Aircraft
42-102472 Shoo Shoo Baby
816thsalvaged or written off, 22 June 1944
- Type
- B-17G-50-BO (Boeing)
- Names
- Shoo Shoo Baby
- Assigned to the 483rd
- 17 April 1944
- Sources
- Association page · American Air Museum · b17flyingfortress.de
History
- 7 March 1944Delivered Cheyenne
- 15 March 1944Hunter
- 7 April 1944Morrison
- 17 April 1944Assigned 816BS/483BG Steparone
- battle damaged Fornovo di Taro, It 22/6/44 with Bob Johnston, Erickson, Lynch, Buford, Nielsen, Cretors, Heimel, Mallett, Casteel, Morley (10 Returned to Duty)
- u/c collapsed on return landing. Salvaged. SHOO SHOO BABY
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 42-102472 B-17 G 50 BO 'Shoo Shoo Baby' · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17 42-102472 B-17 G 50 BO 'Shoo Shoo Baby' · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17 42-102472 B-17 G 50 BO 'Shoo Shoo Baby' · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17 42-102472 B-17 G 50 BO 'Shoo Shoo Baby' · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17 42-102472 B-17 G 50 BO 'Shoo Shoo Baby' · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17 42-102472 B-17 G 50 BO 'Shoo Shoo Baby' · view at 15thaf.org
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