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

Delivered Cheyenne 21/6/44; Hunter 17/7/44; Grenier 27/7/44; Assigned 601BS/398BG [3O-H] Nuthampstead 15/8/44; RAF Valley 1/6/45, Returned to the USA Bradley 6/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 7/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 8/11/45.

Delivered Denver 30/12/43; Des Moines 12/1/44; Charleston 17/1/44; Savannah 18/1/44; Homestead 1/2/44; slated 709BS/446BG; transferred 32BS/301BG Lucera 5/2/44; Missing in Action Blechhammer 7/8/44 with Gerald Bauer, Co-pilot: Schuler, Navigator: Schumaker, Bombardier: McNally, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Kuzara, Radio Operator: Hudson, Ball turret gunner: Trouts, Waist gunner: Pease, Waist gunner: Drogt,Tail gunner: Rouswell (10 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft & flak, crashed Aus; Missing Air Crew Report 11976. AMAZING MAZIE.

Delivered Cheyenne 10/11/43; Gr Island 27/11/43; Assigned 32BS/301BG Cerignola 29/12/43; Lucera 1/2/44; Missing in Action {66m} Vienna 26/6/44 with Lew Phillips, Co-pilot: Nalley, Navigator: Olsen, Bombardier: Nelson, Waist gunner: Wagoner (5 Killed in Action); Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Melrose, Radio Operator: Hill, Ball turret gunner: White, Waist gunner: Berndtson,Tail gunner: Kelly (5 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft & flak, crashed Gyor, Hung; Missing Air Crew Report 6328.

Delivered Cheyenne 11/7/44; Hunter 20/7/44; Grenier 3/8/44; Assigned 337BS/96BG [AW-G] Snetterton 4/8/44; transferred 751BS/457BG [O/Q] Glatton 5/8/44; (?with Paul Foret force landed Greenland 7/8/44?); Returned to the USA Bradley 23/5/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 26/5/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 7/12/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 12/6/44; Kearney 23/6/44; Grenier 7/7/44; Assigned 603BS/398BG [N7-K] Nuthampstead 31/7/44; Missing in Action 7/10/44 with Brandstatter, AOC 14/10/44, re-ass 18/10/44; Missing in Action 29/1/45 with Green, AOC {B-53} 29/1/45 and reass from 2 SAD Abbotts Ripton 25/3/45; RAF Valley 26/5/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 31/5/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 1/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 13/12/45. BE BE.

Delivered Denver 28/11/43; Cheyenne 12/12/43; Kearney 20/12/43; Nashville 26/12/43; Morrison 3/1/44; Assigned 352BS/301BG Cerignola 6/1/44; Lucera 1/2/44; re-ass weather ship 12/10/44; depot 22/2/45; Returned to the USA Grenier 21/9/45; 4185 BU Independence 30/11/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 7/1/46.

Delivered Long Beach 10/9/43; Denver 2/11/43; Savannah 21/12/43; Morrison 5/1/44; Assigned 32BS/301BG Cerignola 7/1/44; Lucera 1/2/44; Missing in Action {64m} Ploesti 23/6/44 with John Muirhead, Co-pilot: Thomsen, Navigator: Rice, Radio Operator: Murphy, Ball turret gunner: McHugh, Waist gunner: Naddeo,Tail gunner: Kelley (7 Prisoner of War); Bombardier: Spires, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Burger, Waist gunner: Gardner (3 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed Ploesti; Missing Air Crew Report 16203.

Delivered Cheyenne 4/2/44; Hunter 23/2/44; Savannah 1/3/44; Morrison 9/3/44; Assigned 32BS/301BG Lucera 14/3/44; Missing in Action {32m} Ploesti 23/6/44 with Morris Cooke, Co-pilot: Cole, Navigator: Perkinson, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Walters, Radio Operator: Jesperson, Ball turret gunner: Reichardt, Waist gunner: Trucksis, Waist gunner: Traner,Tail gunner: Chinn (9 Prisoner of War); Bombardier: Pearsall (Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed target area; Missing Air Crew Report 5080.

Delivered Cheyenne 1/6/44; Kearney 15/6/44; Grenier 28/6/44; Assigned PFF 603BS/398BG [N7- ] Nuthampstead 15/7/44; battle damaged Orleans 1/8/44 with Col Frank Hunter [Group CO], Co-pilot: Capt Gere Douglas, Navigator: Capt Harry Brown, Xn-H. Nelson, Bombardier: G. Goldman, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: A. Burke, Radio Operator: K.H. Shutts, Ball turret gunner: J.Basham,wg-A.N. Ward,Tail gunner: N.Callihan (10 Returned to Duty); intense flak damaged two engines, aircraft limped home to crash landed RAF Merston, West Sussex, UK; Salvaged 2 SAD Abbotts Ripton 4/8/44.

Delivered Cheyenne 18/1/43; Assigned 366BS/305BG [KY-M] Morrison 5/3/43; Chelveston 31/5/43; transferred 546BS/384BG [BK-C] Grafton Underwood 19/9/43; Returned to the USA Tinker 8/5/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 22/8/45. HELL’S ANGELS.

Delivered Hunter 11/7/44; Dow Fd 3/8/44; Assigned 342BS/97BG Amendola 11/8/44; transferred 32BS/301BG Lucera 14/8/44; Missing in Action Vienna 10/9/44 with Ken Wisner, Co-pilot: Hanway, Navigator: Hines, Bombardier: Armstrong, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Harris, Radio Operator: Healy, Ball turret gunner: Kersting, Waist gunner: Kessel, Waist gunner: Fisher,Tail gunner: McClure (10 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed Scnorja; Missing Air Crew Report 8622.

Delivered Denver 31/12/43; Kearney 15/1/44; Assigned: 412BS/95BG [QW-K] Horham 15/2/44; 336BS [ET-K], 335BS [OE-F]; 103m, MIA Frankfurt 17/2/45 Pilot: Carlyle Schaad, Co-Pilot: Theo Flora, Navigator: John Keeney, Bombardier: Harry Vaughn, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Emery Hemingway, Radio Operator: Luther Basett, Ball Turret Gunner: Bernie Glanzer, Waist Gunner: Loren Harman, Tail Gunner: Walt Mazurek (9POW); #2 engine out, dropped back,crashed Tillowitz, Germany. . MACR 12378. BIG CASINO.

Delivered Cheyenne 20/3/43; Tinker 10/4/43; Memphis 17/4/43; Assigned: 322BS/91BG [LG-Q] Bassingbourn 11/6/43; battle damage Amiens 31/8/43 Pilot: Jess Rogers, Co-Pilot: Bob Bravender, Navigator: Earl Clinton, Bombardier: Dan Shabel, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Paul Kelly, Ball Turret Gunner: Bill Wolof, Waist Gunner: Milton Sparks, Waist Gunner: Jim Malone (8KIA); Radio Operator: Howard McGovern, Tail Gunner: Ed Bronski (2RTD) damaged by debris from aircrafts collision above and flak over target; crash-landed Wooten Farm, Polegate, Sussex, UK. MACR 15756. PATTY GREMLIN JR.

Delivered Cheyenne 25/5/44; Kearney 4/6/44; Grenier 19/6/44; Assigned 603BS/398BG [N7-J] Nuthampstead 18/7/44; (60m) Missing in Action Osnabruck, Ger; 14/3/45 with Dick Ellis, Co-pilot: Bill Lewandowski, Bombardier: Leon Snyder, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Rufus White, Ball turret gunner: Leo Parr (5 Killed in Action); Navigator: Ken Peek, Radio Operator: Jim Schofield, Waist gunner: Ed McCracken,Tail gunner: Don Pierson (4 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed Icker, N of Osnabruck, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 10391 [?10390].

Delivered Cheyenne 9/8/44; Kearney 19/8/44; Dow Fd 9/9/44; Assigned 352BS/301BG Lucera 12/10/44; Missing in Action Attnang Pusheim, Aus. 21/4/45 with ?. Salvaged.

Delivered Cheyenne 26/4/44; Kearney 9/5/44; Dow Fd 21/5/44; Assigned 511BS/351BG [DS-D] Polebrook 23/5/44; {63m} battle damaged Stuttgart 9/12/44 with Danforth Merrill, Co-pilot: Lou Edwards, ng-Jack McGee, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ed Poppe, Radio Operator: Jim Williams, Ball turret gunner: Tom Veltry, Waist gunner: Claude Chaffin,Tail gunner: Bill Teel (8 Returned to Duty); Bombardier: Vernon Smith (Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft KO’d #2 and ship lost controls temporarily, however p returned controls and returned to base; Salvaged 10/12/45. Missing Air Crew Report 7903; QUEEN OF THE BALL.

Delivered Denver 11/12/43; Spokane 17/12/43; Gt Falls 20/12/43; Denver 27/12/43; Lincoln 5/1/44; Mobile 6/1/44; Lakeland 7/1/44; Morrison 22/2/44; Assigned 774BS/463BG Celone 24/2/44; Missing in Action Ploesti, Rom. 24/4/44 with Anthony Namiotka, Co-pilot: Roy Meyer, Navigator: Bob Masneri, Bombardier: Jordan Bell, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Howard Schuch, Radio Operator: Haskell Smith, Ball turret gunner: Louis Smith, Waist gunner: Harry Majackrzak,Tail gunner: Alex Spears; enemy aircraft, exploded and five chutes seen with Me109 circling, ship crashed Tirgoviste, Rom; Missing Air Crew Report 4611. HUSTLIN’ GAL.

Delivered Cheyenne 2/5/44; Kearney 11/5/44; Grenier 27/5/44; Assigned 368BS/306BG [BO-X] Thurleigh 6/6/44; transferred 398BG Nuthampstead 27/5/45; no ops, RAF Valley 2/6/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 14/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 18/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 4/12/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 30/9/43; Gt Falls 14/10/43; Bowman 18/10/43; Assigned 401BG Deenethorpe 16/11/43; transferred 401BS/91BG [LL-F] Bassingbourn 20/11/43; battle damaged Oschersleben 10m 11/1/44 with John Davis, limped back to England and force landed Deopham Green (452BG), UK. Detailed to return to Bassingbourn 4/3/44 with Capt Don Garrett, Co-pilot: Gilbert Falk, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bob Perkins, Radio Operator: Ron Cannon, pass- John Moran (5 Returned to Duty); after repair crash landed Bunbury Farm, Swaffham Prior, about a mile SW of RAF Newmarket, UK. Salvaged. BUCKEYE BOOMERANG.

Delivered Denver 11/12/43; Gt Falls 17/12/43; Danver 20/12/43; Kearney 31/12/43; Presque Is 24/1/44; Assigned 334BS/95BG [BG-D] Horham 4/2/44; 17m, Missing in Action night practice mission 6/11/44 with George McVay; Co-pilot: Chas O’Brien, Navigator: Dave Kile, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Carl Slivinski, Radio Operator: Gilbert Frazer, obs-Edwd Featherstone (6 Prisoner of War);Tail gunner: Vince Blazquez (evaded capture); mech fault, aircraft failed to hear recall, crashed ?; Missing Air Crew Report 10418. IKKY POO.