Delivered SAAD 9/7/42; Lowry 20/7/42; Assigned 8AF but not sent, damaged Duncan Fd, Tex. with Frank Gillespie 25/7/42, rep, then landing accident with E.L. Chrisman 30/7/45, and again with Jack Bray at Lowry 14/9/42, rep; New Castle 11/10/42; Middleton 2/1/43; Salina 25/1/43; Gowen 5/3/43; Wendover 29/5/43; Tinker 26/6/43; Written off 18/10/44; Recl Comp 20/3/46.
Delivered Patterson 5/9/44; Lincoln 12/9/44; Grenier 18/9/44; Assigned 560BS/388BG Knettishall 25/9/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 30/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 3/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 18/12/45.
Delivered Cheyenne 10/3/44; Kearney 6/4/44; Grenier 11/4/44; Assigned 600BS/398BG [N8-A] Nuthampstead 6/5/44; 601BG; Missing in Action 4/3/45 with Hoelzel, AOC 12/3/45; transferred 2 SAD Abbotts Ripton and ret group
Delivered Cheyenne 8/3/44; Gr Island 29/3/44; Grenier 6/4/44; Assigned 600BS/398BG [N8-F] Nuthampstead 26/4/44; repaired Missing in Action 25/2/45 with Sheffer, AOC 26/2/45 after mission; ret. 6/4/45; transferred RAF Valley 21/5/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 25/5/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 29/5/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 4/12/45.
Delivered Lincoln 7/11/44; Grenier 3/12/44; Assigned 20BS/2BG Amendola 15/12/44; transferred 483BG Sterparone 5/45; Salvaged 9AF Germany 23/9/46; Recl Comp 19/11/47.
Delivered Cheyenne 15/3/44; Kearney 5/4/44; Grenier 15/4/44; Assigned 603BS/398BG [N7-N] Nuthampstead 28/4/44; 602BS [K8-N]; was on weather flight 28/10/44 with Lt K.S. Hastings, crash landed base; Salvaged 2 SAD Abbotts Ripton 29/10/44.
Delivered Cheyenne 15/3/44; Kearney 31/3/44; Dow Fd 2/4/44; Assigned 603BS/398BG [N7-F] Nuthampstead 26/4/44; detailed Ludwigshafen 8/9/44 with ? , (8 Returned to Duty), Waist gunner: Don Colbert (Killed in Action); with Vince Moore on practice mission, crash landed base 21/10/44; one crewman KIS; Salvaged 23/10/44.
Delivered Tulsa 9/10/42; Wayne 14/11/42; Salina 19/1/43; Assigned 322BS/91BG [LG-T] Bassingbourn 23/3/43; Missing in Action 9m St Nazaire 28/6/43 with Ed Brodnax, Co-pilot: John Kaufman, Navigator: Bill Deal, Bombardier: Bill Lakey, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Gustav Lund, Radio Operator: Ken Dunbar, Waist gunner: Jim Wright, Ball turret gunner: John Mikkelson (8 Killed in Action), Waist gunner: John Smith,Tail gunner: Virgil Anderson (2 Prisoner of War); KO’d by heavy flak, ditched Channel, survivors picked up by French. Missing Air Crew Report 15710. (possibly MARNITA earlier) THUNDERBIRD No. 2.
Delivered Hunter 6/11/44; Grenier 22/11/44; Assigned 49BS/2BG Amendola 27/11/44; transferred (?483BG Sterparone?); 772BS/463BG Celone; crash landed base 24/4/45 with Bob Elder kia, crew?; Salvaged 25/4/45.
Delivered Cheyenne 17/3/44; Kearney 5/4/44; Grenier 14/4/44; Assigned 570BS/390BG [DI-F] Framlingham 20/4/44; Missing in Action Dusseldorf 9/9/44 with Bob Gallagher, Co-pilot: Merrill Redda, Ball turret gunner: Joe Costa,Tail gunner: Len Gilkey (4 Killed in Action); Navigator: Chas Yandell, Bombardier: Ed Marshall, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Pfc Bill Ballard, Radio Operator: Andy Hayes, Waist gunner: Ed Kuseck (5 Prisoner of War); flak, engine on fire which set off explosion and aircraft spun in on bank of Ennepe Dam, S of Hagen, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 8916.
B-17F 42-2975 was assigned 423BS/306BG Presque Is 17-Nov-42; Molesworth 25-Nov-42. This was the first B-17 built by Douglas Aircraft Company under license with Boeing to go MIA with the 8th AF. Shot down 30-Dec-42 by enemy aircraft upon return from a mission to bomb the U-Boat pens at Lorient, France. The aircraft made a late takeoff and was unable to join with the 306BG formation, so it tagged along with the 305BG. 1POW 9KIA MACR 15079.
Delivered Cheyenne 13-Sep-42; New Castle 11-Oct-42; Assigned 423BS/306BG [RD-F] Thurleigh 29-Nov-1942. The aircraft was attacked by German fighters on the way to bomb the U-Boat pens at St, Nazaire, France on 16-Feb-43. The aircraft crashed near Guillac, France. 7KIA, 1POW 2EVD. MACR 15472
Delivered Lincoln 1/11/44; Grenier 3/12/44; Assigned 775BS/463BG Celone 15/12/44; on return from Pomigliano on ferry flight 26/5/45 with Bob Lowe, Martin, Richardson; all three crew killed.
Delivered Denver 17/1/44; MacDill 30/1/44; Assigned 816BS/483BG Sterparone 12/3/44; transferred 346BS/99BG Tortorella 31/3/44; 71m 5th BW HQ 8/10/44 as hack for Gen Charles Lawrence; Returned to the USA 902 BU Orlando 4/5/45; 64 BU Andrews 13/6/45; 1377 BU Grenier 5/7/45; 2114 BU Lockbourn 17/7/45; Recl Comp 9/4/46. GLITTERING GAL.
Delivered Denver 2/2/44; 1SAG Langley 11/3/44; Grenier 3/5/44; Assigned (H2X) 482BG Alconbury 9/5/44; transferred 350BS/100BG Thorpe Abbotts 20/5/45; re-ass AAF 30/4/47; Recl Comp 19/11/47.
Delivered Cheyenne 23/1/44; Grand Island 7/2/44; Grenier 22/2/44; Presque Isle 28/2/44; Assigned 350BS/100BG [LN-R] Thorpe Abbotts 3/3/44; 418BS [LD-E] after taxi accident with Earl Culmore 19/4/45; Salvaged 21/4/45; {102m} and used as hack for Col Jeffrey; Returned to the USA 3505 BU Scott 19/9/45; re-ass 8AF Dutch-Belgian coast 26/12/46; Recl Comp 19/11/47. SILVER DOLLAR.
Delivered Hunter 6/9/44; Dow Fd 12/10/44; Assigned 49BS/2BG Amendola 24/10/44; taxi accident with Bill Atkinson 10/2/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 9/7/45; Sth Plains 11/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 18/12/45.
Delivered Cheyenne 29/7/43; Gore 9/8/43; Scott 10/8/43; Presque Is 16/8/43; ground looped at Gander, Newfoundland by ground crew 20/8/43; Assigned 349BS/100BG [XR-L] Thorpe Abbotts 20/8/43; Missing in Action Berlin 6/3/44 with Bill Murray, Radio Operator: Fred Schillinger,Tail gunner: Mahlon Hall (3 Killed in Action); Co-pilot: Dick Landiotte, Navigator: Orrin Heinrich, Bombardier: Bill Carr, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Emory Brandt, Ball turret gunner: Jim Pease, Waist gunner: Nick Hamelak, Waist gunner: Palmer Hanson (7 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Hollwedel, SE of Harpstedt, 25 miles SE of Oldenburg, Ger. BIG ASS BIRD II.
Delivered Hunter 30/9/44; Grenier 11/10/44; Assigned 351BS/100BG [EP-M] Thorpe Abbotts 13/10/44; Missing in Action Berlin 18/3/45 with Ed Gwin, Bill Danielson, Ray Uhler, John Disher (4 Killed in Action); Don Reichel, Bob Landino, Dave Ackerman, Herb Hamann, Norman Heilbuth, Joe Griego (6 Prisoner of War); The aircraft was hit by Me 262 jet enemy aircraft and KO’d two engines, tail broke off and crashed Gage, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 13144. SWEET NANCY II.
Delivered Long Beach 30/1/43; Salina 11/2/43; Assigned 332BS/94BG [XM-M] Bassingbourn 4/3/43; 325BS/92BG [NV-Y/M] Alconbury 20/4/43, the first B-17 sent to RAF Defford for installation of HSC equipment; Transferred 813BS/482BG [PC-M] Alconbury 5/8/43; detailed return from Thorpe Abbotts back to base 10/11/43 with Art Reynolds, Co-pilot: John Russell, Navigator: Sheldon McCormick, Bombardier: Albert Rolnick, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Amos Behl, Radio Operator: Bob Holmes, Ex Radio Operator: John May, Ball turret gunner: Leslie Boling, Waist gunner: Laurie Evans, Waist gunner: Bill Landers,Tail gunner: Andy Allison, plus two passenger mechanics: Herman Kolousek, Bob Levi (13 Killed in Service); three civilians died, Walter Clarke of Stradbroke & Charles Burridge of Langton Green, Eye, while Ernest Barker, of Wetheringsett died in hospital; injured was Bill Dixon, of Finningham, whose horse was also killed; crashed on take off at Brome, Sfk, UK; Salvaged. STINKY.
Delivered Hunter 1/9/44; Dow Fd 18/9/44; Assigned 20BS/2BG Amendola 27/9/44; Missing in Action Blechhammer 19/12/44 with Haddon Johnson, Co-pilot: Banks Campbell, Navigator: Bob Pilcher, Bombardier: Rich Clark, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Herb Kelly, Radio Operator: Jim Cash, Ball turret gunner: Ed Storrer, Waist gunner: Vic Slivka, Waist gunner: Dave Dykes,Tail gunner: Leo Francis (10 Returned to Duty); flak ko’d #2 and #3 along with hole in right fuel tank, crashed Bia Mare, Hungary; crew ret 14/1/45. Missing Air Crew Report 10638.
Delivered Hunter 15/11/44; Dow Fd 28/11/44; Assigned 350BS/100BG [LN-O] Thorpe Abbotts 4/12/44; on 5/4/45 ftr with Bill Wilson, force landed Dole, Fr; Returned to the USA Bradley 20/6/45; Sth Plains 25/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 7/12/45. (npo) FLAMIN’ MAMIE.
Delivered Hunter 28/9/44; Grenier 12/9/44; Assigned 351BS/100BG [EP- ] Thorpe Abbotts 13/9/44; Missing in Action Ludwigshafen 5/11/44 with Oren Hopkins, Co-pilot: Foy Read, Navigator: Forest Gordon, Bombardier: Bob Doucette, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Henry Marlette, Radio Operator: Ken Yeater, Ball turret gunner: Arthur Crush, Waist gunner: Harry Farlow,Tail gunner: Gene Jamison (9 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Cochem, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 10357. TANGERINE II aka GOING MY WAY.
Delivered Lincoln 25/8/44; Grenier 10/9/44; Assigned 350BS/100BG [LN-V] Thorpe Abbotts 13/9/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 2/6/45; Sth Plains 7/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 8/11/45. CHIN-UP GIRL aka BIT O’ HEAVEN aka HARD LUCK.