42-39887 Pickle dropper iv

Object Number - UPL 23032 - Widow of Sergeant LeRoy Edgar Aulthouse; Esther Willard (Billie) Aulthouse & her brother Grover Price Prillaman.

Delivered Long Beach 29/9/43; Gr Island 24/10/43; Assigned 571BS/390BG [FC-J] Framlingham 2/11/43. Missing in Action on its 54th mission, the one to the Boulogne coastal defences, France, on 5 June 1944, in preparation for the D-Day invasion. Pilot Hugh A. Pickell, Co-pilot Rodger Beckman, Bombardier Richard P. Joseph, Flight engineer/Top Turret gunner Robert L. Davis, Radio Operator Norman J. Hollis, Ball Turret gunner Norman R. Bean, Left Waist gunner: Joseph M. Carini, Right Waist gunner Leroy E. Aulthouse, Tail gunner Roland L. Zander (9 Killed in Action). Flak & mid-air collision with 42-97473 (390BG). Eight bailed out prior to crash, aircraft crashed English Channel. Missing Air Crew Report - MACR 5480.

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Units served with

The insignia of the 390th Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 390th Bomb Group 571st Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 18216616
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 390th Bomb Group 571st Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 33529901
  • Highest Rank: Sergeant
  • Role/Job: waist gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 390th Bomb Group 571st Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 35090696
  • Highest Rank: Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 390th Bomb Group 571st Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-755626
  • Highest Rank: Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Co-Pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 390th Bomb Group 571st Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 32553930
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: waist gunner

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Missions

  • Date: 5 June 1944
  • Official Description: 629 Heavy Bombers attack 6 coastal defence installations in Cherbourg-Caen area and 8 in Pas de Calais area, along with 3 V-weapon sites and a railroad bridge. 6 Bombers are lost.

Events

Event Location Date Description

Other

Failed to Return (FTR) Over Water (OW)

English Channel 5 June 1944 crashed at sea

Revisions

Date11 Jun 2020 12:50:42
ContributorED-BB
Sources

MACR 5480

Date29 May 2017 18:43:30
ContributorJoCarter
Sources

see notes

Date27 Sep 2014 18:40:51
ContributorAAM
Sources

Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 5480 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

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