42-5830 / The Hag of Harderwyk | B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress

B-17 #42-5830 / The Hag of Harderwyk — **Source:**
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Production-block:
B-17F-25-VE: 42-5805 to 42-5854

Bomb Group:
379th Bomb Group

Bomb Squadron:
524th Bomb Squadron

RCL: WA-T

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History of
B-17 42-5830 / The Hag of Harderwyk

Delivered Long Beach 6/3/43; Sioux City 20/3/43; Kearney 9/4/43; Dow Fd 15/4/43; Assigned 524BS/379BG [WA-T] Kimbolton 20/5/43 AL JO-SON; transferred 2 Base Air Depot, Lt Staughton 4/4/44; Returned to the USA Homestead 26/7/44; Tinker 1/9/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Ontario 7/5/45. HAG OF HARDWYCK.

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Last updated: 31. July 2020

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B-17 42-5830 / The Hag of Harderwyk Details

Lt. Evans of the 379th Bomb Group poses beside the Boeing B-17 “Hag of Harderwyk” at an 8th Air Force base in England on 10 September 1943.

A crew of the 524th Bomb Squadron, 379th Bomb Group poses beside the Boeing B-17 “Hag of Harderwyk” at an 8th Air Force base in England, 1 October 1943.

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Ruud
29. August 2024 20:19

Where does this name come from?
I live close to Harderwijk, the Netherlands.

Erik B.
12. November 2024 16:30

Hi Ruud, I also live near Harderwijk. However, I think this Harderwyk is from the town of Holland, Michigan. There is a Harderwyk Ministries and a Harderwyk Cemetery there. There are also surrounding towns:Zeeland, Drenthe, Vriesland, Borculo, Overisel and Graafschap. Even a supermarket named Meijer. Definitely a county where a lot of Dutchmen settled, maybe they still speak some Dutch there? But no direct link to our Harderwijk, I’d guess…