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Source:
www.fold3.com
Production-block:
Boeing B-17E: 41-2393 to 41-2669
Manufacturer:
Boeing
MACR: 15885
History of
B-17 41-2426
Delivered with John Dougherty Salt Lake Strategic Arms Depot (SAD) 16-Nov-41; Assigned 43BS/11BG; Missing in Action on recon. flight over Northern Solomon Is. with Major Marion N. Pharr (Sq CO), Co-pilot: Bob Pate, Navigator: Tom Waren, Bombardier: Rich Lehr, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Cecil Rogers, James Winey, Ray Nebbach, Sam McKee, Edwin Decker. (9KIA?), 7/8/42 [aircraft No.42]. Failed to return.
Last updated: 22. December 2019
15. December 2025 access_time 3:55
Is the photo at Ogden, Utah with mountains?
Ogden depot was not (SAD), that was Sacramento.
15. December 2025 access_time 4:02
Air Force Base in Davis County, formerly home of the Ogden Air Material Area (OOAMA), and now a unit of the Air Logistics Command is home base for several airplane units and provides technical and logistical support for Air Force units in nearly all the western states. The initial construction of Hill Air Force Base was completed in November 1939. During World War II, OOAMA’s duties consisted primarily of supplying, storing, repairing, and maintaining aircraft. During the postwar period, OOAMA performed similar services during the Berlin Airlift and the Korean and Vietnam wars. By 1960, OOAMA was a world-wide manager for air munitions and explosives. Under the Air Force Logistic Command its duties now include responsibility for the F-16. It remains today an important link in the Air Force’s space-age technology. Hill is the largest single employer in the state.
Wendover Air Force Base, opened in 1939 as sub-post of Fort Douglas’ bombing and gunnery range, finally achieved official Army Air Base status in 1942. During World War II, Wendover served as a training facility for high-altitude formation flying, long-range navigation, target identification, and simulated combat bombing missions. Wendover also trained the plane crews which dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Since the early ’60’s the base has seen very little activity, and while part has been converted to civilian uses, that portion remaining under Air Force control is administered by Hill Air Force Base. Utah General Depot (UGD) received its eighth name, Defense Depot Ogden, on January 1, 1964. At the time of its construction during World War II, it was the largest quartermaster depot in the United States, and an indispensable and permanent link in the Army’s supply system