B-17 Flying Fortress B-17 43-38310

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Production-block:
B-17G-85-BO: 43-38274 to 43-38473

Manufacturer:
Boeing

Bomb Group:
493rd Bomb Group

Bomb Squadron:
860th Bomb Squadron

Fate:

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History of
B-17 43-38310

Delivered Cheyenne 19/7/44; Kearney 27/7/44; Grenier 7/8/44; Assigned 860BS/493BG Debach 9/8/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 5/7/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 6/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 21/11/45.

Source: The B-17 Flying Fortress Story (Affiliate-Link/CommissionsEarned)

Last updated: 2. February 2020

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Tino
28. December 2019 11:09

This Airframe is listed in my Grandfather’s service record as one of the airplanes he crewed as a tSgt under Cpt. Lodman. 43-38310 is mentioned in a number of entries into the Mission Logs. She is referred to as Ship 310 of Sqdn 860 – or by the Crew Designation of “One More Time” – and our first reference in the Logs is “Mission 056” to deliver ordinance to the IG Farben Chemical Plant in Ludwigshafen, Germany on 13 September, 1944.

b17flyingfortress.de
28. December 2019 12:38

Hello Tino, thank you very much for sharing you Grandfather’s records!

Joao Antônio
30. January 2024 15:00

Hello Tino,

I’m a collector of military antiques and I have the Ernest J. Pinkham Pilot Uniform, which was also attributed to this plane. I managed to do some good research on this veteran and I can share it with you.
I would be very happy if Tino could share the information he has to enrich our research!

Tino
01. February 2024 7:07

Absolutely, my pleasure – unfortunately, I’m not well-versed with Major Pinkham, I can confirm that he was in the same Squadron as my grandfather, Eugene Williams, a Tech Sergeant under Major Lodman. I’m pretty sure I can dig up the dates Major Lodman’s team crewed “One More Time”, but I don’t think that would help you much, other than give you dates that Major Pinkham’s team was on another aircraft.