42-31082 Hick's Hack

Delivered Cheyenne 20/9/43; Harvard 4/10/43; Assigned 710BS/447BG Rattlesden 25/11/43; Missing in Action Oschersleben 11/1/44 with Claud Hickey, Co-pilot: Justin Kegley, Navigator: Jerome Moskowitz, Bombardier: Vernon Devitt, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Joe Rokow, Radio Operator: Wade Hampton, Waist gunner: Irving Gitlitz,Tail gunner: John Deere (8 Prisoner of War); Ball turret gunner: John Roth, Waist gunner: Bob Schooling (2 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crash landed near Wagenfeld, ten miles SE of Diepholz, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 2512.

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  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 447th Bomb Group 710th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Co-Pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 447th Bomb Group 710th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Navigator
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 447th Bomb Group 710th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 447th Bomb Group 710th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 447th Bomb Group 710th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Sergeant
  • Role/Job: waist gunner

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Failed to Return (FTR)

Germany 11 January 1944 - 11 January 1944

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Sources

Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 2512 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database