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Delivered Lincoln 28/9/44; Grenier 11/10/44; Assigned 8AF 16/10/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 28/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 4/8/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 23/11/45.

Delivered Tulsa 4/2/44; Grenier 2/3/44; Assigned 613BS/401BG [IN-B] Deenethorpe 23/3/44; problem on t/o for Pas de Calais 3/6/44 with Larry Fitchett, Co-pilot: Bruce Campbell, Navigator: Larrt Pfeiffer, Bombardier: Louis Sanchez, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bert Parsloe, Radio Operator: Max Bergener, Ball turret gunner: Louis Sassi, Waist gunner: Ralph Hannsbury, Waist gunner: Harry Kelsen,Tail gunner: Bob Kerr (10 Returned to Duty); was hit and damaged in tail by ship behind 43-37511 when taxying; Salvaged 2 SAD 14/6/44. FITCH’S BANDWAGON.

Delivered Long Beach 14/9/43; Gr Island 3/10/43; Scott 22/10/43; ass 333BS/94BG [TS-E] Rougham 27/10/43; taxi accident Pilot: Alfred Kovac 27/2/45; retUS Bradley 3/7/45; 4168 BU Sth Plains 21/10/45; Scrapped: Kingman 17/12/45. SHACKEROO II.

Delivered Cheyenne 5/11/43; Kingman 17/11/43; 3018 BU Kingman 23/3/45; 3017 BU Hobbs 25/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 7/1/46.

Delivered Long Beach 13/3/43; Smoky Hill 25/3/43; Dow Fd 10/4/43; Assigned 526BS/379BG [FR-X] Kimbolton 16/4/43; Missing in Action Wangerooge Is 25/6/43 with Ken Quade, Co-pilot: George Barnett, Bombardier: Wallace Cosper, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Chester Burnes, Radio Operator: Jim Edinger, Ball turret gunner: Ray Heron, Waist gunner: Hugo Pettinatti, Waist gunner: Joe Owesny,Tail gunner: Kingsley Nelson (9 Killed in Action); Navigator: Bill Hughes (Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Dingstede, eight miles E of Oldenburg, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 1367.

Delivered Cheyenne 3/12/43; Gowen 5/12/43; Kearney 16/12/43; Westover 21/12/43; Presque Is 23/12/43; Assigned: 367BS/306BG Thurleigh 14/1/44; MIA Oschersleben 22/2/44 Pilot: Fred Rector, Co-Pilot: Pat Pierce, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Elmer Waibel, Radio Operator: Warren Russell, Waist Gunner: John Elliott, Waist Gunner: Ray Fiermuga (6POW); Navigator: Herb Edelstein, Bombardier: John Caldwell, Ball Turret Gunner: Earl Schade, Tail Gunner: Billy Belgium. (4KIA); sustained fighter attacks caused severe damage, crashed Nieder Rieferath, near Herchen, 18 miles W of Siegen, Germany. MACR 2654.

Delivered Denver 22/11/43; Kearney 16/12/43; Presque Is 8/1/44; Nutts Corner, Belgium. ast, N. I. 15/1/44; Assigned: 423BS/306BG Thurleigh 27/1/44; MIA Leipzig 20/2/44 Pilot: Harry Richard, Waist Gunner: Don Kennedy (2KIA-both baled too low); Co-Pilot: Jack Cuthbertson, Navigator: Murray Greenberg, Bombardier: Rich Bale, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Jim Crouse, Radio Operator: Floyd Baker, Ball Turret Gunner: Foster Smith, Waist Gunner: Clayton Cretton, Tail Gunner: Jack Hall (8POW); flak & Enemy aircraft, crashed near Efurt A/fd, Germany. MACR 2430.

Delivered Lincoln 9/12/44; Dow Fd 17/12/44; Assigned: 535BS/381BG [MS-Q] Ridgewell 22/12/44; last stabiliser in taxi acc 11/4/45 Pilot: 44-8826; ass BADA HQ Burtonwood, w/Fred Johnson in landing accident at Baldonnel Fd, Duiblin 12/11/45; {31+m} Salvaged. 9AF Germany. any 10/12/45. RAFAAF.

Delivered Long Beach 8/3/43; Denver 13/3/43; Salina 28/3/43; Assigned 348BS/99BG Navarin 26/4/43; Oudna 4/8/43; Tortorella 11/12/43; Missing in Action Innsbruck 19/12/43, with Cyril Stidd, Selander, Kozumplik, Green, Campbell, Carollo, Donley (7 Prisoner of War); Brown, Garcia, Mabante (3 Killed in Action); crashed Innsbruck, Ger.; Missing Air Crew Report 1527. WAR BIRD II.

Delivered Denver 17/7/43; Scott 10/8/43; Assigned: 568BS/390BG [BI-E] Framlingham 25/8/43; MIA [34m] Berlin 6/3/44 Pilot: Max Quakenbush, Co-Pilot: Roger Johnson, Navigator: Amergo Bassi, Bombardier: Harry Belgium. , Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Theo Wright, Radio Operator: Harry Snator, Ball Turret Gunner: Harvey Prater, Waist Gunner: Ken Hopkins, Waist Gunner: Howard Vannoy, Tail Gunner: George Schumacher (10POW); Enemy aircraft KO’d #3 on return trip, forced landing Werben, seven miles S of Cottbus, Germany. MACR 2987. PHYLLIS MARIE. (Salvaged. by Luftwaffe for KG200 and found OK in Bavaria in 1945).

Delivered Cheyenne 7/8/44; Hunter 15/8/44; Grenier 4/9/44; Assigned Soxo in UK 7/9/44 with C.J. McCallum, Co-pilot: Fred Hardin, Navigator: Steven Menovich, Bombardier: Joe Harms, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ed Polick, Radio Operator: Morley Conger, Ball turret gunner: Oscar Lane, ro/g-Bob Bell, Waist gunner: Oscar Lane, Waist gunner: Richard ? ,Tail gunner: Marvin Jennings; crash landed Iceland 16/9/44; crew lived on K rations until eventually, weather aside, to reach a farmhouse, contacted base and were returned to Meeks Fd. (10 Returned to Duty).

Delivered Cheyenne 27/7/44; Kearney 4/8/44; Grenier 15/8/44; Assigned: 571BS/390BG [FC-S] Framlingham 18/8/44; taxi accident Pilot: Don McKellar 15/1/45; Returned to US: Bradley 3/7/45; 4168 BU Sth Plains 16/7/45; Scrapped: Kingman 18/11/45. KWITCHERBITCHIN aka THE HELLION.

Delivered Hunter 14/7/44; Presque Is 26/7/44; Assigned 772BS/463BG Celone 9/8/44; Missing in Action Valence 15/8/44 with Anthony Ciccone, Co-pilot: Bob Lawrence, Navigator: Bill Sontag, Bombardier: Pete Price, Radio Operator: Warren Foster (5POW?); Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Stan Lieberman, Ball turret gunner: Sherman Orme, Waist gunner: Joe Kane,Tail gunner: Jim Tintera (4 Killed in Action); flak, crashed Valence; Missing Air Crew Report 7459.

Delivered Long Beach 7/9/43; Grand Island 1/10/43; ass 570BS/390BG [DI-O] Framlingham 26/10/43; MIA [23m] Berlin 8/3/44 Pilot: Bill Branum, Co-Pilot: Odell Stanphill, Navigator: John Sullivan, Bombardier: Edwin Nicholls, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Bob House, Radio Operator: John Noonan, Ball Turret Gunner: Curtis Lillard, Waist Gunner: Ernie Peiffer, Tail Gunner: Maurice Michalek (9POW); Waist Gunner: Ken Pyle (KIA-died in Lazarette hospital due to compound fracture of his leg); Enemy aircraft, KO’d #2 & set fire to wing, crashed Poucher Forest, six miles SE of Bitterfeld, 25 miles W of Torgau, Germany. MACR 2990. HEAVENLY BODY.

Delivered Denver 29/11/43; Assigned Soxo 15/1/44; Returned to the USA 4136 BU Tinker 4/7/44; 3017 BU Hobbs 14/8/44; 3021 BU Las Vegas 26/9/44; 3022 BU Indian Springs 2/10/44; 3021 BU Las Vegas 19/3/45; 2126 BU Laredo 29/3/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 11/1/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 21/11/43; Kearney 1/12/43; Bangor 9/12/43; Assigned: 332BS/94BG [XM-C] Rougham 2/1/44; MIA Augsburg 16/3/44 Pilot: Alwin Kocher, Co-Pilot: Henry Wallace, Navigator: Metro Wozniak, Bombardier: Ed Moreau, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Bill Wood, Ball Turret Gunner: Joe Anderson, Waist Gunner: Gil Dobrinski, Tail Gunner: Elmer Alderman (8POW); Radio Operator: Martin Egan, Waist Gunner: Herb Chase{died in hospital of wounds} (2KIA); flak, crashed Hopfen Lake, two miles NW of Fussin/Allgau, Germany. MACR 3227. THE OLD SARGE.

Delivered Geiger 1/9/42; Walla Walla 17/11/42; Blythe 9/12/42; Tinker 6/2/43; Glasgow 27/4/43; Gore 28/5/43; Moses Lake 10/6/43; crash landed with Glen Pennywitt 27/5/44 Boca Raton Fd, LA; Written off 24/6/44. Recl Comp 9/12/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 22/3/43; Gore 23/3/43; Hobbs 3/4/43; Lowry 9/8/43; Hobbs 13/8/43; 3017 BU Hobbs 8/11/44; 3505 BU Scott 1/4/45; 3017 BU Hobbs 21/4/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 14/9/45.

Delivered Hunter 2/3/45; Grenier 17/3/45; Assigned 8AF 26/3/45; Salvaged 9AF Germany 23/5/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 18/1/44; Gr Island 30/1/44; Assigned: 568BS/390BG [BI-E] Framlingham 10/2/44; MIA Kassel 30/12/44 Pilot: Duane Sweeny, Patrick Nolan, Ellis Ruane, John Satterwhite, Bill Deighan, Bill Frawley, John Cooklis, Lt Crockett Harmon {wg}, LeRoy Brandenburg (9KIA); apparently iced up en route to target, crashed North Sea. MACR 11247. TIS A MYSTERY.

Delivered Long Beach 26/2/43; Smoky Hill 25/3/43; Morrison 12/4/43; Assigned 347BS/99BG Navarin 12/5/43; Oudna 4/8/43; transferred 816BS/483BG Tortorella 31/3/44 as cargo aircraft to 9/44; Returned to the USA Morrison 17/4/45; Rome 22/4/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Bush Fd 3/7/45. CRAPPY.

Delivered Cheyenne 22/3/43; Hobbs 2/4/43; Ft Sumner 21/4/43; Hobbs 6/5/43; Roswell 23/5/43; Hobbs 30/5/43; crashed eight miles NE of base with Bob Converse 8/9/43; Written off 9/9/43.

Delivered Dallas 1/7/44; Langley 27/7/44; Dow Fd 22/8/44; Assigned: 730BS/452BG Deopham Green 30/8/44; battle damage Cologne 10/1/45 Pilot: Harry Arant; on return approach crew bailed safely, but aircraft crashed on Thorpe Abbotts bomb dump, exploded, Salvaged.

Delivered Burbank 2/7/43; Dallas 8/8/43; crashed 18/10/43 with Dick Creamer, on Stormy Peak, Pinetree Park, Col.; Written off 21/10/43.