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

Delivered Hunter 14/7/44; Presque Is 26/7/44; Assigned 772BS/463BG Celone 9/8/44; Missing in Action Valence 15/8/44 with Anthony Ciccone, Co-pilot: Bob Lawrence, Navigator: Bill Sontag, Bombardier: Pete Price, Radio Operator: Warren Foster (5POW?); Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Stan Lieberman, Ball turret gunner: Sherman Orme, Waist gunner: Joe Kane,Tail gunner: Jim Tintera (4 Killed in Action); flak, crashed Valence; Missing Air Crew Report 7459.

Delivered Long Beach 7/9/43; Grand Island 1/10/43; ass 570BS/390BG [DI-O] Framlingham 26/10/43; MIA [23m] Berlin 8/3/44 Pilot: Bill Branum, Co-Pilot: Odell Stanphill, Navigator: John Sullivan, Bombardier: Edwin Nicholls, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Bob House, Radio Operator: John Noonan, Ball Turret Gunner: Curtis Lillard, Waist Gunner: Ernie Peiffer, Tail Gunner: Maurice Michalek (9POW); Waist Gunner: Ken Pyle (KIA-died in Lazarette hospital due to compound fracture of his leg); Enemy aircraft, KO’d #2 & set fire to wing, crashed Poucher Forest, six miles SE of Bitterfeld, 25 miles W of Torgau, Germany. MACR 2990. HEAVENLY BODY.

Delivered Denver 29/11/43; Assigned Soxo 15/1/44; Returned to the USA 4136 BU Tinker 4/7/44; 3017 BU Hobbs 14/8/44; 3021 BU Las Vegas 26/9/44; 3022 BU Indian Springs 2/10/44; 3021 BU Las Vegas 19/3/45; 2126 BU Laredo 29/3/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 11/1/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 21/11/43; Kearney 1/12/43; Bangor 9/12/43; Assigned: 332BS/94BG [XM-C] Rougham 2/1/44; MIA Augsburg 16/3/44 Pilot: Alwin Kocher, Co-Pilot: Henry Wallace, Navigator: Metro Wozniak, Bombardier: Ed Moreau, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Bill Wood, Ball Turret Gunner: Joe Anderson, Waist Gunner: Gil Dobrinski, Tail Gunner: Elmer Alderman (8POW); Radio Operator: Martin Egan, Waist Gunner: Herb Chase{died in hospital of wounds} (2KIA); flak, crashed Hopfen Lake, two miles NW of Fussin/Allgau, Germany. MACR 3227. THE OLD SARGE.

Delivered Geiger 1/9/42; Walla Walla 17/11/42; Blythe 9/12/42; Tinker 6/2/43; Glasgow 27/4/43; Gore 28/5/43; Moses Lake 10/6/43; crash landed with Glen Pennywitt 27/5/44 Boca Raton Fd, LA; Written off 24/6/44. Recl Comp 9/12/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 22/3/43; Gore 23/3/43; Hobbs 3/4/43; Lowry 9/8/43; Hobbs 13/8/43; 3017 BU Hobbs 8/11/44; 3505 BU Scott 1/4/45; 3017 BU Hobbs 21/4/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 14/9/45.

Delivered Hunter 2/3/45; Grenier 17/3/45; Assigned 8AF 26/3/45; Salvaged 9AF Germany 23/5/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 18/1/44; Gr Island 30/1/44; Assigned: 568BS/390BG [BI-E] Framlingham 10/2/44; MIA Kassel 30/12/44 Pilot: Duane Sweeny, Patrick Nolan, Ellis Ruane, John Satterwhite, Bill Deighan, Bill Frawley, John Cooklis, Lt Crockett Harmon {wg}, LeRoy Brandenburg (9KIA); apparently iced up en route to target, crashed North Sea. MACR 11247. TIS A MYSTERY.

Delivered Long Beach 26/2/43; Smoky Hill 25/3/43; Morrison 12/4/43; Assigned 347BS/99BG Navarin 12/5/43; Oudna 4/8/43; transferred 816BS/483BG Tortorella 31/3/44 as cargo aircraft to 9/44; Returned to the USA Morrison 17/4/45; Rome 22/4/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Bush Fd 3/7/45. CRAPPY.

Delivered Cheyenne 22/3/43; Hobbs 2/4/43; Ft Sumner 21/4/43; Hobbs 6/5/43; Roswell 23/5/43; Hobbs 30/5/43; crashed eight miles NE of base with Bob Converse 8/9/43; Written off 9/9/43.

Delivered Dallas 1/7/44; Langley 27/7/44; Dow Fd 22/8/44; Assigned: 730BS/452BG Deopham Green 30/8/44; battle damage Cologne 10/1/45 Pilot: Harry Arant; on return approach crew bailed safely, but aircraft crashed on Thorpe Abbotts bomb dump, exploded, Salvaged.

Delivered Burbank 2/7/43; Dallas 8/8/43; crashed 18/10/43 with Richard Creamer, on Stormy Peak, Pinetree Park, Col.; Written off 21/10/43.

Delivered Long Beach 21/7/43; Cheyenne 23/7/43; Assigned: 339BS/96BG [QJ-O] Snetterton 12/9/43; used as 3AD trainer; Returned to US: Bradley 9/7/44; Scrapped: Albuquerque 13/8/45. THE BAD PENNY ALWAYS COMES BACK.

Assigned 364BS/305BG [JJ-R/A] Bangor 10/9/42; Grafton Underwood 25/10/42; transferred 1 Base Air Depot, Burtonwood 4/5/44; Returned to the USA La Junta 14/6/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Searcey Fd, 31/7/45. SNAFU then renamed WE THE PEOPLE.

Delivered Hunter 2/3/45; Grenier 13/3/45; Assigned 8AF 18/3/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 9/6/45; Sth Plains 13/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 20/1/46; 4117 BU Robins 24/2/46; 91 RCN MacDill 29/4/46; re-ass 30/4/47; 91 RLP Howard (CZ) 6AF 18/1/48; 91 RLP Waller (Trinidad) 3/2/48; Canal Zone 27/2/48; 91 RLP Waller 1/7/48; 91 RLP McGuire 9/2/49; 91 SRC Grp McGuire 4/5/49; 91 SRC Gp Barksdale 5/12/49; transferred USN, Salvaged 16/2/50.

Delivered Cheyenne 12/7/44; Hunter 20/7/44; Presque Is 31/7/44; Assigned: 835BS/486BG [H8-D] Sudbury 2/8/44; {87m} Returned to US: Bradley Pilot: John Anderson 11/7/45; 4185 BU Independence 13/7/45; Scrapped: Kingman 12/12/45. CUPCAKE aka VERMONT MAID.

Delivered Hunter 2/12/44; Grenier 13/12/44; Assigned 815BS/483BG Sterparone 20/12/44; with Bob Davis in landing accident at Pisa, It 27/8/45; Salvaged 28/8/45. JACK OF HEARTS.

Delivered Tulsa 15/3/44; Kearney 24/3/44; McDill 28/3/44; Dow FD 4/4/44; Assigned: 571BS/390BG [FC-F] Framlingham 8/4/44; received battle damage at Liege (9m) Pilot: Leon Otten, Co-Pilot: Karl Truesdell (95BG), Navigator: Addison Powell, Bombardier: Jonas Harper, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Jack Lowther, Radio Operator: Wallace Oppel, Ball Turret Gunner: John Ditrapani, Waist Gunner: John Zukauskas, Waist Gunner: Ray Schilling, Tail Gunner: John Ward; on return crash-landed on base into radar building 12/5/44, (10RTD) Salvaged. 20/5/44. LAMZY DIVY.

Delivered Denver 9/3/44; Kearney 13/4/44; Grenier 29/4/44; Assigned: 571BS/390BG [FC-E] Framlingham 1/5/44; MIA Bohlen 29/6/44 Pilot: Bob Moody, Co-Pilot: Capt Bill Nugent, Bombardier: Dan Simpson, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Don Beeson, Radio Operator: W.S. Belgium. , Waist Gunner: Carl Gray, Waist Gunner: Ottavio Zannetti, Tail Gunner: Bob Gilmore (8RTD); Navigator: Jim Mayall, Ball Turret Gunner: Don Downie (2KIA); fell out of formation with #2 feathered, nearing coast feathered two more; ditched Channel, Enemy aircraft strafed rescue launch, sinking it and killing Mayall and Downie; another launch arrived and took rest to Yarmouth, Nfk., UK. MACR 15236.

Delivered Cheyenne 21/5/43; Geiger 28/5/43; Gt Falls 7/6/43; Gore 12/6/43; Smoky Hill 29/6/43; Dow Fd 10/7/43; Assigned: 571BS/390BG [FC-P] Framlingham 11/7/43 CABIN IN THE SKY; re-named ROUGH GROUP then DOROTHY DEE; Returned to US: Bradley 4/7/45; Scrapped: Altus 14/8/45. Reverted to CABIN IN THE SKY.