B-17 Flying Fortress B-17 42-30180 / Guzzlers

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-30180 / Guzzlers
General
Manufacturer: Boeing
Production-Block: , B-17F-90-BO: 42-30132 to 42-30231
Operational History
Bomb Group: , 384th Bomb Group, 388th Bomb Group, 96th Bomb Group
Bomb Squadron: , 337th Bomb Squadron, 563rd Bomb Squadron
RCL AW-H
Fate: , in Aphrodite Project, Failed to return
(11 September 1944)
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History of
B-17 42-30180 / Guzzlers

Delivered Cheyenne 24/4/43; Smoky Hill 5/5/43; Presque Is 30/5/43; Assigned 384BG Grafton Underwood 10/6/43; transferred 337BS/96BG [AW-H] Andrews Fd 6/7/43 GUZZLERS; Snetterton 12/6/43, BLACK HAWK; 563BS/388BG APH Knettishall /43; Missing in Action (as drone), with Lt Richard. Lindahl killed by static line incorrectly attached bailing out, Navigator: Lt D. Salles (Returned to Duty) off Heligoland shore 11/9/44.

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