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

Delivered Cheyenne 30/12/43; Barksdale 11/1/44; Savannah 16/1/44; Morrison 18/1/44; Assigned 416BS/99BG Tortorella 28/1/44; {6m} transferred 429BS/2BG Amendola 28/3/44; Missing in Action Memmingen, Ger; 18/7/44 with Millard Pedigo*, Co-pilot: Francis Barrett, Navigator: Mark Glasgow, Bombardier: Sid Hurwitz*, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bill Poplawksi*, Radio Operator: Bill Aeschbacher*, Ball turret gunner: Angelo Martucci, Waist gunner: Paul Johnson, Waist gunner: Sam Byers,Tail gunner: Gene Eisner (10INT); later * escaped from Switz; crash landed Dubendorf, Switz; Missing Air Crew Report 6863. MAMMY YOKUM III.

Delivered Cheyenne 3/9/43; Scott 25/9/43; Assigned 407BS/92BG [PY- ] Podington 23/11/43; Missing in Action Augsburg 16/3/44 with George Starks, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Donovan Edgerly, Radio Operator: Bob Williams, Ball turret gunner: Bill Wyatt, Waist gunner: Arden Brenden, Waist gunner: Wallace Trinder (6EVD-both wgs, probably evd); Co-pilot: Dale Berry, Navigator: Ed Badder, Bombardier: Irving Baum,Tail gunner: Rich Morse (4 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft set wing on fire, crashed Vitry-le-Francois, Marne, Fr; Missing Air Crew Report 3225.

Delivered Denver 30/12/43; Scott Fd 10/1/44; Savannah 12/1/44; Assigned 347BS/99BG Tortorella 25/1/44; {14m} transferred 20BS/2BG Amendola 28/3/44; Missing in Action Moravska Ostrova, Czech. 29/8/44 with Merrill Prentice, Co-pilot: Theo Heath, Bombardier: Bob Laux, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Herb Goodstein, Radio Operator: Ken Ellis, Ball turret gunner: Frank Balcerzak, Waist gunner: Leroy Johnson, Waist gunner: Claude Petrey,Tail gunner: Bob Fitch (9 Killed in Action); Navigator: Chas McVey (Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft plus flak which blew off most of nose, crashed Vsetin, Czech. Missing Air Crew Report 8099. LOVELY LADIES.

Delivered Cheyenne 15/4/43; Sioux City 30/4/43; Kearney 4/5/43; Bangor 22/5/43; Assigned 544BS/384BG [SU-L] Grafton Underwood 29/9/43; transferred 560BS/388BG Knettishall /43; Missing in Action 35m Gelsenkirchen 5/11/43 with Roy Walker, Navigator: Ken Haines, Bombardier: Don Naughton, Radio Operator: George Harper, Waist gunner: Luther Hawkins (5 Prisoner of War); Waist gunner: Bill Marshall, Ball turret gunner: Bob Feese (2 Killed in Action); Co-pilot: Bill Koenig, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ken Shaver,Tail gunner: John Buckner (3 evaded capture after escaping from POW train); flak, crash landed Ijzendijke, eight miles SE of Flushing, Hol; Missing Air Crew Report 3123. PISTOL PACKIN’ MAMA.

Delivered Cheyenne 23/12/43; Lincoln 10/1/44; Savannah 8/2/44; Assigned 429BS/2BG Amendola 14/2/44; Missing in Action Olching, Ger 22/2/44 with Fred Melzer, Co-pilot: Arleigh Honeycutt, Navigator: Ralph Gjertsen, Bombardier: Tom Julian, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Thurman Graves, Radio Operator: Israel Berkowitz, Ball turret gunner: Howard Bessey, Waist gunner: Clair Smith, Waist gunner: Chas Martin,Tail gunner: Bernard Devoe (10 Killed in Action); mech fault caused fire, ship ditched Adriatic Sea, eight chutes seen; Missing Air Crew Report 2631. BLOW IT OUT YOUR ……!

Delivered Cheyenne 14/7/43; Dyersburg 29/7/43; Galveston 12/8/43; Dalhart 13/8/43; 9BG McCook 6/6/44; 245 BU McCook 16/9/44; 3705 BU Lowry 16/10/44; Written off 6/11/44; 3098 BU Burbank 28/2/45; Recl Comp 13/2/46.

Delivered Denver 17/1/44; Morrison 1/3/44; Assigned 817BS/483BG Tortorella 30/3/44; transferred 49BS/9BG Amendola 31/3/44; sal 1/10/46.

Delivered Denver 17/1/44; MacDill 6/2/44/ Assigned 815BS/483BG Tortorella 30/3/44; transferred 20BS/2BG Amendola 31/3/44; Missing in Action Blechhammer 7/7/44 with Bill Nabinger, Co-pilot: Owen Rice, Navigator: Ralph Mooney, Bombardier: Howard Friedman, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Jim Jarrell, Radio Operator: Wesley Frinsco, Ball turret gunner: Frank Bossi, Waist gunner: Herb Helstrom, Waist gunner: Chas Woods,Tail gunner: Dwight Wheeler (10 Killed in Action) ; flak, blew off nose to cockpit, crashed Friedernau, Aus; three chutes seen. Missing Air Crew Report 6519.

Delivered Cheyenne 30/12/43; Kearney 12/1/44; Grenier 26/1/44; Assigned 751BS/457BG [J/T] Glatton 2/2/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 8/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 14/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 5/12/45. DISCIPLINARY ACTION.

Delivered Geiger 28/9/42; Casper 31/10/42; Scott 8/3/43; Ephrata 5/5/43; 327 BU Drew 14/7/43; 328 BU Gulfport 27/8/43; 221 BU Alexandria 24/11/43; 4204 BU Atlanta 1/1/44; 328 BU Gulfport 7/1/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Albuquerque 25/5/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 18/11/42; West Palm Beach 9/1/43; Assigned 32BS/301BG Biskra 21/1/43; Ain M’Lila 17/1/43; St Donat 6/3/43; Oudna 6/8/43; {67m} transferred 429BS/2BG Massicault 14/11/43; Bizerte 2/12/43; Amendola 9/12/43; {1m} 347BS/99BG Tortorella 28/3/44; {2m} 816BS/483BG Tortorella 31/3/44; Sterparone 22/4/44; Returned to the USA Homestead 8/7/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Albuquerque 3/8/45. NOSEY aka SKINHEAD.

Delivered Denver 1/6/43; Presque Is 6/8/43; Assigned 20BS/2BG Massicault 27/8/43; transferred 353BS/301BG Oudna 14/11/43; Cerignola 7/12/43; Lucera 1/2/44; {53m} to depot 20/7/44; Salvaged 14/9/44.

Delivered Denver 4/6/43; Presque Is 31/7/43; Assigned 96BS/2BG Massicault 8/8/43; transferred 353BS/301BG Cerignola; {89m} 97BG Amendola as weather ship in summer of ‘44; depot 11/10/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Bush Fd 10/5/45.

Delivered Hunter 6/11/44; Grenier 14/11/44; Assigned 568BS/390BG [BI-H] Framlingham 19/11/44; pilot Jack Wangelin Killed in Action& CP John Matthews Wounded in Action over Nuess 23/1/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 30/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 3/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 10/12/45. SMILING JACK.

Delivered Denver 30/1/43; Salina 12/2/43; Morrison 28/2/43; Assigned 358BS/303BG [VK-C] Molesworth 21/3/43; Missing in Action Bremen 20/12/43 with John Henderson, Co-pilot: Capt Merle Hungerford, Navigator: Warren Wiggins, Bombardier: Woodrow Monkres, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bill Simpkins, Radio Operator: Forrest Vosler (awarded Con. Medal of Honor), Ball turret gunner: Ed Ruppel, Waist gunner: Ralph Burkhart, Waist gunner: Stan Moody,Tail gunner: George Buske{Wounded in Action} (10 Returned to Duty); flak, ditched North Sea, two miles off Happisburgh, Nfk. all rescued by MV Empire Sportsman. JERSEY BOUNCE Jr. No MACR.

Delivered Long Beach 19/5/43; Cheyenne 4/6/43; Kearney 30/6/43; Dow Fd 12/7/43; Assigned 416BS/99BG Navarin 15/6/43; Oudna 4/8/43; Tortorella 11/12/43; transferred 340BS/97BG Depienne 14/11/43; Cerignola 11/12/43; Amendola 16/1/44; Missing in Action Brod 2/7/44 with Ed Ferro, Diro, French, Hunt, Raynard, Moore, Oswald, Smith, Dellinger, Roeth; enemy aircraft, crashed Komarom. Missing Air Crew Report 6617.

Delivered Denver 1/6/43; Dow Fd 1/7/43; Assigned 418BS/100BG [LD-Y] Thorpe Abbotts 5/7/43; battle damaged Bremen 8/10/43 with Capt Everett Blakely, Co-pilot: Chas Via{wia-shot down two enemy aircraft}, Navigator: Harry Crosby, Bombardier: Jim Douglas, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Monroe Thornto {shot down 3 enemy aircraft}, Radio Operator: Edmond Forkner, Ball turret gunner: Bill McClelland{wia-shot down 2 enemy aircraft}, Waist gunner: Lester Saunders{wia-shot down one enemy aircraft, but died 15 Oct}, Waist gunner: Ed Yevich{wia-KO’d Me 210},Tail gunner: Lyle Nord{KO’d Me210}, miss P-Maj John Kidd (9 Returned to Duty); flak KO’d #4, hydraulics and brakes the ship hit a large tree as it crash landed RAF Ludham, Nfk., UK; Salvaged 12/10/43. DID YOU SAY TEN CENTS? aka BLAKELY’S PROVISIONAL GROUP aka JUST-A-SNAPPIN’.

Delivered Dallas 7/7/44; Langley 4/8/44; Grenier 1/9/44; Assigned 603BS/398BG [N7-R] Nuthampstead 17/9/44; 601BS [3O-R]; (9m) Missing in Action Munster {PFF} 28/10/44 with Roy Sheely, Co-pilot: Capt Talma Scott, Navigator: Bob Robinson, Bombardier: Dale Brown, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Earl Cornett, Radio Operator: Don Menard, VN-Lt George Potter {btg}, Waist gunner: Albt Richards, Waist gunner: John Bawduniak,Tail gunner: Marvin Bell (10 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed Ooy, near Zevenaar, Arnhem, Hol; Missing Air Crew Report 10262.

Delivered Cheyenne 25/11/43;Romulus 15/12/43; Presque Is 18/12/43;ass 427BS/303BG [GN-P] Molesworth 13/1/44; Missing in Action (41m) Leipzig 29/6/44 with Arnold Roy, Co-pilot: Ralph Quint, Navigator: Henry Rafferty, Bombardier: Leon Weiss, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Leon Cook, Radio Operator: George Johnson, Waist gunner: Chan K On,Tail gunner: Olaf Kahnert (8 Killed in Action); Ball turret gunner: Leslie Black (Prisoner of War); flak burst broke ship in two, crashed Zettweil, seven miles W of Altenburg, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 6739. MY YORKSHIRE DREAM.

Delivered Cheyenne 3/11/43; Gr Island 27/11/43; Assigned 96BS/2BG Amendola 1/1/44; Missing in Action {14m} Sofia 24/1/44 with Vic Brockman, Co-pilot: Ben Nabers, Navigator: Sam Mayer, Bombardier: Jim Shea, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Archie Hartgrave, Radio Operator: Hilliard Parrish, Ball turret gunner: Hayden Speede, Waist gunner: Bill Fleming, Waist gunner: Joe Gibson,Tail gunner: Joe Habif (10 Returned to Duty); ditched 55 miles NE Bari, rescued by British ship taken to Brindisi, returned to base next day.

Delivered Long Beach 30/5/43; Tinker 22/6/43; Memphis 1/7/43; Morrison 30/7/43; Presque Is 3/8/43; Assigned 342BS/97BG Pont-du-Fahs, Tun 12/8/43; transferred 2BG Massicault, Tun; {21m with 2} 97BG Amendola, It. as weather aircraft 7/44; Salvaged 1/9/45.

Delivered Tulsa 29/5/44; Hunter 23/6/44; Dow Fd 3/7/44; Assigned 20BS/2BG Amendola 12/7/44; 56m then Returned to the USA Bradley 25/6/45; Sth Plains 27/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 27/11/45.

Delivered Long Beach 18/1/43; Salina 27/1/43; Morrison 10/3/43; Assigned 429BS/2BG Massicault 14/8/43; Bizerte 2/12/43; Amendola 9/12/43; Missing in Action Albano 10/2/44 with Ray Bosmans, Co-pilot: Paul Horne, Navigator: George Carney, Bombardier: Bill Kemp, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Duane Nolder, Radio Operator: Cary Carter, Ball turret gunner: Ray Scott, Waist gunner: Leon Abel, Waist gunner: Bob Groover,Tail gunner: Frank Perry (10 Killed in Action); wing on fire & two engines out, crashed in Med Sea, Missing Air Crew Report 2206. SCRUBBY OL’ GOAT aka IMPATIENT VIRGIN.

Delivered Denver 20/5/43; Dow Fd 11/7/43; Assigned 353BS/301BG St Donat 13/7/43; Cerignola 7/12/43; Lucera 1/2/44; {21m} transferred 97BG Amendola; depot 26/6/44 where it was traded with 301BG for 42-5870, while no missions with 2BG; Salvaged 30/11/45. BIG STOOP.