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.

“Das beste Kampfflugzeug, das jemals gebaut wurde. Sie konnte die meisten Schäden verkraften und blieb immer noch in der Luft.”
General Ira C. Eaker

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B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 44-8613

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

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 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 44-6952 / Peachie Pie

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 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 44-8249

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

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 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-97977 / Rose-Etta

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 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 43-38818

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

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 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 44-8379

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

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.