44-6340 Remember Me

Delivered Hunter 8/7/44; Grenier 17/7/44; Assigned 414BS/97BG Amendola 23/7/44; Missing in Action Ploesti 18/8/44 with Ken Lloyd, (crew ?); no gas, crashed Paramithia; Missing Air Crew Report 7970. REMEMBER ME.



Pilot: 2Lt Kenneth C. Lloyd: POW

Co-pilot: 2Lt Herman T. Crane, Jr.: RTD

Nav: 2Lt Alexander Krajewski: RTD

Bomb: 2Lt Aurel J. Granger: RTD

FE: S/Sgt John E. Kyle: RTD

RO: S/Sgt Wayne D. Wavrin: RTD

BTG: Sgt Richard M. Fortner: RTD

WG: Sgt Harold E. King: RTD

WG: Sgt Walter C. Johnson: RTD

TG: Sgt Gerald K. Marshall: RTD



Damaged by flak on raid to Ploesti. Granger and the enlisted men bailed out over Albania and returned to duty August 27, 1944. Lloyd, Crane, and Krejewski bailed out over Greece: Lloyd captured and POW at Stalag Luft 7, Moosberg, Bavaria; Crane and Krejewski evaded and returned to duty August 26, 1944. Lloyd repatriated 1945.

Revisions

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ContributorJHulet
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MACR 07970: B-17 Fortress Master Log (Dave Osborne)

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ContributorJHulet
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MACR 07970: Statement of 2Lt Herman T. Crane, Jr.

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ContributorAAM
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Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log