Aircraft
42-107065 Rigor Mortis II
817thlost with another unit after transfer, 17 November 1944
- Type
- B-17G-35-DL (Douglas)
- Names
- Rigor Mortis II
- Assigned to the 483rd
- 17 March 1944
- Transferred
- {'date': None, 'text': 'transferred 97BG Amendola 5/44'}
- Sources
- Association page · American Air Museum · b17flyingfortress.de
Flags. the two republications of the Master Log line differ; AAM text kept, b17flyingfortress.de text in log_variant
History
- 9 February 1944Delivered Denver
- 3 March 1944Hunter
- 16 March 1944Homestead
- 17 March 1944slated 398BG, Assigned 817BS/483BG Sterparone
- transferred 97BG Amendola 5/44
- battle damaged Atzgerdorf, Aus 24/5/44 with ?
- BTG Wasnuk shot out of turret, aircraft landed Foggia
- Missing in Action Salzburg 17/11/44 with Arthur Laser, Jarris, Todd, Van Morris, Turnway, Krieger, Nordham, Bleber, Patterson, Lynch
- Missing Air Crew Report 9877. RIGOR MORTIS II
Dates and events from Dave Osborne's B-17 Master Log, as published by b17flyingfortress.de; wording condensed to the facts.
Reports filed by other units
- MACR 9877 · 97th BG 340th BS, Amendola, 20 Nov 1944 Brux; 42-107065 (817th aircraft page exists; copied into this archive from the Reinhardt harvest) · National Archives
Photographs and loss sheets
- B-17 42-107065 B-17 G 35 DL 'Rigor Mortis II' · view at 15thaf.org
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