eBay: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress

[Snautzer01]

Welcome rgr3d75.
What i hope is clear that there would be considerable difference in camps like stalag 3 or Sweden wich had a friendly attitude towards crews that crash landed there. And were there was indeed a lot of freedom in movement etc.
There is nobody on this board that does not recognize what crews must have been going through. Getting shot out of formation perhaps enemy fighters around engine cutting the crashing quite hard is an ordeal just on its on.

But hardship in a stay in Sweden is a tad much. Perhaps no fun and boring but hardship i think not.

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots!

 

[Snautzer01]

RAF 1944 WW2 PRESS PHOTO RAF IN AZORES FOR CONVOY PROTECTION AGAINST U BOAT

ORIGINAL 1944 WW2 PRESS PHOTO RAF IN AZORES FOR CONVOY PROTECTION AGAINST U BOAT | eBay

AZORES FOR CONVOY PROTECTION AGAINST U BOATS. ORIGINAL 1944 WW2 PRESS PHOTO RAF IN.

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[Wurger]

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

[SaparotRob]

RAF 1944 WW2 PRESS PHOTO RAF IN AZORES FOR CONVOY PROTECTION AGAINST U BOAT

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ORIGINAL 1944 WW2 PRESS PHOTO RAF IN AZORES FOR CONVOY PROTECTION AGAINST U BOAT | eBay

AZORES FOR CONVOY PROTECTION AGAINST U BOATS. ORIGINAL 1944 WW2 PRESS PHOTO RAF IN.

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No U-boats in that tree. Good job!

 

[SaparotRob]

Israeli Fortress, not seen every day

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I wanted to award a "bacon" but that's traife.

 

[Snautzer01]

Captured beute Forced to Land by NJG3

B-17G-25-DL 42-38017 XR-O One Mission Lulu Delivered Cheyenne 15/11/43; Syracuse 7/12/43; Presque Isle 15/12/43; Assigned 349BS/100BG [XR-O] Thorpe Abbotts 28/12/43; Missing in Action Schwelswig A/Fd 3/3/44 with John Gossage, Co-pilot: Bert McNeil, Navigator: Ed Werner, Bombardier: Howard Ball, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Art Cooper, Radio Operator: Mike Polanick, Ball turret gunner: Tom Wooderson, Waist gunner: Don Sackrider, Waist gunner: Jim Gregg, Tail gunner: Art Congrove (10 Prisoner of War); damaged by wreckage from two colliding 100BG ships above, pilot headed for Sweden but crash landed at an airfield near Schelswig, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 3025. ONE MISSION LU LU (?TEN BATTY BOYS). (Sal by Luftwaffe and restored for KG 200).

1. 42-38017 | American Air Museum
2. B343 Foto Wehrmacht Archiv Repro Luftwaffe Flugzeug Beute USA B17 NJG3 1943 | eBay
3. B342 Foto Wehrmacht Archiv Repro Luftwaffe Flugzeug Beute USA B17 NJG3 1943 | eBay

 

[Wurger]

 

[Snautzer01]

Boeing B-17F-20-BO 41-24519 Miss ? delivered to Wright Field July 28, 1942; transferred to Patterson, July 29, 1942; transferred to Wright Material Command Oct 18, 1942; transferred to Tinker, Apr 25, 1943; transferred to Vandalia as a test aircraft for towing gliders on Aug 16, 1943. Final fate not in available record.

1. USAF Serial Number Search Results
2. WW2 Bomber B-17 Photo=="---7"x5"---free ship | eBay

 

[Wurger]