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

Delivered Long Beach 27/10/43; Walla Walla 10/11/43; Assigned 730BS/452BG [6K-Z] Deopham Green 3/1/44; Missing in Action Berlin 19/5/44 with Steve Gaal, Co-pilot: Don Blust, Navigator: Les Roewar, Bombardier: Bob Stewart, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Don Ledwick, Radio Operator: Les Hardie, Ball turret gunner: Ralph Pharris, Waist gunner: Burrell Shaw, Waist gunner: John Wrona,Tail gunner: Angelo Bellissimo (10 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed Althuttendorf, 34 miles N of Berlin, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 4958. JUNIOR.

Delivered Patterson 18/4/45; Sth Plains 6/11/45; 4100 BU Patterson 28/4/46; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 30/4/46; re-ass 31/3/47; 4112 BU Olmstead 23/10/47; 4141 BU Pyote 27/7/47; 1 EGM Eglin 4/3/48; 550 GM Eglin 6/12/49; 3200 Drone Sq Eglin 15/6/50; Recl Comp 4/10/50.

Delivered Lincoln 31/10/44; Dow Fd 16/12/44; Assigned 544BS/384BG [SU-B] Grafton Underwood 9/1/45; transferred with group to Istres on mapping duties, Salvaged 9AF Germany 10/12/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 8/3/44; Kearney 5/4/44; Dow Fd 19/4/44; Assigned: 708BS/447BG [CQ- ] Rattlesden 20/4/44; MIA Berlin 24/5/44 Pilot: Ralph Simon, Co-Pilot: Ed Tully, Navigator: Joe Teixeira, Bombardier: Ralph Pittman, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: John Urdia, Radio Operator: Herman Grimm, Ball Turret Gunner: Clyde Chastain, Waist Gunner: Kerwin Tozier, Waist Gunner: Bill Nicholas, Tail Gunner: Gene Minton (10KIA); hit by prop wash from another B-17, crashed North Sea, off St Peter, Hol. MACR 5249.

Delivered Denver 1/3/44; Hunter 2/4/44; Dow Fd 24/4/44; Assigned 447BG Rattlesden 4/5/44; with Lt Cook, rest unknown; force landed Little Walden, Essex with crash damage; apparently (?) sal 10/12/44; RetUS, Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 10/9/45.

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

Delivered Cheyenne 26/10/44; Hunter 9/12/44; Grenier 22/12/44; Assigned 332BS/94BG [XM-W] Rougham 24/12/44; transferred 96BG Snetterton 28/12/44; 526BS/379BG Kimbolton 9/2/45; taxi accident at base with Dave Grimwood 2/5/45; RetUS, Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 20/12/45. PRETTY OLGA.

Delivered Cheyenne 7/8/43; Memphis 10/8/43; Dalhart 16/8/43; Assigned: 535BS/381BG [MS-Y] Ridgewell 24/9/43 HOT TODDY; MIA {3m} Gelsenkirchen 5/11/43 Pilot: Don Hopp, Navigator: Marshall Tyler, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Alex Girvan (3POW), Co-Pilot: Walter Carr, Bombardier: Bill Johnston{drowned} , Radio Operator: Roy East, Ball Turret Gunner: Armand Richards, Waist Gunner: Julius Greer, Waist Gunner: Bob True, Tail Gunner: Dick Woodyatt (7KIA – six not recovered); flak, crashed in water at Hollands Diep, near Klundert, Holl.. MACR 1399. (Recovered Oct 1969). BLOWIN’ BESSIE.

Delivered Cheyenne 30/1/44; Kearney 16/2/44; Presque Is 21/2/44; Assigned 338BS/96BG [BX-L] Snetterton 3/3/44; Missing in Action Regensburg 21/7/44 with John Forciea, Co-pilot: Jim McKay, Navigator: John Haney, Bombardier: Jim Sapos, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Paul Sass, Radio Operator: Joe Garber, Ball turret gunner: Bill Remelts, Waist gunner: Lester Smith,Tail gunner: Jim O’Day (9 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed Heubach forest, E of Stuttgart, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 7413.

Delivered Denver 2/10/43; Gr Island 22/10/43; Assigned 336BS/95BG [ET-Y] Horham 11/11/43; 66m, Missing in Action Bohlen oil depot 29/6/44 with Jim Cook, Co-pilot: Harry Bachus, Navigator: Jim Whittaker, Bombardier: Bob Hansell, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Vernon Adams, Radio Operator: Henry Hopwood, Ball turret gunner: John Dyson, Waist gunner: Elwyn Baptiste (8 Prisoner of War); Waist gunner: Harry Chapman,Tail gunner: Stuart Bouley (2 evaded capture); lost two engines, crash landed Vroomshoop, Hol. Missing Air Crew Report 6741. PRIDE OF VHELHALIS.

Delivered Cheyenne 30/5/44; Hunter 10/6/44; Grenier 29/6/44; Assigned 490BG Eye 2/7/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 13/7/45; 4185 BU Independence 16/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 18/12/45.

Delivered Lincoln 2/1/45; Grenier 24/1/45; Assigned 524BS/379BG [WA-T] Kimbolton 5/2/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 6/7/45; Sth Plains 8/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 18/12/45.

Delivered Tulsa 3/2/44; Dow Fd 16/3/44; Assigned 385BG Gt Ashfield 13/3/44; transferred 452BG Deopham Green [ -H] 14/3/44; suffered battle damaged and crash landed near Caister, Norfolk, with McKenzie; Salvaged 11/4/44.

Delivered Denver 10/8/43; Gr Island 3/9/43; Assigned 336BS/95BG [ET-G] Horham 8/9/43; with L. Jeffers force landed RAF Lissett 13/11/43; with Bob Currence force landed Thorpe Abbotts 16/12/43; 19m, Missing in Action Kiel 5/1/44 with Bob Currence, Co-pilot: Harvey Hankins, Navigator: Marvin Edwards, Bombardier: John Werner, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Lou Rabinowitz, Waist gunner: John Campbell,Tail gunner: Leo Zardy (7 Prisoner of War); Radio Operator: Theo Woznicki, Ball turret gunner: Ray Davis (2 evaded capture); Waist gunner: Jim Kelleher (Killed in Action); crashed Biesmeree, four miles SE of Florennes, Bel. Missing Air Crew Report 1686 or 4886. CUDDLE CAT.

Delivered Cheyenne 5/3/44; Kearney 5/4/44; Pilot: David Steele forced landing base 16/4/44; Dow Fd 6/5/44; Assigned: 750BS/457BG Glatton [G] 7/5/44; MIA LKe Bouget A/fd 14/6/44 w/Chas Blackwell, Co-Pilot: Theo Baskette, Radio Operator: Ed Nabozny, Waist Gunner: Francis McCall (4EVD); Navigator: Irving Meyers, Bombardier: Verne Boon, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Tom Howard, Waist Gunner: Tom Leahy, Tail Gunner: Sylvester Kuraszkiewicz (5POW); flak hits KOd two engine, crashed Fluery-la-Faret, 25 miles W of Beauvais, Fr; MACR 5805. WHAT’S NEXT’

Delivered Cheyenne 22/11/43; Wendover 7/12/43; Grenier 6/1/44; Assigned: 749BS/457BG [P] Glatton 17/2/44; MIA Ludwigshafen 27/5/44 Pilot: Bill Dee, Co-Pilot: Bob Cotterell, Bombardier: Don Jay, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Bill Jones, Radio Operator: George Hatcher, Ball Turret Gunner: Steve Sak, Waist Gunner: Orval Sterner, Waist Gunner: Stephen Floyd, Tail Gunner: Tom Treadwell (9POW); Navigator: Larry Oberstein (KIA); Enemy aircraft, crashed two miles SW of Volklingen, 10 miles W of Saarbrcken, Germany. MACR 5295 DELAYED LADY.

Delivered Cheyenne 4/2/44; Kearney 15/2/44; Presque Is 23/2/44; Assigned: 751BS/457BG [H] Glatton 15/3/44 REBEL QUEEN; 749BS; sustained battle damage Gdynia 9/4/44 Pilot: – Karr{wia}, Co-Pilot: Haight{wia}, Bombardier: Joe Apel helped wounded pilot to to fly aircraft and limp home to empty RAF field in southern England, earning the Silver Star; MIA Cologne 28/1/45 w/Bill Boyes (EVD); Navigator: Ken Furst, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Francis Horan, Radio Operator: Abe Feldman, Ball Turret Gunner: Frank Trapani, Waist Gunner: Roy Duitman, Tail Gunner: Bob Dilley (6POW); cp-Elmer Felgenhauer, b-Merritt Turner (2KIA); flak caused mech fault, crashed Koblenz; MACR 11987. (‘6). MISS YU II.

Delivered Cheyenne 21/1/44; Gr Island 11/2/44; Presque Is 11/2/44; Assigned 412BS/95BG [QW-D] Horham 3/3/44; transferred 335BS (OE-D); 67m, with R.E. Squyres sustained battle damaged Stuttgart 16/12/44, ran into mud off end of runway on return, then hit by 43-38453 which had overshot runway, Salvaged 17/12/44. SILVER (SLIVER) SLIPPER.

Delivered Tulsa 24/5/44; Hunter 15/6/44; Dow Fd 24/6/44; Assigned 341BS/97BG Amendola 2/7/44; flak damage, to depot 18/3/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 14/3/44; Gr Island 30/3/44; Dow Fd 28/4/44; Assigned 369BS/306BG [WW-W] Thurleigh 13/5/44; crashed on take off for Cologne 15/8/44 with Berle F. Smith, Co-pilot: Warren M. Doman, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Robert C. Spry, Ball turret gunner: Charles W. Thomas (5 Returned to Duty); Navigator: Albert J. Trelford, tog-Herbert E. Reichle, Radio Operator: Billy A. Helms, Waist gunner: Thomas H. Davis, Tail gunner: Frederick A. Hesser (5 Killed in Service); slow take off speed was not sufficient, wing clipped a hedge and ship mushed into ground, fire broke out followed later by bombs and fuel exploding; Salvaged. SILVER STREAK.