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

Delivered Denver 16/11/43; Kearney 1/12/43; Presque Is 11/12/43; Assigned 614BS/401BG [IW-A] Deenethorpe 1/1/44; Missing in Action Oschersleben 30/5/44 with Carleton Wilson, Co-pilot: Curtis Kelley, Navigator: John Connery, Bombardier: Francis Fogarty, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bob Quinn, Radio Operator: John Gray,Tail gunner: Gerald Pettit(7 Prisoner of War); Ball turret gunner: Bill Passeno, Waist gunner: Jim McMahon, Waist gunner: George Smith (3 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed Tweelbake, nine miles W of Bookholzberg, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 5310. FLAK RAT II.

Delivered Denver 11/12/43; Gt Falls 17/12/43; Denver 20/12/43; Kearney 30/12/43; RAF Nutts Corner 14/1/44; Assigned 533BS/381BG [VP-O] Ridgewell; 73+m Returned to the USA 121 BU Bradley 9/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 13/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 28/11/45. ROTHERHITHE’S REVENGE.

Delivered Cheyenne 5/4/43; Kearney 15/4/43; Wendover 2/5/43; Hill 22/5/43; Dow Fd 30/5/43; Assigned 418BS/100BG [LD-T] Thorpe Abbotts 9/6/43; Missing in Action La Rochelle 16/9/43 with Bob Wolff, Co-pilot: Chas Stuart, Navigator: Larry McConnell, Bombardier: Fred White, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Carl Simon, Radio Operator: Ira Bardman, Ball turret gunner: Bill Casebolt, Waist gunner: Art Eggleston, Waist gunner: Willis Brown,Tail gunner: Alf Clark (10 Prisoner of War); flak and enemy aircraft KO’d engine, crashed in Atlantic off Ile Madame, 12 miles S of La Rochelle, Fr; Missing Air Crew Report 647. WILD CARGO.

Delivered Tulsa 12/3/44; Hendricks 20/4/44; 3518 BU Minneapolis 6/7/44; 3505 BU Scott 17/3/45; 3518 BU Minneapolis 20/3/45; 3502 BU Chanute 19/7/45; 4141 BU Pyote 13/4/47; Recl Comp 31/3/49.

Delivered Cheyenne 5/4/43; Sioux City 14/4/43; Kearney 4/5/43; Bangor 20/5/43; Assigned 547BS/384BG [SO-O] Grafton Underwood 24/5/43; transferred 369BS/306BG [WW-U] Thurleigh 22/8/43; battle damaged Stuttgart 6/9/43 with Bill Price, Co-pilot: R.L. Fallow, Navigator: Phil Anderson, Bombardier: C.L. Dunlop, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Paul Loubet, Radio Operator: Jerome Evenson, Ball turret gunner: Fred Massey, Waist gunner: K.H. Smith, Waist gunner: H.W. Hoser,Tail gunner: Bill Oliver (10 Returned to Duty); crash landed New Romney, Kent, UK. Salvaged 16/9/43.

Delivered Wright Field 20-Oct-41, then condemned 9-Jan- 42 and used as static test aircraft before Written off 12-Oct-42.

Delivered Cheyenne 24/5/43; Gore 25/5/43; Kearney 9/6/43; Dow 27/6/43; Assigned 350BS/100BG [LN-P/W] Thorpe Abbotts 1/7/43; transferred 25BG Watton 21/3/44; Returned to the USA 8STA Homestead 21/6/44; 4136 BU Tinker 30/6/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Bush Fd 19/5/45.

Delivered Denver 12/12/43; Kearney 31/12/43; Assigned 349BS/100BG [XR-R] Thorpe Abbotts 15/2/44; on Augsburg mission 16/3/44 Radio Operator: Sherwyn Meyers (KIA-pilot was Clem Cowan); Missing in Action Merseburg 29/7/44 with Jackson Phelps, Co-pilot: Alan Rogers, Navigator: Paul Durborow, Bombardier: Lyle Johnson, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Art Martin, Radio Operator: Ken Goldfarb, Ball turret gunner: Albt Wiggs, Waist gunner: Marshall Duplantis (8 Killed in Action);Tail gunner: Don Beasley (Prisoner of War); hit by flak, lagged behind and shot down by enemy aircraft, crashed Bad Kosen, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 7810. SPARKY.

Delivered Denver 21/1/44; Gr Island 6/2/44; Grenier 23/2/44; Assigned 452BG Deopham Green 22/2/44; transferred 457BG Glatton 4/3/44; 369BS/306BG [WW-V] Thurleigh 12/3/44; Missing in Action Pas de Calais 26/3/44 with Barney Price, Co-pilot: Bill DeWolf, Navigator: Don White, Bombardier: Doran Gillete, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Carl Kalbach, Radio Operator: Ray Decker, Ball turret gunner: Leslie Johnson, Waist gunner: Lester Plumtree, Waist gunner: Ken Simpson,Tail gunner: Fred Kappan (10 Prisoner of War); flak KO’d #2 plus other damage, crashed Godincthun, two miles NE of Boulogne, Fr; Missing Air Crew Report 3483.

Delivered Cheyenne 7/4/43; Lewiston 16/4/43; Geiger 4/6/43; Gore 21/6/43; Walla Walla 17/7/43; Rapid City 22/7/43; Hill 25/7/43; Walla Walla 29/8/43; 325 BU Avon Park 6/12/44; Recl Comp 6/1/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 7/5/43; Gore 8/5/43; Smoky Hill 17/5/43; Dow Fd 30/5/43; Assigned: 379BG Kimbolton 6/6/43; Transferred: 335BS/95BG [OE-R] Horham 28/6/43; 7m, MIA Stuttgart 6/9/43 Pilot: Glen Ransom, Bombardier: Keith Murray, Ball Turret Gunner: Pasquale Delvento, Waist Gunner: Ralph Houser, Tail Gunner: Vince Cox (5EVD); Co-Pilot: Tom Caldwell, Navigator: Hubert Gage, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Harry Knotts, Waist Gunner: John Beacham (4POW); Radio Operator: Chas Peacock (KIS-but actually died from hunger & exposure in Pyrenees Mts end of October 43} Enemy aircraft, crashed Pansy-Courtecon, seven miles S of Laon, Fr; MACR 545. BOMB BOOGIE.

Delivered Cheyenne 23/5/42; Assigned 72BS/5BG Hawaii 6/6/42; transferred 93BS/11BG, then 30BS/19BG Bellows Fd, HI ; (MIA on recon mission with Bob Loder, may have hit New Caledonia mountain 7/8/42; Written off 4/11/42. KAI-O-KELEIWA.)

Delivered Denver 18/11/43; Kearney 27/11/43; Assigned 340BS/97BG Cerignola 14/12/43; Amendola 16/1/44; Missing in Action Anzio 17/2/44 with Joe Csupak, Kirkpatrick, Stats, D’Abbracci, Pearce, Maddin, Robbins, Mazza, Taylor, Shanahan; flak, crashed Anzio; Missing Air Crew Report 2392.

Delivered Cheyenne 3/7/44; Kearney 12/7/44; Dow Fd 1/8/44; Assigned 860BS/493BG Debach 4/8/44; battle damaged Mannheim 21/1/45 with ?; force landed continent; Salvaged 4/4/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 28/6/44; Hunter 13/7/44; Grenier 24/7/44; Assigned Soxo 24/7/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 15/7/45; 4185 BU Independence 19/7/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 7/1/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 15/7/44; Hunter 25/7/44; Dow Fd 1/8/44; Assigned 527BS/379BG Kimbolton 8/9/44; Missing in Action Zeitz 30/11/44 with Bill Sullivan, Henry Heerman, Hamilton Platt, Larry Archer, Rudi Rust, Vic Stark, Wayne Shelton, Henry Kritzer, Bill Endsley (9 Prisoner of War); battle damaged, force landed France; Missing Air Crew Report 11059. TAKE-ME-HOME.

Delivered Lincoln 12/10/44; Grenier 22/10/44; Assigned 544BS/384BG [SU-H] Grafton Underwood 8/12/44; transferred 303BG Molesworth but crash landed base with Don Springsted 1/2/45; Salvaged 4/2/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 30/9/43; Scott Fd 24/10/43; Presque Is 1/11/43; with Roy Parsons force landed Meeeks Fd, Iceland 12/11/43; Assigned 612BS/401BG Deenethorpe 13/11/43; transferred 509BS/351BG [RQ-R] Polebrook 3/12/43; 508th BS [YB-R]; Missing in Action 42m Politz 7/10/44 with crew of 509th BS: Einer Peterson (P), Duane Wilson (CP), Louis Candelaria (TT), J.K. Blake (BT), Robert Crawford (WG), Benjamin Christensen (N), William Rooney (B), Lawrence “Larry” Jensen (RO), Lloyd Best (TG); 7 KIA, 2 survived INT. Missing Air Crew Report 9566.

Delivered Cheyenne 27/7/44; Kearney 4/8/44; Grenier 20/8/44; Assigned 418BS/100BG [LD-Z] Thorpe Abbotts 23/8/44; Missing in Action Hamburg 31/12/44 with Bill Mayo, Co-pilot: Albt Eib, Navigator: Art Cohen, Bombardier: Pete Radich, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bob Corum, Radio Operator: Bob Hayes, Ball turret gunner: Nelson Dickinson, Waist gunner: Bernie Stell,Tail gunner: Luther Hudgens (9 Killed in Action); flak KO’d two engines, and another by enemy aircraft crashed Jever, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 11362. AIN’T MISS BEHAVIN’ II.

Delivered Denver 31/1/44; 1SAG Langley 15/3/44; Grenier 7/4/44; Assigned 96BG Snetterton 8/4/44; battle damaged 13/7/44, rep; transferred 351BS/100BG 20/5/45; Salvaged 9AF Germany 30/4/47; Recl Comp 19/11/47.

Delivered MacDill 16/3/42; W Palm Beach 30/3/42; HQ Sq Glen, (Tangier); crashed 8/10/43.

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

Delivered Geiger 301st Bomb Group 1/4/42; Alamogordo 18/6/42; Westover 2/7/42; Las Vegas 26/7/42; Roswell 6/6/43; Lockbourn 19/7/43; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 9/10/45.

Delivered MacDill 17/3/42; W Palm Beach 30/3/42; Written off 31/6/43.