42-29954 Devil's Angel
Photo courtesy of Fans of B-17 flying fortress Facebook group
Delivered Denver 17/3/43; Pueblo 8/4/43; Smoky Hill 7/5/43; Dow Fd 25/5/43; Assigned 534BS/381BG [GD-D] Ridgewell 25/5/43 with Bill Wroblicka, Omen Jones, Jim Delano, Lester Schneider, Joe Labushevicz, Fred Smith, Dick Wante, Edwin Jonson, John Kratzer, Walt Cecil; Missing in Action Gelsenkirchen 12/8/43 with Bill Wroblicka, Co-pilot: Claude Neeley, Navigator: Dave Harris, Bombardier: Lester Schneider, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Joe Labusheivicz, Radio Operator: Fred Smith (6 Prisoner of War). Ball turret gunner: Edwin Jonson, Waist gunner: John Kratzer, Waist gunner: John Phelan, Tail gunner: Walt Cecil (4 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed Hemmerich, NW of Bonn, Ger. MACR 383. DEVIL'S ANGEL. According to Joe Baugher's USAAF database - hit by AAA over Koln, Germany and shot down by Uffz Heinrich Heuser in Fw 190A-5 of JG 26/2, Aug 12, 1943.
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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: 381st Bomb Group 534th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 38234081
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 381st Bomb Group 534th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-670119
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 381st Bomb Group 534th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 37197647
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 381st Bomb Group 534th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 20500924
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: waist gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 381st Bomb Group 534th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 36320870
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner; Flight Engineer
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Missions
- Date: 12 August 1943
Aircraft
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Other Failed to Return (FTR) |
Germany | 12 August 1943 |
Revisions
Photos uploaded of aircraft's nose art to both sides of fuselage - Courtesy of Fans of B-17 Facebook Group.
Further details of aircraft's last mission added courtesy of Joe Baugher's USAAF database.
Added a space before the words "Tail gunner" in the A/C “Description” to aid readability.
Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 383 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database