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

Delivered Geiger 301st Bomb Group 1/4/42; Alamogordo 18/6/42; Westover 2/7/42; Harlingen 5/8/42; Las Vegas 28/8/42; Harlingen 27/9/42; Memphis 9/10/42; Las Vegas 15/12/42; crashed on take off for Los Angeles 13/4/43, with Capt Hubert Woodruff; Salvaged 20/4/43.

Delivered Denver 12/12/43; Kearney 31/12/43; RAF Nutts Corner (N.Ire) 16/1/44; Assigned 351BS/100BG [EP-E] Thorpe Abbotts 17/1/44; transferred 482BG Alconbury 20/5/45; 100+m, Returned to the USA 5/45; 121 BU Bradley 31/5/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 3/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 8/11/45. OUR GAL SAL.

Delivered Long Beach 2/11/43; Kearney 14/11/43; Assigned 324BS/91BG [DF-K] Bassingbourn 21/1/44; detailed Eschweiler but mission called off through bad weather while forming up, then fire broke out in top turret 24/1/44, with Marco De Mara, Co-pilot: Everett Oltman, Navigator: Bill Lowery, Bombardier: Jim Baine{chute failed} (4 Killed in Service); Flight engineer/top turret gunner: John Webb{landed on back of a horse}, Radio Operator: Russ Shields, Ball turret gunner: Jim Moore, Waist gunner: Everett Dodd, Waist gunner: Leon Sterle,Tail gunner: Chas DeBona (6 Returned to Duty); crash landed Ickleton Abbey, Cambs. UK; Salvaged 2 SAD Watton, Nfk 26/1/44.

Delivered Long Beach Assigned 324BS/91BG [DF-Y] Bassingbourn 7/10/43; 16m Missing in Action Frankfurt 4/2/44 with Fewer McGee, Co-pilot: Max Sweyer, Navigator: Don Vandervelden, Bombardier: Ed Bauer, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bill Graham, Ball turret gunner: Tom McMenamin, Waist gunner: Frank Kashock,Tail gunner: Rich Bodine (8 Prisoner of War); Radio Operator: Walt Getsey, Waist gunner: Cliff Kirkpatrick (2 Killed in Action); heavy flak barrage, crashed Sevelen, near Geldern 13 miles NW of Krefeld, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 2235. THE WOLF.

Delivered Geiger 301st Bomb Group 30/3/42; Alamogordo 18/6/42; Westover 2/7/42; Assigned SOXO 18/7/42; re-gained 16/8/42 and assigned 20ASS/25ASW Goose Bay, Lab. force landed landed low on gas with Bill Reynolds 5/543 sustaining some damage; Recl Comp 2/10/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 30/10/44; Hunter 3/12/44; Grenier 5/2/45; Assigned 32BS/301BG PFF Lucera 26/1/45; transferred 97BG Amendola ; Salvaged 9AF Germany 3/11/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 24/2/43; Casper 13/3/43; Smoky Hill 3/4/43; Assigned 336BS/95BG [ET-J] Alconbury 11/6/43; 1m, transferred 511BS/351BG [DS-Y] Polebrook 17/6/43; {36m} 2 BAD Warton 5/4/44; Returned to the USA Amarillo 18/7/44; Hendricks 1/8/44; Smyrna 9/11/44; from Hendricks with Alf Kramer 16/1/45; Rome 29/1/45; Recl Comp 9/2/45. PISTOL BALL.

Delivered Cheyenne 2/1/45; Hunter 15/1/45; Dow Fd 7/2/45; Assigned 549BS/385BG [XA-P] Gt Ashfield; transferred 349BS/100BG [XR-L] Thorpe Abbotts 9/2/45; RetUS, Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 20/12/46. TARGET FOR TONIGHT.

Delivered Geiger 301st Bomb Group 30/5/42; Alamogordo 18/6/42; Westover 2/7/42; Long Beach 1/9/42; Ft McAndrew 19/9/42; Presque Is 31/1/43; Mitchell 8/6/43; Cherry Point 26/7/43; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Ontario 12/10/45.

Delivered Denver 23/2/43; Salina 9/3/43; New Castle 6/4/43; Kansas City 14/4/43; Assigned 510BS/351BG [TU-H] Polebrook 17/5/43; {40m} 1 Base Air Depot, Burtonwood 31/3/44; Returned to the USA Tinker 16/6/44; Fairfax 24/6/44; Eglin 17/8/44; Wright 26/11/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 1/11/45. THE INVADER.

Delivered Lincoln 10/11/44; Dow Fd 3/12/44; Assigned 600BS/398BG [N8-X] Nuthampstead 3/1/45; 602BS [K8-A]; with John Godfrey in landing accident at Moelsbroek A/fd, Belgium 5/1/45, AOC 14/1/45 and re-ass 6/3/45; severe battle damaged with Lt Wells, and landed 390BG base at Framlingham 22/3/45; salvaged and repaired by 2 SAD Abbotts Ripton 24/3/45; transferred 482 Alconbury 22/5/45; RAF Valley 29/5/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 2/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 17/12/45.

Delivered Hunter 7/10/44; Dow Fd 16/10/44; Assigned 353BS/301BG Lucera 21/12/44; battle damaged Linz 26/4/45 with ?; Salvaged.

Delivered Hunter 29/10/44; Dow Fd 9/11/44; Assigned 351BS/100BG Thorpe Abbotts 19/11/44; transferred 533BS/381BG [VP-S] Ridgewell 19/12/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 28/5/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 30/5/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 30/11/45. FORT LANSING EMANCIPATOR.

Delivered Cheyenne 6/12/42; Wilmington 31/1/43; Salina 3/3/43; Assigned 368BS/306BG [BO-Z] 24/3/43; transferred 322BS/91BG [LG-T] Bassingbourn 23/12/43; AFSC Burtonwood, Lancs. 8/4/44; Returned to the USA Tinker 21/6/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Bush Fd 2/7/45. BLACK MAGIC.

Delivered Cheyenne 8/12/42; Hamilton 11/1/43; Sioux City 6/4/43; Casper 14/5/43; Tinker 13/6/43; Rapid City 20/7/43; 4100 BU Patterson 6/6/44; 2AF HQ Peterson 2/7/44; 221 BU Alexandra 11/8/44; 2530 BU Selman 26/9/44; 4104 BU Rome 5/11/44; 4121 BU Kelly 7/8/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 5/12/46.

Delivered Denver 21/12/43; Kearney 12/1/44; Assigned 369BS/306BG [WW-L] Thurleigh 25/2/44; 100+ missions then transferred to 29 TAC 14/5/45; then 398BG Nuthampstead 24/5/45; no ops then to RAF Valley, Wales, to Returned to the USA Bradley 2/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 12/9/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 28/12/45. SKIPPY.

Delivered Tulsa 15/3/44; Kearney 29/3/44; Dow Fd 4/4/44; Assigned 602BS/398BG [K8-J] Nuthampstead 26/4/44; battle damaged Cologne 5/10/44 with Rudow, AOC Belgium 12/10/44; Salvaged 5 SAD Merville, Fr. 14/11/44.

Delivered Cheyenne 6/2/43; Assigned 41OBS/94BG Presque Is 9/4/43; Earls Colne 16/4/43; Rougham 15/6/43; transferred 544BS/384BG [SU-G] Grafton Underwood 12/7/43; Missing in Action Hamburg 25/7/43 with Clarence Christman, Navigator: Vern Dennett, Radio Operator: John Gillis, Ball turret gunner: Bob Leonard,Tail gunner: Jerome Goubeauz (5 Killed in Action); Co-pilot: Bob Carroll, Bombardier: Bill Sears, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Albt Detrick, Waist gunner: S.G.Stephenson, Waist gunner: Carl Hill (5 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed between Bliedersdorf and Harsefeld, 20 miles W of Hamburg, Ger. No MACR. SUGAR PUSS.

Delivered Lincoln 4/11/44; Dow Fd 26/11/44; Assigned 418BS/100BG [LD-Y] Thorpe Abbotts 4/12/44; transferred 571BS/390BG [FC-J] 12/5/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 3/7/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 8/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 18/12/45. LUCKY LASSIE aka CHAPEL IN THE FLAK.

Delivered Dallas 27/8/44; Langley 23/9/44; Grenier 12/10/44; Assigned 353BS/301BG PFF Lucera 1/11/44; Missing in Action Brux 4/3/45 with Ralph Walter Sommers, Kostantacos, Epstein, Spangler, Kern, McGinness, Littlefield (7 EVD/RTD); Dutton, Hays, Moller (3 KIA); flak, ditched Adriatic Sea; 7 evaded capture & ret; 3 KIA; Missing Air Crew Report 12917. GARBAGE CANNIE.