Aircraft

42-5477 Able Mable

salvaged or written off, 11 December 1943

Type: B-17F-50-BO (Boeing)
Names: Able Mable
Assigned to the 483rd: 31 March 1944
Sources: b17flyingfortress.de

Flags. not on the Association aircraft pages; known from the databases

History

13 December 1942Delivered Cheyenne
1 January 1943Salina
31 January 1943Morrison
3 March 1943Assigned 346BS/99BG Navarin
4 August 1943Oudna
battle damaged over Marsala with Ward, but rep
battle damaged Pisa, ko’d two engines and force landed Parlermo
11 December 1943Tortorella
31 March 1944transferred 483BG Tortorella
22 April 1944Sterparone
Salvaged 30/3/45. ABLE MABLE

Dates and events from Dave Osborne's B-17 Master Log, as published by b17flyingfortress.de; wording condensed to the facts.

Know something about this aircraft?

If this record is wrong or missing something, a middle name, the right squadron, who is who in a photograph, what he said about a day, tell us. Nothing you send is shown without your say-so.