Delivered Denver 1/12/43; Dallas 21/12/43; Savannah 30/12/43; Assigned 20BS/2BG Amendola 29/1/44; on mission to Steyr, Aus, 2/4/44 with ? , O’Connor (Killed in Action), Martin & Jost (2WIA); {98m} transferred 32BS/301BG Lucera 2/45; sal 1/8/45. MARISHKA.
Delivered Cheyenne 26/12/42; Salina 11/1/43; Morrison 14/2/43; Assigned 368BS/306BG [BO-L] Thurleigh 2/3/43; transferred 360BS/303BG [PU-D] Molesworth 25/9/43; 7m Missing in Action Bremen 29/11/43 with Capt Carl Fyler, Co-pilot: Bob Ward, Navigator: George Molner, Bombardier: Jim Petrolino, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bill Addison, Waist gunner: Martin Stachowiak, Waist gunner: George Fisher later repatriated (7 Prisoner of War); Radio Operator: Ray O’Connell (never found), Ball turret gunner: Ray Ford,Tail gunner: Joseph Robert Sawicki, foto-Nellins Egge (4 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed Dreiangel-Harpstedt, 15 miles SW of Bremen, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 1657. MUMSIE aka DARK HORSE.
Delivered Hunter 10/7/44; Dow Fd 20/7/44; Assigned 419BS/301BG Lucera 27/7/44; depot 3/4/45.
Delivered Cheyenne 1/12/43; Gowen 5/12/43; Rock Springs 7/12/43; Laramie 9/12/43; Cheyenne 10/12/43; Savannah 17/12/43; Assigned 429BS/2BG Amendola 20/1/44; Missing in Action {15m} Fredrichshafen 3/8/44 with Jim Heintz, Co-pilot: George Eilers, Navigator: Jim Mahon*, Bombardier: Jacob Blumer, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Jim Howard*, Radio Operator: Peter Pierce*, Ball turret gunner: Morris Siefert, Waist gunner: Edwin Hayes, Waist gunner: Rich Mason,Tail gunner: Joe Ferreira (10INT, all * escaped from Switz); mech failure, u/c failed, force landed Dubendorf, Switz; Missing Air Crew Report 7205. WANITA.
Delivered Long Beach 15/8/43; Cheyenne 16/8/43; Mat Com Patterson 2/6/44; Minne- apolis 15/6/44; Mat Com Wright 10/7/44; 554 BU Memphis 28/7/44; 110 BU Mitchell 30/8/44; RFA Albuquerque 25/6/45.
Delivered Denver 2/12/43; Kearney 23/12/43; Memphis 1/1/44; New Castle 6/1/44; Morrison 10/1/44; Assigned 96BS/2BG Amendola 12/1/44; Missing in Action {10m} Steyr, Aus. 24/2/44 with Capt John Thalken, Co-pilot: Rich Gower, Navigator: Sam Mayer, Bombardier: Bill Williams, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Herman Sussman, Radio Operator: George Dean, Ball turret gunner: Karl Letters, Waist gunner: Bob Peterson, Waist gunner: Tom Bell,Tail gunner: Joe Peters (10 POW); enemy aircraft, ditched Mediterranean Sea but all rescued safely; Missing Air Crew Report 2579. MISS LAID,
Delivered Denver 9/1/44; Savannah 29/1/44; Assigned 457BG Glatton 10/2/44; transferred 358BS/303BG [VK-K] Molesworth 23/2/44; battle damaged Creil 23/7/44 with Cecil Miller,Tail gunner: Bill Zweck (2KIA-both chutes failed); Co-pilot: John Peterson, Navigator: Saul Cooper(broke ankle), Bombardier: Jack Severson, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Earl Sheets, Radio Operator: Bill Wilson, Ball turret gunner: Jim Pierce, Waist gunner: Karl Calson (7RTD after bailed out); almost out of gas on return, crash landed Bishop’s Waltham, Hants, UK; Salvaged 2 SAD 25/7/44. PAPER DOLLIE.
Delivered Cheyenne 8/11/43; Gr Island 25/11/43; Assigned 49BS/2BG Amendola 18/12/43; Missing in Action Budapest 3/4/44 with Clair Carlson, Bombardier: John Czechowicz (2 evaded capture); Co-pilot: Bob Jones, Navigator: Mike Birbiglia (2 Killed in Action); Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ralph Thacker, Radio Operator: Chas Gray, Ball turret gunner: Bob Slack, Waist gunner: Chas Sharp, Waist gunner: Julius Peteresak,Tail gunner: Oscar Cross; flak & enemy aircraft, two engines out, crashed Pancevo, Yugo; Missing Air Crew Report 3713.
Delivered Cheyenne 28/10/43; Gr Island 12/11/43; Wilmington 26/11/43; Assigned 326BS/92BG [JW-S] Podington 4/1/44; Missing in Action Frankfurt 8/2/44 with Warren McMurray, Co-pilot: Clayton Fitzgerald, Ball turret gunner: Leburn Merritt, Waist gunner: Bob Herber (4 Killed in Action); Navigator: Bill Hoffman, Bombardier: Sid Scheiman, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: George Buckner, Radio Operator: Harry Barnett, Waist gunner: Dave Warner,Tail gunner: Marion Knight (6 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft KO’d #4, crashed forest near Chatreux, ten miles SE of Poix/Somme, Fr; Missing Air Crew Report 2365.
Delivered Denver 16/11/43; Kearney 28/11/43; Assigned 429BS/2BG Amendola 29/12/43; Missing in Action Budapest 14/6/44 with Chas Britton, Co-pilot: Chas White, Navigator: John Cooke, Ball turret gunner: Walt Ramsey, Waist gunner: Ed Jacobs (5 evaded capture); Bombardier: Grethel Fields, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Witt Bencal, Radio Operator: Joe Leinart, Waist gunner: Gordon Kiefer,Tail gunner: Tim O’Brien (5 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft hit #2, fire spread and ship exploded, crashed Banja Luka, Yugo; 10 chutes seen, but no injuries; Missing Air Crew Report 6015. BROWN NOSE.
Delivered Cheyenne 6/11/43; Gt Falls 9/11/43; Gr Island 27/11/43; Kearney 18/12/43; Assigned 346BS/99BG Tortorella 19/12/43; {32m} transferred 49BS/2BG Amendola 28/3/44; crashed base 8/5/44; Salvaged.
Delivered Cheyenne 21/2/43; Gore 7/3/43; New Castle 6/4/43; Dow Fd 12/4/43; Assigned 334BS/95BG [BG-B] Alconbury 15/4/43 PATSY ANN; Framlingham 12/5/43; Horham 15/6/43; 5m, transferred 364BS/305BG [WF-O] Chelveston 17/6/43; Missing in Action Gilze Rijen 19/8/43 with Ralph Miller,Tail gunner: Emil Radosevich (2 Prisoner of War), Co-pilot: John Meade, Navigator: Don McGowan, Bombardier: Joe McGinley, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bynum Crabtree, Radio Operator: Fulton Horn, Ball turret gunner: Alby Miller, Waist gunner: Bill Crough, Waist gunner: Edgar Loft (8 Killed in Action); flak hit snapped off fuselage aft of radio room, crashed in River Scheldt, four miles E of Flushing, Hol. Missing Air Crew Report 304. LADY LIBERTY.
Delivered Long Beach 23/9/43; Gr Island 6/10/43; Assigned 730BS/452BG Deopham Green 6/1/44; battle damaged Frankfurt 20/3/44 with Jim Reynolds, crew unknown (9 Returned to Duty); Bombardier: Larry Anderson (KIA-killed by bomb dropped from aircraft above), crash landed Court Down, Dulverton, Devon; sal 25/3/44.
Delivered Denver 15/11/43; Gr Island 27/11/43; Assigned 348BS/99BG Tortorella 18/12/43; {27m} transferred 96BS/2BG Amendola 28/3/44; Missing in Action {8m} Gyor, Hung. 13/4/44 with Don Applegate, Navigator: Moses Rosenbaum, Bombardier: Frank Motola, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bill Grafton, Radio Operator: Ollie Stohldrier, Ball turret gunner: Elbert Pollard, Waist gunner: Albt Szafranek[wia], Waist gunner: Glen Hedrick[wia],Tail gunner: Chas Erpelding (9 Prisoner of War); Co-pilot: John Finn (Killed in Action) enemy aircraft ko’d #3, crashed Papa, Hung; six chutes seen; Missing Air Crew Report 3913.
Delivered Cheyenne 9/9/42; New Castle 13/10/42; Assigned 366BS/305BG [KY-A] Chelveston 2/11/42; transferred 368BS/306BG [BO-E] Thurleigh 1/5/43; AFSC 19/4/43 – 9/6/43; 359BS/303BG [BN-E] Molesworth 25/9/43; transferred 427BS [GN-E]; Missing in Action 22/2/44 with 358 crew with Jim Moffatt, Co-pilot: Frank Pringle, Bombardier: Paul Mazey, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Rich Rowan,Tail gunner: Nick Fizzani (5 Prisoner of War); Navigator: Gayle Dearborn, Radio Operator: Enos Odell, Ball turret gunner: Vince Loeffel, Waist gunner: Wilbur Sanders, Waist gunner: Jack Slagle (5 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed Ganzweiler, due S of Munchen-Gladbach, Ger, Missing Air Crew Report 2646. MIZPAH.
Delivered Cheyenne 26/2/44; Kearney 16/3/44; Grenier 2/4/44; Assigned 94BG Rougham 27/4/44; transferred 360BS/303BG [PU-H] Molesworth 30/4/44; Missing in Action (15m) French A/fds 22/6/44 with Roger Erickson, Navigator: Larry Ross, ex/n-Emilio Sbrolla, Bombardier: Dick Merz, Waist gunner: Elwood Schoonmaker (5 Killed in Action); Co-pilot: Capt Bob Lynch, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Tom Roszell, Radio Operator: Frank Schuler, Ball turret gunner: Joe Chudej,Tail gunner: Ken Krogh (5 Returned to Duty); flak KOd two engines, headed home, ditched Channel, five miles off Beachy Head, Sussex, UK; Missing Air Crew Report 7131. MARY CARY.
Delivered Cheyenne 7/3/44; Kearney 4/5/44; Grenier 19/4/44; Assigned 550BS/385BG [SG-P] Gt Ashfield 20/4/44; Missing in Action Berlin 18/3/45 with Bill Cocker, Bill Chaney, Harold Morthorst, Bob Crider, Ellis Murray, Vince Figini, Joe Ryan, Harry Grimet (8 Returned to Duty); Bill Martsch (Killed in Action); flak, crashed Grodzisk, Russia. Missing Air Crew Report 13141. KENTUCKY WINNER.
Delivered Cheyenne 11/5/43; Gore 24/5/43; Smoky Hill 25/5/43; Kearney 27/5/43; Dow Fd 2/6/43; Assigned 303BG Molesworth 16/6/43; transferred 334BS/95BG [BG-C] Horham 17/6/43; with E.L. Lemke force landed RAF St Eval 28/6/43; 15m, Missing in Action Stuttgart 6/9/43 with George Tyler, Co-pilot: Joe Baillie, Navigator: Ray Staley, Bombardier: Byron Miller, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: John Gallagher, Radio Operator: Tom Spradlin, Ball turret gunner: Tom Smith, Waist gunner: Ed Clements, Waist gunner: Jim Hightower,Tail gunner: Rich Barkley (10 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft hit #1 & #3 and were feathered, before right wing caught fire, heading for Switzerland, but exploded and crashed 3km east of Schorndorf into a forrest; Missing Air Crew Report 546. HELL-N-BACK.
Delivered Long Beach 20/1/43; Salina 28/1/43; Tinker 27/2/43; Morrison 31/3/43; Assigned 429BS/2BG Navarin, Alg 8/4/43; Chateau-du-Rhumel, Alg 27/4/43; Ain M’Lila, Alg 17/6/43; Massicault, Tun 31/7/43; Bizerte, Tun 2/12/43; Amendola, It 9/12/43; transferred 483BG Tortorella, It 2/44; Salvaged {24m} 21/7/45 at 5BW HQ. HIGH TENSION.
Delivered Denver 6/3/43; Morrison 31/3/43; Assigned 427BS/303BG [GN-Y] Molesworth 2/6/43; Missing in Action Hanover 29/4/44 with Jim Fisher, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Gus Johnson[body recovered from lake 20/5/44] (2 Prisoner of War); Co-pilot: George Franzen, Navigator: Harry Kauffman, Bombardier: S/Sgt Ed Helton, Radio Operator: Don Duncan, Ball turret gunner: Bob Eklund, Waist gunner: Henry Hoff, Waist gunner: Irving Bellitt,Tail gunner: Joe Tereck (8 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft KOd #3 and #4, ship then exploded, crashed in Schwielowsee, W of Caputh, SW of Berlin=Potsdam road, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 4471. MAX.
Delivered Cheyenne 18 March 43; Gore 28 March 1943; Presque Isle 5 May 1943; Assigned 333BS/94BG Earls Colne 12 May 1943; Rougham 13 June 1943; transferred 407BS/92BG [PY-L] Alconbury 26 July 1943; Missing in Action Stuttgart 6 September 1943 with, Pilot Frederick T. Prasse; Co-pilot: Joseph F. Thornton; Navigator: David C. Besbris; Bombardier: Fred Champion; Flight engineer/top turret gunner: John Geegee; Radio Operator: Laurence E. Dennis; Ball turret gunner: John W. Disher; Left Waist gunner: Charles H. Hartnett; Right Waist gunner: Otto F. Trammer; Tail gunner: Rolland A. Galloway (10 Returned to Duty). Flak, low on fuel on return, ditched Channel, all rescued by French boat. No MACR (Missing Air Crew Report).
Delivered Pendleton 5/2/42; Boise 9/2/42; force landed Gowen 23/2/42 with Bob Beebe; Salt Lake City 23/6/42; Biggs 13/9/42; Lockbourn 1/5/43; with B.J. Smith force landed base 18/9/43; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 4/9/45.
Delivered Cheyenne 11/2/43; Rapid City 22/2/43; Kearney 12/3/43; Assigned 337BS/96BG [AW-G] Grafton Underwood 14/4/43; Andrews Fd 13/5/43; transferred 412BS/95BG [QW-R] force landed Alconbury after sustaining NBD with Don Eastling 19/5/43; Snetterton 12/6/43; 4m, transferred 323BS/91BG [OR-P] Bassingbourn 12/9/43; 1st with 91BG Missing in Action Anklam 9/10/43 with Morris Gutto, Navigator: Edgar Richardson, Bombardier: Alva Allen, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bob Crain, Waist gunner: Merle Hilgert (5 Prisoner of War); Co-pilot: Chas Loeber, Radio Operator: Herschel Kelley, Ball turret gunner: John Delaney, Waist gunner: John Bird,Tail gunner: Chas Alishouse (5 Killed in Action); hit by enemy aircraft rocket attacks, crashed Dorpumfeld, near Tolk, 17 miles W of Flensburg, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 896.
Delivered Tulsa 13/1/43; Assigned 359BS/303BG [VK-N] Homestead 5/3/43; Molesworth 9/4/43; {35m} Missing in Action 14/1/44 with Capt Merle Hungerford, Co-pilot: Carl Arundale, Navigator: Joe Vogel, Bombardier: Jim Barlow, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Chas Finch, Radio Operator: Dick Davis, Ball turret gunner: Bob Clink, Waist gunner: Angelo Petix, Waist gunner: Jim Elovich,Tail gunner: Joe Fertilla, foto-Art Nilson (11 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed near Le Meillard, 15 miles E of Abbeville, Fr. Missing Air Crew Report 1965. WALLAROO.