Plane I.D. help

The picture of the exploding B17’s is on page 201 of Roger Freemans book ‘The Mighty Eigth’ with the caption ‘In the late afternoon murk of 23rd Dec.1944 two
B17’s collided with this result. There were no survivors’.

Richard

The photo caption in post #11 appears to have the date of 19th Jan 45

Perhaps enlarging it will give the answer?

From your clues, you already have more info but I assume it’s a mid air collision?

Is that a fighter also going down or just the tail section of a B17?

The date on the photo is the publication date. That is the tail section of one of the B-17s.

The photo caption in post #11 appears to have the date of 19th Jan 45

Perhaps enlarging it will give the answer?

From your clues, you already have more info but I assume it’s a mid air collision?

Is that a fighter also going down or just the tail section of a B17?

Anyone ever seen this B-17 before and know which group it’s from?

The crewmen are,from L-R:
1stLt. Roy J. Murphy – pilot
2ndLt. Norman M. Tesch – copilot
1stLt. John S. McComb – navigator
1stLt. Donald L. McKenna – bombardier

Here’s another one:

I’ve been getting conflicting info on this one. One guy says it was 2 B-17’s from the 306th Bomb Group over Thurleigh on December 15,1944. Another guy says it’s 2 B-17’s from the 305th Bomb Group over Thurleigh on October 22,1944.
I already knew it was near Thurleigh and that these were B-17’s.

The MO-1 is a great favorite of model aviators is control-line carrier events.

That first pic is brilliant, just looking at that aerofoil section, it looks unusualy deep, with the thickest part of the chord well forward.

Vought UO-1

John

… and what’s the biplane floatplane to the rear?

Here is a better shot of the biplane.

Thanks, you guys are awesome.

… and what’s the biplane floatplane to the rear?

Maybe this event:
“1924 in aviation,
December 14
a Martin MO-1 is launched using an explosive-driven catapult fitted to a turret on USS Mississippi, requiring less distance than ever for the take-off.”
http://www.economicexpert.com/a/1924:in:aviation.htm

Concurr with Malcolm. It is the Navy spotter Model Glenn L. Martin MO.1

Curtiss D.12 and 53′ span

It appears to be the float fitted version of the Martin MO actually developed by the BuAer, but the contract to build went to Martin.

The float version was not succesful.