"Nine-O-Nine" was a Boeing B-17G-30-BO Fortress. (The 30-BO means she was a Block 30 and Boeing built) She was delivered to the 323rd Bomb Squadron of the 91st Bomb Group "The Ragged Irregulars" at Bassingbourn on February 24, 1944. Her first raid was to Augsburg on February 25, 1944, she did 18 raids on Berlin "The Big City". And flew a total of 1,129 hours and dropped 562,000 pounds of bombs. She had 21 engine changes, four wing panel changes (presumably due to Flak damage?) 15 main gas tank changes, and 18 Tokyo tank changes, and completed a total of 140 missions. She returned to the states on June 8, 1945 and then went to the RFC facility at Kingman, Arizona on December 7, 1945 where she was eventually scrapped.
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