UPL 40659
IMAGELITTLE CEASAR, an overseas original complement of the 96th BG, B-17F-70-BO 42-29755 per FORTLOG. The aircraft was soon transfered to the 381st BG and later returned to the USA. A partial bailout lead to a MACR involving this B-17F and six of crew taken POW. This is not the later 96th BG F-100-BO, 42-30370 , which had a more advanced nose configuration. Note the twin nose guns arrangement here which were common circa March, 1943.
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Units
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: LITTLE CEASAR, Gremlins Delite, Last Straw
- Unit: 381st Bomb Group
Revisions
Date:
Contributorphil marchese
Sources
Marchese, FLYING FORTRESS 1936 1945
Osborne, FORTLOG
image with F-70-BO configuration.