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

Delivered MacDill 29BG 1/5/42; Boise 21/6/42; Ogden 6/7/42; Oklahoma City 19BG 14/12/42; Pyote 11/1/43; Written off 4/5/43.

Delivered Cheyenne 5/5/44; Hunter 19/5/44; Dow Fd 4/6/44; Assigned 401BS/91BG [LL-P] Bassingbourn 10/6/44; Missing in Action {17m} Leipzig 20/7/44 with Frank Fusco (Killed in Action); Co-pilot: John Secleter, Navigator: Walter Lease, Bombardier: Joe Wyand, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Carl Smiddy, Radio Operator: Dort Quackenbush, Ball turret gunner: Matt Janiszewski, Waist gunner: Lowell Kellogg,Tail gunner: Jim Morany (8 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft KO’d #3, the fire spreading, crashed St Egidien, W of Chemnitz, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 7283. LIBERTY aka VICTORY QUEEN.

Delivered Denver 15/4/44; Cheyenne 1/5/44; Hunter 14/5/44; Dow Fd 22/5/44; Assigned 401BS/91BG [LL-Z] Bassingbourn 2/6/44; Missing in Action {19m} Liepzig 20/7/44 with Don Knapp, Co-pilot: Ray Jones, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Jim Veres, Waist gunner: Dick Stull,Tail gunner: Walt Lohman (5 Prisoner of War); Navigator: Manley Darsnek, Bombardier: Jim Donigan, Radio Operator: Chas North, Ball turret gunner: Francis Callahan (4 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft caused severe damage, crashed Eckersbach, near Zwickau, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 7272. WINNIE FRANK JOE.

Delivered Lincoln 9/10/44; Grenier 16/10/44; Assigned 323BS/91BG Bassingbourn 5/11/44; battle damaged {18m} Cologne 14/1/45 with Bill Meyer, Lauren Otting, Nello Fiorio, Mike Holowaty, Steve Wulderk, Art Miller, Bob Wagner, Bob Garrett (8 Killed in Action); Bombardier: Jim Buescher (Prisoner of War); flak KO’d #3 & #4 which fell off and crashed Wengerrohr, Ger; Salvaged 6/3/45. BULL SESSION.

Delivered Cheyenne 24/4/42; Wayne 13/6/42; RCAF Dorval 17/6/42; Gander-Prestwick 25/6/42 to RAF [FK204]; Royal Aircraft Est., Boscomb Down, Wilts. Back-up LRASV trials 1/7/42; 220 Sq (ZZ-N) Ballykelly 25/7/42.; with W/Co. Richard Gates abandoned out of fuel and crashed Doddington Quarry, Doddington, Wooler, Northumberland, UK 11/8/42; crew all OK. Struck Off Charge 10/10/42.

Delivered Long Beach 6/9/43; Gr Island 27/9/43; Assigned 571BS/390BG [FC-Z] Framlingham 15/10/43; Missing in Action Magdeburg (37m) 28/5/44 with Henry Holmes, Co-pilot: Chas Kruger, Navigator: Walter Steck, Bombardier: Oral Thompson, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Vic Baccaro, Ball turret gunner: Frank Watson, Waist gunner: Harry Roock, Waist gunner: Soldier Sanders,Tail gunner: Paul Kast (9 Prisoner of War); Radio Operator: Forrest Knight (Killed in Action); enemy aircraft hit #2 & #3 and left wing afire and last seen in vertical drive, crashed Walternienburg, 17 miles SE of Magdeburg, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 5256. STARK’S ARK.

Delivered Hunter 10/11/44; Grenier 25/11/44; Assigned 483BG Sterparone 2/12/44; Returned to the USA Morrison 19/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 29/12/45. MARY WANNA.

Delivered Cheyenne 22/12/44; Hunter 5/1/45; Dow Fd 27/1/45; Assigned 532BS/381BG [VE-S] Ridgewell 21/2/45; {1+m} transferred 367BS/306BG Thurleigh 5/45; re-ass 30/4/47; Recl Comp 19/11/47. EVELYN ANN.

Delivered Denver 10/12/43; Kearney 31/12/43; Oklahoma City 16/1/44; Tinker 1/2/44; Assigned 511BS/351BG [DS-V] Polebrook 19/2/44; 42m Missing in Action Creil 13/7/44 with Cleo Aldridge, Co-pilot: Donovan Hart, Navigator: Stan Cressey, Bombardier: Glenn Ballantyne, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Frank Knapp, Ball turret gunner: Carl Irwin, Waist gunner: Don Gristmacher,Tail gunner: Art Bevier (8 Prisoner of War); Radio Operator: Tom Marshall (KIA – chute failed); flak KO’d oxygen system, all crew bailed out, crashed Neuffen, SE of Stuttgart, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 7504.

Delivered Long Beach 23/9/43; Gr Island 26/10/43; Assigned 401BS/91BG Bassingbourn 22/12/43; detailed Ludwigshaven suffered mechanical problems 30/12/43 with Frank Amman, Co-pilot: Harry Kirby, Navigator: Harry Levin, Bombardier: Pat McNulty, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: John LaCorazza, Radio Operator: Frank Bynon, Ball turret gunner: Irwin Kennedy, Waist gunner: Frank Martin, Waist gunner: Howard Hornick,Tail gunner: Wallace Sexton (10 Returned to Duty); crash landed Steeple Morden A/fd, Cambs., UK; sal 2 SAD Watton, Nfk 31/12/43.

Delivered Cheyenne 24/11/43; Wendover 9/12/43; Assigned 748BS/457BG Glatton 2/2/44; transferred 401BS/91BG [LL-F] Bassingbourn 11/3/44; Missing in Action Peenemunde 18/7/44 with Don Bare, Co-pilot: John Johnson, Navigator: Dick Hess, Bombardier: Anthony Homyk, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ray Nickerson, Radio Operator: Lou Elgert, Ball turret gunner: Orland Neely, Waist gunner: Ray Jones,Tail gunner: Gerald Nygard (9INT); mech fault KO’d #3, force landed Bulltofta, Swed; Missing Air Crew Report 7418. (Left Sweden 1/6/45).

Delivered Long Beach 25/9/43; Gr Island 7/10/43; Assigned 1 CCRC Gp [8Weather Squad (P)] Bovingdon 25/10/43; took off for Met. Flight from St Eval, Cornwall and returning to base to collect wireless flimsies which had been forgotten on 1/4/44 with H. M. Aronson, H.W. Davis, – Aronowitz, – Blunk, O.E. McCroskey, F.J. Walsh, M.R. Boose, L.E.McEvoy, W. Miller (RAF) (9 Returned to Duty); right undercarriage collaped upon landing; repaired and transferred 625BS/25BG Watton, Nfk 22/4/44; declared War Weary and involved in taxi accident at Gt Ashfield with Alvin Shasky 21/2/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 31/12/43; Kearney 12/1/44; Assigned 511BS/351BG [DS-P] Polebrook 25/2/44; 36m battle damaged Merseburg 29/7/44 with Stan Stewart, Co-pilot: David Basehore, Navigator: Louis Blitz, Bombardier: Bill Pritchard, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Rueben Fauks, Radio Operator: Virgil Stuart, Ball turret gunner: Matt Vukonich, Waist gunner: Harry Eacrett,Tail gunner: Bob Slack (9rtd, but two slightly injured); crash landed base when brakes failed on return; Salvaged 30/7/44. LIBERTY BALL.

Delivered Denver 15/11/43; Ogden 18/11/43; Gr Island 10/12/43; Assigned 323BS/91BG [OR-S] Bassingbourn 24/2/44; while on training flight, crash-landed base then caught fire 6 April 1944 with Capt Albert Kuehl, CP- Jewell Stevens, N-Mortimer Oudnoss, E-Whitmall Hill; Capts Jim Kelly, Bill Dillo; all six RTD ; fire crews failed to beat the fire and sal n/battle damaged 2SAD Lt Staughton.

Delivered Lincoln 30/9/44; Dow Fd 15/10/44; Assigned 323BS/91BG [OR-M] Bassingbourn 9/2/45; battle damaged Dresden 14/2/45 with Robert J. Lawson; Knox B. Phagen, Jr.; John M. Diraclos; Eugene Cruse; Daniel F. Erikson; Lawrence Mackey; Clyde J. Wallick; Joseph A. Fragale; William D. Cameron; force landed Elouges (near Mons), Hainaut, Belgium, Salvaged 22/2/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 9/9/42; New Castle 10/10/42; Assigned 367BS/306BG [GY-H] Thurleigh 7/5/43; Missing in Action Wilhelmshafen 15/5/43 with Gaylord Ritland, Co-pilot: John Wichell, Navigator: Dick Callaghan, Bombardier: Bill Granins, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Al Lambert, Radio Operator: Bob Lee, Ball turret gunner: Bill Anderson, Waist gunner: Chas Miller, Waist gunner: Harry Novak, Tail gunner: Gail Burkett (10 Prisoner of War); flak KO’d two engines, ditched North Sea & rescued by German ASR. Missing Air Crew Report 16058

Delivered Denver 24/12/43; Gt Falls 29/12/43; Kearney 13/1/44; Assigned 508BS/351BG [YB-Q] Polebrook 22/2/44; {55m}, landing accident at base; Salvaged 2 SAD Lt Staughton 4/10/44; Returned to the USA 9/44. THE SHARK.

Delivered Denver 2/1/44; Gr Island 14/1/44; Assigned 534BS/381BG [GD-J] Ridgewell 21/2/44; battle damaged Aschaffenburg 21/1/45, force landed Continent, repaired and ret 30/1/45; transferred 91BG Bassingbourn 30/5/45; retUS 8/6/45. COLONEL BUB.

Delivered Cheyenne 14/5/45; Hunter 29/6/45; WCW San Francisco 13/7/45; re-ass 30/4/47; Salvaged Manila, PI 6/8/47. Recl Comp 13/7/49.

Converted to B-17H Air Sea Rescue ship.

Delivered Dallas 25/9/43; Harvard 7/10/43; Assigned 708BS/447BG Rattlesden 19/10/43; Missing in Action Merseburg 25/11/43 with Norman Wiggin, Ray Hansen, Phil Harper, Andy Bezak, Ken Reynolds, Marvin Olson, Chester Lambert (7 Killed in Action); Phil Moscherosch, Jim Martin (2 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed Merseburg, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 10855 (?10755). SHACK HAPPY.

Delivered Tulsa 6/5/44; Hunter 16/5/44; Dow Fd 24/6/44; Assigned 322BS/91BG [LG-Q] Bassingbourn 27/5/44; Missing in Action Berlin 21/6/44 with Bob O’Bannon, Co-pilot: Tom Fitzgerald, Navigator: Nathan Bartman, Bombardier: Arnold Ostwald, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Irvin Lewis, Radio Operator: Ben Goldman, Ball turret gunner: Herb McCutchan, Waist gunner: Joe Fioretti (8 Prisoner of War);Tail gunner: Amos Estrada (Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed inlake at Castle Stolzenburg,nt Politz, 14 miles NW of Stettin, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 5980.

Delivered Cheyenne 26/5/44; Kearney 4/6/44; Grenier 17/6/44; Assigned 322BS/91BG [LG- ] Bassingbourn 19/7/44; Missing in Action Leipzig 20/7/44 with Chas Walby, Radio Operator: Ernie Keene (2 Killed in Action); Co-pilot: Max Bender{Wounded in Action}, Navigator: Jim Dye, Bombardier: Jim Mounts, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Norman Ingram, Ball turret gunner: Byron Burgin{Wounded in Action}, Waist gunner: Karl Dziadula,Tail gunner: Fred Cascone{Wounded in Action} (7 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Vielau, SE of Zwickau, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 7284. B.T.O. aka MR FIVE X FIVE.

Delivered Cheyenne 28/2/43; Gore 4/3/43; Souix City 18/3/43; Kearney 9/4/43; Dow Fd 15/4/43; Assigned 525BS/379BG [FR-B] Kimbolton 23/4/43; Missing in Action Nantes 16/9/43 with Elton Hoyt, Co-pilot: Norman Schroeder, Navigator: Bill Cook, Bombardier: Lou Glickman, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: John Thomas, Radio Operator: Herb Dulberg, Ball turret gunner: Russ Eldridge, Waist gunner: Bill Miller, Waist gunner: Harry Minor,Tail gunner: Ed Shaffer (10 evaded capture); flak, crashed Redon, 37 miles NW of Nantes, Fr. Missing Air Crew Report 978. BATTLIN‘ BOBBIE.