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

Delivered Cheyenne 8/11/43; Gt Falls 11/11/43; Kearney 28/11/43; Romulus 4/12/43; Bangor 5/12/43; Assigned 614BS/401BG [IW-D] Deenethorpe 2/1/44; Missing in Action Berlin 8/3/44 with Dale Peterson, Co-pilot: George Morse, Navigator: Harley Honeberger, Bombardier: Bob Greed, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bob Delivered Giorno, Radio Operator: John Kuntz, Ball turret gunner: Art Newell, Waist gunner: Joe Jay,Tail gunner: Howard Kneese (9 Prisoner of War); Waist gunner: Frank Bailey (KIS-actually died of exhaustion near Neubrandenburg 27/4/45 while marching from the Russian advance); enemy aircraft, crashed Teglingen Sluice, two miles SE of Meppen, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 2911. SHADE RUFF.

Assigned Cloud Physics Project Olmstead 1950; sold as Civil N7046C; scrapped 1959. NANCY.

Delivered Denver 3/3/43; Sioux City 16/3/43; Kearney 8/4/43; Selfridge 16/4/43; Dow Fd 19/4/43; Assigned 525BS/379BG [FR-H] Kimbolton 23/4/43; Missing in Action Frankfurt 29/1/44 with Harry Moses, Co-pilot: Sam Giorgianni, Navigator: Bill Lordan, Bombardier: Delmar Bonham, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Joshua Rowton (5 Prisoner of War), Radio Operator: Nick Pallotta, Ball turret gunner: Joe Nicosia, Waist gunner: Bill Gower, Waist gunner: Edgar Montgomery,Tail gunner: Mike Patti (5 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed Ripsdorf, five miles S of Blankenheim, 43 miles E of Koblenz, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 2871. SCHEHERAZADE.

Delivered Denver 23/8/43; Scott 23/10/43; Assigned 614BS/401BG [IW-A] Deenethorpe 1/11/43; Missing in Action Bordeaux 31/12/43 with Homer McDanal, Co-pilot: Maj Ivan Eveland, Bombardier: Dan Goetsch, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Joe Kirkner (4 evaded capture), Radio Operator: Don Jerue, Ball turret gunner: Hubert Reasoner, Waist gunner: Francis Kelly, Waist gunner: Harry Sanders,Tail gunner: Morton Arinsberg (5 Killed in Action), Navigator: Lucas Springer (Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Arjuzanx, E of Morceux, Fr. Missing Air Crew Report 1871. FLAK RAT.

Delivered Cheyenne 21/7/44; Kearney 31/7/44; Grenier 9/8/44; Assigned 614BS/401BG [IW-Z] Deenethorpe 21/8/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 2/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 7/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 15/11/45. GAMBLER’S CHOICE.

Delivered Patterson 17/4/45; Slated 8AF, transferred Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 3/11/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 18/8/44; Lincoln 6/9/44; Dow Fd 21/9/44; Assigned 614BS/401BG [IW-X] Deenethorpe 5/10/44; take off accident with Fred Babcock 1/2/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 2/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 6/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 20/12/45. MISS GEE EYEWANNA GO HOME.

Delivered Spokane 13/9/44; Lincoln 18/9/44; Grenier 27/9/44; Assigned 614BS/401BG [IW-N] Deenethorpe 11/11/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 4/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 7/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 13/12/45. GAPOSIS aka BECOMIN’ BACK.

Delivered Cheyenne 13/12/43; Kearney 31/12/43; Presque Is 31/1/44; Assigned: 728BS/452BG [9Z-Z] Deopham Green 27/1/44; MIA Warnemunde 9/4/44 Pilot: Clyde Boy, Navigator: Harry Mulford, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: George Waters, Radio Operator: Mernie Pierce, Ball Turret Gunner: Tom Cody, Waist Gunner: Dick Wretman, Waist Gunner: Jack Weatherington, Tail Gunner: Chas Hickman (8POW); Co-Pilot: Capt Dain Wirt {Grp HQ}, Bombardier: Owen Quintana (2KIA-hitting bomb bay doors when baling out); Enemy aircraft KOd #2, crashed Todendorf, Fehrman Is, in Baltic Sea. MACR 3663. DINAH MIGHT II.

The Fate of this B-17 Flying Fortress is unknown.

Delivered Tulsa 16/2/44; Kearney 22/3/44; Grenier 3/4/44; Assigned 614BS/401BG [IW-G] Deenethorpe 16/4/44; Missing in Action Politz, Ger 7/10/44 with Alex Harasym, Clarry Barsuk, Glen Topic, Jarvis Friduss, Emanuel Saylor, John Bailey, George Capps (7 Prisoner of War); Albt Parker, John Marshall (2 Killed in Action); flak, crashed Politz; Missing Air Crew Report 9760. BETTY’S REVENGE.

Delivered Tulsa 12/5/44; Kearney 22/5/44; Grenier 29/5/44; Assigned 614BS/401BG [IW-S] Deenethorpe 12/6/44; Missing in Action Politz 7/10/44 with Harry Silverstein, Larry Crickenberger, Carl Landwehr, Glenn Dotson, Don Gravel, Don Bergstrom, George Dias, Francis Meyers (9 Killed in Action); John Farquhar (Prisoner of War); flak, crashed Kienwerder, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 9756. COVER GIRL.

Delivered Kearney 15/8/44; Grenier 6/9/44; Assigned 614BS/401BG [IW-H] Deenethorpe 23/9/44; on take off for Ulm with Ed Reinhart, suffered electrical fault, caught fire, crash landed RAF Bitteswell 4/3/45; Salvaged 5/3/45. PROP WASH aka HARE’s BREATH.

Delivered Hunter 27/12/44; Grenier 10/1/45; Assigned 614BS/401BG [IW-S] Deenethorpe 10/3/45; transferred 545BS/384BG [JD-J] Grafton Underwood 10/5/45; re-ass 30/4/47; 10 HB Oberpfaffenhofen 18/1/48; Recl Comp 7/1/49.

Delivered Cheyenne 26/1/44; Presque Is 1/3/44; Assigned: 452BG Deopham Green 3/3/44; Transferred: 457BG Glatton 11/3/44; 323BS/91BG [OR-B] Bassingbourn 16/3/44; 322BS [LG-A] then 401BS [LL-B]; {130m} RetUS, Scrapped: Kingman 27/5/45. (Radio-op Bill McGavern donated A-2 jacket to 91BG museum at Bassingbourn). HI-HO SILVER.

Delivered Lincoln 20/9/44; Grenier 11/10/44; Assigned 615BS/401BG [IY-O] Deenethorpe 7/11/44; battle damaged Minster Stein 16/2/45 with ?; abandoned over RAF Bardney, UK; Salvaged 22/2/45. ROUGH BUT RIGHT.

Delivered Cheyenne 19/8/44; Lincoln 27/8/44; Grenier 22/9/44; Assigned 615BS/401BG [IY-K] Deenethorpe 7/10/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 2/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 6/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 16/11/45. NET RESULTS.

Delivered Patterson 15/4/45; Kirtland 21/4/45; 4100 BU Patterson 22/4/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 2/11/45.

Delivered Dallas 28/7/44; Hunter 29/8/44; Dow Fd 2/9/44; Assigned 615BS/401BG [IY-A] Deenethorpe 5/10/44; battle damaged Mannheim 11/12/44 with Capt Chapman; force landed Melsbroek A/fd, Bel; destroyed on ground by enemy aircraft 1/1/45; Salvaged 2/1/45.

Delivered Dallas 23/8/44; Langley 29/8/44; Dow Fd 20/10/44; Assigned 615BS/401BG [IY-M] 1/12/44 FRECKLES, a PFF ship; Missing in Action Minster Stein 16/2/45 with Capt Stephen Lozinski, Maj Melvin Pfund, Lou Rush, Cyril Martin, Joe Concino, Chas Smith, Joe Bolan tg, Lt Dave Bradfute radar nav (8 Killed in Action); Harry Hughes (Prisoner of War); flak, crashed Oschersleben; Missing Air Crew Report 12445. BADLAND BAT II.