42-97585

Delivered Denver 29/12/43; 1SAG Langley 21/1/44; Assigned (PFF) 457BG Glatton 15/2/44; transferred 49BS/2BG Amendola 2/3/44; transferred 301BG Lucera 14/5/44; 840BS/483BG Sterparone 20/7/44; Missing in Action Brux 25/12/44 with Don Chapman, Utterback, Sheckard, Kittleson, Ashley, Scanio, Johnson, Garrard, Lumpkin, Cafer (10 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed Laibach; Missing Air Crew Report 10730.

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Units served with

Seen through a 433rd Bomb Group B-17 Flying Fortress' strike camera, a 816th Bomb Squadron B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-5786) nicknamed "Whizzer II" goes down over Nis in Yugoslavia on the 15th of April 1944 in a gout of flame after taking a direct flak hit. There were no survivors. Official caption on image: "(483BG:4M3:2VI) (4:15:1208) (24:21300) ([south-west arrow] 140 [degrees]) (Nis M/Y Yugo) (Ship 111 816 Sq)." Handwritten caption on reverse: '15/4/44. 483BG, 15AF. Nis, Yugoslavia. 42-5786

483rd Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Fifteenth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Places

The mission board of the 457th Bomb Group. Official caption printed on image: '(GM-299-2-457)(16/5/45)(Op's Board's).'

Glatton

  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Connington

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Sources

Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log