James W Lamb
Military2nd 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.
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