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B-17 Flying Fortress
Don Caldwell and Joe Harlick of the 91st Bomb Group with the tail of a 323rd Bomb Squadron Fortress, B-17F serial 42-29837 "Lady Luck" (coded DF-A), 1943. Image by William D "Bill" Pulliam, 91st Bomb Group. Writtten on slide casing: 'Lady Luck 1943, Don Caldwell (left), Joe Harlick (rt) photo lab.
The nose art of B-17F serial 42-29837 "Lady Luck" (coded DF-A) of the 324th Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Group, 1943. Image by William D "Bill" Pulliam, 91st Bomb Group. Written on slide casing: '1943, 91 BG.'
Joe Harlick and Don Caldwell of the 91st Bomb Group sit on the bonnet of a Jeep in front of a B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-29837) nicknamed "Lady Luck", 1943. Image by William D "Bill" Pulliam, 91st Bomb Group. Written on slide casing: '91 BG 1943, Joe Harlick & Don Caldwell photo lab.'
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses of the 91st Bomb Group, 8th Air Force, are shown over the patchwork landscape of France enroute to their target of the day - Tours. 5 January 1944. Altitude 20,300 feet. NARA Ref 342-FH-3A16175-A61038AC.
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses of the 91st Bomb Group, 8th AF, enroute towards Bremen, Germany, fly high above heavy cloud banks at 27,000 feet altitude. 20 Dec. 1943. 20 December 1943: B-17F 42-29837 "Lady Luck" (coded DF-A) of the 324th Bomb Sq, 91st BG heads home from a trip to Bremen. She flew her final combat sortie on 25 February 1944 to Augsburg with Lt John Klotz's crew, and returned to the States for a War Bond tour. She was scrapped at Stillwater, OK at war's end. NARA Ref 342-FH-3A19627-A61044AC.
View of the tail guns on a Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" of the 91st Bomb Group at Bassingbourne, England. 7 September 1943. NARA Ref 342-FH-3A06368-69509AC.
Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" 'Lady Luck' of the 91st Bomb Group is parked at an 8th Air Force Base near Bassingbourne, England. NARA Ref 342-FH-3A05916-A69470AC.
B-17F serial 42-29837 "Lady Luck" (coded DF-A) of the 324th Bomb Sq, 91st BG over Bremen, Germany. 20 December 1943. NARA Ref 342-FH-3A20954-25643AC.
Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" "Lady Luck" of the 91st Bomb Group is parked on the grass at an 8th Air Force base near Bassingbourne, England. 7 September 1943. NARA Ref 342-FH-3A05913-69385AC.
Delivered Cheyenne 24/2/43; Gore 9/3/43; Duncan 31/3/43; Assigned 324BS/91BG [DF-A] Bassingbourn 7/6/43; transferred AFSC 6/4/44 then MTO (Italy & N. Africa); Returned to the USA Tinker 11/6/44; Patterson 23/2/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Searcey Fd 27/7/45. LADY LUCK.
Military site : airfield
Now home to a museum all about the aifield and its USAAF residents (http://www.towermuseumbassingbourn.co.uk/) , Bassingbourn opened in 1938 as part of the RAF's pre-war expansion programme. The RAF continued to use it until late in 1942 when its long...
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