B-17 Flying Fortress B-17 42-29923 / Pappy’s Hellions III aka The Lucky Strike

B-17 #42-29923 / Pappy’s Hellions III aka The Lucky Strikezoom_in

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  • RCL: WF-K, VE-K
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History of
B-17 42-29923 / Pappy’s Hellions III aka The Lucky Strike

Delivered Cheyenne 13/3/43; Casper 28/3/43; Tinker 10/4/43; Assigned 364BS/305BG [WF-K] Chelveston 18/5/43 PAPPY’S HELLIONS III; Transferred 532BS/381BG [VE-K] Ridgewell 11/9/43; battle damaged 2m Keil 4/1/44 with Rowland Evans, Co-pilot: Everett Scarborough, Navigator: Marion Harkness, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: John Sasson WIS, Radio Operator: Melvin Samuels, Waist gunner: Julius Vargo WIS, Waist gunner: Delbert Rasey WIS, Tail gunner: Hoyt Burckhalter (8 Returned to Duty); Bombardier: Irving Kraut, Ball turret gunner: Julius Rivera 2 KIS – both skull fractures; short of gas and crash landed Church Farm, Cawston, Nfk; 2 SAD Lt Staughton 5/1/44; Salvaged 7/1/44. LUCKY STRIKE.

Last updated: 20. June 2021

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B-17 42-29923 / Pappy’s Hellions III aka The Lucky Strike Details

B-17F #42-29923 ‘Lucky Strike’ with markings of the 305th Bomb Group.
B-17F #42-29923 ‘Lucky Strike’ and ground crew.
B-17F #42-29923 ‘Lucky Strike’ with markings of the 381st Bomb Group, 532nd Bomb Squadron
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