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Object Number - UPL 55175 - USAF Air Rescue Service Boeing SB-17G, an air-sea rescue variant of the B-17 Flying Fortress. Assigned to the 5th Rescue Squadron, Flight D.
It was the last B-17 produced at Long Beach, California, and according to it's production block number was the last B-17 built out of 12,731. It was assigned to Flight A of the 3d Air Rescue Squadron based at Johnson Air Base, near Tokyo after being retrofitted to a SB–17G.
According to Maj. James A. Scheib, USAF (Ret.), in the article 'Flight to Korea" in the Fall 2004 issue of 'Air Power History', it possibly could be credited with flying the first combat mission of the Korean War.
Article starts on page 38 of this PDF: https://www.afhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2004_fall.pdf
