferred 346BS/99BG Tortorella'}
- Sources
- Association page · American Air Museum · b17flyingfortress.de
History
- 20 January 1944Delivered Cheyenne
- 3 February 1944MacDill
- 9 March 1944Morrison
- 13 March 1944Assigned 840BS/483BG Tortorella
- 31 March 1944transferred 346BS/99BG Tortorella
- Missing in Action {46m} Ploesti 28/7/44 with Dave Conner, Allen Pope, Strunk, Araiza, Chalifoux, Curry, Jeffers, Quesenberry, Tipton
- flak, crashed Sienisa, Yugo?
- Missing Air Crew Report 7122. HEAVEN CAN WAIT
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 7122 · 99th BG, 28 Jul 1944; 42-32068 · National Archives
Photographs and loss sheets
- B-17 42-32068 B-17 G 35 BO 'Heaven Can Wait' · view at 15thaf.org
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