Casualty Report from May 12, 1945
Detail
MACR: 99950
Target: Night transitional flight for crew training. Of note is this crash was after the end of hostilities in Europe.
Base: Thorpe Abbotts, Norfolk, England
Crash: Crashed while landing in inclement weather - struck a large tree and crashed about 5 miles northwest of the base on the Diss-Attleborough road. The crew consisted of six airmen for this flight.
Squadron: 418th BS - 100th BG(H)
Aircraft
Aircraft #: 44-8790
Aircraft Type: B-17G
Aircraft Name: Aircraft name N/A
Aircraft Code: LD-V
Pilot: 2Lt Wade D. Pratt | O-000000
POS: P
Status: IIC
State: State N/A
Notes: No notes on this crewmember
Copilot: 2Lt Harold L. Rintoul | O-000000
POS: CP
Status: IIC
State: State N/A
Notes: No notes on this crewmember
NAV: 2Lt James T. Brand | O-000000
POS: NAV
Status: KIC
State: Arkansas
Notes: Final Internment - Cambridge E-3-80
BOM: N/A First, MI, Suffix Last Name | O-000000
POS: BOM
Status: MIA/KIA
State: State N/A
Notes: No notes on this crewmember
ROG: TSgt Vincent Ferranice | 00000000
POS: ROG
Status: IIC
State: State N/A
Notes: No notes on this crewmember
TTE: TSgt Anthony Szott | 00000000
POS: TTE
Status: IIC
State: State N/A
Notes: There is doubt of the spelling of his last name - Riddling thinks it Szott (paul west)
BTG: SSgt Robert G. Guidi | 00000000
POS: BTG
Status: IIC
State: State N/A
Notes: No notes on this crewmember
RWG: N/A First, MI, Suffix Last Name | 00000000
POS: RWG
Status: MIA/KIA
State: State N/A
Notes: No notes on this crewmember
LWG: N/A First, MI, Suffix Last Name | 00000000
POS: LWG
Status: MIA/KIA
State: State N/A
Notes: No notes on this crewmember
TG: N/A First, MI, Suffix Last Name | 00000000
POS: TG
Status: MIA/KIA
State: State N/A
Notes: No notes on this crewmember
EX1: N/A First, MI, Suffix Last Name | N/A
POS: N/A
Status: N/A
State: State N/A
Notes: No notes on this crewmember
EX2: N/A First, MI, Suffix Last Name | N/A
POS: N/A
Status: N/A
State: State N/A
Notes: No notes on this crewmember
Crew Notes
Brand was KIC and all the others IIC. The aircraft was destroyed. - Records from Norton AFB May 17th, 1985 (James R. Brown, Senior 100th Historian.
Report Notes
Notes on this report N/A
