41-24580 Hellcat Agnes : No Monkey Business
Crew: [In no particular order]
1st Lt Oran T O'Connor (Pilot), 2nd Lt Eldon T Ruppe (CoPilot), 2nd Lt Bruce W Gordon (Nav),
2nd Lt Earl J Dumont, Jr. (Bomb), Capt Richard E Van Holdt (Group Weather Officer), T/Sgt Bernard H Koenig (Eng), Sgt Bernard A Gergash (Radio), Sgt Sidney V Hall (Gunner), Sgt Jesse R Kinney (Gunner), Sgt Frank L Batterson (Tail).
23-Jan-43 Mission #6 LAST OPERATION U-Boat pens at Lorient, France. (see Biography)
Missing in Action 23-Jan-43 while on a mission to bomb the port area and U-Boat pens at Lorient, France. Sustained damage from flak, #1 engine smoking, #4 engine feathered. Attacked by fighters and shot down in the area between Brest and the coast. 8POW 2EVD. NO MACR was issued for this loss. Also named No Monkey Business at one time.
NOTE: No Missing Air Crew Report (MACR) was ever created to document this loss. Bishop & Hey "Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces" has it as MACR 15473, but that MACR documents the loss of B-17F 41-24607, 303BG/427BS MIA on 23-Jan-43.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 358th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 39171219
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 358th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 13031181
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 358th Bomb Squadron 359th Bomb Squadron 360th Bomb Squadron 427th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-742149
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Bombardier
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 358th Bomb Squadron 360th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-726886
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Bombardier
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 358th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 18002084
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
Places
- Site type: Airfield
Missions
- Date: 23 January 1943
- Date: 20 December 1942
- Official Description:
- Date: 12 December 1942
- Official Description:
- Date: 6 December 1942
- Official Description:
- Date: 22 November 1942
- Official Description:
Revisions
Lee Cunningham 11-Aug-2015. Added Mission #6 event crew data pere 303BG website Mission Report of 23-Jan-43, Gary Moncur, Historian: http://www.303rdbg.com/missionreports/011.pdf
Lee Cunningham 11-Aug-2015. Added Mission #5 event crew data per 303BG website Mission Report of 20-Dec-42, Gary Moncur, Historian: http://www.303rdbg.com/missionreports/007.pdf
Lee Cunningham 11-Aug-2015. Added Mission #4 event crew data per 303BG website Mission Report of 12-Dec-42, Gary Moncur, Historian: http://www.303rdbg.com/missionreports/006.pdf
Lee Cunningham 11-Aug-2015. Made Mission connections and added Mission #3 event crew data per 303BG website Mission Report of 6-Dec-42, Gary Moncur, Historian: http://www.303rdbg.com/missionreports/005.pdf
Lee Cunningham 11-Aug-2015. Added Mission #2 event crew data per 303BG website Mission Report of 22-Nov-42, Gary Moncur, Historian: http://www.303rdbg.com/missionreports/003.pdf
Lee Cunningham 11-Aug-2015. Added Mission #1 event crew data per 303BG website Mission Report of 18-Nov-42, Gary Moncur, Historian: http://www.303rdbg.com/missionreports/002.pdf
Lee Cunningham 11-Aug-2015. Added Missions #1 thru #6 to Description per 303BG website Mission Reports, Gary Moncur, Historian: http://www.303rdbg.com/missionreports/
Lee Cunningham 22-Jan-2015. Added NOTE to Description to correct source information for this entry.
Lee Cunningham 20-jan-2015. Added nickname per original ingest data; Converted dates to military-style signification, target information and loss details per "Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces" Stan Bishop & John A. Hey MBE; added rank, crew position, full proper names and disposition to crew list per MACR 15473; formatted crew display.
Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 15473 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database