“Stinky”

Squadron: 750th

Tail: M

Manufacturer: Boeing

Type: G-70

INDIVIDUAL AIRCRAFT RECORD CARD

Received at Glatton: unknown

Number of Missions:

Crash/landing: March 24th 1945

On mission: mission no. 217 to Hopsten, Germany

Crash/landing location: Kaiserlautern, Germany

MACR: 

B-17 story: The information available about A/C 43-37796 is not right. The information doesn’t show that A/C 43-37796 was ever assigned to the 457th Bomb Group. The photos that we have in our collection do show that A/C 43-37796, or Stinky as it was called, was assigned to our group. 

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