42-3563 Great Profile

Delivered Denver 10/8/43; Redmond 15/8/43; Assigned 535BS/381BG [MS-N] Ridgewell 10/43; 'Great Profile'. Missing in Action 1m Bremen 20/12/43 with Bernard Hollenkamp, Ball turret gunner: Elmo Schulz, Waist gunner: Ira Walker, Waist gunner: Homer Hutchens,Tail gunner: Harry Good (5 Killed in Action), Co-pilot: George Jones, Navigator: Herb Clough, Bombardier: Dick Hazelton, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: George Riemann, Radio Operator: George Soell (5 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft & flak, crashed Stapelermoor marsh, 12 miles N of Bad Zwischenahn, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 1721. (first B-17G built).

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Units served with

The insignia of the 381st Bomb Group.

381st Bomb Group

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

People

Herbert N Clough

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 381st Bomb Group 532nd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: T-122298
  • Highest Rank: Flight Officer
  • Role/Job: Navigator

Harry L Good

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 381st Bomb Group 532nd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 36724855
  • Highest Rank: Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Tail Gunner

Richard M Hazelton

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 381st Bomb Group 532nd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-749773
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Bombardier

Bernard F Hollenkamp

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 381st Bomb Group 532nd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-374311
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Homer King Hutchens

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 381st Bomb Group 532nd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 18217940
  • Highest Rank: Sergeant
  • Role/Job: waist gunner

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Failed to Return (FTR)

Germany 20 December 1943

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Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 1721 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database