42-5964

media-38311.jpeg UPL 38311 Domestic B-17F-40-VE modified by United Airlines, Cheyenne WY as a crew gunnery trainer with a Bendix chin turret, c. JULY, 1944.

Note the chevron tail marking.

Fortress in the Sky pg 117
Flying Fortress 1936 1945

Object Number - UPL 38311 - Domestic B-17F-40-VE modified by United Airlines, Cheyenne WY as a crew gunnery trainer with a Bendix chin turret, c. JULY, 1944. Note the chevron...

Delivered Long Beach 31/5/43; Cheyenne 3/6/43; Pyote 2/7/43; Walla Walla 23/7/43; 4117 BU Robins 3/8/44; 326 BU MacDill 26/9/44; 327 BU Drew 29/4/45; 575 BU Pitts burg 2/7/45; 327 BU Drew 9/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 18/12/45.

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Flying Fortress 1936 1945

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Memo to Arnold circa June/August 1943 on nose turrets status.

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Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log

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