42-31222 Lazy Daisy

media-22299.jpeg UPL 22299 B-17G-5-BO #42-31222 "Lazy Daisy"
384th BG

Object Number - UPL 22299 - B-17G-5-BO #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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  • 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
A B-17 Flying Fortress (BK-H, serial number 42-37781) nicknamed "Silver Dollar" of the 546th Bomb Squadron, 384th Bomb Group goes down after losing its tail. Image via Havelaar. Printed caption on reverse: 'Silver Dollar, a Flying Fortress operating from Grafton Underwood, has its complete tail severed during one of the first 8th Air Force raids on Berlin.' Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Berlin missile, BK-H, Fort goes down.'
  • 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

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Missions

B-17 Flying Fortresses of the 305th Bomb Group fly in formation.
  • Date: 4 August 1944
Ten men in Air Force uniform posed in front of a military airplane.  Six men standing to the rear, four men kneeling in front.  Large canvas bags are laying in front of kneeling men
  • Date: 3 August 1944
  • Date: 1 August 1944

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Shot Down/Crashed

39343 Ostingersleben, Germany 28 September 1944 flak, tail section disintegrated

Revisions

Date
Contributorjmoore43
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Sources

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

Date
ContributorAAM
Changes
Sources

Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 9366 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

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