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Delivered Boeing 29/6/43; Ladd Fd (Winter test) 16/10/43; force landed 11/2/44 with Jim Reidy, Mat Com Wright 2/6/44; Ladd Fd 7/4/44; 4104 BU Rome 25/8/44; ATS HA Hartford 6/9/43; 4136 BU Tinker 2/11/44; ATS Wright 14/11/44; ATS HA Hartford 16/11/44; ATS Wright 28/11/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 27/3/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 31/8/44; Hunter 5/9/44; Grenier 15/9/44; Assigned 545BS/384BG [JD-L] Grafton Underwood 28/10/44; transferred with group to Istres on mapping duties; landing accident at Erding A/fd, Germany with Don Thompson 28/7/45; Salvaged 4/10/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 18/6/43; Gore 27/6/43; Sebring 29/6/43; Hendricks 3/7/43; 2137 BU Hendricks 4/10/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 19/12/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 18/6/43; Hendricks 26/6/43; 2137 BU Hendricks 14/7/44; Recl Comp 6/1/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 17/6/43; Gore 28/6/43; Sebring 30/6/43; Hendricks 3/7/43; 3502 BU Chanute 22/6/44; 2140 BU Smyrna 22/8/44; 3505 BU Scott 27/8/43; 3502 BU Chanute 17/1/45; 3539 BU Langley 6/4/45; Recl Comp 2/3/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 17/6/43; Gore 28/6/43; Sebring 30/6/43; Hendricks 3/7/43; with Marshall Case crash landed Chanute Fd, Il 8/2/44; Written off 10/2/44.

Delivered Cheyenne 17/6/43; Sioux City 30/6/43; Assigned 582BS/393BG Kearney, with Coad Shaw force landed Sioux City, IA 2/8/43; with Edwin Ringgenberg force landed base 10/1/44; with Floyd Cofer force landed base 2/3/44; with Martin Schwartz force landed Walker 27/4/44; 248 BU Walker 27/10/44; 274 BU Herington 5/1/45; 248 BU Walker 11/1/45; 4104 BU Rome 21/1/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 27/8/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 11/9/43; Gr Island 21/9/43; Assigned 349BS/100BG [XR-R] Thorpe Abbotts 3/11/43; then 351BS [EP-K]; Missing in Action Oranienburg 6/3/44 with Bob Koper, Navigator: George Wing, Radio Operator: Mike Tanowich, Ball turret gunner: Chas Luquette, Waist gunner: Art Frankel, Waist gunner: Ralph Zarzecki,Tail gunner: Bernie Sundin (7 Killed in Action); Co-pilot: Gordon Lien, Bombardier: Tom Drinkwater, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Chas Corea (3 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft attacked and ship exploded, crashed Elsten, nine miles S of Cloppenburg, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 3018. GOIN’ JESSIE.

Delivered Denver 12/2/44; 1SAG Langley 11/4/44; Dow Fd 1/5/44; Assigned (H2X) 482BG Alconbury 4/5/44; transferred 351BS/100BG Thorpe Abbotts 20/5/45; Salvaged 9AF Germany 31/5/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 11/12/42; Pocatello 29/12/42; Pyote 18/1/43; Biggs 28/2/43; Dalhart 17/3/43; Tinker 30/7/43; Oklahoma City 22/10/43; 19BG Pyote 9/11/43; Written off 7/2/44.

Delivered Cheyenne 9/12/42; Blythe 30/12/42; force landed Gowen 15/3/43 with Richard Pease; Written off 27/4/43.

Delivered Long Beach 29/1/43; Gowen 13/2/43; Orlando 10/3/43; Gowen 16/3/43; Orlando 4/4/43; Wendover 16/4/43; McClellan 22/5/43; Sioux City 11/6/43; mid-air collision with 42-5750, with Billy Fuller crashed two miles SW Fedora, SD 13/6/43; Written off 15/6/43.

Delivered Pocatello 30/12/42; Assigned 28BS/19BG Pyote 22/3/43; with Tom Parkinson in base taxi accident 29/3/43; Harvard 11/6/43; Patterson 30/8/43; Eglin 16/2/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 19/12/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 15/9/43; Scott 20/10/43; Assigned 615BS/401BG [IY-K] Deenethorpe 11/11/43; Missing in Action Kassel 28/9/44 with Ed Aves, Co-pilot: Clayton Crunk, Navigator: Ralph Mezydlo, Bombardier: John MacDougall, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bill Mayfield, Radio Operator: Harry McKinney, Ball turret gunner: Paul Wheaton, Waist gunner: Melvin Crawford,Tail gunner: Jim Rollett (9 Prisoner of War); flak set #2 on fire, crashed Huselitz, S of Stendahl, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 9415. LITTLE MOE.

Delivered Long Beach 20/2/43; Will Rogers 5/3/43; Smoky Hill 28/3/43; Assigned 306BG 8/6/43; transferred 527BS/379BG [FO-S] Kimbolton 8/6/43; Missing in Action Keil 29/7/43 with Rich Johnson, Co-pilot: Carl Brink, Navigator: Dave Nichols, Bombardier: Paul Cahill, Radio Operator: Herb Wells, Ball turret gunner: Lew Mathias, Waist gunner: Bill Wazevich, Waist gunner: Ed Allen,Tail gunner: Bob Carroll (9POW – rescued near Heligoland); Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Chas Gilbert (KIA – actually died after bail out); enemy aircraft, ditched North Sea. Missing Air Crew Report 1363.

Delivered Cheyenne 16/4/43; Smoky Hill 21/4/43; Morrison 4/5/43; with Bill Wofford force landed Meridian, GA 9/5/43; Kearney 6/1/44; 2218 BU Alexandra 17/1/45; 329 BU Alexandra 1/3/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 9/10/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 15/4/43; Smoky Hill 21/4/43; Warner Robins 12/5/43; Morrison 18/5/43; Assigned 341BS/97BG Chateau-du-Rhumel 8/6/43; Pont-du-Fahs 1/8/43; Missing in Action Bologna 25/9/43 with Arthur Hansen; ditched off Cape Comino, Sardinia; 10RTD two days later.

Delivered Lincoln 29/1/45; Dow Fd 13/2/45; Assigned 333BS/94BG Rougham 15/2/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 8/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 9/12/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 15/4/43; Smoky Hill 21/4/43; Morrison 4/5/43; Warner Robins 10/5/43; Morrison 18/5/43; Assigned 353BS/301BG St Donat 4/6/43; Oudna 6/8/43; Cerignola 7/12/43; Lucera 1/2/44; {62m} then weather ship 27/7/44; Salvaged 25/10/44. LADIES DELIGHT.

Assigned 364BS/305BG [WF-G] Presque Is 19-Oct-42; Grafton Underwood 25-Oct-42; Missing in Action 4-Feb-43. Primary target was the railroad marshalling yards at Hamm, Germany but the target was obscured by clouds and the port area of Emden, Germany was bombed as a target of last resort. Aircraft sustained a hit by flak which caused it to have a mid-air collision with a German FW190 fighter and it crashed in tifal land near Filsum/Ostfriesland near Leer, Germany. 6KIA 4 POW MACR 15395.