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

Delivered Cheyenne 12/11/43; Kearney 3/12/43; Presque Is 13/12/43; Assigned 532BS/381BG [VE-J] Ridgewell 13/1/44; {1+m} Missing in Action Berlin 24/5/44 with Clarry Ezzell, Co-pilot: John Nymyer, Navigator: Ed Adams, Bombardier: Bill Wilson, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Wesley Peck, Radio Operator: Lou Baker, Waist gunner: Lloyd Harvey (7 Prisoner of War); Ball turret gunner: Harm Beninga,Tail gunner: Carl Schaaf (2 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft KOd #1, then ship exploded and crashed between Melchow and Biesenthal, 18 miles N of Berlin; Missing Air Crew Report 5176. (?5178?)

Delivered Cheyenne 17/4/44; Hunter 29/4/44; Grenier 11/5/44; Assigned 774BS/463BG Celone 17/5/44; Missing in Action Munich 8/7/44 with Alfred Bodine, Co-pilot: Robert Bogard, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Harold Agona, Waist gunner: James Barnett, Waist gunner: Abraham Adamsky (5 KIA), Navigator: Vernon Hill, Bombardier: Ebe Atkins, Radio Operator: Salvatore Cestaro, Ball turret gunner: William Barley, Tail gunner: Robert Adams (5 POW); flak, crashed Siebenhirten, south of Vienna, Austria; Missing Air Crew Report 7320.

Delivered Hunter 21/7/44; Presque Is 4/8/44; Assigned 348BS/99BG Tortorella 13/8/44; {68m} Returned to the USA Bradley 18/6/45; Sth Plains 21/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 17/12/45. FUDDYHUCKLE.

Delivered Cheyenne 19/3/44; Hunter 9/4/44; Dow Fd 29/4/44; Assigned 338BS/96BG Snetterton 1/5/55; transferred 337BS [AW-B]; destroyed by enemy aircraft at Poltava with Ken Bope 21/6/44; Salvaged 1/7/44. ALL AMERICAN GIRL.

Delivered Denver 20/1/44; Amarillo 2/2/44; MacDill 5/2/44; Morrison 8/3/44; Assigned 816BS/483BG Tortorella 11/3/44; transferred 348BS/99BG Tortorella 31/3/44; {94m} Returned to the USA 1103 BU Morrison 3/4/45; 4104 BU Rome 2/7/45; Recl Comp 13/11/45. LUSCIOUS LOUISE.

Delivered Cheyenne 11/2/44; Kearney 4/3/44; Presque Is 10/3/44; Assigned: 731BS/452BG [7D-N] Deopham Green 16/3/44; destroyed on ground by Enemy aircraft at Poltava Pilot: John Zimmerman 21/6/44; Salvaged. Russia 2/7/44. BIG TIME OPERATOR.

Delivered Cheyenne 27/5/43; Gore 7/6/43; Tinker 10/6/43; Memphis 20/6/43; Eglin 27/6/43; Kearney 6/7/43; Presque Is 9/7/43; Assigned 414BS/97BG Chateau-du-Rhumel 19/7/43; Pont-du-Fahs 1/8/43; Depienne 15/8/43; Cerignola 20/12/43; Amendola 16/1/44; 100th mission Ferrara M/Y 14/5/44; took part in first shuttle mission to Russia; Returned to the USA Morrison 15/4/45; Rome, NY 28/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Bush Fd 4/7/45. WAR PAPPY.

Delivered Cheyenne 21/4/44; Hunter 2/5/44; Grenier 16/5/44; Assigned 414BS/97BG Amendola 24/5/44; Missing in Action Blechhammer 27/8/44 with Charles T. Wilson, Jr.; Missing Air Crew Report 8934. THE OLD LADY.

Delivered Cheyenne 14/3/44; Gr Island 30/3/44; Grenier 6/4/44; Assigned 369BS/306BG [WW-Y] Thurleigh 25/4/44; battle damaged Ueskirchen, Ger 10/1/45 with Leo H. Reinhard; crash landed on a large field near Le Quesnoy, 4km to north-east, France; Salvaged 28/1/45. ICE COLD KATIE.

Delivered Cheyenne 25/1/44; Hunter 22/2/44; Grenier 8/3/44; Assigned 332BS/94BG [XM-K] transferred 333BS (TS- ) Rougham 13/3/44; Missing in Action Poznan 11/4/44 with Ben Totushek, Navigator: Harvey Durant, Bombardier: Bill Kipp, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bill Tidwell (4 Killed in Action); Co-pilot: Bill Kleine, Radio Operator: Pete Papas, Ball turret gunner: Bob Swindley, Waist gunner: Charles J Mott, Waist gunner: Bob Davis,Tail gunner: Bob Doyle (6 Prisoner of War Stalag 17-B); flak, crash landed Osterby, ten miles W of Flensburg, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 4008. AMERICAN MAID.