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

Delivered Cheyenne 10/1/44; Assigned 535BS/381BG [MS-R] Ridgewell 6/4/44; 113m Returned to the USA 5/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 26/2/46. STAGE DOOR CANTEEN.

Delivered Cheyenne 30/5/43; Gore 13/6/43; Rapid City 19/6/43; Geiger 22/6/43; Smoky Hill 23/6/43; Dow Fd 5/7/43; Assigned 342BS/97BG Chateau-du-Rhumel 13/7/43; Pont-du-Fahs 1/8/43; Depienne 15/8/43; crashed on take off 20/12/43, (lost two engines) with Roy Mayo; 10RTD; Salvaged.

The first Vega B-17 flew 4/5/42 before delivery to Patterson 23/6/42; to Biggs with Lester Miller but force landed 21/4/43; Written off 27/4/43.

Delivered Denver 23/4/43; Bangor 31/5/43; Assigned 562BS/388BG; 413BS/96BG Snetterton 12/6/43; Missing in Action Huls 22/6/43 with Cyril Morrison, Co-pilot: Gadsen Ford, Navigator: Fred Alexander, Bombardier: John Kerr, Radio Operator: Ray Howerter, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Keith Moyes, Ball turret gunner: Bob Garrett, Waist gunner: Keith Kay, Waist gunner: Jim Ward,Tail gunner: Warren Goodwin (10 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, flak hit caused explosion crashed near Wesel, Ger. No MACR; GUESS WHO?

B-17F 41-24503 ‘Pandora’s Box’ assigned 324BS/91BG [DF-E] Bangor 30-August-42; Bassingbourn 29-September-42; Missing in Action 23-Nov-42 while flying as Group Lead on mission to bomb the U-Boat pens at St Nazaire, France. Enemy aircraft shot out #3, and aircraft dropped back and crashed into the sea 30 miles northwest of St. Nazaire. 11KIA MACR 16162

Assigned 423BS/306BG Westover 15-August-1942; Thurleigh 13-Oct-1942. Missing in Action on mission to bomb the U-Boat pens at St Nazaire, France 9-November-1942. 6KIA 3POW 1EVD. MACR 6012.

Delivered Long Beach 29/10/43; Assigned 614BS/401BG [IW-L] Deenethorpe 5/1/44; transferred ATC 30/5/45; retUS 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 11/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 19/6/45. PARIS EXPRESS.

Delivered Sth Plains 4/5/45; Patterson 9/5/45; WCW San Francisco 23/7/45; Assigned Okinawa 2/8/45; missing 25/7/46.

Delivered Denver 14/3/43; Walla Walla 28/7/43; crashed 17 miles east of Arlington, OR. with John McKanna 10/8/43; Written off 14/8/43.

Delivered Long Beach 6/8/43; Scott 8/10/43; Assigned 422BS/305BG [JJ-B] Chelveston 20/12/43; transferred 858BS 20/6/44; declared war weary and modified as lifeboat carrier at Honington for Air Sea Rescue Halesworth /45; retUS 121 BU Bradley 29/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 21/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 18/11/45. CHANNEL FEVER BABY.

Delivered Lincoln 26/2/45; Grenier 13/3/45; Assigned 8AF 15/3/45; re-ass 10 HBS Oberpfaffenhofen 30/4/47; Recl Comp 1/10/48.

Delivered Long Beach 29/12/42; Salina 7/1/43; Homestead 14/2/43; Assigned 401BS/91BG [LL-F] Bassingbourn 9/3/43; Missing in Action 17m Stuttgart 6/9/43 with Elwood Arp, Co-pilot: Howard Sherman, Bombardier: Chauncey Hicks returned via Spain, Ball turret gunner: Russ Hatton (4 evaded capture), Navigator: Nathan Weltman captured in Paris Dec 43, ttg-Ray Thompson, Radio Operator: John Wenninghoff, Waist gunner: Norbert Swierz, Waist gunner: Dean Millward,Tail gunner: Don Hayes (6 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft KO’d #3, crashed Mons-en-Pevele, near Lille, Fr. Missing Air Crew Report 514. BOMB-BOOGIE.

Assigned to 91BG/401BS at Bangor 29-Aug-42; Bassingbourn 1-Oct-42. Despatched on 20-Dec-42 to bomb the German air depot at Romilly, France. Enemy aircraft KO’d tailplane and the aircraft crashed near Rouen, France. 3KIA 7POW MACR 16243.

Delivered Dow Fd 2-Sep-42; Assigned 322BS/91BG [LG-Q] 6-Sep-42; Bassingbourn 29-Sep-42; battle damaged 20-Dec-42 on mission to bomb the German air depot at Romilly-sur-Seine, France. Crash-landed Parsonage Farm, Fletching, Sussex, UK; badly damaged by flak and enemy aircraft attacks, just limped home across Channel. 10RTD Salvaged.

Delivered Long Beach 23/4/43; Dallas 29/4/43; Smoky Hill 4/6/43; Eglin 8/7/43; Dow Fd 11/7/43; Assigned 353BS/301BG Oudna 1/9/43; Cerignola 7/12/43; Lucera 1/2/44; {52m} weather aircraft 27/7/44; Salvaged 17/6/45.

Delivered Tulsa 8-May-44; Hunter 18-May-44; Grenier 10-Jun-44; Assigned 324BS/91BG [DF-P] Bassingbourn 10-Jul-44; 323BS [OR-P]. Shot down by enemy aircraft while on a mission to bomb the aircraft factories at Halle, Germany. Attack caused a fire in the bomb bay and the aircraft exploded. 4 members of the crew were able to bale out and the other 5 were blown clear. AIrcraft crashed at Teistungen, Germany. 5KIA 4POW MACR 8185.

Delivered Long Beach 19/10/43; Gr Island 2/11/43; Assigned 364BS/305BG [WF-O] Chelveston 12/12/43; battle damaged Oschersleben 11/1/44 with John Raedeke, Co-pilot: John Urban, rest ?? ; (10RTD?) sal 2 SAD Watton, Nfk 16/1/44. HIT PARADE.

Delivered Cheyenne 12/2/44; Dalhart 2/3/44; Kearney 25/3/44; Grenier 26/3/44; Assigned 427BU/303BG [GN-Q] Molesworth 12/4/44; battle damaged Berlin 28/3/45 with Forrest Miller, crash landed Sandwich, Kent, UK; Salvaged 2 SAD 31/3/45. QUEENIE.

Delivered Cheyenne 18/3/44; Kearney 2/4/44; Grenier 4/4/44; Assigned 601BS/398BG [3O-F] Nuthampstead 20/4/44; (40m) Missing in Action Magdeburg 28/9/44 with Russell Conrow, Co-pilot: John McCann, Navigator: Jim Stephens, Bombardier: Herb Faber, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Walt Hinich, Radio Operator: Ed Madden, Ball turret gunner: Chas King, Waist gunner: Capt Bill Hendrickson, Waist gunner: Bob Downing,Tail gunner: Joe Hughes (10 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed Schorstedt, NW of Stendahl, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 9382. [?9381] LODIAN.

Delivered Amarillo 1/7/434; Cheyenne 27/7/43; Gore 7/8/43; Dyersburg 8/8/43; Assigned 326BS/92BG [JW-L] Podington 16/9/43; Missing in Action Augsburg 25/2/44 with Chas Nashold{kept ship level so crew could jump}, Ball turret gunner: Earl Keller (2 Killed in Action); Navigator: George Fahlstrom, Bombardier: Fred Butler, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bill Richardson, Radio Operator: Bill Schuff, Waist gunner: Leo Conners, Waist gunner: Paul Zeman,Tail gunner: Tom Rodman (7 Prisoner of War); Co-pilot: Jim Lyles (evaded capture); flak, crashed Les Quatre Seigneurs, 12 miles E of Thionville, Fr; Missing Air Crew Report 2754. VASSAR’S VIRGIN.