B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies
Die Boeing B-17 Fliegende Festung im Zweiten Weltkrieg mit einer Datenbank über das Schicksal jeder einzelnen Maschine.
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“Das beste Kampfflugzeug, das jemals gebaut wurde. Sie konnte die meisten Schäden verkraften und blieb immer noch in der Luft.”
General Ira C. Eaker
Featured B-17s
Zuletzt aktualisierte B-17 in der Datenbank
B-17 #44-8613
Delivered Hunter 1/11/44; Grenier 17/11/44; Assigned 350BS/100BG [LN-T] Thorpe Abbotts 19/11/44; Missing in Action Plauen 21/3/45 with Bernie Painter (Prisoner of War); Co-pilot: Chas Higginbotham, Navigator: Dan Martin, Bombardier: Herb Singer, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Virgil Downing, Radio Operator: Art McNeill, Ball turret gunner: Wallace Matzdorf, Waist gunner: Emil Havelka,Tail gunner: Don Becker (8 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed Dobeln, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 13572.
B-17 #42-38006 / Hoosier Hot Shot
Delivered Cheyenne 11/11/43; Gr Island 1/12/43; Presque Is 17/12/43; ass 324BS/91BG [DF-H] Bassingbourn 8/1/44; {21m} MIA Kassel 19/4/44 Pilot: Stan Swenumson, Co-Pilot: Leon Lindroth, Navigator: Jim Caravolas, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Roy Stevens, Radio Operator: Theodore Bacho, Ball Turret Gunner: Amos Anderson, Waist Gunner: Charles Gessnor, Waist Gunner: Edwin Arnett (8POW); Bombardier: Ernie Bunte, Tail Gunner: Mike Schumacher (2KIA); Enemy aircraft KO’d three engines, set on fire and ship exploded on way down to crash near Waldkappel, 20 miles SE of Kassel, Germany. MACR 4046. HOOSIER HOT SHOT.
B-17 #44-6952 / Peachie Pie
Delivered Lincoln 29/12/44; Dow Fd 25/1/45; Assigned 509BS/351BG [RQ-H] Polebrook 1/2/45; {14m} Returned to the USA Bradley 23/5/45; Sth Plains 26/5/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 14/12/45.
B-17 #44-8249
Delivered Dallas 27/7/44; Hunter 24/8/44; Grenier 13/9/44; Assigned: 729BS/452BG as SH ship Deopham Green [M3-D] 15/9/44; MIA Darmstadt 24/12/44 Pilot: Jay Kenworthy, Maj Carl Thomajan, Martin Rafalco, Vince Sullivan, Carl Lambert (5KIA); Russell Haas, Buell Hoagland {ex nav}, John Salver, Lt Glenn Glatfelder {mickey op}, F/O John Hamon {tg} (5POW); flak, crashed Prum, Germany. MACR 11229.
B-17 #42-31348 / Swing Shift Baby
Delivered Cheyenne 26/10/43; Walla Walla 7/11/43; Assigned: 728BS/452BG Deopham Green 6/1/44; 729BS; MIA Misburg 31/12/44 Pilot: Don Ferguson, Lou Weissman, Fred Casad, George Napier (4KIA); George Warder, Collins Morrison, Lou Watkins, Bill Hof, Ken Sommerville (5POW); Enemy aircraft, crashed Rhade, Germany. MACR 11230. SWING SHIFT BABY.
B-17 #42-97977 / Rose-Etta
Delivered Dallas 21/4/44; Hunter 30/5/44; Grenier 10/6/44; Assigned: 730BS/452BG Deopham Green 11/6/44; MIA Hardorf, Germany. 21/3/45 Pilot: Norman Rosholt, Jerome Fuhr, Ellsworth Hoffman, Paul Hare, John Syvertsen, Jim Collins (6POW); Frank Enroughty (EVD); Tony D’Amore, Alvin Galusha (2KIA); flak, crashed Munster, Ger. MACR 13533.
B-17 #43-38818
Delivered Lincoln 25/9/44; Grenier 7/10/44; Assigned 524BS/379BG Kimbolton 11/10/44; Missing in Action Hopsten, Ger 24/3/45 with Sylvester Howell, Ken Noble, Bert Barnett, Melvin Wheeler, Tom Fairbanks, Pablo Villasenor, Milton Kenan, Mark Reynolds (8 Killed in Action); flak, crashed Hopsten, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 13605.
B-17 #42-31993 / Gen’Ril Oop
Delivered Cheyenne 13/1/44; Dalhart 28/1/44; Presque Is 29/2/44; Assigned 334BS/95BG [BG-F] Horham 3/3/44; 12m, Missing in Action Freidrichshafen 24/4/44 with Ed Cunningham, Co-pilot: Tony Bowden, Navigator: Ed Bartlett, Bombardier: Isidore Markowitz, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Jesse Pace, Radio Operator: Willard Dox, Ball turret gunner: Cleo Stevens, Waist gunner: Herb Cloutier, Waist gunner: Oscar Krummel,Tail gunner: Gil Nagle (10 INT); two engines out, force landed Dubendorf, Switz. Missing Air Crew Report 4265. Salvaged 12/10/45. “GEN’RIL OOP.”
B-17 #44-8379
Delivered Dallas 29/8/44; Hunter 25/9/44; Grenier 3/10/44; Assigned as PFF 351BS/100BG [EP-J] Thorpe Abbotts 12/10/44; Missing in Action Berlin 3/2/45 with Capt John Ernst {Wounded in Action}, Art Jacobson, Lou Chappell, Stewart Gillison {Ex nav}, Dugger West, Chas Webber, Lt Bob Stropp {radar nav}, Warren Winters, George Windisch, Maj Bob Rosenthal {mission pilot] (4 EVD/5 POW/2 KIA (correct ?)); Gene Lockhart (Killed in Action); flak, crashed 15 miles north-west of Neudamm (Dębno, Poland today) . Missing Air Crew Report 12046.
B-17 #42-97165 / Sleepy Time Gal
Delivered Cheyenne 4/2/44; Nashville 19/2/44; Morrison 5/3/44; Homestead 17/3/44; Assigned 353BS/301BG Lucera 16/3/44; Missing in Action Munich 19/7/44 with John McGill, Co-pilot: Fagan, Navigator: Morrell, Bombardier: Gernert, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Thomas, Radio Operator: Behrens, Ball turret gunner: Crickmer, Waist gunner: Kelly, Waist gunner: Cowen,Tail gunner: Gitchell (10 Prisoner of War); mech fault, crashed Lesach, Ger?; Missing Air Crew Report 6910. SLEEPY TIME GAL.