(YB-40) Delivered Tulsa 29/10/42; Biggs 18/3/43; Montbrook 31/3/43; Presque Is 30/4/43; Assigned 327BS/92BG [UX-F] Alconbury 3/5/43 PEORIA PROWLER; transferred 322BS/91BG [LG-T] Bassingbourn 16/7/43; Salvaged 20/3/44; Returned to the USA 2/11/43; Yuma 5/9/44; Williams 26/9/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Ontario 18/5/45.
(YB-40) Delivered Tulsa 29/10/42; Biggs 15/3/43; Orlando 29/4/43; Presque Is 3/5/43 Assigned Keck Prov BG; Assigned 327BS/92BG Alconbury, t/o Goose Bay for Meeks Fd, where pilot found poor weather and decided to press on for UK, and low on gas, crash landed Brenish, Isle of Lewis, UK 7/5/43; Salvaged & taken to Stornaway; with Paul Casey, Co-pilot: Don Weir, Navigator: Jim Combest, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Grover Groff, g-Henry Finagar, Karl Waldoogal (6 Returned to Duty); Returned to the USA 28/3/44; 3036 BU Yuma 4/5/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Ontario 18/5/45. THE MUGGER.
Delivered Lowry 20/5/42; Assigned 435BS/19BG Hawaii 7/6/42; transferred 63BS/43BG Hickam Fd, Hi; with John Kidd crash landed Canton Is.Hi 22/6/42; crashed on take off Port Moresby with Price 19/9/42, Salvaged.
Delivered Lowry 19/5/42; Assigned 435BS/19BG Hawaii 6/6/42; transferred 64BS/43BG; s/d, crashed Hong Kong mountain 1/6/43 with Ernie Naumann, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Tom Fox [wia*], Radio Operator: Paul Cascio,Tail gunner: Chas Green [wia*](4 Prisoner of War); Co-pilot: Winslow Gardner, Navigator: Chas Lewis, Bombardier: Oliver Alvin, Ball turret gunner: Virgil Voss, Waist gunner: Bruno Bukalski, Waist gunner: Albert Smith (6 Killed in Action); there were four survivors, but when local natives led them to a Japanese patrol they were probably executed. Written off 6/6/43. Wreckage found on summit by RAAF 12/3/46. TEXAS #6.
Delivered Cheyenne 24/1/44; Gr Island 9/2/44; Assigned 750BS/457BG [V] Glatton 7/3/44; dec War Weary 26/3/45; transferred 351BG Polebrook 21/4/45; ret 457BG Glatton 11/5/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 8/6/45; 4124 BU Altus 13/9/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 9/10/45. FLAK DODGER.
Delivered Denver 16/1/44; 1SAG Langley 25/2/44; Dow Fd 8/4/44; Assigned (H2X) 814BS/482BG Alconbury 10/4/44; landing accident with Andy Opsata 4/12/44; transferred 349BS/100BG [XR-P] Thorpe Abbotts 21/5/45; RetUS, Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 7/1/46.
Delivered Cheyenne 24/1/44; Gr Island 8/2/44; Presque Is 21/1/44; Assigned 508BS/351BG [YB-D] Polebrook 26/3/44; Missing in Action {22m} Le Bourget 14/6/44 with Joe Dixey, Co-pilot: Capt Jim Lowery (2 evaded capture); Bombardier: Tom Trolinger, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bob McCullough, Radio Operator: Don Kemohah, Ball turret gunner: Arthur Gross, Waist gunner: Joe Barnes,Tail gunner: John Offutt (6 Prisoner of War) Navigator: Bob Shafer, Waist gunner: Don Henderson (2KIA, the latter of wounds as Prisoner of War)); flak, crashed Abbeville, Fr; Missing Air Crew Report 5796.
Delivered Cheyenne 29/4/43; Gore 9/5/43; Sioux City 10/5/43; Smoky Hill 11/6/43; Dow Fd 15/6/43; Assigned 562BS/388BG Knettishall 1/6/43; crashed on take off for Bremen after encountering mechanical problems 13/11/43 with Bob Simons, Co-pilot: Alvin Marcus, Navigator: Bob Gudgel, Bombardier: John Pond, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ira Mooney, Radio Operator: Erwin Rehder Wounded in Action, Ball turret gunner: Tony Giangreco, Waist gunner: Bill Thompson, Waist gunner: Bob Pardue,Tail gunner: Chas Hash (10 Returned to Duty); crash landed East Wretham, Nfk; UK. Salvaged. LI’L ONE.
Delivered Lowry 19/5/42; Assigned 435BS/19BG Hawaii 7/6/42; force landed Orangerie Bay, New Guinea 24/9/42 with George Newton, Co-pilot: Dusty O’Connor, Navigator: McMahon, – Cameron, – Olson, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: ‘Pappy’ Hale, Radio Operator: Don Pittenger, Al Regis, Ball turret gunner: George White, Waist gunner: Tex Williams,Tail gunner: Holmes (11 Returned to Duty). Salvaged.
Delivered Hunter 2/11/44; Grenier 23/11/44; Assigned 418BS/100BG [LD-Z] Thorpe Abbotts 25/11/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 3/7/45; Sth Plains 6/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 29/11/45.
Delivered Denver 13/1/44; 1SAG Langley 4/2/44; Grenier 4/3/44; Assigned 422BS/305BG [JJ-N] Chelveston; battle damaged Saarbrucken 23/5/44 with Capt F.J. Fullilove, crew unknown; flak damage, crash landed base, (10 Returned to Duty); Salvaged.
Delivered Denver 14/1/44; 1SAG Langley 4/2/44; Grenier 16/3/44; Assigned 305BG Chelveston 20/3/44; transferred 91BG Bassingbourn 27/4/44; 351BG Polebrook 14/6/44; transferred 748BS/457BG [Z] Glatton 7/8/44; 749BS; Missing in Action Politz, Ger 7/10/44 with Bill Flannery, Co-pilot: Jewell Lowery, Bombardier: John Schloendorn, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Lloyd Lagassa, Radio Operator: Dwayne Stowits (5 Killed in Action); Navigator: Morris Arnovitz, Ball turret gunner: Paul Moll, Waist gunner: George Petty,Tail gunner: Lt Walt Strossner, Lt Ray Moon {radar nav}; (5 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed Politz; Missing Air Crew Report 9773. FOLLOW ME.
Delivered Cheyenne 15/5/42; slated RAF but transferred 30BS/19BG Hickam 7/10/42 then Mareeba, Aus.; re-fuelled Pt Moresby t/o but Missing in Action Vunakanau, shot down over New Britain 5/10/42 with Earl L. Hageman, Co-pilot: Dale Hanson, Navigator: Angelo Bianco, Bombardier: Wade Lowry, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Mike Adamow, Radio Operator: Tom Jack, Waist gunner: Frank Mehock, Waist gunner: Tom Wilzbacher,Tail gunner: Frank Plunkett. (9 Killed in Action). Missing Air Crew Report 15207.
Delivered Long Beach 2/9/43; Assigned 350BS/100BG [LN-X] Thorpe Abbotts 29/9/43; Missing in Action Rostock 20/2/44 with Art Harris, Co-pilot: John Dutka, Navigator: Morris West, Bombardier: Albt Marchiondo, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Alvin Graffhoff, Radio Operator: Rene Tujaguo, Ball turret gunner: Don Petrecca, Waist gunner: John Martin, Waist gunner: Lester Errett,Tail gunner: Fred Kaczynski (10INT); enemy aircraft set fire to #2, crashed Tofthogs Gard, Swed. Missing Air Crew Report 2427. HALF & HALF.
Delivered Denver 9-Dec-43; Kearney 28-Dec-43; Assigned 508BS/351BG [YB-A] Polebrook 30-Jan-44. Sustained a direct hit from flak over the target, the aircraft factories at Schkeuditz, Germany on 16-Aug-44. Aircraft exploded in mid-air before all of the crew could bale out and crashed at Burgwerben, Germany. This aircraft had flown 47 missions. 3KIA 6POW MACR 7902.
Delivered Dallas 29/8/44; Hunter 25/9/44; Grenier 3/10/44; Assigned as PFF 351BS/100BG [EP-J] Thorpe Abbotts 12/10/44; Missing in Action Berlin 3/2/45 with Capt John Ernst {Wounded in Action}, Art Jacobson, Lou Chappell, Stewart Gillison {Ex nav}, Dugger West, Chas Webber, Lt Bob Stropp {radar nav}, Warren Winters, George Windisch, Maj Bob Rosenthal {mission pilot] (4 EVD/5 POW/2 KIA (correct ?)); Gene Lockhart (Killed in Action); flak, crashed 15 miles north-west of Neudamm (Dębno, Poland today) . Missing Air Crew Report 12046.
Delivered Cheyenne 15/5/42; Wayne 22/6/42; Dorval 1/7/42; Gander-Prestwick 10/7/42 with Earl Ortman, to RAF [FK203]; 220 Sq [ZZ-M] Ballykelly 25/7/42; to RAE Farnborough and St Eval for Met training; while on sub patrol 20/3/43 with Bill Knowles damaged U-666, which limped into St Nazaire harbour for repairs; 251 Sq Reykjavik, Iceland 19/5/45. Struck Off Charge 22/12/45.
Delivered Dallas 17/7/43; Love Fd 7/8/43; Geiger 8/8/43; Pendleton 12/8/43; Assigned 350BS/100BG [LN-Z] Thorpe Abbotts 3/9/43; Missing in Action Munster 10/10/43 with Capt Chas Cruikshank, Co-pilot: Glen Graham, Navigator: Capt Frank Murphy, Bombardier: Gus Gaspar, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Leon Weeks, Ball turret gunner: Bob Bixler{Wounded in Action}, Waist gunner: Don Garrison, Waist gunner: Jim Johnson{Wounded in Action} (8 Prisoner of War); Radio Operator: Orlando Vincenti,Tail gunner: Chas Clark (2 Killed in Action); set on fire by fighters and exploded, crashed Lienen, 15 miles NE of Munster, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 1028. AW-R-GO.
Delivered Cheyenne 2/4/43; Kearney 15/4/43; Wendover 4/5/43; Hill 12/5/43; Wendover 16/5/43; Kearney 22/5/43; Dow Fd 27/5/43; Assigned 349BS/100BG [XR-D] Thorpe Abbotts 30/5/43; Missing in Action convoy attack 25/6/43 with Paul Schmalenbach, Co-pilot: George Cox, Bombardier: Jack Clark, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Gene Beck, Waist gunner: Tony Russo,Tail gunner: Lew Priegel (6 Killed in Action); Navigator: John Brown, Radio Operator: Frank Podbielski, Ball turret gunner: Norman Goodwin{wounded in attack and his left leg was amputated in hospital and RetUS}, Waist gunner: Bill Lucas (4 Prisoner of War); shot down by enemy aircraft, ditched 12 miles N of Wangerooge Is. Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 270. BAR FLY.
Delivered Cheyenne 26/2/44; Kearney 14/3/44; Grenier 2/4/44; Assigned 601BS/398BG [3O-T] Nuthampstead 28/4/44; Missing in Action ? 17/10/44 with Hancock, Belgium ; Salvaged 8AFSC 29/11/44. STINKER JR.
Delivered Lowry 18/5/42; Assigned 65BS/43BG Sydney, Aus, Torrens Creek, Aus. 7/6/42; returning from mission to Buna, crashed into hillside at Port Moresby, New Guinea 3/12/42 with Robert K. Freeman, Harry Moy, Rich Cullinson, Jim Iverson, Wilbert Grogan, Saul Bernstein, Morris McFarland. (?RTD?); Co-pilot: Clinton Smith, Rob Wright (2 Killed in Action).
Delivered Cheyenne 15/6/44; Kearney 25/6/44; Dow Fd 9/7/44; Assigned 487BG Lavenham 11/7/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 13/7/44; 4185 BU Independence 16/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 2/1/46.
Delivered Lincoln 16/9/44; Grenier 1/10/44; Assigned 326BS/92BG [JW-H] Podington 8/11/44, crash landed Sidow Hill, Wilts, UK with Reg Hammond 5/5/45 (1 survived); Salvaged 6/5/45.
Delivered Cheyenne 29/5/43; Smoky Hill 6/10/43; Rapid City 20/6/43; Geiger 23/6/43; Dow Fd 5/7/43; Assigned 20BS/2BG Ain M’Lila 23/7/43; Massicault 31/7/43; {33m} transferred 419BS/301BG Oudna 14/11/43; Cerignola 7/12/43; Lucera 1/2/44; {62m} Salvaged {total 95m} 5/11/45. BRITE EYES.