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

Delivered Boeing 17/6/43; Seattle 25/6/43; slated 96BG, transferred 3715 BU Burbank 10/8/44; 499BG Smoky Hill 23/8/44; 3715 BU Burbank 28/9/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Ontario 16/6/45.

Delivered Boeing 17/6/43; Seattle 25/6/43; 3715 BU Burbank 15/7/44; Mat Lockheed Burbank 28/7/44; 3710 BU Amarillo 20/9/44; 3706 BU Sheppard 8/3/45; 3701 BU Amarillo 24/3/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 20/12/45.

Delivered Boeing 18/6/43; Gore 29/6/43; Cheyenne 30/6/43; Kearney 14/7/43; Dow Fd 21/7/43; Assigned: 413BS/96BG [MZ-Y] Snetterton 26/7/43; MIA Kiel 4/1/44 Pilot: Jim McLean, Co-Pilot: Harry Zlotnik, Navigator: John Gray, Bombardier: John McGee{body never found}, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Dick Winn, Ball Turret Gunner: Tom Keefe, Waist Gunner: Dave Miller (7KIA); Radio Operator: Lyall Taubert, Waist Gunner: Germany. y Waldron, Tail Gunner: John Young (3POW); mid air coll w/42-5953 on target approach, crashed Dalum, between Ems/Lingen, and Meppen, Ger; MACR 2016. SHORT STRIDE IV.

Delivered Cheyenne 15/6/43; Roswell 24/6/43; 3030 BU Roswell 2/6/44; 3010 BU Williams 10/12/44; with Bill Peterson 22/1/45; Recl Comp 10/3/45.

Delivered Lincoln 25/11/44; Dow Fd 26/12/44; Assigned 8AF 28/12/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 7/6/45; Sth Plains 9/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 10/12/45.

Delivered Lincoln 22/11/44; Dow Fd 16/12/44; Assigned 8AF 20/12/44 but with Gerne Dasso in t/o/a Meeks Fd, Iceland, 21/12/44 en route Europe; Salvaged 9AF Germany 17/5/46.

Delivered Lincoln 22/11/44; Grenier 14/12/44; Assigned 863BS/493BG Debach 16/12/44 BETSY; Returned to the USA Bradley 8/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 17/12/45. LITTLE WAMPUS.

Delivered Lincoln 28/11/44; Grenier 26/12/44; Assigned 850BS/490BG Eye 28/12/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 7/7/45; Sth Plains 10/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 17/11/45.

Delivered Kingman 19/5/44; 3018 BU Kingman 29/5/44; 3017 BU Hobbs 27/6/45; 3701 BU Amarillo 4/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 27/11/45.

Delivered Ft Myers 19/5/44; 2117 BU Buckingham 30/5/44; 3036 BU Yuma 16/6/44; 3017 BU Hobbs 4/6/45; 3701 BU Amarillo 14/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 6/12/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 19/5/44; Kearney 2/6/44; Grenier 18/6/44; Assigned: 422BS/305BG Chelveston 28/6/44; MIA Wurzberg 21/7/44 Pilot: Frank Toftness, Bob Shearer, Bob Stachowiak, Harry Beasley, Ray Orr, Wilbur Hall, George Wilson, Adolph Leuti (8KIA); Lloyd Peacock (RTD); flak, crashed North Sea; MACR 8233.

Delivered Ft Myers 19/5/44; 3036 BU Yuma 24/6/44; 3017 BU Hobbs 4/6/45; 3701 BU Amarillo 27/9/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 23/11/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 18/5/44; Kearney 27/5/44; Grenier 5/6/44; Assigned 729BS/452BG Deopham Green 11/6/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 29/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 1/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 27/11/45.

Delivered Hendricks 18/5/44; 271 BU Kearney 7/7/44; 2002 BU Stewart 19/8/44; 2114 BU Lockbourn 1/9/44; 4104 BU Rome 2/10/44; 1 BU Bolling 21/12/44; 2002 BU Stewart 4/1/45; 2137 BU Hendricks 13/2/45; 237 BU Kirtland 28/6/45; 2137 BU Hendricks 30/8/45; 235 BU Biggs 8/11/45; 305 BU Biggs 28/11/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 4/12/45.

Unknown initial assignment; with Clarry Strait force landed Dow Fd, Me 29/10/43; with Ray Krewet force landed Kelly Fd, TX 14/1/51; with Gene Eubank force landed a mile north of Cheyenne, Wyo 24/4/54; no early details, but in service as VB-17G with Air Training Command, Chanute AFB 1956.

Delivered Hendricks 18/5/44; 2137 BU Hendricks 12/11/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 1/11/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 12/6/43; Gore 14/6/43; Roswell 19/6/43; Hobbs 8/7/43; Roswell 4/8/43; 93BS/19BG Pyote 13/9/43; 232 BU Dalhart 9/6/44; 19BG Dalhart 19/7/44; 268 BU Peterson 13/12/44; 225 BU Rapid City 2/3/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Ontario 19/6/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 22/11/44; Hunter 10/12/44; Grenier 21/12/44; Assigned 8AF 31/12/44; RetUS, Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 13/12/45.

Delivered Dallas 9/6/43; Ephrata 15/7/43; Ardmore 12/2/44; Written off 13/2/44.

Delivered Dallas 6/8/43; Love 14/7/43; Ephrata 15/7/43; Ardmore 27/10/43; 222 BU Ardmore 22/1/45; with ? force landed base 21/4/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Ontario 20/6/45.