Staff Sergeant Medlin was an aerial gunner aboard U.S. Army Air Corps B-17F Flying Fortress
#42-30260, serving with the 548th Bomb Squadron, 385th Bomb Group, World War II.
While on a training flight out of Lewistown Army Airfield, the bomber experienced severe turbulence at 15,000 feet and an engine caught fire. Pilot, Lieutenant Roy Thompson ordered a bailout, but only one crew member escaped in time before the B-17 crashed, four miles south of West Yellowstone, Montana.
From Hamilton County, Tennessee.
The crew killed were:
2nd Lt. Roy E Thompson , Pilot
2nd Lt. James J. Highley, Co-pilot
2nd Lt. George A Brast, Navigator
2nd Lt. Robert K Edwards, passenger
S/Sgt. Alexander G. Jurkowski, gunner
S/Sgt. Willard McCune, crewmember
S/Sgt. Donald W Rice, Radio Operator
S/Sgt. Leo E Thorn, Flight Engineer
S/Sgt. Gilbert E Underwood, Asst. Engineer
#42-30260, serving with the 548th Bomb Squadron, 385th Bomb Group, World War II.
While on a training flight out of Lewistown Army Airfield, the bomber experienced severe turbulence at 15,000 feet and an engine caught fire. Pilot, Lieutenant Roy Thompson ordered a bailout, but only one crew member escaped in time before the B-17 crashed, four miles south of West Yellowstone, Montana.
From Hamilton County, Tennessee.
The crew killed were:
2nd Lt. Roy E Thompson , Pilot
2nd Lt. James J. Highley, Co-pilot
2nd Lt. George A Brast, Navigator
2nd Lt. Robert K Edwards, passenger
S/Sgt. Alexander G. Jurkowski, gunner
S/Sgt. Willard McCune, crewmember
S/Sgt. Donald W Rice, Radio Operator
S/Sgt. Leo E Thorn, Flight Engineer
S/Sgt. Gilbert E Underwood, Asst. Engineer
Staff Sergeant Medlin was an aerial gunner aboard U.S. Army Air Corps B-17F Flying Fortress
#42-30260, serving with the 548th Bomb Squadron, 385th Bomb Group, World War II.
While on a training flight out of Lewistown Army Airfield, the bomber experienced severe turbulence at 15,000 feet and an engine caught fire. Pilot, Lieutenant Roy Thompson ordered a bailout, but only one crew member escaped in time before the B-17 crashed, four miles south of West Yellowstone, Montana.
From Hamilton County, Tennessee.
The crew killed were:
2nd Lt. Roy E Thompson , Pilot
2nd Lt. James J. Highley, Co-pilot
2nd Lt. George A Brast, Navigator
2nd Lt. Robert K Edwards, passenger
S/Sgt. Alexander G. Jurkowski, gunner
S/Sgt. Willard McCune, crewmember
S/Sgt. Donald W Rice, Radio Operator
S/Sgt. Leo E Thorn, Flight Engineer
S/Sgt. Gilbert E Underwood, Asst. Engineer
#42-30260, serving with the 548th Bomb Squadron, 385th Bomb Group, World War II.
While on a training flight out of Lewistown Army Airfield, the bomber experienced severe turbulence at 15,000 feet and an engine caught fire. Pilot, Lieutenant Roy Thompson ordered a bailout, but only one crew member escaped in time before the B-17 crashed, four miles south of West Yellowstone, Montana.
From Hamilton County, Tennessee.
The crew killed were:
2nd Lt. Roy E Thompson , Pilot
2nd Lt. James J. Highley, Co-pilot
2nd Lt. George A Brast, Navigator
2nd Lt. Robert K Edwards, passenger
S/Sgt. Alexander G. Jurkowski, gunner
S/Sgt. Willard McCune, crewmember
S/Sgt. Donald W Rice, Radio Operator
S/Sgt. Leo E Thorn, Flight Engineer
S/Sgt. Gilbert E Underwood, Asst. Engineer
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SSGT, 548 AAF BOMB SQ, 385 BOMB GP WORLD WAR II
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