349th Bomb Squadron
Squadron
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John A Pontzious
Military
Lightly wounded in AC#42-38053 'Cap'n Crow' in a form up accident over the base. on 7 May 1944. Target was Berlin. The plane had flares stored in the top turret and for some reason they exploded and the pilot ordered the crew to bail out The pilot Wright and Raper were possibly overcome by fumes and passed out. The rest of the crew bailed out, in all,5 of the crew were killed.
Service
Units served with
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42-38053 Cap'n Crow
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 26/11/43; Wendover 20/12/43; Assigned 457BG Glatton 10/2/44; transferred 349BS/100BG [XR-G] Thorpe Abbotts 21/1/44; soon after t/off to Berlin 7/5/44 with Ralph Wright, Co-pilot: Jack Raper, Navigator: Rich Curran, Bombardier: Carl...
Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 27 September 2014 18:15:38 | AAM | AAM ingest |
| Sources | ||
100th BG Casualty Report, href="http://www.mcadams.org/fpdb/sqds_name2.asp">http://www.mcadams.org/fpdb/sqds_name2.asp> / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia |
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