Aircraft
42-29527 Jig-Jig
salvaged or written off, 6 August 1943
- Type
- B-17F-55-BO (Boeing)
- Names
- Jig-Jig
- Assigned to the 483rd
- 31 March 1944
- Sources
- b17flyingfortress.de
Flags. not on the Association aircraft pages; known from the databases
History
- 31 December 1942Delivered Cheyenne
- 10 January 1943Salina
- 5 March 1943Morrison
- 8 March 1943Brookley
- 10 April 1943Morrison
- 5 June 1943Assigned 416BS/99BG Navarin
- 4 August 1943Oudna
- battle damaged Messina 6/8/43 with Barton, Trentadue {Wounded in Action}, Lesney {Wounded in Action}, May, Shay, Harper, Valleau {Wounded in Action}, Steele, Kellerman, Cunningham
- 12 August 1943force landed Comiso, 2 engines out & 3 WIA, aircraft repaired
- 11 December 1943Tortorella
- 31 March 1944transferred 483BG Tortorella
- Salvaged 2/8/45. JIG-JIG
Dates and events from Dave Osborne's B-17 Master Log, as published by b17flyingfortress.de; wording condensed to the facts.
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