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B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 15/1/44; Gr Island 28/1/44; Assigned 336BS/95BG [ET-R] Horham 9/2/44; 18m, Missing in Action Rostock 11/4/44 with Leo Francis (KIA-as he prepared to bale out with crew); Co-pilot: Martin Taylor, Navigator: Burchard Day, Bombardier: Frank Henerson, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ray Buske, Radio Operator: Howard Pollard, Ball turret gunner: A.L. Graves, Waist gunner: Joe Misulich, Waist gunner: George McGibbney,Tail gunner: John Stastny (9 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft KO’d #1, then #4 caught fire with damaged wing, crashed Laendorf, four miles S of Gnoien, near Boddin, 19 miles SE of Rostock, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 3803.
Group
The 95th Bomb Group was the only Eighth Air Force Group to be awarded three Distinguished Unit Citations. The first, shared by all four Bomb Wing Groups, was for the bombing of an aircraft factory under intense enemy fire at Regensburg on 17 August...
Squadron
Military | Sergeant | Top Turret Gunner | 95th Bomb Group
Shot down 11 April 1944 in B-17 #4232019. Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Military | Second Lieutenant | Navigator | 95th Bomb Group
Shot down 11 April 1944 in B-17 #4232019. Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Military | Lieutenant | Pilot | 95th Bomb Group
Shot down 11 April 1944 in B-17 #4232019. Killed in Action (KIA).
Military | Sergeant | Right Waist Gunner | 95th Bomb Group
Military | Staff Sergeant | Ball Turret Gunner | 95th Bomb Group
Shot down 11 April 1944 in B-17 #4232019. Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Military | Staff Sergeant | Waist Gunner | 95th Bomb Group
Staff Sgt. Warren M. Gray (front row, fifth from left in picture above) was right waist gunner on 42-32019 (Pilot Abbott) 4 MAR 44 first USAAF bomb raid on Berlin, receiving severe flak wound to left hand -- that mission was his last (of eight total);...
Military | Second Lieutenant | Bombardier | 95th Bomb Group
Shot down 11 April 1944 in B-17 #4232019. Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Military | Staff Sergeant | Left Waist Gunner, Waist Gunner | 95th Bomb Group
Shot down 11 April 1944 in B-17 #4232019. Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Military | Technical Sergeant | Radio Operator | 95th Bomb Group
Shot down 11 April 1944 in B-17 #4232019. Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Military | Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade) | Waist Gunner/Flight Engineer | 95th Bomb Group
| Event | Location | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Failed to Return (FTR) | Germany | 11 April 1944 |
| Date | Contributor | Update |
|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2014 18:40:42 | AAM | AAM ingest |
| Sources | ||
Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 3803 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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