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

Delivered New Haven 6/6/44; 3501 BU Boca Raton 15/6/44; 3505 BU Scott 10/2/45; 3501 BU Boca Raton 4/3/45; 2144 BU Moody 6/3/45; 3501 BU Boca Raton 21/3/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 22/2/46.

Delivered Dallas 14/7/44; Langley 22/8/44; Dow Fd 5/10/44; Assigned 49BS/2BG PFF Amendola 10/10/44; {11m} transferred 352BS/301BG Lucera 13/12/44; Salvaged 9AF Germany 10/5/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 13/4/43; Tinker 5/11/43; Written off 24/1/44.

Delivered Cheyenne 5/4/43; Dow Fd 30/5/43; Assigned 418BS/100BG [LD-R] Podington 31/5/43; Thorpe Abbotts 9/6/43; Missing in Action Munster 10/10/43 with John Stephens, Co-pilot: Hoyt Smith, Navigator: Rudi Grum, Bombardier: Bill Moore, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: John Shay, Radio Operator: Carl Battin{Wounded in Action}, Ball turret gunner: Max Drudge{Wounded in Action}, Waist gunner: Bill Young, Waist gunner: George Knolle,Tail gunner: Casi Paczynski (10 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft damage, and further damaged by flak when limping home low over Germany, then bellied in at Holthausen, near Ramsdorf, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 1030. STYMIE.

Delivered Tulsa 15/2/44; Grenier 11/3/44; Assigned 547BS/384BG [SO-B] Grafton Underwood 6/4/44; 546BS [BK-B]; Missing in Action Koblenz 27/12/44 with Elmer Nelson, Bill Horan, Marton Dobrow, Derald Melton, Edmund Zaleski, Tom Raught, Ken Rohr (7 Killed in Action); Tony Occhino, John Manicki (2 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed Prum, Ger ; Missing Air Crew Report 11248.

Delivered Lincoln 10/1/45; Dow Fd 6/2/45; Assigned 96BS/2BG Amendola 5/3/45; {0m} transferred 5th Bomb Wing pool 20/9/45; Returned to the USA Morrison 11/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 18/1/46.

Delivered Denver 13/4/43; Dow Fd 2/6/43; Assigned 92BG Podington MARY B /43; transferred 94BG Rougham /43; 339BS/96BG [QJ-O] Snetterton /43; Returned to the USA Morrison 2/8/43; Salvaged 18/9/43; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 19/12/45. SACK TIME.

Delivered Cheyenne 6/4/43; Dow Fd 26/5/43; Assigned 351BS/100BG [EP-E] Thorpe Abbotts 31/5/43; borrowed by 390BG suffered battle damaged Munster 10/10/43 with Bob Schneider, crash landed Wattisham, Sfk, UK out of fuel, and ran off runway & broke in half, but crew all OK; Salvaged 13/10/43. LITTLE MIKE.

Delivered Cheyenne 6/4/43; Dow Fd 28/5/43; Assigned 350BS/100BG [LN-R] Thorpe Abbotts 1/6/43; Missing in Action Bremen 8/10/43 with Capt Bernard DeMarco, Co-pilot: Jim Thayer, Navigator: John Downs, Bombardier: Francis Harper, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ben Barr, Radio Operator: Thornton Stringfellow (chute caught in tree and broke ribs), Ball turret gunner: Bill Woodbury, Waist gunner: Harry Calhoun, Waist gunner: Bill Williams,Tail gunner: Jerome Ferroggiaro, mp-Maj Gale Cleven Sqd CO (11 Prisoner of War); Flak KO’d engine #3 then enemy aircraft hit #4 and 8ft of left wing blown off, crashed Bremen; Missing Air Crew Report 950. OUR BABY.

Delivered Lincoln 30/1/45; Grenier 17/2/45; Assigned 96BS/2BG Amendola 11/3/45; {0m} Returned to the USA Morrison 26/9/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 14/12/45. HELL’S ANGELS.

Delivered Denver 30/4/43; Dow Fd 13/6/43; Assigned 561BS/388BG Knettishall 14/6/43; on training mission 12/7/44 with Major Boardman Reed, Co-pilot: Major Melvin Buckner, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Paul Weathers, Radio Operator: Ora Kelsey, pass:-Capt Bob Goss, Orville Meline, Roy Summers, Dorothy Drennan, Irene Seagalia, Charlotte Thomas and Lt Col Bill Jackson (ROC/RAF) (11 Returned to Duty); landed heavily and damaged right wing; Salvaged four days before its first anniversary of ops, n/battle damaged 24/8/44. “MISS MAC”.

Delivered Cheyenne 13/4/43; Assigned 503BS/346BG Dyersburg 17/4/43; with Jim Koller crash landed base 17/5/43; Written off 24/8/43.

Delivered Cheyenne 14/4/43; Morrison 29/4/43; Assigned ?; Salvaged Duko 20/9/43.

Delivered Denver 13/4/43; Morrison 14/5/43; Assigned 97BG Chateau-du-Rhumel 17/5/43; transferred 483BG Sterparone 8/44 as weather ship; Salvaged 30/11/45.

Delivered Denver 12/4/43; 2137 BU Hendricks 18/7/43; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 19/12/45.

Delivered Denver 18/4/43; Assigned 410BS/94BG [GL-Q] Rougham 13/6/43; Returned to the USA Lockbourn 10/4/44; with Bill Neely force landed Richmond, IN 10/8/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 27/9/45. WACKY.

Delivered Lincoln 12/1/45; Dow Fd 6/2/45; Assigned 96BS/2BG Amendola 25/2/45; {0m} Salvaged 9AF Germany 19/11/47.

Delivered Dallas 26/8/44; Langley 21/9/44; Grenier 1/10/44; Assigned 96BS/2BG PFF Amendola 24/10/44; Missing in Action Linz 3/12/44 with Bill Pepperman, Co-pilot: Chas Dewey, Navigator: Howard Kresge, Bombardier: Bill Torske, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ernie Walker[wia], m/op-Jim Teske, Ball turret gunner: Jim Dodge, Waist gunner: Jim Johnson, Waist gunner: Alva Flowers[wia],Tail gunner: Budd Argyle (10 Prisoner of War); Missing Air Crew Report 10031.

Delivered Cheyenne 6/4/43; with Claron Pratt force landed Long Beach, CA., 6/4/43; Assigned 503BS/346BG Dyersburg 17/4/43; Gulfport 16/5/43; with Harry Sharpe crashed on take off Dyersburg 29/5/43; Written off 1/6/43.