Crew 42-107048

 

Crew of  B-17 Fortress - type G-35-DL - s/n 42-107048 PU*M 

 

1st Lieutenant Roy EISELE Pilot Dead Cim Am Colleville-sur-Mer  O-745655 - DFC/AM+3 - CALIFORNIA
2nd Lieutenant Louis F Jr GIRARD CoPilot Dead Cim Am Colleville-sur-Mer  O-682848 - DFC/AM+3 - WEST VIRGINIA
2nd Lieutenant Melvin GLADSTONE Bomber Dead Cim Am Colleville-sur-Mer  O-746877 - DFC/AM+3 - ILLINOIS
2nd Lieutenant Murray SCHENKER Navigator Dead Cim Am Colleville-sur-Mer  O-694734 - DFC/AM+3 - NEW YORK
T/Sergeant Louis M COWLEY Mechanic/Gunner Dead Forest Home Cem. Forest Park, ILLINOIS 16038217 - 23 yo   - Son of Louis B and June (Morton) Cowley, ILLINOIS
T/Sergeant Ralph MILLARD Radio Dead Cim Am Colleville-sur-Mer  35521469 - DFC/AM+3 - Ohio
S/Sergeant Efrain   LONGORIA Gunner Dead Fort Sam Houston Nat Cem. San Antonio, TEXAS 38365009 - 20 ans - Né le 12/03/1924 - TEXAS
S/Sergeant Szymon FRIEDMAN Gunner Dead Cim Am Colleville-sur-Mer  32228384 - DFC/AM+3/PH - NEW YORK
S/Sergeant Richard L BELL Gunner Dead Cim Am Colleville-sur-Mer  15054420 - AM+2 - OHIO
S/Sergeant Edward Joseph VALLEE Gunner Prisonnier - NEW YORK - Initially escaped, is arrested, probably victim of Jacques Desoubrie - Interned in Fresnes (94)– One of the 168 Allied airmen deported to Buchenwald on 15/08/1944 and sent to Sagan's Stalag Luft III - during the Sagan evacuation of January 45, is folded on the Stalag VIIA where he is released by US troops the 29/04/1945

equipage 42 107048 team

(Back) 1Lt Roy Eisele (P)(KIA)*, 2Lt Louis F. Girard (CP)(KIA)*,
2Lt Murray Schenker (N)(KIA)*, 2Lt Melvin Gladstone (B)(KIA)*,
(Front) T/Sgt Louis M. Cowley (E)(KIA), Sgt Efrain Longoria (BTG)(KIA),
S/Sgt Richard L. Bell (RWG)(KIA)*, T/Sgt Joseph A. Czerwonka (LWG),
S/Sgt Edward J. Vallee (TG)(POW), S/Sgt Ralph Millard (R)(KIA)*(far right)

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equipage 42 107048 stele Stele in memory of the B17 crew at Eswars equipage 42 107048 STELE1
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