Aircraft
42-3077 Jenny Lou
816thlost or wrecked with the 483rd, no report located
- Type
- B-17F-25-DL (Douglas)
- Names
- Jenny Lou
- Assigned to the 483rd
- 26 April 1944
- Sources
- Association page · American Air Museum · b17flyingfortress.de
Flags. loss or accident during 483rd service known from the Master Log (no report cited); no Association sheet
History
- 3 February 1943Delivered Denver
- 7 April 1943Assigned 419BS/301BG Oudna, Tun.
- 7 December 1943Cerignola
- 1 February 1944Lucera
- 26 April 1944`23m` transferred 816BS/483BG Sterparone
- ret Cairo 28/11/44 with Willard Sperry, Carey, Hammer, Hagley, Farrer (5RTD – wia)
- Barber, Lubejko, White, Harris, Billingsley (5 Killed in Action)
- crashed Buvo, It. burned out
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 42-3077 B-17 F 25 DL 'Jenny Lou' · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17 42-3077 B-17 F 25 DL 'Jenny Lou' · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17 42-3077 B-17 F 25 DL 'Jenny Lou' · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17 42-3077 B-17 F 25 DL 'Jenny Lou' · view at 15thaf.org
- Aaa 000 (on the page of B-17 42-3077) · view at 15thaf.org
- Aaaa 000 (on the page of B-17 42-3077) · view at 15thaf.org
- Aaaaa 000 (on the page of B-17 42-3077) · view at 15thaf.org
- Ab 000 (on the page of B-17 42-3077) · view at 15thaf.org
- Abb 000 (on the page of B-17 42-3077) · view at 15thaf.org
- Urban G Steinmetz · view at American Air Museum in Britain
- UPL 54718 James E. Brewer’s Crew, 97th BG · view at American Air Museum in Britain
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