42-40011 Schnozzle

A ground crewman of the 381st Bomb Group cleans the nose gun turret of a B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-40011) nicknamed "Schnozzle". media-387699.jpg FRE 6250 A ground crewman of the 381st Bomb Group cleans the nose gun turret of a B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-40011) nicknamed "Schnozzle". Roger Freeman Collection

IWM, Roger Freeman Collection

Object Number - FRE 6250 - A ground crewman of the 381st Bomb Group cleans the nose gun turret of a B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-40011) nicknamed "Schnozzle".

Delivered Long Beach 3/11/43; Kearney 14/11/43; Assigned 534BS/381BG [GD-O] Ridgewell 22/1/44; mid-air coll with 42-97511 (381BG) peeling off over field on returning from Aschaffenberg 21/1/45, with Val Crofts, Co-pilot: Nicholas Tauro, Navigator: Seymour Sobole, tog-Ed Jones, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Gildo Pannacione, Radio Operator: Morris Shapiro, Ball turret gunner: Allen Taylor, Waist gunner: John York, Tail gunner: Milton Swarts (9 Killed in Action); crashed in base area on approach. SCHNOZZLE. MACR 15283.

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Units served with

The insignia of the 381st Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 381st Bomb Group 532nd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 36500340
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Engineer/Top Turret Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 381st Bomb Group 534th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 17118841
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Tail Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Civilian
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 381st Bomb Group 532nd Bomb Squadron
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 381st Bomb Group 534th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-699212
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Navigator
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 381st Bomb Group 532nd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 20155280
  • Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner / Flight Engineer

Places

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Egg Haid
  • Unit: 381st Bomb Group 535th Bomb Squadron

Events

Event Location Date Description

Other

Failed to Return (FTR)

England 21 January 1945

Revisions

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

 

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Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 15283 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

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