42-3136 No Ball at All
![A damaged B-17 Flying Fortress (42-3136) nicknamed "No Balls At All" of the 351st Bomb Group gets a new nose section from another damaged Fortress. Official caption printed on image: '(GE-16-1-351)(14-6-43)(A/C 23136)(Nose Section Replaced).' Handwritten caption on reverse: '21/5/'43.'](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/freeman/media-380017.jpg)
IWM, Roger Freeman Collection
Object Number - FRE 1222 - A damaged B-17 Flying Fortress (42-3136) nicknamed "No Balls At All" of the 351st Bomb Group gets a new nose section from another damaged Fortress....
Delivered Cheyenne 26/2/43; Presque Is 8/4/43; Assigned 511BS/351BG [DS-P] Polebrook 5/6/43 EIGHT BALL; Missing in Action Amsterdam (22m) 22/2/44 with Walt Leclerc, Co-pilot: Jim Ellis, Navigator: George Kiduff, Bombardier: Art Starratt, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ralph Grooms, Radio Operator: Bruce Stone, Ball turret gunner: Howard Kramer, Waist gunner: Archie Stinebaugh, Waist gunner: John Taylor,Tail gunner: Harry Hay (10 Prisoner of War); flak, crash landed Vijfhuizen, S of Amsterdam, Hol. Missing Air Crew Report 2772. NO BALLS AT ALL.
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Units served with
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 351st Bomb Group 511th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio Operator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 351st Bomb Group 511th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: waist gunner
Places
Missions
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Other Failed to Return (FTR) |
Belgium | 24 February 1944 |
Revisions
Our Museum www.crash40-45.nl/en has pictures of the actual aircraft in its belly landed position with German soldires posing in front. We also have been in touch with one of the crewmwmbers in 1989
Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 2772 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database