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Delivered: Cheyenne 23/2/43; Dow Fd 18/4/43; Assigned: 525BS/379BG [FR-T] Kimbolton 3/43; MIA Wilhelmshafen 11/6/43 Pilot: Noel Britten, Co-Pilot: Patrick Rea, Navigator: Olympio Cassera, n-Matt Driscoll, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Germany. ld Stratton, Radio Operator: John Rogers, Ball Turret Gunner: Floyd Tichnell, Waist Gunner: Mike Holinka, Waist Gunner: Dan Kenney, Tail Gunner: Ellis Vance. (10POW-picked up by German Navy and taken to Cuxhaven); Enemy aircraft, ditched North Sea off Borkum, Ger. MACR 1295.

Delivered Cheyenne 20/9/43; Scott 25/9/43; Assigned 711BS/447BG Rattlesden 19/11/43; crashed on take off for mission 12/4/44 with Phil King, Co-pilot: John Dillon, Navigator: Clarry Anderson, Bombardier: John Pruner, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bill Harrison, Radio Operator: Lloyd Boltz, Waist gunner: Duncan Campbell (7 Killed in Service); Ball turret gunner: John Burek, Waist gunner: Don Grainger,Tail gunner: Carl Rettzel (3 Returned to Duty); struck tree on take off and crashed Grange Farm, Blacksmith Lane, Thorpe Morieux, Suffolk. Salvaged 13/4/44.

Delivered Cheyenne 20/2/43; Blythe 5/3/43; crashed 20 miles SE of base with John Abrell 26/4/43; Written off 27/4/43.

Delivered Cheyenne 16/12/43; Lakeland 6/1/44; Morrison 21/2/44; Assigned 323BS/91BG [OR-Z] Bassingbourn 2/4/44; transferred 775BS/463BG Celone 19/2/44; Missing in Action Ploesti 18/5/44 with Leo Tucker, Co-pilot: Bill Rittenhouse, Navigator: Gene Breeding, Bombardier: Griffin Stuart, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Harry Tillman, Radio Operator: Demsey Colley, Ball turret gunner: Vic Sagis, Waist gunner: Tom Murphy,Tail gunner: Jake Kessler; flak, crashed Bucharest; Missing Air Crew Report 5061.

Delivered Cheyenne 20/2/43; Blythe 4/3/43; McClellan 6/4/43; Pyote 30/5/43 force landed with Emil Urban at base 28/7/43; (with 28BG and 19BG training); Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Ontario 6/6/45.

Delivered: Cheyenne 6/3/43; Sioux City 18/3/43; Kearney 8/4/43; Bangor 14/4/43; Assigned: 527BS/379BG [FO-N] Kimbolton 22/4/43; MIA Bochum 25/6/43 Pilot: Doug Groom, Co-Pilot: Frank Pulaski, Radio Operator: Tom Lyons, Waist Gunner: Thaddeus Burzycki, Tail Gunner: Frank Mills (5KIA); Navigator: Art Belgium. meyer, Bombardier: Tom Mortenson, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Howie Brinkman, Waist Gunner: Ralph Weaver, Ball Turret Gunner: Jim Bowers (5POW); Enemy aircraft, crashed Neu Arenberg, four miles NW of Freisoythe, Germany. MACR 1758.

Delivered Cheyenne 1/5/43; Sioux City 13/5/43; Smoky Hill 12/6/43; Dow Fd 18/6/43; Assigned 563BS/388BG Knettishall 19/6/43; Missing in Action Stuttgart 6/9/43 with Lew Miller, Co-pilot: Bill Iverson, Navigator: Herb Lakow, Bombardier: Walt Koenig, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Don Beckwith, Ball turret gunner: Bob Lee,Tail gunner: Gus Suhay (7 Killed in Action); Radio Operator: Ed Rogowski, Waist gunner: Bill Herman, Waist gunner: Chas Herald (3 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Mesnil-Soullieres, seven miles E of Troyes, Fr. Missing Air Crew Report 3132.

Delivered Denver 16/6/43; Kearney 17/7/43; Assigned 568BS/390BG [BI-B] Framlingham 25/7/43 SIX NIGHTS IN TELERGMA (ARABIAN NUTS); changed to BI-G after loss of 42-30017; damaged on Oschersleben mission 21/1/44 with Capt Jim Waggoner, Ball turret gunner: George Agaisottelis, Waist gunner: Murrell Reynolds,Tail gunner: Floyd Daugherty (4 Returned to Duty); Navigator: John Harms, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Gaetano Friuli, Radio Operator: George Powell (3 evaded capture); Co-pilot: Alf Pelka, Bombardier: Jerome McLaughlin, Waist gunner: Jim Wood (3 Prisoner of War); Salvaged 22/6/45. CANADIAN CLUB.

Delivered Denver 12/2/43; Assigned 336BS/95BG Rapid City, dep. Natal for Dakar, then UK; with Major Edgar Cole, Co-pilot: Ray Abbott, Navigator: Chas Garvin, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ed Galvin,ro-Harry Dubie, pass:- Theo Thomas, Jack Myers, Ray Johnson, Boyd Barnes, Carl Olbertz; crashed 30 miles off shore near Bathurst due to electrical fire 5/4/43, but picked up by RAF Sunderland and taken to Bathurst (10 Returned to Duty); Salvaged 17/4/43.

Delivered Cheyenne 16/2/43; Dow Fd 2/6/43; Assigned 92BG Podington 17/10/43; transferred 332BS/94BG [XM-E] Rougham /43; landing accident at Bovingdon due to structural failure with Chas Cliburn 17/8/43; landing accident at Rougham with Ken Steele 29/9/43; recalled from mission and on landing at base landing gear malfunctioned 9/2/44 with Alwin Kocher, Co-pilot: Henry Wallace, Navigator: Metro Wozniak, Bombardier: Edmond Moreau, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bill Wood, Radio Operator: Bill Holmes, Ball turret gunner: Joe Anderson, Waist gunner: Herbert Chase, Waist gunner: Gil Debrieski,Tail gunner: Elmer Thomas (10 Returned to Duty); no records until Salvaged 22/6/45. STUD DUCK.

Delivered Denver 5/2/43; Assigned 331BS/94BG Salina 25/2/43; electrical fire caused crew to bail out Rosedale, LA, with George Hendershot 17/3/43, aircraft burnt out. Written off.

Delivered Cheyenne 27/11/43; Gt Falls 30/11/43; Wendover 9/12/43; Assigned 750BS/457BG Glatton 25/1/44; Missing in Action Berlin 6/3/44; with Gene Whelan, Co-pilot: Jim Cawley, Navigator: George McPeake, Bombardier: Bob Kuncl, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bob Vaughn, Radio Operator: Jerome Hartings, Ball turret gunner: Virgil French, Waist gunner: J.W. Bartee, Waist gunner: John McVey,Tail gunner: Alphus Maddox (10 Killed in Action); mid air coll with ME410 after wreckage fell from above off 42-31627; crashed NE of Brachwitz, four miles N of Treuenbrietzen, SW of Berlin, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 3197. FLYING JENNY.

Delivered Cheyenne 27/11/43; Gt Falls 1/12/43; Cheyenne 3/12/43; Wendover 11/12/43; Assigned 748BS/457BG Glatton 26/1/44; Missing in Action Berlin 6/3/44 with Roy Graves, Co-pilot: Wayne McLeod, Navigator: Jim Salay, Bombardier: Herbert Witte, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Horace Gillespie, Radio Operator: Weldon Brown, Ball turret gunner: Harry Moberg, Waist gunner: Don Lillehaug, Waist gunner: Bob Kent (9 Killed in Action);Tail gunner: Eldon Williams (Prisoner of War); mid air coll with 42-31595 wreckage, crashed near Treuenbrietzen, SW of Berlin, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 3198.

Delivered Cheyenne 25/3/44; Billings 3/5/44; Kearney 12/5/44; Grenier 26/5/44; Assigned 568BS/390BG [BI-R] Framlingham 27/5/44 MISSISSIPPI MISSION; Missing in Action Derben, Ger 14/1/45 with Gerald Johnson, Bill Parks, Dayton Kelly, Joe Redpath spot jammer, Jim Lawman tg (5 Killed in Action); Matt Robinson, Don Lash, Frank O’Neill, Russ Hardy, Ben Marshall (5 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Garlitz, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 11725. BOB TAIL BATTLER.

Delivered Long Beach 19/2/43; La Guardia 4/5/43; Scott Fd 17/8/43; with Landry Houston force landed Walker, Ks 8/1/44; when parked hit by 42-5083 Walker 21/4/44; Assigned 95BG (not to GB); Written off 15/8/44; Recl Comp 3/1/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 20/2/43; Smoky Hill 14/4/43; Assigned 526BS/379BG, with Capt Larry Elstead, Co-pilot: Fred Plyley, Navigator: Jim Courtright, Bombardier: Art Ciccarello, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: George Brown, Radio Operator: Lowell Lindblom, Ball turret gunner: Art McKinley, Waist gunner: Art Mahoney, Waist gunner: Alf Garretson, Tail gunner: Tom O’Moore (10 Killed in Service); en route from Gander, Nfd. to Prestwick, Scotland, and to Kimbolton 23/4/43; radio op in another B-17 heard SOS call presumed from ‘3132, no trace found. Missing Air Crew Report 3726.

Delivered Cheyenne 23/2/43; Assigned 524BS/379BG Dow Fd 18/4/43; t/o Gander en route UK 10/5/43 with Kurt Freund, Co-pilot: George Kane, Navigator: Bob Dependahl, Bombardier: Harry Ford, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bruce Luhmann, Radio Operator: John Paznar, ae-Jim Dyson, aro-Wilford Bradshaw, g-John Semagh,Tail gunner: Paul Matthew (10 Returned to Duty); crash landed Finner Strand, near Bunderan, Co. Donegal, Ire. out of gas heading for Kimbolton. Salvaged. WEREWOLF.

Delivered Barksdale 21/2/42; MacDill 5/3/42; Boise 21/6/42; Yuma 18/10/42; crash landed Gowen Fd, with Royce Glenn when u/c failed 20/11/42, rep; Hendricks 31/3/43; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Albuquerque 10/6/45.

Delivered Denver 5/1/44; Kearney 15/1/44; Presque Is 29/1/44; Assigned: 334BS/95BG [BG-Q] Horham 2/2/44; over Berlin 18/4/44 Pilot: W.W. Bowden, Tail Gunner: Elbert Hargraves (KIA); 41m, MIA Leipzig 29/5/44 w/Norman Ulrich, Co-Pilot: George Relf, Navigator: Ralph Smithberger, Bombardier: Don Payne, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Leon Anderson, Radio Operator: Norman Phillips, Ball Turret Gunner: Rubin Schulman, Waist Gunner: Gene Buhler, Waist Gunner: Larry English, tg-Norman Hines (10POW); Enemy aircraft, crash-landed Packebusch, 19 miles SW of Salzwedel, Germany. MACR 5343. OL’ DOG.

Delivered Denver 13/2/43; Presque Is 8/4/43; Assigned 337BS/96BG [AW- ] Grafton Underwood 17/4/43; Missing in Action Keil 13/6/43 with Bob Webster, Bombardier: Tom Decaro (2 Prisoner of War); Co-pilot: Alf Bramer, Navigator: Norton Marcus, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Zephan Barrows{RIP 19/7/43}, Radio Operator: Joe Tomasello, Ball turret gunner: Berl Cenac, Waist gunner: Walter Feuer, Waist gunner: Berthal Eveland,Tail gunner: Clarry Rude (8 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed Doerphof, near Flensburg, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 3687 (?2458). MISS CARRIAGE.

Delivered Cheyenne 30/8/44; Lincoln 4/9/44; Grenier 18/9/44; Assigned 412BS/95BG [QW-V] Horham 19/9/44; 334BS [BG-V]; with M.C. Ryan force landed RAF Woodbridge, Sfk 25/12/44; 62m, Returned to the USA Bradley 21/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 23/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 19/12/45. EVASIVE ACTION.

Delivered MacDill 28/2/42; Assigned 340BS/97BG Sarasota 29/3/42; from Houlton to Presque Is crash landed hitting an embankment and stopped, with Chas Lee, Co-pilot: G. Leland, Navigator: H. Ray, Bombardier: J. Cognatto, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: S. Kendall, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: F. Rebello, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Z. Gomsell, g-J. Cummings, g-R. Williams (9 Returned to Duty) 28/6/42. Salvaged. Parts used on 41-9022.

Delivered Cheyenne 1/10/43; Harvard 14/10/43; Assigned 447BG Rattlesden 19/11/43; battle damaged Berlin 6/3/44; Salvaged 7/3/44.

Delivered Cheyenne 23/4/43; Brooks Fd 3/6/43; 3017 BU Hobbs 8/11/43; 4124 BU Altus; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 22/8/45.