42-3497
Delivered Denver 12/7/43; Gore Fd 15/8/43; Assigned 335BS/95BG [OE-O] Horham 8/9/43; 5m, Missing in Action Munster 10/10/43 with Lionel Correia, Co-pilot: Don Dunhaver, Navigator: Richard Coffey, Bombardier: Frederick Davis, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Otis Ashworth, Ball turret gunner: James Bailey, Waist gunner: Roger Black, Waist gunner: Roland Alexenberg, Tail gunner: Richard Crawford (9 Prisoner of War); Radio Operator: Jerome Schneider (Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed Ruhof Farm at Vreden-Lunten, near Haaksbergen, Holland, 32 miles NW of Munster. Missing Air Crew Report - MACR 943.
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Units served with
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 18005077 / T-000290
- Highest Rank: Flight Officer
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-670009
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 11018274 at enlistment, then O-735057
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 18219345
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Bombardier
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Missions
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Crashed Failed to Return (FTR) |
10 October 1943 - 10 October 1943 | Missing in Action Munster 10/10/43. Enemy aircraft, crashed Ruhof Farm at Vreden-Lunten, near Haaksbergen, Holland, 32 miles NW of Munster. (9 x POW, 1 x KIA) Missing Air Crew Report MACR 943. |
Revisions
Added a space before the words "Tail gunner" in the A/C “Description” to aid clarity.
Mission Number added and first names of some cre members completed under Biography
Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 943 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database