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B-17F #41-24585 Wulfe Hound 360th BS (PU-B)
Original 303rd BG(H) B-17F-27-BO
First 8thAF B-17 captured and flown by Germans
MIA 12 December 1942 mission #6 to Rouen, France (Lt Paul F. Flickenger Pilot) Wheels-up landing in a hayfield near Melun, France (60 mi S.E. of Paris) with ball turret guns pointing downward. Germans were able to transport the B-17 to the nearby Leeuwarden airfield in the Netherlands where repairs made and put in flyable condition. The damaged Ball Turret was never replaced. It was painted with German Insignia and side code DL+XC with yellow paint on the undersurfaces. It was carefully examinined and tested at the Luftwaffe Test and Evaluation Center at Rechlin. Wulfe Hound was first flown by the Germans on 17 March 1943, followed by more testing and development of fighter tactics against B-17s. It was transferred to the Luftwaffe "Kampfgeschwader" KG200 Squadron at Rangesdforf, Germany on 11 September 1943. It then took part in training and highly secretive clandestine missions between May and June 1944.