42-32000 Mojo Jr/ Twentieth Century
IWM, Roger Freeman Collection
Object Number - FRE 4770 - A B-17 Flying Fortress (WA-P, serial number 42-32000) of the 524th Bomb Squadron, 379th Bomb Group after forced landing in Felpham, Sussex, 4 July...
Delivered Cheyenne 14/1/44; Dalhart 26/1/44; Kearney 22/2/44; Grenier 24/2/44.
Assigned to the 524th Bomb Squadron, /379th Bomb Group [WA-P] Kimbolton 27/2/44.
On mission to attack French airfields 4/7/44 crash landed Felpham, Sussex, UK. where householder gave crew tea and coffee 4/7/44.
Crew
Pilot: Cliff Blue
Co-pilot: Mayo Adams
Navigator: Oswald Masoni
Bombardier: ?
Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Cecil Shaffer
Radio Operator: Harry Olson
Ball turret gunner: Tom Sutton
Waist gunner: John McDonough
Tail gunner: Milton Craven
(9 Returned to Duty)
Salvaged 2 SAD Lt Staughton 10/7/44.
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![Lieutenant Masoni of the 379th Bomb Group with Barbara Deans after crash landing his B-17 Flying Fortress in Deans' garden, 4 July 1944. Passed as censored 5 Jul 1944. Handwritten caption on reverse: '379.' Printed caption on reverse: 'Independence Day Incident[obscured] American Bomber Lands In Garden In Southern England. With two engines out of commission and several of the crew wounded by flak, an American four-engined bomber returning from an early morning raid on targets in Normandy made a belly land](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/teaser_thumb_x2/public/freeman/media-413476.jpg.webp?itok=TzariJRq)
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 524th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 145162243
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 379th Bomb Group 524th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 20345931 / O-802191
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Pilot / S-3 Officer