42-30713 Phyllis Marie
IWM, Roger Freeman Collection
Object Number - FRE 1579 - Staff-Sergeant Louis Kiss, a tail gunner of the 390th Bomb Group in position inside bis B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-30713) nicknamed...
Delivered Denver 17/7/43; Scott 10/8/43; Assigned 568BS/390BG [BI-E] Framlingham 25/8/43; Missing in Action [34m] Berlin 6/3/44 with Max Quakenbush, Co-pilot: Roger Johnson, Navigator: Amergo Bassi, Bombardier: Harry Bell, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Theo Wright, Radio Operator: Harry Snator, Ball turret gunner: Harvey Prater, Waist gunner: Ken Hopkins, Waist gunner: Howard Vannoy, Tail gunner: George Schumacher (10 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft KO’d #3 on return trip, force landed Werben, seven miles S of Cottbus, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 2987. PHYLLIS MARIE. (Sal by Luftwaffe for KG200 and found OK in Bavaria in 1945).
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Units served with
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 568th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 16005990 / O-693682
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 568th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 31192188
- Highest Rank: Sergeant (RAF)
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 568th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 12046708 / O-735319
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Togglier; Observer
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 568th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-807918
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 568th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner
Places
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Other Failed to Return (FTR) |
Germany | 8 March 1944 |
Revisions
Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 2987 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database