Production-block:
B-17G-35-BO: 42-31932 to 42-32116
Manufacturer:
Boeing
- Bomb Group:
- 100th Bomb Group
- Bomb Squadron:
- 351st Bomb Squadron
- RCL: EP-L
Fate:
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History of
B-17 42-32018 / Waticare
Delivered Cheyenne 15/1/44; Gr Island 28/1/44; Assigned 351BS/100BG [EP-L] Thorpe Abbotts 11/2/44; out of gas with Chas Mylius force landed then destroyed on ground by Luftwaffe at Poltava, Russia, 21/6/44; Salvaged 25/11/45. (This aircraft apparently not fitted with ball turret. Why?) WATICARE.
Last updated: 1. August 2020
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07. December 2023 access_time 4:52
WatICare was not destroyed at Poltava, according to a crew member’s log. Capt. Mylius (my mother’s first cousin) crash-landed the out-of-fuel ship at a fighter base near Kiev, where it was repaired and departed five days later (passing through Poltava and seeing the wreckage of other B-17s there), making a circuitous trip home that took it across North Africa, finally arriving back in England on July 7, The ship flew at least two more missions afterward. All this is from the 100th Bomber Group Foundation website.