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

Delivered Lincoln 12/10/44; Grenier 22/10/44; Assigned 544BS/384BG [SU-H] Grafton Underwood 8/12/44; transferred 303BG Molesworth but crash landed base with Don Springsted 1/2/45; Salvaged 4/2/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 30/9/43; Scott Fd 24/10/43; Presque Is 1/11/43; with Roy Parsons force landed Meeeks Fd, Iceland 12/11/43; Assigned 612BS/401BG Deenethorpe 13/11/43; transferred 509BS/351BG [RQ-R] Polebrook 3/12/43; 508th BS [YB-R]; Missing in Action 42m Politz 7/10/44 with crew of 509th BS: Einer Peterson (P), Duane Wilson (CP), Louis Candelaria (TT), J.K. Blake (BT), Robert Crawford (WG), Benjamin Christensen (N), William Rooney (B), Lawrence “Larry” Jensen (RO), Lloyd Best (TG); 7 KIA, 2 survived INT. Missing Air Crew Report 9566.

Delivered Cheyenne 27/7/44; Kearney 4/8/44; Grenier 20/8/44; Assigned 418BS/100BG [LD-Z] Thorpe Abbotts 23/8/44; Missing in Action Hamburg 31/12/44 with Bill Mayo, Co-pilot: Albt Eib, Navigator: Art Cohen, Bombardier: Pete Radich, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bob Corum, Radio Operator: Bob Hayes, Ball turret gunner: Nelson Dickinson, Waist gunner: Bernie Stell,Tail gunner: Luther Hudgens (9 Killed in Action); flak KO’d two engines, and another by enemy aircraft crashed Jever, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 11362. AIN’T MISS BEHAVIN’ II.

Delivered Denver 31/1/44; 1SAG Langley 15/3/44; Grenier 7/4/44; Assigned 96BG Snetterton 8/4/44; battle damaged 13/7/44, rep; transferred 351BS/100BG 20/5/45; Salvaged 9AF Germany 30/4/47; Recl Comp 19/11/47.

Delivered MacDill 16/3/42; W Palm Beach 30/3/42; HQ Sq Glen, (Tangier); crashed 8/10/43.

The Fate of this B-17 Flying Fortress is unknown.

Delivered Geiger 301st Bomb Group 1/4/42; Alamogordo 18/6/42; Westover 2/7/42; Las Vegas 26/7/42; Roswell 6/6/43; Lockbourn 19/7/43; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 9/10/45.

Delivered MacDill 17/3/42; W Palm Beach 30/3/42; Written off 31/6/43.

Delivered Geiger 301st Bomb Group 3/4/42; Alamogordo 18/6/42; Westover 2/7/42; Wendover 16/7/42; Westover 11/8/42; Sebring 2/9/42; Tarrant Fd 22/6/43; with Ted Morgan force landed Hendricks 24/7/43; Written off 23/10/43.

Delivered Sebring 26/3/42; Hendricks 18/9/42; MacDill 2/5/43; Hendricks 10/5/43 as TB-17 (No.01); Written off 19/7/44.

Delivered Sebring 26/3/42; MAD Olmstead, PA, with Roland Hudson 15/6/42; Hendricks 19/3/43; Williams 14/1/44; La Junta 6/4/44; Written off 19/9/44. Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 7/12/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 17/2/44; Rapid City 5/3/44; Dow Fd 28/4/44; Assigned 398BG Nuthampstead 1/5/44; no ops, transferred 427BS/303BG [GN-O] Molesworth 13/5/44; 457BG Glatton 22/4/45; 351BG Polebrook 29/5/45; on mission to Brux 12/9/44 with ? .Tail gunner: Miles Bruce (KIA by 7.9mm shell);107m, Returned to the USA Bradley 13/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 21/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 27/11/45. SILVER FOX aka SHOO SHOO “BABY”.

Delivered Cheyenne 23/1/44; Billings 26/1/44; Orlando 6/2/44, modified for Azon bombing; Morrison 28/3/44; Assigned 419BS/301BG Lucera 19/4/44; Missing in Action Vienna 1/2/45 with Elery Owens, Welsh, Gehlhausen, Connolly, Burchett, Ulrey, Miller, Leonetti, Bottorff (9 Prisoner of War); Zabroski (MIA); hit by flak; Missing Air Crew Report 12077.

Delivered Cheyenne 27/1/45; Hunter 21/2/45; from Long Beach to AR with John Cayea 25/2/45; Witchita 3/3/45; Recl Comp 27/3/45.

Delivered Sebring 26/3/45; Hendricks 17/3/43; Chicago Munc Apt 9/5/43; Hendricks 7/7/43; Written off 7/7/44.

Delivered Cheyenne 28/8/42; Wayne Co. 18/10/42; Dorval 11/2/43; Gander-Prestwick 20/2/43 with Merrill Phoenix, to RAF [FA700]; 206 Sq (VX-R) Benbecula, Scot. 27/6/43, equipped with LRASV aerials in nose and fuselage, then to Lagens, Azores 23/10/43 where sub U-575 was sunk 13/3/44 with Dave Beaty, shared by other aircraft and vessels; 220 Sq (NR-R) Aldergrove, N.I. 17/6/44; 519 Sq (Z9-K) Wick, Scot. 3/2/45; 251 Sq Reykjavik, Iceland, 20/7/45; Struck Off Charge 22/12/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 12/2/44; Rapid City 5/3/44; Dow Fd 14/4/44; Assigned 398BG Nuthampstead 22/4/44; no ops, transferred 535BS/381BG [MS-X] Ridgewell 27/4/44; with Albert Cotea when taxiing caught fire and exploded base 25/4/45; Salvaged 26/4/45. THE TOMAHAWK WARRIOR.

Delivered Pyote 2/4/44; 235 Biggs 16/8/44; 202 BU Galveston 21/1/45; 268 BU Peterson 30/3/45; 2114 BU Lockbourn 27/6/45; with Wayne Playmale force landed two miles SW of Lithopolis, OH, 3/8/45; Recl Comp 19/10/45.

Delivered Dyersburg 2/4/44; Bismark 14/4/44; Minneapolis 22/10/44; 223 BU Dyersburg 24/10/44; 330 BU Dyersburg 1/3/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 19/12/45.

Delivered Geiger 1/9/42; Blythe 11/12/42; Tinker 4/2/42; Wendover 26/2/43; Sioux City 25/4/42; Casper 4/5/43; with Irwin Myles, force landed base 8/5/43; McLelland 2/6/43; Tinker 12/7/43; Oklahoma City 2/8/43; Assigned 469BG Alexandria 8/8/43; with Bob Smith collided with 42-6031 (with Oscar Bennett?) over Gulf of Mexico, 10/9/43; 11 Killed in Serviceon each aircraft; Written off 11/9/43.