42-31211 Reno's Raider

media-24488.jpeg UPL 24488 B-17G-5-FO #42-31211 Reno's Raider Code: SU-H
384th BG - 544th BS

Chris Brassfield

Object Number - UPL 24488 - B-17G-5-FO #42-31211 Reno's Raider Code: SU-H 384th BG - 544th BS

Delivered Cheyenne 5/10/43; Gr Island 17/10/43; Romulus 24/10/43; Assigned 544BS/384BG [SU-H] Grafton Underwood 23/11/43; Missing in Action Sottevast 8/5/44 with Capt Earl Allison, Co-pilot: Capt Randolph Jacobs, Bombardier: Jack Nagel, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bill Clements, Ball turret gunner: Vernon Kaufman (5 Killed in Action); Navigator: John Curtin, Waist gunner: Jim Grimmett,Tail gunner: Lester Hall (3 Prisoner of War); Radio Operator: Bill Laubenstein, Waist gunner: Ken Hougard (2 evaded capture); direct flak hit, crashed Chateau de la Gronniere, near Nehou, seven miles SW of Valognes, Fr; Missing Air Crew Report 4560.

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Units served with

The insignia of the 384th Bomb Group.

384th Bomb Group

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

People

Philip Morris Algar

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 492nd Bomb Group 1st Scouting Force 385th Fighter Squadron 546th Bomb Squadron 857th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-728536
  • Highest Rank: Major
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Earl Thomas Allison

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-798297
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

William Arlie Clements

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 35472350
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner
Ten men in Air Force uniform posed in a single row in front of a military airplane.

John Quinn Curtin

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-800687
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Navigator

James Harold Grimmett

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 16018325
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Military Occupation specialty 757-Radio Operator/Mechanic/Gunner

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Delivered

Cheyenne, WY, USA 5 October 1943

Assigned

Grafton Underwood, Kettering NN14, UK 23 November 1943 384BG 544BS

Other

Failed to Return (FTR)

Vierge de la Gronnière, 50500 Saint-André-de-Bohon, France 8 May 1944 Shot down by a direct flak hit

Revisions

Date
Contributor466thHistorian
Changes
Sources

B-17 Flying Fortress Story - Roger Freeman

Date
ContributorAAM
Changes
Sources

Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 4560 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

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