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English: Fully bombed up, B-17F 42-5145 the 32d Bombardment Squadron was photographed en route to Viterbo Airfield, Italy on 29 July 1943. Assigned to the group seven months earlier, this aircraft had completed 62 missions by the time It was transferred on to the 96th Bombardment Squadron of the 2d Bombardment Group in November 1943.Having passed the 100-mission mark, 42-5145 was lost on its 102nd combat sortie when It was shot down by German fighters over Fedora, Italy, on 11 March 1944. Six crewmen baled out (USAAF photo)
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Source Hess (2003), B-17 Flying Fortress Units of the MTO, Osprey ISBN 1-84176--580-5 (USAAF Photograph)
Author United States Army Air Force
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