42-30772
Delivered Cheyenne 27/7/43; Dyersburg 8/8/43; Assigned 524BS/379BG [WA-R] Kimbolton 31/8/43; transferred 323BS/91BG [OR-V] Bassingbourn 23/9/43; Missing in Action Anklam 9/10/43 with Tom Walsh, Co-pilot: Chas Hull, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Albt Jaskiewicz, Radio Operator: George Frank, Ball turret gunner: Harry Goldberger, Waist gunner: T. Frazier, Waist gunner: Bob Robinson, Tail gunner: Dave Baker - body washed up 4/2/44 (8 Killed in Action), Navigator: Harry Cliffe, Bombardier: Jim Fullerton (2 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Baltic Sea N of Keil, 20 miles from Danish coast. Missing Air Crew Report 895.
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Units served with
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 381st Bomb Group 534th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-736850
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 91st Bomb Group 323rd Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 91st Bomb Group 323rd Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 91st Bomb Group 323rd Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 381st Bomb Group 534th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 33199296
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner / Flight Engineer
Places
Missions
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Other Failed to Return (FTR) |
Germany | 9 October 1943 | On 9 October, 1943 USAAF attacked aircraft factories in the eastern part of Poland and East Prussia together with harbour facilities in Gdynia and Danzig with 378 4-engined bombers. Both on the way out and the way home the formations passed Denmark, where German fighters attacked the bombers. During a bombing raid to Anklam in Germany on 9 October, 1943 a ”Flying Fortress” B17 42-30772 crashed in the Baltic Sea. One of the gunners, D.L. Baker, was found by a Danish fisherman drifting between Ærø and Als. The burial in Søby took place 3 days later on 7 February, 1944 without ecclesiastical assistance or any kind of ceremonies. When vicar H.S. Bårris demanded to carry out the burial or at least to be present at it, a German lieutenant Rottgard from the Oldemark barraks threatened to shoot him down. On the following Sunday the vicar held a memorial service. Residents of the area had then covered the grave with a sea of flowers. (Source: FAF) "Only two of crew succeeded in bailing out due to the suddenness of plane breaking up. Both survivors picked up by German rescue vessel." (MACR) |
Revisions
Added a space before the words "Tail gunner" in the A/C “Description” to aid readability.
FTR record updated from source :http://www.airmen.dk/p232.htm
Associated mission from source : http://www.airmen.dk/p232.htm
Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 1398 / MACR 895 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database