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Delivered Long Beach 13/10/43; Gr Island 31/10/43; Assigned 612BS/401BG [SC-F] Deenethorpe 2/1/44; Missing in Action Berlin 7/5/44 with Browning Grimmett, Co-pilot: John Leach, Bombardier: Chas Koontz, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: John Platt, Radio Operator: Wilbur Lauer, Ball turret gunner: John Spiotti, Waist gunner: Calvin Yeager, Waist gunner: Roscoe Humphrey,Tail gunner: Bill Slaughter (9 Killed in Action); Navigator: Ray Haines (Prisoner of War); flak, crashed Hohnebostel, seven miles SE of Celle, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 4587. LASSIE COME HOME.

Delivered Cheyenne 30/6/44; Kearney 11/7/44; Dow Fd 20/7/44; Assigned 423BS/306BG [RD-G] Thurleigh 21/7/44; transferred 381BG Ridgewell 5/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 10/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 13/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 9/12/45. SWINGING ON A STAR.

Delivered Cheyenne 10/3/43; Presque Is 8/4/43; Assigned 416BS/99BG Navarin 20/5/43; Missing in Action Messina 25/5/43 with Bob Goad, DeBow, Dingo, McGrath, Rhodes, King, Sproul, Kennedy, Barkas, Lawrence (10 Killed in Action); flak, crashed in sea and exploded, life rafts dropped by Orance crew in vain. Missing Air Crew Report 16451.

Delivered Cheyenne 8/3/43; Memphis 8/4/43; Assigned 385BG Gt Ashfield 13/4/43; transferred 369BS/306BG [WW-S] Thurleigh 18/6/43; transferred RAF 214 sqd SR379 [BU-D] Sculthorpe 3/2/44; Written off 11/47.

Delivered Denver 6/3/43; Morrison 13/4/43; Assigned 347BS/99BG Navarin 4/6/43; Oudna 4/8/43; Tortorella 11/12/43; Missing in Action Lake Albano, It, 17/2/44 with Gerald Lombard, Miller, Mack, Simon, Baker, Mire, Brandanger, Moeller, King, Pike (10RTD 20/2/44); flak, ditched off Anzio, crew rescued.

Delivered Cheyenne 11/3/43; Smoky Hill 24/3/43; Assigned 348BS/99BG Navarin 20/5/43; Oudna 4/8/43; Tortorella 11/12/43; transferred 483BG Tortorella 31/3/44; 414BS/97BG Amendola 6/5/44; crash landed Corsica 30/5/44. Salvaged.

Delivered Cheyenne 12/11/43; Billings 15/11/43; Kearney 28/11/43; Presque Is 10/12/43; Assigned 366BS/305BG [KY-R] Chelveston 12/12/43 `OLE’ MISS DESTRY; transferred 401BG Deenethorpe 20/5/45; 138m, Returned to the USA 121 BU Bradley 8/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 12/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 8/12/45. SON OF A BLITZ.

Delivered Cheyenne 17/6/44; Kearney 27/6/44; Grenier 15/7/44; Assigned 832BS/486BG [3R-R] Sudbury 16/7/44; {62m} Returned to the USA Bradley 9/7/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 11/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 25/11/45. BATCHELOR’S DELIGHT aka SUB DEPOT SUE.

Delivered Denver 2/3/43; Assigned: 526BS/379BG [LF-B] Dow Fd 19/4/43; Kimbolton 30/5/43; sustained battle damage Gelsenkirchen 12/8/43 Pilot: Don Murray, Co-Pilot: Bob McGraw, Navigator: Bill Meyer, Bombardier: Chester Gwinn, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Mike Curtin, Radio Operator: Rodgers Tatum, Ball Turret Gunner: Frank Winninger, Waist Gunner: Alex Robert, Waist Gunner: Carl Moak, Tail Gunner: John Rogers (10RTD); crash-landed Rougham a/fd, Sfk, UK; Salvaged. 16/8/43.

Delivered Cheyenne 30/11/44; Hunter 17/12/44; Dow Fd 13/12/44; Assigned 615BS/401BG [IY-G] Deenethorpe 18/2/45; transferred 305BG Chelveston /45; Salvaged 9AF Germany 6/11/46.

Delivered Dallas 7/6/44; Langley 27/6/44; Dow Fd 25/7/44; Assigned 423BS/306BG Thurleigh 24/8/44; Missing in Action Hannover 22/10/44 with Harry Alyea, Co-pilot: Capt Bill McKee, Navigator: Chas Handler, Bombardier: Chas Mueller, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Gil Terry, Radio Operator: Don Coleman, Ball turret gunner: Bob Capps, Waist gunner: Vince O’Brien, radar/nav-Lt Ray Layfield (9 Killed in Action);Tail gunner: Hastings Key (Returned to Duty); mid air coll with 43-37976(306BG), crashed North Sea; Missing Air Crew Report 9655.

Delivered Cheyenne 23/5/44; Kearney 1/6/44; Dow Fd 27/6/44; Assigned 423BS/306BG Thurleigh 8/11/44; Missing in Action Brunswick 22/10/44 with Capt Joe Mathis, Co-pilot: Maj Joe Lowe, Navigator: Gorman Siler, Bombardier: Ivan Brill, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: John Maupin, Radio Operator: Bill Covington, Ball turret gunner: Creston Cooke, Waist gunner: Joe Kasmiersky,Tail gunner: Carroll Reimann (9 Killed in Action); mid air coll with 44-8099(306BG), crashed sea off Clacton, Essex, UK; Missing Air Crew Report 9656. LILLY MARLENE.

Delivered Tulsa 1/2/44; Presque Is 21/2/44; Assigned 751BS/457BG [Y] Glatton 4/3/44; Missing in Action Zeitz 30/11/44 with John White, Rudolph Prokop, Jacob Landsman, Leon J. Zimmerman, Albert G. Williams, Gerald E. Whitman, Leonard G. Johnson, Howard Wilcox, Richard C. Seely; 9POW; crashed Moderwitz, 25km south of Jena, 28 km south-west of Gera, Germany; Missing Air Crew Report 11150. HAMTRAMACK MAMA.

Delivered Cheyenne 23/10/43; Gr Island 3/11/43; Memphis 12/11/43; Assigned: 548BS/385BG [GX-N] Gt Ashfield 21/11/43; MIA Frankfurt 4/2/44 Pilot: Bob McAdams, Co-Pilot: Tom Gose, Navigator: Francis Osborn, Bombardier: John Omonsky, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Ernie Kelly, Radio Operator: Stan Easterbrook, Ball Turret Gunner: Harry Brumlee, Waist Gunner: Fred Salenmo, Waist Gunner: Harry Brown, Tail Gunner: Mort Siegmann (10POW); Enemy aircraft, crashed Steinfeldestrasse, near Nettersheim/Eifel, Germany. MACR 2198.

Delivered Dallas 15/8/44; Hunter 5/9/44; Grenier 18/9/44; Assigned 381BG Ridgewell 20/10/44; transferred 306BG Thurleigh 4/44; Salvaged 27/10/44.

Delivered Cheyenne 3/5/44; Hunter 17/5/44; Dow Fd 29/5/44; Assigned 602BS/401 BG [IW-O] Deenethorpe 10/6/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 6/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 14/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 24/11/45. LADY VIVIAN.

Delivered Cheyenne 19/2/44; Hunter 9/3/44; Grenier 7/4/44; Assigned Soxo; with Henry Boshell, co-Monroe Almand, Navigator: Ken Branson, Bombardier: Bob Archambeau, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Melvin King, Radio Operator: Gerard Vander Leun, Ball turret gunner: Ken Seebold, Waist gunner: Paul Schilling, Waist gunner: Chas Martin,Tail gunner: Fred Walker (10 Killed in Service), crashed Atlantic en route UK 9/4/44; Missing Air Crew Report 3682.

Delivered Denver 29/12/43; 1SAG Langley 21/1/44; Presque Is 24/2/44; Assigned 413BS/96BG Snetterton 2/2/44; transferred 335BS/95BG [OE-D] Horham 3/3/44; 10m, taxi accident with Chas Crawford 7/6/45; Salvaged 8/6/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 11/2/44; Gr Island 27/2/44; Grenier 13/3/44; Assigned 546BS/384BG [BK-O] Grafton Underwood 24/3/44; battle damaged Aschaffenburg 21/1/45 with Ray Cook; crash landed two miles NW Old Weston, UK and exploded, 100+m, Salvaged.

Delivered Denver 11/1/44; Presque Is 11/2/44; ass 533BS/381BG [VP-V] Ridgewell; {28m} MIA Berlin 21/6/44 Pilot: Art Bailey, Co-Pilot: Bob Irwin, Radio Operator: John Molloy, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Chas. Campbell, Ball Turret Gunner: Walden Forke, Waist Gunner: Coral Highsmith, Tail Gunner: Alfred Paoli (7INT); Navigator: Lloyd Peterson & Bombardier: Erwin Brown (2POW), baled out and came down Friedland, near Berlin and became guests at Stalag Luft #3 at Sagan, on 2 July; Enemy aircraft, forced landing Rinkaby, Sweden; MACR 5992. The aircraft was repaired eventually flown back to base; retUS Bradley 22/8/45; 4185 BU Independence 30/11/45; Scrapped: Kingman 14/12/45. BABOON McGOON.