Aircraft
42-106999 Peck's Bad Boy / Peck's Bad Boys / Peck’s Bad Boy
840thsalvaged or written off, 3 February 1945
- Type
- B-17G-35-DL (Douglas)
- Names
- Peck's Bad Boy / Peck's Bad Boys / Peck’s Bad Boy
- Assigned to the 483rd
- 9 March 1944
- Sources
- Association page · American Air Museum · b17flyingfortress.de
History
- 21 January 1944Delivered Cheyenne
- 2 February 1944Gr Island
- 1 March 1944Morrison
- 9 March 1944Assigned 840BS/483BG Sterparone
- 3 February 1945mid air coll with 44-6288 with Alfred Fite
- landed but Salvaged. PECK'S BAD BOYS
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 42-106999 B-17 G 35 DL 'Peck's Bad Boy' · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17 42-106999 B-17 G 35 DL 'Peck's Bad Boy' · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17 42-106999 B-17 G 35 DL 'Peck's Bad Boy' · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17 42-106999 B-17 G 35 DL 'Peck's Bad Boy' · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17 42-106999 B-17 G 35 DL 'Peck's Bad Boy' · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17 42-106999 B-17 G 35 DL 'Peck's Bad Boy' · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17 42-106999 B-17 G 35 DL 'Peck's Bad Boy' · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17 42-106999 B-17 G 35 DL 'Peck's Bad Boy' · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17 42-106999 B-17 G 35 DL 'Peck's Bad Boy' · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17 42-106999 B-17 G 35 DL 'Peck's Bad Boy' · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17 42-106999 B-17 G 35 DL 'Peck's Bad Boy' · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17 42-106999 B-17 G 35 DL 'Peck's Bad Boy' · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17 42-106999 B-17 G 35 DL 'Peck's Bad Boy' · view at 15thaf.org
- UPL 24409 Top - B-17G-35-DL #42-107143 "Sport" 483rd BG · view at American Air Museum in Britain
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