42-102464 What's Next?
Delivered Cheyenne 5/3/44; Kearney 5/4/44; with David Steele force landed base 16/4/44; Dow Fd 6/5/44; Assigned 750BS/457BG Glatton [G] 7/5/44; Missing in Action Le Bouget A/fd 14/6/44 with Chas Blackwell, Co-pilot: Theo Baskette, Radio Operator: Ed Nabozny, Waist gunner: Francis McCall (4 evaded capture); Navigator: Irving Meyers, Bombardier: Verne Boon, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Tom Howard, Waist gunner: Tom Leahy, Tail gunner: Sylvester Kuraszkiewicz (5 Prisoner of War); flak hits KOd two engine, crashed Fluery-la-Faret, 25 miles W of Beauvais, Fr; Missing Air Crew Report 5805. WHAT’S NEXT?
Crash site photo - http://www.457thbombgroup.org/Fate/RLP070.HTML
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 457th Bomb Group 750th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 19092168 / O-755624
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 457th Bomb Group 748th Bomb Squadron 750th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 17071717 / O-747374
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot ; Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 457th Bomb Group 750th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 19104394 / O-755071
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Bombardier
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 457th Bomb Group 492nd Bomb Group 1st Scouting Force 750th Bomb Squadron 857th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 13186571 / O-819957
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot / Fighter Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 457th Bomb Group 750th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 17045077
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner / Flight Engineer
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Connington
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Other Failed to Return (FTR) |
France | 14 June 1944 |