| General | |
|---|---|
| Manufacturer: | Lockheed/Vega |
| Production-Block: | , B-17F-45-VE: 42-6030 to 42-6104 |
| Operational History | |
|---|---|
| Bomb Group: | - |
| Bomb Squadron: | - |
| Fate: | |
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History of
B-17 42-6036
Delivered Long Beach 30/6/43; Amarillo 7/7/43; Dallas 9/8/43; 4100 BU Patterson 27/1/44; modified to XC-108 as taxi for Gen Frank Hackett 10AF Bengal, India; Returned to the USA 4/2/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Augusta 25/11/46; Assigned ATC Europe 30/4/47, probably at Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany.
Information may include corrections and additions based on Jing’s research.
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02. September 2026 access_time 22:23
I am a WWII historian based on the Ten people in my extended family who served.
In the papers of one of them, a senior officer, he recounts for 5 September 1946: “We boarded the special B-17, #6036, at 0945 and five minutes later were airborne for Paris. Hot coffee was served aboard in mid-morning flight, followed by a hot lunch, both enjoyed. We arrived at Orly Field, Paris, at 0145 hours.”
This flight originated at Marcianise Airfield, Caserta, Italy, then the HQ of the MTO, the Mediterranean Theater of Operations during the wind-down after the war. The officer was on his way to Washington for conferences related to the administration of the MTO through 1947.
That tail number, without year, is all I have. 44-6036 had already been salvaged by this time, and 42-6036 here has some reference to Transport Command. Have I got the right plane?
Tom Lee, Cincinnati