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    Airframe Family: Boeing B299 / B-17 Fortress
    Latest Model:B-17G-55-BO Fortress
    Last Military Serial:42-102570 USAAF
    Construction Number:8072
    Compressed ID:Boeing B-17G-55-BO sn 42-102570 USA...
    Latest Owner or Location:603rd Bomb Squadron, 398th Bomb Group, Nuthampstead (Station 131), Hertfordshire

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a B-17G-55-BO by Boeing at Seattle, Washington, USA.

    By March 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 42-102570.

    15 March 1944

    To United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY.

    31 March 1944

    To 271st Base Unit (Staging Wing), 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB.

    2 April 1944

    Transferred to North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME.

    26 April 1944

    Transferred to 603rd Bomb Squadron, 398th Bomb Group, Nuthampstead (Station 131), Hertfordshire.
    Operated with markings: N7 F

    21 October 1944

    Crashed.
    Returning from a practice mission, the aircraft crash landed at Nuthampstead. 1 killed in the crash.

    21 October 1944


    Photographer: Sgt. Marvin Wallerstedt via Fargo Air Museum
    Notes: Photo taken by Sgt. Marvin Wallerstedt. Sgt. Wallerstedt served in the Army Air Force in England at a Sub Depot of an engineering department repairing damaged aircraft. He took many photos of damaged B-17s, many of which were subsequently destroyed.

    21 October 1944


    Photographer: Sgt. Marvin Wallerstedt via Fargo Air Museum

    21 October 1944


    Photographer: Sgt. Marvin Wallerstedt via Fargo Air Museum

    23 October 1944

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