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

Delivered Cheyenne 3/3/43; Sioux City 18/3/43; Kearney 9/4/43; Dow Fd 13/4/43; Assigned 526BS/379BG [LF-G] Kimbolton 9/5/43; Missing in Action St Nazaire 29/5/43 with Theo Peterson, Radio Operator: John Scott (2 evaded capture); Co-pilot: Jack Bourn, Navigator: Woodrow Moore, Bombardier: Warren Rosacker, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Maynard Spencer, Ball turret gunner: Bill Blubaugh, Waist gunner: Paul Cribelar, Waist gunner: Bill Ayres,Tail gunner: Gideon Brown (8 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed Channel a mile offshore of St Quay-Portrieux, 10 miles N of St Breiuc, Fr. Missing Air Crew Report 1293. LADY GODIVA.

Delivered Cheyenne 19/11/43; Kearney 2/12/43; Syracuse 8/12/43; Presque Is 11/12/43; Assigned: 527BS/379BG [FO-Y] Kimbolton 24/1/44; MIA Brunswick 30/1/44 Pilot: Ken Adams, Co-Pilot: Jack Bowden, Navigator: Vince Morkus, Bombardier: Leon Rosen, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: John Tunink, Radio Operator: Archie Stambush, Ball Turret Gunner: Chas Olson, Waist Gunner: Max Dahm, Waist Gunner: Joe Yragni (9POW); Tail Gunner: Frank Tyndell (KIA); Enemy aircraft, crashed in swamp near Essern, ten miles NE of Lubbecke, Westfalen, Germany. MACR 2876.

Delivered Lincoln 3/10/44; Grenier 15/10/44; Assigned 544BS/384BG [SU-K] Grafton Underwood 24/10/44; 547BS [SO-K]; transferred 324BS/91BG [DF-R] Bassingbourn 9/2/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 30/5/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 1/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 17/12/45.

Delivered Denver 13/4/43; Gore 14/4/43; St Joseph 29/4/43; Denver 8/5/43; Great Falls 10/5/43; Kearney 30/5/43; Dow Fd 15/6/43; Assigned 548BS/385BG [GX-G] Great Ashfield 26/6/43; Salvaged 6/9/45. BELLE OF THE BLUE.

Delivered Cheyenne 27/1/45; Hunter 26/2/45; ATC San Francisco 9/3/45; 2 RES Kadena 31/1/48; Recl Comp 8/3/49.

Delivered Cheyenne 27/1/45; Hunter 1/3/45; ATC San Francisco 4/4/45; 338 RVP Momote 18/1/46; 5 RVP Clark 18/4/46; 567 MAT Clark 13/7/48; Returned to the USA 24/5/49; re-ass 9 SRC Gp Fairmont 4/9/49; Hill Fd 28/11/49; Recl Comp 18/1/50.

Delivered Long Beach 14/4/43; Smoky Hill 23/4/43; Presque Is 10/5/43; Assigned 339BS/96BG Andrews Fd 13/5/43; transferred 548BS/385BG [GX-J] Gt Ashfield /43; Missing in Action 7/5/44 with Sid Hoffman, Co-pilot: John Brady, Navigator: Carleton Brooks, Bombardier: Ralph Gochner, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Lew Ohinn, Radio Operator: Tony Delivered Gizzi, Ball turret gunner: Carroll Middleton, Waist gunner: Harry Scull, Waist gunner: John Jacoby,Tail gunner: Ed Hunter (10 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed Rechterfeld, SW of Wildeshausen, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 4562. DAISY JUNE II.

Delivered Cheyenne 27/1/45; Hunter 23/2/45; ATC San Francisco 9/3/45; Assigned 358 SR Clark Fd 15/1/48; 6 SR Clark 26/6/48; 18 MSU Clark 1/12/48; Recl Comp 2/3/49.

Delivered Dallas 230/7/45; Sth Plains 8/45; damaged in taxi accident with 44-85833 in 2/46 in preparation for USN, then United States Coast Guard; repairs uneconomical, scrapped 7/6/46.

Delivered Long Beach 9/9/43;Gr Island 17/10/43; as 331BS/94BG [QE-R] Rougham 26/10/43; transferred 333BS [TS-F]; Missing in Action Bordeaux 31/12/43 with Don Sharp, Co-pilot: Tom Sheedy, Navigator: Fred Irwin, Bombardier: Orin Gurley, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ed Deutsch, Radio Operator: Gus Lobone, Ball turret gunner: John Fees, Waist gunner: Ken Majeska, Waist gunner: Bill Nall,Tail gunner: Joe Miksic (10 Returned to Duty); mechanical problems and ran out of gas before crash landed St Marys-in-the-Marsh, Romney Marsh, Kent, UK.

Delivered Denver 17/5/43; Bangor 12/7/43; Assigned 549BS/385BG [XA- ] Gt Ashfield 26/6/43; Salvaged 27/10/43; transferred 414BS/97BG Amendola; with Siegler, Johnson, Miller, Hemmingson, Zmuda, Smith, Hines, Keisler, Ower, Murphy (10 Returned to Duty); ditched 20/10/43; crew returned 26/10/43.

Delivered Cheyenne 10/12/42; Blythe 29/12/42; Dyersburg 13/5/43; Orlando 29/6/43; Dyersburg 5/7/43; Tinker 6/8/43; MATCOM Wright Fd 16/6/44; 4200 BU Chicago Mun Apt 18/6/44; 202 BU Galveston 20/6/44; 223 BU Dyersburg 23/2/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 18/12/45.

Delivered Denver 20/11/42; Walla Walla 1/3/43; Madras 19/6/43; Rapid City 29/7/43; Walla Walla 15/8/43; with Arnold Brunner force landed MacDill 29/3/44; 331 BU Barksdale 9/11/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Albuquerque 25/6/45.

Delivered Denver 20/11/42; Casper 1/1/43; Pyote 24/4/43; with John Child force landed Clovis, NM 11/6/44; 4200 BU Chicago Mun 13/6/44; 234 BU Clovis 14/6/44; 4100 BU Patterson 16/6/44; 2218 BU Alexandra 6/9/44; 329 BU Alexandra for survey colided with 42-31948 on 54-ship practice flight NE Louisiana Rapids 7/5/45, (9 Killed in Service).

Delivered Cheyenne 18/11/42; 11AF Ladd Fd 15/1/43; Returned to the USA Gore Fd 6/6/43; Hendricks 18/9/43; with Chas Moore 24/1/45; Recl Comp 3/1/46.

Delivered Long Beach 26/4/43; Gt Falls 4/5/43; Kearney 29/5/43; Denver 4/6/43; Dow Fd 17/6/43; Assigned 550BS/385BG [ SG-A] Gt Ashfield 16/6/43; ground accident, sal 29/5/45. ROUND TRIP JACK.

Delivered Cheyenne 9/1/44; Kingman 19/1/44; Albuquerque 26/3/44; 2543 BU Waco 28/11/44; 2218 BU Alexandra 10/12/44; 329 BU Alexandra 1/3/45; collided with 42-5355 on a 54-ship practice flight, crashed Lousiana Rapides, Alexandria, (9 Killed in Service). Written off Alexandra 7/5/45.

Delivered Denver 26/12/43; Dallas 6/1/44; Dale Marbry 10/1/44; Maxwell 11/1/44; Morrison 13/2/44; crew to 775BS/463BG Celone via ATC, but aircraft Transferred: 524BS/379BG [WA-U] Kimbolton 24/5/44; MIA Toulouse 25/6/44 Pilot: Billy Drake(+ 525BS crew), Co-Pilot: Ken Stewart, Navigator: Joe Murphy, Bombardier: Harry Hurlbust, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Juan Amendariz, Radio Operator: Ken Vague, Ball Turret Gunner: Barton Turley, Waist Gunner: Ivan Suber, Tail Gunner: Joe Eldridge (9RTD); battle damage and ditched in sea (Channel’), all rescued. No MACR.

Delivered Denver 1/6/43; Dow Fd 9/7/43; Assigned 346BS/99BG Navarin 28/7/43; Oudna 4/8/43; transferred 341BS/97BG Depienne 14/11/43; Cerignola 20/12/43; Amendola 16/1/44; Missing in Action Focsani 11/6/44 with 2Lt Stuart F Young, 2Lt James W Callaway, 2Lt Raymond R Prophater, 2Lt Earl J Wood Jr, S/Sgt Raymond W Pociecha, S/Sgt Joseph L Marshall, S/Sgt Joseph Graziano, Sgt Paul R Johnson, S/Sgt Thomas B Summers, Sgt James H Trout, Sgt Charles B Chase; lagging behind formation jumped by enemy aircraft, hit in starboard engine, lost height and exploded Bucharest. 9 x POW, 2 x KIA MACR 6425. SPIRIT OF McCOOK.

Delivered Denver 9/12/43; Sth Bend 11/1/44; Langley 14/1/44; Assigned 482BG (H2X) Alconbury 28/1/44; transferred 422BS/305BG [JJ- ] Chelveston 20/3/44; Missing in Action Berlin 22/3/44 with Hugh Burnett (KIA-baled out too low); Co-pilot: Ernie Snider, Navigator: Steve Loveland, Bombardier: Chas Hulbert, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: John Jayson, Radio Operator: Joe Wakerly, rad/nav-Lt Ed Gorman, Waist gunner: Chas McGonagle, Waist gunner: Roger Bryan,Tail gunner: Bill Lewis (9 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed Amendorf, three miles W of Verden/Aller, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 3433.