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 Cheyenne 15/9/43; Assigned 613BS/401BG [IN-H] Deenethorpe 30/10/43; Missing in Action Kiel 31/12/43 with Don Lawry, Co-pilot: Jim Dockendorf{only body recovered}, Navigator: Harry Self, Bombardier: Bernie Weiner, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Fred Waterman, Radio Operator: Lee Peters, Ball turret gunner: Chas Roome, Waist gunner: Bob Knutson, Waist gunner: Clarry College,Tail gunner: Horace Wood (10 Killed in Action); flak, crashed sea St Catherine’s Point, off Isle of Wight, UK. Missing Air Crew Report 1872. HEY LOU.

Delivered Cheyenne 11/8/43; Gore 13/8/43; Cheyenne 14/8/43; Gr Isle 31/8/43; Assigned 535BS/381BG [MS-T] Ridgewell 19/9/43; Missing in Action 2m Bremen 8/10/43 with Bill Cormany, Co-pilot: Maj Bill Ingenhutt, Navigator: Edwin Frost, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Earl Miller, Radio Operator: Bob Roeder, Ball turret gunner: Jim O’Hara, Waist gunner: Jim Dwyer, Waist gunner: Dick Smith,Tail gunner: Lt Bob Weniger (9 Prisoner of War), Bombardier: Bob Black (Killed in Action); flak KO’d #2, crashed Haupstedt, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 885.

Delivered Cheyenne 21/1/44; Gr Island 11/2/44; Presque Is 11/2/44; Assigned 412BS/95BG [QW-D] Horham 3/3/44; transferred 335BS (OE-D); 67m, with R.E. Squyres sustained battle damaged Stuttgart 16/12/44, ran into mud off end of runway on return, then hit by 43-38453 which had overshot runway, Salvaged 17/12/44. SILVER (SLIVER) SLIPPER.

Delivered Cheyenne 11/9/43; Scott 28/9/43; Assigned 535BS/381BG Ridgewell 20/10/43; Missing in Action 19m Brunswick 30/1/44 with Bob Deering, Navigator: Dave Barer, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Wardell Horne, Radio Operator: Andy Richards, Ball turret gunner: Floyd Husvar, Waist gunner: Lloyd Jackson, Waist gunner: Wallace Scott,Tail gunner: Loren Sandford (8 Killed in Action); Co-pilot: Bob Williams, Bombardier: Paul Crabtree (2 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed on a street between Kohle & Ottbergen, six miles E of Hildesheim, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 2243. LITTLE DUCHESS aka WOLVERINE.

Delivered Cheyenne 3/7/44; Kearney 12/7/44; Dow Fd 20/7/44; Assigned: 850BS/490BG Eye 21/7/44; MIA Stuttgart 13/9/44 Pilot: Albt Davis, Dick Wessel (2POW); Fred Ostler, Jenner De Santis, John Godfrey, Teofilio Crixel, Larry Roony, Don Garry, Oscar Jensen (7KIA); flak, crashed Hochheim, Germany. MACR 8855.

Del Dallas 14/6/44; Langley 10/7/44; Grenier 7/8/44; Assigned 836BS/487BG Lavenham 10/8/44; battle damaged Darmstadt 24/12/44 with Lloyd S. Reed; force landed continent; Sal; Missing Air Crew Report 11561.

Delivered Hunter 7/8/44; Atlanta 13/8/44; Grenier 3/9/44; Assigned 324BS/91BG [DF-P] Bassingbourn 10/9/44; battle damaged {20m} Altenbeken 26/11/44 with Tom Martin, Co-pilot: George Miller; enemy aircraft hit #1 & 3, crash landed Denain/Prouvy A/fd, Fr; as aircraft bellied in killed woman and two children ran in panic; Salvaged 11/12/44; TERRY’S TIGER.

Delivered Denver 25/5/43; Dow Fd 9/7/43; Assigned HQ Bovingdon; Salvaged n/battle damaged with Albert Lentz 23/12/44.