Douglas-Long Beach B-17G-25-DL 42-38078 Sweet Pea delivered Denver Dec 6, 1943, Savannah Dec 23, 1943. Assigned to 347th BS, 99th BG Jan 7, 1944. Transferred to 429th BS, 2nd BG at Amendola Mar 28, 1944. Named "Sweet Pea". Suffered direct hit by flak Sep 21, 1944 on mission to Debreczen, Hungary, killing 2 crewmen and wounding two. Pilot was able to bring it home and landed safely at home base at Amendola, Italy. Aircraft was repaired and flew again, ending its career as a hack aircraft. FortLog has the plane crashlanding at Bari, Italy Jun 1, 1945 and being destroyed by fire.
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42-38078 Sweet Pea in the air. Apparently also flying shuttle raids to Russia. Assigned to 2nd Bomb Group, 15th Air Force -- crashlanded 21st Sept 44 (3KIA + 1WIA) ; repaired and flown as a hack plane but later crashed at Bari on 1st June 1945 and burned.
Mind boggling...The repaired it..... It flew again
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