B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies Die legendäre Boeing B-17 Fliegende Festung im Zweiten Weltkrieg und das Schicksal zu jeder einzelnen Maschine.

Delivered Cheyenne 11/9/43; Scott 28/9/43; Assigned 535BS/381BG Ridgewell 20/10/43; Missing in Action 19m Brunswick 30/1/44 with Bob Deering, Navigator: Dave Barer, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Wardell Horne, Radio Operator: Andy Richards, Ball turret gunner: Floyd Husvar, Waist gunner: Lloyd Jackson, Waist gunner: Wallace Scott,Tail gunner: Loren Sandford (8 Killed in Action); Co-pilot: Bob Williams, Bombardier: Paul Crabtree (2 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed on a street between Kohle & Ottbergen, six miles E of Hildesheim, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 2243. LITTLE DUCHESS aka WOLVERINE.

Delivered Cheyenne 3/7/44; Kearney 12/7/44; Dow Fd 20/7/44; Assigned: 850BS/490BG Eye 21/7/44; MIA Stuttgart 13/9/44 Pilot: Albt Davis, Dick Wessel (2POW); Fred Ostler, Jenner De Santis, John Godfrey, Teofilio Crixel, Larry Roony, Don Garry, Oscar Jensen (7KIA); flak, crashed Hochheim, Germany. MACR 8855.

Del Dallas 14/6/44; Langley 10/7/44; Grenier 7/8/44; Assigned 836BS/487BG Lavenham 10/8/44; battle damaged Darmstadt 24/12/44 with Lloyd S. Reed; force landed continent; Sal; Missing Air Crew Report 11561.

Delivered Hunter 7/8/44; Atlanta 13/8/44; Grenier 3/9/44; Assigned 324BS/91BG [DF-P] Bassingbourn 10/9/44; battle damaged {20m} Altenbeken 26/11/44 with Tom Martin, Co-pilot: George Miller; enemy aircraft hit #1 & 3, crash landed Denain/Prouvy A/fd, Fr; as aircraft bellied in killed woman and two children ran in panic; Salvaged 11/12/44; TERRY’S TIGER.

Delivered Denver 25/5/43; Dow Fd 9/7/43; Assigned HQ Bovingdon; Salvaged n/battle damaged with Albert Lentz 23/12/44.

Delivered Ogden 25/1/42; Hill 15/2/42; Cheyenne 11/4/42; Lowry 5/5/42; Hamilton 27/5/42; slated RAF but transferred 98BS/11BG Hawaii; transferred 31BS/5BG Guadalcanal; at least eight missions, three Japanese aircraft to its credit along with one warship sunk during the Battle of Midway; Missing in Action Kahilia, Bougainville, 10/6/43 with Richard Snoddy, plus crew ?, simply FTR. Missing Air Crew Report 799. MADAM X.

Delivered Salt Lake City 7-Sep-40; Lowry 24-Jul-43; to Class 26 Hobbs. NM ; Written off 17-Oct-43. It was one of the aircraft that played the part of B-17 ‚Mary-Ann‘ in the film ‚Air Force‘, which was released in 1943 by Warner Bros.

Delivered Cheyenne 15/2/44; Dalhart 1/3/44; Grenier 26/3/44; Assigned: 546BS/384BG [BK-F] Grafton Underwood 9/4/44; MIA Munich 12/7/44 Pilot: Jim Roseborough, Vince Matlack, Howard Ford, Vic Brecht (4KIA); Seymour Saslow, John Fletcher, Lee Bedsted, Melvin Gerhold. old, Lou Raines (5POW); flak, crashed Munich; MACR 7568. ACES & EIGHTS.