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B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 20/6/44; Hunter 13/7/44; Grenier 24/7/44; Assigned 849BS/490BG Eye 26/7/44; Missing in Action Karlsbad 19/4/45 with Buford Stovall (evaded capture); Frank Mateyka (Killed in Action); Ed Nilsson, Harry Shelgren, Bob Rivenburg, Joe Mullins, Dennis Richardson, Don McGinnis, Harry Turk tg, Dick Bernery rcm (8 Prisoner of War); jet enemy aircraft, crashed Dresden, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 14195.
Group
The 490th Bomb Group, like the 486th and 487th Bomb Groups transitioned from flying B-24 Liberators to B-17 Flying Fortresses, which were used in combat missions from late August 1944. Based at Eye, Suffolk, the Group were focused in the early months...
Squadron
Military | Sergeant | Radar Counter Measures Operator, Radio Counter Measures | 490th Bomb Group
Prisoner of War (POW) near Schonau 19 Apr 1945 B-17 #43-38048
Military | Staff Sergeant | Radio Operator | 490th Bomb Group
Killed in Action (KIA) near Schonau 19 Apr 1945 B-17 #43-38048
Military | Staff Sergeant | Waist Gunner | 490th Bomb Group
Military | Staff Sergeant | Top Turret Gunner | 490th Bomb Group
Prisoner of War (POW) near Schonau B-17 #43-38048 19 Apr 1945. After bailing out of the aircraft he landed in a tree (at some point he fractured his clavicle or shoulder girdle); under which the Germans were waiting for him. He was transferred to a...
Military | Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 490th Bomb Group
Prisoner of War (POW) near Schonau 19 April 1945 B-17 #43-38048
Military | Staff Sergeant | Ball Turret Gunner | 490th Bomb Group
Prisoner of War (POW) Schonau 19 Apr 1945 B-17 #43-38048
Military | Staff Sergeant | Bombardier | 490th Bomb Group
Military | Flight Officer | Navigator | 490th Bomb Group
Prisoner of War (POW) Schonau 19 Apr 1945 B-17 #43-38048
Military | Second Lieutenant | Pilot | 490th Bomb Group
Evaded (EVD). Schonau 19 April 1945 B-17 43-38048.
Military | Staff Sergeant | Tail Gunner | 490th Bomb Group
Prisoner of War (POW) near Schonau 19 Apr 1945 B-17 #43-38048
Military site : airfield
Eye air base was not a Class A base but was constructed to a less demanding standard by the 827th and 859th Battalions of U.S. Army Engineers in 1943 and was finished in early 1944. Unusually, a group of its hardstandings were on the other side of the...
| Event | Location | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Failed to Return (FTR) | Germany | 19 April 1945 |
| Date | Contributor | Update |
|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2014 18:41:25 | AAM | AAM ingest |
| Sources | ||
Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 14195 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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