Aircraft
42-38086
840thlost or wrecked with the 483rd, no report located, 17 November 1944
- Type
- B-17G-30-DL (Douglas)
- Loss
- Association record · mission 125, 17 November 1944
- Sources
- Association page · American Air Museum · b17flyingfortress.de
Loss and incident records
- Association record · 17 November 1944 · mission 125, 17 November 1944
Incidents
- 17 November 1944 · mission 125, 17 November 1944 · no Missing Air Crew Report located in the catalog for this aircraft; loss or incident known only from the Association aircraft page (sheets: Salzburg, Austria)
History
- 7 December 1943Delivered Denver
- 23 December 1943Kearney
- 30 December 1943Morrison
- 3 January 1944Assigned 346BS/99BG Tortorella
- {15m} crash landed Lucera (301BG) 10/2/44 with Joseph Connors
- rep. transferred 840BS/483BG Sterparone
- crashed on take off 17/11/44 with Francis Nance, Boswell, Hofsess, Barret, Kaufman, Bradbury, Taylor, Fannon, Sievers, Sullivan
- when two engines failed
- 18 November 1944crew OK, sal
Dates and events from Dave Osborne's B-17 Master Log, as published by b17flyingfortress.de; wording condensed to the facts.
Photographs and loss sheets
- B-17 42-38086 B-17 G 30 DL · view at 15thaf.org
- Loss sheet or report scan for B-17 42-38086, mission 125 Salzburg, Austria · 17 November 1944 · view at 15thaf.org
- Loss sheet or report scan for B-17 42-38086, mission 125 Salzburg, Austria · 17 November 1944 · view at 15thaf.org
- Loss sheet or report scan for B-17 42-38086, mission 125 Salzburg, Austria · 17 November 1944 · view at 15thaf.org
- Loss sheet or report scan for B-17 42-38086, mission 125 Salzburg, Austria · 17 November 1944 · view at 15thaf.org
- Loss sheet or report scan for B-17 42-38086, mission 125 Salzburg, Austria · 17 November 1944 · view at 15thaf.org
- Loss sheet or report scan for B-17 42-38086, mission 125 Salzburg, Austria · 17 November 1944 · view at 15thaf.org
- Loss sheet or report scan for B-17 42-38086, mission 125 Salzburg, Austria · 17 November 1944 · view at 15thaf.org
- Loss sheet or report scan for B-17 42-38086, mission 125 Salzburg, Austria · 17 November 1944 · view at 15thaf.org
- Loss sheet or report scan for B-17 42-38086, mission 125 Salzburg, Austria · 17 November 1944 · view at 15thaf.org
- Loss sheet or report scan for B-17 42-38086, mission 125 , Austria · 17 November 1944 · view at 15thaf.org
- Loss sheet or report scan for B-17 42-38086, mission 125 Salzburg, Austria · 17 November 1944 · view at 15thaf.org
- Loss sheet or report scan for B-17 42-38086, mission 125 Salzburg, Austria · 17 November 1944 · view at 15thaf.org
- Loss sheet or report scan for B-17 42-38086, mission 125 Salzburg, Austria · 17 November 1944 · view at 15thaf.org
- Loss sheet or report scan for B-17 42-38086, mission 125 Salzburg, Austria · 17 November 1944 · view at 15thaf.org
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