44-8440 unknown name (PFF)

B-17G-65-VE

Pathfinder

 

September 8, 1944 Delivered to Dallas

September 26, 1944 to Hunter

October 16, 1944 to Dow Field

October 18, 1944 Assigned to the 493rd Bomb Group, Debach

October 20, 1944 Transferred to the 351st Squadron, 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts as EP*Y

October 24, 1944 Returned to the US: Morrison ???

 

Listed in Helton's Hellcats

As with 493BG, but no squadron given.

 

Mission #95 November 30, 1944 44-8440 H/Y (unused ground spare – PFF)

 

January 8, 1946 to RFC Walnut Ridge