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

Delivered Denver 7/4/43; Gore 18/4/43; Lockbourn 20/4/43; force landed base with Chas Frankhauser 5/7/43; 2000 BU Ft Worth 23/10/44; 2114 BU Lockbourn 21/12/44; 2003 BU Ft Worth 8/1/45; 273 BU Lincoln 16/3/45; 2003 BU Ft Worth 10/4/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 21/12/45.

Delivered Denver 16/12/43; Gt Falls 24/12/43; Billings 26/12/43; Denver 3/1/44; Barksdale 14/1/44; Lakeland 16/1/44; Morrison 21/2/44; Assigned 774BS/463BG Celone 22/2/44; Missing in Action Ploesti 18/5/44 with Paul Kelley, Co-pilot: Gilbert Southworth, Navigator: Bob Davis, Bombardier: Abner Gladstone, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Frank Fisher, Radio Operator: Wilbur Green, Ball turret gunner: Warren Hartung, Waist gunner: Ed Reader, Waist gunner: Harry Hoobler,Tail gunner: John Dunn; enemy aircraft, crashed Gaeti, Rom; Missing Air Crew Report 5832.

Delivered Cheyenne 24/12/43; Lowry 12/1/44; Savannah 13/1/44; Morrison 24/1/44; Assigned 346BS/99BG Tortorella 25/1/44; Missing in Action {6m} Regensburg 25/2/44 with John Mahan, Bilharz, Jankowski, Bolton, Romontio, Crider, Malcom, Gyson (8 Prisoner of War); May, Farnham (2 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed Rottenburg, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 2705.

Delivered Cheyenne 24/12/43; Scott Fd 6/1/44; Hunter 10/1/44; Lakeland 11/1/44; Morrison 13/2/44; Assigned 774BS/463BG Celone 15/2/44; Missing in Action Ploesti 5/5/44 with Bill Smith, Co-pilot: Gittis Gosdin, Navigator: Paul McCollum, Bombardier: Don Graham, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Albert Bagy, Radio Operator: Glen Johnson, Ball turret gunner: Bill Lyons, Waist gunner: Jim McKee, Waist gunner: Galen Strand,Tail gunner: Joe Stranmeier; flak, crashed Ploesti, Rom; Missing Air Crew Report 4616.

Delivered Lincoln 21/9/44; Grenier 11/10/44; Assigned: 8AF 16/10/44; 835BS/486BG [H8-C then K] Sudbury 2/45; {41m} Returned to US: Bradley 11/7/45; 4168 BU Sth Plains 12/7/45; Scrapped: Kingman 18/11/45. RED RAIDER.

Delivered Tulsa 26/5/44; Hunter 14/6/44; Dow Fd 24/6/44; Assigned 342BS/97BG Amendola 2/7/44; Missing in Action Munich 19/7/44 with David Haas, Hersha Davie, Frank Coleman, Peter Parialo, James Loomis, Harold Little, Arthur Manosh, Douglas Hendricks, Edward Williams, George Bernall, Donald Black; flak, crashed Forstern, Bavaria; 7 x POW, 4 x KIA. Missing Air Crew Report 6745.

Delivered Cheyenne 14/12/43; Kearney 26/1/43; Assigned: 332BS/94BG Rougham 8/2/44; forced landing continent 10/11/44, Salvaged. 18/11/44. JANIE GAL.

Delivered Cheyenne 11/12/43; Kansas City 28/12/43; Orlando 31/12/43; 901 BU Pinecastle 2/6/44; 441 BU Glendale 24/6/44; 901 BU Pinecastle 29/6/44; 903 BU Pinecastle 10/9/44; 902 BU Orlando 20/12/44; 903 BU Pinecastle 12/6/45; 621 BU Pinecastle 6/9/45; 6138 BU Phillips 19/6/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 6/4/43; Geiger 16/4/43; Peterson 5/6/43; Bolling 27/7/43; Peterson 6/8/43; Rapid City 13/8/43; Colorado Springs 7/10/43; 246 BU Pratt 8/6/44; 244 BU Harvard 24/6/44; 4136 BU Tinker 15/7/44; 235 BU Biggs 17/1/45; 233 BU Davis Monthan 18/3/45; 209 BU Galveston 14/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 8/11/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 13/12/43; Romulus 24/12/43; Middleton 28/12/43; Orlando 30/12/43; 9030 BU Pinecastle 2/6/44; 902 BU Orlando 7/12/44; 903 BU Pinecastle 1/1/45; 621 BU Pinecastle 2/7/45; 4000 BU Wright Fd 15/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 14/1/46.

Delivered Denver 11/12/43; Rosencrans 29/12/43; Orlando 2/1/44; W/O 11/5/44.

Delivered Denver 5/4/43; Morrison 29/4/43; Assigned 342BS/97BG Chateau-du-Rhumel 24/5/43; Pont-du-Fahs 1/8/43; Depienne 15/8/43; Cerignola 20/12/43; Amendola 16/1/43; Missing in Action Brod, Yugo 2/7/44 with Harry Schuchardt, Sale, Edwards, Sanders, Vickery, Cockshott, Young (8 Prisoner of War); Goff, Hurtt (2 Killed in Action). enemy aircraft, crashed Komaron. Missing Air Crew Report 6338.

Delivered Dallas 28/9/44; Langley 21/9/44; Grenier 12/10/44; Assigned 816BS/483BG PFF Sterparone 30/10/44; Missing in Action night mission to Blechhammer 13/11/44 with Harry Culpepper (Killed in Action); Pond Bentley, Strength, Ruby, Sutton, Kupitz, Jackson, Schubach, Schmitt (9 evaded capture); no gas, crashed Nevesinje; crew return; Missing Air Crew Report 9882.

Delivered Dallas 26/8/44; Hunter 25/9/44; Grenier 13/10/44; Assigned 413BS/96BG [MZ-V] Snetterton 18/10/44; RetUS, Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 20/12/45.

Delivered Dallas 26/8/44; Langley 30/9/44; Grenier 10/10/44; Assigned 340BS/97BG PFF Amendola 25/10/44; Missing in Action Landsberg 16/2/45 with Bob Foster, Flannick, Zerniok, Smith, McDonald, Weber, Wilkins, Dunahoe, Albright, Vincent; flak, crashed Bozen; Missing Air Crew Report 12106.

Delivered Dallas 2/5/44; Kearney 16/6/44; Grenier 30/6/44; Assigned: 849BS/490BG [W8-N] Eye 2/8/44; crash-landed base Pilot: Eaden Whiteman 23/2/45 but repaired and back to operations; Returned to US: Bradley 12/7/45; 4185 BU Independence 25/10/45; Scrapped: Kingman 9/12/45. ALL ‘ER NOTHIN’.

Delivered Syracuse 16/5/45; Slated Oahu 7AF, transferred Memphis 20/5/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 7/11/45; converted to DB-17/QB-17 for 3205th Drone Group, Eglin; destroyed 6/8/59 by a Falcon missile fired from a F-101 Voodoo, the last flown .

Delivered Rome 19/5/45; 4202 BU Syracuse 20/9/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 28/11/45.

Delivered Rome 19/5/45; 4202 BU Syracuse 20/9/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 5/11/45.

Delivered Long Beach 8/11/43; Kingman 18/11/43; 225 BU Rapid City 1/5/45; 2114 BU Lockbourn 27/6/45; 2137 BU Hendricks 22/9/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 41/45.