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B-17F-70-DL: 42-3483 bis 42-3503
B-17G-1-DL: 42-3483 bis 42-3503
Hersteller:
Douglas
- Bomber-Gruppe:
- 384th Bomb Group
- 401st Bomb Group
- 482nd Bomb Group
- Bomber-Staffel:
- 812th Bomb Squadron
- RCL: MI-A
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Geschichte der
B-17 42-3483 / Chopstick A-Able
Delivered Denver 20/6/43; Rome 7/8/43; Assigned with H2S 812BS/482BG [MI-A] Alconbury 10/43; 384BG Grafton Underwood 14/4/44; transferred 401BG Deenethorpe 17/4/44; became radio-relay with 8th Fighter Command 22/7/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 12/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 30/12/45. CHOPSTICK A-ABLE.
Zuletzt aktualisiert: 10. Februar 2018
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16. April 2025 access_time 5:57
There is an image of this aircraft in the summer of 1943 with a WGr. 21 rocket, an explosive that was fired into the B-17 formations by Bf 110s flying behind the formation, in Marshall Michel III’s “Schweinfurt-Regensburg 1943.” It is Image Four in this review: https://reviews.ipmsusa.org/review/schweinfurt-regensburg-1943-eighth-air-forces-costly-early-daylight-bombing