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

Delivered Cheyenne 8/11/43; Gr Island 24/11/43; New Castle 4/12/43; Bangor 9/12/43; Assigned: 569BS/390BG [CC-A] Framlingham 5/1/44; MIA Leipzig 29/5/44 Pilot: Wallace Shymanski, Co-Pilot: Vernon Montrose, Navigator: Gordon Grip, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Alex Engleman, Ball Turret Gunner: Paul Goodling, Waist Gunner: Maynard Peterson, Tail Gunner: Dave Sullivan (7EVD); tog-Sgt Ken Dobson, Radio Operator: Tom Sanderson, Waist Gunner: Sol Goldstein (3POW)Enemy aircraft, #4 hit and feathered, right wing afire and tail damaged, went into spin and crashed La Briqueterie, N of Rochefort, three miles SE of Marche, Belgium. MACR 5314. SITTING PRETTY.

Delivered Denver 10/8/43; to Dalhart with Lester McLaughlin force landed Keesler, MS 26/8/43; 3701 BU Love Fd, Written off 15/12/43.

Delivered Tulsa 13/3/44; 396BG Drew 15/4/44; 4117 BU Robins 12/12/44; 327 BU Drew 5/1/45; 3505 BU Scott 18/9/45; 301 BU Drew 29/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 5/11/45.

Delivered: Denver 17/3/44; Kearney 7/4/44; Grenier 29/4/44; Assigned: 339BS/96BG [QJ-N] Snetterton 1/5/44; was a spare 20/5/44,, but on return in poor visibility skidded and nosed up in soft ground Pilot: Ray Estle, Co-Pilot: Joe Lukacak, Navigator: Sam Fudge, Bombardier: Harry Hedgson, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Adam Cochran, Radio Operator: John Stumpf, Ball Turret Gunner: Leon Palmer, Waist Gunner: Claire Ziegler, Waist Gunner: Hilton Marchant, Tail Gunner: Rich Peek (10RTD); on falling back it buckled the fuselage and tail; Salvaged. 21/5/44.

Delivered Tulsa 15/3/44; Hunter 4/5/44; Grenier 21/5/44; Assigned 728BS/452BG Deopham Green 22/5/44; Missing in Action Ludwigshafen 14/8/44 with Bill Stiles, Navigator: John Madiera, Bombardier: Chas Keck (3 evaded capture); Co-pilot: Joe Lojewski, Radio Operator: Art Varricchio, Ball turret gunner: Hubert Campney, Waist gunner: Ralph Montiel,Tail gunner: Lester Gaulin (5 Prisoner of War); Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Tom Walker (KIS-shot by Gestapo next day); flak damaged controls, 6 men bailed over Strasbourg, but P kept control intent of returning to base but ran out of gas, rest bailed 12 miles SW of Le Mans, Fr. Missing Air Crew Report 8425.

Delivered MacDill 31/3/44; 325 BU Avon Park 17/2/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 20/8/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 16/11/44; Hunter 12/12/44; Dow Fd 17/12/44; Assigned 369BS/306BG Thurleigh 6/1/45; Salvaged 9AF Germany 31/7/46. DRIVE IT HOME!

Delivered Tulsa 13/3/44; Roswell 29/4/44; 3030 BU Roswell 2/6/44; 3018 BU Kingman 1/10/44; 3017 BU Hobbs 9/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 10/1/46.

Delivered Denver 1/9/43; Gr Island 23/9/43; ass 410BS/94BG [GL-T] Rougham 29/9/43; MIA Berlin 18/4/44 Pilot: Bill Brinkmier, Bombardier: Jim Murray, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Boyd Crocker, Radio Operator: Paul Caskey, Ball Turret Gunner: Chas Breckenridge, Waist Gunner: Guy Bowman, Waist Gunner: Dave McCormick, Tail Gunner: Jim Hong (8POW); Co-Pilot: Howard Mariska, Navigator: Norman McComb (2KIA); Enemy aircraft KOd two engines and other damage, crashed Lodderitz, 12 miles NW of Dessau. Germany. MACR 4155. PANTHER aka GINMILL SPECIAL aka WOLVERINE II.

Delivered MacDill 31/3/44; with George Wheeler force landed Avon Park 26/8/44; 325 BU Avon Park 28/12/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 12/12/45.

Delivered Denver 25/1/44; 1SAG Langley 9/3/44; Greenboro 13/5/44; Dyersburg 1/3/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 19/12/45.

Delivered Denver 19/1/44; 1SAG Langley 1/2/44; Dow Fd 3/4/44; Assigned 482BG Alconbury 11/4/44; Returned to the USA Morrison 18/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 20/12/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 27/2/44; Hunter 15/3/44; Dow Fd 10/4/44; Assigned: 730BS/452BG Deopham Green 20/4/44 MUGWUMP; 729BS; MIA Hamburg 17/1/45 Pilot: Maylan Skoglund, Co-Pilot: Don Horning, Navigator: John Samos, Bombardier: Leroy Krug, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Jay Losselyong, Radio Operator: Tony Butera, Ball Turret Gunner: Don Newman, Waist Gunner: Arvin Halbach, Tail Gunner: Ed Verga (9POW); fate ‚; MACR 11794. C’EST LA GUERRE.

Delivered MacDill 31/3/44; 326 BU MacDill 13/2/45; 325 BU Avon Park 23/2/45; 3704 BU Keesler 14/8/45; 338 OT Keesler 28/8/46; (? Duugn Terr-Sinstpe 10/1/51 ?).

Delivered Hunter 13/3/45; Grenier 24/3/45; Assigned 8AF 27/3/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 9/6/45; Sth Plains 15/6/45; 613 BU Phillips 13/3/46.

Delivered Hunter 13/3/45; Grenier 21/3/45; Assigned 8AF 30/3/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 25/5/45; Sth Plains 29/5/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 10/12/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 2/10/42; Salina 26/11/42; Topeka 5/3/43; Rapid City 12/11/42; Assigned 541BS/383BG Pierre 10/3/43 with Bill Giorgi in mid-air collision 15 miles SW base; rep. to Geiger 22/6/43; 328 BU Gulfport 20/7/43; 902 BU Pinecastle 4/9/43; with Darrell Burgeson force landed Drew Fd 6/3/44; 328 BU Gulfport 31/3/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Albuquerque 19/6/45.

Delivered MacDill 31/3/44; 326 BU MacDill 7/2/45; 330 BU Dyersburg 3/3/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 19/12/45.

Delivered Denver 4/10/43; Harvard 15/10/43; Assigned 709BS/447BG Rattlesden 21/11/43; 126m, Returned to the USA 121 BU Bradley 4/7/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 8/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 10/11/45. SCHEHERAZADE.

Delivered Denver 2/3/44; Kearney 22/3/44; Dow Fd 14/4/44; Assigned 364NS/305BG [WF-D] Chelveston 30/4/44; battle damaged Merseburg 24/8/44 with C.E. Frisby, Co-pilot: L.H. Osborne, Navigator: R.I. Osborn, Bombardier: L.W. Johnson, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: J.A/ Zynda, Radio Operator: W.P. Lukacs, Ball turret gunner: L. Branan,Tail gunner: J.V. Byrol (9 Returned to Duty); crash landed base; Salvaged 2MRRSQ/2 SAD 26/8/44.

Delivered Tulsa 17/3/44; MacDill 31/3/44; with John Geary crash landed Avon Park 11/4/44; with Walter Padlo crash landed 325 BU Avon Park 29/9/44, WO; Recl Comp 28/11/44.

Delivered Geiger 2/9/42; Casper 29/10/42; Scotts Bluff 19/2/43; Casper 12/3/43; Sioux City 22/6/43; Kearney 3/8/43; with Roger Fisher force landed Tinker 1/3/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 26/9/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 26/1/44; McDill 2/2/44; Morrison 7/3/44; slated 385BG, Assigned: 816BS/483BG Sterparone 10/3/44; Transferred: 348BS/99BG Tortorella 31/3/44; MIA {41m} Turin tank factory 24/7/44 Pilot: Harry Ernst, Kelly, Stoehr, Miller (4EVD ‚ ret 10/44); Blankenheim, Hill, Henry, Massey, Pulling, Sheridan (6POW‘); flak, crashed Saluzzo; MACR 7032.

Delivered Tulsa 20/3/44; MacDill 31/3/44; Avon Park 4/4/44; 120 BU Richmond 30/1/45; 325 BU Avon Park 24/2/45; Recl Comp 22/5/45.