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B-17E "Old 58" - which 58?

Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2017 9:26 pm
by Chris Brame
One more from the morass of same-ol'-same-ol' on eBay:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Original-World- ... SwbopZXVSL

Would "Old '58'" be 41-2458 Yankee Didd'ler – Wouldn’t It Root Ya or 41-2658? Per Osborne all the other Es ending in 58 stayed stateside.

Re: B-17E "Old 58" - which 58?

Posted: Fri Jul 07, 2017 10:57 pm
by Steve Birdsall
Assuming the photo is correctly dated November 1942 it has to be 41-2458 . . . 41-2658 was one of the dozen homeward-bound 93rd Squadron B-17Es that had left Australia the previous month.