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B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Tulsa 9/2/44; Gr Island 18/2/44; Assigned 561BS/388BG Knettishall 13/3/44; Missing in Action Laon 8/5/44 with Searl Pickett, Co-pilot: Bob Roan, Navigator: Bob Shields, Bombardier: Mervin Jacobs, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bob Abar (5 Prisoner of War); Radio Operator: Harry Woods, Ball turret gunner: Warren McLaughlin, Waist gunner: Ed Hoffpauir, Waist gunner: John Hollish, Tail gunner: Bill Hege (5 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed on Bremen road 15 miles E of Hoya, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 4581. PEG OF MY HEART.
Group
The 388th Bomb Group flew strategic bombing mission from Knettishall, Suffolk from June 1943 to the end of the war. During this time, though, detachments were sent to Fersfield, Norfolk to conduct Aphrodite missions. In these Aphrodite missions veteran...
Squadron
Military | Staff Sergeant | Top Turret Gunner | 388th Bomb Group
Shot down 8 May 1944 in B-17 #42-107061 'Peg Of My Heart', Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Military | Major | Bombardier/Lead Bombardier | 388th Bomb Group
Retired from the USAF with the rank of Lt. Colonel
Military | Sergeant | Tail Gunner | 388th Bomb Group
Shot down 8 May 1944 in B-17 #42107061 'Peg Of My Heart. ' Killed in Action (KIA).
PH
Military | Sergeant | Waist Gunner | 388th Bomb Group
Shot down 8 May 1944 in B-17 42-107061 'Peg Of My Heart. ' Killed in Action (KIA).
Military | Sergeant | Waist Gunner | 388th Bomb Group
Shot down 8 May 1944 in B-17 42-107061 'Peg Of My Heart'. Killed in Action.
PH
Military | Second Lieutenant | Bombardier | 388th Bomb Group
Shot down 8 May 1944 in B-17 #42-107061 'Peg Of My Heart', Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Military | Sergeant | Ball Turret Gunner | 388th Bomb Group
Shot down 8 May 1944 in B-17 #42107061 'Peg Of My Heart. ' Killed in Action (KIA).
PH
Military | Second Lieutenant | Pilot | 388th Bomb Group
Shot down 8 May 1944 in B-17 #42107061 'Peg Of My Heart. ' Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Military | Second Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 388th Bomb Group
Shot down 8 May 1944 in B-17 #42107061 'Peg Of My Heart. ' Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Military | Captain | Pilot | 388th Bomb Group
Retired from the USAF with the rank of Lt. Colonel
18 April 1944
The handwritten log of my father, Horace O. "Hank" Turner, states this.. "Started to raid Berlin, bad weather and we bombed Brandenberg. formation bad and flak terrific." He had marked it with an "x", which he noted meant that "Our plane was hit by...
20 April 1944
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8 May 1944
Military site : airfield
Knettishall was built to Class A standard for an American Bomb Group that would be bringing up to forty heavy bombers with them in three or four Squadrons. The 388th Bomb Group, which stayed at Knettishall for their entire service in the ETO, flew B-17...
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Delivered | Tulsa, OK, USA | 9 February 1944 |
| Assigned | Knettishall, Diss IP22 2TH, UK | 13 March 1944 |
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388 BG |
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| First 388th BG Mission | Berlin, Germany | 18 April 1944 |
| Failed to Return (FTR) | near Bruchhausen-Vilsen, Germany | 8 May 1944 |
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Shot down by German Fighters |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 15 February 2022 20:21:25 | jmoore43 | Changes to description |
| Sources | ||
Added a space before the words “tail gunner” in the a/c description. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 02 April 2021 10:25:47 | Snautzer | Changes to markings |
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https://ww2aircraft.net/forum/threads/north-american-p-51-mustang.42599/... |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 30 December 2017 02:17:55 | 466thHistorian | Changes to production block number, nicknames, markings, events, mission associations and media associations |
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http://www.388bg.info/servlet/Controller?pageType=detail&id=42-107061&da... |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:40:15 | AAM | AAM ingest |
| Sources | ||
Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 4581 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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