B-17 Flying Fortress B-17 42-97853 / Lucky Linda

Delivered Tulsa 15/3/44; Kearney 13/5/44; Grenier 26/5/44; Assigned 360BS/303BG [PU-K/O] Molesworth 4/6/44; on mission 19/7/44 with Jim Hahn,Tail gunner: Leslie Traver (Killed in Action); on training flight, levelled off too high 18/9/44 with Vic Howard, Co-pilot: Aloysius Sapak, Navigator: Bob Ellis, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Claude McGraw, Radio Operator: Sheppard Kerman, g-Joe Sofianek, g-George Stewart, g-Tom Baker, g-Duane Odegaard,Tail gunner: Lt Virgil Schuchard (10 Returned to Duty); the strees caused left u/c to fail. Salvaged 21/9/44. LUCKY LINDA.