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

Delivered Cheyenne 12/4/43; Ft Sumner 21/4/43; Hobbs 30/4/43; Roswell 24/5/43; Hobbs 27/5/43; with Tom Dalton force landed base 22/4/44; with Bill Hendricksen force landed base 17/5/44; 3017 BU Hobbs 20/6/44; Written off 27/6/44.

Delivered Cheyenne 12/4/43; Smoky Hill 22/4/43; Morrison 5/5/43; Assigned 419BS/301BG St Donat 27/6/43; Oudna 6/8/43; Cerignola 7/12/43; Lucera 1/2/44; Missing in Action {47m} Istres le Tube 10/11/44 with Jerry Dodge, Co-pilot: Harry Solomon, Navigator: Phil Mantiatty, Bombardier: Fred McDonald, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Clarry Beck, Radio Operator: Riland Brenzo, Ball turret gunner: Ed Rivos, Waist gunner: Rich Drager, Waist gunner: Joe Coleman,Tail gunner: Vince Jakubczak (unknown fate); enemy aircraft, ditched Mediterranean Sea. Missing Air Crew Report 1128.

Delivered Boeing Seattle Mat Com 9/7/42; Written off 8/10/43; Recl Comp 20/11/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 30/3/45; Sth Plains 6/4/45; 2137 BU Hendricks 25/10/45; 2140 BU Smyrna 28/1/46; 342 BU Smyrna 5/5/46; 554 BU Memphis 1/6/46; 342 BU Smyrna 16/6/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 28/2/44; Kearney 16/3/44; Dow Fd 5/4/44; Assigned 711BS/447BG Rattlesden 11/4/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 9/7/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 21/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 20/12/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 23/1/45; Hunter 5/2/45; Grenier 23/2/45; Assigned 562BS/300BG Knettishall 5/3/45; Salvaged 9AF Germany 6/11/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 1/6/42; Wayne 1/7/42; Houlton 7/7/42; Gander-Prestwick 15/7/42, to RAF [FL454]; 206 Sq (VX-J) Benbecula, Scot. 15/8/42; Missing in Action *(41-9178/9207 recorded in RAF Museum as FK184/213).convoy escort 6/10/42 with John Owen, Co-pilot: Bob Hildred, Eric Crowe, Rupert Bentley, Bill Parnell, Walter Shanks, Garfield Wilson (7 Killed in Action); severe weather conditions may have contributed to loss; last B-17E allocated to GB; Struck Off Charge 18/10/42.

Delivered Tulsa 10/5/44; Hunter 21/5/44; Grenier 31/5/44; Assigned 413BS/96BG [MZ-J] Snetterton 3/6/44; battle damaged Hamm 7/1/45 with Peder Lansen, crash landed base; Salvaged. FEARLESS FOSDICK.

Delivered Tulsa 9/5/44; Hunter 21/5/44; with Wally Bjorness to Ft Dix 28/5/44; Middletown 7/6/44; Hunter 3/7/44; Grenier 12/7/44; Assigned 366BS/305BG [KY- ] Thurleigh 28/7/44; Missing in Action Merkwiller 3/8/44; with Clifton Alford, Co-pilot: Ernie Seefeldt, Navigator: Claud Dagenhart, Bombardier: Joe Bahnken, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Eric Dunn, Radio Operator: Luther Carlton, Ball turret gunner: Ralph Ognibene, Waist gunner: Bill Hart (8 Killed in Action);Tail gunner: Zolton Rovack (Prisoner of War); flak, crashed Miesenbach, W of Keiserlautern, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 7845.

Delivered Tulsa 20/5/44; Kearney 30/5/44; Hunter 7/6/44; Morrison 17/6/44; Assigned 815BS/483BG Sterparone 7/7/44; Missing in Action Memmingen 18/7/44 with Russell Ward, Higgins, Anderson, Antonius, Fannon, Alfano, Wynkoop, Simpson, Durham (9 Prisoner of War); Jamieson (Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed Ravensburg; Missing Air Crew Report 7099. DRY RUN.

Delivered Geiger 301BG 30/4/42; Lowry 31/5/42; Assigned 431BS/11BG Hawaii 7/6/42; transferred 72BS/5BG 22/7/42; Written off Oahu 11/6/44. UNCLE BIFF.

Delivered Lincoln 16/12/44; Dow Fd 23/12/44; Assigned 568BS/390BG [BI-G] Framlingham 1/1/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 30/6/45; Sth Plains 3/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 24/11/45.

Delivered Hunter 23/12/44; Grenier 10/1/45; Assigned 8AF 22/1/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 3/7/45; Sth Plains 6/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 10/1/46.

Delivered Long Beach 17/3/43; Gore Fd 31/3/43; Memphis 8/4/43; Morrison 15/4/43; Assigned 341BS/97BG Chateau-du-Rhumel 23/4/43; Pont-du-Fahs 1/8/43; Depienne 15/8/43; Mechanical failure en route Turin 8/11/43, with 2Lt Robert L Festel, 2Lt Norman C Muller (2 Returned to Duty), 2Lt Edward D Shea, 1Lt William E Jacoby, T/Sgt William E Brink, T/Sgt Thomas J Monroe, S/Sgt William F Murray, S/Sgt Daniel J Mc Kenna, S/Sgt Daniel J Hamilton, S/Sgt George K Gill; who all bailed but Air Sea Rescue failed to locate 8 x KIA; MACR 2098.

Delivered Denver 5/11/43; Kearney 14/11/43; Assigned 336BS/95BG [ET-M] Horham 3/12/43; 27m, Missing in Action Berlin 29/4/44 with John Vilberg, Navigator: Adrien Caignon, Bombardier: Bill Weston, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ralph McCleod, Radio Operator: Pete Pollreis, Ball turret gunner: Jim O’Neill, Waist gunner: Vernon Alberes, Waist gunner: Lou Isaac,Tail gunner: Glenn Gregory (9 Prisoner of War); Co-pilot: Victor Ennis (evaded capture); enemy aircraft, crashed near Nendorf, 13 miles W of Steinhuder Lake, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 4470. FLAGSHIP.

Delivered Cheyenne 4/8/44; MacDill 8/8/44; 4209 BU Des Moines 16/12/44; 325 BU Avon Park 3/1/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 2/8/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 27/4/42; Wayne 14/6/42; Minneapolis 31/7/42; Gt Falls 17/9/42; Wright Fd 11/11/42 for installation of ASV; RCAF Dorval 30/11/42; Gander-Prestwick 3/1/43, with Richard Carlet to RAF [FK205]; 59 Sq (PJ-P then B) Thorney Is. 1/2/43; 1674 HCU (-D] Longtown, Aldergrove, N.I. 21/1/44. Struck Off Charge 11/3/47 and sold to International Alloys.

Delivered Louisville 30/4/45; Syracuse 27/5/45; Middletown 8/11/45; Morrison 6/12/45; 4112 BU Olmstead 1/1/46; 2621 BU Barksdale 17/2/47; re-ass 31/3/47; Recl Comp 18/8/47.

Delivered Cheyenne 3/1/43; Salina 11/1/43; Morrison 8/3/43; Assigned 422BS/305BG Chelveston 8/4/43; Lost St Nazaire 29/5/43. Pilot, Marshall Peterson, POW. Co-pilot, Harold E. Bentz. Navigator, Larry Mandleberg, POW. Bombardier, Frank R. Perrica, Evaded. Flight engineer/top turret gunner, Hilton Hilliard, POW. Radio Operator, Joseph James Freeborn, POW. Ball turret gunner, Pete Milasius, Evaded. Waist gunner, George P Smith, POW.Tail gunner, Sal Tafolya, Evaded. Waist gunner, Percy C Matthews, Missing in Action. Flak hit, aircraft broke in two, crashed Saint-Bihy, 12 miles SW of St Brieuc, Fr. No MACR.

Delivered Cheyenne 20/12/42; Salina 2/1/43, cheeks guns and astrodome fitted; Morrison 2/2/43; Assigned 348BS/99BG Navarin 26/2/43; Oudna 4/8/43; condemned 11/8/43, but rep. for weather a/c; Tortorella 11/12/43; transferred 52FG Madna, It. 10/10/44; Piagiolino 21/4/45; Lesina 8/7/45; Returned to the USA Drew 25/8/45; Written off 14/7/46. FLAK DODGER.