42-30032/30131 Boeing B-17F-85-BO Fortress
MSN 5146/5245. Dispositions from B-17 Fortress Master Log, Dave Osborne (FORTLOG)
Production changes: Improved brake and main wheel assembly. Provision for remote reading compass
30032 (MSN 5146) Accepted by USAAF 28Mar43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 2Apr43. 384th Bomb Group, Sioux City AAB, IA 13Apr43.
Departed to Kearney Field, NB for overseas processing 3May43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB. Departed late May43 en route to Grafton Underwood,
England via North Atlantic route. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 20May43. 532nd Bomb Squadron, 381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167),
Essex 6Jun43. 546th Bomb Squadron [BK*D], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood
(Station 106), Northamptonshire 9Jun43. Named *Sky Queen*. {first combat mission 22Jun43}.
Failed to return from a mission to the Fieseler aircraft factory at Kassel, Germany 28Jul43 (9KIA:2POW).
The mission was aborted and the aircraft was returning to England when it was attacked by
Oberleutnant Georg Schott of 1./JG 1, flying a Fw 190 A-5, damaging engine No.3 and setting it on fire.
The aircraft lost altitude rapidly to try and extinguish the fire then levelled out. The bomber
exploded and two crew members bailed out. It crashed near Kortwoude, east of Surhuisterveen,
Netherlands. {6 missions) MACR 15165.
30033 (MSN 5147) Accepted by USAAF 28Mar43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 2Apr43. 384th Bomb Group, Sioux City AAB, IA 13Apr43.
Departed to Kearney Field, NB for overseas processing 3May43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB. Departed late May43 en route to Grafton Underwood,
England via North Atlantic route. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 20May43. Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander,
Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 22/23May43. 546th Bomb Squadron [BK*G],
384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 26May43.
Named *Little America*. . {first combat mission 22Jun43}. Eighth Air Force Service
Command 5Aug43. Regained by Group 15Aug43. Fitted with Gee-H radio navigation system
equipment. Failed to return from a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical works at Leverkusen,
Germany 1Dec43 (9POW:1EVD). After crossing the Belgian coast en route to the target,
a propeller oversped. Shortly afterwards, the bomber dropped out of formation and
turned back towards England. Before long the No.2 engine stopped then, a few minutes later
with the coast in sight, the No.3 engine stopped. With three engines failed, the crew
bailed out over Belgium before the aircraft crashed close to the French border at Leisele,
Belgium. {22 missions}. MACR 1335. 10 POW, 1 evaded.
30034 (MSN 5148) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 2Apr43.
381st Bomb Group, Pueblo AAB, CO 12Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 6May43. North
Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 17May43. Ferried on the
North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 18May43. Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire May43.
532nd Bomb Squadron [VE*K], 381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex Jun43.
Named NOBODY'S BABY (ferried by Squadron Commanding Officer Colonel Harry P Leber, Jr
to UK as no other pilots wanted it!). {4 missions}. 365th Bomb Squadron [XK*D],
305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 22Aug43.
Royal Air Force No.100 Group 28Dec43. Returned to 305th Bomb Group 13Jan44.
Declared ‘war weary’. Reassigned for utility, training and weather check aircraft 20Mar44
to 27May45. Salvaged 26Jul45
30035 (MSN 5149) Accepted by USAAF 28Mar43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Apr43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 15Apr43. Wendover Field, UT 4May43. Hill Field, Ogden, UT 11May43.
Wendover Field, UT 16May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 22May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 30May43.
333rd Bomb Squadron, 94th Bomb Group, 1Jun43. To 349th Bomb Squadron [XR*H],
100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 2Jun43,
Named *Pasaden Nena/Torchy*--Named after the wife of the first
navigator because of her red hair. Failed to return from a mission to the Caudron-Renault
factory at Paris, France 3Sep43 (1KIA:2POW:7EVD). When the formation reached Paris,
the target was obscured by clouds so diverted to an alternate target, the Luftwaffe
airfield at Beaumont Le Roger near Paris. En route to the target, halfway between
Paris and Chartres, the plane was hit by flak. No.1 engine went out completely and the
bomber dropped behind the formation. Flak or an incendiary shell started a fire
between No.1 and No.2 engines. Two Bf 109 fighters made one pass when the engineer
reported a fire then the whole bottom was shot out of the pilots cabin. The crew bailed
out before the aircraft crashed; the tail gunner was killed when he became entangled
in the tail wreckage as the plane disintegrated before it crashed at Cerny, Essonne, France
30036 (MSN 5150) Accepted by USAAF 28Mar43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 2Apr43. 384th Bomb Group, Sioux City AAB, IA 13Apr43.
Departed to Kearney Field, NB for overseas processing 3May43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB. Departed late May43 en route to Grafton Underwood,
England via North Atlantic route. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 30May43. 546th Bomb Squadron, 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood
(Station 106), Northamptonshire 8Jun43. The aircraft was involved in a mid-air collision
with B-17F 42-30131 during a practice flight 12Jun43 (5KIS). They were two of sixteen
bombers which were landing out of their formation on return to base at Grafton Underwood.
Initial confusion on the correct landing runway had been resolved but had caused these
two aircraft to go-around for another attempt because of poor spacing. 42-30036 is
believed to have bounced during its first attempt to land and was going around the pattern
at a lower level than 42-30131 which was now above it on base leg by about 1,000ft.
They both turned final about the same time without the pilots seeing the other aircraft.
The control tower was showing a red light to 42-30131 but this was not observed by the
crew. A call from the tower to ‘pull up’ was misheard and both aircraft pulled up about
the same time. The tail of 42-30036 hit the nose and then No.2 engine of the upper aircraft.
Momentarily locked together, the propeller sliced through the tail of this aircraft, cutting off
the vertical stabiliser a few feet forward of the fin. This bomber reared straight up,
fell off on its left wing and headed nose down for the ground where it exploded in flames
on impact. {nil missions}. Salvaged 12Jun43
30037 (MSN 5151) Accepted by USAAF 28Mar43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 2Apr43. Combat Crew Training School, Casper Field, WY 4Apr43.
384th Bomb Group, Sioux City AAB, IA 13Apr43. Departed to Kearney Field, NB for overseas
processing 3May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB. Departed late May43
en route to Grafton Underwood, England via North Atlantic route. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 24May43. 546th Bomb Squadron [BK*F],
384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 29May43.
{first combat mission 26Jun43}. Failed to return from a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield
at Villacoublay, France 26Jun43 (10POW). When the plane crossed the French coast it was
struck by flak between the No.3 engine and its firewall. The propeller was lost and the engine
caught fire. The pilot dove the plane in an effort to put the fire out and then leveled out.
This maneuver didn't work and No.3 engine fell off the wing. Control of No.4 engine was lost,
probably caused by an attack by enemy fighters. The crew was ordered to bail out and
six crew members jumped out of the plane. A Bf 109 pulled up on the right wing tip.
The pilot had landing gear and flaps down in an effort to slow his fighter enough to stay
next to the slowing bomber. At this point, the bombardier woke up; he had probably been
hit by No.3 propeller when it spun off and hit the fuselage. Seeing the German fighter, he began
to fire at it and caused it to fall away. The German fighters then renewed their attacks.
The bomber suffered through several head-on attacks. One of these shot out the windscreen
on the left side and the pilot was hit very badly. Shot down by Ltn Fritz Karch of II./JG2 flying
a Bf 109G-6. The plane crash landed at Saint-Gatien-des-Bois airfield, Deauville, France.
The forward fuselage was destroyed by fire during the crash. {1 mission}
Pieces of this aircraft were displayed in a
museum established at Paris-Nanterre by occupying German forces.
30038 (MSN 5152) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 2Apr43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 15Apr43. Wendover Field, UT 4May43.
Hill Field, Ogden, UT 12May43. Wendover Field, UT 16May43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 22May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 27May43. 349th Bomb Squadron, 100th Bomb Group,
Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 30May43. Named *Bar Fly*. Failed to return from
a convoy attack 25Jun43 (6KIA:4POW). Shot down by Obfw Hans Erbskorn in Bf 109G-6/R6 of JG 26/9
over North Sea 20 km N of Wangerooge, Germany Jun 25, 1943 on mission to Bremen.
MACR 270
30039 (MSN 5153) Delivered Cheyenne Apr 2, 1943; Sioux City Apr 14, 1943; Kearney May 3, 1943; Dow Fd May 24, 1943; Assigned to
337BS/96BG [AW-Q] in US; transferred to 544BS/384BG [SU-H] at Grafton Underwood May 29, 1943; 2 SAD Little Staughton
Aug 14, 1943; (FORTLOG). to 803rd BS(P) at Oulton early 1944 as radar countermeasures aircraft,
fitted with Mandrel sets and nine carpet sets. (384th BG, 544th BS, *Liberty Belle*) to
Aphrodite project as BQ-7 and launched against U-boat pens on Heligoland Oct 15, 1944. In final
mission, was hit by flak and crashed into sea short of target.
30040 (MSN 5154) Accepted by USAAF 29Mar43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 2Apr43. 384th Bomb Group, Sioux City AAB, IA 13Apr43.
Departed to Kearney Field, NB for overseas processing 3May43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB. Departed late May43 en route to Grafton
Underwood, England via North Atlantic route. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 20May43. Ferried on the North Atlantic route
from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 22/23May43.
546th Bomb Squadron [BK*B], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106),
Northamptonshire 26May43. {first combat mission 22Jun43}. {2 missions}. PICCADILLY COMMANDO. 3
37th Bomb Squadron [AW*A], 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 6Jul43
Named "Wabbit Twacks III"– artwork based loosely on the Bugs Bunny character.
It seems likely that each mission completed saw an extra cartoon bomb motif added to
the jumbled trail, Failed to return from a mission to the ball bearing factories at
Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43 (1KIA:6POW:3EVD). En route to the target area, the
bomber formation was repeatedly attacked by a large number of Luftwaffe fighters.
After the target, the Group turned and headed westward for England. German fighters,
having landed and refueled, attacked again. Shot down by Obfw Friedrich May in
Fw 190A-6 of JG 2/3 at Vavincourt, near Bar-le-Duc, France Oct 14, 1943.
With battle damage from enemy action, the aircraft crashed at Avincourt,
twelve miles north of Saint-Dizier, France. MACR 837
30041 (MSN 5155) Accepted by USAAF 29Mar43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 2Apr43. 544th Bomb Squadron, 384th Bomb Group,
Sioux City AAB, IA 14Apr43. Departed to Kearney Field, NB for overseas processing 3May43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB. Departed late May43 en route to
Grafton Underwood, England via North Atlantic route. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 23May43. Departed RCAF Gander, Newfoundland
to UK 9/10Jun43. The aircraft suffered engine failure and ditched twenty miles off
Cape Freels, Newfoundland 9Jun43. The crew was rescued from the sea (10RTD
30042 (MSN 5156) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 2Apr43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 15Apr43.
Wendover Field, UT 2May43. Hill Field, Ogden, UT 12May43. Wendover Field, UT 19May43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 22May43. Patterson Field,
Dayton, OH 29May43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 3Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 6Jun43.
349th Bomb Squadron, 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139),
Norfolk 9Jun43. Named*Oh Nausea*– reputed to have aborted every mission
on which it had flown and never dropped a bomb on a target prior to this mission.
Failed to return from a shuttle mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factories at
Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43 (10POW). The aircraft lost one engine just after
crossing the enemy coast early in mission and a second at the target. Realizing
they probably could not reach Africa but at no time did they consider Switzerland.
Had one bomb hang up over target and tried to release it over a small airfield
near the Brenner Pass but it wouldn't go. Later released it manually over the
Mediterranean. Dropped to 500ft and threw out everything not nailed down.
Just north of Naples the aircraft turned for Sicily because at briefing had been
told Sicily would fall that day. About 90 miles from Sicily the aircraft lost a third engine.
The pilot shut down the remaining engine and ditched. The aircraft floated for about
an hour and a half. The crew were picked up next morning by Germans in a flying boat.
MACR 682. 10 POW
30043 (MSN 5157) Accepted by USAAF 29Mar43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Apr43. 384th Bomb Group, Sioux City AAB, IA 14Apr43.
Departed to Kearney Field, NB for overseas processing 3May43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB. Departed late May43 en route to Grafton Underwood,
England via North Atlantic route. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 23May43. 547th Bomb Squadron [SO*V], 384th Bomb Group,
Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 29May43. Named *Ruthless*
{first combat mission 22Jun43}. Fitted with Gee-H radio navigation system equipment.
Battle damaged on a mission to a roller bearing factory at Stuttgart, Germany 6Sep43.
From the Initial Point until leaving the target area, there was a complete undercast
except for small sparse patches of farm land. This group went over the target area twice
without dropping their bombs. Bombs were finally dropped on Achern, a small town 18km
southwest of Baden-Baden, Germany. Having spent too long over the target, the formation
was beginning to realise that fuel exhaustion would likely lead to many not being
able to return to base. Force landed at RAF West Malling, Kent (10RTD). Failed to return
from a mission to industrial areas at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 4Oct43 (10RTD).
The pilot took the plane up for a test spin, it had just had its engines overhauled and only
had about ten flight hours on them. When he returned the pilot decided that they were
not going to have enough fuel for the mission. The pilot saw the ground crew chief
passing by and asked for more fuel for the plane. At first the chief said “Can’t, you know
everyone gets an allotment of 3000 gallons”. The pilot pleaded with the crew chief to give
them a break and the chief relented. The chief sent the ground crew to the wing to start
filling the tanks. As the ground crew began hooking up to the wing tanks a young engineering
Lieutenant came riding by on a bicycle. He stopped and asked them why they were getting fuel.
The pilot told him that he wanted a little extra so that they can get back home. The young
engineering lieutenant officiously said, “You know what the orders are” and he waved the
ground crew off the plane. In those precious few minutes the ground crew probably only
put in an extra 50-60 gallons of gasoline before they disconnected. A B-17 burned fifty gallons
or more an hour for each engine or approximately 200 gallons per hour. ‘Ruthless’ got an extra
fifteeen minutes. With only a little extra fuel in their wing tanks the crew of ‘Ruthless’ took
off for the raid on Frankfurt. After the plane made it to the target and dropped its bombs
the pilot cut out the two outboard engines to conserve fuel and were going to go home
on the two inboard engines. The pilot tried as best as he could to keep up with the squadron
but with flying on only two engines the plane was soon lagging behind. As it limped back
home it was again flying over Belgium. The pilot had given the order to get rid of everything
that was not nailed down. The crew threw out everything, jackets, boots, rags, plane parts,
anything to make the plane lighter to conserve fuel. By that time the crew happened to see
five or six Spitfires flying alongside of them; they must have realised that the bomber
was in trouble. The bomber continued to putter on home, the crew feeling a little better with
having an escort to protect them. They flew over the North Sea to where the English Channel
meets. The co-pilot wanted the pilot to go up over the white cliffs of Dover, but the fuel was
almost gone and they were losing altitude, therefore there was no chance of clearing the cliffs.
The pilot battled to keep the bomber airborne; with resignation, he told everyone to take their
ditching positions. The aft crew went up to the radio room and took their positions. Then they
heard a hissing sound as the tail of the B-17 started to drag on top of the water. The plane hit
the water hard. The life rafts had deployed and were tethered to the side of the plane by the wing.
The Spitfires continued to circle in the air to guard the men in the life rafts. A short distance
away an English trawler HM Drifter (the English used it for a radar picket boat) was coming
toward them. They were coming to pick them up. The sailors got the crew on board and below
deck. The picket boat could not leave its station to return the crew to land so it radioed for
another boat. The Royal Air Force sent out a 40-foot motorboat ‘Lord Keith’ made out of mahogany.
The next morning the crew was flown back to Grafton Underwood in a Douglas C-47. {18 missions}.
30044 (MSN 5158) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Apr43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 15Apr43. Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA 24Apr43.
Long Beach Field, CA 29May43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 3Jun43. Pendleton Field, OR 2Nov43. 248th Base Unit (Operational
Training Unit), Walker Field, Victoria, KS 9Jun44. 3502nd Base Unit (Technical School),
Chanute Field, Rantoul, IL 3Sep44. 248th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Walker Field,
Victoria, KS 5Sep44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for
storage and disposal 25Jun45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped
30045 (MSN 5159) Accepted by USAAF 29Mar43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Apr43. 384th Bomb Group, Sioux City AAB, IA 14Apr43.
Departed to Kearney Field, NB for overseas processing 3May43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB. Departed late May43 en route to Grafton Underwood,
England via North Atlantic route. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 23May43. 545th Bomb Squadron, 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood
(Station 106), Northamptonshire 29May43. {nil missions}. 334th Bomb Squadron [BG*M],
95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 28Jun43.
Named "Fight'n-n-Bit'n/She's My Gal") Failed to return from a mission to
Saarlautern, Germany 4Oct43 (1KIA:9POW). With battle damage from enemy action,
the aircraft ditched off Bayeux, France. MACR 744 and 1455.
30046 (MSN 5160) Accepted by USAAF 30Mar43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Apr43. 384th Bomb Group, Sioux City AAB, IA 14Apr43.
Departed to Kearney Field, NB for overseas processing 3May43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB. Departed late May43 en route to Grafton Underwood,
England via North Atlantic route. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 20May43. Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander,
Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 22/23May43. 546th Bomb Squadron [BK*H],
384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 24May43
Named "Merrie Hell") . {first combat mission 22Jun43}. 546th Bomb Squadron [BK*K] Aug43.
Failed to return from a mission to a synthetic fuel hydrogenation plant at Gelsenkirchen,
Germany 12Aug43 (8KIA:2POW). Flak blew off the nose almost to back of the turret.
The aircraft was on fire and crashed near Gelsenkirchen, Germany. {9 missions}.
MACR 289.
30047 (MSN 5161) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Apr43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 15Apr43. Hill Field, Ogden, UT 5May43.
Wendover Field, UT 10May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 21May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 28May43.
350th Bomb Squadron [LN*Q], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139),
Norfolk 2Jun43. Named "Sweater Girl". . Failed to return from a mission to railway
installations at Münster, Germany 10Oct43 (6POW:4KIA). As they approached the city,
the formation was swarmed by a large force of enemy aircraft for an estimated forty-five minutes
of vicious fighting. By the time their friendly fighter escorts arrived to drive off the Luftwaffe,
the damage had already been done. One Bf 109 collided with B-17F 42-30723. The collision
occurred on the aircraft’s left wing with flames erupting throughout the plane. The plane exploded
in mid-air after going into a steep spiral. It has been speculated that "Sweater Girl" also was
damaged by this mid-air collision but surviving crew members report that the aircraft was under
heavy flak followed by fighter attacks and was severly damaged before the crew was ordered
to bail out. There is no mention from crew reports that their plane sustained any damage from
the mid-air collision of 42-30723 with the Bf 109. According to eye witness accounts,
42-30047 was shot down by Uffz Herzog in Fw 190A of JG 1/2,
hit in No.2 engine, oil was pouring out in a stream. The aircraft crashed a few miles north of
Münster at Ostberven near the Dortmund-Ems canal. MACR 1031.
30048 (MSN 5162) Accepted by USAAF 30Mar43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Apr43. 384th Bomb Group, Sioux City AAB, IA 14Apr43.
Departed to Kearney Field, NB for overseas processing 3May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB. Departed late May43 en route to Grafton Underwood, England via
North Atlantic route. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 24May43. 544th Bomb Squadron [SU*K], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood
(Station 106), Northamptonshire 12Jun43. Named *Flak Dancer* (first combat mission 26Jun43}.
Failed to return from a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Villacoublay,
France 26Jun43 [4POW:6EVD]. Initially attacked but not damaged by three Bf 109 fighters
as the bomber approached the target. Returning from the target, the bomber dropped out of
formation for no apparent reason and was attacked again later by Fw 190s. The crew
bailed out before the bomber crash landed at Laon, France. {1 mission}. F
The aircraft was repaired and used by Luftwaffe at the Luftwaffen Erprobungsstelle
Rechlin, Germany and did some flight tests there [code SJ+KY]. Later it was used by
KG 200 Spring 1944 [code A3+CE].
30049 (MSN 5163) Accepted by USAAF 30Mar43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Apr43. 384th Bomb Group, Sioux City AAB, IA 14Apr43.
Departed to Kearney Field, NB for overseas processing 3May43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB. Departed late May43 en route to Grafton Underwood,
England via North Atlantic route. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 24May43. 544th Bomb Squadron [SU*G], 384th Bomb Group,
Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 30May43. Named .*Miss Deal*
{first combat mission 25Jun43}. Failed to return from a mission to the industrial area
and submarine pens at Hamburg, Germany 25Jun43 (2KIA:2MIA:6POW). After making two
unsuccessful runs on the primary target, the crew headed for Emden as a likely target
for their bomb load. The flak guns found them, inflicting serious damage and injuries.
They then ran into Bf 109 fighters of III./JG 1 which attacked over Finsterwolde, Holland,.
Shot down by Oblt Hans-Georg dippel in Fw 190A-5 of JG 26/2 and
crashed into Dollart Bay in Netherlands. 2 KIA,
2 died of injuries, 6 POW. MACR 16349
30050 (MSN 5164) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 3Apr43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 15Apr43. Hamilton Field,
San Rafael, CA 28Apr43. Wendover Field, UT 2May43. Hill Field, Ogden, UT 13May43.
Wendover Field, UT 17Feb43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 21May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 27Feb43.
Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 30Apr43.
350th Bomb Squadron, 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 29May43
Named "Judy D" [painted as JUDY E]. . Failed to return from a mission to a
Luftwaffe airfield and air depot at Le Bourget, Paris, France 10Jul43 (8POW:2EVD).
Fw 190 fighters hit No.1 engine and the wing caught fire. The bomber crashed at Sainte-Colombe,
south of St Valery-en-Caux, France. MACR 268. The forward section was later displayed
in a German museum near Paris
30051 (MSN 5165) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 3Apr43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 15Apr43.
Wendover Field, UT 2May43. Hill Field, Ogden, UT 15May43. Wendover Field, UT 18May43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 23May43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 28May43. 351st Bomb Squadron [EP*J], 1
00th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 1Jun43. Named "Nevada Wildcat"
Failed to return from a mission to the submarine pens at La Pallice, La Rochelle,
France 4Jul43 (9POW:1EVD). Aircraft lost power on two engines, then shot down by Lt. Gerhard Schindler
in Bf-109 of JGr. Ost/2. Crashed three miles west of La Pallice,
near Isle d'Oleran, France. MACR 272
30052 (MSN 5166) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 3Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 16Apr43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 18Apr43. Redmond Field, OR 15Aug43. 4135th Base Unit
(Ogden Air Technical Service Command), Hill Field, Ogden, UT 11Aug44. Modified
for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment;
designated TB-17F. 3705th Base Unit (Technical School), Lowry Field, Denver, CO 23Aug44.
Accident taxying at Lowry Field 22Jan45. Transferred to US Navy Feb 23, 1947.
30053 (MSN 5167) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 3Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 29Apr43. 15th Ferrying Group,
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm
Beach, FL 5May43. Robins Field, Warner Robins, GA 8May43. 15th Ferrying Group,
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm
Beach, FL 16May43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 352nd Bomb Squadron,
301st Bomb Group, Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 24May43. Oudna #1,
Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43. Named NO SACK TIME / PICKLEPUSS
Failed to return from a mission to the Messerschmitt factory at Augsburg,
Germany 1Oct43 (3KIA:6POW). En route to Augsburg the aircraft was shot down
between Viareggio and Pisa, Italy by Maj Kurt Uben in Bf 109G-6/R1 of
JG77/III Stab. MACR 760. . {26 missions}
30054 (MSN 5168) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 7Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 18Apr43.
1174th Pilot Transition Training Squadron, Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 20Apr43.
Accident landing at Lockbourne AAB 5Jul43. 2000th Base Unit, HQ Squadron,
AAF Training Command, Texas & Pacific Building, Fort Worth, TX 23Oct44.
2114th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB,
Columbus, OH 21Dec44. 2003rd Base Unit, HQ Squadron, AAF Training Command,
Fort Worth Field, TX 8Jan45. 273rd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Lincoln Field, NB 16Mar45. 2003rd Base Unit, HQ Squadron, AAF Training Command,
Fort Worth Field, TX 10Apr45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field,
AR for storage and disposal 21Dec45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30055 (MSN 5169) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 5Apr43. Dyersburg Field, TN 16Apr43. Gulfport Field, MS 16May43.
Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 9Nov43. 3007th Base Unit,
Kirtland Field, Albuquerque, NM 20Jun44. 271st Base Unit (Staging Wing),
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 30Jun44. 878th Bomb Squadron, 499th Bomb Group,
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 12Jul44. Crashed taking off at Lowry Field, Denver, CO 30Jul44.
3705th Base Unit (Technical School), Lowry Field, Denver, CO 1Aug44. Salvaged 1Aug44.
30056 (MSN 5170) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 5Apr43. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command,
Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 29Apr43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa.
342nd Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Châteaudun-du-Rhumel (Helen),
Constantine, Algeria 24May43. Pont-du-Fahs, Tunisia 11Aug43. Depienne, Sminja,
Tunisia 15Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43.
San Giovanni, Cerignola, Italy 20Dec43. Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44.
Failed to return from a mission to an oil refinery in Hungary 2Jul44 (8POW:2KIA).
Attacked by enemy Me 210 fighters and, with one propeller feathered, dropped out
of formation. More fighter attacks were made, four crew members bailed out before
the plane turned over onto its back and went into a dive. It finally leveled off,
then two more parachutes left the plane before its final plunge. Crashed at Komárom, Hungary
MACR 6338
30057 (MSN 5171) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 5Apr43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 15Apr43.
100th Bomb Group, Kearney Field, NB 20Apr43. Wendover Field, UT 2May43.
Hill Field, Ogden, UT 15May43. Wendover Field, UT 21May43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 28May43. 351st Bomb Squadron [EP*D],
100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 9Jun43. Named *Raunchy*
{first combat mission 25Jun43}. Severe battle damaged by flak on a mission to industrial
areas at Bonn, Germany 12Aug43. Without brakes, the bomber ran off the end of the
runway landing back at Thorpe Abbbotts. Failed to return from a mission to the Bosch
magneto factory at Stuttgart, Germany 6Sep43 (1KIA:9INT). With bad weather over Germany,
the bomber attacked a secondary target of a Luftwaffe air base in France. Shot down by
enemy fighters, ditched Lake Constance, Romanshorn, Switzerland. The ball turret gunner
would be killed whilst trying to ditch. He would take the dubious honour of being
the first US airman killed in neutral Switzerland. {13 missions}. All survivors were interned.
MACR 689.
30058 (MSN 5172) Accepted by USAAF 31Mar43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Apr43. New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 29Apr43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 6May43.
546th Bomb Squadron [BK*M], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106),
Northamptonshire 17Jun43. {first combat mission 26Jun43}. Failed to return from a
mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Villacoublay, France 26Jun43 (2POW:8EVD).
After making landfall over France, the plane was hit by flak and attacked by Fw 190 fighters
hitting No.1 engine which was losing oil. Remaining in formation, the aircraft was
starting its bomb run when the propeller started to run away and could not be feathered.
the bomber vibrating, the pilot dropped down to the cover of an overcast before turning back for home.
ck of Fw 190s started a concentrated attack., shot down Jun 26, 1943 by Obfw. Immerl in Fw 190A of
JG 105/2. No.3 engine was set on fire and 20mm cannon shells hit the right wing;
the radio room was badly shot up. The bombs were jettisoned and the crew bailed out before
the aircraft crashed and burned at Guillerval, near Étampes, thirty miles south of Paris, France. {1 mission}
30059 (MSN 5173) Accepted by USAAF 31Mar43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Apr43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 16Apr43. Wendover Field, UT 2May43. Hill Field, Ogden, UT 16May43.
Wendover Field, UT 21May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 28May43. Assigned Eighth Air Force, England 31May43. 351st Bomb Squadron [EP*G],
100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 9Jun43. Named *Barker's Burdens*
Failed to return from a mission to the Caudron-Renault factory at Paris, France 3Sep43 (8KIA:2POW).
When the formation reached Paris, the target was obscured by clouds so diverted to an
alternate target, the Luftwaffe airfield at Beaumont Le Roger near Paris. The bomber was in
collision with B-17F 42-30089. Damaged by flak, aircraft #089 was knocked up and hit the tail
section of #059 with its right wing. #059 jettisoned its bombs, a couple of which may have hit #089,
then exploded as it dove away before the crew could bail out. The aircraft crashed at
Beaumont-le-Roger, west of Évreux, France. MACR 685
30060 (MSN 5174) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 6Apr43. Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 16Apr43.
Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 18Apr43. Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 5May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 30May43.
Modified to photographic configuration. Designated F-9. 1st Photographic Charting Group,
Buckley Field, CO 1Jun44. 2nd Photographic Reconnaissance Group, Buckley Field, CO 2Aug44.
91st Photographic Mapping Squadron, 1st Photographic Group, Buckley Field, CO 12Sep44.
311th Photographic Wing, Mapping and Charting, Buckley Field, CO 6Feb45.
4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field,
Dayton, OH 26May45. Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets
and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F. 3rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron,
Grenier Field, Manchester, NH 5Jun45. 3rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron,
McChord Field, Tacoma, WA 19Jun45. Accident taxying at McChord Field 21Jun45.
53rd Reconnaissance Squadron (Weather), McChord Field, Tacoma, WA 21Jul45.
1st Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, 311th Photographic Wing, Mapping and
Charting, Grenier Field, Manchester, NH 14Aug45. 53rd Reconnaissance Squadron
(Weather), Grenier Field, Manchester, NH 23Aug45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 24Jan46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
30061 (MSN 5175) Accepted by USAAF 3Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 6Apr43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 15Apr43.
Wendover Field, UT 2May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 22May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 30May43.
418th Bomb Squadron [LD*Q], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 9Jun43and named
"Just-A-Snappin", later renamed "Wolff Pack", after the name of the pilot.
Battle damaged on a shuttle mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factories at Regensburg,
Germany 17Aug43; vertical stabiliser damaged by 20mm cannon fire and a life raft released
which hit the left horizontal stabiliser. Landed safely in Algeria, North Africa.
Damaged on mission to Bremen, Germany 28Jun44. Force landed in a field at Ludham,
Norfolk on return with no brakes and hit a tree. Famously photographed high over the Alps with several
missing pieces.Salvaged. Returned to US. 1104th Base Unit (Caribbean Wing,
Air Transport Command), Homestead Field, FL 12Jul44. 1st Base Unit, Wright Field,
Dayton, OH 17Jul44. 328th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Gulfport Field, MS 26Jan45.
Crash landed in bad weather 6.5 miles northwest of Flomation, AL 30Mar45.
4119th Base Unit (Mobile Air Technical Service Command), Brookley Field, Mobile, AL 31Mar45. Reclaimed 17Apr45
Boeing KC-135R Stratotanke 57-1493 of the 100th ARW is named ‘Wolff Pack’ in commemoration of this B-17G.
30062 (MSN 5176) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 6Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 14Apr43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 16Apr43. Wendover Field, UT 2May43.
Hill Field, Ogden, UT 18May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 22May54.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 30May43.
418th Bomb Squadron [LD*O], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 9Jun43.
named *Bastard's Bungalow II* aka "Reilly's Racehorse". Also
named TERRY N’TEN (TNT). Named for the pilot’s wife Failed to return from a mission to the
industrial area at Brunswick, Germany 10Feb44 (1KIA:9POW). Shot down by
enemy aircraft and crashed at Leeseringen, 4 mi S of Nienburg/Weser,
Germany MACR 2383.
30063 (MSN 5177) Accepted by USAAF 2Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Apr43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 15Apr43. Wendover Field, UT 2May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 22May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 29May43. 561st Bomb Squadron, 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall
(Station 136), Suffolk 2Jun43.Named "Paddlefoot". 18th Bomb Squadron, 100th Bomb Group,
Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 9Jun43. Named "Picklepuss"–the nickname of the pilot’s wife
Failed to return from a shuttle mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factories at Regensburg,
Germany 17Aug43 (6KIA:4POW). Uffz Günther Steinberg of the 9./JG 26 attacked and
damaged one engine en route to the target. South of Aachen three Bf 110 fighters of
II.Gruppe Nachtjagdgeschwader 1 attacked the bomber; the tail gunner damaged
two but the third fighter, damaged by the waist gunner, shot off the right wing,
causing the aircraft to enter a spin. Shot down by flt Hans Witzke of NJG 1/4
between Herbesthal and Lontzen, Belgium.
The aircraft crashed at Schmalgraf, five miles north of Eupen, Belgium
MACR 677.
30064 (MSN 5178) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 5Apr43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 15Apr43.
Wendover Field, UT 2May43. Hill Field, Ogden, UT 22May43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 30May43. 418th Bomb Squadron [LD*T],
100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 9Jun43. Named *Wild Cargo*
Failed to return from a mission to La Rochelle 16Sep43 (10POW). shot down by
Fw Heinz Schluter of JGr Ost/4 between Boyard-Ville and
Ile d'Aix, France. MACR 647. 1 KIA, 9 POW.
30065 (MSN 5179) Accepted by USAAF 2Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Apr43. 384th Bomb Group, Sioux City AAB, IA 14Apr43.
Departed to Kearney Field, NB for overseas processing 3May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB. Departed late May43 en route to Grafton Underwood, England via
North Atlantic route. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 20May43. Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland
to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 22/23May43. 547th Bomb Squadron [SO*O],
384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 24May43.
{first combat mission 22Jun43}. Extensively battle damaged on a mission to the
Gerhard Fieseler Werke (GFW) aircraft works at Waldau, Kassel, Germany 30Jul43 (1WIA).
Force landed at Horham (Station 119), Suffolk with fuel exhaustion. {9 missions}.
Eighth Air Force Service Command 6Aug43. Regained by Group 14Aug43. Transferred to
369th Bomb Squadron [WW*U], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 22Aug43.
Failed to return from a mission to a roller bearing factory at Stuttgart, Germany 6Sep43 (10RTD).
From the Initial Point until leaving the target area, there was a complete undercast
except for small sparse patches of farm land. This group went over the target area twice
without dropping their bombs. Bombs were finally dropped on Achern, a small town
18km southwest of Baden-Baden, Germany. Having spent too long over the target, the
formation was beginning to realise that fuel exhaustion would likely lead to many
not being able to return to base. The pilot instructed the crew to jettison excess weight
with a chance of reaching the English Channel. The plane flew across the English Channel
just above the waves but the English coast came into view. The aircraft crash landed in a
sheep pasture on Romney Marsh near New Romney, Kent, UK. Propellers were bent,
engines smashed off their mounts, the nose section caved in, battered wings and the
ball turret pushed up through the top of the fuselage. Salvaged 16Sep43
30066 (MSN 5180) Accepted by USAAF 2Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 6Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 14Apr43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 16Apr43. Wendover Field, UT 2May43.
Hill Field, Ogden, UT 16May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 22May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 30May43.
418th Bomb Squadron [LD*X], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 9Jun43.
Named MUGWUMP. Battle damaged during a shuttle mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft
factories at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43. The bomber survived the flight to North Africa
but was badly damaged and abandoned. Later repaired and returned to England.
To 413th Bomb Squadron [MZ*X], 96th Bomb Group, Andrewsfield (Station 485), Essex 2Jun43.
Named RUM BOOGIE II. Declared ‘war weary’. Modified for radio counter measures.
To 803rd Bomb Squadron, Oulton. Base Air Depot No.1, Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire.
Modified as a drone for Operation Aphrodite and Castor missions. Designated BQ-7.
562nd Bomb Squadron, 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk, later at
Fersfield (Station 554), Norfolk. Expended on Aphrodite mission to the “Nordsee III” submarine
bunker at Heligoland, Germany 30Oct44. Bad weather prevented the primary target from being
identified, and the aircraft was redirected towards Berlin. The aircraft lost contact with
the mother ship, deviated from the course and headed towards Sweden. They tried, in vain,
to regain control of the aircraft and three of the escorting P-47 Thunderbolts followed
but at a point had to turn back to have enough fuel to reach base back in England.
The unmanned bomber survived both fighter and air defense attacks until it was just
south of Trollhättan when the fuel ran out. It crashed at Vissla kvarn, south of Trollhättan
after running out of fuel. The crater is still visible today.
30067 (MSN 5181) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 6Apr43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 16Apr43. Peterson Field,
Colorado Springs, CO 5Jun43. Bolling Field, Washington, DC 27Jul43. Peterson Field,
Colorado Springs, CO 6Aug43. Rapid City Field, SD 13Aug43. Peterson Field, Colorado
Springs, CO 7Oct43. 395th Bomb Squadron, 40th Bomb Group, Pratt Field, KS. Damaged
taxying at Pratt Field 27Jan44. 246th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Pratt Field, KS 8Jun44.
244th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Harvard Field, NB 24Jun44. 4136th Base Unit
(Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 15Jul44.
235th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Biggs Field, El Paso, TX 17Jan45.
233rd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Davis-Monthan Field, Tucson, AZ 18Mar45.
209th Base Unit (Special), Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 14Jun45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage
and disposal 8Nov45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
30068 (MSN 5182) Accepted by USAAF 2Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 5Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 10Apr43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 15Apr43. Wendover Field, UT 2May43.
Hill Field, Ogden, UT 13May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 23May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 27May43.
350th Bomb Squadron [LN*X], 100th Bomb Group, Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 29May43.
Thorpe Abbotts 9Jun43. 561st Bomb Squadron [S], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136),
Suffolk Jun43. {first combat mission 12Aug43}. Failed to return from a mission to a Luftwaffe
airfield at Woensdrecht, Netherlands 19Aug43 (8KIA:2POW). Unable to verify a visible
and identifiable target through cloud, the formation turned to bomb the secondary target
of the Luftwaffe airfield at Gilze-Rijen. Over the target area, flak fired by
Gemischter Flak Abteilung 665 exploded beneath the right wing, setting No.4 engine on fire.
The bomber dropped out of formation as the pilot side-slipped and extinguished the fire.
With the propeller feathered, the pilot attempted to rejoin the protection of the group but was
unable to maintain sufficient airspeed. The bomber was spotted approaching Haamstede at
about 3,000ft and trying to fight off two Geman fighters. It was then shot down by flak fired
by Leichte Flak Abteilung 847, caught fire and the crew bailed out before the plane crashed
in a field between Haamstede and Renesse, Netherlands. {4 missions}. Named PHARTZAC
MACR 3068 (MACR has 1944, but it is wrong).
30069 (MSN 5183) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 6Apr43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 16Apr43. Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 18Apr43. 11th Photographic Reconnaissance
Squadron, 2nd Photographic Reconnaissance Group, Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 5May43.
Crashed two miles east of Peterson Field 22May43 (3KIS). Salvaged 22May43
30070 (MSN 5184) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 6Apr43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 15Apr43. Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA 2May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb
Wing, Kearney Field, NB 21May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 22May43. 350th Bomb Squadron, 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 9Jun43.
Named *Tweedle O'Twill*-a song sung by Gene Autry. Failed to return from a shuttle
mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factories at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43 (9POW:1KIA).
Just after entering enemy held territory in the Netherlands, squadrons of Bf 109's and Fw 109's
headed for the last and low group, the 100th Bomb Group. Their first pass was aimed at the
low squadron. This plane was flying in the #5 position of the low squadron, very vulnerable
Shot down by Obfw. Anton-Rudolf Piffer in Fw 190A of JG 1/2
Riddled by 20mm cannon shells and the No.1 engine and tail section on fire, the crew, except
for the radio operator who had been killed, bailed out near Tauberbischofsheim.
All nine were taken prisoner by the Germans. The bomber crashed nearby at
Pülfringen, 20 miles southwest of Würzburg, Germany. MACR 679.
30071 (MSN 5185) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 6Apr43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 15Apr43. Wendover Field, UT 2May43. Hill Field, Ogden, UT 8May43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 22May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air
Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 30May43. 339th Bomb Squadron [QJ*B],
96th Bomb Group, Andrewsfield (Station 485), Essex 2Jun43. 413th Bomb Squadron [MZ*B],
96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 12Jun43. On a training mission the
left wheel failed to extend for landing, then the tail wheel failed before crash landing at
Honington (Station 375), Suffolk 14Apr44. Salvaged 1st Strategic Air Depot, Troston
(Station 595), Suffolk 18Apr44
30072 (MSN 5186) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 7Apr43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 10Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 18Apr43.
Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 21Apr43. 15th Ferrying Group,
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 29Apr43.
Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 342nd Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, named "Virginia Lee" ,
Châteaudun-du-Rhumel (Helen), Constantine, Algeria 10May43. Pont-du-Fahs, Tunisia 11Aug43.
Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 15Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43.
San Giovanni, Cerignola, Italy 20Dec43. Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44. Failed to return
from a mission to the oil refineries at Ploe?ti, Rumania 5May44 (5KIA:5POW). Flak was heavy
and accurate. Struck by a direct flak burst in a wing and crashed near Ploe?t. MACR 4607
30073 (MSN 5187) Accepted by USAAF 2Apr43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 6Apr43. 384th Bomb Group, Sioux City AAB, IA 14Apr43.
Departed to Kearney Field, NB for overseas processing 3May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB. Departed late May43 en route to Grafton Underwood, England via
North Atlantic route. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 25May43.
547th Bomb Squadron [SO*E], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106),
Northamptonshire 29May43. {first combat mission 29Jun43}. {1 mission}. 413th Bomb Squadron [MZ*U],
96th Bomb Group, Andrewsfield (Station 485), Essex 6Jul43. Crash landed at Snetterton Heath (Station 138),
Norfolk 27Feb44. 339th Bomb Squadron [QJ*U]. On a practice mission the aircraft suffered engine
failure and crash landed two miles southeast of East Wretham, Norfolk 17Apr44. {27 missions}. Salvaged.
Named OLE PUSS II – artwork of Ole Puss squating in front of a bomb and wearing Staff Sergeant stripes
whilst toting a heavy machine gun
30074 (MSN 5188) Accepted by USAAF 2Apr43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 6Apr43. 544th Bomb Squadron, 384th Bomb Group,
Sioux City AAB, IA 14Apr43. Crash landed when the left main landing gear would not extend
after a cross-country flight from Salinas Field, CA to Sioux City AAB 25Apr43; a shaft in the
landing gear motor had failed. Salvaged and repaired. Hill Field, Ogden, UT 10Jun43.
Rapid City Field, SD 20Jul43. 222nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Ardmore Field, OK 22Jan45. 332nd Base Unit, Ardmore Field, OK 16Jun45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 11Dec45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
30075 (MSN 5189) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 7Apr43.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Apr43. Geiger Field,
Spokane, WA 17Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 7Jun43. Cut Bank Field, MT
16Jun43. Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 2Jul43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma
City, OK 10Dec43. 247th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 3Jun44.
4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 17Jun43.
247th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 21Jul44. 233rd Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Davis-Monthan Field, Tucson, AZ 11Nov44. 268th Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 11Feb45. 233rd Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Davis-Monthan Field, Tucson, AZ 26Feb45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and
disposal 27Oct45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
30076 MSN 5190) Accepted by USAAF 3Apr43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver
Municipal Airport, CO 6Apr43. 384th Bomb Group, Sioux City AAB, IA 14Apr43.
Departed to Kearney Field, NB for overseas processing 3May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB. Departed late May43 en route to Grafton Underwood, England via North Atlantic
route. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 23May43.
545th Bomb Squadron [JD*V], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106),
Northamptonshire 4Jun43. {first combat mission 22Jun43}. Failed to return from the first Group
mission to the General Motors truck factory at Antwerp, Belgium 22Jun43 (4KIA:6POW).
Battle damaged from attacks after the target by Fw 190 fighters, shot down by Lt Friedrich Lange
in Fw 190A-5 of JG 26/5. With three engines out, the aircraft dropped out of formation.
Several crew members were ejected when the aircraft exploded and spun
out of control to crash at Wilhelminadorp, Goes, Netherlands. {1 mission}. MACR 2165
30077 (MSN 5191) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 7Apr43. Hobbs Field, NM 19Apr43. West Coast Training Center,
Fort Sumner Field, NM 21Apr43. Hobbs Field, NM 6May43. Roswell Field, NM 23May43.
953rd Two Engine Flying Training Squadron [TEFTS], Hobbs Field, NM 30May43.
Damaged in a ground accident with B-17F 42-5118 at Hobbs Field 28Oct43.
Used in making the Hollywood film ‘Passage to Marseille’ starring Humphrey Bogart;
filmed at Victorville, CA, the aircraft was painted to represent an aircraft of the Free French
Air Force / Forces Aériennes Françaises Libres, code SO-V. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 8Nov44. 4124th Base Unit (Air Technical Service
Command), Altus Field, OK 21Jul45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK
for storage and disposal 14Sep45
30078 (MSN 5192) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 7Apr43. Hobbs Field, NM 19Apr43. 2114th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 23Aug44. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 25Aug44. Damaged when force landed after
engine failure at Hobbs Field 22Nov44. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH),
Roswell Field, NM 23Nov44. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine),
Hobbs Field, NM 2Jan45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for
storage and disposal 18Sep45
30079 (MSN 5193) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 7Apr43. Lewistown Field, MT 16Apr43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 4Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 21Jun43. Walla Walla Field, WA 17Jul43.
Rapid City Field, SD 22Jul43. Hill Field, Ogden, UT 25Jul43. Walla Walla Field, WA 29Aug43.
325th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Avon Park Field, FL Dec44.
Forced landing Avon Park 5Dec44. Reclaimed 6Jan45
30080 (MSN 5194) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 7Apr43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 16Apr43.
Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 3May43. Wendover Field, UT 16May43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 23May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME May43. 351st Bomb Squadron [EP*F], 100th Bomb Group,
Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 9Jun43. named "High Life/Peg O'My Heart"
(a 1913 song and 1933 movie. Failed to return from a shuttle mission to the
Messerschmitt aircraft factories at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43 (10INT). After crossing
the German border en route to the target, the bomber formation came under constant
attack by enemy fighters. Damaged by Ltn Hans Ehlers in Fw 190A of JG 1/2
The No.2 engine was disabled by a cannon shell then the No.3 engine received a direct hit from a Bf 109
cannon shell, cutting the throttle cable and causing an oil leak. With two dead engines and a propeller
windmilling, the bomber fell behind the formation. The bombs were jettisoned in a forest near Heilbronn.
The bomber continued to follow the formation over the target and on towards the Alps on course
for the planned destination in Algeria. But the aircraft could not keep up with the formation; preparing
to order the crew to bail out, the navigator advised that the aircraft was close to Switzerland.
Now down to 10,000ft, Lake Constance / Bodensee came into view. As the bomber crossed over
Friedrichshafen, Germany, it was attacked by anti-aircraft artillery from a training station in the town.
A crash landing was made in a field where a lone farmer was loading hay near Zürich, Switzerland
and the crew was interned. The first B-17 to make a forced landing in Switzerland.
Dismantled and taken to Kloten airfield, Zürich, for storage. MACR 683. eventually scrapped.
30081 (MSN 5195) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 7Apr43. New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 29Apr43. North Atlantic
Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 3May43. 407th Bomb Squadron [PY*O],
92nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire 23May43. Named "USS Aliquippa".
.Failed to return from a mission to the synthetic oil refineries at Bochum, Gelsenkirchen
and Recklinghausen, Germany 12Aug43 (11POW) shot down by Lt. Fritz
Karch in Bf 109G-6 of JG 2/6 and crashlanded Ahaus, NW of Münster, Germany.
near Dutch/German border MACR 655.
30082 (MSN 5196) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 8Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 22Apr43. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing,
Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 5May43. Robins Field, GA 11May43.
15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm
Beach, FL 16May43. Ferried South Atlantic route departing Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 17May43.
Diverted en route to Waller Field, Trinidad to Borinquen Field, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico because of
strong headwinds, very stormy and turbulent weather, No 1 engine throwing oil, interphone out,
and no radio contact. Waller Field, Trinidad 18May43. Val de Cães Field, Belém, Brasil 20May43.
Parnamirim Field, Natal, Brasil 21May43. Wideawake Field, Ascension Island 25May43.
Mallard Field, Dakar, Senegal, Africa 25May43. Marrakech, French Morocco 28May43. Salé,
Rabat, French Morocco 29May43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 20th Bomb Squadron,
2nd Bomb Group, Châteaudun-du-Rhumel (Helen), Constantine, Algeria 15Jun43. Aïn M’lila (Onyx),
Constantine, Algeria 17Jun43. {first combat mission 5Jul43}. Massicault, Tunis, Tunisia.
Landing accident at Massicault 29Oct43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. {36 missions}.
419th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Oudna #2, Tunis, Tunisia 14Nov43. Cerignola #1, Italy 10Dec43.
Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. {nil missions}. Returned to US. Grenier Field,
Manchester, NH 14Sep45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for
storage and disposal 29Oct45. Named ZELMA.
30083 (MSN 5197) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 8Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 16Apr43.
Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 18Apr43. Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 5May43. Long Beach
Field, CA 6Jul43. Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 15Jul43. Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 21Jul43.
Modified to photographic configuration. Designated F-9. Mapping Accra, E.Africa, returned to US 9Oct44.
Kirtland Field, Albuquerque, NM 29Nov44. Buckley Field, CO 9Dec44. Kirtland Field, Albuquerque, NM 31Dec44.
Designated FB-17F. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for
storage and disposal 7Feb46. War Assets Administration. Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped.
30084 (MSN 5198) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 6Apr43. Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 16Apr43. Patterson Field,
Dayton, OH 18Apr43. Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 2May43. Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 2Jul43.
Barksdale Field, Bossier City, LA 6Aug43. 3701st Base Unit (Technical School), Amarillo
Field, TX 10Aug44. 3706th Base Unit, Basic Training Center, Sheppard Field, Wichita Falls, TX 15Jul44.
3701st Base Unit (Technical School), Amarillo Field, TX 7Aug44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 20Dec45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30085 (MSN 5199) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 7Apr43. Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 8Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification
Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 16Apr43. Walla Walla Field, WA 16May43.
Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 18May43. 592nd Bomb Squadron, 396th Bomb Group, Moses Lake
Field, WA 23May43. Damaged landing with mechanical failure at Moses Lake Field 1Sep43.
4136th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma
City, OK 23Jul44. 4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field,
Dayton, OH 24Oct44. Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 17Aug45.
30086 (MSN 5200) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 8Apr43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 16Apr43.
Wendover Field, UT 2May43. Hill Field, Ogden, UT 16May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 23May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 26May43. 351st Bomb Squadron [EP*B], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts
(Station 139), Norfolk 9Jun43. Named BLACK JACK. Battle damaged on a shuttle mission to the
Messerschmitt aircraft factories at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43. Salvaged 23Sep43. Also named . BILLY JACK
30087 (MSN 5201) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 8Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 14Apr43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 16Apr43. Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA 23Apr43.
Wendover Field, UT 2May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 23May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 31May43.
351st Bomb Squadron [EP*M], 100th Bomb Group 11Jun43. Ferried on the North
Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 14Jun43.
100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk Jun43. Named "Shackrat"
Failed to return from a mission to railway installations at Münster, Germany 10Oct43 (8KIA:2POW).
As they approached the city, the formation was swarmed by a large force of enemy aircraft
for an estimated forty-five minutes of vicious fighting. By the time their friendly fighter escorts
arrived to drive off the Luftwaffe, the damage had already been done Shot down by Fw. Erick Mattern in
Bf 109G-6 of JG 1/8. crashed Vynen, near Xanten, east of Goch, Germany.
MACR 1026.
30088 (MSN 5202) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 8Apr43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 16Apr43.
Wendover Field, UT 2May43. Hill Field, Ogden, UT 12May43. Wendover Field, UT 18May43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 22May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air
Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 27May43. 349th Bomb Squadron [XR*E],
100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 9Jun43. ,
named *Squawkin' Hawk*.Named after a Merrie Melodies animated cartoon,
released in 1942 and featuring a feisty young chicken hawk determined to seize some prey.
Severe battle damaged over Stuttgart, Germany 6Sep43, returned to base. As the bomber began
the bomb run, four enemy fighters attacked. 20mm shells riddled the nose compartment and
the cockpit. The co-pilot was killed. Fragments from the shell also damaged the aircraft's oxygen system.
Other rounds entered the nose compartment, severly wounding the navigator. The bombardier was
wounded. The engineer succeeded in jettisoning the bombs and the pilot dived into a lower
formation seeking protection. Lacking oxygen, the pilot descended to miminum terrain clearance
altitude. They somehow reached England where the aircraft landed on a grass runway at a RAF fighter
airstrip. Again badly damaged on a mission to the synthetic oil refinery at Gelsenkirchen, Germany 5Nov43
(1KIA:4POW:3EVD:2RTD). After sustaining heavy battle damage, including loss of No.1 engine, the crew
was ordered to bail out and everybody except the pilots jumped.
8 crew bailed out 5 became POW, 2 evaded, but one member's chute
failed to open and he was KIA. On recovering control, the pilots
brought the damaged plane back, to land at RAF Tangmere, Sussex. Repaired and returned to combat status.
Became the first 100th Bomb Group aircraft to complete 50 missions. With the skin autographed
by the men of the 100th, the bomber was flown back to the States for a War Bond tour. Returned to US 17May44.
2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 8Jun44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 13Dec45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; .
30089 (MSN 5203) Accepted by USAAF 7Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 9Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 13Apr43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 22Apr43. Landing incident Harry Clever
Field, New Philadelphia, OH 23Apr43. The pilot and his crew were on a routine training
flight when he decided he would like to see his wife, who lived near Amsterdam, Ohio. There was
no difficulty in landing the 30-ton bomber on the turf at Harry Clever Field, but while taxying his
plane at the west end of the field, the landing gear sank in the soggy turf off of the runway.
Crew members, assisted by airport employees, Naval Air Cadets, state troopers and scores of
volunteers, worked three hours to extricate the plane out of the mud. Then they had to line
the field with their headlights. The pilot had to runup the engines to full power and leap
off the boards fast enough not to bog down again. The bomber barely cleared the trees
at the end of the field by dropping about 1/2 flaps on takeoff. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 30Apr43. Wendover Field, UT 2May43.
Hill Field, Ogden, UT 15May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 28May43. Eighth Air Force, UK 31May43. 351st Bomb Squadron [EP*K],
100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 9Jun43. Named *Sunny*
Failed to return from a mission to the Caudron-Renault factory at Paris, France 3Sep43 (6KIA:3POW:1EVD).
When the formation reached Paris, the target was obscured by clouds so diverted to
an alternate target, the Luftwaffe airfield at Beaumont Le Roger near Paris. Flak damaged
and started fires in the bomb bay and navigator’s compartment. The aircraft was knocked
out of formation and collided with B-17F 42-30059. Aircraft #089 hit the tail section of #059
with its right wing. #089 went down in a steep dive and the crew started to bail out.
Flames were pouring from its bomb bay; it appeared that the oxygen system was burning.
The aircraft did not appear to be out of control, crashed landed in a field then destroyed
by an explosion at Beaumont-le-Roger, Franc. eMACR 684
30090 (MSN 5204) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 8Apr43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 16Apr43.
Wendover Field, UT 2May43. Hill Field, Ogden, UT 12May43. Wendover Field, UT 16May43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 22May43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 28May43. 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield
(Station 155), Suffolk 2Jun43. 349th Bomb Squadron [XR*B], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts
(Station 139), Norfolk 9Jun43 Named "El P'sstffo", then "Mad House"
Failed to return from a mission to railway installations at Münster, Germany 10Oct43 (10POW).
As they approached the city, the formation was swarmed by a large force of enemy aircraft
for an estimated forty-five minutes of vicious fighting. By the time their friendly fighter escorts
arrived to drive off the Luftwaffe, the damage had already been done. Enemy aircraft damaged
engine No.1, crashed Haltern, Germany. .MACR 1020.
30091 (MSN 5205) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 9Apr43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 10Apr43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 27Apr43. 25th Ferrying Squadron, 7th Ferrying Group,
Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 25May43. Damaged when crash landed at Tinker Field, Oklahoma
City, OK 30Apr43. Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 25May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 29May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 16Jun43. 418th Bomb Squadron [LD*S], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139),
Norfolk 17Jun43. 550th Bomb Squadron, 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk.
Damaged when B-17F 42-30414 exploded at Great Ashfield 3Sep43. 349th Bomb Squadron,
100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk. Crashed at Eye (Station 134), Suffolk 21Apr44 (10KIS).
The aircraft departed Thorpe Abbotts on a formation practice flight for a new crew. The pilot was
attempting to join the formation in the first turn after takeoff. He was closing at a sharp angle and
overshot, crossing through the slipstream of the formation, banking steeply and stalled
from about 500 feet. The aircraft crashed on the perimeter track of Eye airfield, beside
the A140 Ipswich-Norwich Road. Salvaged 5May44. Named BLIVIT / SPARE PARTS
30092 (MSN 5206) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 9Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 10Apr43.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Apr43. Columbus, OH 19Apr43.
Pilot School (Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 15Aug43.
1172nd Pilot Transition Training Squadron, Chanute Field, Rantoul, IL 16Aug43.
Crash landed Chanute 1Sep43, No.1 engine on fire. SOC 22Oct43.
30093 (MSN 5207) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 10Apr43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 19Apr43.
4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 25Apr43. Caribbean Wing, Air
Transport Command, Homestead Field, FL 30Apr43. Robins Field, Warner
Robins, GA 16May43. 4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 22May43.
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Homestead Field, FL 1Jun43.
Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 419th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group,
Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 17Jul43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia,
Tunisia 6Aug43. Suffered combat damage from a captured Italian Lockheed P-38G Lightning (43-2278),
flown by Regia Aeronautica pilot Col Angelo Tondi
and made a forced landing in the desert about ten miles short of the base at Oudna 11Aug43;
all aboard escaped uninjured. {2 missions}. Salvaged 19Aug43..
30094 (MSN 5208) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 13Apr43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 14Apr43. Rosecrans Field, Saint Joseph, MO 29Apr43.
Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 8May43.
Great Falls 10May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 30May43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 15Jun43. 548th Bomb Squadron [GX*G],
385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 26Jun43. Named "Belle of the Blue".
Salvaged Sep 6, 1945.
30095 (MSN 5209) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 9Apr43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 10Apr43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field,
Oklahoma City, OK 21Apr43. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command,
Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 29Apr43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 346th Bomb Squadron,
99th Bomb Group, Navarin (Overcoat), El Eulma, Algeria 1Jun43. Ferried to Salé, Rabat, French
Morocco 24Jun43. 353rd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Saint-Donat (New Zealand),
Tadjenanet, Algeria 24Jun43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force,
Italy 1Nov43. Cerignola #1, Italy 10Dec43. Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44.
Battle damaged by flak over Regensburg, Germany 25Feb44. Enemy fighters started
to attack fifteen miles east of Klagenfurt, Austria on the way to the target. No.3 engine
oversped and the propeller could not be feathered. The oxygen system was then destroyed
and the aircraft dropped out of the formation between Klagenfurt, Austria and the Alps.
An explosion in the aircraft and No.3 engine catching fire caused six crew to bail out.
The engine fire extinguished in the dive, the aircraft was still under control and returned
to base. Salvaged 14Jan46.
30096 (MSN 5210) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 9Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 10Apr43.
Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 29Apr43.
Glasgow Field, MT 3May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 29May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 15Jun43.
Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland 21Jun43.
549th Bomb Squadron [XA*J], 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 26Jun43
Named 'Liberty Belle' Battle damaged on a mission to the ball bearing factories
at Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43 (2WIA:8RTD). En route to the target area, the bomber formation
was repeatedly attacked by a large number of Luftwaffe fighters. Damaged by flak after bombing
the target, two engine superchargers were struck, part of the oxygen system was destroyed
and two gunners were seriously wounded. The No.3 fuel tank was holed and the engineer
successfully manipulated the fuel transfer system to retain sufficient fuel to return safely
to Great Ashfield. Failed to return from a mission to the industrial area of Solingen,
Germany 30Nov43 (4KIA:6RTD). The crew was tasked as the lead of the low squadron.
After climbing through a thick cloud layer and breaking out on top at about 19,000ft,
the pilot directed the engineer to fire a red flare as a signal for the rest of the squadron
to form up on them. The M8 flare exploded igniting the gun kit box causing a secondary
explosion. With the entire top turret in flames, a full load of fused 500 pound bombs
and bundles of incendiary bombs, the pilot immediately ordered the crew to bail out.
The plane crashed and exploded coming to rest in a field 1/2 mile west of Penlan Hall,
Wakes Colne, Essex. {19 missions}. . MACR 4403
30097 (MSN 5111) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 9Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 10Apr43.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Apr43.
Pilot School (Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 19Apr43.
1173rd Pilot Transition Training Squadron, Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 23Mar43.
Crash landed Lockbourne 22Sep43. One passenger minor injury; WO Oct 1, 1943
30098 (MSN 5212) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 9Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great
Falls, MT 10Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 13Apr43. 962nd Bombardier Training Squadron, Hobbs Field, NM 19Apr43.
Substantially damaged when nosed over taxying at Hobbs Auxiliary Field #1, Knowles, NM 16Nov43.
4136th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma
City, OK 4Jul44. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs
Field, NM 8Nov44. Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and
bombing equipment; designated TB-17F. Damaged landing with mechanical failure
at Altus, OK 20Jul45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for
storage and disposal 11Sep45
30099 (MSN 5213) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Apr43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 14Apr43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH),
Roswell Field, NM 7Oct44. 3010th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine),
Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 16Nov44. 3020th Base Unit (Pilot School, Advanced, Two Engine),
La Junta Field, CO 26Mar45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Searcy Field,
Stillwater, OK for storage and disposal 4Aug45. War Assets Corporation. Sold to Paul Mantz 19Feb46; scrapped.
30100 (MSN 5214) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 9Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 10Apr43.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Apr43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 21Apr43. Pilot School (Specialized, Four Engine),
Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 25Apr43. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air
Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 14May43. Tunisia 17May43.
Damaged taxying 24Jun43. Salvaged 14Jan46
30101 (MSN 5215) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 10Apr43. Hobbs Field, NM 19Apr43. Smoky Hill Field,
Salina, KS 22Apr43. 962nd Bombardier Training Squadron, Hobbs Field, NM 6May43.
Damaged by bird strike between Navasota and Houston, TX 1Aug43. Ellington Field,
Houston, TX 2Aug43. 962nd Bombardier Training Squadron, Hobbs Field, NM 16Aug43.
Crash landed 13 miles northeast of Hobbs 20Aug43. Salvaged 21Aug43
30102 (MSN 5216) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 10Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 29May43.
15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West
Palm Beach, FL 8Jun43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 97th Bomb Group,
Châteaudun-du-Rhumel (Helen), Constantine, Algeria 16Jun43. Pont-du-Fahs, Tunisia 11Aug43.
Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 15Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43.
San Giovanni, Cerignola, Italy 20Dec43. Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44.
Declared ‘war weary’. Reassigned for utility, training and weather check aircraft 15Jul44. Salvaged 30Mar45.
30103 MSN 5217) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 10Apr43. Hobbs Field, NM 19Apr43. West Coast Training Center,
Fort Sumner Field, NM 21Apr43. Hobbs Field, NM 6May43. Pilot School (Specialized, Four Engine),
Hobbs Field, NM 8Nov44. Reclaimed 22Mar45
30104 (MSN 5218) (384th BG, 547th BS) shot down by Lt Kurt Ibing in Fw 190A-6
of JG 1/4 at Hennef, Germany Aug 12, 1943 on mission to
Gelsenkirchen, Germany. MACR 286. 6 KIA 4 POW.
The MACR database has this listed correctly as being 42-30104.
Conflict:
Accepted by USAAF 8Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 10Apr43. Hobbs Field, NM 19Apr43. West Coast Training Center, Fort Sumner
Field, NM 21Apr43. Hobbs Field, NM 6May43. Mather Field, Sacramento, CA 18Jun43.
Hobbs Field, NM 11Jul43. Pilot School (Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 8Nov44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 4Sep45
30105 (MSN 5219) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 13Apr43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 12May43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Lincoln Field, NB 20May43. Dow Field, Bangor, ME 23May43.
412th Bomb Squadron [QW*R], 95th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 6Jun43.
Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 12Jun43. Named "Exterminator/Slightly Dangerous"
Failed to return from a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield and air depot at Le Bourget, Paris, France 10Jul43
(6KIA:2POW:2EVD) Shot down by Lt. Siegfried Baumann and
Fw. Wilhelm Flegel von Farnholz in Bf 109G-6's of JG 2/6.
Crashed Saint Didier des Bois, near Elbent, France. {4 missions}. MACR 4902.
30106 (MSN 5220) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 10Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 22Apr43. 15th Ferrying Group,
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 5May43.
Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 353rd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Saint-Donat
(New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 4Jun43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Cerignola #1, Italy 10Dec43. Foggia #8 (Longskirt),
Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. Named SLOPPY PISS WILLY, later as WILLY. Failed to return from a mission
to the railway marshalling yards at Budapest, Hungary 27Jun44 (10POW).
Damaged by flak, crashed Budapest. {86 missions}. MACR 6175
30107 (MSN 5221) Accepted by USAAF 8Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 10Apr43. Pendleton Field, OR 12Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 5May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 25May43.
526th Bomb Squadron [LF*D], 379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117),
Huntingdonshire 20Jun43. Named "Black Magic". Failed to return from a mission
to the industrial area and submarine pens at Hamburg, Germany 25Jun43 (8POW:2KIA).
hit by a fighter and crashed at Wieste, near Quakenbrück, Germany
MACR 1366
30108 (MSN 5222) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 13Apr43. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport
Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 5May43. Robins Field, Warner Robins, GA 11May43.
15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 17May43.
Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 352nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Saint-Donat (New Zealand),
Tadjenanet, Algeria 5Jun43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43.
Cerignola #1, Italy 9Dec43. Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. Air Depot 15May44.
Named "Little Jan". {67 missions}. Returned to US. Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 10Aug44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage
Conflict:
Failed to return from a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Tatoi, Athens, Greece 10Oct43 (1KIA:9RTD).
Ditched in bad weather sixty miles west of Cephalonia, Greece
30109 (MSN 5223) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 13Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 22Apr43. 15th Ferrying Group,
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 5May43.
Robins Field, Warner Robins, GA 10May43. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing,
Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 20May43. Twelfth Air Force,
North Africa. 49th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Châteaudun-du-Rhumel (Helen),
Constantine, Algeria 30May43. Aïn M’lila (Onyx), Constantine, Algeria 17Jun43.
{first combat mission 25Jun43}. Massicault, Tunis, Tunisia 1Aug43. Failed to return
from a mission to the railway marshalling yards at Bologna, Italy 25Sep43 (4INJ:6RTD).
Damaged by intense flak over Pecembino, Italy and fuel exhaustion. Ditched in
Mediterranean Sea ten miles east of Bizerte, Tunisia; crew rescued. {28 missions}.
30110 (MSN 5224) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 10Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 14Apr43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 22Apr43. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport
Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 9May43. Robins Field, Warner
Robins, GA 10May43. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command,
Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 20May43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa.
32nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet,
Algeria 1Jun43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43.
Cerignola #1, Italy 11Dec43. Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. {7 missions}. Salvaged 8Jul44
30111 (MSN 5225) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 13Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 14Apr43.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 17Apr43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 22Apr43. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport
Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 5May43. Robins Field, Warner Robins, GA 10May43.
15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm
Beach, FL 19May43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 32nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group,
Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 24Jun43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Failed to return from a mission to the Wiener Neustädter
Flugzeugwerke factory at Wiener Neustädt, Vienna, Austria 2Nov43 (10KIA). Flak was
intense and accurate over the target, but enemy fighters attacking the formation head-on
in line abreast formation managed to shoot down the bomber Shot down by Bf 109G-6 of JG 51/II
Crashed near Prebuch, Austria. {27 missions} MACR 1093.
30112 (MSN 5226) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 12Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 21Apr43. Smoky Hill Field,
Salina, KS 25Apr43. Walla Walla Field, WA 30Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 10May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 29May43.
410th Bomb Squadron [GL*Z], 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 13Jun43.
Named "Lil Butch". Battle damaged during a mission to the port area at
Wilhelmshaven, Germany 3Nov43. Moderate inaccurate flak was encountered over the target.
Escort fighters were scheduled to cover the whole route over enemy territory but were not on hand
for approximately ten minutes between the I.P. and the target, during which time the group was
attacked by enemy fighters. The bomber was attacked by a Bf 109 fighter which disabled No.2 engine.
The pilot headed for the cover of contrails and returned safely to Rougham. The crew chief
found a 0.50 caliber bullet in the inverter beneath the co-pilot’s seat, the result of ‘friendly fire’.
Failed to return from a mission to the Luftwaffe air depot at Mérignac, Bordeaux,
France 5Jan44 (8KIA:2EVD). The bomber was set upon by enemy fighters about 5km west of
Saint-Laurent-Médoc, France. Immediately after the first fighter attack one propeller had to
be feathered and the tail controls were damaged. The tail Gunner was badly wounded and
then the radio system failed. The engineer/top turret gunner went to the rear of the plane to
inform the other gunners of the bail out instructions from the pilot. As he was passing through
the bomb bay the aircraft went into a crash dive. The ball turret gunner was trapped in the
ball turret. The co-pilot was injured and assisted the pilot on an attempt to maintain control
of the aircraft so that the crew could bail out. The two pilots were to set-up the AFCE
(Automatic Flight Control Equipment) and attempt to return to England. The pilot was
then injured by the explosion of a cannon shell; the main portion of the cannon blast was in
the area of the pilot and co-pilots seats. As the bombardier and navigator were bailing out,
the plane went into a vertical dive with the right wing in flames and breaking off.
Shot down by an enemy Ju 88 fighter of 3./ ZG 1 which knocked off the tail. Exploded and
crashed in a woody swamp at St Laurent-et-Benon, twenty-six miles northwest of Bordeaux, France..
MACR 1891
30113 (MSN 5227) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Apr43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 5May43. 94th Bomb Group 8May43. Ferried Meeks
Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 14May43. 333rd Bomb Squadron,
94th Bomb Group, Earls Colne (Station 358), Essex May43. Named "Wolf Pack".
Failed to return from a mission to the submarine yards at Kiel, Germany 13Jun43 (10POW
Shot down by enemy aircraft and crashed near
Renesburg, Germany.
30114 (MSN 5228) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 13Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 22Apr43. North Atlantic
Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 3May43. 381st Bomb Group 8May43.
Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 14May43.
95th Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire. Crash landed
Alconbury 28May43. Air Depot 19Aug43 for repair. Repaired and named "Spare Parts".
Radio Counter Measures, fitted with Jackal AN/ART 7. 334th Bomb Squadron [BG*L],
95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 13Sep43. Failed to return from a mission
to the industrial area at Düren, Germany 20Oct43, shot down by enemy fighters, ditched
North Sea, crew rescued. {1 mission). One database has this plane as going to
803rd BS(P) at Oulton early 1944 as radio countermeasures
aircraft, fitted with 6 Mandrel sets
30115 (MSN 5229) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 12Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 22Apr43. 15th Ferrying Group,
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 5May43.
Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 419th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Saint-Donat
(New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 27Jun43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43.
Battle damaged by heavy flak on a tactical mission to a railway bridge at Bolzano,
Italy 25Sep43. No.3 engine was disabled and, returning to Tunisia, the plane became lost
in a thunderstorm without instruments or radio but landed safely. Fifteenth Air Force,
Italy 1Nov43. Failed to return from a mission to Istres-Le Tubé air base, Marseille, France 16Nov43 (10KIA).
Shot down by Oblt Ernst-Georg Altnorthoff of JGr Sud/2 over Gulf of Lion, 114 km SW of
Marseilles, France. MACR 1128.
30116 (MSN 5230) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Apr43. West Coast Training Center, Fort Sumner
Field, NM 21Apr43. Hobbs Field, NM 30Apr43. Roswell Field, NM 24May43. 957th Two
Engine Flying Training Squadron [TEFTS], Hobbs Field, NM 27May43. Damaged taxying at
Hobbs Field 22Apr44. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine),
Hobbs Field, NM. Substantially damaged landing at Hobbs Field 17May44.
3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 20Jun44. Salvaged 27Jun44
30117 (MSN 5231) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great
Falls, MT 21Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 22Apr43. 15th Ferrying Group,
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 4May43.
Twelfth Air Force, North Africa 31May43. 414th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group,
Châteaudun-du-Rhumel (Helen), Constantine, Algeria. F.O. #1. Flew Marrakech,
French Morocco to Valley (Station 568), Anglesey, Wales 9/10Apr44.
Seen at Poltava, Ukraine in June 1944 used in Operation
Frantic, had name painted on Port nose in Russian (meant "Polar Star" in English).
Noted unarmed at Deenethorpe Nov44. Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment
Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 9Oct45
30118 (MSN 5232) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 13Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 22Apr43. North Atlantic Wing, Air
Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 16May43. 335th Bomb Squadron [OE*N],
95th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 29May43. Failed to return from a mission
to the submarine yards at Kiel, Germany 13Jun43 (10KIA). ). Battle damaged, crashed in Baltic Sea
off Denmark. {2 missions}. MACR 4738
30119 (MSN 5233) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 14Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 22Apr43. 15th Ferrying Group,
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 5May43.
Robins Field, Warner Robins, GA 10May43. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport
Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 18May43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 3
46th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Navarin (Overcoat), El Eulma, Algeria 14Jun43
Named HUNTER'S ANSWER (Lt Hunter was the assigned pilot) / VICKI. Failed to return from a mission
to the railway marshalling yards at Foggia, Italy 22Jul43 (8KIA:1POW:1EVD). The bomber was just
coming off of the target and making a turn when a Bf 109 attacked the element ahead and came up
under this bomber. Cannon shells started a fire in the right wing near number four engine
and the propeller was feathered. Even though the aircraft was burning, the pilot remained
in position for several minutes and then side slipped to the left trying to put out the fire.
The right wing section broke off and flew back hitting the tail section, this causing the fuselage to break in two
MACR 414. .
30120 (MSN 5234) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 25Apr43.
Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 23May43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Jun43. 91st Bomb Group,
Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 15Jun43. 334th Bomb Squadron [BG*D],
95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 16Jun43. Named"Patches"
Force landed RAF Chedburgh, Bury St Edmunds 16Jul43. Accident departing for a mission
to the aircraft factories at Bordeaux, France 16Sep43. During the join up with other groups
involved in a mid-air collision with B-17F 42-30601 (385th Bomb Group) over Abbots Hall, Suffolk.
Force landed on return back to Horham. {36 missions}. Declared ‘war weary’. 391st Bomb Squadron,
34th Bomb Group, Mendlesham (Station 156), Suffolk. Used as a ‘Cycle’ radio relay plane.
Retained the 95th Bomb Group [B] tail symbol. Flown on a mission to Ghent, Belgium 6Jan45 (1INJ:9RTD).
The crew was instructed to take off prior to the main force of planes. The weather over England
was extremely bad as the crew headed for their destination over Ghent, Belgium. The plane cleared
the overcast and ascended to its assigned 27,000ft altitude. The weather worsened and word
came over the radio that the mission had been scrubbed and they were to return to base;
the other planes never took off. The plane was heading for home when suddenly, and without
warning, all their navigational aids stopped functioning; Gee box, compass, radio,
all communication devices gone. The crew was hopelessly lost. With no way of knowing exactly
where they were, they headed west, by the sun, dropping down until they sighted land at 500 feet.
They started following the coastline and soon spotted what they thought were some Channel Islands
that were still in German hands. As the plane circled, looking for a place to land, it encountered a
heavy barrage of anti-aircraft fire that promptly knocked out the No.2 engine. The propeller was
feathered and the plane left the hostile area. After flying for two hours, the crew jettisoned
everything, not tied down, in an attempt to preserve their diminishing fuel supply. They
sighted a Douglas C-47 and followed it for a while, hoping to find land, but soon gave
up thinking they might be headed out into the North Sea where they had been told of a
crew ditching and freezing to death in thirty minutes. The crew considered going back to the
island and try to land knowing that they would become prisoners of war. Although desperate,
no one thought this to be a good idea. Darkness was closing in fast and with only about an
hour and a half of fuel supply left they spotted a convoy of ships in the English Channel.
The crew now had two options; they could ditch near one of the ships in the convoy,
hoping to survive the ditching and be picked up by one of the ships or they could continue
flying hoping to spot a place to land before their fast dwindling fuel supply ran out.
The crew unanimously agreed to ditch. They signaled to the convoy that they were coming
in but could not make out the reply. The crew assumed their ditching positions as the pilot
smoothly set the Fortress down in the English Channel southwest of Guernsey, Channel Islands.
Water came gushing into the radio room as the crew successfully exited the ditched plane
only to find that both dinghies were stuck in their compartments and would not eject automatically.
After manually pulling them free, they inflated and the crew climbed in, successfully, and
began paddling a safe distance from the plane toward one of the ships in the convoy.
They cleared the plane in about forty seconds before it sank. A lifeboat was sent out
from one of the ships to pick them up. At this point, the crew did not know if the ship crews
were British or German as they all wore black turtleneck sweaters. With their 45's at the
ready their fears were soon alleviated upon leaming that the rescuers were British. As they were
being pulled aboard the Royal Navy trawler HMS Gweal, a pool of blood was noticed in one of the
dinghies and upon further investigation it was found that the toggalier was bleeding profusely
a nasty cut on his hand, the only casualty from the long ordeal. The crew was taken to Plymouth,
arriving the following morning and later flown back to Mendlesham. Salvaged 6Jan45
30121 (MSN 5235) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 14Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 22Apr43. 15th Ferrying Group,
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 4May43.
Robins Field, Warner Robins, GA 11May43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 414th Bomb Squadron,
97th Bomb Group, Châteaudun-du-Rhumel (Helen), Constantine, Algeria 29May43. Named "The Virgin".
Crashed when the pilot lost control during takeoff for a tactical mission to Satellite #6 airdrome at
Gerbini, Sicily 6Jul43 (10KIA + 1 ground crew killed and three injured). There had been a continuous
wind and dust storm as the pilot started the takeoff. Loaded with sixteen 300lb bombs,
the plane was thrown off course in the strong crosswind, departing the runway. To avoid crashing
into a nearby ambulance, the pilot pulled the plane off the ground and was heading for several
oil drums. The pilot made an attempt to avoid the drums but the landing gear struck one of them,
the plane nosed into the ground and exploded at Châteaudun-du-Rhumel. MACR 16152.
30122 (MSN 5236) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 14Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 21Apr43. 15th Ferrying Group,
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 4May43.
Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 32nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Saint-Donat (New Zealand),
Tadjenanet, Algeria 29May43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43. Damaged in collision
with parked B-17F 42-30127 landing at Ponte Olivo, Sicily 23Oct43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43.
Cerignola #1, Italy 11Dec43. Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. {29 missions}. Salvaged 31Jul45.
30123 (MSN 5237) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 15Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 21Apr43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 26Apr43. Walla Walla Field, WA 30Apr43. Smoky Hill Field,
Salina, KS 10May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 27May43.
338th Bomb Squadron [BX*W], 96th Bomb Group Andrewsfield (Station 485), Essex 29May43
Named IRONBIRD/BIG DICK– artwork of a pair of dice. On the nose access door, artwork
of the bust of a blond woman named Little Jo Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 12Jun43
Failed to return from a mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factory at Regensburg, Germany 25Feb44 (10POW).
The plane was being flown by a 452nd Bomb Group crew on loan to the 96th Bomb Group.
After crossing the coastline into mainland Europe, the formation encountered frequent flak
and fierce aerial attacks from the Luftwaffe, causing heavy damage to some of the bombers.
The planes arrived at Regensburg and encountered intense flak over the target area. An engine
failed and the plane dropped back from the formation and losing altitude. Attacked by enemy
fighters, the crew bailed out and the plane crashed near Regensburg, Germany. MACR 2859
30124 (MSN 5238) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 15Apr43. West Coast Training Center, Fort Sumner Field, NM 21Apr43. Hobbs
Field, NM 6May43. Pilot School (Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 8Nov44. Modified for
training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F.
Damaged landing one mile short of Hobbs Auxiliary Field #1, Knowles, NM 27Apr45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 9Oct45.
30125 (MSN 5239) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 14Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 22Apr43. 15th Ferrying Group,
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 5May43.
Middletown Air Depot, Middletown Field, Middletown, PA 10May43. 15th Ferrying Group,
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 19May43.
Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 419th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group,
Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 15Jul43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43.
Named "Yankee Doodle". Battle damaged during a mission to the Messerschmitt factory at
Augsburg, Germany 1Oct43. During the approach to mainland Italy north of Florence there
was anti-aircraft fire from the ground and a few attacks by enemy fighters, which, however,
had liitle effect. Most of the remaining distance was flown between two layers of cloud at
an altitude of 6,000 meters. North of the Alps, the formation encountered a deep, closed
cloud cover that stretched far to the north. Because of the poor visibility, the mission was
aborted 50km from Augsburg. They then proceeded to an alternate target of shipping off
Bastia, Corsica. Flak and enemy fighters caused damage to the plane. Battle damaged by
heavy flak on a tactical mission to a railway bridge at Guilianova, Italy 14Oct43. Fifteenth
Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Cerignola #1, Italy 10Dec43. Battle damaged on a mission to the
business district of Sofia, Bulgaria 10Jan44. Flak was heavy and accurate and the formation
was attacked by enemy aircraft over Sofia, causing major damage to this plane.
Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. Battle damaged by flak during a tactical mission
against German troop concentrations and defensive positions at Campoleone in support of the
Allied beachhead at Anzio, Italy 17Feb44. {30 missions}. Salvaged 2Mar44
30126 MSN 5240) Accepted by USAAF 12Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 22Apr43.
15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field,
West Palm Beach, FL 5May43. Robins Field, Warner Robins, GA 10May43. 15th
Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West
Palm Beach, FL 21May43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 416th Bomb Squadron,
99th Bomb Group, Navarin (Overcoat), El Eulma, Algeria 24Jun43. Oudna #1,
Mohammedia, Tunisia 4Aug43. Named *Sugar Foot*– artwork of a naked blond female
warrior about to fire an arrow. Failed to return from a mission to the Messerschmitt
factory at Augsburg, Germany 1Oct43 (7KIA:3INT). During the approach to mainland Italy
north of Florence there was anti-aircraft fire from the ground and a few attacks by enemy fighters,
which, however, had no effect. Most of the remaining distance was flown between two layers of
cloud at an altitude of 6,000 meters. North of the Alps, the formation encountered a deep, closed
cloud cover that stretched far to the north. Because of a thick overcast over southern Germany,
the mission was aborted 50km from Augsburg. The formation then turned back towards Italy.
In the middle of the reversal maneuver, about thirty German Bf 109G-6 fighters of JG 3/8 attacked
and pursued them southwards. Without realizing it, the Americans flew over Switzerland near
Lake Constance under constant fire. The formation approached the Sargans valley at an
altitude of 3,500 meters. Here the fog had cleared, the Swiss Flab Det 21 stationed in
Bad Ragaz was on alert and observed the approach of the formation. At that time, the Swiss
anti-aircraft defense had the task of shooting at foreign formations of more than three aircraft.
While overflying their position, this aircraft was targeted and brought down with a direct hit over
Bad Ragaz, Switzerland. After a brief rearing up, the plane went into a burning dive and was
torn apart by an explosion while still in the air. Of the ten man crew, only three men managed
to bail out. The other crew members did not survive the crash. The debris fell in a forest about
three kilometers south of Bad Ragaz. The Americans' violation of Swiss airspace was strongly
condemned in the German press the next day; the use of their own fighters over Switzerland, however, was not mentioned
MACR 796. 7 KIA, 3 interned.
30127 (MSN 5241) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 15Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 21Apr43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 22Apr43. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport
Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 20May43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa.
General Depot No.1, La Sénia, Oran, Algeria. 32nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group.
Ferried to Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 15Jun43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia,
Tunisia 6Aug43. Damaged while parked in collision by B-17F 42-30122 landing at Ponte Olivo,
Sicily 23Oct43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Failed to return from a mission to the
Wiener Neustädter Flugzeugwerke factory at Wiener Neustädt, Vienna, Austria 2Nov43 (10KIA).
Fighters attacked the bomber as it was on the bomb run and set No.4 engine on fire. The plane
fell back from formation then came back up into position and jettisoned its bombs. The fighters
attacked again and No.1 engine started to smoke and then quit. The plane dropped down in a spin
for about 2000 feet and then went straight down. About 9000 feet from the ground the plane blew up.
Crashed at Mollram, southwest of Wiener Neustadt, Austria. {24 missions}. MACR 1094.
30128 (MSN 5242) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 15Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 21Apr43. 15th Ferrying Group,
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 21May43.
Twelfth Air Force, North Africa 2Jun43. Salvaged 8Jul44.
30129 (MSN 5243) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 15Apr43. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command,
Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 4May43. Robins Field, Warner Robins, GA 10May43.
15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm
Beach, FL 19May43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 346th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group,
Navarin (Overcoat), El Eulma, Algeria 30May43.
Severely battle damaged during a tactical mission in support of Operation Husky at Messina,
Sicily 25Jun43 (1WIA:9RTD). Flak was heavy, intense and accurate. No.1 and No.2 engines
were disabled by flak and the plane dropped out of formation. Approximately thirty Luftwaffe
Bf 109 fighters of JG 77 attacked the formation while over the target and off the coast of
Trapani, Sicily, on the return to base. After the enemy fighters departed, the pilot regained
control about 300 feet above the Mediterranean Sea and flew back 500 miles to a safe landing
at Navarin. Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 4Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43.
341st Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 14Nov43. Foggia Main,
Italy 15Dec43. San Giovanni, Cerignola, Italy 20Dec43. Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44.
Condemned 8Jul44. Salvaged. Named "Crew No. 1".
30130 (MSN 5244) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 15Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 24Apr43. North Atlantic
Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 16May43. 337th Bomb Squadron [AW*J],
96th Bomb Group, Andrewsfield (Station 485), Essex 25May43. Named. ALIA BUBBLE TROUBLE.
Snetterton Jun 12, 1943 then 413BS. (337th BS, *Klap Trap II*)
Failed to return from a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical works at Oppau, Ludwigshafen,
Germany 7Jan44 (8KIA:2POW). Flak near Eindhoven set No.3 engine on fire. The bomber fell
back from formation and was last seen skimming along on top of undercast, evidently
under control. It then exploded. The tail gunner was knocked unconscious, he recovered
consciousness while descending towards earth in the tail section of the plane; he bailed
out successfully. The plane crashed at Molenschot, between Raakeindsekerkweg and Lijndonk, Netherlands
MACR 2018.
30131 (MSN 5245) Accepted by USAAF 14Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 15Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 25Apr43. 3
84th Bomb Group, Sioux City AAB, IA 30Apr43. Departed to Kearney Field, NB for overseas
processing 3May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB. Departed late May43
en route to Grafton Underwood, England via North Atlantic route. North Atlantic Wing, Air
Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 20May43. 547th Bomb Squadron [SO*Q],
384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood. The aircraft was involved in a mid-air collision
with B-17F 42-30036 during a practice flight 12Jun43. They were two of 16 bombers which
were landing out of their formation on return to base at Grafton Underwood. Initial confusion
on the correct landing runway had been resolved but had caused these two aircraft to go-around
for another attempt because of poor spacing. 42-30036 is believed to have bounced during
its first attempt to land and was going around the pattern at a lower level than 42-30131
which was now above it on base leg by about 1,000ft. They both turned final about the same time
without the pilots seeing the other aircraft. The control tower was showing a red light
to 42-30131 but this was not observed by the crew. A call from the tower to ‘pull up’ was
misheard and both aircraft pulled up about the same time. The tail of 42-30036 hit the nose a
nd then No.2 engine of this aircraft. Momentarily locked together, the propeller sliced through
the tail of 42-30036, cutting off the vertical stabiliser a few feet forward of the fin. That bomber
reared straight up, fell off on its left wing and headed nose down for the ground where it exploded
in flames on impact. This bomber recovered from the accident and circled the airfield for a short
time before making a safe landing (9RTD). {nil missions}. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little Staughton
(Station 127), Bedfordshire 28Jun43. Regained by Group. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little Staughton
(Station 127), Bedfordshire 17Jul43 for modification in preparation to accompany Royal Air
Force (RAF) Halifaxes on Meteorological duties. Attached to 517 Squadron, Royal Air Force,
Coastal Command, RAF St Eval, Padstow, Cornwall Sep43 for training with RAF. Detachment 'A',
11th Combat Crew Replacement Centre, Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire. Missing on
an ‘Allah’ weather sortie from RAF Brawdy, Pembrokeshire over the English Channel between
Torquay and Cherbourg on the evening of 2Feb44 (8MIA:USAAF crew with RAF Met Observer). .MACR 2250
42-30132/30231 Boeing B-17F-90-BO Fortress
MSN 5246/5345. Dispositions from B-17 Fortress Master Log, Dave Osborne (FORTLOG)
Production changes: Improved automatic flight control equipment and elevator fabric attachment
30132 (MSN 5246) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 14Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 21Apr43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 25Apr43. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport
Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 4May43. Accident landing at Robins Field,
Warner Robins, GA 9May43. 4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 3Aug43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 6Aug43. Pendleton Field, OR 12Aug43. 245th Base Unit (Operational
Training Unit), McCook Field, NB 9Jun44. 9th Bomb Group, McCook Field, NB 4Jul44.
245th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), McCook Field, NB 2Sep44. 4119th Base Unit
(Mobile Air Technical Service Command), Brookley Field, Mobile, AL 16Oct44. 245th Base
Unit (Operational Training Unit), McCook Field, NB 23Oct44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for
storage and disposal 29Oct45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich
Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
30133 (MSN 5247) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 17Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 23Apr43. 15th Ferrying Group,
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 5May43.
Robins Field, Warner Robins, GA 8May43. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air
Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 18May43. Twelfth Air Force,
North Africa. 429th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Châteaudun-du-Rhumel (Helen),
Constantine, Algeria 4Jun43. Aïn M’lila (Onyx), Constantine, Algeria 17Jun43
Named "Raggedy Ann". {first combat mission 28Jun43}. Massicault, Tunis,
Tunisia 1Aug43. Battle damaged on a mission to railway marshalling yards at Caserta,
Italy 16Sep43 (10RTD). Struck by flak north of Capua airfield, Caserta and made a
forced landing at Bocodifalco airfield, Palermo, Sicily. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy
1Nov43. Failed to return from a mission to the Wiener Neustädter Flugzeugwerke
factory at Wiener Neustädt, Vienna, Austria 2Nov43 (2KIA:8POW). Damaged by
flak over the target and attacked by enemy fighters after leaving the target,
one engine was disabled and elevator and rudder controls were damaged.
Unable to remain in formation, the bomber became a target for the fighters.
The top turret was struck and the gunner knocked out. The pilot ordered the
crew to bail out. Two airmen were fatally wounded, eight of the crew managed
to bail out before the plane exploded and crashed at Seebenstein, southeast of
Neunkirchen, Austria. {40 missions} MACR 1112.
30134 (MSN 5248) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field,
Great Falls, MT 21Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 22Apr43. 15th Ferrying Group,
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 5May43.
Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 429th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group,
Aïn M’lila (Onyx), Constantine, Algeria 20Jun43. Massicault, Tunis, Tunisia 1Aug43.
{first combat mission 13Aug43}. Battle damaged on a mission to the Satellite #2 airdrome
at Foggia, Italy 7Sep43 (1WIA:9RTD). Flak was heavy and accurate causing injury
to the bombardier. The pilot force landed the plane at Borizzo (Chinisia), Trapani,
Sicily to get medical treatment. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. {33 missions}.
32nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Oudna #2, Tunis, Tunisia 14Nov43.
Cerignola #1, Italy 11Dec43. Failed to return from a mission to a railway bridge
at Bolzano, Italy 25Dec43 (4POW:5KIA). The aircraft was having engine problems,
the pilot put his bomber about one thousand feet below its planned altitude.
Just as the crew dropped the bombs on the target, No.2 engine took a flak hit and
caught fire with big pieces departing the aircraft. Then a second flak burst hit the
radio compartment and the smoking Fortress peeled off in a sharp dive. A third
flak shell hit the tail sending the B-17 spinning down about 10,000ft. The crew
started to bail out before a wing broke away causing the rest of the plane to
disintegrate, ejecting the remaining airmen. Crashed at Bolzano, Italy. {10 missions}.
MACR 1589.
30135 (MSN 5249) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 22Apr43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 10May43.
Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 18May43. 511th Bomb Squadron [DS*N],
351st Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 26May43.
334th Bomb Squadron [BG*H], 95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119),
Suffolk 16Jun43. Named "Trouble Shooter". 548th Bomb Squadron,
385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk. Damaged in collision
with B-17F 42-3388 and another 385th Bomb Group B-17F taxying at Metfield
(Station 366), Suffolk 13Oct43, two parked P-47D fighters, 42-22459 and 42-74736,
were also damaged. Failed to return from a mission to the ball bearing factories at
Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43 (9POW:1EVD). En route to the target area, the bomber
formation was repeatedly attacked by a large number of Luftwaffe fighters. Damaged by
flak after bombing the target, No.3 engine failed and the propeller feathered, landing
gear dropped down. German fighters, having landed and refueled, attacked again
Crashed between Reims and Sedan, France. {20 missions}
MACR 855
30136 (MSN 5250) (MSN 5250) Accepted by USAAF 13Apr43. United Air Lines,
Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Apr43. Smoky Hill Field,
Salina, KS 21Apr43. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command,
Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 4May43. Robins Field, Warner Robins, GA 10May43.
15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field,
West Palm Beach, FL 18May43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 353rd Bomb Squadron,
301st Bomb Group, Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 4Jun43. Oudna #1,
Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43. Named "Ladies Delight" . . Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43.
Cerignola #1, Italy 10Dec43. Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. {62 missions}.
Declared ‘war weary’. Reassigned for utility, training and weather check aircraft 27Jul44.
Salvaged 25Oct44
30137 (MSN 5251) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 15Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 21Apr43. Robins Field, Warner
Robins, GA 12May43. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command,
Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 18May43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 341st Bomb
Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Châteaudun-du-Rhumel (Helen), Constantine, Algeria 8Jun43.
Pont-du-Fahs, Tunisia 11Aug43. Failed to return from a mission to the railway marshalling
yards at Bologna, Italy 25Sep43 (11RTD). Over the Mediterranean on the way out, the squadron
encountered numerous rainstorms and had to delay the normal climbout and struggled to
hold formation under and around these storms. It was rough flying just above the white caps.
The squadron was burning too much of the fuel they would be needing for the trip home.
Before the target. the squadron was attacked by enemy fighters. As the squadron left the
target after the bomb drop, it encountered an overcast above 20,000ft over the coastal area.
Formation was abandoned and It was every one on his own. The bombers fanned out and
began to descend. It was necessary to keep a close watch on dead reckoning or time and
distance while trying to keep a steady speed and heading. With fuel exhaustion, the plane
ditched off Cape Comino, Sardinia. Crew rescued and returned to base two days later.
30138 (MSN 5252) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 16Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 21Apr43. 15th Ferrying Group,
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 4May43.
Damaged when ground looped landing at Robins Field, Warner Robins, GA 20May43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 6Jan44. 2218th Base Unit, Alexandria
Field, LA 17Jan45. 329th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA 1Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 9Oct45.
30139 (MSN 5253) Accepted by USAAF 14Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 25Apr43.
384th Bomb Group, Sioux City AAB, IA 30Apr43. Departed 6May43 to Kearney Field, NB
for overseas processing. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB..
Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 22May43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 26May43. Departed late May43 en route to
Grafton Underwood, England via North Atlantic route. North Atlantic Wing, Air
Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 29May43. 545th Bomb Squadron [JD*O],
384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 14Jun43.
Named *Snuffy*--Named after the popular comic strip character ‘Snuffy Smith’
{first combat mission 22Jun43}. Failed to return from a mission to the ball bearing
factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 17Aug43 (2KIA:8POW). The aircraft was battle damaged
by flak over the target and fell out of formation in a left diving turn. Brought back to level
flight, the pilot’s windshield had gone, controls were partly severed, there was a
big hole in the nose and two crew members were wounded. In an attack by trainee
night fighter pilot Leutnant Josef Springer of II/NJG 101, flying an obsolete Bf 110E,
a long burst of cannon fire struck the left wing starting a fire between the bomb bay
and No.2 engine. The crew bailed out but two were killed departing the plane. The left
wing broke away and the bomber crashed at Stangenroth, six miles northwest of Bad
Kissingen, Germany. {7 missions} Also listed as shot
down by Fw Christof Nagel in Bf 110 of NJG 101/10 at
Burkardroth, Germany. MACR 294
30140 (MSN 5254) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 15Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 25Apr43. Walla Walla
Field, WA 2May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 10May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air
Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 26May43. Ferried on the North Atlantic
route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 17/18Jun43.
532nd Bomb Squadron [VE*V], 381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 23Jun43.
Named *King Malfunction II*, Failed to return from a mission to the ball
bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 17Aug43 (1KIA:8POW:2EVD). The plane was
hit during a combined fighter and heavy flak attack about thirty minutes into the Continent
en route to the target as soon as the friendly fighter escort peeled off near the German border..
No.3 engine was smoking and the propeller was feathered. There was a fire between No.3 and No.4
engine and the No.4 engine began to smoke. The plane dropped down out of formation and
pulled off to the right as No.4 propeller was feathered. The crew started to bail out as the plane
gradually letdown under control. Two enemy fighters followed the bomber out but did not attack.
Shortly afterwards the entire tail assembly from the ball turret back snapped off and five
more airmen came out. The crew had bailed out over the Eupen Mountains on the German/Belgium
border. Shot down by Oblt Herbert Kleinschmidt flying in a Bf 110G-4 of NJG 1/6. Crashed at Esch, f
ive miles southwest of Münstereifel, Germany. {6 missions}. MACR 379
30141 (MSN 5255) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 16Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 25Apr43. Walla Walla
Field, WA 30Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 10May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 28May43. 337th Bomb Squadron [AW*B], 96th Bomb Group,
Andrewsfield (Station 485), Essex 1Jun43. Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 12Jun43
Named "Liberty Belle". . Failed to return from a mission to the AGO-Flugzeugwerke Fw 190
manufacturing factory at Oschersleben, Germany 28Jul43 (10KIA:1POW). Shot down by
fighter and crashed into North Sea MACR 140.
30142 (MSN 5256) Accepted by USAAF 14Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 15Apr43. 384th Bomb Group, Sioux City AAB, IA 30Apr43. Departed to
Kearney Field, NB for overseas processing 3May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB.
Departed late May43 en route to Grafton Underwood, England via North Atlantic route.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 22May43.
544th Bomb Squadron [SU*L], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106),
Northamptonshire 29May43. {first combat mission 24Jul43}. Battle damaged during a mission
to a synthetic fuel hydrogenation plant at Gelsenkirchen, Germany 12Aug43 (1WIA:9RTD).
At an altitude of 19,000ft, the No.3 engine quit. The pilot made the decision to let the propeller
windmill instead of feathering to keep from identifying the plane as a cripple to the German fighters.
During heavy fighter attack, the tail gunner was severely wounded but continued to man his guns.
Staff Sergeant Raymond Patrick Gregori was awarded the Silver Star for gallantry in action while
serving as tail gunner on this mission over Germany. {final combat mission 12Aug43}. {3 missions}.
2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little Staughton (Station 127), Bedfordshire 14Aug43. Transferred to
560th Bomb Squadron [F], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk Sep43.
Named "Pistol Packin' Mama"- artwork inspired by the Vargas' "Pistol Packin' Mama"
Esquire centrefold of March 1944 . {first combat mission 26Sep43}.
Failed to return from a mission to a railway marshalling yard at Gelsenkirchen, Germany 5Nov43
(5POW:2KIA:3EVD). En route to the target, flak had badly damaged the fuselage and No.2 engine was
disabled and the propeller feathered. The pilot could only keep the plane in the air with great difficulty.
He turned back and tried to reach the Dutch coast in order to make a landing at sea because there
help was to be expected quickly. Two members of the crew are believed to have been panicked by the
flak blasts and bailed out at a dangerously low altitude over the Dutch province of Zeeland and
were killed. Unable to reach the coast, the pilot crash landed the aircraft 1.5km east of Ijzendijke,
between Hoofdplaat and Driewegen, Netherlands. {7 missions) Listed as shot down by
Lt Horst Ertmann in Fw 190A-6 of FG 1/II Stab between
Biervliet and Ijzendijke, Netherlands. MACR 3123.
30143 (MSN 5257) Accepted by USAAF 14Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 16Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 25Apr43. 384th Bomb Group,
Sioux City AAB, IA 30Apr43. Departed 5May43 to Kearney Field, NB for overseas processing.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB. Departed late May43 en route to Grafton
Underwood, England via North Atlantic route. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 23May43. 545th Bomb Squadron [JD*Q], 384th Bomb Group,
Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 29May43. Named *Yankee Powerhouse*.
{first combat mission 22Jun43}. Failed to return from a mission to the industrial area and submarine
pens at Hamburg, Germany 25Jun43 (4KIA:6POW). With battle damage from enemy fighter action
and on fire, the aircraft crashed at Wardenburg, near Oldenburg, Germany. Encountering dense clouds
and rain enroute to the target, the Group was ordered to disperse and reform above the clouds.
Only eight planes were successful in getting through to the rendezvous point. After crossing into
hostile territory, approximately one-hundred and fifty enemy fighters, quick to observe the
Group's tactical disadvantage, attacked in such force that the small formation scattered.
Refusing to seek the protection of friendly groups withdrawing from the target, the pilot of this
plane held his course and bombed the objective. By this time enemy fighters and flak had set
the the plane on fire, killed the co-pilot and practically severed the pilot's right arm. Ordering the
crew to bail out, he remained at the controls, using his one good hand to keep the plane in level flight.
Before he could abandon the doomed aircraft it exploded in mid-air. First Lieutenant
George William Riches was awarded the Silver Star. {2 missions}. . MACR 16378
30144 (MSN 5258) Accepted by USAAF 14Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 16Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 25Apr43. Lowry Field, Denver, CO 6May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 26May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 2Jun43. Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 6/7Jun43. 335th Bomb Squadron [OE*R], 95th Bomb Group,
Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 15Jun43. Force landed with an electrical fire in No.2 engine
during a practice mission at Walsham-le-Willows, Suffolk 27Jun43
30145 MSN 5259) Accepted by USAAF 14Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 21Apr43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 27Apr43.
4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 30Apr43. Departed Memphis 2May43.
Cleveland, OH. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 5May43.
Ferried from RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador to Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland 11May43.
Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 11Jun43.
333rd Bomb Squadron, 94th Bomb Group, Earls Colne (Station 358), Essex 12Jun43.
Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 13Jun43. 546th Bomb Squadron [BK*F],
384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 12Jul43.
{first combat mission 28Jul43}. Sustained battle damage on a mission to the Fieseler
aircraft factory at Kassel, Germany 28Jul43. Attacked by Fw 190 enemy fighters and two
engines were disabled. The plane turned back over the Netherlands before the target and
the crew threw out everything they could to reduce weight. On return, the plane force landed at
RAF Oulton, Aylsham, Norfolk. Eighth Air Force Service Command 29Jul43.
Regained by Group 16Aug43. {1 mission}. 368th Bomb Squadron [BO*G], 306th Bomb Group,
Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 22Aug43. Accident taxying at Thurleigh 17Nov43.
Loaned to RAF. Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, Hampshire 7Jan44.
Used for ‘range tests’. Returned to USAAF Feb44. 368th Bomb Squadron [BO*N],
306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 13Mar44. Declared ‘war weary’.
Departed Thurleigh on transfer to 486th Bomb Group, Sudbury (Station 174), Suffolk 16Jul44.
835th Bomb Squadron, 486th Bomb Group, Sudbury (Station 174), Suffolk. Stripped of armament
and turrets removed. Painted bright green with dark green decorative elements. Used to
perform communication relays, weather observation and transportation as a hack.
Salvaged 11Oct45. Named GREEN HORNET
30146 (MSN 5260) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 17Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 25Apr43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 15May43. Ferried on the North Atlantic route
from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 22/23May43.
333rd Bomb Squadron [TS*A], 94th Bomb Group, Earls Colne (Station 358), Essex 24May43.
Named CHEROKEE. Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 13Jun43. Named "Down and Go!"
Failed to return from a mission to the Heinkel Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory at Warnemünde,
Germany 29Jul43 (10POW). The aircraft was having engine troubles when outbound and after
having reached the Danish west coast it was decided to try to reach Sweden. The bombs were
dropped to lighten the aircraft which was now down to one good engine. After a while the navigator
declared that they were over Sweden and the pilot started looking for a place to land.
He found a nice big field where he made a good crash landing with little damage to the aircraft.
When the crew left the aircraft they found to their big surprise that they were surrounded by
Wehrmacht soldiers. It turned out that they had landed not in Sweden but in occupied Denmark
at Avedøre, six miles south of Copenhagen, and that the field they had used was an exercise ground
for German soldiers. MACR 202. The aircraft was dismantled and taken to fliègerhorst Kastrup near København
for repair. The aircraft was repaired and used by Luftwaffe at the Luftwaffen Erprobungsstelle
Rechlin, Germany. Operated by the Luftwaffe KG200 as A3+EE, 230146, (later as A3+BB?). The airplane
crashed and exploded on takeoff from Stuttgart-Echterdingen on February 9, 1945 carrying French
Vichy agents in an attempt to escape to Spain, killing seven of the crew and ten passengers.
17 killed, 2 survived.
30147 (MSN 5261) Accepted by USAAF 14Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 16Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 25Apr43. North Atlantic Wing, Air
Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 15May43. Ferried on the North Atlantic route from
RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 21Jun43. 544th Bomb Squadron
[SU*O], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 28Jun43.
Named *M'Honey/Flak Dancer* {first combat mission 14Jul43}. Failed to return
from a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 17Aug43 (6POW:4EVD).
The bomber had been badly hit by enemy fighters en route to Schweinfurt. Most of the bomb
doors had been blown away and the oxygen system so badly damaged that some of the crew
members started to pass out. The pilot remained with the group long enough to bomb,
then peeled off and dived hard, still under fighter attack, down to tree-top level where the crew
could breathe more easily. With the main force returning to England by a northerly route,
the pilot hoped to stay out of trouble by taking a southerly route. The aircraft was then
attacked by a Dornier 217 from the night fighter training unit NJG 101 which followed it for
about 30 minutes doing damage to the wings. The bomber passed directly over Sandhofen
airfield on the outskirts of Mannheim, shooting up the airfield as it passed. Both tail guns
burnt out and the top turret was hit and jammed. The pilot was injured but the main problem
was now a big hole blown in a fuel tank. From earlier damage, the fuel transfer system was
inoperative. The Dornier was chased off by the ball turret gunner but the chances of the crew
reaching England were now slim. They were offered a chance to head for Switzerland but
declined, hoping to at least reach the coast, confident in their chances of rescue by RAF
Air-Sea Rescue launches. The aircraft flew on for another 180 miles before the fuel was
exhausted. The aircraft was crash landed in a field between Sissonne and Montcornet,
about twenty miles north of Reims, France where the crew attempted to set fire to and
destroy their aircraft but the incendiary bombs failed to work. {2 missions}.
Listed as shot down by Fw. Kark-Heinz Zeschke
in Fw 190A of JG 26/6 at Moutmolen, Belgium, MACR 291
30148 (MSN 5262) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 17Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 24Apr43. Walla Walla
Field, WA 30Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 21May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Jun43. Assigned Eighth Air Force, England. 100th Bomb
Group. Crash landed Little Staughton (Station 127), Bedfordshire 12Jun43. Salvaged
after non battle damage 14Jul43. Named THE BIGASSBIRD
30149 MSN 5263) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 17Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 24Apr43. Walla Walla
Field, WA 30Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 10May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air
Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 25May43. 333rd Bomb Squadron [XM*A2],
94th Bomb Group, Earls Colne (Station 358), Essex 27May43. Rougham (Station 468),
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 12Jun43. Named "Spare Parts". . Failed to return
from a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43 (10POW).
En route to the target area, the bomber formation was repeatedly attacked by a large
number of Luftwaffe fighters. After the target, the Group turned and headed westward for
England. German fighters, having landed and refueled, attacked again. Shot down by enemy
fighters, crashed at Rossbrunner Hof, 4km SW from Adelsheim, Germany. MACR 790
30150 (MSN 5264) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 17Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 24Apr43. Walla Walla
Field, WA 30Apr43. Rapid City Field, SD 9May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 24May43. 412th Bomb Squadron [QW*S], 95th Bomb Group,
Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 27Jun43. Named "Exterminator". Failed to return from
a mission to the AGO-Flugzeugwerke Fw 190 manufacturing factory at Oschersleben,
Germany 28Jul43 (10KIA shot down by Hptm Horst Geyer in Fw 190A of Epr.Kdo 25 and
exploded and crashed in sea off Lathen, Germany. {9 missions. MACR 214.
30151 (MSN 5265) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 21Apr43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK
27Apr43. New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 30Apr43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 5May43. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 14May43. 532nd Bomb Squadron [VE*J: VE*O],
381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 15Jun43. Named *Spare Parts*.
Failed to return from a mission to industrial areas in the suburbs of Berlin,
Germany 4Mar44 (10POW). Because of severe weather in the assembly area, the
group diverted to a target at Cologne, Germany. With mechanical failure, force
landed at La Bagarre, Clairmarais, three miles northeast of Saint-Omer, France.
{6 missions). MACR 2910.
30152 (MSN 5266) delivered Cheyenne Apr 17, 1943, Smoky Hill Apr 24, 1944, Walla Walla Apr 30, 1943, Smoky Hill
May 20, 1943, Dow Field May 28 1943. Assigned to 96th BG Andrewsfield, Essex Jun 1, 1943, Snetterton
Heath Norfolk Jun 12, 1943. Transferred to 381st BG Ridgewell, Essex Jul 16, 1943.
418th BS, 100th BG, Thorpe Abbots, Norfolk Jul 1943. Battle
damaged Paris and crash landed on return. Salvaged Apr 28, 1945. (100+ missions) Named "Messie Bessie"
30153 (MSN 5267) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 17Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 24Apr43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 6May43. 339th Bomb Squadron, 96th Bomb Group,
Andrewsfield (Station 485), Essex 9May43. Named WORRY WART. Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 12Jun43.
532nd Bomb Squadron, 381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 16Jul43. Failed to return from a
mission to the Klöckner Flugmototenbau aero engine factory at Hamburg, Germany 25Jul43 (10POW)
damaged by AAA and then shot down by Uffz Herbert Biermann in Bf 109G of JG 11/5
and crashlanded at Sudmoor, north of Aurich, Germany Jul 25, 1943. (1 mission) MACR 131.
30154 (MSN 5268) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 17Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 24Apr43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 19May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 21May43. 92nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102),
Huntingdonshire 13Jun43. 334th Bomb Squadron [BG*Z], 95th Bomb Group,
Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire 16Jun43. {1 mission}. 349th Bomb Squadron [XR*H],
100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk Jun43. Named *War Eagle*
Failed to return from a mission to an aircraft factory at Bremen, Germany 8Oct43 (1KIA:9POW).
The formation was met with stiff resistance by German fighters and flak crews on the ground
the entire way, from the Dutch coast all the way into the German heartland. In addition,
a large force of German fighters launched vicious attacks against the planes. Over the target,
the formation encountered intense flak. Enemy aircraft caused heavy damage
hit by Bf 109G-6 flown by UFFZ Veid of JG 11/9 and
crashed at Hastedt, Bremen 5 mi SE of Bremen, Germany.
MACR 953.
30155 (MSN 5269) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 21Apr43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 27Apr43.
4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 30Apr43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 6May43. Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander,
Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 15/16May43. 366th Bomb Squadron [KY*C:KY*E],
Assigned to 305BG, 366 BS at Chelveston May 31, 1943.
Named "Barrel House Bessie of Basin Street II".
Force landed RAF St Eval, Padstow, Cornwall 4Jul43. Returned 12Aug43. Failed to return from a
mission to the shipyard and industrial area at Kiel, Germany 5Jan44 (10POW).
Hit by Uffz. Benno Gramlich in Ju-88C-6 of NJG 3/5. and
bellylanded at Simonsberg, Germany Jan 5, 1944. MACR 1684
30156 (MSN 5270) Accepted by USAAF 15Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 17Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 24Apr43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 16May43. Ferried on the North Atlantic
route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 22/23May43.
423rd Bomb Squadron [RD*Z], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 22Jun43.
Failed to return from a mission to synthetic rubber factories at Hanover, Germany 26Jul43 (7POW:3KIA).
Damaged by flak over the Frisian islands en route to the target causing the vertical stabiliser to
be blown off but made it and dropped the bombs. It then fell out of formation and was attacked
by fighters near the German/Dutch border on the way back. Shot down by Leutnant Gerhard Dittmann
of the 12./NJG 1 flying a Bf 110 G-4 or by Major Anton Mader of the Stab/JG 11 flying a Bf 109 G-6.
The radio operator was killed by cannon shells, all other crew bailed out of the burning aircraft.
Crashed near Hofkamp Farm, Vriescheloo, Groningen, Netherlands. MACR 127.
30157 (MSN 5271) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 21Apr43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma
City, OK 27Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 5May43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field,
Oklahoma City, OK 24May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 29May43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 1Jun43. 323rd Bomb Squadron [OR*P],
91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 10Jun43.
Named "Dirty Gertie/Hell's Belles" Fitted with a single.30 caliber
machine gun mounted on a ball socket set in the Plexiglas nose. Battle damaged on a mission
to the Gerhard Fieseler Werke (GFW) aircraft works at Waldau, Kassel, Germany 30Jul43.
Enemy fighter aircraft shot out the hydraulics soon after reaching the English Channel on
return to base. The bomber limped back to crash land and overrun the runway into a wheat
field at Bassingbourn. The left main landing gear collapsed and the No.2 engine was
knocked off as the plane came to rest in a ditch with severe damage; the crew was unharmed.
Salvaged 25Aug43. {2 missions}.
30158 (MSN 5272) Accepted by USAAF 17Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 20Apr43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 28Apr43.
New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 29Apr43. 525th Bomb Squadron [FR*X], 379th Bomb Group,
Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 23Jun43. Named "Mary Jane II" Failed to
return from a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 17Aug43 (2KIA:8POW).
Attacked before reaching the River Rhine en route to the target by enemy fighters, shot down by
Lt Heinert in Fw 190A of JG 11/3 at Worms, Germany MACR 1764.
30159 (MSN 5273) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 21Apr43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 27Apr43.
New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 2May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME 6May43. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 14May43. 366th Bomb Squadron [KY*H], 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105),
Northamptonshire 24May43. Named "Settin' Bull" Failed to return from a mission to the
ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 17Aug43 (8POW:2KIA). Badly damaged by flak
over the target but the crew refused to consider diverting to Switzerland. Returning from the
target behind the main formation, it had reached the River Rhine when it was attacked by German
fighters. The crew hoped to continue and meet up for the cover of their friendly fighters but just
failed to do so. Shot down by night fighter pilot Hauptmann Rupert Krzywon of the 10./NJG 101
flying a Bf 110. With two crew killed, three more wounded and out of ammunition, all four engines
had been damaged by enemy action. The surviving crew members bailed out. The plane crashed
at Rue Emile Vandervelde, Wegnez, Pepinster, Liège, Belgium. MACR 301.
30160 (MSN 5274) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 20Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 24Apr43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 28May43. 339th Bomb Squadron [QJ*E],
96th Bomb Group, Andrewsfield (Station 485), Essex 27May43. 337th Bomb Squadron [AW*E],
96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 12Jun43. Named "Dottie J II" Accident on return from
a mission to the port area at Kiel, Germany 13Dec43 (4KIA:6INJ). Heavy frosting and poor
visiblity frustrated the attack and the group diverted to Hamburg where the plane suffered battle
damage. Both engines on the left wing had been disabled and the propellers feathered
causing the plane to fall back out of formation. A third engine failed as the bomber started
back over the North Sea. The crew jettisoned unneceesary equipment to lessen the weight
and reduce the rate of descent. Below the clouds and close to the waves, the failed third engine
picked up and produced some power. This enabled the pilots to regain some altitude and
held steady at 300 feet until reaching the sandy shores of Norfolk. The pilot elected to try
for a landing at Snetterton Heath and joined the circuit with other returning bombers.
On final approach, the pilot may have had to manoeuvre to avoid another plane because
the plane suddenly reared up, stalled and dove into the ground. An engine was torn off and
bounced into the radio room hatch, killing three airmen. The forward section finished upside
down facing towards the torn off tail. The bomber crashed on the A11 road adjacent to the
airfield at Snetterton Heath. Salvaged 15Dec43. .
30161 (MSN 5275) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 23Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 28Apr43. Walla Walla
Field, WA 5Jul43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 21May43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field,
Oklahoma City, OK 23May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 2Jun43. 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 16Jun43.
336th Bomb Squadron [ET*B], 95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 18Jun43.
335th Bomb Squadron [OE*B]. Named "Cuddle Cat". Failed to return from a mission
to the Bosch magneto factory at Stuttgart, Germany 6Sep43 (10POW). Shot down by fighter
Stuttart, Germany. (12 missions) MACR 547.
30162 (MSN 5276) delivered Cheyenne Apr 20 1943, Smoky Hill Apr 29 21943, Walla Walla May 7, 1943, Tinker May 21, 1943,
Smoky Hill May 24, 2943, Dow Field Jun 2, 1943. Assigned to 94th BG, 410th BS at Rougham Jun 13, 1943.
Named "The Piccadilly Virgin". . Failed to return from a mission to the Friedrich Krupp
Germaniawerft shipyard at Kiel, Germany 4Jan44 (10KIA:1POW Shot down by fighters and ditched into
North Sea 4 km N of Helgoland, Germany. MACR 1756
30163 (MSN 5277) Accepted by USAAF 17Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 21Apr43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 27Apr43.
4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 30Apr43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Presque Isle Field, ME May43. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick
(Station 500), Scotland 14May43. 368th Bomb Squadron [BO*D], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh
(Station 111), Bedfordshire 23May43. Eighth Air Force Service Command 30Jun43.
Regained by Group 15Jul43. 368th Bomb Squadron [BO*J] 19Aug43. Failed to return
from a mission to a roller bearing factory at Stuttgart, Germany 6Sep43 (4POW:6EVD).
The plane was known as a fuel hog but HQ Bomber Command refused to allow a top-up
on the standard fuel uplift despite knowing that the plane could not make it back to Allied lines.
With heavy cloud cover, the formation searched out other targets before releasing their bombs.
Returning from the target, and having taken extra time, the No.3 engine stopped with fuel exhaustion
about ten minutes before reaching the French coast. Then No.1 engine stopped and the plane
was flying with the fuel gauges indicating empty. The crew bailed out at 17,000ft southwest of
Amiens and the plane crashed near Gournay-en-Bray, 25 miles east of Rouen, France.. MACR 518.
30164 (MSN 5278) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 21Apr43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 27Apr43.
4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 30Apr43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 5May43. 334th Bomb Squadron [BG*E], 95th Bomb Group 12May43.
Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 19May43.
95th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk May43. Failed to return from a mission
to the submarine yards at Kiel, Germany 13Jun43 (11KIA:2POW). Shortly before reaching the city
of Kiel, the B-17 was struck by several flak fragments in the cockpit and on engine No.4.
The bomber initially lost speed, but regained formation over the target area. Shortly after the
crew dropped the last bomb on Kiel, the aircraft was attacked by three German fighters and
heavily shot at. The plane lost speed again because several engines had already caught fire
and large parts of the rear area had been torn away. The crew lost contact with the formation.
It was observed that eight crew members were able to parachute out of the burning bomber
over the Bay of Kiel; only two of them survived. Brigadier General Nathan Bedford Forrest III
was on board as an observer but did not survive. Crashed in the Baltic Sea off Kiel, Germany. {2 missions}..
MACR 8960 and 1371. Only one crewmember was rescued.
30165 (MSN 5279) Accepted by USAAF 17Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21Apr43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma
City, OK 28Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 4May43. Lowry Field, Denver, CO 6May43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 15May43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma
City, OK 21May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 25May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air
Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Jun43. 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe
Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 5Jun43. 524th Bomb Squadron [WA*M], 379th Bomb Group,
Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 21Jun43. Failed to return from a mission to
Wangerooge 25Jun43 (2KIA:8POW). Shot down by Obfw Eugen-Ludwig Zwiegart
in Bf 109G of JG 54/9 between Wieste and Sogel, Germany and
crashed near Aschendorf, Germany. {1 mission}.. MACR 1356
30166 (MSN 5280) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 21Apr43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 27Apr43.
4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 30Apr43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 8May43. 94th Bomb Group 15May43.
Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland 24May43.
332nd Bomb Squadron [XM*L], 94th Bomb Group, Earls Colne (Station 358), Essex May43.
Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 13Jun43.. Named "Black Jack III" then "You Can't Miss
It". Failed to return from a mission to the synthetic oil refinery at Gelsenkirchen,
Germany 5Nov43 (8KIA:2POW). Reported dropping out of formation under control then
an enemy fighter attack caused an explosion. Shot down by Oblt Heinrich Klopper in Bf 109G-6 of
JG 1/7 and crashed in North Sea 500 metres west of Haamstede on
Schouwen Island, Netherlands. MACR 1043.
30167 (MSN 5281) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21Apr43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma
City, OK 27Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 5May43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field,
Oklahoma City, OK 12May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Lincoln Field, NB 20May43.
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 23May43. 336th Bomb Squadron [ET*H], 95th Bomb Group,
Framlingham. Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 15Jun43.
Named "Angel's Pumpkin", later "Destiny's Tot". {29 missions}. 4
To 57th Bomb Group, Glatton (Station 130), Huntingdonshire Mar44. 310th Ferrying Squadron,
27th Air Transport Group, Heston (Station 510), Middlesex. Damaged taxying at
Wendling (Station 118), Norfolk 11Mar44. Base Air Depot No.2, Warton (Station 582),
Lancashire 17Mar44. Returned to US. 1104th Base Unit (Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command),
Homestead Field, FL 18Jul44. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 24Jul44.
Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 19Aug44. Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 14Dec44. Reclaimed 31Oct45
30168 (MSN 5282) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 22Apr43. Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 6May43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 29May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 18Jun43. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 21Jun43. 550th Bomb Squadron [SG*T], 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155),
Suffolk 26Jun43. Named'Slo-Jo'. Failed to return from a mission to the industrial areas of
Emden, Germany 11Dec43 (7KIA:3POW). The Luftwaffe was waiting for the bombers; the moment
the bombers crossed over into mainland Europe, six twin-engine fighter dived out of the sun
upon the formation, concentrating all their fire on the lead plane. Once the leader had been
downed, the fighters swept through the lead Squadron. Before the deputy lead had a chance
to reassemble the formation, a large force of single-engine fighters joined the fray, attacking the other bombers
Shot down by Fw. Walter Kohne in Fw 190A-6 of JG 1/2 and
crashed at Goëngahuizen, Friesland, Netherlands. The wreckage was never salvaged by the
Germans, and more than ten years elapsed before metal hunting, traveling caravaners
removed it, much to the relief of the farmer. All this time the blades of the four propellers had
projected above the surface of the ground, continually wounding the legs of the cows! MACR 1666.
30169 (MSN 5283) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 22Apr43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 24May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 29May43. Chicago Municipal Airport, IL 1Jun43. Smoky Hill Field,
Salina, KS 16Jun43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 19Jun43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 26Jun43. Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 7Jul43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 12Jul43.
Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 414th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Châteaudun-du-Rhumel (Helen),
Constantine, Algeria 14Jul43. Pont-du-Fahs, Tunisia 11Aug43. Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 15Aug43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43. San Giovanni, Cerignola, Italy 20Dec43.
341st Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44. Failed to return from
a mission to the aircraft factory at Atzgersdorf, Vienna, Austria 24May44 (1KIA:9POW).
Shot down by a Bf 109 fighter of JG 27, last seen over Celje, Slovenia, Yugoslavia losing
altitude with No.1 and No.3 engine propellers feathered and the crew discarding excess weight.
Crashed at Sankt Stefan im Rosental, Austria. Named LADY LUCK. MACR 5070
30170 (MSN 5284) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 21Apr43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 27Apr43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 5May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 28May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 7Jun43. 349th Bomb
Squadron [XR*G], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 10Jun43.
Battle damaged on a mission to an aircraft factory at Bremen, Germany 8Oct43.
The formation was met with stiff resistance by German fighters and flak crews on the
ground the entire way, from the Dutch coast all the way into the German heartland,
and back again. In addition, a large force of German fighters launched vicious attacks
against the planes. Over the target, the formation encountered intense flak.
With three engines damaged, managed to limp 400 miles back to England, the first
Eighth Air Force crew to accomplish this feat. Failed to return from a mission to industrial
areas in the suburbs of Berlin, Germany 6Mar44 (1KIA:9POW). Attacked near Haselünne,
enemy aircraft damaged an engine. The crew bailed out and the bomber crashed at
Colnrade near Cologne, Germany.
Named TORCHY 2 / OH NAUSEA / HOT SPIT / MISS CARRIAGE / TORCHY II / PRIDE OF THE CENTURY / TEN BATTY BOYS
MACR 3015.
30171 (MSN 5285) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 24Apr43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 30May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 18Jun43. Ferried Meeks
Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 21Jun43. 548th Bomb
Squadron [GX*A], 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 26Jun43.
Named WAR CRY/STUD HOSS. When its mission was aborted, the pilot was
instructed to land RAF Docking, Norfolk 3Oct43. On landing, it skidded on wet grass
and overran the runway into an adjoining field. Salvaged 2Nov43
30172 (MSN 5286) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 22Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 28Apr43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 7May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 21May43. North Atlantic
Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 6Jun43. Ferried on the North Atlantic
route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 6/7Jun43.
339th Bomb Squadron [QJ*F], 96th Bomb Group, Snettisham 12Jun43 . Named "Black Heart Jr"
Forming up for a mission to attack the German airfields at Gilze en Rijen and Flushing,
Netherlands, an electrical fault started a fire and the oxygen tanks caught fire. The co-pilot
brought the aircraft back after the rest of the crew had bailed out and crash landed on
Wolferton Sands, Norfolk 19Aug43; the bomb load exploded and destroyed the plane.
Copilot was awarded the DSC. Salvaged Aug 21, 1944.
30173 (MSN 5287) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 22Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 29Apr43. Air Service Command,
Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 12May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Lincoln Field, NB 21May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 24May43.
410th Bomb Squadron, 94th Bomb Group, Earls Colne (Station 358), Essex 28May43. Named GORGEOUS HUSSY.
412th Bomb Squadron [QW*O], 95th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 6Jun43. Named CIRCE.
335th Bomb Squadron [OE*O] Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 12Jun43. Named ALL AMERICAN
Failed to return from a mission to the industrial area at Brunswick, Germany 10Feb44 (7POW:3KIA),
caught fire in action over Lingen and crashed Schaferhof, near Leeseringen rail station,
four miles south of Nienburg, Germany. {20 missions}. MACR 2544
30174 (MSN 5288) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 22Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 29Apr43. Air Service Command,
Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 13May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Lincoln Field, NB 17May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 21May43.
332nd Bomb Squadron [XM*S], 94th Bomb Group, Earls Colne (Station 358), Essex 25May43.
Named LADY LUCK II. Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 13Jun43, 410th Bomb Squadron.
Failed to return from a mission to synthetic rubber factories at Hanover, Germany 26Jul43 (9POW:1KIA).
damaged by AAA then shot down by Hptm Hermann Staiger
in Bf 109G-6 of JG 26/12 and crashlanded between Hambergen/Wallhofen, Germany.
MACR 90.
30175 (MSN 5289) Accepted by USAAF 19Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 22Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 28Apr43. Walla Walla Field, WA 7May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 21May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 2Jun43. 367th Bomb Squadron [GY*B], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111),
Bedfordshire 18Jun43. Named "Hammer of Hell". Battle damaged on a mission to a roller
bearing factory at Stuttgart, Germany 6Sep43. 20mm cannon shell and flak damage to right
horizontal stabiliser and elevator, vertical stabiliser and right outer wing. Base Air Depot No.1,
Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire Sep43. Regained by Group Sep43. Seriously battle damaged
during a mission to an aircraft factory at Bremen, Germany 8Oct43. The formation was met with
stiff resistance by German fighters and flak crews on the ground the entire way, from the Dutch
coast all the way into the German heartland, and back again. In addition, a large force of German
fighters launched vicious attacks against the planes. Over the target, the formation encountered
intense flak. Flak did widespread damage to the left and right wings, bomb bay, fuselage, dorsal fin,
vertical stabiliser, rudder and right horizontal stabiliser. Failed to return from a mission to the ball
bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43 (10POW). En route to the target area, the bomber
formation was repeatedly attacked by a large number of Luftwaffe fighters. After the target, the Group
turned and headed westward for England. German fighters, having landed and refueled, attacked
again. Enemy fighters damaged three engines. Crashed near Schweinfurt, Germany MACR 822
30176 (MSN 5290) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY, WY 22Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 28Apr43. Walla Walla
Field, WA, WA 7May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 25May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 6Jun43. 336th Bomb Squadron [ET*P], 95th Bomb Group,
Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 5Jun43. 335th Bomb Squadron [OE*P] 15Jun43.
Named "Assassin". Failed to return from a shuttle mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft
factories at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43 (1KIA:5POW:4EVD). shot down by Oblt. Arthur
Beese in Fw 190A-6 of JG 26/1 over Zoersel, east of Antwerp, en route to the target.
On fire, the pilot lowered the landing gear as a sign of surrender and the crew bailed out
safely although the radio operator later died from his burns
Crashed E of Oostmalle, Belgium, just northwest of where the Turnhoutsebaan
crosses the road to Sint-Jozef Rijkevorsel. {12 missions}. MACR 401.
30177 (MSN 5291) Accepted by USAAF 20Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great
Falls, MT 27Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 2May43. Sioux City AAB, IA 13May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 11Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 16Jun43.
388th Bomb Group 23Jun43. Ferried Bluie West One, Narsarsuaq, Greenland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 29Jun43. 562nd Bomb Squadron [F], 388th Bomb Group,
Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk Jun43. {first combat mission 17Jul43}. Battle damaged
on an Operation Starkey mission to the industrial area of Paris, France 9Sep43 (1WIA:9RTD).
The briefed route was followed to the I.P. when the lead bombardier was hit by flak and
unable to complete the bomb run on the primary target. There was cloud cover over the
secondary target which was the Luftwaffe airfield at Beaumont Sur Oise, northwest of Paris.
The navigator was wounded by flak. {final combat mission 13Dec43}. {15 missions}.
Named CHARLENE [Charlene was the pilot's baby daughter]. Modified for radio counter measures.
803rd Bomb Squadron, RAF Sculthorpe, Fakenham, Norfolk 19Jan44. RAF Oulton, Aylsham,
Norfolk 16May44. 36th Bomb Squadron, Cheddington (Station 113), Buckinghamshire 14Aug44.
Donated Oct44 by General Eisenhower to General Pierre Koenig, one of the leading commanders
of General Charles de Gaulle's Free French Forces in World War II. Operated by the Free French
Air Force, re-named BIR-HAKEIM. Later operated by the Armée de l'Air, noted as BIR-HACKEIM.
Flown around the world departing Orly, Paris, France 6Sep45 via Egypt, India, Burma, Philippines,
Guam, Honolulu, San Fransisco, Denver, Chicago, Washington, Newfoundland, arriving back
at Orly, Paris 1Oct45. Placed at the disposal of the French High Commissioner at Wahn, Germany.
Operated by Escadrille de Liaison Aérienne 54, Oos, Baden-Baden, Germany. Radio call sign F-SCNY.
Niedermendig, West Germany 1949. Escadrille de Liaison Aérienne 55, Lahr, West Germany 18Mar55.
Believed damaged in Germany. Sold to IGN as F-BGSG at Creil Jan56. To Creil for repair but
WFU for parts Jan56. Scrapped 1973.
30178 MSN 5292) Accepted by USAAF 21Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 24Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 5May43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 24May43. 335th Bomb Squadron [OE*S],
95th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 29May43. Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 15Jun43.
Named "Darlin' Dolly" {45 missions}. 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk Apr44.
Modified for radio counter measures. 803rd Bomb Squadron, Oulton 16May44. Base Air Depot No.1,
Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire. Modified as a drone for Operation Aphrodite and
Castor missions. Designated BQ-7. 562nd Bomb Squadron, 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136),
Suffolk, later at Fersfield (Station 554), Norfolk. Expended on Aphrodite mission to the power
station at Oldenburg, Germany 1Jan45, shot down by flak before reaching target. Last Aphrodite mission
30179 (MSN 5293) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 24Apr43. Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 8May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 29May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 15Jun43.
550th Bomb Squadron [SG*C], 385th Bomb Group 16Jun43. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland
to Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland 21Jun43. Lockheed Overseas Corporation, 403rd Air Depot,
Base Air Depot No.3, Langford Lodge (Station 597), County Antrim, Northern Ireland Jun43.
550th Bomb Squadron [SG*C], 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk Jun43.
Named 'Murder Inc/Grim Reaper'. Failed to return from a mission to the AGO-Flugzeugwerke
Fw 190 manufacturing factory at Oschersleben, Germany 28Jul43 (4KIA:6POW). Attacked by two
enemy fighters over Hameln and Herford on return from the target, claimed by Oberleutnant Harry Koch
and Oberfeldwebel Kampmeier, both 6th Squadron / Second Group / JG 1. Several crew bailed out
before the plane exploded and crashed near Herford, ten miles northeast of Bielefeld, Germany. . MACR 189A.
30180 (MSN 5294) Delivered Cheyenne Apr 24, 1943; Smoky Hill May 5, 1943; Presque Is May 30, 1943; Assigned to 384BG Grafton
Underwood Jun 10, 1943; transferred to 337BS/96BG [AW-H] Andrews Fd Jul 6, 1943 GUZZLERS; Snetterton Jun 12, 1943,
BLACK HAWK--artwork of a black bird riding an 8-ball sprouting machine guns like a chin turret
or ball turret. Just below the angled cheek gun mounting someone added further embellishment by
cutting out a Vargas pin-up from a copy of Esquire magazine and pasting it onto the side, a
dding the name "Bette Lore; 388BG APH Knettishall 1943; Severe combat damage
by flak 31Dec43. Severe combat damage by 20mm cannon fire 29Jan44. Base Air Depot No.1,
qBurtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire.(96 BG 339 BS, Named "Guzzlers". Converted
to Aphrodite flying bomb and launched against U-boat pens
on Heligoland, Germany Sep 11, 1944. The pilot was killed by his static line
incorrectly attached bailing out. Hit by enemy flak and crashed into sea.
30181 MSN 5295) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 24Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 5May43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 29May43. 4115th Base Unit (Spokane Air Technical Service
Command), Pendleton Field, OR 2Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 16Jun43. 335th Bomb Squadron [OE*X], 95th Bomb Group. Named "Herky Jerky II" To
Horham Jun 15, 1943. Named "Lover Boy". Battle damaged on a mission to
railway installations at Münster, Germany 10Oct43. As they approached the city, the formation
was swarmed by a large force of enemy aircraft for an estimated forty-five minutes of vicious fighting.
By the time their friendly fighter escorts arrived to drive off the Luftwaffe, the damage had already been done.
Failed to return from a mission to the BIAG Zukunft power station at Eschweiler, Germany 24Jan44 (4KIA:6POW).
Shot down by Fw. Kurt Schmidtke in FW-190A-6 of JG 26/4.
Crashed at Wingene,eighteen miles west of Ghent, Belgium. MACR 2258.
30182 (MSN 5296) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 22Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 28Apr43. Walla Walla Field, WA 5Jul43.
Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 28May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 1Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 6Jun43. 334th Bomb Squadron [BG*E],
95th Bomb Group, Framlingham. 412th Bomb Squadron [QW*E], 95th Bomb Group,
Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 15Jun43. Named "Blondie II" Failed to return from a
mission to the industrial areas of Emden, Germany 11Dec43 (10KIA). The Luftwaffe was waiting for
the bombers; the moment the bombers crossed over into mainland Europe, six twin-engine fighters
dived out of the sun upon the formation, concentrating all their fire on the lead plane. Once the leader
had been downed, the fighters swept through the lead Squadron. Before the deputy lead had a chance
to reassemble the formation, a large force of single-engine fighters joined the fray, attacking the other bombers.
Shot down by Lt Rudofl Dassow in ME 410A of ZG 26/II Stab
and crashed into North Sea S of Lengeoog Island, Germany MACR 1562.
(25 missions)
30183 (MSN 5297) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 28Apr43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 15May43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Lincoln Field, NB 22May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 24May43. 338th Bomb Squadron, 96th Bomb Group,
Andrewsfield (Station 485), Essex 27May43. Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 12Jun43
Named "The Miracle Tribe" & "Dry Run II" (at one time).
Failed to return from a mission to the Gerhard Fieseler Werke (GFW) aircraft works at
Waldau, Kassel, Germany 30Jul43, shot down by enemy fighters, crashed North Sea,
crew rescued by Air-Sea Rescue. No MACR
30184 (MSN 5298) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 24Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 5May43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 9Jun43. 349th Bomb Squadron,
100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 10Jun43 . Named "Yes My Rose".
Detailed mission to Trondheim Jul 24, 1943, crash
landed RAF Fraserburgh, Scotland on return. Salvaged Aug 5, 1944
30185 (MSN 5299) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 24Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 5May43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 25May43. 412th Bomb Squadron [QW*H],
95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 15Jun43. Named "Wee Bonnie".
Battle damage 15Jun43, damage to the radios, ball turret, hydraulics and Plexiglass. Battle
damaged on a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 17Aug43.
Salvaged 24Aug43. {10 missions}.
30186 (MSN 5300) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 24Apr43. Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 6May43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 29May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 13Jun43. 549th Bomb Squadron, 385th Bomb Group 17Jun43.
Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland 21Jun43.
385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk Jun43. Non battle damage 3Nov43.
Battle damaged, Brunswick, Germany 29Feb44. Salvaged 2May45
30187 (MSN 5301) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 24Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 6May43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 30May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air
Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 15Jun43. 551st Bomb Squadron [HR*K],
385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 16Jun43. Named 'Lulu Belle'.
Participated in a shuttle mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factories at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43.
After the target, the bomber turned south and landed at the Twelfth Air Force base at Bône, Algeria.
Later positioned to Telergma, Algeria. On return to England, failed to return from a mission to a
Luftwaffe air depot at Mérignac, Bordeaux, France 24Aug43 (4KIA:8RTD). Shot down by enemy
fighters, crashed in North Atlantic about forty miles off Padstow, Cornwall. Eight of the twelve
airmen were rescued; two drowned while trying to swim to a life raft dropped by the RAF and the o
other two died from exposure. MACR 961.
30188 MSN 5302) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 25Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 6May43. Air Service Command,
Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 25May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 1Jun43. 413th Bomb Squadron [MZ*S], 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton
Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 12Jun43, Named KATS SASS II / TEMPTATION - artwork of a
black cat considering dropping a bomb. . Received a field modification to counter the
German tactic of head on attacks; the bomb sight was removed, a twin 0.50caliber gun
was installed and armored plate to protect the gunner. Crashed on takeoff for a mission
to Frankfurt am Main, Germany 4Feb44 (11RTD). The No.1 and 2 propellers oversped;
unable to return to base, the pilot attempted landing at a near-by but unfinished airfield.
Crash landed at East Shropham, near Snetterton, Norfolk. Salvaged
30189 (MSN 5303) Accepted by USAAF 24Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 27Apr43. Sioux City AAB, IA 8May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 12Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 16Jun43.
Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 21Jun43. 563rd Bomb Squadron [U], 388th Bomb Group,
Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 23Jun43. Named "La Chiquita". {first combat mission 25Jul43}.
Failed to return from a mission to the Continental Gummi-Werke synthetic
rubber factory at Hanover, Germany 26Jul43 (2KIA:8POW). The Group was subjected
to continual fighter attacks the entire route; these attacks broke off when the
Group was back over the North Sea on the way home. Struck by flak on return from the target.
Shot down by Uffz Bernhard Kunze in Fw 190A of JG 1/1
at Kleinheide, Germany. Crashed in the North Sea, north of Emden, Germany.
The crew was rescued by German Air-Sea Rescue. {2 missions}. MACR 3067.
30190 (MSN 5304) Wright Field, Dayton, OH 24Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great
Falls, MT 27Apr43. Boeing, Seattle, WA 29May43. Blythe Field, CA 23Jun43. Wright Field,
Dayton, OH 29Jul43. Pendleton Field, OR 21Sep43. 1105th Base Unit, Miami, FL 12Oct43.
Converted to XC-108B fuel tanker for CBI theater with a view to converting war-weary
bombers into tankers with all armament removed. CBI for trials over the Hump.
Used to compare with the B-24 conversion, XC-109. Returned to US 25Sep44.
4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field,
Dayton, OH 28Mar45. 4202nd Base Unit (Rome Air Technical Service Command),
Syracuse AAB, NY 29May43. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Bush Field,
Augusta, GA for storage and disposal 26May45
30191 (MSN 5305) Accepted by USAAF 21Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 14May43. Air Service
Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 24May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 29May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 1Jun43. 525th Bomb Squadron [FR*C],
379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 6Jun43. Named "The Belovich".
Failed to return from a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 17Aug43 (1KIA:9POW).
Attacked en route to the target by enemy fighters damaging an engine. Over the target, another engine was hit by flak.
Shot down by Fw Cristof Nagel in BF 109 of NJG 101/10
Unable to maintain altitude or keep up with the group, the bomber dropped out of formation. Rapidly losing
altitude, the pilot ordered the crew to bail out. The parachute of the engineer did not open in time and he was killed.
The pilot was now too low to bail out but successfully crash landed the bomber wheels up on a road
between Elfershausen and Trimberg, thirteen miles northwest of Schweinfurt, Germany. {13 missions).
MACR 1765. .
30192 (MSN 5306) Accepted by USAAF 21Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 5May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 5Jun43.
379th Bomb Group 5Jun43. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 13Jun43. 335th Bomb Squadron [OE*Y], 95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119),
Suffolk 27Jun43. Failed to return from a mission to the Gerhard Fieseler Werke (GFW)
aircraft works at Waldau, Kassel, Germany 30Jul43 (2KIA:4POW). About ten miles east of
Knokke, Belgium, the aircraft was hit by flak. The oxygen and hydraulic systems were
knocked out and three engines failed. The crew was told to stand by to bail out. The five
enlisted men bailed out immediately. The pilot realized he still had control of the plane
and countermanded his order. He then made a course for the nearest point on the English
coast, and ditched six miles off Dover, Kent, where the remainder of the crew were saved
by the British Navy. The crew was picked up by a Royal Air Force Air-Sea Rescue
Supermarine Walrus amphibious aircraft X9526, but, overloaded and unable to takeoff,
had to taxy back to shore. {5 missions} MACR 217.
30193 (MSN 5307) Accepted by USAAF 21Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Apr43. Sioux City AAB, IA 8May43. Smoky Hill Field,
Salina, KS 9Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 14Jun43. 388th Bomb Group 15Jun43. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik,
Iceland to Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland 21Jun43. 561st Bomb Squadron [R],
388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk Jun43. Named "Hardluck"
{first combat mission 25Jul43}. Crashed departing for a mission to the Kugelfischer-Georg-Schäfer
ball bearing factory at Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43 (10RTD). An engine failed and caught
fire just as the Fortress was taking off. The aircraft, loaded to the limit with fuel and bombs,
had almost reached flying speed when the co-pilot called out that the oil pressure was
zero on No.3 engine. The aircraft began to pull to the right and there were flames coming
from the dying engine. Observers reported that smoke came from the tires as the brakes
were applied. With a rough field ahead of him, followed by a solid wall of trees, the
pilot ordered wheels up. The takeoff became a crash landing and the aircraft stopped
with its nose crushed in by a tree. The crew emerged unharmed and got clear before the
explosion. The entire neighborhood was cleared of personnel, other planes were delayed
for twenty-five minutes and then sent out by a different runway. Preparations were made
for the explosion which was spectacular when it came. Nobody was hurt. {14 missions}. Salvaged
30194 (MSN 5308) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 24Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 25Apr43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 12May43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 25May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 29May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 1Jun43. 91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 15Jun43. 3
35th Bomb Squadron [OE*O], 95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 16Jun43
Named "We Ain't Scared". . Failed to return from a mission to Bonn, Germany
(5KIA:5POW:1EVD). Attacked by a Fw 190 fighter hitting the No.4 engine. The plane exploded
and crashed at Kattenbos, three miles south of Lommel, Belgium. {8 missions}. MACR 253.
One injured and died in hospital.
30195 MSN 5309) Accepted by USAAF 24Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Apr43. 388th Bomb Group, Sioux City AAB, IA 11May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 10Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 15Jun43. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Stornoway, Isle of Lewis,
Scotland 21Jun43. 560th Bomb Squadron [E], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall.
Named "Blind Date" While flying to the West Coast shortly after receiving the plane,
the crew discussed names for the plane; they decided on the name BLIND DATE as they felt that
the future for them was like going on a blind date. . {first combat mission 24Jul43}. Participated
in a shuttle mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factories at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43.
After the target, the bomber turned south and landed at the Twelfth Air Force base at Bône, Algeria.
Later positioned to Telergma, Algeria. On return to England, operated a mission to a Luftwaffe
air depot at Mérignac, Bordeaux, France 24Aug43. Battle damaged on a mission to the Messerschmitt
factory at Augsburg, Germany 13Apr44 (1WIA:9RTD). Over the target, intense and accurate
flak was experienced. Enemy fighters attacked from the target until the formation reached the
Belgian border; a waist gunner was wounded. Major battle damage during a mission to a ball
bearing factory at Schweinfurt, Germany 19Jul44. Flak was intense over the target. On return,
crash landed at Honington (Station 375), Suffolk. 1st Strategic Air Depot, Troston (Station 595), Suffolk.
Accident departing for a mission to the Braunkohle Benzin AG synthetic oil refinery at Böhlen-Rötha,
Leipzig, Germany 7Oct44 (9RTD). No.1 engine caught fire and lost power and the plane made a
force landing on a field at Holly Tree Farm, Walpole, Halesworth, Suffolk. All of the crew escaped
before the aircraft caught fire. The occupants of eight houses had to be evacuated. Later, the
main bomb load exploded and minor damage was done to fourteen houses at Walpole. {66 missions}.
Salvaged.
30196 MSN 5310) Accepted by USAAF 21Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 26Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 6May43. Air Service Command,
Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 25May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 30May43. North Atlantic
Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 6Jun43. 546th Bomb Squadron [BK*Y],
384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 23Jun43. Named *Sad Sack*.
(first combat mission 28Jun43}. Fitted with Gee-H radio navigation system equipment. Battle
damaged during a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 17Aug43.
No.3 engine was struck by 20mm cannon shells and the propeller feathered. A 20mm shell hit
an oil line in the left wing. Other 20mm cannon shells struck the nose, right wing, tail and radio room.
A 50mm shell struck the cockpit. Eighth Air Force Service Command 19Aug43. Regained by Group 2Sep43.
Failed to return from a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43 (6KIA:4POW).
En route to the target area, the bomber formation was repeatedly attacked by a large number of
Luftwaffe fighters. After the target, the Group turned and headed westward for England. German fighters,
having landed and refueled, attacked again. With an engine disabled it was shot down
by Obfw Bohm in Bf 110G-2 of ZG 76/4 near
Wurzburg, Germany. The bomber crashed in flames at Bischbrunn, near Markt Heidenfeldt,
eighteen miles west of Schweinfurt, Germany. {13 missions}.. MACR 839
30197 (MSN 5311) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 27Apr43. Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 6May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb
Wing, Kearney Field, NB 29May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 13Jun43. 550th Bomb Squadron [SG*M], 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155),
Suffolk 14Jun43. Named 'Mission Belle'. Damaged landing at Great Ashfield 9Feb44.
Failed to return from a mission to the Heinkel Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory at Marienehe,
Rostock, Germany 11Apr44 (10INT). Flak on bomb run, crash landed Kristianopel, Sweden. MACR 3822
30198 (MSN 5312) Accepted by USAAF 26Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 26Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 5May43. United Air Lines, Modification
Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14May43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma
City, OK 21May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 27May43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Jun43. 339th Bomb Squadron [QJ*L],
96th Bomb Group, Andrewsfield (Station 485), Essex 5Jun43. Snetterton Heath (Station 138),
Norfolk 12Jun43. 563rd Bomb Squadron, 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk Jul43.
{first combat mission 24Jul43}. Failed to return from a mission to synthetic rubber factories at
Hanover, Germany 26Jul43 (5KIA:5POW). Attacked by enemy fighters, crashed Holtland, northeast of
Leer, south of Hesel, Germany. {3 missions}. Named GUZZLERS
30199 (MSN 5313) Accepted by USAAF 22Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 26Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 6May43. Westover Field, Chicopee
Falls, MA 9Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 10Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 13Jun43. Rome Air Depot, NY
15Jun43. Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 27Jun43. Bolling Field, Washington, DC 4Jul43.
Louisville, KY 8Aug43. 369th Bomb Squadron [WW*R], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111),
Bedfordshire 24Aug43. Named "Wicked WAAC"– artwork of a female’s figure, clad in briefs,
astride a falling bomb. . Failed to return from a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt,
Germany 14Oct43 (9POW:1KIA). En route to the target area, the bomber formation was repeatedly
attacked by a large number of Luftwaffe fighters. Damaged en route to the target, it was then attacked
by enemy fighters firing rockets, one of which destroyed much of the vertical stabiliser.
The No.3 engine was then damaged in another attack and the propeller oversped until it could be
feathered. The pilot increased speed in an effort to catch up with the formation. Cannon shells
badly damaged the nose and fuselage and the No.2 engine was disabled. Cannon shells injured
the bombardier and badly wounded the navigator. Another rocket attack damaged the left wing,
setting the No.1 engine and fuel tanks on fire. The pilot dropped out of formation and dived
in an attempt to extinguish the fire. The bombardier was badly wounded and, after releasing the
bombs, he and the navigator bailed out. Crashed between Westerngrund and Gieselbach,
Aschaffenburg, Germany. . MACR 821.
30200 (MSN 5314) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 27Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 6May43. Air Service Command,
Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 21May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 25May43. 410th Bomb Squadron [GL*R], 94th Bomb Group, Earls Colne (Station 358),
Essex 5Jun43. Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 13Jun43. Named "Slo-Time Sally".
Failed to return from a mission to Bordeaux, France (1KIA:2POW:7EVD). Enemy aircraft damaged
engine No.3 & No.4, crash landed Kergrist-Moelou, near Gouarec, France. MACR 1892
30201 (MSN 5315) Accepted by USAAF 22Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great
Falls, MT 7May43. Sioux City AAB, IA 11May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 10Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 19Jun43.
560th Bomb Squadron [F], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 20Jun43.
Named "Tiger Girl/Shedonwanna". (first combat mission 24Jul43}.
Participated in a shuttle mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factories at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43.
After the target, the bomber turned south and landed at the Twelfth Air Force base at Bône, Algeria.
Later positioned to Telergma, Algeria. On return to England, operated a mission to a Luftwaffe air
depot at Mérignac, Bordeaux, France 24Aug43. Failed to return from a mission to the Bosch magneto
factory at Stuttgart, Germany 6Sep43 (4KIA:6POW). With bad weather over Germany, the bomber
attempted to attack a secondary target of a Luftwaffe air base to the southwest of Strasbourg, France.
Failing again to find the target, the bombs were jettisoned into the Black Forest. Attacked by
several German fighters after the bomb drop, the bomber was thirty-five miles west of the target.
The left wing was set on fire, the No.1 engine caught fire, and there was fire in the nose compartment.
A wing came off, five crew members bailed out over Strasbourg and the tail gunner was killed
when the tail was blown off. The plane crashed south of Luvigny, west of Strasbourg, France. {10 missions}.
MACR 3124.
30202 (MSN 5316) Accepted by USAAF 23Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 29Apr43. Sioux City AAB, IA 11May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 18Jun43. 563rd Bomb Squadron [Q], 388th Bomb Group,
Knettishall. {first combat mission 25Jul43}. Failed to return from a mission to the Gerhard
Fieseler Werke (GFW) aircraft works at Waldau, Kassel, Germany 30Jul43 (9POW:1EVD).
Over Antwerp en route to the target, the plane was struck by flak in the right wing which broke off.
The crew bailed out before the plane crashed near Berlaar, Lier, Belgium.
Also claimed by Hptm Kurt Ebersberger in Fw 190A-6 of JG26/8 near Liege,
Belgium Jul 30, 1943. MACR 3125.
30203 (MSN 5317) Accepted by USAAF 23Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 29Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 9May43.
Sioux City AAB, IA 10May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 10Jun43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME Jun43. 388th Bomb Group 17Jun43.
Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick
(Station 500), Scotland 21Jun43. 560th Bomb Squadron [G], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall
(Station 136), Suffolk Jun43. Named "Shack-Up" {first combat mission 17Jul43}.
Severe battle damaged on a mission to the Junkers aircraft factory at Aschersleben,
Germany 28Jul43. German fighter planes had pierced the wings with bullets and
20-millimeter cannon shells. Both wings had to be changed. Participated in a shuttle
mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factories at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43.
After the target, the bomber turned south and landed at the Twelfth Air Force base at Bône,
Algeria. Later positioned to Telergma, Algeria. On return to England, operated a mission
to a Luftwaffe air depot at Mérignac, Bordeaux, France 24Aug43. Failed to return from a
mission to the Bosch magneto factory at Stuttgart, Germany 6Sep43 (4KIA:6POW).
With bad weather over Germany, the bomber attempted to attack a secondary target
of a Luftwaffe air base to the southwest of Strasbourg, France. Failing again to find
the target, the bombs were jettisoned into the Black Forest. Shot down by Fw 190 enemy
fighters. The number one, outboard left wing engine was undamaged. The number two,
inboard left wing engine, was not running and the propeller could not be feathered.
The number three engine, the inboard right wing engine was badly damaged; it ran for a
few minutes then caught fire, threw a propeller blade and was stopped. The fire
went out and the remaining propeller blades were feathered. The number four,
outboard right wing engine was dead and the propeller was feathered. There was also a l
large hole in the outer right wing. Crashed at Voves, southeast of Chartres, France.
{12 missions} MACR 3126.
30204 (MSN 5318) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 6May43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 30May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 15Jun43. 94th Bomb Group 17Jun43. Ferried on the North
Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 21Jun43.
548th Bomb Squadron [GX*H], 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk Jun43.
Named "Gremlin's Buggy" Failed to return from a mission to the port area of Bremen,
Germany 29Nov43 (5POW:5KIA). Damaged by flak,. shot down by Maj. Karl Bohm-Tettelbach
in Bf 110G-2 of ZG 26/Stab and crashed Fesenfeld, four miles west of Syke,
south of Bremen, Germany. . MACR 1581.
30205 (MSN 5319) Accepted by USAAF 23Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 29Apr43. Sioux City AAB, IA 11May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 9Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 12Jun43.
561st Bomb Squadron [S], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 14Jun43.
{first combat mission 17Jul43}. Battle damaged on a
mission to the aircraft industries at Warnemünde, Germany 25Jul43 (10RTD). Over the Danish
coast the plane was struck by flak and, losing fuel, the pilot aborted the mission and returned t
o Knettishall. {3 missions}. 563rd Bomb Squadron. Named "Battlin' Betsy". .
{first combat mission 17Aug43}. Participated in a shuttle mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft
factories at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43. After the target, the bomber turned south and landed
at the Twelfth Air Force base at Bône, Algeria. Later positioned to Telergma, Algeria. On return to
England, operated a mission to a Luftwaffe air depot at Mérignac, Bordeaux, France 24Aug43.
On non-operational flight 13Oct43 crashed just off runway on approach to land at Knetishall
and caught fire (4KIS). {9 missions}. Salvaged 30Jan44.
30206 (MSN 5320) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 29Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 6May43. Air Service Command,
Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 21May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 27May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Jun43.
410th Bomb Squadron, 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 13Jun43
Named "Happy Daze". Failed to return from a mission to the aircraft industries at
Warnemünde, Germany 25Jul43 (1KIA:9RTD). The target was covered by clouds and no bombs
were dropped. The Combat Wing proceeded out into the Baltic Sea and diverted most of the f
ormation to attack the shipyards at Kiel, Germany. Flak set a wing on fire, then shot down by Hptm Erwin Clausen
in Fw 190A of JG 11/I Stab and ditched in North Sea 123 km NW of Borkum, Germany.
MACR 89. One crew MIA. Remaining 9 crew were rescued and returned to England.
30207 (MSN 5321) Accepted by USAAF 23Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 29Apr43. Sioux City AAB, IA 11May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 9Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 12Jun43. 561st Bomb Squadron [T],
388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 14Jun43. Named "Big Red".
{first combat mission 17Jul43}. Participated in a shuttle mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factories
at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43. After the target, the bomber turned south and landed at the Twelfth Air
Force base at Bône, Algeria. Later positioned to Telergma, Algeria. On return to England, operated a
mission to a Luftwaffe air depot at Mérignac, Bordeaux, France 24Aug43 (2WIA:10RTD). Colonel David,
Commander of the 388th Bomb Group, was in the co-pilot's seat as Command Pilot of the formation.
The Group had finished bombing the Luftwaffe airfield near Bordeaux and were headed home over the
Bay of Biscay. Enemy fighters made a furious attack. Colonel David saw a German fighter peel off to
the right and gasoline pouring from a right wing tank; the Fortress had been hit by 20mm cannon shells.
At almost the same instant bullets slashed into the cockpit from a head-on attack, one of them wounding
the pilot in the leg, others destroying the hydraulic system and an oxygen tank. Colonel David found
himself in a sea of flames that burned his hair, face and hands, and shriveled his flying jacket. For some
seconds the plane flew wild then he put the plane into a dive to get down close to the water so he
could ditch the aircraft; it was too far off shore to have any chance if the crew bailed out at altitude.
While the plane dropped from 21,000ft down to 10,000ft, the fire burned itself out and the bomber was
pulled out of its dive. The wings stayed on, the plane flew level and the leaking gasoline tank did not
explode. Enemy fighters returned to the attack, aiming their tracers at the flood of gasoline streaming
from the bomber’s wing. Colonel David, alone in the cockpit, flew evasive action. In a twenty minute
battle, the gunners knocked down four of the German planes and drove off the rest. The wounded
engineer succeeded in transferring gasoline out of the damaged tank and the torrent of escaping fuel
stopped. It was Colonel David in the pilot’s seat and the bombardier in the co-pilot’s place who
brought the plane to a safe landing at Knettishall. Battle damaged on an Operation Starkey mission
to the industrial area of Paris, France 9Sep43 (1WIA:9RTD). The briefed route was followed to the I.P.
when the lead bombardier was hit by flak and unable to complete the bomb run on the primary target.
There was cloud cover over the secondary target which was the Luftwaffe airfield at Beaumont Sur Oise,
northwest of Paris. The bombardier was wounded by flak. Major battle damage on a mission to the ball
bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43. En route to the target area, the bomber formation
was repeatedly attacked by a large number of Luftwaffe fighters. After the target, the Group turned and
headed westward for England. German fighters, having landed and refueled, attacked again until, finally,
the bombers reached the coastline of western Europe and relative safety. Battle damaged on a Crossbow
mission to a German V-weapon site on the Cherbourg peninsula, France 26Mar44 (1WIA:9RTD). Flak over
the city of Cherbourg was intense, the ball turret gunner was wounded by flak. Failed to return from a
mission to a Luftwaffe air depot at Mérignac, Bordeaux, France 27Mar44 (5KIA:3POW:2EVD). A flare
set off a fire in the radio room just before reaching the target. The bomber left the formation, circled,
and finally went into a steep dive. Six parachutes were seen before the aircraft crashed at La Gombretiere,
Aizenay, nine miles northwest of La Roche-sur-Yon, France. {32 missions}. MACR 3540.
30208 (MSN 5322) Accepted by USAAF 24Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 29Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 8May43. Sioux City AAB, IA 10May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 16Jun43. 388th Bomb Group 17Jun43.
Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 21Jun43.
563rd Bomb Squadron [R], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk Jun43. {first combat mission 24Jul43}.
Failed to return from a mission to the Continental Gummi-Werke synthetic rubber factory at Hanover,
Germany 26Jul43 (5KIA:5POW). The Group was subjected to continual fighter attacks the entire route;
these attacks broke off when the Group was back over the North Sea on the way home. After the bomb
run, the B-17 successfully made the turn off target, and began the return flight home. Then the formation
was attacked by a large number of enemy aircraft. The bomber was shot down by Oberleutnan Karl Becker
in a FW 190 from JG 1/3. German reports stated that the plane broke apart at high altitude with parts
scattered over a large area near Holtland and Brinkum, Germany. {2 missions}.
MACR 3142 and 5386.
30209 (MSN 5323) Accepted by USAAF 24Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 29Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 8May43. Sioux City AAB, IA 10May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 9Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 12Jun43. 561st Bomb Squadron [U], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136),
Suffolk 14Jun43. Named "Wee Bonnie". {first combat mission 17Jul43}. Failed to return from a
mission to the Continental Gummi-Werke synthetic rubber factory at Hanover, Germany 26Jul43 (10RTD).
The Group was subjected to continual fighter attacks the entire route; these attacks broke off when the
Group was back over the North Sea on the way home. Attacked by enemy fighters and ditched in the
North Sea. Crew picked up by British Air-Sea Rescue. {2 missions) No MACR
30210 (MSN 5324) Accepted by USAAF 24Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 29Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 8May43. Sioux City AAB, IA 10May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 9Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 12Jun43.
388th Bomb Group 15Jun43. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 17Jun43.
561st Bomb Squadron [V], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk Jun43. {first combat mission 29Jul43}.
Failed to return from a mission to the Gerhard Fieseler Werke (GFW) aircraft works at Waldau, Kassel,
Germany 30Jul43 (7POW:3KIA). Off course twelve miles near Antwerp, Belgium, the aircraft was hit by flak as
a result of this error, damaging No.2 engine which caught fire and unable to feather the propeller. Enemy fighters
had made an attack but were driven off by the gunners. Slower than the Group formation and losing altitude,
the captain pressed on towards the target. Next, flak hit No.3 engine and caught fire. With fire from both engines
entering the waist windows and out the tail, three crew members bailed out. Near Nettersheim, Germany, the pilot
dived the aircraft down to 2,000ft and put the plane on automatic pilot. Several crew members bailed out but
three, trapped by fire and centrifugal forces crashed with the bomber near Nettersheim, fifteen miles southwest
of Eukirchen, Germany. {2 missions}.. Also listed as shot down by Obfhr Michael Frasch in Bf 109G-4 of
JG 3/1 at Netterscheim, Germany. MACR 3264. 3 KIA, 7 POW.
30211 (MSN 5325) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 27Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 6May43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma
City, OK 15May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Lincoln Field, NB 21May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air
Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 24May43. 335th Bomb Squadron [OE*T], 95th Bomb Group,
Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire 13Jun43. Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 16Jun43. Failed to
return from a mission to the Chemische Werke synthetic rubber works at Hüls, Marl, Germany 22Jun43
(2KIA:8POW). Enemy aircraft severely damaged cockpit, crashed Hunxe, six miles east of Wesel, Germany.
(1 mission} .MACR 4903. One crewmember was repatriated after one of his legs was amputated.
30212 (MSN 5326) Accepted by USAAF 24Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 29Apr43. Sioux City AAB, IA 14May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 11Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 16Jun43. 388th Bomb
Group 17Jun43. Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 21Jun43. 562nd Bomb Squadron [G], 388th Bomb Group,
Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk Jun43. Named *Quarterback*- The crew was recognized as
proficient in bombing and navigation so thus the named the plane after the football team's lead position,
{first combat mission 17Jul43}. Participated in a shuttle mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft
factories at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43. After the target, the bomber turned south and landed
at the Twelfth Air Force base at Bône, Algeria. Later positioned to Telergma, Algeria. On return to
England, operated a mission to a Luftwaffe air depot at Mérignac, Bordeaux, France 24Aug43.
Battle damaged on a mission to the Kugelfischer-Georg-Schäfer ball bearing factory at Schweinfurt,
Germany 14Oct43 (10RTD). Enemy fighters were encountered near Eupen, Belgium on the route in,
all the way to the target, and back to the French Coast. Flak was moderate to intense along the route
but gave the most trouble over the target area. The lead bombardier was unable to see a clear view
of the target caused by smoke from previous bombing. He set his bomb sight on the railway bridge
over the Main river so that the bombs struck the eastern end of the marshalling yards. On return,
force landed at RAF Biggin Hill, Kent. Battle damaged on a mission to the port area at Bremen,
Germany 20Dec43 (10RTD). Attacked by a large force of enemy fighters and flak over the target
area was very intense. {final combat mission 13May44}. {38 missions}. Base Air Depot No.1, Burtonwood
(Station 590), Lancashire Jun44. Modified as a drone for Operation Aphrodite missions. Designated BQ-7.
562nd Bomb Squadron, 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk, later at Fersfield (Station 554),
Norfolk. Expended on Aphrodite mission to the V2 rocket complex at Watten, France 6Aug44,
experienced control problems, turned inland and began to circle the important industrial town and
port of Ipswich, England. After several minutes, it crashed harmlessly at sea.
30213 (MSN 5327) Accepted by USAAF 26Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 29Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 9May43. 388th Bomb Group,
Sioux City AAB, IA 10May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 11Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 15Jun43. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Stornoway,
Isle of Lewis, Scotland 21Jun43. 562nd Bomb Squadron [H], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall
(Station 136), Suffolk Jun43. Named "Li'l One"– the pilot’s wife was expecting their first child
which they called the ‘Li’l One’. {first combat mission 17Jul43}. Battle damaged on a mission to the
Gerhard Fieseler Werke (GFW) aircraft works at Waldau, Kassel, Germany 30Jul43 (10RTD).
A large force of enemy fighters was encountered along the route from the Dutch coast to the target and out,
but broke off the attacks over the target area. Flak was moderate over the route, but intense and
accurate over the target. Further flak was encountered on return over Antwerp. Battle damaged on a
mission to the German Navy cruiser Nürnberg in the port area of Gdynia, Poland 9Oct43. On the
return route the plane lost fifteen feet of right wing after being attacked by Fw 190s over Denmark.
Accident departing for a mission to the port area of Bremen, Germany 13Nov43. The crew took off late
in a spare aircraft and was attempting to locate the Group to formate. Flying at 23,000ft in the vicinity
of the enemy coast and still not able to see their Group, the No.3 propeller oversped and would not
feather and continued to speed even faster. The pilot turned back to cross the English coast at
about 19,000 feet. With the terrific vibrations from the propeller, the engine covering and cowling
were thrown off, striking the fuselage. there was fire emitting from the back of the engine. The pilot
turned the plane back towards the North Sea and ordered the crew to bail out as the plane passed
over Ipswich, Suffolk. Instead of continuing out to sea, the unmanned plane swung around and
traveled some thirty miles inland before crashing harmlessly on heathland of the Stanford Battle Area,
three miles north of East Wretham, Norfolk (10RTD). {22 missions}
30214 (MSN 5328) Accepted by USAAF 26Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 29Apr43. Sioux City AAB, IA 8May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 10Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 15Jun43. Ferried Meeks Field,
Keflavik, Iceland to Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland 21Jun43. 560th Bomb Squadron [H:M],
388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk [M] 26Jun43. Named "Iza Angel".
. {first combat mission 17Jul43}. Major battle damage on a mission to synthetic rubber factories at
Hanover, Germany 26Jul43. {final combat mission 30Jan44}. {16 missions}. 8th Weather
Reconnaissance Squadron (Heavy), 802nd Reconnaissance Group (Special)(Provisional),
Watton (Station 376), Norfolk 1Mar44. Returned to the US. 4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air
Technical Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 27Jun44. Salvaged at Patterson Field 24Feb45
30215 MSN 5329) Accepted by USAAF 26Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 29Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 8May43.
Sioux City AAB, IA 10May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 10Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air
Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 15Jun43. 388th Bomb Group 17Jun43. Ferried
on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 21Jun43. 560th Bomb Squadron [J], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136),
Suffolk Jun43. {first combat mission 17Jul43}. Failed to return from a mission to the aero
engine complex at Brunswick, Germany 11Jan44 (9POW). As weather conditions began
to deteriorate over the English bases, a recall order was sent to the bomber groups en route
to the city. While some the groups received the message and turned back for England,
others did not receive the order, and pressed onwards. When they arrived at the target area,
they met stiff resistance from the Luftwaffe. Mechanical problem on return from the target
with No.2 engine propeller feathered. Crashed Flakenholz, seven miles west of Hamelin,
Germany. {18 missions}. MACR 3127
Named LABOR PAINS [named when assigned at Sioux City AAB} / GREMLIN GUS [renamed before
leaving US]. Gremlin Gus came from pilots of the Royal Air Force who, according to RAF legend,
were responsible for aircraft engine failures and otherwise unexplainable aircraft maintenance
problems. Gus was a character created in the 1940s for an unfinished animated film based on
Roald Dahl's story The Gremlins / SLIGHTLY DANGEROUS II..
30216 (MSN 5330) Accepted by USAAF 26Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 29Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 9May43. Sioux
City AAB, IA 10May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 12Jun43.
388th Bomb Group 18Jun43. Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland
to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 25/26Jun43. 563rd Bomb Squadron [S], 388th Bomb Group,
Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk Jun43.. Named "Jonny". (first combat mission 17Jul43}.
Failed to return from a mission to the AGO-Flugzeugwerke Fw 190 manufacturing factory at
Oschersleben, Germany 28Jul43 (10POW). On the way to the target the No.1 engine exploded
and caught fire. The pilot jettisoned the bomb load and tried to stay with the formation but slowly
dropped back, black smoke from the engine attracting enemy fighters. Hhot down by Oblt Harry Koch in Fw 190A-6 of
JG 1/6 . The pilot had difficulty controlling the airplane because of the fire and the ailerons
didn't respond properly. The plane was slowly getting into an uncontrollable spin and the pilot
ordered the crew to bail out. Crashed and set fire to a ripe wheat field at Banteln, near Elze, south
of Hanover, Germany. {2 missions. MACR 3128.
30217 MSN 5331) Accepted by USAAF 26Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Apr43. Sioux City AAB, IA 13May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS
10Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 15Jun43.
388th Bomb Group 16Jun43. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Stornoway, Isle of Lewis,
Scotland 21Jun43. 560th Bomb Squadron [K], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk Jun43.
Named IMPATIENT VIRGIN / IZA BLUE. {first combat mission 24Jul43}. Major battle damage on a
mission to the Continental Gummi-Werke synthetic rubber factory at Hanover, Germany 26Jul43 (10RTD).
The Group was subjected to continual fighter attacks the entire route; these attacks broke off when the
Group was back over the North Sea on the way home. Over the target a mid-air collision took place when
the pilot was injured by a 20mm shell explosion in the cockpit. While changing seats with the co-pilot,
the plane weaved up and hit the tail of B-17F 42-3289 which took off the top half of the vertical stabiliser.
About forty-five minutes after the collision and trying to make it back, even with continued fighter attacks,
the co-pilot sent a message back to the crew to bail out. The intercom was out, but by that time they had
thrown out some of the parachutes. The pilot was unable to bail out because his chute was damaged
by the 20mm shell. The co-pilot was able to bring the aircraft back to England for a forced landing at
RAF Foulsham, Norfolk. The aircraft landed about mid way down the runway and the brakes held for a
moment, enough to straighten the plane out and then gave way and it went off the end of the runway
onto the grass. This is some of the battle damage: 20mm shell exploded in the right wing behind No.3 engine;
flak destroyed half of the left aileron; a 20mm shell exploded in the cockpit which injured the pilot
and engineer; the vertical fin half torn off; a 20mm shell hit in the radio room and numerous flak holes
in the aircraft; the oxygen system in the front half of the plane was out; eight of the plane's guns would
not fire. Battle damaged on a mission to the Kugelfischer-Georg-Schäfer ball bearing factory at
Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43 (10RTD). Enemy fighters were encountered near Eupen, Belgium on the
route in, all the way to the target, and back to the French Coast. Flak was moderate to intense along the
route but gave the most trouble over the target area. The lead bombardier was unable to see a
clear view of the target caused by smoke from previous bombing. He set his bomb sight on the
railway bridge over the Main river so that the bombs struck the eastern end of the marshalling yards.
On return in bad weather, eventually getting lost until spotting a small airfield near Lichfield, Staffordshire,
and needed seven attempts to land in a meadow beyond the runway, hitting trees and wrecked the
aircraft. {6 missions}. Salvaged.
30218 (MSN 5332) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 30Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 14May43. Air Service Command,
Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 25May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 29May43. North Atlantic
Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 6Jun43. 335th Bomb Squadron [OE*W],
95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 15Jun43. Named "Heavenly Daze"
Minor battle damage caused by flak 15Aug43. Failed to return from a mission to the industrial
areas of Emden, Germany 11Dec43 (5KIA:5POW). The Luftwaffe was waiting for the bombers;
the moment the bombers crossed over into mainland Europe, six twin-engine fighter dived out
of the sun upon the formation, concentrating all their fire on the lead plane. Once the leader had
been downed, the fighters swept through the lead Squadron. Before the deputy lead had a chance
to reassemble the formation, a large force of single-engine fighters joined the fray, attacking the
other bombers. Attacked by several German fighters on the way back from Emden and finally shot down by Oblt. Hugo
Frey in Bf 109G of JG 11/7. Five crew bailed out, the aircraft crashed near the
Waddenzee dyke close to Ferwerd, Friesland, Netherlands. {23 missions}. MACR 1561.
30219 (MSN 5333) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 30Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 12May43. Dow Field, Bangor, ME 6Jun43.
334th Bomb Squadron [BG*J], 95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 15Jun43.
Battle damaged during a mission to the AGO-Flugzeugwerke Fw 190 manufacturing factory at
Oschersleben, Germany 28Jul43 (3POW). Crash landed on return at Framlingham (Station 153),
Suffolk. {6 missions}. Salvaged 13Aug43.
30220 (MSN 5334) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 30Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 10May43. Peterson Field,
Colorado Springs, CO 20May43. Modified to photographic configuration. Designated F-9. Patterson Field,
Dayton, OH 13Jun43. 1st Mapping Group, Bolling Field, Washington, DC 4Jul43. Bradley Field,
Windsor Locks, CT 27Jul43. Mapping mission to Accra, Gold Coast, West Africa 31Dec43.
Returned to US. 1st Photographic Charting Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 3Apr44.
4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 20Oct44.
91st Photographic Squadron, 1st Photographic Group, Buckley Field, CO 13Dec44.
1103rd Base Unit (Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command), Morrison Field, West Palm
Beach, FL 26Jan45. Designated FB-17F. Salvaged Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 19Jun46
30221 (MSN 5335) Accepted by USAAF 27Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 30Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 14May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 21May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 26May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Jun43. 423rd Bomb Squadron [RD*G],
306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 18Jun43. Force landed after mid-air collision
with B-17F 42-29971 at Thurleigh 8Jul43Repaired. Transferred to 368th BS
and named "Rick O Shay". Seriously battle damaged during a mission to an aircraft
factory at Bremen, Germany 8Oct43. The formation was met with stiff resistance by German fighters
and flak crews on the ground the entire way, from the Dutch coast all the way into the German
heartland, and back again. In addition, a large force of German fighters launched vicious attacks
against the planes. Over the target, the formation encountered intense flak. Flak damaged No.1, 3 aand 4
propellers, nose compartment, left wing and No.5 Tokyo tank. 20mm cannon shells struck the
No.2 engine nacelle, right wing, aileron and horizontal stabiliser. Eighth Air Force Service
Command 8Oct43. Regained by Group 21Oct43. Seriously battle damaged during a mission
to the industrial areas of Emden, Germany 11Dec43. The Luftwaffe was waiting for the bombers;
the moment the bombers crossed over into mainland Europe, six twin-engine fighter dived out
of the sun upon the formation, concentrating all their fire on the lead plane. Once the leader had
been downed, the fighters swept through the lead Squadron. Before the deputy lead had a chance
to reassemble the formation, a large force of single-engine fighters joined the fray, attacking the
other bombers. Station 6 bulkhead, right inner wing struck by flak. Damaged in a mid-air collision
with B-17F 42-30841 during assembly for a squadron formation training flight 27Dec43. With two
large holes in the fuselage, the control cables were so badly damaged that the pilot could not
control the plane. At risk of breaking in two if a landing was attempted, the crew bailed out safely
over land as the aircraft headed out to crash in The Wash. Having set the autopilot It was necessary
to have two Spitfire fighters shoot it down to prevent it crashing on land. 42-30841 landed safely.
30222 (MSN 5336) Accepted by USAAF 27Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 30Apr43. Sioux City AAB, IA 11May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 12Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 19Jun43. 563rd Bomb Squadron [T],
388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 10Jun43. Named "Lone Wolf"– artwork of a
snarling wolf’s head . {first combat mission 12Aug43}. Participated in a shuttle mission to the
Messerschmitt aircraft factories at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43. After the target, the bomber
turned south and landed at the Twelfth Air Force base at Bône, Algeria. Later positioned to
Telergma, Algeria. On return to England, operated a mission to a Luftwaffe air depot at Mérignac,
Bordeaux, France 24Aug43. Failed to return from a mission to the Bosch magneto factory at Stuttgart,
Germany 6Sep43 (2KIA:1POW:7EVD). With bad weather over Germany, the bomber attempted to
attack a secondary target of a Luftwaffe air base to the southwest of Strasbourg, France. Failing again
to find the target, the bombs were jettisoned into the Black Forest. Attacked and shot down by
Oblt Horst Sternberg in Fw 190A-6 of JG 26/5 at Longsols, France.
With the cockpit on fire, the plane crashed just to the west of Onjon, northeast of Troyes, France. {7 missions}. .
MACR 3129.
30223 (MSN 5337) Accepted by USAAF 28Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 30Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 22May43.
Spokane Field, WA 24May43. 390th Bomb Group, Great Falls AAB, MT 11Jun43. Smoky Hill Field,
Salina, KS 29Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 11Jul43.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland Jul43.
571st Bomb Squadron [FC*S], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk Jul43.
Named "Rick-O-Shay/Norma J". {first combat mission 12Aug43}. Participated in a
shuttle mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factories at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43. After the
target, the bomber turned south to land at a Twelfth Air Force base in North Africa. With fuel exhaustion,
the plane force landed on a dried up lake bed in Algeria. Telergma, Constantine, Algeria. Returned to
Framlingham on a mission to a Luftwaffe air depot at Mérignac, Bordeaux, France 24Aug43.
Battle damaged during a mission to railway installations at Münster, Germany 10Oct43 (1WIA:9RTD).
As they approached the city, the formation was swarmed by a large force of enemy aircraft for an
estimated forty-five minutes of vicious fighting. By the time their friendly fighter escorts arrived to
drive off the Luftwaffe, the damage had already been done. The tail gunner was wounded. A rocket
entered a waist window but did not explode; the gunner picked it up and threw it back out.
With two engines inoperative, the plane safely landed in fog at Framlingham. Failed to return
from a mission to the industrial areas of Emden, Germany 11Dec43 (8KIA:2POW). The Luftwaffe
was waiting for the bombers; the moment the bombers crossed over into mainland Europe,
six twin-engine fighters dived out of the sun upon the formation, concentrating all their fire
on the lead plane. Once the leader had been downed, the fighters swept through the lead Squadron.
Before the deputy lead had a chance to reassemble the formation, a large force of single-engine
fighters joined the fray, attacking the other bombers. Shot down by Oblt Albin
Meyer in ME 410A of ZG 26/5 at Westeraccum, Germany.
The aircraft exploded and crashed at Westeraccum, Dornum, twelve miles north of Aurich,
Germany. {17 missions}. MACR 1582.
30224 (MSN 5338) Accepted by USAAF 27Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 30Apr43. Sioux City AAB, IA 12May43. Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 20May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 10Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 15Jun43. 560th Bomb Squadron [L], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136),
Suffolk 17Jun43. Named "A Little Home". {first combat mission 25Jul43}. Failed to return from a mission to the
Continental Gummi-Werke synthetic rubber factory at Hanover, Germany 26Jul43 (7POW:3KIA).
The Group was subjected to continual fighter attacks the entire route. Over the target, before
releasing the bombs, flak struck the No.3 engine and also a direct hit on the tail, killing the
tail gunner, knocking the plane out of formation. As the plane dropped out of formation,
it was attacked by enemy fighter and was shot down by Uffz Eugen Wloschinski in Fw 190A-4
of JG 1/6 at Deckbergen, Germany, killing the co-pilot The pilot was still in control
as much as possible but the oxygen system had been set on fire up in the forward cabin. In the radio room,
the radio operator was struck and wounded by machine gun fire. Th pilot put the plane into a dive for a
while down to around 12,000ft. The crew started to bail out and the plane exploded.
Crashed at Deckbergen, thirty miles southwest of Hanover, Germany. {2 missions}. MACR 3130.
30225 (MSN 5339) Accepted by USAAF 27Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 30Apr43. Sioux City AAB, IA 11May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 11Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Jul43. 388th Bomb Group 1Jul43.
Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland 5Jul43.
562nd Bomb Squadron [J], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk Jul43.
Named "Plain Mister Yank"-- the pilot often referred to himself as just a plain Yankee,
{first combat mission 26Jul43}. Failed to return from a mission to the Continental Gummi-Werke
synthetic rubber factory at Hanover, Germany 26Jul43 (6KIA:4POW). The plane was hit
by two burst of flak at Aurich on the way to the target hitting the left wing and a few seconds
later the right wing and No.3 engine caught fire. Shot down by Fw Erich Fuhrmann in Bf 109G-6 of JG 11/5 at
Vechta, Germany. The plane exploded, crashed on the airfield at Vechtal,
near Aurich, Germany. {1 mission}. MACR 3131. 6 KIA, 4 POW
30226 MSN 5340) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 30Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 14May43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 27May43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field,
Oklahoma City, OK 1Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 6Jun43. 336th Bomb Squadron [ET*L], 95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119),
Suffolk 15Jun43. 334th Bomb Squadron [BG*L] named "Spook V". Failed to return from a
mission to the industrial area at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 29Jan44 (5KIA:5POW)
Shot down by Lt. Wilhelm Hoffmann in FW-190A-6 of JG 26/8 at Lutrebois, Belgium, 3 mi E of Bastogne.
Crashed Lutrebois, three miles southeast of Bastogne, Belgium. MACR 2256
30227 (MSN 5341) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 1May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 17May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air
Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 30May43. 413th Bomb Squadron [MZ*R],
96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 12Jun43
Named "Wabbit Twacks III"; transferred to 612th Bomb Squadron [SC*X],
401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 13Dec43. Named "Boots III".
Base Air Depot No.1, Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire 17Mar44. Returned to US. 4136th Base Unit
(Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 3Jun44.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT. Air Transport Command 7Jun44. Modified for
training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F.
Kirtland Field, Albuquerque, NM 21Jan45. Long Beach Field, CA 18May45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Cal-Aero Field, Ontario, CA for storage and disposal 4Jun45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Sharp & Fellows Contracting Company Jul46; scrapped
30228 (MSN 5342) Accepted by USAAF 27Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 30Apr43. 388th Bomb Group. Sioux City AAB, IA 11May43. Crash landed
Casper Field, WY 10Jun43. Salvaged 16Jun43. Salvaged 19Nov44. Reclaimed 17Sep46
30229 (MSN 5343) Accepted by USAAF 27Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 30Apr43. Sioux City AAB, IA 11May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 12Jun43.
Buffalo Municipal Airport, NY. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 18Jun43. 563rd Bomb Squadron, 388th Bomb Group. Named "Shooting Star"
Took off from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland 20Jun43, but lost over North Atlantic en route
to Keflavik, Iceland. A search found no trace (10MIS).. MACR 4
30230 (MSN 5344) Accepted by USAAF 28Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30Apr43. 388th Bomb Group, Sioux City AAB, IA 13May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 11Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 15Jun43. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Stornoway, Isle of Lewis,
Scotland 21Jun43. 562nd Bomb Squadron [L], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136),
Suffolk Jun43. Named "Homesick Angel" {first combat mission 17Jul43}. Battle
damaged on a mission to the aircraft industries at Warnemünde, Germany 25Jul43 (10RTD).
The target was covered by clouds and no bombs were dropped. The Combat Wing proceeded
out into the Baltic Sea. About five minutes after leaving the target area, the lead bombardier of the
388th Bomb Group spotted a good target of opportunity, the Luftwaffe airfield at Rerik-West,
near the Wustrow peninsula. Struck by flak on return from the target, an engine failed and the
propeller feathered. Rapidly using fuel to maintain protection from the Group, the plane ran
out of fuel on the Knettishall crosswind at 800 feet. But the pilot was able to dead stick into
the nearby airfield of RAF East Wretham, Thetford, Norfolk that had been used by British bombers.
The green gear lights came on just as the plane touched down (the pilot initially ordered "gear up",
predicting a crash landing). The three overworked engines were replaced but, because of the lack of
spares, the flak damaged No.1 engine was repaired and recertified for flight. Battle damaged on a
mission to the Gerhard Fieseler Werke (GFW) aircraft works at Waldau, Kassel, Germany 30Jul43 (10RTD).
A large force of enemy fighters was encountered along the route from the Dutch coast to the
target and out, but broke off the attacks over the target area. Flak was moderate over the route,
but intense and accurate over the target. Further flak was encountered on return over Antwerp.
Participated in a shuttle mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factories at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43.
After the target, the bomber turned south and headed for the Twelfth Air Force base at Bône, Algeria.
While flying over the Mediterranean, the crew determined that they were running low on fuel.
They decided to leave the formation and fly a more direct route to reach Bône. As a result,
this bomber arrived at the Algerian airfield before the rest of the bombers. They were met by a
contingent of high-ranking officers who were expecting to see the mission leader,
Brigadier General Curtis LeMay, step out of the plane. The officials seemed somewhat startled to see
a Lieutenant crawl out of the bomber’s hatch to greet them instead. On return to England, operated
a mission to a Luftwaffe air depot at Mérignac, Bordeaux, France 24Aug43. The bomber suffered
battle damage and, with fuel exhaustion, the engines quit while the aircraft was preparing to land at base.
Crash landed one mile east of Stanton, south of Knettishall, Suffolk. {8 missions}. Salvaged 31Aug43..
No serious injuries to crew. Was reported as being captured by Luftwaffe.
It is probable that this aircraft was not captured. There is photographic
and written evidence which appears to prove that aircraft
was wrecked when bellylanded near Stanton, England Aug 24, 1943 after running
out of fuel during return from mission. . Salvaged Aug 31, 1943.
30231 (MSN 5345) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 1May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 12May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air
Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 29May43. 325th Bomb Squadron [NV*Z],
95th Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire 6Jun43. 326th Bomb Squadron [JW*O].
Failed to return from a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43 (10POW).
En route to the target area, the bomber formation was repeatedly attacked by a large number
of Luftwaffe fighters. After the target, the Group turned and headed westward for England. German fighters,
having landed and refueled, attacked again. Shot down by Lt Erwin Stalberg in
Bf 109G-6 of JG 3/8. A rocket hit the wing root, blowing the wing off. The aircraft caught fire,
went in to a spin, exploded and crashed at St Goar, eleven miles southeast of Boppard, Germany. MACR 844
42-30232/30331 Boeing B-17F-95-BO Fortress
MSN 5346/5445. Dispositions from B-17 Fortress Master Log, Dave Osborne (FORTLOG)
Production changes: Reinforcement of radio room fuselage in gun mount area. Modified horizontal
stabilisers for interchangeability. Model JH-3R starters. External bomb racks deleted
30232, 30252, 30253, 30256, 30268, and 30299
converted to F-9 photo-recon aircraft
with cameras added and bombing equipment deleted.
30232 (MSN 5346) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 3May43. 100th Bomb Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 18May43.
Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 20May43. Modified to photographic configuration.
Designated F-9. Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 13Jun43. 1st Mapping Group, Bolling Field,
Washington, DC 4Jul43. Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 17Aug43. Mapping mission to
Accra, Gold Coast, West Africa 21Dec43. Returned to US. 1st Photographic Charting Group,
MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 2Apr44. 4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command),
Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 20Apr44. 1103rd Base Unit (Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command),
Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 2Feb45. 91st Photographic Squadron, 1st Photographic
Group, Buckley Field, CO 5Feb45. Designated FB-17F. Mapping Trinidad 1Jun46. Salvaged 24Jun46.
30233 MSN 5347) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 3May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 24May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 25May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 27May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Jun43. 412th Bomb Squadron [QW*X],
95th Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire 16Jun43. Damaged at Horham 24Dec43
when B-17G 42-39883 landed in poor visibility too far down the runway and nosed over after clipping this aircraft.
t0 95th Bomb Group336th Bomb Squadron [ET*X], named *Rhapsody in Flak*
Failed to return from a mission to the Messerschmitt factory at Augsburg, Germany 13Apr44 (10INT).
Flak damaged No.2 and No.4 engines, force landed Altenrhein airfield, Switzerland.. MACR 3765The bomber
approached the airfield from the west over Lake Constance under tailwind conditions. With engine
failure and the wind from behind, the pilot couldn't keep the bomber under full control during the
flare to land, so that the plane drifted to the left, straight into the taxyway area beside the runway.
The heavy aircraft cut into the turf where the undercarriage got stuck. The aircraft had to be towed
away, leaving deep ruts in the turf. {37 missions}. Repaired and used by Swiss Air Force for
familiarisation flights. Returned to US Aug 27, 1945.. 1103rd Base Unit (Caribbean Wing, Air Transport
Command), Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 22Oct45. Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 8Jan46. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas
Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped .
30234 (MSN 5348) Accepted by USAAF 28Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 1May43. Sioux City AAB, IA 13May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 12Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 18Jun43. 563rd Bomb Squadron [P],
388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 19Jun43. {first combat mission 24Jul43}.
Participated in a shuttle mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factories at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43.
After the target, the bomber turned south and landed at the Twelfth Air Force base at Bône, Algeria.
Later positioned to Telergma, Algeria. On return to England, operated a mission to a Luftwaffe air
depot at Mérignac, Bordeaux, France 24Aug43. Failed to return from a mission to the Bosch magneto
factory at Stuttgart, Germany 6Sep43 (6KIA:3POW). With bad weather over Germany, the bomber
attempted to attack a secondary target of a Luftwaffe air base to the southwest of Strasbourg, France.
Failing again to find the target, the bombs were jettisoned into the Black Forest. Attacked by enemy
fighters, the crew bailed out before the plane crashed between Roully-Sacey and Mesnil-Sellières,
seven miles east of Troyes, France. {9 missions}.. MACR 3132.
30235 (MSN 5349) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 3May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 16May43. Smoky Hill Field,
Salina, KS 17May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 30May43.
401st Bomb Squadron [LL*L:LL*Z], 91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 6Jun43.
Transferred to 412th Bomb Squadron [QW*U], 95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 16Jun43
Named "Lonesome Polecat". Appears to have also been known as "The Zoot Suiters" (picture
shows "Strictly Zoot") {first combat mission 22Jun43}. Battle damaged on mission to the
submarine base at La Pallice, La Rochelle, France 16Sep43. On return, force landed at Great
Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk. Battle damaged on mission to the submarine construction yard at
Vegesack, Bremen, Germany 16Dec43. On return, force landed at Bungay (Station 125), Suffolk.
{final combat mission 4Mar44}. {47 missions}. Declared ‘war weary’. Returned to US.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 9Oct45
30236 (MSN 5350) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 1May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 12May43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 26May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME. Caught fire on takeoff and destroyed at Dow Field, Bangor, ME 3Jun43. Salvaged 16Jun43
30237 (MSN 5351) Accepted by USAAF 29Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 1May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 13May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 14May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 30May43. 524th Bomb Squadron [WA*V], 379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117),
Huntingdonshire 1Jun43. Base Air Depot No.1, Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire 4Aug43.
Named *Stump Jumper* Modified as a drone for Operation Aphrodite and Castor missions.
Designated BQ-7. 562nd Bomb Squadron, 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136),
Suffolk, later at Fersfield (Station 554), Norfolk. Expended on Aphrodite mission to the power
station at Oldenburg, Germany 1Jan45. Shot down by flak before reaching target
30238 (MSN 5352) Accepted by USAAF 29Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 1May43. Sioux City AAB, IA 13May43. Combat Crew Training
School, Casper Field, WY 12Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 13Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air
Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 15Jun43. 563rd Bomb Squadron [V], 388th Bomb Group,
Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 24Jun43. Named "Wing and a Prayer/Classy Chassy"
{first combat mission 17Jul43}. Failed to return from a mission to the Gerhard Fieseler Werke (GFW)
aircraft works at Waldau, Kassel, Germany 30Jul43 (10POW). Over enemy territory as they passed
the big railway center in the town of Bebra, the bomber got two direct hits by flak. The left wing
had a huge hole in it. Two engines of this wing were knocked off. Another shell damaged several
controls in the cockpit. The oxygen system failed. The bomb controls of the bombardier were also
damaged and lost electrical power. It was not possible to follow their group with two damaged
engines. The crew threw all loose equipment overboard to lighten the plane. The bombardier
climbed into the bomb bay and opened the doors of the bay manually. He released every single
bomb with a screwdriver, one after another. At this moment, the bomber was the target of a
group of German fighter planes. They attacked the bomber several times and damaged the
two working engines as well. The crew bailed out, the pilot had activated the auto-pilot to
stabilise the aircraft, but it was too badly damaged. Without the pilot at the controls,
the aircraft flew a curve, gradually lost altitude over the next few minutes, and landed
softly without the crew a few kilometers away on the meadow near the small village of
Dorla, near Lichtenau, twelve miles southwest of Kassel, Germany. The bomber was destroyed
by fire. {2 missions}. MACR 3133.
30239 (MSN 5353) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 1May43. Moses Lake Field, WA 20May43. Walla Walla Field, WA 30May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 31May43. Hill Field,
Ogden, UT 3Jun43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 4Jun43. School of
Applied Tactics, Orlando AAB, FL 6Jun43. Brooksville Field, FL 21Jun43. Rapid City Field, SD 3Jul43.
Harvard Field, NB 2Aug43. Accident returning from a training mission and crashed at Harvard Field 28Aug43 (6KIS).
Just before darkness, a formation of eight B-17's was coming into the Harvard Army Air Field to
simulate a peel-off out of formation for landing. Instead of going downward and left out of formation,
one of the lead B-17F's (42-30239) went upwards into the path of B-17F (42-3309). The wing of
the higher plane cut the fuselage of the plane coming upward in half. A third B-17F (42-30774)
flew into the wreckage. The first two B-17's that collided fell downward and exploded with
no survivors. The third B-17 was able to crash land in an open field. near Harvard, NB. The pilot of the
third plane had ordered his crew to bail out. Salvaged 30Aug43. Reconstruction Finance
Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 1Aug45
30240 (MSN 5354) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 1May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 12May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 26May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Jun43.
410th Bomb Squadron, 94th Bomb Group, Earls Colne (Station 358), Essex 7Jun43.
Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 13Jun43. Named "Black Kitten"
Failed to return from a mission to the Chemische Werke synthetic rubber works at Hüls, Marl,
Germany 22Jun43 (7POW (3KIA). Shot down by Lt Georg Schott in Fw 190A-5 of JG 1/1
over Recklinghausen, Germany. Crashed Pfalzdorf, Germany
30241 (MSN 5355) Accepted by USAAF 29Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 1May43. Rapid City Field, SD 15Jul43. Equipped with H2S airborne radar.
Used for radio counter measures. 563rd Bomb Squadron [A], 388th Bomb Group,
Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 26Oct43. named "Worry Wart". {first combat mission 29Nov43}. Battle
damaged on a mission to the industrial area of Solingen, Germany 30Nov43 (1WIA:9RTD). Various
concentrations of flak were encountered between the I.P. and the target, with intensity varying from
meagre to moderate. The engineer was wounded by flak. Battle damaged on a mission to the port
area at Bremen, Germany 20Dec43 (10RTD). Attacked by a large force of enemy fighters and
flak over the target area was very intense. {final combat mission 14Jan44}. {12 missions}.
Transferred to Royal Air Force 21Jan44 as Fortress Mark II, serial SR378. No.214 (Federated Malay States)
Squadron [BU-D], No.100 Group, RAF Sculthorpe, Norfolk 2Feb44. Damaged 21Mar44. For repair on
site by civilian repair organisation Apr44. No.214 (Federated Malay States) Squadron [BU-D],
No.100 Group, RAF Oulton, Aylsham, Norfolk 27May44. No.51 Maintenance Unit, RAF Lichfield,
Staffordshire 4Jan45. Sold to International Alloys Ltd 11Mar47. SOC 11Mar47.
30242 (MSN 5356) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 2May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 13May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 14May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 30May43. 364th Bomb Squadron [WF*N], 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston
(Station 105), Northamptonshire 10Jun43. Named. "Lallah VIII/Pappy's Hellions" .
Fitted with H2S equipment in trials at Base Air Depot No.1, Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire.
Failed to return from a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43 (9POW:1KIA).
En route to the target area, the bomber formation was repeatedly attacked by a large number of Luftwaffe
fighters. After the target, the Group turned and headed westward for England. German fighters, having landed
and refueled, attacked again. Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed four miles west of Düren, Germany.
There is a photo of Bob Hope and Frances Langford with this plane.
30243 (MSN 5357) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 13May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 14May43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 27May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Jun43. 331st Bomb Squadron [QE*Z2], 94th Bomb Group,
Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 15Jun43. Named NIP 'N TUCK;
Failed to return from a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield and air depot at Le Bourget, Paris,
France 14Jul43 (8POW:2EVD). Enemy aircraft severely damaged tail and cockpit caught fire,
crashed Évreux, France. Named GOOD TIME CHOLLY II. MACR 115.
30244 (MSN 5358) Accepted by USAAF 29Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 1May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 14May43. Air Service
Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 24May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 29May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 31May43.
351st Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 9Jun43. 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall
(Station 136), Suffolk 17Jun43. 335th Bomb Squadron [OE*M], 95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119),
Suffolk 18Jun43. 334th Bomb Squadron [BG*M]. Named "Holy Terror". Minor battle damage
caused by flak 15Aug43. Failed to return from a mission to the Jaeger ball bearing factory at Elberfeld,
Wuppertal, Germany 5Jan44 (9POW:1EVD). Poor weather conditions and malfunctioning pathfinder
equipment forced the bombers to instead attack a small town near Elberfeld as a target of opportunity.
Damaged by flak, low on fuel and with insufficient altitude to cross the English Channel,
the crew bailed out over Arras, France. The aircraft crashed at Lambourg, near Mesmil-Martinsart,
sixteen miles south of Arras, France. {39 missions}. Also listed as shot down by Lt. Waldemar Radener in FW-190A-6
of JG 26/7. at Mesnil-Martinsart, France Jan 5, 1944. MACR 1687.
30245 (MSN 5359) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3May43.
381st Bomb Group, Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 17May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 21May43. Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland May43. Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire May43. 534th Bomb
Squadron [GD*L], 381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 15Jun43.
Named *Lady Luck/Lucky Lady II*. (first combat mission 22Jun43}. Failed to return from a
mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 17Aug43 (1KIA:8POW:1EVD).
The crew was flying as an extra spare alongside the lead squadron. En route to the target, as it
reached the Belgian/German border, the pilot had started to drop down to fill a space vacated by
another B-17 which had aborted and returned to England. The bomber was attacked before it could
reach the safety of the low squadron by two Fw 190 fighters of JG 26, shot down
by Fw Peter Ahrens in Fw 190A of JG 26/3 at Oostmalle, Belgium
The bomber pulled up into a vertical climb and half rolled to the right, spun upside down three times
but recovered enough to allow the pilot to regain control, He turned back towards England but was
attacked again. The crew bailed out before the aircraft broke in two and crashed between
Oostmalle and Rijkevorselat, nine miles west of Turnhout, Belgium. A large part of the Flying Fortress
crashed south of the Schoten-Turnhout canal, behind a farm. {5 missions}. MACR 381.
30246 (MSN 5360) Accepted by USAAF 30Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 3May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 22May43.
Spokane Field, WA 24May43. 390th Bomb Group, Great Falls AAB, MT. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 2Jul43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 13Jul43. Ferried overseas on the
North Atlantic route via Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland Jul43. 570th Bomb Squadron [DI*H],
390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 14Jul43. Named "Spot Remover".
{first combat mission 12Aug43}. Participated in a shuttle mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factories
at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43. After the target, the mission continued on to North Africa. The plane
was damaged by flak and the wings were dented by empty shell cases ejected from other bombers.
En route to Africa, the plane passed over the Alps when the oxygen ran out and it had to leave formation
for a lower altitude. Then an engine stopped with fuel exhaustion. Fuel was transferred from another
tank but that engine then stopped. The plane force landed on a dried up lake bed in Algeria.
Spotting flares in the distance, the crew found two gunners and a pilot of two B-17s forced down
several days previously. Food, water and gasoline was dropped by parachute and took off two
days later with the additional crew. Telergma, Constantine, Algeria. Returned to Framlingham
25Aug43. Damaged aborting from a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Meucon, Vannes, France 23Sep43.
The landing gear would not extend and the plane circled Framlingham for three and a half hours,
taking time out to jettison the bomb load and ball turret in The Wash. Base personnel travelled forty
miles to obtain a motion picture camera to record the crash landing for future instruction of other pilots.
Failed to return from a mission to the Focke-Wulf aircraft factory at Pozna?, Poland 20Feb44 (10POW).
Heavy cloud cover over Pozna? forced the formation to divert to their secondary target, the Heinkel
Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory at Marienehe, Rostock, Germany. During the mission, the pilot reported
that he could not transfer fuel from the ‘Tokyo’ fuel tanks. The reserve tanks had been hit by flak over
the target and fuel had been seen pouring out. Shortly after, the bomber left the formation and the
pilot said that he would try to get to Sweden. The pilots made a perfect wheels up-landing at Tirstrup,
Denmark, and all of the crew could leave the plane unharmed. The Americans were very disappointed
when they learned from Danes crowding in that they had landed in Denmark. The crew removed a
machine gun and a sack of oranges from the plane and set it on fire. Shortly afterwards the Germans
arrived, but they could not prevent the plane from burning down completely. The ten Americans went
on towards the coast, but they left a clear track of orange peels. As no oranges were sold in either
Denmark or Germany, the Germans just had to follow the track, and by the evening six Americans
were captured at Hyllested, about 10km from the site of the forced landing. The remaining four airmen
slept in two holiday cottages on the beach south of Grenaa. Eight days after the forced landing the
ten airmen had all been captured. {21 missions}. MACR 2436
30247 (MSN 5361) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 20May43. Moses Lake Field, WA 21May43.
328th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Gulfport Field, MS 23Oct43. 594th Bomb Squadron,
396th Bomb Group, Drew, FL. Damaged taxying at Drew Field 1Jan44. Force landed with engine failure
five miles west of Gulfport Field, MS 23Oct44 (1KIS). Salvaged 24Oct44
30248 (MSN 5362) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 14May43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 24May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 29May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 31May43. 410th Bomb Squadron [GL*X], 94th Bomb Group, Earls Colne (Station 358),
Essex 2Jun43. Named THE SOUTHERN QUEEN. Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 13Jun43.
333rd Bomb Squadron Aug43. Named THE BUZZARD / PRODIGAL SON/LASSIE COME HOME..
Failed to return from a mission to the aero engine complex at Brunswick, Germany 11Jan44 (9POW:2KIA).
As weather conditions began to deteriorate over the English bases, a recall order was sent to the bomber
groups en route to the city. While some the groups received the message and turned back for England,
others did not receive the order, and pressed onwards. When they arrived at the target area, they met
stiff resistance from the Luftwaffe. Shot down by rocket from a fighter attack on return from mission,
crashed Uiezen, Germany. MACR 1889
30249 (MSN 5363) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 13May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 14May43.
Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 24May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 30May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 4Jun43. 551st Bomb Squadron [HR*X],
385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 26Jun43. This aircraft was formerly known as "El Lobo".
The original “Raunchy Wolf” was 42-3290. B-17 42-30249 was named El Lobo with a wolf’s head
on her nose. However, when the original Raunchy Wolf was lost the crew took over El Lobo and
painted out the El Lobo name and replaced it with the name Raunchy Wolf. Failed to return from a
mission to the I.G. Farben chemical works at Oppau, Ludwigshafen, Germany 30Dec43 (1KIA:6POW:3EVD).
Damaged by flak then shot down by Obfw. Bartl in Fw 190A-5 of 123/5(F) at Ligny-Saint-Flochel,
France. Crashed Ligay, three miles south of Monchy-Breton, France. MACR 1899.
30250 (MSN 5364) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 14May43. Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 24May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 30May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 15Jun43.
Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 18Jun43. Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander,
Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 21Jun43. 548th Bomb Squadron [GX*F],
385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk Jun43 Named "Yank"
Recalled from a mission 30Oct43, the heavy bomber overshot landing on wet grass at RAF Docking, Norfolk.
Hit a truck at Honington (Station 375), Suffolk. Salvaged after non-battle damage by 1st Strategic
Air Depot, Troston (Station 595), Suffolk 30Jan44
30251 (MSN 5365) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 6May43.
Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 8May43. Gore Field,
Great Falls, MT 13May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 29May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 13Jun43.
549th Bomb Squadron [XA*T], 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 14Jun43.
Named 'Piccadilly Queen' Damaged when B-17F 42-30414 exploded at Great Ashfield 3Sep43.
Failed to return from a mission to the industrial area at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 29Jan44 (6KIA:4POW).
Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Kaiserlautern, Germany. MACR 2267
30252 (MSN 5366) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 4May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 17May43. Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 20May43.
Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 19Jun43. Modified to photographic configuration. Designated F-9.
1st Mapping Group, Bolling Field, Washington, DC 7Jul43. Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 12Jul43.
Bolling Field, Washington, DC 4Aug43. Mapping mission to Accra, Gold Coast, West Africa 23Nov43.
Returned to US. Reclaimed 20Nov44
30253 (MSN 5367) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 6May43.
Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 20May43. Modified to photographic configuration. Designated F-9.
Cameras changed and redesignated 1943 as F-9B. 1st Mapping Group, Bolling Field,
Washington, DC 4Jul43. Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 16Jul43. Mapping mission to Accra,
Gold Coast, West Africa 1Apr44. Returned to US. 1st Photographic Charting Group, MacDill Field,
Tampa, FL12Oct44. 91st Photographic Squadron, 1st Photographic Group, Buckley Field, CO 30Dec44.
4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 29Dec44.
91st Photographic Squadron, 1st Photographic Group, Buckley Field, CO 1Feb45. Designated FB-17F 1945.
Crashed twenty-five miles south of Manta, Ecuador 18Aug45. Salvaged 24Jun46.
30254 (MSN 5368) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 6May43.
Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 8May43. 7th Ferrying Group,
Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 12May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 29May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 16Jun43. 550th Bomb Squadron,
385th Bomb Group. Took off from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland 20Jun43, but lost over North Atlantic
en route to Prestwick, Scotland, contact made with Prestwick on approach to UK, but a search found
no trace (10MIS). MACR 3
30255 (MSN 5369) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 4May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 14May43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 25May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 29May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 31May43. 351st Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 10Jun43.
412th Bomb Squadron [QW*V], 95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 16Jun43
Named "Lonesome Polecat II" . {first combat mission 29Jun43}. Battle damaged
during a mission to the port area at Bremen, Germany 13Nov43 (2KIA:1WIA). Failed to return
from a mission to the submarine construction yard at Vegesack, Bremen, Germany 16Dec43
(3MIA:7POW). Hit by flak near Bremen damaging No.3 engine, then shot down by
two Fw 190A-7s of JG 1/1 off De Koog, Texel, Netherlands.
Several crew members were wounded including the pilots. Three bailed out near Oldenburg,
Germany, but the aircraft kept a long descent to Texel, West Frisian Islands where five more
bailed out. The pilot tried to ditch near the beach at De Koog, but unfortunately died in the crash.
Crashed in the North Sea, assumed about 300m off the Texel coast near beach pole No.19,
west of De Koog, West Frisian Islands, Netherlands. {20 missions} MACR 1558
3 KIA, 7 POW.
30256 (MSN 5370) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 4May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 18May43. Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 20May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 26May43. Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 7Jun43. Patterson Field,
Dayton, OH 13Jun43. Wright Field, Dayton, OH 1Jul43. Modified to photographic configuration.
Designated F-9. 1st Mapping Group, Bolling Field, Washington, DC 9Jul43. Bradley Field,
Windsor Locks, CT 13Jul43. Bolling Field, Washington, DC 25Jul43. Mapping mission to Accra,
Gold Coast, West Africa 31Dec43. 1st Photographic Charting Squadron, 11th Photographic Group.
With fuel exhaustion caused by bad weather, crashed after crew bailed out thirty miles
north of Payne Field, Cairo, Egypt 27Mar44
30257 (MSN 5371) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 4May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 14May43. Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 24May43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 29May43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma
City, OK 13Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 16Jun43.
100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 16Jun43.
Transferred to 550th Bomb Squadron [SG*J], 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155),
Suffolk 17Jun43 Named 'Lady Suzie II'.. Failed to return from a mission to the
AGO-Flugzeugwerke Fw 190 manufacturing factory at Oschersleben, Germany 28Jul43 (8KIA:2POW
Serial bombed by Uffz Wilhelm Fest in Bf 109G-6 of
JG 11/5, blew up and wreck collided with 42-3316 and 42-30285 and all three crashed
into North Sea NW of Nornum, Germany Jul 28, 1943. MACR 189C.
30258 (MSN 5372) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 6May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 7May43. Roswell Field, NM 24May43. Peterson Field,
Colorado Springs, CO 18Jun43. 548th Two Engine Flying Training Squadron, 314th Two Engine
Flying Training Group, Roswell Field, NM. Damaged in collision with parked B-17F 42-30509
while taking off at Roswell Field, NM 29Mar44. Accident landing at Roswell Field 29Apr44.
3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44. 3010th Base
Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 21Sep44. Modified for
training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F.
3020th Base Unit (Pilot School, Advanced, Two Engine), La Junta Field, CO 30Apr45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Searcy Field, Stillwater, OK for storage and
disposal 31Jul45. War Assets Corporation. Sold to Paul Mantz 19Feb46; scrapped
30259 (MSN 5373) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 8May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 25Apr43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 27May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 7Jun43. 349th Bomb Squadron,
100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 10Jun43. Named "Damifino II"
After a cancelled mission 24Sep43, the bombers of the 100th Bomb Group were sent on a
practice mission to test PFF equipment and techniques over the North Sea. With bombs still
in the aircraft from the morning’s preparations, skeleton crews and semi prepared aircraft
took off. In the rush to takeoff at the proper time, it was not immediately discovered that
the ten machine guns were stored in the nose compartment. While over the North Sea on
the practice mission, about 10/15 enemy fighters jumped the formation and left this
bomber badly shot up. A 20mm cannon shell hit the No.3 engine oil tank, starting a fire
in the right wing. The pilot ordered the crew to bail out but he rode the bomber to a
ditching in the sea. Five crewmen were rescued by Royal Navy Motor Torpedo Boats (MTB)
hunting German ‘E’ boats. Two men were found dead and three remained missing,
presumed dead (2KIS:3MIS:5RTD).
30260 (MSN 5374) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 6May43.
Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 8May43. 7th Ferrying
Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 12May43. 548th Bomb Squadron, 385th Bomb Group, Lewistown Field, MT.
Crashed and destroyed by fire near Yellowstone, MT 23May43 (10KIS). The plane, with eleven men on board,
was flying from Marysville, CA to its home base at Lewistown, MT. The bomber experienced severe
turbulence at 15,000ft and an engine caught fire. The pilot ordered a bail out, but only one crewmember
escaped in time before the B-17 crashed four miles south of West Yellowstone, MT. Salvaged 27May43
The wreck was found in 1988 after the fires.
30261 (MSN 5375) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 8May43.
Osborn Provisional Group, Kearney Field, NB 26May43. Damaged landing Atlanta, GA 1Jun43.
Robins Field, Warner Robins, GA 24Jun43. 4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal
Airport, TN 8Aug43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 9Aug43. 325th Bomb Squadron [NV*C], 92nd Bomb Group,
Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 27Sep43. Crash landed Podington 28May44.
{50 missions}. Salvaged by 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton 29May44.
30262 (MSN 5376) Accepted by USAAF 3May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 8May43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 28May43.
390th Bomb Group, Great Falls AAB, MT 7Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 30Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 12Jul43.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland Jul43. 561st Bomb Squadron [O], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136),
Suffolk Jul43. 568th Bomb Squadron [BI*K], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153),
Suffolk Aug43. Named "Tech Supply". (first mission 17Aug43}. Participated in a
shuttle mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factories at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43.
After the target, the mission continued on to Bertoux, Algeria. Later positioned to Telergma,
Constantine, Algeria. Delayed by mechanical problems, returned to Framlingham from
Menara Airport, Marrakech, French Morocco 27Aug43. Failed to return from a mission
to railway installations at Münster, Germany 10Oct43 (4KIA:6POW). As they approached the
city, the formation was swarmed by a large force of enemy aircraft for an estimated forty-five
minutes of vicious fighting. By the time their friendly fighter escorts arrived to drive off the
Luftwaffe, the damage had already been done. After the target, shot down by a direct hit
from a rocket launched by Uffz Josef Holzmann in Bf 110G-2 of ZG 1/1.
The bomber exploded and crashed Ladbergen, between Münster and Osnabrück,
Germany. {12 missions}. MACR 862. 4 KIA, 6 POW
30263 MSN 5377) Accepted by USAAF 3May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 6May43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver
Municipal Airport, CO 8May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 12May43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 30May43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 18Jun43. 385th Bomb Group 19Jun43.
Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 21Jun43.
551st Bomb Squadron [HR*N], 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk Jun43
Named PREGNANT PORTIA. 549th Bomb Squadron., named PORTIA'S REVENGE;
Mission was recalled Oct 30, 1943, overshot RAF Docking, Norfolk, on wet grass and was demolished .
Salvaged Nov 2, 1943.
30264 (MSN 5378) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 8May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 9May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 10Apr43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 15Jun43.
551st Bomb Squadron [HR*S], 385th Bomb Group 17Jun43. Ferried on the North Atlantic route
from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 21Jun43.
385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk Jun43. Named "Dorsal Queen"
Accident on return from a mission to the Luftwaffe airfield at Champagne, Reims, France 26Sep43 (10KIA).
In poor visibility, collided mid-air with B-17F 42-3290 "Raunchy Wolf" (385th Bomb Group), crashed Tillingham
Hall Farm, Bulphan, near West Horndon, Essex. On the evening of September 26th 1943 "Raunchy Wolf" c
ollided with "Dorsal Queen" also from the 385th Bomb Group in bad weather upon return from a
mission to Reims. The "Raunchy Wolf" was feathering two engines and was having difficulties
maintaining formation near the landing. Suddenly the aircraft went vertical spinning downward
hitting its wing across the fuselage of the "Dorsal Queen", completely severing the tail at the rear
near the waist gunner section. The "Raunchy Wolf" went in at a deep spiral and the "Dorsal Queen"
in a flat spin towards the ground, crashing at Tillingham Hall Farm, Bulphan, near West-Hordon
Exeter England. "Raunchy Wolf" exploded and left a 30ft (10m) crater upon impact with bomb
load on board. The "Dorsal Queen" without the tail section hit several trees on descent and
crashed straddling a ditch leaving a 7 meter crash radius without an explosion at Nuttys Farm.
The severed tail section landed 300 yards away with the tail gunner still strapped in the
tail gun section. He was the only survivor and spent the rest of the war serving in the 385th
operations center as an orderly. Salvaged 28Sep43
30265 (MSN 5379) Accepted by USAAF 6May43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 10May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 21May43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22May43. 390th Bomb Group, Great Falls AAB, MT 7Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 11Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 10Jul43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 14Jul43. Ferried
overseas on the North Atlantic route via Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland Jul43.
571st Bomb Squadron [FC*V], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 18Jul43.
Named "Pinky". {first combat mission 17Aug43}. Participated in a shuttle mission
to the Messerschmitt aircraft factories at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43. After the target,
the mission continued on to Bertoux, Algeria. Later positioned to Telergma, Constantine, Algeria.
Returned to Framlingham on a mission to a Luftwaffe air depot at Mérignac, Bordeaux, France 24Aug43.
Failed to return from a mission to railway installations at Münster, Germany 10Oct43
(1KIA:1EVD:8POW). As they approached the city, the formation was swarmed by a large
force of enemy aircraft for an estimated forty-five minutes of vicious fighting. By the time
their friendly fighter escorts arrived to drive off the Luftwaffe, the damage had already been
done. Damaged by Flak and later shot down by Oblt Horst Sternberg in
Fw 190A-6 of JG 26/6 between Burse and Haarmuhle, Netherlands
Exploded and crashed at De Haaremolen, near Buurse, Netherlands. MACR 865.
30266 (MSN 5380) Accepted by USAAF 3May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 8May43. Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 9May43.
Moses Lake Field, WA 22May43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 25May43. Smoky Hill Field,
Salina, KS 26May43. 390th Bomb Group, Great Falls AAB, MT 7Jun43. Smoky Hill Field,
Salina, KS 1Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 11Jul43.
Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 2Aug43. 569th Bomb Squadron [CC*W], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153),
Suffolk Aug43. Named "Wild Children"/"Lucky Strike".
(first combat mission 24Aug43}. Battle damaged on a mission to the shipyards at Bremen,
Germany 8Oct43 (1WIA:9RTD). The formation was met with stiff resistance by German fighters
and flak crews on the ground the entire way, from the Dutch coast all the way into the German
heartland, and back again. In addition, a large force of German fighters launched vicious
attacks against the planes. Over the target, the formation encountered intense flak.
Damaged by flak, wounding the pilot. {final combat mission 8Jul44}. Accident returning from a
formation practice mission 9Jul44 (9KIS). Coming in for a landing at Framlingham, the plane
hit the runway hard, tearing off both mainwheels. The pilot opened the throttles and was
going around after the unsuccessful landing attempt, stalled, and crashed at Grove Farm,
southwest of Wickham Market, Suffolk. Salvaged 17Aug44. {58 missions}.
30267 (MSN 5381) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 18May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 30May43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 8Jun43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 17Jun43. Combat Crew Training School, Casper Field, WY 28Jun43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 30Jun43. Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 4Jul43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 9Jul43. Twelfth Air Force,
North Africa. 96th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Aïn M’lila (Onyx), Constantine, Algeria 27Jul43.
Massicault, Tunis, Tunisia 1Aug43. {first combat mission 13Aug43}. Fifteenth Air Force,
Italy 1Nov43. {19 missions}. 341st Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Depienne, Sminja,
Tunisia 14Nov43. Named 'Hustlin' Hussy. . Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43. San Giovanni,
Cerignola, Italy 20Dec43. 414th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44.
A 20mm cannon was installed in the tail. Failed to return from a mission to the oil refineries at
Ploe?ti, Rumania 23Jun44 (3KIA:7POW). Shot down by Rumanian fighters of the Aeronautica
Regal? Român?. The radio operater and co-pilot were fatally wounded in the attack, the
remaining crew bailed out. The bomber crashed near Bucharest, Rumania. MACR 6951
30268 (MSN 5382) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 6May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 7May43. Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 23May43.
Modified to photographic configuration. Designated F-9. 11th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron,
2nd Photographic Reconnaissance and Mapping Group, Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 15Jun43.
Accident landing with mechanical failure at Peterson Field 5Jul43. 1st Mapping Group, Bolling Field,
Washington, DC 2Nov43. 2nd Photographic Charting Squadron, 1st Photographic Charting Group,
Felts Field, Spokane, WA. Damaged in collision with parked Douglas C-67 Dragon 39-59 while
taxying at Bolling Field, Washington, DC 10Nov43. Station 11, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field,
West Palm Beach, FL 11Jun44. 1st Photographic Charting Group, Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO
18Jun44. Buckley Field, CO 4Jul44. Station 8, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command,
Homestead Field, FL 1Aug44. 326th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), MacDill Field,
Tampa, FL 19Aug44. Buckley Field, CO 4Oct44. 1st Photographic Charting Group, MacDill Field,
Tampa, FL 12Oct44. Atkinson Field, Georgetown, British Guiana 14Nov44. Designated FB-17F.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Cal-Aero Field, Ontario, CA for storage and disposal
20May45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Sharp & Fellows Contracting Company Jul46; scrapped.
30269 (MSN 5383) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 6May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 7May43. Roswell Field, NM 24Jun43. Hobbs
Field, NM 7Jul43. Roswell Field, NM 4Aug43. 3701st Base Unit (Technical School), Amarillo
Field, TX 2Nov44. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 6Nov44.
3010th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 10Dec44.
Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment;
designated TB-17F. 3020th Base Unit (Pilot School, Advanced, Two Engine), La Junta Field, CO 4May45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Searcy Field, Stillwater, OK for storage and disposal 4Aug45.
War Assets Corporation. Sold to Paul Mantz 19Feb46; scrapped
30270 MSN 5384) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5May43. Continental
Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 8May43. 7th Ferrying Group,
Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 12May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 30May43.
551st Bomb Squadron, 385th Bomb Group 19Jun43. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 21Jun43. 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155),
Suffolk Jun43. Named "The Old Shillelagh". Failed to return from a mission to the
Heinkel Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory at Warnemünde, Germany 29Jul43 (10RTD). Ditched into North Sea, all crew rescued
30271 (MSN 5385) Accepted by USAAF 4May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 7May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great
Falls, MT 8May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 17May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air
Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 30May43. 527th Bomb Squadron [FO*Y],
379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 6Jun43. 335th Bomb Squadron [OE*R],
95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 28Jun43. Named "BomBoggie"
Minor battle damage caused by flak 15Aug43. Failed to return from a mission to the Bosch magneto
factory at Stuttgart, Germany 6Sep43 (1KIA:4POW:5EVD}. Shot down by enemy fighters,
crashed Pansy-Courtecon, seven miles south of Laon, France. {7 missions}.
MACR 545. .
30272 (MSN 5386) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 7May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 8May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 17May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 30May43.
335th Bomb Squadron [OE*U], 95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 15Jun43
Named "Fritz Blitz". Failed to return from a mission to railway installations
at Münster, Germany 10Oct43 (10POW:KIA). As they approached the city, the formation
was swarmed by a large force of enemy aircraft for an estimated forty-five minutes of
vicious fighting. By the time their friendly fighter escorts arrived to drive off the Luftwaffe,
the damage had already been done. Damaged by flak over the target, later shot down by Fw. Gerd Wiegland in
Fw 190A-6 of JG 26/4 and crashed near Haaksberghen, Netherlands MACR 1118.
30273 (MSN 5387) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 7May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 8May43. United Air Lines,
Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20May43. Smoky Hill Field,
Salina, KS 25May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 27May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Jun43.
303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 16Jun43.
334th Bomb Squadron [BG*F], 95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 17Jun43
Named "Patsy Ann III". Failed to return from a mission to railway installations
at Münster, Germany 10Oct43 (5KIA, 4POW). As they approached the city, the formation was
swarmed by a large force of enemy aircraft for an estimated forty-five minutes of vicious
fighting. By the time their friendly fighter escorts arrived to drive off the Luftwaffe, the
damage had already been done Shot down by Jaj Johannes
Seifert in Fw 190A-6 of JG 26/II Stab and crashed
near Lingen,13 miles north of Münster, Germany.. MACR 942.
30274 (MSN 5388) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 8May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 9May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 17May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 5Jun43. 335th Bomb Squadron [OE*Q], 95th Bomb Group,
Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 15Jun43. 334th Bomb Squadron. Named "Our Bay-Bee"
Failed to return from a shuttle mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factories at Regensburg,
Germany 17Aug43 (7POW:3EVD). Damaged by flak starting fires in the front and the pilot
turned back for home. When the German fighters saw it turn off and away from the Group
this was their signal to come in and finish it off. Attacked by two Bf 109 fighters, one of which
was shot down, the other flown by Felwebel Kraft of 9/JG 26 who claimed the shooting down
of this B-17. The bomber crashed and exploded at Mol, Dessel, southeast of Turnhout, Belgium. {5 missions}.
Also claimed to have been shot down by Lt. Erich
Burkert in Bf 109G-6 of JG 26/7. MACR 402.
30275 (MSN 5389) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 7May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 8May43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 30May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 16Jun43. 548th Bomb Squadron [GX*P],
385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 17Jun43. Named 'The Vibrant Virgin'.
Failed to return from a mission to the shipyards at Bremen, Germany 8Oct43 (10POW).
The formation was met with stiff resistance by German fighters and flak crews on the
ground the entire way, from the Dutch coast all the way into the German heartland,
and back again. In addition, a large force of German fighters launched vicious attacks
against the planes. Over the target, the formation encountered intense flak. Damaged by flak,
crashed Quakenbrück, Germany MACR 825.
30276 (MSN 5390) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13May43.
Roswell Field, NM 27May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 29May43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Jun43. 336th Bomb Squadron [ET*F],
95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 15Jun43. Named "Terry and the Pirates"
Failed to return from a mission to La Pallice 16Sep43 (9POW:1EVD). Flak damaged No.3 engine,
followed by fire and the wing broke off, crashed Ile d'Yeu, near La Pallice, France. {11 missions}. MACR 615.
30277 (MSN 5391) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 11May43. Roswell Field, NM 24May43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44. 4124th Base Unit (Air Technical Service
Command), Altus Field, OK 17Jul45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 4Oct45
30278 MSN 5392) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 8May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 9May43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 29May43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 19Jun43. 550th Bomb Squadron [SG*G],
385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 20Jun43. 418th Bomb Squadron [LD*R],
100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 1943. Named "Sly Fox".
Failed to return from a mission to industrial areas in the suburbs of Berlin, Germany 6Mar44 (10KIA).
Shot down by fighter attack near Haselünne, crashed at Gross-Mimmelage, east of Quakenbrück, Germany. .
MACR 3016 KC-135T 60-0324 of the 100th ARW is named ‘Sly Fox’ in commemoration of this B-17G
30279 (MSN 5393) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 8May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 29May43. North
Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 13Jun43. 549th Bomb Squadron [XA*F],
385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 14Jun43. Named 'Black Jacker'
551st Bomb Squadron [HR*F]. Failed to return from a mission to synthetic rubber factories at
Hanover, Germany 26Jul43 (3POW:7KIA). Shot down by enemy fighters, caught fire, exploded
and crashed North Sea, near Wangerooge, Netherlands MACR 191C.
30280 (MSN 5394) Accepted by USAAF 16Jun43. Delivered to Rome Air Depot, NY 17Jun43.
Modified to B-17G standard. Pathfinder Force [PFF] aircraft. Wright Field, Dayton, OH 5Jul43.
Rome Air Depot, NY 21Jul43. Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 3Aug43. Grandview Field, Kansas
City, MO 8Aug43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand
Island Field, NB 22Sep43. 812th Bomb Squadron [MI*L], 482nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102),
Huntingdonshire 30Sep43. Named CRAZY HORSE – artwork of Lakota Sioux indian riding a white horse.
Captain Homer Wilson Claymore was the first captain of the Boeing; he was a Lakota Sioux,
his Lakota Sioux name was Lone Ghost. He wrote to his older brother Luther asking what he should
call his plane. The answer was simple: "Name the plane after the great Indian Sioux warrior Crazy Horse."
Claymore painted the caricature of the Sioux warrior himself on the nose of the plane.
Failed to return from a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Diepholz,
Germany 21Feb44 (1KIA:9POW:3EVD). Damaged by flak over the target, two engines were disabled
but unable to feather one of the propellers. The plane dropped out of formation and on the return
flight home was attacked by Fw 190 fighters. Over Holland, north-edge of Apeldoorn crew started
to jump out; the pilot held the aircraft level for them. Crashed in the IJsselmeer, opposite the hamlet
of Horst, 13km northeast from Bunschoten, Netherlands/ All (13) Crew Bailed Out and (9) Crew
Were Captured and Became POWs. Released in 1945. (1) Crewman Was Shot By German Soldiers When
Caught Hiding With Dutch People. (3) Crew Evaded Capture. MACR 2471 and 2470
The wreck of the bomber was initially visible in the water because it came down
on a sand-ridge named 'Spiek', with only 1,20 meter of water there (4 ft). This was right in
front of a German light flak training range. They used this stretch of water to shoot on floating
targets pulled by small tugboats. Near the wreck it was too shallow for a large recovery ship,
therefore the wreck of the B-17 was not recovered. The wreck was shot up for target practice.
The remains of the bomber were not visible anymore in the murky water. Away from the shipping lanes,
on a shallow spot that was avoided by boats, the wreck site was forgotten. The remains of this aircraft
were discovered in the summer of 1970 during a public works reclamation project in the area.
Members of the Dutch Air Force recovered several pieces of this aircraft including a propellor blade
and hub, some of the radar equipment, and varied pieces of airframe. Several hundred pounds
were crated by the Dutch military and sent back to the United States to McDonnell-Douglas,
St. Louis, MO, to take part in a special diagnotic testing and evaluation program to test the
effects of harsh exposure upon aerospace materials. A testing and evaluations branch at MD
had been studying pieces of WWII aircraft components salvaged from remote crash sites
in different climate zones. At the end of the testing and evaluation study, all recovered items
were slated for disposal. A few items were to be given to museums for display. The bulk of the test
items, however, were deemed as nothing other than scrap and were to have been destroyed.
A historically minded McDonnell-Douglas engineer involved in the testing program decided
instead to filter them directly to another "museum" - located in his suburban home's basement
and garage. He kept them safe and sound until he passed away 30 years later. The items are
believed to be displayed in a museum near Mesa, AZ
30281 (MSN 5395) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 8May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 9May43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 30May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 15Jun43. 548th Bomb Squadron [GX*E], 385th Bomb Group 16Jun43.
Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland 21Jun43.
385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk Jun43. Failed to return from a
mission to Wesermünde, Hanover, Germany 26Jul43 (10KIA). Shot down by enemy fighters,
set on fire, exploded and crashed in North Sea near Bremerhaven. MACR 191A.
30282 (MSN 5396) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 9May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 10May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 17May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 30May43. Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander,
Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 6/7Jun43. 366th Bomb Squadron [KY*N],
305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 10Jun43. Failed to return
from a mission to synthetic rubber factories at Hanover, Germany 26Jul43
(8POW – rescued by German minesweeper No.342:2KIA). .Shot down by Lt Gerhard Dittmann
in Bf 110G-4 of NJG 1/12 and ditched into
North Sea near Borkum Island, Germany. MACR 95.
30283 (MSN 5397) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 9May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 17May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 19May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 30May43. 324th Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Group,
Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 10Jun43. 336th Bomb Squadron [ET*C],
95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 16Jun43. Named "Mason's Morons"
Failed to return from a shuttle mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factories at
Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43 (10POW). Struck by flak hitting the right wing ‘Tokyo’ fuel tanks
starting a small fire which was extinguished when the pilot steeply dove the bomber.
The bomber then slowly caught up with its formation.. Shot down by Lt.
Gottfried Weiroster in Bf 109G-6 of JG 50/Stab near
Darmstadt, Germany . Crashed before reaching the target at Darmstadt, Germany. {10 missions}.
MACR 403. 10 POW
30284 (MSN 5398) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 10May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 20May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 21May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 30May43. 334th Bomb Squadron [BG*B],
95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 15Jun43. Failed to return from a mission
to the submarine base at Saint-Nazaire, France 28Jun43 (10RTD). Ditched in Mount's Bay
off Newlyn, Cornwall. Crew rescued by Air-Sea Rescue. {2 missions}..
30285 (MSN 5399) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 9May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 16May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 29May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 15Jun43. 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 30Sep43
Named "Mary Allen", then transferred to 385th BG, 549th BS,
named "Roundtrip Ticket" Failed to return from a mission to the AGO-Flugzeugwerke
Fw 190 manufacturing factory at Oschersleben, Germany 28Jul43 (2POW:8KIA). Mid-air collision
with B-17F 42-30257 (385th Bomb Group) which had been hit by a rocket from a Fw 190.
Crashed in North Sea west of SyltM. ACR 189D.
30286 (MSN 5400) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 17May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 24May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 25May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 27May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 2Jun43. 336th Bomb Squadron [ET*M], 95th Bomb Group, Horham
(Station 119), Suffolk 15Jun43. Named "Spook IV" . Failed to return from a
mission to the submarine base at Saint-Nazaire, France 28Jun43
Damaged by a FW-190A of JG 2, ran out of fuel and ditched in English Channel 60 km off
English coast Crew rescued. (2 missions)
30287 (MSN 5401) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 11May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 23May43. Roswell
Field, NM 21Jun43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44.
Crashed two miles south of Roswell 15Oct44. Salvaged 16Oct44. Reclaimed 25Oct44
30288 (MSN 5402) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 9May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 17May43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 30May43. 412th Bomb Squadron [QW*T],
95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 14Jun43. Named "Louise II".
Battle damaged during a mission to the Focke-Wulf aircraft factory at Marienburg,
East Prussia 9Oct43. Crash landed at Rackheath (Station 145), Norfolk. {18 missions}. Salvaged 26Oct43
30289 (MSN 5403) Accepted by USAAF 6May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 9May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 18May43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 25May43. 390th Bomb Group, Great Falls AAB, MT 7Jun43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 30Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 12Jul43. Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via Iceland
to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland Jul43. 568th Bomb Squadron [BI*H],
390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk Jul43.
Named ."The Douche Bag/The Dull Tool" (first combat mission 12Aug43}.
Failed to return from a mission to Friedrich Krupp Germania Werft ship building yard,
Kiel, Germany 4Jan44 (4MIA:6POW). Number two and three engines were hit by flak and
number three engine started burning. Four members of the crew bailed out south of the
island of Ærø, Denmark, and were never seen again. After the remaining crew bailed out,
the aircraft circled a couple of times from Ollerup to Egebjerg Bakker to Kirkeby and towards
Lunde. When it was over Kirkeby the second time it was so low that people feared that it would
crash in the village. It straightened up and disappeared over Egebjerg Bakker to crash in
Amalielyst Forest near Hvidkilde Sø lake on the island of Fyn (Funen), Denmark. {20 missions}.
MACR 2021.
30290 (MSN 5404) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 11May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 24May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 25May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 27May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Jun43.
338th Bomb Squadron, 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 12Jun43.
Named "Lucky Lady II". . Failed to return from a mission to the Gerhard Fieseler
Werke (GFW) aircraft works at Waldau, Kassel, Germany 30Jul43 (5KIA:5POW).
En route to the target, the aircraft was hit by flak above Vlissingen, Netherlands.
In order to stay in formation, the bomb load was jettisoned. The two inner engines
were hit; one caught fire and the other lost power. In addition, fuel flowed down the
wings. A few minutes later the plane received a second shell impact, possibly over
Sint-Niklaas. This forced the pilot to reduce altitude and speed. Leaving formation,
it became the prey of German fighters. A number of Fw 190s from L/JG 26 had scrambled
from Woensdrecht and intercepted the bombers, this aircraft being shot down
by Fw Ernst Christoff in Fw 190A-4 of JG 26/1.
He had made an attack and numerous bullets had exploded in the waist and radio room.
During the attack, the interphone system was shot out and no one could contact other members.
Above Klein-Brabant the crew started to bail out. The aircraft exploded in mid-air and
the wreckage crashed in pieces between Hofstraat and Hogenakkerstraat in
Tielrode, 16km southwest of Antwerp
30291 (MSN 5405) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 10May43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 21May43. Ephrata AAB, WA 28May43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 30May43. Hill Field, Ogden, UT 31May43. School of Applied Tactics,
Orlando AAB, FL 1Jun43. Brooksville Field, FL 21Jun43. Rapid City Field, SD 3Jul43.
Harvard Field, NB 2Aug43. 2531st Base Unit, Pampa 4Dec44. 224th Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Sioux City AAB, IA 10Dec44. Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 22May45
30292 (MSN 5406) Accepted by USAAF 6May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 9May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great
Falls, MT 10May43. Moses Lake Field, WA 22May43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 25May43.
390th Bomb Group, Great Falls AAB, MT. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 1Jul43. North Atlantic
Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 11Jul43. Ferried overseas on the
North Atlantic route via Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland Jul43.
569th Bomb Squadron [CC*Q], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk Jul43.
Named "Pulsatin' Polly" . {first combat mission 12Aug43}. Participated in a shuttle mission
to the Messerschmitt aircraft factories at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43. After the target,
the mission continued on to Bertoux, Algeria. Later positioned to Telergma, Constantine,
Algeria. Returned to Framlingham on a mission to a Luftwaffe air depot at Mérignac,
Bordeaux, France 24Aug43. Failed to return from a mission to the industrial area at Bremen,
Germany 8Oct43 (1MIA:5KIA:4POW). The formation was met with stiff resistance by German
fighters and flak crews on the ground the entire way, from the Dutch coast all the way into
the German heartland. In addition, a large force of German fighters launched vicious attacks
against the planes. Over the target, the formation encountered intense flak. It received several
direct hits from fighter aircraft, shot down by Hptm Anton Hackl in Bf 109G-6 of
JG 11/III Stab, Also listed as being shot down by AAA at
Hasenburen, Bremen, Germany. No.4 engine was set on fire
and the pilot thought by taking evasive action and diving he could extinguish the blaze.
No.3 engine then started to flame and the plane started to spin. The injured pilot gave the
order to bail out. The plane began to disintegrate and exploded. Crashed Quelkhorn,
Ottersberg, northeast of Bremen, Germany. {11 missions}. MACR 783.
6 KIA 4 POW. Oct 8, 1943
30293 (MSN 5407) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 11May43. Roswell Field, NM 24May43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44. 3010th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized,
Four Engine), Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 9Dec44. Modified for training, stripped of
armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F.
3020th Base Unit (Pilot School, Advanced, Two Engine), La Junta Field, CO 23Apr45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Searcy Field, Stillwater, OK for storage and
disposal 4Aug45. War Assets Corporation. Sold to Paul Mantz 19Feb46; scrapped.
30294 MSN 5408) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 11May43. Roswell Field, NM 24May43. 551st Bomb Squadron [HR*G],
385th Bomb Group. 551st Two Engine Flying Training Squadron, 314th Two Engine
Flying Training Group, Roswell Field, NM. Crashed in collision with North American AT-6A 41-400
while taking off at Roswell Field 20Jul43. Salvaged 29Jul43. Named RAUNCHY WOLF
30295 (MSN 5409) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 11May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 23May43.
Roswell Field, NM 24May43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell
Field, NM 2Jun44. 3010th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Williams
Field, Chandler, AZ 9Dec44. Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament,
turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F. 3020th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Advanced, Two Engine), La Junta Field, CO 26Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Searcy Field, Stillwater, OK for storage and
disposal 4Aug45. War Assets Corporation. Sold to Paul Mantz 19Feb46; scrapped
30296 (MSN 5410) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 11May43. Roswell Field, NM 24May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Jun43. Boca Raton Field, FL 5Jun43. Roswell Field, NM 15Jun43.
3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44. Damaged landing
with mechanical failure at Roswell Auxiliary Field #1, Roswell, NM 4Sep44.
3010th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 10Dec44.
Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment;
designated TB-17F. 3020th Base Unit (Pilot School, Advanced, Two Engine), La Junta Field, CO 4Jun45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Searcy Field, Stillwater, OK for storage and disposal 4Aug45.
War Assets Corporation. Sold to Paul Mantz 19Feb46; scrapped
30297 (MSN 5411) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 11May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 23May43. Roswell Field, NM 25May43.
3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44. Modified for training,
stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F. 3010th Base Unit
(Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 12Dec44. Damaged by mechanical
failure at Williams Field 17Jan45. Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and
bombing equipment; designated TB-17F. 3020th Base Unit (Pilot School, Advanced, Two Engine),
La Junta Field, CO 23Apr45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Searcy Field, Stillwater, OK for
storage and disposal 7Aug45. War Assets Corporation. Sold to Paul Mantz 19Feb46; scrapped.
30298 (MSN 5412) Accepted by USAAF 7May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 11May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 24May43. Smoky Hill Field,
Salina, KS 29May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 3Jun43.
525th Bomb Squadron [FR*M], 379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 13Jun43.
Named "Tender Tit Tillie", then "Ragin' Red".
Transferred to 837th BS, 487th BG Lavenham, Suffolk Jul 15, 1944, 78th Fighter Wing Oct 24, 1944.
Transferred to 66th FW Duxford. Taxi accident at Duxford Apr 24, 1945. Salvaged Apr 29, 1945
30299 (MSN 5413) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 11May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 18May43. Air Service
Command, Fairfield Air Depot, Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 23May43. Peterson Field,
Colorado Springs, CO 15Jun43. Modified to photographic configuration. Designated F-9.
1st Mapping Group, Bolling Field, Washington, DC 6Jul43. Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 18Jul43.
Mapping mission to Accra, Gold Coast, West Africa 31Dec43. Returned to US. 1st Photographic
Charting Squadron, 11th Photographic Mapping Wing, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 9Oct44.
4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 22Oct44.
91st Photographic Squadron, 1st Photographic Group, Buckley Field, CO 30Dec44. Salvaged 5Feb45.
30300 (MSN 5414) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 11May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 24May43. Smoky Hill Field,
Salina, KS 25May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 27May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Jun43.
303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 16Jun43.
334th Bomb Squadron [BG*C], 95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 17Jun43.
Named "Hell-n-Back" Force landed St Eval (Station 129), Cornwall 28Jun43.
Minor battle damage caused by flak 15Aug43. Flew from Menara Airport, Marrakech, French
Morocco to UK 27Aug43. Failed to return from a mission to the Bosch magneto factory at
Stuttgart, Germany 6Sep43 (10POW). Enemy aircraft hit No.1 & No.3 engines, right wing
caught fire, heading for Switzerland but exploded and crashed Stuttgart. {15 missions).
30301 (MSN 5415) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 11May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 25May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 26May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 2Jun43. 332nd Bomb Squadron [XM*J], 94th Bomb Group, Earls Colne (Station 358),
Essex 5Jun43. Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 13Jun43.
The bomber was the first B-17 of the 94th Bomb Group to survive 50 missions, not once turning
back with mechanical failure. The first mission was flown 14Jul43 and the 50th was
flown 22Mar44. On loan to 710th Bomb Squadron, 447th Bomb Group, Rattlesden (Station 126),
Suffolk Apr-Jun44. Failed to return from a Crossbow mission to a German V-weapon site
in the Pas-de-Calais, France 19Jun44 (9KIA:1POW). Damaged by flak near Alderney,
Channel Islands and ditched in the English Channel. MACR 5901 Named MISSY G / IDIOTS’ DELIGHT
30302 (MSN 5416) Accepted by USAAF 8May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great
Falls, MT 21May43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22May43. 390th Bomb Group, Great
Falls AAB, MT 7Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 30Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air
Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 10Jul43. Ferried overseas on the North
Atlantic route via Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland Jul43.
568th Bomb Squadron [BI*O], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk Jul43.
Named "Calamity Jane". Severely damaged when B-17F 42-29974 (306th Bomb Group)
crash landed at Framlingham 28Jul43. Battle damaged on a mission to the Fieseler
aircraft factory at Kassel, Germany, returning to England with damaged control
cables, #974 crash landed, severely damaging this plane. Salvaged 28Jul43. {nil missions)
30303 (MSN 5417) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY
11May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 25May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 26May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Jun43.
333rd Bomb Squadron [TS*M2], 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468),
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 13Jun43 . Named "Raider II". . Failed to return from a
mission to the industrial area at Düren, Germany 20Oct43 (10KIA), mechanical problem,
crashed North Sea. MACR 903
30304 (MSN 5418) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 10May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 24May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 25May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 26May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Jun43.
334th Bomb Squadron [BG*B], 95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 15Jun43.
Named "She's My Gal" Failed to return from a mission to a rubber plant at
Hanover, Germany 26Jul43 (6KIA:4POW), Shot down by Oblt Harry Koch in Fw 190A-6 of JG 1/6
and crashed Lauenstein, near Hameln, Germany. {5 missions}. . MACR 196.
30305 MSN 5419) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 24May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 25May43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 26May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 3Jun43. 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105),
Northamptonshire 24Jun43. 350th Bomb Squadron, 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139),
Norfolk 30Jun43. To 100th Bomb Group, 349th Bomb Squadron., named "Flak Schack"
Crashed on takeoff from Thorpe Abbotts for a practice formation mission 16Jul43 (7KIS:3INJ).
With a light fuel load, immediately after lifting off early the aircraft was turned steeply to follow
other aircraft. There were two distinct backfires and No.4 engine was barely turning. The aircraft
never recovered from the bank, crashed into trees and caught fire within 30 seconds after takeoff.
Crashed north east of base at the Rectory, Dickleburgh, Norfolk. Salvaged 16Jul43
30306 (MSN 5420) Accepted by USAAF 10May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 10May43. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command,
Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 8Jun43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 99th Bomb Group,
Navarin (Overcoat), El Eulma, Algeria 8Jul43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 4Aug43.
368th Air Service Squadron, Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 16Aug43. Salvaged 26Mar44
30307 (MSN 5421) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 25May43. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport
Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 9Jun43. Ferried West Palm Beach; Borinquen
Field, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico; Atkinson Field, Georgetown, British Guiana; Val de Cães Field, Belém,
Brasil; Parnamirim Field, Natal, Brasil; Eknes Field, Rufisque, Dakar, Senegal, Africa; Menara
Airport, Marrakech, French Morocco; El Aouina, Tunis, Tunisia. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 4
19th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 1Jul43.
Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43. Named SWEET ADALINE. Named after the pilot’s mother.
Not flown in combat by this crew; transferred to another crew and renamed BONNIE SUE.
Failed to return from a mission to railway marshalling yards at Terni, Italy 11Aug43 (4KIA:6POW).
A few minutes before reaching the Italian coast en route to the target, the bomber was shot down
by a Lockheed P-38G Lightning captured by the Regia Aeronautica Italiana and flown by Colonello
Angelo Rotondi. Bomber crews reported that the P-38 was accompanied by a Vickers-Supermarine
Spitfire with Royal Air Force markings which had also been captured by the Germans. The crews
reported that the Lightning appeared to attack a Bf 109, after which the P-38 flew through the
bomber group, spraying cannon fire. The B-17 was hit, possibly killing the pilot, and went out of
control. The crew started to bail out and six parachutes were observed before the plane straightened
out into a dive and struck the water nose first. The bomber crashed in the Tyrrhenian Sea between
Italy and Sardinia. {14 missions}. MACR 490. The P-38G, while flying between Gibraltar and Malta,
landed on the airfield of Capoterra, Cagliari, Sardinia, from navigation error due to a compass failure and
was captured by the Italians.
30308 (MSN 5422) Accepted by USAAF 10May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 11May43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 28May43. 390th Bomb Group,
Great Falls AAB, MT 7Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 30Jun43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 10Jul43. Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic
route via Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland Jul43. 568th Bomb Squadron [BI*A],
390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 13Jul43. Named "Hot Rocks"
{first combat mission 19Aug43}. Failed to return from a mission to a Luftwaffe airfields at
Fauville and Conches, Évreux, France 24Aug43 (1KIA:9RTD). Damaged by flak and enemy aircraft,
killing the navigator. With three engines failed, the plane ditched in the English Channel
off Selsey Bill, Sussex. Crew rescued by Air-Sea Rescue launch HSL 134 from Newhaven. {2 missions}. MACR 393
30309 (MSN 5423) Accepted by USAAF 10May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 10May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 23May43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 26May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Jun43. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 17Jun43. 525th Bomb Squadron [FR*P/F], 379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117),
Huntingdonshire 21Jun43. Named "Raging Red". Failed to return from a mission to the
ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 17Aug43 (9POW:1KIA). Badly damaged, the
bomber was on its way back home when finally shot down by Fw. Erich Becker in
Bf 110F-4 of NJG 6/2 and crashed at Niederwetz, five miles south of Wetzlar, Germany.
MACR 1763.
30310 (MSN 5424) Accepted by USAAF 13May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 14May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 29May43. 15th Ferrying Group,
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 9Jun43.
Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 419th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Saint-Donat (New Zealand),
Tadjenanet, Algeria 12Jun43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43.
Cerignola #1, Italy 10Dec43. Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. Failed to return from
a mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factory at Regensburg, Germany 25Feb44 (3KIA:7POW).
Enemy fighters started to attack fifteen miles east of Klagenfurt, Austria on the way to the target.
Shot down by enemy fighters over Klagenfurt. With an engine failed and No.3 engine on fire and
flames back to the stabiliser, the crew bailed out. Losing altitude, the aircraft turned onto its back,
exploded, ejecting the pilot, and crashed in the Alps at Krakaudorf, northwest of Seebach, Austria. {31 missions)
30311 (MSN 5425) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 14May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 15May43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 15Jun43.
Rapid City Field, SD 19Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 30Jun43. 5th Ferrying Group,
Love Field, Dallas, TX 7Jul43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 23Jul43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 26Jul43. 350th Bomb Squadron,
100th Bomb Group 26Jul43. Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander,
Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 27/28Jul43. 100th Bomb Group,
Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk Jul43. Named MAYBE [the navigator chose the name
thinking that "maybe they'd come back, and maybe they wouldn't}
Failed to return from a shuttle mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factories at Regensburg,
Germany 17Aug43 (8POW:2KIA). Before reaching the target, it was shot down by Hptm Rudolf Germeroth
in Bf 109G-6 of J 3/1 The No.2 propeller dome was damagef and the propeller could
not be feathered. The bomber dropped back from the formation and was attacked again,
this time hitting the left ‘Tokyo’ fuel tanks which caught fire. The crew was ordered to bail out.
The oxygen system exploded, ejecting several crew members. The bomber crashed at Schorsheim,
nine miles south of Mainz, Germany. The two waist gunners were killed whilst the remainder of the
crew escaped the wreck and were taken prisone. MACR 681
30312 (MSN 5426) Boeing 10May43. Materiel Command, Seattle, WA 2Jun44. ATS, Boeing 20Nov44.
4134th Base Unit (Spokane Air Technical Service Command), Spokane Field, WA 22Jan45.
4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), South Plains Field,
Lubbock, TX 28Jan45. Reconstruction Finance Corporation, La Mesa, CA 6Mar46
30313 (MSN 5427) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 31May43. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport
Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 8Jun43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa.
346th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Navarin (Overcoat), El Eulma, Algeria 24Jun43.
Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 4Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. 97th Bomb Group,
Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 14Nov43. Ground looped landing on delivery flight to 97th Bomb
Group and destroyed by fire at Depienne 14Nov43).
30314 (MSN 5428) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 13May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 30May43. 15th Ferrying Group,
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 8Jun43.
Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 353rd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group,
Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 16Jun43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia,
Tunisia 6Aug43. Named "Beautiful Baby". Failed to return from a mission
to airfields at Istres-Le Tubé and Salon-de-Provence, Marseille, France 17Aug43 (6KIA:3RTD).
Hit in the nose by flak over the target. The aircraft started a slow dive as the crew started
to bail out before it exploded. Crashed on the runway at Istres-Le Tubé, possibly striking an
enemy cargo plane lined up along the runway. {10 missions}. . MACR 407
30315 (MSN 5429) Accepted by USAAF 11May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13May43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 26May43.
390th Bomb Group, Great Falls AAB, MT 7Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 1Jul43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 11Jul43.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland Jul43. 569th Bomb Squadron [CC*S], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153),
Suffolk 17Jul43. Named *Battle Queen/Peg of my Heart*
{first combat mission 15Aug43}. Failed to return from a shuttle mission to the Messerschmitt
aircraft factories at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43 (10INT). After bombing the target the
bomber turned towards the Alps heading for Algeria. Damaged by flak, force landed in
a potato field and came to a halt in a field of beans at Utzenstorf, nine miles north of
Bern, Switzerland. {2 missions}. MACR 391
30316 (MSN 5430) Accepted by USAAF 13May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 17May43.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20May43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 27May43. 390th Bomb Group, Great Falls AAB, MT 7Jun43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 30Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 10Jul43. Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via Iceland
to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland Jul43. 568th Bomb Squadron [BI*J], 390th Bomb Group,
Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk Jul43. Named "Madie"- Name of the pilot's girlfriend
{first combat mission 15Aug43}. Failed to return from a shuttle mission to the Messerschmitt
aircraft factories at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43 (1KIA:9POW). The bomber was hit by a
standard head-on attack by enemy fighters south of Frankfurt, damaging two engines
Shot down by Lt Alfred Grislawski in Bf 109G-5/R-6 of JG 50/1 .
One engine was shut down and the propeller feathered but the other engine continued to produce power.
The aircraft was dropping back from formation and unable to continue to the target. The pilot turned
south to follow the River Rhine to Switzerland. Further enemy fighter attacks damaged the internal
communications between crew members, particularly the gunners in the rear. With the co-pilot
injured and the second engine now failed, the pilot lowered the landing gear as a sign of surrender.
Unable to advise the gunners, they continued to fire at the enemy fighters which fought back
ferociously causing more damage to the bomber. By the time that the gunners had been
appraised of the situation, the aircraft was too low to bail out but two gunners did jump,
one being killed as he was too low for his parachute to open. The co-pilot regained
consciousness to find himself alone in the cockpit. The other officers were down at the
escape hatch when the co-pilot managed to bring the aircraft back under control just
as it hit the top of some trees, knocking off the landing gear. Fortunately, the bomber was
heading for an open field and a haystack which it went through destroying it in a flurry of hay.
The plane stopped but had been broken in two from which the remaining crew emerged
without serious injury. The crew was inexperienced and only on their second combat mission.
The bomber had crashed at Bellheim, ten miles north of Karlsruhe, Germany. {2 missions) MACR 390
30317 (MSN 5431) Accepted by USAAF 11May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 13May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 30May43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 15Jun43. 388th Bomb Group 17Jun43.
Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 21Jun43. 562nd Bomb Squadron [K], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136),
Suffolk Jun43. Named "Second Chance" {first combat mission 17Jul43}. Battle damaged
on a mission to the German Navy cruiser Nürnberg in the port area of Gdynia, Poland 9Oct43.
Crossing the Danish coast en route to the target, a few bursts of flak caused some holes in the
wings. Nearing Gdynia, a couple of bursts exploded and did some damage behind No.3 engine
and there was a ragged place out on the aileron. Battle damaged on a mission to the Kugelfischer-
Georg-Schäfer ball bearing factory at Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43 (10RTD). Enemy fighters
were encountered near Eupen, Belgium on the route in, all the way to the target, and back to the
French Coast. Flak was moderate to intense along the route but gave the most trouble over the
target area. The lead bombardier was unable to see a clear view of the target caused by smoke
from previous bombing. He set his bomb sight on the railway bridge over the Main river
so that the bombs struck the eastern end of the marshalling yards. On return, force landed
at RAF Kenley, Kent. Failed to return from a mission to the port at Bremen, Germany 26Nov43 (10KIA).
As the formation made a sharp turn after the target, an unrecognized B-17 with a triangle
on its tail and "FC 2" on its right waist began weaving around the formation. It slammed
into this plane and sheared off the tail. The mystery plane, initially thought to be a
German-captured Fortress employing ramming tactics, was later identified as B-17G 42-37838
of the 401st Bomb Group, flying on their first mission. The vertical stabiliser of #317 knocked
off the ball turret of #838, sending the gunner to his death. The tail section of #317
was severed, the aircraft turned over twice then entered a spin, crashing at Vehne Moor,
Bissel, near Ahlhorn, Germany. {21 missions}. MACR 3075.
30318 (MSN 5432) Accepted by USAAF 12May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 15May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 17May43.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 18May43.
Spokane Field, WA 26May43. 390th Bomb Group, Great Falls AAB, MT 7Jun43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 2Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 13Jul43. Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via Iceland
to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland Jul43. 570th Bomb Squadron [DI*G], 390th Bomb Group,
Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 15Jul43 Named "Devil's Daughter"
{first combat mission 15Aug43}. Failed to return from a mission to the industrial area at
Bremen, Germany 8Oct43 (1KIA:9POW). The formation was met with stiff resistance by
German fighters and flak crews on the ground the entire way, from the Dutch coast all the way
into the German heartland. In addition, a large force of German fighters launched vicious
attacks against the planes. Over the target, the formation encountered intense flak.
Just after dropping the bomb load, a Fw 190 released a rocket which exploded under
the bomber. The nose compartment was badly damaged and the bombardier wounded.
The navigator assisted the bombardier in bailing out to become a POW. The rocket had
set a wing on fire and then another German fighter fired cannon shells which wounded
both pilots. With the co-pilot killed, he remained in the bomber as the remaining crew
bailed out south of Bremen before the bomber exploded and crashed near Vechta, thirty-five
miles southwest of Bremen. {15 missions}. MACR 781.
30319 (MSN 5433) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 26May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 29May43.
15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm
Beach, FL 8Jun43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 419th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group,
Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 6Jul43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43.
49th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Massicault, Tunis, Tunisia 7Oct43.
{first combat mission 9Oct43}. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. {9 missions}. 419th Bomb
Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Oudna #2, Tunis, Tunisia 14Nov43. Cerignola #1,
Italy 10Dec43. Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. 353rd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group,
Foggia, Italy. Damaged landing at Foggia 9Feb44. {44 missions}. 414th Bomb Squadron,
97th Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 10May44. Named "Shirley our Girlie"
Failed to return from Operation Frantic, the first shuttle mission, to the railway marshalling
yards at Debrecen, Hungary 2Jun44 (7KIA:4POW). After the target, fuel was flowing back
over the left wing from No.2 engine. The pilot feathered the propeller and pulled out of
formation. He gradually fell behind and was losing altitude. Smoke was coming out of the
engine and then the aircraft turned as if it was going to return to base. While it was turning
it exploded. The plane was not hit by flak, as there was none over the entire area, and
no enemy aircraft were in the vicinity. The probable cause was that either a fuel cap
came loose, or the fuel line broke at the engine and sparks from the superchargers
or heat from the cylinders caused the combustion. Crashed near Debrecen MACR 6310.
30320 (MSN 5434) Accepted by USAAF 12May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great
Falls, MT 15May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 20May43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 28May43. 390th Bomb Group,
Great Falls AAB, MT 7Jun43. Langley Field, Hampton, VA 25Jun43. Cut Bank Field, MT 27Jun43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 1Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 11Jul43. Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via Iceland
to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland Jul43. 569th Bomb Squadron [CC*S], 390th Bomb Group,
Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk Jul43. Named "Coy De Coy" . {first combat mission 12Aug43}.
Damaged in a mid-air collision with B-17F 42-3306 on a mission to a Luftwaffe
airfield at Vitry-en-Artois, France 15Aug43. 42-3306 crashed, 30320 must have landed safely.
Badly damaged during a mission to the industrial
areas of Emden, Germany 11Dec43 (1KIA:4POW:5RTD). The Luftwaffe was waiting for the
bombers; the moment the bombers crossed over into mainland Europe, six twin-engine fighters
dived out of the sun upon the formation, concentrating all their fire on the lead plane.
Once the leader had been downed, the fighters swept through the lead Squadron.
Before the deputy lead had a chance to reassemble the formation, a large force of
single-engine fighters joined the fray, attacking the other bombers. Damaged by Flak,
and attacked by Messerschmitt Bf 110G fighters. As the bomber limped home with one
airmen fatally wounded, several crew members bailed out. Failed to return from a
mission to the Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft shipyard at Kiel, Germany 4Jan44 (10POW).
Shot down by flak and crashed in an orchard at Mienesz Farm, between Scharwoude
and Niedorp, Netherlands. {9 missions} MACR 14404.
30321 (MSN 5435) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY
14May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 29May43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field,
Oklahoma City, OK 18Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 27Jun43. Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 21Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa.
2nd Bomb Group, Massicault, Tunis, Tunisia Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43.
419th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Oudna #2, Tunis, Tunisia 14Nov43.
Failed to return from a mission to Ciampino airfield, Rome, Italy 29Nov43 (5KIA:5RTD).
En route to the target, an engine caught fire. Fearing an explosion, the crew bailed out
but a stiff wind blew them out to sea where several drowned. The bomber crashed at Villaputzu, Sardinia.
30322 (MSN 5436) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14May43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 30May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Jun43. 412th Bomb Squadron [QW*P], 95th Bomb Group,
Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 15Jun43. Named "Liberty Belle/Patches".
Battle damaged on mission to railway installations at Münster, Germany 10Oct43.
As they approached the city, the formation was swarmed by a large force of enemy aircraft
for an estimated forty-five minutes of vicious fighting. By the time their friendly fighter
escorts arrived to drive off the Luftwaffe, the damage had already been done. {45 missions}.
2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton (Station 547), Huntingdonshire 18May44.
Salvaged after non battle damage 23Jun44
30323 (MSN 5437) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 15May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 20May43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field,
Dallas, TX 16Jun43. Roswell Field, NM 2Jun43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 17Jul43.
5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 28Jul43. Roswell Field, NM 29Jul43.
3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44.
3010th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 9Dec44.
Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment;
designated TB-17F. 3020th Base Unit (Pilot School, Advanced, Two Engine), La Junta Field, CO 20Apr45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Searcy Field, Stillwater, OK for storage and disposal 4Aug45.
War Assets Corporation. Sold to Paul Mantz 19Feb46; scrapped
30324 (MSN 5438) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 14May43.
5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 16Jun43. Roswell Field, NM 22Jun43. 5th Ferrying Group,
Love Field, Dallas, TX 17Jul43. Roswell Field, NM 29Jul43. 435th Bomb Squadron [PY-324],
19th Bomb Group, Pyote Field, TX 9Nov43. 871st Bomb Squadron, 497th Bomb Group,
Pratt Field, KS. Damaged landing at Port Columbus, OH 3Jun44. 2114th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 4Jun44. Salvaged 13Jun44.
30325 (MSN 5439) Accepted by USAAF 14May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 18May43. Spokane Field, WA 20May43. Portland AAB, OR 4Jun43.
390th Bomb Group, Great Falls AAB, MT 7Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 2Jul43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 13Jul43.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland Jul43.
570th Bomb Squadron [DI*D], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 18Jul43.
Named "Miss Carry". {first combat mission 17Aug43}. Battle damaged during a
mission to railway installations at Münster, Germany 10Oct43 (1WIA:9RTD). As they approached
the city, the formation was swarmed by a large force of enemy aircraft for an estimated
forty-five minutes of vicious fighting. By the time their friendly fighter escorts arrived to drive
off the Luftwaffe, the damage had already been done. Before reaching the I.P., a large piece of
flak shrapnel had torn a hole in a thigh of the pilot. He used the rubber extension cord from his
intercom connection as a tourniquet and wrapped his white flying scarf round the wound.
He was able to assist the co-pilot during the bomb run and safely landed after the third
attempt in fog at Framlingham. Accident during a mission to the railway marshalling yards
at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 29Jan44. The plane was over Germany when the ball turret
gunner reported a B-17 underneath getting too close. Suddenly there was a tremendous
jolt; it had been rammed by the other plane, B-17F 42-30334. The pilot ordered the crew
to bail out. The enlisted men tried to open the entry door but it wouldn’t budge.
Then the co-pilot called to cancel the bail out order. One of the engines was smoking but
the propeller was feathered. The plane couldn’t keep up with the formation and so turned
back for England. The pilot dropped down low over the tree tops to avoid German fighters.
It landed at RAF Woodbridge emergency landing airfield, Suffolk. Battle damaged on a
mission to the Heinkel Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory at Oranienburg, Germany 9Mar44.
The plane was seriously damaged by flak before reaching the target. After realizing that the
aircraft was haemorrhaging oil, the crew was forced to abort and turn the plane around.
Despite being alone and heavily damaged, and easy prey for Luftwaffe fighters, the bomber was
able to land safely back at Framlingham. Battle damaged on a tactical mission in support of
Operation Overlord to a Luftwaffe airfield at Saint-Omer, France 12Jun44 (1KIA:9RTD);
the co-pilot was killed. {final combat mission 12Jun44}. {53 missions}. Salvaged at
Greencastle (Station 237), County Down, Northern Ireland 2May45)
30326 (MSN 5440) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 15May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 17May43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 26May43.
5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 20Jun43. Rapid City Field, SD 27Jun43. Geiger Field,
Spokane, WA 21Jul43. 541st Bomb Squadron, 383rd Bomb Group, Pendleton Field, OR 25Jul43.
Crashed on Cape Lookout, west of Portland, OR 2Aug43 (9KIS:1RTD); the bombardier was the
only survivor. The pilot was flying along through the fog, unable to see the cape looming just
ahead. He had started climbing but just a few seconds too late. The aircraft flew into this
coastal finger of land topped with old growth timber at 200 mph. It almost cleared the 900
foot high cape, but trees began knocking parts off the plane. One of the nine crewmen and
about a third of the airplane kept going along off the south edge of Cape Lookout and into
the water and onto the rocks below
30327 (MSN 5441) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 15May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 17May43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field,
Dallas, TX 19May43. 548th Two Engine Flying Training Squadron, 314th Two Engine Flying
Training Group, Roswell Field, NM 27Jun43. Damaged Roswell Field, NM 22Feb44. Salvaged 27Feb44.
30328 MSN 5442) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 17May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 18May43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 4Jun43. United Air Lines,
Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 9Jun43. Smoky Hill Field,
Salina, KS 12Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 27Jun43.
Equipped with Oboe Mk I radar. 92nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire Aug43.
813th Bomb Squadron [PC*B], 482nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire 25Aug43.
Equipped with H2S airborne radar, fitted with radome in place of chin turret. Used for radio counter measures
Conflict:
Quoted as transferred to Royal Air Force 21Jan44 as Fortress Mark II, serial SR379. No.214 (
Federated Malay States) Squadron [BU-D], No.100 Group, RAF Sculthorpe, Norfolk 3Feb44.
RAF Oulton, Aylsham, Norfolk 16May44. No.51 Maintenance Unit, RAF Lichfield,
Staffordshire 31Dec44. Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, Hampshire 22Feb45.
Used for trials involving Oboe, altimeters, and ‘supersonic bombs’ for storage. Sold to
International Alloys Ltd 11Mar47. SOC 11Mar47.
The RAF Record Card does not quote the USAAF serial but states that the aircraft came from a
unit at Snetterton Heath. The RAF serials were allocated in sequence with the USAAF serials.
This would suggest an aircraft from the block 42-30241 (SR378) to 42-30639 (SR380) but
there doesn’t appear to be an obvious candidate from the 96th Bomb Group. Also quoted as being B-17F 42-30451 and 42-3169
30329 (MSN 5443) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 15May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 17May43. United Air Lines,
Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20May43. Smoky Hill Field,
Salina, KS 30May43. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command,
Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 7Jun43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 352nd Bomb Squadron,
301st Bomb Group, Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 9Jun43. Oudna #1,
Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Cerignola #1, Italy 9Dec43.
Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. Failed to return from a mission to the Messerschmitt
aircraft factory at Regensburg, Germany 25Feb44 (10POW). Enemy fighters started to attack
fifteen miles east of Klagenfurt, Austria on the way to the target. Shot down by enemy fighters
just before the target setting No.1 and 4 engines on fire. The aircraft dropped out of formation,
the crew bailed out over Austria and it crashed on the side of a mountain near Saalfelden, Austria.
{60 missions}. MACR 2595
30330 (MSN 5444) Accepted by USAAF 13May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 28May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 29May43. Dyersburg Field, TN 27Jun43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 22Jul43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 2Aug43. Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic
route via Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland Aug43. 568th Bomb Squadron [BI*A],
390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 4Aug43. Code changed to BI*A
after 42-30308 was lost. Named "Blood,Guts and Rust II" . {first combat
mission 2Sep43}. Failed to return from a mission to the industrial area at Bremen,
Germany 8Oct43 (6POW:4KIA). The formation was met with stiff resistance by German
fighters and flak crews on the ground the entire way, from the Dutch coast all the way
into the German heartland. In addition, a large force of German fighters launched vicious
attacks against the planes. Over the target, the formation encountered intense flak.
Flak damaged No.2 and No.3 engines with a third on fire. Crashed Quelkhorn, Ottersberg,
northeast of Bremen, Germany. {8 missions}. . MACR 784.
30331 (MSN 5445) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 28May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 29May43.
Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 19Jun43. Combat Crew Training School,
Casper Field, WY 28Jun43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 30Jun43.
Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 6Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 9Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa 10Jul43. Air Transport Command.
During the ferry flight from USA to North Africa, the plane force landed with fuel exhaustion
and was damaged taxying at St Eval (Station 129), Cornwall 14Aug43. Condemned 8Jul44.
42-30332/30431 Boeing B-17F-100-BO Fortress
MSN 5446/5545. Dispositions from Stewart Lanhan and B-17 Fortress Master Log, Dave Osborne (FORTLOG)
Production changes: Changes to rudder balance and tail gun ammunition holder. Minor electrical changes.
30332 MSN 5446) Accepted by USAAF 14May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 15May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 17May43.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20May43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 28May43. Walla Walla Field, WA 3Jun43. 390th Bomb Group, Great
Falls AAB, MT 7Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 30Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 10Jul43. Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via
Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland Jul43. 571st Bomb Squadron [FC*N],
390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk Jul43.
Named "Short Stuff" later "Spirit of 76". {first combat mission 12Aug43}. Failed
to return from a mission to the Heinkel Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory at Oranienburg,
Germany 18Apr44 (10INT). The bombers arrived over Oranienburg to find the town covered
by a thick undercast. Forced to decide between abandoning the mission or bringing the
formation down under the clouds, the air leader had the planes drop down to 17,000ft
in order to make their attack run. The bomber encountered intense flak over Oranienburg.
Losing fuel and with engine problems, it force landed at Bulltofta, Malmö, Sweden. {28 missions}.
Crew, accompanied by Swedish and US officials, flew back to UK 1944. Aircraft departed Sweden 16Jun45
MACR 4012
30333 (MSN 5447) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 17May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 30May43. Air Service
Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 19Jun43. Combat Crew Training School, Casper
Field, WY 28Jun43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 30Jun43. Greenville AAB, SC 7Jul43.
Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 10Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 12Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 32nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group,
Named "Sandman".Painted by Sgt Eugene Townsend (32BS/301BG). Saint-Donat (New Zealand),
Tadjenanet, Algeria Aug43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43.
Cerignola #1, Italy 10Dec43. Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. {18 missions}.
341st Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Amendola. Declared ‘war weary’. Reassigned for utility,
training and weather check aircraft 15Jul44. Salvaged 14Oct44
30334 (MSN 5448) Accepted by USAAF 14May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 15May43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 28May43. 390th Bomb Group,
Great Falls AAB, MT 7Jun43. Chanute Field, Rantoul, IL 22Jun43. Lewistown Field, MT 23Jun43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 2Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 13Jul43. Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via Iceland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland Jul43. 570th Bomb Squadron [DI*E], 390th Bomb Group,
Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 15Jul43.
Named "Virgin Sturgeon/Eight Ball". {first combat mission 12Aug43}.
Participated in a shuttle mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factories at Regensburg,
Germany 17Aug43. After the target, the mission continued on to Bertoux, Algeria. Later
positioned to Telergma, Constantine, Algeria. Returned to Framlingham on a mission to
a Luftwaffe air depot at Mérignac, Bordeaux, France 24Aug43. Flown on a mission to Rjukan,
seventy-five miles west of Oslo, Norway 16Nov43. The target was the pen-stocks down the
mountain from the dam for the hydro-electric building in the valley below. This building also
contained the Norwegian heavy water plant which was being used by the Germans to provide
heavy water for their experimentation in the development of the atomic/hydrogen bomb.
Neither the lead navigator nor bombardier could locate anything resembling the target
during two passes over the area. Failed to return from a mission to the railway marshalling
yards at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 29Jan44 (10POW). Mid-air collision with B-17F 42-30325
breaking off part of right wing, later shot down by Lt. Karl-Heinz Grunert in Me-110G-4 of NJG 6/5.
The pilot attempted to fly to Switzerland but crashed in Lake Constance, near Friedrichshafen,
Germany. {32 missions. MACR 2271
30335 (MSN 5449) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 18May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 1Jun43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 2Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 3Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Jul43. Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander,
Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 4/5Jul43. 350th Bomb Squadron [LN*U],
100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk Jul43. Named "Sans Finis"
Failed to return from a mission to the Bosch magneto factory at Stuttgart, Germany 6Sep43
(1KIA:9INT). With bad weather over Germany, the bomber was en route to attack a secondary
target of a Luftwaffe air base in France. Flak damaged engine No.1 and No.3, crash
landed Villingen, NW of Donaueschingen, Germany. MACR 687.
30336 (MSN 5450) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 17May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 1Jun43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 2Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 4Jun43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 27Jun43. 548th Bomb Squadron [GX*E],
385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 27Jun43. Named *Miss Nonalee II*
Failed to return from a mission to the Focke-Wulf aircraft factory at Marienburg, East Prussia 9Oct43 (10POW).
Number two engine oversped; it was necessary to feather the propeller and the pilot decided to turn back.
Five minutes later number two engine lost power and the pilot decided to land in Denmark since
they would not be able to reach England. When they reached land the captain ordered the crew to bail
out starting with the tail gunner and working up to the front of the ship. The radio operator had by accident
opened his chute in the aircraft and was thus afraid to jump. The pilot gave him his own parachute
and would then try to land the aircraft. He made a perfect wheels down landing in a field belonging
to Nørholm Gods estate, near Varde, Denmark. He tried to set the aircraft on fire but could not get it
to burn, and when he saw people approaching the aircraft he ran away. MACR 824.
The aircraft was repaired and used by Luftwaffe at the Luftwaffen Erprobungsstelle Rechlin, Germany.
Operated by Luftwaffe KG200 [code 7+8] 28Aug44. Written off 4Apr45.
30337 (MSN 5451) Accepted by USAAF 14May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 18May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 20May43. Geiger Field,
Spokane, WA 28May43. 390th Bomb Group, Great Falls AAB, MT 7Jun43. Smoky Hill Field,
Salina, KS 2Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 13Jul43.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland Jul43.
570th Bomb Squadron [DI*B], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk Jul43.. Named "Eightball"
{first combat mission 12Aug43}. Accident during a mission to the Citroen airplane engine
factory at Meulan, Paris, France 26Sep43 (1KIA:9RTD); the radio operator died of anoxia. Battle
damaged during a mission to the industrial area of Emden, Germany 2Oct43. Battle damaged
on a mission to railway installations at Münster, Germany 10Oct43. As they approached
the city, the formation was swarmed by a large force of enemy aircraft for an estimated
forty-five minutes of vicious fighting. By the time their friendly fighter escorts arrived to
drive off the Luftwaffe, the damage had already been done. The No.3 engine was struck by
flak before reaching the target and began trailing smoke. The plane lost altitude but the
pilot made a solo run to bomb the target. Turning for home and alone, the bomber made
an easy target for the German fighters. The pilot dived down into cloud cover at 16,000ft.
A fighter was shot down by the top turret gunner. Entering another bank of cloud at 3,000ft,
by this time the No.4 engine was on fire as the bomber entered Dutch airspace. Avoiding the
flak defences around Rotterdam, the pilot headed out across the North Sea, so low that salt
spray was soaking the waist gunners. With the fire still raging, the pilot prepared the crew for
ditching. Just then he spotted a large rolling wave. Gambling that it might extinguish the fire,
the pilot dropped down lower and the wave washed over the wing. As the throttles were opened
wide to prevent the bomber from stalling on striking the surface, the fire was out and the pilot
made a successful emergency landing at a fighter base in East Anglia. As the bomber touched down,
the No.4 propeller spun off and rolled ahead down the runway. Battle damaged on a mission to
railway installations at Münster, Germany 10Oct43. As they approached the city, the formation
was swarmed by a large force of enemy aircraft for an estimated forty-five minutes of vicious
fighting. By the time their friendly fighter escorts arrived to drive off the Luftwaffe, the damage
had already been done. The bomber was hit by an aerial rocket from a Bf-110, the right wing
was almost sheared off about twelve feet from the tip, and the aircraft was forced to leave the
formation. By using the trim tabs, excess left rudder and help from the Bombardier who, with
the pilots, pulled on the control column, they were able to get the bomber headed home.
As the “Eightball” proceeded across the North Sea, the enemy fighters left, but trouble still loomed.
The engines were laboring very hard in holding altitude and escaping the enemy fighters.
Also the engines were very noisy and it was questionable whether they would last long enough
to get the plane to England. As the aircraft approached the 390th Bomb Group home base at
Framlingham, the weather closed in with almost zero visibility. After making one unsuccessful pass,
the Control Tower ordered “Eightball” to proceed to Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk,
home of the 100th Bomb Group. Before landing at the 100th, one engine was feathered and another
engine was providing minimum power. The landing was rather rough, due to lack of visibility,
drag from the damaged wing and inadequate power from the engines. The plane overran and
ended up in a small ditch off the runway. The crew was very relieved to be down with no one harmed.
Transferred to 571st BS. Named "Flak Hack"--'Flak Hack’ was written
with a circle, above and below a number 8 ball. Failed to return from a mission to an aircraft
factory at Brunswick, Germany 10Feb44 (7KIA:3POW). Fell behind in the formation when the bomb
doors would not close after the target. Shot down by enemy fighters and crash landed at Streipe,
near Lingen (Ems), Germany. {30 missions) MACR 2503
30338 (MSN 5452) Accepted by USAAF 14May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 21May43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 28May43. 390th Bomb Group,
Great Falls AAB, MT 7Jun43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 12Jun43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 29Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 10Jul43. Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via Iceland
to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland Jul43. 571st Bomb Squadron [FC*P], 390th Bomb Group,
Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk Jul43
Named "Cabin in the Sky", renamed "Rough Group", then "Dorothy Dee".
Reverted to "Cabin in the Sky"--named for the Broadway musical.
{first combat mission 15Aug43}. Participated in a shuttle mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factories
at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43. After the target, the mission continued on to Bertoux, Algeria.
Later positioned to Telergma, Constantine, Algeria. Returned to Framlingham on a mission to a
Luftwaffe air depot at Mérignac, Bordeaux, France 24Aug43. Battle damaged on a mission to
Friedrichstrasse railway station, Berlin, Germany 7May44 (1WIA:9RTD). Take off was normal
and all went well until the bomber met heavy flak between the I.P. and the target. There were
faults with two of the engines and also problems with the oxygen supply. The plane could not
keep up with the group, so the crew jettisoned the bombs and set course for home. The pilots
decided to make the run home at about twenty-five feet above ground to avoid enemy fighters or
being spotted on enemy radar. As they hurtled along, skimming just above hedges, trees and power
cables, people flattened themselves on the ground as the B-17 roared by. Then the plane came to
what appeared to be a fortification but soon proved to be the dyke of a canal, complete with German
gunners on barges who hit them with 20mm rounds. The ball turret gunner came out of his turret and
stood in the radio room, thinking he would be safer in the aircraft. Somewhat ironically, he was the
only crew member to be injured by the barge gunners. The gunners also severed the trim tab cables
which caused the nose to drop. The B-17 would have ploughed in had it not plunged through the trees
and lifted the nose as the pilots fought to recover control. Fortunately, over the sea the crew saw a
P-38 Lightning and a P-47 Thunderbolt who escorted them home where the plane made a normal landing.
The ground crew had a lot of work to do. One propeller was split, the Plexiglas was shattered, the
leading edges and engine cowls were smashed and there were holes and foliage everywhere.
There was broken glass and sea water in the ball turret. {final combat mission 13Sep44}. {61 missions}.
Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 4Jul45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 14Aug45
30339 (MSN 5453) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 17May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 19May43. Smoky Hill Field,
Salina, KS 29May43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 13Jun43. Combat
Crew Training School, Casper Field, WY 28Jun43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 13Jun43. Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 4Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 7Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 347th Bomb Squadron,
99th Bomb Group, Navarin (Overcoat), El Eulma, Algeria 29Jul43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia,
Tunisia 4Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. 340th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group,
Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 14Nov43. Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43. San Giovanni, Cerignola,
Italy 20Dec43. Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44. Returned to US. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport
Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 21Jun44. 302nd Base Unit (Staging Wing),
Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 29Jun44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 1Aug45
30340 (MSN 5454) Accepted by USAAF 15May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 18May43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 4Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 25Jun43. 563rd Bomb Squadron [Z], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136),
Suffolk 26Jun43. Named "Dry Run/Screamin' Red Ass"– artwork of an ass painted
red and screaming. Name, artwork and mission count painted both sides of nose.
(first combat mission 12Aug43}. Battle damaged on a mission to the Luftwaffe airfields at Poix-Nord
and Abbeville-Drucat, France 16Aug43 (10RTD). Approaching the target, when the bombardier
opened the bomb bay doors, a burst of flak caught in the bomb bay releasing seven bombs early.
Participated in a shuttle mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factories at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43.
After the target, the bomber turned south and landed at the Twelfth Air Force base at Bône, Algeria.
Later positioned to Telergma, Algeria. On return to England, operated a mission to a Luftwaffe
air depot at Mérignac, Bordeaux, France 24Aug43. Battle damaged on a mission to the port area
at Bremen, Germany 20Dec43 (10RTD). Attacked by a large force of enemy fighters and flak over
the target area was very intense. Failed to return from a mission to the VKF (Vereinigte
Kugellagerfabriken) ball bearing factory at Erkner, Berlin, Germany 8Mar44 (9KIA:1POW).
Very determined enemy fighter opposition was met en route to the target during a lapse of the
friendly escorts. The primary target was not able to be bombed as planned, so diverted to a
factory complex at Wildau, southeast of Berlin. Flak was not heavy or effective over the
target, but a large force of enemy fighters engaged the bomber formation as it headed for home.
Shot down by Bf 109 fighters, the plane was last seen with No.3 propeller feathered and both
wings damaged. Crashed Neu-Ummendorf, near Eilsleben, nineteen miles west of Magdeburg, Germany. {46 missions}.
MACR 3079
30341 (MSN 5455) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 18May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 25May43. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command,
Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 8Jun43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 419th Bomb Squadron,
301st Bomb Group, Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 1Jul43. Battle damaged by
flak on a mission to railway marshalling yards at Naples, Italy 15Jul43. {2 missions}.
Transferred to 429th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Massicault, Tunis, Tunisia 2Aug43.
{first combat mission 17Aug43}. {8 missions}. Tramsferred tp 419th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group,
Oudna #2, Tunis, Tunisia 7Oct43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Cerignola #1, Italy 10Dec43.
Failed to return from a mission to the harbor at Piraeus, Greece 11Jan44 (7KIA:3RTD). Mid-air collision
and crashed at Kalavatra, Greece. On that fateful day, the briefed mission was for the 5th Wing
composed of the 2nd, 97th, 301st and 99th Bomb Groups, to fly on a southerly course through the
heel of Italy to the town of Lecce where the Wing would then take a heading out over the Adriatic Sea,
to a point over the Peloponnese peninsula of Greece. From this point the crews were briefed to
complete a 90° degree turn to the Initial Point over Lagousa Island. From there the mission
dictated a straight run in to the target, reassemble, and return to base. After the formation
was organized and began making its way to the target, the Groups ran into a weather front of 10/10 clouds.
At eighteen thousand feet they entered an overcast. The clouds were very thick and visibility
was not much beyond the wingtips, making it almost impossible to see other aircraft in the formation.
At that altitude, and with the thickness of the clouds, ice began to form on their wings. In such
situations it was standard operating procedure for trailing squadrons in the formation to fly
off course for a couple minutes to obtain some spacing from the lead squadron, which would
continue to maintain its course. However, as the 97th Bomb Group began making a left turn
for their bomb run on the target, the lead plane of the 342nd Bomb Squadron encountered
severe turbulence made by the preceding elements of the Wing. The turbulence was so severe
that the lead aircraft of the squadron was forced into a steep left bank before it plummeted
temporarily out of control and lost altitude at a rate of 1,000ft per minute. By the time the pilot
was able to recover and regain his place in formation, the two sister planes in the flight were
nowhere to be seen. Meanwhile, the pilots of the two sister planes from the flight,
B-17F No.42-3251 and B-17F No.42-29918 found themselves alone in 10/10 visibility, unsure
where the formation had disappeared to, with ice forming on their wings, and experiencing
engine trouble. From what was deduced later in the accident report, the doomed B-17s made the
decision to abort and turn back for the relative safety of Italy. In a tragic turn of events, their
decision to return home took them directly into the path of the oncoming 301st Bomb Group.
According to the official report of the Board of Inquiry, the two B-17s of the 97th Bomb Group
experienced engine trouble and left the formation. Instead of making a 180-degree right turn,
away from the formation, the aircraft made a turn to the left and flew head-on into the 301st formation.
According to a Bombardier assigned to the lead ship of the 301st Bomb Group, and flown
by the Group Commanding Officer, he was startled to see a pair of 97th Bomb Group B-17s emerge
out of a cloud about 20 degrees to the left and aimed straight at his aircraft. Almost Instantly,
both B-17s bracketed his aircraft, with one passing closely over his right wing that clipped the
vertical stabiliser, and the other closely passing beneath the left wing. Almost immediately,
the tail gunner witnessed a big ball of fire that lit up the clouds as the B-17s collided with one
Fortress in the lead element, and two B-17s in the second element. P-38 pilots, flying low cover
escort under the overcast, reported watching pieces of B-17s raining from the sky for what
seemed like five minutes. There were eight B-17s that fell out of the sky simultaneously.
Thirteen Americans survived; 64 perished. {64 missions}
30342 (MSN 5456) Accepted by USAAF 17MAy43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 20May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 30May43. Wright Field, Dayton, OH 30Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 20Jul43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 22Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 25Jul43. Ferried from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to St Angelo, Enniskillen,
Northern Ireland and Prestwick, Scotland 25/26Jul43. 334th Bomb Squadron [BG*B],
95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 28Jul43. Named *Taint A Bird II*,
{54 missions}. Base Air Depot No.1, Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire. Modified as a drone for
Operation Aphrodite missions. Designated BQ-7. 562nd Bomb Squadron, 388th Bomb Group,
Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk, later at Fersfield (Station 554), Norfolk. Expended on Aphrodite
mission to the V2 rocket complex at Watten, France 4Aug44, experienced control problems and
crashed at Gravelines, France probably due to flak damage.
30343 (MSN 5457) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 20May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 30May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 3Jun43. Air Service Command,
Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 13Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 22Jun43. Combat Crew Training
School, Casper Field, WY 28Jun43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 30Jun43.
Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 4Jul43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 11Jul43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 12Jul43. Twelfth Air Force,
North Africa. 346th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Navarin (Overcoat), El Eulma, Algeria 30Jul43.
Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 4Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. 342nd Bomb Squadron,
97th Bomb Group, Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 14Nov43. Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43. San Giovanni,
Cerignola, Italy 20Dec43. Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44. Failed to return from a mission
to the Steyr-Daimler-Puch ball bearing factory at Steyr, Austria 2Apr44 (7KIA:3POW). Flak was slight,
scattered and inaccurate. Enemy fighters first attacked from the nose in groups of threes and
fours then singly from all angles. This encounter lasted thirty minutes. Shot down by enemy fighters,
crashed at Maria Neustift, Austria. MACR 3586
30344 (MSN 5458) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 20May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 31May43.
15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm
Beach, FL 8Jun43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 32nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group,
Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 20Jun43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43
Named "The Lady Evelyn". Failed to return from a mission to the Luftwaffe airfield at
Capua, Naples, Italy 4Sep43 (1KIA:5POW:3RTD) damaged by Fw. Horst Schlick in
Bf 109G-6 of JG 77/1 and ditched 20-30 mi W of Naples, Italy
MACR 513. (13 missions). The date in the first page
of the MACR is Oct 4, 1943, which is wrong.
[reported erroneously as being shot down by Italian P-38].
30345 (MSN 5459) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 31May43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 13Jun43.
Combat Crew Training School, Casper Field, WY 28Jun43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 30Jun43. Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 7Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 9Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 352nd Bomb Squadron,
301st Bomb Group, Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 15Jul43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia,
Tunisia 6Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Battle damaged on a mission to railway marshalling
yards at Bolzano, Italy 10Nov43 (10KIA). Crash landed at Calvi, Corsica. {23 missions}.
30346 (MSN 5460) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 31May43. Dyersburg Field, TN 27Jun43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 22Jul43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 31Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa.
419th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Oudna #2, Tunis, Tunisia 18Aug43. {15 missions}.
El Aouina, Tunis, Tunisia. Modified to transport supplies to partisans and engaged in night time
special operations missions supporting partisans and parachuting Allied agents into enemy
territory. Ball turret removed, engine exhaust flame dampeners fitted and the aircraft painted black.
Special Flight Section, Twelfth Air Force, Blida, Algeria Sep43. 122nd Bomb Squadron,
68th Tactical Reconnaissance Group, Blida, Algeria 10Apr44. During a search mission,
the plane crashed into mountains on attempting to return to a diversionary base at Maison
Blanche, Algeria 27Apr44 (14KIS). Salvaged.
30347 (MSN 5461) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 20May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 30May43.
15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm
Beach, FL 9Jun43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 419th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group,
Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 3Jul43. Named "Miss Ponnie"
Battle damaged by flak on a tactical mission to a railway bridge at Messina, Sicily 12Jul43.
Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43. Battle damaged by heavy flak on a tactical
mission to a railway bridge at Bolzano, Italy 25Sep43. Battle damaged during a mission
to the Messerschmitt factory at Augsburg, Germany 1Oct43. During the approach to mainland
Italy north of Florence there was anti-aircraft fire from the ground and a few attacks by
enemy fighters, which, however, had liitle effect. Most of the remaining distance was flown
between two layers of cloud at an altitude of 6,000 meters. North of the Alps, the formation
encountered a deep, closed cloud cover that stretched far to the north. Because of the
poor visibility, the mission was aborted 50km from Augsburg. They then proceeded to an
alternate target of shipping off Bastia, Corsica. Flak and enemy fighters caused damage to
the plane. Battle damaged by heavy flak on a tactical mission to a railway bridge at
Guilianova, Italy 14Oct43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Cerignola #1, Italy 10Dec43.
Battle damaged by flak on a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Fréjorgues, Montpellier,
France 27Jan44. On return the plane force landed safely at Naples, Italy. Foggia #8 (Longskirt),
Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. Failed to return from a mission to the stores and machine shops
at Wöllersdorf airfield, Wiener Neustädt, Vienna, Austria 29May44 (10POW). Just
before reaching the target, No.1 engine caught fire and the pilot left the formation to
turn back towards base. It was last seen under control but crashed at Vebelbach, Austria.
{98 missions}. MACR 5445.
30348 (MSN 5462) Accepted by USAAF 17May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 18May43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 27May43.
390th Bomb Group, Great Falls AAB, MT 7Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 9Jul43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 14Jul43.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via Kindley Field, Bermuda 22Jul43.
569th Bomb Squadron [CC*N], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk Jul43.
Named "Royal Flush". (first combat mission 12Aug43}. Battle damaged during a
mission to a synthetic oil plant at Wesseling, Germany 12Aug43 (10RTD). At the I.P. it was
impossible to identify the target because of the sun, which was directly ahead of the
formation obscuring the target. As a consequence, the primary target was abandoned
and the Group proceeded to their secondary target of an optical instrument factory in Bonn.
The tail gunner’s compartment was torn off by a falling bomb from another B-17;
the tail gunner survived. Battle damaged during a mission to railway installations at
Münster, Germany 10Oct43 (2WIA). As they approached the city, the formation was
swarmed by a large force of enemy aircraft for an estimated forty-five minutes of vicious
fighting. By the time their friendly fighter escorts arrived to drive off the Luftwaffe,
the damage had already been done. Returned to base with two engines disabled and
a large hole in a wing. Failed to return from a mission to the Deschimag submarine
construction yard at Vegesack, Bremen, Germany 16Dec43 (10POW). Shot down by
enemy fighter pf JG 11, crashed Augustfehn, ten miles northwest of Bad Zwischenahn,
Germany. {25 missions shot down by fighter of JG 11 near
Augustfehn, Germany. MACR 1728.
30349 (MSN 5463) Accepted by USAAF 17May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 2Jun43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 4Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 27Jun43.
563rd Bomb Squadron [W], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 1Jul43.
{first combat mission 26Jul43}. Battle damaged on a mission to the Gerhard Fieseler
Werke (GFW) aircraft works at Waldau, Kassel, Germany 30Jul43 (10RTD).
A large force of enemy fighters was encountered along the route from the Dutch
coast to the target and out, but broke off the attacks over the target area.
Flak was moderate over the route, but intense and accurate over the target. Further flak
was encountered on return over Antwerp. Participated in a shuttle mission to the Messerschmitt
aircraft factories at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43. After the target, the bomber turned
south and landed at the Twelfth Air Force base at Bône, Algeria. Later positioned to
Telergma, Algeria. On return to England, operated a mission to a Luftwaffe air depot
at Mérignac, Bordeaux, France 24Aug43. Failed to return from a mission to the Bosch
magneto factory at Stuttgart, Germany 6Sep43 (8KIA:2EVD). With bad weather over Germany,
the bomber attempted to attack a secondary target of a Luftwaffe air base to the southwest
of Strasbourg, France. Failing again to find the target, the bombs were jettisoned into the Black Forest.
Shot down by Fw 190A-6 flown by Maj Egon Mayer of JG 2/Stab at Montgueux,
France. MACR 2409. The bomber went around in a large circle. A member
of the crew had jumped, his parachute opened, then he was caught up by the airplane and was hooked
on a propeller. The plane crashed and was destroyed by fire between Macey and Montgueux, five miles
west of Troyes, France. {6 missions}
30350 (MSN 5464) Accepted by USAAF 17May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 20May43. Spokane Field, WA 21May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 1Jun43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 2Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 4Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 27Jun43.
563rd Bomb Squadron [Y], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 27Jun43.
{first combat mission 30Jul43}. Battle damaged on a mission to the Gerhard Fieseler Werke (GFW) aircraft
works at Waldau, Kassel, Germany 30Jul43 (10RTD). A large force of enemy fighters was encountered
along the route from the Dutch coast to the target and out, but broke off the attacks over the target area.
Flak was moderate over the route, but intense and accurate over the target. Further flak was encountered
on return over Antwerp. Failed to return from a mission to the Luftwaffe air depot at Mérignac, Bordeaux,
France 5Dec43 (10RTD). When the target was found to be completely obscured, the Group turned to its
secondary target, the Luftwaffe airfield at Cognac. Finding this target also obscured and facing a
fuel shortage, the planes began jettisoning their bomb loads. Meagre flak along the route intensified
over target and about a dozen fighters attacked. Severely battle damaged and with fuel exhaustion
and darkness on return, the plane ditched in the Celtic Sea, five miles southwest of the Scilly Isles.
The crew was rescued. {16 missions)
30351 (MSN 5465) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 25May43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 3Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 1Jul43. 339th Bomb Squadron, 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton
Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 12Jul43. Named"Excaliber/Alcohol Annie"
Failed to return from a mission to the AGO-Flugzeugwerke Fw 190 manufacturing factory at
Oschersleben, Germany 28Jul43 (2KIA:3POW). Shot down by fighter over North Sea off Netherlands.
MACR 142.
30352 (MSN 5466) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 1Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 4Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 6Jun43. Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 22/23May43. 333rd Bomb Squadron [TS*G], 94th Bomb Group,
Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 27Jun43. Named "Thundermug II",
410th Bomb Squadron [GL*G]. Named "Polly Jo" Salvaged after non battle damage 2May45. .
30353 (MSN 5467) Accepted by USAAF 17May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 23May43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training
Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 3Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 27Jun43. 335th Bomb Squadron [OE*Z], 95th Bomb Group,
Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 27Jun43. 334th Bomb Squadron [BG*C]. {38 missions}.
Named TEN KNIGHTS IN A BAR ROOM. Modified for radio counter measures.
803rd Bomb Squadron (H) Provisional, RAF Oulton. Base Air Depot No.1, Burtonwood (Station 590),
Lancashire. Modified as a drone for Operation Aphrodite and Castor missions. Designated BQ-7.
562nd Bomb Squadron, 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk, later at Fersfield
(Station 554), Norfolk. Expended on Aphrodite mission to Herford railway marshalling yards,
Germany 5Dec44. Target not located due to cloud cover, so directed at alternate target of Haldorf,
crashed outside town. MACR 11134
30354 (MSN 5468) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 2Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 3Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 20Jun43. 549th Bomb Squadron [XA*X], 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155),
Suffolk 1Jul43. Named 'Sweet 17/Hustlin' Hussy'. Failed to return from a mission
to the industrial area at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 29Jan44. One engine was disabled
by flak during bomb run over Frankfurt Jan 29, 1944 and was
subsequently severely damaged by enemy fighters. Aircraft
was able to reach Belgian airspace where the
crew bailed out near Chaleroi, Belgium. MACR 2268 All POW
except the right waist gunner who had been killed during the
fighter attacks.
30355 (MSN 5469) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23May43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 4Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 1Jul43.
337th Bomb Squadron, 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 4Jul43.
Named "Dallas Rebel" Failed to return from a mission to the AGO-Flugzeugwerke Fw 190
manufacturing factory at Oschersleben, Germany 28Jul43 (6POW:4KIA). Shot down by enemy
fighters, crashed North Sea, NW of Frisian Island. The bomber, which was part of a flight of four
planes within a larger wave of 300, had taken off from Snetterton Heath to strike the Focke-Wulf
sub-contractor factory in Oschersleben. As the planes approached Germany’s northern coast,
approximately thirty miles west of the islands of Heligoland, German fighters intercepted and
attacked the flight of bombers. One by one, the fighters knocked out the three other aircraft in the
formation, leaving Dallas Rebel alone to defend itself. In an effort to protect his aircraft,
the pilot flew the B-17 into a larger formation of bombers. But shortly thereafter three enemy
fighters singled his aircraft out, and 20mm cannon fire from the German aircraft punched holes
in Dallas Rebel from its left wing across to its right. The pilot started evasive action and slid
under the lead ship for protection, but not quickly enough to avoid cannon fire through the
radio room and out the right wing. The ball turret gunner had time to blow up the lead fighter,
but the other two got away. As the bomber started to descend from its damage, its gunners
continued to defend the Flying Fortress and managed to shoot down two more of the
attacking German fighters. Three more followed it down. The tail-gunner blew up one,
and a waist gunner got another. The attack set fire to the bomb bay and disabled the
bomber’s intercom system. In an effort to extinguish the fire, the pilot put the aircraft
into a dive, and the crewmen saw that the left wing had been partly burned away,
its internal structure - including fuel tanks - exposed. Shortly thereafter, the fire spread.
Suddenly, large quantities of fuel poured out of the left wing tanks. The crew felt a large
bump when the fuel ignited, and all four engines stopped. While the aircraft was headed
for a controlled crash into the North Sea, four of its crew members chose to bail out by
parachute and were never recovered. When the aircraft was nearing the water’s surface,
the pilot leveled out to burn off speed and set the aircraft up for a smooth water landing.
Its survival dinghies were deployed. After escaping the sinking plane, the remaining six
crew men crammed onto their one small survival raft. As they righted themselves in their
dinghy, the sinking plane exploded in the water beneath them. They had paddles, a flare gun,
a hand-powered radio, two parachutes, and a small survival kit with chocolate bars and
fresh water. They resourcefully used parachutes and oxygen bottles that floated up from
the plane to make a rudimentary sea anchor and measure their drift. The six men floated
in the cramped rubber dinghy, hoping for rescue. They decided to paddle and crank
their radio in two-hour shifts. Their first afternoon adrift, the men spotted a large
predatory shark that had taken an interest in them. The downed airmen helplessly
watched the shark as it approached their raft. The men keenly watched for any sign of rescue.
The next day, while adrift, they spotted a German fighter plane in the distance, and
then a storm brought 15-foot waves that threatened to capsize the dinghy.
The men were drenched by rain and sea spray, which lasted all day and all night.
That first evening, they saw several British aircraft and hoped that someone would
spot them and call for a rescue. British fighters, which had bombed Jutland, dove
down close to them on their way home but didn’t see them. The following morning,
July 30, nearly 72 hours after the crash, the men awoke to the sound of explosions
along Germany’s northern coast. Three Luftwaffe Ju-52s, each with a mine detector
ring under it, were exploding mines with machine gun fire. When one noticed the crew,
it left the formation to return to its base, while the others dropped green and yellow
sea markers around them. The men knew they had been marked and that they likely
faced capture. Half an hour later, a German plane showed up. A Do-24 twin-engine
seaplane soon returned and landed close to the raft. Two guards stood on the pontoons
with machine guns and motioned the survivors to board the plane.
MACR 141.
30356 (MSN 5470) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 23May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 2Jun43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 5Jun43. North Atlantic
Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 20Jun43. 337th Bomb Squadron [AW*B],
96th Bomb Group 3Jul43. Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander,
Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 4/5Jul43. 96th Bomb Group,
Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk Jul43 Named "Tarfu II" On departure for a mission to Warnemonde, Germany
Jul 27, 1943 after jettisoning bombs in
the Wash, craslanded at RAF Little Snoring, Norfolk with only one engine running. Aircraft was salvaged.
30357 Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 31May43. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport
Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 9Jun43. 353rd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group,
Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 18Jun43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Cerignola #1, Italy 10Dec43. Failed to return from a mission
to the harbor at Piraeus, Greece 11Jan44 (7KIA). After a mid-air collision, the plane crashed near
Agrambela, Greece. On that fateful day, the briefed mission was for the 5th Wing composed of the
2nd, 97th, 301st and 99th Bomb Groups, to fly on a southerly course through the heel of Italy
to the town of Lecce where the Wing would then take a heading out over the Adriatic Sea,
to a point over the Peloponnese peninsula of Greece. From this point the crews were briefed
to complete a 90° degree turn to the Initial Point over Lagousa Island. From there the
mission dictated a straight run in to the target, reassemble, and return to base. After the
formation was organized and began making its way to the target, the Groups ran into a
weather front of 10/10 clouds. At eighteen thousand feet they entered an overcast.
The clouds were very thick and visibility was not much beyond the wingtips, making it a
lmost impossible to see other aircraft in the formation. At that altitude, and with the
thickness of the clouds, ice began to form on their wings. In such situations it was standard
operating procedure for trailing squadrons in the formation to fly off course for a couple
minutes to obtain some spacing from the lead squadron, which would continue to maintain
its course. However, as the 97th Bomb Group began making a left turn for their bomb run on
the target, the lead plane of the 342nd Bomb Squadron encountered severe turbulence
made by the preceding elements of the Wing. The turbulence was so severe that the lead
aircraft of the squadron was forced into a steep left bank before it plummeted temporarily
out of control and lost altitude at a rate of 1,000ft per minute. By the time the pilot was
able to recover and regain his place in formation, the two sister planes in the flight were
nowhere to be seen. Meanwhile, the pilots of the two sister planes from the flight,
B-17F No.42-3251 and B-17F No.42-29918 found themselves alone in 10/10 visibility,
unsure where the formation had disappeared to, with ice forming on their wings, and
experiencing engine trouble. From what was deduced later in the accident report, the
doomed B-17s made the decision to abort and turn back for the relative safety of Italy.
In a tragic turn of events, their decision to return home took them directly into the path
of the oncoming 301st Bomb Group. According to the official report of the Board of Inquiry,
the two B-17s of the 97th Bomb Group experienced engine trouble and left the formation.
Instead of making a 180-degree right turn, away from the formation, the aircraft made a
turn to the left and flew head-on into the 301st formation. According to a Bombardier
assigned to the lead ship of the 301st Bomb Group, and flown by the Group Commanding
Officer, he was startled to see a pair of 97th Bomb Group B-17s emerge out of a cloud
about 20 degrees to the left and aimed straight at his aircraft. Almost Instantly, both
B-17s bracketed his aircraft, with one passing closely over his right wing that clipped
the vertical stabiliser, and the other closely passing beneath the left wing. Almost
immediately, the tail gunner witnessed a big ball of fire that lit up the clouds as the
B-17s collided with one fortress in the lead element, and two B-17s in the second element.
P-38 pilots, flying low cover escort under the overcast, reported watching pieces of B-17s
raining from the sky for what seemed like five minutes. There were eight B-17s that fell
out of the sky simultaneously. Thirteen Americans survived; 64 perished. {46 missions}.
MACR 1831. 7 KIA, 3 bailed out and returned.
30358 (MSN 5472) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 23May43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 3Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 27Jun43. 350th Bomb Squadron [LN*X], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts
(Station 139), Norfolk 4Jul43. Named "Phartzak". . Failed to return from a mission to an
aircraft factory at Bremen, Germany 8Oct43 (8KIA:2POW). The formation was met with stiff
resistance by German fighters and flak crews on the ground the entire way, from the Dutch
coast all the way into the German heartland. In addition, a large force of German fighters
launched vicious attacks against the planes. Over the target, the formation encountered
intense flak. Two bombs had failed to release and these were hit by flak causing an explosion.
The remains of the bomber crashed on the road to Ottersburg, east of Bremen MACR 947.
30359 (MSN 5473) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 1Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 2Jun43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field,
NB 3Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 25Jun43.
339th Bomb Squadron [QJ*D], 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk
27Jun43. Failed to return from a mission to the port area of Bremen, Germany 29Nov43
(8KIA:2POW). Shot down by Lt Hans Ehlers in Fw 190A-6
of JG 1/3 near Oldenburg, Germany and crashed near Syke,
12 miles south of Bremen, Germany MACR 1392.
30360 (MSN 5474) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 1Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 2Jun43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 4Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 28Jun43.
338th Bomb Squadron [BX*P], 96th Bomb Group 1Jul43. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik,
Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 7Jul43. 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath
(Station 138), Norfolk Jul43. Named "Lady Millicent/Chinook" Failed to return from a mission
to Quakenbrück 8Apr43 (8POW:2EVD). Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Azewijn-Ulft,
east of Arnhem, Netherlands. MACR 3649
30361 (MSN 5475) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 31May43. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport
Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 9Jun43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa.
341st Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Chateau-du-Rhumel, Algeria 18Jun43. Pont-du-Fahs,
Tunisia 11Aug43. Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 15Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43.
Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43. San Giovanni, Cerignola, Italy 20Dec43. Foggia #7,
Amendola, Italy 16Jan44. Declared ‘war weary’. Reassigned for utility, training and weather
check aircraft 9Jul44. 310th Ferrying Squadron, 31st Ferrying Group, Creil (A-81C),
France. Damaged when nosed over at Creil 13Jun45. Returned to US. 4168th Base Unit
(Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Cal-Aero Field, Ontario, CA for storage and disposal 27Jun45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Sharp & Fellows Contracting Company Jul46; scrapped
30362 (MSN 5476) Accepted by USAAF 21May43. United Air Lines, Modification
Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23May43. 7th Ferrying Group,
Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 25May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 5Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME Jun43. Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander,
Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 27/28Jun43. 561st Bomb Squadron [U],
388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 7Jul43. {first combat mission 28Jul43}.
Named "Wee Bonnie II". . After the target, the bomber turned south and landed
at the Twelfth Air Force base at Bône, Algeria. Later positioned to Telergma, Algeria.
On return to England, operated a mission to a Luftwaffe air depot at Mérignac, Bordeaux,
France 24Aug43. The bomber suffered battle damage and, with fuel exhaustion, the
plane force landed at RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk with one propeller feathered and serious
engine trouble. Failed to return from an Operation Starkey mission to the industrial
area of Paris, France 9Sep43 (6POW:5EVD). The briefed route was followed to the I.P.
when the lead bombardier was hit by flak and unable to complete the bomb run on
the primary target. There was cloud cover over the secondary target which was the
Luftwaffe airfield at Beaumont Sur Oise, northwest of Paris. Shortly after it was hit by
flak en route to the target, it was also hit by 20mm cannon shells in the left wing
outboard of No.1 engine. The plane lost speed and altitude caused by a large hole
in the wing. The bombardier jettisoned the bombs near Paris. The plane was reported
to be under control although the pilot was seen slumped over the wheel but he bailed
out with the crew. Crashed Houilles, a northwestern suburb of Paris, France. {9 missions}.
MACR 3134.
30363 (MSN 5477) Accepted by USAAF 19May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 1Jun43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island
Field, NB 5Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 1Jul43.
338th Bomb Squadron, 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 4Jul43.
Named "Ruth L III". Modified for radio counter measures. 803rd Bomb Squadron (H)
Provisional, RAF Oulton. 388th Bomb Group. Base Air Depot No.1, Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire.
Modified as a drone for Operation Aphrodite and Castor missions. Designated BQ-7.
562nd Bomb Squadron, 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk, later at
Fersfield (Station 554), Norfolk. Expended on Castor mission to the oil refinery at
Hemmingstedt, Germany 14Sep44, missed target due to poor weather conditions.
30364 (MSN 5478) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 21May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 1Jun43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 4Jun43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 29Jun43. 551st Bomb Squadron,
385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 26Jun43.
Named 'The Old Shillelagh II'. Participated in a shuttle mission
to the Messerschmitt aircraft factories at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43. After the target,
the bomber turned south and landed at the Twelfth Air Force base at Bône, Algeria.
Later positioned to Telergma, Algeria. On return to England, failed to return from a
mission to a Luftwaffe air depot at Mérignac, Bordeaux, France 24Aug43 (3POW:6EVD).
shot down by Uffz Gehrels of JGr Ost/1 and crashed at Boulair,
eleven miles southeast of Auch, thirty-four miles west of Toulouse, France. MACR 395.
30365 (MSN 5479) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 20May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 31May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air
Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 11Jul43. 337th Bomb Squadron [AW*B],
96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 13Jul43.
Named RUM BOOGIE III [96BG]. Believed named for the hit song Rhumboogie by the Andrews Sisters
Lost Oct 17, 1943 during mission recall
from attack on Duren, Germany. Last seen going down in
flames of Cromer, Norfolk. MACR 1019. Crew of 10 seen to bail
out, but were never found.
30366 (MSN 5480) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 24May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 1Jun43. Smoky Hill Field,
Salina, KS 2Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 4Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 25Jun43. 338th Bomb Squadron [BX*A], 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton
Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 26Jun43. Named "Fertile Myrtle III"
Battle damaged during a mission to the submarine construction yard at Vegesack, Bremen,
Germany 16Dec43. The crew bailed out over Norfolk before the plane crashed at Silver Fox
Farm, Taverham, Norfolk. Salvaged 31Jan44
30367 (MSN 5481) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 23May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 1Jun43. Smoky Hill
Field, Salina, KS 2Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 4Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 27Jun43. 337th Bomb Squadron [AW*Y], 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton
Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 1Jul43. Named "Flak Happy". Failed to return from a
mission to an aircraft factory at Bremen, Germany 8Oct43 (7KIA:3POW). The formation
was met with stiff resistance by German fighters and flak crews on the ground the entire way,
from the Dutch coast all the way into the German heartland. In addition, a large force of
German fighters launched vicious attacks against the planes. Over the target, the formation
encountered intense flak, and was shot down by Lt Heinz-Gunther
Luck in Fw 190A-6 of JG 1/1 and crashed Neuscharrel, fifteen
miles southwest of Bad Zwischenahn, Germany. MACR 852.
30368 (MSN 5482) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 1Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 2Jun43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 4Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 7Jun43.
338th Bomb Squadron [BX*B], 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 26Jun43.
Named "Gil". Landing accident at Snetterton Heath 4Oct43. Failed to return from a mission to the
port area at Bremen, Germany 20Dec43 (10POW). Attacked by a large force of enemy fighters and
flak over the target area was very intense. Damaged by flak, crashed near Aurich, Germany
MACR 1703.
30369 (MSN 5483) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 23May43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 4Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 28Jun43. 339th Bomb Squadron [QJ*R], 96th Bomb Group 1Jul43. Ferried Meeks Field,
Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 5Jul43. 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath
(Station 138), Norfolk Jul43. Named DAISY - JUNE IV / BOMB-BOOGIE. Failed to return from a
mission to the industrial area at Augsburg, Germany 16Mar44 (7POW:3KIA). From Strasburg,
Germany to Augsburg, the bombers were attacked by Luftwaffe fighters in a running battle.
Flak over the target was moderate and accurate; flak en route was meagre and inaccurate.
Damaged by enemy aircraft and rockets, crashed Balingen, halfway up the Hirschberg,
thirteen miles northeast of Rottweil, Germany. MACR 3421
30370 (MSN 5484) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 23May43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 4Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 27Jun43. 338th Bomb Squadron, 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 4Jul43(
Named "Little Caesar:. Transferred to 96th BG, 337th BS
Named "Veni Vedi Vici". Failed to return from a mission to the Heinkel Flugzeugwerke
aircraft factory which had been converted to Fw 190 fighter production at Warnemünde,
Germany 29Jul43 (11KIA). Bombed the target and on return at a point three miles off Cromer, Norfolk
on the English coast, at 2,500 feet the left wing of this plane came down onto B-17F, 42-5908
of the 388th Bomb Group, slid on top of #908 and both collided. One plane broke in half and both
fell in the sea on fire. Crashed North Sea, off Cromer, Norfolk. MACR 144.
30371 (MSN 5485) Accepted by USAAF 20May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 23May43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training
Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 6Apr43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 25Jun43. 560th Bomb Squadron [H], 388th Bomb Group,
Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 26Jun43. Named "Iza Angel II" {first combat mission 12Aug43}.
Participated in a shuttle mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factories at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43.
After the target, the bomber turned south and landed at the Twelfth Air Force base at Bône, Algeria.
Later positioned to Telergma, Algeria. On return to England, operated a mission to a Luftwaffe air
depot at Mérignac, Bordeaux, France 24Aug43. Battle damaged on an Operation Starkey mission to
the industrial area of Paris, France 9Sep43. The Fortress was hit in the wing and badly damaged
over Les Andeleys on the way to attack a target in the Paris area and was forced to leave the
formation and turn back. Eight German fighters rode high above the crippled bomber in an
orderly formation to create the impression that it was a friendly escort. Then, when the
bomber was away from the rest of the formation, the German fighters closed in for the kill.
The pilot and his co-pilot with their crew members proceeded to dogfight the Fortress
against its attackers, twisting and turning the bomber in spite of its badly damaged
wing to expose less target surface to the enemy and to force them to break off their attacks.
Several huge holes were punched through the left wing by the first attack of two strings of
enemy fighters when the bomber was approaching Paris. It looked like a 37mm shell from
the size of the holes. The control cables to the left aileron were shot out and immediately
the aircraft began to vibrate. It jumped way to the left of the formation, and shook itself
from that time all the way home. The bombardier opened the bomb bay doors and jettisoned
the bombs to get rid of their weight. The aircraft tried to keep up with the formation but
couldn't. Soon after it left it the friendly fighter escort was way up with the leading formation
and the bomber was alone. It made a slow turn and headed back for the coast. It was losing
altitude about 1,000ft a minute. Then eight enemy fighters came in and hit the bomber again.
On their first sweep, the bombardier shot down a Bf 109. When they attacked again,
The engineer/top turret gunner and the ball turret gunner each shot down another fighter.
Three of the enemy fighters turned towards home. Only one stayed with the bomber.
He kept with it all the way to the coast. The crew did a little bit of dogfighting with him.
They would turn into him as he dived and he would overshoot and have to go on and turn and
make another pass. He attacked from everywhere, evidently trying to find a position with a
gun out. He finally made one last approach from the rear. The bomber climbed sharply from
him and could see a stream of 20mm shells pouring past it just under the wing. The German
must have used up all his ammunition then. He went far out to the left and started wobbling
his wings. Near the French coast, the bomber, which was now down to 7,000ft, was startled
by a terrific barrage of flak, but it weathered that storm and made a forced landing at RAF Ford,
West Sussex. The crew, which sang "Coming in on a Wing and a Prayer" as they were doing
just that, was loud in its praise of each other. Failed to return from a mission to the German
Navy cruiser Nürnberg in the port area of Gdynia, Poland 9Oct43 (4KIA:6POW). The bomber
was attacked by German fighters on the way home over South Jutland. Struck by a grenade
shot from Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighters so that a fire broke out in the right wing, which
spread to the aircraft's radio room and bomb bay. The plane slowly dropped out of the
formation and the bail out was given with the pilot leaving the aircraft last. Shortly after this
the plane exploded over the North Sea, southwest of Fanø, Denmark. {9 missions}.
MACR 3141.
30372 (MSN 5486) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 24May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 25May43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island
Field, NB 4Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 27Jun43.
413th Bomb Squadron [MZ*P], 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 26Jun43..
Named "Shack Rabbit III" Failed to return from a mission to the industrial area
at Düren, Germany 20Oct43 (4KIA:6EVD). When the bomber circled above the North Sea
in order to reach enough altitude to then set course for the Belgian coast, engine No.4
started to cause problems. In recent weeks there have been a lot of problems with the
turbochargers within the Group. As the Group climbed, the plane fell behind
because it didn't have enough power. The question arose: should the crew return or
continue the mission? The pilot wanted to persevere. In the meantime they had climbed
close to the required cruising altitude. He reasoned that if the formation dropped
just a little bit, to about 24,000ft, they would fit back into the formation. But their
place had already been taken by another aircraft and they now had to fly in the
unenviable position of "tail end charlie". When they crossed the Belgian coast they saw a
heavy, dark cloud bank in front of them. It must have been the same weather front that
caused previous missions to be canceled. As the Group approached the clouds,
they started to climb and lost this plane again. It was already flying at maximum height and
could not squeeze anymore out of the engines. Now easy prey, the bomber was attacked by
enemy fighters in the vicinity of Bergen and Tournai. It was shot down by
Hauptmann Peter-Paul Steindl of 11./JG 26. Three airmen were killed as the tail was shot
off, the plane was out of control and the crew bailed out. The aircraft exploded in the air,
pieces fell on a wide area, the front near Quévaucamps, the tail section near Hensies,
both near the French border, west of Mons, Belgium Also listed as shot down by
Lt Paul Mungersdorff in Bf 109G-6 of JG 2/II Stab over
Grandglise, Belgium. MACR 1017
30373 (MSN 5487) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 24May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 25May53.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island
Field, NB 4Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 1Jul43.
338th Bomb Squadron [BX*T], 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 4Jul43.
Named "Lucky Lady III" . Failed to return from a mission to an aircraft factory
at Bremen, Germany 8Oct43 (6POW:5KIA). The formation was met with stiff resistance by
German fighters and flak crews on the ground the entire way, from the Dutch coast all the
way into the German heartland. In addition, a large force of German fighters launched
vicious attacks against the planes. Over the target, the formation encountered intense flak
Shot down by Oblt. Fritz Stratmannin Bf 110G-2 of ZG 1/3
and crashed Weingbergen, five miles southeast of Verden,Germany. MACR 854.
30374 (MSN 5488) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport,
WY 24May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 25May43. Operational
Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 3Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 27Jun43.
332nd Bomb Squadron [XM*A], 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468),
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 27Jun43. Named "Little Sir Echo"
Departed for a mission to the industrial area at Düren, Germany 20Oct43. The mission was
abandoned because of bad weather. Two engines failed and caught fire, some crew bailed out,
and the aircraft crashed on the A2 Canterbury road at Lydden, near Dover, Kent.
The aircraft was trying to land at RAF Swingfield, Dover, Kent, but force landed, gear retracted,
on the road and slewed into a field. Salvaged 21Oct43. L
30375 (MSN 5489) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 25May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 5Jun43. Dalhart Field, TX 27Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 26Jul43. Force landed at Geiger Jul 29, 1943
Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 8Aug43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 11Aug43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME 16Aug43. 365th Bomb Squadron [XK*B], 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston
(Station 105), Northamptonshire 3Sep43. Base Air Depot No.1, Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire 20May44. . Named
"Yo Yo-Miss Donna Mae/Always Comes Back". Transferred to 21 BAD Burtonwood May 20, 1944. .
Returned to US. Station 8, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Homestead Field, FL 24Jul44.
4136th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma
City, OK 25Jul44. Reclaimed 17Jul45
30376 (MSN 5490) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 23May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 1Jun43. Smoky Hill Field,
Salina, KS 2Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 3Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 25Jun43. 333rd Bomb Squadron, 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468),
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 26Jun43 named "Bouncing Bitch"
"Bouncin' Annie I". Transferred to 331st BS, 94th BG (named "Southern Belle", aka "Bouncin' Bitch III")
Failed to return from a mission to the Luftwaffe air depot at Mérignac, Bordeaux, France 5Dec43.
When the target was found to be completely obscured, the Group turned to its secondary
target, the Luftwaffe airfield at Cognac. Finding this target also obscured and facing a fuel shortage,
the planes began jettisoning their bomb loads. Meagre flak along the route intensified
over target and about a dozen fighters attacked. Severe weather conditions, ditched English Channel.
Crew of 10 rescued.
30377 (MSN 5491) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 25May43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 4Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 27Jun43. 412th Bomb Squadron [QW*R], 95th Bomb Group,
Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 12Jul43. Named "Roger the Lodger II" . Failed to return
from a mission to the Focke-Wulf aircraft factory at Marienburg, East Prussia 9Oct43 (10KIA).
Enemy aircraft damaged No.2 engine then another damaged No.3 engine, aircraft exploded mid-air,
crashed North Sea, NW of Heligoland. {18 missions}. MACR 850.
30378 (MSN 5492) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25May43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 5Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 4Jul43. 331st Bomb Squadron [QE*A], 94th Bomb Group 4Jul43.
Named WOLF PACK / GOOD TIME CHOLLY III. Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander,
Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 5/6Jul43. 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468),
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk Jul43. Failed to return from a mission to the industrial area at Brunswick,
Germany 10Feb44 (10POW). Enemy aircraft hit between No.3 & No.4 engines, crash landed Biemolton,
six miles north of Nordhorn, Germany. MACR 2386
30379 (MSN 5493) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 24May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 25May43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 4Jun43. Dyersburg Field, TN 27Jun43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 22Jul43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 31Jul43.
Converted for the ELINT role, additional fuel tanks were installed in the bomb bay, and a radar
observer's position was built in the radio room with racks for receivers and seats for two observers.
‘Ferret IV’. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa 7Aug43. Detachment, 64th Troop Carrier Group.
16th Reconnaissance Squadron (Heavy) Special, 68th Reconnaissance Group, Foch Field, Tunisia Sep43.
Failed to return from a reconnaissance mission along the coast north of Naples, Italy 25Jan44 (13MIA). MACR 2059.
30380 (MSN 5494) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 24May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 25May43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 9Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 27Jun43. 350th Bomb Squadron [LN*W], 100th Bomb Group 1Jul43.
Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 5Jul43.
100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk Jul43. 8th Weather Reconnaissance
Squadron (Heavy) (Provisional), 802nd Reconnaissance Group, Watton (Station 376),
Norfolk 21Mar44. Returned to US. Station 8, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command,
Homestead Field, FL 21Jun44. 4136th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service
Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 30Jun44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Bush Field, Augusta, GA for storage and disposal 19May45
30381 (MSN 5495) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 25May43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 7Jun43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 18Jun43. Combat Crew Training School, Casper Field, WY 28Jun43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 30Jun43. Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 7Jul43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 9Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 10Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 419th Bomb Squadron,
301st Bomb Group, Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 26Jul43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia,
Tunisia 6Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Cerignola #1, Italy 10Dec43. Foggia #8 (Longskirt),
Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. {17 missions}. 341st Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy.
Failed to return from a mission to the Dunai Repül?gépgyár aircraft factory at Tököl, Budapest,
Hungary 3Apr44 (2POW:8EVD). Flak damaged two engines and the plane turned back with two
propellers feathered. Crashed near Sarajevo, Bosnia, Yugoslavia. The airmen were assisted by
Chetniks and partisans in evading but two were subsequently captured. Named "Little Red Head". MACR 3581
30382 (MSN 5496) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25May43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 5Jun43. Dow Field, Bangor, ME 6 4Jul43.
331st Bomb Squadron [QE*Z2], 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds,
Suffolk 8Jul43 Named "Horrible Hanks". Damaged when turret was sheared off in a collision,
aircraft returned to base safely (1KIA). Salvaged 23Jun43 Returned to US. North Atlantic Wing, Air
Transport Command, Grenier Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 16Oct43. Rome Air Technical Service
Command, Rome Field, NY 17Jan44. 4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command),
South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 13Jul44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41,
Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 3Nov45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped.
30383 (MSN 5497) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25May43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 5Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 7Jul43. 332nd Bomb Squadron [XM*D2], 94th Bomb Group,
Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 8Jul43 .Named LARRUPIN’ LOU’.
Loaned to 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk, named ."Brennan's Circus"
Failed to return from a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43 (10RTD).
En route to the target area, the bomber formation was repeatedly attacked by a large number of Luftwaffe
fighters. Enemy aircraft damaged an engine ten minutes before the target was reached. Dropping back
from the formation, it was intended to jettison the bombs but the bomb bay doors were damaged
and would not open. The pilot turned and dove down to try and shake off the fighters but the plane was
still being struck by cannon shells and managed to hit a second engine with the propeller overspeeding.
Finally, the bombs were jettisoned and the bomber raced home at tree top level with civilians in
occupied territory waving and cheering the crew. Reaching the coast, enemy machine gunners damaged
a third engine. Finally, the pilot had to ditch the plane and did so in the North Sea five miles from England.
A rescue boat was nearby and the crew taken on board without getting their feet wet as the bomber bagan to sink
30384 (MSN 5498) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25May43.
Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 6Jun43. 4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal
Airport, TN 8Jun43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 347th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Navarin
(Overcoat), El Eulma, Algeria 29Jun43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 4Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43.
Named . SIROCCO (the name was applied to the nose and tail).
30385 (MSN 5499) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25May43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 5Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 11Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 353rd Bomb Squadron,
301st Bomb Group, Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 18Jul43. Oudna #1,
Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Cerignola #1, Italy 10Dec43.
Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. Failed to return from a mission to the aircraft engine
factories at Wiener Nuedorf, Austria 26Jul44 (9KIA:1POW). Attacked by Oberleutnant Ernst-Erich
Hirschfeld of 6./JG 300. No.4 engine was damaged and the right wing on fire. The aircraft made a
steep turn and was out of control when the left wing collided with B-17G 42-102929.
Crashed at Strallegg, Austria. {87 missions}. MACR 7000
30386 (MSN 5500) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 11Jun43. Dyersburg Field, TN 27Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 28Jun43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 22Jul43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 2Aug43. 364th Bomb Squadron [WF*E],
305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 6Sep43 Named "Daley's Male"
Failed to return from a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical works at Oppau, Ludwigshafen,
Germany 7Jan44 (2KIA:6POW:2EVD). Damaged by flak, crashed near Estrée-Blanche, eleven miles
southeast of Saint-Omer, France. MACR 1963
30387 (MSN 5501) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25May43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 5Jun43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great
Falls, MT 7Jun43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 9Jun43. Dalhart
Field, TX 27Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 27Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle
Field, ME 3Aug43. Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland
to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 5/6Aug43. 326th Bomb Squadron [JW*A], 92nd Bomb Group,
Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire 21Aug43. Failed to return from a mission to the
ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43 (9POW:1KIA). En route to the target
area, the bomber formation was repeatedly attacked by a large number of Luftwaffe fighters.
After the target, the Group turned and headed westward for England. German fighters, having
landed and refueled, attacked again and shot down by Hptm H-J Thomeschat in
Bf 110G-4 of NJG 101/7. Numbers 3 and 4 engines on fire, one propeller feathered.
Crashed near Markt Bibart, twenty-two miles southeast of Würzburg, Germany. MACR 849
30388 (MSN 5502) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 11Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 20Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 23Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 5Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa.
429th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Aïn M’lila (Onyx), Constantine, Algeria 13Jul43 Named "Danny Boy"
23Jul43 (1WIA:9RTD). Twenty to thirty enemy fighters attacked the formation between Gallipoli and Cape
Trento. Massicault, Tunis, Tunisia 1Aug43. Failed to return from a mission to airfields at Istres-Le Tubé
and Salon-de-Provence, Marseille, France 17Aug43 (3KIA:3POW:4EVD). The bomber was hit by flak
about five minutes before bomb release. The burst smacked into the right wing area setting the number
four engine on fire. The flames spread along the right wing and fuselage. The right wing came off,
the plane began to spin down, out of control, then started to disintegrate as the fuselage
separated just aft of the radio room. Several airmen were able to bail out before the plane crashed
near Avignon, France. {7 missions}. MACR 406
30389 (MSN 5503) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 27May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 2Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 12Jun43. Geiger Field,
Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 23Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 5Jul43. 331st Bomb Squadron [QE*Z], 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468),
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 7Jul43. 1st Strategic Air Depot, Troston (Station 595), Suffolk Aug43.
Named "Dear Mom". 331st Bomb Squadron [QE*Z]. Failed to return from a shuttle mission
to the Messerschmitt aircraft factories at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43 (6KIA:2POW:2EVD).
Shot down by Hptn Kark Borris in Fw 190A-6 of JG 26/1.
Cannon fire devastated the nose compartment killing the occupants before the bomber exploded.
The tail section broke off and ejected the gunners. The bomber crashed at Lummen, six miles east of Deist, Belgium. .
MACR 323.
30390 (MSN 5504) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 10Jun43. 2345th Base Unit, Clovis Field, NM 24Jun44. 247th Base Unit
(Operational Training Unit), Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 26Jan45. 2038th Base Unit, Hawkins Field,
Jackson, MS 3Feb45. 232nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dalhart Field, TX 22Oct45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and
disposal 27Oct45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
30391 (MSN 5505) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29May43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 9Jun43. Dyersburg Field, TN 27Jun43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 22Jul43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 2Aug43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa.
340th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Pont-du-Fahs, Tunisia 12Aug43. Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 15Aug43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43. San Giovanni, Cerignola, Italy 20Dec43.
Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44. Battle damage during a tactical mission against German troop
concentrations and defensive positions at Campoleone in support of the Allied beachhead at Anzio,
Italy 17Feb44. Flak was heavy, intense and accurate. On return, crash landed at Amendola.
301st Bomb Group, Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 25Nov44. Declared ‘war weary’. Reassigned
for utility, training and weather check aircraft. Salvaged 1May45
30392 (MSN 5506) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29May43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 9Jun43. Dyersburg Field, TN 27Jun43. Operational
Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 22Jul43. North Atlantic
Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 2Aug43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa.
414th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 26Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force,
Italy 1Nov43. Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43. San Giovanni, Cerignola, Italy 20Dec43. Foggia #7,
Amendola, Italy 16Jan44. Exploded while being re-fuelled at Amendola 21Apr44. Salvaged
30393 (MSN 5507) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 7Jun43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field,
Oklahoma City, OK 8Jun43. 4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 24Jun43. North
Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 2Jul43. Twelfth Air Force,
North Africa. Modified with radio jamming equipment and engine exhaust flame suppression.
Operated by 99th Bomb Group on a secret night mission during the Operation Husky invasion
of Sicily 9Jul43. Departed from Sfax, Tunisia, on the mission to Cape Passero, Sicily, circulating
above the C-47 and glider invasion force while jamming the German radar. 348th Bomb Squadron,
99th Bomb Group, Navarin (Overcoat), El Eulma, Algeria 11Jul43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia,
Tunisia 4Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. 340th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group,
Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 14Nov43. Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43. San Giovanni, Cerignola,
Italy 20Dec43. Crashed Cerignola 31Dec43. Salvaged. Named LUCKY LADY.
30394 (MSN 5508) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26May43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 5Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 27Jun43. 339th Bomb Squadron, 96th Bomb Group,
Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 27Jun43. Failed to return from a mission to the
AGO-Flugzeugwerke Fw 190 manufacturing factory at Oschersleben, Germany 28Jul43 (6POW:4KIA).
Shot down by enemy fighters, ditched off Sylt Island, North Sea. MACR 143.
30395 (MSN 5509) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27May43.
Roswell Field, NM 7Jun43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44.
Force landed with mechanical failure at Roswell Field 24Jan45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 3Aug45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped.
Also listed as W/o 23 Jun 1943 in Gulf of Mexico off Tampa, FL
30396 (MSN 5510) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 27May43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field,
Oklahoma City, OK 9Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 27Jun43.
Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. Modified with radio jamming equipment and engine exhaust flame
suppression. Operated by 99th Bomb Group on a secret night mission during the Operation Husky
invasion of Sicily 9Jul43. Departed from Sfax, Tunisia, on the mission to Cape Passero, Sicily, circulating
above the C-47 and glider invasion force while jamming the German radar. 348th Bomb Squadron,
99th Bomb Group, Navarin (Overcoat), El Eulma, Algeria 11Jul43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 4Aug43.
Failed to return from a mission to railway marshalling yards at Bologna, Italy 2Sep43 (8POW:2EVD).
Just north of Florence the bomber was struck by machine gun fire, which may have come from the fighter
escort, setting No.2 engine on fire. Turning off the target, the plane dropped out of formation and was
then attacked by a flight of Italian enemy fighters of 8° Gruppo. The pilot headed towards Switzerland
while the fighters continued to attack but finally left the bomber alone. The No.1 engine failed and
the propeller oversped. The navigator, bombardier and co-pilot had bailed out taking the maps with them.
Losing altitude and the need to fly through the valleys of the Alps, the pilot was unable to find a
route to Switzerland. The remainder of the crew bailed out safely at 5,000ft over Domodossola, Lodi, Italy.
The tail gunner had been wounded and all were immediately captured. The plane crashed in the Italian Alps
MACR 565.
30397 (MSN 5511) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27May43.
Roswell Field, NM 7Jun43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun43.
3508th Base Unit (Technical School), Truax Field, Madison, WI 23Oct43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 27Oct43. 4126th Base Unit (San Bernardino Air Technical Service
Command), San Bernardino Field, CA 13Jan45. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH),
Roswell Field, NM 1May45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM
for storage and disposal 3Aug45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped
30398 (MSN 5512) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27Jun43.
Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 6Jun43. 4th Ferrying Group, Memphis
Municipal Airport, TN 8Jun43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 2nd Bomb Group, Marrakech,
French Morocco. 429th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Aïn M’lila (Onyx), Constantine,
Algeria 19Jun43. Named *Patches*. {first combat mission 3Jul43}. Massicault, Tunis,
Tunisia 1Aug43. Failed to return from a mission to the marshalling yards at Genoa,
Italy 29Oct43 (7KIA:3POW). Hit by flak just after dropping its bombs and took a devastating
flak strike through the fuel tank for number three engine. One burst hit in the radio room and
another hit at the tail wheel. On fire, the plane nosed up, rolled completely over, went into a
spin and soon started to disintegrate to crash in the harbour at Genoa. {40 missions}.
30399 MSN 5513) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27May43.
Roswell Field, NM 7Jun43. 225th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Rapid City Field, SD.
Destroyed when force landed after engine failure twenty-eight miles northeast of Rapid City 2Aug44. Salvaged 3Aug44
30400 (MSN 5514) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28May43.
Roswell Field, NM 9Jun43. Dyersburg Field, TN 7Jul43. 551st Two Engine Flying Training Squadron,
314th Two Engine Flying Training Group, Roswell Field, NM. Crashed taking off at Roswell 20Nov43.
3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44. 4124th Base Unit
(Air Technical Service Command), Altus Field, OK 20Jul45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 9Oct45.
30401 (MSN 5515) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28May43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 9Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 27Jun43. 338th Bomb Squadron, 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138),
Norfolk 26Jun43. Failed to return from a mission to the AGO-Flugzeugwerke Fw 190 manufacturing
factory at Oschersleben, Germany 28Jul43 (10KIA). Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed North Sea
MACR 139.
30402 (MSN 5516) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28May43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 9Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 27Jun43. 418th Bomb Squadron [LD*W], 100th Bomb Group,
Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk Jul43. . Named "The Poontang". Battle damaged
15Aug43 (1KIA). Failed to return from a mission to the Bosch magneto factory at Stuttgart,
Germany 6Sep43 (1INT:9POW), on the way into the target, an oil leak developed in No.2 engine.
The pilot could then have aborted but decided to press on. Somewhere near the Initial Point oil
pressure went to zero and the propeller would not feather. Cylinder head temperature went sky high.
If engine seized and propeller came off it could have been disastrous to aircraft. It was decided to
head south for Switzerland. When they believed themselves over Switzerland, the crew bailed out
but it turned out that only the pilot, who remained with the aircraft until the crew had successfully bailed
out, landed in Switzerland, the others in Germany. MACR 688
30403 (MSN 5517) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 6Oct43. Rapid City Field, SD 20Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 23Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 5Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa.
20th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Aïn M’lila (Onyx), Constantine, Algeria 23Jul43. Massicault, Tunis,
Tunisia 1Aug43. {first combat mission 9Aug43}. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. {16 missions}.
419th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Oudna #2, Tunis, Tunisia 14Nov43. Cerignola #1, Italy 10Dec43.
Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. Battle damaged during a mission to the Wiener Neustädter
Flugzeugwerke factory at Wiener Neustädt, Vienna, Austria 10May44 (1KIA:9RTD). Flak was very intense,
accurate and heavy, resulting in damage to the aircraft and killing the bombardier despite wearing a
flak suit. {62 missions}. {total 95 missions}. Declared ‘war weary’. Reassigned for utility, training and
weather check aircraft 27Jul44. United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) Aug45. Ninth Air Force Sep45.
Salvaged 5Nov45. Named RITA MOSQUITA / BRITE EYES.
30404 (MSN 5518) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27May43.
Roswell Field, NM 9Jun43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44.
3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 28Apr45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 14Sep45.
30405 (MSN 5519) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27May43.
Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 8Jun43. 20th Ferrying Group, Berry Field,
Nashville, TN 20Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 2Jun43.
Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. Modified with radio jamming equipment and engine exhaust flame
suppression. Operated by 99th Bomb Group on a secret night mission during the Operation Husky
invasion of Sicily 9Jul43. Departed from Sfax, Tunisia, on the mission to Cape Passero, Sicily,
circulating above the C-47 and glider invasion force while jamming the German radar.
346th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Navarin (Overcoat), El Eulma, Algeria 11Jul43. Oudna #1,
Mohammedia, Tunisia 4Aug43. Crash landed at Oudna 12Oct43. Damaged on a tactical mission
to a railway viaduct at Anthéor, Saint-Raphaël, France 31Oct43. Over the target the No.3 engine was
struck by ‘friendly fire’ and lost its oil, preventing the propeller from being feathered. With drag
from the windmilling propeller, the plane dropped out of formation and headed for Italy. Despite
the engine on fire, the plane landed safely at Decimomannu, Cagliari, Sardinia. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43.
414th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 14Nov43. Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43.
San Giovanni, Cerignola, Italy 20Dec43. Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44. Failed to return from a
mission to the Steyr-Daimler-Puch factory complex at Steyr, Austria 24Feb44 (3KIA:7EVD). Mid-air collision
with B-17G 42-31622 en route to the target when the mission was cancelled because of fog. The formation
started a turn for home. The left wing man come sailing sideways down out of the fog. The plane's
right wing then went up and this plane slid under but not fast enough. The No.4 engine propeller of #622
started cutting this plane in two at the tail wheel. The tail section fell free with the tail gunner desperately
trying to get his chest pack on and fastened. He pulled the latch to jettison the escape hatch but it
wouldn't work. He then moved forward through flapping aluminium and control cables and tumbled free.
With the tail cut off, the plane crashed at Bosanski Petrovac, Bosnia, Yugoslavia. Survivors landed
between the Germans and theYugoslavian guerrillas. The Yugoslavs took them over the mountains
to where a C-47 slipped in at night and flew them back to Italy MACR 3292.
30406 (MSN 5520) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27May43.
Roswell Field, NM 9Jun43. Hobbs Field, NM 7Jul43. Roswell Field, NM 6Aug43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44. 3010th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine),
Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 10Dec44. Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets
and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F. 3020th Base Unit (Pilot School, Advanced, Two Engine),
La Junta Field, CO 29Mar45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Searcey Field, Stillwater, OK
for storage and disposal 4Aug45. War Assets Corporation. Sold to Paul Mantz 19Feb46; scrapped.
30407 (MSN 5521) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 7Jun43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma
City, OK 10Jun43. 4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 20Jun43. Eglin Field,
Valparaiso, FL 27Jun43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 6Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air
Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 9Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa.
414th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Châteaudun-du-Rhumel (Helen), Constantine, Algeria 19Jul43.
Pont-du-Fahs, Tunisia 11Aug43. Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 15Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43.
Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43. San Giovanni, Cerignola, Italy 20Dec43. Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44.
Named 'War Pappy". {100th mission to the railway marshalling yards, Ferrara, Italy 14May44}. Participated
in the first Operation Frantic shuttle mission to the railway marshalling yards at Debrecen, Hungary 2Jun44.
After the target, the bomber continued east and landed at a Russian airfield near Poltava, Ukraine.
Operated a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Gala?i, Rumania 6Jun44, returning to Poltava. Returned to
base in Italy on the last sortie of Operation Frantic shuttle mission to the Luftwaffe airfield at Foc?ani,
Rumania 11Jun44. 100+ missions. Declared ‘war weary’. Reassigned for utility, training and weather check aircraft 15Jul44.
Marcianise, Italy. Returned to US. 1103rd Base Unit (Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command),
Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 15Apr45. Rome Air Depot, NY 28Jun45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Bush Field, Augusta, GA for storage and disposal 4Jul45.
30408 (MSN 5522) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 9Jun43. Dalhart Field, TX 27Jun43. Air Service
Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 7Jul43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 28Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 4Aug43. Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander,
Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 5/6Aug43. 327th Bomb Squadron [UX*Q],
92nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire 14Aug43. Podington (Station 109),
Bedfordshire 15Sep43. Named "Sharon Belle". . Accident departing for a mission to the
industrial area of Solingen, Germany 30Nov43 (10KIA).. One engine caught fire after takeoff, the
plane was heading toward cottages, farmhouse and farm buildings at Astwell Castle Farm,
located about one mile east of the village of Helmdon, Northamptonshire. The pilot banked the aircraft
away from the houses and crashed in a huge explosion beyond the farm buildings at
Astwell Castle Farm near Paddington, UK Nov 30, 1943. All 10
onboard killed. MACR 688. Salvaged Dec 13, 1943.
30409 (MSN 5523) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 8Jun43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH),
Roswell Field, NM 12Jun43. Assigned to 94th Bomb Group, but crashed twenty miles west of Roswell 28Jul44 (1KIS:1DOI).
Salvaged 30Jul44
30410 (MSN 5524) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30May43.
5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 12Jun43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 20Jul43.
Ephrata AAB, WA 23Jul43. Ardmore Field, OK 27Oct43. 222nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Ardmore Field, OK 22Jan44. Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Cal-Aero Field, Ontario, CA for storage
and disposal 6Jun45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Sharp & Fellows Contracting Company Jul46; scrapped.
30411 (MSN 5525) Accepted by USAAF 26May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 9Jun43.
Dalhart Field, TX 27Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 26Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle
Field, ME 3Aug43. 568th Bomb Squadron [BI*J], 390th Bomb Group, 6Aug43. }.
Named "Rose Marie/Hot Rocks II" {first combat mission 31Aug43 Failed to return from a
mission to the industrial areas of Emden, Germany 11Dec43 (8POW:2KIA). The Luftwaffe was waiting for the
bombers; the moment the bombers crossed over into mainland Europe, six twin-engine fighters dived
out of the sun upon the formation, concentrating all their fire on the lead plane. Once the leader had been
downed, the fighters swept through the lead Squadron. Before the deputy lead had a chance to reassemble
the formation, a large force of single-engine fighters joined the fray, attacking the other bombers.
Struck by flak, crashed Leesdorf, Norden, north of Emden, Germany. {19 missions). MACR 1727.
30412 (MSN 5526) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28May43.
Roswell Field, NM 9Jun43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 10Jun43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Jul43. 339th Bomb Squadron [QJ*B], 96th Bomb Group 3Jul43.
Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 4/5Jul43.
96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk Jul43. Named "Muschief Maker II"
The crew’s captain was something of a legend within the unit, and at one time he was bet a month's pay
by a fellow pilot that he could not do a full loop in a B-17. He promptly took the Mischief Maker II up on a
'training mission' and won the bet, making him one of the few pilots capable of this feat. Failed to return
from a mission to industrial areas in the suburbs of Berlin, Germany 4Mar44 (5POW:6EVD).
Because of severe weather in the assembly area, the group diverts to a target in the Ruhr valley, Germany.
Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Glabais, fifteen miles southeast of Brussels, Belgium. {15 missions}.
MACR 3425
30413 (MSN 5527) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28May43.
Roswell Field, NM 9Jun43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44.
2509th Base Unit (Bombardier School), Big Spring Field, TX 31Jul44. 3705th Base Unit (Technical School),
Lowry Field, Denver, CO 1Nov44. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell
Field, NM 8Dec44. Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 9Oct45
30414 (MSN 5528) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 28May43. 25th Ferrying Squadron, 7th Ferrying Group. Damaged when
ground looped landing at Cheyenne 28May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 9Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 7Jul43.
549th Bomb Squadron, 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 8Jul43.
Named 'Roundtrip Ticket II' Loaded up and ready to go on a mission, the
aircraft caught fire and exploded on its dispersal at Great Ashfield 3Sep43 (1KIS).
The aircraft was fully loaded with 500lb bombs. An oxygen leak in the top turret slinger
ring had been detected, the crew had exited the aircraft and were waiting for the leak to
be repaired. For some unknown reason a fire started aboard the aircraft. The fire platoon
was called but they were unable to control the fire and the aircraft and its entire bomb
load exploded. One of the firemen was killed; the engines were hurled across the airfield,
damaging five other aircraft. The other aircraft affected were B-17E 41-9017, B-17F 42-3097,
42-5911, 42-30091, 42-30251
30415 (MSN 5529) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28May43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 9Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 5Jul43. 410th Bomb Squadron [GL*P], 94th Bomb Group,
Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 7Jul43. Named "Sugar Puss III./Lucky Lady"
Failed to return from a mission to the industrial areas of Emden, Germany 11Dec43 (10POW:1KIA).
The Luftwaffe was waiting for the bombers; the moment the bombers crossed over into mainland
Europe, six twin-engine fighter dived out of the sun upon the formation, concentrating all their fire
on the lead plane. Once the leader had been downed, the fighters swept through the lead
Squadron. Before the deputy lead had a chance to reassemble the formation, a large force
of single-engine fighters joined the fray, attacking the other bombers. Shot down by Lt. Hans Ehlers
in Fw 190A-6 of JG 1/3 and crashed at Orvelte, Drente, Netherlands
MACR 1257.
30416 (MSN 5530) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 12Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 14Jun43.
Rapid City Field, SD 20Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 23Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 5Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa.
346th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Navarin (Overcoat), El Eulma, Algeria 30Jul43. Oudna #1,
Mohammedia, Tunisia 4Aug43. Named "Lil' Joan" Battle damaged on a mission to the railway
marshalling yards at Mestre, Venice, Italy 6Oct43 (10RTD). The bomber was seen to turn towards
the Adriatic Sea with two engines smoking and crash landed at Foggia Main, Italy.
Salvaged but sent to Air Depot for repair. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 340th Bomb Squadron,
97th Bomb Group, San Giovanni, Cerignola, Italy. Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44.
Failed to return from a mission to the railway marshalling yards at Padua, Italy 11Mar44 (9KIA:2POW).
The bomber, attacked and hit by Uffz. Gehring of 2./JG 53, was seen to explode in the air 5km from
the coast of Ravenna, Italy, and crashed in the Adriatic Sea.
MACR 2835.
30417 (MSN 5531) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 31May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 4Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 11Jun43. Saunders Provisional
Group, Grand Island Field, NB 14Jun43. Named "Small Arm". Crashed after engine failure en route to
Dow Field, Bangor, ME at Fish Hill, Randolph, VT 27Jun43 (3KIS). The intercoolers were set to hot
accidentally at the beginning of the flight, and they heated the oil in the engine until it burned,
pouring loads of dark smoke from the engines. One by one, the engines quit. At 8,000ft over a heavily
forested area, the pilot ordered the crew to bail out. Seven men jumped, the co-pilot, pilot, and tail-gunner
stayed with the plane. The tail-gunner was asleep, and was not aware of the problems.
They aimed for an open field, but struck a large oak tree as they were descending which tore the wing off,
and, losing airspeed, the aircraft plunged into the forest. Salvaged 1Jul43
30418 (MSN 5532) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 31May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 10Jun43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 14Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 27Jun43. 94th Bomb Group,
Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 27Jun43. 334th Bomb Squadron [BG*L],
95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk Jul43. Named "Pickadilly Commando".
Failed to return from a mission to a synthetic oil plant at Wesseling, Germany 12Aug43 (10POW).
At the I.P. it was impossible to identify the target because of the sun, which was directly ahead of the
formation obscuring the target. As a consequence, the primary target was abandoned and the Group
proceeded to their secondary target of an optical instrument factory in Bonn. Shot down by Uffz
Kloimuller of JGr.Sud/1 and crash landed at Mutzenich, near Monschau, Germany
MACR 254
30419 (MSN 5533) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 10Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 13Jun43.
Rapid City Field, SD 19Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 23Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 5Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa.
419th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria
16Jul43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43. Named "The Mighty Rabbit"
Battle damaged by heavy flak on a tactical mission to a railway bridge at Bolzano, Italy 25Sep43.
Battle damaged during a mission to the Messerschmitt factory at Augsburg, Germany 1Oct43.
During the approach to mainland Italy north of Florence there was anti-aircraft fire from the
ground and a few attacks by enemy fighters, which, however, had liitle effect. Most of the
remaining distance was flown between two layers of cloud at an altitude of 6,000 meters.
North of the Alps, the formation encountered a deep, closed cloud cover that stretched far to the north.
Because of the poor visibility, the mission was aborted 50km from Augsburg. They then
proceeded to an alternate target of shipping off Bastia, Corsica. Flak and enemy fighters
caused damage to the plane. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Failed to return from a mission
to a Luftwaffe airfield at Istres-Le Tubé, France 16Nov43 (10MIA). As the formation approached the
target area, it encountered flak. One explosion underneath the B-17 set No.4 engine ablaze.
The pilot attempted to feather the propeller but couldn't. Then, enemy aircraft attacked;
raking the B-17 from tail to nose with cannon fire, they succeeded in shooting it down
Shot down by Fw Heinz Hinz in Bf 109F-4 of JGr Sud/3. The aircraft went
into a steep glide, then hit the water of the Gulf of Lyon, Western Mediterranean Sea about
twenty miles from Marseille, France. There were no survivors, and no bodies were ever recovered. {35 missions}
MACR 1127.
10 KIA.
30420 (MSN 5534) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 1Jun43. Rapid City Field, SD 10Jun43. Geiger Field,
Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 28Jun43. Laurel Field, MS 1Jul43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 18Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 20Jul43. Ferried from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Nutts Corner
(Station 235), Belfast, Northern Ireland 25Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 340th Bomb Squadron,
97th Bomb Group, Pont-du-Fahs, Tunisia 11Aug43. Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 15Aug43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43. San Giovanni, Cerignola, Italy
20Dec43. Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44. Named "Her Did". Declared ‘war weary’. Reassigned
for utility, training and weather check aircraft 9Jul44. Returned to US. 1103rd Base Unit (Caribbean
Wing, Air Transport Command), Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 13Mar45. 4100th Base Unit
(Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 23May45.
2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 28Apr45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 6Sep45.
30421 MSN 5535) Accepted by USAAF 27May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 29May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 14Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 29Jun43.
561st Bomb Squadron [X], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 5Jul43. Named "Ginger Lou"
(first combat mission 16Aug43}. Failed to return from a mission to the industrial area of Emden,
Germany 2Oct43 (4MIA:6KIA). After dropping bombs on the target, flak damaged engine No.1 and the
propeller was feathered, then No.2 engine caught fire. The aircraft exploded killing the crew
and crashed in the North Sea off Heligoland, Germany. {7 missions}. MACR 3135.
30422 (MSN 5536) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 10Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 13Jun43.
Rapid City Field, SD 19Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 23Jun43.
Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 30Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 4Jul43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 16Jul43. 422nd Bomb Squadron [JJ*B],
305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 12Aug43 Named "Anytime Annie".
Experimented in night bombing alongside the RAF and operated night leaflet and propaganda missions.
Base Air Depot No.1, Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire 20May44. Returned to US. Station 8,
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Homestead Field, FL 23Jul44. 4136th Base Unit (Oklahoma City
Air Technical Service Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 6Aug44. Reclaimed 17May45.
30423 (MSN 5537) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 31May43. Rapid City Field, SD 16Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 5Jul43. 407th Bomb Squadron [PY*P],
92nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire 7Aug43. 326th Bomb Squadron [JW*P].
Failed to return from a mission to railway marshalling yards at Frankfurt am Main,
Germany 4Feb44 (1KIA:5POW:4EVD). As the planes were passing over the Netherlands en route to Germany,
local cross winds carried the bombers straight into enemy flak. Returning from the target, the aircraft
was struck by flak and, with the No.2 engine on fire, shells having hit both wings and the fuselage,
it had to leave the formation. Thus isolated, it is then attacked by a flight of Bf 109 fighters. The crew
bailed out, the plane crashed and burned in a swamp 3km north of Koersel, 15km north of Hasselt, Belgium.
Salvaged by German forces and stored at Enemy Equipment Park No.5 MACR 2237
30424 (MSN 5538) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30May43.
Rapid City Field, SD 18Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 29Jun43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 20Jul43. Ferried from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland
to St Angelo, Enniskillen, Northern Ireland and Prestwick, Scotland 25/26Jul43. Twelfth Air Force,
North Africa. 419th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Oudna #2, Tunis, Tunisia 12Aug43. Named "The Sky Hag".
Battle damaged by heavy flak on a tactical mission to a railway bridge at Guilianova, Italy 14Oct43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Cerignola #1, Italy 10Dec43. Departing for a mission to Innsbruck,
Austria, a tire blew out and the landing gear folded up causing the plane to crash land at
Cerignola #1 15Dec43. {31 missions}. Salvaged
30425 (MSN 5539) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 12Jun43. Rapid City Field, SD 19Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 5Jul43. 333rd Bomb Squadron [TS*J],
94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 9Jul43. Named
"Roger Dodge Her". Failed to return from a mission to the aero engine complex at
Brunswick, Germany 11Jan44 (9POW:1KIA). As weather conditions began to deteriorate over the
English bases, a recall order was sent to the bomber groups en route to the city. While some the groups
received the message and turned back for England, others did not receive the order, and pressed
onwards. When they arrived at the target area, they met stiff resistance from the Luftwaffe.
Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed SW of Abensen, nine miles northeast of Neustadt am
Rubengiberge, Germany. MACR 1888.
30426 (MSN 5540) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 31May43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field,
Dallas, TX 11Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 14Jun43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX
17Jul43. Moses Lake Field, WA 20Jul43. 325th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Avon Park Field, FL 9Apr44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for
storage and disposal 6Sep45
30427 MSN 5541) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30May43.
Rapid City Field, SD 19Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 29Jun43. 410th Bomb Squadron [GL*W], 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468),
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 9Jul43.Named "Lil' Operator"--artwork of ‘Esky’, the little man
who appeared on the cover of Esquire magazine. The vertical stabiliser was inscribed with ‘One Down,
Two To Go’ ‘Italy Germany Japan’. . Battle damaged during a mission to the railway marshalling yards
at Münster, Germany 11Nov43. Shortly before reaching the target, the bomber was struck on the
left wing by flak which caused an explosion and oil loss from No.2 engine. The propeller was
feathered as the bomber continued the bomb run. After the target, the bomber had dropped back
and was alone in the sky, vulnerable to fighter attacks. A Bf 109 came out of the sun and opened fire,
causing several explosions in the cockpit which filled with smoke. The bomber quickly dove down
and, with the side windows opened, the smoke cleared. With No.3 and 4 throtles unresponsive,
the pilot shutdown No.3 engine. By this time, the landing gear had dropped down. A large hole
was found in the right forward bulkhead of the bomb bay, caused by 20mm cannon shells.
This had disabled all electrical systems on the right side of the plane. The pilot headed for
cloud cover and dropped down to 500 feet while the gunners kept enemy fighters at bay
until the bomber reached the coast. The pilot was able to land safely at Rougham with just
two operating engines but had trouble closing No.4 engine. Standing on the brakes, the bomber
was halted just short of the end of the runway. During a three-day pass to London, the crew were
in a cinema when a newsreel was shown of a Flying Fortress being shot down over Münster.
A sequence clearly identified the crew’s aircraft with it’s lowered landing gear and tail
identification letters; the crew jumped out of their seats, startling fellow cinema goers
with cries of “Hey, that’s us
30428 MSN 5542) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 30May43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 429th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group,
Massicault, Tunis, Tunisia 6Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. {23 missions}.
32nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Oudna #2, Tunis, Tunisia 14Nov43. Cerignola #1,
Italy 11Dec43. Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. Named "Touchy Goose". Failed to return from a mission
to the Messerschmitt aircraft factory at Regensburg, Germany 25Feb44 (9POW).
Enemy fighters started to attack fifteen miles east of Klagenfurt, Austria on the way
to the target. Shot down by enemy fighters over Klagenfurt, two engines were hit and on fire.
The crew bailed out before the bomber nosed over and entered a spin and exploded.
It crashed in flames and was destroyed by fire 2km northwest of Krakaudorf, Austria. {29 missions}.
MACR 2591
30429 (MSN 5543) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 30May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 1Jun43. Geiger Field,
Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training
Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 29Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 20Jul43. Assigned to 94th Bomb Group. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa.
340th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Châteaudun-du-Rhumel (Helen), Constantine,
Algeria 29Jul43. Pont-du-Fahs, Tunisia 11Aug43. Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 15Aug43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43. San Giovanni, Cerignola,
Italy 20Dec43. Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44. Failed to return from a mission to the
Steyr-Daimler-Puch ball bearing factory at Steyr, Austria 2Apr44 (1KIA:9POW). The group
began a counterclockwise turn in the target area; they had to circle for another run
because there was already another bomb group on the target. Four Bf 109s appeared
at 9 o'clock level at about 500 yards. The bomber was all alone! The fighters quickly
flipped out of sight. The number one engine nacelle had been hit; a piece of aluminium
about two feet long was sticking up from the nacelle behind the engine cowling. There
were a dozen pencil size holes in the waist section of the fuselage above the ball turret.
20mm flak cannon shells were hitting the plane. A flak fragment penetrated the cockpit
and mortally wounded the pilot. A 20mm shell blew up in front of the waist gunners,
seriously wounding one a slightly wounding the other. The left main landing gear had
dropped down. The gunners decided it was time to bail out. There was no one visible in
the radio compartment. The interphone was shot out. The waist section was full of
holes all over. They didn't know if there was anyone in the front flying the plane.
The crew bailed out over Großraming before the plane crashed at Ramsau, south of Molln, Austria
MACR 3583
30430 (MSN 5544) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 30May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 2Jun43. United Air Lines,
Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 16Jun43. Roswell Field, NM 21Jun43.
Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 25Jun43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH),
Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44. RRD, Kansas City, MO 12Aug44. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM. Damaged landing Roswell Auxiliary Field #3, NM 1Sep44.
3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 6Nov44. 3017th Base Unit
(Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 29Apr45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 31Aug45
30431 MSN 5545) Accepted by USAAF 28May43. United Air Lines, Modification
Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30May43. 90th Ferrying Squadron,
7th Ferrying Group. Damaged taking off at Cheyenne, WY 3Jun43. Lowry Field, Denver, CO 27Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 1Jul43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 13Jul43. Lowry Field, Denver, CO 15Jul43.
Wright Field, Dayton, OH 10Sep43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 8Oct43. 423rd Bomb Squadron [RD*F],
306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 19Oct43.
2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little Staughton (Station 127), Bedfordshire 3Nov43. Force landed
with two engines failed and propellers feathered at Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 19Apr44.
Regained by Group. Declared ‘war weary’. Departed Thurleigh on transfer to 486th Bomb Group,
Sudbury (Station 174), Suffolk 16Jul44
Returned to US 16Jun44. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor
Locks, CT 21Jun44. Ford Motor Company, Mechanics School [L-17], Willow Run Airport,
Ypsilanti, MI 22Jun44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and
disposal 29Oct45. Van Nuys, CA. Named. KWITCHABITCHIN – artwork of a naked lady leaning back
42-30432/30531 Boeing B-17F-105-BO Fortress
MSN 5446/5645. Dispositions from B-17 Fortress Master Log, Dave Osborne (FORTLOG)
Production changes: Remoted rrading compass. Fuel valve change. Landing gear warning horn deleted
30432 (MSN 5546) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 13Jun43. Rapid City Field, SD 19Jun43. Geiger Field,
Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 23Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 5Jul43. 342nd Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Châteaudun-du-Rhumel (Helen),
Constantine, Algeria 13Jul43. Pont-du-Fahs, Tunisia 11Aug43. Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 15Aug43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43. Two engines failed on takeoff for mission
to a railway marshalling yard at Innsbruck, Austria 20Dec43. The bomb load was jettisoned and then
another engine failed. Crash landed on return to the airfield at Foggia Main. Salvaged
30433 (MSN 5547) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 1Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 2Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 12Jun43.
Rapid City Field, SD 19Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 23Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 5Jul43. 410th Bomb Squadron [GL*U],
94th Bomb Group 5Jul43. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 7/8Jul43.
94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk Jul43. 331st Bomb Squadron, 94th Bomb Group,
Rougham. Damaged landing at Rougham 30Jan44. Failed to return from a mission to the Focke-Wulf aircraft
factory at Pozna?, Poland 11Apr44 (4POW:6KIA). Set on fire by enemy aircraft, set course for Sweden
but crashed Angeln, north of Keppeln, sixteen miles southeast of Flensburg, Germany MACR 4437.
Named MISS DONNA MAE / JIMMY BOY
30434 (MSN 5548) Accepted by USAAF 29May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 31May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 12Jun43. Rapid City Field, SD 19Jun43. Geiger Field,
Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 23Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 13Jul43. Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland Jul43. 570th Bomb Squadron [DI*A], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 18Jul43
Named "Betty Boop--The Pistol Packin' Mama"- artwork inspired by the Vargas'
"Pistol Packin' Mama" Esquire centrefold of March 1944., {first combat mission 12Aug43}. Battle damaged on
a shuttle mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factories at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43 (1KIA).
Crossing the Dutch coast en route to the target, the bomber was attacked by Fw 190s; a cannon shell
killed a waist gunner and fractured a rudder control cable. After the target, the mission continued on to
Bertoux, Algeria. Later positioned to Telergma, Constantine, Algeria. Returned to Framlingham on a mission
to a Luftwaffe air depot at Mérignac, Bordeaux, France 24Aug43. Failed to return from a mission to the
Messerschmitt aircraft factory at Regensburg, Germany 25Feb44 (2KIA:8POW). After crossing the coastline
into mainland Europe, the bombers encountered frequent flak and fierce aerial attacks from the Germa Luftwaffe.
These attacks caused heavy damage to this plane which crashed at Amifontaine, 20km southeast of Laon,
France. {32 missions}. MACR 2659
30435 (MSN 5549) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 31May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 16Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 17Jun43. Rapid City
Field, SD 19Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 5Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 342nd Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group,
Châteaudun-du-Rhumel (Helen), Constantine, Algeria 13Jul43. Pont-du-Fahs, Tunisia 11Aug43. Depienne,
Sminja, Tunisia 15Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43. San Giovanni,
Cerignola, Italy 20Dec43. Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44. Declared ‘war weary’. Reassigned for utility,
training and weather check aircraft 15Jul44. Returned to US. 1103rd Base Unit (Caribbean Wing, Air
Transport Command), Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 19Mar45. 4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air
Technical Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 27Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 28Aug45
30436 (MSN 5550) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 31May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 13Jun43. Rapid City Field, SD 19Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 23Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 5Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 414th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group,
Châteaudun-du-Rhumel (Helen), Constantine, Algeria 13Jul43. Named "Phantom Lady".
Pont-du-Fahs, Tunisia 11Aug43. Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 15Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43.
Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43. San Giovanni, Cerignola, Italy 20Dec43. Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44.
Failed to return from a mission to the Dunai Repül?gépgyár aircraft factory at Tököl, Budapest,
Hungary 3Apr44. The crew sent out an SOS saying that two engines were disabled and the plane was on fire.
Crashed near Budapest. MACR 3962
30437 (MSN 5551) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 31May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 18Jun43. Rapid City Field, SD 19Jun43. Geiger Field,
Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand
Island Field, NB 29Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 24Jul43.
Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 97th Bomb Group, Châteaudun-du-Rhumel (Helen), Constantine,
Algeria 24Jul43. Pont-du-Fahs, Tunisia 11Aug43. Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 15Aug43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43. San Giovanni, Cerignola, Italy 20Dec43.
Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44. 16th Reconnaissance Squadron (Heavy) Special, 68th Reconnaissance
Group, Foggia, Italy. Equipped with radar detection and electronic countermeasures (ECM) equipment.
Performed ECM overflights of enemy territory in advance of Fifteenth Air Force heavy bomber formations,
jamming enemy radar and generating false returns to confuse defensive forces. Returned to US Nov44.
302nd Base Unit (Staging Wing), Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 13Nov44. 4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air
Technical Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 22Nov44. 611th Base Unit, Proving Ground
Command, Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 30Apr45. 75th Base Unit, Army Airways Communications System,
Asheville, NC 26Jun45. 123rd Base Unit, Seymour Johnson Field, Goldsboro, NC 14Aug45. 76th Base Unit,
Langley Field, Hampton, VA 3Sep46.
30438 (MSN 5552) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 31May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 18Jun43. Rapid City Field, SD 20Jun43. Geiger Field,
Spokane, WA 23Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand
Island Field, NB 29Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 23Jul43.
Ferried from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to St Angelo, Enniskillen, Northern Ireland and Prestwick,
Scotland 25/26Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 414th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group,
Pont-du-Fahs, Tunisia 11Aug43. Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 15Aug43. Named "Kan-Do".
Failed to return from a mission to railway marshalling yards at Ancona, Italy 14Oct43 [10MIA].
With poor weather, en route to the target, the mission was broken up over the east coast of Italy.
This plane was caught in a strong wind storm, the pilot losing control as it entered a spin and was
last seen heading for a crash in the Adriatic Sea off Ancona, Italy. MACR 973.
30439 (MSN 5553) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 1Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 2Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 8Jul43. 410th Bomb Squadron [GL*S], 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468),
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 9Jul43 Named "Donna Lou II". . Declared ‘war weary’. Salvaged 31May45.
30440 (MSN 5554) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 1Jun43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 11Jun43. Dyersburg Field, TN 27Jun43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 22Jul43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 3Aug43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa.
340th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Pont-du-Fahs, Tunisia 8Aug43. Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 15Aug43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43. San Giovanni, Cerignola, Italy 20Dec43.
Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44. Collided with fuel truck at Amendola 22Jan44. Salvaged
30441 (MSN 5555) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 1Jun43.
Roswell Field, NM 20Jun43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44.
3010th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 9Dec44.
Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated
TB-17F. 3020th Base Unit (Pilot School, Advanced, Two Engine), La Junta Field, CO 29Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Searcey Field, Stillwater, OK for storage and disposal 4Aug45.
War Assets Corporation. Sold to Paul Mantz 19Feb46; scrapped
30442 (MSN 5556) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 1Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 12Jun43. Rapid City Field, SD 19Jun43. Geiger Field,
Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 5Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 414th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group,
Châteaudun-du-Rhumel (Helen), Constantine, Algeria 21Jul43. Pont-du-Fahs, Tunisia 11Aug43.
Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 15Aug43. Bombs exploded while loading the evening before a mission
to the railway marshalling yards at Sulmona, Italy 26Aug43 (6KIS:6INJ). {6 missions}. Salvaged
30443 (MSN 5557) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 1Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 12Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 14Jun43.
Rapid City Field, SD 19Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 23Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 5Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa.
352nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 13Jul43. Oudna #1,
Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Named "Mickey Joy" Force landed with engine
failure at Calvi, Corsica 30Nov43 then strafed by enemy fighters. Cerignola #1, Italy 9Dec43. Foggia #8 (Longskirt),
Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. {37 missions}. Declared ‘war weary’. Reassigned for utility, training and weather check
aircraft 27Jul44. Air Depot 8Oct44. Returned to US. 1103rd Base Unit (Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command),
Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 29Mar45. 4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command),
Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 3Apr45. Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Bush Field, Augusta, GA for storage
and disposal 7Jul45
30444 (MSN 5558) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 1Jun43. 7th Ferrying
Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 14Jun43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 15Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 8Jul43. 332nd Bomb Squadron [XM*C2],
94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 8Jul43 Named "Ramrod Ramsbottom/Black Jack IV".
Failed to return from a mission to the Luftwaffe air depot at Mérignac, Bordeaux, France 5Jan44 (4POW:1KIA; 5EVA).
Shot down by a Bf-109G-6 and crashed at Lac d'Hourtin,near Le Matouse, 33 miles
northwest of Bordeaux, France. MACR 1893
30445 (MSN 5559) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 1Jun43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 11Jun43. 541st Bomb Squadron, 383rd Bomb Group, Rapid City Field, SD.
Mid-air explosion 25 miles south of Rapid City Field, SD 20Jun43 (9KIS). Took off to conduct a typical training
maneuver, preparing to fire at targets below in a desolate area known as the Badlands about 25 miles
south of Rapid City. The airplane had been modified with additional internal tankage in the wings at a
modification center. The explosion was probably caused by the ignition of improperly vented gasoline
fumes in the wing panel. The airplane was standing by in the gunnery range traffic pattern waiting its
turn to fire at a towed target when it was seen on fire and breaking up in flight by witnesses on the ground.
The B-17 fuselage broke in half at the radio room compartment near the starboard wing. Pieces of the
starboard wing and various fire blackened wreckage were found strewn over an area called Red Shirt Table.
Investigation of the wreckage revealed that the airplane suffered a catastrophic internal explosion of
gasoline and air in the starboard wing at an altitude of 3,500 feet above ground level. The damage
and subsequent fire caused the airplane to break up and crash.
30446 (MSN 5560) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 1Jun43. 7th Ferrying Group,
Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 12Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 14Jun43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field,
Oklahoma City, OK 22Jun43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 26Jun43. Eglin Field,
Valparaiso, FL 7Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 9Jul43.
Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 348th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Navarin (Overcoat), El Eulma,
Algeria 29Jul43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 4Aug43. Failed to return from a mission to a Luftwaffe
airfield at Tatoi, Athens, Greece 10Oct43 (9MIA:1EVD). Shortly after dropping bombs over the target, flak
killed the bombardier and fatally wounded the navigator. Shrapnel disabled the two inboard engines.
Unable to maintain formation, the plane dropped back and was attacked by a flight of Bf 109 fighters
from JG 27. Cannon shells disabled a third engine, killed two of the gunners and severely wounded
the pilot. The crew was ordered to bail out. Six airmen were able to jump but five were strafed during their
descent over the Gulf of Corinth; the co-pilot was the only survivor after reaching shore and evaded
capture with the help of Greek freedom fighters. The plane crash landed in a mountainside olive grove
near Panaretti, Greece. Claimed by Oblt Jost Schlang of Stab/ JG 27. MACR 6615 and 924.
30447 (MSN 5561) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 1Jun43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 11Jun43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 22Jun43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 15Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 20Jul43. 327th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102),
Huntingdonshire 21Jul43. Accident departing for a mission to Gelsenkirchen, Germany 15Aug43.
The undercarriage began to retract then No.2 propeller broke off, injuring the pilot. The aircraft
stopped 200 yds past the end of the runway. Salvaged 17Aug43
30448 (MSN 5562) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 1Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 16Jun43. 541st Bomb Squadron, 383rd Bomb Group,
Rapid City Field, SD. Crashed and destroyed by fire taking off at Rapid City 17Jun43 (6KIS). Salvaged 21Jun43.
30449 (MSN 5563) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 1Jun43.
Rapid City Field, SD 20Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 28Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 18Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 96th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group,
Massicault, Tunis, Tunisia 6Aug43. Named "Julie A". {first combat mission 13Aug43}. Battle damaged by
flak on a tactical mission to the highway between Battapaglia and Eboli, southeast of Salerno, Italy 15Sep43 (10RTD).
Accident returning to base after dark from the second mission of the day in support of the Salerno Beach invasion.
On the way to the target the No.1 engine failed, however the pilot elected to push on with three and
finish the mission. On the way home the plane was approaching the North African coast when it lost
the No.2 engine. There was a B-26 airfield nearby but the pilot made a decision to go to home base.
As it was on the final approach, the air traffic control radio operator stated, “#449, if you have two
engines out, flash your landing lights,” and at that same moment, the pilot opened the throttles and
pulled up to avoid another B-17 that cut him out of the pattern. On two engines, the increased power
caused the failure of No.4 engine. The plane was successfully crash landed on a hillside in the dark.
As the crew tried to exit the radio hatch, they could see flames against the dust. Fortunately it was a
small fire in the No.4 engine and they were able to extinguish it. The plane had crash landed fifteen
miles west of Massicault. {16 missions}. Salvaged
30450 (MSN 5564) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 1Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 14Jun43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 15Jun43.
Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 7Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 8Jul43.
332nd Bomb Squadron, 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 8Jul43.
410th Bomb Squadron. Failed to return from a mission to Wilhelmshaven, Germany 26Jul43 (10RTD).
Flak hit No.1 engine and damaged the wing, then shot down by enemy fighters, ditched North Sea
30451 (MSN 5565) Accepted by USAAF 31May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 1Jun43. Rapid City Field, SD 15Jun43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 24Jun43.
Portland AAB, OR 11Jul43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 21Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 7Aug43.
368th Bomb Squadron [BO*N], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 3Sep43.
Named "V Mail Gets There Fastest" . Seriously battle damaged during a mission to an
aircraft factory at Bremen, Germany 8Oct43. The formation was met with stiff resistance by German
fighters and flak crews on the ground the entire way, from the Dutch coast all the way into the German
heartland, and back again. In addition, a large force of German fighters launched vicious attacks
against the planes. Over the target, the formation encountered intense flak. Right horizontal stabiliser
and elevator struck by flak, Left inner wing behind No.1 engine nacelle struck by flak; No.1 engine
struck by empty 0.50 caliber shell casings. Battle damage on a mission to the molybdenum mine at
Knaben, Norway 16Nov43. Several flak shrapnel struck the right wing, went through No.4 engine
and into the fuel tank. Eighth Air Force Service Command 16Nov43. Regained by Group 24Nov43.
Salvaged after non battle damage 5Jul44. Repaired. 34th Bomb Group, Mendlesham (Station 156),
Suffolk 9Jun45. Returned to US by 34th Bomb Group crew on Operation Home Run
30452 (MSN 5566) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Jun43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 16Jun32. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 29Jun43. 331st Bomb Squadron, 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468),
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 1Jul43. Damaged landing Honington (Station 375), Suffolk 6Aug43, aircraft
landed on short runway and overshot, hitting a dirt embankment. Salvaged 1st Strategic Air Depot,
Troston (Station 595), Suffolk.
30453 (MSN 5567) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Jun43.
Rapid City Field, SD 15Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 28Jun43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 14Jul43. 333rd Bomb Squadron [TS*K],
94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 13Jul43.
Named "Thunderbird". Failed to return from a shuttle mission to the Messerschmitt
aircraft factories at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43 (10POW). Flak damaged engine No.3, crashed
Saverne, France. MACR 831
30454 (MSN 5568) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Jun43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 14Jun43. Rapid City Field, SD 19Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 23Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 5Jul43. 333rd Bomb Squadron [TS*B], 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468),
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 7Jul43. Named "Reluctant Dragon". Failed to return from a
mission to the port and industrial area at Emden, Germany 27Sep43 (1KIA,9POW). Approaching Germany
there was 9/10 cloud cover and it was decided to bomb on the Pathfinder equipped aircraft, but by the
time the group reached the area the smoke marker had dissipated, the group diverting to an alternate target at Norden
Shot down by Lt Franz Ruhl in Bf 109G of JG 3/4
and ditched in North Sea off Greetsiel, Germany Sep 27, 1943. MACR 733.
30455 (MSN 5569) Accepted by USAAF 2Jun43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Jun43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 14Jun43.
Dalhart Field, TX 27Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 26Jul43. 569th Bomb Squadron [CC*R], 390th Bomb Group,
Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 6Aug43. Named "Schifless Skonk"– artwork of the
head of Hitler on the body of a skunk. {first combat mission 31Aug43}. Failed to return from a mission
to Rjukan, seventy-five miles west of Oslo, Norway 16Nov43 (10KIA). The target was the pen-stocks
down the mountain from the dam for the hydro-electric building in the valley below. This building also
contained the Norwegian heavy water plant which was being used by the Germans to provide heavy water
for their experimentation in the development of the atomic/hydrogen bomb. Neither the lead navigator
nor bombardier could locate anything resembling the target during two passes over the area
Shot down by Ju 88C-6 of NJG3/10 over North Sea Nov 16, 1943 while returning from Norway.
Crashed into North Sea 2 mi off Varboug, Norway. MACR 1400
30456 (MSN 5570) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 4Jun43.
Rapid City Field, SD 16Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 28Jun43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 18Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa.
96th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Massicault, Tunis, Tunisia 6Aug43. Named "Cactus Clipper"
{first combat mission 13Aug43}. Failed to return from a mission to the railway marshalling
yards at Sulmona, Italy 27Aug43 (7KIA:3POW). En route to the target, the plane had just passed
the coast of Italy when a flak burst took the right wing off. An explosion in the radio room sent
debris back through the formation then the fuselage folded up near the ball turret. The wing fell
into the sea just off the harbour breakwater and the bomb load exploded when the plane hit
the ground to the north of the harbour at Anzio, Italy. {7 missions}. MACR 481.
30457 (MSN 5571) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 16Jun43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 18Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 8Jul43. 331st Bomb Squadron [QE*N], 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468),
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 9Jul43. Named "Jimmy Boy II". Failed to return from a mission
to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43 (4POW:6EVD). En route to the target
area, the bomber formation was repeatedly attacked by a large number of Luftwaffe fighters.
After the target, the Group turned and headed westward for England. German fighters, having landed
and refueled, attacked again. Shot down by Lt Hans
Santler in Fw 190A-6 of JG 2/1 Stab at Crepy-en-Valois,
France Oct 14, 1943. MACR 792
30458 (MSN 5572) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 4Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 16Jun43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 18Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 1Jul43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Grenier Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 23Dec43.
3rd Weather Squadron, Grenier Field, Manchester, NH 3Jan44. 4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air
Technical Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 8Apr44. 3rd Weather Squadron, Grenier
Field, Manchester, NH 27Mar45. SOC 10Dec45
30459 (MSN 5573) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 4Jun43.
Rapid City Field, SD 15Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 28Jun43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 20Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa.
416th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 7Aug43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. 341st Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Depienne,
Sminja, Tunisia 14Nov43. Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43. San Giovanni, Cerignola, Italy 20Dec43.
Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44. Failed to return from a mission to the Messerschmitt
aircraft factories at Regensburg, Germany 22Feb44. The Group arrived over Regensburg
but cloud cover prevented bombing. Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Klagenfurt, Austria.
Named "Little Chum" MACR 2491
30460 (MSN 5574) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 4Jun43.
541st Bomb Squadron, 383rd Bomb Group, Rapid City Field, SD 15Jun43. Crash landed after
engine failure at Great Falls AAB, MT 19Jun43 (7KIS). Salvaged 21Jun43
30461 (MSN 5575) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 4Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 22Jun43. Roswell Field, NM 24Jun43.
551st Two Engine Flying Training Squadron, 314th Two Engine Flying Training Group,
Roswell Field, NM. Caught fire and crashed 55 miles south of Roswell Field, NM 15Mar44 (1KIS).
Salvaged 19Mar44
30462 ((MSN 5576) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 4Jun43.
Rapid City Field, SD 15Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 29Jun43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 17Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa.
347th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 7Aug43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. 414th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Depienne, Sminja,
Tunisia 14Nov43. Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43. San Giovanni, Cerignola, Italy 20Dec43. Foggia #7,
Amendola, Italy 16Jan44. Failed to return from a mission to an air depot at Udine, Italy 18Mar44.
The group flew to the southern parts of the Austrian Alps and then turned 180° and from the north
launched the attack on Udine. This plane was flying as leader in the rear four plane element.
When thirty minutes from the target the group was attacked by German Fw 190 fighters and in the
ensuing scramble to close up, the element became separated from the rest of the group and
squadron. As a result, the fighters concentrated their attacks on this element. Attacked by
enemy fighters, the crew dropped the bombs over the target, lowered the landing gear and
bailed out. Crashed into the center of Udine .MACR 3521.
30463 (MSN 5577) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 8Jun43. 7th Ferrying
Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 9Jun43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 19Jun43.
New Orleans, LA 26Jun43. Buckingham Field, Fort Myers, FL 27Jul43. 717th Flexible Training
Squadron, Buckingham Field, Fort Myers, FL 29Sep43. Gunnery accident on the firing range
at Fort Myers 5Nov43. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field,
Sebring, FL 3Dec43. Air Service Command, Fairfield Air Depot, Patterson Field, OH. Damaged
while parked by North American P-51B Mustang 43-12121 at Patterson Field 30Mar44.
Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment;
designated TB-17F. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field,
Sebring, FL. Damaged by mechanical failure and fire at Hendricks Auxiliary Field, Conners,
Okeechobee, FL 4May45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for
storage and disposal 13Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment
Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30464 (MSN 5578) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 4Jun43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 15Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 7Jul43. 332nd Bomb Squadron [XM*A2], 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468),
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 5Jul43. Named "Little Minnie II".
Participated in a shuttle mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factories at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43.
After the target, the mission continued on to Bertoux, Algeria. Later positioned to Telergma, Constantine,
Algeria for a return mission en route to England. On morning of departure from Telergma, a mechanic
inadvertently raised landing gear instead of flaps and and the aircraft collapsed, creasing the fuselage
at the waist position. {6 missions}. Salvaged
30465 ((MSN 5579) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Jun43.
Rapid City Field, SD 16Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 28Jun43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 18Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 429th Bomb Squadron,
2nd Bomb Group, Masssicault, Tunisia 6Aug43. {first combat mission 17Aug43}. Fifteenth Air Force,
Italy 1Nov43. {28 missions}. 419th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Oudna #2, Tunis, Tunisia 16Nov43.
Cerignola #1, Italy 10Dec43. Battle damaged on a mission to the harbor at Piraeus, Greece 11Jan44.
The navigator bailed out. On that fateful day, the briefed mission was for the 5th Wing composed
of the 2nd, 97th, 301st and 99th Bomb Groups, to fly on a southerly course through the heel of Italy
to the town of Lecce where the Wing would then take a heading out over the Adriatic Sea, to a point
over the Peloponnese peninsula of Greece. From this point the crews were briefed to complete a 90°
degree turn to the Initial Point over Lagousa Island. From there the mission dictated a straight run
in to the target, reassemble, and return to base. After the formation was organized and began making
its way to the target, the Groups ran into a weather front of 10/10 clouds. At eighteen thousand
feet they entered an overcast. The clouds were very thick and visibility was not much beyond the
wingtips, making it almost impossible to see other aircraft in the formation. At that altitude, and
with the thickness of the clouds, ice began to form on their wings. In such situations it was standard
operating procedure for trailing squadrons in the formation to fly off course for a couple minutes
to obtain some spacing from the lead squadron, which would continue to maintain its course.
However, as the 97th Bomb Group began making a left turn for their bomb run on the target, the lead
plane of the 342nd Bomb Squadron encountered severe turbulence made by the preceding elements
of the Wing. The turbulence was so severe that the lead aircraft of the squadron was forced into a
steep left bank before it plummeted temporarily out of control and lost altitude at a rate of 1,000ft per
minute. By the time the pilot was able to recover and regain his place in formation, the two sister
planes in the flight were nowhere to be seen. Meanwhile, the pilots of the two sister planes from
the flight, B-17F No.42-3251 and B-17F No.42-29918 found themselves alone in 10/10 visibility,
unsure where the formation had disappeared to, with ice forming on their wings, and experiencing
engine trouble. From what was deduced later in the accident report, the doomed B-17s made the
decision to abort and turn back for the relative safety of Italy. In a tragic turn of events, their
decision to return home took them directly into the path of the oncoming 301st Bomb Group.
According to the official report of the Board of Inquiry, the two B-17s of the 97th Bomb Group
experienced engine trouble and left the formation. Instead of making a 180-degree right turn,
away from the formation, the aircraft made a turn to the left and flew head-on into the 301st formation.
According to a Bombardier assigned to the lead ship of the 301st Bomb Group, and flown by the
Group Commanding Officer, he was startled to see a pair of 97th Bomb Group B-17s emerge out
of a cloud about 20 degrees to the left and aimed straight at his aircraft. Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera,
Italy 2Feb44. {36 missions}. {73 missions in total}. Failed to return from a mission to the
industrial centre of Sofia, Bulgaria 30Mar44 (10POW). Shot down by a Bulgarian Air Force
Avia B.53/3 single-seat fighter flown by Captain Krastyo Atanasov (CO of the Bulgarian fighter
pilot school). Crashed in the Adriatic Sea off Ulcinj, Montenegro, Yugoslavia. Named VAGABOND MACR 3714
30466 (MSN 5580) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Jun43.
Rapid City Field, SD 19Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 30Jun43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 18Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa.
49th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Aïn M’lila (Onyx), Constantine, Algeria 29Jul43.
Massicault, Tunis, Tunisia 1Aug43. {first combat mission 17Aug43}. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43.
{28 missions}. 419th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Oudna #2, Tunis, Tunisia 14Nov43.
Cerignola #1, Italy 10Dec43. Failed to return from a mission to the harbor at Piraeus, Greece 11Jan44
(8KIA:2POW). Damaged by explosion of another aircraft, crashed Patrai, Greece. On that fateful day,
the briefed mission was for the 5th Wing composed of the 2nd, 97th, 99th and 301st Bomb Groups,
to fly on a southerly course through the heel of Italy to the town of Lecce where the Wing would then
take a heading out over the Adriatic Sea, to a point over the Peloponnese peninsula of Greece.
From this point the crews were briefed to complete a 90° degree turn to the Initial Point over
Lagousa Island. From there the mission dictated a straight run in to the target, reassemble,
and return to base. After the formation was organized and began making its way to the target,
the Groups ran into a weather front of 10/10 clouds. At eighteen thousand feet they entered an
overcast. The clouds were very thick and visibility was not much beyond the wingtips, making it
almost impossible to see other aircraft in the formation. At that altitude, and with the thickness
of the clouds, ice began to form on their wings. In such situations it was standard operating procedure
for trailing squadrons in the formation to fly off course for a couple minutes to obtain some
spacing from the lead squadron, which would continue to maintain its course. However, as the
97th Bomb Group began making a left turn for their bomb run on the target, the lead plane of the
342nd Bomb Squadron encountered severe turbulence made by the preceding elements of the Wing.
The turbulence was so severe that the lead aircraft of the squadron was forced into a steep left bank
before it plummeted temporarily out of control and lost altitude at a rate of 1,000ft per minute.
By the time the pilot was able to recover and regain his place in formation, the two sister planes
in the flight were nowhere to be seen. Meanwhile, the pilots of the two sister planes from the flight,
B-17F No.42-3251 and B-17F No.42-29918 found themselves alone in 10/10 visibility, unsure
where the formation had disappeared to, with ice forming on their wings, and experiencing engine
trouble. From what was deduced later in the accident report, the doomed B-17s made the decision
to abort and turn back for the relative safety of Italy. In a tragic turn of events, their decision
to return home took them directly into the path of the oncoming 301st Bomb Group. According to
the official report of the Board of Inquiry, the two B-17s of the 97th Bomb Group experienced
engine trouble and left the formation. Instead of making a 180-degree right turn, away from
the formation, the aircraft made a turn to the left and flew head-on into the 301st formation.
According to a Bombardier assigned to the lead ship of the 301st Bomb Group, and flown by the
Group Commanding Officer, he was startled to see a pair of 97th Bomb Group B-17s emerge
out of a cloud about 20 degrees to the left and aimed straight at his aircraft. Almost Instantly,
both B-17s bracketed his aircraft, with one passing closely over his right wing that clipped the
vertical stabiliser, and the other closely passing beneath the left wing. Almost immediately,
the tail gunner witnessed a big ball of fire that lit up the clouds as the B-17s collided with one
Fortress in the lead element, and two B-17s in the second element. P-38 pilots, flying low cover
escort under the overcast, reported watching pieces of B-17s raining from the sky for what seemed
like five minutes. There were eight B-17s that fell out of the sky simultaneously. Thirteen Americans
survived; sixty-four perished. {12 missions} MACR 1830
30467 (MSN 5581) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Jun43.
20th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Rapid City Field, SD 16Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 28Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 21Jul43. Ferried on the North
Atlantic route from Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick, Scotland then to Casablanca, French Morocco.
Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 20th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Massicault, Tunis, Tunisia Aug43.
Named "Big Jeff"--Named after ‘Little Jeff’, the pet dog of the pilot.
{first combat mission 13Aug43}. Failed to return from a mission to bomb an electrical transformer
station and railway marshalling yards in Foggia, Italy 19Aug43 (5KIA:4MIA:1POW). Enemy fighters
swarmed about the bombers both to and from the target area. Over the city of Foggia the flak was
intense. At an altitude of 21,000ft, the bomber managed to reach the target area intact and completed
its bombing run. On the return home, enemy fighters attacked once more; this time they hit the bomber
hard. The aircraft was riddled by machine gun fire from several of the Bf 109s. One wing was nearly
blown off and the plane's No.2 and No.3 engines were on fire. One by one the guns in the rear of the
plane stopped firing. The five gunners were badly injured or dead. Crippled and falling out of the sky,
the bomber was surrounded by enemy fighters. The pilot gave the order to bail out. The five remaining
crew members bailed out at 19,000ft over the Tyrrhenian Sea, south of Salerno and ten miles west
of Licosa Point. The co-pilot called out to his crew members once he hit the water, but got no response.
He began to move in the direction of land. It took him thirty-two hours to swim twenty-one miles
to the Italian shore. There, he was captured and held as a Prisoner of War. {3 missions}. MACR 458
30468 (MSN 5582) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Jun43.
Rapid City Field, SD 18Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 29Jun43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma
City, OK 21Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 1Aug43. Twelfth Air Force,
Mediterranean Theater of Operations 3Aug43. Ferried RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Nutts Corner (Station 235),
Belfast, Northern Ireland 5Aug43 (10KIS). Ditched in North Sea off Berwick, Northumberland. The bomber went
over Berwick flying very low and crashed into the sea off Spittal. The weather was the worst. Berwick lifeboat
and a Royal Air Force rescue boat immediately put out to the scene of the crash, but no bodies were found.
It attempted to tow the aircraft to land but it sank. On August 10, a team of divers endeavour to salvage the
plane and recover the bodies. After three days' unsuccessful attempts to locate the Fortress, the men left Berwick.
The crash was the result of equipment failure, training procedure failures and weather. The bomber had
radio aids failure beyond the point of no return and the crew was unable to recognise/remedy/repair the fault.
All northern UK (except Prestwick as usual) was covered in low cloud and fog. The crew were being tracked
but would not answer radio calls for diversion after they overflew the west coast of Scotland. No aircraft could
be scrambled from closer bases to intercept because of the weather and Prestwick aircraft were tasked
elsewhere. When fuel ran low the crew partly abandoned the aircraft MACR 163.
30469 (MSN 5583) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 8Jun43. 5th Ferrying Group,
Love Field, Dallas, TX 4Jul43. Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO. Modified to photographic configuration 7Jul43.
Designated F-9A. Cameras changed and redesignated 1943 as F-9B. 19th Photographic Mapping Squadron,
11th Photographic Mapping Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 20Jan44. Ascencion Island 29Feb44. Middle E
ast 1Apr44. Crash landed Qualeh, Teheran, Iran 24Apr44
30470 (MSN 5584) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Jun43. Rapid City
Field, SD 19Jun43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 22Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 25Jun43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 29Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 14Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa.
416th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Navarin (Overcoat), El Eulma, Algeria 29Jul43. Oudna #1,
Mohammedia, Tunisia 4Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. 342nd Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group,
Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 14Nov43. Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43. San Giovanni, Cerignola, Italy 20Dec43.
Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44. Declared ‘war weary’. Reassigned for utility, training and weather check
aircraft 15Jul44. Burned out during maintenance when being washed using gasoline at Amendola 30Jul44.
A crewman turned on power to the ball turret to check operation. A spark ignited the gasoline, burning out the
center section and the bomber collapsed on the ramp. Salvaged. Named WOLF PAC
30471 (MSN 5585) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Jun43. Rapid City
Field, SD 19Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 30Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 18Jul43. Ferried from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Nutts Corner (Station 235), Belfast, Northern
Ireland 25Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 416th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Oudna #1,
Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Sep43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. 97th Bomb Group, Depienne, Sminja,
Tunisia 14Nov43. Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43. San Giovanni, Cerignola, Italy 20Dec43. Foggia #7,
Amendola, Italy 16Jan44. Failed to return from a controversial mission to the Benedictine Abbey at
Monte Cassino, Italy 15Feb44. Ditched Tyrrhenian Sea, crew rescued. [The Germans had made it clear
that they were not occupying the monastery]
30472 (MSN 5586) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Jun43.
Rapid City Field, SD 18Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 29Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 14Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 353rd Bomb Squadron,
301st Bomb Group, Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 19Jul43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia,
Tunisia 6Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Cerignola #1, Italy 10Dec43. Failed to return
from a mission to the Luftwaffe airfield at Salon de Provence, France 21Jan44 (10MIA). Just before
reaching the target, No.3 engine started smoking and the bomber fell back from the formation.
After jettisoning their bombs before the target, the aircraft left the formation as enemy fighters
began their attacks. Although hit, the bomber appeared to be under control as it slowly circled down
and ditched safely in the Mediterranean Sea twenty miles south of Toulon, France. The crew was
seen to enter their life rafts and head towards the shore at Marseille, France; none were ever seen again,
no remains were recovered. {51 missions}. MACR 1952
30473 (MSN 5587) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 8Jun43. 7th Ferrying Group,
Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 9Jun43. Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 8Jul43. Ephrata AAB, WA 1Aug43.
Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 17Aug43. Drew Field, Tampa, FL 19Oct43. 617th Base Unit,
Dugway Proving Ground, Tooele, UT 2Jun44. 4135th Base Unit (Ogden Air Technical Service Command),
Hill Field, Ogden, UT 26Aug44. 617th Base Unit, Dugway Proving Ground, Tooele, UT 18Sep45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 14Dec45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30474 (MSN 5588) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Jun43. Rapid City
Field, SD 19Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 28Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 14Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 346th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Navarin
(Overcoat), El Eulma, Algeria 1Aug43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 4Aug43. Named "Bumb's Rush" Failed to return from a
mission to the railway marshalling yards at Mestre, Venice, Italy 6Oct43 (1KIA:3POW:6EVD). En route to
the target, and after crossing the coast of Italy near La Spezia, the formation was attacked by a flight of Bf 109 fighters
Shot down by Fw. Gunter Schmitz in Bf 109G-6/R1 of JG77/7 and crashed near Pavone del Mella,
Italy Oct 6, 1943. . There was an explosion which caused a large hole in the right fuselage
between the oxygen tanks and th bomb bay. This caused the plane to drop out of formation and was
singled out for further attack by the enemy fighters. The pilot was having problems controlling the plane
and the bombardier was unable to jettison the bombs. After another explosion, the pilot ordered the crew to bail out.
Several of the crew had been wounded by 20mm cannon shells and were taken prisoner, the others evaded capture.
Crashed near Pavone del Mella, south of Brescia, Italy MACR 929.
30475 (MSN 5589) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 8Jun43. Patterson Field,
Dayton, OH 9Jul43. 328th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Gulfport Field, MS 31Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 25Jun45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped
30476 (MSN 5590) Accepted by USAAF 5Jun43. Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 8Jun43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 8Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 15Jul43. 568th Bomb Squadron [BI*L], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk Jul43
Named "Rovin Ramona". {first combat mission 19Aug43}. Failed to return from a mission to the Deschimag
shipyards at Bremen, Germany 20Dec43 (10KIA). Attacked by a large force of enemy fighters and flak over the
target area was very intense. Damaged by flak, crashed in North Sea, near Bremen, Germany. {17 missions}. . MACR 1731.
30477 (MSN 5591) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 8Jun43. 7th Ferrying Group,
Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 9Jun43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 11Jun43. 5th Ferrying Group,
Love Field, Dallas, TX 5Jul43. 467th Bomb Squadron, 333rd Bomb Group, Dalhart Field, TX 7Jul43.
Crash landed after engine failure at Dalhart Field 31Aug43
30478 (MSN 5592) Accepted by USAAF 7Jun43. Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 9Jun43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 10Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 15Jul43. 560th Bomb Squadron [L], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 18Jul43.
Named *Impatient Virgin II* {first combat mission 30Jul43}. Battle damaged on a mission to the
Gerhard Fieseler Werke (GFW) aircraft works at Waldau, Kassel, Germany 30Jul43 (10RTD). A large force of
enemy fighters was encountered along the route from the Dutch coast to the target and out, but broke off the
attacks over the target area. Flak was moderate over the route, but intense and accurate over the target. Further
flak was encountered on return over Antwerp. Failed to return from a mission to the Bosch magneto factory at
Stuttgart, Germany 6Sep43 (10INT). With bad weather over Germany, the bomber attempted to attack a secondary
target of a Luftwaffe air base to the southwest of Strasbourg, France. Failing again to find the target, the bombs
were jettisoned into the Black Forest. Attacked by enemy fighters, force landed at Dübendorf, Zürich, Switzerland.
{8 missions}. MACR 3136. Repaired and used by Swiss Air Force for familiarisation flights. Returned to US Sep 5, 1945
Grenier Field, Manchester, NH 23Oct45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage
and disposal 20Oct45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
Returned Sep 5, 1945.
30479 (MSN 5593) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 8Jun43. 5th Ferrying Group,
Love Field, Dallas, TX 19Jul43. Ephrata AAB, WA 20Jul43. 601st Bomb Squadron, 398th Bomb Group,
Rapid City Field, SD 2Aug43. Damaged taxying due mechanical failure at Rapid City 6Dec43. 225th Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Rapid City Field, SD 23Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Cal-Aero Field, Ontario, CA for storage and disposal 19Jun45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Sharp & Fellows Contracting Company Jul46; scrapped
30480 (MSN 5594) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 6Aug43. 5th Ferrying Group,
Love Field, Dallas, TX 14Jul43. Ephrata AAB, WA 15Jul43. Ardmore Field, OK 27Oct43. Modified for training,
stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F. 222nd Base Unit (Combat
Crew Training Station), Ardmore Field, OK 22Jan45. Damaged by ‘friendly fire’ at Ardmore Field 21Apr45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Cal-Aero Field, Ontario, CA for storage and disposal 20Jun45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Sharp & Fellows Contracting Company Jul46; scrapped
30481 (MSN 5595) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 9Jun43. Ephrata AAB, WA 15Jul43.
Combat Crew Training School, 395th Bomb Group, Ardmore Field, OK. Mid-air collision with B-17F 42-30752
near Mill Creek, twenty miles northeast of Ardmore 12Feb44 (10KIS). The bomber crew was tasked to participate
in a low level bombing demonstration during the base ‘open house’ held that day. The mission for the day was
to fly to Matagorda Bay, just off the coast from Corpus Christi, Texas. They fired at tow targets for several hours,
then headed back to Ardmore. There were 13 B-17s flying in close formation. One B-17 with officer instructors
brought up the rear and advised the pilots as to what to do. They had been flying at 20,000ft this day and as
we neared home, we began to descend and turn at the same time. This is a difficult maneuver for a large plane
to accomplish, especially if in close formation under turbulent air conditions. The bomber was flying in a
very close formation with planes on both sides and in the front and rear. They had let down to approximately
15,000ft when the aircraft (42-30752) on the upper left slid into this aircraft. The two right engines
cut this plane into two pieces just behind the radio room. The front of the aircraft went straight up for a
brief moment knocking off the Plexiglas nose of the other plane which pushed this aircraft under it
knocking off its ball turret. The tail gunner, who parachuted successfully, was the only survivor
of the crew on this flight. The pilots of 42-30572 managed to regain control, although heavily damaged
with two right engines inoperable, they flew the 15-20 miles to Ardmore Field and landed safely. Salvaged 13Feb44..
30482 (MSN 5596) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 8Jun43. 5th Ferrying Group,
Love Field, Dallas, TX 5Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 6Jul43.
Dalhart Field, TX 7Jul43. 326th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 6Jul44.
4117th Base Unit (Warner Robins Air Technical Service Command), Robins Field, Warner Robins, GA 27Jul44.
327th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Drew Field, Tampa, FL 8Oct44. Damaged landing with
mechanical failure at Drew 10Nov44. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine),
Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 11May45. 327th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Drew Field,
Tampa, FL 24May45. Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment;
designated TB-17F. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Searcey Field, Stillwater, OK for storage and
disposal 11Aug45. War Assets Corporation. Sold to Paul Mantz 19Feb46; scrapped
30483 (MSN 5597) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 8Jun43. 7th Ferrying Group,
Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 9Jun43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 14Jul43. Ephrata AAB, WA 15Jul43.
Rapid City Field, SD 27Jul43. School of Applied Tactics, Orlando AAB, FL 8Aug43. 749th Bomb Squadron,
457th Bomb Group, Ephrata AAB, WA. Crashed at Ephrata 20Nov43 (7KIS). Salvaged 22Nov43.
30484 (MSN 5598) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 9Jun43. 7th Ferrying Group,
Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 10Jun43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 12Jun43. Ephrata AAB, WA 18Jul43.
Combat Crew Training School, 395th Bomb Group, Ardmore Field, OK. Crashed two miles southeast of
Will Rogers Field, Oklahoma City, OK 8Feb44. Salvaged 9Feb44
30485 (MSN 5599) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 9Jun43. 7th Ferrying Group,
Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 10Jun43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 12Jun43. Ephrata AAB, WA 18Jul43.
603rd Bomb Squadron, 398th Bomb Group, Rapid City Field, SD 2Aug43. Crashed due engine failure taking off
at Rapid City 22Nov43. Salvaged 23Nov43
30486 (MSN 5600) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 6Aug43. Modified to
photographic configuration. Designated F-9A. Cameras changed and redesignated 1943 as F-9B. Peterson Field,
Colorado Springs, CO 8Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, Mediterranean Theater of Operations 20Jan44.
Mapping mission to the Alps, Europe 29Feb44. Mapping mission to Asia Minor 1Apr44. 4185th Base Unit
(Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), Independence Field, KS 11Sep44. Designated FB-17F.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 16Jan46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
30487 MSN 5601) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 9Jun43. 7th Ferrying Group,
Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 11Jun43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 28Jul43. Scott Field,
Belleville, IL 11Aug43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 17Aug43.
349th Bomb Squadron [XR*F], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 20Aug43.
Named "Laiden Maiden" aka "Torchy III". On return from a mission to the Messerschmitt
aircraft factories at Regensburg, Germany 20Apr44, the left undercarriage collapsed when the pilot applied the
brakes after landing at Thorpe Abbotts. The cause was a mechanical failure of the left retracting screw.
456th Sub-Depot, Air Service Command, Thorpe Abbotts. Salvaged
30488 (MSN 5602) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 10Jun43. 7th Ferrying Group,
Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 11Jun43. 589th Bomb Squadron, 395th Bomb Group, Ephrata AAB, WA 18Jul43.
Crashed near Soap Lake in Grant County, Washington, ten miles north of Ephrata 24Jul43 (13KIS).
The aircraft took off from Ephrata AAB on a training bombing mission. Returning from the mission, the
bomber was circling to land in a left turn with the flaps partially extended and landing gear extended
when it struck the side of a hill and rolled roughly 200 yards on the landing gear. The No.2 engine
propeller struck a horse knocking off the engine and left landing gear which collided with the
left horizontal stabiliser and elevator, knocking them off. this caused the bomber to bounce back
into the air 100 feet before colliding with another hill and sliding 400 yards before breaking up and
bursting into flames roughly a half mile from the first contact with the ground.
30489 (MSN 5603) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 10Jun43. Ephrata AAB, WA 19Jul43.
5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 3Aug43. 590th Bomb Squadron, 395th Bomb Group,
Ephrata AAB, WA 4Aug43. Damaged landing at Ephrata 9Aug43. 221st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Alexandria Field, LA. Damaged in collision with B-17G 42-102846 taxying at Alexandria Field 29Jul44.
329th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA 1Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 27Aug45
30490 (MSN 5604) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 10Jun43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 11Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 20Jul43. Ferried from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Nutts Corner (Station 235), Belfast,
Northern Ireland 25Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 352nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group,
Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 1Aug43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Cerignola #1, Italy 9Dec43.
Named "The Joker" Failed to return from a mission to railway marshalling yards at
Sofia, Bulgaria 24Jan44 (9EVD). Over the target, the formation found it impossible to bomb and
proceeded to a secondary target at Niš, Yugoslavia. After going 80 to 100 miles beyond Sofia, the
group turned and headed for home base. Heavy cloud formations were encountered along the route.
Attacked by enemy fighters. Last seen three hours out returning to base after the mission, about
seventy miles southeast of Lake Skadar, Montenegro, Yugoslavia, it was slowly dropping back and
heading for the Adriatic coast line. No.3 engine propeller was feathered and another engine was
smoking. Losing altitude, the aircraft crash landed in the vicinity of Kuršumlija, Serbia, Yugoslavia.
{55 missions}. The airmen were assisted by Chetnik guerillas to evade capture; rescued by the
Halyard Mission from Pranjani 29May44. MACR 1992
30491 (MSN 5605) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Jun43.
Rapid City Field, SD 19Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 30Jun43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 20Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa.
346th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 8Aug43.
Named "Hot For The Body". Failed to return from a mission to the Messerschmitt factory
at Augsburg, Germany 1Oct43 (1WIA:9RTD). During the approach to mainland Italy north of Florence,
there was anti-aircraft fire from the ground and a few attacks by enemy fighters which, however,
had no effect. Most of the remaining distance was flown between two layers of cloud at an altitude
of 6,000 meters. North of the Alps, the formation encountered a deep, closed cloud cover that
stretched far to the north. Because of a thick overcast over southern Germany, the mission was
aborted 50km from Augsburg. The formation then turned back towards Italy. In the middle of the
reversal maneuver, about thirty German Bf 109G-6 fighters of JG 3/8 attacked and pursued them
southwards. Without realizing it, the Americans flew over Switzerland near Lake Constance under
constant fire. Damaged, and with the bombardier wounded by a 20mm cannon shell, the plane force
landed without brakes at Cagliari, Sardinia and collided with another B-17. Returned to Oudna 2Oct43. Salvaged Oct43.
30492 (MSN 5606) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 11Jun43. 7th Ferrying Group,
Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 13Jun43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 18Jun43. Baer,
Fort Wayne, IN 25Jul43. Buckingham Field, Fort Myers, FL 27Jul43. Fort Myers, Buckingham Field,
Fort Myers, FL 4Aug43. Buckingham Field, Fort Myers, FL 7Aug43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 7Oct44. 3010th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine),
Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 6Nov43. 37th Flying Training Wing, Williams Field, Chandler, AZ.
Damaged while parked by B-17F 42-5252 taxying at Williams 28Dec44. 3020th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Advanced, Two Engine), La Junta Field, CO 4May45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Searcey Field, Stillwater, OK for storage and disposal 31Jul45. War Assets Corporation. Sold to Paul Mantz 19Feb46; scrapped
30493 (MSN 5607) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 10Jun43. Smoky Hill Field,
Salina, KS 11Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 15Jul43.
94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 18Jul43. Named DOUBLE DOO.
339th Bomb Squadron, 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk Aug43. Failed to return
from a mission to Paris, France 15Sep43 (9KIA:1POW). Shot down by Oblt. Josef Wurmheller in
Fw 190A-6 of JG 2/9 at St-Germain-en Laye, France. MACR 727.
30494 (MSN 5608) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 10Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 24Jun43. Roswell Field, NM 26Jun43. 3030th Base
Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44. Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 4Oct45
30495 (MSN 5609) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 10Jun43. Gowen Field,
Boise, ID 27Mar43. Ephrata AAB, WA 24Jul43. 588th Bomb Squadron, 395th Bomb Group, Ardmore Field, OK.
Damaged landing with mechanical failure at Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 31Oct43. Air Service
Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 7Dec43. 332nd Base Unit, Lake Charles, LA 21Jun44.
499th Bomb Group, Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 25Jun44. 1108th Base Unit, Mitchel Field, Hempstead,
Long Island, NY 25Sep44. 247th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 3Nov44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 11Jan46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
30496 (MSN 5610) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 10Jun43. Buckingham Field,
Fort Myers, FL 23Jun43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 25Jun43. Buckingham Field, Fort
Myers, FL 27Jun43. 2114th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB,
Columbus, OH 24Oct44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage
and disposal 19Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company,
Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30497 (MSN 5611) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 10Jun43.
Rapid City Field, SD 19Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 29Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 18Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 352nd Bomb Squadron,
301st Bomb Group, Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 29Jul43. Named "Bachelor's Delight".
Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Cerignola #1,
Italy 9Dec43. Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. Damaged landing 19Jul44. Air Depot 20Jul44.
{123 missions}. Salvaged 19Apr45
30498 (MSN 5612) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Jun43.
Roswell Field, NM 25Jun43. Kelly Field, San Antonio, TX 3Aug43. Roswell Field, NM 15Aug43.
3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44. 3010th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 9Dec44. Modified for training, stripped of armor,
armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F. 3020th Base Unit (Pilot School, Advanced,
Two Engine), La Junta Field, CO 27Mar45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Searcey Field, Stillwater, OK
for storage and disposal 4Aug45. War Assets Corporation. Sold to Paul Mantz 19Feb46; scrapped
30499 (MSN 5613) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 10Jun43.
Rapid City Field, SD 18Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 30Jun43. Air Service Command,
Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 16Jul43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 23Jul43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 8Aug43.
Topeka Field, KS 14Aug43. 509th Bomb Squadron [RQ*Q], 351st Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110),
Northamptonshire 27Sep43. Returned from Berlin, Germany with battle damage 21Jun44
(7POW - bailed out over Germany); rest of crew brought the aircraft home to land at RAF Beccles,
Ellough, Suffolk. {43 missions}. Salvaged 1Aug44. Named MY PRINCESS
30500 MSN 5614) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Jun43. 7th Ferrying
Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 13Jun43. Rapid City Field, SD 20Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 30Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 18Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 2
0th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Massicault, Tunis, Tunisia 17Aug43. {first combat mission 28Aug43}.
Withdrawn from combat 16Sep43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 10Dec43.
Accident 31Mar44. El Aouina, Tunis, Tunisia. {12 missions}. Modified to transport supplies to partisans
and engaged in night time special operations missions supporting partisans and parachuting Allied agents
into enemy territory. Ball turret removed, engine exhaust flame dampeners fitted and the aircraft painted black.
885th Bomb Squadron, 68th Reconnaissance Group, Blida, Algeria Apr44. . 96th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb
Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 17Aug44. TDY 885th Bomb Squadron, 68th Reconnaissance Group, Maison
Blanche, Algiers, Algeria 18Aug44. Named "Miss Charlotte". {first special mission 1Sep44}.
Failed to return from a mission to drop supplies in fourteen containers and four big packs to the Italian
Piemontese partisans on night of 9/10Sep44 (9KIA). The weather was very bad in this sector with a snowstorm.
The aircraft went too far north of its drop-zone, where the alpine peaks largely exceed 10,000ft, whereas
the envisaged flight's altitude was 7,000ft. The aircraft and crew remains were found on the northern
face of Mount Grand Mioul, south of Sestriere, Italy 2Aug45. {6 missions} MACR 9578.
30501 (MSN 5615) Accepted by USAAF 12Jun43. Bailed to Boeing, Seattle, WA 12Jun43. Armament removed,
equipped with glider snatch winch. Air Service Command, Fairfield Air Depot, Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 2Jul43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 10Jul43. Wright Field, Dayton, OH 3Aug43.
Used for glider towing and training. Clinton County, OH 12Aug43. 810th Base Unit, Laurinburg, NC 17Jun43. HQ,
Materiel Command, Wright Field, Dayton, OH 6Jul43. Materiel Flight, Muroc Field, CA 31Aug43. Wright Field,
Dayton, OH 31Oct43. Fayettevile, NC to do snatches of the XCG-10A, 1944. 4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air
Technical Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 17Jan45. 4000th Base Unit, Air Materiel Command,
Wright Field, Dayton, OH 25Mar45. 4117th Base Unit (Warner Robins Air Technical Service Command),
Robins Field, Warner Robins, GA 22Apr45. Air Materiel Command, Wright Field, Dayton, OH 30Jun46.
Greenville AAB, SC 1946 to snatch Waco CG-4A, CG-13A, CG-15A and Laister-Kauffman XCG-10A gliders.
4000th Base Unit, Air Materiel Command, Wright Field, Dayton, OH 31Mar47. Reclaimed 1Dec47.
30502 ((MSN 5616) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Jun43. Rapid City
Field, SD 19Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 1Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 20th Bomb Squadron,
2nd Bomb Group, Ain M'Lila 16Jul43. Massicault, Tunis, Tunisia 1Aug43. {first combat mission 13Aug43}.
Failed to return from a mission to bomb an electrical transformer station and railway marshalling
yards in Foggia, Italy 19Aug43 (9KIA:1POW). The plane lost two engines to flak over the target.
It began to lag and was soon set upon by enemy fighters. The two pilots had been hit by cannon
fire and the plane was out of control. Other members of the crew had been fatally wounded and only
one injured airmen managed to bail out at 15,000ft before the plane exploded, blowing off both wings
and sending the fuselage on an end-over-end tumble to an explosive crash. Crashed and destroyed by
fire at Salerno, Italy. {3 missions}. MACR 429.
30503 (MSN 5617) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Jun43.
Roswell Field, NM 22Jun43. Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 11Aug43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field,
Oklahoma City, OK 12Aug43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44.
Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F.
3010th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 10Dec44.
Damaged when nosed over landing at Williams Field 25Jan45. 3020th Base Unit (Pilot School, Advanced,
Two Engine), La Junta Field, CO 3Apr45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK
for storage and disposal 14Aug45
30504 (MSN 5618) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Jun43.
Rapid City Field, SD 19Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 29Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 18Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 348th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group,
Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 3Sep43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. 419th Bomb Squadron,
301st Bomb Group, Oudna #2, Tunis, Tunisia 14Nov43. Cerignola #1, Italy 10Dec43. Foggia #8 (Longskirt),
Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. Substantially damaged when a tire blew out and the plane ground looped taking off
at Lucera 17May44. {40 missions}. Returned to US. 1103rd Base Unit (Caribbean Wing, Air Transport
Command), Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 2Apr45. 4104th Base Unit (Rome Air Technical Service
Command), Rome Field, NY 30Apr45. 4108th Base Unit (Atlantic Overeas Air Technical Service Command),
Newark Field, NJ 11Jun45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Bush Field, Augusta, GA for storage
and disposal 20Jun45
30505 (MSN 5619) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Jun43.
Roswell Field, NM 21Jun43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 9Oct45
30506 (MSN 5620) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 14Jun43. Roswell Field, NM 19Jun43. 3030th Base Unit
(Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44. 554th Base Unit, 4th Ferrying Group,
Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 23Apr45. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH),
Roswell Field, NM 1Jun45. Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 9Oct45.
30507 (MSN 5621) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Jun43. 7th Ferrying
Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 14Jun43. Roswell Field, NM 19Jun43. Hobbs Field, NM 8Jul43. Roswell
Field, NM 4Aug43. 93rd Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group, Pyote Field, TX 13Sep43. 232nd Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Dalhart Field, TX 9Jun44. 19th Bomb Group, Dalhart Field, TX 19Jul44.
268th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 13Dec44.
225th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Rapid City Field, SD 2Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Cal-Aero Field, Ontario, CA for storage and disposal 19Jun45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Sharp & Fellows Contracting Company Jul46; scrapped
30508 (MSN 5622) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 14Jun43. Roswell Field, NM 23Jun43.
3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 9Oct45
30509 (MSN 5623) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Jun43.
Roswell Field, NM 26Jun43. 548th Two Engine Flying Training Squadron, 314th Two Engine Flying
Training Group, Roswell Field, NM. Damaged while parked in collision by B-17F 42-30258 taking off
at Roswell Field, NM 29Mar44. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell
Field, NM 2Jun44. Crashed seven miles SSW of Roswell 16Jul44 (3KIS). Salvaged 18Jul44.
30510 (MSN 5624) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 18Jun43.
Roswell Field, NM 23Jun43. 232nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dalhart Field, TX 8Jul43.
Damaged landing with mechanical failure at Dalhart Field 14Apr44. 242nd Base Unit (Operational
Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB 19Jul44. 4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service
Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 23Aug44. 242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit),
Grand Island Field, NB 12Jan45. 224th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Sioux
City AAB, IA 17Apr45. 211th Base Unit, Sioux Falls Field, SD 3Sep45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage
and disposal 28Oct45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
30511 (MSN 5625) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Jun43.
551st Two Engine Flying Training Squadron, 314th Two Engine Flying Training Group, Roswell
Field, NM 22Jun43. Crashed after taking off two miles southwest of Roswell 4Jan44. 3030th
Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44. 3010th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 10Dec44. 3020th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Advanced, Two Engine), La Junta Field, CO 23Jul45.To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field,
OK for storage and disposal 4Aug45
30512 (MSN 5626) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Jun43.
548th Two Engine Flying Training Squadron, 314th Two Engine Flying Training Group, Roswell
Field, NM 21Jun43. Damaged landing with mechanical failure at Roswell Field 14Sep43.
3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44. 110th Base Unit
(Staging), Mitchel Field, Hempstead, Long Island, NY 26Jul44. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 6Nov44. 3010th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine),
Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 9Dec44. 37th Flying Training Wing, Williams Field, Chandler, AZ.
Damaged structural failure 5 miles south of Chandler, AZ 22Dec44. 3020th Base Unit
(Pilot School, Advanced, Two Engine), La Junta Field, CO 1Apr45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 4Aug45
30513 (MSN 5627) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Jun43.
Roswell Field, NM 23Jun43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell
Field, NM 2Jun44. 2509th Base Unit (Bombardier School), Big Spring Field, TX 6Oct43.
Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment;
designated TB-17F. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 6Nov44.
Crash landed Roswell 13Mar45. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine),
Hobbs Field, NM 28Apr45. Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage
and disposal 24Sep45
30514 (MSN 5628) Accepted by USAAF 17Jun43. Bailed to Boeing, Seattle, WA 25Jun43. Wright, OH.
Damaged by fire at Tonopah 1Jun44. Tonopah, NV 2Jun44. 4126th Base Unit (San Bernardino Air
Technical Service Command), San Bernardino Field, CA 8Jun44. Tonopah, NV 29Jun44.
4127th Base Unit (Sacramento Air Technical Service Command), McClellan Field, Sacramento, CA 8Jul44.
216th Base Unit, Wendover Field, UT 18Oct44. 4135th Base Unit (Ogden Air Technical Service
Command), Hill Field, Ogden, UT 16Mar45. 216th Base Unit, Wendover Field, UT 24Apr45.
4135th Base Unit (Ogden Air Technical Service Command), Hill Field, Ogden, UT 6Aug46
613th Base Unit (Proving Ground Detachment), Phillips Field, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 7Jan47.
4145th Base Unit, Wendover Field, UT 8Jan47
30515 (MSN 5629) Accepted by USAAF 17Jun43. Bailed to Boeing, Seattle, WA 25Jun43. 3715th Base Unit,
Factory School, Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, Lockheed Field, Burbank, CA 24Sep44. 3701st Base
Unit (Technical School), Amarillo Field, TX. 3706th Base Unit, Basic Training Center, Sheppard Field,
Wichita Falls, TX 8Mar45. 3701st Base Unit (Technical School), Amarillo Field, TX 29Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 25Oct45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
30516 (MSN 5630) Accepted by USAAF 17Jun43. Bailed to Boeing, Seattle, WA 25Jun43. Assigned to 96th Bomb
Group. 3715th Base Unit, Factory School, Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, Lockheed Field,
Burbank, CA 10Aug44. 499th Bomb Group, Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 23Aug44. 3715th Base Unit,
Factory School, Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, Lockheed Field, Burbank, CA 28Sep44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Cal-Aero Field, Ontario, CA for storage and disposal 16Jun45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Sharp & Fellows Contracting Company Jul46; scrapped.
30517 (MSN 5631) Accepted by USAAF 17Jun43. Bailed to Boeing, Seattle, WA 25Jun43. 3715th Base Unit,
Factory School, Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, Lockheed Field, Burbank, CA 15Jul44. Materiel Command,
Lockheed Field, Burbank, CA 28Jul44. 3710th Base Unit, Amarillo Field, TX 20Sep44. 3706th Base Unit,
Basic Training Center, Sheppard Field, Wichita Falls, TX 8Mar45. 3701st Base Unit (Technical School),
Amarillo Field, TX 24Mar45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage
and disposal 20Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company,
Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30518 (MSN 5632) Accepted by USAAF 18Jun43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 29Jun43.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30Jun43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 14Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 21Jul43. 413th Bomb Squadron [MZ*Y], 96th Bomb Group,
Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 26Jul43. Named "Short Stride IV". Failed to return from a
mission to the Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft shipyard at Kiel, Germany 4Jan44 (7KIA:3POW),
mid-air collision with B-17F 42-5953 on target approach, crashed Dalum, between
Ems, Lingen, and Meppen, Germany. MACR 2016
30519 (MSN 5633) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Jun43.
Roswell Field, NM 24Jun43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44.
3010th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 10Dec44.
37th Flying Training Wing, Williams Field, Chandler, AZ. Damaged taking off at Williams Field 22Jan45.
Reclaimed 10Mar45
30520 (MSN 5634) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Jun43.
Roswell Field, NM 22Jun43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44.
3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 28Apr45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 30Aug45
30521 (MSN 5635) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Jun43.
Roswell Field, NM 24Jun43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 29Oct45
30522 (MSN 5636) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Jun43.
Roswell Field, NM 24Jun43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44.
3010th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 9Dec44.
3020th Base Unit (Pilot School, Advanced, Two Engine), La Junta Field, CO 4May45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 1Aug45
30523 (MSN 5637) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Jun43.
Roswell Field, NM 24Jun43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44.
3010th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 10Dec44.
3009th Base Unit, Carlsbad Field, NM 12Jan45. 2619th Base Unit, Bombardier School, Carlsbad
Field, NM 1Mar45. 2536th Base Unit, Navigation School, San Marcos Field, TX 27Sep45.
2532nd Base Unit, Pilot School, Specialized, Very Heavy, Randolph Field, San Antonio, TX 29Nov45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and
disposal 20Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
30524 (MSN 5638) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Jun43.
Roswell Field, NM 23Jun43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44.
3010th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 11Dec44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 9Aug45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped
30525 (MSN 5639) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Jun43.
Roswell Field, NM 24Jun43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44.
3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 28Apr45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 11Sep45
30526 (MSN 5640) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Jun43.
Roswell Field, NM 23Jun43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell
Field, NM 2Jun44. Damaged by engine failure at Roswell 4Nov44. 4208th Base Unit, Mines
Field, Los Angeles, CA 25Mar45. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell
Field, NM 30Mar45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM
for storage and disposal 9Aug45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped
30527 (MSN 5641) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 16Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 19Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 4Jul43. Bolling Field,
Washington, DC 15Jul43. New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 7Aug43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 9Aug43.
Combat Crew Training Squadron, 393rd Bomb Group, Sioux City AAB, IA 30Nov43. Crashed during
takeoff in collision with B-17F 42-6053 at Sioux City AAB 24Mar44 (3KIS). Salvaged 25Mar44
30528 (MSN 5642) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 17Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 28Jun43. Pilot School (Specialized, Four Engine),
Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 3Jul43. 3505th Base Unit (Technical School), Scott Field, Belleville, IL 25Aug44.
2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 20Sep44. Reclaimed 29Jan46.
30529 (MSN 5643) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 18Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 27Jun43. 451st Specialized Pilot Training Squadron,
Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 29Jun43. Damaged landing at Hendricks 27Feb44. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 4Oct44. Crashed due mechanical failure taking off
at Hendricks 16Nov44. Salvaged 17Nov44
30530 (MSN 5644) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 18Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 29Jun43. Sioux City AAB, IA 30Jun43. 353rd Air Base
Detachment, Watertown Field, SD 17Jul43. 582nd Bomb Squadron, 393rd Bomb Group, Kearney
Field, NB 3Aug43. Crashed during a training flight near Columbus, TX 25Sep43 (9KIS). Salvaged 26Sep43.
30531 (MSN 5645) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 2Jul43. Dyersburg Field, TN. Combat Crew Training
Squadron, 469th Bomb Group, Alexandria Field, LA. Fatal accident landing at Alexandria Field 17Dec43 (1KIS);
an enlisted airmen of the 517th Air Base Squadron was struck by the landing B-17. 3505th Base Unit
(Technical School), Scott Field, Belleville, IL 29Jun44. 4117th Base Unit (Warner Robins Air Technical
Service Command), Robins Field, Warner Robins, GA 1Nov44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Bush Field, Augusta, GA for storage and disposal 13Jun45
42-30532/30616 Boeing B-17F-110-BO Fortress
MSN 5646/5730. Dispositions from B-17 Fortress Master Log, Dave Osborne (FORTLOG)
Production changes: Flexible ammunition containers for tail guns. Thermometer change
30532 (MSN 5646) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 18Jun43.
Roswell Field, NM 25Jun43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 29Oct45
30533 (MSN 5647) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 2Jul43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 4Jul43.
Pendleton Field, OR 25Jul43. Rapid City Field, SD 30Jul43. Harvard Field, NB 2Aug43.
225th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Rapid City Field, SD 24Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Cal-Aero Field, Ontario, CA for storage and disposal 19Jun45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Sharp & Fellows Contracting Company Jul46; scrapped
30534 (MSN 5648) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 17Jun43.
Sioux City AAB, IA 30Jun43. 582nd Bomb Squadron, 393rd Bomb Group, Kearney Field, NB.
Accident landing at Sioux City AAB, IA 2Aug43. Combat Crew Training Squadron, 393rd Bomb Group,
Sioux City AAB, IA. Damaged landing at Sioux City AAB 10Jan44. Accident landing with mechanical
failure at Sioux City AAB 2Mar44. 882nd Bomb Squadron, 500th Bomb Group, Walker Field, Victoria, KS.
Damaged landing with mechanical failure at Walker Field 27Apr44. 248th Base Unit (Operational
Training Unit), Walker Field, Victoria, KS 27Oct44. 274th Base Unit (Staging Wing), 21st Bomb Wing,
Herington Field, KS 5Jan45. 248th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Walker Field, Victoria, KS 11Jan45.
4104th Base Unit (Rome Air Technical Service Command), Rome Field, NY 21Jan45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 27Aug45
30535 (MSN 5649) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 17Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 28Jun43. Pilot School (Specialized, Four Engine),
Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 30Jun43. Pilot School (Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field,
Sebring, FL 3Jul43. 87th Specialized Pilot Training Squadron, 27th Specialized Pilot Training Group,
Chanute Field, Rantoul, IL. Crashed Dubuque, IA 8Feb44 (5KIS). The pilot, a Dubuque native,
led a training mission in the bomber from Chanute Field. The flight headed to the pilot's hometown
of Dubuque. he had been attached to the Twelfth Air Force in North Africa in 1943, and completed fifty
bombing missions over targets in Sicily and Italy. The B-17 was an odd sight to the residents of Dubuque
since there were no B-17 bases near Dubuque. The residents were surprised to see the B-17 roar over their
town at low altitude that day. The B-17 made two low passes past Heller's Tavern off old Highway 20.
Soon after the low pass, the right wing of the bomber clipped a tree, and the pilot corrected, sending
the bomber into a stall. The plane crashed and burst into flames, killing all five men on board.
It was speculated that the pilot was flying low over the tavern to get the attention of a girl that
worked there at the time. Salvaged 10Feb44
30536 (MSN 5650) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 17Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 28Jun43. Pilot School (Specialized, Four Engine),
Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 30Jun43. Pilot School (Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field,
Sebring, FL 3Jul43. 3502nd Base Unit (Technical School), Chanute Field, Rantoul, IL 22Jun44.
2140th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Smyrna Field, TN 22Aug44.
3505th Base Unit (Technical School), Scott Field, Belleville, IL 27Aug43. 3502nd Base Unit
(Technical School), Chanute Field, Rantoul, IL 17Jan45. 3539th Base Unit (Technical School),
Langley Field, Hampton, VA 6Apr45. Reclaimed 2Mar46.
30537 (MSN 5651) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 18Jun43.
Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 26Jun43. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine),
Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 14Jul44. Crash landed four miles north of Sebring 17Dec44 (3KIS).
Reclaimed 6Jan45
30538 (MSN 5652) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 18Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 27Jun43. Pilot School (Specialized, Four Engine),
Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 29Jun43. Pilot School (Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field,
Sebring, FL 3Jul43. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field,
Sebring, FL 4Oct44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage
and disposal 19Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company,
Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30539 (MSN 5653) Accepted by USAAF 29Jun43. Boeing, Seattle, WA 29Jun43. Cold Weather Testing Detachment,
Ladd Field, Fairbanks, AK 16Oct43. Damaged by mechanical failure at Ladd 11Feb44. Materiel
Command, Wright Field, Dayton, OH 2Jun44. Ladd Field, Fairbanks, AK 7Apr44. 4104th Base Unit
(Rome Air Technical Service Command), Rome Field, NY 25Aug44. ATS HA, Brainard, Hartford, CT 6Sep43.
4136th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma
City, OK 2Nov44. ATS, Wright Field, Dayt on, OH 14Nov44. ATS HA, Brainard, Hartford, CT 16Nov44.
ATS, Wright Field, Dayton, OH 28Nov44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR
for storage and disposal 27Mar46. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment
Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30540 (MSN 5654) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 18Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 27Jun43. Pilot School (Specialized, Four Engine),
Eastern Flying Training Command, Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL. Crash landed and destroyed by
fire ½ mile from Fort Worth Field, TX 13Jan44 (10KIS). Salvaged 15Jan44
. 30541 MSN 5655) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 18Jun43.
552nd Bomb Squadron, 325th Bomb Group (Reconnaissance), Roswell Field, NM 25Jun43.
Caught fire, crew bailed out, crashed five miles west of Roswell 29Jan44. Salvaged 31Jan44.
30542 (MSN 5656) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 18Jun43.
Sioux City AAB, IA 29Jun43. Scribner Field, NB 17Jul43. 583rd Bomb Squadron, 393rd Bomb Group,
Kearney Field, NB 3Aug43. Crashed six miles north of Wood River, NB 17Aug43 (8KIS). An instructor
pilot was flying the aircraft on a local familiarization flight with a crew based at Kearney. Eyewitnesses
observed the plane flying low and while in a steep bank, which brought the bomber almost
perpendicular with the ground, the plane stalled and then crashed in a cornfield killing all eight
occupants. Pilot error was listed as the cause of the crash despite at least two eyewitnesses who
claimed to have seen one engine on fire. Salvaged 18Aug43
30543 (MSN 5657) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 17Jun43.
Roswell Field, NM 24Jun43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell
Field, NM 2Jun44. 4121st Base Unit (San Antonio Air Technical Service Command), Kelly Field,
San Antonio, TX 3Nov44. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 7Nov44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 9Aug45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped
30544 (MSN 5658) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 18Jun43.
Roswell Field, NM 25Jun43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jul44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 29Oct4
30545 (MSN 5659) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 18Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 2Jul43. Dyersburg Field, TN 3Jul43. Alexandria
Field, LA 11Jul43. 221st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA 17Jan45.
329th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA 1Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 9Oct45
30546 (MSN 5660) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 18Jun43.
Roswell Field, NM 25Jun43. Hobbs Field, NM 7Jul43. Roswell Field, NM 3Aug43. 3030th Base
Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 28Apr45. Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 30Aug45
30547 (MSN 5661) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 18Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 20Jun43. Sioux City AAB, IA 1Jul43. 353rd Air Base
Detachment, Watertown Field, SD 17Jul43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 3Aug43.
580th Bomb Squadron, 393rd Bomb Group, Sioux City AAB, IA 11Nov43. 326th Base Unit (Combat
Crew Training Station), MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 18Jan45. 331st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Barksdale Field, Bossier City, LA 20Jan45. Damaged by mechanical failure at Barksdale 13Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 14Dec45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30548 (MSN 5662) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19Jun43.
Alexandria Field, LA 13Jul43. 221st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA 20Aug44.
329th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA 1Mar45. 331st Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Barksdale Field, Bossier City, LA 2Apr45. 326th Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 2May45. 331st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Barksdale Field, Bossier City, LA 9Sep45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR
for storage and disposal 14Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company,
Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30549 (MSN 5663) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 18Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 28Jun43. 450th Specialized Pilot Training Squadron,
Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 30Jun43. Damaged landing Hendricks 5Sep43. 2137th Base Unit
(Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 1Oct44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 18Dec45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30550 (MSN 5664) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 7Jul43. Dalhart Field, TX 8Jul43. 976th Bomb Squadron,
444th Bomb Group, Dalhart Field, TX 10Oct43. Great Bend Field, KS. Mid-air collision NW of
Tucumcari, NM 1Nov43. 902nd Base Unit (Base Complement), Orlando AAB, FL 6Jul44. 243rd Base
Unit (Operational Training Unit), Great Bend Field, KS 14Jul44. 19th Bomb Group, Dalhart
Field, TX 1Sep44. 556th Base Unit, 6th Ferrying Group, Long Beach Field, CA 28Nov44. 243rd Base
Unit (Operational Training Unit), Great Bend Field, KS 13Jan45. 902nd Base Unit (Base Complement),
Orlando AAB, FL 27Mar45. 243rd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Great Bend Field, KS 2May45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 9Oct45.
30551 (MSN 5665) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19Jun43.
Ephrata AAB, WA 11Jul43. Combat Crew Training School, 395th Bomb Group, Ardmore Field, OK.
Mid-air collision with B-17F 42-6181, seventy-five miles southeast of Amarillo Field, TX, 31Jan44.
B-17 42-6181 was flying off 42-30551’s left wing. It drifted a little too close, was caught in propeller
wash and hit the left horizontal stabiliser of the other bomber with its right wing tip.
332nd Base Unit, Ardmore Field, OK 13Jul44. 347th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Key Field, Meridian, MS 6Aug44. Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and
bombing equipment; designated TB-17F. 222nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Ardmore Field, OK. Damaged in accident with TB-17F 42-30761 taxying at Ardmore 12Jun45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 29Oct45.
30552 (MSN 5666) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 2Jul43. Dyersburg Field, TN 3Jul43. Alexandria
Field, LA 11Jul43. 221st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA 7Nov44.
329th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA 1Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 9Oct45
30553 (MSN 5667) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19Jun43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 7Jul43. Redmond Field, OR 15Jul43. Walla Walla Field, WA 15Aug43.
317th Bomb Squadron, 88th Bomb Group, Avon Park Field, FL Nov43. Damaged landing at Avon
Park Bombing Range 28Nov43. 325th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Avon Park Field, FL.
Damaged by mechanical failure in flight at Inverness, FL 16Jan45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 29Aug45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30554 (MSN 5668) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 30Jun43. Sioux City AAB, IA 1Jul43. Mitchel Field,
Hempstead, Long Island, NY 17Jul43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 3Aug43.
224th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Sioux City AAB, IA. Damaged landing Sioux
City AAB, IA 29Mar44. Salvaged 21Apr44
30555 (MSN 5669) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19Jun43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 7Jul43. Madras Field, OR 15Jul43. Redmond Field, OR 16Jul43.
317th Bomb Squadron, 88th Bomb Group, Walla Walla Field, WA 15Aug43. Damaged
landing at Walla Walla 18Sep43. 88th Bomb Group, Avon Park Field, FL Nov43.
325th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Avon Park Field, FL 1May44. Missing
during a sortie from Avon Park 22May44 (8MIS); disappeared over the Gulf of Mexico. SOC 25May44
There is also MACR 812 (28th BG) dated Sep 28, 1943.
30556 (MSN 5670) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21Jun43.
Spokane Field, WA 2Jul43. 393rd Bomb Group, Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 4Jul43. Pendleton
Field, OR 25Jul43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 10Aug43. 818th Bomb Squadron, 483rd Bomb Group,
MacDill Field, Tampa, FL. Damaged by structural failure at MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 5Jan44.
4117th Base Unit (Warner Robins Air Technical Service Command), Robins Field, Warner
Robins, GA 13Jul44. 327th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Drew Field, Tampa, FL 22Sep44.
2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 11May45.
327th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Drew Field, Tampa, FL 24May45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 14Sep45
30557 (MSN 5671) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 4Jul43. 602nd Bomb Squadron, 398th Bomb Group,
Rapid City Field, SD 5Jul43. Force landed after engine failure twenty-five miles east of Hermosa, SD 5Feb44.
While on a practice bombing mission in South Dakota, there was a fire in the bomb bay door motor.
After trying to turn the doors back up with the manual handle, the crew lost each of the four engines
in turn from carburetor icing. By this time they were too low to jump and the crew went into their
practiced ‘toboggan’ mode in the radio room. Meanwhile the pilot and co-pilot attempted to crash
land the B-17. The pilot made such a perfect, smooth landing on a snow-covered wheat field that the
aircraft neither bounced nor even suffered a hangnail. The crew was then treated by the Colonel
to ‘the best steaks in South Dakota’. The pilot’s crash landing had been so gentle, that after fixing the
propellers and lifting it, Colonel Hunter, the CO of the 398th Bomb Group, flew the B-17 out of the
wheat field on a metal-grid runway. 225th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Rapid City
Field, SD 23Mar45. 400th Base Unit, Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA 25Apr45. 225th Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Rapid City Field, SD 2May45. 237th Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Kirtland Field, Albuquerque, NM 24May45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 9Oct45
30558 (MSN 5672) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 2Jul43. Dyersburg Field, TN 3Jul43. Combat Crew
Training Squadron, 469th Bomb Group, Alexandria Field, LA 11Jul43. Crashed five miles west of Esler,
Alexandria Field, LA 19Mar44 (6KIS). Salvaged 21Mar44
30559 (MSN 5673) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 22Jun43.
Rapid City Field, SD 4Jul43. Galveston Field, TX 28Sep43. 4119th Base Unit (Mobile Air Technical
Service Command), Brookley Field, Mobile, AL 21Oct44. 328th Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Gulfport Field, MS 15Dec44. 4119th Base Unit (Mobile Air Technical Service
Command), Brookley Field, Mobile, AL 19Dec44. 328th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Gulfport Field, MS 3Mar45. 327th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Drew Field, Tampa, FL 15Jun45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 25Jun45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped
30560 (MSN 5674) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 2Jul43. Dyersburg Field, TN 3Jul43. Gulfport
Field, MS 8Aug43. Galveston Field, TX 12Aug43. Dalhart Field, TX 15Aug43. 223rd Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN. Damaged landing at Dyersburg 15May44.
330th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN 1Mar45. 327th Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Drew Field, Tampa, FL 3Jun45. Modified for training, stripped
of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Searcey Field, Stillwater, OK for storage and disposal 7Aug45.
War Assets Corporation. Sold to Paul Mantz 19Feb46; scrapped
30561 (MSN 5675) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21Jun43.
Biggs Field, El Paso, TX 3Jul43. 468th Bomb Squadron, 333rd Bomb Group, Dalhart Field, TX 17Jul43.
Damaged at Dalhart 16Jul43. Crash landed after engine failure twelve miles north of
Moorland, OK 18Aug43. Salvaged 20Aug43
30562 (MSN 5676) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21Jun43.
Dalhart Field, TX 3Jul43. Gulfport Field, MS 11Jul43. Dalhart Field, TX 3Aug43. 794th Bomb Squadron,
468th Bomb Group, Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS. Crashed after crew bailed out due engine failure near
Douglas, WY 18Mar44
30563 (MSN 5677) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 22Jun43. Ephrata AAB, WA 2Jul43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 4Jul43. Ephrata AAB, WA 26Jul43. Rapid City Field, SD 28Jul43.
School of Applied Tactics, Orlando AAB, FL 7Aug43. 225th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Rapid City Field, SD. Damaged taking off at Rapid City 20Aug44. 224th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training
Station), Sioux City AAB, IA 19Nov44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM
for storage and disposal 19Jun45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped
30564 (MSN 5678) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21Jun43. 7th Ferrying
Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 2Jul43. Rapid City Field, SD 4Jul43. 4136th Base Unit (Oklahoma City
Air Technical Service Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 9Jul44. 222nd Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Ardmore Field, OK 14Jul44. Damaged taxying Ardmore 1Oct44. Damaged taxying
Ardmore 8Feb45. 332nd Base Unit, Ardmore Field, OK 16Jun45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 18Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas
Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30565 (MSN 5679) Accepted by USAAF 18Jun43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 22Jun43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 2Jul43. 540th Bomb Squadron,
383rd Bomb Group, Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 4Jul43. Pendleton Field, OR 15Aug43. 841st Bomb Squadron,
488th Bomb Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL. Damaged taxying at MacDill Field 3Mar44. 326th Base
Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), MacDill Field, Tampa, FL. Damaged taxying at MacDill Field 8Jun44.
357th Base Unit, Kellogg Field, Battle Creek, MI 20Sep44. Substantially damaged when force landed
with engine failure and fire at Kellogg Field 5Oct44. Reclaimed 9Feb45
30566 (MSN 5680) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 22Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 2Jul43. 540th Bomb Squadron, 383rd Bomb Group,
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 4Jul43. Rapid City Field, SD 29Jul43. Harvard Field, NB 2Aug43.
4117th Base Unit (Warner Robins Air Technical Service Command), Robins Field, Warner
Robins, GA 13Jul44. 328th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Gulfport Field, MS 16Jul44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 25Jun45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped.
30567 (MSN 5681) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 22Jun43.
Moses Lake Field, WA 3Jul43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 2Aug43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field,
Great Falls, MT 12Aug43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 28Oct43. 224th Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Sioux City AAB, IA. Damaged structural failure Sioux City AAB, IA 22Jul44.
Damaged taxying at Sioux City 8Dec44. 224th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Sioux
City AAB, IA 6Mar45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM
for storage and disposal 19Jun45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped
30568 (MSN 5682) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 4Jul43. 435th Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group,
Pyote Field, TX 5Jul43. 274th Base Unit (Staging Wing), 21st Bomb Wing, Herington Field, KS 8Jun44.
499th Bomb Group, Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 9Jun44. 2517th Base Unit (Navigation School & Instructor
School), Ellington Field, Houston, TX 25Jun44. 499th Bomb Group, Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 7Jul44.
233rd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Davis-Monthan Field, Tucson, AZ 15Aug44.
235th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Biggs Field, El Paso, TX 28Sep44. 4202nd Base
Unit (Rome Air Technical Service Command), Syracuse AAB, NY 5Apr45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 11Sep45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30569 (MSN 5683) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Jun43.
Rapid City Field, SD 4Jul43. 774th Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL.
Damaged in collision with B-17F 42-29671 taxying at MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 30Dec43.
323rd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Drew Field, Tampa, FL. Accident landing with mechanical
failure at Drew Field 30Jun44. 4119th Base Unit (Mobile Air Technical Service Command), Brookley Field,
Mobile, AL 11Nov44. 4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field,
Dayton, OH 28Nov44. 331st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Barksdale Field, Bossier
City, LA 21Feb45. 326th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 11Apr45.
331st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Barksdale Field, Bossier City, LA 15May45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 14Dec45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30570 (MSN 5684) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 22Jun43.
466th Bomb Squadron, 333rd Bomb Group, Dalhart Field, TX 3Jul43. Damaged landing at Dalhart
Auxiliary Field #1, Hartley, TX 8Jul43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 11Jul43.
Dalhart Field, TX 18Jul43. 232nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dalhart Field, TX 9Jun44.
4200th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Chicago Municipal Airport, IL 2Sep44.
232nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dalhart Field, TX 15Sep43. 610th Base Unit (Proving
Ground Command), Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 27Oct44. 232nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Dalhart Field, TX 6Nov44. 4108th Base Unit (Atlantic Overeas Air Technical Service Command),
Newark Field, NJ 11Nov44. 245th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), McCook Field, NB 22Dec44.
237th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Kirtland Field, Albuquerque, NM 7Mar45.
Damaged landing at Drake Field, Fayetteville, AR 9May45. 4136th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air
Technical Service Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 15May45. Reclaimed 19Jun45
30571 (MSN 5685) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 22Jun43.
466th Bomb Squadron, 333rd Bomb Group, Dalhart Field, TX 3Jul43. Crashed after structural
failure in bad weather twenty miles northwest of Logan, NM 27Jul43 (9KIS). Salvaged 31Jul43.
30572 (MSN 5686) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 2Jul43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 4Jul43.
452nd Bomb Group, Pendleton Field, OR 25Jul43. 677th Bomb Squadron, 444th Bomb Group,
Great Bend Field, KS. Crash landed mechanical failure Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 24Feb44.
498th Bomb Group, Great Bend Field, KS 23Jul44. 243rd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit),
Great Bend Field, KS 20Aug44. Damaged while parked by B-17F 42-6123 at Batista, Cuba 19Sep44.
232nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dalhart Field, TX 27Sep44. Puerto Rico 9Nov44.
Salvaged 21Jun46
30573 (MSN 5687) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 4Jul43. 19th Bomb Group, Pyote Field, TX 5Jul43.
221st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA 17Jan45. 329th Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA 1Mar45. 331st Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Barksdale Field, Bossier City, LA 3Apr45.To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 25Jun45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrappe
30574 (MSN 5688) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Jun43.
Pyote Field, TX 4Jul43. Alexandria Field, LA 7Jul43. 202nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Galveston Field, TX 13Jul44. 221st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA 21Jul43.
Damaged landing at Alexandria 16Aug44. Salvaged 21Aug44
30575 (MSN 5689) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 2Jul43. 541st Bomb Squadron, 383rd Bomb Group,
Pendleton Field, OR 25Jul43. Damaged due mechanical failure in collision with parked B-17F 42-5298
taxying at Geiger 29Jul43. 452nd Bomb Group, Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 31Jul43. 500th Bomb Group,
Walker Field, Victoria, KS 8Jun44. 901st Base Unit, Heavy Bombardment, Pinecastle Field,
Orlando, FL 8Jul44. 902nd Base Unit (Base Complement), Orlando AAB, FL 2Aug43. 248th Base
Unit (Operational Training Unit), Walker Field, Victoria, KS 16Aug44. 232nd Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Dalhart Field, TX 4Sep44. 241st Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Fairmont Field,
Geneva, NB 12Sep44. 15th Bomb Squadron, 16th Bomb Group, Fairmont Field, Geneva, NB. Damaged
in collision with parked B-17F 42-29596 at Fairmont 14Dec44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 9Oct45
30576 (MSN 5690) Amarillo Field, TX 1Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 27Jul43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 1Aug43. Rapid City Field, SD 10Aug43. Pendleton Field, OR 12Aug43.
603rd Bomb Squadron, 398th Bomb Group, Rapid City Field, SD. The bomber departed Rapid City Field
in the evening for a ‘First Phase’bombing training mission. It was to be conducted over the Ainsworth
bombing range, Nebraska, and the mission should have lasted four hours. After takeoff the aircraft
did not maintain contact with base, nor did they contact the Ainsworth bombing range. Just before
midnight, residents of the small town of Martin, South Dakota, reported the crash of a multi-engined
aircraft to the control tower of Rapid City Army Air Base. The aircraft had crashed after engine fires
into a wheat field south and west of the town of Martin. The entire crew perished (7KIS). Salvaged 19Jan44.
30577 (MSN 5691) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Jun43.
582nd Bomb Squadron, 393rd Bomb Group, Kearney Field, NB 26Jul43. Crash landed at Kearney Field 6Aug43.
Salvaged 9Aug43
30578 (MSN 5692) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 4Jul43. 28th Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group,
Pyote Field, TX 5Jul43. 346th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN.
Damaged when collided with parked B-17F 42-3364 at Dyersburg Field, TN 4Jan44. SOC 24Mar44.
30579 (MSN 5693) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 5Jul43. 19th Bomb Group, Pyote Field, TX 6Jul43.
554th Base Unit, 4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 7Aug44. 222nd Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Ardmore Field, OK 30Aug44. 332nd Base Unit, Ardmore Field, OK 16Jun45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 18Dec45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
30580 (MSN 5694) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27Jun43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 10Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 15Jul43. 326th Bomb Squadron [JW*N], 92nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102),
Huntingdonshire 14Aug43. Named "Equipoise". Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire.
Damaged landing Podington 5Jan44 when a tire burst and veered off runway, B-17F 42-31377
crashed into this bomber. Salvaged after non battle damage 6Jan44. .
30581 (MSN 5695) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 5Jul43. Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 7Jul43.
Glasgow Field, MT 28Jul43. Sioux City AAB, IA 19Dec43. 232nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training
Station), Dalhart Field, TX 9Jun44. 268th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Peterson Field,
Colorado Springs, CO 30Sep44. 232nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dalhart
Field, TX 11Oct44. 253rd Base Unit, Selman Field, Monroe, LA 6Dec44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage
and disposal 17Oct45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
30582 (MSN 5696) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Jun43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 5Jul43. Redmond Field, OR 15Jul43. Walla Walla Field, WA 15Aug43. Salvaged 29Feb44
30583 (MSN 5697) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 16Jul43. 28th Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group,
Pyote Field, TX 17Jul43. Damaged taxying at Pyote 4Oct43. Salvaged 5Oct43
30584 (MSN 5698) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 4Jul43. 615th Bomb Squadron, 401st Bomb Group,
Great Falls AAB, MT 7Jul43. Damaged in an accident at Lewistown Field, MT 27Jul43. Sioux
City AAB, IA 9Dec43. 221st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA 7Nov44.
329th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA 1Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 29Oct45
30585 (MSN 5699) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Jun43.
Rapid City Field, SD 6Jul43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 18Nov43. 327th Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Drew Field, Tampa, FL. Damaged while parked in collision by B-17F 42-5300 taxying
at Drew 30Sep44. 4119th Base Unit (Mobile Air Technical Service Command), Brookley Field,
Mobile, AL 14Nov44. 4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field,
Dayton, OH 28Nov44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Bush Field, Augusta, GA for storage and disposal 4Jul45
30586 (MSN 5700) Accepted by USAAF 22Jun43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 24Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training
Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 16Jul43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 20Jul43.
Ferried from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to St Angelo, Enniskillen, Northern Ireland and
Prestwick, Scotland 25/26Jul43. 368th Bomb Squadron [BO*A], 306th Bomb Group,
Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 8Aug43. Battle damaged by flak on a mission to a roller
bearing factory at Stuttgart, Germany 6Sep43. Damage to left inner wing and Tokyo tank and
left elevator. Base Air Depot No.1, Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire 9Sep43. Regained by
Group Sep43. Battle damaged by enemy fighter attacks on a mission to industrial areas at
Frankfurt am Main, Germany 4Oct43. Flak over the target was moderate and accurate. A large force
of enemy fighters were encountered, some using rockets which were fired from a distance
beyond the range of the bombers’ guns. Serious damage caused by 0.50 caliber cannon shells
to left inner wing spar, No.2 fuel feeder tank, No.1 main fuel tank. Mobile Repair Unit, Eighth
Air Force Service Command 4Oct43. Regained by Group 13Oct43. Failed to return from a mission
to the Dornier Flugzeugwerke factory at Oberpfaffenhofen, Munich, Germany 24Apr44 (1KIA:9POW).
Enemy aircraft hit No.3 and No.4 engines. Crashed Hainhausen, sixteen miles northeast of Munich, Germany
MACR 4239
30587 (MSN 5701) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27Jun43.
Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 9Jul43. Dalhart Field, TX 10Jul43. 232nd Base Unit (Combat
Crew Training Station), Dalhart Field, TX 9Jun44. HQ, Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 14Jul44.
558th Base Unit, 20th Ferrying Group, Air Transport Command, Berry Field, Nashville, TN 1Aug44.
HQ, Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 11Sep43. 3033rd Base Unit, Stockton 25Sep44.
271st Base Unit (Staging Wing), 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 15Mar45. 485th Base Unit,
Kearney Field, NB 3Oct45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for
storage and disposal 10Jan46. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment
Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30588 (MSN 5702) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Jun43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 7Jul43. Madras Field, OR 15Jul43. 317th Bomb Squadron, 88th Bomb Group,
Redmond Field, OR 17Jul43. Crashed on training mission from Redmond, OR Jul 18, 1943. Ran low on fuel and engines
quit while approaching Redmond AAF. After crashing through treetops surrounding the
airport, pilots were able to make a dead stick landing on the infield. All but the
gunnery instructor survived the crash. Aircraft DBR. Plane was cut up and hauled away.
30589 (MSN 5703) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Jun43.
468th Bomb Squadron, 333rd Bomb Group, Dalhart Field, TX 8Jul43. Assigned to 92nd Bomb Group.
Crashed engine failure 6 miles east of Texline, TX 26Aug43. Salvaged 27Aug43
30590 (MSN 5704) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 22Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 8Jul43. Dalhart Field, TX 9Jul43. Air Service Command,
Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 25Jul43. Dalhart Field, TX 9Aug43. 232nd Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Dalhart Field, TX 9Jun44. 271st Base Unit (Staging Wing), 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 8Oct44. 232nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dalhart Field, TX 19Oct44.
110th Base Unit (Staging), Mitchel Field, Hempstead, Long Island, NY 6Nov44. 232nd Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Dalhart Field, TX 10Nov44. 272nd Base Unit (Staging Wing),
21st Bomb Wing, Topeka Field, KS 2Dec44. 232nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Dalhart Field, TX 8Dec44. 485th Bomb Squadron, 501st Bomb Group, Harvard Field, NB 5Jan45.
Damaged in collision with parked Curtiss R5C-1 BuNo 39591 at Rosecrans Field, St. Joseph, MO 12Jan45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 2Nov45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
30591 (MSN 5705) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Jun43.
Dalhart Field, TX 8Jul43. 202nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Galveston Field, TX 8Aug44.
224th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Sioux City AAB, IA 23Feb45. 4202nd Base Unit (Rome Air
Technical Service Command), Syracuse AAB, NY 24Apr45. Modified for training, stripped of armor,
armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Searcey Field, Stillwater, OK. War Assets Corporation. Sold to Paul Mantz 19Feb46; scrapped
30592 (MSN 5706) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Jun43.
232nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dalhart Field, TX 9Jul43. Damaged while
parked by taxying B-17F 42-5173 at Dalhart 17Apr44. Salvaged 24Apr44
30593 (MSN 5707) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Jun43. 7th Ferrying
Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 7Jul43. Dalhart Field, TX 9Jul43. 468th Bomb Group, Dalhart
Field, TX 10Oct43. 4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field,
Dayton, OH 28Jun44. 497th Bomb Group, Pratt Field, KS 29Jun44. 247th Base Unit (Operational
Training Unit), Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 19Jul44. 246th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit),
Pratt Field, KS 25Jul44. 247th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 2Aug44.
1103rd Base Unit (Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command), Morrison Field, West Palm
Beach, FL 21Feb45. 902nd Base Unit (Base Complement), Orlando AAB, FL 15Apr45. 247th Base
Unit (Operational Training Unit), Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 1May45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 25Jun45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped.
30594 (MSN 5708) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 17Jul43. 19th Bomb Group, Pyote Field, TX 9Nov43.
Chicago Municipal Airport, IL 21Jun44. 222nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Ardmore Field, OK Jan45. Force landed with mechanical failure at Ardmore Field, OK 8Jan45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Cal-Aero Field, Ontario, CA for storage and disposal 19May45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Sharp & Fellows Contracting Company Jul46; scrapped
30595 (MSN 5709) Accepted by USAAF 24Jun43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 26Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 13Jul43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 16Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 19Jul43. 560th Bomb Squadron [K], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136),
Suffolk 20Jul43. {first combat mission 15Aug43}. Participated in a shuttle mission to the
Messerschmitt aircraft factories at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43. After the target, the bomber
turned south and landed at the Twelfth Air Force base at Bône, Algeria. Later positioned to Telergma,
Algeria. On return to England, operated a mission to a Luftwaffe air depot at Mérignac, Bordeaux,
France 24Aug43. Battle damaged on a Crossbow mission to a German V-weapon site in the
Pas-de-Calais, France 24Dec43 (10RTD). Just inside the French coast at Dieppe, the aircraft was
struck by flak. {final combat mission 6Jun44}. {40 missions}. Named GREMLIN GUS II. Gremlin Gus
came from pilots of the Royal Air Force who, according to RAF legend, were responsible for aircraft
engine failures and otherwise unexplainable aircraft maintenance problems. Gus was a character
created in the 1940s for an unfinished animated film based on Roald Dahl's story The Gremlins.
Modified as a drone for Operation Aphrodite missions Jun44. Designated BQ-7. Drone #B3.
562nd Bomb Squadron, 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk, later at Fersfield
(Station 554), Norfolk. Weight reduction program to carry hydrostatic bombs for a proposed
mission [later cancelled] to sink the Tirpitz in Norway, modified with cockpit roof cut off
and a vehicle windshield fitted before open cockpit. Not expended. Salvaged 24Jun46. Named OLIN'S 69'ERS
30596 (MSN 5710) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Jun43.
542nd Bomb Squadron, 383rd Bomb Group, Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 12Jul43. Pendleton
Field, OR 25Jul43. 603rd Bomb Squadron, 398th Bomb Group, Rapid City Field, SD 30Jul43.
Harvard Field, NB 2Aug43. 603rd Bomb Squadron, 398th Bomb Group, Rapid City Field, SD.
Crashed due engine failure after crew bailed out 50 miles southeast of Rapid City 28Nov43.
Salvaged 1Jan44.
30597 (MSN 5711) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Jun43.
Dalhart Field, TX 10Jul43. 4117th Base Unit (Warner Robins Air Technical Service Command), Robins
Field, Warner Robins, GA 21Jun44. 242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island
Field, NB 23Jun44. 6th Bomb Group, Grand Island Field, NB 8Jul44. 4209th Base Unit (Oklahoma
City Air Technical Service Command), Des Moines Municipal Airport, IA 10Aug44. 68th Bomb Group,
Grand Island Field, NB 28Sep44. 242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island
Field, NB Sep44. 249th Base Unit (Special), Alliance Field, NB 19Oct44. 223rd Base Unit (Combat
Crew Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN 15Feb45. 327th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training
Station), Drew Field, Tampa, FL 3Jun45. Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament,
turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Searcey Field, Stillwater, OK for storage and disposal 11Aug45. War Assets Corporation.
Sold to Paul Mantz 19Feb46; scrapped
30598 (MSN 5712) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26Jun43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 12Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 16Jul43. 549th Bomb Squadron [XA*L], 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155),
Suffolk 16Jul43. Failed to return from a mission to Lille, France 15Aug43 (10KIA). Damaged by
flak near Dunkirk, shot down by Lt Kurt Goltzsch in Bf 109G-6 of
JG 2/5 and ditched in English Channel 10 my NW of Dunkerque,
France. MACR 267.
30599 (MSN 5713) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26Jun43.
Ephrata AAB, WA 11Jul43. 273rd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Lincoln Field, NB 16Jun44.
272nd Base Unit (Staging Wing), 21st Bomb Wing, Topeka Field, KS 22Jul44. 484th Base Unit, Topeka
Field, KS 9Oct44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for
storage and disposal 14Nov45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
30600 (MSN 5714) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26Jun43.
Ephrata AAB, WA 11Jul43. 452nd Bomb Group, Pendleton Field, OR 2Nov43. Walla Walla
Field, WA 17Nov43. 395th Bomb Squadron, 40th Bomb Group, Pratt Field, KS. Destroyed when
force landed on fire at Pratt Field 17Dec43. Salvaged 18Dec43
30601 (MSN 5715) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26Jun43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 12Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 16Jul43. 550th Bomb Squadron [SG*K], 385th Bomb Group,
Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 21Jul43 Named "Mary Ellen II". Accident departing
for a mission to the Luftwaffe airfield at Châteaubernard, Cognac, France 16Sep43 (10KIA). During the
join up with other groups involved in a mid-air collision in poor visibility with B-17F 42-30120 (95th Bomb
Group) over Abbots Hall, Suffolk. Crashed at Abbotts Hall, Rickinghall Superior, Suffolk. Salvaged 19Sep43.
30602 (MSN 5716) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26Jun43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 12Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 16Jul43. 338th Bomb Squadron [BX*X], 96th Bomb Group,
Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 16Jul43. Named "Dry Run III". Failed to return from a
mission to the port area at Kiel, Germany 13Dec43 (10POW). Heavy frosting and poor visiblity
frustrated the attack and the group diverted to Hamburg. On return to England, damaged by flak
over the Frisian islands then attacked over the North Sea by two Ju 88 C-6 night fighters flown
by Leutnant Hermann Stock of the 12./NJG 3 and Leutnant Walter Briegleb of the 10./NJG 3.
The victory was credited to Lt. Stock. The crew bailed out over Pieterburen before the plane crashed
close to a windmill on a canal at Molenrij, near Kloosterburn, Groningen, Netherlands.
An engine generator came loose and demolished a bicycle belonging to a boat skipper. The skipper
could use this gernerator for his boat but two days later German soldiers came to claim the generator
and the skipper had to hand it over. A few days later, the soldiers returned with sixty Guilders
for a new bicycle; apparently they made a collection amongst their troops MACR 1654.
30603 (MSN 5717) Accepted by USAAF 25Jun43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 26Jun43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 11Jul43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 16Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 18Jul43. 423rd Bomb Squadron [RD*H], 306th Bomb Group,
Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 8Aug43. Named. "Las Vegas Avegner".
Seriously battle damaged during a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt,
Germany 14Oct43 (3WIA:7RTD). En route to the target area, the bomber formation was repeatedly
attacked by a large number of Luftwaffe fighters. After the target, the Group turned and headed
westward for England. German fighters, having landed and refueled, attacked again until, finally,
the bombers reached the coastline of western Europe and relative safety. Horizontal stabiliser,
left outer wing and fuselage struck by flak. Eighth Air Force Service Command 15Oct43. Regained by
Group 23Oct43. Failed to return from a mission to the port at Bremen, Germany 26Nov43 (6POW:4KIA).
Flak damaged two engines and the plane was seen to drop its landing gear as it peeled off from
the formation. Returning home, the bomber was attacked by five or six enemy fighters shot down by Lt
Heinz-Gunther Luck in Fw 190A-6 of JG 1/1 between Doniaga
and Sint Nicolaasga, Netherlands. Some crew members bailed out.
A wing struck the ground and the plane crashed on Zonderland Farm, St Nicolaasga, Friesland, Netherlands.
The fuselage split opened and two airmen escaped the wreckage. MACR 1329.
30604 (MSN 5718) Accepted by USAAF 25Jun43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Jun43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great
Falls, MT 29Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 22Jun43. Walla Walla Field, WA 1Aug43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 9Aug43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 17Aug43.
306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 10Aug43.
350th Bomb Squadron [LN*T], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 20Aug43
Named *Badger's Beauty V*. Failed to return from a mission to Robinson airfield
at Saint-Dizier, France 4Oct43 (6POW:4EVD). Flak damaged engine No.3 and damaged another.
Crash landed Villers, Caen, France. {22 missions}. Salvaged by Luftwaffe
but not repaired. Recaptured by the USAAF Aug44. Salvaged MACR 843.
30605 (MSN 5719) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Jun43.
English Field, Amarillo Field, TX 16Jul43. Pyote Field, TX 17Jul43. 19th Bomb Group, Pyote Field, TX 9Nov43.
Grandview Field, Kansas City, MO 19Aug44. 224th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Sioux
City AAB, IA 29Aug43. 225th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Rapid City Field, SD 22Sep43.
224th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Sioux City AAB, IA. Damaged by engine and
mechanical failure fifteen miles southeast of Rapid City Field, SD 26Sep44. 224th Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Sioux City AAB, IA 6Oct44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 19Jun45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped.
30606 (MSN 5720) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28Jun43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 14Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 18Jul43. 423rd Bomb Squadron [RD*U], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111),
Bedfordshire 4Aug43. Eighth Air Force Service Command Sep43. Regained by Group Sep43.
Seriously battle damaged during a mission to an aircraft factory at Bremen, Germany 8Oct43.
The formation was met with stiff resistance by German fighters and flak crews on the ground
the entire way, from the Dutch coast all the way into the German heartland, and back again.
In addition, a large force of German fighters launched vicious attacks against the planes.
Over the target, the formation encountered intense flak. Flak struck the nose, tail gunner’s
compartment, left horizontal stabiliser and vertical fin. 20mm cannon shells struck the No.4 engine
and propeller and the No.3 propeller was struck by ‘friendly fire’. Base Air Depot No.2, Warton
(Station 582), Lancashire; repair by Mobile Repair Unit Oct43. Failed to return from a mission
to the Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft shipyard at Kiel, Germany 4Jan44 (10POW). The aircraft
crash landed on Havsand on the south end of the island of Rømø, North Frisian Isles. It had
been attacked by fighters and suffered from a fire in the right hand outboard engine. During
the next week the B-17 was dismantled and shipped over to Sylt. Named EL DIABLO (The Devil)..
MACR 1681
30607 (MSN 5721) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28Jun43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 14Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 18Jul43. 337th Bomb Squadron, 96th Bomb Group,
Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 18Jul43. Named. "Pat Hand". Failed to return from
a mission to Paris, France 15Sep43 (10KIA:1POW).. Shot down by AAA at La Garenne-Colombes,
France Sep 15, 1943. MACR 728.
30608 (MSN 5722) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Jun43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 15Jul43.
Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 19Jul43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 15Aug43. 326th Bomb Squadron [JW*G/T],
92nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire. Failed to return from a mission to the port
at Bremen, Germany 26Nov43 (10MIA). Damaged by AAA and Last seen going into cloud full of fighters
and crashed into North Sea at East Frisian Islands, Germany. MACR 1386.
30609 (MSN 5723) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Jun43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 15Jul43.
Dalhart Field, TX 20Jul43. Rome Air Depot, NY 7Aug43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME 16Aug43. 335th Bomb Squadron [OE*N], 95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119),
Suffolk 20Aug43. Named. "Pistol Packin' Mama" - artwork inspired by the Vargas
"Pistol Packin' Mama" Esquire centrefold of March 1944. . {first combat mission 7Sep43}. Failed to return
from a mission to the industrial area at Brunswick, Germany 10Feb44 (9POW:1KIA). No.3 & No.4 engines
caught fire, aircraft broke up and crashed Wietmarschen, seven miles northeast of Nordhorn, Germany. {27 missions}.
MACR 2542
30610 (MSN 5724) Accepted by USAAF 26Jun43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 29Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island
Field, NB 15Jul43. Dalhart Field, TX 20Jul43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training
Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 26Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle
Field, ME 3Aug43. 568th Bomb Squadron [BI*M], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 6Aug43
Named "Red Ass" {first combat mission 27Sep43}. {final combat mission 14Oct43}. Accident during assembly
for a mission to Düren, Germany 17Oct43 (10RTD). The mission was aborted, the plane caught fire behind
the top turret and the bomb load was jettisoned in the Blackwater river. The crew bailed out and the aircraft
crashed at Cannon Barn Farm, West Hanningfield, near Chelmsford, Essex. The bomber hit the ground and
ripped itself apart, the tail section falling complete in the next field. {4 missions}. Salvaged 17Oct43
30611 (MSN 5725) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28Jun43. Seattle, WA 30Jun43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 14Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 18Jul43. 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 20Jul43. Failed to return
from a mission to the Caudron-Renault factory at Paris, France 3Sep43. When the formation reached Paris,
the target was obscured by clouds so diverted to an alternate target, the Luftwaffe airfield at Beaumont Le Roger
near Paris. Flak damaged an engine. Ditched in English Channel about sixty miles off coast; crew rescued
by a Royal Air Force Air-Sea Rescue Supermarine Walrus amphibious aircraft from Shoreham, Sussex
30612 (MSN 5726) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 30Sep43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 18Jul43. 333rd Bomb Squadron [TS*D], 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468),
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 29Jul43 Named "(Hot Foot II) Freestrider". Crashed on landing on
return from mission to Pas-de-Calais V-Weapons sites Dec 24, 1943. Landed too far down the runway
onto soft soil and nosed over, damaging parked B-17G 42-37775. All crew OK, but aircraft was salvaged Mar 20, 1944.
30613 (MSN 5727) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 30Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 16Jul43. Dalhart Field, TX 20Jul43. Operational
Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 26Jul43. Ferried
on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland
5/6Aug43. 813th Bomb Squadron [PC*J], 482nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire Oct43.
Equipped with Oboe Mk I radar. 535th Bomb Squadron [MS*S], 381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167),
Essex 28Feb44. Accident departing for a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Oldenburg, Germany 8Apr44 (10RTD).
The plane skidded during takeoff and nosed over at the end of the runway. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots
Ripton (Station 547), Huntingdonshire 9Apr44. Salvaged 12Apr44. Named SHOO SHOO BABY ["Shoo Shoo Baby"
was a popular song made famous by the Andrews Sisters].
30614 (MSN 5728) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Jun43.
7th Ferrying Squadron, 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 30Jun43. Mid-air collision with B-17F 42-30615
at Scottsbluff Field, NB 17Jul43. 603rd Bomb Squadron, 398th Bomb Group, Rapid City Field, SD 18Jul43.
Damaged taxying at Rapid City 2Feb44. 247th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Smoky Hill Field,
Salina, KS 3Jun44. 4136th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), Tinker Field,
Oklahoma City, OK 10Jul44. 4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field,
Dayton, OH 24Jan45. 4127th Base Unit (Sacramento Air Technical Service Command), McClellan Field,
Sacramento, CA 27Mar45. Reclaimed 3Jan46
30615 (MSN 5729) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Jun43.
7th Ferrying Squadron, 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 30Jun43. Mid-air collision with
B-17F 42-30614 at Scottsbluff Field, NB 17Jul43. 603rd Bomb Squadron, 398th Bomb Group,
Rapid City Field, SD 8Aug43. Force landed after engine failure at Rapid City Field 1Jan44.
24th Bomb Squadron, 6th Bomb Group, Grand Island Field, NB 19Jun44. Accident at Grand Island
Field 23Jun44. Salvaged 24Jun44
30616 (MSN 5730) Amarillo Field, TX 2Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 26Jul43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 4Aug43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field,
NB 8Aug43. 583rd Bomb Squadron, 393rd Bomb Group, Sioux City IA. Damaged landing at Kearney 16Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 4Jul44. 247th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit),
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 26Jul44. 499th Bomb Group, Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 23Aug44.
247th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Smoky Hill, KS. Damaged in collision with parked
B-17F 42-6132 taxying at Smoky Hill 16Jan45. 4103rd Base Unit (Mobile Air Technical Service Command),
Hawkins Field, Jackson, MS 17Apr45. 247th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Smoky Hill Field,
Salina, KS. Damaged in collision with B-17F 42-30620 taxying at Orlando AAB, FL 6May45.
237th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Kirtland Field, Albuquerque, NM 2Aug45.
247th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 7Aug45. Damaged due
weather taxying at Smoky Hill 22Sep45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41,
Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 28Oct45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
42-30617/30731 Boeing B-17F-115-BO Fortress
MSN 5731/5845. Dispositions from B-17 Fortress Master Log, Dave Osborne (FORTLOG)
Production changes: Carburettor air filter gasket revision. Spare SCR-287 radio units deleted.
30617 (MSN 5731) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 30Jun43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 16Jul43. Dalhart Field, TX 20Jul43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 26Jul43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 2Aug43. Ferried on the North Atlantic
route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 5/6Aug43. 92nd Bomb Group,
Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire 21Aug43 Named "Miss Billie". . Failed to return
from a Crossbow mission to the Blockhaus d’Éperlecques V-2 rocket bunker at Watten, France 27Aug43.
Damaged by flak, forced to ditch in the Thames Estuary, off Isle of Sheppey, Kent; crew rescued by ASR launch.
No MACR.
30618 (MSN 5732) Amarillo Field, TX 1Jul43. Ephrata AAB, WA 18Jul43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field,
Dallas, TX 19Jul43. Damaged while parked in collision by B-17F 42-30630 at Love Field 30Jul43.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 31Jul43. 5th Ferrying
Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 3Aug43. 3036th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Yuma Field, AZ 6Oct44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 27Jul45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped
30619 (MSN 5733) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 20Jul43. Rapid City Field, SD 21Jul43. Operational
Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 10Jun44.
6th Bomb Group, Grand Island Field, NB 8Jul44. 242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit),
Grand Island Field, NB 16Sep44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field,
Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 25Jun45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped.
30620 (MSN 5734) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30Jun43.
English, Amarillo Field, TX 16Jul43. Pyote Field, TX 17Jul43. 19th Bomb Group, Pyote Field, TX 9Nov43.
500th Bomb Group, Walker Field, Victoria, KS 8Aug44. 233rd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training
Station), Davis-Monthan Field, Tucson, AZ 18Aug44. 242nd Base Unit (Operational Training
Unit), Grand Island Field, NB 17Dec44. 202nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Galveston Field, TX 18Dec44. 242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island
Field, NB 21Dec44. 902nd Base Unit (Base Complement), Orlando AAB, FL 20Mar45.
242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB Mar45. Damaged taxying
at Miami Airport, FL 5Apr45. Damaged in collision with B-17F 42-30616 taxying at
Orlando AAB, FL 6May45. 376th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Grand Island
Field, NB. Damaged landing at Roanoke Municipal Airport, VA 15Jul45. 120th Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Richmond Field, VA 17Jul45. 242nd Base Unit (Operational
Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB 9Sep45. Damaged in collision with parked Republic P-47D
Thunderbolt 42-29223 at Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 8Oct45. 4136th Base Unit (Oklahoma
City Air Technical Service Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 9Oct45. 242nd Base
Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB 29Oct45. Modified for training,
stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage
and disposal 8Oct45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
30621 (MSN 5735) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30Jun43.
Moses Lake Field, WA 29Jul43. 497th Bomb Group, Pratt Field, KS 8Jul44. 4136th Base Unit
(Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 15Jul44.
246th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Pratt Field, KS 6Aug44. 29th Bomb Group,
Pratt Field, KS 10Sep44. 4136th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command),
Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 3Oct44. 233rd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Davis-Monthan Field, Tucson, AZ 23Feb45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage
Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 23Nov45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped.
30622 (MSN 5736) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 1Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 2Jul43. 435th Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group, Pyote
Field, TX 18Jul43. 110th Base Unit (Staging), Mitchel Field, Hempstead, Long Island, NY 1Aug44.
248th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Walker Field, Victoria, KS 20Aug44. 233rd Base
Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Davis-Monthan Field, Tucson, AZ 6Sep44. 223rd Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN 2Nov44. 330th Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN 1Mar45. 325th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Avon Park Field, FL 14May45. 326th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), MacDill Field,
Tampa, FL 15May45. 325th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Avon Park Field, FL 16May45.
335th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dale Mabry Field, Tallahassee, FL 13Jun45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 4Oct45
30623 MSN 5737) Amarillo Field, TX 1Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 27Jul43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 7Aug43.
Dyersburg Field, TN 8Aug43. 326th Bomb Squadron [JW*L], 92nd Bomb Group, Podington
(Station 109), Bedfordshire 16Sep43. Named "Vassar's Virgin" Failed to return from a mission
to the Messerschmitt aircraft factory at Augsburg, Germany 25Feb44 (2KIA:7POW:1EVD).
Damaged by flak in vicinity of Stuttgart, hit again at Saarbrücken, forced from formation and
attacked by two Bf 109s. Crew began bailing out over Falstroff, France. The aircraft wing tip
hit a power line and crashed in a grove of trees about one mile from Laumesfeld, twelve miles
east of Thionville, France
30624 (MSN 5738) Amarillo Field, TX 1Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 26Jul43. Dyersburg Field, TN 7Aug43. Air Transport Command,
Ferrying Division, Lunken Field, Cincinnati, OH Aug43. Flown by WASP pilots Nancy Harkness Love
and Betty Gillies, 2nd Ferrying Group. First instance of overseas ferry of four-engine military
aircraft with women pilots and first instance of any military bomber with women serving both
as pilot and co-pilot. New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 1Sep43. La Guardia Field, New York
City, NY 2Sep43. Presque Isle Field, ME 3Sep43. RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador 4Sep43. The plane
was delayed at RCAF Goose Bay by bad weather en route to UK. Having been advised that
two WASP pilots were on their way to England, General Hap Arnold ordered the pilots to
return to the US and two male pilots would continue the ferry flight. During the evening, the
other, male, members of the crew painted ‘Queen Bee’ on the plane. 322nd Bomb Squadron [LG*Q],
91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 23Sep43. Failed to return from a
mission to the port and industrial area at Emden, Germany 27Sep43 (5KIA:5POW). Attacked and
damaged by enemy fighters. Over the target at 24,000 feet, the plane was seen with No.3 engine
on fire. When the aircraft opened its bomb bay doors flames enveloped the radio room and
pieces of the aircraft began to fall. It dropped down from the left of the formation and exploded
in mid-air. Crashed at Ihlowerfehn, eleven miles northeast of Emden, Germany. MACR 669.
30625 (MSN 5739) Accepted by USAAF 29Jun43. Amarillo Field, TX 1Jul43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field,
Dallas, TX 4Jul43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 19Jul43. Kingman, AZ 6Aug43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 8Aug43. Pendleton Field, OR 12Aug43. 563rd Bomb Squadron [S],
388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 3Sep43 Named "Joho's Jokers".
[Joho was the first pilot assigned to the plane].
(first combat mission 27Sep43}. Battle damaged on a mission to the port area at Bremen,
Germany 20Dec43 (1WIA:9RTD). Attacked by a large force of enemy fighters and flak over the target
area was very intense; the radio operator was seriously injured by flak. Battle damaged during a
mission to the industrial area at Brunswick, Germany 10Feb44 (10RTD). Meagre to heavy flak was
seen when crossing the enemy coast at IJmuiden, Netherlands. In the vicinity of Lingen, Germany
the formation was attacked by enemy fighters in groups of three. As they neared the target, twin-engined
aircraft fired rockets into the formation. Intense flak was encountered at the target where the aircraft
received flak damage. The formation was under fighter attack until it neared the IJsselmeer on the
return home. Friendly fighters were outnumbered, especially in the target area. {final combat mission 31Jul44}.
{45 missions}. Salvaged after non battle damage 15Jul45
30626 (MSN 5740) Amarillo Field, TX 1Jul43. Ephrata AAB, WA 18Jul43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 1Aug43.
Kingman, AZ 2Aug43. 231st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Alamogordo Field, NM 22Jul44.
203rd Base Unit (16th Bomber Operational Training Wing), Jackson AAB, MS 2Feb45. 243rd Base Unit
(Operational Training Unit), Great Bend Field, KS 6Sep45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 27Oct45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped.
30627 (MSN 5741) Amarillo Field, TX 1Jul43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 19Jul43. Kingman, AZ 4Aug43.
3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 5Oct44. Damaged landing at
Roswell 15Nov44. 3010th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 11Jan45.
3020th Base Unit (Pilot School, Advanced, Two Engine), La Junta Field, CO 20Apr45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 4Aug45.
30628 (MSN 5742) Amarillo Field, TX 1Jul43. Ephrata AAB, WA 18Jul43. Las Vegas Field, NV 1Aug43.
Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 14Dec43. Pilot School (Specialized, Four Engine),
Hobbs Field, NM 5Oct44. Damaged at Hobbs 3Nov44. 3010th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized,
Four Engine), Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 6Jan45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field,
Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 9Aug45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped.
30629 (MSN 5743) Amarillo Field, TX 2Jul43. Ephrata AAB, WA 18Jul43. 5th Ferrying Group,
Love Field, Dallas, TX 1Aug43. Kingman, AZ 2Aug43. 2528th Base Unit, Bombardier
School & Instructor School, Midland Field, TX 22Dec44. 231st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training
Station), Alamogordo Field, NM 17Jan45. 4202nd Base Unit (Rome Air Technical Service
Command), Syracuse AAB, NY 28Mar45.To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge
Field, AR for storage and disposal 7Oct45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas
Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30630 (MSN 5744) Amarillo Field, TX 1Jul43. Ephrata AAB, WA 18Jul43. Kingman, AZ Jul43. 5th Ferrying
Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 19Jul43. Damaged in collision with parked B-17F 42-30618 due
to mechanical failure taxying at Love Field 30Jul43. Salvaged 29Aug43
30631 (MSN 5745) Accepted by USAAF 31Jul43. Bailed to Boeing, Seattle, WA 12Aug43. Materiel
Command, Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 7Oct43. First aircraft to be tested with new chin turret
and cheek guns, also staggered waist windows as a prototype for the B-17G. Assigned Eighth
Air Force, England. Eighth Air Force Service Command. Converted for trooping, stripped of all
armament and turrets, capable of carrying thirty passengers on benches installed in the
waist and bomb bay. 310th Ferrying Squadron, 27th Air Transport Group, Burtonwood
(Station 590), Lancashire. Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing),
Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 11Aug45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 9Oct45
30632 (MSN 5746) Amarillo Field, TX 2Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 25Jul43. Ephrata AAB, WA 1Aug43. Operational Training Unit, 17th
Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 29Aug44. 504th Bomb Group,
Fairmont Field, Geneva, NB 3Sep44. 241st Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Fairmont Field,
Geneva, NB 16Sep44. 235th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Biggs Field, El Paso, TX 3Nov44.
4202nd Base Unit (Rome Air Technical Service Command), Syracuse AAB, NY 3Apr45. Reclaimed 3Jan46
30633 (MSN 5747) Amarillo Field, TX 1Jul43. Ephrata AAB, WA 18Jul43. Kingman, AZ 1Aug43. 5th Ferrying
Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 3Aug43. 359th Bomb Squadron, Alamogordo Field, NM 30Mar44.
Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F.
203rd Base Unit (16th Bomber Operational Training Wing), Jackson AAB, MS 31Jan45.
Mid-air collision with TB-17F 42-6010 three miles northwest of Jackson, MS 11Apr45. Reclaimed 12Apr45.
30634 (MSN 5748) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 2Jul43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 22Jul43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 1Aug43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 9Aug43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 17Aug43. 412th Bomb Squadron [QW*O], 95th Bomb Group,
Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 20Aug43,Named "Liberty Belle". . Failed to return from a
mission to bomb aircraft factories at Brunswick, Germany 21Feb44 (6MIA:4POW). An attack by Fw 190s
firing rockets damaged engine No.2. The bomber exploded and crashed in the North Sea, 6km west of
Bergen, Netherlands. {30 missions}. . 4 POW, rescued by Dutch fishermen.
30635 (MSN 5749) Amarillo Field, TX 2Jul43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 19Jul43.
Kingman, AZ 5Aug53. 2117th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Buckingham Field, Fort Myers, FL 24Jun44.
Pilot School (Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 3Aug43. Modified for training,
stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F. Damaged in collision
with parked B-17G 42-31668 while taxying at Hendricks 24Sep45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 2Oct45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30636 (MSN 5750) Amarillo Field, TX 2Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle
Field, ME 17Aug43. 327th Bomb Squadron [UX*Y], 92nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102),
Huntingdonshire 31Aug43. Failed to return from a mission to the railway marshalling yards at
Frankfurt am Main, Germany 2Mar44 (10KIA). Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed between
Sieglar & Siegburg, Germany. MACR 2853.
30637 (MSN 5751) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Jul43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 22Jul43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 30Jul43. 340th Bomb Squadron,
97th Bomb Group 6Aug43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy Nov43.
Departed St Eval (Station 129), Cornwall en route to St Mawgan (Station 512), Cornwall 9Feb44.
On landing the undercarriage collapsed. Condemned 7Aug44 MACRs 5022 and 7325 wrongly identify
42-30637 but actually refers to 42-30837.
30638 (MSN 5752) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Jul43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 22Jul43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 1Aug43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 9Aug43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 17Aug43. 327th Bomb Squadron [UX*Y], 92nd Bomb Group,
Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire 30Aug43. Podington 16Sep43. 351st Bomb Group,
Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 16Nov43. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little Staughton
(Station 127), Bedfordshire 17Nov43. Salvaged after non battle damage 29May45.
30639 (MSN 5752) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Jul43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 22Jul43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 1Aug43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 9Aug43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 17Aug43. 327th Bomb Squadron [UX*Y], 92nd Bomb Group, Alconbury
(Station 102), Huntingdonshire 30Aug43. Podington 16Sep43. 351st Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110),
Northamptonshire 16Nov43. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little Staughton (Station 127), Bedfordshire 17Nov43.
Salvaged after non battle damage 29May45., named "Coy-de-Coy II".
(first combat mission 31Aug43}. Equipped with H2S airborne radar. Used for radio counter measures.
Battle damaged on a mission to a rubber factory at Hanau, Germany 4Oct43. Cloud cover over the target
area forced the bombers to move on to their secondary target, the industrial area of Frankfurt. The group
ran into a force of around forty enemy fighters over Darmstadt and this plane was severely damaged
by 20mm cannon fire. {final combat mission 14Jan44}. {18 missions}. COY-DE-COY II. Transferred to
Royal Air Force 21Jan44 as Fortress Mark II, serial SR380. No.214 (Federated Malay States) Squadron [BU-S],
RAF Sculthorpe, Norfolk, 2Feb44. RAF Oulton, Aylsham, Norfolk 12May44. No.1699 Flight, RAF Oulton, Norfolk.
Crash landed at RAF Woodbridge emergency landing airfield, Suffolk 12Sep44. There was a problem
with the aircraft's flaps during a night training exercise, the aircraft swung on landing and tipped onto its
nose. Scottish Aviation, Prestwick, Scotland 19Oct44 for repair at depot. Damage classified as
category E (write off) 20Nov44. SOC
30640 (MSN 5754) Accepted by USAAF 30Jun43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 3Jul43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand
Island Field, NB 22Jul43. Walla Walla Field, WA 1Aug43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 9Aug43. North
Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 17Aug43. 560th Bomb Squadron [L],
388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 20Aug43. {first combat mission 26Sep43}.
Battle damaged on a mission to the port area at Bremen, Germany 20Dec43 (10RTD). Attacked by a
large force of enemy fighters and flak over the target area was very intense. Battle damaged
on a mission to the C.A.M. ball bearing works in Paris, France 31Dec43 (10RTD). Damaged by
flak, the plane dropped out of the formation just before the target, jettisoned the bombs and
fell back from the formation. Crash landed at St Mary on the Marsh, near Romney, Kent. {10 missions}.
Salvaged 3Jan44
30641 (MSN 5755) Accepted by USAAF 30Jun43. Bailed to Boeing, Seattle, WA. Substantially damaged
landing with mechanical failure at Wright Field, Dayton, OH 7Jan44. Materiel Command, Wright
Field, Dayton, OH 2Jun44. Air Transport Service, Northwest Airlines, Ice Research Base,
Minneapolis–St. Paul, MN 3Aug44. Damaged by mechanical failure while parked at Minneapolis 8Aug44.
510th Base Unit, New York City 1Sep44. 1454th Base Unit, Minneapolis–St. Paul, MN 6Sep44. Wright Field,
Dayton, OH 31Oct44. Air Transport Service, Northwest Airlines, Ice Research Base, Minneapolis, MN 5Nov44.
1454th Base Unit, Alaskan Division, Station 11, Air Transport Command, Wold-Chamberlain Field,
Minneapolis, MN 10Nov44. 4000th Base Unit, Air Materiel Command, Wright Field, Dayton, OH 23Jul45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 9Oct45
30642 (MSN 5756) Accepted by USAAF 1Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 3Jul43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 4Jul43. United Air Lines,
Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 27Jul43. 568th Bomb Squadron [BI*O], 390th Bomb Group,
Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 6Aug43. 569th Bomb Squadron [CC*O]. {first combat mission 27Aug43}.
Failed to return from a mission to the Kugelfischer ball bearing works at Ebelsbach, Germany 19Jul44 (10KIA).
Near Aachen, Germany en route to the target, one engine failed and unable to feather the propeller. The plane
was losing altitude and turned back towards England. Crashed Haren, Brussels, Belgium. {66 missions} MACR 7555.
Damaged by flak and crashed Malmedy, Belgium. Named "Geronimo"
30643 (MSN 5757) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Jul43. Operational
Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 22Jul43. Walla Walla
Field, WA 1Aug43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 9Aug43. 364th Bomb Squadron [WF*P], 305th Bomb Group,
Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 2Sep43. Undercarriage collapsed taxying for Brunswick,
Germany mission 29Jan44. Salvaged after non battle damage 30Jan44
30644 (MSN 5758) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Jul43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 26Jul43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 1Aug43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 11Aug43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 16Aug43. 327th Bomb Squadron [UX*V], 92nd Bomb Group,
Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire 7Sep43. Podington 11Sep43. Failed to return from a
mission to the synthetic oil refinery at Lützkendorf, six miles west of Merseburg,
Germany 12May44 (3KIA:7POW). Flak damaged No.3 engine, after heading away two more engines
were lost, crashed Vallendar, two miles north of Koblenz, Germany. MACR 4851
30645 (MSN 5759) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Jul43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 24Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 28Jul43. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 2Aug43. 364th Bomb Squadron [WF*E], 305th Bomb Group,
Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 22Aug43. Failed to return from a mission to the
port at Bremen, Germany 26Nov43 (9POW:1KIA). Damaged by flak amd shot down by Obfw Flemming in Bf 109G-6
of JG 1/9 between Oldenburg and Gristede, Germany Nov 26, 1943.
MACR 1327
30646 (MSN 5760) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Jul43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 28Jul43. Topeka Field, KS 12Aug43. 505th Base
Unit, Scott Field, Belleville, IL Aug43. Assigned to 333rd Group (the Major William F. Savoie
Provisional Group), Scott Field, Belleville, IL 14Aug43. Departed to Dow Field, Bangor, ME 22Aug43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 22Aug43. Ferried to RCAF
Goose Bay, Labrador 25Aug43; to Bluie West One, Narsarsuaq, Greenland 26Aug43; to Meeks Field,
Keflavik, Iceland 27Aug43; to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 30Aug43. 326th Bomb Squadron [JW*O],
92nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire 2Sep43. Name "Rebecca:
Failed to return from a mission to industrial areas at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 4Oct43 (8POW:2KIA).
Flak over the target was moderate and accurate. A large force of enemy fighters were encountered,
some using rockets which were fired from a distance beyond the range of the bombers’ guns.
Damaged by flak or enemy fighters, the plane was seen to struggle. Then it was shot down by
Oblt Rufolf Englender in Fw 190A-6 of JG 1/1 damaging No.2 engine. With a wing on fire, the aircraft
crashed at Niedergründau, Gründau, Germany. MACR 745.
30647 ((MSN 5761) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Jul43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 27Jul43. 366th Bomb Squadron [KY*H],
305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 17Aug43. Named "Polly Ann"
Accident on a mission to bomb a submarine suppy ship in the Loire River at Nantes, France 23Sep43 (10KIA).
On return from Nantes crashed at Chelveston after the pilot lost control following a mid-air collision
with B-17F 42-30650 and 42-30809. Salvaged. .
30648 (MSN 5762) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Jul43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 26Jul43. Topeka Field, KS 14Aug43. 327th Bomb
Squadron [UX*U], 92nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire. Named "Woolaroc"
Failed to return from a mission to the port area at Bremen, Germany 20Dec43 (8KIA:2POW).
Attacked by a large force of enemy fighters and flak over the target area was very intense.
Shot down by Lt Eberhard Schade in Bf 109G-6 of
JG 27/5 near Westerstede, Germany Dec 20, 1943. Crashed Stapelermoor,
south of Weener, Netherlands. MACR 1710.
30649 (MSN 5763) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Jul43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 26Jul43. Topeka Field, KS 14Aug43.
327th Bomb Squadron [UX*X], 92nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire 31Aug43.
Podington 11Sep43. Named "Rose Olive'. Failed to return from a mission to the Focke-Wulf aircraft
factory at Sorau, Prussia 11Apr44 (10KIA). Shot down by enemy fighters, caught fire, exploded and
crashed at Martinsbüttel, five miles west of Fallersleben, Wolfsburg, Germany. MACR 3668
30650 (MSN 5764) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 7Jul43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 25Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 28Jul43. 366th Bomb Squadron [KY*D], 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105),
Northamptonshire 12Aug43. Accident on a mission to bomb a submarine repair ship at Nantes,
France 23Sep43. On return from Nantes force landed at Chelveston after mid-air collision with
B-17F 42-30647. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton (Station 547), Huntingdonshire 20Mar44.
Returned to US 20Apr44. 4136th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command),
Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 4Jun44. 556th Base Unit, 6th Ferrying Group, Long Beach
Field, CA 5Aug44. 450th Base Unit, Hammer Field, Fresno, CA 17Aug44. 556th Base Unit,
6th Ferrying Group, Long Beach Field, CA 25Nov44. 4136th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air
Technical Service Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 17Mar45. 4100th Base
Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 19Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 20Aug45
30651 MSN 5765) Amarillo Field, TX 3Jul45. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 2Aug43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 13Aug43.
Assigned Eighth Air Force, Grand Island Field, NB 18Aug43. Departed to Dow Field, Bangor, ME 29Aug43,
to Gander 3Sep43, to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 5Sep43 arriving 6Sep43.
551st Bomb Squadron [HR*W], 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk Sep43.
Named "Pat Pending". Damaged taxying Great Ashfield 11Dec43. Salvaged 6Apr44.
30652 (MSN 5766) Amarillo Field, TX 3Jul43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 20Jul43.
5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 21Jul43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 8Aug43. 5th Ferrying
Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 10Aug43. 364th Bomb Squadron [WF*J], 305th Bomb Group,
Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 15Sep43. Base Air Depot No.2, Warton (Station 582),
Lancashire 20Mar44. Returned to US. 611th Base Unit, Proving Ground Command, Eglin Field,
Valparaiso, FL 15Jul44. 610th Base Unit (Proving Ground Command), Eglin Field,
Valparaiso, FL 6Nov44. 4119th Base Unit (Mobile Air Technical Service Command),
Brookley Field, Mobile, AL 4Dec44. 610th Base Unit (Proving Ground Command),
Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 17Jan45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut
Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 5Jan46. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
Conflict;
381 BG, 535 BS Named "Blowing Bessie", w/o 5 Nov 1943 Damaged by flak on raid at Gelsenkirchen, Germany,
Shot down & crashed at Strijensas, Holland. 6 crew lost, 4 crew bailed out ok.
30653 (MSN 5767) Amarillo Field, TX 3Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 25Jul43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 5Aug43. Rapid City Field, SD 10Aug43.
Redmond Field, OR 15Aug43. 325th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Avon Park Field, FL.
Accident on the Sarasota Gunnery Range, FL 12May44. 4117th Base Unit (Warner Robins Air
Technical Service Command), Robins Field, Warner Robins, GA 11Sep44. 325th Base Unit (Combat
Crew Training Station), Avon Park Field, FL 28Sep44. 331st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Barksdale Field, Bossier City, LA 1Mar45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR
for storage and disposal 26Sep45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company,
Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30654 (MSN 5768) Amarillo Field, TX 5Jul43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 19Jul43. Geiger Field,
Spokane, WA 8Aug43. Pendleton Field, OR 14Aug43. 327th Bomb Squadron [UX*W], 92nd Bomb Group,
Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 16Sep43. Failed to return from a mission to the ball bearing
factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43 (3POW:7KIA). En route to the target area, the bomber formation
was repeatedly attacked by a large number of Luftwaffe fighters. After the target, the Group turned and
headed westward for England. German fighters, having landed and refueled, attacked again.
Shot down by Lt Hans Reuter in Bf 109G-6 of JG 11/9 with a rocket and crashed at Bischbrunn,
mear Markt Heidenfelt,20mi W of Wurzburg, Germany. MACR 848
30655 (MSN 5769) Amarillo Field, TX 5Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 25Jul43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 2Aug43. Geiger Field,
Spokane, WA 3Aug43. 541st Bomb Squadron, 383rd Bomb Group, Pendleton Field, OR 12Aug43.
The plane departed for a local engineering test flight from Pendleton Field 16Aug43. It climbed
to more than 20,000ft and was heard over Tollgate, approximately thirty-six miles northeast of
Pendleton, for about one hour. Then witnesses heard variable engine noises before the plane
became visible, apparently in a spin. The bomber crashed onto a mountain two miles south of the
High Ridge lookout station. Four miles southeast of Tollgate. One crewmember had attempted to
bail out but his parachute caught on the plane and cut him loose from the harness (4KIS). Salvaged 17Aug43.
30656 (MSN 5770) Amarillo Field, TX 8Jul43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 21Jul43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 8Aug43. Walla Walla Field, WA 12Aug43. Redmond Field, OR 15Aug43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 3Sep43.
422nd Bomb Squadron [JJ*D/W], 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 6Sep43
Named *Miss Mickey Flynn* Experimented in night bombing alongside the RAF and
operated night leaflet and propaganda missions. 858th Bomb Squadron, 492nd Bomb Group,
North Pickenham 24Jun44. Special operations and electronic countermeasure (ECM) missions. 4
06th Night Leaflet Squadron [J6-W], 801st Bomb Group, Harrington (Station 179), Northamptonshire
Aug44. Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor
Locks, CT 12Jul44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 4Oct45
30657 (MSN 5771) Amarillo Field, TX 5Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 25Jul43. 339th Bomb Squadron [QJ*S], 96th Bomb Group. Pyote Field, TX 1Aug43.
30th Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group, Pyote Field, TX 9Nov43. 247th Base Unit (Operational
Training Unit), Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 4Jun44. 505th Base Unit, Scott Field, Belleville, IL 5Jul44.
247th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 2Aug44. 52nd Bomb Squadron,
39th Bomb Group, Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS. Damaged by engine failure at Smoky Hill Field 1Jan45.
248th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Walker Field, Victoria, KS 6Jan45. 247th Base Unit
(Operational Training Unit), Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 8Jan45. 902nd Base Unit (Base Complement),
Orlando AAB, FL 12Mar45. 247th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 18Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 25Jun45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped
30658 (MSN 5772) Amarillo Field, TX 5Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 25Jul43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 1Aug43. Pendleton Field, OR 15Aug43.
225th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Rapid City Field, SD 7Jun44. 901st Base Unit,
Heavy Bombardment, Pinecastle Field, Orlando, FL 10Jun44. 4136th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air
Technical Service Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 22Jun44. 9th Bomb Group, McCook
Field, NB 8Jul44. 245th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), McCook Field, NB 16Sep43.
705th Base Unit, Lowry Field, Denver, CO 16Oct44. 517th Base Unit, Elington 1May45.
705th Base Unit, Lowry Field, Denver, CO 27Apr45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 2Aug45. War Assets Administration. S
old to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped
30659 (MSN 5773) Amarillo Field, TX 7Jul43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 19Jul434. 3
37th Bomb Squadron [AW*K], 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 3Sep43.
Salvaged after non battle damage 29May45.
30660 (MSN 5774) Amarillo Field, TX 7Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 25Jul43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 3Aug43. Combat Crew Training Squadron,
393rd Bomb Group, Sioux City AAB, IA 22Dec43; code 50. Named "Jancy-Mel"
224th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Sioux City AAB, IA 6Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 19Jun45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped
30661 (MSN 5775) Accepted by USAAF 5Jul43. Amarillo Field, TX 7Jul43. 5th Ferrying Group,
Love Field, Dallas, TX 19Jul43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 8Aug43. Pendleton Field, OR 12Aug43.
562nd Bomb Squadron [M], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 3Sep43.
Named "Veni Vidi Vici" (I came, I saw, I conquered) )The navigator submitted
the name as fitting for their mission over Nazi Germany. KENTUCKY KID was painted[on ball turret – the
gunner was a professional jockey) . {first combat mission 26Sep43}. Battle damaged on a mission to Rjukan,
seventy-five miles west of Oslo, Norway 16Nov43 (10RTD). The target was the pen-stocks down the mountain
from the dam for the hydro-electric building in the valley below. This building also contained the Norwegian
heavy water plant which was being used by the Germans to provide heavy water for their experimentation in
the development of the atomic/hydrogen bomb. As the formation neared the I.P., the lead bombardiers sight
had frosted over and. By this time it was too late to drop the bombs on the first run. The Group then
made a wide turn to the left for a second run and bombs were dropped from 12,500 feet. Meagre flak
was encountered and only two enemy fighters were sighted. One of these, a Bf 109, fired his rockets
and then made two passes at this plane which sustained a number of 20mm cannon shell hits, but no
one was injured. Failed to return from a mission to the Focke-Wulf aircraft factory at Pozna?,
Poland 24Feb44 (10INT). Flak was encountered over the Danish peninsula which was scattered and
inaccurate; over the target the flak was moderate and fairly accurate. A large force of enemy fighters
was encountered at landfall on the Danish coast on the route to the target. Twin engine fighters fired
rockets and 20mm cannon shells at the formation. The No.4 engine was damaged and the propeller f
eathered. With fuel leakage and unable to reach England, the pilot turned to Sweden and force landed
at Rinkaby airfield, southeast of Kristianstad, Sweden. {30 missions}.
Traded to the Swedish government along with eight other B-17’s for $1 and the release of American
airmen interned in Sweden. Flown to Svenska Aeroplan A.B. in Linköping. Converted to passenger
configuration by SAAB designated Boeing F-17 Felix. Registered 6Oct44 as SE-BAK. Operated by AB
Aerotransport / SILA, Stockholm. Named ‘Jim’. Proving flight to Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland 13Jun45.
First Swedish scheduled trans Atlantic flight 27Jun45 from Stockholm via Meeks Field Keflavik, Iceland
and Mingan Airport, Quebec, Canada to La Guardia, New York, arriving 29Jun45. Returned to Bromma,
Stockholm, Sweden 4Jul45. SOC Dec46. Registration cancelled
Used for firefighting practice before being scrapped Dec 1946.
30662 (MSN 5776) Accepted by USAAF 5Jul43. Amarillo Field, TX 7Jul43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field,
Dallas, TX 19Jul43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 8Aug43. Pendleton Field, OR 12Aug43.
550th Bomb Squadron [SG*K], 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk Aug43..
Named 'Clarissa Jean' Failed to return from a mission to aircraft industries at
Rostock, Germany 24Feb44 (1KIA:9POW). Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Baltic Sea, off
Rugen Island, Germany. MACR 2778.
30663 (MSN 5777) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 8Jul43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 26Jul43. Walla Walla Field, WA 8Aug43. 332nd Base Unit, Lake
Charles, LA 13Jul44. 221st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA 3Aug44.
329th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA 1Mar45. 326th Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 18Apr45. 331st Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Barksdale Field, Bossier City, LA 15May45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 26Sep45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30664 (MSN 5778) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 7Jul43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 26Jul43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 28Jul43. Pendleton Field, OR 30Jul43. Felts Field,
Spokane, WA 9Aug43. 543rd Bomb Squadron, 383rd Bomb Group, Geiger Field, Spokane, WA.
Crashed after fuel exhaustion five miles southeast of Opportunity, WA 28Sep43 (1KIS). Salvaged 29Sep43.
30665 (MSN 5779) Accepted by USAAF 7Jul43. Bailed to Boeing, Seattle, WA 7Jul43. 7th Ferrying Group,
Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 17Jul43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 8Aug43. Palm Springs
Field, CA 9Aug43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 10Aug43. Pendleton Field, OR 12Aug43. 339th Bomb
Squadron [QJ*E], 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 1Sep43. .
Named "Hunyak/Little Girl III". Failed to return from a mission to the Luftwaffe
air depot at Mérignac, Bordeaux, France 5Jan44 (1KIA:8POW:1EVD). Shot down by flak and
by a fighter of JG 2 at Nieul-lés-Saintes, France. Crashed Rochevent, five miles E of
Corme-Royal, four miles W of Saintes, France. MACR 2014.
30666 (MSN 5780) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 2Jul43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 25Jul43. Topeka Field, KS 14Aug43. Scott Field,
Belleville, IL 17Aug43. 364th Bomb Squadron [WF*M], 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105),
Northamptonshire 18Sep43. Named "Daisy May". On training operation 15Nov43 (11KIS), collided
with B-17F 42-29953 at Newton Bromswold, near Chelveston. Both planes crashed. 21 killed.
30667 (MSN 5781) Accepted by USAAF 6Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 8Jul43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 25Jul43.
Topeka Field, KS 13Aug43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 14Aug43. 569th Bomb Squadron [CC*V],
390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 25Aug43. Named "Wild Children"
{first combat mission 26Sep43}. Failed to return from a mission to the industrial areas of Emden,
Germany 11Dec43 (10POW). The Luftwaffe was waiting for the bombers; the moment the bombers
crossed over into mainland Europe, six twin-engine fighter dived out of the sun upon the formation,
concentrating all their fire on the lead plane. Once the leader had been downed, the fighters
swept through the lead Squadron. Before the deputy lead had a chance to reassemble the formation,
a large force of single-engine fighters joined the fray, attacking the other bombers. Damaged by
flak over the Frisian Islands en route to the target, one engine was damaged but the bomber
kept formation. Reaching the target, the aircraft was attacked by Ju 88s firing rockets, one of which
ruptured the right fuel tank. After dropping its bomb load on the target, the bomber was attacked by Bf 109s,
damaging a second engine and with the wing now on fire. Now out of formation, the enemy fighters
damaged a third engine. As the crew bailed out, a wing broke off and the bomber crashed and
exploded near Harkstede, east of Groningen, Netherlands. {10 missions}.. MACR 1584.
Credited to Fw. Heinz Fuchs in Fw 190A of JG 1/4 at
Harkstede, Netherlands.
30668 (MSN 5782) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 8Jul43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 24Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 28Jul43. 327th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102),
Huntingdonshire 15Aug43. 326th Bomb Squadron [JW*J]. Failed to return from a mission to the
Bosch magneto factory at Stuttgart, Germany 6Sep43. Hit by flak near the primary target area
causing loss of fuel and flight controls. Returning home, the bomber lost the first engine five minutes
after crossing enemy coast and the second five minutes later, the last two later quitting. The pilot
ditched the aircraft in Pevensey Bay near Beachy Head, Sussex. The sea was very rough but made a
perfect landing. The aircraft floated for 35 minutes and the crew was rescued by British Air-Sea Rescue launch
30669 (MSN 5783) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 10Jul43.
Spokane Field, WA 25Jul43. Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 26Dec43. Wendover Field, UT 1Feb44.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Feb44. Continental
Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 8Mar44. Tampa, FL 9Mar43.
328th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Gulfport Field, MS 26Jul44. Gunnery accident at
Gulfport Field, MS 21Aug44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM
for storage and disposal 25Jun45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped
30670 (MSN 5784) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 9Jul43.
School of Applied Tactics, Orlando AAB, FL 11Jul43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 28Jul43. 383rd Bomb Group,
Pendleton Field, OR 29Aug43. 393rd Bomb Group, Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 27Nov43. 224th Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Sioux City AAB, IA 14Oct44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 19Jun45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped
30671 (MSN 5785) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 9Jul43.
383rd Bomb Group, Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 28Jul43. 541st Bomb Squadron, 383rd Bomb Group,
Pendleton Field, OR 29Jul43. Damaged while parked by B-17F 42-30748 Pendleton 12Sep43.
224th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Sioux City AAB, IA 6Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and
disposal 25Jun45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped.
30672 (MSN 5786) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 9Jul43.
Dyersburg Field, TN 27Jul43. Galveston Field, TX 12Aug43. Dalhart Field, TX 13Aug43. 677th Bomb Squadron,
444th Bomb Group, Great Bend Field, KS. Substantially damaged landing with mechanical failure
at Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 28Nov43. 346th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Dyersburg Field, TN. Damaged in collision with parked B-17F 42-6092, 42-6116 and 42-30892
at Dyersburg Field 19Feb44. 9th Bomb Group, McCook Field, NB 6Jun44. Grandview Field, Kansas
City, MO 31Aug44. 245th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), McCook Field, NB 16Sep44.
100th Base Unit, Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 25Feb45. 244th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit),
Harvard Field, NB 26Feb45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41,
Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 27Oct45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
30673 (MSN 5787) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 9Jul43.
School of Applied Tactics, Orlando AAB, FL 11Jul43. 533rd Combat Crew Training Squadron,
Dalhart Field, TX 29Jul43. Damaged landing at Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 17Dec43.
232nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dalhart Field, TX 9Jun44. 3034th Base Unit,
Gardner Field, Taft, CA 19Aug44. 4200th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command),
Chicago Municipal Airport, IL 11Sep44. 232nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Dalhart Field, TX 26Sep44. 247th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Smoky Hill Field,
Salina, KS 17Jan45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM
for storage and disposal 25Jun45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped
30674 (MSN 5788) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 10Jul43. Operational
Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 28Jul43. 336th Bomb Squadron [ET*C],
95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 3Sep43 Named "Destiny's Tot/Kathy Jane III/Cincinatti Queen".
Failed to return from a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical works at Oppau, Ludwigshafen,
Germany 30Dec43 (3POW:7EVD). The bomber was hit by flak as it began the return trip after the target.
A burst struck the navigator’s compartment, another severely damaged one of the four engines,
causing a major oil leak. Now flying on three engines, the aircraft lost altitude and left formation after No. 4 engine
was hit by flak was shot down by Hptm Herbert Huppertz in Fw 190A-6
of JG 2/III Stab. . The order to abandon the aircraft was given by the pilot; he tried to
keep the aircraft steady in the line of flight, and was the last to leave the plane which was now at
only about 13,000ft. Abandoned, the bomber continued its flight for a few minutes before
plunging to the ground. It crashed and exploded in a field near the village of Campremy,
fifteen miles northeast of Beauvais, France. {19 missions}. MACR 2024.
30675 (MSN 5789) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 9Jul43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 28Jul43. Topeka Field, KS 12Aug43. Assigned Eighth Air Force,
England. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 11Sep43
but crashed six miles northwest of Cushendall, County Antrim, Northern Ireland (10KIS). SOC 14Sep43.
30676 (MSN 5790) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 9Jul43. 5th Ferrying Group,
Love Field, Dallas, TX 29Jul43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 1Aug43. Topeka
Field, KS 12Aug43. 482nd Bomb Group 24Aug43. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick
(Station 500), Scotland 2Sep43. 482nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire Sep43.
532nd Bomb Squadron [VE*E], 381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 19Sep43.
Named *Baby Dumpling/Danny Dumpling*. Failed to return from a mission to the
Luftwaffe airfield at Parçay-Meslay, Tours, France 5Jan44 (1KIA:5POW:4EVD)
Shot down by Oblt. Karl Haberland in FW-190A-6 of JG 2/2.
and creashed i2 km SW of Aubigné-Racan, France Jan 5, 1944. MACR 1962.
30677 (MSN 5791) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 10Jul43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 29Jul43. Gulfport Field, MS 8Aug43. Topeka Field, KS 12Aug43.
326th Bomb Squadron [JW*K], 92nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire 30Aug43.
{first combat mission 7Sep43}. Failed to return from a mission to the submarine construction yard at
Vegesack, Bremen, Germany 16Dec43 (6MIA:2POW:2EVD). The supercharger was running rough on the \
No.3 engine. There was also a problem transferring gasoline to that engine. Consequently, about 30 miles
from the coast the plane slowly dropped out of the formation. It was assumed that the pilot was aborting
the mission, even though it was thought all four engines were running properly. The navigator set a course
to intercept the formation before reaching the target. Just before reaching the target, the fuel-starved
No.3 engine went dead and the propeller began windmilling. The pilot and co-pilot worked to feather
the propeller but to no avail. Meanwhile, the target was approaching and covered with clouds. Perhaps
due to the struggle and confusion of keeping up it appears that the bombardier dropped the bomb
load at the IP. To avoid a concentration of flak to the west of Bremen, the formation made a planned
turn to the left and headed directly south before again changing course due west toward England.
Now lagging dangerously behind and below the main formation, the pilot and his crew struggled on.
Twenty minutes after the target, the Luftwaffe arrived. This was the only B-17 out of formation and \
flying somewhere between 23,000 and 26,000ft. Down below, the overcast reached up to about 7,000ft.
The pilot knew that if he could reach that overcast, they might just make it. The surviving crew stated
the attacking aircraft were Bf 109s and Ju 88s. The Ju 88s were likely night fighters of I/NJG2 that were
also tasked with attacking B-17s in daylight. Somewhere during that time, the control cables in the
left waist area were cut and an exploding 20mm shell wounded the radio operator. They were hit
again and the interphone was shot out. By this time they were at 1,000ft altitude. Four crewmen
bailed out. The bomber probably crashed in Ijsselmer, near Urk, Netherlands. {9 missions}, MACR 1556
30678 (MSN 5792) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 10Jul43. North Atlantic
Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 28Jul43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 6Aug43. Topeka Field, KS 12Aug43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 17Aug43. 366th Bomb Squadron [KY*B],
305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 6Sep43. Failed to return from a mission
to the industrial area at Stuttgart, Germany 25Feb44 (7POW:3KIA). The aircraft was leading a group.
After being struck by flak prior to the target, the pilot was unable to keep up with enough speed to
lead and called his deputy and told him that he was going to join a lower group. When last seen,
the plane was still under control and seemed to be heading for Switzerland. The crew bailed out
before the bomber crashed at Neresheim, east of Stuttgart, Germany.
30679 (MSN 5793) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 10Jul43. Las Vegas
Field, NV 3Aug43. Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing
equipment; designated TB-17F. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine),
Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 23Nov44. Damaged while parked by TB-17F 42-5973 taxying at
Hendricks 7Dec44. Damaged taxying at Hendricks 6Feb45. Damaged landing at Hendricks 18Jul45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 27Sep45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
30680 (MSN 5794) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Jul43.
Moses Lake Field, WA 29Jul43. 4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command),
Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 19Feb45. 327th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Drew Field,
Tampa, FL 22Apr45. Damaged in collision with parked C-47A 43-48090 taxying at Barksdale Field,
Bossier City, LA 2Jul45. 301st Base Unit (Separation Station), Drew Field, Tampa, FL 23Sep45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 29Oct45.
30681 (MSN 5795) Accepted by USAAF 8Jul43. Cold Weather Testing Detachment, Ladd Field, Fairbanks, AK 9Sep43.
Crash landed on the tundra 14 miles southeast Ruby, AK 25Sep43 (1KIA), crashed after a mission
against the Japanese in the Aleutians. Until 1986, this B-17 remained in situ. In 1996, located by
Gary Larkins who salvaged the tail and fuselage. The recovered wreckage was initially stored in
Fairbanks. Later, Tillamook Air Museum acquired the fuselage. Artic Warbirds at Fairbanks-
Bradley Field, acquired wings and other components. Used in the rebuild of My Gal Sal, 41-9032.
The aft fuselage will be used to rebuild 44-83387 at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans
30682 (MSN 5796) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 10Jul43. 5th Ferrying Group,
Love Field, Dallas, TX 1Aug43. Las Vegas Field, NV 3Aug43. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 30Jul44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 27Sep45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30683 (MSN 5797) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 12Jul43. Las Vegas
Field, NV 1Aug43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 14Dec43.
2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 11Nov44.
Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated
TB-17F. Damaged in ground collision with B-17F 42-29762 landing at Hendricks 26Jun45. Reclaimed 3Jan46
30684 ((MSN 5798) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 10Jul43. 5th Ferrying
Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 1Aug43. Las Vegas Field, NV 2Aug43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field,
Oklahoma City, OK 20Dec43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 16Sep43.
3010th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 2Dec44.
Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F.
36th Flying Training Wing, Williams Field, Chandler, AZ. Damaged landing at Williams 17Feb45.
3020th Base Unit (Pilot School, Advanced, Two Engine), La Junta Field, CO 10Jun45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 3Aug45.
30685 (MSN 5799) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Jul43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 26Jul43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 2Aug43.
614th Bomb Squadron, 401st Bomb Group, Glasgow Field, MT 8Aug43. 543rd Bomb Squadron,
388th Bomb Group, Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 16Sep43. Wendover Field, UT 22Jan44. MacDill Field,
Tampa, FL 4Feb44. 328th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Gulfport Field, MS 8Jul44.
Damaged landing with mechanical failure at Gulfport Field 26Sep44. Damaged landing at
Gulfport Field 24Jan45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM
for storage and disposal 19Jun45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped.
30686 (MSN 5800) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Jul43.
503rd Bomb Squadron, 346th Bomb Group, Dyersburg Field, TN 27Jul43. Damaged landing when
the undercarriage collapsed at Dyersburg Field 31Jul43. Salvaged 25Sep43
30687 (MSN 5801) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Jul43.
Toppenish, Yakima, WA 27Jul43. Pendleton Field, OR 30Jul43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 10Aug43.
542nd Bomb Squadron, 383rd Bomb Group, Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 23Oct43. 223rd Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN. Damaged taxying at Dyersburg 20Jul44.
330th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN 1Mar45. 325th Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Avon Park Field, FL 14May45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 2Jun45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped
30688 (MSN 5802) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Jul43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 30Jul43. Redmond Field, OR 15Aug43. 335th Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Dale Mabry Field, Tallahassee, FL 9Nov44. 325th Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Avon Park Field, FL 12Nov45. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized,
Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 10May45. 325th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training
Station), Avon Park Field, FL 23May45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK
for storage and disposal 24Aug45
30689 (MSN 5803) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Jul43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 22Jul43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 1Aug43. Ferried on the North Atlantic
route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 6/7Aug43. Twelfth Air Force,
North Africa. 416th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 28Aug43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. 97th Bomb Group, Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 14Nov43. Foggia
Main, Italy 15Dec43. San Giovanni, Cerignola, Italy 20Dec43. Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44.
Condemned 31Mar44. Repaired. El Aouina, Tunis, Tunisia. Modified to transport supplies to
partisans and engaged in night time special operations missions supporting partisans and
parachuting Allied agents into enemy territory. Ball turret removed, engine exhaust flame
dampeners fitted and the aircraft painted black. 885th Bomb Squadron, 68th Reconnaissance Group,
Blida, Algeria Apr44. Maison Blanche, Algiers, Algeria Aug44. {first special mission 1Sep44}.
Brindisi, Italy Oct44. 885th Bomb Squadron, 15th Special Group (Provisional), 18Jan45.
Rosignano, Italy Mar45. Pomigliano, Italy May45. {31 missions}. Salvaged 24May45
30690 (MSN 5804) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Jul43.
502nd Bomb Squadron, 346th Bomb Group, Dyersburg Field, TN 27Jul43. Crashed between
Palmersville and Latham, TN 5Sep43 (8KIS::1DOI:1RTD). The bomber was en route to a
rendezvous point for a mission in Gulfport, Mississippi. At 8,000ft the flight indicator
went out and the pilot had considerable difficulty in flying the airplane under instrument
conditions. It appeared as though, after getting into the clear, the pilot continued to
climb and went into the overcast again trying to reach 20,000ft, though the bombardier
states the airplane exceeded the maximum safe operation conditions which placed a great
strain on the airplane. It is believed because of the statements of the co-pilot and bombardier
concerning this attitude of flight and the loss of control surface that the airplane went out
of control and into a spin, thereby disintegrating and crashing. The co-pilot noticed excessive
cylinder head temperatures on engines No.1, 3 and 4, and opened the cowl flaps. Then there
was a explosion that jolted the plane and it went off into a spiral to the right. The plane
levelled off but immediately it went off to the left in a spin. Then after a few seconds of being tossed
around, the fuselage broke right at the top turret. Salvaged 30Sep43.
30691 (MSN 5805) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Jul43.
Dalhart Field, TX 28Jul43. 243rd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Great Bend Field, KS 19Sep44.
3502nd Base Unit (Technical School), Chanute Field, Rantoul, IL 13Feb45. Reclaimed 20Aug46
30692 (MSN 5806) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Jul43.
Pyote Field, TX 1Aug43. 19th Bomb Group, Pyote Field, TX 9Nov43. 500th Bomb Group, Walker Field,
Victoria, KS 25Jul44. 248th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Walker Field, Victoria, KS 20Aug44.
3505th Base Unit (Technical School), Scott Field, Belleville, IL 16Oct44. 248th Base Unit (Operational
Training Unit), Walker Field, Victoria, KS 22Nov44. 2132nd Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized,
Very Heavy), Maxwell Field, Montgomery, AL 11Apr45. 884th Bomb Squadron, 383rd Bomb Group,
Walker Field, Victoria, KS. Damaged taxying at Walker 16Apr45. 4180th Base Unit, Walker Field,
Victoria, KS 1Oct45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage
and disposal 7Oct45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company,
Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30693 (MSN 5807) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 10Jul43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 28Jul43. Spokane Field, WA 4Aug43. Walla Walla
Field, WA, 8Dec43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 5Jan44.
Radar modifications. Materiel Command, Lockheed Field, Burbank, CA 24Jun44. 3701st Base Unit
(Technical School), Amarillo Field, TX 23Jul44. 3706th Base Unit, Basic Training Center, Sheppard
Field, Wichita Falls, TX 12May44. 3701st Base Unit (Technical School), Amarillo Field, TX 1Nov45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 5Jan46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30694 (MSN 5808) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Jul43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 28Jul43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 29Jul43.
Cut Bank Field, MT 2Aug43. Combat Crew Training Squadron, 393rd Bomb Group, Sioux City AAB, IA.
Crashed due fire after the crew bailed out 10 miles north of Onida, SD 22Jan44. Salvaged 24Jan44
30695 (MSN 5809) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Jul43.
Toppenish, Yakima, WA 27Jul43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 28Jul43. Pendleton Field, OR 29Jul43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 10Aug43. 541st Bomb Squadron, 383rd Bomb Group, Geiger Field,
Spokane, WA 27Oct43. 245th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), McCook Field, NB 1Jun44.
221st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA 7Nov44. 329th Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA 1Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 9Oct45.
30696 (MSN 5810) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Jul43.
Dyersburg Field, TN 29Jul43. Galveston Field, TX 12Aug43. Dalhart Field, TX 13Aug43. 9th Bomb
Group, McCook Field, NB 6Jun44. 245th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), McCook
Field, NB 16Sep44. 3705th Base Unit (Technical School), Lowry Field, Denver, CO 16Oct44.
Salvaged 6Nov44. 3098th Base Unit, Lockheed Field, Burbank, CA 28Feb45. Reclaimed 13Feb46
30697 (MSN 5811) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Jul43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 14Jul43. 503rd Bomb Squadron, 346th Bomb Group,
Dyersburg Field, TN 30Jul43. Crashed after structural failure, exploded and burned at Fields School
Road, five miles southeast of McKenzie, TN 9Aug43 (8KIS).)
30698 (MSN 5812) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Jul43.
Moses Lake Field, WA 29Jul43. 327th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Drew Field, Tampa, FL 15Jul44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 17Aug45..
30699 (MSN 5813) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Jul43.
346th Bomb Group, Dyersburg Field, TN 28Jul43. Damaged landing at Dyersburg 24Dec43.
223rd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN. Damaged while parked
in collision by B-17G 42-40045 taxying at Dyersburg 18Jul44. Salvaged
30700 (MSN 5814) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Jul43.
Moses Lake Field, WA 29Jul43. 245th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), McCook Field, NB 3Jun44.
224th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Sioux City AAB, IA 6Mar45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 25Jun45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped
30701 (MSN 5815) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Jul43.
Moses Lake Field, WA 29Jul43. 593rd Bomb Squadron, 396th Bomb Group, Drew Field, Tampa, FL.
Damaged by ‘friendly fire’ at Drew Field 4Jan44. 327th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Drew Field, Tampa, FL 4May45. Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and
bombing equipment; designated TB-17F. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Searcey Field,
Stillwater, OK for storage and disposal 11Aug45. War Assets Corporation. Sold to Paul Mantz 19Feb46; scrapped
30702 (MSN 5816) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Jul43.
Moses Lake Field, WA 29Jul43. Replacement Training Unit, Drew Field, Tampa, FL. Damaged landing
at Drew Field 2Jun44. 2142nd Base Unit, Shaw Field, Sumter, SC 29Oct44. 323rd Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Drew Field, Tampa, FL. 327th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Drew Field,
Tampa, FL 11Nov44. Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment;
designated TB-17F. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Searcey Field, Stillwater, OK for
storage and disposal 7Aug45. War Assets Corporation. Sold to Paul Mantz 19Feb46; scrapped
30703 (MSN 5817) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Jul43.
93rd Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group, Pyote Field, TX 1Aug43. Substantially damaged when
crash landed at Pyote Field 31Aug43. 93rd Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group, Pyote Field, TX
11Nov43. 235th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Biggs Field, El Paso, TX 16Aug44.
233rd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Davis-Monthan Field, Tucson, AZ 12Nov44.
235th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Biggs Field, El Paso, TX 14Nov44.
202nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Galveston Field, TX 28Jan45. 283rd Base Unit
(Gunnery Station), Galveston Field, TX 30Mar45. 209th Base Unit (Special), Peterson Field,
Colorado Springs, CO 28Apr45. Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Searcey Field,
Stillwater, OK for storage and disposal 11Aug45. War Assets Corporation. Sold to Paul Mantz 19Feb46; scrapped.
30704 (MSN 5818) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 15Jul43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 10Aug43. Pendleton Field, OR 12Aug43. Ferried Meeks
Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 8Sep43. 422nd Bomb
Squadron [JJ*M], 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 18Sep43
Named "Dinah Mite". Experimented in night bombing alongside the RAF and
operated night leaflet and propaganda missions. Undersides painted black for night operations.
Suffered severe battle damage on a night leaflet and propaganda mission over France and
Belgium 15May44 (1KIA:3WIA:6RTD). The bomber was attacked by two Ju 88 enemy night fighters,
killing the ball turret gunner. The radio operator and both waist gunners were seriously wounded.
Cannon shells had punctured the fuselage, damaged a propeller, nearly severed the right wing main
spar. {81 missions}. Salvaged at Chelveston 17May44 and remained as a spares source..
30705 (MSN 5819) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 15Jul43.
Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 16Jul43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 6Aug43.
Topeka Field, KS 12Aug43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 17Aug43. Ferried from Prestwick, Scotland to Marrakech,
French Morocco 29/30Aug43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 347th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group,
Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 31Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Transferred to
414th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 14Nov43. Named "Ther-N-Bak".
Failed to return from a mission to bomb a railway marshalling yard at Rimini, Italy 27Nov43 (8KIA:2POW).
A few minutes before nearing the target the formation encountered heavy overcast, parts of which were
broken and towering. An engine lost power and the plane was forced to leave its position in the flight and
jettison the bombs. This plane had difficulty in keeping up, but soon the group flew over a town heading
out to sea. The circle which the group was making out to sea was in order to get a good run on target.
The pilot cut the corner to catch up with the group. As the plane approached land, slightly ahead of the
more rapidly moving group coming in, the pilot made a short turn to the left and went into a nearby
overcast. About this time, still in the overcast, and as it broke out, the No.3 engine began to lose power,
slowing the speed even more. About this time, about twenty-five Bf 109 German fighter aircraft were
coming in to attack. The first burst of fighter fire raked the B-17, apparently from the tail to the nose.
The engineer/top turret gunner died instantly. Soon the No.2 engine and the entire left wing were on fire.
The crew were starting to bail out as the plane exploded. The two survivors, right waist gunner and co-pilot,
were knocked unconscious and ejected by the explosion. The plane crashed near Apecchio, SSW of Rimini, Italy
MACR 1303.
30706 (MSN 5820) Accepted by USAAF 13Jul43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 15Jul43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 23Jul43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 8Aug43.
Topeka Field, KS 13Aug43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 17Aug43.
367th Bomb Squadron [GY*W], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 25Aug43.
Base Air Depot No.2, Warton (Station 582), Lancashire; repair by Mobile Repair Unit 1Oct43. Regained by
Group 10Oct43. 367th Bomb Squadron [GY*Q] Oct43. Failed to return from a mission to the port area at
Bremen, Germany 20Dec43 (6POW:4KIA). Attacked by a large force of enemy fighters and flak over the
target area was very intense. The plane dropped out of formation with a wounded bombardier
Shot down by Lt Karl-Heinz Kempf in Bf 109G-6 of JG 26/11 near
Marx, Germany Dec 20, 1943. . Crashed Frischenmoor, fifteen miles northeast of
Oldenburg, Germany. MACR 1701.
30707 (MSN 5821) Accepted by USAAF 13Jul43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver
Municipal Airport, CO 15Jul43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 27Jul43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 8Aug43.
Topeka Field, KS 13Aug43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 17Aug43. 368th Bomb Squadron [BO*B],
306th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 25Aug43. Named "Piccadilly Commando II"
Failed to return from a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43 (1KIA:2MIA:7POW – 369BS crew).
Crossing the Dutch coast, the formation passed through an area of heavy and accurate flak.
The No.3 engine was struck and losing oil; it was still producing power and kept running. En route
to the target area, the bomber formation was repeatedly attacked by a large number of Luftwaffe fighters
but this plane was not damaged. Then the formation flew through another heavy barrage of flak and
dozens of holes appeared throughout the plane. The tail gunner was wounded. Then a direct hit struck
the nose section killing the navigator and bombardier. Shot down by Lt Sommer in Bf 110G-2 of ZG 1/2
at Langenbergheim, near Hanau am Main, Germany. The plane was circling slowly to the left
with the rear of the Group formation now disappearing in the distance. Another cannon shell destroyed
the oxygen system. By now severely damaged, the pilot ordered the crew to bail out. The radio operator
had been killed in the attacks, the remaining crew bailed out but the bombardier and navigator were never found.
On fire, the bomber exploded and crashed southeast of Hanau, east of Frankfurt, Germany, MACR 816
30708 (MSN 5822) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 15Jul43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 16Jul43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 8Aug43. Topeka Field, KS 14Aug43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 17Aug43. 407th Bomb Squadron [PY*L],
92nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire 31Aug43. Failed to return from a mission
to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43 (3KIA:7POW). En route to the target area,
the bomber formation was repeatedly attacked by a large number of Luftwaffe fighters. After the target,
the Group turned and headed westward for England. German fighters, having landed and refueled,
attacked again. Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed near Würzburg, Germany. MACR 845
30709 (MSN 5823) Accepted by USAAF 13Jul43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver
Municipal Airport, CO 15Jul43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 16Jul43. Operational
Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 24Jul43. Walla Walla
Field, WA 1Aug43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 11Aug43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME 16Aug43. 563rd Bomb Squadron [Y], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136),
Suffolk 20Aug43. {first combat mission 27Sep43}. {1 mission}. 339th Bomb Squadron [QJ*P],
96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk Oct43. Failed to return from a mission
to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43 (10POW). En route to the target area,
the bomber formation was repeatedly attacked by a large number of Luftwaffe fighters. After the target,
the Group turned and headed westward for England. German fighters, having landed and refueled,
attacked again. Shot down by enemy fighters, crash landed Ingwiller, twenty-two miles northwest
of Strasbourg, France. MACR 836
30710 (MSN 5824) Accepted by USAAF 13Jul43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver
Municipal Airport, CO 15Jul43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 25Jul43. Walla Walla Field, WA 1Aug43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 9Aug43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 17Aug43. 423rd Bomb Squadron [RD*I],
306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 6Sep43. Failed to return from a mission to the ball
bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43 (5KIA:5POW). En route to the target area, the bomber
formation was repeatedly attacked by a large number of Luftwaffe fighters. Attacked by enemy fighters
ten minutes before turning on the bomb run. The plane was hit, on fire and still under attack when the
pilot ordered the crew to bail out; five were still aboard when the bomber exploded. Crashed Friedburg,
near Nieder-Florstadt, fifteen miles north of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. 4 KIA, 6 POW
(1 died of injuries). MACR 818
30711 (MSN 5825) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 16Jul43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 28Jul43. 353rd Air Base Detachment, Watertown
Field, SD 31Jul43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 3Aug43. Topeka Field, KS 12Aug43.
Scott Field, Belleville, IL 13Aug43. 407th Bomb Squadron [PY*H], 92nd Bomb Group, Alconbury
(Station 102), Huntingdonshire 31Aug43. Named "Fertile Turtle Myrtle"
Failed to return from a mission to the industrial area at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 29Jan44 (8KIA:2POW).
Shot down by Lt. Friedrich Lange in FW-190A-6 of JG 26/6 and
crashed Le Noiriez, near Genech, ten miles southeast of Lille, France. MACR 2253
30712 (MSN 5826) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 16Jul43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 7Aug43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 9Aug43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 12Aug43. Redmond Field, OR 15Aug43. 323rd Bomb Squadron [OR*O:OR*R],
91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 27Sep43. Named *Miss Minookie*– artwork
of a topless grass-skirted girl castaway. Painted by Tony Starcer {first combat mission 8Oct43}.
Battle damaged on a mission to a railway marshalling yard at Gelsenkirchen, Germany 5Nov43 (1WIA:9RTD).
Intense but inaccurate flak was encountered over the target, the bombardier was wounded by a flak fragment.
Failed to return from a mission to airfields in northern Germany 21Feb44 (4KIA:6POW). En route to the target
and flying over the North Sea, the spare element was lagging well behind the main body of the Group formation.
About midway across the sea, the spare element was attacked by four Bf 109 fighters. Poor weather conditions
over the primary target forced the formation to hit an alternate target, a Luftwaffe airfield at Achmer, Bramsche,
Germany. There was considerable opposition by German fighters and flak. The bomber was last seen near
Minden, about a mile behind and to the left of the formation. The Combat Wing had just made a sharp turn to
the right but, in error, the spare element led by this plane turned left leaving them highly exposed. German fighters
lost no time in heading in to attack, killing and fatally wounding four of the gunners. Crashed two miles south
of Lüchtringen, due east of Höxter, Germany. {23 missions}. MACR 2461.
30713 (MSN 5827) Accepted by USAAF 14Jul43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 17Jul43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 10Aug43. 568th Bomb Squadron [BI*E], 390th Bomb Group,
Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 25Aug43. Named *Phyllis Marie*. The tail gun position had
the inscription ‘A Kiss In The Ass’; Staff-Sergeant Louis Kiss was the tail gunner. Failed to return from a mission
to the Vereinigte Kugellagerfabriken AG (VKF) ball bearing factory at Erkner, Berlin, Germany 8Mar44 (10POW).
All the way from the Netherlands to Berlin, the bombers were hounded by Luftwaffe fighters. Before reaching
the target, the plane had been lagging behind the group and was attacked by enemy aircraft. Engine No.3 caught
fire and the pilot lowered the landing gear. It was last seen with four engines running, losing altitude and being
circled by two enemy fighters. Some of the crew bailed out before the pilot force landed at Werben, 11km northwest
of Cottbus, Germany. {38 missions}. MACR 2987. The aircraft was repaired and operated by Luftwaffe KG 200 [code A3+EK].
Found intact in Bavaria May 4, 1945.
30714 (MSN 5828) Accepted by USAAF 14Jul43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 16Jul43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island
Field, NB 8Aug43. 423rd Bomb Squadron [RD*S], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 25Aug43
Named "Hustling Sue"– artwork of a reclining naked lady. Seriously battle damaged during a mission to an
aircraft factory at Bremen, Germany 8Oct43. The formation was met with stiff resistance by German fighters
and flak crews on the ground the entire way, from the Dutch coast all the way into the German heartland,
and back again. In addition, a large force of German fighters launched vicious attacks against the planes.
Over the target, the formation encountered intense flak. Bulkhead 7A, Station 6B, pilots windshields,
No.3 fuel feeder tank and left outer wing struck by flak. Seriously battle damaged during a mission
to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43. En route to the target area, the bomber
formation was repeatedly attacked by a large number of Luftwaffe fighters. After the target, the Group
turned and headed westward for England. German fighters, having landed and refueled, attacked again
until, finally, the bombers reached the coastline of western Europe and relative safety. Both wings,
horizontal stabilisers, left No.9 Tokyo fuel tank, tail compartment, No.2 engine nacelle and left rear
fuselage all struck by flak. Crashed during assembly for a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical works at
Leverkusen, Germany 1Dec43 (1KIA:9RTD). The plane encountered a developing thunderhead over England
which forced the crew to bail out near Lasham. It crashed at College Farm, near Lasham, Hampshire. Salvaged
No MACR. One killed when parachute did not open.
30715 (MSN 5829) Accepted by USAAF 14Jul43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 17Jul43. 390th Bomb Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT Jul43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 8Aug43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 28Aug43. Redmond Field, OR 15Aug43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 3Sep43. Unscheduled stop at Springfield, MA 3Sep43.
Ferried RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador to Bluie West One, Narsarsuaq, Greenland, to Meeks Field, Keflavik,
Iceland, to Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 3-12Sep43.
569th Bomb Squadron [CC*Y], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 12Sep43
Named "Cincinnati Queen/Blues In The Night". {first combat mission 27Sep43}.
Battle damaged on a mission to the Messerschmitt factory at Augsburg, Germany 13Apr44 (1WIA:9RTD);
a wasit gunner was wounded. Accident on a mission to the railway marshalling yards at Liège,
Belgium 11May44 (1KIA). A gunner was killed by ‘friendly fire’ when other aircraft were testing guns en
route to the target. Failed to return from a mission to motor industry targets in Berlin,
Germany 21Jun44 (1MIA:9RTD). Mechanical failure and ditched. {44 missions}.
30716 (MSN 5830) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 16Jul43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 26Jul43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 27Jul43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 9Aug43. Topeka Field, KS 13Aug43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 17Aug43.
407th Bomb Squadron [PY*G], 92nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire 2Sep43.
On ferry trip from Podington with fourteen ground crew for repair duties on an aircraft which had
crash landed at RAF Barford St John, the aircraft stalled on approach and crash landed at
RAF Barford St John, Oxfordshire 28Jan44. Salvaged after non battle damage 30Jan44
30717 (MSN 5831) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 16Jul43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 27Jul43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 14Aug43.
548th Bomb Squadron [GX*D], 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 25Aug43.,
Named 'Man O' War'. Man O' War was an American Thoroughbred racehorse widely
regarded as one of the greatest racehorses of all time Mid-air collision with B-17G 42-39860 ‘War Cry’
(385th Bomb Group). ‘War Cry’ had over shot its position below ‘Man O'War’, and ‘War Cry’s’ tail section
collided wilh ‘Man O'War’ and knocked off six feet of its left wing. ‘Man O' War’ went down in a tight
spin and crashed near Ahlhorn airfield, near Oldenburg, Germany. 39860
ditched in North Sea on return. MACR 1402
30718 (MSN 5832) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 16Jul43.
Sioux City AAB, IA 30Jul43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 3Aug43. Topeka Field, KS 14Aug43.
Scott Field, Belleville, IL 17Aug43. Assigned Eighth Air Force, England 2Sep43. Departed RCAF Gander, Newfoundland
en route to England, crash landed Prestwick, Scotland 7Sep43. Salvaged 8Sep43
30719 (MSN 5833) Accepted by USAAF 15Jul43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver
Municipal Airport, CO 17Jul43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 27Jul43.
Scott Field, Belleville, IL 14Aug43. 569th Bomb Squadron [CC*P], 390th Bomb Group,
Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 25Aug43. Named "Shatzi". (first combat mission 7Sep43).
Failed to return from a mission to the industrial area of Düren, Germany 20Oct43 (2KIA:7POW:1EVD).
After the bomb run, the plane was attacked by enemy fighters as the formation was nearing the city of Tilburg
in the Netherlands. The pilot was forced to engage in violent evasive maneuvers in an attempt to shake
off the attackers. The aircraft broke in half and crashed at Eerde, near Veghel, Netherlands. {9 missions}
Credited to Uffz Zinkl in Fw 190A of JG 1/6. MACR 1039
30720 (MSN 5834) Accepted by USAAF 17Jul43. Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field,
Dallas, TX 17Jul43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 18Jul43. 5th Ferrying Group,
Love Field, Dallas, TX 21Jul43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 8Aug43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 10Aug43. 526th Bomb Squadron [LF*O],
379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 19Oct43. Named
"Nine Yanks and a Rebel". . Battle damaged on a mission to the AGO-Flugzeugwerke Fw 190
manufacturing factory at Oschersleben, Germany 11Jan44. While the aircraft were airborne, the weather
closed in over English bases and a recall signal was issued. B/Gen. Robert F. Travis, Air Commander of
the 1st Bomb Division, continued on to the target. This left the 1st Bomb Division with greater exposure
to enemy fighter attacks. Good fighter support was provided by P-47 Thunderbolts on the penetration
and by P-51 Mustangs over the target. P-47s were airborne to provide withdrawal support but they
obeyed the recall order to return to England and left the bombers to fend for themselves on the return trip.
Luftwaffe attacks started over the IJsselmeer and intensified when the American fighters returned home.
Meagre and fairly accurate flak was experienced on the bomb run, with intermittent inaccurate flak
on the return trip. A rocket severely damaged the left horizontal stabiliser. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 2May44.
Assigned Eighth Air Force, England. Service Command 7Jun44. Returned to US. 4136th Base Unit, 3Jul44.
610th Base Unit (Proving Ground Command), Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 23Feb45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 5Jan46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
30721 ((MSN 5835) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 19Jul43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 11Aug43.
482nd Bomb Group 31Aug43. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 2Sep43. 533rd Bomb Squadron [VP*T], 381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 20Sep43
Named "Sweet and Lovely" 448th Sub-Depot, Air Service Command, Ridgewell Jan44 for
repair to major damage to the right wing. {28 missions}. Eighth Air Force Fighter Command 25Apr44.
Radio relay aircraft, painted with red and white stripes on the rear fuselage; operated by 533rd Bomb Squadron,
381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell. Damaged taxying at Ridgewell 10Jun44. 610th Bomb Squadron,
398th Bomb Group, Nuthampstead (Station 131), Hertfordshire 15Nov44. 435th Air Service Group 3Jun45.
Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 12Jul45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 4Oct45
30722 (MSN 5836) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 19Jul43. Operational
Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 16Aug43.
482nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire 31Aug43. 534th Bomb Squadron [GD*G],
381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 20Sep43. Named "Bobby T". Failed to return
from a mission to the Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau Aktiengesellschaft (Deschimag) shipyard at
Bremen, Germany 8Oct43 (10POW). The formation was met with stiff resistance by German fighters and
flak crews on the ground the entire way, from the Dutch coast all the way into the German heartland.
In addition, a large force of German fighters launched vicious attacks against the planes. Over the target,
the formation encountered intense flak. Shot down by Obfw Rolf Mondry in Fw 190 of Ind St Focke Wulf fighter at
Intschede, Germany and crashed west of Bremen, Germany. {1 mission}. . MACR 1398.
30723 (MSN 5837) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 17Jul43. Geiger Field,
Spokane, WA 8Aug43. Pendleton Field, OR 22Aug43. 351st Bomb Squadron [EP*D], 100th Bomb Group 31Aug43.
Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 8Sep43. 100th Bomb Group,
Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk Sep43. Named "Holy Terror" then "Sexy Suzy Mother of Ten".
Failed to return from a mission to railway installations at Münster, Germany 10Oct43 (6KIA:4POW).
As they approached the city, the formation was swarmed by a large force of enemy aircraft for an estimated
forty-five minutes of vicious fighting. By the time their friendly fighter escorts arrived to drive off the Luftwaffe,
the damage had already been done. One Bf 109 collided with B-17F 42-30723. The collision occurred on the
aircraft’s left wing with flames erupting throughout the plane. The bail out order was given and 4 crew escaped,
the plane exploded in mid-air after going into a steep spiral, killing six crew. Exploded and crashed in
Vinneberger Forest, Ostberven near the Dormund-Ems canal, Germany. MACR 1027.
30724 (MSN 5838) Accepted by USAAF 15Jul43. Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field,
Dallas, TX 17Jul43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 8Aug43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME 17Aug43. 364th Bomb Squadron [WF*D], 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105),
Northamptonshire 31Aug43. Named "Devastating Dottie". Failed to return from a mission
to the shipyard and industrial area at Kiel, Germany 5Jan44 (9POW:1KIA). Shot down by enemy fighters,
crashed Cuxhaven, Germany. MACR 1685
30725 (MSN 5839) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 17Jul43.
5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 7Aug43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 8Aug43.
Pendleton Field, OR 12Aug43. 359th Bomb Squadron [LN*Z], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe A
bbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 3Sep43. Named "Aw-r-go". Failed to return from a mission to
railway installations at Münster, Germany 10Oct43 (8POW:2KIA). As they approached the city,
the formation was swarmed by a large force of enemy aircraft for an estimated forty-five minutes
of vicious fighting. By the time their friendly fighter escorts arrived to drive off the Luftwaffe, the
damage had already been done. Shot down by Fw 190A of JG 1 and crashed at
Lienen, fifteen miles northeast of Münster, Germany. MACR 1028.
30726 (MSN 5840) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 19Jul43. Dalhart
Field, TX 17Aug43. 407th Bomb Squadron [PY*X], 92nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102),
Huntingdonshire 16Sep43. Failed to return from a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt,
Germany 14Oct43 (6KIA:4POW). En route to the target area, the bomber formation was repeatedly attacked
by a large number of Luftwaffe fighters. After the target, the Group turned and headed westward for England.
German fighters, having landed and refueled, attacked again. Shot down by Fw Joachim Gutmann in
Bf 110G-2 of ZG 26/8 and crashed at Kembach, fifteen miles west of Würzburg, Germany
MACR 846
30727 (MSN 5841) Accepted by USAAF 16Jul43. Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field,
Dallas, TX 19Jul43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 10Aug43. 367th Bomb Squadron [GY*Z], 306th Bomb Group,
Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 2Sep43. Named "Fightin Bitin". Failed to return from a
mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43 (5KIA:5POW). En route to the target in
the Frankfurt area the bomber came under heavy attack by German fighters with 20mm shells and rockets.
Its speed slowed and dropped out of the formation. The No.1 engine started to burn and the plane received
several 20mm hits in the nose, injuring the bombardier. The No.2 engine was damaged and the rudder
didn’t react; it had been hit by a rocket. The pilot give the order to bail out and seconds later the bomber
broke in half. The tail section crashed in a field and the front fuselage started a fire in a small wood at
Knollenberg, near the village of Höhefeld, fifteen miles west of Würzburg, Germany. Claimed by Fw Emil
Schmelzinger in BF 109G-6 of JG 11/9 MACR 817.
30728 (MSN 5842) Accepted by USAAF 16Jul43. Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 19Jul43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 11Aug43.
367th Bomb Squadron [GY*S], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 2Sep43. Seriously
battle damaged during a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43. En route to
the target area, the bomber formation was repeatedly attacked by a large number of Luftwaffe fighters. After the target,
the Group turned and headed westward for England. German fighters, having landed and refueled,
attacked again until, finally, the bombers reached the coastline of western Europe and relative safety.
An explosive shell struck the No.2 engine nacelle and left inner wing. Eighth Air Force Service Command 14Oct43.
2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little Staughton (Station 127), Bedfordshire 16Oct43. Regained by Group.
Seriously battle damaged during a mission to the port area at Kiel, Germany 13Dec43. Left inner wing
struck by flak. Battle damaged on a mission to the Junkers aircraft factory at Halberstadt, Germany 11Jan44.
An enemy fighter attack after the target struck causing severe damage. On return, force landed at Deopham
Green (Station 142), Norfolk. 368th Bomb Squadron [BO*S]. Failed to return from a mission to the Messerschmitt
aircraft factory at Augsburg, Germany 25Feb44 (4KIA:6POW). En route to the target, over Charleville, France,
enemy fighters began attacking the formation. About ten minutes after the attack began, several fighters
focused on this B-17; it was hit hard. The pilot gave the order to bail out when the No.4 engine burst into flames.
Only six of the ten crew members managed to bail out before the bomber exploded in mid-air. Crashed
Hannogne-Saint-Martin, six miles southwest of Sedan, France. MACR 2769
30729 (MSN 5843) Accepted by USAAF 16Jul43. Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field,
Dallas, TX 20Jul43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand
Island Field, NB 15Aug43. Pathfinder Force [PFF] aircraft. HSC radar scanner installed. 813th Bomb Squadron [PC*V],
482nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire 5Sep43. 367th Bomb Squadron [GY*B],
306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 2May44. Declared ‘war weary’. Departed Thurleigh
on transfer to 486th Bomb Group, Sudbury (Station 174), Suffolk 16Jul44. Salvaged 29Jun45
30730 (MSN 5844) Accepted by USAAF 16Jul43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 19Jul43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 9Aug32. Walla Walla Field, WA 11Aug43. Redmond Field, OR 15Aug43.
Ferried RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Machrihanish, Scotland 12/13Sep43. 369th Bomb Squadron [WW*B],
306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 20Sep43. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little Staughton
(Station 127), Bedfordshire 27Sep43. Regained by Group 28Sep43. Eighth Air Force Service Command 9Oct43.
Regained by Group 4Nov43. Named "Dearly Beloved". Battle damaged by enemy fighters
on a mission to the Junkers aircraft factory at Halberstadt, Germany 11Jan44 (1WIA:9RTD). An enemy fighter
attack after the target struck causing severe damage to the nose compartment. On return, crash landed at
Horsham St Faith (Station 123), Norwich, Norfolk. Mobile Repair Unit, 2nd Strategic Air Depot,
Little Staughton (Station 127), Bedfordshire 6Feb44. Regained by Group 21Feb44. Failed to return from a
mission to the Dornier Flugzeugwerke factory at Oberpfaffenhofen, Munich, Germany 24Apr44 (10POW).
Enemy aircraft damaged No.3 and No.4 engines followed by fire. The crew bailed out and the plane crashed
near Augsburg, Germany. MACR 4278
30731 (MSN 5845) Accepted by USAAF 17Jul43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 20Jul43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 21Jul43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 14Aug43. Pathfinder Force [PFF] aircraft.
HSC radar scanner installed. 813th Bomb Squadron [PC*U], 482nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102),
Huntingdonshire 5Sep43. 562nd Bomb Squadron [U], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136),
Suffolk Nov43. {first combat mission 26Nov43}. {final combat mission 29Feb44}. {6 missions}.
751st Bomb Squadron, 457th Bomb Group, Glatton Mar44. Failed to return from a mission to the
Mitteldeutsche Motorenwerke aero engine factory at Taucha, Leipzig, Germany 7Jul44 (4KIA), ditched
in North Sea. Unable to transfer fuel from the ‘Tokyo’ fuel tanks, the aircraft had lost three engines and
the fourth was sputtering. The bomber left the formation and set direction toward Glatton. It was unable to
maintain altitude and within fifteen miles of England, over the North Sea, the pilot elected to ditch the plane
following standard procedures. The plane broke in half as it hit the water. Some of the crew managed to get a
life raft out before the plane sank. Four of the crew drowned and the other five were rescued by Air-Sea Rescue.
MACR 8195.
42-30732/30831 Boeing B-17F-120-BO Fortress
MSN 5846/5945. Dispositions from B-17 Fortress Master Log, Dave Osborne (FORTLOG)
Production changes: Modified life raft hatch and inspection window. A-3 oxygen flow meters. Provision
for revised bomb sight mount. D-16 fuel transfer pump. Emergency hydraulic brake system removed.
30732 (MSN 5846) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 21Jul43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 6Aug43. Pendleton Field, OR 7Aug43. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland
to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 2Sep43. Crash landed at Prestwick, Scotland 13Sep43.
534th Bomb Squadron [GD*B], 381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 26Sep43.
Named PISTOL PACKIN' MAMA. RAT POISON on tail turret with artwork of skull and crossbones.
{7 missions}. Accident on a ferry trip with personnel to 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little Staughton (Station 127),
Bedfordshire 3Feb44. Attempting to land at Little Staughton the plane lost the left landing gear in a rough landing and was
instructed to divert to Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire, where it crash landed safely. Salvaged
30733 (MSN 5847) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 20Jul43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 8Aug43. Dyersburg Field, TN 10Aug43. 326th Bomb Squadron,
92nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire 16Sep43. Failed to return from a mission
to the Luftwaffe air depot at Mérignac, Bordeaux, France 31Dec43 (6POW:4EVD). The target was covered
in solid cloud so the secondary target at Châteaubernard, Cognac, France was bombed. Damaged by flak,
crashed La Varenne, near La Bataille, twenty-two miles southeast Niort, France.
One evader joined the French resistance and was killed during an ambush Mar 1944.
30734 (MSN 5848) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 20Jul43.
Long Beach Field, CA 8Aug43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 10Aug43. Walla Walla Field, WA 12Aug43.
Redmond Field, OR 15Aug43. 351st Bomb Squadron [EP*G], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts
(Station 139), Norfolk 5Sep43. Named "Slightly Dangerous". Failed to return from a mission
to railway installations at Münster, Germany 10Oct43 (8POW:3KIA). As they approached the city,
the formation was swarmed by a large force of enemy aircraft for an estimated forty-five minutes of
vicious fighting. By the time their friendly fighter escorts arrived to drive off the Luftwaffe, the damage
had already been done. The bomber received a head-on attack by enemy aircraft. Almost simultaneously
there was a direct flak hit in the waist and both waist gunners killed or severely wounded.
Lost the right wing and exploded, crashed Walingen, near Havixbeck, six miles west of Münster, Germany
Claimed by Hptm. Walter Hoeckner in Fw 190A-6. MACR 1023.
30735 ((MSN 5849) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 20Jul43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 8Aug43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 13Aug43.
Redmond Field, OR 15Aug43. 327th Bomb Squadron [UX*P], 92nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102),
Huntingdonshire 26Sep43. .Named "Rough Group". Failed to return from a mission to the Luftwaffe air
depot at Mérignac, Bordeaux, France 31Dec43 (7POW:3EVD). The target was covered in solid cloud
so the secondary target at Châteaubernard, Cognac, France was bombed. Attacked just after target with
three engines knocked out, managed to crash land near La Rochelle, Franc. e. MACR 1670 and 1957.
30736 (MSN 5850) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 20Jul43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 8Aug43. Walla Walla Field, WA 11Aug43. Redmond Field, OR 15Aug43.
413th Bomb Squadron [MZ*A], 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 13Sep43.
Named "Paper Doll". Battle damaged on a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43.
En route to the target area, the bomber formation was repeatedly attacked by a large number of Luftwaffe
fighters. After the target, the Group turned and headed westward for England. German fighters,
having landed and refueled, attacked again until, finally, the bombers reached the coastline of
western Europe and relative safety. The pilot was killed by a cannon shell in the cockpit and the
co-pilot wounded. Flown back by the navigator and bombardier and landed safely at RAF Ford,
West Sussex. Salvaged 20Oct43. Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing),
Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 31Jul44
30737 (MSN 5851) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 21Jul43.
5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 23Jul43. Dyersburg Field, TN 9Aug43.
549th Bomb Squadron [XA*S], 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 3Sep43.
Named 'Ohio Air Force'. During a mission to a communication center at Münster,
Germany 22Dec43, the crew shot down 12 enemy fighters. Failed to return from a mission to
the industrial area at Augsburg, Germany 16Mar44 (8POW:2KIA). From Strasburg, Germany
to Augsburg, the bombers were attacked by Luftwaffe fighters in a running battle. Flak over
the target was moderate and accurate; flak en route was meagre and inaccurate. Returning,
the bomber were attacked between Nancy, France and the coast. Shot down by enemy fighters,
crashed St Quentin-sur-Coole, six miles south of Chalons-sur-Marne, France
30738 (MSN 5852) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21Jul43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 30Jul43. 325th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Avon Park
Field, FL 9Apr44. Accident landing at Avon Park Field 29Jun44. Reclaimed 9Jun45,
30739 (MSN 5853) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21Jul43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 30Jul43. Walla Walla Field, WA 31Jul43.
325th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Avon Park Field, FL. Severely damaged in
collision with parked Consolidated B-24J Liberator 42-50457 while taxying at Mitchel Field,
Hempstead, Long Island, NY 6Jun44. 110th Base Unit (Staging), Mitchel Field, Hempstead,
Long Island, NY 8Jun44. Salvaged 12Aug44
30740 (MSN 5854) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21Jul43.
232nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dalhart Field, TX 29Jul43. Damaged taking off
at Dalhart 14Dec43. Materiel Command, Lockheed Field, Burbank, CA 15Jun44. 4208th Base Unit,
Mines Field, Los Angeles, CA 11Sep44. 232nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Dalhart Field, TX 19Sep44. 4200th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command),
Chicago Municipal Airport, IL 10Nov44. 232nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Dalhart Field, TX 21Nov44. 463rd Bomb Squadron, 346th Bomb Group, Dalhart Field, TX.
Forced landing at Dalhart 13Dec44. 232nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Dalhart Field, TX 10Jan45. 248th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Walker Field, Victoria, KS 1Feb45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 25Jun45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped
30741 (MSN 5855) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 22Jul43.
Moses Lake Field, WA 30Jul43. 225th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Rapid City
Field, SD 29Apr45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Cal-Aero Field, Ontario, CA
for storage and disposal 27Aug45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Sharp & Fellows
Contracting Company Jul46; scrapped
30742 (MSN 5856) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21Jul43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 29Jul43. 316th Bomb Squadron, 88th Bomb Group, Madras Field, OR.
Accident landing at Madras Field 16Sep43. Salvaged 19Sep43
30743 (MSN 5857) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 22Jul43.
589th Bomb Squadron, 395th Bomb Group, Ephrata AAB, WA 1Aug43. Damaged landing at
Ephrata 23Aug43. 223rd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN. Damaged
by engine and mechanical failure at Dyersburg 15Aug44. 504th Bomb Group, Fairmont Field,
Geneva, NB 8Sep44. 241st Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Fairmont Field,
Geneva, NB 16Sep44. Damaged by fire at Meacham Field, Fort Worth, TX 11Oct44.
1103rd Base Unit (Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command), Morrison Field, West Palm
Beach, FL 12Jan45. 241st Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Fairmont Field, Geneva, NB 19Jan45.
233rd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Davis-Monthan Field, Tucson, AZ 4Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Cal-Aero Field, Ontario, CA for storage and disposal
29Jun45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Sharp & Fellows Contracting Company Jul46; scrapped
30744 (MSN 5858) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21Jul43.
318th Bomb Squadron, 88th Bomb Group, Walla Walla Field, WA 30Jul43. Redmond Field, OR 15Aug43.
Mid-air collision with B-17F 42-6019, crashed and destroyed by fire near Madras Field, OR 19Aug43
To CL-26 at Redmond AAF, OR Aug 20, 1943
30745 (MSN 5859) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21Jul43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 30Jul43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 2Aug43.
612th Bomb Squadron, 401st Bomb Group, Great Falls AAB, MT. Damaged at Great Falls 4Aug43
when landing gear collapsed on landing. 225th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Rapid City Field, SD 29Apr45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Cal-Aero Field, Ontario, CA
for storage and disposal 29Jun45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Sharp & Fellows Contracting
Company Jul46; scrapped
30746 (MSN 5860) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 22Jul43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 30Jul43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 2Aug43. Cut Bank
Field, MT 4Aug43. 772nd Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL. Mid-air
collision with B-17F 42-30786 at MacDill 19Nov43. 325th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Avon Park Field, FL. Destroyed when crash landed with engine failure at Avon Park Field, FL 4May44. Salvaged 5May44
30747 (MSN 5861) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Jul43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 3Aug43. Pendleton Field, OR 15Aug43. 225th Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Rapid City Field, SD 10Oct44. Written off. Reclaimed 2Nov44
30748 (MSN 5862) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Jul43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 6Aug43. 541st Bomb Squadron, 383rd Bomb Group, Pendleton
Field, OR 15Aug43. Damaged in collision with parked B-17F 42-5438 and 42-30671 at Pendleton
Field 12Sep43. 748th Bomb Squadron, 457th Bomb Group, Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 6Nov43.
Redmond Field, OR. Force landed with fuel exhaustion at Raber Canyon, twenty miles south of
Heppner, OR 29Nov43. 234th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Clovis Field, NM 24Jun44.
Damaged landing at Clovis Field 27Jul44. 249th Base Unit (Special), Alliance Field, NB 25Oct44.
2168th Base Unit, Wendover Field, UT 22Jan45.To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 30Oct45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
30749 (MSN 5863) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 22Jul43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 30Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 4Aug43. 399th Bomb Squadron, 88th Bomb Group, Walla Walla Field, WA 1Oct43.
On ferry flight from Cheyenne, destroyed when crash landed at Walla Walla 1Oct43. Salvaged 2Oct43.
30750 (MSN 5864) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Jul43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 3Aug43. 542nd Bomb Squadron, 383rd Bomb Group, Geiger Field,
Spokane, WA 23Oct43. Combat Crew Training Squadron, 393rd Bomb Group, Sioux City AAB, IA.
Crashed nine miles NNE Beppe, UT 5Jan44 (8KIS). Salvaged 7Jan44
30751 (MSN 5865) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Jul43.
Ephrata AAB, WA 1Aug43. 222nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Ardmore Field, OK 22Jan45.
332nd Base Unit, Ardmore Field, OK 19Aug45. Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field,
AR for storage and disposal 14Sep45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment
Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
There is an MACR 871 which refers to this plane
with a date of Oct 8, 1943 with 305th BG, 365th BS, Germany.
30752 (MSN 5866) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Jul43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 6Aug43. Pendleton Field, OR 12Aug43. Combat Crew Training School,
395th Bomb Group, Ardmore Field, OK. Mid-air collision near Mill Creek 20 miles northeast of
Ardmore Field, OK 12Feb44. The bomber crew was tasked to participate in a low level bombing
demonstration during the base ‘open house’ held that day. The mission for the day was to fly to
Matagorda Bay, just off the coast from Corpus Christi, Texas. They fired at tow targets for
several hours, then headed back to Ardmore. There were 13 B-17s flying in close formation.
One B-17 with officer instructors brought up the rear and advised the pilots as to what to do.
They had been flying at 20,000ft this day and as we neared home, we began to descend and turn
at the same time. This is a difficult maneuver for a large plane to accomplish, especially if in
close formation under turbulent air conditions. The bomber was flying in a very close formation
with planes on both sides and in the front and rear. They had let down to approximately 15,000ft
when the aircraft slid into aircraft 42-30752. The two right engines cut the other plane into two
pieces just behind the radio room. The front of that aircraft went straight up for a brief moment
knocking off the Plexiglas nose of this plane which pushed that aircraft under it knocking off its
ball turret. The pilots of 42-30572 managed to regain control, although heavily damaged with
two right engines inoperable, they flew the 15-20 miles to Ardmore Field and landed safely.
236th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Pyote Field, TX 9Nov44. 222nd Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Ardmore Field, OK 28Nov44. 332nd Base Unit, Ardmore Field, OK 16Jun45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 26Sep45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30753 (MSN 5867) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Jul43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 4Aug43. Rapid City Field, SD 10Aug43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 14Aug43.
543rd Bomb Squadron, 383rd Bomb Group, Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Sep43. 4115th Base Unit
(Spokane Air Technical Service Command), Pendleton Field, OR 5Oct44. 4204th Base Unit
(Warner Robins Air Technical Service Command), Atlanta Municipal Airport, GA 11Oct44.
325th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Avon Park Field, FL 27Oct44. 4100th Base Unit,
Pattetrson Field, OH 19Feb45. 4108th Base Unit (Atlantic Overeas Air Technical Service Command),
Newark Field, NJ 5Jun45. 4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson
Field, Dayton, OH 6Jun45. 4114th Base Unit, Oakland Municipal Airport, CA 29Jun45.
4127th Base Unit (Sacramento Air Technical Service Command), McClellan Field, Sacramento, CA 23Sep45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage
and disposal 27Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
30754 (MSN 5868) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Jul43.
Ephrata AAB, WA 1Aug43. Felts Field, Spokane, WA 14Aug43. 222nd Base Unit, Peterson Field,
Colorado Springs, CO 15Sep43. 2533rd Base Unit, Goodfellow 25Oct44. 268th Base Unit (Combat
Crew Training Station), Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 14Feb45. 201st Base Unit, Headquarters,
Colorado Springs, CO 16Feb45. HQ Squadron, 200th Base Unit, Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 25Aug45.
Damaged while parked by C-47 42-93175 taxying at Sioux City AAB, IA 8Sep45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and
disposal 27Oct45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped.
30755 (MSN 5869) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Jul43.
Assigned to 325th Bomb Squadron [NV*R], 92nd Bomb Group. 542nd Bomb Squadron, 383rd Bomb Group,
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 3Aug43. 452nd Bomb Group, Pendleton Field, OR 23Oct43.
202nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Galveston Field, TX. Damaged taxying at Galveston 12May44.
268th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 30Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 9Oct45
30756 (MSN 5870) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Jul43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 1Aug43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 3Aug43.
Pendleton Field, OR 12Aug43. 452nd Bomb Group, Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 19Oct43. 330th Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN 1Mar45. 325th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training
Station), Avon Park Field, FL 3Jun45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 22Aug45
30757 (MSN 5871) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Jul43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 1Aug43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 3Aug43.
602nd Bomb Squadron, 398th Bomb Group, Rapid City Field, SD. Accident landing at Rapid City
Field 8Sep43. 245th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), McCook Field, NB 16Sep43.
223rd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN. Damaged taxying at
Dyersburg Field 14Apr44. 245th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), McCook Field, NB 13Jun44.
9th Bomb Group, McCook Field, NB 20Jun44. 202nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Galveston Field, TX 22Nov44. 245th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), McCook Field, NB 27Nov44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 25Jun45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped
30758 (MSN 5872) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Jul43.
Dyersburg Field, TN 7Aug43. Dalhart Field, TX 15Aug43. 100th Bomb Group 31Aug43. Ferried Meeks
Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 8Sep43. 418th Bomb Squadron [LD*W],
100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk Sep43 Named "Satcha La" aka "Rosie's
Riveters". ROSIE'S RIVETERS. Named after the pilot (Robert ‘Rosie’ Rosenthal) / SATCHA LASS
[renamed by new crew after repair Feb44 . {first combat mission 8Oct43}. Failed to return from a
mission to railway marshalling yards at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 4Feb44 (10POW). As the planes were
passing over the Netherlands en route to Germany, local cross winds carried the bombers straight into enemy flak.
The bomber was hit over Wiesbaden by Flak Abteilung 49 and dropped out of formation. The pilot crash
landed in a field near Rödingen, between Cologne and Aachen, Germany.. MACR 2344.
30759 (MSN 5873) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Jul43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 1Aug43. Spokane Field, WA 4Aug43. Geiger Field,
Spokane, WA 5Aug43. 580th Bomb Squadron, 393rd Bomb Group, Kearney Field, NB 9Aug43.
Crash landed Kearney 24Aug43. Salvaged 8Sep43
30760 (MSN 5874) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Jul43.
Pyote Field, TX 1Aug43. 435th Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group, Pyote Field, TX 9Nov43.
222nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Ardmore Field, OK 22Jan45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, 20Jun45
30761 (MSN 5875) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Jul43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 6Aug43. Pendleton Field, OR 12Aug43. Combat Crew Training School,
395th Bomb Group, Ardmore Field, OK. Damaged by ‘friendly fire’ at Matagorda
Range, TX 16Jan44 (1KIS). While on a high altitude formation gunnery training flight,
the gunnery instructor was killed by a stray 50-caliber bullet to his back while standing
between the ball turret and waist gunners. The bomber was over the Matagorda Air-to-Air
Gunnery Range, 100 miles south of Galveston, Texas and received at least ten rounds to
the wing and fuselage from one of the other three aircraft in the formation. They were firing
at a towed target. No gunner accepted responsibility for the accident. 202nd Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Galveston Field, TX 13Aug44. 222nd Base Unit (Combat
Crew Training Station), Ardmore Field, OK 19Aug44. Modified for training, stripped of armor,
armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F. 222nd Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Ardmore Field, OK. Mid-air collision with B-17G 42-102409 fourteen miles
northeast of Ardmore 9Feb45. Damaged in collision with TB-17F 42-30551 taxying at Ardmore
Field 12Jun45. 332nd Base Unit, Ardmore Field, OK 16Jun45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 13Nov45. War Assets Administration. S
old to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30762 (MSN 5876) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Jul43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 4Aug43. 600th Bomb Squadron, 398th Bomb Group, Rapid City
Field, SD 11Aug43. Damaged landing at Sioux City 22Sep43. 383rd Bomb Group, Geiger Field,
Spokane, WA 10Nov43. 224th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Sioux City AAB, IA.
The bomber took off on a 1,000 mile night navigation training mission from Sioux City Army
Air Base 18/19Apr44 (10RTD). About ten to fifteen miles west of Marquette, MI, No.3 engine was
reported to have an oil leak to the propeller governor. Attempts to feather the propeller failed and
the pilot headed across Lake Superior to Duluth, MN for a forced landing. Then the engine
caught fire but, without fire extinguishers, the fire could not be extinguished. A few minutes
later the inboard cylinders blew up and blew off the cowling. The engine was burning fiercely and the
unfeathered propeller was causing excess drag. Turning towards land, as pieces of the engine
continued to blow off, the order to bail out was given. Set on autopilot, all the crew bailed out safely.
The plane crashed on the snow-covered Porcupine mountains thirty miles southwest of Ontonagon, MI i
n the early hours of 19Apr44. The first four crewmen to bail out landed almost on the beach of
Lake Superior at Union Bay, MI, and walked to Silver City. By that morning, a Civil Air Patrol spotter
had located the wrecked plane. By noon, all but one of the crew had been rescued. Tail gunner was
found two days later walking down a remote logging road. Salvaged 20Apr44..
30763 (MSN 5877) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Jul43.
Pendleton Field, OR 7Aug43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 15Aug43. 88th Bomb Group, Walla Walla
Field, WA 18Aug43. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field,
Sebring, FL 10May45. 325th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Avon Park Field, FL 23May45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 9Oct45
30764 (MSN 5878) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27Jul43.
Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F.
3701st Base Unit (Technical School), Amarillo Field, TX 23Jul44. Damaged in accident with
TB-17F 42-29871 and parked TB-17F 42-29687 at Amarillo Field 9Mar45. 3706th Base Unit, Basic
Training Center, Sheppard Field, Wichita Falls, TX 29Mar45. 3701st Base Unit (Technical School),
Amarillo Field, TX 23Apr45. Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage
and disposal 26Oct45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company,
Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30765 MSN 5879) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Jul43.
Dyersburg Field, TN 8Aug43. 535th Bomb Squadron [MS*U], 381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167),
Essex 20Sep43. Named. *Chug a Lug/Nip and Tuck*. 448th Sub-Depot, Air Service
Command, Ridgewell for spar damage repair 26Dec43. Accident on a training mission in very poor
visibility, clipped some trees and force landed at Rodmead Farm, Maiden Bradley, near Warminster,
Wilts 29Dec43. {9 missions}. Salvaged 2Jan44.
30766 (MSN 5880) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Jul43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 3Aug43. 398th Bomb Group, Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 18Aug43. 225th Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Rapid City Field, SD. Damaged while parked in collision by B-17F 42-30771
at Rapid City 18May44. 242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB 19Jun44.
6th Bomb Group, Grand Island Field, NB 8Jul44. 268th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 18Sep44. 242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand
Island Field, NB 25Sep44. 249th Base Unit (Special), Alliance Field, NB 14Oct44. 245th Base Unit
(Operational Training Unit), McCook Field, NB 9Jan45. Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 25Jun45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped
30767 (MSN 5881) Accepted by USAAF 23Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 27Jul43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 28Jul43.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 4Aug43. Scott Field,
Belleville, IL 9Aug43. 367th Bomb Squadron [GY*Y], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111),
Bedfordshire 21Sep43. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little Staughton (Station 127), Bedfordshire 26Sep43.
Regained by Group 27Sep43. Accident returning from a recalled mission to La Rochelle, France 5Dec43.
A propeller fell off and damaged the ball turret during landing at Thurleigh. Accident departing for a
mission to the shipyard and industrial area at Kiel, Germany 5Jan44 (8KIA:2RTD). The plane crashed
shortly after takeoff in poor visibility in a farmer's field a few hundred yards from the Headquarters
building at Sharnbrook ammunition depot, Bedfordshire. Salvaged by 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little Staughton
30768 (MSN 5882) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Jul43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 5Aug43. Offutt Field, Omaha, NB 8Aug43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 10Aug43. Combat Crew Training Squadron, 393rd Bomb Group, Sioux City AAB, IA.
Crashed Sioux City AAB, IA 4Mar44. Salvaged 6Mar44
30769 (MSN 5883) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Jul43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 4Aug43. Offutt Field, Omaha, NB 8Aug43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 9Aug43. 224th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Sioux City AAB, IA 6Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 19Jun45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped
30770 (MSN 5884) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Jul43.
Spokane Field, WA 4Aug43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 5Aug43. Offutt Field, Omaha, NB 8Aug43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 10Aug43. 224th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Sioux City AAB, IA 6Mar45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM
for storage and disposal 19Jun45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped.
30771 (MSN 5885) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26Jul43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 4Aug43. Rapid City Field, SD 18Aug43. Pendleton Field, OR 12Aug43.
225th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Rapid City Field, SD. Damaged in collision with
parked B-17F 42-30766 and B-17G 42-102466 at Rapid City 18May44. Damaged while parked in collision
by B-17G 42-31755 taxying at Rapid City 17Aug44. Force landing at Rapid City 28Aug43.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Cal-Aero Field, Ontario, CA for storage and disposal 10Jun45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Sharp & Fellows Contracting Company Jul46; scrapped
30772 (MSN 5886) Accepted by USAAF 24Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 27Jul43. Dyersburg Field, TN 8Aug43. 524th Bomb Squadron [WA*R],
379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 31Aug43. 323rd Bomb Squadron [OR*V],
91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 23Sep43. Battle damaged on a
mission to the port and industrial area at Emden, Germany 27Sep43 (1KIA:1WIA:8RTD). Attacked by
enemy fighters, a gunner was killed by a direct hit by a 20mm cannon shell; another gunner was wounded.
Failed to return from a mission to the Arado Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory, Anklam, Prussia 9Oct43 (6MIA:2KIA:2POW).
The formation was attacked by a large force of Luftwaffe fighters soon after it crossed the coast.
They followed all the way in, attacking on the bomb run and over the target. On the return flight
from Anklam the plane was hit by rocket fired by Lt Richard
Heller in Bf 110G-2 of ZG 26/8, which set the left inboard engine on fire and made it necessary
to feather the right inboard propeller. It also severely wounded the ball turret gunner and the co pilot;
the bombardier and navigator bailed out. The left wing broke off and the fuselage had broken in half.
Crashed in the Baltic Sea twenty miles south of Langeland, Denmark.. MACR 895.
30773 (MSN 5887) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27Jul43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 7Aug43. Dyersburg Field, TN 8Aug43. Ferried on the North
Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 7/8Sep43.
324th Bomb Squadron [DF*B:DF*J], 91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 26Sep43.
Substantially battle damaged on a mission to industrial areas at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 4Oct43.
{final combat mission 14Jan44}. Transferred to Royal Air Force 21Jan44 as Fortress Mark II, serial SR381.
Equipped with H2S airborne radar. Used for radio counter measures. No.214 (Federated Malay States)
Squadron [BU-F], No.100 Group, RAF Sculthorpe, Norfolk 2Feb44. RAF Oulton, Aylsham, Norfolk 16May44.
On the night of 21/22Jun44 the aircraft was badly shot up by two night fighters, the first was a Me 410,
the second, which occurred about ten or fifteen minutes after the first, was by a Ju 88 over Gelsenkirchen,
Germany where the target was the Nordstern oil plant. The pilot dived from 22,000ft to 12,000ft in a
straight dive to try to put an engine fire out with no effect. Limped home with No.3 engine on fire
to the emergency landing airfield at RAF Woodbridge, Suffolk. Landed and crashed into a Lancaster
of No.61 Squadron with a full bomb load and cut it in half. All crew members survived [RAF/RCAF/RAAF].
Flown out 30Jun44. Scottish Aviation, Prestwick, Scotland 21Jul44 for repair at depot.
Damaged reclassified as category E (write off) 31Jul44. SOC.
30774 (MSN 5888) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26Jul43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 6Aug43. Pendleton Field, OR 12Aug43. Harvard Field, NB 19Aug43.
Mid-air collision at Harvard Field 28Aug43 (1KIS). Just before darkness, a formation of eight B-17's
was coming into the Harvard Army Air Field to simulate a peel-off out of formation for landing.
Instead of going downward and left out of formation, one of the lead B-17F's (42-30239) went
upwards into the path of B-17F (42-3309). The wing of the higher plane cut the fuselage of the
plane coming upward in half. A third B-17F (42-30774) flew into the wreckage. The first two B-17's
that collided fell down and exploded with no survivors. The third B-17 was able to crash land in
an open field. The pilot of the third plane had ordered his crew to bail out. One of those who
bailed out either struck the plane on the way out or did not deploy his parachute and was killed.
Salvaged 31Aug43
30775 (MSN 5889) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26Jul43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 5Aug43. Pendleton Field, OR 12Aug43. 422nd Bomb Squadron [JJ*P],
305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 18Sep43. Experimented in night
bombing alongside the RAF and operated night leaflet and propaganda missions. Damaged
during a night leaflet mission to Paris, France 20Oct43. The No.4 engine caught fire and the
plane force landed at RAF Dunsfold, Cranleigh, Surrey. Accident during a night leaflet and
propaganda mission over Hamburg, Germany 2Dec43. The plane encountered an overspeeding
propeller after dropping their leaflets over the target and flew back to England along the
Ruhr Valley at 7,000ft. When the navigator was forced to leave his compartment because of the
propeller vibration, the crew became lost. Thinking they were back over England, the crew made
preparations for flying in Allied airspace by switching on the IFF. The plane was shot at by flak,
the crew fired a flare with the colour of the day and the shooting stopped (apparently the German
colours were the same that day) but soon resumed. Preparing for a ditching, the crew threw out
loose equipment including the flexible guns. It was then that enemy aircraft were sighted but did
not engage in combat. Finally picking up their position, the pilot headed for a safe landing at
RAF Manston, Kent. 858th Bomb Squadron, 492nd Bomb Group, North Pickenham 24Jun44.
Special operations and electronic countermeasure (ECM) missions. 406th Bomb Squadron, 801st Bomb Group,
Harrington (Station 179), Northamptonshire Aug44. Damaged landing at Cheddington (Station 113),
Buckinghamshire 15Nov44. Salvaged after non battle damage 6Jan45.
30776 (MSN 5890) Accepted by USAAF 24Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 26Jul43. Dyersburg Field, TN 7Aug43. 368th Bomb Squadron [BO*G],
306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 20Sep43. Seriously battle damaged
during a mission to an aircraft factory at Bremen, Germany 8Oct43. The formation was
met with stiff resistance by German fighters and flak crews on the ground the entire way,
from the Dutch coast all the way into the German heartland, and back again. In addition,
a large force of German fighters launched vicious attacks against the planes. Over the target,
the formation encountered intense flak. No.2 main fuel tank, right horizontal stabiliser
struck by flak, nose compartment and No.1 engine cowling struck by flak; No.4 engine
struck by empty 0.50 caliber shell casings; No.4 engine oil tank struck by flak; left outer
wing. Aileron and No.7 Tokyo fuel tank struck by flak; right outer wing struck by 20mm
cannon shells; left horizontal stabiliser struck by flak and 0.303 shells.
368th Bomb Squadron [BO*F]. Failed to return from a mission to the port area at
Wilhelmshaven, Germany 3Nov43 (10MIA). Mid-air collision en route to the target
with B-17F 42-3533 and crashed into North Sea. MACR 1158.
30777 (MSN 5891) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26Jul43.
444th Bomb Group, Great Bend Field, KS 27Aug43. 331st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Barksdale Field, Bossier City, LA 18Jul44. 500th Bomb Group Walker Field, Victoria, KS 27Jul43.
558th Base Unit, 20th Ferrying Group, Air Transport Command, Berry Field, Nashville, TN 27Aug43.
500th Bomb Group Walker Field, Victoria, KS 3Oct43. 4200th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical
Service Command), Chicago Municipal Airport, IL 15Oct43. 244th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit),
Harvard Field, NB 17Oct44. 248th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Walker Field, Victoria, KS 28Oct44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 25Jun45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped
30778 (MSN 5892) Accepted by USAAF 24Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 28Jul43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 6Aug43. Pendleton
Field, OR 12Aug43. Reno AAB, NV 14Aug43. Pierre Field, SD 16Aug43. 561st Bomb Squadron [U],
388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 3Sep43, Named "Old 66/Lady Margaret"
{first combat mission 26Sep43}. Battle damaged on a mission to the port area at Bremen,
Germany 20Dec43 (10RTD). Attacked by a large force of enemy fighters and flak over the
target area was very intense. Battle damaged on a mission to railway facilities around Berlin,
Germany 29Apr44. The combat wing was off course heading to Berlin, attacked by enemy fighters
and bombed Magdeburg. Flak over the target was very accurate. Battle damaged during a mission
to the Braunkohle Benzin A.G. synthetic oil refinery at Rothensee, Magdeburg, Germany 20Jun44.
Flak over the target was intense and accurate causing about twenty holes in the plane. Battle damaged
on a mission to the Rhenania-Ossag Mineralölwerke oil refinery at Harburg, Hamburg, Germany 4Aug44.
Moderate accurate flak was encountered at the target. Accident during takeoff for a tactical mission
to destroy transportation and communications along the Seine River near Paris, France 13Aug44.
A tire blew and the aircraft ground looped on the runway at Knettishall. {final combat mission 11Aug44}.
{67 missions}. Salvaged.
30779 (MSN 5893) Accepted by USAAF 24Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 28Jul43. Dyersburg Field, TN 8Aug43. 369th Bomb Squadron [WW*U],
306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 18Sep43. Failed to return
from a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43 (7POW:3KIA).
En route to the target area, the bomber formation was repeatedly attacked by a large number
of Luftwaffe fighters. Rockets hit the nose of the bomber, killing the navigator and bombardier.
Another rocket exploded starting a fire in No.3 engine and there was also a fire in the radio
room. The crew bailed out and the plane crashed at Hammerstein, seven miles northwest of Koblenz, Germany.
Conflict:
Also listed as named ‘Bigasbird’ with 100th BG at Thorpe Abbots. Crashed 6th March 1944
30780 (MSN 5894) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27Jul43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 9Aug43. Pendleton Field, OR 12Aug43. 509th Bomb Squadron [RQ*H/T],
351st Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 21Sep43. Named "Eager Eagle II"
Failed to return from a mission to the AGO-Flugzeugwerke Fw 190 manufacturing factory at Oschersleben,
Germany 11Jan44 (7KIA:3POW). While the aircraft were airborne, the weather closed in over
English bases and a recall signal was issued. B/Gen. Robert F. Travis, Air Commander of the
1st Bomb Division, continued on to the target. This left the 1st Bomb Division with greater exposure
to enemy fighter attacks. Good fighter support was provided by P-47 Thunderbolts on the
penetration and by P-51 Mustangs over the target. P-47s were airborne to provide withdrawal
support but they obeyed the recall order to return to England and left the bombers to fend
for themselves on the return trip. Luftwaffe attacks started over the IJsselmeer and intensified
when the American fighters returned home. Meagre and fairly accurate flak was experienced
on the bomb run, with intermittent inaccurate flak on the return trip. Shot down by enemy fighters,
crashed Holzerode, six miles northeast of Göttingen, Germany. {10 missions}. MACR 1938
30781 (MSN 5895) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27Jul43.
Dyersburg Field, TN 7Aug43. 413th Bomb Squadron [MZ*M], 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath
(Station 138), Norfolk 1Sep43. Failed to return from a mission to the Arado Flugzeugwerke
aircraft factory, Anklam, Prussia 9Oct43 (10KIA). The formation was attacked by a large force
of Luftwaffe fighters soon after it crossed the coast. They followed all the way in, attacking
on the bomb run and over the target. Shot down by enemy aircraft on return from target,
crashed in North Sea, off Denmark. MACR 945.
30782 MSN 5896) Accepted by USAAF 25Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 29Jul43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand
Island Field, NB 8Aug43 Assigned to 368BS/306BG [BO-O] Thurleigh; transferred to 369BS.
(306th BG, 368th BS) Named "Ration Passion". Seriously battle damaged during
a mission to an aircraft factory at Bremen, Germany 8Oct43. The formation was met with
stiff resistance by German fighters and flak crews on the ground the entire way, from the
Dutch coast all the way into the German heartland, and back again. In addition, a large
force of German fighters launched vicious attacks against the planes. Over the target,
the formation encountered intense flak. No.2 main fuel tank, right horizontal stabiliser
struck by flak, nose compartment and No.1 engine cowling struck by flak; No.1 engine
struck by empty 0.50 caliber shell casings. Seriously battle damaged during a mission to
the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43 (1WIA:9RTD). En route to the
target area, the bomber formation was repeatedly attacked by a large number of Luftwaffe
fighters. After the target, the Group turned and headed westward for England. German fighters,
having landed and refueled, attacked again until, finally, the bombers reached the coastline
of western Europe and relative safety. 20mm cannon shells struck the No.1 and 4 propellers,
right wing and aileron, right horizontal stabiliser, right fuselage. Flak struck the tail gunner’s
compartment, left side of nose and left inner wing over the No.2 main fuel tank. Seriously battle
damaged during a mission to the port area at Kiel, Germany 13Dec43. No.4 engine struck by flak.
About thirty minutes before the target the plane was struck by flak. The whole formation made a 360
degree turn somewhere near the I.P. As the turn straightened out the No.4 engine started to misfire,
a second later the propeller began to windmill, the engine cowling came off and the plane dropped
back as the formation flew on. The crew dropped the bombs somewhere near the target but not on it.
The plane was steadily losing altitude and came out of the undercast about twenty-five feet above a
Danish island. They were right over a German convoy. Simultaneously a Ju 88 attacked. The bomber
pilot did some fast evasive action through a mist just off the water and finally lost the Ju 88. By this time
an engine had caught on fire, so the pilot and co-pilot decided to turn around and land in Denmark.
As the plane came in sight of the Danish coast the engine fire went out, so the pilot turned for the
North Sea and England. The plane was down about 200 feet above the water. After ten minutes the Ju 88
came back in for another attack. The bomber was fast approaching a six-ship German convoy.
The fighter started to come in at the same level ahead of the bomber. Just as it broke to point its nose,
the bomber pilot turned into his direction. The Ju 88 continued to come. As it passed, the top turret and
the bombardier in the nose started firing and the fighter started trailing black smoke. It disappeared
into the mist, engine burning and smoking. All this tine the German ship convoy was firing machine
guns and flak at the bomber. Fortunately, none of the crew had been hit, and as far as they could
determine the bomber was undamaged. The pilot was having trouble holding the small altitude
he had and called for all spare ammunition and all extra equipment to be thrown out to lighten the
load. Finally the plane came in over the English coast and landed an hour later than the briefed ETA.
Failed to return from a mission to the Junkers aircraft factory at Halberstadt, Germany 11Jan44 (2POW:5EVD:3KIA).
The formation encountered some light flak en route and over the target. After leaving the target
the formation was attacked by a Bf 110 fighter and then by 30 to 35 Fw 190 fighters. The aircraft
was strafed by 20mm cannon fire which struck the nose, vertical fin and knocked off half of the
starboard wing. Eight of the crew successfully bailed out of the aircraft at approximately 18000 feet.
The aircraft entered a spin, broke up, crashed and had broken into two with the wreckage spread out
over a large area at Heegejanskamp, near Nijverdal, Netherlands
MACR 1931. 5 POW, 5 KIA (shot after interrogation)
Parts recovered 1977;Nijverdal
30783 (MSN 5897) Accepted by USAAF 25Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 28Jul43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 9Aug43. 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall
(Station 136), Suffolk 24Aug43. 570th Bomb Squadron [DI*M], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham
(Station 153), Suffolk 25Aug43. Named "The Stork Club" The bombardier suggested The Stork Club for a
name because he knew the owner of The Stork Club in New York City and figured he could pretty
much drink and eat for free when he came back. {first combat mission 7Sep43}. Battle damaged
on a mission to railway installations at Münster, Germany 10Oct43. As they approached the city,
the formation was swarmed by a large force of enemy aircraft for an estimated forty-five minutes
of vicious fighting. By the time their friendly fighter escorts arrived to drive off the Luftwaffe, the
damage had already been done. Severely battle damaged on a mission to the Deschimag submarine
construction yard at Vegesack, Bremen, Germany 20Dec43 (5POW:1WIA:4RTD). En route to the
target area, the 390th Bomb Group encountered a large force of enemy fighters, many armed
with rockets. The plane suffered severe flak and fighter damage with two engines out of commission
and having trouble with a third one. The plane had been badly shot up and the communications
were out. The pilot dove for the ground because there were two fighters on to them. The bombardier
had been wounded and the gunners thought they were going down (so did the fighters, so they left)
and bailed out near Wilhelmshaven. The plane was so low when it leveled out, it was coming
up for the trees. The crew was over the Netherlands and saw that people in the fields kept pointing
in a certain direction. It took them a minute to realize that the people were pointing towards England
and would have been shot if the Nazis had seen them do it. The pilot brought the aircraft and
remaining crew back to force land at a fighter base, Raydon (Station 157), Suffolk. When they landed,
the crew counted 780 holes in the aircraft from the flak and fighters. Failed to return from a mission
to the Messerschmitt factory in Augsburg, Germany 16Mar44 (8KIA:2POW). From Strasburg, Germany
to Augsburg, the bombers were attacked by Luftwaffe fighters in a running battle. Flak over the target
was moderate and accurate; flak en route was meagre and inaccurate. As the Group was passing near
Nördlingen, almost forty miles north of Augsburg, the plane was struck by rockets fired by enemy fighters,
which started a fire aboard the aircraft. With its wings and fuselage engulfed in flames, it promptly fell
out of formation and exploded. The wreckage crashed on Lautern, six miles east of Schwäbisch Gmünd,
Germany. {31 missions}. MACR 3180
30784 (MSN 5898) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28Jul43.
Dyersburg Field, TN 7Aug43. 325th Bomb Squadron [NV*G], 92nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102),
Huntingdonshire 27Sep43. On ferry trip from Podington to Little Staughton (Station 127),
Bedfordshire 1Jan44, undercarriage collapsed at Little Staughton. Salvaged after non battle damage 6Jan44
30785 (MSN 5899) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Jul43.
Dyersburg Field, TN 8Aug43. 508th Bomb Squadron [YB*H], 351st Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110),
Northamptonshire 23Sep43. Failed to return from a mission to industrial areas at Frankfurt am Main,
Germany 4Oct43 (3KIA:7POW). Flak over the target was moderate and accurate. A large force of enemy
fighters were encountered, some using rockets which were fired from a distance beyond the range of
the bombers’ guns. Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Langensebold, sixteen miles east of Frankfurt
am Main, Germany. {1 mission}. MACR 908.
30786 (MSN 5900) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30Jul43.
614th Bomb Squadron, 401st Bomb Group, Glasgow Field, MT Aug43. Damaged while parked by taxying
B-17F 42-5113 at Glasgow Field 28Aug43. 775th Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL.
Mid-air collision with B-17F 42-30746 at Lake Thonotosassa east of MacDill 19Nov43 (10KIS). The Fortress
collided with another Fortress during a training flight then crashed and burned twenty miles east of Tampa.
Although damaged and with one motor knocked out, the second Fortress reached MacDill Field safely. Salvaged 22Nov43
30787 (MSN 5901) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Jul43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 30Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 31Jul43. 223rd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN.
Mid-air collision with B-17F 42-3370 and crashed eight miles west of Brownsville, TN 27Sep44 (8KIS).
30788 (MSN 5902) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28Jul43.
25th Ferrying Squadron, 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT. Damaged while taxying in
collision with parked B-17F 42-3473 at Denver, CO 7Aug43. Dyersburg Field, TN 8Aug43. Lowry Field,
Denver, CO 12Aug43. Dyersburg Field, TN 14Aug43. 350th Bomb Squadron [LN*R], 100th Bomb Group,
Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 5Sep43. Named "Mismalovin'". Failed to return from a mission to the Messerschmitt
aircraft factory at Regensburg, Germany 25Feb44 (8KIA:2POW). After crossing the coastline into
mainland Europe, the formation encountered frequent flak and fierce aerial attacks from the Luftwaffe,
causing heavy damage to some of the bombers. The planes arrived at Regensburg and encountered intense
flak over the target area. Flak damaged engine No.2, crashed in English Channel, off Sangatte, near Calais, France
MACR 2760
30789 (MSN 5903) Accepted by USAAF 26Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 28Jul43. Dyersburg Field, TN 7Aug43. 563rd Bomb Squadron [P], 388th Bomb Group,
Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 3Sep43. Named "Flak Suit, then "Butcher Boy"
{first combat mission 26Sep43}. Battle damaged on a mission to the Kugelfischer-Georg-Schäfer ball
bearing factory at Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43 (10RTD). Enemy fighters were encountered near
Eupen, Belgium on the route in, all the way to the target, and back to the French Coast. Flak was moderate
to intense along the route but gave the most trouble over the target area. The lead bombardier was unable
to see a clear view of the target caused by smoke from previous bombing. He set his bomb sight on the
railway bridge over the Main river so that the bombs struck the eastern end of the marshalling yards.
On return, force landed at RAF Kenley, Kent. Failed to return from a mission to the railway marshalling
yards at Gelsenkirchen, Germany 5Nov43 (5POW:2KIA:3EVD). With No.1 engine damaged by flak, the
aircraft dropped out of formation. Shot down by Obfw Kirshow in Fw 190A-5/U8 of SKG 10/3
A 20mm shell from the Fw 190 exploded in the flight deck and two crew were killed, another shell damaged No.3 engine.
The injured pilot pulled the aircraft out of a dive long enough for survivors to bail out over Belgium
and crashed in a cemetery on Brugsraat, at Lokeren, Belgium, MACR 3137. 2 KIA.
30790 (MSN 5904) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28Jul43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 29Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 4Aug43. Dalhart Field, TX 15Aug43. 511th Bomb Squadron [DS*Q], 351st Bomb Group,
Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 22Sep43. Named "Cue Ball". Named in the tradition of
511th Bomb Squadron by incorporating the word 'Ball' in the title, after the squadron's first commander
Clinton F Ball. Failed to return from a mission to the Arado Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory, Anklam,
Prussia 9Oct43 (11POW). The formation was attacked by a large force of Luftwaffe fighters soon after
it crossed the coast. They followed all the way in, attacking on the bomb run and over the target.
Enemy fighter 20mm cannon shells hit a ‘Tokyo’ fuel tank which set the left wing on fire, crashed Anklam,
Prussia. {2 missions} MACR 878
30791 (MSN 5905) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Jul43.
Dyersburg Field, TN 8Aug43. 422th Bomb Squadron [JJ*J], 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105),
Northamptonshire 1Oct43. Experimented in night bombing alongside the RAF and operated night
leaflet and propaganda missions. 858th Bomb Squadron, 492nd Bomb Group, North Pickenham 24Jun44.
Special operations and electronic countermeasure (ECM) missions. 406th Bomb Squadron, 801st Bomb
Group, Harrington (Station 179), Northamptonshire 11Aug44. Carpetbagger missions. {88+ missions}.
Salvaged 4Dec44. Named. PISTOL PACKIN' MAMA - artwork inspired by the Vargas' "Pistol Packin' Mama"
Esquire centrefold of March 1944. The plane appeared in episode 3 of the documentary “
Rapport fra Nr. 24” (1994) about the most decorated war hero in Norway, Gunnar "Kjakan" Sønsteby
(Code named "No. 24") and his life as an undercover agent during the second world war
30792 MSN 5906) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Jul43.
Dyersburg Field, TN 8Aug43. Galveston Field, TX 15Aug43. Dyersburg Field, TN 17Aug43. 339th Bomb
Squadron [QJ*E], 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 5Sep43
Named "Janet McIlwain". Failed to return from a mission to the port and industrial area at
Emden, Germany 27Sep43 (2KIA:8POW). Flak damage, No.2 & No.3 engines on fire, crashed Norden, near
Emden, Germany. Also listed as.shot down by Fw 190A near
Emden, Germany. MACR 756.
30793 (MSN 5907) Accepted by USAAF 27Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 29Jul43. Dyersburg Field, TN 8Aug43. 562nd Bomb Squadron [A], 388th Bomb Group,
Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 3Sep43. Named"Tom Paine". "Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered".
Named Tom Paine after the English-American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary
after the airmen of the 562nd found out that he had been born in the nearby town of Thetford. One of the Founding
Fathers of the United States, he authored the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution,
and he inspired the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from Britain. Name was chosen to promote
Anglo-American co-operation through showing links between the two nations, though seen as insensitive
by many in Thetford where Paine was seen as a traitor against Britain. (first combat mission 26Sep43}.
Battle damaged during a mission to the industrial area at Brunswick, Germany 10Feb44 (1WIA:9RTD).
Meagre to heavy flak was seen when crossing the enemy coast at IJmuiden, Netherlands. In the vicinity of
Lingen, Germany the formation was attacked by enemy fighters in groups of three. As they neared the target,
twin-engined aircraft fired rockets into the formation. Intense flak was encountered at the target where t
he aircraft received flak damage. The formation was under fighter attack until it neared the IJsselmeer
on the return home. Friendly fighters were outnumbered, especially in the target area. Battle damaged on
return from a mission to an aviation industry at Krepinki, Poland 11Apr44 (3WIA:7RTD). As the formation
approached the enemy coast near Stettin, it became apparent that visual bombing was impossible, because
of weather conditions. It was decided to attack their secondary target, the Heinkel Flugzeugwerke aircraft
factory at Marienehe, Rostock, Germany. En route to the target, a force of enemy fighters attacked.
Just after bomb release over Rostock, the formation was attacked by a smaller force of fighters. Damaged
in these attacks, the co-pilot, navigator and bombardier were wounded. The plane force landed on return
at RAF Beccles, Ellough, Suffolk. Provided navigational assistance for Aphrodite missions to V-1 missile
sites in France 4/6Aug44. {final combat mission 24Dec44}. {29 missions
30794 (MSN 5908) Accepted by USAAF 26Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 29Jul43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island
Field, NB 9Aug43. 369th Bomb Squadron [WW*V], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111),
Bedfordshire 25Aug43. Eighth Air Force Service Command 16Oct43. Regained by Group 23Oct43.
Seriously battle damaged during a mission to the industrial areas of Emden, Germany 11Dec43.
The Luftwaffe was waiting for the bombers; the moment the bombers crossed over into mainland Europe,
six twin-engine fighter dived out of the sun upon the formation, concentrating all their fire on the lead plane.
Once the leader had been downed, the fighters swept through the lead Squadron. Before the deputy lead
had a chance to reassemble the formation, a large force of single-engine fighters joined the fray,
attacking the other bombers. Vertical and left horizontal stabilisers struck by flak. Failed to return
from a mission to the shipyard and industrial area at Kiel, Germany 5Jan44 (8KIA:2POW).
Shot down by Bf-109G-6 of JG-11 and. crashed Hohenfelde, Steinburg, five miles
southeast of Itzehoe, Germany MACR 1683
30795 (MSN 5909) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Jul43.
Dyersburg Field, TN 8Aug43. 549th Bomb Squadron [XA*J], 385th Bomb Group 2Sep43. Ferried
Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 8Sep43. 548th Bomb Squadron,
385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk Sep43, Named 'The Wild Hare'.
Failed to return from a mission to the railway marshalling yards at Münster, Germany 11Nov43
(1KIA:8POW:1EVD). Flak damaged No.3 engine, later shot down by Hptm
Emil-Rudolf Schnoor in Fw 190A-6 of JG 1/1 Stab between
Eethen and Waspik, Netherlands. Crashed in the Zijlmanspolder, just south of
the Doprstraat in Dussen, Netherlands MACR 1161.
30796 (MSN 5910) Accepted by USAAF 27Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 29Jul43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand
Island Field, NB 9Aug43. Assigned Eighth Air Force, England 27Aug43. 100th Bomb Group 28Aug43.
Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 31Aug43.
351st Bomb Squadron [EP*K/J], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk Aug43.
Named "Sunny II" Battle damaged during a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical works at
Oppau, Ludwigshafen, Germany 30Dec43, crash landed Starston Hall, near Harleston, Norfolk.
{14 missions}. 3 injured,7 OK. Salvaged Jan 1, 1944
30797 (MSN 5911) Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 29Jul43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great
Falls, MT 30Jul43. Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 8Aug43. Substantially damaged in collision with
parked B-17F 42-30798 in a maintenance accident with ground crew at Eglin Field 23Sep43.
Surveyed at Eglin AAF Sep 26, 1943
30798 (MSN 5912) Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 29Jul43. Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL. Substantially
damaged while parked in collision by B-17F 42-30797 in a maintenance accident with
ground crew at Eglin Field 23Sep43. 611th Base Unit, Proving Ground Command, Eglin Field,
Valparaiso, FL 2Jun44. 610th Base Unit (Proving Ground Command), Eglin Field,
Valparaiso, FL 4Sep44. 216th Base Unit, Wendover Field, UT 19Sep44. 325th Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Avon Park Field, FL. Damaged in collision with B-17F
42-29601 at Avon Park Field 18Apr45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR
for storage and disposal 11Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment
Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
30799 (MSN 5913) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 29Jul43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 9Aug43. Scott Field,
Belleville, IL 10Aug43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle
Field, ME 16Aug43. 349th Bomb Squadron [XR*L], 100th Bomb Group 20Aug43.
Ground looped at RCAF Gander, Newfoundland during maintenance by ground crew 20Aug43.
Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 28/29Aug43. 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk Aug43.
Named :"The Big Ass Bird II" . Battle damaged on a mission to the ball bearing factories at Paris,
France 26Nov43. On his final mission to Paris, 2nd Lt Owen D. (Cowboy) Roane made a joke to the
group maintenance officer that he was going to dump his plane in the soft Thorpe Abbotts mud
upon his return. Over the target a 20mm hole big enough to fit a body through ripped up the
right wing, and Owen had to nurse the plane back home only to see the airplane turn his joke
into reality, with the right wing off the end of the runway into the mud as promised.
Both the CO and the group maintenance officer held up short of reading Owen the riot act
once they saw the condition of the aircraft. Failed to return from a mission to industrial areas
in the suburbs of Berlin, Germany 6Mar44 (3KIA:7POW). Shot down by fighter attack near Haselünne.
With the tail on fire, seven crew members bailed out and the bomber crashed at Hollwedel,
southeast of Harpstedt, twenty-five miles southeast of Oldenburg, Germany. MACR 3017
30800 (MSN 5914) Accepted by USAAF 28Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30Jul43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 9Aug43. 563rd Bomb Squadron [O], 388th Bomb Group 3Sep43.
Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 5/6Sep43. 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk Sep43.
Named COCK O' THE WALK – artwork of a cartoon cockerel with the number 36 on his chest riding a bomb.
(first combat mission 2Oct43}. Failed to return from a mission to the aviation industry at Brunswick,
Germany 29Feb44 (4KIA:6POW). Flown by a 452nd Bomb Group crew on loan to the 388th Bomb Group.
Struck by flak over the target just as the bombs were released, there was a direct burst in the cockpit.
The cockpit was full of smoke and on fire, both pilots having been killed; two gunners were also killed.
The plane dropped out of formation in a tight left turn and falling fast in a spiral. The navigator
extinguished the fires and tried the throttles but the engines were done. With both pilots slumped over the
control wheels, the navigator tried to steady the plane with the intent to try a crash landing somewhere.
The plane dropped through clouds at 5,000ft and dropping fast. At that point, the navigator was the last
airmen to bail out. Crashed near the Luther factory at Bienrode, four miles north of Brunswick, Germany. {23 missions}.
MACR 2893.
30801 (MSN 5915) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30Jul43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 8Aug43.
Departed RCAF Gander, Newfoundland for UK heading for Prestwick, Scotland 1Sep43. On arrival
Prestwick, Scotland, because of poor visibility, the pilot was unable to find the airfield and flew
around until sighting a nearby beach and crash landed just to the north of Prestwick at Troon, Scotland
(10 crew OK)
30802 (MSN 5916) Accepted by USAAF 28Jul43. Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field,
Dallas, TX 30Jul43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 14Aug43. 560th Bomb Squadron [G], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall
(Station 136), Suffolk 5Sep43. Named "Gydnia" {first combat mission 27Sep43}.
Failed to return from a mission to the German Navy cruiser Nürnberg in the port area of Gdynia,
Poland 9Oct43 (10POW). The bomber was attacked by German fighters on the way home over South Jutland.
Shot down by Lt. Hermann Stock in Ju 88C-6 D5?OX of NJG 3/12 at coast
of Romo Island, Denmark, setting No.3 engine on fire. The crew bailed out and the aircraft
crashed at Juvre Sande on the north end of the island of Rømø, southeast of Esbjerg, Denmark. {4 missions}. .
MACR 3138.
30803 (MSN 5917) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 30Jul43. 7th Ferrying Group,
Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 31Jul43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 3Aug43. 325th Bomb Squadron [NV*O],
92nd Bomb Group, Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 27Sep43. Failed to return from a mission to the I.G. Farben
chemical works at Leverkusen, Germany 1Dec43 (9KIA:1POW). Clouds obscured the target so the formation diverted
to the secondary target, a non-ferrous metals works at Solingen, Germany. Flak damaged the ball turret and
set No.2 engine on fire. The aircraft exploded and crashed two miles northnorthwest of Euskirchen, between
Elsig und Dürscheven, twenty-two miles southwest of Cologne, Germany. MACR 1387
30804 (MSN 5918) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 30Jul43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field,
Great Falls, MT 31Aug43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 2Aug43. Redmond Field, OR 17Aug43.
Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 7/8Sep43. 365th Bomb Squadron [XK*G], 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105),
Northamptonshire 18Sep43. Failed to return from a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt,
Germany 14Oct43 (7KIA:3POW). En route to the target area, the bomber formation was repeatedly attacked
by a large number of Luftwaffe fighters. After the target, the Group turned and headed westward for
England. German fighters, having landed and refueled, attacked again. Shot down by enemy fighters,
crashed Glashofen, near Markt Heidenfeldt, fifteen miles northwest of Würzburg, Germany. MACR 922
30805 (MSN 5919) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 30Jul43. 5th Ferrying Group,
Love Field, Dallas, TX 16Aug43. Redmond Field, OR 17Aug43. 401st Bomb Squadron [LL*H],
91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 24Sep43. Named "Bomb Boogie's Revenge"
Failed to return from a mission to the port area at Wilhelmshaven, Germany 3Nov43 (7KIA:3POW).
Moderate inaccurate flak was encountered over the target. Escort fighters were scheduled to cover
the whole route over enemy territory but were not on hand for approximately ten minutes between
the I.P. and the target, during which time the group was attacked by enemy fighters. Shot down by a
Fw 190 fighter and crashed on a Gesellschaftshaus, west of Wilhelmshaven, Germany. {2 missions}. MACR 1155.
30806 (MSN 5920) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 30Jul43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field,
Dallas, TX 16Aug43. Redmond Field, OR 17Aug43. 339th Bomb Squadron [QJ*G],
96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 9Sep43. Named "V Packet"
Seriously battle damaged during a mission to an aircraft factory at Bremen, Germany 8Oct43.
The formation was met with stiff resistance by German fighters and flak crews on the ground the
entire way, from the Dutch coast all the way into the German heartland, and back again.
In addition, a large force of German fighters launched vicious attacks against the planes.
Over the target, the formation encountered intense flak. Landed safely back at Snetterton Heath
with one engine disabled and at least 100 flak holes. All the engines had been over-stressed
by running at full power for approximately 45 minutes [they weren’t replaced but stayed on
for further missions]. Failed to return from a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt,
Germany 14Oct43 (10POW). En route to the target area, the bomber formation was repeatedly
attacked by a large number of Luftwaffe fighters. After the target, the Group turned and headed
westward for England. German fighters, having landed and refueled, attacked again. Shot down
by enemy fighters, crashed Reims, France. MACR 832
30807 (MSN 5921) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30Jul43.
Dyersburg Field, TN 8Aug43. Galveston Field, TX 17Aug43. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 8Sep43. 364th Bomb Squadron [WF*K], 305th Bomb Group,
Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 18Sep43. Named "Katy". Failed to return
from a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43 (1KIA:7POW:1EVD).
En route to the target area, the bomber formation was repeatedly attacked by a large number of
Luftwaffe fighters. After the target, the Group turned and headed westward for England. German fighters,
having landed and refueled, attacked again. Shot down by Uffz Bernard Kunze in
Fw 190A of JG 1/1 Most of the crew bailed out before the bomber exploded and
crashed at Dilsen-Stokkem, five miles southwest of Maaseik, Belgium. MACR 912
Also credited to Hptm Hans Naumann of 7./JG 26 flying a Bf 109.
30808 (MSN 5922) Accepted by USAAF 28Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 30Jul43. Dyersburg Field, TN 8Aug43. 563rd Bomb Squadron, 388 Knettishall 4Sep43.
Named "Pegasus". {first combat mission 26Sep43}. Battle damaged on a mission to the port area
at Bremen, Germany 20Dec43 (10RTD). Attacked by a large force of enemy fighters and flak over the
target area was very intense. Battle damaged during a mission to the industrial area at Brunswick,
Germany 10Feb44 (10RTD). Meagre to heavy flak was seen when crossing the enemy coast at IJmuiden,
Netherlands. In the vicinity of Lingen, Germany the formation was attacked by enemy fighters in groups
of three. As they neared the target, twin-engined aircraft fired rockets into the formation. Intense flak
was encountered at the target where the aircraft received flak damage. The formation was under
fighter attack until it neared the IJsselmeer on the return home. Friendly fighters were outnumbered,
especially in the target area. Failed to return from a mission to the industrial areas of Brunswick,
Germany 23Mar44 (5KIA:5POW). The formation was about fifteen minutes early when it crossed
the enemy coast and even earlier when it reached the target. Consequently, no friendly fighter
escort was met until the formation was near the I.P. During this time a large force of enemy fighters
was encountered between Dümmer See and Steinhuder Meer, Wunstorf, Germany. Attacked by
enemy fighters east of Quakenbrück setting No.1 engine on fire. The crew bailed out before it
crashed at Walle on the Lüneburg Heath, eleven miles northwest of Celle, Germany. {34 missions}.
MACR 3541.
30809 (MSN 5923) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 4Aug43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 10Aug43.
366th Bomb Squadron [KY*G], 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 6Sep43.
Equipped with H2S airborne radar. Used for radio counter measures. Accident on a mission to bomb a
submarine repair ship at Nantes, France 23Sep43. On return from Nantes force landed at Chelveston
after mid-air collision with B-17F 42-30647. Transferred to Royal Air Force 22Jan44 as Fortress Mark II,
serial SR382. No.214 (Federated Malay States) Squadron [BU-B], No.100 Group, RAF Sculthorpe, Norfolk 2Feb44.
Failed to return from a radio counter measures mission 22Jun44 (5KIA - RAFVR:3POW:1EVD - RCAF).
During the early hours, the Fortress was shot down over the Netherlands by a German night fighter
while returning from a raid on Gelsenkirchen, Germany 22Jun44. It came under attack by a
Messerschmitt 110 piloted by Hauptmann Heinz Struning of NJG1. Although it survived the first
attacking pass, a second two minutes later proved disastrous, knocking out the inboard starboard
engine and rendering the aircraft's controls useless. Instructing the co-pilot to feather the engines
the pilot then ordered the rest of the crew to stand-by for an emergency jump, but the very next
moment the aircraft was diving out of control for the ground. Somehow by piloting skill or just
plain luck, the pilot and co-pilot managed to pull the aircraft's nose up for just long enough so
that the crew could bail out. While five managed to do so the pilot, co-pilot, navigator and an
air gunner did not. Some year’s later one of the survivors reportedly said that when he bailed
out "the pilot and co-pilot were struggling with the aircraft's controls hoping to make a forced landing".
It has never been clarified why, but the assumption is that one or more of the crew were badly
wounded in the attack and their only chance of survival was to attempt a crash landing.
Moments later with the aircraft in flames it crashed intohe the ground at De Aaldert, near
Bergharen, Netherlands where it quickly burnt out. By the time anyone arrived on the scene
four crew lay dead in the wreckage and another lay hidden beneath it. When the wreckage
was being removed several days later, the body of the fifth member of the crew was found
under the remains of the fuselage with an open parachute attached
30810 (MSN 5924) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 4Aug43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island
Field, NB 11Aug43. 338th Bomb Squadron [BX*Y], 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath
(Station 138), Norfolk 11Sep43. Named "Hunk O' Hell" Failed to return from a mission to the
city of Munich, Germany 18Mar44 (7POW:3KIA). Shot down by enemy fighters, two engines
out, then aircraft snapped in half over Black Forest, crashed Ditteshausen, near Freiburg, Germany.
MACR 3422
30811 (MSN 5925) Accepted by USAAF 29Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 4Aug43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training
Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 12Aug43. 369th Bomb Squadron [WW*D], 306th Bomb Group,
Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 2Sep43. Failed to return from a mission to the ball
bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43 (10POW). En route to the target area, the
bomber formation was repeatedly attacked by a large number of Luftwaffe fighters. After the
target, the Group turned and headed westward for England. German fighters, having landed
and refueled, attacked again. The bomber had been riddled with 20mm cannon shells and
hundreds of flak fragments. After bomb release over the target, it receieved a direct hit by
a rocket fired from a Ju 88. With damage to engine No.3, the propeller was overspeeding
and the vibration threatened to shake the engine loose. The crew bailed out before the plane exploded
and crashed at Bellheim, near Schweinfurt, Germany. . MACR 814
30812 (MSN 5926) Accepted by USAAF 29Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 4Aug43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 12Aug43. 423rd Bomb Squadron [RD*Q], 306th Bomb Group,
Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 4Sep43. Battle damaged on an Operation Starkey mission to a
Luftwaffe airfield at Vendeville, Lille, France 9Sep43. Bomb bay structure and doors struck by flak.
Eighth Air Force Service Command 9Sep43. Regained by Group 14Sep43. Equipped with H2S
airborne radar, fitted with radome in place of chin turret. Used for radio counter measures.
Transferred to Royal Air Force 21Jan44 as Fortress Mark II, serial SR383. No.214 (Federated
Malay States) Squadron [BU-F], No.100 Group, RAF Sculthorpe, Norfolk 29Jan44. RAF Oulton,
Aylsham, Norfolk 16May44. No.1699 Flight [4Z-X], RAF Oulton, Aylsham, Norfolk 8Dec44.
ed classified category E (write off) 14Jul45. SOC 1Aug45
30813 (MSN 5927) Accepted by USAAF 28Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 31Jul43. Seattle, WA 1Aug43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 2Aug43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 10Aug43. 423rd Bomb Squadron [RD*L],
306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 2Sep43. Named "Queen Jennie"
Failed to return from a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43 (5KIA:5POW).
En route to the target area, the bomber formation was repeatedly attacked by a large number of Luftwaffe
fighters. After the target, the Group turned and headed westward for England. German fighters, having
landed and refueled, attacked again until, finally, the bombers reached the coastline of western Europe
and relative safety. . Attacked by enemy fighters and shot down by Oblt Rudolf Engleder in
Fw 190A-6 of JG 1/1 and broke in two. Several crew bailed out before the plane crashed near
Dorne, fifteen miles northeast of Hasselt, Belgium. MACR 820
30814 (MSN 5928) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30Jul43.
Dyersburg Field, TN 8Aug43. 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 7Sep43.
366th Bomb Squadron [KY*F], 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 21Sep43
Named "Round Tripper". Failed to return from a mission to the ball bearing factories at
Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43 (8POW:2KIA). En route to the target area, the bomber formation
was repeatedly attacked by a large number of Luftwaffe fighters. After the target, the Group turned
and headed westward for England. German fighters, having landed and refueled, attacked again.
Damaged by enemy aircraft and flak, and shot down by Obfw.
Willi Roth in Fw 190A-6 of JG 26/5 and crashed Adendorf, near Meckenheim,
ten miles southwest of Bonn, Germany. MACR 919
30815 (MSN 5929) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 4Aug43.
498th Bomb Group, Kansas City, MO 3Jun43. 677th Bomb Squadron, 444th Bomb Group, Great
Bend Field, KS. Mid-air collision at Great Bend 22Oct43. 243rd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit),
Great Bend Field, KS 12Jun44. 554th Base Unit, 4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal
Airport, TN 19Aug44. 243rd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Great Bend Field, KS 29Jun44.
2519th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Fort Worth Field, TX 11Sep44.
19th Bomb Group, Great Bend Field, KS 12Sep44. 243rd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit),
Great Bend Field, KS 13Oct44. 241st Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Fairmont Field,
Geneva, NB 12Feb45. 243rd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Great Bend Field, KS 18Feb45.
902nd Base Unit (Base Complement), Orlando AAB, FL 16Apr45. 243rd Base Unit (Operational
Training Unit), Great Bend Field, KS 26Apr45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field,
Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 25May45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped
30816 (MSN 5930) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 31Jul43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 9Aug43.
550th Bomb Squadron [SG*J], 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 25Aug43.
Named 'Mary Ellen III'. Failed to return from a mission to the industrial areas of
Emden, Germany 11Dec43 (8POW:2KIA). The Luftwaffe was waiting for the bombers; the moment
the bombers crossed over into mainland Europe, six twin-engine fighter dived out of the sun
upon the formation, concentrating all their fire on the lead plane. Once the leader had been
downed, the fighters swept through the lead Squadron. Before the deputy lead had a chance
to reassemble the formation, a large force of single-engine fighters joined the fray, attacking
the other bombers. Shot down by Obfw. Siegfried Zick in Bf 109G of JG 11/7
Set No.2 engine on fire. Crashed at Warendorp Farm, Torrenga, near Warfhuizen, Netherlands. MACR 1664.
30817 (MSN 5931) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 4Aug43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island
Field, NB 11Aug43. 334th Bomb Squadron [BG*G], 95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119),
Suffolk 15Jun43. Named "Miss Flower III" Failed to return from a mission to
railway installations at Münster, Germany 10Oct43 (10POW). As they approached the city,
the formation was swarmed by a large force of enemy aircraft for an estimated forty-five
minutes of vicious fighting. By the time their friendly fighter escorts arrived to drive off the
Luftwaffe, the damage had already been done. Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed near
Borghorst, Steinfurt, Germany. {9 missions} MACR 1044.
30818 (MSN 5932) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 4Aug43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 11Aug43.
350th Bomb Squadron [LN*S], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 25Aug43
Named "Salvo Gal" by crew after mission #6 Sep 1, 1943.
Failed to return from a mission to an aircraft factory at Bremen, Germany 8Oct43 (1KIA:8POW:1EVD).
The formation was met with stiff resistance by German fighters and flak crews on the ground
the entire way, from the Dutch coast all the way into the German heartland, and back again.
In addition, a large force of German fighters launched vicious attacks against the planes.
Over the target, the formation encountered intense flak. Flak damaged No.2 engine and the
bomber fell out of formation, later attacked by fighters damaging another engine. Credit for
the shooting down of the bomber was given to Leutnant Franz Ruhl, flying a Messserschmitt
Bf 109G of JG 3/4. With controls shot away, fires and uncontrollable engines, the crew bailed out
before the bomber crashed near Lippenhuizen, IJsselmeer, Netherlands. MACR 952.
30819 (MSN 5933) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 4Aug43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 12Aug43.
551st Bomb Squadron [HR*U], 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 25Aug43.
Named "Shack Bunny/Lule Belle" Salvaged after non battle damage 29May45.
30820 (MSN 5934) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 4Aug43. 234th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Clovis Field, NM 24Jun44.
3701st Base Unit (Technical School), Amarillo Field, TX 23Jul43. 234th Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Clovis Field, NM 29Jul43. 4202nd Base Unit (Rome Air Technical Service
Command), Syracuse AAB, NY 29Apr45. Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK
for storage and disposal 29Oct45.
30821 (MSN 5935) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 31Jul43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island
Field, NB 9Aug43. 407th Bomb Squadron [PY*U/Y], 92nd Bomb Group Aug43. Ferried
Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 2Sep43. 92nd Bomb Group,
Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire Sep43. Crash landed in bad weather at
Marlborough Farm, Gaydon, Warks, while forming up for an abortive raid on
Bremen, Germany 13Nov43 (10KIA). Salvaged 14Nov43
30822 (MSN 5936) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 4Aug43.
Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 16Aug43.
Dalhart Field, TX 17Aug43. 551st Bomb Squadron [HR*R], 385th Bomb Group, Great
Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 8Sep43. Named 'Foolish Virgin/Dorsal Queen'
Failed to return from a mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factory at Regensburg,
Germany 25Feb44 (7KIA:3POW). After crossing the coastline into mainland Europe, the
formation encountered frequent flak and fierce aerial attacks from the Luftwaffe,
causing heavy damage to some of the bombers. The planes arrived at Regensburg
and encountered intense flak over the target area. Damaged by an enemy fighter
[shot down by the B-17 crew], lost control, spun and exploded mid-air over
Regensburg, Germany. MACR 2776
30823 (MSN 5937) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 4Aug43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 5Aug43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field,
Dallas, TX 8Aug43. 350th Bomb Squadron [LN*F], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts
(Station 139), Norfolk 6Sep43., Named "The Gnome/Invadin' Maiden"
Failed to return from a mission to railway installations at Münster, Germany 10Oct43
(5POW:5KIA). As they approached the city, the formation was swarmed by a large force
of enemy aircraft for an estimated forty-five minutes of vicious fighting. By the time
their friendly fighter escorts arrived to drive off the Luftwaffe, the damage had already
been done. Shot down by Fw 190, damaged engine No.2, wing caught fire, exploded and
crashed Wildermann’s Farm, Hohenhalte, six miles west of Münster. MACR 1025
30824 (MSN 5938) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 4Aug43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 5Aug43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field,
Dallas, TX 8Aug43. Dalhart Field, TX 17Aug43. 327th Bomb Squadron [UX*R], 92nd Bomb
Group, Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 26Sep43. Named "Bobby Joe"
Failed to return from a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43
(5KIA:5POW). En route to the target area, the bomber formation was repeatedly attacked
by a large number of Luftwaffe fighters. Struck by 20mm shell fired from a Bf 109 just
before the target. Went down under control after bombing the target and crashed at
Sickershausen, southeast of Kitzingen, twelve miles southeast of Würzburg, Germany. MACR 847
30825 (MSN 5939) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 4Aug43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 5Aug43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field,
Dallas, TX 8Aug43. 235th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Biggs Field, El Paso, TX 19Aug43.
19th Bomb Group, Pyote Field, TX 9Nov43. 236th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Pyote Field, TX. Damaged while parked in collision by B-17F 42-5929 at Pyote 2May44.
235th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Biggs Field, El Paso, TX. Damaged by
engine failure at Alamogordo Field, NM 18Oct44. 233rd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training
Station), Davis-Monthan Field, Tucson, AZ 18Mar45. 290th Base Unit, Pueblo AAB, CO
27May43. 224th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Sioux City AAB, IA 12Jun45.
327th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Drew Field, Tampa, FL 7Jul45.
2113th Base Unit, Pilot School, Advanced, Two Engine, Columbus Field, MS 10Sep45.
381st Base Unit, Marianna, FL. Damaged while parked in collision by C-47A 43-31568
at Drew Field, FL 3Oct45. 610th Base Unit (Proving Ground Command), Eglin Field,
Valparaiso, FL 5Dec45. Salvaged Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 29Jan46
30826 (MSN 5940) Accepted by USAAF at Seattle, WA 30Jul43. Union Pacific Railroad dedication
ceremony, Seattle, WA 3Aug43. Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field,
Dallas, TX 4Aug43. 17th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 5Aug43.
5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 8Aug43. Dalhart Field, TX 17Aug43. Operational
Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 3Sep43.
571st Bomb Squadron [FC*R], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 10Sep43
Named "Spirit of Union Pacific Railroad" Named to acknowledge the
contributions of the 65,000 employees of Union Pacific Railroad who had raised an extra $379,000
in War Bond purchases. As a side note about the bomber apparently this was not the plane originally
assigned to be the UP plane. The Army didn't want to wait on the plane for a ceremony so this
was a second plane that was lettered. In the haste to get it painted they omitted the word "employees."
According to Army and Treasury Department instructions on naming bombers, they were supposed to
be named for employees of organizations. They didn't want to delay delivery of this plane so it went
out as shown. This was recorded as the first named heavy bomber recognizing a railroad group.
Renamed SHORT STUFF. Named after the pilot. {first combat mission 4Oct43}. Failed to return from a
mission to railway installations at Münster, Germany 10Oct43 (8POW:3KIA). As they approached the
city, the formation was swarmed by a large force of enemy aircraft for an estimated forty-five minutes
of vicious fighting. By the time their friendly fighter escorts arrived to drive off the Luftwaffe, the
damage had already been done. Struck by flak, setting No.3 engine on fire. Initially attempting
to control the fire, it became out of control and the crew bailed out. Claimed to have been shot
down by Oberfeldwebel Leo-Lothar Barann flying a Bf 109G-G. Exploded and crashed on
Stadtbaumer Farm near Ostbrevern, five miles northeast of Münster, Germany. {4 missions) MACR 863.
30827 (MSN 5941) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 4Aug43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 13Aug43.
549th Bomb Squadron [XA*O], 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 25Aug43.
Named "Round Trip Ticket III". The gunners that crewed this aircraft lodged no fewer than 11 fighter
kill claims during the course of 21 combat missions. Designated war weary. 17th Airborne Division.
Salvaged after non battle damage 12Jun45
30828 (MSN 5942) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 4Aug43.
Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated
TB-17F. 241st Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Fairmont Field, Geneva, NB 27Dec44. Force
landed with engine failure at Fairmont Field 14Jun45. Reclaimed 7Jun46
30829 (MSN 5943) Accepted by USAAF 30Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 4Aug43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training
Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 13Aug43. 562nd Bomb Squadron [L], 388th Bomb Group,
Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 5Sep43. . Named "The Princess Pat".
{first combat mission 26Sep43}. Battle damaged on a mission to the port area at Bremen,
Germany 20Dec43 (10RTD). Attacked by a large force of enemy fighters and flak over the target
area was very intense. Failed to return from a mission to the Vereinigte Kugellagerfabriken AG (VKF)
ball bearing factory at Erkner, Berlin, Germany 8Mar44 (2KIA:8POW). Very determined enemy fighter
opposition was met en route to the target during a lapse of the friendly escorts. The primary target
was not able to be bombed as planned, so diverted to a factory complex at Wildau, southeast of Berlin.
Flak was not heavy or effective over the target, but a large force of enemy fighters engaged the bomber
formation as it headed for home. Attacked by enemy fighters near Celle, cannon fire from a Fw 190 caused
the left wing to come off and the plane flipped on its back. Eight of the crew were able to bail out over
Lichtenhorst before the plane crashed near Nöpke, nine miles southeast of Nienburg, Germany. {36 missions}
MACR 3081
30830 (MSN 5944) Accepted by USAAF 31Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 4Aug43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 14Aug43. 100th Bomb Group 28Aug43. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik,
Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 31Aug43. 418th Bomb Squadron [LD*U],
100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk Sep43. Named "M'lle Zig Zig".
Failed to return from a mission to railway installations at Münster, Germany 10Oct43 (10POW:1KIA).
As they approached the city, the formation was swarmed by a large force of enemy aircraft for an
estimated forty-five minutes of vicious fighting. By the time their friendly fighter escorts arrived
to drive off the Luftwaffe, the damage had already been done. Before the Initial Point a cannon s
hell from a German fighter killed the waist gunner. Later, a rocket damaged No.1 & No.3 engines
and the bomber dropped out of formation. The remaining crew [which also included the
Squadron C.O.] bailed out and the plane crashed near Stevern, Nottuln, twelve miles west of Münster..
MACR 1029.
30831 (MSN 5945) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Aug43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 14Aug43.
364th Bomb Squadron [WF*H], 305th Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 15Sep43
Named *Lazy Baby*. Failed to return from a mission to the ball bearing factories at
Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43 (7INT:2POW:1KIA). interned in Switzerland Oct 14, 1943
during mission to Schweinfurt. MACR 913. First damaged by AA and then
and then set on fire by German fighters. 3 crew injured and
another 2 bailed out and became POW. Crashlanded near
Aesch, Switzerland. Another crewman died of injuries next
morning. . Dismantled and salvaged by the Swiss.
42-30832/30931 Boeing B-17F-125-BO Fortress
MSN 5946/6045. Dispositions from B-17 Fortress Master Log, Dave Osborne (FORTLOG)
Production changes: Low temperature-proof hydraulic hoses. Change in gyro flux gate compass mount
30832 (MSN 5946) Accepted by USAAF 31Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 5Aug43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training
Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 14Aug43. Ferried RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Mullaghmore,
County Sligo, Eire 12/13Sep43. 368th Bomb Squadron [BO*J], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh
(Station 111), Bedfordshire 18Sep43. Failed to return from a mission to the port at Bremen,
Germany 26Nov43 (10POW). After the target the plane was seen to leave formation under control
south of Oldenburg. Returning home, the bomber was attacked by enemy fighters and shot
down by Lt. Oppermann in Bf 109G of JG 11/III Stab and crashed
Schwerinsdorf, seventeen miles northeast of Leer, GermanyMACR 1328.
30833 (MSN 5947) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Aug43.
Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 17Aug43. 201st Base Unit, Headquarters, Colorado
Springs, CO 20Jun44. 200th Base Unit, Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 25Aug45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage
and disposal 27Oct45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
30834 (MSN 5948) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Aug43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 15Aug43. 534th Bomb Squadron [GD*E], 381st Bomb Group,
Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 23Sep43. Named *Mickey Finn*. Battle damaged
mission to railway marshalling yards at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 4Feb44. As the planes
passing over the Netherlands en route to Germany, local cross winds carried the bombers
ght into enemy flak. Two engines failed but crew decided to make for home and crash
landed at Ridgewell. Salvaged 7Feb44. {9 missions}
30835 (MSN 5949) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Aug43.
Pyote Field, TX 17Aug43. 435th Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group, Pyote Field, TX 9Nov43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 1Jun44.
9th Bomb Group, Grand Island Field, NB 8Jul44. 232nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Dalhart Field, TX 15Jul44. 6th Bomb Group, Grand Island Field, NB 19Jul43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 5Sep44. 202nd Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Galveston Field, TX 8Oct44. 268th Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 30Mar45. Reconstruction Finance
Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 9Oct45
30836 (MSN 5950) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Aug43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 13Aug43. 551st Bomb Squadron [HR*V], 385th Bomb Group, Great
Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 12Sep43. Named 'Dragon Lady'– artwork of a nude riding
a dragon carrying a bomb. Nose art painted by Anne Haywood, American Red Cross Aero Club,
385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield. severely damaged by flak
while attacking V-weapons site in the Pas-de-Calais, France near French Coast Feb 13, 1944,
losing No 4 engine. Two more engines failed soon
afterwards and aircraft ditched in English Channel. MACR 3245.
3 crew died, remaining 7 rescued.
30837 (MSN 5951) Accepted by USAAF 31Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 5Aug43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training
Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 14Aug43. 561st Bomb Squadron [S], 388th Bomb Group,
Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 5Sep43. Named "Ole Bassar". {first combat mission 8Oct43}.
Damaged on a mission to the port area of Bremen, Germany 13Nov43 (11RTD). The pilot aborted
from 27,000ft when the No.4 propeller oversped and could not be feathered. There were terrific
vibrations and oil was running out. While descending, the No.4 engine caught fire at 7,000ft.
The pilot prepared to ditch and sent out an SOS, but the fire went out in further descent. Soon after this,
lightning struck the plane and disabled the radio. Now, with the fire out, the pilot decided to bring the
aircraft back to base and landed safely. Failed to return from a mission to the Luftwaffe air depot at
Mérignac, Bordeaux, France 5Dec43 (8KIA:2POW:1EVD). When the target was found to be completely
obscured, the Group turned to its secondary target, the Luftwaffe airfield at Cognac. Finding this
target also obscured and facing a fuel shortage, the planes began jettisoning their bomb loads.
Meagre flak along the route intensified over target and about a dozen fighters attacked.
Damaged by flak, dropped out of formation north of the target with No.1 propeller feathered and
was shot down by Fw 190 fighters. The pilot ordered the crew to bail out but only three airmen
managed to escape before the bomber crashed near Cognac, France. {11 missions}. MACR 5022 and 7325.
Both MACRs wrongly identify the plane as 43-30637.
30838 (MSN 5952) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Aug43.
Redmond Field, OR 15Aug43. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 21Sep43. 422th Bomb Squadron [JJ*O], 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105),
Northamptonshire 1Oct43. Named "Paper Doll". Experimented in night bombing alongside the RAF and operated night
leaflet and propaganda missions. Accident returning from an aborted night leaflet and propaganda
mission over France 20Jan44. The plane turned back with an overspeeding propeller on No.2 engine
and the No.3 engine was on fire. 858th Bomb Squadron, 492nd Bomb Group, North Pickenham 24Jun44.
Special operations and electronic countermeasure (ECM) missions. Harrington (Station 179), Northamptonshire Aug44
30839 (MSN 5953) Accepted by USAAF 31Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 5Aug43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 13Aug43.
562nd Bomb Squadron, 388th Bomb Group. Named "Strato Express". Departed RCAF Gander, Newfoundland for UK
heading for Prestwick, Scotland 1Sep43. An engine failed over the North Atlantic, the bomber was diverted
from Prestwick by poor visibility and instructed to head for Stornaway, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland.
With fuel exhaustion, the plane crash landed wheels up in a field at Braehead Farm, near Strathaven,
Lanarkshire, Scotland. Condemned salvage no battle damage Sep 1, 1943
30840 ((MSN 5954) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Aug43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 13Aug43.
350th Bomb Squadron [LN*O], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 25Aug43.
Failed to return from a mission to an aircraft factory at Bremen, Germany 8Oct43 (5KIA:5POW).
The formation was met with stiff resistance by German fighters and flak crews on the ground the
entire way, from the Dutch coast all the way into the German heartland. In addition, a large force of
German fighters launched vicious attacks against the planes. Over the target, the formation encountered
intense flak. Severe flak damage, crashed near Oerdinghausen, nine miles west of Hoya, Germany.
MACR 951.
30841 (MSN 5955) Accepted by USAAF 3Aug43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 5Aug43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 15Aug43. Redmond Field, OR 16Aug43.
Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 17Sep43. 423rd Bomb Squadron [RD*R],
306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 19Sep43. Seriously battle damaged during a mission
to an aircraft factory at Bremen, Germany 8Oct43. The formation was met with stiff resistance by German fighters
and flak crews on the ground the entire way, from the Dutch coast all the way into the German heartland,
and back again. In addition, a large force of German fighters launched vicious attacks against the planes.
Over the target, the formation encountered intense flak. 20mm cannon shells struck the left wing and fuel tank,
No.1 engine and propeller. Flak struck the left horizontal stabiliser, left side of rear fuselage and Station 6.
Eighth Air Force Service Command 8Oct43. Regained by Group 17Oct43. Damaged in a mid-air collision
with B-17F 42-30221 during assembly for a squadron formation training flight 27Dec43. Landed safely
in a field without injury to crew members. Salvaged 28Dec43. 42-30221 crashed into English Channel.
30842 (MSN 5956) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 5Aug43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 6Aug43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 10Aug43.
19th Bomb Group, Pyote Field, TX 9Nov43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 15Jun44.
Substantially damaged landing with mechanical failure at Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 21Sep44.
Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F.
271st Base Unit (Staging Wing), 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 9Jan45. 2519th Base Unit
(Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Fort Worth Field, TX 8Jun45. 271st Base Unit (Staging Wing),
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 22Jul45. 485th Base Unit, Kearney Field, NB 29Jul45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 16Nov45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
30843 (MSN 5957) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 6Aug43. 7th Ferrying Group,
Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 7Aug43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 10Aug43. 19th Bomb Group,
Pyote Field, TX 9Nov43. 398th Bomb Squadron, 504th Bomb Group, Fairmont Field, Geneva, NB. Damaged by
fire caused by mechanical failure en route to Pierre Field, SD 17Aug44. 353rd Air Base Detachment,
Pierre Field, SD 20Aug44. 398th Bomb Squadron, 504th Bomb Group, Fairmont Field, Geneva, NB 26Aug44.
241st Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Fairmont Field, Geneva, NB 17Sep44. 249th Base Unit (Special),
Alliance Field, NB 19Oct44. 268th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Peterson Field, Colorado
Springs, CO 1Mar45. 4134th Base Unit (Spokane Air Technical Service Command), Spokane Field, WA 8Jun45.
268th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 12Jun45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 29Dec45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30844 (MSN 5958) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 6Aug434.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 7Aug43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 12Aug43.
435th Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group, Pyote Field, TX 21Aug43. 9th Bomb Group, McCook Field, NB 6Jun44.
245th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), McCook Field, NB 16Sep44. 245th Base Unit (Operational
Training Unit), Brookley Field, Mobile, AL 16Oct44. 245th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit),
McCook Field, NB 9Dec44. 4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field,
Dayton, OH 11Dec44. 237th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Kirtland Field, Albuquerque, NM 3Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 26Nov45
30845 (MSN 5959) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 6Aug43. 7th Ferrying Group,
Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 7Aug43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 10Aug43.
93rd Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group, Pyote Field, TX 21Aug43. Accident taking off at Pyote Field 26Aug43.
4006th Base Unit (Area Command), Miami Air Technical Service Command, Miami, FL 5Aug44.
236th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Pyote Field, TX. Damaged by a tornado while
parked at Pyote Field 26Aug44. 4200th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command),
Chicago Municipal Airport, IL 1Jan45. 236th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Pyote
Field, TX 2Jan45. 4104th Base Unit (Rome Air Technical Service Command), Rome Field, NY 18Jan45.
Salvaged Reclaimed 14Aug45
30846 (MSN 5960) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 6Aug43. 7th Ferrying Group,
Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 7Aug43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 10Aug43. Air Service
Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 20Dec43. 3501st Base Unit (Technical School & Overseas
Replacement Depot), Boca Raton Field, FL 16Jul43. 4006th Base Unit (Area Command), Miami Air
Technical Service Command, Miami, FL 19Aug44. 3501st Base Unit (Technical School & Overseas
Replacement Depot), Boca Raton Field, FL 24Aug44. 3539th Base Unit (Technical School), Langley Field,
Hampton, VA 7Jan45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and
disposal 20Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30847 (MSN 5961) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 7Aug43.
Dalhart Field, TX 17Aug43. 413th Bomb Squadron [MZ*N], 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath
(Station 138), Norfolk 8Sep43. Named "Pegasus". Accident returning from a mission to the industrial area at Brunswick,
Germany 10Feb44. The bomber was badly shot up by fighters and flak. The pilot ordered bail out but
was able to nurse the plane back to England (1KIA:3POW:2WIA:3RTD:1EVD). Failed to return from a
mission to the Vereinigte Kugellagerfabriken AG (VKF) ball bearing factory at Erkner, Berlin,
Germany 8Mar44 (2KIA:8POW). All the way from the Netherlands to Berlin, the bombers were hounded
by Luftwaffe fighters. Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Lutten, four miles northeast of Vechta, Germany
MACR 3423.
30848 (MSN 5962) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 7Aug43.
225th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Rapid City Field, SD 14Aug45. 2517th Base Unit
(Navigation School & Instructor School), Ellington Field, Houston, TX 15May45. 225th Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Rapid City Field, SD 11Jun45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Cal-Aero Field, Ontario, CA for storage and disposal 12Jun45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Sharp & Fellows Contracting Company Jul46; scrapped.
30849 (MSN 5963) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 6Aug43.
Redmond Field, OR 15Aug43. 325th Bomb Squadron [NV*F], 92nd Bomb Group, Podington (Station 109),
Bedfordshire 27Sep43. J Named "Fart Sack". Battle damaged on a Crossbow mission to a German V-weapon site 1May44.
Crash landed at RAF Hawkinge, Kent. Salvaged 20May44.
30850 (MSN 5964) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 7Aug43.
224th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Sioux City AAB, IA 6Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 14Sep45
30851 (MSN 5965) Accepted by USAAF 5Aug43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 7Aug43. Dalhart Field, TX 17Aug43. 560th Bomb Squadron [H], 388th Bomb Group,
Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 8Sep43. Named "Little Boy Blue". {first combat mission 26Sep43}.
Battle damaged on a mission to the port area at Bremen, Germany 20Dec43 (10RTD). Attacked by a large force of
enemy fighters and flak over the target area was very intense. Battle damaged on a mission to the
Messerschmitt factory at Augsburg, Germany 13Apr44 (1WIA:9RTD). Over the target, intense and
accurate flak was experienced. Enemy fighters attacked from the target until the formation reached the
Belgian border; a waist gunner was wounded. Battle damaged on a mission to a railway marshalling
yard at Liège, Belgium 25May44. Meagre flak was encountered crossing the French coast in the Le Tréport
area but very accurate flak at Poix-de-Picardie, France. Accident forming up for a mission to a ball
bearing factory at Schweinfurt, Germany 19Jul44 (8KIA:2RTD). The crew of this B-17 departed
Knettishall to fly a combat mission. The other crew from 96th Bomb Group was flying B-17G 43-37623
and had taken off from Snetterton Heath, Norfolk. The B-17s were assembling over their airfields before
beginning their separate group climb in formation. Aircraft #623 was flying number four position
in the low squadron of the high group. The pilot of #851 held good position as the number 5 position
of the high squadron during the group assembly but during the wing assembly his aircraft was
lagging behind a considerable distance. A No.3 engine supercharger malfunction had upset the
engine settings but, now rectified, the pilot started back to regain position in his group. As the
96th Group approached the 388th Group from the rear at the start of the wing assembly,
aircraft #851 came up from below #623, which was flying second element lead of the low squadron
of the 96th Group. There was a mid-air collision west of Shepherds Grove, Suffolk. Aircraft #851 was
below #623 and the number two engine propeller of #623 struck the fuselage of #851 causing it to
break in half just forward of the waist windows. The forward part of the plane spun into the ground
and exploded at Thurston, east of Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, causing damage to the Black Fox public house,
while the tail section fluttered earthward. One waist-gunner and the tail-gunner were ejected by the
collision but able to parachute safely and returned to base. {70 missions}. Salvaged. The B-17G was
able to jettison its bombs and land safely.
30852 (MSN 5966) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 7Aug43.
4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 10Aug43. Dalhart Field, TX 16Aug43.
535th Bomb Squadron [MS*Y], 381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 24Sep43.
Named *Blowin' Bessie/Hot Toddy*. Failed to return from a mission to the
railway marshalling yards at Gelsenkirchen, Germany 5Nov43 (3POW:7KIA). Damaged by flak
after passing over the target, an object was seen to drop from the No.2 nacelle with oil vapour
coming out and the propeller appeared to be feathered. The squadron formation began to lag
behind the rest of the group. A few minutes later, the bomber dropped out of formation with
the No.1 propeller feathered. It was then attacked by enemy fighters and was shot down by Obfw
Hans Nowack in Fw 190A-6 of JG 2/3. Fatally wounded the pilot and other
crew members. The remaining crew bailed out before the plane crashed in Hollandsch Diep, a wide
river and an estuary of the Rhine and Meuse river by Klundert, Netherlands. {3 missions}. MACR 1399.
Parts recovered Oct 1969, Hollands Diep
30853 (MSN 5967) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 9Aug43.
30th Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group, Pyote Field, TX 9Nov43. Combat Crew Training Squadron,
19th Bomb Group, Pyote Field, TX. Forcelanded engine failure at Pyote 10Mar44. 246th Base Unit
(Operational Training Unit), Pratt Field, KS 4Jun44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 18Jun43. Operational Training Unit, Pratt Field, KS 19Jul44. 232nd Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Dalhart Field, TX 23Aug44. 244th Base Unit (Operational
Training Unit), Harvard Field, NB 4Oct44. 203rd Base Unit (16th Bomber Operational Training Wing),
Jackson AAB, MS 21Jan45. 215th Base Unit, Pueblo AAB, CO 16Sep45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 30Nov45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
30854 (MSN 5968) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 7Aug43.
Dalhart Field, TX 17Aug43. 339th Bomb Squadron [QJ*E], 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath
(Station 138), Norfolk 4Sep43. Named "Black Heart III". Failed to return from a
mission to the port at Bremen, Germany 26Nov43 (10KIA). Shot down by Obfw.
Emil Schmelzinger in Bf 109G of JG 112/9 at Oldenburg,
Germany and crashed into North Sea. MACR 1389.
30855 MSN 5969) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 10Aug43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 3Sep43.
613th Bomb Squadron [IN*N], 401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 3Jan44.
Named. "Ol' Massa". Failed to return from a mission to industrial areas in Berlin,
ny 8May44 (7KIA:3POW). Shot down by flak May 8, 1944. MACR 4586.
Received a direct flak burst just behind the ball turret.
Tail section went one way and frontal section another.
The wreckage crashed at Balkum, near Hesepe, fifteen miles northwest of Osnabrück, Germany
30856 (MSN 5970) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 9Aug43.
5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 10Aug43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Aug43. 223rd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Dyersburg Field, TN 6Jun44. 901st Base Unit, Heavy Bombardment, Pinecastle Field, Orlando, FL 10Jun44.
223rd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN 16Jun44. 554th Base Unit,
4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 6Nov44. 223rd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training
Station), Dyersburg Field, TN 16Nov44. 345th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Waycross
Field, GA 1Mar45. 244th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Harvard Field, NB 4Mar45.
223rd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN 10May45. 325th Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Avon Park Field, FL 3Jun45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 22Aug45
30857 (MSN 5971) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 9Aug43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 10Aug43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Aug43. 510th Bomb Squadron [TU*J], 351st Bomb Group,
Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 22Sep43. Crashed at Polebrook 10Dec43.
Named "My Devotion" {31 missions}.
37th Bomb Squadron [4F], 487th Bomb Group, Lavenham (Station 137), Suffolk 16Jul44. Returned to US.
377th Base Unit, Grenier Field, Manchester, NH 17Dec44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 6Aug45.
30858 (MSN 5972) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 9Aug43.
5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 10Aug43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Aug43. Combat Crew Training Squadron, 19th Bomb Group,
Pyote Field, TX 9Nov43. Damaged taxying at Pyote 8Feb44. 4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical
Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 12Jun44. 268th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training
Station), Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 6Sep44. St. Paul Field, Minneapolis, MN 4Dec44.
268th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 8Dec44.
4108th Base Unit (Atlantic Overeas Air Technical Service Command), Newark Field, NJ 10Jul45.
268th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 26Aug45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage
and disposal 27Oct45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
30859 (MSN 5973) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 10Aug43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island
Field, NB 31Aug43. 413th Bomb Squadron [MZ*O], 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton
Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 5Sep43, named "Skylark" (a popular song written in 1942
by Johnny Mercer and Hoagy Carmichael] Failed to return from a mission to the industrial area at
Frankfurt am Main, Germany 29Jan44 (8KIA:2POW). The plane had originally been designated
as the squadron lead but, during preflight inspection, its pilot discovered a mechanical problem
that resulted in a late takeoff. When it finally joined the long bomber stream, it filled a slot
toward the rear of the formation. After completing the bomb run, another B-17, 42-31151, that
had been hit veered off course while the group was under attack by enemy fighters, crashing
into this plane. The tail section broke off at the waist, ejecting a waist gunner who was fortunately
wearing his parachute, The tail gunner was able to bail out but had to delay opening his parachute
as the tail section was following him down at nearly the same rate of speed he was falling.
Somehow the parachute missed the tail section and they landed seconds apart in a small field.
Crashed Gusenburg, fourteen miles southeast of Trier, Eifel, Germany.
FORTLOG has it colliding with a Bf 109
30860 (MSN 5974) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Aug43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 31Aug43.
96th Bomb Group 13Sep43. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 17Sep43. 337th Bomb Squadron [AW*L], 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138),
Norfolk Sep43. Landing accident at Snetterton Heath 4Oct43. Failed to return from a mission to the
submarine construction yard at Vegesack, Bremen, Germany 16Dec43 (5MIA:5KIA). Attacked by German
fighters over Vlieland, West Frisian Islands, the aircraft collided with B-17F 42-3265. Crashed in the
North Sea, 10km west of Texel, Netherlands. MACR 1563.
30861 (MSN 5975) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 9Aug43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 10Aug43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Aug43. 768th Bomb Squadron, 462th Bomb Group, Walker Field,
Victoria, KS. Accident taking off from Walker Field 13Oct43. 248th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit),
Walker Field, Victoria, KS 11Jun44. 225th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Rapid City
Field, SD 14Aug44. Salvaged 15Aug44. Reclaimed 2Aug46
Parts recovered from crash site in Alaska. Wings at Fairbanks, Alaska and aft fuselage at Auburn, CA
30862 (MSN 5976) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 10Aug43.
248th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Walker Field, Victoria, KS 4Jun44. 4136th Base Unit
(Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 13Jul44. 4100th Base Unit
(Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 11Jan45. Damaged while parked
in collision by C-47A 43-15548 caused by weather at Patterson 13Jan45. 6th Base Unit, Winston
Salem, NC 20May45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage
and disposal 21Feb46. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company,
Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30863 (MSN 5977) Accepted by USAAF 7Aug43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 11Aug43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training
Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 31Aug43. 563rd Bomb Squadron [T], 388th Bomb Group,
Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 6Sep43, Named "My Devotion". Assistant Crew Chief Bill Farnesi
was the youngest member of his ground crew and so he was allowed to name their plane. ‘My Devotion’
was a Glenn Miller song that he liked. Farnesi painted the lettering on the plane.
{first combat mission 2Oct43}. Battle damaged on a mission to a railway marshalling yard at
Gelsenkirchen, Germany 5Nov43 (10RTD). Flak damaged two engines, on return the crew bailed
out over Suffolk. The aircraft crashed at College Farm, Elmham St Cross, Suffolk. {4 missions}. Salvaged
Crew OK.
30864 (MSN 5978) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Aug43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 13Aug43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Aug43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 31Aug43. Ferried from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to
Nutts Corner (Station 235), Belfast, Northern Ireland 13/14Sep43. 535th Bomb Squadron [MS*T],
381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 19Sep43. Failed to return from a mission
to the Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau Aktiengesellschaft (Deschimag) shipyard at Bremen,
Germany 8Oct43 (1KIA:9POW). The formation was met with stiff resistance by German fighters
and flak crews on the ground the entire way, from the Dutch coast all the way into the German
heartland. In addition, a large force of German fighters launched vicious attacks against the planes.
Over the target, the formation encountered intense flak. Flak damaged engine No.2, crashed Haupstedt,
Germany. {2 missions}.
30865 (MSN 5979) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Aug43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 31Aug43.
358th Bomb Squadron [VK*G], 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 18Oct43.
Failed to return from a mission to the AGO-Flugzeugwerke Fw 190 manufacturing factory at
Oschersleben, Germany 11Jan44 (6KIA:4POW). While the aircraft were airborne, the weather
closed in over English bases and a recall signal was issued. B/Gen. Robert F. Travis, Air
Commander of the 1st Bomb Division, continued on to the target. This left the 1st Bomb Division
with greater exposure to enemy fighter attacks. Good fighter support was provided by
P-47 Thunderbolts on the penetration and by P-51 Mustangs over the target. P-47s were airborne
to provide withdrawal support but they obeyed the recall order to return to England and left the
bombers to fend for themselves on the return trip. It proved to be the most disastrous of the 303rd
Bomb Group combat missions flown to date. The 303rd lost eleven of the forty B-17s flying the mission.
Luftwaffe attacks started over the IJsselmeer and intensified when the American fighters returned home.
Meagre and fairly accurate flak was experienced on the bomb run, with intermittent inaccurate flak
on the return trip. Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Herzberg, Sudharz, near Oschersleben,
Germany. {9 missions}. MACR 1927
30866 (MSN 5980) Accepted by USAAF 7Aug43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 10Aug43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 24Oct43. 401st Bomb Group,
Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 30Oct43. 563rd Bomb Squadron [T],
388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk. 508th Bomb Squadron [YB*S], 351st Bomb
Group, Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 21Nov43. Named "Yankee Belle/Pistol Packin' Mama"
Artwork inspired by the Vargas' "Pistol Packin' Mama" Esquire centrefold of March 1944.
Failed to return from a mission to airfields in northern Germany 21Feb44 (5KIA:5RTD). Poor weather
conditions over the primary target forced the formation to hit an alternate target, a Luftwaffe airfield
at Achmer, Bramsche, Germany. Enemy aircraft damaged two engines and ditched in the North Sea,
twenty miles east of Lowestoft, Suffolk; five crew saved by Air-Sea Rescue. {5 missions}. MACR 6063
30867 (MSN 5981) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Aug43.
510th Bomb Squadron [TU*N], 351st Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 27Sep43.
Failed to return from a mission to the Arado Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory, Anklam, Prussia 9Oct43 (3KIA:7POW).
The formation was attacked by a large force of Luftwaffe fighters soon after it crossed the coast.
They followed all the way in, attacking on the bomb run and over the target. Shot down by Maj. Vorster in Me 410A of
ZG 1/II Stab and crashed at Hooge Island, southwest of Sylt, Germany . MACR 1035.
30868 (MSN 5982) Accepted by USAAF 9Aug43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 11Aug43. 909th Specialized Pilot Training Squadron, Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH.
Damaged when nosed over landing at Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 31Dec43. 2114th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 27Oct44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 14Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway
Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
30869 (MSN 5983) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Aug43.
93rd Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group, Pyote Field, TX 1Oct43. 236th Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Pyote Field, TX 10Sep44. 4202nd Base Unit (Rome Air Technical Service Command),
Syracuse AAB, NY 26Mar45. Reclaimed 3Jan46
30870 (MSN 5984) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Aug43.
44th Bomb Squadron, 40th Bomb Group Pratt Field, KS 27Aug43. Crash landed at Pratt Field 22Feb44. Salvaged 29Feb44
30871 (MSN 5985) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Aug43.
Buckingham Field, Fort Myers, FL 24Nov43. 231st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Alamogordo Field, NM 2Aug44. 202nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Galveston
Field, TX 7Dec44. 268th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Peterson Field, Colorado
Springs, CO 30Mar45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage
and disposal 14Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company,
Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30872 MSN 5986) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Aug43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 31Aug43.
337th Bomb Squadron [AW*R], 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 9Sep43
Named "Blond Bomber/Ole Puss". . Failed to return from a mission to the
submarine construction yard at Vegesack, Bremen, Germany 16Dec43 (10MIA). Enemy fighters
shot an engine off B-17G 42-31113 which fell onto the wing of this B-17 below. The aircraft
collided and locked wings, crashing in the North Sea, west of Terschelling, West Frisian Islands,
Netherlands MACR 1565.
30873 (MSN 5987) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Aug43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 10Jun44.
6th Bomb Group, Grand Island Field, NB 8Jul44. 242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit),
Grand Island Field, NB 16Sep44. 221st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA 24Oct44.
329th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA 1Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 9Oct45
30874 (MSN 5988) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Aug43.
435th Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group, Pyote Field, TX 9Nov43. 201st Base Unit, Headquarters,
Colorado Springs, CO 20Jun44. 260th Base Unit, Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 28Jul44.
4121st Base Unit (San Antonio Air Technical Service Command), Kelly Field, San Antonio, TX 2Feb45.
201st Base Unit, Headquarters, Colorado Springs, CO 24Feb45. 260th Base Unit, Peterson Field,
Colorado Springs, CO 17Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 3Dec45
30875 (MSN 5989) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Aug43.
40th Bomb Group Pratt Field, KS 27Aug43. 556th Base Unit, 6th Ferrying Group, Long Beach
Field, CA 19Jun44. 497th Bomb Group, Pratt Field, KS 26Jun44. 246th Base Unit (Operational
Training Unit), Pratt Field, KS 7Jul44. 232nd Base Unit, Brownsville 24Aug44. 232nd Base
Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dalhart Field, TX 1Sep44. 244th Base Unit (Operational
Training Unit), Harvard Field, NB 17Sep44. 249th Base Unit (Special), Alliance Field, NB 16Dec44.
244th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Harvard Field, NB 28Dec44
30876 (MSN 5990) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 25Aug43. Air Service
Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 18Nov43. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized,
Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 30Jul44. Damaged landing at Hendricks 20Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 27Sep45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
30877 (MSN 5991) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Aug43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 13Aug43. Fort Myers, FL 29Sep43. 2135th Base Unit
(Flexible Gunnery School), Tyndall Field, Panama City, FL 15Sep44. Modified for training, stripped
of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F. 3017th Base Unit
(Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 27Sep44. Damaged taxying at Hobbs
Field 22May45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 18Sep45.)
30878 (MSN 5992) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Aug43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 13Aug43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Aug43. 45th Bomb Squadron, 40th Bomb Group, Pratt Field, KS.
Destroyed when ground looped taking off at Pratt Field 19Sep43. Salvaged 21Sep43
30879 (MSN 5993) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Aug43.
600th Bomb Squadron, 398th Bomb Group, Rapid City Field, SD. Damaged when nosed over
taxying at Rapid City 19Nov43. 460th Base Unit, Rapid City Field, SD 10Oct44. 225th Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Rapid City Field, SD 6Nov44. 354th Base Unit, Rapid City
Field, SD 20Jul44. 4142nd Base Unit (Accelerated Service Test, Air Technical Service Command),
Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 1Nov44. 4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command),
Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 20Jan45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41,
Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 1Mar46. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich
Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
30880 (MSN 5994) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Aug43.
40th Bomb Group Pratt Field, KS 27Aug43. 3007th Base Unit, Kirtland Field, Albuquerque, NM 23Jul44.
497th Bomb Group, Pratt Field, KS 26Jul43. 29th Bomb Group, Dalhart Field, TX 2Sep44. 29th Bomb
Group, Pratt Field, KS 9Sep44. 246th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Pratt Field, KS 15Sep44.
4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 20Apr45.
2114th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 24Apr45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 14Dec45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30881 (MSN 5995) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Aug43.
19th Bomb Group, Pyote Field, TX 27Aug43. 505th Bomb Group, Harvard Field, NB 2Jun44.
441st Base Unit, Glendale, CA 31Jul44. 244th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit),
Harvard Field, NB 6Aug44. 232nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dalhart Field, TX 21Aug44.
241st Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Fairmont Field, Geneva, NB 28Sep44. 2512th Base Unit,
Childress, TX 7Dec44. Reclaimed 7Jun46
30882 (MSN 5996) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Aug43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 15Aug43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 17Aug43. Pyote Field, TX 27Aug43. 19th Bomb Group,
Pyote Field, TX 9Nov43. 236th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Pyote Field, TX.
Damaged by a tornado while parked at Pyote Field 26Aug44. 581st Base Unit, Air Transport
Command, Adams Field, Little Rock, AR Field, Little Rock, AR 23Oct44. 236th Base Unit (Combat
Crew Training Station), Pyote Field, TX 4Jan45. 223rd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Dyersburg Field, TN 1Mar45. 330th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN 9Apr45.
325th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Avon Park Field, FL 15May45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 9Oct45
30883 (MSN 5997) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 13Aug43.
444th Bomb Group, Great Bend Field, KS 27Aug43. 234th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Clovis Field, NM 24Jun44. Damaged in collision with parked B-17F 42-5708 while taxying at Clovis
Field 30Jun44. 807th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station-Troop Carrier), I Troop Carrier
Command, Bergstrom Field, Austin, TX 21Oct44. 3704th Base Unit (Technical School), Keesler
Field, Biloxi, MS 7Jan45. Reclaimed 3Aug45.
30884 (MSN 5998) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 13Aug43. 444th Bomb Group,
Great Bend Field, KS 27Aug43. 243rd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Great Bend Field, KS 24Jun44.
232nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dalhart Field, TX 16Jul44. 246th Base Unit
(Operational Training Unit), Pratt Field, KS 9Dec44. 2132nd Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized,
Very Heavy), Maxwell Field, Montgomery, AL 15Mar45. Modified for training, stripped of armor,
armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F. 246th Base Unit (Operational
Training Unit), Pratt Field, KS 21Mar45. Damaged in collision with parked TB-17F 42-5819 at
Chicago Municipal Airport, IL 22Aug45. 237th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Kirtland Field,
Albuquerque, NM 22Oct45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41,
Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 6Nov45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
30885 (MSN 5999) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 13Aug43. 7th Ferrying
Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 14Aug43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 17Aug43.
225th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Rapid City Field, SD 29Apr45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Cal-Aero Field, Ontario, CA for storage and disposal 12Jun45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Sharp & Fellows Contracting Company Jul46; scrapped.
30886 (MSN 6000) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Aug43.
28th Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group, Pyote Field, TX 9Nov43. 234th Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Clovis Field, NM 24Jun44. 4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command),
Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 13Jan45. 225th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Rapid City
Field, SD 29Mar45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Cal-Aero Field, Ontario, CA for storage
and disposal 13Jun45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Sharp & Fellows Contracting Company Jul46; scrapped
30887 (MSN 6001) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Aug43.
498th Bomb Group, Great Bend Field, KS 4Aug44. 19th Bomb Group, Dalhart Field, TX 1Sep44.
243rd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Great Bend Field, KS 10Sep44. 19th Bomb Group, Great
Bend Field, KS 12Sep44. Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing
equipment; designated TB-17F. 271st Base Unit (Staging Wing), 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 5Mar45. 2158th Base Unit, Pueblo AAB, CO 20Jun45. Combat Crew Training Squadron,
214th Base Unit, Pueblo AAB, CO. Crash landed with engine failure after some of the crew bailed
out ten miles east of Romero, TX 17Jul45. 232nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Dalhart Field, TX. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman
Field, AZ for storage and disposal 19Nov45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich
Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped.
30888 (MSN 6002) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Aug43.
146th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Selfridge Field, Mount Clemens, MI 4Aug44.
2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 20Aug44.
Damaged taxying at Hendricks 24Mar45. Damaged taxying at Hendricks 4Jul45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 18Dec45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30889 (MSN 6003) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Aug43.
346th Bomb Group, Dyersburg Field, TN. After fuel exhaustion, the crew bailed out, aircraft crashed
at Jonesboro, AR 21Dec43. Salvaged 23Dec43
30890 (MSN 6004) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Aug43.
Pyote Field, TX 27Aug43. 435th Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group, Pyote Field, TX 9Nov43.
222nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Ardmore Field, OK 22Jan45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Cal-Aero Field, Ontario, CA for storage and disposal 20Jun45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Sharp & Fellows Contracting Company Jul46; scrapped
30891 (MSN 6005) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Aug43.
603rd Bomb Squadron, 398th Bomb Group, Rapid City Field, SD. Damaged taxying at Rapid City
2Feb44. 225th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Rapid City Field, SD. Crashed on
the SE slope of Crown Point, on a rock slope facing north on a knoll just east of the Flowers
Trail, 28 miles west of Laporte, CO 13Jun44 (4KIS). The crew took off from Rapid City Army Air
Base on a navigation training flight to Greeley, Colorado, Akron, Colorado and return to
Rapid City. They proceeded to Scottsbluff, Nebraska. Upon leaving Scotts Bluff the navigator
evidently became lost due to the pilot taking a wrong compass heading. The navigator
had told the pilot to take a course of 197 degrees. However, the point of the crash was
at a course of approximately 227 degrees from Scotts Bluff. They then proceeded at an altitude
of approximately 9,600 feet. It is evident that the pilot had not checked the course flown by the
navigator. His first realization came when he noticed he was over mountainous terrain and
he asked for his maps. At this time he was well in the high range country and had pulled up
to about 10,200 feet. The pilot started to check his course when they suddenly came upon
the ridge immediately east of Crown Point. This ridge exceeds 11,500 feet. A last minute
attempt to pull up failed. The airplane crashed and caught fire immediately. The wreck was
demolished by the Army with dynamite six weeks after the crash.
30892 (MSN 6006) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 14Aug43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 16Aug43. 346th Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN. Damaged while parked in collision by B-17F 42-30672
at Dyersburg 19Feb44. 330th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN 1Mar45.
327th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Drew Field, Tampa, FL 14May45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 9Oct45
30893 (MSN 6007) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 14Aug43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 16Aug43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field,
Dallas, TX 17Aug43. 221st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA 17Jan45.
329th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA 1Mar45. Crashed nine
miles WSW of Winnfield, CA 3Mar45 (11KIS). The bomber departed Alexandria Field on an
instrument training mission to the Gum Springs Bombing Range near Winnfield. On board the
heavy bomber was a crew of eleven men; the normal crew for a B-17 was ten men but on this
mission a Technical Sergeant was on board giving the crew and radio operator up to date
training on the radio systems. The bomber took off late in the day and turned toward Winnfield.
The skies began to darken as a weather front slowly came through the area. When the bomber
arrived over the target area, right at dusk, it flew right into the path of a cold front. The cold front
brought forth severe thunderstorms that greatly hampered the visibility of the pilot and crew,
with the base weather section advising of less than two miles of visibility and closing. As the
weather turned even more for the worse, the base weather section advised the control tower at
Alexandria Field to advise all planes flying at this time to land well in advance before the
conditions at the airfield worsened. But due to these severe weather conditions this B-17
experienced radio receiving and transmitting problems. Only scratchy bits and pieces of
information were received at the base. As the weather got worse the B-17 turned due west as
the crew tried to outrun and fly under the weather front. The B-17 dropped down in an attempt
to get under the weather front so it could make a turn east/southeast to get back to its home
base and flew low over two houses in the Gum Springs Community. The bomber struck a
sixty-five foot tall pine tree, shearing off the left wing, causing the plane to crash into the ground.
The location of the site was determined to be nine miles west/southwest of Winnfield at the
Gum Springs Community. The Base Operations Officer led a convoy of men and equipment
from Alexandria Field to the location in the National Forest. When arriving it was found that
there was not an actual road into the site area. Army Engineers began building a quick road
into the area; this road is in the National Forest and is named ‘Plane Road’. Salvaged 10Mar45.
30894 (MSN 6008) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 14Aug43. 444th Bomb Group,
Great Bend Field, KS 27Aug43. 873rd Bomb Squadron, 498th Bomb Group, Great Bend Field, KS.
Damaged landing with mechanical failure at Great Bend Field 15Apr44. 243rd Base Unit
(Operational Training Unit), Great Bend Field, KS 19Sep44. 902nd Base Unit (Base Complement),
Orlando AAB, FL 2Apr45. 243rd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Great Bend Field, KS 18Apr45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 20Jun45
30895 (MSN 6009) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 14Aug43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 16Aug43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field,
Dallas, TX 17Aug43. 330th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN 1Mar45.
325th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Avon Park Field, FL 3Jun45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 25Sep45
30896 (MSN 6010) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 14Aug43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 17Aug43. 799th Bomb Squadron, 469th Bomb Group,
Alexandria Field, LA. Crash landed Alexandria Field, LA 11Oct43. Salvaged 15Oct43
30897 (MSN 6011) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 23Aug43.
2100th Base Unit (HQ, Eastern Flying Training Command), Maxwell Field, Montgomery, AL 3Jun44.
353rd Air Base Detachment, Pierre Field, SD 31Oct43. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 20Mar45. 2100th Base Unit
(HQ, Eastern Flying Training Command), Maxwell Field, Montgomery, AL 14Jul47. Crashed
McKenzie, TN, 8Sep45 (8KIA), fell from high altitude, crashed and burned.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 10Jan46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30898 (MSN 6012) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 14Aug43. 7th Ferrying Group,
Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 16Aug43. 202nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Galveston Field, TX 20Jul44. 7Jan45. 1108th Base Unit, Mitchel Field, Hempstead,
Long Island, NY 26Jan45. 202nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Galveston Field, TX.
Damaged taxying at Galveston 7Jan45. 268th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 30Mar45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 9Oct45
30899 (MSN 6013) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 16Aug43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 17Aug43. 9th Bomb Group, McCook
Field, NB 6Jun44. 245th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), McCook Field, NB 16Sep44.
249th Base Unit (Special), Alliance Field, NB 16Oct44. 235th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training
Station), Biggs Field, El Paso, TX 28Dec44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 29Oct45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
30900 (MSN 6014) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 16Aug43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 17Aug43. 221st Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA 1Aug44. 329th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Alexandria Field, LA. Damaged while parked in collision by B-17F 42-30975 taxying at
Alexandria 1Mar45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 9Oct45
30901 (MSN 6015) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 16Aug43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 17Aug43. 498th Bomb Group, Great Bend
Field, KS 8Aug44. 232nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dalhart Field, TX 27Aug44.
241st Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Fairmont Field, Geneva, NB 13Sep44. 1103rd Base
Unit (Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command), Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 12Jan45.
241st Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Fairmont Field, Geneva, NB 19Jan45. 902nd Base
Unit (Base Complement), Orlando AAB, FL 6Jul45. 241st Base Unit (Operational Training Unit),
Fairmont Field, Geneva, NB 13Jul45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR
for storage and disposal 12Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment
Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30902 (MSN 6016) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 16Aug43. 7th Ferrying
Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 17Aug43. 4119th Base Unit (Mobile Air Technical Service
Command), Brookley Field, Mobile, AL 18Sep44. 2135th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School),
Tyndall Field, Panama City, FL 26Sep44. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine),
Hobbs Field, NM 29Sep44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 18Sep45
30903 (MSN 6017) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 16Aug43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 17Aug43. 223rd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training
Station), Dyersburg Field, TN 1Sep43. Damaged with engine failure at Evansville Municipal
Airport, IN 27Dec44. 805th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station-Troop Carrier),
61st Troop Carrier Wing, George Field, Lawrenceville, IL 4Jan45. Reclaimed 27Nov45
30904 (MSN 6018) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19Aug43.
Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 14Dec43. 2117th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery
School), Buckingham Field, Fort Myers, FL 10Aug43. 2114th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized,
Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 2Sep44. 4112th Base Unit (Middletown Air Technical
Service Command), Middletown Air Depot, PA 14Dec44. ADGP, Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH.
Crash landed with engine failure 2 miles southwest of Obetz Junction, OH 11May45. 2114th Base
Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 24Aug45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 14Dec45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30905 (MSN 6019) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 16Aug43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 17Aug43. 466th Bomb Squadron, 333rd Bomb Group,
Dalhart Field, TX. Crashed eight miles SSW of Dalhart 21Sep43 (6KIS). Salvaged 23Sep43]
30906 (MSN 6020) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19Aug43.
2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 5Jul44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 13Dec45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30907 (MSN 6021) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19Aug43.
Pilot School (Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 2Oct44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 4Oct45.
30908 (MSN 6022) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19Aug43.
2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 4Oct44.
To Reconstuction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 18Dec45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30909 (MSN 6023) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19Aug43.
Operational Training Unit, Pratt Field, KS 3Jul44. Headquarters, Station 11, Carribean Wing,
Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 29Jul44. 246th Base Unit
(Operational Training Unit), Pratt Field, KS 19Sep44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 28Oct45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
30910 (MSN 6024) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19Aug43.
314th Twin-Engined Flying Training Group, Roswell Field, NM. Damaged in collision with B-17F, 42-3311
at Orange County Airport, Santa Ana, CA 14Oct43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH),
Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs
Field, NM 28Apr45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 11Sep45
30911 (MSN 6025) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19Aug43.
Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 13Dec43. 3501st Base Unit (Technical
School & Overseas Replacement Depot), Boca Raton Field, FL 14Jul44. 3502nd Base Unit (Technical School),
Chanute Field, Rantoul, IL 23Apr45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR
for storage and disposal 7Jan46. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment
Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30912 (MSN 6026) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19Aug43. Air
Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 20Dec43. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized,
Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 3Aug44. Force landed with mechanical failure at Hendricks
Field 29Mar45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and
disposal 18Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30913 (MSN 6027) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 19Aug43. 2117th Base Unit
(Flexible Gunnery School), Buckingham Field, Fort Myers, FL 3Jul44. 3501st Base Unit
(Technical School & Overseas Replacement Depot), Boca Raton Field, FL 14Jul44. 3539th Base
Unit (Technical School), Langley Field, Hampton, VA 4Jan45. Reclaimed 5Jul45
30914 (MSN 6028) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 19Aug43. Combat Crew
Training Squadron, 469th Bomb Group, Alexandria Field, LA. Damaged taxying at Alexandria 13Mar44.
497th Bomb Group, Pratt Field, KS 11Aug44. 225th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Rapid City Field, SD 12Aug44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Cal-Aero Field, Ontario, CA
for storage and disposal 19Jun45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Sharp & Fellows Contracting
Company Jul46; scrapped
30915 (MSN 6029) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 19Aug43. Damaged
taxying at Drew Field, Tampa, FL 12Sep44. 327th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Drew Field, Tampa, FL 14Sep44. 325th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Avon Park
Field, FL 21Sep44. Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage
and disposal 4Sep45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company,
Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30916 (MSN 6030) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 19Aug43. 1123rd
Flexible Gunnery Training Squadron, Kingman Field, AZ 10Sep43. Crash landed Yucca Field, AZ 13Oct43.
SOC 13Oct43.
30917 (MSN 6031) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 19Aug43. Air Service
Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 27Dec43. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized,
Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 31Oct44. Damaged landing at Hendricks 14May45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 14Dec45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30918 (MSN 6032) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19Aug43.
Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 20Dec43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 1Oct44. 2135th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School),
Tyndall Field, Panama City, FL 2Oct44. 3010th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine),
Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 12Dec44. 3020th Base Unit (Pilot School, Advanced, Two Engine),
La Junta Field, CO 19Apr45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 1Aug45
30919 (MSN 6033) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19Aug43.
Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 6Dec43. 3501st Base Unit (Technical
School & Overseas Replacement Depot), Boca Raton Field, FL 14Jul44. Modified for training,
stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F. 3704th Base
Unit (Technical School), Keesler Field, Biloxi, MS 2Apr45. 3501st Base Unit (Technical
School & Overseas Replacement Depot), Boca Raton Field, FL 20May45. Damaged in collision
with TB-26C 41-35296 on the ground at Boca Raton 28Aug45. Reclaimed 29Jan46
30920 (MSN 6034) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19Aug43.
Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 13Dec43. 716th Flexible Gunnery Training
Squadron, Buckingham Field, Fort Myers, FL. Destroyed in collision with parked B-17F 42-6074,
AT-6A 41-16085 and AT-6A 41-16926 at Buckingham 20Dec43. Salvaged 29Dec43
30921 (MSN 6035) Wright Field, Dayton, OH 19Aug43. Tonopah, NV 9Jun44. 4127th Base Unit (Sacramento
Air Technical Service Command), McClellan Field, Sacramento, CA 28Jul44. Tonopah, NV 16Aug44.
4127th Base Unit (Sacramento Air Technical Service Command), McClellan Field, Sacramento, CA 6Oct44.
216th Base Unit, Wendover Field, UT 7Nov44. Damaged by mechanical failure north of Wendover 18Nov44.
4135th Base Unit (Ogden Air Technical Service Command), Hill Field, Ogden, UT 2Apr45. 216th Base Unit,
Wendover Field, UT 20Apr45. 554th Base Unit, 4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 7May45.
4145th Base Unit, Wendover Field, UT 30Apr46. 594th Base Unit, St. Paul Field, Minneapolis, MN 31May46.
554th Base Unit, 4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 31May46.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation 31May46. Was on display 1946-50 at
Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, parked at Stanton Airfield.
Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano [LAB], La Paz, Bolivia. Registered 1950 as CP-71. Reregistered CP-571. Aerovías Moxos,
Bolivia. Destroyed at Viacha, El Alto, Bolivia 16Jan62.
30922 (MSN 6036) Newark, NJ 20Aug43. 4000th Base Unit, Air Materiel Command, Wright Field, Dayton, OH
2Jun44. 4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 14Jan45.
4000th Base Unit, Air Materiel Command, Wright Field, Dayton, OH 7Mar45. 611th Base Unit,
Proving Ground Command, Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 25Apr45. 609th Base Unit, Eglin Field,
Valparaiso, FL 17Apr47. 611th Base Unit, Proving Ground Command, Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 17Jul47.
4000th Base Unit, Air Materiel Command, Wright Field, Dayton, OH 15May47. Reclaimed 25Nov49.
30923 (MSN 6037) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19Aug43.
1123rd Flexible Gunnery Training Squadron, Kingman Field, AZ. Damaged in collision with parked
Lockheed B-37 Ventura II AJ432 at Kingman 8Sep43. Tyndall Field, Panama City, FL 20Mar44.
231st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Alamogordo Field, NM 2Aug44. 450th Base Unit, Hammer Field,
Fresno, CA 2Nov44. 4127th Base Unit (Sacramento Air Technical Service Command), McClellan Field,
Sacramento, CA 22Jan45. Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ
for storage and disposal 17Nov45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting
Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped.
30924 (MSN 6038) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Aug43.
117th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Buckingham Field, Fort Myers, FL 3Jul44.
3501st Base Unit (Technical School & Overseas Replacement Depot), Boca Raton Field, FL 16Jul44.
3505th Base Unit (Technical School), Scott Field, Belleville, IL 20Jan45. 3539th Base Unit
(Technical School), Langley Field, Hampton, VA 28Dec45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 3Jan46. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
30925 (MSN 6039) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Aug43.
2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 3Aug44.
4108th Base Unit (Atlantic Overeas Air Technical Service Command), Newark Field, NJ 14May45.
2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 18May45.
237th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Kirtland Field, Albuquerque, NM 8Aug45.
2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 13Aug45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 18Dec45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30926 (MSN 6040) Wright Field, Dayton, OH 23Aug43. Materiel Command, Wright Field, Dayton, OH 2Jun44. ARL,
Dover Field, DE 1Oct44. 237th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Kirtland Field,
Albuquerque, NM 27Nov44. ARL, Dover Field, DE 17Jan45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 28Mar46. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
30927 (MSN 6041) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Aug43.
2117th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Buckingham Field, Fort Myers, FL 18Jun43.
Pilot School (Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 7Oct44. 244th Base Unit (Operational
Training Unit), Harvard Field, NB 8Dec44. Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament,
turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized,
Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 11Dec44. Landing accident at Hobbs Auxiliary Field #4, Oscar, NM 28Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 29Aug45
30928 (MSN 6042) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Aug43.
30th Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group, Pyote Field, TX 16Sep43. 242nd Base Unit (Operational
Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB 27Jul44. Damaged in collision with parked B-17G 43-37578
while taxying at Biggs, TX 1Oct44. 268th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Peterson Field,
Colorado Springs, CO 2May45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41,
Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 27Oct45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped.
30929 (MSN 6043) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Aug43.
3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 1Oct44. 3010th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 21Nov44. 3020th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Advanced, Two Engine), La Junta Field, CO 23Apr45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 1Aug45.
30930 (MSN 6044) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Aug43.
1123rd Flexible Gunnery Training Squadron, Kingman Field, AZ. Gunnery accident on the range at
Yucca Field, AZ 27Dec43 (1KIS). 2517th Base Unit (Navigation School & Instructor School), Ellington
Field, Houston, TX 2Oct44. 2135th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Tyndall Field, Panama
City, FL 10Oct44. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 23Dec44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 14Dec45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30931 (MSN 6045) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 23Aug43. Air Service
Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 22Dec43. Pilot School (Specialized, Four Engine),
Hobbs Field, NM 2Oct44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 30Aug45
42-30932/31031 Boeing B-17F-130-BO Fortress
MSN 6046/6145. Dispositions from B-17 Fortress Master Log, Dave Osborne (FORTLOG)
Production changes: Reinforcement of lower nose for chin turret. Provision for change in bomb release equipment.
30932 (MSN 6046) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 23Aug43. Specialized Pilot
Training Squadron, Specialized Pilot Training Group, Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH. Destroyed in
an explosion on ground at Lockbourne AAB 6Dec43 (4KIS). Salvaged 28Dec43.
30933 (MSN 6047) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 23Aug43.
Combat Crew Training Squadron, 393rd Bomb Group, Sioux City AAB, IA. Engine failure, crew bailed out,
crashed three miles northwest of Emerson, NB 8Feb44. Salvaged 9Feb44.
30934 MSN 6048) Boeing Aircraft Co, Boeing Field, Seattle, WA. Damaged landing at Seattle, WA 19Aug43.
Materiel Command, Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 2Jun44. 2nd Squadron, 222nd Base Unit (Combat
Crew Training Station), Ardmore Field, OK. Damaged 8Jan45 when a ball turret door fell off
B-17G 42-31962 and struck the left horizontal stabiliser, the impact tore a large hole and damaged
the leading edge of the stabiliser. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Seattle, WA 14Nov45. San Francisco, CA Mar46
30935 (MSN 6049) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 23Aug43.
Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 14Dec43. 715th Flexible Gunnery
Training Squadron, Buckingham Field, Fort Myers, FL. Personnel accident south of Big Marcos
Pass, FL 28Mar44. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field,
Sebring, FL 30Jul44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for
storage and disposal 14Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment
Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30936 (MSN 6050) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Aug43.
450th Specialized Pilot Training Squadron, Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL. Accident landing at Punta
Gorda Field, FL 6Oct43. Damaged in collision with B-17E 41-2651 while taxying at Hendricks Field 1Nov43.
2126th Base Unit (Central School for Flexible Gunnery), Laredo Field, TX 3Sep44. 3018th Base Unit
(Flexible Gunnery School), Kingman Field, AZ 9Oct44. 2126th Base Unit (Central School for Flexible
Gunnery), Laredo Field, TX 12Oct44. Damaged in collision with parked Consolidated B-24H Liberator
42-29205 at Laredo Field 3Dec44. Reclaimed 13Nov45.
30937 (MSN 6051) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Aug43.
3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 18Sep44. 3010th Base Unit
(Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 11Dec44. 3020th Base
Unit (Pilot School, Advanced, Two Engine), La Junta Field, CO 29Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 1Aug45
30938 (MSN 6052) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Aug43.
Kingman, AZ 5Sep43. 203rd Base Unit (16th Bomber Operational Training Wing),
Jackson AAB, MS 31Jan45. 261st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Abilene Field, TX 17Feb45.
203rd Base Unit (16th Bomber Operational Training Wing), Jackson AAB, MS 22Feb45.
3505th Base Unit (Technical School), Scott Field, Belleville, IL 9Aug45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 5Jan46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
30939 (MSN 6053) Accepted by USAAF 20Aug43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 23Aug43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 25Sep43. 369th Bomb Squadron [WW*A],
306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 21Oct43. 2nd Strategic Air Depot,
Little Staughton (Station 127), Bedfordshire 3Nov43. Named "Patches". Regained by Group 15Nov43.
Seriously battle damaged during a mission to the port area at Bremen, Germany 16Dec43. Right inner
wing between station 7 and 8 struck by flak damaging the upper and lower stringers. Seriously battle
damaged during a mission to railway marshalling yards at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 4Feb44.
As the planes were passing over the Netherlands en route to Germany, local cross winds carried the
bombers straight into enemy flak. Right outer wing struck by flak. Seriously battle damaged by flak
during a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Hopsten, Rheine, Germany 21Feb44. Declared ‘war weary’.
Departed Thurleigh on transfer to 486th Bomb Group, Sudbury (Station 174), Suffolk 16Jul44.
863rd Bomb Squadron, 493rd Bomb Group, Debach (Station 152), Suffolk Aug44.
W/o when nosed over 17 Aug 1944 at RAF Debach/Sta 152. All 10 crew survived, aircraft was salvaged
30940 (MSN 6054) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Aug43.
504th Bomb Group, Mines Field, Los Angeles, CA 14Aug44. 504th Bomb Squadron, 241st Base Unit
(Operational Training Unit), Fairmont Field, Geneva, NB 18Aug44. Caught fire and crashed twelve miles
northwest of Farmington, NM 26Aug44 (8KIS). Salvaged 27Aug44.
30941 (MSN 6055) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 23Aug43. 4100th Base Unit
(Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 21Jun44. 202nd Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Galveston Field, TX 22Jun44. 268th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training
Station), Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 30Mar45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 1Aug45
30942 (MSN 6056) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 23Aug43. 792nd Bomb Squadron,
468th Bomb Group, Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS. Damaged taxying with mechanical failure at Smoky Hill
Field 7Feb44. 247th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 3Jun44.
4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 6Jun44.
247th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 6Aug44. Modified for
training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F.
902nd Base Unit (Base Complement), Orlando AAB, FL 7Mar45. 247th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit),
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS. Ground accident at Orlando AAB, FL 17Mar45. Crash landed three miles
south of Smoky Hill Field 17Jul45 (10KIS). Reclaimed 27Jul45
30943 (MSN 6057) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 23Aug43. 318th Bomb
Squadron, 88th Bomb Group, Avon Park Field, FL Nov43. Ground accident at MacDill Field,
Tampa, FL 28Jan44. 325th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Avon Park Field, FL 15Jun44.
Accident landing at Avon Park Field, FL 23Jun44. 4200th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service
Command), Chicago Municipal Airport, IL 10Nov44. 203rd Base Unit (16th Bomber Operational
Training Wing), Jackson AAB, MS 22Mar45. 325th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Avon
Park Field, FL 9Apr45. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field,
Sebring, FL 10May45. 325th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Avon Park Field, FL 23May45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 14Aug45
30944 (MSN 6058) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 23Aug43.
224th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Sioux City AAB, IA 23Jun44. Crashed two miles
east of Daykin, NB 12Jul44. The B-17 and a P-47D (42-23008) from the Bruning Army Air Field
collided in mid-air near Daykin. The pilot of the P-47 misjudged the distance to the B-17 as he was
simulating an attack upon the formation. After impact, the P-47 spiraled out of control and struck
the ground killing the pilot. The B-17 broke apart and three of the airmen were able to bail out and
survive. The crash took the lives of seven other airmen in the B-17. Salvaged 13Jul44.
30945 (MSN 6059) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 24Aug43.
453rd Specialized Pilot Training Squadron, Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL. Damaged taxying at
Hendricks 18Nov43. 2126th Base Unit (Central School for Flexible Gunnery), Laredo Field, TX 3Sep44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 7Jan46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30946 (MSN 6060) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Aug43.
453rd Specialized Pilot Training Squadron [SPTS], Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL. Accident landing at
Hendricks Field 19Mar44. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field,
Sebring, FL 1Oct44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and
disposal 14Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company,
Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
30947 (MSN 6061) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Aug43.
2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 31Oct44.
Forced landing at Hendricks 14Nov44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR
for storage and disposal 14Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment
Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
30948 MSN 6062) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Aug43.
2114th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 24Oct44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 9Oct45.
30949 (MSN 6063) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Aug43.
Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 9Dec43. Fitted with B-24 style upper turret.
Flexible Gunnery School, Buckingham Field, Fort Myers, FL; code 80. Flown by Wasps on gunner training
missions. 3501st Base Unit (Technical School & Overseas Replacement Depot), Boca Raton Field, FL 14Jul44.
4208th Base Unit, Mines Field, Los Angeles, CA 17Jul44. 504th Bomb Group, Fairmont Field, Geneva, NB 29Aug44. 3
501st Base Unit (Technical School & Overseas Replacement Depot), Boca Raton Field, FL 4Sep44. Modified for
training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F. 2532nd Base Unit,
Pilot School, Specialized, Very Heavy, Randolph Field, San Antonio, TX 11Apr45. Damaged by bird strike at
Randolph 27Apr45. Damaged taxying at Randolph 27Aug45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 20Dec45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped. Named JUMPIN’ JIVE
30950 (MSN 6064) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Aug43.
346th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN. Accident taxying at Dyersburg
Field 11Mar44. 223rd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN 16Nov44.
Salvaged 16Nov44. Reclaimed 17Jan45.
30951 (MSN 6065) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Aug43.
2114th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 24Oct44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 4Oct45
30952 (MSN 6066) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Aug43.
Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 18Nov43. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 30Jul44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 19Dec45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30953 (MSN 6067) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Aug43.
Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 9Dec43. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 3Aug44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 14Dec45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
30954 (MSN 6068) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Aug43.
3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 16Sep44. 3010th Base Unit
(Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 9Dec44. Ardmore Field, OK 8Jan45.
3020th Base Unit (Pilot School, Advanced, Two Engine), La Junta Field, CO 18Apr45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 3Aug45
30955 (MSN 6069) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Aug43.
Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 22Nov43. 2114th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 5Aug44. 76th Flying Training Wing,
Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH. Damaged landing at Lockbourne AAB 26Jan45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 14Dec45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30956 (MSN 6070) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26Aug43.
1123rd Flexible Gunnery Training Squadron, Kingman Field, AZ. Accident landing at Yucca Field, AZ 17Nov43.
234th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Clovis Field, NM 24Jun44. Crashed landed at
San Angelo Field, TX 3Oct44. 2534th Base Unit, Bombardier School, San Angelo Field, TX Oct44. Salvaged 5Oct44
30957 (MSN 6071) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Aug43.
2114th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 24Oct44.
2530th Base Unit, Navigation School, Selman Field, Monroe, LA 8Jun45. 2114th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 18Jun45. 4124th Base Unit (Air Technical Service
Command), Altus Field, OK 13Aug45. 2114th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine),
Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 23Aug45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for
storage and disposal 9Oct45
30958 (MSN 6072) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Aug43.
Harvard Field, NB 12Sep43. 234th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Clovis Field, NM.
Crashed ten miles southwest Corona, NM 18Apr44. Salvaged 20Apr44.
30959 (MSN 6073) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27Aug43.
Assigned to 385th Bomb Group, Aug43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell
Field, NM 2Jun44. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 22Apr45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 30Aug45.
30960 (MSN 6074) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Aug43.
907th Specialized Pilot Training Squadron, Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH. Damaged when
nosed over landing at Convair Field, Allentown, PA 5Nov43. Modified for training, stripped of armor,
armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F. 2114th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 24Oct44. Force landed with mechanical
failure at Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 8Mar45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 14Dec45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30961 (MSN 6075) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Jun43.
202nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Galveston Field, TX 8Aug44. 4104th Base Unit
(Rome Air Technical Service Command), Rome Field, NY 18Jan45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 14Sep45.
30962 (MSN 6076) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Aug43.
2135th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Tyndall Field, Panama City, FL 5Oct44.
3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 5Oct44. 3010th Base Unit
(Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 26Nov44. 3020th Base Unit
(Pilot School, Advanced, Two Engine), La Junta Field, CO 1Apr45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 4Aug45
30963 (MSN 6077) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26Aug43.
4122nd Base Unit (San Antonio Air Technical Service Command), Hensley Field, Dallas, TX 12Sep44.
3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 13Sep44. 3010th Base Unit
(Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 12Dec44. To Reconstruction
Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 9Aug45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped
30964 (MSN 6078) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26Aug43.
Dyersburg Field, TN 4Oct43. Dalhart Field, TX 17Oct43. 2530th Base Unit, Navigation School,
Selman Field, Monroe, LA 15Aug44. 221st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria
Field, LA 18Aug44. 581st Base Unit, Odoms 27Sep44. 221st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training
Station), Alexandria Field, LA 28Sep44. 329th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Alexandria Field, LA 8Apr45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for
storage and disposal 29Oct45
30965 (MSN 6079) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28Aug43.
1123rd Flexible Gunnery Training Squadron, Kingman Field, AZ. Damaged in collision with
parked B-17F 42-6115 at Kingman Field 28Dec43. Pilot School (Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs
Field, NM 15Sep44. Accident at Hobbs Field 16Jan45. Reclaimed 29Jan45
30966 (MSN 6080) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26Aug43.
Pilot School (Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 15Sep44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 29Aug45
30967 (MSN 6081) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27Aug43.
3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 11Sep44. 3010th Base Unit
(Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 9Dec44. 3020th Base Unit
(Pilot School, Advanced, Two Engine), La Junta Field, CO 27Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 1Aug45
30968 (MSN 6082) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27Aug43.
Force landed at Kingman Field, AZ 2Jan44. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine),
Hobbs Field, NM 8Nov44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 30Aug45
30969 (MSN 6083) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27Aug43.
1123rd Flexible Gunnery Training Squadron, Kingman Field, AZ. Force landed with structural failure at
Yucca Field, AZ 20Nov43. Accident landing and caught fire at Kingman Auxiliary Field #7, Signal, AZ 24Jan44.
3018th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Kingman Field, AZ 5Jul44. Reclaimed 19Jun45
30970 (MSN 6084) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27Aug43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 23Sep43.
549th Bomb Squadron, 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 26Oct43.
Equipped with H2S airborne radar. Used for radio counter measures. Transferred to
Royal Air Force 21Jan44 as Fortress Mark II, serial SR384. No.214 (Federated Malay States) Squadron [BU-A],
No.100 Group, RAF Sculthorpe, Norfolk 2Feb44. RAF Oulton, Aylsham, Norfolk 16May44. Failed to return
from a mission to Antwerp, Belgium 25May44 (2KIA:7POW). . Shot down by nightfighter
flown by Oblt Hermann Leube, 4/NJG 3 and crashed into Oosterschelde of Yerseke,
Netherlands May 25, 1944.
30971 (MSN 6085) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 27Aug43. Air Service Command,
Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 16Nov43. 4115th Base Unit (Spokane Air Technical Service Command),
Pendleton Field, OR 6Aug44. 2114th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB,
Columbus, OH 2Sep44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage
and disposal 14Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30972 (MSN 6086) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 27Aug43. Air Service
Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 16Nov43. Modified for training, stripped of armor,
armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 25Aug44. Damaged taxying at Hendricks 26Feb45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 14Dec45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30973 (MSN 6087) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 27Aug43. Air Service
Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 20Nov43. 715th Flexible Gunnery Training Squadron,
Buckingham Field, Fort Myers, FL. Damaged at Buckingham Field, Fort Myers, FL 29Jan44.
3501st Base Unit (Technical School & Overseas Replacement Depot), Boca Raton Field, FL 14Jul44.
2132nd Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Very Heavy), Maxwell Field, Montgomery, AL 10Apr45.
2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 3Jul45.
2132nd Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Very Heavy), Maxwell Field, Montgomery, AL 22Jul45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 14Jan46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30974 (MSN 6088) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 28Aug43. 221st Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA 17Jan45. 329th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training
Station), Alexandria Field, LA 28Apr45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for
storage and disposal 29Oct45
30975 (MSN 6089) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 27Aug43. 221st Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA. Damaged by structural failure at Alexandria 3Apr44.
329th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA. Damaged in collision with
parked B-17F 42-30900 at Alexandria Field 1Mar45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 9Oct45
30976 (MSN 6090) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28Aug43.
Kingman, AZ 28Mar44. Alamogordo Field, NM 30Mar44. 4115th Base Unit (Spokane Air Technical
Service Command), Pendleton Field, OR 29Aug44. 203rd Base Unit (16th Bomber Operational
Training Wing), Jackson AAB, MS 31Jan45. Damaged landing in bad weather at Jackson AAB 18Jun45.
4103rd Base Unit (Mobile Air Technical Service Command), Hawkins Field, Jackson, MS 23Jun45.
203rd Base Unit (16th Bomber Operational Training Wing), Jackson AAB, MS 25Jul45. 232nd Base
Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dalhart Field, TX 20Sep45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 27Oct45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
30977 (MSN 6091) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28Aug43.
2117th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Buckingham Field, Fort Myers, FL 25May44.
2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 1Oct44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 19Dec45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30978 (MSN 6092) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28Aug43.
Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment;
designated TB-17F. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 2Nov44.
Damaged when collided with parked B-17F 42-5249 Hobbs Auxiliary Field #1, Knowles, NM 28Feb45.
Damaged in collision with TB-17G 44-8064 Hobbs Field, NM 16May45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 14Sep45
30979 (MSN 6093) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28Aug43.
Roswell Field, NM 19Sep43. 314th Twin-Engined Flying Training Group, Roswell Field, NM.
Seriously damaged in collision with B-17F 42-3450 landing at Hobbs Auxiliary No.3 Field, NM 23Apr44.
Salvaged 26Apr44.
30980 (MSN 6094) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28Aug43.
419th HQ Squadron, 346th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN.
Damaged in a mid-air collision with B-17F 42-29621 near Harding Field, Baton Rouge, LA 10Jan44.
345th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Waycross Field, GA 1Mar45. 330th Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN. Damaged by ‘friendly fire’ at Shelbyville
Gunnery Range 29Mar45. 325th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Avon Park Field, FL 3Jun45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 14Aug45
30981 (MSN 6095) Wright Field, Dayton, OH 28Aug43. Cold Weather Testing Detachment, Ladd Field,
Fairbanks, AK 5Nov43. Returned to US. HQ Materiel Command, Wright Field, Dayton, OH 2Jun44.
4000th Base Unit, Air Materiel Command, Wright Field, Dayton, OH 19Sep44. 902nd Base Unit
(Base Complement), Orlando AAB, FL 13Jul45. 613th Base Unit (Proving Ground Detachment),
Phillips Field, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 14Jul45. 4000th Base Unit, Air Materiel Command,
Wright Field, Dayton, OH 31Jul45. Named SHUTTERBUG.
30982 (MSN 6096) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30Aug43.
2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 11Nov44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 14Dec45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30983 (MSN 6097) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28Aug43.
Flexible Gunnery School, Yuma Field, AZ 30Mar44. Alamogordo Field, NM 3Apr44. 4200th Base
Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Chicago Municipal Airport, IL 7Aug44.
233rd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Davis-Monthan Field, Tucson, AZ 29Dec44.
231st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Alamogordo Field, NM 20Mar45. 465th Base Unit,
Paine, Everett, WA 3Apr45. Designated RB-17F. 231st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Alamogordo Field, NM 27Apr45. Damaged in collision with a parked B-17F while taxying at Mines
Field, Los Angeles, CA 29Sep45. 4208th Base Unit, Mines Field, Los Angeles, CA 7Oct45. 231st Base
Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Alamogordo Field, NM 15Oct45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage
and disposal 30Oct45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped.
30984 (MSN 6098) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30Aug43.
2114th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 5Aug44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 26Sep45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30985 (MSN 6099) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30Aug43.
2114th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 25Jun44.
Materiel Command, Vandalia, OH 24Jul44. 2114th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine),
Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 25Jul44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 9Oct45
30986 (MSN 6100) Accepted by USAAF 27Aug43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 30Aug43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training
Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 27Sep43. 562nd Bomb Squadron [H], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall
(Station 136), Suffolk 7Oct43. Named "Take It Easy". Equipped with H2S airborne radar.
Used for radio counter measures. {first combat mission 26Nov43}. Battle damaged on a mission to
the port area at Bremen, Germany 20Dec43 (10RTD). Attacked by a large force of enemy fighters
and flak over the target area was very intense. {final combat mission 14Jan44}. {7 missions}.
Transferred to Royal Air Force 21Jan44 as Fortress Mark II, serial SR385. No.214 (Federated Malay States)
Squadron [BU-E], No.100 Group, RAF Sculthorpe, Norfolk 2Feb44. RAF Oulton, Aylsham, Norfolk 16May44.
Telecommunications Flying Unit, RAF Defford, Worcestershire 30Aug45. No.51 Maintenance Unit,
RAF Lichfield, Staffordshire before the home census 21Mar46 for storage. Sold to International
Alloys Ltd 11Mar47. SOC 11Mar47.
30987 (MSN 6101) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 30Aug43. Alexandria Field, LA 21Sep43.
221st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA 7Nov44. 329th Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA 1Mar45. Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 29Oct45
30988 (MSN 6102) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 30Aug43. 1174th Pilot
Transition Training Squadron, Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH. Mid-air collision with
B-17E 41-2547 at Lockbourne 4Nov43. 2114th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine),
Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 30Jul44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for
storage and disposal 9Oct45
30989 (MSN 6103) Accepted by USAAF 27Aug43. Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX
30Aug43. 2530th Base Unit, Navigation School, Selman Field, Monroe, LA 5Nov44. 328th Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Gulfport Field, MS 23Nov44. 4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air
Technical Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 25Feb45. 330th Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN 7May45. 325th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Avon Park Field, FL 3Jun45. ToReconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 11Aug45
30990 (MSN 6104) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 31Aug43. Las Vegas
Field, NV 23Sep43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 19Dec43. 2137th Base Unit
(Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 3Dec44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 27Sep45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
30991 (MSN 6105) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30Aug43.
Pilot School (Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM. Damaged landing at Hobbs Field, NM 24Jul44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 11Sep45
30992 (MSN 6106) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30Aug43.
3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 9Aug45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped
30993 (MSN 6107) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30Aug43.
3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44. 3017th Base Unit
(Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 28Apr45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 31Aug45.
30994 (MSN 6108) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30Aug43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 9Oct43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 28Oct43.
401st Bomb Group, 30Oct43. 508th Bomb Squadron [YB*T], 351st Bomb Group, Polebrook
(Station 110), Northamptonshire 21Nov43. {30 missions}. 487th Bomb Group, Sudbury (Station 174),
Suffolk 15Jul44. Salvaged 29May45. Named VOX POP II / OLE DAD
30995 (MSN 6109) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 31Aug43.
2114th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 21Oct44.
2003rd Base Unit, HQ Squadron, AAF Training Command, Fort Worth Field, TX 8Jan45. 2114th Base
Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 21Sep45. 2100th Base
Unit (HQ, Eastern Flying Training Command), Maxwell Field, Montgomery, AL 28Sep45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 7Jan46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrappe
30996 (MSN 6110) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30Aug43.
Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 18Nov43. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 3Aug44. Damaged by birdstrike near
Okeechobee, FL 15Jun45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for
storage and disposal 19Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment
Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30997 (MSN 6111) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30Aug43.
Kingman, AZ 7Sep43. Flexible Gunnery School, Yuma Field, AZ 30Mar44. 231st Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Alamogordo Field, NM 9Jul44. 4136th Base Unit (Oklahoma City
Air Technical Service Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 13Jan45. 231st Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Alamogordo Field, NM 25Jan45. 4210th Base Unit (Fairfield Air
Technical Service Command), Lambert Municipal Airport, Robertson, MO 9May45. 4136th Base
Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 24Jul45.
4208th Base Unit, Mines Field, Los Angeles, CA 27Aug45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 11Jan46. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
30998 (MSN 6112) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 31Aug43.
Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 18Nov43. 2114th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 5Aug44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 14Dec45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30999 (MSN 6113) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 2Sep43.
2114th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 20Sep43.
Force landed with engine failure and destroyed at Lockbourne AAB 25May44. Salvaged 26May44
31000 (MSN 6114) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 2Sep43.
3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44. 3010th Base Unit
(Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 9Dec44. 3020th Base Unit
(Pilot School, Advanced, Two Engine), La Junta Field, CO 1Apr45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 1Aug45
Also listed as (385 BG, 550 BS) lost April 13, 1944, Dubendorf, Schweiz, Germany
31001 (MSN 6115) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 31Aug43. Alexandria Field, LA 21Sep43.
221st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA 17Jan45. 329th Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA 1Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 29Oct45.
31002 (MSN 6116) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 31Aug43. Assigned to
94th Bomb Group. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 19Sep43. 328th Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Gulfport Field, MS. Major damage while parked in collision by
B-17G 42-97831 taxying at Gulfport Field, MS 5Sep44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 25Jun45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped.
31003 (MSN 6117) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 31Aug43.
50th Flexible Gunnery Training Squadron, Las Vegas Field, NV 27Sep43. Damaged while parked
in collision by B-17G 42-37921 taxying at Las Vegas 27Nov43. Salvaged 5Jan44
31004 (MSN 6118) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 2Sep43. 352nd Flexible
Gunnery Training Squadron, Las Vegas Field, NV 23Sep43. Ground accident at Las Vegas Field 16Oct43.
Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 14Dec43. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 31Oct44. Modified for training, stripped of armor,
armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F. Mid-air collision with TB-17E 41-2574
7 miles northwest of Arcadia, FL 21Jun45. Reclaimed 17Jul45
31005 (MSN 6119) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 2Sep43. Las Vegas
Field, NV 22Sep43. 715th Flexible Gunnery Training Squadron, Buckingham Field, Fort Myers, FL.
Rammed by North American AT-6 41-361 in a simulated attack against nine B-17 bombers and
crashed into the Gulf of Mexico off Naples at Little Marco Pass, FL 22Jan44 (10KIS). A newly rated
pilot stationed at Buckingham Field on the southwest coast of Florida was training to be a fighter pilot.
He took off from Naples Field (a sub-base of Buckingham) on his third flight of the day. His
North American AT-6 41-361 was one of the aircraft scrambled to intercept a simulated attack at 4,000ft
against nine B-17s of 715th FGTS, also based at Buckingham Field, approaching from the south over
the Gulf of Mexico. The flight of AT-6 ‘fighters’ successfully intercepted the B-17s and each made
several passes at the B-17s. Following his instructor’s lead the AT-6 student pilot positioned his
plane above and behind the seventh bomber to begin his attack out of the sun. The instructor dove
on the bomber from astern and broke to the left at about 250 yds. The student closed on the B-17
and failed to break away and his left wing struck the left wing of the bomber. The wing of the AT-6
sheared off, throwing the plane into a violent roll. Witnesses saw the B-17F, 42-31005, fall onto
its left wing and slowly spiral downward. Ten seconds later at 200ft above the Gulf, the plane
caught fire and exploded. Salvaged 23Jan44
31006 (MSN 6120) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Sep43.
Pilot School (Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM. Crashed twenty miles southwest of
Salt Flat, TX 10May44 (5KIS). It went out of control while flying in formation, due to what is
believed to have been a materials/mechanical failure in the oxygen system. The bomber took
off from Hobbs Field on a routine formation training flight to El Paso, TX and then a return
back to base. The aircraft was flying in formation at an altitude of 25,000ft. They made their
destination of El Paso and turned for a heading to Salt Flat. The B-17 veered sharply to the right
towards another aircraft and disappeared through the overcast layer. No further contact was
made with any of the crew. It was thought that the aircraft had gotten into the propeller wash
and at some point would reappear. A local rancher spotted the bomber coming straight down.
The aircraft was said to have seemed to level off, and then head back straight down, probably
in a stall. The eyewitness was approximately eleven miles away when he saw the aircraft hit
the ground and catch fire. Salvaged 11May44.
31007 (MSN 6121) Accepted by USAAF 30Aug43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 3Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 27Sep43. 369th Bomb Squadron [WW*F], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111),
Bedfordshire 13Oct43. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little Staughton (Station 127), Bedfordshire 30Oct43.
Regained by Group 3Nov43. Battle damaged on a mission to the Junkers aircraft factory at Halberstadt,
Germany 11Jan44. An enemy fighter attack after the target struck causing severe damage. On return,
force landed at RAF Foulsham, Norfolk. Failed to return from a mission to railway marshalling yards
at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 4Feb44 (7KIA:3POW). As the planes were passing over the Netherlands
en route to Germany, local cross winds carried the bombers straight into enemy flak. Direct flak hit on
right wing, two engines damaged and the wing caught fire. The plane rolled over into a spin and snapped
in half at the ball turret. The front section dropped out of the skyand those airmen inside were killed.
The tail section stabilised long enough for the two waist gunners and tail gunner to bail out. Crashed
Voiswinkel, near Bergisch Gladbach, ten miles northeast of Cologne, Germany,
31008 (MSN 6122) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Sep43.
Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 20Oct43. 2114th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 10Aug44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 14Dec45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31009 (MSN 6123) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Sep43.
Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 1Oct43. 611th Base Unit, Proving Ground Command, Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 2Jun44.
617th Base Unit, Dugway Proving Ground, Tooele, UT 12Aug44. 4135th Base Unit (Ogden Air Technical
Service Command), Hill Field, Ogden, UT 16Aug44. 617th Base Unit, Dugway Proving Ground,
Tooele, UT 26Aug43. 216th Base Unit, Wendover Field, UT 26Sep44. 617th Base Unit, Dugway
Proving Ground, Tooele, UT 4Oct44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 13Nov45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped.
31010 (MSN 6124) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30Aug43. Buffalo
Municipal Airport, NY 3Sep43. 7th Ferrying Squadron, 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT.
Damaged landing at Bismark, ND 4Sep43. Rapid City Field, SD 7Oct43. United Air Lines, Modification
Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 8Feb44. 1st EEL Bedford, MA 20Jul44. 4140th Base Unit,
Bedford Field, MA 4Dec44. 4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field,
Dayton, OH 3Apr45. 4148th Base Unit (Electronics Experimental Squadron), Bedford Field, MA 1May45.
4147th Base Unit (Rome Air Technical Service Command), Bedford Field, MA 18Sep45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 5Jan46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
31011 (MSN 6125) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Sep43.
Las Vegas Field, NV 23Sep43. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks
Field, Sebring, FL 30Jul44. Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage
and disposal 19Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company,
Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31012 (MSN 6126) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Sep43. Operational
Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 27Sep43. 331st Bomb
Squadron [QE*J], 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 6Oct43.
Named GRAND DUCHESS. Transferred to Royal Air Force 21Jan44 as Fortress Mark II, serial SR386. No.214
(Federated Malay States) Squadron [BU-N:BU-Y], No.100 Group, RAF Sculthorpe, Norfolk 28Jan44.
RAF Oulton, Aylsham, Norfolk 16May44. No.1699 Flight, RAF Oulton, Aylsham, Norfolk 8Dec44.
No.214 (Federated Malay States) Squadron [BU-N], RAF Oulton, Norfolk. Flying accident 11/12May45,
repairs beyond unit capability. SOC 13Jun45
31013 (MSN 6127) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Sep43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 28Sep43.
332nd Bomb Squadron [XM*L], 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 10Oct43. ,
naned OLE CASEY JONES// MYASAM DRAGON; Failed to return from a mission to a ball bearing
factory at Regensburg, Germany 21Jul44 (10KIA). En route to the target flak struck between No.1 and No.2 engines.
It turned over onto its back and then resumed normal flying position. It then dropped off into a spin
and was seen to explode before hitting the ground. Crashed at Molenschot, east of Breda, Netherlands
MACR 7836.
31014 (MSN 6128) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Sep43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 27Sep43.
Named "Smokey Stover Jr". Failed to return from a diversionary mission to an aircraft
depot at Zwickau, Germany 12May44 (10POW). En route to the target, between Koblenz and Frankfurt,
the formation was attacked by a large force of enemy fighters. With its left wing almost shot away
and two engines on fire, the crew bailed out. Crashed near Friedberg, twenty miles northeast of
Frankfurt am Main, Germany MACR 5093
31015 (MSN 6129) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Sep43.
Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 20Nov43. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized,
Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 30Jul44. 4200th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command),
Chicago Municipal Airport, IL 19Sep44. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine),
Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 14Oct44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR
for storage and disposal 14Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment
Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
31016 (MSN 6130) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Sep43.
Scott Field, Belleville, IL 1Oct43. 326th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 17Oct43
Named "Sweet Sixteen". . Failed to return from a mission to the Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft
shipyard at Kiel, Germany 4Jan44 (1KIA:8POW:1EVD).. Shot down by Fw. Heinz Fuchs in FW-190A-6 of JG 1/4.
and crashed at Wijnbergen/Vinkwijk, near Zeddam, Netherlands. MACR 1960 and 1754.
1 evaded but later captured.
31017 (MSN 6131) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 3Sep43. Las Vegas
Field, NV 27Sep43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 14Dec43. 3030th Base Unit
(Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 21Sep43. 3010th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized,
Four Engine), Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 16Nov44. 3020th Base Unit (Pilot School, Advanced, Two Engine),
La Junta Field, CO 26Mar456. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 1Aug45
31018 (MSN 6132) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 3Sep43. Flexible Gunnery
School, Yuma Field, AZ 24Sep43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 23Sep44.
3010th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 21Nov44.
Damaged by mechanical failure during takeoff at Williams 24Nov44. 3020th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Advanced, Two Engine), La Junta Field, CO 20Apr45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK
for storage and disposal 1Aug45
31019 (MSN 6133) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 3Sep43. Scott Field,
Belleville, IL 25Sep43. 366th Bomb Squadron [KY*F], 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105),
Northamptonshire 18Oct43. Base Air Depot No.2, Warton (Station 582), Lancashire 20Mar44. Returned to US.
4136th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 1Sep44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 8Jan46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
31020 (MSN 6134) Accepted by USAAF 31Aug43. Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field,
Dallas, TX 3Sep43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 25Sep43. 560th Bomb Squadron [J], 388th Bomb Group,
Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 13Oct43. Named "Mission Belle". {first combat mission 29Nov43}.
Battle damaged on a mission to the port area of Bremen, Germany 29Nov43 (1WIA:9RTD). The pilot had
left the formation because of oxygen trouble and dropped the bombs in the vicinity of Oldenburg, Germany.
The ball turret gunner was wounded by flak. Failed to return from a mission to the industrial areas of Emden,
Germany 11Dec43 (6POW:4KIA). The Luftwaffe was waiting for the bombers; the moment the bombers
crossed over into mainland Europe, six twin-engine fighter dived out of the sun upon the formation,
concentrating all their fire on the lead plane. Once the leader had been downed, the fighters swept
through the lead Squadron. Before the deputy lead had a chance to reassemble the formation, a large
force of single-engine fighters joined the fray, attacking the other bombers. At the Dutch-German border,
somewhere near Nieuwe-Schans, the bomber was hit setting fire to No.2 fuel tank. Five or six airmen
were seen to abandon the aircraft, then something happened which still infuriates the people of the
village of Finsterwolde. As they watched the destruction of the bomber, the German flak battery
of the ‘Steiling Dollard-Sud’, in the Carel Coenraad polder, hurled shells into the helplessly
nding fliers who had bailed out. The bomber had been partially abandoned, burned and circled
in the sky. Then it crashed, its fuselage cartwheeling end over end. All around a house, fragments
came down but, by some miracle, the house was untouched although the children cried for fear.
One wing wedged itself upright in the ground. Crashed at Finsterwalde, Groningen, Netherlands.
Claimed by Obfw. Veutzke in Me 410A of ZG 26/4. MACR 3122.
31021 (MSN 6135) Accepted by USAAF 31Aug43. Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field,
Dallas, TX 4Sep43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 25Sep43. 524th Bomb Squadron [WA*K], 379th Bomb
Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 22Nov43.
Named "Whirlaway". Accident returning from a mission to Waggum, near Brunswick,
Germany 30Jan44. Danaged bt fkajm the plane crash landed at Overland Farm, Ash, Kent.
Salvaged by 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton 3Feb44.
31022 (MSN 6136) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Sep43.
Scott Field, Belleville, IL 25Sep43. 407th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Podington (Station 109),
Bedfordshire 23Nov43. Crash landed at Little Staughton (Station 127), Bedfordshire 30Nov43.
Failed to return from a mission to the industrial area at Augsburg, Germany 16Mar44 (4POW:6EVD).
From Strasburg, Germany to Augsburg, the bombers were attacked by Luftwaffe fighters in a running
battle. Flak over the target was moderate and accurate; flak en route was meagre and inaccurate.
Returning, the bombers were attacked between Nancy, France and the coast. Enemy aircraft set wing
on fire, crashed Vitry-le-Francois, Marne, France. MACR 3225
31023 (MSN 6137) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Sep43.
Scott Field, Belleville, IL 27Sep43. 339th Bomb Squadron [QJ*Q], 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath
(Station 138), Norfolk 15Oct43, named "Skyball". Crash landed Honington (Station 375), Suffolk
27Jan44. Salvaged 1st Strategic Air Depot, Troston (Station 595), Suffolk 18Apr44
31024 (MSN 6138) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Sep43.
3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 9Aug45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped.
31025 (MSN 6139) Accepted by USAAF 31Aug43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 4Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 25Sep43. 367th Bomb Squadron [GY*B], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111),
Bedfordshire 19Oct43. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little Staughton (Station 127), Bedfordshire 25Oct43.
Regained by Group 27Oct43. Battle damaged on a mission to industrial areas in the suburbs of Berlin,
Germany 6Mar44 (1KIA:3POW: 1EVD:5RTD). Over Berlin No.4 engine was struck by flak and failed. Oil
was leaking and the propeller could not be feathered causing the plane to drop out of formation.
Bf 190 fighters were attacking for thirty minutes and The engineer/top turret gunner was fatally injured
but shot down a Fw 190 while wounded. Engine No.1 was struck by cannon shells and the propeller
couldn't be feathered either, dropping the air speed to 135mph. Confusion was rampant in the back
of the plane. The ringing of the alarm bell twice prompted the airmen to prepare to jump.
Co-pilot twice told the men over the intercom to disregard the bell but with all the enemy hits the
intercom was damaged. Four other gunners had been wounded and bailed out between Ommen
and Dalfsen, Netherlands; three evaded capture but two were later caught and taken POW. By the
time the bomber was over the IJsselmeer it was only a hundred feet above the water.
Then a P-51 Mustang showed up and escorted it to land at Seething (Station 146), Norfolk.
Salvaged at Seething by 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton 9Mar44
31026 (MSN 6140) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Sep43.
Roswell Field, NM 27Sep43. 2114th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB,
Columbus, OH 24Oct44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 4Oct45
31027 (MSN 6141) Accepted by USAAF 31Aug43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 4Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 3Oct43. 569th Bomb Squadron [CC*R], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham
(Station 153), Suffolk 7Oct43. Named "Miss Lace" then "Shy Ann", then "Pinky III", then "Honey Chile".
{first combat mission 7Nov43}. Equipped with H2S airborne radar. Used for radio counter measures.
{final combat mission 14Jan44}. {15 missions}. Transferred to Royal Air Force 21Jan44 as Fortress Mark II,
serial SR387. No.214 (Federated Malay States) Squadron [BU-G], No.100 Group, RAF Sculthorpe,
Norfolk 2Feb44. RAF Oulton, Aylsham, Norfolk 16May44. No.51 Maintenance Unit, RAF Lichfield,
Staffordshire 14Feb45. SOC and scrapped 13Nov46
31028 (MSN 6142) Accepted by USAAF 31Aug43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 4Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 7Oct43. 524th Bomb Squadron [WA*C], 379th Bomb Group,
Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 19Nov43. Named "Mojo". Failed to return from a mission to the
Junkers aircraft factories at Halberstadt and Aschersleben, Germany 22Feb44 (7KIA:3POW).
En route to the target over Münster, Germany, flak set the bomb bay on fire. The bomb bay doors
opened and three bombs dropped out, then, one by one, three more fell out while the fire
continued to rage. The plane left formation, lost altitude then turned back towards England.
As it passed under the group it exploded, ejecting the crew, The fuselage cracked up along its
length and the wings folded up. It crashed at Gattrup, near Senden/Westfalen, nine miles
southwest of Münster, Germany. MOJO. MACR 2872
31029 (MSN 6143) Accepted by USAAF 31Aug43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 4Sep43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 7Oct43. 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136),
Suffolk 9Oct43. 87th Air Transport Squadron, 27th Air Transport Group, Hendon (Station 575), Middlesex 20Oct43;
Undercarriage collapsed waiting taxi instructions at Prestwick for ferry flight to Chelveston
Oct 21, 1943. Repaired. Salvaged Jan 31, 1944.
31030 (MSN 6144) Accepted by USAAF 31Aug43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 4Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island
Field, NB 7Oct43. 571st Bomb Squadron [FC*A], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153),
Suffolk 7Oct43. Named "Shy Ann". Accident departing for a mission to the synthetic oil refinery
at Gelsenkirchen, Germany 5Nov43 (10KIA). After takeoff, an engine failure was believed to be the cause
of the plane entering into a flat spin at 3,000ft. Crashed into North Sea four miles off off Aldeburgh, Suffolk. {3 missions}. .
MACR 1162.
31031 (MSN 6145) Materiel Command 4Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 11Oct43. Assigned Eighth Air Force, England 24Oct43.
Equipped with H2S airborne radar. Used for radio counter measures. Base Air Depot No.1,
Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire. Transferred to Royal Air Force 21Jan44 as Fortress Mark II,
serial SR388. No.214 (Federated Malay States) Squadron [BU-H.BU-Z], No.100 Group,
RAF Sculthorpe, Norfolk 2Feb44. RAF Oulton, Aylsham, Norfolk 16May44. Accident 24Nov44.
No.1699 Flight, RAF Oulton, Aylsham, Norfolk 8Dec44. Damaged category E (write off) 14Jul45. SOC 26Jul45
42-31032/31131 Boeing B-17G-1-BO Fortress
MSN 6146/6245. Dispositions from B-17 Fortress Master Log, Dave Osborne (FORTLOG)
Production changes: Bendix chin turret, new Plexiglass nose. A-1 bomb control system, wiring
for electric supercharger controls and induction vibrator starting coil added. Nose Plexiglass screen wiper deleted
31032 (MSN 6146) Materiel Command 4Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training
Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 20Oct43. 422th Bomb Squadron [JJ*B], 305th Bomb Group,
Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 25Nov43. Fitted with ARI Boozer radar transmission
facilities May44. Crash landed at RAF Friston, Sussex on a night leaflet mission to Denmark 12/13May44
(2KIA:3WIA:5RTD). Salvaged battle damaged by 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton (Station 547),
Huntingdonshire 29Dec44.
31033 (MSN 6147) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 7Sep43.
Scott Field, Belleville, IL 11Oct43. 613th Bomb Squadron [IN*B], 401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe
(Station 128), Northamptonshire 26Oct43, Named "Pee-Tey-Kuh" Named by the Blackfeet,
the name of the pilot in their language. Failed to return from a mission to the AGO-Flugzeugwerke Fw 190
manufacturing factory at Oschersleben, Germany 11Jan44 (8POW:2KIA). While the aircraft were airborne,
the weather closed in over English bases and a recall signal was issued. B/Gen. Robert F. Travis, Air
Commander of the 1st Bomb Division, continued on to the target. This left the 1st Bomb Division with
greater exposure to enemy fighter attacks. Good fighter support was provided by P-47 Thunderbolts
on the penetration and by P-51 Mustangs over the target. P-47s were airborne to provide withdrawal
support but they obeyed the recall order to return to England and left the bombers to fend for themselves
on the return trip. Luftwaffe attacks started over the IJsselmeer and intensified when the American fighters
returned home. Meagre and fairly accurate flak was experienced on the bomb run, with intermittent
inaccurate flak on the return trip. Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed near Duderstadt, fifteen miles
east of Göttingen, Germany. About thirty minutes before target near Hildesheim, Germany, a fire
in No.3 engine was started. The bomb bay doors were opened and the bombs were jettisoned. Right under
the bomb bay a big flash appeared among the falling bombs. Directly after that one crewman bailed out.
Then as the bomber went straight down, five more men bailed out. The aircraft turned onto its back,
started to lose a wing and then blew up Also listed as shot Down By Gunfire from German
Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-7 and Crashed Near Duderstadt 15 Miles East
of Gottingen Germany. Fw 190A-7 Flown By Oblt. Rudiger von Kirchmayr
of JG 1/5. MACR 2507.
31034 (MSN 6148) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 8Sep43. 25th Ferrying Squadron,
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT. Damaged in collision with B-24E 41-29073 at Pueblo AAB, CO
10Sep43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 20Oct43. 612th Bomb Squadron [SC*G], 401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe
(Station 128), Northamptonshire 8Nov43, Named "Bonnie Donnie" Crash landed at Deenthorpe
with landing gear failure 4Mar44. Returned early during a mission to the synthetic oil refinery at Lützkendorf,
six miles west of Merseburg, Germany 12May44. The aircraft had a radio hatch which had been modified.
Vibration caused by firing the gun had caused the opening for the hatch to become enlarged, allowing the
hatch and gun to fall out, shooting out part of the control cables. Failed to return from a mission to the
manufacturing facilities of the Junkers Flugzeug-und Motorenwerke at Dessau, Germany 28May44 (3KIA:7POW)
Shot Down May 29. 1944 by gunfire From German Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-6 and Crashed at Krensitz 9 Miles
Northeast of Leipzig Germany. Fw 190A-6 Flown By Ofw. Meindl of JGr Ost/3.
MACR 5309.
31035 (MSN 6149) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 7Sep43. Scott Field,
Belleville, IL 5Oct43. 351st Bomb Squadron [EP*E], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts
(Station 139), Norfolk 8Oct43. Named "Hang the Expanse"- artwork of a shapely red-headed woman,
naked and dribbling greenbacks from her outstretched hands. Unofficial slow-time engine test flight with
two American Red Cross nurses 26Nov43. The tail wheel assembly pin had sheared causing the aircraft to
vibrate badly. The pilot used improper techniques and allowed the aircraft to veer off the runway, crashing
through trees and Lodge Farm buildings, Dickleburgh, which caught fire and destroyed the aircraft. All three
crew were fined $100 at a court martial. Salvaged 29Nov43
31036 (MSN 6150) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 7Sep43. Scott Field,
Belleville, IL 24Oct43. 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 25Oct43.
Base Air Depot No.1, Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire. Equipped with Gee radio navigation system.
614th Bomb Squadron [IW*X], 401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 8Nov43.
Named "Nobody's Baby" Failed to return from a mission to railway marshalling yards at
Frankfurt am Main, Germany 4Feb44 (10KIA). As the planes were passing over the Netherlands en route
to Germany, local cross winds carried the bombers straight into enemy flak. Damaged by flak
after dropping its bombs, probably crashed in North Sea, no trace. MACR 2285.
31037 (MSN 6151) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 8Sep43. 613th Bomb
Squadron [IN*F], 401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 10Oct43. .
Named "Pistol Packin' Mama"- artwork inspired by the Vargas' "Pistol Packin' Mama"
Esquire centrefold of March 1944. . {first combat mission 3Nov43). Collided Jul 6, 1944 with B-17G 42-39932
on ground at Deenethorpe, UK; repaired (?); Failed to return from a mission to Leipzig, Germany 20Jul44 (3KIA:6POW)
shot down by flak and crashed at Liebstedt, Germany. MACR 7545.
All crew members bailed out, but one was killed when his chute failed to open and
two were killed by German civilians.
31038 MSN 6152) Accepted by USAAF 4Sep43. Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 10Sep43.
Scott Field, Belleville, IL 9Oct43. 367th Bomb Squadron [GY*N], 306th Bomb Group,
Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 19Oct43. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little Staughton (Station 127),
Bedfordshire29Oct43. Regained by Group 3Nov43. Named "Miriam", named after the pilot's mother. {first combat mission 3Nov43}.
Crashed after takeoff for a mission to the port area of Bremen, Germany 13Nov43 (1KIA). During
assembly, the plane encountered a developing thunderhead and entered a spin, losing several thousand feet in
altitude. The pilot recovered control and ordered the crew to bail out, fearing that the plane would break up.
He remained to prevent the plane from landing directly on a town and landed in a field beyond at Longwick,
near Princes Risborough, Bucks; it exploded, killing the pilot.
31039 (MSN 6153) Accepted by USAAF 4Sep43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 8Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training
Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 19Oct43. 560th Bomb Squadron [Q], 388th Bomb Group,
Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 25Oct43. Named "Miss Fortune". Accident landing at
Knettishall 29Nov43. {first combat mission 29Feb44}. Battle damaged on a mission to railway
facilities around Berlin, Germany 29Apr44. The combat wing was off course heading to Berlin,
attacked by enemy fighters and bombed Magdeburg. Flak over the target was very accurate.
Battle damaged on a mission to a railway marshalling yard at Liège, Belgium 25May44.
Meagre flak was encountered crossing the French coast in the Le Tréport area but very accurate
flak at Poix-de-Picardie, France. Battle damaged during a mission to the Braunkohle Benzin A.G.
synthetic oil refinery at Rothensee, Magdeburg, Germany 20Jun44. Flak over the target was
intense and accurate. Battle damaged on a mission in support of the Marquis resistance fighters
at Eymoutiers, east of Limoges France. The bomb load consisted of metal containers filled with
supplies for fighting the Germans. Struck in a wing by flak when crossing the French coast
on the return home. Battle damaged on a mission to an aircraft factory at Berlin, Germany 6Aug44.
Moderate to intense barrage and tracking flak was encountered over the target. Battle damaged
on a mission to a synthetic oil refinery at Magdeburg, Germany 12Sep44. Flak was encountered
at the target and then the Group was attacked by a large force of enemy fighters. Failed to return
from a mission to an armored vehicle factory at Bremen, Germany 26Sep44 (2WIA:7RTD). Meagre
flak was met at Wesermünde and Cuxhaven. Before the target was reached, the aircraft was
attacked and had to leave the formation when an engine failed. Flying on three engines,
it headed for French territory and then tried to make the English Channel. The plane was badly
damaged when the pilot was unable to avoid the flak guns at Calais. The navigator and bombardier
were wounded. The aircraft ditched in the English Channel in a German mine field. Three hours
later the crew were picked up by a British torpedo boat and returned to England. {56 missions}.
31040 (MSN 6154) Accepted by USAAF 8Sep43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 13Sep43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 21Sep43. 527th Bomb Squadron [FO*A],
379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 27Sep43. .Named "Duffy's Tavern".
Failed to return from a mission to the industrial area at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 29Jan44 (3POW:7EVD).
Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Chenogne, near Sibret, five miles from Bastogne, Belgium.
MACR 2873
31041 (MSN 6155) Accepted by USAAF 7Sep43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 9Sep43. 571st Bomb Squadron [FC*B], 390th Bomb Group,
Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 29Sep43. Named "Cabin In the Sky" {first combat mission 3Nov43}.
Battle damaged on a mission to the industrial complex at Berlin, Germany 19May44 (2WIA:8RTD).
The navigator and ball turret gunner were wounded. Battle damaged on a mission to an oil storage
facility at Saint-Ouen, Paris, France 22Jun44 (1KIA:9RTD). During the approach to the target, flak
guns within the Paris area opened up on the formation. The ball turret gunner was killed. On return,
force landed at RAF Beaulieu, Hampshire. {41 missions}. Salvaged 30Jun44.
31042 (MSN 6156) Accepted by USAAF 6Sep43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 9Sep43. 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 10Oct43. 303rd Bomb Group,
Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 19Oct43. Base Air Depot No.1, Burtonwood (Station 590),
Lancashire 23Oct43. 544th Bomb Squadron [SU*L], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106),
Northamptonshire 2Nov43. {first combat mission 26Nov43}. Failed to return from a mission to the port
at Bremen, Germany 26Nov43 (1KIA:9POW). With battle damage and the No.4 engine disabled caused
by flak en route to the target, the aircraft dropped out of formation near Oldenburg. It was then
attacked by Bf 109 fighters and the navigator killed by a 20mm cannon shell. Shot down by Uffz Franz Prader
in Bf 109G of JG 11/9 The gunners bailed out while the other crew members remained
in the aircraft which crash landed and burned out at Uthlede, six miles southeast of Hagen,
eighteeen miles northwest of Bremen, Germany. {1 mission}. MACR 1663.
31043 (MSN 6157) Accepted by USAAF 6Sep43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 10Sep43. 381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 19Oct43. 526th Bomb Squadron [LF*L],
Transferered to 379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 3Mar44. After a cross country
training flight to slow time a replacement engine, the landing gear collapsed returning to base at
Kimbolton 12Sep44. {76 missions}. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton (Station 547), Huntingdonshire 12Sep44. Salvaged 14Sep44
Named ELSIE MAE/HELL'S BELLE.
31044 (MSN 6158) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 10Sep43.
350th Bomb Squadron, 100th Bomb Group 24Sep43. Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander,
Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 27/28Sep43. Ferried from Prestwick, Scotland to
Marrakech, French Morocco 29/30Sep43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 340th Bomb Squadron,
97th Bomb Group, Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 5Oct43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Foggia Main,
Italy 15Dec43. San Giovanni, Cerignola, Italy 20Dec43. Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44.. Named "Her Did"
Failed to return from a mission to a railway marshalling yard at Verona, Italy 14Feb44 (3KIA:8RTD).
Attacked by enemy fighters, ditched 100 yds offshore at Calvi, Corsica. On the turn over the target area,
two engines failed forcing the airplane to skid towards the outside of the formation. The first
attack came from dead astern at which time the tail guns on the bomber jammed. A second fighter,
spotting the lack of firing from the rear turret, came into point-blank range before firing, killing the
radio operator, a waist gunner and wounding the other waist gunner also causing light wounds
to the two other gunners. A third fighter made his pass, but the wounded gunner from his top turret
opened fire and the fighter was seen to explode, the turret guns becoming inoperative at the time.
A fourth fighter fell to the gunner from his ball turret and the combined work of the bombardier
and navigator claimed another fighter destroyed. Five minutes following the attack American
P-47 Thunderbolt fighters escorted the bomber. First aid was given the wounded, but with
only two engines functioning, the other gunners began stripping the ship of all excess weight.
As the pilot sighted the airfield at Calvi, Corsica, a third engine failed. Not having enough
power and losing altitude, the pilot elected to ditch. All but the pilot and co-pilot crowded
into the radio room, taking the dead with them. The plane hit the water approximately 100 yards
from shore, breaking up under the impact. The airmen climbed into life rafts dragging the
wounded but were unable to save the bodies of their dead comrades.
The B-17 wreck is north of Calvi, at the foot of a small green lighthouse. At one time, some
people had the idea to salvage the wreck to sell the aluminium. It was during such an operation
that the wreck was broken. Later, a diver discovered a wallet which had belonged to one of the
killed machine gunners. Divers cut blades off the propellers while the cockpit was destroyed by an
anchor. In 2012 US Navy divers, assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit 2, Company 4,
and the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, placed the American flag and the POW/MIA flag on the wreckage.
The wreck is still down there.
31045 (MSN 6159) Accepted by USAAF 7Sep43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 10Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand
Island Field, NB 1Nov43. 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 11Nov43.
546th Bomb Squadron [BK*M], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire
29Nov43. {first combat mission 5Dec43}. Returned with battle damage from a mission to a Luftwaffe
airfield at Essey-lès-Nancy, France 6Feb44. {15 missions}. On ferry flight to 2nd Strategic Air Depot
for installation of GEE equipment, the left main landing gear failed to extend, caused by failure
of the motor drive shaft. The pilot returned to Grafton Underwood for advice from his CO and
was instructed to return to Little Staughton and crash land there. Back at Little Staughton, the pilot
was instructed to proceed to Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire, the airfield serving the
other home of 2nd Strategic Air Depot at Abbots Ripton. He was further instructed to return to
Little Staughton. The plane finally crash landed at Little Staughton 8Feb44. 2nd Strategic Air Depot,
Little Staughton (Station 127), Bedfordshire 13Feb44. Salvaged 17Feb44
31046 (MSN 6160) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 10Sep43.
Scott Field, Belleville, IL 29Sep43. 365th Bomb Squadron [XK*E], 305th Bomb Group,
Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 18Oct43. Failed to return from a mission to the
port at Bremen, Germany 26Nov43 (10POW). Damaged by flak, possibly crashed in sea off Emden, Germany.
MACR 1326.
31047 (MSN 6161) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Sep43.
Scott Field, Belleville, IL 28Sep43. 535th Bomb Squadron [MS*T/Q], 381st Bomb Group,
Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 20Oct43.. Named *Little Duchess/Wolverine*.
To 448th Sub-Depot, Air Service Command, Ridgewell 5Jan44 for repair when leaflets from
another plane above stove in the right wing in addition to the right stabiliser and No.3 & 4 engines.
Failed to return from a mission to an aircraft assembly plant at Brunswick, Germany 30Jan44 (8KIA:2POW).
Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed on a street between Kohle and Ottbergen, six miles east of
Hildesheim, Germany. {19 missions}. MACR 2243. Salvaged and used by Luftwaffe.
31048 (MSN 6162) Accepted by USAAF 7Sep43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 11Sep43. 25th Ferrying Squadron, 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT.
Damaged landing at North Platte, NB 17Sep43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Lincoln
Field, NB 19Sep43. Ferried from RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador to Errol, Scotland 14/15Feb44.
545th Bomb Squadron [JD*L], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106),
Northamptonshire 1Mar44. {first combat mission 8Mar44}. Failed to return from a mission
to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 13Apr44 (8KIA:2POW). The bomber
was attacked head on by fifteen Fw 190 fighters, raking it with 20mm cannon shells which
injured and killed some of the crew. The bomber exploded over Lindenfels and crashed
at Einhausen, Bergstrasse, nine miles south of Darmstadt, Germany. {8 missions}. MACR 3866
31049 (MSN 6163) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 10Sep43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 23Sep43.
350th Bomb Squadron [LN*U], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 5Oct43.
Named SUPERSTITUOUS ALOYSIUS – the name of a popular cartoon character. . Returned to US 12Jan45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 18Sep45
31050 (MSN 6164) Accepted by USAAF 8Sep43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 11Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 3Oct43. 525th Bomb Squadron [FR*R], 379th Bomb Group,
Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 19Oct43. 527th Bomb Squadron [FO*R].
Failed to return from a mission to the industrial area at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 29Jan44 (6POW:4RTD).
Shot down by enemy fighters, crash landed Bra-Lierneux, Liège, Belgium. MACR 2874
31051 (MSN 6165) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Sep43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 21Sep43.
349th Bomb Squadron [XR*R], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 3Nov43.
351st Bomb Squadron [EP*K]. Failed to return from a mission to industrial areas in the suburbs of Berlin,
Germany 6Mar44 (7KIA:3POW). Shot down by fighter attack near Haselünne, aircraft exploded,
crashed Elsten, nine miles south of Cloppenburg, Germany. MACR 3018. Named GOIN' JESSIE
31052 (MSN 6166) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Sep43.
Field, Belleville, IL 24Sep43. 303rd Bomb Group 11Oct43. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland
to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 11/12Nov43. 360th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group,
Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire Nov43. 447th Bomb Group, Rattlesden (Station 126),
Suffolk 1943. Battle damaged, Berlin, Germany 7Mar44, crash landed Rattlesden. Salvaged by
2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton 17Mar44.
31053 (MSN 6167) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Sep43.
338th Bomb Squadron [BX*W], 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 29Sep43.
Named "Stingy" (named by Major General Frederick Anderson, CO of VIII Bomber Command,
in honor of his son).. While on a training mission damaged in mid-air collision with B-17G 43-37684
11Oct44, fuselage broke in half and crashed Woodend, near Towcester, Northants (7KIS). A formation
of B-17 Flying Fortresses took off from their base at Snetterton Heath in Norfolk, part of the 96th
Bomb Group for a training mission with a mock bombing run above Rugby. Over the village of
Farthingstone, before their planned turn at Silverstone to return to base, tragically a formation
of 3 aircraft were involved in a horrific mid-air collision at 15,000ft after encountering severe
turbulence and cloud. The accident was triggered when the pilot of B-17F 42-3510 pulled up and
hit the nose of B-17G 43-37684 with its tail section. Just as 510 sheared in half the third B-17
(42-31053) hit 684 with its rudder and also broke in two. Miraculously, the pilot who was piloting
510 parachuted to safety, while his B-17 and the other bombers plummeted to earth at Woodend
west of Towcester, in four sections. Core's four crewmen were killed as was pilot Jorgenson and his
six man crew. Although badly damaged 43-37684 was able to limp back to Snetterton Heath. Salvaged 11Oct44.
31054 (MSN 6168) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Sep43.
412th Bomb Squadron [QW*Q], 95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 7Oct43
Named "Irish Luck" . Failed to return from a mission to the industrial area at Brunswick,
Germany 10Feb44 (1KIA:9POW). Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Wohlstreck, northeast of
Diepholz, Germany. {19 missions}. MACR 2545
31055 (MSN 6169) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Sep43.
Scott Field, Belleville, IL 19Sep43. 360th Bomb Squadron [PU*J], 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth
(Station 107), Huntingdonshire 18Oct43. Named "Aloha". Seriously damaged by flak during a
mission to the Vereinigte Kugellagerfabriken AG (VKF) ball bearing factory, Erkner, Germany 6Mar44.
2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton (Station 547), Huntingdonshire. Regained by Group 9Apr44.
360th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth. Used for non-combat missions. Damaged
landing at RAF Mepal, Cambridgeshire 11Apr44. 41st Combat Wing. Stripped of most of the armament,
the aircraft was crewed by a pilot, co-pilot, navigator, engineer, radio operator, tail gunner and a
meteorologist, acting as weather observation, as well as performing radio relay duties for both
Bomber and Fighter escort groups. Declared ‘war weary’ 9Apr45. Alconbury (Station 102),
Huntingdonshire 1Jun45. Converted for trooping, stripped of all armament and turrets, capable of
carrying thirty passengers on benches installed in the waist and bomb bay. 384th Bomb Group,
Istres (Station 195), Marseille, France Jun45. Participated in the Green Project which was the USAAF
solution to expedite the return of troops to USA. It called for the round-the-clock airlift of troops
from Istres, France, to Casablanca, French Morocco, the initial leg of their journey home.
From Casablanca, Air Transport Command’s aircraft completed the journey and flew the troops
to the United States. A secondary task of the Green Project included flying French citizens who had
been in exile during the war on the return leg from NAS Port Lyautey, French Morocco to Istres.
The Green Project operated from 15Jun45 to 10Sep45. .
31056 ((MSN 6170) Accepted by USAAF 9Sep43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 15Sep43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 30Sep43. 369th Bomb Squadron [WW*U],
306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 19Oct43. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little
Staughton (Station 127), Bedfordshire 27Oct43. Regained by Group 30Oct43. Crash landed at Little
Staughton, Bedfordshire 17Nov43. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little Staughton (Station 127),
Bedfordshire 17Nov43. Regained by Group. 369th Bomb Squadron [WW*Z]. Seriously battle
damaged during a mission to the industrial area at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 29Jan44 (1WIA:9RTD).
Flak shrapnel damaged the left horizontal stabiliser and ball turret. Left and right wing damaged
by empty 0.50 caliber shell cases. Failed to return from a mission to the Kriegsmarinewerft
shipyard at Wilhelmshaven, Germany 3Feb44 (7POW:3KIA). Flak disabled No.2 engine, No.3
engine blew a cylinder and No.4 propeller oversped. The crew bailed out and the plane crashed
on a sandbank near Ruteplate, between Benserseil & Langeoog Island, Germany. MACR 2494
31057 (MSN 6171) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Sep43.
334th Bomb Squadron [BG*G], 95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 29Sep43.
Named "Devil's Daughter, the 2nd" . Accident landing at Wendling (Station 118),
Norfolk 16Dec43. {10 missions}. Salvaged after non battle damage 6Oct44
31058 (MSN 6172) Accepted by USAAF 9Sep43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 13Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 27Sep43. 546th Bomb Squadron [BK*T],
384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 18Oct43.
Named *Liberty Run*. (first combat mission 16Nov43}. Landed away after a mission
to a Luftwaffe fighter airfield at Saint-Jean-d'Angély, France 5Dec43. The No.4 engine oil cooler
leaked, the propeller oversped and could not be feathered. The propeller fell off and broke the
engine crankshaft. With the other engines smoking from increased power and poor visibility over
England, the pilot took advantage of landing when he saw an airfield. Landed at RNAS Henstridge,
Dorset. Returned to Grafton Underwood 7Dec43. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little Staughton (Station 127),
Bedfordshire Dec43 for repair. Regained by Group 14Jan44. Failed to return from a Crossbow mission
to a German V-weapon site at Preuseville in the Pas-de-Calais, France 28Feb44 (1KIA:8POW:1EVD).
The aircraft went down during the first bomb run between the Initial Point and target with one engine
smoking badly and in flames; no flak or fighters had been encountered up to that point.
The crew bailed out – the tail gunner was killed when his parachute streamed - and the plane
crashed and burned in a field 1km northeast of Envermeu, east of Dieppe, France. {12 missions}. MACR 2937
31059 (MSN 6173) Accepted by USAAF Sep43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 13Sep43. 547th Bomb Squadron [SO*N], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106),
Northamptonshire 2Oct43. Failed to return from a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt,
Germany 14Oct43 (1KIA:2POW:7EVD). En route to the target area, the bomber formation was repeatedly
attacked by a large number of Luftwaffe fighters. After the target, the Group turned and headed westward
for England. German fighters, having landed and refueled, attacked again. Attacked by Fw 190 fighters of JG 2/1,
which are believed to have killed the bombardier and set the right wing fuel tanks on fire. As the crew
bailed out, the aircraft exploded, the right wing came off and crashed at Bar-le-Duc, near Soissons, France.
{1 mission}.. MACR 842
31060 (MSN 6174) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Sep43.
427th Bomb Squadron [GN*N], 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 18Oct43.
Named *Poque Ma Hone*(Gaelic for Kiss My Arse!)) Crash landed Little Staughton (Station 127),
Bedfordshire 20Jan44. Participated in the ‘Grapefruit’ mission to drop GB-1 glide bombs on a railway
marshalling yard at Cologne, Germany 28May44. Failed to return from a mission to the Lützkendorf oil
facilities at Mücheln, west of Merseburg, Germany 9Feb45 (5KIA:1POW:3RTD). B-17G 42-31060 and
B-17G 43-39149 collided before ‘bomb release’ after 42-31060 was hit by flak. The right wing of
42-31060 hit the tail of 43-39149. The rear part of the fuselage - from the waist window back - was torn
from 43-39149. The aircraft was seen going down out of control in two pieces. 42-31060 dropped down
about 10,000ft below the formation and seemed to be under control. It followed the formation for about
45 minutes and was then lost from sight. The collision knocked out two engines on the right wing with
oil and gasoline all over the wing. With two engines lost, altitude could not be maintained. It was also
apparent that the B-17 could not buck a head wind and get back to England. The pilot asked for a heading
to fly towards the nearest Russian lines. After about an hour flying in heavy cloud cover the B-17 started to
pick up ice on the wings and continued to lose altitude. The crew threw out guns and other heavy items
and were able to reach the front lines where the Germans and Russians were fighting. When over the Russian
Lines the order to bail out was given. The B-17 crashed and exploded east of Jaraczewe, Poland.
Three crew members were picked up by Russian troops and returned to Molesworth 6Mar45. MACR 12245.
31061 (MSN 6175) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Sep43.
331st Bomb Squadron [QE*T], 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 30Oct43.
Named "Good Time Cholly III" Damaged by fire in ground accident at Rougham 16Aug44. Returned to US.
121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 10Jul45. 4185th Base Unit
(Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), Independence Field, KS 30Nov45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 18Dec45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
31062 (MSN 6176) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Sep43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 28Sep43.
351st Bomb Squadron [EP*D], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 28Sep43
Named "Holy Terror II"; Landing at Thorpe Abbotts after a training mission 29Dec43,
a dragging brake caused the aircraft to run off the runway. The right wheel was in a drainage ditch
then hit a soft spot causing the aircraft to nose over. It then dropped back down driving the tail wheel
up into the fuselage. The nose compartment was destroyed, four propellers were dmaged and
three engines had been shock loaded, as well as destruction of the tail support structure.
Battle damaged on a Crossbow mission to a German V-weapon site in the Pas de Calais, France 21Jan44.
With a engine feathered, bombs were jettisoned in the English Channel. Returning to land, the landing gear
was jammed and the aircraft crash landed at Honington (Station 375), Suffolk. Salvaged 1st Strategic
Air Depot, Troston (Station 595), Suffolk 31Jan44.
31063 (MSN 6177) Accepted by USAAF 10Sep43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 14Sep43. 335th Bomb Squadron [OE*T], 95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119),
Suffolk 29Sep43. {48 missions}. [G], 457th Bomb Group, Glatton (Station 130), Huntingdonshire Jun44.
384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 22Mar45. Named "Spook Six".
Returned to US. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage
and disposal 18Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped.
31064 (MSN 6178) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Sep43.
613th Bomb Squadron [IN*H], 401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 30Oct43.
614th Bomb Squadron [IW*H], 401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe. Named "Hey Lou". While flown by a 613th BS crew
failed to return from a mission to the Luftwaffe air depot at Mérignac, Bordeaux, France 31Dec43 (1KIA:9MIA).
The target was covered in solid cloud so the secondary target, a Luftwaffe base at Châteaubernard, Cognac,
France. Shot down by Hptm Herbert Huppertz in Fw 190A-6 of JG 2/III
Stab and crashed into English Channel off St. Catherine's Point,
Isle of Wight, UK. MACR 1872.
31065 (MSN 6179) Accepted by USAAF 10Sep43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 13Sep43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 28Sep43. 367th Bomb Squadron [GY*Z],
306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 19Oct43. 2nd Strategic Air Depot,
Little Staughton (Station 127), Bedfordshire 27Oct43. Regained by Group 30Oct43. Seriously battle
damaged during a mission to the port area at Kiel, Germany 13Dec43. Right inner wing struck by flak.
Seriously battle damaged during a mission to railway marshalling yards at Frankfurt am Main,
Germany 4Feb44. As the planes were passing over the Netherlands en route to Germany, local cross
winds carried the bombers straight into enemy flak. Right inner and outer wings, right wing between
No.3 and No.4 engines struck by flak. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton (Station 547),
Huntingdonshire 20Feb44. Regained by Group 24Feb44. Aborted a mission to the Heinkel Flugzeugwerke
aircraft factory at Oranienburg, Germany 9Mar44. The No.4 propeller oversped and could not be feathered.
Bombs were jettisoned over the North Sea and the propeller fell off when the plane force landed at RAF
Bourn, Cambridgeshire. Seriously battle damaged on a Crossbow mission to a German V-weapon site at
Watten, France 26Mar44 (1WIA:9RTD). On return, force landed at RAF Manston, Kent. 2nd Strategic Air Depot,
Abbots Ripton (Station 547), Huntingdonshire 27Mar44. Regained by Group 10May44. Declared ‘war weary’.
2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton (Station 547), Huntingdonshire 25Jul44 for installation of electronic
supercharger regulators. Regained by Group 11Aug44. Battle damaged on a mission to the hydrogenation
works at Scholven-Buer, Gelsenkirchen, Germany 26Aug44. The plane got as far as the coast of Denmark
when No.4 engine had to be shut down and the propeller feathered. Shortly thereafter, the No.1 engine
started to run unsteady and the plane dropped out of formation. The crew dropped their bombs into the
Kiel Canal where Germany had many ships tied up. After this the anti-aircraft guns opened fire. The plane
received many holes from shrapnel but no one was hurt. The bomber was soon far enough from the coast
that the guns couldn’t reach but then along came the Bf 109’s. they were chased off by some P-47 Thunderbolts
to protect and escort back to England. Failed to return from a mission to the Braunkohle-Benzin AG synthetic
oil refinery at Schwarzheide, Ruhland, Germany 12Sep44 (8POW:1KIA). Damaged by flak, the crew bailed out.
Crashed Kasserolhof, near Eberswalde, north of Berlin, Germany. MACR 8827
31066 (MSN 6180) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Sep43.
Scott Field, Belleville, IL 29Sep43. 351st Bomb Squadron [EP*H], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts
(Station 139), Norfolk 4Oct43. Named "Dixie Baby/Fools Rush In". Failed to return from a mission to the
Rhenania-Ossag Mineralölwerke oil refinery at Harburg, Hamburg, Germany 31Dec44 (6KIA:3POW). . MACR 11366. .
Received direct hit by flak just before releasing bombs, and the bombs were salvoed. The aircraft fell onto
43-38124 and both aircraft went down in flames. Crashed Radegast, Germany
31067 (MSN 6181) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Sep43. qqq
534th Bomb Squadron, 381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 20Oct43. 535th Bomb Squadron [MS*T:MS*Q].
{67 missions, Named "Black Widow/Phyllis". Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment
Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 8Jun45. 4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City
Air Technical Service Command), South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 15Jun45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 13Dec45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
31068 (MSN 6182) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Sep43.
Scott Field, Belleville, IL 22Oct43. 612th Bomb Squadron [SC*D], 401st Bomb Group,
Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 8Nov43. Named "Fools Luck". . Battle damaged on a
mission to the Luftwaffe air depot at Mérignac, Bordeaux, France 31Dec43. On return and in poor weather conditions,
the crew bailed out over Ware, Hertfordshire, the aircraft crashing in a field at Foxhole Hill,
Potters Bar, Hertfordshire. All (10) Crew Bailed Out and Survived. Aircraft Was Destroyed.
31069 (MSN 6183) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 15Sep43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 20Oct43. 615th Bomb Squadron [IY*K],
401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 11Nov43.
Named "Little Moe" Failed to return from a mission to the Braunkohle Benzin A.G. synthetic
oil refinery at Rothensee, Magdeburg, Germany 28Sep44 (9POW). Over the target, flak
struck the No.2 engine. It burst into flames and the pilot gave the order to bail out. Crashed Helmstedt, Germany.
MACR 9415.
31070 (MSN 6184) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Sep43.
322nd Bomb Squadron [LG*M], 91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 14Dec43..
Named "Dame Satan II". Battle damaged on a mission to the AGO-Flugzeugwerke Fw 190
manufacturing factory at Oschersleben, Germany 11Jan44. While the aircraft were airborne, the weather
closed in over English bases and a recall signal was issued. B/Gen. Robert F. Travis, Air Commander
of the 1st Bomb Division, continued on to the target. This left the 1st Bomb Division with greater
exposure to enemy fighter attacks. Good fighter support was provided by P-47 Thunderbolts on the
penetration and by P-51 Mustangs over the target. P-47s were airborne to provide withdrawal
support but they obeyed the recall order to return to England and left the bombers to fend for
themselves on the return trip. Luftwaffe attacks started over the IJsselmeer and intensified when the
American fighters returned home. Meagre and fairly accurate flak was experienced on the bomb run,
with intermittent inaccurate flak on the return trip. Battle damaged on a mission to an aircraft assembly
plant at Brunswick, Germany 30Jan44 (1WIA:9RTD). Flak was meagre to moderate but inaccurate; the
plane was subject to two major attacks by enemy fighters wounding a gunner. Battle damaged on a
mission to the Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau AG aircraft factory at Sorau, Prussia 11Apr44. The primary
target was covered with clouds; so the group headed to the secondary target of the port area at
Stettin, Prussia. Intense and accurate flak was encountered in the vicinity of Hanover and Stettin.
On return, the formation was subjected to two hard-pressed attacks by enemy fighters. Returned to US.
1104th Base Unit (Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command), Homestead Field, FL 16Jul44. Modified for
training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17G.
4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 24Jul44.
610th Base Unit (Proving Ground Command), Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 20Oct44. Wright Field,
Dayton, OH 24Oct44. 610th Base Unit (Proving Ground Command), Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 19Dec44.
Damaged taxying at Wright Field 19Dec44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR
for storage and disposal 5Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company,
Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31071 (MSN 6185) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Sep43.
Scott Field, Belleville, IL 28Sep43. 418th Bomb Squadron [LD*U], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts
(Station 139), Norfolk 4Oct43. Named "Dorhelcia". . Failed to return from a mission to a
communication center at Münster, Germany 22Dec43 (10KIA). Damaged by flak, crashed North Sea.
MACR 1705.
31072 (MSN 6186) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Sep43.
Scott Field, Belleville, IL 20Oct43. 613th Bomb Squadron [IN*K], 401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe
(Station 128), Northamptonshire 26Oct43. Named "Betty J". TDY Polebrook 16Jun44,
returned 6Jul44. TDY Egypt 6Aug44, returned 29Aug44. Force landed on the continent 3Mar45.
{93 missions}. Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field,
Windsor Locks, CT 7Jun45. 4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command),
South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 13Jun45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41,
Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 17Dec45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
31073 (MSN 6187) Accepted by USAAF 11Sep43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 15Sep43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 29Sep43. 547th Bomb Squadron [SO*D],
384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 18Oct43. Named "Billie-Del"
{first combat mission 3Nov43}. Crashed returning from an aborted mission to bomb a blockade
runner ship 'Orsone' at the mouth of River Garonne, Gironde, France 31Dec43 (10RTD). The crew found
bad weather on return to base. Unable to find an airfield and running out of fuel, the crew bailed out
safely, except for the two pilots who rode the aircraft down to crash land near Whittlesey,
Cambridgeshire. {8 missions}. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton (Station 547), Huntingdonshire 5Jan44. Salvaged
31074 (MSN 6188) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 15Sep43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 28Sep43. 350th Bomb Squadron [LN*Q],
100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 4Oct43. Named *Cahepit*. Failed to return from a
mission to the industrial area of Munich, Germany 13Jul44 (10INT). Moderate accurate flak
was encountered at Ludwigshafen and Mannheim with intense flak at the target. Damaged by flak, f\
force landed Emmen, Switzerland MACR 7501
31075 (MSN 6189) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 15Sep43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 4Oct43. 535th Bomb Squadron [MS*S],
381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 19Oct43. Named'The Rebel'
Failed to return from a mission to the port area at Bremen, Germany 20Dec43 (7POW:3KIA).
As the formation turned at the I.P. fighter attacks began on the low group of the lead formation.
The bomber was heavily hit by Bf 109 fighters and began to trail behind the formation with an
engine on fire and crewmen wounded. It was kept under control with the auto-pilot, a factor
which would affect