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B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Long Beach 23/9/43; Gr Island 13/10/43; Assigned 561BS/388BG Knettishall 26/10/43; sal 31/5/45.
Military | Second Lieutenant | Navigator | 388th Bomb Group
Shot down in a frontal attack by fighters on the return from a mission to Klein Machnow, Berlin on 6 Mar 1944, B-17G #42-31135 'Suzy Sagtitz' crashed near Schoonebekerveld, Holland. Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Military | Staff Sergeant | Ball Turret Gunner | 388th Bomb Group
Military | Captain | Navigator/Group Navigator | 388th Bomb Group
Killed on Duty
Military | Staff Sergeant (Technician Third Grade) | Tail Gunner | 388th Bomb Group
24 AUG 1943 after takeoff from N. Africa, shuttlerun to Regensburg, A/C B-17 #42-30230 'Homesick Angel' ran out of gas and crashed in cornfield in Suffolk.
DFC/ AM w/ 3 Oak Leaf Cluster/ PUC
Military | Technical Sergeant | Engineer | 388th Bomb Group
24 AUG 1943 after takeoff from N. Africa, shuttlerun to Regensburg, A/C B-17 #42-30230 'Homesick Angel' ran out of gas and crashed in cornfield in Suffolk.
Military | Technical Sergeant | Radio Operator | 388th Bomb Group
4 Aug 1943 after takeoff from N. Africa, shuttlerun to Regensburg, A/C B-17 #42-30230
'Homesick Angel' ran out of gas and crashed in cornfield in Suffolk.
Military | Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) | Waist Gunner | 388th Bomb Group
RTD
Military | Staff Sergeant (Technician Third Grade) | Ball Turret Gunner | 388th Bomb Group
24 Aug 1943 after takeoff from N. Africa, shuttlerun to Regensburg, A/C B-17 #42-30230 'Homesick Angel' ran out of gas and crashed in cornfield in Suffolk.
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 388th Bomb Group
24 AUG 1943 after takeoff from N. Africa, shuttlerun to Regensburg, A/C B-17 #42-30230 'Homesick Angel' ran out of gas and crashed in cornfield in Suffolk.
Military | First Lieutenant | Navigator | 388th Bomb Group
James Rogers served as a navigator with the 562nd Bomb Squadron of the 388th Bomb Group, flying missions out of Knettishall, England.
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...
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