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.
Service
Units
-
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...
-
People
-
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
Show more
Missions
-
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...
-
-
-
-
Places
-
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...
Events
Event |
Location |
Date |
Delivered |
Tulsa, OK, USA |
9 February 1944 |
Assigned |
Knettishall, Diss IP22 2TH, UK |
13 March 1944 |
388 BG
561 BS
|
First 388th BG Mission |
Berlin, Germany |
18 April 1944 |
Failed to Return (FTR) |
near Bruchhausen-Vilsen, Germany |
8 May 1944 |
Shot down by German Fighters
|