B-17 Flying Fortress B-17 42-3472 / The Vulture aka Shoot A Pound aka The Paper Doll

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General
Manufacturer: Douglas
Production-Block: , B-17F-65-DL: 42-3449 to 42-3482
Operational History
Bomb Group: , 100th Bomb Group, 390th Bomb Group
Bomb Squadron: , 568th Bomb Squadron
RCL BI-G/B/S
Fate: , Returned to the USA
(25 October 1945)
Missions: 59
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History of
B-17 42-3472 / The Vulture aka Shoot A Pound aka The Paper Doll

Delivered Denver 1/7/43; Amarillo 3/7/43; Scott 13/8/43; Assigned 568BS/390BG [BI-G/N/S] Framlingham 25/8/43 SHOOT A POUND; re-named THE VULTURE 4/44; declared War Weary and transferred HQ 100BG Thorpe Abbotts, damaged in taxi accident with Ray Albright 24/4/45; Returned to the USA Altus 29/10/45. THE PAPER DOLL.

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B-17 42-3472 / The Vulture aka Shoot A Pound aka The Paper Doll Details

Flew its last mission on 12 September 1944 with Fred F. Denne Crew

Lt. Engelbrecht and crew of the Boeing B-17 “THE PAPER DOLL” of the 390th Bomb Group pose in front of their plane at their base in England on 02 February 1944.
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