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Delivered Cheyenne 7/3/44; Gr Island 29/3/44; Dow Fd 7/4/44; Assigned: 708BS/447BG [CQ- ] Rattlesden 8/4/44; MIA Berlin 29/4/44 Pilot: Edgar Farrell, Co-Pilot: John Benedict, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Bill Peters, Radio Operator: Norman Bussel, Waist Gunner: Merle Rumbaugh, Waist Gunner: Wade Fulton (6POW); Navigator: Sherwood Landis, Bombardier: Wynne Longeteig, Ball Turret Gunner: Joe Guida, Tail Gunner: Vasilios Mpouries (4KIA); flak hits followed by Enemy aircraft, crashed Eickendorf, 15 miles SW of Gardelegen, Germany. MACR 4255.

Delivered Kearney 26/6/44; Dow Fd 9/7/44; Assigned 401BS/91BG [LL-A] Bassingbourn 22/7/44 PEGGY {20+m}; Returned to the USA Bradley 12/6/45; Sth Plains 14/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 5/12/45. {2m} SUNKIST SUE.

Delivered Cheyenne 7/3/44; Kearney 6/4/44; Dow Fd 14/4/44; Assigned: 710BS/447BG Rattlesden 22/4/44; MIA Chemnitz 11/9/44 Pilot: Leroy Hyder (KIA); Harry Wood, Jim Voorhies, Dick Thomas, Bill Sulaica, John McCleod, Lynn Lee, Ralph Persun, Don Karg (8POW); flak, crashed Zeitz, Germany. MACR 8924.

Delivered Cheyenne 1/6/44; Kearney 18/6/44; Grenier 30/6/44; Assigned: 601BS/398BG [3O-B] Nuthampstead 16/7/44; rep MIA 21/11/44 Pilot: Brown & Genung, AOC, re-ass 24/11/44; (38m) MIA Mannheim 20/1/45 w/Jim Mitchell, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Nelson Beyer (2KIA); Co-Pilot: Henry Skubik, Navigator: Byron Hughes, Bombardier: Evart Veech, Radio Operator: Chas Spear, Ball Turret Gunner: Island Brown, Waist Gunner: Russell Dick, Tail Gunner: Leon Mills (7POW); flak, forced landing Mechtersheim, near Speyer, Germany. MACR 11797.

Delivered Cheyenne 30/4/44; Gt Falls 3/5/44; Kearney 29/5/44; 16 STA Grenier 6/6/44; Assigned: 331BS/94BG [QE-O] Rougham 7/6/44; MIA Bohlen 7/10/44 Pilot: Horace Waldorf, Walter Ward, George Webb, Lyle DeRousse, Steven Stupak, Armando DiMatteo, Wilbert Pasquini, John Stocco, Ford Sutherlin (9POW); aircraft seen going down, fate ? ; MACR 9552. A LITTLE BEHIND aka FORTRESS JOKER.

Delivered Denver 19/1/44; Dalhart 4/2/44; Presque 23/3/44; Assigned 612BS/401BG [SC-D] Deenethorpe 16/4/44; force landed continent 19/4/45; Sal; Returned to the USA Bradley 11/7/45; 4185 BU Independence 12/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 25/12/45. “BABY LU” aka GRIN ‘N BEAR IT.

Delivered Cheyenne 27/4/44; Kearney 7/5/44; Grenier 20/5/44; Assigned 709BS/447BG [IE- ] Rattlesden 26/5/44; taxi collision prior to mission when brakes failed and hit parked 42-3487, 23/6/44 with Gustavus Miller, Co-pilot: George Dvorak, Navigator: Dick O’Donnell, Bombardier: Lewis Mariner, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Frank Witek, Radio Operator: Roger Potwin, Ball turret gunner: Joel Wilson, Waist gunner: Cornelius Sullivan, John Scott,Tail gunner: Reo Scott (10 Returned to Duty); Salvaged 24/6/44.

Delivered Cheyenne 2/3/44; Gr Island 16/3/44; Presque Is 2/4/44; Assigned: 709BS/447BG [CQ-M] Rattlesden 6/4/44; MIA Berlin 29/4/44 Pilot: Chas Dowler, Co-Pilot: Vern Arnold, Navigator: Fred Kleps, Bombardier: George Kramer, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Sandy Conti, Radio Operator: Francis Brownson, Ball Turret Gunner: George King, Waist Gunner: Larry Steinhafel, Tail Gunner: John Marabito (9KIA); Waist Gunner: Ken Shimp (POW); Enemy aircraft hits caused aircraft to explode, crashed two miles NW of Weferlingen, ten miles N of Helmstedt, Germany. MACR 4254.

Delivered Cheyenne 15/2/44; Dalhart 1/3/44; Grenier 26/3/44; Assigned: 546BS/384BG [BK-F] Grafton Underwood 9/4/44; MIA Munich 12/7/44 Pilot: Jim Roseborough, Vince Matlack, Howard Ford, Vic Brecht (4KIA); Seymour Saslow, John Fletcher, Lee Bedsted, Melvin Gerhold. old, Lou Raines (5POW); flak, crashed Munich; MACR 7568. ACES & EIGHTS.

Delivered Cheyenne 2/3/44; Hunter 16/3/44; Nashville 23/3/44; Dow Fd 12/4/44; Assigned 709BS/447BG [IJ-E] Rattlesden 20/4/44; crashed on take off for mission 28/6/44 with Tom Brown, Co-pilot: Bob Jacobs, Navigator: Herbert Wolf, Bombardier: T/Sgt Tom Middleton, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Melvin Hann, Radio Operator: Peter Karp, Ball turret gunner: Francis Peisel, Waist gunner: John Chernega, Waist gunner: Joe Chebeta,Tail gunner: George Felsing (10 Returned to Duty); mechanical fault led to fire break out, and call to bale out; crash landed a few miles away at Woolpit, Suffolk, UK 28/6/44, Salvaged.

Cheyenne 1/3/44; Des Moines 21/3/44; 222 BU Ardmore 22/1/45; with Larry Hannah force landed base 23/2/45; 332 BU Ardmore 16/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 18/8/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 12/3/44; MacDill 29/3/44; Daytona 1/4/44; MacDill 2/4/44; 327 BU Drew 4/5/45; 301 BU Drew 22/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 8/11/45. Assigned US Civil N5845, crashed Philadelphia 1958.

Delivered Cheyenne 12/9/43; Assigned: 338BS/96BG [BX-W] Snetterton 29/9/43; while on a training mission damaged in mid air coll Pilot: 43-37684 (96BG) 11/10/44, w/Nick Jorgenson, Co-Pilot: Dave Fritsch, Navigator: Ralph Harrison, Bombardier: Tom Hooper, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Edwin Frogner, Radio Operator: Paul Worthington, Ball Turret Gunner: Howard Raab (7KIA); fuselage broke in half and crashed Woodend, near Towcester, Nthnts UK. Salvaged. 11/10/44. STINGY. (named by M/Gen Fred Anderson, CO of 8thBC, for his son).

Delivered Cheyenne 11/5/44; Patterson 25/5/44; Kearney 26/6/44; Grenier 9/7/44; Assigned 337BS/96BG [AW-E] Snetterton 11/7/44; on training flight 19/10/44 with Joe Arzbecker, Lt Royce Denson instr; two bailed (?) and two injured (?; damaged by wreckage from mid air coll with 42-3510 and 42-31053 (both 96BG) but limped back to Snetterton; Salvaged 23/10/44.

Delivered Cheyenne 29/2/44; Gr Island 22/3/44; Grenier 20/4/44; Assigned 612BS/401BG [SC-H] Deenethorpe 13/5/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 6/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 8/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 17/12/45. DYNAMITE JOHN.

Delivered Cheyenne 7/10/43; Grand Island 1/11/43; Dallas 6/11/43; Assigned: 368BS/306BG [BO- ] Thurleigh 14/12/43; MIA Augsburg 25/2/44 Pilot: Jim Coleman, Co-Pilot: Oscar Brown, Bombardier: Clinton Snyder, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Rex Hayes, Radio Operator: Calvin Garrison, Ball Turret Gunner: Phillip Vaught, Waist Gunner: Bill Wiersma, Waist Gunner: Joe Buckley, Tail Gunner: Fred Organ (9POW); Navigator: Louis Rodriguez (EVD, but INT Switz); Enemy aircraft, crashed La Francheville, two miles SW of Charleville, Fr; MACR 2768. TOP HAT.

Delivered Cheyenne 6/10/43; Gr Island 17/10/43; Wilmington 245/10/43; Assigned: 332BS/94BG Rougham 27/10/43 THE BARBER SHOP; MIA Ludwigshafen 7/1/44 Pilot: Joe Barber, Navigator: John McGrath, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Francis Mancuso, Radio Operator: Mike McDonald, Ball Turret Gunner: Ed McCarty (5POW), Co-Pilot: Major Leon Blythye, Tail Gunner: Lt Paul Marriot (2EVD), Bombardier: Bob Germany. h, Waist Gunner: Martin Perkins, Waist Gunner: Stan Maciolek (3KIA); Enemy aircraft, crash-landed Les Trois Marquets, Pas De Calais, Fr, on return. MACR 1894. JOHNNIE WALKER III.

Delivered Denver 7/4/43; Cheyenne 13/4/43; Geiger 17/4/43; Gt Falls 7/6/43; Cutbank 16/6/43; Gore 2/7/43; Gt Falls 13/7/43; Tinker 10/12/43; 247 BU Smoky Hill 3/6/44; 4100 BU Patterson 17/6/43; 247 BU Smoky Hill 21/7/44; 233 BU Davis Monthan 11/11/44; 268 BU Peterson 11/2/45; 233 BU Davis Monthan 26/2/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 27/10/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 19/10/43; Las Vegas 27/10/43; 3021 BU Las Vegas 16/6/44; 2126 BU Laredo 10/4/45; 807 BU Bergstrom 11/9/45; 2126 BU Laredo 19/9/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 10/1/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 19/10/43; Las Vegas 27/10/43; 3021 BU Las Vegas 2/6/44; 2126 BU Laredo 9/4/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 3/1/46.