B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies Aktuelle Einträge in der Datenbank

Delivered Dallas 8/7/44; Langley 8/8/44; Dow Fd 1/9/44; Assigned 306BG Thurleigh 21/9/44; transferred 533BS/381BG Ridgewell 5/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 7/7/45; Sth Plains 13/7/45 Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 1/12/45.

Delivered Denver 15/7/43; Gr Isle 23/7/43; Kearney 8/8/43; Topeka 13/8/43; Presque Is 17/8/43; Assigned: 367BS/306BG [GY-W] Thurleigh 25/8/43; MIA Bremen 20/12/43 Pilot: Ray Ryther, Co-Pilot: Alvie Myers, Bombardier: Jay Weiselberg, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Wilmer Griffith, Radio Operator: Tom Gold, Waist Gunner: Lester Terry (6POW), Navigator: John Dennison, Ball Turret Gunner: Paul Wells, Waist Gunner: Lee Laney, Tail Gunner: Lamoyne Billheimer (4KIA); Enemy aircraft, crashed Frischenmoor, 15 miles NE of Oldenburg, Germany. MACR 1701.

Delivered Cheyenne 14/7/43; Moses Lake 29/7/43; with Fred Troy force landed Drew 2/6/44; 2142 BU Shaw Fd 29/10/44; 327 BU Drew 11/11/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Searcey Fd 7/8/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 20/4/43; Smoky Hill 24/4/43; Dow Fd 28/5/43; Assigned: 339BS/96BG [QJ-E] Andrews Fd 27/5/43; 337BS [AW-E] Snetterton 12/6/43; sustained battle damage over Hamburg 13/12/43 Pilot: George Fabian, Co-Pilot: Tom Scanlon, Bombardier: Bob Hughes, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Joe Tonko, Waist Gunner: Frank Alioto, Tail Gunner: Jay Epright (6RTD-all inj); Navigator: John Boyd, Radio Operator: Truman Starr, Ball Turret Gunner: Jim Mabry, Waist Gunner: Bob Larobadier (4KIA); suffered battle damage, crash-landed near base on return on main road A11; Salvaged. 15/12/43. DOTTIE J II.

Delivered Roswell 7/6/45; 3030 BU Roswell 26/12/44; 3502 BU Chanute 2/5/45; 237 BU Kirtland 31/8/45; 3502 BU Chanute 30/9/45; 338 BU Keesler, Recl Comp 13/10/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 7/6/44; Kearney 26/6/44; Dow Fd 10/7/44; Assigned: 832BS/486BG [3R-K] Sudbury 15/7/44; {67m} crash-landed on practice operation Pilot: Peter Vanderhoff 17/3/45; Salvaged. 21/3/45. THE PROWLER.

Delivered Cheyenne 6/6/44; Kearney 16/6/44; Grenier 1/7/44; Assigned: 832BS/486BG [3R-H] Sudbury 2/7/44; 834BS [2S-L] ; {82m} MIA Dresden 17/4/45 Pilot: Jacob Bartl, Edwin Brown, Pete Uruski. Dick Laver, Everett Hendrix, Bill Veazey, Jose Aragon, Lou Tolson, Ted Ellis (9KIA); flak, crashed Dresden, Germany. MACR 14186. PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS.

Delivered Cheyenne 20/6/44; Hunter 16/7/44; Dow Fd 23/7/44; Assigned: 366BS/305BG Chelveston 6/8/44; MIA Cologne 17/10/44 Pilot: Emil Potucek, Wayne McCallen, George Skeen, Art Lockrem, John Carper, Karl Bierman, John Peters (7KIA); Jim Hunter, Joe Sutter (2POW); flak, crashed Cologne; MACR 9473.

Delivered Hunter 13/3/45; Grenier 25/3/45; Assigned: 563BS/388BG Knettishall 1/4/45; landing accident Pilot: John Thomas 10/5/45; Returned to US: Bradley 3/7/45; Sth Plains 6/7/45; Scrapped: Kingman 14/12/45.

Delivered Long Beach 21/10/43; Assigned 423BS/306BG Thurleigh 30/12/43; Missing in Action Berlin 5/12/44 with Wayne Stetler, Co-pilot: Andy Paulko, Radio Operator: Don Frantz, Ball turret gunner: Dan Tachan, Waist gunner: Chas Laubach,Tail gunner: Bill Eschenbach (6 Killed in Action); Navigator: Sam Culbert, Bombardier: Art Dealy, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bob Jarvis (3 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed Schoenflieses, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 11038. LITTLE LULU.

Das Schicksal dieser B-17 Fliegenden Festung ist nicht bekannt.

Hit when parked at Garden City Fd, KS 4/3/46 by Wilton Weeks in 44-83678.

Delivered 88BG MacDill 12/5/44; 326 BU MacDill 24/2/45; 327 BU Drew 2/3/45; 203 BU Jackson 3/9/45; 268 BU Peterson 11/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 27/10/45.

Das Schicksal dieser B-17 Fliegenden Festung ist nicht bekannt.

Das Schicksal dieser B-17 Fliegenden Festung ist nicht bekannt.

Delivered Cheyenne 12/10/44; Hunter 5/11/44; Grenier 3/12/44; Assigned: 562BS/388BG Knettishall 16/12/44; RetUS, Scrapped: Walnut Ridge 8/1/46. JUST JOYCE.

Delivered Cheyenne 25/7/43; Geiger 3/8/43; 398BG Geiger 18/8/43; damaged by a parking aircraft at Rapid City 18/5/44; 242 BU Gr Isle 19/6/44; 6BG Gr isle 8/7/44; 268 BU Peterson 18/9/44; 242 BU Gr Isle 25/9/44; 249 BU Alliance 14/10/44; 245 BU McCook 9/1/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Albuquerque 25/6/45.

Delivered Lincoln 27/9/44; Grenier 7/10/44; Assigned: 560BS/388BG Knettishall 11/10/44; MIA Nurnberg 20/2/45 Pilot: Joe Ellis, Bill Seat, George Bartnik, Wayne Elkin {togg}, Walt Paskon, March Golash, Don Karle, John Strasen {spot jammer}, Glenn Wright {tg} (10POW); flak, crashed Nurnberg, Germany. MACR 12551. KAREN W.

Delivered Sth Plains 27/4/45; Patterson 25/5/45; 484 BU Topeka 20/9/45; Long Beach 2/10/45; Guam 3/10/45; crashed Tacloban, Leyte, PI 22/4/46; Salvaged 23/12/46; re-ass Guam 30/4/47; Recl Comp 29/4/48.

Delivered Cheyenne 24/9/43; Gr Island 7/10/43; Romulus 10/10/43; Assigned: 339BS/96BG [QJ-T] Snetterton 17/10/43; trans 343ASS/325ASG Langford Lodge, NI, damaged in landing accident Pilot: Fred Barton 21/5/45; Salvaged. 7/6/45.