Aircraft

44-8591

817threturned to the USA, 20 December 1945

Type: B-17G-70-VE (Lockheed/Vega)
Assigned to the 483rd: 3 January 1945
Sources: Association page · American Air Museum · b17flyingfortress.de

History

29 October 1944Delivered Cheyenne
26 November 1944Hunter
30 December 1944Grenier
3 January 1945Assigned 817BS/483BG Sterparone
20 December 1945RetUS, Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge

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-17G 44-8591 817th BS.jpg · 1945Wikimedia Commons · credit: Hess (2003), B-17 Flying Fortress Units of the MTO, Osprey ISBN 1-84176--580-5 (USAAF Photograph)

B-17 44-8591 · view at 15thaf.org
B-17 44-8591 · view at 15thaf.org
B-17 44-8591 · view at 15thaf.org

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