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Delivered Long Beach 25/7/43; Dallas 31/7/43; 3108 BU Kingman 18/6/44; 4100 BU Patterson 21/9/44; 3017 BU Hobbs 30/11/44; 4210 BU Lambert 29/1/45; 3017 BU Hobbs 10/2/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 11/9/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 27/5/43; Roswell 7/6/43; 3030 BU Roswell 2/6/43; 3508 BU Truax 23/10/43; 3030 BU Roswell 27/10/43; 4126 BU San Bernadino 13/1/45; 3030 BU Roswell 1/5/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Albuquerque 3/8/45.

Delivered Denver 21/11/43; Gr Island 7/12/43; New Castle 16/12/43; Presque Is 19/12/43; Assigned: 561BS/388BG Knettishall 1/1/44; MIA Brux 12/5/44 Pilot: Alex Loslo, Co-Pilot: Bob Wilson, Navigator: Doug Morrison, Bombardier: Presley Phillips, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Albt Seiter, Radio Operator: Bill Veronica, Ball Turret Gunner: Clarry Durling, Waist Gunner: George Regan, Waist Gunner: Archie Jones, Tail Gunner: Carmine Spinella (10POW); Enemy aircraft KOd #4 the caught fire before crew baled, crashed Stammheim, Friedberg, Germany. MACR 4881. JEANNIE.

Delivered Dallas 3/9/43; Scott 25/9/43; Assigned: 560BS/388BG [-J] Knettishall 13/10/43; MIA Emden 11/12/43 Pilot: Clyde Hughes, Navigator: Lester Mensch, Bombardier: Marion Wiles, Ball Turret Gunner: Marcus Magnarelli, Radio Operator: Ed Mayo, Tail Gunner: Ken Wheeler (6POW); Co-Pilot: Art Johnston, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Lester Paup, Waist Gunner: Jim Willis, Waist Gunner: Walter Klik (4KIA); Enemy aircraft, crashed Finsterwalde, Groningen, Hol; MACR 3122.

Delivered Cheyenne 4/8/43; Gr Isle 12/8/43; Assigned: 551BS/385BG [HR-U] Gt Ashfield 25/8/43 SHACK BUNNY; Salvaged. n/battle damage 29/5/45 LULU BELLE.

Delivered Long Beach 27/7/43; Dallas 30/7/43; with Edwin Easley force landed four miles short of Hobbs Aux Fd, TX 13/3/44; 3017 BU Hobbs 8/11/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 28/8/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 26/5/43; Gore 27/5/43; Tinker 9/6/43; Presque Is 27/6/43; Assigned 348BS/99BG Navarin 11/7/43; Oudna 4/8/43; Missing in Action Bologna 2/9/43 with Caraberis, Dean, Hooper, Cox, Sykes, Bass, Bunn, Evans (8 Prisoner of War); Fassoulis returned 5/5/44, Laybe returns 14/6/44 after evading until 5th Army captures Rome, (2 evaded capture); Missing Air Crew Report 565.

Delivered Geiger 26/9/42; Pendleton 9/11/42; Biggs 23/3/43; Orlando 28/4/43; 245 BU McCook 16/6/43; 9BG McCook 1/7/43; 202 BU Galveston 14/11/43; 4121 BU Kelly 6/12/43; 245 BU McCook 21/12/43; with Harry Wilging force landed El Paso Apt, Tx 17/2/44; 4160 BU Albuquerque 20/7/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 27/5/45.

Delivered Denver 11/4/44; 1SAG Langley 18/5/44; Dow Fd 5/7/44; Assigned: 560BS/388BG Knettishall 6/7/44; Returned to US: Bradley 27/6/45; 4168 BU Sth Plains 2/7/45; Scrapped: Kingman 9/12/45.

Delivered Denver 28/9/43; Grand Island 20/10/43; ass 560BS/388BG Knettishall 2/11/43; MIA Ludwigshafen 28/9/44 Pilot: Lester Frawley, Ray Klinke, Harry Bouten, Paul Kaufman, Adrian Olson, Carl Ingersoll, Ray Ingram, Harry Belgium. , Howard Miller (9POW); flak, crashed Saalfeld, Germany. any. MACR 9376. MILLIE K.

Delivered Cheyenne 13/10/43; Las Vegas 24/10/43; 3021 BU Las Vegas 10/3/44; 3036 BU Yuma 20/3/44; 3017 BU Hobbs 4/6/44; 4160 BU Hobbs 5/11/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 6/12/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 23/10/43; Grand Island 31/10/43; Wilmington 27/11/43; Assigned: 544BS/384BG [SU-Q] Grafton Underwood 20/1/44; MIA Oberpfaffenhofen 24/4/44 Pilot: Walt Harvey, Co-Pilot: Bob Brown, Navigator: Johnson Rule, Bombardier: Dick Rader, Ball Turret Gunner: Chas Roberson, Waist Gunner: Cornelius McManus, (6EVD); Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Dewey Smith, Radio Operator: Stan Sturak, Waist Gunner: Jim Atkins, Tail Gunner: George Vann (4POW); flak, crashed Ferme de la Plancy l’Abbarye, a mile S of Champfleury Afd, Fr; MACR 4355. SHACK RABBIT.

Delivered Geiger 28/9/42; Assigned 464BS/331BG Casper 13/11/42; expoded mid-air over New Mexico 13/1/43 with Lt Bob George, all killed, aircraft came down three miles east of Medio, MN. Cause unknown.

Delivered Amarillo 1/7/43; Dallas 19/7/43; Kingman 4/8/43; 3030 BU Roswell 5/10/44; 3010 BU Williams 11/1/45; 3020 BU La Junta 20/4/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 4/8/45.

Delivered Amarillo 1/7/43; Ephrata 18/7/43; Love 1/8/43; Kingman 2/8/43; 231 BU Alamogordo 22/7/44; 203 BU Jackson 2/2/45; 243 BU Gt Bend 6/9/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 27/10/45.

Delivered Dallas 8/6/43; Gore 9/6/43; Dallas 11/6/43; Love 5/7/43; Dalhart 7/7/43; crash landed base with Jim Hines 31/8/43; Written off.

Delivered Geiger 25/9/42; Assigned 461BS/331BG Casper 23/10/42; crashed 25 miles north Glenrock, WY with Lewis Machala due to poor weather (crew Killed in Service) 25/2/43; Written off 16/3/43.

Delivered Lincoln 31/12/44; Grenier 25/1/45; Assigned: 546BS/384BG [BK-K] Grafton Underwood 20/2/45; battle damage Pilsen 25/4/45 Pilot: ‘; trans with group to Istres, Fr for mapping duties; crash-landed 66 miles ESE Rome, It w/Morton Hunt 11/11/45; Salvaged. 2/1/46. SCHOOL MARM.

Delivered Cheyenne 27/5/43; Gore 8/6/43; Roswell 12/6/43; slated for 94BG but with Jim Loveless crashed base 28/7/44; Written off 30/7/44.

Delivered Cheyenne 27/5/43; Roswell 7/6/43; 3030 BU Roswell 2/6/44; with Fred Ratcliffe force landed base 24/1/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Albuquerque 3/8/45.