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

Delivered Tulsa 12/5/44; Kearney 25/5/44; Dow Fd 1/6/44; Assigned 544BS/384BG [SU-F] Grafton Underwood 10/6/44; battle damaged Merseburg 30/11/44 with ?; crash landed France, Salvaged.

Delivered Cheyenne 11/6/43; Rapid City 19/6/43; Geiger 22/6/43; Grand Isle 1/7/43; Assigned 20BS/2BG Ain M’Lila 16/7/43; Massicault 31/7/43; Missing in Action {3m} Foggia 19/8/43 with John Bradley, Co-pilot: Jim McPhee, Navigator: Bob Lee, Bombardier: Bill Peters, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Albt Kirby, Radio Operator: Maynard Rogers, Ball turret gunner: Gene O’Brien, Waist gunner: John Westmorland,Tail gunner: Tom Hausler (9 Killed in Action); Waist gunner: Jim Bradley (inj Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, four chutes seen; Missing Air Crew Report 429.

Delivered Cheyenne 5/6/43; Rapid City 18/6/43; Geiger 22/6/43; Gr Isle 28/6/43; Dow Fd 21/7/43; Assigned 20BS/2BG Massicault 24/7/43; Missing in Action {3m} Foggia 19/8/43 with Dick Rozzelle, Navigator: Alex Mayberry, Bombardier: Carmel Parsons, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Seb Hernandez, Radio Operator: Earl Bjorkland, Ball turret gunner: Bill Groot, Waist gunner: John Adams, Waist gunner: Bob Woods,Tail gunner: Art Panini (9 Killed in Action); Co-pilot: Bob Kingsbury (Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft hit #3, crashed sea; five chutes seen; Missing Air Crew Report 458. BIG JEFF

Delivered Salt Lake Strategic Arms Depot (SAD) 10-Oct-41; Assigned 6AF 20-Dec-41; Panama, Canal Zone 25-Dec-41; Guatemala 15-Apr-42; SAAD 28-Jul-42; Guatemala 5-Dec-42. OLD MISS 11. (?Evacuated Java 28-Feb-42 to Ceylon, ending up in India Mar-42 with 7BG. May have been the aircraft lost on Andaman Island 1942?). Never served in the UK.

Delivered Cheyenne 10/8/44; Kearney 21/8/44; Grenier 7/9/44; Assigned 546th Bomb Squadron, 384th Bomb Group, Squadron Code BK-C, Grafton Underwood on 23 September 1944; Missing in Action on a mission to Pilsen, Czecho. on 25 April 1945 with Andrew Gordon Lovett, Stanley Frank Kloss, Milton J. Haney (3 evaded capture); Donald John Unger, Conrad W. Brown, Louis V. Froelinger, Robert j. Blasé, Walter Arthur Carney (5 Prisoner of War); shot down by flak, crashed near Pilsen, CZ. Missing Air Crew Report 14317. SWEET CHARIOT.

Assigned RAF [FA688] but transferred 326BS/92BG Bangor 15/7/42; 341BS/97BG Alconbury 8/42; 429BS/2BG Massicault, Tun 14/11/43; Salvaged 31/1/44. PEACHES II.

Delivered Long Beach 1/11/43; Kearney 30/11/43; Assigned 49BS/2BG Amendola 9/12/43; Missing in Action St Etienne, Fr, 26/5/44). A/c caught fire and forced to turn back, but fire eventually put out and radio operator Cutsinger helped pilot to fly to Corsica and made forced landing; repaired and returned to base. Missing in Action mission to Brux, Czech. 20/10/44. Aircraft ran out of gas, ditched Adriatic, crew all OK and picked up by Catalina. Missing Air Crew Report 5831. BATAAN AVENGER.

Delivered Salt Lake Strategic Arms Depot 24-Nov-41; Assigned 431BS/11BG Hickam Field, HI 4-Mar-42; out of fuel, ditched in sea 12-Sep-42 with James Van Haur, crew ?; Jim Hosegood, Lucian D’Amour (2 Killed in Action);. Written off 15-Jun-44. THE SPIDER. Missing Air Crew Report 16547. Never served in the UK

Delivered Dallas 10/7/43; Grand Isle 28/7/43; Assigned 336BS/95BG [ET-C] Horham 3/9/43 DESTINY’S TOT; then CINCINNATI QUEEN; with N.S. Rothschild force landed RAF Netheravon 4/10/43; with Rich Smith force landed Metfield AFB 16/12/43; {19m} Missing in Action Ludwigshafen 30/12/43 with Dick Smith, Co-pilot: Bill Booher, Navigator: Lou Feingold, Bombardier: Warren Tarkington, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ken Morrison, Radio Operator: Alphonse Mele, Ball turret gunner: Jerry Eshuis (7 evaded capture); Waist gunner: Tony Onesi, Waist gunner: Bob Adams,Tail gunner: Tom Hearn (3 Prisoner of War); crashed St Justin, near Thieux, 15 miles NE of Beauvais, Fr; Missing Air Crew Report 2024. KATHY JANE III.

Delivered Cheyenne 5/6/43; Rapid City 16/6/43; Geiger 22/6/43; Gr Isle 28/6/43; Dow Fd 18/7/43; Assigned 429BS/2BG Masssicault 6/8/43; {27m} transferred 419BS/301BG Oudna 14/11/43; Cerignola 7/12/43; Lucera 1/2/44; Missing in Action {36m} Sofia 30/3/44 with Bill Miller, Kennedy, Moy, Zentz, Dean, Raszka, Vargas, Blazek, Gooch, Masterson (10 Prisoner of War); mech fault, crashed Uleine (?) {73m in total}; Missing Air Crew Report 3714. VAGABOND.

Delivered Cheyenne 29/7/43; Dyersburg 8/8/43; Assigned 508BS/351BG [YB-H] Polebrook 23/9/43; Missing in Action {1m} Frankfurt 4/10/43 with Theo Reed, Bombardier: Alex Feldstein, Ball turret gunner: Frank Fontana (3 Killed in Action), Co-pilot: Bill Bourland, Navigator: Capt Larry Stover, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Don Browne, Radio Operator: Ed Spencer, Waist gunner: Don Ford, Waist gunner: Thaddeus Wallace,Tail gunner: John Hagan (7 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Langensebold, 16 miles E of Frankfurt, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 908.

Delivered Strategic Arms Depot 8-Nov-41; Assigned 42BS/11BG Hickam/Wheeler, HI 20-Oct-42, then to 26BS; ditched off Guadalcanal 26-Jan-43 with Capt Woodruff and Gen. Nathan Twining aboard [13thAF CO], along with rest of crew were picked up from two dinghies by USN PBY Catalina five days later. Officially Written off 16-Jul-44.

Delivered Denver 1/6/43; Dow Field 13/7/43; Assigned 388BG Knettishall 3/8/43; transferred 550BS/385BG [SG-F] Gt Ashfield /43; Missing in Action Oberpfaffenhofen 24/4/44 with Bill Nesen, Co-pilot: Bernie Gruble, Navigator: Jim Delo, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Lee Lance, Radio Operator: Fred Howland, Ball turret gunner: Joe McKenna (6 Killed in Action); Bombardier: Chester Desormeaux, Waist gunner: Evan Wells, Waist gunner: Murdoch McNeil,Tail gunner: Ernie Mitchell (4 Returned to Duty); enemy aircraft KOd three engines, ditched Channel off Dungeness, Kent, picked up by Air Sea Rescue Walrus. Missing Air Crew Report 4452 . SLEEPYTIME GIRL.

Delivered Denver 30/12/43; Kearney 12/1/44; Assigned 511BS/351BG [DS-F] Polebrook 17/2/44; Missing in Action {3m} Oschersleben 22/2/44 with George Mears, crew ?; unable to land at base due to damaged u/c, ditched North Sea off Cromer, Nfk, UK.; all 10 RTD. No MACR

Delivered Lincoln 12/10/44; Grenier 22/10/44; Assigned 836BS/487BG Lavenham 2/12/44; Missing in Action Darmstadt 24/12/44 with William J. Waldron, Oscar F. Eshleman, Joseph S. Shuster, Russel C. Neu, Benedict A. Andrew, George J. Ferenchak, Reuben F. Baganz, Eugene S. Isley, James P. Naughton; 3 KIA/7 POW; mid air coll with FW 190 en route target; crashed Florzé, Belgium; Missing Air Crew Report 11675.

Delivered Salt Lake Strategic Arms Depot (SAD) 20-Nov-41; Assigned 50RS/11BG Hickam Field, HI 1-Jun-42; ditched on search/attack mission with Earl J. Cooper, down 40 miles South of Kauai Island, HI 27-Dec-41, crew KIA. Never served in UK.

Delivered Cheyenne 2/4/43; Sioux City 13/4/43; Kearney 4/5/43; Bangor 20/5/43; Assigned 532BS/381BG Ridgewell 6/6/43; transferred 546BS/384BG [BK-D] Grafton Underwood 9/6/43; Missing in Action Kassel 28/7/43 with Bill Dietzel, Co-pilot: Jacques Riddel, Navigator: Herb Funk, Bombardier: Clyde Davis, Ball turret gunner: Larry Dunmeyer, Waist gunner: Ed Amory, Waist gunner: Jack Mason,Tail gunner: Wyman Martin, obs-Lt Ken Dutton (9 Killed in Action); Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Howie Adams, Radio Operator: Salvatore Perrotti (2 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft Ko’d #3, crashed Kortwoude, near Opeinde, Hol. Missing Air Crew Report 15165. SKY QUEEN.

Delivered Cheyenne 9/3/44; Hunter 10/4/44; Dow Fd 29/4/44; Assigned 836BS/487BG [2G-A] Lavenham 1/5/44; Missing in Action Darmstadt 24/12/44 with Willard Curtiss, Frank Callaghen, Salvaged Saporito (3 Killed in Action); Tom Collins, Ed Ghezzi, Jim Merritt, Bob Blackwell, Sam Pagac, Ralph Barajas (6 Returned to Duty); enemy aircraft, force landed Hods, Bel. Missing Air Crew Report 12177.

Delivered Hunter 10/11/44; Grenier 20/11/44; Assigned 327BS/92BG [UX-L] Podington 2/1/45; Missing in Action Munich 25/2/45 with Frank Chase, Co-pilot: Ed Shabain, Navigator: Don Shumaker, Bombardier: Ray Bastian, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Raydon Major, Radio Operator: Rudie Anthony, Ball turret gunner: Vic Johnson, Waist gunner: Bill Kellam,Tail gunner: Stan Erwin (9 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed Karolsheim, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 12719. REBA JANE.

Delivered Strategic Arms Depot (SAD) 1-Dec-41; Assigned 13AF Hawaii 8-Aug-42; transferred 72BS/5BG Hickam Field, HI 18-Sep-42; with Carl Wuertele force landed base 4-Jul-42; with Capt Jack Thornhill, ditched off San Cristobal through engine failure, 7-Jan-43; Written off 15-Jan-44. (?with Carl Wuertele force landed Hickam 4-Feb-42?). Never served in the UK