B-17 Serial Numbers - JeanneRickey.com

MACR 15635
5780 condemned MIA May 1, 1943
5781 condemned salvage Jun 3, 1944
5782 condemned salvage Jul 21, 1945
5783 to RFC Altus Jul 28, 1945
5784 (306th BG, 369th BS) lost May 1, 1943.
5785 damaged in ground collision at Hobbs
AAF, NM May 29, 1945.
To RFC Altus Oct 4, 1945
5786 (483rd BG, 840th BS) lost Apr 15, 1944.
MACR 3909
5787 (323rd BS, 91st BG, "Billy K") shot down
by Obfw Willi Roth
in Fw 190A-5 of JG 26/4 at Forsbach,
Germany Aug 12, 1943.
Crew of 10 POW. MACR 262
5788 to Royal Aircraft Establishment,
Farnborough, England
Jun 24, 1943 for trials of HF/VHF
communications
equipment; returned to USAAF Jul 2,
1943.
(303rd BG, 360th BS, "Pluto's Avenger"
aka "A.O.G. Not In
Stock") lost Feb 22, 1944. MACR 2647.
5789 (91st BG, 322nd BS) lost Jun 22, 1943.
5790 to CL-26 Sioux City AAF Jun 15, 1943.
5791 (95th BG, 334th BS, "Ruthless")
transferredto AFSC Jun 1943.
Crashed into hill 2 mi SW of Newmarket,
UK Dec 29, 1943.
6 crew and 12 passengers killed.
Condemned deletion Mar 20, 1944
5792 (303rd BG, 358th BS, *The Mugger*) lost
Jul 4, 1943 during
mission to Le Mans (Sarthe). Fell in
the village of Noyen
sur Sarthe (Sarthe). 2 KIA, 4 POW, 4
evaded.
5793 (100th BG, "Stinky" then to 482nd BG,
513th BGS. Was 8th AF's first
H2S radar pathfinder. Crashed on
takeoff and burned near Thorpe Abbots
Nov 10, 1943. All 13 crew killed, plus