B-17 Flying Fortress B-17 44-6522 / Dirty Duchess aka It Flies aka SNAFU aka Sweet Jo aka Hard Luck

History of
B-17 44-6522 / Dirty Duchess aka It Flies aka SNAFU aka Sweet Jo aka Hard Luck

Delivered Hunter 29/8/44; Grenier 15/9/44; Assigned 412BS/95BG [QW-H] Horham 17/9/44 HARD LUCK; (also named DIRTY DUCHESS, SNAFU, SWEET JOE); with A.Z. Weisz, force landed A-82 Rouvres AF, France 25/2/45; with C.E. Willis force landed RAF Woodbridge, Sfk 9/3/45; 70m, Returned to the USA Bradley 24/6/45; Sth Plains 28/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 9/11/45. IT FLIES.

Last updated: 8. March 2019