Delivered Hunter 5/9/44; Grenier 21/9/44; Assigned 49BS/2BG Amendola 28/9/44; Missing in Action Brux 25/12/44 with Bill Myers, Co-pilot: Libero Cassica, Navigator: Walter Stone, Bombardier: Jim Dunlop, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bill Carruthers, Radio Operator: Jim Miller, Ball turret gunner: Rich Greiner, Waist gunner: Bill Gutman, Waist gunner: Joe Waladkewicz[wia],Tail gunner: Herb Wendt (10 Returned to Duty); flak KO'd two engines; crash landed Koraconj, Hungary, in Russian lines where crew used parts from crashed 44-6029 (301BG) for repairs before flying back to base 16/1/45. Returned to the USA Bradley 3/7/45; Sth Plains 6/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 24/11/45. Missing Air Crew Report 10703.OLD CROW.



B-17 44-6550 force-landed on 25 December 1944 at a frozen cornfield that the Soviets were using for an airstrip at Karancsság, approximately 6 miles northeast of Szécsény. A damaged prop governor was obtained from B-17 44-6529 (301st BG) which had force-landed near Debrecen on 11 December 1944. 1st Lt. William Myers and crew flew repaired B-17 44-6550 back to Italy on 21 January 1945.