Aircraft
44-6319
816thlost or wrecked with the 483rd, no report located, 12 July 1945
- Type
- B-17G-50-DL (Douglas)
- Assigned to the 483rd
- 18 July 1944
- Sources
- b17flyingfortress.de
Flags. loss or accident during 483rd service known from the Master Log (no report cited); no Association sheet not on the Association aircraft pages; known from the databases
History
- 3 July 1944Delivered Kearney
- 12 July 1944Grenier
- 18 July 1944Assigned 816BS/483BG Sterparone
- engine fire causing early returm from Ploesti 10/8/44 with Tom Brown, Kempton, Porter, Stebbins, Radell, Garlet, Komm, Forster, Mitchell, Tate (10 Returned to Duty)
- crew ordered to bail before ship crash landed at base
- Rep
- 12 July 1945Returned to the USA Bradley
- 13 July 1945Independence
- 7 February 1946Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Albuquerque
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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