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 #41-2626 / Rokell’s Raider

B-17 #41-2626 / Rokell’s Raider

Delivered MacDill 1/3/42; Assigned 341BS/97BG Polebrook 4/42; transferred 407BS/92BG Bovingdon 8/42; sustained battle damaged Lille 9/10/42; with Capt Jim Griffiths, Lt Col Stuart Porter, crash landed Gatwick, UK, (10RTD remainder unknown); Salvaged. ROKELL’S RAIDER.

B-17 #42-30034 / Nobody’s Baby

B-17 #42-30034 / Nobody’s Baby

Delivered Cheyenne 2/4/43; Pueblo 12/4/43; Smoky Hill 6/5/43; Presque Is 17/5/43; Assigned 532BS/381BG [VE-K] Ridgewell 19/5/43 NOBODY’S BABY (taken by CO Col Leber to UK as no pilot wanted it !) with Lt Col Joe Nazzaro {Gp CO}, Major Conway Hall {HQ}, Lt Edgar Kurner {HQ}, Lt Warren Berning {HQ}, M/Sgt Russell Faust {radio}, M/Sgt Halston Randall {ettg}, Capt Norman Mackay {HQ nav}, Lt Bill Fullick {HQ bomb}, Sgt Phil Costanzo, Pfc Randall Nichols; {4m} transferred 365BS/305BG [XK-D] Chelveston 22/8/43; RAF 100 Gp 28/12/43, RG 13/1/44; training aircraft 20/3/44 to 27/5/45; Salvaged 26/7/45.

B-17 #44-83440

B-17 #44-83440

Delivered Hunter 4/3/45; Grenier 15/3/45; Assigned 8AF 28/3/45; Returned to the USA 4100 BU Patterson 12/6/45; 1 BU Bolling 6/8/45; 1503 BU Hamilton 23/10/45; 1 BU Bolling 29/10/45; 902 BU Orlando 13/12/45; 621 BU Pinecastle 17/6/46; 554 BU Memphis 19/6/46; 613 BU Phillips 20/8/46.

B-17 #42-102629

B-17 #42-102629

Delivered Cheyenne 19/3/44; MacDill 1/4/44; 327 BU Drew 4/5/45; 301 BU Drew 22/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 5/11/45.

B-17 #43-37739

B-17 #43-37739

Delivered 396BG Drew 17/5/44; with Stewart Merwin force landed base 20/6/44; 327 BU Drew 1/8/44; 326 BU MacDill 12/12/44; 300 BU MacDill 20/3/45; 73 WG MacDill 31/3/45; 326 BU MacDill 31/5/45; Recl Comp 30/1/46.

B-17 #42-5475

B-17 #42-5475

Delivered Cheyenne 14/12/42; Assigned 391BS/34BG Blythe 29/12/42; mech. problems led to taxi accident with Milton Sherman 21/2/43; Assigned 504BS/346BG Dyersburg 20/5/43; 505BG Harvard 19/6/44; 4136 BU Tinker 15/7/44; force landed Dyersburg 16/8/43 with Hiram Fisher when u/c gear collapsed; 235 BU Biggs 28/8/44; 4104 Rome 17/1/45; 235 BU Biggs 19/3/45; 4202 BU Syracuse 17/4/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Albuquerque 3/8/45.

B-17 #43-38254 / Happy Warrior

B-17 #43-38254 / Happy Warrior

Delivered Cheyenne 13/7/44; Kearney 21/7/44; Grenier 7/8/44; Assigned 838BS/487BG [2C-Q] Lavenham 12/8/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 14/7/45; 4185 BU Independence 16/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 21/12/45.

B-17 #42-32109 / Mizpah

B-17 #42-32109 / Mizpah

Delivered Cheyenne 24/1/44; MacDill 5/2/44; Morrison 9/3/44; Assigned 840BS/483BG Tortorella 13/3/44; Missing in Action Budapest 14/7/44 with 1Lt Ewald A Swanson, 2Lt Paul Berndt, Gramenzi, Simonelli, Hish, Bell, Kelley, Tucker (8 Prisoner of War); Henderson, Dudley (2 Killed in Action); flak, nose blown off, crashed Solt; Missing Air Crew Report 6901. MIZPAH.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-31599 / Fifi, Boots & Her Buddies aka Filthy Hag

B-17 #42-31599 / Fifi, Boots & Her Buddies aka Filthy Hag

Delivered Denver 25/11/43; Kearney 12/12/43; Romulus 17/12/43; Grenier 21/12/43; Presque Is 23/12/43; Newtownards 24/12/43; Assigned 410BS/ 94BG [GL-O] Rougham 30/12/43 FIFI, then BOOTS & HER BUDDIES; Missing in Action Berlin 6/10/44 with Jesse Brasher, Dick Wallace, Jerome Mamber, Don Griesedieck, Herb Greene, Erhardt Barnes, Chas Kennedy, Salvatore Sambasile, Chas Holmes (9 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Neustrelitz, Germany. Missing Air Crew Report 9349. THE FILTHY HAG.

B-17 #42-5714 / Old Faithful II

B-17 #42-5714 / Old Faithful II

Delivered Cheyenne 3/9/42; Assigned 423BS/306BG [RD-S] Thurleigh 16/5/43 OLD FAITHFUL; transferred 323BS/91BG [OR-N] Bassingbourn 11/9/43; transferred 322BS [LL-S]; Missing in Action Schweinfurt 14/10/43 with Bob Slane, Co-pilot: Joe Johnson, Bombardier: Bill Runner, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Sherman Sly, Radio Operator: Vic Kuhlman, Ball turret gunner: Lou Brown, Waist gunner: Chas Croth, Waist gunner: Bob Solomon (8 Prisoner of War), Navigator: Art Foster (EVD-ret UK 19/9/44),Tail gunner: Claud Smith (Killed in Action); enemy aircraft KO’d #3 & #4, crash landed on rail line S of Metz, Fr. Missing Air Crew Report 899. Salvaged by Luftwaffe, and restored to be used by KG 200 for spares.