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

Delivered Hunter 1/9/44; Grenier 13/9/44; Assigned 416BS/99BG Tortorella 22/9/44; {63m} Salvaged 25/4/45.

Delivered Denver 1/6/43; Dow Fd 15/7/43; Assigned 561BS/388BG Knettishall 17/7/43; 6 September 1943: The aircraft came under attack from fighters and its pilot, Louis Krueger was killed. 7 January 1944: Crash landed Honington ex-Ludwigshafen with pilot Paul H Franklin. All crew survived and the aircraft was salvaged.

Delivered Cheyenne 18/11/42; ran out of gas 23/12/42 and force landed Mount Pleasant, UT., but flown out of meadow the following morning and returned to training operations for 100BG; Sioux City 31/1/43; Rapid City 13/2/43; Walla Walla 3/3/43; Topeka 3/8/43; 4117 BU Robins 24/7/44; 238 BU Gulfport 22/9/44 for survey work; with Richard Pie force landed Bay Minette, Al. 17/1/45.

Delivered Geiger 6/11/42; Assigned 418BS/100BG Wendover 30/11/42; force landed Rock Springs, near Evanston, Wy 23/12/42, with John Brady but crew RTD; Hill Fd 31/1/43; Scribner 3/3/43; Sioux City 6/4/43; Casper 5/7/43; Dyersberg 3/8/43; 234 BU Clovis 24/6/44; 4200 BU Chicago Mun Apt 16/11/44; 245 BU McCook 1/3/45; 4202 BU Syracuse 6/4/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 5/11/45.

Delivered Hunter 1/9/44; Dow Fd 17/9/44; Assigned 49BS/2BG Amendola 3/10/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 10/7/45; Independence 12/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 13/12/45.

Delivered Denver 24/7/43; Dyersburg 31/8/43; Assigned 349BS/100BG [XR-R then L] Thorpe Abbotts 9/9/43; Missing in Action on mission to Le Culot air base, Belgium on 27/4/44 with Winans Shaddix (EVD, ret UK and then US); Co-pilot: George T. Sullivan, Navigator: Raymond C. Lestico, Bombardier: Cole M. Dailey, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: James H. Lee, Radio Operator: Frederick H. Erb, Ball turret gunner: John B. Cortelletty, Waist gunner: Kenneth V. Hale, Waist gunner: William F. Cornelius,Tail gunner: Hugh Hamilton (9 Prisoner of War); flak KOd #3, crashed Ardooie, Belgium. Missing Air Crew Report 4268. OL‘ DAD.

Delivered Denver 13/7/43; Scott 15/8/43; Assigned 418BS/100BG [LD-P] Thorpe Abbotts 25/8/43; battle damaged Berlin 6/4/44 with Lt Ferbrache; Missing in Action Augsburg 18/3/44 with Bob Horn, Co-pilot: Bart Mahoney, Navigator: Bill Newell, Bombardier: Chas Conner, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Albt Shuback, Radio Operator: Ken Mueller, Ball turret gunner: Russ Priester, Waist gunner: Aubrey Slimm, Waist gunner: Vic Saabyo,Tail gunner: Bill Graser (10 Prisoner of War); flak damage and crash landed Dormstadt, six miles N of Ulm, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 3232. JERSEY LILY aka BASTARD’S BUNGALOW II.

Delivered Denver 5/6/43; Dow Fd 14/7/43; Assigned 551BS/385BG [HR-H] Gt Ashfield 15/7/43; Missing in Action Bordeaux 5/12/43 with Theo Kleuser, Co-pilot: John Slater, Navigator: Fred Albert, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ernie Hibbard, Ball turret gunner: Stan Wysokinski, Waist gunner: Leo De Graw, Waist gunner: Jim O’Keefe (7KIA-when in dinghy were machine gunned by German shore patrol); Bombardier: Tom Betow, Radio Operator: Walt Olowniuk,Tail gunner: Stewart Day (3 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, ditched Bay of Biscay; Missing Air Crew Report 2164 and Missing Air Crew Report 1337. FIGHTING COCK.

Delivered Lincoln 22/8/44; Grenier 9/9/44; Assigned 429BS/2BG Amendola 13/9/44; battle damaged Brux 9/12/44 with Dale Pierce, Co-pilot: Maurice Porter, Navigator: John Skoba*, Bombardier: Jim McWhirter*, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Joe Bury, Radio Operator: Wenton Jeffries, Ball turret gunner: Vernon Burger, Waist gunner: Doug Dimitry, Waist gunner: John Childress*,Tail gunner: Tony Genovese (10 Returned to Duty); flak damage, ditched in Adriatic but all crew rescued by Air Sea Rescue and taken to Ancona, It.(* all slightly injured when ditching)..

Delivered Denver 6/43; Gd Island 10/8/43; Assigned 351BG/100BG [EP-B] Thorpe Abbotts 1/9/43 QUEEN BEE; after training flight with Ray Monrad, Co-pilot: Claud Schindler, Navigator: Arthur Dehan, Navigator: Frank Maguire, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Sid Cary, Radio Operator: Talbert Spenhoff, aro-Buthrie Head, ae-Art Lenfest, g-Nick Perovich,Tail gunner: Bill Wells (10 Returned to Duty), crash landed base and into two other aircraft involved in earlier accident, Salvaged 31/1/44. KING BEE.

Delivered Denver 6/43; 59 SD Lowry 19/11/43; 39 SD Buckingham 3/12/43; 2137 BU Hendricks 30/7/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 14/12/45.

Delivered Denver 1/7/43; Amarillo 3/7/43; Scott 13/8/43; Assigned 568BS/390BG [BI-G/N/S] Framlingham 25/8/43 SHOOT A POUND; re-named THE VULTURE 4/44; declared War Weary and transferred HQ 100BG Thorpe Abbotts, damaged in taxi accident with Ray Albright 24/4/45; Returned to the USA Altus 29/10/45. THE PAPER DOLL.

Delivered Lincoln 25/8/44; Grenier 8/9/44; Assigned 350BS/100BG [LN-U] Thorpe Abbotts 11/9/44; Missing in Action Berlin 3/2/45 with Orville Cotner, Co-pilot: Bob Coover, Navigator: Elmer Rundy, Bombardier: Steve Monick, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Hugh Boyd, Radio Operator: Reinhardt Konlaski, Ball turret gunner: John Moss, Waist gunner: Harry Snyder,Tail gunner: Don Andris (9 Killed in Action); direct flak hit cut off wing, crashed Berlin, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 12045.

Delivered Cheyenne 17/3/44; Kearney 1/4/44; Dow Fd 6/4/44; Assigned 602BS/398BG [K8-G] Nuthampstead 3/5/44; out on mission 13/1/45 with J.T. Shafer, AOC 15/1/45; re-ass from 2 SAD Abbotts Ripton 26/2/45; RAF Valley 2/6/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 7/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 9/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 5/12/45. VONNIE.

Delivered Cheyenne 4/2/44; Kearney 16/2/44; Presque Is 25/2/44; Assigned 568BS/390BG [BI-M] Framlingham 3/3/44; Missing in Action (40m) St Jussy, French bridges 2/8/44 with Doug Seaborn, Co-pilot: Dana Parsells, Navigator: Elmer Hanselman, Bombardier: Harry Rapp, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Alfred Vance, Ball turret gunner: Vince Marino, Waist gunner: Chas Daum,Tail gunner: Phil Homan (8 Prisoner of War); Radio Operator: Fred Roberts (evaded capture); flak hit and exploded, crashed Rotselaer, Bel. Missing Air Crew Report 7750. SOUTHERN COMFORT.

Delivered Lincoln 13/9/44; Grenier 24/9/44; Assigned 100BG Thorpe Abbotts 3/10/44; battle damaged Frankfurt 5/1/45 with Fred Parish {Wounded in Action}, Co-pilot: John Ledley, Navigator: Dwight Kelly, Bombardier: W.B. Cummings, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Daries Jesse {Wounded in Action}, Radio Operator: Bob Thibodeau, Ball turret gunner: Bill Wright, Waist gunner: John Yuhas,Tail gunner: Dorcell Young (9 Returned to Duty); crashed France; Salvaged 30/1/45; Missing Air Crew Report 11881.

Delivered Long Beach 7/8/43; Pyote 8/8/43; used by 452BG and 100BG for training; 232 BU Dalhart 26/8/44; 235 BU Biggs 31/10/44; 2318 BU Alamogordo 8/1/45; 235 BU Biggs 10/1/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 30/10/45. GOOD PICKIN’.

Delivered Cheyenne 24/6/43; Presque Is 17/8/43; Assigned 350BS/100BG [LN-Z] Thorpe Abbotts 20/8/43; Missing in Action Paris 15/9/43 with Arthur Vetter, Co-pilot: Don Smith, Bombardier: Jim Bormuth, Radio Operator: John Wagner, Ball turret gunner: Ed Fontaine, Waist gunner: Hobart Trigg, Waist gunner: Ed Daly,Tail gunner: Warren Lush (8 evaded capture); Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Orval Parsons{Wounded in Action} (Prisoner of War); Navigator: Wendell McConnaha{died of exposure after fall in Pyrenees 10/12/43-Killed in Service }; flak hit in #2, crashed St Just, ten miles NE of Clermont Oise, Fr. Missing Air Crew Report 645.

Delivered Denver 1/6/43; 19BG Pyote 2/7/43; 224 BU Sioux City 15/10/43; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Albuquerque 24/5/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 25/10/43; Assigned 322BS/91BG [LG-R] Bassingbourn 25/1/44; Missing in Action 50+m Caen 8/8/44 with Jack Thompson, Co-pilot: Dave Nelson, Navigator: Chas Bacigalupa*, Bombardier: Chas Sherrill, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Henry Kortebein (Korthbein?), Radio Operator: Blake Treece, Ball turret gunner: Warren Godsey, Waist gunner: Dick Collins,Tail gunner: Gerald Gillies (9 Killed in Action); flak hit in fuselage and blew aircraft in half, crashed Gelnannes, S of Alencon, Fr. Missing Air Crew Report 8079. (* one record gives nav as Prisoner of War). CHOW-HOUND.

Delivered Cheyenne 17/3/44; Kearney 5/4/44; Grenier 14/4/44; Assigned 600BS/398BG [N8-G] Nuthampstead 28/4/44; returning from aborted mission with severe oil leak and crash landed base with Lee Hicks 28/1/45; to 2 SAD Abbotts Ripton 29/1/45; Salvaged 8/2/45.

Delivered Denver 12/6/43; Dow Fd 14/7/43; Assigned 350BS/100BG [LN-W] Thorpe Abbotts 18/7/43; ground looped at Langford Lodge, N. Ireland 25/7/43 with John Kelly, rest OK?; Missing in Action Munster 10/10/43 with Bob Kramer, Ball turret gunner: Don Glaze, Waist gunner: George White (3 Killed in Action); Co-pilot: Ed Connelly, Navigator: Hugh Geiger, Bombardier: Tom Casey, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Deane Todd, Radio Operator: Jim Watkins, Waist gunner: Fred Moore,Tail gunner: Harvey James (7 Prisoner of War); flak blew off right wing, crashed Castle Lembeck, five miles N of Dorsten, 25 miles SW of Munster, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 1024. LENA.

Delivered Patterson 5/9/44; Lincoln 12/9/44; Dow Fd 2/10/44; Assigned 369BS/306BG Thurleigh 6/11/44; 368BS [BO-M]; Missing in Action Kassel 1/1/45 with Bob Stewart, Co-pilot: Ken Straun, Navigator: Lew Wilson, Bombardier: Lou Peterson, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Tony Cecere, Radio Operator: Gil Maple, Ball turret gunner: Bill McCue, Waist gunner: Don Bohrer,Tail gunner: Roy Chancellor (9 Killed in Action); flak, crashed North Sea; Missing Air Crew Report 11249.

Assigned 359BS/303BG Molesworth 21/4/42; 97BG Polebrook 8/42; 92BG Bovingdon /9/42; transferred 418BS/100BG, in take off accident at Burtonwood 24/7/43 on non-operational mission, with Capt Bob Knox, Co-pilot: Lt Col Harry Dungan, Navigator: Ernie Kershaw, Bombardier: Edwin Tabin, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: J. Brady, Radio Operator: I. Barchman, ex Navigator: K. McDannell, pass-Lt Bob Wolf, Lt Chas Stuart (9 Returned to Duty); Salvaged NBD 1/11/43.