Entered the service from Texas.
The 390th Bomb Group flew B-17 Flying Fortresses from Framlingham, Suffolk, between July 1943 and the end of the war in Europe.
B-17G #42-37925 'Rick-O-Shay III' was attacked by six ME109s on a mission to Augsburg, GR on 18 Mar 1944, exploded and crashed S of Lahr/Schwarzwald, GR after only three men baled out. Killed in Action (KIA).
"RICK-O-SHAY III". Delivered Denver 15/10/43; Gr Island 1/11/43; Assigned 571BS/390BG [FC-M] Framlingham 16/11/43; Missing in Action Munich 18/3/44 with Bob Biesecker, Co-pilot: Floyd Breedlove, Navigator: Irving Nordendahl, Bombardier: Theo Aycock, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Peter Repka, Ball turret gunner: Dominic Robbe, Tail gunner: Bill Rooks (7 Killed in Action); Radio Operator: Harry Houck, Waist gunner: Mike Farowich, Waist gunner: Grover Wallace (3 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Wallburg, near Ettenheim, five miles S of Schwarzwald, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 3182.
The 390th Bomb Group flew B-17 Flying Fortresses from Framlingham, Suffolk, between July 1943 and the end of the war in Europe.
B-17G #42-37925 'Rick-O-Shay III' was attacked by six ME109s on a mission to Augsburg, GR on 18 Mar 1944, exploded and crashed S of Lahr/Schwarzwald, GR after only three men baled out. Killed in Action (KIA).
"RICK-O-SHAY III". Delivered Denver 15/10/43; Gr Island 1/11/43; Assigned 571BS/390BG [FC-M] Framlingham 16/11/43; Missing in Action Munich 18/3/44 with Bob Biesecker, Co-pilot: Floyd Breedlove, Navigator: Irving Nordendahl, Bombardier: Theo Aycock, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Peter Repka, Ball turret gunner: Dominic Robbe, Tail gunner: Bill Rooks (7 Killed in Action); Radio Operator: Harry Houck, Waist gunner: Mike Farowich, Waist gunner: Grover Wallace (3 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Wallburg, near Ettenheim, five miles S of Schwarzwald, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 3182.
Entered the service from Texas.
The 390th Bomb Group flew B-17 Flying Fortresses from Framlingham, Suffolk, between July 1943 and the end of the war in Europe.
B-17G #42-37925 'Rick-O-Shay III' was attacked by six ME109s on a mission to Augsburg, GR on 18 Mar 1944, exploded and crashed S of Lahr/Schwarzwald, GR after only three men baled out. Killed in Action (KIA).
"RICK-O-SHAY III". Delivered Denver 15/10/43; Gr Island 1/11/43; Assigned 571BS/390BG [FC-M] Framlingham 16/11/43; Missing in Action Munich 18/3/44 with Bob Biesecker, Co-pilot: Floyd Breedlove, Navigator: Irving Nordendahl, Bombardier: Theo Aycock, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Peter Repka, Ball turret gunner: Dominic Robbe, Tail gunner: Bill Rooks (7 Killed in Action); Radio Operator: Harry Houck, Waist gunner: Mike Farowich, Waist gunner: Grover Wallace (3 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Wallburg, near Ettenheim, five miles S of Schwarzwald, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 3182.
The 390th Bomb Group flew B-17 Flying Fortresses from Framlingham, Suffolk, between July 1943 and the end of the war in Europe.
B-17G #42-37925 'Rick-O-Shay III' was attacked by six ME109s on a mission to Augsburg, GR on 18 Mar 1944, exploded and crashed S of Lahr/Schwarzwald, GR after only three men baled out. Killed in Action (KIA).
"RICK-O-SHAY III". Delivered Denver 15/10/43; Gr Island 1/11/43; Assigned 571BS/390BG [FC-M] Framlingham 16/11/43; Missing in Action Munich 18/3/44 with Bob Biesecker, Co-pilot: Floyd Breedlove, Navigator: Irving Nordendahl, Bombardier: Theo Aycock, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Peter Repka, Ball turret gunner: Dominic Robbe, Tail gunner: Bill Rooks (7 Killed in Action); Radio Operator: Harry Houck, Waist gunner: Mike Farowich, Waist gunner: Grover Wallace (3 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Wallburg, near Ettenheim, five miles S of Schwarzwald, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 3182.
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