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

Delivered Hickam Field, HI 14-May-41; Assigned 14BS/19BG Clark Field, Philippines 14-May-41 with Guilford Montgomery, Curtis Holdridge, Bob Wasson, Stan Jackola, Armando Ramirez, Bill Johns, C.O. Hones, Lincoln Dapron, W/Co Garing RAAF; Del Monte 6-Dec-41; ditched off Zamboanga 10-Dec-41 with Guilford Montgomery. Never served in the UK.

Delivered Cheyenne 13/9/43; Scott 28/9/43; Assigned 367BS/306BG [GY-Z] Thurleigh 19/10/43; Missing in Action Brux 12/9/44 with Paul Bailey, Co-pilot: Rudy Babel, Bombardier: Bob Vickers, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Leroy Hollenberg, Radio Operator: Tom Chandler, Ball turret gunner: Harry Boland, Waist gunner: Joe Burns,Tail gunner: Leo Zych (8 Prisoner of War); Navigator: Dick Rodenberger (Killed in Action); flak, crashed Kasserolhof, near Eberswalde, N of Berlin, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 8827.

Delivered Boeing Material Command (by hand!) 4/9/43; Grand Island 20/10/43; Assigned 422NLS/305BG [JJ-B] Chelveston 25/11/43, then later fitted with ARI Boozer radar transmission facilities 5/44; on night leaflet operation 12/5/44 with Mike ? , Co-pilot: ? ,n- ? , Bombardier: ? , Flight engineer/top turret gunner: / , Radio Operator: Louis Hatin {Wounded in Action}, Ball turret gunner: Dan Brennan{Wounded in Action},Tail gunner: Nick Mastroianni (8 Returned to Duty), Waist gunner: Bob Waller, Waist gunner: George Barber (2 Killed in Action); crash landed RAF Friston, Sussex, UK 13/5/44; Salvaged battle damaged 2 SAD Lt Staughton 29/12/44.

Delivered Hunter 25/11/44; Grenier 9/12/44; Assigned 571BS/390BG [FC-G] Framlingham 12/12/44 as pathfinder; transferred 418BS/100BG [LD-Z] Thorpe Abbotts 5/45; RetUS, Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 13/12/45.

Assigned 23BS/5BG [1] Hickam Field, HI 14-May-41; Returned to the USA Long Beach 23-Oct-42; March 29-Mar-42; Sebring 21-Dec-42; Lockbourn 15-Jan-43; Sioux Falls 14-Jul-43; Written off 21-Jul-43. (aircraft No.1).

Assigned 419BS/301BG Westover 8/7/42; Chelveston 9/8/42 THE RELUCTANT GREMLIN; transferred Tafaraoui 26/11/42; Maison Blanche 5/12/42; Biskra 16/12/42; Ain M’Lila 17/1/43; St Donat 6/3/43; Oudna 6/8/43 {52m}; transferred 346BS/99BG Tortorella 14/11/43 {28m}; Returned to the USA Rome Fd 28/4/44 with Maj P. O’Carroll, original pilot who took it home for war bond tour; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Searcy Fd 31/7/45. EIGHT BALL.

Delivered Gt Falls 7/9/44; Hunter 18/9/44; Grenier 26/9/44; Assigned 710BS/447BG Rattlesden 28/9/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 5/7/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 8/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 17/12/45. BUDDY BUDDY.

Delivered Tulsa 22/3/45; El Paso 27/3/45; Patterson 17/5/45; Grenier 3/7/45; with Arthur Clarke force landed Mekks Fd, Iceland 9/2/46; re-ass 30/4/47; Recl Comp 28/11/47.

Assigned 26BS/11BG Hickam Field, HI 14-May-41; Written off 16-Oct-43. (aircraft No. 41). Never served in the UK.

Delivered Cheyenne 17/12/42; Gt Falls 14/1/43; Walla Walla 22/2/43; Madras 20/6/43; Walla Walla 15/8/43; Avon Park 23/11/43; 3705 BU Lowry 1/5/44; 3017 BU Hobbs 19/5/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 5/11/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 25/12/42; Glasgow 22/1/43; Walla Walla 5/2/43; Dyersburg 18/3/43; Assigned 88BG Walla Walla 18/5/43; force landed base 8/9/43 with Milton Ciscoe; 2137 BU Robins 15/6/44; 326 BU MacDill 29/7/44; 327 BU Drew 23/1/45; 231 BU Alamogordo 5/3/45; 331 BU Barksdale 15/4/45; 325 BU Avon Park 19/5/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 18/8/45.

Delivered Kearney 5/8/44; Grenier 24/8/44; 273 BU Lincoln 4/9/44; Assigned 340BS/97BG Amendola 15/9/44; Missing in Action Kalmaki A/fd, Greece 21/1/45 with John Potkalitsky, Cummings, Hill, Chapman, Poovey, Gorman {Wounded in Action}, Shea, McKinlay, Whalen {Wounded in Action}, Couvillion {Wounded in Action}; ditched, all rescued.

Delivered Cheyenne 29/12/43; Kearney 12/1/44; Assigned 401BS/91BG [LL-Y] Bassingbourn 25/2/44; Missing in Action 2m Berlin 6/3/44 with Clyde Mason, Co-pilot: Gilbert Falck, Navigator: Bill Eberly, togg-Morris Fliegel, Radio Operator: Ron Cannon, Ball turret gunner: Vic Clifford, Waist gunner: Ralph Renzelman, Waist gunner: Jack Ney (8 Prisoner of War); Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bob Perkins,Tail gunner: Don Zahler (2KIA-bodies found in wreckage); enemy aircraft, #3 exploded setting wing afire, crashed Lowendorf Hill, Trebbin, 15 miles S of Berlin, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 2899. HELL AND HIGH WATER.

Assigned 26BS/11BG Hickam Field, HI; destroyed on ground in Japanese attack 7-Dec-41; Salvaged. (aircraft No. 81). Never served in the UK.

Delivered Cheyenne 15/3/43; Smoky Hill 26/3/43; Dow Fd 31/5/43; Assigned 305BG Chelveston 15/6/43; transferred 334BS/95BG [BG-K] Alconbury 16/6/43; Framlingham 12/5/43; 335BS [OE-K] Horham 15/6/43; 12/9/43 with A.R. Witt f/d RAF Morton Calence (?); 20/12/43 with A.R. Witt force landed Bungay afd; 31/12/43 with F.G. Vansant force landed RAF Eastchurch; 44m, Missing in Action Oldenburg 6/3/44 with Albert Mailman, Co-pilot: John Cassidy, Navigator: Dave Hazlett, Bombardier: Marion Beal, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Chas Frantz (5 Killed in Action); Radio Operator: Ray McDowell, Ball turret gunner: Jim Wint, Waist gunner: Wilbur Cooper, Waist gunner: Henry Baswell,Tail gunner: Bill Henderson (5 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft attack near Haseluenne, ship exploded, crashed Ellinghausen, near Barnsdorf, 15 miles NE of Diepholz, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 2890. SITUATION NORMAL.

Delivered Denver 4/10/43; Harvard 15/10/43; Assigned 710BS/447BG Rattlesden 21/11/43; Missing in Action Berlin 29/4/44 with Harry Paris, Co-pilot: Bob Allen, Navigator: Mike Gannon, Bombardier: Ed Jekel{wia, broke left knee} Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bill Clarke, Radio Operator: Lew Pohill, Ball turret gunner: Harry Woodman, Waist gunner: Oscar Siegel, Waist gunner: Fred Kirnan,Tail gunner: Jim Hanley{wia, bullet wounds} (10 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Eggenstedt, 16 miles W of Magdeberg, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 4249.

Delivered Lincoln 12/1/45; Grenier 6/2/45; Assigned 15AF 8/2/45; RetUS, Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 28/12/45.

Delivered Lincoln 15/1/45; Grenier 6/2/45; Assigned 8AF 15/2/45; Salvaged 9AF Germany 6/11/46.

Delivered Hunter 14/3/45; Grenier 19/3/45; Assigned 8AF 27/3/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 5/6/45; Sth Plains 8/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas, Salvaged 12/3/46.

Assigned 23BS/5BG [92] Long Beach 23-Oct-42; Love Field 25-Nov-42; Smyrna 16-Dec-42; Lockbourne 15-Jan-43; Assigned 1174 PTTS at Lockbourne in taxi accident with John O’Sullivan 2-Mar-43; New Haven 15-Jul-43. Written off 19-Jul-43. Never left the US, never saw combat, never served in the UK.