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

Delivered Cheyenne 24/4/43; Smoky Hill 5/5/43; Presque Is 24/5/43; Assigned 335BS/95BG [OE-S] Framlingham 29/5/43; Horham 15/6/43; with J.E. Koehler force landed Hardwick AF 20/10/43; 45m, transferred 388BG APH Knettishall 4/44; 803BS RCM Oulton 16/5/44; Missing in Action Oldenburg 1/1/45 with Lts J. Stein & E. Morris (last Aphrodite mission)[remote control of A/C, packed full of Torpex high explosive, crew of 2 baled out over UK]. DARLIN’ DOLLY.

Delivered SAD 29/6/42; Langley 20/7/42; Westover 1/9/42; New Castle 4/10/42; Salina 22/12/42; Rapid City 4/9/43; Geiger 22/6/43; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Albuquerque 25/6/45.

Assigned 360BS/303BG [PU-H] Bangor 14/10/42; Molesworth 16/10/42; on training flight with Arthur Adams, Co-pilot: Gene Witterstetter, Navigator: Glen Herrington, Bombardier: Mike Libonatti, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Lew Hart, Radio Operator: Alfd Union, Ball turret gunner: Ed Durant, Waist gunner: Alan Magee,Tail gunner: Jim Gordon, pass-Lt Roy Christianson (10 Returned to Duty); poor weather caused force landed on third attempt Luton 11/11/43 hit RAF Anson EF939. Salvaged. GARBAGE.

Delivered Salt Lake SAD 3/12/41; Assigned 6AF Howard, Panama 27/12/41; Guatemala 6/3/42; crashed in sea 7/1/43, all equip lost.

Delivered Salt Lake SAD 2/12//41; Assigned Project X 22/2/42; Assigned 19BG, crash landed New Britain 7/8/42. Missing Air Crew Report 16020. (?Mobile 16/11/42; Sebring 4/1/43; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Albuquerque 25/6/45?)

Delivered Louisville 15/3/45; from Romulus, NY with John Doyle to Camp Springs Fd, Md 29/3/45;

Delivered Cheyenne 14/9/43; Assigned 335BS/95BG [OE-T] Horham 29/9/43 SPOOK SIX; with Lt Gurney force landed Alconbury afb 19/11/43; 48m, transferred 457BG Glatton 6/44; 384BG Grafton Underwood 22/3/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 18/12/45.

Delivered Louisville 15/3/45; Hunter 30/3/45; Sth Plains 9/4/45; 2140 BU Smyrna 8/11/45; 342 BU Smyrna 30/4/46; 613 BU Phillips 19/6/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 13/3/45; Hunter 27/3/45; Sth Plains 25/4/45; 610 BU Eglin 12/7/45; 611 BU Eglin 2/2/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 16/3/45; Hunter 6/4/45; Grenier 15/4/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 10/1/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 15/3/45; Hunter 3/7/45; Grenier 13/4/45; Assigned 8AF 14/4/45; re-ass 30/4/45; 10 HBS Oberpfaffenhofen 1/1/48; Recl Comp 5/8/48.

Delivered Louisville 15/3/45; Hunter 19/3/45; Grenier 1/4/45; Assigned 8AF 2/4/45; re-ass 30/4/47; 10 HBS Oberpfaffenhopfen 1/1/48; Recl Comp 1/10/48.

Delivered at Long Beach 11-Feb-43; Walker 23-Feb-43; Nashville 9-Apr-43; Assigned 96BG Grafton Underwood 27-Apr-43; transferred 423BS/306BG [RD-Z] Thurleigh 6-Aug-43; 322BS/91BG [LG-R] Bassingbourn 11-Sep-43; 323BS [OR-R]; damaged over Oschersleben 11-Jan-44. Attacked by several enemy aircraft KO’d #2 & #3, no brakes to crash landed Hethel, Nfk. 10 RTD No MACR issued. Salvaged 21-Jan-44.

Delivered Lincoln 26/8/44; Grenier 18/9/44; Assigned 360BS/303BG [PU-Q] Molesworth 22/9/44; transferred 398BG Nuthampstead 27/5/45; no ops, RAF Valley 2/6/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 7/6/45; Sth Plains 9/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 8/12/45. MY DARLING.

Delivered Cheyenne 15/3/45; Hunter 25/3/45; Grenier 15/4/45; Assigned 347BS/99BG Tortorella 16/4/45; with Jim Gage ground looped at base 24/8/45; Salvaged 29/10/45.

Delivered Dallas 3/3/45; Syracuse 19/5/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 21/11/45; converted for Col Bob McCormick, editor of Chicago Tribune (Civil N5116N) 25/6/47; Hurd Mapping Co 1952; crashed Nevada 10/11/52, used as spares for 44-83534.

with Fred Grindle force landed 10 miles NE of Talkeetna Fd, AK on 10/9/51.

Delivered Long Beach 26/8/43; Scott 25/10/43; Assigned 359BS/303BG Molesworth 11/10/43 as BABY LU III; transferred 612BS/401BG [SC-A] Deenethorpe 14/11/43; transferred 1 Base Air Depot, Burtonwood 8/4/44; (?with Roger Bishop from Keesler 22/2/45?);retUS 4186 BU Tinker 24/7/45; 4100 BU Patterson 1/9/45; 3704 BU Keesler 10/1/46; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 7/5/46. MISS MANOOKI.

Delivered Cheyenne 3/2/44; Nashville 19/2/44; Hunter 23/2/44; Grenier 17/3/44; Assigned 534BS/381BG [GD-P] Ridgewell 7/4/44; on Berlin mission 24/5/44 with John Williams was hit by debris from two colliding B-17s which burned off surface fabric of rudders and elevator,Tail gunner: Jack Ross (POW- bailed out when he thought aircraft was doomed). Missing in Action 12+m Berlin 21/6/44 with Roy Pendergist, Co-pilot: Joe Lawless, Navigator: Bob Harvey, Bombardier: Eloy Heniff, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Malcolm Muir, Radio Operator: Herb Salzseider, Ball turret gunner: Joe Wilson (7 Prisoner of War); Waist gunner: Harry Lehman,Tail gunner: Byron King (2 Killed in Action); flak, crashed Wagnitzer Zootzen forest, 11 miles N of Nauen, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 5993. JOANNE.

Delivered Salt Lake SAD 3/12/41; Assigned 7BG Java then with ? Kualoa, HI 1/7/42; 42BS/11BG Hickam 22/7/42; crashed Shortland Bay, Bougainville 1/2/43 with Capt Harold B. Hensley, Co-pilot: Chas Bingham, Bombardier: S/Sgt Oreste Natiello, Navigator: John Jackson, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Lester Gudenschwager, Radio Operator: John Powers, Waist gunner: Bill Tomko, Waist gunner: Pete Fabino,Tail gunner: Willett Allen (9 Killed in Action). YOKOHAMA EXPRESS. Missing Air Crew Report 16269.