B-17 Serial Numbers - JeanneRickey.com

ditched in English Channel Sep 6, 1943
29685 disintegrated when bombs exploded
while being bombed up at Alconbury
May 27, 1943. 18 killed, 21 seriously
injured (one died later) and 14
slightly injured.
29686 (384th BG, 547th BS, *Kayo*) MIA Aug
12, 1943 on mission
to Gelsenkirchen, Germany. MACR 290
29689 (95th BG, 334th BS) lost May 29, 1944.
MACR 4895
29692 (945h BG) shot down May 29, 1943 in
attack on Rennes, France
29693 (95th BG, 412nd BS, "Lonesome
Polecat") lost Jun 11, 1943. MACR 2897
29694 (379th BG, 527th BS, "Southern Belle")
shot down by Uffz
Topp of EprKdo 25 between Delmenhorst
and Bremen, Germany
Nov 26, 1943. MACR 1577. 6 KIA, 4 POW
29697 crashed on railroad tracks in
Wakeeney, Kansas during training accident.
Don't know the date.
29698 (94th BG, 331st BS, "Hell's Angel/Wild
Angel") then to 92nd
BG, 326th BS. Damaged by AAA and
crashlanded at Alconbury,
UK Aug 27, 1943. 1 KIA, 2 injured.
29699 (384th BG, 547th BS, "Old Battle Axe")
ditched in English
Channel Sep 16, 1943 on mission to
Nantes, France. Crew rescued.
29700 (384th BG) MIA 7/29/1943 on mission to
Kiel, Denmark.
29701 (351st BG, 510th BS) shot down by AAA
May 19, 1943 on
mission to Kiel. MACR 15719.
29702 (95th BG, 336th BS, "Rat Killer") shot
don by German fighters
over Baltic Sea south of Danish island
of Langeland
Jun 13, 1943. MACR 4986. 6 MIA, 3
KIA. Body of pilot
recovered in Apr 1956.