These are the ones I won; #99 and #12; when I get them I'll scan them better - #12 looks like a 44-XXXX number
B-17F #39 and B-17G #44
B-17F #93, nose art Kay or Ray?
B-17F #95, 42-5452
B-17F #51 in the background, and B-17F #40, 42-37779 Pist'l Packin' Mama/Belle's Pist'l Pakin' Mama - pretty sure these are both the same plane, with the 25 mission marks on either side. Most Hobbs B-17s were new planes, but this one's a combat veteran; per Osborne:
Dave Osborne wrote:42-37779 Del Denver 25/8/43; Scott 23/10/43; ass 401BG Deenethorpe 14/11/43; tran 324BS/91BG [DF-B] Bassingbourn 20/11/43; then AFSC 3/5/44; retUS 8STA Homestead 11/6/45; 4136 BU Tinker 14/8/45; 3017 BU Hobbs 1/9/45; RFC Walnut Ridge 3/1/46. PIST’L PACKIN’ MAMA.
B-17G #09, serial's blurry but looks like 44-8064 - first of a batch of five (8064-8068) that were sent to Hobbs. (8064 is also the closest match in my earlier thread for the photo of crash-damaged #30 - may have to rethink that one.)
B-17F #93 again in the background; serial looks like 42-5XXX (possibly 42-5416), and B-17G #98. Lacking cheek guns, this one looks like it should be one of the six candidates for the Paducah plane; however...
...if it were, part of that number would be visible in the newspaper photo.
The search continues...
