“Five Grand” was the 5,000th Boeing B-17 off the company’s Seattle wartime production line and was covered in signatures from numerous war workers.

“Five Grand” was the 5,000th Boeing B-17 off the company’s Seattle wartime production line and was covered in signatures from numerous war workers. It is seen here before deploying to England where it survived 78 combat missions with the 338th Bomb Squadron, 96th Bomb Group.