B-17G-10-DL "Silver Dollar", serial number 42-37781, produced in 1942 at the factory Douglas-Long Beach , hull number BK-H from the 546th Bomber Squadron 384th Bomber Group goes down near Marienfeld on a raid on Berlin.

2 of the crew got out and were captured, the other 8 KIA.

B17 going down over Germany

From Left to Right, B-25 crew members: Sgt. John C. Bellendir (Gnr.), Chicago; Sgt. Raymond J. Swingholm (Eng/Gnr.), Lebanon, PA; Sgt. Harris B. Pate (Rd/Gnr.), Hamlet, NC; Red Cross Clubmobile Worker, Peggy Steers from White Plains, NY. and T/Sgt. Aubrey Chatters (Rd/Gnr.), Milington MI. All from the 321st Bombardment Group, 447th Bombardment Squadron,12th Air Force. Alesani Airfield, Corsica, 2nd of July 1944.

Donut Doll and Flyboys

An old B24 Liberator bomber, stripped of all equipment and fitted with a radio control system to be operated from a 'mother' plane after the B24 crew had baled out, blew up in mid-air during a trial flight in preparation for 'Operation Aphrodite' the code name for the bombing of the flying bomb sites on the Continent. An electrical malfunction triggered the explosion killing the pilot and co-pilot. The pilot was Lieutenant Joseph Kennedy, the older brother of John F Kennedy the future President of the USA.
The Kennedy clan did have their share of tragedies...
taken from fb/alex de groot