Aircraft

42-29480 Cotton Eyed Joe

salvaged or written off, 28 September 1945

Type: B-17F-55-BO (Boeing)
Names: Cotton Eyed Joe
Assigned to the 483rd: 31 March 1944
Sources: b17flyingfortress.de

Flags. not on the Association aircraft pages; known from the databases

History

20 December 1942Delivered Cheyenne
3 January 1943Salina
31 January 1943DeRidder
2 February 1943Morrison
20 February 1943Assigned 347BS/99BG Navarin
4 August 1943Oudna
11 December 1943Tortorella
31 March 1944transferred 483BG Tortorella
22 April 1944Sterparone
17 May 1944ret 99BG Tortorella
Salvaged 28/9/45. COTTON EYED JOE

Dates and events from Dave Osborne's B-17 Master Log, as published by b17flyingfortress.de; wording condensed to the facts.

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