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

Delivered Cheyenne 11/3/44; Gr Island 21/3/44; Dow Fd 6/4/44; Assigned 322BS/91BG [LG-A] Bassingbourn 22/4/44; Missing in Action 14+m Berlin 21/6/44 with Ed Waters, Co-pilot: George Abbott, Bombardier: Jim Van Pelt, Waist gunner: Bob Hettinger (4 Prisoner of War); Navigator: Alf Kovner, ttg-Lou Miller, Radio Operator: Chester Kolano, Ball turret gunner: Harry Humm, Waist gunner: Claude Hopkins,Tail gunner: Ed Shirley (6 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft KO’d #3 and set fire to wing, crashed Ruehlow, ten miles E of Neubrandenburg, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 5983. SLEEPYTIME GAL.

Delivered Tucson 25/2/42; West Palm Beach 17/4/42; Assigned 12AF 29/4/43; Ret US Memphis 10/4/44; Morrison 8/7/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Bush Fd 2/6/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 14/7/44; Hunter 22/7/44; Dow Fd 3/8/44; Assigned 863BS/493BG [G6- ] Debach 4/8/44; detailed Magdeburg 12/9/44, mission 55, with the George M Durgin crew; landed in Belgium to get Donald W Gray, Haywood (Frank) Deese & Ray H Higginbotham to hospital ASAP but Don Gray died later that day; Missing in Action Ludwigshafen 5/11/44 with John Kolberg, Bruce Johnson, Martin Rosenberg, Vince Churm, Bob Klindworth (5 Killed in Action); Joe Loughran, Bob Kurio, Bill Vayo, Art Fisher (4 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed Ludwigshafen, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 10327.

Delivered Cheyenne 14/7/44; Kearney 24/7/44; Grenier 7/8/44; Assigned 7BS/34BG Mendlesham 13/8/44; Missing in Action Kassel 2/10/44 with Bill McCage, Co-pilot: Lou Smith, Navigator: Gene Killoren, Bombardier: Bill Boatwright, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Carlton Seaton, roJoe Cummings, Ball turret gunner: Bernie Burns, Waist gunner: Chas Camp,Tail gunner: Harry Peterson (9 Killed in Action); flak, crashed Muenchenhof, Ger?. Missing Air Crew Report 9369.

Delivered Cheyenne 22/2/43; Pueblo 12/3/43; Presque Is 8/4/43; Assigned 508BS/351BG [YB-D] Polebrook 20/4/43; Missing in Action 7m St Nazaire 28/6/43 with Bill King, Co-pilot: Lloyd Gullickson, Navigator: Sid Lang, Radio Operator: Chas Armstrong, Ball turret gunner: Bradley Learned, Waist gunner: Reid Merry (6 Killed in Action); Bombardier: Russ McDonald, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Leroy Birkley, Waist gunner: Jack Sanderson,Tail gunner: Ernie Taylor (4 Prisoner of War); flak KO’d all engines, ditched Bay of Biscay, only four crewmen found by French fishermen; Missing Air Crew Report 15511. ARGONAUT II.

Delivered Barksdale 24/2/42; 97BG Sarasota 29/3/42; Walla Walla 28/6/42; crashed & burned 15/7/42. Salvaged.

Delivered Dallas 12/5/44; Langley 27/6/44; Dow Fd 9/7/44; Assigned 730BS/452BG Deopham Green 15/7/44; battle damaged Ansbach 22/2/45 with Bill Emmett, Co-pilot: Bill Hoffman, Navigator: Clinton Ewen, tog-Sgt Warren Holt, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Sid Mason, Radio Operator: George Benedict,Tail gunner: Dean Clementson (7 Killed in Action); Ball turret gunner: Jim Moss, Waist gunner: Francis Adkins, radar op-Bill Lorig (3 Prisoner of War); flak hit and exploded in mid-air, crashed Oberpfaffenhofen, Ger. Sal; Missing Air Crew Report 12657. JOHNNY REB.

Delivered Cheyenne 31/8/44; Hunter 4/9/44; Grenier 15/9/44; Assigned 603BS/398BG [N7-F] Nuthampstead 4/11/44; (4m) Missing in Action Merseburg 21/11/44 with Bob Lehner, Co-pilot: Stan De Lafayette, Bombardier: Henry Perence, Waist gunner: Virgil Register (4 Killed in Action); Navigator: Jim Esterbrooks, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ozie French, Radio Operator: Bill Elliott, Ball turret gunner: Ken Bachman,Tail gunner: Rex Kellogg (5 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Zimmernsupra, near Efurt, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 11211. LEHNER’S RAIDERS.

Delivered Cheyenne 4/2/44; Wright 23/2/44; Gr Island 28/2/44; Grenier 13/3/44; Assigned 96BG Snetterton 20/3/44; transferred 369BS/306BG [WW-J] Thurleigh 31/3/44; Missing in Action Dresden 14/2/45 with Capt Boylston Lewis, Co-pilot: Bob Whitelaw, Navigator: Lester Harrison, Bombardier: Joe Sicard, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Jim Standlee, Radio Operator: Hardin McChesney, Waist gunner: Frank McDonough,Tail gunner: Leon Nahmias (8 Prisoner of War); Ball turret gunner: Alf Lubojacky (Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed Lazne Belohrad, Czech; Missing Air Crew Report 12333.

Delivered MacDill 24/2/42; 97BG Sarasota 29/3/42; Westover 28/6/42; Wendover 20/7/42; Walla Walla 20/8/42; force landed Gowen 24/11/42 with Jim Kirkpatrick; 452 AF Sq Hendricks 19/2/43; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Albuquerque 26/5/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 24/2/44; Kearney 17/3/44; Dow Fd 5/4/44; Assigned 600BS/398BG [N8-R] Nuthampstead 3/5/44; battle damaged over Europe with Lt Lovelace and on return crew bailed out over Essex and aircraft crashed at Chelsworth, Sfk. 8/7/44, Salvaged 2 SAD Abbotts Ripton.

Delivered Cheyenne 11/7/44; Hunter 22/7/44; Dow Fd 7/8/44; Assigned 34BG Mendlesham, transferred 861BS/493BG Debach 9/8/44; landing accident at Lt Walden A/fd, Essex, with Carlton Williams 4/3/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 9/7/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 11/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 20/11/45.

Delivered Geiger 1/9/42; Assigned 366BS/305BG [KY-J] Presque Is 22/10/42; Grafton Underwood 29/10/42; transferred 422BS [JJ-J]; Missing in Action Kiel 19/5/43 with Capt Chas Clark, Co-pilot: Bob Ruse, Navigator: John Ward, Bombardier: Chas Woodworth, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Everett Howard, Radio Operator: Ken Baldridge,Tail gunner: Lewis Clayton (7 Prisoner of War); Ball turret gunner: Earl Rheinhardt, Waist gunner: Louis Haviland, Waist gunner: Ken Edwards (3 Killed in Action); flak, ditched in mouth of Keil harbor. Missing Air Crew Report 15549. MADAME BETTERFLY.

Delivered Denver 14/7/43; Ogden 20/8/43; Assigned 325BS/92BG [NV-H] Podington 28/9/43; transferred 1 Base Air Depot, Burtonwood 7/6/44 for Azon/Aphrodite equipment for Knettishall; Salvaged 20/6/45.

Delivered Lincoln 20/2/45; Grenier 8/3/45; Assigned 34BG Mendlesham 13/3/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 30/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 3/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 31/1/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 11/7/44; Hunter 20/7/44; Grenier 2/8/44; Assigned 34BG Mendlesham, transferred 862BS/493BG Debach 3/8/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 1/7/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 4/7/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 24/11/45. SKIPPER.

Delivered Cheyenne 2/8/44; Kearney 9/8/44; Grenier 17/8/44; Assigned 18BS/34BG Mendlesham 20/8/44 LUCKY 13; transferred 7BS; Missing in Action Nurnberg, Ger; 5/4/45 with George Mehling, Navigator: Harrison Britton, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Steve Niatas, Radio Operator: Jack Share{wia-lost leg}, Ball turret gunner: Bob Lamprey,Tail gunner: Lou Morgan (6 Returned to Duty); Co-pilot: Wendell Huntley, Bombardier: Russ Morgan, Waist gunner: Alby Dinnis (3 Killed in Action); flak, ditched Channel. DINAH-MITE.

Delivered Cheyenne 20/7/44; Kearney 29/7/44; Grenier 9/8/44; Assigned 349BS/100BG [XR-S] Thorpe Abbotts 11/8/44; 350BS [LN-S]; transferred 482BG Alconbury 20/5/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 5/7/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 6/7/45; 237 BU Kirtland 31/12/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Albuquerque 7/2/46. OFF LIMITS aka LIL BUTCH.

Delivered Cheyenne 29/6/44; Lincoln 14/7/44; Grenier 11/8/44; Assigned 4BS/34BG Mendlesham 13/8/44; transferred 490BG Eye 14/8/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 20/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 23/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 17/12/45. OLE-TIMER.

Delivered Lincoln 5/10/44; Grenier 16/10/44; Assigned 324BS/91BG [DF-M] Bassingbourn 4/11/44; {50+m} Returned to the USA Bradley 11/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 14/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 19/11/45. CHIPPEWA – THE MILWAUKEE ROAD aka FISH ‘N CHIPS.