Delivered Tulsa 25/5/44; Hunter 20/6/44; Dow Fd 30/6/44; Assigned 32BS/301BG Lucera 9/7/44; Missing in Action Wiener Neudorf 26/7/44 with Rich Luebke, Co-pilot: Thomas, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Darling (3 Killed in Action); Navigator: Krumholz, Bombardier: Jones, Radio Operator: Ault, Ball turret gunner: Hudson, Waist gunner: Petrowski, Waist gunner: Scalabrino,Tail gunner: Cope (7 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Perin; Missing Air Crew Report 7141.
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Activated 3-February-1942 at Geiger Field, Washington and equipped with B-17s. On 27-May-1942 the ground unit moved to Alamogordo Army Air Field, New Mexico, and the aircraft went to Muroc Army Air Field (now Edwards Air Force Base), California for...
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People
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Military | Technical Sergeant | Radio Operator | 301st Bomb Group
Assigned 32BS, 301BG, 15AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Wiener Neudorf 26-Jul-44 hit by enemy aircraft, crashed Perin; Prisoner of War (POW) MACR 7141.
Awards: POW, WWII Victory, EAME.
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Military | Staff Sergeant | Tail Gunner | 301st Bomb Group
Assigned 32BS, 301BG, 15AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Wiener Neudorf 26-Jul-44 hit by enemy aircraft, crashed Perin; Prisoner of War (POW) MACR 7141
Awards: POW, WWII Victory, EAME.
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Military | Technical Sergeant | Engineer | 301st Bomb Group
Assigned 32BS, 301BG, 15AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Wiener Neudorf 26-Jul-44 hit by enemy aircraft, crashed Perin; Killed in Action (KIA) MACR 7141.
Awards: AM, PH.
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Military | Staff Sergeant | Waist Gunner | 301st Bomb Group
Assigned 32BS, 301BG, 15AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Wiener Neudorf 26-Jul-44 hit by enemy aircraft, crashed Perin; Prisoner of War (POW) MACR 7141.
Awards: POW, WWII Victory, EAME.
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Military | Captain | Bombardier | 301st Bomb Group
Assigned 32BS, 301BG, 15AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Wiener Neudorf 26-Jul-44 hit by enemy aircraft, crashed Perin; Prisoner of War (POW) MACR 7141.
Awards: POW, WWII Victory, EAME.
Post war: Medical practitioner.
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Military | Second Lieutenant | Navigator | 301st Bomb Group
Assigned 32BS, 301BG, 15AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Wiener Neudorf 26-Jul-44 hit by enemy aircraft, crashed Perin; Prisoner of War (POW) MACR 7141.
Awards: POW, WWII Victory, EAME.
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Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 301st Bomb Group
Assigned 32BS, 301BG, 15AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Wiener Neudorf 26-Jul-44 hit by enemy aircraft, crashed Perin; Killed in Action (KIA) MACR 7141.
Awards: AM (4OLC), PH.
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Military | Staff Sergeant | Waist Gunner | 301st Bomb Group
Assigned 32BS, 301BG, 15AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Wiener Neudorf 26-Jul-44 hit by enemy aircraft, crashed Perin; Prisoner of War (POW) MACR 7141
Awards: AM(OLC), PH, POW, WWII Victory, EAME
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Military | Staff Sergeant | Gunner | 301st Bomb Group
Assigned 32BS, 301BG, 15AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Wiener Neudorf 26-Jul-44 hit by enemy aircraft, crashed Perin; Prisoner of War (POW) MACR 7141.
Awards: POW, WWII Victory, EAME.
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Military | Second Lieutenant | Co-pilot | 301st Bomb Group
Assigned 32BS, 301BG, 15AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Wiener Neudorf 26-Jul-44 hit by enemy aircraft, crashed Perin; Killed in Action (KIA) MACR 7141.
Awards: AM (2OLC), PH.
Events
Event |
Location |
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Manufactured |
Long Beach, CA |
1944 |
Delivered |
Tulsa AFB, OK |
25 May 1944 |
Delivered Tulsa 25-May-44.
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Assigned |
Lucera, Italy |
9 July 1944 |
Assigned to 32BS, 301BG, 15AF USAAF.
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Crashed |
West of Wiener Neustadt |
26 July 1944 |
Missing in Action Wiener Neudorf ; enemy aircraft, crashed Perin; 7 x POW, 3 x KIA MACR 7141.
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