Production-block:
B-17G-70-VE: 44-8501 to 44-8600
Manufacturer:
Lockheed/Vega
- Bomb Group:
- 100th Bomb Group
- 452nd Bomb Group
- 482nd Bomb Group
- Bomb Squadron:
- 349th Bomb Squadron
- RCL: XR-R
MACR: 11345
History of
B-17 44-8514 / Lassie Come Home
Delivered Lincoln 3/10/44; Grenier 19/10/44; Assigned 482BG H2X Alconbury 20/10/44; transferred 452BG Deopham Green 21/10/44; 349BS/100BG [XR-R] Thorpe Abbotts 23/10/44; battle damaged Frankfurt 29/12/44 with John Furrer, J.R. Fegans, Howard Bobb, L.D. Guthrie, Paul Miller (5 Returned to Duty); Jim Young, John Peters, Jim McElrath (3 Prisoner of War); Bob Garrison (Killed in Action); force landed continent, but eventually repaired & ret UK; Missing Air Crew Report 11345; landing accident with Ron Lebo 19/4/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 2/6/45; Sth Plains 9/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 30/11/45. LASSIE COME HOME.
Last updated: 6. January 2018
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