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

Delivered to Denver 14/6/43; Kearney 19/7/43; Assigned to the 547th BS, squadron code SO-E, 384th BG, Station 106, Grafton Underwood, UK on 9/8/43; when war weary the ship was used as an assembly ship, painted white with sky blue polka dots; Returned to the USA Grenier 24/9/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 12/12/45 THE SPOTTED COW aka PATCHES II.

Delivered Tulsa 25/2/44; Hunter 4/3/44; Homestead 10/3/44; Assigned 482BG Alconbury 19/3/44; transferred 353BS/301BG Lucera 27/3/44; cargo ship from 11/11/44; crash landed base with Walter Core 28/6/45; Salvaged.

Delivered Hunter 9/11/44; Grenier 28/11/44; Assigned 603BS/398BG [N7-U] Nuthampstead 14/1/45; repaired Missing in Action 28/3/45 with Stewart; AOC, re-ass 29/3/45; RAF Valley 2/6/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 7/6/45; Sth Plains 10/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 27/12/45.

Delivered Tulsa 31/3/44; 88BG Hunter 9/6/44; Dow Fd 24/6/44; Assigned 32BS/301BG Lucera 4/7/44; Salvaged 25/4/45. MISS TALLAHASSEE LASSEE.

Delivered Ogden 25/1/42; Hill 18/2/42; Cheyenne 12/4/42; Lowry 8/5/42; Hamilton 29/5/42; slated RAF by transferred 72BS/5BG Hawaii 30/5/42; fate unknown after 15/6/44. Salvaged Hawaii 10/8/44.

Delivered Dallas 19/7/43; Grand Isle 16/8/43; Assigned 482BG Alconbury 31/8/43; transferred 534BS/381BG [GD-G] Ridgewell 20/9/43; Missing in Action 1m Bremen 8/10/43 with Capt Dexter Lishon, Co-pilot: Carlton Long, Navigator: Bob Gluck, Bombardier: Phil Rokosa, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Canute Johnson, Radio Operator: Lloyd Riddle, Ball turret gunner: Clarry Madison, Waist gunner: John Schnalzer, Waist gunner: George Stuart,Tail gunner: Bill Marques (10 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed west of Bremen, Ger.MACR 1398. BOBBY T.

Delivered 14/1/42; Assigned 30BS/19BG Java 20/2/42 with Williams; then 7BG, used in first McArthur rescue; ditched Iligan Bay, Mindanao (23) 12/3/42 with Capt Henry C. Godman.

Delivered Denver 26/1/44; 1SAG Langley 13/3/44; Grenier 27/4/44; Assigned (H2X) 482BG Alconbury 31/4/44; transferred 418BS/100BG [LD-V] Thorpe Abbotts 21/5/45; RetUS, Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 2/1/46.

Delivered Portland 14/1/42; MacDill 25/1/42; Assigned 19BG, then 7BG; scrapped at Brisbane, Aus. 31/10/44. (?Used in Panama and Returned to the USA 1943?).

Delivered Patterson 15/1/42; Wright 1/3/42; Minneapolis 14/3/42; Wright 10/6/42; Patterson 17/6/42; Biggs 15/5/43; 2511 BU Bryan 5/12/43; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 5/10/45.

Delivered Portland 14/1/42; MacDill 22/1/42; with ? Ward force landed FL 22/2/42; Palm Beach 26/4/42; Sebring 13/9/42; 2137 BU Hendricks 14/5/42; force landed base with Theodore Keith 16/8/43; Written off 5/7/44.

Delivered Hunter 16/11/44; Dow Fd 28/11/44; Assigned 562BS/388BG Knettishall 4/12/44; RetUS, Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 18/12/45.

Delivered MacDill 3/1/42; Assigned 32BS/19BG Java 7/2/42 with Bill Lorance; 7BG, crash landed Malang 8/2/42 with Bill Lorance. Salvaged.

Delivered Sacramento 18/1/42; Assigned 19BG Java 19/2/42 with Feeney; 7BG, strafed and destroyed at Bandoeng, Java 19/2/42. Salvaged.

Delivered MacDill 4/1/42; Assigned 19BG Java 5/2/42 with Bill Pritchard; transferred 9BS/7BG; shot down at sea near Malang, Java, and blew up with Bill Prichard, W. Morgan, Isadore Alfred, F. Luscombe, R. Legault, Pvt Joe Hines, Pfc Ignatius Barron, Pvt Horace Salmon 8/2/43.

Delivered Boeing SAD 18/1/42; MacDill 23/1/42; Assigned 7BG Hawaii 2/42; Nasal 20/5/42; Middle East 11/7/43; Central Africa /6/44; Returned to the USA Boeing 17/6/44 mod to RB-17; Written off 30/11/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 25/6/43; Dalhart 8/7/43; slated 92BG, crashed six miles east of Texline, TX with Jerome Osadnick 26/8/43; Written off 27/8/43.

Delivered Cheyenne 9/2/43; 94BG Pueblo 18/2/43; Salina 25/2/43; Brookley 19/3/43; Smoky Hill 23/3/43; Syracuse 8/4/43; Assigned 332BS/94BG [XM-Z] Bassingbourn 17/4/43; Earls Colne 12/5/43; Rougham 13/6/43; transferred 326BS/92BG Alconbury 1/8/43; 544BS/384BG [SU-M] Grafton Underwood 13/8/43; Missing in Action Augsburg 25/2/44 with Jack Larsen, Co-pilot: Warren Donovan, Navigator: John Fallon, Bombardier: Ed Murray, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Karl Barnes, Radio Operator: Bob Cole, Ball turret gunner: Alton Haverlah, Waist gunner: Ed Simon, Waist gunner: Ed Holler,Tail gunner: John Moore (10 Prisoner of War); mech fault, crash landed Bruchsal ?, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 2774. MR FIVE BY FIVE.

Delivered Cheyenne 25/2/44; Kearney 16/3/44; Dow Fd 5/4/44; Assigned 601BS/398BG [3O-P] Nuthampstead 28/4/44; Missing in Action (19m) Cauvincourt 8/8/44 with Wally Blackwell, Co-pilot: Roy Anderson, Navigator: Isadore Cassuto, tog-Cpl Adrian Bacon, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Arnold Brunsburg, Radio Operator: Hillyer Brown, Ball turret gunner: Cpl Gerald Decker, Waist gunner: Bob Augustin (8 Returned to Duty);Tail gunner: Chas Simons (Killed in Action); flak KO’d #4 and tail wheel, crashed Falaise, Fr; Missing Air Crew Report 8065. KENTUCKY COLONEL.

Delivered Cheyenne 21/2/44; Hunter 6/3/44; Grenier 7/4/44; Assigned 603BS/398BG [N7-R] Nuthampstead 25/4/44; (22m) Missing in Action Munich 13/7/44 with Tom Foster, Co-pilot: Theo West, Navigator: Ray Wallace, Bombardier: Cliff Bryan, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ray Bringle, Radio Operator: Gerald Gruette, Ball turret gunner: Chas Cropp, Waist gunner: Francis Tuttle,Tail gunner: Loren Brown (9 Killed in Action); flak hit caused ship to break in two, exploded, crashed Vlesenbeck, SW of Brussels, Bel; Missing Air Crew Report 7498 [?7497].