"Mission Maid" was a veteran B-17G with the 8th Air Force's 457th Bomb Group, based at Glatton in the parish of Conington. Ship 021 arrived in the UK in December 1943, and on New Year's Day 1945 completed her 75th mission. She was one of the few camouflaged Forts to remain with the group into 1945.
Credited with 8 German fighters destroyed, this veteran was eventually declared "war weary" and finished her tour of duty with the Air-Sea Rescue service. Returning to the USA in late 1945, she along with many of her fellow bombers fell to the scrapper's torch at Kingman, Arizona.
Completed 2015
(Duane Zemper via 457th BG Assn)
Private Collection
"Mission Maid" was a veteran B-17G with the 8th Air Force's 457th Bomb Group, based at Glatton in the parish of Conington. Ship 021 arrived in the UK in December 1943, and on New Year's Day 1945 completed her 75th mission. She was one of the few camouflaged Forts to remain with the group into 1945.
Credited with 8 German fighters destroyed, this veteran was eventually declared "war weary" and finished her tour of duty with the Air-Sea Rescue service. Returning to the USA in late 1945, she along with many of her fellow bombers fell to the scrapper's torch at Kingman, Arizona.