41-2415 City of San Francisco
Delivered Salt Lake Strategic Arms Depot (SAD) 28-Nov-41; Assigned 26BS/11BG; transferred 31BS/5BG Hickam Field, HI mid-May 1942; shot down during battle of Midway 5-Jun-42 with Robert Porter. CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO. 9KIA Missing Air Crew Report (MACR) 16541. Never served in the UK.
Revisions
Changed date of transfer to Hickam Field, HI from 10-Nov-42 to mid-May 1942.
Source: Recollections of Joe Goeppner who served as a gunner on another B-17 transferred at the same time, serial number 41-9156 "Uncle Biff".
See: http://rnzaf.proboards.com/thread/10118
And: http://www.301bg.com/goeppner_joe_g2877_301bg.cfm
Lee Cunningham 22-Jun-2015. Appended Model to title (convention used for aircraft that never served in the UK); added Block Number , manufacturer, Edited Description (wrote out acronyms) converted dates to military-style signification per "The B-17 Flying Fortress Story", Roger A. Freeman with David Osborne. MACR 16541.