B-17 Flying Fortress B-17 43-38257 / Tyson’s Tramps

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 43-38257 / Tyson’s Tramps
General
Manufacturer: Boeing
Production-Block: , B-17G-80-BO: 43-38074 to 43-38273
Operational History
Bomb Group: , 34th Bomb Group
Bomb Squadron: , 391st Bomb Squadron
Fate: , Returned to the USA
(20 June 1945)
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History of
B-17 43-38257 / Tyson’s Tramps

Delivered Cheyenne 13 July 1944; Kearney 21 July 1944; Grenier 7 August 1944; Assigned 391BS/34BG Mendlesham 10 August 1944. Among other pilots, 1st Lt Harold E. Dwyer flew on it on the 7 May 1945 Chowhound mission to drop food to the Dutch population. Returned to the USA Bradley, Connecticut 20 June 1945; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 23 June 1945; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman, Arizona 1 December 1945.

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