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 9/1/44; Chanute 20/1/44; with Bob Mill force landed Boca Raton 22/7/44; 3501 BU Boca Raton 28/11/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 22/2/46.

Delivered Long Beach 17/8/43; Cheyenne 18/8/43; with Larry Price crash landed Lockbourn 26/12/43; Written off 1/1/44.

Delivered Cheyenne 8/12/42; Hamilton 11/1/43; Sioux City 6/4/43; Casper 14/5/43; Tinker 13/6/43; Rapid City 20/7/43; 4100 BU Patterson 6/6/44; 2AF HQ Peterson 2/7/44; 221 BU Alexandra 11/8/44; 2530 BU Selman 26/9/44; 4104 BU Rome 5/11/44; 4121 BU Kelly 7/8/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 5/12/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 17/6/44; Kearney 28/6/44; Dow Fd 13/7/44; Assigned 422BS/305BG [JJ-E] Chelveston 14/7/44; Missing in Action Hanover 22/10/44 with Phil Lichty, (Killed in Action) plus?; mid air coll with 43-38133 (305BG), crashed Thurleigh, UK; 19KIA in total. MY ACHIN‘ B.

Delivered Lincoln 26/2/45; Hunter 6/3/45; Grenier 27/3/45; Assigned 15AF 1/4/45; Returned to the USA Morrison 18/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 29/12/45.

Delivered Denver 18/1/44; Cheyenne 21/1/44; MacDill 5/2/44; Morrison 9/3/44; Assigned 815BS/483BG Tortorella 13/3/44; transferred 416BS/99BG Tortorella 31/3/44; Missing in Action {1m} Steyr, Aus. 2/4/44 with Joe Moffitt, Co-pilot: John Guldan, Navigator: Phil Melnik, Bombardier: Bob Wort (Nori?), Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Lester Malone, Radio Operator: Edsel Barker, Dailey (7POW?); Vernon Baldwin, Gene Fast, Frank Cramer (3 evaded capture), ret 2/5/44; enemy aircraft, two engines out, crash landed Oglin, Yugo; Missing Air Crew Report 4909.