Boeing B-17 #42-29633 / Dry Martini and The Cocktail Kids 4th
Lost by enemy aircraft / (08 February 1944)B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies
The 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 #42-106994 / Little Guy
Lost by flak/aa-fire / (26 November 1944)
Boeing B-17 #42-97846 / Belle of the Brawl
Lost by flak/aa-fire / (02 January 1945)
Boeing B-17 #42-3085 / Helno-Gal
Crashlanding / Battle damaged / (21 May 1943)Werbung/Advertisement
Recently modified B-17s in the database
B-17 #42-5061
Delivered Cheyenne 13/9/42; New Castle 12/10/42; Assigned 353BS/301BG Chelveston 1/11/42; Tarafaoui 26/11/42; Maison Blanche 5/12/42; Biskra 16/12/42; {71m} transferred 346BS/99BG Navarin 8/1/43; Gen Doolittle aboard mission to Kiarouan Afd 9/2/43; Oudna 4/8/43; Missing in Action Bolzano 10/11/43, with Jerry Wickcliffe, DeWitt, Ellsworth, Isert, Hogan, Arlinghaus, Chestnut, Auzniarek, Pinkard (9 Killed in Action); Prochaska (Prisoner of War); crashed north of Brescia, Italy; Missing Air Crew Report 1129.
B-17 #42-102557 / Ice Cold Katie
Delivered Cheyenne 14/3/44; Gr Island 30/3/44; Grenier 6/4/44; Assigned 369BS/306BG [WW-Y] Thurleigh 25/4/44; battle damaged Ueskirchen, Ger 10/1/45 with Leo H. Reinhard; crash landed on a large field near Le Quesnoy, 4km to north-east, France; Salvaged 28/1/45. ICE COLD KATIE.
B-17 #42-38047 / Fever Beaver aka Shady Lady aka Melancholy Baby aka Little Mommy
Delivered Cheyenne 25/11/43; Kearney 6/12/43; Grenier 19/12/43; Presque Is 3/1/44; Assigned 351BS/100BG [EP-O] Thorpe Abbotts 9/1/44; 135m, transferred 490BG Eye 29/5/45; Returned to the USA 4185 BU Independence 21/7/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 10/11/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 21/12/45. MELANCHOLY BABY aka FEVER BEAVER.
B-17 #42-5263 / Sweet Chariot
Delivered Denver 27/10/42; West Palm Beach 9/1/43; Assigned 340BS/97BG Biskra 21/1/43; Chateau-du-Rhumel 8/2/43; Pont-du-Fahs 1/8/43; Depiennne 15/8/43; transferred 347BS/99BG Oudna 14/11/43; Tortorella 11/12/43; {13m 99th} Returned to the USA Pope Fd 20/5/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 29/10/45.
B-17 #41-24369 / Special Delivery
Assigned 32BS/301BG Westover 6/7/42; slated for RAF [FA684] Podington 6/8/42; Tafaraoui 26/11/42; crash landed Biskra, near Maison Blanche, Alg. 5/12/42; battle damaged {5m} Bizerte 15/12/42 with ? McNeil, Shackleton, Conlon, rest of crew ? (POWs); Salvaged. SPECIAL DELIVERY.
B-17 #42-97464 / What Next?
Delivered Denver 23/11/43; Wendover 9/12/43; Assigned 749BS/457BG [P] Glatton 19/1/44; transferred 614BS/401BG [IW-D] Deenethorpe 11/3/44 Missing in Action Schweinfurt 13/4/44 with Boudinot Stimson, Co-pilot: Bob Timberlake, Bombardier: Jack Pfaffman, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Karl Kukurin, Radio Operator: Carmen Manusco, Ball turret gunner: Paul Melia, Waist gunner: Andy Allen,Tail gunner: Alf Le Sage (8 Prisoner of War); Navigator: John O’Neal, Waist gunner: John McQueen (2 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed (?Rohrbrunn?) Weibersbrunn, nine miles E of Aschaffenurg, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 3941. WHAT NEXT ?
B-17 #42-30182 / Blondie II
Delivered Cheyenne 22/4/43; Smoky Hill 28/4/43; Walla Walla 5/7/43; Tinker 28/5/43; Smoky Hill 1/6/43; Dow Fd 6/6/43; Assigned 334BS/95BG [BG-E], then 412BS [QW-E] Horham 15/6/43; (25m), Missing in Action Emden 11/12/43 with Jack Moore, Co-pilot: Malcolm Healey, Navigator: Ed Stanbery, Bombardier: Leonard W. Eaton, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Harry Sparks, Radio Operator: Frank Abbadessa, Ball turret gunner: Don Rybolt, Waist gunner: Paul Claybaugh, Waist gunner: Bob Byard,Tail gunner: Marvin Ritter (10 Killed in Action); ditched off Langeoog Is, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 1562. BLONDIE II.
B-17 #42-5725 / This Is It! aka Flapper
Delivered Tulsa 6/10/42; Wayne 26/11/42; New Castle 24/12/42; Salina 9/1/43; West Palm Beach 17/1/43; Assigned 365BS/305BG [XK-P] Chelveston 1/2/43 FLAPPER; transferred 532BS/381BG [VE-C] Ridgewell 22/8/43; Returned to the USA Homestead 13/7/44; Tinker 24/7/44; Patterson 26/8/44; Williams 19/3/45; La Junta 26/3/45; Searcey Fd 31/7/45. THIS IS IT!
B-17 #42-32088 / Dry Gulcher
Delivered Cheyenne 23/1/44; Gr Island 6/2/44; Grenier 10/2/44; Assigned: 532BS/381BG [VE-M] Ridgewell 6/4/44; MIA {1+m} Berlin 19/5/44 Pilot: Harold Blog, Co-Pilot: Fred Dill, Navigator: George Dennis, Bombardier: Henry Miller, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Jack Thompson, Radio Operator: John Heidebrink, Ball Turret Gunner: Stan Poloski, Waist Gunner: Sam Humphrey, Tail Gunner: Cornelius Anderson (9POW); severe flak damage, crashed in forest 11 miles S of Mohrin Afd, 37 miles NE of Berlin, Germany, (now in Poland, called Moryn). MACR 5030. DRY GULCHER.
B-17 #44-8349
Delivered Dallas 14/8/44; Langley 5/9/44; Dow Fd 18/9/44; Assigned 532BS/381BG [VE-G] Ridgewell 2/11/44; transferred 305BG Chelveston 5/45; Salvaged 9AF Germany 23/5/46.
