44-6606 HALF BREED
Delivered Lincoln 21/9/44; Grenier 12/10/44; Assigned 20BS/2BG Amendola 19/10/44; detailed bombing Schwechat Oil Refinery in Vienna 21/1/45 with the following crew:
Pilot: Alvin Notheis,
Co-pilot: B.L. Bill,
Navigator: Paul Stephens,
Bombardier: Bill Scott,
Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Joe Koden,
Radio Operator: Bob Cheney,
Ball turret gunner: Bob Train,
Waist gunner: Paul Surprenant,
Waist gunner: Vic Lennon,
Tail gunner: Lewis Waters
All 10 Returned to Duty.
Slightly damaged when crash-landed in a field near Tiszakeszi, Hungary; eventually Romanian engineering personnel used a tail wheel from a Henschel Hs 129 aircraft and timber from nearby trees to repair the B-17 which the crew flew to Miskolc airfield where the ship was serviced and fuelled for the ride back to base; Nicknamed "HALF BREED" after returning from Hungary.
Returned to the USA Bradley 12/7/45; Independence 16/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 7/1/46. Missing Air Crew Report 11542.
For a detailed account of these events see:
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Fifteenth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Twelfth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Crashed |
21 January 1945 |
Revisions
https://www.art-emis.ro/istorie/flyng-fortress-606-si-specialistul-nostru-in-boeing (article written by Dan Antoniu in Romanian)
Corrected information based on the Missing Air Crew report and Lewis Waters' account of the event from the already linked pdf in the article. Other details added from https://www.art-emis.ro/istorie/flyng-fortress-606-si-specialistul-nostru-in-boeing (article written by Dan Antoniu in Romanian)