Boeing B-17G
Flying Fortress
This B-17G was assigned to the 91st Bomb Group based at Bassingbourn, England in March 1944. It flew 24 combat missions in World War II, receiving flak damage seven times. In 1968, Shoo Shoo Baby was found abandoned in France and the French government presented the aircraft to the U.S. Air Force.
This aircraft's first mission (Frankfurt, Germany) was on March
24, 1944, and last mission (Posen, Poland) on May 29, 1944, when
engine problems forced a landing in neutral Sweden where the airplane
and crew were interned. The National Museum of the USAF will transfer Shoo Shoo Shoo Baby to the Smithsonian Institution's National
Air and Space Museum in exchange for the B-17D The Swoose the museum received in July 2008.