B-17 Flying Fortress B-17 41-2621 / The Daylight Ltd

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B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 41-2621 / The Daylight Ltd

Produktionsblock:
Boeing B-17E: 41-2393 bis 41-2669

Hersteller:
Boeing

Bomber-Gruppe:
19th Bomb Group

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B-17 41-2621 / The Daylight Ltd

Delivered Lowry 14/3/42; Boise 1/4/42; Assigned 28BS-93BS/19BG Hawaii 8/7/42; on return from mission to Milne Bay, crash landed Mareeba, Aus. with severe damage 26/8/42 with Capt Kenneth Casper, Radio Operator: Art Richardson, rest unknown; Written off 31/10/44. THE DAYLIGHT LIMITED.

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Zuletzt aktualisiert: 5. August 2017

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Phil Marchese
28. September 2017 23:43

This, like many B-17 accounts, is written from an 8th AF perspective.

The B-17E were arriving in the Pacific in December,1941 and equiped the 19th BG in the Far East with a fully complement.

The Central and South Pacific had the 5th and 11BG while the Norhern Pacific had a partial complement in the 28th composite Group. The 43rd BG flew mixed complements of E and F absorbing the 19th BG.

Project X moved to Asia and then to Africa with the E series. There the E formed part of the famous First Provisional Bomb Group, the first AAF heavy bombers to bomb occuupied Europe.

Of course the E equiped the 97th which flew the first UK based AAF heavy bomb strike on northern Europe, but those planes were traded to the 92nd BG for theater training.

The canal zone and east coast combat commands also had B-17E units.

So, more correctly, the E series did operate in combat world wide in numbers into the hundreds.

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