Aircraft

42-5233 Rigor Mortis / Rigor-Mortis

Type

B-17F-40-BO (Boeing)

Names

Rigor Mortis / Rigor-Mortis

Sources

Association page · American Air Museum · b17flyingfortress.de

History

• Delivered Tulsa
• 16 November 1942Wayne Co
• 22 November 1942with Bruce Gimbel in taxi accident Romulus Fd, Mi
• 13 December 1942repaired and to West Palm Beach
• 31 December 1942Assigned 32BS/301BG Tafaraoui
• 5 December 1942Maison Blanche
• 16 December 1942Biskra
• 17 January 1943Ain M’Lila
• 6 March 1943St Donat
• 6 August 1943Oudna
• 14 November 1943{95m} transferred 96BS/2BG Massicault
• 2 December 1943Bizerte
• 9 December 1943Amendola
• {19m} 346BS/99BG Tortorella 28/3/44 but no missions
• 31 March 1944817BS/483BG Tortorella
• 23 July 1944with 100+ missions all told returned to US, Homestead
• Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Arledge Fd 23/11/44. RIGOR MORTIS. [?42-5228 – 5233 recorded as RAF FA701 – 706?]

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 42-5233 B-17 F 40 BO 'Rigor Mortis' · view at 15thaf.org
• B-17 42-5233 B-17 F 40 BO 'Rigor Mortis - Glenn L. McSparran Jr. Crew' · view at 15thaf.org
• B-17 42-5233 B-17 F 40 BO 'Rigor Mortis' · view at 15thaf.org
• B-17 42-5233 B-17 F 40 BO 'Rigor Mortis' · view at 15thaf.org
• B-17 42-5233 B-17 F 40 BO 'Rigor Mortis' · view at 15thaf.org
• 301st Bomb Group · view at American Air Museum in Britain
• 32nd Bomb Squadron · view at American Air Museum in Britain
• Oran Tafraoui Airport · view at American Air Museum in Britain

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