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  • Serial
    Name
    Model
    A/C
    Squadron
    History
  • 230348
    Royal Flush
    B-17F
    N
    569th Bomb Squadron
    Original aircraft. Accepted by USAAF 17 May 43. Cheyenne Mod Center 18 May 43. Geiger Field 27 May 43. Great Falls 7 Jun 43. Smoky Hill 9 Jul 43. Dow Field 14 Jul 43. 8th AF 17 Jul 43. MIA Bremen 16 Dec 43. Shot down by fighters, crashed near Oldenburg. All POW.
  • 231292
    Dolly
    B-17G
    F
    569th Bomb Squadron
    Accepted by USAAF 12 Oct 43. Cheyenne Mod Center 16 Oct 43. 8th AF 10 Nov 43. MIA Frankfurt 4 Feb 44. Hit by flak, crashed at Lekkerkerk. All POW.
  • 231321
    B-17G
    M
    569th Bomb Squadron
    Accepted by USAAF 15 Oct 43. Vandalia 26 Oct 43. 8th AF 22 Dec 43. Landed in Kiev to refuel after mission to Ruhland on 21 Jun 44. On departing Poltava on 28 Jun 44, ran into weather and landed at Teheran. To Cairo on 29 Jun 44. Landed at Tripoli. Had five P-51 mechanics as passengers. To Casablanca 3 Jul 44. To England 9 Jul 44. Crash landed at Tolwyn, Wales. Hit an air raid shelter. Damaged beyond repair, salvaged. Crew safe.
  • 231466
    Sitting Pretty
    B-17G
    A
    569th Bomb Squadron
    Accepted by USAAF 3 Nov 43. Cheyenne Mod Center 4 Nov 43. Bangor 20 Nov 43. 8th AF 4 Jan 44. Severe flak damage over Brussels on return from mission to Augsburg 13 Apr 44. Vantries WIA at target. Nr. 3 engine windmilling and smoking. Nr 3 prop falls off engine over Channel. Tschudy had 3rd degree burns on hands while throwing out .50 cal gun. Ground looped after landing at RAF base. Crew returned to base next day. Plane later repaired and returned to duty. MIA Leipzig 29 May 44. Shot down by fighters. Nr. 4 engine feathered, right wing on fire and tail damaged. Turned over on its back and went down in spin. Crashed near Rochefort. All evade.
  • 231603
    Belle of the Brawl
    B-17G
    N
    569th Bomb Squadron
    Accepted by USAAF 22 Nov 43. Denver Mod Center 23 Nov 43. Kearney 16 Nov 43. Wilimington 31 Dec 43. Manchester 1 Jan 44. MIA La Glacerie, France 8 May 44. Hit by flak, crashed near Breuville. Vlahos, Morris POW, rest KIA.
  • 231974
    Bomboogie
    B-17G
    G
    570th Bomb Squadron
    Accepted by USAAF 7 Jan 44. Cheyenne Mod Center 8 Jan 44. Great Falls 12 Jan 44. Memphis 23 Jan 44. Savannah 24 Jan 44. 8th AF 4 Feb 44. Returned to U.S. 3 Jul 45. Romulus 4 Jul 45. Love Field 5 Jul 45. South Plains 6 Jul 45. Declared excess 23 Oct 45. To Kingman 30 Nov 45.
  • 239876
    Gloria Ann
    B-17G
    E
    569th Bomb Squadron
    Accepted by USAAF 25 Sep 43. Denver Mod Center 27 Sep 43. Grand Island 19 Oct 43. 8th AF 20 Oct 43. Sever damage from enemy 20mm cannon fire on Berlin mission 6 Mar 44. Salvaged. Plane had over 700 holes.
  • 239879
    B-17G
    A
    569th Bomb Squadron
    Accepted by USAAF 27 Sep 43. Long Beach Mod Center 28 Sep 43. Grand Island 18 Nov 43. 8th AF 22 Nov 43. MIA Brunswick 11 Jan 44. Shot down by fighters, crashed at Lingen. Vaughn KIA, rest POW.
  • 239926
    Yankee Doodle Dandy/Holey Joe/General Sherman/Quee
    B-17G
    B
    569th Bomb Squadron
    Accepted by USAAF 9 Oct 43. Long Beach Mod Center 9 Oct 43. Grand Island 22 Oct 43. 8th AF 9 Nov 43. John Oliver, Francis MacKay, Stanley Davis, Von Schlegel WIA 11 Dec 43 at Emden. Thomas Parks WIA 4 Feb 44 at Frankfurt. To U.S. 9 Jul 45. To Kingman 18 Dec 45.
  • 239953
    Flying Coffin/Dutch Cleaner/Yankee Doodle Dandy
    B-17G
    J
    569th Bomb Squadron
    Accepted by USAAF 15 Oct 43. Long Beach Mod Center 15 Oct 43. Grand Island 1 Nov 43. 8th AF 17 Nov 43. Aircraft christened Yankee Doodle Dandy by Jimmy Cagney 15 Mar 44. MIA Leipzig 29 May 44. Shot down by fighters. Nr. 1 engine on fire, left aileron and wing damaged. Crashed near Leipzig. Nesbitt, Larson, Dyer, Meyer KIA, rest POW.
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