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media-28163.jpeg UPL 28163 Coming in for a landing in Cuba. Modified as a crew gunnery trainer with Bendix chin turret by UAL modification center at Cheyenne, WY.

Report to Arnold circa June, 1943.

Flying Fortress 1936 1945

Object Number - UPL 28163 - Coming in for a landing in Cuba. Modified as a crew gunnery trainer with Bendix chin turret by UAL modification center at Cheyenne, WY.

Delivered Long Beach 28/6/43; Cheyenne 2/7/43; force landed base 24/7/43 with Herschel Patton; Lowry 28/7/43; Dalhart 10/11/43; 244BU Harvard 10/6/44; 505BG Harvard 16/6/44; 232 BU Dalhart 23/8/44; 203 BU Jackson 21/1/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 14/12/45. Nose modified with B-17G chin turret at unknown date.

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Contributorphil marchese
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Marchese, FLYING FORTRESS 1936 1945, documents the requirement.

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ContributorChris Brame
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Wartime photo

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ContributorAAM
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Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log

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