42-5264 Yankee Doodle Dandy
Names / Hometowns adorn the nose:
Emil R 'Red' Rees, San Antonio, Texas; Les Peer, Premont, Texas; PFC Gabriel Nunes, Brooklyn, NY; Hugo A Jarret, Rhodes Island; Cpl Lawrence E 'Larry' Johnson, Kane, PA; Sgt Theodore J Knauff, Ellwood City, PA; Ray Mentrasti, Bronx, NY.
Object Number - UPL 38168 - "Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" nicknamed "Yankee Doodle Dandy". 303rd Bomb Group, England. 4 April 1944." Names / Hometowns adorn the nose: Emil...
Delivered Denver 2/11/42; Saline 15/12/42; Assigned 358BS/303BG [VK-J] Molesworth 1/2/43; landing accident with Bob O’Connor 31/5/43; battle damaged over Oschersleben 11/1/44 with John Henderson, Co-pilot: Walter Ames, Navigator: Warren Wiggins, Bombardier: Woody Monkres, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Stan Moody, Radio Operator: Bob King, Ball turret gunner: Ed Ruppel, Waist gunner: Bill Simpkins (8 Returned to Duty); Waist gunner: Bob Jeffrey wia-died base hospital,Tail gunner: Ralph Burkart (2KIA-rocket hit stabiliser); on return aircraft force landed at 2AD Watton, Nfk; Returned to the USA Amarillo 3/4/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Stillwater 24/9/45. YANKEE DOODLE DANDY.
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Units served with
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 358th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-673913
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Bombardier; Navigator
![First Lieutenant George J Oxrider a Pilot of the 303rd Bomb Group changes a record. Image stamped on reverse: 'Copyright Current Affairs Ltd.' [stamp], 'Passed for Publication 9 Apr 1943.' [stamp] and '257527.' [Censor no.] Printed caption on reverse: 'Changing a record on the radiogram at his British base, is 1st Lieut. (Pilot) George J. Oxrider of 437, Allwen Street, Dayton, Ohio, holder of the D.F.C., the Air Medal and 2 Oak Leaf Clusters. A pre-medical student at the University of Cincinnati and aged](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/teaser_thumb_x2/public/freeman/media-378852.jpg.webp?itok=y9DO9yls)
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 452nd Bomb Group 358th Bomb Squadron 728th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 15067056 / O-435983
- Highest Rank: Major
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot; Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 358th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 32432937
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 358th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 358th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 12132791
- Highest Rank: Master Sergeant
- Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner
Places
Missions
- Date: 30 December 1943
- Date: 24 December 1943
- Date: 22 December 1943
- Date: 16 December 1943
- Date: 13 December 1943
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
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Other Battle Damaged |
11 January 1944 | Hit in the vertical stabilizer by a rocket, blowing a hole the size of the Triangle "C" into the stabilizer. The Tail Gunner was killed, with the Right Waist Gunner dying later dying from wounds. Two other crew members were wounded. |