42-39846 IW-M Widdle Twinkle

Widdle Twinkle
#42-39846

Standing: Left to Right: Harold Cook, Bill Merritt, D. Michel, Leroy Cohn, Earl Koehler, Myron Pierce, Charles Nicholas.

Kneeling Left to Right: Don Kirkuff, Ben Sobolak, L.J. Montone.

Info provided by Myron E. Pierce.
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Serial No: 42-39846
Model: B-17G-1-VE
Manufacturer: Lockheed/Vega Aircraft Corp., Burbank, CA
Delivered: 09/18/1943
Assigned: 03/11/1943
Lost: 08/16/1944
Mission Lost: N/A
How Lost: Reassigned to Another Unit
Notes: Declared war weary and transferred 07/15/44 to the 487th BG (Lavenham). Salvaged 8/16/44

Recorded Missions

#DateMissionCrew
112/01/1943 Solingen (#2) Donald V. Kirkhuff Crew #1
212/05/1943 Paris (#3) Donald V. Kirkhuff Crew #1
301/30/1944 Brunswick (#18) Carleton L. Wilson Crew #1
402/05/1944 Chatearoux (#21) Vernon K. Cammack Crew #1
502/06/1944 Caen (#22) John C. Peck Crew #1
602/25/1944 Augsburg (#28) Stephen J. Lozinski Crew #1