41-2644
Delivered Lowry 7/3/42; Boise 6/4/42; Assigned 28BS/19BG Hawaii 22/4/42; damaged Rabual 7/8/42, rep; retUS 31/8/44; Written off 19/10/44.
B-17 Bomber Flying Fortress – The Queen Of The Skies B-17E
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“Big Tail”
The first of the “Big Ass” B-17’s arrived England to equip the US 8th Air Force in July 1942. All the planes had been modified with enlarged gun windows and 0.50-calibre guns on either side of the nose. Further modifications were made to them after they were operational including work on the radio, bomb rack, lighting, oxygen, extinguisher and survival systems. By the time the B-17E had been shipped across the Atlantic, newer models were already coming off the Boeing production line. In fact, the B-17E was only on full combat status for just over two weeks before the appearance of the B-17F’s
The B-17E was not used in great numbers for combat because the F model was so different in performance that it made joint operations, using both planes unlikely. The B-17E took a back seat and was eventually esed as a trainer, a transport and a target-tower. With its armaments removed it could give better handling and speed.
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41-9136
Delivered Cheyenne 24/4/42; Wayne 13/6/42; RCAF Dorval 17/6/42; Gander-Prestwick 25/6/42 to RAF [FK204]; Royal Aircraft Est., Boscomb Down, Wilts. Back-up LRASV trials 1/7/42; 220 Sq (ZZ-N) Ballykelly 25/7/42.; with W/Co. Richard Gates abandoned out of fuel and crashed Doddington Quarry, Doddington, Wooler, Northumberland, UK 11/8/42; crew all OK. Struck Off Charge 10/10/42.
41-9141
Delivered Geiger 301BG 1/5/42 (slated RAF but repainted for USAAF); Alamogordo 18/6/42; Westover 2/7/42; Walla Walla 12/8/42; Boise 26/10/42; Lockbourn 4/4/43; Las Vegas 17/10/43; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Albuquerque 5/7/45.
41-9159
Delivered Geiger 301BG 30/4/42; Alamogordo 18/6/42; Westover 2/7/42; Ogden 10/8/42; Walla Walla 3/9/42; Boise 3/11/42; crashed Spence Fd 10/1/43, col mid air with another aircraft with Lt Lawrence; Written off 7/3/43.
41-2497 / Tojo’s Nightmare
Delivered MacDill 26/1/42; Assigned HQ/30BS/19BG Java 17/2/42 with Stribling; then 7BG, transferred 30BS/43BG Aus; transferred 46TCS/317TCG; t/o from 7 Mile Fd, PNG but crashed on approach to Horn Is with Capt Bill Compton [wia], Co-pilot: E.Donovan, Navigator: Paul Maaske, Bombardier: Ed Scudero, Paul Paddilla, J.C. Matthews [wia*], Julian Simmons [wia*], Delbert Steinka, C.M. Porter, Chas Krieg; Cecil Clarke, J. Swain, John Masiars, Den Pechman (Poofman?), Paul Graf, T. Underwood, Jim Colorusso (15RTD, * later died of wounds) 24/3/44; Salvaged. MACMAC aka TOJO’S NIGHTMARE.
41-2625
Delivered Ogden 1/3/42; Cheyenne 28/3/42; RCAF Dorval 8/5/42; Gander-Prestwick 20/5/42 with Bob Coffman, to RAF [FK197]; Assigned Scottish Aviation for trial installation of special LRASV MkII radar and additional dorsal aerials, not used on anti-sub ops 18/7/42; 251 Sq (AD-E) Reykjavik, Iceland 3/5/45; Struck Off Charge 21/6/47.
41-9083
Delivered Boise 303BG 7/4/42; Salt Lake City 17/5/42; Geiger 24/6/42; Muroc 305BG 5/7/42; Biggs 11/7/42; crashed on take off base 4/11/42 with Lt Chas Byrd, 3 killed, aircraft burned. Salvaged.
41-2542
Delivered Geiger 29/1/42; Tucson 10/2/42; Cheyenne 4/5/42; Wendover 10/6/42; Alamogordo 16/9/42; McChord 20/11/42; Oklahoma City 2/12/42; Hill 3/1/43; Napier 3/3/43; Hendricks 13/3/43. Written off 5/7/44.
41-9217 / Fiji Foo
Delivered Cheyenne 22/5/42; Assigned 431BS/11BG Hawaii 7/6/42; then 26BS; Missing in Action 19/2/43 with Capt Smith. FIJI FOO. (movement card shows – retUS Tinker 16/6/43; Patterson 19/2/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 18/9/45). {a US website shows aircraft Assigned 28FS/6FG and with George Haney in landing accident at Tontouta, New Caledonia, 27/10/43).
41-9109
Delivered Sarasota 97BG 18/4/42; West Palm Beach 27/4/42; Assigned Gt Britain 26/5/42 in error; 10AF DAUB 13/9/42; 12AF GLEN 11/1/43; 15AF OHAM 30/9/44; Grenier 18/10/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 10/10/45.
