B-17 Flying Fortress B-17 43-38514 / “E-Z Goin”

Source:
100thbg.com

General
Manufacturer: Boeing
Production-Block: , B-17G-90-BO 43-38474 to 43-38673
Operational History
Bomb Group: , 100th Bomb Group, 482nd Bomb Group
Bomb Squadron: , 349th Bomb Squadron
Fate: , Rammed by E/A
(07 April 1945)
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History of
B-17 43-38514 / “E-Z Goin”

Delivered Cheyenne 11/8/44; Hunter 23/8/44; Dow Fd 8/9/44; Assigned 349BS/100BG [XR-J] Thorpe Abbotts 8/9/44; with Joe Martin on 7/4/45 rammed by enemy aircraft but limped home; in mid air collision with 42-37972 (100BG) badly damaging tail, but new one fitted and transferred 482BG Alconbury 20/5/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 2/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 6/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 17/12/45. E-Z GOIN’.

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