CAF Warbird Tube - B-17E Desert Rat Update Summer 2025
31K views · Jul 4, 2025 · Education
Comments · 22
@aneel4932 · 1 year ago
My dad was a crew/chief flight engineer on a B-17E (41-9029) 1942-43 in India and the middle east. Fascinating to hear an E model is still around.
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@dancupp9186 · 1 year ago
I have had the flying fortress book you mentioned i have had it since 73 love the forts. good luck
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@theonlydjtopcat · 1 year ago
Tangerine is a song by the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra in 1941
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@dancahill8555 · 1 year ago
One of two -E model survivors, to my knowledge. There's one undergoing restoration in Hawaii that was retrieved from a jungle in New Guinea.
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@stuartlynn-q8q · 1 year ago
They call me the desert rat in my wing of the CAF I hope to see this one fly someday. Kinda been watching its progress for years , maybe the CAF could lend a hand?
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@jimbigger8940 · 1 year ago
I had a farm on Voss Rd. I remember seeing the sections of the B17 on Maple st.👍
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@joecosgriff-zj3zl · 1 year ago
Excellent Knowledge and Insight from everyone, Thank you very much for sharing this information.
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@winstoncope5315 · 11 months ago
Keep Up the good Work, Looking good " 🙂 Mr Cope
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@markfrench8892 · 1 year ago (edited)
This B-27 was built as an E vision, but was converted to a cargo plane. What a daunting project.
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@planenut767 · 1 year ago
You know the cargo version was a rare variant that was original to World War 2. Why not just leave it as is and show it off?
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@dukecraig2402 · 1 year ago
It wasn't the Army Air Corps in 1942, in June of 41 its name was changed to Army Air Forces.
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@michaeltelson9798 · 8 months ago (edited)
I knew someone that was a ball turret gunner on an early B-17G, bare metal with the chin turret. He always said it was a late model F. I am wondering with the builder’s plate that they may have used a F model builder’s plate on the first G models. He would have seen the builder’s plate every time he entered the aircraft. The tail number goes to s G model.
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