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

Delivered Lincoln 17/9/44; Grenier 7/10/44; Assigned: 525BS/379BG [FR-N] Kimbolton 16/10/44; Returned to US: Bradley 24/6/45; Sth Plains 28/6/44; Scrapped: Kingman 14/12/45.

Delivered Denver 20/1/44; Cheyenne 23/1/44; Kearney 18/2/44; Pilot: John O’Brien forced landing base 6/3/44; Presque Is 19/3/44; Assigned: 535BS/381BG [MS-V] Ridgewell 6/4/44; MIA {48+m}, severe battle damage over Stuttgart 9/12/44 w/Bill Clarke, Co-Pilot: John Murphy, nav-John Simpson, togg-Bill Robey, Ball Turret Gunner: John Sladek, r-op-Harry Hallstrom (all WIA); rest RTD; f/l with # 2 & 3 engines out at Nancy, Fr. Salvaged. 22/12/44. BOULDER BUF.

Delivered Kearney 25/7/44; Grenier 8/8/44; Assigned 774BS/463BG Celone 15/8/44; Missing in Action Udine 5/4/45 with Wilbur Wetzel, Co-pilot: Dave Rummel, Navigator: Jack Begley, Bombardier: John Van Kirk, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: A.J.Steffanelli, Waist gunner: Bill McPherson, Waist gunner: Bob Puckett,Tail gunner: Jim Mitchell (8RTD/POW?); Radio Operator: Marshall Moore, Ball turret gunner: Paul Walmer (2 Killed in Action); flak, ditched Adriatic; Missing Air Crew Report 13640. OH, MY ACHING BACK.

Delivered Denver 15/10/43; Gr Island 27/10/43; Pilot: ‘ forced landing Gr Island, Nb 1/11/43; ass 338BS/96BG [BX-N] Snetterton 4/12/43; MIA Rostock 11/4/44 w/Harry Beckman, Co-Pilot: Peter Jenks, Navigator: Ed Flynn, Bombardier: Jim Mayo, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Herb Fried, Radio Operator: George Myers, Ball Turret Gunner: Joe Tye, Waist Gunner: Jim Large, Waist Gunner: John Miller, Tail Gunner: Leon Freedman (10KIA); Enemy aircraft, crashed Baltic Sea, about 55 miles E of Sassnitz, Rugen Is. MACR 3814.

Delivered Cheyenne 29/5/43; Gore 31/5/43; Cheyenne 4/6/43; Smoky Hill 11/6/43; Gr Isle 14/6/43; crash landed Randolph, VT with Leon Bolon 27/6/43 en route Dow Fd, Me and UK; Written off 1/7/43.

Delivered Cheyenne 23/10/43; Gr Island 11/11/43; Dallas 21/11/43; Assigned 341BS/97BG Depienne 27/11/43; Cerignola 20/12/43; Amendola 16/1/44; Missing in Action Ploesti 23/6/44 with 1Lt James H Parr, F/O William H Crandell, 2Lt Herbert Gruenfeder, F/O Ernest V Marian, S/Sgt Chester A Lewis, S/Sgt George F McCarthy, Sgt Richard K Schwarz, Sgt Thaddeus J Pospieszynski, Sgt Foy B Johnson, Sgt John A Ckapal; enemy aircraft, crashed Bucharest; MACR 6407.

Delivered Cheyenne 5/1/44; Gt Falls 10/1/44; Kingman 18/1/44; rough landing with Myron Eikerman 16/2/44; r/l with George Chilson Yucca Aux Fd, AZ 23/6/44; 3018 BU Kingman 23/3/45; 3017 BU Hobbs 25/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 8/1/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 18/4/44; Hunter 2/5/44; Dow Fd 17/5/44; Assigned 347BS/99BG Tortorella 20/5/44; battle damaged {57m} Ploesti 9/7/44 with Fred Henry (Returned to Duty), Roberts, Fox, Johannaber, Salter, Scarborough, Triplett (348th), six bailed out; #3 engine on fire, but Henry, Peddycord, Wilkins, Meisel put it out and fly home; Salvaged 23/9/44; from repair 4/10/44, crashed on take off 9/12/44 and destoyed.

Delivered Cheyenne 2/2/43; Walker 27/2/43; Salina 10/3/43; Presque Is 8/4/43; Stephenville, Nfd, 12/4/43; Assigned: 96BG Grafton Underwood 18/4/43; Transferred: 367BS/306BG [GY- ] Thurleigh 20/4/43; MIA Heligoland 15/5/43 Pilot: Alden Mann{wia}, Co-Pilot: Leo Kisamore, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Chas Myers, Radio Operator: Alf Schatz, Ball Turret Gunner: Woodrow Mosbarger, Waist Gunner: Sherman Coleman, Tail Gunner: John McElroy (7KIA); Navigator: Larry Wolfe, Bombardier: Claude Toyek{wia}, Waist Gunner: Reg Harris (3POW); Enemy aircraft, ditched North Sea. MACR 16059, BATTLIN’ B.

Delivered Cheyenne 29/1/43; Gowen 16/2/43; Tinker 12/5/43; Dyersburg 27/5/43; 504BG Fairmont 14/6/44; 241 BU Fairmont 16/9/44; 249 BU Alliance 11/10/44; 221 BU Alexandra 20/10/44; 329 BU Alexandra 1/3/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 9/10/45.

Delivered Kearney 10/8/44; Grenier 2/9/44; Assigned 346BS/99BG Tortorella 2/10/44; {51m} Returned to the USA Bradley 29/6/45; Sth Plains 3/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 28/11/45. BU BU DOC’S BUGS BUDDY.

Delivered Denver 14/10/43; Las Vegas 26/10/43; 3021 BU Las Vegas 9/10/44; 3018 BU Kingman 22/2/45; 3017 BU Hobbs 25/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 8/1/46.

Delivered Denver 29/12/43; Kearney 13/1/44; Presque Is 24/1/44; Assigned: 364BS/305BG [WF-E] Chelveston 15/2/44; MIA Augsburg 25/2/44 Pilot: Foster Perry, Co-Pilot: Bob Brundage, Navigator: Rich Plothow, Bombardier: Dudley Winkler, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Jesse Vowell (5POW); Ball Turret Gunner: Zeb Kisner, Waist Gunner: Donato Turchiano, Waist Gunner: Odie Gilvin, Tail Gunner: Gerhardt Hildebrandt (4KIA); Radio Operator: Jerome Bajenski (EVD); Enemy aircraft, crashed Ferme de Mont Garni, near Raucourt, six miles S of Sedan, Fr; MACR 2541.

Delivered Cheyenne 18/3/44; Hunter 13/4/44; Presque Is 19/5/44; Assigned: 710BS/447BG Rattlesden 22/4/44; forced landing continent 10/1/45; Salvaged. 11/1/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 17/4/44; Hunter 28/4/44; Grenier 13/5/44; Assigned 775BS/463BG Celone 20/5/44; Missing in Action Ruhland 23/3/44 with Albert Sander, Co-pilot: Earl Martin, Navigator: Nixon Crosby, Bombardier: Jack Mitchell, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Jim Rose, Radio Operator: Bill Kokinelis, Ball turret gunner: Bob Figel, Waist gunner: Gaylord Miller, Waist gunner: Chas Fallon,Tail gunner: John Wynne (10 Returned to Duty); flak, force landed Russia; NOBODY’S BABY.

Delivered Cheyenne 18/5/44; Kearney 27/5/44; Dow Fd 8/6/44; Assigned 708BS/447BG Rattlesden 9/6/44; completed 129 missions with no abort; Returned to the USA Bradley 9/7/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 13/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 21/11/45. MILK WAGON.

Delivered Cheyenne 29/9/43; Harvard 13/10/43; Assigned 708BS/447BG Rattlesden 19/11/43; crash landed 4/9/44, Salvaged.

Delivered Cheyenne 28/9/43; Harvard 13/10/43; Assigned: 710BS/447BG Rattlesden 23/11/43; on local training flight 9/3/44 w/Chas Marcy, cp-Archie Town, n-George Compton, b-Jim Conway, ettg-Bob Shrimsher, ro-Abe Farah, btg-Jim Isherwood, wg- Ed Perkins, wg-Bill Nicholas, tg-Tony Paramski (10RTD); engines malfunction, f/l on grass at Honongton depot, causing severe damage; HEY MABEL!

Delivered Cheyenne 18/4/44; Hunter 28/4/44; Dow Fd 17/5/44; Assigned 817BS/483BG Sterparone 28/5/44; Missing in Action Memmingen, Ger 18/7/44 with Stanton Rickey, Hoss, Hicks, Galt, Green (5 Prisoner of War); Mazzacone, Short, Ramsdell, Wertenberger, Huntley (5 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed Kempten; Missing Air Crew Report 6979. BARAZ TWINS II.

Delivered Lincoln 12/9/44; Hunter 16/9/44; Grenier 10/10/44; Assigned: 379BG Kimbolton 14/10/44; battle damage Desden 17/4/45 Pilot: ‘; Salvaged. 18/4/45. CONNIE.