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Delivered Cheyenne 23/10/43; Gr Island 3/11/43; Memphis 28/11/43; Assigned: 338BS/96BG [BX-E] Snetterton 5/12/43; MIA Zwickau 12/5/44 Pilot: Bob Lewis, Co-Pilot: Gustav Soderlund, Navigator: George Korty, Bombardier: Ken Foote, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Carl Duff, Radio Operator: Dyton Herrin (6KIA); Ball Turret Gunner: Paul Howard, Waist Gunner: Ken Elliott, Waist Gunner: Alex Klecha, Tail Gunner: Forrest Corley (4POW); Enemy aircraft set aircraft on fire, four baled but then a/c exploded, crashed Wehrheim, eight miles S of Friedburg, NW of Frankfurt, Germany. MACR 4855.

Delivered Cheyenne 23/10/43; Gr Island 3/11/43; Wilmington 9/11/43; Assigned: 365BS/305BG [XK-L] Chelveston 3/12/43; MIA Pirmasens, Sth Germany. any 9/8/44 Pilot: Bob Canon, Joe Kemp, Jim Oliver, Forrest Roudebush, Doug Becker, Harry Alexander, John Allen (7KIA); Dick Darlingh, Chas Grant (2POW); Enemy aircraft, crashed Unzhurst, Ger; MACR 8071. BOEING’S BEST.

Delivered Denver 23/1/43; Wright Fd 1/2/43; Boca Raton 29/3/43; Smoky Hill 16/4/43; Assigned Glen 23/4/43; Returned to the USA Mitchel 7/12/43; Scott Fd 13/1/44; 2114 BU Lockbourn 24/9/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 14/12/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 18/10/43; Las Vegas 27/10/43; with Howard Voegeler force landed March Fd, Ca 23/12/43; 3021 BU Las Vegas 10/9/44; 2126 BU Laredo 19/4/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 10/1/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 18/10/43; Las Vegas 27/10/43; 2126 BU Laredo 10/4/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 7/1/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 29/7/43; Dyersburg 8/8/43; Assigned: 422NLS/305BG JJ-J] Chelveston 1/10/43; Transferred: 858BS Cheddington 24/6/44; then 406BS Cheddington 11/8/44; Salvaged. 4/12/44. PISTOL PACKIN’ MAMA.

Delivered Syracuse 4/7/45; Assigned US Navy Johnsville 11/7/45 as PB-1W {77232}; Assigned VX-4 Quonset Pt 6/47; transferred VPW-1 Ream Fd, Cal 4/48; Glenn Martin Co, Baltimore 2/50 (test prog); Norfolk 7/52; VW-1 Barbers Pt, Hawaii 15/9/53; duly armed, patrolled Kwajalein Atoll for Red subs; Returned to the USA Litchfield Pk 17/1/55; SO 10/7/56; AmComp Steel Corp, Dallas 2/12/57, Civil N5234V; AeroFoto, Mexico as EX-BOE 3/1/58; Hurd AirSurv, Goleta, Cal 2/3/64; a week later to CalNat Air, Grass Valley, Cal as tanker; Black Hills Avn, Alamogordo, NM 2/4/68; crashed Silver City, NM 7/12/72.

Delivered Cheyenne 18/10/43; Las Vegas 27/10/43; 3021 BU Las Vegas 2/6/44; 2126 BU Laredo 19/4/45; 554 BU Adams 5/12/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 11/2/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 18/10/43; Gr Island 29/10/43; Wilmington 4/11/43; Assigned: 364BS/305BG Chelveston 23/11/43; MIA Schweinfurt 24/2/44 Pilot: Harry Patterson, Co-Pilot: Ray Davis, Navigator: John Briggs, Bombardier: Vernon Price, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Elwood Mather, Tail Gunner: Carl Neighbors (6KIA); Radio Operator: Bob Hartshom, Ball Turret Gunner: Rich Gibbs, Waist Gunner: Estol Copley, Waist Gunner: Vince Pulido (4POW); flak KO’d #3, gas leaking, headed for Switzerland but crashed Geisselhardt, 15 miles E of Heilbron, Germany. MACR 2766.

Delivered Cheyenne 19/10/43; Las Vegas 27/10/43; force landed Yucca Aux Fd, AZ with Delbert Lawson 17/8/44; 3018 BU Kingman 20/8/44; Written off 20/8/44.

Delivered Cheyenne 31/1/43; Gt Falls 14/2/43; Gowen 19/2/43; Sioux City 25/2/43; Watertown 3/3/43; Sioux City 6/3/43; Walla Walla 12/4/43; 325 BU Avon Park 5/7/44; 4104 BU Rome 2/11/44; Wright Air. Corp, Caldwell, NJ 30/3/45; Patterson 28/8/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 8/10/45. CINCINNATI QUEEN.

Delivered Dallas 10/78/45; Sth Plains 11/8/45; Rome 26/2/46; NAAF Mustin Fd 28/3/46 [77250]; United States Coast Guard Brooklyn 29/6/46; Mustin Fd 12/49; Brooklyn 6/50; Inter Ice Patrol, Argentia, Nfd 1/53; Olmstead 9/55; Port Angeles 9/56; Elizabeth City 1/57; Delta Lease/Co 16/5/58 N4711C; Field AvCo, Oshawa, Ontario 29/1/59; re-reg N8055E; Air Int, Miami 27/5/60; L.B.Smith A/C Corp, Miami 30/4/62 as N9347R; sold Servicos Aereos, Cochabamba, Bolivia, Civil CP-694; crashed El Alto, La Paz 18/12/63.

Delivered Cheyenne 16/10/43; Gr Island 28/10/43; Memphis 1/11/43; Assigned: 410BS/94BG Rougham 11/11/43; while parked 12/1/44, three ground crew were working, T/Sgt Roland Grout, Sgt John Lerasie & Cpl Jim Moroney, when an explosion occurred behind cockpit controls which set up a blaze, eventually extinguished (3RTD); Salvaged. 6/10/44, eventually parts used to get the equally damaged FRENESI back into operations; BELLE OF MARYLAND.

Delivered Cheyenne 18/10/43; Las Vegas 27/10/43; 3021 BU Las Vegas 2/6/44; 2126 BU Laredo 21/4/45; 3017 BU Hobbs 4/6/45; 2126 BU Laredo 4/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 14/11/46.

Delivered Long Beach 29/9/43; Las Vegas 29/10/43; 3021 BU Las Vegas 2/6/44; 2126 BU Laredo 24/5/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 4/1/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 29/7/43; Gr Isle 9/8/43; Assigned: 369BS/306BG [WW-V/P] Thurleigh 25/8/43; MIA Kiel 5/1/44 Pilot: Sid Wolfe, Bombardier: Harry Tomlin, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Adolph Sicola, Radio Operator: Gene Paige, Ball Turret Gunner: Bob McClure, Waist Gunner: Miles Hannify, Waist Gunner: Bob Zeigler, Tail Gunner: Germany. ld Allen (8KIA), Co-Pilot: Alvin Enos, Navigator: Fremont Jewell (2POW); Enemy aircraft, crashed Hohenfelde, Steinburg, five miles SE of Itzehoe/Holstein, Ger. MACR 1683.

Delivered Cheyenne 29/7/43; Dyersburg 8/8/43; Galveston 15/8/43; Dyersburg 17/8/43; Assigned: 339BS/96BG [QJ-E] Snetterton 5/9/43; MIA Emden 27/9/43 Pilot: Alf Drabnis, Navigator: Lester Leonard (2KIA); Co-Pilot: Cecil Fisher{lost leg,re-pat}, Bombardier: Stewart Cooper{lost leg, re-pat}, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Wilbur Bornstein, Ball Turret Gunner: Gordon Nutt, Radio Operator: Dan Cook, Waist Gunner: Paul Sweeney, Waist Gunner: Morrison Miller{wia), Tail Gunner: Joe McKenna (8POW); flak hits, #2 & #3 on fire, crashed Norden, near Emden, Germany. MACR 756.

Delivered Cheyenne 26/10/43; Walla Walla 7/11/43; Assigned: 728BS/452BG Deopham Green 6/1/44; 729BS; MIA Misburg 31/12/44 Pilot: Don Ferguson, Lou Weissman, Fred Casad, George Napier (4KIA); George Warder, Collins Morrison, Lou Watkins, Bill Hof, Ken Sommerville (5POW); Enemy aircraft, crashed Rhade, Germany. MACR 11230. SWING SHIFT BABY.

Delivered Long Beach 15/10/43; Gr Island 31/10/43; ass 551BS/385BG Gt Ashfield 27/11/43; MIA Wilhelmshafen 3/2/44 Pilot: Bob Morse, Co-Pilot: Van Watson, Navigator: Bruce DeMar, Bombardier: Paul Kite, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Bob Bretschneider, Radio Operator: Dawson Wilson, Ball Turret Gunner: Thelton Britt, Waist Gunner: Vito DeSabado, Waist Gunner: Bob Smart, Tail Gunner: Jesse Morrell (10KIA); mid-air coll w/42-39938 (385BG); crashed North Sea, off Texel, Hol. MACR 2196.

Delivered Long Beach 13/10/43; Gr Island 31/10/43; ass 548BS/385BG Gt Ashfield 21/11/43; MIA Wilhelmshafen 3/2/44 Pilot: Herb Heuser, Co-Pilot: Henry Madden, Navigator: Gene Bridle, Bombardier: Dick Roth, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Roy Blansit, Radio Operator: John Lucey, Ball Turret Gunner: John Marcinko, Waist Gunner: Chas Klutcharch, Waist Gunner: Lynn Ward, Tail Gunner: Joe Simonick (10KIA); mid-air coll w/42-39952 (385BG) over North Sea of Texel, Hol. MACR 2197.

Delivered Cheyenne 16/10/43; Las Vegas 26/10/43; (?ass 592BS/96BG Moses Lake 10/4/43; with Art Hunter force landed base 11/6/43?); force landed Yucca Aux Fd with Douglas Duff 29/10/44; 3018 BU Kingman 23/3/45; 3017 BU Hobbs 2/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 18/10/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 14/10/43; Las Vegas 26/10/43; force landed Kingman with Leslie Sutton 4/2/44; force landed Yucca Aux Fd with John Brose 26/7/44; 3018 BU Kingman 23/3/45; 3017 BU Hobbs 25/6/43; 3028 BU Luke 7/8/45; 3017 BU Hobbs 13/8/45; 3036 BU Yuma 3/9/45; 3017 BU Hobbs 31/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 7/1/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 15/10/43; Las Vegas 27/10/43; Kingman 30/3/44; Dalhart 1/4/44; MHR Minneapolis 5/10/44; 224 BU Sioux City 6/3/45; 222 BU Ardmore 13/6/45; 332 BU Ardmore 16/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 7/12/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 14/10/43; Las Vegas 25/10/43; 3021 BU Las Vegas 2/6/44; 2126 BU Laredo 19/4/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 8/1/46.