B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Tulsa 27/3/44; Kearney 5/4/44; Grenier 21/4/44; Assigned 600BS/398BG [N8-T] Nuthampstead 3/5/44; (17m) Missing in Action Leipzig 7/7/44 with Roger Folger, Navigator: Bill Moses, Bombardier: Chas Busbee, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: John Paris, Radio Operator: John Quinn, Ball turret gunner: Calvin Harvey, Waist gunner: John Schneider,Tail gunner: Lou Zeller (8 Prisoner of War); Ray Hopp (KIA, shot in esacpe attempt); flak, crashed Bad Dueben, near Leipzig, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 7221. AGONY WAGON II.
Group
The 398th Bomb Group flew B-17 Flying Fortresses from Nuthampstead, Hertfordshire on strategic bombing raids over Germany. The Group switched focus in the days before D-Day, when they targeted enemy positions on the Cherbourg peninsula. When the Allies...
Squadron
Military | Second Lieutenant | Bombardier | 398th Bomb Group
Felled by flak over Leipzig on 7 July 1944 in AC #42107218. Prisoner of War (POW) Barth Stalag Luft I 10 months. POW
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Military | Second Lieutenant | Pilot | 398th Bomb Group
Prisoner of War (POW) Crashed at Dueben on 7/7/44 in B-17 #42107218
POW
Military | Sergeant | Ball Turret Gunner | 398th Bomb Group
Prisoner of War (POW) Shot down by flak and crashed at Dueben on 7/7/44 in B-17 #42107218
POW
Military | Second Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 398th Bomb Group
Killed in Action (KIA) Shot down by flak and crashed at Dueben in B-17 #42107218
Military | Second Lieutenant | Navigator | 398th Bomb Group
Prisoner of War (POW) Crashed at Dueben on 7/7/44 in B-17 #42107218
POW
Military | Staff Sergeant | Flight Engineer; Top Turret Gunner, Top Turret Gunner | 398th Bomb Group
Shot down 7 July 1944 in A/C #42-107218, Prisoner of War (POW).
Military | Staff Sergeant | Radio Operator | 398th Bomb Group
Shot down at Liepzig 7 July 1944 on 9th mission. Bailed out. Pilot Killed in Action (KIA). Prisoner of War (POW) until 9 April 1945. Escaped and returned to allied control 18 April 1945 with British army. Hospitalized in Oxford. Arrived back in USA 22...
Military | Sergeant | Left Waist Gunner | 398th Bomb Group
Prisoner of War (POW) Shot down by flak and crashed at Dueben on 7/7/44 in B-17 #42107218
POW
Military | Sergeant | Tail Gunner | 398th Bomb Group
Shot down by flak and crashed at Dueben on 7/7/44 in B-17 #42-107218, Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Military site : airfield
Built during 1942-43, Nuthampstead was the nearest Eighth Air Force heavy bomber base to London. It had three concrete runways, 50 loop hardstandings and two dispersed T2 hangars. It was first occupied from September 1943 to April 1944 by the 55th...
| Event | Location | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Failed to Return (FTR) | Germany | 7 July 1944 |
| Date | Contributor | Update |
|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2014 18:40:16 | AAM | AAM ingest |
| Sources | ||
Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 7221 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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