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Old 27th May 2015, 00:12
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42-6092 – B-17F-45-VE

This website says the aircraft went to, "RFC Walnut Ridge Dec 12, 1945." http://warbird-central.com/2011/08/42-6092-b-17f-45-ve/

This website says the aircraft was possibly destroyed (certainly damaged) at DYERSBURG AAF, TN on 19 February, 1944. http://www.accident-report.com/world...dyersburg.html

According to Roger Freeman and David Osborne' The Flying Fortress Story: Long Beach 20/7/43, Cheyenne 22/7/43, Dyersburg 1/9/44, BU Patterson 3/8/44, BU McDill 29/10/44, BU Drew 18/5/45, RFC Walnut Ridge 18/12/45.

So, this was a training aircraft. The "DY" on the tail stands for DYERSBURG AAF. The aircraft did not leave the United States during the war. (It may have been destroyed in February, 1944; it was certainly damaged on that day.) If not destroyed, it was sold for scrap by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) at Walnut Ridge on December 12 or 18, 1945.

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