42-5798
Delivered Long Beach 3/2/43; Rapid City 17/2/43; Brookley 12/3/43; Morrison 19/4/43; with Bill Sauer, force landed on salt flats 32 miles SE of base, TX 30/5/43; Assigned 325BS/92BG [NV-L] Alconbury ?/?/43; Missing in Action Kassel 28/7/43 with Benjamin F. Smotherman. Missing Air Crew Report 657.
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Units served with
![B-17 Flying Fortresses of the 92nd Bomb Group fly in formation over countryside. The aircraft, from left to right, are B-17G (NV-P, serial number 44-8354), B-17G (NV-U, serial number 42-97288) nicknamed "Flag Ship" and an unknown B-17G (NV-E) from the 325th Bomb Squadron. Image stamped on reverse: 'The R.L. Cavanagh Photo Collection' [stamp]. Handwritten caption on reverse: '48354, Little Runt. PFF.' [Caption refers to another B-17 nicknamed"Little Runt" either B-17G (NV-P, serial number 42-97515) or B-17](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/teaser_thumb_x2/public/freeman/media-379200.jpg.webp?itok=MbsLLiLg)
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 92nd Bomb Group 326th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio Operator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 92nd Bomb Group 326th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 92nd Bomb Group 326th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 16044193
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Bombardier; Togglier
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 92nd Bomb Group 326th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 17088641
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 92nd Bomb Group 326th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Missions
- Date: 28 July 1943
Revisions
MACR 657.
It appears Freeman's data for 42-29798 in his "The B-17 Flying Fortress Story" has the plane number wrong.
The MACR (657) he mentions there has the ship's Serial Number as 42-5798. The book's entry for this number just says it was lost on the Kassel mission on 28/7/43 with no other details...
Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 657 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database