DIRTY GERTIE
42-30157 B-17f-90-BO
91/323-P OR-P

Assigned to the group on 10th June 1943, this camouflaged B17F model only lasted six weeks before over-running the runway on return from Kassel. By that time she had already been renamed Hell's Belles and, as a result of the damage, was declared salvage and transferred to Air Force Service Command. Dirty Gertie was a gal well known to the men of the Army Air Corps and a favorite as a nose art title. Her unsavoury activities were recorded in the ribald Army song "Dirty Gertie from Bizerte", the lyrics of which could perhaps be described as being the best of bad taste.

"Story taken from Plane Names & Fancy Noses, by Ray Bowden"