42-29815 | American Air Museum

Nicknames: Miami Clipper
Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
Production block number: B17F-75-na
Manufacturer: Boeing
Markings & paint scheme: Nose art painted by Tony Starcer On the Miami clipper there was originally a different crew, until they were sent home because of a three death mission. The nose art consisted of a bikini girl and ''Miami Clipper'' after the famous railroad train. On a later crew, a palm tree and distinctive orange circle were added behind the bikini girl. The plane was all olive green and in yellow are the tail codes and serial number. Major Burton flew 28 missions with the Miami Clipper. A.W. Burton, my great grandfather, went on to nuclear testing in 1946 for Operation Crossroads. He also trained a co-pilot who went down on his first mission on the ''Boston Bombshell." His new co-pilot earned the purple heart when he was hit with flak in the Adams apple. The great plane was scrapped in 1946. A.W. died in 2014.

42-29815 Miami Clipper

media-26070.jpeg UPL 26070 42-29815 "Miami Clipper" & Crew

"Capt Albert W Burton and crew of the 322nd Bomb Sq., 91st Bomb Group, 8th Air Force, in front of a Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortress" 'Miami Clipper'. England, 10 April 1944."

Rear L-R: T/Sgt Matthew Fronko, T/Sgt W. Pridgen, S/Sgt Stanley John Cantrell, S/Sgt Ted Eicke, S/Sgt William Schofield, S/Sgt Walter Cyr.
Front L-R: Capt Albert W Burton, Lt Jim Buchanan, Lt August Ballay. Hutchinson & Cortright

Contact with Pridgen's son - his last name was spelled wrong.

Object Number - UPL 26070 - 42-29815 "Miami Clipper" & Crew "Capt Albert W Burton and crew of the 322nd Bomb Sq., 91st Bomb Group, 8th Air Force, in front of a Boeing B-17...

Delivered Denver 22/2/43; Gore 9/3/43; Duncan 31/3/43; Assigned 367BS/306BG [GY-N] Thurleigh 20/4/43 JACKIE ELLEN; transferred 322BS/91BG [LG-P] Bassingbourn 11/9/43; AFSC 7/4/44; Returned to the USA Amarillo 16/4/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 9/1/46; MIAMI CLIPPER.