Delivered Cheyenne 24/4/43; Smoky Hill 5/5/43; Presque Is 30/5/43; Assigned 384BG Grafton Underwood 10/6/43; transferred 337BS/96BG [AW-H] Andrews Fd 6/7/43 GUZZLERS; Snetterton 12/6/43, BLACK HAWK; 563BS/388BG APH Knettishall /43; Missing in Action (as drone), with Lt Richard. Lindahl killed by static line incorrectly attached bailing out, Navigator: Lt D. Salles (Returned to Duty) off Heligoland shore 11/9/44.
Delivered Dallas 25/6/45; Rome 26//7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 5/11/45.
Delivered Cheyenne 26/10/43; Walla Walla 9/11/43; Assigned 731BS/452BG [7D-V] Deopham Green 3/1/44; Missing in Action Berlin 6/3/44 with Chas Wagner, Radio Operator: Francis Shaffer, Waist gunner: Joe Tracey, Waist gunner: Fred Richmond,Tail gunner: George James (5 Killed in Action); Ball turret gunner: Lloyd Freeman (Prisoner of War); Co-pilot: Alan Willis, Navigator: Clyde Martin, Bombardier: Henry Gladys, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Don PorterWounded in Action (4 evaded capture); enemy aircraft, crashed Staphorst-de-Leijen, Hol. Missing Air Crew Report 2916. FLAKSTOP.
Delivered Denver 4/10/43; Gr Island 22/10/43; Assigned 568BS/390BG [BI-Q] Framlingham 11/11/43; on training flight to Alconbury 3/3/44 with Max Quakenbush, Co-pilot: Roger Johnson, Navigator: Amerigo Bassl, g-Bill Jeffries, pass-Lt Harry Van Horn (5 Returned to Duty); overshot runway causing severe damage; Salvaged 4/3/44. MINNIE-SO-TAN.
Delivered Cheyenne 15/5/43; Gore 17/5/43; Cheyenne 18/5/43; Spokane 26/5/43; Gt Falls 7/6/43; Smoky Hill 2/7/43; Dow Fd 13/7/43; Assigned 570BG/390BG [DI-G] Framlingham 15/7/43; Missing in Action Bremen 8/10/43 with Arlin Rennels, Navigator: Bob Bergholz, Bombardier: Joe Bloom, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Chas Marshall, Radio Operator: Fred Strickhart, Ball turret gunner: John Skarenski, Waist gunner: Lee McKee, Waist gunner: Warren Stephens,Tail gunner: Tony Mauceri (9 Prisoner of War); Co-pilot: Lou Wetzel (Killed in Action); flak hit, #2 on fire, crashed near Vecht, 35 miles SW of Bremen; Missing Air Crew Report 781. DEVIL’S DAUGHTER.
Delivered Dallas 29/6/45; Rome 28/7/45; Independence 4/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 5/11/45.
Delivered Kearney 10/8/44; Grenier 22/8/44; Assigned: 568BS/390BG [BI-P] Framlingham 24/8/44 I’LL BE AROUND; attacked by Enemy aircraft on 18/9/44 mission to Warsaw. Severe battle damage, most instruments out and #1 supercharger, Hibbard KIA, Underwood & Stovall WIA. Ground crew chief repairs cables to enable CP to fly to mirogod, Russia until repaired and back to base. Returned to US: Bradley 30/6/45; Sth Plains 4/7/45; Scrapped: Kingman 25/11/45. MAIDEN’S PRAYER.
Delivered Denver 11/9/43; Assigned 447BG Rattlesden 21/10/43; Missing in Action Oschersleben 11/1/44 with Dick Fouts, Co-pilot: Dan Lionadakis, Navigator: Elbridge Park, Bombardier: Jim Kidd, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bill Wilmurth, Radio Operator: Bill Trobaugh, Ball turret gunner: Eric Hill, Waist gunner: John Curby, Waist gunner: Lou Szurleys,Tail gunner: Chas Harris (10 Returned to Duty); enemy aircraft set fire to #3, then #1 was hit, ditched North Sea, broke in half almost immediately and sank; RAF Hudson found and circled until Air Sea Rescue picked crew up and took to Gt Yarmouth, Nfk. No MACR.
Delivered Cheyenne 15/4/43; Gore 21/4/43; Smoky Hill 26/4/43; Walla Walla 30/4/43; Smoky Hill 10/5/43; Dow Fd 27/5/43; Assigned: 338BS/96BGB [BX-W] Andrews Fd 29/5/43 BIG DICK; Snetterton 12/6/43; MIA Regensburg 25/2/44 Pilot: 452BC crew: p-Dave Jarrett, Co-Pilot: Hans Landon, Navigator: Paul Tector, Bombardier: Joe Sullivan, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Melvin Simons, Radio Operator: George Seagrove, Ball Turret Gunner: Clinton Sather, Waist Gunner: John Doly, Waist Gunner: Carl Jones, Tail Gunner: John Lupton (10POW); Enemy aircraft, crashed Regensburg area, Germany. MACR 2859. THE IRONBIRD BIG DICK.
Delivered Dallas 25/6/45; Rome 31/7/45; Independence 7/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 4/11/45.
Delivered Dallas 25/9/43; Harvard 6/10/43; Assigned 711BS/447BG Rattlesden 25/11/43; Missing in Action Berlin 29/4/44 with Arthur Peper, Co-pilot: Jim Hyde, Navigator: Ed Connelly, Bombardier: Francis Mauge, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Theo Goobic, Radio Operator: Abe Cosmer, Ball turret gunner: Henry Reilly, Waist gunner: Howard McMahon, Waist gunner: Julius Otfinoski,Tail gunner: Otis Mason (10 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crash landed Gollbogen, four miles NE of Zerbst, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 4248.
Delivered Cheyenne 26/9/43; Harvard 10/10/43; Assigned 710BS/447BG Rattlesden 25/11/43; Missing in Action Pas de Calais 13/2/44 with Ed Kaffun, Co-pilot: Cliff Coultas, Navigator: John Brown, Bombardier: Jim Tyson, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: John Prasch, Radio Operator: Gene Schmitt, Ball turret gunner: Jack Miley, Waist gunner: John Linkus, Waist gunner: Bob Lutes (9 Killed in Action);Tail gunner: Ken McIntyre (Prisoner of War); flak burst brokle coff tail, crashed Rambures, 17 miles NW of Poix, Fr. Missing Air Crew Report 2532.
Delivered: Dallas 25/9/43; Gr Island 14/10/43; Assigned: 709BS/447BG Rattlesden 23/11/43; MIA Pas de Calais 13/2/44 Pilot: Don McDonald, Co-Pilot: Norman Masett, Navigator: Orlando Hamlin, Bombardier: Tom Ellison, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Larry LePage, Radio Operator: Rich Plouck, Ball Turret Gunner: John Hagan, Waist Gunner: Jim Pitts, Waist Gunner: Ed Patterson, Tail Gunner: Henry Abelmann (10POW); flak, crashed Fraincourt-St-Quentin, 17 miles W of Abbeville, Fr. MACR 2533. RED ASS, possibly (DONKEY).
Delivered Dallas 26/6/45; Rome 26/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 5/11/45.
Delivered Cheyenne 5/3/44; Hunter 7/4/44; Dow Fd 29/4/44; Assigned 615BS/401BG [IY-C] Deenethorpe 3/5/44; 614BS [IW-S]; 106m, Returned to the USA Bradley 7/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 14/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 5/12/45.
Delivered Hunter 22/11/44; Grenier 2/12/44; Assigned 569BS/390BG [CC-T] Framlingham 7/12/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 3/7/45; Sth Plains 6/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 8/12/45. THE DIPLOMAT II.
Delivered Lincoln 28/10/44; Grenier 29/11/44; Assigned 563BS/388BG Knettishall 9/12/44; Missing in Action Oranienburg 15/3/45 with Alvin Fehrman, Mike Maiette, Bill Williams, Edmund Jedrzejak (4 Prisoner of War); Ira Teackey, Bill Dougherty, Fred Rumford, John Minassian, Bill Weaver (5 Killed in Action); flak, possibly crashed between Münster and Rhine River, Germany. Exact location unknown. Missing Air Crew Report 13094.
Delivered Cheyenne 7/1/45; Hunter 26/1/45; Grenier 3/2/45; Assigned PFF 535BS/381BG [MS-P] Ridgewell 27/3/45; {7m} transferred 367BS/306BG Thurleigh 23/5/45; landing accident at base with Cecil Starks 12/10/45; Salvaged 9AF Germany 3/7/46.
Delivered Cheyenne 12/1/44; Savannah 24/1/44; Assigned 562BS/388BG Knettishall 5/2/44; destroyed by Luftwaffe on ground Poltava, Russia, with Lt Muirhead 21/6/44; Salvaged 2/7/44.
Delivered Tulsa 24/9/43; Gr Island 2/10/43; ass 379BG Kimbolton 19/10/43; forced landing Gr Island, Ne Pilot: Don McMillan 1/11/43; w/Herb Wright f/l St Angelo, Nth Ireland 12/2/44; MIA Emden 8/7/44 w/Willis Jones, Co-Pilot: Bill Dry, Navigator: Bill McGinnis, Bombardier: Pete Saveskie, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: John Phillips, Radio Operator: Bill Black, Ball Turret Gunner: Alvin Brady, Waist Gunner: Bernard Schupp, Tail Gunner: Chas Parrish (9RTD); Enemy aircraft, ditched North Sea; MISS MARY/SWEET SUE.
Delivered Tulsa 4/5/44; Kearney 11/5/44; Grenier 26/5/44; Assigned 613BS/401BG [IN-N] Deenethorpe 1/6/44. Missing in Action Merseburg 21/11/44 with Bob Keck, Larry Istel, Hollis Freeman, Sam Shepard, Leon Stoger, Ed Fialkowski, Bill Metcalf (7 Prisoner of War); Dick Engler, Elwood Norr; flak and enemy aircraft, crashed Zeitz, Germany. Missing Air Crew Report 10411. HOMING PIDGEON.
Delivered Cheyenne 8/1/45; Hunter 25/1/45; Dow Fd 1/2/45; Assigned 534BS/381BG [GD-B] Ridgewell 16/2/45; {13+m} transferred 367BS/306BG Thurleigh 23/5/46; Assigned ti Sitres, France, then involved in taxi accident at Perrons Fd, France, with Royce Hopkins 27/10/45; Salvaged 9AF Germany 31/3/46; re-ass 30/4/47; Recl Comp 7/11/47. DUSTY GAY.
Delivered Louisville 15/5/45; Syracuse 23/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 5/11/45.
Delivered Cheyenne 28/4/44; Kearney 11/5/44; Grenier 26/5/44; Assigned 614BS/401BG [IW-L] Deenethorpe 1/6/44; 615BS [IY-L]; Missing in Action Berlin 28/3/45 with Joe McCullough, Norman Schock, John Maxwell, Pascal Santora, Nick Loris, Larry Genauer {rcm} (6 Prisoner of War); Tom McGurn, Bob Winterburn, Oren Tish, Bob Jacobson (4 Killed in Action); flak, crashed Zobbenitz, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 13544.