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B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 29/5/43; Kearney 14/6/43; Dow Fd 29/6/43; Assigned 561BS/388BG Knettishall 5/7/43; Missing in Action Emden 2/10/43 with Joe Felece, Co-pilot: Don Wilson, Navigator: Joe Sullivan, Bombardier: Joe Kendall, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Burton Rubens, Radio Operator: John Parsons, Ball turret gunner: Henry DeKeyrel, Waist gunner: Bill Harrington, Waist gunner: Gene Harper,Tail gunner: Bill Salyer (10 Killed in Action); flak KO’d #1, then #2 caught fire, ditched North Sea off Heligoland Is, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 3135.
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 | Technical Sergeant | Radio Operator | 388th Bomb Group
Military | Second Lieutenant | Navigator | 388th Bomb Group
Also served in Korea and Vietnam. Retired from the USAF with the rank of Colonel.
Military | Captain | Pilot | 388th Bomb Group
Assigned to 560BS, 388BG, 8AF USAAF. Barclay Boyd Beeby was born in Alton and attended Alton schools, including Shurtleff College. Before joining the military, he was sales manager of the Alton Baking and Ice Cream Company (ABC Bakery). He joined the...
Military | Staff Sergeant | Tail Gunner | 388th Bomb Group
Military | Technical Sergeant | Flight Engineer/Top Turret Gunner | 388th Bomb Group
Military | Lieutenant | Pilot | 388th Bomb Group
Shot down 2 October 1943 in B-17 #42-30421, Killed in Action (KIA).
Military | Staff Sergeant | Right Waist Gunner | 388th Bomb Group
Shot down 2 October 1943 in B-17 #4230421. Killed in Action (KIA).
Military | Sergeant | Waist Gunner | 388th Bomb Group
Shot down 2 October 1943 in B-17 42-30421. Killed in Action.
AM/ PH
Military | Second Lieutenant | Bombardier | 388th Bomb Group
Shot down 2 October 1943 in B-17 #4230421. Killed in Action (KIA).
AM/ PH
Military | Staff Sergeant | Ball Turret Gunner | 388th Bomb Group
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Failed to Return (FTR) | Germany | 2 October 1943 |
| Date | Contributor | Update |
|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2014 18:40:29 | AAM | AAM ingest |
| Sources | ||
Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 3135 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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