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The IARC records the plane with 330th Sub Depot, Yuma Field March 1944 just prior to transfer to Clovis.
NB: IARCs typically do not record the operational history [with some exceptions] during FY44 [July 1943 - June 1944].

Bonus Myth #10: A B-17 That Has A Chin Turret Can’t Be a B-17F

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42-6050 was fitted with a chin turret as annotated on the IARC. It was then assigned to the School of Applied Tactics, Orlando FL, and later to Yuma.

Thank you, but how does Class 26 apply when the complete aircraft is missing on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico?

Does anyone have a clear definition of CL-26/Class 26? CL-26/Class 26 is generally regarded to apply to a ground instructional airframe but there are many examples of aircraft written off in a fatal accident being ‘recommended for, or placed in Class 26’ and which are very unlikely to be used for su...

B-17G 44-8479 ‘Susie Sag Sump’ crash landed on the Firestone Rubber Plantation at Harbel, Liberia, January 1946. There is a YouTube film which includes shots of the plane being fuelled and later after salvage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boolRZStpJs ‘1948, crashed B 17G, "Susie Sag Sump", Firest...

42-5153 is not recorded at Chanute but 42-5158 was asssigned to Chanute August 1943.

The USAAF Monthly Inventory Reports have a column for special use codes, typically ‘WW’ for ‘war weary’. There are other codes to denote equipment fit and I am trying to rationalise the following codes for the B-17G: ‘SH’ - believed to denote equipped with H2X radar system. [eg; 42-97986] ‘SO’ - bel...

One that didn't quite make it.
42-5737. On its way from England back to the US, the plane force landed in Lisbon, Portugal 24 October 1943 and was interned.

42-5871 was also assigned to Yuma. Typically for the period, FY44 history is not recorded on the IARC. It was at Tulsa April 1943 then next reported with 3036 Base Unit at Yuma May 1945 and at RFC Ontario 15May45.

The February 2013 edition of RupaNews has the attached photographs of Boeing B-17 aircraft which passed through the UAL Modification Center at Cheyenne, WY. The lower photo is of the last B-17 which was handled by UAL and named "Our Parting Shot at Tokyo". It seems to have a radar dome under the rea...

The following website states that the crew of a B-17 Fortress force landed in Portuguese Guinea, West Africa March 1943. https://www.portugal1939-1945.org/en/portfolio/a-flying-fortress-b-17-landed-in-portuguese-guinea/ The extract quoted below from the Kisamore file on the 306BG website makes some ...

"Dave Osborne’s data doesn’t seem to fit with it being in Japan in September 1945"

The IARC records the aircraft assigned to Bolling Field Aug45 and departing the US 6Aug45. It returned to California by 23Oct45.

4901st Support Wing, Special Weapons Command, Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, NM 30Mar52. 4901st Support Wing, Air Research and Development Command, Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, NM 1Apr52. Ferried to Yucca Lake airstrip at the Nevada National Security Site. Instrumented and subjected to three atmospheric n...

The IARC has an entry against Tinker suggesting this plane was assigned to Buckingham before going to Boca Raton in what appears to be July 1944.

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