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

Delivered Denver 6/10/42; West Palm Beach 12/1/43; Assigned 352BS/301BG Ain M’Lila 22/2/43; St Donat 6/3/43; Missing in Action {4m} Palermo 22/3/43 with Jim Hair, Miers, Partriquain, Seman, Burns (5 Killed in Action); Yonych, Cook, Upton, McLaughlin (3 Prisoner of War); flak, exploded taking out Me-109. Missing Air Crew Report 16153. JUNIOR.

Delivered Dallas 27/4/44; Kearney 6/6/44; Dow Fd 27/6/44; Assigned 324BS/91BG [DF- ] Bassingbourn 10/7/44; Missing in Action Leipzig 20/7/44 with Capt Francis Holmes, Co-pilot: John Neal, Navigator: Walter Kast, Bombardier: Fred Dignon, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Chas Seaton, Radio Operator: Drexel Lange, bto-Otto Draege, Waist gunner: Allen Meeker,Tail gunner: Don Potter (9 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed Manderscheid, N of Eifel, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 7273.

Delivered Cheyenne 26/2/44; Kearney 12/3/44 (LT Edward H. Grossheim crew, as “Little Stinker”); Dow Fd 5/4/44 (LT Edward H. Grossheim crew, as “Little Stinker”); Assigned 708BS/447BG Rattlesden 7/4/44 (renamed “Fuddy Duddy”); Missing in Action Misburg 30/12/44 with Wylie Leverett, Bob Mihovich, Jim Tiffany, Bob Hildebrandt, Roy Davis, Edwin Haynia, Earl Danhour (7 Killed in Action); Larry Adler, Harry Hunt (2 Prisoner of War); mid air coll, crashed Unterneudorf (57km SE of Darmstadt; 57km SW of Würzburg), Germany. Missing Air Crew Report 11228. LITTLE STINKER (before UK) aka FUDDY DUDDY.

Delivered Cheyenne 7/8/44; Lincoln 17/8/44; Grenier 2/9/44; Assigned 708BS/447BG Rattlesden 8/9/44; Missing in Action Kassel 30/12/44 with Bruce Bates, Herb Nachman, George Mixon, Bob Cordell, Jim Toler, Bill Lindsey, Bill Wheeler, Clair Palm, Ben Torre (9 Killed in Action); mid air coll, crashed Stürzenhardt (57km SE of Darmstadt; 57km SW of Würzburg), Germany. Missing Air Crew Report 11240.

Delivered Cheyenne 22/1/44; Kearney 7/2/44; Presque Is 18/2/44; Assigned 750BS/457BG [Q] Glatton 3/3/44; battle damaged Bremen 24/6/44 with ?, (10 Returned to Duty); #3 engine fell off when landing at base; Salvaged and tailplane used for ‘ARF & ‘ARF 42-38064. LI’L SATAN.

Delivered Cheyenne 30/3/45; Sth Plains 5/4/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 5/1/46.

Das Schicksal dieser B-17 Fliegenden Festung ist nicht bekannt.

Delivered Tulsa 18/5/44; Kearney 29/5/44; Grenier 5/6/44; Assigned 749BS/457BG [F] Glatton 19/6/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 9/6/45; Sth Plains 12/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 28/11/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 10/7/44; Kearney 19/7/44; Grenier 7/8/44; Assigned 562BS/388BG Knettishall 8/8/44; transferred 862BS/493BG Debach 9/8/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 5/7/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 6/7/45; 237 Kirtland 31/12/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Albuquerque 7/2/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 24/5/43; Gore 25/5/43; Kearney 4/6/43; Dyersburg 27/6/43; Gr Isle 22/7/43; Presque Is 31/7/43; Assigned 12AF 7/8/43; Missing in Action Tunis 25/1/44; Missing Air Crew Report 2059.

Delivered Cheyenne 24/3/44; Hunter 11/4/44; Grenier 29/4/44; Assigned 338BS/96BG [BX-Q] Snetterton 3/5/44; destroyed by enemy aircraft at Poltava with Bob Wighaman 21/6/44; Salvaged 1/7/44.

Delivered Tulsa 18/5/44; Kearney 25/5/44; Grenier 7/6/44; Assigned 364BS/305BG Chelveston 28/6/44; Salvaged 18/7/44; transferred 401BG Deenethorpe 7/44; back to Chelveston with 422BS and in landing accident with Art Prokaski 5/3/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 7/6/45; Sth Plains 12/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 29/11/45.

Delivered Hunter 30/9/44; Dow Fd 15/10/44; Assigned 92BG Podington 19/10/44 MORALE; transferred 750BS/457BG [S] Glatton 6/11/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 9/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 12/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 20/12/45. MORALE.

Delivered Denver 28/2/44; Hunter 7/4/44; Dow Fd 21/4/44; Assigned 510BS/351BG [TU-H] Polebrook 24/5/44; 508BS [YB-H]; Missing in Action {10m} Le Bourget 14/6/44 with George Williamson, Co-pilot: Roland Cadoret, Navigator: Ashley Thornburg, Bombardier: Bill Clanton, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Gene Leavitt, Radio Operator: Bob Whitman, Ball turret gunner: Bob Mautz, Waist gunner: Walt Subora, Waist gunner: Joe Larocco,Tail gunner: Chas Hock (10 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed and burnt out at St Blimont, 11 miles W of Abbeville, Fr; Missing Air Crew Report 5797.

Delivered Cheyenne 19/2/44; Hunter 9/3/44; Dow Fd 10/4/44; Assigned 600BS/398BG [N8-Y] Nuthampstead 5/5/44; (4m) Missing in Action Berlin 19/5/44 {1st in group} with Ira O’Neil, Co-pilot: Roger Corner, Bombardier: Merritt Deuel, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Dale Schapp, Ball turret gunner: Joe Barzano, Waist gunner: Fred Cone, Waist gunner: Gerald Farren,Tail gunner: Bob Jenkins (8 Killed in Action); Navigator: Howard Baer, Radio Operator: George Graham (2 Prisoner of War); hit by flak and wreckage from aircraft above, crashed Alt-Ruednitz, near Bad Freienewalde, 10 miles NE of Berlin, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 4937.

Delivered Lincoln 9/12/44; Grenier 30/12/44; Assigned 401BS/91BG [LL-N] Bassingbourn 23/2/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 11/6/45; Sth Plains 14/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 6/12/45.

Delivered Denver 7/5/43; Dow Fd 2/6/43; Assigned 91BG Bassingbourn 5/6/43; transferred 336BS/95BG [ET-K] Horham 16/6/43; 7m, Missing in Action Stuttgart 6/9/43 with Norman Rothschild, Co-pilot: Paul Perceful, Navigator: Bob Mylinger, Bombardier: E. Praisner, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Russell BarnesWounded in Action, Radio Operator: Russ Sparks, Ball turret gunner: Earl Bennett, Waist gunner: George Pratt, Waist gunner: Harry Moore,Tail gunner: John Thomas (10 Returned to Duty); ditched North Sea, all rescued. KATHY JANE II.

Delivered Cheyenne 8/1/45; Hunter 16/1/45; Grenier 4/2/45; Assigned 4BS/34BG Mendlesham 17/2/45; Returned to the USA Morrison 7/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 11/1/46.

Delivered Dallas 23/6/44; Hunter 27/7/44; Dow Fd 9/8/44; Assigned 353BS/301BG Lucera 15/8/44; Missing in Action Blechhammer 18/12/44 with Keiser, Griffith, Wheeler, Charlesworth, Hoffman, Martin, Spaltro, Chester, Riley (9 evaded capture & ret); Schwartz (Prisoner of War); crew bailed over Bihac, Yugo; Missing Air Crew Report 10893.

Delivered Hunter 12/2/45; Grenier 2/3/45; Assigned 8AF 10/3/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 28/6/45; Sth Plains 1/7/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 20/1/46; 4117 BU Robbins 24/2/46; 91 RC MacDill 29/4/46; re-ass 30/4/47; 91 RLP Howard (Canal Zone) 18/1/48 (6AF); 91 RLP Waller 20/2/48 (Trinidad); 48 SR Ramey 22/6/48 (CZ); 91 RLP Allen 26/6/48 (CZ); 91 RLP Waller 30/11/49; Recl Comp 25/1/50.