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  • Serial
    Name
    Model
    A/C
    Squadron
    History
  • 229962
    Dottie III/Green Banana
    B-17F
    J
    569th Bomb Squadron
    Accepted by USAAF 17 Mar 43. Cheyenne Mod Center 18 Mar 43. Gore Field 19 Mar 43. Walla Walla 28 Mar 43. Selfridge 29 Apr 43. Presque Isle 4 May 43. 8th AF 7 May 43. Assigned to 96th BG. Name Rum Boogie II. Transferred to 390th BG. MIA Zeitz16 Aug 44. Hit by flak. Harms KIA, rest POW.
  • 230639
    Coy Decoy II
    B-17F
    U
    569th Bomb Squadron
    Accepted by USAAF 30 Jun 43. Cheyenne Mod Center 3 Jul 43. Gore Field 4 Jul 43. Cheyenne 5 Jul 43. Dow Field 27 Jul 43. 8th AF 5 Aug 43. Severe 20mm damage on mission to Hanau 4 Oct 43. Transfer to RAF 21 Jan 44.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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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