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

Delivered Cheyenne 27/5/44; Kearney 6/6/44; Grenier 26/6/44. Assigned 836BS/487BG [2G- ] Lavenham 30/6/44. On 20 July1944 was involved in a mid-air collision with B-24H 42-52588 ‚Annie‘ piloted by David Ozbolton whilst on a bombing practice mission with Capt Paul Stults, Co-pilot: Eldridge Thomas, Navigator: Chas Heil, Bombardier: Lester Walters, pass-T/Sgt Pete CastilloRIP of Injuries 12 Aug, (5 Killed in Service). Howard Parris, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Melvin Brown, Radio Operator: Chas Shaffer, Waist gunner: Julius Brown, passenger -Lt Russ Grantham (6 Returned to Duty). Crashed between Clapstile Far, and Officers Club on base. Salvaged 21/7/44.

Delivered Cheyenne 19/2/44; Hunter 9/3/44; Grenier 7/4/44; Assigned 535BS/381BG [MS-S] Ridgewell 24/4/44; Missing in Action {33+m} Hamburg 6/11/44 with Julius Levitoff, tog-Joe Ward, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Alf Kreutz, Radio Operator: Gil Menendez, Ball turret gunner: Carl Gates, Waist gunner: Tony Skrinski,Tail gunner: Bruce Hillard (7 Prisoner of War); Co-pilot: John Champion, Navigator: Joe Byrnes (2 Killed in Action); flak, crashed Rothenburg, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 10154. CHUG-A-LUG II (IV).

Delivered Cheyenne 14/4/44; Hunter 27/4/44; Dow Fd 11/5/44; Assigned 560BS/388BG [P] Knettishall 12/5/44; destroyed by enemy aircraft at Poltava with Lt Fitzpatrick 21/6/44; Salvaged 24/7/44. CHRISTLIN DADDIES.

Delivered Dallas 30/6/44; Langley 27/7/44; Dow Fd 22/8/44; Assigned 336BS/95BG [ET-L] Horham 25/8/44; 335BS [OE-T]; 344BS [BG-S] battle damaged Cologne 17/10/44 with John Miller, Bombardier: Art Scroggins, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Manuel Houlis, – Harris pass), all [wia; Navigator: Lt David E Tyrrell; – Davis (Killed in Action); ? (5 Prisoner of War); crash landed Belgium. Repaired and returned to group, battle damaged Nurnberg 20/2/45 with John Roy; attacked by Me 163, force landed between Beauraing and Winnene, near Florennes, Bel; rep; with R.E. Parker, force landed A-78 Florennes AF, Bel; 26m, sal 9AF Germany 10/5/46. CADET NURSE aka YANKEE WOLF.

Delivered Cheyenne 4/11/43; Assigned 710BS/447BG Rattlesden 23/12/43; Missing in Action Regensburg 25/2/44 with Merlin Chardi, Co-pilot: Capt Campbell Palfrey, Navigator: Dewayne Pohl, Bombardier: Frank Stumpf, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ray Sheppard, Radio Operator: Rich Adams, Ball turret gunner: Jim Magruder, Waist gunner: John Leonard, Waist gunner: Ernie Lacross,Tail gunner: Larry House (10 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed Ottweiler, between Alschbach & Niederwurzbach, nine miles E of Saarbrucken, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 2891.

Cheyenne 3/3/44; Hunter 12/3/44; Dow Fd 9/4/44; Assigned 600BS/398BG [N8-M] Nuthampstead 24/4/44; 601BS; battle damaged Germersheim, Ger 13/1/45 with Larry Delancy; crew OK; on return crash landed RAF Woodbridge, Sfk, UK; Salvaged 14/1/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 5/2/43; 94th Bomb Group Pueblo 18/2/43; Salina 27/2/43; Brookley 19/3/43; Smoky Hill 23/3/43; Presque Is 9/4/43; Assigned 332nd Bomb Squadron/94th Bomb Group [XM-F] Earls Colne 12/5/43 named ‚FIFI‘; Rougham 13/6/43; transferred to the 547th Bomb Squadron/384th Bomb Group at Station 106, Grafton Underwood [SO-D] on 16 July 1943; Missing in Action on a mission to Nantes, France, 16 September 1943 with William M. Price III, Co-pilot: Lee B. Coleman, Navigator: Harry Blakely Harvey, Bombardier: Leroy A. Arquette, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Earl R. Beaty, Radio Operator: Robert E. Smith, Ball turret gunner: Daniel Griffin, Waist gunner: James C. Leigh, Waist gunner: Earl James Nelson, Tail gunner: Ralph G. Grant (10 Returned to Duty); Shot down by enemy aircraft and ditched off south coast, all rescued by Air Sea Rescue launch. No Missing Air Crew Report, named ‚OLD BATTLE AXE‘.

Delivered Dallas 11/7/44; Langley 4/8/44; Dow Fd 12/9/44; Assigned 322BS/91BG [LG-Q] Bassingbourn 4/10/44; Missing in Action Merseburg 2/11/44 with Capt Roy Hammer, Oran Harper, Raphael Czepkiewicz, Modesto Olivo, Bill Nagy, Mike Duran, Oliver Birch, Joe Young (8 Prisoner of War); Emile Freeman (Killed in Action); enemy aircraft set right wing & radio room ablaze, crashed Micheln, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 10143. MY BABY II.

Delivered Cheyenne 26/5/44; Kearney 6/6/44; Grenier 18/6/44; Assigned 422BS/305BG Chelveston 28/6/44; Missing in Action Berlin 5/12/44 with Dick Pounds, Martin Burstein, Frank Roberts, Channing Murray, Ken Knudtson, John Robinett, Bob Jahn, Hillman Oden (8 Prisoner of War); Bob Phillips (Killed in Action); flak, crashed Wedesbuettel, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 11043. WALLY’S WHEELS.

Delivered Cheyenne 23/1/44; Seattle 26/1/44; Gr Island 7/2/44; Presque Is 21/2/44; Assigned 390BG Framlingham 23/2/44; transferred 457BG Glatton 4/3/44; 367BS/306BG [GY-S] Thurleigh 12/3/44; Missing in Action Berlin 5/12/44 with Chas Manning, Co-pilot: Paul Wilson, Navigator: Norman Schneider, Bombardier: Paul Tannenbaum, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bill Nusser, Radio Operator: Vince Johnson, Ball turret gunner: Harry Gile, Waist gunner: Edwin Dewey,Tail gunner: John Cox (9 Killed in Action); flak, crashed Nth Sea; Missing Air Crew Report 11039. FIGHTIN‘ CARBARN HAMMERSLAW.

Delivered Denver 22/12/42; Salina 3/1/43; West Palm Beach 31/3/43; Assigned 416BS/99BG Navarin 3/3/43; Oudna 4/8/43; Tortorella 11/12/43; {111m} became weather aircraft with Dennis Gaeth & crew; Returned to the USA Morrison 23/9/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 26/9/45. SWEATER GIRL.

Delivered Long Beach 28/5/43; Tinker 5/6/43; Presque Is 15/6/43; Orlando 9/7/43; Patterson 19/7/43; Assigned 419BS/301BG Cerignola 16/12/43; Lucera 1/2/44; {46m} Missing in Action Blechhammer 30/6/44 with Chas Dodrill, (10 Returned to Duty); ditched Vis Is, all survive.

Delivered Denver 10/1/44; 1SAG Langley 13/2/44; Presque Is 11/3/44; Assigned 322BS/91BG [LG-M] Bassingbourn 27/4/44; 324BG; transferred 601BS/398BG [3O-Q] Nuthampstead 6/44; Missing in Action Hamburg 18/6/44 with Ralph Halter, Navigator: Capt Harry Kravif, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Clint Loveland, Radio Operator: Ed Goesel, Maj John Weibel (398BG Dep. CO as misson lead pilot), Lt Bob Parsons R.R. of 91BGTail gunner: John Burns (7 Killed in Action); Co-pilot: Dick Sherman, Ex Navigator: Bob Bunning Ex nav, Bombardier: Art Harris,Tail gunner: John Burns (3 Prisoner of War); 398BG crew; flak set #1 ablaze & wing came off, crashed Fleestedt, SE of Harburg, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 5996.

Delivered Tulsa 20/5/44; Kearney 30/5/44; Hunter 7/6/44; Morrison 19/6/44; Assigned 352BS/301BG Lucera 30/6/44; Missing in Action Wiener Neudorf 26/7/44 with Ralph Delenney, Kerr, Massey, Kuhn, Chesney, Salasek, Anderson, Fulton (8 Killed in Action); Demos, Stark (2 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Mariazell; Missing Air Crew Report 7142.

Delivered Lowry 7/8/42; Hamilton 6/10/42; Assigned 63BS/43BG Mareeba, Aus 17/10/42; then 403BS; Assigned Gen Richard Sutherland to see 503rd Paras to drop over Nadzab 5/9/43; Returned to the USA Rapid City 2/12/43 (398BG training at Walker Fd, Kan); Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Albuquerque 25/6/45. LADY LUCK aka THE MUSTANG.

Delivered Lincoln 3/11/44; Dow Fd 12/11/44; Assigned 510BS/351BG [TU-M] Polebrook 11/12/44; {62m} Returned to the USA Bradley 11/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 14/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 5/12/45. COUPE DE GRACE II.

Delivered Cheyenne 30/4/43; Sioux City 12/5/43; Patterson 20/5/43; Smoky Hill 10/6/43; Dow Fd 15/6/43; Assigned 560BS/388BG [–G] Knettishall 17/6/43; Missing in Action Hanvover 26/7/43 with Earl Horn, Bombardier: Bob Bailey, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bob Baker, Radio Operator: Everett Hobbs, Ball turret gunner: Francis Whittaker, Waist gunner: Sam DeGeorgio, Waist gunner: Horace Hoffman (7 Prisoner of War); Co-pilot: Don Wetherbee, Navigator: Irving Cohen, Oliver Deckard (3 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed Deckbergen, 30 SW of Hannover, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 3130.

Delivered Cheyenne 9/9/42; West Palm Beach 8/1/43; Assigned 32BS/301BG Ain M’Lila 23/1/43; St Donat 6/3/43; Oudna 6/8/43; {65m} transferred 96BS/2BG Massicault 14/11/43; Bizerte 1/12/43; Missing in Action {10m} Piraeus 14/12/43 with Walter Ward, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Chas Wivell, Ball turret gunner: Frank Naro (3 evaded capture); Co-pilot: Chas Miller, Navigator: Tony Aratari, Bombardier: Joe Stanford, Radio Operator: Bill Redmon, Waist gunner: Clayton Kahler,Tail gunner: Vince Henke (6 Prisoner of War); Waist gunner: Joe LeBlanc (KIA, found in wreckage); Missing Air Crew Report 1482.

Delivered Denver 3/1/43; Salina 8/1/43; Assigned 367BS/306BG [GY-X] Thurleigh 25/3/43; transferred 545BS/384BG [JD-Y] Grafton Underwood 21/8/43; then transferred RAF Farnborough (ER Flt) 19/2/44; BAD 1 Burtonwood 11/4/44, Returned to the USA Tinker 4/5/44; 2167 BU Birmingham 13/7/44; 4136 BU Tinker 6/8/44; 4117 BU Robins 20/12/44; 4100 BU Patterson 2/3/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Bush Fd 17/5/45. MARYLAND, MY MARYLAND.

Delivered Dallas 17/2/45; Hunter 22/2/45; Grenier 30/3/45; Assigned 544BS/384BG [SU-F] Grafton Underwood 10/4/45 (last aircraft assgd to grp); transferred with group to Istres on mapping duties, Salvaged 9AF Germany 25/7/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 23/5/44; Hunter 3/6/44; Dow Fd 27/6/44; Assigned 837BS/487BG [4F-A] Lavenham 28/6/44; Missing in Action Berlin 6/8/44 with Jay Hatfield, Co-pilot: Clarry McGinn, ntg-John Taber, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Dick Conway, Radio Operator: Henry Ong, Ball turret gunner: Cecil Glover, Waist gunner: Chas Jamison,Tail gunner: Joe Kazmouz (8 Prisoner of War); Navigator: Ed Reichel (Killed in Action); flak KO’d #3, crashed Zeitz, N of Calbe-East rlwy st, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 7892.

Delivered Cheyenne 29/10/43; Gr Island 12/11/43; Memphis 20/11/43; Assigned 352BS/301BG Cerignola 19/12/43; Lucera 1/2/44; Missing in Action {23m} Ploesti 15/4/44 with John Simon, (Returned to Duty); flak KO’d #3 and pilot dived to put out fire but engine drops in sea, ditched off Ortona; crew rescued by Italian fishing boats.

Assigned 352BS/301BG Westover 13/7/42; Chelveston 9/8/42; 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 {48m}; 346BS/99BG Oudna 10/43 {34m}; to depot 3/44; (82m) Returned to the USA 9/5/44 Amarillo; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 5/12/45 THE GOON.

Delivered Cheyenne 23/4/43; Smoky Hill 28/4/43; Walla Walla 5/7/43; Smoky Hill 21/5/43; Tinker 23/5/43; Dow Fd 2/6/43; Assigned 303BG Molesworth 16/6/43; transferred 336BS/95BG [ET-B] Horham 18/6/43; 12m, Missing in Action Stuttgart 6/9/43 with John Cabeen, Co-pilot: Jack Trowbridge, Navigator: Bert Johnston, Bombardier: Tom Streibich, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Grady Hewgley, Radio Operator: Bill Rouse, Ball turret gunner: Howard Champlain, Waist gunner: Merle Garrett, Waist gunner: Norman Forney,Tail gunner: Joe Palazzo (10 Prisoner of War); flak hit KO’d #1, dropped behind heading for Switzerland and crashed southern Germany; Missing Air Crew Report 547. CUDDLE CAT.