42-31320 I'll Be Around
Image stamped on reverse: 'Associated Press.' [stamp], '809571 [Censor no], 'Passed for publication 5 Mar 1944' [stamp] and 'USA(BRI)CCC' [ written annotation].
Printed caption on reverse: 'WRITE NEW CHAPTER IN BERLIN DIARY, FORTRESSES RAID GERMAN CAPITAL FOR FIRST TIME. Flying Fortresses battling their way through snow and a temperature of nearly "60 below", blasted a path through flocks of German fighters Saturday March 4, to bomb Berlin for the first time in daylight. It was a gruelling ordeal, with cloud often five miles high. "But it was easier than anyone expected said the jubilant crews as they climbed from their planes on their return. Associated Press Photo shows: The crew of the lead ship; "I'll Be Around"; and first to bomb the target walk from their plane to the interrogation room. They are ( left to right): S/S D.W. Addison, Tailgunner, Leesville, LA; S/S J.B. Craddock, Left-waist gunner, Charleston, W.VA; S/S R.T. Raney, Right waist gunner, Fordyce, ARK; S/S E.G. Nutter, Ball turret-gunner, Canton, OHIO; T/S A.G. Smith, top turret-gunner Kenton, Ohio; T/S F.E. Atteberry, Radio operator, Springfield, ILL; Lt F.E. Flagler, Bombardier, El Reno, OKLA; Lt M.D. Durr, Navigator, Alton, ILL; Lt A.H. Brown, Pilot, Atlanta, GA., and Lt. Col.Harry G. Mumford, San Jose Calif.,co-pilot and group leader of the first U.S. Heavy Bomber raid on Berlin. WOR 265583 6344Y.' Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Horham.' Roger Freeman Collection
Connected up airmen's records from existing caption information.
Delivered Cheyenne 20/10/43; Gr Island 2/11/43; Dallas 6/11/43; Assigned 412BS/95BG Horham 12/11/43; with John Miller 11/12/43 Tail gunner: Wallace Petzack KIA; 36m, Missing in Action Berlin 29/4/44 with Earl Leaser, Co-pilot: Ken Braden, Navigator: Ray Moeller, Bombardier: Howard Erricson, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ralph Wildman, Radio Operator: George Wright, Ball turret gunner: Bill Miller, Waist gunner: Bill Glass, Waist gunner: Owen Irby, Tail gunner: Joe Hollamon (10 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed Hamstede, Holland; Missing Air Crew Report 4469. I'LL BE AROUND.
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Units served with
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 412th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: waist gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 412th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 412th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 412th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 3rd Air Division 95th Bomb Group 412th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-413481
- Highest Rank: Colonel
- Role/Job: Air Executive; Director of Operations
Places
Missions
- Date: 12 April 1944
- Date: 10 April 1944
- Date: 8 April 1944
- Date: 1 April 1944
- Date: 27 March 1944
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Other Combat Casualty |
11 December 1943 | 11/12/43 Tail gunner: Wallace Petzack KIA. Pilot Lt John Miller. | |
Crashed Failed to Return (FTR) |
29 April 1944 - 29 April 1944 | Missing in Action Berlin 29/4/44. Cause - flak, crashed Hamstede, Holland. (10 x POW) Missing Air Crew Report MACR4469. |
Revisions
My father, Frank (Franklyn) Atteberry, was a radio man and gunner on the B-17 I’ll Be Around. His name is mispelled on both your site and the museum in Savannah Georgia.
His make is spelled Franklyn. He went by Frank. I hope you are able to make this correction.
Best,
Daniel Atteberry
(Franklyn’s middle son)
1 (217) 493-8310
705 Hamilton Dr.
Champaign, IL, USA
61820
Added a space before the words "Tail gunner" in the A/C “Description” to aid readability.
Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 1916 / MACR 4469 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database