„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 #42-5821 / Cindy
Abschuss durch Flak (12 August 1943)
Boeing B-17 #42-31550 / Green Hornet 2nd
BruchlandungIm Einsatz beschädigt (17 Oktober 1944)
Boeing B-17 #42-31444 / Paper Doll
Landeunfall (13 März 1945)
Boeing B-17 #42-37733 / Patches n‘ Prayers
Abschuss durch Flak (18 April 1944)
Boeing B-17 #42-38033 / Man O War
Abschuss durch Feindflugzeug (20 März 1944)
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44-6343
Delivered Hunter 10/7/44; Grenier 24/7/44; Assigned 32BS/301BG Lucera 31/7/44; base landing accident with Jim Stynes 25/1/45; to depot 20/4/45; Salvaged 26/4/45.
42-5851
Delivered Long Beach 20/3/43; Sioux City 13/4/43; Kearney 3/5/43; Assigned 547BS/384BG [SO-?] 4/43; t/o Kearney Fd, Neb, 19/5/43 on cross country flight with George Keck, Co-pilot: Ray Gaither, Navigator: Bill Juart, Bombardier: Art Bryant, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Milton Deville, Radio Operator: Frank Hollingsworth, aro-Walden Hughes, aeg-Billy Jackson, ag-Theo Paduch,Tail gunner: Alf Reiss(10 Returned to Duty); on landing left brake was u/s and swerved into piles of earth, crash landed Dow Fd, Bangor, Me. Written off 9/6/43..
42-5820
Delivered Long Beach 27/2/43; Denver 4/3/43; Smoky Hill 7/4/43; Pueblo 21/4/43; Presque 26/4/43; Assigned: 524BS/379BG [WA-C] Kimbolton 8/6/43; 526BS [LF-C]; MIA Gelsenkirchen 12/8/43 Pilot: Kurt Freund, Co-Pilot: Dale Emens, Navigator: Don MacRae, Bombardier: Glenn Bozarth, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Jim Ragland, Waist Gunner: Dan Angarano, Waist Gunner: Allen Jamison (7POW); Radio Operator: Francis Schaedler, Ball Turret Gunner: Cyrus Wallace, Tail Gunner: Chas Roberts (3KIA); Enemy aircraft set #1 on fire, then another to flak, crashed Ahrweiler, near Oberbruch, Germany. MACR 2340 & 1359.
42-5821 / Cindy
Delivered Long Beach 27/2/43; Sioux City 18/3/43; Dow Fd 13/4/43; Assigned 527BS/379BG [FO-O] Kimbolton 22/4/43; Missing in Action Gelsenkirchen 12/8/43 with Dave Rees, Co-pilot: Clair Dietrich, Navigator: Bill Busch, Bombardier: Ernie Galloway (4 Prisoner of War); Flight engineer/top turret gunner: John Brennan, Radio Operator: Joe Murphy, Ball turret gunner: Dominick Fiorani, Waist gunner: Jim Williams, Waist gunner: Chester Lunquist,Tail gunner: Stam Govern (6 Killed in Action); flak, crashed Leimersdorf, seven miles N of Ahrweiler, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 1360. CINDY.
44-85635
Delivered Dallas 12/4/45; Rome 28/5/45; Syracuse 12/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 15/11/45.
44-85634
Delivered Dallas 13/4/45; Rome 5/6/45; Syracuse 12/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 28/11/45.