42-30274 Our Bay-Bee

media-25865.png UPL 25865 Pilot 1st Lt Walter A. Baker

MACR 402

Object Number - UPL 25865 - Pilot 1st Lt Walter A. Baker

Delivered Cheyenne 8 May 1943; Gore 9 May 1943; Smoky Hill 17 May 1943; Dow Field 5 June 1943; Assigned 334BS/95BG [BG-Q] Horham 15 June 1943; 5 missions. Missing in Action Regensburg 17 August 1943 with a 335BS crew. Pilot 1st Lt Walter A. Baker; Navigator: 2nd Lt Cedric L. Nussbaum; Flight engineer/top turret gunner: T/Sgt Alvin O. Forney; Radio Operator: T/Sgt Walter T. McDermott; Right Waist gunner: S/Sgt William H. Binnebose Jr (Wounded in Action); Left Waist gunner: S/Sgt Roscoe J. Alderman; Tail gunner: S/Sgt Albert G. Bergeron (7 Prisoner of War). Co-pilot: 2nd Lt Martin G. Minnich; Bombardier: 2nd Lt Henry P. Sarnow; Ball turret gunner: Sgt John White (3 evaded capture, with the help of the Belgian COMETE evasion network). Attacked by enemy aircraft on the route going into the target. Was last sighted south of Eupen, Belgium. The damaged aircraft left the formation and 7 chutes were seen to leave the ship, after which the plane exploded. Crashed Mol, SE of Turnhout, Belgium. Missing Air Crew Report : MACR 402. For more details about OUR BAY-BEE and its crew, go to http://www.aircrewremembered.com/gallery/index.php?/category/6

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  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Radio Operator
Black and white posed headshot of man wearing a uniform of a jacket, shirt, tie and hat. There is a WWII-era Air-Force silver officer insignia badge on the center of hat.  There is an aviation insignia pin on the jacket lapels.  Silver wings and med ribbons are on the top of the left -side jacket pocket.  Subject is not looking directly at lens and is smiling
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-675363
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Co-Pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-797372
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Navigator
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-734984
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Bombardier
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 95th Bomb Group 334th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 11114696
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner

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Mol, Belgium 17 August 1943 - 17 August 1943 Missing in Action Schweinfurt 17/8/43. Cause - enemy aircraft damage, dropped back and crashed in Mol, SE of Turnhout, Belgium; (3 x EVD, 7 x POW) - Missing Air Crew Report MACR 402.

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95th Bomb Group Memorials Foundation

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Corrected pilot's first name in Biography; the crew was from the 335BS, the plane from the 334th...

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MACR 402

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daughter, Betty Binnebose Lewis

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Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 402 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

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