42-102380 Renovation
from B-17 book: Boeing B-17 Production 26 February 1944 - 25 April 1944 B-17G-50 to G-60 42-102379 - 42-102978
Assigned: 12 April 1944 - 8th AF / 3rd AD / 4th CBW / 94th BG / 331st BS - (RAF Bury St Edmunds)
Crash landing: Saturday, 7 October 1944 (Combat damage / fighters)
Florennes / Juziane A/D (A-78) - Belgium
Pilot: 1Lt Roy E Kennedy, 3 POW, 6 RTD (MACR 9557)
Co-pilot, navigator and tail gunner bailed out early; pilot was able to land aircraft in allied territory. POW's Reported by Fliegerhorst-Kommandantur A (o) 30/III Koelleda
Ground accident (class 4): Saturday, 14 April 1945 @ 1530 hrs (Mechanical failure). RAF Bury St Edmunds (hardstand 34) - England
Ass't Crew Chief: Sgt Lionel P Renaud
8th AF mission: 948 / 94th BG mission: 310 (Bordeaux, France - Tactical)
Aircraft was being preflighted for next day's mission.
Struck parked B-17G-65-VE #44-8416.
While engines were being run-up, aircraft brakes failed; aircraft jumped over chocks, running over GMC Oil Service truck and striking the left outer wing panel of #44-8415. #1 & 2 engines, propellers, plexiglass nose, underside of fuselage from nose turret to station 3 damaged. AAF accident report: 45-4-14-704. Condemned / stricken: 15 April 1945 / 22 May 1945
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Rougham
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Florennes / Juxaine
Missions
- Date: 14 April 1945
- Date: 7 October 1944
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Other Crew bailed out / combat damage |
7 October 1944 | MACR 9557 |
Revisions
From accident report
From MACR
from book: Boeing B-17 Production 26 February 1944 - 25 April 1944 B-17G-50 to G-60 42-102379 - 42-102978
Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 9557 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database