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Assigned 423BS/306BG [RD-T] Denver 12/8/42; Thurleigh 18/11/42; transferred 545BS/384BG [JD-O] Grafton Underwood 22/8/43; Missing in Action Leverkusen 1/12/43 with Bruce Sundlun (evaded capture), Bombardier: George Hayes, Ball turret gunner: Harry Cologne, Waist gunner: Mike Cappelletti, Waist gunner: Chester Snyder,Tail gunner: Frank Lekas (5 Killed in Action), Co-pilot: Andy Boles, Navigator: Reino Jylkka, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Bill Ramsey, Waist gunner: Chester Snyder (4 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Snellengem, six miles S of Bruges, Bel. Missing Air Crew Report 1334. DAMN YANKEE.

Delivered Denver 31/12/43; Presque Is 7/1/44; Assigned 326BS/92BG [JW-E] Podington 23/3/44; trans; sal 9th AF on Continent 31/10/45. MARY B.

Delivered Cheyenne 28/11/43; Kearney 12/12/43; Cleveland 26/12/43; Presque Is 30/12/43; Assigned 327BS/92BG [UX-L] Podington 27/1/44; Damaged on the 6 March 1944 mission to bomb the ball-bearing plant at Erkner, in the outskirts of Berlin. Walsh crew. Battle damaged on mission to Kaiserlautern. 30/12/44 with Joe Van Stratton, Ed Porter, John Cowan, Chas Chambers, Tom Standish, Art Estrada, Harry Barner, Wilf Bedard, Bill White ; Koblenz Bullay Rail bridge, aborted due to engine failure. Decided to land at an RAF base at East Kirkby, Lincolnshire. One engine out and poor visibility, overshot the runway and started another circuit in the traffic pattern. A second engines prop wind milling, the plane was pulled up to clear a hill and stalled. The aircraft crashed 2 miles north of Kirkby and burned. (9 Killed in Action). Salvaged. BELLE OF LIBERTY.

Delivered Cheyenne 26/4/44; Kearney 11/5/44; Grenier 24/5/44; Assigned 326BS/92BG [JW-F] Podington 4/6/44; Missing in Action Kassel 22/9/44 with Maurice Sample (Killed in Action); Co-pilot: Ralph Peters, Navigator: Gene McReady, Bombardier: Tony Kulikowski, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ray Reierson, Radio Operator: John Kisgen, Ball turret gunner: Perwin Knutson, Waist gunner: Joe Cullen,Tail gunner: Harry Rueschman (8 Prisoner of War); flak, crashed Kell, SE of Trier, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 9371. BABY BUTTON.

Delivered Tulsa 3/5/44; Kearney 10/5/44; Grenier 27/5/44; Assigned 325BS/92BG [NV-E] Podington 2/6/44; battle damaged Hagenau 14/8/44 with Capt Walt Kirkbride, Co-pilot: Joe Mertes,n-John Matthews, Bombardier: John Kozomra (?); Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Warren Winters, Radio Operator: Clem Lighty, Ball turret gunner: Art Wilson, Waist gunner: Dale Bosworth,Tail gunner: Bill Morgan (9 Returned to Duty); crash landed base after brakes failed hitting a nissen hut; Salvaged 16/8/44. SATAN’S LADY.

Delivered Denver 1/7/43; Moses Lake 21/7/43; 327 BU Drew 4/5/44; 4124 BU Altus 2/7/44; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 1/8/45.

Delivered Kearney 22/6/44; Grenier 6/7/44; Assigned 773BS/463BG Celone 8/7/44; Missing in Action Berlin 24/3/45 with Tom Tubman, Co-pilot: Alva Stein, Navigator: Rich Proctor, Bombardier: June Herman, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Joe Hammel, Radio Operator: Gordon Brown, Ball turret gunner: Madeen Ludwig, Waist gunner: Jim Swartz, Waist gunner: Maynard Coates,Tail gunner: Bob Power; shot down by jet enemy aircraft, crashed Luckenwalde; Missing Air Crew Report 13278. BETTY LOU.

Delivered Dallas 12/7/44; Langley 7/8/44; Hunter 27/8/44; Dow Field 18/9/44; Assigned 350BS/100BG [XR-B] Thorpe Abbotts as PFF 20/9/44; Missing in Action Brunswick 3/3/45 with Jack Thrasher, Cecil Baker, Lt Willis McGuire (3 Killed in Action); Chas Bayha, Gerald Rimmel, Harry Bott, Tom Browning, Albt Egsieker, Ray Muffley (6 Prisoner of War); hit by jet enemy aircraft which caught fire and snapped off after explosion, crashed Dettum, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 12892.

Delivered Denver 17/5/43; Dow Fd 11/6/43; Assigned 544BS/384BG [SU-N] Grafton Underwood 27/6/43; Missing in Action Villacoublay 14/7/43 with Jim Munday{Wounded in Action}, Radio Operator: Ed Ruby, Waist gunner: Francis Green, Waist gunner: Joe Woodstock,Tail gunner: George Blackwell (5 evaded capture); Co-pilot: Fred Marston{evaded for a time but turned over to Gestapo with other US crewmen from another group}, Navigator: Bill Lansford, Bombardier: Bob Olson, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Jim Miles, Ball turret gunner: Floyd Johnson (5 Prisoner of War); crash landed Les Essarts-Le-Roi, S of Versailles, Fr. No MACR.

Assigned 359BS/303BG Molesworth 21/4/42; slated 388BG, transferred 97BG Polebrook 8/42; 327BS/92BG [UX-R] Bovingdon 9/42; 305BG Grafton Underwood 6/11/42; 96BG Snetterton 11/8/43; 388BG Knettishall 11/8/43 as t/t & hack; Salvaged 22/6/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 14/9/43; Scott 29/9/43; Assigned 351BS/100BG [EP-H] Thorpe Abbotts 4/10/43; Missing in Action Hamburg 31/12/44 with Floyd Henderson, Co-pilot: Dick King, Bombardier: Elmer Kovach, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Jim Shepard, Radio Operator: George Robinson, Waist gunner: Fred Horcasitas (6 Killed in Action); Navigator: George Smigo, Ball turret gunner: Leo Murphy,Tail gunner: Frank Sauls (3 Prisoner of War); hit by flak on bomb run spun down and collided with 43-38124 (100BG), both going down in flames, crashed Radegast, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 11366. DIXIE BABY aka FOOLS RUSH IN.

Delivered Cheyenne 28/6/44; Kearney 13/7/44; Dow Fd 20/7/44; Assigned 351BS/100BG [EP-S] Thorpe Abbotts 21/7/44; Missing in Action Hamburg 31/12/44 with Clifton Williams, Ken Newkirk, Dick Williams, Alvin Petteys, Chas McGimley, Lee Carpenter (6 Killed in Action); Larry Ward, Jim Murphy, Roland Douglass (3 Prisoner of War); mid air coll with falling wreckage from 42-31066 (100BG), crashed Hamburg, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 11363. KRAMP’S TRAMPS.

Delivered Lincoln 12/9/44; Dow Fd 11/10/44; Assigned 603BS/398BG [N7-N then K] Nuthampstead 19/10/44; repaired Missing in Action 10/1/45 with Andrews, AOC {B-70} 13/1/45; re-ass from 2 SAD Abbotts Ripton 17/2/45; (27m) Missing in Action Bohlen 2/3/45; enemy aircraft, crashed Slany, near Karlovary, Czech; Missing Air Crew Report 12853.

Delivered Long Beach 8/9/43; Assigned 337BS/96BG [AW-S] Snetterton 29/9/43; Missing in Action Brunswick 21/2/44 with Alver Smith, Bombardier: Ernie Martin, Ball turret gunner: Frank Morales, Waist gunner: Dan Kricks,Tail gunner: Bob Means (5 Killed in Action); Co-pilot: Jim Lynn, Navigator: Bernie Moynahan, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Loyal Messler, Radio Operator: Harry Angus, Waist gunner: Bill Ford (5 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Gross-Munzel, near Kolenfeld, five miles S of Wunstorf, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 2425.

Delivered Dallas 28/4/44; Kearney 7/6/44; Dow Fd 27/6/44; Assigned Soxo 9/7/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 11/7/44; 4185 BU Independence 12/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 10/12/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 12/4/45; Hunter 16/5/45; San Francisco 4/6/45; Assigned Manila, PI. 31/12/45; Recl Comp 11/9/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 9/2/43; Pueblo 19/2/43; Salina 25/2/43; Casper 1/4/43; Dow Fd 15/4/43; Assigned 332BS/94BG [XM-H] Bassingbourn 20/4/43; Earls Colne 12/5/43; Rougham 13/6/43; transferred 544BS/384BG [SU-J] Grafton Underwood 12/7/43; On return from the first Schweinfurt mission, 17 August 1943, with battle damage from enemy aircraft, the ship crash landed at Grafton Underwood with Pilot-Randolph G. E. Jacobs, Co-pilot-Eugene A. Boger, Navigator-John Quinn Curtin, Bombardier-James Edward Seibel, Engineer/Top Turret Gunner-Aldo J. Gregori, Radio Operator-Doy J. Cloud, Ball Turret Gunner-Thomas Joseph Vezina, Tail Gunner-Robert L. Compton, Waist Gunner-Jack Keith Goetz and Waist Gunner Lawrence C. Wager (10 Returned to Duty). The aircraft was salvaged. Aircraft Name: EL RAUNCHO

Delivered Cheyenne 7/2/43; Rapid City 22/2/43; Kearney 12/3/43; Morrison 24/3/43; Assigned 412BS/95BG [QW- ] Alconbury 5/4/43 MISS CARRIAGE (or MISCARRIE); 1m, w?John Storie force landed Framlingham 14/5/43; transferred 325BS/92BG [NV-R] Alconbury 17/6/43; then 326BS; 546BS/384BG [BK-O] Grafton Underwood 14/9/43; Missing in Action on a mission to Anklam, Germany on 9 October 1943 with Mark Brooks Calnon, Co-pilot: Vernon Dale Barnes, Navigator: Ted Harold Kusler, Bombardier: Lowell Clarence Hasler, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: John D. Rolleri, Waist gunner: Robert Marshall Hendrickson, Waist gunner: John Aloysius McGettigan (7 Prisoner of War), Radio Operator: Robert B. Patterson, Ball turret gunner: Sam Lopez and Tail gunner: Cesareo Garcia Lendoiro were Killed in Action (3 KIA); Damaged by enemy aircraft, crashed by Schelswig, North West of Keil, Germany. Missing Air Crew Report 873. PHILLY-BROOKLYN.

Delivered Dallas 27/4/44; Hunter 5/6/44; Grenier 19/6/44; 111 BU Langley 12/7/44; Grenier 16/7/44; Assigned (PFF) 834BS/486BG [2S-S] Sudbury 17/7/44; {59m} transferred 838BS/487BG Lavenham 10/4/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 7/7/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 9/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 9/12/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 14/4/43; Smoky Hill 21/4/43; Morrison 4/5/43; Assigned 32BS/301BG St Donat 29/5/43; Oudna 6/8/43; involved in landing accident with John Gibson 23/10/43; Cerignola 7/12/43; Lucera 1/2/44; {29m} Salvaged 31/7/45.