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ID please? B-17G Avon Park A E1, no cheek guns (ID'ed)
Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2024 8:54 pm
by Chris Brame
On eBay at the moment, taken at Keesler; note the 1948 insignia:
42-102737 looks like a possible match - skipped Cheyenne, based at Avon, then to Keesler and hung around postwar:
David Osborne wrote:42-102737 Del McDill 31/3/44; 326 BU McDill 13/2/45; 325 BU Avon Park 23/2/45; 3704 BU Keesler 14/8/45; 338 OT Keesler 28/8/46; (? Duugn Terr-Sinstpe 10/1/51 ?).
https://www.ebay.com/itm/387421100013
Re: ID please? B-17G Avon Park A E or F4, no cheek guns
Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2024 3:57 pm
by 17f
Is it just me or does that wingtip look clipped?
Re: ID please? B-17G Avon Park A E or F4, no cheek guns
Posted: Mon Nov 11, 2024 4:39 pm
by aerovin2
The wingtip looks clipped to me.
Post-1948 B-17 with chin and top turrets...very unusual, if that is indeed a post-1948 insignia. The main fuselage door also seems to be missing or obscured by the camera angle.
Re: ID please? B-17G Avon Park A E or F4, no cheek guns
Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2024 6:57 am
by terveurn
42-107737 was Avon Park A-E1
42-102737 Avon Park A-E1.JPG
Re: ID please? B-17G Avon Park A E1, no cheek guns (ID'ed)
Posted: Sat Nov 16, 2024 12:19 pm
by Chris Brame
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.)