42-37720 Jackie ellen

Delivered Long Beach 6/8/43; Denver 14/8/43; Assigned 367BS/306BG [GY-N] Thurleigh 18/9/43; Missing in Action Schweinfurt 14/10/43 with Doug White, Pilot: Emil Rasmussen, Co- Pilot: Carl Alexander, Navigator: George Toney, Bombardier/Toggler: Gus Riecke, Flight Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Francis Pulliam, Ball Turret Gunner: Bill Earnest, L Waist gunner: Charles Adams, R Waist Gunner: Walt Sherrill, Tail Gunner: (9 Killed in Action): Joe Bocelli, Radio Operator (Bailed out taken Prisoner of War); Last seen at 1400 on 14 Oct 43 (Black Thursday) with severe horizontal stabilizer damage from being attacked by enemy aircraft and exploded, broke in half at radio room, crashed 40 minutes from target which was the ball bearing plants at Schweinfurt, Germany. Missing Air Crew Report 823.

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Units served with

Official insignia of the 306th Bomb Group, approved 6 January 1943, and updated 2 October 1951.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 306th Bomb Group 367th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Waist Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 306th Bomb Group 367th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Navigator
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 306th Bomb Group 367th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 13045657
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Radio Operator
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 306th Bomb Group 367th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: waist gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 306th Bomb Group 367th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner

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Events

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Shot down by enemy fighters

Germany 14 October 1943

Revisions

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Corrected a typo in the "Summary biography" - "Engineer" was misspelled.

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ContributorGTGS
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MACR 823 by, GTGS

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367th BG reports

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306th BG association Photo

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Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 823 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database