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Delivered Denver 17/3/43; Smoky Hill 5/4/43; Selfridge 21/4/43; Assigned 96BG Grafton Underwood 25/4/43; Andrews Fd 13/5/43; transferred 364BS/305BG [WF-J] Chelveston 31/5/43; then KY-J; Missing in Action Schweinfurt 14/10/43 with Doug Murdock, Navigator: John Manahan, Bombardier: John Miller, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Russ Kiggins, Waist gunner: Tony Dienes (5 Killed in Action), Co-pilot: Edwin Smith, Radio Operator: Thelma Wiggins, Ball turret gunner: John Lloyd, Waist gunner: Lester Levy,Tail gunner: Bill Menzies (5 Prisoner of War), enemy aircraft, crashed Bosseveldt, near Maastricht, Hol. Missing Air Crew Report 917. SIZZLE.

Delivered Denver 29/6/43; Dow 14/7/43; Assigned 336BS/95BG [ET-B] Horham 18/7/43; battle damaged by enemy aircraft Schweinfurt 14/10/43 with L.L. Kerr, 7RTD; Waist gunner: Robert Roy, Waist gunner: Steve Smierksi,Tail gunner: Bob Crawford (3 Prisoner of War), Missing Air Crew Report 856; Missing in Action (23m) Brunswick 21/2/44 with Morris Marks, Co-pilot: Frank Derenberg, Navigator: Delmar Decker, Bombardier: George Amberg, Radio Operator: Harry Cook, Ball turret gunner: Rod Hines, Waist gunner: Larry Cuyler,Tail gunner: Arden Miner (8 Killed in Action); Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Chas Barnthson, Waist gunner: Barclay Glover (2 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed in swamp near Zegveld, 12 miles W of Utrecht, Hol. Missing Air Crew Report 2424 (856). SAN ANTONIO ROSE.

Delivered Denver 20/5/43; Assigned 385BG Dow Fd 29/6/43; transferred 331BS/94BG [QE-P] Rougham 7/43; Missing in Action Schweinfurt 14/10/43 with Sherman Dodge, Navigator: Frank Francis, Ball turret gunner: Lou Buonarobo, Waist gunner: Warren Butterfield,Tail gunner: Jim Menaul (5 Killed in Action); Co-pilot: John Chandler, Bombardier: Jim Becker, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Jim Pesta, Radio Operator: Doug McClendon, Waist gunner: Bob Thomas (5 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Essey-et-Maizeras, 17 miles N of Toul, Fr; Missing Air Crew Report 791. SLEEPY TIME GAL.

Delivered Cheyenne 3/9/42; Assigned 423BS/306BG [RD-S] Thurleigh 16/5/43 OLD FAITHFUL; transferred 323BS/91BG [OR-N] Bassingbourn 11/9/43; transferred 322BS [LL-S]; Missing in Action Schweinfurt 14/10/43 with Bob Slane, Co-pilot: Joe Johnson, Bombardier: Bill Runner, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Sherman Sly, Radio Operator: Vic Kuhlman, Ball turret gunner: Lou Brown, Waist gunner: Chas Croth, Waist gunner: Bob Solomon (8 Prisoner of War), Navigator: Art Foster (EVD-ret UK 19/9/44),Tail gunner: Claud Smith (Killed in Action); enemy aircraft KO’d #3 & #4, crash landed on rail line S of Metz, Fr. Missing Air Crew Report 899. Salvaged by Luftwaffe, and restored to be used by KG 200 for spares.

Delivered Denver 1/6/43; Dow Fd 20/7/43; Assigned 338BS/96BG [BX-U] Snetterton 26/7/43; Missing in Action Schweinfurt 14/10/43 with Jack O. Horton, POW; Navigator: Delmar O. Schmidt, POW; Bombardier: Raymond Ives, POW; Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Clarence F. Codling, POW; Radio Operator: Joseph S. Potts, POW; Ball turret gunner: Perry K. Smith, POW; Waist gunner: James C. Vogel, POW; Waist gunner: Robert Calnon, POW; Co-pilot: Karl D. Miller, Evaded; Tail gunner: Frank Visalli, Evaded; enemy aircraft, crashed Puisieux, three miles N of Laon, Fr. Missing Air Crew Report 835. CAROLINA BOOMERANG.

Delivered Cheyenne 22/12/42; Salina 2/2/43; Duncan 23/2/43; Assigned 324BS/91BG [DF-K] Bassingbourn 9/3/43; 48m Missing in Action Oschersleben 11/1/44 with Wayne Hedglin, Co-pilot: Don Jones, Navigator: Carey Goodwin, Waist gunner: Bill Francisco, Waist gunner: Walt Williams (5 Prisoner of War), Bombardier: John McKewen (chute failed), Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Cody Wolf, Radio Operator: James Lascu Jr., Ball turret gunner: George Richardson,Tail gunner: Stan Lyttle (5 Killed in Action); hit by 20 enemy aircraft KO’d #1 and fire broke out in fuselage, crashed Wennigsen/Diester, 12 miles SW of Hanover, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 1915. RITZY BLITZ.

Delivered Denver 28/12/42; Salina 9/1/43; Homestead 14/2/43; Assigned 323BS/91BG [OR-R] Bassingbourn 7/3/43; 3+m Missing in Action Villacoublay 10/7/43; following heavy enemy aircraft attacks, ship exploded, crashed Channel, three miles off Carbourg, near Caen, Fr. Missing Air Crew Report 34. STRIC NINE.

Delivered Cheyenne 5/8/43; Gore 15/8/43; Redmond 16/8/43; Assigned 423BS/306BG [RD-R] Thurleigh 19/9/43; after t/o for training flight 27/12/43 in slight coll mid air with 42-30221(306BG), wlNelson Hardin, Co-pilot: Rich Knowles, Navigator: A. Perline, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ernie Jackson, Radio Operator: Wendell May, g-K.J. Russell (6 Returned to Duty); Salvaged 28/12/43.

Delivered Cheyenne 18/3/43; Walla Walla 29/3/43; Metropolitan 13/4/43; Dow Field 30/4/43; Assigned 423BS/305BG [RD-F] Chelveston 23/5/43; damaged in mid-air collision with 42-30221 (306) 8/7/43 with Frank Kackstetter; Missing in Action Schweinfurt 14/10/43 with Vernon Cole, Radio Operator: Robah Shields, Ball turret gunner: Don Richardson, Waist gunner: Fred Zumpf (4 Killed in Action); Co-pilot: Bob Partridge, Navigator: Chas Kuehn, Bombardier: Joe Columbus, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bob Folk, Waist gunner: Adrien Wright,Tail gunner: Irving Mills (6 Prisoner of War); hit by rocket from JU88, then exploded to crashed Beek, near Maastricht, Hol; Missing Air Crew Report 819.

Delivered Cheyenne 30/4/43; Gore 14/5/43; Smoky Hill 21/5/43; Kearney 26/5/43; Dow Fd 2/6/43; Assigned 368BS/306BG [BO-G] Thurleigh 18/6/43; force landed base with Virgil Jeffries after mid-air collision with 42-29971(306BG) 8/7/43; during a training flight 27/12/43 was involved in slight mid-air collision with 42-30841(306BG) with J.P. Toombs, Co-pilot: Taylor Leedy, Navigator: E.P. West, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: G.T. Peterson, Radio Operator: J.B. Poston,G-A.F.Klepper,Tail gunner: C.O. Metz, pass-Lt Bob Welter (8 Returned to Duty); crew bailed safely over land as aircraft headed out to crashed North Sea.

Delivered Cheyenne 22/4/43; Smoky Hill 28/4/43; Walla Walla 7/5/43; Smoky Hill 21/5/43; Dow Fd 2/6/43; Assigned 367BS/306BG [GY-B] Thurleigh 18/6/43; Missing in Action Schweinfurt 14/10/43 with Dick Butler, Co-pilot: John Kappmeyer, Navigator: Harry McCaleb, Bombardier: Francis Banda, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Alex Heyburn, Radio Operator: Amos May, Ball turret gunner: Ed DeBuyser, Waist gunner: Ernie Henderson, Waist gunner: Marcel St Louis{released from Wurzburg hospital 17/3/44},Tail gunner: Jim Harris (10 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft KO’d three engines, crashed Schweinfurt, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 822.

Delivered Cheyenne 31/12/42; Salina 10/1/43; DeRidder 31/1/43; Morrison 1/2/43; Assigned 346BS/99BG Navarin 23/2/43; Oudna 4/8/43; Tortorella 11/12/43; Ed Karnes’ crew, 114m transferred weather aircraft 304BW Cerignola 28/10/44; Salvaged 23/8/45. El DIABLO.

Delivered Cheyenne 29/5/44; Kearney 8/6/44; Grenier 28/6/44; Assigned 525BS/379BG Kimbolton 18/7/44; Missing in Action Oranienburg 10/4/45 with Henry McFadden, Auburn Kattengell, Russ Curtis, Paul Hamilton, Howard Ellard, Don Ware, Ernie Fisher, Bob Somoer, Derwin Blankenship (9 Returned to Duty); jet enemy aircraft, crash landed continent ?. Missing Air Crew Report 13874.

Delivered Tulsa 2/2/44; Grenier 5/3/44; Assigned 322BS/91BG [LG-T] Bassingbourn 25/3/44; Missing in Action 54m Le Manoir RR bridge, Fr 13/8/44 with Tom Smith (Killed in Action); Co-pilot: Joe Vukovich, Navigator: Alex Calder, Ball turret gunner: Jesse Britton, Waist gunner: Calvin Seiler,Tail gunner: Leon Rogers (5 evaded capture); Bombardier: Bob Bell, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Chas Sturgeon, Radio Operator: Delmar Spears (3 Prisoner of War); flak hit set oxygen bottles off to burn hydraulic fluid in cockpit, crashed Epreville, SW of Rouen, Fr; Missing Air Crew Report 7898. FIFINELLA.

Delivered Cheyenne 13/7/44; Kearney 24/7/44; Grenier 6/8/44; Assigned 863BS/493BG Debach 8/8/44; Missing in Action Magdeburg 12/9/44 with Albt Tucker, Larry Deats, Ken Evans, John Hewitt, Harry Puetz, Gerard Frost, Jim McLaughlin, Harry Lane (8 Killed in Action); Floyd Ford (Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Germany; Missing Air Crew Report 8866.

Delivered Denver 16/8/43; Long Beach 17/8/43; Assigned 366BS/305BG [KY-M] Chelveston 16/9/43; Missing in Action Schweinfurt 14/10/43 with Bob Lang (KIA-in crash), Navigator: John Tew, Bombardier: Jim Adcox, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ruben Almquist, Radio Operator: Warren McConnell, Ball turret gunner: Ken Maynard, Waist gunner: Chas Groeninger, Waist gunner: Howie Keenan (7 Prisoner of War), Co-pilot: Stan Alukonis,Tail gunner: Steve Krawszynski (2 evaded capture); enemy aircraft, crashed Floverish, near Immendorf, 19 miles NE of Aachen, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 779 (?915?). MARY T.

Delivered Cheyenne 10/5/43; Gore 24/5/43; Smoky Hill 25/5/43; Kearney 26/5/43; Dow Fd 2/6/43; Assigned 334BS/95BG [BG-B] Horham 15/6/43; 5m, Missing in Action Hanover 26/7/43 with Henry Quirk, Co-pilot: Joe Cisar, Bombardier: Ambrose Angle, Radio Operator: Herb Suess, Waist gunner: John McNeil, Waist gunner: Elwood Bell (6 Killed in Action); Navigator: Nathan Datlow, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Howard Medford, Ball turret gunner: Tom McArthur,Tail gunner: Milton Huffstuttler (4 Prisoner of War); unknown cause, crashed Lauenstein, near Hameln, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 196.

Delivered Cheyenne 17/3/44; Gr Island 10/4/44; Dow Fd 29/4/44; Assigned 535BS/381BG [MS-M] Ridgewell 22/5/44; Missing in Action 91m Bremen 30/3/45 with Bob Bennett, Navigator: Paul Cawley, tog-Elbert Holt, Radio Operator: Bob Mumper, Ball turret gunner: Calvin Hockley, Waist gunner: Guy Stubblefield, sj-Chas Majors (7 Prisoner of War); Co-pilot: Alex Nelson, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Chester Slomczenski,Tail gunner: Chas Knaus (3 Killed in Action); flak, crashed Syke, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 13542. IN LIKE ERROL.

Delivered Long Beach 24/4/43; Gt Falls 3/5/43; Kearney 30/5/43; Assigned 323BS/91BG [OR-M] Bassingbourn 4/6/43; transferred 548BS/385BG [GX-B] Gt Ashfield 16/6/43; then 551BS; Missing in Action Hannover 26/7/43 with Theo Harris, Bombardier: Jack Mills{picked up next day 18 miles off Heligoland}, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Alvin Wrobel, Radio Operator: Warren Dinardi, Waist gunner: John Leaf,Tail gunner: Chester Beres (6 Prisoner of War); Co-pilot: Everett Hiatt, Navigator: Arlis Anderson, Ball turret gunner: George Hrubovcack, Waist gunner: Howard Sloop, obs-Major Berkley Springfield {549BS} (5 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed Baltic Sea, Missing Air Crew Report 191B. SOUSE FAMILY.

Delivered Cheyenne 4/1/44; Kearney 14/1/44; Romulus 24/1/44; Grenier 25/1/44; Assigned 337BS/96BG [AW-L] Snetterton 3/2/44; Missing in Action Berlin 8/3/44 with Capt Norman Thomas, Co-pilot: Don Stegall, Navigator: John Newton, Bombardier: Paul Sembrau, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: John Mitchell, Radio Operator: Ray Capone, Waist gunner: Ed Bayhi, Waist gunner: George Case,Tail gunner: Paul Ritchie (9 Prisoner of War); Ball turret gunner: Gerry Caris (KIA-went down with ship, chute damaged); enemy aircraft, crashed Metel, six miles NE of Neustadt, on Steinhuder Lake, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 3429. MYASAM DRAGON.

Delivered Cheyenne 25/3/43; Dallas 2/4/43; Dow Fd 12/4/43; Love Fd 13/5/43; Geiger 26/5/43; Gt Falls 7/6/43; Smoky Hill 29/6/43; Dow Fd 11/7/43; Assigned 571BS/390BG [FC-T] Framlingham 14/7/43 PATCHES; Missing in Action Schweinfurt 14/10/43 with Fernie McEwin, Co-pilot: Bob Withrow, Navigator: Vic Baker, Bombardier: Larry Baker, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Harry Powers, Radio Operator: Albt Widman, Ball turret gunner: Cecil Holliday, Waist gunner: George Jahnke, Waist gunner: Edwin Pearce,Tail gunner: Fred Smart (10 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Lohrweg, near Gondelsheim, nine miles E of Karlsruhe, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 858. WE’LL NEVER KNOW.

Delivered Denver 26/8/43; Gr Island 18/9/43; Assigned 303BG Molesworth 19/10/43; 1 BAD 23/10/43; transferred 546BS/384BG [BK-U] Grafton Underwood 2/11/43, after 544/5BS; Missing in Action Berlin 9/3/44); hit by bomb from above from 379BG which knocked off tailplane, crashed Marienfeld, near Berlin; Missing Air Crew Report 3005. SILVER DOLLAR.

Delivered Hunter 19/11/44; Grenier 4/12/44; Assigned 839BS/487BG Lavenham 13/4/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 12/7/45; 4185 BU Independence 16/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 14/12/45.

Assigned 326BS/92BG Bangor 12-August-42; 340BS/97BG Polebrook August 42; Missing in Action Meaulte 6-September-42 shot down by Hptm Conny Meyer (II/JG26) crashed Flasselles, NW of Amiens, France.; (first 8AF B-17 MIA) SIX BITS aka SOUTHERN BELLE. No MACR issued. 10POW.