42-30866 Pistol Packin Mama
Delivered Cheyenne 10/8/43; Scott 24/10/43; Assigned 401BG Deenethorpe 30/10/43; landed Bassingbourn 9/11/43 transferred 563BS/388BG Knettishall YANKEE BELLE; 508BS/351BG [YB-S] Polebrook 21/11/43.
Missing in Action 5m Achmer 21/2/44 with Albert Kogelman, Navigator: Bob Shafer, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Clyde Dunlap, Radio Operator: Joe Rawdon, Waist gunner: Sheldon Johnson (5 Returned to Duty); Co-pilot: Carey Haynes, Bombardier: Bill Armour, Ball turret gunner: Will Speiser, Waist gunner: Wesley Locke, Tail gunner: Gilbert Denison (5 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft KO’d two engines and left horiz. stab. broke off, enemy aircraft attacked again and KO’d #4; ditched North Sea, 20 miles E of Lowestoft, Sfk., five crew saved by ASR, but Co-pilot: Haynes & Tail gunner: Denison died of exposure; RAF Air Sea Rescue launch picked up survivors and took them to Gt Yarmouth. Missing Air Crew Report 6063. PISTOL PACKIN' MAMA.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 351st Bomb Group 510th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 36129596
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio Operator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 351st Bomb Group 508th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Bombardier
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 351st Bomb Group 510th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 351st Bomb Group 510th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 37226817
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 351st Bomb Group 508th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Benefield
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Airfield
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Other Failed to Return (FTR) Over Water (OW) |
North Sea | 21 February 1944 |