42-32000 Mojo Jr/ Twentieth Century

A B-17 Flying Fortress (WA-P, serial number 42-32000) of the 524th Bomb Squadron, 379th Bomb Group after forced landing in Felpham, Sussex, 4 July 1944. Handwritten caption on reverse: '4th July 1944. A/C shot up over France. F/L - crew safe. Rear of Downview Road. Houses (West Side) Felpham, Bognor Regis, Sussex. Resident who provided photo still corresponds with pilot - now solicitor. From P. Amos, 6 Patham Close, Littlehampton, Sussex.' media-413454.jpg FRE 4770 A B-17 Flying Fortress (WA-P, serial number 42-32000) of the 524th Bomb Squadron, 379th Bomb Group after forced landing in Felpham, Sussex, 4 July 1944. Handwritten caption on reverse: '4th July 1944. A/C shot up over France. F/L - crew safe. Rear of Downview Road. Houses (West Side) Felpham, Bognor Regis, Sussex. Resident who provided photo still corresponds with pilot - now solicitor. From P. Amos, 6 Patham Close, Littlehampton, Sussex.' Roger Freeman Collection

IWM, Roger Freeman Collection

Object Number - FRE 4770 - A B-17 Flying Fortress (WA-P, serial number 42-32000) of the 524th Bomb Squadron, 379th Bomb Group after forced landing in Felpham, Sussex, 4 July...

Delivered Cheyenne 14/1/44; Dalhart 26/1/44; Kearney 22/2/44; Grenier 24/2/44.



Assigned to the 524th Bomb Squadron, /379th Bomb Group [WA-P] Kimbolton 27/2/44.



On mission to attack French airfields 4/7/44 crash landed Felpham, Sussex, UK. where householder gave crew tea and coffee 4/7/44.

Crew

Pilot: Cliff Blue

Co-pilot: Mayo Adams

Navigator: Oswald Masoni

Bombardier: ?

Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Cecil Shaffer

Radio Operator: Harry Olson

Ball turret gunner: Tom Sutton

Waist gunner: John McDonough

Tail gunner: Milton Craven

(9 Returned to Duty)



Salvaged 2 SAD Lt Staughton 10/7/44.



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Units served with

The insignia of the 379th Bomb Group.

379th Bomb Group

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

People

Mayo Richardson Adams

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 379th Bomb Group 526th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 13062517 at enlistment, the O-677207
  • Highest Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Clifford Melville Blue

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 379th Bomb Group 524th Bomb Squadron 527th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 16077202 / O-671856
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Andrew K Dutch

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 379th Bomb Group 524th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 12046746 / O-791578
  • Highest Rank: Major
  • Role/Job: Group Navigator

Joseph G Glaser

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 379th Bomb Group 524th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 16041677 / O-734336
  • Highest Rank: Captain
  • Role/Job: Squadron Bombardier

Robert J Marcott

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 379th Bomb Group 524th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 12030823 / O-671466
  • Highest Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
  • Role/Job: Bombardier

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Revisions

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Images of the aircraft on Fold 3

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Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log

42-32000: Gallery (2 items)

A B-17 Flying Fortress (WA-P, serial number 42-32000) of the 524th Bomb Squadron, 379th Bomb Group after forced landing in Felpham, Sussex, 4 July 1944. Handwritten caption on reverse: '4th July 1944. A/C shot up over France. F/L - crew safe. Rear of Downview Road. Houses (West Side) Felpham, Bognor Regis, Sussex. Resident who provided photo still corresponds with pilot - now solicitor. From P. Amos, 6 Patham Close, Littlehampton, Sussex.'

Object number: FRE 4770 - A B-17 Flying Fortress (WA-P, serial number 42...

Lieutenant Masoni of the 379th Bomb Group with Barbara Deans after crash landing his B-17 Flying Fortress in Deans' garden, 4 July 1944. Passed as censored 5 Jul 1944. Handwritten caption on reverse: '379.' Printed caption on reverse: 'Independence Day Incident[obscured] American Bomber Lands In Garden In Southern England. With two engines out of commission and several of the crew wounded by flak, an American four-engined bomber returning from an early morning raid on targets in Normandy made a belly land

Object number: FRE 4792 - Lieutenant Masoni of the 379th Bomb Group with...