Aircraft
44-8459
returned to the USA, 5 January 1946
- Type
- B-17G-65-VE (Lockheed/Vega)
- Sources
- b17flyingfortress.de
Flags. not on the Association aircraft pages; known from the databases
History
- 18 September 1944Delivered Cheyenne
- 27 October 1944Hunter
- 5 November 1944Grenier
- 22 November 1944Assigned 429BS/2BG Amendola
- transferred 463BG Celone 2/45
- 483BG Sterparone 2/45
- 346BS/99BR Tortorella
- 22 June 1945force landed with Bill Flynn three miles S of Lucera A/fd
- 5 January 1946RetUS, Reconstruction 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.
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