Source:
www.301bg.com
| General | |
|---|---|
| Manufacturer: | Douglas |
| Production-Block: | , B-17F-35-BO: 42-5079 to 42-5149 |
| Operational History | |
|---|---|
| Bomb Group: | , 301st Bomb Group, 99th Bomb Group |
| Bomb Squadron: | , 347th Bomb Squadron, 352nd Bomb Squadron |
| Fate: | |
| Missions: | 77 |
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History of
B-17 42-5143 / Dirty Gertie
Delivered Cheyenne 2/10/42; West Palm Beach 11/12/42; Assigned 352BS/301BG Ain M’Lila 16/1/43; St Donat 6/3/43; crash landed {52m} Sicily 16/7/43 with Leo Hammond; rep, transferred 347BS/99BG Oudna 14/11/43; {25m} modified to weather ship 6/8/44; transferred 52FG Madna Fd, It.8/10/44; sal 2/11/44. DIRTY GERTIE.
Information may include corrections and additions based on Jing’s research.
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This page was last updated on 19 July 2020
13. May 2023 access_time 19:19
My father, Captain Charles Edwin Jones , West Point’41, was a Squadron Leader and Captain of The DIRTY GERTIE when she exploded in mid air while returning from a successful mission in New Guinea on March 16, 1943, 8 days before I was born. (to be continued)