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 Dallas 13/2/45; Hunter 21/3/45; Grenier 28/3/45; Assigned 8AF 30/3/45; Salvaged 9AF Germany 23/5/46.

Delivered Oklahoma City 12/1/45; Boca Raton 23/2/45; Hunter 10/3/45; Grenier 20/3/45; Assigned 482BG Alconbury 25/3/45; transferred 351BG Polebrook 10/5/45; 96BG Snetterton 28/5/45; Salvaged 9AF Germany 23/8/46.

Delivered Dallas 25/8/44; Hunter 29/9/44; Grenier 15/10/44; Assigned 709BS/447BG Rattlesden 18/10/44; Returned to the USA 15/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 29/12/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 28/4/44; Kearney 11/5/44; Grenier 21/5/44; Assigned 511BS/351BG [DS-X] Polebrook 23/5/44; then 508BS [YB-K]; Missing in Action {30m} Brandenburg 6/8/44 with Jerome Barieau, Co-pilot: Don Wilson, Navigator: Walter Wall, Bombardier: Morris Clifton, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: George Weaver, Radio Operator: Harry Wilson, Ball turret gunner: Albt Levy,Tail gunner: John Mazur (8 Prisoner of War); Waist gunner: Ken Law (KIA-apparently rip cord not pulled); flak, crashed near Schlalach, SW of Potsdam, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 7588. HUBBA HUBBA.

Delivered Dallas 16/6/44; Langley 10/7/44; Grenier 6/8/44; Assigned 306BG Thurleigh 1/9/44; Salvaged 9AF Germany 23/5/46.

Assigned 367BS/306BG Westover 16-Aug-42; Thurleigh 2-Oct-42; on return from St Nazaire 3-Jan-43 landed RAF St Eval, Cornwall. Next day on t/o for Thurleigh, Bed. in poor weather crashed into the Celtic Sea near RAF St. Eval 7-Jan-43. 10KIS No MACR issued.