Sir Baboon McGoon
B-17 bomber of the US Army Air Forces / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sir Baboon McGoon was an American Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress last assigned to the 324th Bombardment Squadron, 91st Bomb Group, 8th Air Force, operating out of RAF Bassingbourn (AAF Station 121), Cambridgeshire, England. The plane was featured in Popular Science magazine following an October 1943 belly landing in England. It was recovered and repaired, then later ditched in the North Sea on 29 March 1944 after a bombing run over Germany—the plane's 10-man crew all survived but became prisoners of war.
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The plane after its belly landing in England in October 1943 | |
Type | Boeing B-17F-75-DL Flying Fortress |
Manufacturer | Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, California |
Construction number | 8442 |
Serial | 42-3506 |
Owners and operators | US Army Air Force (USAAF) |
In service | 1943–1944 |
Fate | Ditched after collision with a friendly bomb on 29 March 1944 |
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