43-38150 Giddy
Object Number - UPL 47559 - 43-38150 Giddy
Delivered Cheyenne 30/6/44; Kearney 11/7/44; Dow Fd 20/7/44; Assigned to 490 BG Eye 21/7/44.
Failed to return from a Berlin mission on 3/2/45, and force landed at Reczyn, Poland.
Crew landed and returned to duty.
Pilot: Lieutenant Si Spiegel;
Co-pilot: 2nd Lieutenant William J. Hole;
Radio operator: Staff Sergeant Maurice Carpenter;
Navigator: Raymond Patulski;
Bombardier, Staff Sergeant Charles Sanduski;
Gunners:
Staff Sergeant James J. Coffrey
Staff Sergeant Dale Tyler
Staff Sergeant Franck Stockton
Staff Sergeant Salvatore Novarra.
Salvaged 23/3/45.
Missing Air Crew Report 12238.
Connections
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 490th Bomb Group 849th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 32460004
- Highest Rank: Corporal
- Role/Job: Engineer; Top Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 487th Bomb Group 490th Bomb Group 839th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 17063486
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio Operator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 490th Bomb Group 849th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-825061
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 490th Bomb Group 849th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 36754513
- Highest Rank: Corporal
- Role/Job: Airplane Armorer-Gunner; Waist Gunner; Ball Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 490th Bomb Group 849th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-723422
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Brome
- Site type: Aircraft crash site
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Other Failed to Return (FTR) |
3 February 1945 |
Revisions
This Fortress landed in Bodzanów near Płock in Poland. The engine and some parts were used as spare parts for the 44-6592 Star Dust. Star Dust was landed in Toruń, where I live :) Please, look at this link for a interested pics:
http://odkrywca.pl/bombowiec-z-bodzanowa-,497174.html
My father's description of the aircraft. For photos of the plane after the crash landing in Poland, see http://fort-rogowo24.pl/77.html
(in Polish)
Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 12238 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database
