Awarded the Air Medal with 3 Oak Leaf Clusters, Purple Heart
Pilot of B-17F #42-30788, "Missmalovin'". Hit by flak after bombing target Furth, GR on 25 Feb 1944, ' fell behind and was attacked by fighters and came down in the Channel near Calais.
Co-pilot: John McBride, Navigator: Phil Mordkowitz, Bombardier: Homer Glasco, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Angelo Fernandez, Radio Operator: Sam Kuntz, Ball turret gunner: Larry Bennett, Waist gunner: George Knudsen (8 Killed in Action); Waist gunner: Claude Zukowski, Tail gunner: Bill Cook (2 Prisoner of War)
Missing Air Crew Report 2760
Pilot of B-17F #42-30788, "Missmalovin'". Hit by flak after bombing target Furth, GR on 25 Feb 1944, ' fell behind and was attacked by fighters and came down in the Channel near Calais.
Co-pilot: John McBride, Navigator: Phil Mordkowitz, Bombardier: Homer Glasco, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Angelo Fernandez, Radio Operator: Sam Kuntz, Ball turret gunner: Larry Bennett, Waist gunner: George Knudsen (8 Killed in Action); Waist gunner: Claude Zukowski, Tail gunner: Bill Cook (2 Prisoner of War)
Missing Air Crew Report 2760
Awarded the Air Medal with 3 Oak Leaf Clusters, Purple Heart
Pilot of B-17F #42-30788, "Missmalovin'". Hit by flak after bombing target Furth, GR on 25 Feb 1944, ' fell behind and was attacked by fighters and came down in the Channel near Calais.
Co-pilot: John McBride, Navigator: Phil Mordkowitz, Bombardier: Homer Glasco, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Angelo Fernandez, Radio Operator: Sam Kuntz, Ball turret gunner: Larry Bennett, Waist gunner: George Knudsen (8 Killed in Action); Waist gunner: Claude Zukowski, Tail gunner: Bill Cook (2 Prisoner of War)
Missing Air Crew Report 2760
Pilot of B-17F #42-30788, "Missmalovin'". Hit by flak after bombing target Furth, GR on 25 Feb 1944, ' fell behind and was attacked by fighters and came down in the Channel near Calais.
Co-pilot: John McBride, Navigator: Phil Mordkowitz, Bombardier: Homer Glasco, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Angelo Fernandez, Radio Operator: Sam Kuntz, Ball turret gunner: Larry Bennett, Waist gunner: George Knudsen (8 Killed in Action); Waist gunner: Claude Zukowski, Tail gunner: Bill Cook (2 Prisoner of War)
Missing Air Crew Report 2760
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350th Bomber Squadron, 100th Bomber Group, Heavy
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Entered the service from Alabama.
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