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

Delivered Cheyenne 24/4/42; Wayne 19/6/42; RCAF Dorval 23/6/42; Gander-Prestwick 4/7/42 with Paul Zimmerman to RAF [FK202]; Royal Aircraft Est. Boscomb Down, Wilts. LRASV trials 11/7/42; 59 Sq (PJ-B) Thorney Is, 13/12/42; 220 Sq (NR-L) Benbecula, Scot. 4/8/43; to Thorney Island, St Mawgan then Lagens, Azores 20/10/43; Missing in Action on meteorological sweep, with Harry Webster, Co-pilot: Alf Dungate, Bill Offler, Jim Walton, Bill Potter, Alex Christie, John McKay, Max Varney (8 Killed in Action); crashed in sea 500 miles SW Terceira, Azores 25/10/43.

Delivered Cheyenne 23/12/43; MacDill 3/2/44; with H.T. Hutchinson force landed MacDill 15/2/44; Morrison 10/3/44; Assigned 815BS/483BG Tortorella 13/3/44; transferred 346BS/99BG Tortorella 31/3/44; Missing in Action {59m} Blechhammer 27/8/44 with Jack Humbrecht, Rucker, Heinz, Smith, Lerner, Mackie, Lurati, Olejarski, Fleming, Lafata, Mohr; flak, crashed Loebschutz; six chutes seen; Missing Air Crew Report 7991. ACHTUNG.

Delivered Cheyenne 19/12/43; St Joseph 4/1/44; Lakeland 10/1/44; Assigned 772BS/463BG Celone 9/3/44;sal 7/7/44.

Delivered Long Beach 6/5/43; Denver 13/5/43; Geiger 23/6/43; Gt Falls 7/6/43; Smoky Hill 29/6/43; Dow Fd 10/7/43; Assigned 571BS/390BG [FC-R] Framlingham 14/7/43; sustained battle damage over Bordeaux 16/9/43 with Herb Turner, Co-pilot: Fred Broers, Navigator: Bob Schanen, Bombardier: Orval Tofte, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Sherman Rambo, Radio Operator: Philip Catania, Ball turret gunner: Swen Zetterberg, Waist gunner: Stan Mason, Waist gunner: John Peterson,Tail gunner: Alf Monson (10 Killed in Action); crashed Crickhowell, near Abergavenny, Wales. Salvaged 24/9/43. Missing Air Crew Report 3720. ASCEND CHARLIE.

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