42-5720 Slightly Dangerous | Scarlet

media-41675.jpeg UPL 41675

306th BG Archives

Object Number - UPL 41675

Delivered to Tulsa 23/9/42; Wayne 2/11/42; West Palm Beach 14/12/42; Assigned to the 367BS/306BG [GY-Y] Thurleigh SCARLET 2/2/43; then 368BS; taxi accident with Dick O’Hara 20/4/43; transferred 544th Bomb Squadron/384th Bomb Group [SU-A] Grafton Underwood, Station 106 on 23 August 1943; Missing in Action on a mission to Stuttgart, 6 September 1943 with Lester H. Aufmuth, Bombardier: James C. Jensen Jr, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Robert K. Price, Waist gunner: Joseph H. Smith (4 Prisoner of War), Co-pilot: James G. McMath, Navigator: Charles O. Downe, Radio Operator: Louie F. Weatherford, Ball turret gunner: James L. Wagner, Waist gunner: Charles A. Fisher,Tail gunner: Carl E. Bachmann (6 evaded capture); no gas, crashed Doiains, ten miles E of Evreux, France. Missing Air Crew Report 776.

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Units served with

Official insignia of the 306th Bomb Group, approved 6 January 1943, and updated 2 October 1951.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment
The insignia of the 384th Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

People

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Tail Gunner
The insignia of the 544th Bomb Squadron, 384th Bomb Group.
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-671365 and/or O-678624
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Navigator
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 306th Bomb Group 367th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 32254194
  • Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 384th Bomb Group 544th Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: 13041301
  • Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
  • Role/Job: Waist Gunner

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Failed to Return (FTR)

Germany 6 September 1943

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384thbombgroup.com

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Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 776 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

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