Aircraft
44-8874
815threturned to the USA, 8 January 1946
- Type
- B-17G-85-VE (Lockheed/Vega)
- Assigned to the 483rd
- 14 March 1945
- Sources
- Association page · American Air Museum · b17flyingfortress.de
History
- 21 January 1945Delivered Cheyenne
- 17 February 1945Hunter
- 9 March 1945Grenier
- 14 March 1945Assigned 815BS/483BG Sterparone
- 8 January 1946RetUS, 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-17 44-8874 B-17 G 85 VE · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17 44-8874 B-17 G 85 VE · view at 15thaf.org
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