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 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-107185

B-17 #42-107185

Delivered Tulsa 16/3/44; Kearney 29/3/44; Dow Fd 4/4/44; Assigned 331BS/94BG [QE-V] Rougham 8/4/44; Missing in Action Berlin 6/8/44 with Orville Spenst, Co-pilot: Larry Metzroth, Navigator: Ed Pacek, Bombardier: Ira Dodd, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Chas Brown, Radio Operator: Forest Crosman, Ball turret gunner: Jim Theiss, Waist gunner: Bob Hurd (8POW-rescued by German Sea patrol);Tail gunner: Frank Trilling (KIA-drowned); flak damage and three engines out, ditched North Sea, off Frisian Islands. Missing Air Crew Report 8075.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-30093

B-17 #42-30093

Delivered Denver 10/4/43; Tinker 19/4/43; Memphis 25/4/43; Homestead 30/4/43; Macon 16/5/43; Memphis 22/5/43; Homestead 1/6/43; Assigned 419BS/301BG St Donat 17/6/43; Oudna 6/8/43; {2m} crash landed 11/8/43; Salvaged 19/8/43.

B-17 #42-29921 / Oklahoma Okie

B-17 #42-29921 / Oklahoma Okie

Delivered Denver 13/3/43; Assigned 27BS/2BG New Castle 6/4/43; force landed Meeks Fd, Iceland with John O’Brien 17/4/43; transferred 324BS/91BG [DF-Z] Bassingbourn 23/5/43; Missing in Action 29+m Cognac 31/12/43 with Bayard Dudley, Co-pilot: Glen Neff, Bombardier: Jack Hill, Ball turret gunner: Joe Young,Tail gunner: Roy Adkins (5 Killed in Action), Navigator: Edgar Moore, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Orlin Gregory, Radio Operator: Alex Fontecchio, Waist gunner: Jim Ross, Waist gunner: Bill Hennig (5 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft riddled cockpit, with radio room afire, then #2, crashed Salaces, near Lesperon, 15 miles N of Dax, near Bordeaux, Fr. Missing Air Crew Report 1976. OKLAHOMA OKIE.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-5377 / Axis Axes

B-17 #42-5377 / Axis Axes

Delivered Tulsa 26/11/42; West Palmm Beach 9/1/43; Assigned 341BS/97BG Biskra 21/1/43; Chateau-du-Rhumel 8/2/43; Missing in Action Grossetto A/fd 26/4/43, with Dick Charlton, Calkins, Locke, Buskin, Lent, Meares, Vince, Leffler, Walters, Thoreson. AXIS AXES.

B-17 #44-6173 / Miss Florala

B-17 #44-6173 / Miss Florala

Delivered Tulsa 19/5/44; Kearney 30/5/44; Grenier 7/6/44; Assigned 534BS/381BG [GD-H] Ridgewell 28/6/44; Missing in Action Stendahl 8/4/45 with Harvey Adelmeyer, Co-pilot: John Frampton, Navigator: Norman Melvin, tog-Ed Dybicz, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Dick Dailey, Waist gunner: Bob Cobb (6 Killed in Action); Radio Operator: Jim Hayden,Tail gunner: Ed Houser (2 Returned to Duty); flak, crashed Gottingen, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 13873. (last group aircraft lost in action) MISS FLORALA.

B-17 #42-32082 / The Passionate Witch II

B-17 #42-32082 / The Passionate Witch II

Delivered Cheyenne 22/1/44; Billings 25/1/44; Cheyenne 30/1/44; Kearney 11/2/44; Presque Is 28/2/44; Assigned 728BS/452BG Deopham Green 3/3/43; with Bob Cook, force landed English base 20/3/44 (10 Returned to Duty); Missing in Action Berlin 28/3/44 with Bob Cook, Radio Operator: George Silva,Tail gunner: John McLaughlin (severely wia, died in hospital next day) (3 Prisoner of War); Co-pilot: Ron Casey, Navigator: John Osswalt, Bombardier: John Rowland, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Gerald Poplett, Ball turret gunner: Carl Blichmann, Waist gunner: Fremont Granade, Waist gunner: Dick Thayer (7 Killed in Action); flak hit #4 gas tank, the right wing broke off and it spun in to crashed near Chateaudun A/fd, Fr. Missing Air Crew Report 3488. PASSIONATE WITCH II.

B-17 #44-83259

B-17 #44-83259

Das Schicksal dieser B-17 Fliegenden Festung ist nicht bekannt.

B-17 #42-102634 / Mary Jane aka Mis’ter Completely

B-17 #42-102634 / Mary Jane aka Mis’ter Completely

Delivered Cheyenne 20/3/44; Gr Island 12/4/44; Dow Fd 28/4/44; Assigned: 570BS/390BG [DI-B] Framlingham 3/5/44 MARY JANE; mechanical problems and battle damage, plus # 3 & 4 smoking Saarbrucken 9/11/44 Pilot: ‘; crash-landed continent; crew bailed NE St Quentin, but no credit sortie; Salvaged. 29/11/44. MAIRZEY DOATS aka MIS’TER COMPLETELY..

B-17 #40-2043

B-17 #40-2043

Delivered RAF [AN518] as part of Lend-Lease Act; 90 Squadron (WP-B) Polebrook, UK Aug-41; transferred 220 Squadron, Portreath, MIA Bygland, Norway, 8-Sep-41. First B-17 loss (RAF). Salvaged. This was an RAF loss not a USAAF loss.

B-17 #42-97674

B-17 #42-97674

Delivered Denver 24/1/44; Hunter 15/3/44; Dow Fd 19/4/44; Assigned: 364BS/305BG [WF-A] Chelveston 30/4/44; MIA Brandenburg 6/8/44 Pilot: Doug Farmer, George Kimball, Renato Roccucci, Lou Goodman, Tom McKee, Bob Meyer, Tony Catala, Chas Rogers, Edwin Denz (9POW); flak, crashed Wittmundehafe, Germany. MACR 7881.