Aircraft
42-32014 Pappy Yokum
817thlost with another unit after transfer, 30 April 1944
- Type
- B-17G-35-BO (Boeing)
- Names
- Pappy Yokum
- Assigned to the 483rd
- 30 March 1944
- Transferred
- {'date': '1944-03-31', 'text': 'transferred 347BS/99BG Tortorella'}
- Sources
- Association page · American Air Museum · b17flyingfortress.de
Flags. the two republications of the Master Log line differ; AAM text kept, b17flyingfortress.de text in log_variant
History
- 15 January 1944Delivered Denver
- 4 February 1944MacDill
- 8 March 1944Morrison
- 30 March 1944Assigned 817BS/483BG Tortorella
- 31 March 1944transferred 347BS/99BG Tortorella
- Missing in Action 14m Varese 30/4/44 with Harry Klein, Symonds, Leiby, Moore, Martin, Patzke, McGettigan, Michael, Timpanero, Kouse, Luera
- enemy aircraft, crashed Bologna, ten chutes seen
- 7 April 1944Missing Air Crew Report 4610. PAPPY YOKUM.
- Waist gunner Sgt. Gordon D. Beese - KIA due to direct flak over Treviso, Italy
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 4610 · 99th BG; 42-32014 · National Archives
Photographs and loss sheets
- B-17 42-32014 B-17 G 35 BO 'Pappy Yokum' (7 scans) · view at 15thaf.org
- UPL 19986 · view at American Air Museum in Britain
- American Air Museum UPL 19987 · view at American Air Museum in Britain
- American Air Museum UPL 19988 · view at American Air Museum in Britain
- Sgt.Gordon D. Beese (Waist Gunner) in front of... (2 scans) · view at American Air Museum in Britain
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