44-6109 Ole Tulik
AAF Records
Accepted: 2 May 1944
Assigned: 7 May 1944 - Douglas Aircraft / Douglas Modification Center # 16 - (Tulsa Municipal)
Assigned: 13 May 1944 / 24 May 1944 - 2nd AF / 7th Heavy Bombardment Processing - (Kearney AAF)
Assigned: 27 May 1944 - ATC / North Atlantic Wing - (Grenier AAF)
Assigned: 29 May 1944 / 2 June 1944 - 8th AF / VIII Service Command / BAD 1 - (RAF Burtonwood)
Assigned: 7 June 1944 - 8th AF / 1st BD / 41st CBW / 384th BG / 545th BS - (RAF Grafton Underwood)
( Triangle-P ) ( JD * Q / Ole Tulik )
97 combat missions
After 1 August 1944: ( 2 ) ( Triangle-P - inside black triangle ) ( JD * Q / Ole Tulik)
Crash landed (class 4): 26 March 1945 @ 1815 hrs (Pilot error / Out of Gasoline)
with Theodore Jordon (KIA), Co-pilot: Elmer Schmacher, Navigator: Orville Kylle, Togg: William O’Bryan Jr, Flight engineer: John Rieder, Radio Operator: James Thompson, Ball turret gunner: Cecil Calburn, Waist gunner: Natale Rianconi, Tail gunner: Norman Schwertfeger.
Plane was returning from a combat mission with gasoline running low.
As the aircraft passed over the southern coast of England, #1 engine quit due to lack of fuel. Three emergency fields were passed-up then #3 engine quit.
Pilot chose the nearest field for an emergency landing (RAF Staplehurst), but on approach, the right flap struck the top of a telegraph pole, the aircraft crashed immediately into a small spinney.
Crashed: Cranbrook, (Brewers Wood / Hawkridge Farm, 500 yards north of Hartridge House). Kent
1 KIA, 8 RTD – SOC.
AAF accident report: 45-3-26-525
8th AF mission: (Plauen, Germany)
Salvaged: 27 March 1945
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Corrected a typo in the "Summary biography" - "Three" was misspelled.
AAIR 45-03-26-525 / Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database