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The RCAF held six Flying Fortresses on strength
from 6 December, 1943 to 27 December, 1946, three being Mk. II Model
299-Os (or B-17Es), and three were Model 299-Ps (or B-17Fs) as was
9204 depicted here. All six belonged to 168 Heavy Transport Squadron
which operated out of RCAF Station Rockcliffe, Ontario and were
tasked to fly mail to Canadian troops serving in Europe. 9204 was
severely damaged at Rockcliffe on 17 September, 1944 and was never
repaired, but it had contributed to the squadron's overall total
of 636 trans-Atlantic mail flights (of which 240 were flown by the
B-17s); 26,417 flying hours; 2,245,269 pounds of mail from Canada
to U.K.; and 8,977,600 pounds from U.K. to the continent.
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