Aircraft
42-32053
816thlost with another unit after transfer, 27 June 1944
- Type
- B-17G-35-BO (Boeing)
- Assigned to the 483rd
- 14 January 1944
- Transferred
- {'date': '1944-03-31', 'text': 'transferred 49BS/2BG Amendola'}
- Sources
- b17flyingfortress.de
Flags. not on the Association aircraft pages; known from the databases
History
- 19 January 1944Delivered Cheyenne
- 2 February 1944St Louis
- 5 February 1944MacDill
- 9 March 1944Morrison
- 14 January 1944Assigned 816BS/483BG Tortorella
- 31 March 1944transferred 49BS/2BG Amendola
- Missing in Action {27m} Budapest 27/6/44 with Dick Korb, Co-pilot: Alf Larsen(chute caught fire on way out), Navigator: Casimir Blaska, Bombardier: Jim Fleming, Radio Operator: Burl Kessel, Waist gunner: Thaddeus Thomas, Waist gunner: Henry Rappe,Tail gunner: Thaddeus Krent (8 Killed in Action)
- Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Malcolm Treadway, Ball turret gunner: Bill Bair (2 Prisoner of War)
- flak & enemy aircraft, crashed Budapest, five chutes seen
- Missing Air Crew Report 6428
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 6428 · 2nd BG (429th BS mentioned), Amendola, 27 Jun 1944 Budapest; 42-32053 had been 816th/483rd until 31 Mar 1944 · National Archives
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