John entered the service from Michigan
Missing in Action
Aircraft B-17 Flying Fortress-42-30279- BLACK JACKER delivered from Denver 8/5/43; Assigned 549BS/385BG [XA-F] Gt Ashfield 14/6/43; transferred 551BS [HR-F]; Missing in Action Wesermunde 26/7/43. Crashed in the North Sea, near Wangerooge, Holland.
The 385th Bomb Group, who took the nickname "Van's Valiants" after their first Commanding Officer Col. Elliot Vandevanter, flew B-17s from Great Ashfield, Suffolk. The Group led the famous attack on the Focke-Wolfe aircraft factory at Marienburg
Missing Air Crew Report 191C.
Second Lt Jack Daniel, Pilot, Flight engineer/top turret gunner (Prisoner of War)
Staff Sergeant Edwin Buck, Radio Operator/ top turret gunner (Prisoner of War)
Radio Operator Technical Sergeant Wayne Pringey (Prisoner of War)
Co-pilot: Second Lt Harry Cornwell - VFW Post 1298 in Bowling Green, KY is named in his honor.
Navigator: Second Lieutenant Robert E. McCallum “Bob”
Bombardier: Second Lieutenant John McCarthy
Ball turret gunner: Staff Sergeant Paul Keefer body found 15/8/43 –interred Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial-see Find a Grave Memorial 56300418.
Left Waist Gunner, Waist Gunner: Staff Sergeant Felix Sanchez
Right Waist Gunner, Waist Gunner Sergeant Jim Sims
Tail gunner: Sergeant Warren Brown Purple Heart; Air Medal
•James Sims
Military | 385th Bomb Group
Shot down 26 July 1943 in B-17 #4230279 'Black Jacker. ' Killed in Action (KIA).
Missing in Action
Aircraft B-17 Flying Fortress-42-30279- BLACK JACKER delivered from Denver 8/5/43; Assigned 549BS/385BG [XA-F] Gt Ashfield 14/6/43; transferred 551BS [HR-F]; Missing in Action Wesermunde 26/7/43. Crashed in the North Sea, near Wangerooge, Holland.
The 385th Bomb Group, who took the nickname "Van's Valiants" after their first Commanding Officer Col. Elliot Vandevanter, flew B-17s from Great Ashfield, Suffolk. The Group led the famous attack on the Focke-Wolfe aircraft factory at Marienburg
Missing Air Crew Report 191C.
Second Lt Jack Daniel, Pilot, Flight engineer/top turret gunner (Prisoner of War)
Staff Sergeant Edwin Buck, Radio Operator/ top turret gunner (Prisoner of War)
Radio Operator Technical Sergeant Wayne Pringey (Prisoner of War)
Co-pilot: Second Lt Harry Cornwell - VFW Post 1298 in Bowling Green, KY is named in his honor.
Navigator: Second Lieutenant Robert E. McCallum “Bob”
Bombardier: Second Lieutenant John McCarthy
Ball turret gunner: Staff Sergeant Paul Keefer body found 15/8/43 –interred Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial-see Find a Grave Memorial 56300418.
Left Waist Gunner, Waist Gunner: Staff Sergeant Felix Sanchez
Right Waist Gunner, Waist Gunner Sergeant Jim Sims
Tail gunner: Sergeant Warren Brown Purple Heart; Air Medal
•James Sims
Military | 385th Bomb Group
Shot down 26 July 1943 in B-17 #4230279 'Black Jacker. ' Killed in Action (KIA).
John entered the service from Michigan
Missing in Action
Aircraft B-17 Flying Fortress-42-30279- BLACK JACKER delivered from Denver 8/5/43; Assigned 549BS/385BG [XA-F] Gt Ashfield 14/6/43; transferred 551BS [HR-F]; Missing in Action Wesermunde 26/7/43. Crashed in the North Sea, near Wangerooge, Holland.
The 385th Bomb Group, who took the nickname "Van's Valiants" after their first Commanding Officer Col. Elliot Vandevanter, flew B-17s from Great Ashfield, Suffolk. The Group led the famous attack on the Focke-Wolfe aircraft factory at Marienburg
Missing Air Crew Report 191C.
Second Lt Jack Daniel, Pilot, Flight engineer/top turret gunner (Prisoner of War)
Staff Sergeant Edwin Buck, Radio Operator/ top turret gunner (Prisoner of War)
Radio Operator Technical Sergeant Wayne Pringey (Prisoner of War)
Co-pilot: Second Lt Harry Cornwell - VFW Post 1298 in Bowling Green, KY is named in his honor.
Navigator: Second Lieutenant Robert E. McCallum “Bob”
Bombardier: Second Lieutenant John McCarthy
Ball turret gunner: Staff Sergeant Paul Keefer body found 15/8/43 –interred Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial-see Find a Grave Memorial 56300418.
Left Waist Gunner, Waist Gunner: Staff Sergeant Felix Sanchez
Right Waist Gunner, Waist Gunner Sergeant Jim Sims
Tail gunner: Sergeant Warren Brown Purple Heart; Air Medal
•James Sims
Military | 385th Bomb Group
Shot down 26 July 1943 in B-17 #4230279 'Black Jacker. ' Killed in Action (KIA).
Missing in Action
Aircraft B-17 Flying Fortress-42-30279- BLACK JACKER delivered from Denver 8/5/43; Assigned 549BS/385BG [XA-F] Gt Ashfield 14/6/43; transferred 551BS [HR-F]; Missing in Action Wesermunde 26/7/43. Crashed in the North Sea, near Wangerooge, Holland.
The 385th Bomb Group, who took the nickname "Van's Valiants" after their first Commanding Officer Col. Elliot Vandevanter, flew B-17s from Great Ashfield, Suffolk. The Group led the famous attack on the Focke-Wolfe aircraft factory at Marienburg
Missing Air Crew Report 191C.
Second Lt Jack Daniel, Pilot, Flight engineer/top turret gunner (Prisoner of War)
Staff Sergeant Edwin Buck, Radio Operator/ top turret gunner (Prisoner of War)
Radio Operator Technical Sergeant Wayne Pringey (Prisoner of War)
Co-pilot: Second Lt Harry Cornwell - VFW Post 1298 in Bowling Green, KY is named in his honor.
Navigator: Second Lieutenant Robert E. McCallum “Bob”
Bombardier: Second Lieutenant John McCarthy
Ball turret gunner: Staff Sergeant Paul Keefer body found 15/8/43 –interred Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial-see Find a Grave Memorial 56300418.
Left Waist Gunner, Waist Gunner: Staff Sergeant Felix Sanchez
Right Waist Gunner, Waist Gunner Sergeant Jim Sims
Tail gunner: Sergeant Warren Brown Purple Heart; Air Medal
•James Sims
Military | 385th Bomb Group
Shot down 26 July 1943 in B-17 #4230279 'Black Jacker. ' Killed in Action (KIA).
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Entered the service from Michigan.
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