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Delivered Cheyenne 23/7/44; Kearney 2/8/44; Grenier 9/8/44; Assigned: 571BS/390BG [FC-V] Framlingham 11/8/44; battle damage Merseburg 30/11/44 Pilot: ‘; forced landing Melsbroek, Belgium. Salvaged. 6/12/44. SLEEPY TIME GAL.

Delivered Denver 19/10/43; Gr Island 1/11/43; Assigned 535BS/381BG [MS-R] Ridgewell 1/1/44; battle damaged Rheims 28/3/44 with James Liddle, Co-pilot: Bill Bartlett, Navigator: Joe Scott, Bombardier: Floyd Hansen, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: John Burke, Radio Operator: Clinton Word, Ball turret gunner: Bill Ingram, Waist gunner: Glen Holmes, Waist gunner: Ken Schmitt,Tail gunner: Emory Naha (10 Returned to Duty) bailed over Kent on return; crash landed Lympne, Kent, UK; Salvaged 2 SAD 29/3/44. SUPERSTITUOUS ALOYUSIUS.

Delivered Cheyenne 26/12/43; Kearney 12/1/44; ass 525BS/379BG [FR-D] Kimbolton 28/2/44; Transferred: 524BS [WA-D]; Waist Gunner: Ervin Richey (KIA-pilot was Doug Buskey) Berlin 8/3/44; MIA French A/flds 9/7/44 Pilot: Hugh Frye, Vic Gluckman, Chester Stoupe, Orval Epperson, Bob Davids, Harry Crites, Tom Kunrod, Ron McKenzie, Larry Eiler (9KIA); flak, ditched Nth Sea; MACR 7359. PANSY YOKUM.

Delivered 88BG MacDill 12/5/44; 326 BU MacDill 21/5/44; with Woodrow Cornelison force landed Cedar Keys Range, FL 7/7/44; 325 BU Avon Park 19/2/45; with Dewey Jones force landed six miles SW Ridgeland, SC 5/8/45; Recl Comp 20/3/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 3/9/43; Tinker 20/11/43; 2137 BU Hendricks 30/7/44; 4200 BU Chicago Mun 19/9/44; 2137 BU Hendricks 14/10/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 14/12/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 7/1/45; Hunter 27/1/45; Dow Fd 2/2/45; Assigned 493BG Debach 15/2/45 (last aircraft assgd to grp); RetUS, Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 12/12/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 17/3/43; Casper 31/3/43; Smoky Hill 10/4/43; Dow Fd 30/4/43; Assigned: 332BS/94BG [XM- ] Earls Colne 3/6/43; MIA Kiel 13/6/43 Pilot: Bob Tower, Co-Pilot: Percival Knott, Navigator: Irvin Cohen, Bombardier: Ken Selway, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: George Robinson, Radio Operator: Jim Cunningham, Waist Gunner: Jim Gates, Waist Gunner: Bob Haskett, Tail Gunner: Joe Samulski (9POW); Ball Turret Gunner: Theo Fluegel (KIA-body found at crash site); Enemy aircraft, crashed near Gross Konigsforde, six miles W of Kiel; No MACR. SICK CALL.

Delivered Hunter 19/2/45; Grenier 4/3/45; Assigned 8AF 6/3/45; re-ass 30/4/47; 10 HBS Oberpfaffenhofen 18/1/48; Recl Comp 10/10/48.

Delivered Cheyenne 13/10/43; Gr Island 26/10/43; Wilmington 11/11/43; Assigned: 568BS/390BG [BI-P] Framlingham 12/1/43 ALE SMOKE; MIA [21m] Augsburg 16/3/44 Pilot: Darold Jenkins, Co-Pilot: Virgil Fieker, Navigator: Carl Otto, Bombardier: Vernise Polly, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: George Woodcock, Radio Operator: Bill Hofer, Ball Turret Gunner: Larry Cascarino, Waist Gunner: Howard Grindstaff, Tail Gunner: Herschel Breeding (9POW); Waist Gunner: Ken De Vore (KIA-did not bale out); Enemy aircraft, crashed Himmlingen, near Aalen, E of Stuttgart, Germany. MACR 3181. OLE SMOKE.

Delivered Long Beach 2/1/43; Salina 8/1/43; Brookley 5/3/43; Morrison 15/4/43; Assigned 347BS/99BG Navarin 5/5/43; Oudna 4/8/43; battle damaged Turin 8/11/43 with McDonnell, De Temple, Devlin, J. Pace, Hobby, Molina, Apple, Burnett (8 Returned to Duty); Wright, Burke (2 Killed in Action); ditched off Corsica, near Ajaccio airport. COTTON EYED JOE II.

Delivered Topeka 19/3/45; Grenier 1/4/45; Assigned 8AF 5/4/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 25/5/45; Sth Plains 29/5/45; 4117 BU Robins 12/2/46; 311 RCN MacDill 24/4/46 (6AF CZ); 91 RCN Rivra 28/4/46; 91 RCN MacDill 26/5/46; Recl Comp 30/12/47.

Delivered Dallas 15/5/43; Gore 20/5/43; Love 16/6/43; Roswell 2/6/43; Dallas 17/7/43; Love 28/7/43; Roswell 29/7/43; 3030 BU Roswell 2/6/44; 3010 BU Williams 9/12/44; 3020 BU La Junta 20/4/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Stillwater 4/8/45.

Delivered Geiger 28/9/42; Pierre 14/12/42; Tinker 5/2/43; Walla Walla 5/7/43; 504BG Harvard 10/6/43; 244 BU Harvard 27/7/43; 4100 BU Patterson 1/9/43; 53 Recon Sq Grenier 11/7/44; 3 WER Sqd McChord 24/5/45; with Jess Tattersall force landed Grenier, NH 24/8/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 23/1/46.

Delivered Geiger 28/9/42; Casper 31/10/42; Biggs 2/1/43; 28BS/19BG Pyote 29/5/43; 202 BU Galveston 20/7/43; 282 BU Syracuse 25/7/43; 221 BU Alexandria 22/2/44; 4160 BU Albuquerque 20/6/43; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Albuquerque 25/6/45.

Delivered Denver 27/10/43; Gr Island 11/11/43; Assigned 401BS/91BG [LL-G] Bassingbourn 20/12/43; 36m ex-St Nazaire, sustained battle damage and crash landed Wincanton, Som. UK., 25/6/44 with Peter Mikonis, Co-pilot: Frank Pepper, Navigator: Joe Sullivan, Bombardier: Will Stevens, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Roy Anderson, Radio Operator: Doug Deurmyer, Ball turret gunner: Ralph Stein, Waist gunner: Dick Mehlberg,Tail gunner: Dean McDowell (9 Killed in Action); flak KO’d #3, dropped back and eventually reached UK, then wing broke off, crashed Snag Farm, Stoke Trister, near Wincanton, Somerset, UK; Salvaged by 2SAD. OLD FAITHFUL.

Delivered Cheyenne 30/8/44; Lincoln 4/9/44; Grenier 18/9/44; Assigned: 332BS/94BG Rougham 19/9/44; MIA Oranienburg 15/3/45 Pilot: Bill Thorndyke, Theo Esklund, Harry Long, Wilton Ashcraft {togg} (4KIA); Delmar Anderson, Alfred Sick, Ed Brown, Tom Davith, Paul Harrington {tg}, Cecil Weaver {mickey op} (6POW); flak set two engines on fire, crashed Gransee, Germany. MACR 13028.

Delivered Tulsa 18/5/44; Kearney 26/5/44; Dow Fd 6/6/44; Assigned 728BS/452BG Deopham Green 7/6/44; with LaVerne Wilson was involved landing accident with co-pilot following non-operational mission 5/3/45; Salvaged n/battle damaged 7/3/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 17/1/45; Hunter 12/2/45; Dow Fd 20/2/45; Assigned 333BS/94BG [TS-G] Rougham 22/2/45; Returned to the USA Morrison 20/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 5/1/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 30/8/43; Buffalo 3/9/43; Assigned 7BG Gt Falls with Ed Danahay force landed Bismark, ND 4/9/43; Rapid City 7/10/43; Cheyenne 8/2/44; 1EEL Bedford 20/7/44; 4140 BU Bedford 4/12/44; 4100 BU Patterson 3/4/45; 4148 BU Bedford 1/5/45; 4147 BU Bedford 18/9/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 5/1/46.

Delivered Dallas 23/8/43; with Melvin Hobbie force landed MacDill 28/1/44; 325 BU Avon Park 15/6/44; with Leon Hamm force landed Avon Park 23/6/44; 4200 BU Chicago Mun 10/11/44; 203 BU Jackson 22/3/45; 325 BU Avon Park 9/4/45; 2137 BU Hendricks 10/5/45; 325 BU Avon Park 23/5/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 14/8/45.