Boeing B-17 #42-29511 / The Iron Maiden
Abschuss durch Feindflugzeug / (14 Oktober 1943)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.
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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
Boeing B-17 #41-24487 / Eager Beaver
Zurückgekehrt in die USA / (28 Juli 1944)
Boeing B-17 #43-38199 / Easy Going
Bruchlandung / (15 Februar 1945)
Boeing B-17 #42-29673 / Old Bill
Im Einsatz beschädigt / (15 Mai 1943)Werbung/Advertisement
Aktuelle Einträge in der Datenbank
42-102936
Delivered Cheyenne 20/4/44; Kearney 16/5/44; Grenier 27/5/44; Assigned 92BG Podington 30/5/44; transferred 569BS/390BG [CC-P] Framlingham 1/6/44; detailed Brest, Fr. 26/8/44 with Paul Bellamy, Co-pilot: Jim Graba, Bombardier: Joe Lee, Radio Operator: Irvin Casey, Ball turret gunner: Bob Hunter (5 Killed in Action); Navigator: Ray Klausing, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Fred Walsh, Waist gunner: Louis Conser,Tail gunner: Rich McAteer (4 Returned to Duty); mid air coll with 42-97182; crashed Weston, near Stevenage, Herts., UK. The wreckage also killed two civilians; Salvaged 27/8/44.
42-97685 / Stardust
Delivered Denver 27/1/44; 1SAG Langley 11/4/44; Morrison 28/4/44; Assigned (PFF) 49BS/2BG Amendola 30/4/44; transferred 353BS/301BG Lucera 15/5/44; Missing in Action Linz, Aus 25/11/44 with Chas Govatsos, Moffet, Wildrick, Richards, Spohn, Swift, Poteet, Roy (8 evaded capture & ret); Moran, Gubitosi (2 Prisoner of War); mech fault, crashed Cili, ?; Missing Air Crew Report 10108. STARDUST.
44-8595
Delivered Lincoln 29/10/44; Grenier 9/11/44; Assigned 833BS/486BG [4N-M] Sudbury 11/11/44; {47m} involved in landing accident at base, rep. Ret US Bradley 10/6/45; Sth Plains 9/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 10/11/45.
43-37747
Delivered Cheyenne 17/5/44; Kearney 26/5/44; Dow Fd 4/6/44; Assigned: 729BS/452BG Deopham Green 7/6/44; MIA French Noball sites 8/7/44 Pilot: Everett Hanson, Jim Heinzen, Len Marcus, Don Lyma, George Grissom, Chester Pool, Lloyd Pohrte, Russell Jones, Van McManus (9KIA); Arthur Schulze (POW); flak, crashed Boubrers, Fr. MACR 7224.
42-5805
Delivered Long Beach 17/1/43; Walker 28/2/43; Tinker 31/3/43; Smoky Hill 17/4/43; Assigned 306BG Thurleigh 27/4/43; transferred 96BG Andrews Fd, then Snetterton; severe battle damaged with ? 16/6/43; Salvaged 17/6/43.
44-8286
Delivered Cheyenne 30/7/44; 902 BU Orlando 19/8/44; 621 BU Pinecastle 7/7/46; (first Cheyenne turret) 62 BAS Aberdeen Proving Ground 25/7/46.
