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 10/5/44; Hunter 21/5/44; Dow Fd 4/6/44; Assigned 728BS/452BG Deopham Green 7/6/44; Missing in Action Misburg 31/12/44 with Kasimer Traynelis, Co-pilot: Bill Howe, Navigator: Duane Mowry, Bombardier: Paul Basye, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Jim Laws, Radio Operator: Bob Stauffer (Wounded in Action), Ball turret gunner: Stewart Livingston (Wounded in Action), Waist gunner: Ralph Tetu (8 Prisoner of War);Tail gunner: Henry Bouma (Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed Tauenbrueck, near Hanover, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 11232.

Assigned 367BS/306BG Westover 17-Aug-42; Thurleigh 13-Oct-42; transferred 324BS/91BG [DF-J] Bassingbourn 20-Feb-43; Missing in Action (MIA) 2m Hamm 4-Mar-43. Shot down by Lt Kostler (IV/NJG1) in Me 110, KO’d #1 & #3,oil pouring away before #4 was feathered ditched 40 miles west of Texel Is, Holland, in North Sea; five rescued by Royal Navy minesweeper and landed at Grimsby; EXCALIBUR. 3KIA 7RTD (Rescued by Royal Navy). No MACR issued.

Delivered Denver 13/3/43; Assigned 27BS/2BG New Castle 6/4/43; force landed Meeks Fd, Iceland with John O’Brien 17/4/43; transferred 324BS/91BG [DF-Z] Bassingbourn 23/5/43; Missing in Action 29+m Cognac 31/12/43 with Bayard Dudley, Co-pilot: Glen Neff, Bombardier: Jack Hill, Ball turret gunner: Joe Young,Tail gunner: Roy Adkins (5 Killed in Action), Navigator: Edgar Moore, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Orlin Gregory, Radio Operator: Alex Fontecchio, Waist gunner: Jim Ross, Waist gunner: Bill Hennig (5 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft riddled cockpit, with radio room afire, then #2, crashed Salaces, near Lesperon, 15 miles N of Dax, near Bordeaux, Fr. Missing Air Crew Report 1976. OKLAHOMA OKIE.

Delivered Cheyenne 28/7/43; Dyersburg 7/8/43; Assigned: 563BS/388BG Knettishall 3/9/43; MIA Gelsenkirchen 5/11/43 Pilot: Bill Bramwell, Co-Pilot: Bill Current, Navigator: Chas Smith, Waist Gunner: Les Meader, Ball Turret Gunner: Joe Sage (5POW); Bombardier: John Maiorca, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: H.C. Johnson, Waist Gunner: George Watt (3EVD); Radio Operator: Albertus Harrenstein{found in wreckage}, Tail Gunner: John Craig (2KIA); flak, crashed Lokeren, Belgium. MACR 3137. FLAK SUIT.

The Fate of this B-17 Flying Fortress is unknown.

Delivered Cheyenne 24/2/43; Salina 20/3/43; Assigned 2BG Navarin 4/43; Chateau-du-Rhumel 27/4/43; Ain M’Lila 17/6/43; Massicault 31/7/43; {26m} transferred 32BS/301BG Oudna 14/11/43; Cerignola 7/12/43; Lucera 1/2/44; Missing in Action {40m} Steyr, Aus. 2/4/44 with Calvin Miller, Co-pilot: Adams, Navigator: Belot, Bombardier: Reese, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Dora, Radio Operator: Poe, Ball turret gunner: Nicholson, Waist gunner: Taylor, Waist gunner: Pochmursky,Tail gunner: Tiefenbrun (10 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed Kleinrifling, Austria. Missing Air Crew Report 4197.

Delivered Long Beach 1/10/43; Gr Island 1/11/43; ass 535BS/381BG [MS-S] Ridgewell 22/12/43; {12+m} MIA Bunde 22/2/44 Pilot: Lee Smith, Co-Pilot: Rowland Evans, Navigator: Leonard Meier, Bombardier: Harry Kaufman, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Harry Kemper, Radio Operator: John Zappala, Ball Turret Gunner: Lester Larson, Waist Gunner: Andy Manning, Waist Gunner: Reg Solway, Tail Gunner: Larry Eden (10KIA); Enemy aircraft crashed on Allhornsberg, at Hiddesen, three miles SW of Detmold, Germany. MACR 2935. BERMONDSEY BATTLER.

Delivered Cheyenne 25/4/43; Smoky Hill 6/5/43; Tinker 25/5/43; Dow Fd 1/6/43; Assigned: 413BS/96BG [MZ-S] Snetterton 12/6/43 KATS SASS II; lost engine on take off for Frankfurt 4/2/44 Pilot: Joe Meacham, Co-Pilot: Gene Aldridge, Navigator: Rich Murdoch, Bombardier: Max Helderman, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Herb Shealy, Radio Operator: George Blackburn, Ball Turret Gunner: George Marling, Waist Gunner: Albt Staples, Waist Gunner: Rich Chapman, Tail Gunner: Bill Waton, pass-Lt Bill Giesecke (11RTD); unable to get back to base was forced to crash-landed East Shropham, Nfk, UK; TEMPTATION.