Aircraft
44-6765 Doughboy Speed
840thlost or wrecked with the 483rd, no report located, 6 June 1945
- Type
- B-17G-65-DL (Douglas)
- Names
- Doughboy Speed
- Assigned to the 483rd
- 7 December 1944
- Sources
- Association page · American Air Museum · b17flyingfortress.de
Flags. loss or accident during 483rd service known from the Master Log (no report cited); no Association sheet
History
- 4 November 1944Delivered Hunter
- 14 November 1944Grenier
- 7 December 1944Assigned 840BS/483BG Sterparone
- crashed in Alps 20 miles NE Campo Tures, It 6/6/45 with John Mason, Gibson, Williams, Jackson, Arroyo, Fraser, Horner, Frame, Barnstable, Vold (10 Killed in Action)
- plus ten passengers all KIA
- DOUGHBOY SPEED
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 44-6765 B-17 G 65 DL 'Doughboy Speed' · view at 15thaf.org
- UPL 24410 B-17G-65-DL #44-6765 "Doughboy Speed" · view at American Air Museum in Britain
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