B-17 Flying Fortress #42-97693 Crew Members: a Virtual Cemetery

A Virtual Cemetery created by Janet Johnston Alder

B-17 Flying Fortress #42-97693 Crew Members

This B-17 crashed over the English Channel while on a bombing run to Pontebault, France. Only one crew member was rescued. The rest are unaccounted for.

14 memorials

SSGT Paul Leslie Davis

13 Mar 1924 – 11 Jun 1944

Coton, South Cambridgeshire District, Cambridgeshire, England

Plot info: Tablets of the Missing.

1Lt. Glenn Alvin Fister

28 Jun 1918 – 11 Jun 1944

Saint-James, Departement de la Manche, Basse-Normandie, France

Plot info: Tablets of the Missing

1Lt. Robert S Gershon

1920 – 11 Jun 1944

Saint-James, Departement de la Manche, Basse-Normandie, France

Plot info: TABLETS OF THE MISSING

Leland D Glover

3 Apr 1920 – 11 Jun 1944

Howard, Steuben County, New York, USA

Plot info:

TSgt. Leland D Glover

3 Apr 1920 – 11 Jun 1944

Saint-James, Departement de la Manche, France

Adonal Calvin Hudson

1923 – 1979

Lafayette, Macon County, Tennessee, USA

1Lt. Glenn G Read

unknown – 11 Jun 1944

Saint-James, Departement de la Manche, Basse-Normandie, France

Plot info: TABLETS OF THE MISSING OR BURIED AT SEA

SSgt. Richmond C Reed

unknown – 11 Jun 1944

Saint-James, Departement de la Manche, Basse-Normandie, France

Plot info: TABLETS OF THE MISSING OR BURIED AT SEA

SSGT Charles Dean Rogers

24 Oct 1922 – 11 Jun 1944

Saint-James, Departement de la Manche, Basse-Normandie, France

Plot info: Tablets of the Missing

2Lt. Donald L Smith

22 Oct 1920 – 11 Jun 1944

Saint-James, Departement de la Manche, France

Plot info: TABLETS OF THE MISSING OR BURIED AT SEA

Donald L. Smith

22 Oct 1920 – 1944

Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa, USA

TSgt. Thomas Lester Smith

29 Dec 1922 – 11 Jun 1944

Saint-James, Departement de la Manche, France

Capt. James Phillip Stratton

23 Jun 1916 – 11 Jun 1944

Saint-James, Departement de la Manche, Basse-Normandie, France

Plot info: MIA or Buried at Sea

1LT Harold James Wilcox

26 Jun 1923 – 11 Jun 1944

Saint-James, Departement de la Manche, Basse-Normandie, France

Plot info: Tablets of the Missing