43-37787 Holy Smokes*
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FLYING FORTRESS 1936 1945,
FEB 2022; SMITH, ZHOU & MARCHESE
Object Number - UPL 55838 - B-17G-70-BO 43-37787, 388th BG crash site.
Delivered Cheyenne 21/5/44; Kearney 5/6/44; Grenier 17/6/44; Assigned 413BS/96BG Snetterton 19/6/44; transferred 560BS/388BG Knettishall 20/6/44; battle damaged Berlin 5 December 1944 with Kenneth O. Burkheimer. Force-landed in Knokke, Belgium. 9 RTD. Salvaged. HOLY SMOKES.
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 560th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 19066628
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 560th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 37308723
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 560th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 12121223 / O-815498
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Station 138
Revisions
Clarified cross-links to AAM
43-37523 AND FLYING FORTRESS 1936 1945.
P. MARCHESE
Flying Fortress 1936 1945;
Feb, 2022, Ross Smith, Jing Zhou & Phil Marchese, with images and analysis.
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Corrected place name in Belgium
Martin Bowman's "B-17 Flying Fortress Units of the Eighth Air Force (part 2)" about the crash-landing in Knokke, Belgium
