Aircraft

42-5765 Shanker Ali

salvaged or written off, 19 December 1943

Type: B-17F-20-VE (Lockheed/Vega)
Names: Shanker Ali
Sources: b17flyingfortress.de

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

History

31 December 1942Delivered Long Beach
2 January 1943Denver
31 January 1943Morrison
2 February 1943Assigned 416BS/99BG (extn bomb racks fitted) Navarin
4 August 1943Oudna
11 December 1943Tortorella
battle damaged Innsbruck 19/12/43 with Claude Scott, Hinson, Jones, Conner (4wia)
transferred 483BG Sterparone 6/44
Salvaged 21/10/44. SHANKER ALI

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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