42-3073 Lightning Strikes

Two B-17 Flying Fortresses, including (LL-A, serial number 42-3073), of the 91st Bomb Group, parked at Whitechurch with an RAF Spitfire and an AT-19 Reliant. September 1943. Image via Merle Olmstead. Written on reverse: 'Sept 1943.' media-408282.jpg FRE 3684 Two B-17 Flying Fortresses, including (LL-A, serial number 42-3073), of the 91st Bomb Group, parked at Whitechurch with an RAF Spitfire and an AT-19 Reliant. September 1943. Image via Merle Olmstead. Written on reverse: 'Sept 1943.' Roger Freeman Collection

IWM, Roger Freeman Collection

Object Number - FRE 3684 - Two B-17 Flying Fortresses, including (LL-A, serial number 42-3073), of the 91st Bomb Group, parked at Whitechurch with an RAF Spitfire and an AT-19...

Delivered Cheyenne 4/2/43; Assigned 410BS/94BG Bangor 13/4/43; delivered UK, transferred 401BS/91BG [LL-A] Bassingbourn 22/4/43; Missing in Action 23m Leipzig 21/2/44 with Bill Gibbons, Co-pilot: Clyde McCallum, Navigator: Don Shea, Bombardier: Wilf Conlon, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bill Doupance, Radio Operator: Jack Bowen, Ball turret gunner: Julius Edwards, Waist gunner: Clarry Bateman,Tail gunner: Paul Goecke (10 Prisoner of War); separate enemy aircraft attacks KO’d #3 & #4 plus wings on fire, crash landed target area, near Herford, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 2463. LIGHTNING STRIKES.

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Units served with

Unofficial emblem of the 91st Bomb Group.

91st Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

Clarence R Bateman

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 91st Bomb Group 401st Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 18130916
  • Highest Rank: Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Waist Gunner / Flight Engineer

Jack S Bowen

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 91st Bomb Group 401st Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Master Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner / Waist Gunner

Wilfred P Conlon

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 91st Bomb Group 401st Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Bombardier

William O Dolponch

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 91st Bomb Group 401st Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Radio Operator

Julius Ward Edwards

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 91st Bomb Group 401st Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Waist Gunner

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I am the grandson of Jack S Bowen. He was on "Lightning Strikes" with Irwin. I have Jack's records as written by Army Air Corps after the war. Mission report document # 6-3661,AF Lists Irwin as having been killed on "Lightning Strikes" on 21st of Feb 1944 over the town of munster before reaching the target of Gutersloh.

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Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 2463 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

42-3073: Gallery (7 items)

Two B-17 Flying Fortresses (LG-V, serial number 42-29711) and (LL-A, serial number 42-3073) of the 91st Bomb Group with an RAF Spitfire. Image via Merle Olmstead. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Sept 1943. LG-V, 42-29711, ex-94BG, 322nd BS. LL-A, 42-3073, 401st BS. 91st B.G. Photos probably at Whitchurch.'

Object number: FRE 3610 - Two B-17 Flying Fortresses (LG-V, serial number 42...

Two B-17 Flying Fortresses, including (LL-A, serial number 42-3073), of the 91st Bomb Group, parked at Whitechurch with an RAF Spitfire and an AT-19 Reliant. September 1943. Image via Merle Olmstead. Written on reverse: 'Sept 1943.'

Object number: FRE 3684 - Two B-17 Flying Fortresses, including (LL-A...

Two B-17 Flying Fortresses, including (LL-A, serial number 42-3073), of the 91st Bomb Group, parked at Whitechurch with an AT-19 Reliant. September 1943. Image via Merle Olmstead. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Sept 1943, 91st Bomb Grp., Photo of Whitechurch(?)'

Object number: FRE 3685 - B-17F serial 42-3073 "Lightning Strikes" (coded LL...

Object number: UPL 22500 - MstSgt Jack S. Bowen

Object number: UPL 26073 - 42-3073 "Lightning Strikes"

Object number: UPL 35248 - "Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses on way to bomb...

Object number: UPL 35405 - "Flying high above the clouds, Boeing B-17 Flying...