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Delivered Hunter 23/11/44; Grenier 13/12/44; Assigned: 332BS/94BG [XM-R] Rougham 15/12/44; battle damage Dresden 17/4/45 Pilot: John Smith, crash-landed base, Salvaged

Mid-air-collision with 44-85626 over Panama on 20/07/1946. All of the crew were killed.

Delivered Long Beach 7/7/43; Alexandria 25/7/43; 2509 BU Big Spring 19/7/44; 236 BU Pyote 25/7/44; 235 BU Biggs 30/7/44; 4202 BU Syracuse 8/4/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 5/11/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 31/5/44; Kearney 16/6/44; Grenier 30/6/44; Assigned: 730BS/452BG Deopham Green 2/7/44; MIA Munster 4/10/44 Pilot: ‘.

Delivered Cheyenne 5/6/44; Kearney 16/6/44; Grenier 30/6/44; Assigned: 422BS/305BG Chelveston 23/7/44; crash: takeoff for Zossen, Germany. , 15/2/45 Pilot: John Nolan, Art Koslow, Paul Matz, Harry Poland, Ernie Dunker, Edmund Carll (6KIA); {plus ‘Walter Estes, S.J.Silberstein, possibly ground crew’} (6KIA); Elmer Bauder, Paul McClelland, Jim O’Brian, (‘3RTD); Salvaged. 2SAD 15/2/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 18/10/42; Wayne Co 4/12/42; Houlton 22/2/43; Gander-Prestwick 25/2/43 with Don McVicar, to RAF [FA710]; having been fitted with top-secret dipole aerials was directed to RAF Hamble for anti-submarine duties; 206 Sq (VX-M) Benbecula, Scot. 5/7/43; Azores 18/10/43; 220 Sq (ZZ-M) Lagens, Azores 19/3/44 (first of type to land, with Bob Thomson – Sqd Co); 521 Sq Langham 18/1/45; Struck Off Charge 26/11/46.

Delivered Cheyenne 13/6/44; Kearney 21/6/44; Dow Fd 8/7/44; Assigned 305BG Chelveston 2/8/44; battle damaged Cologne 10/1/45; Missing Air Crew Report 11564. Salvaged 23/1/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 9/6/44; Kearney 20/6/44; Grenier 6/7/44; Assigned: 365BS/305BG Chelveston 8/7/44; MIA Misburg 26/11/44 Pilot: Henry Schmid, Terry Messing, Tom Horger, Bob Wilson, Leo Wloczewski, Tom Lattimore, Keith Hereford (7POW); Owen Mayberry, Theo Roblee (2EVD); flak, ditched off Diepenveen, Hol; MACR 11202.

Delivered Cheyenne 8/6/44; Kearney 21/6/44; Dow Fd 9/7/44; Assigned: APH/388BG Knettishall 10/7/44; drone control ship on APH and Castor missions fitted Pilot: special radio antenna; taxi accident w/Wilfred Tooman 14/1/45; Returned to US: Bradley 6/6/45; 4168 BU Sth Plains 9/6/45; Scrapped: Kingman 29/11/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 18/10/42; Wayne Co 3/12/42; Dorval 8/12/42; South Atlantic route to Prestwick 13-24/12/42 with Arthur Sims, to RAF [FA709]; 220 Sq (ZZ-B) Benbecula, Scot. 17/4/43; then to Lagens, Azores coded A, 25/10/43; 206 Sq Benbecula, Scot., Struck Off Charge and sold to International Alloys 15/9/47.

Delivered Lincoln 9/2/45; Grenier 1/3/45; Assigned 8AF 4/3/45; Salvaged 9AF Germany 31/5/45.

Delivered Hunter 9/2/45; Grenier 24/2/45; Assigned 8AF 27/5/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 29/6/45; Sth Plains 2/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 23/11/45.

Delivered Hunter 11/2/45; with Hempstead Bull to Grenier 26/2/45; Assigned 8AF 10/3/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 10/6/45; Sth Plains 13/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 1/12/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 27/9/43; MAT COM Wright Fd 10/10/43; Langley 6/12/43; Assigned: 813BS/482BG [PC-K] fitted with Oboe Mk II radar Alconbury 22/11/43; Transferred: 545BS/384BG [JD-Z] Grafton Underwood 5/2/44; t/o as spare for a mission, but mechanical problems arrived and crash-landed near Nuthampstead A/fd 24/3/44 Pilot: Scott Briley, Co-Pilot: Jim Dent, Navigator: Leon Dubin, Bombardier: Joe Petrush, Engineer / Top Turret Gunner: Elvie Rodden, Radio Operator: Henry Watson, Ball Turret Gunner: Saul Schelberg, Waist Gunner: Albt Krizner, Waist Gunner: Howard LeConey, Tail Gunner: Edwin Fulkerson (10RTD); Salvaged. 2 SAD Lt Staughton. MISS BILLIE JR.

Delivered Long Beach 6/7/43; Assigned 383BG Pendleton 25/7/43; force landed base 7/9/43 with Bob Moyers; Sioux City 30/11/43; with Jim Madsen crashed base 24/3/44; Written off 25/3/44.

Delivered Cheyenne 9/6/44; Kearney 21/6/44; Grenier 6/7/44; Assigned 305BG Chelveston 8/7/44; transferred APH/388BG Castor control mothership, Knettishall 10/7/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 4/6/45; 4168 Base Unit, South Plains, Texas 7/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 19/12/45.

Delivered Dallas 9/7/45; Sth Plains 25/8/45; Rome 26/2/46; NAAF Mustin Fd 28/3/46 [77249]; United States Coast Guard Elizabeth City 17/7/46; Inter Ice Patrol, Nfd 31/7/46; Spartan Aero Repair, Tulsa 10/48; United States Coast Guard Elizabeth City 6/49; Brooklyn 10/51; NAS Norfolk 4/42; Brooklyn 11/52; Ace Smelting, Phoenix /58 (Civil N3192G); Widtfelt & Biegert, Phoenix 30/1/59; Empressa Andrriente, Lima, Peru 25/2/60; crash landed Tocumen Apt, Panama en route Lima 26/3/60 and scrapped.

Delivered Cheyenne 26/3/44; Gulfport 19/4/44; 328 BU Gulfport 31/3/45; 324 BU Chatham 12/5/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Altus 29/10/45.

Delivered Lincoln 9/2/45; Grenier 4/3/45; Assigned 8AF 8/3/45; Salvaged 9AF Germany 10/5/46.

Delivered Hunter 9/2/45; Grenier 24/2/45; Assigned 8AF 27/2/45; Returned to the USA Bradley 10/7/45; Independence 12/7/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 21/12/45.

Delivered Hunter 10/1/45; Grenier 30/1/45; Assigned 96BS/2BG Amendola 5/3/45; {0m} Returned to the USA Morrison 25/9/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Walnut Ridge 13/12/45.

Delivered Cheyenne 15/3/44; Hunter 16/4/44; Dow Fd 24/4/44; Assigned: 364BS/305BG Chelveston 22/5/44; MIA Metz 9/11/44 Pilot: ‘; MACR 11653.

Delivered Geiger 5/11/42; damaged in taxi accident at base with Lt Propper/ground crew (96BS/2BG) who were moving another aircraft 19/11/42; Rapid City 17/12/42; Spokane 14/4/43; Ephrata 17/7/43; 247 BU Smoky Hill 3/6/44; 232 BU Dalhart 9/7/44; 4104 BU Rome 10/12/44; 4108 BU Newark 11/6/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Bush Fd 18/6/45.

Delivered Geiger 5/11/42; Blythe 18/12/42; Hobbs 18/3/43; Mather Fd 8/6/43; Hobbs 18/6/43; 3501 BU Boca Raton 3/8/44; 581 BU Adams 1/3/45; 3508 BU Truax 8/3/45; Recl Comp 7/6/46.