B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Dallas 27/7/44; Lincoln 17/8/44; Grenier 3/9/44; Assigned 1377 AAF Base Unit detailed UK, via Goose Bay, Lab.; on 3/9/44 with Joe Arwood, Co-pilot: Walt Johnson, Navigator: Bill Fowler, Bombardier: Clarry Counsell, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Tom Power, Radio Operator: Paul Curry, g-Jim Linn, g-Crespin Sanchez (8 Returned to Duty); g-Dave Costa, g-Leland Peebler (2KIA-unknown while they bailed out); p returned to Presque Isle; Assigned 336BS/95BG [ET-P] Horham 5/9/44; battle damaged Frankfurt 5/1/45 with C.H. Rose; force landed A-70 Laon A/fd, Fr; 8RTD; Radio Operator: J.R. Otte (wia); repaired & ret group; 72m, Returned to the USA Bradley 24/6/45; Sth Plains 28/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 7/12/45.
Military | Staff Sergeant (Technician Third Grade) | Ball Turret Gunner | 95th Bomb Group
Assigned to 336BS, 95BG, 8AF USAAF. 24 x combat missions. Failed to Return (FTR) mission to Holzwickede 23-Mar-45. Mid air collision with B-17 44-8754, crashed Campsea Ash, Suffolk. Killed in Action (KIA).
Awards: AM (3OLC), GC, PH.
Military | Second Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 95th Bomb Group
Military | Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade) | Radio Operator | 95th Bomb Group
Military | Sergeant (Technician Fourth Grade) | Waist Gunner | 95th Bomb Group
Military | Staff Sergeant (Technician Third Grade) | Tail Gunner | 95th Bomb Group
Assigned to 336BS, 95BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) mission to Holzwickede 23-Mar-45. Mid air collision with B-17 44-8754, crashed Campsea Ash, Suffolk. Killed in Action (KIA).
Awards: AM (3 OLC), PH.
Military | Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) | Flight Engineer | 95th Bomb Group
Assigned to 336BS, 95BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) mission to Holzwickede 23-Mar-45. Mid air collision with B-17 44-8754, crashed Campsea Ashe, Suffolk. Killed in Action (KIA). MACR 16126
Awards: AM (3OLC), PH, GC.
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 95th Bomb Group
Military | First Lieutenant | Navigator | 95th Bomb Group
Assigned to 336BS, 95BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) mission to Holzwickede 23-Mar-45. Mid air collision with B-17 44-8754, crashed Campsea Ash, Suffolk. Killed in Action (KIA). MACR 16126
Awards: PH.
Military | Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade) | Flight Engineer | 95th Bomb Group
Military | First Lieutenant | Navigator | 95th Bomb Group
Military site : airfield
Horham airfield was planned and built for RAF use, but handed over to the Eighth Air Force and used initially by the 47th Bomb Group. When they joined the Twelfth Air Force in January 1943, it became home to the B-26 Marauders of the 323rd Bomb Group....
Military site : airfield
Not yet known
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 27 September 2014 18:41:56 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log |
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