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  • Serial
    Name
    Model
    A/C
    Squadron
    History
  • 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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