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

Delivered Cheyenne 5/3/44; Kearney 22/3/44; Presque Is 4/4/44; Assigned 427BS/303BG [GN-U] Molesworth 12/4/44; Missing in Action Handorf, Ger 15/8/44 with Harry Cook, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Joe Slight{shot in air}, Waist gunner: Jesse Joyce (3 Killed in Action); Co-pilot: Fred Mason, Navigator: Ralph Page, Bombardier: Werner Warmuth(wia), Radio Operator: Forrest Howell, Ball turret gunner: Bob Eaglehouse{Wounded in Action}, John Smalley {wia lost leg-who was later re-patriated} (6 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Bitburg, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 8438. TINY ANGEL.

Delivered Cheyenne 5/2/43; Assigned 94BG Presque Is 4/43; transferred 324BS/91BG [DF-B] Bassingbourn 15/9/43; 525BS/379BG Kimbolton 27/9/43; Returned to the USA 21/5/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 24/1/45.

Delivered Long Beach 6/8/43; Cheyenne 9/8/43; 424 Sub Gp Gr Island 3/9/43; Assigned 508BS/351BG [YB-M] Polebrook 24/9/43; {26m} transferred 486BG Sudbury 17/7/44; 490BG Eye 8/44; 863BS/493BG Debach with Chas Gibson, damaged by fire 11/6/45; Salvaged . ROUND TRIP.

Delivered Cheyenne 24/1/44; Kearney 11/2/44; Presque Is 28/2/44; Assigned 418BS/100BG [LD-P] Thorpe Abbotts 4/3/44; Missing in Action Parchim, Ger. 7/4/45 with Arthur R. Calder; rammed by Me 109, both exploded and B-17 crashed close to Steinhuder Lake, near Hannover, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 13718. ANDY’S DANDY.

Delivered Cheyenne 6/8/44; Hunter 15/8/44; Dow Fd 8/9/44; Assigned 336BS/95BG [ET-V] Horham 10/9/44; first mission, battle damaged Merseburg 28/9/44 with Jim. Miller, rest unknown (8 Returned to Duty);Tail gunner: Warren Brown (Killed in Action); force landed France, Salvaged.

Delivered Cheyenne 23/8/44; Hunter 7/9/44; Dow Fd 18/9/44; Assigned 613BS/401BG [IN-H] Deenethorpe 5/10/44; Missing in Action Berlin 18/3/45 with Dave Vermeer, Ernie Butlin, Harry Churchill, Milan Basara, Fred Gerhardt (5 Killed in Action); John Thompson, Gene Holley, Rod Williams, Harry Babcock (4 Prisoner of War); jet enemy aircraft, crashed Berlin; Missing Air Crew Report 13137. LADY JANE II.

Delivered Oklahoma City 13/1/45; Boca Raton 25/2/45; Hunter 16/3/45; Grenier 24/3/45; Assigned 482BG Alconbury 27/3/45; Salvaged 9AF Germany 6/11/45.

Delivered Hunter 29/11/44; Grenier 10/12/44; Assigned 335BS/95BG [OE-R] Horham 12/12/44; battle damaged Hohenbudberg, Ger 28/1/45 with Bob Mercer [KIA}; Co-pilot: Chas Taylor, (rest ?) (9 Returned to Duty); crash landed Tournai, Bel; 6m, sal.

Delivered 410BS/94BG Geiger 17/9/42 THE WIDOW MAKER; Wayne 2/11/42; Kearney 4/2/43; Sioux City 5/3/43; mechanical problem caused landing accident at Idaho Falls, ID with Walter Clarke 24/3/43; Hill 12/7/43; 452BG Pendleton 29/10/43; 244 BU Harvard 10/6/44; Patterson 30/8/44; West Palm Beach 12/3/45; Canal Zone 18/1/46; Panama 23/6/46; re-ass CAC06 (?) 30/4/47; Ftr Aff 27/7/48; Recl Comp.

Delivered Denver 10/3/44; Kearney 13/4/44; Grenier 29/4/44; Assigned 709BS/447BG Rattlesden 1/5/44; Missing in Action Oranienburg 15/3/45 with Ralph Putnam, Guide Pinomenti, Sam Esposite, Russell Neil, Jim Mikwai, Elliott Evans, Albert Majovsky, Roscoe Johnson, Chas Swanson (9 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed Osted, Germany. Missing Air Crew Report 13043. BUGS BUNNY JR.

Delivered Denver 3/4/43; Smoky Hill 29/4/43; Morrison 5/5/43; Warner Robins 8/5/43; Morrison 16/5/43; Assigned 352BS/301BG St Donat 24/5/43; Oudna 6/8/43; Missing in Action {26} Augsburg 1/10/43 with Adolph Zimmer, Kline, Mitchell, Grams, Landry, Sulver (6 Prisoner of War); Henrie, Beall, Silvert, Reineck (4 Killed in Action); Missing Air Crew Report 760.

Delivered Cheyenne 30/1/43; Assigned 332BS/94BG [XM-A] Bangor 14/4/43; Rougham 6/43; transferred 544BS/384BG [SU-F] Grafton Underwood 12/7/43; Missing in Action Hamburg 25/7/43 with Gordon Hankinson, Co-pilot: Edwin Halseth, Navigator: Bill McGeshan, Bombardier: Chas Deignan, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bob Burnes, Radio Operator: Dave Kay, Ball turret gunner: Frank Delmonte, Waist gunner: Don Rutan, Waist gunner: Walter Pollard,Tail gunner: John Bagdis (10 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed Roster-Holz, near Tensbuttel, W of Albersdorf, 50 NW of Hamburg, Ger. No MACR. PASSES CANCELLED.

Delivered Cheyenne 11/8/43; Gr Isle 31/8/43; Assigned 358BS/303BG [VK-G] Molesworth 18/10/43; {9m} Missing in Action Oschersleben 11/1/44; enemy aircraft, crashed Herzberg/Sudharz, near Oschersleben. Missing Air Crew Report 1927.

Delivered Dallas 27/7/44; Lincoln 10/8/44; Grenier 23/8/44; Assigned 837BS/487BG [4F-F] Lavenham 5/9/44; battle damaged Berlin 18/3/45 with ?; force landed Landsburg, Ger; Salvaged 1/4/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 27/10/43; Assigned 546BS/384BG [BK-S] Grafton Underwood 21/1/44; Missing in Action Stettin 11/4/44 with John Rich, Co-pilot: George Wehry, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Howard Eklund, Radio Operator: Henry Montagne, Ball turret gunner: Norman Henken, Waist gunner: Prescilliano Herrera, Waist gunner: Julius Zee,Tail gunner: Nelson Bishop (8 Prisoner of War); Navigator: John Indest, Bombardier: Bill Marvin (2 Killed in Action); flak blew off nose section killing N & B, crashed Bokensdorf, 20 miles NW of Helmstedt Afd, near Brunswick; Missing Air Crew Report 3820.

Assigned 360BS/303BG [PU-G] Bangor 18-Sep-42; Molesworth 16-Oct-42. Missing in Action 16-Feb-42 while on a mission to bomb the U-Boat pens at St Nazaire, France. Aircraft was shot down by fighters and crashed into the sea off the Brest Peninsula. 10KIA MACR 15116.

Delivered Denver 16/7/43; Gore 26/7/43; Gr Isle 27/7/43; Kearney 9/8/43; Topeka 13/8/43; Scott 17/8/43; Assigned 407BS/92BG [PY-G] Alconbury 2/9/43; on ferry trip from Podington 24/1/44 with Arthur Pickens, Co-pilot: Allen Baker, Navigator: Wes Martin, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Chas Cowan, Radio Operator: Rob Ferguson plus 14 ground crew for repair duties, ship stalled on approach, crash landed RAF Barford St John, UK; (19 Returned to Duty); Salvaged n/battle damaged 30/1/44.

Delivered Denver 7/12/43; Kearney 22/12/43; New Castle 30/12/43; Morrison 1/1/44; Assigned 353BS/301BG Cerignola 14/1/44; Lucera 1/2/44; Missing in Action {18m} Regensburg 25/2/44 with Wood Rose, Steele, Huggett, Cobel, Baltus, McKnight, Kaminsky, Barrowclough, Park; enemy aircraft, crashed Kranj; 9POW; Missing Air Crew Report 2721.

Delivered Denver 1/6/43; Presque Is 31/7/43; Assigned 347BS/99BG Oudna 13/8/43; transferred 340BS/97BG Depienne 14/11/43; Missing in Action Toulon 22/11/43 with Jones, crew ? ; ditched crew OK. RANGY LIL.

Delivered Cheyenne 23/3/44; Hunter 17/4/44; Grenier 30/4/44; Assigned 534BS/381BG [GD-L] Ridgewell 21/5/44; after {70+m} transferred 327BS/92BG [UX- ] Podington 10/5/45; then,Sal 9AF Germany 10/12/45. CAROL LEIGH.