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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)
One of the radar equipped pathfinders of the 100th Bomb Group, B-17G 44-8344 ‘Miss Angel’.
(Bruce Dutton collection)
B-17G 43-38975 ‘Baby Doris’ from the 350th Squadron on hardstand 27A, Thorpe Abbotts base.
(100th BG Museum collection)
Maj. Robert Rosenthal, 350th Squadron commander, with injuries after an emergency landing in
France on 10 September 1944. (Neal P. Scott collection)
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