Aircraft

42-5338 Ye Old Battle Axe

returned to the USA, 29 June 1945

Type: B-17F-45-BO (Boeing)
Names: Ye Old Battle Axe
Sources: b17flyingfortress.de

Flags. not on the Association aircraft pages; known from the databases

History

10 November 1942Delivered Tulsa
11 December 1942West Palm Beach
31 December 1942Assigned 340BS/97BG Biskra
8 February 1943Chateau-du-Rhumel
1 August 1943Pont-du-Fahs
15 August 1943Depienne
14 November 1943transferred 346BS/99BG Oudna
11 December 1943Tortorella
31 March 1944{22m/99} 483BG Tortorella
22 April 1944Sterparone
5 May 1945retUS Morrison
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Ontario, Cal 29/6/45. YE OLD BATTLE AXE

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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