Delivered Cheyenne 12/6/44; Kearney 25/6/44; Grenier 6/7/44; Assigned 839BS/487BG [R5-A] Lavenham 8/7/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 12/7/45; 4185 BU Independence 13/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 27/12/45.
Delivered Cheyenne 3/8/44; Lincoln 16/8/44; Dow Fd 31/8/44; Assigned 358BS/303BG [VK-F] Molesworth 2/9/44; battle damaged Cologne 10/11/44 with Walter J. Mayer; 9 RTD; force landed continent; Salvaged 28/11/44.
Delivered Tulsa 23/4/44; Hunter 5/5/44; Grenier 21/5/44; Assigned 359BS/303BG [BN-Y] Molesworth 28/5/44; Missing in Action Merseburg 13/9/44 with Lew Walker, Co-pilot: Joe Doyle, Waist gunner: Henry Mathis (3 Killed in Action); Navigator: Carl Nielson, Bombardier: Don Beers, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Jim Sublett, Radio Operator: Albt Lunday, Ball turret gunner: Walt Hundley,Tail gunner: Art Reckert (6 Prisoner of War); flak KO’d two engines, crashed Gestocke, SW of Kassel, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 8822. LIBERTY RUN.
Delivered Cheyenne 28/6/42; Assigned 63BS/43BG Charlesville, Aus 31/7/42; Torrens Creek, Aus 27/8/42; Iron Range, Aus 17/10/42; Milne Bay, NG 11/5/43; Dobodura, NG 13/12/43; Nadzab, NG 12/3/44; last mission 17/10/43 then transferred 54TCW at Garbutt, Qld, then as staff transport/hack for 5AF HQ at Nadzab, NG when war weary. Written off Manila, Salvaged 13/9/45. LULU BELLE.
Delivered Cheyenne 13/3/45; Hunter 20/3/45; Grenier 30/3/45; Assigned 303BG Molesworth 10/4/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 9/6/45; Sth Plains 25/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 26/11/45.
Delivered Cheyenne 21/12/43; Oklahoma City 12/1/44; Birmingham 14/1/44; Savannah 16/1/44; Morrison 26/1/44; Assigned 347BS/99BG Tortorella 1/2/44; {14m} transferred 429BS/2BG Amendola 28/3/44; Missing in Action Parma 6/7/44 with Bill Runyan, Co-pilot: Ray Haug, Bombardier: Curtis Pfaff, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: George Miller, Ball turret gunner: Louis Rodriguez, Ball turret gunner: Harry Goulet, Waist gunner: Chas Brouwer-Anchor,Tail gunner: Harry Smith (8 Killed in Action); Navigator: Bill McIlhargie, Radio Operator: Paul Olexo[wia] (2 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, ship exploded, three chutes seen, one burning, crashed Rovigo, It; Missing Air Crew Report 6376.
Delivered Cheyenne 17/3/44; Hunter 9/4/44; Grenier 1/5/44; Assigned 427BS/303BG [GN-L] Molesworth 6/6/44; on return from Metz 14/8/44 with Austin Caplinger, Co-pilot: Don Spruner, Navigator: Edwin Katz, Bombardier: Stan Bober, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ernie Toth, Radio Operator: Phil Mittell, Ball turret gunner: Carroll Jacobs, Waist gunner: Andy Olds,Tail gunner: Theo Holden (9 Returned to Duty); brakes failed while taxying to dispersal, and hit a hangar knocking outer right wing panel off; Salvaged 15/8/44. LITTLE FLUSH.
Delivered Cheyenne 28/6/42; Assigned 63BS/43BG Charlesville, Aus. 21/8/42; Torrens Creek, Aus. 27/8/42; Iron Range, Aus. 17/10/42; Milne Bay, NG 23/11/42; Missing in Action shot down when in Battle of Bismark Sea 3/3/43 with Woodrow W. Moore, the crew being strafed in their chutes. KA-PUHIO-WELA aka DOUBLE TROUBLE.
Delivered Cheyenne 22/4/44; Kearney 7/5/44; Grenier 21/5/44; Assigned 359BS/303BG Molesworth 6/6/44; Missing in Action Creil, Fr., 23/7/44 with Bill Morgan, Co-pilot: John Parker, Navigator: Abe Wodinsky, Bombardier: Frank Destito, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Theron Hayes, Radio Operator: Edwin Stemmie, Ball turret gunner: Jim Gross, Waist gunner: Stan Lloyd,Tail gunner: Jim Caperton (9 Returned to Duty); ran out of gas on return, ditched Channel off Selsey Bill, Sussex, all rescued by ASR.
Delivered Cheyenne 6/7/44; Kearney 16/7/44; Dow Fd 3/8/44; Assigned 358BS/303BG [VK-E] Molesworth 16/8/44; Missing in Action Wesseling, Ger 11/10/44 with Truman Lord, Clifton Phillips, Art Ruiz, Bernie Winiger, Earl Hatfield, Armin Weiss (6 Killed in Action); Arvid Anderson, Bob Brown, Bill Ferguson (3 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed Wesseling, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 9564. Salvaged 25/2/45.
Delivered Dallas 18/6/44; Langley 23/7/44; Grenier 11/8/44; Assigned 360BS/303BG [PU-Z] Molesworth 26/8/44; Missing in Action Aschaffenburg 21/1/45 with Dick Duffield, Dick Cambron, Gene Shipp, Tom Wilson, Ray Levine, Don Christ, Phil Hensel, John Elliott, Ray White (9 Killed in Action); Jim Flemmons (Prisoner of War); mid air coll, crashed Rottweil, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 11759.
Delivered Cheyenne 24/1/44; Gr Island 11/2/44; Presque Is 27/2/44; Assigned: 27 March 1944 – 8th AF / 1st AD / 41st CBW / 303rd BG / 359BS – (RAF Molesworth) Missing in Action: 21 January 1945 (Mid-air collision) Rottwel, Germany. 9 KIA, 1 POW (MACR 11760) Dick Tasker, Angelito Francis, Clyde Meadows, John McDonnell, Bill Toon, Bruce Hinnershots, Paul Kapczinski, Chas Van Ornum, Carl Hurlbutt (9 Killed in Action); Art Driver (Prisoner of War).
Delivered Cheyenne 28/6/42; Assigned 63BS/43BG Charlesville, Aus. 23/7/42; Torrens Creek, Aus. 27/8/42; Iron Range, Aus. 17/10/42; Milne Bay, NG 23/11/42; returned to 435BS/19BG Mareeba, Aus 21/1/43; with Chas Giddings force landed Jackson Fd, PNG 17/4/43 sustaining tail damage; rep, transferred 64BS/435BG, but taxied into ditch and Cat E. 16/9/43, Written off 21/9/43. DINAH-MIGHT.
Delivered Cheyenne 25/12/43; Savannah 10/1/44; Assigned 346BS/99BG Tortorella 25/1/44; {14m} transferred 49BS/2BG Amendola 28/3/44; Returned to the USA 301 BU Drew 25/11/44; 326 BU MacDill 20/2/46; with Rich McCann force landed MacDill 1/6/46; Recl Comp 30/10/46.
Delivered Tulsa 19/5/44; Kearney 29/5/44; Grenier 5/6/44; Assigned 327BS/303BG [GN-V] Molesworth 5/7/44; Missing in Action Germersheim 13/1/45 with Jack Rose, T.J. Cornyn, Bill McMahon, John Nazarian, Blake Dyson, Joe Scaglione, Lynn Brinkley, Clyde Cottle, Lloyd Hester, Warren Yates {VI – voice interpreter} (10 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed Pirmasens, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 11572. THE RED – RED ASS, THE DEVIL HIMSELF.
Delivered Denver 5/6/43; Dow Fd 14/7/43; Assigned 12AF 16/7/43; Returned to the USA Tinker 24/7/43; 358BS/303BG [VK-Q] Molesworth 1/8/43; 813BS/482BG [PC-Q] Alconbury with HSC radar scanner fitted 2/8/43; Ferry Comm 20/5/44; Returned to the USA Okmulgeee 24/7/43; Eglin 18/2/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 28/1/46. MRS SATAN, THE QUEEN OF HELL. (Last B-17F to fly a 303rd mission, 12/5/44.)
Delivered Cheyenne 26/12/43; Kearney 12/1/44; Assigned 335BS/95BG [OE-W], later to 336BG; 1st mission 22/2/44 and last 8/4/45 with Harold Hanson Wounded in Action; 104m, Returned to the USA Bradley 26/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 12/9/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 12/11/45. ETO HAPPY aka PREGNANT GOOSE aka DOLLY’S DAUGHTER.
Delivered Cheyenne 19/1/44; St Louis 2/2/44; MacDill 5/2/44; Morrison 9/3/44; Assigned 816BS/483BG Tortorella 14/1/44; transferred 49BS/2BG Amendola 31/3/44; Missing in Action {27m} Budapest 27/6/44 with Dick Korb, Co-pilot: Alf Larsen(chute caught fire on way out), Navigator: Casimir Blaska, Bombardier: Jim Fleming, Radio Operator: Burl Kessel, Waist gunner: Thaddeus Thomas, Waist gunner: Henry Rappe,Tail gunner: Thaddeus Krent (8 Killed in Action); Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Malcolm Treadway, Ball turret gunner: Bill Bair (2 Prisoner of War); flak & enemy aircraft, crashed Budapest, five chutes seen; Missing Air Crew Report 6428.
Delivered Cheyenne 19/2/43; Will Rogers 5/3/43; Assigned 368BS/306BG Thurleigh 20/4/43; transferred 427BS/303BG [GN-O] Molesworth 25/9/43; 1 Base Air Depot, Burtonwood 5/4/44, an F-model fitted with a chin turret; Returned to the USA 29/5/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Stillwater 4/10/45.THE FLYING BITCH.
Delivered Cheyenne 10/12/43; Gt Falls 20/12/43; Oklahoma City 6/1/44; Love Fd 15/1/44; Maxwell 16/1/44; Savannah 18/1/44; Homestead 28/1/44; Assigned 20BS/2BG Amendola 28/1/44; Missing in Action Villaorba 18/3/44 with Willard Butler, Co-pilot: Bob Drake, Navigator: Chas Evert, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Martin Hutchinson, Radio Operator: Paul Henderson, Ball turret gunner: Jim Hawton, Waist gunner: Cantello Strickland, Waist gunner: Andy McCrossan,Tail gunner: Horace Maddux (9 Killed in Action); Navigator: Adam Pyzyna (Prisoner of War); Ju88 shot off tail with rocket; one chute seen, crashed on Cres Island; Missing Air Crew Report 3257.
Delivered Cheyenne 28/6/42; Assigned 93BS/19BG Mareeba, Aus. 5/9/42; completed at least 79 missions, ten Japanese aircraft destroyed and eight Japanese ships hit; with Capt Clyde Webb, Co-pilot: Maj Harold Willsie, Navigator: Philip Reece, Bombardier: Seth Ford, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Carl Roberts, Radio Operator: John Kominicki, Waist gunner: Ferris Antone, Waist gunner: Harry Davis,Tail gunner: Ray Weeks (9 Killed in Action); shot down by flak over Milne Bay, NG 26/8/43.
Delivered Cheyenne 5/3/44; Kearney 6/4/44; Grenier 29/4/44; Assigned 757BS/457BG Glatton 1/5/44; no other info; Salvaged battle damaged SAD 27/6/44.
Assigned 369BS/306BG [WW-O] Cheyenne 13/9/42; Thurleigh 23/1/43; transferred 358BS/303BG Molesworth [VK-G] 25/9/43; {4m} Missing in Action Duren 20/10/43 with John Hendry, Navigator: Bernie McNamara, Bombardier: Dick Webster {Wounded in Action}, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Loran Biddle, Ball turret gunner: Alf Hargrove, Waist gunner: Delbert Guhr, Waist gunner: Wilfred Raesly,Tail gunner: John Doherty (8 Prisoner of War), Co-pilot: Bill Harper, Radio Operator: Jim Brown (2 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, ship exploded with wreckage crashed Valenciennes, near Belgian border. Missing Air Crew Report 1032.
Delivered Lincoln 23/8/44; Grenier 9/9/45; Assigned 359BS/303BG [BN-G] Molesworth 24/9/44; battle damaged Cologne 10/1/45 with Cecil Gates, Theo Zapora, Harry Elliott, Ben Dodell, John Wysocki, Paul Hassler (6 Returned to Duty); Chas Mauer, Dick Dverr, Chris Tamava (3 Prisoner of War); Emil Kayrallah (Killed in Action); force landed continent, Salvaged.