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Delivered Cheyenne 14/4/43; Smoky Hill 22/4/43; Morrison 5/5/43; Middleton 10/5/43; Morrison 19/5/43; Assigned 419BS/301BG St Donat 15/7/43; Oudna 6/8/43; Cerignola 7/12/43; crashed on take off 14/12/43 with Martin Moseley, rep; Lucera 1/2/44; {30m} Salvaged 2/3/44.

Delivered Tulsa 17/1/43; Cheyenne 31/1/43; Salina 6/2/43; Glen 4/3/43; Interned.

Delivered Lincoln 30/11/44; Grenier 15/12/44; Assigned 410BS/94BG [GL-K] Rougham 17/12/44 MIGHTY MIKE; transferred 358BS/303BG [VK-M] Molesworth 28/1/45; {30+m} RetUS, Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 4/1/46.

Delivered Denver 15/1/43; Blythe 19/5/43; Gulfport, La. 8/8/43; Dalhart 17/9/43; Written off 12/6/44; Recl Comp 16/12/44.

Delivered Rapid City 14/12/42; Memphis with Bob Gates, force landed Kansas City Apt. 7/4/43; Assigned 335BS/95BG [OE-V] Presque Is 18/5/43; Framlingham 12/5/43; transferred 525BS/379BG [FR-F] Kimbolton 8/6/43; Missing in Action Wangerooge Is, 25/6/43 with Tom Simones, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Fred Polcover, Ball turret gunner: Joe Noonan, Waist gunner: Norbert Meyer,Tail gunner: Norman Schoolcraft (5 Killed in Action); Co-pilot: Jack Schmitt, Navigator: Hal Aebischer, Bombardier: Thornton Baker, Radio Operator: Gerald Metthe, Waist gunner: Fred Hartt (5POW-all caught by farmers and home defense with Baker evading Nazi Youth for the longest of them all; five days); enemy aircraft, crashed near Brahe, East Friesland, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 1365. BOOZENESS.

Delivered Cheyenne 1/9/44; Gt Falls 6/9/44; Hunter 29/9/44; Assigned 359BS/303BG [BN-K] Molesworth 22/11/44; transferred 457BG Glatton 22/5/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 8/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 14/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 5/12/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 4/7/44; Kearney 14/7/44; Grenier 20/7/44; Assigned Soxo 31/7/44; Returned to the USA Bolling Fd 27/6/45; 4185 BU Independence 31/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 9/12/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 4/7/44; Kearney 13/7/44; Grenier 20/7/44; Assigned 848BS/490BG Eye 22/7/44; Missing in Action Berlin 6/10/44 with Bill McLennan, Joe Bingham, Morris Chakansky, Len Smith (4 Prisoner of War); Art Bubendorf, Larry Grubisich, Bob Moyer, Bob Dittmer, Santi Trimarchi (5 Killed in Action); flak, crashed Spandau, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 9529.

Delivered Cheyenne 2/4/43; Sioux City 13/4/43; Kearney 4/5/43; Bangor 20/5/43; Assigned to the 547BS/384BG [S0-G] Grafton Underwood 24/5/43, then the 546BS [BK-G]; Missing in Action Leverkusen 1/12/43 with Maj Maurice Stanley Dillingham, Co-pilot: Edmund Samuel Goulder, Navigator: Arthur Claude Harris, Bombardier: William Boomhower, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Edward Arthur Thomasson, Radio Operator: William Francis Sears, Waist gunner: Paul Ralph Saunders, Waist gunner: Michael Joseph Vodilko,Tail gunner: LT Ernest Marshall Boyce Jr. (9 Prisoner of War), Ball turret gunner: Claude Robert Leslie (evaded capture); mechanical problems, crashed Prum, Germany. Missing Air Crew Report 1335. LITTLE AMERICA.

Delivered Cheyenne 25/4/44; Hunter 4/5/44; with Francis Miller force landed base 18/5/44; Grenier 29/6/44; Assigned 365BS/305BG [XK- ] Chelveston 6/8/44; Missing in Action Merseburg 24/8/44 with Ron Buck, Co-pilot: Ed Clunk, Bombardier: Ward Mikesel, Radio Operator: John Stevens, Ball turret gunner: Chas Cooke, Waist gunner: Joe Parry,Tail gunner: Sal Frisella (7 Killed in Action); Navigator: Warren Shepler, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Chester Owens (2 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed Wessmar, SE of Halle, Ger?; Missing Air Crew Report 8205.

Delivered Cheyenne 30/8/44; Patterson 11/9/44; Hunter 30/9/44; Grenier 8/10/44; Assigned 359BS/303BG [BN-B] Molesworth 22/11/44; transferred 398BG Nuthampstead 22/5/45; no ops, RAF Valley 2/6/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 7/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 12/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 1/12/45.

Delivered Long Beach 19/1/43; Salina 2/2/43; Homestead 21/2/43; Assigned 323BS/91BG [OR-U] Bassingbourn 9/3/43; Missing in Action {5+m} Gelsenkirchen 12/8/43 with Jerold Kethley, Co-pilot: Ennis Cox, Navigator: Bob Sternberg, Bombardier: Jim Cullen, ttg-Bob Danielson, Radio Operator: Conrad Dussault, Ball turret gunner: Harry Stokes, Waist gunner: Alf Bragg, Waist gunner: John Burke,Tail gunner: Wilf Bacon (10 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft strafed cockpit and KO’d #1, crashed Forsbach, near Cologne, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 262. BILLIE K.

Delivered Cheyenne 10/6/43; Rapid City 19/6/43; Geiger 22/6/43; Gr Isle 29/6/43; Dow Fd 18/7/43; Assigned 352BS/301BG St Donat 29/7/43; Oudna 6/8/43; Cerignola 7/12/43; Lucera 1/2/44; 94m transferred depot 20/7/44; Salvaged 19/4/45.

Delivered Pyote 26/1/43; Pueblo 6/4/43; Alamogordo 26/4/43; Pyote 15/5/43; crashed 10 miles north east base with Francis Wisniewski 14/7/43; Written off 16/6/43.

Delivered Hunter 23/3/45; Grenier 30/3/45; Assigned 303BG Molesworth 10/4/45; transferred 457BG Glatton 22/5/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 9/6/45; Sth Plains 12/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 9/12/45.

Delivered Blythe 25/1/43; Geiger 29/3/43; Amarillo 17/11/44; Recl Comp 7/6/46.

Delivered Pyote 27/1/43; Love Fd 31/1/43; Ephrata 30/4/43; Geiger 13/5/43; Pratt 18/7/43; Smoky Hill 17/6/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 30/1/46.

Delivered Pyote 26/1/43; Pueblo 10/4/43; Geiger 11/5/43; Ephrata 1/7/43; with Leo Karnes force landed Spokane 15/10/43; Alexandria 17/1/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 19/9/44.

Delivered Denver 31/1/44; 1SAG Langley 11/3/44; Dow Fd 21/4/44; Assigned (H2X) 482BG Alconbury 22/4/44; transferred 305BG Chelveston 16/5/44; 384BG Grafton Underwood 1/8/44; 303BG Molesworth 4/8/44; 2 SAD 25/9/44; 67FW Troston (radio relay?); 351BG Polebrook 7/11/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 8/8/45; 4185 BU Independence 25/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 7/1/46.

Assigned 347BS/99BG Morrison 2/2/43 RED ASS; Navarin 23/2/43; Oudna 4/8/43; Tortorella 11/12/43; cargo/weather aircraft 9/44; Returned to the USA Bush Fd 18/5/45. SAD SACK.