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Gent's,

I need some help chasing down what happened to two B-17's. I checked a B-17 website that had the disposition of the B-17's and these two numbers were skipped. 41-24500 may have been called Annie Freeze? 41-24583 was the B-17 doing the air drops of rescue supplies in the famous PN9E (another B-17, #42-5088) survival and rescue case in Greenland from Nov '42 to Apr '43. Afterward, both the 24583 and 24500 were involved in the bombing raid on the German weather station in NE Greenland.

42-5088 was a fairly new B-17.

Thanks....John

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4124500, l/n 3185 B-17F-15-BO, named 'Annie Freeze' delivered to Ogden UT. 8/7/42, transferred to Scott 10/15/42, to Presque Isle 2/19/43, assigned to 381st B.G., 535th B.S. @ Ridgewell 5/27/43. Xfrd to CCRC @ Bovington as a trainer 7/18/43, salvaged 11/29/45 FEA, Refitted & assigned to 10th HB SX @ Oberpeffenhofen 4/30/47, scrapped in Germany 1/7/47.

425088 l/n 3627 B-17F-35-BO, Condemned inventory 10/31/44

and that's the long and pretty short of that-

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Thanks!!

What did you find out about the 41-24583? That is the main one I was hoping to get some info on.

The 42-5088 is split in two pieces and is (or was??) still under the ice about 40-45 miles west of the Lost Squadron site.

088 was scrapped in 1944, see my first posting. No info on where it's bones went.

4124583 B-17F-25-BO l/n 3268. Assigned to 379 B.G. @ Newcastle 10/6/42, Transf to Bovington 11/6/42. Damaged in a taxiing accident 8/11/43, repaired. Salvaged with non battle damage 5/5/45

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Thank you very much!!!!

The 5088 crashed 11/9/42 and is still in Greenland either under numerous hundreds of feet of ice or sitting in the bottom of fjord by now...see my earlier post.

Might chase down two PBY's next.

John,
What I gave you is straight from Baughers serial numbers site, any discrepancies or conflicting info you have should be addressed towards him.

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No worries. Thank you very much once again. Did a little sniffing around and located these pics of Annie Freeze.



Annie Freeze: B-17F
Annie Freeze: B-17F 41-24500 (MS-Y), Boeing Transferred to CCRC 7/18/43. Nose art carried on both sides of the aircraft. Photo courtesy of Harry C. Curtner via David McKee. The aircraft landed at Langford Lodge AFB in Northern Ireland and had run off the runway into the mud when this photo was taken.