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

Delivered Dallas 25/8/44; Langley 20/9/44; Grenier 12/10/44; Assigned 416BS/99BG PFF Tortorella 31/10/44; {45m} Salvaged 9AF Germany 5/10/46.

Delivered Dallas 21/8/44; Langley 2/9/44; W/O 24/9/44.

Delivered Cheyenne 3/11/43; Kingman 16/11/43; r/l with Jim Swain 9/1/45; 3018 BU Kingman 23/3/45; 3017 BU Hobbs 25/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 29/12/45.

Delivered Dallas 20/8/44; Langley 2/9/44; Dow Fd 16/10/44; Assigned 306BG Thurleigh 8/11/44; Salvaged 9AF Germany 28/7/46.

Delivered Dallas 27/7/44; Langley 23/9/44; 3539 BU Langley 7/10/44; 2140 BU Smyrna 31/1/45; 554 BU Memphis 1/6/45; 342 BU Smyrna 1/9/45; 554 BU Memphis 17/9/45.

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 Long Beach 11/11/43; Independence 30/11/43 and modified to be capable of carrying GB-4 guided bombs on underwing racks, was assigned to secret 8AF Batty Project at Fersfield, Norfolk. Summer of ’44 and operated by 388BG; Independence 30/11/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 20/12/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 12/6/45; Hunter 27/6/45; WCW San Francisco 16/7/45; Brisbane 19/7/45; Assigned 7ERS Bolo Fd, Okinawa, Japan, damaged in landing accident with Waldo Grant 24/9/45; Salvaged 26/9/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 12/6/45; Hunter 28/6/45; San Francisco 13/7/45; re-ass 30/4/47; 3 RES Chitose 1/1/48; 3 RES Itami 1/7/48; 49 MSU Misawa 7/10/48; 3 RES Chitose 26/5/49; 3 RCU Sq Misawa 31/7/49; 3ERS Johnson Fd, Japan; 1500 TSP Hickam 11/5/50; in base taxi accident with Lonnie Van Hoy 2/5/50; RetUS, AMC Hill 29/5/50; Recl Comp 8/11/50.

Delivered Lincoln 14/12/44; Dow Fd 12/1/45; Assigned 8AF 14/1/45; Burtonwood UK prior to Returned to the USA Bradley 28/6/45; Sth Plains 1/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 1/2/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 5/6/45; Assigned D Flt/66ARS Westover; with Bill Ballard taxi accident on base due to poor weather 17/2/50.

Delivered Long Beach 11/11/43; on trial fitted with TV camera and GB-4 glide bomb facilities (Batty) Orlando 22/11/43; 901 BU Pinecastle 2/6/44; 903 BU Pinecastle 10/9/43; 902 BU Orlando 3/10/44; 903 BU Pinecastle 25/11/44; 621 BU Pinecastle 9/7/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 22/12/43; Hobbs 21/1/44; 3021 BU Las Vegas 26/9/44; 3022 BI Indian Springs 3/10/44; 3021 BU Las Vegas 15/3/45; 3017 BU Hobbs 25/6/45; RFC Kingman 5/1/46. Del Cheyenne 23/12/43; Kearney 7/1/44; ass 337BS/96BG [AW-O] Snetterton 15/1/44; severe damage over Berlin 8/5/44 w/Jerry Musser, b-John Flayak, ettg-Leon Sweatt (3RTD); cp-Harry Kennett, n-Royles Lay, ro-Chas Willard, btg-Fred Korhonen, wg-Dempsey Wolfe, tg-Harry Lusk (6POW); wg-Bob Blevins (KIA), ship limped home, MACR 4567; MIA Berlin 30/11/44 w/Fred Towle, Ed Lohmeir, Rimaldo Zona, Barry Grubb, John Sikich, Bill Panoski (6POW); George Doult, Ralph Ullman, Bill Popolorum (3KIA); flak, cr Elfgin, Ger. MACR 10833. RELUCTANT DRAGON. (One of first B-17s with fully enclosed waist windows and Cheyenne tail gun installation in UK.)

Delivered Cheyenne 15/6/43; Roswell 22/6/43; 3030 BU Roswell 2/6/44; 3017 BU Hobbs 28/4/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 30/8/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 1/6/45; Hunter 2/7/45; WSW San Francisco 17/7/45; re-ass 30/4/47; 23 Ph Rec Momote 1/1/48; 5 RVP Gp Clark Fd 1/4/48; 18 MSU Clark 30/9/48; 5 RVP Gp Clark 23/10/48; PAC Hickam 17/4/49; 5 RVP Gp Clark 22/4/49; RetUS, 9 SRC Gp Fairfield 29/6/49; to USN, Recl Comp 13/1/50.

Delivered: Cheyenne 2/11/43; Portland 4/11/43; Cheyenne 13/11/43; Kearney 16/11/43; Assigned: 332BS/94BG [XM-A] Rougham 20/12/43; 333BS [TS-B]; Returned to US: 121 BU Bradley 26/6/45; Patterson 27/6/45; 4168 BU Sth Plains 21/10/45; Scrapped: Kingman 22/11/45. TEXAS MAULER.

Delivered Cheyenne 18/6/43; Gore 27/6/43; Hendricks 29/6/43; 2137 BU Hendricks 4/10/44; Written off 17/11/44.

Delivered Cheyenne 17/6/43; Gore 28/6/43; Hendricks 3/7/43; 3505 BU Scott 25/8/44; 2137 BU Hendricks 20/9/44; Recl Comp 29/1/46.

Delivered Denver 13/12/43; Kearney 31/12/43; Assigned: 731BS/452BG Deopham Green 9/2/44; MIA Frankfurt 5/11/44 Pilot: Bill Leith, Frank Barra (2KIA); Ray Rowe, George Keiser, Bill Stewart, Harry Fishbeck, Jack Nunley, Ray Newton, Coy Newport (7POW); flak, crashed Keschnich, Germany. MACR 10346. WINDY LOU.

Delivered Lincoln 26/8/44; Grenier 11/9/44; Assigned 860BS/493BG Debach 13/9/44; base taxi accident with Milo Keltner 14/1/45; Missing in Action Munich 9/4/45 with John Silverman, John Julianelle, Stan Reisenburger, Dan Kurnick, Herb Walton, Bob Doine, Len Gokey, Bill Millan, Bernie Morrison tg, Frank O’Rourke rcm (10 Killed in Action); flak, crashed Munich, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 13908. BOISE BELL.