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B-17 #42-3425 / Silver Dollar II aka In God We Trust

42-3425 / Silver Dollar II aka In God We Trust

Delivered Denver 1/6/43; Dow Fd 14/7/43; Assigned 563BS/388BG Knettishall 18/7/43 SILVER DOLLAR II; Missing in Action Stuttgart 6/9/43 with Rich Cunningham, Waist gunner: Marius Brohard (2 evaded capture); Co-pilot: Warren Foote, Navigator: Tony Massa, Bombardier: Joe Cowley, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Morris Tryon, Radio Operator: Russell Condry, Ball turret gunner: John Lovin, Waist gunner: Lew Baker,Tail gunner: Earl Sonke (8 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Propriete Marin, Sainte Maure, N of Troyes, Fr, Missing Air Crew Report 3115. IN GOD WE TRUST.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 43-38059 / Chesty-V

43-38059 / Chesty-V

Delivered Cheyenne 21/6/44; Lincoln 14/7/44; Grenier 11/8/44; Assigned 391BS/34BG Mendlesham 12/7/44; Missing in Action Merseburg 30/11/44 with Capt Oscar Nanson, Co-pilot: Roy Kiern, Radio Operator: George Simpson, Ball turret gunner: Larry Layton (4 Killed in Action); Navigator: Don Topping, Bombardier: Lindsay Lipscomb, Waist gunner: Sid Brown,Tail gunner: Joe Burton (4 Prisoner of War); Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Paul Shull (evaded capture); flak, crashed Sommerda, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 10841.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 44-8503 / Baby Bunty

44-8503 / Baby Bunty

Delivered Lincoln 2/10/44; Grenier 14/10/44; Assigned 350BS/100BG [LN-A] Thorpe Abbotts 18/10/44; battle damaged Zwickau 19/3/45; force landed with ? Le Culot A/fd, Bel; Salvaged 1/4/45. BABY BUNTY.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-5762

42-5762

Delivered Cheyenne 23/12/42; Salina 6/1/43; Morrison 31/1/43; Assigned 346BS/99BG Navarin 23/2/43; transferred Service Sq 28/6/43; battle damaged Messina 25/6/43 with ?; Salvaged.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 44-8834 / Poo Bah

44-8834 / Poo Bah

Delivered Hunter 8/1/45; Dow Fd 6/2/45; Assigned 350BS/100BG [LN-G] Thorpe Abbotts 8/2/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 20/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 7/12/45. (npo)POO BAH.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 44-6911

44-6911

Delivered Lincoln 16/12/44; Grenier 23/12/44; Assigned 560BS/388BG Knettishall 1/1/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 30/6/45; Sth Plains 2/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 23/11/45.

B-17 #42-30580 / Equipoise

42-30580 / Equipoise

Delivered Cheyenne 27/6/43; Smoky 10/7/43; Dow Fd 15/7/43; Assigned 326BS/92BG [JW-N] Alconbury 14/8/43; Salvaged n/battle damaged 6/1/44 following ground collision with 42-31377, after ship blew right tyre; with Bill Lock, Co-pilot: Walt Price, Navigator: Milton Cohen, Bombardier: Sol Greenberg, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ralph Shaw, Radio Operator: Jim Lavett, Ball turret gunner: Jim Farrell, Waist gunner: Rich Wilder, Waist gunner: Stan Sztore,Tail gunner: Porter Adams. (10 Returned to Duty). EQUIPOISE.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-30547

42-30547

Delivered Cheyenne 18/6/43; Gore 20/6/43; Sioux City 1/7/43; Watertown 17/7/43; Kearney 3/8/43; 580BS/393BG Sioux City 11/11/43; 326 BU MacDill 18/1/45; 331 BU Barksdale 20/1/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 14/12/45.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 44-8559

44-8559

Delivered Cheyenne 16/10/44; Hunter 29/11/44; Grenier 4/12/44; Assigned 7BS/34BG Mendlesham 16/12/44; transferred 350BS/100BG [LN-Z] Thorpe Abbotts 18/12/44; 306BG Thurleigh /45; RetUS, Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 20/12/45.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-30546

42-30546

Delivered Cheyenne 18/6/43; Roswell 25/6/43; Hobbs 7/7/43; Roswell 3/8/43; 3030 BU Roswell 2/6/44; 3017 BU Hobbs 28/4/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 30/8/45.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-30545

42-30545

Delivered Cheyenne 18/6/43; Gore 2/7/43; Dyersburg 3/7/43; Alexandria 11/7/43; 221 BU Alexandria 17/1/45; 329 BU Alexandria 1/3/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 9/10/45.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-30544

42-30544

Delivered Cheyenne 18/6/43; Roswell 25/6/43; 3030 BU Roswell 2/7/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 29/10/45.

B-17 #44-6153

44-6153

Delivered Tulsa 15/5/44; Kearney 27/5/44; Grenier 7/6/44; Assigned 452BG Deopham Green 10/6/44; transferred 337BS/96BG [AW-S] Snetterton 11/6/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 2/6/45; Sth Plains 11/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 30/11/45.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-30299

42-30299

Delivered Cheyenne 11/5/43; Gore 18/5/43; Fairfield 23/5/43; Peterson 15/6/43; Assigned (F-9) 1st Map Gp Bolling 6/7/43; Bradley 18/7/43; Accra, Gold Coast 31/12/43; Returned to the USA 1st Ph Gp MacDill 9/10/44; 4100 BU Patterson 22/10/44; 91 Ph Sq Buckley 30/12/44; Salvaged 5/2/45.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-5746 / Stardust

42-5746 / Stardust

Delivered Tulsa 24/11/42; Salina 10/1/43; Morrison 2/2/43; Assigned 347BS/99BG Navarin 23/2/43; Oudna 4/8/43; Tortorella 11/12/43; Missing in Action Salon de Provence 27/1/44 with Wesley Coss, Amundson, Jenkins, Johnson, Madigan, Kinnane, Majarian, Rice, Hoskins, Henderson; enemy aircraft & flak, crashed Rognac, Fr. 2KIA ?, 8 bailed ?, 2 evaded capture ?. Missing Air Crew Report 2039. STARDUST.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-31485 / Old Ironsides

42-31485 / Old Ironsides

Delivered Cheyenne 11/10/43; Gr Island 21/11/43; La Guardia 29/11/43; New York 1/12/43; Presque Is 2/12/43; Assigned 615BS/401BG [IY-X] Deenethorpe 6/1/44; RAF Stornaway 5/4/44, ret grp 6/4/44; Returned to the USA 121 BU Bradley 9/6/45; Syracuse 10/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 13/6/45; with George Charberg force landed South Plains 1/12/45; Recl Comp 7/6/46. OLD IRONSIDES.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-2980 / Sadie Hawkins

42-2980 / Sadie Hawkins

Assigned 352BS/301BG Salina 9/12/42; Biskra 22/12/42; Ain M’Lila 17/1/43; St Donat 6/3/43; Oudna, 6/8/43; {46m} transferred 416BS/99BG Oudna 14/11/43; Tortorella 11/12/43; {19m} to depot 4/44; Salvaged 29/6/44. SADIE HAWKINS.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 41-2597

41-2597

Delivered MacDill 20/2/42; missing with Hugh Millis & crew 6/5/42, crashed at sea off Florida ?

B-17 #42-38090 / Miss Windy City

42-38090 / Miss Windy City

Delivered Denver 9/12/43; Romulus 29/12/43; Morrison 30/12/43; Assigned 340BS/97BG Cerignola 3/1/44; to Amendola 16/1/44; when war weary became a cargo ship then in late 1944 had a 20m cannon fitted in the tail; sal 27/2/45. MISS WINDY CITY.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-3035

42-3035

Delivered Cheyenne 23/1/43; Gowen 13/2/43; Wendover 14/4/43; Rapid City 2/6/43; Ephrata 31/7/43; from Smoky Hill with Jim Bugbee 27/1/45 to Texas; Recl Comp 9/2/45.