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Delivered Cheyenne 11/8/44; Lincoln 20/8/44; Pilot: ‘ forced landing base 29/8/44; Grenier 10/9/44; Assigned: 571BS/390BG [FC-K] Framlingham 13/9/44; battle damage Frankfurt 5/1/45 w/’; crash-landed at A-82, France; Salvaged. 21/1/45. MISS YOU.

Delivered Denver 25/12/43; Oklahoma 6/1/44; Brookley 16/1/44; Lakeland 18/1/44; Morrison 16/2/44; Assigned 775BS/463BG Celone 18/2/44; Missing in Action Budapest 14/6/44 with Irving Wacker, Ball turret gunner: *Franklin Anderson, Waist gunner: Herb Pritchard,Tail gunner: Jerome Beshoner (*3/4 Killed in Action); Co-pilot: Dan Heasley, Navigator: Bill O’Brien, Bombardier: Bob Leffler, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Mike Soltesz, Radio Operator: Marion Spagnole, Waist gunner: Jerry Giulano (*6/7RTD?); mid air coll with 42-38105; crashed near Budapest. Missing Air Crew Report 6102.

Delivered Cheyenne 14/12/43; Lakeland 7/1/44; Assigned 775BS/463BG Celone 9/3/44; Missing in Action Budapest 14/6/44 with Robert Fridley, Co-pilot: Roy Zeiger, Navigator: Walter Barth, Bombardier: Karl Doeppner, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Sam Szcak(Smoak?), Radio Operator: Bob Hansen, Waist gunner: Bill Cole, Waist gunner: Ben Davis,Tail gunner: Steve Stephens (9POW?); btg Bill Rodda (? Killed in Action); coll with 42-38145; Missing Air Crew Report 6093. THE CLUB 105.

Delivered Cheyenne 13/5/44; Kearney 24/5/44; Dow Fd 6/6/44; Assigned: 535BS/381BG [MS-J] Ridgewell 16/6/44; battle damage {17m} Cauvincourt 8/8/44 Pilot: Beackley; aircraft abandoned near Caen, 9RTD. BUTTON NOSE.

Delivered Hunter 19/11/44; Grenier 2/12/44; Assigned: 570BS/390BG [DI-N] Framlingham 4/12/44; MIA Dresden 2/3/45 Pilot: Dick Alberts, Glenn Hale, Bob Huber, Herman Flax, Dick Laubenstine, Tony Leone, Don Hood, Mark Warren, Lloyd Eickert (9RTD); flak, crash-landed Leitmeritz, Germany. safe behind Russian lines and all returned to base; MACR 12847.

Delivered Cheyenne 22/11/43; Kearney 5/12/43; Pilot: Murdo Sanderson forced landing base 19/12/43; Presque Is 23/12/43; Prestwick, UK 4/1/44; ass 568BS/390BG [BI-H] Framlingham 12/1/44 as LITTLE BUTCH; severe battle damage Giessen 21/11/44 with Orman M. Coffin crew, and two engines out, f/l Ossogne-Florinchamps, near Brussels, Belgium. crew returned to base. Salvaged. 2 SAD 28/11/44. EL LOBO.

Delivered Cheyenne 20/1/44; MacDill 3/2/44; Morrison 9/3/44; Assigned 840BS/483BG Tortorella 13/3/44; transferred 346BS/99BG Tortorella 31/3/44; Missing in Action {46m} Ploesti 28/7/44 with Dave Conner, Allen Pope, Strunk, Araiza, Chalifoux, Curry, Jeffers, Quesenberry, Tipton; flak, crashed Sienisa, Yugo?; Missing Air Crew Report 7122. HEAVEN CAN WAIT.

Delivered Cheyenne 19/7/44; Kearney 27/7/44; Grenier 7/8/44; Assigned 860BS/493BG Debach 9/8/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 5/7/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 6/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 21/11/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 7/8/44; Lincoln 15/8/44; Grenier 2/9/44; Assigned 571BS/390BG [FC-K] Framlingham 5/9/44; transferred 570BS [DI-H]; Returned to the USA Bradley 3/7/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 6/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 14/12/45. RAIN CHECK.

Delivered Cheyenne 21/5/44; Kearney 29/5/44; Grenier 18/6/44; Assigned 533BS/381BG [VP-V] Ridgewell 28/6/44; battle damaged Cologne 18/12/44 with Pearce; force landed continent; Salvaged 5/1/45.

Delivered Hunter 8/11/44; Grenier 22/11/44; Assigned 483BG Sterparone 11/12/44; Returned to the USA Charleston 28/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 21/1/46. THE TEXAN.

Delivered Cheyenne 21/5/43; Gore 1/6/43; Smoky Hill 2/6/43; Gr Isle 3/6/43; Dow Fd 25/6/43; Assigned: 339BS/96BG [QJ-D] Snetterton 27/6/43; MIA Bremen 29/11/43 Pilot: Linwood Langley, Co-Pilot: Berline Cipresso, Bombardier: Don Curtis, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Walt Reed, Radio Operator: Sam Amatulli, Ball Turret Gunner: Wilbert Provost, Waist Gunner: Anderson King, Waist Gunner: Edmund Swedo (8KIA); Navigator: Jesse Orrison, Tail Gunner: Gene Moran{still in tail wreckage} (2POW); Enemy aircraft, crashed near Syke, 12 miles S of Bremen, Germany. MACR 1392.

Delivered Cheyenne 28/7/44; Hunter 7//8/44; Dow Fd 1/9/44; Assigned: 322BS/91BG [LG-O] Bassingbourn 10/9/44; Salvaged. 25/10/44.

Delivered Denver 8/4/44; Cheyenne 1/5/44; Hunter 16/5/44; Grenier 6/6/44; Assigned: 379BG Kimbolton 28/6/44; Returned to US: Bradley 29/6/45; 4168 BU Sth Plains 5/9/45; Scrapped: Kingman 2/12/45. (Converted to B-17H Air Sea Rescue ship’).

Delivered Long Beach 13/10/43; Las Vegas 27/10/43; 225 BU Rapid City 1/5/45; 2114 BU Lockbourn 27/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 4/1/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 24/7/44; Kearney 3/8/44; Grenier 12/8/44; Assigned 863BS/493BG [G6-F] Debach 13/8/44; Missing in Action Magdeburg 12/9/44 with George Owen, Co-pilot: Edgar Blaydes, Radio Operator: Pete Trunzo,Tail gunner: Jim Gray (4 Killed in Action); Navigator: Don Fahey, Bombardier: L.C. Tipton, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Roy Fiore, Ball turret gunner: Chas Gialloreto(wia), Waist gunner: Luther Jorg (5 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Ueplingen, W of Magdeburg, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 8871.

Delivered Cheyenne 21/1/44; Gr Island 3/2/44; Morrison 9/3/44; Assigned 816BS/483BG Sterparone 13/3/44; transferred 348BS/99BG Tortorella 31/3/44; Missing in Action {33m} Blechhammer 7/7/44 with Hackney, Schneider, Ungar, Palmer, Portney, Grubb, Hanney, Mello, Carleton, D’Amborsi (10 Killed in Action); mid air coll with 42-32036, shearing off ‘997 tail, crashed near Manfredonia; BLONDIE.

Delivered Cheyenne 15/1/44; MacDill 5/2/44; Morrison 8/3/44; Assigned 816BS/483BG Tortorella 11/3/44; transferred 348BS/99BG Tortorella 31/3/44; mid air coll with 42-106997 on 7/7/44; sheared tail off ‘997, landed Amendola (2BG); to depot 11/12/44; {74m} Returned to the USA 4100 BU Patterson 27/7/45; Recl comp 2/5/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 17/5/43; Gore 19/5/43; Smoky Hill 29/5/43; Tinker 13/6/43; Casper 28/6/43; Kearney 13/6/43; Eglin 4/7/43; Dow Fd 7/7/43; Assigned 347BS/99BG Navarin 29/7/43; Oudna 4/8/43; transferred 340BS/97BG Depienne 14/11/43; Cerignola 20/12/43; Amendola 16/1/44; Returned to the USA 1103 BU Morrison 21/6/44; 302 BU Hunter 29/6/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 1/8/45.

Delivered Denver 18/12/43; Billings 19/12/43; Kearney 30/12/43; Presque Is 24/1/44; Assigned: 337BS/96BG [AW-Z] Snetterton 2/2/44; MIA Rostock Pilot: Capt Clinton Firestone, Navigator: Bob Dominick, Bombardier: George Syme, Radio Operator: Howard Bochat, Waist Gunner: Tony Saccamanno, Tail Gunner: Joe Sporacio (6POW); Co-Pilot: Dean Secrest, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Albt Wojick, Ball Turret Gunner: Ken Hilliard, Waist Gunner: Dick Van Belgium. es (4KIA); Enemy aircraft, crashed Keisby Kappeln, Germany. MACR 3812.