42-39924 Tornado
Delivered Long Beach 9/10/43; Gr Island 22/10/43; Assigned 334BS/95BG [BG-N] Horham 12/11/43; with P.L. Huie force landed Rattlesden AFB 10/2/44, (crew OK); 52m, Missing in Action Berlin 24/5/44 with Bill Sheehan, Co-pilot: Chas Beck, Navigator: Vic Bubbett, Bombardier: Bob Temple, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Greg Aversa, Radio Operator: Norm Rosenberg, Ball turret gunner: Jerome Hentz,Tail gunner: Orin Burgman (8 Killed in Action); Waist gunner: Wilbert Nichols, Waist gunner: Ross Ritto (2 Prisoner of War); #1 feathered, lagging behind with three Me109s ready to pounce, crashed near Germendorf rail station, W of Oranienburg, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 5160. TORNADO.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Flight Officer
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 33557093
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner, Radio Gunner
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Airfield
Missions
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Crashed |
Rattlesden, Bury Saint Edmunds, Suffolk IP30, UK | 10 February 1944 | Force landed Rattlesden AFB 10/2/44. Pilot Lt P L Huie. |
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Crashed Failed to Return (FTR) |
Oranienburg, Germany | 24 May 1944 - 24 May 1944 | Missing in Action Berlin 24/5/44. Cause - #1 engine feathered, lagging behind with three Me109's ready to pounce, crashed near Germendorf rail station, W of Oranienburg, Germany. (8 x KIA, 2 x POW) Missing Air Crew Report MACR 5160. |
Revisions
Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 5160 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database