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

Delivered Cheyenne 3/9/44; Hunter 28/9/44; Grenier 9/10/44; Assigned 482BG Alconbury 10/10/44; transferred 338BS/96BG [BX-P] Snetterton 11/10/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 12/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 15/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 19/12/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 3/7/44; Kearney 12/7/44; Grenier 20/7/44; Assigned 490BG Eye 22/7/44; during assembly for Chemnitz 6/2/45 with ?, mid air coll with 43-38699; crashed Prickwillow, UK; crews bailed, but one man killed plus two civilians; Missing Air Crew Report 12371; Salvaged 2/3/45.

Delivered Patterson 5/9/44; Hunter 29/9/44; Dow Fd 7/10/44; Assigned 490BG Eye 14/10/44; Missing in Action Chemnitz 6/2/45 with ?; mid air coll with 43-38167; crashed continent; Salvaged 2/3/45; Missing Air Crew Report 12426.

Delivered Cheyenne 6/10/43; Las Vegas 24/10/43; 3022 BU Indian Springs 5/2/45; 3021 BU Las Vegas 10/3/45; 3036 BU Yuma 20/3/45; 3017 BU Hobbs 4/6/45; 3028 BU Luke 5/8/45; 3017 BU Hobbs 24/8/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 11/1/46.

Delivered Lincoln 6/2/45; Grenier 19/2/45; Assigned 8AF 20/2/45; re-ass 10 HBS Oberpfaffenhofen 30/4/47; 89 BAS Weisbaden 18/1/48; Returned to the USA MTC Langley 1/7/48; 71 AC Hickam 8/9/48; 1810 AC Hickam 1/10/48; 811 AC Kadena 21/9/49; 1500 MSU Hickam 23/9/49; Recl Comp 3/5/50.

Delivered Lincoln 6/2/45; Grenier 17/2/45; Assigned 8AF 19/2/45; RetUS, Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 29/3/46. US Civil N9407H 12/12/49; transferred to IGN France as F-BDAT; crashed Niamey, Nigeria 12/12/50.

Delivered Lincoln 3/2/45; Grenier 17/2/45; Assigned 8AF 18/2/45; landing accident Rumania 2/11/46; ret 24/12/46, re-ass 10 HBS Oberpfaffenhofen 30/4/47; 7290 AB Oberp. 18/4/47; 59 HBS Burtonwood 1/12/48; 7520 AB Burtonwood 31/8/49; 59 AB Burtonwood 8/9/49; Recl Comp 18/4/50.

Delivered Cheyenne 23/4/44; Kearney 6/5/44; Grenier 21/5/44; Assigned: 366BS/305BG [KY-M] Chelveston 2/6/44; Transferred: 351BG Polebrook 23/4/45; Returned to US: Bradley 13/6/45; 4168 BU Sth Plains 18/6/45; Scrapped: Kingman 4/12/45. MISS YVONNE.

Delivered Louisville 14/5/45; Rome 8/7/45; Middletown 6/11/45; Morrison 6/12/45; West Palm Beach 5/1/46; re-ass 30/4/47; 91 RLP Howard, CZ 1/1/48; 91 RPL Waller 1/7/48; 91 SRCGp Maguire 9/2/49; Recl Comp 15/10/49.

Delivered Lincoln 13/9/44; Grenier 26/9/44; Assigned: 410BS/94BG [GL-N] Rougham 28/9/44; MIA Ludwigshafen 5/11/44 Pilot: Bill Haller, Willis Moulton, Ben Webb {chute failed}, John Gilliam (4KIA); Joe Larko, Chas Terpening, Cliff Clemens, Norris Ballard, Henry Metz {wia – died three days later} (5POW); flak hit #2 engine, then another hit nose section crashed Hameln, Germany. MACR 10306. THE CHARACTERS.

Delivered Gt Falls 9/9/44; Hunter 29/9/44; Dow Fd 15/10/44; Assigned: 850BS/490BG Eye 19/10/44; MIA Pirna, Germany. 19/4/45 Pilot: Paul Snyder, Ross Stewart, Bill Welson, Joe Trojanowski, Lyle Doole, Wayne Stauffer, George Langley, Bill Suemsky, Dick Phillips, Wilbur Leme (10KIA); jet Enemy aircraft, crashed Schonau, Ger. MACR 14192.

Delivered Long Beach 27/7/43; Denver 16/8/43; Written off 15/4/44.

Delivered Ardmore 20/5/44; Albuquerque 26/5/44; 222 BU Ardmore 18/6/44; 332 BU Ardmore 16/1/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 19/8/45.

Delivered Alexandra 24/5/44; 221 BU Alexandra 17/1/45; 329 BU Alexandra 1/3/45; 325 BU Avon Park 29/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 20/8/45.

Delivered Alexandra 24/5/44; 221 BU Alexandra 16/10/44; 329 BU Alexandra 1/3/45; 330 BY Dyersburg 25/3/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 17/12/45.

Delivered Long Beach 7/9/43; Gr Island 3/10/43; ass 338BS/96BG [BX- ] Snetterton 8/10/43; MIA Hamm 29/11/43 Pilot: Herb Meuli, Co-Pilot: Harlan Shoellhorn, Navigator: Jim Pavlik, Bombardier: Stan Gladstone, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Bill Norton, Radio Operator: Jim Bean, Ball Turret Gunner: Larry Rice, Waist Gunner: Ollie Simpson, Waist Gunner: Jesse Councilman, Tail Gunner: Tom Devine (10KIA); no trace of ship or crew; MACR 1391.

Delivered Lincoln 9/11/44; Dow Fd 3/12/44; Assigned 8AF 8/1/45; re-ass Europe 30/4/47; 605 BU Eglin 7/1/48; 1414 BU Dhahran 25/3/48; transferred from MTO to AFE 20/4/49; Salvaged 7210 BU Erding 22/6/49.

Delivered Louisville 11/5/45; Syracuse 26/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 7/11/45; transferred USN 6/47 [83996]; NAS Corpus Christi, Tx, scrapped for spares.

Delivered Louisville 17/5/45; Rome 9/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 5/11/45.

Delivered Tulsa 4/5/44; Kearney 11/5/44; Grenier 26/5/44; Assigned: 545BS/384BG [JD-Q] Grafton Underwood 7/6/44; battle damage Plauen 26/3/45 Pilot: Theo Jordan, crash-landed Hargridge House, Cranbrook, Kent, UK; 1KIA; Salvaged. 27/3/45.