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Delivered Cheyenne 29/12/43; Kearney 12/1/44; Assigned 401BS/91BG [LL-Y] Bassingbourn 25/2/44; Missing in Action 2m Berlin 6/3/44 with Clyde Mason, Co-pilot: Gilbert Falck, Navigator: Bill Eberly, togg-Morris Fliegel, Radio Operator: Ron Cannon, Ball turret gunner: Vic Clifford, Waist gunner: Ralph Renzelman, Waist gunner: Jack Ney (8 Prisoner of War); Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bob Perkins,Tail gunner: Don Zahler (2KIA-bodies found in wreckage); enemy aircraft, #3 exploded setting wing afire, crashed Lowendorf Hill, Trebbin, 15 miles S of Berlin, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 2899. HELL AND HIGH WATER.

Assigned 26BS/11BG Hickam Field, HI; destroyed on ground in Japanese attack 7-Dec-41; Salvaged. (aircraft No. 81). Never served in the UK.

Delivered Cheyenne 15/3/43; Smoky Hill 26/3/43; Dow Fd 31/5/43; Assigned 305BG Chelveston 15/6/43; transferred 334BS/95BG [BG-K] Alconbury 16/6/43; Framlingham 12/5/43; 335BS [OE-K] Horham 15/6/43; 12/9/43 with A.R. Witt f/d RAF Morton Calence (?); 20/12/43 with A.R. Witt force landed Bungay afd; 31/12/43 with F.G. Vansant force landed RAF Eastchurch; 44m, Missing in Action Oldenburg 6/3/44 with Albert Mailman, Co-pilot: John Cassidy, Navigator: Dave Hazlett, Bombardier: Marion Beal, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Chas Frantz (5 Killed in Action); Radio Operator: Ray McDowell, Ball turret gunner: Jim Wint, Waist gunner: Wilbur Cooper, Waist gunner: Henry Baswell,Tail gunner: Bill Henderson (5 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft attack near Haseluenne, ship exploded, crashed Ellinghausen, near Barnsdorf, 15 miles NE of Diepholz, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 2890. SITUATION NORMAL.

Delivered Denver 4/10/43; Harvard 15/10/43; Assigned 710BS/447BG Rattlesden 21/11/43; Missing in Action Berlin 29/4/44 with Harry Paris, Co-pilot: Bob Allen, Navigator: Mike Gannon, Bombardier: Ed Jekel{wia, broke left knee} Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bill Clarke, Radio Operator: Lew Pohill, Ball turret gunner: Harry Woodman, Waist gunner: Oscar Siegel, Waist gunner: Fred Kirnan,Tail gunner: Jim Hanley{wia, bullet wounds} (10 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Eggenstedt, 16 miles W of Magdeberg, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 4249.

Delivered Lincoln 12/1/45; Grenier 6/2/45; Assigned 15AF 8/2/45; RetUS, Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 28/12/45.

Delivered Lincoln 15/1/45; Grenier 6/2/45; Assigned 8AF 15/2/45; Salvaged 9AF Germany 6/11/46.

Delivered Hunter 14/3/45; Grenier 19/3/45; Assigned 8AF 27/3/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 5/6/45; Sth Plains 8/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas, Salvaged 12/3/46.

Assigned 23BS/5BG [92] Long Beach 23-Oct-42; Love Field 25-Nov-42; Smyrna 16-Dec-42; Lockbourne 15-Jan-43; Assigned 1174 PTTS at Lockbourne in taxi accident with John O’Sullivan 2-Mar-43; New Haven 15-Jul-43. Written off 19-Jul-43. Never left the US, never saw combat, never served in the UK.

Delivered Denver 16/11/43; Pendleton 18/11/43; Gr Island 10/12/43; Assigned 730BS/452BG Deopham Green 4/1/44; with Jim Reynolds, Co-pilot: Mark Liddell, Bombardier: Frank Kottlowski, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Larry Zaccardi, Radio Operator: George Barzen, Ball turret gunner: Jim Leonard, Waist gunner: Rich Jones, Waist gunner: Ed Zimmerman (9 Returned to Duty); Bombardier: Larry Anderson (KIA- hit by bomb from above aircraft knocking nose off); crash landed Dulverston, UK; Returned to the USA 121 BU Bradley 28/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 21/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 24/11/45. SHED HOUSE MOUSE then changed to THE REINCARNATION after rebuild.

Delivered Denver 3/1/44; Kearney 30/1/44; Grenier 18/2/44; Assigned 350BS/100BG [LN-T] Thorpe Abbotts 23/2/44; Missing in Action Merseburg 29/7/44 with Eden Jones, Co-pilot: Bob Ries, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Jim Eadie, Radio Operator: Leo Griffin, Ball turret gunner: Harry Prince (5 Killed in Action); Navigator: Albt Fincher, Bombardier: Cordy Ramer, Waist gunner: Frank Moran,Tail gunner: Jerry Cassell (4 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Wulfingerode, W of Nordhausen, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 7811. (npo) HARD LUCK II.

Delivered Lincoln 23/11/44; Grenier 5/1/45; Assigned 482BG H2X Alconbury 7/1/45; transferred 350BS/100BG [LN-X], then 418BS [LD-X] Thorpe Abbotts 18/5/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 1/6/45; Sth Plains 4/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 18/12/45. DAYLIGHT DELIVERY aka HURRI-KANE.

Delivered Hicham, Field, Hawaii 14-Aug-41; Assigned 26BS/11BG Hickam Field; destroyed in Japanese attack 7-Dec-41. Salvaged. (aircraft No. 80). Never served in the UK

Delivered Lincoln 3/10/44; Grenier 26/10/44; Assigned 350BS/100BG [LN-E] Thorpe Abbotts 30/10/44; battle damaged Kollin 18/4/45 with ?; force landed continent; repaired & ret UK; Returned to the USA Bradley 21/6/45; Sth Plains 25/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 10/12/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 24/1/44; Gr Island 2/3/44; Presque Is 22/3/44; Assigned 418BS/100BG [LD-P] Thorpe Abbotts 7/3/44; Missing in Action Rouen 24/6/44 with George Roth, Co-pilot: Warren LeBaron (2 Killed in Action); Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Burl Reynolds, Ball turret gunner: Paul Hunter, Waist gunner: Glen Allen, Waist gunner: Carl Carlson,Tail gunner: Harry Rulong (5 Prisoner of War); Navigator: Dave Shoss, Bombardier: Sgt Joe Shultz, Radio Operator: Willy Yates (3 evaded capture); flak blew off engine from wing, crashed Ferme du Bois du Haut de Blainville, W of Longueil, six miles SW of Dieppe, Fr. Missing Air Crew Report 6543. RETURN TICKET.

Delivered Denver 24/1/44; Pyote 14/3/44; 4136 BU Tinker 28/7/44; 224 BU Sioux City 2/11/44; 225 BU Rapid City 16/6/45; 246 BU Pratt 30/9/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 7/11/45.

Delivered Albuquerque Strategic Arms Depot 6-May 41; Hickham Field, HI 17-Oct-41; Assigned 93BS/19BG Ft Douglas, UT with J.A. Roberts, (? with J.W. Bleasdale) crash landed Lt Rock, AR 17-Jun-41; transferred Clark Field, PI 23-Oct-41 with Alvin Mueller, Jim Colovin, George Markovich, Bob Schlotte, Adolph Doucet, Clyde Anderson, Lewis Wise, John Biff, George McGee; Del Monte-Batchelor, Australia 17-Dec-41 with Earl Tash, Doug Kellar, Art Hoffman, Stitt, J. Sowa, A. Norgaard, Karlinger, J. Penney, Moody, Laza; to Malang, Java 2-Jan-42 with Tash; blown up by terrorists Parisian, Java 22-Feb-42. Salvaged. Never served in the UK.

Delivered McChord 31/12/41; Langley 3/1/42; MacDill 6/1/42; Project X 6/3/42; Returned to the USA Tinker 5/6/42; Des Moines 22/7/44; to Romulus with Frank Skillen, but force landed Rosencrans Fd, St Joseph, MO 30/8/43; Stout 2/11/44; Recl Comp 29/6/45.

Delivered Denver 5/3/43; Gore 6/3/43; Denver 20/3/43; Pueblo 10/4/43; Smoky Hill 5/5/43; Dow Fd 21/5/43; Assigned 532BS/381BG [VE-H] Ridgewell 6/4/43 with Bill Baltrusaitis, Art Sample, Martin Honke, Carl Potter, Arnold Hone, Marvin Pease, Harry Thorpe, Wallace McGaughey, Julio Aqualino, Tom Murphy; {20+m} AFSC 11/5/44; Returned to the USA Tinker 6/8/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Arledge Fd 22/11/44. THE JOKER.

Delivered San Antonio 10/1/42; 7BG Hawaii 2/42; then Singosari, Java 9/2/42 with Smithson; to Asanol, India with Norman Llewellyn 2/4/42; with Capt Don Keiser 20/5/42; Returned to the USA Hendricks 14/6/43; 4121 BU Kelly 23/9/44; 3018 BU Kingman 18/10/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Albuquerque 25/6/45.

Delivered MacDill 3/1/42; 30BS/19BG Java 9/2/42 with Jacques; 7BG, strafed Singosari/Bandoeng, Java 20/2/42; Salvaged.

Delivered Hawaii 14-May-41; Assigned 23BS/5BG Hickam Field, HI; destroyed on base in Japanese attack 7-Dec-41. Salvaged. (aircraft No. 90). Never served in the UK.

Delivered Langley 31/12/41; Assigned 30BS/19BG Java 9/2/42 with Evans; transferred 9BS/7BG; then 64BS/43BG; strafed Singosari 20/2/42; Salvaged. (?While with 7BG crash landed Malang, Java 8/2/42 and abandoned?)

Delivered Cheyenne 7/8/44; Lincoln 17/8/44; Grenier 3/9/44; Assigned 336BS/95BG [ET-U] Horham 5/9/44; with T.C. Gibson force landed A-81 airfield on continent 20/5/45; 82m, 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 10/12/45.

Delivered Hunter 21/11/44; Grenier 6/12/44; Assigned 366BS/305BG [PU-F] Chelveston 12/12/44 OLD COCK; transferred 418BS/100BG [LD-S] Thorpe Abbotts 13/12/44; taxi accident with Don Goldsmith in SILVER DOLLAR 19/4/45; Salvaged 21/4/45. HEAVEN’S ANGEL.