B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies Latest entries in the database

Delivered Cheyenne 29/12/43; Roswell 28/1/44; 3030 BU Roswell 2/6/44; 3021 BU Las Vegas 22/9/44; 3022 BU Indian Springs 6/10/44; 3017 BU Hobbs 22/5/45; 3028 BU Luke Fd 30/9/45; 3017 BU Hobbs 10/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 7/1/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 27/2/44; 225 BU Rapid City 1/5/44; 2114 BU Lockbourn 19/7/44; 2137 BU Hendricks 14/10/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 8/1/46.

Delivered Lincoln 3/10/44; Grenier 20/10/44; Assigned: 452BG Deopham Green 22/10/44; Transferred: 333BS/94BG [TS-D] Rougham 24/10/44; Returned to US: Bradley 7/6/45; Sth Plains 9/6/45; Scrapped: Kingman 16/11/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 28/6/44; Hunter 13/7/44; Grenier 22/7/44; Assigned: 366BS/305BG Chelveston 14/8/44; stalled on landing on 6/5/45 Pilot: Ed Brooks, wrecked Salvaged.

Delivered Hunter 19/6/44; Dow Fd 1/7/44; Assigned 817BS/483BG Sterparone 7/7/44; Missing in Action Memmingen 18/7/44 with Jim Clark, Boggs, Owens, Sanders, Veveto, Gudelis, Catherine, Cunningham, Kidwell, Altizer {pass} (10 Prisoner of War); Dadson (Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed Kempten; Missing Air Crew Report 7097.

Delivered Kearney 3/7/44; Grenier 12/7/44; Assigned 816BS/483BG Sterparone 18/7/44; engine fire causing early returm from Ploesti 10/8/44 with Tom Brown, Kempton, Porter, Stebbins, Radell, Garlet, Komm, Forster, Mitchell, Tate (10 Returned to Duty); crew ordered to bail before ship crash landed at base; Rep; Returned to the USA Bradley 12/7/45; Independence 13/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Albuquerque 7/2/46.

Delivered Lincoln 5/10/44; Grenier 20/10/44; Assigned: 452BG Deopham Green 22/10/44; Returned to US: Bradley 7/6/45; Sth Plains 5/6/45; Scrapped: Kingman 16/12/45.

Delivered Hunter 19/11/44; Grenier 4/12/44; Assigned 8AF 7/12/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 7/7/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 9/7/45; Recl Comp 7/6/46.

Delivered Alexandra 2/5/44; 4103 BU Jackson 3/10/44; 221 BU Alexandra 4/10/44; 329 BU Alexandra 2/1/45; 327 BU Drew 20/7/45; 268 BU Peterson 7/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 7/1/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 28/4/44; Kearney 11/5/44; Grenier 21/5/44; Assigned 337BS/96BS [AW-D] Snetterton 23/5/44; severely damaged by enemy aircraft at Poltava with Jack Hooper 21/6/44; Salvaged 1/7/44, repaired & ret group; Returned to the USA 4117 BU Robins 28/8/45; 4160 BU Hobbs 5/11/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Knoxville 21/1/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 19/11/43; Kearney 9/12/43; Presque Is 12/12/43; ass 548BS/385BG [XA-M] Gt Ashfield 16/12/43; retUS Bradley 19/6/45; 4168 BU Sth Plains 12/9/45; Scrapped: Kingman 20/11/45. HIT PARADE aka HIT PARADE JR. aka JOKER.

Delivered Louisville 15/5/45; Syracuse 22/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 28/11/45.

Delivered Kearney 1/7/44; Grenier 13/7/44; Assigned 840BS/483BG Sterparone 18/7/44; Missing in Action Regensburg 13/3/45 with Tom Parrish, Gregg, Bessolo, Bradley, Stone, Wallace, Spivey, Lovorn, Hammon, Fairbanks (10 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed Ljubijana; Missing Air Crew Report 12945.

Delivered Hunter 20/6/44; Grenier 28/6/44; Assigned 347BS/99BG Tortorella 3/7/44; Missing in Action 56m Regensburg 20/1/45 with Ray A Sunderlin, Robert J Brine, Robert W Allen, Harry R Hathaway, Robert F Richmond, John H Hinkle, James L Duncan, Frank J Seiferheld, Frederick B Oetting, William E Studebaker; enemy aircraft, crashed Beluno, Italy; all of the crew were killed; Missing Air Crew Report 11276.

Delivered Cheyenne 21/10/44; Hunter 27/10/44; Grenier 6/12/44; Assigned 8AF but minor taxi accident at Goose Bay, Labrador with Walter Weel 6/12/44; then transferred 4100 BU Patterson 7/12/44; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 18/11/45; 4141 BU Pyote 1/1/46; Salvaged 18/4/46.

Delivered Denver 31/12/43; Gt Falls 2/1/44; Casper 4/1/44; Kearney 13/1/44; with Leslie Bond {381BG?} crash landed Gr Island, Ne 30/1/44; W/O 10/2/44.

Slated 305BG, but transferred Eglin Fd 23/10/44; Gt Falls 27/10/44; 610 BU Eglin 31/10/44; 611 BU Eglin 1/4/45; 2137 BU Hendricks 12/8/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 21/11/45. (survived as Civil N4960V and broken up Oregon in late 1950s).

Delivered Hunter 19/10/44; Grenier 28/10/44; Assigned 8AF, transferred 4152 BU Lockbourn 8/11/44; with Bill Byrd force landed base 29/12/45; 4152 BU Clinton 5/5/46; 4143 BU Lockbourn 13/6/46; Recl Comp 17/12/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 27/9/43; Gr Island 10/10/43; Wilmington 13/10/43; Assigned: 333BS/94BG Rougham 23/10/43; MIA Munich 18/3/44 Pilot: Ron Croft, Co-Pilot: Lester Krapf, Navigator: Glen Likewise, Bombardier: Jim Parker, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Harry Hise, Radio Operator: Russ Malzahn, Waist Gunner: John Harris (7POW); Ball Turret Gunner: Joe Link, Waist Gunner: Chas Hagerman, Tail Gunner: Frank Jurach (3KIA); Enemy aircraft, hit #1 fell behind and crashed Neiderschach, six miles NE of Villingen, Germany. MACR 3419.

Delivered Lincoln 22/11/44; Dow Fd 3/12/44; Assigned 493BG Debach 6/12/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 5/7/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 7/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 17/12/45.