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Two B-17Gs that survived the 11 September 1944 mission to Ruhland, in which the 100th Bomb Group lost 13 aircraft in an air battle over the Ore Mountains.

The ship, s/n 43-37521 ‘Skyway Chariot’ completed 91 missions when was shot down on March 18, 1945. The image below shows B-17G 42-31412 ‘Mason and Dixon’,

which survived the war with 85 missions to her credit and was scrapped at Kingman, Arizona, in December 1945. (John E. Schwarz & James J. Potts collections)