above, moving vegatables from the Bahamas to Florida, and maybe some smuggling too
wrecked in New Guinea in 1943, more info here: http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/the-gray-ghost-b-17-flying-fortress-wreck-papua-new-guinea.html and details here: http://www.pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/b-17/41-9234.html
Victory red and white stripes?
and as a Coast Guard rescue with a lifeboat ready to drop
Found on http://www.mission4today.com/index.php?name=ForumsPro&file=viewtopic&t=14428&finish=15&start=0
The striped B-17 is probably an assembly ship. They were used as lead planes as different bomber wings took off from different airfields and assembled into the bomber stream for missions into Europe. The stripes (checkerboard, polka dots,etc) were for visibility.
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