[1] Photographs of the bomber indicate that a third "Shoo" was added to the name at some point in May 1944 when the original aircraft commander completed his tour of duty and was replaced by another pilot.

It was restored to flying condition by the 1980s and was put on display at the National Museum of the Air force for many years.

In the late 2010s, that museum swapped it for another B-17 (Memphis Belle) with the Smithsonian where it is planned to go on permanent display in the nation's capitol.

It was flown to the Cheyenne Modification Center, Cheyenne, Wyoming, on 24 January, to Grand Island Army Air Field, Grand Island, Nebraska, on 6 February, and to Presque Isle Army Airfield, Presque Isle, Maine, on 29 February.

Flying alone toward the Baltic Sea, we saw many German fighters attacking formations of B-17s and could not understand why they didn’t pick us out as a straggler.

Before we reached the Baltic Sea, we lost the second engine, and the decision had to be made to go to Sweden because we could not make it back to England.

Actually, we had to swing wide to keep from colliding.Sweden, a neutral country, interned the crew and aircraft, one of eight U.S. heavy bombers that diverted to Sweden that day.

After two years in storage, she was sold to the Institut Géographique National, the French aerial mapping agency based in Creil outside Paris, and flew under the civilian registry F-BGSH.

Among those greeting the aircraft on its return were its wartime pilot Paul McDuffee, who had become an insurance salesman in Tampa, Florida, and retired USAF Major General Stanley T. Wray, the first commander of the 91st Bomb Group.

In 1981, Tony Starcer recreated his original nose art at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware,[7] for the Fortress.

[9] The B-17 was put on display in place of a long-time exhibit, the former drone-controller DB-17P, "44-83624" (a converted B-17G that did not see combat), which was subsequently sent to the Air Mobility Command Museum at Dover Air Force Base sans its top turret, which it gave up for the restoration of Shoo Shoo Baby.

The reborn veteran is finished in olive drab and grey instead of bare-metal as it was in its combat operations due to the amount of skin work required to restore its wartime appearance.

The aircraft was removed from display in March 2018 in preparation for the May 2018 debut of the Memphis Belle exhibit in the World War II Gallery of the National Museum of the United States Air Force (NMUSAF) at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio.