Aircraft

42-29883 Miss Peggy

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Type: B-17F-75-BO (Boeing)
Names: Miss Peggy
Assigned to the 483rd: 31 March 1944
Transferred: {'date': None, 'text': '774BS/463BG Celone 9/44 to 6/45 as weather a/c'}
Sources: Association page · American Air Museum · b17flyingfortress.de

History

4 March 1943Delivered Denver
18 March 1943Salinas, Cal
31 March 1943Tinker
8 April 1943Memphis
15 April 1943Morrison
10 May 1943Assigned 416BS/99BG Navarin
4 August 1943Oudna
11 December 1943Tortorella
31 March 1944transferred 840BS/483BG Tortorella
22 April 1944Sterparone
774BS/463BG Celone 9/44 to 6/45 as weather a/c
23 April 1945landing accident with Joe Schonka
28 May 1945another landing accident with Ray Griffith
29 July 1945Salvaged

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 42-29883 B-17 F 75 BO 'Miss Peggy' · view at 15thaf.org

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