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42-97568

Delivered Denver 23/12/43; Palm Springs 30/12/43; Langley 10/2/44; Assigned 49BS/2BG Amendola 2/3/44; transferred 816BS/483BG Tortorella 28/3/44; Sterparone 22/4/44; Missing in Action Linz 15/11/44 with Bernard Eder, Riodan, Noll, Brick, Hamiel, McCormick, Cadwell, Sojke, Davis, Anderson (10 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed Zeltweg; Missing Air Crew Report 9900.

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Seen through a 433rd Bomb Group B-17 Flying Fortress' strike camera, a 816th Bomb Squadron B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-5786) nicknamed "Whizzer II" goes down over Nis in Yugoslavia on the 15th of April 1944 in a gout of flame after taking a direct flak hit. There were no survivors. Official caption on image: "(483BG:4M3:2VI) (4:15:1208) (24:21300) ([south-west arrow] 140 [degrees]) (Nis M/Y Yugo) (Ship 111 816 Sq)." Handwritten caption on reverse: '15/4/44. 483BG, 15AF. Nis, Yugoslavia. 42-5786

483rd Bomb Group

Unit Hierarchy: Group
Air Force: Fifteenth Air Force
Type Category: Bombardment

Seen through a 433rd Bomb Group B-17 Flying Fortress' strike camera, a 816th Bomb Squadron B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-5786) nicknamed "Whizzer II" goes down over Nis in Yugoslavia on the 15th of April 1944 in a gout of flame after taking a direct flak hit. There were no survivors. Official caption on image: "(483BG:4M3:2VI) (4:15:1208) (24:21300) ([south-west arrow] 140 [degrees]) (Nis M/Y Yugo) (Ship 111 816 Sq)." Handwritten caption on reverse: '15/4/44. 483BG, 15AF. Nis, Yugoslavia. 42-5786

816th Bomb Squadron

Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
Air Force: Fifteenth Air Force
Type Category: Bombardment

Places

Sterparone

Site type: Airfield

Revisions

Date27 Sep 2014 18:41:14

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Sources

Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log