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Org. Photo: Aerial View 381st Bomb Group B-17 Bomber (#42-39997) Over BERLIN!!! | eBay

Baugher: Lockheed/Vega B-17G-10-VE Fortress, 42-39997 (381st BG, 533rd BS, *Big Mike/Frenchy's Folly*) flown to Kingman, AZ Nov 28, 1945, broken up 1945-47.

42-39997 | American Air Museum in Britain : Delivered Long Beach 29/10/43; Assigned 533BS/381BG [VP-R] Ridgewell 13/1/44 as BIG MIKE; on mission to Leipzig with George Hansen, Radio Operator: Ed Senk (Killed in Action); sustained severe battle damage on Rheims mission 2/5/44, but repaired by many volunteers over weeks, including fitting an F-model wing on a G aircraft. When it passed all tests, assigned back in action completing 100 missions, before returning to States, 121 BU Bradley 30/5/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 21/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 28/11/45. FRENCHY'S FOLLY.





Below : from Roger Freeman Collection Object number FRE 4873


 
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B-17F-100-BO

42-30336 | American Air Museum in Britain

Delivered Cheyenne 17/5/43; Gore 1/6/43; Smoky Hill 2/6/43; Gr Isle 4/6/43; Dow Fd 27/6/43; Assigned 548BS/385BG [GX-E] Gt Ashfield 27/6/43; Missing in Action Anklam 9/10/43 with Glyndon Bell (INT, but escaped to Sweden via Danish Resistance); Co-pilot: Arnold Martin, Navigator: Frank Bachman, Bombardier: Joe Osterman, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Henry Elliott, Radio Operator: Lloyd Rodemer, Ball turret gunner: Harry Rudick, Waist gunner: John Edii, Waist gunner: Marshall Bryan,Tail gunner: Albert Spencer, foto-Charlton Browning (10 Prisoner of War); mech prob, force landed Nordholm Mark, near Varde, Denmark; Missing Air Crew Report 824. MISS NONALEE II. (Used by Luftwaffe KG200.)








 
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Baugher: 42-31156 (447th BG, 708th BS) lost Apr 11, 1944. MACR 3824. The plane was damaged on a missionto Poznan, Poland. The crew tried to make it to Sweden, but crashed on Bornholm Island. 6 evaded, 4 POW.

42-31156 | American Air Museum in Britain
Delivered Dallas 26/9/43; Gr Island 13/10/43; Assigned 708BS/447BG [CG-L] Rattlesden 19/11/43; Missing in Action Rostock 11/4/44 with Howard Pauling, Co-pilot: Lauren Davis, Bombardier: Paul Scherer, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Glen Standish, Waist gunner: Leo Kingston,Tail gunner: Elvin Albaum (6 Returned to Duty); Navigator: Ernie Morman, Radio Operator: Paul Knight, Ball turret gunner: Jim Prusa, Waist gunner: Henry McCowan (4 Prisoner of War); flak, crash landed Bornholm Is, near Ibsker, Den. Missing Air Crew Report 3824. BIG STOOP.

 

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