Aircraft
44-6787 Cannon Ball
returned to the USA
- Type
- B-17G-65-DL (Douglas)
- Names
- Cannon Ball
- Assigned to the 483rd
- 7 December 1944
- Sources
- b17flyingfortress.de
Flags. not on the Association aircraft pages; known from the databases
History
- 9 November 1944Delivered Hunter
- 19 November 1944Grenier
- 7 December 1944Assigned 483BG Sterparone
- 17 December 1945RetUS, Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge
- In 1946 was used as hack (VB-17G) for Gen Cannon
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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