41-24525 What's Cookin' Doc

media-7548.jpeg UPL 7548 B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 41-24525) nicknamed "WHAT'S COOKIN' DOC?"

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Object Number - UPL 7548 - B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 41-24525) nicknamed "WHAT'S COOKIN' DOC?"

Assigned 422BS/305BG [JJ-O] Presque Is 22/9/10/42; Grafton Underwood 25/9/42; transferred 547BS/384BG [SO-Y] Grafton Underwood 14/10/43; Missing in Action Ludwigshafen 7/1/44 with Walter Ernest Garner, Co-pilot: Philip Bern, Bombardier: James Daigle, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Russell Hawk, Radio Operator: William Edmiston, Ball turret gunner: Edward Rardon, Waist gunner: Charles Hays, Tail gunner: Jack Anderson (8 Prisoner of War); Navigator: Guy Canale, Waist gunner: Charles Hannah (2 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed Port-le-Grand, four miles NW of Abbeville, France. Missing Air Crew Report 1608. WHAT'S COOKING DOC?

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Units served with

Unofficial emblem, 305th Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment
The insignia of the 384th Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 547th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Tail Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 547th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-793891
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Co-pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 547th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-809529
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Navigator
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 547th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Bombardier
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 547th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 33250560
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Radio Operator

Places

Missions

Events

Event Location Date Description

Assigned

Chelveston, England, UK 14 October 1942 - 22 September 1943 305th Bomb Group, 422nd Bomb Squadron  

Transferred

Grafton Underwood, Kettering, England, UK 22 September 1943 - 7 January 1944 384th Bomb Group, 547th Bomb Squadron

Crashed

Port-le-Grand, France 7 January 1944 - 7 January 1944 FTR.   MIA on a mission to Ludwigshafen.  Shot down by enemy aircraft and crashed at Port-le-Grand, four miles northwest of Abbeville, France. Missing Aircrew Report (MACR) 1608.

Revisions

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Added a space before the words "Tail gunner" in the A/C “Description” to aid readability.

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Contributorbombercommand
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384thbombgroup.com

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Contributorbombercommand
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384THBOMBGROUP.COM

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Contributorbombercommand
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384thbombgroup
Fold3.com

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Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 1608 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

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