B-17 Flying Fortress B-17 42-5851

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-5851
General
Manufacturer: Lockheed/Vega
Production-Block: , B-17F-25-VE: 42-5805 to 42-5854
Operational History
Bomb Group: , 384th Bomb Group
Bomb Squadron: , 547th Bomb Squadron
Fate: , Landing accident
(19 May 1943)
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History of
B-17 42-5851

Delivered Long Beach 20/3/43; Sioux City 13/4/43; Kearney 3/5/43; Assigned 547BS/384BG [SO-?] 4/43; t/o Kearney Fd, Neb, 19/5/43 on cross country flight with George Keck, Co-pilot: Ray Gaither, Navigator: Bill Juart, Bombardier: Art Bryant, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Milton Deville, Radio Operator: Frank Hollingsworth, aro-Walden Hughes, aeg-Billy Jackson, ag-Theo Paduch,Tail gunner: Alf Reiss(10 Returned to Duty); on landing left brake was u/s and swerved into piles of earth, crash landed Dow Fd, Bangor, Me. Written off 9/6/43..

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