42-30244 Holy Terror
Delivered Cheyenne 1/5/43; Smoky Hill 14/5/43; Tinker 24/5/43; Smoky Hill 29/5/43; Dow Fd 31/5/43; Assigned 351BG Polebrook 9/6/43; transferred 388BG Knettishall 17/6/43; 334BS/95BG [BG-M] Horham 18/6/43; with J.M. Adams force landed Bassingbourn AFB 16/9/43; 39m, Missing in Action Eberfeld 5/1/44 with Andy Williams, Navigator: George Thomas, Bombardier: Gene Schienburg, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Carl Westfall, Radio Operator: Paul Levinson, Ball turret gunner: George Ganster, Waist gunner: Harry Hunke, Waist gunner: Don Lynch, Tail gunner: Joe Booker (9 Prisoner of War); Co-pilot: Gene Davila (EVD - ret UK 7/9/44); crashed Lambourg, near Mesmil-Martinsart, 16 miles S of Arras, Fr. Missing Air Crew Report 1687. HOLY TERROR.
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- Date: 10 October 1943
- Date: 4 October 1943
- Date: 2 October 1943
- Date: 27 September 1943
- Date: 26 September 1943
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Crashed |
Bassingbourn, Royston, Cambridgeshire SG8, UK | 16 September 1943 | Force landed Bassingbourn AFB 16/9/43. |
Crashed Failed to Return (FTR) |
Lambourg, 35630 Saint-Brieuc-des-Iffs, France | 5 January 1944 - 5 January 1944 | Missing in Action Eberfeld 5/1/44. Crashed Lambourg, near Mesmil-Martinsart, 16 miles S of Arras, France. (9 x POW, 1 x EVD) Missing Air Crew Report 1687. |
Revisions
Added a space in front of the words "Tail gunner" in the A/C “Description” for clarity.
AAM DB Entry.
http://95thbg.org/j3migr/95thbg-aircraft/95th-b-17-s-1942.
Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 1687 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database