Aircraft
41-24361 Wabash Cannon Ball
840threturned to the USA, 11 June 1944
- Type
- B-17F-1-BO (Boeing)
- Names
- Wabash Cannon Ball
- Sources
- Association page · American Air Museum · b17flyingfortress.de
History
- 18 July 1942Assigned RAF [FA676] but transferred 301BG Westover
- 6 August 1942Podington
- 24 November 1942Tafaraoui, Alg
- 96BS/2BG Massicault, Tun {38m} 348BS/99BG Oudna, Tun 28/3/44 {52m}
- 31 March 1944840BS/483BG Tortorella, It
- 11 June 1944{98m in total} Returned to the USA
- Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 20/8/45. WABASH CANNON BALL
Dates and events from Dave Osborne's B-17 Master Log, as published by b17flyingfortress.de; wording condensed to the facts.
Photographs and loss sheets
- B-17 41-24361 B-17 F 1 BO 'Wabash Cannon Ball' · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17 41-24361 B-17 F 1 BO 'Wabash Cannon Ball' · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17 41-24361 B-17 F 1 BO 'Wabash Cannon Ball' · view at 15thaf.org
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