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

With Kent Richens crashed Gulf of Mexico 10/6/44?

Delivered Long Beach 28/7/43; Dallas 9/8/43; 901 BU Pinecastle 10/6/44; 9BG McCook 5/7/44; 245 BU McCook 16/9/44; 233 BU Davis Monthan 27/2/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 4/10/45.

Delivered 2BG Langley 6-Jun-37; with Bill Bentley force landed ? due to severe icing conditions 6-Jul-37; transferred 19BG March Fd Oct-40; with John Turner crash landed east of San Jacinto, Cal. on 46th flt during a violent thunderstorm 18-Dec-40. However despite bent wings and losing some rivets it basically proved to be intact during salvage operation. This aircraft never served in combat and was never posted to the UK.

Delivered Tulsa 12/9/42; Smyrna 15/11/42; Hobbs 22/11/42; lost in training accident electrical fire five miles S of Mineral Wells, Tx near base 11/3/43, with Jack Nillson, eight crew bailed out safely and RTD; Written off 11/5/43.

Delivered Cheyenne 27/8/42; Syracuse 5/10/42; Presque Is 19/10/42; Assigned 366BS/305BG Chelveston 29/10/42; transferred MTO 342BS/97BG Depienne 4/11/43; Cerignola 20/12/43; Amendola 16/1/44; Written off 31/10/44.

Delivered Tulsa 21/2/44; Gr Island 3/3/44; Grenier 24/3/44; Assigned 532BS/381BG [VE-O/D] Ridgewell 6/4/44; 47+m Returned to the USA Bradley 28/5/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 31/5/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 28/11/45. CENTURY NOTE.

Delivered 20BS/2BG Langley 17-Jun-37; transferred 19BG March Fd Oct-40; public relations trip to Grand Union High School, McClelland Fd 4-Jul-41; 66 flts; Written off 2-Apr-42. [aircraft No. 51] This aircraft never served in combat and was never posted to the UK.

Delivered MacDill 97BG 25/3/42, Cheyenne 5/5/42; Sarasota 3/6/42; Westover 26/6/42; Muroc 29/7/42; Ogden 16/8/42; 11AF Kodiak 13/1/43; Returned to the USA 20/12/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Bush Fd 7/6/45.

Delivered Geiger 301st Bomb Group 30/3/42; Alamogordo 8/6/42; Westover 2/7/42; Alamogordo 3/8/42; Biggs 5/11/42; Wendover 9/12/42; Tinker 27/2/43; Lockbourn 10/3/43; Patterson 23/10/43; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 9/10/45.

Delivered Boise 303BG 27/3/42; Alamagordo 18/6/42; Gt Falls 27/8/42; Biggs 3/9/42; Alamogordo 2/10/42; Boise 25/1/43; Hill 2/2/43; Lockbourn 11/3/43; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 14/9/45.

Delivered 2BG/HQ Langley 1-Jun-37; used by CO Major Bob Olds from 28-May-37; took part on goodwill trip to South America 1938; transferred 19BG March Fd Oct-40; then Langley, force landed with Warren Wilkinson at Lively Fd, VA 1-Jan-42; Amarillo 12-Nov-42; 56 flts; Written off 29-Jan-43. [aircraft No. 10.] This aircraft was never used in combat and never served in the UK.

Delivered Cheyenne 12/2/43; Walker 23/2/43; Smoky Hill 28/3/43; Presque Is 5/4/43; Dow Fd 12/4/43; Assigned 96BG Grafton Underwood 19/4/43; transferred gr/crew-Alby McLain (all 6 Killed in Service); left wing dipped on landing and pilot unable to correct, crashed Wood Barns Farm, Belchamp St Paul, Ex, a couple of miles from base. Salvaged. STUFF. 534BS/381BG [GD-D] Ridgewell 7/9/43 MISS ABORTION; {21m} crash landed base 31/3/44 on test flight with Wayne Schomburg, Co-pilot: Capt Paul Stull {an engineering officer, believed to be at the wheel}, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Don Carr, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Chas Carter, Radio Operator: Melvin Wilson,

Delivered Boise 303BG 28/3/42; Lowry 29/5/42; Hamilton 7/6/42; Assigned 72BS/5BG Hawaii 9/6/42; Written off 15/6/44.

Delivered Boise 338BS/96BG (?303BG) 28/2/42; {re-ass 7BG Hawaii then 19BG – according to Fortress Against the Sun by Gene E. Salecker}; with Dan Minnick force landed Salt Lake City Fd 30/3/42; Ephrata 4/6/42; Muroc 3/7/42; Geiger 2/9/42; Rapid City 1/10/42; crashed mountains of Sierra Grande, NM with Paul Cunningham 17/10/42; Salvaged. NIPPON MISS.

Delivered 49BS/2BG Langley 16-May-37; took part in goodwill trip to South America 1938; transferred 19BG March Fd Oct-40; with Elder Patteson crash landed base 1-Dec-40; 59 flts; Written off 15-Jan-43. [aircraft No. 81]. This aircraft never served in combat and was never posted to the UK.

Delivered Boise 303BG 28/3/42; Lowry 29/5/42; Hamilton 7/6/42; Assigned 72BS/5BG Hawaii 8/6/42; transferred 26BS/11BG; Returned to the USA Rome 18/7/45; Recl Comp 14/8/45.

Delivered Boise 303BG 27/3/42; transferred Gowen, WA, with Jim Walker crashed six miles N Strevell, ID 3/4/42 all Killed in Service , cause unknown; Salvaged.

Delivered Tulsa 1/2/44; Grenier 27/2/44; Assigned 401BS/91BG Bassingbourn 7/4/44 ANNE, then THE BLOODY BUCKET; 322BS [LG-Y/X]; 324BS [DF-Y]; battle damaged Dresden 14/2/45 with Joe Bilotta, Bob Fuller Wounded in Action, rest ? ; force landed Denain, Fr, an RCAF airfield 20/2/45; (first B-17 repaired on continent & ret to group); After VE-Day transferred Istres, S. France with 384BG and carried POWs and displaced persons from North Africa, adorned with airline type strips on fuselage; 125+m Salvaged 9AF 31/12/45. HIKIN’ FOR HOME.

Delivered 2BG Langley 10-May-37; transferred March Fd Oct-40; return to Langley 17-Dec-41; 58 flts; with Ed Flank MIS in VA 5-Mar-42; with Warren Wilkinson force landed Lively Fd, Va 1-May-42; Written off 22-Jun-43. This aircraft never served in combat and was never posted to the UK.

Delivered Long Beach 31/3/43; Kearney 15/4/43; Wendover 2/5/43; Dow Fd 30/5/43; Assigned 418BS/100BG [LD-V] Thorpe Abbotts 1/6/43; transferred 568BS/390BG [BI-O] Framlingham 7/43; bellied in at Thorpe Abbotts with Albert Elton 6/9/43, gained by 390BG 9/43; taken off operations 16/9/44; Salvaged Burtonwood 6/2/45. PADDLEFOOT’S PROXY.