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Boeing B-17F-50-BO 42-5360 (303rd BG, 358th BS, "War Bride" aka "Old Faithful") lost Jan 11, 1944. MACR 1926
ne of the 303rd losses was the B-17F-50-BO 42-5360 "Old Faithful" VK-G of 358th BS, piloted by 2Lt. Harry A. Schwaebe. This aircraft was flying its 35th mission and had suffered heavy damage during the second Schweinfurt raid. It was shot down by German fighters. It peeled out of formation about 1110 hours and was last seen at 17,000 feet under control. No parachutes were reported by the other US crews. The ship crashed 200 m south of Horn, Kreis Lippe. The whole crew bailed out but one, Sgt. Russell O. Whitesell, did not survive. His death cause is unknown. The nine other crew were captured and taken prisoner.

Crew (MACR 1926):
2nd Lt Harry A. Schwaebe (pilot) POW
2nd Lt Harold F. Dumse (copilot) POW
2nd Lt Paul T. Degnan (navigator) POW
2nd Lt Wilburn W. Wiley (air bomber) POW
S/Sgt Roy Foreman (flight engineer) POW
T/Sgt Mark E. Tudor (radio) POW
Sgt Benjamin F. Harvey (ball turret gunner) POW
Sgt James F. Malcolm (left waist gunner) POW
Sgt Russell O. Whitesell (right waist gunner) KIA
Sgt George F. Iott (tail gunner) POW

It was the seventh mission of Schwaebe Crew (the first being on 11 December 1943). Whitesell was buried on the 17th in Detmold cemetery.

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Captured beute Forced to Land by NJG3

B-17G-25-DL 42-38017 XR-O One Mission Lulu Delivered Cheyenne 15/11/43; Syracuse 7/12/43; Presque Isle 15/12/43; Assigned 349BS/100BG [XR-O] Thorpe Abbotts 28/12/43; Missing in Action Schwelswig A/Fd 3/3/44 with John Gossage, Co-pilot: Bert McNeil, Navigator: Ed Werner, Bombardier: Howard Ball, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Art Cooper, Radio Operator: Mike Polanick, Ball turret gunner: Tom Wooderson, Waist gunner: Don Sackrider, Waist gunner: Jim Gregg, Tail gunner: Art Congrove (10 Prisoner of War); damaged by wreckage from two colliding 100BG ships above, pilot headed for Sweden but crash landed at an airfield near Schelswig, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 3025. ONE MISSION LU LU (?TEN BATTY BOYS). (Sal by Luftwaffe and restored for KG 200).

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Douglas-Long Beach B-17G-25-DL 42-38017 (349th BS, 100th BG) damaged by enemy fire during mission to Berlin and crashlanded Schwelsig Airfield Mar 3, 1944. The crew mistakenly thought they had reached Sweden. 10 POW. MACR 3025. Aircraft salvaged by Luftwaffe and operated by KG200, perhaps as A3+GE. Destroyed at Jagel by P-51s. Plane piloted by Lieutenant John G. Grossage

Here the B-17 is on a compass swing May 1944 Place? can you read it Wurger Wurger ?

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Douglas-Long Beach B-17G-25-DL 42-38017 (349th BS, 100th BG) damaged by enemy fire during mission to Berlin and crashlanded Schwelsig Airfield Mar 3, 1944. The crew mistakenly thought they had reached Sweden. 10 POW. MACR 3025. Aircraft salvaged by Luftwaffe and operated by KG200, perhaps as A3+GE. Destroyed at Jagel by P-51s. Plane piloted by Lieutenant John G. Grossage

Here the B-17 is on a compass swing May 1944 Place? can you read it Wurger Wurger ?

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Almost forgot ... IMHO there is written .. Funkbeschicken auf der (dem/den) scheibe in Dresden.
 
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Heinrich Bär his 184th aerial victory, a Boeing B-17F Miss Ouachita of 91st Bomb Group on 21 February 1944.

Douglas-Long Beach B-17F-20-DL 42-3040 Miss Ouachita MACR 2457.

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91st BG, 323rd BS, *Miss Ouachita*) shot down Feb 21/22, 1944 by German fighter ace Major Heniz Baer, Germany. MACR 2457.

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