Aircraft
42-106991 DAISY MAE WITH A LITTLE PERSUAS MACR 5066
817thlost with another unit after transfer, 18 May 1944
- Type
- B-17G-35-DL (Douglas)
- Names
- DAISY MAE WITH A LITTLE PERSUAS MACR 5066
- Assigned to the 483rd
- 12 March 1944
- Transferred
- {'date': '1944-03-31', 'text': 'transferred 347BS/99BG Tortorella'}
- Sources
- Association page · American Air Museum · b17flyingfortress.de
History
- 19 January 1944Delivered Denver
- 29 January 1944MacDill
- 1 March 1944Morrison
- 12 March 1944Assigned 817BS/483BG Sterparone
- 31 March 1944transferred 347BS/99BG Tortorella
- Missing in Action 22m Ploesti 18/5/44 with Herschel McClain, Gilroy, Lindquist, Corcoran, Miaskiewicz, Newman, Confer, Jones, Downs, Flye, Nolan
- flak, crashed Mostar
- Missing Air Crew Report 5066
Dates and events from Dave Osborne's B-17 Master Log, as published by b17flyingfortress.de; wording condensed to the facts.
Reports filed by other units
- MACR 5066 · 99th BG 347th BS, 18 May 1944 Ploesti; 42-106991 · National Archives
Photographs and loss sheets
- B-17 42-106991 B-17 G 35 DL 'DAISY MAE WITH A LITTLE PERSUA MACR 5066' · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17 42-106991 B-17 G 35 DL 'DAISY MAE WITH A LITTLE PERSUAS MACR 5066' · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17 42-106991 B-17 G 35 DL 'DAISY MAE WITH A LITTLE PERSUA MACR 5066' · view at 15thaf.org
- UPL 37708 B-17G-35-DL #42-106991 · view at American Air Museum in Britain
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