Aircraft

42-32071 Moonbeam McSwine / Moonbeam McSwine aka Nine Wolves and Poppa aka Freddie H

Type

B-17G-35-BO (Boeing)

Names

Moonbeam McSwine / Moonbeam McSwine aka Nine Wolves and Poppa aka Freddie H

Assigned to the 483rd

11 March 1944

Transferred

{'date': None, 'text': 'transferred 416BS/99BG Tortorella 31/3/44 MOONBEAM McSWINE'}

Sources

Association page · American Air Museum · b17flyingfortress.de

History

• 21 January 1944Delivered Cheyenne
• 4 February 1944MacDill
• 7 March 1944Morrison
• 11 March 1944Assigned 817BS/483BG Tortorella
• transferred 416BS/99BG Tortorella 31/3/44 MOONBEAM McSWINE
• re-named NINE WOLVES & POPPA
• Missing in Action {93m} Graz, Aus. 8/2/45 with Harry Schuld, Sumerall, Hagins, Agronow, Molnar, Kulberg, Goodwin, Wrona, Conley (8 Killed in Action)
• Frank Smith, Kosczyarek (2 Prisoner of War)
• mid air coll with 44-6691, crashed Kapsovar
• Missing Air Crew Report 12082. FREDDY-H

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 12082 · 99th BG 416th BS, Tortorella, 8 Feb 1945 Graz; 42-32071 · National Archives

Photographs and loss sheets

• B-17 42-32071 B-17 G 35 BO 'Moonbeam McSwine' · view at 15thaf.org

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