B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies

Delivered Cheyenne 27/5/43; Gore 7/6/43; Tinker 10/6/43; Memphis 20/6/43; Eglin 27/6/43; Kearney 6/7/43; Presque Is 9/7/43; Assigned 414BS/97BG Chateau-du-Rhumel 19/7/43; Pont-du-Fahs 1/8/43; Depienne 15/8/43; Cerignola 20/12/43; Amendola 16/1/44; 100th mission Ferrara M/Y 14/5/44; took part in first shuttle mission to Russia; Returned to the USA Morrison 15/4/45; Rome, NY 28/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Bush Fd 4/7/45. WAR PAPPY.

Delivered Cheyenne 21/4/44; Hunter 2/5/44; Grenier 16/5/44; Assigned 414BS/97BG Amendola 24/5/44; Missing in Action Blechhammer 27/8/44 with Charles T. Wilson, Jr.; Missing Air Crew Report 8934. THE OLD LADY.

Delivered Cheyenne 14/3/44; Gr Island 30/3/44; Grenier 6/4/44; Assigned 369BS/306BG [WW-Y] Thurleigh 25/4/44; battle damaged Ueskirchen, Ger 10/1/45 with Leo H. Reinhard; crash landed on a large field near Le Quesnoy, 4km to north-east, France; Salvaged 28/1/45. ICE COLD KATIE.

Delivered Cheyenne 25/1/44; Hunter 22/2/44; Grenier 8/3/44; Assigned 332BS/94BG [XM-K] transferred 333BS (TS- ) Rougham 13/3/44; Missing in Action Poznan 11/4/44 with Ben Totushek, Navigator: Harvey Durant, Bombardier: Bill Kipp, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bill Tidwell (4 Killed in Action); Co-pilot: Bill Kleine, Radio Operator: Pete Papas, Ball turret gunner: Bob Swindley, Waist gunner: Charles J Mott, Waist gunner: Bob Davis,Tail gunner: Bob Doyle (6 Prisoner of War Stalag 17-B); flak, crash landed Osterby, ten miles W of Flensburg, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 4008. AMERICAN MAID.

Delivered Cheyenne 13/7/44; Kearney 21/7/44; Dow Fd 4/8/44; Assigned 549BS/385BG [XA-S] Gt Ashfield 5/8/44; battle damaged Munster 5/10/44 with Dalen I. Severance; force landed continent; 9 RTD; Salvaged 2/12/44. Missing Air Crew Report ?. BADGER BEAUTY.

Delivered Cheyenne 13/9/42; New Castle 12/10/42; Assigned 353BS/301BG Chelveston 1/11/42; Tarafaoui 26/11/42; Maison Blanche 5/12/42; Biskra 16/12/42; {71m} transferred 346BS/99BG Navarin 8/1/43; Gen Doolittle aboard mission to Kiarouan Afd 9/2/43; Oudna 4/8/43; Missing in Action Bolzano 10/11/43, with Jerry Wickcliffe, DeWitt, Ellsworth, Isert, Hogan, Arlinghaus, Chestnut, Auzniarek, Pinkard (9 Killed in Action); Prochaska (Prisoner of War); crashed north of Brescia, Italy; Missing Air Crew Report 1129.

Delivered Cheyenne 25/11/43; Kearney 6/12/43; Grenier 19/12/43; Presque Is 3/1/44; Assigned 351BS/100BG [EP-O] Thorpe Abbotts 9/1/44; 135m, transferred 490BG Eye 29/5/45; Returned to the USA 4185 BU Independence 21/7/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 10/11/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 21/12/45. MELANCHOLY BABY aka FEVER BEAVER.

Delivered Denver 27/10/42; West Palm Beach 9/1/43; Assigned 340BS/97BG Biskra 21/1/43; Chateau-du-Rhumel 8/2/43; Pont-du-Fahs 1/8/43; Depiennne 15/8/43; transferred 347BS/99BG Oudna 14/11/43; Tortorella 11/12/43; {13m 99th} Returned to the USA Pope Fd 20/5/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 29/10/45.

Assigned 32BS/301BG Westover 6/7/42; slated for RAF [FA684] Podington 6/8/42; Tafaraoui 26/11/42; crash landed Biskra, near Maison Blanche, Alg. 5/12/42; battle damaged {5m} Bizerte 15/12/42 with ? McNeil, Shackleton, Conlon, rest of crew ? (POWs); Salvaged. SPECIAL DELIVERY.

Delivered Denver 23/11/43; Wendover 9/12/43; Assigned 749BS/457BG [P] Glatton 19/1/44; transferred 614BS/401BG [IW-D] Deenethorpe 11/3/44 Missing in Action Schweinfurt 13/4/44 with Boudinot Stimson, Co-pilot: Bob Timberlake, Bombardier: Jack Pfaffman, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Karl Kukurin, Radio Operator: Carmen Manusco, Ball turret gunner: Paul Melia, Waist gunner: Andy Allen,Tail gunner: Alf Le Sage (8 Prisoner of War); Navigator: John O’Neal, Waist gunner: John McQueen (2 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed (?Rohrbrunn?) Weibersbrunn, nine miles E of Aschaffenurg, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 3941. WHAT NEXT ?