Bottle Baby
Don: I can help you with some verification of the information below.........I have deleted the other since I have no info one way or the other about it.....the call letters on 43-38458 were IN-A and the Bottle Baby name was given by me and I painted the nose(but no beautiful girls since I had
nothing to go by).......I was assigned the aircraft 43-38458 in January after it had been returned from forced landing in Europe.....It was the primary plane for me and my crew from then until the end of the war, although a few other crews flew it as well (613th crews), and I flew some missions in other aircraft at times, but 43-38458 was on “my†hardstand and serviced by “my†ground crew. Then as a final note, I flew 43-38458 with my crew and 10 additional personelle in the exodus to the US. We flew from Deenethorpe to Valley, Wales, then to Reykavik, Iceland, then to Goose
Bay, Labrador, then the final leg to Bradley Field, Connecticut. I can verify all the above even with the invoice made out to me charging me for the aircraft which I was flying to the United States. All the best, Jake
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| Serial No: |
43-38458 |
| Model: |
B-17G-85-BO |
| Manufacturer: |
Boeing Aircraft Company, Seattle, WA |
| Delivered: |
08/04/1944 |
| Assigned: |
09/12/1944 |
| Lost: |
06/06/1945 |
| Mission Lost: |
N/A |
| How Lost: |
Returned to the USA |
| Notes: |
Sustained major flak damage and force-landed in France (30 November 1944). The aircraft and its crew later returned to Deenethorpe.
When the aircraft returned from France it was redesigned IN-A. It also carried IN-D earlier. RFC Kingman 6 December 1945. |
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