42-39815 Emeigh

Delivered Long Beach 10/9/43; Assigned 323BS/91BG [OR-N] Bassingbourn 16/10/43; Missing in Action Oschersleben 22/2/44 with Ken Sutherland, Co-pilot: Stan Jordan, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bob Kyle, Radio Operator: Malcolm McCurry, Ball turret gunner: Bill Ray Butler, Waist gunner: Andy Tarasuk,Tail gunner: Rathel Bennett (7 Killed in Action); Navigator: Fred McBride, Bombardier: Les Price, Waist gunner: Fred Tabor (3 Prisoner of War); flak KO’d #1, then enemy aircraft riddled ship, crashed a mile W of Lugde, six miles SW on Hameln, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 2641. EMEIGH.

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Malcolm M McCurry

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 91st Bomb Group 323rd Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Radio Operator Gunner

Leslie A Price

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 91st Bomb Group 323rd Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Bombardier

Kenneth Sutherland

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 91st Bomb Group 323rd Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Fred A Tabor

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 91st Bomb Group 323rd Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: waist gunner

Andrew E Tarasuk

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 91st Bomb Group 323rd Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: waist gunner

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Failed to Return (FTR)

Germany 22 February 1944

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Sources

Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 2641 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database