42-32029 Miss Treated
483rd Bomb Group (H) Archive, Museum of Aviation, Warner Robins, Georgia, USA
Object Number - UPL 39904 - 483rd BG, 815th BS B-17G-35-BO No. 42-32029 'Miss Treated' 11Nov44.e
Delivered Denver 16/1/44; Gt Falls 19/1/44; Scott 2/2/44; MacDill 4/2/44; Homestead 21/3/44; Assigned 815BS/483BG Tortorella 22/3/44; crash landed at base 11/11/44 with Harlan Nueman crew. Three engines out, oxygen system out, all but one bomb safely salvoed into the Adriatic but hung up live in the bomb bay. On landing, hit runway matter and caught fire. All crew evacuated safely, warned firemen away. The 500# bomb blew up, destroying the aircraft. MISS TREATED.
Revisions
"Heroes of the 483rd" book and recollections of Miss Treated's navigator, Harry D. Whye
Delivered Denver 16/1/44; Gt Falls 19/1/44; Scott 2/2/44; MacDill 4/2/44; Homestead 21/3/44; Assigned 815BS/483BG Tortorella 22/3/44; crash landed at Sterparone, its base 11/11/44 with the Harlan Neuman crew. It had been flying to Salzburg when trouble developed in an engine and the oxygen systems and the plane turned back to Sterparone. Bombs were salvoed into the Adriatic but one was hung up in the bomb bay live. Two more engines developed problems during landing and the plane skidded into runway matting. There, it began to burn. All crew got out safely. The firemen let the plane burn, setting off the live bomb, leaving nothing of the bomber. MISS TREATED.
Photos and drawings acquired from the collection of my Father, Harry D. Whye, navigator in the 815th BS, of the 483rd BG.
483rd Bomb Group (H) Archive, Museum of Aviation, Warner Robins, Georgia, USA
