42-38086

Delivered Denver 7/12/43; Kearney 23/12/43; Morrison 30/12/43; Assigned 346BS/99BG Tortorella 3/1/44; {15m} crash landed Lucera (301BG) 10/2/44 with Joseph Connors; rep. transferred 840BS/483BG Sterparone; crashed on take off 17/11/44 with Francis Nance, Boswell, Hofsess, Barret, Kaufman, Bradbury, Taylor, Fannon, Sievers, Sullivan; when two engines failed; crew OK, sal 18/11/44.

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Seen through a 433rd Bomb Group B-17 Flying Fortress' strike camera, a 816th Bomb Squadron B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-5786) nicknamed "Whizzer II" goes down over Nis in Yugoslavia on the 15th of April 1944 in a gout of flame after taking a direct flak hit. There were no survivors. Official caption on image: "(483BG:4M3:2VI) (4:15:1208) (24:21300) ([south-west arrow] 140 [degrees]) (Nis M/Y Yugo) (Ship 111 816 Sq)." Handwritten caption on reverse: '15/4/44. 483BG, 15AF. Nis, Yugoslavia. 42-5786
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Fifteenth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

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Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log