42-30711 Fertile Turtle Myrtle

Delivered Denver 16/7/43; Gore 28/7/43; Watertown 31/7/43; Kearney 3/8/43; Topeka 12/8/43; Scott 13/8/43; Assigned 407BS/92BG [PY-G/H] Alconbury 31/8/43; crash landed RAF base 28/1/44 with Art Pickers;



Missing in Action Frankfurt 29/1/44 with Jim Holdren, Co-pilot: Bob Baughan, Navigator: Ewald Huebscher, Bombardier: Norman Wolff, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Jesse Irving, Radio Operator: Earl Goewert, Ball turret gunner: Ron Preston,Tail gunner: Ray Deverse (8 Killed in Action);



Waist gunner: Chas Galloway, Waist gunner: Chas Anderson (2 Prisoner of War);



Enemy aircraft shot up nose section, crashed Le Noiriez, near Genech, ten miles SE of Lille, Fr. Missing Air Crew Report 2253. FERTILE TURTLE MYRTLE.



Sgt. Charles Anderson reports in file #2253 Individual Casualty Questionnaire: "We were attacked by a group of fighters some head on and some from tail. We were outnumbered and their firepower ripped the ship to shreds. All but Galloway and myself were in their positions, dead."

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Units served with

The insignia of the 92nd Bomb Group.

92nd Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

Charles M Anderson

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 92nd Bomb Group 407th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Waist Gunner

Robert L Baughn

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 92nd Bomb Group 407th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Co-Pilot

Raymond T DeVerse

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 92nd Bomb Group 407th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 17129378
  • Highest Rank: Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Tail Gunner

Charles W Galloway

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 92nd Bomb Group 407th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: waist gunner

Earl E Goewert

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 92nd Bomb Group 407th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 37132881
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Radio Operator

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Events

Event Location Date Description

Crashed

Failed to Return (FTR) Over Water (OW)

Genech, France 29 January 1944 - 29 January 1944 On 29 January 1944, the beginning of the afternoon, a American four-engine bomber, a Boeing B-17F "Flying Fortress "(that is to say" Flying Fortress ") returns a bombing mission over Frankfurt. This is the B-42-30711 17F serial number, belonging to 92nd Bomb Group, 407th Bomb Squadron (based Podington). The plane is encoded PYμH and is called "Fertile Turtle Myrtle ". Isolated from the rest of his training from Frankfurt, it is easy prey for hunters Luftwaffe. Several German fighters took off to intercept Cambrai-Epinoy the stragglers. A German pilot lamp at 12:50 a B-17F of the 388th BG, crashing to Busigny, near the Le Cateau. At 13:00, Leutnant Friedrich LANGE of 6. Staffel of Jagdgeschwader 26 claiming his fourth victory, 20 km southeast of Lille.

Revisions

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Individual Casualty Questionnaire File # 2253 Galloway and Anderson survivors

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Contributorcoachsimm
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The crash of a flying fortress (Bomber B 17) Genech January 29, 1944 [email protected]

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Contributorcoachsimm
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Shot down by fighters on mission to Frankfurt on 29 Jan 1944 in B-17F #42-30711 'Fertile Turtle Myrtle'. Killed in Action (KIA). http://www.americanairmuseum.com/person/108134 Should say on return FROM mission to Frankfort. Your web site names the plane.

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Sources

Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 2253 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database