Aircraft
44-8584 Rum and Coke / Rum & Coke
816threturned to the USA, 10 October 1945
- Type
- B-17G-70-VE (Lockheed/Vega)
- Names
- Rum and Coke / Rum & Coke
- Assigned to the 483rd
- 28 January 1945
- Sources
- Association page · American Air Museum · b17flyingfortress.de
History
- 28 October 1944Delivered Cheyenne
- 30 November 1944Hunter
- 23 December 1944Dow Fd
- 12 January 1945Assigned 97BG Amendola
- 28 January 1945transferred 816BS/483BG Sterparone
- RetUS, Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 10/10/45. RUM & COKE
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 44-8584 B-17 G 70 VE 'Rum and Coke' · view at 15thaf.org
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