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Boeing B-29-15-BW 42-6357 (i read name as ) Genie
Background Boeing B-29-45-BW 42-24716
Owner/operator: 768th BSqn /462nd BGp USAAF
Registration: 42-6357
MSN: 3491
Fatalities: Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 11
Other fatalities: 9
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location: 2 1/2 miles NE of Karachi, Sindh Province - Pakistan
Phase: Approach
Nature: Military
Departure airport: AAF Sta.7, Payne Field, Cairo, Egypt
Destination airport: Karachi, India
Narrative:
Boeing B-29-15-BW 42-6357: Delivered to the USAAF 23 February 1944. Departed Smoky Hill AAF, Kansas for the CBI (China-Burma-India Theater of Operations) on 14 April 1944. Assigned to 768th BS, 468th Bomb Group, but crashed before receipt on April 20, 1944 on landing at Karachi, Sindh Province, India. The aircraft slid along the ground and into a British barracks killing some soldiers. According to the following published sources (said to derive from personal diaries and the squadrons operational record book):
Major Ernest L. Blackmore, Pilot
Lt. Richard I. McChesney, Navigator
Lt. Paul W. Endlich, Flight Engineer
Sgt. Christopher D. Montagno, Tail Gunner
Sgt. William G. Lester, Gunner
Survivors were:
Lt. Roy H. Anderson, Co
Lt. Dave Castleberry, extra Pilot
Lt. Donald E. Baxter, Bombardier
Sgt. Benjamin C. Ridgeway, Central Fire Control Gunner
Sgt. James R. Green, Radio Operator
Cpl. Gordon E. Prestebak, Gunner
Background Boeing B-29-45-BW 42-24716
Owner/operator: 768th BSqn /462nd BGp USAAF
Registration: 42-6357
MSN: 3491
Fatalities: Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 11
Other fatalities: 9
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location: 2 1/2 miles NE of Karachi, Sindh Province - Pakistan
Phase: Approach
Nature: Military
Departure airport: AAF Sta.7, Payne Field, Cairo, Egypt
Destination airport: Karachi, India
Narrative:
Boeing B-29-15-BW 42-6357: Delivered to the USAAF 23 February 1944. Departed Smoky Hill AAF, Kansas for the CBI (China-Burma-India Theater of Operations) on 14 April 1944. Assigned to 768th BS, 468th Bomb Group, but crashed before receipt on April 20, 1944 on landing at Karachi, Sindh Province, India. The aircraft slid along the ground and into a British barracks killing some soldiers. According to the following published sources (said to derive from personal diaries and the squadrons operational record book):
Major Ernest L. Blackmore, Pilot
Lt. Richard I. McChesney, Navigator
Lt. Paul W. Endlich, Flight Engineer
Sgt. Christopher D. Montagno, Tail Gunner
Sgt. William G. Lester, Gunner
Survivors were:
Lt. Roy H. Anderson, Co
Lt. Dave Castleberry, extra Pilot
Lt. Donald E. Baxter, Bombardier
Sgt. Benjamin C. Ridgeway, Central Fire Control Gunner
Sgt. James R. Green, Radio Operator
Cpl. Gordon E. Prestebak, Gunner
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