LOOKING FOR CREW OF B-17 #42-107099 "Old 99"

[aaatripp]

Need help please in finding any members of the crew, their families and/or their diaries for the B-17 Flying Fortress above...."Old 99" which was flying out of Molesworth, England on 13 Jan 45.

They were assigned to the 427BS(H) of the 303BG (8AF) and were flying a mission to bomb Mannheim, Germany. They were hit by flak & the a/c was seen to explode. The pilot/co-pilot/navigator were all KIA. The non-comm
crew (six of them) were captured and became POWs.

If you have any contact info for any of the crew below, please post here or send me a PM. Many thanks!
Tripp


SURVIVING POW CREW of "OLD 99"

S/Sgt Sam P. Simone - bombardier - Flemington, GA
S/Sgt Robert J. Lyons - Top turret gunner - Buna, TX
T/Sgt Keith R. Muir - Radio/gunner - Baltimore, MD
Sgt Donald LeRoy Beal - Ball turret gunner - Sacramento, CA
S/Sgt Lois R. Hamilton - Waist gunner - Newton, TX
Sft Lowell F. Stevenson - Tail gunner - Des Moines, IA

[alieneyes1]

Lyons has passed away in Buna, TX:

http://www.cemeteries-of-tx.com/Etx/...t/lyonsrjt.jpg

[alieneyes1]

Beal passed away in Utah:

http://ironcountytoday.com/view/full...ald-Leroy-Beal

[alieneyes1]

Stevenson in California:

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VPS6-T8D

[aaatripp]

Thank you for that info.

Tripp

[RSwank]

I believe this is Hamilton, he died in 1982.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg...&GRid=28789556

[RSwank]

I found a Sam Paul Simone, 12 Jul 1922 - 3 March 1978. His enlistment record shows he was from NY. He married a Sara Josephine Day in 1943 in Florida according to a Florida marriage listing. I suspect she was from Georgia and may have been living at home when he was overseas. He died in Palm Beach, FL.

[RSwank]

Keith Richardson Muir was born in IL on 29 Jan 1918. He married Sara Jane Cook. He died 3 Sep 1978 in Baltimore, County MD.

[aaatripp]

All six of the surviving crew of "Old 99" are now gone.

Thank you for your service & may you all RIP.



Thanks to alieneyes1 & RSwank for your work & responses.
Tripp

[aaatripp]

NOTE: this incident was covered under MACR #11577

Originally Posted by aaatripp

Need help please in finding any members of the crew, their families and/or their diaries for the B-17 Flying Fortress above...."Old 99" which was flying out of Molesworth, England on 13 Jan 45.

They were assigned to the 427BS(H) of the 303BG (8AF) and were flying a mission to bomb Mannheim, Germany. They were hit by flak & the a/c was seen to explode. The pilot/co-pilot/navigator were all KIA. The non-comm
crew (six of them) were captured and became POWs.

If you have any contact info for any of the crew below, please post here or send me a PM. Many thanks!
Tripp


SURVIVING POW CREW of "OLD 99"

S/Sgt Sam P. Simone - bombardier - Flemington, GA
S/Sgt Robert J. Lyons - Top turret gunner - Buna, TX
T/Sgt Keith R. Muir - Radio/gunner - Baltimore, MD
Sgt Donald LeRoy Beal - Ball turret gunner - Sacramento, CA
S/Sgt Lois R. Hamilton - Waist gunner - Newton, TX
Sgt Lowell F. Stevenson - Tail gunner - Des Moines, IA