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

Delivered Cheyenne 30/4/43; Roswell 25/5/43; crash landed Hobbs 17/8/43 with Roka Pamperian, rep.; 3715 BU Burbank 27/8/43; with Bill Sullivan f//l three miles from Roswell Aux Fd 21/4/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 18/5/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 3/9/44; Hunter 16/9/44; Grenier 25/9/44; Assigned 367BS/306BG [GY-Q] Thurleigh 3/10/44; transferred 381BG Ridgewell 5/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 9/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 12/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 28/11/45.

Delivered Denver 2/4/43; Gore 3/4/43; Smoky Hill 21/4/43; Walla Walla 7/5/434; Gt Falls 7/6/43; Gr Isle 17/6/43; 1 BAS Bolling 15/6/44; 270 BU Topeka 16/6/44; 272 BU Topeka 9/4/45; 482 BU Merced 10/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 14/11/45.

Delivered Denver 8/10/43; Gr Island 24/10/43; ass 568BS/390BG [BI-V] Framlingham 11/11/43 as WILD CHILDREN II; MIA St Jusy, Paris 2/8/44 Pilot: Clay Perry, Co-Pilot: Harry Sproul, Navigator: Chas Ryan, Bombardier: Beverly Stubbs, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Ray Sinclair, Radio Operator: Laughlin Campbell, Ball Turret Gunner: Leon Perragallo, Waist Gunner: Warren Shea, Tail Gunner: Russell Hicks (9POW); flak hit set fire to left wing, runaway prop with another windmilling, ditched North Sea off Holland. MACR 7749. ANGEL IN DISGUISE. (ANGEL IN DI SKIES)

Delivered Cheyenne 5/6/44; Kearney 19/6/44; Grenier 30/6/44; Assigned: 550BS/385BG Gt Ashfield 2/7/44; {5m} battle damage Merseburg 25/11/44 Pilot: ‘; forced landing Hermée, north of Liège, Belgium. ; Salvaged. 16/12/44.

Delivered Cheyenne 13/12/42; Biggs 24/2/43; Pueblo 4/3/43; Dalhart 16/5/43; Tinker 2/7/43; Dalhart 26/7/43; 231 BU Alamogordo 2/8/44; 235 BU Biggs 11/10/44; 4100 BU Patterson 5/3/45; 4202 BU Syracuse 8/4/45; Recl Comp 3/1/46.

Delivered Tulsa 8/12/42; Chico 13/3/43; Pyote 28/7/43; Tinker 16/10/43; with Chas Gunther force landed Drew Fd 6/3/44; 3701 BU Amarillo 18/11/44; Recl Comp 7/6/46.

Delivered Dallas 13/4/45; Rome 4/6/45; Syracuse 12/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 15/11/45.

Delivered Tulsa 10/12/42; Ainsworth 21/1/43; Pierre 12/3/43; Rapid City 28/4/43; Gieger 22/6/43; 232 BU Dalhart 9/6/44; 242 BU Gr Isle 29/6/44; 6BG Gr Isle 8/7/44; 11 STA HQ Morrison 29/7/44; 242 BU Gr Isle 16/9/44; 232 BU Dalhart 21/10/44; 273 BU Lincoln 29/11/44; 245 BU McCook 9/2/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Albuquerque 25/6/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 8/12/42; Salina 5/1/43; Morrison 8/3/43; Assigned 437BS/99BG Navarin 10/3/43; Oudna 4/8/43; Tortorella 11/12/43; Missing in Action Villaorba 18/3/44 with Gerald Lombard, Miller, Mack,. Simon, Baker, Mire, Brandanger, Moeller, King (9 bailed – RTD ?);Tail gunner: Pike (Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed Udine, It. Missing Air Crew Report 3355.

Delivered Dallas 4/9/43; Scott 25/9/43; Assigned: 524BS/379BG [WA-K] Kimbolton 22/11/43; targeted Waggum, near Brunswick 30/1/44 Pilot: Don McCall, Co-Pilot: Chas Gurney, Navigator: Dan Darling, Bombardier: Bob Daniels, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Jim Fiers, Radio Operator: John Cvitkovich, Ball Turret Gunner: Gene Hively, Waist Gunner: Joe Lantigne, Waist Gunner: George Skioglio, Tail Gunner: Willis Volkening (10RTD); on return crash-landed Ash, Kent, UK; Salvaged. 3/2/44. WHIRLAWAY.

Delivered Dallas 12/4/45; Rome 29/5/45; Syracuse 12/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 21/11/45.

Delivered Lincoln 11/10/44; Grenier 22/10/44; Assigned 860BS/493BG Debach 24/10/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 3/7/44; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 5/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 29/11/45.

Delivered Denver 7/5/43; Presque Is 2/6/43; Assigned: 333BS/94BG [XM-A2] Earls Colne 5/6/43 THIS END UP; re-named WACKEROO II, then SHACKEROO II; Returned to US: Tinker 9/4/44; Wright Fd 26/11/44; Bolling 29/12/44; Drew 10/2/45; Wright 20/3/45; Drew 15/10/45; Scrapped: Walnut Ridge 7/1/46.

Delivered Denver 10/5/43; Dow Fd 31/5/43; Assigned: 413BS/96BG [MZ- ] Andrews Fd 3/6/43; Snetterton 12/6/43; MIA Oschersleben 28/7/43 Pilot: Hugh Moore, Co-Pilot: Bill Ault, Navigator: Munroe Coleman*, Bombardier: Tom Hodges, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Wilson Bills, Radio Operator: Harry Averbeck, Ball Turret Gunner: Bill Lewek, Waist Gunner: John Grubb, Waist Gunner: John Woolford*, Tail Gunner: Bill Werner (10KIA); Enemy aircraft, crashed North Sea, N of Frisian Is, Hol MACR 137.(*bodies washed up on Sylt Is, Germany. weeks later). MOORE-FIDITE II.

Delivered Denver 15/5/43; 3030 BU Roswell 6/11/43; 3010 BU Williams 12/12/43; with Bob Gotthardt force landed Roxwell Aux Fd 15/2/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 7/11/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 23/4/44; Kearney 9/5/44; Dow Fd 21/5/44; Assigned 569BS/390BG [CC-A] Framlingham 25/5/44; severe battle damaged Chemnitz 6/2/45 with ?; crew bail and return to base; force landed Les Combes, Fr; Salvaged 11/3/45. THE DIPLOMAT.

Delivered Cheyenne 29/5/44; Hunter 7/6/44; Grenier 19/8/44; Assigned: 524BS/379BG [WA-T] Kimbolton 18/7/44; MIA Berlin 18/3/45 Pilot: Don Mohr, Max Harder, Zenon Pietkiewicz, Lew Gracik, Joe Beasley, Erwin Muehlhans, Clinton Goodwin, Bernie Ostfeld (8RTD); flak, crashed Verden, Germany. MACR 13567.

Delivered Amarillo 1/7/43; Cheyenne 26/7/43; Dyersburg 7/8/43; Assigned: 322BS/91BG [LG-Q] Bassingbourn 23/9/43; MIA Emden 27/9/43 Pilot: Cleo Struble, Co-Pilot: Bob Schweitzer, Navigator: Dave Lee{died in hospital 4/10/43}, Bombardier: Norman Pidgeon, Radio Operator: Carl Wiedebusch (5KIA), Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Delmar Morgan, Waist Gunner: Pete DeSanto, Waist Gunner: Francis Stevens, Ball Turret Gunner: Ralph Aford, Tail Gunner: Burdette Rausch (5POW); Enemy aircraft, crashed Ihlowerfehn, 11 miles W of Emden, Germany. MACR 669. Salvaged. 30/9/43.

Delivered Louisville 30/4/45; Syracuse 24/5/45; Middletown 8/11/45; 4112 BU Olmstead 31/1/46; West Palm Beach 3/3/46; 2621 BU Barksdale 14/1/47; re-ass 31/3/47; 4117 BU Robins 4/3/48; Recl Comp 14/9/48.