42-31166 Miss Billie Jr
Object Number - UPL 28285
Delivered Cheyenne 27/9/43; MAT COM Wright Fd 10/10/43; Langley 6/12/43; Assigned 813BS/482BG [PC-K] fitted with Oboe Mk II radar Alconbury 22/11/43; transferred 545BS/384BG [JD-Z] Grafton Underwood 5/2/44; t/o as spare for a mission, but mechanical problems arrived and crash landed near Nuthampstead A/fd 24/3/44 with Scott Briley, Co-pilot: Jim Dent, Navigator: Leon Dubin, Bombardier: Joe Petrush, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Elvie Rodden, Radio Operator: Henry Watson, Ball turret gunner: Saul Schelberg, Waist gunner: Albt Krizner, Waist gunner: Howard LeConey, Tail gunner: Edwin Fulkerson (10 Returned to Duty); Salvaged 2 SAD Lt Staughton. MISS BILLIE JR.
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- Date: 3 February 1944
Revisions
Added the A/C nickname listed in the A/C “Description” section.
Added a space before the words "Tail gunner" in the A/C “Description” to aid clarity.
AAIR 44-03-24-524 / Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database