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

Delivered Cheyenne 25/5/43; Kearney 5/6/43; Dow Fd 4/7/43; Assigned 331BS/94BG [QE-A] Rougham 4/7/43 WOLF PACK; Missing in Action Brunswick 10/2/44 with Alton Anderson, Co-pilot: Albt Clapie, Navigator: Gordon Feeley, Bombardier: Bernie Barker, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ken Estep, Radio Operator: Lorraine Paxton, Ball turret gunner: Tom MitchellWounded in Action, Waist gunner: Rex Smithwia- eventually lost leg, Waist gunner: Don KremperWounded in Action,Tail gunner: Karl EvansWounded in Action (10 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft hit between #3 & #4, crash landed Biemolton, six miles N of Nordhorn, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 2386. GOOD TIME CHOLLY III.

Delivered Cheyenne 19/5/43; Gore 20/5/43; Smoky Hill 30/5/43; Dow Fd 3/6/43; Tinker 13/6/43; Smoky Hill 22/6/43; Casper 28/6/43; Kearney 30/6/43; Eglin 4/7/43; Kearney 11/7/43; Dow Fd 12/7/43; Assigned 346BS/99BG Navarin 30/7/43; Oudna 4/8/43; transferred 342BS/97BG Depienne 14/11/43; Cerignola 20/12/43; Amendola 16/1/44; Missing in Action Steyr 2/4/44 with 1Lt Warren King, 2Lt Andrew C Karkow, Birdsall, Odom, Blitz, Rosenauer, Spain, Sgt Howard E Wooters, McIntosh, Geozeziewicz; enemy aircraft, crashed Neustift, Aus; Missing Air Crew Report 3586.

elivered Cheyenne 30/5/43; Gore 2/6/43; Cheyenne 16/6/43; Roswell 21/6/43; Gore 25/6/43; 3030 BU Roswell 2/6/44; RRD Kansas City 12/8/44; with Ed Sanchez force landed Roswell 1/9/44; 3030 BU Roswell 6/11/44; 3017 BU Hobbs 29/4/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 31/8/45.

Delivered SAAD 28/4/42; Langley 27/5/42; Olmstead 1/2/43; Presque Is 19/3/43; Mitchell 9/6/43; Cherry Pt 9/7/43; with Bill Reynolds crash landed Langley Fd, VA, 1/2/44; Written off 14/9/44.

Delivered Cheyenne 20/12/42; Salina 3/1/43; Morrison 31/1/43; Assigned 416BS/99BG Navarin 2/2/43 ROBERT E. LEE; became weather ship after 111 missions; Returned to the USA Sth Plains 9/5/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Cincinnati 28/6/45. BALSANAL aka SWEATER GIRL.

Delivered Denver 30/12/43; Pueblo 12/1/44; Savannah 13/1/44; Morrison 20/1/44; (? Assigned 340BS/97BG Amendola 26/1/44); transferred (? )407BS/92BG [PY- ] Podington ; t/o as spare 11/7/44 with Ed Martens, Co-pilot: Bill McIlone, Navigator: John Goulden, Bombardier: John Becht, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Roy Wright (inj on bail out), Radio Operator: Eddie Makowki, Ball turret gunner: Emelio Lopez, Waist gunner: Bill Elias,Tail gunner: Martin Brassill, (9 Returned to Duty); fire broke out over Watford, Herts, UK, this exploded ammo in upper turret, crew ordered bail out but fire extinguished and pilot landed at Boreham, Essex, home of 394BG; Salvaged 30/11/45. MISS MAYWOOD.

Delivered Cheyenne 22/11/43; Denver 25/1/44; Kearney 11/2/44; Grenier 10/3/44; Assigned 447BG Rattlesden 24/3/44; force landed continent 7/10/44; Salvaged 14/11/44.

Delivered Geiger 301BG 28/4/42; Assigned 11Air Force; 36th BS/ 28th BG; Bronze 6/6/42; Ft Glen, MIA 28/8/42 with Albert J. Wilsey, Jr., Raymond L. Adair, Charles H. Cooper, John W. Sheppard, Paul N. Lyden, Charles M. Kantner, Rudolph S. Olesnevich, Harold N. Knutson, Donald W. Brown; 9 KIA; MACR 15932

Delivered Denver 23/1/44; Pyote 14/3/44; 235 BU Biggs 16/8/44; 3009 BU Carlsbad 22/9/44; 235 BU Biggs 13/10/44; 225 BU Rapid City 23/3/45; 426 BU Mt Home 25/8/45; 237 BU Kirtland 2/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 7/11/45.

Delivered Lincoln 13/12/44; Grenier 21/12/44; Assigned 568BS/390BG [BI-A] Framlingham 22/12/44; landing accident with Simon Dottor 24/2/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 30/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 4/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 17/12/45.

Delivered Long Beach 1/3/43; Sioux City 16/3/43; Kearney 9/4/43; Dow Fd 21/4/43; Assigned 524BS/379BG Kimbolton 20/5/43; 526BS [LF-Y]; on mission to Le Bourget 16/8/43 Navigator: Harry Bailey Killed in Action when he fell out of ship after escape hatch dropped out (MACR 1351); Missing in Action 5/1/44 with Allen Grissom, Co-pilot: John Phillips, Navigator: John Beach, Bombardier: Holger Eklund, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Jim Prochazka, Radio Operator: Hugo Havet, Ball turret gunner: Byron Green, Waist gunner: Delmar Sowers, Waist gunner: E. Bailey,Tail gunner: Bob Hall (10INT); flak caused battle damage and pilot headed to safety, crash landed Skegrie, near Trelleborg, Sweden and used for spares for other B-17s. Missing Air Crew Report 1942. LAKANUKI.

Delivered Geiger 301BG 1/5/42; Lowry 31/5/42; Assigned 26BS/11BG Hawaii 7/6/42; transferred 13AF Poppy 22/7/42; Written off 31/10/44.

Delivered Cheyenne 30/8/44; Hunter 4/9/44; Grenier 15/9/44; Assigned 571BS/390BG [FC-Z] Framlingham 19/9/44; Missing in Action Derben 14/1/45 with Emory Hanneke, Vic Kendall, Fred Getz, Len Andrews, Julian Gurbindo, Harry carlson, Gene Johnson, Gene Miles spot jammer, Walt Moseley [tg (9 Killed in Action); Melvin Johnson (Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Bartschendorf, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 11723.

Delivered Cheyenne 20/4/44; Hunter 2/5/44; Grenier 20/5/44; Assigned 340BS/97BG Tortorella 24/5/44; with Gil Tatman hit by with 44-9406 (2BG) in landing accident 2/1/45; both Salvaged.

Delivered Hunter 20/10/44; Dow Fd 27/10/44; Assigned 613BS/401BG [IN-L] Deenethorpe 6/12/44; 612BS [SC-K], 615BS [IY-L]; Salvaged 12/5/45.

Delivered Boise 303BG 4/5/42; Gowen Fd, with H.K. Teague force landed Memphis Apt 14/5/42; Alamogordo 18/6/42; Westover 2/7/42; Pocatello 6/11/42; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 29/10/45. (ref. made of crash landed Tadji, PNG ?).

Delivered Cheyenne 20/9/43; Harvard 4/10/43; Assigned 708BS/447BG Rattlesden 19/11/43; Missing in Action Hamm 29/11/44 with ? , unknown crew except Waist gunner: Garrett Rozema. THE GROUND POUNDER.

Delivered Cheyenne 17/2/44; Lincoln 25/3/44; Morrison 4/4/44; Assigned 817BS/483BG Sterparone 21/4/44; Missing in Action Memmingen 18/7/44 with Matt Smith, Myers, Stein, LaHurd, Venables, Pampamanoli, Doverspike, May, Marlin (9 Prisoner of War); Davenport (Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed Leutkirch, Ger?; Missing Air Crew Report 6977. VIRGIL’S VIRGIN.

Delivered Tulsa 2/4/44; Hunter 8/4/44; Grenier 30/4/44; Assigned 305BG Chelveston 22/5/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 7/6/45; Sth Plains 10/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 1/12/45.

Delivered Denver 23/9/42; New Castle 3/10/42; Assigned 2FGp from BWI ferry trip to UK, with Armand Monteverde, Co-pilot: Harry Spencer, Navigator: Bill O’Hara, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Alex Tucciarone, Radio Operator: Loren Howaeth, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Paul Spina, obs-Lloyd Puryear {crypto}, obs-Alfred Best, pass-C.Weddell; crashed Kjoge Bay, Narsarssuak, Greenland, ice cap and broke in half (9 Returned to Duty); Written off 23/12/42.