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

Delivered Denver 24/9/43; Gr Island 7/10/43; Assigned 561BS/388BG Knettishall 15/10/43; Missing in Action Oschersleben 11/1/44 with Gustav Hoehn, Navigator: Don Modarelli, Radio Operator: Byron Wiberg{wia, but died in hospital four days later}, Ball turret gunner: Pete Zaskiewicz (4 Killed in Action); Co-pilot: George Owens, Bombardier: Lieudell Bauer{evd but captured in Maastricht 31/3/44}, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Chas Rigdon, Waist gunner: Harlan Mann, Waist gunner: Ed Hincks,Tail gunner: Gerry Brinker (6 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed Zwolle sportsground avoiding town, Hol; Missing Air Crew Report 3140. BERLIN AMBASSADOR.

Delivered Tulsa 3/2/44; Presque Is 6/3/44; Assigned 710BS/447BG Rattlesden 9/3/44; Missing in Action Berlin 22/3/44 with Ed Stull, Co-pilot: Sam Showalter, Navigator: Harry Grace, Bombardier: John Taylor, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Paul Geis, Radio Operator: Dave Stowers, Ball turret gunner: Frank Barry, Waist gunner: Herman Iventosch, Waist gunner: Lou Zommer,Tail gunner: Alf Sanchez (10 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed on St Alphonsus School, Spaarndammerstradt, Amsterdam, Hol, killing four civilians and at least 10 injured. Missing Air Crew Report 3338.

Assigned 92BG Bangor 13/7/42; transferred 414BS/97BG Polebrook 6/42; Maison Blanche, Alg. 13/11/42; Tafaraoui, Alg. 22/11/42; Biskra, Alg. 25/12/42; on Tunis mission was rammed by FW190 1/2/43 almost slicing rear fuselage and tailplane off; made it back to Biskra and repaired; transferred 353BS/301BG {3m} St Donat 6/3/43; Oudna, Tun 6/8/43; Cerignola, It. 7/12/43; Lucera, It. 1/2/44; Salvaged 6/3/45. ALL AMERICAN.

Delivered Cheyenne 22/10/43; Gr Island 3/11/43; Memphis 9/11/43; Assigned 322BS/91BG [LG-W] Bassingbourn 20/12/43; Missing in Action 129m Stendahl 8/4/45 with 1Lt Robert E Fuller (POW), 2Lt Woodrow A Lien, T/Sgt Francis McCarthy, S/Sgt Richard D Proudfit, S/Sgt Wylie McNatt Jr, S/Sgt Ralph J Leffelman, S/Sgt Willian H Cassidy, S/Sgt James D Houtchens, Sgt Lemoyne Miller (9 Killed in Action); flak hit between fuselage and #2 engine caused massive fire which detached the port wing, exploded in the resulting dive, crashed Stendal, Germany; MACR 13881; (oldest G in group) 1 x POW, 9 x KIA. WEE WILLIE.

Delivered Cheyenne 26/5/43; Smoky Hill 11/6/43; Gr Isle 20/6/43; Geiger 22/6/43; smoky Hill 23/6/43; Dow Fd 5/7/43; Assigned 429BS/2BG Ain M’Lila 13/7/43; Massicault 31/7/43; Missing in Action {7m} Istres le Tube 17/8/43; flak, #4 engine fire, eight chutes seen, crashed near Avignon, Fr; Missing Air Crew Report 406. DANNY BOY.

Delivered Cheyenne 2/6/43; Dow Fd 11/7/43; Assigned 568BS/390BG [BI-F] Framlingham 14/7/43; Missing in Action Schweinfurt 17/8/43 with Wade Sneed, Co-pilot: John Wenzel, Navigator: Melvin Breckenridge, Bombardier: Scott Barrows, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bertil Olsen, Radio Operator: Virgil Ulven, Ball turret gunner: Fred Oppelt, Waist gunner: John Danielson, Waist gunner: Clarry Pane,Tail gunner: Carl Spirito (10 Returned to Duty) flak, ditched Mediterranean Sea 13 miles off Bone, North Africa, all rescued. Missing Air Crew Report 396. BLOOD, GUTS AND RUST.

Delivered Cheyenne 1-Apr-43; Dow Field 23-May-43; Assigned 545BS/384BG [JD-P] Grafton Underwood 28-May-43; Missing in Action Schweinfurt 17-Aug-43 Shot down by enemy aircraft and crashed at Reichenbach, Germany 10 miles south of Darmstadt, Ger. 2KIA 8POW Missing Air Crew Report 292. DUECES WILD.

Assigned 365BS/305BG [XK-W] Presque Is 19/10/42; Grafton Underwood 25/10/42; Missing in Action Schweinfurt 17/8/43 with Doug Mutschler, Co-pilot: Ed Carter, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Carlton Boberg (3 Killed in Action), Navigator: Bill Bagwell, Bombardier: Wendell Luce, Radio Operator: Whitney Simon, Ball turret gunner: Lee Quinliven, Waist gunner: Meyer Baker, Waist gunner: Tony Buckley,Tail gunner: Erwin Grundman (7 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Averbode, five miles NW Diest, Bel. Missing Air Crew Report 300. PATCHES.

Delivered Long Beach 21/4/43; Denver 5/3/43; Kearney 30/5/43; Assigned 548BS/385BG [GX-D] Gt Ashfield 24/6/43; Missing in Action Regensburg 17/8/43. Enemy aircraft, crash landed a mile from Woensdrecht a/fd, on the Holl/Bel. Border. Missing Air Crew Report 387A. THE JOLLY ROGER.

Delivered Cheyenne 4/9/43; Gr Isle 25/9/43; Assigned 367BS/306BG [GY-B] Thurleigh 19/10/43; battle damaged Berlin 6/3/44 with Albt Adams, Co-pilot: Joe Mathis, Navigator: Bill Barnes, Bombardier: Arnold Bugni, Ball turret gunner: Larry Stevenson (5 Returned to Duty); Waist gunner: Cleo White,Tail gunner: John Hedberg (2POW-both wia); Radio Operator: Matt Palenica, Waist gunner: Martin Cech (2EVD-both wia); Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Lloyd Keene (Killed in Action); severely damaged but escorted home low over North Sea by P-51 to land at B-24 base in Norfolk. Salvaged 2BAD Warton 9/3/44.

Delivered Cheyenne 26/2/43; Presque Is 8/4/43; Assigned 511BS/351BG [DS-P] Polebrook 5/6/43 EIGHT BALL; Missing in Action Amsterdam (22m) 22/2/44; flak, crash landed Vijfhuizen, S of Amsterdam, Hol. Missing Air Crew Report 2772. NO BALLS AT ALL.

Delivered Cheyenne 25/5/43; Kearney 5/6/43; Dow Fd 7/7/43; Assigned 332BS/94BG [XM-D2] Rougham 8/7/43; Missing in Action Schweinfurt 14/10/43 with Joe Brennan, Co-pilot: Gordon White, Navigator: Verne Viterbo, Bombardier: Joe Genone, (ettg – ?), Radio Operator: Willard Wetzel{final mission}, (btg and lwg – ??), Waist gunner: Denver Nowlin, (tg – ? (10 Returned to Duty); enemy aircraft KO’d engine, second attack damaged another, jettisoned bombs before tracers KO’d a third engine, ditched North Sea five miles from UK; rescued in an hour ! BRENNAN’S CIRCUS.

Delivered Cheyenne 3/4/43; Dow Fd 23/5/43; Assigned 545BS/384BG [JD-U] Grafton Underwood 29/5/43; Missing in Action Schweinfurt 17/8/43; enemy aircraft, crashed Weiler, Germany. Missing Air Crew Report 293. MARY KATHLEEN aka YANKEE POWERHOUSE II.

Delivered Cheyenne 9/9/42; Boise 16/9/42; wrecked on landing with broken crankshaft, rep; Cheyenne 11/10/42; Assigned 323BS/91BG [OR-W] Bassingbourn 29/1/43 and first in group to have AFCE fitted at 2 SAD Lt Staughton 8/3/44; transferred 7/5/44 50+m AFSC for Aphrodite operations, Azon radio guided [Mothership B-24 44-40277] operation against V-1 site at Mimoyecques with Lt Cornelius A Engel & T/Sgt Clifford A Parsons of 385BG 4/8/44, but exploded before reaching target. Control crew had baled out over UK. THE CAREFUL VIRGIN.

Delivered Cheyenne 14/3/44; Kearney 30/6/44; Grenier 12/7/44; Assigned 338BS/96BG [BX-G] Snetterton 14/7/44; Missing in Action Osnabruck 21/11/44 with Lloyd Worden, Radio Operator: Rudolph Torres, Ball turret gunner: Dave Griesel, Waist gunner: Bill Herlihy,Tail gunner: Bill Wells (5 Prisoner of War); Co-pilot: Bob Blackburn, Navigator: Sid Willig, Bombardier: Harry Bonekat, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ray Haydel (4 evaded capture); flak, crashed Nieuw-Milligen, near Appeldorn, Hol. Missing Air Crew Report 10416. JEAN O.

Delivered Denver 8/1/44; Albuquerque 12/1/44; Assigned 525BS/379BG [FR-C] Kimbolton 10/2/44; then 524BS [WA-G]; belly landing training flight 10/04/1944; Magdeburg 28/9/44 with Stan Bailey, Co-pilot: Sumner Alpert, Navigator: Jim Rung, Bombardier: Bill Coles, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bill Plough, Radio Operator: Harry Gates, Ball turret gunner: John Ingram, Waist gunner: Frank Culfe (8 Returned to Duty); Tail gunner: Phil Maniaci (Prisoner of War); Missing Air Crew Report 9363; re-ass 482BG, then 384BG 1/6/45. Scrapped October 1945. 111 missions. THE LOST ANGEL.

Delivered Cheyenne 25/1/44; Kearney 16/2/44; Grenier 10/3/44; Assigned 613BS/401BG [IN-F] Deenethorpe; Missing in action Hamburg 06/11/1944; w/Hillestad; flak, crashed Enschede, Hol; 9POW; MACR 10349. LADY JANE

Delivered Cheyenne 29/4/43; Gore 9/5/43; Sioux City 10/5/43; Dow Fd 12/6/43; Assigned 563BS/388BG [–S] Knettishall 18/6/43; Missing in Action Oschersleben 28/7/43 with Ralph Swanson, Co-pilot: Harry Erickson, Navigator: Chas Bergheimer, Bombardier: Norvell Nystrom, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Phil Kinder, Radio Operator: Fred Ward, Ball turret gunner: Bob Shaw, Waist gunner: Dick Lambrecht, Waist gunner: Chas McMenamin,Tail gunner: Bill Deane (10 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Banteln, near Elze, S of Hanover, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 3128. JOHNNIE.

Assigned 323BS/91BG [OR-O] Bangor 10/9/42; Bassingbourn 11/10/42; Missing in Action 16m Schweinfurt 17/8/43. Enemy aircraft hit oxygen bottles setting fuselage on fire, crashed Gelnhausen, near Harxheim, 12 miles E of Frankfurt-am-Main, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 279. THE EAGLE’S WRATH.

Delivered Long Beach 26/2/43; Denver 1/3/43; Pueblo 13/3/43; Presque Is 8/4/43; Assigned 511BS/351BG [DS-O] Polebrook 24/4/43; Missing in Action {9m} Schweinfurt 17/8/43 with Max Pinkerton, Co-pilot: Herb Berreau, Navigator: Chas Rosewall, Bombardier: Lee Santi, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Clifton Langseth, Radio Operator: Paul Gallipeo, Ball turret gunner: Howie Licht, Waist gunner: Joe Roman, Waist gunner: Cliff Hall,Tail gunner: Howie Marvin (10 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Bad Emms, eight miles E of Koblenz, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 302. CANNON BALL.

Delivered Cheyenne 1/6/43; Rapid 15/6/43; Gore 24/6/43; Portland 11/7/43; Gr Isle 21/7/43; Presque Is 7/8/43; Assigned 368BS/306BG [BO-N] Thurleigh 3/9/43, then loaned to RAF; Salvaged n/battle damaged 5/7/44. Ret US. V-MAIL GETS THERE FASTEST.

Delivered Lincoln 9/11/44; Grenier 2/12/44; Assigned 379BG Kimbolton 6/12/44; transferred 337BS/96BG [AW-P] Snetterton 10/12/44; Missing in Action Regensburg 25/2/45 with Don Proctor, Co-pilot: Bill Buzek, Navigator: Dominic Christopher, Bombardier: Francis Bush, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Lou Dobaron, Ball turret gunner: Marbury Councell {inj}, Waist gunner: Joe Aull,Tail gunner: Bill Fiene (8INT); Radio Operator: Bob Shepherd (Killed in Action); flak, crash landed Deipoldsau, Switz; DINAH MITE.

Delivered Denver 29/1/43; Assigned 401BS/91BG [LL-B] Bassingbourn 22/4/43; Missing in Action 16m Schweinfurt 17/8/43 with Gene Lockhart, Co-pilot: Clive Woodbury, Navigator: Granville Williams, Bombardier: Bob Sherwin, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ted Cetnarowski, Radio Operator: Bill Darden, Ball turret gunner: George Serafin, Waist gunner: Chester Raphoom, Waist gunner: John Husick,Tail gunner: Art Burns (10 Returned to Duty); severely damaged by enemy aircraft, continued to target but never reached home base, ditched North Sea, all rescued by RAF Walrus from Hawkinge and taxied back to Ramsgate. HITLER’S GREMLIN.

Delivered Cheyenne 3/1/44; Kearney 12/1/44; Romulus 24/1/44; Grenier 29/1/44; Assigned 323BS/91BG [OR-R] Bassingbourn 24/2/44; 140m Returned to the USA 1321 BU Bradley 11/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 18/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 7/12/45. NINE O NINE.