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Foto B-17 Flying Fortress Bomber Flugzeug Wrack am Strand der Kanalküste ... ! | eBay

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B-17F-27-BO 41-24589 was assigned 323BS/91BG [OR-R] Dow Field, Bangor 15-Sep-42; with Gene Ellis, wrecked, while turning plane into takeoff position, tail wheel ran off runway causing tail section severed from rear bulkhead, 5-Oct-42, repaired and sent to Bassingbourn 11-Oct-42; On 4-Feb-43 while on a mission to bomb the marshalling yards at Hamm, Germany the target was obscured by clouds and the port area of Emden, Germany was attacked as a target of last resort. Aircraft sustained damage from flak and fighter attacks and crashlanded on the beach at Terschelling Island, Holland. 2KIA 8POW MACR 15124. Aircraft flew 6+missions. Salvaged by Luftwaffe at Utrecht, Holland.



 
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Foto Norddeutschland 1944 B-17 Flying Bomber Flugzeug Wrack "GAMECOCK" Beute ! | eBay

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Gamecock

42-31972 | American Air Museum in Britain
The wreck of a B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-31972) nicknamed "Gamecock" of the 379th Bomb Group. This B-17G is crashed 13-05-1944, at Belringe Denmark. It was transported by train to the Netherlands. The plane is demolished, at the Zerlegebetrieb inside Konzentrationslager Herzogenbusch (Vught).
At this Concentration Camp the Luftwaffe demolished aircraft from 13 december 1943 until 2nd week September 1944.

 
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WWII: BOEING B. 17 E CYCLONE ORIGINAL AIR MINISTRY PHOTOGRAPH APRIL 1942 | eBay

BOEING B. 17 E CYCLONE. ORIGINAL AIR MINISTRY PHOTOGRAPH. AIR MINISTRY REF: 9970 C. APRIL 1942.
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Baugher 41- 2518 to RAF as FK189. Delivered Ogden Jan 23, 1942, Cheyenne Feb 15, 1942, Wright Mar 24,1 942, Wayne Col Oct 10,1 942, Gander-Prestwick Nov 4, 1942, To 220 Sq then to Lagens, Azores. Damaged beyond repair when engine caught fire after takeoff from Lagens Jul 26, 1944.

 
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Great picture, nice to see a British Fort not in Coastal Command white. Note the barely visible "P-in-a-circle" denoting a prototype, as FK187 was the first Fortress II in RAF service and was therefore subject to official evaluation at Boscombe Down from April 1942, although a collapsed tailwheel meant another Fort took over. During its lengthy evaluation period, spanning into early 1943, the Fort II's gun turrets were evaluated and bombing trials with the Norden bomb sight were undertaken. Ultimately though, all the RAF Fort IIs went to Coastal Command so it probably had donned white undersides once it entered squadron service...
 
IMHO this is FK187. As per Baugher :
41-2516 to RAF as FK187. Delivered Ogden Jan 20, 1942, Cheyenne Mar 2, 1942, RCAF Dorval Mar 24, 1942, Gander Apr 5, 1942,
Prestwick Apr 6, 1942. To A&AEE Boscombe Down for trials Apr 24, 1942. Then Thornaby, Yorkshire. SOC Jul 4, 1945.
 
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I took these two pictures around 1990 when I visited the New England Air Museum at Bradley Field, CT. with my sons. This was the remains of the B-17 that was basically destroyed in the 1979 tornado which struck the museum. It was the B-17 that Pratt & Whitney used to mount an engine on the nose at one time. Ironically I learned that this then became the B-17 that was restored as the Liberty Belle and I flew in her around 2006 when it was touring. It was eventually destroyed again in 2011 when it landed in an Illinois cornfield and burned up.
 

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