42-31629

media-47736.jpeg UPL 47736 B-17G-20-BO 42-31629 457th BG
Crew
Note the enlarged call letter on tail.

Aircraft images conform to AAM synopsis, i.e. 457th BG "U" group code and RCN 231629 match 42-31629.

Object Number - UPL 47736 - B-17G-20-BO 42-31629 457th BG Crew Note the enlarged call letter on tail.

Delivered Cheyenne 30/11/43; Wendover 12/12/43; Presque Is 19/1/44; Assigned 749BS/457BG [J] Glatton 26/1/44; Missing in Action Warnemunde 9/4/44 with Dave Parks, Co-pilot: Floyd Grove, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Don Kesselmeyer, Radio Operator: Ruben Halverson, Ball turret gunner: Tony Nunes, Waist gunner: Cosmo Fazzio,Tail gunner: George Grebe (7 Killed in Action); Navigator: Bill Ellerbusch, Bombardier: Ed Quinn, Waist gunner: Chas Kerr (3 Prisoner of War); shot down by Fw190, crashed Hohnert-Steinfeld, five miles NE of Schleswig, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 3664.

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Black and white posed headshot of man wearing a uniform of a jacket, shirt, tie and hat. Silver wings and medal ribbons are pinned above left-side jacket lapel. There is a WWII-era Air Force round enlisted man’s badge pinned in the center of the hat, an Army Air Force patch, and sergeant's stripes on the sleeve. Subject is not looking directly in lens and is smiling

Charles M Kerr

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 457th Bomb Group 749th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Tail Gunner

Donald J Kesselmeyer

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 457th Bomb Group 749th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner

Anthony J Nunes

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 457th Bomb Group 749th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 19064132
  • Highest Rank: Sergeant
  • Role/Job: waist gunner

David P Parks

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 457th Bomb Group 749th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-806324
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot
Black and white posed headshot of man wearing a uniform of a leather bomber jacket, shirt, tie and hat. There are aviation insignia pins on the shirt collar. The subject is wearing earphones and looking directly in the lens without smiling

Edward Thomas Quinn

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 457th Bomb Group 749th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 12129668 / O-753159
  • Highest Rank: Captain
  • Role/Job: Bombardier

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Failed to Return (FTR)

Germany 9 April 1944

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Sources

Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 3664 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

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