B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies
Die Boeing B-17 Fliegende Festung im Zweiten Weltkrieg mit einer Datenbank über das Schicksal jeder einzelnen Maschine.
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“Das beste Kampfflugzeug, das jemals gebaut wurde. Sie konnte die meisten Schäden verkraften und blieb immer noch in der Luft.”
General Ira C. Eaker
Featured B-17s
Zuletzt aktualisierte B-17 in der Datenbank
B-17 #42-102625 / All American Girl
Delivered Cheyenne 19/3/44; Hunter 9/4/44; Dow Fd 29/4/44; Assigned 338BS/96BG Snetterton 1/5/55; transferred 337BS [AW-B]; destroyed by enemy aircraft at Poltava with Ken Bope 21/6/44; Salvaged 1/7/44. ALL AMERICAN GIRL.
B-17 #42-32061 / Lucious Louise
Delivered Denver 20/1/44; Amarillo 2/2/44; MacDill 5/2/44; Morrison 8/3/44; Assigned 816BS/483BG Tortorella 11/3/44; transferred 348BS/99BG Tortorella 31/3/44; {94m} Returned to the USA 1103 BU Morrison 3/4/45; 4104 BU Rome 2/7/45; Recl Comp 13/11/45. LUSCIOUS LOUISE.
B-17 #42-97256 / Big Time Operator
Delivered Cheyenne 11/2/44; Kearney 4/3/44; Presque Is 10/3/44; Assigned: 731BS/452BG [7D-N] Deopham Green 16/3/44; destroyed on ground by Enemy aircraft at Poltava Pilot: John Zimmerman 21/6/44; Salvaged. Russia 2/7/44. BIG TIME OPERATOR.
B-17 #42-30407 / War Pappy
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.
B-17 #42-102944 / The Old Lady
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.
B-17 #42-102557 / Ice Cold Katie
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.
B-17 #42-97086 / American Maid
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.
B-17 #43-38259 / Badger Beauty
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.
B-17 #42-5061
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.
B-17 #42-38047 / Fever Beaver aka Shady Lady aka Melancholy Baby aka Little Mommy
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.