B-17 Serial Number 43-38205 "Bouncing Baby" from the 452nd Bomb Group |
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8th Air Force (World War II), 3rd Air Division, 45th Combat Bombardment Wing 452nd Bombardment Group (Heavy), 730th Bombardment Squadron |
 (I find it interesting that the vertical stabilizer de-icer boot was painted over with unit markings.) (The boot must not have been inflated on this ship because I cannot imagine the paint would look that good afterwards!) |
| Mission #225 Zwickau in Google Books Result of "Lost planes of the 452nd". | |||
| Target Coordinates in Google Maps | |||
| Below is an excerpt from 43-38205 in Google Books Result of "Lost planes of the 452nd". | |||
| Crash occured during Missions 201 - 225 (February 16th, - March 19th, 1945) | |||
| Plane # 43-38205 | Bouncing Baby | Squadron 730 | 452nd BG |
| Fighters (caused crash) Crashed near Beek The Netherlands | |||
| 1st/Lt. | Malloy Daniel | P | RTD |
| 2nd/Lt. | Carney Bruce W, | CP | RTD |
| 1st/Lt. | Winters Sterling P | N | RTD |
| 1st/Lt. | Houske Harold A. | B | RTD |
| F/0 | Devlin Rubart D. | V | RTD |
| Capt. | Shaw | CA | RTD |
| T/Sgt. | Clark Harold F. | TT | RTD |
| T/Sgt. | Boowman Robert J. | RO | RTD |
| S/Sgt. | Ward Willard L. | WG | RTD |
I called Millard Ward,one of the crew members, he told me that
they flew for quite a while after being hit by the German Jet fighters,
He was the First to notice flames coming from the right wing. They
found the emergency field at Y-44 near Beek, The Netherlands that was
being constructed using steel landing matts. He said the pilot sat the
plane down without any trouble but it soon started to blaze. He felt if
fire fighting equipment would have been handy they could have saved
the plane. He said they visited Brussels that night.
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| Crash occured March 19, 1945 according to aviation-safety.net that makes it mission 225, Zwickau |
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Update: 09-06-2009
John A. Davies 391st Photo Album has a different view of this wreckage. |
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