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

Delivered Lincoln 16/9/44; Grenier 27/9/44; Assigned 379BG Kimbolton 14/10/44; battle damaged Plauen 23/2/45 with Vernon Olson, crash landed (?continent/Ipswich?)o; Salvaged.

Delivered Cheyenne 3/5/43; Smoky Hill 14/5/43; Gt Falls 24/5/43; Kearney 30/5/43; Dow Fd 15/6/43; Peterson 18/6/43; Assigned 548BS/385BG [GX-F] Gt Ashfield 17/6/43; with Bob Smith force landed RAF Docking 30/10/43; with Lt Lacasse hit truck at Honington, Salvaged n/battle damaged by 1st SAD 30/1/44. YANK.

Delivered Dallas 5/7/44; Langley 31/7/44; Dow Fd 21/8/44; Assigned PFF 4BS/34BG [Q6-P] Mendlesham 30/8/44; Missing in Action Ludwigshafen 27/9/44 with Capt Jim Blackburn, Co-pilot: Elmer Lian, ng-Sgt John Denter, Bombardier: Bob Pearce, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bob Huebler, Radio Operator: John Oyster, m/op-Lt Walt Davis{Wounded in Action}, Waist gunner: John Wolf, radn-Lt Bob Stellmach{391BS}, mission pilot-Maj Howard Burton (10 Prisoner of War); Navigator: Curtis Orr (Killed in Action); enemy aircraft & flak hit KO’d #2, , crashed Stromberg, N of Bad Kreuznach, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 9367. MEAN KID.

Delivered Denver 23/10/43; Walla Walla 7/11/43; ass 729BS/452BG [M3- ] Deopham Green 3/1/44; MIA Frankfurt 8/2/44 Pilot: Earl Treux, Co-Pilot: Lt Col Herbert Wangeman, Navigator: Bill Sumner, Bombardier: Vince Lanigan, Radio Operator: Chas McCarthy, Ball Turret Gunner: Ed Kunis, Waist Gunner: Coleman Hill, Waist Gunner: Chas Monday, Tail Gunner: Lt Bill Crosman (9POW); Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Arnold Pederson (EVD); mech fault #3, crew baled about 15 miles S of Le Havre, Fr. MACR 2520. THE WORRY BIRD.

Delivered Dallas 30/9/44; Hunter 3/11/44; Grenier 17/11/44; Assigned 97BG PFF Amendola 3/12/44; transferred 774BS/463BG Celone 12/12/44; Returned to the USA 28/10/45, Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 7/1/46.

Delivered Dallas 30/9/44; Hunter 1/11/44; Grenier 26/11/44; Assigned 305BG Chelveston 4/12/44; Salvaged 9AF Germany 15/7/46.

Delivered Louisville 2/5/45; Rome 28/5/45; 4202 BU Syracuse 20/9/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 15/11/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 20/12/42; Salina 3/1/43; West Palm Beach 31/1/43; Assigned 416BS/99BG Navarin 20/2/43; Oudna 4/8/43; Tortorella 11/12/43; transferred 483BG Tortorella 31/3/44; 7 more missions, Sterparone 22/4/44; Written off 31/7/44, repaired to 463BG Celone as weather aircraft 4/45; Salvaged 5/10/45. MISS FURY.

Delivered Lincoln 17/9/44; Grenier 7/10/44; Assigned 560BS/388BG Knettishall 12/10/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 26/6/45; Sth Plains 28/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 10/12/45.

Delivered Long Beach 25/8/43; Cheyenne 11/9/43; Mat. Com. Wright 2/6/44 as a propeller feathering test aircraft; 4100 BU Patterson 15/2/45; 234 BU Clovis 19/2/45; 400 BU Wright 4/3/45; 4145 BU Wendover 18/4/45; 4135 BH Hill Fd 4/6/46; 4145 BU Alamagordo 31/3/47; 4136 BU – 23/12/47; 4146 BU Holloman 29/4/48; 2754 AB Gp Holloman 5/4/49; 2753 AST Gp Pyote 13/4/49; Recl Comp Pyote 4/4/50.

Das Schicksal dieser B-17 Fliegenden Festung ist nicht bekannt.

Delivered Cheyenne 4/11/43; Kearney 1/12/43; Romulus 9/12/43; Grenier 10/12/43; Presque Is 14/12/43; Assigned 613BS/401BG [IN-J] Deenethorpe 6/1/44; Missing in Action Frankfurt 2/3/44 with Bill Sheahan, Co-pilot: Elliott Ogden, Navigator: Bob Davis, Bombardier: Doug Conway, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Rich Rickey, Radio Operator: Don Silverstein, Waist gunner: Seymour Falk (7 Prisoner of War); Ball turret gunner: Hazard Justice, Waist gunner: Roger Leking,Tail gunner: John O’Mara (3 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, exploded mid air, crashed St Gerard-Ardennes, 10 miles SW of Namur, Bel; Missing Air Crew Report 2742. SAC HOUND.

Delivered Cheyenne 27/10/43; Assigned 613BS/401BG [IN-B] Deenethorpe 14/1/44; Missing in Action Poix, Fr. 13/3/44 with George Hellmuth, Jim Hannon, Bob Wagner, Gordon Brandt, Francis Allen (5 Killed in Action); Ray Gipson, Jim Coventry, Jim Bailey, Royce Moore, Mike Devito (5 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed St Quentin; Missing Air Crew Report 3185.

Delivered Denver 13/9/43; Scott 30/9/43; Assigned 332BS/94BG [XM-F] Rougham 11/10/43; on engine check flight 1/3/44 with Luke Blanche, Co-pilot: Bernard Carey, Navigator: Bill Hutchinson, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Maurice Crow, Radio Operator: Bill Holmes (5 Returned to Duty), bellied in base with wheels still retracted; sal 18/10/44. THE BETTER HALF.

Delivered Long Beach 31/5/43; Cheyenne 3/6/43; Kearney 19/7/43; Walla Walla 26/7/43; 326 BU MacDill 11/7/44; 331 BU Barksdale 13/11/44; 325 BU Avon Park 15/7/44; 348 BU Will Rogers 25/7/44; 4119 BU Brookley 11/11/44; 4100 BU Patterson 3/12/44; 331 BU Barksdale 20/2/45; 4200 BU Chicago Mun 31/3/45; 330 BU Dyersburg 26/6/45; 325 BU Avon Park 28/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 18/8/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 12/3/44; Gr Island 16/3/44; 326 BU MacDill 7/4/44; 333 BU Morris 29/11/44; crashed in training mission on RR tracks 29//11/44 near Morris Fd, GA W/O 1/12/44; Recl Comp 1/2/45.

Delivered Denver 23/11/43; Wendover 9/12/43; Assigned 749BS/457BG [P] Glatton 19/1/44; transferred 614BS/401BG [IW-D] Deenethorpe 11/3/44 Missing in Action Schweinfurt 13/4/44 with Boudinot Stimson, Co-pilot: Bob Timberlake, Bombardier: Jack Pfaffman, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Karl Kukurin, Radio Operator: Carmen Manusco, Ball turret gunner: Paul Melia, Waist gunner: Andy Allen,Tail gunner: Alf Le Sage (8 Prisoner of War); Navigator: John O’Neal, Waist gunner: John McQueen (2 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed (?Rohrbrunn?) Weibersbrunn, nine miles E of Aschaffenurg, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 3941. WHAT NEXT ?

Delivered Lincoln 21/9/44; Dow Fd 15/10/44; Assigned: 18BS/34BG Mendlesham 19/10/44 ((613BS/401BG [IN-G] Deenthorpe)); MIA Holswickede, Germany. 23/3/45 Pilot: Bolser; flak & mid air coll, crashed Hamm; 9KIA; MACR 13598.

Delivered Cheyenne 5/1/44; Gr Island 16/1/44; Assigned 366BS/305BG [KY-W] Chelveston 16/2/44; Missing in Action Cottbus 29/5/44 with Ed Kass, Co-pilot: Frank Gioffe, Bombardier: Warren Nutter, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Henry Rublewsky, Radio Operator: Bob Rahn, Ball turret gunner: Ed Towle, Waist gunner: Bill Franklin, Waist gunner: Claude Blanton (8 Killed in Action); Navigator: Bob Kierman,Tail gunner: Foster Heath (2 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Baltic Sea, of Ransow, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 5337.

Delivered: Denver 22/5/43; Dow Fd 14/7/43; Assigned: 550BS/385BG [SG-E] Gt Ashfield 18/7/43; Salvaged. 29/5/45. NAN B.