42-37902 STORMY WEATHER (I)

B-17G-15-DL 42-37902

710th SQ

May be referring to 42-31902: 710SQ; Appears in combat missions up to 16 March 44; disposition unknown; name attributed on the basis of Beaty Diary (B&P)

 

No missions flown with the 447th BG

Inclusion on the list pf planes associated with the 447th BG is most likely an error of misreading 31902 as 37902

 

AAM has a photo of Stormy Weather (with the Herried crew), but a description of a plane assigned to the 390th BG [This information (below) may have no association with the 447th BG]

Delivered Denver 8/10/43; Gr Island 27/10/43; Assigned 568BS/390BG [BI-K] Framlingham 8/11/43 as HELL’S BELLS; Missing in Action Oranieburg (20m) 18/4/44 with Jack Harrison, Co-pilot: Gene Pettinelli, Navigator: Bob Adler, Bombardier: Vic Guthrie, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: John Vance, Radio Operator: Bill Matthews, Ball turret gunner: Adolph Chilek, Waist gunner: Bob Frith, Waist gunner: Sherman Pickard, Tail gunner: Melvin Hames (10 Prisoner of War); flak hit in bomb bay and #2 engine caught fire, crashed Barnewitz, ten miles NE of Brandenburg, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 4013. SURE THING.

 

 

 

 


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