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B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 43-37637

B-17 #43-37637

Delivered Cheyenne 6/5/44; Hunter 21/5/44; Grenier 6/6/44; Assigned: 332BS/94BG [XM-U] Rougham (Azon controlling mothership) 7/6/44; battle damage Nurnberg 21/2/45 Pilot: ‘; forced landing continent, Sal; Transferred: 34BG Mendlesham 9/6/45; Returned to US: Bradley 26/6/45; 4168 BU Sth Plains 29/6/45; Scrapped: Kingman 30/11/45.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 43-37638

B-17 #43-37638

Delivered Dyersburg 6/5/44; 223 BU Dyersburg 15/5/44; 330 BU Dyersburg 1/3/45; 327 BU Drew 28/8/45; 330 BU Dyersburg 4/9/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 17/12/45.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 43-37639

B-17 #43-37639

Delivered Dyersburg 6/5/44; 330 BU Dyersburg 2/3/45; 327 BU Drew 28/8/45; 330 BU Dyersburg 4/9/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 19/12/45.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 43-37640

B-17 #43-37640

Delivered Dyersburg 6/5/44; 330 BU Dyersburg 1/3/45; 327 BU Drew 28/8/45; 330 BU Dyersburg 4/9/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 18/12/45.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 43-37641

B-17 #43-37641

Delivered Pyote 6/5/44; Cheyenne 13/5/44; Pyote 18/5/44; 235 BU Biggs 23/7/44; 222 BU Ardmore 4/3/45; 332 BU Ardmore 16/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 26/9/45.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 43-37642

B-17 #43-37642

Delivered Pyote 6/5/44; 236 BU Pyote 15/5/44; 235 BU Biggs 19/8/44; 225 BU Rapid City 22/3/45; 4003 BU Philadelphia 29/3/45; 225 BU Rapid City 28/4/45; 2114 BU Lockbourn 19/7/45; 2137 BU Hendricks 29/9/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 8/1/46.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 43-37643

B-17 #43-37643

Delivered Cheyenne 8/5/44; Patterson 21/5/44; Kearney 26/6/44; Grenier 6/7/44; Assigned: 339BS/96BG [QJ-R] Snetterton 8/7/44; Pilot: Alva Hedegecock was damaged by 44-8728 in taxi accident at Deopham Green 7/6/45; Returned to US: Bradley 3/7/45; 4168 BU Sth Plains 6/7/45; Scrapped: Kingman 7/12/45.

B-17 #43-37644 / Feather Merchant

B-17 #43-37644 / Feather Merchant

Delivered Cheyenne 8/5/44; Hunter 21/5/44; Dow Fd 4/6/44; Assigned: 728BS/452BG Deopham Green 7/6/44; 729BS; MIA Misburg 31/12/44 Pilot: Vince Seger, Dave Harrison, Tony Morbeto, John Dieball, Bill Bruns, Mike Zahn, Everett Malcolm (7POW); Lew Carpenter, George Pierson (2KIA); Enemy aircraft, crashed Hamburg, Germany. MACR 11231. FEATHER MERCHANT.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 43-37645

B-17 #43-37645

Delivered Cheyenne 8/5/44; Hunter 21/5/44; Grenier 6/6/44; Assigned: 452BG Deopham Green 8/6/44; Transferred: 413BS/96BG Snetterton 11/6/44; MIA Steenwjik, Hol 24/3/45 Pilot: Ron Birch, Co-Pilot: Henry Miller, Navigator: Bill Hollis, Bombardier: Walt Liddle, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Lowell Beaver, Radio Operator: Bill Dillion, Ball Turret Gunner: Glen Wallace, Waist Gunner: Alton Goodling, Tail Gunner: Preston Wannan (9KIA); engine caught fire, ditched North Sea, off Yarmouth, UKl. MACR 13603.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 43-37650

B-17 #43-37650

Delivered Pyote 8/5/44; Gt Falls 11/5/44; Pyote 14/5/44; 235 BU Biggs 19/8/44; 225 BU Rapid City 22/3/45; 232 BU Dalhart 15/7/45; 4136 BU Tinker 9/9/45; 232 BU Dalhart 15/9/45; 244 BU Harvard 29/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 7/11/45. Stored until sold to California Airways as N66570 in 1952; to Bolivia CP-97 & CP-597. Written off Sep 1955.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 43-37651

B-17 #43-37651

Delivered Rapid City 8/5/44; Gt Falls 11/5/44; Rapid City 12/5/44; 239 BU March 21/7/45; 420 BU March 15/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 25/2/46.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 43-37652

B-17 #43-37652

Delivered Rapid City 8/5/44; Galveston 7/45; Barksdale 12/45; Memphis 10/46; mod to TB-17G 62 BU MacDill; McChord 3/46; Assigned US Coast Guard 5/47 as PB-1R; Bolling for the US Sec/Treasury trip to Europe; McChord 6/51; 4 ERS Hamilton 6/51; mod to QB-17G at Brookley; as drone target blown up over Holloman, NM 7/54.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 43-38748 / Bachelor’s Lair

B-17 #43-38748 / Bachelor’s Lair

Delivered Lincoln 18/9/44; Grenier 27/9/44; Assigned: 339BS/96BG [QJ-V] Snetterton 1/10/44; battle damage Merseburg 25/11/44 Pilot: Bob Weaver, (9RTD); crashed Westleton, near Leiston, Sfk. UK; Salvaged. 28/11/44.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 43-38807

B-17 #43-38807

Delivered Lincoln 24/9/44; Grenier 7/10/44; Assigned: 848BS/490BG Eye 17/10/44; battle damage Mannheim 21/1/45 Pilot: ‘; crash-landed continent; Salvaged. 4/2/45; MACR 11770.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 43-38808

B-17 #43-38808

Delivered Lincoln 25/9/44; Grenier 7/10/44; Assigned 94BG Rougham, Sfk 16/10/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 9/7/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 12/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 16/11/45.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 43-38838

B-17 #43-38838

Delivered Lincoln 27/9/44; Grenier 11/10/44; Assigned 849BS/490BG Eye 17/10/44; landing accident with Chas Ward, hit 43-38134 on base 12/12/44; Salvaged 13/12/44.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 43-38846

B-17 #43-38846

Delivered Lincoln 28/9/44; Grenier 22/10/44; Assigned 8AF 23/10/44; Returned to the USA 1103 BU Morrison 26/12/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 9/1/46.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 43-38847

B-17 #43-38847

Delivered Lincoln 28/9/44; Grenier 11/10/44; Assigned 8AF 12/10/44; Salvaged n/battle damaged 30/11/44.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-102387

B-17 #42-102387

Delivered Cheyenne 27/2/44; Gt Falls 2/3/44; 225 BU Rapid City 4/4/45; 239 BU March 19/7/45; 237 BU Kirtland 23/7/45; 420 BU March 7/10/45; 321 BU March 28/4/46; 4135 BU Hill 6/6/46; 556 BU Long Beach 7/6/46; 4135 BU Hill 2/7/46; Recl Comp 2/10/46.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-102388

B-17 #42-102388

Delivered Cheyenne 27/2/44; Gt Falls 2/3/44; Morrison 19/4/44; Assigned 815BS/483BG Sterparone 30/4/44; Missing in Action Fornova de Taro 22/6/44 with Bill Schild, Frieberger, Ryan, Spracher (4 Killed in Action); Donahue, Ryan, Denison (3 evaded capture & ret); Dekovitch, Erlinger, Johnston (3 Prisoner of War); flak, right wing shot off, crashed Bologna, It; Missing Air Crew Report 11543.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-102403

B-17 #42-102403

Delivered Cheyenne 29/2/44; Hunter 22/3/44; Morrison 9/4/44; Assigned 816BS/483BG Sterparone 9/4/44; Missing in Action Friedrichshafen 3/8/44 with George Mullins, Bradshaw, Macko, Gaffney, Griffin, Danielson, Mitchley, Foster, Ross, Hosmer (10 Returned to Duty); ditched Adriatic Sea, crew rescued.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-102404

B-17 #42-102404

Cheyenne 29/2/44; Pyote 11/3/44; 235 BU Biggs 17/8/44; 4505 BU Kelly 20/9/44; 203 BU Jackson 28/3/45; 253 BU St Angelo 25/7/45; 203 BU Jackson 10/8/45; 235 BU Biggs 9/9/45; 230 BU Biggs 25/11/45; 268 BU Peterson 11/12/45l; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 7/1/46.

B-17 #42-102499

B-17 #42-102499

Delivered Cheyenne 9/3/44; Gr Island 29/3/44; Dow Fd 4/4/44; Assigned 728BS/452BG [9Z-Q] Deopham Green 5/4/44; destroyed by enemy aircraft at Poltava with Elias Harris, 21/6/44; Salvaged 2/7/44.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-102405

B-17 #42-102405

Delivered Cheyenne 4/3/44; Kearney 22/3/44; Grenier 7/4/44; Assigned: 332BS/94BG [XM-O] Rougham 8/4/44; detailed on training mission 23/4/44 Pilot: Norman Skinner, Co-Pilot: Ken Storey, instr. p-Jack Webb, pass-Pte Don Morgart, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Sam Tudisco, Ball Turret Gunner: Joe Brownlee, Waist Gunner: Bill Copeland, Waist Gunner: Ben Leone, pass-Tom McKeon (9KIA); Radio Operator: Harry Sonnet, Tail Gunner: John Cooney (2RTD); hydraulic fluid started leaking which then caught fire and crew found no extinguishers on board, crashed Cooper’s Farm, Lawshall, Sfk, UK. Salvaged. 24/4/44.