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.

Delivered Hunter 15/6/44; Dow Fd 28/6/44; Assigned 337BS/96BG Snetterton 6/44 fitted with Eagle radar AN/APQ-7 for trials; transferred 813BS/482BG [PC-A] Alconbury 4/2/45; landing accident with Harrison Clarke at Snetterton 9/6/45; retUS, Recl Comp Pyote 14/1/49.

Delivered Cheyenne 16/3/44; Hunter 9/4/44; Dow Fd 29/4/44; Assigned 728BS/452BG [9Z- ] Deopham Green 30/4/44; destroyed by enemy aircraft at Poltava with Albert Oswalt 21/6/44; Salvaged 2/7/44.

Assigned 414BS/97BG Polebrook 11/4/42; with Lt. Clarence L. Thacker on first 8AF mission 17/8/42; transferred 92BG Bovingdon 24/8/42; 91BG Bassingbourn 3/3/43; 385BG Gt Ashfield 8/43 as target tow & hack; Returned to the USA 23/6/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 19/12/45. DIXIE DEMO.

Delivered Cheyenne 20/10/44; Hunter 22/11/44; Dow Fd 2/12/44; Assigned 547BS/384BG [SO-Z] Grafton Underwood 28/1/45; 544BS [SU-Z]; transferred 457BG Glatton 9/5/45; 305BG Chelveston 23/5/45; Salvaged 9AF Germany 6/11/46.

Sold from USAF to Brazilian AF {5411} serving with 1st & 2nd Sqds 60 BG Recife, but retired in 1968.

Delivered Dallas 19/4/44; Hunter 30/5/44; Grenier 18/6/44; Assigned (H2X) 482BG Alconbury 19/6/44; transferred 339BS/96BG [QJ-X] Snetterton 20/6/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 2/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 8/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 14/12/45.