Delivered Tulsa 21/10/42; Assigned 416BS/99BG Sioux City 24/11/42; force landed base with John Thistlewood 6/12/42; Gowen 30/4/43; Wendover 5/5/43; Casper 9/6/43; Smoky Hill 14/6/43; Sioux City 15/7/43; Tinker 5/8/43; Patterson 30/1/44; Lockbourn 28/9/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 15/10/45.
Delivered Tulsa 25/10/42; Boise 29/11/42; Written off 14/4/43.
Assigned 30BS/19BG Pyote 6/1/43; Syracuse 9/4/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 7/1/46.
Delivered Long Beach 12/11/42; Tulsa 24/12/42; Pueblo 27/1/43; Amarillo 8/2/43; Orlando 4/4/43; Geiger 3/5/43; Ephrata 1/8/43; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 14/2/46.
Delivered Long Beach 11/11/42; Pueblo 27/1/43; Biggs 24/2/43; Blythe 15/4/43; Moses Lake 5/5/43; Robbins 26/7/43; Patterson 27/2/44; Drew 4/5/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 29/2/46.
Assigned 419BS/301BG [K] Westover 8/7/42; transferred 96BS/2BG Maison Blanche, Alg 13/11/42; Tafaraoui, Alg 22/11/42; Biskra, Alg 25/12/42; Chateau-du-Rhumel, Alg 8/2/43 {14m}; transferred 483BG Tortorella, It 31/3/44; Returned to the USA Olmstead 24/7/43; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Bush Fd 4/6/45. EAGER BEAVER.
Delivered Lincoln 3/12/44; Grenier 15/12/44; Assigned 337BS/96BG [AW-Q] 17/12/44; Missing in Action Zeitz 31/3/45 with Wes Seidenburg, Co-pilot: Max Higginson, Navigator: John Buening, Bombardier: Lee Woods, Radio Operator: Jim Eggen, Ball turret gunner: Chas Clapp, Waist gunner: Floyd Baker, Waist gunner: Jack Gillis (8 Returned to Duty); Flight engineer/top turret gunner: John Cameron,Tail gunner: Ed Hrack (2 Killed in Action); flak, force landed Fulda, Ger; Salvaged from battle damage 14/4/45.
Delivered Tulsa 8/1/43; Pyote 20/1/43; Pueblo 9/4/43; Geiger 8/5/43; with Frank Olmstead force landed base 10/5/43; Assigned 595BS/396BG Moses Lake 17/7/43; force landed base with Ernie Nance 31/7/43; Williams 29/3/44; Albuquerque 10/8/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman /45.
Delivered Tulsa 29/10/42; Boise 17/11/42; Salina 3/1/43; Walla Walla 21/3/43; Madras, Or. 18/6/43; Ephrata 9/8/43; Gt Bend 26/8/43; Tinker 6/1/44; Patterson 14/2/44; with Chas Spieth force landed Gt Bend 14/6/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 11/9/45.
Delivered Tulsa 28/3/44; Kearney 6/4/44; Dow Fd 14/4/44; Assigned 349BS/100BG [XR-B] Thorpe Abbotts 22/4/44; battle damaged Mainz 4/12/44 with ?; Salvaged 5/12/44. YEHUDI.
Delivered Hunter 13/12/44; Grenier 29/12/44; Assigned 325BS/92BG [NV-L] Podington 5/2/45; Green Project, Salvaged 9AF Germany 23/5/46.
Delivered Cheyenne 1/4/43; Pueblo 8/4/43; Smoky Hill 6/5/43; Dow Fd 19/5/43; Assigned 423BS/381BG [VE-L] Ridgewell 24/5/43 with Capt Joe Alexander, Co-pilot: Bill Crowley, Navigator: Jack Wemmer, Bombardier: Jim Nance, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Mault Thompson, Radio Operator: Walt Ferens, Ball turret gunner: Pete Garvan, Waist gunner: Joe Fazarti,Tail gunner: George Johnsen; 14m transferred 365BS/305BG [XK-J] Chelveston 22/8/43; 2 BAD Warton 20/3/44; Returned to the USA Tinker 23/6/44; Amarillo 7/7/44; Keesler 6/11/44; Sheppard 24/3/45; Amarillo 4/11/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 28/12/45. OLD COFFINS.
Delivered Geiger 4/11/42; Rapid City 30/12/42; Gore Fd 5/3/43; Sioux Falls 9/5/43; Assigned 593BS/398BG Moses Lake 6/6/43; force landed base with Nelson Hardin 29/7/43; with John Smith force landed Drew 29/3/44; San Marco 14/5/44; Recl Comp 13/2/46.
Delivered Denver 4/3/43; Salinas, Cal 18/3/43; Tinker 31/3/43; Memphis 8/4/43; Morrison 15/4/43; Assigned 416BS/99BG Navarin 10/5/43; Oudna 4/8/43; Tortorella 11/12/43; transferred 840BS/483BG Tortorella 31/3/44; Sterparone 22/4/44; 774BS/463BG Celone 9/44 to 6/45 as weather a/c; landing accident with Joe Schonka 23/4/45; another landing accident with Ray Griffith 28/5/45; Salvaged 29/7/45.
Delivered Dallas 18/9/44; Hunter 16/10/44; Dow Fd 31/10/44; Assigned 837BS/487BG Lavenham 5/1/45; transferred 94BG Rougham 22/5/45; Returned to the USA Morrison 19/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 5/1/46.
Delivered March 6-May-41; Assigned 93BS/19BG Clark Field, PI 23-Oct-41 with Bill McDonald, John Norvell, John Carpenter, Bill Clapp, Dick Olsen, Eldon Rose, Art Karlinger, Vic Lorber, Bill Henson; Del Monte-Batchelor 17-Dec-41 with Combs, Bill Bohnaker, Oliver, Stone, Sanders, Douglas, Whitehead, Byers, Wellwood, Peel; Singosari, Java 14-Feb-42 with Henry Godman as a transport with P-40 parts; blown up by terrorists Pasirian, Java 22-Feb-42. Salvaged. OLD “62”. Never served in the UK.
Delivered Patterson 27-Mar-41; Assigned 14BS/19BG Clark Field, PI 17-Oct-41 with Don Keiser, Jim Ferry, Bill Groffin, Joe Laza, Walt Partridge, Joe Giardini, Tom Kenney, Joe Kennedy; Del Monte 6-Dec-41; to Bachelor, Australia 20-Dec-41 with Don Keiser, Elliott Vandevanter, Bryon Work, D. Miller, Max Baca, Ed Hargrove, Bernie Strohhecker, Huffman, McGuire, Waggoner, Rousell; to Samarinda, Borneo then Singosari, Java 30-Dec-41 with Don Keiser; blown up by terrorists Pasirian, Java 22-Feb-42. Salvaged. OLD “66”. Never served in UK.
Delivered Wright Fd 28/8/43; Winter Test Ladd Fd, Alaska 5/11/43; Returned to the USA Mat HQ Wright 2/6/44; 4000 Wright 19/9/44; 902 BU Orlando 13/7/45; 613 BU Phillips 14/7/45; 4000 BU Wright 31/7/45. SHUTTERBUG.
Delivered Lincoln 27/1/45; Grenier 12/2/45; Assigned 8AF 14/2/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 11/7/45; 4185 BU Independence 12/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 15/12/45.
Delivered West Palm Beach 7/1/43; Assigned 342BS/97BG Chateau-du-Rhumel 3/43; Pont-du-Fahs 1/8/43; Depienne 15/9/43; Cerignola 20/12/43; Amendola 16/1/44; Lost Palermo, Italy to flak and fighters 16/4/43 with 1Lt William F Murray Jr, 1Lt Vernon J Reed, 1Lt Harold P Schirmer, 2Lt Arthur L Price, T/Sgt Louie Rosetti, T/Sgt Jack D Stout, S/Sgt Clarence P Somers, Sgt John V Lyons, Sgt Howard Pollock, Sgt Charles H Starin. Written off 17/4/44. Missing Air Crew Report 3684. (10 x KIA 16/4/44. Missing Air Crew Report 3908).
Delivered Tulsa 20/10/42; New Castle 25/11/42; FAD 10/1/43 convert to F-9A camera ship with all bombing equipment removed; Colorado Springs 6/4/43; Boise 23/4/43; Patterson 4/7/43; Tinker 9/6/43; Clovis 19/4/44; Lubbock 25/5/44; with ? force landed Clovis 28/8/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 20/11/45.
Delivered W Palm Beach 8/1/43; Assigned 414BS/97BG Biskra 28/1/43; Chateau-du-Rhumel 8/2/43; Missing in Action Naples 1/8/43 with Bob Rast, Alvarado, Ponemone, Bigelow, Dibble, Shea, Anderson, Nichols, Smith, Mathews; flak hit knocked off wing, crashed target area. Missing Air Crew Report 355.
Delivered Gt Falls 6/9/44; Hunter 18/9/44; Grenier 25/9/44; Assigned 379BG Kimbolton 4/10/44; transferred 836BS/487BG Lavenham 22/5/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 16/7/45; 4185 BU Independence 26/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 9/12/45.
Delivered Denver 3/1/43; Salina 11/1/43; Brookley 8/3/43; Morrison 25/3/43; Assigned 401BS/91BG [LL-A] Bassingbourn 19/4/43; Missing in Action {7m} Huls 22/6/43 with Ken Brown, Co-pilot: Jim Quenin, Navigator: Vince Bliley, Bombardier: Jim Feerick, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Jim Akers, Ball turret gunner: Henry Crain, Waist gunner: Bill Brown,Tail gunner: Ray Litzo (8 Prisoner of War); Radio Operator: Rich McCulley, Waist gunner: Bill Allen (2 Killed in Action); severe fighter attacks, crashed near Furstenburg, five miles N of Dorsten, Ger.. MARY RUTH – MEMORIES OF MOBILE.