B-17 F  42-29656   LG-S    91st BG   322nd BS

20 February 1944

Mission :  Aschersleben

Shot down by enemy aircraft

Crash: At Lens

 

Ernest B. Kidd  Pilot  POW

2 Lt  Benjamin G. Beauclair  Co-pilot   Injured  POW

Billy H. Huish Navigator escaped  then killed by German soldiers

2Lt Charles M. Betzel  Bombardier escape then  POW  http://www.evasioncomete.org/fbetzelcm.html

 

 

 

 

Sgt Ober L. Torvik Flight engineer   POW

T/Sgt Theodore J. Mazor  Radio Operator   Injured POW

Sgt Billie L. Ramsey  Left Waist gunner    POW

Sgt Ernest B. Serna   Right Waist gunner   POW

Sgt Francis A. Hentges  Tail gunner    POW

Sgt Rex Wertman   Ball turret gunner  Injured  KIA