Aircraft
44-6329
817threturned to the USA, 18 September 1945
- Type
- B-17G-50-DL (Douglas)
- Assigned to the 483rd
- 17 July 1944
- Sources
- Association page · American Air Museum · b17flyingfortress.de
History
- 5 July 1944Delivered Kearney
- 12 July 1944Grenier
- 17 July 1944Assigned 817BS/483BG Sterparone
- 18 September 1945Returned to the USA 1103 BU Morrison
- 18 December 1945Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge
Dates and events from Dave Osborne's B-17 Master Log, as published by b17flyingfortress.de; wording condensed to the facts.
Photographs and loss sheets
- B-17 44-6329 B-17 G 50 DL · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17 44-6329 B-17 G No 'Name' (2 scans) · view at 15thaf.org
- B-17 44-6329 B-17 G 50 DL · view at 15thaf.org
- UPL 25276 Don C. Woods Crew 483rd BG 817 SQ (aircraft # 44-6329) front row: John W. Holbrook TG, Merril F. Filz BT, Howard O. Hoyt LW, Robert Foote A/RW; back row: Don S. Jones, Thomas M. Reinhardt N, Don C. Woods P · view at American Air Museum in Britain
These pictures stay on the sites that hold them and are shown here by link only, until their owners say they may be copied.
Know something about this aircraft?
If this record is wrong or missing something, a middle name, the right squadron, who is who in a photograph, what he said about a day, tell us. Nothing you send is shown without your say-so.