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

Delivered Denver 23/6/43; force landed Scott Fd, Ill with Curtis Carlin 11/8/43; Assigned ?; Missing in Action 22/10/43;

Delivered Denver 23/6/43; Dow Fd 14/7/43; Assigned 338BS/96BG [BX-O] Snetterton 18/7/43 WACKY WOODY; burned out with ? ; (10 Returned to Duty); Salvaged battle damaged 20/5/44. HELL’S CHARIOT.

Assigned 322BS/91BG [LG-T] Bangor 31/8/42; Bassingbourn 11/10/42; {16+m} with Joe Totusek, burned out on base, internal fire started probably by ground crew’s cigarette, 23/3/43; First aircraft sal in ground accident. (possibly LUFTWAFFE’S WATERLOO or MARNITA) but better known as MOTSIE.

Delivered Cheyenne 10/7/44; Kearney 19/7/44; Dow Fd 3/8/44; Assigned 862BS/493BG Debach 4/8/44; transferred 334BS/95BG [BG-N] Horham 1/45; with D.G. Helgeson force landed A-78 afb Florennes/Juzaine, Bel. 9/3/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 24/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 27/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 9/12/45. BETTER DUCK.

Delivered Denver 23/6/43; Dow Fd 19/7/43; Assigned 337BS/96BG [AW-F] Snetterton 20/7/43; transferred 36BS for Radio Counter Measures, Sculthorpe 1944. Missing in Action Heligoland 30/10/44, with Lts with Gaither & W. Dunnuck. Intended for submarine pens of Heligoland. Due to bad weather target could not be seen and A/C was re-directed towards Berlin but the plane run out of fuel somewhere over North sea and crashed.

Delivered Denver 13/6/43; Dow Fd 29/7/43; Assigned 544BS/384BG [SU-B] Grafton Underwood 6/6/43; transferred Azon/Aphrodite duties, Knettishall 8/6/44; Salvaged n/battle damaged 25/5/45. BROADWAY ROSE.

Delivered Cheyenne 12/2/43; Dow Fd 16/4/43; Assigned 333BS/94BG Rougham 6/43 RAIDER; transferred 547BS/384BG [SO-A] Grafton Underwood 10/7/43; Missing in Action Gelsenkirchen 12/8/43 with George Keck, Co-pilot: Ray Gaither, Radio Operator: Frank Hollingsworth, Ball turret gunner: Bill Wolven, Waist gunner: Theo Paduch, Waist gunner: John Hughes (6 Killed in Action); Navigator: Bill Juart, Bombardier: Arthur Bryant, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Milton Deville,Tail gunner: Bill Igou (4 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Haus Oelgarten, near Hennef, seven miles E of Bonn, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 286.

Delivered Long Beach 26/2/43; Denver 4/3/43; Casper 13/3/43; Memphis 17/4/43; Presque 26/4/43; Assigned 92BG Alconbury 12/8/43; transferred 813BS/482BG [PC-R] with H2S radar scanner fitted, Alconbury 25/8/43; Returned to the USA Gray 3/2/45; Patterson 18/2/45; with John Flint force landed Midway Apt OH 22/8/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 27/11/45.

Delivered to Denver 14/6/43; Kearney 19/7/43; Assigned to the 547th BS, squadron code SO-E, 384th BG, Station 106, Grafton Underwood, UK on 9/8/43; when war weary the ship was used as an assembly ship, painted white with sky blue polka dots; Returned to the USA Grenier 24/9/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 12/12/45 THE SPOTTED COW aka PATCHES II.

Delivered Tulsa 25/2/44; Hunter 4/3/44; Homestead 10/3/44; Assigned 482BG Alconbury 19/3/44; transferred 353BS/301BG Lucera 27/3/44; cargo ship from 11/11/44; crash landed base with Walter Core 28/6/45; Salvaged.

Delivered Hunter 9/11/44; Grenier 28/11/44; Assigned 603BS/398BG [N7-U] Nuthampstead 14/1/45; repaired Missing in Action 28/3/45 with Stewart; AOC, re-ass 29/3/45; RAF Valley 2/6/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 7/6/45; Sth Plains 10/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 27/12/45.

Delivered Tulsa 31/3/44; 88BG Hunter 9/6/44; Dow Fd 24/6/44; Assigned 32BS/301BG Lucera 4/7/44; Salvaged 25/4/45. MISS TALLAHASSEE LASSEE.

Delivered Ogden 25/1/42; Hill 18/2/42; Cheyenne 12/4/42; Lowry 8/5/42; Hamilton 29/5/42; slated RAF by transferred 72BS/5BG Hawaii 30/5/42; fate unknown after 15/6/44. Salvaged Hawaii 10/8/44.

Delivered Dallas 19/7/43; Grand Isle 16/8/43; Assigned 482BG Alconbury 31/8/43; transferred 534BS/381BG [GD-G] Ridgewell 20/9/43; Missing in Action 1m Bremen 8/10/43 with Capt Dexter Lishon, Co-pilot: Carlton Long, Navigator: Bob Gluck, Bombardier: Phil Rokosa, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Canute Johnson, Radio Operator: Lloyd Riddle, Ball turret gunner: Clarry Madison, Waist gunner: John Schnalzer, Waist gunner: George Stuart,Tail gunner: Bill Marques (10 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed west of Bremen, Ger.MACR 1398. BOBBY T.

Delivered 14/1/42; Assigned 30BS/19BG Java 20/2/42 with Williams; then 7BG, used in first McArthur rescue; ditched Iligan Bay, Mindanao (23) 12/3/42 with Capt Henry C. Godman.

Delivered Denver 26/1/44; 1SAG Langley 13/3/44; Grenier 27/4/44; Assigned (H2X) 482BG Alconbury 31/4/44; transferred 418BS/100BG [LD-V] Thorpe Abbotts 21/5/45; RetUS, Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 2/1/46.

Delivered Portland 14/1/42; MacDill 25/1/42; Assigned 19BG, then 7BG; scrapped at Brisbane, Aus. 31/10/44. (?Used in Panama and Returned to the USA 1943?).

Delivered Patterson 15/1/42; Wright 1/3/42; Minneapolis 14/3/42; Wright 10/6/42; Patterson 17/6/42; Biggs 15/5/43; 2511 BU Bryan 5/12/43; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 5/10/45.

Delivered Portland 14/1/42; MacDill 22/1/42; with ? Ward force landed FL 22/2/42; Palm Beach 26/4/42; Sebring 13/9/42; 2137 BU Hendricks 14/5/42; force landed base with Theodore Keith 16/8/43; Written off 5/7/44.

Delivered Hunter 16/11/44; Dow Fd 28/11/44; Assigned 562BS/388BG Knettishall 4/12/44; RetUS, Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 18/12/45.

Delivered MacDill 3/1/42; Assigned 32BS/19BG Java 7/2/42 with Bill Lorance; 7BG, crash landed Malang 8/2/42 with Bill Lorance. Salvaged.

Delivered Sacramento 18/1/42; Assigned 19BG Java 19/2/42 with Feeney; 7BG, strafed and destroyed at Bandoeng, Java 19/2/42. Salvaged.

Delivered MacDill 4/1/42; Assigned 19BG Java 5/2/42 with Bill Pritchard; transferred 9BS/7BG; shot down at sea near Malang, Java, and blew up with Bill Prichard, W. Morgan, Isadore Alfred, F. Luscombe, R. Legault, Pvt Joe Hines, Pfc Ignatius Barron, Pvt Horace Salmon 8/2/43.

Delivered Boeing SAD 18/1/42; MacDill 23/1/42; Assigned 7BG Hawaii 2/42; Nasal 20/5/42; Middle East 11/7/43; Central Africa /6/44; Returned to the USA Boeing 17/6/44 mod to RB-17; Written off 30/11/45.