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

Delivered Cheyenne 9/2/44; Kearney 24/2/44; Presque Is 10/3/44; Assigned 551BS/385BG [HR-X] Gt Ashfield 11/3/44; Missing in Action Berlin 29/4/44 with Dick Huntingdon, Co-pilot: Bill Miller, Navigator: Francis Andrews, Bombardier: Standlee Roberts, Radio Operator: Pete Sarpolus, Ball turret gunner: Aaron Lesieur, Waist gunner: Elwood Posey,Tail gunner: Octavio Moreno (8 Prisoner of War); Flight engineer/top turret gunner: George Adams, Waist gunner: Frank Hart (2 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed near Helmstedt, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 4458.

Delivered Dallas 25/9/44; Hunter 2/10/44; Grenier 3/11/44; Assigned 418BS/100BG [LD-C] Thorpe Abbotts 10/11/44; transferred 848BS/490BG Eye [7W-L] 11/11/44; 849BS; landing accident at Troston AD with Bill Hodgson 19/5/45; Returned to the USA Morrison 16/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 10/1/46.

Delivered Lincoln 23/1/45; Grenier 6/2/45; Assigned 457BG Glatton 15/2/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 8/6/45; Sth Plains 12/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 27/11/45.

Delivered Tulsa 7/12/42; Salina 2/1/43; Tinker 17/4/43; Morrison 8/5/43; Topeka 2/6/43; Gd Island 29/7/43; McCook 30/6/44; Written off 20/10/44.

Delivered Pyote 30/12/42; Biggs 9/2/43; Dalhart 18/3/43; Tinker 27/3/43; Dalhart 20/4/43; Tinker 7/8/43; Dalhart 19/9/44; Eglin 3/3/45; Pueblo 26/4/45; damaged while parked at Kirtland, NM 3/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 27/10/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 21/4/43; Tinker 27/4/43; Smoky Hill 5/5/43; Kearney 28/5/43; Dow Fd 7/6/43; Assigned 349BS/100BG [XR-G] Thorpe Abbotts 10/6/43 TORCHY 2 aka HOT SPIT; Missing in Action Berlin 6/3/44 with Coy Montgomery (Killed in Action); Co-pilot: Bob Connaway, Navigator: Frank Laver, Bombardier: Jim Fulton, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: George Burton, Radio Operator: Wilbur Trembley, Ball turret gunner: Lou Savell, Waist gunner: Junior Busher, Waist gunner: Tony Ruda,Tail gunner: Earl Ritter (9 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft KO’d engine, crashed Colnrade near Cologne; Missing Air Crew Report 3015. MISS CARRIAGE aka OH NAUSEA aka TEN BATTY BOYS and PRIDE OF THE CENTURY.

Delivered Tulsa 7/12/42; Del Monte 31/1/43; Sioux City 6/4/43; Gowen 19/4/43; Assigned 600BS/398BG Rapid City with Gene Douglas crash landed four miles SE of Sioux City, thru loss of engine power 27/7/43; Written off 5/8/43.

Delivered Cheyenne 20/2/45; Hunter 4/3/45; Grenier 27/3/45; Assigned 427BS/303BG [GN-D] Molesworth 30/3/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 7/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 14/2/46.

Delivered Long Beach 22/1/42; Blythe 23/1/43; Pueblo 14/4/43; Dyersburg 11/6/43; Dow Fd, Me. 15/6/43; Dyersburg 7/7/43; Gd Isle 26/6/44; Alliance 20/10/44; Souix City 22/1/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Albuquerque 25/6/45.

Delivered Louisville 26/4/45; Chicago Mun 8/5/45 for Bond Show; Sth Plains 16/6/45; NAS Phildelphia 20/6/45; designated XPB-1 31/7/45 [77258] with experimental electronic equipment; Assigned VPB-101 Floyd Bennett Fd, NY 11/45; NAS Squantum 5/46; NAMU Johnsville 3/47; taxi accident NAS Mustin Fd with two other aircraft 29/12/49; became DPB-1 for drop tests at NAAS Chincoteague, Va 1950; NAAF Mustin Fd 9/50, scrapped for spares.

Delivered Tulsa 3/12/42; Pocatello 31/12/42; Tinker 4/2/43; Pyote 10/2/43; Tinker 5/8/43; Dalhart 7/10/43; Dyersburg 14/10/43; with Beacher Tillman force landed Port Columbus Apt 28/6/44; Written off 15/7/44.

Delivered Long Beach 25/11/42; Tulsa 3/12/42; Ainsworth, Neb. 20/1/43; Rapid City 10/4/43; Geiger 22/6/43; Harvard 16/9/44; Davis-Monthan 21/10/44; Peterson 7/12/44; Lincoln 23/1/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 9/10/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 9/2/45; Hunter 3/3/45; Grenier 12/3/45; Assigned 427BS/303BG Molesworth 18/3/45; Returned to the USA Morrison 8/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 21/12/45.

Delivered Long Beach 23/11/42; Tulsa 15/12/42; Wendover 30/1/43; Sioux City 7/4/43; Smoky Hill 6/8/43; Alamogordo 2/8/44; Kelly 4/11/44.

Delivered Tulsa 7/2/44; Grenier 3/3/44; Assigned 710BS/447BG Rattlesden 10/3/44; Missing in Action Leipzig 29/5/44 with Bert Moran, Co-pilot: John Higgs, Navigator: Rudi Jacob, Bombardier: Ray Maguire, Radio Operator: Bill Mitchell (5 Killed in Action); Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Nick Tagliaferri, Ball turret gunner: Chas Bebb, Waist gunner: Gene Wachter, Waist gunner: Connolly O’Brien,Tail gunner: Leroy Beckman (5 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed Seegeritz, six miles NE of Leipzig, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 5303. PAPER DOLL II.

Delivered Sioux City 1/4/44; with Paul Miller force landed base 16/2/45; 224 BU Sioux City 6/3/45; 420 BU March 27/9/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 16/1/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 2/5/44; Hunter 15/5/44; Dow Fd 29/5/44; Assigned 358BS/303BG [VK-Q] Molesworth 7/6/44; transferred 457BG Glatton 22/5/45; 351BG Polebrook 29/5/45; 127m, Returned to the USA Bradley 13/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 18/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 27/11/45. NEVA – THE SILVER LADY.

Delivered Rapid City 1/4/44; 225 BU Rapid City 1/5/45; 354 BU Rapid City 20/9/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 14/12/45.

Delivered Rapid City 1/4/44; 2325 BU Rapid City 6/12/44; 2114 BU Lockbourn 27/6/45; 2137 BU Hendricks 11/12/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 8/1/46.

Delivered Rapid City 1/4/44; 225 BU Rapid City 1/5/45; 268 BU Peterson 14/7/45; 232 BU Dalhart 19/7/45; 201 BU Peterson 3/2/46; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 15/2/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 3/12/44; Hunter 16/12/44; Grenier 3/1/45; Assigned 332BS/94BG [XM-H] Rougham 22/1/45; transferred 427BS/303BG [GN-Y] Molesworth 18/2/45; Returned to the USA Morrison 29/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 28/12/45. IDLE WHEEL.

Delivered Tulsa 29/5/44; Hunter 23/6/44; Dow Fd 10/7/44; Assigned 817BS/483BG Sterparone 17/7/44; Missing in Action Budapest 30/7/44 with Bill Nivens, Reed, Kryloff, Maher, Lipschitz (5 Killed in Action); Flanagan, Doan, Casebier, Larkin, Vecchiola (5 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed Sziget Szent; Missing Air Crew Report 7105.

Delivered Dallas 14/7/44; Langley 14/8/44; Grenier 18/9/44; Assigned 749BS/457BG [D] Glatton 4/10/44; transferred 305BG Chelveston 5/45; Salvaged 9AF Germany 10/5/46.

Delivered Dallas 14/7/44; Langley 15/8/44; Dow Fd 18/9/44; Assigned PFF 533BS/94BG Rougham 29/9/44; transferred 833BS/486BG [4N-V] Sudbury 12/44; {9m} taxi accident with Stewart Tayler 16/10/45; RetUS, Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 5/11/45. BABY SHOE III aka DOWNBEAT.