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

Delivered Denver 13/7/43; Hill 20/8/43; Assigned 533BS/381BG [VP-V] Ridgewell 24/9/43 (DINAH MITE II?); Missing in Action 18+m Oschersleben 11/1/44 with Billy Chason, Co-pilot: Henry Mickelson, Navigator: Larry Walker, Bombardier: Americus Gentile, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Carl Hydra, Radio Operator: Bob Vollbrecht, Ball turret gunner: Ray Martin, Waist gunner: Howard Greenwood, Waist gunner: Tom Cobb,Tail gunner: Steve Kudla (10 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, #3 caught fire, crashed between Oldenburg and Bremen, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 1878. DOLL BABY.

Delivered Cheyenne 21/4/44; Kearney 6/5/44; Grenier 27/5/44; Assigned 334BS/95BG [BG-Q] Horham 30/5/44; with A.E. McCulley 25/8/44 wia-b Lt Bill Kehoe, Waist gunner: Larry Roberts; with W.C. Bramlett force landed RAF Woodbridge 25/12/44; with R.W. Paine 27/5/44 force landed Thorpe Abbotts AF; 55m, Missing in Action Berlin 3/2/45 with Dick Morris (Prisoner of War); Co-pilot: Dean Ratts, Navigator: Ken Wood, Bombardier: Len Pospisil, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Leroy Hansen, Radio Operator: Ken Peterson, Ball turret gunner: Marion Bell, Waist gunner: Milton Onie,Tail gunner: Bill Watt (8 Killed in Action); battle damaged plus runaway prop, crashed Den Berg Texel, Hol. Missing Air Crew Report 12048.

Delivered Cheyenne 10/5/43; Smoky Hill 23/5/43; Kearney 26/5/43; Dow Fd 2/6/43; Assigned 525BS/379BG [FR-P] Kimbolton 21/6/43; Missing in Action Schweinfurt 17/8/43 with Jim Sexton, Co-pilot: John Goettel, Navigator: Bill LaDow, Bombardier: Joe Lee, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Preston Wells, Radio Operator: Vince Leonard, Ball turret gunner: Ed Schad, Waist gunner: Jim Leckey,Tail gunner: Joe Sheppard (9 Prisoner of War), Waist gunner: Talmadge Naron (Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed Niederwetz, five miles S of Wetzlar, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 1763. RAGING RED.

Delivered Denver 12/5/43; Dow Fd 12/7/43; Assigned 569BS/390BG [CC-O] Framlingham 14/7/43; 3m, Missing in Action Regensburg 17/8/43 with Ray Becker, Co-pilot: Dave Schlegell, Navigator: Bill Conner, Bombardier: Bill Burke, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Clinton Hahn, Radio Operator: Herman Black, Ball turret gunner: Earl Shermeyer, Waist gunner: John Muir, Waist gunner: Roy Ball,Tail gunner: Chas Reed (10 Returned to Duty); enemy aircraft, ditched Med Sea, 50 miles off Bone, North Africa; Missing Air Crew Report 389. PURGATORY PETE.

Assigned 322BS/91BG [LG-O] Bangor 29/8/42; Bassingbourn 29/9/42; in taxi accident with John Hardin 18/11/42 at RNAS Yeovilton; MIZPAH – THE BEARDED LADY aka THE BEARDED BEAUTY. Missing in Action 28m Schweinfurt 17/8/43 with Everett Kenner, Co-pilot: George Bryan decapitated, Navigator: Rich Martin chute failed to open, Waist gunner: Gardner Moore,Tail gunner: Bill Hagin (5 Killed in Action). Bombardier: Herb Egender, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Glen Chase, Radio Operator: George Vender, Ball turret gunner: John O’Toole, Waist gunner: Jim Bowcock (5 Prisoner of War); Hit by enemy aircraft, along top of fuselage and KO’d #2 engine, dropped out and crashed Mayen, 15 miles W of Coblenz, Germany. See Missing Air Crew Report 275.

Assigned 322BS/91BG [LG-N] Bangor 1-Sep-42; Bassingbourn 29-Sep-42; Missing in Action (MIA) 7+m Hamm 4-Mar-43. Aircraft sustained repeated attacks by fighters and crashed into the North Sea just of the southern tip of Texel Island, Holland. The crew was ordered to bale out, but most landed in the sea and were lost. Co-pilot: 1LT Harold E. Kious rescued by ferryboat Dr Wagemaker, and then captured as a POW. Missing Air Crew Report 3721. ROSE O’DAY.

Delivered Cheyenne 26/10/43; Gr Island 11/11/43; Romulus 18/11/43; Assigned 323BS/91BG [OR-P] Bassingbourn 20/12/43; Missing in Action 5m Oschersleben 11/1/44 with Edwin Reid, Co-pilot: Dick Morganchute caught fire, Bombardier: George Marghita, Radio Operator: Benton Lowry, Ball turret gunner: John Gustafson, Waist gunner: Melvin Stoddard,Tail gunner: Tony Czarnecki (7 Killed in Action), Navigator: John HausWounded in Action, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ernie Kretchmer, Waist gunner: Arnold Hovey (3 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft shot out #3, another enemy aircraft clipped bomber’s wing sent it into a dive to crashed Bad Muender, 12 miles SW of Hanover, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 1917. MALAYAN LADY aka HARASS DRAGON.

Delivered Cheyenne 21/4/43; Tinker 27/4/43; New Castle 2/5/43; Presque Is 6/5/43; Assigned 366BS/305BG [KY-H] Chelveston 24/5/43; Missing in Action Schweinfurt 17/8/43 with Rothery McKeegan, Co-pilot: Frank Sulkowski, Navigator: Martin Fetherolf, Bombardier: Baxter Harris, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Albt Peach, Radio Operator: Jim Prehart, Waist gunner: Frank Williams, Waist gunner: Chas Murray (8 Prisoner of War), Ball turret gunner: Claude Davis,Tail gunner: Bob McLain (2KIA fighting fire on a/c); flak, crashed Wegnes, three miles SW of Verviers, Bel. Missing Air Crew Report 301. SETTING BULL.

Delivered to Tulsa 23/9/42; Wayne 2/11/42; West Palm Beach 14/12/42; Assigned to the 367BS/306BG [GY-Y] Thurleigh SCARLET 2/2/43; then 368BS; taxi accident with Dick O’Hara 20/4/43; transferred 544th Bomb Squadron/384th Bomb Group [SU-A] Grafton Underwood, Station 106 on 23 August 1943; Missing in Action on a mission to Stuttgart, 6 September 1943 with Lester H. Aufmuth, Bombardier: James C. Jensen Jr, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Robert K. Price, Waist gunner: Joseph H. Smith (4 Prisoner of War), Co-pilot: James G. McMath, Navigator: Charles O. Downe, Radio Operator: Louie F. Weatherford, Ball turret gunner: James L. Wagner, Waist gunner: Charles A. Fisher,Tail gunner: Carl E. Bachmann (6 evaded capture); no gas, crashed Doiains, ten miles E of Evreux, France. Missing Air Crew Report 776

Delivered Dallas 14/5/43; Gore 15/5/43; Love 15/6/43; Rapid City 19/6/43; Geiger 22/6/43; Gd Isle 30/6/43; Dallas 7/7/43; Kearney 23/7/43; Dow Fd 26/7/43; Assigned 350BS/100BG [LN-T] Thorpe Abbotts 26/7/43; Missing in Action Regensburg 17/8/43 with Tom Hummel, Co-pilot: Mike Doroski{Wounded in Action}, Navigator: Archie Depew, Bombardier: Norman Brewster, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Nelson Gunnar, Radio Operator: Don Meeker, Ball turret gunner: Gordon Williams,Tail gunner: Francis Stafford (8 Prisoner of War); Waist gunner: Ken O’Connor, Waist gunner: Dick Bowler (2 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft KO’d #2 which caught fire, crashed Schorsheim, nine miles S of Mainz, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 681.

Assigned 414BS/97BG Polebrook 3/42; with Lt. John P. Dowswell and MajGen Ira C. Eaker, Commanding General, VIII Bomber Command on first 8AF mission 17/8/42; transferred 92BG Bovingdon 24/8/42; 323BS/91BG [LG-X] Bassingbourn 30/3/43 as Blind Approach Training Flight; then to 324BS [DF-X] as target tow and hack; Salvaged 26/7/45. YANKEE DOODLE.

Delivered Cheyenne 3/6/43; Rapid City 15/6/43; Geiger 22/6/43; Gr Isle 28/6/43; Dow Fd 14/7/43; Assigned 333BS/94BG [TS-K] Rougham 13/7/43; Missing in Action Regensburg 14/10/43 with Roy Davison, Co-pilot: Stan Chichester, Navigator: Alden Faudie, Bombardier: Chas Breuer, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Fred Krueger, Radio Operator: Louis Koth, Ball turret gunner: Carl Gibson, Waist gunner: Art Howell, Waist gunner: Claude Page,Tail gunner: Dick Mungenast (10 Prisoner of War); flak KO’d #3, crashed Saverne, Fr; Missing Air Crew Report 831(788?).THUNDERBIRD.

Delivered Cheyenne 1/4/43; Dow Fd 23/5/43; Assigned 535BS/381BG [MS-V] Ridgewell 6/6/43 WIDGET. Missing in Action 11+m Schweinfurt 17/8/43; enemy aircraft KO’d three engines, crashed Fexhe-Slins, near Tongeren, Bel. Missing Air Crew Report 378. CHUG-A-LUG LULU.

B-17F 42-4078 was delivered Tulsa 15-Sep-42; Presque Is 19-Oct-42; Assigned 366BS/305BG [KY-C] Chelveston Nov-42. Shot down 30-Dec-42 by enemy aircraft on a mission to bomb the U-Boat pens at Lorient, France. Crashed into the Bay of Biscay, France. Missing in Action. 10KIA No MACR issued.

Delivered Cheyenne 16/4/43; Smoky Hill 25/4/43; Presque Is 15/5/43; Assigned 544BS/384BG [SU-O] Grafton Underwood 28/6/43; Missing in Action Schweinfurt 17/8/43 with Clayton Wilson, Co-pilot: Dewey Brown, Navigator: Fred Bloesch, Bombardier: Herman Stevens, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Vern Long, Radio Operator: John DesRochers, Ball turret gunner: George Kendall, Waist gunner: Gene Penick, Waist gunner: Jack Hook,Tail gunner: Ellis Klein (10 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crash landed Rheims, Fr. Missing Air Crew Report 291. FLAK DANCER aka M’HONEY.

Delivered Cheyenne 3/5/43; Smoky Hill 14/5/43; Tinker 24/5/43; Smoky Hill 29/5/43; Dow Fd 31/5/43; Assigned 410BS/94BG [GL-X] Earls Colne 2/6/43 THE SOUTHERN QUEEN; Rougham 13/6/43 transferred 333BS as THE BUZZARD aka PRODIGAL SON; Missing in Action Brunswick 11/1/44 with Bob Randall, Co-pilot: Lloyd Hall, Navigator: Tom Nash, Bombardier: Jim Wilkinson, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bob Hughes, Radio Operator: Bob James, Ball turret gunner: Albt Schwegel, Waist gunner: Harry Luttrell, Waist gunner: Walter Gray (9 Prisoner of War);Tail gunner: Bernie Brown, foto-Dave Barker (2 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed Uiezen, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 1889. LASSIE COME HOME.

Delivered Cheyenne 12/7/44; Hunter 20/7/44; Dow Fd 2/8/44; Assigned 863BS/493BG Debach 4/8/44; Missing in Action Berlin 3/2/45 with Henry Sherman, Al Janulis, Paul O’Connell, Walt Flaherty, Ray Fisher, Harry Koerner, Carl Hultman, Bob Smead, Doug Arnest (9 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed Julianadorf, Hol. Missing Air Crew Report 12157.

Delivered to Cheyenne 15/4/43; Smoky Hill 25/4/43; Sioux City 30/4/43; Kearney 6/5/43; Tinker 22/5/43; Kearney 26/5/43; Dow Fd 29/5/43; Assigned 545Bomb Squadron/384Bomb Group [JD-O] Station 106, Grafton Underwood on 14 June 1943; Missing in Action on a mission to Schweinfurt 17 August 1943 with Oliver Sweningsen, Co-pilot: Carlos P. Stewart, Navigator: Robert M. Koening, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Wallace B. Dawson, Radio Operator: Joseph S. Barta, Ball turret gunner: Leon Svirsky, Waist gunner: Alfred Meyer,Tail gunner: Charles F. Tate Jr. (8 Prisoner of War), Bombardier: Victor T. Kelly, Waist gunner: Richard S. Grover (2 Killed in Action); flak & enemy aircraft, crashed at Stangenroth, six miles Northwest of Bad Kissingen, Germany; Missing Air Crew Report 294. SNUFFY.

Delivered Denver 4/10/43; Gr Island 20/10/43; Memphis 26/10/43; Assigned 324BS/91BG [DF-A1] Bassingbourn 22/12/43; Missing in Action 3+m Oschersleben 11/1/44 with Allen Uskela, Radio Operator: Eric Braga, Ball turret gunner: Bill Keib, Waist gunner: Marvin Pearl, Waist gunner: Franklin Buck,Tail gunner: Bert Pearson (6 Killed in Action), Co-pilot: Gilbert Heims, Navigator: George Potter, Bombardier: Bob Morgan, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bernard Offley (4 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft attack blew hole in wing between #1 & #2, further attacks riddled cockpit then crashed Schoepenstedt, 12 miles SW of Helmstedt, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 1916. LITTLE JEAN.

Delivered Dallas 26/2/45; Hunter 10/4/45; Sth Plains 2/5/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 30/9/46; re-ass 31/3/47; 4136 BU Hill Fd 29/4/47; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 10/4/49.