42-31389 Lacy’s Lushes, Lucious Lucy

media-39534.jpeg UPL 39534 1Lt Claude Elsworth Schindler, C0-Pilot on B17 42-31389 'Lucious Lucy. ' 100th Bomb Group, crashed Barleben, three miles North of Magdeburg Germany...

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Object Number - UPL 39534 - 1Lt Claude Elsworth Schindler, C0-Pilot on B17 42-31389 'Lucious Lucy. ' 100th Bomb Group, crashed Barleben, three miles North of Magdeburg...

Delivered Cheyenne 28/10/43; Gr Island 13/11/43; Wilmington 26/11/43; slated 447BG; Assigned 351BS/100BG [EP-J] Thorpe Abbotts 1/1/44; Missing in Action Magdeberg 28/5/44 with Lucius Lacy, Navigator: Ray Rossman, Bombardier: Herb Greenberg, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Sid Carey, Radio Operator: Clarry Wood, Waist gunner: Ray Mitchell,Tail gunner: Mike Rotz (7 Prisoner of War); Co-pilot: Claude Schindler, Ball turret gunner: Chester Powell, Waist gunner: Joe Folsom (3 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft hit cockpit and KOd #4, crashed Barleben, three miles Nth of Magdeburg, Ger. MACR 5382. LACY’S LUSHES aka LUCIOUS LUCY.

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Units served with

Three airmen of the 100th Bomb Group, Lieutenant Kenneth Menzie, Lieutenant Donald Strout and Lieutenant Norman Scott, plan the route they will take during the next mission in their B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-30380). Image stamped on reverse: 'Reviewed and passed U.S. Army 23 Aug 1943 Press Censor E.T.O. U.S.A.' [stamp]'. Passed for publication 23 August 1943 INTLD 16 General Section Press Censorship Bureau '[stamp], 'Associated Press' [stamp] and '280035.' [Censor no.] Printed caption on reve

100th Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

Sidney A Carey

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 351st Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner

Joe S Folsom

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 351st Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 18219447
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Waist Gunner

Herbert Greenberg

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 351st Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Bombardier

Lucius Gleason Lacy

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 100th Bomb Group 351st Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-745909
  • Highest Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Raymond J Mitchell

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 351st Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Waist Gunner

Places

Missions

Events

Event Location Date Description

Delivered

722, 6207 Missile Dr, Cheyenne, WY 82005, USA 28 October 1943 Delivered Cheyenne AAF 28-Oct-43.

Assigned

Thorpe Abbotts, Diss IP21 4JA, UK 1 January 1944 Assigned 351BS, 100BG, 8AF USAAF.

Crashed

Failed to Return (FTR)

Barleben, Germany 28 May 1944 Failed to Return (FTR) Magdeberg enemy aircraft hit cockpit and KOd #4, crashed Barleben, three miles Nth of Magdeburg. 7 x POW, 3 x KIA MACR 5382

Manufactured

Seattle, WA, USA Built at Boeing.

Revisions

Date
ContributorAl_Skiff
Changes
Sources

https://www.fold3.com/image/28650214
Mission 376: Battle Over the Reich, May 28, 1944 By Ivo de Jong

Date
ContributorAAM
Changes
Sources

Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 5382 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

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