B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies

B-17 #42-39876 / Gloria Ann

Delivered Denver 27/9/43; Gr Island 15/10/43; Assigned 569BS/390BG [CC-E] Framlingham 21/10/43; severe battle damaged over Berlin 6/3/44 with J. Flottorp, crew ? (10 Returned to Duty); on return aircraft had over 700 holes and sal 8/3/44. GLORIA ANN.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-31110 / Pacific’s Dream

B-17 #42-31110 / Pacific’s Dream

Delivered Dallas 20/9/43; Gr Island 12/10/43; Wilmington 15/10/43; Assigned 331BS/94BG [QE-M] Rougham 23/10/43; Missing in Action Cognac 31/12/43 with Ed Sullivan, Co-pilot: Cliff Robinson, Bombardier: Rueben Fier, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Elmer Shue (4 Prisoner of War); Navigator: Harvey Barr, Radio Operator: Chas Hoyes, Ball turret gunner: Stan Dymek, Waist gunner: John McLaughlin, Waist gunner: Alvin Sanderson,Tail gunner: Kenneth Carson (6 evaded capture); flak damaged three engines, crashed Cognac, Fr; Missing Air Crew Report 1672. PACIFIC’S DREAM.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 43-39130

B-17 #43-39130

Delivered Lincoln 10/12/44; Dow Fd 17/12/44; Assigned 848BS/490BG Eye 19/12/44; Missing in Action Plauen 21/3/45 with Bill Audette, Ray Ankeny, Bob Neuenschwander, Ted Chapin, Roy McGhee tg, Virgil Dupler rcm (6 Killed in Action); Lew Harvard, George Gilbert, Chas Johnston, Bill Shipp (4 Prisoner of War); jet enemy aircraft, crashed south of Oberfrauendorf, near Dippoldiswalde, Germany. Missing Air Crew Report 13555.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-30329

B-17 #42-30329

Delivered Cheyenne 15/5/43; Gore 17/5/43; Cheyenne 20/5/43; Smoky Hill 30/5/43; Morrison 7/6/43; Assigned 352BS/301BG St Donat 9/6/43; Oudna 6/8/43; Cerignola 7/12/43; Lucera 1/2/44; Missing in Action {60m} Regensburg with John Van Nortwick, Power, Thompson, Baronas, Martyniak, Moye, Ballard, Wiand, Murray, Sbaschnig (10 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed 2,5 km north of Saalfelden am Steinernen Meer, Austria; Missing Air Crew Report 2595.

B-17 #42-102648 / BTO of ETO

Delivered Cheyenne 23/3/44; Kearney 13/4/44; Grenier 28/4/44; Slated 447BG, Assigned 349BS/100BG [XR-L] Thorpe Abbotts 21/4/44; Missing in Action Berlin 24/5/44 with Bob Roeder, Co-pilot: Paul Lammers, Navigator: Claud Robison, Bombardier: Milton Grabel, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Wade Eason, Radio Operator: Frank Goldstein (6 Killed in Action); Ball turret gunner: Natham McElroy{Wounded in Action}, Waist gunner: Fred Cebalo{Wounded in Action}, Waist gunner: Bill Poklemba{Wounded in Action},Tail gunner: Tony Lombardi (4 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Suelfeld, near Kaltenkirchen, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 5172. BTO of ETO.

B-17 #43-38085 / Towering Titan

Delivered Cheyenne 24/6/44; Hunter 17/6/44; Dow Fd 23/7/44; Assigned: 366BS/305BG [KY-L] (?), 365BS [XK-L] Chelveston 11/8/44; MIA Dresden 17/4/45 Pilot: Brainard Harris, Earl Boyd, Herman Spurrier, Earl Losse, Louie Daybrook, Walt McClellan, Sam Williams, Ed Ganschow (8KIA); mid air coll w/jet aircraft, crashed Babisnau, 10 km south of Dresden, Germany; MACR 14172. TOWERING TITAN.

B-17 #43-38014 / The Naughty Virgin

Delivered Cheyenne 15/6/44; Kearney 29/6/44; Grenier 9/7/44; Assigned: 422BS/305BG Chelveston 12/7/44; battle damage Berlin 18/3/45 Pilot: Roy McCaldin, Navigator: Lyman Clark, togg-Bill King, Radio Operator: John Powers, Ball Turret Gunner: Union Melton, Tail Gunner: Jim Murphy, sj-Andy Kester (7RTD, picked up by Russians); Co-Pilot: Emil Sobol, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Alex Archibald (2POW); flak, crashed Berlin; MACR 13146. Salvaged. 4/4/45. THE NAUGHTY VIRGIN.

B-17 #42-31501 / ‘Ole’ Miss Destry aka Son of a Blitz

Delivered Cheyenne 12/11/43; Billings 15/11/43; Kearney 28/11/43; Presque Is 10/12/43; Assigned 366BS/305BG [KY-R] Chelveston 12/12/43 `OLE’ MISS DESTRY; transferred 401BG Deenethorpe 20/5/45; 138m, Returned to the USA 121 BU Bradley 8/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 12/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 8/12/45. SON OF A BLITZ.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-29594 / Little Butch

B-17 #42-29594 / Little Butch

Delivered Cheyenne 13/1/43; Salina 29/1/43; Morrison 10/3/43; Brookley 15/3/43; Assigned 429BS/2BG Navarin, Alg 13/4/43; Chateau-du-Rhumel, Alg 27/4/43; Ain M’Lila, Alg 17/6/43; Massicault, Tun 31/7/43; Missing in Action {29m} Naples 4/8/43 with Capt Bill Mayer, Bombardier: Elmo McClain,Tail gunner: Albt Nash (3 Prisoner of War); Co-pilot: Paul Wernich, Navigator: Aldo Angiolini, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Joe Samora, Radio Operator: Bill Doebele, Ball turret gunner: Clifton Wade, Waist gunner: Ed Lamont, Waist gunner: Harry Lavine (7 Killed in Action); flak, seven chutes seen. crashed in the water at Naples/Nisida, just off the town of Pozzguali, Italy. Missing Air Crew Report 371. LITTLE BUTCH.

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