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B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Tulsa 16/2/44; Kearney 24/2/44; Presque Is 10/3/44; Assigned 562BS/388BG Knettishall 13/3/44; Missing in Action Magdeburg 12/9/44 with Gene Creagh (Killed in Action); Co-pilot: Capt Lucian Taylor, Navigator: Don Nicholson, Bombardier: Mitch Boumkana, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Carl Deitzler, Radio Operator: Stan YaskiewiczWounded in Action, Ball turret gunner: Bob Scanlon, foto-John O’Flarity, Waist gunner: George Wilkinson,Tail gunner: Paul Breitenstine (9 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed St Andreasberg, SE of Goslar, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 8908. LITTLE CHUM.
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) | Radio Operator | 388th Bomb Group
Military | Second Lieutenant | Bombardier | 388th Bomb Group
Prisoner of War (POW) Shot down on 9/12/44 in B-17 Little Chum #42107085
PoW
Military | Staff Sergeant | Tail Gunner | 388th Bomb Group
Prisoner of War (POW) Shot down near Helmstedt on 9/12/44 in B-17 Little Chum #42107085
POW
Military | Lieutenant | Pilot | 388th Bomb Group
Pilot of B-17G 42-102696, acting as wireless relay for Aphrodite mission to V1 missile site at Wizernes, France. 4-8-1944.
Killed in Action (KIA) 12 September 1944 in B-17G 42-107085 'Little Chum'
AM w/ 2 Oak Leaf Cluster PH
Military | Technical Sergeant | Top Turret Gunner | 388th Bomb Group
Military | Staff Sergeant | Ball Turret Gunner | 388th Bomb Group
Military | Lieutenant | Navigator | 388th Bomb Group
Flew combat missions from June to Septmeber 12 ,1944. Completed 22. 5 missions. Crashed near Helmstedt in B-17 Little Chum #42107085 Prisoner of War (POW)
Military | Staff Sergeant | Photographer | 388th Bomb Group
Shot down near Helmstedt on 9/12/44 in B-17 'Little Chum' #42-107085, Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Military | Staff Sergeant | Ball Turret Gunner | 388th Bomb Group
Prisoner of War (POW) Shot down near Helmstedt on 9/12/44 in B-17 Little Chum #42107085
POW
Prisoner of War (POW)
Military | Captain | Co-Pilot | 388th Bomb Group
Prisoner of War (POW) Crashed near Helmstedt on 9/12/44 in B-17 Little Chum #42107085
Crashed near Helmstedt on 9/12/44 in B-17 Little Chum #42-107085. POW at Stalag Luft 1 Barth-Vogelsang Prussia 54-12 .
POW
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...
Military site : airfield
| Event | Location | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Failed to Return (FTR) | Germany | 12 September 1944 |
| Date | Contributor | Update |
|---|---|---|
| 29 October 2015 19:34:44 | ram957 | Changes to nicknames |
| Sources | ||
388th BG Association Records |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:40:15 | AAM | AAM ingest |
| Sources | ||
Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 8908 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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