Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Nose Art Page 3
Roundtrip Jack
Boeing B-17F-30-VE s/n 42-5897 (SG-A) Roundtrip Jack of the 385th BG 550 BS
Ruby’s Raiders
Ruby’s Raiders Boeing B-17G 44-6483 was delivered at Hunter on 17/8/44. It was assigned to the 550 Bomber Squadron 385 Bomber Group coded SG-G and based at Great Ashfield from 8/9/44. Post-war it was returned to the USA and sold for scrap metal on 5/11/45.
Rum Dum
Rum Dum Boeing B-17G-15-BO 42-31378 was delivered at Cheyenne on 27/10/43. I was assigned to the 550 Bomber Squadron 385 Bomber Group and coded SG-M based at Great Ashfield from 1/12/43. Rum Dum completed over 100 missions before force landing from on 30/5/45 after which it was salvaged.
Shoo Shoo Shoo Baby
Shoo Shoo Shoo Baby B-17G-35-BO 42-32076 was delivered at Denver on 24/1/44. It was assigned to the 401 Bomber Squadron 91 Bomber Group and coded LL-E based at Bassingbourn from23/3/44. After completing 23 missions, it was hit by flak on a raid to Posnan on 29/5/44. Three engines were knocked out and the aircraft force landed at Bulltofta Afd, near Malmo, Sweden. All nine crew were interned. The B-17 was then modified by Saab into a transport configuration and used as a Swedish airliner SE-BAP. It was later sold on 13/3/1948 to Danish Airlines for $1 and called Stig Viking OY-DFA. It was retired in 1961 and stored at Creuil, France. It was sold to USAF for 20 cents and restored at Dover AFB then flown to Wright-Patterson. It is now housed at the Air Force Museum, Dayton, Ohio USA, as Shoo Shoo Shoo Baby.
Silver Dollar
Silver Dollar Boeing B-17G 42-32090 was delivered at Cheyenne on 23/1/44. It was assigned to the 350Bomber Squadron 100 Bomber Group with code LN-R and based at Thorpe Abbotts from 3/3/44. It later moved to the 418th Bomber Squadron with code LD-E after taxi accident on 19/4/45. It was salvaged on 21/4/45 after 102 missions and used as hack for Col Jeffrey. Post-war it was returned to the USA on 19/9/45 and sold for scrap metal.
Sweet and Lovely
Sweet and Lovely Boeing B-17F-115-BO 42-30721 was delivered at Dallas on 19/7/43. It was aasigned to the 482 Bomber Group at Alconbury on 31/8/43. It transferred to the 533 Bomber Squadron 381 Bomber Group coded VP-T based at Ridgewell from 20/9/43. After 28 missions it transferred to the 8th Air Force Fight Com, Debden based at Radwinter as radio relay aircraft on 25/4/44. On 15/11/44 it again transferred, this time to 610 Bomber Squadron 398 Bomber Group coded 3O- nad based at Nuthampstead. Post-war it returned to the USA and was sold for scrap metal on 4/10/45.
The Keystone MaMa
Boeing B-17G-15-VE s/n 42-97455 The Keystone Mama
![Boeing B-17G-15-VE s/n 42-97455 The Keystone Mama of the 401BS 91BG [coded LL-J] Missing in Action Berlin 19/5/44. Hit by flak in right wing which broke off at #4 engine, crashed Henningsdorf, near Berlin. 8KIA 1 POW](https://i0.wp.com/www.destinationsjourney.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/The-Keystone-Mama.jpg?resize=850%2C533&ssl=1)
The Mustang / Buck Shot
Boeing B-17F-25-BO s/n 41-24554 The Mustang 63rd Bomb Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group, Port Moresby, New Guinea about early 1943
The Saint and Ten Sinners
The Saint and Ten Sinners B-17G 42-31226 was delivered at Denver on 4/10/43. I was assigned to the 613 Bomber Squadron 401 Bomber Group coded IN-G and based at Deenethorpe from the 22/12/43. On a raid to Berlin on 29/4/44 flak knocked out engines one and two. The aircraft crashed near Veldweg, two miles west of Beekbergen, Holland. Nine crew became 9 prisoners of war while one evaded capture.
The Shamrock Special
The Vibrant Virgin
The Vibrant Virgin Boeing B-17F-95-BO 42-30275 was delivered at Cheyenne on 7/5/43. It was assigned to the 548 Bomber Squadron 385 Bomber Group coded GX-P and based at Great Ashfield from 17/6/43. During an attack on Bremen on 8/10/43 it was hit by flak and crashed. All of the ten-man crew became prisoners of war.
The Witche’s Tit
Boeing B-17F-50-BO s/n 42-5382 The Witches Tit
![Boeing B-17F-50-BO s/n 42-5382 The Witches Tit . Assigned to 360BS/303BG [PU-E] Molesworth on 25/2/43. Missing in Action Wangerooge Is, Holl. 25/6/43 shot down by enemy aircraft, crashed near Oldenburg, Ger. 9 POW 1 KIA](https://i0.wp.com/www.destinationsjourney.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/The-Witches-Tit.jpg?resize=564%2C421&ssl=1)
Tiger Girl
Boeing B-17F-75-DL s/n 42-3555 Tiger Girl of the 8th Air Force, 388th Bomb Group, 560th BS, England, 1944
Toots
Boeing B-17F s/n 42-29606 Toots
![Boeing B-17F-60-BO Toots s/n 42-29606 360BS/303BG [PU-M] based at Molesworth. Hit by flak, crashed Retwischof, S of Bad Oldesloe, SW of Lubeck, Ger 6 KIA 4 POW](https://i0.wp.com/www.destinationsjourney.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Toots.jpeg?resize=700%2C563&ssl=1)
Two Beauts
Two Beauts Boeing B-17F-60-BO 42-29573 was delivered at Denver on 6/1/43. It was assigned to the 358 Bomber Squadron 303 Bomber Group coded VK-H and based at Molesworth from 6/3/43. While on a mission to bomb the shipyards at Rotterdam, Holland, it had a mid-air collision with B-17F 41-24559 Ooold Soljer, of the 303BG/360BS. Three crew managed to bail out while the other seven were killed in the crash at Mears Abby, UK
Uninvited
Boeing B-17G-15-DL 42-37871 Uninvited of the 711th Bomb Squadron, 447th Bomb Group, based at Rattlesden Suffolk. Declared war weary Jan 1945, Returned to US and scrapped
Unknown Boeing B-17
Yankee Girl
Yankee Girl Boeing B-17G 44-8256 was delivered at Dallas on 24/7/44. Originally slated for the 418 Bomber Squadron 100 Bomber Group as LD-R it was instead switched to the 457 Bomber Group based at Glatton on the 12/9/44. It was later transferred to the 359 Bomber Squadron 303 Bomber Group coded BN-Y based at Molesworth on 2/10/44. It was again transferred on 9/12/44 to the 306 Bomber Group based at Thurleigh. Post-war it was returned to the USA and sold for scrap metal on 5/1/46.
