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

Delivered Cheyenne 18/8/44; Lincoln 7/9/44; Grenier 18/9/44; Assigned 413BS/96BG [MZ-Q] Snetterton 25/9/44; transferred 508BS/351BG [YB-G] Polebrook 6/10/44; battle damaged {24m} Koblenz 28/12/44 with ?; force landed Belgium; Salvaged 5/1/45.

Delivered Kearney 10/8/44; Ogden 13/8/44; Grenier 20/8/44; Assigned 391BS/34BG Mendlesham 22/8/44; 18BS; Missing in Action Merseburg 7/10/44 with Warren Kiley, Navigator: Harry Steiner, Bombardier: Ken Covington, Radio Operator: Leo Curtin, Waist gunner: Omer Mongeon, Ball turret gunner: Bill Barry (6 Prisoner of War); Co-pilot: Dave Bailey, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bill Frick,Tail gunner: Fred Dyer (3 Killed in Action); flak, crashed Merseburg, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 9341.

Delivered Cheyenne 24-Apr-43; Smoky Hill 5-May-43; Kearney 29-May-43; Atlanta 2-Jun-43; Dow Field 16-Jun-43; Assigned 335BS/95BG [OE-X] Framlingham 19-Jun-43 HERKY JERKY II; Horham 15-Jun-43; with force landed Framlingham AF 10-Oct-43 with Pilot R.E. Snow, Radio Operator: Harry Van Arsdale WIA; credited with 23 missions, Missing in Action – Eschweiler 24-Jan-44 shot down by enemy aircraft, tailplane caught fire then broke off, crashed Wingene, 18 miles West of Ghent, Belgium. 4KIA 6POW. Missing Air Crew Report 2258. LOVER BOY.

Delivered Long Beach 16/9/43; Scott 18/10/43; Assigned 401BG Deenethorpe 14/10/43; transferred 511BS/351BG [DS-D] Polebrook 18/11/43; {1m} battle damaged Bremen 26/11/43, with Clarry Lemley, crew ? (9 Returned to Duty), Ball turret gunner: Chas Foubert (Killed in Action) crash landed on approach to RAF Marham, Nfk, no gas. Salvaged 2 SAD Watton 28/11/43 for use by 8AF HQ; retUS 4104 BU Rome 30/3/47.

Delivered Hunter 2/11/44; Grenier 17/11/44; Assigned 836BS/487BG Lavenham 8/12/44; battle damaged Darmstadt, Ger 24/12/44 with ?; flak, force landed continent; Missing Air Crew Report 12207. Salvaged 28/1/45.

Delivered Dallas 23/8/44; Langley 19/9/44; Dow Fd 3/10/44; Assigned as SH aircraft 600BS/398BG [N8-K] Nuthampstead 5/11/44; re-classified as HO aircraft after modification at 21 SAD Troston 29/1/45; transferred 306BG Thurleigh 25/5/45; 1 Base Air Depot, Burtonwood 18/6/45; RetUS, Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 14/1/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 23/3/43; Smoky Hill 3/4/43; Memphis 12/4/43; Dow Fd 16/4/43; Assigned 337BS/96BG Grafton Underwood 21/4/43 RUM BOOGIE 3rd; Andrews Fd 13/5/43; Snetterton 12/6/43; transferred 326BS/92BG [JW-F] Alconbury 23/7/43; when war weary transferred 1 Base Air Depot, Burtonwood 13/6/44; Returned to the USA Homestead 26/7/44; Tinker 6/8/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Stillwater 4/10/45. RUM BOOGIE III.

Delivered Cheyenne 26/7/44; Kearney 4/8/44; Dow Fd 10/8/44; Assigned 327BS/92BG [UX-D] Podington 21/8/44; 325BS [NV-U]; Missing in Action Pilsen, Czecho. 25/4/45 with Lew Fisher, Rudy Kochevar, Bill Hesley, Warren Ives, Sam Schwartz, Chris Chrest (6 Killed in Action); Neal Modert, Jerome Weznerowicz (2 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed Pilsen; Missing Air Crew Report 14222. CHECKERBOARD FORT.

Delivered Lincoln 20/11/44; Dow Fd 3/12/44; Assigned 838BS/487BG [2C-C] Lavenham 6/12/44; battle damaged Frankfurt 8/1/45 with ?; crash landed St Margaret’s, UK; crew OK, Salvaged 11/1/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 31/10/43; Gr Island 11/11/43; Nashville 18/11/43; Assigned 327BS/92BG [UX-R] Podington 2/12/43; Missing in Action Achmer 21/2/44 with Jim McEvoy, Co-pilot: Gene Piburn, Navigator: Vic Barnett, Bombardier: Bob Bottoref, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Jim McNutt, Ball turret gunner: George Lenar, Waist gunner: Lewis Bispham, Waist gunner: Clifford Shutts (8 Killed in Action); Radio Operator: Delbert Miller,Tail gunner: Orvin Miller (2 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Bad Driburg, ten miles E of Paderborn, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 2757. WILDER-N-HELL.

Delivered Tulsa 21/3/44; Kearney 11/5/44; Grenier 27/5/44; Assigned 327BS/92BG [UX-Y] Podington 2/6/44; on return from Darmstadt, Ger, ran out of gas, crashed near Rougham A/fd, Suffolk, UK, with Don Lathram, Bob Berry, Will Burrows, Wiltran Stanteen, Jim Bryan, Angelo Greco, Myron Goodman, Jack Isbel (8 Killed in Action); Ike Harder (wia Returned to Duty); Salvaged 24/12/44.

Delivered Tulsa 9/3/44; Kearney 22/3/44; Grenier 6/4/44; Assigned 407BS/92BG [PY- ] Podington 4/5/44; Missing in Action Bretigny Afd, Fr 14/6/44 with Marvin Long, Navigator: George McKewin, Waist gunner: John Hewitt (3 evaded capture); Co-pilot: Norman Stifel, Bombardier: Rollo Budde, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bill Van Daley, Radio Operator: Bob Ferguson, Ball turret gunner: Gene McNeil,Tail gunner: Emile Ambrose (6 Prisoner of War); flak hit in rihght wing, KOd #3, crashed Villiers-sur-Orge, 12 miles S of Paris, Fr; Missing Air Crew Report 5793.

Delivered Lincoln 22/9/44; Grenier 11/10/44; Assigned 487BG Lavenham 11/10/44; battle damaged Frankfurt 17/2/45 with ?; flak, crashed ? ; Salvaged 5 SAD.

Delivered Denver 27/1/44; 1SAG Langley 12/3/44; Dow Fd 5/4/44; Assigned 333BS/94BG Rougham 7/4/44; 331BS [XM-T]; landing accident with Claud Watts 6/3/45; battle damaged Frankfurt 9/3/45, Salvaged (rear half used on 44-6890); THE BIG WHEEL.

Delivered Lincoln 9/12/44; Grenier 22/12/44; Assigned 94BG Rougham 23/12/44; battle damaged Ruhland 7/3/45 with Knox McKee; crash landed base and repaired with rear half of 42-97681; Returned to the USA Bradley 5/7/45; Sth Plains 7/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 10/12/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 22/8/44; Lincoln 8/9/44; Grenier 22/9/44; Assigned 837BS/487BG Lavenham 6/10/44; 836BS [2G-G]; Missing in Action Nurnberg 20/2/45 with Floyd McCullough, Paul Elam, Don Lehmkuhl, Kay Taft, Gilbert Hyatt (5 Prisoner of War); Tom Whyte, Wayne Brotherton, Bob Mitchell, Hiran Dunham, Bill Raffel (5 Killed in Action); flak, crashed Rosthenbach, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 12550.

Delivered Cheyenne 22/11/44; Hunter 9/12/44; Grenier 2/1/45; Assigned 836BS/487BG [2G-S] Lavenham 20/2/45; battle damaged Oranienburg 15/3/45 with ?; force landed Poznan, Pol; Salvaged 22/3/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 26/3/44; Kearney 14/4/44; Grenier 29/4/44; Assigned 457BG Glatton 3/5/44; battle damaged Berlin 24/5/44 with ?; Salvaged 14/11/44.

Delivered Long Beach 27/2/43; with Bill Dobson force landed on edge of runway at Smoky Hill, KS. 7/4/43 and damaged while parked and unmanned by John Wedding on 42-3074; Dow Fd 10/7/43; Assigned 49BS/2BG Ain M’Lila 18/7/43; Massicault 31/7/43; {26m} transferred 341BS/97BG Depienne 14/11/43; Missing in Action Istres, Fr. 16/11/43 with Dick Packard, Waters, Dustin, Case, Hertel, Garrity, Largo, Atkins, Elliot (9 Killed in Action); Eslick (Prisoner of War); crashed target area. Missing Air Crew Report 1195. HOMESICK ANGEL.

Delivered Cheyenne 17/1/43; Salina 31/1/43; Kearney 7/2/43; Morrison 9/3/43; Assigned 429BS/2BG Navarin, Alg 19/3/43; Chateau-du-Rhumel, Alg 27/4/43; Ain M’Lila, Alg 16/6/43; Missing in Action {15m} Naples 21/6/43 with Capt Jack Bentley, Navigator: Capt Chas Grooms{Wounded in Action}, Bombardier: Jim Heaberg{Wounded in Action}, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Norman Moore{Wounded in Action}, Radio Operator: Urban Heinen, Ball turret gunner: George Immonen, Waist gunner: Roy Musser{Wounded in Action}, Waist gunner: Harry Marlow[wia but died in captivity] (8 Prisoner of War); Co-pilot: John Williams,Tail gunner: Walter Thompson (2 Killed in Action); flak ko’d #3 & 4 then hit by Ma-202(Italian), then crashed of Ischia Is; Missing Air Crew Report 313. HONEY BUN.