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Delivered Cheyenne 13/9/42; New Castle 19/11/42; Assigned 324BS/91BG [DF-G] Bassingbourn 23/11/42; Missing in Action 20m Schweinfurt 17/8/43 with Bill Wheeler (401BS), Co-pilot: Louis Bianchi, Navigator: Joe Newberry, Bombardier: Denver Woodward, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bayne Scurlock, Radio Operator: Jim Cobb, Ball turret gunner: Lloyd Thomas, Waist gunner: Ray Gillet, Waist gunner: Jim McGovern,Tail gunner: Jim McBride (10 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft KO’d #1 & #2, lagged behind crashed St Goar, 15 miles S of Coblenz, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 281. OUR GANG.

Delivered Tulsa 24/5/44; Hunter 13/6/44; Dow Fd 24/6/44; Assigned 342BS/97BG Amendola 4/7/44; Failed to Return (FTR) Linz tank works 25/7/44 with Jack Murphy, Clark, Liton, Mitty, Lockery, Johnson, Halford, Jones, Randall, crew ejected by explosion 4 x RTD, 6 x KIA. MACR 7125.

Delivered Kearney 20/6/44; Grenier 30/6/44; Assigned 772BS/463BG Celone 3/7/44; Missing in Action Fortezza 20/4/45 with John Cunningham, Co-pilot: Rich Neff, Navigator: Art Hall, Bombardier: Jim Miller, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Alf Baldwin, Ball turret gunner: Conrad Bailey, Waist gunner: Jim Wolfgang, Waist gunner: Harry Simonds,Tail gunner: Hugh Litto, ?- Bob Ribbon (10POW/RTD?); Radio Operator: Shelby Brown (Killed in Action); flak, crashed Cassal Maggiore; Missing Air Crew Report 14019. MAGNIFICENT MALFUNCTION.

Delivered Denver 15/7/43; Colorado Springs 16/7/43; Kearney 6/8/43; Topeka 12/8/43; Scott 17/8/43; Assigned 347BS/99BG Oudna 31/8/43; transferred 414BS/97BG Depienne 14/11/43; Missing in Action Rimini 27/11/43 with Oscar C. Stedman, Jr.; enemy aircraft, crashed Rimini; Missing Air Crew Report 1303.

Delivered Lincoln 14/9/44; Dow Fd 6/10/44; Assigned 324BS/91BG Bassingbourn 4/11/44; 322BG; Missing in Action Zeitz 30/11/44 with Ralph Stolz, Bernie Goldstein, Tom McDonough, John Harper, Howard Hagan, Don McPherson, Albt Waldmiller, Leland Herron (8 Killed in Action); George Minich (Prisoner of War); flak, crashed Zeitz; Missing Air Crew Report 11044.

Delivered Hunter 30/9/45; Grenier 11/10/44; Assigned: 728BS/452BG Deopham Green 13/10/44; MIA Parchim, Germany. 7/4/45 Pilot: Bill Richardson, Hjalmer Molner, Bob Renaud, Jack Kennedy, Jim Satterfield, John Loveless, Newell Snarr, Julius Albavich {tg}(8KIA); Vance Urban, Robert Pearce {rcm} (2POW); rammed by Sonderkommando Elbe Me109, crashed Hamburg, Ger. MACR 13888.

Delivered Tulsa 17/9/42; New Castle 7/10/42; Assigned: 367BS/306BG [GY- ] Chelveston 19/11/42; MIA Antwerp 5/4/43 Pilot: Capt Bill Parker, Bombardier: Paul Spaduzzi, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: John Creatore, Radio Operator: Jim Gross, Ball Turret Gunner: Jim Clark, Waist Gunner: Sid Davis, Waist Gunner: Rich Haeft (7KIA); Co-Pilot: Chas Thelen, Navigator: Art Milbourn, Tail Gunner: Leon O’Brien (3POW); Enemy aircraft, crashed between Halsteren & Dinteloord, N of Antwerp, Hol. MACR 15533.

Delivered: Cheyenne 6/3/43; Sioux City 18/3/43; Kearney 8/4/43; Bangor 14/4/43; Assigned: 527BS/379BG [FO-N] Kimbolton 22/4/43; MIA Bochum 25/6/43 Pilot: Doug Groom, Co-Pilot: Frank Pulaski, Radio Operator: Tom Lyons, Waist Gunner: Thaddeus Burzycki, Tail Gunner: Frank Mills (5KIA); Navigator: Art Belgium. meyer, Bombardier: Tom Mortenson, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Howie Brinkman, Waist Gunner: Ralph Weaver, Ball Turret Gunner: Jim Bowers (5POW); Enemy aircraft, crashed Neu Arenberg, four miles NW of Freisoythe, Germany. MACR 1758.

Delivered Tulsa 14/2/44; Kearney 22/2/44; Presque Is 6/4/44; Assigned 323BS/91BG [OR-Q] Bassingbourn 22/3/44 CHAMPAGNE GIRL; Missing in Action 45m Lechfeld 19/7/44 with Cyril Braund, Co-pilot: John Sykes, Navigator: Ken Boltz, Bombardier: John Grubka, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Don McBey, Radio Operator: Bill Bridges, Ball turret gunner: Bob Lockhard, Waist gunner: Carl McCardell,Tail gunner: Cliff Johnson (9INT); mid air coll with 42-31542 (BUNKY, cut in half); crashed Ilanz, SE of Zurich, Switz; crew bailed out; Missing Air Crew Report 7407. aka FANCY PANTS.

Delivered Cheyenne 19/11/43; Spokane 22/11/43; Gt Falls 25/11/43; Wendover 7/12/43; Assigned 748BS/457BG Glatton 27/1/44 BUNKY; transferred 92BG Podington 11/3/44; 323BS/91BG [OR-T] Bassingbourn 12/3/44; Missing in Action 45m Lechfeld 19/7/44 with Norman Burwick, Co-pilot: Frank Way, Navigator: Carl Sanders, Bombardier: Alby Steelhammer, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Dave Cotton, Radio Operator: George Beltz, Ball turret gunner: Melvin Gemmill, Waist gunner: Harry Carlson,Tail gunner: Gordon Smith (9 Killed in Action); propwash caused mid air coll with 42-107075 (91BG); tail broke off, crashed Huglfing, Oberbayen, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 7417. “BUNKY.”

Delivered Cheyenne 1/12/43; Portland 3/12/43; Boise 5/12/43; Kearney 16/12/43; Ft Wayne 25/12/43; Grenier 27/12/43; Presque Is 3/1/44; Assigned: 322BS/91BG [LG-O] Bassingbourn 23/1/44; MIA {50m} Halle 16/8/44 Pilot: Halstead Sherrill, Co-Pilot: Bill Gilligan, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Vernon Bauerline, Ball Turret Gunner: Enrique Perez, Waist Gunner: Joe Morrison (5KIA); Navigator: Bill Porter, Bombardier: Nick Weber, Radio Operator: Dick Munkwitz, Tail Gunner: Chester Mis (4POW); Enemy aircraft riddled fuselage, exploded and crashed Kichenberg, Germany. MACR 8184. TEXAS CHUBBY – THE J’VILLE JOLTER.

Delivered Cheyenne 5/6/43; Rapid City 18/6/43; Geiger 22/6/43; Gr Isle 29/6/43; Dow Fd 14/7/43; Assigned 353BS/301BG St Donat 19/7/43; Oudna 6/8/43; Cerignola 7/12/43; Missing in Action {51m} Salon de Provence, Fr. 21/1/44 with Howard Ryan, Peters, Goldstein, Krober, Canady, Buschko, Chelminiack, Kelly, McBride (10 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed Mediterranean Sea; Missing Air Crew Report 1952.

Delivered Lincoln 8/9/44; Dow Fd 15/10/44; Assigned 324BS/91BG [DF-G] Bassingbourn 29/11/44; Missing in Action {55m} Dresden 17/4/45 with Harry Camp, Co-pilot: Bill Heath, Navigator: Dick Pender, Bombardier: Don Vincent, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Gil Eckerson, Radio Operator: Bill Gilpin {born Gt Shelford, Cambs. UK}, Ball turret gunner: Joe DeFazio, Waist gunner: Joe Cardarelli (8 Killed in Action);Tail gunner: Herman Evans (Prisoner of War); jet enemy aircraft blew off wing tip, crashed Dresden, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 14111. SKUNKFACE III.

Delivered Hill 14/7/43; Walla Walla 30/7/43; Assigned 562BS/388BG Knettishall 8/9/43; Missing in Action Bremen 29/11/43 with Bob Maupin, Navigator: Floyd Cochran, Bombardier: Chas Lail, Radio Operator: Jerry Gregory, Ball turret gunner: Jim Riley, Waist gunner: Ray Baldwin,Tail gunner: Bob Mesang (7 Killed in Action); Co-pilot: Bob Zapp, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Donver Leslie, Waist gunner: Darby Bryant (3 Returned to Duty); mech fault, crashed North Sea, 35 miles off Yarmouth, Nfk. Missing Air Crew Report 3153.

Delivered Cheyenne 29/12/43; Gr Island 15/1/44; Presque Is 20/2/44; Assigned 407BS/92BG [PY-Q] Podington 2/3/44; Missing in Action Merseburg 11/9/44 with Bill Kannapinn, Co-pilot: Jim Morris, Navigator: Dick Pfeiffer, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ray Bansept, Radio Operator: Alton Furbish (5 Prisoner of War); Bombardier: Jim Harp, Ball turret gunner: John Pantano, Waist gunner: Jack Rose,Tail gunner: Edgar Walter (4 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed Schwittersdorf, NE of Lutherstadt Eisleben, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 8884. JUNKERS JOY.

Delivered Denver 17/3/43; Gore 20/3/43; New Castle 13/4/43; Dow Fd 21/4/43; en route UK was involved in landing accident with Bob Baker at Langford Lodge, N. Ireland; Assigned 367BS/306BG [GY-M] Thurleigh 23/5/43; then 423BS; Missing in Action Bremen 8/10/43 with Larry Kooima, Co-pilot: Frank Crawford, Navigator: Don Berkey, Bombardier: Chas Cressey, Ball turret gunner: Stan Couvillion, Waist gunner: Alvis Tinsley (6 Killed in Action), Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Virgil Struckhoff, Radio Operator: Cecil Brooks, Waist gunner: Fred Hutchinson,Tail gunner: Bob Westonwho landed in Bremen street! (4 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed Fischerhude, six miles E of Bremen, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 867.

Delivered Tulsa 27/3/44; Kearney 22/5/44; Grenier 29/5/44; Assigned 524BS/379BG [WA-U] Kimbolton 12/6/44 LIL SATAN; returning from Toulouse flak hit blew off nose 28/6/44 with Karl Becker; Navigator: Bob Evans, Bombardier: Arthur Maataa (2 Killed in Action); Waist gunner: Joe Simoncini (Prisoner of War), force landed RAF Hunsdon, Herts; Missing in Action Magdeburg 28/9/44 with Chas Rutledge, Navigator: Stan Pain (2 Killed in Action); Co-pilot: Tom Martin, Bombardier: Dave Anderson, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Doyle Poling, Radio Operator: Ellis Pierson, Ball turret gunner: Cliff Rondou, Waist gunner: Arthur Green,Tail gunner: Kyle Brown (7 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed Niederndodeleben, W of Magdeberg, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 9364. LIL SATAN aka QUEEN OF HEARTS.

Delivered Cheyenne 12/11/43; New Castle 7/12/43; Presque Isle 11/12/43; Assigned 351BS/100BG [EP-P] Thorpe Abbotts 17/12/43; Missing in Action Berlin 6/3/44 with Ed Handorf, Co-pilot: Fred Spence, Navigator: John Dewey, Bombardier: Norman Rasmussen, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Chas Ford, Radio Operator: Henry Verdeur, Ball turret gunner: Allen Horton, Waist gunner: John Gverovich (8 Killed in Action); Waist gunner: John Willsey,Tail gunner: Larry Fair{broke leg in landing} (2 Prisoner of War); an ME109 hit wing tanks, ship then exploded crashed Jardinghausen, E of Bassum, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 3023. KINDA RUFF.

Delivered W Palm Beach 8/1/43; Assigned 414BS/97BG Biskra 28/1/43; Chateau-du-Rhumel 8/2/43; Missing in Action Naples 1/8/43 with Bob Rast, Alvarado, Ponemone, Bigelow, Dibble, Shea, Anderson, Nichols, Smith, Mathews; flak hit knocked off wing, crashed target area. Missing Air Crew Report 355.

The YB-40 Flying Fortress was a modification of the B-17 Flying Fortress in World War 2. Used as heavy armed Gunship to escort other B-17 bombers in formation.

Delivered Cheyenne 19/6/44; Kearney 29/6/44; Dow Fd 13/7/44; Assigned 323BS/91BG [OR-L] Bassingbourn 13/7/44; transferred 837BS/487BG [4F-D] Lavenham 14/7/44; Missing in Action Chemnitz 6/2/45 with Cecil Parker, Tom Floyd, Leroy Enders, Floyd Pointon, Bob Burrow, Don Rowe, George Domotrovich, Gene Endress (8 Prisoner of War); Vernon Winton (Killed in Action); flak, crashed Triptis, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 12239. PICCADILLY LILLEY.

Delivered Boise 303BG 21/4/42; Geiger 29/5/42; Assigned 36BS/28BG Kodiak 11/7/42; Missing in Action Kiska Island 17/7/42 with Jack S. Marks, Harold E. Mitts, John R. Giddens, John F. Cane, Edward P. Dwelis,, Bill V. Diehl, Hubert D. Smith, Theodore A. Alleckson, Robert G. Brown, Consetto J. Castagna; 10 KIA; MACR 15929.

Delivered Kearney 25/7/44; Grenier 8/8/44; Assigned 20BS/2BG Amendola 16/8/44; Missing on practice operation 2/11/44 with George Reilly, Co-pilot: Arvin Hildebrand, Navigator: Richard Glattly, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ben English, Radio Operator: Melvin Talley. Simply disappeared; Missing Air Crew Report 9683.

Delivered Dallas 17/8/44; Langley 2/9/44; Dow Fd 22/9/44; Assigned 4BS/34BG Mendlesham 1/10/44; transferred 493BG Debach 3/10/44; Missing in Action Hamburg 31/12/44 with Dick Malone, Stan McKay, John Volpe, Gilbert Sousa, Tom Heilman, Bill Lawrence, , Capt Dave Whitlock {mission pilot} (7 Killed in Action); Frank Druehl, George Zackert {ex nav}, Art Donovan, Edgar Stoelting, Bill Gleason {ex nav} (5 Prisoner of War); flak, exploded over Hameln, Germany. Missing Air Crew Report 11235.

Delivered Denver 28/12/42; Salina 9/1/43; Homestead 14/2/43; Assigned 323BS/91BG [OR-R] Bassingbourn 7/3/43; 3+m Missing in Action Villacoublay 10/7/43; following heavy enemy aircraft attacks, ship exploded, crashed Channel, three miles off Carbourg, near Caen, Fr. Missing Air Crew Report 34. STRIC NINE.

Delivered Denver 14/1/44; Gr Island 31/1/44; Assigned 358BS/303BG [VK-H] Molesworth 29/2/44, then 360BS [PU-H]; Missing in Action Oberpfaffenhofen (19m) 24/4/44; enemy aircraft & flak KOd #3, crash landed Cointrin Afd, Geneva, Switz; Missing Air Crew Report 4271. 10 INT

Delivered Tulsa 15/9/42; Bangor 11/10/42; Assigned 323BS/91BG [OR-T] Bassingbourn 15/10/42; Missing in Action 33m Gelsenkirchen 12/8/43 with Bob Thompson, Co-pilot: Serge Klinkow, Navigator: George Lausted, Bombardier: Mike Couzzi, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Carroll Goodwin, Radio Operator: Bob Brooks (6 Prisoner of War); Ball turret gunner: Wayne Kienberger, Waist gunner: Bob Ziernicki,Tail gunner: Chas Blonstein, Waist gunner: Micky Lengyel (4 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft set ship ablaze, crashed Brunninghausen, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 261. (possibly completed 25 missions before Memphis Belle). DELTA REBEL No. 2.

Delivered Cheyenne 1/4/43; Presque Isle 25/5/43; Assigned 534BS/381BG [GD-G] Ridgewell 26/5/43. Pilot Hamden L. Forkner; Co-Pilot Joseph A. Kelly; Navigator Robert E. Hyatt; Bombardier Edwin L. Vincent (substitute for Keith Moore); Engineer/Top Turret Gunner Paul F. Shipe; Ball Turret Gunner Ralph E. Stease; Radio Operator Chester E. Shattuck; Left Waist Gunner Edward F. Sobolewski; Right Waist Gunner Harry H. Horton; Tail Gunner Lin F. Chew. Missing in Action 9missions Schweinfurt 17 August 1943. Forkner, Shipe, Sobolewski and Horton evaded capture; the six others were made Prisoners of War. 42-3227 was hit by enemy aircraft, crashed near Houthem, about 6km NE of Maastricht, Holland, The Netherlands. Missing Air Crew Report – MACR 661.

Delivered Tulsa 23/3/44; 88BG Hunter 18/5/44; Dow Fd 29/5/44; Assigned 324BS/91BG [DF-F] Bassingbourn 15/6/44; 50+m lost engine en route Fassberg A/fd 4/4/45 with Edgar Moyer, on return crash landed base when u/c collapsed; repaired & transferred 600BS/398BG [N8-R] Nuthampstead; mission to French bridges 8/7/44 with Curtis Lovelace, Co-pilot: Bob Hart, Navigator: Bob Uhl, Bombardier: Alton Andrews, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bob Rees, Radio Operator: Cliff Weatherwax, Ball turret gunner: Gerard Antaillia, Waist gunner: Phil Fritech,Tail gunner: Sam Miller (9 Returned to Duty); forced to bail out over Essex on return and crash landed Chelsworth, Suffolk; repaired and transferred 306BG 5/45. LITTLE MISS MISCHIEF.

Delivered Cheyenne 18/1/44; MacDill 24/1/44; Morrison 6/2/44; Assigned 816BS/483BG Sterparone 9/3/44; transferred 347BS/99BG Tortorella 31/3/44; Missing in Action {11m} Wiener Neustedt 10/5/44 with Bill Waltermire, Co-pilot: Morris Kirdich, Navigator: Irving Baum, Bombardier: Alfred Marshall, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Chas Forrest, Radio Operator: Frank Juergens, Waist gunner: Francis Koltz,Tail gunner: John Humphries, (8 Prisoner of War), Ball turret gunner: Furman King, Waist gunner: Boleslaw Klocek (2 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, #4 knocked out, then two more enemy aircraft, crashed Allhau; 9-10 chutes seen; Missing Air Crew Report 4729.

Stars & Stripes 1943 “Could recognize the first anti-aircraft gun weakly and unclearly at Woensdrecht at 10.07 hours. A couple of minutes two Fw 190 appeared in one o’clock later and shot by the formation in a frontal attack through in front of us and then dived behind us in half a roll away. At […]

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Airmen of all nations often gave her aircraft names of her friends. As famous as Miss Margaret Polk, this one became beautiful from Memphis after which his B-17 has Captain Robert Morgan called Memphis Belle but the adored hardly anyone. In a film about her and her crew the old mills fly again, too. The […]

“Little Miss Mischief” returned from Cologne on October 15th, 1944. She was one of the B-17 machines which carried out the second of three day attacks on this town. Your fuselage was knocked a hole and her ball tower at the aircraft belly so tears to pieces that it seemed incomprehensible as the gunner could […]

10. May 1944: Shooting of a four-engine bomber over Riedlingsdorf By Roland Pfeiffer, Leopold Banny and Heinz Bundschuh The Americans attacks targets in the area Wien and Wiener Neustadt again on 10 May 1944. More than 20 bombers were shot down by the German flak and fighters on this day. One of these bombers, a […]

Translated by David E. Huntley – Author of “The B-17 Tomahawk Warrior: A WWII Final Honor” – Available Soon! By June, the English had become used to being roused from their morning slumber by the roar of airplane engines. The spectacle of a plane crashing or bursting into flames or exploding was not uncommon in […]

The report of a P-51 Mustang pilot, who escorted bombers to Berlin in March 1944. “The first warnings for an attack on Berlin came in the morning of March 4th, 1944, toward 4 o’clock, as us lay in the Nissan huts in our sleeping-bags, wakened by the far off roar of B-17 squadrons which had […]

Improvements The B-17G was the latst production model of the “Flying Fortress” and was manufactured in the greates numbers. In effect, the B-17G was the B-17F with the powered Bedinx chin turret fitted under the nose section. Design modifications included the Minneapolis-Honeywell electric turbo-supercharger regulators allowing manifold pressure, or boost, to be controlled by one […]

The main difference between the E and F models was the wider propeller blades with which the new model was equipped and which gave it better flight performance. The F model was produced in much larger numbers by three different manufacturers. Minor changes in details were made at each factory. The manufacturer was encoded in […]

Bombtypes General Purpose/High Explosive BombsThe standard bombs used by the 8th Bomber Command from September 1942 were the five General Purpose types: the M30 100lb, M31 300lb, M43 500lb, M44 1000lb and M34 2000lb. Generally, 500lb, 1000lb, and 2000lb bombs were carried for industiral targets anf the other for airfields. The 8th Air Force used […]

At 4 o’clock am. The noise of trucks on the move can be heard across the base, Ordanance crews are collecting bombs from the dump. The crew chief and his ground crew are already awake and at work on the aircraft. The auxiliary power plant, a small petraol generator colled “putt-putt”, is started up. It […]

Even if the dangers which threaten an airman from the enemy are left out, enough difficulties which alone arise from the formation flight between 7000 and 8000 meters of height still remain. A bomber crew gets to the height of the Mount Everest and furthermore upward crafty with enormous speed of the sea-level. At a […]