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Flying Fortress/41-2446


Serial #: 41-2446
Construction #: 2257
Civil Registration:
  None
Model: B-17E
Name: Swamp Ghost
Status: see history
Last info: 1999
  History:
Delivered to USAAF as 41-2446.
- BOC: Dec. 6, 1941.
- Assigned to 7th Bomb Group/22nd Bomb Squadron.
- Forced landing, Agaiambo Swamp, Papua, New Guinea.
-- Only minor damage, essentially complete.
- Abandoned, Feb. 23, 1942-1991.
Travis Historical Society, Travis AFB, CA, 1985-1994.
- Recovery planned.
David Tallichet/MARC, Chino, CA, 1999.
- Reportedly acquired salvage rights, 1999.

Source(s):
Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff, Edited by Paul Coggan - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Mansfield, England, 1989.
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-4th Edition, 2003.
Photo Source(s):
Unknown.