42-37974 Section 8
Marc Poole i/a/w Osborne, FORTLOG
Object Number - UPL 41503 - Douglas B-17G-20-DL having its breathing oxygen supply furnished by ground crew. 42-37974.
Delivered Denver 2/11/43; Kearney 14/11/43; Assigned 547BS/384BG [SO-O] Grafton Underwood 21/1/44; also 545BS [JD-O] and 544BS [SU-M]; Missing in Action German oil inst. 20/7/44 with Pilot-Walter Edward Grant, Navigator-Benjamin Franklin Wells, togglier-Herbert Walter Zipfel, Flight engineer/top turret gunner-Thomas Chappell Farrow, Radio Operator-William Hiram Sexton, Ball turret gunner-Albert Clayton Fulwider Jr, Waist gunner-Raymond Joseph Jablonski (7 Prisoner of War); Co-pilot: Daniel Stanley Grabon, Tail gunner: Norbert Raymond Karcher (2 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed Zetteritz, NW of Chemnitz, Germany; Missing Air Crew Report 7278. SECTION 8.
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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
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- 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: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-798297
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 19115653 / O-758505
- Highest Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-758675
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 545th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-665291
- Highest Rank: Captain
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 384th Bomb Group 547th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 32364054
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: MOS 748 - Top Turret Gunner
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Stapleton Airfield : Stapleton International Airport
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Grafton Undermud
Missions
- Date: 20 July 1944
- Date: 27 April 1944
![A B-17 Flying Fortress nicknamed "Ruth L", flown by Lieutenant NL Young, of the 96th Bomb Group flies through a cascade of bombs released by another Fortress over Oranienburg, Germany. Strike camera photo. Handwritten caption on reverse: '22/3/44. Looks like JW code - 92BG? [sic]Supposedly Bremen raid but bombs look like M47.'](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/teaser_thumb_x2/public/freeman/media-408680.jpg.webp?itok=47P7nfd_)
- Date: 22 March 1944
- Date: 16 March 1944
- Date: 2 March 1944
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Other Failed to Return (FTR) |
21 January 1944 - 20 July 1944 | 21 January 1944. New Replacement Aircraft.This aircraft was credited with 42 combat missions with the 384th Bombardment Group. |
Revisions
Added a space in front of the words "Tail gunner" in the A/C “Description” for clarity.
Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 7278 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database
