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Delivered Cheyenne 1/12/43; Kearney 17/12/43; Grenier 26/1/43; Ass 569BS/390BG [CC-C] Framlingham 2/2/44 OLD SOLDIER; took off as weather ship before a mission 24/5/44 w/Percy Stresing, cp-Bob Buckley, n-Jean Raas, b-Sanford Diamond, ettg-Evert Miller, ro-Ed Safford, btg-Bill Rhoten, wg-Rudolph Shelley, wg-Albt Parsons, tg-Herb Harms (10RTD); aircraft had mechanical problems, possibly fire which forced crew to bail, before crashing in woods nr base, at Common Farm Marlesford, Suffolk, sal 27/5/44. SHATZI III.

Delivered Cheyenne 1/12/43; Gowen 5/12/43; Salt Lake 6/12/43; Rock Springs 7/12/43; Laramie 9/12/43; Cheyenne 10/12/43; Kearney 17/12/43; Romulus 6/1/44; Presque Is 9/1/44; Assigned: 571BS/390BG [FC-G] Framlingham 18/1/44; when fire broke out on end of runway 30/4/44 Lt Louis Matthews ran into prop (KIA); MIA Koenigsburg (22m) 28/5/44 Pilot: Herb Strate, Co-Pilot: Sam Elliott, Navigator: Dick Brown, Bombardier: Bob Woolfolk, Radio Operator: Nick Mamula, Ball Turret Gunner: Arthur Reed, Waist Gunner: Bob Smart (7KIA); Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Ed Stoy, Waist Gunner: Harry Bolton, Tail Gunner: Ed Molenock (3POW); Enemy aircraft, fire in cockpit and part of vertical stabilizer shot away, went into spin, exploded, wings came off as ship went down and crashed Ebendorf, two miles NW of Magdeburg, Germany. MACR 5259. DECATUR DEB.

Delivered Cheyenne 6/5/43; Patterson 20/5/43; Assigned (F-9) 1st Map Gp Bolling 4/7/43; Bradley 16/7/43; Accra, Gold Coast 1/4/44; Returned to the USA 1st Ph Sq MacDill 12/10/44; 91st Ph Sq Buckley 30/12/44; 4100 BU Patterson 29/12/44; 91st Ph Sq Buckley 1/2/45; Written off 24/6/46.

Delivered Kearney 1/8/44; Grenier 14/8/44; Assigned 340BS/97BG Amendola 2/9/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 14/6/45; Sth Plains 25/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 7/12/45.

Delivered Denver 15/10/43; Las Vegas 26/10/43; 225 BU Rapid City 1/5/45; 2144 BU Lockbourn 17/7/45; 2137 BU Hendricks 10/9/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 3/1/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 30/12/43; Gr Island 31/1/44; Assigned: 331BS/94BG Rougham 2/3/44; MIA Berlin 18/4/44 Pilot: Bill Williams, Co-Pilot: Henry Dougherty, Navigator: Albt Radasky, Bombardier: Rich Dunkin, togg-T/Sgt Bill Gilmour, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: John Parks, Radio Operator: Larry Baumann, Ball Turret Gunner: Edmund Twitt, Waist Gunner: Jack Caudle, Waist Gunner: Herb Farmer, Tail Gunner: Wilbur Jordan (11POW); Enemy aircraft, crashed Neuruppin, two miles NW of Friesack, near Hanburg, Germany. MACR 4154.

Delivered Cheyenne 17/1/44; MacDill 2/2/44; Morrison 7/3/44; Assigned 817BS/483BG Tortorella 14/3/44; transferred 416BS/99BG Tortorella 31/3/44; {66m} to depot 26/11/44; Salvaged 12/3/46. TURNIP TERMITE.

Delivered Cheyenne 23/8/44; Lincoln 2/9/44; Grenier 6/9/44; Assigned: 568BS/390BG [BI-S] Framlingham 8/9/44; battle damage Berlin 18/3/45 Pilot: Dick Berryman, Lon Norman, Les Chavet, Mike Riley, Norman Dahlin (5KIA); Albt Lundberg, Jim Lunday, Russ Miller (3RTD); Dick Prosch (POW); flak knocked out #3 engine, crew bailed out and ship crashed Grodzisk, Russian territory; Salvaged. 30/3/45; MACR 13138. NO NAME JIVE.

Delivered Cheyenne 3/11/43; Gr Island 25/11/43; Assigned 342BS/301BG Cerignola 18/12/43; Lucera 1/2/44; Salvaged 28/7/44.

Delivered Cheyenne 5/5/44; Patterson 21/5/44; Kearney 5/6/44; Dow Fd 27/6/44; Assigned: 379BG Kimbolton 8/7/44; battle damage Hannover 5/8/44 Pilot: ‘; crash-landed, Salvaged. 2 SAD 6/8/44.

Delivered Cheyenne 31/12/42; Salina 10/2/43; Morrison 5/3/43; Brookley 8/3/43; Assigned: 365BS/305BG [XK-Y] MOONBEAM McSWAIN Chelveston 8/4/43; MIA Watten 27/8/43 Pilot: Don Moore, Radio Operator: Harry Graham, Ball Turret Gunner: Joe Kosmicky, Waist Gunner: Dave Pearlman (4KIA), Co-Pilot: Bob Coffman, Navigator: Dave Smith, Bombardier: Jim Meade, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Warren Sayfried, Waist Gunner: Trevor Falkner, Tail Gunner: Jim King (6POW) flak, crashed near St Omer, Fr. MACR 394. BOOM TOWN JR.

Delivered Tulsa 7/3/44; Sioux City 17/3/44; Grenier 5/4/44; Assigned: 369BS/306BG [WW-V] Thurleigh 25/4/44; MIA Munich 16/7/44 Pilot: Fred Jones, Co-Pilot: Cliff Hammersley, Navigator: Chas Weaver, Bombardier: Bob Stanaker, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: John Griffiths, Radio Operator: Bob Price, Ball Turret Gunner: Woodie Rose, Waist Gunner: Milton Katz, Tail Gunner: Art Flores (9EVD); flak, crashed Leninges, Belgium. ; MACR 7567.

Delivered Tulsa 5/10/42; Scott 6/1/43; Chicago 22/4/43; Lockbourn 10/5/43; crash landed base 7/9/43 with Clarry Abercrombie; with Edson Penn (?Crupp?) crash landed Lockbourn 23/10/43; Written off 1/11/43.

Delivered Cheyenne 9/10/42; Hobbs 22/11/42; with Paul Koons force landed base 4/1/44; 4136 BU Tinker 4/7/44; 3017 BU Hobbs 14/8/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 29/8/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 11/12/43; Salt Lake City 26/12/43; Kingman 27/12/43; force landed Yucca Aux Fd with Jim Berkshire 17/5/44; 3018 BU Kingman 23/3/45; 3017 BU Hobbs 22/9/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 18/1/46.

Delivered Denver 29/11/43; Kearney 23/12/43; Oklahoma City 30/12/43; Scott 8/1/44; Memphis 9/1/44; Morrison 10/1/44; Assigned 414BS/97BG Amendola 22/1/44; mid air coll with 42-30405 on Steyr mission 24/3/44; takes tail of ‘405, and returns base; repaired, but re-ass cargo ship from 9/10/44; Salvaged 30/5/45.

Delivered Hunter 21/7/44; Presque Is 4/8/44; Assigned 348BS/99BG Tortorella 13/8/44; {68m} Returned to the USA Bradley 18/6/45; Sth Plains 21/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 17/12/45. FUDDYHUCKLE.

Delivered Cheyenne 4/5/43; Gore 17/5/43; Patterson 20/5/43; Peterson 19/6/43; Assigned (F-9) 1st Map Gp Bolling 7/7/43; Bradley 12/7/43; Bolling 4/8/43; Accra, Gold Coast 23/11/43; Recl Comp 20/11/44.

Delivered Cheyenne 3/7/44; Kearney 12/7/44; Dow Fd 20/7/44; Assigned: 569BS/390BG {CC-R] Framlingham 21/7/44; MIA Zellhausen 24/12/44 Pilot: Paul Herring, George Cassman, Lester Damast, Dick Byrne, Hymen Less, Chas Mehl (6POW); Terry Burrows {Co-Pilot: killed by strafing Allied fighters}, George Betz, Theo Garst (3KIA); flak hit then exploded, crashed Weisbaden, Germany. MACR 11116.

Delivered Cheyenne 28/4/44; Kearney 10/5/44; Grenier 25/5/44; Assigned: 570BS/390BG [DI-G] Framlingham 28/5/44; 571BS [FC-G]; battle damage Frankfurt 5/1/45 Pilot: John Mitchell; forced landing Sedan A/fd, near Stanay, Fr; Salvaged. 30/1/45. THE JEANNIE BEE.