1944-10-07

Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress "426" - Serial # 43-38426

USAAF 351 BG, 511 BS, Polebrook Stn 110


Color Profile by Torstein Landström

  • F/O A.M. Fisher Pilot
  • F/O T. M. Carnegie IV Co-pilot
  • F/O A. Cannizzaro Navigator
  • 2nd Lt R.C. Wagoner Bombardier
  • S/Sgt T. W. Brink Top Turret Gunner
  • Sgt C. A. Stevens Radiooperator
  • Sgt L. L. Kern Waistgunner
  • Sgt J. A. Chickola Ball turret Gunner
  • Sgt J. A. Tucker Tailgunner

 

Photo of #43-38426 from the winter of 1945. Presumably just before the aircraft was flown from Jönköping. In front of the aircraft you'll see one of the stands that was used to fix the engines.
Photo Ebbe Hesselfalk (via Sven Engkvist Miliseum Skillingaryd and Daniel Petterzon)

Photo unknown (via Sven Engkvist Miliseum Skillingaryd and Daniel Petterzon)

Very few photos exicist of the 426. Here is a photo fromSmålands Allehanda October 9 1944. Note how the landing gear has plowed into the ground during landing.
Foto unknown (via Daniel Petterzon)

Photo that was published by Smålands Folkblad on October 10 1944.
Photo unknown (via Daniel Petterzon)

Photo of the gunner Sgt Lester Kern.
Photo unknown (via Chris Kern and Daniel Petterzon)

Photo of 4 members of the 426 crew. From the right Allen M. Fisher, Thomas M Carnegie, Robert 'Bob' C. Wagoner and Anthony Cannizzaro.
Photo unknown (via Sven Engkvist Miliseum Skillingaryd and Daniel Petterzon)

According to notes that came with the photo it says that this is the crew of the 426. Unsure if this is the case but there are reasons to believe some of them where in the October 7 landing in Jönköping.
Photo unknown (via Sven Engkvist Miliseum Skillingaryd and Daniel Petterzon)