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

Delivered Cheyenne 20/10/42; Salina 4/12/42; Assigned 97BG Biskra 31/1/43; Chateau-du-Rhumel 8/2/43; Pont-du-Fahs 1/8/43; Depienne 15/8/43; Cerignola 20/12/43; Amendola 16/1/44; Salvaged 27/8/44.

Delivered Tulsa 18/10/42; Rapid City 25/11/42; Geiger 28/3/43; Walla Walla 18/7/43; Written off 20/11/43.

Delivered Gt Falls 7/9/44; Hunter 28/9/44; Grenier 7/10/44; Assigned 836BS/487BG [2G-T] Lavenham 17/10/44; transferred 601BS/398BG [3O-T] Nuthampstead 4/11/44; repaired Missing in Action 23/2/45 with Zinter, AOC 25/2/45; re-ass from 2 SAD Abbotts Ripton 20/3/45; Missing in Action Nuemunster 13/4/45 with Merritt; force landed continent AOC 21/4/45.

Delivered Tulsa 16/10/42; Ephrata 24/11/42; Assigned 20BS/2BG Gt Falls 1/12/42; mech failure led to landing accident with Don Stoeger 8/1/43; Rapid City 9/3/43; Glasgow 14/4/43; Gore 18/5/43; re-ass 593BS/396BG Moses Lake 17/6/43; force landed base with John McIlwaine 17/7/43; 328 BU Gulfport 25/7/44; 327 BU Drew 10/5/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 11/12/45.

Delivered Tulsa 11/10/42; Blythe 28/12/42; Dalhart 16/5/43; Tinker 21/6/43; Dalhart 10/7/43; with Bob Sieker force landed Clovis, Nm 10/3/44; 242 BU Gr Isle 23/6/44; 6BG Gr Isle 29/8/44; 4100 BU Patterson 1/9/44; 232 BU Dalhart 4/9/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Ontario 7/6/45.

Delivered Tulsa 13/10/42; Rapid City 11/11/42; Salina 17/12/42; West Palm Beach 9/1/43; Assigned 419BS/301BG Ain M’Lila 3/2/43; St Donat 6/3/43; Missing in Action {37m} Messina 18/6/43 with Leo Flowers, crash landed Constantine, Salvaged.

Delivered Cheyenne 2/1/43; Gt Falls 14/2/43 (extn bomb racks fitted); Wendover 21/7/43; Pocatello 11/8/43; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Ontario 11/6/45.

Delivered West Palm Beach 1/12/42; Assigned 342BS/97BG Tafaraoui 17/2/42; Biskra 25/12/42; Chateau-du-Rhumel 8/2/43; Missing in Action Trapani 13/4/43 with Alex Blair, Shurig, Heckman, Drake, Christensen, Yost, Morris, Highsmith, Naydock, Ewing.

Delivered Cheyenne 8/2/43; 94BG Pueblo 18/2/43; Salina 25/2/43; Brookley 18/3/43; Smoky Hill 23/3/43; Presque Is 7/4/43; Assigned 410BS/94BG [GL- ] Bassingbourn 17/4/43; Earls Colne 12/5/43; Missing in Action Kiel 13/6/43 with Capt Bolling Rawlinson (Prisoner of War); Co-pilot: Capt Art Herbert, Navigator: Tom Meeks, Bombardier: Leon Levander, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ed Cameron, Radio Operator: Chas Morris, Ball turret gunner: Harry Hilts, Waist gunner: John Huzinec, Waist gunner: Ben Kaplan,Tail gunner: Lt Chas Schultheis (9 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft KO’d #2, crashed Pohnsdorf, near Preetz, seven miles SE of Kiel, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 15162. KLO KAY.

Delivered Cheyenne 25/3/43; Smoky Hill 3/4/43; Dow Fd 15/4/43; Assigned 526BS/379BG [LF-E] Kimbolton 23/6/43; Missing in Action Le Bourget 16/8/43 with Ray Bidwell, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: John Cannell, Ball turret gunner: Tom Johnson (3 Killed in Action), Co-pilot: Jack Ryan, Navigator: Mario Delivered Re, Bombardier: Wayne Bader, Radio Operator: Vic Chesquier, Waist gunner: Pete Murray, Waist gunner: Elvin Cocherall,Tail gunner: Larry Prentiss (7 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Plessis Chenet, near Corbeil, Fr. Missing Air Crew Report 1297. MARY ANN.

Delivered Long Beach 31/1/43; Salina 14/2/43; Kearney 12/3/43; Brookley 27/3/43; Assigned 334BS/95BG [BG-E] Horham 19/4/43; 412BS [QW-S]; 5m, transferred AFSC 6/43; on personnel ferry to Southport 29/12/43 with Alden Witt, Co-pilot: Bill Gaffney, Navigator: Howard Leddy, Bombardier: Alan Grant, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Kingsley Spitzer, Ball turret gunner: Wendell Verbulecz, plus passengers: Capts Louis Reno, Louis Green, Arvid Dahl, Lt Bob Moon, NCOs Roy Baughman, Ray Loija, Jim Leithhead, Dewey Cox, Harry Shade, Linus Thomas, Gene Downey and Andrew Mullavey (18 Killed in Service). In heavy overcast crashed Buckley, Flintshire, N.Wales. Salvaged. RUTHLESS.

Delivered Long Beach 11/6/43; Gore 7/7/43; Dow Fd 19/7/43; Assigned 549BS/385BG [XA-R] Gt Ashfield 20/7/43; Missing in Action Hamburg 20/6/44 with Joe Montgomery, Navigator: Milton Shalinsky, Bombardier: Santo Caruso, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Jim Martin, Radio Operator: Yoris Cottongim, Ball turret gunner: John Hadzega, Waist gunner: Leo Allard, Waist gunner: John Davis,Tail gunner: Frank Sutula (9 Prisoner of War); Co-pilot: Sam Levy (Killed in Action); #2 & #3 sustained damage, then another feathered, crashed Neuenwalde, 12 miles S of Cuxhaven, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 5899.

Delivered Cheyenne 3/9/42; New Castle 4/10/42; Assigned 94BG 22/10/42; transferred 342BS/97BG Depienne 11/42; crash landed Bizerte battle damaged 18/12/42 with John Nichols, Hayes, Monda, Ivanhoff (4 Killed in Action); Blaida, Burton, Evans, Williams, Wilson (5 evaded capture & Returned to Duty) . SOONER II.

Delivered Cheyenne 11/9/42; New Castle, DE 14/10/42, force landed base with Fred Koupal 28/10/42; Salina 31/1/43; Cheyenne 28/2/43; Gowen 26/3/43; Moses Lake 7/6/43; 3501 BU Boca Raton 28/11/44; 2114 BU Lockbourn 13/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 19/12/45.

Delivered Tulsa 15/3/44; Gr Island 29/3/44; Grenier 14/4/44; Assigned 326BS/92BG [JW-H] Podington 7/5/44; 327BS [UX-X]; transferred 306BG Thurleigh 6/5/45; to 398BG Nuthampstead 23/5/45; RAF Valley 2/6/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 15/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 17/6/45; sal Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 8/12/45.

Delivered Long Beach 24/9/42; Geiger 6/10/42; Boise 10/11/42; Hobbs 3/3/43; Pyote 1/4/43; Assigned 503BS/346BG Dyersburg 24/5/43; with Jack Fowles force landed base 30/5/43; Tinker 7/8/43; Love Fd 7/12/43; Wendover 28/12/43; MacDill 15/1/44; 3701 BU Amarillo 18/11/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Stillwater 24/9/45.

Delivered Long Beach 27/9/42; Geiger 3/10/42; Ephrata 3/12/42; Ft Sumner 21/4/43; Hobbs 6/5/43; Written off 6/1/44.

Delivered Cheyenne 4/8/43; Gr Isle 13/8/43; Assigned 549BS/385BG [XA-O] Gt Ashfield 25/8/43; designated war weary and transferred 17th Airborne Div; Salvaged n/battle damaged 12/6/45. ROUND TRIP TICKET III.

Delivered Tulsa 12/3/44; Kearney 27/3/44; Grenier 5/4/44; Assigned 325BS/92BG [NV-D] Podington 14/4/44; battle damaged Cauvincourt 16/8/44 with Ted Letterman, crew all OK back at base; Salvaged 18/8/44.

Delivered Dallas 26/2/45; Sth Plains 24/4/45; re-ass 31/3/47; 343 RVM MacDill 14/5/47; 343 RVM Topeka 28/7/48; 55 BSU Topeka 5/8/49; 3902 ABF Offutt 14/10/49; Recl Comp 24/2/50.

Delivered Lincoln 22/12/44; Dow Fd 3/1/45; Assigned 418BS/100BG [LD-U] Thorpe Abbotts 7/1/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 24/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 26/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 10/12/45.GINGER.

Delivered Denver 9/4/43; Gore 10/4/43; Denver 27/4/43; with Bill Stenson force landed Tinker, Ok 1/5/43; Gt Falls 25/5/43; Assigned 25FS/7FG with Bill Stenson force landed Tinker, OK 30/4/43; Kearney 29/5/43; Dow Fd 16/6/43; Assigned 418BS/100BG [LD-S] Thorpe Abbotts 17/6/43; damaged in base explosion at Gt Ashfield 3/9/43; crash landed Eye, Sfk. UK, 21/4/44, on training flight with Myron Richmond (all of 349BS), Co-pilot: John Kenney, Navigator: Gus Horstmann, Bombardier: Bob Keagy, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Lester Cutler, Radio Operator: Walter George, Ball turret gunner: Chas Lewis, Waist gunner: John Johnson, Waist gunner: Cornelius Robinson,Tail gunner: Ray Lilly (10 Killed in Service); mission abandoned and ship suddenly dived to crash on butts of Eye Afd, Sfk., beside A140 Ipswich-Norwich Rd; Salvaged 5/5/44. BLIVIT.

Delivered Denver 23/1/44; Hunter 13/3/44; Grenier 29/4/44; Assigned 350BS/100BG [LN-P] Thorpe Abbotts 4/5/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 20/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 22/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 10/12/45. LUCKY LASS.

Delivered Cheyenne 12/6/44; Kearney 23/6/44; Grenier 6/7/44; Assigned 838BS/487BG [2C-B] Lavenham 8/7/44; made normal landing on new base but lost hydraulic pressure with Don Stone, Co-pilot: Don Duyser, Navigator: Irving Koenigsberg, Bombardier: Ned Whitmore, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Orlando Morgan, Radio Operator: Albert Miranda, Ball turret gunner: Dale Hansen, pass-Cpl Bernie Goldstein,Tail gunner: George Cinalli (9 Returned to Duty); ran off runway and jumped deep ditch and tail section KO’d off. Returned to the USA Bradley 11/7/45; 4185 BU Independence 18/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 14/12/45.