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Source:
www.fold3.com
Production-block:
B-17G-70-DL: 44-6876 to 44-7000
Manufacturer:
Douglas
- Bomb Group:
- 92nd Bomb Group
- Bomb Squadron:
- 407th Bomb Squadron
- RCL: PY-T
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History of
B-17 44-6976 / Flak Dodger
Delivered Hunter 5/1/45; Dow Fd 18/1/45; Assigned 407BS/92BG [PY-T] Podington 1/2/45; in base taxi accident with Bob Wilkinson 22/5/45; to Istres Fd, France 5/6/45, ret 27/6/45; Salvaged 9AF Germany 31/5/46. FLAK DODGER.
Last updated: 15. October 2018
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B-17 44-6976 / Flak Dodger Details
Maybe photos does not show the B-17 #44-6976 Flak Dodger. But no other B-17 with the name Flak Dodger of the 92nd Bomb Group are known. For more information, see the comments below.
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15. October 2018 access_time 12:49
If the photo of Crew 113 (Dexter’s) shown above was taken 23 June 1944 at Podington, the date it arrived in Podington cannot have been 1/2/45? Maybe a different Flak Dodger; there were a few I believe, or a typo which should read 1/2/44?
15. October 2018 access_time 12:56
Thank you! You are right. Maybe this “Flak Dodger” is not #44-6976. Podington 1/2/45 should be correct, because other B-17s in same production-block arrived UK early 1945. But no other B-17 of the 92nd Bomb Group was called “Flak Dodger”. That’s a mistery.
11. August 2020 access_time 19:23
God bless them all!!
21. December 2025 access_time 10:24
the olive drab finish and high count of sortie markings eliminate the match up of this serial number with this image. Recommend removing the image from this listing accordingly.
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21. December 2025 access_time 10:47
The 43m sortie markings and olive drab paint over the high underside demarcation mark tis as a much earlier California built B-17G. Perhaps with some photo adjustments the demarcation on the #2 cowling can determine if she is a Douglas or Vega build the Long Beach range would be in the Block 20/30 range ( 42-38XXXX or slightly lower). a Vega would be 42-39XXX or 42-97YXX where Y= high 400 or low 500.
Recommend checking those ranges. If Group is known this may yield an identity. If 1st Bomb Division, Cliff Bishop may list her. she would have arrived in 1943.
22. December 2025 access_time 13:35
There were very few early block Douglas or Vega B-17Gs left in the 92nd Bomb Group at the time the photograph was taken. The data block style matches Douglas. I favour 42-38110 being ‘Flak Dodger’. It was also in the 407th Bomb Squadron.