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 #43-37817 / Mollita
Crashlanding / Battle damaged / (12 July 1944)
Boeing B-17 #42-31013 / Ole Casey Jones aka Myassam Dragon
Lost by flak/aa-fire / (21 July 1944)
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Latest entries in the database
44-85762
Delivered Dallas 28/5/45; Syracuse 28/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 7/11/45; transferred USN 6/47 [83998]; NAS Corpus Christi, Tx, scrapped for spares.
44-85761
Delivered Dallas 29/5/45; Syracuse 26/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 5/11/45.
43-39145
Delivered Lincoln 14/12/44; Grenier 21/12/44; Assigned 8AF 23/12/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 29/5/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 31/5/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 22/2/46.
43-39078
Delivered Hunter 24/11/44; Grenier 16/12/44; Assigned 863BS/493BG Debach 19/12/44; battle damaged Hamburg 30/3/45 with Russ Goodspeed, ? (6 Killed in Action); Roger Laib, Harry Teters, Harry Davis (3RTD – wia); flak hit in #4 engine, crashed Bartlow, Cambs. UK, heading for new base at Little Walden, Ex. aircraft broke in half, Salvaged 26/4/45.
43-39267
Delivered Cheyenne 26/1/45; Hunter 26/2/45; ATC San Francisco 1/3/45; Assigned WCW Manila 31/12/45; Salvaged 11/10/46.
43-39265
Delivered Cheyenne 22/1/45; Hunter 28/3/45; San Francisco 2/4/45; Assigned ATC 5/4/45; 338 RV Momote 18/1/46; 5RVP Gp Clark Fd 18/4/46; Returned to the USA 24/5/49; 9SRG Gp Fairmont 27/9/49; Hill 9/12/49; Recl Comp 19/5/50.