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 Lincoln 30/1/45; Dow Fd 12/2/45; Assigned 15AF 16/2/45; Returned to the USA Morrison 2/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 10/1/46.

Delivered Kearney 28/6/44; Grenier 9/7/44; Assigned 349BS/100BG [XR-G] Thorpe Abbotts 12/7/44; Missing in Action Merseburg 28/9/44 with Ray Harney, Co-pilot: Bill Kimball, Navigator: Chas Hamrick, Bombardier: Warren French, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bob Minear, Radio Operator: Hubert Burleigh (6 Killed in Action); Ball turret gunner: Melvin Cordray, Waist gunner: Jim Sorenson,Tail gunner: Jack Francisco (3 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Schwickershausen, S of Meiningen, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 9373.

Delivered Cheyenne 1/6/44; Hunter 10/6/44; Grenier 28/6/44; Assigned PFF 835BS/486BG [H8-C] Sudbury 2/7/44; then 834BS [2S-K] on mission to Lutzkendorf 30/11/44 with Bob Cross, both Bombardier: Roy Bronson & Radio Operator: George Bevins were wia, but brought home safely; {65m} when parked was damaged by 43-37945 while taxiing, Salvaged 20/5/45. OLD MAN’S FOLLY.

Delivered Cheyenne 29/4/43; Gore 8/5/43; Sioux City 10/5/43; Smoky Hill 9/6/43; Dow Fd 12/6/43; Assigned: 561BS/388BG [–U] Knettishall 14/6/43; MIA Hanover 26/7/43 Pilot: Al Porter, Co-Pilot: Harry Thompson, Navigator: Henry Rowland, Bombardier: Vernon Adams, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: John Moffitt, Radio Operator: John Ash, Ball Turret Gunner: Ralph Mallicote, Waist Gunner: Morris Malamed, Waist Gunner: Rosswell Miller, Tail Gunner: Ivan Schraeder (10 RTD); Ditched North Sea. No MACR. WEE BONNIE.

Delivered Cheyenne 13/9/42; Presque Is 29/10/42; Assigned 366BS/305BG [KY-K] Chelveston 14/11/42; Missing in Action Lorient 17/5/43 with Joe Roney, Co-pilot: Jack Boltz{body found in harbor 9/6/43}, Ball turret gunner: Orville Glenn, Waist gunner: Gil Simkiss,Tail gunner: Pat Heaney (5 Killed in Action); Navigator: Paul Austin, Bombardier: Mark Oberhansly, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ernie Harker, Radio Operator: Jim Donaldson, Waist gunner: Gil Grobschmidt (5 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed L’Orient, Fr. Missing Air Crew Report 15238.

Delivered Hamilton 21-Nov-39; with A.R. Lind force landed Harmon Fld Newfoundland 31-Mar-42; Hendricks with Dick Gilder force landed base 7-Dec-42; Denver 17-Jul-43; Written off 16-May-44. Never used in combat, never served in UK.