42-37786

media-30074.jpeg UPL 30074 Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses of the 381st Bomb Group, flying through dense clouds while en route to bomb enemy installations somewhere in Europe. These Fortresses are stationed at an airbase in England. 42-37786 and 42-29761.

Object Number - UPL 30074 - Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses of the 381st Bomb Group, flying through dense clouds while en route to bomb enemy installations somewhere in Europe....

Delivered Denver 27/8/43; Assigned 401BG Deenethorpe 2/11/43; transferred 532BS/381BG [VE-B] Ridgewell 21/11/43; Missing in Action Augsburg 25/2/44 with Don Henderson, Co-pilot: Jack Fournier, Bombardier: Nick DeRose, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Raoul Ramos (4 Prisoner of War); Navigator: Earl Wonning, Radio Operator: Boyd Burgess, Ball turret gunner: Anthony Korkuc*, Waist gunner: Tom Hunnicut, Waist gunner: Tony Bartolo,Tail gunner: Dale Schilling (6 Killed in Action); turbo-chargers damaged by flak and attack by ME109, with Curt Clemens of III/JG3; crashed Willmandingen, nine miles SW of Reutlingen, Ger; seen burning on ground by other crews of 532BS; Missing Air Crew Report 2933. (* Nephew Bob Korkuc wrote book on this loss, called – Threads of a Distant Past.)

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Units served with

The insignia of the 381st Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 381st Bomb Group 532nd Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: waist gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 381st Bomb Group 532nd Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Radio Operator / Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 381st Bomb Group 532nd Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Bombardier
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 381st Bomb Group 532nd Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Co-Pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 381st Bomb Group 532nd Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

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Events

Event Location Date Description

Other

Failed to Return (FTR)

Germany 25 February 1944

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Sources

Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 2933 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

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