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42-3291 Miss Mac

media-31022.jpeg UPL 31022 B-17F-45-DL #42-3291 "Miss Mac" Code: P
388th Bomb Group - 561st Bomb Squadron

B-17 Flying Fortress Story - Roger Freeman
page 93

Object Number - UPL 31022 - B-17F-45-DL #42-3291 "Miss Mac" Code: P 388th Bomb Group - 561st Bomb Squadron

Delivered Denver 30/4/43; Dow Fd 13/6/43; Assigned 561BS/388BG Knettishall 14/6/43; on training mission 12/7/44 with Major Boardman Reed, Co-pilot: Major Melvin Buckner, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Paul Weathers, Radio Operator: Ora Kelsey, pass:-Capt Bob Goss, Orville Meline, Roy Summers, Dorothy Drennan, Irene Seagalia, Charlotte Thomas and Lt Col Bill Jackson (ROC/RAF) (11 Returned to Duty); landed heavily and damaged right wing; Salvaged four days before its first anniversary of ops, n/battle damaged 24/8/44. "MISS MAC".

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Units served with

388th Bomb Group

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

561st Bomb Squadron

Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
Air Force: Eighth Air Force
Type Category: Bombardment

People

John Basil Blatz

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 388th Bomb Group 561st Bomb Squadron
Service Numbers: 37187168
Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade)
Role/Job: Radio Operator

Melvin E Buckner

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 96th Bomb Group 337th Bomb Squadron
Highest Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
Role/Job: Pilot, Pilot, Mission

Ivan Clark

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 388th Bomb Group 561st Bomb Squadron
Service Numbers: 33219803
Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant (Technician Third Grade)
Role/Job: Waist Gunner

John K Dorsett

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 388th Bomb Group 561st Bomb Squadron
Service Numbers: O-797283
Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
Role/Job: Navigator

George B Doyle

Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
Nationality: American
Unit: 388th Bomb Group 561st Bomb Squadron
Service Numbers: 18079857
Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade)
Role/Job: Radio Operator

Places

Knettishall

Site type: Airfield

Missions

8th Air Force 259

Date: 15 March 1944

A bomber crew of the 381st Bomb Group return to base after a mission in their B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-31761) nicknamed "Rotherhithe's Revenge". Image stamped on reverse: 'Sunday Pictorial for Censor.' [stamp], 'Passed for publication 10 Mar 1944.' [stamp] and '310673.' [Censor no.] Printed caption on reverse: 'BACK FROM BERLIN. Scenes this week at a Bomber station of the U.S. Air Force , somewhere in England. The crew of the Flying Fortress "Rotherhithe's Revenge", a British subscribed ship

8th Air Force 252

Date: 8 March 1944

A B-17 Flying Fortress of the 100th Bomb Group in flight.

8th Air Force 247

Date: 4 March 1944

8th Air Force 240

Date: 29 February 1944

Doc Agnew, Staff Sergeant Joe Roundhill and personnel of the 379th Bomb Group transfer the body of Sergeant Noonan (killed by a flak) from a B-17 Flying Fortress to a field ambulance after a raid on Schweinfurt, 24 February 1944. Official caption on image: "(GPR-162-1-379)(24-2-44)." Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Doc Agnew. 24/2/44.'

8th Air Force 233 BIG WEEK - DAY 5

Date: 24 February 1944

Events

Event	Location	Date	Description
Assigned	Knettishall, Diss IP22 2TH, UK	14 June 1943	388 BG 561 BS
Other First 388th Combat Mission	Amsterdam, Netherlands	17 July 1943
Other Final 388th Combat Mission	Brunswick, Germany	15 March 1944	Landed heavy. Damaged right wing. Salvaged
Delivered	Denver, CO, USA	30 April 2003