Boeing B-17 #42-97308 / Hairless Joe
Abschuss durch Flak / (31 März 1945)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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42-5805
Delivered Long Beach 17/1/43; Walker 28/2/43; Tinker 31/3/43; Smoky Hill 17/4/43; Assigned 306BG Thurleigh 27/4/43; transferred 96BG Andrews Fd, then Snetterton; severe battle damaged with ? 16/6/43; Salvaged 17/6/43.
42-5803
Delivered Long Beach 11/2/43; Tinker 12/3/43; Presque Is 8/4/43; Assigned 94BG Earls Colne 17/5/43; Rougham 13/6/43; Salvaged 18/7/43.
42-5730
Delivered Tulsa 18/10/42; Rapid City 25/11/42; Geiger 28/3/43; Walla Walla 18/7/43; Written off 20/11/43.
42-5726
Delivered Tulsa 11/10/42; Blythe 28/12/42; Dalhart 16/5/43; Tinker 21/6/43; Dalhart 10/7/43; with Bob Sieker force landed Clovis, Nm 10/3/44; 242 BU Gr Isle 23/6/44; 6BG Gr Isle 29/8/44; 4100 BU Patterson 1/9/44; 232 BU Dalhart 4/9/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Ontario 7/6/45.
42-2979
Assigned 97BG Salina 29/11/42; transferred Biskra 21/1/43; Chateau-du-Rhumel 8/2/43; Pont-du-Fahs, Tun. 1/8/43; Depienne 15/8/43; transferred 49BS/2BG Massicault 14/11/43; Bizerte 2/12/43; Amendola 9/12/43; transferred 346BS/99BG Tortorella 28/3/44; {1m} transferred 815BS/483BG Tortorella 31/3/44; Missing in Action Nis, Yugo 16/4/44 with Ira Warburton, Burnette, Bueker, O’Brien (4 Killed in Action); Holcom, Jeffers, Brynjldsen, Cardone, Clos (6 Returned to Duty); flak damage. Missing Air Crew Report 3908.
42-97471 / Male Call
Delivered Cheyenne 25/11/43; Wendover 11/12/43; Assigned 457BG [N] Glatton 27/1/44; transferred 532BS/381BG [VE-N] Ridgewell 11/3/44; {1m} crash landed base ex-Frankfurt 20/3/44 with Bernard Beckman, Cp-Capt Doug Winter{threw wrong switch – u/c coll}, Navigator: Dave Brophy, Bombardier: George Speer, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: George Dirling, Radio Operator: Abe Levine, Ball turret gunner: Gerald Frain, Waist gunner: Rob Rush. Weg-Bob Luth,Tail gunner: Nick Rossi (10 Returned to Duty); Salvaged 2 SAD 21/3/44.
42-3343 / Slick Chick
Delivered Denver 15/5/43; Presque Is 13/6/43; Assigned 32BS/301BG St Donat 14/6/43; Oudna 6/8/43; Cerignola 7/12/43; Lucera 1/2/44; 78m became weather ship /44; depot 6/10/44; Salvaged 11/7/45. SLICK CHICK.
41-24457 / Aztec’s Curse
Delivered Cheyenne 13/7/42; Lowry 3/8/42; Assigned 26BS/11BG Wheeler Fd, Hawaii 21/8/42; transferred 31BS/5BG Guadalcanal 2/43; damaged on landing 23/4/43 when ground looped with Capt Leon Rockwell; salvaged but Written off 30/4/45. AZTEC’S CURSE.
