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

Delivered Cheyenne 11/12/43; Independence 26/12/43; Bowman Fd 30/12/43; Orlando 1/1/44; 330 BU Dyersburg 1/3/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 14/12/45.

Delivered Long Beach 24/4/43; Smoky Hill 29/4/43; Tinker 13/5/43; Dow Fd 21/5/43; Assigned 323BS/91BG [OR-M] Bassingbourn 24/5/43; transferred 336BS/95BG [ET-F] Horham 16/6/43; 8m, Missing in Action Hannover 26/7/43 with Oliver Robichaud, Co-pilot: Martin Heathcote, Navigator: Capt Roy Deadman, Bombardier: Bob Katz, Ball turret gunner: Jim Bloxom, Waist gunner: Joe Mutz broke arm in bale out (6 Prisoner of War); Waist gunner: Clarry Borchardt,Tail gunner: George Kosturko (2 Returned to Duty); Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Chas Cothran shot dead by SS on march from POW camp, Radio Operator: Graham Smith (2 Killed in Action); flak & enemy aircraft, crashed Dorrieloh, 12 miles E of Diepholz, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 197. SAD SACK.

Delivered Tulsa 2/5/44; Kearney 10/5/44; Grenier 27/5/44; Assigned 336BS/95BG [ET-N] Horham 30/5/44; 23m, battle damaged Hamburg 4/8/44 with Bob Hamilton, Navigator: Chas Shippe, Bombardier: Jack Sternback, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Oliver Schriner, Radio Operator: Rolla Kilgore, Ball turret gunner: Ken Barnett, Waist gunner: Harvey Kastner,Tail gunner: John Brogan (8 Prisoner of War); Co-pilot: Alphonse Kech (Killed in Action); flak KO’d #3, crashed Poggemuhlen, SW of Bremervorde, Ger, Missing Air Crew Report 7700.

Delivered Cheyenne 17/7/44; Kearney 25/7/44; Grenier 7/8/44; Assigned 334BS/95BG [BG-A] Horham 13/8/44; 336BS [ET-A]; with D.L. Pearson force landed Laon, Fr 30/12/44;42m, Missing in Action Ruhland 17/3/45 with Irwin Vermillion, Co-pilot: John Gunvordahl, Navigator: Bill Geil, togg-Bill Riemondi, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ray Gorman, Radio Operator: Chas Wellington, Ball turret gunner: Perry Davis, Waist gunner: Bob Brown,Tail gunner: Noah Carriker (9 Returned to Duty); gas leak and mech fault, crash landed Neustadt, Ger. Crew all returned; Missing Air Crew Report 13111.

Delivered Lincoln 25/9/44; Grenier 11/10/44; Assigned 602BS/398BG [K8-R] Nuthampstead 23/11/44; repaired Missing in Action 8/1/45 with Hyndman, AOC 12/1/45; re-ass 24/2/45; repaired Missing in Action 25/2/45 with Hyndman, AOC {A-90} 26/2/45; re-ass from 2 SAD Abbotts Ripton 25/3/45; RAF Valley 26/5/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 29/5/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 1/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 17/12/45. AKA COFFEE’S GRINDER aka LITTLE OBNOXIOUS.

Delivered Cheyenne 22/8/44; Lincoln 2/9/44; Grenier 8/9/44; Assigned 511BS/351BG [DS-K] Polebrook 21/9/44; battle damaged {30m} Neuss 31/12/44 with Clyde Armstrong, crash landed base; Salvaged.

Delivered Louisville 2/5/45; Rome 26/5/45; 4185 BU Independence 17/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 5/11/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 7/4/43; Gt Falls 8/4/43; Cheyenne 16/4/43; Walla Walla 16/5/43; Gt Falls 18/5/43; Assigned 396BG Moses Lake 23/5/43; force landed base with John Gibbons 1/9/43; 4136 BU Tinker 23/7/44; 4100 BU Patterson 24/10/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 17/8/45.

Delivered Dallas 23/6/45; Rome 28/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 5/11/45.

Delivered Dallas 15/6/45; Rome 25/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 5/11/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 26/11/43; Wendover 11/12/43; Grenier 2/1/44; Assigned 748BS/457BG [K] Glatton 23/1/44; Missing in Action Ludwigshafen 27/5/44 with Roger Birkman, Co-pilot: Alex Kucherenko, Bombardier: Jim Cochran, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ray Koch, Waist gunner: John Toney (5 evaded capture); Navigator: Mike Stanko, Radio Operator: Andy Kafka, Ball turret gunner: John Buechel, Waist gunner: Jim Jones,Tail gunner: Errol Bailey (5 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed mile NE of Overslag, Hol; Missing Air Crew Report 5298.

Delivered Cheyenne 6/4/43; Colorado Springs 16/4/43; Patterson 18/4/43; Peterson 2/5/43; Patterson 2/7/43; Barksdale 6/8/43; 3701 BU Amarillo 10/8/44; 3706 BU Sheppard 15/7/44; 3701 BU Amarillo 7/8/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 20/12/45.

Delivered Hunter 22/3/45; Grenier 29/3/45; Assigned 8AF 29/3/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 20/6/45; Sth Plains 22/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 14/2/46.

Delivered Sarasota 97BG 14/4/42; West Palm Beach 22/4/42; slated Gt Britain 14/5/42 in error; Salvaged Duko (MTO) 28/5/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 22/12/44; Hunter 4/1/45; Grenier 21/1/45; Assigned 339BS/96BG [QJ-J] Snetterton 23/1/45; transferred 324BS/91BG [DF-J] Bassingbourn 5/2/45; 367BS/306BG Thurleigh 24/5/45; Salvaged 9AF Germany 22/2/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 8/4/43; Gore 16/4/43; Patterson 18/4/43; Peterson 5/5/43; Long Beach 6/7/43; Colorado Springs 15/7/43; Peterson 21/7/43; Assigned less bombing equipment as (F-9) mapping Accra, E.Africa, Returned to the USA 9/10/44; Kirtland 29/11/44; Buckley 9/12/44; Kirtland 31/12/44. Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Albuquerque 7/2/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 28/11/43; Albuquerque 3/12/43; Wendover 3/1/44; Assigned 457BG Glatton 22/1/44; transferred 526BS/379BG [LF-C] Kimbolton 18/3/44; mission to Armentieres, France on 6/7/44 tg Raymond Peck (Killed in Action); retUS Bradley 9/7/45; 4168 Sth Plains 12/9/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 8/11/45. THE WISHBONE.

Delivered Dallas 6/6/45; Syracuse 2/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 5/11/45.

Delivered Long Beach 13/7/43; Cheyenne 17/7/43; to Roswell with Larry Ryan, force landed base 3/10/43; 303 BU Roswell 2/6/44; 3021 BU Las Vegas 28/11/44; 3010 BU Williams 11/12/44; 4160 BU Lockbourn 2/8/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Albuquerque 2/8/45.

Delivered Ardmore 6/4/44; Gt Falls 9/4/44; 202 BU Galveston 20/9/44; 2114 BU Lockbourn 27/6/45; 2137 BU Hendricks 18/8/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 9/11/45.