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  • Serial
    Name
    Model
    A/C
    Squadron
    History
  • 231229
    Bad Egg
    B-17G
    S
    570th Bomb Squadron
    Accepted by USAAF 30 Sep 43. Cheyenne Mod Center 8 Oct 43. Grand Isle 26 Oct 43. 8th AF 10 Nov 43. Caught fire from explosion of 297871 on Dusseldorf mission on 9 Sep 44. Flew two hours on one engine, landed at A-22, France. Salvaged 14 Nov 44.
  • 231275
    GI Wonder
    B-17G
    A
    570th Bomb Squadron
    Accepted by USAAF 8 Oct 43. Cheyenne Mod Center 13 Oct 43. Grand Isle 25 Oct 43. 8th AF 9 Nov 43. Melvin R. Adams WIA 29 Jul 44 at Merseburg. To U.S. and Kingman 13 Nov 45.
  • 231932
    Purdy Baby/Miss Cue/Sister Kate/Rick-O-Shay IV
    B-17G
    H
    571st Bomb Squadron
    Accepted by USAAF 4 Jan 44. Cheyenne Mod Center 27 Jan 44. Billings 30 Jan 44. Grand Island 11 Feb 44. Grenier 23 Feb 44. 8th AF 23 Feb 44. John Ward WIA 20 Apr 44 at La Glacerie. To U.S. 6 Jul 45. To Kingman 18 Dec 45.
  • 231971
    Twenty-One or Bust
    B-17G
    F
    570th Bomb Squadron
    Accepted by USAAF 7 Jan 44. Cheyenne Mod Center 8 Jan 44. Great Falls 12 Jan 44. Kearney 23 Jan 44. 8th AF 4 Feb 44. Thomas J. Sutters KIA, Otto Fugett WIA 13 Apr 44 on Augsburg mission. MIA Leige 11 May 44. Hit by flak, crashed at Gilz-Rijen. Corkrean, Rutherford KIA, rest POW.
  • 237932
    Ole Basser
    B-17G
    P
    570th Bomb Squadron
    Accepted by USAAF 28 Oct 43. Denver Mod Center 18 Oct 43. 8th AF 11 Nov 43. MIA Chartres, France 2 Mar 44. Hit by flak near tail. Large pices of vertical stabilizer and entire left horizontal stabilizer, several feet of rear fuselage blown off. Started to climb, then looped and dove steeply down. Crashed near Abbeville. Baker, Shecter, DeLong, McCarty POW. Jones evades, rest KIA.
  • 239911
    Mary Lou
    B-17G
    N
    570th Bomb Squadron
    Accepted by USAAF 5 Oct 43. Long Beach Mod Center 5 Oct 43. Grand Island 17 Nov 43. 8th AF 17 Nov 43. Karl Kassel WIA 29 Jan 44 at Frankfurt. MIA Berlin 8 May 44. Shot down by fighters. Crashed at Suedstedt. Baggett, Pilgrim KIA, rest POW.
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