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

Delivered Long Beach 20/3/43; Sioux City 13/4/43; Kearney 3/5/43; Dow Fd 20/3/43; Assigned: 547BS/384BG [SO-M] Grafton Underwood 24/5/43; MIA Hamburg 25/6/43 Pilot: Maj Seldon McMillin, Co-Pilot: Jim Smith, Navigator: Capt Jim Foister, Bombardier: Francis Meyers, Radio Operator: John Reichwein, Ball Turret Gunner: Lynn Jone, Waist Gunner: Dave Pratt, Waist Gunner: Stan McArthur, Tail Gunner: Art Nelson (9POW); Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Bob Buckley (KIA); Enemy aircraft, crashed Smallbroek, SW of Beilen, Hol. MACR 16357.

Delivered Kearney 30/6/44; Dow Fd 11/7/44; Assigned 834BS/486BG [2S-E] 19/7/44; {78m} Returned to the USA Chanute 8/7/45; Sth Plains 24/10/45; Recl Comp 7/6/46. COALTOWN EXPRESS.

Delivered Kearney 29/6/44; Grenier 12/7/44; Assigned 834BS/486BG [2S-C] Sudbury 14/7/44; carried three yellow bands round fuselage; 66m force landed Germany 5/4/45; Rep and Returned to the USA Bradley 8/7/45; Sth Plains 10/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 7/12/45. HOMESICK ANGEL.

Delivered Cheyenne 2/6/44; Kearney 12/6/44; Grenier 30/6/44; Assigned: 385BG Gt Ashfield 2/7/44; Transferred: 571BS/390BG [FC-R] Framlingham 3/7/44; crash-landed at base on return from Nurnberg Pilot: John Corcoran 5/4/45; Salvaged. 25/4/45. TAKE IT EASY.

Delivered Long Beach 20/3/43; Sioux City 13/4/43; Kearney 3/5/43; Dow Fd 20/3/43; Assigned 547BS/384BG [SO-N] Grafton Underwood 24/5/43; Missing in Action Nantes 16/9/43 with John Butler, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Howard Turlington (2 evaded capture); Co-pilot: Herman Wollenweber, Navigator: Ed Knowling, Bombardier: Burnia Martin, Radio Operator: Preston Davis,Tail gunner: Clarry Barnes (5 Prisoner of War); Ball turret gunner: Herb May, Waist gunner: Marion Rogers, Waist gunner: Walt Sword (3 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed Rennes, Fr. Missing Air Crew Report 722. HELL’S BELLES II.

Delivered Long Beach 13/9/43; Gr Island 3/10/43; ass 364BS/305BG [WF-A] Chelveston 18/10/43; on a practice mission Pilot: Julius Sensat, Co-Pilot: Lloyd Slimp, Navigator: Capt Clarry Cole, Bombardier: Melvin Arnold, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Everett Yake, w (‘) ‘ Cpl Chas Holt (6RTD-3inj) crash-landed base when u/c was retracted too early 18/4/44, sal 19/4/44. HITLER’S HEADACHE.

Delivered Cheyenne 3/3/44; Sioux City 20/3/44; W/O 21/3/44.

Delivered Long Beach 18/7/43; Cheyenne 22/7/43; 247 BU Smoky Hill 9/6/44; 273 BU Lincoln 12/8/44; 247 BU Smoky Hill 30/8/44; to Dalhart with Floyd Brunn force landed after problems over gunnery range at Alamagordo, NM 2/10/43; 235 BU Biggs 6/10/44; 4202 BU Syracuse 3/4/45; 593 BU Charleston 28/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 7/11/45.

Delivered Lincoln 28/9/44; Grenier 11/10/44; Assigned 8AF 16/10/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 28/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 4/8/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 23/11/45.

Delivered Tulsa 4/2/44; Grenier 2/3/44; Assigned 613BS/401BG [IN-B] Deenethorpe 23/3/44; problem on t/o for Pas de Calais 3/6/44 with Larry Fitchett, Co-pilot: Bruce Campbell, Navigator: Larrt Pfeiffer, Bombardier: Louis Sanchez, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bert Parsloe, Radio Operator: Max Bergener, Ball turret gunner: Louis Sassi, Waist gunner: Ralph Hannsbury, Waist gunner: Harry Kelsen,Tail gunner: Bob Kerr (10 Returned to Duty); was hit and damaged in tail by ship behind 43-37511 when taxying; Salvaged 2 SAD 14/6/44. FITCH’S BANDWAGON.

Delivered Long Beach 14/9/43; Gr Island 3/10/43; Scott 22/10/43; ass 333BS/94BG [TS-E] Rougham 27/10/43; taxi accident Pilot: Alfred Kovac 27/2/45; retUS Bradley 3/7/45; 4168 BU Sth Plains 21/10/45; Scrapped: Kingman 17/12/45. SHACKEROO II.

Delivered Cheyenne 5/11/43; Kingman 17/11/43; 3018 BU Kingman 23/3/45; 3017 BU Hobbs 25/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 7/1/46.

Delivered Long Beach 13/3/43; Smoky Hill 25/3/43; Dow Fd 10/4/43; Assigned 526BS/379BG [FR-X] Kimbolton 16/4/43; Missing in Action Wangerooge Is 25/6/43 with Ken Quade, Co-pilot: George Barnett, Bombardier: Wallace Cosper, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Chester Burnes, Radio Operator: Jim Edinger, Ball turret gunner: Ray Heron, Waist gunner: Hugo Pettinatti, Waist gunner: Joe Owesny,Tail gunner: Kingsley Nelson (9 Killed in Action); Navigator: Bill Hughes (Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Dingstede, eight miles E of Oldenburg, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 1367.

Delivered Cheyenne 3/12/43; Gowen 5/12/43; Kearney 16/12/43; Westover 21/12/43; Presque Is 23/12/43; Assigned: 367BS/306BG Thurleigh 14/1/44; MIA Oschersleben 22/2/44 Pilot: Fred Rector, Co-Pilot: Pat Pierce, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Elmer Waibel, Radio Operator: Warren Russell, Waist Gunner: John Elliott, Waist Gunner: Ray Fiermuga (6POW); Navigator: Herb Edelstein, Bombardier: John Caldwell, Ball Turret Gunner: Earl Schade, Tail Gunner: Billy Belgium. (4KIA); sustained fighter attacks caused severe damage, crashed Nieder Rieferath, near Herchen, 18 miles W of Siegen, Germany. MACR 2654.

Delivered Denver 22/11/43; Kearney 16/12/43; Presque Is 8/1/44; Nutts Corner, Belgium. ast, N. I. 15/1/44; Assigned: 423BS/306BG Thurleigh 27/1/44; MIA Leipzig 20/2/44 Pilot: Harry Richard, Waist Gunner: Don Kennedy (2KIA-both baled too low); Co-Pilot: Jack Cuthbertson, Navigator: Murray Greenberg, Bombardier: Rich Bale, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Jim Crouse, Radio Operator: Floyd Baker, Ball Turret Gunner: Foster Smith, Waist Gunner: Clayton Cretton, Tail Gunner: Jack Hall (8POW); flak & Enemy aircraft, crashed near Efurt A/fd, Germany. MACR 2430.

Delivered Lincoln 9/12/44; Dow Fd 17/12/44; Assigned: 535BS/381BG [MS-Q] Ridgewell 22/12/44; last stabiliser in taxi acc 11/4/45 Pilot: 44-8826; ass BADA HQ Burtonwood, w/Fred Johnson in landing accident at Baldonnel Fd, Duiblin 12/11/45; {31+m} Salvaged. 9AF Germany. any 10/12/45. RAFAAF.

Delivered Long Beach 8/3/43; Denver 13/3/43; Salina 28/3/43; Assigned 348BS/99BG Navarin 26/4/43; Oudna 4/8/43; Tortorella 11/12/43; Missing in Action Innsbruck 19/12/43, with Cyril Stidd, Selander, Kozumplik, Green, Campbell, Carollo, Donley (7 Prisoner of War); Brown, Garcia, Mabante (3 Killed in Action); crashed Innsbruck, Ger.; Missing Air Crew Report 1527. WAR BIRD II.

Delivered Denver 17/7/43; Scott 10/8/43; Assigned: 568BS/390BG [BI-E] Framlingham 25/8/43; MIA [34m] Berlin 6/3/44 Pilot: Max Quakenbush, Co-Pilot: Roger Johnson, Navigator: Amergo Bassi, Bombardier: Harry Belgium. , Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Theo Wright, Radio Operator: Harry Snator, Ball Turret Gunner: Harvey Prater, Waist Gunner: Ken Hopkins, Waist Gunner: Howard Vannoy, Tail Gunner: George Schumacher (10POW); Enemy aircraft KO’d #3 on return trip, forced landing Werben, seven miles S of Cottbus, Germany. MACR 2987. PHYLLIS MARIE. (Salvaged. by Luftwaffe for KG200 and found OK in Bavaria in 1945).

Delivered Cheyenne 7/8/44; Hunter 15/8/44; Grenier 4/9/44; Assigned Soxo in UK 7/9/44 with C.J. McCallum, Co-pilot: Fred Hardin, Navigator: Steven Menovich, Bombardier: Joe Harms, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ed Polick, Radio Operator: Morley Conger, Ball turret gunner: Oscar Lane, ro/g-Bob Bell, Waist gunner: Oscar Lane, Waist gunner: Richard ? ,Tail gunner: Marvin Jennings; crash landed Iceland 16/9/44; crew lived on K rations until eventually, weather aside, to reach a farmhouse, contacted base and were returned to Meeks Fd. (10 Returned to Duty).

Delivered Cheyenne 27/7/44; Kearney 4/8/44; Grenier 15/8/44; Assigned: 571BS/390BG [FC-S] Framlingham 18/8/44; taxi accident Pilot: Don McKellar 15/1/45; Returned to US: Bradley 3/7/45; 4168 BU Sth Plains 16/7/45; Scrapped: Kingman 18/11/45. KWITCHERBITCHIN aka THE HELLION.