Ad: This forum contains affiliate links to products on Amazon and eBay. More information in Terms and rules

*PHOTO* B-17 (42-31363) "Vapor Trail" 306th B.G. Lost In Action ~ Original Print | eBay

Baugher: (306th BG, 368th BS) lost Mar 27, 1944. MACR3479

42-31363 | American Air Museum in Britain Delivered Cheyenne 25/6/43; Gr Island 7/11/43; Nashville 13/11/43; Assigned 368BS/306BG [BO-G] Thurleigh 19/12/43; Missing in Action Tours 27/3/44 with Pilot: Rene Fix, Co-Pilot: Weldon Franz, Navigator: Pete Kenny, Bombardier: Chas Hill, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Gene Engburg, Radio Operator: Dave Stoddard, Ball turret gunner: Rudi Phillips, Waist gunner: Alvin Nauman, Waist gunner: Frank Pfeifer, Tail gunner: Wade McRary (10 Prisoner of War); flak KO'd #3 & #4, water landing Bay of Biscay, picked up by German seaplane; Missing Air Crew Report 3479. VAPOR TRAIL.


 
As an eBay Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.
WW2 USAAF CREW OF "DELTA REBEL" 91ST BG BASSINGBOURN? ORIGINAL PRESS TYPE PHOTO | eBay

Baugher: Boeing B-17F-30-BO 42-5077 (323rd BS, 91st BG, "Delta Rebel No 2") damaged by Hptm Oblt. Johannes Naumann RK of JG 26/6, then shot down by Obfw Adolf Glunz in Fw 190A-5 of JG 26/4 at Brunninghausen, Germany on raid to Gelsenkirchen, Germany Aug 12, 1943. MACR 261. 4 KIA, 6 POW.

FalkeEins - the Luftwaffe blog: Oblt. Johannes Naumann..leading ace of JG 6 ?
Aces of the Luftwaffe - Adolf Glunz

42-5077 | American Air Museum in Britain

 
As an eBay Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.
WW2 USAAF B-17 42-399972 ORIGINAL PRESS TYPE PHOTO U71 | eBay

Baugher Lockheed/Vega B-17G-10-VE 42-39972 (452nd BG, 730th BS) Our Buddy lost Dec 31, 1944. MACR 11233

42-39972 | American Air Museum in Britain Delivered Long Beach 23/10/43; Walla Walla 9/11/43; Assigned 728BS/452BG Deopham Green 18/1/44, Missing in Action Misburg 31/12/43 with Jack Money, Radio Operator: Frank Machen, Ball turret gunner: Don Lester, Waist gunner: Gerald Stimmel, Tail gunner: Grady Miller (5 Killed in Action); Co-pilot: Bob Neudorfer, Navigator: Joe Hill (Wounded in Action), Bombardier: Frank Jones, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Clyde Bellefeuille (4 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Rotenburg, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 11233. OUR BUDDY.



 
As an eBay Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.
As an eBay Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.
WW2 USAAF 42-5077 "DELTA REBEL" 91ST BG ORIGINAL PRESS TYPE PHOTO 1943 | eBay



 
As an eBay Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.
WW2 USAAF B-17S 493RD BG OVER WINTER-HAUSENGR ORIGINAL PRESS TYPE PHOTO U74 | eBay






USAAF Chronology:

EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)

STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): 2 missions are flown.
Mission 843: As a follow-up to the yesterday's attacks on transportation
facilities as part of Operation CLARION, 1,274 bombers and 705 fighters are
dispatched to hit marshalling yards in Germany; they claim 15-0-16 Luftwaffe
aircraft; 1 B-24 and 6 P-51s are lost:
1. 446 B-17s are dispatched to hit marshalling yards at Treuchtlingen (61),
Crailsheim (52), Neumarkt (74), Ansbach (109) and Kitzingen (95); targets of
opportunity are Nordlingen (2), Schwabisch Hall (24), Winterhausen (7) and
other (2); 1 B-17 is damaged beyond repair and 34 damaged; 1 airman is WIA.
Escorting are 194 of 203 P-51s; they claim 5-0-2 aircraft on the ground;

Operation Clarion: February 22-23, 1945
This first Clarion operation was judged so successful that a repeat was ordered for February 23, though on a smaller scale. On that date the Eight Air Force effectively sortied 1,211 bombers and 492 Fighter escorts to attack rail centers in central Germany. While encountering almost no Luftwaffe opposition, they dropped 3,316.4 tons on assigned targets and numerous targets of opportunity. More than 110 tons were dropped on each of eight marshalling yards (Treuchtlin, Crailsheim, Neumarkt, Ansback, Kitzingen, Weimar, Gera, and Plauen. Also heavily bombed were Nordlingem, Schwabisch Hall, Winterhausen, Meiningen, Adelsberg, Hildburghausen, Lichtenfels, Schweinfurt, Ellingen, Ottingen, Wurzburg, Crailsheim, Jena, Osnabruck, Schluchter, Fritzler, Reichenbach, Steinau, and Paderborn, and the marshalling yards at Fulda and the railroad bridge at Kitzingen. Only two bombers failed to return to base, one ditching in the North Sea and the other having its crew parachuted safely in friendly territory. During the day the escorting P-51s claimed to have shot down seven German planes with the loss of one plane to Flak. The Fighter escorts also claimed to have destroyed or damaged 31 locomotives, 141 railroad cars, and 17 oil tank cars. Also during the day, three groups of fighters made sweeps, strafing airfields at Neuburg, Landsburg and Leipheim, rail and road traffic near Augsburg and near Frankfort. While losing one P-51 while strafing they claimed to have destroyed or damaged 23 German aircraft on the ground, 17 locomotives, 58 railroad cars, and 16 oil tank cars. And in a special operation, twenty-four B-24s dropped nearly 60 tons on the marshalling yards at Neuss.
 
As an eBay Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.
AVIATION PHOTO AVION BOEING B-17 CIVIL FRANCAIS F-BGSP | eBay



Lockheed/Vega B-17G-85-VE 44-8846 delivered Cheyenne Jan 17, 1945 where was fitted with AN/APS-15 radar. to Hunter Feb 12, 1945, to Grenier Feb 25, 19o45. Allocated to 511th BS, 351st BG at Polebrook Mar 25, 1945. Transferred to 365th BS, 305th BG at Chelveston. Went in 1947 to 49th RS (later 7499th Support Sqn in West Germany) and used for ELINT
missions along East German border and down Berlin corridors. Assigned 47th SCS, Furstenfeldbruck, West Germany Jan 1, 1948. Assigned to 45th PRS, Furstenfeldbruck, West Germany Jan 21, 1948 Assigned to 7499th AFS, Furstenfeldbruck, West Germany Nov 2, 1948. Redesignated RB-17G Mar 22, 1949 Assigned to 7499th CS, Furstenfeldbruck, West Germany May 17, 1949. Transferred to Wiesbaden Aug 25, 1950 Assigned to 7150th ABG, Wiesbaden [Erbenheim], West Germany Jul 23, 1951 Assigned to 7499th CS, Wiesbaden [Erbenheim], West Germany Nov 7, 1951 Assigned to AMC Dec 10, 1953 and transferred to Hill AFB, UT Dec 7, 1953. [noted in transit through Prestwick, Scotland 3Dec53]. SOC late 1954, and sold to Institut Geographique
National of France Dec 1954 as F-BGSP. WFU in 1959 and stored. Whilst with the IGN, spent some time in South Africa as ZS-DXM reserved but not allocated. Transferred May 1985 to
Fortress Toujours Volante and e-registered as F-AZDX and is still flying. Departed Orly Oct 24, 2006 for new home at Saint-Yan. To be put on ground display at La Ferte Alais. Flown there Mar 19, 2010.
 
As an eBay Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.

Users who are viewing this thread