Posted By Fred Preller on February 09, 2008 at 13:47:40:
In Reply to: Re: Need a MACR number posted by Vic Walzel on February 09, 2008 at 05:59:53:
: : 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
Thanks Vic. The mid-air collision report is contradicted by crew interviews (see Ken Decker) but somehow has gotten entrenched in literature - even Roger Freeman has that. There is a problem with finding the MACR number for this loss, but I am not ready to admit defeat.
f3