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

Delivered Lincoln 20/10/44; Dow Fd 26/11/44; Grenier 5/12/44; Assigned 652BS/25BG Watton 12/12/44; Missing in Action Atlantic weather mission 17/3/45 with Calman T. Estrach; 8 KIA; Missing Air Crew Report 13856.

Delivered Tulsa 20/3/44; Kearney 31/3/44; Dow Fd 6/4/44; slated 303BG, Assigned 562BS/388BG [T] Knettishall 8/4/44; destroyed by enemy aircraft at Poltava with Lt Barry 21/6/44; Salvaged 2/7/44.

Delivered Tulsa 6/3/44; Hunter 15/3/44; Dow Fd 8/4/44; Assigned: 545BS/384BG [JD-P] Grafton Underwood 29/4/44; MIA Bohlen 17/3/45 Pilot: Bill Schauer, Van McKay, Willis Gallop, Dan Frankel, Lamar Tumlin, Claude Shaffer, Francis Condon, Ken Stewart (8POW); Vernon Cooksey (KIA); flak, crashed in the vicinity of Oschatz, Germany. MACR 13114. DARK ANGEL.

Delivered Cheyenne 30/6/44; Kearney 11/7/44; Grenier 1/8/44; Assigned: 549BS/385BG [XA-W] Gt Ashfield 3/8/44; MIA Dresden 2/3/45 Pilot: Leon Tripp, Ed Gildea, Dan Machiewicz, Leon Deziel, Francis Wiemerslage, Bob McCaulay, Henrt Koshemina (7KIA); Elmer Batz, Dick Walters (2POW); Enemy aircraft, crashed Jueledorf, Germany. MACR 12856.

Delivered Cheyenne 25/5/44; Hunter 3/6/44; Grenier 17/6/44; Assigned 729BS/452BG Deopham Green 20/6/44; returning from Nurnberg with Alvin Ziemke nosed over on landing 5/4/45; Salvaged 6/4/45. RICHTER’S WRECKERS.

Delivered Hunter 18/11/44; Grenier 24/11/44; Assigned 863BS/493BG Debach 29/11/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 6/7/45; Sth Plains 8/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 28/11/45.

Delivered Denver 17/1/44; 1SAG Langley 27/2/44; Grenier 1/4/44; Assigned: 482BG Alconbury 4/44; Transferred: 366BS/305BG [KY-A] Chelveston 16/5/44; MIA Hamburg 18/6/44 Pilot: Col Ernest Lawson (C.O.), Co-Pilot: Capt Homer Claymore, Navigator: Capt Gene Mack, ex/n-Capt Dave Dunagin, m/op-Lt Dick Bushnell, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Martin Glassman, Radio Operator: Littleton Taylor, Waist Gunner: Bill Georske, Waist Gunner: Roger Lord, Tail Gunner: Lt Doug McLeod (10KIA); Bombardier: Steve Wurtz (POW); direct flak hit knocked off tail, crashed Deutche Werft Factory, Norderel Strasse, Hamburg, Germany. MACR 5939.

Delivered Denver 16/11/43; Kearney 2/12/43; New York 8/12/43; Presque Is 9/12/43; Assigned 365BS/305BG Chelveston 28/12/43; assigned Bordeaux 31/12/43 with John Quillman, Co-pilot: Ralph Blake, Navigator: John Repetti, Bombardier: Adolph Erikson (4 Killed in Action); Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Chas Groenschen, Radio Operator: Bob Cove, Ball turret gunner: Everett Esch, Waist gunner: Pat McHugh, Waist gunner: John Vasos, Tail gunner: Martin McCormick (6 Returned to Duty); crash landed Ashridge, Hertfordshire, UK; Salvaged 2 SAD Lt Staughton 3/1/44.

Delivered Denver 2/3/44; Kearney 12/3/44; Presque Is 5/4/44; Assigned: 563BS/388BG [O] Knettishall 6/4/44; destroyed by Enemy aircraft at Poltava Pilot: Lt Gaylon 21/6/44; Salvaged. 2/7/44. ROUND TRIP.

Delivered Cheyenne 18/3/44; Hunter 18/4/44; Grenier 5/5/44; Assigned: 546BS/384BG [BK-K] Grafton Underwood 24/5/44; battle damage Mannheim Pilot: Joseph G. Hartness, Jr.‘ 9/9/44; crash-landed France, Salvaged.