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B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 9/3/44; Gr Island 29/3/44; Grenier 20/4/44; Assigned 600BS/398BG [N8-W] Nuthampstead 5/5/44; (7m) Missing in Action Dessau, Ger 30/5/44 with Tom Thompson, Ball turret gunner: Ernie Pennell, Waist gunner: Vic Frisbie (3 Killed in Action); Co-pilot: Conrad Zufall, Navigator: Ralph Garson, Bombardier: Bob Doherty, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: John Namey{Wounded in Action}, Radio Operator: George Cagne,Tail gunner: George Hartwell (6 Prisoner of War); flak, ship exploded crashed Aken, nine miles W of Dessau, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 5312.
Group
The 398th Bomb Group flew B-17 Flying Fortresses from Nuthampstead, Hertfordshire on strategic bombing raids over Germany. The Group switched focus in the days before D-Day, when they targeted enemy positions on the Cherbourg peninsula. When the Allies...
Squadron
Military | Second Lieutenant | Bombardier | 398th Bomb Group
Shot down 30 May 1944 in B-17 #42102498. Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Military | Staff Sergeant | Radio Operator | 398th Bomb Group
Shot down 30 May 1944 in B-17 42-102498, Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Military | Second Lieutenant | Bombardier | 398th Bomb Group
Missing in Action (MIA) 30 May 1944 Dessau Germany
Reported Prisoner of War (POW) July 1944
Military | Staff Sergeant | Waist Gunner | 398th Bomb Group
Shot down 30 May 1944 in B-17 #42102498. Killed in Action (KIA).
PH
Military | Second Lieutenant | Navigator | 398th Bomb Group
Shot down 30 May 1944 in B-17 #42102498. Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Military | Sergeant | Tail Gunner | 398th Bomb Group
Shot down 30 May 1944 in B-17 #42102498. Reported Prisoner of War (POW) July 1944
PH
Military | Staff Sergeant | Top Turret Gunner | 398th Bomb Group
Military | Sergeant | Ball Turret Gunner | 398th Bomb Group
Military | Lieutenant | Pilot | 398th Bomb Group
Shot down 30 May 1944 in B-17 #42102498. Killed in Action (KIA). Dessau, Germany
PH
Military | Second Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 398th Bomb Group
Shot down 30 May 1944 in B-17 #42-102498, Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Military site : airfield
Built during 1942-43, Nuthampstead was the nearest Eighth Air Force heavy bomber base to London. It had three concrete runways, 50 loop hardstandings and two dispersed T2 hangars. It was first occupied from September 1943 to April 1944 by the 55th...
| Event | Location | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Failed to Return (FTR) | Germany | 30 May 1944 |
| Date | Contributor | Update |
|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2014 18:40:10 | AAM | AAM ingest |
| Sources | ||
Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 5312 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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