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B-17G-10 -DL 42-37738 Miss America of 8th AF, 91st BG. 322nd BS
Delivered Denver 11/8/43; Gr Island 3/9/43; Assigned 322BS/91BG [LG-T] Bassingbourn 24/9/43; Missing in Action Osnabruck 22/12/43 with Ed Steel, Co-pilot: Bill Myers, Navigator: Bob Emmick, Bombardier: Fred Weyerts, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Henry Holderbach, Radio Operator: George Harris, Waist gunner: Howard Thornlew, Waist gunner: Elmer Tobia, Tail gunner: Jim Lane (9 Prisoner of War), Ball turret gunner: Gerald Glaze (KIA-bailed out but drowned in North Sea); enemy aircraft, crashed on Hoogovens foundry at Vesel, near Ijmuiden, Hol. Missing Air Crew Report 1715.
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Group
The 91st Bombardment Group (Heavy) was activated at Harding Field, Louisiana on 15-April-1942 and went to MacDill Field, Florida for the first phase of training from 16-May-1942 to 25-June-1942. The Group was then assigned to 2nd Air Force at Walla...
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People
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Military | Second Lieutenant | Navigator | 91st Bomb Group The Ragged Irregulars
Shot down 22 December 1943 in B-17 #4237738. Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
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Military | Sergeant | Ball Turret Gunner | 91st Bomb Group The Ragged Irregulars
Shot down 22 December 1943 in B-17 #4237738. Killed in Action (KIA).
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Military | Technical Sergeant | Radio Operator | 91st Bomb Group The Ragged Irregulars
8 combat missions. Shot down 22 December 1943 in B-17 #4237738. Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag XVII-B, Luft I, Stalag Luft VI & IV, on the Heyderkrug Run, on the forced march from Luft IV. Copy of article on file/Library Reference Drawer
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Military | Staff Sergeant | Top Turret Gunner | 91st Bomb Group The Ragged Irregulars
Shot down 22 December 1943 in B-17 #4237738. Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
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Military | Sergeant | Tail Gunner | 91st Bomb Group The Ragged Irregulars
Shot down 22 December 1943 in B-17 #42-37738, Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
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Military | Second Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 91st Bomb Group The Ragged Irregulars
Shot down 22 December 1943 in B-17 #42-37738, Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
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Military | Second Lieutenant | Pilot | 91st Bomb Group The Ragged Irregulars
Shot down 22 December 1943 in B-17 42-37738. Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
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Military | Sergeant | Left Waist Gunner | 91st Bomb Group The Ragged Irregulars
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Military | Sergeant | Right Waist Gunner, Waist Gunner | 91st Bomb Group The Ragged Irregulars
Shot down 22 December 1943 in B-17 #4237738. Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
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Military | Second Lieutenant | Bombardier | 91st Bomb Group The Ragged Irregulars
Shot down 22 December 1943 in B-17 #4237738. Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Places
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Military site : airfield
Now home to a museum all about the aifield and its USAAF residents (http://www.towermuseumbassingbourn.co.uk/) , Bassingbourn opened in 1938 as part of the RAF's pre-war expansion programme. The RAF continued to use it until late in 1942 when its long...
Events
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Failed to Return (FTR) |
Germany |
22 December 1943 |