Delivered Boeing Material Command (by hand!) 4/9/43; Grand Island 20/10/43; Assigned 422NLS/305BG [JJ-B] Chelveston 25/11/43, then later fitted with ARI Boozer radar transmission facilities 5/44; on night leaflet operation 12/5/44 with Mike ? , Co-pilot: ? ,n- ? , Bombardier: ? , Flight engineer/top turret gunner: / , Radio Operator: Louis Hatin {Wounded in Action}, Ball turret gunner: Dan Brennan{Wounded in Action},Tail gunner: Nick Mastroianni (8 Returned to Duty), Waist gunner: Bob Waller, Waist gunner: George Barber (2 Killed in Action); crash landed RAF Friston, Sussex, UK 13/5/44; Salvaged battle damaged 2 SAD Lt Staughton 29/12/44.

 

This aircraft is the first of the B-17G's, under production block B-17G-1-BO.

 

From Joe Baugher's USAAF database.

"Materiel Command 4 Sep 43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training
Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 20 Oct43. 

422th Bomb Squadron [JJ*B], 305th Bomb Group,
Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 25 Nov '43. Fitted with ARI Boozer radar transmission
facilities May '44. Crash landed at RAF Friston, Sussex on a night leaflet mission to Denmark 12/13 May 44
(2KIA:3WIA:5RTD). Salvaged battle damaged by 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton (Station 547),
Huntingdonshire 29 Dec '44."