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Delivered Salt Lake SAD 30/11/41; Assigned 7BG Java then to 26BS & 42BS/43BG Hickam 19/11/42; Returned to the USA 11/1/44 (known as a gas hog!); Scott 17/1/45; Chanute 21/1/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 12/10/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 13/12/43; Kearney 30/12/43; Romulus 21/1/44; Grenier 2/2/44; Assigned 327BS/92BG [UX-D] Podington 20/2/44; battle damaged Merseburg 11/9/44 with Russell Bundensen, Co-pilot: Clyde Wren, Navigator: Henry Vicars, Bombardier: Howard Gollay, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ken Garver, Ball turret gunner: Arvo Wallila, Waist gunner: Don Nelling,Tail gunner: Ed Snapp (8 Returned to Duty); Radio Operator: Leon Kennedy (Prisoner of War); Missing Air Crew Report 8808; repaired, crashed on take off for mission with Bob Seeber, (6 Killed in Service) 24/12/44; Salvaged. HURBERT.

Delivered Cheyenne 23/2/44; Kearney 12/3/44; Dow Fd 4/4/44; Assigned 547BS/384BG [SO-T] Grafton Underwood 11/4/44; was a spade to attack Munich16/7/44 with Edmund Mulvehill, Co-pilot: John McNamara, Navigator: Chas Shoolbread, tog-Gerhardt Radde, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Hilbert Radtke, Radio Operator: Bill van Natter, Ball turret gunner: Bob Irwin, Waist gunner: Frank Simeone,Tail gunner: George Malone (9 Returned to Duty); on return made a wheels up landing at RAF Woodbridge, Sfk. Salvaged 18/7/44. UMBRIAGO.

Delivered Cheyenne 8/3/44; Gr Island 21/3/44; Kearney 10/5/44; Bangor 25/5/44; Assigned 561BS/388BG Knettishall 26/5/44; battle damaged en route Poltava 21/6/44 with Douglas Glen McArthur (full crew list see below); force landed France; re-ass 49BS/2BG Amendola, It; taxi accident with RAF aircraft 5/2/45 with Dick Edelen; Salvaged 6/2/45.

Delivered Salt Lake Strategic Arms Depot (SAD) 30-Nov-41; Assigned 88RS/7BG [aircraft 11] then 19BG Hickam Field, HI arrived over Pearl Harbor 7-Dec-41 with Capt Rich H. Carmichael, Capt Jim Twaddell, Lt Don Tower, Lt Kermit Meyers, Avn Cdt Theo Pascoe, T/Sgt Wallace Carter, S/Sgt Jack Tribble, S/Sgt Sam Tower, S/Sgt Harry Boyer; transferred 40BS then 93BS; shot down Rabual, New Britain 7-Aug-42 in McArthur’s staff rescue attempt, with Harl Pease (MOH), Chester Czechowski (both survived crash landed but later executed); Co-pilot: F/Sgt Fred Earp (RAAF), Navigator: Rich Wood, Bombardier: Bob Burleson, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Rex Matson, Radio Operator: Alvar Liimataien, David Brown, Fred Oettel (7 Killed in Action); Missing Air Crew Report 16020. Written off 15/6/44. WHY DON’T WE DO THIS MORE OFTEN ?

Delivered Geiger 419BS/301BG 28/4/42; Assigned 97BG Polebrook 8/42; 327BS/92BG [UX-S] Bovingdon /9/42 as T/T a/c; with Warren K. Manning crash landed 25/6/44; Written off 26/6/44. THE BAT OUTA HELL.

Delivered Long Beach 2/11/43; Kearney 13/11/43; Assigned 325BS/92BG [NV-D] Podington 6/1/44; Missing in Action Wilhelmshafen 3/3/44 with Walt Lansford, Co-pilot: Bob McMurry, Navigator: Bob Nugent, Bombardier: Frank Pearson, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: John Lindauer, Radio Operator: George Tungkvist{body washed up Busum, Ger. 21/5/44}, Ball turret gunner: Wayne Beck, Waist gunner: Wendell Phillips, Waist gunner: Ken Bush,Tail gunner: John Goshy (10 Killed in Action); flak, crashed North Sea, Missing Air Crew Report 2857.

Delivered Salt Lake Strategic Arms Depot (SAD) with Dave Rawls 30-Nov-41; Assigned 88RS/7BG Hickam Field, HI during Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor 7-Dec-41 with Lt Harry Chaffin, Co-pilot: Lt Mabry Simmons, Navigator: Lt Walt Johnson, Bombardier: Avn Cdt Hubert Mobley, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: T/Sgt Russ Mackey, Radio Operator: S/Sgt Lucius Weeks, g-Sgt Irving McMichael, g-Pfc Bob Barnard; transferred 40BS/19BG; then 65BS/43BG; shot down over Vunakanau 26-Jun-43, crashed Baining Mountains, SE of Rabual with Bill Sarlsfield, Co-pilot: Charles Trimmingham, Bombardier: Francis Peattie, Assigned Bombardier: Herman Knott, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bob Christopherson, Radio Operator: Ken Gionet, Waist gunner: Henry Garcia, with g Bob Griebel,Tail gunner: Pace Payne (9 Killed in Action); Navigator: Jose Holguin (POW 17-Jul-43 until Sep-45), later executed at Rabaul, New Britain; Written off 28-Jun-43. Missing Air Crew Report 14590. NAUGHTY BUT NICE. Never served in the UK.

Delivered Tulsa 20/3/44; Kearney 2/4/44; Grenier 21/4/44; Assigned 412BS/95BG [QW-B] Horham 22/4/44 STAND BY; 335BS [OE-B]; with W.C. Shaw force landed Thorpe Abbotts afb 16/12/44; 87m, battle damaged Leipzig 6/4/45 with Bob Davis, Co-pilot: Larry Morgan, Navigator: John Coalson, Bombardier: Fred Gunnard, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Archie Stice, Radio Operator: Albt Fascenelli, Ball turret gunner: Dale Kennedy, Waist gunner: Bill Ballou,Tail gunner: Jake Brooks (9 Killed in Action); crashed Sonian Forest, south of Brussels, Belgium; Missing Air Crew Report ?; Salvaged 8/4/45; GOIN’ MY WAY.

Delivered Cheyenne 5/6/44; Kearney 19/6/44; Grenier 30/6/44; Assigned 839BS/487BG [R5-Q] Lavenham 2/7/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 12/7/45; 4185 BU Independence 13/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 9/12/45.

Delivered Boeing 12/6/43; Fairfield 2/7/43; Gore 10/7/43; Wright 3/8/43; Clinton 12/8/43; 810 BU Laurnburg (Glider training) 17/6/43; MAC HQ Wright 6/7/43; Mat Flt Muroc 31/8/43; Wright 31/10/43; 4100 BU Patterson 17/1/45; 4000 BU Wright 25/3/45; 4117 BU Robins 22/4/45; AMC Wright 30/6/46; 4000 BU Patterson 31/3/47; Recl Comp 1/12/47.

Delivered Salt Lake Strategic Arms Depot (SAD) 26-Nov-41; Assigned 98BS/11BG Hickam Filed, HI 26-Oct-42, transferred 42BS; Missing in Action 28-Dec-42 over Solomon Is. with James R. Harp, Co-pilot: Tom Omar, Navigator: Thornton Lewis, Bombardier: Elwood Miller, Chas Noble, Howard Krantz, Sanford Caviness, walt Stephanik, Henrry Majeski. Missing Air Crew Report 16271. OL’ SHASTA. Never served in the UK.

Delivered Dallas 12/5/44; Langley 26/6/44; Grenier 9/7/44; Assigned 385BG [—Q] Gt Ashfield 10/7/44; transferred 544BS/384BG [SU-Y] Grafton Underwood 13/8/44; Missing in Action Plauen 19/3/45 with Bill Kramer, Emmett Culhane, Chas Fell, Walt Robitzki, Dwight Scrivner, Bill Brooks, Jack Pheiffer, Francis Lukosavich, Keith Krauss (9 Killed in Action); flak, crashed Ostend, Bel; Missing Air Crew Report 13366.

Delivered Lincoln 20/12/44; Dow Fd 3/1/45; Assigned 836BS/487BG Lavenham 8/2/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 10/7/45; Independence 12/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 28/12/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 4/12/44; Hunter 16/12/44; Grenier 6/1/45; Assigned 326BS/92BG [JW-O] Podington 3/2/45; 398BG Nuthampstead 7/5/45; no ops, transferred 306BG Thurleigh 25/5/45; Salvaged 9AF Germany 30/10/46.

Delivered with John Dougherty Salt Lake Strategic Arms Depot (SAD) 16-Nov-41; Assigned 43BS/11BG; Missing in Action on recon. flight over Northern Solomon Is. with Major Marion N. Pharr (Sq CO), Co-pilot: Bob Pate, Navigator: Tom Waren, Bombardier: Rich Lehr, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Cecil Rogers, James Winey, Ray Nebbach, Sam McKee, Edwin Decker. (9KIA?), 7/8/42 [aircraft No.42]. Failed to return.

Delivered Tulsa 21/2/44; Hunter 1/3/44; Homestead 6/3/44; Assigned 96BS/2BG Amendola 15/3/44; Missing in Action Brux 21/7/44 with Jim Wagner, Co-pilot: David Robins, Bombardier: Herbert Johnson, Navigator: Jim Shea, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Jim Lutterbach, Radio Operator: John Wick, Ball turret gunner: Willis Mehl, Waist gunner: John Black,Tail gunner: Willard Long (9 Killed in Action); Waist gunner: Nick Gross (Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, #3 engine on fire, three chutes seen, crashed Reindlmühl, Austria; Missing Air Crew Report 6684.

Delivered Lincoln 2/12/44; Dow Field 16/12/44; Assigned 837BS/487BG Lavenham 20/2/45; 836BS [2G-S]; 838BS [2C-S]; Missing in Action Briest 10/4/45 with Max Hauenstein (evaded capture); Eduardo DeLachica (Killed in Action); Joel Jolet, Bill Fitzsimons, Ernie Lewis, Oliver Poindexter, Guy Marinello, Laverne “Doug” Walker, Merle Goss (7 Prisoner of War); jet enemy aircraft, crashed Burg, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 13884. FOREVER AMBER.

Delivered Salt Lake Strategic Arms Depot (SAD) 26-Nov-41; Assigned 6AF Panama 30-Dec-41; Guatemala 15-Apr-42; Puerto Rico 31-Jul-42; Guatemala 10-Sep-42; Panama 23-Nov-42; Returned to the USA (RETUS) Tinker, OK 22-Jul-44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) (sold for scrap metal in USA) Albuquerque, NM 2-Aug-45.

Delivered Cheyenne 24/4/43; Smoky Hill 5/5/43; Dow Fd 25/5/43; Assigned 412BS/95BG [QW-H] Horham 15/6/43; 10m, severe battle damaged Schweinfurt 17/8/43 with Don Eastling, rest unknown; Salvaged 24/8/43. WEE BONNIE.