Delivered Cheyenne 21/6/43; Dow 28/7/43; Assigned 546BS/384BG [BK-M] Grafton Underwood 11/8/43; Missing in Action Stuttgart 6/9/43 with Russ Faulkner, Bombardier: Harry Hawes, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Oscar Hamblin (3 evaded capture), Co-pilot: Warren Holland, Navigator: Dick Peirce, Radio Operator: Chas Kirby, Ball turret gunner: Harry Saperstein, Waist gunner: Ed Ruch, Waist gunner: Jim Morley,Tail gunner: Bill Ross (7 Prisoner of War); no gas, crashed Bois des Moines, near Airion, 14 miles E of Beauvais, Fr. Missing Air Crew Report 775. LUCKY THIRTEEN.

This aircraft is being rebuilt with original, and other, salvaged parts in Fletcher, North Carolina, by the Hangar Thirteen organization.  In 2020, the organization was offered some parts for sale by a man called Robert Bodart whose father had taken them from 44-3619 ( sic., i.e. not a B-17.) after it had crashed in France

Amongst the pieces Hangar Thirteen purchased from the Bodart family are a near-mint autopilot gyroscope, a Type G-1 oxygen tank, an AN-M2 .50 caliber gun barrel, rudder pedals, a ball turret fuse box, a chin turret fuse box, and a top turret base assembly. This last piece is particularly important to them, as it is the round external lug type base usually found on older B-17's.

These parts will be incorporated into the rebuild of 42-3455