B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies The legendary Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber in WW2. With database about the fate of each single aircraft.
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“The best bomber which was ever built. She could handle extensive damage and still stay in the air.”
General Ira C. Eaker
Featured B-17s
Boeing B-17 #42-29941 / Tarfu aka TS Tarfu aka TS Too
Lost by flak/aa-fire / (08 October 1943)
Boeing B-17 #42-5915 / Cash & Carry
Lost by enemy aircraft / (10 October 1943)
Boeing B-17 #42-29761 / Martha II
Lost by enemy aircraft / Lost by flak/aa-fire / (30 January 1944)
Boeing B-17 #43-37786 / Madam Shoo Shoo
Returned to the USA / (26 June 1945)Werbung/Advertisement
Latest entries in the database
44-8506 / Miss Mac
Delivered Lincoln 2/10/44; Grenier 16/10/44; Assigned: 563BS/388BG Knettishall 18/10/44; Returned to US: Bradley 17/6/45; Sth Plains 20/6/45; Scrapped: Kingman 18/12/45. MISS MAC.
44-6840 / Marge
Delivered Hunter 25/11/44; Dow Fd 20/12/44; Assigned 18BS/34BG Mendlesham 23/12/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 21/6/45; Sth Plains 23/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 27/11/45. MARGE.
43-39102 / Old Augie
Delivered Lincoln 2/12/44; Grenier 15/12/44; Assigned 600BS/398BG [N8-B then V] Nuthampstead 27/2/45; RAF Valley 21/5/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 25/5/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 29/5/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 27/11/45. ‘Old Augie’.
42-102434 / Heavens Above aka Panhandle Kid
Delivered Cheyenne 3/3/44; Dorval (Montreal) 10/3/44; Assigned RAF [HB783]; transferred USAAF 26/3/44; Assigned 561BS/388BG [L] Knettishall 22/3/44; battle damaged Merseburg 28/9/44 with Elroy Gierach, Co-pilot: Percy Mead, Navigator: Harry Hobbs, Bombardier: Milton Gunnarson, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ray Smith, Radio Operator: Martin Krey, Ball turret gunner: Daryl Daugherty, Waist gunner: Jim Hyde,Tail gunner: Jim Hodgin (9 Returned to Duty); flak damaged two engines, crash landed Les Villette, near Brasur-Liennes, SW of Malmedy, Bel; Missing Air Crew Report 9379. PANHANDLE KID.
44-85681
Delivered Louisville 24/4/45; Syracuse 25/5/45; Middletown 8/11/45; Morrison 5/12/45; 4112 BU Olmstead 31/1/46; West palm Beach 3/3/46; 1103 BU Morrison 6/3/46; re-ass 30/4/47; 91 RLP Howard, CZ 1/1/48; 91 RLP Waller 1/7/48; 91 RLP Maguire 9/2/49; 91 SRC Barksdale 5/12/49; to USN, Recl Comp 16/2/50.
42-3060 / Hell’s Belle
Delivered Tulsa 14/1/43; 548BS/385BG [GX-V] Dow Fd 15/6/43; Gt Ashfield 26/6/43; transferred 401BS/91BG [LL-G] Bassingbourn 3/9/43; Missing in Action 4m Solingen 1/12/43 with Chas Guinn, Co-pilot: Ken Fallek, Navigator: Bob Hornbeck, Bombardier: Sid Edelstein, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Harry Wingate, Radio Operator: Bert Stieler, Ball turret gunner: Bill Rassmussen, Waist gunner: Chas Dyer, Waist gunner: Cecil Corner,Tail gunner: Gerry McDowell (10 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft KO’d #1 & #2, crash landed Boich, near five miles S of Duren, Ger. Despite crew’s attempts to ignite their ship, the Luftwaffe salvaged it for spares. Missing Air Crew Report 1319. HELL’S BELLE.
