SORTIE REPORT #11746
Event Date: 1944-08-15
SORTIE DATA:
COMBAT CREDIT STATUS TARGET ATTACKED (MODE)
No Scrubbed: Did Not Take Off
Comments: While taxiing prior to a practice mission, the brakes failed. To avoid the aircraft ahead of him, pilot turned off the perimeter track, and the aircraft came to a stop in a small gully. The crew was not injured.
Non-Combat Sortie
SORTIE AIRCRAFT DATA:
TYPE SERIAL NUMBER SQUADRON SQ CODE NAME
B-17G 44‑8011 547th SO*J MISBEHAVIN'
SORTIE CREW DATA:
POSITION CREWMEMBER UNIT STATUS
Pilot Rainey, Harry Wesley, Jr 547 Completed, Uninjured
Co-pilot Rowe, J Z (IO) 547 Completed, Uninjured
Engineer/Top Turret Evans, Jack Clifton 547 Completed, Uninjured
SORTIE-RELATED DOCUMENTS:
TYPE IDENTIFICATION
ACCIREPAccident Report # 44-08-15-532
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