42-31798 Rose O'Day
Delivered Denver 21/12/43; Kearney 31/12/43; Assigned 412BS/95BG [QW-J] Horham 3/2/44; 15m, Missing in Action Rostock 11/4/44 with Garland Maddox, Navigator: Joe Krecji, Tail gunner: Ed Cunliffe (3 Prisoner of War); Co-pilot: Ewalt Kuchling, Bombardier: J.W. Boren, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Louis Brown, Radio Operator: John Jones, Ball turret gunner: Ed Jerstad, Waist gunner: Ray Borden, Waist gunner: Jim Radcliffe, (7 Killed in Action); hit by Fw 190s, crashed Bad Doberan, near Kellerswald, nine miles W of Rostock, Germany. (One record gives some of crew were drowned in Baltic Sea, another record states a Pole says seven crew were killed by hostile civilians at Rostock). Missing Air Crew Report 3801.
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- Date: 20 February 1944
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| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Crashed Failed to Return (FTR) |
11 April 1944 - 11 April 1944 | Missing in Action Rostock 11/4/44. Hit by rockets fired by Fw 190s and set ablaze, crashed Bad Doberan, near Kellerswald, nine miles W of Rostock, Germany. (One record gives some of crew were drowned in Baltic Sea, another record states a Pole says seven crew were killed by hostile civilians at Rostock). (3 x POW, 7 x KIA) Missing Air Crew Report MACR3801. |
Revisions
Added a space before the words "Tail gunner" in the A/C “Description” to aid readability.
Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 3801 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database
Name of aircraft update based on firsthand account from interview with Navigator Joseph Krejci I recorded on April 11, 2012. Transcript available here:
http://95thbg.org/j3migr/95thbg-history/vet-stories/veterans-interviews…
Summary of aircraft being shot down edited based detailed review of witness statements in MACR-3801, and interviews with both Navigator Joseph Krejci and gunner Edward Cunliffe. Transcript here:
http://95thbg.org/j3migr/95thbg-history/vet-stories/veterans-interviews…
Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 3801 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database