I B-17 Was Bought Inwards Add-On To Paid For By Times The Astonishing Fund Raising Efforts Of High Schoolers, The Boys Vocational School, Lane Tech Of Chicago


The plane was bought later on on thousands of Lane Tech students — all boys at the 4th dimension — raised $300,000 over a six-month menses that ended inward March 1943. The plane was the solitary World War II bomber that had been paid for past times times high schoolhouse students inward America, the Chicago Tribune said inward 1983


Frequently plane names were changed past times times pilots during wartime, inwards add-on to "Lane Tech" was ultimately dubbed "Wacky Woody." which has been confirmed later on on matching its serial give away "B-17G - #42-39856."

The Wacky Woody flew 8 missions, including inward Norway, Deutschland inwards add-on to the Netherlands, before it was shot down

Ted Szalinski was a pupil at Lane Tech inwards add-on to never forgot the B17, he fifty-fifty saw it at the Chicago Municipal Airport — which would begin Midway — inward 1943, as a 15-year-old.  He begin an fine fine art teacher at his alma mater inwards add-on to started researching the plane's history inward the 1970s.

The identify of the B17 was discovered past times times Teunis Schuurman, a Dutchman inwards add-on to volunteer World War II researcher who has spent the in conclusion 11 years documenting what happened to Allied warplanes that crashed inward a 50-by-50-mile surface area exactly close his hometown of Vollenhove inward the Netherlands.

Schuurman learned that Wacky Woody inwards add-on to its crew crashed inward 1944, when it was shot downwards past times times Nazis well-nigh the Dutch town of Emmeloord. Five of the crew members escaped or "evaded" later on on the crash, patch v others were taken as prisoners of war. All 10 survived inwards add-on to eventually returned to the United States.

Schuurman has documented what happened to 316 planes during World War II

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