ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 308863
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| Date: | Thursday 4 March 1943 |
| Time: | 10:45-47 |
| Type: |  Boeing B-17F-25-BO Fortress |
| Owner/operator: | 323BS/91BG USAAF |
| Registration: | 41-24549 |
| MSN: | OR-Q |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 10 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Buldern, Dülmen, Nordrhein-Westfalen -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Bassingbourn |
'Stupen-Taket' took a direct Flak hit just after the target and exploded just minutes later.
Target were marshalling yards at Hamm.
8KIA 2POW:
P CPT Martin W. McCarty, Jr. (KIA); CP 1LT James T. Hill (KIA)
N 1LT Byron M. Bennett (KIA); B 1LT John R. Bell (POW)
E/TTG TSGT John J. McCormack (KIA); RO TSGT William W. Dunnavant
BTG SSGT George W. Engle (POW); WG SGT Philip S. Cardin (KIA)
WG SGT Umberto Pereira (KIA); TG SSGT Robert T. Trent (KIA)
Sources:
https://www.americanairmuseum.com/archive/aircraft/41-24549
Luftwaffe Flak claims - BArch RL 5/1452
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History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 19 July 1944 | 42-107075 | USAAF | 0 | Obersaxen |  |
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