42-107048 Tangerine

Delivered Tulsa 6/2/44; Gr Island 27/2/44; Assigned 452BG Deopham Green 5/3/44 TANGERINE; transferred 360BS/303BG [PU-M] Molesworth 23/3/44; Missing in Action French A/fds 12/6/44 with Roy Eisele, Co-pilot: Lou Girard, Navigator: Murray Schenker, Bombardier: Melvin Gladstone, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Lou Cowley, Radio Operator: Ralph Millard, Ball turret gunner: Efraim Longoria, Waist gunner: Szymon Friedman, Waist gunner: Dick Bell (9 Killed in Action);Tail gunner: Ed Vallee (Prisoner of War); flak, crashed Eswars, four miles N of Cambrai, Fr; Missing Air Crew Report 5626. TANGERINE.

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Units served with

Official emblem of the 303rd Bomb Group approved 7 November 1942.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment
The insignia of the 452nd Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 360th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 15054420
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: waist gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 360th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 16038217
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 360th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 745655
  • Highest Rank: Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 360th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 32228384
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: waist gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 360th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O682840
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Co-Pilot

Places

Events

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Other

Failed to Return (FTR)

Belgium 12 June 1944

Revisions

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See AAM 42-31319

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See entry remarks on finish

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452nd Bomb Group Assoc.

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452nd Bomb Group

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452nd Bomb Group

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Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 5626 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database