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

Delivered Cheyenne 29/4/43; Sioux City 14/5/43; Smoky Hill 11/6/43; Dow Fd 16/6/43; Assigned 562BS/388BG Knettishall 17/6/43; transferred Aphrodite project, Missing in Action V-sites, Watten 6/8/44 with Lt Joeseph P Andrecheck & T/Sgt Raymond Healy (2 Returned to Duty). Had control problems and dived into sea. QUARTERBACK.

Delivered Cheyenne 29/8/44; Patterson 11/9/44; Hunter 29/9/44; Grenier 7/10/44; Assigned: 835BS/486BG [H8-H] Sudbury 14/10/44; {24m} MIA Bremen 25/2/45 Pilot: Bill Wiley, Don Demerath, Deometrios Maurides, Clarry Baugh, Curtis Jessen, Don Brown, Keith Splude, George Rubin, Jim Manford (9POW); flak, crashed Sonthofen, Germany. MACR 12578.

Delivered Denver 11/12/42; Assigned 339BS/96BG Pocatello 20/12/42; Pyote 13/1/43; Pocatello 31/1/43; crashed seven miles NW Pyote base with Bill McKell 2/2/43; Written off 3/2/43.

Delivered Lincoln 4/10/44; Grenier 15/10/44; Assigned 8AF 16/10/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 9/7/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 11/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 9/12/45.

Delivered 488BG Avon Park 12/5/44; MacDill 23/5/44; Cheyenne 5/10/44; Assigned (F-9C) 311 Ph Gp Buckley 3/11/44; 7 GEO Buckley 30/4/46; 7 GEO MacDill 10/6/46; 3203 MSU Eglin 1/9/49; Recl Comp 12/49.

Delivered Cheyenne 25/10/43; Grand Island 13/11/43; Wilmington 26/11/43; Assigned: 544BS/384BG [SU-D] Grafton Underwood 10/1/44; MIA Berlin 24/5/44 Pilot: Grover Seamon, Co-Pilot: Herb Kohlston, Navigator: Jim Sulser, n/g-Sgt Ray Thompson, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Elmer Loving, Ball Turret Gunner: Leon Housh, Waist Gunner: Jim Settlemeyer (7POW); Radio Operator: Manuel Ramos, Tail Gunner: Herb Alstaetter (2KIA); direct flak hit on #2, followed by fire, explosion followed, crashed Herzberg, seven miles E of Neuruppin, Germany. MACR 5268. NUTTAL’S NUT HOUSE.

Delivered Cheyenne 13/10/43; Romulus 3/11/43; Assigned: 544BS/384BG [SU- ] Grafton Underwood 22/11/43; MIA Ludwigshafen 30/12/43 Pilot: Randolph Jacobs, Co-Pilot: Winthrop Jackson, Navigator: John Curtin, Bombardier: Dave Davis, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Jack Goetz, Radio Operator: Doy Cloud, Ball Turret Gunner: Don. Gorham, Waist Gunner: Larry Wagner, Tail Gunner: Bob Compton (9RTD), Waist Gunner: Aldo Gregori (KIA-lost in ditching, never found); mech fault, ditched Channel, nine rescued. MACR 1768. SEA HAG.

Delivered Amarillo 1/7/43; Love 4/7/43; Dallas 19/7/43; Kingman 6/8/43; Geiger 8/8/43; Pendleton 12/8/43; Assigned: 563BS/388BG Knettishall 3/9/43; Salvaged. n/battle damage 15/7/45. JOHO’S JOKERS.

Delivered Cheyenne 12/5/44; Kearney 24/5/44; Dow Fd 6/6/44; Assigned 351BG Polebrook 6/6/44; transferred 524BS/379BG [WA-A] Kimbolton 7/6/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 9/7/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 12/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 13/12/45.

Delivered Sth Plains 28/4/45; became 19BG Commander’s hack; 19ABG/6319 ABW Anderson Fd, Guam 20AF as mobile office; (all turrets removed and celestial astrodome in top turret position. Seats for eight people installed, with galley in bomb bay and toilet near tail wheel); mechanical failure with Louis Dobsa caused ground accident 9/10/50.

Delivered Cheyenne 28/4/43; Tinker 15/5/43; Lincoln 22/5/43; Dow Fd 24/5/43; Assigned: 338BS/96BG [BX- ] Andrews Fd 27/5/43; Snetterton 12/6/43; MIA Kassel 30/7/43 Pilot: Capt Andy Miracle, Co-Pilot: Jim Harris, Navigator: not carried, Bombardier: Ron Bailey, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Homer Amacker, Radio Operator: George Gray, Ball Turret Gunner: Lou Klimchak, Waist Gunner: E.O. Matthews, Waist Gunner: Marshall Lord, Tail Gunner: Carl Bullock (9RTD); Enemy aircraft, crashed North Sea, crew picked up by ASR. No MACR. DRY RUN II.

Delivered Cheyenne 22/4/43; Smoky Hill 29/4/43; Tinker 13/5/43; Lincoln 17/5/43; Dow Fd 21/5/43; Assigned: 332BS/94BG [XM-S] Earls Colne 25/5/43 LADY LUCK II; Rougham 13/6/43, trans 410BS [GL- ]; MIA Hanover 26/7/43 Pilot: Bob Tessier, Co-Pilot: Joel Dinger, Navigator: John Garey, Bombardier: Joe Nigi, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Milton Partington, Radio Operator: Bob Shawver, Ball Turret Gunner: Ernie Lewis{captured 2/8/43}, Waist Gunner: Lester Beck, Tail Gunner: Elmer Neeson (9POW); Waist Gunner: Dick Allee (KIA); Enemy aircraft, crashed Aurich, near Bremen, Germany. MACR 90.

Delivered Cheyenne 12/5/44; Patterson 23/5/44; Kearney 27/6/44; Dow Fd 9/7/44; Ass 385BG [ -H] Gt Ashfield 11/7/44; tran 338BS/96BG [BX-Y] Snetterton 12/7/44; MIA Cottbus 15/2/45 w/Arnold Tillman, cp-Stan Neese, n-Cornelius Daly, togg-Dennis Guimarees, ettg-Hugh Murtagh, ro-Dave Colgon, btg-Don McCloud, wg-Jim Rich, tg-Arnold Echola (9RTD); flak, f/l Stachow, Pol; Sal 17/2/44 & ret Group; RetUS Bradley 13/7/45; 4185 BU Independence 15/7/45; RFC Kingman 17/12/45.

Delivered Tulsa 1/5/44; Kearney 10/5/44; Grenier 24/5/44; Assigned: 560BS/388BG Knettishall 27/6/44; crash-landed base 29/7/44; 9RTD; Salvaged. LADY COURAGEOUS.

Delivered Cheyenne 1/6/43; Gore 12/6/43; Smoky Hill 14/6/43; Tinker 22/6/43; Kearney 26/6/43; Eglin 7/7/43; Dow Fd 9/7/43; Assigned 348BS/99BG Navarin 29/7/43; Oudna 4/8/43; Missing in Action Athens 10/10/43 with Sam Gilmore, Co-pilot: Hantman, Navigator: John Staffo, Cleaver, Hill, Meyers, Stankus, Wehby, Hinkle; five chutes seen; Rohrer (evaded capture); Missing Air Crew Reports 924 & 6615.

Delivered Dallas 8/6/43; Patterson 9/7/43; 328 BU Gulfport 31/3/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Albuquerque 25/6/45.

Delivered Long Beach 4/11/43; Las Vegas 16/11/43; 3018 BU Kingman 23/3/45; 3017 BU Hobbs 27/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 4/12/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 21/7/43; Walla Walla 30/7/43; 325 BU Avon Park 9/4/44; with Peter Stene force landed Avon Park 29/6/44; Recl Comp 9/6/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 31/5/43; Gore 16/6/43; Smoky Hill 17/6/43; Rapid City 19/6/43; Geiger 22/6/43; Dow Fd 5/7/43; Assigned 342BS/97BG Chateau-du-Rhumel 13/7/43; Pont-du-Fahs 1/8/43; Depienne 15/8/43; Cerignola 20/12/43; Amendola 16/1/44; weather aircraft from 15/7/44; Returned to the USA 1103 BU Morrison 19/3/45; 4100 BU Patterson 27/3/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 28/8/45.

Delivered Denver 14/2/44; 1SAG Langley 16/3/44; Grenier 9/6/44; Assigned: 305BG Chelveston 11/6/44; Salvaged. 9AF Germany. any 23/5/46.