Produktionsblock:
B-17F-70-BO: 42-29732 bis 42-29831
Hersteller:
Boeing
- Bomber-Gruppe:
- 303rd Bomb Group
- 306th Bomb Group
- 91st Bomb Group
- Bomber-Staffel:
- 324th Bomb Squadron
- 368th Bomb Squadron
- 401st Bomb Squadron
- RCL: BO-V, DF-F/D/P, LL-D
Geschichte der
B-17 42-29741 / Corn State Error
Delivered Cheyenne 11/2/43; Gt Falls 17/2/43; Salina 5/3/43; Assigned 303BG Molesworth 15/4/43; transferred 368BS/306BG [BO-V] Thurleigh 17/4/43; 324BS/91BG [DF-F/D/P] Bassingbourn 11/9/43; battle damaged over Schweinfurt 14/10/43 with Lt Christensen wia-died next day, cp Lt Mendelsohn brought ship back to crash landed at RAF Tangmere and slammed into tree; After long repair returmed to base and transferred 401BS [LL-D] before re-ass. to AFSC 6/4/44; Returned to the USA Tinker 29/4/44; Winston Salem 5/22/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Bush Fd 15/5/45. CORN STATE TERROR.
Zuletzt aktualisiert: 15. September 2017
26. Juli 2020 access_time 0:21
This aircraft (42-29741) was the Corn State Terror. It was named after the death of its pilot Harold R. Christensen of Eagle Grove Ia who DOW after the Schweinfurt raid in Oct 43.