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B-17 Flying Fortress
Miss Adventure (photo rights: McCauley family)
Delivered Cheyenne 19/1/44; MacDill 14/2/44; Grenier 24/2/44; Assigned 563BS/388BG [Y] Knettishall 28/2/44; on mission to Liege 25/5/44 with Tracy Breed, Co-pilot: Don Duclos, Navigator: Harry Kroneberger, Bombardier: Charles Larsen, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Tom Ingram (5 Returned to Duty); Radio Operator: Rene Meriot, Waist gunner: Orris Johnson, Waist gunner: Chas Mitchell, Tail gunner: Lloyd Neuhaus (4 Prisoner of War); Ball turret gunner: Stewart McConnell (Killed in Action); flak hit set #4 on fire, some bailed by pilot dived down to put out flames as return to base; MACR 5263.
Returned to the USA Bradley 3/7/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 16/8/45; Recl Comp 6/5/46. MISS ADVENTURE.
Group
The 388th Bomb Group flew strategic bombing mission from Knettishall, Suffolk from June 1943 to the end of the war. During this time, though, detachments were sent to Fersfield, Norfolk to conduct Aphrodite missions. In these Aphrodite missions veteran...
Squadron
Military | Staff Sergeant (Technician Third Grade) | Togglier/Nose Gunner | 388th Bomb Group
Prisoner of War (POW) Crashed near Kraslice on 3/5/45 in B-17 #4297542 due to mechanical failure Plane was 'City of Savannah'
POW
Military | Second Lieutenant | Pilot | 388th Bomb Group
RTD. B-17G #42-106989 'Miss Adventure'.
Military | Second Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 388th Bomb Group
RTD. B-17G #42-106989 'Miss Adventure'.
Military | Technical Sergeant | Flight Engineer; Top Turret Gunner, Top Turret Gunner | 388th Bomb Group
RTD. B-17G #42-106989 'Miss Adventure'.
Military | Sergeant | Left Waist Gunner | 388th Bomb Group
Prisoner of War (POW). 25 May 1944 B-17G #42-106989 'Miss Adventure'.
Military | Second Lieutenant | Navigator | 388th Bomb Group
RTD. B-17G #42-106989 'Miss Adventure'
Military | Second Lieutenant | Bombardier | 388th Bomb Group
RTD. B-17G #42-106989 'Miss Adventure'.
Military | Second Lieutenant | Pilot | 388th Bomb Group
Missing in Action (as a drone pilot) on a mission to Heligoland, Germany, with pilot Lt Richard Lindahl killed by static line incorrectly attached bailing out & Lt D. Salles on 11 September 1944.Killed in Action.
Military | First Lieutenant | Navigator | 388th Bomb Group
Military | Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 388th Bomb Group
Flew 32 missions (227:30 combat hours), volunteered to do the Aphrodite mission and bailed out (30 Oct 1944).
Military site : airfield
Knettishall was built to Class A standard for an American Bomb Group that would be bringing up to forty heavy bombers with them in three or four Squadrons. The 388th Bomb Group, which stayed at Knettishall for their entire service in the ETO, flew B-17...
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Failed to Return (FTR) | France | 25 May 1944 |
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 21 February 2021 19:57:46 | Darley | Changes to nicknames |
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Military record |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 21 February 2021 00:12:32 | Darley | Changes to media associations |
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Family photo |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 26 March 2018 09:30:48 | Lucy May | Changes to nicknames and description |
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From existing info in biography field. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:40:15 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 5263 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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