44-6412
(The plaque shows an incorrect Group).
Associated aircraft and group.
Object Number - UPL 26513 - Plaque commemorating the crash of B-17 44-6412, 15th Air Force, 483rd Bomb Group, 817th Bomb Squadron. (The plaque shows an incorrect Group).
Delivered Hunter 28/7/44; Dow Fd 7/8/44.
Assigned 817BS/483BG Sterparone 13/8/44.
Missing in Action Blechhammer 13/9/44 with Everett Robson, Stock, Van Oostrom, Nance, Barry (5 Prisoner of War); Kroshewsky, Hansler, Beam, Suhling, Sternbeck (5 evaded capture – ret 23/3/45); battle damaged by bomb beneath formation.
Missing Air Crew Report 8619.
Boeing B-17 No. 44-6412 of the 483 Bomb Group breaks up the unequal fight with two fighters in Koniówce Podhale. The commander Everett J. Robson and 4 airmen are taken into captivity. Five of their colleagues saved thanks to the heroism of the inhabitants of Orava, attached to the 1st Regiment of Riflemen AK, until January 1945
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![Seen through a 433rd Bomb Group B-17 Flying Fortress' strike camera, a 816th Bomb Squadron B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-5786) nicknamed "Whizzer II" goes down over Nis in Yugoslavia on the 15th of April 1944 in a gout of flame after taking a direct flak hit. There were no survivors. Official caption on image: "(483BG:4M3:2VI) (4:15:1208) (24:21300) ([south-west arrow] 140 [degrees]) (Nis M/Y Yugo) (Ship 111 816 Sq)." Handwritten caption on reverse: '15/4/44. 483BG, 15AF. Nis, Yugoslavia. 42-5786](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/teaser_thumb_x2/public/freeman/media-457805.jpg.webp?itok=YT0rrjph)
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Fifteenth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Fifteenth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
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- Site type: Airfield
