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

Delivered Tulsa 5/12/42; Assigned 333BS/94BG Pueblo 29/12/42; crashed base 12/2/43 with Harry Estler & a passenger killed, 6 injured (two majors); A/c rolled into ravine at end of runway, Written off.

Delivered Denver 3/12/42; Salina 5/1/43; Morrison 6/2/43; Assigned: 423BS/306BG [RD- ] Thurleigh 10/4/43; MIA St Nazaire 1/5/43 Pilot: Edwin Pipp, togg-Jim Melillo, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Eli Rogers{wia}, Tail Gunner: Jim Babbs (4POW); Co-Pilot: Jim Lear, Navigator: Leland Flower, Radio Operator: Buren Williams, Ball Turret Gunner: Ed Zaban, Waist Gunner: Norm Neuweiler, Waist Gunner: Ed Kaczanowski (6KIA); ditched in Brest Harbour, Fr.; MACR 15619.

Delivered Tulsa 4/12/42; Casper 13/1/43; Tinker 12/6/43; Dyersburg 12/7/43; Dalhart 13/8/43; Tinker 8/11/43; 411 BU Robins 29/7/44; 325 BU Avon Park 9/4/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 29/6/45.

Delivered Long Beach 10/11/43; Orlando 28/11/43; 235 BU Biggs 16/8/44; 224 BU Sioux City 28/3/45; 225 BU Rapid City 15/6/45; 237 BU Kirtland 20/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 7/11/45.

Delivered Tulsa 26/5/44; Hunter 20/6/44; Grenier 28/6/44; Assigned 815BS/483BG Sterparone 3/7/44; crashed on take off for St Tropez 15/8/44 with Isham Teasley, Netherton, Kramer, Edmonds, Joyner, Faletti, Mitchiner, Sivley, DeCrescente (9 Killed in Action). No MACR.

Delivered Cheyenne 10/12/42; Wendover 27/12/42; Casper 24/3/43; Tinker 4/6/43; Assigned 346BG Dyersburg 1/7/43; mid-air collision with 42-5386, crashed Sligo, Mo with Jim Gallagher 4/9/43; Written off 26/9/43.

Delivered Cheyenne 26/11/42; Redmond 23/12/42; Sioux City 31/1/43; Gowen 10/3/43; Tinker 22/5/43; Assigned 346BG Dyersburg 12/6/43; mid-air collision with 42-5465 crashed Sligo, Mo with John Gassler 4/9/43; Written off 5/9/43.

Delivered Denver 27/12/43; Boca Raton 21/1/44; 123 BU Seymour Johnson 29/8/44; 3501 BU Boca Raton 16/9/44; 3704 BU Keesler 16/1/45; 554 BU Memphis 10/6/45; Recl Comp 31/7/46.

Delivered Lincoln 12/9/44; Hunter 18/9/44; Dow Fd 27/9/44; Assigned: 550BS/385BG [SG-N] Gt Ashfield 29/9/44; Returned to US: Bradley 24/6/45; Sth Plains 27/6/45; Scrapped: Kingman 2/12/45. MACK’S HACK.

Delivered Tulsa 25/4/44; Hunter 15/6/44; Dow Fd 24/6/44; Assigned 342BS/97BG Amendola 6/7/44; Missing in Action Vienna 16/7/44 with Jack Howard, Flanagan, Waldman, Yoder, Red, Bellows, Humphrey, Wistrack, Streich, Beshyser; flak, crashed Vienna; Missing Air Crew Report 6825.

Delivered Tulsa 6/12/42; Blythe 26/1/43; Geiger 5/3/43; Assigned 568BS/390BG Orlando, in ground accident with Bob Good 11/3/43; Gt Falls 7/6/43; Lewiston 29/6/43; Rapid City 12/8/43; Tinker 18/11/43; 499BG Smoky Hill 23/8/44; 247 BU Smoky Hill 26/9/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Albuquerque 25/6/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 26/12/43; Long Beach 29/12/43; Wichita 10/1/44; Lakeland 17/1/44; Written off 13/2/44; sal 326 BU MacDill 20/4/44.

Delivered Cheyenne 28/5/43; Roswell 9/6/43; Dyersburg 7/7/43; 3030 BU Roswell 2/6/44; 4124 BU Altus 20/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 9/10/45.

Delivered Tulsa 3/12/42; Ft Sumner 21/4/43; Hobbs 6/5/43; Roswell 23/5/43; 3018 BU Kingman 18/6/44; 3017 BU Hobbs 18/9/44; 4124 BU Altus 5/7/45; 3017 BU Hobbs 7/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 29/8/45.

Delivered Tulsa 5/12/42; Assigned 391BS/34BG Blythe 31/1/43; taxi accident with Bob Wilcox at Pyote 3/2/43; Minden 6/2/43; Pueblo 12/3/43; Pyote 27/3/43; Tinker 8/10/43; 28BS/19BG Pyote 31/10/43; 248 BU Walker 4/6/44; 4100 BU Patterson 22/6/44; 248 BU Walker 30/7/44; 563 BU Homestead 13/2/45; 4160 BU Walker 1/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 15/11/45.

Delivered Tulsa 5/12/42; Biggs 24/2/43; Dyersburg 18/3/43; Gulfport 23/6/43; Dyersburg 27/6/43; 245 BU McCook 1/6/44; 9BG McCook 16/8/44; 225 BU Rapid City 5/10/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Ontario 11/6/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 27/5/43; Roswell 7/6/43; with Joe Terlizze en route 225 BU Rapid City 2/8/44 crashed 28 miles NE of base; Written off 3/8/44.

Delivered Cheyenne 10/12/42; Pocatello 29/12/42; Pyote 16/2/43; Pueblo 3/3/43; Biggs 20/3/43; Tinker 30/7/43; with Walter Schultz crashed near base at Alexandria 8/10/43, engine exploded. Written off 10/10/43.

Delivered Denver 11/12/42; Pyote 30/12/42; Casper 21/2/43; Wendover 12/4/43; Sioux City 11/6/43; Dalhart 22/7/43; 505BG Harvard 2/6/44; 4100 BU Patterson 1/9/44; 3 WER Sq Grenier 29/4/45; with Alvin Newton force landed base 16/5/45; McChord 24/5/45; 53 RCN Sq Grenier 14/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 6/3/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 10/12/42; Luke 22/1/43; Wendover 31/1/43; Tarrant 29/4/42; Orlando 11/5/43; Geiger 2/6/43; Gt Falls 7/7/43; Glasgow 28/7/43; 242 BU Gr Isle 1/6/44; 6BG Gr Isle 8/7/44; taxi accident at Borinquen (? with 10BS), Puerto Rico with Harry Owen 29/1/45; 247 BU Smoky Hill 21/3/45; 6138 BU Phillips 6/7/46.