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B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-6097 / The Bad Penny Always Comes Back

B-17 #42-6097 / The Bad Penny Always Comes Back

Delivered Long Beach 21/7/43; Cheyenne 23/7/43; Assigned: 339BS/96BG [QJ-O] Snetterton 12/9/43; used as 3AD trainer; Returned to US: Bradley 9/7/44; Scrapped: Albuquerque 13/8/45. THE BAD PENNY ALWAYS COMES BACK.

B-17 #41-24614 / Snafu aka We The People

B-17 #41-24614 / Snafu aka We The People

Assigned 364BS/305BG [JJ-R/A] Bangor 10/9/42; Grafton Underwood 25/10/42; transferred 1 Base Air Depot, Burtonwood 4/5/44; Returned to the USA La Junta 14/6/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Searcey Fd, 31/7/45. SNAFU then renamed WE THE PEOPLE.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 44-83433

B-17 #44-83433

Delivered Hunter 2/3/45; Grenier 13/3/45; Assigned 8AF 18/3/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 9/6/45; Sth Plains 13/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 20/1/46; 4117 BU Robins 24/2/46; 91 RCN MacDill 29/4/46; re-ass 30/4/47; 91 RLP Howard (CZ) 6AF 18/1/48; 91 RLP Waller (Trinidad) 3/2/48; Canal Zone 27/2/48; 91 RLP Waller 1/7/48; 91 RLP McGuire 9/2/49; 91 SRC Grp McGuire 4/5/49; 91 SRC Gp Barksdale 5/12/49; transferred USN, Salvaged 16/2/50.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 43-38246 / Cupcake aka Vermont Maid

B-17 #43-38246 / Cupcake aka Vermont Maid

Delivered Cheyenne 12/7/44; Hunter 20/7/44; Presque Is 31/7/44; Assigned: 835BS/486BG [H8-D] Sudbury 2/8/44; {87m} Returned to US: Bradley Pilot: John Anderson 11/7/45; 4185 BU Independence 13/7/45; Scrapped: Kingman 12/12/45. CUPCAKE aka VERMONT MAID.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 44-6856 / Jack of Hearts

B-17 #44-6856 / Jack of Hearts

Delivered Hunter 2/12/44; Grenier 13/12/44; Assigned 815BS/483BG Sterparone 20/12/44; with Bob Davis in landing accident at Pisa, It 27/8/45; Salvaged 28/8/45. JACK OF HEARTS.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-107173 / Lamsy Divy

B-17 #42-107173 / Lamsy Divy

Delivered Tulsa 15/3/44; Kearney 24/3/44; McDill 28/3/44; Dow FD 4/4/44; Assigned: 571BS/390BG [FC-F] Framlingham 8/4/44; received battle damage at Liege (9m) Pilot: Leon Otten, Co-Pilot: Karl Truesdell (95BG), Navigator: Addison Powell, Bombardier: Jonas Harper, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Jack Lowther, Radio Operator: Wallace Oppel, Ball Turret Gunner: John Ditrapani, Waist Gunner: John Zukauskas, Waist Gunner: Ray Schilling, Tail Gunner: John Ward; on return crash-landed on base into radar building 12/5/44, (10RTD) Salvaged. 20/5/44. LAMZY DIVY.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-97830

B-17 #42-97830

Delivered Denver 9/3/44; Kearney 13/4/44; Grenier 29/4/44; Assigned: 571BS/390BG [FC-E] Framlingham 1/5/44; MIA Bohlen 29/6/44 Pilot: Bob Moody, Co-Pilot: Capt Bill Nugent, Bombardier: Dan Simpson, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Don Beeson, Radio Operator: W.S. Belgium. , Waist Gunner: Carl Gray, Waist Gunner: Ottavio Zannetti, Tail Gunner: Bob Gilmore (8RTD); Navigator: Jim Mayall, Ball Turret Gunner: Don Downie (2KIA); fell out of formation with #2 feathered, nearing coast feathered two more; ditched Channel, Enemy aircraft strafed rescue launch, sinking it and killing Mayall and Downie; another launch arrived and took rest to Yarmouth, Nfk., UK. MACR 15236.

B-17 #42-30338 / Cabin in the Sky aka Rough Group aka Dorothy Dee

B-17 #42-30338 / Cabin in the Sky aka Rough Group aka Dorothy Dee

Delivered Cheyenne 21/5/43; Geiger 28/5/43; Gt Falls 7/6/43; Gore 12/6/43; Smoky Hill 29/6/43; Dow Fd 10/7/43; Assigned: 571BS/390BG [FC-P] Framlingham 11/7/43 CABIN IN THE SKY; re-named ROUGH GROUP then DOROTHY DEE; Returned to US: Bradley 4/7/45; Scrapped: Altus 14/8/45. Reverted to CABIN IN THE SKY.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-32010

B-17 #42-32010

Delivered Cheyenne 15/1/44; MacDill 30/1/44; Morrison 9/3/44; Assigned 840BS/483BG Tortorella 11/3/44; Sterparone 22/4/44; Missing in Action Budapest 30/7/44 with Ken Weston, Lizak, Wallace, Andrews, Kelsey, Tunning, Frye, Ziegler, Moore, Goldemberg (10 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed Budapest; Missing Air Crew Report 7107.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-40049

B-17 #42-40049

Delivered Long Beach 12/11/43; Yuma 19/11/43; 3017 BU Hobbs 2/9/45; 4208 BU Mines Fd 16/10/45; 3017 BU Hobbs 5/11/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 6/12/45.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-40048

B-17 #42-40048

Delivered Long Beach 11/11/43; Las Vegas 20/11/32; 560 BU Palm Springs 16/9/44; 3018 Kingman 8/10/44; 3017 Hobbs 24/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 6/12/45.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 44-83435

B-17 #44-83435

Delivered Hunter 2/3/45; Grenier 10/3/45; Assigned 8AF 14/3/45; Salvaged 9AF Germany, Returned to the USA 20/10/46; re-ass 31/3/47; 4112 BU Olmstead 29/4/47; transferred 23 PHR Momote (5AF) 18/1/48; 5 RVP Clark Fd 18/4/48; 9 SRGp Fairfield 2/6/49; transferred USN, Salvaged 24/1/50.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 44-85636

B-17 #44-85636

Delivered Dallas 13/4/45; Rome 15/5/45; Syracuse 12/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 28/11/45.

B-17 #42-31926 / Lovell’s Hovel

B-17 #42-31926 / Lovell’s Hovel

Delivered Denver 6/1/44; Kearney 14/1/44; Homestead 27/1/44; Assigned: 545BS/384BG [JD-G] Grafton Underwood 19/2/44; MIA Watten V-site at Wizernes 19/3/44 Pilot: Jim Lovell, Co-Pilot: Walt Brookings, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Calvin Fowlkes, Radio Operator: Minot Deftos, Ball Turret Gunner: Jim Johnson, Waist Gunner: Doyle Blankenship (6KIA); Navigator: Joe Lewis, Bombardier: Martin Bachicha, Waist Gunner: Jesse Oldham, Tail Gunner: Lou Kardos (4POW); flak, crashed Wavrens, three miles N of St Pol, Fr; MACR 3242. LOVELL’S HOVEL.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 44-6453

B-17 #44-6453

Delivered Kearney 13/8/44; Grenier 18/8/44; Assigned 97BS Amendola 28/8/44; crashed 29/12/44.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 44-6477

B-17 #44-6477

Delivered: Kearney 17/8/44; Dow Fd 3/9/44; Assigned: 862BS/493BG Debach 8/9/44; Transferred: 832BS/486BG [3R-V] Sudbury, used to return POWs fron Linz, Aus; {25m} Returned to US: Bradley 8/7/45; Sth Plains 11/7/45; Scrapped: Kingman 22/11/45. BLUE GRASS GIRL II (?)

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 44-85682

B-17 #44-85682

Delivered Louisville 26/4/45; Rome 27/5/45; 4132 BU Garden City 27/9/45; 4000 BU Wright 24/2/46; 234 BU Clovis 4/3/46; 15 TSK Clovis 13/3/46; 4000 BU Patterson 18/4/46; 4135 BU Hill Fd 11/7/46; 4145 BU Wendover 21/7/46; re-ass 31/3/47; 4104 BU Rome 11/8/47; AMC Columbus 25/9/47; 3203 MSU Eglin 28/4/49; 1 EG Eglin 21/7/49; Recl Comp 31/7/50.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 44-6474

B-17 #44-6474

Delivered Kearney 16/8/44; Grenier 4/9/44; Assigned 305BG Chelveston 27/9/44; 401BG Deenethorpe 28/9/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 7/6/45; Sth Plains 10/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 1/12/45.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-30598

B-17 #42-30598

Delivered Cheyenne 26/6/43; Smoky Hill 12/7/43; Dow Fd 16/7/43; Assigned: 549BS/385BG [XA-L] Gt Ashfield 16/7/43; MIA Lille 15/8/43 Pilot: Ed Stone, Co-Pilot: George Larsen, Navigator: Jim Atkinson, Bombardier: Darrell Taylor, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Tony Kalisko{body washed up two weeks later on Belgium. ian coast}, Radio Operator: Harry Rusk, Ball Turret Gunner: Bob Paige, Waist Gunner: Jim Glaxner, Waist Gunner: Elvin Rankin, Tail Gunner: Sam Burns (10KIA); flak hit near Dunkirk, ditched Channel; MACR 267.

B-17 #42-30249 / El Lobo aka Raunchey Wolf

B-17 #42-30249 / El Lobo aka Raunchey Wolf

Delivered: Cheyenne 3/5/43; Gore 13/5/43; Smoky Hill 14/5/43; Gt Falls 24/5/43; Kearney 30/5/43; Dow Fd 4/6/43; Assigned: 551BS/385BG [HR-X] Gt Ashfield 26/6/43; MIA Ludwigshafen 30/12/43 Pilot: Earle Frye, Waist Gunner: Tony Ornatek, Tail Gunner: Glen Emerson (3EVD); Co-Pilot: Dick Miller, Navigator: John Bartemus, Bombardier: Tom Hollingsworth, Radio Operator: George Steele, Ball Turret Gunner: Bob Williams, Waist Gunner: Regis Maroney (6POW); Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Frank Pifer (KIA); flak, crashed Ligay, three miles S of Monchy-Breton, Fr; MACR 1899. EL SABO.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 44-85681

B-17 #44-85681

Delivered Louisville 24/4/45; Syracuse 25/5/45; Middletown 8/11/45; Morrison 5/12/45; 4112 BU Olmstead 31/1/46; West palm Beach 3/3/46; 1103 BU Morrison 6/3/46; re-ass 30/4/47; 91 RLP Howard, CZ 1/1/48; 91 RLP Waller 1/7/48; 91 RLP Maguire 9/2/49; 91 SRC Barksdale 5/12/49; to USN, Recl Comp 16/2/50.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 44-8299

B-17 #44-8299

Delivered Avon Park 5/8/44; 325 BU Avon Park 9/4/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 12/12/45.

B-17 #44-8247

B-17 #44-8247

Delivered Dallas 20/7/44; Langley 22/8/44; Dow Fd 30/9/44; Assigned 463BG PFF Celone 18/10/44; Salvaged 9AF Germany 10/5/46.

B-17 #44-8213 / Hoop’s Spooks

B-17 #44-8213 / Hoop’s Spooks

Delivered Dallas 11/7/44; Langley 31/7/44; Grenier 20/8/44; Assigned 338BS/96BG [BX-M] Snetterton 30/8/44; Returned to the USA Morrison 20/10/44; Charleston 28/10/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 26/11/45. HOOP’S SPOOKS.