„Das beste Kampfflugzeug, das jemals gebaut wurde. Sie konnte die meisten Schäden verkraften und blieb immer noch in der Luft.“
General Ira C. Eaker
Boeing B-17 #42-97555 / Island F for Fox aka Dan Boone
Abschuss durch Flak (28 Juli 1944)
Boeing B-17 #42-5251 / Pride of Karians aka Bodacious Critter
Abschuss durch Flak (17 April 1943)
Boeing B-17 #42-38208 / Georgia Peaches aka Lilly Belle
Zurückgekehrt in die USA (07 Juli 1945)
Boeing B-17 #42-5070 / Invasion 2nd
Abschuss durch Flak (17 April 1943)
Boeing B-17 #41-24487 / Eager Beaver
Zurückgekehrt in die USA (28 Juli 1944)
Datenbank - Aktuelle Einträge in der Datenbank
44-85794
Delivered Dallas 15/6/45; Rome 25/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 5/11/45.
42-38055
Delivered Cheyenne 26/11/43; Wendover 11/12/43; Grenier 2/1/44; Assigned 748BS/457BG [K] Glatton 23/1/44; Missing in Action Ludwigshafen 27/5/44 with Roger Birkman, Co-pilot: Alex Kucherenko, Bombardier: Jim Cochran, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ray Koch, Waist gunner: John Toney (5 evaded capture); Navigator: Mike Stanko, Radio Operator: Andy Kafka, Ball turret gunner: John Buechel, Waist gunner: Jim Jones,Tail gunner: Errol Bailey (5 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed mile NE of Overslag, Hol; Missing Air Crew Report 5298.
42-30084
Delivered Cheyenne 6/4/43; Colorado Springs 16/4/43; Patterson 18/4/43; Peterson 2/5/43; Patterson 2/7/43; Barksdale 6/8/43; 3701 BU Amarillo 10/8/44; 3706 BU Sheppard 15/7/44; 3701 BU Amarillo 7/8/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 20/12/45.
43-39451
Delivered Hunter 22/3/45; Grenier 29/3/45; Assigned 8AF 29/3/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 20/6/45; Sth Plains 22/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 14/2/46.
41-9095
Delivered Sarasota 97BG 14/4/42; West Palm Beach 22/4/42; slated Gt Britain 14/5/42 in error; Salvaged Duko (MTO) 28/5/45.
44-8777
Delivered Cheyenne 22/12/44; Hunter 4/1/45; Grenier 21/1/45; Assigned 339BS/96BG [QJ-J] Snetterton 23/1/45; transferred 324BS/91BG [DF-J] Bassingbourn 5/2/45; 367BS/306BG Thurleigh 24/5/45; Salvaged 9AF Germany 22/2/46.