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

B-17 #44-6371 / Eva Dee

Delivered Hunter 20/7/44; Dow Fd 3/8/44; Assigned 840BS/483BG Sterparone 11/8/44; crashed 13/4/45, Salvaged. EVA DEE.

B-17 #42-37794 / Anne Howe Two

Delivered Denver 28/8/43; Gr Island 27/9/43; Assigned 388BG Knettishall 30/9/43; when declared War Weary transferred 96BG Snetterton (339 BS; QJ-A), then force landed Rattlesden with Howard Gurney 18/4/45, Sal; ANNE HOWE TWO.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 44-6399

B-17 #44-6399

Delivered Kearney 25/7/44; Grenier 8/8/44; Assigned 20BS/2BG Amendola 16/8/44; Missing on practice operation 2/11/44 with George Reilly, Co-pilot: Arvin Hildebrand, Navigator: Richard Glattly, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ben English, Radio Operator: Melvin Talley. Crashed in the Majella Mountains, 135km east-north-east of Rome, Italy; Missing Air Crew Report 9683.

B-17 #42-29487 / Ritzy Blitz

Delivered Cheyenne 22/12/42; Salina 2/2/43; Duncan 23/2/43; Assigned 324BS/91BG [DF-K] Bassingbourn 9/3/43; 48m Missing in Action Oschersleben 11/1/44 with Wayne Hedglin, Co-pilot: Don Jones, Navigator: Carey Goodwin, Waist gunner: Bill Francisco, Waist gunner: Walt Williams (5 Prisoner of War), Bombardier: John McKewen (chute failed), Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Cody Wolf, Radio Operator: James Lascu Jr., Ball turret gunner: George Richardson,Tail gunner: Stan Lyttle (5 Killed in Action); hit by 20 enemy aircraft KO’d #1 and fire broke out in fuselage, crashed Wennigsen/Diester, 12 miles SW of Hanover, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 1915. RITZY BLITZ.

B-17 #42-30676 / Baby Dumpling

Delivered: Dallas 9/7/43; Love 29/7/43; Kearney 1/8/43; Topeka 12/8/43; Assigned: 482BG Alconbury 24/8/43; Transferred: 532BS/381BG [VE-E] Ridgewell 19/9/43; MIA Tours 5/1/44 Pilot: Jack Zeman, Ball Turret Gunner: Harve Leroux, Waist Gunner: Ray Chevraux (3 EVD), Co-Pilot: Otis Montgomery, Navigator: Frank Bisagna, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: John Sinquefield, Radio Operator: Burton Givan, Waist Gunner: Francis Cater, Tail Gunner: George Day (5 POW), Bombardier: Bill Walker (KIA); Enemy aircraft, crashed Les Hunes, a mile W of Aubigne-Racan, Fr. MACR 1962. BABY DUMPLING.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-3378 / Sky Shy aka Silver Dollar

B-17 #42-3378 / Sky Shy aka Silver Dollar

Delivered Denver 1/6/43; Dow Fd 7/7/43; Assigned 563BS/388BG Knettishall 9/7/43 SKY SHY; Missing in Action 6/9/43 with Jim Roe, Co-pilot: Ernie Thompson, Navigator: Milton Schoenborn, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Chas Mace, Radio Operator: Dave Tees, Ball turret gunner: Rich Senegal, Waist gunner: Tom Mollenkamp, Waist gunner: Dorman Busse,Tail gunner: Paul Hardin (9 Prisoner of War); Bombardier: Manley Frankenberg (Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed Wittlingen [40km south-south-east of Stuttgart], Germany. Missing Air Crew Report 3114. SILVER DOLLAR.

B-17 #42-5473 / Ernt Mernt

Delivered Denver 16/12/42; Salina 1/1/43; Assigned 353BS/301BG Ain M’Lila, Alg 28/1/43; St Donat, Alg 6/3/43; Oudna, Tun 6/8/43; {69m} transferred 20BS/2BG Massicault, Tun 14/11/43; Bizerte, Tun 2/12/43; Amendola, It 9/12/43; 347BS/99BG Tortorella, It 28/3/44; {0m} 483BG Tortorella, It 31/3/44; Sterparone, It 22/4/44; Returned to the USA Morrison 25/3/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 25/9/45. ERNT MERNT.

B-17 #42-31968 / Miss Irish

Delivered Cheyenne 11/1/44; Savannah 21/1/44; Morrison 2/2/44; Assigned 350BS/100BG [LN-D] Thorpe Abbotts 3/2/44; battle damaged flak, Mimoyecques, Fr. 19/3/44 with John Gibbons, Co-pilot: Bob Dykeman, Navigator: Everett Johnson, Bombardier: Sterling Blakeman, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ira Arnold, Ball turret gunner: Bernie Spragg, Waist gunner: Frank Buschmeier (9 Returned to Duty); Radio Operator: Ed Walker (Killed in Action); hit by 88m shell in radio room; limped home to crash landed Raydon A/fd, Sfk. UK. Salvaged. Missing Air Crew Report 15220. MISS IRISH.

B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies 42-97736

B-17 #42-97736

Delivered Denver 10/2/44; 1SAG Langley 6/4/44; Morrison 27/4/44; Assigned (PFF) 49BS/2BG Amendola 11/5/44; 419BS/301BG Lucera 15/5/44; Missing in Action Blechhammer 1/2/45 with Frank Muskus, Dick, Schlarr, Lopacki, Horton (5 Prisoner of War); Alexander, Boyle, Stupak, Hothem (4 Killed in Action); Baer {bomb) (evaded capture & ret); flak, crashed Stockerau; Missing Air Crew Report 12078.

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