42-5878 Badger's Beauty, Yankee Eagle
Delivered Long Beach 14/4/43; Smoky Hill 22/4/43; Wendover 2/5/43; Salt Lake City 18/5/43; Dow Fd 27/5/43; Assigned 350BS/100BG [LN-W] Thorpe Abbotts 30/5/43 BADGER'S BEAUTY; transferred 533BS/381BG [VP-Q] Ridgewell 18/9/43; Missing in Action Oschersleben 11/1/44 with Wilfred Perot, Co-pilot: Dudley Jones, Navigator: Bob Weaver, Bombardier: Adelbert Faulconer, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: John Jerinowski, Radio Operator: O.K. Daniels, Ball turret gunner: Phillip Ball, Waist gunner: Walter Turk,Tail gunner: Tom Graham (9 Killed in Action), Waist gunner: Edwin Bosley (Prisoner of War); coll with enemy aircraft, crashed two miles E of Heyersum, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 1874. YANKEE EAGLE.
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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: 381st Bomb Group 532nd Bomb Squadron 533rd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 19122617
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 381st Bomb Group 533rd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 37328620
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: waist gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 381st Bomb Group 533rd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 34408851
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio Operator / Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 381st Bomb Group 533rd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-682093
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Bombardier
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 381st Bomb Group 533rd Bomb Squadron
- Role/Job: Pilot
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Airfield
Missions
- Date: 11 January 1944
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Other Failed to Return (FTR) |
Germany | 11 January 1944 |