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Delivered March 5-Jun-41; Assigned 93BS/19BG Clark Field, PI 20-Oct-41; Delivered Monte-Batchelor 17-Dec-41 with Ford, Chiles, Carrithers, Burke, Uliano, Gilbraith, Groel, Shafer, Wright, Huston; to Samarinda, Borneo then Singosari, Java 30-Dec-41 with Bill Bohnaker; ground accident, overshot runway at Malang, Java 16-Jan-42 with Bill Bohnaker. Sal, the first B-17 lost in Java. Never served in UK
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Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: March Air Reserve Base
Revisions
Added an Association to “March Airfield” as listed in the A/C description section.
Lee Cunningham 29-May-2015. Added Block number and edited Description and converted dates to military notation per "The B-17 Flying Fortress Story". Roger A. Freeman with David Osborne.