Aircraft
42-32043 Paper Doll
840th815thsalvaged or written off, 30 April 1945
- Type
- B-17G-35-BO (Boeing)
- Names
- Paper Doll
- Assigned to the 483rd
- 13 March 1944
- Sources
- Association page · American Air Museum · b17flyingfortress.de
History
- 18 January 1944Delivered Denver
- 23 January 1944Cheyenne
- 6 February 1944MacDill
- 8 March 1944Morrison
- 13 March 1944Assigned 815BS/483BG Tortorella
- one of two aircraft conducted secret mission to Czechoslovakia on 17/9/44, with supplies to resistance and returning with US evadees
- Salvaged 30/4/45. PAPER DOLL
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 42-32043 B-17 G 35 BO 'Paper Doll' · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17 42-32043 B-17 G 35 BO 'Paper Doll' · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17 42-32043 B-17 G 35 BO 'Paper Doll' · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17 42-32043 B-17 G 35 BO 'Paper Doll' · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17 42-32043 B-17 G 35 BO 'Paper Doll' · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17 42-32043 B-17 G 35 BO 'Paper Doll' · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17 42-32043 B-17 G 35 BO 'Paper Doll' · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17 42-32043 B-17 G 35 BO 'Paper Doll' · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17 42-32043 B-17 G 35 BO 'Paper Doll' · view at 15thaf.org
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