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

Delivered Cheyenne 21/9/43; Gr Island 22/10/43; Assigned 551BS/385BG [HR-G] Gt Ashfield 9/11/43; Salvaged FEA 2/8/46; Re-Ass ET 30/4/47; Recl Comp 1/11/47. DAISY MAE aka NIGHT MARE.

Delivered Cheyenne 20/9/43; Gr Island 5/10/43; Assigned 548BS/385BG [GX-D] Gt Ashfield 26/10/43; Salvaged 1SAD 18/4/44.

Delivered Cheyenne 21/9/43; Gr Island 6/10/43; Wilmington 13/10/43; Assigned 550BS/385BG Gt Ashfield [SG- ] 26/10/43; Missing in Action Brunswick 23/3/44 with John Salyard Co-pilot: Bob Wills, Navigator: Nathan Gewirtz, Bombardier: Bill George, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bernie Brooks, Radio Operator: Matt McGuire, Ball turret gunner: Chas Cooper, Waist gunner: Otto Schoeneberg, Waist gunner: Joe Williams,Tail gunner: Harry Campbell (10 Prisoner of War) flak KO’d #2, crashed SE of Dortmund Oespel on housing estate, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 3316.

Delivered to Cheyenne 9 December 1943; Kearney, Nebraska 31 December 1943; Presque Isle 27 January 1944; Assigned to the 545th Bomb Squadron/384th Bomb Group [JD-H] as a PFF aircraft, station 106, Grafton Underwood on 10 February 1944; 1m with ? , force landed on the continent 10 January 1945; Salvaged 28 January 1945. THE SAINT.

Delivered Denver 23/5/43; Dow Fd 4/7/43; Assigned 548BS/385BG [GX-U] Gt Ashfield 9/7/43; Returned to the USA Bradley 3/7/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 14/8/45. MAYFLY.

Delivered Denver 14/5/43; Dow Fd 25/6/43; Assigned 550BS/385BG [SG-C] Gt Ashfield 6/43; battle damaged Schweinfurt 14/10/43, with Emery Chesmore & 96BG crew + pass (11 Returned to Duty); crash landed Bovingdon on return, no gas, Salvaged 14/10/43. CHARLENE.

Delivered Lincoln 13/11/44; Grenier 15/12/44; Assigned PFF 384BG Grafton Underwood 4/2/45; transferred 603BS/398BG [N7-Q] Nuthampstead 4/3/45; repaired Missing in Action 28/3/45, re-ass 29/3/45; RAF Valley 2/6/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 7/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 13/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 30/11/45. MIAZZIZ DRAGON.

Delivered Denver 27/5/43; Dow Fd 13/6/43; Assigned 548BS/385BG [GX-M] Gt Ashfield 26/6/43; Missing in Action St Dizier 10/4/43 with Carl Dawurske, Co-pilot: G. A. Reed, Navigator: Frank Bachman, Bombardier: Joe Osterman, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: J.V. O’Donnell, Radio Operator: D.L. Marks, Ball turret gunner: P.H. Smith, Waist gunner: F.E. Northey, Waist gunner: L.E. Knudsen,Tail gunner: R.E. Congrove (10 Returned to Duty); flak damage, on return ditched North Sea off Southwold, Sfk, all rescued. Missing Air Crew Report 1462.

Delivered Hunter 12/2/45; Grenier 1/3/45; Assigned 385BG [ -U] Gt Ashfield 5/3/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 25/6/45; Sth Plains 27/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 5/11/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 27/11/43; Wendover 11/12/43; Assigned 750BS/457BG [B] Glatton 26/1/44; on return from Hardelot 2/6/44 with Franklin Morrell, Co-pilot: Andrew Whiten, rest unknown (10 Returned to Duty) force landed no hydraulics, ran off runway collided with 42-38056 and burnt out; Salvaged 22/6/44. SKUNK HOLLOW.

Delivered Lincoln 31/10/44; Dow Fd 12/11/44; Assigned 600BS/398BG [N8-Y] Nuthampstead 3/1/45; repaired Missing in Action 3/3/45 with Grinter, AOC then Assigned 5 SAD Merville, France, but involved in t/o accident with Tom Bek 12/3/45; Salvaged 19/6/45.

Delivered Long Beach 2/6/43; Gore 1/7/43; Assigned 88BG Walla Walla 23/7/43; force landed base with Bill Goolsby 8/9/43; Newark 9/10/43; Romulus 20/11/43; with John Campbell force landed Albany Fd, GA 22/12/43; Avon Park 4/2/44; Hendricks 10/5/44; Avon Park 23/5/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 18/8/45.

Delivered Long Beach 31/5/43; Cheyenne 6/6/43; Dalhart 3/7/43; Love Fd 16/7/43; Walla Walla 7/10/43; 327 BU Drew 4/5/44; 301 BU Drew 25/9/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 29/10/45.

To Brazilian AF as {5403} serving with 1st & 2nd Sqds 60BG at Recife. retired in 1966.

Delivered Lincoln 20/10/44; Grenier 27/10/44; Assigned 603BS/398BG [N7-B] Nuthampstead 3/1/45; RAF Valley 2/6/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 7/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 13/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 28/11/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 24/2/43; Gore 9/3/43; Duncan 31/3/43; Assigned 324BS/91BG [DF-A] Bassingbourn 7/6/43; transferred AFSC 6/4/44 then MTO (Italy & N. Africa); Returned to the USA Tinker 11/6/44; Patterson 23/2/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Searcey Fd 27/7/45. LADY LUCK.

Delivered Denver 28/4/453; Dow Fd 24/5/43; Assigned 410BS/94BG [GL-O] Earls Colne DRIBBLE PUSS 6/43; Rougham 13/6/43 re-named SUGAR PUSS; on practice mission 4/8/43 with Frank Colby, Co-pilot: W.E. Gregor, Navigator: G.Gordon, Bombardier: G. Shead, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: A. Hunt, Radio Operator: John Jones{died from anoxia}, pass-C. Trott; obs-Col Elliott Vandervanter{385BG}, (6 Returned to Duty); crash landed RAF Shoreham, Sx, UK; Salvaged 10/7/43 at Honington AD. Missing Air Crew Report 15735. SUGAR PUSS.

Delivered Long Beach 31/12/43; Salina 10/1/43; Tinker 3/3/43; Morrison 31/3/43; Assigned MTO?; Returned to the USA 18/3/44; with Albert Setzer force landed Clovis Fd, NM 10/4/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 29/10/45.

Delivered Hunter 23/10/44; Dow Fd 31/10/44; Assigned 748BS/457BG [L] Glatton 10/11/44; transferred 603BS/398BG detailed on ferry flight from Burtonwood to Nuthampstead using only five crewmen 2/1/45 with Don DeCleene, Co-pilot: Maynard Stravinski, Navigator: Tom Manos, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Frank Garry, Radio Operator: Howard Ayres (5 Killed in Service); crashed Birchenhough Hill, Derbyshire, UK 31/1/45; Salvaged 1/2/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 4/10/42; Pueblo 3/2/43; 435BS/19BG Pyote 28/9/43; 556 BU Long Beach 21/6/44; 236 BU Pyote 28/7/43; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 31/10/45.