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B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 41-9078

41-9078

Delivered Boise 303BG 4/4/42; Salt Lake City 17/5/42; force landed Ephrata 4/6/42 with Harvey Williams; Muroc 21/7/42; Geiger 2/9/42; 1174 Pilot Trng Sq Lockbourne, OH 22/2/43; force landed base 26/8/43 with Leland Calvert; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 9/10/45.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 44-6802

44-6802

Delivered Hunter 16/11/44; Dow Fd 3/12/44; Assigned 509BS/351BG [RQ-X] Polebrook 17/12/44; 511BS [DS-X]; {19m} dec War Weary 18/5/45; transferred 94 CBW 4/6/45; Returned to the USA Grenier 21/9/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 18/12/45. FEED ‘EM.

B-17 #43-38223 / Day’s Pay

43-38223 / Day’s Pay

Delivered Cheyenne 10/7/44; Kearney 18/7/44; Grenier 7/8/44; so named as 51,000 employees of the Hanford Wks, Seattle, chipped in a day’s pay towards war effort; Assigned 34BG Mendlesham, transferred 862BS/493BG Debach 9/8/44; (50+m) transferred 410BS/94BG [GL-H] Rougham 10/8/44; (67m) Returned to the USA Bradley 10/7/45; 4185 BU Independence 12/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 24/10/45. DAY’S PAY.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 43-38351 / Snake Bit

43-38351 / Snake Bit

Delivered Cheyenne 23/7/44; Kearney 2/8/44; Grenier 16/8/44; Assigned 391BS/34BG Mendlesham 23/8/44; Missing in Action Merseburg 25/11/44 with George Day, Co-pilot: Joe Hanchar, Navigator: Busse{mia?}, Bombardier: Bowen, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Spence, Ball turret gunner: Lynch{Wounded in Action}, Waist gunner: Spink,Tail gunner: Grip (8 Prisoner of War); force landed St Trond A/fd, Bel; Salvaged 1/12/44. SNAKE BIT.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 41-9077

41-9077

Delivered Geiger 301st Bomb Group 6/4/42; Alamogordo 18/6/42; Westover 2/7/42; Tyndall 14/8/42; Sebring 20/9/42; Eglin 16/11/42; Las Vegas 21/12/42; McClelland 17/2/43; Written off 24/11/43; Recl Comp 3/1/46.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 44-8852

44-8852

Delivered Cheyenne 16/1/45; Hunter 6/2/45; Dow Fd 12/2/45; Assigned 322BS/91BG [LG-V] Bassingbourn 9/3/45; transferred 306BG Thurleigh 24/5/45; re-ass 30/4/47; Recl Comp 19/11/47.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-97788

42-97788

Delivered Denver 27/2/44; Alexandra 17/3/44; 335 BU Delivered Marbry 12/10/44; 221 BU Alexandra 28/10/44; 329 BU Alexandra 1/3/45; 325 BU Avon Park 13/8/45; 3704 BU Keesler 14/8/45; slightly damaged while parked 10/7/46; re-ass TB-17G 31/7/46; Recl Comp 6/10/47.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-5120

42-5120

Delivered Geiger 28/9/42; Assigned 391BS/34BG Blythe 5/1/43; damaged in landing accident on base with Herb Jones 15/1/43; Written off 2/3/43.

B-17 #44-8517

44-8517

Delivered Hunter 2/10/44; Dow Fd 16/10/44; Assigned 401BG Deenethorpe 1/1/45; transferred 601BS/398BG [3O-J] Nuthampstead 9/2/45; RAF Valley 21/5/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 25/5/45; Sth Plains 30/5/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 25/11/45.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-30590

42-30590

Delivered Cheyenne 22/6/43; Gore 8/7/43; Dalhart 9/7/43; Tinker 25/7/43; Dalhart 9/8/43; 232 BU Dalhart 9/6/44; 271 BU Kearney 8/10/44; 232 BU Dalhart 19/10/44; 110 BU Mitchell 6/11/44; 232 BU Dalhart 10/11/44; 272 BU Topeka 2/12/44; 232 BU Dalhart 8/12/44; 244 BU Harvard 5/1/45; with GHeorge Akerson force landed Rosecrans Fd, Mo 12/1/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 2/11/45.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-97818 / Junior aka Crash Wagon III

42-97818 / Junior aka Crash Wagon III

Delivered Denver 6/3/44; Hunter 16/4/44; Grenier 9/5/44; Assigned 551BS/385BG [HR- ] Gt Ashfield 10/5/44; sustained electrical problems when taxying for mission take off 15/6/44 with Merle Nieman, Co-pilot: V. Graybowski, Navigator: K. Anderson, Bombardier: J.Klempel, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: R. McMillen, Radio Operator: E. Winrutt, Ball turret gunner: ? , Waist gunner: W. McMurray, Waist gunner: Limington,Tail gunner: D. Barry (10 Returned to Duty); once stooped a fire broke out followed by explosion which damaged Bombardier: 17 nearby 42-107232; Salvaged 15/6/44.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-5100

42-5100

Delivered Geiger 24/9/42; Ephrata 3/12/42; Assigned 7BS/34BG Blythe 15/12/42 but damaged in forced landing with Ed Woodward, Co-pilot: L.A. Cattron, Navigator: Norval Kelly, Bombardier: Sgt Haskell Young, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: C. McDonald, Radio Operator: Carl Simpson, Gnr- C. Burris plus three unknown (10 Returned to Duty); Written off 9/1/43

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 44-85632

44-85632

Delivered Dallas 12/4/45; Rome 29/5/45; Syracuse 12/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 15/11/45.

B-17 #42-31048

42-31048

Delivered Cheyenne 11/9/43; North Platte 19/9/43; Assigned 545th Bomb Squadron, 384th Bomb Group [JD-L] Grafton Underwood 1/3/44; Missing in Action Schweinfurt 12 April 1944 with Max Jean Miller, Co-pilot: James E. Dent Jr., Navigator: Theophilius Edward Beinar, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Elvie Lawrence Rodden, Radio Operator: Henry Overholt Watson, Ball turret gunner: Saul Jack Schelberg, Waist gunner: Howard Rucolph Leconey,Tail gunner: Albert Patrick Krizner (8 Killed in Action); Bombardier: Darrell Clark Getty [leg amputated in Eppenheim hospital, Waist gunner: Edwin Pierce Fulkerson (2 Prisoner of War); attacked head on by 15 enemy aircraft, crashed Elmhausen/Bergstrasse, nine miles S of Darrmstadt, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 3866.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-107232

42-107232

Delivered Tulsa 24/3/44; Kearney 15/4/44; Grenier 29/4/44; Assigned 551BS/385BG [HR-N] Gt Ashfield 8/5/44; badly damaged when aircraft blew up nearby 42-97818; Salvaged 16/6/44.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-107000 / Princess No No

42-107000 / Princess No No

Delivered Cheyenne 21/1/44; Gr Island 10/2/44; Morrison 6/3/44; Assigned 817BS/483BG Sterparone 9/3/44; transferred 347BS/99BG Tortorella 31/3/44; Missing in Action {7m} Ploesti 3/12/44 with Walt Petrokovich, Eley, Stewart, Tennant, Borland, Messina, Thurston, Moore, Nelson, Hauf; enemy aircraft, crashed Titu, six chutes seen, one on fire; Missing Air Crew Report 3972. PRINCESS NO NO.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 44-85650

44-85650

Delivered Louisville 17/4/45; Sth Plains 23/4/45; 2140 BU Smyrna 5/11/45; 342 BU Smyrna 30/4/46; 613 BU Phillips 18/6/46.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 41-9238 / Cleopatra

41-9238 / Cleopatra

Delivered Cheyenne 28/5/42; Wayne 5/7/42; Dorval 6/7/42; Gander-Prestwick 17/7/42 with Ed Newkirk, to RAF [FL464]; 59 Sq (PJ-E) Chivenor and Thorney Is.; 31 12/42; 220 Sq (ZZ-Y) Benbecula, then coded (NR-C painted 2-C) when in Lagens, Azores 29/2/44; 519 Sq (Z9-B) Wick, Scot. 9/12/44; 251 Sq (-E) Reykjavik, Iceland, 1/8/45; Struck Off Charge 22/12/45. CLEOPATRA.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 41-9239

41-9239

Delivered Cheyenne 28/5/42; Wayne 5/7/42; Dorval 11/7/42; Gander-Prestwick 17/7/42, to RAF [FL462]; 59 Sq (PJ-C) Thorney Is, 31/12/42, on 3/3/43 attacked U-boat and badly damaged it; 220 Sq (ZZ-W) Benbecula 7/4/43; Lagens, Azores Nov/43; hit trees on overshoot at Gosport, Hants. 22/1/45. Struck Off Charge 4/7/45.

B-17 #42-107092 / Freckles aka Umbriago

42-107092 / Freckles aka Umbriago

Delivered Tulsa 17/2/44; Kearney 22/2/44; Grenier 6/3/44; Assigned 710BS/447BG Rattlesden 13/3/44; transferred 615BS/401BG [IY-E] Deenethorpe 23/3/44 FRECKLES!; Missing in Action Munich 31/7/44 with Jay Ossiander, Co-pilot: Roy Cooper, Navigator: Dominick Manolio, tog-Don Rouse, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Penrose Reagan, Radio Operator: Walt Dengler, Ball turret gunner: Ancil Anderson, Waist gunner: George Clarke,Tail gunner: Tom Higdon (9INT); flak, #2 & #3 both feathered, force landed Dubendorf, Switz; Missing Air Crew Report 7825. UMBRIAGO!