Aircraft
44-6405 Big Yank
840threturned to the USA, 23 June 1945
- Type
- B-17G-50-DL (Douglas)
- Names
- Big Yank
- Assigned to the 483rd
- 17 August 1944
- Sources
- Association page · American Air Museum · b17flyingfortress.de
History
- 27 July 1944Delivered Kearney
- 8 August 1944Grenier
- 17 August 1944Assigned 840BS/483BG Sterparone
- used for Air Sea Rescue at Pisa
- 23 June 1945Returned to the USA Sth Plains
- Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 28/12/45. BIG YANK
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 44-6405 B-17 G 50 DL 'Big Yank' · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17 44-6405 B-17 G 50 DL 'Big Yank (2)' · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17 44-6405 · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17 44-6405 B-17 G 50 DL 'Big Yank' · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17 44-6405 B-17 G 50 DL 'Big Yank' · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17 44-6405 B-17 G 50 DL 'Big Yank' · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17 44-6405 B-17 G 50 DL 'Big Yank' · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17 44-6405 B-17 G 50 DL 'Big Yank' · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17 44-6405 B-17 G 50 DL 'Big Yank' · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17 44-6405 B-17 G 50 DL 'Big Yank' · view at 15thaf.org
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