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Delivered Cheyenne 29/10/43; Denver 18/11/43; Kearney 16/12/43; Patterson 8/3/44; New Castle 26/4/44; Grenier 5/5/44; Assigned 751BS/457BG [F] Glatton 31/5/44; Missing in Action Brux 12/9/44 with Harry Selling (Prisoner of War); Co-pilot: Floyd French, Navigator: Bob Marcum, Bombardier: Howard Peterson, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Jim Shadman, Radio Operator: Erwin Krueger, Ball turret gunner: Don Conley, Waist gunner: Steve Gallucci,Tail gunner: Leo Ryder (8 Killed in Action); hit by enemy aircraft cannonfire in cockpit and bomb bay, only one chute seen, crashed Eberswalde, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 10207. AMERICAN EAGLE.

Delivered McChord 4/12/41; Assigned 42BS/11BG Hickam 18/10/42; Returned to the USA 17/10/43; Written off 8/10/44.

Delivered Tulsa 28/3/44; Kearney 7/4/44; Grenier 14/4/44; Assigned 603BS/398BG [N7-S] Nuthampstead 5/5/44; (24m) Missing in Action Cauvincourt (Bretteville), Fr 8/8/44 lead aircraft with Capt Meyer Wagner, Navigator: Tom Stitz, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ray Gibeau, Radio Operator: Bill Germiller, Waist gunner: John Werner,Tail gunner: Lt Fred Kushera (5 Prisoner of War); Bombardier: Chas Arnold, Ball turret gunner: Jim Hochadel (2 Killed in Action); mp-Capt Bob Hopkins, Xn-Vonnerlin Wernecke (2 evaded capture); flak hits in #2 & #3, crashed Le Chateau, near Segrie-Fontaine, E of Vire, Fr. Missing Air Crew Report 7384 [?7382].

Assigned 360BS/303BG [PU-D] Bangor 14-Sep-42; Molesworth 16-Oct-42; Missing in Action St Nazaire 3-Jan-43 shot down by enemy aircraft, crashed Escoublac Forest, West of St Nazaire, France. 7KIA 3POW MACR 15464. Navigator: Glen Herrington lost leg, was captured and later repatriated.

Delivered Cheyenne 14/6/44; Kearney 25/6/44; Dow Fd 9/7/44; Assigned 836BS/487BG Lavenham 10/7/44; transferred 835BS/486BG [H8-B] Sudbury 27/10/44; {58m} Missing in Action Dresden 17/4/45 with Dick Allbright, Co-pilot: Bob Miller, Navigator: Carl Runge, Bombardier: Milton Carmack, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Merle Davison, Radio Operator: Junior Raines, Ball turret gunner: Edgar Coghill, Waist gunner: Styles Westbrook,Tail gunner: Bernie Poole (9 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed near Saaz, Czecko.. Missing Air Crew Report 14197. (last 486 crew shot down) OH MISS AGNES.

Delivered Salt Lake Strategic Arms Depot (SAD) 26-Nov-41; Assigned 25BS/6BG 25-Dec-41; Panama 1-Jun-42; Puerto Rico 11-Jul-42; Guatemala 10-Aug-42; Returned to US (RETUS) Brownsville 3-Oct-42; Guatemala 8-Jan-43; Albrook, Canal Zone 14-Jan-43; mid-air collision with Bill Ellerbe 17-May-43, force landed Guayaquil, Ecuador; Written off 26-Jun-46.(? Assigned 19BG and destroyed on ground at Bandoeng, Java, 20-Feb-42?). Never served in the UK.

Assigned 353BS/301BG Westover 12/7/42; Chelveston 9/8/42; Tafaraoui 26/11/42; Maison Blanche 5/12/42; Biskra 16/12/42; Ain M’Lila 17/1/43; St Donat 6/3/43; crashed 28/5/43 {42m} Salvaged. ITZABITCH.

Delivered Denver 15/5/43; Presque Is 13/6/43; Assigned 32BS/301BG St Donat 14/6/43; Oudna 6/8/43; Cerignola 7/12/43; Lucera 1/2/44; 78m became weather ship /44; depot 6/10/44; Salvaged 11/7/45. SLICK CHICK.

Assigned to the 544th Bombardment Squadron, squadron code SU-K, 384th Bombardment Group, Morrison Army Air Field, Florida on 13 March 1943, Moved to Grafton Underwood, Station 106, UK on 25 May 1943 and subsequently transferred to the 546th Bombardment Squadron, squadron code BK-K. Missing In Action (MIA) on a mission to Hamburg on 25 July 1943 with Pilot P. J. Ward, Navigator Robert Bederman, Engineer/Top Turret Gunner Bert Landrum Jr. (3 POW); Copilot Walter J. Mondo, Bombardier George J. Janciek, Radio Operator Frank Chiafari, Ball Turret Gunner Nicholas D. Ciamarra, Waist Gunner John L. Holmes, Waist Gunner John F. Jackson, Tail Gunner William C. Patton, 7 Killed In Action (KIA). This aircraft was shot down by flak and crashed at Neritz, four miles Southwest of Bad Oldesloe, Germany. Missing Air Crew Report (MACR) 16117. Plane Name: ROYAL FLUSH.

Delivered Salt Lake SAD 2/12/41; Assigned 88RS/7BG [aircraft 12] 40RS/19BG Hickam 26/12/41; Returned to the USA Nov/42; Tinker 16/12/43; Assigned RCAF [9206]; 168th Heavy Transport Sq Rockcliffe, Ontario; Used for VIPs and mail to Prestwick, Scotland. Sold to Argentina as LV-RTO, Struck Off Charge 1964.

Delivered Cheyenne 15/1/44; MacDill 30/1/44; Morrison 5/3/44; Assigned 483BG Tortorella 15/3/44; transferred 96BS/2BG Amendola 31/3/44; Missing in Action {10m} Brasov 6/5/44 with Bob Weiss, Bombardier: George Thomas, Radio Operator: Julius Entrekin, Ball turret gunner: Wilbur Earl, Waist gunner: Willard Curtiss, Waist gunner: Leslie Wolfe,Tail gunner: Ivan Foster (7 evaded capture); Co-pilot: Neil Coady, Navigator: Edwin Bentley, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ray Ford (3POW-actually captured by Chetnick partisans and sold to Germans for $30 each!); #3 & #4 engines out and 10 chutes seen; crashed ?; Missing Air Crew Report 4793. LONESOME POLECAT.

Delivered Cheyenne 25/8/44; Patterson 8/9/44; Hunter 16/9/44; Grenier 25/9/44; Assigned 427BS/303BG [GN-E] Molesworth 3/10/44; transferred 457BG Glatton 22/5/45; 351BG Polebrook 29/5/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 13/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 18/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 21/11/45. 5O RAGGED.

Delivered Cheyenne 30/4/43; Gore 14/5/43; Kearney 27/5/43; Tinker 1/6/43; Dow Fd 6/6/43; Assigned 336BS/95BG [ET-L] Horham 15/6/43; 36m, Missing in Action Frankfurt 29/1/44 with Jim Higgins, Navigator: Don Gallagher, Bombardier: Vern Archibald, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: John Lugg, Waist gunner: Bob Humphrey (5 Killed in Action); Co-pilot: Jim Munn, Radio Operator: Ray Garvey, Ball turret gunner: Austin Dulaney, Waist gunner: Gene Rountree,Tail gunner: Howard Thompson (5 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft shot #1 engine out, crashed Lutrebois, three miles SE of Bastogne, Bel.; Missing Air Crew Report 2256. SPOOK #V (No. 5).

Delivered Salt Lake SAD 2/12/41; Assigned 98BS/11BG Hickam 25/10/42; with Lt Hughey, Co-pilot: Gilbert Erb flew from Longreach, Aus. To 7 Mile Drome, Port Moresby; eventually ret. to Aus, Written off 15/6/44. (Figured in Midway TV Documentary.)

Delivered Lincoln 25/9/44; Grenier 7/10/44; Assigned 349BS/100BG [XR-B] Thorpe Abbotts 11/10/44; transferred 751BS/457BG [U] Glatton 8/11/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 28/5/45; Sth Plains 7/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 8/12/45. TRIP’S TROUBLES.

Delivered Hunter 11/7/44; Dow Fd 20/7/44; Assigned 32BS/301BG Lucera 29/7/44; Missing in Action Vipiteno 20/4/45 with Bob Adams, Co-pilot: Llewellyn, Navigator: Blair, Bombardier: Knapp, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Stemac, Radio Operator: Rasmussen, Ball turret gunner: Arman, Waist gunner: Burnham, Waist gunner: Gamel,Tail gunner: Whitbeck (10INT); flak, #1 & 4 feathered; force landed Dubendorf, Switz; Missing Air Crew Report 14030 (last US crew to land Switz); Ret Burtonwood, UK 1/9/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 18/12/45. PRINCESS O’ROURKE.

Delivered Tulsa 21/3/44; Kearney 5/4/44; Grenier 21/4/44; Assigned 600BS/398BG [N8-V] Nuthampstead 5/5/44; crashed in bad weather on return from Merseburg 25/11/44 with Vic Hansard, Bill Baker, Bob Davis (3 Killed in Action); Bill Lakes, Bill Esterley, Ed Briskie, Bob Cantwell, Bill Tolclough, Jim Fowler (6 Returned to Duty); crashed Read Wood, near Barkway, Herts., UK, Salvaged. LADY ELLA.

B-17F 41-24585 “Wulfe Hund” was assigned 360BS/303BG [PU-B] Bangor 14-Oct-42; Molesworth 16-Oct-42; Missing in Action Rouen-Sotteville 12-Dec-42 sustained damage from enemy aircraft, force landed in a field in France. Was removed and repaired by the Germans and flew with KG200. No MACR issued. 4POW 6EVD.

Delivered MacDill 25/12/41; with R.J. Reed force landed Habbaniya, Iraq, 14/1/42; transferred 7BG Java Project X 29/2/42; Returned to the USA Bolling 16/8/42; Langley 9/7/44; Selfridge 6/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 24/9/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 17/8/44; Lincoln 26/8/44; Grenier 18/9/44; Assigned 749BS/457BG Glatton 19/9/44; Missing in Action Merseburg 2/11/44 with Bruce Harrison, Co-pilot: Bob McGuire, Navigator: Ed Mullen, Bombardier: Pete Elsbeck, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bob Rhyner, Radio Operator: Martin Silverman, Ball turret gunner: Joe Youngross (7 Prisoner of War); Waist gunner: Tony Cerrone,Tail gunner: Chas Gordon (2 Killed in Action); enemy aircraft, crashed Nebra, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 10321.