ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50838
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| Date: | Thursday 24 February 1944 |
| Time: | 14:00 LT |
| Type: |  Boeing B-17F-25-DL Flying Fortress |
| Owner/operator: | 351th BGp /511th BSqn USAAF |
| Registration: | 42-3136 |
| MSN: | 8072 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 10 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Kromme Spieringweg Road, Vijfhuizen, Noord-Holland -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Polebrook/AAF Sta.110, Northamptonshire |
“No Balls at All” belly-landed near the town of Vijfhuizen, Holland with the pilot, co-pilot, bombardier, navigator and engineer/top turret gunner on board. The remaining five crew members had already bailed out over Germany some 30 miles from the Dutch border. The primary targets for the B-17F Fortress had been the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany as part of “The Big Week”, code name “Operation Argument” which was designed to gain the air supremacy needed to spearhead the invasion at Normandy four months later. The plane's wings and tail section were eventually removed and the fuselage was hauled off the Zerlege Betrieb Demolition Facility in Utrecht, Holland, to be salvaged as scrap for the German war effort. All crew members were taken prisoners of war and all subsequently survived the war and returned to their civilian lives in the States.
Call Sign: DS-P
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3472&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
http://www.americanairmuseum.com/aircraft/5447
http://www.americanairmuseum.com/mission/793
JF Baugher
http://www.awspow.net/3rd.html (the "No Balls" bombardier's WWII website)
Images:
Taken by the Germans on the Kromme Spieringweg Rd near the crash site prior to being hauled off to Utrecht, Holland.
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 08-Apr-2009 04:40 | Harmy | Updated |
| 01-Sep-2011 11:10 | Uli Elch | Updated [Aircraft type, Cn, Operator, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
| 04-Feb-2012 09:22 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Source, Narrative] |
| 22-Feb-2019 16:51 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 26-Feb-2019 19:59 | Starratt-Basheer | Updated [Source, Narrative, Photo] |
| 26-Feb-2019 19:59 | Anon. | Updated [Narrative] |
| 26-Feb-2019 20:51 | Starratt-Basheer | Updated [Source, Photo] |
| 26-Feb-2019 21:16 | Starratt-Basheer | Updated [Photo] |
| 27-Feb-2019 18:13 | Starratt-Basheer | Updated [Location, Source, Narrative, Photo] |
| 01-Mar-2019 18:28 | Starratt-Basheer | Updated [Narrative, Photo] |
| 01-Mar-2019 20:25 | Starratt-Basheer | Updated [Narrative] |
| 04-Apr-2020 20:30 | Reno Raines | Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |
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