41-9119 | American Air Museum

41-9119

Assigned 419BS/301BG Chelveston 18/4/42; transferred 97BG Polebrook 8/42; 92BG Bovingdon /9/42; CCRC Bovingdon /1/43; 351BG Polebrook as t/t & hack 8/43; Returned to the USA 10/5/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 11/9/45.

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Ground crews of 305th Bomb Group B-17 Flying Fortresses wait for their aircraft to return to Chelveston airbase after a raid on the 30 June 1943; a B-17 Flying Fortress is coming in to land. Passed for publication 30 Jun 1943. Printed caption on reverse: 'At A Fortress Station In Britain. From an American base in Britain the Flying Fortresses carry out operational activities which result in terrible blows against the German industrial war machine. This series of pictures shows scenes at a Flying Fortresse

Chelveston

Site type: Airfield

A B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-107124) of the 351st Bomb Group flies over Polebrook.

Polebrook

Site type: Airfield

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Date27 Sep 2014 18:40:07

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Sources

Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log