Re: Boeing B-17D/E on Midway June 1942
Hello again Santiago,
Here's what I find in Gene Eric Salecker's Fortress Against the Sun, Walter Lord's Midway: Incredible Victory, and Martin Bowman's B-17 Units of the Pacific. Attacking the transports on 3 June:
1st Element:
B-17E (41-2409, Old Maid) 431st BS/11th BG (given as Knucklehead in Lord)
Pilot: Lt. Col. Walter C Sweeney, Jr.
Co-pilot: 1Lt Everett Wessman
Navigator: Lt. William Adams
B-17E
Pilot: Capt. Gregory
B-17E 431st BS/11th BG
Pilot: Lt. Willard G. Woodbury
2nd Element:
B-17E (41-2404, The Spider) 431st BS/11th BG
Pilot: Capt. Clarence P. Tokarz (Clement P. Tokarz in Bowman, Clemence in Lord)
Tail Gunner: Sgt. Horst Handrow
B-17E (Yankee Doodle)
Pilot: Capt. Paul Payne
B-17E
Pilot: Capt. Sullivan
3rd Element:
B-17E
Pilot: Capt. Cecil Faulkner
B-17E (41-2523, Goonie) 72nd BS/5th BG
Pilot: 1Lt. Edward A. Steedman
Radio Operator/Waist Gunner: Cpl. Earl Schaeffer
B-17E 31st BS/5th BG
Pilot: 1Lt. Robert B. Andrews
One more for 3 June: This aircraft was sent out without bombs to shadow and report on the transports after they were discovered but before the attack:
B-17E 394th BS/5th BG
Pilot: Lt. W.A. Smith (given as A.W. Smith in The Story of the 5th BG)
I'll see what I can find for you for 4 June in a little bit.
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