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 #41-2524

B-17 #41-2524

Delivered Ogden 20/1/42; Hill 15/2/42; Cheyenne 12/4/42; Lowry 2/5; Hamilton 23/5/42; Slated RAF but transferred 26BS/11BG Hawaii 23/5/42; participated in the Battle of Midway; Returned to the USA Brookley 8/12/43; Hendricks 28/8/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) 22/5/45.

B-17 #43-37973 / The Worry Bird

B-17 #43-37973 / The Worry Bird

Delivered Cheyenne 14/6/44; Kearney 28/6/44; Grenier 9/7/44; Assigned 447BG Rattlesden 11/7/44; transferred 834BS/486BG [2S-N] Sudbury 12/7/44; 70m returned POWs from Austria 5/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 13/7/45; 4185 BU Independence 17/7/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 9/12/45. THE WORRY BIRD.

B-17 #44-6312 / Homesick Angel

B-17 #44-6312 / Homesick Angel

Delivered Kearney 29/6/44; Grenier 12/7/44; Assigned 834BS/486BG [2S-C] Sudbury 14/7/44; carried three yellow bands round fuselage; 66m force landed Germany 5/4/45; Rep and Returned to the USA Bradley 8/7/45; Sth Plains 10/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 7/12/45. HOMESICK ANGEL.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 44-8602

B-17 #44-8602

Delivered Lincoln 28/10/44; Grenier 10/12/44; Assigned: 731BS/452BG Deopham Green 22/1/45; battle damage Hamburg 17/1/45 Pilot: Ira Smith, Co-Pilot: Bob Wilcox, Navigator: Bill Nicholson, Bombardier: Howard Simon, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Harry Hoffman, Radio Operator: Bob Scott, Ball Turret Gunner: Haskell Ray, Waist Gunner: Julian Anderson, Tail Gunner: Bill Everly (9INT); flak, forced landing Bulltofta, Sweden. MACR 11728; rep & ret UK; Returned to US: Bradley 1/8/45; Independence 3/8/45; Scrapped: Kingman 10/12/45.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-97361 / The Punched Fowl

B-17 #42-97361 / The Punched Fowl

Delivered Cheyenne 22/2/44; Kearney 16/3/44; Grenier 2/4/44; Assigned 728th BS / 452nd BG ( K ) RAF Deopham Green 6/4/44; Missing in Action Brux 12/5/44 with Alex Halbleib, Co-pilot: George Kelly, Navigator: Sam KniffenWounded in Action, Bombardier: Chas Shulman, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ed Binkele, Waist gunner: Wilbur Postlewaite (6 Prisoner of War); Radio Operator: Joe Carr, Ball turret gunner: Francis Nader, Waist gunner: Willard Morgan,Tail gunner: Pat McDonough (4 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed Ohren, near Limburg, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 4821. THE PUNCHED FOWL.

B-17 #42-30151 / Spare Parts

B-17 #42-30151 / Spare Parts

Delivered Cheyenne 21/4/43; Tinker 27/4/43; New Castle 30/4/43; Presque Is 5/5/43; Assigned 532BS/381BG [VE-J] Ridgewell 15/6/43; Missing in Action 6m Cologne 4/3/44 with Dave Keyes, Co-pilot: Rich Seal, Navigator: Ralph Lynch, Bombardier: John Hughes, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Chas Van Voorhis, Radio Operator: John Fair, Ball turret gunner: Theo Simone, Waist gunner: Henry Levandoski, Waist gunner: Dale Hillett,Tail gunner: Chas Davis (10 Prisoner of War); mech fault, force landed La Bagarre, Clairmarais, three miles NE of St Omer, Fr; Missing Air Crew Report 2910. SPARE PARTS.

B-17 #41-9211 / Typhoon McGoon II

B-17 #41-9211 / Typhoon McGoon II

Delivered Cheyenne 22/5/42; Assigned 98BS/11BG Hawaii (flew to New Caledonia, at Guadalcanal Jan 43); fitted with ASV radar on nose and under wing and at least eight missions and six Japanese aircraft to its credit; retUS 901 BU Orlando 14/12/45. TYPHOON McGOON II.

B-17 #43-37524 / Queen of the Ball

B-17 #43-37524 / Queen of the Ball

Delivered Cheyenne 26/4/44; Kearney 9/5/44; Dow Fd 21/5/44; Assigned 511BS/351BG [DS-D] Polebrook 23/5/44; {63m} battle damaged Stuttgart 9/12/44 with Danforth Merrill, Co-pilot: Lou Edwards, ng-Jack McGee, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ed Poppe, Radio Operator: Jim Williams, Ball turret gunner: Tom Veltry, Waist gunner: Claude Chaffin,Tail gunner: Bill Teel (8 Returned to Duty); Bombardier: Vernon Smith (Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft KO’d #2 and ship lost controls temporarily, however p returned controls and returned to base; Salvaged 10/12/45. Missing Air Crew Report 7903; QUEEN OF THE BALL.

B-17 #43-39275

B-17 #43-39275

Delivered Lincoln 28/1/45; Grenier 20/2/45; Assigned 8AF 26/2/45; re-ass ATC 30/4/47; 1414 BAS Dharan 28/1/48; Recl Comp 16/12/48.

B-17 #41-9215 / Gallopin‘ Gus

B-17 #41-9215 / Gallopin‘ Gus

Delivered Cheyenne 22/5/42; Assigned 98BS/11BG Hawaii 5/6/42; transferred 13AF (Poppy) 22/7/42; Written off 15/6/44. GALLOPIN‘ GUS.