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UPL 56678
A Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" Enroute To Its Target For The Day -- Viterbo Airdrome, Italy - 29 July 1943. (U.S. Air Force Number A79596AC)
National Archives
Delivered Cheyenne 15/4/43; Gore 21/4/43; Smoky Hill 22/4/43; Morrison 20/5/43; Assigned 32BS/301BG St Donat 25/5/43; Oudna 6/8/43; Missing in Action {24m} Wiener Neustadt 2/11/43 with Herb Pattison, Co-pilot: Beutke, Navigator: Apelhot, Bombardier: Irwin, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Sifferd, Radio Operator: Connell, Ball turret gunner: Funk, Waist gunner: Daleo,Tail gunner: Hoops (9 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed Wiener Neustadt, Aus. Missing Air Crew Report 1094.