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

Delivered Cheyenne 7/7/44; Kearney 18/7/44; Grenier 3/8/44; Assigned 860BS/493BG Debach 3/4/44; Missing in Action Hamm 19/9/44 with Jake Laderman, Co-pilot: Walt Beriont, Navigator: Albt Wick, Bombardier: John Muzii, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ray Fox, Radio Operator: John Robbin, Ball turret gunner: Jim Cathcart, Waist gunner: Odell Bascom (8 Killed in Action);Tail gunner: Clarry Smith (Prisoner of War); flak, #3 exploded, then aircraft blew up going down, crashed Oberhilbersheim, SE of Bingen, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 10212.

Delivered Cheyenne 7/7/44; Kearney 18/7/44; Grenier 4/8/44; Assigned: 331BS/94BG [QE-X] Rougham 5/8/44; MIA Merseburg 7/10/44 Pilot: George Davies, Pete Matturo, Whitman Singletary, Fred Menefee, Mark Cordell, Henry Cawood, Lt Jack Lancaster {tg} (7KIA); Maj Alf Lambert, John Paulussen, George Cullen (3POW); Enemy aircraft set left wing on fire, crashed Wiehe, Germany. MACR 9553.

Delivered Cheyenne 7/7/44; Kearney 16/7/44; Grenier 3/8/44; Assigned: 333BS/94BG Rougham 4/8/44; MIA Berlin 6/10/44 Pilot: Carol Davis, Maj Jim Blout, Bill Hinrichs, Rod Gundersen, Frank Colestro, Bill May, Bill Wilson, Dave Cross, Oval Willis, Lt Ed Tjomsland {tg}(10KIA ‘ only bodies of Blount and Colestro recovered); Enemy aircraft, crashed Channel. MACR 9351.

Delivered Cheyenne 13/7/44; Kearney 21/7/44; Grenier 7/8/44; Assigned 861BS/493BG Debach 9/8/44; 863BS; Salvaged battle damaged 3/3/45. OLE RAMBLER.

Delivered Cheyenne 12/7/44; Hunter 22/7/44; Dow Fd 2/8/44; Assigned: 364BS/305BG Chelveston 27/8/44; MIA Magdeburg 1/1/45 Pilot: Elton Mann, Earl Macksey, John Casey, Felix Presto, Jim Taylor (5POW); Jay Baas, Don Hobby, Boris Demko, Bill Kirkland, Sam Kirby (5KIA); Enemy aircraft, crashed Windberg, Germany. MACR 11353.

Delivered Cheyenne 12/7/44; Kearney 21/7/44; Grenier 5/8/44; Assigned Soxo 7/8/44; Salvaged n/battle damaged 10/9/44.

Delivered Cheyenne 12/7/44; Kearney 21/7/44; Grenier 15/8/44; Assigned: 368BS/306BG Thurleigh 18/9/44; battle damage Cologne 10/1/45 Pilot: Carl Hathaway, Harry Morris, Jim Frederick, Marion Popivohak, Ed Danahar{wia}, Gene Feeney, Tail Gunner: Harry Sohn{wia} (7RTD); Radio Operator: Meade Seaman (MIA); Ray Norheim (POW); #3 & #4 shot out, oxygen KO’d, forced landing Hombeck, Belgium. Salvaged. 18/1/45. MACR 11761. DEBBIE.

Delivered Cheyenne 12/7/44; Kearney 21/7/44; Grenier 7/8/44; Assigned 860BS/493BG Debach 9/8/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 7/7/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 11/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 2/12/45.

Delivered Long Beach 10/7/43; Alexandria 25/7/43; 235 BU Biggs 28/7/44; Written off 18/9/44; 369 BU Biggs 1/9/45; Recl Comp 3/8/46.

Delivered Long Beach 9/7/43; Ephrata 1/8/43; 3701 BU Amarillo 23/7/44; 3706 BU Sheppard 20/10/44; 3701 BU Amarillo 2/5/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 21/1/46.

Delivered Long Beach 10/7/43; Cheyenne 24/7/43; 2AF HQ Peterson 29/11/43; 500BG Pinecastle 26/6/44; 901 BU Pinecastle 28/6/44; 500BG Walker 29/6/44; 271 BU Kearney 7/9/44; 275 BU Lincoln 10/10/44; 223 BU Dyersburg 24/11/44; 330 BU Dyersburg 1/3/45; 325 BU Avon Park 21/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 19/7/45.

Delivered Long Beach 9/7/43; Dalhart 23/7/43; crash landed Cabresto Peak, NM with Roy Cosgrove 1/9/43; Albuquerque 12/10/43; Written off 30/11/43. To civil registry as N7942A.

Delivered Long Beach 10/7/43; Cheyenne 12/7/43; Tinker 12/10/43; 2114 BU Lockbourn 14/8/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 14/12/45.

Delivered Rapid City 9/5/44; Gt Falls 12/5/44; Rapid City 15/5/44; 225 BU Rapid City 1/5/45; 246 BU Pratt 30/9/45; 3505 BU Scott 21/10/45; 246 BU Pratt 22/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 3/1/46.

Delivered Rapid City 9/5/44; 4136 BU Tinker 5/9/44; 225 BU Rapid City 9/9/44; with Norman Lepperd force landed 11 miles NE of base 12/2/45; 2114 BU Lockbourn 18/7/45; 2137 BU Hendricks 24/9/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 14/1/45.

Delivered Sioux City 9/5/44; Gt Falls 12/5/44; Sioux City 14/5/44; 224 BU Sioux City 6/3/45; 222 BU Ardmore 14/6/45; 332 BU Ardmore 16/6/45; 330 BU Dyersburg 12/9/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 11/12/45.

Delivered Sioux City 9/5/44; with ? 224 BU Sioux City 13/12/44; Recl Comp 1/1/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 21/6/44; Kearney 13/7/44; Grenier 24/7/44; Assigned: 365BS/305BG Chelveston 12/8/44; MIA Cologne 14/10/44 Pilot: Dick Nichols, Ken Coombs, Julius Melegh, Franklin Sollars, Ed Price, Chas Brown, Phil Carroll, Tom Sirman (8KIA); John Knight (POW); mid air coll, crashed between Rhine River and Düsseldorfer Straße, Cologne, Germany. MACR 9474.

Delivered Cheyenne 26/6/44; Hunter 15/7/44; Dow Fd 23/7/44; Assigned: 365BS/305BG Chelveston 11/8/44; MIA Cologne 14/10/44 Pilot: Gordon Gustafson, Bob Bader, Dave Higgins, Jim Kavaney, Fred Stone, Ray Kolb, Marlin Gustafson, Dick Smith, Ray Kessel (9KIA); mid air coll, crashed Cologne, Germany. Near Marshalling Yard Köln-Niehl. MACR 9475/KU-3229

Delivered Cheyenne 21/6/44; Kearney 13/7/44; Dow Fd 20/7/44; Assigned 850BS/490BG Eye 21/7/44; Returned to the USA Reading 20/7/45; 4185 BU Independence 21/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 17/12/45.