B-17 Flying Fortress B-17 44-8149

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 44-8149
General
Manufacturer: Lockheed/Vega
Production-Block: , B-17G-50-VE: 44-8101 to 44-8200
Operational History
Bomb Group: , 486th Bomb Group, 487th Bomb Group, 94th Bomb Group
Bomb Squadron: , 410th Bomb Squadron, 833rd Bomb Squadron, 839th Bomb Squadron
RCL R5-M, 2N-M
Fate: , Lost by unknown reason
(16 July 1945)
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History of
B-17 44-8149

Delivered Dallas 27/6/44; Langley 24/7/44; Dow Fd 18/8/44; Assigned 839BS/487BG Lavenham 29/10/44; transferred 833BS/486BG [2N-M] Sudbury 10/44; 2m transferred 410BS/94BG Rougham 29/5/45. Used for photography along Belgian-Dutch coasts (coded WIPE); crash landed with Walt Sutherland at Vils, Austria 16/7/45. Salvaged 9AF Germany 20/2/47.

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B-17 44-8149 Crew

Position Rank Name Status Note
P 1LT Walter D. Sutherland, Jr. KIS

This page was last updated on 30 July 2022

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