Liberty Lady
United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress · Crash landing due to flak damage
From RAF Thurleigh, England to Erkner, Germany (intended)
Event
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Unknown
- Event fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 10
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Military
Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress
- Aircraft type
- Boeing B-17
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- 42-40006
- Onboard fatalities
- 0
- Route
- From RAF Thurleigh, EnglandTo Erkner, Germany (intended)
Not plotted · Not plotted: the Wikipedia article gives no coordinates, and its site names no town or airport that matches exactly.
From the Wikipedia article
Liberty Lady was an American bomber aircraft of the type Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress. The aircraft crash-landed on the island of Gotland, Sweden, on March 6, 1944, after a 16-hour mission.
A book was published in 2016 containing the complete story of its final mission, fate and aftermath.
Background
On July 24, 1943, an American B-17F, named Georgia Rebel, belly-landed near Årjäng, Sweden. This aircraft was the first of a total of 68 B-17s to seek refuge in Sweden during World War II.
Liberty Lady was built by Vega Aircraft Corporation in California as a B-17G, part of production block B-17G-10-VE, and assigned serial number 42-40006. The plane was delivered to the U.S. military in November 1943, and assigned to the 368th Bombardment Squadron of the 306th Bombardment Group within the Eighth Air Force, stationed at Thurleigh near Bedford, England, in January 1944.
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Sources
Wikipedia article: Liberty Lady
- Article
- Liberty Lady
- Revision
- 1347764172 · 2026-04-08 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q10561020
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- Wikipedia article "Liberty Lady" (page 80043491, revision 1347764172)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- none
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- operator named as an armed force or military unit in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Wikipedia article's infobox and coordinates, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.