Production-block:
Boeing B-17E: 41-9011 to 41-9245
Manufacturer:
Boeing
- Bomb Group:
- 11th Bomb Group
- Bomb Squadron:
- 431st Bomb Squadron
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History of
B-17 41-9217 / Fiji Foo
Delivered Cheyenne 22/5/42; Assigned 431BS/11BG Hawaii 7/6/42; then 26BS; Missing in Action 19/2/43 with Capt Smith. FIJI FOO. (movement card shows – retUS Tinker 16/6/43; Patterson 19/2/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 18/9/45). {a US website shows aircraft Assigned 28FS/6FG and with George Haney in landing accident at Tontouta, New Caledonia, 27/10/43).
Last updated: 16. June 2017
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It crashed on landing when it overshot the runway at Noumea, New Caledonia, on October 27, 1943, while flown by George R. Haney and staging out of Long Beach Army Air Field, California (assigned to 38th BS/6th BG). It was named “The GLOBE TROTTER” at the time of the crash. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/204988443