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

Delivered Denver 2/8/43; Grand Island 12/8/43; Assigned 334BS/95BG [BG-A] Horham 9/43; with K. Rongstad force landed Sntterton Heath 10/10/43; with Andy Rozentinsky 20/12/43 Flight engineer/top turret gunner: T Whitman, Waist gunner: S. Eastling (both wia); 13m, Missing in Action Frankfurt 29/1/44 with Andy Rozentinsky, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Frank Vandam (2 Prisoner of War); Co-pilot: Phil Warner, Navigator: Jennings Beck, Bombardier: Omar Patterson (3 evaded capture); Radio Operator: Bob Buchanan, Ball turret gunner: Chas Staudt, Waist gunner: Ragnar Kvickstrom, Waist gunner: Larry Esala,Tail gunner: Bill Kiner (5 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed Hulste, 19 miles SW of Ghent, Bel. Missing Air Crew Report 2257. LIZBETH II.

Delivered Denver 30 July 1943. Grand Island 10 August 1943. Assigned 339BS/96BG [QJ-H] Snetterton 29 August 1943. The Fortress had taken off on 8 November 1943 and was recalled due to heavy fog. It had apparently flown about three miles when it started to turn to begin assembly into Group formation. For some unknown reason it crashed into the ground, caught fire and blew up. Its debris were strewn across Bridge Meadow close to the home of Len King, Middle Farm, in West Harling, Norfolk, about three miles from base. All ten men on board were killed : Pilot Paul M. Hargett, Co-pilot: Waino A. Isaacson, Navigator: Clyde M. Yank, Bombardier: Robert N. Held, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Charles T. Brown, Radio Operator: Robert E. Newcomb, Ball turret gunner: Ronald A. Larson, Waist gunner: Harvey F. Petersen, Waist gunner: Rudolph Kubish,Tail gunner: Fred B. Comer. Salvaged.

Delivered Denver 28/7/43; Scott 9/8/43; Assigned 563BS/385BG [ -X] Gt Ashfield 25/8/43; Missing in Action Brunswick 23/3/44 with Dick Davis, Navigator: Leroy Coy (2 Killed in Action); Co-pilot: John Cooper, Bombardier: Ed Barwikowski, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: George Miller, Radio Operator: Don Enslow, Ball turret gunner: Bob Cheatham, Waist gunner: Glenn Fredenburg, Waist gunner: Bill Patton,Tail gunner: Bill Good (8 Prisoner of War); flak hit in Ruhr Valley, crashed Hullern, five miles E of Haltern, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 3593.

Delivered Cheyenne 4/8/44; MacDill 8/8/44; 325 BU Avon Park 31/45; re-ass as TB-17G Topeka 30/4/47 carrying propaganda for Army’s re-enlistment campaign; 4119 BU Brookley 18/1/48; Recl Comp 14/9/48.

Delivered Denver 26/7/43; Scott 9/8/43; Assigned 549BS/385BG [XA-Q] Gt Ashfield 25/8/43; force landed with Vandiver, Salvaged 11/4/44. LATEST RUMOR.

Delivered Cheyenne 17/5/43; Gore 18/5/43; Gr Isle 4/6/43; Cheyenne 9/6/43; Smoky Hill 12/6/43; Dow Fd 27/6/43; Assigned 92BG Alconbury 7/8/43; transferred 813BS/482BG [PC-B] with Oboe Mk I radar Alconbury 25/8/43; transferred to RAF [SR379]; later 214 Sq BU-O Sculthorpe, Oulton, Nfk.; then to Royal Aircraft Establishment 22/2/45; Salvaged 23/5/46; Struck Off Charge 11/3/47.

Delivered Cheyenne 18/3/43; Walla Walla 28/3/43; Selfridge 29/4/43; Presque Is 4/5/43; Assigned 339BS/96BG Andrews Fd 13/5/43; Snetterton 12/6/43 RUM BOOGIE II; transferred 326BS/92BG [JW-E] Alconbury 26/7/43; mid air collision with 42-29725 (92BG) with Jim Foster, force landed 13 miles north of Portsmouth 30/8/43; AFSC Bovingdon 16/10/43; 2 SAD Lt Staughton 8/11/43; transferred 569BS/390BG Framlingham; Missing in Action [48m] Zeitz 16/8/44 with Bob Buckley, Co-pilot: Bob Nye, Navigator: John Stearns, tog-Lewis Hughes, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Chas Blackmon, Radio Operator: Francis McDemott, Ball turret gunner: Ray Cook, Waist gunner: Bill Combow (8 Returned to Duty);Tail gunner: Herbert Harms (Killed in Action); flak hit set front of ship on fire which exploded, crashed Calsewitz, W of Zeitz, Ger; DOTTIE III aka GREEN BANANA. Missing Air Crew Report 8455.

Delivered MacDill 31/3/44; 327 BU Drew 4/5/45; 301 BUN Drew 22/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 5/11/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 12/12/43; Kearney 31/12/43; Assigned 338BS/96BG [BX-L] Snetterton 8/2/44; Missing in Action Augsburg 13/4/44 with Lee Bevers, Co-pilot: Willis Jones, Navigator: John Telefsen (wia & taken to hospital), Bombardier: Mack Long, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Joe Miskel, Radio Operator: Frank Humrich, Ball turret gunner: Ray Gaus, Waist gunner: Jim White, Waist gunner: Malcolm Breeze, Tail Gunner: Herb Johnson (10 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed woods at Ittlingen, 15 miles W of Heilbronn, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 3766. VERA MAE.

Delivered Cheyenne 2/3/43; Morrison 10/6/43; Assigned 32BS/301BG St Donat 21/5/43; Oudna 6/8/43; Cerignola 7/12/43; Lucera 1/2/44; Missing in Action Wiener Nuedorf 26/7/44 with Leo McDonald, Co-pilot: Kai-Kee, Ball turret gunner: Forys (3 Killed in Action); Navigator: Steed, Bombardier: Winsor, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Allen, Radio Operator: Brainard, Waist gunner: Shallcross, Waist gunner: Tate,Tail gunner: Jameson (7 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Wiener Nuestadt, Missing Air Crew Report 7138. LAURA.

Delivered Cheyenne 4/8/43; Grand Isle 11/8/43; Assigned 334BS/95BG [BG-G] Horham 15/6/43; with M.L. Crowder force landed RAF Harwarden 16/9/43; with John Adams force landed RAF Fiston 26/9/43; Missing in Action (9m) Munster 10/10/43 with Capt John Adams, Co-pilot: Tom Barber, Navigator: Ken Winegar, Bombardier: Earl DeWolf, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Marshall Crow, Radio Operator: Jerome Pubantz, Ball turret gunner: Mike Szewyck, Waist gunner: Orwin Tylseth, Waist gunner: Wallace Watts,Tail gunner: Jim Baker (10 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft ko’d engine, crashed Wenning-Hegemann railway station, near Steinfurt-Borghorst, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 1044, MISS FLOWER III.

Delivered MacDill 31/3/44; 326 BU MacDill 8/2/45; 325 BU Avon Park 9/4/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 22/8/45.

Delivered Denver 25/8/43; Scott 30/9/43; Assigned 334BS/95BG [BG-F] Horham 13/10/43; with J.W. Hargrove force landed Snetterton Heath 16/11/43; (10m), Missing in Action Munster 22/12/43 with Maurice Mangis, Co-pilot: Don Lembeke, Waist gunner: Jack Short, Waist gunner: Bill McMaster (4 Killed in Action); Navigator: Ernie Bennett, Bombardier: Leon Celnusnak, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bill Tracy, Ball turret gunner: Dale Aldrich,Tail gunner: Anton Svoboda (5 Prisoner of War); Radio Operator: Dick Dabney (evaded capture); enemy aircraft, crashed Lageveen, Zuidwolde, Hol; Missing Air Crew Report 1702. PRINCESS PAT.

Delivered Cheyenne 1/8/44; Kearney 12/8/44; Grenier 22/8/44; Assigned 391BS/34BG Mendlesham 24/8/44; returning Darmstadt, coll with 43-38222 (34BG) with Chas Ettelbrick on landing 24/12/44; Salvaged.

Delivered Cheyenne 10/7/44; Kearney 18/7/44; Grenier 4/8/44; Assigned 391BS/34BG Mendlesham 5/8/44; landing collision ex-Darmstadt 24/12/44 with Bill Latz; Salvaged.

Delivered Cheyenne 29/6/44; Kearney 13/7/44; Grenier 15/7/44; Assigned 835BS/486BG [H8-R] Sudbury 17/7/44; {31m} Missing in Action Cologne 15/10/44 with George List, Bombardier: John Wise, Jim Ellison, Rueben Bratmoe, Bob Stanley, Jim Goonan, Dick Sherman (7 Killed in Action); Norman Dahlstrom, Owen Crawford (2 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed Overath, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 9491. SNOW WHITE.

Delivered Cheyenne 6/4/43; Kearney 15/4/43; Wendover 2/5/43; Hill 8/5/43; Kearney 22/5/43; Dow Fd 30/5/43; Assigned 418BS/100BG [LD- ] Thorpe Abbotts 1/6/43 BRADY’S CRASH WAGON {not painted on a/c}; transferred 413BS/96BG [QJ-B] Andrews Fd 2/6/43; then 339BS [MZ-B] Snetterton 12/6/43; on a training mission the left wheel failed to extend for landing, then tail wheel failed before crash landed Honington, with Captain Ed Martin, Co-pilot: Dave Nichols, Navigator: Casimir Marczyk, Bombardier: John Sampson, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Norris Friedlander, Radio Operator: Joe Napolitano; Salvaged 18/4/44. SKIPPER.

Delivered Tulsa 5/10/42; Salina 21/1/43; Assigned 401BS/91BG [LL-Z] Bassingbourn 26/3/43; Missing in Action 4m Bremen 17/4/43 with Harold H. Beasley, Co-pilot: Walter L. McCain, Jr. (2 Killed in Action); Navigator: Harry Sipe, Bombardier: Matt Michaels, Radio Operator: Mark Schaefer, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Jay Franklin, Ball turret gunner: Jim Branch, Waist gunner: John Cagle,Tail gunner: Ed Jediak, Waist gunner: Everett Creason (8 Prisoner of War); flak damage, crew bailed over Bruchhausen, while ship crashed Beckeln, near Harpstedt, 12 miles SW of Bremen, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 15521. THUNDERBIRD.

Delivered Hill 17/7/43; Ephrata 4/8/43; Assigned 338BS/96BG [BX-S] Snetterton 9/9/43; Missing in Action Munster 10/10/43 with Dan Williams, Co-pilot: Fred Frey, Navigator: Bill Taylor, Bombardier: Paul Butler, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Harry Mowen, Radio Operator: Ed Miller, Ball turret gunner: Gus Seguin, Waist gunner: Albt Sielaff, Waist gunner: Paul Schwartz,Tail gunner: Jim Dixon (10 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed en route target, near Munster’s Heilig Geist Kirche, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 893.

Delivered Geiger 301st Bomb Group 3/4/42; Alamogordo 18/6/42; Westover 2/7/42; New Castle 1/9/42; Assigned 421BS/304BG Salt Lake City 30/12/42; damaged in take off with Doug Buskey at Presque Is 22/2/43; Mitchell 8/6/43; Cherry Pt 26/7/43; Lakeland 30/9/44; Hillsboro 31/10/42; Red Bluff 22/2/45; 461 BU Seymour 30/8/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Ontario 31/10/45.