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media-27943.jpeg UPL 27943 Accident damage 30/1/45 after top turret dome separated and struck horizontal stabilizer.

Accident photo

Object Number - UPL 27943 - Accident damage 30/1/45 after top turret dome separated and struck horizontal stabilizer.

Delivered Hobbs 16/4/44; Lowry 24/4/44; Hobbs 29/4/44; with Chas Bordner force landed base 11/5/44; 4136 BU Tinker 21/6/44; 3017 BU Hobbs 23/6/44; with Roy Wolford force landed base 24/10/44; with Leslie Harper force landed base 30/1/45 (top turret enclosure separated and damaged port stabilizer); 3028 BU Luke 30/7/45; 3017 BU Hobbs 7/8/45; with Wilbur Klint force landed base 12/8/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 4/1/46.

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accident photo

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Accident report photo

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Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log

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