Production-block:
B-17G-50-DL: 44-6251 to 44-6500
Manufacturer:
Douglas
History of
B-17 44-6393 / Return To Glory
Delivered Kearney 22/7/44; Grenier 8/8/44; Assigned 97BG Amendola 20/8/44; depot 21/8/44; Sal; Returned to the USA Bolling 5/45; 4112 BU Olmstead 3/46; used by Gen Ira Eaker as STARDUSTER from Bolling 3/48; 18 MSG Clark Fd, Phillipines 9/48; 1130 SAG Nanking, China; US Embassy in Canada 11/49; 3510 FTW Randolph 2/53; Davis-Monthan 9/55; to Aero Boliviano as CP-627 & CP-891 freight-carrier 6/56; crashed La Paz, Bolivia, but rep; Returned to the USA 1980, restored now in 15AF Museum as 2ND PATCHES, now in March AFB Museum, Riverside, Cal. as RETURN TO GLORY.
Last updated: 16. November 2019
17. October 2018 access_time 15:37
My father, Wayne Amelang. was Ira Eaker’s flight engineer on 44-6393, Starduster. at the end of WWII.