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

Delivered Pendleton 4/2/42; Boise 20/3/42; Cheyenne 19/5/42; Alamogordo 19/6/42; with Bob Beebe in taxi accident,at Gowen 23/2/42, with Carl Morales crashed on take off Alamagordo 17/7/42; Written off 21/7/42;

Delivered Cheyenne 18/3/43; 3017 BU Hobbs 2/4/43; force landed base with Walter Flora 2/6/43; with Leland Arperson force landed four miles NE Brown Fd, TX 24/1/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 20/2/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 19/3/43; with Loyal Austin force landed Hobbs NM 19/3/44; Ft Sumner 21/4/43; Hobbs 30/5/43; 3036 BU Yuma 6/5/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Ontario 30/5/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 3/4/43; Kearney 15/4/43; Hill 5/5/43; Wendover 10/5/43; Kearney 21/5/43; Dow Fd 28/5/43; Assigned 350BS/100BG [LN-Q] Thorpe Abbotts 2/6/43; Missing in Action Munster 10/10/43 with Rich Atchison, Co-pilot: Willard Secor, Navigator: Ken Baron, Bombardier: Sol Goldstein, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Russ Bennett,Tail gunner: Van Write (6 Prisoner of War); , Radio Operator: Elder Lisch, Ball turret gunner: Clarry Coombs, Waist gunner: Westley Field, Waist gunner: Elliott Preble (4 Killed in Action); hit by wreckage of B-17 & Me 109, crashed Schirl-Beverstrang, four miles E of Ostberven, near Munster, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 1031. SWEATER GIRL.

Delivered Dallas 17/7/43; Geiger 8/8/43; Pendleton 22/8/43; Assigned 351BS/100BG [EP-D] Thorpe Abbotts 31/8/43; Missing in Action Munster 10/10/43 with Bill Beddow, Navigator: Israel Levine, Radio Operator: John Sullivan, Ball turret gunner: Walt Zoldak, Waist gunner: Bob Lynch, Waist gunner: Sam Hicks (6 Killed in Action); Co-pilot: Dick Brooks, Bombardier: Milton Harness, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Dan James,Tail gunner: Dick Munger (4 Prisoner of War); collided with Me 109, went down on fire and exploded flak, crashed Vinneberger Forest, near Ostbevern, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 1027. SEXY SUZY, MOTHER OF TEN (not painted on) aka HOLY TERROR.

Delivered Cheyenne 15/1/44; Gr Island 30/1/44; Assigned 533BS/381BG [VP-P] Ridgewell 25/2/44; 73+m; first in group to 100m, transferred 34BG Mendelsham, Sfk; Returned to the USA 121 BU Bradley 23/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 21/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 20/12/45. DREAMBABY.

Delivered Cheyenne 134/1/44; Kearney 22/1/44; Presque Is 16/1/44; Assigned 349BS/100BG [XR-B/M] Thorpe Abbotts 27/2/44; battle damaged Saarbrucken 9/11/44 with Lewis Williams, force landed continent; Salvaged 8/12/44. ONCE IN A WHILE aka BOOMERANG.

Delivered Cheyenne 12/1/44; Savannah 25/1/44; Assigned 350BS/100BG [LN-E] Thorpe Abbotts 6/2/44; with Glenn Rojohn, Co-pilot: Bill Leek, Navigator: Bob Washington, Bombardier: Jim Shirley, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Orville Elkin, Radio Operator: Ed Neuhaus, Ball turret gunner: ? , Waist gunner: Roy Little,Tail gunner: Francis Chase; crash landed Honington A/fd 15/5/44; Salvaged.

Delivered Cheyenne 13/1/44; Kearney 31/1/44; Grenier 22/2/44; Assigned 351BS/100BG [EP-D] Polebrook 1/3/44 FEVER BEAVER; transferred 350BS [LN-D/T] Thorpe Abbotts RAIFORD’S RAIDERS (npo); {122m} taxi accident 14/5/45 hitting parked B-17 43-38861 causing severe tail damage with Tom Fellows; Salvaged 30/7/45. MISS-CHIEF.

Delivered Cheyenne 1/12/43; Wendover 12/12/43; slated 457BG, with Bill Cruce force landed Gt Bend 16/7/44; transferred 223 BU Gt Bend 3/8/44; 232 BU Dalhart 27/8/44; 242 BU Gr Island 14/9/44; 249 BU Alliance 12/2/45; 202 BU Galveston 15/2/45; 268 BU Peterson 30/30/3/45; 252 BU Lubbock 23/6/45; 253 BU Randolph 13/1/46; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 9/3/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 19/11/43; Spokane 20/11/43; Gt Falls 25/11/43; Wendover 8/12/43; Assigned 457BG but crashed Wendover on training mission 24/12/43 with Bill Snow, Co-pilot: Dwight Sullivan, Navigator: Bob Oberfeldr, Bombardier: Earl Saucer, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Vernon Cummings, Radio Operator: Edwin Liseinger, Waist gunner: Jim Henning,Tail gunner: Morris Strong (9 Killed in Service); W/O 24/12/43.

Delivered Cheyenne 30/11/44; Hunter 20/12/44; Grenier 6/1/45; Assigned 350BS/100BG [LN-J] Thorpe Abbotts 8/1/45; transferred as PFF 336BS/95BG [ET-F] Horham 23/1/45; 13m, Returned to the USA Morrison 20/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 28/10/45. FIREBALL RED aka JOLTIN’ JOSE.

Delivered Tulsa 18/3/44; Kearney 29/9/44; Grenier 6/4/44; Assigned 600BS/398BG [N8-K] AAF-131 Nuthampstead 9/4/44; while on practice mission 4/5/44 with Lt K. Elwood collided in mid-air with 42-102467, but ret to base, vertical fin was damaged. 42-107191 was damaged again on 8 May 1944 at 17:30 hrs when piloted by Cpt William Markey, the right wing tip hit the top of a parked truck and then the lower right wing of parked B-17 42-97394. Aircraft was lost during assembly for mission to Versailles (Buc) and crashed Lude Farm, Loudwater, Bucks. on 12 August 1944; with Charles Searl, Co-pilot: Albert Dion, Navigator: Saul Kempner, Bombardier: Leo Walsh, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Jim Beaty, Radio Operator: Cecil Kennedy, Ball turret gunner: Alf Bueffel, Waist gunner: Orville Wilson, Tail gunner: Albt Knight (9 Killed in Action); Salvaged 14/8/44. THE TOMAHAWK WARRIOR.

Delivered Cheyenne 4/8/43; Gr Isle 14/8/43; Assigned 418BS/100BG [LD-U] Thorpe Abbotts 28/8/43; Missing in Action Munster 10/10/43 with Capt John Brady, Co-pilot: John Hoerr, Navigator: Dave Solomon, Bombardier: Howard Hamilton {Wounded in Action}, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Adolf Blum, Radio Operator: Joe Hafer, Ball turret gunner: Roly Gangwer{Wounded in Action}, Waist gunner: George Petrohelos,Tail gunner: Jim McCusker, Com P-Major John Egan (10 Prisoner of War); Waist gunner: Harry Clanton (KIA-by flak burst); enemy aircraft KO’d #1 & #3, crashed near Elfers Inn, Nottuln-Stevern, 12 miles W of Munster; Missing Air Crew Report 1029. M’LLE ZIG ZAG.

Delivered Cheyenne 8/12/42; Morrison 6/2/43; Assigned 368BS/306BG [BO- ] Thurleigh 8/2/43; Missing in Action Antwerp 5/4/43 with Clarry Fischer, Co-pilot: Jim Crouch, Navigator: Joe Consolmagno, Bombardier: Bill Moses, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Fran Eastham, Radio Operator: Henry Compton, Ball turret gunner: Walt Kuczynski, Waist gunner: Lee Sanders, Waist gunner: Norris Phifer,Tail gunner: Bill Rhodes (10 Prisoner of War). shot down by Major Priller, crashed Wilrijk, near Hoboken, Antwerp, Bel. L’IL ABNER.

Delivered Dallas 4/8/43; Gore 5/8/43; Dallas 8/8/43; Assigned 350BS/100BG [LN-Y] Thorpe Abbotts 6/9/43; Missing in Action Munster 10/10/43 with Chas Walts, Navigator: Louis Oss, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Travis Brumbeau, Waist gunner: Tom Murphy,Tail gunner: Bill Higginbotham (5 Prisoner of War); Co-pilot: Jerome Wallace, Bombardier: Dick Dodson, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Clyde Walker, Ball turret gunner: Henry Gratzfeld, Waist gunner: Frank Fetherston (5 Killed in Action); shot down by FW 190, KO’d #2, wing caught fire, exploded and crashed Wildermann’s Farm, Hohenhalte, six miles W of Munster; Missing Air Crew Report 1025. THE GNOME then INVADIN’ MAIDEN.

Delivered Cheyenne 31/10/43; Grand Island 12/11/43; Long Beach 19/11/43; Assigned 351BS/100BG [EP-G] Thorpe Abbotts 27/11/43; transferred 34BG; severely damaged on shuttle missions and headed for Italy to land at Foggia with Wiley Smith and Don Ellison; repaired and flown back to base only to be eventually Salvaged WW /45; Returned to the USA (with over 100 missions) 121 BU Bradley 30/6/45; Greenboro 1/7/45; Tinker 2/7/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 21/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 19/12/45. MASON AND DIXON.

Delivered Hunter 23/10/44; Grenier 1/11/44; Assigned 338BS/96BG Snetterton 4/11/44; Missing in Action Cologne 7/1/45 with Theo Yenton, togg-Jim Bowen (2 Prisoner of War); Co-pilot: Morton Monasch, Navigator: Ellis Vure, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Romolo Costa, Radio Operator: Lester Soffen, Ball turret gunner: Bill Villetto, sj-John Smith {339BG}, Waist gunner: Len Turner,Tail gunner: Joe Zyra (8 Killed in Action); mid air coll with 43-38551 (95BG); crashed Hintermulen, W of Westerburg, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 11571.

Delivered Cheyenne 16/8/44; Lincoln 24/8/44; Grenier 11/9/44; Assigned 334BS/95BG [BG-L] Horham 13/9/44; with Oscar Klein force landed Framlingham afb 25/12/44; 33m, Missing in Action Cologne 7/1/45 with Oscar Klein, Co-pilot: Jess Wisner, Navigator: Ed Sul, Bombardier: Bill Yuille, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Joe Pistak, Radio Operator: Dick Wright, Ball turret gunner: Milton Bull, Waist gunner: Frank Gree,Tail gunner: Carl Carlson (9 Killed in Action); near mid air coll with 43-38968 (96BG); crashed Erfelfront, Ger?. Missing Air Crew Report 11569.

Delivered Cheyenne 4/8/43; Gr Isle 11/8/43; Assigned 350BS/100BG [LN-S] Thorpe Abbotts 25/8/43; Missing in Action Bremen 8/10/43 with Capt Bill McDonald, Co-pilot: John James, Bombardier: Frank McGlinchey, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Chas Ashbaugh, Radio Operator: Fred Pribish, Ball turret gunner: Ross Detillion, Waist gunner: Vic Intoccia,Tail gunner: Paul Sears (8 Prisoner of War); Navigator: Carl Spicer (EVD, returned via Spain), Waist gunner: Doug Agee (Killed in Action); flak damage, crashed near Zuider Zee, Lippenhuizen, Hol; Missing Air Crew Report 952. MY GAL SAL aka SALVO SAL.

Delivered Cheyenne 4/2/44; Gr Island 18/2/44; Presque Is 4/3/44; Assigned 418BS/100BG [LD-A] Thorpe Abbotts 6/3/44; 350BS (LN-A); Missing in Action Bohlen 11/9/44 with Wes Carlton, Bombardier: Jack Eppendorf, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Mike Bagdasian, Radio Operator: Milton Edelstein, Ball turret gunner: Ralph Jacobson, Waist gunner: Bill Schaefer,Tail gunner: George Watrous (7 Killed in Action); Co-pilot: Ed Neu, Navigator: Hugh Davidson (2 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Neudorf, N of Ober Weisenthal, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 8817. OUR BABY HUTCHIE aka OUR BABE.

Delivered Cheyenne 21/4/43; Tinker 27/4/43; Memphis 30/4/43; Presque Is 6/5/43; Assigned 366BS/305BG [KY-C/E] Chelveston 31/5/43; force landed RAF St Eval 4/7/43, ret 12/8/43; Missing in Action Kiel 5/1/44 with Percy Hoag, Co-pilot: Lonnie McGee, Navigator: Hubert Fraker, Bombardier: Chas Howell, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Fred Rosenkoff, Radio Operator: Albt Croce, Ball turret gunner: Bob LaFontaine, Waist gunner: Burnette Dethlefsen, Waist gunner: Chas Maerser,Tail gunner: Lyman Franklin (10 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed mouth of Eider River, off Vollerweik, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 1684.

Delivered Denver 9/3/43; Gore 20/3/43; Tinker 30/3/43; Homestead 7/4/43; Morrison 12/4/43; Assigned 346BS/99BG Navarin 12/5/43; Oudna 4/8/43; battle damaged Messina 16/8/43, 1KIA; transferred 342BS/97BG Depienne 14/11/43; Cerignola 20/12/43; Missing in Action Piraeus 11/1/44 with 1Lt Herbert G Easterling, 1Lt Daniel L Rader, 1Lt John D Slusher, 2Lt Melvin G Buck, T/Sgt Robert H Buford, S/Sgt Alvie A Ashcraft, S/Sgt Robert M Butler, S/Sgt Harold R McClung, S/Sgt Roy L Smith Jr, S/Sgt Theodore H Vick, Sgt William F McClain; coll with 42-3251, crashed Kalami, Gr. Missing Air Crew Report 2027 (?9439). WEBFOOT.

Delivered Denver 13/4/43; Morrison 11/5/43; Assigned 348BS/99BG Navarin 16/6/43; Oudna 4/8/43; transferred 342BS/97BG Depienne 14/11/43; Cerignola 20/12/43; Missing in Action Piraeus 11/1/44 with F/O Roy F Mayo, 1Lt Harvey M Bigby, 1Lt Gilbert O Fitzell, 2Lt Delbert C Le Jeune, T/Sgt Donald M Bennett, T/Sgt Clarence L Stevens, S/Sgt Wilbur E Cole, S/Sgt Dissler W Hendrickson, S/Sgt Thomas C Huffman, S/Sgt Leonard R Killebrew; collided with 42-29918, crashed Kalami, Greece; 3 x RTD, 7 x KIA MACR 2028.