B-17 Serial Numbers - JeanneRickey.com

air raid.
37968 (486th BG) to Kingman AAD, sold for
salvage Jul 1, 1946
37971 crash-landed on Guersey Island Jun 11,
1945. Crew OK, but plane was totaled. Cut up for scrap in
1947.
37972 (486th BG, 833rd BS) lost Nov 5, 1944.
MACR 9528.
37976 (306th BG, 423rd BS) lost Oct 22, 1944.
MACR 9656
37978 (351st BG) returned to USA May 31, 1945
37980 (487th BG, 839th BS) shot down during
raid on Rechlin Aug 25, 1944. MACR 8470
37983 (486th BG, 835th BS, *Umbriago*)
returned to USA Jul 7, 1945. Put in storage at South Plains
AAF, TX Jul 10, 1945. Disposed of as
surplus to Kingman, AZ Nov 29, 1945.
37986 (351st BG, 511th BS) shot down by
fighters Sep 12, 1944 on mission to Plauen. MACR 8895
37987 (487th BG, 839th BS) lost Apr 10, 1945.
MACR 13883.
37990 (384th BG, 547th BS) salvaged Oct 3,
1944.
38000 (91st BG, 324th BS) lost Aug 16, 1944
on raid on Seible Aircraft Works at Halle, Germany.
8 KIA, 1 POW. MACR 8181.
38001 (486th BG) shot down by AAA over
Czechoslovakia Apr 17, 1945. All parachuted to safety and made
POW.
38006 used as controlling mother ship for
Aphrodite project
38012 (91st BG, 324th BS) shot down by
fighters Aug 16, 1944. MACR 8180. 1 KIA, 8 POW
38023 crashed into Deer Mountain, Cupsuptic,
ME July 11, 19944. All 9 aboard killed.
38037 (487th BG, 838th BG) lost Sept 30,
1944, Bielefeld, Germany in collision with 43-38154.
38050 (849th BG, 490th BS) in midair
collision with B-17 43-38111 while
on training mission near Bury St.
Edmonds, Suffolk Jan 5, 1945.
7 killed, 3 survived.
38051 (490th BG, 848th BS) in midair
collision with B-17 43-37618 which