Production-block:
B-17G-70-VE: 44-8501 to 44-8600
Manufacturer:
Lockheed/Vega
- Bomb Group:
- 305th Bomb Group
- 401st Bomb Group
History of
B-17 44-8505
Delivered Lincoln 7/10/44; Grenier 12/10/44; Assigned 305BG Chelveston 5/12/44; transferred 401BG Deenethorpe 25/5/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 7/6/45; Sth Plains 12/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 25/11/45.
Last updated: 30. November 2018
25. February 2024 access_time 18:58
Some more info: My Grandpa Lawrence Koncelik’s final combat mission – 4/25/45, our last in the war, to Pilsen CZ, Skoda vehicle and armament factory. He was fying this last mission with the Castagnoni crew on ship 44-8505 ”LUCKY”.