ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 52042
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Date: | Monday 5 April 1943 |
Time: | 15:44 |
Type: | Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress |
Owner/operator: | 367th BSqn /306th BGp USAAF |
Registration: | 42-5072 |
MSN: | 3611 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 10 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Dinteloord (Willemspolder), Noord-Brabant -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Thurleigh /AAF Sta.111 |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Shot down in head-on attack by Focke-Wulf Fw 190A's of 4./JG 26 (based at Vitry-en-Artois airfield, France), flown by the pilots Oberfeldwebel Adolf 'Addi' Glunz en Oberleutnant Otto P. "Stotto" Stammberger.
Target: Erla Maschinenwerk GmbH (industry) at Antwerpen, Belgium
Call Sign: GY-
Crew:
Pilot Capt. W.H. Parker 0-789402 USAAF Margraten B-2-7
Co-Pilot 1st Lt. C.J. Thelen O-728036 USAAF Survived POW
Navigator 1st Lt. P.A. Spaduzzi O-660922 USAAF USA
Bombardier 1st Lt. A.L. Milbourn O-659575 USAAF Survived POW
Engineer T/Sgt. J.M. Creatore 12022826 USAAF Margraten H-1-12
Air gunner S/Sgt. S.E. Davis 11029511 USAAF USA
Air gunner S/Sgt. R.E. Haeft 15071408 USAAF Margraten A-11-8
BT Gunner S/Sgt. J.S. Clark 16048871 USAAF USA
T Gunner T/Sgt. L.JH. O'Brien 11042090 USAAF Survived POW
Radio Operator T/Sgt. J.E. Gross 13038685 USAAF USA
Sources:
SGLO database -
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/ahome/lossregister/results?sglo=T2178 Missing Aircraft Report (MACR) 15533
LW Claims by Michael Balss
https://www.8thafhs.org/old/new/targets.php Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
02-Sep-2011 12:05 |
Uli Elch |
Updated [Aircraft type, Cn, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
04-Apr-2018 06:45 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
07-Sep-2018 15:56 |
corin |
Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Source, Narrative] |
02-Jul-2019 07:14 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
02-Jul-2019 07:24 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
04-Nov-2019 07:28 |
Anon. |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
31-Mar-2020 17:31 |
Reno Raines |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |
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