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B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 20/3/44; Kearney 15/4/44; Grenier 29/4/44; Assigned 349BS/100BG [XR- ] Thorpe Abbotts 1/5/44; Missing in Action Berlin 24/5/44 with Martin Hoskinson, Co-pilot: Marvin Apking, Navigator: Joe Silvestro, Bombardier: Norman Robitoy, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Tom Sibert, Radio Operator: Jerome Miller, Ball turret gunner: Sal Romero, Waist gunner: A.V. Perry, Waist gunner: George Sneckus,Tail gunner: Marlyn Schrader (10 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed Itzstedt, six miles W of Bad Oldesloe, Holstein, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 5171.
Group
"The Bloody Hundredth", so-called because of a reputation for losing a high number aircraft and crews, flew B-17s from Thorpe Abbotts, Norfolk. Their losses were not the highest of any Eighth Air Force Group but on several occasions the Group lost many...
Squadron
Military | Second Lieutenant | Co-Pilot
Shot down 24 May 1944 in B-17 #42102635. Killed in Action (KIA).
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Military | Lieutenant | Pilot
Shot down 24 May 1944 in B-17 #42102635. Killed in Action (KIA).
PH
Military | Technical Sergeant | Radio Operator
Shot down 24 May 1944 in B-17 #42102635. Killed in Action (KIA).
PH
Military | Staff Sergeant | Left Waist Gunner, Waist Gunner
Shot down 24 May 1944 in B-17 #42102635. Killed in Action (KIA).
PH
Military | Second Lieutenant | Bombardier
Military | Staff Sergeant | Ball Turret Gunner
Shot down 24 May 1944 in B-17 #42102635. Killed in Action (KIA).
PH
Military | Staff Sergeant | Tail Gunner
Shot down 24 May 1944 in B-17 #42102635. Killed in Action (KIA).
PH
Military | Technical Sergeant | Top Turret Gunner
Shot down 24 May 1944 in B-17 #42102635. Killed in Action (KIA).
PH
Military | Second Lieutenant | Navigator
Shot down 24 May 1944 in B-17 #42102635. Killed in Action (KIA).
PH
Military | Staff Sergeant | Right Waist Gunner, Waist Gunner
Shot down 24 May 1944 in B-17 #42102635. Killed in Action (KIA).
PH
Military site : airfield
Home of the 'Bloody Hundredth’, a Bomb Group with a reputation for high casualty rates, Thorpe Abbotts was under USAAF control from June 1943 to the end of the war. Some of the airfield survives today, and the control tower houses the 100th Bomb Group...
| Event | Location | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Failed to Return (FTR) | Germany | 24 May 1944 |
| Date | Contributor | Update |
|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2014 18:40:11 | AAM | AAM ingest |
| Sources | ||
Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 5171 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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