Aircraft
42-32071 Moonbeam McSwine / Moonbeam McSwine aka Nine Wolves and Poppa aka Freddie H
817thlost with another unit after transfer, 8 February 1945
- Type
- B-17G-35-BO (Boeing)
- Names
- Moonbeam McSwine / Moonbeam McSwine aka Nine Wolves and Poppa aka Freddie H
- Assigned to the 483rd
- 11 March 1944
- Transferred
- {'date': None, 'text': 'transferred 416BS/99BG Tortorella 31/3/44 MOONBEAM McSWINE'}
- Sources
- Association page · American Air Museum · b17flyingfortress.de
History
- 21 January 1944Delivered Cheyenne
- 4 February 1944MacDill
- 7 March 1944Morrison
- 11 March 1944Assigned 817BS/483BG Tortorella
- transferred 416BS/99BG Tortorella 31/3/44 MOONBEAM McSWINE
- re-named NINE WOLVES & POPPA
- Missing in Action {93m} Graz, Aus. 8/2/45 with Harry Schuld, Sumerall, Hagins, Agronow, Molnar, Kulberg, Goodwin, Wrona, Conley (8 Killed in Action)
- Frank Smith, Kosczyarek (2 Prisoner of War)
- mid air coll with 44-6691, crashed Kapsovar
- Missing Air Crew Report 12082. FREDDY-H
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 12082 · 99th BG 416th BS, Tortorella, 8 Feb 1945 Graz; 42-32071 · National Archives
Photographs and loss sheets
- B-17 42-32071 B-17 G 35 BO 'Moonbeam McSwine' · view at 15thaf.org
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