42-30033 Little America

Object Number - UPL 7461 - 42-30033 Nose Art, "Little America"

Delivered Cheyenne 2/4/43; Sioux City 13/4/43; Kearney 4/5/43; Bangor 20/5/43; Assigned to the 547BS/384BG [S0-G] Grafton Underwood 24/5/43, then the 546BS [BK-G]; Missing in Action Leverkusen 1/12/43 with Maj Maurice Stanley Dillingham, Co-pilot: Edmund Samuel Goulder, Navigator: Arthur Claude Harris, Bombardier: William Boomhower, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Edward Arthur Thomasson, Radio Operator: William Francis Sears, Waist gunner: Paul Ralph Saunders, Waist gunner: Michael Joseph Vodilko, Tail gunner: L T Ernest Marshall Boyce Jr. (9 Prisoner of War), Ball turret gunner: Claude Robert Leslie (evaded capture); mechanical problems, crashed Prum, Germany. Missing Air Crew Report 1335. LITTLE AMERICA.

This aircraft was credited with 22 combat missions with the 384th.

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Units served with

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 545th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-665266
  • Highest Rank: Captain
  • Role/Job: Pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 547th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 546th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 546th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 14090837 and O-673460
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Navigator
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron Headquarters (384th Bomb Group)
  • Service Numbers: O-727080
  • Highest Rank: Captain
  • Role/Job: Group Bombardier

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Failed to Return (FTR)

Germany 1 December 1943

Revisions

Date18 May 2021 21:29:30
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Added a space before the words "Tail gunner" in the A/C “Description” to aid clarity.

Date9 Oct 2017 19:40:50
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Date9 Oct 2017 18:46:11
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Corrected error in connecction

Date18 Jan 2015 22:10:33
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384thbombgroup.com

Date18 Jan 2015 22:09:16
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384thbombgroup.com

Date18 Jan 2015 22:07:43
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384thbombgroup.com

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Sources

Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 1335 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

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