“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 #42-30715 / Cincinnati Queen aka Blues in the Night
Lost by mechanical fault (21 June 1944)
Boeing B-17 #42-97084 / Spare Charlie
Lost by flak/aa-fire (22 June 1944)
Boeing B-17 #42-5388 / Never Satisfied
Salvaged (30 November 1945)
Boeing B-17 #42-32102 / Male Call aka Julie Linda
CrashlandingBattle damaged (01 February 1945)
Boeing B-17 #42-102625 / All American Girl
Destroyed on ground (21 June 1944)
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42-107153
Delivered Tulsa 7/3/44; Sioux City 17/3/44; Grenier 5/4/44; Assigned: 369BS/306BG [WW-V] Thurleigh 25/4/44; MIA Munich 16/7/44 Pilot: Fred Jones, Co-Pilot: Cliff Hammersley, Navigator: Chas Weaver, Bombardier: Bob Stanaker, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: John Griffiths, Radio Operator: Bob Price, Ball Turret Gunner: Woodie Rose, Waist Gunner: Milton Katz, Tail Gunner: Art Flores (9EVD); flak, crashed Leninges, Belgium. ; MACR 7567.
42-5164
Delivered Tulsa 5/10/42; Scott 6/1/43; Chicago 22/4/43; Lockbourn 10/5/43; crash landed base 7/9/43 with Clarry Abercrombie; with Edson Penn (?Crupp?) crash landed Lockbourn 23/10/43; Written off 1/11/43.
42-5210
Delivered Cheyenne 9/10/42; Hobbs 22/11/42; with Paul Koons force landed base 4/1/44; 4136 BU Tinker 4/7/44; 3017 BU Hobbs 14/8/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 29/8/45.
42-31729
Delivered Cheyenne 11/12/43; Salt Lake City 26/12/43; Kingman 27/12/43; force landed Yucca Aux Fd with Jim Berkshire 17/5/44; 3018 BU Kingman 23/3/45; 3017 BU Hobbs 22/9/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 18/1/46.
42-31622
Delivered Denver 29/11/43; Kearney 23/12/43; Oklahoma City 30/12/43; Scott 8/1/44; Memphis 9/1/44; Morrison 10/1/44; Assigned 414BS/97BG Amendola 22/1/44; mid air coll with 42-30405 on Steyr mission 24/3/44; takes tail of ‘405, and returns base; repaired, but re-ass cargo ship from 9/10/44; Salvaged 30/5/45.
44-6376 / Fuddyhuckle
Delivered Hunter 21/7/44; Presque Is 4/8/44; Assigned 348BS/99BG Tortorella 13/8/44; {68m} Returned to the USA Bradley 18/6/45; Sth Plains 21/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 17/12/45. FUDDYHUCKLE.