44-85643

Ground crew repair a B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 44-85643) of the 445th Bomb Group. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'B-17G, F-BEEA, I.G.N., 44-85643 (8552), Place and date unknown. Note early big F on rudder. 445th B.G. 8th Air Force.' media-414282.jpg FRE 4594 Ground crew repair a B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 44-85643) of the 445th Bomb Group. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'B-17G, F-BEEA, I.G.N., 44-85643 (8552), Place and date unknown. Note early big F on rudder. 445th B.G. 8th Air Force.' Roger Freeman Collection

IWM, Roger Freeman Collection

Object Number - FRE 4594 - Ground crew repair a B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 44-85643) of the 445th Bomb Group. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'B-17G, F-BEEA, I.G.N.,...

Delivered 21/4/45; Rome 14/6/45; Syracuse 20/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 21/11/45; sold IGN, France 12/12/47 as F-BEEA; Barr Flood Fd, Port Moresby, PNG 1967; crashed Binbrook, UK in filming of Memphis Belle 25/7/89, as AMELIA.

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Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log

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Ground crew repair a B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 44-85643) of the 445th Bomb Group. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'B-17G, F-BEEA, I.G.N., 44-85643 (8552), Place and date unknown. Note early big F on rudder. 445th B.G. 8th Air Force.'

Object number: FRE 4594 - Ground crew repair a B-17 Flying Fortress (serial...