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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People

Wilbert H Nichols

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: waist gunner

Ralph Raymond Rice

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 15096917
  • Highest Rank: Technician Third Grade
  • Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner

Ross S Ritto

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: waist gunner

George Richmond Robinson

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 32075985
  • Highest Rank: Technician Third Grade
  • Role/Job: Waist Gunner

Norman S Rosenberg

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Radio Operator

Places

Missions

322

  • Date: 27 April 1944
A B-24 Liberator (serial number 41-29155) nicknamed "Picadilly Commando" of the 446th Bomb Group. First handwritten caption on reverse: '446BG B/24 leaving Ruhr on its way home 22 April 1944.' Second handwritten caption on reverse: '22/4/44, 21,000 Ft. Hamm, smoke screen in distance.'

311

  • Date: 22 April 1944

309

  • Date: 20 April 1944

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.

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.

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Contributoracbernstein1
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https://95thbgdb.com/aircraft/214

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AAM DB Entry.

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ContributorAAM
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Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 5160 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database