Aircraft
41-24351 Tail End Charlie / Heinie Headhunters
816th840thlost or wrecked with the 483rd, no report located
- Type
- B-17F-1-BO (Boeing)
- Names
- Tail End Charlie / Heinie Headhunters
- Sources
- Association page · American Air Museum · b17flyingfortress.de
Flags. loss or accident during 483rd service known from the Master Log (no report cited); no Association sheet
History
- 12 July 1942Assigned 352BS/301BG Chelveston
- Tafaraoui 24/11/42, as HEINIE HEADHUNTERS {52m}
- 30 November 1942force landed Tafaraoui with Bill Condy
- 416BS/99BG Tortorella 12/43 {21m}
- 31 March 1944840BS/483BG Tortorella
- 13 June 1944Returned to the USA
- 17 July 1945Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Albuquerque
- from 99th renamed TAIL END CHARLIE. (? As MY LOVIN’ DOVE ditched after enemy action near Nauri Is, SWPac 9/2/42. Crew rescued after 66 days at sea?)
Dates and events from Dave Osborne's B-17 Master Log, as published by b17flyingfortress.de; wording condensed to the facts.
Photographs and loss sheets
- B-17 41-24351 B-17 F 1 BO 'Tail End Charlie' · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17 41-24351 B-17 F 1 BO 'Tail End Charlie' · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17 41-24351 B-17 F 1 BO 'Tail End Charlie' · view at 15thaf.org
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