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Delivered Tulsa 17/9/42; West Palm Beach 17/1/43; Assigned 427BS/303BG [GN-V] Molesworth 15/2/43; took off from RAF Colerne, NI on training mission and involved in landing accident at RAF Filton, 17/10/43 with Dave Shelhamer, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: J.K. Willett, Radio Operator: W.L. Harvie, pass-Capt J.E.Whitaker, Capt M. Supernick, Cpl E.L. Hughes; transferred 1 Base Air Depot, Burtonwood 5/4/44; 419BS/301BG Lucera 7/7/44; {1m} Returned to the USA 4136 BU Tinker 27/4/44; Recl Comp Eglin 3/1/46. LADY/ LUSCIOUS/ LADY.

Delivered Denver 20/11/43; Midford 22/11/43; Salt Lake 24/11/43; Wendover 12/12/43; Assigned 749BS/457BG [K] Glatton 29/1/44; transferred 325BS/92BG [NV-D] Podington 11/3/44; Missing in Action Stettin 11/4/44 with Don Shufeldt, Co-pilot: Jim Poppell, Navigator: Joe Tobin, Bombardier: George Cuneo, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Kyle Purcell, Radio Operator: Jim Mercer, Ball turret gunner: Roland Paquette, Waist gunner: Jim McGee, Waist gunner: Sam Penfield,Tail gunner: Dick Lloyd (10INT); force landed Rinkaby Afd, Kristianstad, Swed; Missing Air Crew Report 3671. Left for UK 20/6/45; Returned to the USA 121 BU Bradley 1/8/45; 4185 BU Independence 30/11/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 21/12/45. Missing Air Crew Report 3671. SHU SHU BABY.

Delivered Cheyenne 20/8/44; Lincoln 7/9/44; Grenier 18/9/44; Assigned 561BS/388BG Knettishall 1/10/44; Missing in Action Cologne 17/10/44; flak, crashed Koblenz, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 9480.

Delivered Cheyenne 3/2/43; New Castle 18/4/43; Assigned 334BS/95BG [BG-K] Framlingham 12/5/43; 5m, transferred 422BS/305BG [JJ-S] Chelveston 17/6/43; Missing in Action Frankfurt (a night mission 3/4 Oct) 4/10/43 with Tom Seay, Bombardier: Norman Sarrat, Radio Operator: Chas Cox, Waist gunner: Bernie Resnicoff,Tail gunner: Jim Burney (5 Prisoner of War); Co-pilot: Ed Troph, Navigator: Bob Pierce, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Clarry Brauser, Ball turret gunner: L.G. McCoy, Waist gunner: Delano Williams (5 Killed in Action); flak, crashed on fire Gross-Karben, 10 miles NE of Frankfurt, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 785.

Delivered Cheyenne 11/2/44; Rapid City 5/3/44; Dow Fd 28/4/44; Assigned 398BG Nuthampstead 6/5/44; no ops, transferred 510BS/351BG [TU-K] Polebrook 24/5/44; 103m Returned to the USA Bradley 11/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 21/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 4/12/45. DEVIL’S MISTRESS.

Delivered Dallas 14-Sep-44; Hunter 29-Sep-44; Dow Field, Bangor, Maine 16-Oct-44; Assigned 836BS/487BG [2G-N] Lavenham 20-Nov-44; battle damaged Darmstadt 24-Dec-44 with Bob Harriman, Brig Gen Fred Castle, Larry Swain, Lt Claude Rowe tg (4 Killed in Action); Capt Edmund Auer, Henry Macarty ex nav, Paul Biri, Quentin Jeffers, Lt Bruno Procopio mickey-op, Lowell Hudson (6 Returned to Duty); enemy aircraft hit #4, crash landed Hods, Bel. (among Killed in Actionwas Brig Gen Fred Castle, 94BG CO who took aircraft down safely away from US troops below, and awarded posthumous Medal of Honor); Salvaged 28-Jan-45; Missing Air Crew Report 11552. TREBLE FOUR.

Delivered Denver 17/1/43; Gore 31/3/43; Lewiston 14/4; Ephrata 29/6/43; Dyersburg 2/7/43; Felts Fd 15/8/43; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Ontario 22/5/45.

Delivered Tulsa 19/5/44; Kearney 30/5/44; Grenier 7/6/44; Assigned 534BS/381BG [GD-H] Ridgewell 28/6/44; Missing in Action Stendahl 8/4/45 with Harvey Adelmeyer, Co-pilot: John Frampton, Navigator: Norman Melvin, tog-Ed Dybicz, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Dick Dailey, Waist gunner: Bob Cobb (6 Killed in Action); Radio Operator: Jim Hayden,Tail gunner: Ed Houser (2 Returned to Duty); flak, crashed Gottingen, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 13873. (last group aircraft lost in action) MISS FLORALA.

Delivered Cheyenne 27/5/44; Kearney 6/6/44; Grenier 26/6/44. Assigned 836BS/487BG [2G- ] Lavenham 30/6/44. On 20 July1944 was involved in a mid-air collision with B-24H 42-52588 ‘Annie’ piloted by David Ozbolton whilst on a bombing practice mission with Capt Paul Stults, Co-pilot: Eldridge Thomas, Navigator: Chas Heil, Bombardier: Lester Walters, pass-T/Sgt Pete CastilloRIP of Injuries 12 Aug, (5 Killed in Service). Howard Parris, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Melvin Brown, Radio Operator: Chas Shaffer, Waist gunner: Julius Brown, passenger -Lt Russ Grantham (6 Returned to Duty). Crashed between Clapstile Far, and Officers Club on base. Salvaged 21/7/44.

Delivered Cheyenne 19/2/44; Hunter 9/3/44; Grenier 7/4/44; Assigned 535BS/381BG [MS-S] Ridgewell 24/4/44; Missing in Action {33+m} Hamburg 6/11/44 with Julius Levitoff, tog-Joe Ward, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Alf Kreutz, Radio Operator: Gil Menendez, Ball turret gunner: Carl Gates, Waist gunner: Tony Skrinski,Tail gunner: Bruce Hillard (7 Prisoner of War); Co-pilot: John Champion, Navigator: Joe Byrnes (2 Killed in Action); flak, crashed Rothenburg, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 10154. CHUG-A-LUG II (IV).

Delivered Cheyenne 14/4/44; Hunter 27/4/44; Dow Fd 11/5/44; Assigned 560BS/388BG [P] Knettishall 12/5/44; destroyed by enemy aircraft at Poltava with Lt Fitzpatrick 21/6/44; Salvaged 24/7/44. CHRISTLIN DADDIES.

Delivered Dallas 30/6/44; Langley 27/7/44; Dow Fd 22/8/44; Assigned 336BS/95BG [ET-L] Horham 25/8/44; 335BS [OE-T]; 344BS [BG-S] battle damaged Cologne 17/10/44 with John Miller, Bombardier: Art Scroggins, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Manuel Houlis, – Harris pass), all [wia; Navigator: Lt David E Tyrrell; – Davis (Killed in Action); ? (5 Prisoner of War); crash landed Belgium. Repaired and returned to group, battle damaged Nurnberg 20/2/45 with John Roy; attacked by Me 163, force landed between Beauraing and Winnene, near Florennes, Bel; rep; with R.E. Parker, force landed A-78 Florennes AF, Bel; 26m, sal 9AF Germany 10/5/46. CADET NURSE aka YANKEE WOLF.

Delivered Cheyenne 4/11/43; Assigned 710BS/447BG Rattlesden 23/12/43; Missing in Action Regensburg 25/2/44 with Merlin Chardi, Co-pilot: Capt Campbell Palfrey, Navigator: Dewayne Pohl, Bombardier: Frank Stumpf, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ray Sheppard, Radio Operator: Rich Adams, Ball turret gunner: Jim Magruder, Waist gunner: John Leonard, Waist gunner: Ernie Lacross,Tail gunner: Larry House (10 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed Ottweiler, between Alschbach & Niederwurzbach, nine miles E of Saarbrucken, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 2891.

Cheyenne 3/3/44; Hunter 12/3/44; Dow Fd 9/4/44; Assigned 600BS/398BG [N8-M] Nuthampstead 24/4/44; 601BS; battle damaged Germersheim, Ger 13/1/45 with Larry Delancy; crew OK; on return crash landed RAF Woodbridge, Sfk, UK; Salvaged 14/1/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 5/2/43; 94th Bomb Group Pueblo 18/2/43; Salina 27/2/43; Brookley 19/3/43; Smoky Hill 23/3/43; Presque Is 9/4/43; Assigned 332nd Bomb Squadron/94th Bomb Group [XM-F] Earls Colne 12/5/43 named ‘FIFI’; Rougham 13/6/43; transferred to the 547th Bomb Squadron/384th Bomb Group at Station 106, Grafton Underwood [SO-D] on 16 July 1943; Missing in Action on a mission to Nantes, France, 16 September 1943 with William M. Price III, Co-pilot: Lee B. Coleman, Navigator: Harry Blakely Harvey, Bombardier: Leroy A. Arquette, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Earl R. Beaty, Radio Operator: Robert E. Smith, Ball turret gunner: Daniel Griffin, Waist gunner: James C. Leigh, Waist gunner: Earl James Nelson, Tail gunner: Ralph G. Grant (10 Returned to Duty); Shot down by enemy aircraft and ditched off south coast, all rescued by Air Sea Rescue launch. No Missing Air Crew Report, named ‘OLD BATTLE AXE’.

Delivered Dallas 11/7/44; Langley 4/8/44; Dow Fd 12/9/44; Assigned 322BS/91BG [LG-Q] Bassingbourn 4/10/44; Missing in Action Merseburg 2/11/44 with Capt Roy Hammer, Oran Harper, Raphael Czepkiewicz, Modesto Olivo, Bill Nagy, Mike Duran, Oliver Birch, Joe Young (8 Prisoner of War); Emile Freeman (Killed in Action); enemy aircraft set right wing & radio room ablaze, crashed Micheln, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 10143. MY BABY II.

Delivered Cheyenne 26/5/44; Kearney 6/6/44; Grenier 18/6/44; Assigned 422BS/305BG Chelveston 28/6/44; Missing in Action Berlin 5/12/44 with Dick Pounds, Martin Burstein, Frank Roberts, Channing Murray, Ken Knudtson, John Robinett, Bob Jahn, Hillman Oden (8 Prisoner of War); Bob Phillips (Killed in Action); flak, crashed Wedesbuettel, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 11043. WALLY’S WHEELS.

Delivered Cheyenne 23/1/44; Seattle 26/1/44; Gr Island 7/2/44; Presque Is 21/2/44; Assigned 390BG Framlingham 23/2/44; transferred 457BG Glatton 4/3/44; 367BS/306BG [GY-S] Thurleigh 12/3/44; Missing in Action Berlin 5/12/44 with Chas Manning, Co-pilot: Paul Wilson, Navigator: Norman Schneider, Bombardier: Paul Tannenbaum, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bill Nusser, Radio Operator: Vince Johnson, Ball turret gunner: Harry Gile, Waist gunner: Edwin Dewey,Tail gunner: John Cox (9 Killed in Action); flak, crashed Nth Sea; Missing Air Crew Report 11039. FIGHTIN’ CARBARN HAMMERSLAW.

Delivered Denver 22/12/42; Salina 3/1/43; West Palm Beach 31/3/43; Assigned 416BS/99BG Navarin 3/3/43; Oudna 4/8/43; Tortorella 11/12/43; {111m} became weather aircraft with Dennis Gaeth & crew; Returned to the USA Morrison 23/9/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 26/9/45. SWEATER GIRL.

Delivered Long Beach 28/5/43; Tinker 5/6/43; Presque Is 15/6/43; Orlando 9/7/43; Patterson 19/7/43; Assigned 419BS/301BG Cerignola 16/12/43; Lucera 1/2/44; {46m} Missing in Action Blechhammer 30/6/44 with Chas Dodrill, (10 Returned to Duty); ditched Vis Is, all survive.