B-17 Flying Fortress B-17 41-2662 / Spawn of Hell

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 41-2662 / Spawn of Hell
General
Manufacturer: Boeing
Production-Block: , Boeing B-17E: 41-2393 to 41-2669
Operational History
Bomb Group: , 19th Bomb Group, 43rd Bomb Group
Bomb Squadron: , 30th Bomb Squadron, 64th Bomb Squadron
Fate: , RFC Ontario
(04 June 1945)
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History of
B-17 41-2662 / Spawn of Hell

Delivered Minneapolis 7/3/42; Assigned 26BS/11BG; transferred 30BS/19BG Hawaii 21/5/42; transferred 64BS/43BG 13/7/42; damaged over Rabual 7/8/42, landed at Batumata Point, Port Moresby; force landed base 3/6/43 with J.E. Housler; repaired then re-ass 55TCW/375TCG as an armed transport, Dobodura, PNG 11/43; in Aug 44 Assigned to Gen Robt Eichelberger as MISS EM (after his wife); Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Ontario 4/6/45. SPAWN OF HELL.

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