Posted By Vic Walzel on February 09, 2008 at 05:59:53:
In Reply to: Need a MACR number posted by Fred Preller on February 08, 2008 at 16:09:47:
: Looking for the MACR number for the shoot-down of B-17F 42-29960 "NYMOKYMI" of the 384th BG, 544th BS on July 4, 1943.
: Any ideas?
: Cheers,
: f3
Fred,
Project Bits and Pieces says this plane was involved in a mid-air collisiion. If this occurred over friendly territory there would not have been a MACR issued. This was also in the earliest days of issuing MACRs and one could have been issued much later using a very high number that is not included in some of the MACR databases I have seen. There is a reference to E&E reports 263 and 264 but I don't know what kind of information they contain. The pilot was FO Gordon B. Erickson.
Vic