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

Delivered Tulsa 28/3/44; Kearney 11/4/44; Grenier 28/4/44; Assigned: 710BS/447BG Rattlesden 1/5/44; MIA Rechlin 25/8/44 Pilot: E.Henningson, H.Manuel, A.Wallstrom, Chas McGuire, O.Lumpkin, W.Holloman, L.Plant, H.Long (9RTD); ditched Channel, crew rescued. ROWDY REBEL.

Delivered Cheyenne 24/1/44; Kearney 15/2/44; Presque Is 2/3/44; Assigned 351BS/100BG [EP-B] Thorpe Abbotts 6/3/44; Missing in Action Merseburg 29/7/44 with Bill Greiner, Co-pilot: Jim Coccia, Navigator: Bob Fulkerson, Bombardier: Bob Marsho, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: John Vuchetich, Radio Operator: Harry Whitford, Ball turret gunner: Frank Madrid,Tail gunner: Henry Feldkamp (8POW-drifted ashore on Ameland four days later); Waist gunner: Bernie Baumgarten (Killed in Action); enemy aircraft KO’d engine and dropped back before another attack by Me 262 jet, ditched North Sea, N of Ameland Is, Hol. Missing Air Crew Report 7815. SHE-HAS TA.

Delivered Long Beach 29/8/43; Scott 19/9/43; Assigned 527BS/379BG [FO-M] Kimbolton 21/10/43, then 526BS [LF-M]; Missing in Action Frankfurt 8/2/44 with Herb Rossberg, Bombardier: Jim Dougherty, Waist gunner: Alby Paplaskas (3 Killed in Action); Co-pilot: Matt Bauer, Ball turret gunner: Ed Dugan{Wounded in Action}, Waist gunner: Thurman Smotherman,Tail gunner: Fred Brown (4 Prisoner of War); Navigator: John Kupsick, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Chas Atkinson, Radio Operator: George Bennett (3 evaded capture); enemy aircraft, crashed Amy A/fd, four miles SW of Roye, Fr; Missing Air Crew Report 2880. PISTOL PACKIN’ MAMA.

Delivered Cheyenne 25/1/44; Gr Island 20/2/44; Grenier 11/3/44; Assigned 728BS/452BG Deopham Green [9Z-Q] 16/3/44; Missing in Action Poznan 11/4/44 with Tom Gardner, Co-pilot: Carl West, Navigator: Jacob Brown, Bombardier: Jack Botham, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Leo Varner, Radio Operator: Lucius Birbeck, Ball turret gunner: Ray Stewart, Waist gunner: Henderson Head, Waist gunner: Alex Shewchuk,Tail gunner: Ray Cutshall (10 Prisoner of War); on return flak KOs two engines, crashed shallow water five miles W of Schillig, at mouth of River Jadebuesen, NW of Wilhelmshaven, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 3932. FLATBUSH FLOOGIE.

Delivered Lincoln 22/11/44; Grenier 14/12/44; Assigned 863BS/493BG Debach 16/12/44 BETSY; Returned to the USA Bradley 8/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 17/12/45. LITTLE WAMPUS.

Delivered Cheyenne 26/7/44; Kearney 3/8/44; Dow Fd 10/8/44; Assigned 863BS/493BG Debach 13/8/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 6/7/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 7/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 14/12/45. FLAK FLIRTER.

Delivered Cheyenne 6/7/44; Kearney 18/7/44; Dow Fd 3/8/44; Assigned 863BS/493BG Debach 4/8/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 3/7/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 6/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 26/11/45.

Delivered Lincoln 17/1/45; Dow Fd 8/2/45; Assigned 730BS/452BG Deopham Green 10/2/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 28/6/45; Sth Plains 1/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 5/12/45. SCRAPPY JR.

Delivered Lincoln 12/2/45; Bangor 1/3/45; Assigned 728BS/452BG Returned to the USA Bradley 29/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 2/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 29/11/45. FLAK-SHY LADY.

Delivered Denver 31/5/43; Dow Fd 9/7/43; Assigned 12 AF 13/7/43; Missing in Action 4/11/43, flak.