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B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 12/10/43; Gr Isle 22/10/43; Romulus 28/10/43; Assigned 562BS/388BG Knettishall 2/11/43; Missing in Action Freidrichshafen 24/4/44 with Bob McWhite, Co-pilot: Harry Olmstead, Navigator: Martin Cullen, Bombardier: Herb Scott, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Don Winn, Radio Operator: Walter Long, Ball turret gunner: George Wright, Waist gunner: Carroll Roth, Waist gunner: Lou Thompson,Tail gunner: Ron Honeyman (10 Prisoner of War); flak KOd #3 and #2, crashed Ehrensberg 12 miles W of Memmingen, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 4289.
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 | Colonel | Group Commanding Officer | 388th Bomb Group
Retired from the USAF with the rank of Brigadier General
Military | Lieutenant | Navigator | 388th Bomb Group
Shot down 24 April 1944 in B-17 #4231253. Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Military | Second Lieutenant | Co-Pilot/Pilot | 388th Bomb Group
Military | Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade) | Radio Operator | 388th Bomb Group
There is some mystery here as to why Fanning was flying a mission on 6 March 1944 when his tour apparently ended in December 1943. The 388th BG website lists a "R.W. Fanning" as the navigator for the Gridley Crew on 6 March 1944, however the WW2 POW...
Military | First Lieutenant | Navigator | 388th Bomb Group
Military | Staff Sergeant | Tail Gunner | 388th Bomb Group
Shot down 24 April 1944 in B-17 #4231253. Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Military | Technical Sergeant | Radio Operator | 388th Bomb Group
Shot down 24 April 1944 in B-17 #4231253. Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Military | Second Lieutenant | Pilot | 388th Bomb Group
Crash landed in B-17 42-30793 Ellough, Norfolk, on return from a mission. 11/4/44.
Shot down 24 April 1944 Freidrichshafen mission in B-17 #4231253. Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Military | Second Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 388th Bomb Group
Shot down 24 April 1944 in B-17 #4231253. Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Military | Staff Sergeant | Left Waist Gunner, Waist Gunner | 388th Bomb Group
Shot down 24 April 1944 in B-17 #4231253. Prisoner of War (POW).
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...
| Event | Location | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Failed to Return (FTR) | Germany | 24 April 1944 |
| Date | Contributor | Update |
|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2014 18:40:37 | AAM | AAM ingest |
| Sources | ||
Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 4289 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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