Lude Farm, Forty Green, Buckinghamshire
Aircraft crash site
Impact crater is the depression in the ground seen below hedgeline, slightly left of centre. Lude Farm is just over hedgeline at top right of picture.
View taken looking South-southwest.
Cited airframe buzz number from official USAAC crash report from 1944.
Photograph caption description altered.
Object Number - UPL 26167 - Crash site of B-17 " 42-107191", seen as of December 2016. Impact crater is the depression in the ground seen below hedgeline, slightly left of...
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Detailed History
B-17 42-107191 crashed at this site on 12 August 1944. All crew were killed.
A full history can be found at https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/30/a5747330.shtml
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 398th Bomb Group 600th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 384473344
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Engineer
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 398th Bomb Group 600th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 32800393
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 398th Bomb Group 600th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-759194
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 398th Bomb Group 600th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 398th Bomb Group 600th Bomb Squadron 603rd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-702095
- Highest Rank: Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Tomahawk Warrior
- Unit: 398th Bomb Group 600th Bomb Squadron
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