42-97400 Fuddy Duddy
Lewis Scott (bombardier), Edward Grossheim (pilot), Thomas Flavin (co-pilot), Clarence English (navigator)
FRONT ROW
Clifton Storey (ball turret gunner), Pern Todd (radio operator), Samuel Ailey (top turret gunner), James Mason (waist gunner), William Pennington (tail gunner)
Not in photo - Walter Keinath (waist gunner)
Ed Grossheim's personal collection.
Delivered Cheyenne 26/2/44; Kearney 12/3/44 (LT Edward H. Grossheim crew, as "Little Stinker"); Dow Fd 5/4/44 (LT Edward H. Grossheim crew, as "Little Stinker"); Assigned 708BS/447BG Rattlesden 7/4/44 (renamed "Fuddy Duddy"); Missing in Action Misburg 30/12/44 with Wylie Leverett, Bob Mihovich, Jim Tiffany, Bob Hildebrandt, Roy Davis, Edwin Haynia, Earl Danhour (7 Killed in Action); Larry Adler, Harry Hunt (2 Prisoner of War); mid air coll, crashed Wenings, Ger?. Missing Air Crew Report 11228. LITTLE STINKER (before UK) aka FUDDY DUDDY.
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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: 447th Bomb Group 708th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 447th Bomb Group 708th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 447th Bomb Group 708th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-814298
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 447th Bomb Group 708th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Co-Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 447th Bomb Group 708th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-765619
- Highest Rank: Major
- Role/Job: Bombardier / Navigator
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Memorial
- Known as: Rattlesden Control Tower
- Site type: Memorial
Missions
- Date: 19 July 1944
- Official Description:
- Date: 6 July 1944
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Other Failed to Return (FTR) |
30 December 1944 |
Revisions
Timothy Motz; from a mission list kept by Harold Motz, compared with Doyle Shields, "History of the 447th Bomb Group"
:Little Stinker" notations, from the personal records of Ed Grossheim.
Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 11228 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database