'Ferret' B-17F ...
Tue Apr 16, 2024 7:02 pm
Boeing B-17F-105-BO Fortress s/n 42-30437
(MSN 5551) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 31May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 18Jun43. Rapid City Field, SD 19Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 29Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 24Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 97th Bomb Group, Châteaudun-du-Rhumel (Helen), Constantine, Algeria 24Jul43. Pont-du-Fahs, Tunisia 11Aug43. Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 15Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43. San Giovanni, Cerignola, Italy 20Dec43. Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44. 16th Reconnaissance Squadron (Heavy) Special, 68th Reconnaissance Group, Foggia, Italy. Equipped with radar detection and electronic countermeasures (ECM) equipment. Performed ECM overflights of enemy territory in advance of Fifteenth Air Force heavy bomber formations, jamming enemy radar and generating false returns to confuse defensive forces. Returned to US Nov44. 302nd Base Unit (Staging Wing), Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 13Nov44. 4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 22Nov44. 611th Base Unit, Proving Ground Command, Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 30Apr45. 75th Base Unit, Army Airways Communications System, Asheville, NC 26Jun45. 123rd Base Unit, Seymour Johnson Field, Goldsboro, NC 14Aug45. 76th Base Unit, Langley Field, Hampton, VA 3Sep46.
(MSN 5551) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 31May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 18Jun43. Rapid City Field, SD 19Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 29Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 24Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 97th Bomb Group, Châteaudun-du-Rhumel (Helen), Constantine, Algeria 24Jul43. Pont-du-Fahs, Tunisia 11Aug43. Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 15Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43. San Giovanni, Cerignola, Italy 20Dec43. Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44. 16th Reconnaissance Squadron (Heavy) Special, 68th Reconnaissance Group, Foggia, Italy. Equipped with radar detection and electronic countermeasures (ECM) equipment. Performed ECM overflights of enemy territory in advance of Fifteenth Air Force heavy bomber formations, jamming enemy radar and generating false returns to confuse defensive forces. Returned to US Nov44. 302nd Base Unit (Staging Wing), Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 13Nov44. 4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 22Nov44. 611th Base Unit, Proving Ground Command, Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 30Apr45. 75th Base Unit, Army Airways Communications System, Asheville, NC 26Jun45. 123rd Base Unit, Seymour Johnson Field, Goldsboro, NC 14Aug45. 76th Base Unit, Langley Field, Hampton, VA 3Sep46.
Re: 'Ferret' B-17F ...
Mon Apr 22, 2024 3:58 pm
Great! There have been a couple of articles about these operations in The Aviation Historian magazine.