Boeing B-17 #42-31040 / Duffy’s Tavern
Lost by enemy aircraft / (29 January 1944)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 #42-39782 / Pistol Packin’ Mama
Lost by enemy aircraft / (08 February 1944)
Boeing B-17 #43-37536 / French Dressing
Returned to the USA / (18 June 1945)
Boeing B-17 #42-39967 / Mary Kay
Lost by enemy aircraft / (18 March 1944)
Boeing B-17 #42-39988 / Lace’s Aces aka The Iron Ass
Lost by enemy aircraft / (08 March 1944)Werbung/Advertisement
Latest entries in the database
43-38759 / Dimples
Delivered Lincoln 18/9/44; Grenier 30/9/44; Assigned 527BS/379BG Kimbolton 14/10/44; Missing in Action Zeitz 30/11/44 with Ray Alderman, Curtis Henning, Ed Aulman, John Kirkham, Leo Christianson, Ludger Desmarias, Bill Page, Norbert Zagacki (8 Prisoner of War); Bob Staudinger (Killed in Action); flak, crashed Zeitz, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 11058. DIMPLES.
43-39469
Delivered Hunter 31/3/45; Assigned 8AF, transferred Sth Plains 15/4/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 5/1/46.
42-3197
Delivered Cheyenne 17/3/43; Ft Sumner 21/4/43; Roswell 28/5/43; force landed Hobbs with Dorsey Melton 7/6/43; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus ? .
42-37758 / Kentucky Kernel
Delivered Denver 20/8/43; Gr Island 18/8/43; Assigned 545BS/384BG [JD-W] Grafton Underwood 3/10/43; sal 10/12/44; retUS 1377 BU Grenier 12/1/45; 4124 BU Altus 16/8/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 9/10/45. KENTUCKY KERNEL.
43-37892
Delivered Cheyenne 1/6/44; Kearney 15/6/44; Grenier 28/6/44; Assigned PFF 603BS/398BG [N7- ] Nuthampstead 15/7/44; battle damaged Orleans 1/8/44 with Col Frank Hunter [Group CO], Co-pilot: Capt Gere Douglas, Navigator: Capt Harry Brown, Xn-H. Nelson, Bombardier: G. Goldman, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: A. Burke, Radio Operator: K.H. Shutts, Ball turret gunner: J.Basham,wg-A.N. Ward,Tail gunner: N.Callihan (10 Returned to Duty); intense flak damaged two engines, aircraft limped home to crash landed RAF Merston, West Sussex, UK; Salvaged 2 SAD Abbotts Ripton 4/8/44.
43-38368 / Daisy Mae
Delivered Cheyenne 26/7/44; Hunter 4/8/44; Grenier 14/8/44; Assigned: 730BS/452BG Deopham Green 15/8/44; 729BS; MIA Zwickau 19/3/45 Pilot: Vic Ettredge, Don Franklin, Art Burstein, George Peden, Jack Johnson, Jim Fitzgerald, Don Borden, Howard Towns, Art Darling {tg}, Lew Carter {rcm} (10POW); Enemy aircraft, crashed Zwickau, Germany. MACR 13562. DAISY MAE.
