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Delivered Denver 10/8/43; Gr Island 3/9/43; Assigned 336BS/95BG [ET-G] Horham 8/9/43; with L. Jeffers force-landed RAF Lissett 13/11/43; with Robert Currence force-landed Thorpe Abbotts 16/12/43. Missing in Action on its 19th mission, to Kiel, Germany on 5 January 1944. Pilot Robert B. Currence, Co-pilot Harry L. Hankins, Navigator Marvin B. Edwards, Bombardier: John F. Werner, Flight engineer/Top Turret gunner Louis Rabinowitz, Right Waist gunner John P. Campbell, Tail gunner/Assistant Engineer Leo J. Landy (7 Prisoner of War). Radio Operator: Theodore R. Woznicki, Ball Turret gunner Ray E. Davis (2 evaded capture). Left Waist gunner/Assistant Radio Operator James J. Kelleher (Killed in Action). Crashed Biesmerée, four miles SE of Florennes (about 40km SW of Namur), Belgium. Missing Air Crew Report - MACR 1686.

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The insignia of the 95th Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

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  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 39531825
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Radio Operator
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 12159370
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Waist Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-677674
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 336th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 35646857
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 17031963
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner

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Failed to Return (FTR)

Biesmerée, Belgium 5 January 1944

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MACR 1686

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Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 1686 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database