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

A B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 44-5287) of the 463rd Bomb Group, 15th Air Force in flight with open bomb bay doors. Handwritten caption on reverse: '463 BG Gills.'
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Fifteenth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Places

A B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 44-5287) of the 463rd Bomb Group, 15th Air Force in flight with open bomb bay doors. Handwritten caption on reverse: '463 BG Gills.'
  • 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

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Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log