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Delivered Cheyenne 22/4/44; Kearney 7/5/44; Grenier 21/5/44; Assigned 568BS/390BG [BI-K] Framlingham 23/5/44 GIRL OF MY DREAMS; Missing in Action Derben 14/1/45 with Paul Goodrich, Len Losch (2 Killed in Action); Ray Thomas, Erwin Lutzer, Frank Piston, Jim Thomas, George Zadzora, Jim Horan, Ralph Spence (7 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Vietnitz, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 11726. DOC’S FLYING CIRCUS.

Delivered Denver 13/11/43; Gt Falls 15/11/43; Denver 22/11/43; Kearney 27/11/43; Presque Is 25/12/43; Assigned 569BS/390BG [CC-H] Framlingham 2/1/44; suffered n/battle damaged hitting tree at Grundisburgh Hall, Sfk, being slow timed on 2/6/44, with Jack Fleck, Co-pilot: Nils Odstrom, Navigator: Bill Kleintank, Bombardier: Bill Alford, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Alvin Rosenburg, Radio Operator: Ray Conway, Ball turret gunner: Alex Mackay, Passenger – M/Sgt Jim Burton (Crew chief), Passenger – Lt St John Williams [30th St. Com. Sq.) (10 Killed in Service). Wreckage simply burnt out, Salvaged 4/6/44. ICE COLD KATIE.

Delivered Lincoln 27/9/44; Grenier 11/10/44; Assigned 306BG Thurleigh 19/2/45; (Disney bomb carrier); transferred 92BG Podington 9/5/45; Green Project secret missions on 28/5/45 & 1/6/45, each ret next day; to Port Lyautey, Morr 24/6/45, ret 25/6/45; Salvaged 9AF Germany 12/9/46; re-ass AF 30/4/47; Recl Comp 19/11/47. IRENE.

Delivered Lincoln 30/10/44; Dow Fd 12/11/44; Assigned 7BS/34BG Mendlesham 19/11/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 20/6/45; Greenville 27/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 16/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 22/11/45. START SWIMMING aka SWEET SEVENTEEN.

Delivered Lincoln 9/10/44; Grenier 17/10/44; Assigned 7BS/34BG Mendlesham 20/10/44; 18BS; battle damaged Berlin 18/3/45 with Ray Myers, Co-pilot: Don Cardiff, Navigator: Steve Feltovich, tog-Jim Gilbreath, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ray Jetton, Radio Operator: John Connor, Ball turret gunner: Hugh Costello, Waist gunner: Joe Lee,Tail gunner: Toulmin Brown (9 Returned to Duty); force landed Melaszewisze, Poland; Salvaged. OLD TIMES.

Delivered Lincoln 3/10/44; Grenier 14/10/44; Assigned 325BS/92BG [NV-N] Podington 9/2/45; Green Project secret mission 28/5/45, ret 29/5/45; Salvaged 9AF Germany 31/5/46.

Delivered Long Beach 20/10/43; Gr Island 12/11/43; Assigned 32BS/301BG Oudna 23/11/43; Cerignola 7/12/43; Lucera 1/2/44; {22m} Missing in Action Regensburg 25/2/44 with John Walker, Co-pilot: Barile, Navigator: Sant Amour, Bombardier: Andermann, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Oyer, Radio Operator: Wages, Ball turret gunner: McCue, Waist gunner: Snoddy (8 Prisoner of War);Tail gunner: Kendall (Killed in Action);. enemy aircraft, crashed Spittal, Austria; Missing Air Crew Report 2592.

Delivered Denver 20/12/42; Salina 1/1/43; West Palm Beach 31/1/43; Assigned 346BS/99BG Navarin 26/2/43; battle damaged Messina 25/6/43 with Frank Hunter {Wounded in Action}, Wylie {Wounded in Action}, Andrews, Kirkendall, Titus {Wounded in Action}, Isham, O’Brien {Wounded in Action}, Tenis {Wounded in Action}, Cantley {Wounded in Action}, Walker {Wounded in Action} (10 Returned to Duty); Holmes (KIA-first in 346BS); crash landed Bizerte, Salvaged. OUR FAVORITE BITCH.

Delivered Cheyenne 9/9/42; Presque Is 28/10/42; Assigned 366BS/305BG [KY-L] Chelveston 14/11/42; Missing in Action 4/7/43 with Bill Wetzel, Navigator: Ralph McKee (2 evaded capture); Radio Operator: Earl Sell, Waist gunner: Bernie McNight (2 Killed in Action); Co-pilot: Chas Cockrell, Bombardier: Chas Allen, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Doya Garrett, Ball turret gunner: Pete Hnatuick, wgh-Bill Hulett,Tail gunner: Bill Mooney (6 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed St Colunbin, 16 miles S of Nantes, Fr. Missing Air Crew Report 14439. BLOODY TANGIER SHOW.

Delivered Cheyenne 8/3/44; Gr Island 21/3/44; Grenier 6/4/44; Assigned 325BS/92BG [NV-E] Podington 23/4/44;; transferred 2 SAD Lt Staughton 24/3/45; Salvaged 9AF Germany 2/1/46. SHORT STRAW.

Delivered Cheyenne 26/12/42; Boise 16/1/43; Gowen 22/5/43; Moses Lake 17/6/43; Spokane 14/8/43; Written off 30/4/44.

Delivered Lincoln 18/11/44; Dow Fd 3/12/44; Assigned 18BS/34BG Mendlesham 12/12/44; Missing in Action Brandenburg 10/4/45 with Paul Roscher, Co-pilot: Roger Revay, Navigator: Lou Long, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bill Scheinost, Radio Operator: Frank Fogg, Waist gunner: John Doronsky (6 Prisoner of War); tog-Walt Binder, Ball turret gunner: Glen Lyon,Tail gunner: Jim Johnson (3 evaded capture); flak, crashed Brandenburg, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 14198. MISS PURTY.

Delivered Hunter 21/11/44; Grenier 6/12/44; Assigned 7BS/34BG Mendlesham 12/12/44; landing accident at base with Ed Lonergan 4/2/45; Salvaged 5/2/45.

Delivered Denver 17/8/43; Assigned 813BS/482BG [PC-O] Alconbury 19/9/43 with Oboe Mk I radar; transferred 326/92BG [JW-Q] Podington 21/2/44; ass; sal 13/10/45. MORTIMER.

Delivered Cheyenne 12/11/43; Kearney 27/11/43; Assigned 612BS/401BG [SC-Q] Deenethorpe 1/2/44; Missing in Action Berlin 21/6/44 with Jack Atherton, Co-pilot: Don Awalt, Navigator: Dick Fitzmaurice, Bombardier: John Whelan, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bob Sonnhalter, Radio Operator: Jim Burg, Ball turret gunner: Dan Grunstad, Waist gunner: Jeral Smith, Waist gunner: Ron Cox,Tail gunner: Bill Gray (10 Prisoner of War); flak, bellied in Gruenewald, six miles NE of Nauen, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 6000. SALVO SADIE.

Delivered Cheyenne 24/2/44; Kearney 17/3/44; Grenier 6/4/44; Assigned: 511BS/351BG [DS-U] Polebrook 12/4/44; {66m} battle damage Brandenberg 6/8/44 Pilot: Chas Woodrun, Raoul Brickman, Bahard Levins, Andy Bevin, Walt Raakin, Arnold Lomen, Don Fish (7RTD); Ellis Tompkins, Paul Tuerck (2MIA); Bill Rohrbacher, Virgil Carneal, Nick Marcinizyn (3POW). flak ko’d #4 engine, caught fire, but after feathering and using fire extinguisher to no avail, pilot gave order to abandon ship, when the latter three crewmen bailed out. However Woodrun dived the ship and managed to put the fire out and found some of the crew had bailed, the he ordered up TG Fish up front to act as co-pilot, and shuffled the rest but then lost another engine north of Hamburg. Losing altitude all the way back the ship eventually crash-landed at Leiston base. Repaired and back to operations but crash: takeoff w/Ray Butler 10/1/45; Returned to US: Bradley 31/5/45; 4168 BU Sth Plains 21/10/45; Scrapped: Kingman 14/12/45. LINDA BALL II.

Delivered Denver 27/1/44; 1SAG Langley 8/3/44; Grenier 7/4/44; Assigned 323BS/91BG [OR-Y] Bassingbourn 23/5/44; transferred 508BS/351BG [YB-Z] Polebrook 14/6/44; 511BS [DS-Z]; on mission to Gelsenkirchen 16/2/45 with Henry Rossen lost engine landed in Belgium, all OK; {32m} 305BG Chelveston 23/5/45; Salvaged 9AF Germany 10/5/46.

Delivered Hunter 12/8/44; Grenier 3/9/44; Assigned 407BS/92BG [PY-C] Podington 13/9/44; took part in a Disney Bomb Test mission with Capt Oscar D. Whitten on 2/3/45; fire broke out in #3, crew bailed and landed near Hardinghen, Fr, except John Large who was killed due to ‘chute malfunction; one record gives ship exploded with three large fireballs seen, while another source gives Salvaged 9AF Germany 14/6/46. FORT SACK.

Delivered Tulsa 13/3/44; Hunter 4/5/44; Grenier 21/5/44; Assigned 508BS/351BG [YB-C] Polebrook 22/5/44; on mission to Munich 25/2/45 with Bob Sandel, Co-pilot: Ed Clarac, Navigator: ? , Bombardier: Norman Rosenblatt, rest unknown,Tail gunner: Edwin Dahlmand; lost two engines, gradually losing height, then a third but with one engine landed at Lunneville, a French fighter AF, all crew OK; {57m} Returned to the USA Bradley 28/5/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 1/6/45; Recl Comp 7/6/46.

Delivered Tulsa 2/4/44; Hunter 17/4/44; Dow Fd 30/4/44; Assigned 571BS/390BG [FC-M] Framlingham 4/5/44; suffered severe battle damaged 8/9/44 over Mainz with Edgar Moody, with two engines out landed in France, repaired and returned to base; landing accident with Joe McAllister 6/2/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 3/7/45; Sth Plains 5/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 19/12/45. LUCKY.