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

Delivered Cheyenne 30/1/44; Kearney 27/2/44; Grenier 5/3/44; Assigned 332BS/94BG [XM-C] Rougham 12/3/44; over Berlin 18/4/44 with Capt Ed Lundak;Tail gunner: John Mundrick (POW- bailed out prematurely) a/s returned to base; Missing in Action Freidrichshafen 24/4/44; flak KOd #3, force landed Dubendorf, Switz. Missing Air Crew Report 4262. Returned to the USA 1377 BU Grenier 14/9/45; Independence 16/9/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 4/11/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 24/4/43; Smoky Hill 14/5/43; Tinker 24/5/43; Smoky Hill 29/5/43; Dow Fd 1/6/43; Assigned 525BS/379BG [FR-C] Kimbolton 6/6/43; Missing in Action Schweinfurt 17/8/43; flak, crash landed wheels up on road between Elfershausen & Trimburg, 13 miles NW of Schweinfurt, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 1765. THE BOLEVICH.

Delivered Cheyenne 26/5/43; Gore 27/5/43; Cheyenne 2/6/43; Smoky Hill 12/6/43; Geiger 22/6/43; Smoky Hill 23/6/43; Dow Fd 5/7/43; Assigned 331BS/94BG [QE-Z] Rougham 7/7/43; Missing in Action Regensburg 17/8/43 with Bernard W. Nayovitz, Co-pilot: James F. Smith, Jr., Navigator: Murlyn F. Burnett, Bombardier: Robert P. Allison, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Albert V. Beyke, Ball turret gunner: Jack H. Loveless (6 Killed in Action); Radio Operator: Arthur P. McDonnell,Tail gunner: James W. Tolbert (2 Prisoner of War); Waist gunner: Jake Dalinsky, Waist gunner: Beverley G. Geyer (2 evaded capture); enemy aircraft, crashed Lummen, six miles E of Deist, Bel; Missing Air Crew Report 323. DEAR MOM.

Delivered Denver 3/9/43; Gr Island 27/9/43; Assigned 350BS/100BG [LN-T] Thorpe Abbotts 28/9/43; Missing in Action Brunswick 21/2/44 with Bill Fletcher, Co-pilot: Dick Roper, Navigator: George Browning, Bombardier: Howard Venzie, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Leo Callahan, Radio Operator: George Reid, Ball turret gunner: Peitro Deaquinto, Waist gunner: Alex Sosik, Waist gunner: John Seman,Tail gunner: Dave Robb (10 Prisoner of War); battle damaged plus mech fault, force landed Halfweg, between Amsterdam & Harlem, Hol. Missing Air Crew Report 2761. npo FLETCHER’S CASTORIA III.

Delivered Dallas 2/4/43; Geiger 23/5/43; Gt Falls 7/6/43; Smoky Hill 30/6/43; Dow Fd 10/7/43; Assigned 535BS/381BG [MS-W] Ridgewell 10/7/43; transferred Mildenhall 17/7/43, then 568BS/390BG [BI-G] Framlingham 14/7/43; Missing in Action Regensburg 17/8/43 with Ashbrooke Tyson, Co-pilot: Chas Hinckley, Navigator: Chas Hansen, Bombardier: Elmo Peterson, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Edwin Tyson, Radio Operator: Verial Whaples, Ball turret gunner: Bill Roberts, Waist gunner: Albt Van Pelt, Waist gunner: Edmund Valonis,Tail gunner: C.L. Roseberry (10 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, left wing on fire, exploded and crashed Bingen, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 388. ALL SHOT TO HELL.

Delivered Cheyenne 1/4/43; Kearney 15/4/43; Gore 17/4/43; Hamilton 28/4/43; Wendover 2/5/43; Hill 12/5/43; Wendover 19/5/43; Kearney 22/5/43; Dow Fd 31/5/43; Assigned 349BS/100BG [XR-F] Thorpe Abbotts 9/6/43; Missing in Action Regensburg 17/8/43 with Henry Shotland, Co-pilot: Chas Thompson, Navigator: Tom Doran, Bombardier: Bill Harrison, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Lloyd Field, Radio Operator: Ed Kussman, Ball turret gunner: Larry Capdeville, Waist gunner: John Keegan, Waist gunner: Roy Butler (9 Prisoner of War);Tail gunner: Foster Compton (Killed in Action); enemy aircraft hit wing which caught fire, crashed Boxheierhof, SE of Burstadt, 10 miles N of Mannheim, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 680. DAMIFINO aka THE WAAC HUNTER.

B-17F 41-24544 “Pennsylvania Polka” was assigned 323BS/91BG [OR-O] Bangor 10-Sep-42; Bassingbourn 26-Oct-42; Shot down 4-Feb-43 by fighters 12 miles NW of the tip of Terschelling Island, Holland while on a mission to bomb the railroad marshalling yards at Hamm, Germany. The marshalling yards were obscured by clouds and the port area of Emden, Germany was attacked as a target of last resort. 10KIA MACRS 3557 & 4635. Flew 7+ missions

Delivered Cheyenne 20/9/43; Harvard 5/10/43; Assigned 708BS/447BG Rattlesden 29/11/43; Missing in Action Halbestadt 11/1/44 with Herschell Jarrell, Co-pilot: Lt Col Chas Bowman, Bombardier: Tom Tate, Radio Operator: John Smitherfound 14/8/44, Ball turret gunner: John Harrison, Waist gunner: Alphonse Rossetti, Waist gunner: Ray Wilson,Tail gunner: Lt Bill Zurynetz (8 Killed in Action); Navigator: John Cole, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Gene Landry (2 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed swampy ground near Rehburg, 19 miles from Hanover, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 2513

Delivered Denver 13/7/43; Hill 20/8/43; Assigned 533BS/381BG [VP-V] Ridgewell 24/9/43 (DINAH MITE II?); Missing in Action 18+m Oschersleben 11/1/44 with Billy Chason, Co-pilot: Henry Mickelson, Navigator: Larry Walker, Bombardier: Americus Gentile, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Carl Hydra, Radio Operator: Bob Vollbrecht, Ball turret gunner: Ray Martin, Waist gunner: Howard Greenwood, Waist gunner: Tom Cobb,Tail gunner: Steve Kudla (10 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, #3 caught fire, crashed between Oldenburg and Bremen, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 1878. DOLL BABY.

Delivered Cheyenne 21/4/44; Kearney 6/5/44; Grenier 27/5/44; Assigned 334BS/95BG [BG-Q] Horham 30/5/44; with A.E. McCulley 25/8/44 wia-b Lt Bill Kehoe, Waist gunner: Larry Roberts; with W.C. Bramlett force landed RAF Woodbridge 25/12/44; with R.W. Paine 27/5/44 force landed Thorpe Abbotts AF; 55m, Missing in Action Berlin 3/2/45 with Dick Morris (Prisoner of War); Co-pilot: Dean Ratts, Navigator: Ken Wood, Bombardier: Len Pospisil, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Leroy Hansen, Radio Operator: Ken Peterson, Ball turret gunner: Marion Bell, Waist gunner: Milton Onie,Tail gunner: Bill Watt (8 Killed in Action); battle damaged plus runaway prop, crashed Den Berg Texel, Hol. Missing Air Crew Report 12048.

Delivered Cheyenne 10/5/43; Smoky Hill 23/5/43; Kearney 26/5/43; Dow Fd 2/6/43; Assigned 525BS/379BG [FR-P] Kimbolton 21/6/43; Missing in Action Schweinfurt 17/8/43 with Jim Sexton, Co-pilot: John Goettel, Navigator: Bill LaDow, Bombardier: Joe Lee, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Preston Wells, Radio Operator: Vince Leonard, Ball turret gunner: Ed Schad, Waist gunner: Jim Leckey,Tail gunner: Joe Sheppard (9 Prisoner of War), Waist gunner: Talmadge Naron (Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed Niederwetz, five miles S of Wetzlar, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 1763. RAGING RED.

Delivered Denver 12/5/43; Dow Fd 12/7/43; Assigned 569BS/390BG [CC-O] Framlingham 14/7/43; 3m, Missing in Action Regensburg 17/8/43 with Ray Becker, Co-pilot: Dave Schlegell, Navigator: Bill Conner, Bombardier: Bill Burke, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Clinton Hahn, Radio Operator: Herman Black, Ball turret gunner: Earl Shermeyer, Waist gunner: John Muir, Waist gunner: Roy Ball,Tail gunner: Chas Reed (10 Returned to Duty); enemy aircraft, ditched Med Sea, 50 miles off Bone, North Africa; Missing Air Crew Report 389. PURGATORY PETE.

Assigned 322BS/91BG [LG-O] Bangor 29/8/42; Bassingbourn 29/9/42; in taxi accident with John Hardin 18/11/42 at RNAS Yeovilton; MIZPAH – THE BEARDED LADY aka THE BEARDED BEAUTY. Missing in Action 28m Schweinfurt 17/8/43 with Everett Kenner, Co-pilot: George Bryan decapitated, Navigator: Rich Martin chute failed to open, Waist gunner: Gardner Moore,Tail gunner: Bill Hagin (5 Killed in Action). Bombardier: Herb Egender, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Glen Chase, Radio Operator: George Vender, Ball turret gunner: John O’Toole, Waist gunner: Jim Bowcock (5 Prisoner of War); Hit by enemy aircraft, along top of fuselage and KO’d #2 engine, dropped out and crashed Mayen, 15 miles W of Coblenz, Germany. See Missing Air Crew Report 275.

Assigned 322BS/91BG [LG-N] Bangor 1-Sep-42; Bassingbourn 29-Sep-42; Missing in Action (MIA) 7+m Hamm 4-Mar-43. Aircraft sustained repeated attacks by fighters and crashed into the North Sea just of the southern tip of Texel Island, Holland. The crew was ordered to bale out, but most landed in the sea and were lost. Co-pilot: 1LT Harold E. Kious rescued by ferryboat Dr Wagemaker, and then captured as a POW. Missing Air Crew Report 3721. ROSE O’DAY.

Delivered Cheyenne 26/10/43; Gr Island 11/11/43; Romulus 18/11/43; Assigned 323BS/91BG [OR-P] Bassingbourn 20/12/43; Missing in Action 5m Oschersleben 11/1/44 with Edwin Reid, Co-pilot: Dick Morganchute caught fire, Bombardier: George Marghita, Radio Operator: Benton Lowry, Ball turret gunner: John Gustafson, Waist gunner: Melvin Stoddard,Tail gunner: Tony Czarnecki (7 Killed in Action), Navigator: John HausWounded in Action, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ernie Kretchmer, Waist gunner: Arnold Hovey (3 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft shot out #3, another enemy aircraft clipped bomber’s wing sent it into a dive to crashed Bad Muender, 12 miles SW of Hanover, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 1917. MALAYAN LADY aka HARASS DRAGON.

Delivered Cheyenne 21/4/43; Tinker 27/4/43; New Castle 2/5/43; Presque Is 6/5/43; Assigned 366BS/305BG [KY-H] Chelveston 24/5/43; Missing in Action Schweinfurt 17/8/43 with Rothery McKeegan, Co-pilot: Frank Sulkowski, Navigator: Martin Fetherolf, Bombardier: Baxter Harris, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Albt Peach, Radio Operator: Jim Prehart, Waist gunner: Frank Williams, Waist gunner: Chas Murray (8 Prisoner of War), Ball turret gunner: Claude Davis,Tail gunner: Bob McLain (2KIA fighting fire on a/c); flak, crashed Wegnes, three miles SW of Verviers, Bel. Missing Air Crew Report 301. SETTING BULL.

Delivered to Tulsa 23/9/42; Wayne 2/11/42; West Palm Beach 14/12/42; Assigned to the 367BS/306BG [GY-Y] Thurleigh SCARLET 2/2/43; then 368BS; taxi accident with Dick O’Hara 20/4/43; transferred 544th Bomb Squadron/384th Bomb Group [SU-A] Grafton Underwood, Station 106 on 23 August 1943; Missing in Action on a mission to Stuttgart, 6 September 1943 with Lester H. Aufmuth, Bombardier: James C. Jensen Jr, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Robert K. Price, Waist gunner: Joseph H. Smith (4 Prisoner of War), Co-pilot: James G. McMath, Navigator: Charles O. Downe, Radio Operator: Louie F. Weatherford, Ball turret gunner: James L. Wagner, Waist gunner: Charles A. Fisher,Tail gunner: Carl E. Bachmann (6 evaded capture); no gas, crashed Doiains, ten miles E of Evreux, France. Missing Air Crew Report 776

Delivered Dallas 14/5/43; Gore 15/5/43; Love 15/6/43; Rapid City 19/6/43; Geiger 22/6/43; Gd Isle 30/6/43; Dallas 7/7/43; Kearney 23/7/43; Dow Fd 26/7/43; Assigned 350BS/100BG [LN-T] Thorpe Abbotts 26/7/43; Missing in Action Regensburg 17/8/43 with Tom Hummel, Co-pilot: Mike Doroski{Wounded in Action}, Navigator: Archie Depew, Bombardier: Norman Brewster, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Nelson Gunnar, Radio Operator: Don Meeker, Ball turret gunner: Gordon Williams,Tail gunner: Francis Stafford (8 Prisoner of War); Waist gunner: Ken O’Connor, Waist gunner: Dick Bowler (2 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft KO’d #2 which caught fire, crashed Schorsheim, nine miles S of Mainz, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 681.

Assigned 414BS/97BG Polebrook 3/42; with Lt. John P. Dowswell and MajGen Ira C. Eaker, Commanding General, VIII Bomber Command on first 8AF mission 17/8/42; transferred 92BG Bovingdon 24/8/42; 323BS/91BG [LG-X] Bassingbourn 30/3/43 as Blind Approach Training Flight; then to 324BS [DF-X] as target tow and hack; Salvaged 26/7/45. YANKEE DOODLE.

Delivered Cheyenne 3/6/43; Rapid City 15/6/43; Geiger 22/6/43; Gr Isle 28/6/43; Dow Fd 14/7/43; Assigned 333BS/94BG [TS-K] Rougham 13/7/43; Missing in Action Regensburg 14/10/43 with Roy Davison, Co-pilot: Stan Chichester, Navigator: Alden Faudie, Bombardier: Chas Breuer, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Fred Krueger, Radio Operator: Louis Koth, Ball turret gunner: Carl Gibson, Waist gunner: Art Howell, Waist gunner: Claude Page,Tail gunner: Dick Mungenast (10 Prisoner of War); flak KO’d #3, crashed Saverne, Fr; Missing Air Crew Report 831(788?).THUNDERBIRD.

Delivered Cheyenne 1/4/43; Dow Fd 23/5/43; Assigned 535BS/381BG [MS-V] Ridgewell 6/6/43 WIDGET. Missing in Action 11+m Schweinfurt 17/8/43; enemy aircraft KO’d three engines, crashed Fexhe-Slins, near Tongeren, Bel. Missing Air Crew Report 378. CHUG-A-LUG LULU.

B-17F 42-4078 was delivered Tulsa 15-Sep-42; Presque Is 19-Oct-42; Assigned 366BS/305BG [KY-C] Chelveston Nov-42. Shot down 30-Dec-42 by enemy aircraft on a mission to bomb the U-Boat pens at Lorient, France. Crashed into the Bay of Biscay, France. Missing in Action. 10KIA No MACR issued.

Delivered Cheyenne 16/4/43; Smoky Hill 25/4/43; Presque Is 15/5/43; Assigned 544BS/384BG [SU-O] Grafton Underwood 28/6/43; Missing in Action Schweinfurt 17/8/43 with Clayton Wilson, Co-pilot: Dewey Brown, Navigator: Fred Bloesch, Bombardier: Herman Stevens, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Vern Long, Radio Operator: John DesRochers, Ball turret gunner: George Kendall, Waist gunner: Gene Penick, Waist gunner: Jack Hook,Tail gunner: Ellis Klein (10 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crash landed Rheims, Fr. Missing Air Crew Report 291. FLAK DANCER aka M’HONEY.

Delivered Cheyenne 3/5/43; Smoky Hill 14/5/43; Tinker 24/5/43; Smoky Hill 29/5/43; Dow Fd 31/5/43; Assigned 410BS/94BG [GL-X] Earls Colne 2/6/43 THE SOUTHERN QUEEN; Rougham 13/6/43 transferred 333BS as THE BUZZARD aka PRODIGAL SON; Missing in Action Brunswick 11/1/44 with Bob Randall, Co-pilot: Lloyd Hall, Navigator: Tom Nash, Bombardier: Jim Wilkinson, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bob Hughes, Radio Operator: Bob James, Ball turret gunner: Albt Schwegel, Waist gunner: Harry Luttrell, Waist gunner: Walter Gray (9 Prisoner of War);Tail gunner: Bernie Brown, foto-Dave Barker (2 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed Uiezen, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 1889. LASSIE COME HOME.