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Baugher B-17G-95-DL 44-83722 TB-17H. Assigned to 8th RU, Hamilton AFB, CA. Assigned to 1414th BU, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, 1948
Assigned to 1060th Rescue Flight, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, Jun 1948.
Assigned to 2153rd RU, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia Sep 2, 1948. Redesignated SB-17G Sep 3, 1948
Assigned to AMC, Olmsted AFB, PA Jul 20, 1949. Converted to B-17H, later redesignated SB-17G and assigned to 2nd ERS
as a search and rescue aircraft. Deliberately subjected to blast and radiation damage during three nuclear
tests at Yucca Flats, NV. Remains sold 1965 to Aviation Specialties.
Sold to Kermit Weeks in 1985 and put in partial storage at
Ocotillo Wells, CA. In 1997 was at Fantasy of Flight, Polk City, FL

 
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Was that plane checked for radiation? Blast damage from Yucca Flats sounds kind of dangerous.
 
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B-17G-15-VE 42-97534 Patches shot taken in Russia soviet union Poltava and Mirgorod were to be used by heavy bombers B-24 Liberators, B-17 Flying Fortresses Notice soviet army uniforms officers on the right.

42-97534 | American Air Museum in Britain Delivered Denver 14/12/43; Newark 11/1/44; Langley 12/1/44; Assigned 482BG (H2X) Alconbury 25/1/44; transferred 413BS 96BG MZ-A Snetterton 25/1/44 PEE WEE; 728BS/452BG (9Z- ] Deopham Green 26/1/44; Missing in Action Merseburg 25/11/44 with Irving Cohen, Co-pilot: Dick Washburn, Navigator: Cecil Vandervort, Bombardier: Jim Hartman, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Lyall Ehret, Ball turret gunner: Ervin Roesch, Tail gunner: Don Yee (7 Killed in Action); Radio Operator: Gene Krachenfels Wounded in Action, Waist gunner: Albt Mitchell (2 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed Harren, N of Aachen, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 11049. PATCHES



 
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