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

Delivered Gowen 12/3/43; Pyote 27/7/43; Walker 11/6/443; Dalhart 19/9/44; Written off 17/10/44. Recl Comp 7/6/46.

Delivered Tulsa 30/12/42; Wendover 27/1/43; Sioux City 6/4/43; Casper 14/5/43; Moses Lake 8/6/43; crashed 30 miles SW base, disintegrated in mid air. Pilot Lt Dranan and seven passengers all killed. Cause unknown.

Delivered Cheyenne 3/8/44; Hunter 12/8/44; Grenier 3/9/44; Assigned 413BS/96BG Snetterton 8/9/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 5/7/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 6/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 14/12/45.

Delivered Tulsa 23/8/42; Amarillo Written off 17/12/44.

MAD 20/8/42; New Castle 10/10/42; Assigned Wildflower (8AF) 30/10/42. Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Arledge.

Delivered Cheyenne 5/5/44; Hunter 19/5/44; Dow Fd 29/5/44; Assigned 323BS/91BG [OR-Q/W] Bassingbourn 11/6/44; Missing in Action 42m Merseburg 2/11/44 with Bob Harris, Co-pilot: Ed Splawinski, Bombardier: Jim Wilson, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Jim Roberts, Radio Operator: George Dacey, Waist gunner: Emanuele Contarino,Tail gunner: Calvin Perkins (7 Prisoner of War); Navigator: Frank Quincy, Ball turret gunner: Howard Divelbiss (2 Killed in Action); hit by Fw 190, crashed Ottersleben, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 10361. CHERI.

Delivered Hunter 20/12/44; Dow Fd 6/1/45; Assigned 836BS/487BG Lavenham 8/1/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 10/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 21/12/45.

Delivered Long Beach 10/11/43; Pueblo 27/1/43; Biggs 4/3/43; Blythe 14/4/43; Walla Walla 15/5/43; Redmond 15/6/43; Assigned 592BS/396BG Moses Lake with Lyle Graham crashed 30miles SW base 21/6/43, 8 Killed in Service ; (?Walla Walla 18/7/43; Ephrata 9/8/43; Pinecastle 10/6/44; McCook 18/6/44; Biggs 22/7/44; Syracuse 9/4/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 10/10/45?)

Delivered Long Beach 10/11/42; Tulsa 20/12/42; Smyrna 23/1/43; Hobbs 3/2/43; Pueblo 6/4/43; Hobbs 25/4/43; Las Vegas 12/6/43; Roswell 23/9/43; Williams 9/12/43; La Junta 1/4/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Searcey Fd 31/7/45.

Assigned 95BG Geiger 1/12/42; Rapid City 17/12/42; crashed Huron, nine miles NNW Pierre, SD 24/12/42 with Oliver L. Walker, Co-pilot: Howard Stevens, Navigator: Norman Mattice, Bombardier: George Morris, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Gerald Baker, Radio Operator: Chas Hooberry, gnr-Jim White, gnr- Mike Mitza,Tail gunner: Chas Missenns (Killed in Service); Written off 26/8/43.

Delivered Lincoln 21/10/44; Grenier 27/10/44; Assigned 8AF 28/10/44; taxi accident at Stansted with ground crew 2/12/44; Salvaged 30/1/45.

Delivered Kearney 10/8/44; Albuquerque 15/8/44; Grenier 2/9/44; Assigned 401BS/91BG [LL-R] Bassingbourn 12/9/44 GYPSIE; {60+m} Returned to the USA Bradley 11/6/45; Sth Plains 16/6/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 4/12/45. re-named BLOOD ‚N GUTS.

Delivered Cheyenne 8/2/43; Rapid City 5/3/43; Geiger 22/6/43; Rapid City 30/6/43; Geiger 27/10/43; 327 BU Drew 27/7/44; 324 BU Chatham 11/9/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 2/12/45.

Assigned 366BS/305BG Syracuse 17/9/42; Grafton Underwood 29/10/42; transferred 341BS/97BG Polebrook 4/11/42; en route Maison Blanche, via Gibraltar 17/11/42, with Clark Garber, Co-pilot: Josh Kaplan, Navigator: John Roysden, Bombardier: Les Birleson*, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Welcome Talbot, Radio Operator: Paul Padgett, Ball turret gunner: Roger Arent, Waist gunner: Lilburn Haddox, Waist gunner: Arthur Spell, pass-Brig Gen Asa Duncan (8AF HQ, Chief of Staff, Major John Knox* (341BS CO) (11 Killed in Service); engine fire, aircraft crashed Bay of Biscay; (*only bodies recovered). Missing Air Crew Report 15097.

Delivered Denver 1/3/43; Presque Is 8/4/43; Assigned 510BS/351BG [TU-A] Polebrook 17/4/43; Missing in Action {17m} Anklam 9/10/43 with Bill Warring, Co-pilot: Howie Davis, Navigator: Max Polin, Bombardier: Dave Hennis, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Gordon Schmitt, Radio Operator: Tom Klimp, Ball turret gunner: Victor Viha, Waist gunner: Jim Quillin, Waist gunner: Virgil Summers (9 Prisoner of War);Tail gunner: Windell Killough (Killed in Action) ; enemy aircraft, crashed Kappeln, near Schleswig, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 876. SLEEPY LAGOON.

Delivered Tulsa 8/42; Lockbourn 18/10/42; 21 T/T Sq Felts Fd 29/10/42; Salina 16/12/42; Gowen 31/3/43; Sioux City 11/6/43; Geiger 13/7/43; 327 BU Drew 20/4/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 1/8/45.

Delivered Tulsa 11/9/42; 351 SD Pyote 10/10/42; Grand Is 21/8/42; Wayne 5/11/42; Patterson 20/11/42; Wayne 16/12/42; 233 BU Davis Monthan 1/2/43; Romulus 1/3/43; New Castle 5/5/43; Smyrna 5/6/43; Roswell 11/6/43; 327 BU Drew 21/6/43; Hobbs 7/7/43; with George Briant force landed Nebraska 26/9/44; Kingman 13/1/45.

Delivered Dallas 5/7/45; Sth Plains 4/8/45; Walnut Ridge 24/8/45; 234 BU Clovis 31/1/46; 4121 BU Kelly 20/2/46; with Harry Barrett taxi acc. 15 TSK Clovis 25/3/46; 556 BU Long Beach 9/6/46; 1503 BU Hamilton 16/6/46; 509 Comp Gp Roswell 18/8/46 Operation Crossroads; 4104 BU Rome 4/11/46; 4145 BU Wendover 15/12/46; 216 BU Wendover 23/3/47; re-ass 31/3/47; 4145 BU Alamogordo 16/4/47; with Fain Pool force landed base 20/5/47; 4121 BU Kelly 8/8/47; 4000 BU Patterson 4/9/47; 2750 AB Wright-Patterson 10/9/48; Recl Comp 15/12/49.

Delivered Cheyenne 26/2/43; Pueblo 12/3/43; Presque Is 8/4/43; Assigned 511BS/351BG [DS-T] Polebrook 27/4/43; Missing in Action {4m} St Nazaire 28/6/43 with Bob Adams, Bombardier: Roy Sage, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bill Claggett,Tail gunner: Don Capper (4 Prisoner of War); Ball turret gunner: Dragie Yareff, Radio Operator: Ermyle Young, Waist gunner: Everett L. Brannen, Waist gunner: Joe Wolfe (4 Killed in Action), Co-pilot: George Gloudeman, Navigator: Joe Normile (2 evaded capture); enemy aircraft KO’d #3, crashed a mile from Muzillac, near St Nazaire, Fr. No MACR. HIGH BALL.

Delivered Long Beach 17/11/42; Tulsa 8/1/43 (962nd Bomb Trng Gp); Duncan Fd 12/2/43; Love Fd 30/3/43; crash landed Kelly Fd. Tx, 1/4/43 with N.A. Trapp (Wiper?), rep; Hobbs 15/6/43; Tinker 21/6/44; Hobbs 29/7/44.

Delivered Long Beach 16/11/42; Tulsa 9/1/43; Pueblo 9/4/43; Geiger 25/5/43; Gt Falls 7/6/43; Gore 1/7/43; Rapid City 26/7/43; with Jim Williams force landed Ardmore 24/2/44; Fairport 29/6/44; Selfridge 26/8/44; Biggs 1/11/44; Jackson 24/2/45; Sioux City 29/8/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 17/9/45.

Delivered Tulsa 31/12/42; Pyote 26/1/43; Alexandria 11/7/43; Clovis 24/6/44; Tinker 28/8/44; Jackson 3/2/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Albuquerque 24/10/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 14/9/44; Hunter 27/9/44; Grenier 4/11/44; Assigned 20BS/2BG PFF Amendola 6/12/44; Salvaged 9AF Germany 10/5/46.

Delivered Denver 13/1/44; Lakeland 1/2/44; Morrison 9/2/44; Assigned 815BS/483BG Tortorella 30/3/44; transferred 346BS/99BG Tortorella 31/3/44, then 429BS; 41m two killed and 8 RTD when ship skidded on airfield PSP into railway embankment and broke up crashed on take off for Pardubice, Czecho. 24/8/44 and sal. 2nd PATCHES.