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

Delivered: Cheyenne 10/11/43; Kearney 1/12/43; Romulus 9/12/43; Presque Is 11/12/43; Pilot: Frank Umhoefer forced landing base 16/12/43; Assigned: 709BS/447BG Rattlesden 3/3/44; MIA Pas de Calais 27/4/44 w/George Hofsess, n/Bombardier: Oscar Iezman, Radio Operator: Ray Kuusela, Waist Gunner: Norman Kirby, Waist Gunner: Harry McCaskill, Tail Gunner: Jim Stamas (6POW); Co-Pilot: Frank Chaimson[shot in his chute], Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Dominic Lorusso[landed on power lines] (2KIA); ng-S/Sgt Jack Stead, Ball Turret Gunner: Ike Jackson (2EVD); flak KOd some engines, some crew baled, ship exploded crashed Nesle-Hodeng, four miles SE of Neufchatel-en-Bray, 37 miles SW of Amiens, Fr. MACR 4294.

Delivered Dallas 9/6/44; Hunter 20/7/44; Presque Is 8/8/44; Assigned 772BS/463BG Celone, Italy 16/8/44; involved in taxi accident at Foggia, A/fd with John Abele 24/5/45; Salvaged 11/6/45.

Delivered Lincoln 12/9/44; Dow Fd 25/9/44; Assigned 731BS/452BG Deopham Green 28/9/44; transferred 332BS/91BG [LG-D] Bassingbourn 7/12/44; 17m taxi collision with 43-38306 with Joe Troccolli 4/4/45, Salvaged. RUSTY DUSTY.

Delivered Denver 31/1/43; Gt Falls 8/2/43; Morrison 5/3/43; Assigned: 365BS/305BG [XK-S] Chelveston 6/4/43; then 422BS [JJ-S]; severe battle damage Wangerooge 15/5/43 Pilot: Bill Whitson, Co-Pilot: Harry Holt, Bombardier: Bob Barrall, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Albt Haymon, Radio Operator: Fred Bewak, Ball Turret Gunner: Edgar Nichols, Waist Gunner: Homer Ramsey, Waist Gunner: John Breen, Tail Gunner: Ken Meyer, photo-George Friend (10RTD); Navigator: Doug Venable (KIA); Salvaged. 16/5/43. OLD BILL.

Delivered Hunter 22/6/44; Dow Fd 30/6/44; Assigned 32BS/301BG Lucera 8/7/44; battle damaged Linz 2/3/45 with ?; crash landed base, Salvaged.

Delivered Tulsa 15/2/44; Hunter 3/3/44; Morrison 19/3/44; Assigned 815BS/483BG Sterparone 18/4/44; one of two squadron aircraft (the other 42-32043) used on SOE missions to Czechoslovakia, with supplies to Resistance, and returning with US evadees; Salvaged 6/12/44 after ground looping at Sterparone with Dave Rice. CRAZY HOUSE.

Delivered Cheyenne 21/5/44; Hunter 3/6/44; Grenier 15/6/44; Assigned: 709BS/447BG Rattlesden 17/6/44; MIA Munich 13/7/44 Pilot: Russ Hilding, Ray Wojnicz (2POW); George Mong, Claud Kelly, Fred Gleason, Horace Dimartino, Harry White, Emory Markham, Erwin Williams, Joe Stewart (8EVD); flak, crashed Vendrest, ‚. MACR 6938. Salvaged. 13/10/44.

Delivered Cheyenne 23/5/44; Hunter 1/6/44; Grenier 14/6/44; Assigned 447BS Rattlesden 16/6/44; transferred 339BS/96BG [QJ-W] Snetterton 17/6/44; battle damaged French Noball sites 8/7/44 with ?; crash landed RAF Sutton Bridge, UK; Salvaged 10/7/44.

Delivered Cheyenne 20/3/44; Kearney 5/4/44; Grenier 14/4/44; Assigned 711BS/447BG Rattlesden 20/4/44; Missing in Action Osnabruck 13/5/44 with Ray McClintock, Navigator: Stan Gillman, Bombardier: Walt Trotter, Radio Operator: Ben Little, Ball turret gunner: Bob Wallace, Waist gunner: John Gingrich, Waist gunner: Leon Bernedo,Tail gunner: John Young (8 Prisoner of War); Co-pilot: Bob Dalby{chute failed}, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Aubrey Teague (2 Killed in Action); flak, crashed Greffen, near Harsewinkel, 17 miles W of Bielefeld, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 4772.

Delivered Denver 10/1/44; 1SAG Langley 31/1/44; Grenier 14/3/44; Assigned (H2X) 535BS/381BG [MS-I] Ridgewell 22/3/44; loaned to 324BS/91BG [DF-K] Bassingbourn 27/4/44 {13m}; returned to 381BG 5/7/44; {50m} crash landed base with Jim Tyson 8/3/45, Salvaged. SUNKIST SPECIAL.

Delivered Cheyenne 28/9/43; Harvard 13/10/43; Assigned: 709BS/447BG Rattlesden 21/11/43; MIA Pas de Calais 28/2/44 Pilot: Chas Harris, Co-Pilot: Roy Dutton, Navigator: Alf Kleinrath, Bombardier: Oliver Griffith, Radio Operator: Manas Manasian, Ball Turret Gunner: Harry Hand, Waist Gunner: Walt Larson, Waist Gunner: Larry Shiveley, Tail Gunner: Harry Fenton (9POW); Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: John Towle (EVD-ret UK by 9/9/44); severe flak damage, crashed between Hericourt & Blangerval-Blangemont, five miles SW of St Pol, Fr. MACR 2889.

Delivered Denver 17/11/43; Kearney 20/12/43; New Castle 2/1/44; Westover 7/1/44; Presque Is 12/1/44; Assigned 533BS/381BG [VP-Q] Ridgewell 21/2/44; {35m} damaged on practice mission 1/10/44; Salvaged 2 SAD 3/10/44.

Delivered Hunter 10/7/44; Dow Fd 22/7/44; Assigned 32BS/301BG Lucera 9/8/44; to depot 10/3/45; ditched with ? 21/5/45.

Delivered Denver 29/11/43; Kearney 15/12/43; Presque Is 23/12/43; Assigned: 710BS/447BG Rattlesden 4/1/44; MIA Munster 11/3/44 Pilot: Herb Overdorf, Co-Pilot: Leo Teplitz, Navigator: Chester Adams, Bombardier: Nick Pantages, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Woodrow Harper, Radio Operator: Dan Fasanello, Ball Turret Gunner: Ed Johnson, Waist Gunner: Chas Gessert, Waist Gunner: Darrell Lincks (9KIA-most landed on sandbank at low tide, but pleas for help to Germany. an workers and soldiers as tide came in were ignored and they all drowned. After war searches for those responsible failed); Tail Gunner: Julius Schultz (POW); flak, crashed North Sea, off Haamstede, Isle of Schouwen, Hol. MACR 3188.

Delivered Denver 1/10/43; Gr Island 21/10/43; Assigned 709BS/447BG Rattlesden 2/11/43; transferred 548BS/385BG [GX- ] Gt Ashfield 3/11/43; Missing in Action Bremen 29/11/43 with Bill Swope, Co-pilot: Norm Weider, Navigator: Bob Prolow (washed up in dinghy at Whitstable, Kent), Bombardier: Doug Baker, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Stan Robinson, Radio Operator: Dick Street, Ball turret gunner: Jim Harbison, Waist gunner: Earl Robinson, Waist gunner: Elmer Congdon (washed up in dinghy at Whitstable, Kent), Tail gunner: Francis Magner (10 Killed in Action); ran out of fuel, crashed Tessel Is., Hol; Missing Air Crew Report 1532. WHO DAT – DING BAT.

Delivered Cheyenne 3/2/44; Gr Island 16/2/44; Presque Is 2/3/44; Assigned 323BS/91BG [OR-L] Bassingbourn 22/3/44; 14+m battle damaged Troyes 3/5/44 with Nenad Kovachevich, Co-pilot: Bill Motinger, Navigator: Dan Jordan, Bombardier: Roy Jones, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Marvin Powers, Radio Operator: Phil Merill, Ball turret gunner: Roy Schleich, Waist gunner: Merritt Merrill, Waist gunner: Chas Kolence,Tail gunner: Rob Grabowski (10 Returned to Duty); crash landed base, loss of brake power on landing collided with parked trucks; Salvaged 2 SAD. SHERIFF’S POSSE.

Delivered Hunter 10/7/44; Grenier 24/7/44; Assigned 32BS/301BG Lucera 31/7/44; base landing accident with Jim Stynes 25/1/45; to depot 20/4/45; Salvaged 26/4/45.

Delivered Long Beach 20/3/43; Sioux City 13/4/43; Kearney 3/5/43; Assigned 547BS/384BG [SO-?] 4/43; t/o Kearney Fd, Neb, 19/5/43 on cross country flight with George Keck, Co-pilot: Ray Gaither, Navigator: Bill Juart, Bombardier: Art Bryant, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Milton Deville, Radio Operator: Frank Hollingsworth, aro-Walden Hughes, aeg-Billy Jackson, ag-Theo Paduch,Tail gunner: Alf Reiss(10 Returned to Duty); on landing left brake was u/s and swerved into piles of earth, crash landed Dow Fd, Bangor, Me. Written off 9/6/43..

Delivered Long Beach 27/2/43; Denver 4/3/43; Smoky Hill 7/4/43; Pueblo 21/4/43; Presque 26/4/43; Assigned: 524BS/379BG [WA-C] Kimbolton 8/6/43; 526BS [LF-C]; MIA Gelsenkirchen 12/8/43 Pilot: Kurt Freund, Co-Pilot: Dale Emens, Navigator: Don MacRae, Bombardier: Glenn Bozarth, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Jim Ragland, Waist Gunner: Dan Angarano, Waist Gunner: Allen Jamison (7POW); Radio Operator: Francis Schaedler, Ball Turret Gunner: Cyrus Wallace, Tail Gunner: Chas Roberts (3KIA); Enemy aircraft set #1 on fire, then another to flak, crashed Ahrweiler, near Oberbruch, Germany. MACR 2340 & 1359.

Delivered Long Beach 27/2/43; Sioux City 18/3/43; Dow Fd 13/4/43; Assigned 527BS/379BG [FO-O] Kimbolton 22/4/43; Missing in Action Gelsenkirchen 12/8/43 with Dave Rees, Co-pilot: Clair Dietrich, Navigator: Bill Busch, Bombardier: Ernie Galloway (4 Prisoner of War); Flight engineer/top turret gunner: John Brennan, Radio Operator: Joe Murphy, Ball turret gunner: Dominick Fiorani, Waist gunner: Jim Williams, Waist gunner: Chester Lunquist,Tail gunner: Stam Govern (6 Killed in Action); flak, crashed Leimersdorf, seven miles N of Ahrweiler, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 1360. CINDY.

Delivered Dallas 12/4/45; Rome 28/5/45; Syracuse 12/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 15/11/45.

Delivered Dallas 13/4/45; Rome 5/6/45; Syracuse 12/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 28/11/45.

Delivered Denver 29/11/43; Cheyenne 14/12/43; Kearney 20/12/43; Morrison 3/1/44; Assigned 352BS/301BG Cerignola 6/1/44; Lucera 1/2/44; Missing in Action {38m} Lyon 25/5/44 with Rich McCarthy, Ankey, Hill, – McCarthy, Burt, Corey, Hudson, Rhoads, Stuart, Christensen (10 Killed in Action); mid air coll with 42-31853; crashed ? ; Missing Air Crew Report ?.

Delivered Cheyenne 28/12/43; Kearney 10/1/44; Savannah 12/1/44; Morrison 20/1/44; Assigned 33BS/301BG Cerignola 27/1/44; Lucera 1/2/44; Missing in Action {27m} Lyon 25/5/44 with Chas Bogar, Roelkey, Strieby, Schiavo, Cavanaugh, Klein, Taylor, Halverson, Hudson (10 Killed in Action); mid air coll with 42-31605, crashed mountains; Missing Air Crew Report ?