Aircraft
42-38213
815thlost with another unit after transfer, 7 July 1944
- Type
- B-17G-30-DL (Douglas)
- Assigned to the 483rd
- 30 March 1944
- Transferred
- {'date': '1944-03-31', 'text': 'transferred 20BS/2BG Amendola'}
- Sources
- Association page · American Air Museum · b17flyingfortress.de
History
- 17 January 1944Delivered Denver
- 30 March 1944MacDill 6/2/44/ Assigned 815BS/483BG Tortorella
- 31 March 1944transferred 20BS/2BG Amendola
- Missing in Action Blechhammer 7/7/44 with Bill Nabinger, Co-pilot: Owen Rice, Navigator: Ralph Mooney, Bombardier: Howard Friedman, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Jim Jarrell, Radio Operator: Wesley Frinsco, Ball turret gunner: Frank Bossi, Waist gunner: Herb Helstrom, Waist gunner: Chas Woods,Tail gunner: Dwight Wheeler (10 Killed in Action)
- flak, blew off nose to cockpit, crashed Friedernau, Aus
- three chutes seen. Missing Air Crew Report 6519
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 6519 · 2nd BG 20th BS, Amendola, 7 Jul 1944 Blechhammer; 42-38213 · National Archives
Photographs and loss sheets
- B-17 42-38213 B-17 G 30 DL · view at 15thaf.org
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