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Delivered Tulsa 2/4/44; Kearney 13/4/44; Grenier 29/4/44; Assigned 728BS/452BG [M3- ] Deopham Green 3/5/44; destroyed by enemy aircraft at Poltava with Paul Skinner 21/6/44; Salvaged 2/7/44.

Delivered Long Beach 6/9/43; Gr Island 15/10/43; Assigned 333BS/94BG [TS-P] Rougham 26/10/43; Missing in Action Laon 9/5/44 with Tom Bond, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Vernon Bishop, Radio Operator: Claude Brown (3 Prisoner of War); Co-pilot: Doug Melton, Navigator: Bill Belluomini, Bombardier: Roland Walters, Ball turret gunner: Alf Spindler, Waist gunner: Ernie Schmaling, Waist gunner: Dick Warfel,Tail gunner: Bruce Waddell (7 evaded capture); enemy aircraft set right win on fire then #3 fell off, crew bailed over French coast and ship crashed in Channel off Dieppe, Fr. Missing Air Crew Report 4853. PRIDE OF THE YANKS.

Delivered Cheyenne 15/2/44; Rapid City 5/3/44; Dow Fd 14/4/44; Assigned 398BG Nuthampstead 22/4/44; no ops, transferred 561BS/388BG [ -Q] Knettishall 28/4/44; (18m) on return from Merseburg 29/7/44 with Gene Peterson, Co-pilot: Victor Locke, Navigator: Bill Kimmel, Bombardier: Benone Terrano, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Joe Scuglik, Radio Operator: Carl Meyer, Ball turret gunner: Leon Devenpeck, Waist gunner: Dave Rosser,Tail gunner: Norman Jockers (9 Returned to Duty); crash landed base, Salvaged 30/7/44. HAUGHTY HAZY II.

Delivered MacDill 31/3/44; 326 BU MacDill 24/12/44; 4117 BU Robins 4140 BU Rome 18/1/45; Hunter 26/4/45; 3704 BU Keesler 2/4/46; 554 BU Memphis 5/6/46; 4136 BU Tinker 23/6/46; 4112 BU Olmstead 3/9/46; 62 BU Andrews 29/12/46; 5 RES Pope 16/6/47; 316 BU Shaw 18/8/47; 5 RES Pope 1/4/48; Recl Comp 1/2/49.

Delivered Cheyenne 1/9/44; Hunter 20/9/44; Grenier 28/9/44; Assigned 614BS/401BG [IW-K] Deenethorpe 11/10/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 7/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 13/6/45; 237 BU Kirtland 31/12/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Albuquerque 6/2/46.

Delivered Dallas 26/7/44; Hunter 24/8/44; Grenier 9/10/44; Assigned 615BS/401BG [IW-K] Deenethorpe 18/11/44; 614BS [IW-G]; transferred 305BG Chelveston 20/5/45; Salvaged 9AF Germany 23/5/46.

Delivered Dallas 19/9/44; Hunter 15/10/44; Dow Fd 25/10/44; Assigned 615BS/401BG [IY-F] Deenethorpe 10/11/44; 613BS [IN-P]; transferred 305BG Chelveston 19/4/45; Salvaged 9AF Germany 23/5/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 20/4/44; Kearney 16/5/44; Grenier 27/5/44; Assigned to the 412th Bomb Squadron/95th Bomb Group as [QW-E]. Based at Horham 30/5/44; non-operation crash, pilot given permission to land at Duxford airfield, UK 19/7/44, to pick up others. When pilot buzzed tower but clipped a warning beacon, it rolled over on its back and hit an 83rd Fighter Squadron barrack; with Jim Sasser, Co-pilot: Vic Mintz, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Francis Bradburn, Radio Operator: Jim Heil; the rest were 78th Fighter Group personnel; Lt Martin Smith, Lt John Putnam, ncos-Wilbur Edwards, Don French, John Gorman, John Hamilton, Tony Loguidice, Ellsworth Seecz, Frank Wojicki, Ernie Taylor (total 14 men Killed in Service); ncos-Ray Robertson, Oscar Severson (2 Wounded In Service); Salvaged 21/7/44. READY FREDDIE.

Delivered Cheyenne 17/3/43; Walla Walla 28/3/43; Metropolitan 13/4/43; Dow Fd 30/4/43; Assigned 510BS/351BG [TU-B] Polebrook 28/5/43; 30m Missing in Action Cognac 31/12/43 with Homer Wells, Co-pilot: Fred Pugsley, Navigator: Arnold Kline, Bombardier: Warren Maney, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ken Cook, Radio Operator: Fred Wright, Ball turret gunner: Ernie Balsis, Waist gunner: Chas Brown, Waist gunner: Glenn Gienau,Tail gunner: Newlin Happerset (10 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed Cognac, Fr. Missing Air Crew Report 1979. JENNIE.

Delivered Cheyenne 7/2/44; Gr Island 22/2/44; Grenier 21/2/44; Assigned 324BS/91BG [DF- ] Bassingbourn 7/4/44; Missing in Action St Avord 28/4/44 with Jim Cater, Navigator: Ray Murphy, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Alphonse Lagownik, Waist gunner: Herb Campbell (4 evaded capture); Co-pilot: George Cosgrove, Bombardier: Bernie Swinburne[also evaded capture but captured when on a French truck], Radio Operator: Jim Konstantine, Ball turret gunner: Clement Dowler, Waist gunner: John Pertuset,Tail gunner: Regis Carney (5 Prisoner of War); Waist gunner: Herb Campbell (evaded capture and first joined Resistance but killed at Clemont Ferrand after capture 2/7/44); flak KOd #3 and set wing on fire, crashed St Avord, Fr; Missing Air Crew Report 4235.

Delivered Cheyenne 29/9/43; Harvard 15/10/43; crashed in bad weather while on training flight 22/10/44 with ?, (5 off & 9 EM Killed in Service); Written off 23/12/44.

Delivered Cheyenne 29/7/44; Kearney 9/8/44; Grenier 16/8/44; Assigned 4BS/34BG Mendlesham 23/8/44; in base landing accident with Herbert Vick 24/12/44; battle damaged Berlin 26/2/45 with Floyd Peede, Co-pilot: Tom Easterling, Navigator: Fred Edelstein, tog-Larry Pratz, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Jim Nerrie, Radio Operator: Bob Brown, Ball turret gunner: Ken Chezem, Waist gunner: Bob Harrison,Tail gunner: Theo Spracklen (9 Returned to Duty); crash landed Lodz, Poland; Salvaged 1/3/45. Missing Air Crew Report 12768.

Delivered Cheyenne 12/8/44; Hunter 23/8/44; Grenier 9/10/44; Assigned 511BS/351BG [DS-C] Polebrook 25/9/44; Missing in Action {3m} Politz 7/10/44 with Don Dargue, Harry Anderson, George LeCheminant, Ray Brooks, Bill Birch, Francis Cawetzka, Leo Collins, George Dingee, Alex Homerte {Obs}, (9OW); Ed Asmus (Killed in Action); flak, crashed Stettin, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 9359.

Delivered Cheyenne 12/1/44; Savannah 22/1/44; Morrison 13/2/44; Assigned 325BS/92BG [NV-Q] Podington 2/3/44; Missing in Action Munich 16/7/44 with Frank Herrington, Co-pilot: Leon Smith, Navigator: Harry Jacobsen, Bombardier: George Gerken, Radio Operator: Bill Kibble, Ball turret gunner: Art Montgomery, Waist gunner: Ed Hickmott,Tail gunner: John Patterson (8 Prisoner of War); Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Harry Rigg (Killed in Action); enemy aircraft KO’d #3, three men bailed, fire died down and ship flew on 40 miles, crashed Hechingen, SW of Tubingen, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 7571. DOTTIE G 2nd.

Delivered Dallas 19/6/44; Ft Myers 24/7/44; as QB-17 110 BU Mitchell 23/8/44; 2 EEL Fort Dix 18/9/44; 1377 BU Grenier 21/9/44; 4149 BU Ft Dix 5/11/44; 110 BU Mitchell 27/1/45; 4149 BU Ft Dix 20/2/45; 139 BU Shaw Fd 1/5/45; 4121 BU Kelly 4/9/45; 4149 BU Ft Dix 22/10/45; ATS Dover 13/1/46; 4112 BU Olmstead 13/4/46; with Bill Marshall force landed base 5/6/46; 4108 BU Newark 30/9/46; with Frank Hoffpauir force landed Mitchell Fd, NY 8/10/46; 110 BU Mitchell 10/2/47; 4000 BU Patterson 15/2/47; 4108 BU Newark 19/2/47; 4112 BU Olmstead 30/6/47; Recl Comp 7/1/49.

Delivered Lincoln 21 September 1944; Grenier 7 October 1944; Assigned 532BS/381BG [VE-J] Ridgewell 14 November 1944; Missing in Action 12m Mannheim 11 December 1944 with Pilot Leo Belskis, Co-pilot Glenn C. Vaughn, Navigator James V. Collett, Bombardier Ross W. Perrin Jr, Flight engineer/top turret gunner Walter R. Newman, Ball turret gunner Lynn J. Lauret, Tail gunner Robert P. Rogers (7 Killed in Action); Radio Operator Elvis A. McCoy, Right Waist gunner: Durward V. Suggs (2 Prisoner of War). Missing Air Crew Report – MACR 11341. Hit by flak.

Delivered Dallas 26/7/44; Cheyenne 4/8/44; Lincoln 16/8/44; Grenier 2/9/44; Assigned 570BS/390BG [DI-C] Framlingham 4/9/44; abort mission 14/2/45, #2 engine burning at 12,000ft due to mech. failure. Pilot dove to 7,000ft, fire went out, but during dive Mayer, Warwick, Turner, McVay & Carbonne bailed out but were all KIA; pilot and rest of crew returned to base, Missing Air Crew Report 12351. Missing in Action Berlin 18/3/45 with ?; 1KIA Palumbo, rest POW. Missing Air Crew Report 13149. RELUCTANT.

Delivered Cheyenne 5/2/43; Assigned 353BS/301BG Morrison 25/3/43; transferred 100BG Thorpe Abbotts /43; 358BS/303BG [VK-I] Molesworth 13/7/43; battle damaged Bremen 26/11/43 with Bill Fort {wia-frostbite}, Co-pilot: McDonald Riddick, Bombardier: Chas Spencer {wia-frostbite}, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Grover Mullins, Radio Operator: Jim Supple, Ball turret gunner: Howard Zeitner, Waist gunner: Jim Pleasant, Waist gunner: John Viszneki,Tail gunner: Bernie Sutton (9 Returned to Duty); Navigator: Harry Roketto (Killed in Action); Returned to the USA Scott 15/4/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Albuquerque 27/7/45. STARDUST.

Delivered Hunter 7/12/44; Dow Fd 19/12/44; Assigned 416BS/99BG Tortorella 9/2/45; {34m} Returned to the USA Morrison 2/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 2/1/46. JEANNIE.

Delivered Cheyenne 5/3/43; Gore 28/3/43; Metropolitan 13/4/43; Dow Fd 30/4/43; Assigned 325BS/92BG [NV-B] Alconbury 26/5/43; transferred 524BS/379BG [WA-A] Kimbolton 4/9/43; Returned to the USA 30/4/44; Hendricks 29/7/44; Maxwell 9/10/44; Hendricks 31/10/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 14/1/46. CENSORED (FOREQUETOO).

Delivered Cheyenne 25/3/43; Memphis 8/4/43; Dow Fd 18/4/43; Assigned 324BS/91BG [DF-J] Bassingbourn 7/6/43; Missing in Action Huls 22/6/43 with Joe Slattery, Navigator: Julius Ziegelmeyer, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bill Dickson, Radio Operator: Glenn MacDonald, Ball turret gunner: Eldridge Hulet, Waist gunner: Dave Fishburn, Waist gunner: Elmer Frederick, Tail gunner: Ed Simon (8 Killed in Action); Co-pilot: Walter Brass, Bombardier: Bob Brubaker (2 Prisoner of War); Attacked by enemy aircraft, crashed Bungern, three miles SE of Bocholt, Germany. Missing Air Crew Report 15576.

Delivered Tulsa 16-Sep-42; New Castle 10-Oct-42; 91BG/323BS [OR- ] Bassingbourn 14-Dec-42. Missing in Action St Nazaire 3-Jan-43 hit by intense flak, crashed off L’Herbaudiere, Isle de Noirmoutier, France. 9KIA 1POW Missing Air Crew Report (MACR) 2286. This is the second aicraft so named by the pilot. 

Delivered Denver 19/11/43; Rock Springs 11/12/43; Wendover 12/12/43; Assigned 749BS/457BG Glatton; crashed en route Goose Bay to Nutts Corner, NI 22/1/44, with Don Karr, Co-pilot: John Haight, Navigator: Rich Condon, Bombardier: Joel Apel, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ken Erise, Radio Operator: Morris Woodell, Ball turret gunner: Philip Finklelstein, Waist gunner: Gene Papreta, Waist gunner: Paul Rogers,Tail gunner: Chas Edwards (10 Returned to Duty); several attempts were made inding RAF Eglington but eventually bellied in four miles NE of Belmullet, Co. Mayo, Eire; Salvaged 24/1/44. MISS YU.