44-83785

A B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 44-83785) nicknamed "Shady Lady" at Misawa Air Base in Japan, 1950. Image via Staff Sergeant M. Zeljak/ Menard. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'VB-17G, 44-83785, Gen Partridge A/C, Misawa Japan, 1950.' media-418410.jpg FRE 8846 A B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 44-83785) nicknamed "Shady Lady" at Misawa Air Base in Japan, 1950. Image via Staff Sergeant M. Zeljak/ Menard. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'VB-17G, 44-83785, Gen Partridge A/C, Misawa Japan, 1950.' Roger Freeman Collection

IWM, Roger Freeman Collection

Object Number - FRE 8846 - A B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 44-83785) nicknamed "Shady Lady" at Misawa Air Base in Japan, 1950. Image via Staff Sergeant M. Zeljak/ Menard....

Delivered Cheyenne 7/6/45. After retiring as a search & rescue SB-17G, operated in Japan 1948-50, later on secret operations from Clark AFB in the Philippines. Registered N809Z, involved in personnel recovery from abandoned Russian ice station. Joined Evergreen Vintage Aircraft, Inc., of McMinnville, Or., once as a fire bomber, now on display at Portland, Oregon.

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A B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 44-83785) nicknamed "Shady Lady" at Misawa Air Base in Japan, 1950. Image via Staff Sergeant M. Zeljak/ Menard. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'VB-17G, 44-83785, Gen Partridge A/C, Misawa Japan, 1950.'

Object number: FRE 8846 - A B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 44-83785)...