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Posted:
By: Paul Bellamy
On: 05/25/2008
Hi Bill,

Don passed on a copy of your photo to me by e-mail.

The top turret is a flat-topped type, so '899 was a B-17F. That narrows the list of possibles down to two, both built by Boeing at Seattle.

B-17F 42-29899
B-17F 42-30899

All the best,
Paul