Aircraft
42-32022 Lonesome Polecat
lost with another unit after transfer, 6 May 1944
- Type
- B-17G-35-BO (Boeing)
- Names
- Lonesome Polecat
- Assigned to the 483rd
- 15 March 1944
- Transferred
- {'date': '1944-03-31', 'text': 'transferred 96BS/2BG Amendola'}
- Sources
- b17flyingfortress.de
Flags. lost after transfer; the Master Log cites MACR 4793 (another units report, not downloaded unless listed in macr_overrides.csv) not on the Association aircraft pages; known from the databases
History
- 15 January 1944Delivered Cheyenne
- 30 January 1944MacDill
- 5 March 1944Morrison
- 15 March 1944Assigned 483BG Tortorella
- 31 March 1944transferred 96BS/2BG Amendola
- Missing in Action {10m} Brasov 6/5/44 with Bob Weiss, Bombardier: George Thomas, Radio Operator: Julius Entrekin, Ball turret gunner: Wilbur Earl, Waist gunner: Willard Curtiss, Waist gunner: Leslie Wolfe,Tail gunner: Ivan Foster (7 evaded capture)
- Co-pilot: Neil Coady, Navigator: Edwin Bentley, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ray Ford (3POW-actually captured by Chetnick partisans and sold to Germans for $30 each!)
- #3 & #4 engines out and 10 chutes seen
- crashed ?
- Missing Air Crew Report 4793. LONESOME POLECAT
Dates and events from Dave Osborne's B-17 Master Log, as published by b17flyingfortress.de; wording condensed to the facts.
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