“The best bomber which was ever built. She could handle extensive damage and still stay in the air.”
General Ira C. Eaker
Boeing B-17 #43-39041 / She Dood It
Returned to the USA / (07 July 1945)
Boeing B-17 #42-37982 / Tremblin’ Gremlin’
Lost by flak/aa-fire / (19 September 1944)
Boeing B-17 #44-6111 / Hell’s Belle
Lost by flak/aa-fire / (12 July 1944)
Boeing B-17 #42-102950
Destroyed on ground / (21 June 1944)
Boeing B-17 #42-37784 / The Old Fox
Mid-air collision / (24 May 1944)
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42-30124
Delivered Cheyenne 15/4/43; Ft Sumner 21/4/43; Hobbs 6/5/43; 3017 BU Hobbs 8/11/44; with Lou Gallagher force landed a mile short of Hobbs Aux Fd 27/4/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 9/10/45.
44-6985
Delivered Hunter 8/1/45; Grenier 19/1/45; Assigned 463BG Celone 7/2/45; Returned to the USA 2/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 12/12/45.
42-37871 / Uninvited
Delivered Denver 25/9/43; Harvard 13/10/43; ass 711BS/447BG Rattlesden 25/11/43; Scrapped: Kingman 8/11/45.
42-31571
Delivered Denver 20/11/43; Gt Falls 28/11/43; Cheyenne 12/12/43; Kearney 19/12/43; Morrison 3/1/44; Assigned 342BS/97BG 12/1/44; Missing in Action Piombino, It. 28/4/44 with 1Lt Tom W Curlin, 2Lt Ralph C Pitts Jr, 2Lt John R Ketchum, 2Lt Richard W Giberson, T/Sgt Arthur S Bragg, T/Sgt Clarence H Karnopp, S/Sgt Louis B Malc, S/Sgt Ferdinand F Lakat, S/Sgt Horace Byington, Sgt Morris D Edward; flak, crashed San Angelo; MACR 4527.
43-38583
Delivered Cheyenne 22/8/44; Lincoln 7/9/44; Grenier 18/9/44; Assigned: 360BS/303BG [PU-H] Molesworth 20/9/44; 748BS/457BG [C] Glatton 21/9/44; following Bohlen raid 30/11/44 Pilot: ‘ forced landing Belgium. ium, rep & returned; MIA Sterkrade 22/1/45 w/Art Jellinek, Co-Pilot: Jim Christy, Navigator: Jack Dressler, Bombardier: Joe Farrow, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Frank Conti, Radio Operator: Harry Jolly, Ball Turret Gunner: Harley Ernest, Waist Gunner: Karl Lambertson, Tail Gunner: Ken Beattie (9POW); flak, crashed Westladbergen, Germany. ; MACR 11828. JACKIE.
43-38553 / Shack N Lady
Delivered Cheyenne 16/8/44; Lincoln 28/8/44; Grenier 18/9/44; Assigned 548BS/385BG [GX-T] Gt Ashfield 20/9/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 25/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 27/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 9/12/45. SHACK ‘N LADY.