42-97464 What Next ?

Delivered Denver 23/11/43; Wendover 9/12/43; Assigned 749BS/457BG [P] Glatton 19/1/44; transferred 614BS/401BG [IW-D] Deenethorpe 11/3/44 Missing in Action Schweinfurt 13/4/44 with Boudinot Stimson, Co-pilot: Bob Timberlake, Bombardier: Jack Pfaffman, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Karl Kukurin, Radio Operator: Carmen Manusco, Ball turret gunner: Paul Melia, Waist gunner: Andy Allen, Tail gunner: Alf Le Sage (8 Prisoner of War); Navigator: John O’Neal, Waist gunner: John MacQueen (2 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed (?Rohrbrunn?) Weibersbrunn, nine miles E of Aschaffenurg, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 3941. WHAT NEXT ?

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Units served with

A pathfinder B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 44-8258) of the 401st Bomb Group. Image by Robert Astrella. Written on slide casing: '48258 14 A, Mount Farm.'

401st Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

Andrew Lanson Allen

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 31062427
  • Highest Rank: Corporal
  • Role/Job: Waist Gunner

Karl Edward Kukurin

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 33301988
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner

Alfred Lesage

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 13068963
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Tail Gunner

John Campbell MacQueen

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 10600642
  • Highest Rank: Private
  • Role/Job: Waist Gunner

Carman L Mancuso

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 614th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 32582642
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Radio Operator

Places

The mission board of the 457th Bomb Group. Official caption printed on image: '(GM-299-2-457)(16/5/45)(Op's Board's).'

Glatton

  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Connington

Missions

301

  • Date: 13 April 1944

Events

Event Location Date Description

Other

Failed to Return (FTR)

Germany 13 April 1944

Revisions

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Corrected a typo in the "A/C nickname".

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Added the A/C nickname listed in the A/C “Description” section.

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Added an association to the 8th AF.

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Added a space before the words "Tail gunner" in the A/C “Description” to aid readability.

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http://401bg.org/Main/History/Aircraft/Details.aspx?ID=97464

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Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 3941 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database