Aircraft
42-5817 Wonderbird II
returned to the USA, 17 August 1945
- Type
- B-17F-25-VE (Lockheed/Vega)
- Names
- Wonderbird II
- Assigned to the 483rd
- 31 March 1944
- Sources
- b17flyingfortress.de
Flags. not on the Association aircraft pages; known from the databases
History
- 26 February 1943Delivered Long Beach
- 3 March 1943Denver
- 25 March 1943Smoky Hill
- 7 April 1943Homestead
- 12 April 1943Morrison
- 10 May 1943Assigned 348BS/99BG Navarin
- 4 August 1943Oudna
- 31 March 1944transferred 483BG Tortorella
- 17 August 1945Returned to the USA Hunter
- Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 9/10/45. WONDER BIRD II
Dates and events from Dave Osborne's B-17 Master Log, as published by b17flyingfortress.de; wording condensed to the facts.
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