42-37734 Cuddle Cat
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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- Date: 10 October 1943
- Date: 9 October 1943
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| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Biesmerée, Belgium | 5 January 1944 |
Revisions
Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 1686 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database