Boeing B-17 #42-31540 / Miss Donna Mae II
Verlust durch Eigenbeschuss / (19 Mai 1944)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.
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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
Featured B-17s
Boeing B-17 #42-30094 / Belle of the Blue
Abgewrackt / (06 September 1945)
Boeing B-17 #42-97504 / Mary Lou
Bruchlandung / Im Einsatz beschädigt / (14 Oktober 1944)
Boeing B-17 #42-30705 / Ther-N-Bak
Abschuss durch Feindflugzeug / (27 November 1943)
Boeing B-17 #42-38109 / Cabin In The Sky
Im Einsatz beschädigt / (20 Februar 1944)Werbung/Advertisement
Zuletzt aktualisierte B-17 in der Datenbank
B-17 #42-3097 / The Ground Hog
Delivered Denver 11/2/43; Dow Fd 13/6/43; Assigned 335BS/95BG Horham 15/6/43; transferred 549BS/385BG [XA-Z] Gt Ashfield /43; damaged in base explosion 3/9/43; Missing in Action Ludwigshafen 30/12/43 with Rueben Eckhardt, Navigator: Kingsley Sumner (2 evaded capture); Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Art Enders, Radio Operator: Leroy Acridge, Ball turret gunner: Bob Crumrine, Waist gunner: Jim Lires, Waist gunner: Rowland Burch, Tail gunner: Floyd Montgomery (6 Prisoner of War); Co-pilot: Chas Erichsen, Bombardier: John Hay (2 Killed in Action); flak, crashed Fresnicourt, Sain-en-Gohelle,Fr; Missing Air Crew Report 1898. THE GROUND HOG.
B-17 #42-97921
Delivered Tulsa 5/4/44; Hunter 20/6/44; Grenier 28/6/44; Assigned 340BS/97BG Amendola 3/7/44; Missing in Action Brux 20/10/44 with Don Wilson, Hayes, Thomas, Adams, Harborn, Calley, Catollo, Rupurt, Corning, Phillips; flak or out of gas, crashed Yugoslavia; Missing Air Crew Report 9591.
B-17 #42-97913
Delivered Tulsa 3/4/44; Hunter 16/6/44; Dow Fd 28/6/44; Assigned 815BS/483BG Sterparone 3/7/44; Missing in Action Moosbeirbaum, Aus 28/8/44 with Jonas Blank, Corenthal, Penn, Emmett Jones, Perperone, Schreiner, Nicholaisen (7 Prisoner of War); Whye, Tucker, Cunningham (3 evaded capture & reurn 10/9/44); mechanical failure, crashed Karlstadt; Missing Air Crew Report 11278.
B-17 #43-38297
Delivered Cheyenne 18/7/44; Kearney 27/7/44; Grenier 8/8/44; Assigned 860BS/493BG Debach 10/8/44; Missing in Action Brunswick 3/3/45 with Chas White, Walter Helm, Jim Gunderson, George Lemberling, Marvin Knight, Fred Graf, Loren Arment, Doyle Whitney, Bob Boatman (9 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Apelern, Ger?. Missing Air Crew Report 12887.
B-17 #42-32109 / Mizpah
Delivered Cheyenne 24/1/44; MacDill 5/2/44; Morrison 9/3/44; Assigned 840BS/483BG Tortorella 13/3/44; Missing in Action Budapest 14/7/44 with 1Lt Ewald A Swanson, 2Lt Paul Berndt, Gramenzi, Simonelli, Hish, Bell, Kelley, Tucker (8 Prisoner of War); Henderson, Dudley (2 Killed in Action); flak, nose blown off, crashed Solt; Missing Air Crew Report 6901. MIZPAH.
B-17 #42-39860 / War Cry
Delivered: Long Beach 23/9/43; Gr Island 6/10/43; assigned 548BS/385BG [GX-A] Gt Ashfield 23/10/43; MIA Bremen 13/11/43 Pilot: Ben McCall, Tail Gunner: Bill Butler{found in tail section near Oldenburg, Germany. (2KIA); Co-Pilot: Clovis Ginn, Navigator: John Replogle, Bob Lambiaso, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Larry Charland, Radio Operator: Stan Easterbrook, Ball Turret Gunner: Ed Berthiaume, Waist Gunner: Bill Bowels, Waist Gunner: Lyne Wood (8RTD -rescued from sea); mid-air coll. w/42-30717 (385BG), ditched North Sea 20 miles of UK coast; MACR 1403. WAR CRY.
B-17 #42-30217 / Iza Blue aka Impatient Virgin
Delivered Cheyenne 29/4/43; Sioux City 13/5/43; Smoky Hill 10/6/43; Dow Fd 15/6/43; Assigned 560BS/388BG Knettishall 16/6/43 IZA BLUE; detailed Duren 20/10/43 with Bob Simmons, crew ?, (10 Returned to Duty); but recalled due to extreme weather, eventually getting lost until spotting small airfield near Lichfield, Staffs, and needed seven attempts to land in meadow beyond runway, hitting tree and wrecked aircraft; Salvaged. IMPATIENT VIRGIN.
B-17 #42-30216 / Jonny
Delivered Cheyenne 29/4/43; Gore 9/5/43; Sioux City 10/5/43; Dow Fd 12/6/43; Assigned 563BS/388BG [–S] Knettishall 18/6/43; Missing in Action Oschersleben 28/7/43 with Ralph Swanson, Co-pilot: Harry Erickson, Navigator: Chas Bergheimer, Bombardier: Norvell Nystrom, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Phil Kinder, Radio Operator: Fred Ward, Ball turret gunner: Bob Shaw, Waist gunner: Dick Lambrecht, Waist gunner: Chas McMenamin,Tail gunner: Bill Deane (10 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Banteln, near Elze, S of Hanover, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 3128. JOHNNIE.
B-17 #42-30078
Delivered Cheyenne 7/4/43; Hobbs 19/4/43; 2114 BU Lockbourn 23/8/44; 3017 BU Hobbs 25/8/44; 3030 BU Roswell 23/11/44; 3017 BU Hobbs 2/1/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 18/9/45.
B-17 #42-31841
Delivered Denver 26/12/43; Omaha 6/1/44; Atlanta 10/1/44; Lakeland 16/1/44; Morrison 13/2/44; Assigned 775BS/463BG Celone 15/2/44; Missing in Action Atzgersdorf, Aus. 24/5/44 with Russell Orf, Navigator: Carl Jamas (2 Killed in Action); Co-pilot: John Wyckoff, Bombardier: Max Coddington, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Jim Drennan, Radio Operator: Bill Fossey, Ball turret gunner: Cornelius Snedeker, Waist gunner: Ralph Goff,Tail gunner: Tom Bates (7POW?); enemy aircraft, crashed near Šoštanj, Slovenia (German: Schönstein); Missing Air Crew Report 5195.
