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 18/5/44; Kearney 27/5/44; Grenier 4/6/44; Assigned: 548BS/385BG [GX-R] Gt Ashfield 7/6/44; battle damage French Noball sites 8/7/44 Pilot: Benner; forced landing continent; Salvaged. 14/11/44. MICKEY II.

Delivered Cheyenne 25/1/43. Assigned 412BS/95BG Memphis 20/4/43. Transferred 366BS/305BG [KY-N] Grafton Underwood 1/8/43. 544BS/384BG [SU-Z] Grafton Underwood 20/9/43. 14 October 1943 damaged over Schweinfurt with Bill Price, Co-pilot: Lee Coleman, Navigator: Harry Harvey, Bombardier: Leroy Arquette, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Earl Beaty, Radio Operator: Bob Smith, Ball turret gunner: Dan Griffin, Waist gunner: Earl Nelson, Waist gunner: Ralph Grant, Tail gunner: Don Dailey (10 Returned to Duty). Crash landed Wakerley, near Corby, Northamptonshire, UK 14/10/43, Salvaged.

Delivered Hunter 20/10/44; Dow Fd 29/10/44; Assigned 751BS/457BG [D] Glatton 2/11/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 28/5/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 31/5/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 13/12/45.

Delivered Tulsa 12/3/44; Kearney 27/3/44; Grenier 5/4/44; Assigned 325BS/92BG [NV-D] Podington 14/4/44; battle damaged Cauvincourt 16/8/44 with Ted Letterman, crew all OK back at base; Salvaged 18/8/44.

Delivered Hunter 3/11/44; Grenier 14/11/44; Assigned 301BG Lucera 5/12/44; returning from Padua mission 12/4/45 with Tom Clancy; hit five C-47s on landing and burned out. CLANCY’S CREW.

Delivered Cheyenne 17/6/43; Roswell 24/6/43; 3030 BU Roswell 2/6/44; 4121 BU Kelly 3/11/44; 3030 BU Roswell 7/11/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Albuquerque 9/8/45.