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Delivered Denver 21/11/43; Gt Falls 25/11/43; Wendover 12/12/43; Assigned 748BS/457BG [ -H] Glatton 26/1/44; damaged in return from mission crash landed base 4/5/44 Waist gunner: Edwin Waggoner (Killed in Service– in the crash); Missing in Action Munich 12/7/44 with Gerald Kerr, Co-pilot: Art Lindskoog, Navigator: Ed Schilling, Bombardier: Milton Levine (4 Killed in Action); Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ernie Hegedus, Ball turret gunner: Sam Younger, Waist gunner: Harry Ahlfors,Tail gunner: Don Boyle (4 Prisoner of War); Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Leon Finneran (INT); flak KO’d two engines, then a third was lost and bail out order readied, crashed Pratigau, near Davos, Switz; Missing Air Crew Report 6926. MY BUDDY.

Delivered Long Beach 14/9/43; Scott 26/10/43; Assigned 401BG Deenethorpe 2/11/43; transferred 332BS/91BG [LG-M] Bassingbourn 20/11/43; Missing in Action Leverkusen 1/12/43 with Chas Early, Navigator: Roscoe Albright, Bombardier: Wilf Bouchard, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Carl McVey, Radio Operator: Paul Baker, Ball turret gunner: Bob Bumb, Waist gunner: Tabor West,Tail gunner: Bob Holton (8 Prisoner of War), Co-pilot: Bill Ponder, Waist gunner: Marvin Britt (2 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed Oberelvenich – Zulpich, 20 miles SW of Cologne, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 1320.

Delivered Denver 13/4/44; Cheyenne 1/5/44; Hunter 14/5/44; Dow Fd 24/5/44; Assigned 323BS/91BG [OR-L] Bassingbourn 3/6/44; Missing in Action 38m Merseburg 2/11/44 with Pilot: Hanford Rustand, Bombardier: Roger Keys, Radio Operator: John Griffith, Ball Turret Gunner: John Gercovich, Waist Gunner: John Murphy, Tail Gunner: George Roach (6 Killed in Action); Co-pilot: Wyndham Peck, Navigator: Henry Schwarz, Flight Engineer/Top Turret Gunner: Gil Crotte (3 Prisoner of War); shot down by enemy aircraft while trying to protect damaged colleague HI-HO SILVER; crashed Libehna, Germany; Missing Air Crew Report 10148. “PARD.”

Delivered Long Beach 29/10/43; ass 322BS/91BG [LG-N] Bassingbourn 14/1/44; {16m} Halle 16/8/44 Pilot: John Dunlap, Navigator: Hubert Carpenter (2POW); Co-Pilot: Joe Cater, Bombardier: Leslie Algee, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Vince Beach, Ball Turret Gunner: Art Mancino, Radio Operator: Frank Simone, Waist Gunner: John Barclay, Tail Gunner: Bob Paster (7KIA); several Enemy aircraft KO’d all four engines, ship caught fire as did some crew who bailed out, crashed Marshausen, Germany. MACR 8179. BOSTON BOMBSHELL.

Delivered Long Beach 1/10/43; Gr Island 3/11/43; Assigned 332BS/91BG Bassingbourn 13/12/43; then 322BS [LG-L]; 14m Missing in Action Oschersleben 22/2/44 with William Wood, Co-pilot: John Mullens, Navigator: Marv Anderson, Bombardier: Louis Dobbs, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Casimir Lekowski, Ball turret gunner: Oscar Mouton, Waist gunner: Jim Purton,Tail gunner: Bob Mueller (8 Prisoner of War); Radio Operator: Garner Walters, Waist gunner: Woodrow Wade (2 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft KO’d #3, crash landed Flintrup, near Freckenhorst, three miles S of Warendorf, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 2642. BOSTON BOMBSHELL.

Delivered Sarasota 342BS/97BG 15/4/42; Presque Is 31/5/42; from Goose Bay with John Holmes, Co-pilot: Fred Shelton, Navigator: Jones Calloway, Bombardier: Ed Branch, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bob Brennan, Radio Operator: John Fellows, g-John Lynn, g-George Witham. (all 8 Returned to Duty) crashed Egedaminde, Greenland 26/6/42. Written off. ALABAMA EXTERMINATOR.

Delivered Hunter 12/1/45; Grenier 28/1/45; Assigned 323BS/91BG [OR-V] Bassingbourn 23/2/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 29/5/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 4/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 3/11/45. “Naughty Caroline”.

Delivered Cheyenne 16/1/45; Grenier 12/2/45; Assigned 323BS/91BG [OR-Q] Bassingbourn 30/3/45; transferred 306BG Thurleigh 24/5/45; Salvaged 9AF Germany 1//9/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 13/1/44; Savannah 26/2/44; Assigned 510BS/351BG [TU-C] Polebrook 30/3/44; detailed training mission 23/4/44 with Maj David Wheeler, Radio Operator: John Corwile(wia), pass-Don Cutler, pass-Porter Black (4 Returned to Duty); Co-pilot: Chester Montgomery, Bombardier: Capt Bill Winter, pass-Bill Manley, pass-Albert Brooks (4 Killed in Service); {3m} lost #2, then Co-pilot: feathered #1 in error causing ship to crash Hemington, Northamptonshire; Salvaged 2 SAD Lt Staughton 24/4/44. THE BLONDE BOMBER.

Delivered Cheyenne 20/9/43; Scott 1/10/43; Assigned 525BS/379BG [FR-L] Kimbolton 9/10/43; Missing in Action Kiel 5/1/44 with Tom Eaton, Co-pilot: Henry Hainline, Navigator: Bob Doty, Bombardier: Cliff Wright, Radio Operator: Arnold Clark, Ball turret gunner: Ray Ferrall, Waist gunner: Boleslaw Caglarek,Tail gunner: Chas Blondell (8 Killed in Action), Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ray Matheny, Waist gunner: Arnold Nevella (2 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Dageling, in Steinburg, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 1944. DEACON’S SINNERS.

Delivered Cheyenne 22/9/43; Gr Island 6/10/43; Wilmington 10/10/32; Assigned: 338BS/96BG [BX-E] Snetterton 14/10/43; MIA Bordeaux 31/12/43 Pilot: Ralph Woodward, Co-Pilot: Bill O’Neil, Navigator: Alex Yaskel, Bombardier: Henry Reynolds, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Joe Hood, Radio Operator: Harry DeFrain, Ball Turret Gunner: Joe Estep, Waist Gunner: Lee Merrick, Waist Gunner: Nathan Brown, Tail Gunner: Joe Welch (10KIA); flak, near Abbeville, Fr; MACR 1673.

Delivered Denver 22/2/43; Gore 9/3/43; Duncan 31/3/43; Assigned 367BS/306BG [GY-N] Thurleigh 20/4/43; transferred 322BS/91BG [LG-P] Bassingbourn 11/9/43; AFSC 7/4/44; Returned to the USA Amarillo 16/4/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 9/1/46; MIAMI CLIPPER.

Delivered Denver 19/9/43; Scott 2/10/43; ass 509BS/351BG [RQ-N] Polebrook 24/10/43; MIA {15m} Oberpfaffenhofen 18/3/44 Pilot: Walter Illies, Co-Pilot: John Breland, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Bob Vaughn, Radio Operator: Alby Jacques, Ball Turret Gunner: Art Briggs, Waist Gunner: Bob Alexander (6KIA); Navigator: Rich Perle{wia}, Bombardier: Bob Casper, Waist Gunner: Bill Brown, Tail Gunner: Merle Thompson{wia} (4POW); flak, crashed Erbstetten, 19 miles W of Ulm, Germany. MACR 3237. CASA DE EMBRIAGOS.

Delivered Cheyenne 16/12/43; Lakeland 7/1/44; Morrison 21/1/44; Assigned 772BS/463BG Celone 9/3/44; Missing in Action Belgrade 6/6/44 with Fred Barrett, Co-pilot: Manny Georgales, Navigator: Don Parkerson, Bombardier: Joe Indrisek, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Vernon Hunt, Radio Operator: Bob Leber, Ball turret gunner: Bill Wink, Waist gunner: Dave O’Connell,Tail gunner: Chester Flower (9POW/RTD?); two engines out, crashed Udiza, Yugo. Missing Air Crew Report 5847.

Delivered Lincoln 5/2/45; Grenier 17/2/45; Assigned 561BS/388BG Knettishall 19/2/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 24/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 26/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 9/11/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 5/3/43; Colorado Springs 18/3/43; Patterson 2/4/43; Colorado Springs 15/4/43; Esler Fd 22/5/43; Peterson 25/5/43; Assigned (F-9B photo-recon) 1st Photo Gp 1/9/43; 499BG Smoky Hill 6/6/44; 11 Ph Map Gp MacDill 28/7/44; 19 Ph Sq MacDill 2/8/44; 4117 BU Robins 8/11/44; 91 Photo Gp Buckley 12/11/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Ontario 24/5/45.

Delivered Denver 11/9/43; Gr Island 29/9/43; Assigned 509BS/351BG [RQ-J] Polebrook 27/10/43, then 508BS [YB-J]; Missing in Action {24m} Schweinfurt 13/4/44 with Gilbert Whitchurch, Co-pilot: Gene Sylvester, Navigator: Newton Wilbur, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Fred Gowen, Radio Operator: Andy Boyarko, Ball turret gunner: Don Luse, Waist gunner: Fred Vester, Waist gunner: Maurice Turner,Tail gunner: Bob Mondragon (9 Prisoner of War); Bombardier: Richard Cox (KIA-chute failed). shot down by six ME 109s, knocking off half of right stabilizer, salvoed bombs before baling out; ship crashed Oberelsbach, 28 miles N of Schweinfurt; Missing Air Crew Report 3863.

Delivered Cheyenne 3/5/43; Gore 13/5/43; Smoky Hill 14/5/43; Kearney 27/5/43; Dow Fd 2/6/43; Assigned 331BS/94BG [QE-Z2] Rougham 15/6/43 NIP ‘N TUCK; Missing in Action Le Bourget 14/7/43 with Capt Willis Frank, Co-pilot: Maj Ralph Saltsman Wounded in Action, Navigator: John Wholley, Bombardier: Thurman Burnett, Radio Operator: Bob Mabie, Ball turret gunner: Jim Balvin, Waist gunner: Willard Dovel Wounded in Action,Tail gunner: Warren Jones (8 Prisoner of War); Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Dick Davitt, Waist gunner: Harry Eastman (2 evaded capture); enemy aircraft severely damaged tail, and cockpit afire crashed Evreux, Fr; Missing Air Crew Report 115. GOOD TIME CHOLLY II.

Delivered Cheyenne 20/9/43; with Melvin Howard crash landed North Platte, Ne 30/9/43; Written off Kearney 14/12/44.

Delivered Cheyenne 17/9/43; Gr Island 3/10/43; Assigned: 401BG Deenethorpe 19/11/43; Transferred: 447BG Rattlesden /43; Salvaged. 20/4/45. BUTCH II.

Delivered Cheyenne 5/2/44; Kearney 24/2/44; Grenier 8/3/44; Assigned 509BS/351BG [RQ-P] Polebrook 24/3/44; on Ludwighafen mission 8/9/44 with Jim Barker, ship had two engines damaged and force landed in France, crew OK then returned to Polebrook base; 76m Returned to the USA Bradley 14/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 21/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 4/12/45. STAR DUSTER.

Delivered Cheyenne 13/4/45; Hunter 2/5/45; Grenier 15/5/45; Assigned 5AF, 358 SHR Clark 31/1/48; 13 AR Clark 18/4/48; 328 SR Clark 19/5/48; 6 SR Clark 26/6/48; 18 MSU Clark 18/12/48; Recl Comp 2/3/49.

Delivered Cheyenne 13/4/43; Smoky Hill 22/4/43; Presque Is 3/5/43; Assigned 381BG Ridgewell 8/5/43; transferred 95BG Alconbury, with Don Merten crash landed base 28/5/43; MU 19/8/43 for repair; transferred RCM 335BS/95BG [BG-L] Horham 13/9/43; 1m Missing in Action Duren 20/10/43 with Kenneth B. Rongstad, Co-pilot: Warren M. Strawn, Navigator: Richard E. Diete, Bombardier: Joseph F. Spicer, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: A.R. Eckort, Radio Operator: Gordon V. Sorensen, Ball turret gunner: A.L. Godek, Waist gunner: Charles E. Phinney, Waist gunner: Julius W. Torok,Tail gunner: Louis M. Mirabel (10 Returned to Duty); enemy aircraft, ditched North Sea; all rescued.

Delivered Cheyenne 8/9/43; Gr Island 19/10/43; Assigned 560BS/388BG [Q] Knettishall 25/10/43; Missing in Action Osnabruck 26/9/44 with Ken Burkheimer, Co-pilot: Andy Denney, Navigator: Delmont Harlow, Bombardier: Walt Leonard, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Tom Moody, Radio Operator: Bob Green, Ball turret gunner: Ed Szymanski, Waist gunner: Bob Aidell,Tail gunner: W.L. Choste (9 Returned to Duty); flak damage, ditched Channel, off Calais. No MACR.