42-30709
IWM, Roger Freeman Collection
Delivered Denver 15/7/43; Gore 16/7/43; Gr Isle 24/7/43; Walla Walla 1/8/43; Scott 11/8/43; Presque 16/8/43; Assigned 388BG Knettishall 20/8/43; transferred 339BS/96BG [QJ-P] Snetterton 21/8/43.
Missing in Action Schweinfurt 14/10/43 with Coles Goodner, Co-pilot: Arthur Leu, Navigator: Jim Lapp, Bombardier: Howard Day, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Lester Kraft, Radio Operator: Bernie Harman, Ball turret gunner: John Chaney, Waist gunner: Melvin Jackson, Waist gunner: Roy McGinnis,Tail gunner: Dick Cuirszak (10 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crash landed Ingwiller, 22 miles NW of Strasbourg, France.
Missing Air Crew Report 836.
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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: 96th Bomb Group 339th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 18050369
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 96th Bomb Group
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 96th Bomb Group
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Bombardier
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 96th Bomb Group
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 96th Bomb Group
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio Operator
Places
- Site type: Aircraft crash site
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Station 138
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Crashed Failed to Return (FTR) |
Ingwiller, France | 14 October 1943 |
Revisions
Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 836 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database