Thread: Serial number of 422Nd Special Leaflet Sqn B-17, damaged on 3-4 May 1944?
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Old 5th January 2020, 10:07
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Re: Serial number of 422Nd Special Leaflet Sqn B-17, damaged on 3-4 May 1944?
Thanks for that Martin. I have just checked Bishop/Hey Losses of the US 8th and 9th air forces Vol. 3, page 225, they give the following additional details on the crew:

-Ball turret gunner T/Sgt. Dan Brennan, seriously injured.
-Right waist gunner S/Sgt. Robert W. Waller, killed in action.
-Radio Operator T/Sgt. Louis Hatin, seriously injured.
-Left waist gunner S/Sgt. George B. Barber, killed in action.
-Tail gunner S/Sgt. Nicholas Mastroianni, seriously injured.

Both waist gunners were buried in Cambridge cemetery.

Hopefully someone can supply additional details on the time and place of the night fighter attack. The damaged B-17 landed at RAF Friston in Sussex.

Cheers, Theo
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