Production-block:
B-17G-45-VE: 44-8001 to 44-8100
Manufacturer:
Lockheed/Vega
- Bomb Group:
- 100th Bomb Group
- 95th Bomb Group
- Bomb Squadron:
- 349th Bomb Squadron
- RCL: XR-E
History of
B-17 44-8009
Delivered Dallas 11/5/44; Langley 19/6/44; Dow Fd 7/7/44; Assigned as PFF 95BG Horham 8/7/44; 8m, (tran 349BS/100BG [XR-E] Thorpe Abbotts 9/7/44?); Returned to the USA Charleston 2/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 5/1/46.
Last updated: 6. January 2018
07. February 2023 access_time 12:32
The name of this plane was “This Will Kill You”. My grandfather, Richard Tunnicliff, was the bombardier.