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B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Long Beach 2/1/43; Salina 8/1/43; Brookley 5/3/43; Morrison 15/4/43; Assigned 347BS/99BG Navarin 5/5/43; Oudna 4/8/43; battle damaged Turin 8/11/43 with Michael E. McDonnell, William M. De Temple, John P. Devlin, John W. Pace, Richard B. Hobby, Robert D. Molina, Victor L. Appel, Billy Burnett (8 Returned to Duty); Orry E. Wright, William D. Burke (2 Killed in Action); ditched off Corsica, near Ajaccio airport. In 2003 a top turret was dragged up by fishermen, and the following year further searches revealed aircraft upside down in shallow water a few hundred yards off shore. COTTON EYED JOE II.
Group
Constituted as 99th Bombardment Group (Heavy) on 28 Jan 1942. Activated on 1 Jun 1942. Trained with B-17's. Moved to North Africa, Feb-May 1943, and assigned to Twelfth AF. Entered combat in Mar 1943 and bombed such targets as airdromes, harbor...
Squadron
Military site : airfield
Not yet known
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 26 September 2018 11:31:42 | ED-BB | Changes to description, unit associations and place associations |
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Corrected typo in Richard Hobby's first name... |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 26 September 2018 10:35:15 | ED-BB | Changes to description |
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Completed names of crew members in Biography... |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:40:56 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log |
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