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B 17 Bomber Crew Information

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Number of bombers lost by each heavy bomber group in the 8th Air Force during World War II.

Bomb Group	Station	Bomber Type	Missions Flown	Losses
34th	Mendelsham	B-17	170	34
44th	Shipdham	B-24	343	153
91st	Bassingbourn	B-17	340	197
92nd	Podington	B-17	308	154
93rd	Hardwick	B-24	396	100
94th	Bury St. Edmonds	B-17	324	153
95th	Horham	B-17	320	157
96th	Snetterton Health	B-17	321	189
100th	Thorpe Abbots	B-17	306	177
303rd	Moleworth	B-17	364	165
305th	Chelveston	B-17	337	154
306th	Thurieigh	B-17	342	171
351st	Polebrook	B-17	311	124
379th	Kimbolton	B-17	330	141
381st	Ridgewell	B-17	296	131
384th	Grafton Underwood	B-17	314	159
385th	Great Ashfield	B-17	296	129
388th	Knettishall	B-17	306	142
389th	Hethel	B-24	312	116
390th	Framlingham	B-17	300	144
392nd	Wendling	B-24	285	127
398th	Nuthmapstead	B-17	195	58
401st	Deenthorpe	B-17	256	95
445th	Tibenham	B-24	282	95
446th	Bungay	B-24	273	58
447th	Rattlesden	B-27	257	97
448th	Seething	B-24	262	101
452nd	Deopham Green	B-17	250	110
453rd	Old Buckenham	B-24	259	58
457th	Glatton	B-17	237	83
458th	Horsham St. Faith	B-24	240	47
466th	Attlebridge	B-24	232	47
467th	Rackheath	B-24	212	29
486th	Sudbury	B-17	188	33
487th	Lavenham	B-17	185	48
489th	Halesworth	B-24	106	29
490th	Eye	B-17	158	40
491st	Metfield	B-24	187	47
492nd	North Pickenham	B-24	64	12
493rd	Deebach	B-17	158	41
Total	10,631	4,145

Sole Survivor
Genre	Drama Fantasy
Written by	Guerdon Trueblood
Directed by	Paul Stanley
Starring	Vince Edwards Richard Basehart William Shatner
Music by	Paul Glass
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Executive producer	Steve Shagan
Producer	Wally Burr
Cinematography	James Crabe
Editor	Renn Reynolds
Running time	90 minutes
Production company	Cinema Center 100 Productions
Distributor	CBS
Release
Original network	CBS
Original release	January 9, 1970 (U.S.)

Sole Survivor is a CBS Friday Night Movie directed by Paul Stanley and starring Richard Basehart, William Shatner, and Vince Edwards. The film, written by screenwriter Guerdon Trueblood, was first aired on television in 1970.

While the film follows the fate of the six-man crew of a B-25 Mitchell bomber, Sole Survivor is loosely based on the 1958 discovery of the B-24 Liberator bomber Lady Be Good in the Libyan desert. The Lady Be Good and her nine-man crew had disappeared without a trace in 1943, following its first and only combat mission in World War II. The bodies of eight of the crew were found in 1960.

Plot[edit]

While returning from a World War II bombing mission, a United States Army Air ForcesB-25 Mitchell bomber sustains damage from action with German fighters. Without any order to abandon the aircraft, the navigator, Lieutenant Hamner (Richard Basehart), panics and bails out. Having no navigator, the remaining crew was now lost and overfly their base by 300 miles. The five remaining crewmen, believing they are still over water, bail out and survive their parachute landings, although one of the crew, Brandy (Dennis Cooney) is badly injured. Needing water and desert survival gear, one of the group, Tony (Lou Antonio), walks to the aircraft following the heading that would have been flown, hoping to find the aircraft and bring back much needed supplies. The aircraft had eventually crash landed in the Libyan desert.

Unfortunately, when Tony arrives at the bomber and crawls underneath the tail to escape the sun, the tail, which has been hanging precariously, breaks away, instantly crushing him. After several days beneath the relentless African sun, the remaining crewmen ultimately die of exposure. Their ghosts make their way back to the wreckage of the aircraft where they spend the next 17 years in a type of limbo state, playing baseball and longing for repatriation back to their home country, which can occur only if their bodies are recovered.

An oil surveying aircraft finally spots the wreckage, reporting the discovery back to the United States Air Force. Seeing the survey aircraft and realizing that they are soon about to 'have visitors', the five remaining crew members' ghosts begin returning the aircraft to its state at the time of the crash, putting objects and artifacts in their original positions in hopes of convincing their visitors they had stayed with the aircraft and hopefully inducing them to search for their bodies.

Having survived the crash, Brig. General Russell Hamner, who had remained in the military after the war and is now an Air Force brigadier general, is asked by investigators Lieutenant Colonel Josef Gronke (William Shatner) and Major Michael Devlin (Vince Edwards) to accompany their team to the remains of the B-2