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I was surprised that I've seen as many as I have.

01) The Swoose
02) Memphis Belle
03) Shoo Shoo Shoo Baby
04) Chuckie
05) Sentimental Journey
06) Piccadilly Princess
07) Movie Memphis Belle
08) Fuddy Duddy
09) Nine-O-Nine
10) Piccadilly Lily II
11) Miss Liberty Belle
12) Texas Raiders
13) Thunderbird
14) Liberty Belle
15) Aluminum Overcast
16) Champaign Lady
17) Yankee Lady

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I think mustangdriver wins the prize with 36 of them! Are there any B-17s in the U.S. that you haven't seen?

Haha. I have a B-17 addiction. I'm still missing the Dyess and Lackland birds. But plan to see them soon.

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Hi
I have been on roadtrips, ones a year the last 10years in the US. My goal was to see all the b-17 and go to a lot of airshows.
I am from Denmark and we dont have any b-17 here, but they have 3 b-17 in UK which I have seen, and 2 in France, but I have only seen Pink Lady. But Shoo shoo baby use to fly in Denmark as Store Bjørn.

B-17D Swoose-NMU
B-17E Our Gal Sal
B-17F Boeing Bee- MOF
B-17F Memphis Belle-NMUSAF
B-17F Homesick Angel- Offut AFB
B-17G Nine O Nine- Pittsburgh rebuild
B-17G "Movie Belle" Pittsburgh mtc
B-17G Texas Raiders Pittsburgh MTC
B-17G Sentimental Journey CAF
B-17G Aluminum Overcast-currently on team
B-17G Chuckie
B-17G Picadilly Primcess- Weeks
B-17G Short Beir-Hill AFB
B-17G Ball of Fire-Weks
B-17G Gremlins Hideout- Eglin
B-17G Starduster-March AFB
B-17G Sleepy Time Gal- Dover AFB
B-17G Miss Liberty Belle-Grissom
B-17G Liberty Belle
B-17G Yankee Doodle II/ Liberty Belle- Barksdale AFB
B-17G virgins Delight- Castle AFB
B-17G Prestons Pride- CA
B-17G PicadillyLilly-POF
B-17G I'll Be Around- PIMA
B-17G King Bee- SAC Museum
B-17G Shady Lady-Evergreen
B-17G Lacy Lady- Milwaukee, OR
B-17G Thunderbird- Lonestar
B-17G Yankee Lady
B-17G Fuddy Duddy
B-17GCity of Savannah
B-17 Miss Angelina- Palm Springs
B-17GShoo Shoo Baby-NMUSAF
B-17G Champaign Lady
B-17G The Reluctant Dragon-Dyess Linear air park
B-17G Heavens Above-Lackland Air force Base
and the 2 restoration of B-17 in Douglas, Georgia

Welcome, Thor! Your list is as impressive as mustangdrivers, and perhaps even more so because you are coming from Denmark to see all of these.

This thread has been fun. Glad to see there are people out there who have had the same idea. I still think it would be awesome to do this in a single epic road trip.

How about pictures?
I think many of us would like to see the Forts through the years. When I was in the service, I volunteered on B-17G Sentimental Journey in the early 80's in AZ. got transferred to Castle AFB in Merced/Atwater CA in the late 80's and worked on B-17G Virgins Delight. Now retired and back in Chicagoland, been out to see B-17E Deseret Rat, and the rest of the "touring" Fortresses. Oshkosh is always good for at least 2 or 3 forts per year.
I will dig some out of the old photo albums and scan them in for posting.

Jim C
Midwest Aeronautique LLC
UC-61K USAAF# 43-14964 RAF # HB690

Here's my list, which is also not nearly as impressive as Mustangdriver's:

Flew Aboard:

Sentimental Journey

Crawled Around Inside Of:

Aluminum Overcast
Fuddy Duddy
Movie Memphis Belle
Liberty Belle
Miss Liberty Belle (Grissom, on way to Warner Robins)
Old 909
Picadilly Lilly
Preston's Pride (Tulare AmVets)
Champaign Lady (The guys let me poke my head inside some of the fuselage components. I'd say that counts. )

Seen, but unable to go inside of: (Yet )

Shoo Shoo Baby (NMUSAF)
Starduster (March Field)
I'll Be Around (Pima)
Virgin's Delight (Castle. BTW, Open Cockpit Day is September 6. I'll be there.)
Heaven Above (Didn't have that name when I saw it at Lackland during boot camp)
King Bee (Strategic Air Command Museum)

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