Aircraft

42-32016 Swamp Gal

Type

B-17G-35-BO (Boeing)

Names

Swamp Gal

Assigned to the 483rd

30 March 1944

Transferred

{'date': '1944-03-31', 'text': 'transferred 347BS/99BG Tortorella'}

Sources

Association page · American Air Museum · b17flyingfortress.de

History

• 15 January 1944Delivered Denver
• 5 February 1944MacDill
• 12 March 1944Morrison
• 30 March 1944Assigned 817BS/483BG Tortorella
• 31 March 1944transferred 347BS/99BG Tortorella
• Missing in Action 87m Brux 25/12/44 with Bill Brandon, Forman, Duncan, McReynolds, Dunn, Kuzan, Leffingwell, Eaton, Lynn.H.Ostrander, Miller
• flak, crashed Oslip, Czech ?
• Missing Air Crew Report 10704. SWAMP GAL

Dates and events from Dave Osborne's B-17 Master Log, as published by b17flyingfortress.de; wording condensed to the facts.

Reports filed by other units

• MACR 10704 · 99th BG 347th BS, Tortorella, 25 Dec 1944 Brux; 42-32016 (817th aircraft page exists; copied from the Reinhardt harvest) · National Archives

Photographs and loss sheets

• B-17 42-32016 B-17 G 35 BO 'Swamp Gal' · view at 15thaf.org
• B-17 42-32016 B-17 G 35 BO 'Swamp Gal' · view at 15thaf.org
• B-17 42-32016 B-17 G 35 BO 'Swamp Gal' · view at 15thaf.org
• Charles D Forman · view at American Air Museum in Britain
• UPL 39947 B17 possibly Swamp Gal (Tortorella airfield, Foggia, Italy, July 1944) WW2 · view at American Air Museum in Britain
• R.A.S.C group photo with American service men in... · view at American Air Museum in Britain
• R.A.S.C group photo with American service men... · view at American Air Museum in Britain
• My grandfather, legend has it my grandmother is... · view at American Air Museum in Britain

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