Boeing B-17 #42-38021 / Mission Maid
Returned to the USA / (11 July 1945)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 #42-31723 / Sparky
Lost by enemy aircraft / Lost by flak/aa-fire / (29 July 1944)
Boeing B-17 #43-38562 / Kitty Kay and Katy
Lost by flak/aa-fire / (15 March 1945)
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Latest entries in the database
43-39476
Delivered Sth Plains 4/4/45; 2140 BU Smyrna 14/11/45; 342 BU Smyrna 5/5/46; 594 BU Topeka 26/6/46.
42-30734 / Slightly Dangerous
Delivered Denver 20/7/43; Long Beach 8/8/43; Geiger 10/8/43; Walla Walla 12/8/43; Redmond 15/8/43; Assigned 351BS/100BG [EP-G] Thorpe Abbotts 5/9/43; Missing in Action Munster 10/10/43 with Chas Thompson, Co-pilot: Ross McEuen, Bombardier: Bill Sprow, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Dick Derby, Radio Operator: Jack Stern, Ball turret gunner: Jesse Cook,Tail gunner: Don Leech, obs-John Hoerr (8 Prisoner of War); Navigator: Ed Jones, Waist gunner: Floyd Cahill, Waist gunner: Chas Nessel (3 Killed in Action); shot down by fighter, lost right wing and exploded, crashed Walingen, near Havixbeck, six miles W of Munster, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 1023. SLIGHTLY DANGEROUS.
42-38022 / Jeanne
Delivered Cheyenne 16/11/43; Gr Island 4/12/43; Presque Is 10/12/43; ass 410BS/94BG [GL-M] Rougham 16/12/43; MIA Berlin 6/3/44 Pilot: Chas Johnston, Co-Pilot: Jim Howes (2KIA-p held onto cp when baling out but lost grip when chute opened); Navigator: Paul Sullivan, Bombardier: Bob Davenport, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Julian Wiedemann, Radio Operator: Dick Elliott, Ball Turret Gunner: Sanford Minor, Waist Gunner: Bob Beaton, Waist Gunner: Bob Thornton, Tail Gunner: Aaron Lowry (8POW); Enemy aircraft caused fire in cockpit, crashed two miles S of Wieste, 15 miles W of Cloppenberg, Germany. MACR 2977. JEANNE.
43-38410
Delivered Cheyenne 31/7/44; Kearney 10/8/44; Grenier 16/8/44; Assigned: 18BS/34BG Mendlesham 18/8/44; Returned to US: Bradley 21/6/45; 4168 BU Sth Plains 23/6/45; Scrapped: Kingman 25/11/45. THE SEX MANIACS.
42-3154
Delivered Denver 2/3/43; Assigned: 526BS/379BG [LF-B] Dow Fd 19/4/43; Kimbolton 30/5/43; sustained battle damage Gelsenkirchen 12/8/43 Pilot: Don Murray, Co-Pilot: Bob McGraw, Navigator: Bill Meyer, Bombardier: Chester Gwinn, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Mike Curtin, Radio Operator: Rodgers Tatum, Ball Turret Gunner: Frank Winninger, Waist Gunner: Alex Robert, Waist Gunner: Carl Moak, Tail Gunner: John Rogers (10RTD); crash-landed Rougham a/fd, Sfk, UK; Salvaged. 16/8/43.
44-8202
Delivered Dallas 8/7/44; Langley 8/8/44; Grenier 9/9/44; Assigned 570BS/390BG Framlingham 22/9/44; RetUS, Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 3/11/45.
