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Date: | Friday 15 December 1944 |
Time: | |
Type: | Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress |
Owner/operator: | 168 Sqn RCAF |
Registration: | 9203 |
MSN: | 6397 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near Lajes, Terceira, Azores -
Atlantic Ocean
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Rabat Sale, Morocco |
Destination airport: | Lajes, Açores |
Narrative:B-17 9203 of RCAF 168 Heavy Transport Squadron, with 5 crew and 3 passengers, took off from Rabat Sale, Morocco to Lajes Airfield, Azores. Its final destination was RCAF Station Rockcliffe (Ottawa) Ontario, bringing a load of Christmas mail and gifts from troops fighting in North Africa. Approaching Lajes, the radio operator requested the weather conditions and landing instructions. The aircraft was never heard from again. Some mail bags from the aircraft were found by a British destroyer 100 miles from the Azores, but no trace of the aircraft or crew and passengers were ever found.
Sources:
Air Enthusiast 50
Canada’s Wings 2: The Liberator and Fortress; Carl Vincent: Page 135
Joe Bauger: USAAF B-15F-45-VE, 42-6101; RCAF 9203
Saskatoon Star-Phoenix 22 December 1944, p4/2 January 1945, p1
Fortress 9203
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Uli Elch |
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20-Apr-2015 04:11 |
Yukonjack |
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13-Jun-2016 20:18 |
TB |
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14-Jun-2016 08:38 |
TB |
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30-Dec-2017 16:20 |
TB |
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14-Feb-2018 07:53 |
tachel |
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16-Feb-2018 20:27 |
Nepa |
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28-May-2022 08:52 |
Ron Averes |
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