Boeing B-17 #43-38752 / Little Cinder
Abgewrackt / (10 Dezember 1945)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
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Abschuss durch Flak / (19 August 1943)
Boeing B-17 #43-37716 / 5 Grand
Zurückgekehrt in die USA / (14 Juni 1945)
Boeing B-17 #42-31047 / Little Duchess aka Wolverine
Abschuss durch Feindflugzeug / (30 Januar 1944)
Boeing B-17 #43-37895 / Take it Easy
Bruchlandung / (05 April 1945)Werbung/Advertisement
Aktuelle Einträge in der Datenbank
42-107173 / Lamsy Divy
Delivered Tulsa 15/3/44; Kearney 24/3/44; McDill 28/3/44; Dow FD 4/4/44; Assigned: 571BS/390BG [FC-F] Framlingham 8/4/44; received battle damage at Liege (9m) Pilot: Leon Otten, Co-Pilot: Karl Truesdell (95BG), Navigator: Addison Powell, Bombardier: Jonas Harper, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Jack Lowther, Radio Operator: Wallace Oppel, Ball Turret Gunner: John Ditrapani, Waist Gunner: John Zukauskas, Waist Gunner: Ray Schilling, Tail Gunner: John Ward; on return crash-landed on base into radar building 12/5/44, (10RTD) Salvaged. 20/5/44. LAMZY DIVY.
42-31052
Delivered Cheyenne 11/9/43; Scott 24/9/43; Assigned 360BS/303BG Molesworth 11/10/43; transferred 447BG Rattlesden /43; battle damaged Berlin 7/3/44 with ? ; crash landed Rattlesden ? ; Salvaged 2 SAD Abbotts Ripton 17/3/44.
43-38686
Delivered Cheyenne 3/9/44; Hunter 28/9/44; Grenier 9/10/44; Assigned 482BG Alconbury 10/10/44; transferred 338BS/96BG [BX-P] Snetterton 11/10/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 12/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 15/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 19/12/45.
40-3081
Delivered Strategic Arms Depot 4-Jan-41; Assigned 11BG Hickam Field, HI 14-May-41; destroyed on ground by Japanese attack 7-Dec-41. Never served in UK.
42-102953 / Sky Anne
Delivered Cheyenne 22/4/44; Kearney 2/5/44; Grenier 13/5/44; Assigned 563BS/388BG [P] Knettishall 16/5/44; Missing in Action Magdeburg 28/9/44 with Bernard Lord, Co-pilot: Don Trachsel, Navigator: Irving Podolska, Bombardier: Walter Norwicki, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ray Bradley, Radio Operator: Garland Vaughn,Tail gunner: Chas Valente (7 Killed in Action); Ball turret gunner: Bland Carter, Waist gunner: Wesley Road (2 Prisoner of War); mid air coll with 43-38404 (388 BG), crashed just outside Merseburg, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 9380. SHY ANN.
43-39034 / The Outlaw
Delivered Lincoln 11/11/44; Dow Fd 3/12/44; Assigned 838BS/487BG Lavenham 2/1/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 13/7/45; 4185 BU Independence 16/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 14/12/45.
