ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 51050
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| Date: | Friday 7 January 1944 |
| Time: | 11:10 LT |
| Type: |  Boeing B-17F-85-BO Flying Fortress |
| Owner/operator: | 96th BGp /337th BSqn USAAF |
| Registration: | 42-30130 |
| MSN: | 5244 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 10 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | near Molenschot, Noord-Brabant -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Snetterton Heath /AAF Sta.138 |
The aircraft was hit by Gilze-Rijen airfield Flak and exploded.
Delivered Cheyenne 15/4/43; Smoky Hill 24/4/43; Presque Is 16/5/43; Assigned 337BS/96BG [AW-J] Andrews Fd 25/5/43 ALIA BUBBLE TROUBLE; Snetterton 12/6/43 then 413BS; Missing in Action Ludwigshafen 7/1/44 with Roland Peterson, Co-pilot: Oscar Megginson, Navigator: Frank Painer, Bombardier: Morris Friedman, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Preston Hildebrand, Radio Operator: Cliff Busch, Ball turret gunner: Harry White, Waist gunner: Jerome Dudek (8 Killed in Action); Waist gunner: Bill Roberts,Tail gunner: Andy Wiess (2 Prisoner of War); flak set engine afire near Eindhoven, crashed Molenschot, between Breda & Tilburg, Hol. Missing Air Crew Report 2018. KLAP TRAP II.
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3292&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
JF Baugher
American Air Museum in Britain.
book Vliegvelden in Oorlogstijd
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 07-Apr-2009 03:20 | Harmy | Updated |
| 18-Aug-2011 01:46 | Uli Elch | Updated [Location] |
| 02-Sep-2011 09:47 | Uli Elch | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
| 06-Jan-2012 08:08 | Uli Elch | Updated [Operator, Source, Narrative] |
| 16-Feb-2012 04:06 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Source] |
| 09-Sep-2012 03:44 | Uli Elch | Updated [Operator, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 25-Sep-2012 01:26 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Source] |
| 01-May-2016 12:38 | Red Dragon | Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 14-Jun-2017 16:10 | Uli Elch | Updated [Operator, Location, Country] |
| 03-Jan-2019 11:16 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 07-Jan-2019 07:14 | TigerTimon | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 02-Apr-2020 10:17 | Reno Raines | Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |
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