42-3214

Delivered Cheyenne 30/3/43; Sioux City 8/5/43; Assigned 423BS/306BG [RD-F] Thurleigh 5/5/43; transferred 368BS [BO-F]; Missing in Action Wilhelmshafen 21/5/43 with Max Judas, Navigator: Jim Cummings, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Leland Kessler, Radio Operator: Joe Graziano, Waist gunner: Gerry Stroud, Waist gunner: Elwood Brotzman,Tail gunner: John Geimer (7 Prisoner of War); Co-pilot: Frank Arrison, Bombardier: Foster Daniels, Ball turret gunner: Roy LaBlanche (3 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed Waddwwarden, near Emden, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 16173.

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John R Geimer

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 306th Bomb Group 423rd Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Tail Gunner

Joseph R Graziano

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 306th Bomb Group 423rd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 33117703
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Radio Operator, Radio Operator Gunner
Second Lieutenant Max V. Judas of the 303rd Bomb Group climbs out of his B-17 Flying Fortress. Passed for publication 16 Dec 1942. Printed caption on reverse: 'A high percentage of men in the U.S. Air Corps are engaged to be married. No exception to the rule is 2nd Lt. Max V. Judas, of 245, Villa St., Elgin, Ill. His fiancee is Shirley Bender, of 393 E. Chicago St., Elgin. Lieut. Judas is 21 years of age and was educated at Franklin and Marshall, Lancaster, Pa. O.P.S. Lt. Judas climbing out of a 'plane.'

Maxwell V Judas

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 306th Bomb Group 448th Bomb Group 368th Bomb Squadron 423rd Bomb Squadron 712th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-561847
  • Highest Rank: Colonel
  • Role/Job: Pilot
An airman of the 306th Bomb Group with the nose art of a B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 41-24487) nicknamed "Eager Beaver".

Leland J Kessler

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 306th Bomb Group 368th Bomb Squadron 423rd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 15074078
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner ; Flight Engineer

Gerald Stroud

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 306th Bomb Group 423rd Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: waist gunner

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Failed to Return (FTR)

Germany 21 May 1943

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Sources

Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 16173 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database