42-97132 Silver Lady
from " B-17 Production Boeing Aircraft 4 January 1944 - 26 February 1944 B-17G-35 to G-45 42-31932 - 42-32116 and 42-97058 - 42-97407 " ( Author David M Gansz )
Accepted: 29 January 1944 - Boeing Aircraft Co, Seattle, Washington
Assigned: 3 February 1944 - United Airlines / Boeing Modification Center #10 - (Cheyenne Municipal)
Assigned: 18 February 1944 / 29 February 1944 - 2nd AF / 21st BTW / 7th Heavy Bombardment Processing - (Kearney AAF)
Staging Field
Assigned: 1 March 1944 - ATC / North Atlantic Wing - (Grenier AAF)
Assigned: 11 March 1944 / 14 March 1944 - 8th AF / VIII Service Command / BAD 1 - (RAF Burtonwood)
Assigned: 18 March 1944 - 8th AF / 3rd BD / 45th CBW / 388th BG / 562nd BS - (RAF Knettishall)
( Square-H ) ( H / Silver Lady & Double Trouble )
19 combat missions
Crashed (class 5): 8 June 1944 (Pilot error)
Plantation Farm (3/4 mile north from Shippea Hill Station / Burntfen), Cambridgeshire - England (52°26'41"N / 0°24'45"E).
With Clyde Bryant, Co-pilot: Edward Calo, Navigator: Bob Morgan, Bombardier: Bob Little, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Roger Morgan, Radio Operator: John Conde, Ball turret gunner: Curtis Reynolds, Waist gunner: Rich Ray, Waist gunner: Chas Walkovich,Tail gunner: Bob Boese
10 KIA (MACR 15176)
Crew had already taken-off for mission cancelled and was granted permission to remain in
flight for navigation training.
Aircraft touched the ground, 1 mile from the place of crash, where the #4 propeller and parts of the cowlings from #2, 3 and 4 engines were later found. Aircraft left the ground, went into a flat spin to the right and crashed.
42-97132 exploded on contact with the ground, the second time.
RAF Bomb Disposal Flight No 6213 Cambridge disarmed bombs.
AAF accident report: 44-6-8-529.
Salvaged: 9 June 1944 / 5 July 1944
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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
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 562nd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 16023292
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner, Tail Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 562nd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-815825
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 562nd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-812941
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 562nd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 17003857
- Highest Rank: Technical Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio Operator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 388th Bomb Group 562nd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-754744
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Bombardier
Places
- Site type: Memorial
- Known as: Knettishall
- Site type: Other
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Memorial
- Known as: St Mary's Church, Coney Weston
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Other Failed to Return (FTR) |
England | 8 June 1944 |
Revisions
From " B-17 Production Boeing Aircraft 4 January 1944 - 26 February 1944 B-17G-35 to G-45 42-31932 - 42-32116 and 42-97058 - 42-97407 final " ( Author David M Gansz )
Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 15176 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database