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

Delivered Lincoln 25/9/44; Grenier 7/10/44; Assigned 20BS/2BG Amendola 16/10/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 10/7/45; Independence 13/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 13/12/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 13/6/44; Kearney 27/6/44; Grenier 6/7/44; Assigned 390BG Framlingham 8/7/44; transferred 839BS/487BG [R5-H] Lavenham 9/7/44; force landed Melsbroek, Bel 19/12/44; Salvaged 3/1/45.

Delivered Lowry 8/5/42; Hamilton 28/5/42; Assigned 19BG Hawaii 13/7/42; transferred 64BS/43BG, then 65BS; severe battle damaged on recon mission to Bismark Arch. 17/5/43 with Capt William Crawford Jr.; salvaged and repaired before retUS Hamilton 22/7/44; Tinker 14/9/44; Recl Comp 9/2/45. LOOSE GOOSE.

Delivered Dallas 24/6/44; Hunter 28/7/44; Dow Fd 17/8/44; Assigned 429BS/2BG Amendola 28/8/44; Missing in Action Berlin 24/3/45 with Rich Rapelyea, Co-pilot: Allie Melson, Navigator: Chas Parrish, Radio Operator: Fred Bryant, Ball turret gunner: Don Wagaman, Waist gunner: Glen Bailey, Waist gunner: Don Roberts,Tail gunner: Herb Jacobs (8 Prisoner of War); Bombardier: Marvin Steinford (killed by groundfire on descent); Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Melvin Rowe (2 Killed in Action); flak hit, #2 feathered, crashed Gyor, Hung; Missing Air Crew Report 13372.

Delivered Hunter 23/10/44; Dow Fd 7/11/44; Assigned 20BS/2BG Amendola 4/12/44; Missing in Action Berlin 24/3/45 with Bob Tappen, Co-pilot: Hyacinth Thimmesch, Navigator: Leon Gesicki, Bombardier: Sgt Walter Sura[tog], Radio Operator: Bob Reardon, Ball turret gunner: Jim Ash, Waist gunner: Bill Kralich, Waist gunner: Jim Carter,Tail gunner: Jim Shrout (9 Prisoner of War); Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Irving Chary (Killed in Action); flak and attacked by two Me 262 jets, crashed Zossen; Missing Air Crew Report 13374.

Delivered Lincoln 15/10/44; Dow Fd 26/10/44; Assigned 429BS/2BG Amendola 8/11/44; Missing in Action Vienna 21/2/45 with Eugene Bull, Co-pilot: Harry Frazer, Navigator: John Specker{Wounded in Action}, (3 evaded capture); Bombardier: Bob Krejza, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Lewis Fifield, Radio Operator: Jesse Killian, Ball turret gunner: Bill Martin, Waist gunner: Clyde Freestone{Wounded in Action}, Waist gunner: John Gilleece{Wounded in Action} (6 Prisoner of War);Tail gunner: Ted Bunnell (KIA – actually died in German hospital); flak ko’d #4, crashed near Gyor, Hungary; Missing Air Crew Report 12099.

Delivered Lowry 26/2/42; Hamilton 7/6/42; with Bruce Gibson Assigned 93BS/19BG Hawaii; transferred 65BS/43BG; took part in Midway battle; ditched close to Lae 16/1/43 with Harris Lean, Co-pilot: Albert Fair, Navigator: Ruby Johnston, Bombardier: Alf Retzhy, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Louis Wells, Radio Operator: Minor Smith, Waist gunner: Wendell Revers, Waist gunner: Claude Robinson,Tail gunner: Russell Owens (9RTD?); TUGBOAT ANNIE.

Delivered Cheyenne 5/1/45; Hunter 17/1/45; Grenier 1/2/45; Assigned 49BS/2BG PFF Amendola 6/2/45; Missing in Action Vienna 16/3/45 with Col Richard Waugh, Co-pilot: Major Ernie Blanton, Navigator: Bernie Stark, Bombardier: Joe Swift, m/op-Albert Pierard, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Herb Taylor, Radio Operator: Edwin Wade, Waist gunner: Tony Calabrese{Wounded in Action}, Waist gunner: Francis Abbott, tg/obs-Lt Chas Freeman (10 Returned to Duty); crash landed Sasd, near Pecs, Hungary, crew safe; Missing Air Crew Report 13260.

Delivered Kearney 25/7/44; Grenier 8/8/44; Assigned 20BS/2BG Amendola 16/8/44; Missing on practice operation 2/11/44 with George Reilly, Co-pilot: Arvin Hildebrand, Navigator: Richard Glattly, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ben English, Radio Operator: Melvin Talley. Simply disappeared; Missing Air Crew Report 9683.

Delivered Cheyenne 18/2/44; Hunter 9/3/44; Grenier 7/4/44; Assigned 326BS/92BG [JW-M] Podington 23/4/44; Missing in Action Berlin 29/4/44 with John Langfeldt, Waist gunner: Dan Sullivan,Tail gunner: Ken Biedinger (3 Prisoner of War); Co-pilot: Guy Wallace, Navigator: Walt Heldorfer, Bombardier: Oscar Rogers, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Earl Broderick, Radio Operator: Dale Howard, Ball turret gunner: Ken Neff, Waist gunner: Albert Monti (7 evaded capture); flak KOd two engines and electrics, ship bellied in Sailly-Saillisel, 17 miles NW of Cambrai, Fr; Missing Air Crew Report 4261.

Delivered MacDill 24/2/42; Cheyenne 23/5/42; Pocatello 6/11/42; 19BG Pyote 11/1/43; 1497 AF Gp Lockbourn 25/2/43; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 13/11/45.

Delivered Douglas (Vega) as XB-38 with Allison V-1710 liquid cooled four-engine product assigned for USAAF to Lockheed-Vega to study four V-1710-89 V-12 liquid-cooled engines to contrast standard air-cooled Wright Cyclones along with other modifications. It first flew 19-May-43, but crash landed Tipton, Cal. 16-Jun-43 due to engine fire and one passenger killed. Salvaged. Never served in the UK

Delivered Cheyenne 3/4/43; Sioux City 14/4/43; Kearney 3/5/43; Bangor 23/5/43; Assigned 545BS/384BG [JD- ] Grafton Underwood 29/5/43; transferred 334BS/95BG [BG-M] Horham 28/6/43 SHE’S MY GAL; 28/7/43 with E.L. Lemke force landed Gt Ashfield AFB, Sfk,; 6/9/43 with Max Crowder force landed Chipping Norton; 12m, Missing in Action Saarlautern 4/10/43 with Max Crowder, Co-pilot: Edgar Taylor, Navigator: Paul Terrell, Bombardier: Bill Savage, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Roy Lewis, Radio Operator: Duke Rosenburg, Ball turret gunner: Andres Torres, Waist gunner: Theo Mayer, wo-Melvin Hibbert,Tail gunner: Arlie Arneson (10 Prisoner of War); flak, ditched 5 miles off Bayeux, France; Missing Air Crew Report 744 & 1455. FIGHT’N -‘N – BIT’N.

Delivered Lincoln 20/10/44; Grenier 27/10/44; Assigned 429BS/2BG Amendola 8/11/44; Missing in Action Ruhland 22/3/45 with John Pierik, Co-pilot: Bob Steele, Navigator: Harry Taylor, Bombardier: John Yatsco (4 Killed in Action); Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Rich Benjamin, Radio Operator: Ray Levesque, Ball turret gunner: Vernon Burger, Waist gunner: Tony Zevenbergen, Waist gunner: Chas Redford,Tail gunner: Wilbur Jaffke (6POW, all strafed while descending but not hit); flak damage, but on way down the ship was attacked by Russian Air Force P-39s, crashed near Salzbrun, Germany; Missing Air Crew Report 13245.

Delivered MacDill 6/2/42; West Palm Beach 22/2/42; Assigned 395BS/40BG Rio Hato, Panama 27/3/42; Guatemala 2/4/42; SAAD 13/6/42; Guatemala 24/6/42; SAAD 2/11/42; Guatemala 1/12/42; Rio Hato Panama 19/3/43; landing accident with John Seeley 10/4/43; Written off 2/10/43.

Delivered Hunter 15/1/45; Dow Fd 1/2/45; Assigned 96BS/2BG Amendola 25/2/45; {0m} transferred 483BG Sterparone 4/45; 99BG Tortorella 20/9/45; RetUS, Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 5/1/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 30/4/44; Gt Falls 3/5/44; Kearney 3/6/44; Grenier 18/6/44; Assigned 750BS/457BG [J] Glatton 29/6/44; Missing in Action Merseburg 12/12/44 with Montell Higgins (Killed in Action); Co-pilot: Bill Bell, Navigator: John McCaughan, Bombardier: Harry Harstedt, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Frank Winder, Radio Operator: Fred Lawyer, Ball turret gunner: Phil Porter, Waist gunner: Russ Perry,Tail gunner: Bill Smigielski (9 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed Sensweiler, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 11334. WILLIE III.

Delivered Lincoln 17/1/45; Dow Fd 6/2/45; Assigned 600BS/398BG [N8-N] Nuthampstead 4/3/45; (17m) Missing in Action Derben 8/4/45 with Bill Wells, Co-pilot: Tom Clark, Navigator: George Munroe, Bombardier: S/Sgt Clem Lescale, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bill Wickens, Radio Operator: Marion Hamilton, Ball turret gunner: Lamar Coleman, RCM-Sherman Klein {wg},Tail gunner: Jack Rouch (9 Killed in Action); Bob Templeton (Prisoner of War); flak hits in #1 & #2, fuselage broke in half, crashed Krusemark, near Plauen, Ger: Missing Air Crew Report 13914 (?13912).

Delivered MacDill 13/2/42; Assigned 74BS/6BG 2/3/42; Guatemala 15/4/42; SAAD 3/7/42; force landed Guatemala base with Floyd Miller 28/10/42; San Antonio 8/11/42; Guatemala 1/12/43; Returned to the USA Tinker 8/7/44. Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 14/9/45.

Delivered Hunter 5/10/44; Dow Fd 16/10/44; Assigned 429BS/2BG Amendola 30/10/44; Missing in Action Vienna 14/2/45 with Bob Davis, Co-pilot: Frank Covey, Navigator: Ed Perry{Wounded in Action}, Bombardier: Harry Marsh, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Don Bruegman, Radio Operator: Max Little, Ball turret gunner: Bobbie Davis, Waist gunner: Emil Uhor,Tail gunner: Gerald Dickerson (9 Prisoner of War); Waist gunner: Rich Hearing (Killed in Action); flak, crashed near Boesing-Modra; Missing Air Crew Report 12107. HELL’S ANGELS.