Aircraft
44-6387
815thlost or wrecked with the 483rd, no report located, 22 March 1945
- Type
- B-17G-50-DL (Douglas)
- Assigned to the 483rd
- 14 August 1944
- Loss
- Association record · mission 186, 22 March 1945
- Sources
- Association page · American Air Museum · b17flyingfortress.de
Loss and incident records
- Association record · 22 March 1945 · mission 186, 22 March 1945
Incidents
- 22 March 1945 · mission 186, 22 March 1945 · no Missing Air Crew Report located in the catalog for this aircraft; loss or incident known only from the Association aircraft page (sheets: Ruhland, Germany)
History
- 22 July 1944Delivered Hunter
- 4 August 1944Presque Is
- 13 August 1944Assigned 20BS/2BG Amendola
- 14 August 1944transferred 815BS/483BG Sterparone
- Missing in Action Ruhland 22/3/45 with Bob Davis, Boicelli, Fernlund, Chrystone, Powell, Guernsey, Eddie, Pyles (8 Prisoner of War)
- Gilmore, McFarlan (2 Killed in Action)
- flak & Me 262 jet enemy aircraft, crashed Ruhland
- 2KIA 8POW
- Missing Air Crew Report 13247
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 44-6387 B-17 G 50 DL · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17 44-6387 B-17 G 50 DL · view at 15thaf.org
- Loss sheet or report scan for B-17 44-6387, mission 186 Ruhland, Germany · 22 March 1945 · view at 15thaf.org
- Loss sheet or report scan for B-17 44-6387, mission 186 Ruhland, Germany · 22 March 1945 · view at 15thaf.org
- Loss sheet or report scan for B-17 44-6387, mission 186 Ruhland, Germany · 22 March 1945 · view at 15thaf.org
- Loss sheet or report scan for B-17 44-6387, mission 186 Ruhland, Germany · 22 March 1945 · view at 15thaf.org
- Loss sheet or report scan for B-17 44-6387, mission 186 Ruhland, Germany · 22 March 1945 · view at 15thaf.org
- Loss sheet or report scan for B-17 44-6387, mission 186 Ruhland, Germany · 22 March 1945 · view at 15thaf.org
- Loss sheet or report scan for B-17 44-6387, mission 186 Ruhland, Germany · 22 March 1945 · view at 15thaf.org
- Loss sheet or report scan for B-17 44-6387, mission 186 Ruhland, Germany · 22 March 1945 · view at 15thaf.org
- Loss sheet or report scan for B-17 44-6387, mission 186 Ruhland, Germany · 22 March 1945 · view at 15thaf.org
- Loss sheet or report scan for B-17 44-6387, mission 186 Ruhland, Germany · 22 March 1945 · view at 15thaf.org
- Loss sheet or report scan for B-17 44-6387, mission 186 Ruhland, Germany · 22 March 1945 · view at 15thaf.org
- Loss sheet or report scan for B-17 44-6387, mission 186 Ruhland, Germany · 22 March 1945 · view at 15thaf.org
- Loss sheet or report scan for B-17 44-6387, mission 186 Ruhland, Germany · 22 March 1945 · view at 15thaf.org
- Loss sheet or report scan for B-17 44-6387, mission 186 Ruhland, Germany · 22 March 1945 · view at 15thaf.org
- Loss sheet or report scan for B-17 44-6387, mission 186 Ruhland, Germany · 22 March 1945 · view at 15thaf.org
- Loss sheet or report scan for B-17 44-6387, mission 186 Ruhland, Germany · 22 March 1945 · view at 15thaf.org
- Loss sheet or report scan for B-17 44-6387, mission 186 Ruhland, Germany · 22 March 1945 · view at 15thaf.org
- Loss sheet or report scan for B-17 44-6387, mission 186 Ruhland, Germany · 22 March 1945 · view at 15thaf.org
- Loss sheet or report scan for B-17 44-6387, mission 186 Ruhland, Germany · 22 March 1945 · view at 15thaf.org
- Loss sheet or report scan for B-17 44-6387, mission 186 Ruhland, Germany · 22 March 1945 · view at 15thaf.org
- Loss sheet or report scan for B-17 44-6387, mission 186 Ruhland, Germany · 22 March 1945 · view at 15thaf.org
- Loss sheet or report scan for B-17 44-6387, mission 186 Ruhland, Germany · 22 March 1945 · view at 15thaf.org
- Loss sheet or report scan for B-17 44-6387, mission 186 Ruhland, Germany · 22 March 1945 · view at 15thaf.org
- Loss sheet or report scan for B-17 44-6387, mission 186 Ruhland, Germany · 22 March 1945 · view at 15thaf.org
- Loss sheet or report scan for B-17 44-6387, mission 186 Ruhland, Germany · 22 March 1945 · view at 15thaf.org
- Presque Isle Army Airfield : Presque Isle Air Force Base : Presque Isle International Airport : PIAAF · view at American Air Museum in Britain
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