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B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-32062

42-32062

Delivered Denver 18/1/44; Cheyenne 21/1/44; MacDill 5/2/44; Morrison 9/3/44; Assigned 815BS/483BG Tortorella 13/3/44; transferred 416BS/99BG Tortorella 31/3/44; Missing in Action {1m} Steyr, Aus. 2/4/44 with Joe Moffitt, Co-pilot: John Guldan, Navigator: Phil Melnik, Bombardier: Bob Wort (Nori?), Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Lester Malone, Radio Operator: Edsel Barker, Dailey (7POW?); Vernon Baldwin, Gene Fast, Frank Cramer (3 evaded capture), ret 2/5/44; enemy aircraft, two engines out, crash landed Oglin, Yugo; Missing Air Crew Report 4909.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-32057

42-32057

Delivered Cheyenne 19/1/44; Lubbock 3/2/44; MacDill 5/2/44; Morrison 6/3/44; Assigned 816BS/483BG Tortorella 11/3/44; transferred 348BS/99BG Tortorella 31/3/44; Missing in Action {38m} Vienna 8/7/44 with Laurel Gibson, Aleshaukas, Kennard, Pifko, VanCure, Romero, Jenkins, Miller, Olsen, Southard; flak, aircraft exploded, chutes seen, crashed Novi Marov, Yugo; Missing Air Crew Report 6368.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-32056

42-32056

Delivered Cheyenne 20/1/44; MacDill 6/2/44; Morrison 9/3/44; Assigned 815BS/483BG Tortorella 13/3/44; transferred 416BS/99BG Tortorella 31/3/44; Missing in Action {1m} Steyr 2/4/44 with Jim Klansnic, Co-pilot: George Parker, Navigator: Dudley Haddock, Bombardier: Dick Muto, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Joe Gonzales, Radio Operator: Ed Bilinsky, Ball turret gunner: Bob Englander, Waist gunner: Chester McPherson, Waist gunner: Frank Maczarny,Tail gunner: Ernie Moncolovic; enemy aircraft set wing afire, five chutes seen, crashed Steyr, Aus; Missing Air Crew Report 3888.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-32052

42-32052

Delivered Cheyenne 19/1/44; Amarillo 2/2/44; MacDill 6/2/44; Morrison 12/3/44; Assigned 840BS/493BG Tortorella 14/3/44; transferred 416BS/99BG Tortorella 31/3/44; {91m} Returned to the USA 121 BU Bradley 6/6/45; 4104 BU Rome 4/7/45; Recl Comp 13/11/45.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-32050

42-32050

Delivered Cheyenne 19/1/44; Sheppard 2/2/44; MacDill 4/2/44; crashed & burned 18/2/44; Written off.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-32045 / Silver Slipper

42-32045 / Silver Slipper

Delivered Denver 19/1/44; Cheyenne 25/1/44; Omaha 3/2/44; Hunter 15/2/44; Grenier 13/3/44; Assigned: 339BS/96BGB [QJ-R] Snetterton 21/3/44; MIA Schweinfurt 19/7/44 Pilot: Chas Quinby, Co-Pilot: Herb Jackson, Navigator: Bruce Bockstanz, Bombardier: Joe Bernstein, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Joe Duplechain, Radio Operator: John Jones, Ball Turret Gunner: Paul Hulton, Waist Gunner: Norman Christian, Waist Gunner: Walt Finnegan, Tail Gunner: Art Schwaiger (10POW); flak, crashed Reil near Koblenz, Germany. MACR 7411. SILVER SLIPPER.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-32042

42-32042

Delivered Cheyenne 15/1/44; Gr Island 30/1/44; Written off 31/1/44.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-32041

42-32041

Delivered Cheyenne 17/1/44; MacDill 2/2/44; Morrison 7/3/44; Assigned 817BS/483BG Tortorella 14/3/44; transferred 348BS/99BG Tortorella 31/3/44; Missing in Action {38m} Vinkovci, Yugo. 2/7/44 with Harry Reuse, Stockton, Redding, Waller, Edler, Bachman, Sughrue, Wright, Laudner, Erikson; flak & enemy aircraft, crashed Plattensee, ?; Missing Air Crew Report 6518.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 43-37637

43-37637

Delivered Cheyenne 6/5/44; Hunter 21/5/44; Grenier 6/6/44; Assigned: 332BS/94BG [XM-U] Rougham (Azon controlling mothership) 7/6/44; battle damage Nurnberg 21/2/45 Pilot: ‘; forced landing continent, Sal; Transferred: 34BG Mendlesham 9/6/45; Returned to US: Bradley 26/6/45; 4168 BU Sth Plains 29/6/45; Scrapped: Kingman 30/11/45.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 43-37638

43-37638

Delivered Dyersburg 6/5/44; 223 BU Dyersburg 15/5/44; 330 BU Dyersburg 1/3/45; 327 BU Drew 28/8/45; 330 BU Dyersburg 4/9/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 17/12/45.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 43-37639

43-37639

Delivered Dyersburg 6/5/44; 330 BU Dyersburg 2/3/45; 327 BU Drew 28/8/45; 330 BU Dyersburg 4/9/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 19/12/45.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 43-37640

43-37640

Delivered Dyersburg 6/5/44; 330 BU Dyersburg 1/3/45; 327 BU Drew 28/8/45; 330 BU Dyersburg 4/9/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 18/12/45.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 43-37641

43-37641

Delivered Pyote 6/5/44; Cheyenne 13/5/44; Pyote 18/5/44; 235 BU Biggs 23/7/44; 222 BU Ardmore 4/3/45; 332 BU Ardmore 16/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 26/9/45.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 43-37642

43-37642

Delivered Pyote 6/5/44; 236 BU Pyote 15/5/44; 235 BU Biggs 19/8/44; 225 BU Rapid City 22/3/45; 4003 BU Philadelphia 29/3/45; 225 BU Rapid City 28/4/45; 2114 BU Lockbourn 19/7/45; 2137 BU Hendricks 29/9/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 8/1/46.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 43-37643

43-37643

Delivered Cheyenne 8/5/44; Patterson 21/5/44; Kearney 26/6/44; Grenier 6/7/44; Assigned: 339BS/96BG [QJ-R] Snetterton 8/7/44; Pilot: Alva Hedegecock was damaged by 44-8728 in taxi accident at Deopham Green 7/6/45; Returned to US: Bradley 3/7/45; 4168 BU Sth Plains 6/7/45; Scrapped: Kingman 7/12/45.

B-17 #43-37644 / Feather Merchant

43-37644 / Feather Merchant

Delivered Cheyenne 8/5/44; Hunter 21/5/44; Dow Fd 4/6/44; Assigned: 728BS/452BG Deopham Green 7/6/44; 729BS; MIA Misburg 31/12/44 Pilot: Vince Seger, Dave Harrison, Tony Morbeto, John Dieball, Bill Bruns, Mike Zahn, Everett Malcolm (7POW); Lew Carpenter, George Pierson (2KIA); Enemy aircraft, crashed Hamburg, Germany. MACR 11231. FEATHER MERCHANT.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 43-37645

43-37645

Delivered Cheyenne 8/5/44; Hunter 21/5/44; Grenier 6/6/44; Assigned: 452BG Deopham Green 8/6/44; Transferred: 413BS/96BG Snetterton 11/6/44; MIA Steenwjik, Hol 24/3/45 Pilot: Ron Birch, Co-Pilot: Henry Miller, Navigator: Bill Hollis, Bombardier: Walt Liddle, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Lowell Beaver, Radio Operator: Bill Dillion, Ball Turret Gunner: Glen Wallace, Waist Gunner: Alton Goodling, Tail Gunner: Preston Wannan (9KIA); engine caught fire, ditched North Sea, off Yarmouth, UKl. MACR 13603.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 43-37650

43-37650

Delivered Pyote 8/5/44; Gt Falls 11/5/44; Pyote 14/5/44; 235 BU Biggs 19/8/44; 225 BU Rapid City 22/3/45; 232 BU Dalhart 15/7/45; 4136 BU Tinker 9/9/45; 232 BU Dalhart 15/9/45; 244 BU Harvard 29/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 7/11/45. Stored until sold to California Airways as N66570 in 1952; to Bolivia CP-97 & CP-597. Written off Sep 1955.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 43-37651

43-37651

Delivered Rapid City 8/5/44; Gt Falls 11/5/44; Rapid City 12/5/44; 239 BU March 21/7/45; 420 BU March 15/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 25/2/46.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 43-37652

43-37652

Delivered Rapid City 8/5/44; Galveston 7/45; Barksdale 12/45; Memphis 10/46; mod to TB-17G 62 BU MacDill; McChord 3/46; Assigned US Coast Guard 5/47 as PB-1R; Bolling for the US Sec/Treasury trip to Europe; McChord 6/51; 4 ERS Hamilton 6/51; mod to QB-17G at Brookley; as drone target blown up over Holloman, NM 7/54.