40-2065
Delivered RAF [AN529] as part of Lend-Lease; 90 Squadron [WP-C] Polebrook 6-May-41; transferred 220 Squadron (NF- ) Portreath to Shallufa 29-Oct-41; following first mission to Benghazi with F/Off Swanson crash landed behind enemy lines at Fort Maddalena, Libya 8-Nov-41. Salvaged.
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Lee Cunningham 18-Feb-2015. All changes based on "The B-17 Flying Fortress Story" Roger A Freeman with David Osborne.