MALVIN H. MORGAN JR
US Army Service Number 34431808 tail gunner was shot down on his 16th mission over Germany during WW2. Sergeant Morgan was captured and was a Prisoner of War in Stalag 17.
History of his plane and crew:
B-17 42-29603 / "Spit Ball"
Delivered Cheyenne 16/1/43; Salina 9/2/43; Brookley 12/3/43; Morrison 31/3/43; Assigned 511BS/351BG [DS-R] Polebrook 18/4/43; Missing in Action {15m} Anklam 9/10/43 with Howie Maser, Co-pilot: Don L’Abbee, Navigator: Morris Eagle, Bombardier: Howie Ferguson, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Everett Sanford, Radio Operator: Paul Walsh, Waist gunner: Bill McGee, Waist gunner: Harry Crum,Tail gunner: MALVERN MORGAN (9 Prisoner of War), Ball turret gunner: Ken Gorsuch (Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed Vollstedt, 18 miles south west Flensburg, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 875. SPITBALL. Source: Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log*
They hit such targets as the all important German ball bearing factory and the German occupied La Bourseau---------------- airport in Paris.
Their history is recorded in the movie "Combat America" made in Polebrook England, The American Air Museum in Britain, and TheNational Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force in Pooler GA just off I-95.
After the war Morgan became a private pilot and a truck driver and winner of the North Carolina Truck Driver's Rodeo. He later operated his own trucking company.
Our American military took on two of the best trained and best equipped armies in the world and beat them both.
US Army Service Number 34431808 tail gunner was shot down on his 16th mission over Germany during WW2. Sergeant Morgan was captured and was a Prisoner of War in Stalag 17.
History of his plane and crew:
B-17 42-29603 / "Spit Ball"
Delivered Cheyenne 16/1/43; Salina 9/2/43; Brookley 12/3/43; Morrison 31/3/43; Assigned 511BS/351BG [DS-R] Polebrook 18/4/43; Missing in Action {15m} Anklam 9/10/43 with Howie Maser, Co-pilot: Don L’Abbee, Navigator: Morris Eagle, Bombardier: Howie Ferguson, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Everett Sanford, Radio Operator: Paul Walsh, Waist gunner: Bill McGee, Waist gunner: Harry Crum,Tail gunner: MALVERN MORGAN (9 Prisoner of War), Ball turret gunner: Ken Gorsuch (Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed Vollstedt, 18 miles south west Flensburg, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 875. SPITBALL. Source: Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log*
They hit such targets as the all important German ball bearing factory and the German occupied La Bourseau---------------- airport in Paris.
Their history is recorded in the movie "Combat America" made in Polebrook England, The American Air Museum in Britain, and TheNational Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force in Pooler GA just off I-95.
After the war Morgan became a private pilot and a truck driver and winner of the North Carolina Truck Driver's Rodeo. He later operated his own trucking company.
Our American military took on two of the best trained and best equipped armies in the world and beat them both.
MALVIN H. MORGAN JR
US Army Service Number 34431808 tail gunner was shot down on his 16th mission over Germany during WW2. Sergeant Morgan was captured and was a Prisoner of War in Stalag 17.
History of his plane and crew:
B-17 42-29603 / "Spit Ball"
Delivered Cheyenne 16/1/43; Salina 9/2/43; Brookley 12/3/43; Morrison 31/3/43; Assigned 511BS/351BG [DS-R] Polebrook 18/4/43; Missing in Action {15m} Anklam 9/10/43 with Howie Maser, Co-pilot: Don L’Abbee, Navigator: Morris Eagle, Bombardier: Howie Ferguson, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Everett Sanford, Radio Operator: Paul Walsh, Waist gunner: Bill McGee, Waist gunner: Harry Crum,Tail gunner: MALVERN MORGAN (9 Prisoner of War), Ball turret gunner: Ken Gorsuch (Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed Vollstedt, 18 miles south west Flensburg, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 875. SPITBALL. Source: Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log*
They hit such targets as the all important German ball bearing factory and the German occupied La Bourseau---------------- airport in Paris.
Their history is recorded in the movie "Combat America" made in Polebrook England, The American Air Museum in Britain, and TheNational Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force in Pooler GA just off I-95.
After the war Morgan became a private pilot and a truck driver and winner of the North Carolina Truck Driver's Rodeo. He later operated his own trucking company.
Our American military took on two of the best trained and best equipped armies in the world and beat them both.
US Army Service Number 34431808 tail gunner was shot down on his 16th mission over Germany during WW2. Sergeant Morgan was captured and was a Prisoner of War in Stalag 17.
History of his plane and crew:
B-17 42-29603 / "Spit Ball"
Delivered Cheyenne 16/1/43; Salina 9/2/43; Brookley 12/3/43; Morrison 31/3/43; Assigned 511BS/351BG [DS-R] Polebrook 18/4/43; Missing in Action {15m} Anklam 9/10/43 with Howie Maser, Co-pilot: Don L’Abbee, Navigator: Morris Eagle, Bombardier: Howie Ferguson, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Everett Sanford, Radio Operator: Paul Walsh, Waist gunner: Bill McGee, Waist gunner: Harry Crum,Tail gunner: MALVERN MORGAN (9 Prisoner of War), Ball turret gunner: Ken Gorsuch (Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed Vollstedt, 18 miles south west Flensburg, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 875. SPITBALL. Source: Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log*
They hit such targets as the all important German ball bearing factory and the German occupied La Bourseau---------------- airport in Paris.
Their history is recorded in the movie "Combat America" made in Polebrook England, The American Air Museum in Britain, and TheNational Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force in Pooler GA just off I-95.
After the war Morgan became a private pilot and a truck driver and winner of the North Carolina Truck Driver's Rodeo. He later operated his own trucking company.
Our American military took on two of the best trained and best equipped armies in the world and beat them both.
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