B-17 Serial Numbers - JeanneRickey.com

sold for scrap Jul 1, 1946
97647 (305th BG, 366th BS) lost Jun 18, 1944.
MACR 5939
97648 (97th BG, 340th BS) lost Sep 13, 1944.
MACR 8729
97649 salvaged in Germany Apr 4, 1946
97651 assigned to 94th Combat Wing but
carried on 351st BG strength. Transferred to
305th BG May 1945.
97652 (2nd BG, 49th BS) lost Dec 7, 1944.
MACR 10223
97653 (483rd BG, 840th BS) lost Jul 15, 1944,
Yugoslavia. MACR 6826
97654 (96th BG, 413rd BS) lost May 12, 1944,
Germany. MACR 4861
97655 (97th BG, 414th BS) lost over Austria
May 10, 1944. MACR 4722
97662 (457th BG, 748th BS) salvaged Jan 23,
1945
97678 (525th BS, 379th BG, 'Birmingham
Jewel') shot down by enemy fighters southwest
of Hamburg, Germany Feb 3, 1945. MACR
12217.
97683 has two MACRs on it. MACR 10201 has
the plane being lost Sep 18, 1944 with 95th BG, 335th BS.
MACR 12824 had the plane being lost Mar
15, 1945 with 301st BG, 352nd BS.
97685 (301st BG, 353rd BS) lost Nov 25, 1944.
MACR 10108
97686 (91st BG, 324th BS) lost Jun 21, 1944.
MACR 5997
97687 assigned to 94th Combat Wing but
carried on 351st BG strength. Transferred to
305th BG May 1945.
97689 (482nd BG) fitted with Micro-H radar
bombing system. First trial mission
was to fuel dump at Bois-de-la-Houssire
Aug 4, 1944
97691 (303rd BG, 427th BS) forced landed in
Volker, Belgium Nov 26, 1944. MACR 11193
97692 fitted with H2X radar and used to
photograph French coast
from Cherbourg to Le Havre duriin
gnight of Jun 1, 1944 in