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

Delivered Cheyenne 22/8/44; Hunter 31/9/44; Grenier 15/9/44; Assigned 509BS/351BG [RQ-U] Polebrook 28/9/44; {54m} transferred 384BG Grafton Underwood 23/5/45; Salvaged 9AF Germany 10/12/45. MYASSIS DRAGGIN.

Delivered Lincoln 7/10/44; Grenier 16/10/44; Assigned 34BG Mendlesham 19/10/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 21/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 24/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 8/12/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 24/1/44; Gr Island 6/2/44; Assigned 351BG Polebrook 11/2/44; transferred 7504BS/457BG [– V] Glatton 1/3/44; Missing in Action Augsburg 16/3/44 with Lew Lennartson & rest RTD{back to base by midnight}, including Sgt Omer Fontaine{Wounded in Action}; damaged by fighters, ditched in Channel, but picked up by RAF ASR. MISS YU II.

Delivered Cheyenne 5/4/44; Gulfport 20/4/44; 347 BU Key Fd 19/3/45; 328 BU Gulfport 28/3/45; 4200 BU Chicago Mun 24/8/45; 328 BU Gulfport 31/8/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 29/10/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 9/2/43; 94BG Pueblo 18/2/43; Salina 25/2/43; Brookley 19/3/43; Smoky Hill 23/3/43; Dow Fd 18/4/43; Assigned: 332BS/94BG [XM-G] Bassingbourn 10/4/43; Earls Colne 12/5/43; Rougham 13/6/43; Transferred: 407BS/92BG [PY-U] Alconbury 30/7/43; slight mid-air collision Pilot: 42-29962 (96BG) forced landing 13 miles north of Portsmouth, UK w/Ralph Bruce 30/8/43; MIA St Andre de L’Uere 3/9/43 w/Ralph Bruce, Co-Pilot: Sabron McQueen, Navigator: Dave Prosser, Bombardier: Bert Theiss, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Hedley Cassidy, Radio Operator: Mike Fleszar, Waist Gunner: Bob Muir (7EVD); Ball Turret Gunner: Milton Seldon, Waist Gunner: Regis McDonnell, Tail Gunner: Simon McGuire (3POW), Enemy aircraft, crashed Touran, Fr. MACR 659. HI-LO JACK.

Delivered Cheyenne 30/3/43; Dow 23/5/43; Assigned 535BS/381BG [MS-T] Ridgewell 24/5/43 with Osce Jones, Seth Armstead, Leon Spivey, Chas Nevius, Jim Haynie, Joe Nicatra, Alf Haugen, Chas Newcomb, Shannon Early, Maurice Kelleher. Missing in Action 6m Heroya 24/7/43 with Osce V. Jones, Co-pilot: George McIntosh, Navigator: Art Guertin, Bombardier: Chas Nevius, Radio Operator: Jim Haynie, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Joe Nicatra, Ball turret gunner: Chas Newcomb, Waist gunner: Alf Haugen, Waist gunner: Shannon Early,Tail gunner: Maurice Kelleher (10 Interned); Missing Air Crew Report 132. GEORGIA REBEL.

Delivered Cheyenne 14/10/43; Gr Island 29/10/43; Wilmington 4/11/43; Assigned 327BS/92BG [UX-P] Podington 21/1/44; Missing in Action Berlin 8/5/44 with Tom Fishburn, Co-pilot: George Wright, Navigator: Gerald Hogan, Bombardier: Jim Manley, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Joe Jones, Radio Operator: John McLaughlin, Ball turret gunner: Dick Powell, Waist gunner: Edwin McCrary, Waist gunner: Harvey Jeffries,Tail gunner: Jack Furley (10INT); flak, crash landed Glemmingebro, Swed, then sal; Missing Air Crew Report 4577.

Delivered Long Beach 17/1/43; Walker 28/2/43; Tinker 31/3/43; Smoky Hill 17/4/43; Assigned 306BG Thurleigh 27/4/43; transferred 96BG Andrews Fd, then Snetterton; severe battle damaged with ? 16/6/43; Salvaged 17/6/43.

Delivered Cheyenne 20/2/43; Dow Fd 15/4/43; Assigned Carter ProvBG, with Tom Witt crashed Grindavik, near Patterson Fd, Iceland 17/4/43. BOO HOO. Written off 18/4/43;

Delivered Cheyenne 15/2/44; Rapid City 5/3/44; Dow Fd 29/4/44; Assigned 398BG Nuthampstead 6/5/44; no ops, transferred 534BS/381BG Ridgewell [GD-C] 21/5/44; {87+m} Returned to the USA Bradley 10/6/45; Sth Plains 2/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 1/12/45. PATSY ANN.

Delivered Cheyenne 13/2/44; Rapid City 3/3/44; Dow Fd 28/4/44; Assigned 398BG Nuthampstead 1/5/44; no ops, transferred 452BG Deopham Green 2/5/44; dest by enemy aircraft Poltava with Lt Jackson 21/6/44; Salvaged Russia 2/7/44.

Delivered Pyote 2/4/44; 4104 BU Pyote 24/4/44; 235 BU Biggs 16/8/44; 224 BU Sioux City 27/2/45; with Ed Dowling force landed 15 miles N base 20/3/45; 222 BU Ardmore 13/6/45; 332 BU Ardmore 16/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 19/8/45.

Delivered Tulsa 28/11/42; Homestead 14/2/43; Assigned 401BS/91BG [LL-D] Bassingbourn 25/3/43; Missing in Action {1m} Bremen 17/4/43 with Bob Walker, Co-pilot: Bob Vetter, Navigator: Roy Scott, Bombardier: George Zedonek, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bob Flanagan, Radio Operator: Gus Collins, Ball turret gunner: Bill Carroll, Waist gunner: Ray Oltman. (8 Prisoner of War); Waist gunner: Don Snell,Tail gunner: Nick Sandoff (2 Killed in Action); heavy enemy aircraft attacks, crashed Hilgenriedersiel, five NE of Norden, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 15222. (?15522). RAIN OF TERROR.

Delivered at Tulsa 26-Nov-42; New Castle 11-Dec-42; Assigned 367BS/306BG [GY- ] Thurleigh 1-Jan-43; Missing in Action on 6-Mar-43 on mission to bomb the U-Boat pens at Lorient, France. The aircraft came under heavy fighter attack shortly after rounding the Brest Peninsula and the aircraft was abandoned. Exact crash location not determined. No Missing Air Crew Report was ever made documenting this loss. 3KIA 6POW 1EVD.

Delivered Cheyenne 12/3/44; Gr Island 22/3/44; Dow Fd 3/4/44; Assigned 401BG Deenethorpe 2/5/44; transferred 367BS/306BG [GY-F] Thurleigh 5/5/44; Missing in Action 63M Berlin 3/2/45 with Vernon Daley, Co-pilot: Joe Carbine, Navigator: Paul Becker, Bombardier: Bob Crede, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Reisel Horn, Radio Operator: Pofirio Marquez, Ball turret gunner: George Petrillo, Waist gunner: Silvio DeZolt,Tail gunner: Okey Coplin, BBC press-Guy Byam (10 Killed in Action); flak, crashed Channel; Missing Air Crew Report 12283. ROSE OF YORK.

Delivered MacDill 31/3/44; with Joe Tripi force landed base 24/1/44; 326 BU MacDill 2/4/45; 4124 BU Altus 1/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 29/10/45.

Assigned 365BS/305BG Presque Is 19/10/42; Grafton Underwood 29/10/42; transferred 341BS/97BG Polebrook 4/11/42; Maison Blanche 17/11/42; Tafaraoui 22/11/42; Biskra 25/12/42; Chateau-du-Rhumel 8/2/43; BD Messina 35/5/43 with Bill Allbright; #3 engine fell off, bombardier Percy W. Robinson Killed in Action, hit by stabilizer when bailing out, crash landed Tunis. Salvaged. Missing Air Crew Report 16525.

Assigned 323BS/91BG [OR- ] Bangor 10-Sep-42; Bassingbourn 11-Oct-42; damaged on first mission Abbeville 8-Nov-42 limped back to base, and became a Hangar Queen; Salvaged BD 27-Nov-42 10RTD.

364BS/305BG [WF-S/N] Bangor 19/10/42; Grafton Underwood 29/10/42; Missing in Action Kiel 19/5/43 with Carroll MacCauley, Co-pilot: Adrian Lyon, Radio Operator: Jim Shaw, Ball turret gunner: Elsa Spiva, Waist gunner: John Lukacovic, Waist gunner: Alex Laird (6 Killed in Action); Navigator: Kurt Von Gruben, Bombardier: Heywood Sawyer, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: John Schonberger,Tail gunner: Jack Milton (4 Prisoner of War) enemy aircraft, ditched shallow waters SW of Husum, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 15329.

Delivered Alexandra 2/4/44; Oklahoma City 17/4/44; 221 BU Alexandra, force landed base with George Brumbaugh 1/1/45; W/O 1/2/45.