8th Air Force
Eighth Air Force Bomber Command became the Eighth Air Force on February 1944, it oversaw bombardment of strategic targets in Europe until 1945.
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42-102464
B-17 Flying Fortress
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
Service
Units
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457th Bomb Group
Group
The 457th Bomb Group began combat operations during the Big Week of 20-25 February when American bombers carried out concentrated raids against German aircraft bases, factories and assembly plants. The air crews' targets on that first mission were... -
750th Bomb Squadron
Squadron
People
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Theodore Baskette
Military | Second Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 457th Bomb Group
Assigned to 750BS, 457BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Le Bourget in B-17 42-102464; Hit by flak lost two engines. 14-Jun-44 Evaded EVD. Awards: AM, WWII Victory, EAME. -
Charles Blackwell
Military | First Lieutenant | Co-Pilot ; Pilot | 457th Bomb Group
Assigned to 750BS, 457BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Le Bourget in B-17 42-102464; Hit by flak lost two engines. 14-Jun-44 Evaded EVD. Awards: AM, WWII Victory, EAME. -
Verne Boon
Military | Second Lieutenant | Bombardier | 457th Bomb Group
Assigned to 750BS, 457BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Le Bourget in B-17 42-102464; Hit by flak lost two engines. 14-Jun-44 Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 5805 Awards: POW, WWII Victory, EAME. -
Robert Burkholder
Military | First Lieutenant | Bomber Co-pilot / Fighter pilot | 457th Bomb Group
Assigned to 750BS, 457BG, 8AF USAAF. 34 x combat missions in B-17's. Detached for Special duties with 1st Scouting Force. 47 x combat missions in P-47's. Transferred to 857BS, 492BG, 8AF USAAF. Member of the British 'GOLDFISH CLUB' for having ditched... -
Thomas Howard
Military | Technical Sergeant | Top Turret Gunner; Engineer | 457th Bomb Group
Assigned to 750BS, 457BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Le Bourget in B-17 42-102464; Hit by flak lost two engines. 14-Jun-44 Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 5805 Awards: POW, WWII Victory, EAME. -
Sylvester Kuraszkiewicz
Military | Sergeant | Tail Gunner | 457th Bomb Group
Assigned to 750BS, 457BG, 8AF USAAF. Upon landing at Nutts Corner, Ireland on ferry flight from Goose Bay, Labrador on 23-Jan-44, B-17G 42-97459 ran off the end of the runway due to high landing speed and a wet runway. RTD. ... -
Thomas Leahy
Military | Staff Sergeant | Left Waist Gunner | 457th Bomb Group
Assigned to 750BS, 457BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Le Bourget in B-17 42-102464; Hit by flak lost two engines. 14-Jun-44 Prisoner of War (POW). MACR 5805 Awards: AM, DSC, POW, WWII Victory, EAME. -
Francis McCall
Military | Staff Sergeant | Gunner | 457th Bomb Group
Assigned to 750BS, 457BG, 8AF USAAF. Upon landing at Nutts Corner, Ireland on ferry flight from Goose Bay, Labrador on 23 Jan 1944, B-17G 42-97459 ran off the end of the runway due to high landing speed and a wet runway. RTD. ... -
Irving Meyers
Military | Second Lieutenant | Navigator | 457th Bomb Group
Upon landing at Nutts Corner, Ireland on ferry flight from Goose Bay, Labrador on 23 Jan 1944, B-17G #42-97459 ran off the end of the runway due to high landing speed and a wet runway. RTD. Shot down 14 June 1944 in B-17 #42-102464. Prisoner of War ... -
Edward Nabozny
Military | Technical Sergeant | Radio Operator | 457th Bomb Group
Assigned to 750BS, 457BG, 8AF USAAF. Failed to Return (FTR) Le Bourget in B-17 42-102464; Hit by flak lost two engines. Evaded EVD. Awards: AM, WWII Victory, EAME.
Places
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Glatton
Military site : airfield
Glatton, which lay mostly in the parish of Conington, was built by the 809th Engineer Battalion (Aviation) of the U.S. Army in the last months of 1942. Unusually, the base's three runways surrounded Rose Court Farm, which remained a working farm...
Events
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Failed to Return (FTR) | France | 14 June 1944 |
Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 30 January 2020 19:42:05 | jmoore43 | Changes to description |
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Added a space in front of the words "Tail gunner" in the A/C “Description” for clarity. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 30 January 2020 19:41:06 | jmoore43 | Changes to nicknames |
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Removed a space in the nickname before the "?". |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 08 August 2017 11:12:49 | Al_Skiff | Changes to production block number, nicknames, description, unit associations, person associations and place associations |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:40:09 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 5805 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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