42-30866 Pistol Packin Mama

Delivered Cheyenne 10/8/43; Scott 24/10/43; Assigned 401BG Deenethorpe 30/10/43; landed Bassingbourn 9/11/43 transferred 563BS/388BG Knettishall YANKEE BELLE; 508BS/351BG [YB-S] Polebrook 21/11/43.



Missing in Action 5m Achmer 21/2/44 with Albert Kogelman, Navigator: Bob Shafer, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Clyde Dunlap, Radio Operator: Joe Rawdon, Waist gunner: Sheldon Johnson (5 Returned to Duty); Co-pilot: Carey Haynes, Bombardier: Bill Armour, Ball turret gunner: Will Speiser, Waist gunner: Wesley Locke, Tail gunner: Gilbert Denison (5 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft KO’d two engines and left horiz. stab. broke off, enemy aircraft attacked again and KO’d #4; ditched North Sea, 20 miles E of Lowestoft, Sfk., five crew saved by ASR, but Co-pilot: Haynes & Tail gunner: Denison died of exposure; RAF Air Sea Rescue launch picked up survivors and took them to Gt Yarmouth. Missing Air Crew Report 6063. PISTOL PACKIN' MAMA.

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Units served with

The insignia of the 351st Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 351st Bomb Group 510th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 36129596
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Radio Operator
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 351st Bomb Group 508th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Bombardier
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 351st Bomb Group 510th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 351st Bomb Group 510th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 37226817
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 351st Bomb Group 508th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Tail Gunner

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Other

Failed to Return (FTR) Over Water (OW)

North Sea 21 February 1944

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Added a space before the words "Tail gunner" in the A/C “Description” to aid readability.

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B-17G is not associated with this listing

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Associated people MACR 12417

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Details on this page.

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Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 6063 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database