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1943 B-17 Technician Cpl. Cole of Brooklyn Removes Camera in England

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Boeing B-17F-80-BO 42-30005 Salvage Queen. Delivered Denver 1/4/43; Sioux City 13/4/43; Kearney 2/5/43; Syracuse 22/5/43; Dow Fd 24/5/43; McCook 31/5/43; Assigned 546BS/384BG [BK-A] Grafton Underwood 13/6/43; battle damaged Solingen 1/12/43 with ? , crew ? (10 RTD?); overshot runway, crash landed Leiston, Sfk, UK; AFSC Salvaged 9/12/43; 1 Base Air Depot, Burtonwood 1/5/44.

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Boeing B-17F-50-BO 42-5407 Fightin' Pappy (396th BG, then to 91st BG, then to 379th BG, 526th BS, "Fighting Pappy") damaged by Hptm Erich Woitke in Fw 190A-6 of JG 11/2 and crashlanded at Schonberger Strand, Germany Oct 9, 1943. MACR 1354. 1 KIA, 9 POW.

Delivered Denver 3/12/42; Morrison 5/2/43; Assigned 367BS/306BG [GY-L] Thurleigh 8/2/43; taxi accident with Bill McKearn 10/3/43; later transferred 323BS/91BG [OR- ] Bassingbourn 11/9/43; 526BS/379BG [LF- ] Kimbolton 27/9/43; Missing in Action Anklam 9/10/43 with Vernon Smith, Co-pilot: Bob Greenhaig, Navigator: Calvin Ford, Bombardier: George Dickerson, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Joe Lemischak, Ball turret gunner: Walt Johnson, Waist gunner: Dave Sharman, Waist gunner: Howie Hinman,Tail gunner: Quentin Freed (9 Prisoner of War), Radio Operator: John Bryant (Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed Kalifornien, near Schonberg, 11 miles NE of Kiel, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 1354. FIGHTING PAPPY.


Scrapyard in Germany

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Boeing B-17F-50-BO 42-5407 Fightin' Pappy (396th BG, then to 91st BG, then to 379th BG, 526th BS, "Fighting Pappy") damaged by Hptm Erich Woitke in Fw 190A-6 of JG 11/2 and crashlanded at Schonberger Strand, Germany Oct 9, 1943. MACR 1354. 1 KIA, 9 POW.

Delivered Denver 3/12/42; Morrison 5/2/43; Assigned 367BS/306BG [GY-L] Thurleigh 8/2/43; taxi accident with Bill McKearn 10/3/43; later transferred 323BS/91BG [OR- ] Bassingbourn 11/9/43; 526BS/379BG [LF- ] Kimbolton 27/9/43; Missing in Action Anklam 9/10/43 with Vernon Smith, Co-pilot: Bob Greenhaig, Navigator: Calvin Ford, Bombardier: George Dickerson, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Joe Lemischak, Ball turret gunner: Walt Johnson, Waist gunner: Dave Sharman, Waist gunner: Howie Hinman,Tail gunner: Quentin Freed (9 Prisoner of War), Radio Operator: John Bryant (Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed Kalifornien, near Schonberg, 11 miles NE of Kiel, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 1354. FIGHTING PAPPY.


Scrapyard in Germany

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Motion picture of this airplane and a lot of wrecked . min 16.25 also Lockheed/Vega B-17G-1-VE 42-39822 94th BG, 333rd BS) shot down Jan 11, 1944 and crashed Fladderlohhausen,10 mi SE of Quakenbruck, Germany. MACR 1887

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Boeing B-17G-55-BO 42-102579 N7-C Stinker 398th BG, 603rd BS

Delivered Cheyenne 16/3/44; Gr Island 1/4/44; Grenier 6/4/44; Assigned 603BS/398BG [N7-C] Nuthampstead 27/4/44; (25m) Missing in Action Merseburg 28/7/44 with Wilbur Dwyer, Co-pilot: Claude Williams, Navigator: Joe Mute, Bombardier: Bob Woolley, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ted Boerman, Ball turret gunner: Dick Lowry,Tail gunner: Bob Harrington (7 Prisoner of War); Radio Operator: Gene Zoldy, Waist gunner: Leon Ford (2 evaded capture); flak KO'd #3, crashed Wanfercee, NE of Charleroi, Bel; Missing Air Crew Report 7823 [?7822]

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1938 U.S. Army airplanes that flew to South America Nr 51 Nr 10 Nr 80

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Sharktail nr 80

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