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  • Serial
    Name
    Model
    A/C
    Squadron
    History
  • 23297
    The Bad Penny
    B-17F
    W
    571st Bomb Squadron
    Original Aircraft. Accepted by USAAF 28 Apr 43. Cheyenne Mod Center 1 May 43. Gieger Field 25 May 43. Great Falls 7 Jun 43. Smoky Hill 29 Jun 43. Dow Field 10 Jul 43. 8th AF 12 Jul 43. MIA Bordeaux 5 Dec 43. Out of fuel. Ditched in North Sea off Abbotsbury. Crew rescued.
  • 23558
    Shy Ann
    B-17F
    T
    571st Bomb Squadron
    Accepted by USAAF 30 Jul 43. Tulsa Mod Center 30 Jul 43. Scott Field 28 Sep 43. 8th AF 27 Aug 43. Salvaged 15 Jul 45.
  • 231651
    Decatur Deb
    B-17G
    G
    571st Bomb Squadron
    Accepted by USAAF 27 Nov 43. Cheyenne Mod Center 30 Nov 43. Gowen Field 5 Dec 43. Salt Lake City 6 Dec 43. Rock Springs 7 Dec 43. Laramie 9 Dec 43. Cheyenne 12 Dec 43. Kearney 17 Dec 43. Romulus 6 Jan 44. Presque Isle 8 Jan 44. 8th AF 12 Jan 44. James Matney WIA 20 Apr 44 at La Glacerie. Louis G. Mathews, navigator on cre 70, slightly wounded at Le Culot, Frankce on 27 Apr 44. MIA Magdeburg 28 May 44. Shot down by fighters. Fire in cockpit and part of vertical stabilizer shot away. Wnet down in a spin and crashed near Magdeburg. Milenock, Bolton, Stoy POW, rest KIA.
  • 237925
    Rick-O-Shay III
    B-17G
    K
    571st Bomb Squadron
    Accepted by USAAF 18 Oct 43. Denver Mod Center 19 Oct 43. Grand Island 1 Nov 43. Romulus 8 Nov 43. 8th AF 15 Nov 43. MIA Augsburg 18 Mar 44. Shot down by fighters. Crashed at Wallburg. Houck, Wallace, Farowich POW, rest KIA.
  • 239887
    Pickle Dropper IV
    B-17G
    J
    571st Bomb Squadron
    Accepted by USAAF 28 Sep 43. Long Beach Mod Center 29 Sep 43. Grand Island 17 Oct 43. 8th AF 1 Nov 43. Louis Matthews WIA 27 Apr 44 at Le Culot. Maurice Heaton, Howard Thomas WIA 7 May 44 at Berlin. MIA Boulogne 5 Jun 44. Hit by flak, caught fire and crashed in English Channel. Eigh bail out prior to crash. All KIA.
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