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Another stateside training bird
Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2016 6:54 pm
by Dan Johnson
Hope I wasn't bidding against someone here. This is my favorite configuration for a B-17 nose. The single 50 in the nose, bulged cheek windows and the navigation dome. This seems to be the sleekest looking of the combat 17s to me.
Re: Another stateside training bird
Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2016 9:35 pm
by Chris Brame
Good find! Looks like 42-30756. From
Fortlog:
Dave Osborne wrote:42-30756 Del Cheyenne 24/7/43; Gore 1/8/43; Geiger 3/8/43; Pendleton 12/8/43; 452BG Geiger 19/10/43; 330 BU Dyersburg 1/3/45; 325 BU Avon Park 3/6/45; RFC Altus 22/8/45.
The one behind it should be 44-6036:
Dave Osborne wrote:44-6036 Del Tulsa 13/4/44; Love Fd 28/4/44; Dyersburg 2/5/44; 330 BU Dyersburg 1/3/45; RFC Walnut Ridge 20/9/45.
ETA: When I went to eBay to check it out, I found a sold listing for this B-17F:
No serial (thanks a lot) but it's got a G-?? code which should be from the gunnery school at Kingman, AZ.
Re: Another stateside training bird
Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2016 10:25 pm
by Dan Johnson
The writing on the photo I got says it was taken at Dyersburg Tennessee
