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Some wreckage remains at the site. [17] 3 June 1943 B-17F-55-DL, 42-3399, "Scharazad", [37] of the Plummer Provisional Group, 318th Bomb Squadron, [35] flying to Grand Island, Nebraska, from Pendleton Army Air Base in Oregon crashes on Bomber Mountain in the Big Horn Mountains of Wyoming. 10 crew members were killed. Wreckage finally discovered ...
The aircraft involved was a 74-year-old Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, military serial number 44-83575 (variant B-17G-85-DL) with civilian registration N93012. [4] The aircraft was painted as a representation of a different B-17G, [ 5 ] Nine-O-Nine , with military serial number 42-31909 (variant B-17G-30-BO), which had been scrapped shortly after ...
Hoheneck Women's Prison (German: Frauengefängnis Hoheneck) was a women's correctional facility in operation between 1862 and 2001 in Stollberg, Germany. It became most notable as a detention facility for female political prisoners in East Germany. The prison was designed to hold up to 600 inmates, however, as many as 1,600 were detained there. [1]
According to a report from the War Department about the crash, Donini's B-17 was flying at an altitude of 24,000 feet over Germany when it collided with an escort fighter plane of the same squadron.
Pages in category "Aviation accidents and incidents involving the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Nine-O-Nine was a Boeing B-17G-30-BO Flying Fortress heavy bomber, of the 323d Bombardment Squadron, 91st Bombardment Group, that completed 140 combat missions during World War II, believed to be the Eighth Air Force record for most missions without loss to the crews that flew her.
Luftwaffe experten (ace) Jürgen Harder (13 June 1918 – 17 February 1945), recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, with 64 claimed victories, was killed in the crash of a Messerschmitt Bf 109G-14, Werk. Nr. 784 738, near Strausberg, Germany, after the plane's engine failed. Technical experts who analysed the wreckage concluded that ...
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