Original U.S. WWII Fuselage Piece from Boeing B-17G "Shoo Shoo Shoo Baby" - Crash Landed at Swedish Airport

Original Items: One-of-a-kind set. The aircraft that would become Shoo Shoo Baby was accepted into the U.S. Army Air Forces inventory on 19 January 1944, and arrived in Great Britain on 2 March. After depot modifications, it was flown to the 91st Bomb Group at RAF Bassingbourn on 23 March and began flying missions the next day. 2nd Lt. Paul C. McDuffee was the first pilot assigned to the aircraft and flew 14 of his 25 missions in it, but nine different crews flew Shoo Shoo Baby on missions. The B-17 flew 24 combat missions from England with the 91st BG, with three other missions aborted for mechanical problems, before being listed as missing in action on 29 May 1944. On its final mission, to the Focke Wulf aircraft component factory at Poznań, Poland, it crash-landed at Malmö Airport, Sweden, one of many U.S. Bombers to end up in Sweden. The crew were interned, and the U.S. worked out a deal where the servicemen would be repatriated, but not the planes. Many had landed in repairable co