eBay: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress

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B17F-1-BO 41-24380 SUPERMAN assigned to 92nd BG at Bangor Jun 24, 1942; sustained a crashlanding at Bangor Jun 26, 1942, repaired; re-assigend to 97th BG, 340th BS at Polebrook Jul 26, 1942; re-assigned to 12th AF at Maison Blanche, Algeria Oct 11 1942. Salvaged November 30, 1945.

 

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[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

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Dig it!

 

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B-17 F Miss Nonalee II "7+8" beim ZG26 Faßberg April 1944

 

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Israeli Fortress, not seen every day

 

[fubar57]

Never knew they had B-17s.


Geo

 

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Geo, 69 Squadron (Israel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots!

 

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Honey Chile II

 

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RAF, 41-2622 to RAF as FK198. Struck on ground by another Fortress Apr 9, 1944

 

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B-17F-1-BO serial 41-24388
Assigned 92BG Bangor 31/7/42;
340BS/97BG Polebrook 8/42;
damaged UK 7/9/42,
rep; flew Gens Doolittle & Lemnitzer to Gibraltar 6/11/42;
Now the flight above was not un eventful:

Operation Torch: Eisenhower, Doolittle, Clark, Lemnitzer, and other officers depart for Gibraltar aboard six B-17 bombers
Bay of Biscay
USAAF B-17 bomber transporting Doolittle and Lemnitzer to Gibraltar attacked and damaged by Luftwaffe Ju-88 fighters
Gibraltar
Operation Torch: Doolittle, Clark, Lemnitzer, and other officers arrive aboard B-17s
and some nice tit bit
Quote: My father was the copilot on that b-17 that got shot up and had to land in Gibraltar. there is an interesting account of this in the book Flying fortresses by Jablonski. My father was wounded, gave up his seat to Doolittle. they almost went into the drink when attacked off the coast transporting all the vip's to the Gibraltar conference with no guns.

and piloted by Lt. John C. Summers after transfer to the 340th BS, 97th BG. He and his crew named it 'Summers' Sleepers

Maison Blanche 13/11/42; Tafaraoui 22/11/42; badly damaged again by enemy ground attack on Biskra 10/1/43; Salvaged 14/1/43.

 

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Coast Guard SB-17G (B-17G)