Boeing B-17 #44-8702 / Forever Amber
Lost by enemy aircraft / (10 April 1945)B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies The legendary Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber in WW2. With database about the fate of each single aircraft.
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“The best bomber which was ever built. She could handle extensive damage and still stay in the air.”
General Ira C. Eaker
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44-83732
Delivered Syracuse 18/5/45; Middletown 8/11/45; Morrison 27/12/45; re-ass 30/4/47; 3 BC Albrook (CZ) 1/1/48; 5702 MA Albrook 26/7/48; 5701 MSU Gp Albrook 28/3/49; AMC Olmstead Recl Comp 8/9/49.
42-102698
Delivered Cheyenne 26/3/44; Drew 18/4/44; with Alfred Vogell 19/3/45; 327 BU 4/5/45; 301 BU Drew 22/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 5/11/45.
42-6093
Delivered Long Beach 20/7/43; Cheyenne 23/7/43; with Norman Osborne force landed Clovis, NM 12/4/44; 202 BU Galveston 18/6/44; 4200 Chicago Mun 6/8/44; Fairfax 21/8/44; 202 BU Galveston 10/10/44; 222 BU Ardmore 23/2/45; 4202 BU Syracuse 1/4/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 12/12/45.
43-38732
Delivered Lincoln 14/9/44; Grenier 27/9/44; Assigned 482BG Alconbury 1/10/44; 339BS/96BG [QJ-O] Snetterton 2/10/44; landing accident with Don Field 18/12/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 10/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 13/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 28/11/45.
42-30486
Delivered Dallas 6/8/43; (F-9B) Peterson 8/7/43; Assigned MTO 20/1/44; Alps 29/2/44; Asia Minor 1/4/44; 4185 BU Independence 11/9/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 16/1/46.
44-83293
Delivered Hunter 24/1/45; Grenier 11/2/45; Assigned 19/2/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 5/7/45; Sth Plains 6/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 8/12/45.
