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Delivered Long Beach 25/2/43; Cheyenne 1/3/43; Gore Fd 14/3/43; Presque Is 8/4/43; Assigned 509BS/351BG [RQ-Q] Polebrook 17/4/43; Missing in Action 1m Bremen 13/6/43 with Bob Jackson, Co-pilot: Chester Lott, Navigator: Herman Lindsey, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: John Adams, Radio Operator: Wallis Patton, Ball turret gunner: Floyd Viles, Waist gunner: Bill Whittaker (7 Prisoner of War); Bombardier: Charles Noetzel, Waist gunner: Roy Johnson,Tail gunner: Ed Berry (3 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft damaged three engines, crashed Oldenbrok NE Oldenburg, near Brake, NW of Bremen. Shot down by Oberfeldwebel Wilhelm Schmale of the 3./NJG 3, flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Vechta airfield. No MACR.

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Crash location Oldenbrok

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Oldenbrook = Oldenburg

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Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log