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Lt. Bud Wentz B-17 - Salvage or Repair Record
Gruß Gott Fritz!
I have again looked at AFHRA 520.83A, Eighth AF, Monthly Reports of Eighth AF Aircraft Salvaged on the Continent. The reports for April, May, and June contain no entry whatever for B-17G s/n 43-39126.
As the history of this airplane shows, it survived the landing on the continent. It got back to England, somehow, and from there returned to the U.S. This confirms the salvage reports, because in the language of the USAAF, "salvage" meant "junk the airplane," "save only the good or useable parts."
It is a pity that there seem to be no Eighth AF reports of damaged aircraft per se for 1945. . . . If these do exist, they must be in the National Archives and Records administration, Record Group 18. But I doubt that they are there. Enthusiasts for the Boeing B-17 and/or for Eighth AF aircraft might know something about this, but I do not.
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