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  • Serial
    Name
    Model
    A/C
    Squadron
    History
  • 230334
    Virgin Sturgeon/Eight Ball
    B-17F
    E
    570th Bomb Squadron
    Original aircraft. Accepted by USAAF 14 May 43. Cheyenne Mod Center 16 May 43. Gore Field 17 May 43. Cheyenne 20 May 43. Geiger Field 28 May 43. Great Falls 7 Jun 43. Chanute 22 Jun 43. Lewiston 23 Jun 43. Smoky Hill 2 Jul 43. Dow Field 13 Jul 43. 8th AF 14 Jul 43. MIA Frankfurt 29 Jan 44. Collided with 230325, part of right wing broke off, crashed into Lake Constance. All POW.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 239821
    Hey Moitle
    B-17G
    J
    570th Bomb Squadron
    Accepted by USAAF 9 Sep 43. Long Beach Mod Center 10 Sep 43. 8th AF 12 Oct 43. John B. Kennedy WIA 16 Mar 44 at Augsburg. MIA Augsburg 13 Apr 44. Hit by flak, crashed near Augsburg. Gallant KIA, rest POW.
  • 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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