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Delivered Tulsa 16/8/43; Gr Island 24/9/43; Assigned 418BS/100BG [LD-V] Thorpe Abbotts 27/9/43; Missing in Action Gelsenkirchen 5/11/43 with Tom Martin, Co-pilot: Jim Kennemer, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Lloyd Arnett, Radio Operator: Don Allwine, Ball turret gunner: Cosmas Braun, Waist gunner: Merritt Gillespie, Waist gunner: Dave Davis,Tail gunner: Laverne Clarke (8 Killed in Action); Navigator: Jim McCurley, Bombardier: Joe Murphy (2 evaded capture); flak, on return ditched English Channel; Missing Air Crew Report 1156.

Delivered Long Beach 15/6/43; Kearney 15/7/43; Dow Fd 20/7/43; Assigned 334BS/95BG [BG-J] Horham 26/7/43; with John Riggs force landed RAF Hensridge 4/10/43; (12m) Missing in Action Munster 10/10/43 with John Riggs, Co-pilot: Ashford Morrison, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Paul Gillern, Radio Operator: Tom Haller, Ball turret gunner: Hunter Page, Waist gunner: Chas Davies,Tail gunner: Gifford Grover (7 Prisoner of War); Navigator: Steve Paczolt, Bombardier: Joe Cornell, Waist gunner: Joe Kellyhit by ground fire on descent (3 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed Lingen-Darme, 15 miles N of Munster, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 994. BROWN’S MULE.

Delivered Lincoln 6/1/45; Dow Fd 25/1/45; Assigned 20BS/2BG Amendola 31/1/45; Salvaged 9AF Germany 17/7/46.

Delivered Denver 20/7/43; Long Beach 8/8/43; Geiger 10/8/43; Walla Walla 12/8/43; Redmond 15/8/43; Assigned 351BS/100BG [EP-G] Thorpe Abbotts 5/9/43; Missing in Action Munster 10/10/43 with Chas Thompson, Co-pilot: Ross McEuen, Bombardier: Bill Sprow, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Dick Derby, Radio Operator: Jack Stern, Ball turret gunner: Jesse Cook,Tail gunner: Don Leech, obs-John Hoerr (8 Prisoner of War); Navigator: Ed Jones, Waist gunner: Floyd Cahill, Waist gunner: Chas Nessel (3 Killed in Action); shot down by fighter, lost right wing and exploded, crashed Walingen, near Havixbeck, six miles W of Munster, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 1023. SLIGHTLY DANGEROUS.

Delivered Long Beach 31/3/43; Kearney 15/4/43; Wendover 2/5/43; Dow Fd 30/5/43; Assigned 351BS/100BG [EP-A] Thorpe Abbotts 1/6/43; Missing in Action Bremen 8/10/43 with Capt Alvin Barker-mp, p-CaptTom Murphy, Co-pilot: Marshall Lee, Radio Operator: Derrell Piel, Waist gunner: Elder Dickinson,Tail gunner: Aaron David (6 Killed in Action); Navigator: Chas Sarabun, Bombardier: Floyd Peterson, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: John Ehlen, Ball turret gunner: Reed Hufford, Waist gunner: Gerry Robinson (5 Prisoner of War); flak KO’d #3 and navigator’s compartment which caught fire, crashed Bremerhaven, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 948. PICCADILLY LILY.

Delivered Long Beach 30/3/43; Kearney 15/4/43; Wendover 2/5/43; Kearney 22/5/43; Dow Fd 6/6/43; Assigned 349BS/100BG [XR-J] Thorper Abbotts 8/6/43 STUD DUCK; renamed before crash landed base with Owen Roane (10 Returned to Duty) u/c collapsed 2/8/43; Missing in Action Ludwigshafen 30/12/43 with Marvin Leininger, Co-pilot: Albt Witmyer, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Meyer Weintraub, Radio Operator: Marshall Banta, Ball turret gunner: Nick Matulik, Waist gunner: Jim Parham, Waist gunner: Gene Latimer,Tail gunner: Chas McGrogan (8 Killed in Action); Navigator: Leon McChesney, Bombardier: Chas Compton (2 evaded capture); hit by three FW 190s , crashed Liry, 28 miles E of Rheims, Fr; Missing Air Crew Report 2020. LADEN MAIDEN.

Delivered RAF [AN535] as part of Lend-Lease; 90 Squadron [WP-O] Polebrook 19-Mar-41; damaged over Norway by Bf-109, with ?, crash landed Kinloss, Scotland 8-Sep-41. Salvaged.

Delivered Denver 23/11/43; Gt Falls 25/11/43; Cheyenne 11/12/43; Kearney 21/12/43; Romulus 6/1/44; Grenier 9/1/44; Presque Is 10/1/44; Assigned 534BS/381BG [GD-E] Ridgewell 19/2/44; Missing in Action 4m Ludwigshafen 3/9/44 with Omar Fulton, Co-pilot: Bob Harrington, Bombardier: Rich Geer, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Theo Jefferson, Radio Operator: Roger Martin, Ball turret gunner: Jim Grubbs, Waist gunner: Franklin Berry,Tail gunner: Carl Von Goeben (8 evaded capture); Navigator: Bob Conly (Prisoner of War); battle damaged KO’d #2, then another was lost and it was decided to crash landed on neutral territory; it did so Damerey, NE of Chalon-sur-Saone, France; all were captured but eight escaped from a box car and returned UK by 21/9/44; Salvaged 5/5/45. SWEET PATTOOTIE.

Delivered SAAD 23/4/42; Langley 20/5/42; Olmstead 1/3/43; Presque Is 6/4/43; Mitchell 8/6/43; Hendricks, with Ken Smith force landed base 27/6/43; Cherry Pt 12/7/43; Brownsville 16/8/43; Kelly 21/9/43; Greenwood 7/11/43; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 18/10/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 25/2/44; Billings 2/3/44; Dow Fd 28/4/44; Assigned 398BG Nuthampstead 30/4/44; no ops, transferred 349BS/100BG [XR-G] Thorpe Abbotts 3/5/44; on non op cross country flight 28/7/44 with Merle Ehorn, Co-pilot: Paul Mitchell, Navigator: Byrl King, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Fred Theobald, ae-Jim Rondeau, Radio Operator: Rich Brady(inj) (6 Returned to Duty), u/c collapsed when taxying; Salvaged 29/7/44. PRIDE OF THE CENTURY.

Delivered Salt Lake City 17-Mar-41; return Boeing; Salt Lake City 24-Jun-41; SAD 19-Sep-41; with Maurice Morgan crashed Duncan Fd, Texas 11-Oct-41 (failed to gain altitude on takeoff, struck parked car and building. Pilot and one other crewman killed, 12 passengers on airplane, four civilian airfield employees and one soldier in parked car injured). Salvaged.

Assigned 419BS/301BG Westover 8/7/42; Chelveston/Podington 6/8/42; Tafaraoui 26/11/42; Maison Blanche 5/12/42; Biskra 16/12/42; Ain M’Lila 17/1/43; St Donat 6/3/43; Oudna 6/8/43; Cerignola, It. 7/12/43; Lucera 1/2/44; {60m} Salvaged 20/2/45.

Delivered Vega Mod Ctr 94BG 28/8/42; 3701 BU Amarillo 5/7/44; Written off 30/9/44; Recl Comp 19/6/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 6-Sep-42; Presque Is 19-Oct-42; Assigned 364BS/305BG [WF-H] Chelveston 30-Oct-42; Missing in Action 16-Feb-43 while on a mission to bomb the U-Boat pens at St Nazaire, France. Shot down by enemy aircraft and crashed at Molac, France. 8KIA 2POW MACR 15497.

Delivered RAF [AN536] as part of Lend-Lease; 90 Squadron [WP-M] Polebrook 19-Mar-41; transferred 220 Squadron; transferred 206 Squadron; exploded over Foxton, Cambs 19-Jan-42. Salvaged 22-Jan-42.

Delivered Mat Com Boeing 26/6/42, First aircraft with large paddle props

Delivered Westover 8/7/42 for UK, but switched to Air Material Command, Westover, ME; with Leslie Holman force landed Woodville, PA, four miles W of Bradley Fd, Ct 14/7/42; Windsor Locks 3/9/42; Syracuse 1/10/42; Wright Fd 10/2/43; Recl Comp 3/4/46.

Seventh Boeing a/c, and Assigned 419BS/301BG Westover 7/7/42; first mission 26/9/42; transferred 12AF 11/42 {54m}; 348BS/99BG Tortorella, 12/43; Returned to the USA Tinker 3/6/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Arledge Fd 23/11/44. AVENGER.

Delivered Lincoln 5/10/44; Grenier 28/10/44; Assigned 487BG Lavenham 20/2/45; RetUS, Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 29/12/45.

Delivered Denver 29/11/43; Cheyenne 10/12/43; Kearney 21/12/43; Romulus 6/1/44; Presque Is 9/1/44; Nutts Corner 15/1/44; Assigned 322BS/91BG [LG-M] Bassingbourn 1/2/44; Missing in Action Munich 16/7/44 with Don DeLisle, Co-pilot: Norman Kimmel, Navigator: John Wallace, Bombardier: Bob Bell, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: John Carlisle, Radio Operator: Roy Tanner, Ball turret gunner: Gene Chapius, Waist gunner: Horace Kingsley Wounded in Action,Tail gunner: John Smelser (9 Returned to Duty); flak KO’d two engines and punctured gas tanks; ditched Channel, all rescued within ten minutes by ASR. THE LIBERTY BELLE.