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I ordered the photo of 42-102737 as Keesler, and the seller sent the wrong photo - but an interesting one nonetheless: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54159016854_1bcf12078b_h.jpg 44-8095, coded "147", formerly at Roswell as seen here: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54158710206_3c256415c3_b...

1948 insignia - I think we have a winner! Thanks terveurn!
Just bought it so I'll try to do a better scan when it gets here.
(Odd how the serial number faded so fast but the codes didn't.)

On eBay at the moment, taken at Keesler; note the 1948 insignia: https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54131682919_0d12a4671d_o.png 42-102737 looks like a possible match - skipped Cheyenne, based at Avon, then to Keesler and hung around postwar: 42-102737 Del McDill 31/3/44; 326 BU McDill 13/2/45; 325...

Did Yankee Lady ever get a nose swap during its career? It looks like after its USCG use the cheek gun nose was replaced with one from a trainer that didn't go through the Cheyenne mods.

42-3515 was a combat veteran per Osborne: 42-3515 Del Denver 21/7/43; Hill 20/8/43; Ass 423BS/306BG [RD-O] Thurleigh 21/9/43; tran 482BG Alconbury 30/3/44; RetUS Bradley 4/6/44; RFC Kingman 19/11/45. No cheek gun positions and a tapered fairing on the tail stinger; some general's ride? https://live....

https://www.ebay.com/itm/296593460656

All three sold, so here they are:

Ardmore trainer:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/375530577155

E trainer, no field codes:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/395524667833

F trainer, named Mercury; seller says "later QUEEN OF SKIES" (what's the source for that?):
https://www.ebay.com/itm/375524274497

Hmm. Base code or plane code, and port side only?

Picked up from eBay:

Dyersburg-coded B-17G 42-97618, Mary Jane:


And below its nose, three AT-10 trainers coded BL (Blytheville AAF):

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

Mostly true, but there's at least one exception: 42-6030.

They Were There comes up with another one: https://www.ebay.com/itm/156082279082 https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53562405841_deb4168c73_h.jpg Quoting Osborne again, what little there is: Delivered Cheyenne 25/1/45; Hunter 23/2/45; ATC San Francisco 9/3/45; Assigned Manila 14/5/46. Scott, terveur...

Was this on August 18, 1944 at Tinker Field? AAIR lists a second accident for 44-8064 on May 16, 1945 - a ground collision with TB-17F 42-30978 at Hobbs.
BTW, wasn't 8064 on your list previously as #09...?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/375203078368