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Delivered Salt Lake Strategic Arms Depot (SAD) with Maurice Horgan 20-Nov-41; Assigned 22BS/7BG Java 13-Jan-42 with Jack Hughes; crashed on take off Palembang, Sumatra 22-Feb-42 with Jack Hughes, crew ?; Japanese actually stripped down removing engines, etc. for repairs to other B-17s; officially Written off 9-Jan-45. Never served in the UK

Delivered Cheyenne 29/1/44; Kearney 20/2/44; Presque Is 27/2/44; Assigned 457BG Glatton 11/3/44; transferred 545BS/384BG [JD-M] Grafton Underwood 12/3/44; Missing in Action Augsburg 13/4/44 with Herb Swenson, Co-pilot: Don Smith, Navigator: Chas White, Bombardier: Austin Dunning, Radio Operator: Clarry Wieseckel, Waist gunner: Don Brown (6 evaded capture); Ball turret gunner: Gordon McIntosh, Waist gunner: Ralph Sack,Tail gunner: Ed Zabinski (3 Prisoner of War); Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Jim Young (KIA-in enemy aircraft attack); enemy aircraft, crashed Berismenil, near Laroche-en-Ardenne, 12 miles N of Bastogne, Fr; Missing Air Crew Report 3870.

Delivered Denver 24/12/43; Oklahoma City 8/1/44; Savannah 19/1/44; Morrison 20/1/44; Assigned 348BS/99BG Tortorella 1/2/44; {5m} transferred 429BS/2BG Amendola 28/3/44; Salvaged 4/9/44. KRAUT CHASER.

Delivered Cheyenne 29/5/44; Hunter 7/6/44; Grenier 26/6/44; Assigned 326BS/92BG [JW-C] Podington 17/7/44 HI HO SILVER; battle damaged Dresden 17/4/45 with ?; crash landed Milvelles afd, Bel; Salvaged 20/4/45. SILVER.

Delivered Salt Lake then Sacramento Strategic Arms Depot (SAD) 19-Jan-41; Assigned 28BS/19BG Hawaii; transferred (Project X) 19-Feb-42 with McPherson; 63BS/43BG Java 19-Sep-42; transferred 9BS/7BG, back to 43BG crashed Queensland, Australia 6-Jul-42 with Thompson. Salvaged 1944, served as transport/hack then scrapped Manila, Phillipines 1946;. MONKEY BIZZ-NESS. Never served in the UK.

Delivered Denver 22/3/43; Pueblo 8/4/43; Smoky Hill 11/5/43; Dow Fd 21/5/43; Assigned 535BS/381BG [MS-S] Ridgewell 24/5/43 LUCIFER JR. with Melvin Hecker, Bill Cormany, Edwin Frost, Harry Becker, Bob Crain, Bob Roeder, Earl Miller, Jim O’Hara, Chas Russell, Frank Rumberger; 7m transferred 364BS/305BG [WF-A] Chelveston 22/8/43; Missing in Action Schweinfurt 14/10/43 with Bob Holt, Co-pilot: Aubrey Young, Navigator: Ed Ball, Bombardier: Bryce Barrett, Radio Operator: Doris Bowman,Tail gunner: Mike Letanosky (6 Killed in Action), Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Chas Blackwell, Ball turret gunner: Bill Frieson, Waist gunner: Frank Rollow, Waist gunner: Floyd Lenning (4 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Immendorf/Floeverich, near Puffendorf, 12 miles N of Aachen, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 914. THE UNCOUTH BASTARD.

Assigned 358BS/303BG Westover 27/8/42; transferred 368BS/306BG [BO-V/E] Thurleigh 26/9/42; sustained battle damaged Kassel 28/7/43, with Bill Dooley, Co-pilot: Roy Ranck, Navigator: J.Lervy, Bombardier: W. Swatt, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: J.Tobin, Radio Operator: Immanuel Enos, Ball turret gunner: P.Lester, Waist gunner: Fred Nabors, Waist gunner: L. Brandon,Tail gunner: John Lotti; (1O Returned to Duty) returned to crash landed at Sudbourne, Suffolk, UK. Salvaged AFSC Burtonwood.

Delivered Cheyenne 15/1/44; Gr Island 28/1/44; Assigned 336BS/95BG [ET-R] Horham 9/2/44; 18m, Missing in Action Rostock 11/4/44 with Leo Francis (KIA-as he prepared to bale out with crew); Co-pilot: Martin Taylor, Navigator: Burchard Day, Bombardier: Frank Henerson, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ray Buske, Radio Operator: Howard Pollard, Ball turret gunner: A.L. Graves, Waist gunner: Joe Misulich, Waist gunner: George McGibbney,Tail gunner: John Stastny (9 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft KO’d #1, then #4 caught fire with damaged wing, crashed Laendorf, four miles S of Gnoien, near Boddin, 19 miles SE of Rostock, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 3803.

Delivered Salt Lake Strategic Arms Depot (SAD) 9-Sep-41; Assigned 88RS/7BG [aircraft 13] then 40BS/19BG Hickam Field, HI, one of the aircraft arrived over Pearl Harbor 7-Dec-41 with Lt Frank Bostrom, Lt Wilson Cook, Lt Earl Sheggrud, Avn Cdt Bob Carruthers, T/Sgt Herb Collins, S/Sgt Les Hansen, Pfc Herb Wheatley, Pfc Elwood Shouldis, Pfc Clyde Horn, slightly damaged by Japanese strafing and landed Kuhuku golf course; transferred 88RS/19BG; then 7BG; damaged Townsville, Australia 22-Feb-42 when colliding with 41-2434; eventually through Batchelor Field, Australia, and to Del Monte, Philippines for a sortie against Japanese landings at Legaspi Mar-42; eventually used as a hangar queen before Written off at Brisbane 31/1/44. SAN ANTONIO ROSE.

Delivered Cheyenne 16/1/45; Hunter 12/2/45; Grenier 20/2/45; Assigned 407BS/92BG [PY-M] Podington 22/3/45; transferred 603BS/398BG [N7-M] Nuthampstead 7/5/45; no ops, transferred 306BG Thurleigh 23/5/45; Salvaged 9AF Germany 6/11/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 29/1/44; Kearney 4/2/44; Grenier 25/2/44; Assigned 751BS/457BG [H] Glatton 17/3/44; on navigation training exercise to RAF Oakley 10/5/44 with Capt Vinton Mays, Co-pilot: Joe Norman, Navigator: Lionel Cussons, Bombardier: Dan McLaughlin, etgg-Stan Krohn, Radio Operator: Jack Derry, pass-Major Chas Nelson (7 Returned to Duty); on t/o from Oakley fire broke out in nose section, pilot stopped taxying and ordered all out; Salvaged 12/5/44.

Delivered Salt Lake Strategic Arms Depot (SAD) 9-Nov-41; crashed burned out Fort Douglas 12-Nov-41. Salvaged. Never served in the UK.

Delivered Cheyenne 4/7/44; Kearney 14/7/44; Grenier 20/7/44; Assigned 332BS/94BG [XM-J] Rougham 22/7/44; transferred 379BG Kimbolton 23/7/44; 457BG Glatton 24/4/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 1/7/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 11/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 25/11/45. ICE COLD KATIE.

Delivered Hunter 26/10/44; Fairfield 5/11/44; Assigned 836BS/487BG [2G-N] Lavenham 19/11/44; transferred 327BS/92BG [UX-M] Podington 30/12/44; Salvaged 13/5/45; re-ass 10 HBS Oberpfaffenhofen 30/4/47; Recl Comp 5/8/48. BABY STEVE.

Delivered Dallas 27/6/44; Langley 27/7/44; Dow Fd 4/8/44; Assigned 335BS/95BG [OE-O] Horham 10/8/44; 336BS [ET-O], then 412BS [GW-O]; with W.V. Owen force landed Framlingham afb, Sfk 25/12/44; battle damaged Hamburg 30/3/45 with E.R. Parrish[wia]; force landed RAF Woodbridge (ELG), UK; 1WIA 8RTD; 34m, Returned to the USA Bradley 26/6/45; Sth Plains 29/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 29/11/45. HELL’S BELLE.

Delivered Salt Lake Strategic Arms Depot (SAD) 30-Nov-41; Assigned 38RS/19BG [aircraft 30], was one of the aircraft that arrived over Pearl Harbor 7-Dec-41 with Maj Truman H. Landon, Lt Bill Ellis, Lt George Newton, Lt Chester Budz, Avn Cdt Erwin Cihak, M/Sgt John Meeks, T/Sgt Jesse Schneider, S/Sgt Albt Brawley, Sgt Ben Hale; transferred 42BS/11BG Hickam Field, HI. 30-Dec-42; transferred 5AF 31-Aug-44; Written off 11-Jun-44. Never served in the UK.

Delivered Cheyenne 29/5/43; Gore 31/5/43; Smoky Hill 10/6/43; Gr Isle 14/6/43; Dow Fd 27/6/43; Assigned 94BG Rougham 27/6/43; transferred 334BS/95BG [BG-L] Horham 7/43; 3m, Missing in Action Bonn 12/8/43 with Ed Lemke, Co-pilot: Rueben Dahl, Navigator: Edgar Kaufman, Bombardier: John Welles, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Francis Gadwa, Radio Operator: Lee Burroughs, Ball turret gunner: Alf Silva, Waist gunner: Dan Rangold, Waist gunner: John Whitfield,Tail gunner: Attilio Martini (10 Prisoner of War); battle damaged before target, crash landed eight miles NE Malmedy, Bel.; (c/l Mutzenich, near Monshau, 17 miles S of Aachen, Ger.); Missing Air Crew Report 254. PICADILLY COMMANDO.

Delivered Cheyenne 25/5/43; Tinker 7/6/43; Smoky Hill 18/6/43; Casper 28/6/43; Kearney 30/6/43; Eglin 7/7/43; Kearney 9/7/43; Dow Fd 10/7/43; Assigned 419BS/301BG St Donat 26/7/43; Oudna 6/8/43; Cerignola 7/12/43; Lucera 1/2/44; {17m} transferred 341BS/97BG Amendola ? ; Missing in Action Budapest 3/4/44 with Bob Daniels, Anthony, Hamilton, Tiller, Johnson, Thorp, Bernius, Davis, Flanagan, Reilly; flak KO’d two engines, crashed Sarajevo, Yugo; Missing Air Crew Report 3581. LITTLE RED HEAD.

Delivered Patterson 5/9/44; Hunter 20/9/44; Grenier 2/10/44; Assigned 545th Bomb SQuadron, 384th Bomb Group [JD-N] Grafton Underwood on 7 October 1944; Missing in Action Zeitz 30/11/44 with Arthur Dexter Champ, Menceslaus Anthony Gerlach, Rodney Penrose, John Junior Sherman, Robert Leroy Love (5 Killed in Action); Charles Leroy Williams, Jack Ramon Chidley, Gerald Fabian Foretich, Wesley C. Borgeson (4 Prisoner of War); shot down by flak, crashed Wuppertal; Missing Air Crew Report 11128.

Delivered Salt Lake Strategic Arms Depot (SAD) 10-Nov-41; Assigned 6AF 25-Dec-41; SAAD 21-Mar-42; Guatemala 4-Oct-42; Returned to the USA Tinker, OK 3-Aug-44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) (sold for scrap metal in USA) Arledge, 23-Nov-44. (?Ass 7BG, damaged on ground at Bandeng, Jave, 20-Feb-42?). Never served in the UK.