Aircraft
42-29613 Zelma
840threturned to the USA, 27 February 1945
- Type
- B-17F-60-BO (Boeing)
- Names
- Zelma
- Sources
- Association page · American Air Museum · b17flyingfortress.de
History
- 17 January 1943Delivered Cheyenne
- 31 January 1943Salina
- 9 March 1943Morrison
- Assigned 20BS/2BG Navarin, Alg 17/4/43, with Clyde Knaggs, Co-pilot: Bob Amos, Navigator: Wade Douglas, Bombardier: Rich Howes, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Everett Phelps, Radio Operator: Paul Vezetinski, Ball turret gunner: John Phelan, Waist gunner: Ed Dembecki, Waist gunner: Paul Simmons,Tail gunner: Louis Feierstein
- 27 June 1943Chateau-du-Rhumel, Alg
- 17 June 1943Ain M'Lila, Alg
- 31 July 1943Massicault, Tun
- 2 December 1943Bizerte, Tun
- 9 December 1943Amendola, It
- 28 March 1944transferred 99BG Tortorella, It
- 31 March 1943840BS/483BG Tortorella, It
- 27 February 1945Returned to the USA Morrison
- 3 July 1945Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Bush Fd
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 42-29613 B-17 F 60 BO 'Zelma' · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17 42-29613 B-17 F 60 BO 'Zelma' · view at 15thaf.org
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