B-17 Flying Fortress
B-17 Flying Fortresses, (LL-F, serial number 42-97467) of the 91st Bomb Group, (OJ-G, serial number 42-97212) of the 96th Bomb Group and (LD-D, serial number 42-39994 nicknamed SNORT STUFF) of the 100th Bomb Group in Sweden, 1944. SNORT STUFF flown to Sweden on March 6, 1944 mission to BERLIN. Written on slide casing: 'Sweden, 297467 LL:F, 18/7/44, 297212 OJ:G, 11/4/44, 239994, LD:D 6/3/44 (SNORT STUFF-LT SAMUEL BARRICK CREW)
Delivered Long Beach 29/10/43; Assigned 418BS/100BG [LD-D] Thorpe Abbotts 16/12/43; Missing in Action Berlin 6/3/44 with Sam Barrick, Co-pilot: Ira Munn, Navigator: Jim Guerrini, Bombardier: Jim Brady, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Walfred Johnson, Radio Operator: Clifton Barton, Ball turret gunner: Ed Marlin, Waist gunner: Fred Thorpe, Waist gunner: Bill Dixon,Tail gunner: Hugh Fantone (10 INT - ret UK 9/44); enemy aircraft KO’d two engines, one afire and prop eventually fell off after unable to be feathered, force landed Bulltofta, Sweden, escorted in by two Swedish AF fighters; Missing Air Crew Report 3031. Returned to the USA 121 BU Bradley 20/7/45; 4185 BU Independence 24/7/45; 237 BU Kirtland 16/12/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Albuquerque 7/1/46. SNORT STUFF.
Group
"The Bloody Hundredth", so-called because of a reputation for losing a high number aircraft and crews, flew B-17s from Thorpe Abbotts, Norfolk. Their losses were not the highest of any Eighth Air Force Group but on several occasions the Group lost many...
Squadron
Military | Lieutenant | Pilot
With two engines damaged by fighters on a mission to Klein Machnow, Berlin on 6 Mar 1944, B-17G #42-39994 'SNORT STUFF' headed for Sweden and landed at Bulltofta. Interned.
Military | Technical Sergeant | Radio Operator, Radio Operator Gunner
With two engines damaged by fighters on a mission to Klein Machnow, Berlin on 6 Mar 1944, B-17G #42-39994 'Barrick's Bag' headed for Sweden and landed at Bulltofta. Interned.
Military | Technical Sergeant | Ball Turret Gunner, Bombardier
With two engines damaged by fighters on a mission to Klein Machnow, Berlin on 6 Mar 1944, B-17G #42-39994 'Barrick's Bag' headed for Sweden and landed at Bulltofta. Interned.
Military | Staff Sergeant | Tail Gunner
With two engines damaged by fighters on a mission to Klein Machnow, Berlin on 6 Mar 1944, B-17G #42-39994 'Barrick's Bag' headed for Sweden and landed at Bulltofta. Interned. He was picked to repair the American planes that had landed in Sweden and he...
Military | Second Lieutenant | Navigator
With two engines damaged by fighters on a mission to Klein Machnow, Berlin on 6 Mar 1944, B-17G #42-39994 'Barrick's Bag' headed for Sweden and landed at Bulltofta. Interned.
Military | Technical Sergeant | Top Turret Gunner
With two engines damaged by fighters on a mission to Klein Machnow, Berlin on 6 Mar 1944, B-17G #42-39994 'Barrick's Bag' headed for Sweden and landed at Bulltofta. Interned.
Military | Staff Sergeant | Ball Turret Gunner
With two engines damaged by fighters on a mission to Klein Machnow, Berlin on 6 Mar 1944, B-17G #42-39994 'Barrick's Bag' headed for Sweden and landed at Bulltofta. Interned.
Military | Second Lieutenant | Co-Pilot
With two engines damaged by fighters on a mission to Klein Machnow, Berlin on 6 Mar 1944, B-17G #42-39994 'Barrick's Bag' headed for Sweden and landed at Bulltofta. Interned.
Military | Staff Sergeant | Right Waist Gunner, Waist Gunner
With two engines damaged by fighters on a mission to Klein Machnow, Berlin on 6 Mar 1944, B-17G #42-39994 'Barrick's Bag' headed for Sweden and landed at Bulltofta. Interned.
Military | Staff Sergeant | Left Waist Gunner, Waist Gunner
With two engines damaged by fighters on a mission to Klein Machnow, Berlin on 6 Mar 1944, B-17G #42-39994 'Barrick's Bag' headed for Sweden and landed at Bulltofta. Interned.
6 March 1944
The industrial areas of Berlin and Genshagen, Germany are the primary targets for this mission. A combined force of 730 heavy bombers are despatched from 1st, 2nd and 3rd Air Divisions. The despatch from 3rd Air Division bombs Targets of Opportunity in...
Military site : airfield
Home of the 'Bloody Hundredth’, a Bomb Group with a reputation for high casualty rates, Thorpe Abbotts was under USAAF control from June 1943 to the end of the war. Some of the airfield survives today, and the control tower houses the 100th Bomb Group...
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Failed to Return (FTR) | Germany | 6 March 1944 |
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 26 May 2020 21:28:01 | jmoore43 | Changes to description |
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Added 3 spaces in the A/C “Description” to aid clarity. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 04 October 2014 02:11:07 | mpfaley | Changes to nicknames |
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Michael P. Faley-100th Bomb Group Historian, www.100thbg.com |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:40:51 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 3031 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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