42-31222 Lazy Daisy
384th BG
Delivered Denver 4/10/43; Gr Island 17/10/43; Memphis 24/10/43; Assigned 545BS/384BG [JD-D] Grafton Underwood 546 [BK-D] 23/11/43; Missing in Action Magdeburg (Berlin) 28/9/44 with Jim Brodie, Co-pilot: Lloyd Vevle, ng-Byron Atkins, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bob Crumpton, Radio Operator: Don Dooley, Ball turret gunner: Gordon Hetu (6 Killed in Action); Navigator: George Hawkins, Waist gunner: Harry Liniger, Tail gunner: Wilf Miller (3 Prisoner of War); flak, tail section disintegrated, crashed Ostingersleben, W of Magdeburg, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 9366. LAZY DAISY.
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Units served with
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 546th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 34507515
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Flexible Gunner/ Togglier
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 16189148
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 546th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 39282762
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 546th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 19080173
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 34670187
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner
Places
Missions
- Date: 4 August 1944
- Date: 3 August 1944
- Date: 1 August 1944
- Date: 31 July 1944
- Date: 29 July 1944
Aircraft
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Other Shot Down/Crashed |
39343 Ostingersleben, Germany | 28 September 1944 | flak, tail section disintegrated |
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 9366 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database