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

Delivered Long Beach 4/10/43; Gr Island 2/11/43; Assigned 615BS/401BG [IY-C] Deenethorpe 19/12/43; Missing in Action Stettin 13/5/44 with Sullivan Tonti, Co-pilot: George Evans, Navigator: Wyndall Lacasse, Bombardier: Bob Rocco, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Harry Bower, Radio Operator: Adolphus Hutchinson, Ball turret gunner: Tom Smith, Waist gunner: Bill Patterson, Waist gunner: John Moultrie,Tail gunner: Mahlon Desso (10INT); mech fault, force landed Bulltofta, Swed; Missing Air Crew Report 4785. BAD PENNY. (Left Sweden 11/6/45).

Delivered Cheyenne 15/11/44; Hunter 9/12/44; Dow Fd 22/12/44; Assigned 615BS/401BG [IY-N] Deenethorpe 21/5/45; 613BS [IN-M]; transferred 305BG Chelveston 20/5/45; Salvaged 9AF Germany 18/4/46.

Delivered Tulsa 7/3/44; Kearney 22/3/44; Grenier 7/4/44; Assigned 614BS/401BG [IW-B] Deenethorpe 15/4/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 8/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 12/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 30/11/45. COVER GIRL.

Delivered Pendleton 5/2/42; 34BG Tucson 14/5/42; Rapid City 5/12/42; Assigned 317BS/88BG Walla Walla 14/1/43; in base landing accident with Joe Bambrough 27/1/43; rep. Lockbourn 9/4/43. Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Albuquerque 14/7/45. (Served with 7BG Asanol, India, April 1942?) PER DIEM.

Delivered Tulsa 4/10/42; West Palm Beach 11/12/42; Assigned 365BS/305BG [XK-T] Chelveston 21/3/43; Missing in Action 19/5/43 with Bill Higgins, Co-pilot: Max Wiggins, Navigator: George Dorrance, Bombardier: John Kirkpatrick, Ball turret gunner: Clyde Garrett, Waist gunner: Tom McDonald, Waist gunner: Fred Nadroski (7 Prisoner of War); Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Norman Shank, Radio Operator: Bradley Gardner,Tail gunner: Vince Barron (3 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed Bohmstedt, seven miles N of Husum, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 15488.

Delivered Cheyenne 4/10/42; Pyote 8/1/43; Kelly 2/7/43; 4100 BU Patterson 9/6/44; 223 BU Dyersburg 8/9/44; 554 BU Memphis 5/12/44; 327 BU Drew 3/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Searcy Fd 11/8/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 4/10/42; Pyote 12/1/43; Pueblo 6/4/43; Dyersburg 7/6/43; 4006 BU Miami 9/6/43; 3501 BU Boca Raton 2/9/43; 2137 BU Hendricks 17/10/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 3/1/46.

Delivered Tucson 4/2/42; Las Vegas 6/2/42; MacDill 15/2/42; Cheyenne 21/5/42; Memphis 11/6/42; Walla Walla 19/7/42; Topeka 30/8/42; Assigned 339BS/96BG Albuquerque 16/10/42; Lowry 19/10/42; Topeka 2/11/42; from Pocatello Fd, Id with Alf Lambert crashed 20 miles north of Randolph, Ut. 29/11/42 ran out of gas. Crew bailed OK; Salvaged.

Delivered Cheyenne 19/12/43; Gr Island 1/1/44; ass 334BS/95BG [BG-E] Horham 8/2/44; 38m, MIA Pas de Calais 23/6/44 Pilot: Dan Mangan, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Albt Huff (2KIA); Navigator: Herb Cahn, Bombardier: Corry Bloudt, Waist Gunner: Henry Schultz (3POW); Co-Pilot: Harvey Cox, Radio Operator: Dick Ennis, Ball Turret Gunner: Ray Smith, Waist Gunner: Jim Phillips, Tail Gunner: Ewell Riddle (5EVD); mechanical faults, crashed Outer-Lebeke, SW of Aalst, Belgium. MACR 5915. TO HELL OR GLORY.

Assigned as VB-17G with 6AF Caribbean, Canal Zone during 1950s, retired frim service 1956 and set to moved as N7045C to Bolivia; re-ass Hamilton Aircraft, Tucson for dismantling as spares for Bolivia !

Delivered Denver 2/10/43; Gr Island 22/10/43; Assigned 365BS/305BG [XK-K] Chelveston 23/11/43; Missing in Action Ulm 9/8/44 with John Hegendeffer, Co-pilot: Rolland Wing, Ball turret gunner: Bill Horst, Waist gunner: Bill Montandon,Tail gunner: Jack Thaldorf (5 Killed in Action); Navigator: Bill Packwood, Bombardier: Herman Steck, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Elroy Knollenberg, Radio Operator: Dan Gurspan (4 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft set #1 on fire and another damaged, spinning down aircraft broke in two, crashed Halberstung, near Sinzheim, W of Baden-Baden, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 8069. LEAP YEAR LADY.

Delivered Tucson 4/2/42; Geiger 12/2/42; Cheyenne 12/4/42; Wendover 8/5/42; with Hugh Morre, force landed base 31/7/42; Ogden 10/8/42; Pocatello 6/11/42; Boise 20/12/42; Lockbourn 21/2/43; wrecked in taxi accident with truck MacDill 17/9/43, brakes failed with Preinerich; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 12/12/45.

Delivered Long Beach 10/9/43; Gr Island 30/9/43; Assigned 568BS/390BG [BI-D] Framlingham 7/10/43; Missing in Action Pas de Calais 21/1/44 with Clyde Baugher, Co-pilot: Elmer Schwankl, Bombardier: Paul Fabian, Waist gunner: Phil Marizzaldi chute failed (4 Killed in Action); Navigator: Chas Lee, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Albert Redwine, Radio Operator: Carter Lunsford, Ball turret gunner: Walton Beach, Waist gunner: Frank Bongiovanni, Tail gunner: Dick Chin (6 Prisoner of War); flak knocked ship out of formation, crashed sea off Wissant, between Boulogne and Calais, Fr; Missing Air Crew Report 2270. DINAH MITE aka PUB PETE.

Delivered Denver 4/10/43; Gr Island 28/10/43; Assigned 527BS/379BG [FO-J] Kimbolton 21/11/43; on training flight 5/7/44 with Chas Akryd, Co-pilot: Jack Harter, Navigator: Alf Gates, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Tilghman Williams, Radio Operator: Frank Roma, g-Carl Hirthler (6 Killed in Service); crashed Andover, Hants, no civilian casualties; sal battle damaged 5/7/44.

Delivered Tulsa 24/2/44; Gr Island 3/3/44; Grenier 24/3/44; Assigned 532BS/381BG [VE-O] Ridgewell 6/4/44; 47+m Returned to the USA Bradley 29/5/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 18/11/45. SLEEPY TIME GAL.

Delivered Tucson 4/2/42; Geiger 12/2/42; Cheyenne 9/5/42; Wendover 12/5/42; Ephrata 4/6/42; Wendover 22/6/42; Westover 11/8/42; Boise 20/8/42; Topeka 28/10/42; Sioux Falls 21/11/42; Smyrna 28/2/43; Lockbourn, OH, force landed Baer Fd, Wayne, IN. with Leroy Rennfeldt 8/4/43; Written off 18/11/43.

Delivered Long Beach 5/9/43; Gr Island 21/9/43; Assigned 339BS/96BG [QJ-S] Snetterton 7/10/43; Missing in Action Bordeaux 5/1/44 with Meredith Rueff, Co-pilot: Ernie Rufer, Navigator: James Brandon, Radio Operator: Davis Maguire, Waist gunner: Minton Bornstein (5 evaded capture); Bombardier: Joe Broussard, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: George Johnson, Ball turret gunner: Bill McGill, Waist gunner: Albt Israel,Tail gunner: Gerald Massie (5 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed Les Baynasses, near Maubisson, five miles W of Carcansin, 30 miles NW of Bordeaux, Fr; Missing Air Crew Report 2015.

Delivered Tulsa 14/3/44; MacDill 23/3/44; Dow Fd 6/4/44; Assigned 401BS/91BG [LL-K] Bassingbourn 22/4/44; Missing in Action Berlin 24/5/44 with Bill Nee, Co-pilot: Reg Arangona, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Gaetano Scida (3 Prisoner of War); Bombardier: Dick Markley, Radio Operator: Phil Branner, Ball turret gunner: Leon Bielawski (3INT); Navigator: Fred Neel, Waist gunner: Bob Heimbach,Tail gunner: Don Spaulding (3 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft attack set fire in cockpit, three bailed. Nav took over and headed for Sweden with tg as cp and ship landed near coast, but Neel went down with it, his body recovered in July; Missing Air Crew Report 5358.

Delivered: Cheyenne 19/1/44; McDill 14/2/44; Grenier 24/2/44; Assigned: 563BS/388BG [Y] Knettishall 28/2/44; on mission to Liege 25/5/44 Pilot: Tracy Breed, Co-Pilot: Don Duclos, Navigator: Harry Kroneberger, Bombardier: Chas Larsen, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Tom Ingram (5RTD); Radio Operator: Rene Meriot, Waist Gunner: Orris Johnson, Waist Gunner: Chas Mitchell, Tail Gunner: Lloyd Neuhaus (4POW); Ball Turret Gunner: Stewart McConnell (KIA); flak hit set #4 on fire, some baled by pilot dived down to put out flames as return to base; MACR 5263. Returned to US: Bradley 3/7/45; 4168 BU Sth Plains 16/8/45; Recl Comp 6/5/46. MISS ADVENTURE.

Delivered Geiger 29/1/42; Tucson 10/2/42; Cheyenne 4/5/42; Wendover 10/6/42; Alamogordo 16/9/42; McChord 20/11/42; Oklahoma City 2/12/42; Hill 3/1/43; Napier 3/3/43; Hendricks 13/3/43. Written off 5/7/44.