B-17 Serial Numbers - JeanneRickey.com

due to icing, caught fire, and 20 min
after the crash exploded
at Deenethorpe, UK Dec 5, 1943. 8 OK,
2 badly injured.
Condemned salvage Dec 7, 1943
39826 (401st BG, 612th BS, "Stubborn Jean")
shot down by AAA and
crashed 4 km E of Zierolshofen, Germany
Dec 30, 1943. MACR 1678.
1 KIA, 9 POW.
39827 after service with 306th BG, converted
to Aphrodite flying
bomb and launched against oil refinery
at Hemmingstedt
Sep 14, 1944. Missed target due to
poor weather conditions.
39828 (379th BG, 524th BS) lost May 24, 1944.
MACR 5320
39829 (305th BG, 366th BS) lost Apr 27, 1944,
France. MACR 4276
39830 (100th BG, 350th BS) lost Mar 18, 1944.
MACR 3234
39831 (92nd BG, 327th BS) shot down by Fw.
Peter Ahrens in Fw 190A-6 of
JG 2/3 during mission to Gelsenkirchen
and crashed near
Vierlingsbeek, Netherlands Nov 5,
1943. MACR 1383. 9 POW, 1 evaded.
9 POW, 1 evaded.
39832 condemned salvage Apr 19, 1944
39833 to RFC at Kingman, AZ Dec 17, 1945
39834 (351st BG) crashlanded at Pole Brook
Jan 30, 1944. To RFC at Minter Field
Jan 28, 1945
39835 after service with 351st BG as *Wantta
Spa*, converted to Aphrodite flying bomb
and launched against V-site at
Siracourt Aug 4, 1944. Control
problems led to aircraft crashing in
wood at Sudbourne, pilot
killed when abandoned aircraft too soon
before impact.
39836 (91st BG, 322nd BS) shot down by AAA
and crashed between