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Delivered Cheyenne 7/12/43; Kearney 30/12/43; Presque Is 17/2/44; Assigned 358BS/303BG [VK-A] Molesworth 28/2/44; Missing in Action Frankfurt 2/3/44 with Damon Elder, Navigator: Ed Connors, Bombardier: Alby Stravinsky, Radio Operator: Dan Gilmore, Ball turret gunner: Frank Mirenda, Waist gunner: Norman Clark, Waist gunner: Mario Garcia{Wounded in Action},Tail gunner: Verden Swank (8 Prisoner of War); Co-pilot: Jim Burns{chute failed}, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Dave Wilson{hit tree, not found until 15/3/44} (2 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft KO’d #2 & #3, followed by flak, crashed Serinhamps, 14 miles SW of Dinant, Bel; Missing Air Crew Report 2864. OLD HICKORY.

Delivered Cheyenne 12/1/44; Lt Rock 23/1/44; Savannah 25/1/44; Assigned 360BS/303BG [PU-F] Molesworth 22/2/44; Missing in Action Hamburg (25m) 20/6/44 with John Parker, Co-pilot: John Anderson, Navigator: Norman Lacey, Bombardier: Granville Pence, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Claudia Wall, Radio Operator: Charles Grace, Ball turret gunner: Sam Rhyne, Waist gunner: John Fox,Tail gunner: Joe Szczudlo (9 Prisoner of War); flak KOd two engines, crash landed near Spieka-Neufeld/Nordholz, 13 miles SW of Cuxhaven, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 5985.

Delivered Tulsa 20/3/44; Kearney 31/3/44; Dow Fd 4/4/44; Assigned 360BS/303BG [PU-G] Molesworth 22/4/44; Missing in Action Brux 12/9/44 with Art Mehlhoff, Co-pilot: Edgar Nelson, Navigator: Gaylon Williams (wia, & died 10/10/44), Bombardier: Harry Newcomb, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Don Wagner, Radio Operator: Norman Thye, Ball turret gunner: Elwood Keeran, Waist gunner: Vernon Harris,Tail gunner: Ben Quackenbush (9 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Jachymov, Czech; Missing Air Crew Report 8825. TEMPTRESS.

Delivered Cheyenne 1/7/42; Assigned 30BS/19BG Mareeba, Aus 21/8/42; transferred 64BS/43BG Fenton Fd, Aus; Mareeba, Aus 21/1/43; mid-air coll with 42-24355 over Port Moresby on compass test 17/4/43 with Capt Charles McArthur Jr. Co-pilot: La Rue Haralson, Joe Whitelaw, Bob Greenwood, Bill Phillips, Bryony Wysocki, George Neumann (7 Killed in Service), crashed into sea. Missing Air Crew Report 16787. (?15667)

Delivered Dallas 22/8/44; Langley 20/9/44; Dow Fd 2/10/44; Assigned 385BG Gt Ashfield 14/10/44; transferred 749BS/457BG [G] Glatton 19/11/44; Missing in Action Oranienburg 10/4/45 with Capt Melvin Fox, Co-pilot: Lt Col Rod Francis, Navigator: Beverley Robertson, Bombardier: Capt Chas Musgrove, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Adrian Belanger, Ball turret gunner: Alvin Prokup,Tail gunner: Capt Monroe Hotaling, mickey/op-Lt Gerald Zelikofsky, radar/nav-Lt Paul Bertinstein (9 Prisoner of War); Radio Operator: Lloyd Blood (Killed in Action); jet enemy aircraft, crashed Bernau, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 13882.

Delivered Lincoln 25/8/44; Grenier 18/9/44; Assigned 358BS/303BG [VK-F] Molesworth 17/10/44; Missing in Action Merseburg 21/11/44 with Leroy Glass, Orlyn Chunat, Joe Haider, Larry Casey, Dick Eide, Jim Brady, Vernon Trumbull, Grady Hodges, Mark Davis (9 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed Leipzig; Missing Air Crew Report 11197. LADY ALTA.

Delivered Cheyenne 1/7/42; Assigned 28BS/19BG Mareeba, Aus 6/8/42; transferred 64BS/43BG Fenton Fd, Aus; Mareeba, Aus 21/1/43; t/o Port Moresby then ditched off Buna on return from Wewak in poor weather 15/3/43 with Arthur McMullen, Navigator: McJilton Sargeant, Radio Operator: Bob Freeman (survived ditching but disappeared while swimming ashore), Wayne Specher, Milburn Glanville, Herman Bender, Jim Grahl (7 Killed in Action); Co-pilot: Howard Eberly, Bombardier: John Dawson (2 Returned to Duty). Written off 17/3/43 Missing Air Crew Report 15667. HELL FROM HEAVEN MEN.

Delivered Denver 18/2/43; Presque Is 5/4/43; Assigned 338BS/96BG 4/43; transferred 510BS/351BG [TU-K] Polebrook 11/7/43; on return from (8m) Merignac 31/12/43 with Rob Chalmers, Co-pilot: Francis Nedham, Navigator: ??, Bombardier: Ferris Martin, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Walt Skinner, Radio Operator: Winston Hapgood, Ball turret gunner: Chas Newberry, Waist gunner: Hubert Butler, Waist gunner: Art Novres,Tail gunner: Guy Meredith (10 Returned to Duty); crash landed Burnham-on-Sea, Som. UK; 2 SAD, Salvaged 3/1/44. NOBODY’S DARLIN’.

Assigned 359BS/303BG [BN-T] Bangor 10/9/42; Molesworth 16/10/42; 59m transferred 1 Base Air Depot, Burtonwood 7/7/44; Returned to the USA Altus 18/8/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 14/8/45. Over Vegasack 18/3/43 with Capt Harry Stouse, Navigator: Jesse Elliott, brought damaged ship home with severely wounded Jack Mathis-b (awarded posthumous MOH). SURE STUFF aka THE DUCHESS.

Delivered Cheyenne 28/2/43; Gore 4/3/43; Sioux City 16/3/43; Kearney 8/4/43; Dow Fd 16/4/43; Bangor 28/4/43; Assigned 525BS/379BG [FR-E] Kimbolton 3/5/43; Missing in Action Wangerooge Is 25/6/43 with Courtney Browne, Navigator: Stan Cohen, Bombardier: Chas Dunham, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Louis Nima, Ball turret gunner: Chas Johnson, Waist gunner: Carl Louis, Waist gunner: Melvin Eckert,Tail gunner: Jim Franklin (8 Killed in Action); Co-pilot: Harry Hodgin, Radio Operator: Clarry Mertz (2 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed between Mull and Dorpen, Ger. close to Dutch border. Missing Air Crew Report 1759.

Delivered Cheyenne 8/7/42; Hamilton 13/8/42; Assigned 28BS/19BG Mareeba, Aus 21/8/42; transferred 64BS/43BG, then 65BS at Fenton, Aus, 2/8/42; Mareeba, Aus 21/1/43; transferred 54TCW 11/43, modified at Garbut, Aus for 58TCS/375TCG; Port Moresby, NG 10/7/43; Dobodura, NG 19/8/43; Port Moresby, NG 21/12/43, used for supply drops from Finchhafen to Los Negros Is.; WO, ret US & sal 23/7/46. SUPER SNOOPER

Delivered Cheyenne 7/10/43; Gr Island 21/10/43; Nashville 29/10/43; Assigned 358BS/303BG [VK-N] Molesworth 18/11/43; Missing in Action Schweinfurt 24/2/44 with Marshall Smith, Co-pilot: Francis Palecek, Bombardier: Ed Troy, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Andy Dick, Radio Operator: Edwin Frolick, Ball turret gunner: Gustaf Simon, Waist gunner: Herman Stauter, Waist gunner: John Schor (8 Killed in Action); Navigator: Ed Neuwirth,Tail gunner: Walter Fugate (2 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Landmark Hungen, 12 miles SE of Giessen, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 2763.

Assigned 303BG/359BS [BN-W] at Alamogordo Field, New Mexico on 23-Jun-42. Stationed at Kellogg Field, Battle Creek, Michigan until 3-Oct-42 when it went to Bangor, Maine for deployment to England.; Molesworth 25-Oct-42. Shot down 20-Dec-42 by enemy aircraft, crashed in Channel, off Dieppe, France while on a mission to bomb the German air depot at Romilly-sur-Seine, France. 10KIA MACR 15708.

Assigned 360BS/303BG [PU-J] Bangor 14-Oct-42; Molesworth 16-Oct-42. 23-Jan-43 – Mission in Action on a mission to bomb the port area and U-Boat pens at Lorient, France. The aircraft was struck by a bomb dropped from above and crashed in the woods at Bois de Queronic near Pluvinger, France. 7KIA 3POW MACR 15571.

Delivered Cheyenne 28/6/42; Assigned 63BS/43BG Charlesville, Aus. 31/7/42; Torrens Creek, Aus. 27/8/42; Iron Ridge, Aus. 17/10/42; Mareeba, Aus. 21/1/43; Port Moresby, New Guinea 11/5/43; Dobodura, NG 13/12/43; Nazab, NG 12/3/44; transferred 69TCS/433TCG New Guinea; ret Austraila 8/44 as hack for Gen Bob Eichelberger and re-named MISS ‘EM; Salvaged 31/4/45; W/O Tacloban, Leyte 4/46. CAP’N & THE KIDS.

Delivered Denver 28/9/43; Gr Island 18/10/43; Nashville 24/10/43; Assigned 407BS/92BG PY-U] Podington 23/11/43; Missing in Action Schweinfurt 24/2/44 with Bob Clayton*, Co-pilot: Leon Cavender*, Navigator: John Galbraith*, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Nathan Grant*, (*all 326BG) Radio Operator: Herman Rahn, Ball turret gunner: Paul McDade, Waist gunner: Lewis Lilly,Tail gunner: Chester Zahaba (8 Killed in Action); Bombardier: Paul Alexander, Waist gunner: Sam Smith (2 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Klein Bokern, Bersenbruck, four miles E of Furstenau, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 2854.

Delivered Denver 1/12/43; Kearney 16/12/43; Presque Is 24/12/43; Assigned 325BS/92BG [NV-N] Podington 20/1/44; Missing in Action Aalborg 22/2/44 with Bob Wolf, Co-pilot: Bill Montgomery, Navigator: Jesse Price, Bombardier: Capt Morton French, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Rich Gilmore, Radio Operator: Tony Verrico, Ball turret gunner: Howard Jones, Waist gunner: Glenn Asp, Waist gunner: Ken Happe,Tail gunner: Harry Ellis (10 Killed in Action); last seen heading for Sweden, crashed Baltic Sea/North Sea; Missing Air Crew Report 2758. HOT ROCK.

Delivered Hunter 10/1/45; Dow Fd 25/1/45; Assigned 427BS/303BG [GN-G] Molesworth 20/2/45; battle damaged Oranienburg 15/3/45 with ?; force landed continent; Salvaged 20/3/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 30/6/42; Assigned 30BS/19BG Mareeba, Aus. 21/8/42 – first so assigned; Port Moresby, NG 15/9/42; transferred 65BS, 43BS and 63BS/43BG Mareeba, Aus 21/1/43 as BLITZ BUGGY; on 8/3/43 detailed a solo recon. Over Gasmata, where hit by Zeros, wounding four crew*, with Melvin Ehlers*, Co-pilot: Joe Cochran*, Navigator: Warren Bryant*, Bombardier: Tom Boren*, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: ? Madison, Radio Operator: ? Boly, Ball turret gunner: ? Andrade, Waist gunner: ? Gerriola, photo- Leonard Williams,Tail gunner: Dave Eckholt; the ettg landing ship at Dobodura. When aircraft repaired became a transport hack in later years, for Gen Whitehead, 5AF FC Jan 43, re-named Jan ’43 THE OLD MAN. Last recorded at Clark Fd, Phillipines, in July 1948.

Delivered Denver 29/9/42; New Castle 15/10/42; Assigned 303BG Molesworth 21/12/42; transferred 401BS/91BG [LL-E] Bassingbourn 18/1/43; Missing in Action 23m Huls 22/6/43 with Marcell Fountain, Co-pilot: Oscar Diedering, Navigator: Mo Herman, Bombardier: Norm Williams, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Fred Sneed, Radio Operator: Tom StephensRIP 25/7/44, Ball turret gunner: Harry Miller, Waist gunner: Alby Rukas, Waist gunner: Jim Pratt,Tail gunner: Roland Carlson (10POW-two escaped, one being killed later), several enemy aircraft attacked this ship which had brought down eight enemy before crashed North Sea. ROYAL FLUSH!