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B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Long Beach 22/3/43; Sioux City 15/4/43; Kearney 4/5/43; Dow Fd 20/5/43; Assigned 547BS/384BG [SO-T] Grafton Underwood 24/5/43; battle damaged Schweinfurt 14/10/43 with Edmund Goulder, Co-pilot: Ernie Boyce (546bs), Navigator: Julius Schwartz (546bs), Bombardier: Mike Vodilko, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ed Thomassen, Radio Operator: Bill Sears, Ball turret gunner: Claude Leslie, Waist gunner: Stan Wilson, Waist gunner: Paul Saunders,Tail gunner: Francis Seager, (10 Returned to Duty); crew bailed over RAF Oakley, enemy aircraft crashed Chetwode, Oxon, demolishing two cottages, and injuring a civilian, Mr Tew; Salvaged MRU 15/10/43. THE NATURAL.
Military | Lieutenant Colonel | Group Bombardier | 384th Bomb Group
Flew with the 384th BG from March '43 to November '44. He was recalled into service during the Korean War and reached the rank of Lt. Col. Flew 28 missions.
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Military | Second Lieutenant | Tail Gunner | 384th Bomb Group
Shot down 1 December 1943 in B-17 42-30033 'Little America. ' Prisoner of War.
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Military | Staff Sergeant | Ball Turret Gunner | 384th Bomb Group
Shot down 1 December 1943 in B-17 #4230033 'Little America. ' Evaded. 10/14/43 on return from Schweinfurt mission, B17#42-5852 'The Natural' ' crashed at Oxfordshire with crew baling out near RAF Oakley. 5 of the crew were injured with all returning.
Military | First Lieutenant | Navigator | 384th Bomb Group
Accident, Oct. 9, 1943 on slow-timing flight of B17#41-24529. 4 RTD.
10/14/43 on return from Schweinfurt mission, B17#42-5852 'The Natural' ' crashed at Oxfordshire with crew baling out near RAF Oakley. 5 of the crew were injured with all returning.
Military site : airfield
Grafton Underwood was built in 1941 by George Wimpey and Co. Ltd. It was the first airfield in England to receive an Eighth Air Force flying unit, when in May 1942 personnel of the 15th Bomb Squadron took up residence. As a satellite airfield for...
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 27 September 2014 18:40:57 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log |
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