44-6110 Hell on Wings
Available: 2 May 1944
Assigned: 28 May 1944 - Douglas Aircraft / Douglas Modification Center # 16 - (Tulsa Municipal)
Assigned: 24 June 1944 / 30 June 1944 - 3rd AF / 302nd AAFBU (Staging Wing) - (Hunter AAF)
Assigned: 1 July 1944 - ATC / North Atlantic Wing - (Dow AAF)
Assigned: 7 July 1944 / 13 July 1944 - 15th AF / XV Service Command / 41st ADG - (Gioia del Colle Airfield)
Assigned: 18 July 1944 - 15th AF / 5th CBW / 463rd BG / 772nd BS - (Celone L/G)
( Pie-Y ) ( 110 / Hell on Wings )
MIA: 20 December 1944 (Mechanical failure)
with William P Saum, Co-pilot: Alfred H Mullins, Navigator: Frank Funk, Bombardier: Hugo S Miller, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Roy P Yetter, Radio Operator: Glenn Peters, Ball turret gunner: Frederick Warfle, Waist gunner: Robert E Otis, Waist gunner: Edward R Schwet, Tail gunner: William G Sebert
Over the target, two of the engines lost oil, and all engines started acting up.
crashed: Wels, Germany
10 POW (MACR 10731)
15th AF mission: (Regensburg, Germany)
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Fifteenth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Fifteenth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Foggia Satellite #1, San Nicola-d'Arpi
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Hell on Wings
- Unit: 463rd Bomb Group 772nd Bomb Squadron