B-17D "Swoose" Question: Where was the Caribbean C

[pokryshkin]

I have a question which maybe someone out there can answer (starting a possible new article though the first one is still holding-fire!)

In Jeffrey Ethell's book, "B-17 In Color", there is a photo of 40-3097
"Swoose" in a lineup, in all natural metal, with all 32 flags on the nose under the nose windows, with a post-September-1943-star-and-bar-with-blue-outline national marking, amputated belly "bathtub, seen from the right side, but with the fin and rudder either out of frame or cut off.

What I need to know is, was that serial number, "3097", on the forward vertical fin, like that Hawaiian tail-striped aircraft in the photo leading the formation of 41-2405 and 41-2434 (B-17Es), or was the serial number stencilled at the top of the rudder, like 40-3092 as shown in Class-26 at Harvard in 1944?

Can anyone help on this? Does anyone have an illustration showing the correct placement?

Thank you in advance!!!

Gratefully,

Dan Katz

[aerovin2]

Dan

This photo was taken at about the same time....excerpted from Herbert S. Brownstein's Odyssey of a B-17: The Swoose:



Close up:

[pokryshkin]

Dear Scott,
Thank you VERY much!!!

Is that book still in print?

Does the Aero Vintage Books website have it?

Please advise.

Gratefully,
your fan and publicist where possible,

Dan

Dan

This photo was taken at about the same time....excerpted from Herbert S. Brownstein's Odyssey of a B-17: The Swoose:



Close up:

[aerovin2]

I don't know if it remains in print. It is published through or by the Smithsonian. I'd suggest you do an Amazon search using the title and author.

Good luck.

[pokryshkin]

I don't know if it remains in print. It is published through or by the Smithsonian. I'd suggest you do an Amazon search using the title and author.

Good luck.

Dear Scott,

Thanks INFINITELY!!!

WILCO

Your grateful fan and publicist where possible,

Dan