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

Delivered Lincoln 29/10/44; Grenier 12/11/44; Assigned 7BS/34BG Mendlesham 19/11/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 21/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 23/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 25/11/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 12/1/45; Hunter 14/2/45; Grenier 16/2/45; Assigned 384BG Grafton Underwood 3/3/45; transferred 511BS/351BG [DS-N] Polebrook 29/3/45; {3m} 305BG Chelveston 23/5/45; Salvaged 9AF Germany 10/5/46.

Delivered Hunter 27/10/44; Dow Fd 7/11/44; Assigned 391BS/34BG Mendlesham 10/11/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 20/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 24/6/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 8/11/45. LUCIE aka DUKE SPOOK.

Delivered Hunter 23/10/44; Dow Fd 30/10/44; Assigned 4BS/34BG Mendlesham 1/11/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 21/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 23/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 28/11/45. SHORT AND SWEET.

Delivered Cheyenne 10/6/43; Rapid City 18/6/43; Geiger 22/6/43; Gr Isle 30/6/43; Tinker 16/7/43; Gr Isle 23/7/43; Kearney 8/8/43; Topeka 14/8/43; Assigned 509BS/351BG [RQ-Q] Polebrook 27/9/43; {43m} returned from Berlin with damage 21/6/44 with Howard Hibbard, Co-pilot: Bob Bukow, Navigator: Carlton Mendell (3 Returned to Duty); Bombardier: Doug Raymond, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Jim Harris, Radio Operator: Doug Miles{Wounded in Action}, Ball turret gunner: David Harman{Wounded in Action}, Waist gunner: Levi Pratt, Waist gunner: Hopper Biddle,Tail gunner: Verlyn Kvenn{Wounded in Action} (7POW- bailed out over Germany); rest of crew brought ship home to land at RAF Beccles, Suffolk, UK; MACR 6537. Salvaged 1/8/44. MY PRINCESS.

Delivered Boeing Mat Com 7/10/43; Gr Island 12/11/43; Memphis 20/11/43; Assigned 419BS/301BG Cerignola 17/12/43; Lucera 1/2/44 Missing in Action 17m Ploesti 5/4/44 with Jesse Coppedge, co-pilot Bill Bristor, Navigator: DeCosta, Bombardier: Lewis Armistead, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: George Ferguson, Radio Operator: France Goodwin, Ball turret gunner: Bob Seaquist, Waist gunner: Don Eschback, Waist gunner: Wendell Wilcox, Tail gunner: Chris Wollenberg (10 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Missing Air Crew Report 3882.

Delivered Lincoln 31/1/45; Grenier 25/2/45; Assigned 8AF 26/2/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 11/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 17/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 5/2/46.

Delivered Lincoln 1/2/45; Dow Fd 12/2/45; Assigned 8AF 13/2/45; re-ass 10 HBS Oberpfaffenhofen 30/4/47; 501 SR Weisbaden 18/1/48; 7169 AB Oberpfaffenhofen 18/7/47; 7290 AB Oberp. 1/2/49; MTC 20/4/49; 1414 AB Dhahran 6/5/49; 85 Mat GP Erding 14/11/49; Recl Comp 3/5/50.

Delivered Hunter 31/1/45; Dow Fd 15/2/45; Assigned 8AF 17/2/45; re-ass 10 HBS Oberpfaffenhofen 30/4/47; Recl Comp 30/8/48.

Delivered Cheyenne 4/10/43; Gr Island 2/11/43; Memphis 10/11/43; Assigned 369BS/306BG [BO-O] Thurleigh 14/12/43; battle damaged Stuttgart 9/12/44, force landed continent; Salvaged 20/1/45. EXTRA JOKER.

Delivered Long Beach, where aircraft was damaged in taxi accident with crew chief Sgt E.S. Duran 18/2/43; Cheyenne 6/3/43; Smoky Hill 21/3/43; Assigned 416BS/99BG Navarin 5/6/43; transferred 353BS/301BG Lucera 3/44; {19m} 463BG weather ship, Celone 25/4/44; Salvaged 12/5/45. NOBODY’S BABY.

Delivered Cheyenne 5/6/43; Rapid City 19/6/43; Geiger 22/6/43; Gr Isle 30/6/43; Dow Fd 18/7/43; Assigned 416BS/99BG Oudna 6/9/43; transferred 97BG Depienne 14/11/43; Cerignola 20/12/43; Amendola 16/1/44; Missing in Action Cassino 15/2/44 with Paul (10 Returned to Duty); ditched Mediterranean Sea; crew rescued.

Delivered Hunter 14/7/44; Dow Fd 25/7/44; Assigned 419BS/301BG Lucera 9/8/44; Salvaged 5/5/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 11/2/43; Morrison 29/4/43; Assigned 353BS/301BG St Donat 22/4/43; Oudna 6/8/43; Cerignola 7/12/43; Missing in Action {38m} Athens 8/12/43 with Jack Scott, Rousselle, Niemiec, O’Brien, Morgan, Ross (6 Prisoner of War); Patton, French, Tyson (3 Killed in Action); flak hit in ball turret, eight bailed and then ship exploded; Missing Air Crew Report 1481.

Delivered Cheyenne 5/8/43; Peterson 17/8/43; 201 BU Peterson 20/6/44; 200 BU Peterson 25/8/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 27/10/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 9/8/43; Love 10/8/43; Cheyenne 11/8/43; 223 BU Dyersburg 6/6/44; 901 BU Pinecastle 10/6/44; 223 BU Dyersburg 16/6/44; 554 BU Memphis 6/11/44; 223 BU Dyersburg 16/11/44; 3451 BY Waycross 1/3/45; 244 BU Harvard 4/3/45; 223 BU Dyersburg 10/5/45; 325 BU Avon Park 3/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 22/8/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 28/11/43; Wendover 12/12/43; Nutts Corner, Belfast, N. I. 20/1/44; Assigned 748BS/457BG Glatton 9/1/44; 749BS; transferred 614BS/401BG [IW-Q] Deenethorpe 11/3/44. Detailed Merseburg 11/9/44 with Garrett Filemyr, Co-pilot: Herb Claxton, Navigator: Ed Robinson, ng-David Tutwiler, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Herb Shanks, Ball turret gunner: Bill Reynolds,Tail gunner: Malcolm Culver (7 Returned to Duty); Radio Operator: Jim Parkes, Waist gunner: Tom Campbell (2 POW-bailed out after flak hits between #1 and #2,) but aircraft limped home safely. Returned to the USA Bradley 7/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 13/6/45. Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 6/12/45.

Delivered Denver 16/12/43; Gt Falls 28/12/43; Langley 24/1/44; Mitchell 2/2/44; Assigned 482BG (H2S) Alconbury 11/2/44; transferred 422BS/305BG [JJ-R] Chelveston 20/3/44; 327BG/92BG [UX-Q] Podington 2/8/44; Missing in Action Misburg 26/11/44 with Walt Kirkbride, {rest ? 1kia, I wia}; battle damaged force landed Belgium; Salvaged 13/12/44.

Delivered Cheyenne 5/6/43; Rapid City 18/6/43; Geiger 22/6/43; Gr Isle 29/6/43; Dow Fd 14/7/43; Assigned 353BS/301BG St Donat 19/7/43; Oudna 6/8/43; Cerignola 7/12/43; Missing in Action {51m} Salon de Provence, Fr. 21/1/44 with Howard Ryan, Peters, Goldstein, Krober, Canady, Buschko, Chelminiack, Kelly, McBride (10 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed Mediterranean Sea; Missing Air Crew Report 1952.

Delivered Cheyenne 23/7/44; Kearney 2/8/44; Grenier 13/8/44; Assigned 4BS/34BG Mendlesham 15/8/44; c/fire 6/10/44 with Vick, Navigator: Phil Podulka{Wounded in Action}, Salvaged.