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Assigned 323BS/91BG [OR-Q] Bangor 10-Oct-42; Bassingbourn 11-Oct-42; Missing in Action (MIA) 14 missions over Hamm, Germany 4-Mar-43 The aircraft took a direct flak just after the target and exploded just minutes later. The aircraft crashed Buldern/Westphalen, near Munster, Germany; 8KIA 2POW Missing Air Crew Report 15596. STUPEN TAKIT.

Assigned 91BG/322BS [LG-P]at Bangor 2-Sep-42; Bassingbourn 29-Sep-42; 3m Despatched 18-Nov-42 to bomb the U-Boat pens at La Pallice, France. Upon return the aircraft sustained a mid-air collision with B-17F 41-24453 (91BG) ‘Mipah – The Bearded Beauty’ ten miles southwest of Exter. 41-24453 landed safely at Yeovilton and was repaired and send back to 91BG. 41-24499 landed at RAF Station Turweston and was salvaged 26-Nov-1942. 11RTD

Assigned 369BS/306BG [WW- ] Westover 17-Aug-42; Thurleigh 2-Oct-42; Missing in Action 13-Jan-43 on a mission to bomb the railroad factories of Ateliers D’Hellemmes at Lille, France. Aircraft was sliced in two and the crew members were trapped in the tumbling sections but the survivors were either thrown clear or managed to scramble out. Arial Gunner Sgt. Thomas D. McMahon managed to evade capture until 24-Apr-43 when he was captured in Brussels, Belgium. 3KIA 7POW MACR 15502.

Assigned 369BS/306BG [WW- ] Westover 23-Aug-42; Thurleigh 30-Oct42; Missing in Action 13-Jan-43 on a mission to bomb the railroad factories of Atclier D’ Hellemmes at Lille, France. Aircraft sustained a mid-air collision with B-17F 41-24471 “Four of a Kind” 306BG/369BS just north of the target. 6KIA 4POW MACR 15634.

Delivered Hunter 14/7/44; Grenier 27/7/44; Assigned 20BS/2BG Amendola 17/8/44; Missing in Action Moravska Ostrova 29/8/44 with Bill Bullock, Waist gunner: Joe Laratta,Tail gunner: Maurice Nelson (3 Killed in Action); Co-pilot: Clarry Jackson (evaded capture); Navigator: Albt Smith, Bombardier: John Quinn, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Joe Morien, Radio Operator: Wallace Clayton, Ball turret gunner: Jim Martin, Waist gunner: Morris Goldberg (6 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Ziln, Czecho; Missing Air Crew Report 8083.

Delivered Kearney 25/7/44; Grenier 8/8/44; Assigned 416BS/99BG Tortorella 17/8/44; Missing in Action {38m} Ruhland 23/3/45 with Walter Lea, Love, Ondercik, Macerollo, Biehl, Marcus, Burch, Hamilton, Willis all to Russian lines; cp Korupp (Prisoner of War); flak, crashed Hoyerswerde; Missing Air Crew Report 13255.

Delivered Hunter 21/7/44; Dow Fd 3/8/44; Assigned 429BS/2BG Amendola 11/8/44; battle damaged Blechhammer 19/12/44 with A.J. Grossman; crash landed Vis, Hungary, Salvaged.

Delivered Cheyenne 19/6/43; Gore 7/7/43; Dalhart 8/7/43; 444BG Dalhart 10/10/43; 902 BU Orlando 6/7/44; 243 BU Gt Bend 14/7/44; 19BG Dalhart 1/9/44; 556 BU Long Beach 28/11/44; 243 BU Gt Bend 13/1/45; 902 BU Orlando 27/3/45; 243 BU Gt Bend 2/5/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 9/10/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 26/6/43; Ephrata 11/7/43; 452BG Pendleton 2/11/43; Walla Walla 17/11/43; Written off 18/12/43.

Delivered Cheyenne 10/1/44; Yuma 19/1/44; 3017 BU Hobbs 5/6/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 1/12/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 19/3/44, Hobbs 21/4/43; Sioux City 8/5/43; force landed Carlsbad a/f NM, with Don Lindvall 9/7/43; Written off 11/7/43.

Delivered Lincoln 20/9/44; Dow Fd 15/10/44; Assigned 602BS/398BG [K8-H] Nuthampstead 9/2/45; landing accident when with Sam Zins overshot runway and nosed over 21/4/45; repaired 2 SAD Abbotts Ripton and re-ass 20/5/45; RAF Valley 2/6/445; Returned to the USA Bradley 7/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 13/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 6/12/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 1/4/43; Tinker 28/5/4; Dalhart 25/7/43; Clovis 23/12/43; 245 BU McCook 23/8/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 16/12/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 29/6/43; English Fd 16/7/43; Pyote 17/7/43; 19BG Pyote 9/11/43; MAT Kansas City 19/8/44; 224 BU Sioux City 29/8/43; 225 BU Rapid City 22/9/43; with Howard Sampson force landed base 26/9/44; 224 BU Sioux City 6/10/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Albuquerque 19/6/45.

Delivered Denver 156/4/43; Morrison 16/5/43; Assigned 96BS/2BG Chateau-du-Rhumel 26/5/43; Ain M’Lila 17/6/43; Massicault 31/7/43; {8m} transferred 353BS/301BG Oudna 14/11/43; Cerignola 7/12/44; Lucera 1/2/44; {61m} to converted weather ship 27/7/44; crashed and sal 16/5/45.

Delivered Amarillo 2/7/43; Cheyenne 26/7/43; Geiger 4/8/43; Kearney 8/8/43; 271 BU Kearney 4/7/44; 247 BU Smoky Hill 26/7/44; 499BG Smoky Hill 23/8/44; 4103 BU Jackson 17/4/45; 247 BU Smoky Hill 2/7/45; 237 BU Kirtland 2/8/45; 247 BU Smoky Hill 7/8/45; with Andy Flege force landed base 22/9/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 28/10/45.

Delivered Tulsa 6/2/44; Dow Fd 18/4/44; Assigned 398BG Nuthampstead 1/5/44; no ops, transferred 728BS/452BG [9Z- ] Deopham Green 30/4/44; destroyed by enemy aircraft at Poltava with Larry Mills 21/6/44; Salvaged 2/7/44.

Delivered Bismark 26/2/44; Dorval 3/3/44; Assigned RAF [HB-762] 51MU; A&AEE; Struck Off Charge 11/3/47.

Delivered Denver 15/11/43; Kearney 1/12/43; Assigned 346BS/99BG Tortorella 1/44; {79m} Salvaged 9/2/45. SILVER METEOR.

Delivered McChord 24/12/41; Project X 25/12/41; Langley 9/2/42; Palm Beach 11/3/42; Langley 13/5/42; Olmstead 1/2/43; Occident 29/4/43; Returned to the USA Mitchell 8/6/43; Gt Bend 16/7/44; Chanute 4/12/46; Recl Comp 20/8/46.