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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B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 9/3/44; Gr Island 29/3/44; Dow Fd 7/4/44; Assigned 100BG Thorpe Abbotts 7/4/44; transferred 339BS/96BG [QJ-G] Snetterton 8/4/44; Missing in Action Politz 25/8/44 with Chas Jennings, Co-pilot: Styrlin Scogin, Navigator: Delmar Woodruff, Bombardier: Don Merrill, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Dewitt Deckert, Radio Operator: Bob Bowers, Waist gunner: Wayne Henley (7 Killed in Action); Ball turret gunner: Ed Whitelaw,Tail gunner: Gene Weiss (2 Prisoner of War); flak knocked off wing, crashed Hagen, NW of Stettin, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 8283. CHATTERBOX!
Service
Units
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96th Bomb Group
Group
The 96th Bomb Group flew B-17 Flying Fortresses to targets across occupied Europe from May 1943 to April 1945. ... -
339th Bomb Squadron
Squadron
People
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Robert Bowers
Military | Technical Sergeant | Radio Operator | 96th Bomb Group
Killed in Action (KIA) Crashed at Hugena in B-17 Chatterbox #42102502 -
Dewitt Deckert
Military | Technical Sergeant | Top Turret Gunner | 96th Bomb Group
KIA Crashed at Hugena in B-17 Chatterbox #42102502 -
Wayne Henley
Military | Staff Sergeant | Right Waist Gunner, Waist Gunner | 96th Bomb Group
KIA Crashed at Hugena in B-17 Chatterbox #42102502 -
Charles Jennings
Military | Second Lieutenant | Pilot | 96th Bomb Group
KIA Crashed at Hugena in B-17 Chatterbox #42102502. A/C peeled out of formation in flames and began to lose altitude. Then in a quick succession, the left wing broke off and the plane blew up. Only two men escaped: Ball turret gunner Ed Whitelaw and... -
Donald Merrill
Military | Second Lieutenant | Bombardier
KIA Crashed at Hugena in B-17 Chatterbox #42102502 -
Styrlin Scogin
Military | Second Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 96th Bomb Group
KIA Crashed at Hugena in B-17 Chatterbox #42102502 -
Eugene Weiss
Military | Staff Sergeant | Tail Gunner | 96th Bomb Group
POW Shot down by flak and crashed at Hugena on 8/25/44 in B-17 Chatterbox #42102502. On 24 Aug 1944 A/C peeled out of formation in flames and began to lose altitude. Then in a quick succession, the left wing broke off and the plane blew up. Only two... -
Edward Whitelaw
Military | Staff Sergeant | Ball Turret Gunner | 96th Bomb Group
POW Shot down by flak and crashed at Hugena in B-17 Chatterbox #42102502 ... -
Delmar Woodruff
Military | Second Lieutenant | Navigator | 96th Bomb Group
KIA Crashed at Hugena in B-17 Chatterbox #42102502
Places
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Snetterton Heath
Military site : airfield
Intended to be an RAF bomber base, construction of Snetterton Heath started in Autumn 1942 but continued until mid-1943, because it was extended after allocation as an Eighth Air Force bomber base. It had eventually three concrete runways, 50... -
Thorpe Abbotts
Military site : airfield
Home of the 'Bloody Hundredth’, a Bomb Group with a reputation for high casualty rates, Thorpe Abbotts was under USAAF control from June 1943 to the end of the war. Some of the airfield survives today, and the control tower houses the 100th Bomb Group...
Events
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Failed to Return (FTR) | Germany | 25 August 1944 |
Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 29 May 2020 07:32:44 | kstrykerAK | Changes to nicknames and unit associations |
| Sources | ||
Snetterton Falcons II: The 96th Bomb Group in World War II by Robert E Doherty & Geoffrey Ward, Second Edition with Errata & Supplemental Information, Taylor Publishing, 1996. pages 184, 186, 293 |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:40:10 | AAM | AAM ingest |
| Sources | ||
Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 8283 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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