Aircraft
42-38207
815thlost with another unit after transfer, 5 April 1944
- Type
- B-17G-30-DL (Douglas)
- Assigned to the 483rd
- 30 March 1944
- Transferred
- {'date': '1944-03-31', 'text': 'transferred 346BS/99BG Tortorella'}
- 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 lost after transfer; the Master Log cites MACR 3695 (another units report, not downloaded unless listed in macr_overrides.csv)
History
- 14 January 1944Delivered Cheyenne
- 6 February 1944MacDill
- 16 March 1944Assigned 94BG Rougham
- 30 March 1944transferred 815BS/483BG Tortorella
- 31 March 1944transferred 346BS/99BG Tortorella
- {1m} Missing in Action Ploesti 4/5/44 with Julian Currie, Botkins, Giles, Hall, Phillips, Brewer, McTierman, Snyder, Flaherty, Haumann
- flak, ten chutes seen, crashed Caracal, Romania ?
- Missing Air Crew Report 3695
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 42-38207 B-17 G 30 DL · view at 15thaf.org
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