42-30009 Feather Merchant

Delivered Cheyenne 25/3/43; Pueblo 8/4/43; Hobbs 6/5/43; Presque Is 21/5/43; Dow Fd 23/5/43; Assigned 532BS/381BG [VE-G] Ridgewell 25/5/43 with Leo Jarvis, Gene Mancinelli, Dick Riley, Bill Lockhart, Harry Seymore, Warren Heintz, Harry Strecher, Chas Persinger, Gene Roehl, Herman Grossman;



Missing in Action 5m Bremen 8/10/43 with Jack Pry, Co-pilot: Cecil Quinley, Navigator: Roger Burwell, Bombardier: Theo Snyder, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ed LaPointe, Radio Operator: Russ Frautschi, Waist gunner: Carl Baird,Tail gunner: Martin Brandt (8 Prisoner of War), Ball turret gunner: Irvin Smith, Waist gunner: Alf Johnson (2 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed Hagewede-Brockum, 10 miles S of Diepholz, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 1397. FEATHER MERCHANT.

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Units served with

The insignia of the 381st Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 381st Bomb Group 532nd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 39535449
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Waist Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 381st Bomb Group 532nd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 37227087
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Tail Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 381st Bomb Group 532nd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-674138
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Navigator
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 381st Bomb Group 533rd Bomb Squadron
  • Role/Job: Pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 381st Bomb Group 532nd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 35333697
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Radio Operator

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Other

Failed to Return (FTR)

Germany 8 October 1943

Revisions

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Sources

Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 1397 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database