42-97601 Gypsy Gal

Delivered Denver 3/1/44; 1SAG Langley 4/2/44; 13/3/44; Assigned 91BG Bassingbourn 27/4/44; transferred 351BG [Z] Polebrook 14/6/44; 751BS/457BG [Z] Glatton 15/6/44; Missing in Action Augsburg 19/7/44 with Noel Cunefare, Co-pilot: Capt Jerome Godfrey, Radio Operator: Frank Nunn, waist gunner: Lt John Sampson (4 Killed in Action); Navigator: Wesley Atkins, Bombardier: Don Barton, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Howard Drake, Waist gunner: Ralph Hodson, Tail gunner: Joe Duvall (5 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Roppen, near Innsbruck, Austria; Missing Air Crew Report 7548. GYPSY GAL.

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Units served with

Unofficial emblem of the 457th Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 457th Bomb Group 751st Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Navigator
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 457th Bomb Group 751st Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Bombardier
Black and white portrait of man, posed at angle wearing a uniform consisting of a jacket, shirt, tie and hat.  Hat is tilted on his head.  There are silver wings on the upper left-side of the jacket, and a WWII-era Air-Force silver officer insignia badge on the center of hat.  A single silver bar is on the shoulder. Only the head and upper torso of man are visible.  The man is looking directly at the camera and smiling slightly with mouth open.
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 457th Bomb Group 751st Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 457th Bomb Group 751st Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 457th Bomb Group 751st Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 18131834
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Tail Gunner

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).'
  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Connington

Events

Event Location Date Description

Other

Failed to Return (FTR)

Germany 19 July 1944

Revisions

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Sources

David DuVall

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Sources

Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 7548 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database