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Lockheed/Vega B-17G-50-VE Fortress with a dome type upper turret, but not really a turret but rather an electronics devise?

Per Joe Baugher:

(MSN 17-7539) Accepted by USAAF at Lockheed Field, Burbank, CA Jun44. Lockheed Aircraft,
Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 19Jun44. Buckingham Field, Fort Myers, FL 24Jul44. Modified as target drone. Designated QB-17. 110th Base Unit (Staging), Mitchel Field, Hempstead, Long Island, NY 23Aug44. 2nd Electronics Experimental Squadron, Fort Dix AAB, Wrightstown, NJ 18Sep44. 1377th Base Unit (North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command), Grenier Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 21Sep44. 4149th Base Unit, Electronics Experimental Squadron, Fort Dix AAB, Wrightstown, NJ 5Nov44. 110th Base Unit (Staging), Mitchel Field, Hempstead, Long Island, NY 27Jan45. 4149th Base Unit, Electronics Experimental Squadron, Fort Dix AAB, Wrightstown, NJ 20Feb45. 139th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Shaw Field, Sumter, SC 1May45. 4121st Base Unit (San Antonio Air Technical Service Command), Kelly Field, San Antonio, TX 4Sep45. 4149th Base Unit, Electronics Experimental Squadron, Fort Dix AAB, Wrightstown, NJ 22Oct45. Air Technical Service Command, Dover Field, DE 13Jan46. 4112th Base Unit (Middletown Air Technical Service Command), Middletown Air Depot, PA 13Apr46. Damaged in an accident with North American AT-6D Texan 42-84234 taxying at Middletown Field, PA 5Jun46. Accident taxying at Middletown Field, PA 11Jun46. Weather Flight, 4108th Base Unit (Atlantic Overeas Air Technical Service Command), Newark Field, NJ 30Sep46. Damaged while parked by C-47B 43-49518 at Mitchel Field, Hempstead, Long Island, NY 7Oct46. Damaged in an accident with three North American AT-6C Texan aircraft while taxying at Mitchel Field, Hempstead, Long Island, NY 8Oct46. 110th Base Unit (Staging), Mitchel Field, Hempstead, Long Island, NY 10Feb47. 4000th Base Unit, Air Materiel Command, Wright Field, Dayton, OH 15Feb47. 4108th Base Unit (Atlantic Overeas Air Technical Service Command), Newark Field, NJ 19Feb47. 4112th Base Unit (Middletown Air Technical Service Command), Middletown Air Depot, PA 30Jun47. 3180th Mission Support Group; Olmsted AFB, Middletown, PA. Crash landed mechanical failure at Olmsted 10Sep48. Reclaimed 7Jan49

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