Aircraft
42-32046 Lil' Abner / Lil Abner / Lil’ Abner
817thtransferred out, 31 March 1944
- Type
- B-17G-35-BO (Boeing)
- Names
- Lil' Abner / Lil Abner / Lil’ Abner
- Assigned to the 483rd
- 13 March 1944
- Transferred
- {'date': '1944-03-31', 'text': 'transferred 347BS/99BG Tortorella'}
- Sources
- Association page · American Air Museum · b17flyingfortress.de
History
- 18 January 1944Delivered Denver
- 3 February 1944MacDill
- 9 March 1944Morrison
- 13 March 1944Assigned (first NMF aircraft issued) 817BS/483BG Tortorella
- 31 March 1944transferred 347BS/99BG Tortorella
- (had 20mm cannon fitted in tail turret)
- 63m became weather a/c
- 19 September 1945Returned to the USA 1103 BU Morrison
- Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 18/12/45. LIL ABNER
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 42-32046 B-17 G 35 BO 'Lil' Abner' · view at 15thaf.org
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