B-17 Flying Fortress B-17 41-2463 / Yankee Doodle

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Allgemein
Hersteller: Boeing
Produktionsblock: , Boeing B-17E: 41-2393 bis 41-2669
Einsatzgeschichte
Bomber-Gruppe: , 11th Bomb Group, 5th Bomb Group
Bomber-Staffel: , 26th Bomb Squadron, 394th Bomb Squadron
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Geschichte der
B-17 41-2463 / Yankee Doodle

Delivered Geiger 28/12/41; Assigned 26BS/11BG Hickam 13/2/42; transferred 394BS/5BG; crashed on take off Guadalcanal with Gene Roddenberry (later of Star Trek fame) 2/8/43; Bombardier: John Kruger, Navigator: Talbert Wollam [body taken home for burial 15/3/48] (2 Killed in Action), rest of unknown crew OK; Written off 13/8/43. [however another record gives aircraft was destroyed on ground at Morotai A/fd. D.E.I. by Japanese bombing in 11/44] YANKEE DOODLE.

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