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

Delivered Dorval 13/8/44; To RAF [KJ107]; 214 Sq BU-N RCM Oulton., Nfk.; 1699 Flt 4Z-Y Oulton; Struck Off Charge 11/3/47.

Delivered Cheyenne 29/4/44; Kearney 10/5/44; Grenier 25/5/44; Assigned 728BS/452BG [9Z- ] Deopham Green 27/5/44; battle damaged Frankfurt 5/1/45 with Hurbert Gay, Co-pilot: Billy Carr, Navigator: Jim Graham, togg-Walt Whitmore, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Don Sherlock, Radio Operator: Ralph Whittaker, Ball turret gunner: John Ryder, Waist gunner: Glen Stockglausner, Waist gunner: Patrick Blake,Tail gunner: Rich Hahn (10 Returned to Duty); flak KOd #1 then #3; force landed Bitche, Fr; Salvaged 21/1/45; Salvaged 6/3/45. LADY BE GOOD.

Delivered Dallas 2/9/44; Dayton 8/9/44; Hunter 9/12/44; Dow Fd 2/1/45; Assigned 337BS/96BG [AW-H] Snetterton 5/1/45; RetUS, Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 4/1/46.

Delivered Lincoln 17/1/45; Dow Fd 6/2/45; Assigned 91BG Bassingbourn 23/2/45; RetUS, Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 14/12/45.

Delivered Hunter 5/8/44; Dallas 10/8/44; Grenier 6/9/44; Assigned 569BS/390BG [CC-H] Framlingham 9/9/44; battle damaged Cheb, Czechoslovakia 14/2/45 with ?; crash landed base when wheel collapsed on return. Salvaged 9AF Germany 21/6/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 12/3/44; Kearney 30/3/44; Dow Fd 7/4/44; Assigned 569BS/390BG [CC-L] Framlingham 8/4/44; Missing in Action Merseburg 29/7/44 with Harry Stewart, Co-pilot: Norman Quest, Navigator: Marris Todd, Bombardier: Dan Clark, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Lou Gilbert, Radio Operator: Simon Spradlin, Ball turret gunner: Frank Wielgos (7OW); Waist gunner: Howard Tillison,Tail gunner: Joy Putnam (2 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft and flak KO’d #3 and #4, crashed Hassenhausen, N of Jena, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 7822. BOOMERANG BABY aka LADY SATAN.

Delivered Cheyenne 13/1/44; Kearney 28/1/44; Grenier 20/2/44; Assigned 570BS/390BG [DI-P] Framlingham 27/2/44; Missing in Action Magdeburg (18m) 28/5/44 with John Ingram, Co-pilot: Doug Banks, Navigator: Bob Tabeling, Radio Operator: Henry Czerpak, Ball turret gunner: Jim Lewis, Waist gunner: Arnold McKee, Tail gunner: Ken Salmons (7 Killed in Action); Bombardier: Dan Cosgrove, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bill Buntin, Waist gunner: Ed Czyz (3 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, part of vertical stabilizer shot away, crashed Lostau, six miles NE of Magdeburg, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 5258. DEVIL’S ACES.

Delivered Cheyenne 19/3/44; Kearney 13/4/44; Grenier 29/4/44; Assigned 527BS/379BG Kimbolton 19/5/44; transferred 91BG Bassingbourn 25/5/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 11/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 20/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 6/12/45. QUEENIE.

Delivered: Cheyenne 2/1/44; Gt Falls 12/1/44; Kearney 23/1/44; (forced landing Rineanna, Eire from Labrador to UK 8/2/44): Assigned: 570BS/390BG [DI-E] Framlingham 9/2/44; over Augsburg 15/4/44 p/Lt Tom Sutters (KIA); MIA Liege 11/5/44 Pilot: Bill Cockrean, Co-Pilot: John Rutherford (2KIA); Navigator: Ed Dentz, Bombardier: Bill Hays, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: John Hodgson, Radio Operator: John Ward, Ball Turret Gunner: Melvin Poling, Waist Gunner: Leon Balducci, Waist Gunner: Purvis Christian, Tail Gunner: George Thalman (8POW); flak damage started fires, crashed Hultens Broek, two miles N of Gilze-Rijen A/F, Hol. MACR 4787. TWENTY-ONE OR BUST.

Delivered Denver 28/12/42; Salina 5/1/43; Morrison 31/1/43; Assigned 416BS/99BG Navarin 20/2/43; Oudna 4/8/43; Tortorella 11/12/43; {114m} transferred 840BS/483BG Tortorella 31/3/44; Sterparone 22/4/44; {12m} Returned to the USA Altus 7/3/45; {126m} Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 9/10/45. BAD PENNY.

Delivered Kearney 9/8/44; Lincoln 14/8/44; Grenier 3/9/44; Assigned 571BS/390BG [FC-L] Framlingham 5/9/44; Missing in Action Friedberg 4/12/44 with George Massa, Cecil Napier, John Cederlind (3 Killed in Action); Dave Wetherill, Francis Zmudka, Bill Reulbach, Theo Albertus, Dan Janish, Omar Grubbs (6 Prisoner of War); flak and exploded, crashed Simmern, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 11055.

Delivered Cheyenne 10/1/44; Lockbourn 19/1/44; 2137 BU Hendricks 17/11/44; 1377 BU Grenier 10/1/45; 4136 BU Tinker 30/1/45; 2137 BU Hendricks 11/7/45; Recl Comp 17/7/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 10/1/44; Yuma 21/1/44; 3017 BU Hobbs 4/8/44; 4160 BU Hobbs 3/11/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 2/12/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 24/8/44; Hunter 7/9/44; Dow Fd 18/9/44; Assigned 336BS/95BG [ET-Q] Horham 19/9/44; with W.N. Dunwoody force landed Raydon afb, Suffolk 10/1/45; 80m, Returned to the USA Bradley 24/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 28/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 24/11/45.

Delivered Patterson 25/1/42; Lowry 27/2/42; SAAD 16/5/42; Assigned Sumac 72BS/5BG 8/8/42; Missing in Action in Midway battle, 5/6/42 with Capt Glen Kramer. (?Lost on ferry flight to Australia?)

Delivered Cheyenne 11/2/43; Rapid City 22/2/43; Salina 4/3/43; Kearney 12/3/43; Assigned 92BG Alconbury 9/4/43; transferred 412BS/95BG [QW-N] Framlingham 12/5/43; with R.E. Robinson force landed Framlingham afd 17/5/43; with Robinson 19/5/43, Navigator: Ferry Manee, rw-Stan Bennett, lw-Clyde Butterfield [all 3 wia]; 6m, Missing in Action Kiel 13/6/43 with Laurier Morissette, Co-pilot: Ralph Ziegler, Navigator: John Korman, Bombardier: Chas Magennis, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Paul Highcove, Radio Operator: Dick Nowak, Ball turret gunner: John Churma, Waist gunner: Walt Jacot, Waist gunner: Joe DiRicco,Tail gunner: Furman Gray, pass-Capt Vince Gannon (base com. off.) (11 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft ko’d two engines, force landed North Sea sand dunes near Amrum Is. Ger. Taken by fishing trawler to town of Husum and a military base. Missing Air Crew Report 4898. LOUISE.

Delivered Cheyenne 6/2/43; Rapid City 20/2/43; Kearney 12/3/43; Assigned 336BS/95BG [ET-J] Alconbury 29/3/43; Framlingham 12/5/43; 2m, battle damaged L’Orient, crash landed RAF Exeter 17/5/43 with R.P. Bender. 10RTD.; Salvaged 18/5/43. SPOOK.

Delivered Tulsa 23/10/42; Salina 16/12/42; Assigned 342BS/97BG Biskra 28/1/43; Chateau-du-Rhumel 8/2/43; Missing in Action Trapani 13/4/43 with 1Lt George Danish, 1Lt William B Teague, 1Lt Everett O Golden, 1Lt Durwood W Ward, S/Sgt Leon L Schuman, S/Sgt Mitchell Tomkowicz, S/Sgt William A Thompson, S/Sgt William E Morgan, Sgt Harvey D Nelson, T/Sgt Jay B Kitchen (10 Killed in Action); flak, crashed Mediterranean Sea, Missing Air Crew Report 16526.

Delivered Patterson 25/1/42; Wright 15/2/42; Tallahassee 13/3/42; Eglin 18/3/42; Wright Fd, force landed with Julius Schuster at Saginaw, MI 28/4/42; repaired and transferred Patterson, OH. 29/7/42; Alamogordo 21/8/42; Biggs 7/9/42; Alamogordo 2/10/42; Boise 10/11/42; Columbus, Oh. where it was wrecked by drag link failure 19/3/43; repaired and back in service, force landed base with Conley McMichael 22/8/43; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 6/9/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 4/3/43; Dow Fd 16/4/43; Assigned 94BG /43; transferred 525BS/379BG [FR-F] Kimbolton 3/43; Missing in Action St Nazaire 29/5/43 with Art Hale, Co-pilot: Stuart Sharp, Navigator: Vern Andruskeiwicz, Bombardier: Jerry Ahernm, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Chas Ford, Radio Operator: Joe Lasitor, Ball turret gunner: Chester Whitney, Waist gunner: Chester Moore, Waist gunner: Lee Hilton,Tail gunner: Larry Josselyn (10 Prisoner of War); flak, crash landed with pilot & rop, at Pontivy, 30 miles N of Vannes, Fr. Missing Air Crew Report 1292.