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B-17 Flying Fortress
B-17G-35-VE #42-97844 Code: ET-R 95BG - 336th BS Shot down 9 March 1945
Delivered Denver 14/3/44; Kearney 13/4/44; Dow Fd 29/4/44; Assigned 336BS/95BG [ET-R] Horham 20/4/44; with Glovik 7/10/44, Waist gunner: Chas Buda KIA; 97m, Missing in Action Frankfurt 9/3/45 with Bill Durant (Ouratt?), Co-pilot: Dwight King, Navigator: Elmer Miles, Bombardier: Bill Waskow, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Vic Johnson, Ball turret gunner: Don Norvet, Waist gunner: Andrew Demchak,Tail gunner: Art Billings, Dave Willoughby voice int (9 Prisoner of War); Radio Operator: John Star KIA; crashed Castl, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 12948.
Group
The 95th Bomb Group was the only Eighth Air Force Group to be awarded three Distinguished Unit Citations. The first, shared by all four Bomb Wing Groups, was for the bombing of an aircraft factory under intense enemy fire at Regensburg on 17 August...
Squadron
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 95th Bomb Group
Military | Second Lieutenant | Pilot | 95th Bomb Group
Military | Staff Sergeant (Technician Third Grade) | Tail Gunner | 95th Bomb Group
Military | Sergeant | Tail Gunner | 95th Bomb Group
Prisoner of War (POW) crashed near Kassel on 9 Mar 45 in B-17 #4297844
Military | Staff Sergeant (Technician Third Grade) | Ball Turret Gunner | 95th Bomb Group
Assigned to 336BS, 95BG, 8AF USAAF. 24 x combat missions. Failed to Return (FTR) mission to Holzwickede 23-Mar-45. Mid air collision with B-17 44-8754, crashed Campsea Ash, Suffolk. Killed in Action (KIA).
Awards: AM (3OLC), GC, PH.
Military | Lieutenant | Pilot | 95th Bomb Group
Military | Second Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 95th Bomb Group
Military | Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade) | Radio Operator | 95th Bomb Group
Military | Sergeant (Technician Fourth Grade) | Waist Gunner | 95th Bomb Group
Military | Staff Sergeant (Technician Third Grade) | Tail Gunner | 95th Bomb Group
Assigned to 336BS, 95BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) mission to Holzwickede 23-Mar-45. Mid air collision with B-17 44-8754, crashed Campsea Ash, Suffolk. Killed in Action (KIA).
Awards: AM (3 OLC), PH.
23 May 1944
25 May 1944
First mission. Up at 5:00 AM and back at 11:00. Good hit on marshaling yards. Our plane was hit but no-one in our crew was hit.
27 May 1944
30 May 1944
Mission #3. Same target as before. A piece of flak broke the pilots windshield. No-one hurt.
15 June 1944
20 June 1944
Bombed an airfield. We were hit by flak; a piece hit Palmer's armor plate and another hit a gas tank. Probriefed in the evening for a big secret mission.
21 June 1944
Ruhland, Germany - The target, south of Berlin, bombed by 114 fortresses with an escort of 70 Mustangs went off as planned but not before the Germans destroyed 43 B-17's and damaged 26. Landed in Russia.
11 July 1944
More than 1000 planes bombed Munich. Flak cut our control cables to elevators and rudder. Flew back by wing trim tabs. Shippy spliced cables before landing. Nine hour ride. Flak hit Sgt Rollinger's oxygen mask and injured his nose and eyes.
24 July 1944
Bombed enemy troop concentrations and thus assisted the Allied breakthrough at St. Lo. About 1500 planes of US went to St. Lo in Cherbourg. We came back with our bombs. Couldn't find the target.
24 July 1944
Military site : airfield
Horham airfield was planned and built for RAF use, but handed over to the Eighth Air Force and used initially by the 47th Bomb Group. When they joined the Twelfth Air Force in January 1943, it became home to the B-26 Marauders of the 323rd Bomb Group....
| Event | Location | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Assigned | Horham Airfield, UK | 20 April 1944 |
| Failed to Return (FTR) | Germany | 9 March 1945 |
| Shot Down | near Frankfurt, Germany | 9 March 1945 |
| Delivered | Denver, CO |
| Date | Contributor | Update |
|---|---|---|
| 17 July 2020 02:06:50 | 466thHistorian | Changes to manufacturer, markings, events, person associations, place associations and mission associations |
| Sources | ||
| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:41:16 | AAM | AAM ingest |
| Sources | ||
Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 12948 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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