42-3449
IWM, Roger Freeman Collection
Object Number - FRE 1147 - Ground personnel attend the wreckage of a B-17 Flying Fortress of the 306th Bomb Group that has crashed into a wood. Handwritten on reverse:...
Delivered Long Beach 24/6/43 with Carroll Johns in a rough landing; Dow Fd 28/7/43; Assigned 369BS/306BG [WW-X] Thurleigh 14/8/43; returning from Nantes 23/9/43 with battle damaged and low on fuel with Manny Klette, Co-pilot: M.D. Reed, Navigator: Gene Madden (inj), Bombardier: Art Isaac, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Paul Loubet, Radio Operator: Jerome Evenson, Ball turret gunner: S. A. Hardy, Waist gunner: Bill Oliver, Waist gunner: Harry Maron, Tail gunner: Chas Fatigati (10 RTD - two others inj); crash landed near RAF Wing, Bucks. Salvaged.
Connections
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 306th Bomb Group 369th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 36253337
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio Operator Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 306th Bomb Group
- Service Numbers: 15070144
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 306th Bomb Group 369th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 306th Bomb Group
- Service Numbers: O-669303
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Bombardier
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 306th Bomb Group 91st Bomb Group 324th Bomb Squadron 369th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 32001986 / O-793124
- Highest Rank: Colonel
- Role/Job: Pilot
Places
![A bomber crew of the 306th Bomb Group wave to Picture Post Girls in front of a B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 41-24471) nicknamed "Four of a Kind" at Thurleigh in December 1942. Image stamped on reverse: '"Picture Post" [stamp], 'Passed for Publication 11 Dec 1942.' [stamp], '238038.' [Censor no.] Handwritten in censor's blue pencil on reverse: 'American Flying Fortress crew are introduced to the girls they will meet at Picture Post Xmas Party.'](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/teaser_thumb_x2/public/freeman/media-379028.jpg.webp?itok=6Gc6iR0j)
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Bedford
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Crashed |
Wing, UK | 23 September 1943 |
Revisions
Added the Production block number and Manufacturer per info on the internet.
SOURCE: https://b17flyingfortress.de/en/production-block/b-17f-65-dl-42-3449-42…
Added connections - aircraft misidentified in crew records as 42-3349, actually 42-3449:
http://306bgus.apollohosting.com/Search/search%20all.php?Lname=klette&F…
Information sent through to the museum by Clifford Deets, 306th BG Historical Association historian.
