42-32010

media-36749.jpeg UPL 36749 Richard Ziegler while serving with the 8th Air Force before transfer to the 15th and the 483rd Bombardment Group.

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Object Number - UPL 36749 - Richard Ziegler while serving with the 8th Air Force before transfer to the 15th and the 483rd Bombardment Group.

Delivered Cheyenne 15/1/44; MacDill 30/1/44; Morrison 9/3/44; Assigned 840BS/483BG Tortorella 11/3/44; Sterparone 22/4/44; Missing in Action Budapest 30/7/44 with Ken Weston, Lizak, Wallace, Andrews, Kelsey, Tunning, Frye, Ziegler, Moore, Goldemberg (10 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed Budapest; Missing Air Crew Report 7107.

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Seen through a 433rd Bomb Group B-17 Flying Fortress' strike camera, a 816th Bomb Squadron B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-5786) nicknamed "Whizzer II" goes down over Nis in Yugoslavia on the 15th of April 1944 in a gout of flame after taking a direct flak hit. There were no survivors. Official caption on image: "(483BG:4M3:2VI) (4:15:1208) (24:21300) ([south-west arrow] 140 [degrees]) (Nis M/Y Yugo) (Ship 111 816 Sq)." Handwritten caption on reverse: '15/4/44. 483BG, 15AF. Nis, Yugoslavia. 42-5786

483rd Bomb Group

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

People

Robert Robbins Andrews

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Unit: 840th Bomb Squadron 483rd Bomb Group
  • Service Numbers: O-757678
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Bombardier

Orrin Fred Frye

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 483rd Bomb Group 840th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 33549297
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Gunner

Isadore Goldenberg

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Unit: 840th Bomb Squadron 483rd Bomb Group
  • Service Numbers: 35132175
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Tail Turret Gunner

James Lloyd Kelsey

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 840th Bomb Squadron 483rd Bomb Group
  • Service Numbers: 16162324
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Top turret gunner

Michael Lizak

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 840th Bomb Squadron 483rd Bomb Group
  • Service Numbers: 12122163 / O-818174
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Co-pilot

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Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log

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