Looking for photos of U.S. 379th Heavy Bomb group B-17 Pipe Dream - 43-38874.

[PipeDream]

I have been looking for a while but I have been unable to find any photos of the Pipe Dream, 43-38874. Any help in the search would be appreciated!

 

[SaparotRob]

Hi there, PipeDream. Welcome. I always look forward to B-17 pics. If it's available out there, there's a good chance a Forum member has it.

 

[Snautzer01]

379th Bomb Group
524th Bomb Squadron
WA-U

43-38874 / Pipe Dream | B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies

B-17 #43-38874 / Pipe Dream: Delivered Hunter 2/10/44; Dow Fd 11/10/44; Assigned 524BS/379BG [WA-U] Kimbolton 13/11/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 5/7/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 6/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 23/11/45.

b17flyingfortress.de

 

[Snautzer01]

And why if i may ask are we looking for this one?

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

I have been looking for a while but I have been unable to find any photos of the Pipe Dream, 43-38874. Any help in the search would be appreciated!

I don't have my copy of Bendiner's The Fall of Fortresses handy (he flew in the 379th in 1943), but when I head home tomorrow I'll look through its pics and see if I can find it in any of them. Do you have a serial to look for in case the pic doesn't show the nose?

 

[Snautzer01]

I don't have my copy of Bendiner's The Fall of Fortresses handy (he flew in the 379th in 1943), but when I head home tomorrow I'll look through its pics and see if I can find it in any of them. Do you have a serial to look for in case the pic doesn't show the nose?

43-38874 its in the title and it a B-17G-100-BO (Boeing Airplane Co. Seattle, Wash. )

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

43-38874 its in the title and it a B-17G-100-BO (Boeing Airplane Co. Seattle, Wash. )

Thanks, I missed that! I'll look for it tomorrow.

 

[PipeDream]

379th Bomb Group
524th Bomb Squadron
WA-U

43-38874 / Pipe Dream | B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies

B-17 #43-38874 / Pipe Dream: Delivered Hunter 2/10/44; Dow Fd 11/10/44; Assigned 524BS/379BG [WA-U] Kimbolton 13/11/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 5/7/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 6/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 23/11/45.

b17flyingfortress.de

My great uncle served in the air corps and from everything that I have found, this was the plane that he flew the most missions with. I appreciate your help but I have checked out this and other similar websites with no luck on finding an actual photo of it. It's quite likely that there is no photo of it but I figured I would give it one last shot by reaching out here.

 

[PipeDream]

I don't have my copy of Bendiner's The Fall of Fortresses handy (he flew in the 379th in 1943), but when I head home tomorrow I'll look through its pics and see if I can find it in any of them. Do you have a serial to look for in case the pic doesn't show the nose?

Thanks, any help is appreciated. Even if you don't find anything, it will be nice to know that I've exhausted most search options!

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

Thanks, any help is appreciated. Even if you don't find anything, it will be nice to know that I've exhausted most search options!

Hiya Piper, it looks like I won't be able to make it over there today, but probably tomorrow. Hopefully I can be of help.

 

[PipeDream]

Hiya Piper, it looks like I won't be able to make it over there today, but probably tomorrow. Hopefully I can be of help.

No worries, thanks!

 

[Spitlead]

I have been looking for a while but I have been unable to find any photos of the Pipe Dream, 43-38874. Any help in the search would be appreciated!

You should try looking into the 379th History, drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia. They might have something.