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Delivered Cheyenne 20/6/44; Hunter 16/7/44; Dow Fd 26/7/44; Assigned 350BS/100BG [LN-O] Thorpe Abbotts 2/8/44; Missing in Action Bohlen 11/9/44 with Joe Raine, Navigator: Howard Kalbach, Bombardier: Phil Pitts, Radio Operator: Vince Linguanti, Ball turret gunner: Elmer Farnsworth (5 Killed in Action); Co-pilot: Lew Wallace, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Walt Jorgensen{Wounded in Action}, Waist gunner: Ed Weinstein,Tail gunner: John Meacham (4 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft hit ship which exploded and crashed Tellerhauser, near Gottesgab, Ger (now Czech Republic). Missing Air Crew Report 8815. INNOCENT BYSTANDER.

Delivered Topeka 29/3/45; Assigned 100BG Thorpe Abbotts 3/45; RetUS, transferred as SB-17G, 10 ERS Alaska 1949.

Delivered Cheyenne 8/8/44; Hunter 18/8/44; Dow Fd 1/9/44; Assigned 32BS/301BG Lucera 7/10/44; Returned to the USA Hunter 17/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 19/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 26/11/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 19/6/44; Kearney 28/6/44; Grenier 15/7/44; Assigned 350BS/100BG [LN-T]; Thorpe Abbotts 17/7/44; Missing in Action Ruhland 11/9/44 with Howard Schulte, Ball turret gunner: George Berg, Waist gunner: Walt Budziszewski (3 Killed in Action); Co-pilot: Dick Kiern, Navigator: Jerome Hutcheson, Bombardier: Ken Summers, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Carl Harre, Radio Operator: Lester Swink,Tail gunner: Otto Reichl (6 Prisoner of War); hit by 20 mm shell then by flak, crashed Machern, E of Leipzig, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 8814.

Delivered Cheyenne 15/6/44; Kearney 27/6/44; Dow Fd 8/7/44; Assigned 349BS/100BG [XR-H] Thorpe Abbotts 12/7/44; transferred 350BS [LN-O] ; battle damaged Merseburg 30/11/44 with ?; Salvaged 1/12/44. THE RELUCTANT DRAGON.

Delivered Hunter 23/10/44; Dow Fd 31/10/44; Assigned 349BS/100BG [XR-Q] Thorpe Abbotts 2/11/44; transferred 560BS/388BG Knettishall 3/11/44; ct fire en route Nurnberg 21/2/45 with ?; crash landed Belgium; 9RTD; Salvaged 5/3/45. OH KAY.

Delivered Cheyenne 8/8/44; Lincoln 18/8/44; Grenier 9/9/44; Assigned 301BG Lucera 17/9/44; {0m} transferred 96BS/2BG Amendola 7/10/44; Returned to the USA Hunter 19/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 21/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 17/12/45.

Delivered Wright Fd 8/12/44 for rocket launching tests, to combat Nazi V-1s; Romulus 12/12/44; ATS Wright 15/12/44; 4119 BU Brookley 29/1/45; 610 BU Eglin 22/2/45; 4000 BU Wright 22/4/45; SPW Wendover 4/8/45; 4000 BU Wright 7/8/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 18/11/46.

Delivered Hunter 26/10/44; Dow Fd 9/11/44; Assigned 350BS/100BG [LN-Z] Thorpe Abbotts 10/11/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 26/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 29/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 30/11/45. BABY DORIS aka ROY’S BOYS.

Delivered Lincoln 23/12/44; Grenier 3/1/45; Assigned 418BS/100BG [LD-R] Thorpe Abbotts 7/1/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 24/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 26/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 7/12/45. (npo) SILVER DOLLAR JUNIOR aka YO YO BUDDY.

Delivered Hunter 28/7/44; Dow Fd 9/8/44; Assigned 97BG Amendola 18/8/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 10/7/45; Independence 12/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 10/12/45.

Delivered Hunter 12/3/45; Grenier 25/3/45; Assigned 351BS/100BG [EP-B] Thorpe Abbotts 11/4/45; took part in Operation Chowhound 1-5/5/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 24/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 26/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 9/12/45. (npo) THE SUPER GOOSE.

Delivered Denver 3/3/44; Gr Island 11/4/44; Grenier 29/4/44; Assigned 568BS/390BG [BI-O] Framlingham 4/5/55; transferred 100BG Thorpe Abbotts 5/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 5/7/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 7/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 13/12/45. LITTLE BUTCH III.

Delivered Kearney 27/7/44; Grenier 8/8/44; Assigned 840BS/483BG Sterparone 17/8/44; used for Air Sea Rescue at Pisa; Returned to the USA Sth Plains 23/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 28/12/45. BIG YANK.

Delivered Kearney 25/7/44; Grenier 8/8/44; Assigned 96BS/2BG Amendola 16/8/44; crash landed base with Wilbur Tebo 278/12/44; {62m} Returned to the USA Bradley 14/7/45; Independence 17/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Albuquerque 7/2/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 9/2/44; Denver 2/3/44; 1SAG Langley 15/3/44; Dow Fd 24/5/44; Assigned (H2X) 482BG Alconbury 27/5/44; 350BS/100BG [LN-S] Thorpe Abbotts 20/5/45; Returned to the USA 1103 BU Morrison 29/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 5/1/46.

Delivered Denver 3/2/44; 1SAG Langley 11/4/44; Morrison 30/4/44; Assigned 2BG (PFF) Amendola 2/5/44; transferred 772BS/463BG Celone 5/44; Salvaged 11/5/44.

Delivered Denver 3/2/44; 1SAG Langley 21/3/44; Assigned (H2X) 482BG Alconbury 8/5/44; Salvaged 9AF Germany 23/5/46.

Delivered Hunter 31/7/44; Dow Fd 14/8/44; Assigned 20BS/2BG Amendola 27/8/44; in base taxi accident with Banks Campbell 22/2/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 3/7/45; Sth Plains 6/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 8/12/45.

Delivered Tulsa 11/4/44; 488BG MacDill 23/4/44; with Arthur Moulton crashed 325 BU Avon Park 13/9/44; Written off 14/9/44; Recl Comp 26/10/44.