Production-block:
Boeing B-17E: 41-2393 to 41-2669
Manufacturer:
Boeing
- Bomb Group:
- 19th Bomb Group
- 43rd Bomb Group
- Bomb Squadron:
- 30th Bomb Squadron
- 64th Bomb Squadron
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.
Last updated: 4. April 2018
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