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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.
  • 230266
    Wild Children/Lucky Strike
    B-17F
    W
    569th Bomb Squadron
    Original aircraft. Accepted by USAAF 3 May 43. Cheyenne Mod Center 8 May 43. Gore Field 9 May 43. Moses Lake 22 May 43. Geiger Field 25 May 43. Great Falls 7 Jun 43. Smoky Hill 1 Jul 43. Dow Field 11 Jul 43. 8th AF 31 Jul 43. John R. Schoenig WIA 8 Oct 43 at Bremen. Crashed at Grove Farm 3 miles from base during practice mission 9 Jul 44. All KIA.
  • 230642
    Geronimo
    B-17F
    O
    569th Bomb Squadron
    Accepted by USAAF 1 Jul 43. Cheyenne Mod Center 3 Jul 43. Gore Field 4 Jul 43. Cheyenne 5 Jul 43. Dow Field 27 Jul 43. Hit by flak, one engine out, crashed near Malmedy 19 July 44. All KIA.
  • 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.
  • 231649
    Old Soldier/Shatzi III
    B-17G
    C
    569th Bomb Squadron
    Aceepted by USAAF 27 Nov 43. Cheyenne Mod Center 30 Nov 43. Kearney 13 Dec 43. Grenier 26 Jan 44. 8th AF 28 Han 44. Arthur Harman WIA 23 Mar 44 at Brunswick. Took off on weather mission on 24 May 44. Mechanical difficulty, probably fire, force crew to bail out. Plane crashed in the Willows, a wood south of base. Percy Stressing crew. Salvaged 27 May 44.
  • 237723
    Paydola/Johnny Walker
    B-17G
    U
    569th Bomb Squadron
    Accepted by USAAF 10 Aug 43. Denver Mod Center 10 Aug 43. Redmond, Oregon 15 Aug 43. 8th AF 8 Sep 43. Andrew Wallner WIA 22 Mar 44 at Berlin. Returned to U.S. 10 Jul 45. South Plains 11 Jul 45. Declared excess 12 Jul 45. To Kingman 19 Nov 45.
  • 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.
  • 239852
    Shatzi II - We Aim to Please
    B-17G
    Z
    569th Bomb Squadron
    Accepted by USAAF 18 Sep 43. Long Beach Mod Center 20 Sep 43. Scott Field 7 Oct 43. 8th AF 9 Oct 43. Jack Roth WIA 13 Apr 44 at Augsburg. To U.S. 4 Jul 45. To Kingman 16 Nov 45.
  • 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.
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