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

Delivered Cheyenne 26/10/43; Gr Island 13/11/43; Romulus 25/11/43; Assigned 614BS/401BG [IW-K] Deenethorpe 14/1/44; Missing in Action Brandenburg 6/8/44 with John Sauerwald, Co-pilot: John Zimmerman, Navigator: Forrest Holmstrom, Bombardier: Cletus Meyer, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Lloyd Dautrich, Radio Operator: Buford Saville, Ball turret gunner: Warren Spence, Waist gunner: Paul Pamilla,Tail gunner: Rob Ruiz (9 Prisoner of War); flak, crew bailed and captured at Warnemunde, Ger. aircraft crashed in Baltic Sea. Missing Air Crew Report 7887. ROUND TRIPPER.

Delivered Kearney 10/8/44; Grenier 1/9/44; Assigned 326BS/92BG [JW-S] Podington 7/9/44; Green Project Salvaged 9AF Germany 10/12/45.

Delivered Lincoln 27/1/45; Grenier 18/2/45; Assigned 8AF 19/2/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 18/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 20/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 30/1/46.

Delivered Long Beach 28/3/43; Smoky Hill 4/4/43; Morrison 5/5/43; Presque Is 13/5/43; Assigned 336BS/95BG [ET-L] Framlingham 19/5/43; Missing in Action {1m} 29/5/43 with Larry Clark, Co-pilot: Yngvar Berntzen, Waist gunner: Chester Mayo (3 Killed in Action); Navigator: Capt Ray Landrum, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Carl Upchurch, Radio Operator: Garland Teague, Ball turret gunner: Bob Carlson, Waist gunner: Wilbur Rice,Tail gunner: Bill Wood (6 Prisoner of War); Bombardier: Dwight Fisher, obs-Maj Edgar Cole (2 evaded capture); suffered flak damage to nose & #3, dived then up again and coll with 42-29709, near St Malo, Fr.; Missing Air Crew Report 4894.

Delivered Denver 25/11/43; Kearney 18/12/43; New Castle 2/1/44; Presque Is 8/1/44; Assigned 510BS/351BG [TU-H] Polebrook 25/2/44; 511BS [DS-H]; Missing in Action 23m Dessau 28/5/44 with Chas Anderson, Co-pilot: Bob McFetridge, Navigator: Bob Ryan, Bombardier: Bill Baird, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Neal Williams, Radio Operator: Casper Vecchioni, Ball turret gunner: George Nitzberg, Waist gunner: Bernard Matzke,Tail gunner: Ed Vamhom (9POW- all 510BS); enemy aircraft, crashed Westdorf, two miles S of Aschersleben, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 5329.

Delivered Long Beach 23/9/43; Gr Island 31/10/43; Assigned 325BS/92BG [NV-J] Podington 2/12/43; transferred 486BG Sudbury 16/7/44; sal 12/10/44.

Delivered Cheyenne 19/2/44; Gr Island 4/3/44; Dow Fd 4/4/44; Assigned 336BS/95BG [ET-S] Horham 4/4/44; on 24/5/44 with Frank Cobb, Co-pilot: John Waddell, Navigator: Lloyd Krueger, Bombardier: Walt Weakland, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Jim Evanson, Radio Operator: Quentin Newswanger, Ball turret gunner: Frank Tomsey, Waist gunner: Herman Fleet, Waist gunner: Jim Krgrakis, Tail gunner: Ivy Ellender, all OK RTD, brakes locked up, left tyre burst and ran off end of runway; 45m Missing in Action Brux 11/9/44 with Vance Mooring, Co-pilot: Carl Swanson, Navigator: Alf Janson, Bombardier: Bob Woerke, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Chas Stein, Radio Operator: Frank Aliveto, Ball turret gunner: Tom Merriman, Waist gunner: Bill Martin,Tail gunner: John Weber (9 Prisoner of War); left formation with right wing burning, crashed Schmalzgrube, near Erzgebirge, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 8892. HARD (HAARD) LUCK.

Delivered Cheyenne 30/5/44; Kearney 8/6/44; Grenier 1/7/44; Assigned 510BS/351BG [TU-G] Polebrook 17/7/44; {81m} Returned to the USA Bradley 9/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 18/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 1/12/45. FEARLESS FOSDICK.

Delivered Hunter 2/10/44; Dow Fd 23/10/44; Assigned 385BG Gt Ashfield 25/10/44; transferred 561BS/388BG Knettishall 26/10/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 7/1/46.

Delivered Hunter 2/10/44; Dow Fd 15/10/44; Assigned 511BS/351BG [DS-G] Polebrook 20/2/45; {10m} transferred 544BS/384BG [SU-M] Grafton Underwood 9/5/45; re-ass photographic & mapping duties Morrocco 7/12/45 and Dutch-Belgian coast 30/11/46; Salvaged 5/1/47.

Delivered Long Beach 28/5/43; Cheyenne 7/6/43; Gr Isle 29/6/43; Dow Fd 18/7/43; Assigned 99BG 9/8/43; transferred 342BS/97BG Depienne 14/11/43; Missing in Action Innsbruck 19/12/43 with 1Lt Robert W Dawson, 2Lt Harold B Novak, 2Lt Earl B Sullivan, 2Lt Thomas J McHugh, S/Sgt George F Barth, S/Sgt Robert J Dean, Sgt Kenneth A Schroll, S/Sgt Clarence L Sommerfeld, Sgt Joseph L Radanovic, S/Sgt Joseph A Dobrzanski. enemy aircraft, #2 engine on fire, crashed Linz, Aus. Four chutes seen, pilot blown out of a/c, MACR 1520. THUNDERBOLT.

Delivered Long Beach 28/5/43; Cheyenne 7/6/43; Gd Isle 29/6/43; Dow 18/7/43; Assigned 419BS/301BG Oudna 13/8/43; Missing in Action {15m} Bolzano 25/9/43 with Ed Stapleton, Co-pilot: Robert G. Marner, Navigator: Max Doyle, Bombardier: Jim Fitzgerald, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ed Gehrt, Radio Operator: Ray Wagner, Ball turret gunner: John Ball, Waist gunner: Oscar Daniels, Waist gunner: Teddy May,Tail gunner: John Dygnan (10 Killed in Action). Missing Air Crew Report 767.

Delivered Cheyenne 29/11/43; Kearney 17/12/43; Presque Is 2/1/44; Assigned 535BS/381BG [MS-P] Ridgewell 2/2/44; 5+m Missing in Action St Avord 28/4/44 with Harold Henslin, Navigator: Art Guertin, Bombardier: Gene Arning, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Joe Karr, Ball turret gunner: George McLaughlin, Waist gunner: Clarry Williams,Tail gunner: Ed Sell (7 Killed in Action); Co-pilot: Maj Osce Jones, Radio Operator: J.W. Padgett,Tail gunner: Bill Blackmon (3 Prisoner of War); flak KOd #3 and ship went down immediately, crashed Avord, 12 miles SE of Bourges, Fr; Missing Air Crew Report 4241. (also nicknamed Piccadilly Tilly II and crashed on take off according to Tom O’Brien detailed on mission to Cottbus) GEORGIA REBEL II.

Delivered Hunter 29/1/45; Dow Fd 13/2/45; Assigned 8AF 17/2/45; re-ass 10 HBS Oberpfaffenhofen 30/4/47; Recl Comp 7/1/49.

Delivered Hunter 30/1/45; Dow Fd 13/2/45; Assigned 8AF 16/2/45; Salvaged 9AF Germany 31/5/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 22/9/43; Gr Island 6/10/43; Wilmington 10/10/43; Assigned 568BS/390BG [BI-A] Framlingham 14/10/43; (3m) Missing in Action Emden 11/12/43 with Capt Hiram C. Skogmo: Pilot; Major Ralph V. Hansel, Group CO: Co-pilot; Bombardier: Merle M. Cloud; Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ralph H. Sindeldecker; Radio Operator: Johnnie U. Adams; Ball turret gunner: Jack P. Fariss; Waist gunner: Patrick G. Welch; Tail gunner/Observer: Lt. Whitney F. Poythress Jr. (8 Killed in Action); Navigator: Capt Irving R. Lifson; passenger – Lead Navigator, Capt. Donald L. Warren; Waist gunner: Ernest Phillips (3 Prisoner of War); hit by rocket, crashed North Sea between Germany’s East Frisian islands of Norderney and Langeoog; Missing Air Crew Report 1583. SIX NIGHTS IN TELERGMA (ARABIAN NUTS).

Delivered Cheyenne 30/4/43;Gore 22/5/43; Spokane 24/5/43; Gore 11/6/43; Smoky Hill 29/6/43; Dow Fd 11/7/43; Assigned 571BS/390BG [FC-S] Framlingham 11/7/43 NORMA J; (18m) Missing in Action Emden 11/12/43 with Glenn Ryon, Co-pilot: Keith Pickel, Navigator: Don Schlofner, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bob Wilson, Ball turret gunner: Don Voss, Waist gunner: Gerry Lawrence, Waist gunner: Bill Ferrill,Tail gunner: Allen Hoffman (8 Killed in Action); Bombardier: Newton Weiss, Radio Operator: Joe Hulme (2 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft shot away part of horizontal and vertical stabilizer, then ship exploded and crashed Westeraccum (stede), 12 miles N of Aurich, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 1582. RICK-O-SHAY.

Delivered Cheyenne 18/11/42; Walla Walla 4/2/43; Redmond 21/2/42; Madras 19/6/43; Walla Walla 17/7/43; 370 BU Lowry 15/6/44; Written off 3/11/44.

Delivered Long Beach 22/10/43; Assigned 92BG Podington 5/12/43; transferred 324BS/91BG [DF-Z] Bassingbourn 10/1/44, then 323BS [OR-Z]; 40m Missing in Action Dessau 30/5/44 with Zack Collier, Co-pilot: John Kelleher, Navigator: William Paul Clements, Bombardier: Harry McDermott, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Harry Ward, Radio Operator: Steve Kogut, Ball turret gunner: George Zimheld, Waist gunner: Tom Cogdill, Tail gunner: Chas Semon (9 Killed in Action); flak KO’d two engines, nothing else heard from, or seen of a/c, assumed to have crashed in the sea; Missing Air Crew Report 5355. BALTIMORE ORIOLE aka JUST PLAIN LONESOME.

Delivered Denver 29/10/43; Gr Island 12/11/43; Assigned 353BS/301BG Cerignola 1/44; {7m} transferred 2BG Amendola 1/2/44; sal 8/7/44.