42-30045 She's My Gal | Fight'n -n - Bit'n

A B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-30045) of the 95th Bomb Group. media-408566.jpg FRE 3926 A B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-30045) of the 95th Bomb Group. Roger Freeman Collection

IWM, Roger Freeman Collection

Object Number - FRE 3926 - A B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-30045) of the 95th Bomb Group.

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

The insignia of the 95th Bomb Group.
  • 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

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Missions

Events

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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.

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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

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