44-6310 Rocky Lois

Delivered Kearney 29/6/44; Dow Fd 11/7/44; Assigned 615BS/401BG [IY-P] Deenethorpe 23/7/44; Missing in Action Gaggenau 10/9/44 with Bill Woodward, Ball turret gunner: Theo Schappert (2 KIA - both dead in wreckage); Co-pilot: Jim Glidewell, Navigator: Oscar McMahan, Bombardier: Dale Eckers, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Alex Pedgarney, Radio Operator: Joe Lech, Waist gunner: Julian Pasillas, Tail gunner: Dave Steele (7 Prisoner of War); flak KO’d #1, ship then exploded, crashed Heinerdingen, NW of Stuttgart, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 8608. ROCKY LOIS.

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  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 615th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 35614725
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 615th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 39138223
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 615th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 39295257
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Tail Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 615th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 401st Bomb Group 615th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Engineer, Top Turret Gunner

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Missions

A B-24 Liberator of the 492nd Bomb Group bombs a target near Hamburg. 

Handwritten caption on reverse: 'USAF- 492nd BG showing successful result on oil target near Hamburg, 6 Aug 1944.'
  • Date: 6 August 1944
A mission log for Lieutenant Colonel Paul Chryst of the 91st Bomb Group, 3 August 1944 -15 December 1944. Image via Lieutenant Colonel Paul Chryst, 91st Bomb Group.
  • Date: 5 August 1944

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Failed to Return (FTR)

Germany 10 September 1944

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Added a space before the words "Tail gunner" in the A/C “Description” to aid readability.

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Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 8608 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database