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

Delivered Denver 15/10/43; Las Vegas 26/10/43; 225 BU Rapid City 1/5/45; 2144 BU Lockbourn 17/7/45; 2137 BU Hendricks 10/9/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 3/1/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 30/12/43; Gr Island 31/1/44; Assigned: 331BS/94BG Rougham 2/3/44; MIA Berlin 18/4/44 Pilot: Bill Williams, Co-Pilot: Henry Dougherty, Navigator: Albt Radasky, Bombardier: Rich Dunkin, togg-T/Sgt Bill Gilmour, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: John Parks, Radio Operator: Larry Baumann, Ball Turret Gunner: Edmund Twitt, Waist Gunner: Jack Caudle, Waist Gunner: Herb Farmer, Tail Gunner: Wilbur Jordan (11POW); Enemy aircraft, crashed Neuruppin, two miles NW of Friesack, near Hanburg, Germany. MACR 4154.

Delivered Cheyenne 17/1/44; MacDill 2/2/44; Morrison 7/3/44; Assigned 817BS/483BG Tortorella 14/3/44; transferred 416BS/99BG Tortorella 31/3/44; {66m} to depot 26/11/44; Salvaged 12/3/46. TURNIP TERMITE.

Delivered Cheyenne 23/8/44; Lincoln 2/9/44; Grenier 6/9/44; Assigned: 568BS/390BG [BI-S] Framlingham 8/9/44; battle damage Berlin 18/3/45 Pilot: Dick Berryman, Lon Norman, Les Chavet, Mike Riley, Norman Dahlin (5KIA); Albt Lundberg, Jim Lunday, Russ Miller (3RTD); Dick Prosch (POW); flak knocked out #3 engine, crew bailed out and ship crashed Grodzisk, Russian territory; Salvaged. 30/3/45; MACR 13138. NO NAME JIVE.

Delivered Cheyenne 3/11/43; Gr Island 25/11/43; Assigned 342BS/301BG Cerignola 18/12/43; Lucera 1/2/44; Salvaged 28/7/44.

Delivered Cheyenne 5/5/44; Patterson 21/5/44; Kearney 5/6/44; Dow Fd 27/6/44; Assigned: 379BG Kimbolton 8/7/44; battle damage Hannover 5/8/44 Pilot: ‚; crash-landed, Salvaged. 2 SAD 6/8/44.

Delivered Cheyenne 31/12/42; Salina 10/2/43; Morrison 5/3/43; Brookley 8/3/43; Assigned: 365BS/305BG [XK-Y] MOONBEAM McSWAIN Chelveston 8/4/43; MIA Watten 27/8/43 Pilot: Don Moore, Radio Operator: Harry Graham, Ball Turret Gunner: Joe Kosmicky, Waist Gunner: Dave Pearlman (4KIA), Co-Pilot: Bob Coffman, Navigator: Dave Smith, Bombardier: Jim Meade, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Warren Sayfried, Waist Gunner: Trevor Falkner, Tail Gunner: Jim King (6POW) flak, crashed near St Omer, Fr. MACR 394. BOOM TOWN JR.

Delivered Tulsa 7/3/44; Sioux City 17/3/44; Grenier 5/4/44; Assigned: 369BS/306BG [WW-V] Thurleigh 25/4/44; MIA Munich 16/7/44 Pilot: Fred Jones, Co-Pilot: Cliff Hammersley, Navigator: Chas Weaver, Bombardier: Bob Stanaker, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: John Griffiths, Radio Operator: Bob Price, Ball Turret Gunner: Woodie Rose, Waist Gunner: Milton Katz, Tail Gunner: Art Flores (9EVD); flak, crashed Leninges, Belgium. ; MACR 7567.

Delivered Tulsa 5/10/42; Scott 6/1/43; Chicago 22/4/43; Lockbourn 10/5/43; crash landed base 7/9/43 with Clarry Abercrombie; with Edson Penn (?Crupp?) crash landed Lockbourn 23/10/43; Written off 1/11/43.

Delivered Cheyenne 9/10/42; Hobbs 22/11/42; with Paul Koons force landed base 4/1/44; 4136 BU Tinker 4/7/44; 3017 BU Hobbs 14/8/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 29/8/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 11/12/43; Salt Lake City 26/12/43; Kingman 27/12/43; force landed Yucca Aux Fd with Jim Berkshire 17/5/44; 3018 BU Kingman 23/3/45; 3017 BU Hobbs 22/9/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 18/1/46.

Delivered Denver 29/11/43; Kearney 23/12/43; Oklahoma City 30/12/43; Scott 8/1/44; Memphis 9/1/44; Morrison 10/1/44; Assigned 414BS/97BG Amendola 22/1/44; mid air coll with 42-30405 on Steyr mission 24/3/44; takes tail of ‘405, and returns base; repaired, but re-ass cargo ship from 9/10/44; Salvaged 30/5/45.

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 4/5/43; Gore 17/5/43; Patterson 20/5/43; Peterson 19/6/43; Assigned (F-9) 1st Map Gp Bolling 7/7/43; Bradley 12/7/43; Bolling 4/8/43; Accra, Gold Coast 23/11/43; Recl Comp 20/11/44.

Delivered Cheyenne 3/7/44; Kearney 12/7/44; Dow Fd 20/7/44; Assigned: 569BS/390BG {CC-R] Framlingham 21/7/44; MIA Zellhausen 24/12/44 Pilot: Paul Herring, George Cassman, Lester Damast, Dick Byrne, Hymen Less, Chas Mehl (6POW); Terry Burrows {Co-Pilot: killed by strafing Allied fighters}, George Betz, Theo Garst (3KIA); flak hit then exploded, crashed Weisbaden, Germany. MACR 11116.

Delivered Cheyenne 28/4/44; Kearney 10/5/44; Grenier 25/5/44; Assigned: 570BS/390BG [DI-G] Framlingham 28/5/44; 571BS [FC-G]; battle damage Frankfurt 5/1/45 Pilot: John Mitchell; forced landing Sedan A/fd, near Stanay, Fr; Salvaged. 30/1/45. THE JEANNIE BEE.

Delivered Cheyenne 11/8/44; Lincoln 20/8/44; Pilot: ‚ forced landing base 29/8/44; Grenier 10/9/44; Assigned: 571BS/390BG [FC-K] Framlingham 13/9/44; battle damage Frankfurt 5/1/45 w/‘; crash-landed at A-82, France; Salvaged. 21/1/45. MISS YOU.

Delivered Denver 25/12/43; Oklahoma 6/1/44; Brookley 16/1/44; Lakeland 18/1/44; Morrison 16/2/44; Assigned 775BS/463BG Celone 18/2/44; Missing in Action Budapest 14/6/44 with Irving Wacker, Ball turret gunner: *Franklin Anderson, Waist gunner: Herb Pritchard,Tail gunner: Jerome Beshoner (*3/4 Killed in Action); Co-pilot: Dan Heasley, Navigator: Bill O’Brien, Bombardier: Bob Leffler, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Mike Soltesz, Radio Operator: Marion Spagnole, Waist gunner: Jerry Giulano (*6/7RTD?); mid air coll with 42-38105; crashed near Budapest. Missing Air Crew Report 6102.

Delivered Cheyenne 14/12/43; Lakeland 7/1/44; Assigned 775BS/463BG Celone 9/3/44; Missing in Action Budapest 14/6/44 with Robert Fridley, Co-pilot: Roy Zeiger, Navigator: Walter Barth, Bombardier: Karl Doeppner, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Sam Szcak(Smoak?), Radio Operator: Bob Hansen, Waist gunner: Bill Cole, Waist gunner: Ben Davis,Tail gunner: Steve Stephens (9POW?); btg Bill Rodda (? Killed in Action); coll with 42-38145; Missing Air Crew Report 6093. THE CLUB 105.

Delivered Cheyenne 13/5/44; Kearney 24/5/44; Dow Fd 6/6/44; Assigned: 535BS/381BG [MS-J] Ridgewell 16/6/44; battle damage {17m} Cauvincourt 8/8/44 Pilot: Beackley; aircraft abandoned near Caen, 9RTD. BUTTON NOSE.

Delivered Hunter 19/11/44; Grenier 2/12/44; Assigned: 570BS/390BG [DI-N] Framlingham 4/12/44; MIA Dresden 2/3/45 Pilot: Dick Alberts, Glenn Hale, Bob Huber, Herman Flax, Dick Laubenstine, Tony Leone, Don Hood, Mark Warren, Lloyd Eickert (9RTD); flak, crash-landed Leitmeritz, Germany. safe behind Russian lines and all returned to base; MACR 12847.

Delivered Cheyenne 22/11/43; Kearney 5/12/43; Pilot: Murdo Sanderson forced landing base 19/12/43; Presque Is 23/12/43; Prestwick, UK 4/1/44; ass 568BS/390BG [BI-H] Framlingham 12/1/44 as LITTLE BUTCH; severe battle damage Giessen 21/11/44 with Orman M. Coffin crew, and two engines out, f/l Ossogne-Florinchamps, near Brussels, Belgium. crew returned to base. Salvaged. 2 SAD 28/11/44. EL LOBO.

Delivered Cheyenne 20/1/44; MacDill 3/2/44; Morrison 9/3/44; Assigned 840BS/483BG Tortorella 13/3/44; transferred 346BS/99BG Tortorella 31/3/44; Missing in Action {46m} Ploesti 28/7/44 with Dave Conner, Allen Pope, Strunk, Araiza, Chalifoux, Curry, Jeffers, Quesenberry, Tipton; flak, crashed Sienisa, Yugo?; Missing Air Crew Report 7122. HEAVEN CAN WAIT.

Delivered Cheyenne 19/7/44; Kearney 27/7/44; Grenier 7/8/44; Assigned 860BS/493BG Debach 9/8/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 5/7/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 6/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 21/11/45.