42-30045 She's My Gal | Fight'n -n - Bit'n
IWM, Roger Freeman Collection
Delivered Cheyenne 3/4/43; Sioux City 14/4/43; Kearney 3/5/43; Bangor 23/5/43; Assigned 545BS/384BG [JD- ] Grafton Underwood 29/5/43; transferred 334BS/95BG [BG-M] Horham 28/6/43 SHE'S MY GAL;
28/7/43 with E.L. Lemke force landed Gt Ashfield AFB, Suffolk;
6/9/43 with Max Crowder force landed Chipping Norton;
12th mission, Missing in Action Saarlautern 4/10/43 with Max Crowder, Co-pilot: Edgar Taylor, Navigator: Paul Terrell, Bombardier: Bill Savage, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Roy Lewis, Radio Operator: Duke Rosenburg, Ball turret gunner: Andres Torres, Waist gunner: Theo Mayer, wo-Melvin Hibbert, Tail gunner: Arlie Arneson (10 Prisoner of War); flak, ditched off Bayeux, France; Missing Air Crew Report 744 & 1455. FIGHT'N -'N - BIT'N.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 6575918
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: T-060187
- Highest Rank: Flight Officer
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 16092874
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 34362252
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 16037015
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Grafton Undermud
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Airfield
Missions
- Date: 4 October 1943
- Date: 27 September 1943
- Date: 6 September 1943
- Date: 31 August 1943
- Date: 17 August 1943
- Official Description:
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Crashed |
Great Ashfield, Bury Saint Edmunds, Suffolk IP31, UK | 28 July 1943 | Force landed Great Ashfield AFB, Suffolk. Pilot Lt E L Lemke. 28/7/43. |
Crashed |
Chipping Norton, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire OX7, UK | 6 September 1943 | Force landed Chipping Norton. Pilot Lt Max Crowder. 6-9-43. |
Crashed Failed to Return (FTR) |
Off of Bayeux, France | 4 October 1943 - 4 October 1943 | Missing in Action Saarlautern 4/10/43. Cause - flak, dropped out of formation #4 engine feathered, ditched off Bayeux, France; (9 x POW, 1 x KIA) Missing Air Crew Report 744 & 1455. |
Revisions
Changed fate of crew from 9 POW, 1 KIA to 10 POW. Edgar S Taylor was listed as KIA but checking sources again, MACR 744 records him as RTD, returned to duty, and www2pow.info records him as a POW at Stalag Luft III. In addition, there is no match for a Edgar S Taylor, d. 1943, on findagrave.com.
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Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 1455 / MACR 744 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database