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Source:
www.fold3.com
Production-block:
B-17G-70-DL: 44-6876 to 44-7000
Manufacturer:
Douglas
- Bomb Group:
- 92nd Bomb Group
- Bomb Squadron:
- 407th Bomb Squadron
- RCL: PY-T
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History of
B-17 44-6976 / Flak Dodger
Delivered Hunter 5/1/45; Dow Fd 18/1/45; Assigned 407BS/92BG [PY-T] Podington 1/2/45; in base taxi accident with Bob Wilkinson 22/5/45; to Istres Fd, France 5/6/45, ret 27/6/45; Salvaged 9AF Germany 31/5/46. FLAK DODGER.
Last updated: 15. October 2018
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B-17 44-6976 / Flak Dodger Details
Maybe photos does not show the B-17 #44-6976 Flak Dodger. But no other B-17 with the name Flak Dodger of the 92nd Bomb Group are known. For more information, see the comments below.
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15. October 2018 access_time 12:49
If the photo of Crew 113 (Dexter’s) shown above was taken 23 June 1944 at Podington, the date it arrived in Podington cannot have been 1/2/45? Maybe a different Flak Dodger; there were a few I believe, or a typo which should read 1/2/44?
15. October 2018 access_time 12:56
Thank you! You are right. Maybe this “Flak Dodger” is not #44-6976. Podington 1/2/45 should be correct, because other B-17s in same production-block arrived UK early 1945. But no other B-17 of the 92nd Bomb Group was called “Flak Dodger”. That’s a mistery.
11. August 2020 access_time 19:23
God bless them all!!