44-6877

media-50400.png UPL 50400 Aircraft experienced total engine failure due to believed fuel starvation. Fuel transfer valves froze at altitude according to my interview with the engineer “Travis” Moore.
Crashed in St Jakob Austria. 2KIA, 8POW

Zimpfer, Scott A

Object Number - UPL 50400 - Aircraft experienced total engine failure due to believed fuel starvation. Fuel transfer valves froze at altitude according to my interview with the...

Delivered Lincoln 9/12/44; Grenier 22/12/44; Assigned 840BS/483BG Sterparone 23/1/45; Missing in Action Fortezza 20/4/45 with Clarence Keen, Kirkland, Mackey, Kosinski, Moore, Hajjar, Dobbie, Zimpfer (8 Prisoner of War); Wilson, Glynn (2 Killed in Action); flak, crashed Maris Eland; Missing Air Crew Report 13819.

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Seen through a 433rd Bomb Group B-17 Flying Fortress' strike camera, a 816th Bomb Squadron B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-5786) nicknamed "Whizzer II" goes down over Nis in Yugoslavia on the 15th of April 1944 in a gout of flame after taking a direct flak hit. There were no survivors. Official caption on image: "(483BG:4M3:2VI) (4:15:1208) (24:21300) ([south-west arrow] 140 [degrees]) (Nis M/Y Yugo) (Ship 111 816 Sq)." Handwritten caption on reverse: '15/4/44. 483BG, 15AF. Nis, Yugoslavia. 42-5786

483rd Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Fifteenth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

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Date
ContributorRay Keen
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Ray Keen - Son of Clarence Keen

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ContributorAAM
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Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log

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