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B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 4/7/44; Kearney 13/7/44; Grenier 20/7/44; Assigned 848BS/490BG Eye 22/7/44; Missing in Action Berlin 6/10/44 with Bill McLennan, Joe Bingham, Morris Chakansky, Len Smith (4 Prisoner of War); Art Bubendorf, Larry Grubisich, Bob Moyer, Bob Dittmer, Santi Trimarchi (5 Killed in Action); flak, crashed Spandau, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 9529.
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 | Second Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 490th Bomb Group
Prisoner of War (POW) Crashed at Spandau on 10/6/44 in B-17 #4338180
Military | Lieutenant | Navigator | 490th Bomb Group
Killed in Action (KIA) Crashed at Spandau in B-17 #4338180
Military | Staff Sergeant | Ball Turret Gunner | 490th Bomb Group
Military | Technical Sergeant | Radio Operator | 490th Bomb Group
Killed in Action (KIA). Crashed at Spandau in B-17 43-38180
Military | Second Lieutenant | Bombardier | 490th Bomb Group
Lawrence Edward Grubisich, Jr. was born on July 8, 1920 in Illinois. His parents Lawrence and Vincenca were both born in Croatia, Austria-Hungary. They came to America before 1900. His father worked as a coal miner. Lawrence had three older brothers...
Military | Lieutenant | Pilot | 490th Bomb Group
Military | Staff Sergeant | Top Turret Gunner | 490th Bomb Group
Killed in Action (KIA) Crashed at Spandau in B-17 #4338180
Military | Staff Sergeant | Tail Gunner | 490th Bomb Group
Prisoner of War (POW) Crashed at Spandau on 10/6/44 in B-17 #4338180
Military | Technical Sergeant | Right Waist Gunner, Waist Gunner | 490th Bomb Group
Killed in Action (KIA) Crashed at Spandau in B-17 #4338180
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 | 6 October 1944 |
| Date | Contributor | Update |
|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2014 18:41:26 | AAM | AAM ingest |
| Sources | ||
Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 9529 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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