“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 #42-39988 / Lace’s Aces aka The Iron Ass
Lost by enemy aircraft (08 March 1944)
Boeing B-17 #42-31466 / Sitting Pretty
Lost by enemy aircraft (29 May 1944)
Boeing B-17 #44-6020 / Under Ground Farmer
Lost by flak/aa-fire (06 August 1944)
Boeing B-17 #42-32049 / Yankee Rebel
Lost by flak/aa-fire (03 August 1944)
Boeing B-17 #44-8854 / Just Once More
RFC Walnut Ridge (08 January 1946)
Database - Latest entries in the database
43-39072 / No Body’s Baby
Delivered Lincoln 26/11/44; Dow Fd 15/12/44; Assigned 748BS/457BG [S] Glatton 3/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 22/5/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 25/5/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 27/11/45. NOBODY’S BABY.
42-3196
Delivered Cheyenne 17/3/43; Ft Sumner 16/4/43; Hobbs with Albt Prendergast force landed Kelly 30/5/43; to Kelly, TX, with W.H. Keidrich who force landed base 12/7/43; with Jarry Jefferson force landed base 30/12/43; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 4/4/46.
42-29687
Delivered Denver 3/2/43; Gowen 13/2/43; Geiger 11/5/43; Moses Lake 3/6/43; Spokane 13/8/43; 3701 BU Amarillo 12/6/44; with Beecher Tillman 9/3/45; 2114 BU Lockbourn 16/3/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 9/10/45.
42-29914
Delivered Cheyenne 8/3/43; Smoky Hill 26/3/43; Baer Fd 10/4/43; Smoky Hill 13/4/43; Dow Fd 18/4/43; Assigned: 339BS/96BG Grafton Underwood 24/4/43 MISCHIEF MAKER; Andrews Field 13/5/43; Snetterton 12/6/43; Transferred: 546BS/384BG [BK-H] Grafton Underwood 14/8/43; MIA Andre-de-Leuve, Fr. 3/9/43 Pilot: Justin Jones, Co-Pilot: Ed McManus, Navigator: Harry Peters, Bombardier: Chas Wolfrom, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Aloysius Shemanski, Radio Operator: John Reilly, Ball Turret Gunner: Ernie Kuhl, Waist Gunner: Linsfield Smith, Waist Gunner: Franklin Hitzeroth, Tail Gunner: Francis Leith (10POW); Enemy aircraft, ditched Channel, 10 miles off Le Havre, Fr. MACR 743.
44-8899
Delivered Lincoln 29/1/45; Grenier 17/2/45; Assigned 8AF 21/2/45; mapping Dutch coast 2/7/45; Re-ass 30/4/47; Recl Comp 13/6/47.
42-29913
elivered Cheyenne 8/3/43; Colorado Springs 18/3/43; Patterson 24/3/43; Colorado Springs 7/4/43; Esler 10/5/43; Barksdale 21/5/43; Peterson 26/5/43; Assigned (F-9B photo-recon) 1st Photo Gp Colorado Springs 1/9/43; 499BG Smoky Hill 6/6/44; 11 Ph Sq MacDill 29/7/44; 19 Ph Gp MacDill 2/8/44; 4117 BU Robins 29/10/44; 19 Ph GP MacDill 12/11/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Ontario 24/5/45.