Aircraft
42-29696 Fort Alamo II
840thsalvaged or written off
- Type
- B-17F-65-BO (Boeing)
- Names
- Fort Alamo II
- Assigned to the 483rd
- 31 March 1944
- Sources
- Association page · American Air Museum · b17flyingfortress.de
History
- 5 February 1943Delivered Denver
- 18 March 1943Gore
- 29 March 1943Tinker
- 4 April 1943New castle
- 12 April 1943Homestead
- 24 April 1943Morrison
- 11 May 1943Assigned 416BS/99BG Navarin
- 4 August 1943OUDNA
- 11 December 1943Tortorella
- 31 March 1944transferred 840BG/483BG Tortorella
- 131m WW 15/10/44, Salvaged. FORT ALAMO II
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 42-29696 B-17 F 65 BO 'Fort Alamo II' · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17 42-29696 B-17 F 65 BO 'Fort Alamo II' · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17 42-29696 B-17 F 65 BO 'Fort Alamo II - Jack Howard' · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17 42-29696 B-17 F 65 BO 'Fort Alamo II' · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17 42-29696 B-17 F 65 BO 'Fort Alamo II' · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17 42-29696 B-17 F 65 BO 'Fort Alamo II' · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17 42-29696 B-17 F 65 BO 'Fort Alamo II' · view at 15thaf.org
- 416th Bomb Squadron · view at American Air Museum in Britain
- UPL 40226 1Lt Michael J Bellonio, Co-pilot on B17G 42-102429, 483rd Bomber Group... Michael was "Killed In Action" over the Ploesti Oil Complex, Romania during the war when his B17 was shot down by enemy flak. · view at American Air Museum in Britain
- UPL 42189 · view at American Air Museum in Britain
- About the American Archive · view at American Air Museum in Britain
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