Aircraft
42-32097 Sadie Hawkins / Sadie Hawkins / Slipstream / Sadie Hawkins aka Slipstream
817thlost with another unit after transfer, 18 December 1944
- Type
- B-17G-35-BO (Boeing)
- Names
- Sadie Hawkins / Sadie Hawkins / Slipstream / Sadie Hawkins aka Slipstream
- Sources
- Association page · American Air Museum · b17flyingfortress.de
History
- 23 January 1944Delivered Cheyenne
- 5 February 1944MacDill
- 9 March 1944Morrison
- Assigned 817BS/483BG Tortorella 13/3/44 as the SADIE HAWKINS)
- Transferred to the 347BS/99BG Tortorella, Italy 31/3/44 and renamed “Slipstream”. Missing in Action 90m Odertal, Ger. 18/12/44, crashed Bruenn, Germany
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 10635 · 99th BG 347th BS, Tortorella, 18 Dec 1944 Odertal; 42-32097 Sadie Hawkins (817th aircraft page exists; copied from the Reinhardt harvest) · National Archives
Photographs and loss sheets
- B-17 42-32097 B-17 G 35 BO 'Sadie Hawkins' · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17 42-32097 B-17 G 35 BO 'Sadie Hawkins' · view at 15thaf.org
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