42-31556
Delivered Denver 21/11/43; Gr Island 3/12/43; Kearney 8/12/43; Presque Is 10/12/43; Assigned 368BS/306BG [BO-D] Thurleigh 4/1/44; Missing in Action Berlin 29/4/44 with Warren Lutz, Co-pilot: Tom Johnson, Navigator: Ed O’Neill, Bombardier: Jim Knox, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Warren Adams, Radio Operator: Joe Reed, Ball turret gunner: Roy Ward & brother Waist gunner: Ray Ward (8 Killed in Action); Waist gunner: Alec Lazek,Tail gunner: Chas Lux (2 Prisoner of War); flak hits damaged right wing and cut fuel lines, ship crashed two miles S of Hecklingen, near Stassfurt, 20 miles E of Halberstadt, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 4240.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 306th Bomb Group 368th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 306th Bomb Group 368th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 306th Bomb Group 368th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Bombardier
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 306th Bomb Group 368th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 6952052
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: waist gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 306th Bomb Group 368th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-444564
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: PIAAF / Presque Is
![A bomber crew of the 306th Bomb Group wave to Picture Post Girls in front of a B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 41-24471) nicknamed "Four of a Kind" at Thurleigh in December 1942. Image stamped on reverse: '"Picture Post" [stamp], 'Passed for Publication 11 Dec 1942.' [stamp], '238038.' [Censor no.] Handwritten in censor's blue pencil on reverse: 'American Flying Fortress crew are introduced to the girls they will meet at Picture Post Xmas Party.'](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/teaser_thumb_x2/public/freeman/media-379028.jpg.webp?itok=6Gc6iR0j)
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Bedford
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Other Failed to Return (FTR) |
Germany | 29 April 1944 |
Revisions
Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 4240 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database