B-17 CC Additional Material by Robert M Stitt

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B-17F 41-24381 Panama Hattie of the 63 th BS led B-17E 41-9234 to Lae for the January 8 attack. It was transferred to the 54 th Troop Carrier Wing at Port Moresby in November 1943 and was scrapped in April 1947. (Karl J Lonnquist via Lawrence J Hickey) Simpson Harbour, Rabaul under attack by B-17s of the 43 rd BG and B-24s of the 90 th BG on January 5, 1943, the day before the Lae Convoy departed. (USAF via Bruce Hoy/Lawrence J Hickey) Close-up of a Lae Convoy transport – either the Chifuku Maru or the Brasil Maru - taken from a B-25 of the 38 th BG on January 7, 1943. Note the deck cargo including landing barges and the bombs falling in the lower right corner. (Roy L Grover via Lawrence J Hickey Collection) 6
Medium-altitude attack on ships in Lae Convoy by 38 th BG B-25s on Jan. 7, 1943. Note the ship is getting underway as a landing barge pulls away for the shoreline. (Roy L Grover Collection via Lawrence J Hickey) View of Fortress 41-9234 taken from 10,000 feet (3,048 m) by a B-17 of the 8 th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron on January 26, 1943, 18 days after the crash-landing. The Fortress approached from the upper left over Kaisenik Creek and slewed 90º to the right after touchdown. Note how soil piled up at the port wing root as the aircraft slid sideways. (via Donald Hoggan) View across Kaisenik Creek shows how pilot Ray Dau ran out of options as he wrestled to keep the Fortress in the air on two engines in rising terrain. (Phillip Bradley) 41-9234 sits in a tranquil field of kunai grass in August 1993, much as it would have appeared following the Lae Convoy mission 50 years earlier. The large break in port side of the fuselage coincided with the forward end of the radio compartment where several of the crew were located during the crash landing; radio operator Robert Albright was unable to secure himself and died of his injuries six days later. (Bruce Hoy) 7
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