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Delivered Denver 10/7/43; Presque Is 17/8/43; Assigned 325BS/92BG [NV-F] Podington 4/9/43; transferred 407BS [PY-F]; Missing in Action Kiel 4/1/44 with Ray Mancu, Co-pilot: Bob Owen, Navigator: Lee Brennan, Bombardier: Jim Hughes, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Harry Wolf, Radio Operator: Mo Helsom, Ball turret gunner: Francis McEngry, Waist gunner: Ken Miller, Waist gunner: Howard Benson,Tail gunner: Russell Sehm (10 Killed in Action); flak, crashed Oppendorf, near Schoenkirchen, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 1961.

Delivered Cheyenne 28/6/43; Seattle 30/6/43; Kearney 14/7/43; Dow Fd 18/7/43; Assigned 349BS/100BG [XR-D] Thorpe Abbotts 20/7/43; Missing in Action Paris 3/9/43 with Capt Henry Henington, Co-pilot: Homer Tripp, Navigator: Ward Dalton, Bombardier: Capt Alf Fahlstedt, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: W.J. Meyer, Radio Operator: Joe Badrick, Ball turret gunner: ?, Waist gunner: ?, Waist gunner: Joe Raff,Tail gunner: Frank Kintash (10 Returned to Duty); flak hit in engine, ditched Channel about 60 miles off coast, all rescued by RAF Walruses from Shoreham, Sx. No MACR. HORNY.

Assigned 23BS/5BG Hickam Filed, HI 14-May-41; (aircraft No.41) Returned to the USA Long Beach 22-Oct-42; Love Field 23-Nov-42; Smyrna 2-Jan-43; Lockbourn 23-Jan-43; crashed Newark Army Air Field, NJ with Dan Kingman 15-Jul-43; Salvaged. Ended as trainer for Aviation Engineering Cadet Detachment at Yale Univ. 1944-45. Never served in the UK.

Delivered Cheyenne 28/7/44; Hunter 8/8/44; Dow Fd 30/8/44; Assigned 493BG Debach 1/9/44; transferred 351BS/100BG [EP-D] Thorpe Abbotts 2/9/44; battle damaged Chemnitz 6/2/45 with Jerome Garrison; force landed Chagny, Fr?; Salvaged 13/3/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 15/7/44; Kearney 25/7/44; Grenier 8/8/44; Assigned 326BS/92BG [JW-N] Podington 27/8/44; Green Project 6/12/45; Salvaged 29/1/46. ALLEY OOP.

Delivered Cheyenne 15/7/44; Kearney 26/7/44; Grenier 9/8/44; Assigned 4BS/34BG Mendlesham 12/8/44; mia ? with R. Martin, Co-pilot: Ferlich, Navigator: George Webster, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Fleming, Radio Operator: Desjardines, Ball turret gunner: Marvin Jalving, Waist gunner: George Schmitt; vn- Clarke (7 Returned to Duty); Bombardier: George Bartzee (Killed in Action); Returned to the USA Bradley 24/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 26/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 13/12/45. MISSBEHAVIN RAVEN.

Delivered Albuquerque Strategia Arms Depot 5-Jun-41; Hickam Field, HI 17-Oct-41; Assigned 93BS/19BG Clark Field, Philippines 20-Oct-41 with Walter Ford, Percy Hinton, Chas Stevens, Melvin Hunt, Gerald Bloyd, Jim Hanna, Bob Johnson, Albt Collet, Harry Maike; damaged ground accident Del Monte 12-Dec-41. Salvaged. Never served in the UK.

Delivered Denver 20/10/43; Gr Island 2/11/43; Assigned 336BS/95BG [ET-K] Horham 25/11/43; with L. Jeffers 13/12/43 Bombardier: J.C. Freeze-wia; 31m, Missing in Action Rostock 11/4/44 with Bob Westmyer, Navigator: John Johnson, Waist gunner: John Novak (3 Prisoner of War); Co-pilot: Phil Terry, Bombardier: John Rudnicky, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Paul Jett, Radio Operator: Bill Ligoe, Ball turret gunner: Roy Henderson, Waist gunner: Ellsworth Campbell,Tail gunner: Sam Hillwell (7 Killed in Action); flak & enemy aircraft set #2 & #3 engines on fire, crew landed Bad Dorkran, aircraft crashed Rerik-Mecklenberg, 19 miles W of Rostock, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 3805. WEE MISS AMERICA.

Delivered Dallas 21/6/44; Langley 14/7/44; Presque Is 11/8/44; Assigned 4BS/34BG Mendlesham 19/8/44; Returned to the USA Morrison 29/10/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 7/1/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 30/11/44; Hunter 14/12/44; Grenier Fd 29/12/44; Assigned as PFF 351BS/100BG [EP-Z] Thorpe Abbotts 8/1/45; Returned to the USA Charleston 26/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 20/12/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 25/11/43; Gr Island 5/12/43; Romulus 15/12/43; Presque Is 17/12/43; Assigned 401BS/91BG [LL-L] Bassingbourn 29/12/43; Missing in Action 11m Berlin 6/3/44 with Bob Tibbetts, Co-pilot: Alex Ellerman, Navigator: Leo Sharum, Bombardier: Rich Wertheim, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Jim Brady, Radio Operator: Bob Kidder, Ball turret gunner: Harry Rhode, Waist gunner: Syd Barrett (8 Killed in Action); Waist gunner: Dana Morse,Tail gunner: Walt Davis (2 Prisoner of War); another B-17 was hit mid air coll with FW190, the wreckage falling on ‘578 and all three crashed near Letzlingen, seven SE of Javenitz, six miles E of, Gardelegen, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 2898. MY DARLING ALSO.

Delivered Cheyenne 29/7/44; Hunter 7/8/44; Dow Fd 30/8/44; Assigned 350BS/100BG [LN- ] Thorpe Abbotts 2/9/44; Missing in Action Hamburg 31/12/44 with Leo Ross, Co-pilot: Raigh Mason {Wounded in Action}, Navigator: Bill Burreuss, Bombardier: Russ Koechel, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Jerry Angelots, Radio Operator: Carl Anderon, Ball turret gunner: Oscar Johnson, Waist gunner: John Affleck,Tail gunner: Jim Wynne (9 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Bartelsdorf, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 11360. FAITHFUL FOREVER.

Delivered Hickam Field, HI 14-May-41; Assigned 14BS/19BG Clark Field, Philippines 14-May-41 with Guilford Montgomery, Curtis Holdridge, Bob Wasson, Stan Jackola, Armando Ramirez, Bill Johns, C.O. Hones, Lincoln Dapron, W/Co Garing RAAF; Del Monte 6-Dec-41; ditched off Zamboanga 10-Dec-41 with Guilford Montgomery. Never served in the UK.

Delivered Cheyenne 13/9/43; Scott 28/9/43; Assigned 367BS/306BG [GY-Z] Thurleigh 19/10/43; Missing in Action Brux 12/9/44 with Paul Bailey, Co-pilot: Rudy Babel, Bombardier: Bob Vickers, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Leroy Hollenberg, Radio Operator: Tom Chandler, Ball turret gunner: Harry Boland, Waist gunner: Joe Burns,Tail gunner: Leo Zych (8 Prisoner of War); Navigator: Dick Rodenberger (Killed in Action); flak, crashed Kasserolhof, near Eberswalde, N of Berlin, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 8827.

Delivered Boeing Material Command (by hand!) 4/9/43; Grand Island 20/10/43; Assigned 422NLS/305BG [JJ-B] Chelveston 25/11/43, then later fitted with ARI Boozer radar transmission facilities 5/44; on night leaflet operation 12/5/44 with Mike ? , Co-pilot: ? ,n- ? , Bombardier: ? , Flight engineer/top turret gunner: / , Radio Operator: Louis Hatin {Wounded in Action}, Ball turret gunner: Dan Brennan{Wounded in Action},Tail gunner: Nick Mastroianni (8 Returned to Duty), Waist gunner: Bob Waller, Waist gunner: George Barber (2 Killed in Action); crash landed RAF Friston, Sussex, UK 13/5/44; Salvaged battle damaged 2 SAD Lt Staughton 29/12/44.

Delivered Hunter 25/11/44; Grenier 9/12/44; Assigned 571BS/390BG [FC-G] Framlingham 12/12/44 as pathfinder; transferred 418BS/100BG [LD-Z] Thorpe Abbotts 5/45; RetUS, Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 13/12/45.

Assigned 23BS/5BG [1] Hickam Field, HI 14-May-41; Returned to the USA Long Beach 23-Oct-42; March 29-Mar-42; Sebring 21-Dec-42; Lockbourn 15-Jan-43; Sioux Falls 14-Jul-43; Written off 21-Jul-43. (aircraft No.1).

Assigned 419BS/301BG Westover 8/7/42; Chelveston 9/8/42 THE RELUCTANT GREMLIN; transferred Tafaraoui 26/11/42; Maison Blanche 5/12/42; Biskra 16/12/42; Ain M’Lila 17/1/43; St Donat 6/3/43; Oudna 6/8/43 {52m}; transferred 346BS/99BG Tortorella 14/11/43 {28m}; Returned to the USA Rome Fd 28/4/44 with Maj P. O’Carroll, original pilot who took it home for war bond tour; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Searcy Fd 31/7/45. EIGHT BALL.

Delivered Gt Falls 7/9/44; Hunter 18/9/44; Grenier 26/9/44; Assigned 710BS/447BG Rattlesden 28/9/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 5/7/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 8/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 17/12/45. BUDDY BUDDY.

Delivered Tulsa 22/3/45; El Paso 27/3/45; Patterson 17/5/45; Grenier 3/7/45; with Arthur Clarke force landed Mekks Fd, Iceland 9/2/46; re-ass 30/4/47; Recl Comp 28/11/47.

Assigned 26BS/11BG Hickam Field, HI 14-May-41; Written off 16-Oct-43. (aircraft No. 41). Never served in the UK.

Delivered Cheyenne 17/12/42; Gt Falls 14/1/43; Walla Walla 22/2/43; Madras 20/6/43; Walla Walla 15/8/43; Avon Park 23/11/43; 3705 BU Lowry 1/5/44; 3017 BU Hobbs 19/5/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 5/11/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 25/12/42; Glasgow 22/1/43; Walla Walla 5/2/43; Dyersburg 18/3/43; Assigned 88BG Walla Walla 18/5/43; force landed base 8/9/43 with Milton Ciscoe; 2137 BU Robins 15/6/44; 326 BU MacDill 29/7/44; 327 BU Drew 23/1/45; 231 BU Alamogordo 5/3/45; 331 BU Barksdale 15/4/45; 325 BU Avon Park 19/5/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 18/8/45.

Delivered Kearney 5/8/44; Grenier 24/8/44; 273 BU Lincoln 4/9/44; Assigned 340BS/97BG Amendola 15/9/44; Missing in Action Kalmaki A/fd, Greece 21/1/45 with John Potkalitsky, Cummings, Hill, Chapman, Poovey, Gorman {Wounded in Action}, Shea, McKinlay, Whalen {Wounded in Action}, Couvillion {Wounded in Action}; ditched, all rescued.