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B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 20/6/44; Hunter 13/7/44; Dow Fd 23/7/44; Assigned 849BS/490BG Eye 26/7/44; during assembly for Frankfurt 5/1/45, with Harry Adelman, Co-pilot: Chas Elder, Navigator: Art Saye, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Virgil Walton, instr Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Harry Bennett, Radio Operator: Don Tuttle, instr Radio Operator: Harvey Smetzer (7 Killed in Action); instr p-Maj Ed Blum, instr Navigator: Lt Ernie Langholz rt hand amputated, Bombardier: Lt Harry Hatrell (3RTD – all wia); mid air coll with 43-38111 (490BG); crash landed near Rougham A/fd, Sfk, UK; Salvaged.
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 27/6/44; Hunter 13/7/44; Grenier 22/7/44; Assigned 849BS/490BG Eye 25/7/44; lost on training flight 5/1/45 with Don Wood, Co-pilot: John Smith, Navigator: Forest Redman, Ex Navigator: Warren Allen, Flight engineer/top turret gunner:...
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 | Lieutenant | Pilot | 490th Bomb Group
Killed in Action (KIA)
Military | Technical Sergeant | Top Turret Gunner | 490th Bomb Group
Killed in Action (KIA)
Military | Colonel | IP | 490th Bomb Group
Assigned to 490BG, 8AF USAAF. 30 x missions ETO. 700Hrs coastal anti-submarine patrols.
WIA.
Awards: DFC, AM (3OLC), PH, WWII Victory, EAME (2 battle stars), American Campaign Medal.
Military | Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 490th Bomb Group
Killed in Action (KIA)
Military | Lieutenant | Bombardier | 490th Bomb Group
WIA
Military | Lieutenant | Navigator | 490th Bomb Group
WIA
Military | Second Lieutenant | Navigator | 490th Bomb Group
Killed in Action (KIA)
Military | Staff Sergeant | Waist Gunner | 490th Bomb Group
Shot down 6 June 1944 in B-24 #4294885. Plane ditched in Channel. Returned to base.
Killed in Action (KIA) 5 January 1945.
Military | Corporal | Radio Operator - Mechanic Gunner, AAF | 490th Bomb Group
Member of Adelman crew. Killed in Action.
Military | Corporal | Top Turret Gunner | 490th Bomb Group
Killed in Action (KIA)
Military site : airfield
The airfield was purpose-built for American bomb groups and as such had a 2,000 yard main runway that lain in concrete with a tarred and wood-chipped surface. The scale of bases such as this meant that very often the technical, administrative and...
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) | England | 5 January 1945 |
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 28 January 2019 11:26:02 | Lucy May | Changes to aircraft associations, unit associations and person associations |
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Added connections from information in aircraft biography field. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:41:25 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 15362 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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