42-31685

Delivered Denver 8/12/43; Kingman 21/12/43; Denver 6/1/44; Jackson 11/1/44; Atlanta 12/1/44; Lakeland 13/1/44; Assigned 775BS/463BG Celone 9/3/44. Hit by Flak. Missing in Action Wiener Neustadt 10 May 1944 with Pilot Stanley N. Dwyer, Co-pilot: Manley H. Dale Jr, Navigator: Francis G. Gilhooley, Bombardier: Prestcott C. Piper, Flight Engineer/Top Turret gunner: John J. Boros, Tail gunner: William Olfenius (5 Killed in Action); Radio Operator: George D. Mitchell, Ball turret gunner: Eugene E. Parker Jr, Right Waist gunner: Stephen A. Milewski, Left Waist gunner: John E. Boyett Jr (4 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed near Vöstenhof, about 20km SW of Wiener Neustadt, Austria. Some mix-up in the Missing Air Crew Report numbers. 42-31685 is listed as MACR 4723 but is in fact MACR 4660 (which has the A/C Serial Number as "42-31804" and the names of the Dwyer crew...) #42-31804 was lost the same day, with Pilot Gerald F. Gowen and crashed near Lichtenwörth, 8km NE of Wiener Neustadt...

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People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Service Numbers: 32719960
  • Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade)
  • Role/Job: Flight Engineer / Top Turret Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Service Numbers: 38396309
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade)
  • Role/Job: waist gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Service Numbers: O-750952
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Co-Pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Service Numbers: 19005031 and O-751540
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Service Numbers: 12120237 and O-814293
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Navigator

Places

A B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 44-5287) of the 463rd Bomb Group, 15th Air Force in flight with open bomb bay doors. Handwritten caption on reverse: '463 BG Gills.'
  • Site type: Airfield
  • Known as: Foggia Satellite #1, San Nicola-d'Arpi

Revisions

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Added a space before the words "Tail gunner" in the A/C “Description” to aid clarity.

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ContributorED-BB
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Connected Place (Celone)

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ContributorED-BB
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MACR 4660
NARA WWII Enlistment records
"Searching for Stanley - Unforgotten Hero of World War II", by Kay Hughes, niece and Harold E. Dwyer, brother, of Pilot Stanley N. Dwyer (iUniverse books - 2011)
Contacts with the Stanley Dwyer family.

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ContributorAAM
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Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log