European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 8, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Restoring a flying fortress the Satoo Shioo Fladiy a world War ii flying fortress is undergoing restoration at Dover fab. Workers have had to scrounge for parts or create them front scratch. R York the my it no Little of. To list it it of Complete Nurling Pago 16 the stars and stripes saturday november 8,1986 a few Yore them photo new York times s George 80gert looked Inlo the cramped Ball Ufret gun compartment at Tho mannequin in the leather flight jacket and goggles memories rushed Back Over More than 40 years. He was visiting a hangar at Dover fab in Delaware and shoo shoo baby a world War ii flying fortress Bogert. 67. An electrician who lives in Baltimore had been that Ball Lurrel gunner As a member of the bomber s original Crew on several of its 22 missions Over nazi Germany Ann like a a teen of Aboul 100 Crew members Al the 3 7, he had come 10 Dovw to Sec the restoration of what aviation historians say May be the last b-17 of i a Type to survive ills War it has taken eight years of work. Scrounging to country for pm Fly and Cigar Iraj from scr such parts  could Fol lie found Hul shoo shoo baby is beginning to look i be il3 old  Wilh la Viii Jas pin up and 22 bomb stripes for the missions on Iho lion Plano onco Agni in a year when the bomber lakes Ila annl flight to Iho us air Force museum at Wright Patterson fab Ohio. Asmoel "0 years and 50.000 Volunteer hours will have gone into the restoration sixteen years will have passed since Iho de Eliot Shell was discovered on a Rural Airstrip in Franco. In january 1944. Tho bomber was Iho 3,3- 5lh b-17 to coma off the Assembly line at the Boeing aircraft co. Plan in Seattle Al the Lime. Flying fortresses were being Shol out of the sky Al a rate approximating he Plant s production rate of 17 a Day it was one of sin b-17 delivered to the 91st bomb group of Tho 8th air Force Al Bassingbourn England on March 5. 1s44. Aller a lest Light. Second it. Paul g. My Dufoo 27, from Michigan who had Down As a Pilot a la the Royal air Force and the Royal Canadian air Force scratched his name on the underside of the control wheel. His Crew Chiet tech. Sol. Henry Cordes of California named the plane shoo shoo baby alter the Andrews Sisters nil. An air corps Soldier. Tony scarcer who was a nose artist painted shoo shoo baby and the Vargas bathing Beau Lyon to fuselage Starcer died this june. On the first bombing Mission Over Frankfurt. The plane took the first of Many Hils in would suffer in 67 Days m combat sixteen of shoo shoo baby s 22 successful missions were flown with my Dulog at the controls there s never been an aircraft military or civilian to equal her Mcduffee now reared. Said in a Telephone interview irom his Home in Tampa. Fla. A had an incredible capability to withstand punishment and gel the boys horns  Bogert does not remember How Many missions he hew on shoo shoo baby. He said he flew a local of 31 missions aboard three bombers they had rouble with Ball Turret gunners freezing he recalled. I had to fill in a hero i was  the Ball Turret gunner spent the missions on the plane s underside. A flight to Berlin and Back look nine hours. On the 23rd bombing Mission Over Posen Poland on May 29, 1944, shoo shoo baby with two engines Oul and a third failing headed Lor Neutral Sweden. The plane was landed on one engine near Malmo. The swedish government later converted the aircraft into a passenger Linor Wilh curtained windows replacing he machine gun turrets. The plane was sold to danish air lines and Lor the next 12 years ferried passengers irom Europe to Greenland and Africa. It finally served As an Aerial Survey Craft Lor France s instill geography que National. The plane was reined in 1961 and stripped for parts. Steve Birdsall an australian who traced b-17s, tracked the remains to France through Trie bomber s serial number and he nearly illegible inscription Lieut. Paul g. Mcduffee army air  Mcduffee led the Campaign to bring shoo shoo baby Home a Mission that was completed in 1972 after payment of Ono franc to the French government air Force Mechanic dismantled what was led of the plane and it was taken to the air Force museum in june 1972. It was found there by an air Force Reserve unit in Dover that was looking Lor a Public relations and maintenance training project the 512h military Foi lilt Wing undertook the res location in March 1978. Civilian aircraft mechanics Al the base work on shoo shoo baby in their spare time. They have scavenged parts for it from b-17s from Newfoundland to Texas. Scarcer came from California to repaint his pin up. The restoration project has had thousands of visitors on open House Days a the base. World War ii buffs including Lormer Crew members have sent in uniforms medals photographs and a 50-caliber machine gun. A Small museum in the hangar will accompany shoo shoo baby to the air Force museum