Aircraft
42-106997 Blondie
816thlost with another unit after transfer, 7 July 1944
- Type
- B-17G-35-DL (Douglas)
- Names
- Blondie
- Assigned to the 483rd
- 13 March 1944
- Transferred
- {'date': '1944-03-31', 'text': 'transferred 348BS/99BG Tortorella'}
- Sources
- Association page · American Air Museum · b17flyingfortress.de
History
- 21 January 1944Delivered Cheyenne
- 3 February 1944Gr Island
- 9 March 1944Morrison
- 13 March 1944Assigned 816BS/483BG Sterparone
- 31 March 1944transferred 348BS/99BG Tortorella
- Missing in Action {33m} Blechhammer 7/7/44 with Hackney, Schneider, Ungar, Palmer, Portney, Grubb, Hanney, Mello, Carleton, D’Amborsi (10 Killed in Action)
- mid air coll with 42-32036, shearing off '997 tail, crashed near Manfredonia
- BLONDIE
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 42-106997 B-17 G 35 DL 'Blondie' · view at 15thaf.org
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