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

Delivered Cheyenne 3/1/43; Blythe 25/1/43; Geiger 27/2/43; Orlando 13/3/43; Moses Lake 17/8/43; 4117 BU Robins 29/7/44; 326 BU MacDill 22/10/44; 327 BU Drew 21/11/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Searcey Fd 7/8/45.

Delivered Hunter 30/8/44; Dow Fd 20/9/44; Assigned: 333BS/94BG [TS-G] Rougham 25/9/44 LEAVE US FACE IT; 410BS [GL-S]; Returned to US: Bradley 28/6/45; Sth Plains 30/6/45; Scrapped: Kingman 11/12/45. QUEEN MARTHA.

Delivered Lincoln 12/9/44; Grenier 26/9/44; Assigned 652BS/25BG Watton, Nfk 5/10/44; Returned to the USA 29/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 8/1/46.

Delivered Denver 28/11/42; Lewiston 18/12/42; Walla Walla 22/2/43; force landed with Bill Pederson at Redmond, OR 10/6/43; force landed Pyote base with Bob Deering 26/7/43; Walla Walla 15/8/43; Written off 4/4/44.

Delivered Dorval Fd, Canada 13/8/44; To RAF [KJ103]; 214 Sq BU-M RCM Oulton, Nfk.; t/o on Jostle duties with F/O N. Scott, R. Willing, R. Houston. T. McKee, D. Lewis, E. Hardman, R. Smith, B. Lunn, C. Brown (6WIA?); R.J. Nickle (Killed in Action); crash landed base after hitting trees on approach, burned out, written off.

Delivered Dorval 13/8/44; To RAF [KJ104]; 214 Sq BU-D RCM Oulton, Nfk.; 1699 Flt 4Z-? Sculthorpe, Nfk.; 223 Sq; Struck Off Charge 11/3/47.

Delivered Kearney 10/8/44; Grenier 27/8/44; Assigned: 358BS/303BG [VK-C] Molesworth 25/8/44; battle damage Berlin 26/2/45 Pilot: Morton Perkins, Walter Kamstra, Bob Wallace, Arlan Allen, Chas Carlson, Germany. ld Little, Walt Beckwith, Warrell Partsch, John McDonald (9RTD); forced landing continent; Salvaged. 1/3/45.

Delivered Tulsa 26/11/42; Blythe 28/12/42; Moses Lake 2/5/43; Geiger 2/8/43; 593BS/396BG Moses Lake 23/8/43; with Harry Watson crash landed Avon Park 30/4/44; Written off 1/5/44.

Delivered Cheyenne 25/7/43; Geiger 4/8/43; Omaha 8/8/43; Kearney 9/8/43; 224 BU Sioux City 6/3/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Albuquerque 19/6/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 15/5/45; Hunter 27/6/45; WCW San Francisco 13/7/45; re-ass 30/4/47; Brisbane, Aus 29/5/47; 3 ER Itazuke, Japan 1/1/48; 3 RES Itazuke 22/4/48; 13 ARE Tchkawa 8/5/48; 3rd Rescue Sqad. Itazuke 18/5/48; 3 RES Ashiya 11/1/49; 3 RES Johnson 24/9/50; 1500 TSP Hickam 20/11/50; Recl Comp 1/3/53.

Delivered Cheyenne 15/5/45; Hunter 30/6/45; 1103 BU Morrison 21/7/45; 1105 BU Miami 2/1/46; re-ass 30/4/47; 1377 BU Westover 30/7/47; 1383 BU Goose Bay 8/3/48; 1003 AB Nabarsk 8/6/48; 2152 RES Goose Bay 19/11/48; 1231 AB Nabarsk 22/11/48; 2152 RES Goose Bay 21/12/48; Recl Comp 5/8/49.

Delivered: Cheyenne 15/6/44; Kearney 26/6/44; Dow Fd 9/7/44; Assigned: 832BS/486BG [3R-M] Sudbury 11/7/44; {15m} during assembly for Ludwigshafen 27/9/44 Pilot: ‘; mid air coll w/43-37942; crew bailed, aircraft crashed sea off Suffolk coast.

Delivered Hunter 30/8/44; Grenier 12/9/44; Assigned: 527BS/379BG [FO-T] Kimbolton 13/9/44; Transferred: 305BG Chelveston 27/9/44; tran 384BG Grafton Underwood 9/5/45; Salvaged. 9AF Germany 10/12/45.

The fate of this B-17 Flying Fortress is unknown.

Converted to B-17H Air Sea Rescue ship.

Delivered Cheyenne 7/6/44; Kearney 19/6/44; Grenier 1/7/44; Assigned: 832BS/486BG [3R-J] Sudbury 2/7/44; forced landing Woodbridge EMG Pilot: Merle Dibble 3/1/45; {52m} MIA Grafenwohr 8/4/45 w/Bill Wood, Chas Strong (2KIA); Walt Doerschlag {wia}, Dick Witt, Bill Martin, Bill Rosoe, Harry Parmley, Horace Houd, Jack Marlar (7POW); flak hit #3 engine which caught fire, then went into spin, lost a wing then exploded, crashed Rehau, Germany. MACR 13739. FLIPPY aka THE BLUE FAIRY.

Delivered Long Beach 15/6/43; Palm Springs 24/7/43; Assigned 502BS/346BG damaged while taxying 26/7/43; Dyersburg 29/7/43; Written off 22/3/44.

Delivered Long Beach 15/6/43; Orlando 12/7/43; Mont Brook 15/8/43; Orlando 28/11/43; 3017 BU Hobbs 6/11/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 22/8/45.

Delivered Long Beach 4/6/43; Gore Fd 3/7/43; Walla Walla 24/7/43; 325 BU Avon Park 9/4/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 20/8/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 19/3/44; MacDill 1/4/44; with Bill Gilbert force landed Avon Park 12/4/44; 325 BU Avon Park 22/9/44; 335 BU Delivered Marbry 2/10/44; 325 BU Avon Park 7/10/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 22/8/45.