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

Cheyenne 5/11/43; Gr Island 21/11/43; Detroit 26/11/43; Presque Is 30/11/43; Assigned 364BS/305BG Chelveston 28/12/43; Missing in Action Sorau 29/5/44 with Bob Wilkinson, Navigator: George Cooley, Bombardier: Larry Singleton, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: John Deckard, Radio Operator: Joe Kobierecki, Ball turret gunner: Marvin Beasley, Waist gunner: Harry Arfman, Waist gunner: Earl Ketchledge,Tail gunner: Verner Bartholomew (9 Prisoner of War); Co-pilot: Ezra Shapiro (Killed in Action); crippled by enemy aircraft, crashed Prittisch, nine miles E of Schwerin, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 5339.

Delivered Denver 29/9/42; New Castle 9/10/42; Assigned 32BS/301BG Chelveston 1/11/42; 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; {50m} transferred 429BS/2BG Bizerte 14/11/43; Amendola 9/12/43; 99BG Tortorella 28/3/44 but no missions; Returned to the USA South Plains 14/6/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 18/12/45. HUN PECKER.

Delivered Cheyenne 24/2/45; Hunter 5/3/45; Grenier 20/3/45; Assigned 8AF 22/3/45; Salvaged 9AF Germany 23/5/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 12/2/43; Walker 26/2/43; Salina 10/3/43; Mitchell 8/4/43; Assigned 339BS/96BG [QJ- ] Grafton Underwood 20/4/43; Missing in Action Kiel 13/6/43 with Bill McKell, Co-pilot: Chas Sweeney, Navigator: Stewart Bachtelle, Bombardier: Alf Anderagg, Radio Operator: Marlowe Smithson (5 Prisoner of War); Flight engineer/top turret gunner: George Treece, Ball turret gunner: Roy Crozier, Waist gunner: Ben Green, Waist gunner: Lloyd Fisher,Tail gunner: Frank Watermanbody recovered 14/8/43 (5 Killed in Action); shot down by enemy aircraft crashed Baltic Sea between Pellworm and Hallikoog, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 16142 (15829?) . BIG CHIEF II.

Delivered Cheyenne 16/1/45; Hunter 1/2/45; Dow Fd 5/2/45; with Louis Brown in landing accident at Goose Bay, Labrador 13/2/45 en route to 600BS/398BG [N8-T] Nuthampstead 15/2/45; transferred 836BS/487BG Lavenham 19/4/45; transferred 15AF 29/5/45; Salvaged 9AF Germany 6/11/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 29/4/43; Dow Fd 10/7/43; Assigned 571BS/390BG [FC-W] Framlingham 14/7/43; Missing in Action Merignac 5/12/43 with Norman Palmer, Co-pilot: Gil Parkes, Navigator: Capt Bill Hickey, Bombardier: Grady Embree, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Jim Riley, Radio Operator: Herb Fagley, Ball turret gunner: Bill Hardin, w-Rich Styles,Tail gunner: George Lyman (9 Returned to Duty); no gas, ditched Channel, off Abbotsbury Coast Guard Station, Dorset, crew rescued, but Sgt Waist gunner: Everett Hanna (Killed in Service -died of exposure). Missing Air Crew Report 1337. THE BAD PENNY.

Delivered Long Beach 2/10/43; Walla Walla 7/11/43; Assigned 729BS/452BG [M3-V] Deopham Green 9/2/44; Missing in Action French rail junctions 8/7/44 with Verne Hale, Co-pilot: Ralph Gray, Radio Operator: Bob Nolan, Waist gunner: Tony Kasputis,Tail gunner: Vernon Naake (5 Prisoner of War); Navigator: Walt Carter, Bombardier: Chas Cahill, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ken Stedkamp, Ball turret gunner: Gordon Bickley, Waist gunner: Roy Dobrinsky (5EVD- all back in UK by 26/8/44); flak KOd #2, fire followed, crashed Ymare, five miles SE of Rouen, Fr. Missing Air Crew Report 7225. MARJORIE ANN.

Assigned 367BS/306BG Westover 17-Aug-42; Thurleigh 13-Oct-42; Missing in Action 20-Dec- 42 while on a mission to bomb the German air depot at Romilly-sur-Seine, France. Shot down by enemy aircraft, crashed Creil, France. 1KIA 8POW 1EVD. No MACR issued.

Delivered Cheyenne 22/10/44; Hunter 29/11/44; Dow Fd 14/2/45; Assigned 839BS/487BG [R5-P] Lavenham 8/2/45; RetUS, Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 29/12/45.

Delivered Hunter 11/2/45; Grenier 24/2/45; Assigned 8AF 27/2/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 8/7/45; Sth Plains 11/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 10/12/45.

Delivered Hunter 11/2/45; Grenier 24/2/45; Assigned 8AF 28/2/45; re-ass 30/4/47; 10 HBS Oberpfaffenhofen 18/1/48; Recl Comp 1/10/48.

Delivered Lowry 29/7/42; SAD 31/7/42; Hamilton 30/8/42; Assigned 403BS/43BG Mareeba, Aus 20/9/42; Iron Range, Aus 17/2/42; Written off 31/10/44.

Delivered Lincoln 19/1/45; Grenier 6/2/45; Assigned 398BG Nuthampstead 15/2/45; transferred 837BS/487BG Lavenham 12/4/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 13/7/45; Independence 15/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 18/12/45.

Delivered Denver 20/2/43; Presque Is 5/4/43; Assigned 413BS/96BG [MZ-Q] Thurleigh 17/4/43; transferred 545BS/384BG [JD-N] Grafton Underwood 6/7/43; Missing in Action Hamburg 25/7/43 with Ralph Hall, Co-pilot: Rod House, Navigator: R.O. Henley, Bombardier: Warren Dillon, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Homer Cocklin, Radio Operator: Smith Davis, Ball turret gunner: Albt Valcour, Waist gunner: Jim Parrish, Waist gunner: Ray Smiley, Tail gunner: Paul McNeal (10 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Glashutte, six miles N of Hamburg, Ger. No MACR. APRIL’S FOOL.

Assigned 324BS/91BG [DF-H] Bangor 2-Sep-42; Bassingbourn 26-Sep-42; Missing in Action (KIA) 24+m Wilhelmshaven, Germany 21-May-43. Aircraft sustained damage from flak & enemy aircraft, crashed into the North Sea, 10KIA Missing Air Crew Report 3458 (4439?). (Actually completed 25 missions two weeks before Memphis Belle but Hollywood overuled this ship !) MARIE JANE aka JERSEY BOUNCE.

Assigned to the 368BS/306BG [BO- ] AT Westover 24-Aug-42; Thurleigh 23-Sep-42; Missing in Action, Rennes 8-Mar-43. Aircraft was on a mission to bomb the railroad marshalling yards at Renne, France when it was attacked and shot down by German fighters. All of the crew baled oout except the pilot who was killed in the attack. The aircraft crashed at Colline, Servon-sur-Vilaine France. 1KIA 8POW 1EVD.

Delivered Lincoln 8/10/44; Grenier 26/10/44; Assigned 836BS/487BG Lavenham 30/11/44; RetUS, Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 26/11/45.

Assigned 368BS/306BG Westover 24-August-42; Gander, Nfd 6-September 1942, ditched Lough Foyle, N.I. near Magilligan Point, Londonderry, 6-September-1942 en route Prestwick, then Thurleigh. Down in shallow water, crew walked ashore (10RTD) Written off 31-October 44. MELTIN’ POT. No MACR.

Assigned 422BS/305BG [JJ-T] Syracuse 14/9/42; Grafton Underwood 25/10/42; transferred 546BS/384BG Grafton Underwood [BK-J] 22/9/43; on engine check mission 9/10/43, overshot runway and into a ditch, undercarriage collapsing & blocking nearby road, with John Berbrich (?Willing?), Co-pilot: Francis Nelson, Navigator: Julius Schwartz, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Gil Jacobs (4 Returned to Duty); enquiry resulted in 100% pilot error; Salvaged 17/10/43.

Assigned 423BS/306BG Westover 15/8/42; Thurleigh 5/9/42; force landed RAF Graveley, UK, 27/10/42 on practice flight with Ray Check, Co-pilot: Ralph Jones, Navigator: Milton Blanchett, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Francis Bowes, Radio Operator: Bill Johnson, Ball turret gunner: Joe Uphor, g-Chas Wilson, g-Nick Sawicki, g-V.King, pass:- S.Belknap, K.McBride (11 Returned to Duty); Salvaged 5/11/42.