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B-17 Flying Fortress
Data Plate
Delivered Salt Lake City 7-Sep-40; Lowry 24-Jul-43; to Class 26 Hobbs. NM as aircraft mechanics' trainer, caught fire and burned to the ground after leaking fuel was ignited by engine backfire; Written off 17-Oct-43.
It was one of the aircraft that played the part of B-17 'Mary-Ann' in the film 'Air Force', which was released in 1943 by Warner Bros.
Military | Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade) | Airplane Mechanic-Gunner | 490th Bomb Group
Clifford Hunt served as an airplane mechanic/gunner with the 848th Bomb Squadron of the 490th Bomb Group. He kept a journal for the first 14 missions, but when he realized his handwriting was getting smaller and tighter with each entry, he quit writing...
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| 21 February 2019 04:50:41 | Chris Brame | Changes to description |
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Hobbs AAF records |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 05 September 2018 17:49:00 | ram957 | Changes to media associations |
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R.McHugh |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 18 July 2016 13:43:24 | Lucy May | Changes to description |
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Information sent through to the museum by Dennis Katz. See also: |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 24 January 2015 20:53:23 | Lee8thbuff | Changes to serial number, production block number, manufacturer and description |
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Lee Cunningham 24-Jan-2015. Added Block Number, appended Block Number to name, Manufacturer, converted dates to military-style significations per "The B-17 Flying Fortress Story" Roger A. Freeman with David Osborne. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:40:01 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log |
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