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

Delivered Hunter 3/10/44; Dow Fd 16/10/44; Assigned 8AF 18/10/44; Salvaged 9AF Germany 22/5/46; Returned to the USA 4000 BU Patterson 23/5/46; 4000 BU Wright 30/6/46; re-ass 31/3/47; 4141 BU Pyote 25/5/47; Recl Comp 18/4/48.

Delivered Lincoln 1/10/44; Grenier 14/10/44; Assigned 8AF 16/10/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 6/7/45; Sth Plains 8/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 26/11/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 22/2/43; Stillwater 8/3/43; Dow Fd 15/4/43; Assigned 511BS/351BG [DS-Z] Polebrook 25/4/43 MAJOR BALL; 9m Nantes 16/9/43 with Maj Jim Stewart, Co-pilot: Geiger, Navigator: Maze, Bombardier: Watts, rest ?; ran out of gas on approach crash landed Lutton, Northamptonshire; (10 Returned to Duty). Salvaged. MEAT BALL.

Delivered Dallas 10/7/44; Langley 3/8/44; Dow Fd 12/9/44; Assigned 95BG as PFF then 100BG Thorpe Abbotts 22/9/44; used to bring home POWs at end of war; RetUS, then 5693BU Charleston 28/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 29/10/45. THE BRASS HAT.

Delivered Lincoln 30/9/44; Fairfield 16/10/44; Assigned 526BS/379BG Kimbolton 13/11/44; loaned to 91BG for one mission – Missing in Action Cologne 6/1/45 with Cecil McConnell (397BG), Radio Operator: George Merritt, Ball turret gunner: Alf Nichols, Waist gunner: Rhienholdt Strecker,Tail gunner: Marion Hoffman, radar-Don Burkness(379BG) (6 Prisoner of War); Co-pilot: Warren Smith, Navigator: Don Williams, Bombardier: Alan Hillman, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: George Turner (4 Killed in Action); flak hit right wing KO’d #3, crashed Plum, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 11568. JEANIE.

Delivered Denver 21/6/43; Redmond 14/8/43; Assigned 413BS/96BG [MZ-V] Snetterton 15/8/43; Missing in Action Düren 20/10/43 with Pilot Charles F. Geyer Jr; Co-pilot: Robert P. Surdez Jr; Navigator William J. Doherty; Bombardier Donald O. Mills; Radio Operator Aaron M. Becker; Engineer / Top Turret Gunner Frank J. Killarney; Right Waist Gunner Charles R. Randel; Left Waist Gunner Alexander J. Guilianelli; Ball Turret Gunner Edward L. Lantron; Tail Gunner James A. Parker. Aaron Becker, Charles Randel, Alexander Guilianelli, Edward Lantron and James Parker were KIA (Killed in Action). Pilot Geyer and Co-Pilot Surdez managed to evade for a short while, but were rapidly arrested and made prisoner (POW). Navigator Doherty and Engineer Killarney were also helped by Dutch underground members, but were arrested on 7 November 1943 and were POWs. Only Bombardier Donald Mills managed to evade, helped by Dutch, Belgian and French patriots and made it back to England via Gibraltar. Crashed on the house of Mr Rijksen, of Soestdijkseweg, in De Bilt, near Utrecht, Holland. Missing Air Crew Report – MACR 1018.

Delivered Cheyenne 19/6/43; Geiger 19/7/43; Assigned 550BS/385BG [SG- ] Gt Ashfield 8/43; on mission with 6/2/44; Salvaged. CHARLENE THE BAMA QUEEN.

Delivered Denver 18/6/43; Dow Fd 15/7/43; Assigned 331BS/94BG [QE-W] Rougham 9/43; considered war weary and sal 26/7/45. CHARLIE’S DELIGHT.

Delivered Dallas 11/7/44; Langley 8/8/44; Dow Fd 12/9/44; Assigned 332BS/94BG [XM-Z] Rougham 14/9/44; transferred 335BS/95BG [OE-J] Horham 11/44; with L.W. Jensen, Radio Operator: Paul Rupard, Waist gunner: – Olson [2wia] 24/2/45; 53m, RetUS, Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 19/10/45. SWEETHEART OF SEATTLE.

Delivered Denver 23/6/43; 383BG Geiger 26/6/43; force landed 20 miles west Walla Walla with Tom Hayden 18/7/43; 452BG Pendleton 28/10/43; 330 BU Dyersberg 1/3/44; 327 BU Drew 14/5/44; 4124 BU Altus 8/6/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 9/10/45.

Delivered Denver 23/6/43; Assigned 505BG Harvard 13/7/43; Tinker 19/9/43; 244 BU Harvard 23/9/44; 4121 BU Kelly 12/12/44, Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 7/10/45.

Delivered Dallas 9/7/44; Langley 15/8/44; Dow Fd 18/9/44; Assigned 100BG Thorpe Abbotts 19/9/44; transferred 412BS/95BG [QW-X] Horham 20/9/44; 23m, RetUS, Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 20/10/44.

Delivered Denver 23/6/43; force landed Scott Fd, Ill with Curtis Carlin 11/8/43; Assigned ?; Missing in Action 22/10/43;

Delivered Denver 23/6/43; Dow Fd 14/7/43; Assigned 338BS/96BG [BX-O] Snetterton 18/7/43 WACKY WOODY; burned out with ? ; (10 Returned to Duty); Salvaged battle damaged 20/5/44. HELL’S CHARIOT.

Assigned 322BS/91BG [LG-T] Bangor 31/8/42; Bassingbourn 11/10/42; {16+m} with Joe Totusek, burned out on base, internal fire started probably by ground crew’s cigarette, 23/3/43; First aircraft sal in ground accident. (possibly LUFTWAFFE’S WATERLOO or MARNITA) but better known as MOTSIE.

Delivered Cheyenne 10/7/44; Kearney 19/7/44; Dow Fd 3/8/44; Assigned 862BS/493BG Debach 4/8/44; transferred 334BS/95BG [BG-N] Horham 1/45; with D.G. Helgeson force landed A-78 afb Florennes/Juzaine, Bel. 9/3/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 24/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 27/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 9/12/45. BETTER DUCK.

Delivered Denver 23/6/43; Dow Fd 19/7/43; Assigned 337BS/96BG [AW-F] Snetterton 20/7/43; transferred 36BS for Radio Counter Measures, Sculthorpe 1944. Missing in Action Heligoland 30/10/44, with Lts with Gaither & W. Dunnuck. Intended for submarine pens of Heligoland. Due to bad weather target could not be seen and A/C was re-directed towards Berlin but the plane run out of fuel somewhere over North sea and crashed.

Delivered Denver 13/6/43; Dow Fd 29/7/43; Assigned 544BS/384BG [SU-B] Grafton Underwood 6/6/43; transferred Azon/Aphrodite duties, Knettishall 8/6/44; Salvaged n/battle damaged 25/5/45. BROADWAY ROSE.

Delivered Cheyenne 12/2/43; Dow Fd 16/4/43; Assigned 333BS/94BG Rougham 6/43 RAIDER; transferred 547BS/384BG [SO-A] Grafton Underwood 10/7/43; Missing in Action Gelsenkirchen 12/8/43 with George Keck, Co-pilot: Ray Gaither, Radio Operator: Frank Hollingsworth, Ball turret gunner: Bill Wolven, Waist gunner: Theo Paduch, Waist gunner: John Hughes (6 Killed in Action); Navigator: Bill Juart, Bombardier: Arthur Bryant, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Milton Deville,Tail gunner: Bill Igou (4 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Haus Oelgarten, near Hennef, seven miles E of Bonn, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 286.

Delivered Long Beach 26/2/43; Denver 4/3/43; Casper 13/3/43; Memphis 17/4/43; Presque 26/4/43; Assigned 92BG Alconbury 12/8/43; transferred 813BS/482BG [PC-R] with H2S radar scanner fitted, Alconbury 25/8/43; Returned to the USA Gray 3/2/45; Patterson 18/2/45; with John Flint force landed Midway Apt OH 22/8/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 27/11/45.