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

Delivered Cheyenne 13/11/44; Hunter 9/12/44; Dow Fd 22/12/44; 324BS/91BG [DF-A] Bassingbourn 2/2/45; {21+m} transferred 306BG Thurleigh 24/5/45; Salvaged 9AF Germany 10/7/46. LORRAINE.

Delivered Hunter 2/9/44; Grenier 22/9/44; Assigned 414BS/97BG Amendola 11/10/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 24/7/45; Independence 26/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 7/1/46. KWITURBITCHIN II.

Delivered Hunter 31/7/44; Dow Fd 10/8/44; Assigned 775BS/463BG Celone 19/8/44; Missing in Action Fortezza 20/4/45 with Warren Turner (POW), Co-pilot: Arthur Teel (POW), Navigator: Stephen Hutnik (POW), Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Alfred Campoli (POW), Radio Operator: William Horner (EVD), Ball turret gunner: Cosmo Fospero (EVD), Waist gunner: Edward Sanderson (EVD), Waist gunner: David Elston (EVD),Tail gunner: Carlo Huber (EVD); Bombardier: Howard Thayne (KIA); flak, crashed Merano; Missing Air Crew Report 14020. MARY LOU II.

Delivered MacDill 92BG 12/5/42; Lockbourn 29/2/43; Recl Comp 17/2/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 24/12/43; Houston 9/1/44; Lakeland 10/1/44; Morrison 16/2/44; Assigned 775BS/463BG Celone 18/2/44; Missing in Action Zagreb 6/4/44 with Mike (Harry) Wistock, Co-pilot: Verle Lewis, Navigator: Bill Ure, Bombardier: Jackson Kiefer, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bob Applebee, Radio Operator: Jack Robinson, Ball turret gunner: Chester Majewski, Waist gunner: Bernard Cummings, Waist gunner: Roy Coble,Tail gunner: Leon Ballard; Missing Air Crew Report 4098. BANSHEE.

Delivered Tulsa 15/10/42; Salinas 18/12/42; Assigned 414BS/97BG Biskra 15/1/43; Chateau-du-Rhumel 8/2/43; Pont-du-Fahs 1/8/43; Depienne 15/8/43; transferred 346BS/99BG Oudna 14/11/43; Tortorella 11/12/43; Missing in Action {11m/99} Innsbruck 19/12/43 with Art Simpson (KIA-drowned); Thorne, Smith (2 Prisoner of War); Rayson, Jacks, Eder, Tramble, Lawson, Scott, Bradbury (7 Returned to Duty); ditched Adriatic Sea. Missing Air Crew Report 1528.

Delivered Long Beach 22/3/43; Sioux City 15/4/43; Kearney 4/5/43; Dow Fd 20/5/43; Assigned 547BS/384BG [SO-T] Grafton Underwood 24/5/43; battle damaged Schweinfurt 14/10/43 with Edmund Goulder, Co-pilot: Ernie Boyce (546bs), Navigator: Julius Schwartz (546bs), Bombardier: Mike Vodilko, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ed Thomassen, Radio Operator: Bill Sears, Ball turret gunner: Claude Leslie, Waist gunner: Stan Wilson, Waist gunner: Paul Saunders,Tail gunner: Francis Seager, (10 Returned to Duty); crew bailed over RAF Oakley, aircraft crashed Chetwode, Oxon, demolishing two cottages, and injuring a civilian, Mr Tew; Salvaged MRU 15/10/43. THE NATURAL.

Delivered MacDill 92BG 12/5/42; Hendricks 24/6/43; Assigned 6BS/29BG Gowen Fd; with Tom Fenton force landed when stored gun fired, at Gowen Fd, 8/9/42; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Albuquerque 12/6/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 24/1/44; MacDill 14/2/44; Morrison 7/3/44; Assigned 816BS/483BG Sterparone 10/3/44; Missing in Action Memmingen 18/7/44 with Maj Hildreth, Worcester, Hink, Englehardt, Eck, Bardon, Koller, Ream, Wylie, Kettle (10 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Kempten; 10POW; Missing Air Crew Report 6953. FLAK OFF LIMITS.

Delivered Cheyenne 10/4/44; Hunter 27/4/44; Dow Fd 10/5/44; Assigned 346BS/99BG Tortorella 19/5/44; in base taxi accident with Dick Schildmeyer 24/2/45; {97m} Salvaged 26/4/45; WEARY WILLIE.

Delivered Cheyenne 11/4/44; Hunter 27/4/44; Morrison 7/5/44; Assigned 483BG Sterparone 11/5/44; transferred 342BS/97BG Amendola 12/7/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 4185 BU Independence 7/11/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 7/1/46. BABY.

Delivered MacDill 92BG 11/5/42; Wendover 369BS/306BG 15/7/42; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Albuquerque 26/5/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 16/9/43; Gr Island 1/10/43; Assigned: 524BS/379BG [WA-D] Kimbolton 6/10/43; Transferred: 525BS [FR-D]; MIA Leipzig 7/7/44 Pilot: John Riedman, Dave Sarfaty, Edmund Moreno, Pete Krosunger, Don Fields, Ray Pekonen (6POW); Bob Smith, Syd Kelly, Alby Rowe (3KIA); flak, crashed Altenroda, Germany. MACR 7357. ANITA MARIE.

Delivered Cheyenne 28/5/43; Gore 7/6/43; Tinker 8/6/43; Memphis 24/6/43; Presque Is 2/7/43; Assigned 348BS/99BG Navarin 11/7/43; Oudna 4/8/43; transferred 340BS/97BG Depienne 14/11/43; Cerignola 20/12/43; crashed base (?) 31/12/43; Salvaged. LUCKY LADY.

Delivered Cheyenne 22/4/43; Tinker 24/5/43; Smoky Hill 29/5/43; Chicago 1/6/43; Smoky Hill 16/6/43; Tinker 19/6/43; Kearney 26/6/43; Eglin 7/7/43; Dow Fd 12/7/43; Assigned 414BS/97BG Chateau-du-Rhumel 14/7/43; Pont-du-Fahs 1/8/43; Depienne 15/8/43; Cerignola 20/12/43; Transferred 341BS/97BG Amendola 16/1/44; Missing in Action Atzerdorf 24/5/44 with 2Lt Robert S Close, 2Lt Orris F Welch, 2Lt David S Greenfield, 2lt Robert R Englund, S/Sgt Robert O Marlow, S/Sgt Herbert J Haigh, Sgt Thomas E Burke, S/Sgt Paul J Thueson, S/Sgt Frank Shifres, Sgt Russell W Fulleton; enemy aircraft, crashed St Marien; 9 x POW MACR 5070. LADY LUCK.

Delivered Dallas 17/6/44; Langley 13/7/44; Dow Fd 7/8/44; Assigned 324BS/91BG [DF-A] Bassingbourn 27/8/44; battle damaged Hamburg 6/11/44 with ?; crash landed Rackheath Afd, UK; Salvaged 9/11/44.

Delivered Cheyenne 15/4/43; Morrison 4/5/43; Warner Robins 10/5/43; Morrison 19/5/43; Assigned 346BS/99BG Navarin 30/5/43; battle damaged Messina 25/6/43 with Lippman; #1 & 2 engines out; Oudna 4/8/43; transferred 97BG Depienne 14/11/43; Cerignola 20/12/43; Amendola 16/1/44; Salvaged 8/7/44. CREW NO. 1.

Delivered Dallas 8/6/43; Smoky Hill 8/7/43; Dow Fd 15/7/43; Assigned 568BS/390BG [BI-L] Framlingham 16/7/43; (16m) Missing in Action Bremen 20/12/43 with John Reeve, Co-pilot: Gene Dorn, Navigator: Dick Kernsten, Bombardier: Earl Pendell, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Carl Carnes, Radio Operator: Florian Solarz, Ball turret gunner: Chas Peabody, Waist gunner: Harry Pfell, Waist gunner: Osie Smith,Tail gunner: Jim Miller (10 Killed in Action); flak, crashed North Sea, near Bremen, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 1731. ROVIN‘ RAMONA.

Delivered Cheyenne 15/9/43; Assigned: 525BS/379BG [FR-A] Kimbolton 19/10/43; battle damage Sorau 11/4/44; crash-landed Fen Farm, Stow Bardolph, Suffolk, UK., Pilot: John Daly, Co-Pilot: Bob Koerber, ng-S/Sgt Carl Christianson, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Adriel Langendoerfer, Radio Operator: Omer Young, Ball Turret Gunner: Harvey Tuber, Waist Gunner: Frank Hearne, Waist Gunner: John McCallum, Tail Gunner: Howard Polizzo (9KIA- when ship crash landed); Navigator: Bill Evans (RTD- baled out safely); Salvaged. 18/4/44. TENNY BELLE.

Delivered Dallas 29/6/44; Langley 26/7/44; Dow Fd 17/8/44; Assigned 322BS/91BG [DF-E] Bassingbourn 18/11/44; aborted Mannheim mission, crash landed base 20/1/45 with Elmer Johnson; Salvaged.

Delivered Cheyenne 8/7/43; Kearney 25/7/43; Topeka 13/8/43; Scott 14/8/43; Assigned 569BS/390BG [CC-V] Framlingham 25/8/43; Missing in Action Emden 11/12/43 with Francis Gerald, Co-pilot: Ernie Amport, Navigator: Bill Baumgarner, Bombardier: Chas Garner, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Nick Colagiovanni, Radio Operator: Jim Costa, Ball turret gunner: Dean McConkey, Waist gunner: Ray Lanham, Waist gunner: Jim King,Tail gunner: Coolidge Howlett (10 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed Harkstede, near Groningen, Hol; Missing Air Crew Report 1584. WILD CHILDREN.

Delivered Cheyenne 25/5/43; Gore 12/6/43; Smoky Hill 14/6/43; Rapid City 20/6/43; Geiger 22/6/43; Smoky Hill 23/6/43; Dow Fd 5/7/43; Assigned 346BS/99BG Navarin 30/7/43; Oudna 4/8/43; battle damaged Mestre 6/10/43 with Crooks, Raftery, Evans, Devine, Grant, Demott, Ledgerwood, Boswell, Berkey, Laverick; crash landed Foggia and WO; but repaired at depot and transferred 340BS/97BG Cerignola; Amendola 16/1/44; Missing in Action Padua 11/3/44 with Bob Taylor, Franko, Rosoff, Undercoffer, Romes (9th CCU), Hoff, Schumaker, Coggeswell, Beatty, Hardin, Kennedy; enemy aircraft, ditched Adriatic; Missing Air Crew Report 2835. LIL‘ JOAN.

Delivered Lincoln 30/10/44; Grenier 12/11/44; Assigned 815BS/483BG Sterparone 3/12/44; Salvaged 9AF Germany 26/6/46. SWEET IRENE.

Delivered Dallas 26/6/44; Langley 27/7/44; Dow Fd 22/8/44; Assigned 4BS/34BG Mendlesham 26/8/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 12/7/45; Independence 16/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 28/12/45.