B-17F "Wulf Hound"
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Roland KThank you! I wanted to do a B-17 in a scheme that you do not see that often - so it worked out well 🙂
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B-17F 41-24585 "Wulfe-Hound" was assigned 360BS/303BG [PU-B] Bangor 14-Oct-42; Molesworth 16-Oct-42; Missing in Action Rouen-Sotteville 12-Dec-42 sustained damage from enemy aircraft, force landed in a field in France. Was removed and repaired by the Germans and flew with KG200. No MACR issued. 4POW 6EVD. Aircraft participated in 3 Operations. (See Biography events)
18-Nov-42 Mission #1 - U-Boat pens, St. Nazaire, France (See Biography)
6-Dec-42 Mission #2 - Carriage & Wagon Works, Lille, France (See Biography)
12-Dec-42 LAST OPERATION Mission #3 Railroad marshalling yards, Rouen, France. (See biography)
First B-17 captured by Luftwaffe restored at Rechlin, Ger. and used for affiliation and demonstration duties, then assigned to I./KG200 as A3+AE in Sep 43. Transferred to ELG at Wadi Tamet, Libya as part of the station coded Traviata to study British troop movements, but on 16-Apr-44 was low on fuel and pilot Ober Lt Dumke slightly injured was forced to ditch in shallow water in Bay of Kalamata with no loss
