Delivered Geiger 28/9/42.

Assigned 461BS/331BG 2nd Air Force Casper 29/10/42.



Stalled and spun in nine miles north Bogue, Kansas, with Pilot Paul Capaccio (Killed in Service) 2/2/43; Written off 2/2/43.



B-17F 42-5105 of 461st BS, 331st BG, 2nd AF USAAF, flying in poor weather on a ferry/training mission, crashed nine miles north of Bogue, Graham County, Kansas, (also reported as seven miles north and one mile east of Bogue) killing six crewmembers (the Graham County site says eleven were killed in error). The B-17F had taken off at 1358 MWT from the Army Air Base at Casper, Wyoming, on a ferry flight to Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.



Killed in the crash were:

from 100th Bomb Group:

1st Lt. Paul M. Capaccio, pilot

F/O Latimer Stewart, co-pilot

1st Lt. Jacob M. Madsen Jr., navigator

TSgt. T. Donlavage, engineer

SSgt. Frank Culver, radio operator .

From 331st Bomb Group:

MSgt. H M Bloch, passenger