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

Delivered Cheyenne 26/11/43; New Castle 10/12/43; Presque Is 15/12/43; Assigned 547BS/384BG [SO-C] Grafton Underwood 21/1/44; sal battle damaged 27/4/44. NEVADA AVENGER.

Delivered MacDill 25/12/41; Assigned 93BS/19BG Singosari, Java 26/1/42 with P. Mathewson, then transferred 7BG; strafed Singosari 20/2/42; Salvaged.

Delivered Long Beach 16/11/43; Kearney 24/11/43; goose Bay to Prestwick, UK 7/12/43; Assigned 615BS/401BG [IY-N] Deenethorpe 5/1/44; Missing in Action Frankfurt 29/1/44 with Don Nicklawsky, Co-pilot: Jim Carter, Navigator: Chris Filler, Bombardier: Neal Keller, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Alex Washinko, Radio Operator: John Kilbane, Waist gunner: Max Schmit, Waist gunner: Ed Mientkewicz,Tail gunner: Girad Casparis (Prisoner of War); Ball turret gunner: Rich Killgore (Killed in Action); flak, crashed Entenpfahl, 12 miles W of Bad Kreuznach, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 2273.

Delivered Long Beach 13/11/43; Gr Island 21/11/43; Bangor 4/12/43; Assigned 407BS/92BG [PY-X] Podington 30/12/43; Missing in Action Berlin 6/3/44 with Wallace Upson(326bs), Navigator: Bill Thompson, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Maurice Hargrove, Radio Operator: Bill Bishop, Ball turret gunner: Lewis Schultz, Waist gunner: Reece Walton (6 Prisoner of War); Co-pilot: Frank Hilger, Bombardier: Bob Dorgan, Waist gunner: Neal Persons,Tail gunner: Bradley Standlee (4 evaded capture); flak, crashed Te Kiefte Farm, Ruurlo, Hol. Missing Air Crew Report 2905.

Delivered Denver 17/2/43; Gore Fd 8/3/43; Gulfport 31/3/43; Assigned 334BS/95BG [BG-P] Alconbury 5/4/43; 335BS [OE-P]; 6m, transferred 92BG Alconbury 12/6/43 but switched to 3BD HQ as hack for Curtis Le May; Returned to the USA Grenier 26/12/44; Patterson 28/4/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 5/1/46. (first NMF aircraft in 8AF). SILVER QUEEN.

Delivered MacDill 25/12/41; Assigned 19BG Java 18/1/42; transferred 7BG; strafed and destroyed Broome Fd, Australia 3/3/42 (usual pilot D. Skiles); Salvaged. CRAPS FOR THE JAPS.

Delivered Lincoln 6/10/44; Grenier 15/10/44; Assigned 836BS/487BG Lavenham 22/1/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 12/7/45; 4185 BU Independence 13/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 10/12/45.

Assigned 427BS/303BG [GN-Q] Bangor 5-Oct-42; Molesworth 22-Oct-42; Missing in Action 23-Jan-43 while on a mission to bomb the port area and U-Boat pens at Lorient, France. Attacked by German FW-190 fighters and crashed at Abbey Pleyben near Edern, France. 2KIA 6POW 2EVD. 

Delivered Tulsa 20/3/44; Kearney 2/4/44; Grenier 6/4/44; Assigned 602BS/398BG [K8-F] Nuthampstead 9/4/44; 600BS [N8-F]; request to be declared WW in July 44 was refused and ship was transferred 324BS/91BG [DF-O] Bassingbourn 9/8/44; Missing in Action 3+m Nuemunster 13/4/45 with Elbert Weeks Wounded in Action, Navigator: Lloyd Everett, Bombardier: Marvin Wachtsheim, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Henry Saunders, Radio Operator: Bernard Bintz, Ball turret gunner: Ben Benigno, Waist gunner: Chas Librizzi,Tail gunner: Joe Albury (8 Returned to Duty); Co-pilot: Gilbert Willis (Killed in Action); damaged when two other B17s exploded in mid air, but force landed on a French US A/fd; Salvaged 17/4/45. THE RUPTURED DUCK.

Delivered West Palm Beach 22/1/43; Assigned 414BS/97BG Chateau-du-Rhumel 30/1/43; Pont-du-Fahs, Tun. 1/8/43; Depienne 15/8/43; transferred 348BS/99BG Oudna 14/11/43; Tortorella 11/12/43; {15m} Written off 1/5/44, repaired 30/9/44; crashed & sal 8/5/45. SNOOZIN’ SUSAN.

Delivered Cheyenne 15/11/43; Syracuse 17/12/43; Valley, Wales, UK 22/12/43; Assigned 427BS/303BG [GN-L] Molesworth 20/1/44; battle damaged Avord 25/4/44 with Vere Wood, Co-pilot: Ernie Greenwood, Navigator: Walt Kurnik, Bombardier: Tom Brown, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Otto Snider, Radio Operator: Henry Jensen, Ball turret gunner: Tom Grant, Waist gunner: John Tevis, Waist gunner: Mike Musashe,Tail gunner: Chas Heathershawe (10 Returned to Duty); crash landed RAF High Halden, Kent, UK; sal 29/4/44. V-PACKET.

Delivered Denver 3/1/44; 1SAG Langley 4/2/44; 13/3/44; Assigned 91BG Bassingbourn 27/4/44; transferred 351BG [Z] Polebrook 14/6/44; 751BS/457BG [Z] Glatton 15/6/44; Missing in Action Augsburg 19/7/44 with Noel Cunefare, Co-pilot: Capt Jerome Godfrey, Radio Operator: Frank Nunn,Tail gunner: Lt John Sampson (4 Killed in Action); Navigator: Wesley Atkins, Bombardier: Don Barton, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Howard Drake, Waist gunner: Ralph Hodson, Joe Duvall (5 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Roppen, near Innsbruck, Austria; Missing Air Crew Report 7548. GYPSY GAL.

Delivered Cheyenne 28/8/44; Lincoln 13/9/44; Grenier 30/9/44; Assigned 509BS/351BG [RQ-C] Polebrook 16/10/44; 75m Returned to the USA Bradley 3/7/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 5/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 9/12/45. ANNIE MARIE.

Delivered Sacramento 8/12/41; Assigned 7BG Java, 40BS/19BG Hickam; took Gen McArthur and family to Australia 16/3/42; used in second McArthur rescue attempt 25/3/42; destroyed by bombing on Del Monte Fd 12/4/42 during Royce mission with Frank P. Bostrom. Salvaged. Written off 31/10/44. SAN ANTONIO ROSE II.

Delivered Cheyenne 22/1/44; Kearney 7/2/44; Presque Is 18/2/44; Assigned 401BG Deenethorpe 3/3/44; transferred 749BS/457BG [N] Glatton 5/3/44; battle damaged Mannheim 9/9/44 with Loren Hampton, Co-pilot: Earl Johnson, Navigator: Bob Mattox, Bombardier: Andy Friesen, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Maurice Diehl, Radio Operator: Russ Karl, Ball turret gunner: Cliff Digre, Waist gunner: John Brown, Waist gunner: Alex McDermott,Tail gunner: Glen Seeber (8 Returned to Duty); Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Earl Rinehart (Killed in Action); wg-Mike Pipcock (POW, Murdered on 24/25 November 1944) ,Tail gunner: Glen Seeber (KIA); but bailed out before ship force landed friendly territory at Joigny, France; ret 11/9/44; according to one source, probably sustaining battle damage and mixed up with operation to Gaggenau the following day.); crash landed between Senan, Neuilly and Champlay, France. Salvaged 15/2/45. YOU NEVER KNOW.

Delivered Cheyenne 12/10/43; Gr Island 22/10/43; Wilmington 1/11/43; Assigned 334BS/95BG [BG-P] Horham 11/11/43; force landed Rattlesden 10/2/42 with J.W. Reed; 21m, Missing in Action Berlin 6/3/43 with Tom Keasbey, Co-pilot: Capt Roy Gee, Navigator: Bill Harris, Bombardier: Ralph Bowlingbroke ankle on bail-out, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Jim Wood, Radio Operator: Maurice Norrell, Ball turret gunner: Francis Sullivan, Waist gunner: Albt Jacobson, Waist gunner: Bill Denham,Tail gunner: Clayton Burdue (10 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Natenstedt, 11 miles NE of Vechta, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 2981.

Delivered Cheyenne 29/5/44; Kearney 8/6/44; Dow Fd 27/6/44; Assigned 326BS/92BG [JW-S] Podington, a PFF, 16/7/44; Missing in Action Battle support area 13/8/44 with Larry Brechbill, Co-pilot: Ray Schultz, Navigator: Dave Vance, Bombardier: Tom Crosby, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Tom Nickols, Radio Operator: Frank Vondrich, Ball turret gunner: Ray Thompson,Tail gunner: Jim Sands (8 Killed in Action); Waist gunner: Max Hartline (Returned to Duty); flak, crashed St Claire-de-Halouze, SW of Flers, near Evreux, Fr; Missing Air Crew Report 8078. SCRAPPY MIKE.

Delivered MacDill 25/12/41; Assigned 7BG Java 31/1/42 with Rouse, then 28BS-30BS/19BG Hickam; Returned to the USA Hamilton 19/11/42; Pocatello 28/11/42; Oklahoma City 12/12/42; Pyote 19/1/43 where involved in taxi accident 19/2/43 with Elmer Nardi; force landed Lockbourn with Ewart Hooper 9/9/43; damaged again Lockbourn 26/11/43; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 9/10/45.

Delivered Lincoln 2/10/44; Grenier 12/10/44; Assigned 96BS/2BG Amendola 20/10/44; taxi accident with Bill Donnell 16/12/44; {17m} crashed mountains near San Marco, It., on routine practice mission 4/2/45 with Richard Pinner, Co-pilot: Louis Waddell, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Nelson Nickel, (3 Killed in Service); Radio Operator: John Anastasi was injured with both legs broken but survived.

Delivered Denver 9/2/44; Rapid City 2/3/44; Dow Fd 3/4/44; Assigned 398BG Nuthampstead 25/4/44; no ops, transferred 562BS/388BG Knettishall 29/4/44 WORRY BIRD; Returned to the USA Bradley 8/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 29/11/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 29/11/45. LITTLE JOE JR aka MISS BEA HAVEN.