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

Delivered Cheyenne 7/12/43; Kearney 30/12/43; Presque Is 17/2/44; Assigned 358BS/303BG [VK-A] Molesworth 28/2/44; Missing in Action Frankfurt 2/3/44 with Damon Elder, Navigator: Ed Connors, Bombardier: Alby Stravinsky, Radio Operator: Dan Gilmore, Ball turret gunner: Frank Mirenda, Waist gunner: Norman Clark, Waist gunner: Mario Garcia{Wounded in Action},Tail gunner: Verden Swank (8 Prisoner of War); Co-pilot: Jim Burns{chute failed}, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Dave Wilson{hit tree, not found until 15/3/44} (2 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft KO’d #2 & #3, followed by flak, crashed Serinhamps, 14 miles SW of Dinant, Bel; Missing Air Crew Report 2864. OLD HICKORY.

Delivered Cheyenne 12/1/44; Lt Rock 23/1/44; Savannah 25/1/44; Assigned 360BS/303BG [PU-F] Molesworth 22/2/44; Missing in Action Hamburg (25m) 20/6/44 with John Parker, Co-pilot: John Anderson, Navigator: Norman Lacey, Bombardier: Granville Pence, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Claudia Wall, Radio Operator: Charles Grace, Ball turret gunner: Sam Rhyne, Waist gunner: John Fox,Tail gunner: Joe Szczudlo (9 Prisoner of War); flak KOd two engines, crash landed near Spieka-Neufeld/Nordholz, 13 miles SW of Cuxhaven, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 5985.

Delivered Tulsa 20/3/44; Kearney 31/3/44; Dow Fd 4/4/44; Assigned 360BS/303BG [PU-G] Molesworth 22/4/44; Missing in Action Brux 12/9/44 with Art Mehlhoff, Co-pilot: Edgar Nelson, Navigator: Gaylon Williams (wia, & died 10/10/44), Bombardier: Harry Newcomb, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Don Wagner, Radio Operator: Norman Thye, Ball turret gunner: Elwood Keeran, Waist gunner: Vernon Harris,Tail gunner: Ben Quackenbush (9 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Jachymov, Czech; Missing Air Crew Report 8825. TEMPTRESS.

Delivered Cheyenne 1/7/42; Assigned 30BS/19BG Mareeba, Aus 21/8/42; transferred 64BS/43BG Fenton Fd, Aus; Mareeba, Aus 21/1/43; mid-air coll with 42-24355 over Port Moresby on compass test 17/4/43 with Capt Charles McArthur Jr. Co-pilot: La Rue Haralson, Joe Whitelaw, Bob Greenwood, Bill Phillips, Bryony Wysocki, George Neumann (7 Killed in Service), crashed into sea. Missing Air Crew Report 16787. (?15667)

Delivered Dallas 22/8/44; Langley 20/9/44; Dow Fd 2/10/44; Assigned 385BG Gt Ashfield 14/10/44; transferred 749BS/457BG [G] Glatton 19/11/44; Missing in Action Oranienburg 10/4/45 with Capt Melvin Fox, Co-pilot: Lt Col Rod Francis, Navigator: Beverley Robertson, Bombardier: Capt Chas Musgrove, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Adrian Belanger, Ball turret gunner: Alvin Prokup,Tail gunner: Capt Monroe Hotaling, mickey/op-Lt Gerald Zelikofsky, radar/nav-Lt Paul Bertinstein (9 Prisoner of War); Radio Operator: Lloyd Blood (Killed in Action); jet enemy aircraft, crashed Bernau, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 13882.

Delivered Lincoln 25/8/44; Grenier 18/9/44; Assigned 358BS/303BG [VK-F] Molesworth 17/10/44; Missing in Action Merseburg 21/11/44 with Leroy Glass, Orlyn Chunat, Joe Haider, Larry Casey, Dick Eide, Jim Brady, Vernon Trumbull, Grady Hodges, Mark Davis (9 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed Leipzig; Missing Air Crew Report 11197. LADY ALTA.

Delivered Cheyenne 1/7/42; Assigned 28BS/19BG Mareeba, Aus 6/8/42; transferred 64BS/43BG Fenton Fd, Aus; Mareeba, Aus 21/1/43; t/o Port Moresby then ditched off Buna on return from Wewak in poor weather 15/3/43 with Arthur McMullen, Navigator: McJilton Sargeant, Radio Operator: Bob Freeman (survived ditching but disappeared while swimming ashore), Wayne Specher, Milburn Glanville, Herman Bender, Jim Grahl (7 Killed in Action); Co-pilot: Howard Eberly, Bombardier: John Dawson (2 Returned to Duty). Written off 17/3/43 Missing Air Crew Report 15667. HELL FROM HEAVEN MEN.

Delivered Denver 18/2/43; Presque Is 5/4/43; Assigned 338BS/96BG 4/43; transferred 510BS/351BG [TU-K] Polebrook 11/7/43; on return from (8m) Merignac 31/12/43 with Rob Chalmers, Co-pilot: Francis Nedham, Navigator: ??, Bombardier: Ferris Martin, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Walt Skinner, Radio Operator: Winston Hapgood, Ball turret gunner: Chas Newberry, Waist gunner: Hubert Butler, Waist gunner: Art Novres,Tail gunner: Guy Meredith (10 Returned to Duty); crash landed Burnham-on-Sea, Som. UK; 2 SAD, Salvaged 3/1/44. NOBODY’S DARLIN‘.

Assigned 359BS/303BG [BN-T] Bangor 10/9/42; Molesworth 16/10/42; 59m transferred 1 Base Air Depot, Burtonwood 7/7/44; Returned to the USA Altus 18/8/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 14/8/45. Over Vegasack 18/3/43 with Capt Harry Stouse, Navigator: Jesse Elliott, brought damaged ship home with severely wounded Jack Mathis-b (awarded posthumous MOH). SURE STUFF aka THE DUCHESS.

Delivered Cheyenne 28/2/43; Gore 4/3/43; Sioux City 16/3/43; Kearney 8/4/43; Dow Fd 16/4/43; Bangor 28/4/43; Assigned 525BS/379BG [FR-E] Kimbolton 3/5/43; Missing in Action Wangerooge Is 25/6/43 with Courtney Browne, Navigator: Stan Cohen, Bombardier: Chas Dunham, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Louis Nima, Ball turret gunner: Chas Johnson, Waist gunner: Carl Louis, Waist gunner: Melvin Eckert,Tail gunner: Jim Franklin (8 Killed in Action); Co-pilot: Harry Hodgin, Radio Operator: Clarry Mertz (2 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed between Mull and Dorpen, Ger. close to Dutch border. Missing Air Crew Report 1759.

Delivered Cheyenne 8/7/42; Hamilton 13/8/42; Assigned 28BS/19BG Mareeba, Aus 21/8/42; transferred 64BS/43BG, then 65BS at Fenton, Aus, 2/8/42; Mareeba, Aus 21/1/43; transferred 54TCW 11/43, modified at Garbut, Aus for 58TCS/375TCG; Port Moresby, NG 10/7/43; Dobodura, NG 19/8/43; Port Moresby, NG 21/12/43, used for supply drops from Finchhafen to Los Negros Is.; WO, ret US & sal 23/7/46. SUPER SNOOPER

Delivered Cheyenne 7/10/43; Gr Island 21/10/43; Nashville 29/10/43; Assigned 358BS/303BG [VK-N] Molesworth 18/11/43; Missing in Action Schweinfurt 24/2/44 with Marshall Smith, Co-pilot: Francis Palecek, Bombardier: Ed Troy, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Andy Dick, Radio Operator: Edwin Frolick, Ball turret gunner: Gustaf Simon, Waist gunner: Herman Stauter, Waist gunner: John Schor (8 Killed in Action); Navigator: Ed Neuwirth,Tail gunner: Walter Fugate (2 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Landmark Hungen, 12 miles SE of Giessen, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 2763.

Assigned 303BG/359BS [BN-W] at Alamogordo Field, New Mexico on 23-Jun-42. Stationed at Kellogg Field, Battle Creek, Michigan until 3-Oct-42 when it went to Bangor, Maine for deployment to England.; Molesworth 25-Oct-42. Shot down 20-Dec-42 by enemy aircraft, crashed in Channel, off Dieppe, France while on a mission to bomb the German air depot at Romilly-sur-Seine, France. 10KIA MACR 15708.

Assigned 360BS/303BG [PU-J] Bangor 14-Oct-42; Molesworth 16-Oct-42. 23-Jan-43 – Mission in Action on a mission to bomb the port area and U-Boat pens at Lorient, France. The aircraft was struck by a bomb dropped from above and crashed in the woods at Bois de Queronic near Pluvinger, France. 7KIA 3POW MACR 15571.

Delivered Cheyenne 28/6/42; Assigned 63BS/43BG Charlesville, Aus. 31/7/42; Torrens Creek, Aus. 27/8/42; Iron Ridge, Aus. 17/10/42; Mareeba, Aus. 21/1/43; Port Moresby, New Guinea 11/5/43; Dobodura, NG 13/12/43; Nazab, NG 12/3/44; transferred 69TCS/433TCG New Guinea; ret Austraila 8/44 as hack for Gen Bob Eichelberger and re-named MISS ‘EM; Salvaged 31/4/45; W/O Tacloban, Leyte 4/46. CAP’N & THE KIDS.

Delivered Denver 28/9/43; Gr Island 18/10/43; Nashville 24/10/43; Assigned 407BS/92BG PY-U] Podington 23/11/43; Missing in Action Schweinfurt 24/2/44 with Bob Clayton*, Co-pilot: Leon Cavender*, Navigator: John Galbraith*, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Nathan Grant*, (*all 326BG) Radio Operator: Herman Rahn, Ball turret gunner: Paul McDade, Waist gunner: Lewis Lilly,Tail gunner: Chester Zahaba (8 Killed in Action); Bombardier: Paul Alexander, Waist gunner: Sam Smith (2 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Klein Bokern, Bersenbruck, four miles E of Furstenau, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 2854.

Delivered Denver 1/12/43; Kearney 16/12/43; Presque Is 24/12/43; Assigned 325BS/92BG [NV-N] Podington 20/1/44; Missing in Action Aalborg 22/2/44 with Bob Wolf, Co-pilot: Bill Montgomery, Navigator: Jesse Price, Bombardier: Capt Morton French, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Rich Gilmore, Radio Operator: Tony Verrico, Ball turret gunner: Howard Jones, Waist gunner: Glenn Asp, Waist gunner: Ken Happe,Tail gunner: Harry Ellis (10 Killed in Action); last seen heading for Sweden, crashed Baltic Sea/North Sea; Missing Air Crew Report 2758. HOT ROCK.

Delivered Hunter 10/1/45; Dow Fd 25/1/45; Assigned 427BS/303BG [GN-G] Molesworth 20/2/45; battle damaged Oranienburg 15/3/45 with ?; force landed continent; Salvaged 20/3/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 30/6/42; Assigned 30BS/19BG Mareeba, Aus. 21/8/42 – first so assigned; Port Moresby, NG 15/9/42; transferred 65BS, 43BS and 63BS/43BG Mareeba, Aus 21/1/43 as BLITZ BUGGY; on 8/3/43 detailed a solo recon. Over Gasmata, where hit by Zeros, wounding four crew*, with Melvin Ehlers*, Co-pilot: Joe Cochran*, Navigator: Warren Bryant*, Bombardier: Tom Boren*, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: ? Madison, Radio Operator: ? Boly, Ball turret gunner: ? Andrade, Waist gunner: ? Gerriola, photo- Leonard Williams,Tail gunner: Dave Eckholt; the ettg landing ship at Dobodura. When aircraft repaired became a transport hack in later years, for Gen Whitehead, 5AF FC Jan 43, re-named Jan ’43 THE OLD MAN. Last recorded at Clark Fd, Phillipines, in July 1948.

Delivered Denver 29/9/42; New Castle 15/10/42; Assigned 303BG Molesworth 21/12/42; transferred 401BS/91BG [LL-E] Bassingbourn 18/1/43; Missing in Action 23m Huls 22/6/43 with Marcell Fountain, Co-pilot: Oscar Diedering, Navigator: Mo Herman, Bombardier: Norm Williams, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Fred Sneed, Radio Operator: Tom StephensRIP 25/7/44, Ball turret gunner: Harry Miller, Waist gunner: Alby Rukas, Waist gunner: Jim Pratt,Tail gunner: Roland Carlson (10POW-two escaped, one being killed later), several enemy aircraft attacked this ship which had brought down eight enemy before crashed North Sea. ROYAL FLUSH!

Delivered Cheyenne 25/1/44; Gr island 11/2/44; Grenier 22/2/44; Assigned 305BG Chelveston 6/5/44; transferred 358BS/303BG [VK-B/S] Molesworth 6/5/44; Missing in Action Cologne 15/8/44 with Roman Charnick, Ball turret gunner: Fred Byrd (2 Killed in Action); Co-pilot: Leland Satre, Navigator: Sol Goldfield, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Paul Carrrissimo, Radio Operator: Bob Neidringhaus, Waist gunner: Francis Herod,Tail gunner: Art Schultz (6 Prisoner of War); B-Lowell Ricky (evaded capture); enemy aircraft, crashed Uerzig, E of Wittlich, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 8439.

Assigned 92BG Bangor 14/7/42; 97BG 24/8/42; dam 21/10/42; BAD 24/10/42; 369BS/306BG [WW-M] Thurleigh /10/42; ditched North Sea, off Cromer, Nfk., 26/7/43 with Alphonse Maresh, Co-pilot: Bob Hoyt, Navigator: Jim Brown, Bombardier: Art Isaac, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: John Ross, Radio Operator: Gordon Lewis, Ball turret gunner: Mo Steinhart, Waist gunner: Linden Voight, Waist gunner: Theo Harkin,Tail gunner: Reaford Watkins (10 Returned to Duty); ditched North Sea, ¼ mile off Norfolk coast, rescued by ASR. DIXIE DEMO II.

Delivered Cheyenne 30/6/42; Assigned 63-64BS/43BG Mareeba, Aus 31/7/42; Torrens Creek, Aus 27/8/42; Iron Range, Aus 17/10/42; crash landed Mareeba, Aus. 16/11/42 with Folmer Sogaard; Written off 17/11/42. Repaired and returned US on bond selling tour. E-Z MARY 4th .

Aassigned 358BS/303BG [VK-G] Kellogg Fd 14-Sep-42; Molesworth 16-Sep-42; Missing in Action on a mission to bomb the port area at St Nazaire, France. On the return leg of the mission the aircraft went to the aid of another B-17 flying about 15,000 feet below that was being attacked by ME-109 fighters. The aircraft was severely damaged by the fighters but the pilot believed he could fly the stricken aircraft back to Molesworth. The aircraft finally had to ditch into the English Channel approximately 20 miles from the English coast. 6KIA 4POW. MACR 15476.