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Boeing YB-17 Flying Fortress 36-149.
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The initial flight of the aircraft took place on 2-Dec-36, but with Stan Umstead, five days later nosed over during landed but was not too badly damaged. Delivered 49BS/2BG Langley 1-Mar-37; 4000 Base Unit Wright Fd 1938; transferred 19BG March Fd, Oct-40; Amarillo 2-Nov-42; 71 flights; Written off 11-Dec-42.
NOTE: B-17 aircraft with model numbers beginning with "Y" were never used in combat roles or were ever sent to the United Kingdom.
Service
Units
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Group
Served on antisubmarine duty for several months after the U.S. entered World War II. In October 1942 was re-designated as 2d Bombardment Group (Heavy) and earmarked for combat. The group was transferred on paper to Geiger Field, Washington, where it...
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People
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Military | First Lieutenant | Bombardier | 381st Bomb Group
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Military | Sergeant | Waist Gunner | 44th Bomb Group The Flying Eightballs
Shot down 29 April 1944 in B-24 41-29513. Returned to base.
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Military | First Lieutenant | B-17 Navigator | 457th Bomb Group
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Military | Major | Navigator | 351st Bomb Group
Flew 30 missions in 90 days, starting day after DDay. Most memorable mission: Over St. Lo, smokeline indicating where to drop bombs blew over American positions. Bomb group ahead of ours dropped bombs on American troops. We learned of mistake before...
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Military | First Lieutenant | B-17 Bombadier | 351st Bomb Group
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Military | Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) | B-17 Ball Turret Gunner | 92nd Bomb Group Fame's Favoured Few
Robert E. Dames, Killed in Action, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross posthumously for extraordinary achievement while serving as Ball Turret Gunner of a B-17 airplane on a number of combat bombardment missions over Germany and German-occupied...
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Military | First Lieutenant | B-17 Bombardier | 351st Bomb Group
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Military | First Lieutenant | Navigator | 303rd Bomb Group
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Military | First Lieutenant | B-17 Navigator | 457th Bomb Group
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Military | First Lieutenant | PILOT - B17 | 351st Bomb Group
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Events
Event |
Location |
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First flight |
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2 December 1936 |
Delivered |
Langley AFB, Hampton, VA, USA |
1 March 1937 |
Delivered to the 49th Bomb Squadron of the 2nd Bomb Group.
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Delivered |
Wright Field, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Riverside, OH 45431, USA |
1938 |
Delivered to 4000 Base Unit at Wright Field.
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Transferred |
March Air Reserve Base, CA, USA |
October 1940 |
Transferred to the 19th Bomb Group at March Field.
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Transferred |
Air Park, Amarillo, TX, USA |
11 February 1942 |
Transferred to Amarillo.
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