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Delivered Cheyenne 5/9/44; Hunter 22/10/44; Dow Fd 31/10/44; Assigned 49BS/2BG PFF Amendola 11/11/44; Salvaged 9AF Germany 5/7/46.

Delivered Denver 17/4/43; Presque Is 27/5/43; Assigned 401BS/91BG [LL-U] Bassingbourn 7/6/43; transferred 351BS/100BG [EP-L] Thorpe Abbotts 5/7/43; severe damage on previous raid “wrinkled skin”; Assigned mission to salvo delayed action fused bombs in The Wash 25/1/44 with John Massol, Co-pilot: Harry Granger, Navigator: Ed King, Bombardier: Edwin Stern, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bill Westley, Radio Operator: Asa Spengler, Ball turret gunner: Winifred Williams, Waist gunner: Olli McCartney, Waist gunner: Bill Reneau,Tail gunner: Newman Carman (10 Returned to Duty); on landing left u/c folded and ship skidded off runway; sal 7/3/44. NINE LITTLE YANKS AND A JERK.

Delivered Denver 13/4/43; Presque Is 15/5/43; Assigned 367BS/306BG [GY-L] Thurleigh 4/6/43; transferred 323BS/91BG [OR-U] Bassingbourn 29/6/43; Missing in Action Frankfurt 4/10/43 with Lloyd Schaper, Co-pilot: Ray Stephens, Navigator: Woodrow Mays, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bill Brickley, Radio Operator: Harry Weintraub, Ball turret gunner: Ernie Archer, Waist gunner: Jim Regan, Waist gunner: Don Irons,Tail gunner: Don Alton (9 Prisoner of War), Bombardier: Steve Monson (Killed in Action); last seen on bombing run apparently having engine trouble from the start and dragging behind, crashed Limburg, Bel. Missing Air Crew Report 881.

Delivered Cheyenne 7/4/43; Hobbs 8/6/43; Written off 16/11/43.

Delivered Denver 21/4/43; Dow Fd 21/5/43; Assigned 350BA/100BG Podington 2/6/43; Thorpe Abbotts 9/6/43; transferred 625BS/25BG Watton; detailed RAF St Eval, Cornwall 29/5/44 with Mike Lorens, Co-pilot: Larry Ketterer, Navigator: Nathan Swerdelowe, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Arnold Westerlin, Radio Operator: Joe Bubulka, Met Obs-Sgt Bill Young(RAF), Waist gunner: Harry Tarvin,Tail gunner: Lee Richardson (8 Returned to Duty); ditched off Ballyfortrum, near Dingle, Co. Kerry, Eire; crew picked up a flown back next day; Salvaged 29/5/44. HELLS BELLS aka BADGER BEAUTY.

Delivered Cheyenne 7/9/44; Hunter 24/10/44; Grenier 6/11/44; Assigned 96BS/2BG Amendola 8/12/44; with Lt Col Richard Abbey burned out after collision with 97BG in landing acc 2/1/45; Salvaged 10/1/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 23/5/43; Gore 1/6/43; Smoky Hill 2/6/43; Gr Isle 4/6/43; Dow Fd 27/6/43; Assigned 337BS/96BG [AW-Y] Snetterton 1/7/43; Missing in Action Bremen 8/10/43 with Edmund Bolstad, Co-pilot: Harry Sharpe, Navigator: Jim Montague, Bombardier: Chas Fuller, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Doyle Reavis, Waist gunner: Ken Sigler, Waist gunner: Oscar Kassebrock (7 Killed in Action); Radio Operator: Dave Sweeney, Ball turret gunner: Dan McElvain,Tail gunner: Warren McFadden (3 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Neuscharrel, 15 miles SW of Bad Zwischenahn, Ger.; Missing Air Crew Report 852. FLAK HAPPY.

Delivered Denver 19/4/43; Dow Fd 2/6/43; Assigned Soxo with Reed Prov BG?; ground looped at Bluie West One, Narsarssuak, Greenland 8/6/43 returning to collect paperwork prior to heading for UK, tyre blew on heavy landing and left runway, with Chas Mauldin, Co-pilot: Vernon Deehr, Navigator: Ray Maillox, Bombardier: John Crawford, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: John Fergusen, Radio Operator: Bill Cloud, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Vernon Bennett, Radio Operator: Bob Walker, Waist gunner: T.E.Halbert, Waist gunner: Bill Russi. (10 Returned to Duty); Con Salvaged Ugly 12/6/43.

Delivered Denver 20/4/43; Dow Fd 25/5/43; Assigned Freeman Goodman Prov Grp at Gander, Newfoundland where maintenance crewmen left work on ship uncompleted 3/6/43, but next day engineers Sgts Leon Galloway & Hartis Hamlin without checking status of ship started engine and it caught fire, (2 Returned to Duty) 4/6/43; Assigned Occident 29/6/43; Returned to the USA 53 RNC Sq Grenier 24/10/43; Tinker 24/4/44; Grenier NOR ATC TSP 16/6/44.

Delivered Cheyenne 27/10/44; Hunter 28/11/44; Dow Fd 22/2/45; Assigned 429BS/2BG PFF Amendola 28/12/44; Re-ass 30/4/47; Recl Comp 19/11/47.

Delivered Cheyenne 7/4/43; Morrison 16/5/43; Assigned 416BS/99BG Oudna 3/9/43; transferred 414BS/97BG Depienne 14/11/43; Cerignola 20/12/43; Amendola 16/1/44; Missing in Action Steyr, Aus. 2/4/44 with Bob Oleson, Beckwith, Nash, Wilmot, Kozakiewicz, Balnaves, Wilson, Ferreira, Reno; enemy aircraft, crashed near Ostario, Missing Air Crew Report 3639. WIDOW MAKER.

Delivered Denver 22/4/43; Presque Is 27/5/43; Assigned 333BS/94BG [TS-M] Earls Colne 12/5/43; Rougham 13/6/43; Missing in Action t/o Wilhelmshaven 26/7/43 with Harry Alsop, Navigator: Chas Matthes, Bombardier: Lero Poduszczak, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Joe Browne{drowned and found near Sylt}, Radio Operator: Glen Sheets, Ball turret gunner: Howard Battise{body washed up 29/8/43 at Vesterveistadt}, Waist gunner: Romeo Varacchi, Waist gunner: Irwin Sewell,Tail gunner: Frank Boyd (9 Killed in Action); Co-pilot: Bruce Kreischer (Prisoner of War); ditched Baltic Sea; Missing Air Crew Report 84. CHEROKEE MAID.

Delivered Denver 15/4/43; Dow Fd 26/5/43; Assigned 335BS/95BG [OE-V] Horham 15/6/43; 48m, (TG H.S. Boes wia 6/9/43); force landed Bungay AF 16/9/43 SAD 21/6/44; transferred 412BS [QW-V]; Returned to the USA Patterson 7/7/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 28/11/45. SLIGHTLY DANGEROUS.

Delivered Cheyenne 24/10/44; Hunter 29/10/44; Lowry 2/12/44; Dow Fd 24/12/44; Hunter 20/1/45; Dow Fd 2/2/45; Assigned 49BS/2BG PFF Amendola 4/2/45; Salvaged 24/12/46; re-ass 30/4/47; Salvaged 19/11/47; Recl Comp 11/1/48.

Delivered Cheyenne 13/4/43; Bangor 31/5/43; Assigned 527BS/379BG [FO-T] Kimbolton 11/6/43; Missing in Action Bremen 8/10/43 with Bill Hickey, Co-pilot: Bill Isengard, Navigator: Pasquale Natale, Bombardier: Jim Cudworth, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Lloyd Lisk, Radio Operator: Jim Smith, Ball turret gunner: Fred Weiser, Waist gunner: John Leen, Waist gunner: Ed Anson,Tail gunner: Tom Augustine (10 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed west of Bremen, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 959.

Delivered Denver 16/4/43; Bangor 22/5/43; Assigned 413BS/96BG [MZ-Q] Grafton Underwood 18/4/43; Andrews Fd 13/5/43; Snetterton 12/6/43; Missing in Action Hamburg 13/12/43 with George Parker, Co-pilot: Rosaire Bilodeau, Bombardier: Graham Ladd (3 Killed in Action); Navigator: John Adams, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bill Brown, Radio Operator: Leo Bennett, Ball turret gunner: Leon Kessenger, Waist gunner: Alan White, Waist gunner: Jim Berry,Tail gunner: Joe Matukonis (7 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft and flak, aircraft exploded, crashed Pulverweg, near Hamburg, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 1655. SHORT STRIDE IV.

Delivered Denver 23/4/43; Dow Fd 27/5/43; Assigned 337BS/96BG [AW- ] Andrews Fd 30/5/43; Snetterton 12/6/43; Missing in Action Hannover 26/7/43 with Frank Spino, Co-pilot: Ira Middaugh, Navigator: Les Hawley, Bombardier: Tony Grasso, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bill Geese, Radio Operator: Armando Cieri, Ball turret gunner: Leon Donaldson, Waist gunner: George Strauss, Waist gunner: Orville Williams,Tail gunner: Fred Taylor (10 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft KO’d two engines, crashed Eindorf, near Walsrode, 30 miles E of Bremen, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 96. THE MARY R.

Delivered Cheyenne 28/10/44; Hunter 3/12/44; Dow Fd 13/12/44; Assigned 49BS/2BG PFF Amendola 24/12/44; Salvaged 9AF 3/7/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 29/9/43; Gt Falls 14/10/43; Scott 21/10/43; Assigned 615BS/401BG [IY-B] Deenethorpe 4/11/43; Missing in Action Frankfurt 29/1/44 with Capt. Robert Beers, Co-pilot: Howard Byrne, Navigator: Harry Gershon, Bombardier: Bill Ritch, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Clarry Young (5 Prisoner of War); Radio Operator: Nunzio Paola, Ball turret gunner: Allen Craft, Waist gunner: Franklin Grigg, Waist gunner: Ken Lynn, Tail gunner: John Turvey (5 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft KO’d #3, wing on fire, crashed Worms, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 2274. LITTLE BOOTS.

Delivered Tulsa 8/5/44; Boca Raton 18/7/44; 3035 BU Victorville 20/11/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 25/10/45.