Aircraft

42-107081 Crazy Horse / Crazy House

Type

B-17G-35-DL (Douglas)

Names

Crazy Horse / Crazy House

Assigned to the 483rd

18 April 1944

Loss

Association record · mission 138, 18 December 1944

Sources

Association page · American Air Museum · b17flyingfortress.de

Loss and incident records

• Association record · 18 December 1944 · mission 138, 18 December 1944

Incidents

• 18 December 1944 · mission 138, 18 December 1944 · no Missing Air Crew Report located in the catalog for this aircraft; loss or incident known only from the Association aircraft page (sheets: Czechoslovakia (S.O.E. Mission))

History

• 15 February 1944Delivered Tulsa
• 3 March 1944Hunter
• 19 March 1944Morrison
• 18 April 1944Assigned 815BS/483BG Sterparone
• one of two squadron aircraft (the other 42-32043) used on SOE missions to Czechoslovakia, with supplies to Resistance, and returning with US evadees
• Salvaged 6/12/44 after ground looping at Sterparone with Dave Rice. CRAZY HOUSE

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 42-107081 B-17 G 35 DL 'Crazy Horse' (2 scans) · view at 15thaf.org
• Loss sheet or report scan for B-17 42-107081, mission 138 Czechoslovakia (S.O.E. Mission) · 18 December 1944 (12 scans) · view at 15thaf.org
• UPL 27930 483rd BG, 815th BS B-17G 42-107081 'Crazy House' unloads on the Reich · view at American Air Museum in Britain

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