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

Delivered Geiger 301st Bomb Group 6/4/42; Alamogordo 18/6/42; Westover 2/7/42; New Castle 1/9/42; Mitchell 6/6/43; Cherry Pt 27/6/42; Selfridge 6/10/43; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 29/8/45.

Assigned 414BS/97BG 3/42 as LI’L SKUNKFACE; transferred 305BG Grafton Underwood 6/11/42; 381BG Ridgewell 11/6/43; 327BS/92BG Bovingdon [UX-V] 10/7/43 as target tug; 482BG Alconbury 27/8/43 for operations; with Gene Smith in landing accident at Deopham Green 6/12/44; Written off 21/8/45. LITTLE SKUNK FACE.

Delivered Cheyenne 21/9/44; Hunter 31/10/44; Grenier 8/11/44; Assigned 510BS/351BG [TU-J] Polebrook 2/1/45; 511BS [DS-J]; {22m} transferred 305BG Chelveston 23/5/45; Salvaged 9AF Germany 10/5/46.

Delivered Long Beach 31/3/43; Denver 3/4/43; Lockbourn 18/4/43; crashed base 2/9/43 with Ed Branen, cause unknown; Written off.

Delivered Cheyenne 3/4/43; Kearney 15/4/43; Wendover 2/5/43; Hill 15/5/43; Wendover 18/5/43; Kearney 23/5/43; Dow Fd 28/5/43; Assigned 351BS/100BG [EP- ] Thorpe Abbotts 1/6/43; Missing in Action La Pallice 4/7/43 with Bob Pearson, Co-pilot: Melville Boyd{broke arm], Navigator: Bruce Rinker, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Jack Goss, Radio Operator: Randall Villa, Ball turret gunner: Everett Moore, Waist gunner: John Westwood, Waist gunner: Lorrie Rutledge,Tail gunner: Albt Purcell (9 Prisoner of War); Bombardier: John Dunbar (evaded capture); ship lost power on two engines, and a third shot out by Me 109, crashed three miles W of La Pallice, near Isle D’Orlean, Fr; Missing Air Crew Report 685. NEVADA WILDCAT.

Delivered Kearney 28/6/44; Grenier 9/7/44; Assigned 349BS/100BG [XR-G] Thorpe Abbotts 12/7/44; Missing in Action Merseburg 28/9/44 with Ray Harney, Co-pilot: Bill Kimball, Navigator: Chas Hamrick, Bombardier: Warren French, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bob Minear, Radio Operator: Hubert Burleigh (6 Killed in Action); Ball turret gunner: Melvin Cordray, Waist gunner: Jim Sorenson,Tail gunner: Jack Francisco (3 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Schwickershausen, S of Meiningen, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 9373.

Delivered Cheyenne 5/8/44; Hunter 16/8/44; Grenier 2/9/44; Assigned 326BS/92BG [JW-D] Podington 13/9/44; battle damaged Mainz 21/9/44 with ?; force landed France, Salvaged.

Delivered Cheyenne 23/2/44; Rapid City 10/3/44; Grenier 14/3/44; Assigned 398BG Nuthampstead 25/4/44; no ops, transferred 368BS/306BG [BO-O] Thurleigh 28/4/44; Missing in Action Ruhrland 12/9/44 with John Sasser (died in hospital under going mastoidectomy 20/3/45), Co-pilot: Jim McStay, Navigator: Tony Carlino, Bombardier: Bob Banta, Radio Operator: Gene Carroll,Tail gunner: Ray Wilson (6 Killed in Action); Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Virgil MitchelsonWounded in Action, Ball turret gunner: Art Schultz, Waist gunner: Dave RevoltiWounded in Action (3 Prisoner of War); flak, crash landed Massow, near Freyensein, Wittstock, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 8834. TAILWIND.

Delivered RAF [AN521] as part of Lend-Lease; 90 Squadron [WP-K] Polebrook 15-Apr-41 with Major Walsh, the first aircraft to the fly Atlantic to RAF, Watton; transferred 220 Squadron, ZZ-? Portreath 28-Oct-41; 107 MU Kasfareet; Fuka 5-Dec-41; engine fire and crash landed Shallufa, Egypt, 10-Jan-42 with F/O Sturmey, plus crew of five and two passengers; F/Sgt Hamish Mennie, Sgt Don Tuson fatally injured; Written off 3-Oct-43.

Delivered Long Beach 16/6/43; Smoky Hill 12/7/43; Dow Fd 16/7/43; Assigned 351BS/100BG [EP-F] Thorpe Abbotts 17/7/43; Missing in Action Ludwigshafen 30/12/43 with Francis Smith, Co-pilot: Jim Law (2 Prisoner of War); Navigator: Saul Hershkowitz, Bombardier: Clyde Manion, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: John Amery, Radio Operator: John Swenson, Ball turret gunner: Alvin Little{Wounded in Action}, Waist gunner: John Runcel, Waist gunner: Conrad Stumpfig,Tail gunner: Bill Wertz (8 evaded capture); enemy aircraft set fire to cockpit, crashed Les Rosiers, two miles SE of Monthois, Fr.; Missing Air Crew Report 2019. HEAVEN CAN WAIT.

Delivered Cheyenne 30/12/43; Kearney 20/12/43; Witchita 1/1/44; Morrison 10/1/44; Assigned 429BS/2BG Amendola 3/2/44; Missing in Action Blechhammer 13/9/44 with Daryle Stuckey, Navigator: Herbert Traurig, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bob Caryl, Radio Operator: Bill McKibbin, Ball turret gunner: George Gasparik,Tail gunner: Tom Cima (6 Prisoner of War); Co-pilot: Henry Tennyson, Bombardier: Bill Spruce, Waist gunner: Paul Reinhart, Waist gunner: Bob Hare (4 evaded capture); mech problems caused 3 engines to quit ship and turned back one hour from target; crashed but did not burn at Verebely, near Budapest, Missing Air Crew Report 8363.

Delivered Cheyenne 19/3/44; Hunter 9/4/44; Dow Fd 29/4/44; Assigned 349BS/100BG [XR- ] Thorpe Abbotts 1/5/44; Missing in Action Berlin 24/5/44 with Clarke Johnson, Co-pilot: Ray Lund, Navigator: Tom Tracy, Bombardier: Willard Hahn, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Tom Beveridge, Waist gunner: Larry St John, Waist gunner: Bob Brooks (7 Killed in Action); Radio Operator: Bob Black, Ball turret gunner: Dave Scofield,Tail gunner: Larry Barger (3 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Fahrenkrug, two miles N of Rotenhaln, Holstein, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 5170.

Delivered Cheyenne 23/3/44; Kearney 13/4/44; Grenier 28/4/44; Slated 447BG, Assigned 349BS/100BG [XR-L] Thorpe Abbotts 21/4/44; Missing in Action Berlin 24/5/44 with Bob Roeder, Co-pilot: Paul Lammers, Navigator: Claud Robison, Bombardier: Milton Grabel, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Wade Eason, Radio Operator: Frank Goldstein (6 Killed in Action); Ball turret gunner: Natham McElroy{Wounded in Action}, Waist gunner: Fred Cebalo{Wounded in Action}, Waist gunner: Bill Poklemba{Wounded in Action},Tail gunner: Tony Lombardi (4 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Suelfeld, near Kaltenkirchen, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 5172. BTO of ETO.

Delivered Cheyenne 9/6/44; Kearney 20/6/44; Grenier 6/7/44; Assigned 834BS/486BG [2S-J] Sudbury 8/7/44; 833BS [2N-K], 61m Returned to the USA 1103 BU Morrison 3/11/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 4/1/46. DIRTY DEUCE.

Delivered Denver 28/9/43; Gr Island 20/10/43; Assigned 325BS/92BG [NV-K] Podington 20/1/44; Missing in Action Cottbus 29/5/44 with Harry Avery, Co-pilot: Ed Stapleton, Navigator: Jack Sorkin, Radio Operator: Don Bennett (wia), Waist gunner: Clarry Ackerman,Tail gunner: Don Merrick (6 Prisoner of War); Bombardier: Bob Stewart, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Jim McIlroy, Ball turret gunner: Clem Dreyer (3 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft set ship on fire, blew up and crashed Denzig, five miles SW of Kallies, E of Stettin, Pol; Missing Air Crew Report 5357. POPCORN FORT.

Delivered Lincoln 22/9/44; Grenier 7/10/44; Assigned 351BS/100BG [EP- ] Thorpe Abbotts 11/10/44; battle damaged Nurnberg 20/2/45 with ?350BS p; Salvaged 24/2/45.

Delivered Lincoln 1/11/44; Dow Fd 26/11/44; Assigned 493BG Debach 28/11/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 1/7/45; Sth Plains 4/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 24/11/45. PEORIA BELLE.

Delivered Lincoln 20/10/44; Dow Fd 26/11/44; Grenier 5/12/44; Assigned 652BS/25BG Watton 12/12/44; Missing in Action Atlantic weather mission 17/3/45 with Calman T. Estrach; 8 KIA; Missing Air Crew Report 13856.

Delivered Cheyenne 23/12/43; Dalhart 16/1/44; Kearney 22/2/44; Grenier 24/2/44; Assigned 457BG Glatton 13/3/44; so christened at Burtonwood, UK; transferred 323BS/91BG [OR-U] Bassingbourn 16/3/44; mission 15/8/44 with ? , Waist gunner: Luther Carico (Killed in Action), rest OK; Missing in Action {68m} Merseburg 2/11/44 with Oscar Snow, Navigator: Frank Farr, Bombardier: Bob Fitzpatrick, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Floyd Johnson, Radio Operator: Francis Dietzler, Ball turret gunner: Walt Poulsen, Waist gunner: Guy Hemenway,Tail gunner: Tom Walsh (8 Prisoner of War); Co-pilot: Alf Zwicky (KIA – as chute burned); enemy aircraft, crashed Nichaln, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 10147. WINGED VICTORY.

Delivered Hunter 20/10/44; Dow Fd 28/10/44; Assigned 351BS/100BG [EP-F] Thorpe Abbotts 2/11/44; (?tran 568BS/390BG [BI-N] Framlingham 3/11/44 THIS IS IT?); Returned to the USA Bradley 30/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 2/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 6/12/45. DUFFY’S TUFFYS.