Boeing B-17 #42-30737 / Ohio Air Force
Abschuss durch Feindflugzeug / (16 März 1944)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.
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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
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Abschuss durch Flak / (11 Januar 1944)
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Am Boden zerstört / (21 Juni 1944)
Boeing B-17 #43-38045 / Salty Dog
Zurückgekehrt in die USA / (12 Juli 1945)Werbung/Advertisement
Aktuelle Einträge in der Datenbank
41-9085 / Jarrin Jenny aka Li’l Butch
Boise, Idaho – 7 April 1942; Prestwick, Scotland – 12 May 1942; Polebrook, England (97BG) – 1 July 1942; Molesworth, England (359BG/303BG) – 21 September 1942; VIII Air Force Service Command – 16 December 1942; Salvaged – 26 July 1945. First 8AF Boeing B-17 in Great Britain. Part of diversion force on VIII BC 1 (17 August 1942).
42-97214 / Carolina Queen
Delivered Cheyenne 8/2/44; Kearney 27/2/44; Grenier 8/3/44; Assigned 534BS/381BG [GD-B] Ridgewell 25/3/44; Missing in Action 2m Berlin 24/5/44 with John Wardencki, Co-pilot: Chas Dayton, Navigator: Willard Blackfield, Bombardier: Bill Morrison, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Warren Backelin, Radio Operator: Bob Miller, Ball turret gunner: Chas Anderson, Waist gunner: George Elliott,Tail gunner: Harry Telzerow (9 Killed in Action); mid air coll, crashed Gratze, 17 miles NE of Berlin, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 5181. CAROLINA QUEEN.
44-83841
Delivered Syracuse 23/6/45; Nashville 30/6/45; 4202 BU Syracuse 20/9/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 5/11/45; Civil N66572, to canada as CF-HBP.
41-24554 / Lady Luck aka The Mustang
Delivered Lowry 7/8/42; Hamilton 6/10/42; Assigned 63BS/43BG Mareeba, Aus 17/10/42; then 403BS; Assigned Gen Richard Sutherland to see 503rd Paras to drop over Nadzab 5/9/43; Returned to the USA Rapid City 2/12/43 (398BG training at Walker Fd, Kan); Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Albuquerque 25/6/45. LADY LUCK aka THE MUSTANG.
41-2566
Delivered MacDill 6/2/42; crashed six miles w of Orlando, 20/4/42, coll with P-40 with Ernie Robertson, all crew killed. Salvaged.
41-24477 / Joan of Arc aka Flaming Mayme
Assigned 369BS/306BG [WW-H] Westover 16/8/42; Thurleigh 25/8/42 as JOAN OF ARC; transferred 340BS/97BG Biskra 20/1/43; Missing in Action Tunis 1/2/43 with Bob Coulter, Co-pilot: Wikle, Navigator: Blair, Bombardier: Birk, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: E.H. Smith, Radio Operator: Hansen, Ball turret gunner: Nease, Waist gunner: C.D. Hooks, Waist gunner: Fitzgerald,Tail gunner: Knight; coll with FW190. Missing Air Crew Report 3516. FLAMING MAYME.
