44-6025 So What?

Delivered Tulsa 9/4/44; Hunter 17/4/44; Dow Fd 29/4/44; Assigned 532BS/381BG [VE-P] Ridgewell 19/5/44; 1+m Missing in Action Dessau 30/5/44 with Leonard Zapinski, Co-pilot: Othmer Widosh, Navigator: Dave Fuller, Bombardier: Bob Van Buskirk, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bill Webb, Radio Operator: George Pastre, Ball turret gunner: Jim Wilson, Waist gunner: Hamilton Harper,Tail gunner: Don Harness (9 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft hit #1 gas tank, crashed Karow, 31 miles NE of Magdeburg, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 5235. SO WHAT?

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  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 381st Bomb Group 532nd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 14028463
  • Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner, Top Turret Gunner; Flight Engineer
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 381st Bomb Group 532nd Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Co-Pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 381st Bomb Group 532nd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 39330276
  • Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 381st Bomb Group 532nd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-753480
  • Highest Rank: Colonel
  • Role/Job: Pilot

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Failed to Return (FTR)

Germany 30 May 1944

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Sources

Family of pilot, 381st BG website

Date
ContributorAAM
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Sources

Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 5235 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database