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

Delivered – . Became a QB-17 drone and used until at least early 1950s. Wore overall red with white trim and AIR FORCE below cockpit.

Delivered Lincoln 12/12/44; Grenier 6/1/45; Assigned 8AF 8/1/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 3/7/45; Newark 5/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 12/12/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 25/9/43; Gr Island 8/10/43; Nashville 12/10/43; Assigned: 339BS/96BG [QJ-E] Snetterton 14/10/43; MIA Pas de Calais 1/5/44 Pilot: Gene Dingledine, Co-Pilot: George Smith, Navigator: Jim McConnell, Bombardier: D’Nuncio Street, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Vito Champan, Radio Operator: John Glass, Ball Turret Gunner: John Smith, Waist Gunner: Otto Strange (8POW); Waist Gunner: Lester Hutchinson (EVD); Tail Gunner: Gerald Sorenson (KIS- joined Belgium. ian Resistance and killed in suburbs of Brussels 3/9/44); flak KOd two engines going out and another on return, crashed Chivres, near Ath, Bel. MACR 4237.

Delivered Long Beach 15/6/43; Kearney 15/7/43; Geiger 541BS/383BG 17/8/43; Kearney 10/9/43; 236 BU Pyote 10/9/44; 203 BU Jackson 23/2/45; Cincinnati 23/9/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 14/12/45.

Delivered Long Beach 16/6/43; Kearney 15/7/43; 541BS/383BG Geiger 17/8/43; 243 BU Gt Bend 6/6/44; 4210 BU Lambert 9/6/44; 221 BU Alexandra 24/7/44; 331 BU Barksdale 10/10/44; 223 BU Dyersburg 2/12/44; 330 BU Dyersburg 9/4/45; 325 BU Avon Park 21/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 19/8/45.

Delivered Long Beach 17/6/43; Love Fd 30/7/43; Las Vegas 7/8/43; Oklahoma City 10/12/43; 2117 BU Buckingham 8/5/44; with Bill Boulware crash landed base 31/5/44; Written off 12/6/44.

Delivered Cheyenne 24/3/44; Hunter 11/4/44; Dow Fd 29/4/44; Assigned 710BS/447BG Rattlesden 4/5/44; 120m, Returned to the USA Bradley 6/7/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 11/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 29/11/45. COCK O’ THE SKY.

Delivered Louisville 13/3/45; Topeka 21/3/45; Sth Plains 15/4/45; 242 BU Gr Island 14/2/47; 4112 BU Olmstead 29/4/47; re-ass 31/3/47; 5 PR Gp Clark Fd 1/1/48; 5 RVPGp Clark 1/7/48; 9 MSU Fairmont 29/7/49; to USN, Recl Comp 21/2/50.

Delivered Cheyenne 24/12/43; Gt Falls 26/12/43; Cheyenne 7/1/44; Omaha 9/1/44; Lakeland 11/1/44; with Stewart Voloshin force landed New Haven CT 26/1/44; Morrison 19/2/44; Assigned 463BG Celone 21/2/44; with John Garrish force landed Val De Caes, Belem, Brazil 9/3/44; Returned to the USA 25/11/44; 4006 BU Miami 7/3/45; 4117 BU Robins 22/11/45; US Navy as CB-17 in 1946; re-ass Air Force 30/4/47; 6AF (Carib) Albrook 18/1/48; Panama 30/9/49; Olmstead 18/10/49.

Delivered: Cheyenne 31/12/43; Kearney 19/1/44; Assigned: 423BS/306BG [RD-S] Thurleigh 6/2/44; MIA Merseburg 20/7/44 Pilot: Dave McNaught, Co-Pilot: John Wollack, Navigator: Bill Glass, Bombardier: Marylyn Watson, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Jerome Scherr, Radio Operator: Theo Hansen, Ball Turret Gunner: Mike Gesine, Waist Gunner: Bill Burke, Tail Gunner: Harry Eckenrode (9POW); flak, crashed Vielau, Germany. MACR 7277.

Delivered Lincoln 16/12/44; Grenier 29/12/44; Assigned: 560BS/388BG Knettishall 1/1/45; Returned to US: Bradley 30/6/45; Sth Plains 3/7/45; Scrapped: Kingman 18/11/45. PISTOLAS JUANITA.

Delivered Denver 3/1/44; Hendricks 21/1/44; 2137 BU Hendricks 4/10/44; 4108 BU Newark 5/6/45; 2137 BU Hendricks 28/9/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 1/11/45.

Delivered Long Beach 18/6/43; Kingman 1/8/43; 231 BU Alamogordo 2/8/44; 370 BU Keesler 5/2/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 29/10/45.

Delivered Long Beach 18/6/43; Kingman 2/8/43; 234 BU Clovis 26/6/44; 249 BU Alliance 15/10/44; 460 BU Hamilton 15/7/45; 233 BU Davis Monthan 19/7/45; force landed with Guy Kidwell at Bowman Fd 19/10/45; 1077 BU Bowman 21/10/45; Recl Comp 5/6/46.

Delivered Lincoln 28/10/44; Grenier 9/11/44; Assigned 493BG Debach 11/11/44; battle damaged Cottbus, Ger 15/2/45 with ?; force landed continent, Salvaged 1/3/45.

Delivered Denver 26/12/43; Lincoln 8/1/44; Louisville 9/1/44; Jacksonville 12/1/44; Lakeland 13/1/44; Morrison 25/2/44; Assigned 774BS/463BG Celone 27/2/44; Missing in Action Weiner Neustadt 10/5/44 with Gerald Nagel, Co-pilot: Art Murray, Navigator: Leslie Foppiano, Bombardier: Bob Hunt, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: John Kenreight, Radio Operator: Bob Shaver, Ball turret gunner: Serko,Tail gunner: John Green, (8POW?); Waist gunner: Bronislaw Tuzin, Waist gunner: Vince Sutton (2 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed Puschberg, Aus; Missing Air Crew Report 5069.

Delivered Denver 25/12/43; Lakeland 16/1/44; Morrison 21/2/44; Assigned 774BS/463BG Celone 22/2/44; Salvaged 16/11/44.

Delivered Long Beach 15/6/43; Las Vegas 5/8/43; Tinker 2/12/43; 3030 BU Roswell 16/9/44; 3010 BU Williams 24/11/44; 3020 BU La Junta 18/4/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Searcey Fd 4/8/45.

Delivered Patterson 6/9/44; Hunter 17/9/44; Grenier 21/9/44; Assigned: 548BS/385BG [GX-F] Gt Ashfield 28/9/44; Transferred: 447BG Rattlesden 30/9/44; Returned to US: Bradley 6/6/45; Sth Plains 11/6/45; Scrapped: Kingman 8/12/45.

Delivered Hunter 3/11/44; Grenier 17/11/44; Assigned 773BS/463BG Celone 7/12/44; Missing in Action Berlin 24/3/45 with Joe Swan, Bombardier: Edmund Smith (2 Killed in Action); Co-pilot: Leon Chase, Navigator: Horace Brown, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ed Swaldi, Radio Operator: Vince Florio, Ball turret gunner: Gus Russo, Waist gunner: John Kitchens, Waist gunner: Calvin Blackwelder,Tail gunner: Bill McFarland (8 Prisoner of War), jet enemy aircraft, crashed Meissen; Missing Air Crew Report 13274.