Production-block:
B-17G-10-VE: 42-39958 to 42-40057
Manufacturer:
Lockheed/Vega
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History of
B-17 42-40038
Delivered Long Beach 10/11/43; Orlando 29/11/43; Written off 14/1/44.
Last updated: 31. December 2018
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13 January 1944
B-17G-30-DL, 42-38094, flown by Ralph M. Calhoon, and B-17G-10-VE, 42-40038, piloted by Thomas W. Williams,[65] of the 99th Bomb Squadron, collide ~10 miles SW of Brooksville Army Airfield, Florida,[68] killing four officers and five enlisted men, reports Brigadier General Hume Peabody, commander of the Army Air Forces Tactical Center (AAFTAC), at Orlando. One victim is Sgt. Benjamin B. Estes, son of J. M. Estes, Burley, Idaho
One of these my father was assigned to be on. The only flight he was ever late for. Haunted him that someone else had to go and died in his place.