44-6112
Accepted: 3 May 1944
Assigned: 6 May 1944 - Douglas Aircraft / Douglas Modification Center # 16 - (Tulsa Municipal)
Assigned: 13 May 1944 / 24 May 1944 - 2nd AF / 7th Heavy Bombardment Processing - (Kearney AAF)
Assigned: 24 May 1944 - ATC / North Atlantic Wing - (Grenier AAF)
Assigned: 28 May 1944 / 1 June 1944 - 8th AF / VIII Service Command / BAD 1 - (RAF Burtonwood)
Assigned: 1 June 1944 – 8th AF / 3rd BD / 4th CBW / 550BS / 385BG – (RAF Great Ashfield)
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13 Combat missions
Missing in Action: 16 July 1944 (Flak / Mechanical failure)
With Norman Robbins, Co-pilot: Bruce Dixon, Navigator: Paul Grove, Bombardier: Bob Reeves, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bob Hoelzer, Radio Operator: Isadore Gertler, Ball turret gunner: Sheldon May, Waist gunner: Phil Vuchichevich, Waist gunner: Walter Cole (wia),Tail gunner: Ed Leonard force landed Dubendorf, Switzerland
10 Interned (MACR 7569)
8th AF mission (Stuttgart, Germany)
Assigned: 16 July 1944 - Militärflugplatz Dübendorf, Zürich - Switzerland
Storage of interned aircraft
Assigned: 8 September 1945 – 9th AF / BAD 1 - (RAF Burtonwood)
Assigned: 24 September 1945 - ATC / Ferry Division - (Bradley AAF)
Assigned: 2 October 1945 - RFC - (Walnut Ridge AAF) - SOC.
Sold: September 1946 - Texas Railway Equipment Company / Aircraft Conversion Company - Houston, Texas
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 385th Bomb Group 550th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: waist gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 385th Bomb Group 550th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 385th Bomb Group 550th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio Operator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 385th Bomb Group 550th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 385th Bomb Group 550th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Airfield
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Other Failed to Return (FTR) |
Germany | 16 July 1944 |