Well parts of it has.
http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/b_17_bomber_returns_home_to_north_suffolk_airbase_70_years_after_being_shot_down_by_germans_1_3811496
Anyone know anything on this B17 or its crew, searched ANS and found this
Date: 06-MAR-1944
Time:
Type: Boeing B-17G-30-BO Flying Fortress
Owner/operator: 452 BG USAAF
Registration: 42-31919
C/n / msn: 7033
Fatalities: Fatalities: / Occupants:
Airplane damage: Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location: Unknown (England) – United Kingdom
Phase: Combat
Nature: Military
Departure airport:
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Heavily damaged by flak and fighters, probably over Netherlands. Crash-landed in England. Damaged beyond repair.
So not sure if its the same one.
Only two other B17 crashed that day and neither was based at Horham. (page 99)
http://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/dblist.php?Country=G&page=98
By: Richard gray - 19th October 2014 at 00:10
Found it. It was.
Date: 06-MAR-1944
Time:
Type: Boeing B-17G-10-BO Flying Fortress
Owner/operator: USAAF, 95.BG, 334.BS
Registration: 42-31299
C/n / msn: 6413
Fatalities: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants:
Airplane damage: Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location: Hijken – Netherlands
Phase: Combat
Nature: Military
Departure airport:
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Name “Junior She´s My Gal II”.
Shot down by fighter flown by OFw Scherer of 1/JG11 over Beilen, Holland. All crew bailed out. Pilot evaded capture for 4 months, but all were eventually taken prisoner.
Parts recovered in 1988.
By: Moggy C - 18th October 2014 at 18:39
Only two other B17 crashed that day and neither was based at Horham. (page 99)
Your source is suspect.
This was Black Monday (First raid on Berlin by USAAF) and another 68 bombers were downed that day (B17 and B24)
Moggy
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October 18, 2014 at 12:05 pm