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

Delivered Cheyenne 6/8/44; Lincoln 18/8/44; Grenier 3/9/44; Assigned: 423BS/306BG Thurleigh 4/9/44; battle damage Merseburg 30/11/44 Pilot: ‘; crash-landed continent; Salvaged. 14/2/45.

Delivered Dallas 24/4/44; Langley 13/6/44; Dow Fd 5/7/44; Assigned 333BS/94BG [TS-T] Rougham 6/7/44; crash landed base 20/8/44 with Billie Melton, rest unknown; Salvaged 21/8/44. FLAGSHIP.

Delivered Cheyenne 19/3/43; 3017 BU Hobbs 24/4/43; with Paul Dowling force landed base 26/4/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 13/9/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 11/8/43; Gr Isle 31/8/43; Assigned: 563BS/388BG Knettishall 6/9/43; battle damage Gelsenkirchen 5/11/43 Pilot: Bob Bohne, Co-Pilot: Major Bill Chamberlain, Navigator: Harry Belgium. er, Bombardier: Bill Bangum, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Bill Hannigan, Radio Operator: Lowell Southam, Ball Turret Gunner: Jim Auther, Waist Gunner: Bob Allman, Waist Gunner: Salvatore Cavallaro, Tail Gunner: Maurice Carlson (10RTD-all bailed over Suffolk); flak KO’d two engines, on return crashed College Farm, Elmham St Cross, Suffolk, UK; Salvaged. MY DEVOTION.

Delivered Cheyenne 8/5/44; Hunter 22/5/44; Grenier 6/6/44; Assigned Soxo with Mike Medinger, crash landed Predannack, Cornwall, UK 8/6/44; Written off 9/6/44.

Delivered Denver 5/1/44; 1 Ph Gp Bolling 23/1/44; Cheyenne 7/9/44; Washington 2/11/44; 613 BU Phillips 6/11/44; re-ass AAF 25/1/46.

Delivered Denver 11/1/44; 1SAG Langley 6/2/44; Grenier 2/4/44; Assigned (H2X) 482BG Alconbury 9/4/44; Salvaged 9AF Germany 4/6/46.

Delivered Denver 22/12/43; 1SAG Langley 14/1/44; Assigned: 413BS/96BG [MZ-K] Snetterton (H2X) 29/1/44; Transferred: 95BG Horham 6/44; 6m, sal 17/10/44.

Delivered Cheyenne 15/6/44; Kearney 27/6/44; Dow Fd 13/7/44; Assigned 486BG Eye 16/7/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 7/7/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 9/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 11/12/45.

Delivered Denver 2/1/44; Hendricks 23/1/44; slated 482BG but sal 18/3/44; Pilot: Jim Renner forced landing FL 25/9/44; 3501 BU Boca Raton 28/11/44; 3704 BU Keesler 17/1/45; to 4119 BU Brookley w/Nelson Day 13/3/45; 3704 BU Keesler 2/4/45; 613 BU Phillips 24/6/46.

Delivered Denver 22/12/43; 1SAG Langley 21/1/44; Mitchell 1/2/44; Presque Is 29/2/44; Assigned 111 BU Langley 16/9/44; 3539 BU Langley 18/9/44; Recl Comp 2/10/44; W/O 18/10/44.

Delivered Denver 19/12/43; Salt Lake City 27/12/43; 1SAG Langley 15/1/44; Mitchell 1/2/44; Assigned: 482BG (H2X) Alconbury; Transferred: 337BS/96BG [AW-E] Snetterton 4/2/44; 413BS [MZ-E]; collided with aircraft of Pilot: 447BG Rattlesden in taxi accident 6/4/44, w/Capt Milton Esterline, Co-Pilot: George Van der Least, Navigator: Elmer Canfield, Bombardier: Forrest Burnett, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Earl Lynes, Radio Operator: Elvin Smith, Waist Gunner: Tom Manees, Waist Gunner: Arthur Crouse, Tail Gunner: Harry Ross; passengers:- Clarry Burton & George Francis (11RTD); Salvaged. 9/4/44.

Delivered Denver 21/12/43; Kearney 7/1/44; Presque Is 24/1/44; Assigned: 303BG Molesworth 6/2/44; on ferry flight from Gander, Nfd to Prestwick, UK 20/2/44 Pilot: Fred Rowan, Bill Moyer, Navigator: Bob Bates, Bombardier: Loren Rawlings, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Lyman Ela, Radio Operator: Bon Hanson, Ball Turret Gunner: Vachel Roughley, Waist Gunner: Earl Salmon, Waist Gunner: John Arendt, Tail Gunner: Theo Miller (10RTD); one engine not functioning correctly and running out of gas, forced landing Fintral Bay, Co. Donegal, Eire; all p[ossible material was salvaged but later aircraft became submerged.

Delivered Lincoln 26/9/44; Grenier 7/10/44; Assigned: 749BS/457BG [W] Glatton 11/10/44; help operation ‘ 13/5/44 Pilot: ‘; forced landing Horsching, Austria, w/Bill Litogot 12/5/45; Salvaged. n/battle damage 24/5/45. SCREAMING EAGLE.

Delivered Cheyenne 25/6/43; 202 BU Galveston 8/8/44; 4104 BU Rome 18/1/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 14/9/45.

Delivered Dallas 24/8/43; 2126 BU Laredo 3/9/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 7/1/46.

Delivered: Long Beach 23/9/43; Harvard 6/10/43; ass 709BS/447BG Rattlesden 21/11/43; exploded on base, 21/4/44. All 709BS ground crew personnel were: Bob Adams, Ed Baculis, Otton Branham, Doug Graves, John Harms, Paul Kasch,Ken Lofton, John Ragan, Don Roach, George Slachta, Herb Spreen, Jim Trott, Bill Wilson, Bill Vaughn, and Henry Chavez (871 Chem. Co.). (15KIA) Aircraft being serviced prior to mission, possibly while fusing some bombs exploded; two trucks and a trailer destroyed while a nearby cottage was badly damaged; Salvaged. MACR 15602.

Delivered Cheyenne 27/4/44; Kearney 11/5/44; Grenier 24/5/44; Assigned: 385BG Gt Ashfield 30/5/44; Transferred: 730BS/452BG Deopham Green 30/5/44 SMOKEY LIZ II; 729BS; MIA Zwickau 19/3/45 Pilot: Bill Caldwell, Marvin Rosen, John Haas, Fernand Carsone, Chas Howard, John Kuhn (6POW); Walt Miller, John Unsworth, Dave Spillman (3KIA); Enemy aircraft, crashed Zwickau, Germany. MACR 13561. FRIVOLOUS SAL.

Delivered Cheyenne 26/4/44; Kearney 11/5/44; Grenier 24/5/44; Assigned 96BG Snetteron 27/5/44; transferred 422BS/305BG [JJ-A] Chelveston 4/6/44; transferred 858BS Cheddington 26/6/44; crash landed base 10/7/44; Salvaged 4/1/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 31/12/42; Salina 10/1/43; Brookley 8/3/43; Morrison 19/3/43; Assigned: 368BS/306BG [BO- ] Thurleigh ‘; Pilot: (Maj Cummings’), Dinwiddie Fuhrmeister, Co-Pilot: Emil Rasmussen, Navigator: Art Titus, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Ode Harvey, Radio Operator: Amos May, Ball Turret Gunner: Keith Thousand, Waist Gunner: Ray Wilson, Owen Nabors, pass:-H.H. Heibert (9RTD), Bombardier: Bill Smith (KIA)11/4/43 when in poor weather conditions aircraft crashed Mt Maenclochog, Foel Cwm, near Cerwym, Wales, en route to St Eval, Cornwall from Marrakech, Morocco; Salvaged. GUNGA DIN

Delivered Tulsa 4/5/44; Kearney 10/5/44; Grenier 24/5/44; Assigned: 563BS/388BG Knettishall 27/5/44; Returned to US: Bradley 3/7/45; Sth Plains 6/7/45; Scrapped: Kingman 8/12/45. CICERO KID.

Delivered Amarillo 3/7/43; Cheyenne 25/7/43; Geiger 5/8/43; Rapid City 10/8/43; Redmond 15/8/43; with Paul Friese force landed Sarasota Range, FL 12/5/44; 325 BU Avon Park 9/7/44; 4117 BU Robins 11/9/44; 325 BU Avon Park 28/9/44; 331 BU Barksdale 1/3/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 26/9/45.