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

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.

Delivered Long Beach 30/4/43; Sioux City 7/5/43; Dow Fd 15/6/43; Assigned 562BS/388BG [–E] Knettishall 16/6/43; suffered battle damaged at La Pallice, Fr. 16/9/43 with Henry Cox, Co-pilot: Albt Rubin, Navigator: Bob Leaventhal, Bombardier: Frank Broach, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Herman Ball, Radio Operator: Don Gromis, Ball turret gunner: George Martin, Waist gunner: Otto Kloza, Waist gunner: Francis Curry,Tail gunner: Joshua Lewis (10 Killed in Action); crash landed Upper Cilgee Farm, Llanure, two miles from Llandrindod Wells, Wales, after being diverted to RAF Shobdon, Worcs., in poor weather; Salvaged. Missing Air Crew Report 3119. SONDRA KAY.

Delivered Long Beach 19/5/43; March Fd 10/6/43; Roswell 13/6/43; 246 BU Pratt 14/6/43; Written off 14/6/44.

Delivered Long Beach 18/5/43; Gore Fd 8/6/43; Sioux City 22/11/43; Written off 26/11/43.

Delivered Dallas 16/6/44; Langley 22/7/44; Dow Fd 12/8/44; Assigned 490BG Debach 18/8/44; transferred 4BS/34BG Mendlesham 19/8/44; Missing in Action Berlin 5/12/44 with Capt Don Kermode (Prisoner of War); Co-pilot: Martin Meadows, Navigator: Bill Wood, Bombardier: Chas Hillweg, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Clement Mayer, Radio Operator: James Bruce, m/op-Lt Chas Upshaw, Waist gunner: John Caldwell, Waist gunner: Walter Myer,Tail gunner: Earl Dorr, Mission pilot-Capt Ralph Gregory{490BG} (10 Killed in Action); flak, crashed Gross Zerlang, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 11046.

Delivered Long Beach 18/5/43; Roswell 26/5/43; 3030 BU Roswell 2/6/44; 3010 BU Williams 11/12/44; 3020 BU La Junta 26/3/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Searcey Fd 31/7/45.

Delivered Long Beach 17/5/43; Roswell 15/5/43; force landed Kelly Fd with Keith Chambers 4/8/43; Roswell 13/8/43; 242 BU Gr Isle 11/9/44; 2028 BU Galveston 4/10/44; 268 BU Peterson 30/3/45; 1454 BU Minneapolis 7/5/45; 268 BU Peterson 25/5/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Searcey Fd 11/8/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 21/9/43; Gr Island 5/10/43; Wilimgton 13/10/43; Assigned: 410BS/94BG [GL-U] Rougham 23/10/43; MIA Brunswick 23/3/44 Pilot: Fletcher Johnson, Co-Pilot: Glenn Grant, Navigator: Walt Joselyn, Bombardier: Rudie Krznarick, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Linne Arrowood, Radio Operator: Bill Bennett, Ball Turret Gunner: Lou Machovec, Waist Gunner: Nick Rosati, Waist Gunner: Joe Carbonella, Tail Gunner: Julius Condron (10KIA); Enemy aircraft, ditched Channel, crew missing after rescue launch caught fire and sunk; MACR 3534.

Delivered Dallas 23/6/44; Langley 26/7/44; Dow Fd 18/8/44; Assigned 4BS/34BG Mendlesham 20/8/44; battle damaged Merseburg 30/11/44 with Capt Jim Searmans, plus crew ?; force landed continent; Salvaged 13/12/44.

Delivered Cheyenne 20/12/42; Salina 3/1/43; Morrison 31/1/43; Assigned 346BS/99BG Navarin 2/2/43; crashed 3/5/43 ex-Bizerte with Howard Ebbers, (crew ?) Salvaged. STARS AND STRIPES.

Delivered Denver 6/10/43; to Las Vegas with George Smith force landed 26/10/43; 3021 BU Las Vegas 1/12/44; 3017 BU Hobbs 28/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 11/1/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 2/6/44; Hunter 13/6/44; Dow Fd 24/6/44; Assigned 385BG Gt Ashfield 29/6/44; transferred 525BS/379BG [FR-D] Kimbolton 8/7/44; Missing in Action Merseburg 24/8/44 with John Connell, Co-pilot: John Crookston, Navigator: Bill Jaeger, Bombardier: Ed Bromage, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Jim Dean, Radio Operator: Jim Gurley, Ball turret gunner: Lucien Paradis, Waist gunner: Ray Sahlberg,Tail gunner: Bill Harrison (9 Killed in Action); flak over target, crashed Marrum, N of Leeuwarden, Hol; Missing Air Crew Report 8285.

Delivered Cheyenne 18/5/44; Kearney 29/5/44; Grenier 4/6/44; Assigned 526BS/379BG [LF-Z] Kimbolton 28/6/44; battle damaged Merseburg 13/9/44 with Capt Bob Layton, Co-pilot: Harry Greiner, Navigator: Wayne EhlersWounded in Action, Exn-Tony Chong, Bombardier: Tom Carruth, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: John KoruskoWounded in Action, Radio Operator: Jack Morgan, Ball turret gunner: Lloyd Shaeffer, Waist gunner: Ray McCarthy,Tail gunner: Lt Bob HagenWounded in Action, (10 Returned to Duty); force landed near Ciney, SE of Namur, Belgium; Salvaged 13/2/45. EVERYBODY’S BABY.