James W Lamb
Military
2nd LT Daniel Elliott Whitlock of Arroyo Grande, CA is second from left in the front row. Whitlock was awarded the DFC after pilot Lamb was badly burned from a flak hit that set the ship afire during a mission over Berlin on 6 March 1944. Copilot Whitlock knocked the fire down and got his aircrew--minus the navigator and bombardier, who had bailed out on Lamb's order--safely home to RAF Snetterton Heath.
Object Number - UPL 47775 - William A Callahan's (4th from left) - Lt. Lamb's Crew
B-17G #42-97524 returned from a mission to Berlin after the top turret caught fire and three crewmen baled out on 9 March 1944. RTD. Missing Air Crew Report - MACR 3864.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 96th Bomb Group 337th Bomb Squadron 413th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 32430242
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Flight Engineer & Top Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 96th Bomb Group 337th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 13131697
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Aerial Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 96th Bomb Group 337th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-744306
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Bombardier
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 96th Bomb Group 337th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 39192109
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Aerial Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 96th Bomb Group 337th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 36170538
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Aerial Gunner
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 96th Bomb Group 413th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
- Unit: 353rd Fighter Group 354th Fighter Group 357th Fighter Group 359th Fighter Group 351st Fighter Squadron 356th Fighter Squadron 362nd Fighter Squadron 368th Fighter Squadron
Missions
- Date: 9 March 1944
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Station 138
Revisions
MACR 3864 - Three, not four, crewmen bailed out over Germany and were captured...
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 3864, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces; Snetterton Falcons pg 76