B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 24/3/44; Hunter 16/4/44; Grenier 28/4/44; Assigned 334BS/95BG [BG-C] Horham 3/5/44; 4m, transferred 351BS/100BG [EP-J] Thorpe Abbotts 8/6/44; Missing in Action Merseburg 29/7/44 with Bob Schomp, Co-pilot: Henry Preher, Navigator: Bob Culwell, Bombardier: Sylvester Dittbenner, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Edmund Radke, Radio Operator: John HunterWounded in Action, Ball turret gunner: Joe Rosolino, Waist gunner: Elmer Flood,Tail gunner: Art Malaney (9 Prisoner of War); flak set wing afire, ship exploded over Kleinebersdorf, SE of Stadtroda, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 7814. YANKEE (WAHINE) WINE.
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...
Group
The 95th Bomb Group was the only Eighth Air Force Group to be awarded three Distinguished Unit Citations. The first, shared by all four Bomb Wing Groups, was for the bombing of an aircraft factory under intense enemy fire at Regensburg on 17 August...
Squadron
Squadron
Military | Lieutenant | Navigator
Prisoner of War (POW) Shot down by flak and crashed at Klein Ebersdorf on 7/29/44 in B-17 #42102667
POW
Military | Lieutenant | Bombardier
Shot down 29 July 1944 in AC #42102667. Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Military | Staff Sergeant | Right Waist Gunner, Waist Gunner
Prisoner of War (POW) Shot down by flak and crashed at Klein Ebersdorf on 7/29/44 in B-17 #42102667
POW
Military | Technical Sergeant | Radio Operator
Shot down 29 July 1944 in A/C #42-102667 'Boss Lady'. Was shot in leg by civilians when he landed, Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Military | Staff Sergeant | Tail Gunner
Prisoner of War (POW) Shot down by flak and crashed at Klein Ebersdorf on 7/29/44 in B-17 #42102667
POW
Military | Lieutenant | Co-Pilot
Prisoner of War (POW) Shot down by flak and crashed at Klein Ebersdorf on 7/29/44 in B-17 #42102667
POW
Military | Technical Sergeant | Top Turret Gunner | 100th Bomb Group
Shot down by flak and crashed at Klein Ebersdorf on 7/29/44 in B-17 #42-102667, Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Military | Staff Sergeant | Ball Turret Gunner
Prisoner of War (POW) Shot down by flak and crashed at Klein Ebersdorf on 7/29/44 in B-17 #42102667
POW
Military | Lieutenant | Pilot
Prisoner of War (POW) Shot down by flak and crashed at Klein Ebersdorf on 7/29/44 in B-17 #42102667
POW
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
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 |
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| Crashed | 07646 Kleinebersdorf, Germany | 29 July 1944 – 29 July 1944 |
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Missing in Action Merseburg 29/7/44. Cause - flak set both wings afire, no#2 engine caught fire, dropped out of fornation and crew baled out, ship exploded over Kleinebersdorf, SE of Stadtroda, Germany. (9 x POW) Missing Air Crew Report MACR 7814. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 06 December 2015 20:03:09 | Al_Skiff | Changes to production block number, nicknames, markings, events, unit associations and place associations |
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AAM DB Entry. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:40:11 | AAM | AAM ingest |
| Sources | ||
Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 7814 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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