B-17 Flying Fortress B-17 44-83470

History of
B-17 44-83470

Delivered Hunter 12/3/45; Grenier 18/3/45; Assigned 8AF 30/3/45, modified with radar aids for Air Sea Rescue duties, Halesworth, Sfk, UK; Returned to the USA Bradley 6/6/45; 4104 BU Rome 28/6/45; Garden City 22/9/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 18/1/46; 4136 BU Tinker 20/1/47; 4104 BU Rome 28/1/47; re-ass 31/3/47; 5 Air Sea Rescue Alaska 6/6/47; 10 RES Adak 18/1/48; 10 RES Davis 26/4/48 (Adak re-named Davis after Everett S. Davis, first 11AF officer in Aleutians, killed in C-47 at Naknek); ALA Elmendorf 23/6/48; 10 RES Davis 23/8/48; with Eldon Davis force landed three miles ESE of base Kulak Bay 5/7/50; 10 RC Elmendorf 7/7/50; 10 RC Davis 13/9/50, Recl Comp 13/9/50.

Last updated: 3. November 2017