1942 USAAF Serial Numbers (42-30032 to 42-39757)

42-30032/30131 Boeing B-17F-85-BO Fortress
MSN 5146/5245. Dispositions from B-17 Fortress Master Log, Dave Osborne (FORTLOG)
Production changes: Improved brake and main wheel assembly. Provision for remote reading compass
30032 (MSN 5146) Accepted by USAAF 28Mar43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 2Apr43. 384th Bomb Group, Sioux City AAB, IA 13Apr43.
Departed to Kearney Field, NB for overseas processing 3May43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB. Departed late May43 en route to Grafton Underwood,
England via North Atlantic route. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 20May43. 532nd Bomb Squadron, 381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167),
Essex 6Jun43. 546th Bomb Squadron [BK*D], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood
(Station 106), Northamptonshire 9Jun43. Named *Sky Queen*. {first combat mission 22Jun43}.
Failed to return from a mission to the Fieseler aircraft factory at Kassel, Germany 28Jul43 (9KIA:2POW).
The mission was aborted and the aircraft was returning to England when it was attacked by
Oberleutnant Georg Schott of 1./JG 1, flying a Fw 190 A-5, damaging engine No.3 and setting it on fire.
The aircraft lost altitude rapidly to try and extinguish the fire then levelled out. The bomber
exploded and two crew members bailed out. It crashed near Kortwoude, east of Surhuisterveen,
Netherlands. {6 missions) MACR 15165.
30033 (MSN 5147) Accepted by USAAF 28Mar43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 2Apr43. 384th Bomb Group, Sioux City AAB, IA 13Apr43.
Departed to Kearney Field, NB for overseas processing 3May43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB. Departed late May43 en route to Grafton Underwood,
England via North Atlantic route. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 20May43. Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander,
Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 22/23May43. 546th Bomb Squadron [BK*G],
384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 26May43.
Named *Little America*. . {first combat mission 22Jun43}. Eighth Air Force Service
Command 5Aug43. Regained by Group 15Aug43. Fitted with Gee-H radio navigation system
equipment. Failed to return from a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical works at Leverkusen,
Germany 1Dec43 (9POW:1EVD). After crossing the Belgian coast en route to the target,
a propeller oversped. Shortly afterwards, the bomber dropped out of formation and
turned back towards England. Before long the No.2 engine stopped then, a few minutes later
with the coast in sight, the No.3 engine stopped. With three engines failed, the crew
bailed out over Belgium before the aircraft crashed close to the French border at Leisele,
Belgium. {22 missions}. MACR 1335. 10 POW, 1 evaded.
30034 (MSN 5148) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 2Apr43.
381st Bomb Group, Pueblo AAB, CO 12Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 6May43. North
Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 17May43. Ferried on the
North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 18May43. Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire May43.
532nd Bomb Squadron [VE*K], 381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex Jun43.
Named NOBODY'S BABY (ferried by Squadron Commanding Officer Colonel Harry P Leber, Jr
to UK as no other pilots wanted it!). {4 missions}. 365th Bomb Squadron [XK*D],
305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 22Aug43.
Royal Air Force No.100 Group 28Dec43. Returned to 305th Bomb Group 13Jan44.
Declared 'war weary'. Reassigned for utility, training and weather check aircraft 20Mar44
to 27May45. Salvaged 26Jul45
30035 (MSN 5149) Accepted by USAAF 28Mar43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Apr43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 15Apr43. Wendover Field, UT 4May43. Hill Field, Ogden, UT 11May43.
Wendover Field, UT 16May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 22May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 30May43.
333rd Bomb Squadron, 94th Bomb Group, 1Jun43. To 349th Bomb Squadron [XR*H],
100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 2Jun43,
Named *Pasaden Nena/Torchy*--Named after the wife of the first
navigator because of her red hair. Failed to return from a mission to the Caudron-Renault
factory at Paris, France 3Sep43 (1KIA:2POW:7EVD). When the formation reached Paris,
the target was obscured by clouds so diverted to an alternate target, the Luftwaffe
airfield at Beaumont Le Roger near Paris. En route to the target, halfway between
Paris and Chartres, the plane was hit by flak. No.1 engine went out completely and the
bomber dropped behind the formation. Flak or an incendiary shell started a fire
between No.1 and No.2 engines. Two Bf 109 fighters made one pass when the engineer
reported a fire then the whole bottom was shot out of the pilots cabin. The crew bailed
out before the aircraft crashed; the tail gunner was killed when he became entangled
in the tail wreckage as the plane disintegrated before it crashed at Cerny, Essonne, France
30036 (MSN 5150) Accepted by USAAF 28Mar43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 2Apr43. 384th Bomb Group, Sioux City AAB, IA 13Apr43.
Departed to Kearney Field, NB for overseas processing 3May43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB. Departed late May43 en route to Grafton Underwood,
England via North Atlantic route. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 30May43. 546th Bomb Squadron, 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood
(Station 106), Northamptonshire 8Jun43. The aircraft was involved in a mid-air collision
with B-17F 42-30131 during a practice flight 12Jun43 (5KIS). They were two of sixteen
bombers which were landing out of their formation on return to base at Grafton Underwood.
Initial confusion on the correct landing runway had been resolved but had caused these
two aircraft to go-around for another attempt because of poor spacing. 42-30036 is
believed to have bounced during its first attempt to land and was going around the pattern
at a lower level than 42-30131 which was now above it on base leg by about 1,000ft.
They both turned final about the same time without the pilots seeing the other aircraft.
The control tower was showing a red light to 42-30131 but this was not observed by the
crew. A call from the tower to 'pull up' was misheard and both aircraft pulled up about
the same time. The tail of 42-30036 hit the nose and then No.2 engine of the upper aircraft.
Momentarily locked together, the propeller sliced through the tail of this aircraft, cutting off
the vertical stabiliser a few feet forward of the fin. This bomber reared straight up,
fell off on its left wing and headed nose down for the ground where it exploded in flames
on impact. {nil missions}. Salvaged 12Jun43
30037 (MSN 5151) Accepted by USAAF 28Mar43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 2Apr43. Combat Crew Training School, Casper Field, WY 4Apr43.
384th Bomb Group, Sioux City AAB, IA 13Apr43. Departed to Kearney Field, NB for overseas
processing 3May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB. Departed late May43
en route to Grafton Underwood, England via North Atlantic route. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 24May43. 546th Bomb Squadron [BK*F],
384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 29May43.
{first combat mission 26Jun43}. Failed to return from a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield
at Villacoublay, France 26Jun43 (10POW). When the plane crossed the French coast it was
struck by flak between the No.3 engine and its firewall. The propeller was lost and the engine
caught fire. The pilot dove the plane in an effort to put the fire out and then leveled out.
This maneuver didn't work and No.3 engine fell off the wing. Control of No.4 engine was lost,
probably caused by an attack by enemy fighters. The crew was ordered to bail out and
six crew members jumped out of the plane. A Bf 109 pulled up on the right wing tip.
The pilot had landing gear and flaps down in an effort to slow his fighter enough to stay
next to the slowing bomber. At this point, the bombardier woke up; he had probably been
hit by No.3 propeller when it spun off and hit the fuselage. Seeing the German fighter, he began
to fire at it and caused it to fall away. The German fighters then renewed their attacks.
The bomber suffered through several head-on attacks. One of these shot out the windscreen
on the left side and the pilot was hit very badly. Shot down by Ltn Fritz Karch of II./JG2 flying
a Bf 109G-6. The plane crash landed at Saint-Gatien-des-Bois airfield, Deauville, France.
The forward fuselage was destroyed by fire during the crash. {1 mission}
Pieces of this aircraft were displayed in a
museum established at Paris-Nanterre by occupying German forces.
30038 (MSN 5152) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 2Apr43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 15Apr43. Wendover Field, UT 4May43.
Hill Field, Ogden, UT 12May43. Wendover Field, UT 16May43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 22May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 27May43. 349th Bomb Squadron, 100th Bomb Group,
Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 30May43. Named *Bar Fly*. Failed to return from
a convoy attack 25Jun43 (6KIA:4POW). Shot down by Obfw Hans Erbskorn in Bf 109G-6/R6 of JG 26/9
over North Sea 20 km N of Wangerooge, Germany Jun 25, 1943 on mission to Bremen.
MACR 270
30039 (MSN 5153) Delivered Cheyenne Apr 2, 1943; Sioux City Apr 14, 1943; Kearney May 3, 1943; Dow Fd May 24, 1943; Assigned to
337BS/96BG [AW-Q] in US; transferred to 544BS/384BG [SU-H] at Grafton Underwood May 29, 1943; 2 SAD Little Staughton
Aug 14, 1943; (FORTLOG). to 803rd BS(P) at Oulton early 1944 as radar countermeasures aircraft,
fitted with Mandrel sets and nine carpet sets. (384th BG, 544th BS, *Liberty Belle*) to
Aphrodite project as BQ-7 and launched against U-boat pens on Heligoland Oct 15, 1944. In final
mission, was hit by flak and crashed into sea short of target.
30040 (MSN 5154) Accepted by USAAF 29Mar43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 2Apr43. 384th Bomb Group, Sioux City AAB, IA 13Apr43.
Departed to Kearney Field, NB for overseas processing 3May43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB. Departed late May43 en route to Grafton
Underwood, England via North Atlantic route. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 20May43. Ferried on the North Atlantic route
from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 22/23May43.
546th Bomb Squadron [BK*B], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106),
Northamptonshire 26May43. {first combat mission 22Jun43}. {2 missions}. PICCADILLY COMMANDO. 3
37th Bomb Squadron [AW*A], 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 6Jul43
Named "Wabbit Twacks III" artwork based loosely on the Bugs Bunny character.
It seems likely that each mission completed saw an extra cartoon bomb motif added to
the jumbled trail, Failed to return from a mission to the ball bearing factories at
Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43 (1KIA:6POW:3EVD). En route to the target area, the
bomber formation was repeatedly attacked by a large number of Luftwaffe fighters.
After the target, the Group turned and headed westward for England. German fighters,
having landed and refueled, attacked again. Shot down by Obfw Friedrich May in
Fw 190A-6 of JG 2/3 at Vavincourt, near Bar-le-Duc, France Oct 14, 1943.
With battle damage from enemy action, the aircraft crashed at Avincourt,
twelve miles north of Saint-Dizier, France. MACR 837
30041 (MSN 5155) Accepted by USAAF 29Mar43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 2Apr43. 544th Bomb Squadron, 384th Bomb Group,
Sioux City AAB, IA 14Apr43. Departed to Kearney Field, NB for overseas processing 3May43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB. Departed late May43 en route to
Grafton Underwood, England via North Atlantic route. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 23May43. Departed RCAF Gander, Newfoundland
to UK 9/10Jun43. The aircraft suffered engine failure and ditched twenty miles off
Cape Freels, Newfoundland 9Jun43. The crew was rescued from the sea (10RTD
30042 (MSN 5156) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 2Apr43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 15Apr43.
Wendover Field, UT 2May43. Hill Field, Ogden, UT 12May43. Wendover Field, UT 19May43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 22May43. Patterson Field,
Dayton, OH 29May43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 3Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 6Jun43.
349th Bomb Squadron, 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139),
Norfolk 9Jun43. Named*Oh Nausea* reputed to have aborted every mission
on which it had flown and never dropped a bomb on a target prior to this mission.
Failed to return from a shuttle mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factories at
Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43 (10POW). The aircraft lost one engine just after
crossing the enemy coast early in mission and a second at the target. Realizing
they probably could not reach Africa but at no time did they consider Switzerland.
Had one bomb hang up over target and tried to release it over a small airfield
near the Brenner Pass but it wouldn't go. Later released it manually over the
Mediterranean. Dropped to 500ft and threw out everything not nailed down.
Just north of Naples the aircraft turned for Sicily because at briefing had been
told Sicily would fall that day. About 90 miles from Sicily the aircraft lost a third engine.
The pilot shut down the remaining engine and ditched. The aircraft floated for about
an hour and a half. The crew were picked up next morning by Germans in a flying boat.
MACR 682. 10 POW
30043 (MSN 5157) Accepted by USAAF 29Mar43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Apr43. 384th Bomb Group, Sioux City AAB, IA 14Apr43.
Departed to Kearney Field, NB for overseas processing 3May43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB. Departed late May43 en route to Grafton Underwood,
England via North Atlantic route. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 23May43. 547th Bomb Squadron [SO*V], 384th Bomb Group,
Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 29May43. Named *Ruthless*
{first combat mission 22Jun43}. Fitted with Gee-H radio navigation system equipment.
Battle damaged on a mission to a roller bearing factory at Stuttgart, Germany 6Sep43.
From the Initial Point until leaving the target area, there was a complete undercast
except for small sparse patches of farm land. This group went over the target area twice
without dropping their bombs. Bombs were finally dropped on Achern, a small town 18km
southwest of Baden-Baden, Germany. Having spent too long over the target, the formation
was beginning to realise that fuel exhaustion would likely lead to many not being
able to return to base. Force landed at RAF West Malling, Kent (10RTD). Failed to return
from a mission to industrial areas at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 4Oct43 (10RTD).
The pilot took the plane up for a test spin, it had just had its engines overhauled and only
had about ten flight hours on them. When he returned the pilot decided that they were
not going to have enough fuel for the mission. The pilot saw the ground crew chief
passing by and asked for more fuel for the plane. At first the chief said "Can't, you know
everyone gets an allotment of 3000 gallons". The pilot pleaded with the crew chief to give
them a break and the chief relented. The chief sent the ground crew to the wing to start
filling the tanks. As the ground crew began hooking up to the wing tanks a young engineering
Lieutenant came riding by on a bicycle. He stopped and asked them why they were getting fuel.
The pilot told him that he wanted a little extra so that they can get back home. The young
engineering lieutenant officiously said, "You know what the orders are" and he waved the
ground crew off the plane. In those precious few minutes the ground crew probably only
put in an extra 50-60 gallons of gasoline before they disconnected. A B-17 burned fifty gallons
or more an hour for each engine or approximately 200 gallons per hour. 'Ruthless' got an extra
fifteeen minutes. With only a little extra fuel in their wing tanks the crew of 'Ruthless' took
off for the raid on Frankfurt. After the plane made it to the target and dropped its bombs
the pilot cut out the two outboard engines to conserve fuel and were going to go home
on the two inboard engines. The pilot tried as best as he could to keep up with the squadron
but with flying on only two engines the plane was soon lagging behind. As it limped back
home it was again flying over Belgium. The pilot had given the order to get rid of everything
that was not nailed down. The crew threw out everything, jackets, boots, rags, plane parts,
anything to make the plane lighter to conserve fuel. By that time the crew happened to see
five or six Spitfires flying alongside of them; they must have realised that the bomber
was in trouble. The bomber continued to putter on home, the crew feeling a little better with
having an escort to protect them. They flew over the North Sea to where the English Channel
meets. The co-pilot wanted the pilot to go up over the white cliffs of Dover, but the fuel was
almost gone and they were losing altitude, therefore there was no chance of clearing the cliffs.
The pilot battled to keep the bomber airborne; with resignation, he told everyone to take their
ditching positions. The aft crew went up to the radio room and took their positions. Then they
heard a hissing sound as the tail of the B-17 started to drag on top of the water. The plane hit
the water hard. The life rafts had deployed and were tethered to the side of the plane by the wing.
The Spitfires continued to circle in the air to guard the men in the life rafts. A short distance
away an English trawler HM Drifter (the English used it for a radar picket boat) was coming
toward them. They were coming to pick them up. The sailors got the crew on board and below
deck. The picket boat could not leave its station to return the crew to land so it radioed for
another boat. The Royal Air Force sent out a 40-foot motorboat 'Lord Keith' made out of mahogany.
The next morning the crew was flown back to Grafton Underwood in a Douglas C-47. {18 missions}.
30044 (MSN 5158) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Apr43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 15Apr43. Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA 24Apr43.
Long Beach Field, CA 29May43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 3Jun43. Pendleton Field, OR 2Nov43. 248th Base Unit (Operational
Training Unit), Walker Field, Victoria, KS 9Jun44. 3502nd Base Unit (Technical School),
Chanute Field, Rantoul, IL 3Sep44. 248th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Walker Field,
Victoria, KS 5Sep44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for
storage and disposal 25Jun45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped
30045 (MSN 5159) Accepted by USAAF 29Mar43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Apr43. 384th Bomb Group, Sioux City AAB, IA 14Apr43.
Departed to Kearney Field, NB for overseas processing 3May43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB. Departed late May43 en route to Grafton Underwood,
England via North Atlantic route. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 23May43. 545th Bomb Squadron, 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood
(Station 106), Northamptonshire 29May43. {nil missions}. 334th Bomb Squadron [BG*M],
95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 28Jun43.
Named "Fight'n-n-Bit'n/She's My Gal") Failed to return from a mission to
Saarlautern, Germany 4Oct43 (1KIA:9POW). With battle damage from enemy action,
the aircraft ditched off Bayeux, France. MACR 744 and 1455.
30046 (MSN 5160) Accepted by USAAF 30Mar43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Apr43. 384th Bomb Group, Sioux City AAB, IA 14Apr43.
Departed to Kearney Field, NB for overseas processing 3May43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB. Departed late May43 en route to Grafton Underwood,
England via North Atlantic route. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 20May43. Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander,
Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 22/23May43. 546th Bomb Squadron [BK*H],
384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 24May43
Named "Merrie Hell") . {first combat mission 22Jun43}. 546th Bomb Squadron [BK*K] Aug43.
Failed to return from a mission to a synthetic fuel hydrogenation plant at Gelsenkirchen,
Germany 12Aug43 (8KIA:2POW). Flak blew off the nose almost to back of the turret.
The aircraft was on fire and crashed near Gelsenkirchen, Germany. {9 missions}.
MACR 289.
30047 (MSN 5161) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Apr43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 15Apr43. Hill Field, Ogden, UT 5May43.
Wendover Field, UT 10May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 21May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 28May43.
350th Bomb Squadron [LN*Q], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139),
Norfolk 2Jun43. Named "Sweater Girl". . Failed to return from a mission to railway
installations at M�nster, Germany 10Oct43 (6POW:4KIA). As they approached the city,
the formation was swarmed by a large force of enemy aircraft for an estimated forty-five minutes
of vicious fighting. By the time their friendly fighter escorts arrived to drive off the Luftwaffe,
the damage had already been done. One Bf 109 collided with B-17F 42-30723. The collision
occurred on the aircraft's left wing with flames erupting throughout the plane. The plane exploded
in mid-air after going into a steep spiral. It has been speculated that "Sweater Girl" also was
damaged by this mid-air collision but surviving crew members report that the aircraft was under
heavy flak followed by fighter attacks and was severly damaged before the crew was ordered
to bail out. There is no mention from crew reports that their plane sustained any damage from
the mid-air collision of 42-30723 with the Bf 109. According to eye witness accounts,
42-30047 was shot down by Uffz Herzog in Fw 190A of JG 1/2,
hit in No.2 engine, oil was pouring out in a stream. The aircraft crashed a few miles north of
M�nster at Ostberven near the Dortmund-Ems canal. MACR 1031.
30048 (MSN 5162) Accepted by USAAF 30Mar43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Apr43. 384th Bomb Group, Sioux City AAB, IA 14Apr43.
Departed to Kearney Field, NB for overseas processing 3May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB. Departed late May43 en route to Grafton Underwood, England via
North Atlantic route. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 24May43. 544th Bomb Squadron [SU*K], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood
(Station 106), Northamptonshire 12Jun43. Named *Flak Dancer* (first combat mission 26Jun43}.
Failed to return from a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Villacoublay,
France 26Jun43 [4POW:6EVD]. Initially attacked but not damaged by three Bf 109 fighters
as the bomber approached the target. Returning from the target, the bomber dropped out of
formation for no apparent reason and was attacked again later by Fw 190s. The crew
bailed out before the bomber crash landed at Laon, France. {1 mission}. F
The aircraft was repaired and used by Luftwaffe at the Luftwaffen Erprobungsstelle
Rechlin, Germany and did some flight tests there [code SJ+KY]. Later it was used by
KG 200 Spring 1944 [code A3+CE].
30049 (MSN 5163) Accepted by USAAF 30Mar43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Apr43. 384th Bomb Group, Sioux City AAB, IA 14Apr43.
Departed to Kearney Field, NB for overseas processing 3May43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB. Departed late May43 en route to Grafton Underwood,
England via North Atlantic route. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 24May43. 544th Bomb Squadron [SU*G], 384th Bomb Group,
Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 30May43. Named .*Miss Deal*
{first combat mission 25Jun43}. Failed to return from a mission to the industrial area
and submarine pens at Hamburg, Germany 25Jun43 (2KIA:2MIA:6POW). After making two
unsuccessful runs on the primary target, the crew headed for Emden as a likely target
for their bomb load. The flak guns found them, inflicting serious damage and injuries.
They then ran into Bf 109 fighters of III./JG 1 which attacked over Finsterwolde, Holland,.
Shot down by Oblt Hans-Georg dippel in Fw 190A-5 of JG 26/2 and
crashed into Dollart Bay in Netherlands. 2 KIA,
2 died of injuries, 6 POW. MACR 16349
30050 (MSN 5164) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 3Apr43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 15Apr43. Hamilton Field,
San Rafael, CA 28Apr43. Wendover Field, UT 2May43. Hill Field, Ogden, UT 13May43.
Wendover Field, UT 17Feb43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 21May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 27Feb43.
Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 30Apr43.
350th Bomb Squadron, 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 29May43
Named "Judy D" [painted as JUDY E]. . Failed to return from a mission to a
Luftwaffe airfield and air depot at Le Bourget, Paris, France 10Jul43 (8POW:2EVD).
Fw 190 fighters hit No.1 engine and the wing caught fire. The bomber crashed at Sainte-Colombe,
south of St Valery-en-Caux, France. MACR 268. The forward section was later displayed
in a German museum near Paris
30051 (MSN 5165) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 3Apr43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 15Apr43.
Wendover Field, UT 2May43. Hill Field, Ogden, UT 15May43. Wendover Field, UT 18May43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 23May43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 28May43. 351st Bomb Squadron [EP*J], 1
00th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 1Jun43. Named "Nevada Wildcat"
Failed to return from a mission to the submarine pens at La Pallice, La Rochelle,
France 4Jul43 (9POW:1EVD). Aircraft lost power on two engines, then shot down by Lt. Gerhard Schindler
in Bf-109 of JGr. Ost/2. Crashed three miles west of La Pallice,
near Isle d'Oleran, France. MACR 272
30052 (MSN 5166) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 3Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 16Apr43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 18Apr43. Redmond Field, OR 15Aug43. 4135th Base Unit
(Ogden Air Technical Service Command), Hill Field, Ogden, UT 11Aug44. Modified
for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment;
designated TB-17F. 3705th Base Unit (Technical School), Lowry Field, Denver, CO 23Aug44.
Accident taxying at Lowry Field 22Jan45. Transferred to US Navy Feb 23, 1947.
30053 (MSN 5167) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 3Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 29Apr43. 15th Ferrying Group,
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm
Beach, FL 5May43. Robins Field, Warner Robins, GA 8May43. 15th Ferrying Group,
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm
Beach, FL 16May43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 352nd Bomb Squadron,
301st Bomb Group, Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 24May43. Oudna #1,
Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43. Named NO SACK TIME / PICKLEPUSS
Failed to return from a mission to the Messerschmitt factory at Augsburg,
Germany 1Oct43 (3KIA:6POW). En route to Augsburg the aircraft was shot down
between Viareggio and Pisa, Italy by Maj Kurt Uben in Bf 109G-6/R1 of
JG77/III Stab. MACR 760. . {26 missions}
30054 (MSN 5168) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 7Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 18Apr43.
1174th Pilot Transition Training Squadron, Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 20Apr43.
Accident landing at Lockbourne AAB 5Jul43. 2000th Base Unit, HQ Squadron,
AAF Training Command, Texas & Pacific Building, Fort Worth, TX 23Oct44.
2114th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB,
Columbus, OH 21Dec44. 2003rd Base Unit, HQ Squadron, AAF Training Command,
Fort Worth Field, TX 8Jan45. 273rd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Lincoln Field, NB 16Mar45. 2003rd Base Unit, HQ Squadron, AAF Training Command,
Fort Worth Field, TX 10Apr45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field,
AR for storage and disposal 21Dec45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30055 (MSN 5169) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 5Apr43. Dyersburg Field, TN 16Apr43. Gulfport Field, MS 16May43.
Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 9Nov43. 3007th Base Unit,
Kirtland Field, Albuquerque, NM 20Jun44. 271st Base Unit (Staging Wing),
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 30Jun44. 878th Bomb Squadron, 499th Bomb Group,
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 12Jul44. Crashed taking off at Lowry Field, Denver, CO 30Jul44.
3705th Base Unit (Technical School), Lowry Field, Denver, CO 1Aug44. Salvaged 1Aug44.
30056 (MSN 5170) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 5Apr43. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command,
Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 29Apr43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa.
342nd Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Ch�teaudun-du-Rhumel (Helen),
Constantine, Algeria 24May43. Pont-du-Fahs, Tunisia 11Aug43. Depienne, Sminja,
Tunisia 15Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43.
San Giovanni, Cerignola, Italy 20Dec43. Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44.
Failed to return from a mission to an oil refinery in Hungary 2Jul44 (8POW:2KIA).
Attacked by enemy Me 210 fighters and, with one propeller feathered, dropped out
of formation. More fighter attacks were made, four crew members bailed out before
the plane turned over onto its back and went into a dive. It finally leveled off,
then two more parachutes left the plane before its final plunge. Crashed at Kom�rom, Hungary
MACR 6338
30057 (MSN 5171) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 5Apr43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 15Apr43.
100th Bomb Group, Kearney Field, NB 20Apr43. Wendover Field, UT 2May43.
Hill Field, Ogden, UT 15May43. Wendover Field, UT 21May43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 28May43. 351st Bomb Squadron [EP*D],
100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 9Jun43. Named *Raunchy*
{first combat mission 25Jun43}. Severe battle damaged by flak on a mission to industrial
areas at Bonn, Germany 12Aug43. Without brakes, the bomber ran off the end of the
runway landing back at Thorpe Abbbotts. Failed to return from a mission to the Bosch
magneto factory at Stuttgart, Germany 6Sep43 (1KIA:9INT). With bad weather over Germany,
the bomber attacked a secondary target of a Luftwaffe air base in France. Shot down by
enemy fighters, ditched Lake Constance, Romanshorn, Switzerland. The ball turret gunner
would be killed whilst trying to ditch. He would take the dubious honour of being
the first US airman killed in neutral Switzerland. {13 missions}. All survivors were interned.
MACR 689.
30058 (MSN 5172) Accepted by USAAF 31Mar43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Apr43. New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 29Apr43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 6May43.
546th Bomb Squadron [BK*M], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106),
Northamptonshire 17Jun43. {first combat mission 26Jun43}. Failed to return from a
mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Villacoublay, France 26Jun43 (2POW:8EVD).
After making landfall over France, the plane was hit by flak and attacked by Fw 190 fighters
hitting No.1 engine which was losing oil. Remaining in formation, the aircraft was
starting its bomb run when the propeller started to run away and could not be feathered.
the bomber vibrating, the pilot dropped down to the cover of an overcast before turning back for home.
ck of Fw 190s started a concentrated attack., shot down Jun 26, 1943 by Obfw. Immerl in Fw 190A of
JG 105/2. No.3 engine was set on fire and 20mm cannon shells hit the right wing;
the radio room was badly shot up. The bombs were jettisoned and the crew bailed out before
the aircraft crashed and burned at Guillerval, near �tampes, thirty miles south of Paris, France. {1 mission}
30059 (MSN 5173) Accepted by USAAF 31Mar43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Apr43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 16Apr43. Wendover Field, UT 2May43. Hill Field, Ogden, UT 16May43.
Wendover Field, UT 21May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 28May43. Assigned Eighth Air Force, England 31May43. 351st Bomb Squadron [EP*G],
100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 9Jun43. Named *Barker's Burdens*
Failed to return from a mission to the Caudron-Renault factory at Paris, France 3Sep43 (8KIA:2POW).
When the formation reached Paris, the target was obscured by clouds so diverted to an
alternate target, the Luftwaffe airfield at Beaumont Le Roger near Paris. The bomber was in
collision with B-17F 42-30089. Damaged by flak, aircraft #089 was knocked up and hit the tail
section of #059 with its right wing. #059 jettisoned its bombs, a couple of which may have hit #089,
then exploded as it dove away before the crew could bail out. The aircraft crashed at
Beaumont-le-Roger, west of �vreux, France. MACR 685
30060 (MSN 5174) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 6Apr43. Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 16Apr43.
Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 18Apr43. Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 5May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 30May43.
Modified to photographic configuration. Designated F-9. 1st Photographic Charting Group,
Buckley Field, CO 1Jun44. 2nd Photographic Reconnaissance Group, Buckley Field, CO 2Aug44.
91st Photographic Mapping Squadron, 1st Photographic Group, Buckley Field, CO 12Sep44.
311th Photographic Wing, Mapping and Charting, Buckley Field, CO 6Feb45.
4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field,
Dayton, OH 26May45. Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets
and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F. 3rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron,
Grenier Field, Manchester, NH 5Jun45. 3rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron,
McChord Field, Tacoma, WA 19Jun45. Accident taxying at McChord Field 21Jun45.
53rd Reconnaissance Squadron (Weather), McChord Field, Tacoma, WA 21Jul45.
1st Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, 311th Photographic Wing, Mapping and
Charting, Grenier Field, Manchester, NH 14Aug45. 53rd Reconnaissance Squadron
(Weather), Grenier Field, Manchester, NH 23Aug45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 24Jan46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
30061 (MSN 5175) Accepted by USAAF 3Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 6Apr43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 15Apr43.
Wendover Field, UT 2May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 22May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 30May43.
418th Bomb Squadron [LD*Q], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 9Jun43and named
"Just-A-Snappin", later renamed "Wolff Pack", after the name of the pilot.
Battle damaged on a shuttle mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factories at Regensburg,
Germany 17Aug43; vertical stabiliser damaged by 20mm cannon fire and a life raft released
which hit the left horizontal stabiliser. Landed safely in Algeria, North Africa.
Damaged on mission to Bremen, Germany 28Jun44. Force landed in a field at Ludham,
Norfolk on return with no brakes and hit a tree. Famously photographed high over the Alps with several
missing pieces.Salvaged. Returned to US. 1104th Base Unit (Caribbean Wing,
Air Transport Command), Homestead Field, FL 12Jul44. 1st Base Unit, Wright Field,
Dayton, OH 17Jul44. 328th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Gulfport Field, MS 26Jan45.
Crash landed in bad weather 6.5 miles northwest of Flomation, AL 30Mar45.
4119th Base Unit (Mobile Air Technical Service Command), Brookley Field, Mobile, AL 31Mar45. Reclaimed 17Apr45
Boeing KC-135R Stratotanke 57-1493 of the 100th ARW is named 'Wolff Pack' in commemoration of this B-17G.
30062 (MSN 5176) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 6Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 14Apr43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 16Apr43. Wendover Field, UT 2May43.
Hill Field, Ogden, UT 18May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 22May54.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 30May43.
418th Bomb Squadron [LD*O], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 9Jun43.
named *Bastard's Bungalow II* aka "Reilly's Racehorse". Also
named TERRY N'TEN (TNT). Named for the pilot's wife Failed to return from a mission to the
industrial area at Brunswick, Germany 10Feb44 (1KIA:9POW). Shot down by
enemy aircraft and crashed at Leeseringen, 4 mi S of Nienburg/Weser,
Germany MACR 2383.
30063 (MSN 5177) Accepted by USAAF 2Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Apr43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 15Apr43. Wendover Field, UT 2May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 22May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 29May43. 561st Bomb Squadron, 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall
(Station 136), Suffolk 2Jun43.Named "Paddlefoot". 18th Bomb Squadron, 100th Bomb Group,
Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 9Jun43. Named "Picklepuss"the nickname of the pilot's wife
Failed to return from a shuttle mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factories at Regensburg,
Germany 17Aug43 (6KIA:4POW). Uffz G�nther Steinberg of the 9./JG 26 attacked and
damaged one engine en route to the target. South of Aachen three Bf 110 fighters of
II.Gruppe Nachtjagdgeschwader 1 attacked the bomber; the tail gunner damaged
two but the third fighter, damaged by the waist gunner, shot off the right wing,
causing the aircraft to enter a spin. Shot down by flt Hans Witzke of NJG 1/4
between Herbesthal and Lontzen, Belgium.
The aircraft crashed at Schmalgraf, five miles north of Eupen, Belgium
MACR 677.
30064 (MSN 5178) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 5Apr43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 15Apr43.
Wendover Field, UT 2May43. Hill Field, Ogden, UT 22May43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 30May43. 418th Bomb Squadron [LD*T],
100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 9Jun43. Named *Wild Cargo*
Failed to return from a mission to La Rochelle 16Sep43 (10POW). shot down by
Fw Heinz Schluter of JGr Ost/4 between Boyard-Ville and
Ile d'Aix, France. MACR 647. 1 KIA, 9 POW.
30065 (MSN 5179) Accepted by USAAF 2Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Apr43. 384th Bomb Group, Sioux City AAB, IA 14Apr43.
Departed to Kearney Field, NB for overseas processing 3May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB. Departed late May43 en route to Grafton Underwood, England via
North Atlantic route. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 20May43. Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland
to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 22/23May43. 547th Bomb Squadron [SO*O],
384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 24May43.
{first combat mission 22Jun43}. Extensively battle damaged on a mission to the
Gerhard Fieseler Werke (GFW) aircraft works at Waldau, Kassel, Germany 30Jul43 (1WIA).
Force landed at Horham (Station 119), Suffolk with fuel exhaustion. {9 missions}.
Eighth Air Force Service Command 6Aug43. Regained by Group 14Aug43. Transferred to
369th Bomb Squadron [WW*U], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 22Aug43.
Failed to return from a mission to a roller bearing factory at Stuttgart, Germany 6Sep43 (10RTD).
From the Initial Point until leaving the target area, there was a complete undercast
except for small sparse patches of farm land. This group went over the target area twice
without dropping their bombs. Bombs were finally dropped on Achern, a small town
18km southwest of Baden-Baden, Germany. Having spent too long over the target, the
formation was beginning to realise that fuel exhaustion would likely lead to many
not being able to return to base. The pilot instructed the crew to jettison excess weight
with a chance of reaching the English Channel. The plane flew across the English Channel
just above the waves but the English coast came into view. The aircraft crash landed in a
sheep pasture on Romney Marsh near New Romney, Kent, UK. Propellers were bent,
engines smashed off their mounts, the nose section caved in, battered wings and the
ball turret pushed up through the top of the fuselage. Salvaged 16Sep43
30066 (MSN 5180) Accepted by USAAF 2Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 6Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 14Apr43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 16Apr43. Wendover Field, UT 2May43.
Hill Field, Ogden, UT 16May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 22May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 30May43.
418th Bomb Squadron [LD*X], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 9Jun43.
Named MUGWUMP. Battle damaged during a shuttle mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft
factories at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43. The bomber survived the flight to North Africa
but was badly damaged and abandoned. Later repaired and returned to England.
To 413th Bomb Squadron [MZ*X], 96th Bomb Group, Andrewsfield (Station 485), Essex 2Jun43.
Named RUM BOOGIE II. Declared 'war weary'. Modified for radio counter measures.
To 803rd Bomb Squadron, Oulton. Base Air Depot No.1, Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire.
Modified as a drone for Operation Aphrodite and Castor missions. Designated BQ-7.
562nd Bomb Squadron, 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk, later at
Fersfield (Station 554), Norfolk. Expended on Aphrodite mission to the "Nordsee III" submarine
bunker at Heligoland, Germany 30Oct44. Bad weather prevented the primary target from being
identified, and the aircraft was redirected towards Berlin. The aircraft lost contact with
the mother ship, deviated from the course and headed towards Sweden. They tried, in vain,
to regain control of the aircraft and three of the escorting P-47 Thunderbolts followed
but at a point had to turn back to have enough fuel to reach base back in England.
The unmanned bomber survived both fighter and air defense attacks until it was just
south of Trollh�ttan when the fuel ran out. It crashed at Vissla kvarn, south of Trollh�ttan
after running out of fuel. The crater is still visible today.
30067 (MSN 5181) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 6Apr43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 16Apr43. Peterson Field,
Colorado Springs, CO 5Jun43. Bolling Field, Washington, DC 27Jul43. Peterson Field,
Colorado Springs, CO 6Aug43. Rapid City Field, SD 13Aug43. Peterson Field, Colorado
Springs, CO 7Oct43. 395th Bomb Squadron, 40th Bomb Group, Pratt Field, KS. Damaged
taxying at Pratt Field 27Jan44. 246th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Pratt Field, KS 8Jun44.
244th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Harvard Field, NB 24Jun44. 4136th Base Unit
(Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 15Jul44.
235th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Biggs Field, El Paso, TX 17Jan45.
233rd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Davis-Monthan Field, Tucson, AZ 18Mar45.
209th Base Unit (Special), Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 14Jun45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage
and disposal 8Nov45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
30068 (MSN 5182) Accepted by USAAF 2Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 5Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 10Apr43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 15Apr43. Wendover Field, UT 2May43.
Hill Field, Ogden, UT 13May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 23May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 27May43.
350th Bomb Squadron [LN*X], 100th Bomb Group, Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 29May43.
Thorpe Abbotts 9Jun43. 561st Bomb Squadron [S], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136),
Suffolk Jun43. {first combat mission 12Aug43}. Failed to return from a mission to a Luftwaffe
airfield at Woensdrecht, Netherlands 19Aug43 (8KIA:2POW). Unable to verify a visible
and identifiable target through cloud, the formation turned to bomb the secondary target
of the Luftwaffe airfield at Gilze-Rijen. Over the target area, flak fired by
Gemischter Flak Abteilung 665 exploded beneath the right wing, setting No.4 engine on fire.
The bomber dropped out of formation as the pilot side-slipped and extinguished the fire.
With the propeller feathered, the pilot attempted to rejoin the protection of the group but was
unable to maintain sufficient airspeed. The bomber was spotted approaching Haamstede at
about 3,000ft and trying to fight off two Geman fighters. It was then shot down by flak fired
by Leichte Flak Abteilung 847, caught fire and the crew bailed out before the plane crashed
in a field between Haamstede and Renesse, Netherlands. {4 missions}. Named PHARTZAC
MACR 3068 (MACR has 1944, but it is wrong).
30069 (MSN 5183) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 6Apr43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 16Apr43. Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 18Apr43. 11th Photographic Reconnaissance
Squadron, 2nd Photographic Reconnaissance Group, Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 5May43.
Crashed two miles east of Peterson Field 22May43 (3KIS). Salvaged 22May43
30070 (MSN 5184) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 6Apr43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 15Apr43. Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA 2May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb
Wing, Kearney Field, NB 21May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 22May43. 350th Bomb Squadron, 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 9Jun43.
Named *Tweedle O'Twill*-a song sung by Gene Autry. Failed to return from a shuttle
mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factories at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43 (9POW:1KIA).
Just after entering enemy held territory in the Netherlands, squadrons of Bf 109's and Fw 109's
headed for the last and low group, the 100th Bomb Group. Their first pass was aimed at the
low squadron. This plane was flying in the #5 position of the low squadron, very vulnerable
Shot down by Obfw. Anton-Rudolf Piffer in Fw 190A of JG 1/2
Riddled by 20mm cannon shells and the No.1 engine and tail section on fire, the crew, except
for the radio operator who had been killed, bailed out near Tauberbischofsheim.
All nine were taken prisoner by the Germans. The bomber crashed nearby at
P�lfringen, 20 miles southwest of W�rzburg, Germany. MACR 679.
30071 (MSN 5185) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 6Apr43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 15Apr43. Wendover Field, UT 2May43. Hill Field, Ogden, UT 8May43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 22May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air
Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 30May43. 339th Bomb Squadron [QJ*B],
96th Bomb Group, Andrewsfield (Station 485), Essex 2Jun43. 413th Bomb Squadron [MZ*B],
96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 12Jun43. On a training mission the
left wheel failed to extend for landing, then the tail wheel failed before crash landing at
Honington (Station 375), Suffolk 14Apr44. Salvaged 1st Strategic Air Depot, Troston
(Station 595), Suffolk 18Apr44
30072 (MSN 5186) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 7Apr43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 10Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 18Apr43.
Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 21Apr43. 15th Ferrying Group,
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 29Apr43.
Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 342nd Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, named "Virginia Lee" ,
Ch�teaudun-du-Rhumel (Helen), Constantine, Algeria 10May43. Pont-du-Fahs, Tunisia 11Aug43.
Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 15Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43.
San Giovanni, Cerignola, Italy 20Dec43. Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44. Failed to return
from a mission to the oil refineries at Ploe?ti, Rumania 5May44 (5KIA:5POW). Flak was heavy
and accurate. Struck by a direct flak burst in a wing and crashed near Ploe?t. MACR 4607
30073 (MSN 5187) Accepted by USAAF 2Apr43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 6Apr43. 384th Bomb Group, Sioux City AAB, IA 14Apr43.
Departed to Kearney Field, NB for overseas processing 3May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB. Departed late May43 en route to Grafton Underwood, England via
North Atlantic route. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 25May43.
547th Bomb Squadron [SO*E], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106),
Northamptonshire 29May43. {first combat mission 29Jun43}. {1 mission}. 413th Bomb Squadron [MZ*U],
96th Bomb Group, Andrewsfield (Station 485), Essex 6Jul43. Crash landed at Snetterton Heath (Station 138),
Norfolk 27Feb44. 339th Bomb Squadron [QJ*U]. On a practice mission the aircraft suffered engine
failure and crash landed two miles southeast of East Wretham, Norfolk 17Apr44. {27 missions}. Salvaged.
Named OLE PUSS II artwork of Ole Puss squating in front of a bomb and wearing Staff Sergeant stripes
whilst toting a heavy machine gun
30074 (MSN 5188) Accepted by USAAF 2Apr43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 6Apr43. 544th Bomb Squadron, 384th Bomb Group,
Sioux City AAB, IA 14Apr43. Crash landed when the left main landing gear would not extend
after a cross-country flight from Salinas Field, CA to Sioux City AAB 25Apr43; a shaft in the
landing gear motor had failed. Salvaged and repaired. Hill Field, Ogden, UT 10Jun43.
Rapid City Field, SD 20Jul43. 222nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Ardmore Field, OK 22Jan45. 332nd Base Unit, Ardmore Field, OK 16Jun45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 11Dec45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
30075 (MSN 5189) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 7Apr43.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Apr43. Geiger Field,
Spokane, WA 17Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 7Jun43. Cut Bank Field, MT
16Jun43. Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 2Jul43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma
City, OK 10Dec43. 247th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 3Jun44.
4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 17Jun43.
247th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 21Jul44. 233rd Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Davis-Monthan Field, Tucson, AZ 11Nov44. 268th Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 11Feb45. 233rd Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Davis-Monthan Field, Tucson, AZ 26Feb45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and
disposal 27Oct45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
30076 MSN 5190) Accepted by USAAF 3Apr43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver
Municipal Airport, CO 6Apr43. 384th Bomb Group, Sioux City AAB, IA 14Apr43.
Departed to Kearney Field, NB for overseas processing 3May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB. Departed late May43 en route to Grafton Underwood, England via North Atlantic
route. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 23May43.
545th Bomb Squadron [JD*V], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106),
Northamptonshire 4Jun43. {first combat mission 22Jun43}. Failed to return from the first Group
mission to the General Motors truck factory at Antwerp, Belgium 22Jun43 (4KIA:6POW).
Battle damaged from attacks after the target by Fw 190 fighters, shot down by Lt Friedrich Lange
in Fw 190A-5 of JG 26/5. With three engines out, the aircraft dropped out of formation.
Several crew members were ejected when the aircraft exploded and spun
out of control to crash at Wilhelminadorp, Goes, Netherlands. {1 mission}. MACR 2165
30077 (MSN 5191) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 7Apr43. Hobbs Field, NM 19Apr43. West Coast Training Center,
Fort Sumner Field, NM 21Apr43. Hobbs Field, NM 6May43. Roswell Field, NM 23May43.
953rd Two Engine Flying Training Squadron [TEFTS], Hobbs Field, NM 30May43.
Damaged in a ground accident with B-17F 42-5118 at Hobbs Field 28Oct43.
Used in making the Hollywood film 'Passage to Marseille' starring Humphrey Bogart;
filmed at Victorville, CA, the aircraft was painted to represent an aircraft of the Free French
Air Force / Forces A�riennes Fran�aises Libres, code SO-V. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 8Nov44. 4124th Base Unit (Air Technical Service
Command), Altus Field, OK 21Jul45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK
for storage and disposal 14Sep45
30078 (MSN 5192) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 7Apr43. Hobbs Field, NM 19Apr43. 2114th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 23Aug44. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 25Aug44. Damaged when force landed after
engine failure at Hobbs Field 22Nov44. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH),
Roswell Field, NM 23Nov44. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine),
Hobbs Field, NM 2Jan45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for
storage and disposal 18Sep45
30079 (MSN 5193) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 7Apr43. Lewistown Field, MT 16Apr43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 4Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 21Jun43. Walla Walla Field, WA 17Jul43.
Rapid City Field, SD 22Jul43. Hill Field, Ogden, UT 25Jul43. Walla Walla Field, WA 29Aug43.
325th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Avon Park Field, FL Dec44.
Forced landing Avon Park 5Dec44. Reclaimed 6Jan45
30080 (MSN 5194) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 7Apr43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 16Apr43.
Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 3May43. Wendover Field, UT 16May43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 23May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME May43. 351st Bomb Squadron [EP*F], 100th Bomb Group,
Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 9Jun43. named "High Life/Peg O'My Heart"
(a 1913 song and 1933 movie. Failed to return from a shuttle mission to the
Messerschmitt aircraft factories at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43 (10INT). After crossing
the German border en route to the target, the bomber formation came under constant
attack by enemy fighters. Damaged by Ltn Hans Ehlers in Fw 190A of JG 1/2
The No.2 engine was disabled by a cannon shell then the No.3 engine received a direct hit from a Bf 109
cannon shell, cutting the throttle cable and causing an oil leak. With two dead engines and a propeller
windmilling, the bomber fell behind the formation. The bombs were jettisoned in a forest near Heilbronn.
The bomber continued to follow the formation over the target and on towards the Alps on course
for the planned destination in Algeria. But the aircraft could not keep up with the formation; preparing
to order the crew to bail out, the navigator advised that the aircraft was close to Switzerland.
Now down to 10,000ft, Lake Constance / Bodensee came into view. As the bomber crossed over
Friedrichshafen, Germany, it was attacked by anti-aircraft artillery from a training station in the town.
A crash landing was made in a field where a lone farmer was loading hay near Z�rich, Switzerland
and the crew was interned. The first B-17 to make a forced landing in Switzerland.
Dismantled and taken to Kloten airfield, Z�rich, for storage. MACR 683. eventually scrapped.
30081 (MSN 5195) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 7Apr43. New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 29Apr43. North Atlantic
Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 3May43. 407th Bomb Squadron [PY*O],
92nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire 23May43. Named "USS Aliquippa".
.Failed to return from a mission to the synthetic oil refineries at Bochum, Gelsenkirchen
and Recklinghausen, Germany 12Aug43 (11POW) shot down by Lt. Fritz
Karch in Bf 109G-6 of JG 2/6 and crashlanded Ahaus, NW of M�nster, Germany.
near Dutch/German border MACR 655.
30082 (MSN 5196) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 8Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 22Apr43. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing,
Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 5May43. Robins Field, GA 11May43.
15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm
Beach, FL 16May43. Ferried South Atlantic route departing Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 17May43.
Diverted en route to Waller Field, Trinidad to Borinquen Field, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico because of
strong headwinds, very stormy and turbulent weather, No 1 engine throwing oil, interphone out,
and no radio contact. Waller Field, Trinidad 18May43. Val de C�es Field, Bel�m, Brasil 20May43.
Parnamirim Field, Natal, Brasil 21May43. Wideawake Field, Ascension Island 25May43.
Mallard Field, Dakar, Senegal, Africa 25May43. Marrakech, French Morocco 28May43. Sal�,
Rabat, French Morocco 29May43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 20th Bomb Squadron,
2nd Bomb Group, Ch�teaudun-du-Rhumel (Helen), Constantine, Algeria 15Jun43. A�n M'lila (Onyx),
Constantine, Algeria 17Jun43. {first combat mission 5Jul43}. Massicault, Tunis, Tunisia.
Landing accident at Massicault 29Oct43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. {36 missions}.
419th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Oudna #2, Tunis, Tunisia 14Nov43. Cerignola #1, Italy 10Dec43.
Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. {nil missions}. Returned to US. Grenier Field,
Manchester, NH 14Sep45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for
storage and disposal 29Oct45. Named ZELMA.
30083 (MSN 5197) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 8Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 16Apr43.
Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 18Apr43. Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 5May43. Long Beach
Field, CA 6Jul43. Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 15Jul43. Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 21Jul43.
Modified to photographic configuration. Designated F-9. Mapping Accra, E.Africa, returned to US 9Oct44.
Kirtland Field, Albuquerque, NM 29Nov44. Buckley Field, CO 9Dec44. Kirtland Field, Albuquerque, NM 31Dec44.
Designated FB-17F. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for
storage and disposal 7Feb46. War Assets Administration. Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped.
30084 (MSN 5198) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 6Apr43. Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 16Apr43. Patterson Field,
Dayton, OH 18Apr43. Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 2May43. Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 2Jul43.
Barksdale Field, Bossier City, LA 6Aug43. 3701st Base Unit (Technical School), Amarillo
Field, TX 10Aug44. 3706th Base Unit, Basic Training Center, Sheppard Field, Wichita Falls, TX 15Jul44.
3701st Base Unit (Technical School), Amarillo Field, TX 7Aug44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 20Dec45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30085 (MSN 5199) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 7Apr43. Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 8Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification
Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 16Apr43. Walla Walla Field, WA 16May43.
Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 18May43. 592nd Bomb Squadron, 396th Bomb Group, Moses Lake
Field, WA 23May43. Damaged landing with mechanical failure at Moses Lake Field 1Sep43.
4136th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma
City, OK 23Jul44. 4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field,
Dayton, OH 24Oct44. Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 17Aug45.
30086 (MSN 5200) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 8Apr43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 16Apr43.
Wendover Field, UT 2May43. Hill Field, Ogden, UT 16May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 23May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 26May43. 351st Bomb Squadron [EP*B], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts
(Station 139), Norfolk 9Jun43. Named BLACK JACK. Battle damaged on a shuttle mission to the
Messerschmitt aircraft factories at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43. Salvaged 23Sep43. Also named . BILLY JACK
30087 (MSN 5201) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 8Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 14Apr43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 16Apr43. Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA 23Apr43.
Wendover Field, UT 2May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 23May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 31May43.
351st Bomb Squadron [EP*M], 100th Bomb Group 11Jun43. Ferried on the North
Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 14Jun43.
100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk Jun43. Named "Shackrat"
Failed to return from a mission to railway installations at M�nster, Germany 10Oct43 (8KIA:2POW).
As they approached the city, the formation was swarmed by a large force of enemy aircraft
for an estimated forty-five minutes of vicious fighting. By the time their friendly fighter escorts
arrived to drive off the Luftwaffe, the damage had already been done Shot down by Fw. Erick Mattern in
Bf 109G-6 of JG 1/8. crashed Vynen, near Xanten, east of Goch, Germany.
MACR 1026.
30088 (MSN 5202) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 8Apr43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 16Apr43.
Wendover Field, UT 2May43. Hill Field, Ogden, UT 12May43. Wendover Field, UT 18May43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 22May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air
Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 27May43. 349th Bomb Squadron [XR*E],
100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 9Jun43. ,
named *Squawkin' Hawk*.Named after a Merrie Melodies animated cartoon,
released in 1942 and featuring a feisty young chicken hawk determined to seize some prey.
Severe battle damaged over Stuttgart, Germany 6Sep43, returned to base. As the bomber began
the bomb run, four enemy fighters attacked. 20mm shells riddled the nose compartment and
the cockpit. The co-pilot was killed. Fragments from the shell also damaged the aircraft's oxygen system.
Other rounds entered the nose compartment, severly wounding the navigator. The bombardier was
wounded. The engineer succeeded in jettisoning the bombs and the pilot dived into a lower
formation seeking protection. Lacking oxygen, the pilot descended to miminum terrain clearance
altitude. They somehow reached England where the aircraft landed on a grass runway at a RAF fighter
airstrip. Again badly damaged on a mission to the synthetic oil refinery at Gelsenkirchen, Germany 5Nov43
(1KIA:4POW:3EVD:2RTD). After sustaining heavy battle damage, including loss of No.1 engine, the crew
was ordered to bail out and everybody except the pilots jumped.
8 crew bailed out 5 became POW, 2 evaded, but one member's chute
failed to open and he was KIA. On recovering control, the pilots
brought the damaged plane back, to land at RAF Tangmere, Sussex. Repaired and returned to combat status.
Became the first 100th Bomb Group aircraft to complete 50 missions. With the skin autographed
by the men of the 100th, the bomber was flown back to the States for a War Bond tour. Returned to US 17May44.
2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 8Jun44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 13Dec45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; .
30089 (MSN 5203) Accepted by USAAF 7Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 9Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 13Apr43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 22Apr43. Landing incident Harry Clever
Field, New Philadelphia, OH 23Apr43. The pilot and his crew were on a routine training
flight when he decided he would like to see his wife, who lived near Amsterdam, Ohio. There was
no difficulty in landing the 30-ton bomber on the turf at Harry Clever Field, but while taxying his
plane at the west end of the field, the landing gear sank in the soggy turf off of the runway.
Crew members, assisted by airport employees, Naval Air Cadets, state troopers and scores of
volunteers, worked three hours to extricate the plane out of the mud. Then they had to line
the field with their headlights. The pilot had to runup the engines to full power and leap
off the boards fast enough not to bog down again. The bomber barely cleared the trees
at the end of the field by dropping about 1/2 flaps on takeoff. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 30Apr43. Wendover Field, UT 2May43.
Hill Field, Ogden, UT 15May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 28May43. Eighth Air Force, UK 31May43. 351st Bomb Squadron [EP*K],
100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 9Jun43. Named *Sunny*
Failed to return from a mission to the Caudron-Renault factory at Paris, France 3Sep43 (6KIA:3POW:1EVD).
When the formation reached Paris, the target was obscured by clouds so diverted to
an alternate target, the Luftwaffe airfield at Beaumont Le Roger near Paris. Flak damaged
and started fires in the bomb bay and navigator's compartment. The aircraft was knocked
out of formation and collided with B-17F 42-30059. Aircraft #089 hit the tail section of #059
with its right wing. #089 went down in a steep dive and the crew started to bail out.
Flames were pouring from its bomb bay; it appeared that the oxygen system was burning.
The aircraft did not appear to be out of control, crashed landed in a field then destroyed
by an explosion at Beaumont-le-Roger, Franc. eMACR 684
30090 (MSN 5204) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 8Apr43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 16Apr43.
Wendover Field, UT 2May43. Hill Field, Ogden, UT 12May43. Wendover Field, UT 16May43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 22May43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 28May43. 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield
(Station 155), Suffolk 2Jun43. 349th Bomb Squadron [XR*B], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts
(Station 139), Norfolk 9Jun43 Named "El P'sstffo", then "Mad House"
Failed to return from a mission to railway installations at M�nster, Germany 10Oct43 (10POW).
As they approached the city, the formation was swarmed by a large force of enemy aircraft
for an estimated forty-five minutes of vicious fighting. By the time their friendly fighter escorts
arrived to drive off the Luftwaffe, the damage had already been done. Enemy aircraft damaged
engine No.1, crashed Haltern, Germany. .MACR 1020.
30091 (MSN 5205) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 9Apr43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 10Apr43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 27Apr43. 25th Ferrying Squadron, 7th Ferrying Group,
Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 25May43. Damaged when crash landed at Tinker Field, Oklahoma
City, OK 30Apr43. Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 25May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 29May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 16Jun43. 418th Bomb Squadron [LD*S], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139),
Norfolk 17Jun43. 550th Bomb Squadron, 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk.
Damaged when B-17F 42-30414 exploded at Great Ashfield 3Sep43. 349th Bomb Squadron,
100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk. Crashed at Eye (Station 134), Suffolk 21Apr44 (10KIS).
The aircraft departed Thorpe Abbotts on a formation practice flight for a new crew. The pilot was
attempting to join the formation in the first turn after takeoff. He was closing at a sharp angle and
overshot, crossing through the slipstream of the formation, banking steeply and stalled
from about 500 feet. The aircraft crashed on the perimeter track of Eye airfield, beside
the A140 Ipswich-Norwich Road. Salvaged 5May44. Named BLIVIT / SPARE PARTS
30092 (MSN 5206) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 9Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 10Apr43.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Apr43. Columbus, OH 19Apr43.
Pilot School (Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 15Aug43.
1172nd Pilot Transition Training Squadron, Chanute Field, Rantoul, IL 16Aug43.
Crash landed Chanute 1Sep43, No.1 engine on fire. SOC 22Oct43.
30093 (MSN 5207) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 10Apr43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 19Apr43.
4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 25Apr43. Caribbean Wing, Air
Transport Command, Homestead Field, FL 30Apr43. Robins Field, Warner
Robins, GA 16May43. 4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 22May43.
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Homestead Field, FL 1Jun43.
Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 419th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group,
Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 17Jul43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia,
Tunisia 6Aug43. Suffered combat damage from a captured Italian Lockheed P-38G Lightning (43-2278),
flown by Regia Aeronautica pilot Col Angelo Tondi
and made a forced landing in the desert about ten miles short of the base at Oudna 11Aug43;
all aboard escaped uninjured. {2 missions}. Salvaged 19Aug43..
30094 (MSN 5208) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 13Apr43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 14Apr43. Rosecrans Field, Saint Joseph, MO 29Apr43.
Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 8May43.
Great Falls 10May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 30May43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 15Jun43. 548th Bomb Squadron [GX*G],
385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 26Jun43. Named "Belle of the Blue".
Salvaged Sep 6, 1945.
30095 (MSN 5209) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 9Apr43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 10Apr43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field,
Oklahoma City, OK 21Apr43. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command,
Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 29Apr43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 346th Bomb Squadron,
99th Bomb Group, Navarin (Overcoat), El Eulma, Algeria 1Jun43. Ferried to Sal�, Rabat, French
Morocco 24Jun43. 353rd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Saint-Donat (New Zealand),
Tadjenanet, Algeria 24Jun43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force,
Italy 1Nov43. Cerignola #1, Italy 10Dec43. Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44.
Battle damaged by flak over Regensburg, Germany 25Feb44. Enemy fighters started
to attack fifteen miles east of Klagenfurt, Austria on the way to the target. No.3 engine
oversped and the propeller could not be feathered. The oxygen system was then destroyed
and the aircraft dropped out of the formation between Klagenfurt, Austria and the Alps.
An explosion in the aircraft and No.3 engine catching fire caused six crew to bail out.
The engine fire extinguished in the dive, the aircraft was still under control and returned
to base. Salvaged 14Jan46.
30096 (MSN 5210) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 9Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 10Apr43.
Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 29Apr43.
Glasgow Field, MT 3May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 29May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 15Jun43.
Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland 21Jun43.
549th Bomb Squadron [XA*J], 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 26Jun43
Named 'Liberty Belle' Battle damaged on a mission to the ball bearing factories
at Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43 (2WIA:8RTD). En route to the target area, the bomber formation
was repeatedly attacked by a large number of Luftwaffe fighters. Damaged by flak after bombing
the target, two engine superchargers were struck, part of the oxygen system was destroyed
and two gunners were seriously wounded. The No.3 fuel tank was holed and the engineer
successfully manipulated the fuel transfer system to retain sufficient fuel to return safely
to Great Ashfield. Failed to return from a mission to the industrial area of Solingen,
Germany 30Nov43 (4KIA:6RTD). The crew was tasked as the lead of the low squadron.
After climbing through a thick cloud layer and breaking out on top at about 19,000ft,
the pilot directed the engineer to fire a red flare as a signal for the rest of the squadron
to form up on them. The M8 flare exploded igniting the gun kit box causing a secondary
explosion. With the entire top turret in flames, a full load of fused 500 pound bombs
and bundles of incendiary bombs, the pilot immediately ordered the crew to bail out.
The plane crashed and exploded coming to rest in a field 1/2 mile west of Penlan Hall,
Wakes Colne, Essex. {19 missions}. . MACR 4403
30097 (MSN 5111) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 9Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 10Apr43.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Apr43.
Pilot School (Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 19Apr43.
1173rd Pilot Transition Training Squadron, Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 23Mar43.
Crash landed Lockbourne 22Sep43. One passenger minor injury; WO Oct 1, 1943
30098 (MSN 5212) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 9Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great
Falls, MT 10Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 13Apr43. 962nd Bombardier Training Squadron, Hobbs Field, NM 19Apr43.
Substantially damaged when nosed over taxying at Hobbs Auxiliary Field #1, Knowles, NM 16Nov43.
4136th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma
City, OK 4Jul44. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs
Field, NM 8Nov44. Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and
bombing equipment; designated TB-17F. Damaged landing with mechanical failure
at Altus, OK 20Jul45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for
storage and disposal 11Sep45
30099 (MSN 5213) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Apr43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 14Apr43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH),
Roswell Field, NM 7Oct44. 3010th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine),
Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 16Nov44. 3020th Base Unit (Pilot School, Advanced, Two Engine),
La Junta Field, CO 26Mar45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Searcy Field,
Stillwater, OK for storage and disposal 4Aug45. War Assets Corporation. Sold to Paul Mantz 19Feb46; scrapped.
30100 (MSN 5214) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 9Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 10Apr43.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Apr43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 21Apr43. Pilot School (Specialized, Four Engine),
Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 25Apr43. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air
Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 14May43. Tunisia 17May43.
Damaged taxying 24Jun43. Salvaged 14Jan46
30101 (MSN 5215) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 10Apr43. Hobbs Field, NM 19Apr43. Smoky Hill Field,
Salina, KS 22Apr43. 962nd Bombardier Training Squadron, Hobbs Field, NM 6May43.
Damaged by bird strike between Navasota and Houston, TX 1Aug43. Ellington Field,
Houston, TX 2Aug43. 962nd Bombardier Training Squadron, Hobbs Field, NM 16Aug43.
Crash landed 13 miles northeast of Hobbs 20Aug43. Salvaged 21Aug43
30102 (MSN 5216) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 10Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 29May43.
15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West
Palm Beach, FL 8Jun43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 97th Bomb Group,
Ch�teaudun-du-Rhumel (Helen), Constantine, Algeria 16Jun43. Pont-du-Fahs, Tunisia 11Aug43.
Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 15Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43.
San Giovanni, Cerignola, Italy 20Dec43. Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44.
Declared 'war weary'. Reassigned for utility, training and weather check aircraft 15Jul44. Salvaged 30Mar45.
30103 MSN 5217) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 10Apr43. Hobbs Field, NM 19Apr43. West Coast Training Center,
Fort Sumner Field, NM 21Apr43. Hobbs Field, NM 6May43. Pilot School (Specialized, Four Engine),
Hobbs Field, NM 8Nov44. Reclaimed 22Mar45
30104 (MSN 5218) (384th BG, 547th BS) shot down by Lt Kurt Ibing in Fw 190A-6
of JG 1/4 at Hennef, Germany Aug 12, 1943 on mission to
Gelsenkirchen, Germany. MACR 286. 6 KIA 4 POW.
The MACR database has this listed correctly as being 42-30104.
Conflict:
Accepted by USAAF 8Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 10Apr43. Hobbs Field, NM 19Apr43. West Coast Training Center, Fort Sumner
Field, NM 21Apr43. Hobbs Field, NM 6May43. Mather Field, Sacramento, CA 18Jun43.
Hobbs Field, NM 11Jul43. Pilot School (Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 8Nov44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 4Sep45
30105 (MSN 5219) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 13Apr43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 12May43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Lincoln Field, NB 20May43. Dow Field, Bangor, ME 23May43.
412th Bomb Squadron [QW*R], 95th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 6Jun43.
Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 12Jun43. Named "Exterminator/Slightly Dangerous"
Failed to return from a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield and air depot at Le Bourget, Paris, France 10Jul43
(6KIA:2POW:2EVD) Shot down by Lt. Siegfried Baumann and
Fw. Wilhelm Flegel von Farnholz in Bf 109G-6's of JG 2/6.
Crashed Saint Didier des Bois, near Elbent, France. {4 missions}. MACR 4902.
30106 (MSN 5220) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 10Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 22Apr43. 15th Ferrying Group,
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 5May43.
Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 353rd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Saint-Donat
(New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 4Jun43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Cerignola #1, Italy 10Dec43. Foggia #8 (Longskirt),
Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. Named SLOPPY PISS WILLY, later as WILLY. Failed to return from a mission
to the railway marshalling yards at Budapest, Hungary 27Jun44 (10POW).
Damaged by flak, crashed Budapest. {86 missions}. MACR 6175
30107 (MSN 5221) Accepted by USAAF 8Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 10Apr43. Pendleton Field, OR 12Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 5May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 25May43.
526th Bomb Squadron [LF*D], 379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117),
Huntingdonshire 20Jun43. Named "Black Magic". Failed to return from a mission
to the industrial area and submarine pens at Hamburg, Germany 25Jun43 (8POW:2KIA).
hit by a fighter and crashed at Wieste, near Quakenbr�ck, Germany
MACR 1366
30108 (MSN 5222) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 13Apr43. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport
Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 5May43. Robins Field, Warner Robins, GA 11May43.
15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 17May43.
Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 352nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Saint-Donat (New Zealand),
Tadjenanet, Algeria 5Jun43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43.
Cerignola #1, Italy 9Dec43. Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. Air Depot 15May44.
Named "Little Jan". {67 missions}. Returned to US. Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 10Aug44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage
Conflict:
Failed to return from a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Tatoi, Athens, Greece 10Oct43 (1KIA:9RTD).
Ditched in bad weather sixty miles west of Cephalonia, Greece
30109 (MSN 5223) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 13Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 22Apr43. 15th Ferrying Group,
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 5May43.
Robins Field, Warner Robins, GA 10May43. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing,
Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 20May43. Twelfth Air Force,
North Africa. 49th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Ch�teaudun-du-Rhumel (Helen),
Constantine, Algeria 30May43. A�n M'lila (Onyx), Constantine, Algeria 17Jun43.
{first combat mission 25Jun43}. Massicault, Tunis, Tunisia 1Aug43. Failed to return
from a mission to the railway marshalling yards at Bologna, Italy 25Sep43 (4INJ:6RTD).
Damaged by intense flak over Pecembino, Italy and fuel exhaustion. Ditched in
Mediterranean Sea ten miles east of Bizerte, Tunisia; crew rescued. {28 missions}.
30110 (MSN 5224) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 10Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 14Apr43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 22Apr43. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport
Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 9May43. Robins Field, Warner
Robins, GA 10May43. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command,
Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 20May43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa.
32nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet,
Algeria 1Jun43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43.
Cerignola #1, Italy 11Dec43. Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. {7 missions}. Salvaged 8Jul44
30111 (MSN 5225) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 13Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 14Apr43.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 17Apr43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 22Apr43. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport
Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 5May43. Robins Field, Warner Robins, GA 10May43.
15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm
Beach, FL 19May43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 32nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group,
Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 24Jun43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Failed to return from a mission to the Wiener Neust�dter
Flugzeugwerke factory at Wiener Neust�dt, Vienna, Austria 2Nov43 (10KIA). Flak was
intense and accurate over the target, but enemy fighters attacking the formation head-on
in line abreast formation managed to shoot down the bomber Shot down by Bf 109G-6 of JG 51/II
Crashed near Prebuch, Austria. {27 missions} MACR 1093.
30112 (MSN 5226) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 12Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 21Apr43. Smoky Hill Field,
Salina, KS 25Apr43. Walla Walla Field, WA 30Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 10May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 29May43.
410th Bomb Squadron [GL*Z], 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 13Jun43.
Named "Lil Butch". Battle damaged during a mission to the port area at
Wilhelmshaven, Germany 3Nov43. Moderate inaccurate flak was encountered over the target.
Escort fighters were scheduled to cover the whole route over enemy territory but were not on hand
for approximately ten minutes between the I.P. and the target, during which time the group was
attacked by enemy fighters. The bomber was attacked by a Bf 109 fighter which disabled No.2 engine.
The pilot headed for the cover of contrails and returned safely to Rougham. The crew chief
found a 0.50 caliber bullet in the inverter beneath the co-pilot's seat, the result of 'friendly fire'.
Failed to return from a mission to the Luftwaffe air depot at M�rignac, Bordeaux,
France 5Jan44 (8KIA:2EVD). The bomber was set upon by enemy fighters about 5km west of
Saint-Laurent-M�doc, France. Immediately after the first fighter attack one propeller had to
be feathered and the tail controls were damaged. The tail Gunner was badly wounded and
then the radio system failed. The engineer/top turret gunner went to the rear of the plane to
inform the other gunners of the bail out instructions from the pilot. As he was passing through
the bomb bay the aircraft went into a crash dive. The ball turret gunner was trapped in the
ball turret. The co-pilot was injured and assisted the pilot on an attempt to maintain control
of the aircraft so that the crew could bail out. The two pilots were to set-up the AFCE
(Automatic Flight Control Equipment) and attempt to return to England. The pilot was
then injured by the explosion of a cannon shell; the main portion of the cannon blast was in
the area of the pilot and co-pilots seats. As the bombardier and navigator were bailing out,
the plane went into a vertical dive with the right wing in flames and breaking off.
Shot down by an enemy Ju 88 fighter of 3./ ZG 1 which knocked off the tail. Exploded and
crashed in a woody swamp at St Laurent-et-Benon, twenty-six miles northwest of Bordeaux, France..
MACR 1891
30113 (MSN 5227) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Apr43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 5May43. 94th Bomb Group 8May43. Ferried Meeks
Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 14May43. 333rd Bomb Squadron,
94th Bomb Group, Earls Colne (Station 358), Essex May43. Named "Wolf Pack".
Failed to return from a mission to the submarine yards at Kiel, Germany 13Jun43 (10POW
Shot down by enemy aircraft and crashed near
Renesburg, Germany.
30114 (MSN 5228) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 13Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 22Apr43. North Atlantic
Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 3May43. 381st Bomb Group 8May43.
Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 14May43.
95th Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire. Crash landed
Alconbury 28May43. Air Depot 19Aug43 for repair. Repaired and named "Spare Parts".
Radio Counter Measures, fitted with Jackal AN/ART 7. 334th Bomb Squadron [BG*L],
95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 13Sep43. Failed to return from a mission
to the industrial area at D�ren, Germany 20Oct43, shot down by enemy fighters, ditched
North Sea, crew rescued. {1 mission). One database has this plane as going to
803rd BS(P) at Oulton early 1944 as radio countermeasures
aircraft, fitted with 6 Mandrel sets
30115 (MSN 5229) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 12Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 22Apr43. 15th Ferrying Group,
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 5May43.
Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 419th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Saint-Donat
(New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 27Jun43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43.
Battle damaged by heavy flak on a tactical mission to a railway bridge at Bolzano,
Italy 25Sep43. No.3 engine was disabled and, returning to Tunisia, the plane became lost
in a thunderstorm without instruments or radio but landed safely. Fifteenth Air Force,
Italy 1Nov43. Failed to return from a mission to Istres-Le Tub� air base, Marseille, France 16Nov43 (10KIA).
Shot down by Oblt Ernst-Georg Altnorthoff of JGr Sud/2 over Gulf of Lion, 114 km SW of
Marseilles, France. MACR 1128.
30116 (MSN 5230) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Apr43. West Coast Training Center, Fort Sumner
Field, NM 21Apr43. Hobbs Field, NM 30Apr43. Roswell Field, NM 24May43. 957th Two
Engine Flying Training Squadron [TEFTS], Hobbs Field, NM 27May43. Damaged taxying at
Hobbs Field 22Apr44. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine),
Hobbs Field, NM. Substantially damaged landing at Hobbs Field 17May44.
3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 20Jun44. Salvaged 27Jun44
30117 (MSN 5231) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great
Falls, MT 21Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 22Apr43. 15th Ferrying Group,
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 4May43.
Twelfth Air Force, North Africa 31May43. 414th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group,
Ch�teaudun-du-Rhumel (Helen), Constantine, Algeria. F.O. #1. Flew Marrakech,
French Morocco to Valley (Station 568), Anglesey, Wales 9/10Apr44.
Seen at Poltava, Ukraine in June 1944 used in Operation
Frantic, had name painted on Port nose in Russian (meant "Polar Star" in English).
Noted unarmed at Deenethorpe Nov44. Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment
Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 9Oct45
30118 (MSN 5232) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 13Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 22Apr43. North Atlantic Wing, Air
Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 16May43. 335th Bomb Squadron [OE*N],
95th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 29May43. Failed to return from a mission
to the submarine yards at Kiel, Germany 13Jun43 (10KIA). ). Battle damaged, crashed in Baltic Sea
off Denmark. {2 missions}. MACR 4738
30119 (MSN 5233) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 14Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 22Apr43. 15th Ferrying Group,
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 5May43.
Robins Field, Warner Robins, GA 10May43. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport
Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 18May43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 3
46th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Navarin (Overcoat), El Eulma, Algeria 14Jun43
Named HUNTER'S ANSWER (Lt Hunter was the assigned pilot) / VICKI. Failed to return from a mission
to the railway marshalling yards at Foggia, Italy 22Jul43 (8KIA:1POW:1EVD). The bomber was just
coming off of the target and making a turn when a Bf 109 attacked the element ahead and came up
under this bomber. Cannon shells started a fire in the right wing near number four engine
and the propeller was feathered. Even though the aircraft was burning, the pilot remained
in position for several minutes and then side slipped to the left trying to put out the fire.
The right wing section broke off and flew back hitting the tail section, this causing the fuselage to break in two
MACR 414. .
30120 (MSN 5234) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 25Apr43.
Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 23May43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Jun43. 91st Bomb Group,
Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 15Jun43. 334th Bomb Squadron [BG*D],
95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 16Jun43. Named"Patches"
Force landed RAF Chedburgh, Bury St Edmunds 16Jul43. Accident departing for a mission
to the aircraft factories at Bordeaux, France 16Sep43. During the join up with other groups
involved in a mid-air collision with B-17F 42-30601 (385th Bomb Group) over Abbots Hall, Suffolk.
Force landed on return back to Horham. {36 missions}. Declared 'war weary'. 391st Bomb Squadron,
34th Bomb Group, Mendlesham (Station 156), Suffolk. Used as a 'Cycle' radio relay plane.
Retained the 95th Bomb Group [B] tail symbol. Flown on a mission to Ghent, Belgium 6Jan45 (1INJ:9RTD).
The crew was instructed to take off prior to the main force of planes. The weather over England
was extremely bad as the crew headed for their destination over Ghent, Belgium. The plane cleared
the overcast and ascended to its assigned 27,000ft altitude. The weather worsened and word
came over the radio that the mission had been scrubbed and they were to return to base;
the other planes never took off. The plane was heading for home when suddenly, and without
warning, all their navigational aids stopped functioning; Gee box, compass, radio,
all communication devices gone. The crew was hopelessly lost. With no way of knowing exactly
where they were, they headed west, by the sun, dropping down until they sighted land at 500 feet.
They started following the coastline and soon spotted what they thought were some Channel Islands
that were still in German hands. As the plane circled, looking for a place to land, it encountered a
heavy barrage of anti-aircraft fire that promptly knocked out the No.2 engine. The propeller was
feathered and the plane left the hostile area. After flying for two hours, the crew jettisoned
everything, not tied down, in an attempt to preserve their diminishing fuel supply. They
sighted a Douglas C-47 and followed it for a while, hoping to find land, but soon gave
up thinking they might be headed out into the North Sea where they had been told of a
crew ditching and freezing to death in thirty minutes. The crew considered going back to the
island and try to land knowing that they would become prisoners of war. Although desperate,
no one thought this to be a good idea. Darkness was closing in fast and with only about an
hour and a half of fuel supply left they spotted a convoy of ships in the English Channel.
The crew now had two options; they could ditch near one of the ships in the convoy,
hoping to survive the ditching and be picked up by one of the ships or they could continue
flying hoping to spot a place to land before their fast dwindling fuel supply ran out.
The crew unanimously agreed to ditch. They signaled to the convoy that they were coming
in but could not make out the reply. The crew assumed their ditching positions as the pilot
smoothly set the Fortress down in the English Channel southwest of Guernsey, Channel Islands.
Water came gushing into the radio room as the crew successfully exited the ditched plane
only to find that both dinghies were stuck in their compartments and would not eject automatically.
After manually pulling them free, they inflated and the crew climbed in, successfully, and
began paddling a safe distance from the plane toward one of the ships in the convoy.
They cleared the plane in about forty seconds before it sank. A lifeboat was sent out
from one of the ships to pick them up. At this point, the crew did not know if the ship crews
were British or German as they all wore black turtleneck sweaters. With their 45's at the
ready their fears were soon alleviated upon leaming that the rescuers were British. As they were
being pulled aboard the Royal Navy trawler HMS Gweal, a pool of blood was noticed in one of the
dinghies and upon further investigation it was found that the toggalier was bleeding profusely
a nasty cut on his hand, the only casualty from the long ordeal. The crew was taken to Plymouth,
arriving the following morning and later flown back to Mendlesham. Salvaged 6Jan45
30121 (MSN 5235) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 14Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 22Apr43. 15th Ferrying Group,
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 4May43.
Robins Field, Warner Robins, GA 11May43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 414th Bomb Squadron,
97th Bomb Group, Ch�teaudun-du-Rhumel (Helen), Constantine, Algeria 29May43. Named "The Virgin".
Crashed when the pilot lost control during takeoff for a tactical mission to Satellite #6 airdrome at
Gerbini, Sicily 6Jul43 (10KIA + 1 ground crew killed and three injured). There had been a continuous
wind and dust storm as the pilot started the takeoff. Loaded with sixteen 300lb bombs,
the plane was thrown off course in the strong crosswind, departing the runway. To avoid crashing
into a nearby ambulance, the pilot pulled the plane off the ground and was heading for several
oil drums. The pilot made an attempt to avoid the drums but the landing gear struck one of them,
the plane nosed into the ground and exploded at Ch�teaudun-du-Rhumel. MACR 16152.
30122 (MSN 5236) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 14Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 21Apr43. 15th Ferrying Group,
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 4May43.
Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 32nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Saint-Donat (New Zealand),
Tadjenanet, Algeria 29May43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43. Damaged in collision
with parked B-17F 42-30127 landing at Ponte Olivo, Sicily 23Oct43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43.
Cerignola #1, Italy 11Dec43. Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. {29 missions}. Salvaged 31Jul45.
30123 (MSN 5237) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 15Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 21Apr43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 26Apr43. Walla Walla Field, WA 30Apr43. Smoky Hill Field,
Salina, KS 10May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 27May43.
338th Bomb Squadron [BX*W], 96th Bomb Group Andrewsfield (Station 485), Essex 29May43
Named IRONBIRD/BIG DICK artwork of a pair of dice. On the nose access door, artwork
of the bust of a blond woman named Little Jo Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 12Jun43
Failed to return from a mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factory at Regensburg, Germany 25Feb44 (10POW).
The plane was being flown by a 452nd Bomb Group crew on loan to the 96th Bomb Group.
After crossing the coastline into mainland Europe, the formation encountered frequent flak
and fierce aerial attacks from the Luftwaffe, causing heavy damage to some of the bombers.
The planes arrived at Regensburg and encountered intense flak over the target area. An engine
failed and the plane dropped back from the formation and losing altitude. Attacked by enemy
fighters, the crew bailed out and the plane crashed near Regensburg, Germany. MACR 2859
30124 (MSN 5238) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 15Apr43. West Coast Training Center, Fort Sumner Field, NM 21Apr43. Hobbs
Field, NM 6May43. Pilot School (Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 8Nov44. Modified for
training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F.
Damaged landing one mile short of Hobbs Auxiliary Field #1, Knowles, NM 27Apr45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 9Oct45.
30125 (MSN 5239) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 14Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 22Apr43. 15th Ferrying Group,
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 5May43.
Middletown Air Depot, Middletown Field, Middletown, PA 10May43. 15th Ferrying Group,
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 19May43.
Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 419th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group,
Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 15Jul43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43.
Named "Yankee Doodle". Battle damaged during a mission to the Messerschmitt factory at
Augsburg, Germany 1Oct43. During the approach to mainland Italy north of Florence there
was anti-aircraft fire from the ground and a few attacks by enemy fighters, which, however,
had liitle effect. Most of the remaining distance was flown between two layers of cloud at
an altitude of 6,000 meters. North of the Alps, the formation encountered a deep, closed
cloud cover that stretched far to the north. Because of the poor visibility, the mission was
aborted 50km from Augsburg. They then proceeded to an alternate target of shipping off
Bastia, Corsica. Flak and enemy fighters caused damage to the plane. Battle damaged by
heavy flak on a tactical mission to a railway bridge at Guilianova, Italy 14Oct43. Fifteenth
Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Cerignola #1, Italy 10Dec43. Battle damaged on a mission to the
business district of Sofia, Bulgaria 10Jan44. Flak was heavy and accurate and the formation
was attacked by enemy aircraft over Sofia, causing major damage to this plane.
Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. Battle damaged by flak during a tactical mission
against German troop concentrations and defensive positions at Campoleone in support of the
Allied beachhead at Anzio, Italy 17Feb44. {30 missions}. Salvaged 2Mar44
30126 MSN 5240) Accepted by USAAF 12Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 22Apr43.
15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field,
West Palm Beach, FL 5May43. Robins Field, Warner Robins, GA 10May43. 15th
Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West
Palm Beach, FL 21May43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 416th Bomb Squadron,
99th Bomb Group, Navarin (Overcoat), El Eulma, Algeria 24Jun43. Oudna #1,
Mohammedia, Tunisia 4Aug43. Named *Sugar Foot* artwork of a naked blond female
warrior about to fire an arrow. Failed to return from a mission to the Messerschmitt
factory at Augsburg, Germany 1Oct43 (7KIA:3INT). During the approach to mainland Italy
north of Florence there was anti-aircraft fire from the ground and a few attacks by enemy fighters,
which, however, had no effect. Most of the remaining distance was flown between two layers of
cloud at an altitude of 6,000 meters. North of the Alps, the formation encountered a deep, closed
cloud cover that stretched far to the north. Because of a thick overcast over southern Germany,
the mission was aborted 50km from Augsburg. The formation then turned back towards Italy.
In the middle of the reversal maneuver, about thirty German Bf 109G-6 fighters of JG 3/8 attacked
and pursued them southwards. Without realizing it, the Americans flew over Switzerland near
Lake Constance under constant fire. The formation approached the Sargans valley at an
altitude of 3,500 meters. Here the fog had cleared, the Swiss Flab Det 21 stationed in
Bad Ragaz was on alert and observed the approach of the formation. At that time, the Swiss
anti-aircraft defense had the task of shooting at foreign formations of more than three aircraft.
While overflying their position, this aircraft was targeted and brought down with a direct hit over
Bad Ragaz, Switzerland. After a brief rearing up, the plane went into a burning dive and was
torn apart by an explosion while still in the air. Of the ten man crew, only three men managed
to bail out. The other crew members did not survive the crash. The debris fell in a forest about
three kilometers south of Bad Ragaz. The Americans' violation of Swiss airspace was strongly
condemned in the German press the next day; the use of their own fighters over Switzerland, however, was not mentioned
MACR 796. 7 KIA, 3 interned.
30127 (MSN 5241) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 15Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 21Apr43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 22Apr43. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport
Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 20May43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa.
General Depot No.1, La S�nia, Oran, Algeria. 32nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group.
Ferried to Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 15Jun43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia,
Tunisia 6Aug43. Damaged while parked in collision by B-17F 42-30122 landing at Ponte Olivo,
Sicily 23Oct43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Failed to return from a mission to the
Wiener Neust�dter Flugzeugwerke factory at Wiener Neust�dt, Vienna, Austria 2Nov43 (10KIA).
Fighters attacked the bomber as it was on the bomb run and set No.4 engine on fire. The plane
fell back from formation then came back up into position and jettisoned its bombs. The fighters
attacked again and No.1 engine started to smoke and then quit. The plane dropped down in a spin
for about 2000 feet and then went straight down. About 9000 feet from the ground the plane blew up.
Crashed at Mollram, southwest of Wiener Neustadt, Austria. {24 missions}. MACR 1094.
30128 (MSN 5242) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 15Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 21Apr43. 15th Ferrying Group,
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 21May43.
Twelfth Air Force, North Africa 2Jun43. Salvaged 8Jul44.
30129 (MSN 5243) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 15Apr43. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command,
Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 4May43. Robins Field, Warner Robins, GA 10May43.
15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm
Beach, FL 19May43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 346th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group,
Navarin (Overcoat), El Eulma, Algeria 30May43.
Severely battle damaged during a tactical mission in support of Operation Husky at Messina,
Sicily 25Jun43 (1WIA:9RTD). Flak was heavy, intense and accurate. No.1 and No.2 engines
were disabled by flak and the plane dropped out of formation. Approximately thirty Luftwaffe
Bf 109 fighters of JG 77 attacked the formation while over the target and off the coast of
Trapani, Sicily, on the return to base. After the enemy fighters departed, the pilot regained
control about 300 feet above the Mediterranean Sea and flew back 500 miles to a safe landing
at Navarin. Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 4Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43.
341st Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 14Nov43. Foggia Main,
Italy 15Dec43. San Giovanni, Cerignola, Italy 20Dec43. Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44.
Condemned 8Jul44. Salvaged. Named "Crew No. 1".
30130 (MSN 5244) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 15Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 24Apr43. North Atlantic
Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 16May43. 337th Bomb Squadron [AW*J],
96th Bomb Group, Andrewsfield (Station 485), Essex 25May43. Named. ALIA BUBBLE TROUBLE.
Snetterton Jun 12, 1943 then 413BS. (337th BS, *Klap Trap II*)
Failed to return from a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical works at Oppau, Ludwigshafen,
Germany 7Jan44 (8KIA:2POW). Flak near Eindhoven set No.3 engine on fire. The bomber fell
back from formation and was last seen skimming along on top of undercast, evidently
under control. It then exploded. The tail gunner was knocked unconscious, he recovered
consciousness while descending towards earth in the tail section of the plane; he bailed
out successfully. The plane crashed at Molenschot, between Raakeindsekerkweg and Lijndonk, Netherlands
MACR 2018.
30131 (MSN 5245) Accepted by USAAF 14Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 15Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 25Apr43. 3
84th Bomb Group, Sioux City AAB, IA 30Apr43. Departed to Kearney Field, NB for overseas
processing 3May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB. Departed late May43
en route to Grafton Underwood, England via North Atlantic route. North Atlantic Wing, Air
Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 20May43. 547th Bomb Squadron [SO*Q],
384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood. The aircraft was involved in a mid-air collision
with B-17F 42-30036 during a practice flight 12Jun43. They were two of 16 bombers which
were landing out of their formation on return to base at Grafton Underwood. Initial confusion
on the correct landing runway had been resolved but had caused these two aircraft to go-around
for another attempt because of poor spacing. 42-30036 is believed to have bounced during
its first attempt to land and was going around the pattern at a lower level than 42-30131
which was now above it on base leg by about 1,000ft. They both turned final about the same time
without the pilots seeing the other aircraft. The control tower was showing a red light
to 42-30131 but this was not observed by the crew. A call from the tower to 'pull up' was
misheard and both aircraft pulled up about the same time. The tail of 42-30036 hit the nose a
nd then No.2 engine of this aircraft. Momentarily locked together, the propeller sliced through
the tail of 42-30036, cutting off the vertical stabiliser a few feet forward of the fin. That bomber
reared straight up, fell off on its left wing and headed nose down for the ground where it exploded
in flames on impact. This bomber recovered from the accident and circled the airfield for a short
time before making a safe landing (9RTD). {nil missions}. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little Staughton
(Station 127), Bedfordshire 28Jun43. Regained by Group. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little Staughton
(Station 127), Bedfordshire 17Jul43 for modification in preparation to accompany Royal Air
Force (RAF) Halifaxes on Meteorological duties. Attached to 517 Squadron, Royal Air Force,
Coastal Command, RAF St Eval, Padstow, Cornwall Sep43 for training with RAF. Detachment 'A',
11th Combat Crew Replacement Centre, Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire. Missing on
an 'Allah' weather sortie from RAF Brawdy, Pembrokeshire over the English Channel between
Torquay and Cherbourg on the evening of 2Feb44 (8MIA:USAAF crew with RAF Met Observer). .MACR 2250
42-30132/30231 Boeing B-17F-90-BO Fortress
MSN 5246/5345. Dispositions from B-17 Fortress Master Log, Dave Osborne (FORTLOG)
Production changes: Improved automatic flight control equipment and elevator fabric attachment
30132 (MSN 5246) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 14Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 21Apr43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 25Apr43. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport
Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 4May43. Accident landing at Robins Field,
Warner Robins, GA 9May43. 4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 3Aug43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 6Aug43. Pendleton Field, OR 12Aug43. 245th Base Unit (Operational
Training Unit), McCook Field, NB 9Jun44. 9th Bomb Group, McCook Field, NB 4Jul44.
245th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), McCook Field, NB 2Sep44. 4119th Base Unit
(Mobile Air Technical Service Command), Brookley Field, Mobile, AL 16Oct44. 245th Base
Unit (Operational Training Unit), McCook Field, NB 23Oct44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for
storage and disposal 29Oct45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich
Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
30133 (MSN 5247) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 17Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 23Apr43. 15th Ferrying Group,
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 5May43.
Robins Field, Warner Robins, GA 8May43. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air
Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 18May43. Twelfth Air Force,
North Africa. 429th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Ch�teaudun-du-Rhumel (Helen),
Constantine, Algeria 4Jun43. A�n M'lila (Onyx), Constantine, Algeria 17Jun43
Named "Raggedy Ann". {first combat mission 28Jun43}. Massicault, Tunis,
Tunisia 1Aug43. Battle damaged on a mission to railway marshalling yards at Caserta,
Italy 16Sep43 (10RTD). Struck by flak north of Capua airfield, Caserta and made a
forced landing at Bocodifalco airfield, Palermo, Sicily. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy
1Nov43. Failed to return from a mission to the Wiener Neust�dter Flugzeugwerke
factory at Wiener Neust�dt, Vienna, Austria 2Nov43 (2KIA:8POW). Damaged by
flak over the target and attacked by enemy fighters after leaving the target,
one engine was disabled and elevator and rudder controls were damaged.
Unable to remain in formation, the bomber became a target for the fighters.
The top turret was struck and the gunner knocked out. The pilot ordered the
crew to bail out. Two airmen were fatally wounded, eight of the crew managed
to bail out before the plane exploded and crashed at Seebenstein, southeast of
Neunkirchen, Austria. {40 missions} MACR 1112.
30134 (MSN 5248) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field,
Great Falls, MT 21Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 22Apr43. 15th Ferrying Group,
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 5May43.
Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 429th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group,
A�n M'lila (Onyx), Constantine, Algeria 20Jun43. Massicault, Tunis, Tunisia 1Aug43.
{first combat mission 13Aug43}. Battle damaged on a mission to the Satellite #2 airdrome
at Foggia, Italy 7Sep43 (1WIA:9RTD). Flak was heavy and accurate causing injury
to the bombardier. The pilot force landed the plane at Borizzo (Chinisia), Trapani,
Sicily to get medical treatment. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. {33 missions}.
32nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Oudna #2, Tunis, Tunisia 14Nov43.
Cerignola #1, Italy 11Dec43. Failed to return from a mission to a railway bridge
at Bolzano, Italy 25Dec43 (4POW:5KIA). The aircraft was having engine problems,
the pilot put his bomber about one thousand feet below its planned altitude.
Just as the crew dropped the bombs on the target, No.2 engine took a flak hit and
caught fire with big pieces departing the aircraft. Then a second flak burst hit the
radio compartment and the smoking Fortress peeled off in a sharp dive. A third
flak shell hit the tail sending the B-17 spinning down about 10,000ft. The crew
started to bail out before a wing broke away causing the rest of the plane to
disintegrate, ejecting the remaining airmen. Crashed at Bolzano, Italy. {10 missions}.
MACR 1589.
30135 (MSN 5249) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 22Apr43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 10May43.
Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 18May43. 511th Bomb Squadron [DS*N],
351st Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 26May43.
334th Bomb Squadron [BG*H], 95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119),
Suffolk 16Jun43. Named "Trouble Shooter". 548th Bomb Squadron,
385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk. Damaged in collision
with B-17F 42-3388 and another 385th Bomb Group B-17F taxying at Metfield
(Station 366), Suffolk 13Oct43, two parked P-47D fighters, 42-22459 and 42-74736,
were also damaged. Failed to return from a mission to the ball bearing factories at
Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43 (9POW:1EVD). En route to the target area, the bomber
formation was repeatedly attacked by a large number of Luftwaffe fighters. Damaged by
flak after bombing the target, No.3 engine failed and the propeller feathered, landing
gear dropped down. German fighters, having landed and refueled, attacked again
Crashed between Reims and Sedan, France. {20 missions}
MACR 855
30136 (MSN 5250) (MSN 5250) Accepted by USAAF 13Apr43. United Air Lines,
Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Apr43. Smoky Hill Field,
Salina, KS 21Apr43. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command,
Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 4May43. Robins Field, Warner Robins, GA 10May43.
15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field,
West Palm Beach, FL 18May43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 353rd Bomb Squadron,
301st Bomb Group, Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 4Jun43. Oudna #1,
Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43. Named "Ladies Delight" . . Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43.
Cerignola #1, Italy 10Dec43. Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. {62 missions}.
Declared 'war weary'. Reassigned for utility, training and weather check aircraft 27Jul44.
Salvaged 25Oct44
30137 (MSN 5251) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 15Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 21Apr43. Robins Field, Warner
Robins, GA 12May43. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command,
Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 18May43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 341st Bomb
Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Ch�teaudun-du-Rhumel (Helen), Constantine, Algeria 8Jun43.
Pont-du-Fahs, Tunisia 11Aug43. Failed to return from a mission to the railway marshalling
yards at Bologna, Italy 25Sep43 (11RTD). Over the Mediterranean on the way out, the squadron
encountered numerous rainstorms and had to delay the normal climbout and struggled to
hold formation under and around these storms. It was rough flying just above the white caps.
The squadron was burning too much of the fuel they would be needing for the trip home.
Before the target. the squadron was attacked by enemy fighters. As the squadron left the
target after the bomb drop, it encountered an overcast above 20,000ft over the coastal area.
Formation was abandoned and It was every one on his own. The bombers fanned out and
began to descend. It was necessary to keep a close watch on dead reckoning or time and
distance while trying to keep a steady speed and heading. With fuel exhaustion, the plane
ditched off Cape Comino, Sardinia. Crew rescued and returned to base two days later.
30138 (MSN 5252) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 16Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 21Apr43. 15th Ferrying Group,
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 4May43.
Damaged when ground looped landing at Robins Field, Warner Robins, GA 20May43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 6Jan44. 2218th Base Unit, Alexandria
Field, LA 17Jan45. 329th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA 1Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 9Oct45.
30139 (MSN 5253) Accepted by USAAF 14Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 25Apr43.
384th Bomb Group, Sioux City AAB, IA 30Apr43. Departed 6May43 to Kearney Field, NB
for overseas processing. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB..
Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 22May43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 26May43. Departed late May43 en route to
Grafton Underwood, England via North Atlantic route. North Atlantic Wing, Air
Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 29May43. 545th Bomb Squadron [JD*O],
384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 14Jun43.
Named *Snuffy*--Named after the popular comic strip character 'Snuffy Smith'
{first combat mission 22Jun43}. Failed to return from a mission to the ball bearing
factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 17Aug43 (2KIA:8POW). The aircraft was battle damaged
by flak over the target and fell out of formation in a left diving turn. Brought back to level
flight, the pilot's windshield had gone, controls were partly severed, there was a
big hole in the nose and two crew members were wounded. In an attack by trainee
night fighter pilot Leutnant Josef Springer of II/NJG 101, flying an obsolete Bf 110E,
a long burst of cannon fire struck the left wing starting a fire between the bomb bay
and No.2 engine. The crew bailed out but two were killed departing the plane. The left
wing broke away and the bomber crashed at Stangenroth, six miles northwest of Bad
Kissingen, Germany. {7 missions} Also listed as shot
down by Fw Christof Nagel in Bf 110 of NJG 101/10 at
Burkardroth, Germany. MACR 294
30140 (MSN 5254) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 15Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 25Apr43. Walla Walla
Field, WA 2May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 10May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air
Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 26May43. Ferried on the North Atlantic
route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 17/18Jun43.
532nd Bomb Squadron [VE*V], 381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 23Jun43.
Named *King Malfunction II*, Failed to return from a mission to the ball
bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 17Aug43 (1KIA:8POW:2EVD). The plane was
hit during a combined fighter and heavy flak attack about thirty minutes into the Continent
en route to the target as soon as the friendly fighter escort peeled off near the German border..
No.3 engine was smoking and the propeller was feathered. There was a fire between No.3 and No.4
engine and the No.4 engine began to smoke. The plane dropped down out of formation and
pulled off to the right as No.4 propeller was feathered. The crew started to bail out as the plane
gradually letdown under control. Two enemy fighters followed the bomber out but did not attack.
Shortly afterwards the entire tail assembly from the ball turret back snapped off and five
more airmen came out. The crew had bailed out over the Eupen Mountains on the German/Belgium
border. Shot down by Oblt Herbert Kleinschmidt flying in a Bf 110G-4 of NJG 1/6. Crashed at Esch, f
ive miles southwest of M�nstereifel, Germany. {6 missions}. MACR 379
30141 (MSN 5255) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 16Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 25Apr43. Walla Walla
Field, WA 30Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 10May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 28May43. 337th Bomb Squadron [AW*B], 96th Bomb Group,
Andrewsfield (Station 485), Essex 1Jun43. Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 12Jun43
Named "Liberty Belle". . Failed to return from a mission to the AGO-Flugzeugwerke Fw 190
manufacturing factory at Oschersleben, Germany 28Jul43 (10KIA:1POW). Shot down by
fighter and crashed into North Sea MACR 140.
30142 (MSN 5256) Accepted by USAAF 14Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 15Apr43. 384th Bomb Group, Sioux City AAB, IA 30Apr43. Departed to
Kearney Field, NB for overseas processing 3May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB.
Departed late May43 en route to Grafton Underwood, England via North Atlantic route.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 22May43.
544th Bomb Squadron [SU*L], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106),
Northamptonshire 29May43. {first combat mission 24Jul43}. Battle damaged during a mission
to a synthetic fuel hydrogenation plant at Gelsenkirchen, Germany 12Aug43 (1WIA:9RTD).
At an altitude of 19,000ft, the No.3 engine quit. The pilot made the decision to let the propeller
windmill instead of feathering to keep from identifying the plane as a cripple to the German fighters.
During heavy fighter attack, the tail gunner was severely wounded but continued to man his guns.
Staff Sergeant Raymond Patrick Gregori was awarded the Silver Star for gallantry in action while
serving as tail gunner on this mission over Germany. {final combat mission 12Aug43}. {3 missions}.
2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little Staughton (Station 127), Bedfordshire 14Aug43. Transferred to
560th Bomb Squadron [F], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk Sep43.
Named "Pistol Packin' Mama"- artwork inspired by the Vargas' "Pistol Packin' Mama"
Esquire centrefold of March 1944 . {first combat mission 26Sep43}.
Failed to return from a mission to a railway marshalling yard at Gelsenkirchen, Germany 5Nov43
(5POW:2KIA:3EVD). En route to the target, flak had badly damaged the fuselage and No.2 engine was
disabled and the propeller feathered. The pilot could only keep the plane in the air with great difficulty.
He turned back and tried to reach the Dutch coast in order to make a landing at sea because there
help was to be expected quickly. Two members of the crew are believed to have been panicked by the
flak blasts and bailed out at a dangerously low altitude over the Dutch province of Zeeland and
were killed. Unable to reach the coast, the pilot crash landed the aircraft 1.5km east of Ijzendijke,
between Hoofdplaat and Driewegen, Netherlands. {7 missions) Listed as shot down by
Lt Horst Ertmann in Fw 190A-6 of FG 1/II Stab between
Biervliet and Ijzendijke, Netherlands. MACR 3123.
30143 (MSN 5257) Accepted by USAAF 14Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 16Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 25Apr43. 384th Bomb Group,
Sioux City AAB, IA 30Apr43. Departed 5May43 to Kearney Field, NB for overseas processing.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB. Departed late May43 en route to Grafton
Underwood, England via North Atlantic route. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 23May43. 545th Bomb Squadron [JD*Q], 384th Bomb Group,
Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 29May43. Named *Yankee Powerhouse*.
{first combat mission 22Jun43}. Failed to return from a mission to the industrial area and submarine
pens at Hamburg, Germany 25Jun43 (4KIA:6POW). With battle damage from enemy fighter action
and on fire, the aircraft crashed at Wardenburg, near Oldenburg, Germany. Encountering dense clouds
and rain enroute to the target, the Group was ordered to disperse and reform above the clouds.
Only eight planes were successful in getting through to the rendezvous point. After crossing into
hostile territory, approximately one-hundred and fifty enemy fighters, quick to observe the
Group's tactical disadvantage, attacked in such force that the small formation scattered.
Refusing to seek the protection of friendly groups withdrawing from the target, the pilot of this
plane held his course and bombed the objective. By this time enemy fighters and flak had set
the the plane on fire, killed the co-pilot and practically severed the pilot's right arm. Ordering the
crew to bail out, he remained at the controls, using his one good hand to keep the plane in level flight.
Before he could abandon the doomed aircraft it exploded in mid-air. First Lieutenant
George William Riches was awarded the Silver Star. {2 missions}. . MACR 16378
30144 (MSN 5258) Accepted by USAAF 14Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 16Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 25Apr43. Lowry Field, Denver, CO 6May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 26May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 2Jun43. Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 6/7Jun43. 335th Bomb Squadron [OE*R], 95th Bomb Group,
Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 15Jun43. Force landed with an electrical fire in No.2 engine
during a practice mission at Walsham-le-Willows, Suffolk 27Jun43
30145 MSN 5259) Accepted by USAAF 14Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 21Apr43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 27Apr43.
4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 30Apr43. Departed Memphis 2May43.
Cleveland, OH. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 5May43.
Ferried from RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador to Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland 11May43.
Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 11Jun43.
333rd Bomb Squadron, 94th Bomb Group, Earls Colne (Station 358), Essex 12Jun43.
Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 13Jun43. 546th Bomb Squadron [BK*F],
384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 12Jul43.
{first combat mission 28Jul43}. Sustained battle damage on a mission to the Fieseler
aircraft factory at Kassel, Germany 28Jul43. Attacked by Fw 190 enemy fighters and two
engines were disabled. The plane turned back over the Netherlands before the target and
the crew threw out everything they could to reduce weight. On return, the plane force landed at
RAF Oulton, Aylsham, Norfolk. Eighth Air Force Service Command 29Jul43.
Regained by Group 16Aug43. {1 mission}. 368th Bomb Squadron [BO*G], 306th Bomb Group,
Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 22Aug43. Accident taxying at Thurleigh 17Nov43.
Loaned to RAF. Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, Hampshire 7Jan44.
Used for 'range tests'. Returned to USAAF Feb44. 368th Bomb Squadron [BO*N],
306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 13Mar44. Declared 'war weary'.
Departed Thurleigh on transfer to 486th Bomb Group, Sudbury (Station 174), Suffolk 16Jul44.
835th Bomb Squadron, 486th Bomb Group, Sudbury (Station 174), Suffolk. Stripped of armament
and turrets removed. Painted bright green with dark green decorative elements. Used to
perform communication relays, weather observation and transportation as a hack.
Salvaged 11Oct45. Named GREEN HORNET
30146 (MSN 5260) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 17Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 25Apr43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 15May43. Ferried on the North Atlantic route
from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 22/23May43.
333rd Bomb Squadron [TS*A], 94th Bomb Group, Earls Colne (Station 358), Essex 24May43.
Named CHEROKEE. Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 13Jun43. Named "Down and Go!"
Failed to return from a mission to the Heinkel Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory at Warnem�nde,
Germany 29Jul43 (10POW). The aircraft was having engine troubles when outbound and after
having reached the Danish west coast it was decided to try to reach Sweden. The bombs were
dropped to lighten the aircraft which was now down to one good engine. After a while the navigator
declared that they were over Sweden and the pilot started looking for a place to land.
He found a nice big field where he made a good crash landing with little damage to the aircraft.
When the crew left the aircraft they found to their big surprise that they were surrounded by
Wehrmacht soldiers. It turned out that they had landed not in Sweden but in occupied Denmark
at Aved�re, six miles south of Copenhagen, and that the field they had used was an exercise ground
for German soldiers. MACR 202. The aircraft was dismantled and taken to fli�gerhorst Kastrup near K�benhavn
for repair. The aircraft was repaired and used by Luftwaffe at the Luftwaffen Erprobungsstelle
Rechlin, Germany. Operated by the Luftwaffe KG200 as A3+EE, 230146, (later as A3+BB?). The airplane
crashed and exploded on takeoff from Stuttgart-Echterdingen on February 9, 1945 carrying French
Vichy agents in an attempt to escape to Spain, killing seven of the crew and ten passengers.
17 killed, 2 survived.
30147 (MSN 5261) Accepted by USAAF 14Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 16Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 25Apr43. North Atlantic Wing, Air
Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 15May43. Ferried on the North Atlantic route from
RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 21Jun43. 544th Bomb Squadron
[SU*O], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 28Jun43.
Named *M'Honey/Flak Dancer* {first combat mission 14Jul43}. Failed to return
from a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 17Aug43 (6POW:4EVD).
The bomber had been badly hit by enemy fighters en route to Schweinfurt. Most of the bomb
doors had been blown away and the oxygen system so badly damaged that some of the crew
members started to pass out. The pilot remained with the group long enough to bomb,
then peeled off and dived hard, still under fighter attack, down to tree-top level where the crew
could breathe more easily. With the main force returning to England by a northerly route,
the pilot hoped to stay out of trouble by taking a southerly route. The aircraft was then
attacked by a Dornier 217 from the night fighter training unit NJG 101 which followed it for
about 30 minutes doing damage to the wings. The bomber passed directly over Sandhofen
airfield on the outskirts of Mannheim, shooting up the airfield as it passed. Both tail guns
burnt out and the top turret was hit and jammed. The pilot was injured but the main problem
was now a big hole blown in a fuel tank. From earlier damage, the fuel transfer system was
inoperative. The Dornier was chased off by the ball turret gunner but the chances of the crew
reaching England were now slim. They were offered a chance to head for Switzerland but
declined, hoping to at least reach the coast, confident in their chances of rescue by RAF
Air-Sea Rescue launches. The aircraft flew on for another 180 miles before the fuel was
exhausted. The aircraft was crash landed in a field between Sissonne and Montcornet,
about twenty miles north of Reims, France where the crew attempted to set fire to and
destroy their aircraft but the incendiary bombs failed to work. {2 missions}.
Listed as shot down by Fw. Kark-Heinz Zeschke
in Fw 190A of JG 26/6 at Moutmolen, Belgium, MACR 291
30148 (MSN 5262) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 17Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 24Apr43. Walla Walla
Field, WA 30Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 21May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Jun43. Assigned Eighth Air Force, England. 100th Bomb
Group. Crash landed Little Staughton (Station 127), Bedfordshire 12Jun43. Salvaged
after non battle damage 14Jul43. Named THE BIGASSBIRD
30149 MSN 5263) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 17Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 24Apr43. Walla Walla
Field, WA 30Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 10May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air
Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 25May43. 333rd Bomb Squadron [XM*A2],
94th Bomb Group, Earls Colne (Station 358), Essex 27May43. Rougham (Station 468),
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 12Jun43. Named "Spare Parts". . Failed to return
from a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43 (10POW).
En route to the target area, the bomber formation was repeatedly attacked by a large
number of Luftwaffe fighters. After the target, the Group turned and headed westward for
England. German fighters, having landed and refueled, attacked again. Shot down by enemy
fighters, crashed at Rossbrunner Hof, 4km SW from Adelsheim, Germany. MACR 790
30150 (MSN 5264) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 17Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 24Apr43. Walla Walla
Field, WA 30Apr43. Rapid City Field, SD 9May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 24May43. 412th Bomb Squadron [QW*S], 95th Bomb Group,
Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 27Jun43. Named "Exterminator". Failed to return from
a mission to the AGO-Flugzeugwerke Fw 190 manufacturing factory at Oschersleben,
Germany 28Jul43 (10KIA shot down by Hptm Horst Geyer in Fw 190A of Epr.Kdo 25 and
exploded and crashed in sea off Lathen, Germany. {9 missions. MACR 214.
30151 (MSN 5265) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 21Apr43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK
27Apr43. New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 30Apr43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 5May43. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 14May43. 532nd Bomb Squadron [VE*J: VE*O],
381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 15Jun43. Named *Spare Parts*.
Failed to return from a mission to industrial areas in the suburbs of Berlin,
Germany 4Mar44 (10POW). Because of severe weather in the assembly area, the
group diverted to a target at Cologne, Germany. With mechanical failure, force
landed at La Bagarre, Clairmarais, three miles northeast of Saint-Omer, France.
{6 missions). MACR 2910.
30152 (MSN 5266) delivered Cheyenne Apr 17, 1943, Smoky Hill Apr 24, 1944, Walla Walla Apr 30, 1943, Smoky Hill
May 20, 1943, Dow Field May 28 1943. Assigned to 96th BG Andrewsfield, Essex Jun 1, 1943, Snetterton
Heath Norfolk Jun 12, 1943. Transferred to 381st BG Ridgewell, Essex Jul 16, 1943.
418th BS, 100th BG, Thorpe Abbots, Norfolk Jul 1943. Battle
damaged Paris and crash landed on return. Salvaged Apr 28, 1945. (100+ missions) Named "Messie Bessie"
30153 (MSN 5267) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 17Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 24Apr43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 6May43. 339th Bomb Squadron, 96th Bomb Group,
Andrewsfield (Station 485), Essex 9May43. Named WORRY WART. Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 12Jun43.
532nd Bomb Squadron, 381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 16Jul43. Failed to return from a
mission to the Kl�ckner Flugmototenbau aero engine factory at Hamburg, Germany 25Jul43 (10POW)
damaged by AAA and then shot down by Uffz Herbert Biermann in Bf 109G of JG 11/5
and crashlanded at Sudmoor, north of Aurich, Germany Jul 25, 1943. (1 mission) MACR 131.
30154 (MSN 5268) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 17Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 24Apr43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 19May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 21May43. 92nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102),
Huntingdonshire 13Jun43. 334th Bomb Squadron [BG*Z], 95th Bomb Group,
Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire 16Jun43. {1 mission}. 349th Bomb Squadron [XR*H],
100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk Jun43. Named *War Eagle*
Failed to return from a mission to an aircraft factory at Bremen, Germany 8Oct43 (1KIA:9POW).
The formation was met with stiff resistance by German fighters and flak crews on the ground
the entire way, from the Dutch coast all the way into the German heartland. In addition,
a large force of German fighters launched vicious attacks against the planes. Over the target,
the formation encountered intense flak. Enemy aircraft caused heavy damage
hit by Bf 109G-6 flown by UFFZ Veid of JG 11/9 and
crashed at Hastedt, Bremen 5 mi SE of Bremen, Germany.
MACR 953.
30155 (MSN 5269) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 21Apr43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 27Apr43.
4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 30Apr43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 6May43. Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander,
Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 15/16May43. 366th Bomb Squadron [KY*C:KY*E],
Assigned to 305BG, 366 BS at Chelveston May 31, 1943.
Named "Barrel House Bessie of Basin Street II".
Force landed RAF St Eval, Padstow, Cornwall 4Jul43. Returned 12Aug43. Failed to return from a
mission to the shipyard and industrial area at Kiel, Germany 5Jan44 (10POW).
Hit by Uffz. Benno�Gramlich in Ju-88C-6 of NJG 3/5. and
bellylanded at�Simonsberg, Germany Jan 5, 1944. MACR 1684
30156 (MSN 5270) Accepted by USAAF 15Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 17Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 24Apr43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 16May43. Ferried on the North Atlantic
route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 22/23May43.
423rd Bomb Squadron [RD*Z], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 22Jun43.
Failed to return from a mission to synthetic rubber factories at Hanover, Germany 26Jul43 (7POW:3KIA).
Damaged by flak over the Frisian islands en route to the target causing the vertical stabiliser to
be blown off but made it and dropped the bombs. It then fell out of formation and was attacked
by fighters near the German/Dutch border on the way back. Shot down by Leutnant Gerhard Dittmann
of the 12./NJG 1 flying a Bf 110 G-4 or by Major Anton Mader of the Stab/JG 11 flying a Bf 109 G-6.
The radio operator was killed by cannon shells, all other crew bailed out of the burning aircraft.
Crashed near Hofkamp Farm, Vriescheloo, Groningen, Netherlands. MACR 127.
30157 (MSN 5271) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 21Apr43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma
City, OK 27Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 5May43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field,
Oklahoma City, OK 24May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 29May43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 1Jun43. 323rd Bomb Squadron [OR*P],
91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 10Jun43.
Named "Dirty Gertie/Hell's Belles" Fitted with a single.30 caliber
machine gun mounted on a ball socket set in the Plexiglas nose. Battle damaged on a mission
to the Gerhard Fieseler Werke (GFW) aircraft works at Waldau, Kassel, Germany 30Jul43.
Enemy fighter aircraft shot out the hydraulics soon after reaching the English Channel on
return to base. The bomber limped back to crash land and overrun the runway into a wheat
field at Bassingbourn. The left main landing gear collapsed and the No.2 engine was
knocked off as the plane came to rest in a ditch with severe damage; the crew was unharmed.
Salvaged 25Aug43. {2 missions}.
30158 (MSN 5272) Accepted by USAAF 17Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 20Apr43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 28Apr43.
New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 29Apr43. 525th Bomb Squadron [FR*X], 379th Bomb Group,
Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 23Jun43. Named "Mary Jane II" Failed to
return from a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 17Aug43 (2KIA:8POW).
Attacked before reaching the River Rhine en route to the target by enemy fighters, shot down by
Lt Heinert in Fw 190A of JG 11/3 at Worms, Germany MACR 1764.
30159 (MSN 5273) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 21Apr43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 27Apr43.
New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 2May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME 6May43. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 14May43. 366th Bomb Squadron [KY*H], 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105),
Northamptonshire 24May43. Named "Settin' Bull" Failed to return from a mission to the
ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 17Aug43 (8POW:2KIA). Badly damaged by flak
over the target but the crew refused to consider diverting to Switzerland. Returning from the
target behind the main formation, it had reached the River Rhine when it was attacked by German
fighters. The crew hoped to continue and meet up for the cover of their friendly fighters but just
failed to do so. Shot down by night fighter pilot Hauptmann Rupert Krzywon of the 10./NJG 101
flying a Bf 110. With two crew killed, three more wounded and out of ammunition, all four engines
had been damaged by enemy action. The surviving crew members bailed out. The plane crashed
at Rue Emile Vandervelde, Wegnez, Pepinster, Li�ge, Belgium. MACR 301.
30160 (MSN 5274) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 20Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 24Apr43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 28May43. 339th Bomb Squadron [QJ*E],
96th Bomb Group, Andrewsfield (Station 485), Essex 27May43. 337th Bomb Squadron [AW*E],
96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 12Jun43. Named "Dottie J II" Accident on return from
a mission to the port area at Kiel, Germany 13Dec43 (4KIA:6INJ). Heavy frosting and poor
visiblity frustrated the attack and the group diverted to Hamburg where the plane suffered battle
damage. Both engines on the left wing had been disabled and the propellers feathered
causing the plane to fall back out of formation. A third engine failed as the bomber started
back over the North Sea. The crew jettisoned unneceesary equipment to lessen the weight
and reduce the rate of descent. Below the clouds and close to the waves, the failed third engine
picked up and produced some power. This enabled the pilots to regain some altitude and
held steady at 300 feet until reaching the sandy shores of Norfolk. The pilot elected to try
for a landing at Snetterton Heath and joined the circuit with other returning bombers.
On final approach, the pilot may have had to manoeuvre to avoid another plane because
the plane suddenly reared up, stalled and dove into the ground. An engine was torn off and
bounced into the radio room hatch, killing three airmen. The forward section finished upside
down facing towards the torn off tail. The bomber crashed on the A11 road adjacent to the
airfield at Snetterton Heath. Salvaged 15Dec43. .
30161 (MSN 5275) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 23Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 28Apr43. Walla Walla
Field, WA 5Jul43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 21May43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field,
Oklahoma City, OK 23May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 2Jun43. 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 16Jun43.
336th Bomb Squadron [ET*B], 95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 18Jun43.
335th Bomb Squadron [OE*B]. Named "Cuddle Cat". Failed to return from a mission
to the Bosch magneto factory at Stuttgart, Germany 6Sep43 (10POW). Shot down by fighter
Stuttart, Germany. (12 missions) MACR 547.
30162 (MSN 5276) delivered Cheyenne Apr 20 1943, Smoky Hill Apr 29 21943, Walla Walla May 7, 1943, Tinker May 21, 1943,
Smoky Hill May 24, 2943, Dow Field Jun 2, 1943. Assigned to 94th BG, 410th BS at Rougham Jun 13, 1943.
Named "The Piccadilly Virgin". . Failed to return from a mission to the Friedrich Krupp
Germaniawerft shipyard at Kiel, Germany 4Jan44 (10KIA:1POW Shot down by fighters and ditched into�
North Sea 4 km N of Helgoland, Germany. MACR 1756
30163 (MSN 5277) Accepted by USAAF 17Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 21Apr43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 27Apr43.
4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 30Apr43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Presque Isle Field, ME May43. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick
(Station 500), Scotland 14May43. 368th Bomb Squadron [BO*D], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh
(Station 111), Bedfordshire 23May43. Eighth Air Force Service Command 30Jun43.
Regained by Group 15Jul43. 368th Bomb Squadron [BO*J] 19Aug43. Failed to return
from a mission to a roller bearing factory at Stuttgart, Germany 6Sep43 (4POW:6EVD).
The plane was known as a fuel hog but HQ Bomber Command refused to allow a top-up
on the standard fuel uplift despite knowing that the plane could not make it back to Allied lines.
With heavy cloud cover, the formation searched out other targets before releasing their bombs.
Returning from the target, and having taken extra time, the No.3 engine stopped with fuel exhaustion
about ten minutes before reaching the French coast. Then No.1 engine stopped and the plane
was flying with the fuel gauges indicating empty. The crew bailed out at 17,000ft southwest of
Amiens and the plane crashed near Gournay-en-Bray, 25 miles east of Rouen, France.. MACR 518.
30164 (MSN 5278) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 21Apr43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 27Apr43.
4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 30Apr43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 5May43. 334th Bomb Squadron [BG*E], 95th Bomb Group 12May43.
Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 19May43.
95th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk May43. Failed to return from a mission
to the submarine yards at Kiel, Germany 13Jun43 (11KIA:2POW). Shortly before reaching the city
of Kiel, the B-17 was struck by several flak fragments in the cockpit and on engine No.4.
The bomber initially lost speed, but regained formation over the target area. Shortly after the
crew dropped the last bomb on Kiel, the aircraft was attacked by three German fighters and
heavily shot at. The plane lost speed again because several engines had already caught fire
and large parts of the rear area had been torn away. The crew lost contact with the formation.
It was observed that eight crew members were able to parachute out of the burning bomber
over the Bay of Kiel; only two of them survived. Brigadier General Nathan Bedford Forrest III
was on board as an observer but did not survive. Crashed in the Baltic Sea off Kiel, Germany. {2 missions}..
MACR 8960 and 1371. Only one crewmember was rescued.
30165 (MSN 5279) Accepted by USAAF 17Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21Apr43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma
City, OK 28Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 4May43. Lowry Field, Denver, CO 6May43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 15May43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma
City, OK 21May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 25May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air
Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Jun43. 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe
Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 5Jun43. 524th Bomb Squadron [WA*M], 379th Bomb Group,
Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 21Jun43. Failed to return from a mission to
Wangerooge 25Jun43 (2KIA:8POW). Shot down by Obfw Eugen-Ludwig Zwiegart
in Bf 109G of JG 54/9 between Wieste and Sogel, Germany and
crashed near Aschendorf, Germany. {1 mission}.. MACR 1356
30166 (MSN 5280) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 21Apr43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 27Apr43.
4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 30Apr43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 8May43. 94th Bomb Group 15May43.
Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland 24May43.
332nd Bomb Squadron [XM*L], 94th Bomb Group, Earls Colne (Station 358), Essex May43.
Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 13Jun43.. Named "Black Jack III" then "You Can't Miss
It". Failed to return from a mission to the synthetic oil refinery at Gelsenkirchen,
Germany 5Nov43 (8KIA:2POW). Reported dropping out of formation under control then
an enemy fighter attack caused an explosion. Shot down by Oblt Heinrich Klopper in Bf 109G-6 of
JG 1/7 and crashed in North Sea 500 metres west of Haamstede on
Schouwen Island, Netherlands. MACR 1043.
30167 (MSN 5281) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21Apr43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma
City, OK 27Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 5May43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field,
Oklahoma City, OK 12May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Lincoln Field, NB 20May43.
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 23May43. 336th Bomb Squadron [ET*H], 95th Bomb Group,
Framlingham. Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 15Jun43.
Named "Angel's Pumpkin", later "Destiny's Tot". {29 missions}. 4
To 57th Bomb Group, Glatton (Station 130), Huntingdonshire Mar44. 310th Ferrying Squadron,
27th Air Transport Group, Heston (Station 510), Middlesex. Damaged taxying at
Wendling (Station 118), Norfolk 11Mar44. Base Air Depot No.2, Warton (Station 582),
Lancashire 17Mar44. Returned to US. 1104th Base Unit (Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command),
Homestead Field, FL 18Jul44. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 24Jul44.
Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 19Aug44. Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 14Dec44. Reclaimed 31Oct45
30168 (MSN 5282) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 22Apr43. Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 6May43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 29May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 18Jun43. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 21Jun43. 550th Bomb Squadron [SG*T], 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155),
Suffolk 26Jun43. Named'Slo-Jo'. Failed to return from a mission to the industrial areas of
Emden, Germany 11Dec43 (7KIA:3POW). The Luftwaffe was waiting for the bombers; the moment
the bombers crossed over into mainland Europe, six twin-engine fighter dived out of the sun
upon the formation, concentrating all their fire on the lead plane. Once the leader had been
downed, the fighters swept through the lead Squadron. Before the deputy lead had a chance
to reassemble the formation, a large force of single-engine fighters joined the fray, attacking the other bombers
Shot down by Fw. Walter Kohne in Fw 190A-6 of JG 1/2 and
crashed at Go�ngahuizen, Friesland, Netherlands. The wreckage was never salvaged by the
Germans, and more than ten years elapsed before metal hunting, traveling caravaners
removed it, much to the relief of the farmer. All this time the blades of the four propellers had
projected above the surface of the ground, continually wounding the legs of the cows! MACR 1666.
30169 (MSN 5283) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 22Apr43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 24May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 29May43. Chicago Municipal Airport, IL 1Jun43. Smoky Hill Field,
Salina, KS 16Jun43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 19Jun43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 26Jun43. Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 7Jul43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 12Jul43.
Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 414th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Ch�teaudun-du-Rhumel (Helen),
Constantine, Algeria 14Jul43. Pont-du-Fahs, Tunisia 11Aug43. Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 15Aug43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43. San Giovanni, Cerignola, Italy 20Dec43.
341st Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44. Failed to return from
a mission to the aircraft factory at Atzgersdorf, Vienna, Austria 24May44 (1KIA:9POW).
Shot down by a Bf 109 fighter of JG 27, last seen over Celje, Slovenia, Yugoslavia losing
altitude with No.1 and No.3 engine propellers feathered and the crew discarding excess weight.
Crashed at Sankt Stefan im Rosental, Austria. Named LADY LUCK. MACR 5070
30170 (MSN 5284) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 21Apr43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 27Apr43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 5May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 28May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 7Jun43. 349th Bomb
Squadron [XR*G], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 10Jun43.
Battle damaged on a mission to an aircraft factory at Bremen, Germany 8Oct43.
The formation was met with stiff resistance by German fighters and flak crews on the
ground the entire way, from the Dutch coast all the way into the German heartland,
and back again. In addition, a large force of German fighters launched vicious attacks
against the planes. Over the target, the formation encountered intense flak.
With three engines damaged, managed to limp 400 miles back to England, the first
Eighth Air Force crew to accomplish this feat. Failed to return from a mission to industrial
areas in the suburbs of Berlin, Germany 6Mar44 (1KIA:9POW). Attacked near Hasel�nne,
enemy aircraft damaged an engine. The crew bailed out and the bomber crashed at
Colnrade near Cologne, Germany.
Named TORCHY 2 / OH NAUSEA / HOT SPIT / MISS CARRIAGE / TORCHY II / PRIDE OF THE CENTURY / TEN BATTY BOYS
MACR 3015.
30171 (MSN 5285) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 24Apr43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 30May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 18Jun43. Ferried Meeks
Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 21Jun43. 548th Bomb
Squadron [GX*A], 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 26Jun43.
Named WAR CRY/STUD HOSS. When its mission was aborted, the pilot was
instructed to land RAF Docking, Norfolk 3Oct43. On landing, it skidded on wet grass
and overran the runway into an adjoining field. Salvaged 2Nov43
30172 (MSN 5286) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 22Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 28Apr43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 7May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 21May43. North Atlantic
Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 6Jun43. Ferried on the North Atlantic
route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 6/7Jun43.
339th Bomb Squadron [QJ*F], 96th Bomb Group, Snettisham 12Jun43 . Named "Black Heart Jr"
Forming up for a mission to attack the German airfields at Gilze en Rijen and Flushing,
Netherlands, an electrical fault started a fire and the oxygen tanks caught fire. The co-pilot
brought the aircraft back after the rest of the crew had bailed out and crash landed on
Wolferton Sands, Norfolk 19Aug43; the bomb load exploded and destroyed the plane.
Copilot was awarded the DSC. Salvaged Aug 21, 1944.
30173 (MSN 5287) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 22Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 29Apr43. Air Service Command,
Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 12May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Lincoln Field, NB 21May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 24May43.
410th Bomb Squadron, 94th Bomb Group, Earls Colne (Station 358), Essex 28May43. Named GORGEOUS HUSSY.
412th Bomb Squadron [QW*O], 95th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 6Jun43. Named CIRCE.
335th Bomb Squadron [OE*O] Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 12Jun43. Named ALL AMERICAN
Failed to return from a mission to the industrial area at Brunswick, Germany 10Feb44 (7POW:3KIA),
caught fire in action over Lingen and crashed Schaferhof, near Leeseringen rail station,
four miles south of Nienburg, Germany. {20 missions}. MACR 2544
30174 (MSN 5288) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 22Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 29Apr43. Air Service Command,
Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 13May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Lincoln Field, NB 17May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 21May43.
332nd Bomb Squadron [XM*S], 94th Bomb Group, Earls Colne (Station 358), Essex 25May43.
Named LADY LUCK II. Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 13Jun43, 410th Bomb Squadron.
Failed to return from a mission to synthetic rubber factories at Hanover, Germany 26Jul43 (9POW:1KIA).
damaged by AAA then shot down by Hptm Hermann Staiger
in Bf 109G-6 of JG 26/12 and crashlanded between Hambergen/Wallhofen, Germany.
MACR 90.
30175 (MSN 5289) Accepted by USAAF 19Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 22Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 28Apr43. Walla Walla Field, WA 7May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 21May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 2Jun43. 367th Bomb Squadron [GY*B], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111),
Bedfordshire 18Jun43. Named "Hammer of Hell". Battle damaged on a mission to a roller
bearing factory at Stuttgart, Germany 6Sep43. 20mm cannon shell and flak damage to right
horizontal stabiliser and elevator, vertical stabiliser and right outer wing. Base Air Depot No.1,
Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire Sep43. Regained by Group Sep43. Seriously battle damaged
during a mission to an aircraft factory at Bremen, Germany 8Oct43. The formation was met with
stiff resistance by German fighters and flak crews on the ground the entire way, from the Dutch
coast all the way into the German heartland, and back again. In addition, a large force of German
fighters launched vicious attacks against the planes. Over the target, the formation encountered
intense flak. Flak did widespread damage to the left and right wings, bomb bay, fuselage, dorsal fin,
vertical stabiliser, rudder and right horizontal stabiliser. Failed to return from a mission to the ball
bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43 (10POW). En route to the target area, the bomber
formation was repeatedly attacked by a large number of Luftwaffe fighters. After the target, the Group
turned and headed westward for England. German fighters, having landed and refueled, attacked
again. Enemy fighters damaged three engines. Crashed near Schweinfurt, Germany MACR 822
30176 (MSN 5290) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY, WY 22Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 28Apr43. Walla Walla
Field, WA, WA 7May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 25May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 6Jun43. 336th Bomb Squadron [ET*P], 95th Bomb Group,
Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 5Jun43. 335th Bomb Squadron [OE*P] 15Jun43.
Named "Assassin". Failed to return from a shuttle mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft
factories at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43 (1KIA:5POW:4EVD). shot down by Oblt. Arthur
Beese in Fw 190A-6 of JG 26/1 over Zoersel, east of Antwerp, en route to the target.
On fire, the pilot lowered the landing gear as a sign of surrender and the crew bailed out
safely although the radio operator later died from his burns
Crashed E of Oostmalle, Belgium, just northwest of where the Turnhoutsebaan
crosses the road to Sint-Jozef Rijkevorsel. {12 missions}. MACR 401.
30177 (MSN 5291) Accepted by USAAF 20Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great
Falls, MT 27Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 2May43. Sioux City AAB, IA 13May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 11Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 16Jun43.
388th Bomb Group 23Jun43. Ferried Bluie West One, Narsarsuaq, Greenland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 29Jun43. 562nd Bomb Squadron [F], 388th Bomb Group,
Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk Jun43. {first combat mission 17Jul43}. Battle damaged
on an Operation Starkey mission to the industrial area of Paris, France 9Sep43 (1WIA:9RTD).
The briefed route was followed to the I.P. when the lead bombardier was hit by flak and
unable to complete the bomb run on the primary target. There was cloud cover over the
secondary target which was the Luftwaffe airfield at Beaumont Sur Oise, northwest of Paris.
The navigator was wounded by flak. {final combat mission 13Dec43}. {15 missions}.
Named CHARLENE [Charlene was the pilot's baby daughter]. Modified for radio counter measures.
803rd Bomb Squadron, RAF Sculthorpe, Fakenham, Norfolk 19Jan44. RAF Oulton, Aylsham,
Norfolk 16May44. 36th Bomb Squadron, Cheddington (Station 113), Buckinghamshire 14Aug44.
Donated Oct44 by General Eisenhower to General Pierre Koenig, one of the leading commanders
of General Charles de Gaulle's Free French Forces in World War II. Operated by the Free French
Air Force, re-named BIR-HAKEIM. Later operated by the Arm�e de l'Air, noted as BIR-HACKEIM.
Flown around the world departing Orly, Paris, France 6Sep45 via Egypt, India, Burma, Philippines,
Guam, Honolulu, San Fransisco, Denver, Chicago, Washington, Newfoundland, arriving back
at Orly, Paris 1Oct45. Placed at the disposal of the French High Commissioner at Wahn, Germany.
Operated by Escadrille de Liaison A�rienne 54, Oos, Baden-Baden, Germany. Radio call sign F-SCNY.
Niedermendig, West Germany 1949. Escadrille de Liaison A�rienne 55, Lahr, West Germany 18Mar55.
Believed damaged in Germany. Sold to IGN as F-BGSG at Creil Jan56. To Creil for repair but
WFU for parts Jan56. Scrapped 1973.
30178 MSN 5292) Accepted by USAAF 21Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 24Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 5May43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 24May43. 335th Bomb Squadron [OE*S],
95th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 29May43. Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 15Jun43.
Named "Darlin' Dolly" {45 missions}. 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk Apr44.
Modified for radio counter measures. 803rd Bomb Squadron, Oulton 16May44. Base Air Depot No.1,
Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire. Modified as a drone for Operation Aphrodite and
Castor missions. Designated BQ-7. 562nd Bomb Squadron, 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136),
Suffolk, later at Fersfield (Station 554), Norfolk. Expended on Aphrodite mission to the power
station at Oldenburg, Germany 1Jan45, shot down by flak before reaching target. Last Aphrodite mission
30179 (MSN 5293) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 24Apr43. Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 8May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 29May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 15Jun43.
550th Bomb Squadron [SG*C], 385th Bomb Group 16Jun43. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland
to Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland 21Jun43. Lockheed Overseas Corporation, 403rd Air Depot,
Base Air Depot No.3, Langford Lodge (Station 597), County Antrim, Northern Ireland Jun43.
550th Bomb Squadron [SG*C], 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk Jun43.
Named 'Murder Inc/Grim Reaper'. Failed to return from a mission to the AGO-Flugzeugwerke
Fw 190 manufacturing factory at Oschersleben, Germany 28Jul43 (4KIA:6POW). Attacked by two
enemy fighters over Hameln and Herford on return from the target, claimed by Oberleutnant Harry Koch
and Oberfeldwebel Kampmeier, both 6th Squadron / Second Group / JG 1. Several crew bailed out
before the plane exploded and crashed near Herford, ten miles northeast of Bielefeld, Germany. . MACR 189A.
30180 (MSN 5294) Delivered Cheyenne Apr 24, 1943; Smoky Hill May 5, 1943; Presque Is May 30, 1943; Assigned to 384BG Grafton
Underwood Jun 10, 1943; transferred to 337BS/96BG [AW-H] Andrews Fd Jul 6, 1943 GUZZLERS; Snetterton Jun 12, 1943,
BLACK HAWK--artwork of a black bird riding an 8-ball sprouting machine guns like a chin turret
or ball turret. Just below the angled cheek gun mounting someone added further embellishment by
cutting out a Vargas pin-up from a copy of Esquire magazine and pasting it onto the side, a
dding the name "Bette Lore; 388BG APH Knettishall 1943; Severe combat damage
by flak 31Dec43. Severe combat damage by 20mm cannon fire 29Jan44. Base Air Depot No.1,
qBurtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire.(96 BG 339 BS, Named "Guzzlers". Converted
to Aphrodite flying bomb and launched against U-boat pens
on Heligoland, Germany Sep 11, 1944. The pilot was killed by his static line
incorrectly attached bailing out. Hit by enemy flak and crashed into sea.
30181 MSN 5295) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 24Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 5May43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 29May43. 4115th Base Unit (Spokane Air Technical Service
Command), Pendleton Field, OR 2Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 16Jun43. 335th Bomb Squadron [OE*X], 95th Bomb Group. Named "Herky Jerky II" To
Horham Jun 15, 1943. Named "Lover Boy". Battle damaged on a mission to
railway installations at M�nster, Germany 10Oct43. As they approached the city, the formation
was swarmed by a large force of enemy aircraft for an estimated forty-five minutes of vicious fighting.
By the time their friendly fighter escorts arrived to drive off the Luftwaffe, the damage had already been done.
Failed to return from a mission to the BIAG Zukunft power station at Eschweiler, Germany 24Jan44 (4KIA:6POW).
Shot down by Fw. Kurt Schmidtke in FW-190A-6 of JG 26/4.
Crashed at Wingene,eighteen miles west of Ghent, �Belgium. MACR 2258.
30182 (MSN 5296) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 22Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 28Apr43. Walla Walla Field, WA 5Jul43.
Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 28May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 1Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 6Jun43. 334th Bomb Squadron [BG*E],
95th Bomb Group, Framlingham. 412th Bomb Squadron [QW*E], 95th Bomb Group,
Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 15Jun43. Named "Blondie II" Failed to return from a
mission to the industrial areas of Emden, Germany 11Dec43 (10KIA). The Luftwaffe was waiting for
the bombers; the moment the bombers crossed over into mainland Europe, six twin-engine fighters
dived out of the sun upon the formation, concentrating all their fire on the lead plane. Once the leader
had been downed, the fighters swept through the lead Squadron. Before the deputy lead had a chance
to reassemble the formation, a large force of single-engine fighters joined the fray, attacking the other bombers.
Shot down by Lt Rudofl Dassow in ME 410A of ZG 26/II Stab
and crashed into North Sea S of Lengeoog Island, Germany MACR 1562.
(25 missions)
30183 (MSN 5297) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 28Apr43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 15May43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Lincoln Field, NB 22May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 24May43. 338th Bomb Squadron, 96th Bomb Group,
Andrewsfield (Station 485), Essex 27May43. Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 12Jun43
Named "The Miracle Tribe" & "Dry Run II" (at one time).
Failed to return from a mission to the Gerhard Fieseler Werke (GFW) aircraft works at
Waldau, Kassel, Germany 30Jul43, shot down by enemy fighters, crashed North Sea,
crew rescued by Air-Sea Rescue. No MACR
30184 (MSN 5298) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 24Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 5May43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 9Jun43. 349th Bomb Squadron,
100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 10Jun43 . Named "Yes My Rose".
Detailed mission to Trondheim Jul 24, 1943, crash
landed RAF Fraserburgh, Scotland on return. Salvaged Aug 5, 1944
30185 (MSN 5299) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 24Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 5May43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 25May43. 412th Bomb Squadron [QW*H],
95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 15Jun43. Named "Wee Bonnie".
Battle damage 15Jun43, damage to the radios, ball turret, hydraulics and Plexiglass. Battle
damaged on a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 17Aug43.
Salvaged 24Aug43. {10 missions}.
30186 (MSN 5300) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 24Apr43. Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 6May43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 29May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 13Jun43. 549th Bomb Squadron, 385th Bomb Group 17Jun43.
Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland 21Jun43.
385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk Jun43. Non battle damage 3Nov43.
Battle damaged, Brunswick, Germany 29Feb44. Salvaged 2May45
30187 (MSN 5301) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 24Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 6May43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 30May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air
Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 15Jun43. 551st Bomb Squadron [HR*K],
385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 16Jun43. Named 'Lulu Belle'.
Participated in a shuttle mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factories at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43.
After the target, the bomber turned south and landed at the Twelfth Air Force base at B�ne, Algeria.
Later positioned to Telergma, Algeria. On return to England, failed to return from a mission to a
Luftwaffe air depot at M�rignac, Bordeaux, France 24Aug43 (4KIA:8RTD). Shot down by enemy
fighters, crashed in North Atlantic about forty miles off Padstow, Cornwall. Eight of the twelve
airmen were rescued; two drowned while trying to swim to a life raft dropped by the RAF and the o
other two died from exposure. MACR 961.
30188 MSN 5302) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 25Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 6May43. Air Service Command,
Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 25May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 1Jun43. 413th Bomb Squadron [MZ*S], 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton
Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 12Jun43, Named KATS SASS II / TEMPTATION - artwork of a
black cat considering dropping a bomb. . Received a field modification to counter the
German tactic of head on attacks; the bomb sight was removed, a twin 0.50caliber gun
was installed and armored plate to protect the gunner. Crashed on takeoff for a mission
to Frankfurt am Main, Germany 4Feb44 (11RTD). The No.1 and 2 propellers oversped;
unable to return to base, the pilot attempted landing at a near-by but unfinished airfield.
Crash landed at East Shropham, near Snetterton, Norfolk. Salvaged
30189 (MSN 5303) Accepted by USAAF 24Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 27Apr43. Sioux City AAB, IA 8May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 12Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 16Jun43.
Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 21Jun43. 563rd Bomb Squadron [U], 388th Bomb Group,
Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 23Jun43. Named "La Chiquita". {first combat mission 25Jul43}.
Failed to return from a mission to the Continental Gummi-Werke synthetic
rubber factory at Hanover, Germany 26Jul43 (2KIA:8POW). The Group was subjected
to continual fighter attacks the entire route; these attacks broke off when the
Group was back over the North Sea on the way home. Struck by flak on return from the target.
Shot down by Uffz Bernhard Kunze in Fw 190A of JG 1/1
at Kleinheide, Germany. Crashed in the North Sea, north of Emden, Germany.
The crew was rescued by German Air-Sea Rescue. {2 missions}. MACR 3067.
30190 (MSN 5304) Wright Field, Dayton, OH 24Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great
Falls, MT 27Apr43. Boeing, Seattle, WA 29May43. Blythe Field, CA 23Jun43. Wright Field,
Dayton, OH 29Jul43. Pendleton Field, OR 21Sep43. 1105th Base Unit, Miami, FL 12Oct43.
Converted to XC-108B fuel tanker for CBI theater with a view to converting war-weary
bombers into tankers with all armament removed. CBI for trials over the Hump.
Used to compare with the B-24 conversion, XC-109. Returned to US 25Sep44.
4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field,
Dayton, OH 28Mar45. 4202nd Base Unit (Rome Air Technical Service Command),
Syracuse AAB, NY 29May43. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Bush Field,
Augusta, GA for storage and disposal 26May45
30191 (MSN 5305) Accepted by USAAF 21Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 14May43. Air Service
Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 24May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 29May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 1Jun43. 525th Bomb Squadron [FR*C],
379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 6Jun43. Named "The Belovich".
Failed to return from a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 17Aug43 (1KIA:9POW).
Attacked en route to the target by enemy fighters damaging an engine. Over the target, another engine was hit by flak.
Shot down by Fw Cristof Nagel in BF 109 of NJG 101/10
Unable to maintain altitude or keep up with the group, the bomber dropped out of formation. Rapidly losing
altitude, the pilot ordered the crew to bail out. The parachute of the engineer did not open in time and he was killed.
The pilot was now too low to bail out but successfully crash landed the bomber wheels up on a road
between Elfershausen and Trimberg, thirteen miles northwest of Schweinfurt, Germany. {13 missions).
MACR 1765. .
30192 (MSN 5306) Accepted by USAAF 21Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 5May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 5Jun43.
379th Bomb Group 5Jun43. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 13Jun43. 335th Bomb Squadron [OE*Y], 95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119),
Suffolk 27Jun43. Failed to return from a mission to the Gerhard Fieseler Werke (GFW)
aircraft works at Waldau, Kassel, Germany 30Jul43 (2KIA:4POW). About ten miles east of
Knokke, Belgium, the aircraft was hit by flak. The oxygen and hydraulic systems were
knocked out and three engines failed. The crew was told to stand by to bail out. The five
enlisted men bailed out immediately. The pilot realized he still had control of the plane
and countermanded his order. He then made a course for the nearest point on the English
coast, and ditched six miles off Dover, Kent, where the remainder of the crew were saved
by the British Navy. The crew was picked up by a Royal Air Force Air-Sea Rescue
Supermarine Walrus amphibious aircraft X9526, but, overloaded and unable to takeoff,
had to taxy back to shore. {5 missions} MACR 217.
30193 (MSN 5307) Accepted by USAAF 21Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Apr43. Sioux City AAB, IA 8May43. Smoky Hill Field,
Salina, KS 9Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 14Jun43. 388th Bomb Group 15Jun43. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik,
Iceland to Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland 21Jun43. 561st Bomb Squadron [R],
388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk Jun43. Named "Hardluck"
{first combat mission 25Jul43}. Crashed departing for a mission to the Kugelfischer-Georg-Sch�fer
ball bearing factory at Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43 (10RTD). An engine failed and caught
fire just as the Fortress was taking off. The aircraft, loaded to the limit with fuel and bombs,
had almost reached flying speed when the co-pilot called out that the oil pressure was
zero on No.3 engine. The aircraft began to pull to the right and there were flames coming
from the dying engine. Observers reported that smoke came from the tires as the brakes
were applied. With a rough field ahead of him, followed by a solid wall of trees, the
pilot ordered wheels up. The takeoff became a crash landing and the aircraft stopped
with its nose crushed in by a tree. The crew emerged unharmed and got clear before the
explosion. The entire neighborhood was cleared of personnel, other planes were delayed
for twenty-five minutes and then sent out by a different runway. Preparations were made
for the explosion which was spectacular when it came. Nobody was hurt. {14 missions}. Salvaged
30194 (MSN 5308) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 24Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 25Apr43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 12May43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 25May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 29May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 1Jun43. 91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 15Jun43. 3
35th Bomb Squadron [OE*O], 95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 16Jun43
Named "We Ain't Scared". . Failed to return from a mission to Bonn, Germany
(5KIA:5POW:1EVD). Attacked by a Fw 190 fighter hitting the No.4 engine. The plane exploded
and crashed at Kattenbos, three miles south of Lommel, Belgium. {8 missions}. MACR 253.
One injured and died in hospital.
30195 MSN 5309) Accepted by USAAF 24Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Apr43. 388th Bomb Group, Sioux City AAB, IA 11May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 10Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 15Jun43. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Stornoway, Isle of Lewis,
Scotland 21Jun43. 560th Bomb Squadron [E], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall.
Named "Blind Date" While flying to the West Coast shortly after receiving the plane,
the crew discussed names for the plane; they decided on the name BLIND DATE as they felt that
the future for them was like going on a blind date. . {first combat mission 24Jul43}. Participated
in a shuttle mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factories at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43.
After the target, the bomber turned south and landed at the Twelfth Air Force base at B�ne, Algeria.
Later positioned to Telergma, Algeria. On return to England, operated a mission to a Luftwaffe
air depot at M�rignac, Bordeaux, France 24Aug43. Battle damaged on a mission to the Messerschmitt
factory at Augsburg, Germany 13Apr44 (1WIA:9RTD). Over the target, intense and accurate
flak was experienced. Enemy fighters attacked from the target until the formation reached the
Belgian border; a waist gunner was wounded. Major battle damage during a mission to a ball
bearing factory at Schweinfurt, Germany 19Jul44. Flak was intense over the target. On return,
crash landed at Honington (Station 375), Suffolk. 1st Strategic Air Depot, Troston (Station 595), Suffolk.
Accident departing for a mission to the Braunkohle Benzin AG synthetic oil refinery at B�hlen-R�tha,
Leipzig, Germany 7Oct44 (9RTD). No.1 engine caught fire and lost power and the plane made a
force landing on a field at Holly Tree Farm, Walpole, Halesworth, Suffolk. All of the crew escaped
before the aircraft caught fire. The occupants of eight houses had to be evacuated. Later, the
main bomb load exploded and minor damage was done to fourteen houses at Walpole. {66 missions}.
Salvaged.
30196 MSN 5310) Accepted by USAAF 21Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 26Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 6May43. Air Service Command,
Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 25May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 30May43. North Atlantic
Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 6Jun43. 546th Bomb Squadron [BK*Y],
384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 23Jun43. Named *Sad Sack*.
(first combat mission 28Jun43}. Fitted with Gee-H radio navigation system equipment. Battle
damaged during a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 17Aug43.
No.3 engine was struck by 20mm cannon shells and the propeller feathered. A 20mm shell hit
an oil line in the left wing. Other 20mm cannon shells struck the nose, right wing, tail and radio room.
A 50mm shell struck the cockpit. Eighth Air Force Service Command 19Aug43. Regained by Group 2Sep43.
Failed to return from a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43 (6KIA:4POW).
En route to the target area, the bomber formation was repeatedly attacked by a large number of
Luftwaffe fighters. After the target, the Group turned and headed westward for England. German fighters,
having landed and refueled, attacked again. With an engine disabled it was shot down
by Obfw Bohm in Bf 110G-2 of ZG 76/4 near
Wurzburg, Germany. The bomber crashed in flames at Bischbrunn, near Markt Heidenfeldt,
eighteen miles west of Schweinfurt, Germany. {13 missions}.. MACR 839
30197 (MSN 5311) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 27Apr43. Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 6May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb
Wing, Kearney Field, NB 29May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 13Jun43. 550th Bomb Squadron [SG*M], 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155),
Suffolk 14Jun43. Named 'Mission Belle'. Damaged landing at Great Ashfield 9Feb44.
Failed to return from a mission to the Heinkel Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory at Marienehe,
Rostock, Germany 11Apr44 (10INT). Flak on bomb run, crash landed Kristianopel, Sweden. MACR 3822
30198 (MSN 5312) Accepted by USAAF 26Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 26Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 5May43. United Air Lines, Modification
Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14May43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma
City, OK 21May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 27May43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Jun43. 339th Bomb Squadron [QJ*L],
96th Bomb Group, Andrewsfield (Station 485), Essex 5Jun43. Snetterton Heath (Station 138),
Norfolk 12Jun43. 563rd Bomb Squadron, 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk Jul43.
{first combat mission 24Jul43}. Failed to return from a mission to synthetic rubber factories at
Hanover, Germany 26Jul43 (5KIA:5POW). Attacked by enemy fighters, crashed Holtland, northeast of
Leer, south of Hesel, Germany. {3 missions}. Named GUZZLERS
30199 (MSN 5313) Accepted by USAAF 22Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 26Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 6May43. Westover Field, Chicopee
Falls, MA 9Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 10Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 13Jun43. Rome Air Depot, NY
15Jun43. Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 27Jun43. Bolling Field, Washington, DC 4Jul43.
Louisville, KY 8Aug43. 369th Bomb Squadron [WW*R], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111),
Bedfordshire 24Aug43. Named "Wicked WAAC" artwork of a female's figure, clad in briefs,
astride a falling bomb. . Failed to return from a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt,
Germany 14Oct43 (9POW:1KIA). En route to the target area, the bomber formation was repeatedly
attacked by a large number of Luftwaffe fighters. Damaged en route to the target, it was then attacked
by enemy fighters firing rockets, one of which destroyed much of the vertical stabiliser.
The No.3 engine was then damaged in another attack and the propeller oversped until it could be
feathered. The pilot increased speed in an effort to catch up with the formation. Cannon shells
badly damaged the nose and fuselage and the No.2 engine was disabled. Cannon shells injured
the bombardier and badly wounded the navigator. Another rocket attack damaged the left wing,
setting the No.1 engine and fuel tanks on fire. The pilot dropped out of formation and dived
in an attempt to extinguish the fire. The bombardier was badly wounded and, after releasing the
bombs, he and the navigator bailed out. Crashed between Westerngrund and Gieselbach,
Aschaffenburg, Germany. . MACR 821.
30200 (MSN 5314) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 27Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 6May43. Air Service Command,
Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 21May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 25May43. 410th Bomb Squadron [GL*R], 94th Bomb Group, Earls Colne (Station 358),
Essex 5Jun43. Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 13Jun43. Named "Slo-Time Sally".
Failed to return from a mission to Bordeaux, France (1KIA:2POW:7EVD). Enemy aircraft damaged
engine No.3 & No.4, crash landed Kergrist-Moelou, near Gouarec, France.�MACR 1892
30201 (MSN 5315) Accepted by USAAF 22Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great
Falls, MT 7May43. Sioux City AAB, IA 11May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 10Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 19Jun43.
560th Bomb Squadron [F], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 20Jun43.
Named "Tiger Girl/Shedonwanna". (first combat mission 24Jul43}.
Participated in a shuttle mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factories at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43.
After the target, the bomber turned south and landed at the Twelfth Air Force base at B�ne, Algeria.
Later positioned to Telergma, Algeria. On return to England, operated a mission to a Luftwaffe air
depot at M�rignac, Bordeaux, France 24Aug43. Failed to return from a mission to the Bosch magneto
factory at Stuttgart, Germany 6Sep43 (4KIA:6POW). With bad weather over Germany, the bomber
attempted to attack a secondary target of a Luftwaffe air base to the southwest of Strasbourg, France.
Failing again to find the target, the bombs were jettisoned into the Black Forest. Attacked by
several German fighters after the bomb drop, the bomber was thirty-five miles west of the target.
The left wing was set on fire, the No.1 engine caught fire, and there was fire in the nose compartment.
A wing came off, five crew members bailed out over Strasbourg and the tail gunner was killed
when the tail was blown off. The plane crashed south of Luvigny, west of Strasbourg, France. {10 missions}.
MACR 3124.
30202 (MSN 5316) Accepted by USAAF 23Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 29Apr43. Sioux City AAB, IA 11May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 18Jun43. 563rd Bomb Squadron [Q], 388th Bomb Group,
Knettishall. {first combat mission 25Jul43}. Failed to return from a mission to the Gerhard
Fieseler Werke (GFW) aircraft works at Waldau, Kassel, Germany 30Jul43 (9POW:1EVD).
Over Antwerp en route to the target, the plane was struck by flak in the right wing which broke off.
The crew bailed out before the plane crashed near Berlaar, Lier, Belgium.
Also claimed by Hptm Kurt Ebersberger in Fw 190A-6 of JG26/8 near Liege,
Belgium Jul 30, 1943. MACR 3125.
30203 (MSN 5317) Accepted by USAAF 23Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 29Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 9May43.
Sioux City AAB, IA 10May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 10Jun43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME Jun43. 388th Bomb Group 17Jun43.
Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick
(Station 500), Scotland 21Jun43. 560th Bomb Squadron [G], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall
(Station 136), Suffolk Jun43. Named "Shack-Up" {first combat mission 17Jul43}.
Severe battle damaged on a mission to the Junkers aircraft factory at Aschersleben,
Germany 28Jul43. German fighter planes had pierced the wings with bullets and
20-millimeter cannon shells. Both wings had to be changed. Participated in a shuttle
mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factories at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43.
After the target, the bomber turned south and landed at the Twelfth Air Force base at B�ne,
Algeria. Later positioned to Telergma, Algeria. On return to England, operated a mission
to a Luftwaffe air depot at M�rignac, Bordeaux, France 24Aug43. Failed to return from a
mission to the Bosch magneto factory at Stuttgart, Germany 6Sep43 (4KIA:6POW).
With bad weather over Germany, the bomber attempted to attack a secondary target
of a Luftwaffe air base to the southwest of Strasbourg, France. Failing again to find
the target, the bombs were jettisoned into the Black Forest. Shot down by Fw 190 enemy
fighters. The number one, outboard left wing engine was undamaged. The number two,
inboard left wing engine, was not running and the propeller could not be feathered.
The number three engine, the inboard right wing engine was badly damaged; it ran for a
few minutes then caught fire, threw a propeller blade and was stopped. The fire
went out and the remaining propeller blades were feathered. The number four,
outboard right wing engine was dead and the propeller was feathered. There was also a l
large hole in the outer right wing. Crashed at Voves, southeast of Chartres, France.
{12 missions} MACR 3126.
30204 (MSN 5318) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 6May43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 30May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 15Jun43. 94th Bomb Group 17Jun43. Ferried on the North
Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 21Jun43.
548th Bomb Squadron [GX*H], 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk Jun43.
Named "Gremlin's Buggy" Failed to return from a mission to the port area of Bremen,
Germany 29Nov43 (5POW:5KIA). Damaged by flak,. shot down by Maj. Karl Bohm-Tettelbach
in Bf 110G-2 of ZG 26/Stab and crashed Fesenfeld, four miles west of Syke,
south of Bremen, Germany. . MACR 1581.
30205 (MSN 5319) Accepted by USAAF 23Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 29Apr43. Sioux City AAB, IA 11May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 9Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 12Jun43.
561st Bomb Squadron [S], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 14Jun43.
{first combat mission 17Jul43}. Battle damaged on a
mission to the aircraft industries at Warnem�nde, Germany 25Jul43 (10RTD). Over the Danish
coast the plane was struck by flak and, losing fuel, the pilot aborted the mission and returned t
o Knettishall. {3 missions}. 563rd Bomb Squadron. Named "Battlin' Betsy". .
{first combat mission 17Aug43}. Participated in a shuttle mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft
factories at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43. After the target, the bomber turned south and landed
at the Twelfth Air Force base at B�ne, Algeria. Later positioned to Telergma, Algeria. On return to
England, operated a mission to a Luftwaffe air depot at M�rignac, Bordeaux, France 24Aug43.
On non-operational flight 13Oct43 crashed just off runway on approach to land at Knetishall
and caught fire (4KIS). {9 missions}. Salvaged 30Jan44.
30206 (MSN 5320) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 29Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 6May43. Air Service Command,
Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 21May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 27May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Jun43.
410th Bomb Squadron, 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 13Jun43
Named "Happy Daze". Failed to return from a mission to the aircraft industries at
Warnem�nde, Germany 25Jul43 (1KIA:9RTD). The target was covered by clouds and no bombs
were dropped. The Combat Wing proceeded out into the Baltic Sea and diverted most of the f
ormation to attack the shipyards at Kiel, Germany. Flak set a wing on fire, then shot down by Hptm Erwin Clausen
in Fw 190A of JG 11/I Stab and ditched in North Sea 123 km NW of Borkum, Germany.
MACR 89. One crew MIA. Remaining 9 crew were rescued and returned to England.
30207 (MSN 5321) Accepted by USAAF 23Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 29Apr43. Sioux City AAB, IA 11May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 9Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 12Jun43. 561st Bomb Squadron [T],
388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 14Jun43. Named "Big Red".
{first combat mission 17Jul43}. Participated in a shuttle mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factories
at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43. After the target, the bomber turned south and landed at the Twelfth Air
Force base at B�ne, Algeria. Later positioned to Telergma, Algeria. On return to England, operated a
mission to a Luftwaffe air depot at M�rignac, Bordeaux, France 24Aug43 (2WIA:10RTD). Colonel David,
Commander of the 388th Bomb Group, was in the co-pilot's seat as Command Pilot of the formation.
The Group had finished bombing the Luftwaffe airfield near Bordeaux and were headed home over the
Bay of Biscay. Enemy fighters made a furious attack. Colonel David saw a German fighter peel off to
the right and gasoline pouring from a right wing tank; the Fortress had been hit by 20mm cannon shells.
At almost the same instant bullets slashed into the cockpit from a head-on attack, one of them wounding
the pilot in the leg, others destroying the hydraulic system and an oxygen tank. Colonel David found
himself in a sea of flames that burned his hair, face and hands, and shriveled his flying jacket. For some
seconds the plane flew wild then he put the plane into a dive to get down close to the water so he
could ditch the aircraft; it was too far off shore to have any chance if the crew bailed out at altitude.
While the plane dropped from 21,000ft down to 10,000ft, the fire burned itself out and the bomber was
pulled out of its dive. The wings stayed on, the plane flew level and the leaking gasoline tank did not
explode. Enemy fighters returned to the attack, aiming their tracers at the flood of gasoline streaming
from the bomber's wing. Colonel David, alone in the cockpit, flew evasive action. In a twenty minute
battle, the gunners knocked down four of the German planes and drove off the rest. The wounded
engineer succeeded in transferring gasoline out of the damaged tank and the torrent of escaping fuel
stopped. It was Colonel David in the pilot's seat and the bombardier in the co-pilot's place who
brought the plane to a safe landing at Knettishall. Battle damaged on an Operation Starkey mission
to the industrial area of Paris, France 9Sep43 (1WIA:9RTD). The briefed route was followed to the I.P.
when the lead bombardier was hit by flak and unable to complete the bomb run on the primary target.
There was cloud cover over the secondary target which was the Luftwaffe airfield at Beaumont Sur Oise,
northwest of Paris. The bombardier was wounded by flak. Major battle damage on a mission to the ball
bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43. En route to the target area, the bomber formation
was repeatedly attacked by a large number of Luftwaffe fighters. After the target, the Group turned and
headed westward for England. German fighters, having landed and refueled, attacked again until, finally,
the bombers reached the coastline of western Europe and relative safety. Battle damaged on a Crossbow
mission to a German V-weapon site on the Cherbourg peninsula, France 26Mar44 (1WIA:9RTD). Flak over
the city of Cherbourg was intense, the ball turret gunner was wounded by flak. Failed to return from a
mission to a Luftwaffe air depot at M�rignac, Bordeaux, France 27Mar44 (5KIA:3POW:2EVD). A flare
set off a fire in the radio room just before reaching the target. The bomber left the formation, circled,
and finally went into a steep dive. Six parachutes were seen before the aircraft crashed at La Gombretiere,
Aizenay, nine miles northwest of La Roche-sur-Yon, France. {32 missions}. MACR 3540.
30208 (MSN 5322) Accepted by USAAF 24Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 29Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 8May43. Sioux City AAB, IA 10May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 16Jun43. 388th Bomb Group 17Jun43.
Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 21Jun43.
563rd Bomb Squadron [R], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk Jun43. {first combat mission 24Jul43}.
Failed to return from a mission to the Continental Gummi-Werke synthetic rubber factory at Hanover,
Germany 26Jul43 (5KIA:5POW). The Group was subjected to continual fighter attacks the entire route;
these attacks broke off when the Group was back over the North Sea on the way home. After the bomb
run, the B-17 successfully made the turn off target, and began the return flight home. Then the formation
was attacked by a large number of enemy aircraft. The bomber was shot down by Oberleutnan Karl Becker
in a FW 190 from JG 1/3. German reports stated that the plane broke apart at high altitude with parts
scattered over a large area near Holtland and Brinkum, Germany. {2 missions}.
MACR 3142 and 5386.
30209 (MSN 5323) Accepted by USAAF 24Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 29Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 8May43. Sioux City AAB, IA 10May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 9Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 12Jun43. 561st Bomb Squadron [U], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136),
Suffolk 14Jun43. Named "Wee Bonnie". {first combat mission 17Jul43}. Failed to return from a
mission to the Continental Gummi-Werke synthetic rubber factory at Hanover, Germany 26Jul43 (10RTD).
The Group was subjected to continual fighter attacks the entire route; these attacks broke off when the
Group was back over the North Sea on the way home. Attacked by enemy fighters and ditched in the
North Sea. Crew picked up by British Air-Sea Rescue. {2 missions) No MACR
30210 (MSN 5324) Accepted by USAAF 24Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 29Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 8May43. Sioux City AAB, IA 10May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 9Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 12Jun43.
388th Bomb Group 15Jun43. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 17Jun43.
561st Bomb Squadron [V], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk Jun43. {first combat mission 29Jul43}.
Failed to return from a mission to the Gerhard Fieseler Werke (GFW) aircraft works at Waldau, Kassel,
Germany 30Jul43 (7POW:3KIA). Off course twelve miles near Antwerp, Belgium, the aircraft was hit by flak as
a result of this error, damaging No.2 engine which caught fire and unable to feather the propeller. Enemy fighters
had made an attack but were driven off by the gunners. Slower than the Group formation and losing altitude,
the captain pressed on towards the target. Next, flak hit No.3 engine and caught fire. With fire from both engines
entering the waist windows and out the tail, three crew members bailed out. Near Nettersheim, Germany, the pilot
dived the aircraft down to 2,000ft and put the plane on automatic pilot. Several crew members bailed out but
three, trapped by fire and centrifugal forces crashed with the bomber near Nettersheim, fifteen miles southwest
of Eukirchen, Germany. {2 missions}.. Also listed as shot down by Obfhr Michael Frasch in Bf 109G-4 of
JG 3/1 at Netterscheim, Germany. MACR 3264. 3 KIA, 7 POW.
30211 (MSN 5325) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 27Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 6May43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma
City, OK 15May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Lincoln Field, NB 21May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air
Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 24May43. 335th Bomb Squadron [OE*T], 95th Bomb Group,
Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire 13Jun43. Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 16Jun43. Failed to
return from a mission to the Chemische Werke synthetic rubber works at H�ls, Marl, Germany 22Jun43
(2KIA:8POW). Enemy aircraft severely damaged cockpit, crashed Hunxe, six miles east of Wesel, Germany.
(1 mission} .MACR 4903. One crewmember was repatriated after one of his legs was amputated.
30212 (MSN 5326) Accepted by USAAF 24Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 29Apr43. Sioux City AAB, IA 14May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 11Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 16Jun43. 388th Bomb
Group 17Jun43. Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 21Jun43. 562nd Bomb Squadron [G], 388th Bomb Group,
Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk Jun43. Named *Quarterback*- The crew was recognized as
proficient in bombing and navigation so thus the named the plane after the football team's lead position,
{first combat mission 17Jul43}. Participated in a shuttle mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft
factories at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43. After the target, the bomber turned south and landed
at the Twelfth Air Force base at B�ne, Algeria. Later positioned to Telergma, Algeria. On return to
England, operated a mission to a Luftwaffe air depot at M�rignac, Bordeaux, France 24Aug43.
Battle damaged on a mission to the Kugelfischer-Georg-Sch�fer ball bearing factory at Schweinfurt,
Germany 14Oct43 (10RTD). Enemy fighters were encountered near Eupen, Belgium on the route in,
all the way to the target, and back to the French Coast. Flak was moderate to intense along the route
but gave the most trouble over the target area. The lead bombardier was unable to see a clear view
of the target caused by smoke from previous bombing. He set his bomb sight on the railway bridge
over the Main river so that the bombs struck the eastern end of the marshalling yards. On return,
force landed at RAF Biggin Hill, Kent. Battle damaged on a mission to the port area at Bremen,
Germany 20Dec43 (10RTD). Attacked by a large force of enemy fighters and flak over the target
area was very intense. {final combat mission 13May44}. {38 missions}. Base Air Depot No.1, Burtonwood
(Station 590), Lancashire Jun44. Modified as a drone for Operation Aphrodite missions. Designated BQ-7.
562nd Bomb Squadron, 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk, later at Fersfield (Station 554),
Norfolk. Expended on Aphrodite mission to the V2 rocket complex at Watten, France 6Aug44,
experienced control problems, turned inland and began to circle the important industrial town and
port of Ipswich, England. After several minutes, it crashed harmlessly at sea.
30213 (MSN 5327) Accepted by USAAF 26Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 29Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 9May43. 388th Bomb Group,
Sioux City AAB, IA 10May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 11Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 15Jun43. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Stornoway,
Isle of Lewis, Scotland 21Jun43. 562nd Bomb Squadron [H], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall
(Station 136), Suffolk Jun43. Named "Li'l One" the pilot's wife was expecting their first child
which they called the 'Li'l One'. {first combat mission 17Jul43}. Battle damaged on a mission to the
Gerhard Fieseler Werke (GFW) aircraft works at Waldau, Kassel, Germany 30Jul43 (10RTD).
A large force of enemy fighters was encountered along the route from the Dutch coast to the target and out,
but broke off the attacks over the target area. Flak was moderate over the route, but intense and
accurate over the target. Further flak was encountered on return over Antwerp. Battle damaged on a
mission to the German Navy cruiser N�rnberg in the port area of Gdynia, Poland 9Oct43. On the
return route the plane lost fifteen feet of right wing after being attacked by Fw 190s over Denmark.
Accident departing for a mission to the port area of Bremen, Germany 13Nov43. The crew took off late
in a spare aircraft and was attempting to locate the Group to formate. Flying at 23,000ft in the vicinity
of the enemy coast and still not able to see their Group, the No.3 propeller oversped and would not
feather and continued to speed even faster. The pilot turned back to cross the English coast at
about 19,000 feet. With the terrific vibrations from the propeller, the engine covering and cowling
were thrown off, striking the fuselage. there was fire emitting from the back of the engine. The pilot
turned the plane back towards the North Sea and ordered the crew to bail out as the plane passed
over Ipswich, Suffolk. Instead of continuing out to sea, the unmanned plane swung around and
traveled some thirty miles inland before crashing harmlessly on heathland of the Stanford Battle Area,
three miles north of East Wretham, Norfolk (10RTD). {22 missions}
30214 (MSN 5328) Accepted by USAAF 26Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 29Apr43. Sioux City AAB, IA 8May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 10Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 15Jun43. Ferried Meeks Field,
Keflavik, Iceland to Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland 21Jun43. 560th Bomb Squadron [H:M],
388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk [M] 26Jun43. Named "Iza Angel".
. {first combat mission 17Jul43}. Major battle damage on a mission to synthetic rubber factories at
Hanover, Germany 26Jul43. {final combat mission 30Jan44}. {16 missions}. 8th Weather
Reconnaissance Squadron (Heavy), 802nd Reconnaissance Group (Special)(Provisional),
Watton (Station 376), Norfolk 1Mar44. Returned to the US. 4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air
Technical Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 27Jun44. Salvaged at Patterson Field 24Feb45
30215 MSN 5329) Accepted by USAAF 26Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 29Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 8May43.
Sioux City AAB, IA 10May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 10Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air
Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 15Jun43. 388th Bomb Group 17Jun43. Ferried
on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 21Jun43. 560th Bomb Squadron [J], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136),
Suffolk Jun43. {first combat mission 17Jul43}. Failed to return from a mission to the aero
engine complex at Brunswick, Germany 11Jan44 (9POW). As weather conditions began
to deteriorate over the English bases, a recall order was sent to the bomber groups en route
to the city. While some the groups received the message and turned back for England,
others did not receive the order, and pressed onwards. When they arrived at the target area,
they met stiff resistance from the Luftwaffe. Mechanical problem on return from the target
with No.2 engine propeller feathered. Crashed Flakenholz, seven miles west of Hamelin,
Germany. {18 missions}. MACR 3127
Named LABOR PAINS [named when assigned at Sioux City AAB} / GREMLIN GUS [renamed before
leaving US]. Gremlin Gus came from pilots of the Royal Air Force who, according to RAF legend,
were responsible for aircraft engine failures and otherwise unexplainable aircraft maintenance
problems. Gus was a character created in the 1940s for an unfinished animated film based on
Roald Dahl's story The Gremlins / SLIGHTLY DANGEROUS II..
30216 (MSN 5330) Accepted by USAAF 26Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 29Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 9May43. Sioux
City AAB, IA 10May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 12Jun43.
388th Bomb Group 18Jun43. Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland
to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 25/26Jun43. 563rd Bomb Squadron [S], 388th Bomb Group,
Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk Jun43.. Named "Jonny". (first combat mission 17Jul43}.
Failed to return from a mission to the AGO-Flugzeugwerke Fw 190 manufacturing factory at
Oschersleben, Germany 28Jul43 (10POW). On the way to the target the No.1 engine exploded
and caught fire. The pilot jettisoned the bomb load and tried to stay with the formation but slowly
dropped back, black smoke from the engine attracting enemy fighters. Hhot down by Oblt Harry Koch in Fw 190A-6 of
JG 1/6 . The pilot had difficulty controlling the airplane because of the fire and the ailerons
didn't respond properly. The plane was slowly getting into an uncontrollable spin and the pilot
ordered the crew to bail out. Crashed and set fire to a ripe wheat field at Banteln, near Elze, south
of Hanover, Germany. {2 missions. MACR 3128.
30217 MSN 5331) Accepted by USAAF 26Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Apr43. Sioux City AAB, IA 13May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS
10Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 15Jun43.
388th Bomb Group 16Jun43. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Stornoway, Isle of Lewis,
Scotland 21Jun43. 560th Bomb Squadron [K], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk Jun43.
Named IMPATIENT VIRGIN / IZA BLUE. {first combat mission 24Jul43}. Major battle damage on a
mission to the Continental Gummi-Werke synthetic rubber factory at Hanover, Germany 26Jul43 (10RTD).
The Group was subjected to continual fighter attacks the entire route; these attacks broke off when the
Group was back over the North Sea on the way home. Over the target a mid-air collision took place when
the pilot was injured by a 20mm shell explosion in the cockpit. While changing seats with the co-pilot,
the plane weaved up and hit the tail of B-17F 42-3289 which took off the top half of the vertical stabiliser.
About forty-five minutes after the collision and trying to make it back, even with continued fighter attacks,
the co-pilot sent a message back to the crew to bail out. The intercom was out, but by that time they had
thrown out some of the parachutes. The pilot was unable to bail out because his chute was damaged
by the 20mm shell. The co-pilot was able to bring the aircraft back to England for a forced landing at
RAF Foulsham, Norfolk. The aircraft landed about mid way down the runway and the brakes held for a
moment, enough to straighten the plane out and then gave way and it went off the end of the runway
onto the grass. This is some of the battle damage: 20mm shell exploded in the right wing behind No.3 engine;
flak destroyed half of the left aileron; a 20mm shell exploded in the cockpit which injured the pilot
and engineer; the vertical fin half torn off; a 20mm shell hit in the radio room and numerous flak holes
in the aircraft; the oxygen system in the front half of the plane was out; eight of the plane's guns would
not fire. Battle damaged on a mission to the Kugelfischer-Georg-Sch�fer ball bearing factory at
Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43 (10RTD). Enemy fighters were encountered near Eupen, Belgium on the
route in, all the way to the target, and back to the French Coast. Flak was moderate to intense along the
route but gave the most trouble over the target area. The lead bombardier was unable to see a
clear view of the target caused by smoke from previous bombing. He set his bomb sight on the
railway bridge over the Main river so that the bombs struck the eastern end of the marshalling yards.
On return in bad weather, eventually getting lost until spotting a small airfield near Lichfield, Staffordshire,
and needed seven attempts to land in a meadow beyond the runway, hitting trees and wrecked the
aircraft. {6 missions}. Salvaged.
30218 (MSN 5332) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 30Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 14May43. Air Service Command,
Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 25May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 29May43. North Atlantic
Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 6Jun43. 335th Bomb Squadron [OE*W],
95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 15Jun43. Named "Heavenly Daze"
Minor battle damage caused by flak 15Aug43. Failed to return from a mission to the industrial
areas of Emden, Germany 11Dec43 (5KIA:5POW). The Luftwaffe was waiting for the bombers;
the moment the bombers crossed over into mainland Europe, six twin-engine fighter dived out
of the sun upon the formation, concentrating all their fire on the lead plane. Once the leader had
been downed, the fighters swept through the lead Squadron. Before the deputy lead had a chance
to reassemble the formation, a large force of single-engine fighters joined the fray, attacking the
other bombers. Attacked by several German fighters on the way back from Emden and finally shot down by Oblt. Hugo
Frey in Bf 109G of JG 11/7. Five crew bailed out, the aircraft crashed near the
Waddenzee dyke close to Ferwerd, Friesland, Netherlands. {23 missions}. MACR 1561.
30219 (MSN 5333) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 30Apr43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 12May43. Dow Field, Bangor, ME 6Jun43.
334th Bomb Squadron [BG*J], 95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 15Jun43.
Battle damaged during a mission to the AGO-Flugzeugwerke Fw 190 manufacturing factory at
Oschersleben, Germany 28Jul43 (3POW). Crash landed on return at Framlingham (Station 153),
Suffolk. {6 missions}. Salvaged 13Aug43.
30220 (MSN 5334) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 30Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 10May43. Peterson Field,
Colorado Springs, CO 20May43. Modified to photographic configuration. Designated F-9. Patterson Field,
Dayton, OH 13Jun43. 1st Mapping Group, Bolling Field, Washington, DC 4Jul43. Bradley Field,
Windsor Locks, CT 27Jul43. Mapping mission to Accra, Gold Coast, West Africa 31Dec43.
Returned to US. 1st Photographic Charting Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 3Apr44.
4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 20Oct44.
91st Photographic Squadron, 1st Photographic Group, Buckley Field, CO 13Dec44.
1103rd Base Unit (Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command), Morrison Field, West Palm
Beach, FL 26Jan45. Designated FB-17F. Salvaged Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 19Jun46
30221 (MSN 5335) Accepted by USAAF 27Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 30Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 14May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 21May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 26May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Jun43. 423rd Bomb Squadron [RD*G],
306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 18Jun43. Force landed after mid-air collision
with B-17F 42-29971 at Thurleigh 8Jul43Repaired. Transferred to 368th BS
and named "Rick O Shay". Seriously battle damaged during a mission to an aircraft
factory at Bremen, Germany 8Oct43. The formation was met with stiff resistance by German fighters
and flak crews on the ground the entire way, from the Dutch coast all the way into the German
heartland, and back again. In addition, a large force of German fighters launched vicious attacks
against the planes. Over the target, the formation encountered intense flak. Flak damaged No.1, 3 aand 4
propellers, nose compartment, left wing and No.5 Tokyo tank. 20mm cannon shells struck the
No.2 engine nacelle, right wing, aileron and horizontal stabiliser. Eighth Air Force Service
Command 8Oct43. Regained by Group 21Oct43. Seriously battle damaged during a mission
to the industrial areas of Emden, Germany 11Dec43. The Luftwaffe was waiting for the bombers;
the moment the bombers crossed over into mainland Europe, six twin-engine fighter dived out
of the sun upon the formation, concentrating all their fire on the lead plane. Once the leader had
been downed, the fighters swept through the lead Squadron. Before the deputy lead had a chance
to reassemble the formation, a large force of single-engine fighters joined the fray, attacking the
other bombers. Station 6 bulkhead, right inner wing struck by flak. Damaged in a mid-air collision
with B-17F 42-30841 during assembly for a squadron formation training flight 27Dec43. With two
large holes in the fuselage, the control cables were so badly damaged that the pilot could not
control the plane. At risk of breaking in two if a landing was attempted, the crew bailed out safely
over land as the aircraft headed out to crash in The Wash. Having set the autopilot It was necessary
to have two Spitfire fighters shoot it down to prevent it crashing on land. 42-30841 landed safely.
30222 (MSN 5336) Accepted by USAAF 27Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 30Apr43. Sioux City AAB, IA 11May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 12Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 19Jun43. 563rd Bomb Squadron [T],
388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 10Jun43. Named "Lone Wolf" artwork of a
snarling wolf's head . {first combat mission 12Aug43}. Participated in a shuttle mission to the
Messerschmitt aircraft factories at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43. After the target, the bomber
turned south and landed at the Twelfth Air Force base at B�ne, Algeria. Later positioned to
Telergma, Algeria. On return to England, operated a mission to a Luftwaffe air depot at M�rignac,
Bordeaux, France 24Aug43. Failed to return from a mission to the Bosch magneto factory at Stuttgart,
Germany 6Sep43 (2KIA:1POW:7EVD). With bad weather over Germany, the bomber attempted to
attack a secondary target of a Luftwaffe air base to the southwest of Strasbourg, France. Failing again
to find the target, the bombs were jettisoned into the Black Forest. Attacked and shot down by
Oblt Horst Sternberg in Fw 190A-6 of JG 26/5 at Longsols, France.
With the cockpit on fire, the plane crashed just to the west of Onjon, northeast of Troyes, France. {7 missions}. .
MACR 3129.
30223 (MSN 5337) Accepted by USAAF 28Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 30Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 22May43.
Spokane Field, WA 24May43. 390th Bomb Group, Great Falls AAB, MT 11Jun43. Smoky Hill Field,
Salina, KS 29Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 11Jul43.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland Jul43.
571st Bomb Squadron [FC*S], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk Jul43.
Named "Rick-O-Shay/Norma J". {first combat mission 12Aug43}. Participated in a
shuttle mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factories at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43. After the
target, the bomber turned south to land at a Twelfth Air Force base in North Africa. With fuel exhaustion,
the plane force landed on a dried up lake bed in Algeria. Telergma, Constantine, Algeria. Returned to
Framlingham on a mission to a Luftwaffe air depot at M�rignac, Bordeaux, France 24Aug43.
Battle damaged during a mission to railway installations at M�nster, Germany 10Oct43 (1WIA:9RTD).
As they approached the city, the formation was swarmed by a large force of enemy aircraft for an
estimated forty-five minutes of vicious fighting. By the time their friendly fighter escorts arrived to
drive off the Luftwaffe, the damage had already been done. The tail gunner was wounded. A rocket
entered a waist window but did not explode; the gunner picked it up and threw it back out.
With two engines inoperative, the plane safely landed in fog at Framlingham. Failed to return
from a mission to the industrial areas of Emden, Germany 11Dec43 (8KIA:2POW). The Luftwaffe
was waiting for the bombers; the moment the bombers crossed over into mainland Europe,
six twin-engine fighters dived out of the sun upon the formation, concentrating all their fire
on the lead plane. Once the leader had been downed, the fighters swept through the lead Squadron.
Before the deputy lead had a chance to reassemble the formation, a large force of single-engine
fighters joined the fray, attacking the other bombers. Shot down by Oblt Albin
Meyer in ME 410A of ZG 26/5 at Westeraccum, Germany.
The aircraft exploded and crashed at Westeraccum, Dornum, twelve miles north of Aurich,
Germany. {17 missions}. MACR 1582.
30224 (MSN 5338) Accepted by USAAF 27Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 30Apr43. Sioux City AAB, IA 12May43. Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 20May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 10Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 15Jun43. 560th Bomb Squadron [L], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136),
Suffolk 17Jun43. Named "A Little Home". {first combat mission 25Jul43}. Failed to return from a mission to the
Continental Gummi-Werke synthetic rubber factory at Hanover, Germany 26Jul43 (7POW:3KIA).
The Group was subjected to continual fighter attacks the entire route. Over the target, before
releasing the bombs, flak struck the No.3 engine and also a direct hit on the tail, killing the
tail gunner, knocking the plane out of formation. As the plane dropped out of formation,
it was attacked by enemy fighter and was shot down by Uffz Eugen Wloschinski in Fw 190A-4
of JG 1/6 at Deckbergen, Germany, killing the co-pilot The pilot was still in control
as much as possible but the oxygen system had been set on fire up in the forward cabin. In the radio room,
the radio operator was struck and wounded by machine gun fire. Th pilot put the plane into a dive for a
while down to around 12,000ft. The crew started to bail out and the plane exploded.
Crashed at Deckbergen, thirty miles southwest of Hanover, Germany. {2 missions}. MACR 3130.
30225 (MSN 5339) Accepted by USAAF 27Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 30Apr43. Sioux City AAB, IA 11May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 11Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Jul43. 388th Bomb Group 1Jul43.
Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland 5Jul43.
562nd Bomb Squadron [J], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk Jul43.
Named "Plain Mister Yank"-- the pilot often referred to himself as just a plain Yankee,
{first combat mission 26Jul43}. Failed to return from a mission to the Continental Gummi-Werke
synthetic rubber factory at Hanover, Germany 26Jul43 (6KIA:4POW). The plane was hit
by two burst of flak at Aurich on the way to the target hitting the left wing and a few seconds
later the right wing and No.3 engine caught fire. Shot down by Fw Erich Fuhrmann in Bf 109G-6 of JG 11/5 at
Vechta, Germany. The plane exploded, crashed on the airfield at Vechtal,
near Aurich, Germany. {1 mission}. MACR 3131. 6 KIA, 4 POW
30226 MSN 5340) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 30Apr43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 14May43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 27May43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field,
Oklahoma City, OK 1Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 6Jun43. 336th Bomb Squadron [ET*L], 95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119),
Suffolk 15Jun43. 334th Bomb Squadron [BG*L] named "Spook V". Failed to return from a
mission to the industrial area at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 29Jan44 (5KIA:5POW)
Shot down by Lt. Wilhelm Hoffmann in FW-190A-6 of JG 26/8 at Lutrebois,�Belgium, 3 mi E of Bastogne.
Crashed Lutrebois, three miles southeast of Bastogne, Belgium. MACR 2256
30227 (MSN 5341) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 1May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 17May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air
Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 30May43. 413th Bomb Squadron [MZ*R],
96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 12Jun43
Named "Wabbit Twacks III"; transferred to 612th Bomb Squadron [SC*X],
401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 13Dec43. Named "Boots III".
Base Air Depot No.1, Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire 17Mar44. Returned to US. 4136th Base Unit
(Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 3Jun44.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT. Air Transport Command 7Jun44. Modified for
training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F.
Kirtland Field, Albuquerque, NM 21Jan45. Long Beach Field, CA 18May45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Cal-Aero Field, Ontario, CA for storage and disposal 4Jun45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Sharp & Fellows Contracting Company Jul46; scrapped
30228 (MSN 5342) Accepted by USAAF 27Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 30Apr43. 388th Bomb Group. Sioux City AAB, IA 11May43. Crash landed
Casper Field, WY 10Jun43. Salvaged 16Jun43. Salvaged 19Nov44. Reclaimed 17Sep46
30229 (MSN 5343) Accepted by USAAF 27Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 30Apr43. Sioux City AAB, IA 11May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 12Jun43.
Buffalo Municipal Airport, NY. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 18Jun43. 563rd Bomb Squadron, 388th Bomb Group. Named "Shooting Star"
Took off from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland 20Jun43, but lost over North Atlantic en route
to Keflavik, Iceland. A search found no trace (10MIS).. MACR 4
30230 (MSN 5344) Accepted by USAAF 28Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30Apr43. 388th Bomb Group, Sioux City AAB, IA 13May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 11Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 15Jun43. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Stornoway, Isle of Lewis,
Scotland 21Jun43. 562nd Bomb Squadron [L], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136),
Suffolk Jun43. Named "Homesick Angel" {first combat mission 17Jul43}. Battle
damaged on a mission to the aircraft industries at Warnem�nde, Germany 25Jul43 (10RTD).
The target was covered by clouds and no bombs were dropped. The Combat Wing proceeded
out into the Baltic Sea. About five minutes after leaving the target area, the lead bombardier of the
388th Bomb Group spotted a good target of opportunity, the Luftwaffe airfield at Rerik-West,
near the Wustrow peninsula. Struck by flak on return from the target, an engine failed and the
propeller feathered. Rapidly using fuel to maintain protection from the Group, the plane ran
out of fuel on the Knettishall crosswind at 800 feet. But the pilot was able to dead stick into
the nearby airfield of RAF East Wretham, Thetford, Norfolk that had been used by British bombers.
The green gear lights came on just as the plane touched down (the pilot initially ordered "gear up",
predicting a crash landing). The three overworked engines were replaced but, because of the lack of
spares, the flak damaged No.1 engine was repaired and recertified for flight. Battle damaged on a
mission to the Gerhard Fieseler Werke (GFW) aircraft works at Waldau, Kassel, Germany 30Jul43 (10RTD).
A large force of enemy fighters was encountered along the route from the Dutch coast to the
target and out, but broke off the attacks over the target area. Flak was moderate over the route,
but intense and accurate over the target. Further flak was encountered on return over Antwerp.
Participated in a shuttle mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factories at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43.
After the target, the bomber turned south and headed for the Twelfth Air Force base at B�ne, Algeria.
While flying over the Mediterranean, the crew determined that they were running low on fuel.
They decided to leave the formation and fly a more direct route to reach B�ne. As a result,
this bomber arrived at the Algerian airfield before the rest of the bombers. They were met by a
contingent of high-ranking officers who were expecting to see the mission leader,
Brigadier General Curtis LeMay, step out of the plane. The officials seemed somewhat startled to see
a Lieutenant crawl out of the bomber's hatch to greet them instead. On return to England, operated
a mission to a Luftwaffe air depot at M�rignac, Bordeaux, France 24Aug43. The bomber suffered
battle damage and, with fuel exhaustion, the engines quit while the aircraft was preparing to land at base.
Crash landed one mile east of Stanton, south of Knettishall, Suffolk. {8 missions}. Salvaged 31Aug43..
No serious injuries to crew. Was reported as being captured by Luftwaffe.
It is probable that this aircraft was not captured. There is photographic
and written evidence which appears to prove that aircraft
was wrecked when bellylanded near Stanton, England Aug 24, 1943 after running
out of fuel during return from mission. . Salvaged Aug 31, 1943.
30231 (MSN 5345) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 1May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 12May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air
Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 29May43. 325th Bomb Squadron [NV*Z],
95th Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire 6Jun43. 326th Bomb Squadron [JW*O].
Failed to return from a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43 (10POW).
En route to the target area, the bomber formation was repeatedly attacked by a large number
of Luftwaffe fighters. After the target, the Group turned and headed westward for England. German fighters,
having landed and refueled, attacked again. Shot down by Lt Erwin Stalberg in
Bf 109G-6 of JG 3/8. A rocket hit the wing root, blowing the wing off. The aircraft caught fire,
went in to a spin, exploded and crashed at St Goar, eleven miles southeast of Boppard, Germany. MACR 844
42-30232/30331 Boeing B-17F-95-BO Fortress
MSN 5346/5445. Dispositions from B-17 Fortress Master Log, Dave Osborne (FORTLOG)
Production changes: Reinforcement of radio room fuselage in gun mount area. Modified horizontal
stabilisers for interchangeability. Model JH-3R starters. External bomb racks deleted
30232, 30252, 30253, 30256, 30268, and 30299
converted to F-9 photo-recon aircraft
with cameras added and bombing equipment deleted.
30232 (MSN 5346) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 3May43. 100th Bomb Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 18May43.
Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 20May43. Modified to photographic configuration.
Designated F-9. Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 13Jun43. 1st Mapping Group, Bolling Field,
Washington, DC 4Jul43. Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 17Aug43. Mapping mission to
Accra, Gold Coast, West Africa 21Dec43. Returned to US. 1st Photographic Charting Group,
MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 2Apr44. 4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command),
Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 20Apr44. 1103rd Base Unit (Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command),
Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 2Feb45. 91st Photographic Squadron, 1st Photographic
Group, Buckley Field, CO 5Feb45. Designated FB-17F. Mapping Trinidad 1Jun46. Salvaged 24Jun46.
30233 MSN 5347) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 3May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 24May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 25May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 27May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Jun43. 412th Bomb Squadron [QW*X],
95th Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire 16Jun43. Damaged at Horham 24Dec43
when B-17G 42-39883 landed in poor visibility too far down the runway and nosed over after clipping this aircraft.
t0 95th Bomb Group336th Bomb Squadron [ET*X], named *Rhapsody in Flak*
Failed to return from a mission to the Messerschmitt factory at Augsburg, Germany 13Apr44 (10INT).
Flak damaged No.2 and No.4 engines, force landed Altenrhein airfield, Switzerland.. MACR 3765The bomber
approached the airfield from the west over Lake Constance under tailwind conditions. With engine
failure and the wind from behind, the pilot couldn't keep the bomber under full control during the
flare to land, so that the plane drifted to the left, straight into the taxyway area beside the runway.
The heavy aircraft cut into the turf where the undercarriage got stuck. The aircraft had to be towed
away, leaving deep ruts in the turf. {37 missions}. Repaired and used by Swiss Air Force for
familiarisation flights. Returned to US Aug 27, 1945.. 1103rd Base Unit (Caribbean Wing, Air Transport
Command), Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 22Oct45. Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 8Jan46. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas
Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped .
30234 (MSN 5348) Accepted by USAAF 28Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 1May43. Sioux City AAB, IA 13May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 12Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 18Jun43. 563rd Bomb Squadron [P],
388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 19Jun43. {first combat mission 24Jul43}.
Participated in a shuttle mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factories at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43.
After the target, the bomber turned south and landed at the Twelfth Air Force base at B�ne, Algeria.
Later positioned to Telergma, Algeria. On return to England, operated a mission to a Luftwaffe air
depot at M�rignac, Bordeaux, France 24Aug43. Failed to return from a mission to the Bosch magneto
factory at Stuttgart, Germany 6Sep43 (6KIA:3POW). With bad weather over Germany, the bomber
attempted to attack a secondary target of a Luftwaffe air base to the southwest of Strasbourg, France.
Failing again to find the target, the bombs were jettisoned into the Black Forest. Attacked by enemy
fighters, the crew bailed out before the plane crashed between Roully-Sacey and Mesnil-Selli�res,
seven miles east of Troyes, France. {9 missions}.. MACR 3132.
30235 (MSN 5349) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 3May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 16May43. Smoky Hill Field,
Salina, KS 17May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 30May43.
401st Bomb Squadron [LL*L:LL*Z], 91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 6Jun43.
Transferred to 412th Bomb Squadron [QW*U], 95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 16Jun43
Named "Lonesome Polecat". Appears to have also been known as "The Zoot Suiters" (picture
shows "Strictly Zoot") {first combat mission 22Jun43}. Battle damaged on mission to the
submarine base at La Pallice, La Rochelle, France 16Sep43. On return, force landed at Great
Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk. Battle damaged on mission to the submarine construction yard at
Vegesack, Bremen, Germany 16Dec43. On return, force landed at Bungay (Station 125), Suffolk.
{final combat mission 4Mar44}. {47 missions}. Declared 'war weary'. Returned to US.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 9Oct45
30236 (MSN 5350) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 1May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 12May43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 26May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME. Caught fire on takeoff and destroyed at Dow Field, Bangor, ME 3Jun43. Salvaged 16Jun43
30237 (MSN 5351) Accepted by USAAF 29Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 1May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 13May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 14May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 30May43. 524th Bomb Squadron [WA*V], 379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117),
Huntingdonshire 1Jun43. Base Air Depot No.1, Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire 4Aug43.
Named *Stump Jumper* Modified as a drone for Operation Aphrodite and Castor missions.
Designated BQ-7. 562nd Bomb Squadron, 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136),
Suffolk, later at Fersfield (Station 554), Norfolk. Expended on Aphrodite mission to the power
station at Oldenburg, Germany 1Jan45. Shot down by flak before reaching target
30238 (MSN 5352) Accepted by USAAF 29Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 1May43. Sioux City AAB, IA 13May43. Combat Crew Training
School, Casper Field, WY 12Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 13Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air
Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 15Jun43. 563rd Bomb Squadron [V], 388th Bomb Group,
Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 24Jun43. Named "Wing and a Prayer/Classy Chassy"
{first combat mission 17Jul43}. Failed to return from a mission to the Gerhard Fieseler Werke (GFW)
aircraft works at Waldau, Kassel, Germany 30Jul43 (10POW). Over enemy territory as they passed
the big railway center in the town of Bebra, the bomber got two direct hits by flak. The left wing
had a huge hole in it. Two engines of this wing were knocked off. Another shell damaged several
controls in the cockpit. The oxygen system failed. The bomb controls of the bombardier were also
damaged and lost electrical power. It was not possible to follow their group with two damaged
engines. The crew threw all loose equipment overboard to lighten the plane. The bombardier
climbed into the bomb bay and opened the doors of the bay manually. He released every single
bomb with a screwdriver, one after another. At this moment, the bomber was the target of a
group of German fighter planes. They attacked the bomber several times and damaged the
two working engines as well. The crew bailed out, the pilot had activated the auto-pilot to
stabilise the aircraft, but it was too badly damaged. Without the pilot at the controls,
the aircraft flew a curve, gradually lost altitude over the next few minutes, and landed
softly without the crew a few kilometers away on the meadow near the small village of
Dorla, near Lichtenau, twelve miles southwest of Kassel, Germany. The bomber was destroyed
by fire. {2 missions}. MACR 3133.
30239 (MSN 5353) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 1May43. Moses Lake Field, WA 20May43. Walla Walla Field, WA 30May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 31May43. Hill Field,
Ogden, UT 3Jun43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 4Jun43. School of
Applied Tactics, Orlando AAB, FL 6Jun43. Brooksville Field, FL 21Jun43. Rapid City Field, SD 3Jul43.
Harvard Field, NB 2Aug43. Accident returning from a training mission and crashed at Harvard Field 28Aug43 (6KIS).
Just before darkness, a formation of eight B-17's was coming into the Harvard Army Air Field to
simulate a peel-off out of formation for landing. Instead of going downward and left out of formation,
one of the lead B-17F's (42-30239) went upwards into the path of B-17F (42-3309). The wing of
the higher plane cut the fuselage of the plane coming upward in half. A third B-17F (42-30774)
flew into the wreckage. The first two B-17's that collided fell downward and exploded with
no survivors. The third B-17 was able to crash land in an open field. near Harvard, NB. The pilot of the
third plane had ordered his crew to bail out. Salvaged 30Aug43. Reconstruction Finance
Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 1Aug45
30240 (MSN 5354) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 1May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 12May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 26May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Jun43.
410th Bomb Squadron, 94th Bomb Group, Earls Colne (Station 358), Essex 7Jun43.
Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 13Jun43. Named "Black Kitten"
Failed to return from a mission to the Chemische Werke synthetic rubber works at H�ls, Marl,
Germany 22Jun43 (7POW (3KIA). Shot down by Lt Georg Schott in Fw 190A-5 of JG 1/1
over Recklinghausen, Germany. Crashed Pfalzdorf, Germany
30241 (MSN 5355) Accepted by USAAF 29Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 1May43. Rapid City Field, SD 15Jul43. Equipped with H2S airborne radar.
Used for radio counter measures. 563rd Bomb Squadron [A], 388th Bomb Group,
Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 26Oct43. named "Worry Wart". {first combat mission 29Nov43}. Battle
damaged on a mission to the industrial area of Solingen, Germany 30Nov43 (1WIA:9RTD). Various
concentrations of flak were encountered between the I.P. and the target, with intensity varying from
meagre to moderate. The engineer was wounded by flak. Battle damaged on a mission to the port
area at Bremen, Germany 20Dec43 (10RTD). Attacked by a large force of enemy fighters and
flak over the target area was very intense. {final combat mission 14Jan44}. {12 missions}.
Transferred to Royal Air Force 21Jan44 as Fortress Mark II, serial SR378. No.214 (Federated Malay States)
Squadron [BU-D], No.100 Group, RAF Sculthorpe, Norfolk 2Feb44. Damaged 21Mar44. For repair on
site by civilian repair organisation Apr44. No.214 (Federated Malay States) Squadron [BU-D],
No.100 Group, RAF Oulton, Aylsham, Norfolk 27May44. No.51 Maintenance Unit, RAF Lichfield,
Staffordshire 4Jan45. Sold to International Alloys Ltd 11Mar47. SOC 11Mar47.
30242 (MSN 5356) Accepted by USAAF Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 2May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 13May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 14May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 30May43. 364th Bomb Squadron [WF*N], 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston
(Station 105), Northamptonshire 10Jun43. Named. "Lallah VIII/Pappy's Hellions" .
Fitted with H2S equipment in trials at Base Air Depot No.1, Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire.
Failed to return from a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43 (9POW:1KIA).
En route to the target area, the bomber formation was repeatedly attacked by a large number of Luftwaffe
fighters. After the target, the Group turned and headed westward for England. German fighters, having landed
and refueled, attacked again. Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed four miles west of D�ren, Germany.
There is a photo of Bob Hope and Frances Langford with this plane.
30243 (MSN 5357) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 13May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 14May43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 27May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Jun43. 331st Bomb Squadron [QE*Z2], 94th Bomb Group,
Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 15Jun43. Named NIP 'N TUCK;
Failed to return from a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield and air depot at Le Bourget, Paris,
France 14Jul43 (8POW:2EVD). Enemy aircraft severely damaged tail and cockpit caught fire,
crashed �vreux, France. Named GOOD TIME CHOLLY II. MACR 115.
30244 (MSN 5358) Accepted by USAAF 29Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 1May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 14May43. Air Service
Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 24May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 29May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 31May43.
351st Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 9Jun43. 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall
(Station 136), Suffolk 17Jun43. 335th Bomb Squadron [OE*M], 95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119),
Suffolk 18Jun43. 334th Bomb Squadron [BG*M]. Named "Holy Terror". Minor battle damage
caused by flak 15Aug43. Failed to return from a mission to the Jaeger ball bearing factory at Elberfeld,
Wuppertal, Germany 5Jan44 (9POW:1EVD). Poor weather conditions and malfunctioning pathfinder
equipment forced the bombers to instead attack a small town near Elberfeld as a target of opportunity.
Damaged by flak, low on fuel and with insufficient altitude to cross the English Channel,
the crew bailed out over Arras, France. The aircraft crashed at Lambourg, near Mesmil-Martinsart,
sixteen miles south of Arras, France. {39 missions}. Also listed as shot down by Lt. Waldemar Radener in FW-190A-6
of JG 26/7. at Mesnil-Martinsart,�France�Jan 5, 1944.�MACR 1687.
30245 (MSN 5359) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3May43.
381st Bomb Group, Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 17May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 21May43. Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland May43. Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire May43. 534th Bomb
Squadron [GD*L], 381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 15Jun43.
Named *Lady Luck/Lucky Lady II*. (first combat mission 22Jun43}. Failed to return from a
mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 17Aug43 (1KIA:8POW:1EVD).
The crew was flying as an extra spare alongside the lead squadron. En route to the target, as it
reached the Belgian/German border, the pilot had started to drop down to fill a space vacated by
another B-17 which had aborted and returned to England. The bomber was attacked before it could
reach the safety of the low squadron by two Fw 190 fighters of JG 26, shot down
by Fw Peter Ahrens in Fw 190A of JG 26/3 at Oostmalle, Belgium
The bomber pulled up into a vertical climb and half rolled to the right, spun upside down three times
but recovered enough to allow the pilot to regain control, He turned back towards England but was
attacked again. The crew bailed out before the aircraft broke in two and crashed between
Oostmalle and Rijkevorselat, nine miles west of Turnhout, Belgium. A large part of the Flying Fortress
crashed south of the Schoten-Turnhout canal, behind a farm. {5 missions}. MACR 381.
30246 (MSN 5360) Accepted by USAAF 30Apr43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 3May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 22May43.
Spokane Field, WA 24May43. 390th Bomb Group, Great Falls AAB, MT. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 2Jul43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 13Jul43. Ferried overseas on the
North Atlantic route via Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland Jul43. 570th Bomb Squadron [DI*H],
390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 14Jul43. Named "Spot Remover".
{first combat mission 12Aug43}. Participated in a shuttle mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factories
at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43. After the target, the mission continued on to North Africa. The plane
was damaged by flak and the wings were dented by empty shell cases ejected from other bombers.
En route to Africa, the plane passed over the Alps when the oxygen ran out and it had to leave formation
for a lower altitude. Then an engine stopped with fuel exhaustion. Fuel was transferred from another
tank but that engine then stopped. The plane force landed on a dried up lake bed in Algeria.
Spotting flares in the distance, the crew found two gunners and a pilot of two B-17s forced down
several days previously. Food, water and gasoline was dropped by parachute and took off two
days later with the additional crew. Telergma, Constantine, Algeria. Returned to Framlingham
25Aug43. Damaged aborting from a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Meucon, Vannes, France 23Sep43.
The landing gear would not extend and the plane circled Framlingham for three and a half hours,
taking time out to jettison the bomb load and ball turret in The Wash. Base personnel travelled forty
miles to obtain a motion picture camera to record the crash landing for future instruction of other pilots.
Failed to return from a mission to the Focke-Wulf aircraft factory at Pozna?, Poland 20Feb44 (10POW).
Heavy cloud cover over Pozna? forced the formation to divert to their secondary target, the Heinkel
Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory at Marienehe, Rostock, Germany. During the mission, the pilot reported
that he could not transfer fuel from the 'Tokyo' fuel tanks. The reserve tanks had been hit by flak over
the target and fuel had been seen pouring out. Shortly after, the bomber left the formation and the
pilot said that he would try to get to Sweden. The pilots made a perfect wheels up-landing at Tirstrup,
Denmark, and all of the crew could leave the plane unharmed. The Americans were very disappointed
when they learned from Danes crowding in that they had landed in Denmark. The crew removed a
machine gun and a sack of oranges from the plane and set it on fire. Shortly afterwards the Germans
arrived, but they could not prevent the plane from burning down completely. The ten Americans went
on towards the coast, but they left a clear track of orange peels. As no oranges were sold in either
Denmark or Germany, the Germans just had to follow the track, and by the evening six Americans
were captured at Hyllested, about 10km from the site of the forced landing. The remaining four airmen
slept in two holiday cottages on the beach south of Grenaa. Eight days after the forced landing the
ten airmen had all been captured. {21 missions}. MACR 2436
30247 (MSN 5361) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 20May43. Moses Lake Field, WA 21May43.
328th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Gulfport Field, MS 23Oct43. 594th Bomb Squadron,
396th Bomb Group, Drew, FL. Damaged taxying at Drew Field 1Jan44. Force landed with engine failure
five miles west of Gulfport Field, MS 23Oct44 (1KIS). Salvaged 24Oct44
30248 (MSN 5362) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 14May43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 24May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 29May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 31May43. 410th Bomb Squadron [GL*X], 94th Bomb Group, Earls Colne (Station 358),
Essex 2Jun43. Named THE SOUTHERN QUEEN. Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 13Jun43.
333rd Bomb Squadron Aug43. Named THE BUZZARD / PRODIGAL SON/LASSIE COME HOME..
Failed to return from a mission to the aero engine complex at Brunswick, Germany 11Jan44 (9POW:2KIA).
As weather conditions began to deteriorate over the English bases, a recall order was sent to the bomber
groups en route to the city. While some the groups received the message and turned back for England,
others did not receive the order, and pressed onwards. When they arrived at the target area, they met
stiff resistance from the Luftwaffe. Shot down by rocket from a fighter attack on return from mission,
crashed Uiezen, Germany. MACR 1889
30249 (MSN 5363) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 13May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 14May43.
Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 24May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 30May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 4Jun43. 551st Bomb Squadron [HR*X],
385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 26Jun43. This aircraft was formerly known as "El Lobo".
The original "Raunchy Wolf" was 42-3290. B-17 42-30249 was named El Lobo with a wolf's head
on her nose. However, when the original Raunchy Wolf was lost the crew took over El Lobo and
painted out the El Lobo name and replaced it with the name Raunchy Wolf. Failed to return from a
mission to the I.G. Farben chemical works at Oppau, Ludwigshafen, Germany 30Dec43 (1KIA:6POW:3EVD).
Damaged by flak then shot down by Obfw. Bartl in Fw 190A-5 of 123/5(F) at Ligny-Saint-Flochel,
France. Crashed Ligay, three miles south of Monchy-Breton, France. MACR 1899.
30250 (MSN 5364) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 14May43. Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 24May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 30May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 15Jun43.
Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 18Jun43. Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander,
Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 21Jun43. 548th Bomb Squadron [GX*F],
385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk Jun43 Named "Yank"
Recalled from a mission 30Oct43, the heavy bomber overshot landing on wet grass at RAF Docking, Norfolk.
Hit a truck at Honington (Station 375), Suffolk. Salvaged after non-battle damage by 1st Strategic
Air Depot, Troston (Station 595), Suffolk 30Jan44
30251 (MSN 5365) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 6May43.
Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 8May43. Gore Field,
Great Falls, MT 13May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 29May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 13Jun43.
549th Bomb Squadron [XA*T], 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 14Jun43.
Named 'Piccadilly Queen' Damaged when B-17F 42-30414 exploded at Great Ashfield 3Sep43.
Failed to return from a mission to the industrial area at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 29Jan44 (6KIA:4POW).
Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Kaiserlautern, Germany. MACR 2267
30252 (MSN 5366) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 4May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 17May43. Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 20May43.
Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 19Jun43. Modified to photographic configuration. Designated F-9.
1st Mapping Group, Bolling Field, Washington, DC 7Jul43. Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 12Jul43.
Bolling Field, Washington, DC 4Aug43. Mapping mission to Accra, Gold Coast, West Africa 23Nov43.
Returned to US. Reclaimed 20Nov44
30253 (MSN 5367) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 6May43.
Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 20May43. Modified to photographic configuration. Designated F-9.
Cameras changed and redesignated 1943 as F-9B. 1st Mapping Group, Bolling Field,
Washington, DC 4Jul43. Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 16Jul43. Mapping mission to Accra,
Gold Coast, West Africa 1Apr44. Returned to US. 1st Photographic Charting Group, MacDill Field,
Tampa, FL12Oct44. 91st Photographic Squadron, 1st Photographic Group, Buckley Field, CO 30Dec44.
4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 29Dec44.
91st Photographic Squadron, 1st Photographic Group, Buckley Field, CO 1Feb45. Designated FB-17F 1945.
Crashed twenty-five miles south of Manta, Ecuador 18Aug45. Salvaged 24Jun46.
30254 (MSN 5368) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 6May43.
Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 8May43. 7th Ferrying Group,
Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 12May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 29May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 16Jun43. 550th Bomb Squadron,
385th Bomb Group. Took off from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland 20Jun43, but lost over North Atlantic
en route to Prestwick, Scotland, contact made with Prestwick on approach to UK, but a search found
no trace (10MIS). MACR 3
30255 (MSN 5369) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 4May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 14May43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 25May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 29May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 31May43. 351st Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 10Jun43.
412th Bomb Squadron [QW*V], 95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 16Jun43
Named "Lonesome Polecat II" . {first combat mission 29Jun43}. Battle damaged
during a mission to the port area at Bremen, Germany 13Nov43 (2KIA:1WIA). Failed to return
from a mission to the submarine construction yard at Vegesack, Bremen, Germany 16Dec43
(3MIA:7POW). Hit by flak near Bremen damaging No.3 engine, then shot down by
two Fw 190A-7s of JG 1/1 off De Koog, Texel, Netherlands.
Several crew members were wounded including the pilots. Three bailed out near Oldenburg,
Germany, but the aircraft kept a long descent to Texel, West Frisian Islands where five more
bailed out. The pilot tried to ditch near the beach at De Koog, but unfortunately died in the crash.
Crashed in the North Sea, assumed about 300m off the Texel coast near beach pole No.19,
west of De Koog, West Frisian Islands, Netherlands. {20 missions} MACR 1558
3 KIA, 7 POW.
30256 (MSN 5370) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 4May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 18May43. Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 20May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 26May43. Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 7Jun43. Patterson Field,
Dayton, OH 13Jun43. Wright Field, Dayton, OH 1Jul43. Modified to photographic configuration.
Designated F-9. 1st Mapping Group, Bolling Field, Washington, DC 9Jul43. Bradley Field,
Windsor Locks, CT 13Jul43. Bolling Field, Washington, DC 25Jul43. Mapping mission to Accra,
Gold Coast, West Africa 31Dec43. 1st Photographic Charting Squadron, 11th Photographic Group.
With fuel exhaustion caused by bad weather, crashed after crew bailed out thirty miles
north of Payne Field, Cairo, Egypt 27Mar44
30257 (MSN 5371) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 4May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 14May43. Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 24May43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 29May43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma
City, OK 13Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 16Jun43.
100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 16Jun43.
Transferred to 550th Bomb Squadron [SG*J], 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155),
Suffolk 17Jun43 Named 'Lady Suzie II'.. Failed to return from a mission to the
AGO-Flugzeugwerke Fw 190 manufacturing factory at Oschersleben, Germany 28Jul43 (8KIA:2POW
Serial bombed by Uffz Wilhelm Fest in Bf 109G-6 of
JG 11/5, blew up and wreck collided with 42-3316 and 42-30285 and all three crashed
into North Sea NW of Nornum, Germany Jul 28, 1943. MACR 189C.
30258 (MSN 5372) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 6May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 7May43. Roswell Field, NM 24May43. Peterson Field,
Colorado Springs, CO 18Jun43. 548th Two Engine Flying Training Squadron, 314th Two Engine
Flying Training Group, Roswell Field, NM. Damaged in collision with parked B-17F 42-30509
while taking off at Roswell Field, NM 29Mar44. Accident landing at Roswell Field 29Apr44.
3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44. 3010th Base
Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 21Sep44. Modified for
training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F.
3020th Base Unit (Pilot School, Advanced, Two Engine), La Junta Field, CO 30Apr45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Searcy Field, Stillwater, OK for storage and
disposal 31Jul45. War Assets Corporation. Sold to Paul Mantz 19Feb46; scrapped
30259 (MSN 5373) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 8May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 25Apr43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 27May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 7Jun43. 349th Bomb Squadron,
100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 10Jun43. Named "Damifino II"
After a cancelled mission 24Sep43, the bombers of the 100th Bomb Group were sent on a
practice mission to test PFF equipment and techniques over the North Sea. With bombs still
in the aircraft from the morning's preparations, skeleton crews and semi prepared aircraft
took off. In the rush to takeoff at the proper time, it was not immediately discovered that
the ten machine guns were stored in the nose compartment. While over the North Sea on
the practice mission, about 10/15 enemy fighters jumped the formation and left this
bomber badly shot up. A 20mm cannon shell hit the No.3 engine oil tank, starting a fire
in the right wing. The pilot ordered the crew to bail out but he rode the bomber to a
ditching in the sea. Five crewmen were rescued by Royal Navy Motor Torpedo Boats (MTB)
hunting German 'E' boats. Two men were found dead and three remained missing,
presumed dead (2KIS:3MIS:5RTD).
30260 (MSN 5374) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 6May43.
Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 8May43. 7th Ferrying
Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 12May43. 548th Bomb Squadron, 385th Bomb Group, Lewistown Field, MT.
Crashed and destroyed by fire near Yellowstone, MT 23May43 (10KIS). The plane, with eleven men on board,
was flying from Marysville, CA to its home base at Lewistown, MT. The bomber experienced severe
turbulence at 15,000ft and an engine caught fire. The pilot ordered a bail out, but only one crewmember
escaped in time before the B-17 crashed four miles south of West Yellowstone, MT. Salvaged 27May43
The wreck was found in 1988 after the fires.
30261 (MSN 5375) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 8May43.
Osborn Provisional Group, Kearney Field, NB 26May43. Damaged landing Atlanta, GA 1Jun43.
Robins Field, Warner Robins, GA 24Jun43. 4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal
Airport, TN 8Aug43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 9Aug43. 325th Bomb Squadron [NV*C], 92nd Bomb Group,
Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 27Sep43. Crash landed Podington 28May44.
{50 missions}. Salvaged by 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton 29May44.
30262 (MSN 5376) Accepted by USAAF 3May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 8May43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 28May43.
390th Bomb Group, Great Falls AAB, MT 7Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 30Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 12Jul43.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland Jul43. 561st Bomb Squadron [O], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136),
Suffolk Jul43. 568th Bomb Squadron [BI*K], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153),
Suffolk Aug43. Named "Tech Supply". (first mission 17Aug43}. Participated in a
shuttle mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factories at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43.
After the target, the mission continued on to Bertoux, Algeria. Later positioned to Telergma,
Constantine, Algeria. Delayed by mechanical problems, returned to Framlingham from
Menara Airport, Marrakech, French Morocco 27Aug43. Failed to return from a mission
to railway installations at M�nster, Germany 10Oct43 (4KIA:6POW). As they approached the
city, the formation was swarmed by a large force of enemy aircraft for an estimated forty-five
minutes of vicious fighting. By the time their friendly fighter escorts arrived to drive off the
Luftwaffe, the damage had already been done. After the target, shot down by a direct hit
from a rocket launched by Uffz Josef Holzmann in Bf 110G-2 of ZG 1/1.
The bomber exploded and crashed Ladbergen, between M�nster and Osnabr�ck,
Germany. {12 missions}. MACR 862. 4 KIA, 6 POW
30263 MSN 5377) Accepted by USAAF 3May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 6May43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver
Municipal Airport, CO 8May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 12May43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 30May43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 18Jun43. 385th Bomb Group 19Jun43.
Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 21Jun43.
551st Bomb Squadron [HR*N], 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk Jun43
Named PREGNANT PORTIA. 549th Bomb Squadron., named PORTIA'S REVENGE;
Mission was recalled Oct 30, 1943, overshot RAF Docking, Norfolk, on wet grass and was demolished .
Salvaged Nov 2, 1943.
30264 (MSN 5378) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 8May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 9May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 10Apr43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 15Jun43.
551st Bomb Squadron [HR*S], 385th Bomb Group 17Jun43. Ferried on the North Atlantic route
from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 21Jun43.
385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk Jun43. Named "Dorsal Queen"
Accident on return from a mission to the Luftwaffe airfield at Champagne, Reims, France 26Sep43 (10KIA).
In poor visibility, collided mid-air with B-17F 42-3290 "Raunchy Wolf" (385th Bomb Group), crashed Tillingham
Hall Farm, Bulphan, near West Horndon, Essex. On the evening of September 26th 1943 "Raunchy Wolf" c
ollided with "Dorsal Queen" also from the 385th Bomb Group in bad weather upon return from a
mission to Reims. The "Raunchy Wolf" was feathering two engines and was having difficulties
maintaining formation near the landing. Suddenly the aircraft went vertical spinning downward
hitting its wing across the fuselage of the "Dorsal Queen", completely severing the tail at the rear
near the waist gunner section. The "Raunchy Wolf" went in at a deep spiral and the "Dorsal Queen"
in a flat spin towards the ground, crashing at Tillingham Hall Farm, Bulphan, near West-Hordon
Exeter England. "Raunchy Wolf" exploded and left a 30ft (10m) crater upon impact with bomb
load on board. The "Dorsal Queen" without the tail section hit several trees on descent and
crashed straddling a ditch leaving a 7 meter crash radius without an explosion at Nuttys Farm.
The severed tail section landed 300 yards away with the tail gunner still strapped in the
tail gun section. He was the only survivor and spent the rest of the war serving in the 385th
operations center as an orderly. Salvaged 28Sep43
30265 (MSN 5379) Accepted by USAAF 6May43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 10May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 21May43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22May43. 390th Bomb Group, Great Falls AAB, MT 7Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 11Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 10Jul43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 14Jul43. Ferried
overseas on the North Atlantic route via Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland Jul43.
571st Bomb Squadron [FC*V], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 18Jul43.
Named "Pinky". {first combat mission 17Aug43}. Participated in a shuttle mission
to the Messerschmitt aircraft factories at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43. After the target,
the mission continued on to Bertoux, Algeria. Later positioned to Telergma, Constantine, Algeria.
Returned to Framlingham on a mission to a Luftwaffe air depot at M�rignac, Bordeaux, France 24Aug43.
Failed to return from a mission to railway installations at M�nster, Germany 10Oct43
(1KIA:1EVD:8POW). As they approached the city, the formation was swarmed by a large
force of enemy aircraft for an estimated forty-five minutes of vicious fighting. By the time
their friendly fighter escorts arrived to drive off the Luftwaffe, the damage had already been
done. Damaged by Flak and later shot down by Oblt Horst Sternberg in
Fw 190A-6 of JG 26/6 between Burse and Haarmuhle, Netherlands
Exploded and crashed at De Haaremolen, near Buurse, Netherlands. MACR 865.
30266 (MSN 5380) Accepted by USAAF 3May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 8May43. Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 9May43.
Moses Lake Field, WA 22May43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 25May43. Smoky Hill Field,
Salina, KS 26May43. 390th Bomb Group, Great Falls AAB, MT 7Jun43. Smoky Hill Field,
Salina, KS 1Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 11Jul43.
Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 2Aug43. 569th Bomb Squadron [CC*W], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153),
Suffolk Aug43. Named "Wild Children"/"Lucky Strike".
(first combat mission 24Aug43}. Battle damaged on a mission to the shipyards at Bremen,
Germany 8Oct43 (1WIA:9RTD). The formation was met with stiff resistance by German fighters
and flak crews on the ground the entire way, from the Dutch coast all the way into the German
heartland, and back again. In addition, a large force of German fighters launched vicious
attacks against the planes. Over the target, the formation encountered intense flak.
Damaged by flak, wounding the pilot. {final combat mission 8Jul44}. Accident returning from a
formation practice mission 9Jul44 (9KIS). Coming in for a landing at Framlingham, the plane
hit the runway hard, tearing off both mainwheels. The pilot opened the throttles and was
going around after the unsuccessful landing attempt, stalled, and crashed at Grove Farm,
southwest of Wickham Market, Suffolk. Salvaged 17Aug44. {58 missions}.
30267 (MSN 5381) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 18May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 30May43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 8Jun43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 17Jun43. Combat Crew Training School, Casper Field, WY 28Jun43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 30Jun43. Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 4Jul43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 9Jul43. Twelfth Air Force,
North Africa. 96th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, A�n M'lila (Onyx), Constantine, Algeria 27Jul43.
Massicault, Tunis, Tunisia 1Aug43. {first combat mission 13Aug43}. Fifteenth Air Force,
Italy 1Nov43. {19 missions}. 341st Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Depienne, Sminja,
Tunisia 14Nov43. Named 'Hustlin' Hussy. . Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43. San Giovanni,
Cerignola, Italy 20Dec43. 414th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44.
A 20mm cannon was installed in the tail. Failed to return from a mission to the oil refineries at
Ploe?ti, Rumania 23Jun44 (3KIA:7POW). Shot down by Rumanian fighters of the Aeronautica
Regal? Rom�n?. The radio operater and co-pilot were fatally wounded in the attack, the
remaining crew bailed out. The bomber crashed near Bucharest, Rumania. MACR 6951
30268 (MSN 5382) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 6May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 7May43. Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 23May43.
Modified to photographic configuration. Designated F-9. 11th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron,
2nd Photographic Reconnaissance and Mapping Group, Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 15Jun43.
Accident landing with mechanical failure at Peterson Field 5Jul43. 1st Mapping Group, Bolling Field,
Washington, DC 2Nov43. 2nd Photographic Charting Squadron, 1st Photographic Charting Group,
Felts Field, Spokane, WA. Damaged in collision with parked Douglas C-67 Dragon 39-59 while
taxying at Bolling Field, Washington, DC 10Nov43. Station 11, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field,
West Palm Beach, FL 11Jun44. 1st Photographic Charting Group, Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO
18Jun44. Buckley Field, CO 4Jul44. Station 8, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command,
Homestead Field, FL 1Aug44. 326th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), MacDill Field,
Tampa, FL 19Aug44. Buckley Field, CO 4Oct44. 1st Photographic Charting Group, MacDill Field,
Tampa, FL 12Oct44. Atkinson Field, Georgetown, British Guiana 14Nov44. Designated FB-17F.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Cal-Aero Field, Ontario, CA for storage and disposal
20May45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Sharp & Fellows Contracting Company Jul46; scrapped.
30269 (MSN 5383) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 6May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 7May43. Roswell Field, NM 24Jun43. Hobbs
Field, NM 7Jul43. Roswell Field, NM 4Aug43. 3701st Base Unit (Technical School), Amarillo
Field, TX 2Nov44. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 6Nov44.
3010th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 10Dec44.
Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment;
designated TB-17F. 3020th Base Unit (Pilot School, Advanced, Two Engine), La Junta Field, CO 4May45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Searcy Field, Stillwater, OK for storage and disposal 4Aug45.
War Assets Corporation. Sold to Paul Mantz 19Feb46; scrapped
30270 MSN 5384) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5May43. Continental
Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 8May43. 7th Ferrying Group,
Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 12May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 30May43.
551st Bomb Squadron, 385th Bomb Group 19Jun43. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 21Jun43. 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155),
Suffolk Jun43. Named "The Old Shillelagh". Failed to return from a mission to the
Heinkel Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory at Warnem�nde, Germany 29Jul43 (10RTD). Ditched into North Sea, all crew rescued
30271 (MSN 5385) Accepted by USAAF 4May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 7May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great
Falls, MT 8May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 17May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air
Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 30May43. 527th Bomb Squadron [FO*Y],
379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 6Jun43. 335th Bomb Squadron [OE*R],
95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 28Jun43. Named "BomBoggie"
Minor battle damage caused by flak 15Aug43. Failed to return from a mission to the Bosch magneto
factory at Stuttgart, Germany 6Sep43 (1KIA:4POW:5EVD}. Shot down by enemy fighters,
crashed Pansy-Courtecon, seven miles south of Laon, France. {7 missions}.
MACR 545. .
30272 (MSN 5386) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 7May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 8May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 17May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 30May43.
335th Bomb Squadron [OE*U], 95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 15Jun43
Named "Fritz Blitz". Failed to return from a mission to railway installations
at M�nster, Germany 10Oct43 (10POW:KIA). As they approached the city, the formation
was swarmed by a large force of enemy aircraft for an estimated forty-five minutes of
vicious fighting. By the time their friendly fighter escorts arrived to drive off the Luftwaffe,
the damage had already been done. Damaged by flak over the target, later shot down by Fw. Gerd Wiegland in
Fw 190A-6 of JG 26/4 and crashed near Haaksberghen, Netherlands MACR 1118.
30273 (MSN 5387) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 7May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 8May43. United Air Lines,
Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20May43. Smoky Hill Field,
Salina, KS 25May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 27May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Jun43.
303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 16Jun43.
334th Bomb Squadron [BG*F], 95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 17Jun43
Named "Patsy Ann III". Failed to return from a mission to railway installations
at M�nster, Germany 10Oct43 (5KIA, 4POW). As they approached the city, the formation was
swarmed by a large force of enemy aircraft for an estimated forty-five minutes of vicious
fighting. By the time their friendly fighter escorts arrived to drive off the Luftwaffe, the
damage had already been done Shot down by Jaj Johannes
Seifert in Fw 190A-6 of JG 26/II Stab and crashed
near Lingen,13 miles north of M�nster, Germany.. MACR 942.
30274 (MSN 5388) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 8May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 9May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 17May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 5Jun43. 335th Bomb Squadron [OE*Q], 95th Bomb Group,
Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 15Jun43. 334th Bomb Squadron. Named "Our Bay-Bee"
Failed to return from a shuttle mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factories at Regensburg,
Germany 17Aug43 (7POW:3EVD). Damaged by flak starting fires in the front and the pilot
turned back for home. When the German fighters saw it turn off and away from the Group
this was their signal to come in and finish it off. Attacked by two Bf 109 fighters, one of which
was shot down, the other flown by Felwebel Kraft of 9/JG 26 who claimed the shooting down
of this B-17. The bomber crashed and exploded at Mol, Dessel, southeast of Turnhout, Belgium. {5 missions}.
Also claimed to have been shot down by Lt. Erich
Burkert in Bf 109G-6 of JG 26/7. MACR 402.
30275 (MSN 5389) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 7May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 8May43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 30May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 16Jun43. 548th Bomb Squadron [GX*P],
385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 17Jun43. Named 'The Vibrant Virgin'.
Failed to return from a mission to the shipyards at Bremen, Germany 8Oct43 (10POW).
The formation was met with stiff resistance by German fighters and flak crews on the
ground the entire way, from the Dutch coast all the way into the German heartland,
and back again. In addition, a large force of German fighters launched vicious attacks
against the planes. Over the target, the formation encountered intense flak. Damaged by flak,
crashed Quakenbr�ck, Germany MACR 825.
30276 (MSN 5390) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13May43.
Roswell Field, NM 27May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 29May43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Jun43. 336th Bomb Squadron [ET*F],
95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 15Jun43. Named "Terry and the Pirates"
Failed to return from a mission to La Pallice 16Sep43 (9POW:1EVD). Flak damaged No.3 engine,
followed by fire and the wing broke off, crashed Ile d'Yeu, near La Pallice, France. {11 missions}. MACR 615.
30277 (MSN 5391) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 11May43. Roswell Field, NM 24May43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44. 4124th Base Unit (Air Technical Service
Command), Altus Field, OK 17Jul45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 4Oct45
30278 MSN 5392) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 8May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 9May43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 29May43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 19Jun43. 550th Bomb Squadron [SG*G],
385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 20Jun43. 418th Bomb Squadron [LD*R],
100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 1943. Named "Sly Fox".
Failed to return from a mission to industrial areas in the suburbs of Berlin, Germany 6Mar44 (10KIA).
Shot down by fighter attack near Hasel�nne, crashed at Gross-Mimmelage, east of Quakenbr�ck, Germany. .
MACR 3016 KC-135T 60-0324 of the 100th ARW is named 'Sly Fox' in commemoration of this B-17G
30279 (MSN 5393) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 8May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 29May43. North
Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 13Jun43. 549th Bomb Squadron [XA*F],
385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 14Jun43. Named 'Black Jacker'
551st Bomb Squadron [HR*F]. Failed to return from a mission to synthetic rubber factories at
Hanover, Germany 26Jul43 (3POW:7KIA). Shot down by enemy fighters, caught fire, exploded
and crashed North Sea, near Wangerooge, Netherlands MACR 191C.
30280 (MSN 5394) Accepted by USAAF 16Jun43. Delivered to Rome Air Depot, NY 17Jun43.
Modified to B-17G standard. Pathfinder Force [PFF] aircraft. Wright Field, Dayton, OH 5Jul43.
Rome Air Depot, NY 21Jul43. Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 3Aug43. Grandview Field, Kansas
City, MO 8Aug43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand
Island Field, NB 22Sep43. 812th Bomb Squadron [MI*L], 482nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102),
Huntingdonshire 30Sep43. Named CRAZY HORSE artwork of Lakota Sioux indian riding a white horse.
Captain Homer Wilson Claymore was the first captain of the Boeing; he was a Lakota Sioux,
his Lakota Sioux name was Lone Ghost. He wrote to his older brother Luther asking what he should
call his plane. The answer was simple: "Name the plane after the great Indian Sioux warrior Crazy Horse."
Claymore painted the caricature of the Sioux warrior himself on the nose of the plane.
Failed to return from a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Diepholz,
Germany 21Feb44 (1KIA:9POW:3EVD). Damaged by flak over the target, two engines were disabled
but unable to feather one of the propellers. The plane dropped out of formation and on the return
flight home was attacked by Fw 190 fighters. Over Holland, north-edge of Apeldoorn crew started
to jump out; the pilot held the aircraft level for them. Crashed in the IJsselmeer, opposite the hamlet
of Horst, 13km northeast from Bunschoten, Netherlands/ All (13) Crew Bailed Out and (9) Crew
Were Captured and Became POWs. Released in 1945. (1) Crewman Was Shot By German Soldiers When
Caught Hiding With Dutch People. (3) Crew Evaded Capture. MACR 2471 and 2470
The wreck of the bomber was initially visible in the water because it came down
on a sand-ridge named 'Spiek', with only 1,20 meter of water there (4 ft). This was right in
front of a German light flak training range. They used this stretch of water to shoot on floating
targets pulled by small tugboats. Near the wreck it was too shallow for a large recovery ship,
therefore the wreck of the B-17 was not recovered. The wreck was shot up for target practice.
The remains of the bomber were not visible anymore in the murky water. Away from the shipping lanes,
on a shallow spot that was avoided by boats, the wreck site was forgotten. The remains of this aircraft
were discovered in the summer of 1970 during a public works reclamation project in the area.
Members of the Dutch Air Force recovered several pieces of this aircraft including a propellor blade
and hub, some of the radar equipment, and varied pieces of airframe. Several hundred pounds
were crated by the Dutch military and sent back to the United States to McDonnell-Douglas,
St. Louis, MO, to take part in a special diagnotic testing and evaluation program to test the
effects of harsh exposure upon aerospace materials. A testing and evaluations branch at MD
had been studying pieces of WWII aircraft components salvaged from remote crash sites
in different climate zones. At the end of the testing and evaluation study, all recovered items
were slated for disposal. A few items were to be given to museums for display. The bulk of the test
items, however, were deemed as nothing other than scrap and were to have been destroyed.
A historically minded McDonnell-Douglas engineer involved in the testing program decided
instead to filter them directly to another "museum" - located in his suburban home's basement
and garage. He kept them safe and sound until he passed away 30 years later. The items are
believed to be displayed in a museum near Mesa, AZ
30281 (MSN 5395) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 8May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 9May43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 30May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 15Jun43. 548th Bomb Squadron [GX*E], 385th Bomb Group 16Jun43.
Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland 21Jun43.
385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk Jun43. Failed to return from a
mission to Weserm�nde, Hanover, Germany 26Jul43 (10KIA). Shot down by enemy fighters,
set on fire, exploded and crashed in North Sea near Bremerhaven. MACR 191A.
30282 (MSN 5396) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 9May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 10May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 17May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 30May43. Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander,
Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 6/7Jun43. 366th Bomb Squadron [KY*N],
305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 10Jun43. Failed to return
from a mission to synthetic rubber factories at Hanover, Germany 26Jul43
(8POW rescued by German minesweeper No.342:2KIA). .Shot down by Lt Gerhard Dittmann
in Bf 110G-4 of NJG 1/12 and ditched into
North Sea near Borkum Island, Germany. MACR 95.
30283 (MSN 5397) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 9May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 17May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 19May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 30May43. 324th Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Group,
Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 10Jun43. 336th Bomb Squadron [ET*C],
95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 16Jun43. Named "Mason's Morons"
Failed to return from a shuttle mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factories at
Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43 (10POW). Struck by flak hitting the right wing 'Tokyo' fuel tanks
starting a small fire which was extinguished when the pilot steeply dove the bomber.
The bomber then slowly caught up with its formation.. Shot down by Lt.
Gottfried Weiroster in Bf 109G-6 of JG 50/Stab near
Darmstadt, Germany . Crashed before reaching the target at Darmstadt, Germany. {10 missions}.
MACR 403. 10 POW
30284 (MSN 5398) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 10May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 20May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 21May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 30May43. 334th Bomb Squadron [BG*B],
95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 15Jun43. Failed to return from a mission
to the submarine base at Saint-Nazaire, France 28Jun43 (10RTD). Ditched in Mount's Bay
off Newlyn, Cornwall. Crew rescued by Air-Sea Rescue. {2 missions}..
30285 (MSN 5399) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 9May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 16May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 29May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 15Jun43. 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 30Sep43
Named "Mary Allen", then transferred to 385th BG, 549th BS,
named "Roundtrip Ticket" Failed to return from a mission to the AGO-Flugzeugwerke
Fw 190 manufacturing factory at Oschersleben, Germany 28Jul43 (2POW:8KIA). Mid-air collision
with B-17F 42-30257 (385th Bomb Group) which had been hit by a rocket from a Fw 190.
Crashed in North Sea west of SyltM. ACR 189D.
30286 (MSN 5400) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 17May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 24May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 25May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 27May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 2Jun43. 336th Bomb Squadron [ET*M], 95th Bomb Group, Horham
(Station 119), Suffolk 15Jun43. Named "Spook IV" . Failed to return from a
mission to the submarine base at Saint-Nazaire, France 28Jun43
Damaged by a FW-190A of JG 2, ran out of fuel and ditched in English Channel 60 km off
English coast Crew rescued. (2 missions)
30287 (MSN 5401) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 11May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 23May43. Roswell
Field, NM 21Jun43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44.
Crashed two miles south of Roswell 15Oct44. Salvaged 16Oct44. Reclaimed 25Oct44
30288 (MSN 5402) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 9May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 17May43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 30May43. 412th Bomb Squadron [QW*T],
95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 14Jun43. Named "Louise II".
Battle damaged during a mission to the Focke-Wulf aircraft factory at Marienburg,
East Prussia 9Oct43. Crash landed at Rackheath (Station 145), Norfolk. {18 missions}. Salvaged 26Oct43
30289 (MSN 5403) Accepted by USAAF 6May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 9May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 18May43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 25May43. 390th Bomb Group, Great Falls AAB, MT 7Jun43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 30Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 12Jul43. Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via Iceland
to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland Jul43. 568th Bomb Squadron [BI*H],
390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk Jul43.
Named ."The Douche Bag/The Dull Tool" (first combat mission 12Aug43}.
Failed to return from a mission to Friedrich Krupp Germania Werft ship building yard,
Kiel, Germany 4Jan44 (4MIA:6POW). Number two and three engines were hit by flak and
number three engine started burning. Four members of the crew bailed out south of the
island of �r�, Denmark, and were never seen again. After the remaining crew bailed out,
the aircraft circled a couple of times from Ollerup to Egebjerg Bakker to Kirkeby and towards
Lunde. When it was over Kirkeby the second time it was so low that people feared that it would
crash in the village. It straightened up and disappeared over Egebjerg Bakker to crash in
Amalielyst Forest near Hvidkilde S� lake on the island of Fyn (Funen), Denmark. {20 missions}.
MACR 2021.
30290 (MSN 5404) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 11May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 24May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 25May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 27May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Jun43.
338th Bomb Squadron, 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 12Jun43.
Named "Lucky Lady II". . Failed to return from a mission to the Gerhard Fieseler
Werke (GFW) aircraft works at Waldau, Kassel, Germany 30Jul43 (5KIA:5POW).
En route to the target, the aircraft was hit by flak above Vlissingen, Netherlands.
In order to stay in formation, the bomb load was jettisoned. The two inner engines
were hit; one caught fire and the other lost power. In addition, fuel flowed down the
wings. A few minutes later the plane received a second shell impact, possibly over
Sint-Niklaas. This forced the pilot to reduce altitude and speed. Leaving formation,
it became the prey of German fighters. A number of Fw 190s from L/JG 26 had scrambled
from Woensdrecht and intercepted the bombers, this aircraft being shot down
by Fw Ernst Christoff in Fw 190A-4 of JG 26/1.
He had made an attack and numerous bullets had exploded in the waist and radio room.
During the attack, the interphone system was shot out and no one could contact other members.
Above Klein-Brabant the crew started to bail out. The aircraft exploded in mid-air and
the wreckage crashed in pieces between Hofstraat and Hogenakkerstraat in
Tielrode, 16km southwest of Antwerp
30291 (MSN 5405) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 10May43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 21May43. Ephrata AAB, WA 28May43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 30May43. Hill Field, Ogden, UT 31May43. School of Applied Tactics,
Orlando AAB, FL 1Jun43. Brooksville Field, FL 21Jun43. Rapid City Field, SD 3Jul43.
Harvard Field, NB 2Aug43. 2531st Base Unit, Pampa 4Dec44. 224th Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Sioux City AAB, IA 10Dec44. Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 22May45
30292 (MSN 5406) Accepted by USAAF 6May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 9May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great
Falls, MT 10May43. Moses Lake Field, WA 22May43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 25May43.
390th Bomb Group, Great Falls AAB, MT. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 1Jul43. North Atlantic
Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 11Jul43. Ferried overseas on the
North Atlantic route via Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland Jul43.
569th Bomb Squadron [CC*Q], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk Jul43.
Named "Pulsatin' Polly" . {first combat mission 12Aug43}. Participated in a shuttle mission
to the Messerschmitt aircraft factories at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43. After the target,
the mission continued on to Bertoux, Algeria. Later positioned to Telergma, Constantine,
Algeria. Returned to Framlingham on a mission to a Luftwaffe air depot at M�rignac,
Bordeaux, France 24Aug43. Failed to return from a mission to the industrial area at Bremen,
Germany 8Oct43 (1MIA:5KIA:4POW). The formation was met with stiff resistance by German
fighters and flak crews on the ground the entire way, from the Dutch coast all the way into
the German heartland. In addition, a large force of German fighters launched vicious attacks
against the planes. Over the target, the formation encountered intense flak. It received several
direct hits from fighter aircraft, shot down by Hptm Anton Hackl in Bf 109G-6 of
JG 11/III Stab, Also listed as being shot down by AAA at
Hasenburen, Bremen, Germany. No.4 engine was set on fire
and the pilot thought by taking evasive action and diving he could extinguish the blaze.
No.3 engine then started to flame and the plane started to spin. The injured pilot gave the
order to bail out. The plane began to disintegrate and exploded. Crashed Quelkhorn,
Ottersberg, northeast of Bremen, Germany. {11 missions}. MACR 783.
6 KIA 4 POW. Oct 8, 1943
30293 (MSN 5407) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 11May43. Roswell Field, NM 24May43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44. 3010th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized,
Four Engine), Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 9Dec44. Modified for training, stripped of
armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F.
3020th Base Unit (Pilot School, Advanced, Two Engine), La Junta Field, CO 23Apr45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Searcy Field, Stillwater, OK for storage and
disposal 4Aug45. War Assets Corporation. Sold to Paul Mantz 19Feb46; scrapped.
30294 MSN 5408) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 11May43. Roswell Field, NM 24May43. 551st Bomb Squadron [HR*G],
385th Bomb Group. 551st Two Engine Flying Training Squadron, 314th Two Engine
Flying Training Group, Roswell Field, NM. Crashed in collision with North American AT-6A 41-400
while taking off at Roswell Field 20Jul43. Salvaged 29Jul43. Named RAUNCHY WOLF
30295 (MSN 5409) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 11May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 23May43.
Roswell Field, NM 24May43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell
Field, NM 2Jun44. 3010th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Williams
Field, Chandler, AZ 9Dec44. Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament,
turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F. 3020th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Advanced, Two Engine), La Junta Field, CO 26Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Searcy Field, Stillwater, OK for storage and
disposal 4Aug45. War Assets Corporation. Sold to Paul Mantz 19Feb46; scrapped
30296 (MSN 5410) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 11May43. Roswell Field, NM 24May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Jun43. Boca Raton Field, FL 5Jun43. Roswell Field, NM 15Jun43.
3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44. Damaged landing
with mechanical failure at Roswell Auxiliary Field #1, Roswell, NM 4Sep44.
3010th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 10Dec44.
Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment;
designated TB-17F. 3020th Base Unit (Pilot School, Advanced, Two Engine), La Junta Field, CO 4Jun45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Searcy Field, Stillwater, OK for storage and disposal 4Aug45.
War Assets Corporation. Sold to Paul Mantz 19Feb46; scrapped
30297 (MSN 5411) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 11May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 23May43. Roswell Field, NM 25May43.
3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44. Modified for training,
stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F. 3010th Base Unit
(Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 12Dec44. Damaged by mechanical
failure at Williams Field 17Jan45. Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and
bombing equipment; designated TB-17F. 3020th Base Unit (Pilot School, Advanced, Two Engine),
La Junta Field, CO 23Apr45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Searcy Field, Stillwater, OK for
storage and disposal 7Aug45. War Assets Corporation. Sold to Paul Mantz 19Feb46; scrapped.
30298 (MSN 5412) Accepted by USAAF 7May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 11May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 24May43. Smoky Hill Field,
Salina, KS 29May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 3Jun43.
525th Bomb Squadron [FR*M], 379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 13Jun43.
Named "Tender Tit Tillie", then "Ragin' Red".
Transferred to 837th BS, 487th BG Lavenham, Suffolk Jul 15, 1944, 78th Fighter Wing Oct 24, 1944.
Transferred to 66th FW Duxford. Taxi accident at Duxford Apr 24, 1945. Salvaged Apr 29, 1945
30299 (MSN 5413) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 11May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 18May43. Air Service
Command, Fairfield Air Depot, Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 23May43. Peterson Field,
Colorado Springs, CO 15Jun43. Modified to photographic configuration. Designated F-9.
1st Mapping Group, Bolling Field, Washington, DC 6Jul43. Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 18Jul43.
Mapping mission to Accra, Gold Coast, West Africa 31Dec43. Returned to US. 1st Photographic
Charting Squadron, 11th Photographic Mapping Wing, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 9Oct44.
4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 22Oct44.
91st Photographic Squadron, 1st Photographic Group, Buckley Field, CO 30Dec44. Salvaged 5Feb45.
30300 (MSN 5414) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 11May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 24May43. Smoky Hill Field,
Salina, KS 25May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 27May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Jun43.
303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 16Jun43.
334th Bomb Squadron [BG*C], 95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 17Jun43.
Named "Hell-n-Back" Force landed St Eval (Station 129), Cornwall 28Jun43.
Minor battle damage caused by flak 15Aug43. Flew from Menara Airport, Marrakech, French
Morocco to UK 27Aug43. Failed to return from a mission to the Bosch magneto factory at
Stuttgart, Germany 6Sep43 (10POW). Enemy aircraft hit No.1 & No.3 engines, right wing
caught fire, heading for Switzerland but exploded and crashed Stuttgart. {15 missions).
30301 (MSN 5415) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 11May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 25May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 26May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 2Jun43. 332nd Bomb Squadron [XM*J], 94th Bomb Group, Earls Colne (Station 358),
Essex 5Jun43. Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 13Jun43.
The bomber was the first B-17 of the 94th Bomb Group to survive 50 missions, not once turning
back with mechanical failure. The first mission was flown 14Jul43 and the 50th was
flown 22Mar44. On loan to 710th Bomb Squadron, 447th Bomb Group, Rattlesden (Station 126),
Suffolk Apr-Jun44. Failed to return from a Crossbow mission to a German V-weapon site
in the Pas-de-Calais, France 19Jun44 (9KIA:1POW). Damaged by flak near Alderney,
Channel Islands and ditched in the English Channel. MACR 5901 Named MISSY G / IDIOTS' DELIGHT
30302 (MSN 5416) Accepted by USAAF 8May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great
Falls, MT 21May43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22May43. 390th Bomb Group, Great
Falls AAB, MT 7Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 30Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air
Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 10Jul43. Ferried overseas on the North
Atlantic route via Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland Jul43.
568th Bomb Squadron [BI*O], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk Jul43.
Named "Calamity Jane". Severely damaged when B-17F 42-29974 (306th Bomb Group)
crash landed at Framlingham 28Jul43. Battle damaged on a mission to the Fieseler
aircraft factory at Kassel, Germany, returning to England with damaged control
cables, #974 crash landed, severely damaging this plane. Salvaged 28Jul43. {nil missions)
30303 (MSN 5417) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY
11May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 25May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 26May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Jun43.
333rd Bomb Squadron [TS*M2], 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468),
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 13Jun43 . Named "Raider II". . Failed to return from a
mission to the industrial area at D�ren, Germany 20Oct43 (10KIA), mechanical problem,
crashed North Sea. MACR 903
30304 (MSN 5418) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 10May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 24May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 25May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 26May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Jun43.
334th Bomb Squadron [BG*B], 95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 15Jun43.
Named "She's My Gal" Failed to return from a mission to a rubber plant at
Hanover, Germany 26Jul43 (6KIA:4POW), Shot down by Oblt Harry Koch in Fw 190A-6 of JG 1/6
and crashed Lauenstein, near Hameln, Germany. {5 missions}. . MACR 196.
30305 MSN 5419) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 24May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 25May43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 26May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 3Jun43. 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105),
Northamptonshire 24Jun43. 350th Bomb Squadron, 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139),
Norfolk 30Jun43. To 100th Bomb Group, 349th Bomb Squadron., named "Flak Schack"
Crashed on takeoff from Thorpe Abbotts for a practice formation mission 16Jul43 (7KIS:3INJ).
With a light fuel load, immediately after lifting off early the aircraft was turned steeply to follow
other aircraft. There were two distinct backfires and No.4 engine was barely turning. The aircraft
never recovered from the bank, crashed into trees and caught fire within 30 seconds after takeoff.
Crashed north east of base at the Rectory, Dickleburgh, Norfolk. Salvaged 16Jul43
30306 (MSN 5420) Accepted by USAAF 10May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 10May43. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command,
Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 8Jun43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 99th Bomb Group,
Navarin (Overcoat), El Eulma, Algeria 8Jul43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 4Aug43.
368th Air Service Squadron, Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 16Aug43. Salvaged 26Mar44
30307 (MSN 5421) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 25May43. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport
Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 9Jun43. Ferried West Palm Beach; Borinquen
Field, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico; Atkinson Field, Georgetown, British Guiana; Val de C�es Field, Bel�m,
Brasil; Parnamirim Field, Natal, Brasil; Eknes Field, Rufisque, Dakar, Senegal, Africa; Menara
Airport, Marrakech, French Morocco; El Aouina, Tunis, Tunisia. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 4
19th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 1Jul43.
Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43. Named SWEET ADALINE. Named after the pilot's mother.
Not flown in combat by this crew; transferred to another crew and renamed BONNIE SUE.
Failed to return from a mission to railway marshalling yards at Terni, Italy 11Aug43 (4KIA:6POW).
A few minutes before reaching the Italian coast en route to the target, the bomber was shot down
by a Lockheed P-38G Lightning captured by the Regia Aeronautica Italiana and flown by Colonello
Angelo Rotondi. Bomber crews reported that the P-38 was accompanied by a Vickers-Supermarine
Spitfire with Royal Air Force markings which had also been captured by the Germans. The crews
reported that the Lightning appeared to attack a Bf 109, after which the P-38 flew through the
bomber group, spraying cannon fire. The B-17 was hit, possibly killing the pilot, and went out of
control. The crew started to bail out and six parachutes were observed before the plane straightened
out into a dive and struck the water nose first. The bomber crashed in the Tyrrhenian Sea between
Italy and Sardinia. {14 missions}. MACR 490. The P-38G, while flying between Gibraltar and Malta,
landed on the airfield of Capoterra, Cagliari, Sardinia, from navigation error due to a compass failure and
was captured by the Italians.
30308 (MSN 5422) Accepted by USAAF 10May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 11May43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 28May43. 390th Bomb Group,
Great Falls AAB, MT 7Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 30Jun43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 10Jul43. Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic
route via Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland Jul43. 568th Bomb Squadron [BI*A],
390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 13Jul43. Named "Hot Rocks"
{first combat mission 19Aug43}. Failed to return from a mission to a Luftwaffe airfields at
Fauville and Conches, �vreux, France 24Aug43 (1KIA:9RTD). Damaged by flak and enemy aircraft,
killing the navigator. With three engines failed, the plane ditched in the English Channel
off Selsey Bill, Sussex. Crew rescued by Air-Sea Rescue launch HSL 134 from Newhaven. {2 missions}. MACR 393
30309 (MSN 5423) Accepted by USAAF 10May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 10May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 23May43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 26May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Jun43. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 17Jun43. 525th Bomb Squadron [FR*P/F], 379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117),
Huntingdonshire 21Jun43. Named "Raging Red". Failed to return from a mission to the
ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 17Aug43 (9POW:1KIA). Badly damaged, the
bomber was on its way back home when finally shot down by Fw. Erich Becker in
Bf 110F-4 of NJG 6/2 and crashed at Niederwetz, five miles south of Wetzlar, Germany.
MACR 1763.
30310 (MSN 5424) Accepted by USAAF 13May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 14May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 29May43. 15th Ferrying Group,
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 9Jun43.
Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 419th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Saint-Donat (New Zealand),
Tadjenanet, Algeria 12Jun43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43.
Cerignola #1, Italy 10Dec43. Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. Failed to return from
a mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factory at Regensburg, Germany 25Feb44 (3KIA:7POW).
Enemy fighters started to attack fifteen miles east of Klagenfurt, Austria on the way to the target.
Shot down by enemy fighters over Klagenfurt. With an engine failed and No.3 engine on fire and
flames back to the stabiliser, the crew bailed out. Losing altitude, the aircraft turned onto its back,
exploded, ejecting the pilot, and crashed in the Alps at Krakaudorf, northwest of Seebach, Austria. {31 missions)
30311 (MSN 5425) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 14May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 15May43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 15Jun43.
Rapid City Field, SD 19Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 30Jun43. 5th Ferrying Group,
Love Field, Dallas, TX 7Jul43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 23Jul43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 26Jul43. 350th Bomb Squadron,
100th Bomb Group 26Jul43. Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander,
Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 27/28Jul43. 100th Bomb Group,
Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk Jul43. Named MAYBE [the navigator chose the name
thinking that "maybe they'd come back, and maybe they wouldn't}
Failed to return from a shuttle mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factories at Regensburg,
Germany 17Aug43 (8POW:2KIA). Before reaching the target, it was shot down by Hptm Rudolf Germeroth
in Bf 109G-6 of J 3/1 The No.2 propeller dome was damagef and the propeller could
not be feathered. The bomber dropped back from the formation and was attacked again,
this time hitting the left 'Tokyo' fuel tanks which caught fire. The crew was ordered to bail out.
The oxygen system exploded, ejecting several crew members. The bomber crashed at Schorsheim,
nine miles south of Mainz, Germany. The two waist gunners were killed whilst the remainder of the
crew escaped the wreck and were taken prisone. MACR 681
30312 (MSN 5426) Boeing 10May43. Materiel Command, Seattle, WA 2Jun44. ATS, Boeing 20Nov44.
4134th Base Unit (Spokane Air Technical Service Command), Spokane Field, WA 22Jan45.
4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), South Plains Field,
Lubbock, TX 28Jan45. Reconstruction Finance Corporation, La Mesa, CA 6Mar46
30313 (MSN 5427) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 31May43. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport
Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 8Jun43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa.
346th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Navarin (Overcoat), El Eulma, Algeria 24Jun43.
Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 4Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. 97th Bomb Group,
Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 14Nov43. Ground looped landing on delivery flight to 97th Bomb
Group and destroyed by fire at Depienne 14Nov43).
30314 (MSN 5428) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 13May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 30May43. 15th Ferrying Group,
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 8Jun43.
Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 353rd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group,
Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 16Jun43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia,
Tunisia 6Aug43. Named "Beautiful Baby". Failed to return from a mission
to airfields at Istres-Le Tub� and Salon-de-Provence, Marseille, France 17Aug43 (6KIA:3RTD).
Hit in the nose by flak over the target. The aircraft started a slow dive as the crew started
to bail out before it exploded. Crashed on the runway at Istres-Le Tub�, possibly striking an
enemy cargo plane lined up along the runway. {10 missions}. . MACR 407
30315 (MSN 5429) Accepted by USAAF 11May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13May43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 26May43.
390th Bomb Group, Great Falls AAB, MT 7Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 1Jul43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 11Jul43.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland Jul43. 569th Bomb Squadron [CC*S], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153),
Suffolk 17Jul43. Named *Battle Queen/Peg of my Heart*
{first combat mission 15Aug43}. Failed to return from a shuttle mission to the Messerschmitt
aircraft factories at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43 (10INT). After bombing the target the
bomber turned towards the Alps heading for Algeria. Damaged by flak, force landed in
a potato field and came to a halt in a field of beans at Utzenstorf, nine miles north of
Bern, Switzerland. {2 missions}. MACR 391
30316 (MSN 5430) Accepted by USAAF 13May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 17May43.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20May43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 27May43. 390th Bomb Group, Great Falls AAB, MT 7Jun43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 30Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 10Jul43. Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via Iceland
to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland Jul43. 568th Bomb Squadron [BI*J], 390th Bomb Group,
Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk Jul43. Named "Madie"- Name of the pilot's girlfriend
{first combat mission 15Aug43}. Failed to return from a shuttle mission to the Messerschmitt
aircraft factories at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43 (1KIA:9POW). The bomber was hit by a
standard head-on attack by enemy fighters south of Frankfurt, damaging two engines
Shot down by Lt Alfred Grislawski in Bf 109G-5/R-6 of JG 50/1 .
One engine was shut down and the propeller feathered but the other engine continued to produce power.
The aircraft was dropping back from formation and unable to continue to the target. The pilot turned
south to follow the River Rhine to Switzerland. Further enemy fighter attacks damaged the internal
communications between crew members, particularly the gunners in the rear. With the co-pilot
injured and the second engine now failed, the pilot lowered the landing gear as a sign of surrender.
Unable to advise the gunners, they continued to fire at the enemy fighters which fought back
ferociously causing more damage to the bomber. By the time that the gunners had been
appraised of the situation, the aircraft was too low to bail out but two gunners did jump,
one being killed as he was too low for his parachute to open. The co-pilot regained
consciousness to find himself alone in the cockpit. The other officers were down at the
escape hatch when the co-pilot managed to bring the aircraft back under control just
as it hit the top of some trees, knocking off the landing gear. Fortunately, the bomber was
heading for an open field and a haystack which it went through destroying it in a flurry of hay.
The plane stopped but had been broken in two from which the remaining crew emerged
without serious injury. The crew was inexperienced and only on their second combat mission.
The bomber had crashed at Bellheim, ten miles north of Karlsruhe, Germany. {2 missions) MACR 390
30317 (MSN 5431) Accepted by USAAF 11May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 13May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 30May43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 15Jun43. 388th Bomb Group 17Jun43.
Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 21Jun43. 562nd Bomb Squadron [K], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136),
Suffolk Jun43. Named "Second Chance" {first combat mission 17Jul43}. Battle damaged
on a mission to the German Navy cruiser N�rnberg in the port area of Gdynia, Poland 9Oct43.
Crossing the Danish coast en route to the target, a few bursts of flak caused some holes in the
wings. Nearing Gdynia, a couple of bursts exploded and did some damage behind No.3 engine
and there was a ragged place out on the aileron. Battle damaged on a mission to the Kugelfischer-
Georg-Sch�fer ball bearing factory at Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43 (10RTD). Enemy fighters
were encountered near Eupen, Belgium on the route in, all the way to the target, and back to the
French Coast. Flak was moderate to intense along the route but gave the most trouble over the
target area. The lead bombardier was unable to see a clear view of the target caused by smoke
from previous bombing. He set his bomb sight on the railway bridge over the Main river
so that the bombs struck the eastern end of the marshalling yards. On return, force landed
at RAF Kenley, Kent. Failed to return from a mission to the port at Bremen, Germany 26Nov43 (10KIA).
As the formation made a sharp turn after the target, an unrecognized B-17 with a triangle
on its tail and "FC 2" on its right waist began weaving around the formation. It slammed
into this plane and sheared off the tail. The mystery plane, initially thought to be a
German-captured Fortress employing ramming tactics, was later identified as B-17G 42-37838
of the 401st Bomb Group, flying on their first mission. The vertical stabiliser of #317 knocked
off the ball turret of #838, sending the gunner to his death. The tail section of #317
was severed, the aircraft turned over twice then entered a spin, crashing at Vehne Moor,
Bissel, near Ahlhorn, Germany. {21 missions}. MACR 3075.
30318 (MSN 5432) Accepted by USAAF 12May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 15May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 17May43.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 18May43.
Spokane Field, WA 26May43. 390th Bomb Group, Great Falls AAB, MT 7Jun43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 2Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 13Jul43. Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via Iceland
to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland Jul43. 570th Bomb Squadron [DI*G], 390th Bomb Group,
Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 15Jul43 Named "Devil's Daughter"
{first combat mission 15Aug43}. Failed to return from a mission to the industrial area at
Bremen, Germany 8Oct43 (1KIA:9POW). The formation was met with stiff resistance by
German fighters and flak crews on the ground the entire way, from the Dutch coast all the way
into the German heartland. In addition, a large force of German fighters launched vicious
attacks against the planes. Over the target, the formation encountered intense flak.
Just after dropping the bomb load, a Fw 190 released a rocket which exploded under
the bomber. The nose compartment was badly damaged and the bombardier wounded.
The navigator assisted the bombardier in bailing out to become a POW. The rocket had
set a wing on fire and then another German fighter fired cannon shells which wounded
both pilots. With the co-pilot killed, he remained in the bomber as the remaining crew
bailed out south of Bremen before the bomber exploded and crashed near Vechta, thirty-five
miles southwest of Bremen. {15 missions}. MACR 781.
30319 (MSN 5433) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 26May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 29May43.
15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm
Beach, FL 8Jun43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 419th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group,
Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 6Jul43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43.
49th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Massicault, Tunis, Tunisia 7Oct43.
{first combat mission 9Oct43}. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. {9 missions}. 419th Bomb
Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Oudna #2, Tunis, Tunisia 14Nov43. Cerignola #1,
Italy 10Dec43. Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. 353rd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group,
Foggia, Italy. Damaged landing at Foggia 9Feb44. {44 missions}. 414th Bomb Squadron,
97th Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 10May44. Named "Shirley our Girlie"
Failed to return from Operation Frantic, the first shuttle mission, to the railway marshalling
yards at Debrecen, Hungary 2Jun44 (7KIA:4POW). After the target, fuel was flowing back
over the left wing from No.2 engine. The pilot feathered the propeller and pulled out of
formation. He gradually fell behind and was losing altitude. Smoke was coming out of the
engine and then the aircraft turned as if it was going to return to base. While it was turning
it exploded. The plane was not hit by flak, as there was none over the entire area, and
no enemy aircraft were in the vicinity. The probable cause was that either a fuel cap
came loose, or the fuel line broke at the engine and sparks from the superchargers
or heat from the cylinders caused the combustion. Crashed near Debrecen MACR 6310.
30320 (MSN 5434) Accepted by USAAF 12May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great
Falls, MT 15May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 20May43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 28May43. 390th Bomb Group,
Great Falls AAB, MT 7Jun43. Langley Field, Hampton, VA 25Jun43. Cut Bank Field, MT 27Jun43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 1Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 11Jul43. Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via Iceland
to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland Jul43. 569th Bomb Squadron [CC*S], 390th Bomb Group,
Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk Jul43. Named "Coy De Coy" . {first combat mission 12Aug43}.
Damaged in a mid-air collision with B-17F 42-3306 on a mission to a Luftwaffe
airfield at Vitry-en-Artois, France 15Aug43. 42-3306 crashed, 30320 must have landed safely.
Badly damaged during a mission to the industrial
areas of Emden, Germany 11Dec43 (1KIA:4POW:5RTD). The Luftwaffe was waiting for the
bombers; the moment the bombers crossed over into mainland Europe, six twin-engine fighters
dived out of the sun upon the formation, concentrating all their fire on the lead plane.
Once the leader had been downed, the fighters swept through the lead Squadron.
Before the deputy lead had a chance to reassemble the formation, a large force of
single-engine fighters joined the fray, attacking the other bombers. Damaged by Flak,
and attacked by Messerschmitt Bf 110G fighters. As the bomber limped home with one
airmen fatally wounded, several crew members bailed out. Failed to return from a
mission to the Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft shipyard at Kiel, Germany 4Jan44 (10POW).
Shot down by flak and crashed in an orchard at Mienesz Farm, between Scharwoude
and Niedorp, Netherlands. {9 missions} MACR 14404.
30321 (MSN 5435) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY
14May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 29May43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field,
Oklahoma City, OK 18Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 27Jun43. Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 21Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa.
2nd Bomb Group, Massicault, Tunis, Tunisia Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43.
419th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Oudna #2, Tunis, Tunisia 14Nov43.
Failed to return from a mission to Ciampino airfield, Rome, Italy 29Nov43 (5KIA:5RTD).
En route to the target, an engine caught fire. Fearing an explosion, the crew bailed out
but a stiff wind blew them out to sea where several drowned. The bomber crashed at Villaputzu, Sardinia.
30322 (MSN 5436) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14May43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 30May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Jun43. 412th Bomb Squadron [QW*P], 95th Bomb Group,
Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 15Jun43. Named "Liberty Belle/Patches".
Battle damaged on mission to railway installations at M�nster, Germany 10Oct43.
As they approached the city, the formation was swarmed by a large force of enemy aircraft
for an estimated forty-five minutes of vicious fighting. By the time their friendly fighter
escorts arrived to drive off the Luftwaffe, the damage had already been done. {45 missions}.
2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton (Station 547), Huntingdonshire 18May44.
Salvaged after non battle damage 23Jun44
30323 (MSN 5437) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 15May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 20May43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field,
Dallas, TX 16Jun43. Roswell Field, NM 2Jun43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 17Jul43.
5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 28Jul43. Roswell Field, NM 29Jul43.
3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44.
3010th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 9Dec44.
Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment;
designated TB-17F. 3020th Base Unit (Pilot School, Advanced, Two Engine), La Junta Field, CO 20Apr45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Searcy Field, Stillwater, OK for storage and disposal 4Aug45.
War Assets Corporation. Sold to Paul Mantz 19Feb46; scrapped
30324 (MSN 5438) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 14May43.
5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 16Jun43. Roswell Field, NM 22Jun43. 5th Ferrying Group,
Love Field, Dallas, TX 17Jul43. Roswell Field, NM 29Jul43. 435th Bomb Squadron [PY-324],
19th Bomb Group, Pyote Field, TX 9Nov43. 871st Bomb Squadron, 497th Bomb Group,
Pratt Field, KS. Damaged landing at Port Columbus, OH 3Jun44. 2114th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 4Jun44. Salvaged 13Jun44.
30325 (MSN 5439) Accepted by USAAF 14May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 18May43. Spokane Field, WA 20May43. Portland AAB, OR 4Jun43.
390th Bomb Group, Great Falls AAB, MT 7Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 2Jul43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 13Jul43.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland Jul43.
570th Bomb Squadron [DI*D], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 18Jul43.
Named "Miss Carry". {first combat mission 17Aug43}. Battle damaged during a
mission to railway installations at M�nster, Germany 10Oct43 (1WIA:9RTD). As they approached
the city, the formation was swarmed by a large force of enemy aircraft for an estimated
forty-five minutes of vicious fighting. By the time their friendly fighter escorts arrived to drive
off the Luftwaffe, the damage had already been done. Before reaching the I.P., a large piece of
flak shrapnel had torn a hole in a thigh of the pilot. He used the rubber extension cord from his
intercom connection as a tourniquet and wrapped his white flying scarf round the wound.
He was able to assist the co-pilot during the bomb run and safely landed after the third
attempt in fog at Framlingham. Accident during a mission to the railway marshalling yards
at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 29Jan44. The plane was over Germany when the ball turret
gunner reported a B-17 underneath getting too close. Suddenly there was a tremendous
jolt; it had been rammed by the other plane, B-17F 42-30334. The pilot ordered the crew
to bail out. The enlisted men tried to open the entry door but it wouldn't budge.
Then the co-pilot called to cancel the bail out order. One of the engines was smoking but
the propeller was feathered. The plane couldn't keep up with the formation and so turned
back for England. The pilot dropped down low over the tree tops to avoid German fighters.
It landed at RAF Woodbridge emergency landing airfield, Suffolk. Battle damaged on a
mission to the Heinkel Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory at Oranienburg, Germany 9Mar44.
The plane was seriously damaged by flak before reaching the target. After realizing that the
aircraft was haemorrhaging oil, the crew was forced to abort and turn the plane around.
Despite being alone and heavily damaged, and easy prey for Luftwaffe fighters, the bomber was
able to land safely back at Framlingham. Battle damaged on a tactical mission in support of
Operation Overlord to a Luftwaffe airfield at Saint-Omer, France 12Jun44 (1KIA:9RTD);
the co-pilot was killed. {final combat mission 12Jun44}. {53 missions}. Salvaged at
Greencastle (Station 237), County Down, Northern Ireland 2May45)
30326 (MSN 5440) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 15May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 17May43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 26May43.
5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 20Jun43. Rapid City Field, SD 27Jun43. Geiger Field,
Spokane, WA 21Jul43. 541st Bomb Squadron, 383rd Bomb Group, Pendleton Field, OR 25Jul43.
Crashed on Cape Lookout, west of Portland, OR 2Aug43 (9KIS:1RTD); the bombardier was the
only survivor. The pilot was flying along through the fog, unable to see the cape looming just
ahead. He had started climbing but just a few seconds too late. The aircraft flew into this
coastal finger of land topped with old growth timber at 200 mph. It almost cleared the 900
foot high cape, but trees began knocking parts off the plane. One of the nine crewmen and
about a third of the airplane kept going along off the south edge of Cape Lookout and into
the water and onto the rocks below
30327 (MSN 5441) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 15May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 17May43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field,
Dallas, TX 19May43. 548th Two Engine Flying Training Squadron, 314th Two Engine Flying
Training Group, Roswell Field, NM 27Jun43. Damaged Roswell Field, NM 22Feb44. Salvaged 27Feb44.
30328 MSN 5442) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 17May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 18May43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 4Jun43. United Air Lines,
Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 9Jun43. Smoky Hill Field,
Salina, KS 12Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 27Jun43.
Equipped with Oboe Mk I radar. 92nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire Aug43.
813th Bomb Squadron [PC*B], 482nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire 25Aug43.
Equipped with H2S airborne radar, fitted with radome in place of chin turret. Used for radio counter measures
Conflict:
Quoted as transferred to Royal Air Force 21Jan44 as Fortress Mark II, serial SR379. No.214 (
Federated Malay States) Squadron [BU-D], No.100 Group, RAF Sculthorpe, Norfolk 3Feb44.
RAF Oulton, Aylsham, Norfolk 16May44. No.51 Maintenance Unit, RAF Lichfield,
Staffordshire 31Dec44. Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, Hampshire 22Feb45.
Used for trials involving Oboe, altimeters, and 'supersonic bombs' for storage. Sold to
International Alloys Ltd 11Mar47. SOC 11Mar47.
The RAF Record Card does not quote the USAAF serial but states that the aircraft came from a
unit at Snetterton Heath. The RAF serials were allocated in sequence with the USAAF serials.
This would suggest an aircraft from the block 42-30241 (SR378) to 42-30639 (SR380) but
there doesn't appear to be an obvious candidate from the 96th Bomb Group. Also quoted as being B-17F 42-30451 and 42-3169
30329 (MSN 5443) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 15May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 17May43. United Air Lines,
Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20May43. Smoky Hill Field,
Salina, KS 30May43. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command,
Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 7Jun43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 352nd Bomb Squadron,
301st Bomb Group, Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 9Jun43. Oudna #1,
Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Cerignola #1, Italy 9Dec43.
Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. Failed to return from a mission to the Messerschmitt
aircraft factory at Regensburg, Germany 25Feb44 (10POW). Enemy fighters started to attack
fifteen miles east of Klagenfurt, Austria on the way to the target. Shot down by enemy fighters
just before the target setting No.1 and 4 engines on fire. The aircraft dropped out of formation,
the crew bailed out over Austria and it crashed on the side of a mountain near Saalfelden, Austria.
{60 missions}. MACR 2595
30330 (MSN 5444) Accepted by USAAF 13May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 28May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 29May43. Dyersburg Field, TN 27Jun43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 22Jul43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 2Aug43. Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic
route via Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland Aug43. 568th Bomb Squadron [BI*A],
390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 4Aug43. Code changed to BI*A
after 42-30308 was lost. Named "Blood,Guts and Rust II" . {first combat
mission 2Sep43}. Failed to return from a mission to the industrial area at Bremen,
Germany 8Oct43 (6POW:4KIA). The formation was met with stiff resistance by German
fighters and flak crews on the ground the entire way, from the Dutch coast all the way
into the German heartland. In addition, a large force of German fighters launched vicious
attacks against the planes. Over the target, the formation encountered intense flak.
Flak damaged No.2 and No.3 engines with a third on fire. Crashed Quelkhorn, Ottersberg,
northeast of Bremen, Germany. {8 missions}. . MACR 784.
30331 (MSN 5445) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 28May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 29May43.
Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 19Jun43. Combat Crew Training School,
Casper Field, WY 28Jun43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 30Jun43.
Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 6Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 9Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa 10Jul43. Air Transport Command.
During the ferry flight from USA to North Africa, the plane force landed with fuel exhaustion
and was damaged taxying at St Eval (Station 129), Cornwall 14Aug43. Condemned 8Jul44.
42-30332/30431 Boeing B-17F-100-BO Fortress
MSN 5446/5545. Dispositions from Stewart Lanhan and B-17 Fortress Master Log, Dave Osborne (FORTLOG)
Production changes: Changes to rudder balance and tail gun ammunition holder. Minor electrical changes.
30332 MSN 5446) Accepted by USAAF 14May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 15May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 17May43.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20May43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 28May43. Walla Walla Field, WA 3Jun43. 390th Bomb Group, Great
Falls AAB, MT 7Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 30Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 10Jul43. Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via
Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland Jul43. 571st Bomb Squadron [FC*N],
390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk Jul43.
Named "Short Stuff" later "Spirit of 76". {first combat mission 12Aug43}. Failed
to return from a mission to the Heinkel Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory at Oranienburg,
Germany 18Apr44 (10INT). The bombers arrived over Oranienburg to find the town covered
by a thick undercast. Forced to decide between abandoning the mission or bringing the
formation down under the clouds, the air leader had the planes drop down to 17,000ft
in order to make their attack run. The bomber encountered intense flak over Oranienburg.
Losing fuel and with engine problems, it force landed at Bulltofta, Malm�, Sweden. {28 missions}.
Crew, accompanied by Swedish and US officials, flew back to UK 1944. Aircraft departed Sweden 16Jun45
MACR 4012
30333 (MSN 5447) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 17May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 30May43. Air Service
Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 19Jun43. Combat Crew Training School, Casper
Field, WY 28Jun43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 30Jun43. Greenville AAB, SC 7Jul43.
Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 10Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 12Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 32nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group,
Named "Sandman".Painted by Sgt Eugene Townsend (32BS/301BG). Saint-Donat (New Zealand),
Tadjenanet, Algeria Aug43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43.
Cerignola #1, Italy 10Dec43. Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. {18 missions}.
341st Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Amendola. Declared 'war weary'. Reassigned for utility,
training and weather check aircraft 15Jul44. Salvaged 14Oct44
30334 (MSN 5448) Accepted by USAAF 14May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 15May43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 28May43. 390th Bomb Group,
Great Falls AAB, MT 7Jun43. Chanute Field, Rantoul, IL 22Jun43. Lewistown Field, MT 23Jun43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 2Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 13Jul43. Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via Iceland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland Jul43. 570th Bomb Squadron [DI*E], 390th Bomb Group,
Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 15Jul43.
Named "Virgin Sturgeon/Eight Ball". {first combat mission 12Aug43}.
Participated in a shuttle mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factories at Regensburg,
Germany 17Aug43. After the target, the mission continued on to Bertoux, Algeria. Later
positioned to Telergma, Constantine, Algeria. Returned to Framlingham on a mission to
a Luftwaffe air depot at M�rignac, Bordeaux, France 24Aug43. Flown on a mission to Rjukan,
seventy-five miles west of Oslo, Norway 16Nov43. The target was the pen-stocks down the
mountain from the dam for the hydro-electric building in the valley below. This building also
contained the Norwegian heavy water plant which was being used by the Germans to provide
heavy water for their experimentation in the development of the atomic/hydrogen bomb.
Neither the lead navigator nor bombardier could locate anything resembling the target
during two passes over the area. Failed to return from a mission to the railway marshalling
yards at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 29Jan44 (10POW). Mid-air collision with B-17F 42-30325
breaking off part of right wing, later shot down by Lt. Karl-Heinz Grunert in Me-110G-4 of NJG 6/5.
The pilot attempted to fly to Switzerland but crashed in Lake Constance, near Friedrichshafen,
Germany. {32 missions. MACR 2271
30335 (MSN 5449) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 18May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 1Jun43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 2Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 3Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Jul43. Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander,
Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 4/5Jul43. 350th Bomb Squadron [LN*U],
100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk Jul43. Named "Sans Finis"
Failed to return from a mission to the Bosch magneto factory at Stuttgart, Germany 6Sep43
(1KIA:9INT). With bad weather over Germany, the bomber was en route to attack a secondary
target of a Luftwaffe air base in France. Flak damaged engine No.1 and No.3, crash
landed Villingen, NW of Donaueschingen, Germany. MACR 687.
30336 (MSN 5450) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 17May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 1Jun43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 2Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 4Jun43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 27Jun43. 548th Bomb Squadron [GX*E],
385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 27Jun43. Named *Miss Nonalee II*
Failed to return from a mission to the Focke-Wulf aircraft factory at Marienburg, East Prussia 9Oct43 (10POW).
Number two engine oversped; it was necessary to feather the propeller and the pilot decided to turn back.
Five minutes later number two engine lost power and the pilot decided to land in Denmark since
they would not be able to reach England. When they reached land the captain ordered the crew to bail
out starting with the tail gunner and working up to the front of the ship. The radio operator had by accident
opened his chute in the aircraft and was thus afraid to jump. The pilot gave him his own parachute
and would then try to land the aircraft. He made a perfect wheels down landing in a field belonging
to N�rholm Gods estate, near Varde, Denmark. He tried to set the aircraft on fire but could not get it
to burn, and when he saw people approaching the aircraft he ran away. MACR 824.
The aircraft was repaired and used by Luftwaffe at the Luftwaffen Erprobungsstelle Rechlin, Germany.
Operated by Luftwaffe KG200 [code 7+8] 28Aug44. Written off 4Apr45.
30337 (MSN 5451) Accepted by USAAF 14May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 18May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 20May43. Geiger Field,
Spokane, WA 28May43. 390th Bomb Group, Great Falls AAB, MT 7Jun43. Smoky Hill Field,
Salina, KS 2Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 13Jul43.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland Jul43.
570th Bomb Squadron [DI*B], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk Jul43.. Named "Eightball"
{first combat mission 12Aug43}. Accident during a mission to the Citroen airplane engine
factory at Meulan, Paris, France 26Sep43 (1KIA:9RTD); the radio operator died of anoxia. Battle
damaged during a mission to the industrial area of Emden, Germany 2Oct43. Battle damaged
on a mission to railway installations at M�nster, Germany 10Oct43. As they approached
the city, the formation was swarmed by a large force of enemy aircraft for an estimated
forty-five minutes of vicious fighting. By the time their friendly fighter escorts arrived to
drive off the Luftwaffe, the damage had already been done. The No.3 engine was struck by
flak before reaching the target and began trailing smoke. The plane lost altitude but the
pilot made a solo run to bomb the target. Turning for home and alone, the bomber made
an easy target for the German fighters. The pilot dived down into cloud cover at 16,000ft.
A fighter was shot down by the top turret gunner. Entering another bank of cloud at 3,000ft,
by this time the No.4 engine was on fire as the bomber entered Dutch airspace. Avoiding the
flak defences around Rotterdam, the pilot headed out across the North Sea, so low that salt
spray was soaking the waist gunners. With the fire still raging, the pilot prepared the crew for
ditching. Just then he spotted a large rolling wave. Gambling that it might extinguish the fire,
the pilot dropped down lower and the wave washed over the wing. As the throttles were opened
wide to prevent the bomber from stalling on striking the surface, the fire was out and the pilot
made a successful emergency landing at a fighter base in East Anglia. As the bomber touched down,
the No.4 propeller spun off and rolled ahead down the runway. Battle damaged on a mission to
railway installations at M�nster, Germany 10Oct43. As they approached the city, the formation
was swarmed by a large force of enemy aircraft for an estimated forty-five minutes of vicious
fighting. By the time their friendly fighter escorts arrived to drive off the Luftwaffe, the damage
had already been done. The bomber was hit by an aerial rocket from a Bf-110, the right wing
was almost sheared off about twelve feet from the tip, and the aircraft was forced to leave the
formation. By using the trim tabs, excess left rudder and help from the Bombardier who, with
the pilots, pulled on the control column, they were able to get the bomber headed home.
As the "Eightball" proceeded across the North Sea, the enemy fighters left, but trouble still loomed.
The engines were laboring very hard in holding altitude and escaping the enemy fighters.
Also the engines were very noisy and it was questionable whether they would last long enough
to get the plane to England. As the aircraft approached the 390th Bomb Group home base at
Framlingham, the weather closed in with almost zero visibility. After making one unsuccessful pass,
the Control Tower ordered "Eightball" to proceed to Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk,
home of the 100th Bomb Group. Before landing at the 100th, one engine was feathered and another
engine was providing minimum power. The landing was rather rough, due to lack of visibility,
drag from the damaged wing and inadequate power from the engines. The plane overran and
ended up in a small ditch off the runway. The crew was very relieved to be down with no one harmed.
Transferred to 571st BS. Named "Flak Hack"--'Flak Hack' was written
with a circle, above and below a number 8 ball. Failed to return from a mission to an aircraft
factory at Brunswick, Germany 10Feb44 (7KIA:3POW). Fell behind in the formation when the bomb
doors would not close after the target. Shot down by enemy fighters and crash landed at Streipe,
near Lingen (Ems), Germany. {30 missions) MACR 2503
30338 (MSN 5452) Accepted by USAAF 14May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 21May43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 28May43. 390th Bomb Group,
Great Falls AAB, MT 7Jun43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 12Jun43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 29Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 10Jul43. Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via Iceland
to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland Jul43. 571st Bomb Squadron [FC*P], 390th Bomb Group,
Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk Jul43
Named "Cabin in the Sky", renamed "Rough Group", then "Dorothy Dee".
Reverted to "Cabin in the Sky"--named for the Broadway musical.
{first combat mission 15Aug43}. Participated in a shuttle mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factories
at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43. After the target, the mission continued on to Bertoux, Algeria.
Later positioned to Telergma, Constantine, Algeria. Returned to Framlingham on a mission to a
Luftwaffe air depot at M�rignac, Bordeaux, France 24Aug43. Battle damaged on a mission to
Friedrichstrasse railway station, Berlin, Germany 7May44 (1WIA:9RTD). Take off was normal
and all went well until the bomber met heavy flak between the I.P. and the target. There were
faults with two of the engines and also problems with the oxygen supply. The plane could not
keep up with the group, so the crew jettisoned the bombs and set course for home. The pilots
decided to make the run home at about twenty-five feet above ground to avoid enemy fighters or
being spotted on enemy radar. As they hurtled along, skimming just above hedges, trees and power
cables, people flattened themselves on the ground as the B-17 roared by. Then the plane came to
what appeared to be a fortification but soon proved to be the dyke of a canal, complete with German
gunners on barges who hit them with 20mm rounds. The ball turret gunner came out of his turret and
stood in the radio room, thinking he would be safer in the aircraft. Somewhat ironically, he was the
only crew member to be injured by the barge gunners. The gunners also severed the trim tab cables
which caused the nose to drop. The B-17 would have ploughed in had it not plunged through the trees
and lifted the nose as the pilots fought to recover control. Fortunately, over the sea the crew saw a
P-38 Lightning and a P-47 Thunderbolt who escorted them home where the plane made a normal landing.
The ground crew had a lot of work to do. One propeller was split, the Plexiglas was shattered, the
leading edges and engine cowls were smashed and there were holes and foliage everywhere.
There was broken glass and sea water in the ball turret. {final combat mission 13Sep44}. {61 missions}.
Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 4Jul45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 14Aug45
30339 (MSN 5453) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 17May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 19May43. Smoky Hill Field,
Salina, KS 29May43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 13Jun43. Combat
Crew Training School, Casper Field, WY 28Jun43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 13Jun43. Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 4Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 7Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 347th Bomb Squadron,
99th Bomb Group, Navarin (Overcoat), El Eulma, Algeria 29Jul43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia,
Tunisia 4Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. 340th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group,
Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 14Nov43. Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43. San Giovanni, Cerignola,
Italy 20Dec43. Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44. Returned to US. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport
Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 21Jun44. 302nd Base Unit (Staging Wing),
Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 29Jun44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 1Aug45
30340 (MSN 5454) Accepted by USAAF 15May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 18May43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 4Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 25Jun43. 563rd Bomb Squadron [Z], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136),
Suffolk 26Jun43. Named "Dry Run/Screamin' Red Ass" artwork of an ass painted
red and screaming. Name, artwork and mission count painted both sides of nose.
(first combat mission 12Aug43}. Battle damaged on a mission to the Luftwaffe airfields at Poix-Nord
and Abbeville-Drucat, France 16Aug43 (10RTD). Approaching the target, when the bombardier
opened the bomb bay doors, a burst of flak caught in the bomb bay releasing seven bombs early.
Participated in a shuttle mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factories at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43.
After the target, the bomber turned south and landed at the Twelfth Air Force base at B�ne, Algeria.
Later positioned to Telergma, Algeria. On return to England, operated a mission to a Luftwaffe
air depot at M�rignac, Bordeaux, France 24Aug43. Battle damaged on a mission to the port area
at Bremen, Germany 20Dec43 (10RTD). Attacked by a large force of enemy fighters and flak over
the target area was very intense. Failed to return from a mission to the VKF (Vereinigte
Kugellagerfabriken) ball bearing factory at Erkner, Berlin, Germany 8Mar44 (9KIA:1POW).
Very determined enemy fighter opposition was met en route to the target during a lapse of the
friendly escorts. The primary target was not able to be bombed as planned, so diverted to a
factory complex at Wildau, southeast of Berlin. Flak was not heavy or effective over the
target, but a large force of enemy fighters engaged the bomber formation as it headed for home.
Shot down by Bf 109 fighters, the plane was last seen with No.3 propeller feathered and both
wings damaged. Crashed Neu-Ummendorf, near Eilsleben, nineteen miles west of Magdeburg, Germany. {46 missions}.
MACR 3079
30341 (MSN 5455) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 18May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 25May43. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command,
Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 8Jun43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 419th Bomb Squadron,
301st Bomb Group, Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 1Jul43. Battle damaged by
flak on a mission to railway marshalling yards at Naples, Italy 15Jul43. {2 missions}.
Transferred to 429th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Massicault, Tunis, Tunisia 2Aug43.
{first combat mission 17Aug43}. {8 missions}. Tramsferred tp 419th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group,
Oudna #2, Tunis, Tunisia 7Oct43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Cerignola #1, Italy 10Dec43.
Failed to return from a mission to the harbor at Piraeus, Greece 11Jan44 (7KIA:3RTD). Mid-air collision
and crashed at Kalavatra, Greece. On that fateful day, the briefed mission was for the 5th Wing
composed of the 2nd, 97th, 301st and 99th Bomb Groups, to fly on a southerly course through the
heel of Italy to the town of Lecce where the Wing would then take a heading out over the Adriatic Sea,
to a point over the Peloponnese peninsula of Greece. From this point the crews were briefed to
complete a 90� degree turn to the Initial Point over Lagousa Island. From there the mission
dictated a straight run in to the target, reassemble, and return to base. After the formation
was organized and began making its way to the target, the Groups ran into a weather front of 10/10 clouds.
At eighteen thousand feet they entered an overcast. The clouds were very thick and visibility
was not much beyond the wingtips, making it almost impossible to see other aircraft in the formation.
At that altitude, and with the thickness of the clouds, ice began to form on their wings. In such
situations it was standard operating procedure for trailing squadrons in the formation to fly
off course for a couple minutes to obtain some spacing from the lead squadron, which would
continue to maintain its course. However, as the 97th Bomb Group began making a left turn
for their bomb run on the target, the lead plane of the 342nd Bomb Squadron encountered
severe turbulence made by the preceding elements of the Wing. The turbulence was so severe
that the lead aircraft of the squadron was forced into a steep left bank before it plummeted
temporarily out of control and lost altitude at a rate of 1,000ft per minute. By the time the pilot
was able to recover and regain his place in formation, the two sister planes in the flight were
nowhere to be seen. Meanwhile, the pilots of the two sister planes from the flight,
B-17F No.42-3251 and B-17F No.42-29918 found themselves alone in 10/10 visibility, unsure
where the formation had disappeared to, with ice forming on their wings, and experiencing
engine trouble. From what was deduced later in the accident report, the doomed B-17s made the
decision to abort and turn back for the relative safety of Italy. In a tragic turn of events, their
decision to return home took them directly into the path of the oncoming 301st Bomb Group.
According to the official report of the Board of Inquiry, the two B-17s of the 97th Bomb Group
experienced engine trouble and left the formation. Instead of making a 180-degree right turn,
away from the formation, the aircraft made a turn to the left and flew head-on into the 301st formation.
According to a Bombardier assigned to the lead ship of the 301st Bomb Group, and flown
by the Group Commanding Officer, he was startled to see a pair of 97th Bomb Group B-17s emerge
out of a cloud about 20 degrees to the left and aimed straight at his aircraft. Almost Instantly,
both B-17s bracketed his aircraft, with one passing closely over his right wing that clipped the
vertical stabiliser, and the other closely passing beneath the left wing. Almost immediately,
the tail gunner witnessed a big ball of fire that lit up the clouds as the B-17s collided with one
Fortress in the lead element, and two B-17s in the second element. P-38 pilots, flying low cover
escort under the overcast, reported watching pieces of B-17s raining from the sky for what
seemed like five minutes. There were eight B-17s that fell out of the sky simultaneously.
Thirteen Americans survived; 64 perished. {64 missions}
30342 (MSN 5456) Accepted by USAAF 17MAy43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 20May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 30May43. Wright Field, Dayton, OH 30Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 20Jul43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 22Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 25Jul43. Ferried from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to St Angelo, Enniskillen,
Northern Ireland and Prestwick, Scotland 25/26Jul43. 334th Bomb Squadron [BG*B],
95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 28Jul43. Named *Taint A Bird II*,
{54 missions}. Base Air Depot No.1, Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire. Modified as a drone for
Operation Aphrodite missions. Designated BQ-7. 562nd Bomb Squadron, 388th Bomb Group,
Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk, later at Fersfield (Station 554), Norfolk. Expended on Aphrodite
mission to the V2 rocket complex at Watten, France 4Aug44, experienced control problems and
crashed at Gravelines, France probably due to flak damage.
30343 (MSN 5457) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 20May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 30May43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 3Jun43. Air Service Command,
Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 13Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 22Jun43. Combat Crew Training
School, Casper Field, WY 28Jun43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 30Jun43.
Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 4Jul43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 11Jul43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 12Jul43. Twelfth Air Force,
North Africa. 346th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Navarin (Overcoat), El Eulma, Algeria 30Jul43.
Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 4Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. 342nd Bomb Squadron,
97th Bomb Group, Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 14Nov43. Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43. San Giovanni,
Cerignola, Italy 20Dec43. Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44. Failed to return from a mission
to the Steyr-Daimler-Puch ball bearing factory at Steyr, Austria 2Apr44 (7KIA:3POW). Flak was slight,
scattered and inaccurate. Enemy fighters first attacked from the nose in groups of threes and
fours then singly from all angles. This encounter lasted thirty minutes. Shot down by enemy fighters,
crashed at Maria Neustift, Austria. MACR 3586
30344 (MSN 5458) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 20May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 31May43.
15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm
Beach, FL 8Jun43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 32nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group,
Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 20Jun43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43
Named "The Lady Evelyn". Failed to return from a mission to the Luftwaffe airfield at
Capua, Naples, Italy 4Sep43 (1KIA:5POW:3RTD) damaged by Fw. Horst Schlick in
Bf 109G-6 of JG 77/1 and ditched 20-30 mi W of Naples, Italy
MACR 513. (13 missions). The date in the first page
of the MACR is Oct 4, 1943, which is wrong.
[reported erroneously as being shot down by Italian P-38].
30345 (MSN 5459) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 31May43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 13Jun43.
Combat Crew Training School, Casper Field, WY 28Jun43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 30Jun43. Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 7Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 9Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 352nd Bomb Squadron,
301st Bomb Group, Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 15Jul43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia,
Tunisia 6Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Battle damaged on a mission to railway marshalling
yards at Bolzano, Italy 10Nov43 (10KIA). Crash landed at Calvi, Corsica. {23 missions}.
30346 (MSN 5460) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 31May43. Dyersburg Field, TN 27Jun43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 22Jul43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 31Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa.
419th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Oudna #2, Tunis, Tunisia 18Aug43. {15 missions}.
El Aouina, Tunis, Tunisia. Modified to transport supplies to partisans and engaged in night time
special operations missions supporting partisans and parachuting Allied agents into enemy
territory. Ball turret removed, engine exhaust flame dampeners fitted and the aircraft painted black.
Special Flight Section, Twelfth Air Force, Blida, Algeria Sep43. 122nd Bomb Squadron,
68th Tactical Reconnaissance Group, Blida, Algeria 10Apr44. During a search mission,
the plane crashed into mountains on attempting to return to a diversionary base at Maison
Blanche, Algeria 27Apr44 (14KIS). Salvaged.
30347 (MSN 5461) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 20May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 30May43.
15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm
Beach, FL 9Jun43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 419th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group,
Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 3Jul43. Named "Miss Ponnie"
Battle damaged by flak on a tactical mission to a railway bridge at Messina, Sicily 12Jul43.
Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43. Battle damaged by heavy flak on a tactical
mission to a railway bridge at Bolzano, Italy 25Sep43. Battle damaged during a mission
to the Messerschmitt factory at Augsburg, Germany 1Oct43. During the approach to mainland
Italy north of Florence there was anti-aircraft fire from the ground and a few attacks by
enemy fighters, which, however, had liitle effect. Most of the remaining distance was flown
between two layers of cloud at an altitude of 6,000 meters. North of the Alps, the formation
encountered a deep, closed cloud cover that stretched far to the north. Because of the
poor visibility, the mission was aborted 50km from Augsburg. They then proceeded to an
alternate target of shipping off Bastia, Corsica. Flak and enemy fighters caused damage to
the plane. Battle damaged by heavy flak on a tactical mission to a railway bridge at
Guilianova, Italy 14Oct43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Cerignola #1, Italy 10Dec43.
Battle damaged by flak on a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Fr�jorgues, Montpellier,
France 27Jan44. On return the plane force landed safely at Naples, Italy. Foggia #8 (Longskirt),
Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. Failed to return from a mission to the stores and machine shops
at W�llersdorf airfield, Wiener Neust�dt, Vienna, Austria 29May44 (10POW). Just
before reaching the target, No.1 engine caught fire and the pilot left the formation to
turn back towards base. It was last seen under control but crashed at Vebelbach, Austria.
{98 missions}. MACR 5445.
30348 (MSN 5462) Accepted by USAAF 17May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 18May43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 27May43.
390th Bomb Group, Great Falls AAB, MT 7Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 9Jul43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 14Jul43.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via Kindley Field, Bermuda 22Jul43.
569th Bomb Squadron [CC*N], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk Jul43.
Named "Royal Flush". (first combat mission 12Aug43}. Battle damaged during a
mission to a synthetic oil plant at Wesseling, Germany 12Aug43 (10RTD). At the I.P. it was
impossible to identify the target because of the sun, which was directly ahead of the
formation obscuring the target. As a consequence, the primary target was abandoned
and the Group proceeded to their secondary target of an optical instrument factory in Bonn.
The tail gunner's compartment was torn off by a falling bomb from another B-17;
the tail gunner survived. Battle damaged during a mission to railway installations at
M�nster, Germany 10Oct43 (2WIA). As they approached the city, the formation was
swarmed by a large force of enemy aircraft for an estimated forty-five minutes of vicious
fighting. By the time their friendly fighter escorts arrived to drive off the Luftwaffe,
the damage had already been done. Returned to base with two engines disabled and
a large hole in a wing. Failed to return from a mission to the Deschimag submarine
construction yard at Vegesack, Bremen, Germany 16Dec43 (10POW). Shot down by
enemy fighter pf JG 11, crashed Augustfehn, ten miles northwest of Bad Zwischenahn,
Germany. {25 missions shot down by fighter of JG 11 near
Augustfehn, Germany. MACR 1728.
30349 (MSN 5463) Accepted by USAAF 17May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 2Jun43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 4Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 27Jun43.
563rd Bomb Squadron [W], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 1Jul43.
{first combat mission 26Jul43}. Battle damaged on a mission to the Gerhard Fieseler
Werke (GFW) aircraft works at Waldau, Kassel, Germany 30Jul43 (10RTD).
A large force of enemy fighters was encountered along the route from the Dutch
coast to the target and out, but broke off the attacks over the target area.
Flak was moderate over the route, but intense and accurate over the target. Further flak
was encountered on return over Antwerp. Participated in a shuttle mission to the Messerschmitt
aircraft factories at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43. After the target, the bomber turned
south and landed at the Twelfth Air Force base at B�ne, Algeria. Later positioned to
Telergma, Algeria. On return to England, operated a mission to a Luftwaffe air depot
at M�rignac, Bordeaux, France 24Aug43. Failed to return from a mission to the Bosch
magneto factory at Stuttgart, Germany 6Sep43 (8KIA:2EVD). With bad weather over Germany,
the bomber attempted to attack a secondary target of a Luftwaffe air base to the southwest
of Strasbourg, France. Failing again to find the target, the bombs were jettisoned into the Black Forest.
Shot down by Fw 190A-6 flown by Maj Egon Mayer of JG 2/Stab at Montgueux,
France. MACR 2409. The bomber went around in a large circle. A member
of the crew had jumped, his parachute opened, then he was caught up by the airplane and was hooked
on a propeller. The plane crashed and was destroyed by fire between Macey and Montgueux, five miles
west of Troyes, France. {6 missions}
30350 (MSN 5464) Accepted by USAAF 17May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 20May43. Spokane Field, WA 21May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 1Jun43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 2Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 4Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 27Jun43.
563rd Bomb Squadron [Y], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 27Jun43.
{first combat mission 30Jul43}. Battle damaged on a mission to the Gerhard Fieseler Werke (GFW) aircraft
works at Waldau, Kassel, Germany 30Jul43 (10RTD). A large force of enemy fighters was encountered
along the route from the Dutch coast to the target and out, but broke off the attacks over the target area.
Flak was moderate over the route, but intense and accurate over the target. Further flak was encountered
on return over Antwerp. Failed to return from a mission to the Luftwaffe air depot at M�rignac, Bordeaux,
France 5Dec43 (10RTD). When the target was found to be completely obscured, the Group turned to its
secondary target, the Luftwaffe airfield at Cognac. Finding this target also obscured and facing a
fuel shortage, the planes began jettisoning their bomb loads. Meagre flak along the route intensified
over target and about a dozen fighters attacked. Severely battle damaged and with fuel exhaustion
and darkness on return, the plane ditched in the Celtic Sea, five miles southwest of the Scilly Isles.
The crew was rescued. {16 missions)
30351 (MSN 5465) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 25May43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 3Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 1Jul43. 339th Bomb Squadron, 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton
Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 12Jul43. Named"Excaliber/Alcohol Annie"
Failed to return from a mission to the AGO-Flugzeugwerke Fw 190 manufacturing factory at
Oschersleben, Germany 28Jul43 (2KIA:3POW). Shot down by fighter over North Sea off Netherlands.
MACR 142.
30352 (MSN 5466) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 1Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 4Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 6Jun43. Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 22/23May43. 333rd Bomb Squadron [TS*G], 94th Bomb Group,
Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 27Jun43. Named "Thundermug II",
410th Bomb Squadron [GL*G]. Named "Polly Jo" Salvaged after non battle damage 2May45. .
30353 (MSN 5467) Accepted by USAAF 17May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 23May43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training
Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 3Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 27Jun43. 335th Bomb Squadron [OE*Z], 95th Bomb Group,
Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 27Jun43. 334th Bomb Squadron [BG*C]. {38 missions}.
Named TEN KNIGHTS IN A BAR ROOM. Modified for radio counter measures.
803rd Bomb Squadron (H) Provisional, RAF Oulton. Base Air Depot No.1, Burtonwood (Station 590),
Lancashire. Modified as a drone for Operation Aphrodite and Castor missions. Designated BQ-7.
562nd Bomb Squadron, 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk, later at Fersfield
(Station 554), Norfolk. Expended on Aphrodite mission to Herford railway marshalling yards,
Germany 5Dec44. Target not located due to cloud cover, so directed at alternate target of Haldorf,
crashed outside town. MACR 11134
30354 (MSN 5468) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 2Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 3Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 20Jun43. 549th Bomb Squadron [XA*X], 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155),
Suffolk 1Jul43. Named 'Sweet 17/Hustlin' Hussy'. Failed to return from a mission
to the industrial area at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 29Jan44. One engine was disabled
by flak during bomb run over Frankfurt Jan 29, 1944 and was
subsequently severely damaged by enemy fighters. Aircraft
was able to reach Belgian airspace where the
crew bailed out near Chaleroi, Belgium. MACR 2268 All POW
except the right waist gunner who had been killed during the
fighter attacks.
30355 (MSN 5469) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23May43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 4Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 1Jul43.
337th Bomb Squadron, 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 4Jul43.
Named "Dallas Rebel" Failed to return from a mission to the AGO-Flugzeugwerke Fw 190
manufacturing factory at Oschersleben, Germany 28Jul43 (6POW:4KIA). Shot down by enemy
fighters, crashed North Sea, NW of Frisian Island. The bomber, which was part of a flight of four
planes within a larger wave of 300, had taken off from Snetterton Heath to strike the Focke-Wulf
sub-contractor factory in Oschersleben. As the planes approached Germany's northern coast,
approximately thirty miles west of the islands of Heligoland, German fighters intercepted and
attacked the flight of bombers. One by one, the fighters knocked out the three other aircraft in the
formation, leaving Dallas Rebel alone to defend itself. In an effort to protect his aircraft,
the pilot flew the B-17 into a larger formation of bombers. But shortly thereafter three enemy
fighters singled his aircraft out, and 20mm cannon fire from the German aircraft punched holes
in Dallas Rebel from its left wing across to its right. The pilot started evasive action and slid
under the lead ship for protection, but not quickly enough to avoid cannon fire through the
radio room and out the right wing. The ball turret gunner had time to blow up the lead fighter,
but the other two got away. As the bomber started to descend from its damage, its gunners
continued to defend the Flying Fortress and managed to shoot down two more of the
attacking German fighters. Three more followed it down. The tail-gunner blew up one,
and a waist gunner got another. The attack set fire to the bomb bay and disabled the
bomber's intercom system. In an effort to extinguish the fire, the pilot put the aircraft
into a dive, and the crewmen saw that the left wing had been partly burned away,
its internal structure - including fuel tanks - exposed. Shortly thereafter, the fire spread.
Suddenly, large quantities of fuel poured out of the left wing tanks. The crew felt a large
bump when the fuel ignited, and all four engines stopped. While the aircraft was headed
for a controlled crash into the North Sea, four of its crew members chose to bail out by
parachute and were never recovered. When the aircraft was nearing the water's surface,
the pilot leveled out to burn off speed and set the aircraft up for a smooth water landing.
Its survival dinghies were deployed. After escaping the sinking plane, the remaining six
crew men crammed onto their one small survival raft. As they righted themselves in their
dinghy, the sinking plane exploded in the water beneath them. They had paddles, a flare gun,
a hand-powered radio, two parachutes, and a small survival kit with chocolate bars and
fresh water. They resourcefully used parachutes and oxygen bottles that floated up from
the plane to make a rudimentary sea anchor and measure their drift. The six men floated
in the cramped rubber dinghy, hoping for rescue. They decided to paddle and crank
their radio in two-hour shifts. Their first afternoon adrift, the men spotted a large
predatory shark that had taken an interest in them. The downed airmen helplessly
watched the shark as it approached their raft. The men keenly watched for any sign of rescue.
The next day, while adrift, they spotted a German fighter plane in the distance, and
then a storm brought 15-foot waves that threatened to capsize the dinghy.
The men were drenched by rain and sea spray, which lasted all day and all night.
That first evening, they saw several British aircraft and hoped that someone would
spot them and call for a rescue. British fighters, which had bombed Jutland, dove
down close to them on their way home but didn't see them. The following morning,
July 30, nearly 72 hours after the crash, the men awoke to the sound of explosions
along Germany's northern coast. Three Luftwaffe Ju-52s, each with a mine detector
ring under it, were exploding mines with machine gun fire. When one noticed the crew,
it left the formation to return to its base, while the others dropped green and yellow
sea markers around them. The men knew they had been marked and that they likely
faced capture. Half an hour later, a German plane showed up. A Do-24 twin-engine
seaplane soon returned and landed close to the raft. Two guards stood on the pontoons
with machine guns and motioned the survivors to board the plane.
MACR 141.
30356 (MSN 5470) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 23May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 2Jun43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 5Jun43. North Atlantic
Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 20Jun43. 337th Bomb Squadron [AW*B],
96th Bomb Group 3Jul43. Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander,
Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 4/5Jul43. 96th Bomb Group,
Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk Jul43 Named "Tarfu II" On departure for a mission to Warnemonde, Germany
Jul 27, 1943 after jettisoning bombs in
the Wash, craslanded at RAF Little Snoring, Norfolk with only one engine running. Aircraft was salvaged.
30357 Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 31May43. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport
Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 9Jun43. 353rd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group,
Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 18Jun43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Cerignola #1, Italy 10Dec43. Failed to return from a mission
to the harbor at Piraeus, Greece 11Jan44 (7KIA). After a mid-air collision, the plane crashed near
Agrambela, Greece. On that fateful day, the briefed mission was for the 5th Wing composed of the
2nd, 97th, 301st and 99th Bomb Groups, to fly on a southerly course through the heel of Italy
to the town of Lecce where the Wing would then take a heading out over the Adriatic Sea,
to a point over the Peloponnese peninsula of Greece. From this point the crews were briefed
to complete a 90� degree turn to the Initial Point over Lagousa Island. From there the
mission dictated a straight run in to the target, reassemble, and return to base. After the
formation was organized and began making its way to the target, the Groups ran into a
weather front of 10/10 clouds. At eighteen thousand feet they entered an overcast.
The clouds were very thick and visibility was not much beyond the wingtips, making it a
lmost impossible to see other aircraft in the formation. At that altitude, and with the
thickness of the clouds, ice began to form on their wings. In such situations it was standard
operating procedure for trailing squadrons in the formation to fly off course for a couple
minutes to obtain some spacing from the lead squadron, which would continue to maintain
its course. However, as the 97th Bomb Group began making a left turn for their bomb run on
the target, the lead plane of the 342nd Bomb Squadron encountered severe turbulence
made by the preceding elements of the Wing. The turbulence was so severe that the lead
aircraft of the squadron was forced into a steep left bank before it plummeted temporarily
out of control and lost altitude at a rate of 1,000ft per minute. By the time the pilot was
able to recover and regain his place in formation, the two sister planes in the flight were
nowhere to be seen. Meanwhile, the pilots of the two sister planes from the flight,
B-17F No.42-3251 and B-17F No.42-29918 found themselves alone in 10/10 visibility,
unsure where the formation had disappeared to, with ice forming on their wings, and
experiencing engine trouble. From what was deduced later in the accident report, the
doomed B-17s made the decision to abort and turn back for the relative safety of Italy.
In a tragic turn of events, their decision to return home took them directly into the path
of the oncoming 301st Bomb Group. According to the official report of the Board of Inquiry,
the two B-17s of the 97th Bomb Group experienced engine trouble and left the formation.
Instead of making a 180-degree right turn, away from the formation, the aircraft made a
turn to the left and flew head-on into the 301st formation. According to a Bombardier
assigned to the lead ship of the 301st Bomb Group, and flown by the Group Commanding
Officer, he was startled to see a pair of 97th Bomb Group B-17s emerge out of a cloud
about 20 degrees to the left and aimed straight at his aircraft. Almost Instantly, both
B-17s bracketed his aircraft, with one passing closely over his right wing that clipped
the vertical stabiliser, and the other closely passing beneath the left wing. Almost
immediately, the tail gunner witnessed a big ball of fire that lit up the clouds as the
B-17s collided with one fortress in the lead element, and two B-17s in the second element.
P-38 pilots, flying low cover escort under the overcast, reported watching pieces of B-17s
raining from the sky for what seemed like five minutes. There were eight B-17s that fell
out of the sky simultaneously. Thirteen Americans survived; 64 perished. {46 missions}.
MACR 1831. 7 KIA, 3 bailed out and returned.
30358 (MSN 5472) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 23May43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 3Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 27Jun43. 350th Bomb Squadron [LN*X], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts
(Station 139), Norfolk 4Jul43. Named "Phartzak". . Failed to return from a mission to an
aircraft factory at Bremen, Germany 8Oct43 (8KIA:2POW). The formation was met with stiff
resistance by German fighters and flak crews on the ground the entire way, from the Dutch
coast all the way into the German heartland. In addition, a large force of German fighters
launched vicious attacks against the planes. Over the target, the formation encountered
intense flak. Two bombs had failed to release and these were hit by flak causing an explosion.
The remains of the bomber crashed on the road to Ottersburg, east of Bremen MACR 947.
30359 (MSN 5473) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 1Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 2Jun43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field,
NB 3Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 25Jun43.
339th Bomb Squadron [QJ*D], 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk
27Jun43. Failed to return from a mission to the port area of Bremen, Germany 29Nov43
(8KIA:2POW). Shot down by Lt Hans Ehlers in Fw 190A-6
of JG 1/3 near Oldenburg, Germany and crashed near Syke,
12 miles south of Bremen, Germany MACR 1392.
30360 (MSN 5474) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 1Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 2Jun43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 4Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 28Jun43.
338th Bomb Squadron [BX*P], 96th Bomb Group 1Jul43. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik,
Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 7Jul43. 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath
(Station 138), Norfolk Jul43. Named "Lady Millicent/Chinook" Failed to return from a mission
to Quakenbr�ck 8Apr43 (8POW:2EVD). Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Azewijn-Ulft,
east of Arnhem, Netherlands. MACR 3649
30361 (MSN 5475) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 31May43. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport
Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 9Jun43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa.
341st Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Chateau-du-Rhumel, Algeria 18Jun43. Pont-du-Fahs,
Tunisia 11Aug43. Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 15Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43.
Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43. San Giovanni, Cerignola, Italy 20Dec43. Foggia #7,
Amendola, Italy 16Jan44. Declared 'war weary'. Reassigned for utility, training and weather
check aircraft 9Jul44. 310th Ferrying Squadron, 31st Ferrying Group, Creil (A-81C),
France. Damaged when nosed over at Creil 13Jun45. Returned to US. 4168th Base Unit
(Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Cal-Aero Field, Ontario, CA for storage and disposal 27Jun45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Sharp & Fellows Contracting Company Jul46; scrapped
30362 (MSN 5476) Accepted by USAAF 21May43. United Air Lines, Modification
Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23May43. 7th Ferrying Group,
Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 25May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 5Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME Jun43. Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander,
Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 27/28Jun43. 561st Bomb Squadron [U],
388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 7Jul43. {first combat mission 28Jul43}.
Named "Wee Bonnie II". . After the target, the bomber turned south and landed
at the Twelfth Air Force base at B�ne, Algeria. Later positioned to Telergma, Algeria.
On return to England, operated a mission to a Luftwaffe air depot at M�rignac, Bordeaux,
France 24Aug43. The bomber suffered battle damage and, with fuel exhaustion, the
plane force landed at RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk with one propeller feathered and serious
engine trouble. Failed to return from an Operation Starkey mission to the industrial
area of Paris, France 9Sep43 (6POW:5EVD). The briefed route was followed to the I.P.
when the lead bombardier was hit by flak and unable to complete the bomb run on
the primary target. There was cloud cover over the secondary target which was the
Luftwaffe airfield at Beaumont Sur Oise, northwest of Paris. Shortly after it was hit by
flak en route to the target, it was also hit by 20mm cannon shells in the left wing
outboard of No.1 engine. The plane lost speed and altitude caused by a large hole
in the wing. The bombardier jettisoned the bombs near Paris. The plane was reported
to be under control although the pilot was seen slumped over the wheel but he bailed
out with the crew. Crashed Houilles, a northwestern suburb of Paris, France. {9 missions}.
MACR 3134.
30363 (MSN 5477) Accepted by USAAF 19May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 1Jun43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island
Field, NB 5Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 1Jul43.
338th Bomb Squadron, 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 4Jul43.
Named "Ruth L III". Modified for radio counter measures. 803rd Bomb Squadron (H)
Provisional, RAF Oulton. 388th Bomb Group. Base Air Depot No.1, Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire.
Modified as a drone for Operation Aphrodite and Castor missions. Designated BQ-7.
562nd Bomb Squadron, 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk, later at
Fersfield (Station 554), Norfolk. Expended on Castor mission to the oil refinery at
Hemmingstedt, Germany 14Sep44, missed target due to poor weather conditions.
30364 (MSN 5478) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 21May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 1Jun43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 4Jun43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 29Jun43. 551st Bomb Squadron,
385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 26Jun43.
Named 'The Old Shillelagh II'. Participated in a shuttle mission
to the Messerschmitt aircraft factories at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43. After the target,
the bomber turned south and landed at the Twelfth Air Force base at B�ne, Algeria.
Later positioned to Telergma, Algeria. On return to England, failed to return from a
mission to a Luftwaffe air depot at M�rignac, Bordeaux, France 24Aug43 (3POW:6EVD).
shot down by Uffz Gehrels of JGr Ost/1 and crashed at Boulair,
eleven miles southeast of Auch, thirty-four miles west of Toulouse, France. MACR 395.
30365 (MSN 5479) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 20May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 31May43. North Atlantic Wing, Air
Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 11Jul43. 337th Bomb Squadron [AW*B],
96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 13Jul43.
Named RUM BOOGIE III [96BG]. Believed named for the hit song Rhumboogie by the Andrews Sisters
Lost Oct 17, 1943 during mission recall
from attack on Duren, Germany. Last seen going down in
flames of Cromer, Norfolk. MACR 1019. Crew of 10 seen to bail
out, but were never found.
30366 (MSN 5480) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 24May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 1Jun43. Smoky Hill Field,
Salina, KS 2Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 4Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 25Jun43. 338th Bomb Squadron [BX*A], 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton
Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 26Jun43. Named "Fertile Myrtle III"
Battle damaged during a mission to the submarine construction yard at Vegesack, Bremen,
Germany 16Dec43. The crew bailed out over Norfolk before the plane crashed at Silver Fox
Farm, Taverham, Norfolk. Salvaged 31Jan44
30367 (MSN 5481) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 23May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 1Jun43. Smoky Hill
Field, Salina, KS 2Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 4Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 27Jun43. 337th Bomb Squadron [AW*Y], 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton
Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 1Jul43. Named "Flak Happy". Failed to return from a
mission to an aircraft factory at Bremen, Germany 8Oct43 (7KIA:3POW). The formation
was met with stiff resistance by German fighters and flak crews on the ground the entire way,
from the Dutch coast all the way into the German heartland. In addition, a large force of
German fighters launched vicious attacks against the planes. Over the target, the formation
encountered intense flak, and was shot down by Lt Heinz-Gunther
Luck in Fw 190A-6 of JG 1/1 and crashed Neuscharrel, fifteen
miles southwest of Bad Zwischenahn, Germany. MACR 852.
30368 (MSN 5482) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 1Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 2Jun43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 4Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 7Jun43.
338th Bomb Squadron [BX*B], 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 26Jun43.
Named "Gil". Landing accident at Snetterton Heath 4Oct43. Failed to return from a mission to the
port area at Bremen, Germany 20Dec43 (10POW). Attacked by a large force of enemy fighters and
flak over the target area was very intense. Damaged by flak, crashed near Aurich, Germany
MACR 1703.
30369 (MSN 5483) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 23May43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 4Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 28Jun43. 339th Bomb Squadron [QJ*R], 96th Bomb Group 1Jul43. Ferried Meeks Field,
Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 5Jul43. 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath
(Station 138), Norfolk Jul43. Named DAISY - JUNE IV / BOMB-BOOGIE. Failed to return from a
mission to the industrial area at Augsburg, Germany 16Mar44 (7POW:3KIA). From Strasburg,
Germany to Augsburg, the bombers were attacked by Luftwaffe fighters in a running battle.
Flak over the target was moderate and accurate; flak en route was meagre and inaccurate.
Damaged by enemy aircraft and rockets, crashed Balingen, halfway up the Hirschberg,
thirteen miles northeast of Rottweil, Germany. MACR 3421
30370 (MSN 5484) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 23May43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 4Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 27Jun43. 338th Bomb Squadron, 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 4Jul43(
Named "Little Caesar:. Transferred to 96th BG, 337th BS
Named "Veni Vedi Vici". Failed to return from a mission to the Heinkel Flugzeugwerke
aircraft factory which had been converted to Fw 190 fighter production at Warnem�nde,
Germany 29Jul43 (11KIA). Bombed the target and on return at a point three miles off Cromer, Norfolk
on the English coast, at 2,500 feet the left wing of this plane came down onto B-17F, 42-5908
of the 388th Bomb Group, slid on top of #908 and both collided. One plane broke in half and both
fell in the sea on fire. Crashed North Sea, off Cromer, Norfolk. MACR 144.
30371 (MSN 5485) Accepted by USAAF 20May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 23May43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training
Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 6Apr43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 25Jun43. 560th Bomb Squadron [H], 388th Bomb Group,
Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 26Jun43. Named "Iza Angel II" {first combat mission 12Aug43}.
Participated in a shuttle mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factories at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43.
After the target, the bomber turned south and landed at the Twelfth Air Force base at B�ne, Algeria.
Later positioned to Telergma, Algeria. On return to England, operated a mission to a Luftwaffe air
depot at M�rignac, Bordeaux, France 24Aug43. Battle damaged on an Operation Starkey mission to
the industrial area of Paris, France 9Sep43. The Fortress was hit in the wing and badly damaged
over Les Andeleys on the way to attack a target in the Paris area and was forced to leave the
formation and turn back. Eight German fighters rode high above the crippled bomber in an
orderly formation to create the impression that it was a friendly escort. Then, when the
bomber was away from the rest of the formation, the German fighters closed in for the kill.
The pilot and his co-pilot with their crew members proceeded to dogfight the Fortress
against its attackers, twisting and turning the bomber in spite of its badly damaged
wing to expose less target surface to the enemy and to force them to break off their attacks.
Several huge holes were punched through the left wing by the first attack of two strings of
enemy fighters when the bomber was approaching Paris. It looked like a 37mm shell from
the size of the holes. The control cables to the left aileron were shot out and immediately
the aircraft began to vibrate. It jumped way to the left of the formation, and shook itself
from that time all the way home. The bombardier opened the bomb bay doors and jettisoned
the bombs to get rid of their weight. The aircraft tried to keep up with the formation but
couldn't. Soon after it left it the friendly fighter escort was way up with the leading formation
and the bomber was alone. It made a slow turn and headed back for the coast. It was losing
altitude about 1,000ft a minute. Then eight enemy fighters came in and hit the bomber again.
On their first sweep, the bombardier shot down a Bf 109. When they attacked again,
The engineer/top turret gunner and the ball turret gunner each shot down another fighter.
Three of the enemy fighters turned towards home. Only one stayed with the bomber.
He kept with it all the way to the coast. The crew did a little bit of dogfighting with him.
They would turn into him as he dived and he would overshoot and have to go on and turn and
make another pass. He attacked from everywhere, evidently trying to find a position with a
gun out. He finally made one last approach from the rear. The bomber climbed sharply from
him and could see a stream of 20mm shells pouring past it just under the wing. The German
must have used up all his ammunition then. He went far out to the left and started wobbling
his wings. Near the French coast, the bomber, which was now down to 7,000ft, was startled
by a terrific barrage of flak, but it weathered that storm and made a forced landing at RAF Ford,
West Sussex. The crew, which sang "Coming in on a Wing and a Prayer" as they were doing
just that, was loud in its praise of each other. Failed to return from a mission to the German
Navy cruiser N�rnberg in the port area of Gdynia, Poland 9Oct43 (4KIA:6POW). The bomber
was attacked by German fighters on the way home over South Jutland. Struck by a grenade
shot from Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighters so that a fire broke out in the right wing, which
spread to the aircraft's radio room and bomb bay. The plane slowly dropped out of the
formation and the bail out was given with the pilot leaving the aircraft last. Shortly after this
the plane exploded over the North Sea, southwest of Fan�, Denmark. {9 missions}.
MACR 3141.
30372 (MSN 5486) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 24May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 25May43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island
Field, NB 4Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 27Jun43.
413th Bomb Squadron [MZ*P], 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 26Jun43..
Named "Shack Rabbit III" Failed to return from a mission to the industrial area
at D�ren, Germany 20Oct43 (4KIA:6EVD). When the bomber circled above the North Sea
in order to reach enough altitude to then set course for the Belgian coast, engine No.4
started to cause problems. In recent weeks there have been a lot of problems with the
turbochargers within the Group. As the Group climbed, the plane fell behind
because it didn't have enough power. The question arose: should the crew return or
continue the mission? The pilot wanted to persevere. In the meantime they had climbed
close to the required cruising altitude. He reasoned that if the formation dropped
just a little bit, to about 24,000ft, they would fit back into the formation. But their
place had already been taken by another aircraft and they now had to fly in the
unenviable position of "tail end charlie". When they crossed the Belgian coast they saw a
heavy, dark cloud bank in front of them. It must have been the same weather front that
caused previous missions to be canceled. As the Group approached the clouds,
they started to climb and lost this plane again. It was already flying at maximum height and
could not squeeze anymore out of the engines. Now easy prey, the bomber was attacked by
enemy fighters in the vicinity of Bergen and Tournai. It was shot down by
Hauptmann Peter-Paul Steindl of 11./JG 26. Three airmen were killed as the tail was shot
off, the plane was out of control and the crew bailed out. The aircraft exploded in the air,
pieces fell on a wide area, the front near Qu�vaucamps, the tail section near Hensies,
both near the French border, west of Mons, Belgium Also listed as shot down by
Lt Paul Mungersdorff in Bf 109G-6 of JG 2/II Stab over
Grandglise, Belgium. MACR 1017
30373 (MSN 5487) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 24May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 25May53.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island
Field, NB 4Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 1Jul43.
338th Bomb Squadron [BX*T], 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 4Jul43.
Named "Lucky Lady III" . Failed to return from a mission to an aircraft factory
at Bremen, Germany 8Oct43 (6POW:5KIA). The formation was met with stiff resistance by
German fighters and flak crews on the ground the entire way, from the Dutch coast all the
way into the German heartland. In addition, a large force of German fighters launched
vicious attacks against the planes. Over the target, the formation encountered intense flak
Shot down by Oblt. Fritz Stratmannin Bf 110G-2 of ZG 1/3
and crashed Weingbergen, five miles southeast of Verden,Germany. MACR 854.
30374 (MSN 5488) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport,
WY 24May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 25May43. Operational
Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 3Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 27Jun43.
332nd Bomb Squadron [XM*A], 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468),
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 27Jun43. Named "Little Sir Echo"
Departed for a mission to the industrial area at D�ren, Germany 20Oct43. The mission was
abandoned because of bad weather. Two engines failed and caught fire, some crew bailed out,
and the aircraft crashed on the A2 Canterbury road at Lydden, near Dover, Kent.
The aircraft was trying to land at RAF Swingfield, Dover, Kent, but force landed, gear retracted,
on the road and slewed into a field. Salvaged 21Oct43. L
30375 (MSN 5489) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 25May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 5Jun43. Dalhart Field, TX 27Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 26Jul43. Force landed at Geiger Jul 29, 1943
Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 8Aug43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 11Aug43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME 16Aug43. 365th Bomb Squadron [XK*B], 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston
(Station 105), Northamptonshire 3Sep43. Base Air Depot No.1, Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire 20May44. . Named
"Yo Yo-Miss Donna Mae/Always Comes Back". Transferred to 21 BAD Burtonwood May 20, 1944. .
Returned to US. Station 8, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Homestead Field, FL 24Jul44.
4136th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma
City, OK 25Jul44. Reclaimed 17Jul45
30376 (MSN 5490) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 23May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 1Jun43. Smoky Hill Field,
Salina, KS 2Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 3Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 25Jun43. 333rd Bomb Squadron, 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468),
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 26Jun43 named "Bouncing Bitch"
"Bouncin' Annie I". Transferred to 331st BS, 94th BG (named "Southern Belle", aka "Bouncin' Bitch III")
Failed to return from a mission to the Luftwaffe air depot at M�rignac, Bordeaux, France 5Dec43.
When the target was found to be completely obscured, the Group turned to its secondary
target, the Luftwaffe airfield at Cognac. Finding this target also obscured and facing a fuel shortage,
the planes began jettisoning their bomb loads. Meagre flak along the route intensified
over target and about a dozen fighters attacked. Severe weather conditions, ditched English Channel.
Crew of 10 rescued.
30377 (MSN 5491) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 25May43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 4Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 27Jun43. 412th Bomb Squadron [QW*R], 95th Bomb Group,
Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 12Jul43. Named "Roger the Lodger II" . Failed to return
from a mission to the Focke-Wulf aircraft factory at Marienburg, East Prussia 9Oct43 (10KIA).
Enemy aircraft damaged No.2 engine then another damaged No.3 engine, aircraft exploded mid-air,
crashed North Sea, NW of Heligoland. {18 missions}. MACR 850.
30378 (MSN 5492) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25May43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 5Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 4Jul43. 331st Bomb Squadron [QE*A], 94th Bomb Group 4Jul43.
Named WOLF PACK / GOOD TIME CHOLLY III. Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander,
Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 5/6Jul43. 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468),
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk Jul43. Failed to return from a mission to the industrial area at Brunswick,
Germany 10Feb44 (10POW). Enemy aircraft hit between No.3 & No.4 engines, crash landed Biemolton,
six miles north of Nordhorn, Germany. MACR 2386
30379 (MSN 5493) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 24May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 25May43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 4Jun43. Dyersburg Field, TN 27Jun43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 22Jul43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 31Jul43.
Converted for the ELINT role, additional fuel tanks were installed in the bomb bay, and a radar
observer's position was built in the radio room with racks for receivers and seats for two observers.
'Ferret IV'. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa 7Aug43. Detachment, 64th Troop Carrier Group.
16th Reconnaissance Squadron (Heavy) Special, 68th Reconnaissance Group, Foch Field, Tunisia Sep43.
Failed to return from a reconnaissance mission along the coast north of Naples, Italy 25Jan44 (13MIA).�MACR 2059.
30380 (MSN 5494) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 24May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 25May43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 9Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 27Jun43. 350th Bomb Squadron [LN*W], 100th Bomb Group 1Jul43.
Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 5Jul43.
100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk Jul43. 8th Weather Reconnaissance
Squadron (Heavy) (Provisional), 802nd Reconnaissance Group, Watton (Station 376),
Norfolk 21Mar44. Returned to US. Station 8, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command,
Homestead Field, FL 21Jun44. 4136th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service
Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 30Jun44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Bush Field, Augusta, GA for storage and disposal 19May45
30381 (MSN 5495) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 25May43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 7Jun43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 18Jun43. Combat Crew Training School, Casper Field, WY 28Jun43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 30Jun43. Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 7Jul43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 9Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 10Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 419th Bomb Squadron,
301st Bomb Group, Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 26Jul43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia,
Tunisia 6Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Cerignola #1, Italy 10Dec43. Foggia #8 (Longskirt),
Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. {17 missions}. 341st Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy.
Failed to return from a mission to the Dunai Rep�l?g�pgy�r aircraft factory at T�k�l, Budapest,
Hungary 3Apr44 (2POW:8EVD). Flak damaged two engines and the plane turned back with two
propellers feathered. Crashed near Sarajevo, Bosnia, Yugoslavia. The airmen were assisted by
Chetniks and partisans in evading but two were subsequently captured. Named "Little Red Head". MACR 3581
30382 (MSN 5496) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25May43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 5Jun43. Dow Field, Bangor, ME 6 4Jul43.
331st Bomb Squadron [QE*Z2], 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds,
Suffolk 8Jul43 Named "Horrible Hanks". Damaged when turret was sheared off in a collision,
aircraft returned to base safely (1KIA). Salvaged 23Jun43 Returned to US. North Atlantic Wing, Air
Transport Command, Grenier Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 16Oct43. Rome Air Technical Service
Command, Rome Field, NY 17Jan44. 4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command),
South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 13Jul44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41,
Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 3Nov45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped.
30383 (MSN 5497) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25May43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 5Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 7Jul43. 332nd Bomb Squadron [XM*D2], 94th Bomb Group,
Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 8Jul43 .Named LARRUPIN' LOU'.
Loaned to 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk, named ."Brennan's Circus"
Failed to return from a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43 (10RTD).
En route to the target area, the bomber formation was repeatedly attacked by a large number of Luftwaffe
fighters. Enemy aircraft damaged an engine ten minutes before the target was reached. Dropping back
from the formation, it was intended to jettison the bombs but the bomb bay doors were damaged
and would not open. The pilot turned and dove down to try and shake off the fighters but the plane was
still being struck by cannon shells and managed to hit a second engine with the propeller overspeeding.
Finally, the bombs were jettisoned and the bomber raced home at tree top level with civilians in
occupied territory waving and cheering the crew. Reaching the coast, enemy machine gunners damaged
a third engine. Finally, the pilot had to ditch the plane and did so in the North Sea five miles from England.
A rescue boat was nearby and the crew taken on board without getting their feet wet as the bomber bagan to sink
30384 (MSN 5498) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25May43.
Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 6Jun43. 4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal
Airport, TN 8Jun43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 347th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Navarin
(Overcoat), El Eulma, Algeria 29Jun43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 4Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43.
Named . SIROCCO (the name was applied to the nose and tail).
30385 (MSN 5499) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25May43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 5Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 11Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 353rd Bomb Squadron,
301st Bomb Group, Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 18Jul43. Oudna #1,
Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Cerignola #1, Italy 10Dec43.
Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. Failed to return from a mission to the aircraft engine
factories at Wiener Nuedorf, Austria 26Jul44 (9KIA:1POW). Attacked by Oberleutnant Ernst-Erich
Hirschfeld of 6./JG 300. No.4 engine was damaged and the right wing on fire. The aircraft made a
steep turn and was out of control when the left wing collided with B-17G 42-102929.
Crashed at Strallegg, Austria. {87 missions}. MACR 7000
30386 (MSN 5500) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 11Jun43. Dyersburg Field, TN 27Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 28Jun43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 22Jul43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 2Aug43. 364th Bomb Squadron [WF*E],
305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 6Sep43 Named "Daley's Male"
Failed to return from a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical works at Oppau, Ludwigshafen,
Germany 7Jan44 (2KIA:6POW:2EVD). Damaged by flak, crashed near Estr�e-Blanche, eleven miles
southeast of Saint-Omer, France. MACR 1963
30387 (MSN 5501) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25May43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 5Jun43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great
Falls, MT 7Jun43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 9Jun43. Dalhart
Field, TX 27Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 27Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle
Field, ME 3Aug43. Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland
to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 5/6Aug43. 326th Bomb Squadron [JW*A], 92nd Bomb Group,
Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire 21Aug43. Failed to return from a mission to the
ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43 (9POW:1KIA). En route to the target
area, the bomber formation was repeatedly attacked by a large number of Luftwaffe fighters.
After the target, the Group turned and headed westward for England. German fighters, having
landed and refueled, attacked again and shot down by Hptm H-J Thomeschat in
Bf 110G-4 of NJG 101/7. Numbers 3 and 4 engines on fire, one propeller feathered.
Crashed near Markt Bibart, twenty-two miles southeast of W�rzburg, Germany. MACR 849
30388 (MSN 5502) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 11Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 20Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 23Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 5Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa.
429th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, A�n M'lila (Onyx), Constantine, Algeria 13Jul43 Named "Danny Boy"
23Jul43 (1WIA:9RTD). Twenty to thirty enemy fighters attacked the formation between Gallipoli and Cape
Trento. Massicault, Tunis, Tunisia 1Aug43. Failed to return from a mission to airfields at Istres-Le Tub�
and Salon-de-Provence, Marseille, France 17Aug43 (3KIA:3POW:4EVD). The bomber was hit by flak
about five minutes before bomb release. The burst smacked into the right wing area setting the number
four engine on fire. The flames spread along the right wing and fuselage. The right wing came off,
the plane began to spin down, out of control, then started to disintegrate as the fuselage
separated just aft of the radio room. Several airmen were able to bail out before the plane crashed
near Avignon, France. {7 missions}. MACR 406
30389 (MSN 5503) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 27May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 2Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 12Jun43. Geiger Field,
Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 23Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 5Jul43. 331st Bomb Squadron [QE*Z], 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468),
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 7Jul43. 1st Strategic Air Depot, Troston (Station 595), Suffolk Aug43.
Named "Dear Mom". 331st Bomb Squadron [QE*Z]. Failed to return from a shuttle mission
to the Messerschmitt aircraft factories at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43 (6KIA:2POW:2EVD).
Shot down by Hptn Kark Borris in Fw 190A-6 of JG 26/1.
Cannon fire devastated the nose compartment killing the occupants before the bomber exploded.
The tail section broke off and ejected the gunners. The bomber crashed at Lummen, six miles east of Deist, Belgium. .
MACR 323.
30390 (MSN 5504) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 10Jun43. 2345th Base Unit, Clovis Field, NM 24Jun44. 247th Base Unit
(Operational Training Unit), Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 26Jan45. 2038th Base Unit, Hawkins Field,
Jackson, MS 3Feb45. 232nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dalhart Field, TX 22Oct45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and
disposal 27Oct45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
30391 (MSN 5505) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29May43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 9Jun43. Dyersburg Field, TN 27Jun43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 22Jul43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 2Aug43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa.
340th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Pont-du-Fahs, Tunisia 12Aug43. Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 15Aug43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43. San Giovanni, Cerignola, Italy 20Dec43.
Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44. Battle damage during a tactical mission against German troop
concentrations and defensive positions at Campoleone in support of the Allied beachhead at Anzio,
Italy 17Feb44. Flak was heavy, intense and accurate. On return, crash landed at Amendola.
301st Bomb Group, Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 25Nov44. Declared 'war weary'. Reassigned
for utility, training and weather check aircraft. Salvaged 1May45
30392 (MSN 5506) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29May43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 9Jun43. Dyersburg Field, TN 27Jun43. Operational
Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 22Jul43. North Atlantic
Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 2Aug43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa.
414th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 26Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force,
Italy 1Nov43. Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43. San Giovanni, Cerignola, Italy 20Dec43. Foggia #7,
Amendola, Italy 16Jan44. Exploded while being re-fuelled at Amendola 21Apr44. Salvaged
30393 (MSN 5507) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 7Jun43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field,
Oklahoma City, OK 8Jun43. 4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 24Jun43. North
Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 2Jul43. Twelfth Air Force,
North Africa. Modified with radio jamming equipment and engine exhaust flame suppression.
Operated by 99th Bomb Group on a secret night mission during the Operation Husky invasion
of Sicily 9Jul43. Departed from Sfax, Tunisia, on the mission to Cape Passero, Sicily, circulating
above the C-47 and glider invasion force while jamming the German radar. 348th Bomb Squadron,
99th Bomb Group, Navarin (Overcoat), El Eulma, Algeria 11Jul43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia,
Tunisia 4Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. 340th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group,
Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 14Nov43. Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43. San Giovanni, Cerignola,
Italy 20Dec43. Crashed Cerignola 31Dec43. Salvaged. Named LUCKY LADY.
30394 (MSN 5508) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26May43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 5Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 27Jun43. 339th Bomb Squadron, 96th Bomb Group,
Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 27Jun43. Failed to return from a mission to the
AGO-Flugzeugwerke Fw 190 manufacturing factory at Oschersleben, Germany 28Jul43 (6POW:4KIA).
Shot down by enemy fighters, ditched off Sylt Island, North Sea. MACR 143.
30395 (MSN 5509) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27May43.
Roswell Field, NM 7Jun43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44.
Force landed with mechanical failure at Roswell Field 24Jan45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 3Aug45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped.
Also listed as W/o 23 Jun 1943 in Gulf of Mexico off Tampa, FL
30396 (MSN 5510) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 27May43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field,
Oklahoma City, OK 9Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 27Jun43.
Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. Modified with radio jamming equipment and engine exhaust flame
suppression. Operated by 99th Bomb Group on a secret night mission during the Operation Husky
invasion of Sicily 9Jul43. Departed from Sfax, Tunisia, on the mission to Cape Passero, Sicily, circulating
above the C-47 and glider invasion force while jamming the German radar. 348th Bomb Squadron,
99th Bomb Group, Navarin (Overcoat), El Eulma, Algeria 11Jul43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 4Aug43.
Failed to return from a mission to railway marshalling yards at Bologna, Italy 2Sep43 (8POW:2EVD).
Just north of Florence the bomber was struck by machine gun fire, which may have come from the fighter
escort, setting No.2 engine on fire. Turning off the target, the plane dropped out of formation and was
then attacked by a flight of Italian enemy fighters of 8� Gruppo. The pilot headed towards Switzerland
while the fighters continued to attack but finally left the bomber alone. The No.1 engine failed and
the propeller oversped. The navigator, bombardier and co-pilot had bailed out taking the maps with them.
Losing altitude and the need to fly through the valleys of the Alps, the pilot was unable to find a
route to Switzerland. The remainder of the crew bailed out safely at 5,000ft over Domodossola, Lodi, Italy.
The tail gunner had been wounded and all were immediately captured. The plane crashed in the Italian Alps
MACR 565.
30397 (MSN 5511) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27May43.
Roswell Field, NM 7Jun43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun43.
3508th Base Unit (Technical School), Truax Field, Madison, WI 23Oct43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 27Oct43. 4126th Base Unit (San Bernardino Air Technical Service
Command), San Bernardino Field, CA 13Jan45. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH),
Roswell Field, NM 1May45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM
for storage and disposal 3Aug45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped
30398 (MSN 5512) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27Jun43.
Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 6Jun43. 4th Ferrying Group, Memphis
Municipal Airport, TN 8Jun43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 2nd Bomb Group, Marrakech,
French Morocco. 429th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, A�n M'lila (Onyx), Constantine,
Algeria 19Jun43. Named *Patches*. {first combat mission 3Jul43}. Massicault, Tunis,
Tunisia 1Aug43. Failed to return from a mission to the marshalling yards at Genoa,
Italy 29Oct43 (7KIA:3POW). Hit by flak just after dropping its bombs and took a devastating
flak strike through the fuel tank for number three engine. One burst hit in the radio room and
another hit at the tail wheel. On fire, the plane nosed up, rolled completely over, went into a
spin and soon started to disintegrate to crash in the harbour at Genoa. {40 missions}.
30399 MSN 5513) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27May43.
Roswell Field, NM 7Jun43. 225th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Rapid City Field, SD.
Destroyed when force landed after engine failure twenty-eight miles northeast of Rapid City 2Aug44. Salvaged 3Aug44
30400 (MSN 5514) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28May43.
Roswell Field, NM 9Jun43. Dyersburg Field, TN 7Jul43. 551st Two Engine Flying Training Squadron,
314th Two Engine Flying Training Group, Roswell Field, NM. Crashed taking off at Roswell 20Nov43.
3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44. 4124th Base Unit
(Air Technical Service Command), Altus Field, OK 20Jul45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 9Oct45.
30401 (MSN 5515) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28May43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 9Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 27Jun43. 338th Bomb Squadron, 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138),
Norfolk 26Jun43. Failed to return from a mission to the AGO-Flugzeugwerke Fw 190 manufacturing
factory at Oschersleben, Germany 28Jul43 (10KIA). Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed North Sea
MACR 139.
30402 (MSN 5516) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28May43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 9Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 27Jun43. 418th Bomb Squadron [LD*W], 100th Bomb Group,
Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk Jul43. . Named "The Poontang". Battle damaged
15Aug43 (1KIA). Failed to return from a mission to the Bosch magneto factory at Stuttgart,
Germany 6Sep43 (1INT:9POW), on the way into the target, an oil leak developed in No.2 engine.
The pilot could then have aborted but decided to press on. Somewhere near the Initial Point oil
pressure went to zero and the propeller would not feather. Cylinder head temperature went sky high.
If engine seized and propeller came off it could have been disastrous to aircraft. It was decided to
head south for Switzerland. When they believed themselves over Switzerland, the crew bailed out
but it turned out that only the pilot, who remained with the aircraft until the crew had successfully bailed
out, landed in Switzerland, the others in Germany. MACR 688
30403 (MSN 5517) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 6Oct43. Rapid City Field, SD 20Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 23Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 5Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa.
20th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, A�n M'lila (Onyx), Constantine, Algeria 23Jul43. Massicault, Tunis,
Tunisia 1Aug43. {first combat mission 9Aug43}. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. {16 missions}.
419th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Oudna #2, Tunis, Tunisia 14Nov43. Cerignola #1, Italy 10Dec43.
Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. Battle damaged during a mission to the Wiener Neust�dter
Flugzeugwerke factory at Wiener Neust�dt, Vienna, Austria 10May44 (1KIA:9RTD). Flak was very intense,
accurate and heavy, resulting in damage to the aircraft and killing the bombardier despite wearing a
flak suit. {62 missions}. {total 95 missions}. Declared 'war weary'. Reassigned for utility, training and
weather check aircraft 27Jul44. United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) Aug45. Ninth Air Force Sep45.
Salvaged 5Nov45. Named RITA MOSQUITA / BRITE EYES.
30404 (MSN 5518) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27May43.
Roswell Field, NM 9Jun43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44.
3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 28Apr45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 14Sep45.
30405 (MSN 5519) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27May43.
Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 8Jun43. 20th Ferrying Group, Berry Field,
Nashville, TN 20Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 2Jun43.
Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. Modified with radio jamming equipment and engine exhaust flame
suppression. Operated by 99th Bomb Group on a secret night mission during the Operation Husky
invasion of Sicily 9Jul43. Departed from Sfax, Tunisia, on the mission to Cape Passero, Sicily,
circulating above the C-47 and glider invasion force while jamming the German radar.
346th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Navarin (Overcoat), El Eulma, Algeria 11Jul43. Oudna #1,
Mohammedia, Tunisia 4Aug43. Crash landed at Oudna 12Oct43. Damaged on a tactical mission
to a railway viaduct at Anth�or, Saint-Rapha�l, France 31Oct43. Over the target the No.3 engine was
struck by 'friendly fire' and lost its oil, preventing the propeller from being feathered. With drag
from the windmilling propeller, the plane dropped out of formation and headed for Italy. Despite
the engine on fire, the plane landed safely at Decimomannu, Cagliari, Sardinia. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43.
414th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 14Nov43. Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43.
San Giovanni, Cerignola, Italy 20Dec43. Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44. Failed to return from a
mission to the Steyr-Daimler-Puch factory complex at Steyr, Austria 24Feb44 (3KIA:7EVD). Mid-air collision
with B-17G 42-31622 en route to the target when the mission was cancelled because of fog. The formation
started a turn for home. The left wing man come sailing sideways down out of the fog. The plane's
right wing then went up and this plane slid under but not fast enough. The No.4 engine propeller of #622
started cutting this plane in two at the tail wheel. The tail section fell free with the tail gunner desperately
trying to get his chest pack on and fastened. He pulled the latch to jettison the escape hatch but it
wouldn't work. He then moved forward through flapping aluminium and control cables and tumbled free.
With the tail cut off, the plane crashed at Bosanski Petrovac, Bosnia, Yugoslavia. Survivors landed
between the Germans and theYugoslavian guerrillas. The Yugoslavs took them over the mountains
to where a C-47 slipped in at night and flew them back to Italy MACR 3292.
30406 (MSN 5520) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27May43.
Roswell Field, NM 9Jun43. Hobbs Field, NM 7Jul43. Roswell Field, NM 6Aug43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44. 3010th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine),
Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 10Dec44. Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets
and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F. 3020th Base Unit (Pilot School, Advanced, Two Engine),
La Junta Field, CO 29Mar45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Searcey Field, Stillwater, OK
for storage and disposal 4Aug45. War Assets Corporation. Sold to Paul Mantz 19Feb46; scrapped.
30407 (MSN 5521) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 7Jun43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma
City, OK 10Jun43. 4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 20Jun43. Eglin Field,
Valparaiso, FL 27Jun43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 6Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air
Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 9Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa.
414th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Ch�teaudun-du-Rhumel (Helen), Constantine, Algeria 19Jul43.
Pont-du-Fahs, Tunisia 11Aug43. Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 15Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43.
Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43. San Giovanni, Cerignola, Italy 20Dec43. Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44.
Named 'War Pappy". {100th mission to the railway marshalling yards, Ferrara, Italy 14May44}. Participated
in the first Operation Frantic shuttle mission to the railway marshalling yards at Debrecen, Hungary 2Jun44.
After the target, the bomber continued east and landed at a Russian airfield near Poltava, Ukraine.
Operated a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Gala?i, Rumania 6Jun44, returning to Poltava. Returned to
base in Italy on the last sortie of Operation Frantic shuttle mission to the Luftwaffe airfield at Foc?ani,
Rumania 11Jun44. 100+ missions. Declared 'war weary'. Reassigned for utility, training and weather check aircraft 15Jul44.
Marcianise, Italy. Returned to US. 1103rd Base Unit (Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command),
Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 15Apr45. Rome Air Depot, NY 28Jun45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Bush Field, Augusta, GA for storage and disposal 4Jul45.
30408 (MSN 5522) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 9Jun43. Dalhart Field, TX 27Jun43. Air Service
Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 7Jul43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 28Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 4Aug43. Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander,
Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 5/6Aug43. 327th Bomb Squadron [UX*Q],
92nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire 14Aug43. Podington (Station 109),
Bedfordshire 15Sep43. Named "Sharon Belle". . Accident departing for a mission to the
industrial area of Solingen, Germany 30Nov43 (10KIA).. One engine caught fire after takeoff, the
plane was heading toward cottages, farmhouse and farm buildings at Astwell Castle Farm,
located about one mile east of the village of Helmdon, Northamptonshire. The pilot banked the aircraft
away from the houses and crashed in a huge explosion beyond the farm buildings at
Astwell Castle Farm near Paddington, UK Nov 30, 1943. All 10
onboard killed. MACR 688. Salvaged Dec 13, 1943.
30409 (MSN 5523) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 8Jun43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH),
Roswell Field, NM 12Jun43. Assigned to 94th Bomb Group, but crashed twenty miles west of Roswell 28Jul44 (1KIS:1DOI).
Salvaged 30Jul44
30410 (MSN 5524) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30May43.
5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 12Jun43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 20Jul43.
Ephrata AAB, WA 23Jul43. Ardmore Field, OK 27Oct43. 222nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Ardmore Field, OK 22Jan44. Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Cal-Aero Field, Ontario, CA for storage
and disposal 6Jun45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Sharp & Fellows Contracting Company Jul46; scrapped.
30411 (MSN 5525) Accepted by USAAF 26May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 9Jun43.
Dalhart Field, TX 27Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 26Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle
Field, ME 3Aug43. 568th Bomb Squadron [BI*J], 390th Bomb Group, 6Aug43. }.
Named "Rose Marie/Hot Rocks II" {first combat mission 31Aug43 Failed to return from a
mission to the industrial areas of Emden, Germany 11Dec43 (8POW:2KIA). The Luftwaffe was waiting for the
bombers; the moment the bombers crossed over into mainland Europe, six twin-engine fighters dived
out of the sun upon the formation, concentrating all their fire on the lead plane. Once the leader had been
downed, the fighters swept through the lead Squadron. Before the deputy lead had a chance to reassemble
the formation, a large force of single-engine fighters joined the fray, attacking the other bombers.
Struck by flak, crashed Leesdorf, Norden, north of Emden, Germany. {19 missions). MACR 1727.
30412 (MSN 5526) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28May43.
Roswell Field, NM 9Jun43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 10Jun43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Jul43. 339th Bomb Squadron [QJ*B], 96th Bomb Group 3Jul43.
Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 4/5Jul43.
96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk Jul43. Named "Muschief Maker II"
The crew's captain was something of a legend within the unit, and at one time he was bet a month's pay
by a fellow pilot that he could not do a full loop in a B-17. He promptly took the Mischief Maker II up on a
'training mission' and won the bet, making him one of the few pilots capable of this feat. Failed to return
from a mission to industrial areas in the suburbs of Berlin, Germany 4Mar44 (5POW:6EVD).
Because of severe weather in the assembly area, the group diverts to a target in the Ruhr valley, Germany.
Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Glabais, fifteen miles southeast of Brussels, Belgium. {15 missions}.
MACR 3425
30413 (MSN 5527) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28May43.
Roswell Field, NM 9Jun43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44.
2509th Base Unit (Bombardier School), Big Spring Field, TX 31Jul44. 3705th Base Unit (Technical School),
Lowry Field, Denver, CO 1Nov44. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell
Field, NM 8Dec44. Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 9Oct45
30414 (MSN 5528) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 28May43. 25th Ferrying Squadron, 7th Ferrying Group. Damaged when
ground looped landing at Cheyenne 28May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 9Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 7Jul43.
549th Bomb Squadron, 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 8Jul43.
Named 'Roundtrip Ticket II' Loaded up and ready to go on a mission, the
aircraft caught fire and exploded on its dispersal at Great Ashfield 3Sep43 (1KIS).
The aircraft was fully loaded with 500lb bombs. An oxygen leak in the top turret slinger
ring had been detected, the crew had exited the aircraft and were waiting for the leak to
be repaired. For some unknown reason a fire started aboard the aircraft. The fire platoon
was called but they were unable to control the fire and the aircraft and its entire bomb
load exploded. One of the firemen was killed; the engines were hurled across the airfield,
damaging five other aircraft. The other aircraft affected were B-17E 41-9017, B-17F 42-3097,
42-5911, 42-30091, 42-30251
30415 (MSN 5529) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28May43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 9Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 5Jul43. 410th Bomb Squadron [GL*P], 94th Bomb Group,
Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 7Jul43. Named "Sugar Puss III./Lucky Lady"
Failed to return from a mission to the industrial areas of Emden, Germany 11Dec43 (10POW:1KIA).
The Luftwaffe was waiting for the bombers; the moment the bombers crossed over into mainland
Europe, six twin-engine fighter dived out of the sun upon the formation, concentrating all their fire
on the lead plane. Once the leader had been downed, the fighters swept through the lead
Squadron. Before the deputy lead had a chance to reassemble the formation, a large force
of single-engine fighters joined the fray, attacking the other bombers. Shot down by Lt. Hans Ehlers
in Fw 190A-6 of JG 1/3 and crashed at Orvelte, Drente, Netherlands
MACR 1257.
30416 (MSN 5530) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 12Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 14Jun43.
Rapid City Field, SD 20Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 23Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 5Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa.
346th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Navarin (Overcoat), El Eulma, Algeria 30Jul43. Oudna #1,
Mohammedia, Tunisia 4Aug43. Named "Lil' Joan" Battle damaged on a mission to the railway
marshalling yards at Mestre, Venice, Italy 6Oct43 (10RTD). The bomber was seen to turn towards
the Adriatic Sea with two engines smoking and crash landed at Foggia Main, Italy.
Salvaged but sent to Air Depot for repair. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 340th Bomb Squadron,
97th Bomb Group, San Giovanni, Cerignola, Italy. Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44.
Failed to return from a mission to the railway marshalling yards at Padua, Italy 11Mar44 (9KIA:2POW).
The bomber, attacked and hit by Uffz. Gehring of 2./JG 53, was seen to explode in the air 5km from
the coast of Ravenna, Italy, and crashed in the Adriatic Sea.
MACR 2835.
30417 (MSN 5531) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 31May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 4Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 11Jun43. Saunders Provisional
Group, Grand Island Field, NB 14Jun43. Named "Small Arm". Crashed after engine failure en route to
Dow Field, Bangor, ME at Fish Hill, Randolph, VT 27Jun43 (3KIS). The intercoolers were set to hot
accidentally at the beginning of the flight, and they heated the oil in the engine until it burned,
pouring loads of dark smoke from the engines. One by one, the engines quit. At 8,000ft over a heavily
forested area, the pilot ordered the crew to bail out. Seven men jumped, the co-pilot, pilot, and tail-gunner
stayed with the plane. The tail-gunner was asleep, and was not aware of the problems.
They aimed for an open field, but struck a large oak tree as they were descending which tore the wing off,
and, losing airspeed, the aircraft plunged into the forest. Salvaged 1Jul43
30418 (MSN 5532) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 31May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 10Jun43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 14Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 27Jun43. 94th Bomb Group,
Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 27Jun43. 334th Bomb Squadron [BG*L],
95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk Jul43. Named "Pickadilly Commando".
Failed to return from a mission to a synthetic oil plant at Wesseling, Germany 12Aug43 (10POW).
At the I.P. it was impossible to identify the target because of the sun, which was directly ahead of the
formation obscuring the target. As a consequence, the primary target was abandoned and the Group
proceeded to their secondary target of an optical instrument factory in Bonn. Shot down by Uffz
Kloimuller of JGr.Sud/1 and crash landed at Mutzenich, near Monschau, Germany
MACR 254
30419 (MSN 5533) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 10Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 13Jun43.
Rapid City Field, SD 19Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 23Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 5Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa.
419th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria
16Jul43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43. Named "The Mighty Rabbit"
Battle damaged by heavy flak on a tactical mission to a railway bridge at Bolzano, Italy 25Sep43.
Battle damaged during a mission to the Messerschmitt factory at Augsburg, Germany 1Oct43.
During the approach to mainland Italy north of Florence there was anti-aircraft fire from the
ground and a few attacks by enemy fighters, which, however, had liitle effect. Most of the
remaining distance was flown between two layers of cloud at an altitude of 6,000 meters.
North of the Alps, the formation encountered a deep, closed cloud cover that stretched far to the north.
Because of the poor visibility, the mission was aborted 50km from Augsburg. They then
proceeded to an alternate target of shipping off Bastia, Corsica. Flak and enemy fighters
caused damage to the plane. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Failed to return from a mission
to a Luftwaffe airfield at Istres-Le Tub�, France 16Nov43 (10MIA). As the formation approached the
target area, it encountered flak. One explosion underneath the B-17 set No.4 engine ablaze.
The pilot attempted to feather the propeller but couldn't. Then, enemy aircraft attacked;
raking the B-17 from tail to nose with cannon fire, they succeeded in shooting it down
Shot down by Fw Heinz Hinz in Bf 109F-4 of JGr Sud/3. The aircraft went
into a steep glide, then hit the water of the Gulf of Lyon, Western Mediterranean Sea about
twenty miles from Marseille, France. There were no survivors, and no bodies were ever recovered. {35 missions}
MACR 1127.
10 KIA.
30420 (MSN 5534) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 1Jun43. Rapid City Field, SD 10Jun43. Geiger Field,
Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 28Jun43. Laurel Field, MS 1Jul43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 18Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 20Jul43. Ferried from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Nutts Corner
(Station 235), Belfast, Northern Ireland 25Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 340th Bomb Squadron,
97th Bomb Group, Pont-du-Fahs, Tunisia 11Aug43. Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 15Aug43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43. San Giovanni, Cerignola, Italy
20Dec43. Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44. Named "Her Did". Declared 'war weary'. Reassigned
for utility, training and weather check aircraft 9Jul44. Returned to US. 1103rd Base Unit (Caribbean
Wing, Air Transport Command), Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 13Mar45. 4100th Base Unit
(Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 23May45.
2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 28Apr45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 6Sep45.
30421 MSN 5535) Accepted by USAAF 27May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 29May43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 14Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 29Jun43.
561st Bomb Squadron [X], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 5Jul43. Named "Ginger Lou"
(first combat mission 16Aug43}. Failed to return from a mission to the industrial area of Emden,
Germany 2Oct43 (4MIA:6KIA). After dropping bombs on the target, flak damaged engine No.1 and the
propeller was feathered, then No.2 engine caught fire. The aircraft exploded killing the crew
and crashed in the North Sea off Heligoland, Germany. {7 missions}. MACR 3135.
30422 (MSN 5536) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 10Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 13Jun43.
Rapid City Field, SD 19Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 23Jun43.
Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 30Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 4Jul43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 16Jul43. 422nd Bomb Squadron [JJ*B],
305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 12Aug43 Named "Anytime Annie".
Experimented in night bombing alongside the RAF and operated night leaflet and propaganda missions.
Base Air Depot No.1, Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire 20May44. Returned to US. Station 8,
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Homestead Field, FL 23Jul44. 4136th Base Unit (Oklahoma City
Air Technical Service Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 6Aug44. Reclaimed 17May45.
30423 (MSN 5537) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 31May43. Rapid City Field, SD 16Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 5Jul43. 407th Bomb Squadron [PY*P],
92nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire 7Aug43. 326th Bomb Squadron [JW*P].
Failed to return from a mission to railway marshalling yards at Frankfurt am Main,
Germany 4Feb44 (1KIA:5POW:4EVD). As the planes were passing over the Netherlands en route to Germany,
local cross winds carried the bombers straight into enemy flak. Returning from the target, the aircraft
was struck by flak and, with the No.2 engine on fire, shells having hit both wings and the fuselage,
it had to leave the formation. Thus isolated, it is then attacked by a flight of Bf 109 fighters. The crew
bailed out, the plane crashed and burned in a swamp 3km north of Koersel, 15km north of Hasselt, Belgium.
Salvaged by German forces and stored at Enemy Equipment Park No.5 MACR 2237
30424 (MSN 5538) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30May43.
Rapid City Field, SD 18Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 29Jun43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 20Jul43. Ferried from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland
to St Angelo, Enniskillen, Northern Ireland and Prestwick, Scotland 25/26Jul43. Twelfth Air Force,
North Africa. 419th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Oudna #2, Tunis, Tunisia 12Aug43. Named "The Sky Hag".
Battle damaged by heavy flak on a tactical mission to a railway bridge at Guilianova, Italy 14Oct43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Cerignola #1, Italy 10Dec43. Departing for a mission to Innsbruck,
Austria, a tire blew out and the landing gear folded up causing the plane to crash land at
Cerignola #1 15Dec43. {31 missions}. Salvaged
30425 (MSN 5539) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 12Jun43. Rapid City Field, SD 19Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 5Jul43. 333rd Bomb Squadron [TS*J],
94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 9Jul43. Named
"Roger Dodge Her". Failed to return from a mission to the aero engine complex at
Brunswick, Germany 11Jan44 (9POW:1KIA). As weather conditions began to deteriorate over the
English bases, a recall order was sent to the bomber groups en route to the city. While some the groups
received the message and turned back for England, others did not receive the order, and pressed
onwards. When they arrived at the target area, they met stiff resistance from the Luftwaffe.
Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed SW of Abensen, nine miles northeast of Neustadt am
Rubengiberge, Germany. MACR 1888.
30426 (MSN 5540) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 31May43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field,
Dallas, TX 11Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 14Jun43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX
17Jul43. Moses Lake Field, WA 20Jul43. 325th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Avon Park Field, FL 9Apr44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for
storage and disposal 6Sep45
30427 MSN 5541) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30May43.
Rapid City Field, SD 19Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 29Jun43. 410th Bomb Squadron [GL*W], 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468),
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 9Jul43.Named "Lil' Operator"--artwork of 'Esky', the little man
who appeared on the cover of Esquire magazine. The vertical stabiliser was inscribed with 'One Down,
Two To Go' 'Italy Germany Japan'. . Battle damaged during a mission to the railway marshalling yards
at M�nster, Germany 11Nov43. Shortly before reaching the target, the bomber was struck on the
left wing by flak which caused an explosion and oil loss from No.2 engine. The propeller was
feathered as the bomber continued the bomb run. After the target, the bomber had dropped back
and was alone in the sky, vulnerable to fighter attacks. A Bf 109 came out of the sun and opened fire,
causing several explosions in the cockpit which filled with smoke. The bomber quickly dove down
and, with the side windows opened, the smoke cleared. With No.3 and 4 throtles unresponsive,
the pilot shutdown No.3 engine. By this time, the landing gear had dropped down. A large hole
was found in the right forward bulkhead of the bomb bay, caused by 20mm cannon shells.
This had disabled all electrical systems on the right side of the plane. The pilot headed for
cloud cover and dropped down to 500 feet while the gunners kept enemy fighters at bay
until the bomber reached the coast. The pilot was able to land safely at Rougham with just
two operating engines but had trouble closing No.4 engine. Standing on the brakes, the bomber
was halted just short of the end of the runway. During a three-day pass to London, the crew were
in a cinema when a newsreel was shown of a Flying Fortress being shot down over M�nster.
A sequence clearly identified the crew's aircraft with it's lowered landing gear and tail
identification letters; the crew jumped out of their seats, startling fellow cinema goers
with cries of "Hey, that's us
30428 MSN 5542) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 30May43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 429th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group,
Massicault, Tunis, Tunisia 6Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. {23 missions}.
32nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Oudna #2, Tunis, Tunisia 14Nov43. Cerignola #1,
Italy 11Dec43. Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. Named "Touchy Goose". Failed to return from a mission
to the Messerschmitt aircraft factory at Regensburg, Germany 25Feb44 (9POW).
Enemy fighters started to attack fifteen miles east of Klagenfurt, Austria on the way
to the target. Shot down by enemy fighters over Klagenfurt, two engines were hit and on fire.
The crew bailed out before the bomber nosed over and entered a spin and exploded.
It crashed in flames and was destroyed by fire 2km northwest of Krakaudorf, Austria. {29 missions}.
MACR 2591
30429 (MSN 5543) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 30May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 1Jun43. Geiger Field,
Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training
Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 29Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 20Jul43. Assigned to 94th Bomb Group. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa.
340th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Ch�teaudun-du-Rhumel (Helen), Constantine,
Algeria 29Jul43. Pont-du-Fahs, Tunisia 11Aug43. Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 15Aug43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43. San Giovanni, Cerignola,
Italy 20Dec43. Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44. Failed to return from a mission to the
Steyr-Daimler-Puch ball bearing factory at Steyr, Austria 2Apr44 (1KIA:9POW). The group
began a counterclockwise turn in the target area; they had to circle for another run
because there was already another bomb group on the target. Four Bf 109s appeared
at 9 o'clock level at about 500 yards. The bomber was all alone! The fighters quickly
flipped out of sight. The number one engine nacelle had been hit; a piece of aluminium
about two feet long was sticking up from the nacelle behind the engine cowling. There
were a dozen pencil size holes in the waist section of the fuselage above the ball turret.
20mm flak cannon shells were hitting the plane. A flak fragment penetrated the cockpit
and mortally wounded the pilot. A 20mm shell blew up in front of the waist gunners,
seriously wounding one a slightly wounding the other. The left main landing gear had
dropped down. The gunners decided it was time to bail out. There was no one visible in
the radio compartment. The interphone was shot out. The waist section was full of
holes all over. They didn't know if there was anyone in the front flying the plane.
The crew bailed out over Gro�raming before the plane crashed at Ramsau, south of Molln, Austria
MACR 3583
30430 (MSN 5544) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 30May43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 2Jun43. United Air Lines,
Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 16Jun43. Roswell Field, NM 21Jun43.
Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 25Jun43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH),
Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44. RRD, Kansas City, MO 12Aug44. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM. Damaged landing Roswell Auxiliary Field #3, NM 1Sep44.
3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 6Nov44. 3017th Base Unit
(Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 29Apr45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 31Aug45
30431 MSN 5545) Accepted by USAAF 28May43. United Air Lines, Modification
Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30May43. 90th Ferrying Squadron,
7th Ferrying Group. Damaged taking off at Cheyenne, WY 3Jun43. Lowry Field, Denver, CO 27Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 1Jul43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 13Jul43. Lowry Field, Denver, CO 15Jul43.
Wright Field, Dayton, OH 10Sep43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 8Oct43. 423rd Bomb Squadron [RD*F],
306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 19Oct43.
2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little Staughton (Station 127), Bedfordshire 3Nov43. Force landed
with two engines failed and propellers feathered at Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 19Apr44.
Regained by Group. Declared 'war weary'. Departed Thurleigh on transfer to 486th Bomb Group,
Sudbury (Station 174), Suffolk 16Jul44
Returned to US 16Jun44. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor
Locks, CT 21Jun44. Ford Motor Company, Mechanics School [L-17], Willow Run Airport,
Ypsilanti, MI 22Jun44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and
disposal 29Oct45. Van Nuys, CA. Named. KWITCHABITCHIN artwork of a naked lady leaning back
42-30432/30531 Boeing B-17F-105-BO Fortress
MSN 5446/5645. Dispositions from B-17 Fortress Master Log, Dave Osborne (FORTLOG)
Production changes: Remoted rrading compass. Fuel valve change. Landing gear warning horn deleted
30432 (MSN 5546) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 13Jun43. Rapid City Field, SD 19Jun43. Geiger Field,
Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 23Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 5Jul43. 342nd Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Ch�teaudun-du-Rhumel (Helen),
Constantine, Algeria 13Jul43. Pont-du-Fahs, Tunisia 11Aug43. Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 15Aug43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43. Two engines failed on takeoff for mission
to a railway marshalling yard at Innsbruck, Austria 20Dec43. The bomb load was jettisoned and then
another engine failed. Crash landed on return to the airfield at Foggia Main. Salvaged
30433 (MSN 5547) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 1Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 2Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 12Jun43.
Rapid City Field, SD 19Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 23Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 5Jul43. 410th Bomb Squadron [GL*U],
94th Bomb Group 5Jul43. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 7/8Jul43.
94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk Jul43. 331st Bomb Squadron, 94th Bomb Group,
Rougham. Damaged landing at Rougham 30Jan44. Failed to return from a mission to the Focke-Wulf aircraft
factory at Pozna?, Poland 11Apr44 (4POW:6KIA). Set on fire by enemy aircraft, set course for Sweden
but crashed Angeln, north of Keppeln, sixteen miles southeast of Flensburg, Germany MACR 4437.
Named MISS DONNA MAE / JIMMY BOY
30434 (MSN 5548) Accepted by USAAF 29May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 31May43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 12Jun43. Rapid City Field, SD 19Jun43. Geiger Field,
Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 23Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 13Jul43. Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland Jul43. 570th Bomb Squadron [DI*A], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 18Jul43
Named "Betty Boop--The Pistol Packin' Mama"- artwork inspired by the Vargas'
"Pistol Packin' Mama" Esquire centrefold of March 1944., {first combat mission 12Aug43}. Battle damaged on
a shuttle mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factories at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43 (1KIA).
Crossing the Dutch coast en route to the target, the bomber was attacked by Fw 190s; a cannon shell
killed a waist gunner and fractured a rudder control cable. After the target, the mission continued on to
Bertoux, Algeria. Later positioned to Telergma, Constantine, Algeria. Returned to Framlingham on a mission
to a Luftwaffe air depot at M�rignac, Bordeaux, France 24Aug43. Failed to return from a mission to the
Messerschmitt aircraft factory at Regensburg, Germany 25Feb44 (2KIA:8POW). After crossing the coastline
into mainland Europe, the bombers encountered frequent flak and fierce aerial attacks from the Germa Luftwaffe.
These attacks caused heavy damage to this plane which crashed at Amifontaine, 20km southeast of Laon,
France. {32 missions}. MACR 2659
30435 (MSN 5549) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 31May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 16Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 17Jun43. Rapid City
Field, SD 19Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 5Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 342nd Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group,
Ch�teaudun-du-Rhumel (Helen), Constantine, Algeria 13Jul43. Pont-du-Fahs, Tunisia 11Aug43. Depienne,
Sminja, Tunisia 15Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43. San Giovanni,
Cerignola, Italy 20Dec43. Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44. Declared 'war weary'. Reassigned for utility,
training and weather check aircraft 15Jul44. Returned to US. 1103rd Base Unit (Caribbean Wing, Air
Transport Command), Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 19Mar45. 4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air
Technical Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 27Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 28Aug45
30436 (MSN 5550) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 31May43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 13Jun43. Rapid City Field, SD 19Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 23Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 5Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 414th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group,
Ch�teaudun-du-Rhumel (Helen), Constantine, Algeria 13Jul43. Named "Phantom Lady".
Pont-du-Fahs, Tunisia 11Aug43. Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 15Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43.
Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43. San Giovanni, Cerignola, Italy 20Dec43. Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44.
Failed to return from a mission to the Dunai Rep�l?g�pgy�r aircraft factory at T�k�l, Budapest,
Hungary 3Apr44. The crew sent out an SOS saying that two engines were disabled and the plane was on fire.
Crashed near Budapest. MACR 3962
30437 (MSN 5551) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 31May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 18Jun43. Rapid City Field, SD 19Jun43. Geiger Field,
Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand
Island Field, NB 29Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 24Jul43.
Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 97th Bomb Group, Ch�teaudun-du-Rhumel (Helen), Constantine,
Algeria 24Jul43. Pont-du-Fahs, Tunisia 11Aug43. Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 15Aug43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43. San Giovanni, Cerignola, Italy 20Dec43.
Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44. 16th Reconnaissance Squadron (Heavy) Special, 68th Reconnaissance
Group, Foggia, Italy. Equipped with radar detection and electronic countermeasures (ECM) equipment.
Performed ECM overflights of enemy territory in advance of Fifteenth Air Force heavy bomber formations,
jamming enemy radar and generating false returns to confuse defensive forces. Returned to US Nov44.
302nd Base Unit (Staging Wing), Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 13Nov44. 4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air
Technical Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 22Nov44. 611th Base Unit, Proving Ground
Command, Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 30Apr45. 75th Base Unit, Army Airways Communications System,
Asheville, NC 26Jun45. 123rd Base Unit, Seymour Johnson Field, Goldsboro, NC 14Aug45. 76th Base Unit,
Langley Field, Hampton, VA 3Sep46.
30438 (MSN 5552) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 31May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 18Jun43. Rapid City Field, SD 20Jun43. Geiger Field,
Spokane, WA 23Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand
Island Field, NB 29Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 23Jul43.
Ferried from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to St Angelo, Enniskillen, Northern Ireland and Prestwick,
Scotland 25/26Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 414th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group,
Pont-du-Fahs, Tunisia 11Aug43. Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 15Aug43. Named "Kan-Do".
Failed to return from a mission to railway marshalling yards at Ancona, Italy 14Oct43 [10MIA].
With poor weather, en route to the target, the mission was broken up over the east coast of Italy.
This plane was caught in a strong wind storm, the pilot losing control as it entered a spin and was
last seen heading for a crash in the Adriatic Sea off Ancona, Italy. MACR 973.
30439 (MSN 5553) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 1Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 2Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 8Jul43. 410th Bomb Squadron [GL*S], 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468),
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 9Jul43 Named "Donna Lou II". . Declared 'war weary'. Salvaged 31May45.
30440 (MSN 5554) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 1Jun43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 11Jun43. Dyersburg Field, TN 27Jun43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 22Jul43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 3Aug43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa.
340th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Pont-du-Fahs, Tunisia 8Aug43. Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 15Aug43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43. San Giovanni, Cerignola, Italy 20Dec43.
Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44. Collided with fuel truck at Amendola 22Jan44. Salvaged
30441 (MSN 5555) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 1Jun43.
Roswell Field, NM 20Jun43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44.
3010th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 9Dec44.
Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated
TB-17F. 3020th Base Unit (Pilot School, Advanced, Two Engine), La Junta Field, CO 29Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Searcey Field, Stillwater, OK for storage and disposal 4Aug45.
War Assets Corporation. Sold to Paul Mantz 19Feb46; scrapped
30442 (MSN 5556) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 1Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 12Jun43. Rapid City Field, SD 19Jun43. Geiger Field,
Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 5Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 414th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group,
Ch�teaudun-du-Rhumel (Helen), Constantine, Algeria 21Jul43. Pont-du-Fahs, Tunisia 11Aug43.
Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 15Aug43. Bombs exploded while loading the evening before a mission
to the railway marshalling yards at Sulmona, Italy 26Aug43 (6KIS:6INJ). {6 missions}. Salvaged
30443 (MSN 5557) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 1Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 12Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 14Jun43.
Rapid City Field, SD 19Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 23Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 5Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa.
352nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 13Jul43. Oudna #1,
Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Named "Mickey Joy" Force landed with engine
failure at Calvi, Corsica 30Nov43 then strafed by enemy fighters. Cerignola #1, Italy 9Dec43. Foggia #8 (Longskirt),
Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. {37 missions}. Declared 'war weary'. Reassigned for utility, training and weather check
aircraft 27Jul44. Air Depot 8Oct44. Returned to US. 1103rd Base Unit (Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command),
Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 29Mar45. 4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command),
Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 3Apr45. Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Bush Field, Augusta, GA for storage
and disposal 7Jul45
30444 (MSN 5558) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 1Jun43. 7th Ferrying
Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 14Jun43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 15Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 8Jul43. 332nd Bomb Squadron [XM*C2],
94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 8Jul43 Named "Ramrod Ramsbottom/Black Jack IV".
Failed to return from a mission to the Luftwaffe air depot at M�rignac, Bordeaux, France 5Jan44 (4POW:1KIA; 5EVA).
Shot down by a Bf-109G-6 and crashed at Lac d'Hourtin,near Le Matouse, 33 miles
northwest of Bordeaux, France. MACR 1893
30445 (MSN 5559) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 1Jun43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 11Jun43. 541st Bomb Squadron, 383rd Bomb Group, Rapid City Field, SD.
Mid-air explosion 25 miles south of Rapid City Field, SD 20Jun43 (9KIS). Took off to conduct a typical training
maneuver, preparing to fire at targets below in a desolate area known as the Badlands about 25 miles
south of Rapid City. The airplane had been modified with additional internal tankage in the wings at a
modification center. The explosion was probably caused by the ignition of improperly vented gasoline
fumes in the wing panel. The airplane was standing by in the gunnery range traffic pattern waiting its
turn to fire at a towed target when it was seen on fire and breaking up in flight by witnesses on the ground.
The B-17 fuselage broke in half at the radio room compartment near the starboard wing. Pieces of the
starboard wing and various fire blackened wreckage were found strewn over an area called Red Shirt Table.
Investigation of the wreckage revealed that the airplane suffered a catastrophic internal explosion of
gasoline and air in the starboard wing at an altitude of 3,500 feet above ground level. The damage
and subsequent fire caused the airplane to break up and crash.
30446 (MSN 5560) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 1Jun43. 7th Ferrying Group,
Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 12Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 14Jun43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field,
Oklahoma City, OK 22Jun43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 26Jun43. Eglin Field,
Valparaiso, FL 7Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 9Jul43.
Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 348th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Navarin (Overcoat), El Eulma,
Algeria 29Jul43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 4Aug43. Failed to return from a mission to a Luftwaffe
airfield at Tatoi, Athens, Greece 10Oct43 (9MIA:1EVD). Shortly after dropping bombs over the target, flak
killed the bombardier and fatally wounded the navigator. Shrapnel disabled the two inboard engines.
Unable to maintain formation, the plane dropped back and was attacked by a flight of Bf 109 fighters
from JG 27. Cannon shells disabled a third engine, killed two of the gunners and severely wounded
the pilot. The crew was ordered to bail out. Six airmen were able to jump but five were strafed during their
descent over the Gulf of Corinth; the co-pilot was the only survivor after reaching shore and evaded
capture with the help of Greek freedom fighters. The plane crash landed in a mountainside olive grove
near Panaretti, Greece. Claimed by Oblt Jost Schlang of Stab/ JG 27. MACR 6615 and 924.
30447 (MSN 5561) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 1Jun43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 11Jun43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 22Jun43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 15Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 20Jul43. 327th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102),
Huntingdonshire 21Jul43. Accident departing for a mission to Gelsenkirchen, Germany 15Aug43.
The undercarriage began to retract then No.2 propeller broke off, injuring the pilot. The aircraft
stopped 200 yds past the end of the runway. Salvaged 17Aug43
30448 (MSN 5562) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 1Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 16Jun43. 541st Bomb Squadron, 383rd Bomb Group,
Rapid City Field, SD. Crashed and destroyed by fire taking off at Rapid City 17Jun43 (6KIS). Salvaged 21Jun43.
30449 (MSN 5563) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 1Jun43.
Rapid City Field, SD 20Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 28Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 18Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 96th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group,
Massicault, Tunis, Tunisia 6Aug43. Named "Julie A". {first combat mission 13Aug43}. Battle damaged by
flak on a tactical mission to the highway between Battapaglia and Eboli, southeast of Salerno, Italy 15Sep43 (10RTD).
Accident returning to base after dark from the second mission of the day in support of the Salerno Beach invasion.
On the way to the target the No.1 engine failed, however the pilot elected to push on with three and
finish the mission. On the way home the plane was approaching the North African coast when it lost
the No.2 engine. There was a B-26 airfield nearby but the pilot made a decision to go to home base.
As it was on the final approach, the air traffic control radio operator stated, "#449, if you have two
engines out, flash your landing lights," and at that same moment, the pilot opened the throttles and
pulled up to avoid another B-17 that cut him out of the pattern. On two engines, the increased power
caused the failure of No.4 engine. The plane was successfully crash landed on a hillside in the dark.
As the crew tried to exit the radio hatch, they could see flames against the dust. Fortunately it was a
small fire in the No.4 engine and they were able to extinguish it. The plane had crash landed fifteen
miles west of Massicault. {16 missions}. Salvaged
30450 (MSN 5564) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 1Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 14Jun43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 15Jun43.
Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 7Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 8Jul43.
332nd Bomb Squadron, 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 8Jul43.
410th Bomb Squadron. Failed to return from a mission to Wilhelmshaven, Germany 26Jul43 (10RTD).
Flak hit No.1 engine and damaged the wing, then shot down by enemy fighters, ditched North Sea
30451 (MSN 5565) Accepted by USAAF 31May43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 1Jun43. Rapid City Field, SD 15Jun43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 24Jun43.
Portland AAB, OR 11Jul43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 21Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 7Aug43.
368th Bomb Squadron [BO*N], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 3Sep43.
Named "V Mail Gets There Fastest" . Seriously battle damaged during a mission to an
aircraft factory at Bremen, Germany 8Oct43. The formation was met with stiff resistance by German
fighters and flak crews on the ground the entire way, from the Dutch coast all the way into the German
heartland, and back again. In addition, a large force of German fighters launched vicious attacks
against the planes. Over the target, the formation encountered intense flak. Right horizontal stabiliser
and elevator struck by flak, Left inner wing behind No.1 engine nacelle struck by flak; No.1 engine
struck by empty 0.50 caliber shell casings. Battle damage on a mission to the molybdenum mine at
Knaben, Norway 16Nov43. Several flak shrapnel struck the right wing, went through No.4 engine
and into the fuel tank. Eighth Air Force Service Command 16Nov43. Regained by Group 24Nov43.
Salvaged after non battle damage 5Jul44. Repaired. 34th Bomb Group, Mendlesham (Station 156),
Suffolk 9Jun45. Returned to US by 34th Bomb Group crew on Operation Home Run
30452 (MSN 5566) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Jun43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 16Jun32. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 29Jun43. 331st Bomb Squadron, 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468),
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 1Jul43. Damaged landing Honington (Station 375), Suffolk 6Aug43, aircraft
landed on short runway and overshot, hitting a dirt embankment. Salvaged 1st Strategic Air Depot,
Troston (Station 595), Suffolk.
30453 (MSN 5567) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Jun43.
Rapid City Field, SD 15Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 28Jun43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 14Jul43. 333rd Bomb Squadron [TS*K],
94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 13Jul43.
Named "Thunderbird". Failed to return from a shuttle mission to the Messerschmitt
aircraft factories at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43 (10POW). Flak damaged engine No.3, crashed
Saverne, France. MACR 831
30454 (MSN 5568) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Jun43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 14Jun43. Rapid City Field, SD 19Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 23Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 5Jul43. 333rd Bomb Squadron [TS*B], 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468),
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 7Jul43. Named "Reluctant Dragon". Failed to return from a
mission to the port and industrial area at Emden, Germany 27Sep43 (1KIA,9POW). Approaching Germany
there was 9/10 cloud cover and it was decided to bomb on the Pathfinder equipped aircraft, but by the
time the group reached the area the smoke marker had dissipated, the group diverting to an alternate target at Norden
Shot down by Lt Franz Ruhl in Bf 109G of JG 3/4
and ditched in North Sea off Greetsiel, Germany Sep 27, 1943. MACR 733.
30455 (MSN 5569) Accepted by USAAF 2Jun43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Jun43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 14Jun43.
Dalhart Field, TX 27Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 26Jul43. 569th Bomb Squadron [CC*R], 390th Bomb Group,
Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 6Aug43. Named "Schifless Skonk" artwork of the
head of Hitler on the body of a skunk. {first combat mission 31Aug43}. Failed to return from a mission
to Rjukan, seventy-five miles west of Oslo, Norway 16Nov43 (10KIA). The target was the pen-stocks
down the mountain from the dam for the hydro-electric building in the valley below. This building also
contained the Norwegian heavy water plant which was being used by the Germans to provide heavy water
for their experimentation in the development of the atomic/hydrogen bomb. Neither the lead navigator
nor bombardier could locate anything resembling the target during two passes over the area
Shot down by Ju 88C-6 of NJG3/10 over North Sea Nov 16, 1943 while returning from Norway.
Crashed into North Sea 2 mi off Varboug, Norway. MACR 1400
30456 (MSN 5570) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 4Jun43.
Rapid City Field, SD 16Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 28Jun43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 18Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa.
96th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Massicault, Tunis, Tunisia 6Aug43. Named "Cactus Clipper"
{first combat mission 13Aug43}. Failed to return from a mission to the railway marshalling
yards at Sulmona, Italy 27Aug43 (7KIA:3POW). En route to the target, the plane had just passed
the coast of Italy when a flak burst took the right wing off. An explosion in the radio room sent
debris back through the formation then the fuselage folded up near the ball turret. The wing fell
into the sea just off the harbour breakwater and the bomb load exploded when the plane hit
the ground to the north of the harbour at Anzio, Italy. {7 missions}. MACR 481.
30457 (MSN 5571) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 16Jun43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 18Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 8Jul43. 331st Bomb Squadron [QE*N], 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468),
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 9Jul43. Named "Jimmy Boy II". Failed to return from a mission
to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43 (4POW:6EVD). En route to the target
area, the bomber formation was repeatedly attacked by a large number of Luftwaffe fighters.
After the target, the Group turned and headed westward for England. German fighters, having landed
and refueled, attacked again. Shot down by Lt Hans
Santler in Fw 190A-6 of JG 2/1 Stab at Crepy-en-Valois,
France Oct 14, 1943. MACR 792
30458 (MSN 5572) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 4Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 16Jun43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 18Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 1Jul43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Grenier Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 23Dec43.
3rd Weather Squadron, Grenier Field, Manchester, NH 3Jan44. 4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air
Technical Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 8Apr44. 3rd Weather Squadron, Grenier
Field, Manchester, NH 27Mar45. SOC 10Dec45
30459 (MSN 5573) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 4Jun43.
Rapid City Field, SD 15Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 28Jun43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 20Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa.
416th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 7Aug43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. 341st Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Depienne,
Sminja, Tunisia 14Nov43. Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43. San Giovanni, Cerignola, Italy 20Dec43.
Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44. Failed to return from a mission to the Messerschmitt
aircraft factories at Regensburg, Germany 22Feb44. The Group arrived over Regensburg
but cloud cover prevented bombing. Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Klagenfurt, Austria.
Named "Little Chum" MACR 2491
30460 (MSN 5574) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 4Jun43.
541st Bomb Squadron, 383rd Bomb Group, Rapid City Field, SD 15Jun43. Crash landed after
engine failure at Great Falls AAB, MT 19Jun43 (7KIS). Salvaged 21Jun43
30461 (MSN 5575) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 4Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 22Jun43. Roswell Field, NM 24Jun43.
551st Two Engine Flying Training Squadron, 314th Two Engine Flying Training Group,
Roswell Field, NM. Caught fire and crashed 55 miles south of Roswell Field, NM 15Mar44 (1KIS).
Salvaged 19Mar44
30462 ((MSN 5576) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 4Jun43.
Rapid City Field, SD 15Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 29Jun43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 17Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa.
347th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 7Aug43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. 414th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Depienne, Sminja,
Tunisia 14Nov43. Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43. San Giovanni, Cerignola, Italy 20Dec43. Foggia #7,
Amendola, Italy 16Jan44. Failed to return from a mission to an air depot at Udine, Italy 18Mar44.
The group flew to the southern parts of the Austrian Alps and then turned 180� and from the north
launched the attack on Udine. This plane was flying as leader in the rear four plane element.
When thirty minutes from the target the group was attacked by German Fw 190 fighters and in the
ensuing scramble to close up, the element became separated from the rest of the group and
squadron. As a result, the fighters concentrated their attacks on this element. Attacked by
enemy fighters, the crew dropped the bombs over the target, lowered the landing gear and
bailed out. Crashed into the center of Udine .MACR 3521.
30463 (MSN 5577) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 8Jun43. 7th Ferrying
Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 9Jun43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 19Jun43.
New Orleans, LA 26Jun43. Buckingham Field, Fort Myers, FL 27Jul43. 717th Flexible Training
Squadron, Buckingham Field, Fort Myers, FL 29Sep43. Gunnery accident on the firing range
at Fort Myers 5Nov43. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field,
Sebring, FL 3Dec43. Air Service Command, Fairfield Air Depot, Patterson Field, OH. Damaged
while parked by North American P-51B Mustang 43-12121 at Patterson Field 30Mar44.
Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment;
designated TB-17F. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field,
Sebring, FL. Damaged by mechanical failure and fire at Hendricks Auxiliary Field, Conners,
Okeechobee, FL 4May45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for
storage and disposal 13Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment
Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30464 (MSN 5578) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 4Jun43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 15Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 7Jul43. 332nd Bomb Squadron [XM*A2], 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468),
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 5Jul43. Named "Little Minnie II".
Participated in a shuttle mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factories at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43.
After the target, the mission continued on to Bertoux, Algeria. Later positioned to Telergma, Constantine,
Algeria for a return mission en route to England. On morning of departure from Telergma, a mechanic
inadvertently raised landing gear instead of flaps and and the aircraft collapsed, creasing the fuselage
at the waist position. {6 missions}. Salvaged
30465 ((MSN 5579) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Jun43.
Rapid City Field, SD 16Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 28Jun43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 18Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 429th Bomb Squadron,
2nd Bomb Group, Masssicault, Tunisia 6Aug43. {first combat mission 17Aug43}. Fifteenth Air Force,
Italy 1Nov43. {28 missions}. 419th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Oudna #2, Tunis, Tunisia 16Nov43.
Cerignola #1, Italy 10Dec43. Battle damaged on a mission to the harbor at Piraeus, Greece 11Jan44.
The navigator bailed out. On that fateful day, the briefed mission was for the 5th Wing composed
of the 2nd, 97th, 301st and 99th Bomb Groups, to fly on a southerly course through the heel of Italy
to the town of Lecce where the Wing would then take a heading out over the Adriatic Sea, to a point
over the Peloponnese peninsula of Greece. From this point the crews were briefed to complete a 90�
degree turn to the Initial Point over Lagousa Island. From there the mission dictated a straight run
in to the target, reassemble, and return to base. After the formation was organized and began making
its way to the target, the Groups ran into a weather front of 10/10 clouds. At eighteen thousand
feet they entered an overcast. The clouds were very thick and visibility was not much beyond the
wingtips, making it almost impossible to see other aircraft in the formation. At that altitude, and
with the thickness of the clouds, ice began to form on their wings. In such situations it was standard
operating procedure for trailing squadrons in the formation to fly off course for a couple minutes
to obtain some spacing from the lead squadron, which would continue to maintain its course.
However, as the 97th Bomb Group began making a left turn for their bomb run on the target, the lead
plane of the 342nd Bomb Squadron encountered severe turbulence made by the preceding elements
of the Wing. The turbulence was so severe that the lead aircraft of the squadron was forced into a
steep left bank before it plummeted temporarily out of control and lost altitude at a rate of 1,000ft per
minute. By the time the pilot was able to recover and regain his place in formation, the two sister
planes in the flight were nowhere to be seen. Meanwhile, the pilots of the two sister planes from
the flight, B-17F No.42-3251 and B-17F No.42-29918 found themselves alone in 10/10 visibility,
unsure where the formation had disappeared to, with ice forming on their wings, and experiencing
engine trouble. From what was deduced later in the accident report, the doomed B-17s made the
decision to abort and turn back for the relative safety of Italy. In a tragic turn of events, their
decision to return home took them directly into the path of the oncoming 301st Bomb Group.
According to the official report of the Board of Inquiry, the two B-17s of the 97th Bomb Group
experienced engine trouble and left the formation. Instead of making a 180-degree right turn,
away from the formation, the aircraft made a turn to the left and flew head-on into the 301st formation.
According to a Bombardier assigned to the lead ship of the 301st Bomb Group, and flown by the
Group Commanding Officer, he was startled to see a pair of 97th Bomb Group B-17s emerge out
of a cloud about 20 degrees to the left and aimed straight at his aircraft. Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera,
Italy 2Feb44. {36 missions}. {73 missions in total}. Failed to return from a mission to the
industrial centre of Sofia, Bulgaria 30Mar44 (10POW). Shot down by a Bulgarian Air Force
Avia B.53/3 single-seat fighter flown by Captain Krastyo Atanasov (CO of the Bulgarian fighter
pilot school). Crashed in the Adriatic Sea off Ulcinj, Montenegro, Yugoslavia. Named VAGABOND MACR 3714
30466 (MSN 5580) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Jun43.
Rapid City Field, SD 19Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 30Jun43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 18Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa.
49th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, A�n M'lila (Onyx), Constantine, Algeria 29Jul43.
Massicault, Tunis, Tunisia 1Aug43. {first combat mission 17Aug43}. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43.
{28 missions}. 419th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Oudna #2, Tunis, Tunisia 14Nov43.
Cerignola #1, Italy 10Dec43. Failed to return from a mission to the harbor at Piraeus, Greece 11Jan44
(8KIA:2POW). Damaged by explosion of another aircraft, crashed Patrai, Greece. On that fateful day,
the briefed mission was for the 5th Wing composed of the 2nd, 97th, 99th and 301st Bomb Groups,
to fly on a southerly course through the heel of Italy to the town of Lecce where the Wing would then
take a heading out over the Adriatic Sea, to a point over the Peloponnese peninsula of Greece.
From this point the crews were briefed to complete a 90� degree turn to the Initial Point over
Lagousa Island. From there the mission dictated a straight run in to the target, reassemble,
and return to base. After the formation was organized and began making its way to the target,
the Groups ran into a weather front of 10/10 clouds. At eighteen thousand feet they entered an
overcast. The clouds were very thick and visibility was not much beyond the wingtips, making it
almost impossible to see other aircraft in the formation. At that altitude, and with the thickness
of the clouds, ice began to form on their wings. In such situations it was standard operating procedure
for trailing squadrons in the formation to fly off course for a couple minutes to obtain some
spacing from the lead squadron, which would continue to maintain its course. However, as the
97th Bomb Group began making a left turn for their bomb run on the target, the lead plane of the
342nd Bomb Squadron encountered severe turbulence made by the preceding elements of the Wing.
The turbulence was so severe that the lead aircraft of the squadron was forced into a steep left bank
before it plummeted temporarily out of control and lost altitude at a rate of 1,000ft per minute.
By the time the pilot was able to recover and regain his place in formation, the two sister planes
in the flight were nowhere to be seen. Meanwhile, the pilots of the two sister planes from the flight,
B-17F No.42-3251 and B-17F No.42-29918 found themselves alone in 10/10 visibility, unsure
where the formation had disappeared to, with ice forming on their wings, and experiencing engine
trouble. From what was deduced later in the accident report, the doomed B-17s made the decision
to abort and turn back for the relative safety of Italy. In a tragic turn of events, their decision
to return home took them directly into the path of the oncoming 301st Bomb Group. According to
the official report of the Board of Inquiry, the two B-17s of the 97th Bomb Group experienced
engine trouble and left the formation. Instead of making a 180-degree right turn, away from
the formation, the aircraft made a turn to the left and flew head-on into the 301st formation.
According to a Bombardier assigned to the lead ship of the 301st Bomb Group, and flown by the
Group Commanding Officer, he was startled to see a pair of 97th Bomb Group B-17s emerge
out of a cloud about 20 degrees to the left and aimed straight at his aircraft. Almost Instantly,
both B-17s bracketed his aircraft, with one passing closely over his right wing that clipped the
vertical stabiliser, and the other closely passing beneath the left wing. Almost immediately,
the tail gunner witnessed a big ball of fire that lit up the clouds as the B-17s collided with one
Fortress in the lead element, and two B-17s in the second element. P-38 pilots, flying low cover
escort under the overcast, reported watching pieces of B-17s raining from the sky for what seemed
like five minutes. There were eight B-17s that fell out of the sky simultaneously. Thirteen Americans
survived; sixty-four perished. {12 missions} MACR 1830
30467 (MSN 5581) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Jun43.
20th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Rapid City Field, SD 16Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 28Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 21Jul43. Ferried on the North
Atlantic route from Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick, Scotland then to Casablanca, French Morocco.
Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 20th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Massicault, Tunis, Tunisia Aug43.
Named "Big Jeff"--Named after 'Little Jeff', the pet dog of the pilot.
{first combat mission 13Aug43}. Failed to return from a mission to bomb an electrical transformer
station and railway marshalling yards in Foggia, Italy 19Aug43 (5KIA:4MIA:1POW). Enemy fighters
swarmed about the bombers both to and from the target area. Over the city of Foggia the flak was
intense. At an altitude of 21,000ft, the bomber managed to reach the target area intact and completed
its bombing run. On the return home, enemy fighters attacked once more; this time they hit the bomber
hard. The aircraft was riddled by machine gun fire from several of the Bf 109s. One wing was nearly
blown off and the plane's No.2 and No.3 engines were on fire. One by one the guns in the rear of the
plane stopped firing. The five gunners were badly injured or dead. Crippled and falling out of the sky,
the bomber was surrounded by enemy fighters. The pilot gave the order to bail out. The five remaining
crew members bailed out at 19,000ft over the Tyrrhenian Sea, south of Salerno and ten miles west
of Licosa Point. The co-pilot called out to his crew members once he hit the water, but got no response.
He began to move in the direction of land. It took him thirty-two hours to swim twenty-one miles
to the Italian shore. There, he was captured and held as a Prisoner of War. {3 missions}. MACR 458
30468 (MSN 5582) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Jun43.
Rapid City Field, SD 18Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 29Jun43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma
City, OK 21Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 1Aug43. Twelfth Air Force,
Mediterranean Theater of Operations 3Aug43. Ferried RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Nutts Corner (Station 235),
Belfast, Northern Ireland 5Aug43 (10KIS). Ditched in North Sea off Berwick, Northumberland. The bomber went
over Berwick flying very low and crashed into the sea off Spittal. The weather was the worst. Berwick lifeboat
and a Royal Air Force rescue boat immediately put out to the scene of the crash, but no bodies were found.
It attempted to tow the aircraft to land but it sank. On August 10, a team of divers endeavour to salvage the
plane and recover the bodies. After three days' unsuccessful attempts to locate the Fortress, the men left Berwick.
The crash was the result of equipment failure, training procedure failures and weather. The bomber had
radio aids failure beyond the point of no return and the crew was unable to recognise/remedy/repair the fault.
All northern UK (except Prestwick as usual) was covered in low cloud and fog. The crew were being tracked
but would not answer radio calls for diversion after they overflew the west coast of Scotland. No aircraft could
be scrambled from closer bases to intercept because of the weather and Prestwick aircraft were tasked
elsewhere. When fuel ran low the crew partly abandoned the aircraft MACR 163.
30469 (MSN 5583) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 8Jun43. 5th Ferrying Group,
Love Field, Dallas, TX 4Jul43. Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO. Modified to photographic configuration 7Jul43.
Designated F-9A. Cameras changed and redesignated 1943 as F-9B. 19th Photographic Mapping Squadron,
11th Photographic Mapping Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 20Jan44. Ascencion Island 29Feb44. Middle E
ast 1Apr44. Crash landed Qualeh, Teheran, Iran 24Apr44
30470 (MSN 5584) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Jun43. Rapid City
Field, SD 19Jun43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 22Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 25Jun43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 29Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 14Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa.
416th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Navarin (Overcoat), El Eulma, Algeria 29Jul43. Oudna #1,
Mohammedia, Tunisia 4Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. 342nd Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group,
Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 14Nov43. Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43. San Giovanni, Cerignola, Italy 20Dec43.
Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44. Declared 'war weary'. Reassigned for utility, training and weather check
aircraft 15Jul44. Burned out during maintenance when being washed using gasoline at Amendola 30Jul44.
A crewman turned on power to the ball turret to check operation. A spark ignited the gasoline, burning out the
center section and the bomber collapsed on the ramp. Salvaged. Named WOLF PAC
30471 (MSN 5585) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Jun43. Rapid City
Field, SD 19Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 30Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 18Jul43. Ferried from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Nutts Corner (Station 235), Belfast, Northern
Ireland 25Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 416th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Oudna #1,
Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Sep43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. 97th Bomb Group, Depienne, Sminja,
Tunisia 14Nov43. Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43. San Giovanni, Cerignola, Italy 20Dec43. Foggia #7,
Amendola, Italy 16Jan44. Failed to return from a controversial mission to the Benedictine Abbey at
Monte Cassino, Italy 15Feb44. Ditched Tyrrhenian Sea, crew rescued. [The Germans had made it clear
that they were not occupying the monastery]
30472 (MSN 5586) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Jun43.
Rapid City Field, SD 18Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 29Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 14Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 353rd Bomb Squadron,
301st Bomb Group, Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 19Jul43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia,
Tunisia 6Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Cerignola #1, Italy 10Dec43. Failed to return
from a mission to the Luftwaffe airfield at Salon de Provence, France 21Jan44 (10MIA). Just before
reaching the target, No.3 engine started smoking and the bomber fell back from the formation.
After jettisoning their bombs before the target, the aircraft left the formation as enemy fighters
began their attacks. Although hit, the bomber appeared to be under control as it slowly circled down
and ditched safely in the Mediterranean Sea twenty miles south of Toulon, France. The crew was
seen to enter their life rafts and head towards the shore at Marseille, France; none were ever seen again,
no remains were recovered. {51 missions}. MACR 1952
30473 (MSN 5587) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 8Jun43. 7th Ferrying Group,
Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 9Jun43. Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 8Jul43. Ephrata AAB, WA 1Aug43.
Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 17Aug43. Drew Field, Tampa, FL 19Oct43. 617th Base Unit,
Dugway Proving Ground, Tooele, UT 2Jun44. 4135th Base Unit (Ogden Air Technical Service Command),
Hill Field, Ogden, UT 26Aug44. 617th Base Unit, Dugway Proving Ground, Tooele, UT 18Sep45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 14Dec45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30474 (MSN 5588) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Jun43. Rapid City
Field, SD 19Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 28Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 14Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 346th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Navarin
(Overcoat), El Eulma, Algeria 1Aug43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 4Aug43. Named "Bumb's Rush" Failed to return from a
mission to the railway marshalling yards at Mestre, Venice, Italy 6Oct43 (1KIA:3POW:6EVD). En route to
the target, and after crossing the coast of Italy near La Spezia, the formation was attacked by a flight of Bf 109 fighters
Shot down by Fw. Gunter Schmitz in Bf 109G-6/R1 of JG77/7 and crashed near Pavone del Mella,
Italy Oct 6, 1943. . There was an explosion which caused a large hole in the right fuselage
between the oxygen tanks and th bomb bay. This caused the plane to drop out of formation and was
singled out for further attack by the enemy fighters. The pilot was having problems controlling the plane
and the bombardier was unable to jettison the bombs. After another explosion, the pilot ordered the crew to bail out.
Several of the crew had been wounded by 20mm cannon shells and were taken prisoner, the others evaded capture.
Crashed near Pavone del Mella, south of Brescia, Italy MACR 929.
30475 (MSN 5589) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 8Jun43. Patterson Field,
Dayton, OH 9Jul43. 328th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Gulfport Field, MS 31Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 25Jun45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped
30476 (MSN 5590) Accepted by USAAF 5Jun43. Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 8Jun43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 8Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 15Jul43. 568th Bomb Squadron [BI*L], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk Jul43
Named "Rovin Ramona". {first combat mission 19Aug43}. Failed to return from a mission to the Deschimag
shipyards at Bremen, Germany 20Dec43 (10KIA). Attacked by a large force of enemy fighters and flak over the
target area was very intense. Damaged by flak, crashed in North Sea, near Bremen, Germany. {17 missions}. . MACR 1731.
30477 (MSN 5591) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 8Jun43. 7th Ferrying Group,
Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 9Jun43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 11Jun43. 5th Ferrying Group,
Love Field, Dallas, TX 5Jul43. 467th Bomb Squadron, 333rd Bomb Group, Dalhart Field, TX 7Jul43.
Crash landed after engine failure at Dalhart Field 31Aug43
30478 (MSN 5592) Accepted by USAAF 7Jun43. Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 9Jun43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 10Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 15Jul43. 560th Bomb Squadron [L], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 18Jul43.
Named *Impatient Virgin II* {first combat mission 30Jul43}. Battle damaged on a mission to the
Gerhard Fieseler Werke (GFW) aircraft works at Waldau, Kassel, Germany 30Jul43 (10RTD). A large force of
enemy fighters was encountered along the route from the Dutch coast to the target and out, but broke off the
attacks over the target area. Flak was moderate over the route, but intense and accurate over the target. Further
flak was encountered on return over Antwerp. Failed to return from a mission to the Bosch magneto factory at
Stuttgart, Germany 6Sep43 (10INT). With bad weather over Germany, the bomber attempted to attack a secondary
target of a Luftwaffe air base to the southwest of Strasbourg, France. Failing again to find the target, the bombs
were jettisoned into the Black Forest. Attacked by enemy fighters, force landed at D�bendorf, Z�rich, Switzerland.
{8 missions}. MACR 3136. Repaired and used by Swiss Air Force for familiarisation flights. Returned to US Sep 5, 1945
Grenier Field, Manchester, NH 23Oct45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage
and disposal 20Oct45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
Returned Sep 5, 1945.
30479 (MSN 5593) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 8Jun43. 5th Ferrying Group,
Love Field, Dallas, TX 19Jul43. Ephrata AAB, WA 20Jul43. 601st Bomb Squadron, 398th Bomb Group,
Rapid City Field, SD 2Aug43. Damaged taxying due mechanical failure at Rapid City 6Dec43. 225th Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Rapid City Field, SD 23Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Cal-Aero Field, Ontario, CA for storage and disposal 19Jun45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Sharp & Fellows Contracting Company Jul46; scrapped
30480 (MSN 5594) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 6Aug43. 5th Ferrying Group,
Love Field, Dallas, TX 14Jul43. Ephrata AAB, WA 15Jul43. Ardmore Field, OK 27Oct43. Modified for training,
stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F. 222nd Base Unit (Combat
Crew Training Station), Ardmore Field, OK 22Jan45. Damaged by 'friendly fire' at Ardmore Field 21Apr45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Cal-Aero Field, Ontario, CA for storage and disposal 20Jun45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Sharp & Fellows Contracting Company Jul46; scrapped
30481 (MSN 5595) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 9Jun43. Ephrata AAB, WA 15Jul43.
Combat Crew Training School, 395th Bomb Group, Ardmore Field, OK. Mid-air collision with B-17F 42-30752
near Mill Creek, twenty miles northeast of Ardmore 12Feb44 (10KIS). The bomber crew was tasked to participate
in a low level bombing demonstration during the base 'open house' held that day. The mission for the day was
to fly to Matagorda Bay, just off the coast from Corpus Christi, Texas. They fired at tow targets for several hours,
then headed back to Ardmore. There were 13 B-17s flying in close formation. One B-17 with officer instructors
brought up the rear and advised the pilots as to what to do. They had been flying at 20,000ft this day and as
we neared home, we began to descend and turn at the same time. This is a difficult maneuver for a large plane
to accomplish, especially if in close formation under turbulent air conditions. The bomber was flying in a
very close formation with planes on both sides and in the front and rear. They had let down to approximately
15,000ft when the aircraft (42-30752) on the upper left slid into this aircraft. The two right engines
cut this plane into two pieces just behind the radio room. The front of the aircraft went straight up for a
brief moment knocking off the Plexiglas nose of the other plane which pushed this aircraft under it
knocking off its ball turret. The tail gunner, who parachuted successfully, was the only survivor
of the crew on this flight. The pilots of 42-30572 managed to regain control, although heavily damaged
with two right engines inoperable, they flew the 15-20 miles to Ardmore Field and landed safely. Salvaged 13Feb44..
30482 (MSN 5596) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 8Jun43. 5th Ferrying Group,
Love Field, Dallas, TX 5Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 6Jul43.
Dalhart Field, TX 7Jul43. 326th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 6Jul44.
4117th Base Unit (Warner Robins Air Technical Service Command), Robins Field, Warner Robins, GA 27Jul44.
327th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Drew Field, Tampa, FL 8Oct44. Damaged landing with
mechanical failure at Drew 10Nov44. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine),
Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 11May45. 327th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Drew Field,
Tampa, FL 24May45. Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment;
designated TB-17F. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Searcey Field, Stillwater, OK for storage and
disposal 11Aug45. War Assets Corporation. Sold to Paul Mantz 19Feb46; scrapped
30483 (MSN 5597) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 8Jun43. 7th Ferrying Group,
Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 9Jun43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 14Jul43. Ephrata AAB, WA 15Jul43.
Rapid City Field, SD 27Jul43. School of Applied Tactics, Orlando AAB, FL 8Aug43. 749th Bomb Squadron,
457th Bomb Group, Ephrata AAB, WA. Crashed at Ephrata 20Nov43 (7KIS). Salvaged 22Nov43.
30484 (MSN 5598) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 9Jun43. 7th Ferrying Group,
Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 10Jun43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 12Jun43. Ephrata AAB, WA 18Jul43.
Combat Crew Training School, 395th Bomb Group, Ardmore Field, OK. Crashed two miles southeast of
Will Rogers Field, Oklahoma City, OK 8Feb44. Salvaged 9Feb44
30485 (MSN 5599) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 9Jun43. 7th Ferrying Group,
Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 10Jun43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 12Jun43. Ephrata AAB, WA 18Jul43.
603rd Bomb Squadron, 398th Bomb Group, Rapid City Field, SD 2Aug43. Crashed due engine failure taking off
at Rapid City 22Nov43. Salvaged 23Nov43
30486 (MSN 5600) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 6Aug43. Modified to
photographic configuration. Designated F-9A. Cameras changed and redesignated 1943 as F-9B. Peterson Field,
Colorado Springs, CO 8Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, Mediterranean Theater of Operations 20Jan44.
Mapping mission to the Alps, Europe 29Feb44. Mapping mission to Asia Minor 1Apr44. 4185th Base Unit
(Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), Independence Field, KS 11Sep44. Designated FB-17F.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 16Jan46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
30487 MSN 5601) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 9Jun43. 7th Ferrying Group,
Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 11Jun43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 28Jul43. Scott Field,
Belleville, IL 11Aug43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 17Aug43.
349th Bomb Squadron [XR*F], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 20Aug43.
Named "Laiden Maiden" aka "Torchy III". On return from a mission to the Messerschmitt
aircraft factories at Regensburg, Germany 20Apr44, the left undercarriage collapsed when the pilot applied the
brakes after landing at Thorpe Abbotts. The cause was a mechanical failure of the left retracting screw.
456th Sub-Depot, Air Service Command, Thorpe Abbotts. Salvaged
30488 (MSN 5602) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 10Jun43. 7th Ferrying Group,
Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 11Jun43. 589th Bomb Squadron, 395th Bomb Group, Ephrata AAB, WA 18Jul43.
Crashed near Soap Lake in Grant County, Washington, ten miles north of Ephrata 24Jul43 (13KIS).
The aircraft took off from Ephrata AAB on a training bombing mission. Returning from the mission, the
bomber was circling to land in a left turn with the flaps partially extended and landing gear extended
when it struck the side of a hill and rolled roughly 200 yards on the landing gear. The No.2 engine
propeller struck a horse knocking off the engine and left landing gear which collided with the
left horizontal stabiliser and elevator, knocking them off. this caused the bomber to bounce back
into the air 100 feet before colliding with another hill and sliding 400 yards before breaking up and
bursting into flames roughly a half mile from the first contact with the ground.
30489 (MSN 5603) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 10Jun43. Ephrata AAB, WA 19Jul43.
5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 3Aug43. 590th Bomb Squadron, 395th Bomb Group,
Ephrata AAB, WA 4Aug43. Damaged landing at Ephrata 9Aug43. 221st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Alexandria Field, LA. Damaged in collision with B-17G 42-102846 taxying at Alexandria Field 29Jul44.
329th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA 1Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 27Aug45
30490 (MSN 5604) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 10Jun43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 11Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 20Jul43. Ferried from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Nutts Corner (Station 235), Belfast,
Northern Ireland 25Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 352nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group,
Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 1Aug43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Cerignola #1, Italy 9Dec43.
Named "The Joker" Failed to return from a mission to railway marshalling yards at
Sofia, Bulgaria 24Jan44 (9EVD). Over the target, the formation found it impossible to bomb and
proceeded to a secondary target at Nis, Yugoslavia. After going 80 to 100 miles beyond Sofia, the
group turned and headed for home base. Heavy cloud formations were encountered along the route.
Attacked by enemy fighters. Last seen three hours out returning to base after the mission, about
seventy miles southeast of Lake Skadar, Montenegro, Yugoslavia, it was slowly dropping back and
heading for the Adriatic coast line. No.3 engine propeller was feathered and another engine was
smoking. Losing altitude, the aircraft crash landed in the vicinity of Kursumlija, Serbia, Yugoslavia.
{55 missions}. The airmen were assisted by Chetnik guerillas to evade capture; rescued by the
Halyard Mission from Pranjani 29May44. MACR 1992
30491 (MSN 5605) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Jun43.
Rapid City Field, SD 19Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 30Jun43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 20Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa.
346th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 8Aug43.
Named "Hot For The Body". Failed to return from a mission to the Messerschmitt factory
at Augsburg, Germany 1Oct43 (1WIA:9RTD). During the approach to mainland Italy north of Florence,
there was anti-aircraft fire from the ground and a few attacks by enemy fighters which, however,
had no effect. Most of the remaining distance was flown between two layers of cloud at an altitude
of 6,000 meters. North of the Alps, the formation encountered a deep, closed cloud cover that
stretched far to the north. Because of a thick overcast over southern Germany, the mission was
aborted 50km from Augsburg. The formation then turned back towards Italy. In the middle of the
reversal maneuver, about thirty German Bf 109G-6 fighters of JG 3/8 attacked and pursued them
southwards. Without realizing it, the Americans flew over Switzerland near Lake Constance under
constant fire. Damaged, and with the bombardier wounded by a 20mm cannon shell, the plane force
landed without brakes at Cagliari, Sardinia and collided with another B-17. Returned to Oudna 2Oct43. Salvaged Oct43.
30492 (MSN 5606) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 11Jun43. 7th Ferrying Group,
Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 13Jun43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 18Jun43. Baer,
Fort Wayne, IN 25Jul43. Buckingham Field, Fort Myers, FL 27Jul43. Fort Myers, Buckingham Field,
Fort Myers, FL 4Aug43. Buckingham Field, Fort Myers, FL 7Aug43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 7Oct44. 3010th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine),
Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 6Nov43. 37th Flying Training Wing, Williams Field, Chandler, AZ.
Damaged while parked by B-17F 42-5252 taxying at Williams 28Dec44. 3020th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Advanced, Two Engine), La Junta Field, CO 4May45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Searcey Field, Stillwater, OK for storage and disposal 31Jul45. War Assets Corporation. Sold to Paul Mantz 19Feb46; scrapped
30493 (MSN 5607) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 10Jun43. Smoky Hill Field,
Salina, KS 11Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 15Jul43.
94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 18Jul43. Named DOUBLE DOO.
339th Bomb Squadron, 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk Aug43. Failed to return
from a mission to Paris, France 15Sep43 (9KIA:1POW). Shot down by Oblt. Josef Wurmheller in
Fw 190A-6 of JG 2/9 at St-Germain-en Laye, France. MACR 727.
30494 (MSN 5608) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 10Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 24Jun43. Roswell Field, NM 26Jun43. 3030th Base
Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44. Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 4Oct45
30495 (MSN 5609) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 10Jun43. Gowen Field,
Boise, ID 27Mar43. Ephrata AAB, WA 24Jul43. 588th Bomb Squadron, 395th Bomb Group, Ardmore Field, OK.
Damaged landing with mechanical failure at Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 31Oct43. Air Service
Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 7Dec43. 332nd Base Unit, Lake Charles, LA 21Jun44.
499th Bomb Group, Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 25Jun44. 1108th Base Unit, Mitchel Field, Hempstead,
Long Island, NY 25Sep44. 247th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 3Nov44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 11Jan46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
30496 (MSN 5610) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 10Jun43. Buckingham Field,
Fort Myers, FL 23Jun43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 25Jun43. Buckingham Field, Fort
Myers, FL 27Jun43. 2114th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB,
Columbus, OH 24Oct44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage
and disposal 19Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company,
Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30497 (MSN 5611) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 10Jun43.
Rapid City Field, SD 19Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 29Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 18Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 352nd Bomb Squadron,
301st Bomb Group, Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 29Jul43. Named "Bachelor's Delight".
Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Cerignola #1,
Italy 9Dec43. Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. Damaged landing 19Jul44. Air Depot 20Jul44.
{123 missions}. Salvaged 19Apr45
30498 (MSN 5612) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Jun43.
Roswell Field, NM 25Jun43. Kelly Field, San Antonio, TX 3Aug43. Roswell Field, NM 15Aug43.
3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44. 3010th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 9Dec44. Modified for training, stripped of armor,
armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F. 3020th Base Unit (Pilot School, Advanced,
Two Engine), La Junta Field, CO 27Mar45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Searcey Field, Stillwater, OK
for storage and disposal 4Aug45. War Assets Corporation. Sold to Paul Mantz 19Feb46; scrapped
30499 (MSN 5613) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 10Jun43.
Rapid City Field, SD 18Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 30Jun43. Air Service Command,
Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 16Jul43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 23Jul43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 8Aug43.
Topeka Field, KS 14Aug43. 509th Bomb Squadron [RQ*Q], 351st Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110),
Northamptonshire 27Sep43. Returned from Berlin, Germany with battle damage 21Jun44
(7POW - bailed out over Germany); rest of crew brought the aircraft home to land at RAF Beccles,
Ellough, Suffolk. {43 missions}. Salvaged 1Aug44. Named MY PRINCESS
30500 MSN 5614) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Jun43. 7th Ferrying
Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 13Jun43. Rapid City Field, SD 20Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 30Jun43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 18Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 2
0th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Massicault, Tunis, Tunisia 17Aug43. {first combat mission 28Aug43}.
Withdrawn from combat 16Sep43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 10Dec43.
Accident 31Mar44. El Aouina, Tunis, Tunisia. {12 missions}. Modified to transport supplies to partisans
and engaged in night time special operations missions supporting partisans and parachuting Allied agents
into enemy territory. Ball turret removed, engine exhaust flame dampeners fitted and the aircraft painted black.
885th Bomb Squadron, 68th Reconnaissance Group, Blida, Algeria Apr44. . 96th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb
Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 17Aug44. TDY 885th Bomb Squadron, 68th Reconnaissance Group, Maison
Blanche, Algiers, Algeria 18Aug44. Named "Miss Charlotte". {first special mission 1Sep44}.
Failed to return from a mission to drop supplies in fourteen containers and four big packs to the Italian
Piemontese partisans on night of 9/10Sep44 (9KIA). The weather was very bad in this sector with a snowstorm.
The aircraft went too far north of its drop-zone, where the alpine peaks largely exceed 10,000ft, whereas
the envisaged flight's altitude was 7,000ft. The aircraft and crew remains were found on the northern
face of Mount Grand Mioul, south of Sestriere, Italy 2Aug45. {6 missions} MACR 9578.
30501 (MSN 5615) Accepted by USAAF 12Jun43. Bailed to Boeing, Seattle, WA 12Jun43. Armament removed,
equipped with glider snatch winch. Air Service Command, Fairfield Air Depot, Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 2Jul43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 10Jul43. Wright Field, Dayton, OH 3Aug43.
Used for glider towing and training. Clinton County, OH 12Aug43. 810th Base Unit, Laurinburg, NC 17Jun43. HQ,
Materiel Command, Wright Field, Dayton, OH 6Jul43. Materiel Flight, Muroc Field, CA 31Aug43. Wright Field,
Dayton, OH 31Oct43. Fayettevile, NC to do snatches of the XCG-10A, 1944. 4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air
Technical Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 17Jan45. 4000th Base Unit, Air Materiel Command,
Wright Field, Dayton, OH 25Mar45. 4117th Base Unit (Warner Robins Air Technical Service Command),
Robins Field, Warner Robins, GA 22Apr45. Air Materiel Command, Wright Field, Dayton, OH 30Jun46.
Greenville AAB, SC 1946 to snatch Waco CG-4A, CG-13A, CG-15A and Laister-Kauffman XCG-10A gliders.
4000th Base Unit, Air Materiel Command, Wright Field, Dayton, OH 31Mar47. Reclaimed 1Dec47.
30502 ((MSN 5616) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Jun43. Rapid City
Field, SD 19Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 1Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 20th Bomb Squadron,
2nd Bomb Group, Ain M'Lila 16Jul43. Massicault, Tunis, Tunisia 1Aug43. {first combat mission 13Aug43}.
Failed to return from a mission to bomb an electrical transformer station and railway marshalling
yards in Foggia, Italy 19Aug43 (9KIA:1POW). The plane lost two engines to flak over the target.
It began to lag and was soon set upon by enemy fighters. The two pilots had been hit by cannon
fire and the plane was out of control. Other members of the crew had been fatally wounded and only
one injured airmen managed to bail out at 15,000ft before the plane exploded, blowing off both wings
and sending the fuselage on an end-over-end tumble to an explosive crash. Crashed and destroyed by
fire at Salerno, Italy. {3 missions}. MACR 429.
30503 (MSN 5617) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Jun43.
Roswell Field, NM 22Jun43. Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 11Aug43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field,
Oklahoma City, OK 12Aug43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44.
Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F.
3010th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 10Dec44.
Damaged when nosed over landing at Williams Field 25Jan45. 3020th Base Unit (Pilot School, Advanced,
Two Engine), La Junta Field, CO 3Apr45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK
for storage and disposal 14Aug45
30504 (MSN 5618) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Jun43.
Rapid City Field, SD 19Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 29Jun43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 18Jul43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 348th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group,
Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 3Sep43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. 419th Bomb Squadron,
301st Bomb Group, Oudna #2, Tunis, Tunisia 14Nov43. Cerignola #1, Italy 10Dec43. Foggia #8 (Longskirt),
Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. Substantially damaged when a tire blew out and the plane ground looped taking off
at Lucera 17May44. {40 missions}. Returned to US. 1103rd Base Unit (Caribbean Wing, Air Transport
Command), Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 2Apr45. 4104th Base Unit (Rome Air Technical Service
Command), Rome Field, NY 30Apr45. 4108th Base Unit (Atlantic Overeas Air Technical Service Command),
Newark Field, NJ 11Jun45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Bush Field, Augusta, GA for storage
and disposal 20Jun45
30505 (MSN 5619) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Jun43.
Roswell Field, NM 21Jun43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 9Oct45
30506 (MSN 5620) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 14Jun43. Roswell Field, NM 19Jun43. 3030th Base Unit
(Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44. 554th Base Unit, 4th Ferrying Group,
Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 23Apr45. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH),
Roswell Field, NM 1Jun45. Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 9Oct45.
30507 (MSN 5621) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Jun43. 7th Ferrying
Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 14Jun43. Roswell Field, NM 19Jun43. Hobbs Field, NM 8Jul43. Roswell
Field, NM 4Aug43. 93rd Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group, Pyote Field, TX 13Sep43. 232nd Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Dalhart Field, TX 9Jun44. 19th Bomb Group, Dalhart Field, TX 19Jul44.
268th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 13Dec44.
225th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Rapid City Field, SD 2Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Cal-Aero Field, Ontario, CA for storage and disposal 19Jun45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Sharp & Fellows Contracting Company Jul46; scrapped
30508 (MSN 5622) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 14Jun43. Roswell Field, NM 23Jun43.
3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 9Oct45
30509 (MSN 5623) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Jun43.
Roswell Field, NM 26Jun43. 548th Two Engine Flying Training Squadron, 314th Two Engine Flying
Training Group, Roswell Field, NM. Damaged while parked in collision by B-17F 42-30258 taking off
at Roswell Field, NM 29Mar44. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell
Field, NM 2Jun44. Crashed seven miles SSW of Roswell 16Jul44 (3KIS). Salvaged 18Jul44.
30510 (MSN 5624) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 18Jun43.
Roswell Field, NM 23Jun43. 232nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dalhart Field, TX 8Jul43.
Damaged landing with mechanical failure at Dalhart Field 14Apr44. 242nd Base Unit (Operational
Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB 19Jul44. 4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service
Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 23Aug44. 242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit),
Grand Island Field, NB 12Jan45. 224th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Sioux
City AAB, IA 17Apr45. 211th Base Unit, Sioux Falls Field, SD 3Sep45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage
and disposal 28Oct45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
30511 (MSN 5625) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Jun43.
551st Two Engine Flying Training Squadron, 314th Two Engine Flying Training Group, Roswell
Field, NM 22Jun43. Crashed after taking off two miles southwest of Roswell 4Jan44. 3030th
Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44. 3010th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 10Dec44. 3020th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Advanced, Two Engine), La Junta Field, CO 23Jul45.To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field,
OK for storage and disposal 4Aug45
30512 (MSN 5626) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Jun43.
548th Two Engine Flying Training Squadron, 314th Two Engine Flying Training Group, Roswell
Field, NM 21Jun43. Damaged landing with mechanical failure at Roswell Field 14Sep43.
3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44. 110th Base Unit
(Staging), Mitchel Field, Hempstead, Long Island, NY 26Jul44. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 6Nov44. 3010th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine),
Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 9Dec44. 37th Flying Training Wing, Williams Field, Chandler, AZ.
Damaged structural failure 5 miles south of Chandler, AZ 22Dec44. 3020th Base Unit
(Pilot School, Advanced, Two Engine), La Junta Field, CO 1Apr45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 4Aug45
30513 (MSN 5627) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Jun43.
Roswell Field, NM 23Jun43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell
Field, NM 2Jun44. 2509th Base Unit (Bombardier School), Big Spring Field, TX 6Oct43.
Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment;
designated TB-17F. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 6Nov44.
Crash landed Roswell 13Mar45. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine),
Hobbs Field, NM 28Apr45. Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage
and disposal 24Sep45
30514 (MSN 5628) Accepted by USAAF 17Jun43. Bailed to Boeing, Seattle, WA 25Jun43. Wright, OH.
Damaged by fire at Tonopah 1Jun44. Tonopah, NV 2Jun44. 4126th Base Unit (San Bernardino Air
Technical Service Command), San Bernardino Field, CA 8Jun44. Tonopah, NV 29Jun44.
4127th Base Unit (Sacramento Air Technical Service Command), McClellan Field, Sacramento, CA 8Jul44.
216th Base Unit, Wendover Field, UT 18Oct44. 4135th Base Unit (Ogden Air Technical Service
Command), Hill Field, Ogden, UT 16Mar45. 216th Base Unit, Wendover Field, UT 24Apr45.
4135th Base Unit (Ogden Air Technical Service Command), Hill Field, Ogden, UT 6Aug46
613th Base Unit (Proving Ground Detachment), Phillips Field, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 7Jan47.
4145th Base Unit, Wendover Field, UT 8Jan47
30515 (MSN 5629) Accepted by USAAF 17Jun43. Bailed to Boeing, Seattle, WA 25Jun43. 3715th Base Unit,
Factory School, Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, Lockheed Field, Burbank, CA 24Sep44. 3701st Base
Unit (Technical School), Amarillo Field, TX. 3706th Base Unit, Basic Training Center, Sheppard Field,
Wichita Falls, TX 8Mar45. 3701st Base Unit (Technical School), Amarillo Field, TX 29Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 25Oct45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
30516 (MSN 5630) Accepted by USAAF 17Jun43. Bailed to Boeing, Seattle, WA 25Jun43. Assigned to 96th Bomb
Group. 3715th Base Unit, Factory School, Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, Lockheed Field,
Burbank, CA 10Aug44. 499th Bomb Group, Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 23Aug44. 3715th Base Unit,
Factory School, Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, Lockheed Field, Burbank, CA 28Sep44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Cal-Aero Field, Ontario, CA for storage and disposal 16Jun45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Sharp & Fellows Contracting Company Jul46; scrapped.
30517 (MSN 5631) Accepted by USAAF 17Jun43. Bailed to Boeing, Seattle, WA 25Jun43. 3715th Base Unit,
Factory School, Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, Lockheed Field, Burbank, CA 15Jul44. Materiel Command,
Lockheed Field, Burbank, CA 28Jul44. 3710th Base Unit, Amarillo Field, TX 20Sep44. 3706th Base Unit,
Basic Training Center, Sheppard Field, Wichita Falls, TX 8Mar45. 3701st Base Unit (Technical School),
Amarillo Field, TX 24Mar45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage
and disposal 20Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company,
Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30518 (MSN 5632) Accepted by USAAF 18Jun43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 29Jun43.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30Jun43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 14Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 21Jul43. 413th Bomb Squadron [MZ*Y], 96th Bomb Group,
Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 26Jul43. Named "Short Stride IV". Failed to return from a
mission to the Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft shipyard at Kiel, Germany 4Jan44 (7KIA:3POW),
mid-air collision with B-17F 42-5953 on target approach, crashed Dalum, between
Ems, Lingen, and Meppen, Germany. MACR 2016
30519 (MSN 5633) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Jun43.
Roswell Field, NM 24Jun43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44.
3010th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 10Dec44.
37th Flying Training Wing, Williams Field, Chandler, AZ. Damaged taking off at Williams Field 22Jan45.
Reclaimed 10Mar45
30520 (MSN 5634) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Jun43.
Roswell Field, NM 22Jun43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44.
3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 28Apr45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 30Aug45
30521 (MSN 5635) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Jun43.
Roswell Field, NM 24Jun43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 29Oct45
30522 (MSN 5636) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Jun43.
Roswell Field, NM 24Jun43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44.
3010th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 9Dec44.
3020th Base Unit (Pilot School, Advanced, Two Engine), La Junta Field, CO 4May45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 1Aug45
30523 (MSN 5637) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Jun43.
Roswell Field, NM 24Jun43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44.
3010th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 10Dec44.
3009th Base Unit, Carlsbad Field, NM 12Jan45. 2619th Base Unit, Bombardier School, Carlsbad
Field, NM 1Mar45. 2536th Base Unit, Navigation School, San Marcos Field, TX 27Sep45.
2532nd Base Unit, Pilot School, Specialized, Very Heavy, Randolph Field, San Antonio, TX 29Nov45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and
disposal 20Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
30524 (MSN 5638) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Jun43.
Roswell Field, NM 23Jun43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44.
3010th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 11Dec44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 9Aug45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped
30525 (MSN 5639) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Jun43.
Roswell Field, NM 24Jun43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44.
3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 28Apr45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 11Sep45
30526 (MSN 5640) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Jun43.
Roswell Field, NM 23Jun43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell
Field, NM 2Jun44. Damaged by engine failure at Roswell 4Nov44. 4208th Base Unit, Mines
Field, Los Angeles, CA 25Mar45. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell
Field, NM 30Mar45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM
for storage and disposal 9Aug45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped
30527 (MSN 5641) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 16Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 19Jun43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 4Jul43. Bolling Field,
Washington, DC 15Jul43. New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 7Aug43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 9Aug43.
Combat Crew Training Squadron, 393rd Bomb Group, Sioux City AAB, IA 30Nov43. Crashed during
takeoff in collision with B-17F 42-6053 at Sioux City AAB 24Mar44 (3KIS). Salvaged 25Mar44
30528 (MSN 5642) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 17Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 28Jun43. Pilot School (Specialized, Four Engine),
Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 3Jul43. 3505th Base Unit (Technical School), Scott Field, Belleville, IL 25Aug44.
2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 20Sep44. Reclaimed 29Jan46.
30529 (MSN 5643) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 18Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 27Jun43. 451st Specialized Pilot Training Squadron,
Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 29Jun43. Damaged landing at Hendricks 27Feb44. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 4Oct44. Crashed due mechanical failure taking off
at Hendricks 16Nov44. Salvaged 17Nov44
30530 (MSN 5644) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 18Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 29Jun43. Sioux City AAB, IA 30Jun43. 353rd Air Base
Detachment, Watertown Field, SD 17Jul43. 582nd Bomb Squadron, 393rd Bomb Group, Kearney
Field, NB 3Aug43. Crashed during a training flight near Columbus, TX 25Sep43 (9KIS). Salvaged 26Sep43.
30531 (MSN 5645) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 2Jul43. Dyersburg Field, TN. Combat Crew Training
Squadron, 469th Bomb Group, Alexandria Field, LA. Fatal accident landing at Alexandria Field 17Dec43 (1KIS);
an enlisted airmen of the 517th Air Base Squadron was struck by the landing B-17. 3505th Base Unit
(Technical School), Scott Field, Belleville, IL 29Jun44. 4117th Base Unit (Warner Robins Air Technical
Service Command), Robins Field, Warner Robins, GA 1Nov44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Bush Field, Augusta, GA for storage and disposal 13Jun45
42-30532/30616 Boeing B-17F-110-BO Fortress
MSN 5646/5730. Dispositions from B-17 Fortress Master Log, Dave Osborne (FORTLOG)
Production changes: Flexible ammunition containers for tail guns. Thermometer change
30532 (MSN 5646) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 18Jun43.
Roswell Field, NM 25Jun43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 29Oct45
30533 (MSN 5647) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 2Jul43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 4Jul43.
Pendleton Field, OR 25Jul43. Rapid City Field, SD 30Jul43. Harvard Field, NB 2Aug43.
225th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Rapid City Field, SD 24Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Cal-Aero Field, Ontario, CA for storage and disposal 19Jun45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Sharp & Fellows Contracting Company Jul46; scrapped
30534 (MSN 5648) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 17Jun43.
Sioux City AAB, IA 30Jun43. 582nd Bomb Squadron, 393rd Bomb Group, Kearney Field, NB.
Accident landing at Sioux City AAB, IA 2Aug43. Combat Crew Training Squadron, 393rd Bomb Group,
Sioux City AAB, IA. Damaged landing at Sioux City AAB 10Jan44. Accident landing with mechanical
failure at Sioux City AAB 2Mar44. 882nd Bomb Squadron, 500th Bomb Group, Walker Field, Victoria, KS.
Damaged landing with mechanical failure at Walker Field 27Apr44. 248th Base Unit (Operational
Training Unit), Walker Field, Victoria, KS 27Oct44. 274th Base Unit (Staging Wing), 21st Bomb Wing,
Herington Field, KS 5Jan45. 248th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Walker Field, Victoria, KS 11Jan45.
4104th Base Unit (Rome Air Technical Service Command), Rome Field, NY 21Jan45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 27Aug45
30535 (MSN 5649) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 17Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 28Jun43. Pilot School (Specialized, Four Engine),
Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 30Jun43. Pilot School (Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field,
Sebring, FL 3Jul43. 87th Specialized Pilot Training Squadron, 27th Specialized Pilot Training Group,
Chanute Field, Rantoul, IL. Crashed Dubuque, IA 8Feb44 (5KIS). The pilot, a Dubuque native,
led a training mission in the bomber from Chanute Field. The flight headed to the pilot's hometown
of Dubuque. he had been attached to the Twelfth Air Force in North Africa in 1943, and completed fifty
bombing missions over targets in Sicily and Italy. The B-17 was an odd sight to the residents of Dubuque
since there were no B-17 bases near Dubuque. The residents were surprised to see the B-17 roar over their
town at low altitude that day. The B-17 made two low passes past Heller's Tavern off old Highway 20.
Soon after the low pass, the right wing of the bomber clipped a tree, and the pilot corrected, sending
the bomber into a stall. The plane crashed and burst into flames, killing all five men on board.
It was speculated that the pilot was flying low over the tavern to get the attention of a girl that
worked there at the time. Salvaged 10Feb44
30536 (MSN 5650) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 17Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 28Jun43. Pilot School (Specialized, Four Engine),
Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 30Jun43. Pilot School (Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field,
Sebring, FL 3Jul43. 3502nd Base Unit (Technical School), Chanute Field, Rantoul, IL 22Jun44.
2140th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Smyrna Field, TN 22Aug44.
3505th Base Unit (Technical School), Scott Field, Belleville, IL 27Aug43. 3502nd Base Unit
(Technical School), Chanute Field, Rantoul, IL 17Jan45. 3539th Base Unit (Technical School),
Langley Field, Hampton, VA 6Apr45. Reclaimed 2Mar46.
30537 (MSN 5651) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 18Jun43.
Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 26Jun43. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine),
Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 14Jul44. Crash landed four miles north of Sebring 17Dec44 (3KIS).
Reclaimed 6Jan45
30538 (MSN 5652) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 18Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 27Jun43. Pilot School (Specialized, Four Engine),
Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 29Jun43. Pilot School (Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field,
Sebring, FL 3Jul43. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field,
Sebring, FL 4Oct44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage
and disposal 19Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company,
Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30539 (MSN 5653) Accepted by USAAF 29Jun43. Boeing, Seattle, WA 29Jun43. Cold Weather Testing Detachment,
Ladd Field, Fairbanks, AK 16Oct43. Damaged by mechanical failure at Ladd 11Feb44. Materiel
Command, Wright Field, Dayton, OH 2Jun44. Ladd Field, Fairbanks, AK 7Apr44. 4104th Base Unit
(Rome Air Technical Service Command), Rome Field, NY 25Aug44. ATS HA, Brainard, Hartford, CT 6Sep43.
4136th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma
City, OK 2Nov44. ATS, Wright Field, Dayt on, OH 14Nov44. ATS HA, Brainard, Hartford, CT 16Nov44.
ATS, Wright Field, Dayton, OH 28Nov44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR
for storage and disposal 27Mar46. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment
Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30540 (MSN 5654) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 18Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 27Jun43. Pilot School (Specialized, Four Engine),
Eastern Flying Training Command, Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL. Crash landed and destroyed by
fire � mile from Fort Worth Field, TX 13Jan44 (10KIS). Salvaged 15Jan44
. 30541 MSN 5655) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 18Jun43.
552nd Bomb Squadron, 325th Bomb Group (Reconnaissance), Roswell Field, NM 25Jun43.
Caught fire, crew bailed out, crashed five miles west of Roswell 29Jan44. Salvaged 31Jan44.
30542 (MSN 5656) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 18Jun43.
Sioux City AAB, IA 29Jun43. Scribner Field, NB 17Jul43. 583rd Bomb Squadron, 393rd Bomb Group,
Kearney Field, NB 3Aug43. Crashed six miles north of Wood River, NB 17Aug43 (8KIS). An instructor
pilot was flying the aircraft on a local familiarization flight with a crew based at Kearney. Eyewitnesses
observed the plane flying low and while in a steep bank, which brought the bomber almost
perpendicular with the ground, the plane stalled and then crashed in a cornfield killing all eight
occupants. Pilot error was listed as the cause of the crash despite at least two eyewitnesses who
claimed to have seen one engine on fire. Salvaged 18Aug43
30543 (MSN 5657) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 17Jun43.
Roswell Field, NM 24Jun43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell
Field, NM 2Jun44. 4121st Base Unit (San Antonio Air Technical Service Command), Kelly Field,
San Antonio, TX 3Nov44. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 7Nov44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 9Aug45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped
30544 (MSN 5658) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 18Jun43.
Roswell Field, NM 25Jun43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jul44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 29Oct4
30545 (MSN 5659) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 18Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 2Jul43. Dyersburg Field, TN 3Jul43. Alexandria
Field, LA 11Jul43. 221st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA 17Jan45.
329th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA 1Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 9Oct45
30546 (MSN 5660) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 18Jun43.
Roswell Field, NM 25Jun43. Hobbs Field, NM 7Jul43. Roswell Field, NM 3Aug43. 3030th Base
Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 28Apr45. Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 30Aug45
30547 (MSN 5661) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 18Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 20Jun43. Sioux City AAB, IA 1Jul43. 353rd Air Base
Detachment, Watertown Field, SD 17Jul43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 3Aug43.
580th Bomb Squadron, 393rd Bomb Group, Sioux City AAB, IA 11Nov43. 326th Base Unit (Combat
Crew Training Station), MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 18Jan45. 331st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Barksdale Field, Bossier City, LA 20Jan45. Damaged by mechanical failure at Barksdale 13Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 14Dec45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30548 (MSN 5662) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19Jun43.
Alexandria Field, LA 13Jul43. 221st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA 20Aug44.
329th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA 1Mar45. 331st Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Barksdale Field, Bossier City, LA 2Apr45. 326th Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 2May45. 331st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Barksdale Field, Bossier City, LA 9Sep45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR
for storage and disposal 14Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company,
Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30549 (MSN 5663) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 18Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 28Jun43. 450th Specialized Pilot Training Squadron,
Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 30Jun43. Damaged landing Hendricks 5Sep43. 2137th Base Unit
(Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 1Oct44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 18Dec45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30550 (MSN 5664) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 7Jul43. Dalhart Field, TX 8Jul43. 976th Bomb Squadron,
444th Bomb Group, Dalhart Field, TX 10Oct43. Great Bend Field, KS. Mid-air collision NW of
Tucumcari, NM 1Nov43. 902nd Base Unit (Base Complement), Orlando AAB, FL 6Jul44. 243rd Base
Unit (Operational Training Unit), Great Bend Field, KS 14Jul44. 19th Bomb Group, Dalhart
Field, TX 1Sep44. 556th Base Unit, 6th Ferrying Group, Long Beach Field, CA 28Nov44. 243rd Base
Unit (Operational Training Unit), Great Bend Field, KS 13Jan45. 902nd Base Unit (Base Complement),
Orlando AAB, FL 27Mar45. 243rd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Great Bend Field, KS 2May45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 9Oct45.
30551 (MSN 5665) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19Jun43.
Ephrata AAB, WA 11Jul43. Combat Crew Training School, 395th Bomb Group, Ardmore Field, OK.
Mid-air collision with B-17F 42-6181, seventy-five miles southeast of Amarillo Field, TX, 31Jan44.
B-17 42-6181 was flying off 42-30551's left wing. It drifted a little too close, was caught in propeller
wash and hit the left horizontal stabiliser of the other bomber with its right wing tip.
332nd Base Unit, Ardmore Field, OK 13Jul44. 347th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Key Field, Meridian, MS 6Aug44. Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and
bombing equipment; designated TB-17F. 222nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Ardmore Field, OK. Damaged in accident with TB-17F 42-30761 taxying at Ardmore 12Jun45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 29Oct45.
30552 (MSN 5666) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 2Jul43. Dyersburg Field, TN 3Jul43. Alexandria
Field, LA 11Jul43. 221st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA 7Nov44.
329th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA 1Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 9Oct45
30553 (MSN 5667) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19Jun43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 7Jul43. Redmond Field, OR 15Jul43. Walla Walla Field, WA 15Aug43.
317th Bomb Squadron, 88th Bomb Group, Avon Park Field, FL Nov43. Damaged landing at Avon
Park Bombing Range 28Nov43. 325th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Avon Park Field, FL.
Damaged by mechanical failure in flight at Inverness, FL 16Jan45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 29Aug45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30554 (MSN 5668) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 30Jun43. Sioux City AAB, IA 1Jul43. Mitchel Field,
Hempstead, Long Island, NY 17Jul43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 3Aug43.
224th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Sioux City AAB, IA. Damaged landing Sioux
City AAB, IA 29Mar44. Salvaged 21Apr44
30555 (MSN 5669) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19Jun43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 7Jul43. Madras Field, OR 15Jul43. Redmond Field, OR 16Jul43.
317th Bomb Squadron, 88th Bomb Group, Walla Walla Field, WA 15Aug43. Damaged
landing at Walla Walla 18Sep43. 88th Bomb Group, Avon Park Field, FL Nov43.
325th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Avon Park Field, FL 1May44. Missing
during a sortie from Avon Park 22May44 (8MIS); disappeared over the Gulf of Mexico. SOC 25May44
There is also MACR 812 (28th BG) dated Sep 28, 1943.
30556 (MSN 5670) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21Jun43.
Spokane Field, WA 2Jul43. 393rd Bomb Group, Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 4Jul43. Pendleton
Field, OR 25Jul43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 10Aug43. 818th Bomb Squadron, 483rd Bomb Group,
MacDill Field, Tampa, FL. Damaged by structural failure at MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 5Jan44.
4117th Base Unit (Warner Robins Air Technical Service Command), Robins Field, Warner
Robins, GA 13Jul44. 327th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Drew Field, Tampa, FL 22Sep44.
2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 11May45.
327th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Drew Field, Tampa, FL 24May45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 14Sep45
30557 (MSN 5671) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 4Jul43. 602nd Bomb Squadron, 398th Bomb Group,
Rapid City Field, SD 5Jul43. Force landed after engine failure twenty-five miles east of Hermosa, SD 5Feb44.
While on a practice bombing mission in South Dakota, there was a fire in the bomb bay door motor.
After trying to turn the doors back up with the manual handle, the crew lost each of the four engines
in turn from carburetor icing. By this time they were too low to jump and the crew went into their
practiced 'toboggan' mode in the radio room. Meanwhile the pilot and co-pilot attempted to crash
land the B-17. The pilot made such a perfect, smooth landing on a snow-covered wheat field that the
aircraft neither bounced nor even suffered a hangnail. The crew was then treated by the Colonel
to 'the best steaks in South Dakota'. The pilot's crash landing had been so gentle, that after fixing the
propellers and lifting it, Colonel Hunter, the CO of the 398th Bomb Group, flew the B-17 out of the
wheat field on a metal-grid runway. 225th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Rapid City
Field, SD 23Mar45. 400th Base Unit, Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA 25Apr45. 225th Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Rapid City Field, SD 2May45. 237th Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Kirtland Field, Albuquerque, NM 24May45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 9Oct45
30558 (MSN 5672) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 2Jul43. Dyersburg Field, TN 3Jul43. Combat Crew
Training Squadron, 469th Bomb Group, Alexandria Field, LA 11Jul43. Crashed five miles west of Esler,
Alexandria Field, LA 19Mar44 (6KIS). Salvaged 21Mar44
30559 (MSN 5673) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 22Jun43.
Rapid City Field, SD 4Jul43. Galveston Field, TX 28Sep43. 4119th Base Unit (Mobile Air Technical
Service Command), Brookley Field, Mobile, AL 21Oct44. 328th Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Gulfport Field, MS 15Dec44. 4119th Base Unit (Mobile Air Technical Service
Command), Brookley Field, Mobile, AL 19Dec44. 328th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Gulfport Field, MS 3Mar45. 327th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Drew Field, Tampa, FL 15Jun45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 25Jun45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped
30560 (MSN 5674) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 2Jul43. Dyersburg Field, TN 3Jul43. Gulfport
Field, MS 8Aug43. Galveston Field, TX 12Aug43. Dalhart Field, TX 15Aug43. 223rd Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN. Damaged landing at Dyersburg 15May44.
330th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN 1Mar45. 327th Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Drew Field, Tampa, FL 3Jun45. Modified for training, stripped
of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Searcey Field, Stillwater, OK for storage and disposal 7Aug45.
War Assets Corporation. Sold to Paul Mantz 19Feb46; scrapped
30561 (MSN 5675) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21Jun43.
Biggs Field, El Paso, TX 3Jul43. 468th Bomb Squadron, 333rd Bomb Group, Dalhart Field, TX 17Jul43.
Damaged at Dalhart 16Jul43. Crash landed after engine failure twelve miles north of
Moorland, OK 18Aug43. Salvaged 20Aug43
30562 (MSN 5676) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21Jun43.
Dalhart Field, TX 3Jul43. Gulfport Field, MS 11Jul43. Dalhart Field, TX 3Aug43. 794th Bomb Squadron,
468th Bomb Group, Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS. Crashed after crew bailed out due engine failure near
Douglas, WY 18Mar44
30563 (MSN 5677) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 22Jun43. Ephrata AAB, WA 2Jul43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 4Jul43. Ephrata AAB, WA 26Jul43. Rapid City Field, SD 28Jul43.
School of Applied Tactics, Orlando AAB, FL 7Aug43. 225th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Rapid City Field, SD. Damaged taking off at Rapid City 20Aug44. 224th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training
Station), Sioux City AAB, IA 19Nov44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM
for storage and disposal 19Jun45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped
30564 (MSN 5678) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21Jun43. 7th Ferrying
Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 2Jul43. Rapid City Field, SD 4Jul43. 4136th Base Unit (Oklahoma City
Air Technical Service Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 9Jul44. 222nd Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Ardmore Field, OK 14Jul44. Damaged taxying Ardmore 1Oct44. Damaged taxying
Ardmore 8Feb45. 332nd Base Unit, Ardmore Field, OK 16Jun45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 18Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas
Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30565 (MSN 5679) Accepted by USAAF 18Jun43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 22Jun43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 2Jul43. 540th Bomb Squadron,
383rd Bomb Group, Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 4Jul43. Pendleton Field, OR 15Aug43. 841st Bomb Squadron,
488th Bomb Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL. Damaged taxying at MacDill Field 3Mar44. 326th Base
Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), MacDill Field, Tampa, FL. Damaged taxying at MacDill Field 8Jun44.
357th Base Unit, Kellogg Field, Battle Creek, MI 20Sep44. Substantially damaged when force landed
with engine failure and fire at Kellogg Field 5Oct44. Reclaimed 9Feb45
30566 (MSN 5680) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 22Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 2Jul43. 540th Bomb Squadron, 383rd Bomb Group,
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 4Jul43. Rapid City Field, SD 29Jul43. Harvard Field, NB 2Aug43.
4117th Base Unit (Warner Robins Air Technical Service Command), Robins Field, Warner
Robins, GA 13Jul44. 328th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Gulfport Field, MS 16Jul44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 25Jun45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped.
30567 (MSN 5681) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 22Jun43.
Moses Lake Field, WA 3Jul43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 2Aug43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field,
Great Falls, MT 12Aug43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 28Oct43. 224th Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Sioux City AAB, IA. Damaged structural failure Sioux City AAB, IA 22Jul44.
Damaged taxying at Sioux City 8Dec44. 224th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Sioux
City AAB, IA 6Mar45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM
for storage and disposal 19Jun45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped
30568 (MSN 5682) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 4Jul43. 435th Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group,
Pyote Field, TX 5Jul43. 274th Base Unit (Staging Wing), 21st Bomb Wing, Herington Field, KS 8Jun44.
499th Bomb Group, Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 9Jun44. 2517th Base Unit (Navigation School & Instructor
School), Ellington Field, Houston, TX 25Jun44. 499th Bomb Group, Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 7Jul44.
233rd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Davis-Monthan Field, Tucson, AZ 15Aug44.
235th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Biggs Field, El Paso, TX 28Sep44. 4202nd Base
Unit (Rome Air Technical Service Command), Syracuse AAB, NY 5Apr45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 11Sep45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30569 (MSN 5683) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Jun43.
Rapid City Field, SD 4Jul43. 774th Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL.
Damaged in collision with B-17F 42-29671 taxying at MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 30Dec43.
323rd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Drew Field, Tampa, FL. Accident landing with mechanical
failure at Drew Field 30Jun44. 4119th Base Unit (Mobile Air Technical Service Command), Brookley Field,
Mobile, AL 11Nov44. 4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field,
Dayton, OH 28Nov44. 331st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Barksdale Field, Bossier
City, LA 21Feb45. 326th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 11Apr45.
331st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Barksdale Field, Bossier City, LA 15May45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 14Dec45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30570 (MSN 5684) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 22Jun43.
466th Bomb Squadron, 333rd Bomb Group, Dalhart Field, TX 3Jul43. Damaged landing at Dalhart
Auxiliary Field #1, Hartley, TX 8Jul43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 11Jul43.
Dalhart Field, TX 18Jul43. 232nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dalhart Field, TX 9Jun44.
4200th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Chicago Municipal Airport, IL 2Sep44.
232nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dalhart Field, TX 15Sep43. 610th Base Unit (Proving
Ground Command), Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 27Oct44. 232nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Dalhart Field, TX 6Nov44. 4108th Base Unit (Atlantic Overeas Air Technical Service Command),
Newark Field, NJ 11Nov44. 245th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), McCook Field, NB 22Dec44.
237th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Kirtland Field, Albuquerque, NM 7Mar45.
Damaged landing at Drake Field, Fayetteville, AR 9May45. 4136th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air
Technical Service Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 15May45. Reclaimed 19Jun45
30571 (MSN 5685) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 22Jun43.
466th Bomb Squadron, 333rd Bomb Group, Dalhart Field, TX 3Jul43. Crashed after structural
failure in bad weather twenty miles northwest of Logan, NM 27Jul43 (9KIS). Salvaged 31Jul43.
30572 (MSN 5686) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 2Jul43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 4Jul43.
452nd Bomb Group, Pendleton Field, OR 25Jul43. 677th Bomb Squadron, 444th Bomb Group,
Great Bend Field, KS. Crash landed mechanical failure Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 24Feb44.
498th Bomb Group, Great Bend Field, KS 23Jul44. 243rd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit),
Great Bend Field, KS 20Aug44. Damaged while parked by B-17F 42-6123 at Batista, Cuba 19Sep44.
232nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dalhart Field, TX 27Sep44. Puerto Rico 9Nov44.
Salvaged 21Jun46
30573 (MSN 5687) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 4Jul43. 19th Bomb Group, Pyote Field, TX 5Jul43.
221st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA 17Jan45. 329th Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA 1Mar45. 331st Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Barksdale Field, Bossier City, LA 3Apr45.To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 25Jun45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrappe
30574 (MSN 5688) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Jun43.
Pyote Field, TX 4Jul43. Alexandria Field, LA 7Jul43. 202nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Galveston Field, TX 13Jul44. 221st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA 21Jul43.
Damaged landing at Alexandria 16Aug44. Salvaged 21Aug44
30575 (MSN 5689) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 2Jul43. 541st Bomb Squadron, 383rd Bomb Group,
Pendleton Field, OR 25Jul43. Damaged due mechanical failure in collision with parked B-17F 42-5298
taxying at Geiger 29Jul43. 452nd Bomb Group, Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 31Jul43. 500th Bomb Group,
Walker Field, Victoria, KS 8Jun44. 901st Base Unit, Heavy Bombardment, Pinecastle Field,
Orlando, FL 8Jul44. 902nd Base Unit (Base Complement), Orlando AAB, FL 2Aug43. 248th Base
Unit (Operational Training Unit), Walker Field, Victoria, KS 16Aug44. 232nd Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Dalhart Field, TX 4Sep44. 241st Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Fairmont Field,
Geneva, NB 12Sep44. 15th Bomb Squadron, 16th Bomb Group, Fairmont Field, Geneva, NB. Damaged
in collision with parked B-17F 42-29596 at Fairmont 14Dec44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 9Oct45
30576 (MSN 5690) Amarillo Field, TX 1Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 27Jul43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 1Aug43. Rapid City Field, SD 10Aug43. Pendleton Field, OR 12Aug43.
603rd Bomb Squadron, 398th Bomb Group, Rapid City Field, SD. The bomber departed Rapid City Field
in the evening for a 'First Phase'bombing training mission. It was to be conducted over the Ainsworth
bombing range, Nebraska, and the mission should have lasted four hours. After takeoff the aircraft
did not maintain contact with base, nor did they contact the Ainsworth bombing range. Just before
midnight, residents of the small town of Martin, South Dakota, reported the crash of a multi-engined
aircraft to the control tower of Rapid City Army Air Base. The aircraft had crashed after engine fires
into a wheat field south and west of the town of Martin. The entire crew perished (7KIS). Salvaged 19Jan44.
30577 (MSN 5691) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Jun43.
582nd Bomb Squadron, 393rd Bomb Group, Kearney Field, NB 26Jul43. Crash landed at Kearney Field 6Aug43.
Salvaged 9Aug43
30578 (MSN 5692) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 4Jul43. 28th Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group,
Pyote Field, TX 5Jul43. 346th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN.
Damaged when collided with parked B-17F 42-3364 at Dyersburg Field, TN 4Jan44. SOC 24Mar44.
30579 (MSN 5693) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 5Jul43. 19th Bomb Group, Pyote Field, TX 6Jul43.
554th Base Unit, 4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 7Aug44. 222nd Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Ardmore Field, OK 30Aug44. 332nd Base Unit, Ardmore Field, OK 16Jun45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 18Dec45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
30580 (MSN 5694) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27Jun43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 10Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 15Jul43. 326th Bomb Squadron [JW*N], 92nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102),
Huntingdonshire 14Aug43. Named "Equipoise". Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire.
Damaged landing Podington 5Jan44 when a tire burst and veered off runway, B-17F 42-31377
crashed into this bomber. Salvaged after non battle damage 6Jan44. .
30581 (MSN 5695) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 5Jul43. Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 7Jul43.
Glasgow Field, MT 28Jul43. Sioux City AAB, IA 19Dec43. 232nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training
Station), Dalhart Field, TX 9Jun44. 268th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Peterson Field,
Colorado Springs, CO 30Sep44. 232nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dalhart
Field, TX 11Oct44. 253rd Base Unit, Selman Field, Monroe, LA 6Dec44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage
and disposal 17Oct45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
30582 (MSN 5696) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Jun43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 5Jul43. Redmond Field, OR 15Jul43. Walla Walla Field, WA 15Aug43. Salvaged 29Feb44
30583 (MSN 5697) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 16Jul43. 28th Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group,
Pyote Field, TX 17Jul43. Damaged taxying at Pyote 4Oct43. Salvaged 5Oct43
30584 (MSN 5698) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 4Jul43. 615th Bomb Squadron, 401st Bomb Group,
Great Falls AAB, MT 7Jul43. Damaged in an accident at Lewistown Field, MT 27Jul43. Sioux
City AAB, IA 9Dec43. 221st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA 7Nov44.
329th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA 1Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 29Oct45
30585 (MSN 5699) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Jun43.
Rapid City Field, SD 6Jul43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 18Nov43. 327th Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Drew Field, Tampa, FL. Damaged while parked in collision by B-17F 42-5300 taxying
at Drew 30Sep44. 4119th Base Unit (Mobile Air Technical Service Command), Brookley Field,
Mobile, AL 14Nov44. 4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field,
Dayton, OH 28Nov44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Bush Field, Augusta, GA for storage and disposal 4Jul45
30586 (MSN 5700) Accepted by USAAF 22Jun43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 24Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training
Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 16Jul43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 20Jul43.
Ferried from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to St Angelo, Enniskillen, Northern Ireland and
Prestwick, Scotland 25/26Jul43. 368th Bomb Squadron [BO*A], 306th Bomb Group,
Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 8Aug43. Battle damaged by flak on a mission to a roller
bearing factory at Stuttgart, Germany 6Sep43. Damage to left inner wing and Tokyo tank and
left elevator. Base Air Depot No.1, Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire 9Sep43. Regained by
Group Sep43. Battle damaged by enemy fighter attacks on a mission to industrial areas at
Frankfurt am Main, Germany 4Oct43. Flak over the target was moderate and accurate. A large force
of enemy fighters were encountered, some using rockets which were fired from a distance
beyond the range of the bombers' guns. Serious damage caused by 0.50 caliber cannon shells
to left inner wing spar, No.2 fuel feeder tank, No.1 main fuel tank. Mobile Repair Unit, Eighth
Air Force Service Command 4Oct43. Regained by Group 13Oct43. Failed to return from a mission
to the Dornier Flugzeugwerke factory at Oberpfaffenhofen, Munich, Germany 24Apr44 (1KIA:9POW).
Enemy aircraft hit No.3 and No.4 engines. Crashed Hainhausen, sixteen miles northeast of Munich, Germany
MACR 4239
30587 (MSN 5701) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27Jun43.
Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 9Jul43. Dalhart Field, TX 10Jul43. 232nd Base Unit (Combat
Crew Training Station), Dalhart Field, TX 9Jun44. HQ, Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 14Jul44.
558th Base Unit, 20th Ferrying Group, Air Transport Command, Berry Field, Nashville, TN 1Aug44.
HQ, Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 11Sep43. 3033rd Base Unit, Stockton 25Sep44.
271st Base Unit (Staging Wing), 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 15Mar45. 485th Base Unit,
Kearney Field, NB 3Oct45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for
storage and disposal 10Jan46. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment
Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30588 (MSN 5702) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Jun43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 7Jul43. Madras Field, OR 15Jul43. 317th Bomb Squadron, 88th Bomb Group,
Redmond Field, OR 17Jul43. Crashed on training mission from Redmond, OR Jul 18, 1943. Ran low on fuel and engines
quit while approaching Redmond AAF. After crashing through treetops surrounding the
airport, pilots were able to make a dead stick landing on the infield. All but the
gunnery instructor survived the crash. Aircraft DBR. Plane was cut up and hauled away.
30589 (MSN 5703) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Jun43.
468th Bomb Squadron, 333rd Bomb Group, Dalhart Field, TX 8Jul43. Assigned to 92nd Bomb Group.
Crashed engine failure 6 miles east of Texline, TX 26Aug43. Salvaged 27Aug43
30590 (MSN 5704) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 22Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 8Jul43. Dalhart Field, TX 9Jul43. Air Service Command,
Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 25Jul43. Dalhart Field, TX 9Aug43. 232nd Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Dalhart Field, TX 9Jun44. 271st Base Unit (Staging Wing), 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 8Oct44. 232nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dalhart Field, TX 19Oct44.
110th Base Unit (Staging), Mitchel Field, Hempstead, Long Island, NY 6Nov44. 232nd Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Dalhart Field, TX 10Nov44. 272nd Base Unit (Staging Wing),
21st Bomb Wing, Topeka Field, KS 2Dec44. 232nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Dalhart Field, TX 8Dec44. 485th Bomb Squadron, 501st Bomb Group, Harvard Field, NB 5Jan45.
Damaged in collision with parked Curtiss R5C-1 BuNo 39591 at Rosecrans Field, St. Joseph, MO 12Jan45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 2Nov45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
30591 (MSN 5705) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Jun43.
Dalhart Field, TX 8Jul43. 202nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Galveston Field, TX 8Aug44.
224th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Sioux City AAB, IA 23Feb45. 4202nd Base Unit (Rome Air
Technical Service Command), Syracuse AAB, NY 24Apr45. Modified for training, stripped of armor,
armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Searcey Field, Stillwater, OK. War Assets Corporation. Sold to Paul Mantz 19Feb46; scrapped
30592 (MSN 5706) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Jun43.
232nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dalhart Field, TX 9Jul43. Damaged while
parked by taxying B-17F 42-5173 at Dalhart 17Apr44. Salvaged 24Apr44
30593 (MSN 5707) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Jun43. 7th Ferrying
Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 7Jul43. Dalhart Field, TX 9Jul43. 468th Bomb Group, Dalhart
Field, TX 10Oct43. 4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field,
Dayton, OH 28Jun44. 497th Bomb Group, Pratt Field, KS 29Jun44. 247th Base Unit (Operational
Training Unit), Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 19Jul44. 246th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit),
Pratt Field, KS 25Jul44. 247th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 2Aug44.
1103rd Base Unit (Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command), Morrison Field, West Palm
Beach, FL 21Feb45. 902nd Base Unit (Base Complement), Orlando AAB, FL 15Apr45. 247th Base
Unit (Operational Training Unit), Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 1May45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 25Jun45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped.
30594 (MSN 5708) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 17Jul43. 19th Bomb Group, Pyote Field, TX 9Nov43.
Chicago Municipal Airport, IL 21Jun44. 222nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Ardmore Field, OK Jan45. Force landed with mechanical failure at Ardmore Field, OK 8Jan45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Cal-Aero Field, Ontario, CA for storage and disposal 19May45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Sharp & Fellows Contracting Company Jul46; scrapped
30595 (MSN 5709) Accepted by USAAF 24Jun43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 26Jun43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 13Jul43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 16Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 19Jul43. 560th Bomb Squadron [K], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136),
Suffolk 20Jul43. {first combat mission 15Aug43}. Participated in a shuttle mission to the
Messerschmitt aircraft factories at Regensburg, Germany 17Aug43. After the target, the bomber
turned south and landed at the Twelfth Air Force base at B�ne, Algeria. Later positioned to Telergma,
Algeria. On return to England, operated a mission to a Luftwaffe air depot at M�rignac, Bordeaux,
France 24Aug43. Battle damaged on a Crossbow mission to a German V-weapon site in the
Pas-de-Calais, France 24Dec43 (10RTD). Just inside the French coast at Dieppe, the aircraft was
struck by flak. {final combat mission 6Jun44}. {40 missions}. Named GREMLIN GUS II. Gremlin Gus
came from pilots of the Royal Air Force who, according to RAF legend, were responsible for aircraft
engine failures and otherwise unexplainable aircraft maintenance problems. Gus was a character
created in the 1940s for an unfinished animated film based on Roald Dahl's story The Gremlins.
Modified as a drone for Operation Aphrodite missions Jun44. Designated BQ-7. Drone #B3.
562nd Bomb Squadron, 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk, later at Fersfield
(Station 554), Norfolk. Weight reduction program to carry hydrostatic bombs for a proposed
mission [later cancelled] to sink the Tirpitz in Norway, modified with cockpit roof cut off
and a vehicle windshield fitted before open cockpit. Not expended. Salvaged 24Jun46. Named OLIN'S 69'ERS
30596 (MSN 5710) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Jun43.
542nd Bomb Squadron, 383rd Bomb Group, Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 12Jul43. Pendleton
Field, OR 25Jul43. 603rd Bomb Squadron, 398th Bomb Group, Rapid City Field, SD 30Jul43.
Harvard Field, NB 2Aug43. 603rd Bomb Squadron, 398th Bomb Group, Rapid City Field, SD.
Crashed due engine failure after crew bailed out 50 miles southeast of Rapid City 28Nov43.
Salvaged 1Jan44.
30597 (MSN 5711) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Jun43.
Dalhart Field, TX 10Jul43. 4117th Base Unit (Warner Robins Air Technical Service Command), Robins
Field, Warner Robins, GA 21Jun44. 242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island
Field, NB 23Jun44. 6th Bomb Group, Grand Island Field, NB 8Jul44. 4209th Base Unit (Oklahoma
City Air Technical Service Command), Des Moines Municipal Airport, IA 10Aug44. 68th Bomb Group,
Grand Island Field, NB 28Sep44. 242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island
Field, NB Sep44. 249th Base Unit (Special), Alliance Field, NB 19Oct44. 223rd Base Unit (Combat
Crew Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN 15Feb45. 327th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training
Station), Drew Field, Tampa, FL 3Jun45. Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament,
turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Searcey Field, Stillwater, OK for storage and disposal 11Aug45. War Assets Corporation.
Sold to Paul Mantz 19Feb46; scrapped
30598 (MSN 5712) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26Jun43.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 12Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 16Jul43. 549th Bomb Squadron [XA*L], 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155),
Suffolk 16Jul43. Failed to return from a mission to Lille, France 15Aug43 (10KIA). Damaged by
flak near Dunkirk, shot down by Lt Kurt Goltzsch in Bf 109G-6 of
JG 2/5 and ditched in English Channel 10 my NW of Dunkerque,
France. MACR 267.
30599 (MSN 5713) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26Jun43.
Ephrata AAB, WA 11Jul43. 273rd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Lincoln Field, NB 16Jun44.
272nd Base Unit (Staging Wing), 21st Bomb Wing, Topeka Field, KS 22Jul44. 484th Base Unit, Topeka
Field, KS 9Oct44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for
storage and disposal 14Nov45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
30600 (MSN 5714) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26Jun43.
Ephrata AAB, WA 11Jul43. 452nd Bomb Group, Pendleton Field, OR 2Nov43. Walla Walla
Field, WA 17Nov43. 395th Bomb Squadron, 40th Bomb Group, Pratt Field, KS. Destroyed when
force landed on fire at Pratt Field 17Dec43. Salvaged 18Dec43
30601 (MSN 5715) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26Jun43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 12Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 16Jul43. 550th Bomb Squadron [SG*K], 385th Bomb Group,
Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 21Jul43 Named "Mary Ellen II". Accident departing
for a mission to the Luftwaffe airfield at Ch�teaubernard, Cognac, France 16Sep43 (10KIA). During the
join up with other groups involved in a mid-air collision in poor visibility with B-17F 42-30120 (95th Bomb
Group) over Abbots Hall, Suffolk. Crashed at Abbotts Hall, Rickinghall Superior, Suffolk. Salvaged 19Sep43.
30602 (MSN 5716) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26Jun43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 12Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 16Jul43. 338th Bomb Squadron [BX*X], 96th Bomb Group,
Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 16Jul43. Named "Dry Run III". Failed to return from a
mission to the port area at Kiel, Germany 13Dec43 (10POW). Heavy frosting and poor visiblity
frustrated the attack and the group diverted to Hamburg. On return to England, damaged by flak
over the Frisian islands then attacked over the North Sea by two Ju 88 C-6 night fighters flown
by Leutnant Hermann Stock of the 12./NJG 3 and Leutnant Walter Briegleb of the 10./NJG 3.
The victory was credited to Lt. Stock. The crew bailed out over Pieterburen before the plane crashed
close to a windmill on a canal at Molenrij, near Kloosterburn, Groningen, Netherlands.
An engine generator came loose and demolished a bicycle belonging to a boat skipper. The skipper
could use this gernerator for his boat but two days later German soldiers came to claim the generator
and the skipper had to hand it over. A few days later, the soldiers returned with sixty Guilders
for a new bicycle; apparently they made a collection amongst their troops MACR 1654.
30603 (MSN 5717) Accepted by USAAF 25Jun43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 26Jun43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 11Jul43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 16Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 18Jul43. 423rd Bomb Squadron [RD*H], 306th Bomb Group,
Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 8Aug43. Named. "Las Vegas Avegner".
Seriously battle damaged during a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt,
Germany 14Oct43 (3WIA:7RTD). En route to the target area, the bomber formation was repeatedly
attacked by a large number of Luftwaffe fighters. After the target, the Group turned and headed
westward for England. German fighters, having landed and refueled, attacked again until, finally,
the bombers reached the coastline of western Europe and relative safety. Horizontal stabiliser,
left outer wing and fuselage struck by flak. Eighth Air Force Service Command 15Oct43. Regained by
Group 23Oct43. Failed to return from a mission to the port at Bremen, Germany 26Nov43 (6POW:4KIA).
Flak damaged two engines and the plane was seen to drop its landing gear as it peeled off from
the formation. Returning home, the bomber was attacked by five or six enemy fighters shot down by Lt
Heinz-Gunther Luck in Fw 190A-6 of JG 1/1 between Doniaga
and Sint Nicolaasga, Netherlands. Some crew members bailed out.
A wing struck the ground and the plane crashed on Zonderland Farm, St Nicolaasga, Friesland, Netherlands.
The fuselage split opened and two airmen escaped the wreckage. MACR 1329.
30604 (MSN 5718) Accepted by USAAF 25Jun43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Jun43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great
Falls, MT 29Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 22Jun43. Walla Walla Field, WA 1Aug43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 9Aug43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 17Aug43.
306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 10Aug43.
350th Bomb Squadron [LN*T], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 20Aug43
Named *Badger's Beauty V*. Failed to return from a mission to Robinson airfield
at Saint-Dizier, France 4Oct43 (6POW:4EVD). Flak damaged engine No.3 and damaged another.
Crash landed Villers, Caen, France. {22 missions}. Salvaged by Luftwaffe
but not repaired. Recaptured by the USAAF Aug44. Salvaged MACR 843.
30605 (MSN 5719) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Jun43.
English Field, Amarillo Field, TX 16Jul43. Pyote Field, TX 17Jul43. 19th Bomb Group, Pyote Field, TX 9Nov43.
Grandview Field, Kansas City, MO 19Aug44. 224th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Sioux
City AAB, IA 29Aug43. 225th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Rapid City Field, SD 22Sep43.
224th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Sioux City AAB, IA. Damaged by engine and
mechanical failure fifteen miles southeast of Rapid City Field, SD 26Sep44. 224th Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Sioux City AAB, IA 6Oct44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 19Jun45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped.
30606 (MSN 5720) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28Jun43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 14Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 18Jul43. 423rd Bomb Squadron [RD*U], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111),
Bedfordshire 4Aug43. Eighth Air Force Service Command Sep43. Regained by Group Sep43.
Seriously battle damaged during a mission to an aircraft factory at Bremen, Germany 8Oct43.
The formation was met with stiff resistance by German fighters and flak crews on the ground
the entire way, from the Dutch coast all the way into the German heartland, and back again.
In addition, a large force of German fighters launched vicious attacks against the planes.
Over the target, the formation encountered intense flak. Flak struck the nose, tail gunner's
compartment, left horizontal stabiliser and vertical fin. 20mm cannon shells struck the No.4 engine
and propeller and the No.3 propeller was struck by 'friendly fire'. Base Air Depot No.2, Warton
(Station 582), Lancashire; repair by Mobile Repair Unit Oct43. Failed to return from a mission
to the Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft shipyard at Kiel, Germany 4Jan44 (10POW). The aircraft
crash landed on Havsand on the south end of the island of R�m�, North Frisian Isles. It had
been attacked by fighters and suffered from a fire in the right hand outboard engine. During
the next week the B-17 was dismantled and shipped over to Sylt. Named EL DIABLO (The Devil)..
MACR 1681
30607 (MSN 5721) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28Jun43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 14Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 18Jul43. 337th Bomb Squadron, 96th Bomb Group,
Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 18Jul43. Named. "Pat Hand". Failed to return from
a mission to Paris, France 15Sep43 (10KIA:1POW).. Shot down by AAA at La Garenne-Colombes,
France Sep 15, 1943. MACR 728.
30608 (MSN 5722) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Jun43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 15Jul43.
Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 19Jul43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 15Aug43. 326th Bomb Squadron [JW*G/T],
92nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire. Failed to return from a mission to the port
at Bremen, Germany 26Nov43 (10MIA). Damaged by AAA and Last seen going into cloud full of fighters
and crashed into North Sea at East Frisian Islands, Germany. MACR 1386.
30609 (MSN 5723) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Jun43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 15Jul43.
Dalhart Field, TX 20Jul43. Rome Air Depot, NY 7Aug43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME 16Aug43. 335th Bomb Squadron [OE*N], 95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119),
Suffolk 20Aug43. Named. "Pistol Packin' Mama" - artwork inspired by the Vargas
"Pistol Packin' Mama" Esquire centrefold of March 1944. . {first combat mission 7Sep43}. Failed to return
from a mission to the industrial area at Brunswick, Germany 10Feb44 (9POW:1KIA). No.3 & No.4 engines
caught fire, aircraft broke up and crashed Wietmarschen, seven miles northeast of Nordhorn, Germany. {27 missions}.
MACR 2542
30610 (MSN 5724) Accepted by USAAF 26Jun43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 29Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island
Field, NB 15Jul43. Dalhart Field, TX 20Jul43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training
Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 26Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle
Field, ME 3Aug43. 568th Bomb Squadron [BI*M], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 6Aug43
Named "Red Ass" {first combat mission 27Sep43}. {final combat mission 14Oct43}. Accident during assembly
for a mission to D�ren, Germany 17Oct43 (10RTD). The mission was aborted, the plane caught fire behind
the top turret and the bomb load was jettisoned in the Blackwater river. The crew bailed out and the aircraft
crashed at Cannon Barn Farm, West Hanningfield, near Chelmsford, Essex. The bomber hit the ground and
ripped itself apart, the tail section falling complete in the next field. {4 missions}. Salvaged 17Oct43
30611 (MSN 5725) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28Jun43. Seattle, WA 30Jun43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 14Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 18Jul43. 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 20Jul43. Failed to return
from a mission to the Caudron-Renault factory at Paris, France 3Sep43. When the formation reached Paris,
the target was obscured by clouds so diverted to an alternate target, the Luftwaffe airfield at Beaumont Le Roger
near Paris. Flak damaged an engine. Ditched in English Channel about sixty miles off coast; crew rescued
by a Royal Air Force Air-Sea Rescue Supermarine Walrus amphibious aircraft from Shoreham, Sussex
30612 (MSN 5726) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 30Sep43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 18Jul43. 333rd Bomb Squadron [TS*D], 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468),
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 29Jul43 Named "(Hot Foot II) Freestrider". Crashed on landing on
return from mission to Pas-de-Calais V-Weapons sites Dec 24, 1943. Landed too far down the runway
onto soft soil and nosed over, damaging parked B-17G 42-37775. All crew OK, but aircraft was salvaged Mar 20, 1944.
30613 (MSN 5727) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 30Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 16Jul43. Dalhart Field, TX 20Jul43. Operational
Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 26Jul43. Ferried
on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland
5/6Aug43. 813th Bomb Squadron [PC*J], 482nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire Oct43.
Equipped with Oboe Mk I radar. 535th Bomb Squadron [MS*S], 381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167),
Essex 28Feb44. Accident departing for a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Oldenburg, Germany 8Apr44 (10RTD).
The plane skidded during takeoff and nosed over at the end of the runway. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots
Ripton (Station 547), Huntingdonshire 9Apr44. Salvaged 12Apr44. Named SHOO SHOO BABY ["Shoo Shoo Baby"
was a popular song made famous by the Andrews Sisters].
30614 (MSN 5728) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Jun43.
7th Ferrying Squadron, 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 30Jun43. Mid-air collision with B-17F 42-30615
at Scottsbluff Field, NB 17Jul43. 603rd Bomb Squadron, 398th Bomb Group, Rapid City Field, SD 18Jul43.
Damaged taxying at Rapid City 2Feb44. 247th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Smoky Hill Field,
Salina, KS 3Jun44. 4136th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), Tinker Field,
Oklahoma City, OK 10Jul44. 4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field,
Dayton, OH 24Jan45. 4127th Base Unit (Sacramento Air Technical Service Command), McClellan Field,
Sacramento, CA 27Mar45. Reclaimed 3Jan46
30615 (MSN 5729) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Jun43.
7th Ferrying Squadron, 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 30Jun43. Mid-air collision with
B-17F 42-30614 at Scottsbluff Field, NB 17Jul43. 603rd Bomb Squadron, 398th Bomb Group,
Rapid City Field, SD 8Aug43. Force landed after engine failure at Rapid City Field 1Jan44.
24th Bomb Squadron, 6th Bomb Group, Grand Island Field, NB 19Jun44. Accident at Grand Island
Field 23Jun44. Salvaged 24Jun44
30616 (MSN 5730) Amarillo Field, TX 2Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 26Jul43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 4Aug43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field,
NB 8Aug43. 583rd Bomb Squadron, 393rd Bomb Group, Sioux City IA. Damaged landing at Kearney 16Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 4Jul44. 247th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit),
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 26Jul44. 499th Bomb Group, Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 23Aug44.
247th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Smoky Hill, KS. Damaged in collision with parked
B-17F 42-6132 taxying at Smoky Hill 16Jan45. 4103rd Base Unit (Mobile Air Technical Service Command),
Hawkins Field, Jackson, MS 17Apr45. 247th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Smoky Hill Field,
Salina, KS. Damaged in collision with B-17F 42-30620 taxying at Orlando AAB, FL 6May45.
237th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Kirtland Field, Albuquerque, NM 2Aug45.
247th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 7Aug45. Damaged due
weather taxying at Smoky Hill 22Sep45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41,
Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 28Oct45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
42-30617/30731 Boeing B-17F-115-BO Fortress
MSN 5731/5845. Dispositions from B-17 Fortress Master Log, Dave Osborne (FORTLOG)
Production changes: Carburettor air filter gasket revision. Spare SCR-287 radio units deleted.
30617 (MSN 5731) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 30Jun43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 16Jul43. Dalhart Field, TX 20Jul43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 26Jul43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 2Aug43. Ferried on the North Atlantic
route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 5/6Aug43. 92nd Bomb Group,
Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire 21Aug43 Named "Miss Billie". . Failed to return
from a Crossbow mission to the Blockhaus d'�perlecques V-2 rocket bunker at Watten, France 27Aug43.
Damaged by flak, forced to ditch in the Thames Estuary, off Isle of Sheppey, Kent; crew rescued by ASR launch.
No MACR.
30618 (MSN 5732) Amarillo Field, TX 1Jul43. Ephrata AAB, WA 18Jul43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field,
Dallas, TX 19Jul43. Damaged while parked in collision by B-17F 42-30630 at Love Field 30Jul43.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 31Jul43. 5th Ferrying
Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 3Aug43. 3036th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Yuma Field, AZ 6Oct44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 27Jul45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped
30619 (MSN 5733) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 20Jul43. Rapid City Field, SD 21Jul43. Operational
Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 10Jun44.
6th Bomb Group, Grand Island Field, NB 8Jul44. 242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit),
Grand Island Field, NB 16Sep44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field,
Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 25Jun45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped.
30620 (MSN 5734) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30Jun43.
English, Amarillo Field, TX 16Jul43. Pyote Field, TX 17Jul43. 19th Bomb Group, Pyote Field, TX 9Nov43.
500th Bomb Group, Walker Field, Victoria, KS 8Aug44. 233rd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training
Station), Davis-Monthan Field, Tucson, AZ 18Aug44. 242nd Base Unit (Operational Training
Unit), Grand Island Field, NB 17Dec44. 202nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Galveston Field, TX 18Dec44. 242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island
Field, NB 21Dec44. 902nd Base Unit (Base Complement), Orlando AAB, FL 20Mar45.
242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB Mar45. Damaged taxying
at Miami Airport, FL 5Apr45. Damaged in collision with B-17F 42-30616 taxying at
Orlando AAB, FL 6May45. 376th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Grand Island
Field, NB. Damaged landing at Roanoke Municipal Airport, VA 15Jul45. 120th Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Richmond Field, VA 17Jul45. 242nd Base Unit (Operational
Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB 9Sep45. Damaged in collision with parked Republic P-47D
Thunderbolt 42-29223 at Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 8Oct45. 4136th Base Unit (Oklahoma
City Air Technical Service Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 9Oct45. 242nd Base
Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB 29Oct45. Modified for training,
stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage
and disposal 8Oct45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
30621 (MSN 5735) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30Jun43.
Moses Lake Field, WA 29Jul43. 497th Bomb Group, Pratt Field, KS 8Jul44. 4136th Base Unit
(Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 15Jul44.
246th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Pratt Field, KS 6Aug44. 29th Bomb Group,
Pratt Field, KS 10Sep44. 4136th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command),
Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 3Oct44. 233rd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Davis-Monthan Field, Tucson, AZ 23Feb45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage
Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 23Nov45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped.
30622 (MSN 5736) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30Jun43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 1Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 2Jul43. 435th Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group, Pyote
Field, TX 18Jul43. 110th Base Unit (Staging), Mitchel Field, Hempstead, Long Island, NY 1Aug44.
248th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Walker Field, Victoria, KS 20Aug44. 233rd Base
Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Davis-Monthan Field, Tucson, AZ 6Sep44. 223rd Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN 2Nov44. 330th Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN 1Mar45. 325th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Avon Park Field, FL 14May45. 326th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), MacDill Field,
Tampa, FL 15May45. 325th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Avon Park Field, FL 16May45.
335th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dale Mabry Field, Tallahassee, FL 13Jun45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 4Oct45
30623 MSN 5737) Amarillo Field, TX 1Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 27Jul43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 7Aug43.
Dyersburg Field, TN 8Aug43. 326th Bomb Squadron [JW*L], 92nd Bomb Group, Podington
(Station 109), Bedfordshire 16Sep43. Named "Vassar's Virgin" Failed to return from a mission
to the Messerschmitt aircraft factory at Augsburg, Germany 25Feb44 (2KIA:7POW:1EVD).
Damaged by flak in vicinity of Stuttgart, hit again at Saarbr�cken, forced from formation and
attacked by two Bf 109s. Crew began bailing out over Falstroff, France. The aircraft wing tip
hit a power line and crashed in a grove of trees about one mile from Laumesfeld, twelve miles
east of Thionville, France
30624 (MSN 5738) Amarillo Field, TX 1Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 26Jul43. Dyersburg Field, TN 7Aug43. Air Transport Command,
Ferrying Division, Lunken Field, Cincinnati, OH Aug43. Flown by WASP pilots Nancy Harkness Love
and Betty Gillies, 2nd Ferrying Group. First instance of overseas ferry of four-engine military
aircraft with women pilots and first instance of any military bomber with women serving both
as pilot and co-pilot. New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 1Sep43. La Guardia Field, New York
City, NY 2Sep43. Presque Isle Field, ME 3Sep43. RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador 4Sep43. The plane
was delayed at RCAF Goose Bay by bad weather en route to UK. Having been advised that
two WASP pilots were on their way to England, General Hap Arnold ordered the pilots to
return to the US and two male pilots would continue the ferry flight. During the evening, the
other, male, members of the crew painted 'Queen Bee' on the plane. 322nd Bomb Squadron [LG*Q],
91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 23Sep43. Failed to return from a
mission to the port and industrial area at Emden, Germany 27Sep43 (5KIA:5POW). Attacked and
damaged by enemy fighters. Over the target at 24,000 feet, the plane was seen with No.3 engine
on fire. When the aircraft opened its bomb bay doors flames enveloped the radio room and
pieces of the aircraft began to fall. It dropped down from the left of the formation and exploded
in mid-air. Crashed at Ihlowerfehn, eleven miles northeast of Emden, Germany. MACR 669.
30625 (MSN 5739) Accepted by USAAF 29Jun43. Amarillo Field, TX 1Jul43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field,
Dallas, TX 4Jul43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 19Jul43. Kingman, AZ 6Aug43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 8Aug43. Pendleton Field, OR 12Aug43. 563rd Bomb Squadron [S],
388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 3Sep43 Named "Joho's Jokers".
[Joho was the first pilot assigned to the plane].
(first combat mission 27Sep43}. Battle damaged on a mission to the port area at Bremen,
Germany 20Dec43 (1WIA:9RTD). Attacked by a large force of enemy fighters and flak over the target
area was very intense; the radio operator was seriously injured by flak. Battle damaged during a
mission to the industrial area at Brunswick, Germany 10Feb44 (10RTD). Meagre to heavy flak was
seen when crossing the enemy coast at IJmuiden, Netherlands. In the vicinity of Lingen, Germany
the formation was attacked by enemy fighters in groups of three. As they neared the target, twin-engined
aircraft fired rockets into the formation. Intense flak was encountered at the target where the aircraft
received flak damage. The formation was under fighter attack until it neared the IJsselmeer on the
return home. Friendly fighters were outnumbered, especially in the target area. {final combat mission 31Jul44}.
{45 missions}. Salvaged after non battle damage 15Jul45
30626 (MSN 5740) Amarillo Field, TX 1Jul43. Ephrata AAB, WA 18Jul43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 1Aug43.
Kingman, AZ 2Aug43. 231st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Alamogordo Field, NM 22Jul44.
203rd Base Unit (16th Bomber Operational Training Wing), Jackson AAB, MS 2Feb45. 243rd Base Unit
(Operational Training Unit), Great Bend Field, KS 6Sep45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 27Oct45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped.
30627 (MSN 5741) Amarillo Field, TX 1Jul43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 19Jul43. Kingman, AZ 4Aug43.
3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 5Oct44. Damaged landing at
Roswell 15Nov44. 3010th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 11Jan45.
3020th Base Unit (Pilot School, Advanced, Two Engine), La Junta Field, CO 20Apr45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 4Aug45.
30628 (MSN 5742) Amarillo Field, TX 1Jul43. Ephrata AAB, WA 18Jul43. Las Vegas Field, NV 1Aug43.
Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 14Dec43. Pilot School (Specialized, Four Engine),
Hobbs Field, NM 5Oct44. Damaged at Hobbs 3Nov44. 3010th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized,
Four Engine), Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 6Jan45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field,
Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 9Aug45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped.
30629 (MSN 5743) Amarillo Field, TX 2Jul43. Ephrata AAB, WA 18Jul43. 5th Ferrying Group,
Love Field, Dallas, TX 1Aug43. Kingman, AZ 2Aug43. 2528th Base Unit, Bombardier
School & Instructor School, Midland Field, TX 22Dec44. 231st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training
Station), Alamogordo Field, NM 17Jan45. 4202nd Base Unit (Rome Air Technical Service
Command), Syracuse AAB, NY 28Mar45.To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge
Field, AR for storage and disposal 7Oct45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas
Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30630 (MSN 5744) Amarillo Field, TX 1Jul43. Ephrata AAB, WA 18Jul43. Kingman, AZ Jul43. 5th Ferrying
Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 19Jul43. Damaged in collision with parked B-17F 42-30618 due
to mechanical failure taxying at Love Field 30Jul43. Salvaged 29Aug43
30631 (MSN 5745) Accepted by USAAF 31Jul43. Bailed to Boeing, Seattle, WA 12Aug43. Materiel
Command, Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 7Oct43. First aircraft to be tested with new chin turret
and cheek guns, also staggered waist windows as a prototype for the B-17G. Assigned Eighth
Air Force, England. Eighth Air Force Service Command. Converted for trooping, stripped of all
armament and turrets, capable of carrying thirty passengers on benches installed in the
waist and bomb bay. 310th Ferrying Squadron, 27th Air Transport Group, Burtonwood
(Station 590), Lancashire. Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing),
Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 11Aug45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 9Oct45
30632 (MSN 5746) Amarillo Field, TX 2Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 25Jul43. Ephrata AAB, WA 1Aug43. Operational Training Unit, 17th
Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 29Aug44. 504th Bomb Group,
Fairmont Field, Geneva, NB 3Sep44. 241st Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Fairmont Field,
Geneva, NB 16Sep44. 235th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Biggs Field, El Paso, TX 3Nov44.
4202nd Base Unit (Rome Air Technical Service Command), Syracuse AAB, NY 3Apr45. Reclaimed 3Jan46
30633 (MSN 5747) Amarillo Field, TX 1Jul43. Ephrata AAB, WA 18Jul43. Kingman, AZ 1Aug43. 5th Ferrying
Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 3Aug43. 359th Bomb Squadron, Alamogordo Field, NM 30Mar44.
Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F.
203rd Base Unit (16th Bomber Operational Training Wing), Jackson AAB, MS 31Jan45.
Mid-air collision with TB-17F 42-6010 three miles northwest of Jackson, MS 11Apr45. Reclaimed 12Apr45.
30634 (MSN 5748) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 2Jul43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 22Jul43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 1Aug43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 9Aug43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 17Aug43. 412th Bomb Squadron [QW*O], 95th Bomb Group,
Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 20Aug43,Named "Liberty Belle". . Failed to return from a
mission to bomb aircraft factories at Brunswick, Germany 21Feb44 (6MIA:4POW). An attack by Fw 190s
firing rockets damaged engine No.2. The bomber exploded and crashed in the North Sea, 6km west of
Bergen, Netherlands. {30 missions}. . 4 POW, rescued by Dutch fishermen.
30635 (MSN 5749) Amarillo Field, TX 2Jul43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 19Jul43.
Kingman, AZ 5Aug53. 2117th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Buckingham Field, Fort Myers, FL 24Jun44.
Pilot School (Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 3Aug43. Modified for training,
stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F. Damaged in collision
with parked B-17G 42-31668 while taxying at Hendricks 24Sep45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 2Oct45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30636 (MSN 5750) Amarillo Field, TX 2Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle
Field, ME 17Aug43. 327th Bomb Squadron [UX*Y], 92nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102),
Huntingdonshire 31Aug43. Failed to return from a mission to the railway marshalling yards at
Frankfurt am Main, Germany 2Mar44 (10KIA). Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed between
Sieglar & Siegburg, Germany. MACR 2853.
30637 (MSN 5751) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Jul43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 22Jul43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 30Jul43. 340th Bomb Squadron,
97th Bomb Group 6Aug43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy Nov43.
Departed St Eval (Station 129), Cornwall en route to St Mawgan (Station 512), Cornwall 9Feb44.
On landing the undercarriage collapsed. Condemned 7Aug44 MACRs 5022 and 7325 wrongly identify
42-30637 but actually refers to 42-30837.
30638 (MSN 5752) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Jul43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 22Jul43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 1Aug43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 9Aug43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 17Aug43. 327th Bomb Squadron [UX*Y], 92nd Bomb Group,
Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire 30Aug43. Podington 16Sep43. 351st Bomb Group,
Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 16Nov43. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little Staughton
(Station 127), Bedfordshire 17Nov43. Salvaged after non battle damage 29May45.
30639 (MSN 5752) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Jul43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 22Jul43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 1Aug43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 9Aug43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 17Aug43. 327th Bomb Squadron [UX*Y], 92nd Bomb Group, Alconbury
(Station 102), Huntingdonshire 30Aug43. Podington 16Sep43. 351st Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110),
Northamptonshire 16Nov43. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little Staughton (Station 127), Bedfordshire 17Nov43.
Salvaged after non battle damage 29May45., named "Coy-de-Coy II".
(first combat mission 31Aug43}. Equipped with H2S airborne radar. Used for radio counter measures.
Battle damaged on a mission to a rubber factory at Hanau, Germany 4Oct43. Cloud cover over the target
area forced the bombers to move on to their secondary target, the industrial area of Frankfurt. The group
ran into a force of around forty enemy fighters over Darmstadt and this plane was severely damaged
by 20mm cannon fire. {final combat mission 14Jan44}. {18 missions}. COY-DE-COY II. Transferred to
Royal Air Force 21Jan44 as Fortress Mark II, serial SR380. No.214 (Federated Malay States) Squadron [BU-S],
RAF Sculthorpe, Norfolk, 2Feb44. RAF Oulton, Aylsham, Norfolk 12May44. No.1699 Flight, RAF Oulton, Norfolk.
Crash landed at RAF Woodbridge emergency landing airfield, Suffolk 12Sep44. There was a problem
with the aircraft's flaps during a night training exercise, the aircraft swung on landing and tipped onto its
nose. Scottish Aviation, Prestwick, Scotland 19Oct44 for repair at depot. Damage classified as
category E (write off) 20Nov44. SOC
30640 (MSN 5754) Accepted by USAAF 30Jun43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 3Jul43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand
Island Field, NB 22Jul43. Walla Walla Field, WA 1Aug43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 9Aug43. North
Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 17Aug43. 560th Bomb Squadron [L],
388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 20Aug43. {first combat mission 26Sep43}.
Battle damaged on a mission to the port area at Bremen, Germany 20Dec43 (10RTD). Attacked by a
large force of enemy fighters and flak over the target area was very intense. Battle damaged
on a mission to the C.A.M. ball bearing works in Paris, France 31Dec43 (10RTD). Damaged by
flak, the plane dropped out of the formation just before the target, jettisoned the bombs and
fell back from the formation. Crash landed at St Mary on the Marsh, near Romney, Kent. {10 missions}.
Salvaged 3Jan44
30641 (MSN 5755) Accepted by USAAF 30Jun43. Bailed to Boeing, Seattle, WA. Substantially damaged
landing with mechanical failure at Wright Field, Dayton, OH 7Jan44. Materiel Command, Wright
Field, Dayton, OH 2Jun44. Air Transport Service, Northwest Airlines, Ice Research Base,
MinneapolisSt. Paul, MN 3Aug44. Damaged by mechanical failure while parked at Minneapolis 8Aug44.
510th Base Unit, New York City 1Sep44. 1454th Base Unit, MinneapolisSt. Paul, MN 6Sep44. Wright Field,
Dayton, OH 31Oct44. Air Transport Service, Northwest Airlines, Ice Research Base, Minneapolis, MN 5Nov44.
1454th Base Unit, Alaskan Division, Station 11, Air Transport Command, Wold-Chamberlain Field,
Minneapolis, MN 10Nov44. 4000th Base Unit, Air Materiel Command, Wright Field, Dayton, OH 23Jul45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 9Oct45
30642 (MSN 5756) Accepted by USAAF 1Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 3Jul43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 4Jul43. United Air Lines,
Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 27Jul43. 568th Bomb Squadron [BI*O], 390th Bomb Group,
Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 6Aug43. 569th Bomb Squadron [CC*O]. {first combat mission 27Aug43}.
Failed to return from a mission to the Kugelfischer ball bearing works at Ebelsbach, Germany 19Jul44 (10KIA).
Near Aachen, Germany en route to the target, one engine failed and unable to feather the propeller. The plane
was losing altitude and turned back towards England. Crashed Haren, Brussels, Belgium. {66 missions} MACR 7555.
Damaged by flak and crashed Malmedy, Belgium. Named "Geronimo"
30643 (MSN 5757) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Jul43. Operational
Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 22Jul43. Walla Walla
Field, WA 1Aug43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 9Aug43. 364th Bomb Squadron [WF*P], 305th Bomb Group,
Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 2Sep43. Undercarriage collapsed taxying for Brunswick,
Germany mission 29Jan44. Salvaged after non battle damage 30Jan44
30644 (MSN 5758) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Jul43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 26Jul43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 1Aug43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 11Aug43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 16Aug43. 327th Bomb Squadron [UX*V], 92nd Bomb Group,
Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire 7Sep43. Podington 11Sep43. Failed to return from a
mission to the synthetic oil refinery at L�tzkendorf, six miles west of Merseburg,
Germany 12May44 (3KIA:7POW). Flak damaged No.3 engine, after heading away two more engines
were lost, crashed Vallendar, two miles north of Koblenz, Germany. MACR 4851
30645 (MSN 5759) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Jul43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 24Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 28Jul43. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 2Aug43. 364th Bomb Squadron [WF*E], 305th Bomb Group,
Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 22Aug43. Failed to return from a mission to the
port at Bremen, Germany 26Nov43 (9POW:1KIA). Damaged by flak amd shot down by Obfw Flemming in Bf 109G-6
of JG 1/9 between Oldenburg and Gristede, Germany Nov 26, 1943.
MACR 1327
30646 (MSN 5760) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Jul43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 28Jul43. Topeka Field, KS 12Aug43. 505th Base
Unit, Scott Field, Belleville, IL Aug43. Assigned to 333rd Group (the Major William F. Savoie
Provisional Group), Scott Field, Belleville, IL 14Aug43. Departed to Dow Field, Bangor, ME 22Aug43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 22Aug43. Ferried to RCAF
Goose Bay, Labrador 25Aug43; to Bluie West One, Narsarsuaq, Greenland 26Aug43; to Meeks Field,
Keflavik, Iceland 27Aug43; to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 30Aug43. 326th Bomb Squadron [JW*O],
92nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire 2Sep43. Name "Rebecca:
Failed to return from a mission to industrial areas at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 4Oct43 (8POW:2KIA).
Flak over the target was moderate and accurate. A large force of enemy fighters were encountered,
some using rockets which were fired from a distance beyond the range of the bombers' guns.
Damaged by flak or enemy fighters, the plane was seen to struggle. Then it was shot down by
Oblt Rufolf Englender in Fw 190A-6 of JG 1/1 damaging No.2 engine. With a wing on fire, the aircraft
crashed at Niedergr�ndau, Gr�ndau, Germany. MACR 745.
30647 ((MSN 5761) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Jul43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 27Jul43. 366th Bomb Squadron [KY*H],
305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 17Aug43. Named "Polly Ann"
Accident on a mission to bomb a submarine suppy ship in the Loire River at Nantes, France 23Sep43 (10KIA).
On return from Nantes crashed at Chelveston after the pilot lost control following a mid-air collision
with B-17F 42-30650 and 42-30809. Salvaged. .
30648 (MSN 5762) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Jul43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 26Jul43. Topeka Field, KS 14Aug43. 327th Bomb
Squadron [UX*U], 92nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire. Named "Woolaroc"
Failed to return from a mission to the port area at Bremen, Germany 20Dec43 (8KIA:2POW).
Attacked by a large force of enemy fighters and flak over the target area was very intense.
Shot down by Lt Eberhard Schade in Bf 109G-6 of
JG 27/5 near Westerstede, Germany Dec 20, 1943. Crashed Stapelermoor,
south of Weener, Netherlands. MACR 1710.
30649 (MSN 5763) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Jul43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 26Jul43. Topeka Field, KS 14Aug43.
327th Bomb Squadron [UX*X], 92nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire 31Aug43.
Podington 11Sep43. Named "Rose Olive'. Failed to return from a mission to the Focke-Wulf aircraft
factory at Sorau, Prussia 11Apr44 (10KIA). Shot down by enemy fighters, caught fire, exploded and
crashed at Martinsb�ttel, five miles west of Fallersleben, Wolfsburg, Germany. MACR 3668
30650 (MSN 5764) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 7Jul43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 25Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 28Jul43. 366th Bomb Squadron [KY*D], 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105),
Northamptonshire 12Aug43. Accident on a mission to bomb a submarine repair ship at Nantes,
France 23Sep43. On return from Nantes force landed at Chelveston after mid-air collision with
B-17F 42-30647. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton (Station 547), Huntingdonshire 20Mar44.
Returned to US 20Apr44. 4136th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command),
Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 4Jun44. 556th Base Unit, 6th Ferrying Group, Long Beach
Field, CA 5Aug44. 450th Base Unit, Hammer Field, Fresno, CA 17Aug44. 556th Base Unit,
6th Ferrying Group, Long Beach Field, CA 25Nov44. 4136th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air
Technical Service Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 17Mar45. 4100th Base
Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 19Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 20Aug45
30651 MSN 5765) Amarillo Field, TX 3Jul45. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 2Aug43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 13Aug43.
Assigned Eighth Air Force, Grand Island Field, NB 18Aug43. Departed to Dow Field, Bangor, ME 29Aug43,
to Gander 3Sep43, to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 5Sep43 arriving 6Sep43.
551st Bomb Squadron [HR*W], 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk Sep43.
Named "Pat Pending". Damaged taxying Great Ashfield 11Dec43. Salvaged 6Apr44.
30652 (MSN 5766) Amarillo Field, TX 3Jul43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 20Jul43.
5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 21Jul43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 8Aug43. 5th Ferrying
Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 10Aug43. 364th Bomb Squadron [WF*J], 305th Bomb Group,
Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 15Sep43. Base Air Depot No.2, Warton (Station 582),
Lancashire 20Mar44. Returned to US. 611th Base Unit, Proving Ground Command, Eglin Field,
Valparaiso, FL 15Jul44. 610th Base Unit (Proving Ground Command), Eglin Field,
Valparaiso, FL 6Nov44. 4119th Base Unit (Mobile Air Technical Service Command),
Brookley Field, Mobile, AL 4Dec44. 610th Base Unit (Proving Ground Command),
Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 17Jan45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut
Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 5Jan46. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
Conflict;
381 BG, 535 BS Named "Blowing Bessie",� w/o 5 Nov 1943� Damaged by flak on raid at Gelsenkirchen, Germany,
Shot down & crashed at Strijensas, Holland.� 6 crew lost, 4 crew bailed out ok.��
30653 (MSN 5767) Amarillo Field, TX 3Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 25Jul43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 5Aug43. Rapid City Field, SD 10Aug43.
Redmond Field, OR 15Aug43. 325th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Avon Park Field, FL.
Accident on the Sarasota Gunnery Range, FL 12May44. 4117th Base Unit (Warner Robins Air
Technical Service Command), Robins Field, Warner Robins, GA 11Sep44. 325th Base Unit (Combat
Crew Training Station), Avon Park Field, FL 28Sep44. 331st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Barksdale Field, Bossier City, LA 1Mar45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR
for storage and disposal 26Sep45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company,
Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30654 (MSN 5768) Amarillo Field, TX 5Jul43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 19Jul43. Geiger Field,
Spokane, WA 8Aug43. Pendleton Field, OR 14Aug43. 327th Bomb Squadron [UX*W], 92nd Bomb Group,
Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 16Sep43. Failed to return from a mission to the ball bearing
factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43 (3POW:7KIA). En route to the target area, the bomber formation
was repeatedly attacked by a large number of Luftwaffe fighters. After the target, the Group turned and
headed westward for England. German fighters, having landed and refueled, attacked again.
Shot down by Lt Hans Reuter in Bf 109G-6 of JG 11/9 with a rocket and crashed at Bischbrunn,
mear Markt Heidenfelt,20mi W of Wurzburg, Germany. MACR 848
30655 (MSN 5769) Amarillo Field, TX 5Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 25Jul43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 2Aug43. Geiger Field,
Spokane, WA 3Aug43. 541st Bomb Squadron, 383rd Bomb Group, Pendleton Field, OR 12Aug43.
The plane departed for a local engineering test flight from Pendleton Field 16Aug43. It climbed
to more than 20,000ft and was heard over Tollgate, approximately thirty-six miles northeast of
Pendleton, for about one hour. Then witnesses heard variable engine noises before the plane
became visible, apparently in a spin. The bomber crashed onto a mountain two miles south of the
High Ridge lookout station. Four miles southeast of Tollgate. One crewmember had attempted to
bail out but his parachute caught on the plane and cut him loose from the harness (4KIS). Salvaged 17Aug43.
30656 (MSN 5770) Amarillo Field, TX 8Jul43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 21Jul43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 8Aug43. Walla Walla Field, WA 12Aug43. Redmond Field, OR 15Aug43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 3Sep43.
422nd Bomb Squadron [JJ*D/W], 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 6Sep43
Named *Miss Mickey Flynn* Experimented in night bombing alongside the RAF and
operated night leaflet and propaganda missions. 858th Bomb Squadron, 492nd Bomb Group,
North Pickenham 24Jun44. Special operations and electronic countermeasure (ECM) missions. 4
06th Night Leaflet Squadron [J6-W], 801st Bomb Group, Harrington (Station 179), Northamptonshire
Aug44. Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor
Locks, CT 12Jul44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 4Oct45
30657 (MSN 5771) Amarillo Field, TX 5Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 25Jul43. 339th Bomb Squadron [QJ*S], 96th Bomb Group. Pyote Field, TX 1Aug43.
30th Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group, Pyote Field, TX 9Nov43. 247th Base Unit (Operational
Training Unit), Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 4Jun44. 505th Base Unit, Scott Field, Belleville, IL 5Jul44.
247th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 2Aug44. 52nd Bomb Squadron,
39th Bomb Group, Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS. Damaged by engine failure at Smoky Hill Field 1Jan45.
248th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Walker Field, Victoria, KS 6Jan45. 247th Base Unit
(Operational Training Unit), Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 8Jan45. 902nd Base Unit (Base Complement),
Orlando AAB, FL 12Mar45. 247th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 18Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 25Jun45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped
30658 (MSN 5772) Amarillo Field, TX 5Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 25Jul43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 1Aug43. Pendleton Field, OR 15Aug43.
225th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Rapid City Field, SD 7Jun44. 901st Base Unit,
Heavy Bombardment, Pinecastle Field, Orlando, FL 10Jun44. 4136th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air
Technical Service Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 22Jun44. 9th Bomb Group, McCook
Field, NB 8Jul44. 245th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), McCook Field, NB 16Sep43.
705th Base Unit, Lowry Field, Denver, CO 16Oct44. 517th Base Unit, Elington 1May45.
705th Base Unit, Lowry Field, Denver, CO 27Apr45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 2Aug45. War Assets Administration. S
old to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped
30659 (MSN 5773) Amarillo Field, TX 7Jul43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 19Jul434. 3
37th Bomb Squadron [AW*K], 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 3Sep43.
Salvaged after non battle damage 29May45.
30660 (MSN 5774) Amarillo Field, TX 7Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 25Jul43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 3Aug43. Combat Crew Training Squadron,
393rd Bomb Group, Sioux City AAB, IA 22Dec43; code 50. Named "Jancy-Mel"
224th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Sioux City AAB, IA 6Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 19Jun45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped
30661 (MSN 5775) Accepted by USAAF 5Jul43. Amarillo Field, TX 7Jul43. 5th Ferrying Group,
Love Field, Dallas, TX 19Jul43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 8Aug43. Pendleton Field, OR 12Aug43.
562nd Bomb Squadron [M], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 3Sep43.
Named "Veni Vidi Vici" (I came, I saw, I conquered) )The navigator submitted
the name as fitting for their mission over Nazi Germany. KENTUCKY KID was painted[on ball turret the
gunner was a professional jockey) . {first combat mission 26Sep43}. Battle damaged on a mission to Rjukan,
seventy-five miles west of Oslo, Norway 16Nov43 (10RTD). The target was the pen-stocks down the mountain
from the dam for the hydro-electric building in the valley below. This building also contained the Norwegian
heavy water plant which was being used by the Germans to provide heavy water for their experimentation in
the development of the atomic/hydrogen bomb. As the formation neared the I.P., the lead bombardiers sight
had frosted over and. By this time it was too late to drop the bombs on the first run. The Group then
made a wide turn to the left for a second run and bombs were dropped from 12,500 feet. Meagre flak
was encountered and only two enemy fighters were sighted. One of these, a Bf 109, fired his rockets
and then made two passes at this plane which sustained a number of 20mm cannon shell hits, but no
one was injured. Failed to return from a mission to the Focke-Wulf aircraft factory at Pozna?,
Poland 24Feb44 (10INT). Flak was encountered over the Danish peninsula which was scattered and
inaccurate; over the target the flak was moderate and fairly accurate. A large force of enemy fighters
was encountered at landfall on the Danish coast on the route to the target. Twin engine fighters fired
rockets and 20mm cannon shells at the formation. The No.4 engine was damaged and the propeller f
eathered. With fuel leakage and unable to reach England, the pilot turned to Sweden and force landed
at Rinkaby airfield, southeast of Kristianstad, Sweden. {30 missions}.
Traded to the Swedish government along with eight other B-17's for $1 and the release of American
airmen interned in Sweden. Flown to Svenska Aeroplan A.B. in Link�ping. Converted to passenger
configuration by SAAB designated Boeing F-17 Felix. Registered 6Oct44 as SE-BAK. Operated by AB
Aerotransport / SILA, Stockholm. Named 'Jim'. Proving flight to Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland 13Jun45.
First Swedish scheduled trans Atlantic flight 27Jun45 from Stockholm via Meeks Field Keflavik, Iceland
and Mingan Airport, Quebec, Canada to La Guardia, New York, arriving 29Jun45. Returned to Bromma,
Stockholm, Sweden 4Jul45. SOC Dec46. Registration cancelled
Used for firefighting practice before being scrapped Dec 1946.
30662 (MSN 5776) Accepted by USAAF 5Jul43. Amarillo Field, TX 7Jul43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field,
Dallas, TX 19Jul43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 8Aug43. Pendleton Field, OR 12Aug43.
550th Bomb Squadron [SG*K], 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk Aug43..
Named 'Clarissa Jean' Failed to return from a mission to aircraft industries at
Rostock, Germany 24Feb44 (1KIA:9POW). Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Baltic Sea, off
Rugen Island, Germany. MACR 2778.
30663 (MSN 5777) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 8Jul43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 26Jul43. Walla Walla Field, WA 8Aug43. 332nd Base Unit, Lake
Charles, LA 13Jul44. 221st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA 3Aug44.
329th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA 1Mar45. 326th Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 18Apr45. 331st Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Barksdale Field, Bossier City, LA 15May45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 26Sep45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30664 (MSN 5778) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 7Jul43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 26Jul43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 28Jul43. Pendleton Field, OR 30Jul43. Felts Field,
Spokane, WA 9Aug43. 543rd Bomb Squadron, 383rd Bomb Group, Geiger Field, Spokane, WA.
Crashed after fuel exhaustion five miles southeast of Opportunity, WA 28Sep43 (1KIS). Salvaged 29Sep43.
30665 (MSN 5779) Accepted by USAAF 7Jul43. Bailed to Boeing, Seattle, WA 7Jul43. 7th Ferrying Group,
Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 17Jul43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 8Aug43. Palm Springs
Field, CA 9Aug43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 10Aug43. Pendleton Field, OR 12Aug43. 339th Bomb
Squadron [QJ*E], 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 1Sep43. .
Named "Hunyak/Little Girl III". Failed to return from a mission to the Luftwaffe
air depot at M�rignac, Bordeaux, France 5Jan44 (1KIA:8POW:1EVD). Shot down by flak and
by a fighter of JG 2 at Nieul-l�s-Saintes, France. Crashed Rochevent, five miles E of
Corme-Royal, four miles W of Saintes, France. MACR 2014.
30666 (MSN 5780) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 2Jul43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 25Jul43. Topeka Field, KS 14Aug43. Scott Field,
Belleville, IL 17Aug43. 364th Bomb Squadron [WF*M], 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105),
Northamptonshire 18Sep43. Named "Daisy May". On training operation 15Nov43 (11KIS), collided
with B-17F 42-29953 at Newton Bromswold, near Chelveston. Both planes crashed. 21 killed.
30667 (MSN 5781) Accepted by USAAF 6Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 8Jul43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 25Jul43.
Topeka Field, KS 13Aug43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 14Aug43. 569th Bomb Squadron [CC*V],
390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 25Aug43. Named "Wild Children"
{first combat mission 26Sep43}. Failed to return from a mission to the industrial areas of Emden,
Germany 11Dec43 (10POW). The Luftwaffe was waiting for the bombers; the moment the bombers
crossed over into mainland Europe, six twin-engine fighter dived out of the sun upon the formation,
concentrating all their fire on the lead plane. Once the leader had been downed, the fighters
swept through the lead Squadron. Before the deputy lead had a chance to reassemble the formation,
a large force of single-engine fighters joined the fray, attacking the other bombers. Damaged by
flak over the Frisian Islands en route to the target, one engine was damaged but the bomber
kept formation. Reaching the target, the aircraft was attacked by Ju 88s firing rockets, one of which
ruptured the right fuel tank. After dropping its bomb load on the target, the bomber was attacked by Bf 109s,
damaging a second engine and with the wing now on fire. Now out of formation, the enemy fighters
damaged a third engine. As the crew bailed out, a wing broke off and the bomber crashed and
exploded near Harkstede, east of Groningen, Netherlands. {10 missions}.. MACR 1584.
Credited to Fw. Heinz Fuchs in Fw 190A of JG 1/4 at
Harkstede, Netherlands.
30668 (MSN 5782) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 8Jul43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 24Jul43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 28Jul43. 327th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102),
Huntingdonshire 15Aug43. 326th Bomb Squadron [JW*J]. Failed to return from a mission to the
Bosch magneto factory at Stuttgart, Germany 6Sep43. Hit by flak near the primary target area
causing loss of fuel and flight controls. Returning home, the bomber lost the first engine five minutes
after crossing enemy coast and the second five minutes later, the last two later quitting. The pilot
ditched the aircraft in Pevensey Bay near Beachy Head, Sussex. The sea was very rough but made a
perfect landing. The aircraft floated for 35 minutes and the crew was rescued by British Air-Sea Rescue launch
30669 (MSN 5783) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 10Jul43.
Spokane Field, WA 25Jul43. Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 26Dec43. Wendover Field, UT 1Feb44.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Feb44. Continental
Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 8Mar44. Tampa, FL 9Mar43.
328th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Gulfport Field, MS 26Jul44. Gunnery accident at
Gulfport Field, MS 21Aug44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM
for storage and disposal 25Jun45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped
30670 (MSN 5784) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 9Jul43.
School of Applied Tactics, Orlando AAB, FL 11Jul43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 28Jul43. 383rd Bomb Group,
Pendleton Field, OR 29Aug43. 393rd Bomb Group, Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 27Nov43. 224th Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Sioux City AAB, IA 14Oct44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 19Jun45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped
30671 (MSN 5785) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 9Jul43.
383rd Bomb Group, Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 28Jul43. 541st Bomb Squadron, 383rd Bomb Group,
Pendleton Field, OR 29Jul43. Damaged while parked by B-17F 42-30748 Pendleton 12Sep43.
224th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Sioux City AAB, IA 6Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and
disposal 25Jun45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped.
30672 (MSN 5786) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 9Jul43.
Dyersburg Field, TN 27Jul43. Galveston Field, TX 12Aug43. Dalhart Field, TX 13Aug43. 677th Bomb Squadron,
444th Bomb Group, Great Bend Field, KS. Substantially damaged landing with mechanical failure
at Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 28Nov43. 346th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Dyersburg Field, TN. Damaged in collision with parked B-17F 42-6092, 42-6116 and 42-30892
at Dyersburg Field 19Feb44. 9th Bomb Group, McCook Field, NB 6Jun44. Grandview Field, Kansas
City, MO 31Aug44. 245th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), McCook Field, NB 16Sep44.
100th Base Unit, Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 25Feb45. 244th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit),
Harvard Field, NB 26Feb45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41,
Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 27Oct45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
30673 (MSN 5787) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 9Jul43.
School of Applied Tactics, Orlando AAB, FL 11Jul43. 533rd Combat Crew Training Squadron,
Dalhart Field, TX 29Jul43. Damaged landing at Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 17Dec43.
232nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dalhart Field, TX 9Jun44. 3034th Base Unit,
Gardner Field, Taft, CA 19Aug44. 4200th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command),
Chicago Municipal Airport, IL 11Sep44. 232nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Dalhart Field, TX 26Sep44. 247th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Smoky Hill Field,
Salina, KS 17Jan45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM
for storage and disposal 25Jun45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped
30674 (MSN 5788) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 10Jul43. Operational
Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 28Jul43. 336th Bomb Squadron [ET*C],
95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 3Sep43 Named "Destiny's Tot/Kathy Jane III/Cincinatti Queen".
Failed to return from a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical works at Oppau, Ludwigshafen,
Germany 30Dec43 (3POW:7EVD). The bomber was hit by flak as it began the return trip after the target.
A burst struck the navigator's compartment, another severely damaged one of the four engines,
causing a major oil leak. Now flying on three engines, the aircraft lost altitude and left formation after No. 4 engine
was hit by flak was shot down by Hptm Herbert Huppertz in Fw 190A-6
of JG 2/III Stab. . The order to abandon the aircraft was given by the pilot; he tried to
keep the aircraft steady in the line of flight, and was the last to leave the plane which was now at
only about 13,000ft. Abandoned, the bomber continued its flight for a few minutes before
plunging to the ground. It crashed and exploded in a field near the village of Campremy,
fifteen miles northeast of Beauvais, France. {19 missions}. MACR 2024.
30675 (MSN 5789) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 9Jul43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 28Jul43. Topeka Field, KS 12Aug43. Assigned Eighth Air Force,
England. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 11Sep43
but crashed six miles northwest of Cushendall, County Antrim, Northern Ireland (10KIS). SOC 14Sep43.
30676 (MSN 5790) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 9Jul43. 5th Ferrying Group,
Love Field, Dallas, TX 29Jul43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 1Aug43. Topeka
Field, KS 12Aug43. 482nd Bomb Group 24Aug43. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick
(Station 500), Scotland 2Sep43. 482nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire Sep43.
532nd Bomb Squadron [VE*E], 381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 19Sep43.
Named *Baby Dumpling/Danny Dumpling*. Failed to return from a mission to the
Luftwaffe airfield at Par�ay-Meslay, Tours, France 5Jan44 (1KIA:5POW:4EVD)
Shot down by�Oblt. Karl Haberland in FW-190A-6 of JG 2/2.
and creashed i2 km SW of�Aubign�-Racan, France Jan 5, 1944. MACR 1962.
30677 (MSN 5791) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 10Jul43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 29Jul43. Gulfport Field, MS 8Aug43. Topeka Field, KS 12Aug43.
326th Bomb Squadron [JW*K], 92nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire 30Aug43.
{first combat mission 7Sep43}. Failed to return from a mission to the submarine construction yard at
Vegesack, Bremen, Germany 16Dec43 (6MIA:2POW:2EVD). The supercharger was running rough on the \
No.3 engine. There was also a problem transferring gasoline to that engine. Consequently, about 30 miles
from the coast the plane slowly dropped out of the formation. It was assumed that the pilot was aborting
the mission, even though it was thought all four engines were running properly. The navigator set a course
to intercept the formation before reaching the target. Just before reaching the target, the fuel-starved
No.3 engine went dead and the propeller began windmilling. The pilot and co-pilot worked to feather
the propeller but to no avail. Meanwhile, the target was approaching and covered with clouds. Perhaps
due to the struggle and confusion of keeping up it appears that the bombardier dropped the bomb
load at the IP. To avoid a concentration of flak to the west of Bremen, the formation made a planned
turn to the left and headed directly south before again changing course due west toward England.
Now lagging dangerously behind and below the main formation, the pilot and his crew struggled on.
Twenty minutes after the target, the Luftwaffe arrived. This was the only B-17 out of formation and \
flying somewhere between 23,000 and 26,000ft. Down below, the overcast reached up to about 7,000ft.
The pilot knew that if he could reach that overcast, they might just make it. The surviving crew stated
the attacking aircraft were Bf 109s and Ju 88s. The Ju 88s were likely night fighters of I/NJG2 that were
also tasked with attacking B-17s in daylight. Somewhere during that time, the control cables in the
left waist area were cut and an exploding 20mm shell wounded the radio operator. They were hit
again and the interphone was shot out. By this time they were at 1,000ft altitude. Four crewmen
bailed out. The bomber probably crashed in Ijsselmer, near Urk, Netherlands. {9 missions}, MACR 1556
30678 (MSN 5792) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 10Jul43. North Atlantic
Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 28Jul43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 6Aug43. Topeka Field, KS 12Aug43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 17Aug43. 366th Bomb Squadron [KY*B],
305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 6Sep43. Failed to return from a mission
to the industrial area at Stuttgart, Germany 25Feb44 (7POW:3KIA). The aircraft was leading a group.
After being struck by flak prior to the target, the pilot was unable to keep up with enough speed to
lead and called his deputy and told him that he was going to join a lower group. When last seen,
the plane was still under control and seemed to be heading for Switzerland. The crew bailed out
before the bomber crashed at Neresheim, east of Stuttgart, Germany.
30679 (MSN 5793) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 10Jul43. Las Vegas
Field, NV 3Aug43. Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing
equipment; designated TB-17F. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine),
Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 23Nov44. Damaged while parked by TB-17F 42-5973 taxying at
Hendricks 7Dec44. Damaged taxying at Hendricks 6Feb45. Damaged landing at Hendricks 18Jul45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 27Sep45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
30680 (MSN 5794) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Jul43.
Moses Lake Field, WA 29Jul43. 4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command),
Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 19Feb45. 327th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Drew Field,
Tampa, FL 22Apr45. Damaged in collision with parked C-47A 43-48090 taxying at Barksdale Field,
Bossier City, LA 2Jul45. 301st Base Unit (Separation Station), Drew Field, Tampa, FL 23Sep45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 29Oct45.
30681 (MSN 5795) Accepted by USAAF 8Jul43. Cold Weather Testing Detachment, Ladd Field, Fairbanks, AK 9Sep43.
Crash landed on the tundra 14 miles southeast Ruby, AK 25Sep43 (1KIA), crashed after a mission
against the Japanese in the Aleutians. Until 1986, this B-17 remained in situ. In 1996, located by
Gary Larkins who salvaged the tail and fuselage. The recovered wreckage was initially stored in
Fairbanks. Later, Tillamook Air Museum acquired the fuselage. Artic Warbirds at Fairbanks-
Bradley Field, acquired wings and other components. Used in the rebuild of My Gal Sal, 41-9032.
The aft fuselage will be used to rebuild 44-83387 at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans
30682 (MSN 5796) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 10Jul43. 5th Ferrying Group,
Love Field, Dallas, TX 1Aug43. Las Vegas Field, NV 3Aug43. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 30Jul44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 27Sep45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30683 (MSN 5797) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 12Jul43. Las Vegas
Field, NV 1Aug43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 14Dec43.
2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 11Nov44.
Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated
TB-17F. Damaged in ground collision with B-17F 42-29762 landing at Hendricks 26Jun45. Reclaimed 3Jan46
30684 ((MSN 5798) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 10Jul43. 5th Ferrying
Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 1Aug43. Las Vegas Field, NV 2Aug43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field,
Oklahoma City, OK 20Dec43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 16Sep43.
3010th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 2Dec44.
Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F.
36th Flying Training Wing, Williams Field, Chandler, AZ. Damaged landing at Williams 17Feb45.
3020th Base Unit (Pilot School, Advanced, Two Engine), La Junta Field, CO 10Jun45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 3Aug45.
30685 (MSN 5799) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Jul43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 26Jul43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 2Aug43.
614th Bomb Squadron, 401st Bomb Group, Glasgow Field, MT 8Aug43. 543rd Bomb Squadron,
388th Bomb Group, Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 16Sep43. Wendover Field, UT 22Jan44. MacDill Field,
Tampa, FL 4Feb44. 328th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Gulfport Field, MS 8Jul44.
Damaged landing with mechanical failure at Gulfport Field 26Sep44. Damaged landing at
Gulfport Field 24Jan45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM
for storage and disposal 19Jun45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped.
30686 (MSN 5800) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Jul43.
503rd Bomb Squadron, 346th Bomb Group, Dyersburg Field, TN 27Jul43. Damaged landing when
the undercarriage collapsed at Dyersburg Field 31Jul43. Salvaged 25Sep43
30687 (MSN 5801) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Jul43.
Toppenish, Yakima, WA 27Jul43. Pendleton Field, OR 30Jul43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 10Aug43.
542nd Bomb Squadron, 383rd Bomb Group, Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 23Oct43. 223rd Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN. Damaged taxying at Dyersburg 20Jul44.
330th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN 1Mar45. 325th Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Avon Park Field, FL 14May45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 2Jun45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped
30688 (MSN 5802) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Jul43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 30Jul43. Redmond Field, OR 15Aug43. 335th Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Dale Mabry Field, Tallahassee, FL 9Nov44. 325th Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Avon Park Field, FL 12Nov45. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized,
Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 10May45. 325th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training
Station), Avon Park Field, FL 23May45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK
for storage and disposal 24Aug45
30689 (MSN 5803) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Jul43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 22Jul43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 1Aug43. Ferried on the North Atlantic
route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 6/7Aug43. Twelfth Air Force,
North Africa. 416th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 28Aug43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. 97th Bomb Group, Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 14Nov43. Foggia
Main, Italy 15Dec43. San Giovanni, Cerignola, Italy 20Dec43. Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44.
Condemned 31Mar44. Repaired. El Aouina, Tunis, Tunisia. Modified to transport supplies to
partisans and engaged in night time special operations missions supporting partisans and
parachuting Allied agents into enemy territory. Ball turret removed, engine exhaust flame
dampeners fitted and the aircraft painted black. 885th Bomb Squadron, 68th Reconnaissance Group,
Blida, Algeria Apr44. Maison Blanche, Algiers, Algeria Aug44. {first special mission 1Sep44}.
Brindisi, Italy Oct44. 885th Bomb Squadron, 15th Special Group (Provisional), 18Jan45.
Rosignano, Italy Mar45. Pomigliano, Italy May45. {31 missions}. Salvaged 24May45
30690 (MSN 5804) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Jul43.
502nd Bomb Squadron, 346th Bomb Group, Dyersburg Field, TN 27Jul43. Crashed between
Palmersville and Latham, TN 5Sep43 (8KIS::1DOI:1RTD). The bomber was en route to a
rendezvous point for a mission in Gulfport, Mississippi. At 8,000ft the flight indicator
went out and the pilot had considerable difficulty in flying the airplane under instrument
conditions. It appeared as though, after getting into the clear, the pilot continued to
climb and went into the overcast again trying to reach 20,000ft, though the bombardier
states the airplane exceeded the maximum safe operation conditions which placed a great
strain on the airplane. It is believed because of the statements of the co-pilot and bombardier
concerning this attitude of flight and the loss of control surface that the airplane went out
of control and into a spin, thereby disintegrating and crashing. The co-pilot noticed excessive
cylinder head temperatures on engines No.1, 3 and 4, and opened the cowl flaps. Then there
was a explosion that jolted the plane and it went off into a spiral to the right. The plane
levelled off but immediately it went off to the left in a spin. Then after a few seconds of being tossed
around, the fuselage broke right at the top turret. Salvaged 30Sep43.
30691 (MSN 5805) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Jul43.
Dalhart Field, TX 28Jul43. 243rd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Great Bend Field, KS 19Sep44.
3502nd Base Unit (Technical School), Chanute Field, Rantoul, IL 13Feb45. Reclaimed 20Aug46
30692 (MSN 5806) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Jul43.
Pyote Field, TX 1Aug43. 19th Bomb Group, Pyote Field, TX 9Nov43. 500th Bomb Group, Walker Field,
Victoria, KS 25Jul44. 248th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Walker Field, Victoria, KS 20Aug44.
3505th Base Unit (Technical School), Scott Field, Belleville, IL 16Oct44. 248th Base Unit (Operational
Training Unit), Walker Field, Victoria, KS 22Nov44. 2132nd Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized,
Very Heavy), Maxwell Field, Montgomery, AL 11Apr45. 884th Bomb Squadron, 383rd Bomb Group,
Walker Field, Victoria, KS. Damaged taxying at Walker 16Apr45. 4180th Base Unit, Walker Field,
Victoria, KS 1Oct45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage
and disposal 7Oct45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company,
Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30693 (MSN 5807) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 10Jul43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 28Jul43. Spokane Field, WA 4Aug43. Walla Walla
Field, WA, 8Dec43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 5Jan44.
Radar modifications. Materiel Command, Lockheed Field, Burbank, CA 24Jun44. 3701st Base Unit
(Technical School), Amarillo Field, TX 23Jul44. 3706th Base Unit, Basic Training Center, Sheppard
Field, Wichita Falls, TX 12May44. 3701st Base Unit (Technical School), Amarillo Field, TX 1Nov45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 5Jan46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30694 (MSN 5808) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Jul43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 28Jul43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 29Jul43.
Cut Bank Field, MT 2Aug43. Combat Crew Training Squadron, 393rd Bomb Group, Sioux City AAB, IA.
Crashed due fire after the crew bailed out 10 miles north of Onida, SD 22Jan44. Salvaged 24Jan44
30695 (MSN 5809) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Jul43.
Toppenish, Yakima, WA 27Jul43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 28Jul43. Pendleton Field, OR 29Jul43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 10Aug43. 541st Bomb Squadron, 383rd Bomb Group, Geiger Field,
Spokane, WA 27Oct43. 245th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), McCook Field, NB 1Jun44.
221st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA 7Nov44. 329th Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA 1Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 9Oct45.
30696 (MSN 5810) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Jul43.
Dyersburg Field, TN 29Jul43. Galveston Field, TX 12Aug43. Dalhart Field, TX 13Aug43. 9th Bomb
Group, McCook Field, NB 6Jun44. 245th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), McCook
Field, NB 16Sep44. 3705th Base Unit (Technical School), Lowry Field, Denver, CO 16Oct44.
Salvaged 6Nov44. 3098th Base Unit, Lockheed Field, Burbank, CA 28Feb45. Reclaimed 13Feb46
30697 (MSN 5811) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Jul43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 14Jul43. 503rd Bomb Squadron, 346th Bomb Group,
Dyersburg Field, TN 30Jul43. Crashed after structural failure, exploded and burned at Fields School
Road, five miles southeast of McKenzie, TN 9Aug43 (8KIS).)
30698 (MSN 5812) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Jul43.
Moses Lake Field, WA 29Jul43. 327th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Drew Field, Tampa, FL 15Jul44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 17Aug45..
30699 (MSN 5813) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Jul43.
346th Bomb Group, Dyersburg Field, TN 28Jul43. Damaged landing at Dyersburg 24Dec43.
223rd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN. Damaged while parked
in collision by B-17G 42-40045 taxying at Dyersburg 18Jul44. Salvaged
30700 (MSN 5814) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Jul43.
Moses Lake Field, WA 29Jul43. 245th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), McCook Field, NB 3Jun44.
224th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Sioux City AAB, IA 6Mar45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 25Jun45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped
30701 (MSN 5815) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Jul43.
Moses Lake Field, WA 29Jul43. 593rd Bomb Squadron, 396th Bomb Group, Drew Field, Tampa, FL.
Damaged by 'friendly fire' at Drew Field 4Jan44. 327th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Drew Field, Tampa, FL 4May45. Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and
bombing equipment; designated TB-17F. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Searcey Field,
Stillwater, OK for storage and disposal 11Aug45. War Assets Corporation. Sold to Paul Mantz 19Feb46; scrapped
30702 (MSN 5816) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Jul43.
Moses Lake Field, WA 29Jul43. Replacement Training Unit, Drew Field, Tampa, FL. Damaged landing
at Drew Field 2Jun44. 2142nd Base Unit, Shaw Field, Sumter, SC 29Oct44. 323rd Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Drew Field, Tampa, FL. 327th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Drew Field,
Tampa, FL 11Nov44. Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment;
designated TB-17F. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Searcey Field, Stillwater, OK for
storage and disposal 7Aug45. War Assets Corporation. Sold to Paul Mantz 19Feb46; scrapped
30703 (MSN 5817) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Jul43.
93rd Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group, Pyote Field, TX 1Aug43. Substantially damaged when
crash landed at Pyote Field 31Aug43. 93rd Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group, Pyote Field, TX
11Nov43. 235th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Biggs Field, El Paso, TX 16Aug44.
233rd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Davis-Monthan Field, Tucson, AZ 12Nov44.
235th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Biggs Field, El Paso, TX 14Nov44.
202nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Galveston Field, TX 28Jan45. 283rd Base Unit
(Gunnery Station), Galveston Field, TX 30Mar45. 209th Base Unit (Special), Peterson Field,
Colorado Springs, CO 28Apr45. Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Searcey Field,
Stillwater, OK for storage and disposal 11Aug45. War Assets Corporation. Sold to Paul Mantz 19Feb46; scrapped.
30704 (MSN 5818) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 15Jul43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 10Aug43. Pendleton Field, OR 12Aug43. Ferried Meeks
Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 8Sep43. 422nd Bomb
Squadron [JJ*M], 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 18Sep43
Named "Dinah Mite". Experimented in night bombing alongside the RAF and
operated night leaflet and propaganda missions. Undersides painted black for night operations.
Suffered severe battle damage on a night leaflet and propaganda mission over France and
Belgium 15May44 (1KIA:3WIA:6RTD). The bomber was attacked by two Ju 88 enemy night fighters,
killing the ball turret gunner. The radio operator and both waist gunners were seriously wounded.
Cannon shells had punctured the fuselage, damaged a propeller, nearly severed the right wing main
spar. {81 missions}. Salvaged at Chelveston 17May44 and remained as a spares source..
30705 (MSN 5819) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 15Jul43.
Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 16Jul43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 6Aug43.
Topeka Field, KS 12Aug43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 17Aug43. Ferried from Prestwick, Scotland to Marrakech,
French Morocco 29/30Aug43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 347th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group,
Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 31Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Transferred to
414th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 14Nov43. Named "Ther-N-Bak".
Failed to return from a mission to bomb a railway marshalling yard at Rimini, Italy 27Nov43 (8KIA:2POW).
A few minutes before nearing the target the formation encountered heavy overcast, parts of which were
broken and towering. An engine lost power and the plane was forced to leave its position in the flight and
jettison the bombs. This plane had difficulty in keeping up, but soon the group flew over a town heading
out to sea. The circle which the group was making out to sea was in order to get a good run on target.
The pilot cut the corner to catch up with the group. As the plane approached land, slightly ahead of the
more rapidly moving group coming in, the pilot made a short turn to the left and went into a nearby
overcast. About this time, still in the overcast, and as it broke out, the No.3 engine began to lose power,
slowing the speed even more. About this time, about twenty-five Bf 109 German fighter aircraft were
coming in to attack. The first burst of fighter fire raked the B-17, apparently from the tail to the nose.
The engineer/top turret gunner died instantly. Soon the No.2 engine and the entire left wing were on fire.
The crew were starting to bail out as the plane exploded. The two survivors, right waist gunner and co-pilot,
were knocked unconscious and ejected by the explosion. The plane crashed near Apecchio, SSW of Rimini, Italy
MACR 1303.
30706 (MSN 5820) Accepted by USAAF 13Jul43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 15Jul43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 23Jul43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 8Aug43.
Topeka Field, KS 13Aug43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 17Aug43.
367th Bomb Squadron [GY*W], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 25Aug43.
Base Air Depot No.2, Warton (Station 582), Lancashire; repair by Mobile Repair Unit 1Oct43. Regained by
Group 10Oct43. 367th Bomb Squadron [GY*Q] Oct43. Failed to return from a mission to the port area at
Bremen, Germany 20Dec43 (6POW:4KIA). Attacked by a large force of enemy fighters and flak over the
target area was very intense. The plane dropped out of formation with a wounded bombardier
Shot down by Lt Karl-Heinz Kempf in Bf 109G-6 of JG 26/11 near
Marx, Germany Dec 20, 1943. . Crashed Frischenmoor, fifteen miles northeast of
Oldenburg, Germany. MACR 1701.
30707 (MSN 5821) Accepted by USAAF 13Jul43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver
Municipal Airport, CO 15Jul43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 27Jul43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 8Aug43.
Topeka Field, KS 13Aug43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 17Aug43. 368th Bomb Squadron [BO*B],
306th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 25Aug43. Named "Piccadilly Commando II"
Failed to return from a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43 (1KIA:2MIA:7POW 369BS crew).
Crossing the Dutch coast, the formation passed through an area of heavy and accurate flak.
The No.3 engine was struck and losing oil; it was still producing power and kept running. En route
to the target area, the bomber formation was repeatedly attacked by a large number of Luftwaffe fighters
but this plane was not damaged. Then the formation flew through another heavy barrage of flak and
dozens of holes appeared throughout the plane. The tail gunner was wounded. Then a direct hit struck
the nose section killing the navigator and bombardier. Shot down by Lt Sommer in Bf 110G-2 of ZG 1/2
at Langenbergheim, near Hanau am Main, Germany. The plane was circling slowly to the left
with the rear of the Group formation now disappearing in the distance. Another cannon shell destroyed
the oxygen system. By now severely damaged, the pilot ordered the crew to bail out. The radio operator
had been killed in the attacks, the remaining crew bailed out but the bombardier and navigator were never found.
On fire, the bomber exploded and crashed southeast of Hanau, east of Frankfurt, Germany, MACR 816
30708 (MSN 5822) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 15Jul43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 16Jul43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 8Aug43. Topeka Field, KS 14Aug43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 17Aug43. 407th Bomb Squadron [PY*L],
92nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire 31Aug43. Failed to return from a mission
to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43 (3KIA:7POW). En route to the target area,
the bomber formation was repeatedly attacked by a large number of Luftwaffe fighters. After the target,
the Group turned and headed westward for England. German fighters, having landed and refueled,
attacked again. Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed near W�rzburg, Germany. MACR 845
30709 (MSN 5823) Accepted by USAAF 13Jul43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver
Municipal Airport, CO 15Jul43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 16Jul43. Operational
Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 24Jul43. Walla Walla
Field, WA 1Aug43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 11Aug43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME 16Aug43. 563rd Bomb Squadron [Y], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136),
Suffolk 20Aug43. {first combat mission 27Sep43}. {1 mission}. 339th Bomb Squadron [QJ*P],
96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk Oct43. Failed to return from a mission
to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43 (10POW). En route to the target area,
the bomber formation was repeatedly attacked by a large number of Luftwaffe fighters. After the target,
the Group turned and headed westward for England. German fighters, having landed and refueled,
attacked again. Shot down by enemy fighters, crash landed Ingwiller, twenty-two miles northwest
of Strasbourg, France. MACR 836
30710 (MSN 5824) Accepted by USAAF 13Jul43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver
Municipal Airport, CO 15Jul43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 25Jul43. Walla Walla Field, WA 1Aug43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 9Aug43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 17Aug43. 423rd Bomb Squadron [RD*I],
306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 6Sep43. Failed to return from a mission to the ball
bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43 (5KIA:5POW). En route to the target area, the bomber
formation was repeatedly attacked by a large number of Luftwaffe fighters. Attacked by enemy fighters
ten minutes before turning on the bomb run. The plane was hit, on fire and still under attack when the
pilot ordered the crew to bail out; five were still aboard when the bomber exploded. Crashed Friedburg,
near Nieder-Florstadt, fifteen miles north of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. 4 KIA, 6 POW
(1 died of injuries). MACR 818
30711 (MSN 5825) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 16Jul43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 28Jul43. 353rd Air Base Detachment, Watertown
Field, SD 31Jul43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 3Aug43. Topeka Field, KS 12Aug43.
Scott Field, Belleville, IL 13Aug43. 407th Bomb Squadron [PY*H], 92nd Bomb Group, Alconbury
(Station 102), Huntingdonshire 31Aug43. Named "Fertile Turtle Myrtle"
Failed to return from a mission to the industrial area at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 29Jan44 (8KIA:2POW).
Shot down by Lt. Friedrich Lange in FW-190A-6 of JG 26/6 and
crashed Le Noiriez, near Genech, ten miles southeast of Lille, France. MACR 2253
30712 (MSN 5826) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 16Jul43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 7Aug43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 9Aug43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 12Aug43. Redmond Field, OR 15Aug43. 323rd Bomb Squadron [OR*O:OR*R],
91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 27Sep43. Named *Miss Minookie* artwork
of a topless grass-skirted girl castaway. Painted by Tony Starcer {first combat mission 8Oct43}.
Battle damaged on a mission to a railway marshalling yard at Gelsenkirchen, Germany 5Nov43 (1WIA:9RTD).
Intense but inaccurate flak was encountered over the target, the bombardier was wounded by a flak fragment.
Failed to return from a mission to airfields in northern Germany 21Feb44 (4KIA:6POW). En route to the target
and flying over the North Sea, the spare element was lagging well behind the main body of the Group formation.
About midway across the sea, the spare element was attacked by four Bf 109 fighters. Poor weather conditions
over the primary target forced the formation to hit an alternate target, a Luftwaffe airfield at Achmer, Bramsche,
Germany. There was considerable opposition by German fighters and flak. The bomber was last seen near
Minden, about a mile behind and to the left of the formation. The Combat Wing had just made a sharp turn to
the right but, in error, the spare element led by this plane turned left leaving them highly exposed. German fighters
lost no time in heading in to attack, killing and fatally wounding four of the gunners. Crashed two miles south
of L�chtringen, due east of H�xter, Germany. {23 missions}. MACR 2461.
30713 (MSN 5827) Accepted by USAAF 14Jul43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 17Jul43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 10Aug43. 568th Bomb Squadron [BI*E], 390th Bomb Group,
Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 25Aug43. Named *Phyllis Marie*. The tail gun position had
the inscription 'A Kiss In The Ass'; Staff-Sergeant Louis Kiss was the tail gunner. Failed to return from a mission
to the Vereinigte Kugellagerfabriken AG (VKF) ball bearing factory at Erkner, Berlin, Germany 8Mar44 (10POW).
All the way from the Netherlands to Berlin, the bombers were hounded by Luftwaffe fighters. Before reaching
the target, the plane had been lagging behind the group and was attacked by enemy aircraft. Engine No.3 caught
fire and the pilot lowered the landing gear. It was last seen with four engines running, losing altitude and being
circled by two enemy fighters. Some of the crew bailed out before the pilot force landed at Werben, 11km northwest
of Cottbus, Germany. {38 missions}. MACR 2987. The aircraft was repaired and operated by Luftwaffe KG 200 [code A3+EK].
Found intact in Bavaria May 4, 1945.
30714 (MSN 5828) Accepted by USAAF 14Jul43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 16Jul43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island
Field, NB 8Aug43. 423rd Bomb Squadron [RD*S], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 25Aug43
Named "Hustling Sue" artwork of a reclining naked lady. Seriously battle damaged during a mission to an
aircraft factory at Bremen, Germany 8Oct43. The formation was met with stiff resistance by German fighters
and flak crews on the ground the entire way, from the Dutch coast all the way into the German heartland,
and back again. In addition, a large force of German fighters launched vicious attacks against the planes.
Over the target, the formation encountered intense flak. Bulkhead 7A, Station 6B, pilots windshields,
No.3 fuel feeder tank and left outer wing struck by flak. Seriously battle damaged during a mission
to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43. En route to the target area, the bomber
formation was repeatedly attacked by a large number of Luftwaffe fighters. After the target, the Group
turned and headed westward for England. German fighters, having landed and refueled, attacked again
until, finally, the bombers reached the coastline of western Europe and relative safety. Both wings,
horizontal stabilisers, left No.9 Tokyo fuel tank, tail compartment, No.2 engine nacelle and left rear
fuselage all struck by flak. Crashed during assembly for a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical works at
Leverkusen, Germany 1Dec43 (1KIA:9RTD). The plane encountered a developing thunderhead over England
which forced the crew to bail out near Lasham. It crashed at College Farm, near Lasham, Hampshire. Salvaged
No MACR. One killed when parachute did not open.
30715 (MSN 5829) Accepted by USAAF 14Jul43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 17Jul43. 390th Bomb Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT Jul43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 8Aug43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 28Aug43. Redmond Field, OR 15Aug43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 3Sep43. Unscheduled stop at Springfield, MA 3Sep43.
Ferried RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador to Bluie West One, Narsarsuaq, Greenland, to Meeks Field, Keflavik,
Iceland, to Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 3-12Sep43.
569th Bomb Squadron [CC*Y], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 12Sep43
Named "Cincinnati Queen/Blues In The Night". {first combat mission 27Sep43}.
Battle damaged on a mission to the Messerschmitt factory at Augsburg, Germany 13Apr44 (1WIA:9RTD);
a wasit gunner was wounded. Accident on a mission to the railway marshalling yards at Li�ge,
Belgium 11May44 (1KIA). A gunner was killed by 'friendly fire' when other aircraft were testing guns en
route to the target. Failed to return from a mission to motor industry targets in Berlin,
Germany 21Jun44 (1MIA:9RTD). Mechanical failure and ditched. {44 missions}.
30716 (MSN 5830) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 16Jul43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 26Jul43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 27Jul43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 9Aug43. Topeka Field, KS 13Aug43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 17Aug43.
407th Bomb Squadron [PY*G], 92nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire 2Sep43.
On ferry trip from Podington with fourteen ground crew for repair duties on an aircraft which had
crash landed at RAF Barford St John, the aircraft stalled on approach and crash landed at
RAF Barford St John, Oxfordshire 28Jan44. Salvaged after non battle damage 30Jan44
30717 (MSN 5831) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 16Jul43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 27Jul43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 14Aug43.
548th Bomb Squadron [GX*D], 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 25Aug43.,
Named 'Man O' War'. Man O' War was an American Thoroughbred racehorse widely
regarded as one of the greatest racehorses of all time Mid-air collision with B-17G 42-39860 'War Cry'
(385th Bomb Group). 'War Cry' had over shot its position below 'Man O'War', and 'War Cry's' tail section
collided wilh 'Man O'War' and knocked off six feet of its left wing. 'Man O' War' went down in a tight
spin and crashed near Ahlhorn airfield, near Oldenburg, Germany. 39860
ditched in North Sea on return. MACR 1402
30718 (MSN 5832) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 16Jul43.
Sioux City AAB, IA 30Jul43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 3Aug43. Topeka Field, KS 14Aug43.
Scott Field, Belleville, IL 17Aug43. Assigned Eighth Air Force, England 2Sep43. Departed RCAF Gander, Newfoundland
en route to England, crash landed Prestwick, Scotland 7Sep43. Salvaged 8Sep43
30719 (MSN 5833) Accepted by USAAF 15Jul43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver
Municipal Airport, CO 17Jul43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 27Jul43.
Scott Field, Belleville, IL 14Aug43. 569th Bomb Squadron [CC*P], 390th Bomb Group,
Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 25Aug43. Named "Shatzi". (first combat mission 7Sep43).
Failed to return from a mission to the industrial area of D�ren, Germany 20Oct43 (2KIA:7POW:1EVD).
After the bomb run, the plane was attacked by enemy fighters as the formation was nearing the city of Tilburg
in the Netherlands. The pilot was forced to engage in violent evasive maneuvers in an attempt to shake
off the attackers. The aircraft broke in half and crashed at Eerde, near Veghel, Netherlands. {9 missions}
Credited to Uffz Zinkl in Fw 190A of JG 1/6. MACR 1039
30720 (MSN 5834) Accepted by USAAF 17Jul43. Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field,
Dallas, TX 17Jul43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 18Jul43. 5th Ferrying Group,
Love Field, Dallas, TX 21Jul43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 8Aug43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 10Aug43. 526th Bomb Squadron [LF*O],
379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 19Oct43. Named
"Nine Yanks and a Rebel". . Battle damaged on a mission to the AGO-Flugzeugwerke Fw 190
manufacturing factory at Oschersleben, Germany 11Jan44. While the aircraft were airborne, the weather
closed in over English bases and a recall signal was issued. B/Gen. Robert F. Travis, Air Commander of
the 1st Bomb Division, continued on to the target. This left the 1st Bomb Division with greater exposure
to enemy fighter attacks. Good fighter support was provided by P-47 Thunderbolts on the penetration
and by P-51 Mustangs over the target. P-47s were airborne to provide withdrawal support but they
obeyed the recall order to return to England and left the bombers to fend for themselves on the return trip.
Luftwaffe attacks started over the IJsselmeer and intensified when the American fighters returned home.
Meagre and fairly accurate flak was experienced on the bomb run, with intermittent inaccurate flak
on the return trip. A rocket severely damaged the left horizontal stabiliser. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 2May44.
Assigned Eighth Air Force, England. Service Command 7Jun44. Returned to US. 4136th Base Unit, 3Jul44.
610th Base Unit (Proving Ground Command), Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 23Feb45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 5Jan46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
30721 ((MSN 5835) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 19Jul43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 11Aug43.
482nd Bomb Group 31Aug43. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 2Sep43. 533rd Bomb Squadron [VP*T], 381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 20Sep43
Named "Sweet and Lovely" 448th Sub-Depot, Air Service Command, Ridgewell Jan44 for
repair to major damage to the right wing. {28 missions}. Eighth Air Force Fighter Command 25Apr44.
Radio relay aircraft, painted with red and white stripes on the rear fuselage; operated by 533rd Bomb Squadron,
381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell. Damaged taxying at Ridgewell 10Jun44. 610th Bomb Squadron,
398th Bomb Group, Nuthampstead (Station 131), Hertfordshire 15Nov44. 435th Air Service Group 3Jun45.
Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 12Jul45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 4Oct45
30722 (MSN 5836) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 19Jul43. Operational
Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 16Aug43.
482nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire 31Aug43. 534th Bomb Squadron [GD*G],
381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 20Sep43. Named "Bobby T". Failed to return
from a mission to the Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau Aktiengesellschaft (Deschimag) shipyard at
Bremen, Germany 8Oct43 (10POW). The formation was met with stiff resistance by German fighters and
flak crews on the ground the entire way, from the Dutch coast all the way into the German heartland.
In addition, a large force of German fighters launched vicious attacks against the planes. Over the target,
the formation encountered intense flak. Shot down by Obfw Rolf Mondry in Fw 190 of Ind St Focke Wulf fighter at
Intschede, Germany and crashed west of Bremen, Germany. {1 mission}. . MACR 1398.
30723 (MSN 5837) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 17Jul43. Geiger Field,
Spokane, WA 8Aug43. Pendleton Field, OR 22Aug43. 351st Bomb Squadron [EP*D], 100th Bomb Group 31Aug43.
Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 8Sep43. 100th Bomb Group,
Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk Sep43. Named "Holy Terror" then "Sexy Suzy Mother of Ten".
Failed to return from a mission to railway installations at M�nster, Germany 10Oct43 (6KIA:4POW).
As they approached the city, the formation was swarmed by a large force of enemy aircraft for an estimated
forty-five minutes of vicious fighting. By the time their friendly fighter escorts arrived to drive off the Luftwaffe,
the damage had already been done. One Bf 109 collided with B-17F 42-30723. The collision occurred on the
aircraft's left wing with flames erupting throughout the plane. The bail out order was given and 4 crew escaped,
the plane exploded in mid-air after going into a steep spiral, killing six crew. Exploded and crashed in
Vinneberger Forest, Ostberven near the Dormund-Ems canal, Germany. MACR 1027.
30724 (MSN 5838) Accepted by USAAF 15Jul43. Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field,
Dallas, TX 17Jul43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 8Aug43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME 17Aug43. 364th Bomb Squadron [WF*D], 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105),
Northamptonshire 31Aug43. Named "Devastating Dottie". Failed to return from a mission
to the shipyard and industrial area at Kiel, Germany 5Jan44 (9POW:1KIA). Shot down by enemy fighters,
crashed Cuxhaven, Germany. MACR 1685
30725 (MSN 5839) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 17Jul43.
5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 7Aug43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 8Aug43.
Pendleton Field, OR 12Aug43. 359th Bomb Squadron [LN*Z], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe A
bbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 3Sep43. Named "Aw-r-go". Failed to return from a mission to
railway installations at M�nster, Germany 10Oct43 (8POW:2KIA). As they approached the city,
the formation was swarmed by a large force of enemy aircraft for an estimated forty-five minutes
of vicious fighting. By the time their friendly fighter escorts arrived to drive off the Luftwaffe, the
damage had already been done. Shot down by Fw 190A of JG 1 and crashed at
Lienen, fifteen miles northeast of M�nster, Germany. MACR 1028.
30726 (MSN 5840) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 19Jul43. Dalhart
Field, TX 17Aug43. 407th Bomb Squadron [PY*X], 92nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102),
Huntingdonshire 16Sep43. Failed to return from a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt,
Germany 14Oct43 (6KIA:4POW). En route to the target area, the bomber formation was repeatedly attacked
by a large number of Luftwaffe fighters. After the target, the Group turned and headed westward for England.
German fighters, having landed and refueled, attacked again. Shot down by Fw Joachim Gutmann in
Bf 110G-2 of ZG 26/8 and crashed at Kembach, fifteen miles west of W�rzburg, Germany
MACR 846
30727 (MSN 5841) Accepted by USAAF 16Jul43. Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field,
Dallas, TX 19Jul43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 10Aug43. 367th Bomb Squadron [GY*Z], 306th Bomb Group,
Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 2Sep43. Named "Fightin Bitin". Failed to return from a
mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43 (5KIA:5POW). En route to the target in
the Frankfurt area the bomber came under heavy attack by German fighters with 20mm shells and rockets.
Its speed slowed and dropped out of the formation. The No.1 engine started to burn and the plane received
several 20mm hits in the nose, injuring the bombardier. The No.2 engine was damaged and the rudder
didn't react; it had been hit by a rocket. The pilot give the order to bail out and seconds later the bomber
broke in half. The tail section crashed in a field and the front fuselage started a fire in a small wood at
Knollenberg, near the village of H�hefeld, fifteen miles west of W�rzburg, Germany. Claimed by Fw Emil
Schmelzinger in BF 109G-6 of JG 11/9 MACR 817.
30728 (MSN 5842) Accepted by USAAF 16Jul43. Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 19Jul43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 11Aug43.
367th Bomb Squadron [GY*S], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 2Sep43. Seriously
battle damaged during a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43. En route to
the target area, the bomber formation was repeatedly attacked by a large number of Luftwaffe fighters. After the target,
the Group turned and headed westward for England. German fighters, having landed and refueled,
attacked again until, finally, the bombers reached the coastline of western Europe and relative safety.
An explosive shell struck the No.2 engine nacelle and left inner wing. Eighth Air Force Service Command 14Oct43.
2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little Staughton (Station 127), Bedfordshire 16Oct43. Regained by Group.
Seriously battle damaged during a mission to the port area at Kiel, Germany 13Dec43. Left inner wing
struck by flak. Battle damaged on a mission to the Junkers aircraft factory at Halberstadt, Germany 11Jan44.
An enemy fighter attack after the target struck causing severe damage. On return, force landed at Deopham
Green (Station 142), Norfolk. 368th Bomb Squadron [BO*S]. Failed to return from a mission to the Messerschmitt
aircraft factory at Augsburg, Germany 25Feb44 (4KIA:6POW). En route to the target, over Charleville, France,
enemy fighters began attacking the formation. About ten minutes after the attack began, several fighters
focused on this B-17; it was hit hard. The pilot gave the order to bail out when the No.4 engine burst into flames.
Only six of the ten crew members managed to bail out before the bomber exploded in mid-air. Crashed
Hannogne-Saint-Martin, six miles southwest of Sedan, France. MACR 2769
30729 (MSN 5843) Accepted by USAAF 16Jul43. Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field,
Dallas, TX 20Jul43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand
Island Field, NB 15Aug43. Pathfinder Force [PFF] aircraft. HSC radar scanner installed. 813th Bomb Squadron [PC*V],
482nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire 5Sep43. 367th Bomb Squadron [GY*B],
306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 2May44. Declared 'war weary'. Departed Thurleigh
on transfer to 486th Bomb Group, Sudbury (Station 174), Suffolk 16Jul44. Salvaged 29Jun45
30730 (MSN 5844) Accepted by USAAF 16Jul43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 19Jul43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 9Aug32. Walla Walla Field, WA 11Aug43. Redmond Field, OR 15Aug43.
Ferried RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Machrihanish, Scotland 12/13Sep43. 369th Bomb Squadron [WW*B],
306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 20Sep43. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little Staughton
(Station 127), Bedfordshire 27Sep43. Regained by Group 28Sep43. Eighth Air Force Service Command 9Oct43.
Regained by Group 4Nov43. Named "Dearly Beloved". Battle damaged by enemy fighters
on a mission to the Junkers aircraft factory at Halberstadt, Germany 11Jan44 (1WIA:9RTD). An enemy fighter
attack after the target struck causing severe damage to the nose compartment. On return, crash landed at
Horsham St Faith (Station 123), Norwich, Norfolk. Mobile Repair Unit, 2nd Strategic Air Depot,
Little Staughton (Station 127), Bedfordshire 6Feb44. Regained by Group 21Feb44. Failed to return from a
mission to the Dornier Flugzeugwerke factory at Oberpfaffenhofen, Munich, Germany 24Apr44 (10POW).
Enemy aircraft damaged No.3 and No.4 engines followed by fire. The crew bailed out and the plane crashed
near Augsburg, Germany. MACR 4278
30731 (MSN 5845) Accepted by USAAF 17Jul43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 20Jul43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 21Jul43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 14Aug43. Pathfinder Force [PFF] aircraft.
HSC radar scanner installed. 813th Bomb Squadron [PC*U], 482nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102),
Huntingdonshire 5Sep43. 562nd Bomb Squadron [U], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136),
Suffolk Nov43. {first combat mission 26Nov43}. {final combat mission 29Feb44}. {6 missions}.
751st Bomb Squadron, 457th Bomb Group, Glatton Mar44. Failed to return from a mission to the
Mitteldeutsche Motorenwerke aero engine factory at Taucha, Leipzig, Germany 7Jul44 (4KIA), ditched
in North Sea. Unable to transfer fuel from the 'Tokyo' fuel tanks, the aircraft had lost three engines and
the fourth was sputtering. The bomber left the formation and set direction toward Glatton. It was unable to
maintain altitude and within fifteen miles of England, over the North Sea, the pilot elected to ditch the plane
following standard procedures. The plane broke in half as it hit the water. Some of the crew managed to get a
life raft out before the plane sank. Four of the crew drowned and the other five were rescued by Air-Sea Rescue.
MACR 8195.
42-30732/30831 Boeing B-17F-120-BO Fortress
MSN 5846/5945. Dispositions from B-17 Fortress Master Log, Dave Osborne (FORTLOG)
Production changes: Modified life raft hatch and inspection window. A-3 oxygen flow meters. Provision
for revised bomb sight mount. D-16 fuel transfer pump. Emergency hydraulic brake system removed.
30732 (MSN 5846) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 21Jul43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 6Aug43. Pendleton Field, OR 7Aug43. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland
to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 2Sep43. Crash landed at Prestwick, Scotland 13Sep43.
534th Bomb Squadron [GD*B], 381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 26Sep43.
Named PISTOL PACKIN' MAMA. RAT POISON on tail turret with artwork of skull and crossbones.
{7 missions}. Accident on a ferry trip with personnel to 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little Staughton (Station 127),
Bedfordshire 3Feb44. Attempting to land at Little Staughton the plane lost the left landing gear in a rough landing and was
instructed to divert to Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire, where it crash landed safely. Salvaged
30733 (MSN 5847) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 20Jul43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 8Aug43. Dyersburg Field, TN 10Aug43. 326th Bomb Squadron,
92nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire 16Sep43. Failed to return from a mission
to the Luftwaffe air depot at M�rignac, Bordeaux, France 31Dec43 (6POW:4EVD). The target was covered
in solid cloud so the secondary target at Ch�teaubernard, Cognac, France was bombed. Damaged by flak,
crashed La Varenne, near La Bataille, twenty-two miles southeast Niort, France.
One evader joined the French resistance and was killed during an ambush Mar 1944.
30734 (MSN 5848) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 20Jul43.
Long Beach Field, CA 8Aug43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 10Aug43. Walla Walla Field, WA 12Aug43.
Redmond Field, OR 15Aug43. 351st Bomb Squadron [EP*G], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts
(Station 139), Norfolk 5Sep43. Named "Slightly Dangerous". Failed to return from a mission
to railway installations at M�nster, Germany 10Oct43 (8POW:3KIA). As they approached the city,
the formation was swarmed by a large force of enemy aircraft for an estimated forty-five minutes of
vicious fighting. By the time their friendly fighter escorts arrived to drive off the Luftwaffe, the damage
had already been done. The bomber received a head-on attack by enemy aircraft. Almost simultaneously
there was a direct flak hit in the waist and both waist gunners killed or severely wounded.
Lost the right wing and exploded, crashed Walingen, near Havixbeck, six miles west of M�nster, Germany
Claimed by Hptm. Walter Hoeckner in Fw 190A-6. MACR 1023.
30735 ((MSN 5849) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 20Jul43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 8Aug43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 13Aug43.
Redmond Field, OR 15Aug43. 327th Bomb Squadron [UX*P], 92nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102),
Huntingdonshire 26Sep43. .Named "Rough Group". Failed to return from a mission to the Luftwaffe air
depot at M�rignac, Bordeaux, France 31Dec43 (7POW:3EVD). The target was covered in solid cloud
so the secondary target at Ch�teaubernard, Cognac, France was bombed. Attacked just after target with
three engines knocked out, managed to crash land near La Rochelle, Franc. e. MACR 1670 and 1957.
30736 (MSN 5850) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 20Jul43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 8Aug43. Walla Walla Field, WA 11Aug43. Redmond Field, OR 15Aug43.
413th Bomb Squadron [MZ*A], 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 13Sep43.
Named "Paper Doll". Battle damaged on a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43.
En route to the target area, the bomber formation was repeatedly attacked by a large number of Luftwaffe
fighters. After the target, the Group turned and headed westward for England. German fighters,
having landed and refueled, attacked again until, finally, the bombers reached the coastline of
western Europe and relative safety. The pilot was killed by a cannon shell in the cockpit and the
co-pilot wounded. Flown back by the navigator and bombardier and landed safely at RAF Ford,
West Sussex. Salvaged 20Oct43. Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing),
Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 31Jul44
30737 (MSN 5851) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 21Jul43.
5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 23Jul43. Dyersburg Field, TN 9Aug43.
549th Bomb Squadron [XA*S], 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 3Sep43.
Named 'Ohio Air Force'. During a mission to a communication center at M�nster,
Germany 22Dec43, the crew shot down 12 enemy fighters. Failed to return from a mission to
the industrial area at Augsburg, Germany 16Mar44 (8POW:2KIA). From Strasburg, Germany
to Augsburg, the bombers were attacked by Luftwaffe fighters in a running battle. Flak over
the target was moderate and accurate; flak en route was meagre and inaccurate. Returning,
the bomber were attacked between Nancy, France and the coast. Shot down by enemy fighters,
crashed St Quentin-sur-Coole, six miles south of Chalons-sur-Marne, France
30738 (MSN 5852) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21Jul43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 30Jul43. 325th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Avon Park
Field, FL 9Apr44. Accident landing at Avon Park Field 29Jun44. Reclaimed 9Jun45,
30739 (MSN 5853) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21Jul43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 30Jul43. Walla Walla Field, WA 31Jul43.
325th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Avon Park Field, FL. Severely damaged in
collision with parked Consolidated B-24J Liberator 42-50457 while taxying at Mitchel Field,
Hempstead, Long Island, NY 6Jun44. 110th Base Unit (Staging), Mitchel Field, Hempstead,
Long Island, NY 8Jun44. Salvaged 12Aug44
30740 (MSN 5854) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21Jul43.
232nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dalhart Field, TX 29Jul43. Damaged taking off
at Dalhart 14Dec43. Materiel Command, Lockheed Field, Burbank, CA 15Jun44. 4208th Base Unit,
Mines Field, Los Angeles, CA 11Sep44. 232nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Dalhart Field, TX 19Sep44. 4200th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command),
Chicago Municipal Airport, IL 10Nov44. 232nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Dalhart Field, TX 21Nov44. 463rd Bomb Squadron, 346th Bomb Group, Dalhart Field, TX.
Forced landing at Dalhart 13Dec44. 232nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Dalhart Field, TX 10Jan45. 248th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Walker Field, Victoria, KS 1Feb45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 25Jun45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped
30741 (MSN 5855) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 22Jul43.
Moses Lake Field, WA 30Jul43. 225th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Rapid City
Field, SD 29Apr45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Cal-Aero Field, Ontario, CA
for storage and disposal 27Aug45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Sharp & Fellows
Contracting Company Jul46; scrapped
30742 (MSN 5856) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21Jul43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 29Jul43. 316th Bomb Squadron, 88th Bomb Group, Madras Field, OR.
Accident landing at Madras Field 16Sep43. Salvaged 19Sep43
30743 (MSN 5857) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 22Jul43.
589th Bomb Squadron, 395th Bomb Group, Ephrata AAB, WA 1Aug43. Damaged landing at
Ephrata 23Aug43. 223rd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN. Damaged
by engine and mechanical failure at Dyersburg 15Aug44. 504th Bomb Group, Fairmont Field,
Geneva, NB 8Sep44. 241st Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Fairmont Field,
Geneva, NB 16Sep44. Damaged by fire at Meacham Field, Fort Worth, TX 11Oct44.
1103rd Base Unit (Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command), Morrison Field, West Palm
Beach, FL 12Jan45. 241st Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Fairmont Field, Geneva, NB 19Jan45.
233rd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Davis-Monthan Field, Tucson, AZ 4Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Cal-Aero Field, Ontario, CA for storage and disposal
29Jun45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Sharp & Fellows Contracting Company Jul46; scrapped
30744 (MSN 5858) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21Jul43.
318th Bomb Squadron, 88th Bomb Group, Walla Walla Field, WA 30Jul43. Redmond Field, OR 15Aug43.
Mid-air collision with B-17F 42-6019, crashed and destroyed by fire near Madras Field, OR 19Aug43
To CL-26 at Redmond AAF, OR Aug 20, 1943
30745 (MSN 5859) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21Jul43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 30Jul43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 2Aug43.
612th Bomb Squadron, 401st Bomb Group, Great Falls AAB, MT. Damaged at Great Falls 4Aug43
when landing gear collapsed on landing. 225th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Rapid City Field, SD 29Apr45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Cal-Aero Field, Ontario, CA
for storage and disposal 29Jun45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Sharp & Fellows Contracting
Company Jul46; scrapped
30746 (MSN 5860) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 22Jul43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 30Jul43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 2Aug43. Cut Bank
Field, MT 4Aug43. 772nd Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL. Mid-air
collision with B-17F 42-30786 at MacDill 19Nov43. 325th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Avon Park Field, FL. Destroyed when crash landed with engine failure at Avon Park Field, FL 4May44. Salvaged 5May44
30747 (MSN 5861) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Jul43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 3Aug43. Pendleton Field, OR 15Aug43. 225th Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Rapid City Field, SD 10Oct44. Written off. Reclaimed 2Nov44
30748 (MSN 5862) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Jul43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 6Aug43. 541st Bomb Squadron, 383rd Bomb Group, Pendleton
Field, OR 15Aug43. Damaged in collision with parked B-17F 42-5438 and 42-30671 at Pendleton
Field 12Sep43. 748th Bomb Squadron, 457th Bomb Group, Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 6Nov43.
Redmond Field, OR. Force landed with fuel exhaustion at Raber Canyon, twenty miles south of
Heppner, OR 29Nov43. 234th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Clovis Field, NM 24Jun44.
Damaged landing at Clovis Field 27Jul44. 249th Base Unit (Special), Alliance Field, NB 25Oct44.
2168th Base Unit, Wendover Field, UT 22Jan45.To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 30Oct45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
30749 (MSN 5863) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 22Jul43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 30Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 4Aug43. 399th Bomb Squadron, 88th Bomb Group, Walla Walla Field, WA 1Oct43.
On ferry flight from Cheyenne, destroyed when crash landed at Walla Walla 1Oct43. Salvaged 2Oct43.
30750 (MSN 5864) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Jul43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 3Aug43. 542nd Bomb Squadron, 383rd Bomb Group, Geiger Field,
Spokane, WA 23Oct43. Combat Crew Training Squadron, 393rd Bomb Group, Sioux City AAB, IA.
Crashed nine miles NNE Beppe, UT 5Jan44 (8KIS). Salvaged 7Jan44
30751 (MSN 5865) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Jul43.
Ephrata AAB, WA 1Aug43. 222nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Ardmore Field, OK 22Jan45.
332nd Base Unit, Ardmore Field, OK 19Aug45. Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field,
AR for storage and disposal 14Sep45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment
Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
There is an MACR 871 which refers to this plane
with a date of Oct 8, 1943 with 305th BG, 365th BS, Germany.
30752 (MSN 5866) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Jul43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 6Aug43. Pendleton Field, OR 12Aug43. Combat Crew Training School,
395th Bomb Group, Ardmore Field, OK. Mid-air collision near Mill Creek 20 miles northeast of
Ardmore Field, OK 12Feb44. The bomber crew was tasked to participate in a low level bombing
demonstration during the base 'open house' held that day. The mission for the day was to fly to
Matagorda Bay, just off the coast from Corpus Christi, Texas. They fired at tow targets for
several hours, then headed back to Ardmore. There were 13 B-17s flying in close formation.
One B-17 with officer instructors brought up the rear and advised the pilots as to what to do.
They had been flying at 20,000ft this day and as we neared home, we began to descend and turn
at the same time. This is a difficult maneuver for a large plane to accomplish, especially if in
close formation under turbulent air conditions. The bomber was flying in a very close formation
with planes on both sides and in the front and rear. They had let down to approximately 15,000ft
when the aircraft slid into aircraft 42-30752. The two right engines cut the other plane into two
pieces just behind the radio room. The front of that aircraft went straight up for a brief moment
knocking off the Plexiglas nose of this plane which pushed that aircraft under it knocking off its
ball turret. The pilots of 42-30572 managed to regain control, although heavily damaged with
two right engines inoperable, they flew the 15-20 miles to Ardmore Field and landed safely.
236th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Pyote Field, TX 9Nov44. 222nd Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Ardmore Field, OK 28Nov44. 332nd Base Unit, Ardmore Field, OK 16Jun45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 26Sep45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30753 (MSN 5867) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Jul43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 4Aug43. Rapid City Field, SD 10Aug43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 14Aug43.
543rd Bomb Squadron, 383rd Bomb Group, Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Sep43. 4115th Base Unit
(Spokane Air Technical Service Command), Pendleton Field, OR 5Oct44. 4204th Base Unit
(Warner Robins Air Technical Service Command), Atlanta Municipal Airport, GA 11Oct44.
325th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Avon Park Field, FL 27Oct44. 4100th Base Unit,
Pattetrson Field, OH 19Feb45. 4108th Base Unit (Atlantic Overeas Air Technical Service Command),
Newark Field, NJ 5Jun45. 4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson
Field, Dayton, OH 6Jun45. 4114th Base Unit, Oakland Municipal Airport, CA 29Jun45.
4127th Base Unit (Sacramento Air Technical Service Command), McClellan Field, Sacramento, CA 23Sep45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage
and disposal 27Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
30754 (MSN 5868) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Jul43.
Ephrata AAB, WA 1Aug43. Felts Field, Spokane, WA 14Aug43. 222nd Base Unit, Peterson Field,
Colorado Springs, CO 15Sep43. 2533rd Base Unit, Goodfellow 25Oct44. 268th Base Unit (Combat
Crew Training Station), Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 14Feb45. 201st Base Unit, Headquarters,
Colorado Springs, CO 16Feb45. HQ Squadron, 200th Base Unit, Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 25Aug45.
Damaged while parked by C-47 42-93175 taxying at Sioux City AAB, IA 8Sep45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and
disposal 27Oct45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped.
30755 (MSN 5869) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Jul43.
Assigned to 325th Bomb Squadron [NV*R], 92nd Bomb Group. 542nd Bomb Squadron, 383rd Bomb Group,
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 3Aug43. 452nd Bomb Group, Pendleton Field, OR 23Oct43.
202nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Galveston Field, TX. Damaged taxying at Galveston 12May44.
268th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 30Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 9Oct45
30756 (MSN 5870) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Jul43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 1Aug43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 3Aug43.
Pendleton Field, OR 12Aug43. 452nd Bomb Group, Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 19Oct43. 330th Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN 1Mar45. 325th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training
Station), Avon Park Field, FL 3Jun45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 22Aug45
30757 (MSN 5871) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Jul43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 1Aug43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 3Aug43.
602nd Bomb Squadron, 398th Bomb Group, Rapid City Field, SD.�Accident landing at Rapid City
Field 8Sep43. 245th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), McCook Field, NB 16Sep43.
223rd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN. Damaged taxying at
Dyersburg Field 14Apr44. 245th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), McCook Field, NB 13Jun44.
9th Bomb Group, McCook Field, NB 20Jun44. 202nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Galveston Field, TX 22Nov44. 245th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), McCook Field, NB 27Nov44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 25Jun45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped
30758 (MSN 5872) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Jul43.
Dyersburg Field, TN 7Aug43. Dalhart Field, TX 15Aug43. 100th Bomb Group 31Aug43. Ferried Meeks
Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 8Sep43. 418th Bomb Squadron [LD*W],
100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk Sep43 Named "Satcha La" aka "Rosie's
Riveters". ROSIE'S RIVETERS. Named after the pilot (Robert 'Rosie' Rosenthal) / SATCHA LASS
[renamed by new crew after repair Feb44 . {first combat mission 8Oct43}. Failed to return from a
mission to railway marshalling yards at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 4Feb44 (10POW). As the planes were
passing over the Netherlands en route to Germany, local cross winds carried the bombers straight into enemy flak.
The bomber was hit over Wiesbaden by Flak Abteilung 49 and dropped out of formation. The pilot crash
landed in a field near R�dingen, between Cologne and Aachen, Germany.. MACR 2344.
30759 (MSN 5873) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Jul43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 1Aug43. Spokane Field, WA 4Aug43. Geiger Field,
Spokane, WA 5Aug43. 580th Bomb Squadron, 393rd Bomb Group, Kearney Field, NB 9Aug43.
Crash landed Kearney 24Aug43. Salvaged 8Sep43
30760 (MSN 5874) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Jul43.
Pyote Field, TX 1Aug43. 435th Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group, Pyote Field, TX 9Nov43.
222nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Ardmore Field, OK 22Jan45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, 20Jun45
30761 (MSN 5875) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Jul43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 6Aug43. Pendleton Field, OR 12Aug43. Combat Crew Training School,
395th Bomb Group, Ardmore Field, OK. Damaged by 'friendly fire' at Matagorda
Range, TX 16Jan44 (1KIS). While on a high altitude formation gunnery training flight,
the gunnery instructor was killed by a stray 50-caliber bullet to his back while standing
between the ball turret and waist gunners. The bomber was over the Matagorda Air-to-Air
Gunnery Range, 100 miles south of Galveston, Texas and received at least ten rounds to
the wing and fuselage from one of the other three aircraft in the formation. They were firing
at a towed target. No gunner accepted responsibility for the accident. 202nd Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Galveston Field, TX 13Aug44. 222nd Base Unit (Combat
Crew Training Station), Ardmore Field, OK 19Aug44. Modified for training, stripped of armor,
armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F. 222nd Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Ardmore Field, OK. Mid-air collision with B-17G 42-102409 fourteen miles
northeast of Ardmore 9Feb45. Damaged in collision with TB-17F 42-30551 taxying at Ardmore
Field 12Jun45. 332nd Base Unit, Ardmore Field, OK 16Jun45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 13Nov45. War Assets Administration. S
old to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30762 (MSN 5876) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Jul43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 4Aug43. 600th Bomb Squadron, 398th Bomb Group, Rapid City
Field, SD 11Aug43. Damaged landing at Sioux City 22Sep43. 383rd Bomb Group, Geiger Field,
Spokane, WA 10Nov43. 224th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Sioux City AAB, IA.
The bomber took off on a 1,000 mile night navigation training mission from Sioux City Army
Air Base 18/19Apr44 (10RTD). About ten to fifteen miles west of Marquette, MI, No.3 engine was
reported to have an oil leak to the propeller governor. Attempts to feather the propeller failed and
the pilot headed across Lake Superior to Duluth, MN for a forced landing. Then the engine
caught fire but, without fire extinguishers, the fire could not be extinguished. A few minutes
later the inboard cylinders blew up and blew off the cowling. The engine was burning fiercely and the
unfeathered propeller was causing excess drag. Turning towards land, as pieces of the engine
continued to blow off, the order to bail out was given. Set on autopilot, all the crew bailed out safely.
The plane crashed on the snow-covered Porcupine mountains thirty miles southwest of Ontonagon, MI i
n the early hours of 19Apr44. The first four crewmen to bail out landed almost on the beach of
Lake Superior at Union Bay, MI, and walked to Silver City. By that morning, a Civil Air Patrol spotter
had located the wrecked plane. By noon, all but one of the crew had been rescued. Tail gunner was
found two days later walking down a remote logging road. Salvaged 20Apr44..
30763 (MSN 5877) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Jul43.
Pendleton Field, OR 7Aug43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 15Aug43. 88th Bomb Group, Walla Walla
Field, WA 18Aug43. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field,
Sebring, FL 10May45. 325th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Avon Park Field, FL 23May45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 9Oct45
30764 (MSN 5878) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27Jul43.
Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F.
3701st Base Unit (Technical School), Amarillo Field, TX 23Jul44. Damaged in accident with
TB-17F 42-29871 and parked TB-17F 42-29687 at Amarillo Field 9Mar45. 3706th Base Unit, Basic
Training Center, Sheppard Field, Wichita Falls, TX 29Mar45. 3701st Base Unit (Technical School),
Amarillo Field, TX 23Apr45. Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage
and disposal 26Oct45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company,
Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30765 MSN 5879) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Jul43.
Dyersburg Field, TN 8Aug43. 535th Bomb Squadron [MS*U], 381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167),
Essex 20Sep43. Named. *Chug a Lug/Nip and Tuck*. 448th Sub-Depot, Air Service
Command, Ridgewell for spar damage repair 26Dec43. Accident on a training mission in very poor
visibility, clipped some trees and force landed at Rodmead Farm, Maiden Bradley, near Warminster,
Wilts 29Dec43. {9 missions}. Salvaged 2Jan44.
30766 (MSN 5880) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Jul43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 3Aug43. 398th Bomb Group, Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 18Aug43. 225th Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Rapid City Field, SD. Damaged while parked in collision by B-17F 42-30771
at Rapid City 18May44. 242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB 19Jun44.
6th Bomb Group, Grand Island Field, NB 8Jul44. 268th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 18Sep44. 242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand
Island Field, NB 25Sep44. 249th Base Unit (Special), Alliance Field, NB 14Oct44. 245th Base Unit
(Operational Training Unit), McCook Field, NB 9Jan45. Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 25Jun45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped
30767 (MSN 5881) Accepted by USAAF 23Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 27Jul43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 28Jul43.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 4Aug43. Scott Field,
Belleville, IL 9Aug43. 367th Bomb Squadron [GY*Y], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111),
Bedfordshire 21Sep43. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little Staughton (Station 127), Bedfordshire 26Sep43.
Regained by Group 27Sep43. Accident returning from a recalled mission to La Rochelle, France 5Dec43.
A propeller fell off and damaged the ball turret during landing at Thurleigh. Accident departing for a
mission to the shipyard and industrial area at Kiel, Germany 5Jan44 (8KIA:2RTD). The plane crashed
shortly after takeoff in poor visibility in a farmer's field a few hundred yards from the Headquarters
building at Sharnbrook ammunition depot, Bedfordshire. Salvaged by 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little Staughton
30768 (MSN 5882) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Jul43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 5Aug43. Offutt Field, Omaha, NB 8Aug43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 10Aug43. Combat Crew Training Squadron, 393rd Bomb Group, Sioux City AAB, IA.
Crashed Sioux City AAB, IA 4Mar44. Salvaged 6Mar44
30769 (MSN 5883) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Jul43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 4Aug43. Offutt Field, Omaha, NB 8Aug43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 9Aug43. 224th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Sioux City AAB, IA 6Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 19Jun45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped
30770 (MSN 5884) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Jul43.
Spokane Field, WA 4Aug43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 5Aug43. Offutt Field, Omaha, NB 8Aug43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 10Aug43. 224th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Sioux City AAB, IA 6Mar45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM
for storage and disposal 19Jun45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped.
30771 (MSN 5885) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26Jul43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 4Aug43. Rapid City Field, SD 18Aug43. Pendleton Field, OR 12Aug43.
225th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Rapid City Field, SD. Damaged in collision with
parked B-17F 42-30766 and B-17G 42-102466 at Rapid City 18May44. Damaged while parked in collision
by B-17G 42-31755 taxying at Rapid City 17Aug44. Force landing at Rapid City 28Aug43.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Cal-Aero Field, Ontario, CA for storage and disposal 10Jun45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Sharp & Fellows Contracting Company Jul46; scrapped
30772 (MSN 5886) Accepted by USAAF 24Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 27Jul43. Dyersburg Field, TN 8Aug43. 524th Bomb Squadron [WA*R],
379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 31Aug43. 323rd Bomb Squadron [OR*V],
91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 23Sep43. Battle damaged on a
mission to the port and industrial area at Emden, Germany 27Sep43 (1KIA:1WIA:8RTD). Attacked by
enemy fighters, a gunner was killed by a direct hit by a 20mm cannon shell; another gunner was wounded.
Failed to return from a mission to the Arado Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory, Anklam, Prussia 9Oct43 (6MIA:2KIA:2POW).
The formation was attacked by a large force of Luftwaffe fighters soon after it crossed the coast.
They followed all the way in, attacking on the bomb run and over the target. On the return flight
from Anklam the plane was hit by rocket fired by Lt Richard
Heller in Bf 110G-2 of ZG 26/8, which set the left inboard engine on fire and made it necessary
to feather the right inboard propeller. It also severely wounded the ball turret gunner and the co pilot;
the bombardier and navigator bailed out. The left wing broke off and the fuselage had broken in half.
Crashed in the Baltic Sea twenty miles south of Langeland, Denmark.. MACR 895.
30773 (MSN 5887) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27Jul43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 7Aug43. Dyersburg Field, TN 8Aug43. Ferried on the North
Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 7/8Sep43.
324th Bomb Squadron [DF*B:DF*J], 91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 26Sep43.
Substantially battle damaged on a mission to industrial areas at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 4Oct43.
{final combat mission 14Jan44}. Transferred to Royal Air Force 21Jan44 as Fortress Mark II, serial SR381.
Equipped with H2S airborne radar. Used for radio counter measures. No.214 (Federated Malay States)
Squadron [BU-F], No.100 Group, RAF Sculthorpe, Norfolk 2Feb44. RAF Oulton, Aylsham, Norfolk 16May44.
On the night of 21/22Jun44 the aircraft was badly shot up by two night fighters, the first was a Me 410,
the second, which occurred about ten or fifteen minutes after the first, was by a Ju 88 over Gelsenkirchen,
Germany where the target was the Nordstern oil plant. The pilot dived from 22,000ft to 12,000ft in a
straight dive to try to put an engine fire out with no effect. Limped home with No.3 engine on fire
to the emergency landing airfield at RAF Woodbridge, Suffolk. Landed and crashed into a Lancaster
of No.61 Squadron with a full bomb load and cut it in half. All crew members survived [RAF/RCAF/RAAF].
Flown out 30Jun44. Scottish Aviation, Prestwick, Scotland 21Jul44 for repair at depot.
Damaged reclassified as category E (write off) 31Jul44. SOC.
30774 (MSN 5888) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26Jul43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 6Aug43. Pendleton Field, OR 12Aug43. Harvard Field, NB 19Aug43.
Mid-air collision at Harvard Field 28Aug43 (1KIS). Just before darkness, a formation of eight B-17's
was coming into the Harvard Army Air Field to simulate a peel-off out of formation for landing.
Instead of going downward and left out of formation, one of the lead B-17F's (42-30239) went
upwards into the path of B-17F (42-3309). The wing of the higher plane cut the fuselage of the
plane coming upward in half. A third B-17F (42-30774) flew into the wreckage. The first two B-17's
that collided fell down and exploded with no survivors. The third B-17 was able to crash land in
an open field. The pilot of the third plane had ordered his crew to bail out. One of those who
bailed out either struck the plane on the way out or did not deploy his parachute and was killed.
Salvaged 31Aug43
30775 (MSN 5889) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26Jul43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 5Aug43. Pendleton Field, OR 12Aug43. 422nd Bomb Squadron [JJ*P],
305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 18Sep43. Experimented in night
bombing alongside the RAF and operated night leaflet and propaganda missions. Damaged
during a night leaflet mission to Paris, France 20Oct43. The No.4 engine caught fire and the
plane force landed at RAF Dunsfold, Cranleigh, Surrey. Accident during a night leaflet and
propaganda mission over Hamburg, Germany 2Dec43. The plane encountered an overspeeding
propeller after dropping their leaflets over the target and flew back to England along the
Ruhr Valley at 7,000ft. When the navigator was forced to leave his compartment because of the
propeller vibration, the crew became lost. Thinking they were back over England, the crew made
preparations for flying in Allied airspace by switching on the IFF. The plane was shot at by flak,
the crew fired a flare with the colour of the day and the shooting stopped (apparently the German
colours were the same that day) but soon resumed. Preparing for a ditching, the crew threw out
loose equipment including the flexible guns. It was then that enemy aircraft were sighted but did
not engage in combat. Finally picking up their position, the pilot headed for a safe landing at
RAF Manston, Kent. 858th Bomb Squadron, 492nd Bomb Group, North Pickenham 24Jun44.
Special operations and electronic countermeasure (ECM) missions. 406th Bomb Squadron, 801st Bomb Group,
Harrington (Station 179), Northamptonshire Aug44. Damaged landing at Cheddington (Station 113),
Buckinghamshire 15Nov44. Salvaged after non battle damage 6Jan45.
30776 (MSN 5890) Accepted by USAAF 24Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 26Jul43. Dyersburg Field, TN 7Aug43. 368th Bomb Squadron [BO*G],
306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 20Sep43. Seriously battle damaged
during a mission to an aircraft factory at Bremen, Germany 8Oct43. The formation was
met with stiff resistance by German fighters and flak crews on the ground the entire way,
from the Dutch coast all the way into the German heartland, and back again. In addition,
a large force of German fighters launched vicious attacks against the planes. Over the target,
the formation encountered intense flak. No.2 main fuel tank, right horizontal stabiliser
struck by flak, nose compartment and No.1 engine cowling struck by flak; No.4 engine
struck by empty 0.50 caliber shell casings; No.4 engine oil tank struck by flak; left outer
wing. Aileron and No.7 Tokyo fuel tank struck by flak; right outer wing struck by 20mm
cannon shells; left horizontal stabiliser struck by flak and 0.303 shells.
368th Bomb Squadron [BO*F]. Failed to return from a mission to the port area at
Wilhelmshaven, Germany 3Nov43 (10MIA). Mid-air collision en route to the target
with B-17F 42-3533 and crashed into North Sea. MACR 1158.
30777 (MSN 5891) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26Jul43.
444th Bomb Group, Great Bend Field, KS 27Aug43. 331st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Barksdale Field, Bossier City, LA 18Jul44. 500th Bomb Group Walker Field, Victoria, KS 27Jul43.
558th Base Unit, 20th Ferrying Group, Air Transport Command, Berry Field, Nashville, TN 27Aug43.
500th Bomb Group Walker Field, Victoria, KS 3Oct43. 4200th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical
Service Command), Chicago Municipal Airport, IL 15Oct43. 244th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit),
Harvard Field, NB 17Oct44. 248th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Walker Field, Victoria, KS 28Oct44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 25Jun45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped
30778 (MSN 5892) Accepted by USAAF 24Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 28Jul43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 6Aug43. Pendleton
Field, OR 12Aug43. Reno AAB, NV 14Aug43. Pierre Field, SD 16Aug43. 561st Bomb Squadron [U],
388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 3Sep43, Named "Old 66/Lady Margaret"
{first combat mission 26Sep43}. Battle damaged on a mission to the port area at Bremen,
Germany 20Dec43 (10RTD). Attacked by a large force of enemy fighters and flak over the
target area was very intense. Battle damaged on a mission to railway facilities around Berlin,
Germany 29Apr44. The combat wing was off course heading to Berlin, attacked by enemy fighters
and bombed Magdeburg. Flak over the target was very accurate. Battle damaged during a mission
to the Braunkohle Benzin A.G. synthetic oil refinery at Rothensee, Magdeburg, Germany 20Jun44.
Flak over the target was intense and accurate causing about twenty holes in the plane. Battle damaged
on a mission to the Rhenania-Ossag Mineral�lwerke oil refinery at Harburg, Hamburg, Germany 4Aug44.
Moderate accurate flak was encountered at the target. Accident during takeoff for a tactical mission
to destroy transportation and communications along the Seine River near Paris, France 13Aug44.
A tire blew and the aircraft ground looped on the runway at Knettishall. {final combat mission 11Aug44}.
{67 missions}. Salvaged.
30779 (MSN 5893) Accepted by USAAF 24Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 28Jul43. Dyersburg Field, TN 8Aug43. 369th Bomb Squadron [WW*U],
306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 18Sep43. Failed to return
from a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43 (7POW:3KIA).
En route to the target area, the bomber formation was repeatedly attacked by a large number
of Luftwaffe fighters. Rockets hit the nose of the bomber, killing the navigator and bombardier.
Another rocket exploded starting a fire in No.3 engine and there was also a fire in the radio
room. The crew bailed out and the plane crashed at Hammerstein, seven miles northwest of Koblenz, Germany.
Conflict:
Also listed as named 'Bigasbird' with 100th BG at Thorpe Abbots. Crashed 6th March 1944
30780 (MSN 5894) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27Jul43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 9Aug43. Pendleton Field, OR 12Aug43. 509th Bomb Squadron [RQ*H/T],
351st Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 21Sep43. Named "Eager Eagle II"
Failed to return from a mission to the AGO-Flugzeugwerke Fw 190 manufacturing factory at Oschersleben,
Germany 11Jan44 (7KIA:3POW). While the aircraft were airborne, the weather closed in over
English bases and a recall signal was issued. B/Gen. Robert F. Travis, Air Commander of the
1st Bomb Division, continued on to the target. This left the 1st Bomb Division with greater exposure
to enemy fighter attacks. Good fighter support was provided by P-47 Thunderbolts on the
penetration and by P-51 Mustangs over the target. P-47s were airborne to provide withdrawal
support but they obeyed the recall order to return to England and left the bombers to fend
for themselves on the return trip. Luftwaffe attacks started over the IJsselmeer and intensified
when the American fighters returned home. Meagre and fairly accurate flak was experienced
on the bomb run, with intermittent inaccurate flak on the return trip. Shot down by enemy fighters,
crashed Holzerode, six miles northeast of G�ttingen, Germany. {10 missions}. MACR 1938
30781 (MSN 5895) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27Jul43.
Dyersburg Field, TN 7Aug43. 413th Bomb Squadron [MZ*M], 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath
(Station 138), Norfolk 1Sep43. Failed to return from a mission to the Arado Flugzeugwerke
aircraft factory, Anklam, Prussia 9Oct43 (10KIA). The formation was attacked by a large force
of Luftwaffe fighters soon after it crossed the coast. They followed all the way in, attacking
on the bomb run and over the target. Shot down by enemy aircraft on return from target,
crashed in North Sea, off Denmark. MACR 945.
30782 MSN 5896) Accepted by USAAF 25Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 29Jul43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand
Island Field, NB 8Aug43 Assigned to 368BS/306BG [BO-O] Thurleigh; transferred to 369BS.
(306th BG, 368th BS) Named "Ration Passion". Seriously battle damaged during
a mission to an aircraft factory at Bremen, Germany 8Oct43. The formation was met with
stiff resistance by German fighters and flak crews on the ground the entire way, from the
Dutch coast all the way into the German heartland, and back again. In addition, a large
force of German fighters launched vicious attacks against the planes. Over the target,
the formation encountered intense flak. No.2 main fuel tank, right horizontal stabiliser
struck by flak, nose compartment and No.1 engine cowling struck by flak; No.1 engine
struck by empty 0.50 caliber shell casings. Seriously battle damaged during a mission to
the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43 (1WIA:9RTD). En route to the
target area, the bomber formation was repeatedly attacked by a large number of Luftwaffe
fighters. After the target, the Group turned and headed westward for England. German fighters,
having landed and refueled, attacked again until, finally, the bombers reached the coastline
of western Europe and relative safety. 20mm cannon shells struck the No.1 and 4 propellers,
right wing and aileron, right horizontal stabiliser, right fuselage. Flak struck the tail gunner's
compartment, left side of nose and left inner wing over the No.2 main fuel tank. Seriously battle
damaged during a mission to the port area at Kiel, Germany 13Dec43. No.4 engine struck by flak.
About thirty minutes before the target the plane was struck by flak. The whole formation made a 360
degree turn somewhere near the I.P. As the turn straightened out the No.4 engine started to misfire,
a second later the propeller began to windmill, the engine cowling came off and the plane dropped
back as the formation flew on. The crew dropped the bombs somewhere near the target but not on it.
The plane was steadily losing altitude and came out of the undercast about twenty-five feet above a
Danish island. They were right over a German convoy. Simultaneously a Ju 88 attacked. The bomber
pilot did some fast evasive action through a mist just off the water and finally lost the Ju 88. By this time
an engine had caught on fire, so the pilot and co-pilot decided to turn around and land in Denmark.
As the plane came in sight of the Danish coast the engine fire went out, so the pilot turned for the
North Sea and England. The plane was down about 200 feet above the water. After ten minutes the Ju 88
came back in for another attack. The bomber was fast approaching a six-ship German convoy.
The fighter started to come in at the same level ahead of the bomber. Just as it broke to point its nose,
the bomber pilot turned into his direction. The Ju 88 continued to come. As it passed, the top turret and
the bombardier in the nose started firing and the fighter started trailing black smoke. It disappeared
into the mist, engine burning and smoking. All this tine the German ship convoy was firing machine
guns and flak at the bomber. Fortunately, none of the crew had been hit, and as far as they could
determine the bomber was undamaged. The pilot was having trouble holding the small altitude
he had and called for all spare ammunition and all extra equipment to be thrown out to lighten the
load. Finally the plane came in over the English coast and landed an hour later than the briefed ETA.
Failed to return from a mission to the Junkers aircraft factory at Halberstadt, Germany 11Jan44 (2POW:5EVD:3KIA).
The formation encountered some light flak en route and over the target. After leaving the target
the formation was attacked by a Bf 110 fighter and then by 30 to 35 Fw 190 fighters. The aircraft
was strafed by 20mm cannon fire which struck the nose, vertical fin and knocked off half of the
starboard wing. Eight of the crew successfully bailed out of the aircraft at approximately 18000 feet.
The aircraft entered a spin, broke up, crashed and had broken into two with the wreckage spread out
over a large area at Heegejanskamp, near Nijverdal, Netherlands
MACR 1931. 5 POW, 5 KIA (shot after interrogation)
Parts recovered 1977;Nijverdal
30783 (MSN 5897) Accepted by USAAF 25Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 28Jul43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 9Aug43. 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall
(Station 136), Suffolk 24Aug43. 570th Bomb Squadron [DI*M], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham
(Station 153), Suffolk 25Aug43. Named "The Stork Club" The bombardier suggested The Stork Club for a
name because he knew the owner of The Stork Club in New York City and figured he could pretty
much drink and eat for free when he came back. {first combat mission 7Sep43}. Battle damaged
on a mission to railway installations at M�nster, Germany 10Oct43. As they approached the city,
the formation was swarmed by a large force of enemy aircraft for an estimated forty-five minutes
of vicious fighting. By the time their friendly fighter escorts arrived to drive off the Luftwaffe, the
damage had already been done. Severely battle damaged on a mission to the Deschimag submarine
construction yard at Vegesack, Bremen, Germany 20Dec43 (5POW:1WIA:4RTD). En route to the
target area, the 390th Bomb Group encountered a large force of enemy fighters, many armed
with rockets. The plane suffered severe flak and fighter damage with two engines out of commission
and having trouble with a third one. The plane had been badly shot up and the communications
were out. The pilot dove for the ground because there were two fighters on to them. The bombardier
had been wounded and the gunners thought they were going down (so did the fighters, so they left)
and bailed out near Wilhelmshaven. The plane was so low when it leveled out, it was coming
up for the trees. The crew was over the Netherlands and saw that people in the fields kept pointing
in a certain direction. It took them a minute to realize that the people were pointing towards England
and would have been shot if the Nazis had seen them do it. The pilot brought the aircraft and
remaining crew back to force land at a fighter base, Raydon (Station 157), Suffolk. When they landed,
the crew counted 780 holes in the aircraft from the flak and fighters. Failed to return from a mission
to the Messerschmitt factory in Augsburg, Germany 16Mar44 (8KIA:2POW). From Strasburg, Germany
to Augsburg, the bombers were attacked by Luftwaffe fighters in a running battle. Flak over the target
was moderate and accurate; flak en route was meagre and inaccurate. As the Group was passing near
N�rdlingen, almost forty miles north of Augsburg, the plane was struck by rockets fired by enemy fighters,
which started a fire aboard the aircraft. With its wings and fuselage engulfed in flames, it promptly fell
out of formation and exploded. The wreckage crashed on Lautern, six miles east of Schw�bisch Gm�nd,
Germany. {31 missions}. MACR 3180
30784 (MSN 5898) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28Jul43.
Dyersburg Field, TN 7Aug43. 325th Bomb Squadron [NV*G], 92nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102),
Huntingdonshire 27Sep43. On ferry trip from Podington to Little Staughton (Station 127),
Bedfordshire 1Jan44, undercarriage collapsed at Little Staughton. Salvaged after non battle damage 6Jan44
30785 (MSN 5899) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Jul43.
Dyersburg Field, TN 8Aug43. 508th Bomb Squadron [YB*H], 351st Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110),
Northamptonshire 23Sep43. Failed to return from a mission to industrial areas at Frankfurt am Main,
Germany 4Oct43 (3KIA:7POW). Flak over the target was moderate and accurate. A large force of enemy
fighters were encountered, some using rockets which were fired from a distance beyond the range of
the bombers' guns. Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Langensebold, sixteen miles east of Frankfurt
am Main, Germany. {1 mission}. MACR 908.
30786 (MSN 5900) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30Jul43.
614th Bomb Squadron, 401st Bomb Group, Glasgow Field, MT Aug43. Damaged while parked by taxying
B-17F 42-5113 at Glasgow Field 28Aug43. 775th Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL.
Mid-air collision with B-17F 42-30746 at Lake Thonotosassa east of MacDill 19Nov43 (10KIS). The Fortress
collided with another Fortress during a training flight then crashed and burned twenty miles east of Tampa.
Although damaged and with one motor knocked out, the second Fortress reached MacDill Field safely. Salvaged 22Nov43
30787 (MSN 5901) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Jul43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 30Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 31Jul43. 223rd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN.
Mid-air collision with B-17F 42-3370 and crashed eight miles west of Brownsville, TN 27Sep44 (8KIS).
30788 (MSN 5902) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28Jul43.
25th Ferrying Squadron, 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT. Damaged while taxying in
collision with parked B-17F 42-3473 at Denver, CO 7Aug43. Dyersburg Field, TN 8Aug43. Lowry Field,
Denver, CO 12Aug43. Dyersburg Field, TN 14Aug43. 350th Bomb Squadron [LN*R], 100th Bomb Group,
Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 5Sep43. Named "Mismalovin'". Failed to return from a mission to the Messerschmitt
aircraft factory at Regensburg, Germany 25Feb44 (8KIA:2POW). After crossing the coastline into
mainland Europe, the formation encountered frequent flak and fierce aerial attacks from the Luftwaffe,
causing heavy damage to some of the bombers. The planes arrived at Regensburg and encountered intense
flak over the target area. Flak damaged engine No.2, crashed in English Channel, off Sangatte, near Calais, France
MACR 2760
30789 (MSN 5903) Accepted by USAAF 26Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 28Jul43. Dyersburg Field, TN 7Aug43. 563rd Bomb Squadron [P], 388th Bomb Group,
Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 3Sep43. Named "Flak Suit, then "Butcher Boy"
{first combat mission 26Sep43}. Battle damaged on a mission to the Kugelfischer-Georg-Sch�fer ball
bearing factory at Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43 (10RTD). Enemy fighters were encountered near
Eupen, Belgium on the route in, all the way to the target, and back to the French Coast. Flak was moderate
to intense along the route but gave the most trouble over the target area. The lead bombardier was unable
to see a clear view of the target caused by smoke from previous bombing. He set his bomb sight on the
railway bridge over the Main river so that the bombs struck the eastern end of the marshalling yards.
On return, force landed at RAF Kenley, Kent. Failed to return from a mission to the railway marshalling
yards at Gelsenkirchen, Germany 5Nov43 (5POW:2KIA:3EVD). With No.1 engine damaged by flak, the
aircraft dropped out of formation. Shot down by Obfw Kirshow in Fw 190A-5/U8 of SKG 10/3
A 20mm shell from the Fw 190 exploded in the flight deck and two crew were killed, another shell damaged No.3 engine.
The injured pilot pulled the aircraft out of a dive long enough for survivors to bail out over Belgium
and crashed in a cemetery on Brugsraat, at Lokeren, Belgium, MACR 3137. 2 KIA.
30790 (MSN 5904) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28Jul43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 29Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 4Aug43. Dalhart Field, TX 15Aug43. 511th Bomb Squadron [DS*Q], 351st Bomb Group,
Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 22Sep43. Named "Cue Ball". Named in the tradition of
511th Bomb Squadron by incorporating the word 'Ball' in the title, after the squadron's first commander
Clinton F Ball. Failed to return from a mission to the Arado Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory, Anklam,
Prussia 9Oct43 (11POW). The formation was attacked by a large force of Luftwaffe fighters soon after
it crossed the coast. They followed all the way in, attacking on the bomb run and over the target.
Enemy fighter 20mm cannon shells hit a 'Tokyo' fuel tank which set the left wing on fire, crashed Anklam,
Prussia. {2 missions} MACR 878
30791 (MSN 5905) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Jul43.
Dyersburg Field, TN 8Aug43. 422th Bomb Squadron [JJ*J], 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105),
Northamptonshire 1Oct43. Experimented in night bombing alongside the RAF and operated night
leaflet and propaganda missions. 858th Bomb Squadron, 492nd Bomb Group, North Pickenham 24Jun44.
Special operations and electronic countermeasure (ECM) missions. 406th Bomb Squadron, 801st Bomb
Group, Harrington (Station 179), Northamptonshire 11Aug44. Carpetbagger missions. {88+ missions}.
Salvaged 4Dec44. Named. PISTOL PACKIN' MAMA - artwork inspired by the Vargas' "Pistol Packin' Mama"
Esquire centrefold of March 1944. The plane appeared in episode 3 of the documentary "
Rapport fra Nr. 24" (1994) about the most decorated war hero in Norway, Gunnar "Kjakan" S�nsteby
(Code named "No. 24") and his life as an undercover agent during the second world war
30792 MSN 5906) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Jul43.
Dyersburg Field, TN 8Aug43. Galveston Field, TX 15Aug43. Dyersburg Field, TN 17Aug43. 339th Bomb
Squadron [QJ*E], 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 5Sep43
Named "Janet McIlwain". Failed to return from a mission to the port and industrial area at
Emden, Germany 27Sep43 (2KIA:8POW). Flak damage, No.2 & No.3 engines on fire, crashed Norden, near
Emden, Germany. Also listed as.shot down by Fw 190A near
Emden, Germany. MACR 756.
30793 (MSN 5907) Accepted by USAAF 27Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 29Jul43. Dyersburg Field, TN 8Aug43. 562nd Bomb Squadron [A], 388th Bomb Group,
Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 3Sep43. Named"Tom Paine". "Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered".
Named Tom Paine after the English-American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary
after the airmen of the 562nd found out that he had been born in the nearby town of Thetford. One of the Founding
Fathers of the United States, he authored the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution,
and he inspired the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from Britain. Name was chosen to promote
Anglo-American co-operation through showing links between the two nations, though seen as insensitive
by many in Thetford where Paine was seen as a traitor against Britain. (first combat mission 26Sep43}.
Battle damaged during a mission to the industrial area at Brunswick, Germany 10Feb44 (1WIA:9RTD).
Meagre to heavy flak was seen when crossing the enemy coast at IJmuiden, Netherlands. In the vicinity of
Lingen, Germany the formation was attacked by enemy fighters in groups of three. As they neared the target,
twin-engined aircraft fired rockets into the formation. Intense flak was encountered at the target where t
he aircraft received flak damage. The formation was under fighter attack until it neared the IJsselmeer
on the return home. Friendly fighters were outnumbered, especially in the target area. Battle damaged on
return from a mission to an aviation industry at Krepinki, Poland 11Apr44 (3WIA:7RTD). As the formation
approached the enemy coast near Stettin, it became apparent that visual bombing was impossible, because
of weather conditions. It was decided to attack their secondary target, the Heinkel Flugzeugwerke aircraft
factory at Marienehe, Rostock, Germany. En route to the target, a force of enemy fighters attacked.
Just after bomb release over Rostock, the formation was attacked by a smaller force of fighters. Damaged
in these attacks, the co-pilot, navigator and bombardier were wounded. The plane force landed on return
at RAF Beccles, Ellough, Suffolk. Provided navigational assistance for Aphrodite missions to V-1 missile
sites in France 4/6Aug44. {final combat mission 24Dec44}. {29 missions
30794 (MSN 5908) Accepted by USAAF 26Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 29Jul43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island
Field, NB 9Aug43. 369th Bomb Squadron [WW*V], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111),
Bedfordshire 25Aug43. Eighth Air Force Service Command 16Oct43. Regained by Group 23Oct43.
Seriously battle damaged during a mission to the industrial areas of Emden, Germany 11Dec43.
The Luftwaffe was waiting for the bombers; the moment the bombers crossed over into mainland Europe,
six twin-engine fighter dived out of the sun upon the formation, concentrating all their fire on the lead plane.
Once the leader had been downed, the fighters swept through the lead Squadron. Before the deputy lead
had a chance to reassemble the formation, a large force of single-engine fighters joined the fray,
attacking the other bombers. Vertical and left horizontal stabilisers struck by flak. Failed to return
from a mission to the shipyard and industrial area at Kiel, Germany 5Jan44 (8KIA:2POW).
Shot down by�Bf-109G-6 of JG-11 and. crashed Hohenfelde, Steinburg, five miles
southeast of Itzehoe, Germany MACR 1683
30795 (MSN 5909) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Jul43.
Dyersburg Field, TN 8Aug43. 549th Bomb Squadron [XA*J], 385th Bomb Group 2Sep43. Ferried
Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 8Sep43. 548th Bomb Squadron,
385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk Sep43, Named 'The Wild Hare'.
Failed to return from a mission to the railway marshalling yards at M�nster, Germany 11Nov43
(1KIA:8POW:1EVD). Flak damaged No.3 engine, later shot down by Hptm
Emil-Rudolf Schnoor in Fw 190A-6 of JG 1/1 Stab between
Eethen and Waspik, Netherlands. Crashed in the Zijlmanspolder, just south of
the Doprstraat in Dussen, Netherlands MACR 1161.
30796 (MSN 5910) Accepted by USAAF 27Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 29Jul43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand
Island Field, NB 9Aug43. Assigned Eighth Air Force, England 27Aug43. 100th Bomb Group 28Aug43.
Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 31Aug43.
351st Bomb Squadron [EP*K/J], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk Aug43.
Named "Sunny II" Battle damaged during a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical works at
Oppau, Ludwigshafen, Germany 30Dec43, crash landed Starston Hall, near Harleston, Norfolk.
{14 missions}. 3 injured,7 OK. Salvaged Jan 1, 1944
30797 (MSN 5911) Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 29Jul43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great
Falls, MT 30Jul43. Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 8Aug43. Substantially damaged in collision with
parked B-17F 42-30798 in a maintenance accident with ground crew at Eglin Field 23Sep43.
Surveyed at Eglin AAF Sep 26, 1943
30798 (MSN 5912) Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 29Jul43. Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL. Substantially
damaged while parked in collision by B-17F 42-30797 in a maintenance accident with
ground crew at Eglin Field 23Sep43. 611th Base Unit, Proving Ground Command, Eglin Field,
Valparaiso, FL 2Jun44. 610th Base Unit (Proving Ground Command), Eglin Field,
Valparaiso, FL 4Sep44. 216th Base Unit, Wendover Field, UT 19Sep44. 325th Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Avon Park Field, FL. Damaged in collision with B-17F
42-29601 at Avon Park Field 18Apr45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR
for storage and disposal 11Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment
Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
30799 (MSN 5913) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 29Jul43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 9Aug43. Scott Field,
Belleville, IL 10Aug43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle
Field, ME 16Aug43. 349th Bomb Squadron [XR*L], 100th Bomb Group 20Aug43.
Ground looped at RCAF Gander, Newfoundland during maintenance by ground crew 20Aug43.
Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 28/29Aug43. 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk Aug43.
Named :"The Big Ass Bird II" . Battle damaged on a mission to the ball bearing factories at Paris,
France 26Nov43. On his final mission to Paris, 2nd Lt Owen D. (Cowboy) Roane made a joke to the
group maintenance officer that he was going to dump his plane in the soft Thorpe Abbotts mud
upon his return. Over the target a 20mm hole big enough to fit a body through ripped up the
right wing, and Owen had to nurse the plane back home only to see the airplane turn his joke
into reality, with the right wing off the end of the runway into the mud as promised.
Both the CO and the group maintenance officer held up short of reading Owen the riot act
once they saw the condition of the aircraft. Failed to return from a mission to industrial areas
in the suburbs of Berlin, Germany 6Mar44 (3KIA:7POW). Shot down by fighter attack near Hasel�nne.
With the tail on fire, seven crew members bailed out and the bomber crashed at Hollwedel,
southeast of Harpstedt, twenty-five miles southeast of Oldenburg, Germany. MACR 3017
30800 (MSN 5914) Accepted by USAAF 28Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30Jul43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 9Aug43. 563rd Bomb Squadron [O], 388th Bomb Group 3Sep43.
Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 5/6Sep43. 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk Sep43.
Named COCK O' THE WALK artwork of a cartoon cockerel with the number 36 on his chest riding a bomb.
(first combat mission 2Oct43}. Failed to return from a mission to the aviation industry at Brunswick,
Germany 29Feb44 (4KIA:6POW). Flown by a 452nd Bomb Group crew on loan to the 388th Bomb Group.
Struck by flak over the target just as the bombs were released, there was a direct burst in the cockpit.
The cockpit was full of smoke and on fire, both pilots having been killed; two gunners were also killed.
The plane dropped out of formation in a tight left turn and falling fast in a spiral. The navigator
extinguished the fires and tried the throttles but the engines were done. With both pilots slumped over the
control wheels, the navigator tried to steady the plane with the intent to try a crash landing somewhere.
The plane dropped through clouds at 5,000ft and dropping fast. At that point, the navigator was the last
airmen to bail out. Crashed near the Luther factory at Bienrode, four miles north of Brunswick, Germany. {23 missions}.
MACR 2893.
30801 (MSN 5915) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30Jul43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 8Aug43.
Departed RCAF Gander, Newfoundland for UK heading for Prestwick, Scotland 1Sep43. On arrival
Prestwick, Scotland, because of poor visibility, the pilot was unable to find the airfield and flew
around until sighting a nearby beach and crash landed just to the north of Prestwick at Troon, Scotland
(10 crew OK)
30802 (MSN 5916) Accepted by USAAF 28Jul43. Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field,
Dallas, TX 30Jul43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 14Aug43. 560th Bomb Squadron [G], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall
(Station 136), Suffolk 5Sep43. Named "Gydnia" {first combat mission 27Sep43}.
Failed to return from a mission to the German Navy cruiser N�rnberg in the port area of Gdynia,
Poland 9Oct43 (10POW). The bomber was attacked by German fighters on the way home over South Jutland.
Shot down by Lt. Hermann Stock in Ju 88C-6 D5?OX of NJG 3/12 at coast
of Romo Island, Denmark, setting No.3 engine on fire. The crew bailed out and the aircraft
crashed at Juvre Sande on the north end of the island of R�m�, southeast of Esbjerg, Denmark. {4 missions}. .
MACR 3138.
30803 (MSN 5917) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 30Jul43. 7th Ferrying Group,
Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 31Jul43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 3Aug43. 325th Bomb Squadron [NV*O],
92nd Bomb Group, Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 27Sep43. Failed to return from a mission to the I.G. Farben
chemical works at Leverkusen, Germany 1Dec43 (9KIA:1POW). Clouds obscured the target so the formation diverted
to the secondary target, a non-ferrous metals works at Solingen, Germany. Flak damaged the ball turret and
set No.2 engine on fire. The aircraft exploded and crashed two miles northnorthwest of Euskirchen, between
Elsig und D�rscheven, twenty-two miles southwest of Cologne, Germany. MACR 1387
30804 (MSN 5918) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 30Jul43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field,
Great Falls, MT 31Aug43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 2Aug43. Redmond Field, OR 17Aug43.
Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 7/8Sep43. 365th Bomb Squadron [XK*G], 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105),
Northamptonshire 18Sep43. Failed to return from a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt,
Germany 14Oct43 (7KIA:3POW). En route to the target area, the bomber formation was repeatedly attacked
by a large number of Luftwaffe fighters. After the target, the Group turned and headed westward for
England. German fighters, having landed and refueled, attacked again. Shot down by enemy fighters,
crashed Glashofen, near Markt Heidenfeldt, fifteen miles northwest of W�rzburg, Germany. MACR 922
30805 (MSN 5919) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 30Jul43. 5th Ferrying Group,
Love Field, Dallas, TX 16Aug43. Redmond Field, OR 17Aug43. 401st Bomb Squadron [LL*H],
91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 24Sep43. Named "Bomb Boogie's Revenge"
Failed to return from a mission to the port area at Wilhelmshaven, Germany 3Nov43 (7KIA:3POW).
Moderate inaccurate flak was encountered over the target. Escort fighters were scheduled to cover
the whole route over enemy territory but were not on hand for approximately ten minutes between
the I.P. and the target, during which time the group was attacked by enemy fighters. Shot down by a
Fw 190 fighter and crashed on a Gesellschaftshaus, west of Wilhelmshaven, Germany. {2 missions}. MACR 1155.
30806 (MSN 5920) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 30Jul43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field,
Dallas, TX 16Aug43. Redmond Field, OR 17Aug43. 339th Bomb Squadron [QJ*G],
96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 9Sep43. Named "V Packet"
Seriously battle damaged during a mission to an aircraft factory at Bremen, Germany 8Oct43.
The formation was met with stiff resistance by German fighters and flak crews on the ground the
entire way, from the Dutch coast all the way into the German heartland, and back again.
In addition, a large force of German fighters launched vicious attacks against the planes.
Over the target, the formation encountered intense flak. Landed safely back at Snetterton Heath
with one engine disabled and at least 100 flak holes. All the engines had been over-stressed
by running at full power for approximately 45 minutes [they weren't replaced but stayed on
for further missions]. Failed to return from a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt,
Germany 14Oct43 (10POW). En route to the target area, the bomber formation was repeatedly
attacked by a large number of Luftwaffe fighters. After the target, the Group turned and headed
westward for England. German fighters, having landed and refueled, attacked again. Shot down
by enemy fighters, crashed Reims, France. MACR 832
30807 (MSN 5921) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30Jul43.
Dyersburg Field, TN 8Aug43. Galveston Field, TX 17Aug43. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 8Sep43. 364th Bomb Squadron [WF*K], 305th Bomb Group,
Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 18Sep43. Named "Katy". Failed to return
from a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43 (1KIA:7POW:1EVD).
En route to the target area, the bomber formation was repeatedly attacked by a large number of
Luftwaffe fighters. After the target, the Group turned and headed westward for England. German fighters,
having landed and refueled, attacked again. Shot down by Uffz Bernard Kunze in
Fw 190A of JG 1/1 Most of the crew bailed out before the bomber exploded and
crashed at Dilsen-Stokkem, five miles southwest of Maaseik, Belgium. MACR 912
Also credited to Hptm Hans Naumann of 7./JG 26 flying a Bf 109.
30808 (MSN 5922) Accepted by USAAF 28Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 30Jul43. Dyersburg Field, TN 8Aug43. 563rd Bomb Squadron, 388 Knettishall 4Sep43.
Named "Pegasus". {first combat mission 26Sep43}. Battle damaged on a mission to the port area
at Bremen, Germany 20Dec43 (10RTD). Attacked by a large force of enemy fighters and flak over the
target area was very intense. Battle damaged during a mission to the industrial area at Brunswick,
Germany 10Feb44 (10RTD). Meagre to heavy flak was seen when crossing the enemy coast at IJmuiden,
Netherlands. In the vicinity of Lingen, Germany the formation was attacked by enemy fighters in groups
of three. As they neared the target, twin-engined aircraft fired rockets into the formation. Intense flak
was encountered at the target where the aircraft received flak damage. The formation was under
fighter attack until it neared the IJsselmeer on the return home. Friendly fighters were outnumbered,
especially in the target area. Failed to return from a mission to the industrial areas of Brunswick,
Germany 23Mar44 (5KIA:5POW). The formation was about fifteen minutes early when it crossed
the enemy coast and even earlier when it reached the target. Consequently, no friendly fighter
escort was met until the formation was near the I.P. During this time a large force of enemy fighters
was encountered between D�mmer See and Steinhuder Meer, Wunstorf, Germany. Attacked by
enemy fighters east of Quakenbr�ck setting No.1 engine on fire. The crew bailed out before it
crashed at Walle on the L�neburg Heath, eleven miles northwest of Celle, Germany. {34 missions}.
MACR 3541.
30809 (MSN 5923) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 4Aug43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 10Aug43.
366th Bomb Squadron [KY*G], 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 6Sep43.
Equipped with H2S airborne radar. Used for radio counter measures. Accident on a mission to bomb a
submarine repair ship at Nantes, France 23Sep43. On return from Nantes force landed at Chelveston
after mid-air collision with B-17F 42-30647. Transferred to Royal Air Force 22Jan44 as Fortress Mark II,
serial SR382. No.214 (Federated Malay States) Squadron [BU-B], No.100 Group, RAF Sculthorpe, Norfolk 2Feb44.
Failed to return from a radio counter measures mission 22Jun44 (5KIA - RAFVR:3POW:1EVD - RCAF).
During the early hours, the Fortress was shot down over the Netherlands by a German night fighter
while returning from a raid on Gelsenkirchen, Germany 22Jun44. It came under attack by a
Messerschmitt 110 piloted by Hauptmann Heinz Struning of NJG1. Although it survived the first
attacking pass, a second two minutes later proved disastrous, knocking out the inboard starboard
engine and rendering the aircraft's controls useless. Instructing the co-pilot to feather the engines
the pilot then ordered the rest of the crew to stand-by for an emergency jump, but the very next
moment the aircraft was diving out of control for the ground. Somehow by piloting skill or just
plain luck, the pilot and co-pilot managed to pull the aircraft's nose up for just long enough so
that the crew could bail out. While five managed to do so the pilot, co-pilot, navigator and an
air gunner did not. Some year's later one of the survivors reportedly said that when he bailed
out "the pilot and co-pilot were struggling with the aircraft's controls hoping to make a forced landing".
It has never been clarified why, but the assumption is that one or more of the crew were badly
wounded in the attack and their only chance of survival was to attempt a crash landing.
Moments later with the aircraft in flames it crashed intohe the ground at De Aaldert, near
Bergharen, Netherlands where it quickly burnt out. By the time anyone arrived on the scene
four crew lay dead in the wreckage and another lay hidden beneath it. When the wreckage
was being removed several days later, the body of the fifth member of the crew was found
under the remains of the fuselage with an open parachute attached
30810 (MSN 5924) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 4Aug43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island
Field, NB 11Aug43. 338th Bomb Squadron [BX*Y], 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath
(Station 138), Norfolk 11Sep43. Named "Hunk O' Hell" Failed to return from a mission to the
city of Munich, Germany 18Mar44 (7POW:3KIA). Shot down by enemy fighters, two engines
out, then aircraft snapped in half over Black Forest, crashed Ditteshausen, near Freiburg, Germany.
MACR 3422
30811 (MSN 5925) Accepted by USAAF 29Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 4Aug43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training
Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 12Aug43. 369th Bomb Squadron [WW*D], 306th Bomb Group,
Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 2Sep43. Failed to return from a mission to the ball
bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43 (10POW). En route to the target area, the
bomber formation was repeatedly attacked by a large number of Luftwaffe fighters. After the
target, the Group turned and headed westward for England. German fighters, having landed
and refueled, attacked again. The bomber had been riddled with 20mm cannon shells and
hundreds of flak fragments. After bomb release over the target, it receieved a direct hit by
a rocket fired from a Ju 88. With damage to engine No.3, the propeller was overspeeding
and the vibration threatened to shake the engine loose. The crew bailed out before the plane exploded
and crashed at Bellheim, near Schweinfurt, Germany. . MACR 814
30812 (MSN 5926) Accepted by USAAF 29Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 4Aug43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 12Aug43. 423rd Bomb Squadron [RD*Q], 306th Bomb Group,
Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 4Sep43. Battle damaged on an Operation Starkey mission to a
Luftwaffe airfield at Vendeville, Lille, France 9Sep43. Bomb bay structure and doors struck by flak.
Eighth Air Force Service Command 9Sep43. Regained by Group 14Sep43. Equipped with H2S
airborne radar, fitted with radome in place of chin turret. Used for radio counter measures.
Transferred to Royal Air Force 21Jan44 as Fortress Mark II, serial SR383. No.214 (Federated
Malay States) Squadron [BU-F], No.100 Group, RAF Sculthorpe, Norfolk 29Jan44. RAF Oulton,
Aylsham, Norfolk 16May44. No.1699 Flight [4Z-X], RAF Oulton, Aylsham, Norfolk 8Dec44.
ed classified category E (write off) 14Jul45. SOC 1Aug45
30813 (MSN 5927) Accepted by USAAF 28Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 31Jul43. Seattle, WA 1Aug43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 2Aug43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 10Aug43. 423rd Bomb Squadron [RD*L],
306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 2Sep43. Named "Queen Jennie"
Failed to return from a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43 (5KIA:5POW).
En route to the target area, the bomber formation was repeatedly attacked by a large number of Luftwaffe
fighters. After the target, the Group turned and headed westward for England. German fighters, having
landed and refueled, attacked again until, finally, the bombers reached the coastline of western Europe
and relative safety. . Attacked by enemy fighters and shot down by Oblt Rudolf Engleder in
Fw 190A-6 of JG 1/1 and broke in two. Several crew bailed out before the plane crashed near
Dorne, fifteen miles northeast of Hasselt, Belgium. MACR 820
30814 (MSN 5928) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30Jul43.
Dyersburg Field, TN 8Aug43. 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 7Sep43.
366th Bomb Squadron [KY*F], 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 21Sep43
Named "Round Tripper". Failed to return from a mission to the ball bearing factories at
Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43 (8POW:2KIA). En route to the target area, the bomber formation
was repeatedly attacked by a large number of Luftwaffe fighters. After the target, the Group turned
and headed westward for England. German fighters, having landed and refueled, attacked again.
Damaged by enemy aircraft and flak, and shot down by Obfw.
Willi Roth in Fw 190A-6 of JG 26/5 and crashed Adendorf, near Meckenheim,
ten miles southwest of Bonn, Germany. MACR 919
30815 (MSN 5929) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 4Aug43.
498th Bomb Group, Kansas City, MO 3Jun43. 677th Bomb Squadron, 444th Bomb Group, Great
Bend Field, KS. Mid-air collision at Great Bend 22Oct43.�243rd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit),
Great Bend Field, KS 12Jun44. 554th Base Unit, 4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal
Airport, TN 19Aug44. 243rd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Great Bend Field, KS 29Jun44.
2519th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Fort Worth Field, TX 11Sep44.
19th Bomb Group, Great Bend Field, KS 12Sep44. 243rd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit),
Great Bend Field, KS 13Oct44. 241st Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Fairmont Field,
Geneva, NB 12Feb45. 243rd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Great Bend Field, KS 18Feb45.
902nd Base Unit (Base Complement), Orlando AAB, FL 16Apr45. 243rd Base Unit (Operational
Training Unit), Great Bend Field, KS 26Apr45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field,
Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 25May45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped
30816 (MSN 5930) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 31Jul43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 9Aug43.
550th Bomb Squadron [SG*J], 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 25Aug43.
Named 'Mary Ellen III'. Failed to return from a mission to the industrial areas of
Emden, Germany 11Dec43 (8POW:2KIA). The Luftwaffe was waiting for the bombers; the moment
the bombers crossed over into mainland Europe, six twin-engine fighter dived out of the sun
upon the formation, concentrating all their fire on the lead plane. Once the leader had been
downed, the fighters swept through the lead Squadron. Before the deputy lead had a chance
to reassemble the formation, a large force of single-engine fighters joined the fray, attacking
the other bombers. Shot down by Obfw. Siegfried Zick in Bf 109G of JG 11/7
Set No.2 engine on fire. Crashed at Warendorp Farm, Torrenga, near Warfhuizen, Netherlands. MACR 1664.
30817 (MSN 5931) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 4Aug43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island
Field, NB 11Aug43. 334th Bomb Squadron [BG*G], 95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119),
Suffolk 15Jun43. Named "Miss Flower III" Failed to return from a mission to
railway installations at M�nster, Germany 10Oct43 (10POW). As they approached the city,
the formation was swarmed by a large force of enemy aircraft for an estimated forty-five
minutes of vicious fighting. By the time their friendly fighter escorts arrived to drive off the
Luftwaffe, the damage had already been done. Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed near
Borghorst, Steinfurt, Germany. {9 missions} MACR 1044.
30818 (MSN 5932) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 4Aug43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 11Aug43.
350th Bomb Squadron [LN*S], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 25Aug43
Named "Salvo Gal" by crew after mission #6 Sep 1, 1943.
Failed to return from a mission to an aircraft factory at Bremen, Germany 8Oct43 (1KIA:8POW:1EVD).
The formation was met with stiff resistance by German fighters and flak crews on the ground
the entire way, from the Dutch coast all the way into the German heartland, and back again.
In addition, a large force of German fighters launched vicious attacks against the planes.
Over the target, the formation encountered intense flak. Flak damaged No.2 engine and the
bomber fell out of formation, later attacked by fighters damaging another engine. Credit for
the shooting down of the bomber was given to Leutnant Franz Ruhl, flying a Messserschmitt
Bf 109G of JG 3/4. With controls shot away, fires and uncontrollable engines, the crew bailed out
before the bomber crashed near Lippenhuizen, IJsselmeer, Netherlands. MACR 952.
30819 (MSN 5933) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 4Aug43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 12Aug43.
551st Bomb Squadron [HR*U], 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 25Aug43.
Named "Shack Bunny/Lule Belle" Salvaged after non battle damage 29May45.
30820 (MSN 5934) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 4Aug43. 234th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Clovis Field, NM 24Jun44.
3701st Base Unit (Technical School), Amarillo Field, TX 23Jul43. 234th Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Clovis Field, NM 29Jul43. 4202nd Base Unit (Rome Air Technical Service
Command), Syracuse AAB, NY 29Apr45. Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK
for storage and disposal 29Oct45.
30821 (MSN 5935) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 31Jul43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island
Field, NB 9Aug43. 407th Bomb Squadron [PY*U/Y], 92nd Bomb Group Aug43. Ferried
Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 2Sep43. 92nd Bomb Group,
Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire Sep43. Crash landed in bad weather at
Marlborough Farm, Gaydon, Warks, while forming up for an abortive raid on
Bremen, Germany 13Nov43 (10KIA). Salvaged 14Nov43
30822 (MSN 5936) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 4Aug43.
Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 16Aug43.
Dalhart Field, TX 17Aug43. 551st Bomb Squadron [HR*R], 385th Bomb Group, Great
Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 8Sep43. Named 'Foolish Virgin/Dorsal Queen'
Failed to return from a mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factory at Regensburg,
Germany 25Feb44 (7KIA:3POW). After crossing the coastline into mainland Europe, the
formation encountered frequent flak and fierce aerial attacks from the Luftwaffe,
causing heavy damage to some of the bombers. The planes arrived at Regensburg
and encountered intense flak over the target area. Damaged by an enemy fighter
[shot down by the B-17 crew], lost control, spun and exploded mid-air over
Regensburg, Germany. MACR 2776
30823 (MSN 5937) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 4Aug43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 5Aug43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field,
Dallas, TX 8Aug43. 350th Bomb Squadron [LN*F], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts
(Station 139), Norfolk 6Sep43., Named "The Gnome/Invadin' Maiden"
Failed to return from a mission to railway installations at M�nster, Germany 10Oct43
(5POW:5KIA). As they approached the city, the formation was swarmed by a large force
of enemy aircraft for an estimated forty-five minutes of vicious fighting. By the time
their friendly fighter escorts arrived to drive off the Luftwaffe, the damage had already
been done. Shot down by Fw 190, damaged engine No.2, wing caught fire, exploded and
crashed Wildermann's Farm, Hohenhalte, six miles west of M�nster. MACR 1025
30824 (MSN 5938) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 4Aug43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 5Aug43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field,
Dallas, TX 8Aug43. Dalhart Field, TX 17Aug43. 327th Bomb Squadron [UX*R], 92nd Bomb
Group, Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 26Sep43. Named "Bobby Joe"
Failed to return from a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43
(5KIA:5POW). En route to the target area, the bomber formation was repeatedly attacked
by a large number of Luftwaffe fighters. Struck by 20mm shell fired from a Bf 109 just
before the target. Went down under control after bombing the target and crashed at
Sickershausen, southeast of Kitzingen, twelve miles southeast of W�rzburg, Germany. MACR 847
30825 (MSN 5939) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 4Aug43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 5Aug43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field,
Dallas, TX 8Aug43. 235th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Biggs Field, El Paso, TX 19Aug43.
19th Bomb Group, Pyote Field, TX 9Nov43. 236th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Pyote Field, TX. Damaged while parked in collision by B-17F 42-5929 at Pyote 2May44.
235th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Biggs Field, El Paso, TX. Damaged by
engine failure at Alamogordo Field, NM 18Oct44. 233rd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training
Station), Davis-Monthan Field, Tucson, AZ 18Mar45. 290th Base Unit, Pueblo AAB, CO
27May43. 224th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Sioux City AAB, IA 12Jun45.
327th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Drew Field, Tampa, FL 7Jul45.
2113th Base Unit, Pilot School, Advanced, Two Engine, Columbus Field, MS 10Sep45.
381st Base Unit, Marianna, FL. Damaged while parked in collision by C-47A 43-31568
at Drew Field, FL 3Oct45. 610th Base Unit (Proving Ground Command), Eglin Field,
Valparaiso, FL 5Dec45. Salvaged Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 29Jan46
30826 (MSN 5940) Accepted by USAAF at Seattle, WA 30Jul43. Union Pacific Railroad dedication
ceremony, Seattle, WA 3Aug43. Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field,
Dallas, TX 4Aug43. 17th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 5Aug43.
5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 8Aug43. Dalhart Field, TX 17Aug43. Operational
Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 3Sep43.
571st Bomb Squadron [FC*R], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 10Sep43
Named "Spirit of Union Pacific Railroad" Named to acknowledge the
contributions of the 65,000 employees of Union Pacific Railroad who had raised an extra $379,000
in War Bond purchases. As a side note about the bomber apparently this was not the plane originally
assigned to be the UP plane. The Army didn't want to wait on the plane for a ceremony so this
was a second plane that was lettered. In the haste to get it painted they omitted the word "employees."
According to Army and Treasury Department instructions on naming bombers, they were supposed to
be named for employees of organizations. They didn't want to delay delivery of this plane so it went
out as shown. This was recorded as the first named heavy bomber recognizing a railroad group.
Renamed SHORT STUFF. Named after the pilot. {first combat mission 4Oct43}. Failed to return from a
mission to railway installations at M�nster, Germany 10Oct43 (8POW:3KIA). As they approached the
city, the formation was swarmed by a large force of enemy aircraft for an estimated forty-five minutes
of vicious fighting. By the time their friendly fighter escorts arrived to drive off the Luftwaffe, the
damage had already been done. Struck by flak, setting No.3 engine on fire. Initially attempting
to control the fire, it became out of control and the crew bailed out. Claimed to have been shot
down by Oberfeldwebel Leo-Lothar Barann flying a Bf 109G-G. Exploded and crashed on
Stadtbaumer Farm near Ostbrevern, five miles northeast of M�nster, Germany. {4 missions) MACR 863.
30827 (MSN 5941) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 4Aug43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 13Aug43.
549th Bomb Squadron [XA*O], 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 25Aug43.
Named "Round Trip Ticket III". The gunners that crewed this aircraft lodged no fewer than 11 fighter
kill claims during the course of 21 combat missions. Designated war weary. 17th Airborne Division.
Salvaged after non battle damage 12Jun45
30828 (MSN 5942) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 4Aug43.
Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated
TB-17F. 241st Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Fairmont Field, Geneva, NB 27Dec44. Force
landed with engine failure at Fairmont Field 14Jun45. Reclaimed 7Jun46
30829 (MSN 5943) Accepted by USAAF 30Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 4Aug43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training
Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 13Aug43. 562nd Bomb Squadron [L], 388th Bomb Group,
Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 5Sep43. . Named "The Princess Pat".
{first combat mission 26Sep43}. Battle damaged on a mission to the port area at Bremen,
Germany 20Dec43 (10RTD). Attacked by a large force of enemy fighters and flak over the target
area was very intense. Failed to return from a mission to the Vereinigte Kugellagerfabriken AG (VKF)
ball bearing factory at Erkner, Berlin, Germany 8Mar44 (2KIA:8POW). Very determined enemy fighter
opposition was met en route to the target during a lapse of the friendly escorts. The primary target
was not able to be bombed as planned, so diverted to a factory complex at Wildau, southeast of Berlin.
Flak was not heavy or effective over the target, but a large force of enemy fighters engaged the bomber
formation as it headed for home. Attacked by enemy fighters near Celle, cannon fire from a Fw 190 caused
the left wing to come off and the plane flipped on its back. Eight of the crew were able to bail out over
Lichtenhorst before the plane crashed near N�pke, nine miles southeast of Nienburg, Germany. {36 missions}
MACR 3081
30830 (MSN 5944) Accepted by USAAF 31Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 4Aug43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 14Aug43. 100th Bomb Group 28Aug43. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik,
Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 31Aug43. 418th Bomb Squadron [LD*U],
100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk Sep43. Named "M'lle Zig Zig".
Failed to return from a mission to railway installations at M�nster, Germany 10Oct43 (10POW:1KIA).
As they approached the city, the formation was swarmed by a large force of enemy aircraft for an
estimated forty-five minutes of vicious fighting. By the time their friendly fighter escorts arrived
to drive off the Luftwaffe, the damage had already been done. Before the Initial Point a cannon s
hell from a German fighter killed the waist gunner. Later, a rocket damaged No.1 & No.3 engines
and the bomber dropped out of formation. The remaining crew [which also included the
Squadron C.O.] bailed out and the plane crashed near Stevern, Nottuln, twelve miles west of M�nster..
MACR 1029.
30831 (MSN 5945) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Aug43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 14Aug43.
364th Bomb Squadron [WF*H], 305th Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 15Sep43
Named *Lazy Baby*. Failed to return from a mission to the ball bearing factories at
Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43 (7INT:2POW:1KIA). interned in Switzerland Oct 14, 1943
during mission to Schweinfurt. MACR 913. First damaged by AA and then
and then set on fire by German fighters. 3 crew injured and
another 2 bailed out and became POW. Crashlanded near
Aesch, Switzerland. Another crewman died of injuries next
morning. . Dismantled and salvaged by the Swiss.
42-30832/30931 Boeing B-17F-125-BO Fortress
MSN 5946/6045. Dispositions from B-17 Fortress Master Log, Dave Osborne (FORTLOG)
Production changes: Low temperature-proof hydraulic hoses. Change in gyro flux gate compass mount
30832 (MSN 5946) Accepted by USAAF 31Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 5Aug43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training
Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 14Aug43. Ferried RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Mullaghmore,
County Sligo, Eire 12/13Sep43. 368th Bomb Squadron [BO*J], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh
(Station 111), Bedfordshire 18Sep43. Failed to return from a mission to the port at Bremen,
Germany 26Nov43 (10POW). After the target the plane was seen to leave formation under control
south of Oldenburg. Returning home, the bomber was attacked by enemy fighters and shot
down by Lt. Oppermann in Bf 109G of JG 11/III Stab and crashed
Schwerinsdorf, seventeen miles northeast of Leer, GermanyMACR 1328.
30833 (MSN 5947) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Aug43.
Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 17Aug43. 201st Base Unit, Headquarters, Colorado
Springs, CO 20Jun44. 200th Base Unit, Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 25Aug45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage
and disposal 27Oct45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
30834 (MSN 5948) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Aug43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 15Aug43. 534th Bomb Squadron [GD*E], 381st Bomb Group,
Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 23Sep43. Named *Mickey Finn*. Battle damaged
mission to railway marshalling yards at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 4Feb44. As the planes
passing over the Netherlands en route to Germany, local cross winds carried the bombers
ght into enemy flak. Two engines failed but crew decided to make for home and crash
landed at Ridgewell. Salvaged 7Feb44. {9 missions}
30835 (MSN 5949) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Aug43.
Pyote Field, TX 17Aug43. 435th Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group, Pyote Field, TX 9Nov43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 1Jun44.
9th Bomb Group, Grand Island Field, NB 8Jul44. 232nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Dalhart Field, TX 15Jul44. 6th Bomb Group, Grand Island Field, NB 19Jul43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 5Sep44. 202nd Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Galveston Field, TX 8Oct44. 268th Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 30Mar45. Reconstruction Finance
Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 9Oct45
30836 (MSN 5950) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Aug43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 13Aug43. 551st Bomb Squadron [HR*V], 385th Bomb Group, Great
Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 12Sep43. Named 'Dragon Lady' artwork of a nude riding
a dragon carrying a bomb. Nose art painted by Anne Haywood, American Red Cross Aero Club,
385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield. severely damaged by flak
while attacking V-weapons site in the Pas-de-Calais, France near French Coast Feb 13, 1944,
losing No 4 engine. Two more engines failed soon
afterwards and aircraft ditched in English Channel. MACR 3245.
3 crew died, remaining 7 rescued.
30837 (MSN 5951) Accepted by USAAF 31Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 5Aug43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training
Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 14Aug43. 561st Bomb Squadron [S], 388th Bomb Group,
Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 5Sep43. Named "Ole Bassar". {first combat mission 8Oct43}.
Damaged on a mission to the port area of Bremen, Germany 13Nov43 (11RTD). The pilot aborted
from 27,000ft when the No.4 propeller oversped and could not be feathered. There were terrific
vibrations and oil was running out. While descending, the No.4 engine caught fire at 7,000ft.
The pilot prepared to ditch and sent out an SOS, but the fire went out in further descent. Soon after this,
lightning struck the plane and disabled the radio. Now, with the fire out, the pilot decided to bring the
aircraft back to base and landed safely. Failed to return from a mission to the Luftwaffe air depot at
M�rignac, Bordeaux, France 5Dec43 (8KIA:2POW:1EVD). When the target was found to be completely
obscured, the Group turned to its secondary target, the Luftwaffe airfield at Cognac. Finding this
target also obscured and facing a fuel shortage, the planes began jettisoning their bomb loads.
Meagre flak along the route intensified over target and about a dozen fighters attacked.
Damaged by flak, dropped out of formation north of the target with No.1 propeller feathered and
was shot down by Fw 190 fighters. The pilot ordered the crew to bail out but only three airmen
managed to escape before the bomber crashed near Cognac, France. {11 missions}. MACR 5022 and 7325.
Both MACRs wrongly identify the plane as 43-30637.
30838 (MSN 5952) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Aug43.
Redmond Field, OR 15Aug43. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 21Sep43. 422th Bomb Squadron [JJ*O], 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105),
Northamptonshire 1Oct43. Named "Paper Doll". Experimented in night bombing alongside the RAF and operated night
leaflet and propaganda missions. Accident returning from an aborted night leaflet and propaganda
mission over France 20Jan44. The plane turned back with an overspeeding propeller on No.2 engine
and the No.3 engine was on fire. 858th Bomb Squadron, 492nd Bomb Group, North Pickenham 24Jun44.
Special operations and electronic countermeasure (ECM) missions. Harrington (Station 179), Northamptonshire Aug44
30839 (MSN 5953) Accepted by USAAF 31Jul43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 5Aug43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 13Aug43.
562nd Bomb Squadron, 388th Bomb Group. Named "Strato Express". Departed RCAF Gander, Newfoundland for UK
heading for Prestwick, Scotland 1Sep43. An engine failed over the North Atlantic, the bomber was diverted
from Prestwick by poor visibility and instructed to head for Stornaway, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland.
With fuel exhaustion, the plane crash landed wheels up in a field at Braehead Farm, near Strathaven,
Lanarkshire, Scotland. Condemned salvage no battle damage Sep 1, 1943
30840 ((MSN 5954) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Aug43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 13Aug43.
350th Bomb Squadron [LN*O], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 25Aug43.
Failed to return from a mission to an aircraft factory at Bremen, Germany 8Oct43 (5KIA:5POW).
The formation was met with stiff resistance by German fighters and flak crews on the ground the
entire way, from the Dutch coast all the way into the German heartland. In addition, a large force of
German fighters launched vicious attacks against the planes. Over the target, the formation encountered
intense flak. Severe flak damage, crashed near Oerdinghausen, nine miles west of Hoya, Germany.
MACR 951.
30841 (MSN 5955) Accepted by USAAF 3Aug43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 5Aug43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 15Aug43. Redmond Field, OR 16Aug43.
Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 17Sep43. 423rd Bomb Squadron [RD*R],
306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 19Sep43. Seriously battle damaged during a mission
to an aircraft factory at Bremen, Germany 8Oct43. The formation was met with stiff resistance by German fighters
and flak crews on the ground the entire way, from the Dutch coast all the way into the German heartland,
and back again. In addition, a large force of German fighters launched vicious attacks against the planes.
Over the target, the formation encountered intense flak. 20mm cannon shells struck the left wing and fuel tank,
No.1 engine and propeller. Flak struck the left horizontal stabiliser, left side of rear fuselage and Station 6.
Eighth Air Force Service Command 8Oct43. Regained by Group 17Oct43. Damaged in a mid-air collision
with B-17F 42-30221 during assembly for a squadron formation training flight 27Dec43. Landed safely
in a field without injury to crew members. Salvaged 28Dec43. 42-30221 crashed into English Channel.
30842 (MSN 5956) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 5Aug43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 6Aug43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 10Aug43.
19th Bomb Group, Pyote Field, TX 9Nov43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 15Jun44.
Substantially damaged landing with mechanical failure at Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 21Sep44.
Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F.
271st Base Unit (Staging Wing), 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 9Jan45. 2519th Base Unit
(Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Fort Worth Field, TX 8Jun45. 271st Base Unit (Staging Wing),
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 22Jul45. 485th Base Unit, Kearney Field, NB 29Jul45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 16Nov45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
30843 (MSN 5957) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 6Aug43. 7th Ferrying Group,
Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 7Aug43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 10Aug43. 19th Bomb Group,
Pyote Field, TX 9Nov43. 398th Bomb Squadron, 504th Bomb Group, Fairmont Field, Geneva, NB. Damaged by
fire caused by mechanical failure en route to Pierre Field, SD 17Aug44. 353rd Air Base Detachment,
Pierre Field, SD 20Aug44. 398th Bomb Squadron, 504th Bomb Group, Fairmont Field, Geneva, NB 26Aug44.
241st Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Fairmont Field, Geneva, NB 17Sep44. 249th Base Unit (Special),
Alliance Field, NB 19Oct44. 268th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Peterson Field, Colorado
Springs, CO 1Mar45. 4134th Base Unit (Spokane Air Technical Service Command), Spokane Field, WA 8Jun45.
268th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 12Jun45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 29Dec45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30844 (MSN 5958) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 6Aug434.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 7Aug43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 12Aug43.
435th Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group, Pyote Field, TX 21Aug43. 9th Bomb Group, McCook Field, NB 6Jun44.
245th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), McCook Field, NB 16Sep44. 245th Base Unit (Operational
Training Unit), Brookley Field, Mobile, AL 16Oct44. 245th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit),
McCook Field, NB 9Dec44. 4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field,
Dayton, OH 11Dec44. 237th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Kirtland Field, Albuquerque, NM 3Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 26Nov45
30845 (MSN 5959) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 6Aug43. 7th Ferrying Group,
Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 7Aug43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 10Aug43.
93rd Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group, Pyote Field, TX 21Aug43. Accident taking off at Pyote Field 26Aug43.
4006th Base Unit (Area Command), Miami Air Technical Service Command, Miami, FL 5Aug44.
236th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Pyote Field, TX. Damaged by a tornado while
parked at Pyote Field 26Aug44. 4200th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command),
Chicago Municipal Airport, IL 1Jan45. 236th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Pyote
Field, TX 2Jan45. 4104th Base Unit (Rome Air Technical Service Command), Rome Field, NY 18Jan45.
Salvaged Reclaimed 14Aug45
30846 (MSN 5960) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 6Aug43. 7th Ferrying Group,
Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 7Aug43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 10Aug43. Air Service
Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 20Dec43. 3501st Base Unit (Technical School & Overseas
Replacement Depot), Boca Raton Field, FL 16Jul43. 4006th Base Unit (Area Command), Miami Air
Technical Service Command, Miami, FL 19Aug44. 3501st Base Unit (Technical School & Overseas
Replacement Depot), Boca Raton Field, FL 24Aug44. 3539th Base Unit (Technical School), Langley Field,
Hampton, VA 7Jan45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and
disposal 20Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30847 (MSN 5961) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 7Aug43.
Dalhart Field, TX 17Aug43. 413th Bomb Squadron [MZ*N], 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath
(Station 138), Norfolk 8Sep43. Named "Pegasus". Accident returning from a mission to the industrial area at Brunswick,
Germany 10Feb44. The bomber was badly shot up by fighters and flak. The pilot ordered bail out but
was able to nurse the plane back to England (1KIA:3POW:2WIA:3RTD:1EVD). Failed to return from a
mission to the Vereinigte Kugellagerfabriken AG (VKF) ball bearing factory at Erkner, Berlin,
Germany 8Mar44 (2KIA:8POW). All the way from the Netherlands to Berlin, the bombers were hounded
by Luftwaffe fighters. Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Lutten, four miles northeast of Vechta, Germany
MACR 3423.
30848 (MSN 5962) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 7Aug43.
225th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Rapid City Field, SD 14Aug45. 2517th Base Unit
(Navigation School & Instructor School), Ellington Field, Houston, TX 15May45. 225th Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Rapid City Field, SD 11Jun45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Cal-Aero Field, Ontario, CA for storage and disposal 12Jun45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Sharp & Fellows Contracting Company Jul46; scrapped.
30849 (MSN 5963) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 6Aug43.
Redmond Field, OR 15Aug43. 325th Bomb Squadron [NV*F], 92nd Bomb Group, Podington (Station 109),
Bedfordshire 27Sep43. J Named "Fart Sack". Battle damaged on a Crossbow mission to a German V-weapon site 1May44.
Crash landed at RAF Hawkinge, Kent. Salvaged 20May44.
30850 (MSN 5964) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 7Aug43.
224th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Sioux City AAB, IA 6Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 14Sep45
30851 (MSN 5965) Accepted by USAAF 5Aug43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 7Aug43. Dalhart Field, TX 17Aug43. 560th Bomb Squadron [H], 388th Bomb Group,
Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 8Sep43. Named "Little Boy Blue". {first combat mission 26Sep43}.
Battle damaged on a mission to the port area at Bremen, Germany 20Dec43 (10RTD). Attacked by a large force of
enemy fighters and flak over the target area was very intense. Battle damaged on a mission to the
Messerschmitt factory at Augsburg, Germany 13Apr44 (1WIA:9RTD). Over the target, intense and
accurate flak was experienced. Enemy fighters attacked from the target until the formation reached the
Belgian border; a waist gunner was wounded. Battle damaged on a mission to a railway marshalling
yard at Li�ge, Belgium 25May44. Meagre flak was encountered crossing the French coast in the Le Tr�port
area but very accurate flak at Poix-de-Picardie, France. Accident forming up for a mission to a ball
bearing factory at Schweinfurt, Germany 19Jul44 (8KIA:2RTD). The crew of this B-17 departed
Knettishall to fly a combat mission. The other crew from 96th Bomb Group was flying B-17G 43-37623
and had taken off from Snetterton Heath, Norfolk. The B-17s were assembling over their airfields before
beginning their separate group climb in formation. Aircraft #623 was flying number four position
in the low squadron of the high group. The pilot of #851 held good position as the number 5 position
of the high squadron during the group assembly but during the wing assembly his aircraft was
lagging behind a considerable distance. A No.3 engine supercharger malfunction had upset the
engine settings but, now rectified, the pilot started back to regain position in his group. As the
96th Group approached the 388th Group from the rear at the start of the wing assembly,
aircraft #851 came up from below #623, which was flying second element lead of the low squadron
of the 96th Group. There was a mid-air collision west of Shepherds Grove, Suffolk. Aircraft #851 was
below #623 and the number two engine propeller of #623 struck the fuselage of #851 causing it to
break in half just forward of the waist windows. The forward part of the plane spun into the ground
and exploded at Thurston, east of Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, causing damage to the Black Fox public house,
while the tail section fluttered earthward. One waist-gunner and the tail-gunner were ejected by the
collision but able to parachute safely and returned to base. {70 missions}. Salvaged. The B-17G was
able to jettison its bombs and land safely.
30852 (MSN 5966) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 7Aug43.
4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 10Aug43. Dalhart Field, TX 16Aug43.
535th Bomb Squadron [MS*Y], 381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 24Sep43.
Named *Blowin' Bessie/Hot Toddy*. Failed to return from a mission to the
railway marshalling yards at Gelsenkirchen, Germany 5Nov43 (3POW:7KIA). Damaged by flak
after passing over the target, an object was seen to drop from the No.2 nacelle with oil vapour
coming out and the propeller appeared to be feathered. The squadron formation began to lag
behind the rest of the group. A few minutes later, the bomber dropped out of formation with
the No.1 propeller feathered. It was then attacked by enemy fighters and was shot down by Obfw
Hans Nowack in Fw 190A-6 of JG 2/3. Fatally wounded the pilot and other
crew members. The remaining crew bailed out before the plane crashed in Hollandsch Diep, a wide
river and an estuary of the Rhine and Meuse river by Klundert, Netherlands. {3 missions}. MACR 1399.
Parts recovered Oct 1969, Hollands Diep
30853 (MSN 5967) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 9Aug43.
30th Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group, Pyote Field, TX 9Nov43. Combat Crew Training Squadron,
19th Bomb Group, Pyote Field, TX. Forcelanded engine failure at Pyote 10Mar44. 246th Base Unit
(Operational Training Unit), Pratt Field, KS 4Jun44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 18Jun43. Operational Training Unit, Pratt Field, KS 19Jul44. 232nd Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Dalhart Field, TX 23Aug44. 244th Base Unit (Operational
Training Unit), Harvard Field, NB 4Oct44. 203rd Base Unit (16th Bomber Operational Training Wing),
Jackson AAB, MS 21Jan45. 215th Base Unit, Pueblo AAB, CO 16Sep45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 30Nov45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
30854 (MSN 5968) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 7Aug43.
Dalhart Field, TX 17Aug43. 339th Bomb Squadron [QJ*E], 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath
(Station 138), Norfolk 4Sep43. Named "Black Heart III". Failed to return from a
mission to the port at Bremen, Germany 26Nov43 (10KIA). Shot down by Obfw.
Emil Schmelzinger in Bf 109G of JG 112/9 at Oldenburg,
Germany and crashed into North Sea. MACR 1389.
30855 MSN 5969) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 10Aug43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 3Sep43.
613th Bomb Squadron [IN*N], 401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 3Jan44.
Named. "Ol' Massa". Failed to return from a mission to industrial areas in Berlin,
ny 8May44 (7KIA:3POW). Shot down by flak May 8, 1944. MACR 4586.
Received a direct flak burst just behind the ball turret.
Tail section went one way and frontal section another.
The wreckage crashed at Balkum, near Hesepe, fifteen miles northwest of Osnabr�ck, Germany
30856 (MSN 5970) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 9Aug43.
5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 10Aug43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Aug43. 223rd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Dyersburg Field, TN 6Jun44. 901st Base Unit, Heavy Bombardment, Pinecastle Field, Orlando, FL 10Jun44.
223rd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN 16Jun44. 554th Base Unit,
4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 6Nov44. 223rd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training
Station), Dyersburg Field, TN 16Nov44. 345th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Waycross
Field, GA 1Mar45. 244th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Harvard Field, NB 4Mar45.
223rd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN 10May45. 325th Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Avon Park Field, FL 3Jun45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 22Aug45
30857 (MSN 5971) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 9Aug43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 10Aug43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Aug43. 510th Bomb Squadron [TU*J], 351st Bomb Group,
Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 22Sep43. Crashed at Polebrook 10Dec43.
Named "My Devotion" {31 missions}.
37th Bomb Squadron [4F], 487th Bomb Group, Lavenham (Station 137), Suffolk 16Jul44. Returned to US.
377th Base Unit, Grenier Field, Manchester, NH 17Dec44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 6Aug45.
30858 (MSN 5972) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 9Aug43.
5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 10Aug43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Aug43. Combat Crew Training Squadron, 19th Bomb Group,
Pyote Field, TX 9Nov43. Damaged taxying at Pyote 8Feb44. 4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical
Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 12Jun44. 268th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training
Station), Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 6Sep44. St. Paul Field, Minneapolis, MN 4Dec44.
268th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 8Dec44.
4108th Base Unit (Atlantic Overeas Air Technical Service Command), Newark Field, NJ 10Jul45.
268th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 26Aug45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage
and disposal 27Oct45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
30859 (MSN 5973) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 10Aug43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island
Field, NB 31Aug43. 413th Bomb Squadron [MZ*O], 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton
Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 5Sep43, named "Skylark" (a popular song written in 1942
by Johnny Mercer and Hoagy Carmichael] Failed to return from a mission to the industrial area at
Frankfurt am Main, Germany 29Jan44 (8KIA:2POW). The plane had originally been designated
as the squadron lead but, during preflight inspection, its pilot discovered a mechanical problem
that resulted in a late takeoff. When it finally joined the long bomber stream, it filled a slot
toward the rear of the formation. After completing the bomb run, another B-17, 42-31151, that
had been hit veered off course while the group was under attack by enemy fighters, crashing
into this plane. The tail section broke off at the waist, ejecting a waist gunner who was fortunately
wearing his parachute, The tail gunner was able to bail out but had to delay opening his parachute
as the tail section was following him down at nearly the same rate of speed he was falling.
Somehow the parachute missed the tail section and they landed seconds apart in a small field.
Crashed Gusenburg, fourteen miles southeast of Trier, Eifel, Germany.
FORTLOG has it colliding with a Bf 109
30860 (MSN 5974) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Aug43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 31Aug43.
96th Bomb Group 13Sep43. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 17Sep43. 337th Bomb Squadron [AW*L], 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138),
Norfolk Sep43. Landing accident at Snetterton Heath 4Oct43. Failed to return from a mission to the
submarine construction yard at Vegesack, Bremen, Germany 16Dec43 (5MIA:5KIA). Attacked by German
fighters over Vlieland, West Frisian Islands, the aircraft collided with B-17F 42-3265. Crashed in the
North Sea, 10km west of Texel, Netherlands. MACR 1563.
30861 (MSN 5975) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 9Aug43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 10Aug43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Aug43. 768th Bomb Squadron, 462th Bomb Group, Walker Field,
Victoria, KS.�Accident taking off from Walker Field 13Oct43. 248th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit),
Walker Field, Victoria, KS 11Jun44. 225th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Rapid City
Field, SD 14Aug44. Salvaged 15Aug44. Reclaimed 2Aug46
Parts recovered from crash site in Alaska. Wings at Fairbanks, Alaska and aft fuselage at Auburn, CA
30862 (MSN 5976) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 10Aug43.
248th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Walker Field, Victoria, KS 4Jun44. 4136th Base Unit
(Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 13Jul44. 4100th Base Unit
(Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 11Jan45. Damaged while parked
in collision by C-47A 43-15548 caused by weather at Patterson 13Jan45. 6th Base Unit, Winston
Salem, NC 20May45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage
and disposal 21Feb46. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company,
Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30863 (MSN 5977) Accepted by USAAF 7Aug43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 11Aug43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training
Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 31Aug43. 563rd Bomb Squadron [T], 388th Bomb Group,
Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 6Sep43, Named "My Devotion". Assistant Crew Chief Bill Farnesi
was the youngest member of his ground crew and so he was allowed to name their plane. 'My Devotion'
was a Glenn Miller song that he liked. Farnesi painted the lettering on the plane.
{first combat mission 2Oct43}. Battle damaged on a mission to a railway marshalling yard at
Gelsenkirchen, Germany 5Nov43 (10RTD). Flak damaged two engines, on return the crew bailed
out over Suffolk. The aircraft crashed at College Farm, Elmham St Cross, Suffolk. {4 missions}. Salvaged
Crew OK.
30864 (MSN 5978) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Aug43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 13Aug43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Aug43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 31Aug43. Ferried from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to
Nutts Corner (Station 235), Belfast, Northern Ireland 13/14Sep43. 535th Bomb Squadron [MS*T],
381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 19Sep43. Failed to return from a mission
to the Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau Aktiengesellschaft (Deschimag) shipyard at Bremen,
Germany 8Oct43 (1KIA:9POW). The formation was met with stiff resistance by German fighters
and flak crews on the ground the entire way, from the Dutch coast all the way into the German
heartland. In addition, a large force of German fighters launched vicious attacks against the planes.
Over the target, the formation encountered intense flak. Flak damaged engine No.2, crashed Haupstedt,
Germany. {2 missions}.
30865 (MSN 5979) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Aug43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 31Aug43.
358th Bomb Squadron [VK*G], 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 18Oct43.
Failed to return from a mission to the AGO-Flugzeugwerke Fw 190 manufacturing factory at
Oschersleben, Germany 11Jan44 (6KIA:4POW). While the aircraft were airborne, the weather
closed in over English bases and a recall signal was issued. B/Gen. Robert F. Travis, Air
Commander of the 1st Bomb Division, continued on to the target. This left the 1st Bomb Division
with greater exposure to enemy fighter attacks. Good fighter support was provided by
P-47 Thunderbolts on the penetration and by P-51 Mustangs over the target. P-47s were airborne
to provide withdrawal support but they obeyed the recall order to return to England and left the
bombers to fend for themselves on the return trip. It proved to be the most disastrous of the 303rd
Bomb Group combat missions flown to date. The 303rd lost eleven of the forty B-17s flying the mission.
Luftwaffe attacks started over the IJsselmeer and intensified when the American fighters returned home.
Meagre and fairly accurate flak was experienced on the bomb run, with intermittent inaccurate flak
on the return trip. Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Herzberg, Sudharz, near Oschersleben,
Germany. {9 missions}. MACR 1927
30866 (MSN 5980) Accepted by USAAF 7Aug43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 10Aug43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 24Oct43. 401st Bomb Group,
Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 30Oct43. 563rd Bomb Squadron [T],
388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk. 508th Bomb Squadron [YB*S], 351st Bomb
Group, Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 21Nov43. Named "Yankee Belle/Pistol Packin' Mama"
Artwork inspired by the Vargas' "Pistol Packin' Mama" Esquire centrefold of March 1944.
Failed to return from a mission to airfields in northern Germany 21Feb44 (5KIA:5RTD). Poor weather
conditions over the primary target forced the formation to hit an alternate target, a Luftwaffe airfield
at Achmer, Bramsche, Germany. Enemy aircraft damaged two engines and ditched in the North Sea,
twenty miles east of Lowestoft, Suffolk; five crew saved by Air-Sea Rescue. {5 missions}. MACR 6063
30867 (MSN 5981) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Aug43.
510th Bomb Squadron [TU*N], 351st Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 27Sep43.
Failed to return from a mission to the Arado Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory, Anklam, Prussia 9Oct43 (3KIA:7POW).
The formation was attacked by a large force of Luftwaffe fighters soon after it crossed the coast.
They followed all the way in, attacking on the bomb run and over the target. Shot down by Maj. Vorster in Me 410A of
ZG 1/II Stab and crashed at Hooge Island, southwest of Sylt, Germany . MACR 1035.
30868 (MSN 5982) Accepted by USAAF 9Aug43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 11Aug43. 909th Specialized Pilot Training Squadron, Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH.
Damaged when nosed over landing at Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 31Dec43. 2114th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 27Oct44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 14Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway
Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
30869 (MSN 5983) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Aug43.
93rd Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group, Pyote Field, TX 1Oct43. 236th Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Pyote Field, TX 10Sep44. 4202nd Base Unit (Rome Air Technical Service Command),
Syracuse AAB, NY 26Mar45. Reclaimed 3Jan46
30870 (MSN 5984) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Aug43.
44th Bomb Squadron, 40th Bomb Group Pratt Field, KS 27Aug43. Crash landed at Pratt Field 22Feb44. Salvaged 29Feb44
30871 (MSN 5985) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Aug43.
Buckingham Field, Fort Myers, FL 24Nov43. 231st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Alamogordo Field, NM 2Aug44. 202nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Galveston
Field, TX 7Dec44. 268th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Peterson Field, Colorado
Springs, CO 30Mar45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage
and disposal 14Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company,
Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30872 MSN 5986) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Aug43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 31Aug43.
337th Bomb Squadron [AW*R], 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 9Sep43
Named "Blond Bomber/Ole Puss". . Failed to return from a mission to the
submarine construction yard at Vegesack, Bremen, Germany 16Dec43 (10MIA). Enemy fighters
shot an engine off B-17G 42-31113 which fell onto the wing of this B-17 below. The aircraft
collided and locked wings, crashing in the North Sea, west of Terschelling, West Frisian Islands,
Netherlands MACR 1565.
30873 (MSN 5987) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Aug43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 10Jun44.
6th Bomb Group, Grand Island Field, NB 8Jul44. 242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit),
Grand Island Field, NB 16Sep44. 221st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA 24Oct44.
329th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA 1Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 9Oct45
30874 (MSN 5988) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Aug43.
435th Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group, Pyote Field, TX 9Nov43. 201st Base Unit, Headquarters,
Colorado Springs, CO 20Jun44. 260th Base Unit, Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 28Jul44.
4121st Base Unit (San Antonio Air Technical Service Command), Kelly Field, San Antonio, TX 2Feb45.
201st Base Unit, Headquarters, Colorado Springs, CO 24Feb45. 260th Base Unit, Peterson Field,
Colorado Springs, CO 17Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 3Dec45
30875 (MSN 5989) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Aug43.
40th Bomb Group Pratt Field, KS 27Aug43. 556th Base Unit, 6th Ferrying Group, Long Beach
Field, CA 19Jun44. 497th Bomb Group, Pratt Field, KS 26Jun44. 246th Base Unit (Operational
Training Unit), Pratt Field, KS 7Jul44. 232nd Base Unit, Brownsville 24Aug44. 232nd Base
Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dalhart Field, TX 1Sep44. 244th Base Unit (Operational
Training Unit), Harvard Field, NB 17Sep44. 249th Base Unit (Special), Alliance Field, NB 16Dec44.
244th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Harvard Field, NB 28Dec44
30876 (MSN 5990) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 25Aug43. Air Service
Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 18Nov43. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized,
Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 30Jul44. Damaged landing at Hendricks 20Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 27Sep45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
30877 (MSN 5991) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Aug43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 13Aug43. Fort Myers, FL 29Sep43. 2135th Base Unit
(Flexible Gunnery School), Tyndall Field, Panama City, FL 15Sep44. Modified for training, stripped
of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F. 3017th Base Unit
(Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 27Sep44. Damaged taxying at Hobbs
Field 22May45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 18Sep45.)
30878 (MSN 5992) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Aug43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 13Aug43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Aug43. 45th Bomb Squadron, 40th Bomb Group, Pratt Field, KS.
Destroyed when ground looped taking off at Pratt Field 19Sep43. Salvaged 21Sep43
30879 (MSN 5993) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Aug43.
600th Bomb Squadron, 398th Bomb Group, Rapid City Field, SD. Damaged when nosed over
taxying at Rapid City 19Nov43. 460th Base Unit, Rapid City Field, SD 10Oct44. 225th Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Rapid City Field, SD 6Nov44. 354th Base Unit, Rapid City
Field, SD 20Jul44. 4142nd Base Unit (Accelerated Service Test, Air Technical Service Command),
Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 1Nov44. 4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command),
Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 20Jan45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41,
Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 1Mar46. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich
Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
30880 (MSN 5994) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Aug43.
40th Bomb Group Pratt Field, KS 27Aug43. 3007th Base Unit, Kirtland Field, Albuquerque, NM 23Jul44.
497th Bomb Group, Pratt Field, KS 26Jul43. 29th Bomb Group, Dalhart Field, TX 2Sep44. 29th Bomb
Group, Pratt Field, KS 9Sep44. 246th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Pratt Field, KS 15Sep44.
4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 20Apr45.
2114th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 24Apr45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 14Dec45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30881 (MSN 5995) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Aug43.
19th Bomb Group, Pyote Field, TX 27Aug43. 505th Bomb Group, Harvard Field, NB 2Jun44.
441st Base Unit, Glendale, CA 31Jul44. 244th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit),
Harvard Field, NB 6Aug44. 232nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dalhart Field, TX 21Aug44.
241st Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Fairmont Field, Geneva, NB 28Sep44. 2512th Base Unit,
Childress, TX 7Dec44. Reclaimed 7Jun46
30882 (MSN 5996) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Aug43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 15Aug43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 17Aug43. Pyote Field, TX 27Aug43. 19th Bomb Group,
Pyote Field, TX 9Nov43. 236th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Pyote Field, TX.
Damaged by a tornado while parked at Pyote Field 26Aug44. 581st Base Unit, Air Transport
Command, Adams Field, Little Rock, AR Field, Little Rock, AR 23Oct44. 236th Base Unit (Combat
Crew Training Station), Pyote Field, TX 4Jan45. 223rd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Dyersburg Field, TN 1Mar45. 330th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN 9Apr45.
325th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Avon Park Field, FL 15May45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 9Oct45
30883 (MSN 5997) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 13Aug43.
444th Bomb Group, Great Bend Field, KS 27Aug43. 234th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Clovis Field, NM 24Jun44. Damaged in collision with parked B-17F 42-5708 while taxying at Clovis
Field 30Jun44. 807th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station-Troop Carrier), I Troop Carrier
Command, Bergstrom Field, Austin, TX 21Oct44. 3704th Base Unit (Technical School), Keesler
Field, Biloxi, MS 7Jan45. Reclaimed 3Aug45.
30884 (MSN 5998) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 13Aug43. 444th Bomb Group,
Great Bend Field, KS 27Aug43. 243rd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Great Bend Field, KS 24Jun44.
232nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dalhart Field, TX 16Jul44. 246th Base Unit
(Operational Training Unit), Pratt Field, KS 9Dec44. 2132nd Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized,
Very Heavy), Maxwell Field, Montgomery, AL 15Mar45. Modified for training, stripped of armor,
armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F. 246th Base Unit (Operational
Training Unit), Pratt Field, KS 21Mar45. Damaged in collision with parked TB-17F 42-5819 at
Chicago Municipal Airport, IL 22Aug45. 237th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Kirtland Field,
Albuquerque, NM 22Oct45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41,
Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 6Nov45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
30885 (MSN 5999) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 13Aug43. 7th Ferrying
Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 14Aug43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 17Aug43.
225th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Rapid City Field, SD 29Apr45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Cal-Aero Field, Ontario, CA for storage and disposal 12Jun45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Sharp & Fellows Contracting Company Jul46; scrapped.
30886 (MSN 6000) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Aug43.
28th Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group, Pyote Field, TX 9Nov43. 234th Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Clovis Field, NM 24Jun44. 4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command),
Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 13Jan45. 225th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Rapid City
Field, SD 29Mar45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Cal-Aero Field, Ontario, CA for storage
and disposal 13Jun45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Sharp & Fellows Contracting Company Jul46; scrapped
30887 (MSN 6001) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Aug43.
498th Bomb Group, Great Bend Field, KS 4Aug44. 19th Bomb Group, Dalhart Field, TX 1Sep44.
243rd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Great Bend Field, KS 10Sep44. 19th Bomb Group, Great
Bend Field, KS 12Sep44. Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing
equipment; designated TB-17F. 271st Base Unit (Staging Wing), 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 5Mar45. 2158th Base Unit, Pueblo AAB, CO 20Jun45. Combat Crew Training Squadron,
214th Base Unit, Pueblo AAB, CO. Crash landed with engine failure after some of the crew bailed
out ten miles east of Romero, TX 17Jul45. 232nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Dalhart Field, TX. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman
Field, AZ for storage and disposal 19Nov45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich
Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped.
30888 (MSN 6002) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Aug43.
146th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Selfridge Field, Mount Clemens, MI 4Aug44.
2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 20Aug44.
Damaged taxying at Hendricks 24Mar45. Damaged taxying at Hendricks 4Jul45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 18Dec45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30889 (MSN 6003) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Aug43.
346th Bomb Group, Dyersburg Field, TN. After fuel exhaustion, the crew bailed out, aircraft crashed
at Jonesboro, AR 21Dec43. Salvaged 23Dec43
30890 (MSN 6004) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Aug43.
Pyote Field, TX 27Aug43. 435th Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group, Pyote Field, TX 9Nov43.
222nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Ardmore Field, OK 22Jan45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Cal-Aero Field, Ontario, CA for storage and disposal 20Jun45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Sharp & Fellows Contracting Company Jul46; scrapped
30891 (MSN 6005) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Aug43.
603rd Bomb Squadron, 398th Bomb Group, Rapid City Field, SD. Damaged taxying at Rapid City
2Feb44. 225th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Rapid City Field, SD. Crashed on
the SE slope of Crown Point, on a rock slope facing north on a knoll just east of the Flowers
Trail, 28 miles west of Laporte, CO 13Jun44 (4KIS). The crew took off from Rapid City Army Air
Base on a navigation training flight to Greeley, Colorado, Akron, Colorado and return to
Rapid City. They proceeded to Scottsbluff, Nebraska. Upon leaving Scotts Bluff the navigator
evidently became lost due to the pilot taking a wrong compass heading. The navigator
had told the pilot to take a course of 197 degrees. However, the point of the crash was
at a course of approximately 227 degrees from Scotts Bluff. They then proceeded at an altitude
of approximately 9,600 feet. It is evident that the pilot had not checked the course flown by the
navigator. His first realization came when he noticed he was over mountainous terrain and
he asked for his maps. At this time he was well in the high range country and had pulled up
to about 10,200 feet. The pilot started to check his course when they suddenly came upon
the ridge immediately east of Crown Point. This ridge exceeds 11,500 feet. A last minute
attempt to pull up failed. The airplane crashed and caught fire immediately. The wreck was
demolished by the Army with dynamite six weeks after the crash.
30892 (MSN 6006) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 14Aug43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 16Aug43. 346th Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN. Damaged while parked in collision by B-17F 42-30672
at Dyersburg 19Feb44. 330th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN 1Mar45.
327th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Drew Field, Tampa, FL 14May45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 9Oct45
30893 (MSN 6007) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 14Aug43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 16Aug43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field,
Dallas, TX 17Aug43. 221st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA 17Jan45.
329th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA 1Mar45. Crashed nine
miles WSW of Winnfield, CA 3Mar45 (11KIS). The bomber departed Alexandria Field on an
instrument training mission to the Gum Springs Bombing Range near Winnfield. On board the
heavy bomber was a crew of eleven men; the normal crew for a B-17 was ten men but on this
mission a Technical Sergeant was on board giving the crew and radio operator up to date
training on the radio systems. The bomber took off late in the day and turned toward Winnfield.
The skies began to darken as a weather front slowly came through the area. When the bomber
arrived over the target area, right at dusk, it flew right into the path of a cold front. The cold front
brought forth severe thunderstorms that greatly hampered the visibility of the pilot and crew,
with the base weather section advising of less than two miles of visibility and closing. As the
weather turned even more for the worse, the base weather section advised the control tower at
Alexandria Field to advise all planes flying at this time to land well in advance before the
conditions at the airfield worsened. But due to these severe weather conditions this B-17
experienced radio receiving and transmitting problems. Only scratchy bits and pieces of
information were received at the base. As the weather got worse the B-17 turned due west as
the crew tried to outrun and fly under the weather front. The B-17 dropped down in an attempt
to get under the weather front so it could make a turn east/southeast to get back to its home
base and flew low over two houses in the Gum Springs Community. The bomber struck a
sixty-five foot tall pine tree, shearing off the left wing, causing the plane to crash into the ground.
The location of the site was determined to be nine miles west/southwest of Winnfield at the
Gum Springs Community. The Base Operations Officer led a convoy of men and equipment
from Alexandria Field to the location in the National Forest. When arriving it was found that
there was not an actual road into the site area. Army Engineers began building a quick road
into the area; this road is in the National Forest and is named 'Plane Road'. Salvaged 10Mar45.
30894 (MSN 6008) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 14Aug43. 444th Bomb Group,
Great Bend Field, KS 27Aug43. 873rd Bomb Squadron, 498th Bomb Group, Great Bend Field, KS.
Damaged landing with mechanical failure at Great Bend Field 15Apr44. 243rd Base Unit
(Operational Training Unit), Great Bend Field, KS 19Sep44. 902nd Base Unit (Base Complement),
Orlando AAB, FL 2Apr45. 243rd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Great Bend Field, KS 18Apr45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 20Jun45
30895 (MSN 6009) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 14Aug43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 16Aug43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field,
Dallas, TX 17Aug43. 330th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN 1Mar45.
325th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Avon Park Field, FL 3Jun45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 25Sep45
30896 (MSN 6010) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 14Aug43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 17Aug43. 799th Bomb Squadron, 469th Bomb Group,
Alexandria Field, LA. Crash landed Alexandria Field, LA 11Oct43. Salvaged 15Oct43
30897 (MSN 6011) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 23Aug43.
2100th Base Unit (HQ, Eastern Flying Training Command), Maxwell Field, Montgomery, AL 3Jun44.
353rd Air Base Detachment, Pierre Field, SD 31Oct43. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 20Mar45. 2100th Base Unit
(HQ, Eastern Flying Training Command), Maxwell Field, Montgomery, AL 14Jul47. Crashed
McKenzie, TN, 8Sep45 (8KIA), fell from high altitude, crashed and burned.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 10Jan46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30898 (MSN 6012) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 14Aug43. 7th Ferrying Group,
Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 16Aug43. 202nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Galveston Field, TX 20Jul44. 7Jan45. 1108th Base Unit, Mitchel Field, Hempstead,
Long Island, NY 26Jan45. 202nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Galveston Field, TX.
Damaged taxying at Galveston 7Jan45. 268th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 30Mar45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 9Oct45
30899 (MSN 6013) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 16Aug43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 17Aug43. 9th Bomb Group, McCook
Field, NB 6Jun44. 245th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), McCook Field, NB 16Sep44.
249th Base Unit (Special), Alliance Field, NB 16Oct44. 235th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training
Station), Biggs Field, El Paso, TX 28Dec44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 29Oct45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
30900 (MSN 6014) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 16Aug43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 17Aug43. 221st Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA 1Aug44. 329th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Alexandria Field, LA. Damaged while parked in collision by B-17F 42-30975 taxying at
Alexandria 1Mar45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 9Oct45
30901 (MSN 6015) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 16Aug43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 17Aug43. 498th Bomb Group, Great Bend
Field, KS 8Aug44. 232nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dalhart Field, TX 27Aug44.
241st Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Fairmont Field, Geneva, NB 13Sep44. 1103rd Base
Unit (Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command), Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 12Jan45.
241st Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Fairmont Field, Geneva, NB 19Jan45. 902nd Base
Unit (Base Complement), Orlando AAB, FL 6Jul45. 241st Base Unit (Operational Training Unit),
Fairmont Field, Geneva, NB 13Jul45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR
for storage and disposal 12Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment
Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30902 (MSN 6016) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 16Aug43. 7th Ferrying
Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 17Aug43. 4119th Base Unit (Mobile Air Technical Service
Command), Brookley Field, Mobile, AL 18Sep44. 2135th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School),
Tyndall Field, Panama City, FL 26Sep44. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine),
Hobbs Field, NM 29Sep44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 18Sep45
30903 (MSN 6017) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 16Aug43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 17Aug43. 223rd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training
Station), Dyersburg Field, TN 1Sep43. Damaged with engine failure at Evansville Municipal
Airport, IN 27Dec44. 805th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station-Troop Carrier),
61st Troop Carrier Wing, George Field, Lawrenceville, IL 4Jan45. Reclaimed 27Nov45
30904 (MSN 6018) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19Aug43.
Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 14Dec43. 2117th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery
School), Buckingham Field, Fort Myers, FL 10Aug43. 2114th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized,
Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 2Sep44. 4112th Base Unit (Middletown Air Technical
Service Command), Middletown Air Depot, PA 14Dec44. ADGP, Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH.
Crash landed with engine failure 2 miles southwest of Obetz Junction, OH 11May45. 2114th Base
Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 24Aug45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 14Dec45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30905 (MSN 6019) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 16Aug43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 17Aug43. 466th Bomb Squadron, 333rd Bomb Group,
Dalhart Field, TX. Crashed eight miles SSW of Dalhart 21Sep43 (6KIS). Salvaged 23Sep43]
30906 (MSN 6020) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19Aug43.
2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 5Jul44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 13Dec45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30907 (MSN 6021) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19Aug43.
Pilot School (Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 2Oct44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 4Oct45.
30908 (MSN 6022) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19Aug43.
2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 4Oct44.
To Reconstuction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 18Dec45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30909 (MSN 6023) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19Aug43.
Operational Training Unit, Pratt Field, KS 3Jul44. Headquarters, Station 11, Carribean Wing,
Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 29Jul44. 246th Base Unit
(Operational Training Unit), Pratt Field, KS 19Sep44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 28Oct45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
30910 (MSN 6024) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19Aug43.
314th Twin-Engined Flying Training Group, Roswell Field, NM. Damaged in collision with B-17F, 42-3311
at Orange County Airport, Santa Ana, CA 14Oct43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH),
Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs
Field, NM 28Apr45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 11Sep45
30911 (MSN 6025) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19Aug43.
Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 13Dec43. 3501st Base Unit (Technical
School & Overseas Replacement Depot), Boca Raton Field, FL 14Jul44. 3502nd Base Unit (Technical School),
Chanute Field, Rantoul, IL 23Apr45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR
for storage and disposal 7Jan46. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment
Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30912 (MSN 6026) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19Aug43. Air
Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 20Dec43. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized,
Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 3Aug44. Force landed with mechanical failure at Hendricks
Field 29Mar45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and
disposal 18Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30913 (MSN 6027) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 19Aug43. 2117th Base Unit
(Flexible Gunnery School), Buckingham Field, Fort Myers, FL 3Jul44. 3501st Base Unit
(Technical School & Overseas Replacement Depot), Boca Raton Field, FL 14Jul44. 3539th Base
Unit (Technical School), Langley Field, Hampton, VA 4Jan45. Reclaimed 5Jul45
30914 (MSN 6028) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 19Aug43. Combat Crew
Training Squadron, 469th Bomb Group, Alexandria Field, LA. Damaged taxying at Alexandria 13Mar44.
497th Bomb Group, Pratt Field, KS 11Aug44. 225th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Rapid City Field, SD 12Aug44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Cal-Aero Field, Ontario, CA
for storage and disposal 19Jun45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Sharp & Fellows Contracting
Company Jul46; scrapped
30915 (MSN 6029) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 19Aug43. Damaged
taxying at Drew Field, Tampa, FL 12Sep44. 327th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Drew Field, Tampa, FL 14Sep44. 325th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Avon Park
Field, FL 21Sep44. Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage
and disposal 4Sep45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company,
Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30916 (MSN 6030) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 19Aug43. 1123rd
Flexible Gunnery Training Squadron, Kingman Field, AZ 10Sep43. Crash landed Yucca Field, AZ 13Oct43.
SOC 13Oct43.
30917 (MSN 6031) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 19Aug43. Air Service
Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 27Dec43. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized,
Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 31Oct44. Damaged landing at Hendricks 14May45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 14Dec45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30918 (MSN 6032) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19Aug43.
Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 20Dec43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 1Oct44. 2135th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School),
Tyndall Field, Panama City, FL 2Oct44. 3010th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine),
Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 12Dec44. 3020th Base Unit (Pilot School, Advanced, Two Engine),
La Junta Field, CO 19Apr45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 1Aug45
30919 (MSN 6033) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19Aug43.
Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 6Dec43. 3501st Base Unit (Technical
School & Overseas Replacement Depot), Boca Raton Field, FL 14Jul44. Modified for training,
stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F. 3704th Base
Unit (Technical School), Keesler Field, Biloxi, MS 2Apr45. 3501st Base Unit (Technical
School & Overseas Replacement Depot), Boca Raton Field, FL 20May45. Damaged in collision
with TB-26C 41-35296 on the ground at Boca Raton 28Aug45. Reclaimed 29Jan46
30920 (MSN 6034) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19Aug43.
Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 13Dec43. 716th Flexible Gunnery Training
Squadron, Buckingham Field, Fort Myers, FL. Destroyed in collision with parked B-17F 42-6074,
AT-6A 41-16085 and AT-6A 41-16926 at Buckingham 20Dec43. Salvaged 29Dec43
30921 (MSN 6035) Wright Field, Dayton, OH 19Aug43. Tonopah, NV 9Jun44. 4127th Base Unit (Sacramento
Air Technical Service Command), McClellan Field, Sacramento, CA 28Jul44. Tonopah, NV 16Aug44.
4127th Base Unit (Sacramento Air Technical Service Command), McClellan Field, Sacramento, CA 6Oct44.
216th Base Unit, Wendover Field, UT 7Nov44. Damaged by mechanical failure north of Wendover 18Nov44.
4135th Base Unit (Ogden Air Technical Service Command), Hill Field, Ogden, UT 2Apr45. 216th Base Unit,
Wendover Field, UT 20Apr45. 554th Base Unit, 4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 7May45.
4145th Base Unit, Wendover Field, UT 30Apr46. 594th Base Unit, St. Paul Field, Minneapolis, MN 31May46.
554th Base Unit, 4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 31May46.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation 31May46. Was on display 1946-50 at
Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, parked at Stanton Airfield.
Lloyd A�reo Boliviano [LAB], La Paz, Bolivia. Registered 1950 as CP-71. Reregistered CP-571. Aerov�as Moxos,
Bolivia. Destroyed at Viacha, El Alto, Bolivia 16Jan62.
30922 (MSN 6036) Newark, NJ 20Aug43. 4000th Base Unit, Air Materiel Command, Wright Field, Dayton, OH
2Jun44. 4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 14Jan45.
4000th Base Unit, Air Materiel Command, Wright Field, Dayton, OH 7Mar45. 611th Base Unit,
Proving Ground Command, Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 25Apr45. 609th Base Unit, Eglin Field,
Valparaiso, FL 17Apr47. 611th Base Unit, Proving Ground Command, Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 17Jul47.
4000th Base Unit, Air Materiel Command, Wright Field, Dayton, OH 15May47. Reclaimed 25Nov49.
30923 (MSN 6037) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19Aug43.
1123rd Flexible Gunnery Training Squadron, Kingman Field, AZ. Damaged in collision with parked
Lockheed B-37 Ventura II AJ432 at Kingman 8Sep43. Tyndall Field, Panama City, FL 20Mar44.
231st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Alamogordo Field, NM 2Aug44. 450th Base Unit, Hammer Field,
Fresno, CA 2Nov44. 4127th Base Unit (Sacramento Air Technical Service Command), McClellan Field,
Sacramento, CA 22Jan45. Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ
for storage and disposal 17Nov45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting
Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped.
30924 (MSN 6038) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Aug43.
117th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Buckingham Field, Fort Myers, FL 3Jul44.
3501st Base Unit (Technical School & Overseas Replacement Depot), Boca Raton Field, FL 16Jul44.
3505th Base Unit (Technical School), Scott Field, Belleville, IL 20Jan45. 3539th Base Unit
(Technical School), Langley Field, Hampton, VA 28Dec45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 3Jan46. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
30925 (MSN 6039) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Aug43.
2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 3Aug44.
4108th Base Unit (Atlantic Overeas Air Technical Service Command), Newark Field, NJ 14May45.
2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 18May45.
237th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Kirtland Field, Albuquerque, NM 8Aug45.
2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 13Aug45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 18Dec45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30926 (MSN 6040) Wright Field, Dayton, OH 23Aug43. Materiel Command, Wright Field, Dayton, OH 2Jun44. ARL,
Dover Field, DE 1Oct44. 237th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Kirtland Field,
Albuquerque, NM 27Nov44. ARL, Dover Field, DE 17Jan45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 28Mar46. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
30927 (MSN 6041) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Aug43.
2117th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Buckingham Field, Fort Myers, FL 18Jun43.
Pilot School (Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 7Oct44. 244th Base Unit (Operational
Training Unit), Harvard Field, NB 8Dec44. Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament,
turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized,
Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 11Dec44. Landing accident at Hobbs Auxiliary Field #4, Oscar, NM 28Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 29Aug45
30928 (MSN 6042) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Aug43.
30th Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group, Pyote Field, TX 16Sep43. 242nd Base Unit (Operational
Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB 27Jul44. Damaged in collision with parked B-17G 43-37578
while taxying at Biggs, TX 1Oct44. 268th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Peterson Field,
Colorado Springs, CO 2May45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41,
Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 27Oct45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped.
30929 (MSN 6043) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Aug43.
3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 1Oct44. 3010th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 21Nov44. 3020th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Advanced, Two Engine), La Junta Field, CO 23Apr45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 1Aug45.
30930 (MSN 6044) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Aug43.
1123rd Flexible Gunnery Training Squadron, Kingman Field, AZ. Gunnery accident on the range at
Yucca Field, AZ 27Dec43 (1KIS). 2517th Base Unit (Navigation School & Instructor School), Ellington
Field, Houston, TX 2Oct44. 2135th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Tyndall Field, Panama
City, FL 10Oct44. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 23Dec44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 14Dec45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30931 (MSN 6045) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 23Aug43. Air Service
Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 22Dec43. Pilot School (Specialized, Four Engine),
Hobbs Field, NM 2Oct44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 30Aug45
42-30932/31031 Boeing B-17F-130-BO Fortress
MSN 6046/6145. Dispositions from B-17 Fortress Master Log, Dave Osborne (FORTLOG)
Production changes: Reinforcement of lower nose for chin turret. Provision for change in bomb release equipment.
30932 (MSN 6046) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 23Aug43. Specialized Pilot
Training Squadron, Specialized Pilot Training Group, Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH. Destroyed in
an explosion on ground at Lockbourne AAB 6Dec43 (4KIS). Salvaged 28Dec43.
30933 (MSN 6047) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 23Aug43.
Combat Crew Training Squadron, 393rd Bomb Group, Sioux City AAB, IA. Engine failure, crew bailed out,
crashed three miles northwest of Emerson, NB 8Feb44. Salvaged 9Feb44.
30934 MSN 6048) Boeing Aircraft Co, Boeing Field, Seattle, WA. Damaged landing at Seattle, WA 19Aug43.
Materiel Command, Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 2Jun44. 2nd Squadron, 222nd Base Unit (Combat
Crew Training Station), Ardmore Field, OK. Damaged 8Jan45 when a ball turret door fell off
B-17G 42-31962 and struck the left horizontal stabiliser, the impact tore a large hole and damaged
the leading edge of the stabiliser. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Seattle, WA 14Nov45. San Francisco, CA Mar46
30935 (MSN 6049) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 23Aug43.
Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 14Dec43. 715th Flexible Gunnery
Training Squadron, Buckingham Field, Fort Myers, FL. Personnel accident south of Big Marcos
Pass, FL 28Mar44. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field,
Sebring, FL 30Jul44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for
storage and disposal 14Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment
Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30936 (MSN 6050) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Aug43.
450th Specialized Pilot Training Squadron, Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL. Accident landing at Punta
Gorda Field, FL 6Oct43. Damaged in collision with B-17E 41-2651 while taxying at Hendricks Field 1Nov43.
2126th Base Unit (Central School for Flexible Gunnery), Laredo Field, TX 3Sep44. 3018th Base Unit
(Flexible Gunnery School), Kingman Field, AZ 9Oct44. 2126th Base Unit (Central School for Flexible
Gunnery), Laredo Field, TX 12Oct44. Damaged in collision with parked Consolidated B-24H Liberator
42-29205 at Laredo Field 3Dec44. Reclaimed 13Nov45.
30937 (MSN 6051) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Aug43.
3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 18Sep44. 3010th Base Unit
(Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 11Dec44. 3020th Base
Unit (Pilot School, Advanced, Two Engine), La Junta Field, CO 29Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 1Aug45
30938 (MSN 6052) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Aug43.
Kingman, AZ 5Sep43. 203rd Base Unit (16th Bomber Operational Training Wing),
Jackson AAB, MS 31Jan45. 261st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Abilene Field, TX 17Feb45.
203rd Base Unit (16th Bomber Operational Training Wing), Jackson AAB, MS 22Feb45.
3505th Base Unit (Technical School), Scott Field, Belleville, IL 9Aug45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 5Jan46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
30939 (MSN 6053) Accepted by USAAF 20Aug43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 23Aug43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 25Sep43. 369th Bomb Squadron [WW*A],
306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 21Oct43. 2nd Strategic Air Depot,
Little Staughton (Station 127), Bedfordshire 3Nov43. Named "Patches". Regained by Group 15Nov43.
Seriously battle damaged during a mission to the port area at Bremen, Germany 16Dec43. Right inner
wing between station 7 and 8 struck by flak damaging the upper and lower stringers. Seriously battle
damaged during a mission to railway marshalling yards at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 4Feb44.
As the planes were passing over the Netherlands en route to Germany, local cross winds carried the
bombers straight into enemy flak. Right outer wing struck by flak. Seriously battle damaged by flak
during a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Hopsten, Rheine, Germany 21Feb44. Declared 'war weary'.
Departed Thurleigh on transfer to 486th Bomb Group, Sudbury (Station 174), Suffolk 16Jul44.
863rd Bomb Squadron, 493rd Bomb Group, Debach (Station 152), Suffolk Aug44.
W/o when nosed over 17�Aug 1944 at RAF Debach/Sta 152. All 10 crew survived, aircraft was salvaged
30940 (MSN 6054) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Aug43.
504th Bomb Group, Mines Field, Los Angeles, CA 14Aug44. 504th Bomb Squadron, 241st Base Unit
(Operational Training Unit), Fairmont Field, Geneva, NB 18Aug44. Caught fire and crashed twelve miles
northwest of Farmington, NM 26Aug44 (8KIS). Salvaged 27Aug44.
30941 (MSN 6055) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 23Aug43. 4100th Base Unit
(Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 21Jun44. 202nd Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Galveston Field, TX 22Jun44. 268th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training
Station), Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 30Mar45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 1Aug45
30942 (MSN 6056) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 23Aug43. 792nd Bomb Squadron,
468th Bomb Group, Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS. Damaged taxying with mechanical failure at Smoky Hill
Field 7Feb44. 247th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 3Jun44.
4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 6Jun44.
247th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 6Aug44. Modified for
training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F.
902nd Base Unit (Base Complement), Orlando AAB, FL 7Mar45. 247th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit),
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS. Ground accident at Orlando AAB, FL 17Mar45. Crash landed three miles
south of Smoky Hill Field 17Jul45 (10KIS). Reclaimed 27Jul45
30943 (MSN 6057) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 23Aug43. 318th Bomb
Squadron, 88th Bomb Group, Avon Park Field, FL Nov43.�Ground accident at MacDill Field,
Tampa, FL 28Jan44. 325th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Avon Park Field, FL 15Jun44.
Accident landing at Avon Park Field, FL 23Jun44. 4200th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service
Command), Chicago Municipal Airport, IL 10Nov44. 203rd Base Unit (16th Bomber Operational
Training Wing), Jackson AAB, MS 22Mar45. 325th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Avon
Park Field, FL 9Apr45. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field,
Sebring, FL 10May45. 325th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Avon Park Field, FL 23May45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 14Aug45
30944 (MSN 6058) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 23Aug43.
224th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Sioux City AAB, IA 23Jun44. Crashed two miles
east of Daykin, NB 12Jul44. The B-17 and a P-47D (42-23008) from the Bruning Army Air Field
collided in mid-air near Daykin. The pilot of the P-47 misjudged the distance to the B-17 as he was
simulating an attack upon the formation. After impact, the P-47 spiraled out of control and struck
the ground killing the pilot. The B-17 broke apart and three of the airmen were able to bail out and
survive. The crash took the lives of seven other airmen in the B-17. Salvaged 13Jul44.
30945 (MSN 6059) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 24Aug43.
453rd Specialized Pilot Training Squadron, Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL. Damaged taxying at
Hendricks 18Nov43. 2126th Base Unit (Central School for Flexible Gunnery), Laredo Field, TX 3Sep44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 7Jan46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30946 (MSN 6060) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Aug43.
453rd Specialized Pilot Training Squadron [SPTS], Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL. Accident landing at
Hendricks Field 19Mar44. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field,
Sebring, FL 1Oct44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and
disposal 14Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company,
Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
30947 (MSN 6061) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Aug43.
2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 31Oct44.
Forced landing at Hendricks 14Nov44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR
for storage and disposal 14Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment
Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
30948 MSN 6062) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Aug43.
2114th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 24Oct44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 9Oct45.
30949 (MSN 6063) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Aug43.
Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 9Dec43. Fitted with B-24 style upper turret.
Flexible Gunnery School, Buckingham Field, Fort Myers, FL; code 80. Flown by Wasps on gunner training
missions. 3501st Base Unit (Technical School & Overseas Replacement Depot), Boca Raton Field, FL 14Jul44.
4208th Base Unit, Mines Field, Los Angeles, CA 17Jul44. 504th Bomb Group, Fairmont Field, Geneva, NB 29Aug44. 3
501st Base Unit (Technical School & Overseas Replacement Depot), Boca Raton Field, FL 4Sep44. Modified for
training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F. 2532nd Base Unit,
Pilot School, Specialized, Very Heavy, Randolph Field, San Antonio, TX 11Apr45. Damaged by bird strike at
Randolph 27Apr45. Damaged taxying at Randolph 27Aug45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 20Dec45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped. Named JUMPIN' JIVE
30950 (MSN 6064) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Aug43.
346th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN. Accident taxying at Dyersburg
Field 11Mar44. 223rd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN 16Nov44.
Salvaged 16Nov44. Reclaimed 17Jan45.
30951 (MSN 6065) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Aug43.
2114th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 24Oct44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 4Oct45
30952 (MSN 6066) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Aug43.
Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 18Nov43. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 30Jul44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 19Dec45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30953 (MSN 6067) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Aug43.
Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 9Dec43. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 3Aug44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 14Dec45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
30954 (MSN 6068) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Aug43.
3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 16Sep44. 3010th Base Unit
(Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 9Dec44. Ardmore Field, OK 8Jan45.
3020th Base Unit (Pilot School, Advanced, Two Engine), La Junta Field, CO 18Apr45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 3Aug45
30955 (MSN 6069) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Aug43.
Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 22Nov43. 2114th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 5Aug44. 76th Flying Training Wing,
Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH. Damaged landing at Lockbourne AAB 26Jan45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 14Dec45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30956 (MSN 6070) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26Aug43.
1123rd Flexible Gunnery Training Squadron, Kingman Field, AZ. Accident landing at Yucca Field, AZ 17Nov43.
234th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Clovis Field, NM 24Jun44. Crashed landed at
San Angelo Field, TX 3Oct44. 2534th Base Unit, Bombardier School, San Angelo Field, TX Oct44. Salvaged 5Oct44
30957 (MSN 6071) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Aug43.
2114th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 24Oct44.
2530th Base Unit, Navigation School, Selman Field, Monroe, LA 8Jun45. 2114th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 18Jun45. 4124th Base Unit (Air Technical Service
Command), Altus Field, OK 13Aug45. 2114th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine),
Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 23Aug45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for
storage and disposal 9Oct45
30958 (MSN 6072) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Aug43.
Harvard Field, NB 12Sep43. 234th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Clovis Field, NM.
Crashed ten miles southwest Corona, NM 18Apr44. Salvaged 20Apr44.
30959 (MSN 6073) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27Aug43.
Assigned to 385th Bomb Group, Aug43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell
Field, NM 2Jun44. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 22Apr45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 30Aug45.
30960 (MSN 6074) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Aug43.
907th Specialized Pilot Training Squadron, Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH. Damaged when
nosed over landing at Convair Field, Allentown, PA 5Nov43. Modified for training, stripped of armor,
armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F. 2114th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 24Oct44. Force landed with mechanical
failure at Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 8Mar45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 14Dec45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30961 (MSN 6075) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Jun43.
202nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Galveston Field, TX 8Aug44. 4104th Base Unit
(Rome Air Technical Service Command), Rome Field, NY 18Jan45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 14Sep45.
30962 (MSN 6076) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Aug43.
2135th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Tyndall Field, Panama City, FL 5Oct44.
3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 5Oct44. 3010th Base Unit
(Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 26Nov44. 3020th Base Unit
(Pilot School, Advanced, Two Engine), La Junta Field, CO 1Apr45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 4Aug45
30963 (MSN 6077) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26Aug43.
4122nd Base Unit (San Antonio Air Technical Service Command), Hensley Field, Dallas, TX 12Sep44.
3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 13Sep44. 3010th Base Unit
(Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 12Dec44. To Reconstruction
Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 9Aug45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped
30964 (MSN 6078) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26Aug43.
Dyersburg Field, TN 4Oct43. Dalhart Field, TX 17Oct43. 2530th Base Unit, Navigation School,
Selman Field, Monroe, LA 15Aug44. 221st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria
Field, LA 18Aug44. 581st Base Unit, Odoms 27Sep44. 221st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training
Station), Alexandria Field, LA 28Sep44. 329th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Alexandria Field, LA 8Apr45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for
storage and disposal 29Oct45
30965 (MSN 6079) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28Aug43.
1123rd Flexible Gunnery Training Squadron, Kingman Field, AZ. Damaged in collision with
parked B-17F 42-6115 at Kingman Field 28Dec43. Pilot School (Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs
Field, NM 15Sep44. Accident at Hobbs Field 16Jan45. Reclaimed 29Jan45
30966 (MSN 6080) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26Aug43.
Pilot School (Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 15Sep44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 29Aug45
30967 (MSN 6081) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27Aug43.
3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 11Sep44. 3010th Base Unit
(Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 9Dec44. 3020th Base Unit
(Pilot School, Advanced, Two Engine), La Junta Field, CO 27Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 1Aug45
30968 (MSN 6082) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27Aug43.
Force landed at Kingman Field, AZ 2Jan44. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine),
Hobbs Field, NM 8Nov44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 30Aug45
30969 (MSN 6083) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27Aug43.
1123rd Flexible Gunnery Training Squadron, Kingman Field, AZ. Force landed with structural failure at
Yucca Field, AZ 20Nov43. Accident landing and caught fire at Kingman Auxiliary Field #7, Signal, AZ 24Jan44.
3018th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Kingman Field, AZ 5Jul44. Reclaimed 19Jun45
30970 (MSN 6084) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27Aug43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 23Sep43.
549th Bomb Squadron, 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 26Oct43.
Equipped with H2S airborne radar. Used for radio counter measures. Transferred to
Royal Air Force 21Jan44 as Fortress Mark II, serial SR384. No.214 (Federated Malay States) Squadron [BU-A],
No.100 Group, RAF Sculthorpe, Norfolk 2Feb44. RAF Oulton, Aylsham, Norfolk 16May44. Failed to return
from a mission to Antwerp, Belgium 25May44 (2KIA:7POW). . Shot down by nightfighter
flown by Oblt Hermann Leube, 4/NJG 3 and crashed into Oosterschelde of Yerseke,
Netherlands May 25, 1944.
30971 (MSN 6085) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 27Aug43. Air Service Command,
Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 16Nov43. 4115th Base Unit (Spokane Air Technical Service Command),
Pendleton Field, OR 6Aug44. 2114th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB,
Columbus, OH 2Sep44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage
and disposal 14Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30972 (MSN 6086) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 27Aug43. Air Service
Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 16Nov43. Modified for training, stripped of armor,
armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 25Aug44. Damaged taxying at Hendricks 26Feb45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 14Dec45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30973 (MSN 6087) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 27Aug43. Air Service
Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 20Nov43. 715th Flexible Gunnery Training Squadron,
Buckingham Field, Fort Myers, FL. Damaged at Buckingham Field, Fort Myers, FL 29Jan44.
3501st Base Unit (Technical School & Overseas Replacement Depot), Boca Raton Field, FL 14Jul44.
2132nd Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Very Heavy), Maxwell Field, Montgomery, AL 10Apr45.
2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 3Jul45.
2132nd Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Very Heavy), Maxwell Field, Montgomery, AL 22Jul45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 14Jan46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30974 (MSN 6088) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 28Aug43. 221st Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA 17Jan45. 329th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training
Station), Alexandria Field, LA 28Apr45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for
storage and disposal 29Oct45
30975 (MSN 6089) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 27Aug43. 221st Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA. Damaged by structural failure at Alexandria 3Apr44.
329th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA. Damaged in collision with
parked B-17F 42-30900 at Alexandria Field 1Mar45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 9Oct45
30976 (MSN 6090) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28Aug43.
Kingman, AZ 28Mar44. Alamogordo Field, NM 30Mar44. 4115th Base Unit (Spokane Air Technical
Service Command), Pendleton Field, OR 29Aug44. 203rd Base Unit (16th Bomber Operational
Training Wing), Jackson AAB, MS 31Jan45. Damaged landing in bad weather at Jackson AAB 18Jun45.
4103rd Base Unit (Mobile Air Technical Service Command), Hawkins Field, Jackson, MS 23Jun45.
203rd Base Unit (16th Bomber Operational Training Wing), Jackson AAB, MS 25Jul45. 232nd Base
Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dalhart Field, TX 20Sep45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 27Oct45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
30977 (MSN 6091) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28Aug43.
2117th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Buckingham Field, Fort Myers, FL 25May44.
2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 1Oct44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 19Dec45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30978 (MSN 6092) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28Aug43.
Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment;
designated TB-17F. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 2Nov44.
Damaged when collided with parked B-17F 42-5249 Hobbs Auxiliary Field #1, Knowles, NM 28Feb45.
Damaged in collision with TB-17G 44-8064 Hobbs Field, NM 16May45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 14Sep45
30979 (MSN 6093) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28Aug43.
Roswell Field, NM 19Sep43. 314th Twin-Engined Flying Training Group, Roswell Field, NM.
Seriously damaged in collision with B-17F 42-3450 landing at Hobbs Auxiliary No.3 Field, NM 23Apr44.
Salvaged 26Apr44.
30980 (MSN 6094) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28Aug43.
419th HQ Squadron, 346th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN.
Damaged in a mid-air collision with B-17F 42-29621 near Harding Field, Baton Rouge, LA 10Jan44.
345th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Waycross Field, GA 1Mar45. 330th Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN. Damaged by 'friendly fire' at Shelbyville
Gunnery Range 29Mar45. 325th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Avon Park Field, FL 3Jun45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 14Aug45
30981 (MSN 6095) Wright Field, Dayton, OH 28Aug43. Cold Weather Testing Detachment, Ladd Field,
Fairbanks, AK 5Nov43. Returned to US. HQ Materiel Command, Wright Field, Dayton, OH 2Jun44.
4000th Base Unit, Air Materiel Command, Wright Field, Dayton, OH 19Sep44. 902nd Base Unit
(Base Complement), Orlando AAB, FL 13Jul45. 613th Base Unit (Proving Ground Detachment),
Phillips Field, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 14Jul45. 4000th Base Unit, Air Materiel Command,
Wright Field, Dayton, OH 31Jul45. Named SHUTTERBUG.
30982 (MSN 6096) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30Aug43.
2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 11Nov44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 14Dec45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30983 (MSN 6097) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28Aug43.
Flexible Gunnery School, Yuma Field, AZ 30Mar44. Alamogordo Field, NM 3Apr44. 4200th Base
Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Chicago Municipal Airport, IL 7Aug44.
233rd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Davis-Monthan Field, Tucson, AZ 29Dec44.
231st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Alamogordo Field, NM 20Mar45. 465th Base Unit,
Paine, Everett, WA 3Apr45. Designated RB-17F. 231st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Alamogordo Field, NM 27Apr45. Damaged in collision with a parked B-17F while taxying at Mines
Field, Los Angeles, CA 29Sep45. 4208th Base Unit, Mines Field, Los Angeles, CA 7Oct45. 231st Base
Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Alamogordo Field, NM 15Oct45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage
and disposal 30Oct45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped.
30984 (MSN 6098) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30Aug43.
2114th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 5Aug44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 26Sep45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30985 (MSN 6099) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30Aug43.
2114th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 25Jun44.
Materiel Command, Vandalia, OH 24Jul44. 2114th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine),
Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 25Jul44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 9Oct45
30986 (MSN 6100) Accepted by USAAF 27Aug43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 30Aug43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training
Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 27Sep43. 562nd Bomb Squadron [H], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall
(Station 136), Suffolk 7Oct43. Named "Take It Easy". Equipped with H2S airborne radar.
Used for radio counter measures. {first combat mission 26Nov43}. Battle damaged on a mission to
the port area at Bremen, Germany 20Dec43 (10RTD). Attacked by a large force of enemy fighters
and flak over the target area was very intense. {final combat mission 14Jan44}. {7 missions}.
Transferred to Royal Air Force 21Jan44 as Fortress Mark II, serial SR385. No.214 (Federated Malay States)
Squadron [BU-E], No.100 Group, RAF Sculthorpe, Norfolk 2Feb44. RAF Oulton, Aylsham, Norfolk 16May44.
Telecommunications Flying Unit, RAF Defford, Worcestershire 30Aug45. No.51 Maintenance Unit,
RAF Lichfield, Staffordshire before the home census 21Mar46 for storage. Sold to International
Alloys Ltd 11Mar47. SOC 11Mar47.
30987 (MSN 6101) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 30Aug43. Alexandria Field, LA 21Sep43.
221st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA 7Nov44. 329th Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA 1Mar45. Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 29Oct45
30988 (MSN 6102) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 30Aug43. 1174th Pilot
Transition Training Squadron, Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH. Mid-air collision with
B-17E 41-2547 at Lockbourne 4Nov43. 2114th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine),
Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 30Jul44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for
storage and disposal 9Oct45
30989 (MSN 6103) Accepted by USAAF 27Aug43. Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX
30Aug43. 2530th Base Unit, Navigation School, Selman Field, Monroe, LA 5Nov44. 328th Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Gulfport Field, MS 23Nov44. 4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air
Technical Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 25Feb45. 330th Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN 7May45. 325th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Avon Park Field, FL 3Jun45. ToReconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 11Aug45
30990 (MSN 6104) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 31Aug43. Las Vegas
Field, NV 23Sep43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 19Dec43. 2137th Base Unit
(Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 3Dec44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 27Sep45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
30991 (MSN 6105) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30Aug43.
Pilot School (Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM. Damaged landing at Hobbs Field, NM 24Jul44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 11Sep45
30992 (MSN 6106) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30Aug43.
3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 9Aug45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped
30993 (MSN 6107) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30Aug43.
3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44. 3017th Base Unit
(Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 28Apr45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 31Aug45.
30994 (MSN 6108) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30Aug43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 9Oct43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 28Oct43.
401st Bomb Group, 30Oct43. 508th Bomb Squadron [YB*T], 351st Bomb Group, Polebrook
(Station 110), Northamptonshire 21Nov43. {30 missions}. 487th Bomb Group, Sudbury (Station 174),
Suffolk 15Jul44. Salvaged 29May45. Named VOX POP II / OLE DAD
30995 (MSN 6109) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 31Aug43.
2114th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 21Oct44.
2003rd Base Unit, HQ Squadron, AAF Training Command, Fort Worth Field, TX 8Jan45. 2114th Base
Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 21Sep45. 2100th Base
Unit (HQ, Eastern Flying Training Command), Maxwell Field, Montgomery, AL 28Sep45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 7Jan46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrappe
30996 (MSN 6110) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30Aug43.
Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 18Nov43. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 3Aug44. Damaged by birdstrike near
Okeechobee, FL 15Jun45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for
storage and disposal 19Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment
Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30997 (MSN 6111) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30Aug43.
Kingman, AZ 7Sep43. Flexible Gunnery School, Yuma Field, AZ 30Mar44. 231st Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Alamogordo Field, NM 9Jul44. 4136th Base Unit (Oklahoma City
Air Technical Service Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 13Jan45. 231st Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Alamogordo Field, NM 25Jan45. 4210th Base Unit (Fairfield Air
Technical Service Command), Lambert Municipal Airport, Robertson, MO 9May45. 4136th Base
Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 24Jul45.
4208th Base Unit, Mines Field, Los Angeles, CA 27Aug45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 11Jan46. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
30998 (MSN 6112) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 31Aug43.
Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 18Nov43. 2114th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 5Aug44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 14Dec45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
30999 (MSN 6113) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 2Sep43.
2114th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 20Sep43.
Force landed with engine failure and destroyed at Lockbourne AAB 25May44. Salvaged 26May44
31000 (MSN 6114) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 2Sep43.
3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44. 3010th Base Unit
(Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 9Dec44. 3020th Base Unit
(Pilot School, Advanced, Two Engine), La Junta Field, CO 1Apr45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 1Aug45
Also listed as (385 BG, 550 BS) lost April 13, 1944, Dubendorf, Schweiz, Germany
31001 (MSN 6115) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 31Aug43. Alexandria Field, LA 21Sep43.
221st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA 17Jan45. 329th Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA 1Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 29Oct45.
31002 (MSN 6116) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 31Aug43. Assigned to
94th Bomb Group. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 19Sep43. 328th Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Gulfport Field, MS. Major damage while parked in collision by
B-17G 42-97831 taxying at Gulfport Field, MS 5Sep44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 25Jun45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped.
31003 (MSN 6117) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 31Aug43.
50th Flexible Gunnery Training Squadron, Las Vegas Field, NV 27Sep43. Damaged while parked
in collision by B-17G 42-37921 taxying at Las Vegas 27Nov43. Salvaged 5Jan44
31004 (MSN 6118) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 2Sep43. 352nd Flexible
Gunnery Training Squadron, Las Vegas Field, NV 23Sep43. Ground accident at Las Vegas Field 16Oct43.
Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 14Dec43. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 31Oct44. Modified for training, stripped of armor,
armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17F. Mid-air collision with TB-17E 41-2574
7 miles northwest of Arcadia, FL 21Jun45. Reclaimed 17Jul45
31005 (MSN 6119) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 2Sep43. Las Vegas
Field, NV 22Sep43. 715th Flexible Gunnery Training Squadron, Buckingham Field, Fort Myers, FL.
Rammed by North American AT-6 41-361 in a simulated attack against nine B-17 bombers and
crashed into the Gulf of Mexico off Naples at Little Marco Pass, FL 22Jan44 (10KIS). A newly rated
pilot stationed at Buckingham Field on the southwest coast of Florida was training to be a fighter pilot.
He took off from Naples Field (a sub-base of Buckingham) on his third flight of the day. His
North American AT-6 41-361 was one of the aircraft scrambled to intercept a simulated attack at 4,000ft
against nine B-17s of 715th FGTS, also based at Buckingham Field, approaching from the south over
the Gulf of Mexico. The flight of AT-6 'fighters' successfully intercepted the B-17s and each made
several passes at the B-17s. Following his instructor's lead the AT-6 student pilot positioned his
plane above and behind the seventh bomber to begin his attack out of the sun. The instructor dove
on the bomber from astern and broke to the left at about 250 yds. The student closed on the B-17
and failed to break away and his left wing struck the left wing of the bomber. The wing of the AT-6
sheared off, throwing the plane into a violent roll. Witnesses saw the B-17F, 42-31005, fall onto
its left wing and slowly spiral downward. Ten seconds later at 200ft above the Gulf, the plane
caught fire and exploded. Salvaged 23Jan44
31006 (MSN 6120) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Sep43.
Pilot School (Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM. Crashed twenty miles southwest of
Salt Flat, TX 10May44 (5KIS). It went out of control while flying in formation, due to what is
believed to have been a materials/mechanical failure in the oxygen system. The bomber took
off from Hobbs Field on a routine formation training flight to El Paso, TX and then a return
back to base. The aircraft was flying in formation at an altitude of 25,000ft. They made their
destination of El Paso and turned for a heading to Salt Flat. The B-17 veered sharply to the right
towards another aircraft and disappeared through the overcast layer. No further contact was
made with any of the crew. It was thought that the aircraft had gotten into the propeller wash
and at some point would reappear. A local rancher spotted the bomber coming straight down.
The aircraft was said to have seemed to level off, and then head back straight down, probably
in a stall. The eyewitness was approximately eleven miles away when he saw the aircraft hit
the ground and catch fire. Salvaged 11May44.
31007 (MSN 6121) Accepted by USAAF 30Aug43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 3Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 27Sep43. 369th Bomb Squadron [WW*F], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111),
Bedfordshire 13Oct43. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little Staughton (Station 127), Bedfordshire 30Oct43.
Regained by Group 3Nov43. Battle damaged on a mission to the Junkers aircraft factory at Halberstadt,
Germany 11Jan44. An enemy fighter attack after the target struck causing severe damage. On return,
force landed at RAF Foulsham, Norfolk. Failed to return from a mission to railway marshalling yards
at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 4Feb44 (7KIA:3POW). As the planes were passing over the Netherlands
en route to Germany, local cross winds carried the bombers straight into enemy flak. Direct flak hit on
right wing, two engines damaged and the wing caught fire. The plane rolled over into a spin and snapped
in half at the ball turret. The front section dropped out of the skyand those airmen inside were killed.
The tail section stabilised long enough for the two waist gunners and tail gunner to bail out. Crashed
Voiswinkel, near Bergisch Gladbach, ten miles northeast of Cologne, Germany,
31008 (MSN 6122) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Sep43.
Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 20Oct43. 2114th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 10Aug44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 14Dec45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31009 (MSN 6123) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Sep43.
Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 1Oct43. 611th Base Unit, Proving Ground Command, Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 2Jun44.
617th Base Unit, Dugway Proving Ground, Tooele, UT 12Aug44. 4135th Base Unit (Ogden Air Technical
Service Command), Hill Field, Ogden, UT 16Aug44. 617th Base Unit, Dugway Proving Ground,
Tooele, UT 26Aug43. 216th Base Unit, Wendover Field, UT 26Sep44. 617th Base Unit, Dugway
Proving Ground, Tooele, UT 4Oct44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 13Nov45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped.
31010 (MSN 6124) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30Aug43. Buffalo
Municipal Airport, NY 3Sep43. 7th Ferrying Squadron, 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT.
Damaged landing at Bismark, ND 4Sep43. Rapid City Field, SD 7Oct43. United Air Lines, Modification
Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 8Feb44. 1st EEL Bedford, MA 20Jul44. 4140th Base Unit,
Bedford Field, MA 4Dec44. 4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field,
Dayton, OH 3Apr45. 4148th Base Unit (Electronics Experimental Squadron), Bedford Field, MA 1May45.
4147th Base Unit (Rome Air Technical Service Command), Bedford Field, MA 18Sep45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 5Jan46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
31011 (MSN 6125) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Sep43.
Las Vegas Field, NV 23Sep43. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks
Field, Sebring, FL 30Jul44. Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage
and disposal 19Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company,
Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31012 (MSN 6126) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Sep43. Operational
Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 27Sep43. 331st Bomb
Squadron [QE*J], 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 6Oct43.
Named GRAND DUCHESS. Transferred to Royal Air Force 21Jan44 as Fortress Mark II, serial SR386. No.214
(Federated Malay States) Squadron [BU-N:BU-Y], No.100 Group, RAF Sculthorpe, Norfolk 28Jan44.
RAF Oulton, Aylsham, Norfolk 16May44. No.1699 Flight, RAF Oulton, Aylsham, Norfolk 8Dec44.
No.214 (Federated Malay States) Squadron [BU-N], RAF Oulton, Norfolk. Flying accident 11/12May45,
repairs beyond unit capability. SOC 13Jun45
31013 (MSN 6127) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Sep43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 28Sep43.
332nd Bomb Squadron [XM*L], 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 10Oct43. ,
naned OLE CASEY JONES// MYASAM DRAGON; Failed to return from a mission to a ball bearing
factory at Regensburg, Germany 21Jul44 (10KIA). En route to the target flak struck between No.1 and No.2 engines.
It turned over onto its back and then resumed normal flying position. It then dropped off into a spin
and was seen to explode before hitting the ground. Crashed at Molenschot, east of Breda, Netherlands
MACR 7836.
31014 (MSN 6128) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Sep43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 27Sep43.
Named "Smokey Stover Jr". Failed to return from a diversionary mission to an aircraft
depot at Zwickau, Germany 12May44 (10POW). En route to the target, between Koblenz and Frankfurt,
the formation was attacked by a large force of enemy fighters. With its left wing almost shot away
and two engines on fire, the crew bailed out. Crashed near Friedberg, twenty miles northeast of
Frankfurt am Main, Germany MACR 5093
31015 (MSN 6129) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Sep43.
Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 20Nov43. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized,
Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 30Jul44. 4200th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command),
Chicago Municipal Airport, IL 19Sep44. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine),
Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 14Oct44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR
for storage and disposal 14Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment
Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
31016 (MSN 6130) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Sep43.
Scott Field, Belleville, IL 1Oct43. 326th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 17Oct43
Named "Sweet Sixteen". . Failed to return from a mission to the Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft
shipyard at Kiel, Germany 4Jan44 (1KIA:8POW:1EVD).. Shot down�by Fw. Heinz Fuchs in FW-190A-6 of JG 1/4.
and crashed at Wijnbergen/Vinkwijk, near Zeddam, Netherlands.� MACR 1960 and 1754.
1 evaded but later captured.
31017 (MSN 6131) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 3Sep43. Las Vegas
Field, NV 27Sep43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 14Dec43. 3030th Base Unit
(Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 21Sep43. 3010th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized,
Four Engine), Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 16Nov44. 3020th Base Unit (Pilot School, Advanced, Two Engine),
La Junta Field, CO 26Mar456. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 1Aug45
31018 (MSN 6132) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 3Sep43. Flexible Gunnery
School, Yuma Field, AZ 24Sep43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 23Sep44.
3010th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 21Nov44.
Damaged by mechanical failure during takeoff at Williams 24Nov44. 3020th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Advanced, Two Engine), La Junta Field, CO 20Apr45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK
for storage and disposal 1Aug45
31019 (MSN 6133) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 3Sep43. Scott Field,
Belleville, IL 25Sep43. 366th Bomb Squadron [KY*F], 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105),
Northamptonshire 18Oct43. Base Air Depot No.2, Warton (Station 582), Lancashire 20Mar44. Returned to US.
4136th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 1Sep44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 8Jan46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
31020 (MSN 6134) Accepted by USAAF 31Aug43. Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field,
Dallas, TX 3Sep43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 25Sep43. 560th Bomb Squadron [J], 388th Bomb Group,
Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 13Oct43. Named "Mission Belle". {first combat mission 29Nov43}.
Battle damaged on a mission to the port area of Bremen, Germany 29Nov43 (1WIA:9RTD). The pilot had
left the formation because of oxygen trouble and dropped the bombs in the vicinity of Oldenburg, Germany.
The ball turret gunner was wounded by flak. Failed to return from a mission to the industrial areas of Emden,
Germany 11Dec43 (6POW:4KIA). The Luftwaffe was waiting for the bombers; the moment the bombers
crossed over into mainland Europe, six twin-engine fighter dived out of the sun upon the formation,
concentrating all their fire on the lead plane. Once the leader had been downed, the fighters swept
through the lead Squadron. Before the deputy lead had a chance to reassemble the formation, a large
force of single-engine fighters joined the fray, attacking the other bombers. At the Dutch-German border,
somewhere near Nieuwe-Schans, the bomber was hit setting fire to No.2 fuel tank. Five or six airmen
were seen to abandon the aircraft, then something happened which still infuriates the people of the
village of Finsterwolde. As they watched the destruction of the bomber, the German flak battery
of the 'Steiling Dollard-Sud', in the Carel Coenraad polder, hurled shells into the helplessly
nding fliers who had bailed out. The bomber had been partially abandoned, burned and circled
in the sky. Then it crashed, its fuselage cartwheeling end over end. All around a house, fragments
came down but, by some miracle, the house was untouched although the children cried for fear.
One wing wedged itself upright in the ground. Crashed at Finsterwalde, Groningen, Netherlands.
Claimed by Obfw. Veutzke in Me 410A of ZG 26/4. MACR 3122.
31021 (MSN 6135) Accepted by USAAF 31Aug43. Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field,
Dallas, TX 4Sep43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 25Sep43. 524th Bomb Squadron [WA*K], 379th Bomb
Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 22Nov43.
Named "Whirlaway". Accident returning from a mission to Waggum, near Brunswick,
Germany 30Jan44. Danaged bt fkajm the plane crash landed at Overland Farm, Ash, Kent.
Salvaged by 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton 3Feb44.
31022 (MSN 6136) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Sep43.
Scott Field, Belleville, IL 25Sep43. 407th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Podington (Station 109),
Bedfordshire 23Nov43. Crash landed at Little Staughton (Station 127), Bedfordshire 30Nov43.
Failed to return from a mission to the industrial area at Augsburg, Germany 16Mar44 (4POW:6EVD).
From Strasburg, Germany to Augsburg, the bombers were attacked by Luftwaffe fighters in a running
battle. Flak over the target was moderate and accurate; flak en route was meagre and inaccurate.
Returning, the bombers were attacked between Nancy, France and the coast. Enemy aircraft set wing
on fire, crashed Vitry-le-Francois, Marne, France. MACR 3225
31023 (MSN 6137) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Sep43.
Scott Field, Belleville, IL 27Sep43. 339th Bomb Squadron [QJ*Q], 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath
(Station 138), Norfolk 15Oct43, named "Skyball". Crash landed Honington (Station 375), Suffolk
27Jan44. Salvaged 1st Strategic Air Depot, Troston (Station 595), Suffolk 18Apr44
31024 (MSN 6138) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Sep43.
3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 9Aug45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped.
31025 (MSN 6139) Accepted by USAAF 31Aug43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 4Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 25Sep43. 367th Bomb Squadron [GY*B], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111),
Bedfordshire 19Oct43. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little Staughton (Station 127), Bedfordshire 25Oct43.
Regained by Group 27Oct43. Battle damaged on a mission to industrial areas in the suburbs of Berlin,
Germany 6Mar44 (1KIA:3POW: 1EVD:5RTD). Over Berlin No.4 engine was struck by flak and failed. Oil
was leaking and the propeller could not be feathered causing the plane to drop out of formation.
Bf 190 fighters were attacking for thirty minutes and The engineer/top turret gunner was fatally injured
but shot down a Fw 190 while wounded. Engine No.1 was struck by cannon shells and the propeller
couldn't be feathered either, dropping the air speed to 135mph. Confusion was rampant in the back
of the plane. The ringing of the alarm bell twice prompted the airmen to prepare to jump.
Co-pilot twice told the men over the intercom to disregard the bell but with all the enemy hits the
intercom was damaged. Four other gunners had been wounded and bailed out between Ommen
and Dalfsen, Netherlands; three evaded capture but two were later caught and taken POW. By the
time the bomber was over the IJsselmeer it was only a hundred feet above the water.
Then a P-51 Mustang showed up and escorted it to land at Seething (Station 146), Norfolk.
Salvaged at Seething by 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton 9Mar44
31026 (MSN 6140) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Sep43.
Roswell Field, NM 27Sep43. 2114th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB,
Columbus, OH 24Oct44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 4Oct45
31027 (MSN 6141) Accepted by USAAF 31Aug43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 4Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 3Oct43. 569th Bomb Squadron [CC*R], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham
(Station 153), Suffolk 7Oct43. Named "Miss Lace" then "Shy Ann", then "Pinky III", then "Honey Chile".
{first combat mission 7Nov43}. Equipped with H2S airborne radar. Used for radio counter measures.
{final combat mission 14Jan44}. {15 missions}. Transferred to Royal Air Force 21Jan44 as Fortress Mark II,
serial SR387. No.214 (Federated Malay States) Squadron [BU-G], No.100 Group, RAF Sculthorpe,
Norfolk 2Feb44. RAF Oulton, Aylsham, Norfolk 16May44. No.51 Maintenance Unit, RAF Lichfield,
Staffordshire 14Feb45. SOC and scrapped 13Nov46
31028 (MSN 6142) Accepted by USAAF 31Aug43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 4Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 7Oct43. 524th Bomb Squadron [WA*C], 379th Bomb Group,
Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 19Nov43. Named "Mojo". Failed to return from a mission to the
Junkers aircraft factories at Halberstadt and Aschersleben, Germany 22Feb44 (7KIA:3POW).
En route to the target over M�nster, Germany, flak set the bomb bay on fire. The bomb bay doors
opened and three bombs dropped out, then, one by one, three more fell out while the fire
continued to rage. The plane left formation, lost altitude then turned back towards England.
As it passed under the group it exploded, ejecting the crew, The fuselage cracked up along its
length and the wings folded up. It crashed at Gattrup, near Senden/Westfalen, nine miles
southwest of M�nster, Germany. MOJO. MACR 2872
31029 (MSN 6143) Accepted by USAAF 31Aug43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 4Sep43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 7Oct43. 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136),
Suffolk 9Oct43. 87th Air Transport Squadron, 27th Air Transport Group, Hendon (Station 575), Middlesex 20Oct43;
Undercarriage collapsed waiting taxi instructions at Prestwick for ferry flight to Chelveston
Oct 21, 1943. Repaired. Salvaged Jan 31, 1944.
31030 (MSN 6144) Accepted by USAAF 31Aug43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 4Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island
Field, NB 7Oct43. 571st Bomb Squadron [FC*A], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153),
Suffolk 7Oct43. Named "Shy Ann". Accident departing for a mission to the synthetic oil refinery
at Gelsenkirchen, Germany 5Nov43 (10KIA). After takeoff, an engine failure was believed to be the cause
of the plane entering into a flat spin at 3,000ft. Crashed into North Sea four miles off off Aldeburgh, Suffolk. {3 missions}. .
MACR 1162.
31031 (MSN 6145) Materiel Command 4Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 11Oct43. Assigned Eighth Air Force, England 24Oct43.
Equipped with H2S airborne radar. Used for radio counter measures. Base Air Depot No.1,
Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire. Transferred to Royal Air Force 21Jan44 as Fortress Mark II,
serial SR388. No.214 (Federated Malay States) Squadron [BU-H.BU-Z], No.100 Group,
RAF Sculthorpe, Norfolk 2Feb44. RAF Oulton, Aylsham, Norfolk 16May44. Accident 24Nov44.
No.1699 Flight, RAF Oulton, Aylsham, Norfolk 8Dec44. Damaged category E (write off) 14Jul45. SOC 26Jul45
42-31032/31131 Boeing B-17G-1-BO Fortress
MSN 6146/6245. Dispositions from B-17 Fortress Master Log, Dave Osborne (FORTLOG)
Production changes: Bendix chin turret, new Plexiglass nose. A-1 bomb control system, wiring
for electric supercharger controls and induction vibrator starting coil added. Nose Plexiglass screen wiper deleted
31032 (MSN 6146) Materiel Command 4Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training
Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 20Oct43. 422th Bomb Squadron [JJ*B], 305th Bomb Group,
Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 25Nov43. Fitted with ARI Boozer radar transmission
facilities May44. Crash landed at RAF Friston, Sussex on a night leaflet mission to Denmark 12/13May44
(2KIA:3WIA:5RTD). Salvaged battle damaged by 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton (Station 547),
Huntingdonshire 29Dec44.
31033 (MSN 6147) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 7Sep43.
Scott Field, Belleville, IL 11Oct43. 613th Bomb Squadron [IN*B], 401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe
(Station 128), Northamptonshire 26Oct43, Named "Pee-Tey-Kuh" Named by the Blackfeet,
the name of the pilot in their language. Failed to return from a mission to the AGO-Flugzeugwerke Fw 190
manufacturing factory at Oschersleben, Germany 11Jan44 (8POW:2KIA). While the aircraft were airborne,
the weather closed in over English bases and a recall signal was issued. B/Gen. Robert F. Travis, Air
Commander of the 1st Bomb Division, continued on to the target. This left the 1st Bomb Division with
greater exposure to enemy fighter attacks. Good fighter support was provided by P-47 Thunderbolts
on the penetration and by P-51 Mustangs over the target. P-47s were airborne to provide withdrawal
support but they obeyed the recall order to return to England and left the bombers to fend for themselves
on the return trip. Luftwaffe attacks started over the IJsselmeer and intensified when the American fighters
returned home. Meagre and fairly accurate flak was experienced on the bomb run, with intermittent
inaccurate flak on the return trip. Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed near Duderstadt, fifteen miles
east of G�ttingen, Germany. About thirty minutes before target near Hildesheim, Germany, a fire
in No.3 engine was started. The bomb bay doors were opened and the bombs were jettisoned. Right under
the bomb bay a big flash appeared among the falling bombs. Directly after that one crewman bailed out.
Then as the bomber went straight down, five more men bailed out. The aircraft turned onto its back,
started to lose a wing and then blew up Also listed as shot Down By Gunfire from German
Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-7 and Crashed Near Duderstadt 15 Miles East
of Gottingen Germany. Fw 190A-7 Flown By Oblt. Rudiger von Kirchmayr
of JG 1/5. MACR 2507.
31034 (MSN 6148) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 8Sep43. 25th Ferrying Squadron,
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT. Damaged in collision with B-24E 41-29073 at Pueblo AAB, CO
10Sep43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 20Oct43. 612th Bomb Squadron [SC*G], 401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe
(Station 128), Northamptonshire 8Nov43, Named "Bonnie Donnie" Crash landed at Deenthorpe
with landing gear failure 4Mar44. Returned early during a mission to the synthetic oil refinery at L�tzkendorf,
six miles west of Merseburg, Germany 12May44. The aircraft had a radio hatch which had been modified.
Vibration caused by firing the gun had caused the opening for the hatch to become enlarged, allowing the
hatch and gun to fall out, shooting out part of the control cables. Failed to return from a mission to the
manufacturing facilities of the Junkers Flugzeug-und Motorenwerke at Dessau, Germany 28May44 (3KIA:7POW)
Shot Down May 29. 1944 by gunfire From German Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-6 and Crashed at Krensitz 9 Miles
Northeast of Leipzig Germany. Fw 190A-6 Flown By Ofw. Meindl of JGr Ost/3.
MACR 5309.
31035 (MSN 6149) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 7Sep43. Scott Field,
Belleville, IL 5Oct43. 351st Bomb Squadron [EP*E], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts
(Station 139), Norfolk 8Oct43. Named "Hang the Expanse"- artwork of a shapely red-headed woman,
naked and dribbling greenbacks from her outstretched hands. Unofficial slow-time engine test flight with
two American Red Cross nurses 26Nov43. The tail wheel assembly pin had sheared causing the aircraft to
vibrate badly. The pilot used improper techniques and allowed the aircraft to veer off the runway, crashing
through trees and Lodge Farm buildings, Dickleburgh, which caught fire and destroyed the aircraft. All three
crew were fined $100 at a court martial. Salvaged 29Nov43
31036 (MSN 6150) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 7Sep43. Scott Field,
Belleville, IL 24Oct43. 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 25Oct43.
Base Air Depot No.1, Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire. Equipped with Gee radio navigation system.
614th Bomb Squadron [IW*X], 401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 8Nov43.
Named "Nobody's Baby" Failed to return from a mission to railway marshalling yards at
Frankfurt am Main, Germany 4Feb44 (10KIA). As the planes were passing over the Netherlands en route
to Germany, local cross winds carried the bombers straight into enemy flak. Damaged by flak
after dropping its bombs, probably crashed in North Sea, no trace. MACR 2285.
31037 (MSN 6151) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 8Sep43. 613th Bomb
Squadron [IN*F], 401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 10Oct43. .
Named "Pistol Packin' Mama"- artwork inspired by the Vargas' "Pistol Packin' Mama"
Esquire centrefold of March 1944. . {first combat mission 3Nov43). Collided Jul 6, 1944 with B-17G 42-39932
on ground at Deenethorpe, UK; repaired (?); Failed to return from a mission to Leipzig, Germany 20Jul44 (3KIA:6POW)
shot down by flak and crashed at Liebstedt, Germany. MACR 7545.
All crew members bailed out, but one was killed when his chute failed to open and
two were killed by German civilians.
31038 MSN 6152) Accepted by USAAF 4Sep43. Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 10Sep43.
Scott Field, Belleville, IL 9Oct43. 367th Bomb Squadron [GY*N], 306th Bomb Group,
Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 19Oct43. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little Staughton (Station 127),
Bedfordshire29Oct43. Regained by Group 3Nov43. Named "Miriam", named after the pilot's mother. {first combat mission 3Nov43}.
Crashed after takeoff for a mission to the port area of Bremen, Germany 13Nov43 (1KIA). During
assembly, the plane encountered a developing thunderhead and entered a spin, losing several thousand feet in
altitude. The pilot recovered control and ordered the crew to bail out, fearing that the plane would break up.
He remained to prevent the plane from landing directly on a town and landed in a field beyond at Longwick,
near Princes Risborough, Bucks; it exploded, killing the pilot.
31039 (MSN 6153) Accepted by USAAF 4Sep43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 8Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training
Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 19Oct43. 560th Bomb Squadron [Q], 388th Bomb Group,
Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 25Oct43. Named "Miss Fortune". Accident landing at
Knettishall 29Nov43. {first combat mission 29Feb44}. Battle damaged on a mission to railway
facilities around Berlin, Germany 29Apr44. The combat wing was off course heading to Berlin,
attacked by enemy fighters and bombed Magdeburg. Flak over the target was very accurate.
Battle damaged on a mission to a railway marshalling yard at Li�ge, Belgium 25May44.
Meagre flak was encountered crossing the French coast in the Le Tr�port area but very accurate
flak at Poix-de-Picardie, France. Battle damaged during a mission to the Braunkohle Benzin A.G.
synthetic oil refinery at Rothensee, Magdeburg, Germany 20Jun44. Flak over the target was
intense and accurate. Battle damaged on a mission in support of the Marquis resistance fighters
at Eymoutiers, east of Limoges France. The bomb load consisted of metal containers filled with
supplies for fighting the Germans. Struck in a wing by flak when crossing the French coast
on the return home. Battle damaged on a mission to an aircraft factory at Berlin, Germany 6Aug44.
Moderate to intense barrage and tracking flak was encountered over the target. Battle damaged
on a mission to a synthetic oil refinery at Magdeburg, Germany 12Sep44. Flak was encountered
at the target and then the Group was attacked by a large force of enemy fighters. Failed to return
from a mission to an armored vehicle factory at Bremen, Germany 26Sep44 (2WIA:7RTD). Meagre
flak was met at Weserm�nde and Cuxhaven. Before the target was reached, the aircraft was
attacked and had to leave the formation when an engine failed. Flying on three engines,
it headed for French territory and then tried to make the English Channel. The plane was badly
damaged when the pilot was unable to avoid the flak guns at Calais. The navigator and bombardier
were wounded. The aircraft ditched in the English Channel in a German mine field. Three hours
later the crew were picked up by a British torpedo boat and returned to England. {56 missions}.
31040 (MSN 6154) Accepted by USAAF 8Sep43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 13Sep43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 21Sep43. 527th Bomb Squadron [FO*A],
379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 27Sep43. .Named "Duffy's Tavern".
Failed to return from a mission to the industrial area at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 29Jan44 (3POW:7EVD).
Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Chenogne, near Sibret, five miles from Bastogne, Belgium.
MACR 2873
31041 (MSN 6155) Accepted by USAAF 7Sep43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 9Sep43. 571st Bomb Squadron [FC*B], 390th Bomb Group,
Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 29Sep43. Named "Cabin In the Sky" {first combat mission 3Nov43}.
Battle damaged on a mission to the industrial complex at Berlin, Germany 19May44 (2WIA:8RTD).
The navigator and ball turret gunner were wounded. Battle damaged on a mission to an oil storage
facility at Saint-Ouen, Paris, France 22Jun44 (1KIA:9RTD). During the approach to the target, flak
guns within the Paris area opened up on the formation. The ball turret gunner was killed. On return,
force landed at RAF Beaulieu, Hampshire. {41 missions}. Salvaged 30Jun44.
31042 (MSN 6156) Accepted by USAAF 6Sep43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 9Sep43. 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 10Oct43. 303rd Bomb Group,
Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 19Oct43. Base Air Depot No.1, Burtonwood (Station 590),
Lancashire 23Oct43. 544th Bomb Squadron [SU*L], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106),
Northamptonshire 2Nov43. {first combat mission 26Nov43}. Failed to return from a mission to the port
at Bremen, Germany 26Nov43 (1KIA:9POW). With battle damage and the No.4 engine disabled caused
by flak en route to the target, the aircraft dropped out of formation near Oldenburg. It was then
attacked by Bf 109 fighters and the navigator killed by a 20mm cannon shell. Shot down by Uffz Franz Prader
in Bf 109G of JG 11/9 The gunners bailed out while the other crew members remained
in the aircraft which crash landed and burned out at Uthlede, six miles southeast of Hagen,
eighteeen miles northwest of Bremen, Germany. {1 mission}. MACR 1663.
31043 (MSN 6157) Accepted by USAAF 6Sep43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 10Sep43. 381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 19Oct43. 526th Bomb Squadron [LF*L],
Transferered to 379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 3Mar44. After a cross country
training flight to slow time a replacement engine, the landing gear collapsed returning to base at
Kimbolton 12Sep44. {76 missions}. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton (Station 547), Huntingdonshire 12Sep44. Salvaged 14Sep44
Named ELSIE MAE/HELL'S BELLE.
31044 (MSN 6158) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 10Sep43.
350th Bomb Squadron, 100th Bomb Group 24Sep43. Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander,
Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 27/28Sep43. Ferried from Prestwick, Scotland to
Marrakech, French Morocco 29/30Sep43. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. 340th Bomb Squadron,
97th Bomb Group, Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 5Oct43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Foggia Main,
Italy 15Dec43. San Giovanni, Cerignola, Italy 20Dec43. Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44.. Named "Her Did"
Failed to return from a mission to a railway marshalling yard at Verona, Italy 14Feb44 (3KIA:8RTD).
Attacked by enemy fighters, ditched 100 yds offshore at Calvi, Corsica. On the turn over the target area,
two engines failed forcing the airplane to skid towards the outside of the formation. The first
attack came from dead astern at which time the tail guns on the bomber jammed. A second fighter,
spotting the lack of firing from the rear turret, came into point-blank range before firing, killing the
radio operator, a waist gunner and wounding the other waist gunner also causing light wounds
to the two other gunners. A third fighter made his pass, but the wounded gunner from his top turret
opened fire and the fighter was seen to explode, the turret guns becoming inoperative at the time.
A fourth fighter fell to the gunner from his ball turret and the combined work of the bombardier
and navigator claimed another fighter destroyed. Five minutes following the attack American
P-47 Thunderbolt fighters escorted the bomber. First aid was given the wounded, but with
only two engines functioning, the other gunners began stripping the ship of all excess weight.
As the pilot sighted the airfield at Calvi, Corsica, a third engine failed. Not having enough
power and losing altitude, the pilot elected to ditch. All but the pilot and co-pilot crowded
into the radio room, taking the dead with them. The plane hit the water approximately 100 yards
from shore, breaking up under the impact. The airmen climbed into life rafts dragging the
wounded but were unable to save the bodies of their dead comrades.
The B-17 wreck is north of Calvi, at the foot of a small green lighthouse. At one time, some
people had the idea to salvage the wreck to sell the aluminium. It was during such an operation
that the wreck was broken. Later, a diver discovered a wallet which had belonged to one of the
killed machine gunners. Divers cut blades off the propellers while the cockpit was destroyed by an
anchor. In 2012 US Navy divers, assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit 2, Company 4,
and the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, placed the American flag and the POW/MIA flag on the wreckage.
The wreck is still down there.
31045 (MSN 6159) Accepted by USAAF 7Sep43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 10Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand
Island Field, NB 1Nov43. 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 11Nov43.
546th Bomb Squadron [BK*M], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire
29Nov43. {first combat mission 5Dec43}. Returned with battle damage from a mission to a Luftwaffe
airfield at Essey-l�s-Nancy, France 6Feb44. {15 missions}. On ferry flight to 2nd Strategic Air Depot
for installation of GEE equipment, the left main landing gear failed to extend, caused by failure
of the motor drive shaft. The pilot returned to Grafton Underwood for advice from his CO and
was instructed to return to Little Staughton and crash land there. Back at Little Staughton, the pilot
was instructed to proceed to Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire, the airfield serving the
other home of 2nd Strategic Air Depot at Abbots Ripton. He was further instructed to return to
Little Staughton. The plane finally crash landed at Little Staughton 8Feb44. 2nd Strategic Air Depot,
Little Staughton (Station 127), Bedfordshire 13Feb44. Salvaged 17Feb44
31046 (MSN 6160) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 10Sep43.
Scott Field, Belleville, IL 29Sep43. 365th Bomb Squadron [XK*E], 305th Bomb Group,
Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 18Oct43. Failed to return from a mission to the
port at Bremen, Germany 26Nov43 (10POW). Damaged by flak, possibly crashed in sea off Emden, Germany.
MACR 1326.
31047 (MSN 6161) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Sep43.
Scott Field, Belleville, IL 28Sep43. 535th Bomb Squadron [MS*T/Q], 381st Bomb Group,
Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 20Oct43.. Named *Little Duchess/Wolverine*.
To 448th Sub-Depot, Air Service Command, Ridgewell 5Jan44 for repair when leaflets from
another plane above stove in the right wing in addition to the right stabiliser and No.3 & 4 engines.
Failed to return from a mission to an aircraft assembly plant at Brunswick, Germany 30Jan44 (8KIA:2POW).
Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed on a street between Kohle and Ottbergen, six miles east of
Hildesheim, Germany. {19 missions}. MACR 2243. Salvaged and used by Luftwaffe.
31048 (MSN 6162) Accepted by USAAF 7Sep43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 11Sep43. 25th Ferrying Squadron, 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT.
Damaged landing at North Platte, NB 17Sep43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Lincoln
Field, NB 19Sep43. Ferried from RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador to Errol, Scotland 14/15Feb44.
545th Bomb Squadron [JD*L], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106),
Northamptonshire 1Mar44. {first combat mission 8Mar44}. Failed to return from a mission
to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 13Apr44 (8KIA:2POW). The bomber
was attacked head on by fifteen Fw 190 fighters, raking it with 20mm cannon shells which
injured and killed some of the crew. The bomber exploded over Lindenfels and crashed
at Einhausen, Bergstrasse, nine miles south of Darmstadt, Germany. {8 missions}. MACR 3866
31049 (MSN 6163) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 10Sep43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 23Sep43.
350th Bomb Squadron [LN*U], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 5Oct43.
Named SUPERSTITUOUS ALOYSIUS the name of a popular cartoon character. . Returned to US 12Jan45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 18Sep45
31050 (MSN 6164) Accepted by USAAF 8Sep43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 11Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 3Oct43. 525th Bomb Squadron [FR*R], 379th Bomb Group,
Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 19Oct43. 527th Bomb Squadron [FO*R].
Failed to return from a mission to the industrial area at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 29Jan44 (6POW:4RTD).
Shot down by enemy fighters, crash landed Bra-Lierneux, Li�ge, Belgium. MACR 2874
31051 (MSN 6165) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Sep43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 21Sep43.
349th Bomb Squadron [XR*R], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 3Nov43.
351st Bomb Squadron [EP*K]. Failed to return from a mission to industrial areas in the suburbs of Berlin,
Germany 6Mar44 (7KIA:3POW). Shot down by fighter attack near Hasel�nne, aircraft exploded,
crashed Elsten, nine miles south of Cloppenburg, Germany. MACR 3018. Named GOIN' JESSIE
31052 (MSN 6166) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Sep43.
Field, Belleville, IL 24Sep43. 303rd Bomb Group 11Oct43. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland
to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 11/12Nov43. 360th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group,
Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire Nov43. 447th Bomb Group, Rattlesden (Station 126),
Suffolk 1943. Battle damaged, Berlin, Germany 7Mar44, crash landed Rattlesden. Salvaged by
2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton 17Mar44.
31053 (MSN 6167) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Sep43.
338th Bomb Squadron [BX*W], 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 29Sep43.
Named "Stingy" (named by Major General Frederick Anderson, CO of VIII Bomber Command,
in honor of his son).. While on a training mission damaged in mid-air collision with B-17G 43-37684
11Oct44, fuselage broke in half and crashed Woodend, near Towcester, Northants (7KIS). A formation
of B-17 Flying Fortresses took off from their base at Snetterton Heath in Norfolk, part of the 96th
Bomb Group for a training mission with a mock bombing run above Rugby. Over the village of
Farthingstone, before their planned turn at Silverstone to return to base, tragically a formation
of 3 aircraft were involved in a horrific mid-air collision at 15,000ft after encountering severe
turbulence and cloud. The accident was triggered when the pilot of B-17F 42-3510 pulled up and
hit the nose of B-17G 43-37684 with its tail section. Just as 510 sheared in half the third B-17
(42-31053) hit 684 with its rudder and also broke in two. Miraculously, the pilot who was piloting
510 parachuted to safety, while his B-17 and the other bombers plummeted to earth at Woodend
west of Towcester, in four sections. Core's four crewmen were killed as was pilot Jorgenson and his
six man crew. Although badly damaged 43-37684 was able to limp back to Snetterton Heath. Salvaged 11Oct44.
31054 (MSN 6168) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Sep43.
412th Bomb Squadron [QW*Q], 95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 7Oct43
Named "Irish Luck" . Failed to return from a mission to the industrial area at Brunswick,
Germany 10Feb44 (1KIA:9POW). Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Wohlstreck, northeast of
Diepholz, Germany. {19 missions}. MACR 2545
31055 (MSN 6169) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Sep43.
Scott Field, Belleville, IL 19Sep43. 360th Bomb Squadron [PU*J], 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth
(Station 107), Huntingdonshire 18Oct43. Named "Aloha". Seriously damaged by flak during a
mission to the Vereinigte Kugellagerfabriken AG (VKF) ball bearing factory, Erkner, Germany 6Mar44.
2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton (Station 547), Huntingdonshire. Regained by Group 9Apr44.
360th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth. Used for non-combat missions. Damaged
landing at RAF Mepal, Cambridgeshire 11Apr44. 41st Combat Wing. Stripped of most of the armament,
the aircraft was crewed by a pilot, co-pilot, navigator, engineer, radio operator, tail gunner and a
meteorologist, acting as weather observation, as well as performing radio relay duties for both
Bomber and Fighter escort groups. Declared 'war weary' 9Apr45. Alconbury (Station 102),
Huntingdonshire 1Jun45. Converted for trooping, stripped of all armament and turrets, capable of
carrying thirty passengers on benches installed in the waist and bomb bay. 384th Bomb Group,
Istres (Station 195), Marseille, France Jun45. Participated in the Green Project which was the USAAF
solution to expedite the return of troops to USA. It called for the round-the-clock airlift of troops
from Istres, France, to Casablanca, French Morocco, the initial leg of their journey home.
From Casablanca, Air Transport Command's aircraft completed the journey and flew the troops
to the United States. A secondary task of the Green Project included flying French citizens who had
been in exile during the war on the return leg from NAS Port Lyautey, French Morocco to Istres.
The Green Project operated from 15Jun45 to 10Sep45. .
31056 ((MSN 6170) Accepted by USAAF 9Sep43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 15Sep43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 30Sep43. 369th Bomb Squadron [WW*U],
306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 19Oct43. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little
Staughton (Station 127), Bedfordshire 27Oct43. Regained by Group 30Oct43. Crash landed at Little
Staughton, Bedfordshire 17Nov43. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little Staughton (Station 127),
Bedfordshire 17Nov43. Regained by Group. 369th Bomb Squadron [WW*Z]. Seriously battle
damaged during a mission to the industrial area at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 29Jan44 (1WIA:9RTD).
Flak shrapnel damaged the left horizontal stabiliser and ball turret. Left and right wing damaged
by empty 0.50 caliber shell cases. Failed to return from a mission to the Kriegsmarinewerft
shipyard at Wilhelmshaven, Germany 3Feb44 (7POW:3KIA). Flak disabled No.2 engine, No.3
engine blew a cylinder and No.4 propeller oversped. The crew bailed out and the plane crashed
on a sandbank near Ruteplate, between Benserseil & Langeoog Island, Germany. MACR 2494
31057 (MSN 6171) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Sep43.
334th Bomb Squadron [BG*G], 95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 29Sep43.
Named "Devil's Daughter, the 2nd" . Accident landing at Wendling (Station 118),
Norfolk 16Dec43. {10 missions}. Salvaged after non battle damage 6Oct44
31058 (MSN 6172) Accepted by USAAF 9Sep43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 13Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 27Sep43. 546th Bomb Squadron [BK*T],
384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 18Oct43.
Named *Liberty Run*. (first combat mission 16Nov43}. Landed away after a mission
to a Luftwaffe fighter airfield at Saint-Jean-d'Ang�ly, France 5Dec43. The No.4 engine oil cooler
leaked, the propeller oversped and could not be feathered. The propeller fell off and broke the
engine crankshaft. With the other engines smoking from increased power and poor visibility over
England, the pilot took advantage of landing when he saw an airfield. Landed at RNAS Henstridge,
Dorset. Returned to Grafton Underwood 7Dec43. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little Staughton (Station 127),
Bedfordshire Dec43 for repair. Regained by Group 14Jan44. Failed to return from a Crossbow mission
to a German V-weapon site at Preuseville in the Pas-de-Calais, France 28Feb44 (1KIA:8POW:1EVD).
The aircraft went down during the first bomb run between the Initial Point and target with one engine
smoking badly and in flames; no flak or fighters had been encountered up to that point.
The crew bailed out the tail gunner was killed when his parachute streamed - and the plane
crashed and burned in a field 1km northeast of Envermeu, east of Dieppe, France. {12 missions}. MACR 2937
31059 (MSN 6173) Accepted by USAAF Sep43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 13Sep43. 547th Bomb Squadron [SO*N], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106),
Northamptonshire 2Oct43. Failed to return from a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt,
Germany 14Oct43 (1KIA:2POW:7EVD). En route to the target area, the bomber formation was repeatedly
attacked by a large number of Luftwaffe fighters. After the target, the Group turned and headed westward
for England. German fighters, having landed and refueled, attacked again. Attacked by Fw 190 fighters of JG 2/1,
which are believed to have killed the bombardier and set the right wing fuel tanks on fire. As the crew
bailed out, the aircraft exploded, the right wing came off and crashed at Bar-le-Duc, near Soissons, France.
{1 mission}.. MACR 842
31060 (MSN 6174) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Sep43.
427th Bomb Squadron [GN*N], 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 18Oct43.
Named *Poque Ma Hone*(Gaelic for Kiss My Arse!)) Crash landed Little Staughton (Station 127),
Bedfordshire 20Jan44. Participated in the 'Grapefruit' mission to drop GB-1 glide bombs on a railway
marshalling yard at Cologne, Germany 28May44. Failed to return from a mission to the L�tzkendorf oil
facilities at M�cheln, west of Merseburg, Germany 9Feb45 (5KIA:1POW:3RTD). B-17G 42-31060 and
B-17G 43-39149 collided before 'bomb release' after 42-31060 was hit by flak. The right wing of
42-31060 hit the tail of 43-39149. The rear part of the fuselage - from the waist window back - was torn
from 43-39149. The aircraft was seen going down out of control in two pieces. 42-31060 dropped down
about 10,000ft below the formation and seemed to be under control. It followed the formation for about
45 minutes and was then lost from sight. The collision knocked out two engines on the right wing with
oil and gasoline all over the wing. With two engines lost, altitude could not be maintained. It was also
apparent that the B-17 could not buck a head wind and get back to England. The pilot asked for a heading
to fly towards the nearest Russian lines. After about an hour flying in heavy cloud cover the B-17 started to
pick up ice on the wings and continued to lose altitude. The crew threw out guns and other heavy items
and were able to reach the front lines where the Germans and Russians were fighting. When over the Russian
Lines the order to bail out was given. The B-17 crashed and exploded east of Jaraczewe, Poland.
Three crew members were picked up by Russian troops and returned to Molesworth 6Mar45. MACR 12245.
31061 (MSN 6175) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Sep43.
331st Bomb Squadron [QE*T], 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 30Oct43.
Named "Good Time Cholly III" Damaged by fire in ground accident at Rougham 16Aug44. Returned to US.
121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 10Jul45. 4185th Base Unit
(Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), Independence Field, KS 30Nov45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 18Dec45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
31062 (MSN 6176) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Sep43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 28Sep43.
351st Bomb Squadron [EP*D], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 28Sep43
Named "Holy Terror II"; Landing at Thorpe Abbotts after a training mission 29Dec43,
a dragging brake caused the aircraft to run off the runway. The right wheel was in a drainage ditch
then hit a soft spot causing the aircraft to nose over. It then dropped back down driving the tail wheel
up into the fuselage. The nose compartment was destroyed, four propellers were dmaged and
three engines had been shock loaded, as well as destruction of the tail support structure.
Battle damaged on a Crossbow mission to a German V-weapon site in the Pas de Calais, France 21Jan44.
With a engine feathered, bombs were jettisoned in the English Channel. Returning to land, the landing gear
was jammed and the aircraft crash landed at Honington (Station 375), Suffolk. Salvaged 1st Strategic
Air Depot, Troston (Station 595), Suffolk 31Jan44.
31063 (MSN 6177) Accepted by USAAF 10Sep43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 14Sep43. 335th Bomb Squadron [OE*T], 95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119),
Suffolk 29Sep43. {48 missions}. [G], 457th Bomb Group, Glatton (Station 130), Huntingdonshire Jun44.
384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 22Mar45. Named "Spook Six".
Returned to US. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage
and disposal 18Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped.
31064 (MSN 6178) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Sep43.
613th Bomb Squadron [IN*H], 401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 30Oct43.
614th Bomb Squadron [IW*H], 401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe. Named "Hey Lou". While flown by a 613th BS crew
failed to return from a mission to the Luftwaffe air depot at M�rignac, Bordeaux, France 31Dec43 (1KIA:9MIA).
The target was covered in solid cloud so the secondary target, a Luftwaffe base at Ch�teaubernard, Cognac,
France. Shot down by Hptm Herbert Huppertz in Fw 190A-6 of JG 2/III
Stab and crashed into English Channel off St. Catherine's Point,
Isle of Wight, UK. MACR 1872.
31065 (MSN 6179) Accepted by USAAF 10Sep43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 13Sep43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 28Sep43. 367th Bomb Squadron [GY*Z],
306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 19Oct43. 2nd Strategic Air Depot,
Little Staughton (Station 127), Bedfordshire 27Oct43. Regained by Group 30Oct43. Seriously battle
damaged during a mission to the port area at Kiel, Germany 13Dec43. Right inner wing struck by flak.
Seriously battle damaged during a mission to railway marshalling yards at Frankfurt am Main,
Germany 4Feb44. As the planes were passing over the Netherlands en route to Germany, local cross
winds carried the bombers straight into enemy flak. Right inner and outer wings, right wing between
No.3 and No.4 engines struck by flak. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton (Station 547),
Huntingdonshire 20Feb44. Regained by Group 24Feb44. Aborted a mission to the Heinkel Flugzeugwerke
aircraft factory at Oranienburg, Germany 9Mar44. The No.4 propeller oversped and could not be feathered.
Bombs were jettisoned over the North Sea and the propeller fell off when the plane force landed at RAF
Bourn, Cambridgeshire. Seriously battle damaged on a Crossbow mission to a German V-weapon site at
Watten, France 26Mar44 (1WIA:9RTD). On return, force landed at RAF Manston, Kent. 2nd Strategic Air Depot,
Abbots Ripton (Station 547), Huntingdonshire 27Mar44. Regained by Group 10May44. Declared 'war weary'.
2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton (Station 547), Huntingdonshire 25Jul44 for installation of electronic
supercharger regulators. Regained by Group 11Aug44. Battle damaged on a mission to the hydrogenation
works at Scholven-Buer, Gelsenkirchen, Germany 26Aug44. The plane got as far as the coast of Denmark
when No.4 engine had to be shut down and the propeller feathered. Shortly thereafter, the No.1 engine
started to run unsteady and the plane dropped out of formation. The crew dropped their bombs into the
Kiel Canal where Germany had many ships tied up. After this the anti-aircraft guns opened fire. The plane
received many holes from shrapnel but no one was hurt. The bomber was soon far enough from the coast
that the guns couldn't reach but then along came the Bf 109's. they were chased off by some P-47 Thunderbolts
to protect and escort back to England. Failed to return from a mission to the Braunkohle-Benzin AG synthetic
oil refinery at Schwarzheide, Ruhland, Germany 12Sep44 (8POW:1KIA). Damaged by flak, the crew bailed out.
Crashed Kasserolhof, near Eberswalde, north of Berlin, Germany. MACR 8827
31066 (MSN 6180) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Sep43.
Scott Field, Belleville, IL 29Sep43. 351st Bomb Squadron [EP*H], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts
(Station 139), Norfolk 4Oct43. Named "Dixie Baby/Fools Rush In". Failed to return from a mission to the
Rhenania-Ossag Mineral�lwerke oil refinery at Harburg, Hamburg, Germany 31Dec44 (6KIA:3POW). . MACR 11366. .
Received direct hit by flak just before releasing bombs, and the bombs were salvoed. The aircraft fell onto
43-38124 and both aircraft went down in flames. Crashed Radegast, Germany
31067 (MSN 6181) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Sep43. qqq
534th Bomb Squadron, 381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 20Oct43. 535th Bomb Squadron [MS*T:MS*Q].
{67 missions, Named "Black Widow/Phyllis". Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment
Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 8Jun45. 4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City
Air Technical Service Command), South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 15Jun45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 13Dec45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
31068 (MSN 6182) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Sep43.
Scott Field, Belleville, IL 22Oct43. 612th Bomb Squadron [SC*D], 401st Bomb Group,
Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 8Nov43. Named "Fools Luck". . Battle damaged on a
mission to the Luftwaffe air depot at M�rignac, Bordeaux, France 31Dec43. On return and in poor weather conditions,
the crew bailed out over Ware, Hertfordshire, the aircraft crashing in a field at Foxhole Hill,
Potters Bar, Hertfordshire. All (10) Crew Bailed Out and Survived. Aircraft Was Destroyed.
31069 (MSN 6183) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 15Sep43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 20Oct43. 615th Bomb Squadron [IY*K],
401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 11Nov43.
Named "Little Moe" Failed to return from a mission to the Braunkohle Benzin A.G. synthetic
oil refinery at Rothensee, Magdeburg, Germany 28Sep44 (9POW). Over the target, flak
struck the No.2 engine. It burst into flames and the pilot gave the order to bail out. Crashed Helmstedt, Germany.
MACR 9415.
31070 (MSN 6184) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Sep43.
322nd Bomb Squadron [LG*M], 91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 14Dec43..
Named "Dame Satan II". Battle damaged on a mission to the AGO-Flugzeugwerke Fw 190
manufacturing factory at Oschersleben, Germany 11Jan44. While the aircraft were airborne, the weather
closed in over English bases and a recall signal was issued. B/Gen. Robert F. Travis, Air Commander
of the 1st Bomb Division, continued on to the target. This left the 1st Bomb Division with greater
exposure to enemy fighter attacks. Good fighter support was provided by P-47 Thunderbolts on the
penetration and by P-51 Mustangs over the target. P-47s were airborne to provide withdrawal
support but they obeyed the recall order to return to England and left the bombers to fend for
themselves on the return trip. Luftwaffe attacks started over the IJsselmeer and intensified when the
American fighters returned home. Meagre and fairly accurate flak was experienced on the bomb run,
with intermittent inaccurate flak on the return trip. Battle damaged on a mission to an aircraft assembly
plant at Brunswick, Germany 30Jan44 (1WIA:9RTD). Flak was meagre to moderate but inaccurate; the
plane was subject to two major attacks by enemy fighters wounding a gunner. Battle damaged on a
mission to the Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau AG aircraft factory at Sorau, Prussia 11Apr44. The primary
target was covered with clouds; so the group headed to the secondary target of the port area at
Stettin, Prussia. Intense and accurate flak was encountered in the vicinity of Hanover and Stettin.
On return, the formation was subjected to two hard-pressed attacks by enemy fighters. Returned to US.
1104th Base Unit (Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command), Homestead Field, FL 16Jul44. Modified for
training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17G.
4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 24Jul44.
610th Base Unit (Proving Ground Command), Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 20Oct44. Wright Field,
Dayton, OH 24Oct44. 610th Base Unit (Proving Ground Command), Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 19Dec44.
Damaged taxying at Wright Field 19Dec44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR
for storage and disposal 5Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company,
Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31071 (MSN 6185) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Sep43.
Scott Field, Belleville, IL 28Sep43. 418th Bomb Squadron [LD*U], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts
(Station 139), Norfolk 4Oct43. Named "Dorhelcia". . Failed to return from a mission to a
communication center at M�nster, Germany 22Dec43 (10KIA). Damaged by flak, crashed North Sea.
MACR 1705.
31072 (MSN 6186) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Sep43.
Scott Field, Belleville, IL 20Oct43. 613th Bomb Squadron [IN*K], 401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe
(Station 128), Northamptonshire 26Oct43. Named "Betty J". TDY Polebrook 16Jun44,
returned 6Jul44. TDY Egypt 6Aug44, returned 29Aug44. Force landed on the continent 3Mar45.
{93 missions}. Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field,
Windsor Locks, CT 7Jun45. 4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command),
South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 13Jun45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41,
Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 17Dec45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
31073 (MSN 6187) Accepted by USAAF 11Sep43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 15Sep43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 29Sep43. 547th Bomb Squadron [SO*D],
384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 18Oct43. Named "Billie-Del"
{first combat mission 3Nov43}. Crashed returning from an aborted mission to bomb a blockade
runner ship 'Orsone' at the mouth of River Garonne, Gironde, France 31Dec43 (10RTD). The crew found
bad weather on return to base. Unable to find an airfield and running out of fuel, the crew bailed out
safely, except for the two pilots who rode the aircraft down to crash land near Whittlesey,
Cambridgeshire. {8 missions}. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton (Station 547), Huntingdonshire 5Jan44. Salvaged
31074 (MSN 6188) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 15Sep43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 28Sep43. 350th Bomb Squadron [LN*Q],
100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 4Oct43. Named *Cahepit*. Failed to return from a
mission to the industrial area of Munich, Germany 13Jul44 (10INT). Moderate accurate flak
was encountered at Ludwigshafen and Mannheim with intense flak at the target. Damaged by flak, f\
force landed Emmen, Switzerland MACR 7501
31075 (MSN 6189) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 15Sep43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 4Oct43. 535th Bomb Squadron [MS*S],
381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 19Oct43. Named'The Rebel'
Failed to return from a mission to the port area at Bremen, Germany 20Dec43 (7POW:3KIA).
As the formation turned at the I.P. fighter attacks began on the low group of the lead formation.
The bomber was heavily hit by Bf 109 fighters and began to trail behind the formation with an
engine on fire and crewmen wounded. It was kept under control with the auto-pilot, a factor
which would affect the plane's eventual fate, and successfully bombed the target. After the
target the pilot cut short the turn to the rally point and came back under the formation for
about thirty seconds. The plane was on fire, losing altitude and still under attack by enemy fighters.
Seven crewmen were wounded and the order was given to bail out. The pilot, who had been
flying with the auto-pilot, set the plane into a slightly nose down left hand turn. This gave
the crew a chance to get away from the plane as they bailed out. Eight of the crew were able
to bail out between Bremen and the village of Finna. The co-pilot, badly wounded, weak from
loss of blood and in shock, probably passed out on the flight deck. With eight of the crew free
of the plane, it continued to descend in a left hand turn, northwest of the target. At some point,
two Bf 109 fighters picked up the bomber and continued to pursue it. Possibly thinking that
the B-17 was still under control, even though two engines were by now on fire, the German pilots
continued to make firing passes on the descending Fortress. Listed as shot down by Hptm. Alfred
Grislawski in Fw 190A-7 of JG 1/1. As the plane continued its auto-pilot
controlled descent the co-pilot finally regains consciousness on the floor of the flight deck.
He must have realized that it was very near the ground and knew that his only chance for survival
was to get out. With some last reserve of strength he was able to attach his chest pack parachute and
fell free from the plane at an altitude of 300 to 400 meters but is killed striking the frozen ground.
Crashed near Albstedt, Wulsb�ttel, Germany. MACR 1722.
31076 (MSN 6190) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 16Sep43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 3Oct43.
Modified for radio counter measures. 323rd Bomb Squadron [OR*L], 91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn
(Station 121), Cambridgeshire 16Oct43. {nil missions}. 322nd Bomb Squadron [LG*V].
Named "Chief Sly's Son" {first combat mission 3Nov43}. Battle damaged on a mission to the Luftwaffe
air depot at M�rignac, Bordeaux, France 31Dec43. The target was covered in solid cloud so the group
diverted to the secondary target, a Luftwaffe airfield at Ch�teaubernard, Cognac, France. Flak at the
target was moderate and accurate. Failed to return from a mission to the AGO-Flugzeugwerke Fw 190
manufacturing factory at Oschersleben, Germany 11Jan44 (2KIA:8POW). While the aircraft were
airborne, the weather closed in over English bases and a recall signal was issued. B/Gen. Robert F. Travis,
Air Commander of the 1st Bomb Division, continued on to the target. This left the 1st Bomb Division
with greater exposure to enemy fighter attacks. Good fighter support was provided by P-47 Thunderbolts
on the penetration and by P-51 Mustangs over the target. P-47s were airborne to provide withdrawal
support but they obeyed the recall order to return to England and left the bombers to fend for
themselves on the return trip. Luftwaffe attacks started over the IJsselmeer and intensified when the
American fighters returned home. Meagre and fairly accurate flak was experienced on the bomb run,
with intermittent inaccurate flak on the return trip. Trouble began during severe enemy fighter
attacks about twenty minutes prior to the target. 20mm cannon shells started a small fire in the left wing.
The fire remained quite small until after the target, when the formation lowered altitude by about 2000 feet.
Then the fire enlarged, probably due to increase in the atmosphere's oxygen supply. Enemy aircraft then
scored more hits and the flight controls became sluggish. At that time the engineer was probably killed.
The crew began to bail out at about 1500 feet and six men bailed out successfully. Three more crew
members were preparing to bail via the nose hatch when the plane exploded in the air. The pilot and
bombardier were blown clear, but apparently the co-pilot was blown further back into the plane and
did not survive the crash. The plane crashed at Schmede, south of Steinfeld, Germany. {18 missions}.
MACR 1919
31077 (MSN 6191) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 16Sep43.
Scott Field, Belleville, IL 21Oct43. 612th Bomb Squadron [SC*A], 401st Bomb Group,
Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 26Oct43. 615th Bomb Squadron [IY*A]. Named. "Pakawalup II"
Failed to return from a mission to marshalling yards as M�nster, Germany 30Sep44 (9POW).
Shot Down By Anti-Aircraft Fire and Crashed at Burgsteinfurt Northwest of Munster Germany
MACR 9416.
31078 (MSN 6192) Accepted by USAAF 13Sep43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 15Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 1Oct43. 369th Bomb Squadron [WW*R], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111),
Bedfordshire 19Oct43. Named "Bless 'Em All". {first combat mission 1Jan44}. 2nd Strategic Air Depot,
Little Staughton (Station 127), Bedfordshire 6Nov43. Regained by Group 8Nov43. Failed to return from
a mission to the industrial areas of Emden, Germany 11Dec43 (10POW). The Luftwaffe was waiting for
the bombers; the moment the bombers crossed over into mainland Europe, six twin-engine fighters
dived out of the sun upon the formation, concentrating all their fire on the lead plane. Once the leader
had been downed, the fighters swept through the lead Squadron. Before the deputy lead had a chance
to reassemble the formation, a large force of single-engine fighters joined the fray, attacking the
other bombers. The plane received a direct flak hit on the No.2 engine, which knocked it off the wing and
the plane out of the formation. The No.I engine was so badly damaged that the pilot had to feather the propeller.
The No.3 engine started losing oil in a steady stream. The plane dropped off to the starboard side and
lost about 2,000ft altitude before recovering to fairly level flight. By this time the plane was dropping
farther behind the group. A flak burst pulverized the glass on the left side of the pilot's compartment
After the bombs were jettisoned the pilot turned toward the west. He pushed the throttle for No.4 engine
as far forward as it could go then used No.3 engine intermittently because after running a while it would
overheat and he had to let it idle to cool down. At that time the pilot learned that the navigator had bailed out.
During the flight across the Netherlands, the pilot explained to the crew that he did not know if he had
power enough to get them back to England on the one engine. The plane continued on its way and crossed the
northern end of the Netherlands and passed between two of the islands off the coast. A few minutes later,
the pilot tried to get some help from the No.3 engine whi ch had cooled down, but as the engine RPMs
increased it started to ignite (it had probably lost too much oil) so there was only one thing left to do - ditch.
The plane had descended to I,500 feet at that point so the crew prepared for ditching. The bomber was
ditched in the North Sea off Texel island, Netherlands. The crew was rescued by a German naval vessel.
MACR 1574.
31079 (MSN 6193) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Sep43.
Scott Field, Belleville, IL 23Oct43. 401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 14Nov43.
401st Bomb Squadron [LL*J:LL*F], 91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 20Nov43.
Battle damaged on a mission to the port at Bremen, Germany 26Nov43. Damaged by flak, the plane
collided with B-17G 42-37738 just after leaving the target but returned safely to Bassingbourn.
Battle damaged on a Crossbow mission to a German V-weapon site at Andres in the Pas-de-Calais,
France 24Dec43 (1WIA). Flak over the target was heavy and accurate, damaging the plane and
wounding a gunner. Failed to return from a mission to the VKF (Vereinigte Kugellagerfabriken)
ball bearing factory at Erkner, Berlin, Germany 6Mar44 (4KIA:6POW). Attacked by enemy fighters
north of Magdeburg. Right stabiliser shot away, six of the crew bailed out before the bomber
crashed at Lindstedt, seven miles northwest of Gardelegen, Germany MACR 2897
31080 (MSN 6194) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 16Sep43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 3Oct43.
331st Bomb Squadron, 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 10Oct43.
Named "Hey Moitle". Failed to return from a mission to the industrial area at Brunswick, Germany
10Feb44 (5KIA:5POW). Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Lauingen, ten miles east of Brunswick, Germany.
MACR 2371
31081 (MSN 6195) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 16Sep43.
613th Bomb Squadron [IN*C], 401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 4Nov43.
Named "Son of a Blitz". Shot Down Oct 7, 1944 By Anti-Aircraft Fire and Crashed and Exploded on Impact at Politz Germany
While on a Mission on The Synthetic Oil Refinery at Politz Germany. A Direct Hit Blew The Nose of The Aircraft off.
All (9) Crew Were Killed. MACR 9757..
31082 (MSN 6196) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20Sep43.
447th Bomb Group, Harvard Field, NB 4Oct43. 710th Bomb Squadron, 447th Bomb Group,
Rattlesden (Station 126), Suffolk 25Nov43. Named "Hick's Hack" Failed to return from a mission to the aero
engine complex at Brunswick, Germany 11Jan44 (2KIA:8POW). As weather conditions began
to deteriorate over the English bases, a recall order was sent to the bomber groups en route
to the city. While some the groups received the message and turned back for England, others
did not receive the order, and pressed onwards. When they arrived at the target area,
they met stiff resistance from the Luftwaffe. Shot down by enemy fighters, crash landed near
Wagenfeld, ten miles southeast of Diepholz, Germany. {3 missions} MACR 2512
31083 (MSN 6197) Accepted by USAAF 14Sep43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Sep43. 525th Bomb Squadron [FR*A], 379th Bomb Group,
Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 19Oct43. Named "Tenny Belle" During assembly for a mission to the
Focke-Wulf aircraft factory at Sorau, Prussia 11Apr44, exploded in mid-air near Downham
Market, crash landed Fen Farm, Stow Bardolph, Suffolk (9KIA). Salvaged 18Apr44
31084 (MSN 6198) Accepted by USAAF 14Sep43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 16Sep43. 561st Bomb Squadron [R], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall
(Station 136), Suffolk 9Oct43. {first combat mission 11Nov43}. Failed to return from a mission
to the port area at Bremen, Germany 20Dec43 (5MIA:5KIA). Attacked by a large force of enemy
fighters and flak over the target area was very intense. Struck by flak over the target and dropped
out of formation with bomb bay doors open and on fire. The plane crashed in the North Sea near
Heligoland island off the German/Danish border. {9 missions}. .MACR 3154.
31085 (MSN 6199) Accepted by USAAF 14Sep43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 16Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 1Oct43. 524th Bomb Squadron [WA*D], 379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton
(Station 117), Huntingdonshire 19Oct43. 525th Bomb Squadron [FR*D]. Named "Anita Marie"
Battle damaged with injured crew and cannon holes in the vertical stabiliser. Failed to return
from a mission to oil refinery at Taucha, Leipzig, Germany 7Jul44 (3KIA:6POW). Damaged by flak,
crashed Altenroda, Germany. MACR 7357
31086 (MSN 6200) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 16Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 27Sep43. 337th Bomb Squadron [AW*O], 96th Bomb Group,
Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 11Oct43. Failed to return from a mission to the
submarine construction yard at Vegesack, Bremen, Germany 16Dec43 (10KIA), on return
from mission, enemy aircraft attacked over Frisian Islands, collided with B-17G 42-37739
and crashed near Poppenwier, nine miles south of Leeuwarden, Netherlands. MACR 1567.
31087 (MSN 6201) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 17Sep43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 28Sep43. 612th Bomb Squadron [SC*K],
401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 26Oct43,
Named "Boche Buster" Damaged taxying at Deenethorpe 24Jan44. Failed to return
from a mission to the I.G. Farben synthetic fuel works at P�litz, Prussia 7Oct44 (9INT).
Damaged by flak, force landed Bredakara, Sweden. Departed Sweden 13May45. MACR 9758.
31088 (MSN 6202) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20Sep43.
Scott Field, Belleville, IL 25Sep43. 447th Bomb Group, Harvard Field, NB. 711th Bomb Squadron [IR*P],
447th Bomb Group, Rattlesden (Station 126), Suffolk. Named "Heaven Can Wait";
454th Sub-Depot, Air Service Command, Rattlesden 16Jan44; repair of extensive battle damage.
Regained by Group 1Mar44. Crashed after takeoff for a mission to an industrial area at Leipzig,
Germany 12Apr44 (7KIA, 3RET). Struck a tree on takeoff and crashed on Grange Farm, Blacksmith
Lane, Thorpe Morieux, Suffolk. {6 missions}. Salvaged 13Apr44
31089 (MSN 6203) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20Sep43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 4Oct43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 28Oct43. 612th Bomb
Squadron [SC*M], 401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 16Nov43.
Named "Carolyne". . Failed to return from a mission to the Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft
shipyard at Kiel, Germany 4Jan44 (8RTD:2MIA), ditched in North Sea. The aircraft was en route to Kiel
but at a point between Helgoland island and the German coast No.4 engine caught fire. The remaining
engines furnished insufficient power to allow the aircraft to remain in formation. It was turned and
headed for England. When the aircraft was sixty four (64) miles from the English coast No.3 engine
failed, the aircraft was steadily losing altitude so preparations were made for ditching. When the
aircraft ditched, water poured into the radio compartment to a height about knee deep. About 45
minuets later a British Mine Sweeper, Monique Comille, with the use of a grappling hook picked
up some of the crew. Meanwhile another British Mine Sweeper, Typhoon, rescued other crew members.
MACR 6468. .
31090 (MSN 6204) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20Sep43.
Scott Field, Belleville, IL 3Oct43. 613th Bomb Squadron [IN*L], 401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128),
Northamptonshire 4Nov43. . Named "Nasty Habit". Battle damaged during a mission to the
AGO-Flugzeugwerke Fw 190 manufacturing factory at Oschersleben, Germany 11Jan44. While the aircraft
were airborne, the weather closed in over English bases and a recall signal was issued. B/Gen. Robert F. Travis,
Air Commander of the 1st Bomb Division, continued on to the target. This left the 1st Bomb Division with
greater exposure to enemy fighter attacks. Good fighter support was provided by P-47 Thunderbolts
on the penetration and by P-51 Mustangs over the target. P-47s were airborne to provide withdrawal
support but they obeyed the recall order to return to England and left the bombers to fend for
themselves on the return trip. Luftwaffe attacks started over the IJsselmeer and intensified when
the American fighters returned home. Meagre and fairly accurate flak was experienced on the bomb run,
with intermittent inaccurate flak on the return trip. Diverted by poor visibility at Deenethorpe to the grass
airfield at RAF Matlaske, Norfolk. The bomber overshot the field and went through two hedges and the
Matlask-Wickmere road. Salvaged 21Jan44
31091 (MSN 6205) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20Sep43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 2Oct43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 21Oct43.
615th Bomb Squadron [IY*O], 401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 4Nov43
Named "Maggie". Failed to return from a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical and synthetic
oil works at Leuna, Merseburg, Germany 11Sep44 (4POW:5KIA). As the bomber made its bomb
run over Merseberg, it took a direct hit just below the cockpit. Flak ruptured the pressurized
oxygen system and started a raging fire that was so hot the aluminum skin of the aircraft was
burning. As the plane dropped out of the formation, flames were billowing out of the co-pilot's
side window. The bombardier immediately jettisoned the bombs to get them out of the burning plane.
Several crew managed to bail out before the plane crashed at Pegau, south of Leipzig, Germany.
MACR 8920.
31092 (MSN 6206) Accepted by USAAF 17Sep43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 20Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 3Oct43. 401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 19Nov43.
708th Bomb Squadron [CQ*A], 447th Bomb Group, Rattlesden (Station 126), Suffolk 20Nov43. Named"Butch II"
Crash landed at Honington (Station 375), Suffolk 22Jun44. 1st Strategic Air Depot, Troston (Station 595), Suffolk.
18th Weather Squadron, Weather Detachment 113, Cheddington (Station 113), Buckinghamshire.
Failed to return from a mission 27Mar45; crash landed in France (2KIA) MACR 13538
31093 (MSN 6207) Accepted by USAAF 15Sep43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 20Sep43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 1Oct43. 525th Bomb Squadron [FR*L],
379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 19Oct43. .
Named "Deacon's Sinners". Named after bombardier 2nd Lt. Melvin D. Henroid, who
was the oldest man on the crew; the rest of the crew, being much younger, looked up to the 'old man'
who had a calming influence on them.Damaged during a mission to the port at Bremen,
Germany 26Nov43 (1WIA). The aircraft was thrown upward when hit by flak and a large hole
appeared in the right wing. There was a sound of more flak bursts and more holes appeared.
A green burst of flak appeared and enemy fighters attacked the formation. The bombardier called
out two Bf 109s at 12 o'clock and then called on the interphone saying in a calm voice that he was hit,
and that the navigator was taking care of him. The navigator had stopped the bleeding with a large
gauze pad and bound his wound. The bombardier had been hit in the right knee taking off the patella.
The pain was intense, but he carefully took off his helmet and goggles, and put on his army cap before
allowing the medics to carry him out. The aircraft had 53 good-sized flak holes in it, mostly in the
right wing. The right wing had to be replaced keeping the plane on the ground for several days.
The engineer traced the path of the bullet that struck the bombardier from the nose compartment
through the fuselage. He found the copper jacket of the armor-piercing bullet in the crawl way
under the control quadrant of the cockpit. The copper piece had black paint on the tip, and
unmistakably, it was a.50 calibre bullet from one of the 379th Bomb Group planes. Failed to return
from a mission to Kiel, Germany 15Jan44 (8KIA:2POW). Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed D�geling,
Steinburg, Germany�MACR 1944..
31094 (MSN 6208) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20Sep43.
90th Ferrying Squadron, 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT. Substantially damaged
landing with mechanical failure at North Platte Municipal Airport, NB 30Sep43. Salvaged Kearney
Field, NB 14Dec4
31095 (MSN 6209) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20Sep43.
447th Bomb Group, Harvard Field, NB 4Oct43. 708th Bomb Squadron [CQ*F], 447th Bomb Group,
Rattlesden (Station 126), Suffolk 19Nov43. Ferried to Honington (Station 375), Suffolk Jan44.
1st Strategic Air Depot, Troston (Station 595), Suffolk. Regained by Group 25Jan44
Named "THE GROUND POUNDER". Battle damaged on a mission to railway facilities
around Berlin, Germany 29Apr44. The combat wing was off course heading to Berlin, attacked
by enemy fighters and bombed Magdeburg. Failed to return from a mission to Hamm,
Germany 2Oct44, lost one engine and another damaged by flak over the target, dropped out of
formation, lost a third engine, low on fuel, crew bailed out 19 miles southeast of Brussels
behind Allied lines, the aircraft crashed near Brussels. Salvaged Apr45
31096 (MSN 6210) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20Sep43.
447th Bomb Group, Harvard Field, NB 4Oct43. Ferried from RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador to Prestwick
(Station 500), Scotland 27/28Nov43. 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds,
Suffolk 29Nov43. 711th Bomb Squadron, 447th Bomb Group, Rattlesden (Station 126), Suffolk 1944.
Named "The Squirming Squaw" Failed to return from a mission to the industrial area at Brunswick,
Germany 10Feb44 (10POW). Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Evenkamp, four miles west of Loningen,
eleven miles northwest of Quakenbr�ck, Germany. MACR 2534
31097 (MSN 6211) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20Sep43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 12Oct43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 18Nov43.
401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 19Nov43. 535th Bomb Squadron,
381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 21Nov43.. Named *Mission Belle*.
Failed to return from a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical works at Leverkusen, Germany 1Dec43 (3KIA:7POW).
Clouds obscured the target so the formation diverted to the secondary target, a non-ferrous metals works
at Solingen, Germany. Damaged by flak, dropped out of formation, attacked by enemy fighters on return.
Assumed to have been shot down by Unteroffizier Albert Brett, 7./JG 1, flying a Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter.
Ditched in River Lek between Streefkerk and Nieuw Lekkerland, Netherlands. Aircraft broke in two and
three men drowned. {1 mission}. Salvaged MACR 1661
31098 (MSN 6212) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20Sep43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 2Oct32. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 25Oct43.
614th Bomb Squadron [IW*B], 401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 30Oct43
Named "Penny's Thunderhead". Battle damaged during a mission to the industrial areas of
Emden, Germany 11Dec43 (6KIA:2POW:2RTD). The Luftwaffe was waiting for the bombers; the moment the
bombers crossed over into mainland Europe, six twin-engine fighter dived out of the sun upon the formation,
concentrating all their fire on the lead plane. Once the leader had been downed, the fighters swept through the
lead Squadron. Before the deputy lead had a chance to reassemble the formation, a large force of single-engine
fighters joined the fray, attacking the other bombers. On the return leg of the flight, just over the Dutch border,
the aircraft was struck by flak and No.3 engine damaged and stopped. The propeller on this engine could not be
feathered so windmilled which vibrated the aircraft severely. No.1 engine was then damaged and further flak
damage sustained to the bomb bay doors and nose of the aircraft. It was also attacked by enemy fighters
causing damage to the bomber. The aircraft began to lose height and, believing that control was going to be lost,
the pilot ordered the crew to bale out over what they thought was the land part of the Netherlands but by the
time they started to abandon the aircraft they were over the coast. The aircraft appears to have been still at
altitude, probably around 18,000ft when the crew started to bail out. In total eight of the ten on board bailed out
with six of the eight drowning. The two survivors who bailed out appear to have delayed pulling their parachute
release until much lower than the height the aircraft was flying at; these two landed much closer to land and
were rescued by Dutch lifeboat 'Twenthe' but then became POWs. The six others who bailed out appear to have
drifted some distance out to sea and sadly all drowned with the bodies of some taking many months to drift
to shore while others were never found. After these first eight had left the aircraft the next who was about
to leave was the bombardier but he had struggled to fit his parachute alone so the pilot had put the aircraft
on auto-pilot and was attempting to help secure the straps. Before the bombardier could leave the aircraft the
windmilling propeller then seized and the vibrating stopped so the two still on board stayed with the aircraft
and opted to try and fly it back to England. The aircraft eventually landed at Lindholme airfield in Yorkshire
and was subsequently repaired. MACR 8711. Plane repaired. Crash landed at RAF Woodbridge
emergency landing airfield, Suffolk 30Jan44. Took off as a spare for a mission to Watten, France 26Mar44,
turned back over the English Channel for return to Deenethorpe. On landing, a tire blew, the aircraft ran off the
runway and the left gear folded under, tearing No.2 engine and nacelle from the wing. . Salvaged
31099 (MSN 6213) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20Sep32.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 2Oct43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 22Oct43. 401st Bomb Group,
Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 8Nov43. 532nd Bomb Squadron [VE*G], 381st Bomb Group,
Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 21Nov43. Named *Tenabove*. Failed to return from a mission to the
railway marshalling yard at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 11Feb44 (3POW:7EVD). Damaged by flak, crashed
two miles southwest of Illois, fifteen miles west of Poix-de-Picardie, France. {8 missions}. MACR 2431
31100 (MSN 6214) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20Sep43.
447th Bomb Group, Harvard Field, NB 4Oct43. 709th Bomb Squadron [IE*B], 447th Bomb Group,
Rattlesden (Station 126), Suffolk 25Nov43. Named "The Gimp". 710th Bomb Squadron. Departed for a
mission to Dollenbergen, Germany 1Jan45. During takeoff in fog and heavy clouds, No.1 engine lost power,
the bomber stalled and made a crash landing at the far end of the runway. Salvaged. Crew all OK;
31101 (MSN 6215) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20Sep43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 7Oct43.
New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 10Oct43. 332nd Bomb Squadron, 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468),
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 15Oct43. Named "Margie". Failed to return from a mission to the port area at
Wilhelmshaven, Germany 3Nov43 (8KIA:2POW). Damaged by flak and set on fire, crashed at Schlarheide,
near Wilhelmshaven. MACR 1012.
31102 (MSN 6216) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21Sep43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 6Oct43.
New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 13Oct43. 550th Bomb Squadron, 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield
(Station 155), Suffolk 26Oct43. Named "Pinup Girl". Failed to return from a mission to the industrial
areas of Brunswick, Germany 23Mar44 (10POW). Flak damaged No.2 engine, crashed southeast of
Dortmund Oespel, Germany. MACR 3316
31103 (MSN 6217) Accepted by USAAF 16Sep43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 20Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand
Island Field, NB 5Oct43. 563rd Bomb Squadron [R], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136),
Suffolk 26Oct43. Named "Pegasus, Too". {first combat mission 13Nov43}. Battle damaged on a mission
to the port area at Bremen, Germany 20Dec43 (10RTD). Attacked by a large force of enemy fighters and
flak over the target area was very intense. Battle damaged on a mission to industrial areas in the
suburbs of Berlin, Germany 4Mar44. Because of severe weather in the assembly area, the group
diverted to a target in the Ruhr valley, Germany. The pilot left the formation, returned home alone
and was attacked by enemy fighters but landed safely at Knettishall. Failed to return from a
mission to the industrial areas of Brunswick, Germany 23Mar44 (7KIA:3POW). The formation was
about fifteen minutes early when it crossed the enemy coast and even earlier when it reached the target.
Consequently, no friendly fighter escort was met until the formation was near the I.P. During this time
a large force of enemy fighters was encountered between D�mmer See and Steinhuder Meer, Wunstorf,
Germany. A damaged Fw 190 fighter collided with the B-17, knocking off one wing. The bomber crashed
near Steyerberg, northwest of Wunstorf, Germany. {28 missions}. .MACR 3594.
31104 (MSN 6218) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20Sep43.
447th Bomb Group, Harvard Field, NB 5Oct43. 708th Bomb Squadron [CQ*G], 447th Bomb Group,
Rattlesden (Station 126), Suffolk 19Nov43. Named "Stinky";
Returned from mission to Caen, France Jun 6, 1944 and skidded off end of runway at Rattlesden.
Salvaged Jun 7, 1944.
31105 (MSN 6219) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20Sep43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 5Oct43.
548th Bomb Squadron [GX*D], 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 26Oct43.
Crash landed at Honington (Station 375), Suffolk 30Dec43. Salvaged by 1st Strategic Air Depot,
Troston (Station 595), Suffolk 18Apr44
31106 (MSN 6220) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20Sep43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 5Oct43.
12th Ferrying Squadron, 2nd Ferrying Group, New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 10Oct43. Accident while
taxying at Presque Isle Field, ME 14Oct43. First B-17 from USA with US installation of Oboe II. 3
38th Bomb Squadron [BX*C], 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 17Oct43. Named
"Goeriing's Mightmare" Flew first test mission over enemy territory Jan 14, 1944.
Accident on return from a mission to a ball bearing factory at Regensburg, Germany 21Jul44 (9RTD).
With No.4 propeller feathered, crash landed at Snetterton Heath. Salvaged 23Jul44.
31107 (MSN 6221) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20Sep43.
447th Bomb Group, Harvard Field, NB 5Oct43. Ferried from RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador to Prestwick
(Station 500), Scotland 27/28Nov43. 708th Bomb Squadron, 447th Bomb Group, Rattlesden
(Station 126), Suffolk 29Nov43. Failed to return from a mission to Halbestadt, Germany 11Jan44 (8KIA:2POW).
Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed swampy ground near Rehburg, 19 miles from Hanover, Germany.. MACR 2513
31108 (MSN 6222) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20Sep43.
447th Bomb Group, Harvard Field, NB 4Oct43. 709th Bomb Squadron, 447th Bomb Group, Rattlesden (Station 126),
Suffolk 21Nov43. Named "The Devil's Mate". Failed to return from a mission to the industrial
area at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 29Jan44 (10KIA). Shot down by Lt. Heinz Schlechter in Bf-109G-6 of JG 27/5.�
and crashed Waldecker Road, at Gondershausen, Germany, near Waldeck Castle, 14 mi SW of Koblenz, Germany,
MACR 2279
31109 (MSN 6223) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 20Sep43. Scott Field,
Belleville, IL 4Oct43. New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 9Oct43. 332nd Bomb Squadron [XM*H],
94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 10Oct43. 327th Bomb Squadron,
92nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire 17Oct43. 325th Bomb Squadron [NV*M]:
Named "Dolly Madison". failed to return from a mission to railway marshalling yards at Frankfurt
am Main, Germany 4Feb44 (1KIA:4POW:5EVD). As the planes were passing over the Netherlands
en route to Germany, local cross winds carried the bombers straight into enemy flak. Mechanical failure
lost two engines, crashed P�ruwelz, Belgium. MACR 2236
31110 (MSN 6224) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 20Sep43. Operational
Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 12Oct43.
New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 15Oct43. 331st Bomb Squadron [QE*M], 94th Bomb Group,
ougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 23Oct43.. Named"Pacific's Dream". While flown by
a 332nd BS crew Failed to return from a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at
Ch�teaubernard, Cognac, France 31Dec43 (4POW:6EVD). Flak damaged
three engines, crashed Cognac, France. MACR 1672.
31111 (MSN 6225) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 20Sep43.
Scott Field, Belleville, IL 4Oct43. New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 7Oct43. 535th Bomb Squadron [MS*R/Y],
381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 19Oct43. Named *Four Aces--Pat Hand*
Failed to return from a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical works at Leverkusen, Germany 1Dec43 (10KIA).
Flak damaged, bomb drop delayed, dropped back from formation, believed to have come down
in the sea on return. MACR 1659.
31112 (MSN 6226) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 21Sep43. 447th Bomb Group,
Harvard Field, NB 5Oct43. 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 27Nov43.
710th Bomb Squadron, 447th Bomb Group, Rattlesden (Station 126), Suffolk 30Nov43. Named "Paper Doll".
Failed to return from a mission to industrial areas of Berlin, Germany 3Mar44 (10KIA). Deteriorating
weather conditions and dense contrails forced the formation to divert to an alternate target of the
industrial and port areas at Wilhelmshaven, Germany. The 1st Bomb Division made a 180 degree turn
to the left and flew head on into the 3rd Bomb Division which had turned right. The aircraft collided
with B-17G 42-38075 over the German coast NW of Hamburg, Germany, exploded and crashed
Weserm�nde, Germany. {18 missions}. MACR 2887
31113 (MSN 6227) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 21Sep43. Scott Field,
Belleville, IL 3Oct43. New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 7Oct43. 339th Bomb Squadron,
96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 15Oct43. Named "Zilch".
Returning from a familiarization flight, the pilot forgot to lower landing gear and crash landed
at Snetterton Heath 22Oct43. Failed to return from a mission to the submarine construction yard
at Vegesack, Bremen, Germany 16Dec43 (10MIA). Enemy fighters shot an engine off which fell
onto the wing of B-17F 42-30872 below. The bombers collided and locked wings, crashing in the
North Sea, west of Terschelling, West Frisian Islands, Netherlands. MACR 1564.
31114 (MSN 6228) Accepted by USAAF 17Sep43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 21Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 6Oct43. 390th Bomb Group 25Oct43. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland
to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 11/12Nov43. 568th Bomb Squadron [BI*G], 390th Bomb Group,
Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk Nov43. Named "Prowlin' Tom/Gung Ho" {first combat mission 5Dec43}.
Accident departing for a mission to the industrial areas of Brunswick, Germany 23Mar44. With an
overspeeding propeller, the plane crash landed at Horham (Station 119), Suffolk. Failed to return
from a mission to the railway marshalling yards at Les Aubrais, Orl�ans, France 8Jun44 (1KIA:1POW:8EVD).
Damaged by flak, crashed Maissemy, six miles northwest of Saint-Quentin, France. {39 missions}.. MACR 5479
31115 (MSN 6229) Accepted by USAAF 17Sep43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 21Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 6Oct43. 562nd Bomb Squadron [S], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136),
Suffolk 25Oct43. Named "Hell's Bells" {first combat mission 26Nov43}. Failed to return from a mission
to the industrial area at Brunswick, Germany 10Feb44 (4KIA:7POW). Meagre to heavy flak was seen
when crossing the enemy coast at IJmuiden, Netherlands. In the vicinity of Lingen, Germany the formation
was attacked by enemy fighters in groups of three. As they neared the target, twin-engined aircraft
fired rockets into the formation. Intense flak was encountered over the target and took a direct hit
in a wing setting the fuel tank on fire. Straggling behind the formation it was attacked by enemy
fighters on the return flight. Just 20-30 seconds after the crew was given the order to bail out, the
aircraft exploded, which caused some crew members to be blown out of the plane. There also was a
photographer onboard the aircraft; he also survived the crash. Crashed near Busch en Dam, about 3km
southeast of Heemskerk, near Uitgeest, Netherlands. {16 missions}. Some parts of the aircraft were
salvaged 25May85 and utilized to make a memorial for the crew. MACR 2348.
31116 (MSN 6230) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21Sep43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 14Oct43. Bowman Field, Louisville, KY 28Oct43.
613th Bomb Squadron [IW*O], 401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 30Oct43.
Named "Cawn't Miss". Failed to return from a mission to railway marshalling yards in
Berlin, Germany 29Apr44 (5KIA:5EVD), No.2 engine damaged by flak, crashed in a formal garden
of Chateau Desmet at Leers, three miles southeast of Roubaix, France MACR 4344.
31117 (MSN 6231) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21Sep43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 22Oct43.
551st Bomb Squadron [HR*G], 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 9Nov43.
Major damage in an accident landing at Great Ashfield 29Dec43. 359th Bomb Squadron [BN*L], 303rd Bomb Group,
Molesworth. Ninth Air Force. United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) Aug45. 384th Bomb Group, Istres AAB,
Marseille, France. Salvaged 2Aug46. United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) 30Apr47. 10th Headquarters
and Base Service Squadron, Oberpfaffenhofen, Munich, Germany. Reclaimed 1Nov47.
Named DAISY MAE / NIGHT MARE / LONESOME POLECAT
31118 (MSN 6232) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 22Sep43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 7Oct43.
New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 10Oct43. 338th Bomb Squadron [BX*U], 96th Bomb Group,
Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 14Oct43. Named "Lady Millicent II"
Crash landed when the right landing gear would not lower on a ferry flight to Little Staughton
(Station 127), Bedfordshire 8Jan44. Salvaged 13Jan44
31119 (MSN 6233) Accepted by USAAF 20Sep43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 21Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 6Oct43. 524th Bomb Squadron [WA*L], 379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton
(Station 117), Huntingdonshire 22Nov43. Named "Calamity Jane" Crash landed attempting to land
with three engines at Kimbolton after a navigation training flight 28Dec43 (5KIS). The aircraft
turned on final approach, clipped the shooting butts and exploded into flames.
31120 (MSN 6234) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21Sep43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 5Oct43.
Wilimgton 13Oct43. 410th Bomb Squadron [GL*U], 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468),
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 23Oct43. Failed to return from a mission to the industrial areas of
Brunswick, Germany 23Mar44 (10MIA). Shot down by enemy fighters, ditched English Channel;
crew missing after rescue launch caught fire and sank. MACR 3534.
31121 ((MSN 6235) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 22Sep43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 6Oct43.
New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 10Oct32. 338th Bomb Squadron [BX*E], 96th Bomb Group,
Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 14Oct43. Failed to return from a mission to the Luftwaffe
air depot at M�rignac, Bordeaux, France 31Dec43 (10KIA). The target was covered in solid cloud
so the secondary target at Ch�teaubernard, Cognac, France was bombed. Struck by flak over Paris,
the aircraft was flying far below the formation just before reaching the French coast, though it was
apparently under control and headed the same direction as the formation. Shot down 5km north of Ault
by Lt Kurt Vavken of 7/JG 26 flying a Fw 190A-6, Werk # 530401 'Brown 7'. Also listed as shot down
by Fw Karl Tscheliesnig in Fw 190A-6 of JG 2/9 and crashed
between Cayeux-sur-Mer and Abbeville, France. MACR 1673.
31122 (MSN 6236) Accepted by USAAF 20Sep43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 22Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training
Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 6Oct43. New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 10Oct43.
390th Bomb Group 18Oct43. 568th Bomb Squadron [BI*A], 390th Bomb Group,
Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk Oct43. Named "Six Nights in Telergma (Arabian Nights)"
{first combat mission 26Nov43}. Failed to return from a mission to the industrial areas of Emden,
Germany 11Dec43 (5MIA:3KIA:3POW). The Luftwaffe was waiting for the bombers; the moment the
bombers crossed over into mainland Europe, six twin-engine fighter dived out of the sun upon the
formation, concentrating all their fire on the lead plane. Once the leader had been downed, the fighters
swept through the lead Squadron. Before the deputy lead had a chance to reassemble the formation,
a large force of single-engine fighters joined the fray, attacking the other bombers. Struck by a rocket
at the Initial Point, the plane crashed in the North Sea between the German islands of Norderney and Langeoog.
Four of the crew were picked up by a rescue boat, three becoming POW's, the fourth dying of exposure.
Two bodies were washed up on the shore within the next few months. Five of the crew were never found. {3 missions}.
MACR 1583.
31123 (MSN 6237) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 22Sep43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 7Oct43.
New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 10Oct43. 334th Bomb Squadron [BG*J], 95th Bomb Group,
Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 14Oct43. Crashed on takeoff for a mission to railway marshalling yards
at Gelsenkirchen, Germany 19Nov43 (10KIA + 2 civilians injured). The bomber stalled in a left turn
at low level, crashed and burned at Green Farm, Redlingfield, Suffolk. There was a on the wings
heavy frost that morning, the plane was the last to take off and it is likely that frost on the wings
reduced lift as the bomber tried to turn to catch up with its squadron. A cottage was in the flight
path taken by the bombers at the nearby airfield; the plane came down not very far from the cottage. A
pregnant woman was thrown across the room by the explosion and the ceiling came down on top of her
and her baby daughter. As luck would have it the beams in the cottage held; windows and doors
fell in as parts of the burning plane fell. Nine of the ten 500lb bombs exploded. {4 missions}..
31124 (MSN 6238) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 23Sep43. 447th Bomb Group,
Harvard Field, NB 11Oct43. 711th Bomb Squadron [IR*N], 447th Bomb Group, Rattlesden
(Station 126), Suffolk 19Nov43. Named ":Lady Lillian" Failed to return from a mission to railway facilities around
Berlin, Germany 29Apr44 (9POW:1KIA). The combat wing was off course heading to Berlin, attacked
by enemy fighters and bombed Magdeburg. Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Eickendorf, Germany. MACR 4246
31125 (MSN 6239) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 23Sep43.
447th Bomb Group, Harvard Field, NB 10Oct43. 711th Bomb Squadron [IR*J], 447th Bomb Group,
Rattlesden (Station 126), Suffolk 19Nov43. Named "No Regrets/Roughhouse". Failed to return
from a mission to the Luftwaffe air depot at M�rignac, Bordeaux, France 31Dec43 (3KIA:6POW:1EVD).
The target was covered in solid cloud so the secondary target at Ch�teaubernard, Cognac, France was
bombed. Damaged by flak, caught fire, broke up and crashed at Cognac, near target, France. {1 mission}. .
MACR 1769.
31126 (MSN 6240) Accepted by USAAF 20Sep43. Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field,
Dallas, TX 22Sep43. Harvard Field, NB 9Oct43. New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 12Oct43.
401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 23Dec43. 560th Bomb
Squadron [R], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 1944. {first combat
mission 26Nov43}. Battle damaged on a mission to the port area at Bremen, Germany 20Dec43 (10RTD).
Attacked by a large force of enemy fighters and flak over the target area was very intense.
Battle damaged during a mission to the industrial area at Brunswick, Germany 10Feb44 (10RTD).
Meagre to heavy flak was seen when crossing the enemy coast at IJmuiden, Netherlands.
In the vicinity of Lingen, Germany the formation was attacked by enemy fighters in groups
of three. As they neared the target, twin-engined aircraft fired rockets into the formation.
Intense flak was encountered at the target where the aircraft received flak damage. The
formation was under fighter attack until it neared the IJsselmeer on the return home.
Friendly fighters were outnumbered, especially in the target area. Failed to return from
a mission to the Focke-Wulf aircraft factory at Pozna?, Poland 20Feb44 (2KIA:8POW).
Heavy cloud cover over Pozna? forced the formation to divert to their secondary target,
the Heinkel Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory at Marienehe, Rostock, Germany. At the Danish
coast on the route in, in the target area, and on the route out, a large force of enemy fighters
was encountered. They used both cannon and rockets during these aggressive attacks.
Struck in the left wing by a 20mm cannon shell and other fighters coming in at all angles,
then the plane went out of control. As he got the plane under control, the pilot opened
the bomb bay doors for bail out. The plane burst into flames and some of the crew still with
the plane were blown out. The co-pilot stayed with the plane and was killed. Crashed around
the farm 'Lykkess�de' near Bellinge, southwest of Odense on the island of Fyn, Denmark.
{19 missions}. MACR 2433
31127 (MSN 6241) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 22Sep43.
447th Bomb Group, Harvard Field, NB 8Oct43. 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468),
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 19Nov43. Transferred to 708th Bomb Squadron [CQ*P], 447th Bomb Group\
, Rattlesden (Station 126), Suffolk 1944. On return from mission to Brussels
Apr 28, 1944 undercarriage collapsed halfway down runway on landing at Rattlesden.
A check by Gp Tech. Insp. found errors in settings, Salvaged May 20, 1944.
31128 (MSN 6242) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 23Sep43.
447th Bomb Group, Harvard Field, NB 8Oct43. 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468),
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 19Nov43. 709th Bomb Squadron[IE*A], 447th Bomb Group,
Rattlesden (Station 126), Suffolk 1944. Named "Mohawk". Failed to return from a mission to the
I.G. Farben chemical and synthetic oil works at Leuna, Merseburg, Germany 20Jul44 (6POW:3KIA).
After dropping its bombs on the target the aircraft was hit by flak which set No.1 & 2 engines on fire,
damaged the port wing and knocked off the wing flap. It was seen to dive away and then level off
after which three parachutes were seen in the air. The aircraft was seen to dive again which
appeared to extinguish the fires. It levelled off again and started to follow the formation with
an escort of P?38 Lightnings. It was last seen losing altitude and entering clouds. All of the
crew successfully bailed out. Crashed about one mile south of Teutleben, west of Gotha, Germany.
MACR 7547
31129 (MSN 6243) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 23Sep43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 9Oct43.
New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 12Oct43. Assigned to 381st Bomb Group 23Oct43.
Ferried from Prestwick, Scotland to Marrakech, French Morocco 31Oct43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. 32nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Oudna #2, Tunis,
Tunisia 1Nov43. Cerignola #1, Italy 10Dec43. Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44.
Failed to return from a mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factory at Regensburg,
Germany 25Feb44 (1KIA:2WIA:7RTD). Enemy fighters started to attack fifteen miles east
of Klagenfurt, Austria on the way to the target. Crashed Trigno, Italy. {27 missions}.
31130 (MSN 6244) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 23Sep43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island
Field, NB 11Oct43. New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 13Oct43. 652nd Bomb Squadron
(Heavy Reconnaissance), 25th Bomb Group 16Oct43. Ferried RCAF Gander, Newfoundland
to RAF Turnberry, Scotland 17Oct43. Weather Reconnaissance Unit (Heavy) (Provisional),
RAF St Eval, Padstow, Cornwall Oct43. Combat Weather Detachment, 1st Combat Crew
Replacement Group, RAF St Eval, Padstow, Cornwall 25Oct43. Bovingdon (Station 112),
Hertfordshire 23Nov43. 8th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron (Heavy), 802nd Reconnaissance
Group (Special)(Provisional), Watton (Station 376), Norfolk 12Apr44. 652nd Bomb Squadron
(Heavy Reconnaissance), 25th Bomb Group (Reconnaissance), 325th Photographic Wing,
Watton (Station 376), Norfolk 9Aug44. Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire 13Jul45.
Returned to US. 4000th Base Unit, Air Materiel Command, Wright Field, Dayton, OH 16Apr46.
4185th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), Independence Field, KS 29Oct46.
4000th Base Unit, Air Materiel Command, Wright Field, Dayton, OH 30Oct46. Modified
as cargo/transport aircraft. Designated CB-17G. Reassigned US Navy 31Mar47. 4141st Base
Unit (Air Material Command), Pyote Field, TX 16Oct47. Reclaimed 7Jun48. Salvaged 1Jun49.
During the summer of 1943 at RAF St Eval, Padstow, Cornwall, No.1404 Meteorological Flight
became No.517 Squadron and began re-equipping with the Handley-Page Halifax. Because of
this No.517 was unable to maintain its operational committment of twice-daily meteorological
reconnaissance sorties to the southwest over Biscay (code-named EPICURE). Such was the
importance of these flights that the USAAF offered four B-17s to make up the shortfall - adding
another four aircraft later. Initially these were detached to RAF St Eval and operated to the
west of the UK (code-named ALLAH), but during the autumn it was decided the USAAF
aircraft should operate from an American base - Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire.
As the USAAF didn't have aircrew trained in meteorological observing, the crews always flew
with an RAF Meteorological Air Observer (MAO
31131 (MSN 6245) Accepted by USAAF 20Sep43. Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3,
Love Field, Dallas, TX 24Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 9Oct43. New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 14Oct43.
563rd Bomb Squadron [D], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 26Oct43
Named "Satan's Sister" . {first combat mission 26Nov43}. Battle damaged
on a mission to the port area at Bremen, Germany 20Dec43 (10RTD). Attacked by a large
force of enemy fighters and flak over the target area was very intense. Failed to return
from a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical works at Oppau, Ludwigshafen, Germany 30Dec43 (6KIA:4POW).
On the bomb run, the Group hit severe propeller wash caused by the Group ahead. As the
formation bounced around, aircraft B-17G 42-30625 slid in front of #131. The plane tipped
up 90 degrees, first on its right wing and then on its left before easing back down to normal.
All of a sudden, however, it snapped roll all the way over and began to go down in a flat backward spin.
In the cockpit, the pilots were struggling to pull the aircraft out. However, still with the full
bomb load and more than half of the fuel load on board, it cannot stand the strain and shortly
before plunging into the overcast at about 20,000ft, it finally broke in two, the break occurring
exactly in the middle of the radio room. The bombardier was thrown headlong through the
Plexiglas nose without his parachute and the radio operator, also without a parachute, fell out
of the radio room, now open at one end. The two pilots and engineer were trapped by centrifugal
force and unable to escape. On its way down, the plane lost one engine, one outer wing as
well as several bombs, the majority of which, however, did not explode. Tearing across
the school furniture factory of Grauer & Co. in the direction of the Weschnitz creek, it finally
crashed on the property boundary between the gardens behind the furniture dealer Eidt, 89 Bergstrasse,
and the barber shop Kussmaul, 87 Bergstrasse. One outer wing landed precisely where
Gunterstrasse finishes and Rottensteiner Weg starts off. Another one came down just in front
of the fence of the factory acres of Freudenberg company, off the end of Karlstrasse. One of the
engines fell between the railway siding of Freudenberg company and the fence of the factory.
A second one crashed on the area of Grauer company, causing one shed at the corner of
Hopfenstrasse and Altelandstrasse to burn down. A third engine including the propeller dug
into the estate of the Jaeger family, 86 Bergstrasse. A fuel tank came down in the garden of
80 Bergstrasse. In Roemerstrasse and Neckarstrasse as well as along the railway line leading
up to Darmstadt, a total of nine or ten bombs came down but did not explode. Another one
landed in the garden of 76 Bergstrasse; this one exploded. Immediately after the crash of the
main part, fire started on the wreck which was lying on the ground with the right side of the
fuselage down. The rear section went spinning down, with its heavy ball turret first, towards
Birkenau crashing on the hillside above a residential house at Am Sch�nherrnberg, where it
immediately slid down hill into the rear of this building. The occupant believed a bomb had
struck and fled with her three children out of the opposite side of the house into the road.
Crashed at Weinheim and Birkenau, twelve miles northeast of Mannheim, Germany. {8 missions)
MACR 3041.
42-31132/31231 Boeing B-17G-5-BO Fortress
MSN 6246/6345. Dispositions from B-17 Fortress Master Log, Dave Osborne (FORTLOG)
Production changes: Additional oxygen supply for ball turret. Fuel valve changes
31132 (MSN 6246) Accepted by USAAF 20Sep43. Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3,
Love Field, Dallas, TX 24Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 9Oct43. New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 12Oct43.
561st Bomb Squadron [X], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 15Oct43.
{first combat mission 26Nov43}. Battle damaged on a mission to the Luftwaffe air depot
at M�rignac, Bordeaux, France 5Jan44 (1WIA:9RTD). Flak was encountered in the target
area which was accurate and moderate in intensity. Fighter attacks were encountered in the
Bordeaux area and again over the Brest Peninsula. The bombardier was injured by flak.
Force landed on return at RAF Tarrant Rushton, Blandford, Dorset. {final combat mission 5Jan44}.
Accident at Knettishall 21Jan44. {7 missions}. Salvaged
31133 (MSN 6247) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 23Sep43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 9Oct43.
3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 1Nov43. 551st Bomb Squadron [HR*Q],
385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 2Nov43. Named 'Powers Girl'
Damaged taxying at Great Ashfield 11Dec43. Failed to return from a mission to railway facilities
around Berlin, Germany 29Apr44 (10POW). The combat wing was off course heading to Berlin,
attacked by enemy fighters and bombed Magdeburg. Enemy aircraft damaged No.3 and No.4
engines, crashed Hessen 14 miles northwest of Halberstadt, Germany. MACR 4453
31134 MSN 6248) Accepted by USAAF 21Sep43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 7Oct43. New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 10Oct43.
569th Bomb Squadron [CC*G], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 19Oct43.
Named "Gung Ho". {first combat mission 5Nov43}. Battle damaged on a mission to the synthetic
oil refinery at Gelsenkirchen, Germany 5Nov43 (1WIA:9RTD). Smoke and haze from the Ruhr Valley,
generated by bombs dropped by preceding bomb groups, prevented the planes from the
390th Bomb Group from conducting a visual run on the target in Gelsenkirchen. They dropped
their bombs on the small town of Frillendorf, Essen. The tail gunner was wounded. Battle damaged
on a mission to railway marshalling yards at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 4Feb44 (2WIA:8RTD).
As the planes were passing over the Netherlands en route to Germany, local cross winds carried
the bombers straight into enemy flak. The pilot and radio operator were wounded. Battle damaged
on a mission to the Heinkel Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory at Oranienburg, Germany 18Apr44 (2WIA:8RTD).
The bombers arrived over Oranienburg to find the town covered by a thick undercast. Forced to
decide between abandoning the mission or bringing the formation down under the clouds, the
air leader had the planes drop down to 17,000ft in order to make their attack run. The bomber
encountered intense flak over Oranienburg. The two waist gunners were wounded. Battle damaged
on a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Athies, Laon, France 9May44 (1WIA:9RTD). The bombardier
was wounded. Participated in an Operation Frantic V shuttle mission to the Flugzeugwerk Gotenhafen
Kurt Kannenberg AG Focke-Wulf assembly works at Rahmel, Gdynia, Poland 6Aug44. After the target,
the bomber continued east and landed at Mirgorod (Station 561), Ukraine. Operated a mission to
an oil refinery at Trzebinia, Poland 7Aug44, returning to Ukraine. Operated a mission to a Luftwaffe
airfield at Zili?tea, Rumania 8Aug44, continuing on to a Fifteenth Air Force base in southern Italy.
Returned to England on a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Francazal, Toulouse, France 12Aug44.
Failed to return from a mission to the Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-N�rnberg (MAN) tank factory at
N�rnberg, Germany 10Sep44 (6KIA:3POW). Flak hit No.4 engine and set the right wing on fire.
The plane flipped over onto its back, dropped straight down then exploded and disintegrated.
The fuselage crashed through a factory roof at Sankt Leonhard,, N�rnberg. {95 missions MACR 8910
31135 (MSN 6249) Accepted by USAAF 21Sep43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 8Oct43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 12Oct43.
562nd Bomb Squadron [W], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 14Oct43,
named "Susie SagTits". . {first combat mission 5Dec43}. Battle damaged on a
mission to the port area at Bremen, Germany 20Dec43 (10RTD). Attacked by a large force of enemy
fighters and flak over the target area was very intense. Battle damaged during a mission to the
industrial area at Brunswick, Germany 10Feb44 (10RTD). Meagre to heavy flak was seen when
crossing the enemy coast at IJmuiden, Netherlands. In the vicinity of Lingen, Germany the formation
was attacked by enemy fighters in groups of three. As they neared the target, twin-engined aircraft
fired rockets into the formation. Intense flak was encountered at the target where the aircraft
received flak damage. The formation was under fighter attack until it neared the IJsselmeer on
the return home. Friendly fighters were outnumbered, especially in the target area. Failed to
return from a mission to the Robert Bosch electrical factory at Berlin, Germany 6Mar44 (1KIA:9POW).
Approximately fifteen to twenty Fw 190s were met near D�mmer See en route to the target and were
again encountered in the same area on the return route home. Instead of attacking the assigned target,
the formation circled the outskirts of the city to a textile works on the banks of the Elbe River at
Oranienburg. The Group did not drop its bombs on this target. They instead bombed a target in the
residential area near the marshalling yards and the Heinkel Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory at
Wittenberge. On return from the target, the bomber was shot down in a frontal attack by a
Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighter flown by Hauptmann Hugo Frey of JG.11 who himself was killed in the
air to air battle, after shooting down four B-17s in the battle). The two starboard engines were lost
while another hit caused a fire in the fuselage. Losing control, the bomber collided with B-17G 42-40054
flying above in the same formation. The crew bailed out and the bomber crashed near Weiteveen,
southeast of Emmen, Netherlands. {24 missions}. An engine from this bomber was
excavated in Schoonebekerveld, about 200 meters south of the Griendtsveen Peat Factories near
the Dommerskanaal near Weiteveen and is on display at the Industrieel Smalspoor Museum,
Erica, MACR 3082
31136 (MSN 6250) Accepted by USAAF 21Sep43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 24Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training
Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 9Oct43. 369th Bomb Squadron [WW*D}, 306th Bomb Group,
Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 19Oct43. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little Staughton (Station 127),
Bedfordshire 3Nov43. Regained by Group 5Nov43 Named "Pretty Baby"--artwork of a young child.
Battle damaged on a mission to the Junkers aircraft factory at Halberstadt, Germany 11Jan44 (4WIA:6RTD).
Returning from the target and close to the coast, the plane was attacked by a flight of Fw 190 enemy fighters.
Cannon shells wounded the bombardier, top turret gunner and radio operator. A cannon shell exploded
by the No.3 propeller which fell off; the engine caught fire as the plane was dived from 25,000ft to 15,000ft
and then burned off the wing. The pilot ordered the crew to bail out twice but the interphone was inoperative.
Another 20mm cannon shell exploded in the waist severing control cables for the elevator. The electrical
and oxygen systems were disabled. When a Bf 110 appeared, the bomber pilot headed into the clouds at
4,000ft and headed back to England. Crashed when the landing gear collapsed during a forced landing at
Great Saling (Station 485), Essex. Salvaged by 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton 12Jan44
31137 (MSN 6251) Accepted by USAAF 21Sep43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 24Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand
Island Field, NB 7Oct43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 10Oct43. 563rd Bomb Squadron [W],
388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 14Oct43. Named "Classy Chassy". {first combat mission 26Nov43}.
Battle damaged on a mission to the port area at Bremen, Germany 20Dec43 (10RTD). Attacked by a large
force of enemy fighters and flak over the target area was very intense. Failed to return from a mission to the
Focke-Wulf aircraft factory at Krzesiny, Pozna?, Poland 9Apr44 (10INT). With an engine damaged by
flak and unable to reach England, the pilot headed towards Sweden and force landed at Kalmar, Sweden.
{23 missions}. MACR 3654. Returned to UK 11Jul45. Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment
Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 16Aug45. 4185th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical
Service Command), Independence Field, KS 19Aug45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 17Dec45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped.
31138 (MSN 6252) Accepted by USAAF 21Sep43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 24Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island
Field, NB 7Oct43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 10Oct43. 388th Bomb Group 15Oct43.
Ferried from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to St Mawgan (Station 512), Cornwall 17Oct43. 563rd Bomb Squadron [F],
388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk Oct43. Named *Winged Fury*.
{first combat mission 26Nov43}. Battle damaged on a mission to the port area at Bremen,
Germany 20Dec43 (10RTD). Attacked by a large force of enemy fighters and flak over the target area
was very intense. Failed to return from a mission to the Messerschmitt factory at Augsburg,
Germany 13Apr44 (9POW:1KIA). Over the target, intense and accurate flak was experienced. Enemy fighters
attacked from the target until the formation reached the Belgian border. Shot down by three Bf 109 enemy fighters.
The first attack came with sudden swiftness knocking out the power to the turrets, the intercom was out
and several explosions were noted. Part of the left wing tip was shot off and No.4 engine was hit.
A second attack came, blowing off part of the nose compartment and wounding both the bombardier
and navigator. With the pilot struggling with the controls, the co-pilot gave the order to bail out.
In these attacks, the tail gunner was killed. The crew crash landed on an airfield between the
hospital and guard house and destroyed several aircraft on the ground. They had landed within
walking distance of a Luftwaffe air base at Neustadt, near Speyerdorf, Germany. {31 missions}. MACR 3773
31139 (MSN 6253) Accepted by USAAF 21Sep43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 24Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 7Oct43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 10Oct43. 388th Bomb Group,
Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 14Oct43. 423rd Bomb Squadron [RD*L], 306th Bomb Group,
Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 19Oct43. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little Staughton (Station 127),
Bedfordshire 30Oct43. Regained by Group 3Nov43. Failed to return from a mission to the ball
bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 24Feb44 (8POW:2KIA). Attacked by enemy fighters,
struck by 20mm cannon rounds fired from a Bf 109 flown by Hauptman Hermann Staiger over
Quakenbr�ck, Germany. The pilot ordered the crew to bail out; the ball turret gunner had been
killed by cannon rounds but the rest of the crew made it out alive before the plane exploded.
Crashed between Talge and Badbergen, Germany.. MACR 2771
31140 (MSN 6254) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Sep43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 7Oct43.
3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 10Oct43. 339th Bomb Squadron [QJ*T], 96th Bomb Group,
Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 17Oct43. Declared 'war weary'. 343rd Air Service Squadron,
325th Air Service Group, Base Air Depot No.3, Langford Lodge (Station 597), County Antrim,
Northern Ireland. Damaged in landing accident at Langford Lodge 21May45. Salvaged 7Jun45
31141 (MSN 6255) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Sep43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 8Oct43.
332nd Bomb Squadron [XM*N], 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 15Oct43.
Named "Wonga Wagon'. Failed to return from a mission to the Vereinigte Kugellagerfabriken
AG (VKF) ball bearing factory at Erkner, Berlin, Germany 8Mar44 (9POW:1KIA). All the way from the
Netherlands to Berlin, the bombers were hounded by Luftwaffe fighters. Enemy aircraft set engine
on fire, crashed two miles northeast of Elze, Wedemasrk, 15 miles north of Hanover, Germany.
MACR 2976.
31142 (MSN 6256) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Sep43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 7Oct43.
3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 10Oct43. 339th Bomb Squadron [QJ*U],
96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 14Oct43. Failed to return from a
mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factory at Regensburg, Germany 25Feb44 (9POW:1EVD).
After crossing the coastline into mainland Europe, the formation encountered frequent flak and
fierce aerial attacks from the Luftwaffe, causing heavy damage to some of the bombers. The planes
arrived at Regensburg and encountered intense flak over the target area. Shot down by enemy fighters,
crash landed at Dyonne, five miles northeast of Rethel, France MACR 2860
31143 (MSN 6257) Accepted by USAAF 21Sep43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 24Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training
Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 8Oct43. 4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 10Oct43.
369th Bomb Squadron [WW*F], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 19Oct43.
2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little Staughton (Station 127), Bedfordshire 25Oct43. Regained by Group 27Oct43
Named *Satan's Lady* artwork of a reclining naked lady wearing devil's horns.
The name lettering appeared to be burning . {first combat mission 3Nov43}. Battle damaged on a
mission to the shipyard and industrial area at Kiel, Germany 5Jan44. Attacked by enemy fighters,
a 20mm cannon shell struck the right wing blowing a hole and peeling back a section of the
outer wing skin. Exploding fragments entered the radio compartment. Battle damaged on a
mission to railway marshalling yards at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 4Feb44. As the planes
were passing over the Netherlands en route to Germany, local cross winds carried the bombers
straight into enemy flak. Damaged by flak over the target, No.1 engine failed after the bomb drop.
The plane returned home alone, escorted by a P-47 Thunderbolt fighters. All four engines required
replacement; new engines test flown 11Feb44. Battle damaged on a mission to aircraft factories at
Bernberg, Germany 22Feb44. Repairs required a new wing panel, then a Jeep ran into the tail and
tore up the left horizontal stabiliser. Battle damaged on a mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft
factory at Augsburg, Germany 25Feb44. Repairs required a new wing panel and Plexiglass nose.
Damaged when it was struck by an ordinance truck, damaging the left horizontal stabiliser
while being towed from hangar #2 to dispersal #34 at Thurleigh 21Nov44. 2nd Strategic Air Depot,
Abbots Ripton (Station 547), Huntingdonshire 1Jan45 for 1,000 hour inspection.
Regained by Group 18Feb45. 381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 23May45.
Battle damaged many times but none of the many crewmen who flew in the bomber were
wounded. {112 missions}. Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing),
Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 12Jun45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage
Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 5Dec45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
31144 (MSN 6258) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 25Sep43.
447th Bomb Group, Harvard Field, NB 6Oct43. 708th Bomb Squadron, 447th Bomb Group,
Rattlesden (Station 126), Suffolk 21Nov43. Failed to return from a mission to railway facilities
around Berlin, Germany 29Apr44 (9KIA:1POW). The combat wing was off course heading to Berlin,
attacked by enemy fighters and bombed Magdeburg. Enemy aircraft damaged No.2 engine,
crashed near Destedt, seven miles east of Brunswick, Germany. MACR 4247
31145 (MSN 6259) Accepted by USAAF 20Sep43. Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field,
Dallas, TX 25Sep43. 447th Bomb Group, Moses Lake Field, WA. Harvard Field, NB. Kearney
Field, NB 9Nov43. Departed from Kearney to Syracuse, NY 14Nov43 but diverted to Fort Wayne, ID.
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 15Nov43. Ferried to RCAF Gander, Newfoundland 19Nov43. Ferried to
Nutts Corner (Station 235), Belfast, Northern Ireland 21/22Nov43. 708th Bomb Squadron,
447th Bomb Group, Rattlesden (Station 126), Suffolk 24Nov43. Base Air Depot No.1,
Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire 25Nov43 for modifications. Lockheed Overseas
Corporation, 403rd Air Depot, Base Air Depot No.3, Langford Lodge (Station 597),
County Antrim, Northern Ireland for modifications. Regained by Group 22Dec43.
Named "Old Man/Hi Jinx". Battle damaged on first mission 31Dec43. Failed to return
from a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Fauville, �vreux, France 6Feb44 (4KIA:6POW).
Damaged by flak, crash landed Chaville, four miles southwest of Paris, France. On the way
to a supply depot target in France the bomber was hit by flak, killing or gravely wounding
its pilot and navigator. The co-pilot gave the order for the rest of the crew to bail out but
remained, fighting the controls to prevent the aircraft from crashing into the town of
Wissous [on the perimeter of Paris-Orly Airport]. The co-pilot died when the aircraft
crashed into an empty field outside of the town. MACR 2353
31146 (MSN 6260) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 25Sep43.
447th Bomb Group, Harvard Field, NB 14Oct43. 708th Bomb Squadron, 447th Bomb Group,
Rattlesden (Station 126), Suffolk 19Nov43. Ferried to Honington (Station 375), Suffolk 25Jan44.
1st Strategic Air Depot, Troston (Station 595), Suffolk. Failed to return from a mission to an
aircraft assembly plant at Brunswick, Germany 30Jan44 (8POW:2KIA). Mechanical fault
followed by enemy aircraft attack damaged two engines, crashed Weeze, five miles south
of Goch, Germany. MACR 2277
31147 (MSN 6261) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 24Sep43.
3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 17Apr44. 357th Base Unit, Kellogg Field,
Battle Creek, MI 14Jun44. 553rd Base Unit, 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 31Jul44.
552nd Base Unit, Ferrying Command, New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 14Oct44.
593rd Base Unit (Air Transport Command), Charleston Field, SC 28Oct45.
Tp Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 3Jan46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31148 (MSN 6262) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 25Sep43.
447th Bomb Group, Harvard Field, NB 7Oct43. 710th Bomb Squadron, 447th Bomb Group,
Rattlesden (Station 126), Suffolk 21Nov43. Failed to return from a mission to industrial areas
of Berlin, Germany 3Mar44 (8KIA). Deteriorating weather conditions and dense contrails
forced the formation to divert to an alternate target of the industrial and port areas at
Wilhelmshaven, Germany. Mechanical failure, ditched in North Sea. MACR 4436
31149 (MSN 6263) Accepted by USAAF 22Sep43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 25Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 9Oct43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 12Oct43.
388th Bomb Group 15Oct43. Ferried from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Valley (Station 568),
Anglesey, Wales 17Oct43. 560th Bomb Squadron [O], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136),
Suffolk Oct43. Named "My Day". {first combat mission 16Nov43}. Failed to return from a
mission to the I.G. Farben chemical works at Oppau, Ludwigshafen, Germany 30Dec43 (6KIA).
The pilot had trouble with No.3 propeller which set up a lot of vibration and the engine caught fire.
The pilot put the plane into a dive to put the fire out when No.3 propeller came off and tore
up the nose compartment. The aircraft was then attacked by fighters which knocked out the
No.2 engine which had to be feathered. It was down to 600 feet when leaving the enemy coast
and hit by flak. The aircraft was ditched in the English Channel, twenty miles off the Isle of Wight.
Four of the crew were rescued by British Air-Sea Rescue. {7 missions}. ,remaining 6 never found. MACR 3139
31150 (MSN 6264) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Sep43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 8Oct43.
5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 12Oct43. 332nd Bomb Squadron [XM*Q],
94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 15Oct43. Named "Wonga Wonga". .
Accident aborting a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 22Feb44.
An engine failed and the plane dropped out of formation, then another engine failed. On return,
crash landed at Debach (Station 152), Suffolk that was under construction and skidded into a Nissen hut.
Salvaged.
31151 (MSN 6265) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Sep43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 9Oct43.
Long Beach Field, CA 13Oct43. 337th Bomb Squadron [AW*S], 96th Bomb Group 15Oct43.
Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 16/17Oct43. 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk. Failed to return
from a mission to the industrial area at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 29Jan44 (6KIA:4POW).
During the heavy air fights the bomber was hit by fire from German fighter pilot Kurt Clemens of III./JG 3,
veered off course and collided with B-17G 42-30859. Then rockets from enemy fighters caused the
bomber to explode. B-17 42-31436 was also damaged and crashed over France.
Crashed Gusenburg, fourteen miles southeast of Trier, Eifel, Germany. MACR 2381.
31152 (MSN 6266) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Sep43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 8Oct43.
20th Ferrying Group, Berry Field, Nashville, TN 12Oct43. 339th Bomb Squadron [QJ*E],
96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 14Oct43. Failed to return from a
Crossbow mission to a German V-weapon site in the Pas-de-Calais, France 1May44 (1KIA:/8POW:1EVD).
Flak damaged two engines going out and another on return, crashed Chivres, near Ath, Belgium MACR 4237
31153 (MSN 6267) Accepted by USAAF 22Sep43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 25Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand
Island Field, NB 9Oct43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 12Oct43. 562nd Bomb Squadron [Q],
388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 26Oct43. . {first combat mission 26Nov43}.
Battle damaged on a mission to the port area at Bremen, Germany 20Dec43 (10RTD). Attacked by a
large force of enemy fighters and flak over the target area was very intense. Failed to return from a
mission to the Heddenbeum propeller factory at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 20Mar44 (2KIA:8POW).
Flak over Bonn was intense and accurate, enemy fighters attacked northeast of Paris on the way home.
The pilot was forced to leave the formation en route to the target because of an engine oil line failure.
When he was unable to maintain formation, he aborted and dropped down, returning to England
above the tree tops. When the aircraft was near Lille, France, it was attacked by enemy fighters and
received some 20mm cannon hits in the waist, killing the two gunners and setting fire to one of the
engines. As soon as the aircraft passed over a forest, the pilot crash landed in a field at
Gauchin-Verloingt, two miles northwest of Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise, France. {29 missions). MACR 3542
31154 (MSN 6268) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 25Sep43.
447th Bomb Group, Harvard Field, NB 7Oct43. 708th Bomb Squadron, 447th Bomb Group,
Rattlesden (Station 126), Suffolk 19Oct43. Named "Shack Happy". Failed to return from a mission
to the I.G. Farben chemical and synthetic oil works at Leuna, Merseburg, Germany 25Nov43 (7KIA:2POW).
Damaged by flak, crashed at Merseburg, Germany MACR 10755
31155 (MSN 6269) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 25Sep43.
447th Bomb Group, Harvard Field, NB 6Oct43. 711th Bomb Squadron [IR*F], 447th Bomb Group,
Rattlesden (Station 126), Suffolk 18Nov43. Accident returning from a recalled mission to
industrial areas in the suburbs of Berlin, Germany 4Mar44 (1KIA:9RTD). Three engines failed
and most of the crew bailed out; a waist gunner was killed when his parachute failed to open.
the pilot crash landed the plane at Snap Hill Barn, Friston, west of Eastbourne, East Sussex. Salvaged
31156 (MSN 6270) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 26Sep43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 13Oct43.
447th Bomb Group, Harvard Field, NB. 708th Bomb Squadron [CQ*L], 447th Bomb Group,
Rattlesden (Station 126), Suffolk 19Nov43. Named "Big Stoop". Failed to return from a mission
to the Heinkel Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory in Rostock, Germany 11Apr44 (4POW:6EVD).
Damaged by flak, the crew tried to make it to Sweden, but crashed on Bornholm Island near Ibsker, Denmark .
MACR 3824
31157 (MSN 6271) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 25Sep43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 14Oct43.
447th Bomb Group, Harvard Field, NB. 709th Bomb Squadron, 447th Bomb Group,
Rattlesden (Station 126), Suffolk 23Nov43. Named "Red ASS", possibly "Red Donkey".
Failed to return from a Crossbow mission to a German V-weapon site in the Pas-de-Calais, France 13Feb44 (10POW).
Damaged by flak, crashed Fraincourt-St-Quentin, 17 miles west of Abbeville, France.. MACR 2533
31158 (MSN 6272) Accepted by USAAF 23Sep43. Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 26Sep43.
Luke, AZ 7Oct43. 4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 15Nov43. 368th Bomb Squadron [BO*J],
306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 12Dec43. 2nd Strategic Air Depot,
Little Staughton (Station 127), Bedfordshire 19Dec43. Regained by Group 20Dec43. Battle damaged on a mission
to the Junkers aircraft factory at Halberstadt, Germany 11Jan44. An enemy fighter attack after the
target struck causing severe damage. On return, force landed at RAF Foulsham, Norfolk.
Mobile Repair Unit, 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little Staughton (Station 127), Bedfordshire 12Jan44.
Regained by Group 31Jan44. 368th Bomb Squadron [BO*S]. Declared 'war weary'. Damaged in a
landing accident when the aircraft nosed over and then fell back on its tail at Thurleigh 26Jul44.
Salvaged by 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton 27Jul44
31159 (MSN 6273) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27Sep43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 10Oct43.
New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 13Oct43. 333rd Bomb Squadron, 94th Bomb Group,
Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 23Oct43. Ferried from RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador
to Maghaberry (Station 239), County Down, Northern Ireland 24Nov43. Failed to return from a
mission to the city of Munich, Germany 18Mar44 (7POW:3KIA). Shot down by enemy fighters,
damaged No.1 engine, fell behind formation and crashed at Neiderschach, six miles northeast
of Villingen, Germany MACR 3419
31160 (MSN 6274) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26Sep43.
447th Bomb Group, Harvard Field, NB 10Oct43. 710th Bomb Squadron, 447th Bomb Group,
Rattlesden (Station 126), Suffolk 25Nov43. Failed to return from a Crossbow mission to a
German V-weapon site in the Pas-de-Calais, France 13Feb44 (9KIA:1POW). Flak burst broke
off the tail, crashed Rambures, 17 miles northwest of Poix, France. MACR 2532
31161 (MSN 6275) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 25Sep43.
447th Bomb Group, Harvard Field, NB 6Oct43. 711th Bomb Squadron, 447th Bomb Group,
Rattlesden (Station 126), Suffolk 25Nov43. Failed to return from a mission to railway facilities
around Berlin, Germany 29Apr44 (10POW). The combat wing was off course heading to Berlin,
attacked by enemy fighters and bombed Magdeburg. Shot down by enemy fighters, crash landed
Gollbogen, four miles northeast of Zerbst, Germany. MACR 4248
31162 (MSN 6276) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26Sep43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 10Oct43.
4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 14Oct43. 508th Bomb Squadron [YB*V],
351st Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 7Nov43. 511th Bomb Squadron [DS*V].
Named "Victory Ball". Named in the tradition of 511th Bomb Squadron by incorporating
the word 'Ball' in the title, after the squadron's first commander Clinton F Ball.
Failed to return from a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical works at Oppau, Ludwigshafen, Germany
30Dec43 (5POW:5KIA).. Damaged by AAA and shot down
by Lt Waldemar Radener in Fw 190A-6 of JG 26/7 and crashed 1 km S of
Saint Pol sur Ternoise, France.
MACR 1757. 4 KIA, 6 POW (1 died in hospital from wounds).
31163 (MSN 6277) Accepted by USAAF 23Sep43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 27Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 9Oct43. 20th Ferrying Group, Berry Field, Nashville, TN 12Oct43.
562nd Bomb Squadron [T], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 14Oct43.
Named GLORY GIRL / A GOOD SHIP AND A HAPPY SHIP.
{first combat mission 19Nov43}. Battle damaged on a mission to the port area at Bremen,
Germany 20Dec43 (10RTD). Attacked by a large force of enemy fighters and flak over the
target area was very intense. Battle damaged during a mission to railway marshalling yards
at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 4Feb44. With engine problems, the plane dropped out of
formation shortly after the target and force landed at RAF Manston, Kent. Failed to return
from a mission to the Robert Bosch electrical factory at Berlin, Germany 6Mar44 (10INT).
Approximately fifteen to twenty Fw 190s were met near D�mmer See en route to the target.
Struck by flak en route to the target at Kleinmachnow, southwest of Berlin. The No.4 engine was
disabled, losing oil, and the pilot diverted to Sweden. Force landed at Rinkaby airfield,
southeast of Kristianstad, Sweden. {20 missions}. MACR 3083. Crew interned by Sweden but returned to England Nov 1944.
Aircraft retained in Sweden and converted to airliner and registered Jan 5, 1945 as SE-BAM
"Tom" and owned by Swedish Crown but operated by ABA.
En route Prague, Czechoslovakia to Stockholm the aircraft had been diverted because of bad weather and
landed at G�teborg where the passengers left the plane. It was then ferried to Stockholm/Bromma but
crashed on approach in bad weather at Stallarholmen near Str�ngn�s,
west of Stockholm 4Dec45 (6 fatalities). Registration cancelled 4Oct48.
31164 (MSN 6278) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26Sep43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 9Oct43.
20th Ferrying Group, Berry Field, Nashville, TN 12Oct43. 337th Bomb Squadron [AW*T],
96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 14Oct43. Named "Lucky Lady".
Failed to return from a mission to the Luftwaffe air depot at M�rignac, Bordeaux, France 5Jan44 (3POW:1KIA.6EVD).
Shot down by Ofw. Kurt Gaebler in Ju-88R-2 of ZG 1/3 and crashed
at Lac Hourtin, near St Ceir, west of Bordeaux, France. MACR 2012.
31165 (MSN 6279) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27Sep43.
Bomb Group, Harvard Field, NB 13Oct43. 708th Bomb Squadron, 447th Bomb Group, Rattlesden
(Station 126), Suffolk 21Nov43. Failed to return from a mission to industrial areas in the suburbs
of Berlin, Germany 4Mar44 (9POW). Because of severe weather in the assembly area, the group
diverted to a target at Bonn, Germany. Damaged by flak, crashed Saint-Pierre, southwest of Ch�lons-sur-Marne, France
31166 (MSN 6280) Accepted by USAAF 24Sep43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 27Sep43. Materiel Command, Wright Field, Dayton, OH 10Oct43. Langley Field,
Hampton, VA 6Dec43. Fitted with Oboe Mk II radar. Ferried Patterson Field, Reykjavik, Iceland to
Scotland 19Dec43. 813th Bomb Squadron [PC*K], 482nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102),
Huntingdonshire Dec43. Transferred to 545th Bomb Squadron [JD*Z], 384th Bomb Group,
Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 5Feb44. Named "Miss Billie, Jr".
{first combat mission 20Feb44}. The aircraft took off as spare for a mission 24Mar44. No.2
engine started leaking oil and the pressure dropped causing some difficulty in feathering the propeller.
The pilot turned back towards base and made a let down through heavy cloud cover. Then No.3 engine
started to cut out and finally stopped, causing the bomber to lose altitude rapidly. Breaking out of
cloud at 500 feet the pilot spotted an airfield and made a turn to line up with the runway.
Despite calling the control tower, the controller didn't reply. Approaching to land, the tower
then told the pilot to circle for three minutes as P-38 Lightning fighters were taking off. By now
at 30 feet above the ground, the bomber started pulling up for a go-around but, with only two
engines operating and a full fuel and bomb load, the aircraft was unable to exceed sixty feet altitude.
With trees ahead, the pilot made a right turn towards an open field. Losing height, the landing gear
was retracted and a crash landing made in an open field two miles west of Nuthampstead (Station 131),
Hertfordshire (10INJ). {18 missions}. After 18 missions and some six weeks with the 384th Bomb Group,
it was still wearing the 813th Bomb Squadron code [PC] at time of crash landing despite changing
the aircraft letter for 545th Bomb Squadron. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton (Station 547), Huntingdonshire. Salvaged. .
31167 (MSN 6281) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27Sep43.
447th Bomb Group, Harvard Field, NB 13Oct43. 710th Bomb Squadron, 447th Bomb Group,
Rattlesden (Station 126), Suffolk 21Nov43. Failed to return from a mission to the industrial area at
Brunswick, Germany 10Feb44 (5KIA:5POW). Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Zornbrink swamps,
Barver, near Wagenfeld, ten miles east of Diepholz, Germany
31168 MSN 6282) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27Sep43.
710th Bomb Squadron, 447th Bomb Group, Harvard Field, NB 14Oct43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 10Nov43. Departed 16Nov43 for overnight stop at Camp Bear, Fort Wayne, IN.
Departed 17Nov43 for overnight stop at Grenier Field, NH. Departed 18Nov43 for Presque Isle Field, ME.
Departed 21Nov43 for RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador. Departed 22Nov43 en route to Prestwick, Scotland.
710th Bomb Squadron, 447th Bomb Group, Rattlesden (Station 126), Suffolk 24Nov43. Named "Cella-Fain Lady".
Crash landed Great Ashfield 12Dec43. Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing),
Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 28Jun45. 4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service
Command), South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 6Jul45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 8Dec45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
31169 (MSN 6283) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28Sep43.
710th Bomb Squadron, 447th Bomb Group, Harvard Field, NB 13Oct43. Ferried from RCAF Goose Bay,
Labrador to Nutts Corner (Station 235), Belfast, Northern Ireland 24Nov43. 331st Bomb Squadron,
94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk Nov43, 410th Bomb Squadron.
710th Bomb Squadron, 447th Bomb Group, Rattlesden. On local training flight 9Mar44, engines
malfunctioned, aircraft force landed on grass at Honington (Station 375), Suffolk, causing severe
damage. Salvaged by 1st Strategic Air Depot, Troston (Station 595), Suffolk. Named HEY MABEL / WOLVERINE II.
31170 MSN 6284) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27Sep43.
Harvard Field, NB 13Oct43. 4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 18Oct43.
Combat Weather Detachment, 1st Combat Crew Replacement Group, RAF St Eval, Padstow,
Cornwall Oct43. Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire 23Nov43. 8th Weather Reconnaissance
Squadron (Heavy), 802nd Reconnaissance Group (Special)(Provisional), Watton (Station 376),
Norfolk 12Apr44. 652nd Bomb Squadron (Heavy Reconnaissance), 25th Bomb Group (Reconnaissance),
325th Photographic Wing, Watton 9Aug44. Named "Our Baby". Salvaged Apr 28, 1945.
During the summer of 1943 at RAF St Eval, Padstow, Cornwall, No.1404 Meteorological Flight
became No.517 Squadron and began re-equipping with the Handley-Page Halifax. Because of this No.517
was unable to maintain its operational committment of twice-daily meteorological reconnaissance
sorties to the southwest over Biscay (code-named EPICURE). Such was the importance of these
flights that the USAAF offered four B-17s to make up the shortfall - adding another four aircraft
later. Initially these were detached to RAF St Eval and operated to the west of the UK
(code-named ALLAH), but during the autumn it was decided the USAAF aircraft should operate
from an American base - Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire. As the USAAF didn't have
aircrew trained in meteorological observing, the crews always flew with an RAF Meteorological
Air Observer (MAO)
31171 (MSN 6285) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27Sep43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 9Oct43.
551st Bomb Squadron [HR*P], 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 21Oct43.
Named "Miss Alamo City". Crash landed on a non-operational mission at RAF Woodbridge, Suffolk 16Jul44; the left landing gear
collapsed and two engines struck the runway. Salvaged 19Jul44
31172 (MSN 6286) Accepted by USAAF 25Sep43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 27Sep43. 447th Bomb Group, Harvard Field, NB 13Oct43. 367th Bomb Squadron [GY*B],
306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 26Nov43. Failed to return from a mission
to the Dornier-Werke factory and airfield at Oberpfaffenhofen, Munich, Germany 24Apr44 (10INT).
En route to the target, attacks by enemy fighters disabled No.2 engine and the propeller could
not be feathered. With additional damage to No.3 engine, losing altitude and an excessive fuel
consumption, the pilot headed for Switzerland. Force landed D�bendorf, Z�rich, Switzerland.
Returned to UK 4Sep45. Base Air Depot No.1, Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire
31173 (MSN 6287) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27Sep43.
447th Bomb Group, Harvard Field, NB 13Oct43. 711th Bomb Squadron [IR*L], 447th Bomb Group,
Rattlesden (Station 126), Suffolk 24Nov43. Named "Maid to Please".
Failed to return from a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical works at Oppau, Ludwigshafen,
Germany 30Dec43 (4KIA:5POW:1EVD). Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Coudray Farm, Berville, s
ix miles northwest of Mariners, eleven miles northwest of Pontoise, France MACR 1770.
31174 (MSN 6288) Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 27Sep43. Operational
Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 19Oct43.
Long Beach Field, CA 28Nov43. 551st Bomb Squadron [HR*Y], 385th Bomb Group,
Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 5Dec43. Named 'Spirit of Chicago'.
Failed to return from a mission to railway facilities around Berlin, Germany 29Apr44 (9POW:1KIA).
The combat wing was off course heading to Berlin, attacked by enemy fighters and bombed
Magdeburg. Crashed in Hartz Mountains at Eckertal, near Bad Harzburg, Germany. MACR 4454
31175 (MSN 6289) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 29Sep43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 21Oct43.
4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 15Nov43. 326th Bomb Squadron [JW*M],
92nd Bomb Group, Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 2Dec43. Failed to return from a mission to the AGO-
Flugzeugwerke Fw 190 manufacturing factory at Oschersleben, Germany 11Jan44 (5POW:2KIA). While the
aircraft were airborne, the weather closed in over English bases and a recall signal was issued. B/Gen.
Robert F. Travis, Air Commander of the 1st Bomb Division, continued on to the target. This left the 1st Bomb
Division with greater exposure to enemy fighter attacks. Good fighter support was provided by P-47
Thunderbolts on the penetration and by P-51 Mustangs over the target. P-47s were airborne to provide
withdrawal support but they obeyed the recall order to return to England and left the bombers
to fend for themselves on the return trip. Luftwaffe attacks started over the IJsselmeer and intensified
when the American fighters returned home. Meager and fairly accurate flak was experienced on the bomb run,
with intermittent inaccurate flak on the return trip. Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Markluiden,
near Heerde, Netherlands
31176 (MSN 6290) Accepted by USAAF 25Sep43. Lockheed Aircraft, Modification Center #3, Love Field, Dallas, TX 27Sep43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 17Oct43. New Castle AAB,
Wilmington, DE 24Oct43. 560th Bomb Squadron [U], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 26Oct43.
Named "Flak Suit". {first combat mission 16Nov43}. Battle damaged on a mission to the port area at Kiel,
Germany 13Dec43 (1KIA:9RTD). Fighter opposition was weak but intense flak was encountered in the target area.
The navigator was killed from a 20mm cannon shell burst in the nose section. Battle damaged on a Crossbow
mission to a German V-weapon site in the Pas-de-Calais, France 24Dec43 (10RTD). Just inside the French coast
at Dieppe, the aircraft was struck by flak. Failed to return from a mission to the Dornier Flugzeugwerke factory
at Lowenthal, Friedrichshafen, Germany 24Apr44 (10POW). Flak over the Target was intense and accurate.
Ditched in English Channel off Calais, France; crew rescued by Germans. {33 missions}
31177 MSN 6291) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 28Sep43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 18Oct43.
4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 24Oct43. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik,
Iceland to Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland 6Nov43. 359th Bomb Squadron [BN*L], 303rd Bomb
Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 18Nov43. Named "Lonesome Polecat".
Participated in the 'Grapefruit' mission to drop GB-1 glide bombs on a railway marshalling yard at
Cologne, Germany 28May44. Failed to return from a mission to the Sudetenl�ndische Treibstoffwerke AG
synthetic oil refinery at Z�lup�, Br�x, Sudetenland 12Sep44 (4KIA:5POW). Attacked by enemy fighters
making a hole in the front part of the wing close to the No.3 engine. Crashed near Berlin.
31178 (MSN 6292) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 28Sep43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 21Oct43.
3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 16Nov43. 324th Bomb Squadron [DF*F], 91st Bomb Group,
Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 20Dec43. {first combat mission 22Dec43}.
Battle damaged on a Crossbow mission to a German V-weapon site at Andres in the Pas-de-Calais,
France 24Dec43. Flak over the target was heavy and accurate. Battle damaged by flak on a mission
to the Luftwaffe air depot at M�rignac, Bordeaux, France 31Dec43. The target was covered by
smoke and cloud so the group diverted to the secondary target, a Luftwaffe airfield at
Ch�teaubernard, Cognac, France. On return, the crew became lost in poor weather and crash landed
at Old Windsor, Berkshire. {4 missions}. Salvaged after non battle damage 1Jan44
31179 (MSN 6293) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 29Sep43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 22Oct43.
New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 31Oct43. Ferried from RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador to Nutts Corner
(Station 235), Belfast, Northern Ireland 24Nov43. 511th Bomb Squadron [DS*B], 351st Bomb Group,
Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 23Dec43 Named "Stinky Weather". .
Failed to return from a mission to the Luftwaffe air depot at M�rignac, Bordeaux, France 31Dec43 (4KIA:5POW).
The target was covered in solid cloud so the secondary target at Ch�teaubernard, Cognac, France was bombed
Damaged by AAA and then shot down by Obfw Wilhelm Streckert in Bf 109G-6 of JG 2/6 between
Kerbors and Pleubian, France and crashed Kervers/Paimpol, twenty-three miles
northwest of St Brieux, France. MACR 1980.
31180 (MSN 6294) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 28Sep43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 18Oct43.
20th Ferrying Group, Berry Field, Nashville, TN 24Oct43. 407th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group,
Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 23Nov43. 327th Bomb Squadron [UX*U]. Failed to return from
a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 24Feb44 (8KIA:2POW). Shot down by
enemy fighters, crashed Klein Bokern, four miles east of Furstenau, Germany. MACR 2854
31181 (MSN 6295) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 29Sep43.
Combat Crew Training School, Casper Field, WY 7Oct43. 549th Bomb Squadron, 385th Bomb Group,
Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 2Nov43. Failed to return from a mission to an aircraft
assembly plant at Brunswick, Germany 30Jan44 (10POW). Probably damaged by night fighter
pilot Oberleutnant Hermann Greiner of the 10./NJG 1, who was flying a Bf 110G from Leeuwarden airfield
in the Netherlands. Crashed at Himbergen, near Bissendorf, twenty-five miles northeast of Osnabr�ck,
Germany. MACR 2266
31182 (MSN 6296) Accepted by USAAF 7Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 12Nov43. 4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal
Airport, TN 20Nov43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 419th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group,
Cerignola #1, Italy 17Dec43. Named "The Mighty Rabbit".
Flown to England with General Doolittle departing Cerignola #1 3Jan44; returned 19Jan44. Major
battle damage by flak on a tactical mission to a railway bridge and road junction at Ceprano,
Frosinone, Italy 23Jan44. Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. Major battle damage by flak
during a tactical mission against German troop concentrations and defensive positions at Campoleone
in support of the Allied beachhead at Anzio, Italy 17Feb44. Failed to return from a mission
to railway marshalling yards at Ploe?ti, Rumania 5Apr44 (10POW). After the target the bomber
had dropped back from the formation but maintaining altitude. It was being attacked by several
enemy fighters then started to lose altitude, last seen entering cloud. Crashed near Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
{17 missions} MACR 3882.
31183 (MSN 6297) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 28Sep43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 21Oct43.
New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 28Oct43. 358th Bomb Squadron [VK*Y], 303rd Bomb Group,
Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 18Nov43. 359th Bomb Squadron [BN*J].
Named *Bad Penny*. Failed to return from a mission to the Luftwaffe airfield at Wiesbaden,
Germany 15Aug44 (2KIA:7POW). Returning from the target as part of the low group, which was
attacked by enemy fighters, the bomber caught fire and fell behind the formation.
The aircraft crashed after the crew bailed out near Wittlich, Germany
31184 MSN 6298) Accepted by USAAF 26Sep43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 29Sep43. 447th Bomb Group, Harvard Field, NB 14Oct43. 388th Bomb Group,
Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 18Nov43. 711th Bomb Squadron [IR*E], 447th Bomb Group,
Rattlesden (Station 126), Suffolk Jan44. Named "Old Crow". Failed to return from a mission to the ball
bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 13Apr44 (10INT). Flak damaged No.3 engine, crew bailed out,
aircraft shot down by Swiss fighters, crashed Siebnen on Lake Obersee, Switzerland
31185 (MSN 6299) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Sep43.
447th Bomb Group, Harvard Field, NB 13Oct43. 708th Bomb Squadron [CQ*M], 447th Bomb Group,
Rattlesden (Station 126), Suffolk 19Nov43. Named "Glamour Gal: also "Satchel Lass".
Non-combat training flight, force landed Honington (Station 375), Suffolk 9Apr44. 1st Strategic
Air Depot, Troston (Station 595), Suffolk. Declared as war weary. Base Air Depot No.1, Burtonwood
(Station 590), Lancashire. Damaged landing at Burtonwood 17Jan45, collided with parked
P-47D 44-19742 and B-26G 44-67988. Salvaged Jan45.
31186 (MSN 6300) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28Sep43.
447th Bomb Group, Harvard Field, NB 13Oct43. 709th Bomb Squadron, 447th Bomb Group,
Rattlesden (Station 126), Suffolk 21Nov43. Failed to return from a Crossbow mission to a
German V-weapon site in the Pas-de-Calais, France 28Feb44 (9POW), severe flak damage,
crashed between Hericourt & Blangerval-Blangemont, five miles southwest of St Pol, France
31187 (MSN 6301) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30Sep43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 14Oct43. Bowman Field, Louisville, KY 18Oct43.
Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Benbecula, Scotland 13Nov43. 401st Bomb Group,
Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 16Nov43. 401st Bomb Squadron [LL*F], 91st Bomb Group,
Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 20Nov43.
Named "Buckeye Boomerang"--named by the pilot for his home state of Ohio.
Battle damaged during a mission to the AGO-Flugzeugwerke Fw 190 manufacturing factory at
Oschersleben, Germany 11Jan44. While the aircraft were airborne, the weather closed in over
English bases and a recall signal was issued. B/Gen. Robert F. Travis, Air Commander of the
1st Bomb Division, continued on to the target. This left the 1st Bomb Division with greater
exposure to enemy fighter attacks. Good fighter support was provided by P-47 Thunderbolts
on the penetration and by P-51 Mustangs over the target. P-47s were airborne to provide
withdrawal support but they obeyed the recall order to return to England and left the bombers
to fend for themselves on the return trip. Luftwaffe attacks started over the IJsselmeer
and intensified when the American fighters returned home. Meager and fairly accurate
flak was experienced on the bomb run, with intermittent inaccurate flak on the return trip.
The bomber limped back to UK and force landed at Deopham Green (Station 142), Norfolk.
Further damaged when the bomber slid off the end of the icy runway. After repair, on the
ferry flight back to Bassingbourn 4Mar44, the plane force landed at Bunbury Farm,
Swaffham Prior, about one mile west of Newmarket, Cambs. {10 missions}. Salvaged
31188 (MSN 6302) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30Sep43.
447th Bomb Group, Harvard Field, NB 16Oct43. 709th Bomb Squadron [IE*M], 447th Bomb Group,
Rattlesden (Station 126), Suffolk 21Nov43, named "Dead Man's Hand".
Failed to return from a mission to railway installations at Pirna, Germany 19Apr45 (1KIA:7POW).
Shot down by Obfw. Hubert G�bel of III. JG/ 7 flying a Me 262 jet fighter. No.1 engine and the wing
caught fire. The crew bailed out before the plane exploded and crashed on the German / Czechoslovakian
border near K�lek. The remains of the plane fell to the ground over a large area. Smaller parts on the
Czech side near the village of K�lek; the main part of the plane in Germany, just across the border.
{111 missions}. . In 1987, foresters near Kl�ny found part of the vertical stabiliser in yellow with
the number 88. Small relics are on display in the riding hall of the ?erven� Hr�dek Chateau, Czech Republic.
Last heavy bomber to be lost to enemy aircraft.
31189 (MSN 6303 ) Accepted by USAAF 26Sep43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 29Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 22Oct43. 4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 4Nov43.
Named PARAGON [to signify a standard against which something should be judged]
525th Bomb Squadron [FR*X], 379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 22Nov43.
Failed to return from a mission to the Mitteldeutsche Motorenwerke aero engine factory at Taucha,
Leipzig, Germany 7Jul44 (9EVD). Damaged by flak, on the return home, the aircraft had to leave the
formation when three engines failed. The bomber lost altitude, the crew dropped heavy equipment
overboard and jettisoned the ball turret. Near Vollenhove the crew members bailed out at 5000ft.
Crash landed in the Noordoostpolder, northwest of Emmeloord, Netherlands; the polder had been
drained but was still a mud flat. The plane wreckage was barely accessible by vehicles, so the
Germans limited themselves to removing the weapons and a few other parts. The wreckage remained
until salvaged Spring 1948
31190 (MSN 6304) (MSN 6304) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 29Sep43. 708th Bomb Squadron, 447th Bomb Group, Harvard Field, NB 15Oct43.
On Oct 22, 1943 was destroyed when it fatally stalled and spun into the Arkansas River,
near Ponca City, Oklahoma, while flying in a severe thunderstorm. Fourteen crewmembers
and passengers were killed. Salvaged 23Oct43
31191 (MSN 6305) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Sep43.
447th Bomb Group, Harvard Field, NB 16Oct43. 710th Bomb Squadron, 447th Bomb Group,
Rattlesden (Station 126), Suffolk 25Nov43. Named "Virginia Lee". Failed to return from a
mission to a Luftwaffe air depot at M�rignac, Bordeaux, France 27Mar44 (8POW). Dropped
out of formation, crashed Le Gnac, near Lacanau, twenty-five miles northwest of Bordeaux, France.
{20 missions}. MACR 3546.
31192 (MSN 6306) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30Sep43.
Scott Field, Belleville, IL 24Oct43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle
Field, ME 1Nov43. Damaged landing at Meeks Field, Keflav�k, Iceland 12Nov43. Ferried from Meeks
Field, Keflav�k, Iceland to Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland 28Nov43. 612th Bomb Squadron,
401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire Nov43. 509th Bomb Squadron [RQ*R],
351st Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 3Dec43. 508th Bomb Squadron [YB*R].
Failed to return from a mission to the I.G. Farben synthetic fuel works at P�litz, Prussia 7Oct44 (7KIA:2INT).
After being hit by flak over P�litz in Germany, the bomber turned north for Sweden with only one engine
ing. Running out of fuel the pilot was forced to land. Crash landed Farabol, Sweden. The pilot tried to
avoid potato pickers in the intended landing area and crashed in the woods nearby, losing his life.
He and the co-pilot never got out of the plane. Rest of the crew got thrown out when the plane broke
in half against a rock and caught fire. Two crew members survived. {42 missions}.
31193 (MSN 6307) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Sep43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 14Oct43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 21Oct43.
615th Bomb Squadron [IY*B], 401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 4Nov43.
Named "Little Boots" . Failed to return from a mission to the industrial area
at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 29Jan44 (5POW:5KIA). Shot down by flak and fighters near Worms.
2 engines damaged by flak. Plane shot down on return flight By Rocket From
Messerschmitt BF 110G-4 and Crashed Near Worms Germany.
Believed BF 110G-4 Flown By Uffz. Robert Krohn of NJG 6/6. (5) Crew Were Killed.
(5) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs. Released in 1945. MACR 2274
31194 (MSN 6308) Accepted by USAAF 27Sep43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 30Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 19Oct43. 4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 26Oct43.
562nd Bomb Squadron [P], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 1Nov43.
Named "Duchess of Dixie". {first combat mission 26Nov43}. Battle damaged during a mission
to the industrial area at Brunswick, Germany 10Feb44 (10RTD). Meagre to heavy flak was
seen when crossing the enemy coast at IJmuiden, Netherlands. In the vicinity of Lingen,
Germany the formation was attacked by enemy fighters in groups of three. As they
neared the target, twin-engined aircraft fired rockets into the formation. Intense flak
was encountered at the target where the aircraft received flak damage. The formation was
under fighter attack until it neared the IJsselmeer on the return home. Friendly fighters were
outnumbered, especially in the target area. Battle damaged on a Crossbow mission to a
German V-weapon site in the Pas-de-Calais, France 13Feb44 (1WIA:9RTD); The engineer/top turret
gunner was injured by flak. Failed to return from a mission to the Robert Bosch electrical factory
at Berlin, Germany 6Mar44 (6POW:4KIA). Approximately fifteen to twenty Fw 190s were met near
D�mmer See en route to the target and were again encountered in the same area on the return
route home. Instead of attacking the assigned target, the formation circled the outskirts
of the city to a textile works on the banks of the Elbe River at Oranienburg. Attacked by
enemy fighters, caught fire as the crew started to bail out before the plane exploded.
Crashed in the R�hlermoor on the German/Dutch border between Sch�ninghsdorf and Twist,
Germany, southeast of Emmen, Netherlands. {18 missions}. It lay until 2007 in the R�hlermoor; i
n that year it disappeared without trace, presumably sunk deeper into the peat bog.
31195 (MSN 6309) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 30Sep43.
Las Vegas Field, NV 27Oct43. 3021st Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Las Vegas Field, NV 16Jun44.
Damaged in an accident with parked North American AT-6A 41-16765 while taxying at
Las Vegas Field 24Jul44. 2126th Base Unit (Central School for Flexible Gunnery), Laredo Field, TX 4May45.
331st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Barksdale Field, Bossier City, LA 22Oct45.
2126th Base Unit (Central School for Flexible Gunnery), Laredo Field, TX 7Nov45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 10Jan46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31196 (MSN 6310) Accepted by USAAF 27Sep43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 4Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 2Nov43. 4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 10Nov43.
369th Bomb Squadron [WW*O], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 14Dec43.
2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little Staughton (Station 127), Bedfordshire 27Dec43.
Named "Extra Joker". Regained by Group 29Dec43. Battle damaged on a mission to aircraft factories
at Kassel, Germany 19Apr44 (2WIA:8RTD). En route from the I.P. to the target, the plane was struck
by flak. The Plexiglas nose was shattered when shrapnel entered and knocked the bombardier
unconscious. The navigator was wounded by fragments of Plexiglas in his eyes. The No.2 engine
was hit and on fire. The fire was extinguished and the propeller feathered. Then No.3 engine was
hit and losing oil; the propeller was feathered. Unable to remain with their own group but hooked
onto other groups during the return to England. By the time the plane reached the French coast
it was alone and losing altitude as it crossed the North Sea. It finally reached Thurleigh and
approached to land. The door from the bomb bay opened up and the smoke was coming through;
there was a fire in the hydraulic motor. The plane landed without brakes and rolled off the end of
the runway into a grassy field. Declared 'war weary'. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton
(Station 547), Huntingdonshire 25Jul44 for installation of electronic supercharger regulators.
Regained by Group 11Aug44. Battle damaged on a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical and
synthetic oil works at Leuna, Merseburg, Germany 8Nov44. Flak was accurate and cuased holes
in the chin turret, bomb bays and stabiliser. Battle damaged on a mission to railway marshalling
yards at Stuttgart, Germany 9Dec44. Shortly after the target the rudder and aileron controls
were damaged by flak. The AFCE had also failed but the pilot could maintain control using throttles
and elevators. He made it back to Allied lines and force landed at Laon-Couvron (A-70), France;
crew returned to Thurleigh 11Dec44. Salvaged 20Jan45
31197 (MSN 6311) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 30Sep43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 1Nov43.
3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 6Nov43. 533rd Bomb Squadron [VP*Q], 381st Bomb Group,
Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 13Jan44. Named "Shack Rabbit". {28 missions}. Returned to US.
1104th Base Unit (Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command), Homestead Field, FL 12Jul44.
4136th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 6Aug44.
4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 5Feb45.
4210th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Lambert Municipal Airport,
Robertson, MO 16Apr45. 4000th Base Unit, Air Materiel Command, Wright Field, Dayton, OH 26Jun45.
611th Base Unit, Proving Ground Command, Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 2Apr46. 4117th Base Unit
(Warner Robins Air Technical Service Command), Robins Field, Warner Robins, GA 27Dec46.
Reassigned AMCWR 31Mar47. Reclaimed 14Sep48
31198 (MSN 6312) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 30Sep43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 1Nov43.
4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 6Nov43. Ferried from RCAF Goose Bay,
Labrador to Nutts Corner (Station 235), Belfast, Northern Ireland 22/23Nov43. 612th Bomb Squadron [SC*N],
401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 24Dec43. Named "Fancy Nancy II".
Battle damaged on a mission to the Luftwaffe air depot at M�rignac, Bordeaux, France 31Dec43.
The target was covered in solid cloud so the secondary target at Ch�teaubernard, Cognac, France
was bombed. Crash landed Kimbolton. Salvaged 4Jan44 named "Fancy Nancy II".
Salvaged Jan 4, 1944.
31199 (MSN 6313) Accepted by USAAF 28Sep43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver
Municipal Airport, CO 30Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 31Oct43. New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 9Nov43. 571st Bomb Squadron [FC*F],
390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 15Nov43. Named "Rosie Wreckltum" .
{first combat mission 5Dec43}. (final combat mission 8Mar44}. Crash landed at Framlingham 9Mar44.
{15 missions}. Salvaged by 1st Strategic Air Depot, Troston (Station 595), Suffolk 18Apr44.
31200 (MSN 6314) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 2Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 31Oct43.
Long Beach Field, CA 25Nov43. Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland
to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 30Nov43. 427th Bomb Squadron [GN*V], 303rd Bomb Group,
Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 1Jan44, named "Old Crow" Failed to return from
a mission to Paris, France 28Jun44 (3KIA:4POW). Damaged by flak, crashed Chievres-en-Laonnois,
eleven miles northeast of Laon, France. {37 missions}.
31201 (MSN 6315) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 3Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island
Field, NB 31Oct43. 4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 20Nov43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy.
414th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 30Nov43. Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43.
San Giovanni, Cerignola, Italy 20Dec43. Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44. Failed to return from a mission
to the oil refineries at Ploe?ti, Rumania, 24Apr44. Flak was intense, heavy and accurate and continued
throughout the fifteen minute bomb run. A flight of enemy fighters was in the target area. Damaged by flak,
the bomber was shot down by an enemy fighter and crashed near Topoloveni, Bulgaria.
31202 (MSN 6316) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 3Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 31Mar43.
New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 9Nov43. 613th Bomb Squadron [IN*D], 401st Bomb Group,
Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 12Dec43. Took off for a mission as spare 9Mar44,
turned back, severely damaged landing when ran off the runway at Deenthorpe
31203 (MSN 6317) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 1Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 1Nov43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 6Nov43. 548th Bomb Squadron, 385th Bomb Group,
Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 29Nov43. Named "Gremlin Avenger"
Failed to return from a Crossbow mission to a German V-weapon site in the Pas-de-Calais, France 28Feb44 (1KIA),
No.2 engine smoking, aircraft ditched in English Channel off Folkestone, Kent,
9 crew rescued, one killed. No MACR.
31204 (MSN 6318) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 1Oct43.
Bomb Group, Harvard Field, NB 14Oct43. 711th Bomb Squadron, 447th Bomb Group,
Rattlesden (Station 126), Suffolk 19Nov43. Failed to return from a mission to Brunswick,
Germany 28Feb44 (7KIA:3POW). Flak damaged engines No.3 & No.4, setting wing on fire,
crashed Croisette, four miles southwest of St Pol, France. 7 KIA,
3 bailed out and became POW. MACR 2890
31205 (MSN 6319) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Oct43.
tional Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 17Oct43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 20Oct43. 336th Bomb Squadron [ET*E],
95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 2Nov43. Named "Sack Robber/Sad Sack".
Failed to return from a mission to the industrial area at Augsburg, Germany 16Mar44 (10POW).
From Strasburg, Germany to Augsburg, the bombers were attacked by Luftwaffe fighters in a
running battle. Flak over the target was moderate and accurate; flak en route was meagre
and inaccurate. Crashed Nellingen, near Reutlingen, six miles east of Stuttgart, Germany. {23 missions)
31206 (MSN 6320) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 1Oct43.
447th Bomb Group, Harvard Field, NB 14Oct43. 709th Bomb Squadron, 447th Bomb Group,
Rattlesden (Station 126), Suffolk 18Nov43. Named."Journey's End").
Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 4Jul45. 4
168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), South Plains Field,
Lubbock, TX 7Jul45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ
for storage and disposal 26Nov45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped.
31207 (MSN 6321) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 1Oct43.
447th Bomb Group, Harvard Field, NB 14Oct43. 447th Bomb Group, Rattlesden (Station 126),
Suffolk 19Nov43. Battle damaged on a mission to industrial areas in the suburbs of Berlin,
Germany 6Mar44. Salvaged 7Mar44.
31208 (MSN 6322) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 1Oct43.
447th Bomb Group, Harvard Field, NB 14Oct43. 709th Bomb Squadron, 447th Bomb Group,
Rattlesden (Station 126), Suffolk 21Nov43. Failed to return from a mission to industrial areas of
Berlin, Germany 9Mar44 (9RTD). Ditched in North Sea on return; all rescued
31209 (MSN 6323) Accepted by USAAF 29Sep43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 5Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training
Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 17Oct43. Long Beach Field, CA 23Nov43. 561st Bomb Squadron [D],
388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 26Nov43, Named "Janie BB"
Named after the pilot's wife Mary Jane, who he always called Janie,. {first combat mission 26Nov43}.
Battle damaged on a mission to the port area at Bremen, Germany 20Dec43 (10RTD). Attacked by a
large force of enemy fighters and flak over the target area was very intense. Failed to return from a
mission to an aircraft assembly plant at Brunswick, Germany 30Jan44 (6POW:4KIA). Flak damaged
two engines and was the pilot was forced to leave the formation with one propeller feathered and one
that would not feather; another engine was on fire. Attacked by enemy fighters which killed and
wounded three of the gunners. The bomber began to spin uncontrollably and the crew bailed out.
It crashed in a field and burned out except for the tail section. Crashed Sternshorn, near Lemfords,
eleven miles south of Diepholz, Germany. {15 missions}
31210 (MSN 6324) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 4Oct43.
447th Bomb Group, Harvard Field, NB 15Oct43. 709th Bomb Squadron, 447th Bomb Group, Rattlesden
(Station 126), Suffolk 25Nov43. Named "Devil's Mate". Failed to return from a mission to Berlin,
Germany 9Mar43, damaged by flak, ditched English Channel, all rescued
31211 (MSN 6325) Accepted by USAAF 29Sep43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 5Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training
Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 17Oct43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 24Oct43.
Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland 6Nov43.
546th Bomb Squadron [BK*H], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106),
Northamptonshire 23Nov43. Named "Reno's Raiders". (first combat mission 5Dec43
Departing on a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical works at Leverkusen, Germany 1Dec43, during
initial climb in wing formation, the low squadron was forced to fly through a cloud layer with
icing conditions. With � inch of ice on the wing, this caused the aircraft to stall, spin and fall
out of position, and was then unable to return to the formation. Failed to return from a Crossbow
mission to a V-2 rocket service bunker complex at Sottevast, Normandy, France 8May44
(5KIA:4POW:1EVD). On the bomb run, the aircraft took a direct flak hit in the cockpit and mid
section and lost altitude rapidly. The crew at the front of the bomber were probably injured or
killed and did not leave the aircraft. The gunners bailed out before the plane crashed near Nehou,
seven miles southwest of Valognes, France. {34 missions}. MACR 4560
31212 (MSN 6326) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 4Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 17Oct43.
4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 24Oct43. 331st Bomb Squadron [QE*K],
94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 1Nov43. Failed to return
from a mission to the Luftwaffe air depot at M�rignac, Bordeaux, France 5Jan44 (3KIA).
Enemy aircraft ripped off the tailplane, crashed Petit Paris, near Kergrist-Moelou,
34 miles northeast Lorient, France, MACR 1890
31213 (MSN 6327) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 4Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 19Oct43.
3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 26Oct43. 359th Bomb Squadron [BN*Z],
303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 18Nov43.
Named "Pistol Packin' Mama"- artwork inspired by the Vargas' "Pistol Packin' Mama"
Esquire centrefold of March 1944. . Seriously damaged by flak during a mission to the Vereinigte
Kugellagerfabriken AG (VKF) ball bearing factory, Erkner, Germany 6Mar44. Participated in the
'Grapefruit' mission to drop GB-1 glide bombs on a railway marshalling yard at Cologne, Germany 28May44.
Failed to return from a mission to the Junkers aircraft plant and airfield at Halberstadt, Germany 30May44
(5POW:4KIA). As the formation crossed the Dutch coast No.2 engine started to smoke which caused it to
drop back from its No.2 position to the No.6 position of the low squadron. After dropping its bombs
the smoke from the ?. 2 engine worsened and the propeller was subsequently feathered. From
this moment on the bomber progressively dropped behind the formation. On the second bomb
run the aircraft could not make the turn and lagged behind the formation. It was last seen near
Nordhausen. The aircraft was then attacked by German Bf 109's after which the pilot ordered the
crew to bail out. All of the crew bailed out of the aircraft in quick succession after being ordered to
abandon the aircraft. The pilot remained with the crippled aircraft for some 5 to 8 minutes and flew
the aircraft out of the area from where the crew had bailed out. The aircraft crashed at Rennau
which is some 3� miles west of the Helmstedt?Mariental airbase which was three miles north of
Helmstedt, and immediately northeast of Mariental, Germany. MACR 5341
31214 (MSN 6328) Accepted by USAAF 29Sep43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 4Oct43. Harvard Field, NB 16Oct43. New Castle AAB,
Wilmington, DE 19Oct43. 560th Bomb Squadron [T], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136),
Suffolk 26Oct43 Named "Return Engagement". . {first combat mission 5Dec43}. Battle damaged
on a mission to the port area at Bremen, Germany 20Dec43 (10RTD). Attacked by a large force of
enemy fighters and flak over the target area was very intense. Failed to return from a mission to the
Vereinigte Kugellagerfabriken AG (VKF) ball bearing factory at Erkner, Berlin, Germany 8Mar44
(1KIA:1MIA:8POW). Very determined enemy fighter opposition was met en route to the target
during a lapse of the friendly escorts. The primary target was not able to be bombed as planned,
so diverted to a factory complex at Wildau, southeast of Berlin. Flak was not heavy or effective
over the target, but a large force of enemy fighters engaged the bomber formation as it headed
for home. Attacked by enemy fighters, the plane dropped out of the formation and crashed near
Borstel, southwest of Neum�nster, Germany. {19 missions}. MACR 3085
31215 (MSN 6329) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 4Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 15Oct43.
New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 19Oct43. 349th Bomb Squadron [XR*H], 100th Bomb Group,
Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 26Oct43. Failed to return from a mission to the ball bearing
factories at Paris, France 26Nov43 (5POW:2KIA);3EVD) shot down by Obfw Adolf Glunz in
Fw 190A-6 of JG 26/5 , damaged engine No.2 setting fire on wing, crashed Laneuville, NW of Paris, France.
MACR 1394.
31216 MSN 6330) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 4Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 16Oct43.
New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 19Oct43. 331st Bomb Squadron [QE*L], 94th Bomb Group, Rougham
(Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 26Oct43. Named "Patches". Failed to return from a mission
to the aero engine complex at Brunswick, Germany 11Jan44 (9POW:1KIA). As weather conditions began
to deteriorate over the English bases, a recall order was sent to the bomber groups en route to the city.
While some the groups received the message and turned back for England, others did not receive the order,
and pressed onwards. When they arrived at the target area, they met stiff resistance from the Luftwaffe.
The aircraft was shot down by enemy fighters. The crew bailed out and the bomber crashed close to
Thuine Hospital, near Lingen, Germany. MACR 1884.
31217 (MSN 6331) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 4Oct43.
447th Bomb Group, Harvard Field, NB 15Oct43. 710th Bomb Squadron, 447th Bomb Group, Rattlesden
(Station 126), Suffolk 21Nov43. Failed to return from a mission to railway facilities around Berlin,
Germany 29Apr44 (10POW). The combat wing was off course heading to Berlin, attacked by enemy
fighters and bombed Magdeburg. Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Eggenstedt, sixteen miles
west of Magdeburg, Germany. MACR 4249
31218 (MSN 6332) Accepted by USAAF 29Sep43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 5Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 16Oct43. New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 1Nov43. 571st Bomb Squadron [FC*E],
390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 15Nov43. Named "Eto-Itis". .
{first combat mission 5Dec43}. Failed to return from a mission to an aircraft factory at Brunswick,
Germany 10Feb44 (1KIA:2EVD:7POW). Shot down by Focke-Wulf FW 190 fighters. The aircraft was
observed to leave formation while it continued to drop back and lose altitude. It was last seen near
Lingen. When the aircraft was hit, it caught fire in the front of the plane. The radio operator had been
killed, the remaining crew bailed out. Crashed on Lok Farm, Baarlo, near Blokzijl, Netherlands.
Two farmhouses were set on fire when pieces of the aircraft hit their farms. All fifteen cows in one barn
were killed and three cows in the other barn were also killed by the exploding ammunition.
Nobody on the ground was hurt. The aircraft was destroyed completely. {19 missions}. MACR 2804.
31219 (MSN 6333) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 4Oct43.
710th Bomb Squadron, 447th Bomb Group, Harvard Field, NB 14Oct43. Crashed after takeoff from
RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador 21Nov43 en route UK (10KIS). In November 1943, sixty-two B-17s of the 447th
Bomb Group left Harvard Field in Nebraska for a transatlantic flight to England. Sixty arrived.
Two were lost with their crew. One of them was B-17G 42-31219 of 710th Bomb Squadron that took
off on 21 November 1943 from RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador for a direct flight to Prestwick, Scotland.
This B-17 crashed into Mud Lake as a result of a mid-air explosion shortly after takeoff..
31220 (MSN 6334) Accepted by USAAF 29Sep43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver
Municipal Airport, CO 4Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 16Oct43. New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 21Oct43. 350th Bomb Squadron [LN*P],
100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 5Nov43. Named "Fletcher's Castoria II"
Crashed on takeoff Dec 4, 1943. Repaired. Transferred to 390th BG Framlingham.
Returned to USA Rome Air Depot, NY Apr 27, 1945. Reclamation completed Oct 2, 1945.
31221 (MSN 6335) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 6Oct43.
Las Vegas Field, NV 24Oct43. 3022nd Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Indian Springs Auxiliary
Field, NV 5Feb45. 3021st Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Las Vegas Field, NV 10Mar45.
3036th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Yuma Field, AZ 20Mar45. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 4Jun45. 3028th Base Unit, Pilot School, Advanced,
Single-Engine, Luke Field, Arizona, AZ 5Aug45. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized,
Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 24Aug45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 11Jan46. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
31222 (MSN 6336) Accepted by USAAF 30Sep43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 4Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 17Oct43. 4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 24Oct43.
546th Bomb Squadron [BK*D], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106),
Northamptonshire 23Nov43 Named *Lazy Daisy* . {first combat mission 13Dec43}.
2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton (Station 547), Huntingdonshire 20Apr44; returned to Grafton
Underwood 20May44. Failed to return from a mission to the Braunkohle Benzin A.G. synthetic oil
refinery at Rothensee, Magdeburg, Germany 28Sep44 (6KIA:3POW). After releasing its bombs over
the target, the bomber veered off course and had part of its nose compartment knocked off by a
wing of B-17 43-37822, taking the togglier/nose gunner with it. The airplane flew on for a few
seconds before falling off into a spin, caught fire, exploded and broke up near the tail assembly,
taking the tail gunner with it before he managed to bail out. The plane crashed near Ost Ingersleben,
west of Erxleben, Germany. {49 missions}. The children of the two surviving waist gunners met
seventy-five years after it happened. Both airmen lived by being thrown out of their respective B-17's,
became POWs in the same prison camp Stalag Luft IV and both survived the camp's 86-day
500-mile march across Poland and Germany to liberation
31223 (MSN 6337) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 4Oct43.
447th Bomb Group, Harvard Field, NB 15Oct43. 711th Bomb Squadron, 447th Bomb Group,
Rattlesden (Station 126), Suffolk 25Nov43. Battle damaged, Brunswick, Germany 30Jan44,
on return instructed to land at Honington (Station 375), Suffolk and crash landed.
Salvaged by 1st Strategic Air Depot, Troston (Station 595), Suffolk 21Mar44
31224 (MSN 6338) Boeing, Seattle, WA 7Oct43. Materiel Command, Wright Field, Dayton, OH 19Oct43.
4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 28Nov43. 358th Bomb Squadron [VK*F],
303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 13Jan44.
Named *Helen Heaven/Hell In The Heavens*. Participated in the 'Grapefruit' mission to drop GB-1
glide bombs on a railway marshalling yard at Cologne, Germany 28May44. Failed to return from a
mission to the Luftwaffe airfield at Wiesbaden, Germany 15Aug44 (4POW:5KIA).
Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Wittlich, Germany. MACR 8169
31225 ((MSN 6339) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 4Oct43.
47th Bomb Group, Harvard Field, NB 15Oct43. 709th Bomb Squadron [IE*G], 447th Bomb Group,
Rattlesden (Station 126), Suffolk 21Nov43. Named *Scheherazade*. .Modified with the
Cheyenne tail turret which replaced the original turret fitted by Boeing. {126 missions}. Returned to US.
121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 4Jul45.
4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 8Jul45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and
disposal 10Nov45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped.
31226 (MSN 6340) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 4Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 16Oct43.
4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 19Oct43. 613th Bomb Squadron [IN*G],
401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 22Dec43. Named "Saint Ten Sinners".
Failed to return from a mission to railway marshalling yards in Berlin, Germany 29Apr44 (9POW:1EVD).
Flak damaged No.1 and No.2 engines, crashed Veldweg, about 1.8km northeast of Lieren, Apeldoorn,
Netherlands MACR 4345.
31227 MSN 6341) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 4Oct43. 4
47th Bomb Group, Harvard Field, NB 15Oct43. 94th Bomb Group, Rougham. 447th Bomb Group, R
attlesden (Station 126), Suffolk Nov43. Named "Dottie Jean"--named for the Pilot's wife Dorothy Jane.
Departing for a mission to the industrial area at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 29Jan44 (2MIA), after the
bomber crossed the French coast No.3 engine started to malfunction. The engine wouldn't feather or shut
down. Smoke was coming from the engine. By this time the aircraft was almost at the German border
and the crew started to abort and return to base. Then the bomber began to vibrate and shook bad.
The pilot gave the order "prepare to abandon ship". He told the bombardier and navigator to get out
of the nose. Later the engine started to act up again. Again the order came over the interphone, "prepare to jump".
The pilot got ready to jump and he gave the signal and was just ready to give the order to jump when the
propeller came off and the aircraft stopped vibrating. Then the order came "prepare to ditch".
But the bomber made it back to base. Nineteen holes were found in the front portion of the bomber;
all these were from debris flying off the engine. The engine cowlings had been shaken off and the
engine mounts damaged. The engine and propeller were replaced and the bomber was back on operations
by the middle of February. Severely battle damaged during a mission to industrial areas in the suburbs
of Berlin, Germany 6Mar44 (1KIA:2WIA). Badly damaged by flak just before releasing bombs, a direct
hit exploded in the mid-section causing a gaping hole in the fuselage above the left wing through which the
radio operator was blown out without his parachute to his death. The fuselage was damaged and the
wing spar was severed. The bomber dropped out of formation and evaded attacks by enemy fighters
during the return to base. One tire was shredded and the aircraft bounced on landing back at Rattlesden.
The ball turret had jammed and its machine guns scribed into the runway sending up a shower of sparks.
{8 missions}. Salvaged 7Mar44 MACR 2278
31228 (MSN 6342) Accepted by USAAF 30Sep43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 4Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island
Field, NB 17Oct43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 24Oct43. 525th Bomb Squadron [FR*F],
379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 22Nov43. {121 missons}. Upon returning
from a mission to railway marshalling yards at Mannheim and Stuttgart, Germany 20Jan45,
the aircraft was diverted because of snowfall at Kimbolton. Crash landed at Old Weston to the east of
Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire. Salvaged by 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton 25Jan45.
Named LONDON AVENGER. As an appreciation of �800,000 raised during Bermondsey's Wings for Victory Week,
the people of Bermondsey christened the U.S. Fortress bomber "LONDON AVENGER" at the U.S. bomber base,
Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 15Feb44. Three other bombers were named by their crews also in honour of Bermondsey
31229 (MSN 6343) Accepted by USAAF 30Sep43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 8Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 26Oct43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 1Nov43.
570th Bomb Squadron [DI*S], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 11Nov43. Named "Bad Egg".
{first combat mission 5Dec43}. Accident taking off for a Crossbow mission to a German V-weapon site
at Crequy, France 13Feb44. On the runway at Framlingham, the left main tire had a blowout and caused the
aircraft to veer off, causing severe damage. The chin turret was torn off the plane. {21 missions}. Repaired by
fitting front end from salvaged B-17F 41-24484. {next combat mission 27Apr44}. Participated in an Operation
Frantic II shuttle mission to the Braunkohle-Benzin AG synthetic oil refinery at Schwarzheide, Ruhland, Germany 21Jun44.
After the target, the bomber continued east and landed at Mirgorod (Station 561), Ukraine. The Germans
had identified the location of the USAAF bomber force so the plane was moved to a fighter airfield at Zaporozke,
Ukraine 22Jun44. Ferried to Poltava (Station 559), Ukraine then operated a mission to the oil refinery and
railway marshalling yards at Drohobycz, Poland 26Jun44, continuing on to Foggia #8, Lucera, a Fifteenth Air Force
base in southern Italy. Operated a mission to the railway marshaling yard and repair shops at Arad, Rumania 3Jul44.
Operated a mission to railway marshalling yards at Beziers, France and landed back at Framlingham 5Jul44.
Failed to return from a mission to the Rheinmetall Borsig armaments factory at D�sseldorf, Germany 9Sep44.
A minute before the bombs were released over the target, anti-aircraft guns unleashed intense flak that
completely engulfed the Group. The plane caught fire from the explosion of B-17G 42-97871. It dropped
out of formation and flew two hours on one engine then force landed at Coleville [A-22], France.
Salvaged by 458th Service Squadron 14Nov44. {final combat mission 9Sep44}. {58 missions; the nose
flew an additional 43 missions with the 91st Bomb Group
31230 (MSN 6344) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 4Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 20Oct43.
4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 26Oct43. 324th Bomb Squadron [DF*A1],
91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 22Dec43. Named "Little Jean".
Battle damaged on a mission to the Luftwaffe airfield at Par�ay-Meslay, Tours, France 5Jan44.
Flak was meager and inaccurate, damaged by 20mm cannon shells. Failed to return from a mission
to the AGO-Flugzeugwerke Fw 190 manufacturing factory at Oschersleben, Germany 11Jan44 (6KIA:4POW).
While the aircraft were airborne, the weather closed in over English bases and a recall signal was
issued. B/Gen. Robert F. Travis, Air Commander of the 1st Bomb Division, continued on to the target.
This left the 1st Bomb Division with greater exposure to enemy fighter attacks. Good fighter support
was provided by P-47 Thunderbolts on the penetration and by P-51 Mustangs over the target. P-47s
were airborne to provide withdrawal support but they obeyed the recall order to return to England
and left the bombers to fend for themselves on the return trip. Luftwaffe attacks started over the
IJsselmeer and intensified when the American fighters returned home. Meagre and fairly accurate
flak was experienced on the bomb run, with intermittent inaccurate flak on the return trip.
Enemy aircraft attack blew a hole in the wing between No.1 & No.2 engines, further attacks riddled the
cockpit then crashed Schoepenstedt, twelve miles southwest of Helmstedt, Germany. {3+ missions}.. MACR 1916
31231 (MSN 6345) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 7Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 19Oct43.
3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 28Oct43. 326th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group,
Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 23Nov43. 325th Bomb Squadron [NV*W]. Failed to return
from a mission to an aircraft repair depot at Lippstadt, Germany 23Mar44 (3KIA:7POW).
Shot down by Fw 190 fighters, crashed between Wambeln and Scheidingen, Germany. MACR 3413
42-31232/31331 Boeing B-17G-10-BO Fortress
MSN 6346/6445. Dispositions from B-17 Fortress Master Log, Dave Osborne (FORTLOG)
Production changes: Provision in nacelles for electronic supercharger regulators.
Provision for SCR-595 or SCR-695 radio. Revised bomb sight mount wiring. National insignia change
31232 (MSN 6346) Materiel Command, 22Oct43. 2511th Base Unit (Instrument School,
Instrument Pilot), Bryan Field, TX 9Jun44. 571st Base Unit, 2nd Ferrying Service Station,
Greensboro-High Point Municipal Airport, NC 7Nov45. 2511th Base Unit (Instrument School,
Instrument Pilot), Bryan Field, TX 9Dec45. 4121st Base Unit (San Antonio Air Technical Service
Command), Kelly Field, San Antonio, TX 12Dec45. 2621st Base Unit, Barksdale Field, Bossier
City, LA 31Dec45. 613th Base Unit (Proving Ground Detachment), Phillips Field, Aberdeen
Proving Ground, MD 24Jun46. 554th Base Unit, 4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 13Aug4
31233 (MSN 6347) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 6Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 26Oct43.
New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 28Oct43. 427th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth
(Station 107), Huntingdonshire 18Nov43. Failed to return from a mission to the port area at Bremen,
Germany 20Dec43 (8KIA:2POW). Attacked by a large force of enemy fighters and flak over the target
area was very intense. Struck by rockets from a Bf 110, two engines were damaged.. Shot down by Lt Vessling in Fw 190A of
Epr.Kdo 25 S of Stotel, Germany, Aircraft crashed near Bremen. {5 missions} MACR 1707.
31234 (MSN 6348) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 6Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 17Oct43.
New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 245Oct43. 332nd Bomb Squadron, 94th Bomb Group,
Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 27Oct43. Named "The Barber Shop/Johnnie Walker III".
Failed to return from a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical works at Oppau, Ludwigshafen,
Germany 7Jan44 (5POW:3KIA.2EVD). Shot down by Uffz. Gerhard Schulwitz in FW-190A-6 of JG 26/8.
and crashed 1 km N of Les Trois Marquets, France. MACR 1894
31235 (MSN 6349) Accepted by USAAF 2Oct43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 6Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 16Oct43. 20th Ferrying Group,
Berry Field, Nashville, TN 26Nov43. 544th Bomb Squadron [SU*C], 384th Bomb Group,
Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 6Jan44. Named *Goin' Dog*.
(first combat mission 11Jan44}. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton (Station 547),
Huntingdonshire 3Feb44. Regained by Group 5Feb44. Failed to return from a mission to
Friedrichstrasse railway station, Berlin, Germany 7May44 (10POW). En route to the target,
the No.2 engine propeller was feathered and the bomber started straggling five minutes later.
Then No.4 engine propeller was feathered and the bomber peeled off in a sharp glide to
the left rather fast, but still under control. The bombs were jettisoned and the airplane
turned back a few minutes later. Subsequently damaged by flak, the aircraft crash landed
and was destroyed by fire, possibly by the crew destroying equipment, at S�derschweiburg,
northeast of Jade, Germany. {28 missions} MACR 4811
31236 (MSN 6350) Accepted by USAAF 2Oct43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 8Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 11Nov43. New Castle AAB,
Wilmington, DE 17Nov43. 367th Bomb Squadron [GY*F], 306th Bomb Group,
Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 21Dec43.. Named "Arch Bishop". 2nd Strategic Air Depot,
Little Staughton (Station 127), Bedfordshire 26Dec43. Regained by Group 28Dec43.
Seriously battle damaged during a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical works at Oppau,
Ludwigshafen, Germany 7Jan44. Bomb bay and right inner wing struck by flak. Failed to return
from a mission to the Junkers aircraft factory at Halberstadt, Germany 11Jan44 (10KIA).
Returning from the mission, mid-air collision with B-17G 42-31538 which had been attacked
by a Focke-Wulf 190A of JG 26 causing an explosion in the nose and lost rudder control.
Crashed on the Kremer Farm, near Vlessendijk, Raalte, Netherlands MACR 1933.
31237 (MSN 6351) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 7Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 16Oct43. New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 19Oct43.
551st Bomb Squadron [HR*E:HR*O], 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155),
Suffolk 26Oct43. Named*Alexander's Ragtime Band*--Irving Berlin song.
Crash landed at Honington (Station 375), Suffolk 26Nov43. 1st Strategic Air Depot, Troston
(Station 595), Suffolk. Regained by Group. Battle damaged on a Crossbow mission to a German
V-weapon site in the Pas-de-Calais, France 1May44 (8POW:2RTD). En route to the target, the
plane was struck by flak over Ostend, Brussels damaging engine No.4. The propeller could
not be feathered and there was a small fire. Other than the two pilots, the 8 crew members bailed out
near Lens, France while the plane turned back and headed over the North Sea to base.
Nearing Great Ashfield the engine fire intensified and the pilot crash landed on the then
non-operational airfield at Mendlesham (Station 156), Suffolk. A crash tender attempted to
foam the fire but the equipment failed to work and the bomber burned out. Salvaged 2May44
MACR 4455
31238 (MSN 6352) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 7Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 21Oct43.
20th Ferrying Group, Berry Field, Nashville, TN 27Oct43. 520th Service Squadron, 27th Air Transport
Group, Hendon (Station 575), Middlesex. Damaged in collision with parked Royal Air Force B-17G FK195
when ground looped at Prestwick, Scotland 12Nov43. 511th Bomb Squadron [DS*A], 351st Bomb Group,
Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 23Dec43. Named DEVIL'S BALL. Named in the tradition of
511th Bomb Squadron by incorporating the word 'Ball' in the title, after the squadron's first commander
Clinton F Ball. . {first combat mission 30Dec43}. Accident departing on a mission to the I.G. Farben
chemical works at Oppau, Ludwigshafen, Germany 8Sep44 (8KIA:2RTD). It crashed after the pilot
lost control due to icing on the airframe which built up during the Group formation assembly
in overcast conditions. The aircraft dived into the ground at Langtoft Fen and burned out. Some
of the wreckage cuased serious damage to buildings at Crown Lodge Farm, north of Market
Deeping, Lincolnshire. Salvaged by 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton 9Sep44. {59 missions}.
31239 (303rd BG) (MSN 6353) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 7Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand
Island Field, NB 21Oct43. 20th Ferrying Group, Berry Field, Nashville, TN 29Oct43. 548th Bomb
Squadron, 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 18Nov43. Crash landed at Honington
(Station 375), Suffolk 25Nov43. 1st Strategic Air Depot, Troston (Station 595), Suffolk.
358th Bomb Squadron [VK*N], 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 18Nov43.
Failed to return from a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 24Feb44
(8KIA:2POW). The bomber was shot down by an enemy Bf 109 which was diving out of the sun,
hitting the B-17 with a rocket on the nose. The plane crashed at Hungen, twelve miles southeast
of Giessen, German MACR 2763
31240 (MSN 6354) Accepted by USAAF 4Oct43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 7Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 22Oct43. 561st Bomb Squadron [B], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall
(Station 136), Suffolk 2Nov43. Named "Shack Job". {first combat mission 26Nov43}.
Failed to return from a mission to the Robert Bosch electrical factory at Berlin, Germany 6Mar44
(10POW). Approximately fifteen to twenty Fw 190s were met near D�mmer See en route to the
target and were again encountered in the same area on the return route home. Instead of
attacking the assigned target, the formation circled the outskirts of the city to a textile works
on the banks of the Elbe River at Oranienburg. Attacked by enemy fighters, the crew bailed out
southeast of Hamburg but the aircraft flew on for fifty miles. Crashed two miles east of Reinsehlen,
south of Hamburg, Germany. {5 missions}. MACR 3086
31241 (MSN 6355) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 7Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island
Field, NB 21Oct43. New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 29Oct43. 427th Bomb Squadron [GN*W],
303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 18Nov43
Named "Spirit of Wanette" aka "City of Wanette". Failed to return from a mission
to railway facilities around Berlin, Germany 29Apr44 (4POW:5KIA). Flak damaged
No.2 and No.4 engines, the bomber headed for Sweden, crashed �deg�rd, three miles
northeast of Sakskobing, Denmark. Over the target the bomber was hit by flak, and No.4
engine had to be stopped due to fire. The plane was accompanied by two P-51 for about
10 minutes, after which the bomber now headed for Sweden at high altitude. Over Storstr�msbroen
the plane was attacked by a Bf-110 night fighter from Stab III./NJG 3 piloted by Luftwaffe
Ace Major Walter Barte while at the same time were fired upon by flak from the bridge.
The German fighter was hit and crashed into V�lse Vig, while the American crew bailed out.
Most landed in the cold water in V�lse Vig and five drowned. The empty aircraft continued
in a gentle arc from V�lse Vig to T�rs Vig, north of Saksk�bing and to the east, and approximately
5km northeast of Sakskoebing had finally lost so much height that it crashed on the '�deg�rd',
which was badly damaged. {31 missions}. Co-pilot quickly established contact with the
resistance movement in the area, and on May 29 he was already back in England. MACR 4463
31242 (MSN 6356) Accepted by USAAF 4Oct43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 7Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 17Oct43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 23Oct43.
563rd Bomb Squadron [G], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 9Nov43; Named "Patty Jo".
(first combat mission 5Dec43}. Battle damaged on a mission to the port area at Bremen,
Germany 20Dec43 (10RTD). Attacked by a large force of enemy fighters and flak over the
target area was very intense. Battle damaged on a mission to the Dornier Flugzeugwerke factory
at Lowenthal, Friedrichshafen, Germany 24Apr44 (1WIA:9RTD). Flak over the Target was intense
and accurate, wounding the navigator. Battle damaged on a mission to railway facilities
around Berlin, Germany 29Apr44. The combat wing was off course heading to Berlin,
attacked by enemy fighters and bombed Magdeburg. Flak over the target was very accurate.
Accident departing for a mission to industrial areas of Berlin, Germany 19May44 (10RTD).
Mid-air collision with B-17G 42-38145 when two Groups crossed over each other in bad weather
forming up over East Dereham, Norfolk. Plane #145 was a 'flying spare' and climbing to fill in a
vacant position withing the squadron. The left propellers on #242 chewed into the fuselage
forward of the tail of #145. The right wing of #145 went up and struck the left wing of #242,
damaging and disabling the No.1 engine. With the tail section gone, #145 went into an uncontrollable
loop, stalled then spun down and crashed at New Buckenham, Norfolk. The crew of 242
prepared to bail out but the pilot brought it under control and made for the nearest airfield. Force
landed at Watton (Station 376), Norfolk. Battle damaged on a tactical mission to a supply depot
northwest of Beaumont-sur-Oise, France 8Jul44 (1WIA:9RTD). The target was completely cloud
covered and was not attacked. The group diverted to an alternate target, the railway in the
vicinity of Yvetot. Meagre flak was encountered over the targets but flak at Cl�res caused
major damage to the plane, wounding a waist gunner. Battle damaged on a mission to the
Braunkohlen Benzin AG synthetic oil refinery northeast of Zeitz, Germany 16Aug44. Intense
accurate flak was encountered at the target. Battle damaged on a mission to a synthetic
oil refinery at Magdeburg, Germany 12Sep44. Flak was encountered at the target and then
the Group was attacked by a large force of enemy fighters. Battle damaged on a mission to
railway marshalling yards at Cologne, Germany 17Oct44. Moderate to intense flak was
encountered over the target. {final combat mission 15Jan45}. {88 missions}. 361st Fighter
Group, Chi�vres [A-84], Belgium. Used as a transport aircraft. Salvaged 25Jul45
31243 (MSN 6357) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 8Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 19Oct43.
New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 27Oct43. 94th Bomb Group. 427th Bomb Squadron [GN*Z],
303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 18Nov43. Failed to return
from a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical works at Leverkusen, Germany 1Dec43 (10RTD).
Clouds obscured the target so the formation diverted to the secondary target, a non-ferrous
metals works at Solingen, Germany. With fuel tanks damaged by flak causing fuel exhaustion,
the plane ditched in Sandwich Bay, off Walmer, Kent, attempting a landing at RAF Manston, Kent.
The crew was rescued by British Air-Sea Rescue launch and taken to Manston. {1 mission}.
The remains of the B-17 Flying Fortress lie on the Sandwich Flats. The crash site lay undisturbed
until 1999 when two incidents took place that left the Flying Fortress looking like a demolished wreck.
A British recovery team discovered the ditched B-17 in the 1990s in the marsh land at Sandwich Flats
near Pegwell Bay and were able to collect wreckage that was turned over to the Brenzett Aeronautical
Museum, Romney Marsh, Kent. Other relics are on display at the RAF Manston History Museum.
This was followed by an excavation that removed more items leaving just the wings, two engines
and part of the frame in the fuselage area. Since 1999 the site has been covered and uncovered by
sand on many occasions, often with just a lone propeller sticking out of the sand. During the winter
of 2015/2016 the site was uncovered yet again but this time wreckage appeared on the foreshore
as it was evident the wings were breaking up. It was exposed on an extremely low tide 13Feb16.
Both wings were present and the second engine nacelle was intact with a damaged propeller, a 'Tokyo'
fuel tank visible in a wing and in excellent condition. There is also a field of debris around the wreck site.
The fuselage has gone.
31244 (MSN 6358) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 25Oct43.
New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 1Nov43. 334th Bomb Squadron [BG*O], 95th Bomb Group,
Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 15Nov43. On return to base from a mission to Villacoublay, France,
the No.2 engine failed just before leaving the French coast. The bomber crash landed at Arlington,
north of Eastbourne, East Sussex 5Feb44. {15 missions}. Salvaged after non battle damage 9Feb44.
31245 (MSN 6359) Accepted by USAAF 5Oct43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 7Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training
Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 1Nov43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 6Nov43.
368th Bomb Squadron [BO*K], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 14Dec43
Named "Top Hat". 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little Staughton (Station 127), Bedfordshire 20Dec43.
Regained by Group. Battle damaged on a mission to the Junkers aircraft factory at Halberstadt,
Germany 11Jan44. An enemy fighter attack after the target struck causing severe damage.
On return, force landed at RAF Foulsham, Norfolk. Failed to return from a mission to the Messerschmitt
aircraft factory at Augsburg, Germany 25Feb44 (9POW:1EVD). Attacked by enemy fighters starting a fire.
The crew bailed out and the plane crashed at La Francheville, two miles southwest of Charleville, France
31246 (MSN 6360) Accepted by USAAF 5Oct43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 8Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island
Field, NB 21Oct43. 20th Ferrying Group, Berry Field, Nashville, TN 28Oct43. 545th Bomb Squadron [JD*A],
384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 27Nov43. {first combat mission 22Dec43}.
Failed to return from a Crossbow mission to a German V-weapon site at Le Meillard in the Pas-de-Calais,
France 14Jan44 (9POW:1EVD). Before the target, flak damaged engine No.3 and then hit No.4 engine but the
propeller could not be feathered and was vibrating the wing. The bomber left formation and turned
back towards base, the crew preparing to bail out. The navigator, who stayed to look for his escape kit,
being last to bail out managed to evade capture. The aircraft was being shot at by German flak gunners,
close to where the navigator landed, crashed into the gun position and exploded near
Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, France. {6 missions}. MACR 2497
31247 (MSN 6361) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Oct43.
Las Vegas Field, NV 25Oct43. 3021st Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Las Vegas Field, NV 16Sep44.
2126th Base Unit (Central School for Flexible Gunnery), Laredo Field, TX 23May45. To Reconstruction Finance
Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 3Jan46. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31248 (MSN 6362) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 25Oct43.
New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 2Nov43. 325th Bomb Squadron [NV*B], 92nd Bomb Group, Podington
(Station 109), Bedfordshire 30Nov43. Failed to return from a mission to the Focke-Wulf aircraft factory
at Sorau, Prussia 11Apr44 (6KIA:4POW). Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed in flames at Behnsdorf,
nine miles northeast of Helmstedt, Germany. MACR 3669
31249 (MSN 6363) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 8Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 22Oct43.
4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 28Oct43. 349th Bomb Squadron [XR*L],
100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 2Nov43. Named "Miss Carriage"
Accident returning from a local formation practice flight the aircraft landed normally at Thorpe Abbotts 10May44 .
The co-pilot carried out the landing during which the left tire blew out. The pilot took over to keep the
aircraft on the runway but as the speed decayed, the bomber swung left off the runway. The pilot maintained
control but was unable to prevent a collision with a concrete block at the runway intersection taking off the
left landing gear, resulting in damage to propellers and wing flaps. Salvaged 20May44
31250 ((MSN 6364) Accepted by USAAF 5Oct43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 8Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 19Oct43. New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 29Oct43. Arrived UK 1Nov43.
327th Bomb Squadron [UX*B], 92nd Bomb Group, Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 2Dec43.
Named "Mag The Hag II". . Failed to return from a mission to the oil refinery at Altenburg,
Germany 13Sep44 (8KIA:1POW). Shot down by by Lt. Manfred Dieterle of 2./JG 300, crashed
Neustadt. The bomber feathered No.4 engine and left the formation about halfway between the target
and Frankfurt, shortly after the formation was attacked by enemy fighters. The pilot looked for a suitable
place for an emergency landing but lost altitude rapidly and hit a chimney on a house, crashing on a
railway line. Only one crew member had time to bail out before the crash MACR 8882
31251 (MSN 6365) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 22Oct43.
New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 1Nov43. 334th Bomb Squadron [BG*P], 95th Bomb Group,
Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 11Nov43. Failed to return from a mission to Kleinmachnow, Berlin,
Germany 6Mar43 (10POW). Attacked by enemy fighters near Diepholz, the crew bailed out before the
bomber crashed at Natenstedt, eleven miles northeast of Vechta, Germany. {21 missions}.. MACR 2981
31252 (MSN 6366) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 8Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 17Oct43.
New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 24Oct43. 331st Bomb Squadron [QE*N], 94th Bomb Group,
Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 30Oct43 Named "Sweaty Betty".
Hit by flak on raid to Berlin May 24, 1944 and ditched in North Sea. Crew of 10 rescued.
31253 (MSN 6367) Accepted by USAAF 6Oct43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 12Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training
Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 22Oct43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 28Oct43.
562nd Bomb Squadron [R], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 2Nov43.
{first combat mission 19Nov43}. Battle damaged by flak during a mission to a Luftwaffe
airfield at Hopsten, Rheine, Germany 21Feb44 (1WIA:9RTD). There was accurate flak over
the target, wounding the pilot. Failed to return from a mission to the Dornier Flugzeugwerke
factory at Lowenthal, Friedrichshafen, Germany 24Apr44 (10POW). Flak over the Target was
intense and accurate, damaging No.3 engine and the No.2 engine propeller which would not feather.
The pilot headed for Switzerland but the vibrations and fire was so bad the pilot ordered the
crew to bail out. The bomber crashed Ehrensberg, twelve miles west of Memmingen, Germany.
{30 missions}. MACR 4289
31254 (MSN 6368) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Oct43.
Las Vegas Field, NV 25Oct43. 3022nd Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Indian Springs
Auxiliary Field, NV 5Feb45. 3021st Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Las Vegas Field, NV 22Feb45.
3018th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Kingman Field, AZ 28Feb45. 3702nd Base Unit,
Buckley Field, CO 8Jun45. Reclaimed 20Mar46.
31255 MSN 6369) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 22Oct43.
4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 28Oct43. 365th Bomb Squadron [XK*O],
305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 4Dec43. Named "Miss Liberty Belle".
Purchased with War Bonds from the citizens of Philadelphia City. It is said small handwritten
notes were discovered from time to time within the airframe between missions when repairs
were made, on which there were a great many. Those notes were written by citizens of Philadelphia,
allegedly, hoping that 'their' bomber would triumph and return home when war finally ended.
During formation as an air spare on a mission to the Mitteldeutsche Motorenwerke aero engine
factory at Taucha, Leipzig, Germany 7Jul44 the bomber was damaged by debris from a mid-air
collision between B-17G 42-102442 and 44-6147 near Haverhill, Essex. The bomber was showered
with incendiary sticks, one lodged into the skin of the left wing, punching into one of the fuel tanks.
The aircraft returned to Chelveston, landing with what the crew believed was a live incendiary
stick protruding out of the wing and tank full of fuel. Severely battle damaged on a mission to the
Merkwiller Oil Refinery, France 3Aug44 (7KIA). Crashed at Wymington, near Rushden, Northants.
The bomber was crippled from anti aircraft fire suffered over Kaiserslautern en route to the target.
It later suffered a number of fighter attacks over the target but managed to keep formation on three
engines. As the aircraft crossed the east coast of England, a second engine began to falter and
was reduced in power, a third bearly ticking over. On approach to the airfield, another B-17 with
wounded crew aboard shot a flare and took priority for landing, forcing the bomber to go around
for a second approach. At that moment one of the two remaining good engines began to red line
and overheat, eventually catching fire. The two pilots pushed the throttle on the third engine,
and attempted to restart the dead engine. At less than 200 feet the B-17 banked over the village of
Wymington, turning around the cottages and houses below. It had dropped level with the village
church steeple, just 125 feet high, forcing the plane to skim to one side to avoid hitting it.
In an amazing feat of airmanship, the pilots brought the plane back into level flight, just 60 feet
above the ground and just clearing the thatched roofs below. Witnesses saw, heard and felt the
plane as it passed overhead, shaking tea cups and plates on kitchen dressers as she headed over
the village and back towards Chelveston. In the last seconds, with one engine ablaze, two almost
at a stop, the bomber struck one of several tall Elm trees. The impact caused an explosion, the plane
pancaked into a field right beside the High Street, by a miracle avoiding hitting the Manor Farm House
and several cottages in that part of the village. {65 missions}. Salvaged 10Aug44.
31256 (MSN 6370) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 20Oct43.
4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 6Nov43. 350th Bomb Squadron [LN*B],
100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 11Nov43. 351st Bomb Squadron [EP*S].
Named "King Bee II". . Whilst parked, tracer bullets from the ball turret of parked B-17G 42-107007
ignited a wing and destroyed the aircraft at Thorpe Abbotts 11Jul44. Salvaged 13Jul44.
31257 (MSN 6371) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Oct43.
50th Flexible Gunnery Training Squadron, Las Vegas Field, NV 23Oct43. After gunnery practice, a fire
broke out and the aircraft crashed into mountains sixty-seven miles northeast of Las Vegas 4Jan44 (2KIS).
The fire was in the upper turret, caused by an electrical fault which ignited an oxygen supply, and rapidly
spread throughout the plane. After attempts to extinguish the fire failed, the pilot ordered the crew to
bail out. All but one student successfully escaped. As the crew parachuted to safety they watched as
the plane circled twice to the left and then suddenly impacted the face of a mountain at full speed.
The resulting explosion and fire consumed the bombeR. All but one of the 13 men
aboard parachuted from the aircraft, but one of them was unable to pull his ripcord in time
and was killed. The crewman who did not parachute was killed in the crash.
31258 (MSN 6372) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 24Oct43.
New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 4Nov43. 334th Bomb Squadron [BG*J], 95th Bomb Group, Horham
(Station 119), Suffolk 11Nov43. Named "Lucky Strike". Failed to return from a mission to
Brussels, Belgium 10Apr44 (4KIA:4POW:2EVD). Before the formation reached the target, enemy
aircraft attacked the bombers. A Fw 190 fighter engaged this aircraft. The right wing was struck by
cannon shells, fuel began pouring out and ignited. The aircraft stayed in formation and dropped
its bombs. Then the engine next to the fire exploded and tore off part of the wing. The aircraft
dropped into a flat spin and exploded. The bombardier was blown out through the nose. The bomber
crashed at Ercuis, nine miles west of Creil, France. {36 missions}.
31259 (MSN 6373) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Oct43.
Las Vegas Field, NV 25Oct43. Salt Lake City AAB, UT 1Apr44. Dalhart Field, TX 2Apr44. 241st Base Unit
(Operational Training Unit), Fairmont Field, Geneva, NB 26Jul44. 504th Bomb Group, Fairmont Field,
Geneva, NB 16Sep44. 225th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Rapid City Field, SD 28Dec44.
2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 18Aug45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and
disposal 9Nov45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped.
31260 (MSN 6374) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Oct43.
Las Vegas Field, NV 24Oct43. 3022nd Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Indian Springs
Auxiliary Field, NV 5Feb44. 3021st Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Las Vegas Field, NV 7Mar44.
3036th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Yuma Field, AZ 16Mar44. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 5Jun44. 4160th Base Unit (Sacramento Air Technical
Service Command), Hobbs Field, NM 5Nov44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage
Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 1Dec45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
31261 (MSN 6375) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Oct43.
Las Vegas Field, NV 24Oct43. 3022nd Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Indian Springs Auxiliary
Field, NV 5Feb44. 3021st Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Las Vegas Field, NV 22Feb44.
3018th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Kingman Field, AZ 10Mar44. 3017th Base Unit
(Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 9Jun44. 4135th Base Unit (Ogden
Air Technical Service Command), Hill Field, Ogden, UT 13Aug44. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 1Sep44. 3022nd Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School),
Indian Springs Auxiliary Field, NV. Damaged by 'friendly fire' on the gunnery range twenty miles
northwest of Indian Springs 3Dec44. Damaged by mechanical failure on the gunnery range 20 miles
northwest of Indian Springs 24Dec44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR
for storage and disposal 11Jan46. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment
Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31262 (MSN 6376) Accepted by USAAF 7Oct43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 13Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training
Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 26Oct43. New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 11Nov43. 568th Bomb
Squadron [BI*P], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 1Dec43.
Named "Ale Smoke/Ole Smoke". {first combat mission 5Dec43}. Battle damaged
on a mission to the industrial areas of Emden, Germany 11Dec43 (1WIA:9RTD). The Luftwaffe
was waiting for the bombers; the moment the bombers crossed over into mainland Europe,
six twin-engine fighters dived out of the sun upon the formation, concentrating all their fire
on the lead plane. Once the leader had been downed, the fighters swept through the lead Squadron.
Before the deputy lead had a chance to reassemble the formation, a large force of
single-engine fighters joined the fray, attacking the other bombers. The engineer/top turret gunner
was wounded. Battle damaged on a mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factory at Regensburg,
Germany 25Feb44 (1WIA:9RTD). After crossing the coastline into mainland Europe, the formation
encountered frequent flak and fierce aerial attacks from the Luftwaffe, causing heavy damage to
some of the bombers. The planes arrived at Regensburg and encountered intense flak over the
target area. The tail gunner was wounded. Failed to return from a mission to the Messerschmitt
factory in Augsburg, Germany 16Mar44 (1KIA:9POW). From Strasburg, Germany to Augsburg,
the bombers were attacked by Luftwaffe fighters in a running battle. Flak over the target was
moderate and accurate; flak en route was meagre and inaccurate. As the Group was passing
near N�rdlingen, almost forty miles north of Augsburg, the plane was struck by rockets fired by
enemy fighters. The aircraft entered a controlled descent and crash landed at Himmlingen, near
Aalen, east of Stuttgart, Germany. {22 missions}. MACR 3181
31263 (MSN 6377) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Oct43.
Las Vegas Field, NV 22Oct43. Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and
bombing equipment; designated TB-17G. 3021st Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Las Vegas
Field, NV 2Sep44. Damaged in an accident with TB-17G 42-31313 on the ground at Las Vegas
Field 16Mar45. 2126th Base Unit (Central School for Flexible Gunnery), Laredo Field, TX 19Apr45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 29Dec45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
31264 (MSN 6378) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Oct43.
Las Vegas Field, NV 25Oct43. 3021st Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Las Vegas Field, NV 9Feb44.
2126th Base Unit (Central School for Flexible Gunnery), Laredo Field, TX 19Apr43.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 11Jan46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31265 (MSN 6379) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 22Oct43.
New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 3Dec43. 349th Bomb Squadron, 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts
(Station 139), Norfolk 14Dec43. Failed to return from a mission to the industrial area at Brunswick,
Germany 10Feb44 (1KIA:9POW). Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Eldagsen, south of Volksen,
three miles east of Springe, 12 miles southwest of Hanover, Germany. MACR 2382
31266 (MSN 6380) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Oct43.
Las Vegas Field, NV 26Oct43. 3021st Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Las Vegas Field, NV 9Feb44.
4114th Base Unit (Pacific Overseas Air Technical Service Command), Oakland, CA. Damaged in a
collision on the ground with Beech C-45F Expeditor 44-47065 at Las Vegas Field 24Mar45. Reclaimed 9May45.
31267 (MSN 6381) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Oct43.
328th Flexible Gunnery Training Squadron, Las Vegas Field, NV 24Oct43. Substantially damaged in
crash landing at Las Vegas Field 1Dec43. Salvaged 4Dec43
31268 (MSN 6382) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Oct43.
New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 1Nov43. Assigned Eighth Air Force, England 10Nov43. 311th Ferrying
Squadron, 27th Air Transport Group, Hendon (Station 575), Middlesex. After a ferry flight from Heston,
the tailwheel dropped into a hole in the parking ramp at Warton, Lancs 11Dec43. Base Air Depot No.2,
Warton (Station 582). Salvaged after non battle damage 16Dec43
31269 (MSN 6383) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Oct43.
50th Flexible Gunnery Training Squadron, Las Vegas Field, NV. Damaged in collision with
B-17G 42-37897 taxying at Las Vegas Field, NV 25Oct43. 3021st Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School),
Las Vegas Field, NV 2Jun44. 2126th Base Unit (Central School for Flexible Gunnery), Laredo Field, TX 24Apr45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 5Jan46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31270 (MSN 6384) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Oct43.
Las Vegas Field, NV 24Oct43. 3021st Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Las Vegas Field, NV 22Feb44.
3018th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Kingman Field, AZ 28Feb44. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 9Jun44. 3022nd Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School),
Indian Springs Auxiliary Field, NV. Damaged by 'friendly fire' on the gunnery range twenty miles
northwest of Indian Springs 5Jan45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR
for storage and disposal 4Jan46. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment
Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31271 (MSN 6385) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Oct43.
Las Vegas Field, NV 24Oct43. 3021st Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Las Vegas Field, NV 10Mar44.
3036th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Yuma Field, AZ 20Mar44. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 4Jun44. 4160th Base Unit (Sacramento Air Technical
Service Command), Hobbs Field, NM 5Nov44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage
Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 6Dec45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped.
31272 (MSN 6386) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Oct43.
569th Flexible Gunnery Training Squadron, Las Vegas Field, NV 25Oct43. Destroyed taxying at
Indian Springs Auxiliary Field, NV 11Jan44. Salvaged 18Jan44
31273 (MSN 6387) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Oct43.
Las Vegas Field, NV 26Oct43. Salt Lake City AAB, UT 1Apr44. Dalhart Field, TX 2Apr44. Modified for training,
stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17G. 224th Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Sioux City AAB, IA 6Mar45. Damaged taxying at Sioux City AAB 26Mar45.
225th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Rapid City Field, SD 16Jun45. 2038th Base Unit,
Hawkins Field, Jackson, MS 4Jul45. 242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island
Field, NB 25Sep45. 348th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Will Rogers Field, Oklahoma
City, OK 7Nov45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 14Dec45.
31274 (MSN 6388) Accepted by USAAF 8Oct43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 13Oct43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 3Nov43. 544th Bomb Squadron [SU*O],
384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 22Nov43.
{first combat mission 5Dec43}. Failed to return from a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical works at Oppau,
Ludwigshafen, Germany 30Dec43 (1MIA:9RTD). En route to the target, the bomber experienced mechanical
failure just 15minutes over France when the number one propeller oversped, vibrated, threw chunks of
cowling and escaping oil caught fire. The aircraft ditched in the English Channel; nine rescued.
Unable to free himself from control cables in the wreckage of the ditched aircraft, the right waist
gunner went down with the plane. {8 missions}. SEA HAG. According to the Engineer, the aircraft was not
formally named; it got the name from the pilot's report on the ditching "I just couldn't keep the old
Sea Hag in the air.". MACR 1768.
31275 (MSN 6389) Accepted by USAAF 8Oct43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 13Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island
Field, NB 25Oct43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 1Nov43. 570th Bomb Squadron [DI*A],
390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 10Nov43. Named "GI Wonder".
(first combat mission 11Dec43}. Battle damaged on a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical and synthetic
oil works at Leuna, Merseburg, Germany 29Jul44 (1WIA:9RTD). The bomber encountered terrific flak
over the target and the radio operator was wounded. {final combat mission 3Jan45}. {92 missions}.
Returned to US. 4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), South Plains Field,
Lubbock, TX 11Jul45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ
for storage and disposal 13Nov45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting
Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped.
31276 (MSN 6390) Accepted by USAAF 8Oct43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 13Oct43. Las Vegas Field, NV 25Oct43. 4126th Base Unit (San Bernardino Air
Technical Service Command), San Bernardino Field, CA 16Aug44. 3022nd Base Unit (Flexible
Gunnery School), Indian Springs Auxiliary Field, NV. Damaged by engine and mechanical failure
at Indian Springs Auxiliary Field 5Aug44. 3021st Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School),
Las Vegas Field, NV 23Mar45. 2126th Base Unit (Central School for Flexible Gunnery),
Laredo Field, TX 10Apr45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage
and disposal 9Jan46. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company,
Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31277 (MSN 6391) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 29Oct43.
New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 4Nov43. 327th Bomb Squadron [UX*P], 92nd Bomb Group,
Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 21Jan44. Failed to return from a mission to industrial areas in Berlin,
Germany 8May44 (10INT). Damaged by flak, crash landed Glemmingebro, Sweden.. MACR 4577
31278 (MSN 6392) Accepted by USAAF 9Oct43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 14Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand
Island Field, NB 29Oct43. 4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 5Nov43.
532nd Bomb Squadron [VE*A], 381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 20Dec43.
Named "Mix Master". Caught fire after takeoff for a mission to the Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft
shipyard at Kiel, Germany 4Jan44 (10KIA). Jettisoned some bombs, struck trees on the edge of a
wood, disintegrated and crashed in a field at Blooms Farm, Sible Hedingham, four miles from
Halstead, Essex. {2 missions ). Reduced to salvage Jan 4, 1944.
31279 (MSN 6393) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 16Oct43.
Las Vegas Field, NV 26Oct43. 2114th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine),
Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 3Sep44. 4152nd Base Unit, Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 1Oct44.
2114th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 29Sep45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 7Jan46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31280 (MSN 6394) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Oct43.
50th Flexible Gunnery Training Squadron, Las Vegas Field, NV 26Oct43. Damaged in an accident
with B-17G 42-31284 on the ground at Las Vegas Field 5Nov43. 3018th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery
School), Kingman Field, AZ 28Nov43. Damaged landing with mechanical failure at Kingman Field 9Nov44.
Recla imed 5Dec44.
31281 (MSN 6395) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Oct43.
Las Vegas Field, NV 25Oct43. 3021st Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Las Vegas Field, NV 2Jun44.
2126th Base Unit (Central School for Flexible Gunnery), Laredo Field, TX 19Apr44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 8Jan46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31282 (MSN 6396) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Oct43.
Las Vegas Field, NV 27Oct43. Kingman, AZ 30Mar44. Dalhart Field, TX 1Apr44. St. Paul Field,
Minneapolis, MN 5Oct44. 224th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Sioux City AAB, IA 6Mar45.
222nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Ardmore Field, OK 13Jun45. 332nd Base Unit,
Ardmore Field, OK 16Jun45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for
storage and disposal 7Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment
Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
31283 (MSN 6397) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Oct43.
Las Vegas Field, NV 25Oct43. 72nd Ferrying Squadron, 21st Ferrying Group, Palm Springs Field, CA.
Damaged in collision with parked Martin AT-23A 42-95708 while taxying at Las Vegas Field, NV 1Apr44.
Dalhart Field, TX 2Apr44. 224th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Sioux City AAB, IA 17Oct44.
Salvaged 4Apr45.
31284 (MSN 6398) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Oct43.
50th Flexible Gunnery Training Squadron, Las Vegas Field, NV 26Oct43. Damaged in an accident
with B-17G 42-31280 on the ground at Las Vegas Field 5Nov43. 3018th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School),
Kingman Field, AZ 23Mar45. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 22Sep45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 20Dec45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31285 (MSN 6399) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Oct43.
Las Vegas Field, NV 26Oct43. 3022nd Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Indian Springs Auxiliary
Field, NV 5Feb45. Damaged by 'friendly fire' forty-three miles north of Las Vegas 21Feb45.
3021st Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Las Vegas Field, NV 24Feb45. 3036th Base Unit
(Flexible Gunnery School), Yuma Field, AZ 12Mar45. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized,
Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 22Sep45. Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge
Field, AR for storage and disposal 10Jan46. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway
Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31286 (MSN 6400) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Oct43.
Las Vegas Field, NV 26Oct43. 1123rd Flexible Gunnery Training Squadron, Kingman Field, AZ.
Accident caused by mechanical failure taking off from Kingman Field 4Feb44. 3018th Base Unit
(Flexible Gunnery School), Kingman Field, AZ. Damaged in an accident with North American
AT-6C 42-4059 while taxying at Kingman Field 26Jul44. 3018th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School),
Kingman Field, AZ 23Mar45. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine),
Hobbs Field, NM 25Jun43. 3028th Base Unit, Pilot School, Advanced, Single-Engine,
Luke Field, Arizona, AZ 7Aug45. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine),
Hobbs Field, NM 13Aug45. 3036th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Yuma Field, AZ 3Sep45.
3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 31Oct45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 7Jan46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31287 (MSN 6401) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 16Oct43.
Las Vegas Field, NV 26Oct43. 3018th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Kingman Field, AZ.
Accident caused by mechanical failure taking off from Kingman Field 29Oct44. 3018th Base Unit
(Flexible Gunnery School), Kingman Field, AZ 23Mar45. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 2Jun45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 18Oct45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31288 (MSN 6402) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 18Oct43.
Las Vegas Field, NV 27Oct43. 3021st Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Las Vegas Field, NV 2Jun44.
Damaged by B-24J 42-50853 while parked at Las Vegas 23Nov44. Damaged taxying at Las Vegas 27Dec44.
2126th Base Unit (Central School for Flexible Gunnery), Laredo Field, TX 21Apr45.
3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 4Jun45.
2126th Base Unit (Central School for Flexible Gunnery), Laredo Field, TX 4Oct45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 14Nov45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31289 (MSN 6403) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 16Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 28Oct43.
4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 1Nov43. 410th Bomb Squadron, 94th Bomb Group,
Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 11Nov43. Named "Belle of Maryland".
While parked 12Jan44, three ground crew were working when an explosion occurred behind the
cockpit controls which set up a blaze, eventually extinguished. Salvaged 6Oct44.
Parts used to repair damaged B-17G 42-39775.
31290 (MSN 6404) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 16Oct43.
Las Vegas Field, NV 26Oct43. 3018th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Kingman Field, AZ 23Mar44.
Mid-air collision with P-39Q 44-2378 20 miles northwest of Kingman 3Nov44. 3017th Base Unit
(Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 11Jun45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 4Jan46. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
31291 (MSN 6405) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 16Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 26Oct43.
Palm Springs Field, CA 8Nov43. 533rd Bomb Squadron [VP*F], 381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167),
Essex 11Dec43. 534th Bomb Squadron [GD*F]. Named "Avengress". Failed to return from a
mission to Berlin, Germany 24May44 (2KIA:7POW). Mid-air collision with B-17G 42-97214 during an
attack by German fighter planes. Eight enemy fighters made a pass at the high group just
after the target. The number three aircraft in the lead squadron of the high group [42-31291] was
crippled by a 20mm cannon shell, damaging No.3 engine and set the wing on fire. As it settled back
through the formation it lowered on the number three aircraft in the second element of the same
squadron [42-97214] causing an explosion and total destruction of both aircraft. Crashed at
Wilmersdorf, four miles east of Bernau, Germany. {14 missions}. MACR 5176
31292 (MSN 6406) Accepted by USAAF 12Oct43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 16Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training
Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 30Oct43. New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 6Nov43.
569th Bomb Squadron [CC*F], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 11Nov43.
Named "Dolly". (first combat mission 5Dec43}. Failed to return from a mission to railway
marshalling yards at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 4Feb44 (10POW). As the planes were passing
over the Netherlands en route to Germany, local cross winds carried the bombers straight into
enemy flak. Damaged by flak over the Laacher See, Glees, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. Leading edge
of the right wing near No.3 engine was damaged with smoke pouring from a hole in the wing.
The plane remained in formation for about five minutes and then lagged behind. The bomber
crash landed and burned out on pasture between Lekkerkerk and Krimpen, Netherlands. {13 missions}. .
MACR 2352.
31293 (MSN 6407) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 16Oct43.
Las Vegas Field, NV 24Oct43. 3022nd Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Indian Springs Auxiliary
Field, NV. Damaged by 'friendly fire' twenty miles northwest of Indian Springs 14Dec44.
3021st Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Las Vegas Field, NV 22Feb45. 3018th Base Unit (Flexible
Gunnery School), Kingman Field, AZ 8Mar45. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine),
Hobbs Field, NM 9Jun45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for
storage and disposal 2Jan46. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company,
Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31294 MSN 6408) Materiel Command, Wright Field, Dayton, OH 19Oct43. Air Transport Command; assigned to
Trans World Airlines for weather research Nov43. Air Transport Command, Kansas City, MO Nov43;
Named "Two Kind Words" Operated by TWA in continental USA and worldwide on precipitation
static research 1943-46. Chin, ball and upper turrets removed by early 1944. Numerous probes and
antennas for meteorological research installed at various times. Operated a flight around the world
for weather research on behalf of the USAAF early 1946. Returned to USAAF. Materiel Command,
Wright Field, Dayton, OH. Reclaimed 17Dec46
31295 (MSN 6409) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 16Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 31Oct43.
5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 11Nov43. 548th Bomb Squadron [GX*A],
385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 18Nov43. Failed to return from a mission
to railway marshalling yards at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 4Feb44 (6POW). As the planes were
passing over the Netherlands en route to Germany, local cross winds carried the bombers straight
into enemy flak. Attacked by three Fw 190s, leaving three engines out and both wings on fire. The crew
bailed out and the bomber exploded at 24,000ft before crashing at Munsterbilzen, seventeen miles
north of Li�ge, Belgium. MACR 2200
31296 (MSN 6410) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 16Oct43.
Las Vegas Field, NV 26Oct43. 3018th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Kingman Field, AZ.
Crashed in a mid-air collision with Bell P-39Q Airacobra 44-2378 during an aerial gunnery
training exercise at 12,000ft, twenty miles northwest of Kingman 3Nov44 (14KIS). The P-39 pilot
was making a simulated attack on the lead aircraft in a B-17 formation and struck the left outer
wing of 42-31296 flying on the righthand side of the group. The bomber lost fifteen feet of its wing
and spun inverted to the desert below. No one on board was able to escape. Reclaimed 28Nov44
31297 (MSN 6411) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 16Oct43.
Las Vegas Field, NV 28Oct43. 3018th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Kingman Field, AZ 23Mar45.
3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 9Jun45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 7Jan46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31298 (MSN 6412) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 16Oct43.
Las Vegas Field, NV 17Oct43. 3021st Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Las Vegas Field, NV 2Jun44.
3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 22Sep44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and
disposal 1Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
31299 (MSN 6413) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 16Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 29Oct43.
4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 5Nov43. 334th Bomb Squadron [BG*M],
95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 12Nov43. Named "Junior/She's My Gal II".
Damaged taxying at Horham 4Dec43. Failed to return from a mission to industrial areas in the suburbs
of Berlin, Germany 6Mar44 (9POW:1EVD). Battle damaged after a fighter attack; and shot down by fighter flown by Ofw.
Sherer of 1/JG11 Crashed along the Oranjekanaal near the hamlet of Oranje, Midden-Drenthe,
Netherlands. {17 missions. All crew bailed out. MACR 2999. Pilot evaded
capture for 4 months, but all were eventually taken prisoner.
Some small parts were recovered in March 1968 and large parts in November/December 1988
31300 (MSN 6414) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 16Oct43.
Las Vegas Field, NV 28Oct43. 110th Base Unit (Staging), Mitchel Field, Hempstead, Long Island, NY 15Aug44.
2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL Nov44.
Damaged landing at Hendricks Auxiliary Field, Conners, Okeechobee, FL 4Nov44. Modified for
training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17G.
Damaged taxying at Hendricks 23Apr45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41,
Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 1Nov45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
31301 (MSN 6415) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 18Oct43.
Las Vegas Field, NV 26Oct43. 3021st Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Las Vegas Field, NV 2Jun44.
2126th Base Unit (Central School for Flexible Gunnery), Laredo Field, TX 9Apr45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 2Jan46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
31302 (MSN 6416) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 18Oct43.
Las Vegas Field, NV 27Oct43. 3021st Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Las Vegas Field, NV.
Damaged due to engine failure at Las Vegas 20Feb45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 7Jan46. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31303 (MSN 6417) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 18Oct43.
Las Vegas Field, NV 24Oct43. 3018th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Kingman Field, AZ 3Dec44.
4126th Base Unit (San Bernardino Air Technical Service Command), San Bernardino Field, CA 22Jan45.
3018th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Kingman Field, AZ 23Mar45. 3017th Base Unit
(Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 12Jun45 .To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 2Jan46. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31304 (MSN 6418) Materiel Command, Wright Field, Dayton, OH 18Oct43. Cold Weather Testing Detachment,
Ladd Field, Fairbanks, AK 25Nov43. 619th Base Unit, Watertown Field, SD 8Jul44.
Accident at Adak Field, Andreanof Islands, AK 30Apr45. Salvaged
31305 (MSN 6419) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 1Nov43.
New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 5Nov43. 335th Bomb Squadron [OE*M], 95th Bomb Group,
Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 11Nov43. Failed to return from a mission to the port area at Bremen,
Germany 20Dec43 (7KIA):3POW). Attacked by a large force of enemy fighters and flak over the target
area was very intense. Enemy aircraft damaged two engines, crashed Osterholz-Scharmbeck, near
Bremen, Germany. {4 missions}.. MACR 1557.
31306 (MSN 6420) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 3Nov43.
3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 10Nov43. 351st Bomb Squadron [EP*V],
100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 15Nov43. Named "Nelson King".
Severely battle damaged during a mission to industrial areas in the suburbs of Berlin, Germany 6Mar44.
An enemy Fw 190 fighter collided with the bomber over Hasel�nne, knocking off most of the vertical
stabiliser and rudder. The crew continued on to bomb their target and returned safely to base.
Failed to return from a mission to Berlin, Germany 24May44 (3KIA:7POW). Shot down by enemy
fighters, crashed on return at Ostprignitz, near Wittstock, Germany MACR 1565
31307 (MSN 6421) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19Oct43.
Las Vegas Field, NV 27Oct43. 3018th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Kingman Field, AZ.
Crashed landing at Kingman 17Aug44. Salvaged 20Aug44.
31308 (MSN 6422) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 18Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 29Oct43.
New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 4Nov43. 364th Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105),
Northamptonshire 23Nov43. Failed to return from a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt,
Germany 24Feb44 (6KIA:4POW). Flak damaged engine No.3, fuel leaking, headed for Switzerland but
crashed Geisselhardt, 15 miles east of Heilbron, Germany. MACR 2766
31309 (MSN 6423) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 18Oct43.
Las Vegas Field, NV 27Oct43. 3021st Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Las Vegas Field, NV 2Jun44.
2126th Base Unit (Central School for Flexible Gunnery) [318], Laredo Field, TX 19Apr45. 554th Base Unit,
Adams Field, Little Rock, AR 5Dec45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR
for storage and disposal 11Feb46. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company,
Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31310 (MSN 6424) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 18Oct43.
Las Vegas Field, NV 28Oct43. 3021st Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Las Vegas Field, NV 14Jul44.
3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 21Jul44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 7Dec45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
31311 (MSN 6425) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20Oct43.
Las Vegas Field, NV 27Oct43. 3021st Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Las Vegas Field, NV 16Jun44.
2126th Base Unit (Central School for Flexible Gunnery), Laredo Field, TX 10Apr45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 3Jan46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
31312 (MSN 6426) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 18Oct43.
Las Vegas Field, NV 27Oct43. 2126th Base Unit (Central School for Flexible Gunnery), Laredo Field, TX 10Apr45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 7Jan46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31313 (MSN 6427) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 18Oct43.
Las Vegas Field, NV 27Oct43. Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing
equipment; designated TB-17G. 3021st Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Las Vegas Field, NV 10Sep44.
Damaged in an accident with TB-17G 42-31263 on the ground at Las Vegas Field 16Mar45.
2126th Base Unit (Central School for Flexible Gunnery), Laredo Field, TX 19Apr45. Damaged while parked in
collision by TB-17G 42-31317 taxying at Laredo Field 4Aug45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 10Jan46. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
31314 (MSN 6428) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 1Nov43.
4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 2Nov43. 359th Bomb Squadron [BN*M/E],
303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 18Nov43. Named "Scorchy".
On return from a mission to the railway marshalling yard at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 11Feb44,
the brakes failed and overran the runway at Shoreham, Sussex hitting the guardroom and injuring
three crew members. Salvaged after non battle damage 13Feb44, It is said that a prisoner in the guardhouse took the
opportunity to escape.
31315 (MSN 6429) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 1Nov43.
3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 18Nov43. Ferried from RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 24/25Nov43. 614th Bomb Squadron [IW*C], 401st Bomb Group,
Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 23Dec43, named "Liberty Run".
Failed to return from a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Bordeaux, France 19Jun44 (9INT:1KIA). Flak struck the
tail, knocking off the tail gunner's compartment. The impact instantly killed the tail gunner and left
the plane barely controllable. The pilot assessed the situation and decided to try for the Spanish border,
115 miles to the south. He managed to keep the plane in the air until they were over Spain. Once assured they
were out of enemy territory, the pilot put his B-17 on autopilot and had the entire crew gathered at the aft exit.
The enlisted men bailed out first, followed by the officers. Their pilot was the last one to leave the plane near
Barcelona, Spain and the aircraft crashed into the Mediterranean The crew members were untimately able to return to base
at Deenethorpe.
31316 (MSN 6430) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19Oct43.
Las Vegas Field, NV 27Oct43. 3021st Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Las Vegas Field, NV 2Jun44.
2126th Base Unit (Central School for Flexible Gunnery), Laredo Field, TX 9Apr45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 3Jan46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
31317 (MSN 6431) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19Oct43.
569th Flexible Gunnery Training Squadron, Las Vegas Field, NV 27Oct43. Accident landing at March
Field, Riverside, CA 23Dec43. 3021st Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Las Vegas Field, NV 16Jun44.
Damaged in collision with parked P-39Q 42-20708 and TP-39Q 44-3918 while taxying at Las Vegas 7Dec44.
2126th Base Unit (Central School for Flexible Gunnery), Laredo Field, TX 10Apr45. 807th Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station-Troop Carrier), Bergstrom Field, Austin, TX 11Sep45. 2126th Base Unit
(Central School for Flexible Gunnery), Laredo Field, TX 19Sep45. Damaged in collision with parked
TB-17G 42-31313 while taxying at Laredo Field 4Aug45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 10Jan46. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31318 (MSN 6432) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20Oct43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 6Nov43. 731st Bomb Squadron, 452nd Bomb Group, Deopham Green (Station 142),
Norfolk 6Jan44. Named "Belle of Broadway". Failed to return from a mission to the industrial area at
Brunswick, Germany 10Feb44 (2KIA:8POW). The pilot of B-17G 42-39961 lost his position in the
formation and was climbing when he overran the formation, pulled up and collided with the lead
bomber, 42-31318 over Diepholz, Germany. The ball turret gunner was killed when the turret was
knocked off in the collision. The tail gunner was mortally wounded when a piece of heavy armoured
plate struck him during the collision. 8 crew bailled out and became POW. The plane crashed at
Wagenfelder brickyard, on the road to Barver, 24km east-southeast of Diepholz, Germany MACR 2536
31319 (MSN 6433) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20Oct43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 7Nov43. 731st Bomb Squadron [S], 452nd Bomb Group, Deopham Green
(Station 142), Norfolk 6Jan44. . Named "Tangerine". Named by its original pilot who liked
the popular song 'Tangerine'. This song was made famous by the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra.
Accident landing from an aborted mission to Berlin, Germany 22Mar44 (10RTD). The pilot aborted
the mission because of oxygen failure. Returning to Deopham Green , the plane landed with a full
bomb load and failed to stop on a wet runway. It skidded down the runway until the tail wheel
caught in a ditch at the end. Crashed early morning on takeoff for a mission to the industrial
area at Brunswick, Germany 26Apr44 (10RTD). As the aircraft reached normal takeoff speed, about �
way down the runway, it was in an extreme tail high attitude. The pilot adjusted the elevator
trim to more than required for a normal takeoff. Both pilots pulled back on the elevator but the
aircraft failed to gain more than a few feet of altitude before the pilot chopped the throttles.
The aircraft touched down after it had passed the end of the runway, struck a wooden fence,
crashed through three hedges and over three ditches, each about four feet deep, and skidded
across a fairly level wheat field and came to rest one mile from the end of the runway at
Great Ellingham, Norfolk. It was later determined that the stabiliser had malfunctioned. Salvaged
31320 (MSN 6434) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 2Nov43.
5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 6Nov43. 412th Bomb Squadron [QW*M], 95th Bomb Group,
Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 12Nov43. Named "I'll Be Around". Failed to return from
a mission to railway facilities around Berlin, Germany 29Apr44 (10POW). The combat wing was
off course heading to Berlin, attacked by enemy fighters and bombed Magdeburg. Damaged by
flak near D�mmer Lake, Germany, and ditched in the North Sea 15km west of Haamstede,
Netherlands. {36 missions}. . MACR 4496
31321 (MSN 6435) Accepted by USAAF 15Oct43. Northwest Airlines Modification Center, Vandalia,
Dayton, OH 26Oct43. 569th Bomb Squadron [CC*M], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153),
Suffolk 23Dec43. {first combat mission 29Jan44}. Participated in an Operation Frantic II shuttle
mission to the Braunkohle-Benzin AG synthetic oil refinery at Schwarzheide, Ruhland, Germany 21Jun44.
After the target, the bomber continued east and landed at Mirgorod (Station 561), Ukraine.
Ferried to Poltava (Station 559), Ukraine. Departed Poltava 28Jun44 on the Air Transport Command
route to Teheran, Persia. To Payne Field, Cairo, Egypt 29Jun44 then landed at Tripoli, Libya
with five P-51 mechanics as passengers. To Casablanca, French Morocco 3Jul44. {final combat
mission 21Jun44}. Returned to England 9Jul44, heading to St Mawgan (Station 512), Cornwall
but was off course. Crash landed at RAF Towyn, Merionethshire, Wales, hitting an air raid shelter,
onto a railway track and destroyed. All fifteen of the crew were unharmed and were invited to a
local dance that evening, still in their flight suits. Local folklore has it that they were carrying a
supply of bananas back home which were an unseen delicacy in rationed Wales in 1944. {45 missions}
31322 (MSN 6436) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 16Oct43.
Vandalia, OH 26Oct43. Des Moines Municipal Airport, IA 1Dec43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 2Dec43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 11Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 22Dec43.
Ferried to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 16Jan44. 452nd Bomb Group, Deopham Green (Station 142),
Norfolk 17Jan44. 364th Bomb Squadron [WF*V], transferred to 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105),
Northamptonshire 30Jan44.. Named 'Mi Amigo'. Accident returning from a mission to the Luftwaffe
airfield at �lborg, Denmark 23Feb44 (10KIA). Enemy fighters attacked the B-17 overhead the target, and
pursued the bomber as the bombardier, aware of the Danish civilians below, was unable to release the
bombs due to cloud cover obscuring the target. The aircraft was badly damaged by the attacking fighters.
Bombs were released harmlessly over the North Sea as the B-17 limped back towards base in Northamptonshire.
It is probable the navigation and communication equipment was out of service, and that some of the crew
were dead or wounded from the attack. For whatever reasons, the bomber ended up eighty miles off
course and circling low over the city of Sheffield. In Endcliffe Park, kids playing football watched as an
engine finally cut, a wing dipped and the aircraft spiralled down into a wooded knoll next to the playing field.
Crashed at Endcliffe Park, Sheffield, Yorkshire. It is probable that the pilot was considering a crash landing
on the grass playing field so the children ran off into the woods. This might also account for why some of the
crew at least didn't bail out. The pilot missed hitting the children but then had to avoid a mock Tudor
pavilion that today is a busy caf� in the park. The aircraft nearly ended up on top of the children that
had run out of its path; only the Porter Brook stream acting as a barrier to the childrens' escape
prevented further tragedy. Salvaged 25Feb44 by 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton (Station 547), Huntingdonshire.
31323 (MSN 6437) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20Oct43.
Flexible Gunnery School, Las Vegas Field, NV 27Oct43. 3021st Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School),
Las Vegas Field, NV 2Jun44. Accident landing with mechanical failure at Indian Springs Field, NV 5Jun44.
2126th Base Unit (Central School for Flexible Gunnery), Laredo Field, TX 24Apr45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 4Jan46. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
31324 MSN 6438) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20Oct43.
50th Flexible Gunnery Training Squadron, Las Vegas Field, NV 28Oct43. Mid-air collision with
North American AT-6A 41-15967 fifteen miles northwest of Las Vegas 25Feb44 (11KIS). A student gunner,
who fell to earth trapped in the severed B-17G tail section, miraculously survived the crash but
sustained serious injuries. The AT-6A involved was flying to the right of the B-17G, slightly ahead
and approximately 700 feet above. The AT-6A executed a steep peel-off to the left, going into a curved
dive toward the B-17G. At the same time, the B-17G executed a shallow turn to the left. The AT-6A
struck the B-17G from about the 2 o'clock position just behind the pilot's compartment and over
the number three engine. The two airplanes exploded and disintegrated with several large sections
floating to earth in flames. Salvaged 27Feb44. .
31325 (MSN 6439) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20Oct43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 6Nov43. 730th Bomb Squadron, 452nd Bomb Group, Deopham Green (Station 142),
Norfolk 12Jan44. Failed to return from a mission to the rail marshalling yards at Frankfurt am Main,
Germany 8Feb44 (1KIA:5POW:4EVD). Turbochargers No.3 and No.4 were hit by flak causing the engines
to lose power, the bomber dropped out of the formation. The No.3 engine propeller oversped
and the right waist gunner bailed out. The bomber was then attacked on that side by enemy fighters.
The tail gunner had been wounded and his guns were disabled. A 20mm cannon shell burst in the
radio room, wounding the radio operator. Enemy fighters shot out No.1 and No.2 engines.
The pilot dove down to take cover in the clouds at 5,000 feet. Heading for England, the plane was losing
fuel and the crew considered trying for a forced landing in France. Reaching the outskirts of Montdidier,
the bomber broke out of the clouds and was irretrievably hit by flak defending the town. With a wing on
fire the pilot ordered the crew to abandon the aircraft. The bomber continued its flight, engines on fire,
and crashed in the middle of fields near the village of Le Cardonnois, 7km southwest of Montdidier, France
31326 MSN 6440) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 2Nov43.
3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 10Nov43. 327th Bomb Squadron [UX*W], 92nd Bomb Group,
Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 30Nov43. 326th Bomb Squadron [JW*R]. .Named "Winnie II"
Battle damaged, Mannheim, Germany 22Sep44, force landed on the continent. Salvaged 14Nov44
31327 (MSN 6441) Accepted by USAAF 16Oct43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 20Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 1Nov43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 6Nov43.
Base Air Depot No.2, Warton (Station 582), Lancashire. Ferried to Thurleigh 11Dec43.
367th Bomb Squadron [GY*N], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 11Dec43.
Crashed on return from a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Ch�teaubernard, Cognac,
France 31Dec43 (1DOI:9RTD). On return in bad weather, ran out of fuel and crashed near Stevenage,
Hertfordshire, hitting a tree causing several injuries. Salvaged by Air Force Service Command 1Jan44
31328 (MSN 6442) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 22Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 3Nov43.
4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 10Nov43. 366th Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group,
Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 22Dec43. Failed to return from a mission to the Messerschmitt
aircraft factory at Augsburg, Germany 25Feb44 (6POW:4KIA). Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed
Nonnenberg, near Zweibruecken, fifteen miles east of Saarbr�cken, Germany. MACR 2764
31329 (MSN 6443) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 22Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 3Nov43.
4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 10Nov43. 334th Bomb Squadron [BG*H],
95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 15Nov43. Failed to return from a mission to the
industrial area at Augsburg, Germany 16Mar44 (9INT:1POW). From Strasburg, Germany to Augsburg,
the bombers were attacked by Luftwaffe fighters in a running battle. Flak over the target was moderate
and accurate; flak en route was meagre and inaccurate. Crash landed Oberriet-Kriessen, Diepoldsau,
Switzerland. {25 missions). MACR 3229.
31330 (MSN 6444) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 22Oct43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 9Nov43. 728th Bomb Squadron [O], 452nd Bomb Group,
Deopham Green (Station 142), Norfolk 3Jan44. Named "Dog Breath" When the original crews
were still in training in Pyote Field, TX they would often enjoy a late night of drinking and dancing
at a hall and beer parlor at the small town of Monahans. One pilot would often have trouble getting
his co-pilot out of bed the next morning. On one particular morning the pliot was trying to get his
co-pilot to wake up and the co-pilot blew in his face. The pilot replied something like "Man, you have
dog breath!" He then paused for a bit and said "That's what we are going to name our plane", and they did.
Battle damaged on return from a mission 26Mar44 (1KIA). Failed to return from a mission to a Luftwaffe
airfield at Corme-�cluse, east of Royan, France 19Jun44 (10INT). The Group went over the secondary target
twice and the plane was last seen heading down the Gironde estuary after dropping out of formation.
It appeared to be under control although flak struck No.1 engine, then No.2 engine failed with an oil leak.
Force landed at Luceni, near Zaragoza, Spain. 10 crew interned. MACR 5931.
31331 ((MSN 6445) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Oct43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 6Nov43. 731st Bomb Squadron, 452nd Bomb Group, Deopham Green.
Named. MON TETE ROUGE / TINA TANGERINE [This plane was named by its original pilot Harold G. "Hal" Fulmer.
His wife had sort of reddish hair and had some French ancestry in her, so he came up with the French name "
"Mon T�te Rouge", which is translated to "My Red Head". Fulmer later found out that "Mon" in French is
actually the masculine word instead of the feminine word "Ma". It was already painted on the plane,
so he left it as it was. This plane was an olive drab plane with a red-headed lady painted on her knees
and slightly leaning backward. Some historians have incorrectly also called this plane "Tangerine"
because another pilot named Glenn T. Butterworth was flying "Mon Tete Rouge" when he was shot down
with it. It was incorrectly assumed that the lost plane was "Tangerine"] . Failed to return from a mission
to the Vereinigte Kugellagerfabriken AG (VKF) ball bearing factory at Erkner, Berlin, Germany 8Mar44 (1KIA:9POW).
All the way from the Netherlands to Berlin, the bombers were hounded by Luftwaffe fighters. Prior to the target,
enemy fighter aircraft damaged engine No.3 and a supercharger on another engine. The plane dropped
out of formation and jettisoned the bombs. It returned towards England at low level to avoid detection
but then four enemy fighters attacked. 20mm cannon shells penetrated the cockpit and exploded,
setting the plane on fire and killing the bombardier. With the bomb bay on fire, the pilot crash landed
on the left bank of River Weser, near Nienburg, Germany. MACR 3190
42-31332/31431 Boeing B-17G-15-BO Fortress
MSN 6446/6545. Dispositions from B-17 Fortress Master Log, Dave Osborne (FORTLOG)
Production changes: Provision for improved A-2 ball turret. Increased capacity ammunition boxes for waist gun
31332 MSN 6446) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19Oct43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 1Nov43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 20Nov43. Ferried USA to England, arrived Prestwick,
Scotland 8Jan44. 730th Bomb Squadron, 452nd Bomb Group, Deopham Green (Station 142), Norfolk 9Jan44.
Named . FRIVOLOUS SAL. The tail gunner of this plane named this plane after a popular
song titled "My Gal Sal (They Called Her Frivolous Sal)". Force landed after mid-air collision with
B-17G 42-102660 24Feb44. Salvaged 28Dec44. Repaired and returned to Group. [operated a
combat mission Feb45]. Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field,
Windsor Locks, CT 4Jul45. 4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command),
South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 10Jul45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41,
Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 13Dec45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
31333 (MSN 6447) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 22Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 3Nov43.
4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 9Nov43. 322nd Bomb Squadron [LG*W],
91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 20Dec43.
Named "Wee Willie" artwork of a young boy in diapers wearing a flight cap and
sitting on a falling bomb. Painted by Tony Starcer. Shot Battle damaged on a mission to the
Luftwaffe air depot at M�rignac, Bordeaux, France 31Dec43. The target was covered in solid cloud
so the group diverted to the secondary target, a Luftwaffe airfield at Ch�teaubernard, Cognac, France.
Flak at the target was moderate and accurate. Battle damaged on a mission to the Kriegsmarinewerft
shipyard at Wilhelmshaven, Germany 3Feb44 (1WIA:9RTD). Struck by flak wounding the top turret
gunner. Battle damaged on a mission to the Junkers Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory at Aschersleben,
Germany 22Feb44 (10RTD). On the way to the target, the formation met with the 381st Bomb Group.
Since these planes were late following the main formation, no escort was available. Heavy cloud
cover over the target forced the formation to divert to the industrial area of B�nde, Germany.
The bomber formation was exposed to the attack of German fighters for over forty minutes without
interruption, most of which were Fw 190s. When the fighter attacks started, the bomber took several
hits head on, No.3 engine was disabled, the propeller was feathered and the bombs jettisoned.
No.4 engine was damaged but still running. An empty machine gun casing from a fighter crashed
through the Plexiglas nose and a bullet put a hole in the right tailplane. With only three engines
running the plane dropped out of formation and made an effort to join some other planes for better
protection. The plane's speed blew out the fire in No.3 engine just as the pilot maneuvered in a good
protective spot among another formation. The pilot stayed with formation over the target and most
of the way back but dropped behind when nearing the North Sea as he did not want to chance
burning up the remaining engines after getting so near home. Upon landing at Bassingbourn the
hydraulic unit on the landing gear failed so the pilot ran the plane off the runway and onto the
grass where it finally rolled to a stop. Major battle damage on a mission to Friedrichstrasse
railway station, Berlin, Germany 7May44. Battle damage on a mission to the Heinkel Flugzeugwerke
aircraft factory at Oranienburg, Germany 22Mar44. Just east of Hamburg en route to the target,
the pilot had to feather the propeller on No.1 engine because of mechanical failures. Unable to
continue to Berlin on three engines, the pilot decided to turn back and try to make the trip back alone.
After turning the bombardier dropped the bombs in the Hamburg area. When it landed the plane
had one flak hole in the bomb bay and one in the fuel tank under the wing. The piece of flak went
through the wing and the three thickness automatic sealing fuel tank. Battle damaged on a mission
to a Luftwaffe airfield at Oldenburg, Germany 8Apr44. The 91st Bomb Group was the last group
over the target and took very heavy flak. Failed to return from a mission to an oil storage depot
at Derben, Germany 8Apr45 (8KIA:1POW). With solid cloud cover, the group diverted to the secondary
target, locomotive repair facilities at Stendal, Germany. The Germans had moved two railcar
mounted 88mm Flak guns into Stendal the night before the raid; the soldiers had manned anti-aircraft
guns the entire war and were skilled marksmen. The bomber received a direct flak hit approximately
between the bomb-bay and the No.2 engine on the left wing. The aircraft immediately started into a
vertical dive. The fuselage was on fire and when it had dropped approximately 5,000ft the left wing
fell off. It continued down and when the fuselage was about 3,000ft from the ground it exploded,
and then exploded again when it hit the ground near Stendal. {129 missions}. MACR 13881
31334 (MSN 6448) Northwest Airlines Modification Center, Vandalia, Dayton, OH 21Oct43.
Bunker Hill Field, Ogden, UT 10Nov43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver
Municipal Airport, CO 20Nov43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 10Dec43.
Nutts Corner (Station 235), Belfast, Northern Ireland 5Jan44. 730th Bomb Squadron [N],
452nd Bomb Group, Deopham Green (Station 142), Norfolk 6Jan44. Named THREE CADS AND A LAD.
Refers to the four officers of the plane. The nose art depicted three men in British coal miner clothes, '
The Cads' holding beer mugs standing next to a clean cut gentleman, 'The Lad' with a halo over his head.
Accident departing for a mission to an industrial area at Leipzig, Germany 12Apr44 (6KIA:4RTD).
During assembly the bombers were having problems holding position in a tight formation
caused by differences in wind speed between the different altitudes of the squadrons. During a turn,
this plane, being on the inside of the turn, had to slow down and it stalled. The pilot attempted
to maintain altitude to allow other planes to fly out from under it. The plane then fell off into a
violent spin but, when attempting to stop the spinning, it tore apart at the ball turret section.
The front section made a violent turn onto its back, tearing off the upper turret and ejecting
the gunner, then started rotating like a maple leaf allowing the co-pilot to escape. The wreckage
fell into the North Sea, off Clacton, Essex. The co-pilot was rescued within minutes by a
Royal Air Force Air-Sea Rescue Supermarine Walrus amphibious aircraft and The engineer/top turret
gunner was rescued by a patrol boat. MACR 3933
31335 (MSN 6449) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 22Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 30Oct43. New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 13Nov43. 548th Bomb Squadron [GX*X],
385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 19Nov43. Named "Honky Tonk Sal"
Mid-air collision with B-24L 44-50084 damaging the left horizontal stabiliser and severely damaging
the vertical stabiliser and rudder, force landed five miles east of Cambridge 15Mar44. Salvaged 15Mar44.
31336 (MSN 6450) Accepted by USAAF 18Oct43. Northwest Airlines Modification Center, Vandalia,
Dayton, OH 26Oct43. 388th Bomb Group 14Dec43. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick
(Station 500), Scotland 15Jan44. 561st Bomb Squadron [H], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136),
Suffolk Jan44. {first combat mission 29Jan44}. Failed to return from a mission to the industrial area
at Brunswick, Germany 10Feb44 (10MIA). Meagre to heavy flak was seen when crossing the enemy
coast at IJmuiden, Netherlands. In the vicinity of Lingen, Germany the formation was attacked by
enemy fighters in groups of three. As they neared the target, twin-engined aircraft fired rockets
into the formation. Intense flak was encountered at the target where the aircraft received flak damage.
The formation was under fighter attack until it neared the IJsselmeer on the return home.
During the ensuring aerial battle this B-17 was damaged and forced to leave its formation.
The straggling aircraft was promptly engaged by enemy fighters, and was last seen flying into a
cloud bank being harassed by enemy fire. The aircraft never returned to base, and was assumed
to have gone down somewhere in the North Sea, near the Netherlands. {6 missions}.. MACR 2347
31337 (MSN 6451) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 22Oct43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 9Nov43. 731st Bomb Squadron, 452nd Bomb Group, Deopham Green
(Station 142), Norfolk 1Jan44. Named "Hell's Cargo". Failed to return from a mission to industrial
areas at Kleinmachnow., Berlin, Germany 6Mar44 (1KIA:9POW). Damaged over the target by
Heavy Flak Abteilungen 437 and forced to leave formation. After the target, enemy fighters
attacked from Wittenburg on the return to England. Later shot down by guns of the
15th Flak Brigade over Hanover. The crew bailed out and the bomber crashed on the gun
testing range for the Rheinmetall Borsig factory at Schmarbeck, 3km east of Fassburg,
20km west-southwest of Uelzen, Germany . MACR 2914.
All crew bailed out and taken prisoner. One died
of wounds shortly after capture.
31338 (MSN 6452) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 22Oct43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 10Nov43. 728th Bomb Squadron, 452nd Bomb Group, Deopham
Green (Station 142), Norfolk 1Jan44. Named "Hard To Get". Failed to return from a mission to the
industrial area at Brunswick, Germany 10Feb44 (7POW:3KIA). Attacked by enemy fighters at 24,000 feet ,
disabling the superchargers and setting No.1 and No.2 engines on fire with an overspeeding propeller.
Crashed 10km northeast of Hildesheim, Germany.MACR 2540.
31339 (MSN 6453) Accepted by USAAF 19Oct43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 22Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training
Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 28Oct43. New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 4Nov43. 568th Bomb
Squadron [BI*M], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 10Nov43.
Named SCHIFLESS SKONK artwork of the head of Hitler on the body of a skunk.
{first combat mission 26Nov43}. Battle damaged during a mission to railway marshalling
yards at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 4Feb44 (1WIA:9RTD). As the planes were passing over the
Netherlands en route to Germany, local cross winds carried the bombers straight into enemy flak.
The tail gunner was wounded. Severe battle damage on a mission to Templin, north of Berlin,
Germany 6Mar44 (1WIA:9RTD). The bomber led the 390th Bomb Group formation in the raid
and was attacked by a large force of Luftwaffe fighters. En route to the target, it was badly
damaged in attacks by enemy fighters. Cannon fire exploded in the aircraft severely damaging
the cockpit and bomb bay. The crew repelled the attacks with success, achieving eight confirmed kills.
Although wounded in the leg, the engineer continued firing from his top turret and shot down
two of the Bf 109s. A fire erupted in the ammunition storage and he tore the blazing machine
gun links apart and disposed of them, putting out the fire. He then went to assist the bombardier
with kicking out three fused bombs that had jammed in the bomb bay due to damage from the
fighter attacks. For these actions, TSgt Kovacik was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross.
{final combat mission 6Mar44}. {24 missions}. Honington (Station 375), Suffolk 20Mar44.
Salvaged 1st Strategic Air Depot, Troston (Station 595), Suffolk 22Mar44.
31340 (MSN 6454) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 3Nov43.
3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 12Nov43. Ferried from RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador
to Maghaberry, County Antrim, Northern Ireland 24Nov43. 360th Bomb Squadron [PU*D],
303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 27Dec43. Accident landing at
Molesworth 12Apr44. Named"Miss Liberty"- artwork inspired by the Vargas' "Flying Girl"
Esquire centrefold of December 1943. Failed to return from a mission to the Sudetenl�ndische
Treibstoffwerke AG synthetic oil refinery at Z�lup�, Br�x, Sudetenland 12Sep44 (1KIA).
Shot down by enemy fighters and crash landed Sep 12, 1944 at Hucquelliers,
France. One killed, 8 returned. (FORTLOG)
Aircraft preserved at Barksdale as 42-31340 was 44-83884.
31341 (MSN 6455) Accepted by USAAF 19Oct43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 22Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training
Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 6Nov43. 730th Bomb Squadron, 452nd Bomb Group, Deopham
Green (Station 142), Norfolk 3Dec43. Named "Breaks Of The Game". Failed to return from a
mission to industrial areas in the suburbs of Berlin, Germany 4Mar44 (2KIA:8POW).
Attacked by fighters, exploded in mid-air and broke in two. Crashed at Buskow railway station,
near Ruppin, northwest of Berlin, Germany. MACR 2915.
31342 (MSN 6456) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 3Nov43.
New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 9Nov43. 365th Bomb Squadron [XK*L], 305th Bomb Group,
Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 3Dec43. Named "Boeing's Best". Failed to return from
a mission to Pirmasens, Germany 9Aug44 (7KIA:2POW). Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed
Unzhurst, Germany. MACR 8071.
31343 (MSN 6457) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 3Nov43.
4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 28Nov43. 338th Bomb Squadron [BX*E],
96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 5Dec43. Named "Myna Myra".
Failed to return from a diversionary mission to an aircraft depot at Zwickau, Germany 12May44 (6KIA:4POW).
En route to the target, between Koblenz and Frankfurt, the formation was attacked by a large
force of enemy fighters. Enemy aircraft set aircraft on fire, four bailed out but then aircraft exploded.
Crashed at Merzhausen, west of Usingen, northwest of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. MACR 4855
31344 (MSN 6458) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Oct43.
7th Ferrying Squadron, 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT. Damaged in ground collision
with B-17F 42-5192 taxying at Pendleton 25Oct43. Salvaged 29Jan44
31345 (MSN 6459) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Oct43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 6Nov43. 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 7Jan44.
728th Bomb Squadron, 452nd Bomb Group, Deopham Green (Station 142), Norfolk 8Jan44.
Named "Kickapoo Joy Juice/Lady Stadust II" Failed to return from a mission to the Sudetenl�ndische
Treibstoffwerke AG synthetic oil refinery at Z�lup�, Br�x, Sudetenland 12May44 (1KIA:9RTD).
En route to the target, between Koblenz and Frankfurt, the formation was attacked by a large
force of enemy fighters, a 20mm cannon shell killing the top turret gunner. Two engines were damaged
during the attack, the interphone communications had been damaged and the oxygen system leaking.
The nose of the plane was shattered by the body of a gunner who had been ejected from another bomber
flying above and ahead which exploded. The ball, tail and two waist gunners were wounded by
shrapnel and machine gun fire. During the return to England, two engines failed and the pilot dropped
down to fly back just above the trees to avoid attracting attention from any more enemy fighters.
Coming over the North Sea just above the waves, the plane was too badly damaged to climb over the
English coast so the pilot ditched the bomber in the Thames Estuary, about one mile west of the
fort on Knock John Shoal, off Foulness Island, Essex. Crew rescued by Air-Sea Rescue, but the body
of The engineer/top turret gunner went down with the aircraft. MACR 5021
31346 (MSN 6460) Accepted by USAAF 19Oct43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 23Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training
Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 31Oct43. New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 27Nov43. 544th Bomb
Squadron [SU*Q], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 20Jan44
Named *Shack Rabbit* . {first combat mission 29Jan44}. Failed to return from a mission to
the Dornier Flugzeugwerke factory at Oberpfaffenhofen, Munich, Germany 24Apr44 (4POW:6EVD).
En route to the target thirty miles east of Paris, France, the bomber was struck by flak. The bomber
aborted the mission and turned back towards England. It was noted with a fire in the nose and
bomb bay and smoke emitting from the cockpit. The aircraft crashed and exploded at Plancy-l'Abbaye,
one mile south of Champfleury airfield, north of Troyes, France. {29 missions}. MACR 4355.
31347 (MSN 6461) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 3Nov43.
3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 12Nov43. 349th Bomb Squadron [XR*K], 100th Bomb Group,
Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 12Jan44. Named "Billy Boy". Accident returning from a mission 2Mar44,
the pilot was unable to extend the right landing gear either electrically or manually. The aircraft was
diverted to the Air Depot at Troston but that airfield was unable to lay a flare path in time so the
bomber headed back to base where it crash landed on the grass adjacent to the runway at Thorpe Abbotts,
damaging the chin turret, ball turret and all propellers. Returned to US Jun45. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment
Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 12Jul45. 4185th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical
Service Command), Independence Field, KS 14Jul45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 13Dec45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped(FORTLOG)
31348 (MSN 6462) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26Oct43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 7Nov43. 728th Bomb Squadron, 452nd Bomb Group, Deopham Green
(Station 142), Norfolk 6Jan44. 729th Bomb Squadron [T]. Named SWING SHIFT BABY / TERRY - A - LONG. The
pilot named this plane in honor of his wife whose maiden name was Theresa "Terry" A. Long.
Failed to return from a mission to the Deurag-Nerag oil refinery, Misburg, Hanover, Germany 31Dec44 (4KIA:5POW).
Attacked by enemy fighters, killing the top turret and waist gunners. The plane was seen to spin
with a wing on fire then exploded. Crashed Rhade, northeast of Bremen, Germany.
MACR 11230
31349 (MSN 6463) Accepted by USAAF 20Oct43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 8Nov43. 4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 14Nov43.
388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 27Nov43. 550th Bomb Squadron,
385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 28Nov43.
Named 'Stars and Stripes, 2nd Edition'. Failed to return from a mission
to aircraft industries at Rostock, Germany 24Feb44 (10KIA). Shot down by enemy fighters,
damaged engine No.3, crashed into Baltic Sea. MACR 2777
31350 (MSN 6464) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Oct43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 6Nov43. 729th Bomb Squadron [S], 452nd Bomb Group, Deopham Green 4Jan44.
Named "Merry On" Battle damaged on a mission to the Luftwaffe airfield at Achmer, Germany 8Apr44 (10RTD).
The plane caught fire on landing back at Deopham Green. Salvaged 11Apr44
31351 (MSN 6465) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 11Nov43.
5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 21Nov43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 341st Bomb Squadron,
97th Bomb Group, Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 27Nov43. Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43. San Giovanni,
Cerignola, Italy 20Dec43. Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44. Failed to return from a mission to
the oil refineries at Ploe?ti, Rumania 23Jun44. Flak was intense, heavy and accurate. A flight of
enemy fighters attacked the formation before and after the target. Damaged by flak, the bomber
was shot down by an enemy fighter and crashed near Bucharest, Rumania. MACR 6407
31352 (MSN 6466) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Oct43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 7Nov43. 728th Bomb Squadron, 452nd Bomb Group, Deopham Green
(Station 142), Norfolk 6Jan44. Named "Leading Lady/Iron Bird".
Failed to return from a mission to the Focke-Wulf aircraft factory
at Krzesiny, Pozna?, Poland 9Apr44 (6MIA:4KIA). On return from the target the Group was
attacked by enemy fighters before reaching the Danish coast. Fighters damaged No.2 and No.3
engines, setting them on fire. The pilot was observed opening the side window evidently to
appraise the damage. He then pulled the nose up sharply, held it briefly and then did a whipstall
apparently to extinguish the fire. When last seen the aircraft was pulling out of the dive
apparently under control. Crashed in the Baltic Sea off Laaland Island, DenmarkMACR 3661
31353 (MSN 6467) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 3Nov43.
3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 12Nov43. 322nd Bomb Squadron [LG*Q],
91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 20Dec43
Named "Queenie" artwork of a blond woman sitting up Battle damaged on a mission to
the I.G. Farben chemical works at Oppau, Ludwigshafen, Germany 30Dec43 (1WIA:9RTD).
Attacked by enemy fighters, The engineer/top turret gunner was injured by fragments of a 20mm
cannon shell. No.3 engine was disabled, electric cables in the bomb bay were destroyed,
and the top turret was damaged by 20mm cannon shells. Major battle damage on a mission
to a Luftwaffe airfield at Oldenburg, Germany 8Apr44. The 91st Bomb Group was the last group
over the target and took very heavy flak. Battle damaged on a mission to the Focke-Wulf
Flugzeugbau AG aircraft factory at Sorau, Prussia 11Apr44. The primary target was covered
with clouds; so the group headed to the secondary target of the port area at Stettin, Prussia.
Intense and accurate flak was encountered in the vicinity of Hanover and Stettin. On return,
the formation was subjected to two hard-pressed attacks by enemy fighters. Battle damaged
on a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Metz, France 25Apr44 (10RTD). The plane was hit by flak,
disabling No.1 and No.2 engines and became low on fuel. With only two engines operating,
the pilot force landed at RAF Thorney Island, Hampshire. Failed to return from a mission to
railway facilities around Berlin, Germany 29Apr44 (5KIA:5POW). Flak was intense and accurate
at the target. After leaving target a continuous succession of bursts were encountered ranging
from moderate to intense. The plane was struck by flak and shrapnel at least 100 times,
knocking off an aileron, elevator and the rudder. Engine No.3 and No.4 were disabled followed
by fire in the right wing which then burned through and fell off. The aircraft remained airborne
long enough for half of the crew to bail out before it exploded and crashed near Kladow, Spandau,
west-southwest of Berlin, Germany. {18+ missions) MACR 4236
31354 (MSN 6468) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26Oct43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 10Nov43. 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 5Jan44.
731st Bomb Squadron, 452nd Bomb Group, Deopham Green (Station 142), Norfolk 6Jan44
Named LOUNGE LIZARD / DIXIE JANE. The left waist gunner named the bomber the morning that they
were shot down. His mother's middle name was "Jane" and they lived in the South part of the United
States known as "Dixie". Failed to return from a mission to the Vereinigte Kugellagerfabriken AG (VKF)
ball bearing factory at Erkner, Berlin, Germany 8Mar44 (7POW:3KIA). All the way from the Netherlands
to Berlin, the bombers were hounded by Luftwaffe fighters. Damaged by enemy aircraft on return
from the target, the pilot dove down to low level and headed for Sweden but continued to be attacked.
The ball turret gunner was killed by a 20mm cannon shell and another wounded the tail gunner.
The plane crash landed on a German fighter airfield two miles northeast of Zerbst, southeast of
Magdeburg, Germany. MACR 3191
31355 (MSN 6469) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 3Nov43.
4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 12Nov43. 548th Bomb Squadron [GX*N],
385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 21Nov43. Failed to return from a mission
to railway marshalling yards at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 4Feb44 (10POW). As the planes were
passing over the Netherlands en route to Germany, local cross winds carried the bombers straight
into enemy flak. Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Steinfeldestrasse, near Nettersheim/Eifel, Germany.
MACR 2198
31356 (MSN 6470) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Oct43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 341st Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 7Dec43.
Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43. San Giovanni, Cerignola, Italy 20Dec43. Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44.
Failed to return from a mission to railway marshalling yards at Verona, Italy 22Mar44 (9MIA).
Returning from the mission, the pilot called the station for a weather report and was never heard
from again. Presumed crashed in ditched Adriatic Sea
31357 (MSN 6471) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 3Nov43.
3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 12Nov43. 535th Bomb Squadron [MS*N],
381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 11Dec43. Named *Our Desire*.
Damaged taxying at Ridgewell 19Feb44. Battle damaged on mission to airfields in northern
Germany 21Feb44. Poor weather conditions over the primary target forced the formation to hit an
alternate target, a Luftwaffe airfield at Achmer, Bramsche, Germany. Three crew bailed out and
became POWs. Failed to return from a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt,
Germany 13Apr44 (9POW). Flak damaged engine No.3, lost altitude and another engine caught fire,
eventually aircraft exploded and crashed Klosterkumbd, four miles north of Simmern/Hunsruck,
twenty-two miles south of Koblenz, Germany. {10 missions}. MACR 3865
31358 (MSN 6472) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Oct43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 9Nov43. 729th Bomb Squadron, 452nd Bomb Group, Deopham Green
(Station 142), Norfolk 3Jan44. Named "Big Noise". Failed to return from a mission to the aircraft
component factories in Leipzig, Germany 29May44 (2KIA:8POW). The Luftwaffe dispatched around
forty fighters to intercept the bombers, their attack co-inciding with a ten-minute period when
the bombers were flying without an escort. Damaged by flak later, killing the tail gunner, the crew
bailed out. Crashed near Goddula, Bad D�rrenberg, fifteen miles southwest of Leipzig, Germany.
MACR 5229
31359 (MSN 6473) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Oct43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 9Nov43. 731st Bomb Squadron, 452nd Bomb Group, Deopham Green
(Station 142), Norfolk 3Jan44. Failed to return from a mission to motor industry targets in Berlin,
Germany 21Jun44 (6KIA:4POW). Moderate, accurate flak was encountered in the target area; the
tail section was damaged by flak. Crashed after a mid-air collision with B-17G 42-102662. After
bombing, while making a right turn, #662 was caught in propeller wash and #359 ran into it
chewing off the tail. #359 wxploded and crashed 2km north of Rheinberg, 75km northwest of
Berlin Germany. MACR 6238.
31360 (MSN 6474) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Oct43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 9Nov43. 730th Bomb Squadron [L], 452nd Bomb Group, Deopham Green
(Station 142), Norfolk 5Jan44. Damaged landing at Deopham 28Jan44. 731st Bomb Squadron [P].
Named "Smokey Liz" & "Snake Eyes". The pilot was from Pittsburgh known as
the "smokey" city. His wife's name was Dorothy Elizabeth. The crew figured that naming the
plane "Smokey Dottie" didn't sound too good, so they chose "Smokey Liz" instead Failed to return
from a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical and synthetic oil works at Leuna, Merseburg,
Germany 28Sep44 (9RTD). Flak over the target was intense and accurate. The plane received a
direct hit in the left wing and the No.2 engine. Battle damaged, the bomber force landed on an
allied airfield at Brussels, Belgium. Salvaged 14Nov44..
31361 (MSN 6475) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Oct43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 9Nov43. 729th Bomb Squadron [G], 452nd Bomb Group, Deopham Green
(Station 142), Norfolk 3Jan44. Named "The Punched Fowl" artwork of two cartoon ducks.
Damaged in collision while parked by B-17G 42-31525 taxying at Deopham Green 31May44.
Failed to return from a mission to an oil refinery at Oslebshausen, Bremen, Germany 4Aug44 (1KIA:8POW).
The Group encountered intense and accurate flak. In the vicinity of the I.P., the plane sustained a
flak hit at which point one engine was observed on fire and the plane left the formation. It peeled off
in front of the formation slowly circling to the left and headed towards the North Sea. It was then seen
flying at 25,000ft and appeared to be completely under control. Near Cuxhaven control was partially
lost and four airmen bailed out. The pilot attempted to make it back to England but the remainder
of the crew bailed out over Heligoland. Crashed in North Sea near Heligoland. MACR 7710.
31362 (MSN 6476) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 12Nov43.
5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 18Nov43. 326th Bomb Squadron [JW*R], 92nd Bomb Group,
Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 30Dec43. 327th Bomb Squadron [JW*R]. Named "Alcohol Annie".
Failed to return from a mission to the Focke-Wulf aircraft factory at Sorau, Prussia 11Apr44 (10INT).
Force landed at Rinkaby airfield, southeast of Kristianstad, Sweden. MACR 3670.
Departed Sweden for England 6Jun45.
Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 24Jul45.
4185th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), Independence Field, KS 26Jul45.
to Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and
disposal 14Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped. .
31363 (MSN 6477) Accepted by USAAF 22Oct43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 25Jun43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 7Nov43. 20th Ferrying Group, Berry Field, Nashville, TN 13Nov43.
368th Bomb Squadron [BO*M], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 19Dec43.
2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little Staughton (Station 127), Bedfordshire 23Dec43. Regained by Group 26Dec43.
Named "Vapor Trail" name painted on the backdrop of two condensation trails. Seriously battle damaged
during a mission to the industrial area at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 29Jan44. Flak struck the right
outer wing. Failed to return from a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Laleu, La Rochelle, France 27Mar44 (10POW).
En route to the target, the plane dropped back from formation with No.4 propeller feathered. The engine
was later restarted but then No.2, 3 and 4 engines were smoking but not on fire. The bomber was last seen
dropping behind the formation, apparently under control, Ditched into Bay of Biscay; crew rescued by
German seaplane. MACR 3479
31364 (MSN 6478) Accepted by USAAF 22Oct43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 25Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training
Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 13Nov43. New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 26Nov43.
544th Bomb Squadron [SU*D], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106),
Northamptonshire 10Jan44. Named *Nuttall's Nut House*. {first combat mission 14Jan44}.
Battle damaged on a mission to the aircraft assembly and repair works at Oberpfaffenhofen, Munich,
Germany 16Mar44 (2WIA). The aircraft was hit by bombs from B-17 42?37801 which knocked out No.2
engine and forced the jettisoning of bombs. Failed to return from a mission to Berlin, Germany 24May44
(7POW:2KIA). After the target, flak struck engine No.2. With the later failure of another engine,
the bomber dropped out of formation and attempted to join a low squadron formation.
Attacked by German fighters and the aircraft now on fire some of the crew bailed out. An explosion
followed ejecting the remaining crew members and the aircraft crashed at Herzberg, 12km
southeast of Neuruppin, Germany. {29 missions. MACR 5268
31365 (MSN 6479) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 13Nov43.
New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 26Nov43. 365th Bomb Squadron [XK*U], 305th Bomb Group,
Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 1Jan44. Named "Flag Ship". Force landed on the continent r
eturning from a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical and synthetic oil works at Leuna,
Meresburg, Germany 30Nov44. Repaired and returned to England 3Feb45. Force landed
on the continent returning from a mission to railway marshalling yards at Dresden,
Germany 14Feb45. Repaired and returned to England 27Mar45. 401st Bomb Group,
Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 25May45. Returned to US. 121st Base Unit
(Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 4Jun45. Columbus, OH 9Jun45.
Tulsa Municipal Airport, OK 11Jun45. 4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service
Command), South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 21Jul45. 237th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training
Station), Kirtland Field, Albuquerque, NM 18Dec45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 7Feb46. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped
31366 (MSN 6481) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Oct43.
Ninth Air Force, Northern Ireland. Assigned Eighth Air Force, England. 322nd Bomb Squadron [LG*R],
91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 25Jan44.
Named "Old Outhouse/Never-A Dry Run". This plane was named by its original pilot
with the Group and had joined them just after leaving training at Rapid City Field, SD, South Dakota. S
ince his last name Althaus was pronounced like "outhouse", he decided it would be a neat name for
his plane. . Failed to return from a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Kaltenkirchen,
Germany 7Apr45 (9KIA). Struck in the nose by a suicide Bf 109 (Sonderkommando Elbe).
Everything forward of the top turret disintegrated and what remained of the plane dove straight
down and crashed near Stadthagen, 40km west of Hanover, Germany. MACR 13886. 9 KIA.
31367 (MSN 6481) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Oct43.
Ninth Air Force, Northern Ireland. Assigned Eighth Air Force, England. 322nd Bomb Squadron [LG*R],
91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 25Jan44. Named CHOW-HOUND
artwork of a Pluto-like cartoon hound riding a bomb. Named May44 because "�we fight to
eat and eat to fight". Painted by Tony Starcer. (first combat mission 29Jan44}.
Battle damaged on a mission to industrial areas in the suburbs of Berlin, Germany 6Mar44 (1WIA:9RTD).
The tail gunner was wounded when flak struck his compartment. Major battle damage on a mission
to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 24Mar44. Cloud cover and dense contrails
caused the Group to divert to the secondary target of the railway marshalling yards at Frankfurt am Main,
Germany. Battle damaged on a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Oldenburg, Germany 8Apr44.
Sustained battle damage during a tactical mission in support of Operation Overlord to a Luftwaffe
airfield at Toulouse, France 25Jun44 (1WIA:8RTD). Struck by flak wounding the pilot. Battle damaged
by flak on a Crossbow mission to a German V-weapon site at Aire-sur-la-Lys, Pas-de-Calais, France 6Jul44.
The squadron made three 360 degree turns in the target area, finally bombing a last resort target northeast
of Estr�e-Blanche. Battle damaged on a mission to the Messerschmitt service test airfield at Lechfeld,
Augsburg, Germany 19Jul44. A flak shell exploded directly in front of the, ventilating the nose and
causing a minor wound to the bombardier. Failed to return from a tactical mission in support of Operation
Overlord to a German strongpoint at Bretteville-sur-Laize, south of Caen, France 8Aug44 (3MIA:6KIA).
In the target area the plane was struck by an 88mm flak shell in the waist and the fuselage was cut in
two. The tail section drifted off and the tail gunner was observed to jump out of the tail, but it was
later discovered that he fell out without his parachute and was still strapped to his seat. The forward
fuselage went into a flat spin, centrifugal force trapping the crew, while it dove straight into the ground
near Lonlay-l'Abbaye, France. {60 missions} .MACR 8079 .
On August 8, 1944, the bomber was flying over Normandy, occupied France, and was ten minutes from
its target when it was hit by anti-aircraft flak. The bomber broke apart in the sky and the fuselage
landed in a farmer's field in Lonlay-l'Abbaye, approximately 65km southwest of Caen. One of the
wings landed in an adjacent farm field belonging to Mr. Pierre Lehec and remained there until 2011
being used to protect firewood. Three crewmembers were not found and were listed as missing in
action until 2004. ?The landowner, believing the search for the missing was over, collected the
debris from the crash and buried it in the largest crater caused by the crash. The hole was filled
and covered with fresh soil. The land continued to be used as a cattle farm for six decades.
In June of 2004 a Department of Defense team began work on the crash site. The remains of the
three missing crew members were recovered from the crash site. The site also contained two engines
from the plane, parts of the wings, a portion of the nose art and a 0.50-caliber machine gun.
The "Chow-hound" was identified by the serial number on the machine gun. There were also six,
250 pound, live bombs. The nose art recovered during the excavation shows part of the dog
and Tony Starcer's signature. In 2008, family members of the Thompson crew began efforts to
retrieve the "Chow-hound" wing, which has been on the farm since the crash. Those efforts
culminated three years later when approximately forty airmen from the 514th Air Mobility
Wing (Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J.) flew to Caen, France on September 23, 2011,
to retrieve the wreckage of the "Chow-hound". L'ANSA Orne Maine (Association Normande du
Souvenir A�rien) delivered the wing to Caen Airport where it was loaded into a Boeing C-17
Globemaster. Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst (JBMDL) in New Jersey dedicated a memorial
to the Thompson Crew of the "Chow-hound" August 8, 2015. The "Chow-hound" wing is the
centerpiece of a permanent display at JBMDL air passenger terminal honoring the crew. ?
A section of the wing, and a propeller blade are on display
31368 (MSN 6482) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 26Oct43. Walla Walla Field, WA 9Nov43. 728th Bomb Squadron, 452nd Bomb Group,
Deopham Green (Station 142), Norfolk 6Jan44. 730th Bomb Squadron. Named "Ain't Miss Behaven III"
artwork of a naked woman reposing later added by Paul Abrams, Crew Chief.
While the crew of this plane was still in training, the pilot was married in Dalhart, Texas,
just before going to England. He chose this name for their plane because of his newly married status.
This name comes from the popular jazz classic 'Ain't Misbehavin'" (Savin' My Love For You)
which was recorded by pianist and singer Fats Waller Accident on return after aborting a mission
to the Focke-Wulf aircraft factory at Pozna?, Poland 20Feb44. Still with its bomb load and fuel,
the aircraft landed heavily and the right landing gear collapsed. 729th Bomb Squadron [W].
Declared 'war weary'. Reassigned for utility, training and weather check aircraft. Accident on
return from a tactical mission in support of the Battle of the Bulge to a Luftwaffe airfield
at Darmstadt, Germany 24Dec44 (6KIA:3RTD). On approach to land at Deopham Green, crashed
at Hingham, northwest of Deopham, Suffolk.
Salvaged in Scotland (used on whisky runs!) Dec 26, 1944.
31369 (MSN 6483) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 13Nov43.
3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 25Nov43. 614th Bomb Squadron [IW*K],
401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 14Jan44.
Named "Round Tripper". Failed to return from a mission to the Daimler-Benz Motoren
aircraft engine factory at Genshagen, Berlin, Germany 6Aug44 (9POW). Damaged by flak,
crashed Warnem�nde, Germany. MACR 7887.
31370 MSN 6484) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 9Nov43.
20th Ferrying Group, Berry Field, Nashville, TN 11Nov43. 550th Bomb Squadron [SG*O],
385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 24Nov43. Named "Hit Parade".
Accident returning from a mission to the Luftwaffe airfield at Deipholz, Germany 21Feb44 (11KIA).
Mid-air collision with B-17G 42-37963. According to the British TV program 'Time Team',
the evidence they uncovered from the site revealed that 42-37963 had an engine problem
in the clouds and while trying to feather the propeller, the pilot became disoriented. He then
powered the other engines to maximum and when coming out of the clouds, realized
he was very close to crashing. So he pulled up hard to gain altitude, colliding with 42-31370,
which cut 42-37963 in half. The front section continued to climb until stalling, falling back
and colliding again with 42-31370 from above, knocking the wing off 42-31370, and both planes
crashed in Reedham marshes, near Acle, Norfolk. The sad part was that this was 42-31370's pilot's
25th and last mission. Another pilot saw him with a cigar in his mouth celebrating just before the
collision. He was supposed to be going home after this mission
31371 (MSN 6485) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26Oct43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 9Nov43. 728th Bomb Squadron, 452nd Bomb Group, Deopham Green
(Station 142), Norfolk 4Jan44. Named "Hairless Joe/Lucky 13". Failed to return from a mission
to the industrial areas of Brunswick, Germany 23Mar44 (6KIA:4POW). A gunner shot down an
enemy Fw 190 fighter which exploded just off the left wing of the B-17. The explosion ripped
off the bomber's left wing; the bomber exploded and crashed Varenesch, south of Goldenstedt,
10km east of Vechta, Germany. MACR 3342
31372 MSN 6486) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 11Nov43.
3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 18Nov43. Ferried from RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador
to Valley (Station 568), Anglesey, Wales 24Nov43. 323rd Bomb Squadron [OR*P], 91st Bomb Group,
Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 20Dec43.. Named "Malayan Lady/Harass Dragon".
{first combat mission 24Dec43}. Failed to return from a mission to the AGO-Flugzeugwerke Fw 190
manufacturing factory at Oschersleben, Germany 11Jan44 (7KIA:3POW). While the aircraft were
airborne, the weather closed in over English bases and a recall signal was issued. B/Gen. Robert F. Travis,
Air Commander of the 1st Bomb Division, continued on to the target. This left the 1st Bomb Division
with greater exposure to enemy fighter attacks. Good fighter support was provided by P-47 Thunderbolts
on the penetration and by P-51 Mustangs over the target. P-47s were airborne to provide withdrawal
support but they obeyed the recall order to return to England and left the bombers to fend for
themselves on the return trip. Luftwaffe attacks started over the IJsselmeer and intensified when
the American fighters returned home. Meagre and fairly accurate flak was experienced on the
bomb run. As the Group approached the target, the No.3 engine failed and the propeller would
not feather. The pilot was forced to drop behind the formation allowing the Luftwaffe to attack
this lone bomber. In the attacks, the main oxygen system caught fire which blew a hole in the
left side of the fuselage. The right stabiliser was shot off. The bail out order was given just
as the B-17 went into a hard right spin. Crashed near Bad M�nder, 27km southwest of Hanover,
Germany. Salvaged by German crews collecting life vests, oxygen masks, an autopilot and radio
equipment. Three engines were also recovered and sent to a salvage plant in Hertogenbosch,
Netherlands; that was all that remained. {5 missions}. MACR 1917
31373 MSN 6487) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26Oct43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 9Nov43. 731st Bomb Squadron [V], 452nd Bomb Group, Deopham Green
(Station 142), Norfolk 3Jan44. Named "Flakstop" . Failed to return from a mission to Kleinmachnow,
Berlin, Germany 6Mar43 (5KIA:1POW:4EVD). After the target, enemy fighters attacked from Wittenburg
on the return to England. The bomber was attacked by four German Focke Wulf 190 fighters in the area
between Meppen and Hoogeveen. They attacked the bomber from the front and disabled engines
No.3 and No.4. The aircraft left formation and began losing altitude. In the vicinity of Zuidwolde,
the aircraft was attacked from behind by a Focke Wulf of JG11, flown by Karl Friedrich Lange.
Shot by the rear gunner, he made a second attack from the front right near De Wijk, killing or
wounding several of the gunners. The damage on board the aircraft became so great that the first
crew members started to bail out between IJhorst and Staphorst. Crashed at De Leijen, Staphorst, Netherlands.
MACR 2916
31374 (MSN 6488) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27Oct43.
613th Bomb Squadron [IN*B], 401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 14Jan44.
Failed to return from a Crossbow mission to a German V-weapon site at Gorenfloss, Poix,
France 13Mar44 (5KIA:5POW). Accurate bursts of flak hit under the aircraft and on No.3 engine.
The aircraft dropped back out of formation, jettisoning bombs. It then stalled. The aircraft was
on fire and exploded before dropping through the undercast. Crashed St Quentin, France.
MACR 3185. .
31375 (MSN 6489) Accepted by USAAF 22Oct43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 27Oct43. 546th Bomb Squadron [BK*S], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton
Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 21Jan44. {first combat mission 29Jan44}.
Failed to return from a mission to the Focke-Wulf aircraft factory at Sorau, Prussia 11Apr44 (8POW:2KIA).
Flak blew off the nose Plexiglass killing the bombardier and navigator. With a fire in the nose,
the aircraft dropped out of formation, apparently still under control. It crashed and was destroyed
in a forest just north of Bokensdorf, northwest of Wolfsburg, Germany. {23 missions}. MACR 2750
31376 (MSN 6490) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27Oct43.
Eighth Air Force. 336th Bomb Squadron [ET*U], 95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 26Dec43.
Named "Bomber's Angel". Failed to return from an Operation Frantic V shuttle mission to the
Flugzeugwerk Gotenhafen Kurt Kannenberg AG Focke-Wulf assembly works at Rahmel, Gdynia,
Poland 6Aug44. Sustained battle damage, force landed behind Russian lines and abandoned. {48 missions}.
Salvaged and repaired 12Nov44. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 463rd Bomb Group, Foggia #1, Celone,
Italy 20Dec44. Returned to US. 302nd Base Unit (Staging Wing), Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 25Jun45.
4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), South Plains Field,
Lubbock, TX 27Jun45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41,
Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 9Dec45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
31377 (MSN 6491) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 9Nov43.
20th Ferrying Group, Berry Field, Nashville, TN 17Nov43. 327th Bomb Squadron [UX*U],
92nd Bomb Group, Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 27Dec43. Crashed after takeoff from
Podington 5Jan44. Named "Pot O' Gold". Failed to return from a mission to Aalborg, Denmark 22Feb44 (1KIA:9POW),
rammed by a Bf 109, crashed Hoerdum, 12 miles southwest of Thisted, Jutland, Denmark.
The aircraft took off to bomb Aalborg West air base. The main purpose was to draw German
fighters away from targets in Germany which would be attacked by other American forces.
The bombers arrived over Aalborg but were not able to drop their bomb load due to heavy
overcast, and they set course back towards west. When they were back over the North Sea
they were attacked by German fighters from 11./JG 11 and 10./NJG 3. The bomber was
attacked by Oberleutnant Hans M�ller of 10./NJG 3 flying Ju-88C-6 D5+AV and severely damaged.
The right wing fuel tank was on fire. The pilot turned back towards land since it would mean
certain death to bail out over the cold North Sea. He lowered the landing gear to show the Ju- 88
that he had given up and was followed back towards the coast by the fighter. Despite the wing
on fire, the Germans thought the bomber crew might try to reach Sweden and M�ller was
ordered to shoot the bomber down. He stopped firing when he saw the crew bail out.
Upon reaching land the crew bailed out of the B-17 and it crashed to the ground in a field
two kilometres west of H�rdum. MACR 2750
31378 (MSN 6492) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 12Nov43.
4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 18Nov43. 550th Bomb Squadron [SG*M],
385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 1Dec43. Named "Rum Dum" . Damaged while parked by
B-17G 44-8428 being taxied by ground crew at Great Ashfield 30Oct44. Battle damaged on a
mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Neuruppin, Germany 10Apr45 (9EVD). With extensive flak
damage and No.1 engine on fire, force landed at Goch (B-100) in occupied Germany,
a fighter airfield of 121 Wing, Royal Air Force. Salvaged and returned to England.
1st Strategic Air Depot, Troston (Station 595), Suffolk. Force landed at Honington (Station 375),
Suffolk 30May45. {106 missions}. Salvaged 1st Strategic Air Depot, Troston (Station 595), Suffolk.
31379 (MSN 6493) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Oct43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 341st Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 6Dec43.
Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43. San Giovanni, Cerignola, Italy 20Dec43. Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44.
Failed to return from a mission to railway marshalling yards at Bucharest, Rumania 7May44 (10RTD).
Flak over the target damaged two engines but the plane managed to evade enemy fighters
by taking cover under a B-24 Liberator group. Climbed over the passes in the Yugoslav
mountains but had to ditch when the last two engines failed. Ditched Adriatic Sea, off Bari, Italy.
Two B-24s and later a couple of RAF Spitfires circled them until an Air-Sea Rescue launch
picked them up about 1.5 hrs after they ditched.
31380 (MSN 6494) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 9Nov43.
20th Ferrying Group, Berry Field, Nashville, TN 11Nov43. 548th Bomb Squadron, 385th Bomb Group,
Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 21Nov43. Failed to return from a mission to the rail marshalling
yards at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 8Feb44 (3POW). With fuel exhaustion, crashed at Pont-Audemer,
near Le Havre, France. MACR 2498
31381 (MSN 6495) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Oct43.
535th Bomb Squadron [MS*O], 381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 22Jan44
Named *Jaynee B* Failed to return from a mission to the AGO-Flugzeugwerke Fw 190 manufacturing
factory at Oschersleben, Germany 11Jan44 (10POW). While the aircraft were airborne, the weather
closed in over English bases and a recall signal was issued. B/Gen. Robert F. Travis, Air Commander
of the 1st Bomb Division, continued on to the target. This left the 1st Bomb Division with greater
exposure to enemy fighter attacks. Good fighter support was provided by P-47 Thunderbolts on the
penetration and by P-51 Mustangs over the target. P-47s were airborne to provide withdrawal
support but they obeyed the recall order to return to England and left the bombers to fend for themselves
on the return trip. Luftwaffe attacks started over the IJsselmeer and intensified when the American
fighters returned home. Meagre and fairly accurate flak was experienced on the bomb run, with
intermittent inaccurate flak on the return trip. Damaged by flak, one of the four engines was disabled
and the pilot was having difficulty maintain formation. As a result, the aircraft deviated far south
of the planned route. After ditching in the Bay of Biscay west of Penhors, around two miles off the
coast of France, the crew was rescued by fishermen from Pors-Poulhan aboard the fishing
boat 'Avant-Garde', a sardine ship from Audierne.. JMACR 3315
31382 (MSN 6496) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28Oct43.
729th Bomb Squadron, 452nd Bomb Group, Deopham Green (Station 142), Norfolk 5Jan44.
Accident during preparation for a mission to the docks at Kiel, Germany 18Jul44. After the bombs
had been loaded the plane caught fire, possibly from an electrical fault, and was destroyed at
Deopham Green. Salvaged 19Jul44
31383 (MSN 6497) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Oct43.
Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 18Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 16Dec43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field,
Detroit, MI. Damaged while parked in collision by B-24H 42-52601 taxying at Romulus Field 7Jan44.
Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 8Mar44. New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 26Apr44. 1377th Base Unit
(North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command), Grenier Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 5May44.
751st Bomb Squadron [F], 457th Bomb Group, Glatton (Station 130), Huntingdonshire 31May44.
Named *American Eagle*. Failed to return from a mission to the Braunkohle-Benzin AG
synthetic oil refinery at Schwarzheide, Ruhland, Germany 12Sep44 (8KIA:1POW), hit by Fw 190 aircraft
cannon fire in cockpit and bomb bay, spun, caught fire and exploded, crashing at Biesenthal,
Germany. {33 missions). MACR 10207.
31384 (MSN 6498) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 12Nov43.
3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 4Dec43. 509th Bomb Squadron [RQ*T], 351st Bomb Group,
Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 20Jan44. Named "Buckeye Babe". Failed to return from a
mission to the railway marshalling yards at Paderborn, Germany 17Jan45 (9POW). It was flying as
lead plane of the low squadron, low element. In the target area the plane started lagging and could
not keep with the formation. There was no flak, nor enemy fighters and the bomber showed no signs
of damage; two engines had failed. The pilot was heard on the radio asking for fighter support.
The last time the plane was seen it seemed as though the pilot was trying to join another Group's
formation behind the 351st Bomb Group and bomb with them. Crash landed east of Nienburg, Germany.
The crew survived and were taken as PoW. {103 missions} MACR 12000
31385 (MSN 6499) Accepted by USAAF 23Oct43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 28Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 13Nov43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 25Nov43.
369th Bomb Squadron [WW*U], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 4Jan44.
2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little Staughton (Station 127), Bedfordshire 6Jan44 for radio fit.
Regained by Group 8Jan44. Seriously battle damaged during a mission to railway marshalling yards
at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 4Feb44. As the planes were passing over the Netherlands en route
to Germany, local cross winds carried the bombers straight into enemy flak. Aileron, wing flap
and elevator controls, AFCE control box and bulkhead 7 all damaged by flak. Failed to return from a
mission to aircraft factories at Stettin, Prussia 11Apr44 (1KIA:9POW). Enemy aircraft damaged
No.1 and No.2 engines. Crash landed Eldena, six miles southwest of Mecklenburg, Germany. MACR 3676
31386 (MSN 6500) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28Oct43.
Ferried Patterson Field, Reykjavik, Iceland to Scotland 19Dec43. 359th Bomb Squadron [BN*W],
303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 18Jan44.. Named "Woof/Sky Duster".
Failed to return from a mission to industrial areas of Berlin, Germany 19May44 (6KIA:4POW).
Flak hit on nose and blew off No.3 engine, aircraft exploded and crashed Pichelsberg, near Berlin. {36 missions}. .
MACR 4949
31387 (MSN 6501) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 12Nov43.
New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 26Nov43. 326th Bomb Squadron [JW*S], 92nd Bomb Group,
Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 4Jan44. Failed to return from a mission to the rail marshalling
yards at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 8Feb44 (4KIA:6POW). Enemy aircraft damaged engine No.4,
crashed at Catheux, northeast of Cr�vec�ur-le-Grand, France. MACR 2365
31388 (MSN 6502) Accepted by USAAF 25Oct43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 28Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 12Nov43. 4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 18Nov43.
Ferried from RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador to Nutts Corner (Station 235), Belfast, Northern Ireland 22/23Nov43.
423rd Bomb Squadron [RD*A], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 21Dec43.
2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton (Station 547), Huntingdonshire 6Jan44. Regained by
Group 8Jan44. Failed to return from a mission to the railway marshalling yards at Frankfurt am Main,
Germany 11Feb44 (3POW:1KIA:6EVD). Cloud cover and smoke caused the formation to divert and
bomb a target of opportunity at Saarbr�cken, Germany. Then the bomber was hit by flak which
damaged No.3 engine, the wings and tail. The perforated wing tanks leaked fuel. The aircraft
could not keep up with the rest of the formation. It got further and further behind and tried to
return to England despite its damage. Now isolated and gradually losing altitude, it managed to fly
over France but soon suffered several attacks from a German fighter which set the aircraft alight.
The ball turret gunner was killed at his position. Above Oise, France, the pilot ordered the evacuation
of the aircraft. The plane continued its flight for some time before crashing between Wavignois and
Camprey, fifteen miles northeast of Beauvais, France. MACR 2527.
31389 (MSN 6503) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 13Nov43.
New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 26Nov43. Assigned to 447th Bomb Group. 351st Bomb Squadron [EP*J],
100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 1Jan44.. Named "Lucious Lucy".
After a ferry flight from Honington (Station 375), Suffolk to Thorpe Abbotts 13Jan44, the tail wheel
failed to extend and the pilot did not obey instructions to check its position before landing.
Failed to return from a mission to the Braunkohle Benzin A.G. synthetic oil refinery at Rothensee,
Magdeburg, Germany 28May44 (7POW:3KIA). Flak in the target area was moderate, the formation
encountered a large force of single and twin-engine Luftwaffe fighters over the city, which proceeded
to cause considerable damage to the bombers. Enemy aircraft hit cockpit and damaged No.4 engine,
crashed Barleben, three miles north of Magdeburg, Germany. MACR 5382.
31390 (MSN 6504) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Oct43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 96th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 7Jan44.
{first combat mission 17Jan44}. Failed to return from a mission to the Steyr-Daimler-Puch factory
complex at Steyr, Austria 24Feb44 (3KIA:7POW). The mission was a most disastrous day for the
2nd Bomb Group, losing fourteen aircraft to enemy fighters. Fighters started attacking the Group
about five miles north of Fiume, Italy and continued for one hour. The bomber was still in formation
in the second squadron until about six or seven minutes before the target. Shot down by enemy fighters
then burst into flame between No.3 and No.4 engines and immediately went into a dive. Crashed near
Kranj, Slovenia, Yugoslavia. {19 missions}. MACR 2708
31391 (MSN 6505) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27Oct43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 419th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Cerignola #1, Italy 9Jan44.
Named "Screaming Eagle II". Major battle damage on a mission to the railway marshalling yards at
Bologna, Italy 29Jan44. Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. Failed to return from a mission
to the Messerschmitt aircraft factory at Regensburg, Germany 25Feb44 (2POW:8RTD). After crossing
the coastline into mainland Europe, the formation encountered frequent flak and fierce aerial
attacks from the Luftwaffe, causing heavy damage to some of the bombers. The planes arrived
at Regensburg and encountered intense flak over the target area. Leaving the target, No.4 engine
was hit by 20mm cannon fire. Later, between Regensburg and Munich, the No.4 engine was hit again
and the No.3 supercharger disabled. The propeller could not be feathered and the aircraft was
falling behind the formation. Atttacked by four enemy fighters, the pilot ordered the crew to
standby to abandon the aircraft; immediately, the navigator and tail gunner bailed out.
With the aircraft still under control, the other crew members remained with the aircraft. The pilot
intended to make for Switzerland and unnecessary equipment was jettisoned, including the ball turret,
to get over the Alps. Unable to identify Switzerland, the pilot turned south and reached the
Mediterranean Sea. Identifying the island of Elba, and with the propeller about to fly off, the
pilot aimed for the Anzio beach head. After identifying several ships as being friendly, the
pilot successfully ditched close by one of them; the crew was rescued. {14 missions}.. MACR 2616
31392 (MSN 6506) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 12Nov43.
5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 18Nov43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy.
341st Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 27Nov43. Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43.
San Giovanni, Cerignola, Italy 20Dec43. 414th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Foggia #7,
Amendola, Italy 16Jan44. Named "Our Baby". Failed to return from a mission to the aircraft
factory at Atzgersdorf, Vienna, Austria 24May44 (5KIA:5EVD). Shot down by Bf 109 fighters
over Sisak, Croatia. Crashed near Petrinja, Croatia, Yugoslavia. {27 missions}. . MACR 5187
31393 (MSN 6507) Accepted by USAAF 25Oct43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 28Oct43. 560th Bomb Squadron [N], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall
(Station 136), Suffolk 14Dec43. Named "Snafu/Snaky". {first combat mission 29Jan44}.
Failed to return from a mission to railway facilities around Berlin, Germany 29Apr44 (1KIA:9POW).
The combat wing was off course heading to Berlin, attacked by enemy fighters and bombed Magdeburg.
Flak over the target was very accurate. Damaged by flak and attacked by enemy fighters which started a
fire in the bomb bay. Crashed at Giebel, near Parsau, northeast of Wolfsburg, Germany. {22 missions}.
MACR 4243
31394 (MSN 6508) Accepted by USAAF 26Oct43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 28Oct43. 526th Bomb Squadron [LF*D], 379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117),
Huntingdonshire 20Jan44. Base Air Depot No.1, Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire.
Modified as a drone for Operation Aphrodite missions. Designated BQ-7. 562nd Bomb Squadron,
388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk, later at RAF Fersfield 7Jun44. Damaged
taxying at Honington (Station 375), Suffolk 6Jul44. 1st Strategic Air Depot, Troston (Station 595),
Suffolk. Expended on Aphrodite mission to the V2 rocket complex at Watten, France 6Aug44, e
xperienced control problems and crashed into the sea..
31395 (MSN 6509) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Oct43.
549th Bomb Squadron [XA*W], 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 1Jan44
Named "Raggedy Ann". 84th mission to an aircraft factory at Neum�nster, Germany 6Nov44.
Survived the war. Salvaged after non battle damage 6May45.
31396 (MSN 6510) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 1Nov43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 353rd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Cerignola #1, Italy 8Dec43.
Failed to return from a mission to the harbor at Piraeus, Greece 11Jan44 (10KIA), mid-air collision,
crashed Patri, Greece. On that fateful day, the briefed mission was for the 5th Wing composed of the
2nd, 97th, 301st and 99th Bomb Groups, to fly on a southerly course through the heel of Italy to the
town of Lecce where the Wing would then take a heading out over the Adriatic Sea, to a point over
the Peloponnese peninsula of Greece. From this point the crews were briefed to complete a 90� degree
turn to the Initial Point over Lagousa Island. From there the mission dictated a straight run in
to the target, reassemble, and return to base. After the formation was organized and began
making its way to the target, the Groups ran into a weather front of 10/10 clouds. At eighteen
thousand feet they entered an overcast. The clouds were very thick and visibility was not
much beyond the wingtips, making it almost impossible to see other aircraft in the formation.
At that altitude, and with the thickness of the clouds, ice began to form on their wings.
In such situations it was standard operating procedure for trailing squadrons in the formation
to fly off course for a couple minutes to obtain some spacing from the lead squadron, which
would continue to maintain its course. However, as the 97th Bomb Group began making a left
turn for their bomb run on the target, the lead bomber of the 342nd Bomb Squadron
encountered severe turbulence made by the preceding elements of the Wing. The turbulence
was so severe that the lead aircraft of the squadron was forced into a steep left bank before it
plummeted temporarily out of control and lost altitude at a rate of 1,000ft per minute.
By the time the pilot was able to recover and regain his place in formation, his two sister
bombers in the flight were nowhere to be seen. Meanwhile, the pilots of the two sister bombers
from the flight, B-17F No.42-3251 and B-17F No.42-29918 found themselves alone in 10/10 visibility,
unsure where the formation had disappeared to, with ice forming on their wings, and experiencing
engine trouble. From what was deduced later in the accident report, the doomed B-17s made
the decision to abort and turn back for the relative safety of Italy. In a tragic turn of events, their
decision to return home took them directly into the path of the oncoming 301st Bomb Group.
According to the official report of the Board of Inquiry, the two B-17s of the 97th Bomb Group
experienced engine trouble and left the formation. Instead of making a 180-degree right turn,
away from the formation, the aircraft made a turn to the left and flew head-on into the
301st formation. According to a Bombardier assigned to the lead bomber of the 301st Bomb Group,
and flown by the Group Commanding Officer, he was startled to see a pair of 97th Bomb Group B-17s
emerge out of a cloud about 20 degrees to the left and aimed straight at his aircraft. Almost
instantly, both B-17s bracketed his aircraft, with one passing closely over his right wing that
clipped the vertical stabiliser, and the other closely passing beneath the left wing. Almost immediately,
the tail gunner witnessed a big ball of fire that lit up the clouds as the B-17s collided with one
Fortress in the lead element, and two B-17s in the second element. P-38 pilots, flying low cover
escort under the overcast, reported watching pieces of B-17s raining from the sky for what seemed
like five minutes. There were eight B-17s that fell out of the sky simultaneously. Thirteen Americans
survived; 64 perished. {4 missions}. MACR 1833
31397 (MSN 6511) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Oct43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 353rd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Cerignola #1, Italy 15Dec43.
Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. Failed to return from a mission to the Messerschmitt
aircraft factory at Regensburg, Germany 25Feb44 (5KIA:4POW). Enemy fighters started to attack
fifteen miles east of Klagenfurt, Austria on the way to the target. It was struck by many cannon shells,
as well as machine gun fire, setting it ablaze and killing the tail gunner. Several of the crew bailed out,
and the aircraft exploded. Wreckage landed at Winden am See, Austria. {18 missions. MACR 2722
31398 (MSN 6512) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Oct43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 353rd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Cerignola #1, Italy 10Dec43.
Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. Failed to return from a mission to railway marshalling
yards at Verona, Italy 22Mar44 (10RTD). Shortly after turning on the bomb run, Bf 109 fighters
shot out the number four engine. The pilot had trouble feathering one of the two propellers
after the number three engine failed. The plane continued on the bomb run and released the bombs.
While losing altitude, the pilot ordered the crew to jettison all unnecessary equipment. They tried to
jettisoned the ball turret and even shot the mountings with their.45-caliber pistols to no avail.
In all the excitement the crew threw out several parachutes. This meant their only option was to
ditch in the Adriatic Sea. By this time the plane was at about 500 feet, and the pilot was able to r
egain level flight. The full power of the port engine was enough to just exceed stalling speed.
At about five miles from the coast, the number two engine blew up, forcing the pilot to ditch off
Pescara, Italy. It was a rough ditching and the crew had to swim to reach the life rafts.
They were rescued that night by the US Navy and finally made their way back to base in Lucera, Italy. {32 missions}.
31399 (MSN 6513) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 12Nov43.
4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 18Nov43. 360th Bomb Squadron [PU*F],
303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 27Dec43. Battle damaged 6Feb44 (1KIA
Crewman killed when hit by .50 cal bullet possibly from another B-17.
(Failed to return from a mission to Junkers aircraft factory at Aschersleben, Germany 22Feb44 (5POW:5EVD).
Attacked by German fighters near M�nster and hit by flak. Over Holland the bomber was
attacked again by two Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighters. The aircraft had too little lift and was low on
fuel with a hole in one of the tanks. Two of its engines were hit by German fighters and out of order.
Crash landed on the banks of the river Lek near Wijk Bij Duurstede, Netherlands. MACR 2645
31400 MSN 6514) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 12Nov43.
4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 20Nov43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy.
419th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Cerignola #1, Italy 19Dec43
Accident returning from a mission to the city of Sofia, Bulgaria 30Mar44. Crash landed in strong
cross winds at Cerignola 4Jan44. Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. Failed to return from
a mission to the oil refineries at Ploe?ti, Rumania 15Apr44. Flak damaged No.3 engine, the pilot
dived to put out the fire but the engine fell off into sea. The plane ditched in the Adriatic Sea off
Ortona, Italy. Crew rescued by Italian fishing boats. {23 missions}.
31401 (MSN 6515) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Oct43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 15Nov43. 331st Bomb Squadron [QE*D],
94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 1Jan44. Failed to return
from a mission to the Heinkel Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory at Oranienburg, Germany 18Apr44 (6POW:4KIA).
The bombers arrived over Oranienburg to find the town covered by a thick undercast. Forced to decide
between abandoning the mission or bringing the formation down under the clouds, the air leader
had the planes drop down to 17,000ft in order to make their attack run. The bomber encountered
intense flak over Oranienburg. Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Friesach, fifteen miles west
of Oranienburg, Germany. MACR 4151
31402 (MSN 6516) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 13Nov43.
20th Ferrying Group, Berry Field, Nashville, TN 29Nov43. 365th Bomb Squadron [XK*R],
305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 22Dec43. Failed to return
from a mission to railway marshalling yards at Saarbr�cken, Germany 11May44 (7KIA:3POW).
Flak set aircraft on fire, crashed near Charville, France. MACR 4869
31403 (MSN 6517) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 13Nov43.
20th Ferrying Group, Berry Field, Nashville, TN 27Nov43. 413th Bomb Squadron [MZ*Y],
96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 23Dec43. Failed to return from a mission
to the VKF ball bearing works at Erkner, Berlin, Germany 8Mar44 (7POW:3KIA). All the way
from the Netherlands to Berlin, the bombers were hounded by Luftwaffe fighters. Shot down by enemy
fighters, crashed Hohlbeck, near Loburg, west of Berlin, Germany.. MACR 3424
31404 (MSN 6518) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 13Nov43.
4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 27Nov43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field,
Detroit, MI. During the ferry flight from USA to UK, force landed in bad weather three miles north
of Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland 13Jan44. 350th Bomb Squadron [LN*V], 100th Bomb Group,
Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk. 418th Bomb Squadron [LD*V]. Force landed at Kingsnorth,
Devon 2Jul44. Salvaged after non battle damage.
31405 (MSN 6519) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 13Nov43.
3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 26Nov43. 359th Bomb Squadron [BN*X], 303rd Bomb Group,
Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 14Jan44. Named "Wallaroo Mk II"
{first combat mission 21Jan44}. Battle damaged on mission to railway facilities around Berlin,
Germany 29Apr44 (1KIA). Participated in the 'Grapefruit' mission to drop GB-1 glide bombs on
a railway marshalling yard at Cologne, Germany 28May44. Damaged landing at Heston (Station 510),
Middlesex 6Aug44. The aircraft landed heavily, skidded and the right landing gear collapsed. {81 missions}.
Salvaged by 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton 12Aug44.. Rear fuselage used to repair B-17G 42-97880. .
31406 (MSN 6520) Accepted by USAAF 27Oct43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 31Oct43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 13Nov43. 368th Bomb Squadron [BO*O],
306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 21Jan44. Named "Alexander". . Failed to return
from a mission to the Junkers aircraft factory at Bernburg, Germany 22Feb44 (5KIA:5POW). On return,
attacked by enemy fighters and exploded. Crashed Dermbach, Germany. MACR 2650
31407 (MSN 6521) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 31Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 13Nov43.
3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 26Nov43. 331st Bomb Squadron [QE*V], 94th Bomb Group,
Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 23Dec43. Named CHIEF CHILLETACAUX / SKINNY.
Failed to return from a mission to the Heinkel Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory at Oranienburg,
Germany 18Apr44 (10POW). The bombers arrived over Oranienburg to find the town covered by a
thick undercast. Forced to decide between abandoning the mission or bringing the formation down
under the clouds, the air leader had the planes drop down to 17,000ft in order to make their attack run.
The bomber encountered intense flak over Oranienburg. Shot down by enemy fighters, crew bailed
out 26 miles southeast of Rostock, Germany. The Germans reported aircraft went down probably
in sea or lake as they didn't find any wreckage. MACR 4152
31408 (MSN 6522) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 31Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 12Nov43.
20th Ferrying Group, Berry Field, Nashville, TN 19Nov43. Ferried from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland
to Aldergrove, Belfast, Northern Ireland 29/30Nov43. 407th Bomb Squadron [PY*Z], 92nd Bomb Group,
Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 27Dec43. Failed to return from a mission to Merkville 3Aug44 (1KIA:9POW).
Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Bruelingen, Germany. MACR 7698
31409 (MSN 6523) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 31Oct43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 13Nov43. 364th Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group,
Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 22Jan44. Named "Liberty Run". Failed to return from a mission to Aalborg airfield,
Denmark 22Feb44 (10MIA), the bomber flew over the Hansted fortress at an altitude of 6,000 metres
and was met by heavy fire from German 75 mm and 105 mm flak. The crew were seen to bail out over the
North Sea but no survivors were ever found, the aircraft crashing in the sea 35km NW of Thybor�n, Denmark.
MACR 2648. The US government has authorised a sea bed search for the bomber with the intent to
try and find any of the missing crew members
31410 (MSN 6524) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 31Oct43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 13Nov43. 336th Bomb Squadron [ET*G],
95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 1Jan44.
Named "I Dood It/Honeybun/Berlin Bessie" Participated in an Operation Frantic V shuttle
mission to the Flugzeugwerk Gotenhafen Kurt Kannenberg AG FFocke Wulf assembly works at Rahmel, Gdynia,
Poland 6Aug44. After the target, the bomber continued east and landed at Poltava (Station 559),
Ukraine. Operated a mission to an oil refinery at Trzebinia, Poland 7Aug44, returning to Ukraine.
Operated a mission to an airfield at Buz?u, Rumania 8Aug44, continuing on to
Foggia #1, Celone, Italy, a Fifteenth Air Force base in southern Italy. Returned to England on a
mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Francazal, Toulouse, France 12Aug44. Participated in an Operation
Frantic VII mission to drop supplies to the resistance forces in Warsaw, Poland 18Sep44. After the target,
the bomber continued east and landed at Poltava (Station 559), Ukraine. Operated a mission to the
railway marshalling yards at Szolnok, Hungary 19Sep44 and continued on to land at a Fifteenth Air
Force base in southern Italy. Returned to England 23Sep44. Flak damaged Berlin, Germany 6Oct44 (8POW),
eight of the crew bailed out, the bomber returned to base. Salvaged and repaired. 412th Bomb Squadron.
Damaged when parked in collision by B-17G 42-97992 at Horham 15Apr45. {70 missions}. Returned to US.
121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 26Jun45. 5th Ferrying Group,
Love Field, Dallas, TX 27Jun45. 4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command),
South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 28Aug45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41,
Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 10Nov45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped.
31411 ((MSN 6525) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 31Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 11Nov43.
20th Ferrying Group, Berry Field, Nashville, TN 18Nov43. 407th Bomb Squadron [PY*R],
92nd Bomb Group, Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 2Dec43. 327th Bomb Squadron [UX*R].
Failed to return from a mission to an aircraft repair depot at Lippstadt, Germany 21Feb44 (8KIA:2POW).
A damaged Bf 110 fighter crashed into the left wing, causing the bomber to crash in flames at Bad Driburg, t
en miles east of Paderborn, Germany. MACR 2757
31412 (MSN 6526) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 31Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 11Nov43.
Long Beach Field, CA 19Nov43. 351st Bomb Squadron [EP*G], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts
(Station 139), Norfolk 27Nov43. named *Mason and Dixon* artwork of a racy semi-nude.
Named after two 100th Bomb Group officers -- pilot Floyd Mason and navigator William Dishion.
Transferrred to. 351st Bomb Squadron [EP*G], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139),
Norfolk 27Nov43. Severely damaged while on a shuttle mission from England to Russia and Italy
in September 1944, a flak shell sliced through the wing and narrowly missed a fuel tank.
Headed for Italy to land at Foggia, Italy. Repaired and flown back to Thorpe Abbotts. {85 missions}.
Total of 100+ missionsDeclared as war weary. 34th Bomb Group, Mendelsham (Station 156), Suffolk 9Jun45.
Returned to US by 34th Bomb Group crew on Operation Home Run. 121st Base Unit
(Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 30Jun45. Lindley Field,
Greensboro, NC 1Jul45. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 2Jul45.
4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), South Plains Field,
Lubbock, TX 21Oct45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41,
Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 19Dec45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
31413 (MSN 6527) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 31Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 12Nov43.
20th Ferrying Group, Berry Field, Nashville, TN 21Nov43. 350th Bomb Squadron [LN*V], 100th Bomb Group,
Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 26Nov43. 548th Bomb Squadron [GX*F], 385th Bomb Group,
Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk. Crash landed Honington (Station 375), Suffolk 13Apr44.
Salvaged 1st Strategic Air Depot, Troston (Station 595), Suffolk 15May44
31414 (MSN 6528) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 1Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 16Nov43. 615th Bomb Squadron [IY*J],
401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 14Jan44. On ferry flight
from Little Staughton (Station 127), Bedfordshire to Deenethorpe 27Jan44, the co-pilot
was at the controls and came down on wrong runway. The pilot selected the landing gear
switch to 'up' instead of the wing flaps and the landing gear retracted, damaging the
propellers and wings. Salvaged after non battle damage by 2nd Strategic Air Depot,
Abbots Ripton (Station 547), Huntingdonshire 30Jan4
31415 (MSN 6529) Accepted by USAAF 28Oct43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 1Nov43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 13Nov43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 28Nov43.
545th Bomb Squadron [JD*R], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106),
Northamptonshire 8Jan44. Named *Ham on Rye*. {first combat mission 21Jan44}.
Damaged on a mission to an aircraft assembly plant at Brunswick, Germany 30Jan44 (5POW:4WIA:1RTD).
Damaged by enemy fighters, possibly by a night fighter pilot of the 10./NJG 1, flying a Bf 110G
from Leeuwarden airfield in the Netherlands. The bomber, which had injured crew and was
on fire, turned back at the Initial Point and jettisoned bombs. All of the enlisted men except
the engineer/top turret gunner bailed out at the Initial Point due to a misunderstanding
between the radio operator and bombardier after the plane caught fire. The rest came home
and the aircraft crash landed at base. The pilot, 1st Lt. Edward Fioretti, and co-pilot 2nd Lt. Scott Briley,
were awarded the Silver Star. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton 2Feb44. Salvaged 17Feb44. {2 missions}.
31416 (MSN 6530) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 1Nov43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 20th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 10Dec43.
(first combat mission 8Jan44}. Battle damaged during a mission to the Steyr-Daimler-Puch factory
complex at Steyr, Austria 24Feb44 (1WIA:9RTD). The mission was a most disastrous day for the
2nd Bomb Group, losing fourteen aircraft to enemy fighters. Fighters started attacking the Group
about five miles north of Fiume, Italy and continued for one hour. The tail gunner was wounded
by a 20mm cannon shell. Failed to return from a mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factory at
Regensburg, Germany 25Feb44 (3POW:7KIA). Enemy fighters started to attack fifteen miles east of
Klagenfurt, Austria on the way to the target. Attacked before the target by three Bf 109s, the cockpit
caught fire and the co-pilot killed. Several other crew had been killed in the attack. Soon after that,
it started in a steep dive and after dropping approximately 2,000ft, pulled out. The survivors bailed
out before it exploded and crashed near Moosdorf, Germany. {23 missions. MACR 2576
31417 (MSN 6531) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 1Nov43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 9Nov43.
20th Ferrying Group, Berry Field, Nashville, TN 11Nov43. 533rd Bomb Squadron [VP*Y],
381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 11Dec43.
Named *Patches/Big Time Operator II* . Failed to return from a mission
to the AGO-Flugzeugwerke Fw 190 manufacturing factory at Oschersleben, Germany 11Jan44 (2KIA:8POW).
While the aircraft were airborne, the weather closed in over English bases and a recall signal
was issued. B/Gen. Robert F. Travis, Air Commander of the 1st Bomb Division, continued on to the
target. This left the 1st Bomb Division with greater exposure to enemy fighter attacks. Good fighter
support was provided by P-47 Thunderbolts on the penetration and by P-51 Mustangs over the target. P-47s
were airborne to provide withdrawal support but they obeyed the recall order to return to England and
left the bombers to fend for themselves on the return trip. Luftwaffe attacks started over the IJsselmeer
and intensified when the American fighters returned home. Meagre and fairly accurate flak was
experienced on the bomb run, with intermittent inaccurate flak on the return trip. Shot down by enemy
fighters, on return crashed north of Hildesheim, Germany. {7 missions}. MACR 1879
31418 (MSN 6532) Accepted by USAAF 28Oct43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 1Nov43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 15Nov43.
423rd Bomb Squadron [RD*J], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 1Jan44.. Named "Jack-O"
A wing leading edge was damaged during takeoff when the plane struck aerials on the Standard
Beam Approach transmitter at Thurleigh 16Jul44. 381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 23May45.
91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 30May45. {100+ missions}. Returned to US. 1
21st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 11Jun45. 3rd Ferrying Group,
Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 13Jun45. 4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 14Jun45.
4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 15Jun45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and
disposal 9Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
31419 (MSN 6533) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Nov43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 49th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Massicault, Tunis, Tunisia 7Dec43.
Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 10Dec43. {first combat mission 14Jan44}. Battle damaged on mission to
Salon-de-Provence, France 27Jan44. The mission was against Luftwaffe He 111 and Ju 88 bombers
and their base used to attack shipping supporting the Anzio beachhead. The enemy sent up flak and
twenty to thirty fighters, some got past the escort sufficiently to carry on a forty-eight minute attack.
Failed to return from a mission to the Steyr-Daimler-Puch factory complex at Steyr, Austria 24Feb44 (2KIA:8POW).
The mission was a disastrous day for the 2nd Bomb Group; the 49th Bomb Squadron lost all seven of its
aircraft to enemy fighters. Attacked by enemy fighters, the plane turned over as the crew was trying to bail out.
Crashed near Wels, Austria. {17 missions}.. MACR 2632
31420 (MSN 6534) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 2Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 16Nov43. Chambers Provisional Group, Eighth Air Force.
Departed RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador for a North Atlantic ferry flight to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 9Dec43 (2KIS:1DOI:7INJ). The aircraft was at 11,000ft when it approached the Irish
coast and homed in on the Derrynacross radio beacon. The crew reported they would land at
Nutts Corner (Station 235), Belfast, Northern Ireland rather than continue to Prestwick due to
low fuel and the distance remaining. The co-pilot reported sighting the ground through a break
in the clouds. Shortly thereafter, the aircraft impacted near Eagle Rock, between Benwisken and
Truskmore Mountain, above Ballintrillick, County Sligo, Eire. Crash location was six miles from
Mullaghmore Head (Darby Hole) on Donegal Bay
31421 (MSN 6535) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Jan44.
7th Ferrying Group, 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 10Jan44. 1123rd Flexible Gunnery
Training Squadron, Kingman Field, AZ 18Jan44. Accident landing at Kingman Field 16Feb44.
3018th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Kingman Field, AZ. Damaged landing at Yucca Field, AZ 23Jun44.
3018th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Kingman Field, AZ 23Mar45. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 25Jun45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 8Jan46. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31422 (MSN 6536) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 1Nov43.
25th Ferrying Squadron, 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT. Damaged taxying at
El Paso, TX 16Nov43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 20th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Foggia #7,
Amendola, Italy 10Dec43. {first combat mission 3Jan44}. Failed to return from a tactical mission
against German troop concentrations and defensive positions at Albano Laziale, Rome,
Italy 10Feb44 (7KIA:3POW). Damaged by ground fire from enemy tanks. The No.4 engine was on
fire on the bomb run and the plane left the formation. Quickly the No.3 engine caught fire.
The right wing erupted in flames and a portion broke away taking the No.4 engine with it.
The nose of the aircraft dropped, it made a violent roll and began to break up. The upper turret
gunner was ejected from his turret; the navigator and bombardier were the only other survivors.
Crashed about four miles south of Albano. {21 missions}. MACR 2299
31423 (MSN 6537) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 2Nov43.
427th Bomb Squadron [GN*M], 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 14Jan44.
Participated in the 'Grapefruit' mission to drop GB-1 glide bombs on a railway marshalling
yard at Cologne, Germany 28May44. Named "JIGGER ROUCHE / KRAUT KILLER". Failed to return from a
mission to the Luftwaffe airfield at Ostheim, Cologne, Germany 15Aug44 (6KIA:3POW).
Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Malberg, German. MACR 8168
31424 (MSN 6538) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 1Nov43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 353rd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Cerignola #1, Italy 30Dec43.
Crash landed 4Jan44. Failed to return from a mission to the Luftwaffe airfield at Villaorba, Udine,
Italy 30Jan44 (2KIA:7POW:1EVD). Over the target, a couple of fragmentation bombs were noted
leaving the aircraft then appeared to jam. The bombardier managed to jettison some more but,
as the bomb bay doors started to close, another bomb falls off and explodes on impact with a door.
The doors were blown off and a life raft was ejected. One airmen was killed and the co-pilot seriously
injured. The explosion opened a hole in the fuselage and set off a fire, smoke was coming from the
radio hatch as the aircraft started to drop out of formation. Seven crew members bailed out as
the pilot kept the bomber steady until, at low level, he bailed out and managed to evade capture.
The bomber circled slowly losing height, hit the ground and exploded in the countryside near
Dogaletto, Venice, Italy. The accident is believed to have been caused by the premature explosion
of a fragmentation bomb in the bomb bay held in place by new shackles which were not suitable
for the weight of the bomb. {13 missions}.. MACR 2062
31425 (MSN 6539) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 2Nov43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 20th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 10Dec43.
{first combat mission 16Jan44}. Failed to return from a mission to the Steyr-Daimler-Puch factory
complex at Steyr, Austria 24Feb44 (1KIA:9POW). The mission was a most disastrous day for the
2nd Bomb Group, losing fourteen aircraft to enemy fighters. Fighters started attacking the Group
about five miles north of Fiume, Italy and continued for one hour. The plane pulled out of the
formation after the target, about thirty miles south of Steyr. Three men bailed out and their
parachutes opened. The plane continued on, evidently on AFCE, for twenty-two minutes and
crashed into the mountains ten miles south of Klagenfurt, Austria. {24 missions}.. MACR 2709
31426 (MSN 6540) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 2Nov43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 352nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Cerignola #1, Italy 10Dec43.
Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. Failed to return from a mission to the Steyrwaffen
Walzergerwerke ball-bearing factory complex at Steyr, Austria 26Mar44 (2KIA:4MIA:3RTD).
With bad weather, the Group changed for the secondary target at Udine, Italy. During the bomb run,
flak hit No.1, 2 and 4 engines, the left wing tip and tail, and there was smoke in the radio room.
No.1 propeller was feathered but could not feather No.4 propeller, the engine was losing oil
and smoking. No.2 engine was still running normally despite visible damage with a large hole
underneath. The pilot ordered the crew to standby to abandon the aircraft and the bombardier
jettisoned the bombs. Losing height, the plane was in a gradual turn heading out to sea and
still under control. The crew prepared for a ditching incase No.4 engine caught fire.
No.2 engine now started to lose oil pressure and quit south of Ancona. The pilot ditched
the bomber in the Adriatic Sea about twenty miles off Ancona, Italy. With its back broken
and nose down at a steep angle, the aircraft remained afloat for about five minutes.
The survivors in a life raft attempted to row towards shore but the sea was too rough. Despite seeing
friendly aircraft, they were unable to attract attention and remained afloat all night.
The following morning they were spotted by an enemy Me 210. Next a flight of Me 210s was
spotted passing by followed shortly afterwards by a flight of P-38 Lightnings.
Still not seen, the P-38s eventually turned back and one of the pilots finally spotted
the life raft. With fighter protection, a Royal Air Force Air-Sea Rescue Supermarine
Walrus amphibious aircraft landed on the rough sea and took on the three survivors.
Unable to take off in the swell, the plane had to taxy back to Ortona, Italy. {24 missions}. .
MACR 3644
31427 (MSN 6541) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 2Nov43.
305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 21Dec43. Failed to return
from a mission to aircraft factories at Stettin, Prussia 11Apr44 (10POW). Enemy aircraft
damaged No.1 engine, fuel tanks leaking. Force landed at Teja on Bornholm Island in
Baltic Sea en route to Sweden.. MACR 4010
31428 (MSN 6542) Accepted by USAAF 29Oct43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 2Nov43. 367th Bomb Squadron [GY*N], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111),
Bedfordshire 21Jan44. Seriously battle damaged during a mission to the railway marshalling yards
at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 11Feb44 (2WIA:8RTD). Failed to return from a mission to the
Junkers aircraft factory at Bernburg, Germany 22Feb44 (9KIA:1POW). On return from the target,
the Fortress was being chased by a Heinkel He 111 medium bomber which attacked so fiercely
that the tail section was badly damaged making the Fortress uncontrollable. Only one airman
was able to bail out before the plane crash landed and burned out in the Atzelnhardt forest
between Daaden and Burbach, nine miles southsouthwest of Siegen, Germany. Salvaged by the Germans.
MACR 2655
31429 (MSN 6543) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 2Nov43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 97th Bomb Group, San Giovanni, Cerignola, Italy 23Dec43.
429th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy Jan44. {first combat mission 7Jan44}.
Battle damaged on a mission to the north and south airdromes at Ciampino, Rome,
Italy 19Jan44 (1WIA:9RTD). There was no flak over the target but the formation received moderate,
accurate flak just turning off the I.P. when the tail gunner was wounded by shrapnel.
Battle damaged during a tactical mission against German troop concentrations and defensive
positions at Albano Laziale, southeast of Rome, Italy 10Feb44 (1KIA:9RTD). Flak, both heavy and light type,
was intense and accurate due to the low bombing altitude necessary to get under an undercast.
Shrapnel killed the tail gunner. Failed to return from a mission to the railway marshalling yards at
Padua, Italy 11Mar44 (1KIA:9EVD). A group of lower flying B-24 Liberators on a different axis
of attack caused the planes of the 2ndBG to abort the run and make a 360 to the right for a
second bomb run at the target. This gave time for enemy fighters to assemble for an attack
on the bombers. Attacked by enemy fighters, the number one engine was disabled, number
two had some damage, the right aileron was shot away and the interphone was dead.
None of the crew was injured prior to bail out. The tail gunner bailed out near Pirovac
but was killed when his parachute failed. The plane crashed near Vibenik, Croatia, Yugoslavia.
{24 missions} MACR 2827
31430 (MSN 6544) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 4Nov43.
366th Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 6Jan44.
Failed to return from a mission to the Erla Maschinenwerk Bf 109 aircraft factory at Mockau,
Leipzig, Germany 20Feb44 (3POW:7EVD). Damaged by flak, with three engines out on the return.
The crew bailed out near Li�ge. Crashed at Limont, twelve miles south of Li�ge, Belgium MACR 2428
31431 (MSN 6545) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 4Nov43.
710th Bomb Squadron, 447th Bomb Group, Rattlesden (Station 126), Suffolk 23Dec43. Failed to
return from a mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factory at Regensburg, Germany 25Feb44 (10POW).
After crossing the coastline into mainland Europe, the formation encountered frequent flak and fierce
aerial attacks from the Luftwaffe, causing heavy damage to some of the bombers. The planes arrived
at Regensburg and encountered intense flak over the target area. Damaged by flak, crashed Ottweiler,
between Alschbach and Niederwurzbach, nine miles east of Saarbr�cken, Germany. MACR 2891.
42-31432/31631 Boeing B-17G-20-BO Fortress
MSN 6546/6745. Dispositions from B-17 Fortress Master Log, Dave Osborne (FORTLOG)
Production changes: A-2A ball turret with oxygen line changes.
31432 (MSN 6546) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 2Nov43. 360th Bomb
Squadron [PU*N], 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 18Jan44.
Named "Old Glory". Failed to return from a mission to northwest France airfields 22Jun44 (8KIA:1EVD).
Flak hit in No.3 engine followed by explosion, crashed Pont-a-Tressin, near Lille, France. {46 missions}. MACR 6541.
31433 (MSN 6547) Accepted by USAAF 30Oct43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Nov43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 15Nov43. 547th Bomb Squadron [SO*V], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood
(Station 106), Northamptonshire 8Jan44. Named *Rum Pot II* . {first combat mission 21Jan44}.
Failed to return from a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 13Apr44 (1KIA:9POW).
The aircraft was damaged by flak and enemy fighters before the target, hitting two engines
and right wing fuel tank, setting the wing on fire. The bomber exploded and crashed at Grossgumpen/Odenwald,
near Lindenfels, twelve miles south of Darmstadt, Germany. {24 missions}. MACR 3867
31434 (MSN 6548) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 2Nov43.
Kingman, AZ 15Nov43. 3018th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Kingman Field, AZ 23Mar45.
3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 25Jun45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 5Jan46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31435 (MSN 6549) Accepted by USAAF 30Oct43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 31Oct43. Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 2Nov43. Grandview Field,
Kansas City, MO 7Dec43. Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 17Dec43. Testing of the improved azimuth
tail guns modification. Wright Field, Dayton, OH 11Jan44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 14Jan44. Midwest Air Depot, Oklahoma City, OK 26Jan44. North Atlantic
Wing, Air Transport Command, Grenier Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 18Feb44.
544th Bomb Squadron [SU*S], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106),
Northamptonshire 2Mar44. Named "West End". {first combat mission 6Mar44}. Battle damaged
on a mission to railway marshalling yards at Saarbr�cken, Germany 11May44 (1WIA).
Substantially damaged landing on return to Grafton Underwood. This B-17G was fitted
with an experimental chin turret armed with six fixed 0.50 caliber machine guns, designed
by the Armaments Officer. The firing of the guns was controlled by the Pilot. The plane
successfully completed operational sorties with the new nose gun installation but, while
conclusively proving the mechanical practicability of the design, a temporary cessation
of head-on attacks by enemy fighters prevented the proof of its effectiveness. Battle damaged
on a Crossbow mission to a German V-weapon site at Coubronne, Normandy, France 6Jul44.
With congestion over the target, the flight attacked a Luftwaffe airfield at Prouvy, France.
Damage by flak, the bomber crash landed at RAF Manston, Kent. {27 missions}.
Salvaged by Eighth Air Force Service Command 7Jul44
31436 (MSN 6550) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 2Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 16Nov43. 413th Bomb Squadron,
96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 1Jan44. Failed to return from
a mission to the industrial area at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 29Jan44 (9POW:1KIA).
Damaged in a collision with debris from B-17G 42-31151. Crashed Montherm�, twelve
miles north of Charleville-M�zi�res, France
Also listed as lost Jan 29, 1944 on Frankfurt raid� when shot down by fighter
7 km NE of Montherm�, France��1 KIA, 9 POW
MACR 2378
31437 (MSN 6551) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Nov43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 352nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Cerignola #1, Italy 10Dec43.
Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. Failed to return from a mission to the Steyrwaffen
Walzergerwerke ball-bearing factory complex at Steyr, Austria 24Feb44 (9POW). The aircraft
was attacked by German fighters over Steyr. With an engine on fire, it immediately fell back
under the formation. The pilot flew across under the formation once and jettisoned the bombs.
When the fire could not be extinguished, the pilot gave the signal for the crew to bail out.
Crashed near Enns, north of Steyr, Austria. {31 missions}.. MACR 2635
31438 (MSN 6552) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Nov43.
3018th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Kingman Field, AZ 16Nov43. Damaged in
collision with parked B-17G 44-8090 at Kingman 9Jan45. 3018th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery
School), Kingman Field, AZ 23Mar45. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine),
Hobbs Field, NM 25Jun45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for
storage and disposal 29Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment
Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31439 (MSN 6553) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Nov43.
52nd Ferrying Squadron, 6th Ferrying Group, Long Beach Field, CA 8Dec43. Ferried from
RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 9Dec43 (10MIS). Missing after
departing Goose Bay; sent out a SOS message 6.5 hours after departure. MACR 1190
31440 (MSN 6554) Accepted by USAAF 31Oct43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 3Nov43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 16Nov43.
367th Bomb Squadron [GY*M], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 4Jan44.
Named "Round Trip Ticket". 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton (Station 547), Huntingdonshire 7Jan44.
Regained by Group 9Jan44. Failed to return from a mission to railway marshalling yards at
Frankfurt am Main, Germany 4Feb44 (10POW). As the planes were passing over the Netherlands
en route to Germany, local cross winds carried the bombers straight into enemy flak.
Damaged by flak, crashed Marck, east of Calais, France. MACR 2240
31441 (MSN 6555) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 16Nov43. 360th Bomb Squadron [PU*E],
303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 4Jan44. {first combat mission 5Jan44}.
Accident after takeoff for a mission to the shipyard and industrial area at Kiel, Germany 5Jan44 (10KIS).
Mid-air collision with B-17F 42-29747 when forming up, crashed Catworth, Hunts. Takeoff was made in
semi-darkness with very poor visibility. Aldis lamps and flares were used in an attempt to identify
aircraft when forming up. 42-31441, a brand new B-17G on its first mission, collided with B-17F 42-29747,
ripping off #747's left stabiliser. Both aircraft plummeted to the ground and crashed near Catworth,
Huntingdonshire. {nil missions}.. 10 crew in each aircraft killed.
31442 (MSN 6556) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 31Oct43.
Portland AAB, OR 4Nov43. Billings Municipal Airport, MT 7Nov43. United Air Lines,
Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Nov43. Biggs Field, El Paso, TX 16Nov43.
3036th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Yuma Field, AZ 3Dec43. Damaged landing at Yuma 15Jul44.
4126th Base Unit (San Bernardino Air Technical Service Command), San Bernardino Field, CA 4Aug45.
3036th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Yuma Field, AZ 25Aug45. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 22Sep45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 5Jan46. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31443 (MSN 6557) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Nov43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 6Nov43. Billings Municipal Airport, MT 7Nov43.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 16Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 17Nov43. Topeka Field, KS 29Nov43.
3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 30Nov43. 393rd Base Headquarters and
Air Base Squadron, Syracuse AAB, NY 3Dec43. Dow Field, Bangor, ME 4Dec43.
532nd Bomb Squadron [VE*M], 381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 6Jan44.
Named *Friday the 13th*. . Failed to return from a mission to the Junkers
aircraft factories at Halberstadt and Aschersleben, Germany 22Feb44 (6KIA:4POW).
The B-17 was attacked by enemy fighters and six crew members were killed in the plane.
The remaining four, partially injured, were able to parachute from the burning aircraft.
Shortly after the order to bail out, a few 20mm explosive projectiles had struck the
oxygen tanks on board and led to an explosion with subsequent fire. The plane crashed
in the area of Senne II, Brackwede, southwest of Bielefeld, Germany. Claimed by
Ltnt Werner Gerth of Sturmstaffel 1, flying a Fw 190 A-8/R-2, werke number 682.057. {7 missions}.
MACR 2930
31444 (MSN 6558) Accepted by USAAF 1Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 2Nov43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 6Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 16Nov43. 423rd Bomb Squadron [RD*Y],
306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire Jan44. 2nd Strategic Air Depot,
Abbots Ripton (Station 547), Huntingdonshire 12Jan44.. Named "Paper Doll".
Regained 15Jan44. Battle damaged on a mission to an aircraft assembly plant at
Brunswick, Germany 30Jan44. With two engines inoperative, force landed at Halesworth
(Station 365), Suffolk 30Jan44. Mobile Repair Unit, Eighth Air Force Service Command 30Jan44.
Regained by Group 20Feb44. Seriously battle damaged on a Crossbow mission to a
German V-weapon site in the Pas-de-Calais, France 28Feb44. Struck by flak in the waist
section of the fuselage and in fuel tanks. Battle damaged during a mission to a Luftwaffe a
irfield at Essey, Nancy, France 27Apr44. No.3 engine disabled by flak before reaching the I.P.
en route to the target. Seriously battle damaged on a mission to railway facilities around
Berlin, Germany 29Apr44. A piece of flak shrapnel came in from the left and tore a hole
in the tail gunner's heated suit. The plane received a lot of damage to the left wing and it
caused a loss of hydraulic fluid so that when it landed it had no brakes. The pilot knew
he wouldn't be able to stop before running off the end of the runway. So as soon as the
plane slowed enough, the pilot ran off the side of the runway into the grass, to slow it down.
It worked, and it stopped just short of the end of the runway. When the crew got out of the
plane and were collecting their equipment about twelve feet of the right wing creaked and
groaned and slowly drooped down onto the ground. Later inspection showed that the plane flew
back from Berlin with only one inch of the main wing spar intact. Seriously battle damaged
on a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Li�ge, Belgium 31May44 (1KIA:2WIA:7RTD). Struck by
flak over the target, an Eighth Air Force photographer was killed by shrapnel. The No.4 engine
oil cooler was damaged and leaked preventing the propeller being feathered. The windmilling
propeller caused the plane to lag behind the formation and the engine caught fire. This caused
severe vibration of the airframe but eventually the fire extinguished and the plane was escorted
by P-47 Thunderbolts back to the safety of the English Channel. On landing at base, the propeller
flew out, clearing away some spectators. Loaned to Royal Air Force 8Jan45. Returned to
USAAF 5Mar45. 423rd Bomb Squadron [RD*Y], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111),
Bedfordshire 5Mar45. During a night training flight, the pilot made a normal approach for a
touch-and-go landing at Thurleigh 15Mar45. The plane appeared to bounce then the pilot
applied throttle for going around. He advised the tower that the landing gear struts were
broken and was instructed to land on the alternate runway. Touching down, the landing gear
slowly collapsed and allowed the plane to ground loop off the runway. Salvaged, non battle damage
31445 (MSN 6559) Accepted by USAAF 1Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 2Nov43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 5Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 17Nov43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field,
Detroit, MI 2Dec43. 393rd Base Headquarters and Air Base Squadron, Syracuse AAB, NY 5Dec43.
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 6Dec43. 367th Bomb Squadron [GY*G], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh
(Station 111), Bedfordshire 21Jan44. Right wing tip damaged when the plane struck a beacon
taxying past the control tower in the dark at Thurleigh 5Mar44. Failed to return from a mission
to the Dornier Flugzeugwerke factory at Oberpfaffenhofen, Munich, Germany 24Apr44 (6KIA:4POW).
En route to the target, just after the bomber had crossed the enemy coast, flak struck No.4 engine
causing a fire. Dropping out of formation, four crew bailed out before aircraft exploded and
crashed at Saint-Sa�ns, nineteen miles southeast of Dieppe, France.
Named THE COOKIE BOX [not painted on plane]. When making a forced landing at a RAF base, the
first thing the crew was asked was "do you have any cookies aboard?" Looking puzzled, an airman
explained that they were inquiring if the Americans had any bombs on the plan MACR 4280
31446 (MSN 6560) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 9Nov43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 27Nov43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 429th Bomb
Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 10Dec43. Named "Lil Pete". {first combat mission 7Jan44}.
Failed to return from a mission to a ball bearing factory at Steyr, Austria 19Mar44 (9POW:1EVD).
Solid clouds covered that target and the group turned to bomb the air depot at Klagenfurt, Austria.
Enemy opposition to the mission started about fifty minutes before target time. The Lufwaffe
attacked in two waves. The first wave of twenty-five to thirty fighters made one or two passes
at the formation, then left to engage the friendly escort, while the second wave of twenty to twenty-
five fighters took over the assault. Rockets burst under the left wing and punctured a fuel tank. The pilot
pulled out of the formation and jettisoned his bombs. Fighters resumed the attack and this time
they made a large hole in the right wing and number four engine smoking. The crew bailed out about
fifty miles southeast of Klagenfurt before the plane crashed in the mountains of northern Yugoslavia.
The crew included four members of the 774th Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group for combat
familiarization. {41 missions}. MACR 3289
31447 (MSN 6561) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 18Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 2Dec43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field,
Detroit, MI 9Dec43. 393rd Base Headquarters and Air Base Squadron, Syracuse AAB, NY 10Dec43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 14Dec43. 3
38th Bomb Squadron [BX*D], 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 21Dec43.
Named "Cookie". Failed to return from a mission to the Heinkel Flugzeugwerke aircraft
factory at Marienehe, Rostock, Germany 11Apr44 (10KIA). Enemy aircraft rockets damaged
No.1 & No.2 engines, crashed Baltic Sea. . MACR 3811
31448 (MSN 6562) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 2Nov43.
Portland AAB, OR 4Nov43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 6Nov43. United Air Lines,
Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 17Nov43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 19Nov43. St Angelo, Enniskillen, Northern Ireland 9Dec43.
532nd Bomb Squadron [VE*A], 381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 6Jan44.
Named "Half Breed" Crash landed at Ridgewell Feb44. {4 missions}. 448th Sub-Depot,
Air Service Command, Ridgewell Feb44. This aircraft was a B-17G with the new Bendix
chin turret when it first arrived on the station, and after a few missions it ended up on its
belly and the Sub-Depot `inherited it'. At the time, parts for chin turrets were practically
non-existent and the turret on `448 needed parts. In order to return the aircraft to operations
as soon as possible, it was decided to close up the hole left by the chin turret and install
flexible nose guns, such as the B-17F had. These changes gave the bomber the outward
appearance of a B-17F rather than a G. Inasmuch as the aircraft's number was '448, the
Sub-Depot asked for and received permission to name and decorate the bomber.
It was appropriately named the `Halfbreed' and was decorated with a halfbreed Indian
warrior holding a bomb ticketed for Berlin. The Indian had the old squadron insignia
tattooed on his chest. Failed to return from a mission to industrial areas in the suburbs
of Berlin, Germany 6Mar44 (10POW). Attacked by enemy fighters between Magdeburg
and Berlin. After the target, enemy fighters attacked from Wittenburg on the return to England.
Shot down by Oberleutnant W. Matoni of JG 26 near Juelich. The bomber crashed near
Etzweiler/Elsdorf, near Cologne, Germany. {3+ missions}. MACR 3001
31449 (MSN 6563) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 2Nov43.
Portland AAB, OR 4Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 13Nov43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 16Nov43.
332nd Bomb Squadron [XM*A], 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468),
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 20Dec43. 333rd Bomb Squadron [TS*B]. Named "Texas Mauler".
Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor
Locks, CT 26Jun45. 4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field,
Dayton, OH 27Jun45. 4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command),
South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 21Oct45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 22Nov45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped.
31450 (MSN 6564) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 2Nov43.
Portland AAB, OR 5Nov43. Salt Lake, NV 6Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 9Nov43. Flexible Gunnery School, Yuma Field, AZ 17Nov43.
Pilot School (Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 4Jun45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 3Jan46. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31451 (MSN 6565) Accepted by USAAF 2Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 2Nov43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 6Nov43.
Billings Municipal Airport, MT 7Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 12Nov43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 15Nov43.
367th Bomb Squadron [GY*G], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 21Dec43.
Named . BIOYA (Blow It Out Your Ass, . 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little Staughton (Station 127),
Bedfordshire 6Jan44 for radio fit. Regained by Group 9Jan44. Failed to return from a mission to
the Junkers aircraft factory at Halberstadt, Germany 11Jan44 (9KIA:1POW). Over the target,
no enemy aircraft were encountered, and flak was light. As the formation reached the Netherlands
on the return flight, it was attacked by a number of German fighter aircraft. In avoiding one
attack, a B-17 veered out of formation and clipped this aircraft; the right wing was badly damaged.
The pilot managed to regain control of the aircraft, but it was then attacked by three waves of
enemy fighters. It was shot down, but some of the crew bailed out. Crashed near hotel
De Witte Raaf, Epe, Gelderland, Netherlands
31452 MSN 6566) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 2Nov43.
Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 7Nov43.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20Nov43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island
Field, NB 25Nov43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 20th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group,
Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 25Dec43. Named FIFTY PACKIN MAMA artwork of a
stocky 'mama' firing a 0.50 caliber gun. {first combat mission 30Dec43}. Battle damaged
during a a mission to the oil refineries at Ploe?ti, Rumania 5May44 (1WIA:9RTD). Flak was
intense and accurate causing injury to the tail gunner. Participated in the first Operation
Frantic shuttle mission to the railway marshalling yards at Debrecen, Hungary 2Jun44.
After the target, the bomber continued east and landed at Mirgorod (Station 561), Ukraine.
Operated a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Gala?i, Rumania 6Jun44, returning to Mirgorod.
Returned to base in Italy on a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Foc?ani, Rumania 11Jun44.
Failed to return from a mission to the oil refineries at Ploe?ti, Rumania 22Jul44 (8POW:2KIA).
No.2 engine failed and started to smoke before the plane reached the I.P. The propeller
was then feathered and the bomb load jettisoned. The plane dropped out of formation and
was attacked by enemy fighters. The crew bailed out just before the bomber exploded at
about 10,000ft and crashed at Zimicea, Rumania. {71 missions}. MACR 6949
31453 (MSN 6567) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 2Nov43.
Rock Springs Municipal Airport, WY 7Nov43. Flexible Gunnery School, Yuma Field, AZ 18Nov43.
3021st Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Las Vegas Field, NV 2Jun44. 3022nd Base Unit
(Flexible Gunnery School), Indian Springs Auxiliary Field, NV 16Jun44. 3021st Base Unit
(Flexible Gunnery School), Las Vegas Field, NV 15Mar45. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 22May45. 574th Base Unit, Winslow, AZ 3Oct45.
3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 28Oct45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 5Jan46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
31454 (MSN 6568) Accepted by USAAF 2Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 2Nov43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 6Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 19Nov43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field,
Detroit, MI 2Dec43. Dow Field, Bangor, ME 4Dec43. 368th Bomb Squadron [BO*B],
306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 30Dec43. Named "St Anthony/She Hasta".
Seriously battle damaged during a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical works at Oppau, Ludwigshafen,
Germany 7Jan44. Rudder and elevator control cables severed by flak. Battle damaged on a mission
to the Junkers aircraft factory at Halberstadt, Germany 11Jan44. An enemy fighter attack after the target
caused severe damage. On return, force landed at RAF Foulsham, Norfolk. Seriously battle damaged
during a mission to the industrial area at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 29Jan44. Vertical stabiliser,
dorsal fin and rudder damaged by 'friendly' 0.50 caliber gun fire. Seriously battle damaged during a
mission to the Luftwaffe air depot at Ch�teaudun, France 5Feb44. Left outer wing and No.6 Tokyo
fuel tank struck by flak. Seriously battle damaged during a mission to the ball bearing factories
at Schweinfurt, Germany 24Feb44. The No.2 engine was disabled by flak over the target and the hydraulic
system damaged. The plane landed back at Thurleigh with a flat tire. Severely damaged on a
mission to the railway marshalling yards at Hamm, Germany 22Apr44. Flak damaged No.1 and 2 engines,
the bomber lost altitude but slowly returned home. Two P-47s later gave protection but one was
lost to flak over the Belgian coast which also knocked out a third engine on the B-17. With the rudder
controls at full deflection, the pilots maintained some control. The No.1 engine caught fire but the
aircraft was able to make a straight in approach to the emergency runway at RAF Manston, Kent.
2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton (Station 547), Huntingdonshire 22Apr44. Regained by Group
19May44. Accident while positioning on the runway in preparation for a combat mission at
Thurleigh 17Sep44. The brakes failed and the plane collided with B-17G 42-37943. Considerable
damage was caused to both planes. The right wing and No.4 engine and propeller were destroyed.
Declared 'war weary'. Operated a secret mission 4Nov44. Regained by Group 9Nov44. 403rd Air Depot,
Base Air Depot No.3, Langford Lodge (Station 597), County Antrim, Northern Ireland 13Mar45.
Regained by Group 6Mar45. Detached to 29th Tactical Air Command, Waggum (R-37), Brunswick,
Germany 24May45. Regained by Group Jun45. Ninth Air Force. United States Air Forces in Europe
(USAFE) Aug45. Salvaged 31Jan46
31455 (MSN 6569) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 15Nov43. 326th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group,
Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 23Jan44. Named "Liberty Run". Failed to return from a mission
to an aircraft repair depot at Lippstadt, Germany 23Mar44 (7POW:3KIA). Attacked by Fw 190 fighters
one of which collided with the bomber near No.4 engine, slicing off eight feet of wing. Both aircraft
crashed near Nateln, southeast of Hamm, Germany.. MACR 3414.
31456 (MSN 6570) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Nov43.
Flexible Gunnery School, Yuma Field, AZ 17Nov43. 3018th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School),
Kingman Field, AZ 24Aug44. 4126th Base Unit (San Bernardino Air Technical Service Command),
San Bernardino Field, CA 20Dec43. 3018th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Kingman Field, AZ 30Dec43.
Damaged in collision with parked B-17G 42-38072 taxying at Kingman 18Apr45. 3017th Base Unit
(Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 22Sep45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 9Jan46. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
31457 (MSN 6571) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 2Nov43.
Albuquerque AAB, NM 18Nov43. Flexible Gunnery School, Yuma Field, AZ 19Nov43.
Crash landed Delle, UT 3Jan44. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine),
Hobbs Field, NM 4Jun44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage
and disposal 4Jan46. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company,
Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31458 (MSN 6572) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Nov43.
Spokane Field, WA 6Nov43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 8Nov43. United Air Lines,
Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Nov43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy.
96th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 25Dec43.
Named "Catherine The Great/Ole Kate" {first combat mission 29Dec43}. Battle damaged during
a mission to Verona, Italy 30Dec43 (2MIA:2WIA:6RTD). The primary target could not be reached
because of bad weather and diverted to the railway marshalling yards at Ravenna, Italy.
Twenty to thirty enemy fighters attacked the Group just before bombing, 20mm cannon shells
wounding the pilot and ball turret gunner. The No.2 engine was knocked out and the propeller
started windmilling. The plane rapidly lost altitude and it appeared that it would be necessary to ditch.
The plane was fifteen to twenty miles off the coast of Italy. The navigator and bombardier were
instructed to move to the radio room in preparation for ditching but bailed out; their parachutes
were seen to open but nothing more was heard of them. The plane returned safely to Amendola.
Damaged in collision with parked B-17G 41-24393 while taxying at Amendola 14Feb44. Battle
damaged on a mission to an oil refinery at V�sendorf, Vienna, Austria 8Jul44 (1WIA:9RTD).
Flak was heavy and intense and wounded the bombardier. Temporarily modified with decking
in the bomb bay to evacuate prisoners of war from Popesti, Bucharest, Rumania to Bari, Italy
during Operation Reunion 31Aug44-3Sep44. Accident landing at Amendola 5Oct44. {91 missions}.
Returned to US. 1103rd Base Unit (Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command), Morrison Field,
West Palm Beach, FL 2Feb45. 4104th Base Unit (Rome Air Technical Service Command),
Rome Field, NY 4Feb45. 4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command),
Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 24Mar45. Reclaimed 2May46.
31459 (MSN 6573) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 2Nov43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 6Nov43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 25Nov43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy.
96th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 7Jan44. Named "Lyon's Den".
{first combat mission 14Jan44}. Failed to return from a mission to the Steyr-Daimler-Puch factory
complex at Steyr, Austria 24Feb44 (5KIA:5POW). The mission was a most disastrous day for the
2nd Bomb Group, losing fourteen aircraft to enemy fighters. Fighters started attacking the Group
about five miles north of Fiume, Italy and continued for one hour. The plane was on the bomb run
when flak knocked a hole in the right wing causing fuel to leak and be ignited by the No.3 engine.
The two pilots were killed in their seats but the plane remained in stable flight. The crew started to
bail out but three gunners were killed by cannon fire as they stood by the exit before they could jump.
The bomber remained on course for about eight minutes before it crashed near Saa�, Austria,
southwest of Steyr, Austria. {24 missions}. MACR 2622
31460 (MSN 6574) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Nov43.
Kingman, AZ 17Nov43. 3018th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Kingman Field, AZ 23Mar45.
3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 25Jun45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 7Jan46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31461 ((MSN 6575) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 26Nov43. 365th Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group,
Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 28Dec43. Failed to return from a mission to an aircraft
assembly plant at Brunswick, Germany 30Jan44 (8POW:2KIA). Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed
Aerzen, 10 miles southwest of Hameln, Germany. MACR 2261
31462 (MSN 6576) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 17Nov43. 335th Bomb Squadron [ET*R],
95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 13Dec43. Named "Roarin' Bill"
Battle damaged (1KIA) 11Apr44. 412th Bomb Squadron [QW*R]. Participated in an Operation
Frantic V shuttle mission to the Flugzeugwerk Gotenhafen Kurt Kannenberg AG Focke Wulf assembly
works at Rahmel, Gdynia, Poland 6Aug44. After the target, the bomber continued east and landed
at Poltava (Station 559), Ukraine. Operated a mission to an oil refinery at Trzebinia, Poland 7Aug44,
returning to Ukraine. Operated a mission to an airfield at Buz?u, Rumania 8Aug44, continuing
on to Foggia #1, Celone, Italy, a Fifteenth Air Force base in southern Italy. Returned to England
on a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Francazal, Toulouse, France 12Aug44. Participated in an
Operation Frantic VII mission to drop supplies to the resistance forces in Warsaw, Poland 18Sep44.
After the target, the bomber continued east and landed at Poltava (Station 559), Ukraine. Operated a
mission to the railway marshalling yards at Szolnok, Hungary 19Sep44 and continued on to land at a
Fifteenth Air Force base in southern Italy. Returned to England 23Sep44. Failed to return from a mission
to Strasburg 20Jan45 (2POW). Damaged by flak, crashed near Eutsheim, Germany. {97 missions}..
MACR 12320
31463 (MSN 6577) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Nov43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 27Nov43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 96th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 1Jan44.
{first combat mission 7Jan44}. Failed to return from a mission to railway marshalling yards at
Sofia, Bulgaria 24Jan44 (10RTD). Over the target, the formation found it impossible to bomb and
proceeded to a secondary target at Nis, Yugoslavia. After going 80 to 100 miles beyond Sofia,
the group turned and headed for home base. Heavy cloud formations were encountered along the
route. No.2 and 3 engines had been disabled by enemy fighter attacks. With fuel exhaustion, the
plane ditched in the Adriatic Sea fifty -five miles northeast of Bari, Italy. Crew rescued by British
Air-Sea Rescue launch and taken to Brindisi, Italy. {14 missions}.
31464 (MSN 6578) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Nov43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 25Nov43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 342nd Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 8Dec43.
Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43. Cerignola #1, San Giovanni, Italy 20Dec43. Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44.
Salvaged 28Jul44.
31465 (MSN 6579) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 8Nov43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 25Nov43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 49th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 18Dec43.
{first combat mission 9Jan44}. Failed to return from a mission to the Dunai Rep�l?g�pgy�r aircraft
factory at T�k�l, Budapest, Hungary 3Apr44 (2KIA:7POW:1EVD). Attacked by enemy fighters just
after the target, disabling two engines. The navigator was killed by a 30-millimeter machine gun from
the nose cannon of a Bf 109; the co-pilot was fatally wounded by the same cannon shell. The crew
bailed out together 2,000ft above the Yugoslavian countryside; the co-pilot was dropped out of the
plane, and the ripcord pulled but died shortly after hitting the ground. The pilot continued to fly the
plane, then shut off the engines, trimming it to a slightly vertical pitch attitude, and bailed out of
the bomb bay at 500ft above the ground. Crashed Pan?evo, Serbia, Yugoslavia. All the enlisted
men were captured, and the bombadier evaded but was later captured. The pilot was taken in by
Yugoslavian farmers who were connected to the Allied underground forces. {24 missions}.
Was to have been named on return from this mission as CARLSON'S RAIDERS with artwork of a
single sword. MACR 3713
31466 (MSN 6580) Accepted by USAAF 3Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 8Nov43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training
Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 24Nov43. New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 4Dec43. Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 9Dec43. 311th Ferrying Squadron, 27th Air Transport Group, Hendon (Station 575),
Middlesex. Damaged taxying at Nutts Corner (Station 235), Belfast, Northern Ireland 15Dec43.
569th Bomb Squadron [CC*A], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 5Jan44.
Naned "Sitting Pretty".
{first combat mission 29Jan44}. Severe battle damage on a mission to the Messerschmitt factory
at Augsburg, Germany 13Apr44 (1WIA:9RTD). Encountering heavy flak over Augsburg, and later
over Brussels as it made the journey back to England, the bomber suffered heavy damage. The tail
gunner was wounded over the target. The radio operator had 3rd degree burns on hands while
throwing out a 0.50 caliber machine gun. No.3 engine was smoking and the propeller windmilling;
the propeller later fell off over the English Channel. The plane ground looped after the forced
landing at RAF Manston, Kent. Failed to return from a mission to the aircraft component factories
in Leipzig, Germany 29May44 (3POW:7EVD). The Luftwaffe dispatched around forty fighters to
intercept the bombers, their attack co-inciding with a ten-minute period when the bombers
were flying without an escort. Attacked by enemy fighters, No.4 engine was disabled and the
propeller feathered. The right wing was set on fire and the tail section damaged. The plane turned
over onto its back and began to spin down. The crew remained and crash landed near La Briqueterie,
a brick yard, 1km north of Rochefort, Belgium. {31 missions}. MACR 5314
31467 (MSN 6581) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 4Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 1Dec43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field,
Detroit, MI 9Dec43. Grenier Field, Manchester, NH 10Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 14Dec43. 613th Bomb Squadron [IN*J], 401st Bomb Group,
Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 6Jan44. Named "Sac Hound" Failed to return from
a mission to the railway marshalling yards at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 2Mar44 (3KIA:7POW).
Aircraft was attacked by six or seven Bf 109 fighters which shot up the tail badly. The bomber went i
nto a steep dive for 800ft and leveled off and had pulled back into formation when two more fighters hit it.
Shot Down by gunfire from German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6 Flown By Ofw. Willi Morzinek of JG 2/7
and Crashed at St. Gerard 16 km Southwest of Namur Belgium. MACR 2742.
31468 (MSN 6582) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 4Nov43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 8Nov43. Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Dec43.
Assigned Eighth Air Force, England 17Nov43. Departed RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador on ferry flight to
Prestwick, Scotland, but force landed near Enniskillen, Northern Ireland 9Dec43 (7KIS).
Two engines malfunctioned, later a third engine failed. Low on fuel and losing height, the bomber
crashed in a field adjacent to Graan Monastery, near Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.
The aircraft struck a tree which tore off the left wing at the inboard end of the aileron.
The aircraft continued in a straight pass, turning over and hitting on its back, sliding about 50 yards
before hitting a large tree, which completely demolished the nose back to the bomb-bay.
Seven crew members died and five were saved by local monks. Named "The Galley Uncle"
31469 (MSN 6583) Accepted by USAAF 4Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 4Nov43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 8Nov43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island
Field, NB 18Nov43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 26Nov43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 27Nov43. Ferried on the North Atlantic route
from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 20Nov43. 367th Bomb
Squadron [GY*K], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 2Dec43.
Battle damaged on a mission to the Junkers aircraft factory at Halberstadt, Germany 11Jan44.
An enemy fighter attack after the target struck causing severe damage. On return, force landed
at RAF Foulsham, Norfolk. Mobile Repair Unit, 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton (Station 547),
Huntingdonshire 12Jan44. Regained by Group 31Jan44. Seriously battle damaged during a mission
to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 24Feb44. Over the target No.1 and No.2
engines struck by flak and the No.3 propeller was feathered. The No.1 fuel tank was leaking
and the plane dropped out of formation. Seriously battle damaged on a Crossbow mission to a
German V-weapon site at Watten, France 26Mar44 (1WIA:9RTD). Crashed on takeoff for a mission to
the industrial area at Brunswick, Germany 26Apr44 (9KIS:1RTD). No.2 engine malfunctioned, the
aircraft banked steeply, crashed and burned near Bletsoe Castle, Bletsoe, Bedfordshire.
The plane was carrying eight bombs loaded with G-35 and G-36 propoganda leaflets; tail gunner
was the only survivor. Salvaged 26Apr44
31470 (MSN 6584) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 4Nov43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 27Nov43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 348th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 29Dec43.
{23 missions}. 429th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 28Mar44.
{first combat mission 29Mar44}. Battle damaged on a mission to the railway marshalling yards at
Ploe?ti, Rumania 24Apr44. On return, damaged landing at Amendola. Participated in the first
Operation Frantic shuttle mission to the railway marshalling yards at Debrecen, Hungary 2Jun44.
After the target, the bomber continued east and landed at Mirgorod (Station 561), Ukraine.
Operated a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Gala?i, Rumania 6Jun44, returning to Mirgorod.
Returned to base in Italy on a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Foc?ani, Rumania 11Jun44.
Failed to return from a mission to a synthetic oil refinery at Blechhammer, Prussia 7Jul44 (8POW:2EVD).
The plane was hit by three Bf 109s about thirty minutes before the target. No.1 and 2 engines
were shot out and the pilot headed for home. The plane had been flying on engines No.3 and 4 for
about half an hour, jettisoning equipment, but still losing altitude as the pilot headed for Yugoslavia.
In the vicinity of Budapest, Hungary, No.3 engine was badly damaged by flak, the propeller was
overspeeding and the aircraft was losing altitude. The navigator and bombardier bailed out just
north of Lake Balaton, Hungary. The pilot flew in the direction of Marcali and Nagykanizsa in
Hungary, then into Yugoslavia. He had to turn north to avoid flak at Maribor. Finally it became
necessary to bail out just south of Graz, Austria. Crashed at Sankt Michael im Lungau, west
of Graz, Austria. {45 missions}. . MACR 6564. Named "Old Shep"
31471 (MSN 6585) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 20Nov43. Ferried to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 7Dec43. 360th Bomb Squadron [PU*E], 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107),
Huntingdonshire 1Jan44. , named "Doolitle's Destroyer". Failed to return
from a mission to the Vereinigte Kugellagerfabriken AG (VKF) ball bearing factory at Erkner, Berlin,
Germany 8Mar44 (10POW). All the way from the Netherlands to Berlin, the bombers were
hounded by Luftwaffe fighters. The aircraft sustained damage from flak prior to reaching the
Initial Point and abandoned the bombing attempt. As the aircraft passed near Magdeburg on the
return it was attacked by three Bf 109s. The crew bailed out, crashed Alten-Haldensleben, twelve
miles northwest of Magdeburg, Germany.. MACR 2908
31472 (MSN 6586) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Nov43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 9Nov43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 26Nov43. Grandview Field, Kansas City, MO 28Nov43. Wright Field, Dayton, OH 30Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 1Dec43. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command,
Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 7Dec43. Ferried to Italy via New York, NY and
Lajes Field, Terceira Island, Azores to Casablanca, French Morocco 18Dec43. Remained for 32 days
to make the aircraft technically fully qualified for upcoming combat operations. Fifteenth Air Force,
italy. 414th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 22Jan44. Failed to return
from a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Udine, Italy 18Mar44 (10EVD). The group flew to the southern
parts of the Austrian Alps and then turned 180� and from the north launched the attack on Udine.
This plane was flying in the rear four plane element. When thirty minutes from the target the group
was attacked by German Fw 190 fighters and in the ensuing scramble to close up, the element became
separated from the rest of the group and squadron. As a result, the fighters concentrated their attacks
on this element. Cannon shells struck the left wing between the two engines. The plane began to vibrate.
The ball turret gunner reported a large hole in the wing from which fuel began to leak. Propeller runaway
threatened to tear the damaged wing from the fuselage. The pilot tried to keep the plane in normal
flight but that was getting harder to accomplish. He informed the crew to prepare to bail out. Moments
later the plane was hit in the right wing which immediately caught fire. The plane listed to the right and
fire appeared in the cockpit on the control panel and engulfed all the instruments. The pilot could no
longer maintain position in the formation. The pilot turned on the autopilot and ordered the crew out.
The left wing fell off and the fire spread to the entire interior of the aircraft. The crew was assisted by
partisans in evading capture. The plane crashed near Rijeka, Croatia, Yugoslavia. Parts of the aircraft
were found on the eastern slopes of Obru? Mountain in the hinterland of Rijeka. MACR 3359
31473 (MSN 6587) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Nov43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 10Nov43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 26Nov43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 347th Bomb Squadron,
99th Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 31Dec43. {29 missions}. 20th Bomb Squadron,
2nd Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 8Mar44. {first combat mission 19Mar44}. Failed to return
from a mission to the oil refinery at Moravsk� Ostrava a P?�voz, Czechoslovakia 29Aug44 (4POW:6KIA).
It was a disastrous day for the 2nd Bomb Group, losing nine B-17s in a onesided, nineteen-minute
attack by the Luftwaffe on the way to the target; the 20th Bomb Squadron lost all seven of its aircraft
to enemy fighters. It was the second greatest, one day, aircraft loss for the Group but one with the
greatest loss of life. German fighters shot at the rear of the plane and killed the ball turret gunner;
rear gunner was badly injured. A cannon shell that exploded made a big hole in the fuselage and
killed the radio operator, who was at the time shooting from the upper turret, and both side gunners.
The stabilisers were also hit, and the plane, with three engines on fire, quickly dropped. Another
cannon shell ignited the flight compartment. The explosion stunned the flight engineer who fell to
the floor of the flight compartment unconscious. The bombardier tried in vain to jettison the bombs.
The pilot held the airplane in the air to give the others a chance to escape. The fire in the bomb bay
released the jammed mechanism and the bombs left the plane, which suddenly fell into a spin
and dropped out of the sky. In the last few seconds, the pilot was able to pin the parachute to the
unconscious engineer, and when he pushed him out of the plane, he jumped out behind him.
The co-pilot died of burns in a hospital a few days later. Four crew members were captured by the
Germans; the remaining five crew members were killed. The bomber exploded and crashed into a
beech forest near Bos�ca, north of Nov� Mesto nad V�hom, Czechoslovakia. {95 missions}. .
Named "My Baby". MACR 8109
31474 (MSN 6588) Accepted by USAAF 4Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 5Nov43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training
Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 21Nov43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 27Nov43.
393rd Base Headquarters and Air Base Squadron, Syracuse AAB, NY 28Nov43. North Atlantic Wing, Air
Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 1Dec43. 8th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron,
Cheddington (Station 113), Buckinghamshire 2Dec43. 368th Bomb Squadron [BO*V], 306th Bomb
Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 23Sep44. Named "Elizabeth". Accident during a mission
to an oil refinery at Dortmund, Germany 7Mar45 (8RTD). Near Dortmund, one of the group dropped
out of formation and the pilot of B-17G 44-6807 moved up to fill the box. During the manoeuvre
the pilot of this plane nosed down and the No.1 propeller chewed into the tail section of 44-6807.
That knocked off its right horizontal stabiliser and elevator as well as the tail turret, killing the gunner.
The pilot of that plane dropped out of formation and turned back towards Allied lines. The
propeller of this plane was knocked off and the engine oversped before being shut down. This
plane continued to drop bombs on the target and remained with the group until reaching the
English coast when it headed alone to land safely back at base. Accident landing at Thurleigh 16Apr45.
Without hydraulic pressure the plane landed about a third way down the runway, ran off the side,
across a perimeter track and struck a parked B-17G, 43-38287. Salvaged 17Apr45
31475 (MSN 6589) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Nov43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 21Nov43.
Detroit, MI 26Nov43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 30Nov43.
364th Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 28Dec43.
Failed to return from a mission to the Focke-Wulf aircraft factory at Sorau, Prussia 29May44 (9POW:1KIA).
Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Prittisch, nine miles east of Schwerin, Germany. MACR 5339
31476 (MSN 6590) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Nov43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 12Nov43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 27Nov43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy.
342nd Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43. San Giovanni,
Cerignola, Italy 20Dec43. Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44. Failed to return from a mission
to the Messerschmitt aircraft factories at Regensburg, Germany 22Feb44. The Group arrived over
Regensburg but cloud cover prevented bombing. Flak over the target was heavy, moderate and
inaccurate. Formation was attacked by twenty enemy fighters within the target area. The plane
fell behind and was attacked by fighters. It was last seen descending vertically and no parachutes
were observed. Crashed near Regensburg, Germany. MACR 2490
31477 (MSN 6591) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 10Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 1Dec43. 60th Ferrying Squadron, 3rd Ferrying Group,
Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 9Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle
Field, ME 11Dec43. Accident landing at Presque Isle Field 16Dec43. 709th Bomb Squadron,
447th Bomb Group, Rattlesden (Station 126), Suffolk 3Mar44. Failed to return from a Crossbow
mission to a German V-weapon site in the Pas-de-Calais, France 27Apr44 (7POW:2KIA). Flak
damaged some engines, some crew bailed out, aircraft exploded and crashed Nesle-Hodeng,
four miles southeast of Neufch�tel-en-Bray, 37 miles southwest of Amiens, France. MACR 4294
31478 (MSN 6592) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 9Nov43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 27Nov43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 32nd Bomb
Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Cerignola #1, Italy 11Dec43. Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44.
Failed to return from a mission to the Steyrwaffen Walzergerwerke ball-bearing factory complex
at Steyr, Austria 24Feb44 (9KIA). On return to base the aircraft was last seen turning towards a
cloud heading for Lucera before disappearing in clouds. It crashed into a mountain four miles
southwest of Lago di Lesina, Foggia, Italy and was destroyed by fire. {18 missions}. MACR 2633.
31479 (MSN 6593) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 6Nov43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 9Nov43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 27Nov43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 18Dec43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 346th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group,
Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 19Dec43. {32 missions}. 49th Bomb Squadron,
2nd Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 28Mar44. {first combat mission 29Mar44}.
96th Bomb Squadron Apr44. Battle damaged during a mission to the oil refineries at Ploe?ti,
Rumania 5May44 (1WIA:9RTD). Flak was intense and accurate causing injury to the navigator.
Crashed landed at Amendola 8May44. {16 missions}. Salvaged
31480 (MSN 6594) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 10Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 28Nov43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 4Dec43. 3rd Ferrying Group,
Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 5Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME 10Dec43. 365th Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105),
Northamptonshire 27Dec43. Named "Reich's Ruin"
Transferred to 401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 20May45. 114 missions
Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 7Jun45.
4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 9Jun45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and
disposal 8Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
31481 (MSN 6595) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 6Nov43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 21Nov43.
New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 30Nov43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME 1Dec43. Ferried to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 7Dec43.
510th Bomb Squadron [TU*B], 351st Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 2Jan44.
Failed to return from a mission to the AGO-Flugzeugwerke Fw 190 manufacturing factory at
Oschersleben, Germany 11Jan44 (9POW:1KIA). While the aircraft were airborne, the weather
closed in over English bases and a recall signal was issued. B/Gen. Robert F. Travis, Air Commander
of the 1st Bomb Division, continued on to the target. This left the 1st Bomb Division with greater
exposure to enemy fighter attacks. Good fighter support was provided by P-47 Thunderbolts
on the penetration and by P-51 Mustangs over the target. P-47s were airborne to provide withdrawal
support but they obeyed the recall order to return to England and left the bombers to fend for themselves
on the return trip. Luftwaffe attacks started over the IJsselmeer and intensified when the American
fighters returned home. Meagre and fairly accurate flak was experienced on the bomb run, with
intermittent inaccurate flak on the return trip. Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Forest House,
Donnershagen National Park, eleven miles southeast of Holzminden, Germany. {1 mission}.. MACR 1941
31482 (MSN 6596) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 10Nov43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 27Nov43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 32nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Cerignola #1, Italy 29Dec43.
Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. Named "Claudia". Failed to return from a mission to an
oil refinery at Lobau, Vienna, Austria 26Jun44 (5KIA:5POW). Attacked by a group of enemy Bf 110
twin-engined fighters, the bomber caught fire in the radio room and dropped out of the formation.
With the left wing on fire, the crew bailed out as the bomber continued to fly for about five minutes
then exploded. Crashed Gy?r, Hungary. {66 missions}. MACR 6328
31483 (MSN 6597) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 10Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 28Nov43. Dow Field, Bangor, ME 5Dec43.
359th Bomb Squadron [BN*B], 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 1Jan44
Named "Bonnie-B" artwork was also on the main wheel hub covers
Participated in the 'Grapefruit' mission to drop GB-1 glide bombs on a railway marshalling yard at
Cologne, Germany 28May44. Failed to return from a mission to the Daimler-Benz aero engine factory
in Stuttgart, Germany 5Sep44. Lost one propeller and two engines on return, force landed Reims (A-20),
France. Salvaged 12Sep44.
31484 MSN 6598) Accepted by USAAF 5Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 11Nov43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 10Dec43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 14Dec43. Ferried from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to
St Angelo, Enniskillen, Northern Ireland 17Dec43. 545th Bomb Squadron [JD*F], 384th Bomb Group,
Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 20Jan44. Named "Mairsy Doats". .
{first combat mission 29Jan44}. On a ferry flight to bring a bomber crew back from Boxted (Station 150),
Essex, the left landing gear would not extend, caused by failure of the landing gear shaft, so returned to
Grafton 25Apr44. Following instructions from his commander, the pilot circled the airfield for ten hours
at night, landing at dawn and damaging the left wing. Participated in the 'Grapefruit' mission to drop
GB-1 glide bombs on a railway marshalling yard at Cologne, Germany 28May44.
545th Bomb Squadron [BK*F] 25Sep44. Battle damaged during a tactical mission to bomb a bridge at
Altenahr, Germany 27Dec44 (9KIA). Attempted to make a forced landing at RAF Manston, Kent but crashed
into aircraft in the dispersal area and exploded, killing the entire crew. {86 missions}. Salvaged 28Dec44
31485 (MSN 6599) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Oct43. Operational
Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 21Nov43. La Guardia Field,
New York City, NY 29Nov43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 2Dec43.
615th Bomb Squadron [IY*X], 401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128), Named "Old Ironsides"
Northamptonshire 6Jan44. RAF Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland 5Apr44. Regained by Group 6Apr44.
Damaged while parked by B-17G 44-6310 taxying at Deenethorpe 2Sep44. {39 missions}. Returned to US.
121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 9Jun45. 393rd Base Unit,
Syracuse AAB, NY 10Jun45. 4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), South Plains
Field, Lubbock, TX 13Jun45. 2530th Base Unit, Navigation School, Selman Field, Monroe, LA.
Collided with B-17G 44-6321 at South Plains 1Dec45. Reclaimed 7Jun46.
31486 (MSN 6600) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Nov43. Staging
Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 27Nov43. Ferried to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 6Dec43.
612th Bomb Squadron [SC*Y], 401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 14Jan44.
Named "Wild Oat" OAT [not painted on aircraft]. Failed to return from a mission to the industrial area
at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 29Jan44 (8KIA:2POW).
Shot Down Jan 29, 1944 By Gunfire From German Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-6 and Crashed at Oberndorf
20 km North of Kaiserlautern Germany While Returning From a Mission on a
Engineering Plant at Frankfurt Germany.
Fw 190A-6 Flown By Unknown Pilot & Unit. (8) Crew Killed. (2) Crew Bailed Out & Captured & POWs. Released in 1945
MACR 2272.
31487 (MSN 6601) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Nov43.
25th Ferrying Squadron, 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT. Assigned to 401st Bomb Group.
Crashed and nosed over landing at Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 6Dec43. Salvaged
31488 (MSN 6602) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 8Nov43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 11Nov43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 28Nov43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 4Dec43. Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 5Dec43. 614th Bomb Squadron [IW*D], 401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128),
Northamptonshire 2Jan44. Named "Shade Ruff" Failed to return from a mission to the
Vereinigte Kugellagerfabriken AG (VKF) ball bearing factory at Erkner, Berlin, Germany 8Mar44 (9POW:1KIA.
Shot Down Mar 8, 1944 By Gunfire From German Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-7
and Crashed at Teglingen Southeast of Meppen Germany
Believed Fw 190A-7 Flown By Hptm. Rolf-Gunther Hermichen of JG 11/I Stab.
MACR 2911
31489 (MSN 6603) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 26Nov43. Grandview Field, Kansas City, MO 28Nov43.
4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 29Nov43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 3Dec43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 414th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group,
Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43. San Giovanni, Cerignola, Italy 20Dec43. Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44.
Failed to return from a tactical mission against German troop concentrations and defensive positions
at Cecina, Livorno, Italy 10Feb44 (6POW:4RTD). During the bomb run, the plane received
numerous holes caused by flak shrapnel. The nose compartment was damaged. During the rally off
target, a waist gunner report that the right wing was on fire from a large hole midway between the No.4
engine and the wing tip on the leading edge. The crew was instructed to standby to bail out. By now
over water, the pilot turned towards two Allied ships and the crew began to jump. The pilot then turned
back towards the Allied front lines as the rest of the crew bailed out near Fogliano, Latina, Italy.
The plane made a 360 degree turn, the wing fell off and crashed near Litoranea, Latina, Italy. MACR 2305.
31490 (MSN 6604) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Nov43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 12Nov43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 28Nov43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand
Island Field, NB 3Dec43. Dow Field, Bangor, ME 5Dec43. 532nd Bomb Squadron [VE*K], 381st Bomb
Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 10Jan44. Failed to return from a mission to the ball bearing
factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 24Mar44 (6POW). Cloud cover and dense contrails cause the
Group to divert to the secondary target of the railway marshalling yards at Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Mid-air collision with B-17G 42-40008 during a heavy flak barrage and crash landed Camphin-en-Carembault,
ten miles southwest of Lille, France. {5 missions}.
31491 (MSN 6605) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 8Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 27Nov43. Cleveland Municipal Airport, OH 4Dec43.
Assigned Eighth Air Force, England. Departed RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador for Prestwick, Scotland 9Dec43;
crash landed, ran off the runway and destroyed by fire at Langford Lodge (Station 597), County Antrim, Northern Ireland
31492 (MSN 6606) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 27Nov43. 413th Bomb Squadron, 96th Bomb Group,
Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 16Dec43. Named "Doscpveree"/ Failed to return from a mission to the industrial
area at Brunswick, Germany 10Feb44 (9POW:1KIA). Damaged by flak and shot down by enemy fighters,
crashed Durlager Strasse, Wagenfeld, nine miles southeast of Diepholz, Germany MACR 2374
31493 (MSN 6607) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 27Nov43. 332nd Bomb Squadron,
94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 20Dec43. 410th Bomb Squadron [GL*G].
Named DOODLES / DOODLEE DOO. Failed to return from a mission to industrial areas of Munich,
Germany 12Jul44 (2KIA:8POW). Flak damaged two engines, crashed Grenaa, Denmark. MACR 7509
31494 ((MSN 6608) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 27Nov43. Ferried to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 6Dec43. 407th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Podington (Station 109),
Bedfordshire 31Dec43. Battle damaged, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 4Feb44 (6KIA). As the
planes were passing over the Netherlands en route to Germany, local cross winds carried the
bombers straight into enemy flak. Two engines feathered on return, sudden surge of power put
aircraft into a roll and crash landed on approach to RAF Matching, Harlow, Essex.
Salvaged Air Force Service Command 6Feb44
31495 (MSN 6609) Accepted by USAAF 8Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 11Nov43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 1Dec43.
3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 9Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 16Dec43. Ferried Patterson Field, Reykjavik, Iceland to
Scotland 19Dec43. 544th Bomb Squadron [SU*R], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106),
Northamptonshire 21Jan44. Named *Wabbit Twacks*. {first combat mission 29Jan44}.
On a mission to bomb submarines under construction at Wilhelmshaven, Germany 3Feb44,
the ball turret gunner fell through the turret without a parachute over the English Channel (1MIA).
Battle damaged on a mission to the Dornier Flugzeugwerke factory at Oberpfaffenhofen, Munich,
Germany 24Apr44. The two waist gunners were seriousy wounded (2WIA). Failed to return
from a Crossbow mission to a V-2 rocket service bunker complex at Sottevast, Normandy,
France 8May44 (11KIA included a Group Headquarters observer). Struck by continuously
tracking flak about one minute before the target, the aircraft was hit by a burst between
the tail and waist doors and went into very steep uncontrollable dive. The tail gunner was
believed to have been blown out without his parachute. The bomber was seen to hit the
ground still burning; crashed at Le Foyer, ten miles south of Cherbourg, France. {27 missions}. .
MACR 4561.
31496 (MSN 6610) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 27Nov43. 612th Bomb Squadron [SC*Q],
401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 1Feb44.
Named "Salvo Sadie" artwork based on a Varga girl illustration in Esquire magazine
. Failed to return from a mission to motor industry targets in Berlin, Germany 21Jun44 (10POW).
Attacked by enemy fighters after leaving the target. Four airmen bailed out while the pilot
decided to try and fly away from Berlin. Crash landed in a field at Gruenewald, six miles
northeast of Nauen, Germany. {35 missions}. MACR 6000. 10 POW.
31497 (MSN 6611) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 1Dec43. New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 13Dec43.
Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 16Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME 17Dec43. 534th Bomb Squadron [GD*N], 381st Bomb Group,
Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 22Jan44. Named "Round Trip Jeannie".
Failed to return from a mission to the Focke-Wulf aircraft factory near Cottbus, Germany 11Apr44 (9POW).
Damaged by flak, crashed Welkenberg, six miles southwest of Weisswasser, Germany.
31498 (MSN 6612) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 1Dec43. New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 9Dec43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 12Dec43. 331st Bomb Squadron [QE*X],
94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 16Dec43.
Named "Passionate Witch II". Failed to return from a mission to railway facilities
around Berlin, Germany 29Apr44 (9POW:1KIA). The combat wing was off course heading to Berlin,
attacked by enemy fighters and bombed Magdeburg. Flak damage caused crew to bail out over
Herzberg, but aircraft flew on for another 100 miles, crashed Hassenberg, nine miles east of Coburg, Germany.
MACR 4467
31499 (MSN 6613) Accepted by USAAF 8Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 13Nov43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 1Dec43.
3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 11Dec43. Grenier Field, Manchester, NH 12Dec43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 14Dec43. 368th Bomb Squadron [BO*J],
306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 21Jan44.
Named SUSAN RUTH. Named for the pilot's wife and their baby daughter Failed to return from a
mission to the rail marshalling yards at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 8Feb44 (6KIA:2POW:2EVD).
The aircraft encountered heavy flak over the target and was damaged but continued to fly. It was
then attacked about six miles south of Chimay, Belgium by Fw 190 fighters severely damaging the
aircraft and setting No.1 engine on fire. The tail section was damaged, pieces of equipment and
parts of the plane were flying about the cockpit, striking the pilot. The oxygen cylinders exploded
and flames were everywhere, forcing the crew to bail out. Two airmen were killed by cannon fire.
The remaining crew successfully exited the aircraft. Lt. Hans G. Berger flying Fw 190A?6 WrNr 530374 'White 1'
claimed the B?17G as his fifth victory; he was a Staffelkapit�n of 2./JG 1. The bomber crashed at
Macquenoise near the French?Belgian border, south of Charleroi, Belgium. MACR 2493
31500 (MSN 6614) Accepted by USAAF 8Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 12Nov43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 28Nov43.
Des Moines Municipal Airport, IA 4Dec43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 6Dec43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 9Dec43. 367th Bomb Squadron [GY*L],
306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 4Jan44. Named "Duchess". 2nd Strategic Air Depot,
Abbots Ripton (Station 547), Huntingdonshire 19Jan44. Regained by Group 12Feb44. Failed to return
from a mission to the Junkers aircraft factory at Bernburg, Germany 22Feb44 (10KIA).
Shot down on return from the target by enemy fighters. The plane exploded, crashed and burned 3km
east of Grand-Hallet, 17km southwest of Saint-Trond, Belgium. MACR 2653
31501 (MSN 6615) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Nov43.
Billings Municipal Airport, MT 15Nov43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 28Nov43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 10Dec43. 366th Bomb Squadron [KY*R],
305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 12Dec43. {138 missions}. `Named OLE' MISS DESTRY.
401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 20May45.
Flew more than 100 combat missions. Returned to US.
121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 8Jun45.
4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), South Plains Field,
Lubbock, TX 12Jun45. Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman
Field, AZ for storage and disposal 8Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich
Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped. Named "Son Of A Blitz"
31502 (MSN 6616) Accepted by USAAF 9Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 16Nov43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 3Dec43.
Grenier Field, Manchester, NH 11Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle
Field, ME 14Dec43. 350th Bomb Squadron [LN*S], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts
(Station 139), Norfolk 9Dec43. Named "Terry 'n' Ten"
Crashed after a night takeoff in poor visibility for a mission to the industrial area at
Frankfurt am Main, Germany 29Jan44 (7KIA:3INJ). At 300ft the cockpit lights failed, the pilots
were unable to see the instruments to maintain control, the aircraft hitting trees and crashed
at Frenze Lane, Dickleburgh, Norfolk. Salvaged 29Jan44
31503 (MSN 6617) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 28Nov43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field,
Detroit, MI 4Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 8Dec43.
325th Bomb Squadron [NV*L], 92nd Bomb Group, Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 30Dec43.
Damaged in collision with B-17G 42-40014 taxying at Podington 11Jan44. Failed to return from
a mission to the Vereinigte Kugellagerfabriken AG (VKF) ball bearing factory, Erkner, Germany
6Mar44 (10POW). Attacked by enemy fighters north of Magdeburg, the crew bailed out and the bomber
crashed at Brachwitz, four miles north of Treuenbrietzen, Germany. MACR 2903
31504 (MSN 6618) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 28Nov43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field,
Detroit, MI 5Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle
Field, ME 8Dec43. 350th Bomb Squadron [LN*Q], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts
(Station 139), Norfolk 16Dec43. 418th Bomb Squadron [LD*E]. Named "Rosie's Riveters".
Failed to return from a mission to the Sudetenl�ndische Treibstoffwerke AG synthetic oil refinery at Z�lup�,
Br�x, Sudetenland 12May44 (10POW). En route to the target, between Koblenz and Frankfurt,
the formation was attacked by a large force of enemy fighters. Flak damaged two engines,
one propeller waswindmilling. Crashed and exploded south of Niederbacheim, northeast
of Sankt Goarhausen, Germany. MACR 4865
31505 (MSN 6619) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 16Nov43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 25Nov43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 9Dec43. 457th Bomb Group, Wendover Field, UT 11Dec43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB.
Ferried North Atlantic route to UK departing 17Jan44. Grenier Field, Manchester, NH 19Jan44.
751st Bomb Squadron [D], 457th Bomb Group, Glatton (Station 130), Huntingdonshire 26Jan44
Named *Miss Cue*. Failed to return from a mission to the Braunkohle Benzin AG synthetic
oil refinery at B�hlen-R�tha, Leipzig, Germany 30Nov44 (1KIA:8POW). The aircraft was making its
first bomb run when it was hit by heavy flak, which knocked out the No.3 and No.4 engines. The pilot
was able to feather the propellers. The crew continued on their bomb run losing a little air speed
and altitude but were able to stay near enough in formation to make the second bomb run and
dropped their bombs when the rest of the group dropped theirs. The pilot immediately turned toward
the west to return to Allied lines. The crew jettisoned all the weight they could, including the ball turret,
and continued on slowly losing altitude and some airspeed as the No.2 engine was losing oil.
The No.2 engine finally seized and the crew bailed out in the clouds between 1200 and 1500 feet
south of Koblenz, Germany. The aircraft crashed onekm SE of Kasdorf, ten km south of Koblenz, Germany.
MACR 11151.
31506 (MSN 6620) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 15Nov43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 27Nov43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 348th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly),
Tortorella, Italy 18Dec43. {27 missions}. 96th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Foggia #7,
Amendola, Italy Mar44. Named "Rebel Girl". {first combat mission 28Mar44}. Failed to return from a
mission to the Magyar Waggon- �s G�pgy�r aircraft factory at Gy?r, Hungary 13Apr44 (1KIA:9POW).
A force of enemy fighter aircraft attacked the formation using rockets. Several crew were injured,
the left horizontal stabiliser was shot off and No.3 engine was on fire. Unable to dive to extinguish
the fire, the crew was ordered to bail out. Crashed near P�pa, Hungary. {9 missions. }MACR 3913
31507 (MSN 6621) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 15Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 27Nov43. 401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128),
Northamptonshire 6Dec43. Ferried from RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador to Nutts Corner (Station 235),
Belfast, Northern Ireland 23Jan44. After engine failure and fuel exhaustion, the crew bailed out over
Enniskillen, Northern Ireland. The aircraft crashed at Johnstown, County Kilkenny, Eire.
Salvaged after non battle damage 6Jun44
31508 (MSN 6622) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 12Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 27Nov43. Ferried from RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador
to Valley (Station 568), Anglesey, Wales 5/6Dec43. 613th Bomb Squadron [IN*Q], 401st Bomb Group,
Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 21Jan44. Named "Command Performance".
Failed to return from a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 13Apr44 (8POW:2KIA).
Shot Down by Gunfire From German Messerschmitt
BF 109G-6 and Crashed at Kaiburg 6 km East of Aschaffenburg Germany
Believed BF 190G-6 Flown By Uffz. Willi Unger of JG 3/11. MACR 3938.
31509 (MSN 6623) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 16Nov43.
Spokane Field, WA 19Nov43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 25Nov43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 14Dec43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 19Dec43.
Grenier Field, Manchester, NH 22Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle
Field, ME 31Dec43. 508th Bomb Squadron [YB*V], 351st Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110),
Northamptonshire 14Jan44. 510th Bomb Squadron [TU*V]. Named "Twinkle Toes:. On a mission to bomb
submarines under construction at Wilhelmshaven, Germany 3Feb44, the engineer entered the bomb bay to
release hung-up bombs, but lack of space prevented him wearing his chute and he fell out when the bombs
were released (1KIA). Failed to return from a mission to the Daimler-Benz Motoren aircraft engine factory at
Genshagen, Berlin, Germany 6Aug44 (9INT). Damaged by flak, force landed S�vde, Sweden. {44 missions}. MACR 7589,
Returned to England. Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field,
Windsor Locks, CT 20Jul45. 4185th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command),
Independence Field, KS 30Nov45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman
Field, AZ for storage and disposal 21Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting
Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
31510 (MSN 6624) Accepted by USAAF 11Nov43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 16Nov43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 25Nov43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 14Dec43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 26Dec43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 30Dec43.
524th Bomb Squadron [WA*D], 379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 4Jan44.
Named "Paper Doll". Failed to return from a mission to the Junkers aircraft factories at Halberstadt and
Aschersleben, Germany 22Feb44 (4POW:6EVD). En route to the target, a rocket attack by enemy aircraft
damaged engine No.3 & No.4, causing a fire on the right wing. Dropping out of formation and truning back
towards England, the crew bailed out before the plane crashed near Afferden, Netherland. MACR 2875.
31511 (MSN 6625) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 16Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 3Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME 9Dec43. 612th Bomb Squadron [SC*D], 401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128),
Northamptonshire 1Jan44. Named "Fool's Luck III". Failed to return from a mission to the
aviation industry and airfield at Evere, Belgium 10Apr44 (6POW:4KIA). Damaged by flak with No.2 engine
smoking badly, the bomber left formation and lost altitude, ditched English Channel, three miles off Calais,
France. MACR 3939.
31512 (MSN 6626) Accepted by USAAF 10Nov43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 13Nov43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 15Nov43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 22Nov43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 27Nov43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 25Dec43.
569th Bomb Squadron [CC*H], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 2Jan44; named "Ice Cold Katie".
{first combat mission 24Jan44}. {final combat mission 30May44}. Crashed on a
local test flight from Framlingham 2Jun44 (10KIS). The test was to ensure the new No.1
engine was functioning correctly, a process called 'slow-timing'. The pilot made several
passes over Debach, Suffolk, home of the 493rd Bomb Group. During the third pass,
the pilot was flying too low and the tail assembly of the aircraft hit a tree and caused the
aircraft to crash and burn at Elmtree Farm, Grundisburgh, Suffolk. {33 missions}. Salvaged 4Jun44
31513 (MSN 6627) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 15Nov43.
Hill Field, Ogden, UT 18Nov43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 10Dec43. 323rd Bomb Squadron [OR*S], 91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121),
Cambridgeshire 24Feb44. {first combat mission 2Mar44}. Named "Lucky 13". Destroyed by fire landing
after a training flight at Bassingbourn 5Apr44 (6RTD). A pilot had returned to duty and was
to be shown the type of low-level flying the Group had been practicing while he was in hospital.
Three Army officers were also going for a ride in a B-17. Once aloft, the pilots buzzed the control towers
of a couple of other nearby air bases. Returning to Bassingbourn, as the plane approached the runway,
the pilot extended the tail wheel, and as some of the new aircraft were having trouble locking the tail
wheel, it became necessary for the flight engineer to go back through the bomb bay and waist sections
to check that the tail wheel was locked before landing. Returning to the cockpit, he closed the door
between the cockpit and the bomb bay. All being OK, the pilot lowered the flaps, followed by
lowering the main wheels. The pilot and co-pilot cracked their side windows open to visually
check that the main wheels were indeed down and then closed the windows. Opening the
windows, however, had created a vacuum which sucked the air forward from the back of the
airplane even though the door between the cockpit to the bomb bay was closed. In the cockpit
there were no indications of a fire or the odor of gasoline in the cockpit. The passengers riding
in the nose, however, began shouting back to the cockpit that they could smell gasoline.
A quick check of the cockpit revealed no gasoline leaks or odors. Then, opening the door between
the bomb bay and the cockpit, the engineer was greeted by a bomb bay that was full of heat
and orange flames that made it impossible to enter. Quickly slamming the door closed,
the pilots were alerted of the fire in the bomb bay. By this time the plane was on the final
approach for landing and there was no alternative other than to continue landing. The plane
rolled down the runway and came to a halt near the center of the runway, and every one
escaped through the hatch, except the pilot who went out his window and slid down the side
of the fuselage. Everyone was out safely. Fortunately the B-17 did not explode. The bomber just
slowly burned away, until all that was left were parts of the wings with the engines, the main
landing gears, a chunk of the nose, the vertical and horizontal stabilizers and the tail gunner's
position. It was later determined that when the flaps were dropped, the activating solenoid
located on the firewall below gasoline transfer lines had shorted out and burned through the
lines used to transfer gasoline from the outboard wing Tokyo fuel tanks to the main tanks. {10 missions}.
Salvaged by 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little Staughton (Station 127), Bedfordshire. .
31514 (MSN 6628) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 15Nov43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 3Dec43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 9Dec43. 336th Bomb Squadron [ET*K],
95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 17Dec43. 335th Bomb Squadron [OE*K].
Named "Full House". Failed to return from a mission to the Braunkohlen Benzin AG synthetic
oil refinery northeast of Zeitz, Germany 16Aug44 (9POW). Lost two engines and attempted to
return home but crashed at Mohlau, Germany. {49 missions}. . MACR 8178
31515 (MSN 6629) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 16Nov43.
Rock Springs Municipal Airport, WY 26Nov43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 14Dec43.
3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 17Dec43. 393rd Base Headquarters and Air Base Squadron,
Syracuse AAB, NY 19Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 22Dec43.
324th Bomb Squadron [DF*J/N], 91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 21Jan44.
401st Bomb Squadron [LL*M] 29Apr44. Battle damaged on a mission to railway marshalling yards
in Berlin, Germany 21Jun44. The wing leader climbed at too fast an airspeed making the formation
string out behind. The wing flaps on this plane kept creeping down and had to be hand-cranked
up about every three or four minutes. Nearing Berlin the group was straggling and strung out.
Attacked by a large force of enemy fighters prior to the I.P., Luftwaffe twin-engined fighters were flying
right through the group. The pilot escaped the worst of the carnage by easing back on the control
wheel to avoid the bursts of 20mm cannon shells. Short of the target the fighters broke off contact
when they encountered overcast but then the flak began. The bombs were released and the pilot
used full power to escape the flak when turning off the target for home. No.1 engine failed after
losing its oil and the propeller was feathered. Friendly fighters appeared and the bomber returned
safely back to Bassingbourn. Failed to return from a mission to a railway viaduct at Altenbeken,
Germany 26Nov44 (4POW:5KIA). About five minutes before the I.P. the formation was attacked
by a large flight of enemy fighters. The plane was struck setting No.3 engine on fire. It dropped
out of formation and fell behind. Some of the crew bailed out before the plane exploded and
crashed at Grossenging, west of Cloppenburg, Germany. {25 missions}. MACR 10836.
Named "The Wild Hare"
31516 (MSN 6630) Accepted by USAAF 10Nov43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver
Municipal Airport, CO 16Nov43. Spokane Field, WA 19Nov43. Missoula, MT 24Nov43. Staging
Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 17Dec43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field,
Detroit, MI 6Jan44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 7Jan44.
546th Bomb Squadron [BK*M], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106),
Northamptonshire 18Feb44. {nil combat missions}. Accident when assembling for a
mission to the Junkers aircraft factories at Halberstadt and Aschersleben, Germany 22Feb44 (8KIA:2RTD).
The 384th Bomb Group at Grafton Underwood and the 303rd Bomb Group at Molesworth were in the
process of forming up for a combat mission. Each was circling their own airfields and, climbing
up through clouds, the 384BG found the 303BG on a collision course. The 384BG leader tightened
the formation turn to avoid collision but the 303BG leader reacted late to dive his formation.
The 303BG aircraft, B-17G 42-38041, collided with this 384BG plane shearing off the tail section.
The navigator and bombardier managed to bail out and survive. The aircraft entered a spin and
crashed at Irthlingborough, Northants, UK. Salvaged by Eighth Air Force Service Command 23Feb4
31517 (MSN 6631) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 16Nov43.
Pendleton Field, OR 24Nov43. 307th Ferrying Squadron, 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT.
Damaged taxying at Denver Municipal Airport, CO 8Dec43. Salt Lake City AAB, UT 12Dec43.
457th Bomb Group, Wendover Field, UT 14Dec43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB. Ferried North Atlantic route to UK departing 17Jan44.
748th Bomb Squadron [A], 457th Bomb Group, Glatton (Station 130), Huntingdonshire 15Dec43.
Failed to return from a mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factory at Augsburg, Germany 25Feb44
(7KIA:1POW:2EVD). The plane was hit by flak over France en route to the target and had to
leave the formation. The crew jettisoned the bomb load but was still not able to catch the formation.
The bomber was then attacked and shot down by enemy fighter aircraft over Mont St Martin, France
MACR 3003
31518 (MSN 6632) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 17Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 3Dec43. Cincinnati, OH 9Dec43. Rome Air
Depot, NY 11Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 14Dec43.
615th Bomb Squadron [IY*G], 401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 1Feb44.
Named "Doolittle's Doughboys" Failed to return from a mission to an aircraft factory at
Leipzig, Germany 20Feb44 (3KIA:7POW). Shot down by enemy fighters, left formation and attempted
to reach Sweden but was hit again by fighters, crashed between Pechau and Wahlitz, six miles east of Magdeburg, Germany.
Shot Down By Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6
Between Pechau & Wahlitz 9 km South of Magdeburg Germany
Believed BF 109G-6 Flown By Uffz. Ernst Aulenbacher of JG 11/Stab.
(3) Crew Killed. (7) Bailed Out & Captured & Became POWs. Released in 1945.
MACR 2437. The pilot gave his life for his crew, holding the plane steady until the other crew members
had safely bailed out, by which time it was too late to bail out himself.
31519 (MSN 6633) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 16Nov43.
Gowen Field, Boise, ID 24Nov43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 17Dec43.
Chicago Municipal Airport, IL 8Jan44. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 9Jan44.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 11Jan44. 709th Bomb Squadron [IE*B],
447th Bomb Group, Rattlesden (Station 126), Suffolk 18Jan44. Failed to return from a mission to railway
facilities around Berlin, Germany 29Apr44 (10RTD). The combat wing was off course heading to Berlin,
attacked by enemy fighters and bombed Magdeburg. Ditched in North Sea, crew rescued by British Air-Sea Rescue..
31520 (MSN 6634) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 16Nov43.
Spokane Field, WA 19Nov43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 24Nov43. 457th Bomb Group, Wendover Field, UT 12Dec43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB.
Ferried North Atlantic route to UK departing 17Jan44. 751st Bomb Squadron [A], 457th Bomb Group,
Glatton (Station 130), Huntingdonshire 26Jan44. Failed to return from a mission to Cologne,
Germany 28May44 (9POW). Shot down by enemy fighters en route to the target. Engines No.1 and No.2
were hit by 20mm cannon shells and set on fire. The crew left the formation, jettisoned their bombs,
and fought the fire for some time before the alarm was given to bail out. The aircraft crashed at D�llbach,
seven miles south of Fulda, Germany. MACR 5300.
31521 (MSN 6635) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 16Nov43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 25Nov43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 17Dec43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 9Jan44. North Atlantic
Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 13Jan44. 615th Bomb Squadron [IY*M],
401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 1Feb44. Named "Badland Bat".
Failed to return from a mission to railway marshalling yards in Berlin, Germany 29Apr44 (10POW),
No.3 engine damaged by flak, later a second engine failed, crashed two miles east of Platendorf,
near Gifhorn, Germany. MACR 4346.
31522 (MSN 6636) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 16Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 25Nov43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy.
416th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 18Dec43. Named "Spoofer". {16 missions}.
Operated a flight to take Brigadier General Joseph H. Atkinson, Commanding General of the 5th Bomb
Wing, to and from England. Departed Bari, Italy 27Jan44 to Algeria; to Marrakech, French
Morocco 28Jan44; Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire 30Jan44. Returned to Italy departing
Bovingdon 9Feb44 to St Mawgan (Station 512), Cornwall; Casablanca, French Morocco and
Algeria 10Feb44; Bari, Italy 11Feb44. Blew the tail wheel tire taking off from Bari but landed safely
at Tortorella 11Feb44. Failed to return from a mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factories at
sburg, Germany 22Feb44 (10POW). The target was clouded over and not bombed. Enemy fighters
attacked, disabling both engines and fuel tanks on the left wing, also the electrical system,
needed to transfer fuel to the right side. The radio operator was wounded and a waist gunner
had his parachute destroyed by a bullet as he was clipping it onto his harness.
An attempt was made to drop the ball turret but it hung up and created extra drag. The pilot
managed to cross the Alps to return to Italy and the plane was down to about 1,000ft
on reaching the Adriatic Sea. Wishing to crash land instead of ditching in the cold sea, the pilot
turned towards land but found the terrain higher than the plane could fly. Forced to ditch,
the pilot headed into a harbour, ditched and the crew escaped before the plane quickly sank
at Pola, Istria, Italy. The crew was rescued by the Germans and taken prisoner MACR 2391
31523 (MSN 6637) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 12Nov43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 16Nov43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 25Nov43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 419th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group,
Cerignola #1, Italy 11Jan44. Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. Named "Barr Fly". Battle damaged
on a mission to the railway marshalling yards at Piombino, Italy 28Apr44 (1KIA:9RTD). Struck by flak
and force landed in Corsica to seek medical assistance for a gunner who had been fatally wounded.
Failed to return from a mission to the aircraft engine factory at Wiener Nuedorf,
Austria 26Jul44 (5KIA:5POW). Shortly after crossing the Austrian border, the Group formation
was attacked by a large number of enemy fighters. Observers within the formation
stated that after several attacks, the aircraft had both No.3 and No.4 engines on fire.
The aircraft entered a steep dive, then exploded; the wreckage fell near
Moosbeckhofer Weg, Sankt Jakob im Walde, Austria. MACR 7127
31524 (MSN 6638) Accepted by USAAF 11Nov43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 16Nov43. Gowen Field, Boise, ID 17Nov43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 30Nov43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 4Dec43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 6Dec43.
Montreal, Dorval, Canada 7Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle
Field, ME 9Dec43. 423rd Bomb Squadron [RD*G], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111),
Bedfordshire 21Jan44. Named . ABLE MABEL. Named after the grandmother of a waist gunner.
Battle damaged on a mission to the Erla Maschinenwerk Bf 109 aircraft
factory at Mockau, Leipzig, Germany 20Feb44. Struck by flak, a fuel tank had been ruptured.
The crew transferred the remaining fuel out of that tank and the plane just managed to return
to base with dry tanks on landing. Seriously battle damaged by flak during a mission to a
Luftwaffe airfield at Hopsten, Rheine, Germany 21Feb44. Battle damaged on a mission to the
Heinkel Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory at Oranienburg, Germany 22Mar44 (5POW:5RTD).
Because of cloud cover, the primary target could not be bombed, therefore the secondary target, t
he city of Berlin, was attacked. Direct flak hits over the target damaged No.3 engine and both
No.3 and 4 caught fire. Unable to stop either engine, the fuel was cut-off and the propellers
were left to windmill. Hydraulic fluid was leaking from the accumulator; an oxygen bottle
in the cockpit exploded and set fire to the hydraulic fluid. The plane dropped out of formation
and returned on its own. Speed was slow because of excess vibration at cruise speed.
Approaching Osnabr�ck, Germany and down at 14,000ft, the plane was struck by more flak.
Taking violent evasive action, the plane was dived down to 8,000ft. At this time the enlisted
airmen in the rear were unaware of the situation and discussed bailing out. Over Osnabr�ck,
more flak struck the bomber which, again, lost altitude quickly as if out of control. The five crew
bailed out near Vechta, Germany and were immediately captured as they landed near an
enemy airfield. By the time the plane reached the coast of the Netherlands it was down to 6,000ft.
While the pilot did his best at the controls, other crew members were in the back throwing out
guns, ammunition, and anything that would lighten the plane including the command set.
The crew tried to make a run for it between two enemy held islands, the last enemy territory before
the North Sea, but the shooting started. The Germans put up everything - rifles, pistols, machine guns,
20mm, 40mm, and 88mms. The plane was so low that the crew could actually see the Germans
running around on the ground below. When the windshield shattered into their laps, the pilots
thought it was all over. Over the North Sea, No.2 engine failed and the plane managed to skim the
waves back to England on one engine. Trying his luck, the pilot was able to restart No.4 engine
and gain a little altitude. About an hour later and roughly eleven miles from the English coast,
No.4 engine, which was running without fuel pressure or temperature, quit cold. Only No.1 engine
was running with about 25 inches of mercury. Still flying at 2,000ft, the pilot didn't think they
could make it and was worried about mines in the water near the shore. However, he tried it
anyway, flying about 100 feet in the air crossing the coast, barely clearing the tops of a row of
trees. With the last remaining engine it crash landed in a ploughed field at Horsey Gap on the
coast northeast of Norwich, Norfolk. Salvaged 23Mar44.. MACR 3434
31525 (MSN 6639) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 16Nov43.
Pendleton Field, OR 18Nov43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 10Dec43. 730th Bomb Squadron [D], 452nd Bomb Group,
Deopham Green (Station 142), Norfolk 4Jan44. Named "Shed House Mouse" . ttle damaged on a mission to the
industrial areas of Frankfurt am Main, Germany 20Mar44 (1KIA:9RTD). High clouds frustrated bombing
attempts and the squadron diverted to a target of opportunity. Flak over Bonn was intense and accurate,
enemy fighters attacked northeast of Paris on the way home. The plane was ?ying #4 position;
at bomb release, the aircraft in the #1 position above had two bombs hang up in the bomb bay after
all the other bombs had dropped naturally. The procedure for kicking out hung up bombs was to
wait until clear of the drop zone, move out of formation, then kick them out. The B-17 in the #1 position,
without notifying anyone, kicked out the bombs while still in formation. The first bomb hit #525 to the
left of the pilot damaging the No.2 propeller; the bomb, not yet armed, did not detonate when it struck
the engine. The second bomb hit the Plexiglas nose section dead center, instantly killing the bombardier;
again, the second bomb did not explode upon impact as it was not yet armed. With the Plexiglas
now completely gone and the bombardier/navigator compartment demolished there was a terrific
wind in the cockpit area. The interior pressure was so great that the door to the bomb bay could
not be opened. No-one could go from the cockpit area to the radio room or the bomb bay;
interphone was the only communications with the crew. The navigator, Johnson, worked his
way rearward from what was left of the nose compartment to the cockpit and navigated the
course back to England. The vibration from the damaged #2 propeller was so great that it
caused the pilot to feather it. Meanwhile, due to the drag from the missing nose compartment,
he couldn't maintain altitude and started to descend. After burning off excess fuel he was able to
maintain an altitude of 1,000 feet. He managed to keep control to cross the English Channel and
was able to manage a forced landing on an airfield at Dulverton, Somerset.
To 466th Sub-Depot, Air Service Command, Deopham Green. During their spare time the members
of the 466th used many spare parts from four previously wrecked or battle damaged planes to rebuild the plane.
This plane was renamed "Reincarnation" by the 466th Sub-Depot, Air Service Command,
Deopham Green after repairs Mar44. This plane was easily spotted since it was an older olive drab
colored plane with a newer silver nose. Damaged in collision with parked B-17G 42-31361 while taxying
out to take off for an engine slow time flight at Deopham Green 31May44. Returned to US. 121st Base Unit
(Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 28Jun45. 4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City
Air Technical Service Command), South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 21Oct45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and
disposal 24Nov45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
31526 (MSN 6640) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 17Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 1Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME 10Dec43. 427th Bomb Squadron [GN*V], 303rd Bomb Group,
Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 1Jan44. Named LIL' BUTCH/SWEET ANNA.
Failed to return from a mission to the Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft shipyard at Kiel,
Germany 4Jan44 (9MIA:1KIA). Attacked by enemy fighters, the bomber left formation.
Later damaged by Kriegsmarine flak, the aircraft crashed in the North Sea west of Heligoland, Germany.
{1 mission). MACR 1682.
31527 (MSN 6641) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 16Nov43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 28Nov43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 429th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Foggia #7,
Amendola, Italy 29Dec43. Named "Brown Nose". {first combat mission 14Jan44}. Battle damaged
on a mission to railway marshalling yards at Sofia, Bulgaria 24Jan44 (1KIA:9RTD).
Over the target, the formation found it impossible to bomb and proceeded to a secondary
target at Nis, Yugoslavia. After going 80 to 100 miles beyond Sofia, the group turned and
headed for home base. Heavy cloud formations were encountered along the route.
Attacked by enemy fighters, the togglier was instantly killed by a 20mm cannon shell.
Failed to return from a mission to the oil refinery at Budapest, Hungary 14Jun44 (5POW:5EVD).
The bomber was attacked by several Me 410 twin-engine fighters which struck the
left wing and set number two engine on fire. It began to lag fast but lost little altitude.
The flames spread to the rest of the plane and all ten men bailed out. The aircraft
peeled off to the left, was losing altitude fast and after completing nearly a 360 deg turn,
it went into a spin, the left wing came off and blew up at approximately 5,000 feet.
A fire was started on the ground by the crash. Crashed north of Banja Luka, Bosnia,
Yugoslavia. {63 missions}. . MACR 1682
31528 (MSN 6642) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 16Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 2Dec43. New York 8Dec43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 9Dec43.
365th Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 28Dec43.
Accident on a mission to the Luftwaffe air depot at M�rignac, Bordeaux, France 31Dec43.
The target was covered in solid cloud so the group diverted to the secondary target,
a Luftwaffe airfield at Ch�teaubernard, Cognac, France. On return, crash landed near
Ashridge, Hertfordshire (4KIA). Salvaged by 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton 3Jan44
31529 (MSN 6643) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 19Nov43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 20Nov43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 12Dec43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 8Jan44.
New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 9Jan44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME 10Jan44. 407th Bomb Squadron [PY*N], 92nd Bomb Group,
Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 23Jan44. Failed to return from a mission to the
Luftwaffe air depot at Erding, Germany 24Apr44 (10POW). Enemy aircraft damaged
No.1 engine, crew bailed out, the aircraft flew on and crashed Augenstein Mountain,
near Lochamer Wand, eight miles southwest of Weissbach, near Austrian/German border..
MACR 4146
31530 (MSN 6644) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 19Nov43. Spokane Field, WA 22Nov43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 12Dec43. Named "Quittin' Time" TIME [last three digits "530"
signified 5:30PM quitting time]
Ground accident on the ramp at Kearney Field 14Dec43. Ferried on the North Atlantic
route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland, departing 14Jan44 to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 16Jan44. 351st Bomb Squadron [EP*X], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts
(Station 139), Norfolk 17Jan44. {107 missions}. Salvaged 31May45.
31531 (MSN 6645) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 20Nov43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 22Nov43. 457th Bomb Group,
Wendover Field, UT 11Dec43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB. Ferried North Atlantic route to UK
departing 17Jan44. Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland
to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 24Jan44. 332nd Bomb Squadron, 94th Bomb Group,
Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 25Jan44. 749th Bomb Squadron [J],
457th Bomb Group, Glatton (Station 130), Huntingdonshire 26Jan44. Failed to return
from a mission to the Focke-Wulf aircraft factory at Waggum, Brunswick,
Germany 29Mar44 (2KIA:8POW). The plane had fallen some distance behind the
formation with all engines functioning. The pilot continued on the bomb run and
dropped his bombs after his squadron had already turned off the target. About this
time the Group was attacked by about 40 or 50 German fighters. Two Luftwaffe planes
attacked this bomber and pressed the attack. The plane lost one engine and another
was on fire. The crew bailed out while it was still under control; the aircraft exploded
shortly after. All the crew exited safely except the pilot who stayed till everyone was
out but failed to exit himself before the explosion. The ball turret gunner was killed
in the ball turret by enemy aircraft fire. The bomber crashed at Riestedt, four miles
northwest Klotze, thirty-four miles northeast of Brunswick, Germany. MACR 3487.
31532 (MSN 6646) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 18Nov43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 6Dec43.
New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 14Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 16Dec43. 326th Bomb Squadron [JW*G],
92nd Bomb Group, Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 4Jan44. Named "Black Magic"
Failed to return from a mission to an aircraft repair depot at Lippstadt,
Germany 23Mar44 (3KIA:7POW). Attacked by Fw 190 fighter aircraft; with an
engine on fire, the bomber crashed between Merfeld and Bornste near D�lmen, Germany.
MACR 3415
31533 (MSN 6647) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 18Nov43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 4Dec43.
New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 13Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME 15Dec43. 535th Bomb Squadron [MS*U],
381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 5Jan44. Damaged taxying at
Ridgewell 2Feb44. Failed to return from a mission to the Junkers aircraft factories
at Halberstadt and Aschersleben, Germany 22Feb44 (7KIA:3POW). Shot down by enemy
fighters, crashed Hajen-on-der-Weser, ten miles southeast of Hameln, Germany. {4 missions}
MACR 2931
31534 (MSN 6647) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 18Nov43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 4Dec43.
New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 13Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME 15Dec43. 535th Bomb Squadron [MS*U], 381st Bomb Group,
Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 5Jan44. Named "Shilayee" Damaged taxying at Ridgewell 2Feb44.
Failed to return from a mission to the Junkers aircraft factories at Halberstadt and Aschersleben,
Germany 22Feb44 (7KIA:3POW). Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Hajen-on-der-Weser,
ten miles southeast of Hameln, Germany. {4 missions}. MACR 5166.
31535 (MSN 6649) Accepted by USAAF 12Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 19Nov43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 2Dec43.
393rd Base Headquarters and Air Base Squadron, Syracuse AAB, NY 8Dec43. North Atlantic
Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 11Dec43. 527th Bomb Squadron [FO*Y],
379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 24Jan44. Failed to return from a
mission to an aircraft assembly plant at Brunswick, Germany 30Jan44 (9POW:1KIA). Shot down
by enemy fighters, crashed in a swamp near Essern, ten miles northeast of Lubbecke, Westfalen,
Germany. MACR 2876
31536 (MSN 6650) Accepted by USAAF 13Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 19Nov43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 1Dec43.
Grenier Field, Manchester, NH 9Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME 11Dec43. 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 20Dec43.
326th Bomb Squadron [JW*O], 92nd Bomb Group, Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 27Jan44.
Battle damaged on a mission to Cologne, Germany 28Jan45; force landed on the continent. Salvaged 2Feb45.
Named "Irene-Jean B"
31537 (MSN 6651) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 2Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 10Dec43. Ferried Patterson Field, Reykjavik, Iceland to
Scotland 19Dec43. 350th Bomb Squadron [LN*S], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139),
Norfolk 24Dec43. 349th Bomb Squadron. Named "Randie Lou/ Buffalo Gal". Failed to return from a
mission to the I.G. Farben chemical and synthetic oil works at Leuna, Merseburg,
Germany 29Jul44 (5POW:4KIA). The bombers encountered heavy flak over the target which
disrupted the formation. Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Pauschrau, Germany. MACR 7809
31538 (MSN 6652) Accepted by USAAF 13Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 19Nov43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 6Dec43. Grenier Field,
Manchester, NH 20Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 22Dec43.
367th Bomb Squadron [GY*V], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 4Jan44.
2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton (Station 547), Huntingdonshire 7Jan44. Regained by Group 9Jan44.
Named "Norah". Failed to return from a mission to the Junkers aircraft factory at Halberstadt,
Germany 11Jan44 (10KIA). Attacked and hit by a Focke-Wulf 190 flown by Leutnant Gerd Wiegand, II./JG 26.
There was an explosion in the nose and the bomber collided with B-17 42-31236. Crashed Bessenbinder
Farm, Nieuw-Heeten, Raalte, Netherlands. MACR 1932.
31539 (MSN 6653) Accepted by USAAF 13Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 20Nov43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 5Dec43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 16Dec43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 19Dec43. 423rd Bomb Squadron [RD*O],
306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 4Jan44. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots
Ripton (Station 547), Huntingdonshire 9Jan44. Regained by Group 12Jan44. Seriously battle damaged
during a mission to the railway marshalling yards at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 8Feb44.
Tail gun position, rudder and left inner wing struck by flak. Seriously battle damaged by flak during a
mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Hopsten, Rheine, Germany 21Feb44. Failed to return from a mission
to the Dornier Flugzeugwerke factory at Oberpfaffenhofen, Munich, Germany 24Apr44 (10INT).
En route to the target, crossing the River Rhine it was attacked by German fighters which managed
to damage one of the engines. With the three remaining engines, the pilot was still able to stay
in formation. Further strikes did little damage to the aircraft until a German fighter was able to
disable a second engine over Munich. The enemy aircraft had damaged No.3 & No.4 engines and
fuel was leaking from the right wing. Now the pilot had no choice but to jettison the bombs
and leave the formation. Since it was now completely hopeless to fly back to England, he tried to
make his way to Switzerland. The German fighters kept attacking the wounded aircraft, but the
gunners managed to fend off the attackers until the plane reached the Swiss border. It crossed
Lake Constance whereupon the pilot had to look for a suitable landing site, as the plane was
slowly losing altitude. As it flew low down through a valley the Swiss air defense fired at it from
the surrounding mountains. Several hits perforated our bomber without causing too much damage.
Suddenly the city of Winterthur appeared in front. The pilot managed to keep the plane in the air
and prevent a crash into the populated area. After dragging over the last houses, a wide plain
opened up in front on which the bomber crash landed. The tail gunner's turret was torn off
but the crew was safe. Crash landed on the T�ss plain near Neftenbach, Switzerland.
Scrapped in Switzerland.. MACR 4281.
31540 (MSN 6654) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 16Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 3Dec43. Cleveland Municipal Airport, OH 9Dec43.
393rd Base Headquarters and Air Base Squadron, Syracuse AAB, NY 11Dec43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 15Dec43. Ferried to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 19Dec43. 331st Bomb Squadron [QE*A], 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468),
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 20Dec43. Named " Miss Donna Mae II" Battle damaged on a
mission to Brussels, Belgium 11May44. Flak damage to stabilisers, No.4 engine, wings and fuselage.
Failed to return from a mission to industrial areas of Berlin, Germany 19May44 (11KIA), hit by bombs
from B-17G 42-97791 above knocking off the left stabiliser, then the wing broke off as it spun to earth,
crashed Oderbergerstrasse, Berlin, Germany. MACR 4946
There was a film taken of this accident which is often seen.
31541 (MSN 6655) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19Nov43.
Spokane Field, WA 20Nov43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 25Nov43.
748th Bomb Squadron, 457th Bomb Group, Wendover Field, UT 8Dec43. Crashed after a mid-air collision
with B-17G 42-38065 during a training mission at Wendover 23Dec43 (8KIS). The 457th Bomb Group
flew an eighteen aircraft practice formation to camera bomb Omaha, Nebraska. They had fighter
escorts to the target and then the fighters were to act as enemy attack planes on the return trip to
Wendover. The mission was a success and when the group landed back at Wendover the squadrons t
ook off individually and formed up as six plane squadrons. The 748th Squadron was tasked to make a
local low altitude formation flight. The first three planes of the lead element were already in place.
The No.4 plane [42-31541] was forming a three plane element with the No.5 & 6 planes. The three planes
were racing to catch up with the lead element and came on too fast. It was obvious to No.5 and No.6 that No.4,
flying element lead, was overshooting. Each peeled off to the right and left. All this was happening at
about 1500 feet. No.4 did in fact overshoot and pulled his tail up into the No.3 plane [42-38065].
No.1 and No.2 engines immediately cut-off the tail of 42-31541. The navigator or bombardier in 42-38065
bailed out with no injuries and the pilot was able to land his badly damaged plane. 42-31541 crashed
before anyone could bail out.
31542 (MSN 6656) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19Nov43.
Spokane Field, WA 22Nov43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 25Nov43.
457th Bomb Group, Wendover Field, UT 7Dec43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB. Ferried North Atlantic route to UK departing 17Jan44.
748th Bomb Squadron, 457th Bomb Group, Glatton (Station 130), Huntingdonshire 27Jan44.
92nd Bomb Group, Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 11Mar44. 323rd Bomb Squadron [OR*T],
91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 12Mar44.
Named "Bunky" artwork of a cartoon creation by Tony Starcer. (first combat mission 18Mar44}.
Failed to return from a mission to the Messerschmitt service test airfield at Lechfeld, Augsburg,
Germany 19Jul44 (9KIA). Seven minutes before the release on the bomb run, the plane was in a
mid-air collision with B-17G 42-107075 "Champagne Girl" which had been caught by the propeller wash of a
preceding aircraft. Turbulence threw #075 suddenly to the left and the left wing struck #542 on the right
horizontal stablizer. Propellers chewed into the fuselage and as the pilot pulled #542 away the
entire tail section broke off at the main entrance door and rocketed about 200ft upwards before
spinning down. The plane spiralled down, the crew was trapped inside by centrifugal forces and
killed in the crash near Huglfing, southwest of Munich, Germany. {45 missions}
31543 (MSN 6657) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20Nov43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 5Dec43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 14Dec43. Valley (Station 568),
Anglesey, Wales 20Dec43. 332nd Bomb Squadron [XM*D], 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468),
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 21Dec43. Named "Nine Yanks And A Jerk". Failed to return from a mission
to the Messerschmitt factory at Augsburg, Germany 13Apr44, flak damage and runaway
propeller No.1, ditched 25 miles off English coast on return, crew rescued
31544 (MSN 6658) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21Nov43.
Seattle, WA 23Nov43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 4Dec43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 14Dec43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 17Dec43.
366th Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 21Jan44.
Failed to return from a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 24Mar44 (1KIA:9POW).
Cloud cover and dense contrails cause the Group to divert to the secondary target of the railway
marshalling yards at Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Attacked by a Fw 190 flown by Feldwebel
Robert Hager of 4./JG 26, killing the navigator. Crashed Winkel-St-Hruis, nine miles northeast of
Ghent, BelgiumMACR 3537
31545 (MSN 6659) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20Nov43.
Gowen Field, Boise, ID 23Nov43. 749th Bomb Squadron, 457th Bomb Group, Wendover Field, UT 7Dec43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB.
Ferried North Atlantic route to UK departing 17Jan44. Grenier Field, Manchester, NH 20Jan44.
749th Bomb Squadron [F], 457th Bomb Group, Glatton (Station 130), Huntingdonshire 26Jan44
Named "Bad Times, Inc". On practice flew so low over
Cambridgeshire Fens that the props were damaged, crashed
Infield Farm, West Fen, near March, Cambridgeshire. UK.
Crew of 6 OK. Salvaged 2 SAD Littte Staughton Jun 18, 1944.
31546 (MSN 6660) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 1Dec43. Dow Field, Bangor, ME 9Dec43.
332nd Bomb Squadron [XM*C], 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 2Jan44.
Named "The Old Sarge". Failed to return from a mission to the industrial area at Augsburg,
Germany 16Mar44 (2KIA:8POW). From Strasburg, Germany to Augsburg, the bombers were attacked
by Luftwaffe fighters in a running battle. Flak over the target was moderate and accurate;
flak en route was meagre and inaccurate. Damaged by flak, crashed Hopfen Lake, two miles
northwest of Fussin/Allgau, Germany. MACR 3227
31547 (MSN 6661) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 20Nov43. 749th Bomb Squadron, 457th Bomb Group. Wendover Field, UT 15Dec43.
Crashed after the pilot lost control twelve miles southwest of Delle, UT 3Jan44
31548 (MSN 6662) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 20Nov43.
Midford, UT 22Nov43. Salt Lake City AAB, UT 24Nov43. 457th Bomb Group, Wendover Field, UT 12Dec43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB.
Ferried North Atlantic route to UK departing 17Jan44. 749th Bomb Squadron [K], 457th Bomb Group,
Glatton (Station 130), Huntingdonshire 29Jan44. Transferred to 325th Bomb Squadron [NV*D],
92nd Bomb Group, Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 11Mar44. Named "Shu Shu Baby".
Failed to return from a mission to aircraft factories at Stettin, Prussia 11Apr44 (10INT). Force landed
at Rinkaby airfield, southeast of Kristianstad, Sweden. MACR 3671.
Returned to England 20Jun45. Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field,
Windsor Locks, CT 1Aug45. 4185th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command),
Independence Field, KS 30Nov45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41,
Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 21Dec45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
31549 (MSN 6663) Accepted by USAAF 15Nov43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 21Nov43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island
Field, NB 7Dec43. New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 16Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME 19Dec43. 561st Bomb Squadron [A], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136),
Suffolk 1Jan44. Named "Jeannie". {first combat mission 29Jan44}. Battle damaged during a mission
to the industrial area at Brunswick, Germany 10Feb44 (10RTD). Meagre to heavy flak was seen when
crossing the enemy coast at IJmuiden, Netherlands. In the vicinity of Lingen, Germany the
formation was attacked by enemy fighters in groups of three. As they neared the target, twin-engined
aircraft fired rockets into the formation. Intense flak was encountered at the target where the aircraft
received flak damage. The formation was under fighter attack until it neared the IJsselmeer on the
return home. Friendly fighters were outnumbered, especially in the target area. Failed to return
from a mission to the Sudetenl�ndische Treibstoffwerke AG synthetic oil refinery at Z�lup�, Br�x,
Sudetenland 12May44 (10POW). En route to the target, between Koblenz and Frankfurt, the formation
was attacked by a large force of enemy fighters. During this attack, enemy aircraft damaged No.4 engine
which then caught fire before the crew bailed out. After the crew had bailed out, a Bf 109 shot the
plane down, which exploded at about 300m altitude and crashed on a pasture at Stammheim,
east of Friedberg, Germany. {35 missions}. MACR 4881
31550 (MSN 6664) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 21Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 14Dec43. La Guardia Field, New York
City, NY 21Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 23Dec43.
534th Bomb Squadron [GD*G], 381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 13Jan44.
Named *Green Hornet II* . Failed to return from a mission to railway marshalling
yards at Cologne, Germany 17Oct44. Damaged by flak, force landed Speelberg, near Holsbeek,
NE of Louvain, Belgium. Salvaged 21Nov44. {55 missions}.
31551 (MSN 6665) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 20Nov43.
Seattle, WA 23Nov43. 457th Bomb Group, Wendover Field, UT 12Dec43. Operational Training
Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB. Ferried North Atlantic
route to UK departing 17Jan44. 750th Bomb Squadron [P], 457th Bomb Group, Glatton
(Station 130), Huntingdonshire 29Jan44. Named WORRY BIRD / ELIZABETH ANN.
Damaged after engine failure at Glatton 1Nov44. {117+ missions}. Returned to US.
121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 9Jun45.
4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), South Plains Field,
Lubbock, TX 21Oct45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41,
Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 29Nov45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped.
31552 (MSN 6666) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 21Nov43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 25Nov43. 457th Bomb Group,
Wendover Field, UT 12Dec43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB. Ferried North Atlantic route to UK departing 17Jan44. 748th Bomb Squadron [H],
457th Bomb Group, Glatton (Station 130), Huntingdonshire 26Jan44, named *My Buddy*.
. Battle damaged on return from a mission, crash landed at Glatton 4May44 (1KIA). Failed to return
from a mission to industrial areas of Munich, Germany 12Jul44 (4KIA:4POW:1INT).
The plane was hit by flak on the bomb run as it approached Munich. Engines No.1 and No.4 were
disabled and fuel was pouring from the wing tanks. It left the formation and dropped down several
thousand feet. The pilot called for fighter support and two P-51 Mustangs responded. The decision
was made to try to make it to Switzerland. The fighters escorted them all the way to the Swiss border
and when they thought they had left Germany, the pilot gave the order to bail out. Four of the crew
in the rear of the plane bailed out only to find they were still in Germany and were taken prisoner
by the Germans. The officers and the engineer elected to stay with the plane but shortly they found
themselves in clouds with mountains higher than they were and a third engine about to fail.
The co-pilot and engineer bailed out but before the rest could, the plane crashed into the side of
a mountain at Pratigau, near Davos, Switzerland. MACR 6926.
31553 (MSN 6667) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 21Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 16Dec43. Midwest Air Depot, Oklahoma City, OK 24Dec43.
New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 8Jan44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle
Field, ME 9Jan44. 534th Bomb Squadron [GD*B], 381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 19Feb44.
Named "Myer's Flaw". Failed to return from a mission to industrial areas in the suburbs of Berlin,
Germany 6Mar44 (5KIA:5POW). Shot down by enemy fighters northeast of Magdeburg. Five crew members
bailed out and the bomber crashed two miles southwest of Wernsdorf/Niederlehme,
six miles southwest of Erkner, Germany. {4 missions}. . MACR 3241.
31554 (MSN 6668) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 21Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 5Dec43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field,
Detroit, MI 18Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 20Dec43.
Ferried from RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador to Nutts Corner (Station 235), Belfast, Northern Ireland 28Dec43.
551st Bomb Squadron [HR*Q], 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 30Dec43.
Named "Charlotte Ann". Crash landed on return from a mission with two engines failed 24May44.
Six crew bailed out over Hengrave, Suffolk before the pilot attempted to crash land 2 miles from
Fornham All Saints, Suffolk. The bomber hit a hay stack and a tree, followed by a bomb explosion.
Five civilians were injured in the blast, which included two fireman and an ARP man. Salvaged 24May44.
31555 ((MSN 6669) Accepted by USAAF 16Nov43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver
Municipal Airport, CO 21Nov43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 17Dec43.
Midwest Air Depot, Oklahoma City, OK 24Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 8Jan44.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 17Jan44. 527th Bomb Squadron [FO*Y],
379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 31Jan44. Failed to return from a
mission to industrial areas in the suburbs of Berlin, Germany 6Mar44 (9POW:1KIA).
Attacked by enemy fighters north of Magdeburg killing one crew member. The remaining crew
bailed out and the bomber crashed two miles south of Kirchdorf, on Uchte Road, near Kiepholz, Germany.
MACR 2909
31556 (MSN 6670) Accepted by USAAF 16Nov43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver
Municipal Airport, CO 21Nov43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training
Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 3Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 8Dec43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 10Dec43. Ferried from
RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Nutts Corner (Station 235), Belfast, Northern Ireland 17Dec43.
368th Bomb Squadron [BO*D], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 4Jan44.
2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little Staughton (Station 127), Bedfordshire 6Jan44 for radio fit.
Regained by Group 9Jan44. Failed to return from a mission to railway facilities around Berlin,
Germany 29Apr44 (8KIA:2POW). Flak hits damaged right wing, cutting fuel lines and starting a fire.
The aircraft rolled over, exploded and crashed two miles south of Hecklingen, near Stassfurt,
20 miles east of Halberstadt, Germany. MACR 4240
31557 (MSN 6671) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 21Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 5Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 20Dec43. 613th Bomb Squadron [IN*R], 401st Bomb Group,
Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 21Jan44. Failed to return from a mission to the
manufacturing facilities of the Junkers Flugzeug-und Motorenwerke at Dessau, Germany 28May44 (4KIA:6POW)
Shot Down by Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6 and
crashed five miles south of Wiessenburg, seventeen miles northeast of Dessau, Germany
Believed BF 109G-6 Flown By Fw. Franz Busen of JG 27/7.
MACR 5308.
31558 (MSN 6672) Accepted by USAAF 16Nov43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver
Municipal Airport, CO 21Nov43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 14Dec43.
Chicago Municipal Airport, IL 18Dec43. 393rd Base Headquarters and Air Base Squadron,
Syracuse AAB, NY 19Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle
Field, ME 21Dec43. 369th Bomb Squadron [WW*M], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111),
Bedfordshire 21Jan44. Seriously battle damaged during a mission to the Messerschmitt
aircraft factory at Augsburg, Germany 25Feb44. Severe flak damage to right wing and elsewhere,
force landed on return at RAF Headcorn, Kent. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton (Station 547),
Huntingdonshire 25Feb44. Regained by Group 13Mar44. Battle damaged during a mission to the
Focke-Wulf aircraft factory at Waggum, Brunswick, Germany 29Mar44 (1WIA). The tail gunner
was wounded during an enemy fighter attack. Failed to return from a mission to the Dornier
Flugzeugwerke factory at Oberpfaffenhofen, Munich, Germany 24Apr44 (10POW). Attacked by
enemy fighters which crippled the bomber on the first pass. They had hit the central power
system, the electrical system went out. There was a big hole in the horizontal stabilizer; the skin
was peeled back. Two engines had been damaged, followed by a third engine. The crew bailed
out before the plane crashed at H�rbach, near Althegnenberg, eleven miles southeast of Augsburg, Germany.
MACR 4282
31559 (MSN 6673) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 21Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 6Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME 20Dec43. 337th Bomb Squadron [AW*J], 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton
Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 26Dec43. Failed to return from a mission to the industrial areas
of Frankfurt am Main, Germany 20Mar44 (2INJ:8RTD). High clouds frustrated bombing attempts
and the squadron diverted to a target of opportunity. Flak over Bonn was intense and accurate,
enemy fighters attacked northeast of Paris on the way home. Having sustained damage, the crew
had lost direction and ended up over Cornwall. The crew bailed out over land and the pilot then
took the aircraft out over the sea. bailed out and came down in the sea about one mile south of
Seaton beach. The aeroplane crashed in Looe Bay between Millandreath and Downderry, southeast Cornwall
Some parts in various museums.
31560 (MSN 6674) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 21Nov43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 10Dec43.
510th Bomb Squadron [TU*A], 351st Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 25Feb44.
Failed to return from a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical works at Oppau, Ludwigshafen, Germany 8Sep44
(3KIA:5POW:1EVD). Damaged by flak, crashed Thionville, France. {61 missions}. .MACR 10534.
31561 (MSN 6675) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 24Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 11Dec43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field,
Detroit, MI 17Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 20Dec43.
335th Bomb Squadron [OE*Z], 95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 24Dec43.
Named "Just Elmer's Tune". Failed to return from a mission to aircraft industries at
Rostock, Germany 24Feb44 (2KIA:8POW). Flak hit No.1 engine and a stabiliser was damaged, dropped
behind formation and crash landed Oster Hojst, south of Logumkloster, Denmark. {11 missions}.
MACR 2644
31562 (MSN 6676) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 24Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 11Dec43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field,
Detroit, MI 19Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 20Dec43.
358th Bomb Squadron [VK*A], 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 13Jan44.
Failed to return from a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 24Feb44 (10POW).
Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Boppard, Germany MACR 2762
31563 (MSN 6677) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 24Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 7Dec43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field,
Detroit, MI 17Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 20Dec43.
710th Bomb Squadron, 447th Bomb Group, Rattlesden (Station 126), Suffolk 26Dec43. Failed to return
from a mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factory at Regensburg, Germany 25Feb44 (9POW:1KIA).
After crossing the coastline into mainland Europe, the formation encountered frequent flak and fierce
aerial attacks from the Luftwaffe, causing heavy damage to some of the bombers. The planes
arrived at Regensburg and encountered intense flak over the target area. Shot down by enemy
fighters, crashed near Hauenstein, eleven miles east of Pirmasens, Germany. MACR 2892
31564 (MSN 6678) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 23Nov43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 25Nov43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 5Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 13Dec43.
325th Bomb Squadron [NV*O], 92nd Bomb Group, Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 30Dec43.
Failed to return from a mission to industrial areas of Berlin, Germany 9Mar44 (10INT). Damaged by flak,
crash landed at Bred�kra, Sweden. Salvaged 29Jun45; MACR 3064.
31565 (MSN 6679) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 21Nov43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 7Dec43.
Selfridge Field, Mount Clemens, MI 14Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque
Isle Field, ME 15Dec43. 335th Bomb Squadron [OE*U], 95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119),
lk 26Dec43. Failed to return from a mission to industrial areas in the suburbs of Berlin,
Germany 4Mar44 (1KIA:6POW). Damaged by flak, crashed St Ghislane, three miles southwest
of Mons, Belgium. {13 missions}.. MACR 2795
31566 (MSN 6680) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 21Nov43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 5Dec43.
3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 13Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME 15Dec43. 339th Bomb Squadron, 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138),
Norfolk 20Dec43. Failed to return from a mission to the industrial area at Brunswick, Germany 10Feb44 (10MIA).
Damaged by flak, no trace ever found so may have crashed in North Sea. MACR 2375
31567 (MSN 6681) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 21Nov43.
Tacoma, WA 22Nov43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 25Nov43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 17Dec43. Grandview Field, Kansas City, MO 28Dec43. New Castle AAB,
Wilmington, DE 8Jan44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 9Jan44.
Valley (Station 568), Anglesey, Wales 15Jan44. 337th Bomb Squadron [AW*R], 96th Bomb Group,
Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 16Jan44. 413th Bomb Squadron [MZ*Q]. Destroyed taxying at
Snetterton 6Mar44 when the brakes failed and collided with a parked fuel tanker
31568 (MSN 6682) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 21Nov43.
Billings Municipal Airport, MT 25Nov43. 457th Bomb Group, Wendover Field, UT 12Dec43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB.
Ferried North Atlantic route to UK departing 17Jan44. Grenier Field, Manchester, NH 20Jan44.
750th Bomb Squadron [O], 457th Bomb Group, Glatton (Station 130), Huntingdonshire 8Feb44.
748th Bomb Squadron. Failed to return from a mission to bomb French airfields around Paris
14Jun44 (2POW:7EVD). The air commander had called for the squadron to do a 360 degree turn
over the target and come in again upwind. On the second approach the headwinds held up the
planes and the flak was extremely accurate. No.4 engine was disabled and the wing was set on
fire by a large hole in the right wing fuel tank. The fire melted the engine mounts and the No.3
engine fell off the plane. The order was given to abandon ship. The aircraft crashed at Iverny,
four miles northwest of Meaux, France.. MACR 5904
31569 (MSN 6683) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 23Nov43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 25Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 21Dec43.
3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 6Jan44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Grenier Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 9Jan44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME 10Jan44. 534th Bomb Squadron [GD*E], 381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell
(Station 167), Essex 19Feb44, named *Sweet Patootie*. Failed to return from a mission
to the I.G. Farben chemical works at Oppau, Ludwigshafen, Germany 3Sep44 (9POW but 8 escaped
from a box car and returned to UK). Engines No.1 and No.2 damaged, crash landed and caught fire at
Damerey, northeast of Chalon-sur-Sa�ne, France. {4 missions}. Salvaged 5May45. .
31570 (MSN 6684) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 24Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 11Dec43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field,
Detroit, MI 18Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 20Dec43.
533rd Bomb Squadron [VP*W], 381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 2Feb44.
Named *Lucky/Lucky Me*. Failed to return from a mission to the industrial area at
Frankfurt am Main, Germany 25Sep44 (9POW). The aircraft was seen with No.2 engine smoking.
Then it pulled away from its position and dropped back out of formation. The left wing burst on
fire but was still was under control when last seen. Crashed at Sankt Goar, Germany. MACR 10203
31571 (MSN 6685) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 20Nov43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 28Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 19Dec43.
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 3Jan44.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 342nd Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 12Jan44.
Failed to return from a mission to the railway marshalling yards at Piombino, Italy 28Apr44 (10UNK).
Flak en route was heavy and accurate, damaging the plane and crashed at Monte Sant'Angelo, Apulia, Italy
MACR 4527
31572 (MSN 6686) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 24Nov43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 25Nov43. Billings Municipal Airport, MT 26Nov43.
457th Bomb Group, Wendover Field, UT Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 12Dec43. New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 18Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air
Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 19Dec43. 401st Bomb Squadron [LL*Y],
91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 23Jan44. Named "My Beloved Too"
{first combat mission 21Feb44}. Failed to return from a mission to airfields in northern
Germany 21Feb44 (3KIA:7POW). Poor weather conditions over the primary target forced
the formation to hit an alternate target, a Luftwaffe airfield at Achmer, Bramsche, Germany.
Attacked by enemy fighters, killing the togglier in the nose section. The pilot dropped the
bomber down to tree-top level to escape the fighters but anti-aircraft fire caused further damage
to the plane. The pilot crash landed the plane in a brick yard at Hiltrup, Westfalia, three miles
south of M�nster, Germany. The two pilots were fatally wounded and three gunners were wounded.
(1 mission}. . MACR 2462
31573 (MSN 6687) Bailed to Boeing Aircraft Co., Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 2Dec43. Flight Test Division,
Air Materiel Command. Used for crash testing, no landing gear at Seattle 2Apr44.
4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 18Mar45.
2114th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 8Jun45.
2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 22Sep45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 7Jan46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31574 (MSN 6688) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 20Nov43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 24Nov43. Pathfinder Force [PFF] aircraft. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 16Dec43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 25Dec43.
New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 27Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle
Field, ME 29Dec43. 358th Bomb Squadron [VK*G], 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107),
Huntingdonshire 13Jan44. 327th Bomb Squadron [UX*M], 92nd Bomb Group, Podington.
407th Bomb Squadron. Named "Ole Faithful/Ole George. Failed to return from a tactical mission in
support of the Battle of the Bulge to a Luftwaffe airfield at Giessen, Germany 24Dec44 (5POW:4KIA).
Crashed in Luxembourg MACR 11112
31575 (MSN 6689) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 24Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 17Dec43. Midwest Air Depot,
Oklahoma City, OK 7Jan44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 15Jan44.
532nd Bomb Squadron [VE*P], 381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 20Feb44,
Named "Mizpah", which means, "May the Lord watch between me and thee while we are
absent one from another". Severe battle damage on a mission to Berlin, Germany 27Aug44.
The plane had lost rudder controls, oxygen system and hydraulic system among many other
flak damages. {80 missions}. 448th Sub-Depot, Air Service Command, Ridgewell Aug44.
Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor
Locks, CT 27May45. 4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command),
South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 21Oct45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 23Nov45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
31576 (MSN 6690) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 20Nov43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 25Nov43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 22Dec43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field,
Detroit, MI 31Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 2Jan44.
Ferried RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Valley (Station 568), Anglesey, Wales 14Jan44.
339th Bomb Squadron [QJ*G], 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 16Jan44.
Failed to return from a mission to the VKF (Vereinigte Kugellagerfabriken) ball bearing
factory at Erkner, Berlin, Germany 8Mar44 (10POW). All the way from the Netherlands
to Berlin, the bombers were hounded by Luftwaffe fighters. Shot down by enemy fighters,
crashed between Wegenstedt & Calvorden, 13 miles northeast of Helmstadt airfield, Germany.
MACR 3426
31577 ((MSN 6691) Accepted by USAAF 18Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Nov43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 8Dec43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field,
Detroit, MI 14Dec43. Mitchel Field, Hempstead, Long Island, NY 17Dec43. 393rd Base
Headquarters and Air Base Squadron, Syracuse AAB, NY 26Dec43. Grenier Field,
Manchester, NH 31Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle
Field, ME 2Jan44. 560th Bomb Squadron [O], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136),
Suffolk 9Jan44. Named "Aquila". . {first combat mission 30Jan44}. Battle damaged on a
mission to railway facilities around Berlin, Germany 29Apr44. The combat wing was off
course heading to Berlin, attacked by enemy fighters and bombed Magdeburg. Flak over the
target was very accurate. Battle damaged during a mission to the Braunkohle Benzin A.G. synthetic
oil refinery at Rothensee, Magdeburg, Germany 20Jun44. Flak over the target was intense and
accurate. Participated in an Operation Frantic II shuttle mission to the Braunkohle-Benzin AG
synthetic oil refinery at Schwarzheide, Ruhland, Germany 21Jun44. After the target, the bomber
continued east and landed at Poltava (Station 559), Ukraine. Damaged on the ground by a
major German strike force night of 21/22Jun44. {42 missions}. Salvaged
31578 (MSN 6692) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Nov43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 5Dec43.
3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 15Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME 17Dec43. 401st Bomb Squadron [LL*L], 91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121),
Cambridgeshire 29Dec43. Named "My Darling Also". Battle damaged on a mission to an aircraft
assembly plant at Brunswick, Germany 30Jan44 (1WIA). Attacked by enemy fighters wounding a
gunner. Damaged on a mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factory at Augsburg, Germany 25Feb44.
During the bomb run the bombers were dispensing chaff aluminium foil. An airmen in a plane
ahead and above failed to break open the package before release. The cigarette sized carton
struck No.2 engine, ruptured an oil line and started a fire. During the evasive action, a bomb
in a lower rack didn't release and other bombs dropped on top of it. Now losing altitude and
falling behind the formation, the crew disposed of all excess weight during the return to England.
Two friendly Spitfires took up escort only to be mistaken by US P-47 Thunderbolts who riddled
one of them badly. The No.2 propeller could not be feathered and had been windmilling; it was
beginning to disintegrate. Having crossed the English Channel at low altitude, the No.2 propeller
froze giving just enough lift for the plane to clear the cliffs and force land at a RAF fighter
airfield. After debriefing, the bomber crew encountered the Polish pilot of the Spitfire.
American fire had shattered the canopy and there were bullet holes in the propeller;
the pilot lost part of his ear. Failed to return from a mission to the Vereinigte Kugellagerfabriken AG (VKF)
ball bearing factory, Erkner, Germany 6Mar44 (8KIA:2POW). The formation was attacked
north of Magdeburg by Luftwaffe Me 109s of IV./J.G.3 and Fw 190s of Sturmstaffel 1. One of the pilots
from Sturmstaffel 1 used his Fw 190 to ram the bomber between the tail assembly and the
tail gunner, setting number three engine on fire which, in turn, set another Fw 190 on fire and
all three aircraft started down together. The German pilot was Feldwebel Hermann Wahlfeldt
flying Fw 190 A-6, werk nr 470208, White 9; he survived the ramming. All three crashed near
Letzlingen, 10km east of Gardelegen, north of Magdeburg, Germany. {11 missions}. . MACR 2898
31579 (MSN 6693) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Nov43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 5Dec43.
General Mitchell Field, Milwaukee, WI 14Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME 17Dec43. 324th Bomb Squadron [DF*N], 91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn
(Station 121), Cambridgeshire 1Feb44. Named "Betty Lou's Buggy" artwork of a
cartoon girl reminiscent of BettyBoop painted by Tony Starcer. Named after the pilot's wife who
was known to all members of the original crew. On the side panel of Betty Lou's bomb-hauling
automobile were the words 'Block Busters' and some sources give this plane the title of BETTY LOU'S BLOCK BUSTER.
{first combat mission 6Feb44}. Battle damaged on a mission to the Luftwaffe airfield at
Champagne, Reims, France 28Mar44. Flak severely damaged a wing spar. Battle damaged
on a mission to the industrial areas of Brunswick, Germany 29Mar44 (1WIA). Attacked by enemy
fighters, 20mm cannon shells damaged the plane and wounded a gunner. Battle damaged on a
mission to the Luftwaffe airfield at Eschwege, southeast of Kassel, Germany 19Apr44.
Attacked by enemy fighters, 20mm cannon shells damaged the plane. Battle damaged on a
Crossbow mission to a German V-weapon site at La Glacerie, Cherbourg, France 27Apr44.
Flak severely damaged the plane which crash landed on return at RAF Chilbolton, Wiltshire.
2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton (Station 547), Huntingdonshire 27Apr44 for repair.
Regained by Group 23May44. 323rd Bomb Squadron [OR*D]. Battle damaged on a mission
to the Siebel Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory at Halle, Germany 16Aug44 (2WIA;8RTD).
Initially knocked from the formation in a determined attack by a Fw 190 and a Bf 109, the
plane then came under attack from the rear. The tail gunner and engineer/top turret gunner
were wounded. Incoming fire from a rocket plane, a Me 163 Komet, was successfully avoided
by quick action by the pilots who rocked their plane up and down and jiggled from side to side.
A second Me 163 slid up beside the bomber but carefully kept just out of range. Battle damaged
by flak on a mission to the shipyards at Kiel, Germany 30Aug44. Aborted a mission to the
L�tzkendorf oil facilities at M�cheln, west of Merseburg, Germany 11Sep44. Returned to base
with a serious oil leak and landed heavy with a full fuel and bomb load. Accident returning
from a night flying training flight from Bassingbourn 11Sep44 (2INJ). The crew became lost
but found the airfield after flares had been fired from the ground. Coming in too high and
fast, the plane fell off in a slip to the right. There was a terrific crash, a bright flash in the
cockpit when the right landing gear collapsed and the No.3 engine was blazing. The pilot
jammed the throttles forward to get the plane off the runway and the airflow against the
engine seemed to burn out some of the fire. The plane had touched down about ten feet
short of the runway and the right wheel was laying on the runway. It had only gone about
50ft down the runway and did a complete 180 degree turn off the runway to the right.
The tire tracks indicated that it had been almost off the right side of the runway when it first hit.
This same plane had landed that morning with a full bomb and fuel load after aborting a
combat mission, so it seems that the shock with which the plane touched down was
just enough to snap the gear that was probably weakened. Operations had it reported
earlier in the evening that the altimeters were registering 'off' with the settings they were
getting in the tower. {67 missions}. Declared 'war weary'. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots
Ripton (Station 547), Huntingdonshire for repair 30Sep4
42-31636 was reported to be first B-17 attacked by Me 163 rocket-propelled fighter August 16, 1944.
Lowell Getz, who wrote "Pandemonium Over Pelsen - The Forgotten Final Mission" about the last
combat mission of the Eighth Air Force, provided information indicating that while the OUTHOUSE MOUSE
Is widely reported as the first B-17 to be attached by the "Rocket" fighter the Me-163 and is
depicted in the famous Jerry Crandall painting titled "The Mouse and the Flea" that the attack was
really against another B-17 on that same mission - 42-31579 "Betty Lou's Buggy".
If Lowell is correct, there are a LOT of books that tell of the incident that are wrong
31580 (MSN 6694) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26Nov43.
Paine Field, Everett, WA Field, Everett, WA 27Nov43. Portland AAB, OR 3Dec43. United Air Lines,
Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 12Dec43. Bendix Corporation, Bendix Field, South Bend, IN 3Jan44. North Atlantic
Wing, Air Transport Command, Grenier Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 8Jan44. North Atlantic
Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 12Jan44. Ferried to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 15Jan44. 323rd Bomb Squadron [OR*A], 91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121),
Cambridgeshire 29Jan44. Named "Merry Widow". {first combat mission 3Feb44}. Battle damage
on a mission to the Heinkel Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory at Oranienburg, Germany 22Mar44.
The weather confounded efforts to attack the Heinkel Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory, the bombers
diverted to Berlin to destroy the Friedrichstra�e railway station. Flak over Berlin was more intense
than previous missions. One flak shell exploded above the cockpit and some shrapnel came down
through the co-pilot's top window, striking the two pilots. On landing back at Bassingbourn the tail
wheel collapsed; a piece of flak had lodged in the retracting actuator and prevented full extension.
There were twenty-five flak holes on the left side of the airplane and as many on the other side.
Failed to return from a mission to railway installations around Berlin, Germany 7May44 (2KIA:7POW).
Flak over the target intense and struck No.3 engine. The propeller had to be feathered before smoke
stopped streaming back from it. Observers reported seeing the plane drop back from the formation
but follow behind, under control, all the way to the Ijsselmeer, Netherlands. At this point the bomber
was down to 5,000ft when it was engaged by several flak batteries. While the two pilots struggled to
keep control of the plane, the remaining crew bailed out into captivity. The pilot and co-pilot were
unable to get out of the aircraft before it crashed and were killed. Crews reported that they had seen
the bomber returning towards the enemy coast and several aircraft from the group went out on air-sea
rescue searches in the vain hope of locating the crew; they found no trace. {25 missions). MACR 4579
31581 (MSN 6695) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26Nov43.
Paine Field, Everett, WA Field, Everett, WA 28Nov43. Portland AAB, OR 2Dec43. 7th Ferrying Group,
Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 5Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 16Dec43.
Chicago Municipal Airport, IL 21Dec43. La Guardia Field, New York City, NY 22Dec43. Grenier Field,
Manchester, NH 24Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 30Dec43.
Eighth Air Force, Toome, Northern Ireland 1Jan44. Base Air Depot No.1, Burtonwood (Station 590),
Lancashire Jan44. On test flight crashed on a hillside near the National Childrens Home at Edgeworth,
Bolton, Lancashire while flying blind in zero visibility 13Jan44 (4KIS). That day was typically dull
overcast for the time of year, with the cloud base at approximately 1500 feet, but this should have
presented no problems for the routine test flight of a newly delivered B-17 from the USAAF Base Air
Depot at Burtonwood. On this day in addition to the usual three crew required for such a flight,
there were also three passengers on board 'along for the ride'- two enlisted men and a civilian
Engineer. After several minutes flying through the cloud, the pilot decided to turn for home and
began to descend, expecting at any moment to break free of the cloud over the lowland plain
west of Manchester. However during part of the flight the aircraft had been under the control of the
Chief Ground Engineer - not an unusual practice - and despite careful observation on the part of the
pilot, the aircraft had drifted further to the east than had been anticipated, over the hills near Bolton.
At around 1100 feet the plane slammed into the hillside above the village of Edgeworth, the three
passengers in the glazed bombardiers compartment and the Chief Ground Engineer in the co-pilot's
seat being killed instantly. The disintegrating aircraft was torn apart and the fuel tanks exploded
as the momentum carried the remains of the fuselage across the sloping meadow, scattering
wreckage over a wide area. Dazed, the pilot managed to free himself and pulled the only other
survivor, who was seriously wounded, clear of the shattered and burning cockpit.
Salvaged after non battle damage 2Oct44
31582 (MSN 6696) Accepted by USAAF 24Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 26Nov43. Paine Field, Everett, WA Field, Everett, WA 28Nov43.
Toledo, WA 1Dec43. Felts Field, Spokane, WA 4Dec43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field,
Great Falls, MT 5Dec43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 7Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 19Dec43. 3rd Ferrying
Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 8Jan44. Dorval, Montreal 10Jan44. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 12Jan44. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflav�k,
Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 20Jan44. 711th Bomb Squadron, 447th Bomb Group,
Rattlesden (Station 126), Suffolk 23Jan44. {first combat mission 21Jun44}. Failed to return from a
mission to the railway marshalling yards at Holzwickede, Germany 23Mar45 (8KIA:2RTD).
After the bomb run the plane dropped out from the 4th Bomb Wing formation and joined the
34th Bomb Group formation returning to England from its mission to Geisecke. Near Koblenz,
one of the 34th aircraft, 43-38971, was struck by flak, losing its wing. The damaged aircraft
first rolled into a plane from the 487th, which remained flying, before colliding with #582,
shearing off the tail. It went into a tight spin, the right wing folded and there was one explosion
within the aircraft in mid-air. #582 then hit the ground in a wooded area and exploded again.
The tail gunner was the only member of the crew able to bail out, after riding the tail section
down to 8,000ft, at times losing consciousness from lack of oxygen. Amazingly, the ball turret
gunner survived the fall, though sustaining serious injuries, trapped in the ball turret
until it broke free of the aircraft as it crashed through some trees. The two gunners were captured.
The rest of the crew perished along with the entire crew from the 34th. {63 missions}. MACR 13617,
Named OL' SCRAPIRON.
On April 29, 1944, Lt. Robert C. Stevenson was killed on his first mission en route to Berlin, Germany,
with Lt. E. D. Johnson in aircraft 42-97501 as co-pilot. Lt. Stevenson was a very mild mannered, easy
going person. One evening a group of officers were out on the town having a good time when a bunch
of rowdies started to hassle them. Lt. Stevenson was being pushed around, so the story goes, and when
he had enough, he single-handedly cleared the house. Problem solved. So the officers called him
'Ol' Scrapiron'. When Lt. Dahlgran, the original co-pilot, became Command Pilot he asked for his
original crew back. They flew in aircraft 42-31582, thus the name 'Ol' Scrapiron' was voted by the entire crew.
31583 (MSN 6697) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 16Dec43. Chicago Municipal Airport, IL 21Dec43.
La Guardia Field, New York City, NY 23Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque
Isle Field, ME 25Dec43. 358th Bomb Squadron [VK*C], 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107),
Huntingdonshire 13Jan44. Named "Little Princess" aka "Clover Leaf".
On a mission to Landsberg, Munich, Germany 24Apr44 the Group Navigator was killed (1KIA).
Failed to return from a mission to Messerschmitt service test airfield at Lechfeld, Augsburg,
Germany 19Jul44 (5POW:4KIA). Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Tutzing, Germany. MACR 7415
31584 (MSN 6698) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Nov43.
Felts Field, Spokane, WA 26Nov43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 5Dec43.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Dec43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 24Dec43. 4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal
Airport, TN 29Dec43. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11),
West Palm Beach, FL 3Jan44. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 32nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group,
Cerignola #1, Italy 14Jan44. Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. Damaged taxying
in collision with B-17G 42-31853 at Foggia Main, Italy 17Feb44. {12 missions}. Air Depot Feb44.
Salvaged 17Apr45
31585 (MSN 6699) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 26Nov43. Paine Field, Everett, WA Field, Everett, WA 28Nov43. 7th Ferrying Group,
Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 5Dec43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 7Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 16Dec43. Midwest Air Depot, Oklahoma City, OK 7Jan44. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 12Jan44. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field,
Detroit, MI 17Jan44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Grenier Field (Station 16),
Manchester, NH 18Jan44. 323rd Bomb Squadron [OR*B], 91st Bomb Group,
Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 1Feb44 Named *Mount'n Ride*
--artwork of a red-headed woman exercising, based on a Vargas drawing in Esquire magazine,
adding a cowboy boot to the rear and mountain scenery as background. Painted by Tony Starcer
(first combat mission 5Feb44}. Failed to return from a mission to the industrial area at
Augsburg, Germany 16Mar44 (10INT). From Strasburg, Germany to Augsburg, the bombers
were attacked by Luftwaffe fighters in a running battle. The 1st Combat Bomb Wing mistook
the industrial area at Gessertshausen for Augsburg on the Pathfinder screen and bombed the
wrong target. Flak damaged engine No.2 & No.3 and the propellers were feathered. The plane
dropped behind and force landed at D�bendorf, Z�rich, Switzerland. {6 missions}. MACR 3221
Returned to Base Air Depot No.1, Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire. Salvaged 8Oct45.
31586 (MSN 6700) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Nov43.
Damaged in collision with parked B-17G 42-97488 while taxying at Cheyenne 9Dec43.
97th Bomb Group 11Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 20Dec43.
Midwest Air Depot, Oklahoma City, OK 28Dec43. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport
Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 17Jan44. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy.
414th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 18Jan44.; Named "Pistol Packin' Mamma".
artwork inspired by the Vargas' "Pistol Packin' Mama" Esquire centrefold of March 1944
On a mission to an ordnance depot at Vienna, Austria 3Nov44, one airman jumped out
of the aircraft and was killed (1KIA). {111+ missions}. Air Depot 3Jan45. Returned to US.
1103rd Base Unit (Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command), Morrison Field, West Palm
Beach, FL 26Apr45. 4104th Base Unit (Rome Air Technical Service Command), Rome
Field, NY 28Apr45. Reclaimed 2Oct45
31587 (MSN 6701) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 26Nov43. 457th Bomb Group, Wendover Field, UT 7Dec43. 100th Bomb Group,
Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 22Jan44. 325th Bomb Squadron [NV*G], 92nd Bomb Group,
Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 11Mar44. Failed to return from a mission to the
Focke-Wulf aircraft factory at Sorau, Prussia 11Apr44 (5KIA:5POW). Shot down by enemy
fighters, a wing on fire, exploded in mid-air and crashed Hostalingen-Kathendorf,
13 miles northeast of Brauncshweig, Germany. MACR 3672
31588 (MSN 6702) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY
26Nov43. 457th Bomb Group, Wendover Field, UT 7Dec43. Damaged in ground accident
at Station 4, North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command 21Dec43. Ferried RCAF Goose Bay,
Labrador to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 24Jan44. 748th Bomb Squadron [Q],
457th Bomb Group, Glatton (Station 130), Huntingdonshire 26Jan44. {first combat mission 21Feb44}.
Battle damaged on a mission to an aircraft repair depot at Lippstadt, Germany 21Feb44 (1KIA:9RTD).
Clouds obscured the target and the group diverted to targets at Hanover, Germany.
Flak damaged engine No.3. Later damaged in fighter attacks on the return, badly damaging
the tail and rudder. Most controls and communications had been disabled and the
oxygen system had been ruptured. The plane limped home to base. {1 mission}.
Salvaged by 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton 23Aug44.
31589 (MSN 6703) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Nov43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 1Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 17Dec43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 6Jan44.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Grenier Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 9Jan44.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 12Jan44. Damaged taxying 12Jan44.
334th Bomb Squadron [BG*C], 95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 23Jan44. Named "Patty Ann".
Participated in an Operation Frantic V shuttle mission to the Flugzeugwerk Gotenhafen
Kurt Kannenberg AG Focke Wulf assembly works at Rahmel, Gdynia, Poland 6Aug44.
After the target, the bomber continued east and landed at Poltava (Station 559), Ukraine.
Operated a mission to an oil refinery at Trzebinia, Poland 7Aug44, returning to Ukraine.
Operated a mission to an airfield at Buz?u, Rumania 8Aug44, continuing on to Foggia #1,
Celone, Italy, a Fifteenth Air Force base in southern Italy. Returned to England on a
mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Francazal, Toulouse, France 12Aug44. Failed to return from
a mission to the Braunkohlen Benzin AG synthetic oil refinery northeast of Zeitz,
Germany 16Aug44 (3KIA:6POW). Damaged by flak, crashed at Altenburg, Germany. {72 missions}.
MACR 8177
31590 (MSN 6704) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27Nov43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 30Nov43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 21Dec43. Midwest Air Depot, Oklahoma City, OK 4Jan44. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Lincoln Field, NB 12Jan44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 16Jan44. 4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 18Jan44.
MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 21Jan44. 1104th Base Unit (Caribbean Wing, Air Transport
Command), Homestead Field, FL 23Jan44. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 49th Bomb Squadron,
2nd Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 25Feb44. {first combat mission 4Mar44}.
Battle damaged on a mission to the railway marshalling yards at Belgrade, Serbia,
Yugoslavia 17Apr44 (1WIA:9RTD). Flak was intense and accurate resulting in damage
to the aircraft and injury to the right waist gunner. Participated in the first Operation
Frantic shuttle mission to the railway marshalling yards at Debrecen, Hungary 2Jun44.
After the target, the bomber continued east and landed at Mirgorod (Station 561),
Ukraine. Operated a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Gala?i, Rumania 6Jun44,
returning to Mirgorod. Returned to base in Italy on a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at
Foc?ani, Rumania 11Jun44. Temporarily modified with decking in the bomb bay to
evacuate prisoners of war from Popesti, Bucharest, Rumania to Bari, Italy during Operation
Reunion 31Aug44-3Sep44. {86 missions}. Returned to US. 1103rd Base Unit (Caribbean Wing,
Air Transport Command), Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 20Feb45.
4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 27Jul45.
Reclaimed 24May46.
31591 (MSN 6705) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26Nov43.
457th Bomb Group, Wendover Field, UT 9Dec43. Grenier Field, Manchester, NH 20Jan44.
457th Bomb Group [W], Glatton (Station 130), Huntingdonshire 25Jan44. 613th Bomb Squadron [IN*J],
401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 11Mar44, named "Homesick Angel"
Failed to return from a Crossbow mission to a German V-weapon site in the Pas-de-Calais, France 19Mar44.
Force landed on the continent. Salvaged by 1st Strategic Air Depot, Troston (Station 595), Suffolk 22Apr44.
Battle damaged on a Crossbow mission to V-2 rocket manufacturing facilities about five miles west of
Weimar, Germany 24Aug44 (1KIA:9RTD); the radio operator was killed. Accident returning from an
aborted mission caused by bad weather 25Mar45. The aircraft got into trouble, the crew bailed
out after the pilot had accidentally hit the bail out bell. {75 missions}.
31592 457th Bomb Group, Wendover Field, UT 10Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME 19Jan44. 457th Bomb Group, Glatton (Station 130), Huntingdonshire 22Jan44.
525th Bomb Squadron [FR*R], 379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 18Mar44.
527th Bomb Squadron. Named "Nobody's Baby" Crashed during takeoff for a mission to railway
marshalling yards at Neuss, Germany 23Jan45 (4KIA:5WIA + 5KIS on ground}. It was snowing
lightly at Kimbolton on the morning of 23Jan45. The runways had been cleared by snowplows,
there was an 8-mph wind out of the East-North-East. In the predawn twilight, visibility was
estimated at 800 - 1000 yards. The aircraft taxied up just short of the runway. Although the plane
was a veteran of many combat missions, this would be its first mission in several days. It was fueled
with 2400 gallons of gasoline and armed with eight high explosive 500-pound bombs.
In the cockpit a normal takeoff began. Between 110 and 120 mph, the plane's weight was
coming off the tires. The pilot felt the plane bumping and eased back on the control stick.
Vibration was increasing; not from the control surfaces but as if the wings themselves are shaking.
The pilot fed in right rudder to try and hold the nose; no effect. The plane was flying and the co-pilot
selected the landing gear to 'up'. The pilot tried to climb but there was no authority in the elevators.
The plane was out of control, altitude maybe 25 feet. The plane continued to turn left and trees
appeared ahead. The pilot cut the throttles for the two engines on the right wing in a final
attempt to straighten out the plane before it hits. The plane tore through telephone wires
and power lines; trees tore off the left wing outboard of the No.1 engine. The fuel tanks in
the wing ruptured and flames erupted. One thousand yards from the runway was the
communal living area for the 525th Bomber Squadron�.barracks, mess hall and
administrative buildings. Without warning to those on the ground and with no time to sound
alarm, the fully loaded bomber crashed directly into the 525th's Orderly Building. There
were several hundred men in the living site that morning. Some were asleep and some were
awake. The fuel tanks exploded more or less on impact. Thick black smoke billowed from
the crash site. Most men, startled awake by the blast, streamed away from the inferno
half-dressed and shoe-less in the snow. From across the field, ambulances and fire crews
could be heard on the way. The plane burned furiously; flames reached into the cockpit.
Ammunition from the guns cooked off in the fire spraying rounds indiscriminately.
When the plane came to a stop; the cockpit was partially ripped open. The co-pilot was
temporarily knocked out but then regained consciousness. Men from the site came to the
aid of those still trapped in the burning wreckage. Of the nine men aboard, five got out,
all injured. A few minutes after the crash, the flames reached the bomb bay. The first bomb
that cooked off killed a total of nine men and left many more wounded. Four of the dead
were from the aircrew but the remainder were would be rescuers. Several other bombs
later exploded also leaving every building in the site destroyed or damaged. Many men
lost all their clothing and personal items. Later other unexploded bombs were found and
made safe by bomb disposal crews
31593 MSN 6707) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Nov43.
Spokane Field, WA 26Nov43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 2Dec43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field,
Great Falls, MT 5Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 16Dec43. Truax Field,
Madison, WI 3Jan44. Rome Air Depot, NY 4Jan44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME 8Jan44. 613th Bomb Squadron [IN*L], 401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe
(Station 128), Northamptonshire 1Feb44. Named "Carrie B" Failed to return from a Crossbow
mission to a German V-weapon site in the Pas-de-Calais, France 20Apr44 (8KIA:2POW). Flak
damaged No.3 and No.4 engiines setting them on fire, the aircraft left formation, stalled and
exploded in mid-air, crashed Pont Remy, five miles southeast of Abbeville, France. MACR 4054.
31594 (MSN 6708) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26Nov43.
457th Bomb Group, Wendover Field, UT 9Dec43. 751st Bomb Squadron [G], 457th Bomb Group,
Glatton (Station 130), Huntingdonshire 25Jan44. Named "Sweat'er Out" Failed to return from a
mission to the railway marshalling yards at Ludwigshafen and Mannheim, Germany 27May44
(2KIA:6POW:1EVD). En route to the target the group was attacked by enemy fighters over
�pinal, France. A Bf 109 shot off one third of the right wing, the aircraft was on fire internally
and externally and fell into a tight spin. With the engineer dead, the crew jettisoned the bombs
and bailed out. The aircraft exploded and crashed in woods near Thannenkirch, NW of Bergheim,
nine miles north of Colmar, France. MACR 5299
31595 (MSN 6709) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27Nov43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 30Nov43. 457th Bomb Group, Wendover Field, UT 9Dec43.
750th Bomb Squadron, 457th Bomb Group, Glatton (Station 130), Huntingdonshire 25Jan44. Named "Flying Jenny"
Failed to return from a mission to the Vereinigte Kugellagerfabriken AG (VKF) ball bearing factory,
Erkner, Germany 6Mar44 (10KIA). A German Me 410 fighter had been shot down and was out of control
when it collided with this bomber which then exploded, the wreckage falling onto another
B-17G, 42-31627 flying in a lower box. The aircraft crashed onekm east of Brachwitz, near
Treuenbrietzen, SW of Berlin, Germany, the wreckage being scattered over an area of four km.
MACR 3197
31596 (MSN 6710) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27Nov43.
Billings Municipal Airport, MT 29Nov43. 457th Bomb Group, Wendover Field, UT 9Dec43.
750th Bomb Squadron, 457th Bomb Group, Glatton (Station 130), Huntingdonshire 26Dec44.
{first combat mission 21Feb44}. Failed to return from a mission to an aircraft repair depot at
Lippstadt, Germany 21Feb44 (9POW:1KIA). Clouds obscured the target and the group diverted
to targets at Hanover, Germany. Flying 'tail end charlie', the bomber was under heavy fighter
attack on the bomb run. With two engines out, oxygen system damaged, and other major
damage from 20mm shells, the pilot jettisoned the bombs and the crew abandoned the plane.
The aircraft crashed at Bottorf, four miles west of Quakenbr�ck, Germany. {1 mission}.
{first 457th BG combat loss}.. MACR 3004
31597 (MSN 6711) Accepted by USAAF 20Nov43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 27Nov43. Salt Lake City AAB, UT 28Nov43. United Air Lines,
Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 17Dec43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 20Dec43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field,
Detroit, MI 6Jan44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Grenier Field (Station 16),
Manchester, NH 9Jan44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 12Jan44.
Ferried to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 15Jan43. 527th Bomb Squadron [FO*C],
379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 31Jan44. Named "Landa".
Damaged landing at Kimbolton 16May44. Failed to return from a mission to the Braunkohlen
Benzin AG synthetic oil refinery northeast of Zeitz, Germany 30Nov44 (6POW:3KIA).
Damaged by flak, crashed Doelzig, Germany. MACR 11127
31598 (MSN 6712) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 28Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 19Dec43. New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 31Dec43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 2Jan44. Ferried on the North
Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 16Jan44.
551st Bomb Squadron [HR*V], 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 18Jan44.
Named 'Moonglow'. Damaged taxying in collision with a Spitfire at Great Ashfield 24Feb44.
Failed to return from a mission to Paris, France 2Aug44 (4POW:5EVD). Damaged by flak, crashed
Paris, France. MACR 8161
31599 (MSN 6713) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 25Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 12Dec43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field,
Detroit, MI 17Dec43. Grenier Field, Manchester, NH 21Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 23Dec43. Newtownards, Northern Ireland 24Dec43.
410th Bomb Squadron [GL*O], 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 30Dec43.
Named FIFI, then BOOTS & HER BUDDIES / THE FILTHY HAG. Failed to return from a mission to an ordnance
depot at Spandau, Berlin, Germany 6Oct44 (9POW). Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Germany
MACR 9349
31600 (MSN 6714) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 28Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 15Dec43. San Bernardino Field, CA 20Dec43.
Grenier Field, Manchester, NH 21Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME 23Dec43. 334th Bomb Squadron [BG*T], 95th Bomb Group,
Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 2Jan44. "Pride of New Mexico/Spirit of New Mexico".
Battle damaged on an Operation Frantic V shuttle mission to the Flugzeugwerk Gotenhafen Kurt
Kannenberg AG Focke Wulf assembly works at Rahmel, Gdynia, Poland 6Aug44. Battle damaged,
after the target, the bomber continued east and landed at Poltava (Station 559), Ukraine.
Operated a mission to an airfield at Buz?u, Rumania 8Aug44, continuing on to Foggia #1,
Celone, Italy, a Fifteenth Air Force base in southern Italy. Returned to England on a mission
to a Luftwaffe airfield at Francazal, Toulouse, France 12Aug44. 335th Bomb Squadron [OE*M].
Failed to return from a mission to the industrial area at Sterkrade, Germany 21Nov44 (9POW).
Cloud cover prevented bombing of this target and the group diverted to the alternative, the
railway marshalling yard at Osnabr�ck, Germany. Battle damaged with two engines out,
the ball turret was jettisoned. The aircraft crashed at St Vith, Belgium. {91 missions}. . MACR 11195
31601 (MSN 6715) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 27Nov43.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Dec43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 22Dec43. 4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 29Dec43.
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 3Jan44.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 352nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Cerignola #1, Italy 14Jan44.
Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. Fatal crash at Lucera 11Aug44 (1KIA).
31602 (MSN 6716) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 28Nov43.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20Dec43. Operational
Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 24Dec43. 3rd Ferrying
Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 20Jan44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Grenier Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 29Jan44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME 5Feb44. 364th Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105),
Northamptonshire 22Feb44. Failed to return from a Crossbow mission to a German V-weapon
site in the Pas-de-Calais, France 23Mar44 (8POW:2EVD). Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed
along the Zelham-Halle road, Netherlands. MACR 3431.
31603 (MSN 6717) Accepted by USAAF 22Nov43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver
Municipal Airport, CO 28Nov43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 16Dec43.
New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 31Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME 2Jan44. Ferried RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Valley (Station 568),
Anglesey, Wales 14Jan44. 569th Bomb Squadron [CC*N], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham
(Station 153), Suffolk 16Jan44. Named "Belle of the Brawl" {first combat mission 29Jan44}.
Failed to return from a Crossbow mission to a German V-weapon site at La Glacerie, Cherbourg,
France 8May44 (7KIA:2POW). The plane was observed, after bomb release over the target, to fall
out of formation with No.4 engine smoking. It was out of control and the bomb bay doors
remained open. Two of the crew managed to bail out but seven of the crew were found in the
wreckage of the crashed plane. Crashed Breuville, seven miles south of Cherbourg, France. {33 missions}.
MACR 4583
31604 (MSN 6718) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 28Nov43.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Dec43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 22Dec43. Meeks Field, Keflav�k, Iceland 4Jan44.
During the ferry flight to Nutts Corner (Station 235), Belfast, Northern Ireland 13Jan44, the aircraft
suffered engine failure 600 miles off the Scottish coast. The radio went u/s and the pilot
decided to ditch in Loch Quoich, which is near the west side of Scotland (inland from the
Isle of Skye). Four crew bailed out into the loch, one drowned and the other nine were rescued.
Salvaged by RAF No.56 Maintenance Unit, Inverness. The aircraft was beached 29Feb44
[the aircraft had been salvaged to recover important documents].
31605 (MSN 6719) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 29Nov43.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Dec43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 20Dec43. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport
Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 3Jan44. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy.
352nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Cerignola #1, Italy 6Jan44. Foggia #8 (Longskirt),
Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. Failed to return from a mission to a railway marshalling yard at Lyon,
France 25May44 (9KIA). Crossing Italy the Group inadvertantly crossed over the front lines
at 9,000ft and was shot at by heavy flak. The Group scattered to escape and limped home
without completing the mission. Collided in mid-air with B-17G 42-31853. The formation
approached its base and began to descend when it entered cloud and one plane pulled
up into the other. Coming out into the clear, the front of this aircraft was seen on fire falling
straight down. Too low for the crew to bail out, it hit the top of a 3,500 foot mountain
approximately twenty miles from base at Lucera. {38 missions}..
31606 (MSN 6720) Accepted by USAAF 22Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 27Nov43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training
Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 10Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 14Dec43. 547th Bomb Squadron [SO*O], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood
(Station 106), Northamptonshire 6Jan44. {first combat mission 14Jan44}. Failed to return
from a mission to industrial areas in the suburbs of Berlin, Germany 4Mar44 (7POW:3EVD).
Because of severe weather in the assembly area, the group diverted to a target at Bonn, Germany.
Over the target, heavy flak riddled the tail section and struck No.2 engine. Soon No.1 engine
began to leak oil and the propeller could not be feathered. Losing height, the guns were
thrown out but the ball turret could not be jettisoned. Down to 8,000ft, the pilot ordered the
crew to bail out. The aircraft crashed at Hangest-sur-Somme, eleven miles northwest of Amiens,
France. {12 missions}.. MACR 2739
31607 (MSN 6721) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27Nov43.
457th Bomb Group, Wendover Field, UT 12Oct43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME 19Jan44. 748th Bomb Squadron [B], 457th Bomb Group, Glatton (Station 130),
Huntingdonshire 23Feb44. Named "Rose Olive". Failed to return from a mission to the synthetic oil refinery at L�tzkendorf,
six miles west of Merseburg, Germany 12May44 (10POW). After dropping bombs on the target,
the plane apparently developed engine trouble or other malfunctions and dropped from the
formation with two engines out. It dropped far behind the rest of the group and apparently
had other problems for the crew bailed out when a third engine failed. The bomber crashed at
Naunheim/Eifel, six miles southeast of Mayen, SW of Koblenz, Germany. MACR 4800
31608 (MSN 6722) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 28Nov43.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Dec43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 20Dec43. 20th Ferrying Group, Berry Field, Nashville, TN 26Dec43.
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 3Jan44.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 352nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Cerignola #1, Italy 6Jan44.
Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. Damaged while parked by B-17F 42-5764 taxying at
Lucera 25Jun44. Declared 'war weary'. Reassigned for utility, training and weather check
aircraft 12Oct44. Air Depot 22Feb45. Returned to US. Grenier Field, Manchester, NH 21Sep45.
4185th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), Independence Field, KS 30Nov45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 7Jan46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
31609 (MSN 6723) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 29Nov43.
Eighth Air Force, UK 15Jan44. Remained in US. 962nd Bombardier Training Squadron, Hobbs Field, NM.
Accident landing at Hobbs Field 3Apr44. 4136th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service
Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 4Jul44. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized,
Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 14Aug44. 3021st Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Las Vegas
Field, NV 26Sep44. 3022nd Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Indian Springs Auxiliary
Field, NV 2Oct44. Accident landing at Indian Springs Auxiliary Field 15Dec44. Ground accident
at Indian Springs Auxiliary Field 7Jan45. 3021st Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Las Vegas
Field, NV 19Mar45. 2126th Base Unit (Central School for Flexible Gunnery), Laredo Field, TX
29Mar45. Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment;
designated TB-17G. Damaged in collision with parked TB-17G 42-31961 while taxying at Laredo
Field 30May45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and
disposal 11Jan46. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company,
Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31610 (MSN 6724) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 29Nov43.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 10Dec43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 21Dec43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 6Jan44.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 9Jan44. Nutts Corner (Station 235),
Belfast, Northern Ireland 15Jan44. 324th Bomb Squadron [DF*M], 91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn
(Station 121), Cambridgeshire 1Feb44. 322nd Bomb Squadron [LG*M] Apr44;
Named "The Liberty Belle" artwork of a blond woman lying on her back with her left
leg in the air. Painted by Tony Starcer.
Battle damaged on a mission to Friedrichstrasse railway station, Berlin, Germany 7May44 (1WIA:9RTD).
Major battle damage on a mission to the synthetic oil refinery at L�tzkendorf, six miles west of Merseburg,
Germany 12May44. Because of heavy smoke over the target, the railway marshalling yards two miles
west were bombed. Failed to return from a mission to an aero engine factory at Munich, Germany 16Jul44
(1WIA:8RTD). A flak shell burst as the bomber was nearing the target, the force of the explosion knocked the
waist gunner about twelve feet, slamming him into the top of the ball turret. In addition the bomb bay
doors and bomb release mechanisms had been damaged. The bombardier managed to get the doors open
and jettisoned the bombs over the target, but he was not able to get the doors closed. The open doors
constituted a drag on the aircraft, and along with the loss of gasoline from the wing tanks, would result
in the aircraft running short of fuel before it could get back. The plane plunged from its spot in the formation
and went careening through the sky, barely missing other planes. One engine was out now, and another
was weakening. The plane began dropping back and down. As it neared the French coast, another
engine quit. The pilot, noting that the fuel was almost exhausted, ordered the crew to prepare to ditch.
They began jettisoning all loose and heavy equipment. Then the two remaining engines quit. With fuel
exhaustion, the crew went to their ditching positions. They escaped and sat in their dinghies for about
half an hour, when they were rescued by a friendly vessel. Just as they were pulling away in the rescue
craft, the bomber put its nose into the water, lifted the tail and plunged straight down, out of sight
31611 (MSN 6725) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 28Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 23Dec43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field,
Detroit, MI 9Jan44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 10Jan44.
366th Bomb Squadron [KY*U], 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 29Jan44.
Failed to return from a mission to railway marshalling yards at Saarbr�cken, Germany 11May44
(10POW:1KIA). Damaged by flak, crashed Hagondange, nine miles north of Metz, France.
31612 (MSN 6726) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 28Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 17Dec43. 393rd Base Headquarters
and Air Base Squadron, Syracuse AAB, NY 2Jan44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME 4Jan44. Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland
to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 14Jan44. 510th Bomb Squadron [TU*B], 351st Bomb Group,
Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 30Jan44. Failed to return from a mission to the
Junkers aircraft factories at Halberstadt and Aschersleben, Germany 22Feb44 (1KIA:9POW).
Severe flak damage, crash landed on Geilenkirchen-Aachen road, near Uebach-Palenberg,
nine miles north of Aachen, Germany. {8 missions}.. MACR 2657
31613 (MSN 6727) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28Nov43.
Billings Municipal Airport, MT 29Nov43. 457th Bomb Group, Wendover Field, UT 10Dec43.
749th Bomb Squadron [R], 457th Bomb Group, Glatton (Station 130), Huntingdonshire 27Jan44.
325th Bomb Squadron [NV*N], 92nd Bomb Group, Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 11Mar44.
Named "Sharoo Kay" Accident on return from a mission to aircraft factories at Kassel,
Germany 19Apr44. The landing gear failed to extend [the gear retraction motors had been
installed on wrong sides] and crash landed at Podington. Salvaged 20Apr44.
31614 (MSN 6728) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27Nov43.
Seattle, WA 29Nov43. Portland AAB, OR 2Dec43. Felts Field, Spokane, WA 4Dec43. United Air Lines,
Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 6Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 16Dec43. Cleveland Municipal Airport, OH 20Dec43. 393rd Base Headquarters
and Air Base Squadron, Syracuse AAB, NY 21Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME 3Jan44. 533rd Bomb Squadron [VP*L], 381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell
(Station 167), Essex 21Jan44. Named *Minnie the Mermaid* Damaged on a mission to an
airfield south of Berlin, Germany 27Aug44. Diverted by bad weather to a secondary target, the port
area at Emden, Germany. Just as the bomb bay doors opened the bomb bay motor caught fire.
The VHF radio also caught fire and the No.1 engine started to lose oil. The plane dropped
out of formation and almost hit the lead plane's bombs. A piece of flak came through the
nose and made a hole the size of a baseball. Battle damaged on a mission to the Deurag-Nerag
oil refinery, Misburg, Hanover, Germany 29Nov44 (9RTD). Force landed Meijel, twenty miles
east of Eindhoven, Netherlands, the crew being quickly evacuated by British ground troops. Salvaged 27Jan45.
31615 (MSN 6729) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27Nov43.
Portland AAB, OR 28Nov43. 457th Bomb Group, Wendover Field, UT 9Dec43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 26Jan44. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflav�k, Iceland
to Nutts Corner (Station 235), Belfast, Northern Ireland 4Feb44. 748th Bomb Squadron [N],
457th Bomb Group, Glatton (Station 130), Huntingdonshire 5Feb44. Named "Snap Usk Shamrock"
Crash landed at Glatton 23May44. Failed to return from a mission to an oil refinery at Hamburg,
Germany 20Jun44 (6POW:3KIA). With the bomb bay doors open the aircraft was hit by flak over
the target. The plane lost two engines, was set afire and had major damage to the tail section.
It left the formation and immediately went into a spin. At about 5000 feet the plane exploded.
The tail gunner was in the plane when it exploded but was thrown clear. Crashed partially in a
swamp at Wardershof Altenwerder, near Hamburg. MACR 6003
31616 (MSN 6730) Accepted b USAAF 23Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 27Nov43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 5Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle
Field, ME 17Dec43. Ferried from RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador to Nutts Corner (Station 235),
Belfast, Northern Ireland 20Dec43. 427th Bomb Squadron [GN*U], 303rd Bomb Group,
Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 14Jan44 Named "The Spirit of Flak-Wolf".
{first combat mission 21Jan44}. Crashed shortly after takeoff for a mission to the Focke-Wulf
aircraft factory at Marienburg, East Prussia 9Apr44 (6KIS:4RTD). Because of its heavy fuel and bomb
load, it couldn't gain sufficient altitude. A tree was hit while taking off, tearing off the tail and part
of the stabiliser. Still unable to gain altitude and hard to control, it hit another tree and crashed
to the ground about 2.5 miles from the end of the runway, catching fire one mile south of Winwick,
Huntingdonshire. {20 missions}. Salvaged 11Apr44
31617 (MSN 6731) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27Nov43.
Grandview Field, Kansas City, MO 7Dec43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 8Dec43. Dayton, OH 9Dec43.
Wright Field, Dayton, OH 15Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 19Dec43.
Midwest Air Depot, Oklahoma City, OK 10Jan44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 15Jan44. 339th Bomb Squadron, 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138),
Norfolk 29Jan44. Failed to return from a mission to the industrial area at Brunswick,
Germany 10Feb44 (10POW). Shot down by an enemy fighter and crashed at Emsdetten, Germay
MACR 2373.
31618 (MSN 6732) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28Nov43.
Rock Springs Municipal Airport, WY 8Dec43. 457th Bomb Group, Wendover Field, UT 9Dec43.
Grenier Field, Manchester, NH 20Jan44. 750th Bomb Squadron [D], 457th Bomb Group,
Glatton (Station 130), Huntingdonshire 27Jan44. 748th Bomb Squadron. Named "Our Baby". Failed to return
from a mission to bomb airfields around Paris, France 14Jun44 (4RTD:5KIA). The air commander
had called for the squadron to do a 360 degree turn over the target and come in again upwind.
On the second approach the headwinds held up the planes and the flak was extremely accurate.
As it passed over the target the plane was hit directly below by an exploding shell. The ball turret
gunner was hit in the foot by flak and the chin turret gunner was hit in the leg. The two engines
on the left side were on fire. The propellers were feathered and the fire extinguisher system used to
put out the fires. They headed back to England and as they approached the English Channel the engines
caught fire again and the wing was in full flame. All the crew, including the wounded,
bailed out over water and before the plane hit the water it blew up. Air-Sea Rescue picked up the
pilot, tail gunner, radio operator, and ball turret gunner. The remaining members of the crew
drowned before they could be rescued. The aircraft crashed in the English Channel off Hastings, SussexMACR 5905
31619 (MSN 6733) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 1Dec43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 5Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 19Dec43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 18Jan44. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 20Jan44. 615th Bomb Squadron [IY*L],
401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 31Jan44.
Named "That Sweet Thing--BTO in the ETO". Failed to return from a mission to Berlin,
Germany 24May44 (10EVD). Over Germany the bomber was hit by flak in the right wing and
No.3 engine stopped as did No.2 engine turbocharger. The bomber left the formation and headed
for Sweden. It soon started losing fuel. Apparently believing that the Danish island of Bornholm was
Swedish the aircraft came low over R�nne airport from the sea after having dropped the radio
equipment in the water and crash landed in a field at Soseg�rd. The landing was perfect, but rain and
strong wind prevented the crew from making the plane catch fire, even if they wrapped a parachute
stained with oil around an engine. The crew split up but all evaded capture and later escaped
separately to Sweden. They were all back in England by mid-June 1944. MACR 4957.
31620 (MSN 6734) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27Nov43.
457th Bomb Group, Wendover Field, UT 11Dec43. 750th Bomb Squadron [B], 457th Bomb Group,
Glatton (Station 130), Huntingdonshire 26Jan44. Named "Skunk Hollow".
Damaged by flak on a mission to a target of an oil dump on the Seine River across from the city of
Rouen, France 22Jun44. Flak was very heavy at the target, damaging the hydraulic system.
The pilot brought his damaged plane back to base and prepared for a crash landing.
When he touched down without brakes the plane veered to the right and hit the wing of
another aircraft, and then crashed head-on into a parked aircraft, 42-38056, on its hardstand.
Both caught fire immediately and were completely consumed by flames, shooting two and three
hundred feet into the air. Fifty caliber shells were exploding; projectiles and pieces of metal flew
through the air. Flares were going off continually and the heat was terrific. Miraculously the
entire crew escaped. An assistant engineering officer with the 749th and a flight chief raced
to the scene. The wing of the first aircraft to be hit, before the head- on collision, was actually
overlapped the fuselage of one of the burning aircraft. The fuel tanks were partially filled, and
that if the fire developed, the aircraft would explode. Despite the difficulties encountered and the
danger involved, the two airmen succeeded in moving the aircraft a safe distance from the fire.
After this was accomplished, the two men returned to the scene of the fire and repeated the performance
by moving another Fortress away from the flames. It was found later that the wing on the first
aircraft to be taxied away had actually begun to melt. Salvaged 22Jun44.
31621 (MSN 6735) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 28Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 19Dec43. Midwest Air Depot, Oklahoma City, OK 8Jan44.
338th Bomb Squadron [BX*L], 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 5Feb44.
Named "Stormy Weatheraaa'. Failed to return from a diversionary mission to an aircraft depot at
Zwickau, Germany 12May44 (5KIA:5POW). En route to the target, between Koblenz and Frankfurt,
the formation was attacked by a large force of enemy fighters. Enemy aircraft damaged three
engines plus other damage. Crashed Bellmuth, twenty-two miles northeast of Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
MACR 4856
31622 (MSN 6736) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 29Nov43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 23Dec43. Midwest Air Depot, Oklahoma City, OK
30Dec43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 8Jan44. 4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 9Jan44.
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 10Jan44.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 414th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 22Jan44.
Flown from Menara Airport, Marrakech, French Morocco to Valley (Station 568), Anglesey, Wales 20Feb44.
Damaged in collision with B-17F 42-5938 taxying at Amendola 23Feb44. Accident on a mission to the
Steyr-Daimler-Puch factory complex at Steyr, Austria 24Feb44 (1KIA:9RTD). Mid-air collision with
B-17G 42-30405 en route to the target when the mission was cancelled because of fog. The formation
started a turn for home. This plane came sailing sideways down out of the fog. The right wing then
went up and the other plane slid under but not fast enough. The No.4 engine propeller of #622
started cutting #405 in two at the tail wheel. The tail section fell free with the tail gunner
desperately trying to get his chest pack on and fastened. He pulled the latch to jettison the
escape hatch but it wouldn't work. He then moved forward through flapping aluminium and
control cables and tumbled free. One of the gunners bailed out when the alarm was given
and was gone before the alarm was cancelled as the plane was brought under control.
The tail gunner had been wounded and died next day. The plane returned and landed safely
at base. Repaired and returned to service. Declared 'war weary'. Reassigned as a cargo
aircraft 9Oct44. Salvaged 30May45. MACR 6374
31623 (MSN 6737) Accepted by USAAF 24Nov43. Accepted by USAAF 29Nov43. 7th Ferrying Group,
Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 3Dec43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver
Municipal Airport, CO 4Dec43. Hobbs Field, NM 19Dec43. 3021st Base Unit (Flexible
Gunnery School), Las Vegas Field, NV 28Sep44. 3022nd Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School),
Indian Springs Auxiliary Field, NV 9Oct44. Damaged by engine failure at indian Springs
Auxiliary Field 10Jan45. 3021st Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Las Vegas Field, NV 15Mar45.
Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment;
designated TB-17G. 2126th Base Unit (Central School for Flexible Gunnery), Laredo Field, TX 28Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 16Oct45.
SOC 5Jan46. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46;
scrapped
31624 (MSN 6738) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 28Nov43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 1Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 19Dec43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 31Dec43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 5Jan44. 338th Bomb Squadron [BX*X],
96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 12Jan44. Named "Joker".
Failed to return from a mission to the industrial areas of Brunswick, Germany 23Mar44 (10POW).
Flak damaged engine No.3 & No.4 over Ruhr Valley. On return, crashed at Schaijk, near Oss, Netherlands.
MACR 3427
31625 (MSN 6739) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 30Nov43.
Paine Field, Everett, WA Field, Everett, WA 2Dec43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 5Dec43.
Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 10Dec43.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 16Dec43.
Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 20Dec43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 419th Bomb Squadron,
301st Bomb Group, Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 16May44. Failed to return from a
mission to the aircraft engine factories at Wiener Neudorf, Austria 26Jul44 (4POW:6KIA).
Shortly after crossing the Austrian border, the Group formation was attacked by a large
number of enemy fighters. The right wing had two large holes over two thirds of the length.
The complete rudder and almost the entire vertical stabiliser had been completely shot away.
The left wing burned at No.2 engine and the nos section was on fire. The plane turned left in
one turn and crew members began to bail out. Of the ten crew members, four were able to
parachute, six other crew members died in the crash. The aircraft still had all the bombs
on board when it crashed at Ratten, Austria. MACR 7135
31626 (MSN 6740) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 29Nov43.
Paine Field, Everett, WA 30Nov43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 2Dec43. Chanute Field, Rantoul, IL 18Dec43.
3036th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Yuma Field, AZ 6Jul44. 4136th Base Unit (Oklahoma City
Air Technical Service Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 7Jul44. 3036th Base Unit
(Flexible Gunnery School), Yuma Field, AZ 9Jul44. 3021st Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School),
Las Vegas Field, NV 27Aug44. 3022nd Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Indian Springs
Auxiliary Field, NV 30Aug44. Salvaged 28Nov44. Reclaimed 16Dec44
31627 (MSN 6741) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27Nov43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 1Dec43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Dec43. 457th Bomb Group, Wendover Field, UT 11Dec43.
748th Bomb Squadron [J], 457th Bomb Group, Glatton (Station 130), Huntingdonshire 26Jan44.
Failed to return from a mission to the Vereinigte Kugellagerfabriken AG (VKF) ball bearing
Factory, Erkner, Germany 6Mar44 (9KIA:1POW). B-17G 42-31595 was in a collision with a
German Me 410 fighter and exploded. The wreckage fell onto this aircraft which had been
flying in a lower box of the group formation. It crashed onekm east of Brachwitz, near
Treuenbrietzen, SW of Berlin, Germany, the wreckage being scattered over an area of four kms
Tail gunner was sole survivor. MACR 3198
31628 (MSN 6742) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30Nov43.
Paine Field, Everett, WA 2Dec43. Portland AAB, OR 5Dec43. Gowen Field, Boise, ID 6Dec43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 7Dec43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 10Dec43. 4115th Base Unit (Spokane Air Technical Service
Command), Pendleton Field, OR 19Dec43. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 20Dec43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy.
353rd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Cerignola #1, Italy 22Jan44. Foggia #8 (Longskirt),
Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. Named "Miss Carriage". Failed to return from a mission to the Messerschmitt
aircraft factory at Regensburg, Germany 25Feb44 (2KIA:7POW). Enemy fighters started to attack
fifteen miles east of Klagenfurt, Austria on the way to the target. This plane was lagging behind
the main formation and was attacked by enemy fighters north of Klagenfurt, Austria. It caught fire,
the crew bailed out and the plane crashed near Bodenkirchen, Germany. {9 missions}. MACR 2724
31629 (MSN 6743) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30Nov43.
457th Bomb Group, Wendover Field, UT 12Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME 19Jan44. 749th Bomb Squadron [J], 457th Bomb Group, Glatton (Station 130),
Huntingdonshire 26Jan44. Named "Raven's Nest" Failed to return from a mission to the Flugzeugwerk
Gotenhafen Kurt Kannenberg AG Focke-Wulf assembly works at Rahmel, Gdynia, Poland 9Apr44 (7KIA:3POW).
The aircraft was shot down by Fw 190 in the target area. It was hit in the cockpit area, the plane
left the formation and shortly after exploded. Some crewmen were able to bail out and some were
thrown out by the force of the explosion. Crashed Hohnert-Steinfeld, five miles northeast of Schleswig, Germany.
MACR 3664
31630 (MSN 6744) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30Nov43.
457th Bomb Group, Wendover Field, UT 8Dec43. 751st Bomb Squadron [J], 457th Bomb Group,
Glatton (Station 130), Huntingdonshire 29Jan44. Left wing fire damaged 26Jun44.
Named "Geraldine/Pakawalup"--artwork of a native Indian head. Accident taking off from Glatton on
a ferry flight to Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 19Feb45 (10KIA). The crash
occurred near the 544th Bomb Squadron area at Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire.
From the location of the crash it was indicated that the pilot was off course and had flown
into an area of low visibility. The aircraft had hit an oak tree completely tearing off both
elevators, the aircraft went approximately 600 yards where it crashed and burned. {64 missions}. Salvaged.
31631 (MSN 6745) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 30Nov43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 7Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 23Dec43. 818th Bomb Squadron, 483rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, FL 6Jan44.
Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 4Mar44. Ferried South Atlantic route Morrison Field, West
Palm Beach, FL: Waller Field, Trinidad: Bel�m, Brasil: Natal, Brasil: Dakar, Senegal;
Menara Airport, Marrakech, French Morocco: Tunisia. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 840th Bomb Squadron,
483rd Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 31Mar44. Sterparone, Foggia, Italy 22Apr44.
Battle damaged on a mission to railway marshalling yards at Fornova di Taro, Italy 22Jun44
(5RTD:5EVD); five crew bailed out but evaded capture and returned to base. Returned to US.
302nd Base Unit (Staging Wing), Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 26Jun45. 4168th Base Unit
(Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 27Jun45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and
disposal 30Nov45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
42-31632/31731 Boeing B-17G-25-BO Fortress
MSN 6746/6845. Dispositions from B-17 Fortress Master Log, Dave Osborne (FORTLOG)
Production changes: Revised carburettor air filters
31632 (MSN 6746) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 14Dec43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 27Dec43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 9Jan44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 20Jan44. Ferried from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Nutts Corner
(Station 235), Belfast, Northern Ireland 17Feb44. 335th Bomb Squadron [OE*Z],
95th Bomb Group, Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 21Feb44. Failed to return from a
mission to the Dornier Flugzeugwerke factory at Oberpfaffenhofen, Munich, Germany 24Apr44 (10INT).
Mechanical fault No.4 engine, force landed D�bendorf, Z�rich, Switzerland. {16 missions}.. MACR 4264
31633 (MSN 6747) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 30Nov43. 457th Bomb Group, Wendover Field, UT 9Dec43. 749th Bomb Squadron [S],
457th Bomb Group, Glatton (Station 130), Huntingdonshire 29Jan44. Failed to return from a
mission to the I.G. Farben chemical and synthetic oil works at Leuna, Merseburg, Germany 25Nov44.
Hit by flak over the target area, the oxygen system was damaged and had to leave
the formation. Eventually crash landed near the town of Marek, France. The crew were all safe and
returned to Glatton. Salvaged 18Mar45.
31634 (MSN 6748) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 1Dec43. Portland AAB, OR 3Dec43. Gowen Field, Boise, ID 5Dec43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 16Dec43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field,
Detroit, MI 25Dec43. Grenier Field, Manchester, NH 27Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air
Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 3Jan44. Ferried on the North Atlantic route
from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 15/16Jan44.
322nd Bomb Squadron [LG*O], 91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121),
Cambridgeshire 23Jan44. Named TEXAS CHUBBY - THE J'VILLE JOLTER artwork of a cartoon
young native Indian girl. Battle damaged during a mission to railway marshalling yards
at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 4Feb44. As the planes were passing over the Netherlands
en route to Germany, local cross winds carried the bombers straight into enemy flak.
The tail assembly was struck and damaged by an escape hatch which had been jettisoned
from the lead aircraft [42-3500] when that crew bailed out. Major battle damage on a
mission to the Heinkel Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory at Oranienburg, Germany 22Mar44.
The weather confounded efforts to attack the Heinkel Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory, the
bombers diverted to Berlin to destroy the Friedrichstra�e railway station. Flak over Berlin
was more intense than previous missions. Battle damaged on a mission to the Luftwaffe
airfield at Champagne, Reims, France 28Mar44. Meagre but accurate flak was experienced
over the target. Battle damaged on a mission to the Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau AG aircraft
factory at Sorau, Prussia 11Apr44. The primary target was covered with clouds; so the group
headed to the secondary target of the port area at Stettin, Prussia. Intense and accurate
flak was encountered in the vicinity of Hanover and Stettin. On return, the formation was
subjected to two hard-pressed attacks by enemy fighters. Major battle damage on a
Crossbow mission to a German V-weapon site at Croisette, southeast of Beauvois,
France 20Apr44. Battle damaged on a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Metz, France 25Apr44.
Battle damaged by flak on a Crossbow mission to a German V-weapon site at Aire-sur-la-Lys,
Pas-de-Calais, France 6Jul44. The squadron made three 360 degree turns in the target area,
finally bombing a last resort target northeast of Estr�e-Blanche. Failed to return from a
mission to the Siebel Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory at Halle, Germany 16Aug44 (5KIA:4POW -
324th Bomb Squadron crew). The formation was attacked by a force of enemy fighters
east of Eisenach, Germany. During this attack, which lasted twenty or thirty seconds,
the bomber was badly damaged by cannon shells. The instrument panel was shot to pieces,
the engines started overspeeding, the flight controls were not responsive. Cannon shells
exploded in the top turret killing the gunner. The ball turret took several direct 20mm
cannon hits, killing the gunner and the waist gunner was badly injured. The bomber pitched
up and then dropped off on the right wing. As the aircraft went down, it just missed another
B-17 going down with fire streaming from the engines. By this time the No.3 engine was
trailing fire behind the wing and the crew started to bail out. The bomber exploded;
although the front half of the plane disintegrated completely from the exploding bombs,
the tail section remained intact and was floating down slowly. The wreckage crashed
in the Forest of Mollenfelde at Eichenberg south of G�ttingen, Germany. {50 missions}.
MACR 8184.
31635 (MSN 6749) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 30Nov43. 457th Bomb Group, Wendover Field, UT 8Dec43. Operational
Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB.
Ferried North Atlantic route to UK departing 17Jan44. Grenier Field, Manchester, NH 19Jan44.
457th Bomb Group, Glatton (Station 130), Huntingdonshire 26Jan44. 327th Bomb Squadron [UX*Y],
92nd Bomb Group, Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 11Mar44. Failed to return from a
mission to Berlin, Germany 24May44 (10POW). Aircraft was hit by Navy flak, crashed
Schmabek, near Holstein, Germany. MACR 5159
31636 (MSN 6750) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 30Nov43. 457th Bomb Group, Wendover Field, UT 11Dec43. Operational
Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB. Ferried
North Atlantic route to UK departing 17Jan44. 457th Bomb Group, Glatton (Station 130),
Huntingdonshire 26Jan44. 323rd Bomb Squadron [OR*N], 91st Bomb Group,
Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 12Mar44. Named 'Outhouse Mouse'
artwork of a mouse based on the popular 'Tom and Jerry' cartoon. The brown and white
mouse is leaning against the the yellow and red latrine hut. Painted by Tony Starcer
Battle damaged on a mission to the Siebel Flugzeugwerke
aircraft factory at Halle, Germany 16Aug44. Battle damaged on a mission to the L�tzkendorf
oil facilities at M�cheln, west of Merseburg, Germany 11Sep44. Flew on the final Eighth
Air Force combat mission of the war to the Vkoda armament works and airfield at Pilsen,
Czechoslovakia 25Apr45. Flak knocked out the No.3 engine and severed all but two of the
elevator control cables. However, the bomber was able to remain in formation as it went
over the target again. After coming off the target the second time, the bomber could not
maintain its position and had to drop out of the formation to return alone on a more direct
flight back to England. The crew called for fighter support and eight P-51s escorted them
most of the way out of Germany. The bomber arrived back at base about half an hour
ahead of the rest of the squadron. {139 missions}. Returned to US. 121st Base Unit
(Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 26May45. 4168th Base Unit
(Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 11Jun45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for
storage and disposal 30Nov45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting
Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped. Reclaimed 1963.
Was reported to be first B-17 attacked by Me 163 rocket-propelled fighter August 16, 1944.
Lowell Getz, who wrote "Pandemonium Over Pelsen - The Forgotten Final Mission" about the
last combat mission of the Eighth Air Force, provided information indicating that while the
OUTHOUSE MOUSE is widely reported as the first B-17 to be attached by the "Rocket" fighter
the Me-163 and is depicted in the famous Jerry Crandall painting titled "The Mouse and the Flea"
that the attack was really against another B-17 on that same mission -
No.42-31579 "Betty Lou's Buggy". If Lowell is correct, there are a LOT of books that tell of the
incident that are wrong.
31637 (MSN 6751) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 30Nov43. Paine Field, Everett, WA 2Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 11Dec43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 18Dec43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 19Dec43.
333rd Bomb Squadron, 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds,
Suffolk 27Dec43. Named "Athenian Avenger". Failed to return from a mission to the
Heinkel Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory at Oranienburg, Germany 22Mar44 (10KIA).
Because of cloud cover, the primary target could not be bombed, therefore the
secondary target, the city of Berlin, was attacked. Two or three direct flak hits
over the target broke off the tail at the waist, the aircraft crashed on the Gro�e
Stern (The Great Star), the central square of the Gro�er Tiergarten
park in Berlin, Germany. MACR 3535
31638 (MSN 6752) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 30Nov43. Paine Field, Everett, WA 4Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 11Dec43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 20Dec43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 21Dec43.
Ferried from RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador to Nutts Corner (Station 235), Belfast,
Northern Ireland 28Dec43. 548th Bomb Squadron [GX*L], 385th Bomb Group,
Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 30Dec43. Named "Big Gas Bird".
Failed to return from a mission to Magdeburg, Germany 12Apr44 (4KIA:5POW).
Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Ruppershutten, Germany. MACR 8907
31639 (MSN 6753) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 30Nov43. Paine Field, Everett, WA 2Dec43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field,
Great Falls, MT 5Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 23Dec43.
4115th Base Unit (Spokane Air Technical Service Command), Pendleton Field, OR 30Dec43.
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm
Beach, FL 6Jan44. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 419th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group,
Cerignola #1, Italy 16Jan44. Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. Failed to return
from a mission to the Steyr-Daimler-Puch ball bearing factory at Steyr, Austria 2Apr44
(3KIA:7POW). The bomber was within minutes of reaching the target after turning
at the Initial Point when an aerial rocket launched from a Bf 109 took off the left wing
from the No.1 engine. It flipped onto its back, fell into a spin and crashed at Grossen,
northeast of Bregenz, Austria. {21 missions}. MACR 3707
31640 (MSN 6754) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 30Nov43. Paine Field, Everett, WA 2Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 23Dec43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 3Jan44.
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm
Beach, FL 5Jan44. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 96th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group,
Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 7Jan44. Named "Miss Hettie". {first combat mission 29Jan44}.
Failed to return from a mission to the Steyr-Daimler-Puch factory complex at Steyr,
Austria 24Feb44 (10POW). The mission was a most disastrous day for the 2nd Bomb Group,
losing fourteen aircraft to enemy fighters. Fighters started attacking the Group about
five miles north of Fiume, Italy and continued for one hour. Over an hour later, as the
bomber neared Wels, Austria, there had been eight B-17s behind it. The last of the eight
went down and a fresh formation of Fw 190s arrived high on its tail. They split into two
formations, dived to the bomber's level and attacked. Everyone from the bomb bay back
was hit by cannon shells. The left wing was hit in the No.2 engine area and trailed fire
completely behind the plane. The vertical stabiliser and part of a horizontal stabiliser
were shot away. The plane was badly shot up, the pilot's controls were frozen, and it was
on fire. It flew in a circle as the pilot had put it on auto-pilot before ordering everyone
to bail out then it blew up about 1,000ft above the ground. Crashed Wegscheid am Kamp,
Austria. {15 missions}. MACR 2686
31641 (MSN 6755) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 1Dec43. Paine Field, Everett, WA 4Dec43. Billings Municipal Airport, MT 7Dec43.
Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 10Dec43.
Tulsa Municipal Airport, OK 20Jan44. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four
Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 21Jan44. 3502nd Base Unit (Technical School),
Chanute Field, Rantoul, IL 17Nov44. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized,
Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 18Nov44. 119th Base Unit, Morris Field,
Charlotte, NC 12Feb45. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine),
Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 24Feb45. Modified for training, stripped of armor,
armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17G. Damaged by bird strike
at Sebring 19Sep45. Damaged by mechanical failure taking off at Hendricks Field 22Oct45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for
storage and disposal 9Nov45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich
Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped)
31642 (MSN 6756) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 1Dec43. Paine Field, Everett, WA 4Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 26Dec43. 4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 1Jan44.
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm
Beach, FL 3Jan44. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 347th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group,
Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 10Jan44. Battle damaged during a tactical mission in
support of the US Fifth Army at Anzio to Lake Albano, southeast of Rome, Italy 17Feb44
(2WIA:2MIA:6RTD). The bomb bay doors had been opened but the target was obscured
by scattered clouds. The formation turned back and made another approach at a lower
altitude when it was boxed in by heavy and accurate flak. A bomber on the left wing was
struck and exploded, the concussion knocking this plane out of level flight. The pilot
ordered the crew to bail out but the centrifugal forces prevented several airmen
from reaching their parachutes. Then the pilot regained control but the co-pilot and engineer
had bailed out before the pilot rescinded the bail out order. The bomb bay doors were
open and the bombs had been released. Shrapnel had caused damage and parts of
the electrical sytem had been damaged by fire. No.4 engine was on fire and the crew attempted
to feather the propeller. The plane returned safely to Tortorella. Failed to return from a
mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factory at Regensburg, Germany 25Feb44 (2KIA:8POW).
Enemy fighters started to attack fifteen miles east of Klagenfurt, Austria on the way to the
target. Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed in Austria three miles south of Burghausen,
Germany, near the German-Austrian border. {18 missions). MACR 2704.
31643 (MSN 6757) Accepted by USAAF 26Nov43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 1Dec43. Paine Field, Everett, WA 4Dec43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 5Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 23Dec43. Ferried to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 15Jan44.
527th Bomb Squadron [FO*X], 379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117),
Huntingdonshire 24Jan44. Failed to return from a mission to an aircraft assembly plant
at Brunswick, Germany 30Jan44 (10KIA). Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed
Bergen aan Zee, Netherlands. MACR 2877.
31644 (MSN 6758) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 1Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 28Dec43.
4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 4Jan44. Jacksonville
Field, FL 5Jan44. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11),
West Palm Beach, FL 6Jan44. Casablanca, French Morocco 11Jan44. Fifteenth Air Force,
Italy. 414th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44.
Failed to return from a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Udine, Italy 18Mar44 (9EVD).
The group flew to the southern parts of the Austrian Alps and then turned 180� and from
the north launched the attack on Udine. This plane was flying tail end Charlie in the
rear four plane element. When thirty minutes from the target the group was attacked
by German Fw 190 fighters and in the ensuing scramble to close up, the element
became separated from the rest of the group and squadron. As a result, the fighters
concentrated their attacks on this element. Struck by cannon shells and on fire, the
plane spiralled down as the crew started to bail out. The crew was assisted by
partisans in evading capture. The plane crashed near Rijeka, Croatia, Yugoslavia,
on the eastern slopes of Obru? Mountain in the hinterland of Rijeka MACR 3290.
31645 (MSN 6759) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 1Dec43. Paine Field, Everett, WA 2Dec43. Gowen Field, Boise, ID 6Dec43.
Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 10Dec43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 23Dec43. 4th Ferrying Group, Memphis
Municipal Airport, TN 1Jan44. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison
Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 4Jan44. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 341st Bomb Squadron,
97th Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44. Named "Babe".
Failed to return from a mission to the Luftwaffe airfield at Pardubice, Czechoslovakia 24Aug44
(4POW:6KIA). After completing the bomb run the plane was seen to be slowing down
and dropping away from the formation although the four engines were still operating.
At about 5,000 or 10,000ft after dropping away from the formation, an enemy aircraft
was seen making a pass at the bomber before disappearing from view.
Crashed near Maribor, Slovenia, Yugoslavia. MACR 7971
31646 (MSN 6760) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 1Dec43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 5Dec43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 6Dec43. Roswell Field, NM 11Dec43.
Assigned Eighth Air Force, England. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH),
Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44. 3021st Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Las Vegas
Field, NV 24Sep44. 3022nd Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Indian Springs
Auxiliary Field, NV 5Oct44. 3021st Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Las Vegas
Field, NV 23Mar45. 2126th Base Unit (Central School for Flexible Gunnery),
Laredo Field, TX 28Mar45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 10Jan46. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31647 (MSN 6761) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 1Dec43.
Grandview Field, Kansas City, MO 18Dec43. Lockburb 20Dec43. Assigned Eighth Air Force, England.
2114th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 2Sep44.
2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 18Aug45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage
and disposal 16Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
31648 (MSN 6762) Accepted by USAAF 27Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 1Dec43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 5Dec43.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 7Dec43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 19Dec43. Grenier Field, Manchester, NH 31Dec43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 3Jan44
526th Bomb Squadron [LF*H], 379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 17Feb44.
Named ENSIGN MARY. Named by the engineer who was dating a US Navy nurse
Failed to return from a Crossbow mission to a German V-weapon site in the
Pas de Calais, France 16Jun44 (2KIA:5POW:2EVD). Flak set a wing alight, crashed
SE Saint-Pierre, Pontpoint, 12 miles northeast of Creil, France. MACR 5988
31649 (MSN 6763) Accepted by USAAF 27Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 1Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 17Dec43. Grenier Field, Manchester, NH 26Jan43. 569th Bomb Squadron [CC*C],
390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 2Feb44
Named "Old Soldier", also "Shatzi III". {first combat mission 21Feb44}.
Battle damaged on a mission to the industrial areas of Brunswick, Germany 23Mar44 (1WIA:9RTD);
the radio operator was wounded. Accident departing as weather check aircraft before a combat
mission to Berlin, Germany 24May44 (10RTD). The aircraft had mechanical problems,
possibly a fire, which forced the crew to bail out, before the plane crashed in woods at
Common Farm, Marlesford, Woodbridge, Suffolk. Salvaged 27May44. {19 missions}.
31650 (MSN 6764) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 1Dec43. Gowen Field, Boise, ID 5Dec43. Salt Lake City AAB, UT 6Dec43.
Rock Springs Municipal Airport, WY 7Dec43. Brees Field, Laramie, WY 9Dec43. United Air Lines,
Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 10Dec43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 17Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME 2Jan44. 410th Bomb Squadron [GL*Z], 94th Bomb Group,
Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 6Jan44. Named IMPATIENT VIRGIN.
In mid-March, after a 'milk run' when the plane was damaged by German flak,
airmen from the 367BS, 306BG renamed the plane as SATISFIED WHORE. .Failed to return
from a mission to the Heinkel Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory at Oranienburg, Germany
18Apr44 (8KIA:2POW). The bombers arrived over Oranienburg to find the town
covered by a thick undercast. Forced to decide between abandoning the mission
or bringing the formation down under the clouds, the air leader had the planes
drop down to 17,000ft in order to make their attack run. The bomber encountered
intense flak over Oranienburg. Shot down by enemy fighters, knocked off wing,
spun down and crashed at Bergedamm, four miles west of Nauen, Germany. MACR 4153
31651 (MSN 6765) Accepted by USAAF 27Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 1Dec43. Gowen Field, Boise, ID 5Dec43. Salt Lake
City AAB, UT 6Dec43. Rock Springs Municipal Airport, WY 7Dec43. Brees Field,
Laramie, WY 9Dec43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 10Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 17Dec43.
3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 6Jan44. North Atlantic Wing, Air
Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 9Jan44. 571st Bomb Squadron [FC*G],
390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 18Jan44. Named "Decatur Deb".
{first combat mission 29Jan44}. Battle damaged on a Crossbow mission to a German
V-weapon site at La Glacerie, Cherbourg, France 20Apr44 (1WIA:9RTD). The navigator
was wounded. Returning to England, the plane was forced to land at RAF Woodbridge
emergency landing ground, Suffolk because of damage it sustained during the mission.
Accident prior to a sortie from Framlingham 30Apr44 (1KIS). When fire broke out in
the plane at the end of the runway, the navigator ran into and was killed by a propeller
blade. Failed to return from a mission to the Braunkohle Benzin A.G. synthetic oil
refinery at Rothensee, Magdeburg, Germany 28May44 (7KIA:3POW). Flak in the
target area was moderate, the formation encountered a large force of single and
twin-engine Luftwaffe fighters over the city, which proceeded to cause considerable
damage to the bombers. Attacked by enemy fighters causing heavy damage and a
fire in the cockpit. With part of the vertical stabiliser shot away, the plane went
into a spin and exploded. Wings came off as it went down and crashed
at Ebendorf, two miles northnorthwest of Magdeburg, Germany. {25 missions).
MACR 5259
31652 (MSN 6766) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 1Dec43. Gowen Field, Boise, ID 6Dec43. Rocks Springs, WY 9Dec43.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 10Dec43.
4115th Base Unit (Spokane Air Technical Service Command), Pendleton
Field, OR 20Dec43. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 22Dec43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy.
353rd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Cerignola #1, Italy 13Jan44.
Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. Failed to return from a mission to the
aircraft engine factories at Wiener Neudorf, Austria 26Jul44 (6POW:3KIA). Fifteen
minutes before the target, the bomber was attacked by four enemy fighters which
set the right wing on fire. The aircraft dropped out of the formation, several crew
members bailed out before it exploded and crashed at G�ns, Austria. MACR 7136
31653 (MSN 6767) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 2Dec43. Helena, MT 4Dec43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great
Falls, MT 5Dec43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 6Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 12Dec43.
New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 17Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 19Dec43. 410th Bomb Squadron [GL*V],
94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 26Dec43.
Named ERIE FERRY / KAC'S FLAK SHAK / GREEN HORNETS. Failed to return from a mission
to the Braunkohle Benzin AG synthetic oil refinery at B�hlen-R�tha, Leipzig,
Germany 11Sep44 (7POW:2KIA). Mid-air collision with B-17G 42-97153 badly d
amaging the nose. Crashed at Gelnhausen, Germany. MACR 8840
31654 (MSN 6768) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 1Dec43. 7th Ferrying Squadron, 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field,
Great Falls, MT. The B-17G was being ferried from Cheyenne, Wyoming, to
Kearney Field and approached the runway while in darkness 15Dec43.
Before leaving Cheyenne, the pilot had misread the elevation listed for the field
at Kearney and therefore the wrong altimeter setting was set into the instruments.
As they approached the field, the crew of three (pilot, co-pilot and engineer)
believed that they were much higher than they actually were. The plane crashed
through a group of trees and then nosed into the steep bank of a creek bed.
The co-pilot and engineer were killed while the pilot suffered severe injuries,
but later recovered
31655 (MSN 6769) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 1Dec43. Gowen Field, Boise, ID 5Dec43. Rock Springs Municipal
Airport, WY 7Dec43. Brees Field, Laramie, WY 9Dec43. United Air Lines, Modification
Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 10Dec43. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 17Dec43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 429th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Foggia #7,
Amendola, Italy 20Jan44. Named "Wanita". {first combat mission 12Apr44}.
Battle damaged during a mission to the Wiener Neust�dter Flugzeugwerke factory
at Wiener Neust�dt, Vienna, Austria 10May44 (1WIA:9RTD). Flak was very intense,
accurate and heavy, resulting in damage to the aircraft and injury to the bombardier.
Participated in the first Operation Frantic shuttle mission to the railway marshalling
yards at Debrecen, Hungary 2Jun44. After the target, the bomber continued east and
landed at Mirgorod (Station 561), Ukraine. Operated a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield
at Gala?i, Rumania 6Jun44, returning to Mirgorod. Returned to base in Italy on a
mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Foc?ani, Rumania 11Jun44. Battle damaged during
a mission to the oil refinery at Florisdorf, Vienna, Austria 16Jun44 (10RTD). Attacked
by enemy fighters starting a fire in the radio room. The crew jettisoned the bombs,
extinguished the blaze and returned safely to Amendola. Failed to return from a
mission to the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin V-2 rocket test facility at Oberraderach,
Fredrichshafen, Germany 3Aug44 (10INT). No.4 engine was hit by flak and the
propeller could not be feathered. Propeller was vibrating and the pilot feared the
wing would fall off, so decided to go to Switzerland. It was approximately 75 miles
from Lake Constance when the plane left the formation and jettisoned the bomb load.
Crash landed at D�bendorf, Z�rich, Switzerland. The plane overshot and the landing
gear collapsed, damaging the nose compartment. {57 missions}. Salvaged in Switzerland
MACR 7205
31656 (MSN 6770) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20Dec43.
Topeka Field, KS 3Jan44. Midwest Air Depot, Oklahoma City, OK 5Jan44. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 17Jan44. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 22Jan44. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Grenier Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 26Jan44.
751st Bomb Squadron [R], 457th Bomb Group, Glatton (Station 130), Huntingdonshire 3Feb44.
749th Bomb Squadron [R]. Failed to return from a mission to motor industry targets in
Berlin, Germany 21Jun44 (5KIA:4POW). The crew dropped their bombs on target and
their plane was immediately hit by a burst of flak near the nose. The order was given
to abandon ship and the plane spiraled down, caught fire and blew up. Crashed
Friesacker Zootzen, sixteen miles northwest of Nauen, Germany MACR 6004
31657 (MSN 6771) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 6Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 12Dec43.
3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 17Dec43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 19Dec43. 339th Bomb Squadron [QJ*S],
96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 26Dec43. Named "Wildfire II"
Failed to return from a mission to Saarbr�cken, Germany 23May44 (9RTD), ditched
in English Channel 15miles west of Shoreham, West Sussex, crew rescued by
British Air-Sea Rescue launch and taken to RAF Friston, East Sussex
31658 (MSN 6772) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 6Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 12Dec43.
3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 17Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air
Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 19Dec43. 334th Bomb Squadron [BG*G],
95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 26Dec43. Failed to return from a
mission to Brunswick, Germany 10Feb44 (4KIA:6POW). Shot down by enemy fighters,
crashed near Bippen-Ohrtermersch, north of Furstenau, Germany. {5 missions}.
MACR 2546
31659 (MSN 6773) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 2Dec43. Felts Field, Spokane, WA 4Dec43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 8Dec43. 5th Ferrying Group,
Love Field, Dallas, TX 20Dec43. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized,
Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 21Dec43. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 18Nov44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for
storage and disposal 29Oct45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich
Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
31660 (MSN 6774) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 3Dec43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 5Dec43.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 16Dec43.
Hawkins Field, Jackson, MS 20Dec43. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 21Dec43. 1104th Base
Unit (Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command), Homestead Field, FL 3Mar44. Fifteenth
Air Force, Italy. 353rd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Foggia #8 (Longskirt),
Lucera, Italy 4Mar44. Failed to return from a mission to railway marshalling yards at
Verona, Italy 22Mar44 (4KIA:6POW). Hit by flak in the No.1 engine and the left wing
caught fire. It dropped out of formation as the crew started to bail out then went
into a spin, exploded and crashed near Verona, Italy. {4 missions}.. MACR 3285
31661 (MSN 6775) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 2Dec43. Roswell Field, NM 18Dec43. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44. Modified for training, stripped of armor,
armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17G. 3010th Base Unit
(Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 20Jan45.
Damaged in collision with parked Bell P-39N Airacobra 42-19048 while taxying at
Williams Field 10Mar45. 3020th Base Unit (Pilot School, Advanced, Two Engine),
La Junta Field, CO 19Apr45. 2114th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine),
Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 25Jun45. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized,
Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 18Aug45. Damaged by structural
failure 8 miles from Sebring 22Oct45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 1Nov45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
31662 (MSN 6776) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 2Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 17Dec43.
3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 6Jan44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 7Jan44. 4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 9Jan44.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 10Jan44.
612th Bomb Squadron [SC*B], 401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128),
Northamptonshire 31Jan44. Named *Fancy Nancy IV*. Crash landed at
Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 22Apr44. Battle damaged on a mission
to the railway marshalling yards at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 5Nov44. On return
force landed at Great Dunmow (Station 164), Essex. {134 missions}.
Salvaged by 1st Strategic Air Depot, Troston (Station 595), Suffolk
31663 (MSN 6777) Accepted by USAAF 29Nov43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 3Dec43. Gowen Field, Boise, ID 5Dec43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 6Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb
Wing, Kearney Field, NB 17Dec43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 2Jan44.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Grenier Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 8Jan44.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 10Jan44.
526th Bomb Squadron [LF*G], 379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117),
Huntingdonshire 2Feb44. ; Named "Tag-a-Long". Failed to return from a mission
to the I.G. Farben chemical and synthetic oil works at Leuna, Merseburg, Germany 8Nov44 (1KIA:8POW).
Shot down by AAA 4 and crashed Bitterswijck, Netherlands.
{103 missions). MACR 10354.
31664 (MSN 6778) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 2Dec43. Felts Field, Spokane, WA 4Dec43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field,
Great Falls, MT 5Dec43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver
Municipal Airport, CO 17Dec43. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 22Dec43. Ferried
overseas via the South Atlantic / Africa route via Natal, Brasil. Substantially
damaged while parked in collision by Consolidated B-24H Liberator 41-28610
taxying at Eknes Field, Rufisque, Dakar, Senegal, Africa 14Jan44. Fifteenth Air
Force, Italy. 32nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Foggia #8 (Longskirt),
Lucera, Italy 5Feb44. Failed to return from a mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft
factory at Regensburg, Germany 25Feb44 (3POW:7KIA). Enemy fighters started
to attack fifteen miles east of Klagenfurt, Austria on the way to the target. Observers
stated later that the fuel tanks were hit, all four engines were on fire, and that an
internal fire swept the aircraft from nose to tail. The bomber lost height and then d
isintegrated before crashing 3km southeast of Bodenkirchen, Germany. {5 missions).
MACR 2593
31665 (MSN 6779) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 6Dec43. Pilot School (Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB,
Columbus, OH 16Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Lincoln Field, NB 17Dec43.
Cleveland Municipal Airport, OH 18Dec43. 3036th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School),
Yuma Field, AZ 28Jun44. 3018th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Kingman
Field, AZ 24Aug44. Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and
bombing equipment; designated TB-17G. Damaged by mechanical failure at Kingman
Field 6Dec44. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs
Field, NM 11Jun45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR
for storage and disposal 5Jan46. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
31666 (MSN 6780) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 2Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 23Dec43.
4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 1Jan44. New Castle AAB,
Wilmington, DE 6Jan44. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison
Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 10Jan44. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy.
96th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 12Jan44
Named MISS LAID [name had not been painted on the plane] / PONCHO THALKEN
[Thalken was a later pilot of this plane. {first combat mission 28Jan44}.
Failed to return from a mission to the Steyr-Daimler-Puch factory complex at Steyr,
Austria 24Feb44 (10POW). On the bomb run, about five minutes before the target,
an enemy fighter, flown by Gruppenkommandeur Walter Dahl of III./JG 3,
came in and attacked. Also attacked by two Me 262 jet fighters. The inner engines
were on fire and the nose compartment had been damaged. The bomber nosed up
momentarily, burning under both wings near the fuselage, peeled off abruptly to the
right and went into a steep dive. The pilot straightened it out for a moment before the
crew started to bail out, then the plane crashed near Steyr, Austria. {15 missions}.
MACR 2579
31667 (MSN 6781) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 3Dec43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 5Dec43.
Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 6Dec43.
Ellington Field, Houston, TX 22Dec43. Hawkins Field, Jackson, MS 28Dec43.
Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 29Dec43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 341st Bomb Squadron,
97th Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 13Jan44. Failed to return from a
mission to the harbor at Toulon, France 4Feb44 (10KIA). Mid-air collision with
a Fw 190, caught fire and exploded. The pilot was flying on the right wing of the
leader and, since fighter opposition was quite intense, he as well as other pilots,
were flying a very close formation. The squadron arrived at the Initial Point (IP)
and moved into bombing formation. When about one minute into the bomb run,
the fighter attacks intensified. Two enemy fighters were making a head-on attack on
the leader of the squadron. The rate of closure was very fast and it appeared that both
fighters were dead set on ramming the bomber. The lead Fw 190 had the other
Fw 190 on his left wing and, at the last moment, peeled to his right. The upper
turret gunner shot at the fighter and it went down on fire. The wing Fw 190 peeled
to his left and pulled up the nose of the fighter. The aircraft was standing on its
tail and went into a high speed stall - or the pilot was dead at the controls.
It hit - or the bomber flew into it - between number three and four engines of the
B-17. Immediately the bomber burst into flames on the right wing and the Fw 190
was stuck to the aircraft. They hung for a split second and the squadron leader,
being on the bomb run, could do nothing to get out of the way of an inevitable
blast of an exploding B-17. The bomber fell about 500 feet before it exploded
This probably saved some of the other bombers by not exploding at their altitude.
MACR 2064
31668 (MSN 6782) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 3Dec43. Robins Field, Warner Robins, GA 19Dec43. 2137th Base Unit
(Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 20Dec43. 2
114th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB,
Columbus, OH 2Sep44. 120th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Richmond Field, VA 11Dec44. 2114th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized,
Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 17Jan45. 2137th Base Unit
(Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 24Sep45.
Damaged while parked in collision by TB-17F 42-30635 taxying at Hendricks 24Sep45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and
disposal 8Jan46. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment
Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31669 (MSN 6783) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 6Dec43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 8Dec43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 22Dec43. 3rd Ferrying Group,
Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 8Jan44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME 10Jan44. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflav�k, Iceland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 20Jan44. 358th Bomb Squadron [VK*J],
303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 15Feb44.,
Named *Shoo Shoo Baby*--was a popular song made famous by the Andrews Sisters.
Failed to return from a mission to the Dornier Flugzeugwerke factory at
Oberpfaffenhofen, Munich, Germany 24Apr44 (10INT). Flak damaged No.4 engine,
force landed D�bendorf, Z�rich, Switzerland. {20 missions}. Salvaged 12Oct45.
MACR 4270
31670 (MSN 6784) Accepted by USAAF 30Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Dec43. Gowen Field, Boise, ID 5Dec43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 16Dec43. Westover Field,
Chicopee Falls, MA 21Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle
Field, ME 23Dec43. 367th Bomb Squadron [GY*F], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh
(Station 111), Bedfordshire 14Jan44. Failed to return from a mission to the
Junkers aircraft factory at Bernburg, Germany 22Feb44 (6POW:4KIA).
Sustained fighter attacks caused severe damage. Crashed Nieder Rieferath,
near Herchen, eighteen miles west of Siegen, Germany. MACR 2654
31671 (MSN 6785) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 6Dec43. Hill Field, Ogden, UT 9Dec43. 4115th Base Unit (Spokane
Air Technical Service Command), Pendleton Field, OR 19Dec43. Hunter Field,
Savannah, GA 20Dec43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 353rd Bomb Squadron,
301st Bomb Group, Cerignola #1, Italy 11Jan44. Foggia #8 (Longskirt),
Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. Failed to return from a mission to the Steyrwaffen
Walzergerwerke ball-bearing factory complex at Steyr, Austria 24Feb44 (9POW).
Shot down by enemy fighters over the I.P. at Gramatneusiedl, Austria. The crew
bailed out and the aircraft crashed near Lambach, southwest of Wels, Austria. {12 missions}..
MACR 2634.
31672 (MSN 6786) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 6Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 16Dec43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 2Jan44.
Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 15/16Jan44. 401st Bomb Squadron,
91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 23Jan44.
Named BUCKEYE BOOMERANG II. Named by the pilot for his home state of Ohio
Failed to return from a mission to Stuttgart, Germany 20Mar44 (1KIA:8POW:1EVD).
Flak and enemy aircraft damaged engine No.2 plus other damage. Crashed
Saint-Ouen-le-Mauger, two miles southwest of Bacqueville-en-Caux, eleven miles
southwest of Dieppe, France. {6 missions}. MACR 3411
31673 (MSN 6787) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 6Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 17Dec43.
Harrisburg, PA 8Jan44. New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 9Jan44. North Atlantic
Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 11Jan44. Ferried to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 16Jan44. 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath
(Station 138), Norfolk 16Jan44. 322nd Bomb Squadron [LG*B], 91st Bomb Group,
Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 27Jan44. ,
Named *Black Magic/Lassie Coming Home* artwork of a blond woman
walking and saluting while carrying a bomb on the end of a cane over her left shoulder.
Painted by Tony Starcer . Battle damaged on a mission to an aircraft assembly plant at
Brunswick, Germany 30Jan44. Flak was meagre to moderate but inaccurate; the plane was
subject to two major attacks by enemy fighters. Battle damaged on a mission to the railway
marshalling yards at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 11Feb44; damaged by 0.50 caliber
bullets from 'friendly fire'. Damaged on a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt,
Germany 24Mar44 (10RTD). An engine was throwing oil and the pilot aborted and headed
back home. Bombs were jettisoned over the North Sea as the engine caught fire just before
reaching the English coast. The pilot instructed the crew to bail out as soon as they
made landfall. Immediately after the fourth airman had departed, the fire was
extinguished; the remaining crew members landed safely at Bassingbourn.
Battle damaged on a mission to the Luftwaffe airfield at Champagne, Reims, France 28Mar44.
Meagre but accurate flak was experienced over the target. Battle damaged on a mission
to a Luftwaffe airfield at Oldenburg, Germany 8Apr44. The 91st Bomb Group was the last
group over the target and took very heavy flak. Battle damaged on a mission to the
Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau AG aircraft factory at Sorau, Prussia 11Apr44. The primary target
was covered with clouds; so the group headed to the secondary target of the port area at
Stettin, Prussia. Intense and accurate flak was encountered in the vicinity of Hanover and Stettin.
On return, the formation was subjected to two hard-pressed attacks by enemy fighters.
Left landing gear collapsed landing at Bassingbourn 9May44. Battle damaged by flak on
a Crossbow mission to a German V-weapon site at Aire-sur-la-Lys, Pas-de-Calais, France 6Jul44.
The squadron made three 360 degree turns in the target area, finally bombing a last resort
target northeast of Estr�e-Blanche. Failed to return from a mission to the Siebel Flugzeugwerke
aircraft factory at Halle, Germany 16Aug44 (4KIA:5POW - 324th Bomb Squadron crew)
The formation was attacked by a force of enemy fighters east of Eisenach, Germany.
During this attack, which lasted twenty or thirty seconds, the bomber was damaged by
cannon shells, setting the radio room in fire and exploding in mid-air. Crashed Deiderode,
southsouthwest of G�ttingen, Germany. {76 missions}. MACR 8183.
31674 MSN 6788) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 6Dec43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 8Jan44. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field,
Detroit, MI 26Jan44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Grenier Field (Station 16),
Manchester, NH 30Jan44. Combat Weather Detachment, 1st Combat Crew Replacement Group,
Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire Feb44. 8th Weather Reconnaissance Squadron (Heavy),
802nd Reconnaissance Group (Special)(Provisional), Watton (Station 376), Norfolk 12Apr44.
652nd Bomb Squadron (Heavy Reconnaissance), 25th Bomb Group (Reconnaissance), 325th
Photographic Wing, Watton 9Aug44. Salvaged after non battle damage 29May45.
During the summer of 1943 at RAF St Eval, Padstow, Cornwall, No.1404 Meteorological
Flight became No.517 Squadron and began re-equipping with the Handley-Page Halifax.
Because of this No.517 was unable to maintain its operational committment of twice-daily
meteorological reconnaissance sorties to the southwest over Biscay (code-named EPICURE).
Such was the importance of these flights that the USAAF offered four B-17s to make up the
shortfall - adding another four aircraft later. Initially these were detached to RAF St Eval
and operated to the west of the UK (code-named ALLAH), but during the autumn it was
decided the USAAF aircraft should operate from an American base - Bovingdon (Station 112),
Hertfordshire. As the USAAF didn't have aircrew trained in meteorological observing,
the crews always flew with an RAF Meteorological Air Observer (MAO)
31675 (MSN 6789) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 6Dec43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 12Dec43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field,
Detroit, MI 17Dec43. Grenier Field, Manchester, NH 19Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 22Dec43. 412th Bomb Squadron [QW*W], 95th Bomb Group,
Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 26Dec43. Named "Berlin Bessie". Participated in an
Operation Frantic II shuttle mission to the Braunkohle-Benzin AG synthetic oil refinery at
Schwarzheide, Ruhland, Germany 21Jun44. After the target, the bomber continued east and
landed at Mirgorod (Station 561), Ukraine. The Germans had identified the location of the
USAAF bomber force so the plane was moved to a fighter airfield at Kharkov, Ukraine later
that evening. Operated a mission to the oil refinery and railway marshalling yards at
Drohobycz, Poland 26Jun44, continuing on to Foggia #2, Tortorella, a Fifteenth Air Force
base in southern Italy. Operated a mission to the railway marshaling yard and repair
shops at Arad, Rumania 3Jul44. Operated a mission to railway marshalling yards at
Beziers, France and landed back at Horham 5Jul44. Participated in an Operation Frantic
V shuttle mission to the Flugzeugwerk Gotenhafen Kurt Kannenberg AG Focke Wulf
assembly works at Rahmel, Gdynia, Poland 6Aug44. After the target, the bomber continued
east and landed at Poltava (Station 559), Ukraine. Operated a mission to an oil refinery
at Trzebinia, Poland 7Aug44, returning to Ukraine. Operated a mission to an airfield at
Buz?u, Rumania 8Aug44, continuing on to Foggia #1, Celone, Italy, a Fifteenth Air Force
base in southern Italy. Returned to England on a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Francazal,
Toulouse, France 12Aug44. Participated in an Operation Frantic VII mission to drop
supplies to the resistance forces in Warsaw, Poland 18Sep44. After the target, the bomber
continued east and landed at Poltava (Station 559), Ukraine. Operated a mission to the railway
marshalling yards at Szolnok, Hungary 19Sep44 and continued on to land at a Fifteenth Air Force
base in southern Italy. Returned to England 23Sep44. Failed to return from a mission to the
I.G. Farben chemical works at Oppau, Ludwigshafen, Germany 27Sep44. One engine disabled,
crash landed and burned out in France. Salvaged 29Nov44.
31676 (MSN 6790) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 6Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Lincoln Field, NB 17Dec43.
Chanute Field, Rantoul, IL 18Dec43. 2112th Base Unit, Chanute Field, Rantoul, IL 7Jul44.
3036th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Yuma Field, AZ 9Jul44. 3017th Base Unit
(Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 4Jun45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 28Dec45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31677 (MSN 6791) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 6Dec43.
New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 7Jan44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME 8Jan44. Ferried RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Valley (Station 568),
Anglesey, Wales 14Jan44. 1407th Base Unit, Valley 16Jan44. 549th Bomb Squadron [XA*Q],
385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 17Jan44
Named "THoroughbred" aka "Satan's Mate". Salvaged after non battle damage 14Jun45
31678 (MSN 6792) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 6Dec43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 19Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 9Jan44. Nutts Corner (Station 235), Belfast, Northern
Ireland 18Jan44. 324th Bomb Squadron [DF*L], 91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121),
Cambridgeshire 27Jan44. Named "Little Patches". The name "Little Patches" was acquired
after the aircraft's first combat mission with Lt William Major's crew when Frankfurt flak put
many splinters through the ship 11Feb44. The damage was primarily cosmetic but the
skin required numerous small aluminium patches prompting Lt Major to name the ship.
Tony Starcer's original pin-up painting portrayed a blonde wearing an Air Force cap.
His artwork was probably based on the popular Gil Elvgren illustration entitled 'Net Results'
painted in 1941 -- which was based on his earlier rendering called 'Forced Landing'. The fire
damage affected the nose compartment of the plane and Tony Starcer repainted the pin-up girl
at this time and made some slight amendments to his original imagery. The girl became
slightly slimmer as well as a brunette, the Air Force cap was omitted and the dress received
a different pattern. The title lettering however remained identical and untouched.
Accident after a mission to the industrial areas of Brunswick, Germany 29Mar44. The bomber
caught fire during maintenance and was so badly damaged that it was removed from operations
and sent to the sub-depot for extensive repairs. It was not fit to return to combat flying until
early in May44. 401st Bomb Squadron [LL*L] May44. Battle damaged on a mission to the
I.G. Farben chemical and synthetic oil works at Leuna, Merseburg, Germany 29Jul44.
The aircraft was attacked by enemy fighters and took 20mm cannon hits; on the third attack
two 20mm cannon shells went in No.2 fuel tank. The bomber caught fire and was
forced from the formation to return alone. Battle damaged on a mission to the L�tzkendorf
oil facilities at M�cheln, west of Merseburg, Germany 11Sep44. Seriously battle
damaged on a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical and synthetic oil works at Leuna,
Merseburg, Germany 2Nov44. The box barrage of flak was heavy around the target.
An estimated 500 Luftwaffe fighters went up to meet the bomber force. Just after the target,
the formation was subject to a barrage of flak. Once out of the flak, the plane was
attacked by German fighters which shot up one engine. It couldn't stay in formation
so the pilot headed down to stay underneath it. The crippled plane couldn't keep up
with the formation. The ball turret gunner ran out of ammunition and the tail
gunner's guns wouldn't work. Saved by the arrival of US fighters, the pilot headed for
home, losing altitude as it went. then a flak burst destroyed another engine. The co-pilot
invited the crew to bail out before he took the crippled plane down to treetop level.
No one jumped. Flak gunners were shooting at the plane all the time. There was no relief
even when the plane reached the North Sea German shore batteries spotted the low-flying
bomber and commenced firing. Shells hit the water and exploded in front of the plane;
some would explode above the water. The concussion would hit the water and then hit the plane.
The plane had one more ordeal; sixty miles from base. The fuel gauge showed empty.
Air-Sea Rescue was alerted but the B-17 wouldn't quit. It reached the English coastline
and set down on the short runway of a fighter base. Skidding out of control, the B-17
ended its flight in the mud of a farmer's field. The serious damaged put the aircraft
out of action for most of that month. Repaired, it was put back into combat and continued
flying missions. Flew on the final Eighth Air Force combat mission of the war to the Vkoda
armament works and airfield at Pilsen, Czechoslovakia 25Apr45. {Modified with all guns,
armament and ball turret removed with a wooden floor built over the bomb bay.
Operation Revival May45; liberated prisoners of war from Russian controlled Stalag
Luft No.I, Barth, Germany. British POWs were flown to Ford, West Sussex, England 12May45.
{111 missions + 1 Revival}. Returned to US. 1407th Base Unit, European Wing, Air Transport
Command, Valley (Station 568), Anglesey, Wales. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment
Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 11Jun45. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field,
Detroit, MI 12Jun45. Topeka Field, KS 13Jun45. 4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air
Technical Service Command), South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 12Sep45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for
storage and disposal 7Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich
Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped. .
31679 (MSN 6793) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 6Dec43.
Maxwell Field, Montgomery, AL 19Dec43. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 20Dec43. Fifteenth
Air Force, Italy. 49th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 11Jan44.
{first combat mission 23Jan44}. Failed to return from a mission to the Messerschmitt
aircraft factory at Regensburg, Germany 25Feb44 (8POW:2KIA). About twenty minutes
after the target mid-air collision with B-17G 42-38070, forcing the nose up and apparently
into a loop. As it climbed to fill the vacant number three slot, the number three plane, #070,
which had been hit and was dropping back, chewed this plane in two at the waist. The other
crew was incensed, claiming that this plane had climbed into them. Two airmen were killed;
the tail gunner found himself in the nose of #070 and bailed out from there. The survivors bailed
out and the plane crashed at Landshut, Germany. {5 missions} MACR 2615
31680 MSN 6794) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 6Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 10Jan44. North Atlantic
Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 26Jan44. 407th Bomb Squadron [PY*M],
92nd Bomb Group, Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 7Feb44. Failed to return from a
mission to industrial areas in the suburbs of Berlin, Germany 6Mar44 (1KIA:9POW). Shot down
by a Fw 190 returning from the target, killing one crew member. The remaining crew bailed
out and the bomber crashed near Plant-L�nne airfield, near Lingen, Ems, Germany. MACR 2904.
Loss linked to a claim by H. Baer of JG1.
31681 (MSN 6795) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 6Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 17Dec43. New Castle AAB,
Wilmington, DE 8Jan44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle
Field, ME 9Jan44. 412th Bomb Squadron [QW*G], 95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119),
Suffolk 24Jan44. Failed to return from a mission to Berlin, Germany 14Jun44 (10KIA),
one engine on fire, crashed North Sea off Felixstowe, Suffolk. {39 missions} .MACR 5794
31682 (MSN 6796) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 6Dec43. 4115th Base Unit (Spokane Air Technical Service Command),
Pendleton Field, OR 26Dec43. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 27Dec43. Fifteenth Air
Force, Italy. 96th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 1Feb44.
Named "Jocko". {first combat mission 4Feb44}. Battle damaged on a mission to the
aircraft factory at Pr�fening, Regensburg, Germany 22Feb44 (2WIA:8RTD). The Group
arrived over Regensburg but cloud cover prevented bombing. Instead of bombing any
of the alternate targets, the Group attacked the small town and railway marshalling
yards at Olching, Germany, eleven miles northwest of Munich. A waist gunner and the
ball turret gunner were wounded by flak shrapnel. Battle damaged on a mission to the
railway marshalling yards at Turin, Italy 29Mar44 (1WIA:9RTD). Attacked by enemy
fighters, the co-pilot was wounded by by shattered Plexiglas. Damaged landing at
Amendola 21Jul44. Crashed and destroyed by fire on takeoff for a mission to the
railway marshalling yards at Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia 6Dec44 (10KIA). {63 missions}.
31683 (MSN 6797) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 6Dec43. Combat Crew Training School, Casper Field, WY 13Dec43.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 31Dec43.
Ellington Field, Houston, TX 2Jan44. Lakeland Field, FL 6Jan44. Caribbean Wing,
Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL Jan44.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 346th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly),
Tortorella, Italy 23Jan44. {16 missions}. 20th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Foggia #7,
Amendola, Italy 28Mar44. Failed to return from a mission to the industrial centre of Sofia,
Bulgaria 30Mar44 (10KIA). Mid-air collision with B-17G 42-31851 about thirty-five miles
east of Sofia. A sharp right turn was made at the I.P. and plane #851 did not turn wide
enough, was apparently caught in the propeller wash of another plane, and crashed
down on top of #683. Both planes started to disintegrate and crashed at Kasbarevo,
Bulgaria. {1 mission}. MACR 3364
Production changes: Modified with Cheyenne tail gun
31684 (MSN 6798) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 6Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 24Dec43.
4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 2Jan44. Drew Field, Tampa, FL 4Jan44.
774th Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Lakeland Field, FL Jan44. Caribbean Wing,
Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL.
Ferried overseas via the South Atlantic / Africa route. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. Bari,
Italy 9Mar44. 774th Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Foggia #1, Celone,
Italy 15Mar44. Named *Joker*. Failed to return from a mission to a synthetic
oil refinery at Blechhammer, Prussia 7Jul44 (10POW). The mission was attacked by a
large formation of German twin-engined fighters when they were over central
Czechoslovakia, near Brno. With No.1 and No.2 engines out, the crew turned back
towards base until engine No.4 failed when the aircraft was at a low altitude over
Yugoslavia. The crew of ten bailed out safely, except for minor injuries from the
aerial battle and from the landings by parachute. The aircraft is believed to have
crashed in the district of Gornje Vukovsko, central Yugoslavia,. MACR 6864
31685 (MSN 6799) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 8Dec43. Kingman Field, AZ 21Dec43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 6Jan44. Hawkins Field, Jackson, MS 11Jan44.
4115th Base Unit (Spokane Air Technical Service Command), Pendleton Field, OR 12Jan44.
775th Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Lakeland Field, FL 13Jan44. Caribbean
Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL.
Ferried overseas via the South Atlantic / Africa route. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy.
775th Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group; attached to the 2nd Bomb Group
effective 14Mar44. Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 17Mar44. 775th Bomb Squadron,
463rd Bomb Group, Foggia #1, Celone, Italy 28Mar44. Named "Pete's Playhouse".
Failed to return from a mission to the Wiener Neust�dter Flugzeugwerke factory at
Wiener Neust�dt, Vienna, Austria 10May44 (5KIA:4POW). Damaged by flak over
Neunkirchen, Austria which disabled the No.1 engine. The pilot ordered the crew to bail
out before the plane crashed at Lichtenw�rth, Austria. MACR 4723
31686 (MSN 6800) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 6Dec43. Pilot School (Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 18Dec43.
Damaged landing at Hobbs 5May44. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four
Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 6Jul44. 3018th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Kingman
Field, AZ 18Sep44. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 8Jun45.
4210th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Lambert Municipal Airport,
Robertson, MO 29Aug45. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell
Field, NM 30Aug45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR
for storage and disposal 8Jan46. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31687 (MSN 6801) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 6Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 17Dec43.
New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 8Jan44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME 10Jan44. Ferried to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 18Jan44.
407th Bomb Squadron [PY*M], 92nd Bomb Group, Podington (Station 109),
Bedfordshire 28Jan44. Named "Wabbitt". Failed to return from a mission to the I.G. Farben
chemical and synthetic oil works at Leuna, Merseburg, Germany 11Sep44 (5POW:4KIA).
Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Freudenstadt, Germany. MACR 8889
31688 (MSN 6802) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 6Dec43. 548th Two Engine Flying Training Squadron, 314th Two Engine
Flying Training Group, Roswell Field, NM 16Dec43. Crashed in the Guadalupe
Mountain range, above the Pine Springs campground, in Chaves County, New Mexico,
while on a training flight and destroyed by fire 23Dec43 (5KIS). SOC 24Dec43, total flying time 69 hour
31689 (MSN 6803) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 6Dec43. McChord Field, Tacoma, WA 8Dec43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field,
Great Falls, MT 10Dec43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 13Dec43. 3018th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School),
Kingman Field, AZ 27Dec43. Accident at Yucca Field, AZ 23May44.
3018th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Kingman Field, AZ 23Mar45.
3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 27Jun45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and
disposal 5Jan46. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment
Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31690 (MSN 6804) Accepted by USAAF 2Dec43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 8Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 22Dec43. Ferried to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 16Jan44.
Delivery flight to Thurleigh 22Jan44. 368th Bomb Squadron [BO*W],
306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 22Jan44.
Named "Belle Of The Brawl" Failed to return from a mission to the Braunkohle-Benzin
AG synthetic oil refinery at Schwarzheide, Ruhland, Germany 12Sep44 (8POW:1KIA).
Flying in the lead squadron of the lead group, the bomber was hit three times by flak.
The first flak hit was in the cockpit, setting the area on fire and causing hydraulic
and oxygen failure at 27,000ft. The crew was ordered to bail out and the plane
crashed in the Liepnitzsee, Wandlitz, northnortheast of Berlin, Germany. MACR 8828
The cockpit was salvaged during the GDR era, and after the German reunification,
the remaining parts of the aircraft such as the engine, propeller and wing were
gradually salvaged by divers. There is not much left of the plane wreck today
31691 (MSN 6805) Accepted by USAAF 2Dec43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 6Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 16Dec43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 1Jan44. North
Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 3Jan44. Ferried
RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Ballyhalbert, Northern Ireland 14Jan44.
571st Bomb Squadron [FC*Q], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153),
Suffolk 16Jan44. Named *Lassie*. {first combat mission 29Jan44}.
Failed to return from a mission to the Messerschmitt factory at Augsburg,
Germany 13Apr44 (10INT). Encountering heavy flak over Augsburg, a fuel
tank was punctured, No.1 propeller was windmilling and another engine
damaged. Lagging behind and with insufficient fuel to return to England,
the pilot turned towards Switzerland. The bomber was then damaged by
Swiss flak over Winterhur and crash landed on a pasture at Niederglatt,
Switzerland. {22 missions}. Six of the crew escaped into France and returned
to their unit via the French underground resistance. With over thirty flak holes,
the aircraft was dismantled and stored at Kloten, Zurich, Switzerland. Scrapped
MACR 3948
31692 (MSN 6806) Accepted by USAAF 3Dec43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 6Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 17Dec43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 1Jan44.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 3Jan44.
Ferried RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Valley (Station 568), Anglesey, Wales 14Jan44.
526th Bomb Squadron [LF*F], 379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117),
Huntingdonshire 24Jan44. Failed to return from a mission to an aircraft assembly
plant at Brunswick, Germany 30Jan44 (8KIA:2POW). Seven crew members were killed
in the bomber by gunfire from the attacking German fighters, only three were able to
save themselves by bailing out. The plane exploded over ?the Holsen district of H�llhorst
and wreckage landed in a field at Jarrenkamp, west of the street Im Buchholz, four
miles southeast of Lubbecke, Westfalen, Germany. The co-pilot died a short time
later of serious injuries sustained during the parachute jump MACR 2878
31693 (MSN 6807) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 6Dec43. 4115th Base Unit (Spokane Air Technical Service Command),
Pendleton Field, OR 19Dec43. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 20Dec43. Fifteenth Air
Force, Italy. 419th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Cerignola #1, Italy 12Jan44.
Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. Battle damaged on a tactical mission
against German troop concentrations and defensive positions at Albano Laziale,
Rome, Italy 2Mar44. Struck by flak damaging two engines. On return, the plane force
landed with two propellers feathered near Naples, Italy. Crash landed with engine
failure on a training flight at Foggia Main, Italy 8May44 (1KIA:4INJ). {16 missions}.
Salvaged.
31694 (MSN 6808) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 6Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 17Dec43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 1Jan44. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 3Jan44. 511th Bomb Squadron [DS*V],
351st Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 30Jan44.
Battle damaged on a mission to the railway marshalling yard at Frankfurt am Main,
Germany 11Feb44 (11RTD), crash landed RAF Rochford, Southend, Essex, hit a
defence post on Warners Bridge and burnt out. {3 missions}. Salvaged by 2nd S
trategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton 13Feb44
31695 (MSN 6809) Accepted by USAAF 3Dec43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 6Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 17Dec43. New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 31Dec43. North Atlantic
Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 2Jan44. Ferried on the
North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 14Jan44. 369th Bomb Squadron [WW*D], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh
(Station 111), Bedfordshire 29Jan44. Seriously battle damaged during a mission
to the railway marshalling yards at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 8Feb44.
Right horizontal stabiliser, right wing and right side of the nose struck by flak.
Failed to return from a mission to the Junkers aircraft factory at Bernburg,
Germany 22Feb44 (9KIA:1POW). Over the target, No.4 engine was disabled by flak,
causing the plane to drop out of formation and lose altitude. Returning from the target,
it was attacked by enemy fighters and a wing fell off. Crashed Kirchen, eight miles
southwest of Siegen, Germany. MACR 2652
31696 MSN 6810) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 6Dec43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 17Dec43. New Castle AAB,
Wilmington, DE 30Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle
Field, ME 7Jan44. 535th Bomb Squadron, 381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167),
Essex 20Feb44. Failed to return from a mission to the Junkers aircraft factories at
Halberstadt and Aschersleben, Germany 22Feb44 (2KIA:8POW). Shot down by enemy
fighters, crashed seven hundred meters north of the village of Sandebeck, six kilometers
southeast of Horn, Germany. {1 mission}. MACR 2932.
31697 (MSN 6811) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 6Dec43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 8Dec43.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Dec43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 21Dec43. Grandview Field, Kansas
City, MO 31Dec43. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11),
West Palm Beach, FL 3Jan44. Casablanca, French Morocco 8Jan44. Fifteenth Air Force,
Italy. 353rd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Cerignola #1, Italy 9Jan44.
Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. Damaged landing at Lucera 19May44.
Failed to return from a mission to a synthetic oil refinery at Blechhammer,
Prussia 7Aug44 (1DOI:8POW). As it arrived over the target the bomber was
hit by flak and the navigator was badly injured. Having lost an engine, it couldn't
keep up with the formation, and was attacked by four German fighters, one of which
appeared to have damaged another engine causing an oil loss and feathering the
propeller. The crew changed direction to try and make it to Russia since they
were so far north, but later they decided to try to return to Italy. They flew south,
alone and were losing altitude. They were concerned one of the wings might break
off due to a windmilling propellor. The co-pilot prepared crew members for a bail out;
realizing the wounded navigator could neither move nor get out, the pilot cancelled
the bail out order. He decided to crash land in a level corn field. It was August,
corn stalks were loaded with ripe ears of corn; the landing gear would remain in
the up position. The landing was a success. The bomber had crash landed between
Kava and Martovce, northwest of Kom�rno, Czechoslovakia. Some of the crew
managed to return and set fire to the aircraft using a signal pistol; There was
almost nothing left of the bomber as it burned to the ground. MACR 7468
31698 (MSN 6812) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 7Dec43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 8Dec43.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28Dec43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island
Field, NB 28Jan44. 533rd Bomb Squadron [VP*N], 381st Bomb Group,
Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 23Feb44. Failed to return from a mission to Berlin,
Germany 24May44 (7KIA:2POW). Enemy aircraft cannon shells blew the right
wing off then the aircraft exploded, crashing on the Tempelfelde-Gratze highway,
15km southsouthwest of Eberswelde, Germany. {30+ missions}. MACR 5319.
7 KIA, 2 POW.
31699 (MSN 6813) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 6Dec43. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine),
Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 26Dec43. 2126th Base Unit (Central School for
Flexible Gunnery), Laredo Field, TX 24Aug44. 2126th Base Unit (Central School for
Flexible Gunnery), Laredo Field, TX 1Feb45.To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 4Jan46. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31700 (MSN 6814) Accepted by USAAF 3Dec43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 7Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 28Dec43. Nutts Corner (Station 235), Belfast, Northern Ireland 15Jan44.
368th Bomb Squadron [BO*U], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111),
Bedfordshire 29Jan44. Seriously battle damaged on a Crossbow mission to a
German V-weapon site at Watten, France 26Mar44. Crash landed at Thurleigh
on return. Salvaged 27Mar44.
31701 (MSN 6815) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 7Dec43. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 21Dec43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy.
32nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Cerignola #1, Italy 15Jan44.
Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. Failed to return from a mission to an oil
refinery at Lobau, Vienna, Austria 26Jun44 (10POW). Damaged by flak over the
target causing a fuel leak. The aircraft drifted out of the formation and was
attacked by a Bf 109 fighter. With the aircraft on auto-pilot, the crew bailed
out over Vienna but the aircraft continued to fly until it crashed in the
Neusiedler See, Austria. {54 missions} MACR 6333
31702 (MSN 6816) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 9Dec43. Keraney 28Dec43. 508th Bomb Squadron [YB*A], 351st Bomb
Group, Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 30Jan44. Failed to return
from a mission to the oil depot at Delitzsch, Germany 16Aug44 (3KIA:6POW).
Damaged by flak, crashed Burgwerben, Germany. {47 missions}. MACR 7902
31703 (MSN 6817) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 7Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 22Dec43.
New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 30Dec43. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command,
Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 1Jan44. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy.
353rd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Cerignola #1, Italy 14Jan44.
Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. Failed to return from a mission to the
Messerschmitt aircraft factory at Regensburg, Germany 25Feb44 (9POW).
Enemy fighters started to attack fifteen miles east of Klagenfurt, Austria on the
way to the target. This plane was lagging behind the main formation and was
attacked by enemy fighters north of Klagenfurt, Austria. It caught fire and the
crew bailed out over Ramsau, Austria. The aircraft crashed at Kranj, Slovenia,
Yugoslavia. {18 missions}.. MACR 2721
31704 (MSN 6818) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 11Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 6Jan44.
331st Bomb Squadron [QE*P], 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468),
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 24Jan44. Battle damaged on a mission to Brussels,
Belgium 11May44, flak damage to left wing. Failed to return from a mission to the
Sudetenl�ndische Treibstoffwerke AG synthetic oil refinery at Z�lup�, Br�x,
Sudetenland 12May44 (8POW:2KIA). En route to the target, between Koblenz and
Frankfurt, the formation was attacked by a large force of enemy fighters.
Enemy aircraft damaged No.4 engine. Crashed and exploded 300m east of
Hofgut Altenburg farm, Bad Orb, east of Frankfurt, Germany MACR 4826
31705 (MSN 6819) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 9Dec43. Phoenix, AZ 29Dec43. 1125th Flexible Gunnery Training
Squadron, Kingman Field, AZ 30Dec43. Lost control and crashed Winona, AZ
12Feb44. SOC 15Feb44
31706 (MSN 6820) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 7Dec43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 19Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 22Dec43.
749th Bomb Squadron [M], 457th Bomb Group, Glatton (Station 130),
Huntingdonshire 14Feb44. Named *Slow But Sure*. .
Declared 'war weary'. 1st Strategic Air Depot, Troston (Station 595),
Suffolk 24Mar45. Modified for installation of an airborne lifeboat. Returned to US.
121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 30Jun45.
Hawkins Field, Jackson, MS 1Jul45. 4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical
Service Command), South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 4Jul45
31707 (MSN 6821) Accepted by USAAF 6Dec43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 8Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 24Dec43. Long Beach Field, CA 2Jan44. North Atlantic Wing, Air
Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 5Jan44. Ferried to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 15Jan44. 561st Bomb Squadron [X], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall
(Station 136), Suffolk 17Jan44. Named "Haughty Hazy/Jake's Jerks".
{first combat mission 30Jan44}. Battle damaged during a mission to the industrial
area at Brunswick, Germany 10Feb44 (10RTD). Meagre to heavy flak was seen when
crossing the enemy coast at IJmuiden, Netherlands. In the vicinity of Lingen, Germany
the formation was attacked by enemy fighters in groups of three. As they neared the
target, twin-engined aircraft fired rockets into the formation. Intense flak was
encountered at the target where the aircraft received flak damage. The formation was
under fighter attack until it neared the IJsselmeer on the return home. Friendly fighters
were outnumbered, especially in the target area. On return, force landed at Seething
(Station 146), Norfolk. Battle damaged on a mission to railway facilities around
Berlin, Germany 29Apr44. The combat wing was off course heading to Berlin, attacked
by enemy fighters and bombed Magdeburg. Flak over the target was very accurate.
Failed to return from a mission to the docks at Kiel, Germany 22May44 (10POW).
Intense flak was encountered over the target and very accurate. Flak and enemy f
ighters damaged three engines and the crew bailed out. Crashed at Wennemannswisch,
four miles west of Heide, Germany. {25 missions}. MACR 4955.
31708 (MSN 6822) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport,
WY 9Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 20Dec43. Ferried to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 15Jan44. 351st Bomb Squadron [EP*N/R],
100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 17Jan44. 310th Ferrying
Squadron, 27th Air Transport Group, Heston (Station 510), Middlesex. Base Air
Depot No.2, Warton (Station 582). Named "Skipper II" Damaged taxying at Warton
19Jan44. {111 missions}. Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing),
Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 5Jul45. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 6Jul45.
4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), South Plains Field,
Lubbock, TX 7Jul45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41,
Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 6Dec45. War Assets Administration.
to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped.
31709 (MSN 6823) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 9Dec43. Maxwell Field, Montgomery, AL 19Dec43. Hunter Field,
Savannah, GA 20Dec43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 341st Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group,
Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 21Jan44. Failed to return from a mission to the Vkoda
armament works, Pilsen, Czechoslovakia 23Oct44. Damaged by flak, crashed Dolce,
22km south of Pilsen, Czechoslovakia. MACR 9513 Crew bailed out
31710 (MSN 6824) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 9Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 24Dec43.
3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 7Jan44. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 9Jan44. 349th Bomb Squadron [XR*P/F],
100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 20Jan44. Named "The Savage"
Failed to return from a mission to industrial areas in Berlin, Germany
8May44 (8POW:2KIA). Aircraft dropped behind formation and disappeared to crash
at Handrup, near Lengerich, thirty-one miles south of Bremen, Germany. MACR 4578
KC-135T 58-0094 of the 100th ARW is named 'The Savage' in commemoration of this B-17G
31711 (MSN 6825) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 9Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 22Dec43.
Ferried to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 16Jan44. 508th Bomb Squadron [YB*F],
351st Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 30Jan44.
Damaged taxying at Polebrook 3Sep44. {90 missions}. Base Air Depot No.1,
Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire 28May45. Returned to US. 121st Base Unit
(Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 19Jun45.
4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command),
South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 21Jun45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 6Dec45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
31712 (MSN 6826) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 9Dec43. Kingman Field, AZ 25Dec43. 223rd Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN 27Mar44. The pilot lost control and
crashed five miles south of Ridgely, TN 29May44. Salvaged 30May44.)
31713 (MSN 6827) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 10Dec43. Missoula, MT 13Dec43. United Air Lines, Modification
Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Dec43. Operational Training
Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 27Dec43.
3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 25Jan44. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Grenier Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 26Jan44.
327th Bomb Squadron [UX*T], 92nd Bomb Group, Podington (Station 109),
Bedfordshire 11Feb44. Named "Snake Hips". Battle damaged on
a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical and synthetic oil works at Leuna, Merseburg,
Germany 24Aug44 (1KIA). Damaged by flak, force landed RAF Woodbridge
emergency landing ground, Suffolk. Salvaged by 2nd Strategic Air Depot,
Abbots Ripton 25Aug44.
31714 (MSN 6828) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 9Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 24Dec43.
511th Bomb Squadron [DS*R], 351st Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110),
Northamptonshire 29Jan44. 510th Bomb Squadron [TU*R]. Mamed "SLy Ball".
Named in the tradition of 511th Bomb Squadron by incorporating the word 'Ball' i
n the title, after the squadron's first commander Clinton F Ball{61 missions}.
Declared 'war weary' 21Feb45. Caught fire at Polebrook 17May45. Salvaged 18May45
31715 (MSN 6829) Accepted by USAAF 6Dec43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 9Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 24Dec43. Nutts Corner (Station 235), Belfast, Northern Ireland 15Jan44.
423rd Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh 29Jan44. Navigational
training flight to RAF Drem, East Lothian, Scotland 3Feb44. Prior to return to
Thurleigh 4Feb44, No.1 engine failed and the pilot decided to take off on
three engines. During the take off the bomber struck an aircraft shelter
pen and then crashed in a field just beyond the runway. The B-17 was
destroyed and all six men aboard were killed. (6KIS including two British
service members embarked as authorised passengers). {nil combat missions}.
Salvaged 4Feb44.
31716 (MSN 6830) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 10Dec43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 25Dec43.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 10Jan44.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 18Jan44. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Grenier Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 26Jan44.
96th Bomb Group 3Feb44. Ferried RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 6Feb44. 413th Bomb Squadron [MZ*P], 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath
(Station 138), Norfolk Feb44. Failed to return from a mission to the Vereinigte
Kugellagerfabriken AG (VKF) ball bearing factory at Erkner, Berlin, Germany
8Mar44 (8POW:2KIA). All the way from the Netherlands to Berlin, the bombers
were hounded by Luftwaffe fighters. Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed
three miles east of Elze, eleven miles west of Celle, Germany. .MACR 3428
31717 (MSN 6831) Accepted by USAAF 6Dec43. United Air Lines, Modification
Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 9Dec43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 24Dec43. Ferried to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 15Jan44. 568th Bomb Squadron [BI*A], 390th Bomb Group,
Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 17Jan44. Mamed "Hells Bells". {first combat
mission 24Jan44}. Failed to return from a mission to the Vereinigte
Kugellagerfabriken AG (VKF) ball bearing factory at Erkner, Berlin, Germany
8Mar44 (1KIA:9POW). All the way from the Netherlands to Berlin, the bombers
were hounded by Luftwaffe fighters. Attacked and badly damaged by enemy
fighters, killing the top turret gunner. Crashed K�bbelitz, near Kl�tze,
Germany. {15 missions}. MACR 2988
31718 (MSN 6832) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 10Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 24Dec43.
337th Bomb Squadron [AW*T], 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138),
Norfolk 9Jan44. Failed to return from a diversionary mission to an aircraft
depot at Zwickau, Germany 12May44 (8POW:2KIA). En route to the target, between
Koblenz and Frankfurt, the formation was attacked by a large force of enemy
fighters. Flak caused damage to the fuselage and vertical stabiliser. Forced
down by three enemy fighters and crash landed in a field near Hartmannshain,
near Grebenhaim, twenty-six miles southeast of Giessen, Germany.
The plane was set on fire by the crew to destroy it. MACR 4857
31719 (MSN 6833) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 11Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 24Dec43.
Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick
(Station 500), Scotland 14Jan44. 711th Bomb Squadron [IR*K], 447th Bomb Group,
Rattlesden (Station 126), Suffolk 16Jan44. Named "Blue Hen's Chicks".
On return from a mission to the Messerschmitt factory at Augsburg, Germany 13Apr44 (1KIA).
Flak damaged No.3 and No.4 engines, crash landed Ham Street, Kent.
About 100 miles after crossing the French coast en route to the target, the
formation came under fire from heavy flak. The aircraft suffered heavy damage
with No.3 & 4 engines knocked out and a number of the crew injured
causing them to abort the mission and return home. Later they suffered
another flak hit this time damaging No.1 engine which had to be shut down
because of the damage. Rapidly losing height as the bomber crossed the
English Channel, the aircraft was now on fire and the crew was ordered to bail out.
It was clear to the pilot that he would have to stay with the aircraft to avoid it
crashing in to any populated areas. He crash landed the aircraft just south of
Hamstreet and was sadly killed.. Salvaged.
31720 (MSN 6834) Accepted by USAAF 6Dec43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 10Dec43. Pathfinder Force [PFF] aircraft.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 24Dec43. Ferried to Prestwick
(Station 500), Scotland 15Jan44. 524th Bomb Squadron [WA*H/M],
379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 27Jan44.
Named "Blue Blazing Buzzard" Battle damaged on a mission to the industrial area
at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 29Jan44 (1KIA), force landed at RAF Bradwell Bay,
Maldon, Essex. Failed to return from a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical works
at Oppau, Ludwigshafen, Germany 8Sep44 (4KIA:5POW). Damaged by flak,
crashed Mannheim, Germany. MACR 8844
31721 (MSN 6835) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 10Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 24Dec43.
510th Bomb Squadron [TU*S], 351st Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110),
Northamptonshire 29Jan44. Named "Black Magic". Failed to return from a
mission to the manufacturing facilities of the Junkers Flugzeug-und
Motorenwerke at Dessau, Germany 28May44 (9POW). Enemy fighter aircraft
damaged No.1 engine. Feathering this propeller, the pilot went on to bomb
the target. After bomb release, the No.2 engine failed causing the plane to drop
behind the formation. Heading for home, but losing height gradually, the pilot
felt that he would make it back with the help of the P-47 fighter escort. However,
suddenly, No.4 engine failed. Despite throwing everything overboard including
the ball turret and with the No.3 engine at full power, the plane was losing height
rapidly. Approximately twenty miles northeast of Frankfurt am Main, Germany
they were down to 3,000ft and dropping so the pilot gave the order to bail out.
The bomber crashed at Mernes, five miles east of Bad Orb, twenty-five miles
southwest of Fulda, Germany. {36 missions}. MACR 5334
31722 (MSN 6836) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 10Dec43. Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 22Dec43.
Kingman Field, AZ 23Dec43. 3018th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Kingman
Field, AZ 22Apr44. Damaged in accident at Yucca Field, AZ 6Jun44. 3017th Base Unit
(Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 24Jun45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and
disposal 2Jan46. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment
Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
31723 (MSN 6837) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 12Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 31Dec43.
349th Bomb Squadron [XR*R], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139),
Norfolk 15Feb44. Named "Sparky". Battle damaged on a mission to the industrial
area at Augsburg, Germany 16Mar44 (1KIA). From Strasburg, Germany to Augsburg,
the bombers were attacked by Luftwaffe fighters in a running battle. Flak over the
target was moderate and accurate; flak en route was meagre and inaccurate.
Returning, the bombers were attacked between Nancy, France and the coast.
A 20mm cannon shell from a Fw 190 blew out a section of the vertical stabiliser.
Failed to return from a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical and synthetic oil works
at Leuna, Merseburg, Germany 29Jul44 (8KIA:1POW). The bombers encountered
heavy flak over the target which disrupted the formation. Shot down by enemy
fighters, crashed Bad Kosen, Germany MACR 7810
31724 (MSN 6838) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 10Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 29Dec43.
Midwest Air Depot, Oklahoma City, OK 11Jan44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 16Jan44. 708th Bomb Squadron, 447th Bomb Group,
Rattlesden (Station 126), Suffolk 18Jan44. Named DEAR M.O.M. [named for
Marion O McGurer, a 447th Bomb Group bombardier who was injured by flak].
Failed to return from a mission to the railway marshalling yards at Hamm,
Germany 22Apr44 (10POW), struck twice by flak, a third shell set fire to leaking
fuel, the crew bailed out, aircraft exploded and crashed Oberenste, five miles
southeast of Werl, Germany. MACR 4174
31725 (MSN 6839) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 10Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 23Dec43.
3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 7Jan43. North Atlantic Wing, Air
Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 9Jan44. 509th Bomb Squadron [RQ*L],
351st Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 31Jan44.
Named "Lil' Ginny". Failed to return from a mission to the AGO-Flugzeugwerke Fw 190
manufacturing factory at Oschersleben, Germany 30May44 (9POW:1KIA).
Enemy aircraft caused severe damage, crashed Holzbalge, four miles northwest of
Nienburg, Germany. {33 missions MACR 5236
31726 (MSN 6840) Accepted by USAAF 7Dec43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 12Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 30Dec43. Ferried to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 15Jan44.
Delivery flight to Thurleigh 22Jan44. 367th Bomb Squadron [GY*O],
306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 22Jan44.
Named "Duration-Plus" Seriously battle damaged during a mission to the industrial
area at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 29Jan44 (2WIA:8RTD). Attack by enemy fighters,
the left and right inner wings, tail compartment and two fuselage bulkheads
struck by 20mm cannon shells. Seriously battle damaged on a Crossbow
mission to a German V-weapon site at Watten, France 26Mar44 (1WIA:9RTD).
Severely battle damaged on a mission to an oil refinery at Hamburg, Germany 20Jun44.
Three minutes after the target, flak struck a main fuel tank starting a fire but the
fire wwas extinguished and the plane returned to base. Battle damaged on a mission
to the docks at Wilhelmshaven, Germany 27Aug44. A Tokyo fuel tank and a propeller
governor were struck by flak allowing the propeller to overspeed. Failed to return
from a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical and synthetic oil works at Leuna, Merseburg,
Germany 13Sep44 (6POW:3KIA). En route from the I.P. for the run on target, one
of the four engines failed and the pilot had to feather the propeller. The plane remained
in formation and continued toward the target. The plane was flying at 29,500ft when it
was hit by flak. The pilot didn't hear the aircraft get hit by flak, but an intense fire
immediately started ahead of the instrument panel, on the right side of the fuselage.
He later determined that the fire was probably caused by the oxygen and oil lines being
severed by flak. The aircraft needed to lose altitude quickly and leave formation,
so that if the aircraft exploded it would not damage the other B-17s in the formation.
The fire on board was so intense from the start that the pilot immediately gave the order
to bail out. His crew members in the back of the aircraft complied and bailed out not far
from Mersberg, three other crew members, the Co-pilot, Bombardier and Navigator,
were gathered in the nose of the aircraft around the open escape hatch. The Top Turret
gunner/engineer remained with the pilot in the cockpit and attempted to extinguish the fire.
The fire continued to grow in intensity very quickly and the airmen chose to also bail out,
The pilot believed that the three crew members in the nose had already vacated the aircraft
but he found them still gathered around the open front hatch. He quickly returned to the
flight deck in order to stabilise the aircraft as well as possible and allow the other crew
members to bail out. On his return to the cockpit, the pilot stood behind the pilot's seat
reaching out for the controls, the flames prevented him getting any closer. During the short
time he attempted to stabilise the aircraft, he received burns on his face and neck and
right wrist. The engineer and pilot looked to the front hatch, but the flames were so intense
they couldn't see the other crew members and did not dare to attempt to go through the
fire in order to bail out themselves. They therefore headed for the bomb bay, where they
bailed out and landed close to Halle, Germany. The plane exploded and crashed near
Ammendorf, Germany MACR 8829
31727 (MSN 6841) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 11Dec43. 3018th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Kingman Field, AZ 1Jan44.
Damaged by structural failure and engine fire at Yucca Field, AZ 22May44.
3018th Base Unit, Kingman, AZ 23Mar45. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized,
Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 24Jun45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 4Jan46. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31728 (MSN 6842) Accepted by USAAF 7Dec43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 11Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 30Dec43. Nutts Corner (Station 235), Belfast, Northern Ireland 14Jan44.
570th Bomb Squadron [DI*B], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153),
Suffolk 17Jan44. Named "Sweetheart of Pas de Calais" {first combat mission 4Feb44}.
Severely battle damaged on a mission to the Rheinmetall Borsig armaments factory
at D�sseldorf, Germany 9Sep44. A minute before the bombs were released over the
target, anti-aircraft guns unleashed intense flak that completely engulfed the Group.
Force landed on the continent. Regained by Group. {final combat mission 20Apr45}.
{63 missions}. Damaged in collision with B-17G 43-38663 taxying at Framlingham
18Jun45. Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field,
Windsor Locks, CT 3Jul45. 4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service
Command), South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 5Jul45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 9Dec45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
31729 (MSN 6843) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 11Dec43. Salt Lake City AAB, UT 26Dec43. 3018th Base Unit (Flexible
Gunnery School), Kingman Field, AZ 27Dec43. Accident at Yucca Field, AZ 17May44.
3018th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Kingman Field, AZ 23Mar45.
3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 22Sep45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage
and disposal 18Jan46. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment
Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
31730 MSN 6844) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 10Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 27Dec43.
Nutts Corner (Station 235), Belfast, Northern Ireland 15Jan44. 615th Bomb
Squadron [IY*B], 401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128),
Northamptonshire 31Jan44. 613th Bomb Squadron [IN*O].
Named "Morning Star/Tail End Charlie". {112 missions}.
Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field,
Windsor Locks, CT 7Jun45. 4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service
Command), South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 9Jun45. 4100th Base Unit (Fairfield
Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 9Oct45.
4100th Base Unit, Rome Field, NY. Reclaimed 29Jan46.
31731 (MSN 6845) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 11Dec43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training
Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 24Dec43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field,
Detroit, MI 24Jan44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Grenier
Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 26Jan44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 30Jan44. 349th Bomb Squadron [XR*M],
100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 4Feb44. Failed to return
from a mission to industrial areas in the suburbs of Berlin,
Germany 6Mar44 (9KIA:1POW). Shot down by enemy fighters near Hasel�nne
and crashed at Uptloh, near Quakenbr�ck, Germany. MACR 3019
9 killed, one taken prisoner.
42-31732/31931 Boeing B-17G-30-BO Fortress
MSN 6846/7045. Dispositions from B-17 Fortress Master Log, Dave Osborne (FORTLOG)
Production changes: Additional crew microphone and headset. Minor electrical change
31732 (MSN 6846) Accepted by USAAF 8Dec43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 26Dec43. Ferried to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 15Jan44.
568th Bomb Squadron [BI*D], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153),
Suffolk 17Jan44. Named "Paper Doll II" {first combat mission 24Jan44}.
Battle damaged on a mission to the Junkers Flugzeug und Motorenwerke A.G.
factory at Strasbourg, France 27May44 (1WIA:9RTD); a waist gunner was wounded.
Failed to return from a mission to the railway station at Ach�res, northwest of Paris,
France 4Jun44 (3POW:7KIA). Just after the target, flak struck No.3 engine which
caught on fire. The aircraft peeled to the right out of formation and exploded.
The aircraft spun in and crashed at Maisons-Laffitte, western Paris, France. {28 missions}. .
MACR 5231
31733 (MSN 6847) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 11Dec43. 4185th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service
Command), Independence Field, KS 26Dec43. Bowman Field, Louisville, KY 30Dec43.
School of Applied Tactics, Orlando AAB, FL 1Jan44. 330th Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN 1Mar45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 14Dec45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31734 (95th (MSN 6848) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 10Dec43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 29Dec43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 25Jan44.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Grenier Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 2Feb44.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 4Feb44.
Ferried Lajes Field, Terceira Island, Azores to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 13Feb44.
412th Bomb Squadron [QW*H], 95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 15Feb44.
Failed to return from a mission to industrial areas in the suburbs of Berlin,
Germany 4Mar44 (10POW). Because of severe weather in the assembly area, the group
diverted to a target in the Ruhr valley, Germany. Crashed at Gatersleben, twelve miles
southwest of Magdeburg, Germany. {7 missions} MACR 2796
31735 (MSN 6849) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 11Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 30Dec43.
Nutts Corner (Station 235), Belfast, Northern Ireland 15Jan44. 351st Bomb Squadron [EP*B],
100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 17Jan44. Named :"Lucky Lee".
Failed to return from a mission to industrial areas in the suburbs of Berlin,
Germany 6Mar44 (8POW:2KIA). Attack by enemy fighters near Hasel�nne damaged
two engines. The crew bailed out, the aircraft exploded and crashed at Haustette,
near Bakurn, five miles west of Vechta, Germany. MACR 3020
31736 MSN 6850) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 11Dec43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 24Dec43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus
Field, Detroit, MI 25Jan44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME 30Jan44. Combat Weather Detachment, 1st Combat Crew
Replacement Group, Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire 5Feb44. 8th Weather
Reconnaissance Squadron (Heavy), 802nd Reconnaissance Group (Special)(Provisional),
Watton (Station 376), Norfolk 12Apr44. 652nd Bomb Squadron (Heavy
Reconnaissance), 25th Bomb Group (Reconnaissance), 325th Photographic Wing,
Watton 9Aug44. Crashed on takeoff at Watton for a weather reconnaissance
flight to the Azores 6Sep44 (5KIS). Salvaged 8Sep44
During the summer of 1943 at RAF St Eval, Padstow, Cornwall, No.1404
Meteorological Flight became No.517 Squadron and began re-equipping with the
Handley-Page Halifax. Because of this No.517 was unable to maintain its operational
committment of twice-daily meteorological reconnaissance sorties to the
southwest over Biscay (code-named EPICURE). Such was the importance of these
flights that the USAAF offered four B-17s to make up the shortfall - adding another
four aircraft later. Initially these were detached to RAF St Eval and operated to the
west of the UK (code-named ALLAH), but during the autumn it was decided the USAAF
aircraft should operate from an American base - Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire.
As the USAAF didn't have aircrew trained in meteorological observing, the crews
always flew with an RAF Meteorological Air Observer (MAO)
31737 (MSN 6851) Accepted by USAAF 8Dec43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Dec43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 24Dec43. 3rd Ferrying Group,
Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 25Jan44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME 5Feb44. 423rd Bomb Squadron [RD*U], 306th Bomb Group,
Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 28Feb44. Failed to return from a mission to the
research center at Peenem�nde, Prussia 18Jul44 (9INT). At the I.P., flak damaged No.1
engine and the propeller was feathered. The bombs were jettisoned then No.2 engine
started smoking and caught fire. Diverted and force landed Bulltofta, Malm�, Sweden.
MACR 7416
31738 (MSN 6852) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 11Dec43. Grandview Field, Kansas City, MO 28Dec43. School of Applied Tactics,
Orlando AAB, FL 31Dec43. 901st Base Unit, Heavy Bombardment, Pinecastle Field,
Orlando, FL 2Jun44. 441st Base Unit, Van Nuys Field, Glendale, CA 24Jun44.
901st Base Unit, Heavy Bombardment, Pinecastle Field, Orlando, FL 29Jun44.
903rd Base Unit, Pinecastle Field, FL 10Sep44. 902nd Base Unit (Base Complement),
Orlando AAB, FL 20Dec44. 903rd Base Unit, Pinecastle Field, FL 12Jun45.
621st Base Unit, Pinecastle Field, FL 6Sep45. 6138th Base Unit, Phillips Field,
Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 19Jun46
31739 (MSN 6853) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 11Dec43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 27Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 29Jan44. 358th Bomb Squadron [VK*P],
303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 15Feb44.
Named "Pugnacious Peter". Damaged landing at Molesworth 5May44.
Failed to return from a mission to the railway marshalling yards at Koblenz,
Germany 11Oct44 (9POW). Damaged by flak, crashed Wesseling, Germany.
MACR 9563
31740 (MSN 6854) Accepted by USAAF 9Dec43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 11Dec43. Kearny Field, NB 27Dec43.
Midwest Air Depot, Oklahoma City, OK 12Jan44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 16Jan44. 546th Bomb Squadron [BK*T], 384th Bomb Group,
Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 1Mar44.
{first combat mission 3Mar44}. Failed to return from a mission to the Focke-Wulf
aircraft factory at Marienburg, East Prussia 9Apr44 (9POW:1KIA). En route to the
target, the aircraft was struck by flak in the left wing root, setting the wing on fire.
The bomber dropped out of formation and the crew bailed out as the plane circled down.
The engineer drowned in the Baltic Sea, his body washing ashore after several weeks.
The bomber crashed at Ulsnis, northeast of Schleswig, Germany. {14 missions}..
MACR 3653
31741 (MSN 6855) Accepted by USAAF 9Dec43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 12Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 30Dec43. Nutts Corner (Station 235), Belfast, Northern Ireland 14Jan44.
562nd Bomb Squadron [O], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 17Jan44.
Named THUNDERBOLT / HI FEVER / HAUGHTY HAZY, {first combat mission 29Jan44}.
Failed to return from a mission to a railway marshalling yard at Li�ge,
Belgium 25May44 (9POW:2KIA). Meagre flak was encountered crossing the French
coast in the Le Tr�port area but very accurate flak at Poix-de-Picardie, France.
Flak damaged No.3 and No.4 engines starting a fire in the right wing. The plane
dropped out of formation, spun, exploded and crashed Guibersmesnil, eight miles
northwest of Poix-de-Picardie, France. {19 missions}. MACR 5264
31742 (MSN 6856) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 12Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 30Dec43.
Reported as crashed in bad weather at Tully, Killead, County Antrim, Northern Ireland 13Jan44.
[Killead is adjacent to what was RAF Aldergrove. The aircraft may have force landed there
in bad weather]. Cluntoe (Station 238), County Tyrone, Northern Ireland 14Jan44.
548th Bomb Squadron, 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 17Jan44.
Failed to return from a mission to Berlin, Germany 24May44 (10POW). Damaged by flak,
crashed Midwolde, Netherlands. MACR 5267
31743 (MSN 6857) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 11Dec43. Rosecrans Field, Saint Joseph, MO 29Dec43. School of
Applied Tactics, Orlando AAB, FL 2Jan44. 236th Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Pyote Field, TX. Destroyed when force landed with engine failure
fifteen miles north of Big Springs, TX 9May44. Salvaged 11May44..
31744 (MSN 6858) Accepted by USAAF 9Dec43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 12Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 5Jan44. 568th Bomb Squadron [BI*W: changed to BI*A when 42-31717
was lost], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 5Feb44.
Named "Little Butch II". {first combat mission 18Mar44}. Battle damaged on a
mission to an oil storage facility at Saint-Ouen, northern Paris, France 22Jun44.
During the approach to the target, flak guns within the Paris area opened up on the
formation. As the bomber was returning to England, the plane fell behind the
formation and was attacked by a lone German fighter just south of the city of
Rouen, France. The bomber's crew was able to shoot down their assailant
before it could do so to them, and the bomber continued back to force land after
midnight at RAF Ford, Littlehampton, West Sussex. Battle damaged on a mission
to the I.G. Farben chemical and synthetic oil works at Leuna, Merseburg,
Germany 29Jul44 (1WIA:8RTD). The bombers encountered heavy flak over the target
which disrupted the formation, wounding the ball turret gunner. Participated in an
Operation Frantic V shuttle mission to the Flugzeugwerk Gotenhafen Kurt
Kannenberg AG Focke-Wulf assembly works at Rahmel, Gdynia, Poland 6Aug44.
After the target, the bomber continued east and landed at Mirgorod (Station 561),
Ukraine. Operated a mission to an oil refinery at Trzebinia, Poland 7Aug44,
returning to Ukraine. Operated a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Zili?tea,
Rumania 8Aug44, continuing on to a Fifteenth Air Force base in southern Italy.
Returned to England on a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Francazal, Toulouse,
France 12Aug44. Failed to return from a mission to an oil refinery at Derben,
Germany 14Jan45 (4KIA:5POW). The Group's low squadron, comprised of only
eight aircraft, was lagging behind because of engine supercharger trouble in their
leading aircraft. When the Luftwaffe appeared on the scene, this unit was flying
some 2,000ft below and behind the rest of the formation, presenting the obvious
choice of target. The Luftwaffe took advantage of the opportunity; the entire low
squadron was wiped out. Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Goerne, Germany.
{62 missions}. MACR 11720
31745 (MSN 6859) Accepted by USAAF 9Dec43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 12Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 30Dec43. Nutts Corner (Station 235), Belfast, Northern Ireland 14Jan44.
563rd Bomb Squadron [T], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 17Jan44.
Named "Heaven Can Wait" {first combat mission 30Jan44}. Battle damaged during a
mission to the industrial area at Brunswick, Germany 10Feb44 (10RTD). Meagre to
heavy flak was seen when crossing the enemy coast at IJmuiden, Netherlands.
In the vicinity of Lingen, Germany the formation was attacked by enemy fighters in
groups of three. As they neared the target, twin-engined aircraft fired rockets
into the formation. Intense flak was encountered at the target where the aircraft
received flak damage. The formation was under fighter attack until it neared the
IJsselmeer on the return home. Friendly fighters were outnumbered, especially in
the target area. Failed to return from a mission to the industrial areas of Brunswick,
Germany 23Mar44 (10POW). The formation was about fifteen minutes early
when it crossed the enemy coast and even earlier when it reached the target.
Consequently, no friendly fighter escort was met until the formation was near
the I.P. During this time a large force of enemy fighters was encountered between
D�mmer See and Steinhuder Meer, Wunstorf, Germany. Attacked by enemy fighters,
crash landed near Wildeshausen, southwest of Bremen, Germany. {15 missions}.
MACR 3595
31746 (MSN 6860) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 12Dec43. Ellensburg Auxiliary Field, Bowers, WA 14Dec43. 7th Ferrying
Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 20Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 31Dec43. Nutts Corner (Station 235), Belfast, Northern Ireland 14Jan44.
549th Bomb Squadron [XA*P], 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155),
Suffolk 17Jan44. Force landed with mechanical failure at Honington (Station 375),
Suffolk 24Feb44. Salvaged 1st Strategic Air Depot, Troston (Station 595), Suffolk,
non battle damage 21Mar44
31747 (MSN 6861) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 12Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 31Dec43.
Midwest Air Depot, Oklahoma City, OK 15Jan44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 26Jan44. 332nd Bomb Squadron [XM*Q], 94th Bomb Group,
Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 17Feb44.
Named *Lassie Come Home/Angel in the Skies*.
Failed to return from a mission to the Messerschmitt factory at Augsburg,
Germany 13Apr44 (10INT). Flak damaged No.1 engine plus a fuel leak,
force landed D�bendorf, Z�rich, Switzerland. MACR 4006
31748 (MSN 6862) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 10Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 31Dec43.
Midwest Air Depot, Oklahoma City, OK 16Jan44. Air Service Command,
Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 1Feb44. 511th Bomb Squadron [DS*V],
351st Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 19Feb44.
Failed to return from a mission to to Munich, Germany 13Jul44 (9POW).
Moderate accurate flak was encountered at Ludwigshafen and Mannheim with
intense flak at the target. Damaged by flak, crashed Neuffen, Germany. {42 missions).
MACR 7504
31749 (MSN 6863) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 10Dec43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 20Dec43.
Midwest Air Depot, Oklahoma City, OK 6Jan44. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field,
Dallas, TX 15Jan44. Maxwell Field, Montgomery, AL 16Jan44. Hunter Field,
Savannah, GA 18Jan44. 1104th Base Unit (Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command),
Homestead Field, FL 28Jan44. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 20th Bomb Squadron,
2nd Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 28Jan44. {first combat mission 17Feb44}.
Failed to return from a mission to the Luftwaffe airfield at Villaorba,
Italy 18Mar44 (9KIA:1EVD). The squadron was attacked near Ljubljana, Slovenia,
by four Ju 88s which were firing rockets. The tail section of this plane may have
substained one or more hits by 20mm cannon fire just previously to the time it was
hit by the rocket. It exploded on contact and completely destroyed the left hotizontal
stabiliser, vertical stabiliser and rudder. The bomber's nose immediately made a
violent pull-up motion and then went into a movement similar to a chandelle and
then began to fall in a falling leaf spin. The navigator bailed out near Gerovo, Croatia,
Yugoslavia and evaded capture with help from the Partisans. The plane crashed
on the island of Cres island, Croatia, Yugoslavia. {12 missions}..
31750 (MSN 6864) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 12Dec43. Kingman Field, AZ 25Dec43. 3018th Base Unit (Flexible
Gunnery School), Kingman Field, AZ 23Mar45. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 25Jun45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 11Jan46. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31751 (MSN 6865) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 12Dec43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 27Dec43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field,
Detroit, MI 26Jan44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Grenier
Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 28Jan44. 549th Bomb Squadron,
385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 23Feb44. Failed to return
from a Crossbow mission to a German V-weapon site in the Pas-de-Calais,
France 28Feb44 (8KIA:2POW). Flak hit in nose, crashed St Martin, near
Boulogne-sur-Mer, France. MACR 2883
31752 (MSN 6866) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 11Dec43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 4Jan44.
773rd Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Lakeland Field, FL 6Jan44.
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11),
West Palm Beach, FL 17Feb44. Ferried overseas via the South Atlantic / Africa
route. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 773rd Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group,
Foggia #1, Celone, Italy 11Mar44. Named "The Simp". Failed to return from a
mission to the Schaffgotsch Benzin synthetic oil refinery at Deschowitz-Beuthen,
Odertal, Prussia 22Aug44 (5POW:4EVD). Damaged by flak, it left the formation
with an engine on fire. The pilot ordered the crew to bail out while the navigator
and bombardier were attending to the severely wounded co-pilot. Shortly after the
enlisted men had bailed out, the plane began responding to the flight controls
better so the pilot decided to try to make it back to their base in Celone but
crash landed at Slatina, Croatia, Yugoslavia. MACR 8108.
31753 (MSN 6867) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 13Dec43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 24Dec43.
Middletown Air Depot, Middletown Field, PA 28Dec43. School of Applied Tactics,
Orlando AAB, FL 30Dec43. 9030th Base Unit, Pinecastle Field, FL 2Jun44.
902nd Base Unit (Base Complement), Orlando AAB, FL 7Dec44. 903rd Base Unit,
Pinecastle Field, FL. Damaged taxying at Pinecastle 16Dec44. Damaged by fire
while parked at Pinecastle 5Mar45. 621st Base Unit, Pinecastle Field, FL 2Jul45.
4000th Base Unit, Air Materiel Command, Wright Field, Dayton, OH 15Jul45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage
and disposal 14Jan46. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway
Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31754 (MSN 6868) Accepted by USAAF 10Dec43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Dec43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field,
Great Falls, MT 24Dec43. Grenier Field, Manchester, NH 6Feb44. 427th Bomb Squadron [GN*L],
303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 28Feb44.
Crash landed Trunch, Norfolk near RAF Sculthorpe, Fakenham, Norfolk 9Apr44. Salvaged 10Apr44.
31755 (MSN 6869) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 11Dec43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training
Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 23Dec43. Des Moines Municipal Airport, IA 24Dec43.
Stout Field, Indianapolis, IN 25Dec43. Nashville Municipal Airport, TN 31Dec43.
School of Applied Tactics, Orlando AAB, FL 1Jan44. 225th Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Rapid City Field, SD. Damaged in collision with parked
B-17F 42-30771 while taxying at Rapid City 17Aug44. 225th Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Rapid City Field, SD 1May45. 203rd Base Unit (16th Bomber
Operational Training Wing), Jackson AAB, MS 3Jun45. Damaged while parked in
collision by B-17F 42-29655 at Hawkins Field, Jackson, MS 5Jul45. 245th Base
Unit (Operational Training Unit), McCook Field, NB 27Sep45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for
storage and disposal 20Nov45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
31756 (MSN 6870) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 11Dec43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 27Dec43. 360th Bomb Squadron [PU*M],
303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 11Feb44.
Damaged when the co-pilot accidentally retracted the landing gear while taxying
clear of the runway after the completion of a local transition flight at
Molesworth 12Mar44. Salvaged 13Mar44
31757 (MSN 6871) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 11Dec43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 21Dec43. 508th Bomb Squadron [YB*G],
351st Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 25Feb44.
Named "Round Trip". Failed to return from a mission to the manufacturing
facilities of the Junkers Flugzeug-und Motorenwerke at Dessau,
Germany 28May44 (6KIA:3POW). Enemy aircraft damaged No.4 engine, then
lost No.2, crashed Waldau, east of Berburg, twenty miles west of Dessau,
Germany. {23 missions}. . MACR 5333
31758 (MSN 6872) Accepted by USAAF 10Dec43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Dec43. Billings Municipal Airport, MT 17Dec43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island
Field, NB 27Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle
Field, ME 20Feb44. 367th Bomb Squadron [GY*F], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh
(Station 111), Bedfordshire 3Mar44. Failed to return from a mission to the
Dornier-Werke factory and airfield at Oberpfaffenhofen, Munich,
Germany 24Apr44 (10INT). En route to the target Bf 109 fighters damaged No.2
and No.3 engines. Short of the target and still under fighter attack, the pilot, who
was the lead pilot of the low group, jettisoned his bomb load. Unfortunately, the
entire 306th Bomb Group dropped their bombs when their leader did. Unable to
hold position the pilot started descending; through miscommunication, poor
communications, or no communication, he took his Group down with him.
The message got through when the pilot lowered his landing gear and handed
control of the flight to his deputy. He headed towards Switzerland and force
landed at D�bendorf, Z�rich. MACR 4357
31759 (MSN 6873) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 11Dec43. Spokane Field, WA 17Dec43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field,
Great Falls, MT 20Dec43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 27Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Lincoln
Field, NB 5Jan44. Mobile, AL 6Jan44. 774th Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group,
Lakeland Field, FL 7Jan44. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison
Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 22Feb44. Ferried overseas via the South
Atlantic / Africa route. 463rd Bomb Group 24Feb44. Ferried Lajes Field, Terceira
Island, Azores to St Mawgan (Station 512), Cornwall 7/8Mar44. Fifteenth Air Force,
Italy. Bari, Italy 10Mar44. 774th Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Foggia #1,
Celone, Italy 15Mar44. Named "The Hustlin' Gal". Failed to return from a mission
to the railway marshalling yards at Ploe?ti, Rumania 24Apr44 (1KIA:8POW).
Shot down by enemy fighters, exploded and crashed at Tirgoviste, Rumania..
MACR 4611
31760 (MSN 6874) Accepted by USAAF 10Dec43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 11Dec43. 7th Ferrying Group,
Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 17Dec43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 20Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 31Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle
Field, ME 24Jan44. 563rd Bomb Squadron [D], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall
(Station 136), Suffolk 4Feb44. Named "Ikky Poo"--artwork of a snake.
{first combat mission 24Feb44}. Battle damaged on a mission to railway facilities
around Berlin, Germany 29Apr44. The combat wing was off course heading to
Berlin, attacked by enemy fighters and bombed Magdeburg. Flak over the target
was very accurate. Battle damaged on a mission to a railway marshalling yard
at Li�ge, Belgium 25May44. Meagre flak was encountered crossing the French
coast in the Le Tr�port area but very accurate flak at Poix-de-Picardie, France.
On return force landed at RAF Manston, Kent. Battle damaged during a mission
to the Braunkohle Benzin A.G. synthetic oil refinery at Rothensee, Magdeburg,
Germany 20Jun44. Flak over the target was intense and accurate. Participated in
an Operation Frantic II shuttle mission to the Braunkohle-Benzin AG synthetic
oil refinery at Schwarzheide, Ruhland, Germany 21Jun44. After the target, the
bomber continued east and landed at Poltava (Station 559), Ukraine. Damaged on
the ground by a major German strike force night of 21/22Jun44. {30 missions}.
Repaired and remained in Ukraine. 334th Bomb Squadron [BG*D], 95th Bomb Group Jul44.
{first combat mission with 95BG 8Aug44}. Participated in an Operation Frantic V
shuttle mission. Poltava (Station 559), Ukraine. Operated a mission to an
airfield at Buz?u, Rumania 8Aug44, continuing on to Foggia #1, Celone, Italy,
a Fifteenth Air Force base in southern Italy. Returned to England on a mission
to a Luftwaffe airfield at Francazal, Toulouse, France 12Aug44. Horham .
Failed to return from a night practice mission 6Nov44 (6MIA). {17 missions}. .
MACR 10418
31761 (MSN 6875) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 11Dec43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 17Dec43.
Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 20Dec43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 30Dec43. Nutts Corner (Station 235),
Belfast, Northern Ireland 14Jan44. 533rd Bomb Squadron [VP*O], 381st Bomb Group,
Ridgewell. Named "Rotherhithe's Revenge". As an appreciation of �800,000
raised during Bermondsey's Wings for Victory Week, the people of Bermondsey christened
the U.S. Fortress bomber "ROTHERHITHE'S REVENGE" at the U.S. bomber base, Kimbolton
(Station 117), Huntingdonshire 15Feb44. Three other bombers were named by their
crews also in honour of Bermondsey {73+ missions}. Returned to US. 121st Base Unit
(Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 9Jun45. 4168th Base Unit
(Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 13Jun45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage
and disposal 28Nov45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
31762 (MSN 6876) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 12Dec43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 16Dec43.
Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 20Dec43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 31Dec43. Nutts Corner (Station 235),
Belfast, Northern Ireland 15Jan44. 551st Bomb Squadron [HR*M],
385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 17Jan44.
Named 'Crash Wagon II/Junior'. Failed to return from a mission to bomb
French airfields 12Jun44 (9POW:1KIA). Damaged by flak, crashed Farceaux, twenty miles
southeast of Rouen, France. MACR 5628.
31763 (MSN 6877) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 12Dec43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 16Dec43.
Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 21Dec43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 1Jan44. Nutts Corner (Station 235),
Belfast, Northern Ireland 14Jan44. 510th Bomb Squadron [TU*A], 351st Bomb Group,
Battle damaged on a mission to the Erla Maschinenwerk Bf 109 aircraft factory at Mockau,
Leipzig, Germany 20Feb44 (4KIA:1POW:5RTD). The aircraft was attacked by a squadron
of enemy fighters with the result that the co-pilot was killed outright, the pilot wounded
and rendered unconscious, the radio operator wounded and the plane severely damaged.
Nevertheless members of the crew managed to right the plane and fly it back to their home station,
where they contacted the control tower and reported the situation. Even though they had no
flight eperience, the navigator and engineer volunteered to attempt to land the plane.
Other members of the crew were ordered to jump, leaving the navigator and engineer and the
unconscious pilot aboard. After observing the distressed aircraft from another plane,
their commanding officer decided the damaged plane could not be landed by the inexperienced crew
and ordered them to abandon it and parachute to safety. The navigator and engineer replied
that the pilot was still alive but could not be moved and that they would not desert him.
They were then told to attempt a landing. After two unsuccessful efforts their plane
crashed into an open field near the Great North Road at Glatton, Northamptonshire
in a third attempt to land at Polebrook. The navigator, engineer, and the wounded pilot were killed.
6 missions. Navigator and flight engineer were awarded Medal of Honor.
31764 (MSN 6878) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 12Dec43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 17Dec43.
Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 19Dec43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 31Dec43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 24Jan44. Damaged taxying at
Station 2, North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command 2Feb44. 549th Bomb Squadron [XA*R],
385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 22Apr44. 551st Bomb Squadron [HR*Q].
Named WAR HORSE. Patched and repaired many times, the crew named the bomber the WAR HORSE
because it looked like it had been through many battles.
Accident during assembly for a mission 11Nov44 (1KIA:3INJ:5RTD). An engine on the
right wing failed and lost oil, preventing the propeller from being feathered. Leaking
oil had caught fire and was burning through the aileron control. The plane was pulled
out of the formation and held steady while eight airmen bailed out. The pilot was
preparing to jump when the plane exploded. The bomb load fell out, one of them
exploding in a nearby park. A large section of wing and fuselage fell to earth just yards
from No.2 Verandah Cottage at Easton, Suffolk, where three small boys were playing.
Some bombs were too dangerous to move and their detonation in-situ caused
damage to the church and dwellings. Salvaged 11Nov44.
31765 (MSN 6879) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 12Dec43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 25Dec43.
Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 2Jan44.
242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB 4Feb44.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Grenier Field (Station 16),
Manchester, NH 10Feb44. 407th Bomb Squadron [PY*L], 92nd Bomb Group,
Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 2Mar44. Converted for trooping, stripped
of all armament and turrets, capable of carrying thirty passengers on benches
installed in the waist and bomb bay. 92nd Bomb Group, Istres (Station 195),
Marseille, France. Participated in the Green Project which was the USAAF solution
to expedite the return of troops to USA. It called for the round-the-clock airlift of
troops from Istres, France, to Casablanca, French Morocco, the initial leg of their
journey home. From Casablanca, Air Transport Command's aircraft completed the
journey and flew the troops to the United States. A secondary task of the Green
Project included flying French citizens who had been in exile during the war
on the return leg from NAS Port Lyautey, French Morocco to Istres. The Green Project
operated from 15Jun45 to 10Sep45. Salvaged 11Oct45
31766 (MSN 6880) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 12Dec43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 16Dec43.
3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 24Jan44. North Atlantic Wing, Air
Transport Command, Grenier Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 28Jan44.
Eighth Air Force, England 6Feb44. Ferried from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to
Machrihanish, Scotland Feb44. Damaged when force landed with fuel exhaustion
at RAF St Eval, Padstow, Cornwall 9May44. Salvaged 31Mar46
31767 (MSN 6881) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 12Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 31Dec43.
Nutts Corner (Station 235), Belfast, Northern Ireland 16Jan44. 351st Bomb Squadron [EP*E],
100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 17Jan44.
Named "Our Gal Sal". Artwork of a female dressed in the thinnest of
swimsuits to avoid a confrontation with the censors. The artwork was painted
onto canvas which was then glued onto the side of the plane producing one of
the largest examples of applique seen in airplane nose art. The name was based
on the popular movie 'My Gal Sal' starring Rita Hayworth, one of the many GI
pin-up stars of the era. (first combat mission 3Feb44}. Modified with staggered waist
gun positions. Battle damaged on a mission to Berlin, Gemany 6Mar44, flak damaged
the right inner wing and fin. Battle damaged on a mission to Rostock, Gemany 11Apr44,
flak damaged the left wing, No.2 engine and right outer wing. Battle damaged on a
mission to Berlin, Gemany 24May44, flak damaged the left wing, fuselage and radio room.
Battle damaged on a mission to Ludwigshafen, Gemany 5Nov44, flak damaged the No.1
supercharger and made a hole in the left side of the fuselage. Modified with all guns,
armament and ball turret removed with a wooden floor built over the bomb bay.
Operation Revival; liberated prisoners of war from Russian controlled Stalag Luft No.I,
Barth, Germany. British POWs were flown to southern England; American POWs were
flown to Laon-Couvron (A-70), France. {125 missions + 2 Chowhound + 2 Revival}.
482nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire 20May45.
Returned to US by 482nd Bomb Group crew on Operation Home Run May45.
121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 31May45.
4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), South Plains Field,
Lubbock, TX 3Jun45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41,
Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 8Nov45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
31768 (MSN 6882) Accepted by USAAF 11Dec43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 12Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 8Jan44. Ferried to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 15Jan44.
During delivery flight to Thurleigh, returned to base 22Jan44. 369th Bomb Squadron [WW*V],
306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 23Jan44. Named "Miss Carriage".
Accident after takeoff for a mission to the industrial area at Frankfurt am Main,
Germany 29Jan44. The plane had just left the ground when the gyro compass
and artificial horizon became inoperative. The plane became uncontrollable in
turbulence but the pilot recovered and returned to base. The right waist gunner
bailed out at low level when the plane first went out of control. His parachute
barely opened when he landed in a hedge, breaking his fall; he returned to join his crew.
Seriously battle damaged during a mission to the railway marshalling yards at
Frankfurt am Main, Germany 8Feb44. Both wings, No.1 main fuel tank and the
vertical stabiliser struck by flak. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton (Station 547),
Huntingdonshire 4Mar44. Regained by Group Mar44. 2nd Strategic Air Depot,
Abbots Ripton (Station 547), Huntingdonshire 24Mar44. Regained by Group Mar44.
Failed to return from a mission to the Dornier-Werke factory and airfield at
Oberpfaffenhofen, Munich, Germany 24Apr44 (10POW). Enemy aircraft
damaged No.3 and No.4 engines plus the top gun turret, then a fire developed.
The crew bailed out over Mainburg, the aircraft exploded and crashed at
Niederrumelsdorf, eight miles south of Abensberg, twenty miles east of Ingoldstadt,
Germany. MACR 4283
31769 (MSN 6883) Accepted by USAAF 11Dec43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Dec43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 22Dec43. 563rd Bomb Squadron [D],
388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 19Feb44. Named "Cock Of The Walk".
{first combat mission 8Mar44}. Battle damaged during a mission to the industrial
areas of Brunswick, Germany 23Mar44 (2WIA:8RTD). The formation was about fifteen
minutes early when it crossed the enemy coast and even earlier when it reached the
target. Consequently, no friendly fighter escort was met until the formation was
near the I.P. During this time a large force of enemy fighters was encountered
between D�mmer See and Steinhuder Meer, Wunstorf, Germany. The route home
was south of the briefed course and the formation flew through the northern
defenses of the Ruhr Valley, encountering intense flak. The tail and a waist
gunner were wounded during the mission. Battle damaged on a mission to the
Dornier Flugzeugwerke factory at Lowenthal, Friedrichshafen, Germany 24Apr44 (1WIA:9RTD).
Flak over the target was intense and accurate, wounding the navigator. Battle
damaged during a mission to the Braunkohle Benzin A.G. synthetic oil refinery at
Rothensee, Magdeburg, Germany 20Jun44. Flak over the target was intense and accurate.
Participated in an Operation Frantic II shuttle mission to the Braunkohle-Benzin AG
synthetic oil refinery at Schwarzheide, Ruhland, Germany 21Jun44. After the target,
the bomber continued east and landed at Poltava (Station 559), Ukraine. Damaged
on the ground by a major German strike force night of 21/22Jun44. {35 missions}.
Repaired and re-assigned to Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 6Sep44. Salvaged 6Nov45
31770 (MSN 6884) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 12Dec43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 17Dec43.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Dec43.
5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 8Jan44. 773rd Bomb Squadron,
463rd Bomb Group, Lakeland Field, FL 10Jan44. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport
Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 13Feb44.
Ferried South Atlantic route Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL: Waller Field,
Trinidad: Bel�m, Brasil: Natal, Brasil: Dakar, Senegal, Africa. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy.
773rd Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Foggia #1, Celone, Italy 15Mar44.
Named "The Skylark" Damaged by Flak on a mission to the Wiener Neust�dter
Flugzeugwerke factory at Wiener Neust�dt, Vienna, Austria 10May44 (1KIA).
With the tail shot off, the aircraft returned safely to base. Failed to return from a
mission to the oil refinery at Budapest, Hungary 14Jun44 (10POW). Two engines
were damaged by flak and the propellers feathered, causing the plane to fall
behind the formation and lose altitude. The crew was given the choice of bailing
out or staying with the plane; they all chose to stay. A flight of P-51 Mustangs
of the 308th Fighter Squadron split off from the rest of their squadron to provide
protection to the B-17. Crash landed in a field between Brod, Bosnia and
Gar?in, Croatia, Yugoslavia. On a low level pass after the landing the Mustang
pilot saw the crew waving. MACR 6094
31771 (MSN 6885) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 12Dec43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 23Dec43. Grenier Field,
Manchester, NH 16Jan44. 407th Bomb Squadron [PY*R], 92nd Bomb Group,
Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 28Jan44. 327th Bomb Squadron [UX*R].
Failed to return from a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical and synthetic oil
works at Leuna, Merseburg, Germany 24Aug44 (5KIA:4POW). Shot down by
enemy fighters, crashed Lindelthal, Germany. MACR 8213
31772 (MSN 6886) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 12Dec43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 30Dec43. Grenier Field,
Manchester, NH 28Jan44. 407th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group,
Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 1Feb44. Failed to return from a
mission to industrial areas of Berlin, Germany 9Mar44 (10POW).
Damaged by flak, crashed Templin, Germany. MACR 2995
31773 (MSN 6887) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 12Dec43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 20Dec43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 30Dec43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 20Feb44. 548th Bomb Squadron [GX*M],
385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 25Feb44. Failed to return
from a mission to railway facilities around Berlin, Germany 29Apr44 (2KIA:8POW).
The combat wing was off course heading to Berlin, attacked by enemy fighters
and bombed Magdeburg. Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Gleidingen,
five miles south of Brunswick, Germany 8 POW, 2 KIA,
(one murdered on the ground).
31774 (MSN 6888) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 12Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 31Dec43. 338th Bomb Squadron [BX*L], 96th Bomb Group,
Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 8Feb44. Named "Vera Mae".
Failed to return from a mission to the Messerschmitt factory at
Augsburg, Germany 13Apr44 (10POW). Shot down by two Fw 190
fighters, crashed in woods at Ittlingen, 15 miles west of Heilbronn,
Germany. MACR 4456
31775 (MSN 6889) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 13Dec43. Portland AAB, OR 19Dec43. 7th Ferrying Group,
Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 20Dec43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21Dec43. Grandview Field, Kansas
City, MO 5Jan44. 4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 6Jan44.
773rd Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Lakeland Field, FL 7Jan44.
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11),
West Palm Beach, FL 18Feb44. Ferried overseas via the South
Atlantic / Africa route. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 773rd Bomb Squadron,
463rd Bomb Group, Foggia #1, Celone, Italy 11Mar44. Failed to return
from a mission to a synthetic oil refinery at Blechhammer, Prussia 7Jul44 (10KIA).
The plane was hit somewhere over Hungary and seriously damaged by enemy
fighters. It will never be precisely known what happened thereafter.
The event was witnessed only by six gunners from three bombers flying
in the formation of the 463rd Bomber Group. The plane was attacked
about one hour before the estimated time of reaching their target during
the second attack by twin-engine Messerschmitt Bf 110s fighters. Engine No.2
was hit first followed by engine No.1. The plane dropped out of its formation
to the right side, jettisoned its bombs and turned to return home, being
followed by several enemy fighters. Both engines smoked intensely without
any flames being observed. The plane was seen the last time in the area
over the Hungarian-Slovakian border, north of the River Danube.
On its return flight it was most probably attacked again by enemy fighters
and when its pilot concluded that he could not continue to fly, he probably
decided to make an forced landing in the vicinity of the village of Hum Vo�inski
in northern Yugoslavia. The last moments of its flight were observed by two
Yugoslavian citizens who presented a written statement about the event: "We saw
an American plane circling over Hum. It was in flames and after a few seconds
exploded in the air. Mutilated bodies were scattered among the burning debris."
MACR 6566
31776 (MSN 6890) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 13Dec43.7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 20Dec43.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21Dec43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 2Jan44. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Grenier Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 26Jan44.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 2Feb44.
508th Bomb Squadron [YB*N], 351st Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110),
Northamptonshire 25Feb44. Failed to return from a mission to the railway
marshalling yards at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 2Mar44 (9POW). Shot down
by enemy fighters, crash landed Le Boisle, fifteen miles north of Abbeville,
France. {1 mission}.. MACR 2865
31777 (MSN 6891) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 13Dec43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 18Dec43.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20Dec43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 27Dec43. Ferried to Prestwick
(Station 500), Scotland 8/9Feb44. 709th Bomb Squadron, 447th Bomb Group,
Rattlesden (Station 126), Suffolk 10Feb44. Battle damaged on a mission to Saint-Denis,
Paris, France. Brakes failed on landing back at Rattlesden 2Aug44. Salvaged
31778 MSN 6892) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 13Dec43. Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 28Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb
Wing, Kearney Field, NB 4Jan44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME 24Jan44. 548th Bomb Squadron [GX*A], 385th Bomb Group,
Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 2Feb44. Named "Wells Cargo"
Accident returning from a mission to Merseburg, Germany 20Jul44. The plane
ran off the end of the runway because the brakes had failed. Returned to US.
121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor
Locks, CT 29Jun45. 4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command),
South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 26Jun45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 10Dec45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
31779 (MSN 6893) Accepted by USAAF 13Dec43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 13Dec43. United Air Lines, Modification
Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 18Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb
Wing, Kearney Field, NB 30Dec43. 524th Bomb Squadron [WA*J], 379th Bomb Group,
Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 6Feb44. Named "This Is It" Battle damaged
on a mission 24May44 when the dorsal fin was sliced off. Soon after takeoff for a
mission to Esbjerg 27Aug44 No.1 engine started throwing oil, then caught fire.
The captain gave the bail out order. The engine then exploded and the bomber
crashed at Slipton, Northamptonshire. Salvaged 28Aug44
31780 (MSN 6894) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 13Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 31Dec43.
731st Bomb Squadron, 452nd Bomb Group, Deopham Green (Station 142),
Norfolk 9Feb44. Named "Windy Lou"> The pilot was from the windy city
of Chicago and his wife's name was Lucille.. Failed to return from a mission to the industrial
area at Ludwigshafen, Germany 5Nov44 (2KIA:7POW). With heavy cloud cover,
the Group attacked the secondary target of the railway marshalling yards at Ludwigshafen.
Flak over the battle lines and at the target was intense and accurate. The aircraft
received flak damage over Ludwigshafen, resulting in the loss of two engines.
Flak hit the No.3 engine oil radiator, the propeller was feathered and the RPM was
increased on No.4 engine which then blew up. The altitude was 27,000 feet when the
plane dropped out of formation just after the rally point and descended to a height
of between 2,000 and 3,000ft. The crew lightened the aircraft by jettisoning guns
and ammunition while the pilot decided to head for Brussels, Belgium. South of
Cologne and approximately 14�km from allied lines, the plane arrived overhead
what was believed to be an allied airfield near Brussels. The bomber encountered
flak; a shell burst in the aircraft which killed the waist gunner and wounded the
ball turret gunner. The aircraft lost one more engine on account of low altitude flak
at an altitude of 5,000 feet. The pilot then turned away from the airfield and eight
airmen bailed out. The aircraft crashed 180 metres southeast of M�lheim, a
village northeast of Z�lpich, Germany and was 99% destroyed by fire. MACR 10346.
31781 (MSN 6895) Accepted by USAAF 13Dec43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 13Dec43. Portland AAB, OR 19Dec43. 7th Ferrying Group,
Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 20Dec43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 21Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 31Dec43. 563rd Bomb Squadron [A], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall
(Station 136), Suffolk 29Jan44. {first combat mission 3Feb44}. Named "Cock Of The Walk"
Failed to return from a mission to railway marshalling yards at Frankfurt am Main,
Germany 4Feb44 (8KIA:2POW). As the planes were passing over the Netherlands
en route to Germany, local cross winds carried the bombers straight into enemy flak.
Received a direct hit of flak on the right wing just before bomb release causing
the right aileron and stabiliser to be blown off. The plane flipped on its back and
went down with right wing in flame and disappeared in the clouds at 16,000ft.
The plane exploded ejecting the bombardier and radio operator who both
parachuted to safety; the remaining crew were killed. The remnants of the
plane fell within a 5km radius of Mondorf, three miles north of Bonn, Germany.
{2 missions}. MACR 2350.
31782 (MSN 6896) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 18Dec43. Billings Municipal Airport, MT 19Dec43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 30Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 24Jan44. 337th Bomb Squadron [AW*Z],
96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 2Feb44. Failed to return
from a mission to the Heinkel Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory at Marienehe,
Rostock, Germany (6POW:4KIA). Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed
Keisby Kappeln, Germany MACR 3812
31783 (MSN 6897) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 19Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 31Dec43.
Damaged taxying at Station 4, North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command 25Jan44.
407th Bomb Squadron [PY*T], 92nd Bomb Group, Podington (Station 109),
Bedfordshire 5Feb44. Named "Ready Teddy". Failed to return from a mission
to railway marshalling yards at Mannheim, Germany 9Sep44 (9EVD). Damaged by flak
with No.1 engine on fire, No.3 propeller feathered, No.4 propeller windmilling and
many holes in the plane. Force landed behind Allied lines in France. Salvaged 29Nov44
31784 (MSN 6898) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 19Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 31Dec43.
Midwest Air Depot, Oklahoma City, OK 17Jan44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 1Feb44. Ferried from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Nutts
Corner (Station 235), Belfast, Northern Ireland 17Feb44. 729th Bomb Squadron [G],
452nd Bomb Group, Deopham Green (Station 142), Norfolk 21Feb44.
Named "Sectiion Eight". The crew of this plane was an original crew with the Group.
After arriving in UK the flight engineer decided their plane needed a name.
There was not much feeling either way when he suggested 'Section Eight', and everyone
agreed with that name. He arranged to get the name with an Eight Ball design painted on
the plane. In United States military terms, a 'Section 8' means a discharge based on
military assessment of psychological unfitness or character traits deemed undesirable.
In their mind it meant they must be 'crazy' for getting into a bomber and flying over Germany
Failed to return from a mission to railway facilities around Berlin, Germany 29Apr44 (10RTD).
The combat wing was off course heading to Berlin, attacked by enemy fighters and
bombed Magdeburg. Flak over the target was very accurate. Over Brunswick en
route to the target the No.1 engine was struck by flak and disabled, later No.2
engine was also disabled by flak over the target. The plane lost altitude as flak
continued to burst all around it and there was a large hole in the left wing.
As the crew worked their way back to England, the Fortress was flying on just two
engines. It fell further behind the formation until the crew lost sight of it. The airmen
threw out anything they could to lighten the load and maintain altitude. The radio
operator sent out a SOS message repeatedly to British Air-Sea Rescue for position
reports incase of a ditching. The plane lost altitude over the Netherlands and the
North Sea. Then the remaining two engines failed after an extended period at full power.
The pilot successfully ditched the bomber in the North Sea and the crew escaped
into life rafts. After about forty-five minutes, the crew was rescued by a British Air-Sea
Rescue launch. The Fortress was still afloat so was sunk with help from the boat crew
and a machine gun. It sank about ten miles from the English coast.
31785 (MSN 6899) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 14Dec43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 20Dec43.
Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 22Dec43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 1Jan44. 335th Bomb Squadron [OE*N],
95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 4Feb44.
Named "Slightly Dangerous II". Failed to return from a mission to industrial
areas in the suburbs of Berlin, Germany 4Mar44 (8POW:2KIA). With No.1 engine
feathered, the bomber failed to keep up with formation and crashed Hassel,
two miles southeast of Stendal, Germany. {10 missions}. MACR 2797.
31786 (MSN 6900) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 14Dec43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 20Dec43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 1Jan44. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Grenier Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 21Jan44.
548th Bomb Squadron [GX*L], 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155),
Suffolk 2Feb44.. Named 'Jeanne Ricky'. Failed to return from a mission
to industrial areas in Berlin, Germany 8May44 (10POW). Enemy aircraft damaged
No.3 engine, crashed Worphausen, nine miles northeast of Bremen, Germany.. MACR 4563
31787 (MSN 6901) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 14Dec43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 20Dec43.
Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 26Dec43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 2Jan44. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 24Jan44. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Grenier Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 29Jan44.
548th Bomb Squadron [GX*N], 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155),
Suffolk 4Feb44. Accident landing at Great Ashfield 2Mar44. Failed to return
from a mission to the Sudetenl�ndische Treibstoffwerke AG synthetic oil
refinery at Z�lup�, Br�x, Sudetenland 12May44 (9KIA:1POW). En route to the
target, between Koblenz and Frankfurt, the formation was attacked by a
large force of enemy fighters. Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed in
forest two miles west of Langerhein, near Ziegenberg, six miles west of
Bad Nauheim, Germany. MACR 4879
31788 (MSN 6902) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 14Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 26Jan43.
332nd Bomb Squadron, 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468),
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 8Feb44; Named "Janey" aka "Janie Gal"
Force landed on the continent 10Nov44, Salvaged Nov 18, 1944
31789 (MSN 6903) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 14Dec43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 21Dec43.
Midwest Air Depot, Oklahoma City, OK 3Jan44. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field,
Dallas, TX 18Jan44. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 20Jan44. 1104th Base Unit
(Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command), Homestead Field, FL 28Jan44.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 20th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Foggia #7,
Amendola, Italy 31Jan44. {first combat mission 15Feb44}. Battle damaged
during a mission to the Steyr-Daimler-Puch factory complex at Steyr,
Austria 24Feb44 (4WIA:6RTD). The mission was a most disastrous day
for the 2nd Bomb Group, losing fourteen aircraft to enemy fighters. Fighters
started attacking the Group about five miles north of Fiume, Italy and continued
for one hour. Four of the gunners were wounded by 20mm cannon shells.
Damaged in collision with B-17G 42-31889 taxying at Amendola 2May44.
Failed to return from a mission to the Sudetenl�ndische Treibstoffwerke AG
synthetic oil refinery at Z�lup�, Br�x, Sudetenland 21Jul44 (5KIA:5POW).
Shot down by enemy fighters, the tail was blown off and the right wing badly
damaged. Several gunners had been killed by 20mm cannon shells and the two
pilots were trapped in the falling plane. The survivors bailed out before the plane
exploded, crashed into a mountain side and caught fire 2km east of Neukirchen,
west of Altm�nster, about 20km southwest of Wels, Austria. One engine was
found at Moosbach, Austria. {43 missions}. MACR 6685
31790 (MSN 6904) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 22Dec43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 5Jan44. 335th Base
Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dale Mabry Field, Tallahassee, FL 10Jan44.
774th Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Lakeland Field, FL 18Jan44.
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West
Palm Beach, FL 19Jan44. Ferried overseas via the South Atlantic / Africa route.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 774th Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group 21Feb44.
Bari, Italy 10Mar44. Foggia #1, Celone, Italy 15Mar44. Failed to return from a
mission to the Luftwaffe airfield at Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia 6Apr44 (7POW: 3KIA).
Enemy aircraft attacked shooting rockets one of which struck the radio room
setting the plane on fire. Bombs were jettisoned and the plane left formaton.
It exploded during descent and crashed near a railway line along the Krapina
River, between Zabok and Trgovisce, about twelve miles north of Zagreb, Yugoslavia.
MACR 3881
31791 (MSN 6905) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 22Dec43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 5Jan44.
773rd Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Lakeland Field, FL 11Jan44.
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11),
West Palm Beach, FL 16Feb44. Ferried overseas via the South Atlantic / Africa route.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 773rd Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group Feb44. Foggia #1,
Celone, Italy 11Mar44. Named "Hearts and Flowers". Failed to return from a
mission to the oil refineries at Ploe?ti, Rumania 18May44 (10POW). Over
Yugoslavia en route to the target, the mission was recalled because of deteriorating
weather over Rumania but a large group of bombers continued. After dropping the
bombs over the target, the bomber was attacked by enemy fighters, seriously
damaging the plane. The pilot remained with the formation for about ten
minutes then peeled off as the crew bailed out. Crashed near G?e?ti, Rumania.
MACR 5834
31792 (MSN 6906) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 20Dec43. Pilot School (Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 20Jan44.
Accident landing at Hobbs Field 14Jun44. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized,
Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 27Jun44. W/O 27Jun44
31793 (MSN 6907) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 22Dec43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 9Jan44. 774th Bomb Squadron,
463rd Bomb Group, Lakeland Field, FL 11Jan44. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport
Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 21Jan44. Ferried
overseas via the South Atlantic / Africa route. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy.
774th Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group 22Feb44. Bari, Italy 10Mar44.
Foggia #1, Celone, Italy 15Mar44. Named "Lavern's Bad Penny".
Failed to return from a mission to the oil refineries at Ploe?ti, Rumania
5May44 (1KIA:9POW). Damaged by flak, crashed Ploe?ti .MACR 4623
31794 (MSN 6908) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 22Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 18Jan44.
365th Bomb Squadron [XK*W], 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105),
Northamptonshire 22Feb44. Named "Betsy Ann".
Transferred to 401BG Deenethorpe May 20, 1945;
{122 missions}. Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing),
Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 7Jun45. Tulsa Municipal Airport, OK 10Jun45.
4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), South Plains Field,
Lubbock, TX 13Jun45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41,
Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 29Nov45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped.
31795 (MSN 6909) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 20Dec43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 21Dec43.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 7Jan44.
774th Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Lakeland Field, FL 9Jan44. Caribbean
Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm
Beach, FL 23Feb44. Ferried overseas via the South Atlantic / Africa route.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 774th Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Bari,
Italy 10Mar44. Foggia #1, Celone, Italy 15Mar44. Named "Pysonya".
Failed to return from a mission to the railway marshalling yards at Budapest,
Hungary 14Jul44 (2KIA:8POW). A direct flak hit in the nose knocked it off the plane,
killing the navigator and bombardier. Crashed close to Buda castle, Budapest.
MACR 6858.
31796 (MSN 6910) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 24Dec43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 6Jan44. 302nd Base Unit (Staging Wing),
Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 10Jan44. 774th Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group,
Lakeland Field, FL 11Jan44. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison
Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 13Feb44. Ferried South Atlantic route
Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL: Waller Field, Trinidad: Bel�m, Brasil: Natal,
Brasil: Dakar, Senegal, Africa. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 774th Bomb Squadron,
463rd Bomb Group, Bari, Italy 10Mar44. Foggia #1, Celone, Italy 15Mar44.
Named "Hell and Back". Failed to return from a mission to the oil refineries at
Ploe?ti, Rumania 5May44. Damaged by flak, crashed at Ploe?ti.
MACR 4616.
31797 ((MSN 6911) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 24Dec43. Lowry Field, Denver, CO 12Jan44. Hunter Field, Savannah,
GA 13Jan44. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11),
West Palm Beach, FL 24Jan44. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 346th Bomb Squadron,
99th Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 25Jan44. Failed to return from a
mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factory at Regensburg, Germany 25Feb44
(8POW:2KIA). Enemy fighters started to attack fifteen miles east of Klagenfurt,
Austria on the way to the target. Shot down by enemy fighters after the target
and crashed near Rottenburg, Germany. {6 missions}. MACR 2705
31798 (MSN 6912) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 21Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 31Dec43.
412th Bomb Squadron [QW*J], 95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 3Feb44.
Failed to return from a mission to the Heinkel Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory
at Marienehe, Rostock, Germany 11Apr44 (7KIA:3POW). Shot down by Fw 190s,
crashed Bad Doberan, near Kellerswald, nine miles west of Rostock, Germany.
{15 missions}. MACR 3801
31799 (MSN 6913) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 20Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 31Dec43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 2Jan44.
524th Bomb Squadron [WA*C], 379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117),
Huntingdonshire 7Feb44. 525th Bomb Squadron [FR*C]. 527th Bomb
Squadron [FO*X]. Failed to return from a mission to the railway marshalling
yards at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 2Mar44 (6EVD:4POW). Flak, crashed
near Fumay, fifteen miles north of Charleville, France. MACR 2736
31800 (MSN 6914) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 16Dec43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 21Dec43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 2Jan44. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 29Jan44. 418th Bomb Squadron [LD*U],
100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 29Jan44.
350th Bomb Squadron [LN*U]. Failed to return from a mission to industrial
areas in the suburbs of Berlin, Germany 6Mar44 (10POW). Shot down by enemy
fighters, crashed Ochsenmoor, near Hude on D�mmer See, nine miles south of
Diepholz, Germany
31801 (MSN 6915) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 16Dec43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 28Dec43.
Langley Field, Hampton, VA 24Jan44. Mitchel Field, Hempstead, Long Island, NY 2Feb44.
Ferried RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Nutts Corner (Station 235), Belfast, Northern
Ireland 5Feb44. Pathfinder Force [PFF] aircraft. 482nd Bomb Group,
Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire 11Feb44. 422nd Bomb Squadron [JJ*R],
305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 20Mar44.
327th Bomb Squadron [UX*Q], 92nd Bomb Group, Podington (Station 109),
Bedfordshire 2Aug44. Failed to return from a mission to the Deurag-Nerag
oil refinery, Misburg, Hanover, Germany 26Nov44. Battle damaged, force
landed Belgium. Salvaged 13Dec44.
31802 (MSN 6916) Accepted by USAAF 16Dec43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 22Dec43. Operational Training
Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 45Feb44.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 28Feb44.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Grenier Field (Station 16),
Manchester, NH 9Mar44. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick
(Station 500), Scotland 17Mar44. 561st Bomb Squadron [M],
388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 12Mar44.
Named "Gynida". (first combat mission 9Apr44}. Battle damaged
during a mission to the Focke-Wulf aircraft factory at Krzesiny, Pozna?,
Poland 9Apr44 (10RTD). Flak over the target was accurate; right after the
target, the plane had to leave the formation when struck by flak disabing
one engine. The pilot returned to base at low level and was attacked by
enemy fighters but made it back to a safe landing at Knettishall. Battle damaged
during a mission to the Braunkohle Benzin A.G. synthetic oil refinery at
Rothensee, Magdeburg, Germany 20Jun44. Flak over the target was intense
and accurate. Failed to return from a tactical mission to a supply depot
northwest of Beaumont-sur-Oise, France 8Jul44 (7KIA:2POW:1EVD).
The target was completely cloud covered and was not attacked. The group
diverted to an alternate target, the railway in the vicinity of Yvetot. Meagre flak
was encountered over the targets but flak at Cl�res caused major damage to the plane.
The left wing caught fire before the aircraft exploded and crashed at Saint-Maclou,
France. {23 missions}. MACR 7361.
31803 (MSN 6917) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 16Dec43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 24Dec43.
Billings Municipal Airport, MT 26Dec43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 3Jan44. Barksdale Field, Bossier
City, LA 14Jan44. 774th Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Lakeland
Field, FL 16Jan44. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field
(Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 21Feb44. Ferried overseas via the South
Atlantic / Africa route. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 774th Bomb Squadron,
463rd Bomb Group, Foggia #1, Celone, Italy 22Feb44. Failed to return from a
mission to the oil refineries at Ploe?ti, Rumania 18May44. Over Yugoslavia
en route to the target, the mission was recalled because of deteriorating weather
over Rumania but a large group of bombers continued. After dropping the
bombs over the target, the bomber was attacked by enemy fighters,
seriously damaging the plane. Crashed near G?e?ti, Rumania
31804 (MSN 6918) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 22Dec43. Rosecrans Field, Saint Joseph, MO 6Jan43. Grandview Field,
Kansas City, MO 7Jan44. Lambert Field, St Louis, MO 9Jan44. 775th Bomb Squadron,
463rd Bomb Group, Lakeland Field, FL 10Jan44. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport
Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 14Feb44. Ferried
overseas via the South Atlantic / Africa route. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy.
775th Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group; attached to the 2nd Bomb Group
effective 14Mar44. Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 17Mar44.
Battle damaged on a mission to a ball bearing factory at Steyr,
Austria 19Mar44 (1WIA:9RTD). Solid clouds covered that target and the group
turned to bomb the air depot at Klagenfurt, Austria. Attacked by enemy aircraft
firing rockets and 20mm cannon and wounding the co-pilot.
775th Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Foggia #1, Celone, Italy 28Mar44.
Failed to return from a mission to the Wiener Neust�dter Flugzeugwerke factory
at Wiener Neust�dt, Vienna, Austria 10May44 (3KIA:2MIA:5POW). En route to the
target, the plane was struck by flak and five airmen bailed out. Crashed into the
side of a mountain and exploded at Pottschach, southwest of Neunkirchen, Austria..
MACR 4660. Named "The Irish Orphans".
31805 (MSN 6919) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 16Dec43. Salt Lake City AAB, UT 26Dec43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 28Dec43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Lincoln Field, NB 8Jan43. 773rd Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group,
Lakeland Field, FL 9Jan44. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11),
West Palm Beach, FL 21Feb44. Ferried overseas via the South Atlantic / Africa route. Fifteenth
Air Force, Italy. 773rd Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group Feb44. Foggia #1, Celone, Italy 11Mar44.
Failed to return from a mission to an aircraft factory at Varese, Italy 30Apr44 (4POW:5RTD).
Damaged by flak, ditched Adriatic Sea; five crew rescued by a Royal Air Force Air-Sea Rescue
Supermarine Walrus amphibious aircraft
31806 (MSN 6920) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 24Dec43. Midwest Air Depot, Oklahoma City, OK 8Jan44. Hunter Field,
Savannah, GA 19Jan44. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison
Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 20Jan44. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy.
348th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella,
Italy 1Feb44. {5 missions}. 429th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Foggia #7,
Amendola, Italy Mar44. {first combat mission 28Mar44}. Battle damaged during a
mission to the railway marshalling yards at Ploe?ti, Rumania 24Apr44 (1WIA:9RTD).
A flight of twenty to thirty enemy fighters attacked the Group and caused injury to
the bombardier. Participated in the first Operation Frantic shuttle mission to the
railway marshalling yards at Debrecen, Hungary 2Jun44. After the target, the bomber
continued east and landed at Mirgorod (Station 561), Ukraine. Operated a mission
to a Luftwaffe airfield at Gala?i, Rumania 6Jun44, returning to Mirgorod. Returned
to base in Italy on a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Foc?ani, Rumania 11Jun44.
Battle damaged on a mission to an oil refinery at V�sendorf, Vienna, Austria 8Jul44
(1WIA:9RTD). Flak was heavy and intense and wounded a waist gunner. Damaged
landing at Amendola 5Aug44. Battle damaged on a mission to the Save railway
bridge at Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia 3Sep44. {59 missions}. Salvaged 4Sep44.
Named "Kraut Chaser"
31807 (MSN 6921) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 22Dec43. Midwest Air Depot, Oklahoma City, OK 4Jan44. 302nd
Base Unit (Staging Wing), Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 14Jan44. Hunter Field,
Savannah, GA 19Jan44. 1104th Base Unit (Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command),
Homestead Field, FL 3Feb44. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison
Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL. Ferried overseas via the South
Atlantic / Africa route. Departed Morrison Field 6Mar44. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy.
463rd Bomb Group, Foggia #1, Celone, Italy Jul44. Failed to return from a mission
to the Zw�lfaxing ammunition depot, Vienna, Austria 8Jul44 (10RTD). Ditched in
Adriatic Sea
31808 (MSN 6922) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport,
WY 22Dec43. Woodrum Field, Roanoke, VA 6Jan44. 772nd Bomb Squadron,
463rd Bomb Group, Lakeland Field, FL 7Jan44. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport
Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 21Feb44. Ferried
overseas via the South Atlantic / Africa route. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy.
772nd Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group 23Feb44. Foggia #1, Celone,
Italy 11Mar44. 341st Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Foggia #7,
Amendola, Italy 1Jul44. {100th mission on 31Jan45 to Vienna}. Salvaged 25Jul45.
31809 (MSN 6923) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 28Dec43. 775th Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Lakeland
Field, FL 3Jan44. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11),
West Palm Beach, FL 16Feb44. Ferried overseas via the South Atlantic / Africa route.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 775th Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group; attached to the
2nd Bomb Group effective 14Mar44. Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 17Mar44.
775th Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Foggia #1, Celone, Italy 28Mar44.
Named "Nameless!"Failed to return from a mission to the railway marshalling
yards at Vienna, Austria 15Jan45. With fuel exhaustion, crashed near Sisak,
Croatia, Yugoslavia.
31810 (MSN 6924) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 24Dec43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training
Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 18Jan44. 729th Bomb Squadron, 452nd Bomb Group,
Deopham Green (Station 142), Norfolk 10Feb44. Named "Dol". . This plane was
named by an original pilot with the Group. He was married and his wife's name was
Dolores. The name 'Dol' was written on the nose of the plane. 'Winnies' was written
on the chin turret which was the name of the girlfriend of the bombardier
Failed to return from a mission to motor industry targets in Berlin, Germany 21Jun44 (10INT).
Moderate, accurate flak was encountered in the target area. Damaged by flak,
with two engines and a supercharger disabled, the pilot turned towards Sweden and
crash landed at S�vde, Sweden, MACR 5932
31811 (MSN 6925) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 22Dec43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 26Dec43.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28Dec43.
Flexible Gunnery School, Yuma Field, AZ 17Jan44. Alamogordo Field, NM 22Feb44.
206th Base Unit, Alamogordo Field, NM 5Oct44. 231st Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Alamogordo Field, NM 22Oct44. 235th Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Biggs Field, El Paso, TX 13Dec44. 225th Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Rapid City Field, SD 5Mar45. 2114th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 14Jul45.
554th Base Unit, 4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 29Aug45.
2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field,
Sebring, FL 20Sep45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41,
Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 9Nov45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
31812 (MSN 6926) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Dec43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 7Jan44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Grenier Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 24Jan44. 401st Bomb Squadron [LL*H],
91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 20Feb44; Named "Destiny's Child"
Artwork of a an adult baby wearing a diaper, smoking a pipes and firing a shotgun
based upon the popular cartoon character Little Uncle Rafe. Named by the original crew
when each crew member placed his choice of a name in a hat and the one
drawn was chosen to be the name of the plane. The crew left it up to Jack Gaffney to
decide what to draw on the nose, provided they all agreed with the design.
Painted by Jack Gaffney [who was also the Crew Chief for this B-17].
Completed first 44 missions on original engines for which crew chief Jack Gaffney
was awarded the Bronze Star}. Failed to return from a mission to an oil refinery at
Mockau, Leipzig, Germany 20Jul44 (4KIA:5POW). Attacked by a large force of enemy fighters,
disabling two engines, set the bomb bay on fire and killed two airmen. The nose was
full of holes and a 20mm cannon shell had exploded in the nose compartment,
wounding the navigator. Fires started inside the fuselage later the right wing fell off.
Although the aircraft was severely damaged, the ball turret gunner remained at his station,
firing at the fighters, destroying at least two of them. As the other seven crew members bailed out,
the gunner continued to lay on protective fire. Only after the others were safely out did
he leave his station and strap on a parachute. As he jumped from the rear, the plane went
into a dive and he struck a spinning piece of the tail breaking his legs. The gunner was
belatedly awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in 2002. The plane crashed near Borna, Chemnitz,
Germany. {53 missions}. {53 misions}.
31813 ((MSN 6927) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 25Dec43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 8Jan44. 772nd Bomb Squadron,
463rd Bomb Group, Lakeland Field, FL 10Jan44. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command,
Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL. Ferried overseas via the
South Atlantic / Africa route. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 774th Bomb Squadron,
463rd Bomb Group 3Mar44. Bari, Italy 10Mar44. Foggia #1, Celone, Italy 15Mar44
Named "Hershey Wolves" Failed to return from a mission to the Zw�lfaxing
ammunition depot, Vienna, Austria 8Jul44 (1KIA:9POW). No.1 and No.2 engines damaged
by flak over Bruck an der Leitha, southeast of Vienna. The crew bailed out before the bomber
crashed near Varapdin, Croatia, Yugoslavia. .
31814 (MSN 6928) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Dec43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 26Dec43. United Air Lines, Modification
Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 7Jan44. Offutt Field, Omaha, NB 9Jan44.
773rd Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Lakeland Field, FL 11Jan44. Damaged when
ground looped landing at New Haven Field, CT 26Jan44. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport
Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 19Feb44. Ferried overseas
via the South Atlantic / Africa route. 463rd Bomb Group 21Feb44. Force landed during
ferry flight at Val de C�es Field, Bel�m, Brasil 9Mar44. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 463rd Bomb
Group, Foggia #1, Celone, Italy Mar44. Returned to US 25Nov44. 4006th Base Unit
(Area Command), Miami Air Technical Service Command, Miami, FL 7Mar45. 4117th Base Unit
(Warner Robins Air Technical Service Command), Robins Field, Warner Robins, GA 22Nov45.
Modified as cargo/transport aircraft. Designated CB-17G. Transferred to US Navy 1946.
Returned to USAAF 30Apr47. Caribbean Air Command, Albrook Field, Panama City,
Panama Canal Zone 18Jan48. Panama Canal Zone 30Sep49. Olmsted AFB, Middletown, PA 18Oct49)
31815 (MSN 6929) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport,
WY 25Dec43. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 10Jan44. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 346th Bomb Squadron,
99th Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 25Jan44. {14 missions}. 49th Bomb Squadron,
2nd Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy Mar44. {first combat mission 28Mar44}. Battle
damaged during a a mission to the oil refineries at Ploe?ti, Rumania 5May44 (1WIA:9RTD).
Flak was intense and accurate causing injury to the co-pilot. Battle damaged on a mission
to a railway bridge crossingthe Iscaro River at Bolzano, South Tyrol, Italy 13May44
(1WIA:9RTD). Flak at the target was heavy. The plane received damage and a waist gunner
was injured. Battle damaged during a mission to a synthetic oil refinery at Blechhammer,
Prussia 13Oct44 (1WIA:9RTD). Flak was heavy and accurate, wounding the navigator.
{final combat mission 6Nov44}. {62 missions}. Returned to US Nov44. 301st Base Unit
(Separation Station), Drew Field, Tampa, FL 25Nov44. Modified for training, stripped of
armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17G. Base Flight,
326th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 20Feb46.
Damaged taxying at MacDill 1Jun46. Reclaimed 30Oct46
31816 (MSN 6930) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 10Jan44. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 14Jan44.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 28Jan44. Pathfinder Force [PFF]
aircraft. 366th Bomb Squadron [KY*V], 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105),
Northamptonshire 15Feb44. Failed to return from a mission to Freidrichshafen,
Germany 24Apr44 (8EVD:2KIA). Flak damaged an engine, then on return was shot
down by enemy fighters, crashed Leuze, near Aubenton, Belgium
31817 (MSN 6931) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 24Dec43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 26Dec43.
Des Moines Municipal Airport, IA 8Jan44. Maxwell Field, Montgomery, AL 9Jan44.
772nd Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Lakeland Field, FL 10Jan44.
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11),
West Palm Beach, FL 17Feb44. Ferried overseas via the South Atlantic / Africa route.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 772nd Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group 21Feb44.
Foggia #1, Celone, Italy 11Mar44. Named "Hairless Joe". Failed to return from a
mission to the Reno River railway bridge at Pioppi, Italy 5Jun44 (4KIA:5POW).
An elevator and the rudder were damaged by flak. Crashed with bombs and
exploded near Bologna, Italy
31818 (MSN 6932) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 26Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Lincoln Field, NB 8Jan44.
Louisville, KY 9Jan44. Jacksonville Field, FL 12Jan44. 774th Bomb Squadron,
463rd Bomb Group, Lakeland Field, FL 13Jan44. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport
Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 25Feb44. Ferried
overseas via the South Atlantic / Africa route. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy.
774th Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Bari, Italy 10Mar44. Foggia #1,
Celone, Italy 15Mar44. Failed to return from a mission to the Wiener Neust�dter
Flugzeugwerke factory at Wiener Neust�dt, Vienna, Austria 10May44 (8POW:2KIA).
Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Puchberg am Schneeberg, Austria
MACR 5069
31819 (MSN 6933) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 25Dec43. 774th Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Lakeland
Field, FL 16Jan44. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field
(Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 21Feb44. Ferried overseas via the South
Atlantic / Africa route. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 774th Bomb Squadron,
463rd Bomb Group, Bari, Italy 10Mar44. Foggia #1, Celone, Italy 15Mar44.
Battle damaged on a mission to the oil refineries at Ploe?ti, Rumania 18May44
(2WIA:8RTD). Damaged while parked by a Royal Air Force Vickers Wellington
taking off at Foggia Main 16Nov44. Salvaged 16Nov44.
31820 shot (MSN 6934) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 29Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 13Jan44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME 24Jan44. 364th Bomb Squadron [WF*E], 305th Bomb Group,
Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 15Feb44. Failed to return from a
mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factory at Augsburg, Germany 25Feb44
(5POW:4KIA:1EVD). Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Ferme de Mont Garni,
near Raucourt, six miles south of Sedan, France.
31821 (MSN 6935) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 24Dec43. 775th Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Lakeland
Field, FL 8Jan44. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11),
West Palm Beach, FL 16Feb44. Ferried overseas via the South Atlantic / Africa route.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 775th Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group; attached to the 2nd
Bomb Group effective 14Mar44. Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 17Mar44. 775th Bomb Squadron,
463rd Bomb Group, Foggia #1, Celone, Italy 28Mar44; Named "Mary Lou"
Failed to return from a mission to the Reichswerke Hermann G�ring tank factory at
Linz, Austria 25Jul44 (1MIA:9RTD). Damaged by flak and ditched in the Adriatic
Sea off the island of Premuda, Croatia, Yugoslavia
31822 (MSN 6936) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 26Dec43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 6Jan44.
335th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dale Mabry Field, Tallahassee, FL 10Jan44.
Maxwell Field, Montgomery, AL 11Jan44. 775th Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group,
Lakeland Field, FL Jan44. Station 11, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command,
Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 13Feb44. Eighth Air Force. 524th Bomb
Squadron [WA*U], 379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 24May44.
Failed to return from a mission to fuel storage facilities at Montbartier,
north of Toulouse, France 25Jun44 (9RTD). Battle damaged and ditched in English Channel,
crew rescued
31823 (MSN 6937) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 25Dec43. Tulsa Municipal Airport, OK 9Jan44. Maxwell Field,
Montgomery, AL 14Jan44. 772nd Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Lakeland
Field, FL 16Jan44. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field
(Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 14Feb44. Ferried South Atlantic route Morrison
Field, West Palm Beach, FL: Waller Field, Trinidad: Bel�m, Brasil: Natal, Brasil:
Dakar, Senegal, Africa. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 772nd Bomb Squadron,
463rd Bomb Group, Foggia #1, Celone, Italy 15Mar44. Failed to return from a
mission to a ball bearing factory at Steyr, Austria 19Mar44 (10KIA).
Mid-air collision with B-17G 42-38143 (2nd Bomb Group). The 2nd Bomb Group
airplane started fifteen minutes late. The 2nd Bomb Group was well ahead by
then, so the pilot elected to join the 99th Bomb Group formation. Collision took
place at commencement of the last turn. Aircraft #823 was in diamond position
about three minutes before collision, flying at 3,500 to 4,000ft. Aircraft from
the 2nd Bomb Group #143 came in and flew on #823's right wing, started to slide
underneath it but slid into the right wing of #823. Immediately the aircraft from
the 2nd Bomb Group broke in half and fell. #823 banked off to the left, went down
apparently out of control and hit the water. Both planes crashed in the Gulf of
Manfredonia, about three miles off shore of Manfredonia, Italy. Air-Sea Rescue
was called and found four bodies. MACR 3286 (of 2BG).
31824 (MSN 6938) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 24Dec43. Barksdale Field, Bossier City, LA 9Jan44. Hunter Field,
Savannah, GA 10Jan44. 772nd Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Lakeland
Field, FL 11Jan44. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field
(Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 14Feb44. 772nd Bomb Squadron,
463rd Bomb Group, 16Feb44. Ferried to Aguadilla, Puerto Rico [Borinquen Field],
Atkinson Field, Georgetown, British Guiana and Val de C�es Field, Bel�m, Brasil.
Damaged in ground accident at Val de C�es 9Mar44. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy.
772nd Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Foggia #1, Celone, Italy. Failed to
return from a mission to the Xenia oil refinery at Ploe?ti, Rumania 19Aug44 (9INT).
Shortly before reaching the I.P., the plane began to lag behind, unable to develop
sufficient power to keep up with the formation. The engines were emitting smoke
and later, when the plane turned off from the rest of the formation, one propeller was
feathered. The bomber force landed in Turkey and the crew interned.
31825 (MSN 6939) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 24Dec43. Chicago Municipal Airport, IL 13Jan44. 20th Ferrying Group,
Berry Field, Nashville, TN 15Jan44. 775th Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group,
Lakeland Field, FL 18Jan44. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command,
Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 14Feb44. Ferried overseas via
the South Atlantic / Africa route. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 775th Bomb Squadron,
463rd Bomb Group; attached to the 2nd Bomb Group effective 14Mar44. Foggia #7,
Amendola, Italy 17Mar44. 775th Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Foggia #1,
Celone, Italy 28Mar44. Failed to return from a mission to the oil refineries at
Ploe?ti, Rumania 18May44 (10KIA). Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed
Corabia, Rumania MACR 5791, Named "The Challenger"
31826 (MSN 6940) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 25Dec43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 5Jan44.
774th Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Lakeland Field, FL 6Jan44.
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11),
West Palm Beach, FL 20Feb44. Ferried overseas via the South Atlantic / Africa route.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 774th Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group,
Bari, Italy 10Mar44. Foggia #1, Celone, Italy 15Mar44. Failed to return from a
mission to the Wiener Neust�dter Flugzeugwerke factory at Wiener Neust�dt,
Vienna, Austria 10May44 (3KIA:7EVD). Three engines damaged by flak over the
target. On the return flight it fell behind the formation and was attacked by
German fighter planes. Crashed near the ?avk farm at Sv. Anton on Pohorje
mountain range, west of Maribor, Slovenia, Yugoslavia. Survivors were assisted
by partisans to evade capture and taken to Italy. MACR 5056.
31827 (MSN 6941) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 24Dec43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 5Jan44.
335th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dale Mabry Field, Tallahassee, FL 6Jan44.
772nd Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Lakeland Field, FL 9Jan44. Caribbean Wing,
Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 16Feb44.
Ferried overseas via the South Atlantic / Africa route. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy.
772nd Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Foggia #1, Celone, Italy 11Mar44,
Named "G. I. Delivery". Failed to return from a mission to the
Xenia oil refinery at Ploe?ti, Rumania 31Jul44 (2KIA:8POW). Moments after releasing
its bombs over the target the bomber was hit by flak and exploded into a giant
ball of flame which completely engulfed a following aircraft with flaming gasoline.
Five of the crew were killed by the explosion; the remaining crew members
were blown out of the aircraft which crashed near Ploe?ti. {53 missions}. .
31828 (MSN 6942) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 29Dec43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 15Jan44. North Atlantic Wing, Air
Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 20Feb44. 407th Bomb Squadron [PY*Q],
92nd Bomb Group, Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 2Mar44. Named "Junkers Joy".
Failed to return from a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical and synthetic oil works
at Leuna, Merseburg, Germany 11Sep44 (5POW:4KIA). Shot down by enemy fighters,
crashed Schwittersdorf, Germany.
31829 (MSN 6943) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 25Dec43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 10Jan44. 772nd Bomb Squadron,
463rd Bomb Group, Lakeland Field, FL 12Jan44. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport
Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 12Feb44. Ferried
overseas via the South Atlantic / Africa route. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy.
772nd Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Foggia #1, Celone, Italy 11Mar44.
Named "Jaundy Joan". Failed to return from a mission to the oil refineries at
Ploe?ti, Rumania 18May44 (7POW:2KIA). Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed
Bucharest, Rumania. MACR 5434
31830 (MSN 6944) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 24Dec43. Billings Municipal Airport, MT 27Dec43. United Air Lines,
Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Jan44.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 7Jan44. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Grenier Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 22Jan44.
359th Bomb Squadron [BN*N], 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107),
Huntingdonshire 20Feb44, named "Marie". Battle damaged during a
Crossbow mission to a V-2 rocket service bunker complex at Sottevast, Normandy,
France 20Apr44 (1KIA). Failed to return from a mission to Cologne, Germany
10Nov44 (2KIA:7POW). Damaged by flak, crashed Cologne
31831 (MSN 6945) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 24Dec43. Ellington Field, Houston, TX 9Jan44. 775th Bomb Squadron,
463rd Bomb Group, Lakeland Field, FL 10Jan44. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport
Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 16Feb44. Ferried
overseas via the South Atlantic / Africa route. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy.
775th Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group; attached to the 2nd Bomb Group
effective 14Mar44. Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 17Mar44. 775th Bomb Squadron,
463rd Bomb Group, Foggia #1, Celone, Italy 28Mar44; Named "Banshee"
Failed to return from a mission to the Luftwaffe airfield at Zagreb, Croatia,
Yugoslavia 6Apr44 (7POW:2EVD). Damaged by flak before reaching the target, and
right wing was set on fire. Later attacked by Bf 109s, the crew bailed out before the
plane crashed near Zlatar, Croatia, Yugoslavia. MACR 4098.
31832 (MSN 6946) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 24Dec43. Des Moines Municipal Airport, IA 12Jan44. Hawkins Field,
Jackson, MS 14Jan44. 773rd Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Lakeland Field, FL
16Jan44. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11),
West Palm Beach, FL 21Feb44. Ferried overseas via the South Atlantic / Africa route.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 773rd Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Foggia #1,
Celone, Italy 11Mar44. Named "The Biggast Bird". Crash landed at Celone 27Feb45.
{99 missions}
31833 (MSN 6947) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 28Dec43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training
Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 18Jan44. 548th Bomb Squadron [GX*R], 385th Bomb Group,
Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 19Feb44. Named "Mickey II". Salvaged 12Mar45.
Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor
Locks, CT 24Jun45. 4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command),
South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 28Jun45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 28Dec45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
31834 (MSN 6948) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 25Dec43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 29Dec43.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 7Jan44.
North Platte, Lincoln, NB 9Jan44. Chicago Municipal Airport, IL 10Jan44.
Albany, NY 11Jan44. 773rd Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Lakeland
Field, FL 12Jan44. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11),
West Palm Beach, FL 18Feb44. Ferried overseas via the South Atlantic / Africa route.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 773rd Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Foggia #1,
Celone, Italy 11Mar44. Named *Holey Joe*. Failed to return from a mission
to the Sudetenl�ndische Treibstoffwerke AG synthetic oil refinery at Z�lup�, Br�x,
Sudetenland 23Sep44 (9INT). Shortly before the target there was a problem with
the superchargers. After the bomb load was dropped, the pilot decided to
make an emergency landing in Switzerland. The crew was hit by further failures;
the oxygen supply failed and shortly afterwards the instruments. Because of weak
engine performance, the plane lost altitude and the crew threw everything that was
no longer needed overboard.The Fortress flew over the Swiss border at a height of
about 300 meters and was intercepted by Morane fighters and escorted to D�bendorf,
Z�rich, Switzerland. During the landing approach, the pilot noticed that he could
not extend the landing gear and so he had to crash land. The crew members were
uninjured in the crash landing. Scrapped in Switzerland
31835 (MSN 6949) Accepted by USAAF 20Dec43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 12Jan44. 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk.
334th Bomb Squadron [BG*A], 95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 3Feb44.
Failed to return from a mission to the Heinkel Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory at
Marienehe, Rostock, Germany 11Apr44 (1KIA:9POW). Shot down by enemy fighters,
crashed Kritzenow, three miles southeast of Rostock, Germany. {14 missions}.
MACR 3802.
31836 (MSN 6950) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 25Dec43. New Orleans, LA 9Jan44. 773rdd Bomb Squadron,
463rd Bomb Group, Lakeland Field, FL 10Jan44. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command,
Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 12Feb44. Ferried Borinquen Field,
Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. Atkinson Field, Georgetown, British Guiana. Val de C�es Field,
Bel�m, Brasil. Fortaleza, Brasil. Wideawake Field, Ascension Island. Dakar, Senegal.
Marrakech, French Morocco. El Aouina, Tunis, Tunisia. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy.
772nd Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Foggia #1, Celone, Italy 11Mar44.
Named "Pig Chaser". . Battle damaged on a mission to the Luftwaffe
airfield at Oberpaffenhoffen, Munich, Germany 13Jun44. Flak over the target was
heavy and enemy fighters made a pass at the formation, damaging the plane and
wounding the bombardier. Returned to US 23Feb45. 1103rd Base Unit
(Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command), Morrison Field, West Palm
Beach, FL 13Mar45. 4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command),
Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 19Mar45. Reclaimed 24May46
31837 (MSN 6951) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 25Dec43. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 10Jan44. Caribbean Wing,
Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 21Jan44.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 20th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Foggia #7,
Amendola, Italy 26Jan44. {first combat mission 10Feb44}. Failed to return from a
mission to the Magyar Waggon- �s G�pgy�r aircraft factory at Gy?r,
Hungary 13Apr44 (5KIA:5POW). A force of enemy fighter aircraft attacked the
formation using rockets. The plane was hit by a rocket that set engines two and
three on fire. The airplane dove away, in an apparent attempt to blow out the fire.
The number two engine fire went out but number one continued to blaze. The ball turret
gunner was killed on the first pass. The tail gunner fell out when the tail section
was shot off but survived. Five of the crew failed to escape, the remainder fell or
bailed out. The plane crashed about two miles from P�pa, Hungary. {17 missions).
MACR 3916
31838 (MSN 6952) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 28Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 12Jan44.
333rd Bomb Squadron, 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 29Jan44
Named "Sack Time Charlie". Failed to return from a mission to the i
ndustrial area at Brunswick, Germany 10Feb44 (7POW:3KIA). Enemy aircraft damaged
two engines then aircraft exploded. Crashed Voltlage and Sudmerzen, twelve miles
northeast of Rheine, Germany. MACR 2370.
31839 (MSN 6953) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 25Dec43. Morris Field, Charlotte, NC 11Jan44. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 12Jan44.
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm
Beach, FL 24Jan44. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 352nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group,
Cerignola #1, Italy 26Jan44. Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. Battle damaged
on a mission to the Breda aircraft factory at Milan, Italy 30Apr44. Damaged taking off at
Lucera 8Jun44. Damaged during maintenance at Lucera 9Aug44. Declared 'war weary'.
Reassigned for utility, training and weather check aircraft 12Oct44. Air Depot 3Apr45.
Salvaged 14Jun45
31840 (MSN 6954) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 22Dec43. Tulsa Municipal Airport, OK 9Jan44. Air Depot, Brookley Field,
Mobile, AL 10Jan44. 774th Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Lakeland Field, FL 11Jan44.
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm
Beach, FL 28Feb44. Ferried overseas via the South Atlantic / Africa route. Fifteenth Air
Force, Italy. 774th Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Bari, Italy 10Mar44. Foggia #1,
Celone, Italy 15Mar44. Named "Nancy Lou"--named after the pilot's wife.
Failed to return from a mission to the railway marshalling yards at Treviso,
Italy 7Apr44 (10RTD). Ditched in Adriatic Sea. Crew rescued by a Royal Air Force
Air-Sea Rescue Supermarine Walrus amphibious aircraft which could not
takeoff so taxied thirty miles to safe territory. No MACR
31841 (MSN 6955) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 26Dec43. Offutt Field, Omaha, NB 6Jan44. 4115th Base Unit (Spokane Air
Technical Service Command), Pendleton Field, OR 10Jan44. 775th Bomb Squadron,
463rd Bomb Group, Lakeland Field, FL 16Jan44. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA Jan44.
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm
Beach, FL 13Feb44. Ferried South Atlantic route Morrison Field, West Palm
Beach, FL: Waller Field, Trinidad: Bel�m, Brasil: Natal, Brasil: Dakar, Senegal, Africa.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 775th Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group; attached
to the 2nd Bomb Group effective 14Mar44. Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 17Mar44.
775th Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Foggia #1, Celone, Italy 28Mar44.
Named "Skylark"--a popular song written in 1942 by Johnny Mercer and Hoagy Carmichael.
Failed to return from a mission to the aircraft factory at Atzgersdorf, Vienna,
Austria 24May44 (7POW:3KIA). Attacked by Bf 109 fighters, No.3 and No.4 engines
were damaged with burning fuel leaking from the right wing. Crashed near Vostanj,
Slovenia, Yugoslavia. MACR 5195.
31842 (MSN 6956) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 20Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Lincoln Field, NB 5Jan44.
773rd Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Lakeland Field, FL 10Jan44.
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11),
West Palm Beach, FL. Ferried overseas via the South Atlantic / Africa route.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 773rd Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group,
Foggia #1, Celone, Italy 11Mar44. Failed to return from a mission to the
Vacuum Oil refinery at Kagran, Vienna, Austria 16Jun44 (9POW:1KIA).
The plane received several hits by flak in the engines over Vienna and
dropped back from the formation. It disappeared in the huge clouds of
smoke and later crashed at Tomislavgrad, Croatia, Yugoslavia.. MACR 6020.
31843 (MSN 6957) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 25Dec43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 8Jan44. 774th Bomb Squadron,
463rd Bomb Group, Lakeland Field, FL 13Jan44. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport
Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 20Feb44.
Ferried overseas via the South Atlantic / Africa route. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy.
774th Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Bari, Italy 10Mar44. Foggia #1,
Celone, Italy 15Mar44. Failed to return from a mission to bomb a bridge at
Valence, France 15Aug44. Struck by flak, the aircraft went straight in with
bombs on board and exploded. Crashed near Valence. MACR 7673.
8 chutes seen.
31844 (MSN 6958) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 25Dec43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 27Dec43.
Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 30Dec43.
772nd Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Lakeland Field, FL 20Jan44.
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West
Palm Beach, FL. Ferried overseas via the South Atlantic / Africa route.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 772nd Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group,
Foggia #1, Celone, Italy 28Mar44.
Named "The Swooze 1944 Model. It Flys?" (artwork on
nose and rear fuselage). Salvaged May 16, 1945.
31845 (MSN 6959) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 25Dec43. Midwest Air Depot, Oklahoma City, OK 6Jan44. Air Depot,
Brookley Field, Mobile, AL 16Jan44. 775th Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group,
Lakeland Field, FL 18Jan44. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command,
Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 16Feb44. Ferried overseas
via the South Atlantic / Africa route. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 775th Bomb Squadron,
463rd Bomb Group; attached to the 2nd Bomb Group effective 14Mar44. Foggia #7,
Amendola, Italy 17Mar44. 775th Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Foggia #1,
Celone, Italy 28Mar44. Failed to return from a mission to the oil refinery at
Budapest, Hungary 14Jun44 (4KIA:6RTD). Mid-air collision with B-17G 42-38105.
Crashed in the Hvarski Channel, Croatia, Yugoslavia. MACR 6102.
31846 (MSN 6960) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 26Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Lincoln Field, NB 8Jan44.
Midwest Air Depot, Oklahoma City, OK 9Jan44. Jacksonville Field, FL 10Jan44.
772nd Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Lakeland Field, FL 18Jan44. Caribbean
Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 12Feb44.
Ferried overseas via the South Atlantic / Africa route. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy.
772nd Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Foggia #1, Celone, Italy 14Mar44
Named "Our Bombay Baby/Boomerang Baby". Accident landing
at Celone 14Sep44. Salvaged Nov 6, 1945.
31847 (MSN 6961) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 25Dec43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 14Jan44.
772nd Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Lakeland Field, FL 16Jan44.
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West
Palm Beach, FL 2Feb44. Ferried overseas via the South Atlantic / Africa route.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 772nd Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group,
Foggia #1, Celone, Italy 11Mar44. Failed to return from a mission to the railway
marshalling yards at Oradea, Rumania 2Jun44 (7POW:2EVD). Developed mechanical
problems and had to leave formation. Later, the crew was forced to bail out.
Crashed near Tarevci, close to Modri?a, Bosnia, Yugoslavia.
Seven crew members were captured, while the pilot and co-pilot managed to contact
Chetnik guerillas and evade capture. The airmen were assisted by Chetnik guerillas to
evade capture; rescued by the Halyard Mission from Pranjani 9/10Aug44. MACR 5827
31848 (MSN 6962) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 21Dec43. Midwest Air Depot, Oklahoma City, OK 12Jan44.
Birmingham, AL 14Jan44. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 16Jan44. Caribbean Wing,
Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 26Jan44.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 347th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly),
Tortorella, Italy 1Feb44. {14 missions}. 429th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group,
Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 28Mar44. {first combat mission 7Apr44}. Participated in
the first Operation Frantic shuttle mission to the railway marshalling yards at
Debrecen, Hungary 2Jun44. After the target, the bomber continued east and landed
at Mirgorod (Station 561), Ukraine. Operated a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Gala?i,
Rumania 6Jun44, returning to Mirgorod. Returned to base in Italy on a mission to a
Luftwaffe airfield at Foc?ani, Rumania 11Jun44. Failed to return from a mission to
railway marshalling yards at Verona, Italy 6Jul44 (8KIA:2POW). It was the rear plane
of the formation and had engine problems, lagging behind the formation when it was
attacked by one Bf 109 of three that approached. The fighter made only one pass at the
crippled bomber, and immediately thereafter the bomber made a 360 degree turn, then
started straight down. At about 14,000ft it blew up. The Attack killed two airmen and
wounded others. Three crew members were blown out of the plane when it exploded.
The aircraft crashed at Trecenta, Rovigo, Italy. {42 missions}.
31849 (MSN 6963) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 26Dec43. 330th Combat Crew Training Squadron, Biggs Field, El Paso, TX 20Jan44.
Damaged on the ground at El Paso Municipal Airport, TX 2Mar44. 3021st Base Unit
(Flexible Gunnery School), Las Vegas Field, NV 26Sep44. 3022nd Base Unit (Flexible
Gunnery School), Indian Springs Auxiliary Field, NV 9Oct44. 3021st Base Unit
(Flexible Gunnery School), Las Vegas Field, NV 22Feb45. 3018th Base Unit (Flexible
Gunnery School), Kingman Field, AZ 8Mar45. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 9Jun45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 14Jan46. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31850 (MSN 6964) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 25Dec43. 954th Two Engine Flying Training Squadron [TEFTS],
Hobbs Field, NM 20Jan44. Damaged landing at Hobbs Field 20Apr44.
3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM.
Damaged landing with mechanical failure at Hobbs Field 31May44.
3018th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Kingman Field, AZ 18Sep44.
3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 9Jun45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and
disposal 21Jan46. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment
Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31851 (MSN 6965) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 24Dec43. Midwest Air Depot, Oklahoma City, OK 12Jan44. Hunter Field,
Savannah, GA 16Jan44. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field
(Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 24Jan44. Ferried to Italy, departed Morrison
Field 26Jan44. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 8Feb44. 348th Bomb Squadron,
99th Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 2Mar44. {10 missions}.
Transferred to 20th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 28Mar44.
(first combat mission 29Mar44}. Failed to return from a mission to the industrial
centre of Sofia, Bulgaria 30Mar44 (10KIA). Mid-air collision with B-17G 42-31683
about thirty-five miles east of Sofia. A sharp right turn was made at the I.P. and
plane #851 did not turn wide enough, was apparently caught in the propeller wash
of another plane, and crashed down on top of #683. Both planes started to
disintegrate and crashed at Kasbarevo, Bulgaria. {2 missions} MACR 3370.
31852 (MSN 6966) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 24Dec43. 773rd Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Lakeland
Field, FL 16Jan44. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11),
West Palm Beach, FL 20Feb44. Ferried overseas via the South Atlantic / Africa route.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 773rd Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Foggia #1,
Celone, Italy 11Mar44. Named "Vaudeville. It's Coming Back". Failed to return from a
mission to the Zw�lfaxing ammunition depot, Vienna, Austria 8Jul44 (9RTD). Damaged
by flak over the Neusiedlersee, southeast of Vienna. The pilot headed towards Russian
lines and crashed at Gy?r, Hungary
31853 (MSN 6967) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 28Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 10Jan44.
Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 12Jan44. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command,
Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 20Jan44. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy.
353rd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Cerignola #1, Italy 27Jan44. Foggia #8
(Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. Damaged in collision with B-17G 42-31584 taxying
at Foggia Main, Italy 17Feb44. Air Depot Feb44. Failed to return from a mission to a
railway marshalling yard at Lyon, France 25May44 (10KIA). Crossing Italy the Group
inadvertantly crossed over the front lines at 9,000ft and was shot at by heavy flak.
The Group scattered to escape and limped home without completing the mission.
Collided in mid-air with B-17G 42-31605. The formation approached its base and
began to descend when it entered cloud and one plane pulled up into the other.
Too low for the crew to bail out, it hit the top of a 3,500 foot mountain approximately
twenty miles from base at Lucera.
31854 (MSN 6968) Accepted by USAAF 22Dec43. United Air Lines, Modification
Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 30Jan44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Grenier
Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 18Feb44. 570th Bomb Squadron [DI*L], 390th Bomb
Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 26Feb44. Named "Baby Buggy"
{first combat mission 8Mar44}. Severely battle damaged on a mission to the
Messerschmitt factory in Augsburg, Germany 16Mar44. From Strasburg,
Germany to Augsburg, the bombers were attacked by Luftwaffe fighters in a
running battle. Flak over the target was moderate and accurate; flak en route was
meagre and inaccurate. As the Group was passing near N�rdlingen, almost
forty miles north of Augsburg, the plane was struck by rockets fired by enemy fighters.
The plane received extensive damage during the fighter attack and force landed
at the RAF Woodbridge emergency landing ground, Suffolk. Battle damaged on
a mission to the Heinkel Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory at Oranienburg,
Germany 18Apr44 (1WIA:9RTD). The bombers arrived over Oranienburg to find the
town covered by a thick undercast. Forced to decide between abandoning the mission
or bringing the formation down under the clouds, the air leader had the planes drop
down to 17,000ft in order to make their attack run. The bomber encountered
intense flak over Oranienburg, wounding the bombardier. Battle damaged on a
mission to the Junkers Flugzeug und Motorenwerke A.G. factory at Strasbourg,
France 27May44 (1WIA:9RTD). Moderate flak was encountered over the target,
wounding the bombardier. Battle damaged on a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical
and synthetic oil works at Leuna, Merseburg, Germany 29Jul44 (1WIA:8RTD).
The bombers encountered heavy flak over the target which disrupted the formation
and wounding a waist gunner. Battle damaged on a mission to the Rhenania-Ossag
Mineral�lwerke oil refinery at Harburg, Hamburg, Germany 4Aug44 (1WIA:8RTD).
A waist gunner was wounded. Participated in an Operation Frantic V shuttle mission
to the Flugzeugwerk Gotenhafen Kurt Kannenberg AG Focke-Wulf assembly works
at Rahmel, Gdynia, Poland 6Aug44. After the target, the bomber continued east
and landed at Mirgorod (Station 561), Ukraine. Operated a mission to an oil
refinery at Trzebinia, Poland 7Aug44, returning to Ukraine. Operated a mission
to a Luftwaffe airfield at Zili?tea, Rumania 8Aug44, continuing on to a Fifteenth
Air Force base in southern Italy. Returned to England on a mission to a Luftwaffe
airfield at Francazal, Toulouse, France 12Aug44. Failed to return from a mission
to the Rheinmetall Borsig armaments factory at D�sseldorf, Germany 9Sep44 (7KIA:2POW).
A minute before the bombs were released over the target, anti-aircraft guns
unleashed intense flak that completely engulfed the Group. As it was conducting
its bombing run, the plane was hit by flak and exploded. Crashed Hubbelrath,
D�sseldorf, Germany. {54 missions}. . MACR 8911
31855 (MSN 6969) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 27Dec43. Midwest Air Depot, Oklahoma City, OK 12Jan44. Hunter
Field, Savannah, GA 16Jan44. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison
Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 22Jan44. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy.
342nd Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 26Jan44.
Battle damaged during a mission to Steyr, Austria. Flak knocked a large hole
through the vertical stabiliser and ripped fabric off the rudder. Declared 'war weary'.
Reassigned for utility, training and weather check aircraft 10Oct44.
341st Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy.
Damaged taxying in collision with B-17G 44-6273 crash landing at Amendola 26Feb45.
Salvaged 18Jun45
31856 (MSN 6970) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 29Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 23Jan43.
331st Bomb Squadron [QE*Y], 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468),
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 9Feb44. Named "Maggie's Drawers/Lucioujs Duchess".
Failed to return from a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Handorf, M�nster,
Germany 8Apr44 (2KIA:8POW). Flak damaged engine No.2, then the wing broke
off, crashed Kleibolte Farm, Westerode, near Greven, Westfalen, Germany.
31857 (MSN 6971) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 26Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Lincoln Field, NB 10Jan44.
Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 13Jan44. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command,
Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 26Jan44. Fifteenth Air Force,
Italy. 340th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 28Jan44.
Failed to return from a mission to the Luftwaffe airfield at W�llersdorf,
Austria 29May44 (6KIA:4POW). Over Ransdorf, Austria, struck by a direct flak
burst on the wing and fire broke out. This spread quickly, but some of the crew
managed to bail out before the plane exploded in a dive. Crashed at Krumbach, Austria.
MACR 5437
31858 (MSN 6972) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 28Dec43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training
Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 10Jan44. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 11Jan44. Hunter Field,
Savannah, GA 13Jan44. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field
(Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 24Jan44. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 346th Bomb
Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 26Jan44.
Failed to return from a mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factory at Regensburg,
Germany 25Feb44. Enemy fighters started to attack fifteen miles east of Klagenfurt,
Austria on the way to the target. Exploded and crashed near Straubing, Germany. {4 missions}.
31859 (MSN 6973) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 28Dec43. Grandview Field, Kansas City, MO 12Jan44. Hunter Field,
Savannah, GA 16Jan44. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison
Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 26Jan44. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy.
49th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 27Jan44.
Named "Lucy". {first combat mission 15Feb44}. Failed to return from a mission to the
Steyr-Daimler-Puch factory complex at Steyr, Austria 24Feb44 (10POW).
The mission was a disastrous day for the 2nd Bomb Group; the 49th Bomb Squadron
lost all seven of its aircraft to enemy fighters. Shot down by enemy fighters, wounding
some of the crew. The enemy attacked from the rear and a gunner shot through
the bombers horizontal stabilisers attempting to shoot down the fighters.
As the formation turned to the Initial Point, the enemy became more
aggressive. About halfway between the Initial Point and the target, the No.4
engine was hit and the co-pilot feathered the propeller. The bombardier
jettisoned the bombs as the pilot increased power in the remaining engines
in order to catch the squadron. He had no sooner applied power when he
lost rudder control, and almost simultaneously, lost the elevator. No longer
able to control the aircraft, he signaled the crew to leave. The plane crashed
near Wels, Austria. {6 missions}. MACR 2620
31860 (MSN 6974) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 28Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 14Jan44.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 29Jan44.
407th Bomb Squadron [PY*L], 92nd Bomb Group, Podington (Station 109),
Bedfordshire 5Feb44. Failed to return from a mission to Hopsten air base,
Germany 21Feb44 (9POW:1KIA). Damaged by flak off the coast of the English Channel
with one engine out and losing altitude. Most of the crew bailed out but the
pilots remained and crash landed on a beach at Mariakerke, three miles west of
Ostend, Belgium
31861 (MSN 6975) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 28Dec43. Columbus, OH 16Jan44. 773rd Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb
Group, Lakeland Field, FL 18Jan44. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command,
Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 18Feb44. Ferried overseas
via the South Atlantic / Africa route. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 773rd Bomb Squadron,
463rd Bomb Group, Foggia #1, Celone, Italy 11Mar44; Named "Ragged But Right"
Battle damaged by flak on a mission to a synthetic oil refinery at Blechhammer,
Prussia 13Sep44. Ditched into the Adriatic Sea
31862 (MSN 6976) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 28Dec43. 773rd Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Lakeland Field, FL 16Jan44.
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm
Beach, FL 15Feb44. Ferried overseas via the South Atlantic / Africa route. Fifteenth Air
Force, Italy. 773rd Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Foggia #1, Celone, Italy 11Mar44.
Named "Dottie Bee". Battle damaged by flak on a mission to a synthetic oil refinery
at Blechhammer, Prussia 7Jul44. On the flight back to base, the bomber was badly damaged.
The pilot succeeded in performing a forced landing not far from base at Celone. Salvaged 11Jul44
31863 (MSN 6977) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 27Dec43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 29Dec43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 12Jan44. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 26Jan44. 614th Bomb Squadron [IW*X],
401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 6Feb44.
Named "Miss B Haven". Battle damaged on a mission to railway marshalling
yards at Cologne, Germany 6Jan45. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton (Station 547),
Huntingdonshire. Salvaged 19Feb45.
31864 (MSN 6978) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 30Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 14Jan44.
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm
Beach, FL 31Jan44. 549th Bomb Squadron [XA*Z], 385th Bomb Group, Great
Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 21Feb44. Named. "Remember Us". Failed to return
from a mission to Venlo, Netherlands 15Aug44 (8POW:1EVD). Flak knocked out
No.1 and No.2 engines, the bomber lost altitude and crashed at Gross-Hesepe,
NW of Meppen, Germany. MACR 7907
31865 (MSN 6979) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 29Dec43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 14Jan44. 4115th Base Unit
(Spokane Air Technical Service Command), Pendleton Field, OR 16Jan44.
775th Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Lakeland Field, FL 18Jan44.
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm
Beach, FL 24Feb44. Ferried overseas via the South Atlantic / Africa route.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 775th Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group;
attached to the 2nd Bomb Group effective 14Mar44. Foggia #7, Amendola,
Italy 17Mar44. 775th Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Foggia #1,
Celone, Italy 28Mar44.. Named "Ole Ironsides". Failed to return from a
mission to the Luftwaffe airfield at Oberpaffenhoffen, Munich,
Germany 13Jun44 (10INT). The plane was over the Alps when difficulties
arose in the oxygen system and the radio equipment. With the landing gear
extended, the bomber circled over the Swiss border with Italy until a Swiss
Air Force Morane fighter escorted the bomber to Magadino, Switzerland,
where it landed safely. When the B-17 was flown three days later by a
Swiss Air Force crew to D�bendorf, Zurich, a flak unit stationed in Biasca
targeted the bomber; fortunately, the gunners did not have the best day,
so that the pilot was able to make a safe landing in D�bendorf.
Returned to UK 11Sep45. Base Air Depot No.1, Burtonwood (Station 590),
Lancashire. Returned to US. 1377th Base Unit (North Atlantic Wing, Air
Transport Command), Grenier Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 26Nov45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage
and disposal 27Nov45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31866 (MSN 6980) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 28Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 18Jan44.
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West
Palm Beach, FL 31Jan44. 550th Bomb Squadron [SG*L], 385th Bomb Group,
Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 15Feb44
Named *Pride of the Yankees/Sly Fox II*. Failed to return
from a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 13Apr44 (10INT).
Flak damaged an engine and some controls then enemy aircraft damaged
another engine, force landed D�bendorf, Z�rich, Switzerland. MACR 3771
31867 (MSN 6981) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 29Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 12Jan44.
Damaged while parked in collision by B-17G 42-31880 taxying at Morrison
Field, West Palm Beach, FL 31Jan44. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command,
Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 31Jan44. 4th Ferrying Group,
Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 19Apr44. Grandview Field, Kansas
City, MO 20Apr44. 271st Base Unit (Staging Wing), 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 24Apr44. 1380th Base Unit (North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command),
Presque Isle Field (Station 2), ME 28Apr44. 1377th Base Unit (North Atlantic Wing, Air
Transport Command), Grenier Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 30Apr44. 335th Bomb
Squadron [OE*P], 95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 2May44.
336th Bomb Squadron [ET*B]. Named "Go Getter". Participated in an Operation
Frantic II shuttle mission to the Braunkohle-Benzin AG synthetic oil refinery at Schwarzheide,
Ruhland, Germany 21Jun44. After the target, the bomber continued east and landed at
Mirgorod (Station 561), Ukraine. The Germans had identified the location of the USAAF
bomber force so the plane was moved to a fighter airfield at Kharkov, Ukraine later
that evening. Operated a mission to the oil refinery and railway marshalling yards at
Drohobycz, Poland 26Jun44, continuing on to Foggia #2, Tortorella, a Fifteenth Air Force
base in southern Italy. Operated a mission to railway marshalling yards at Beziers,
France and landed back at Horham 5Jul44. Participated in an Operation Frantic V shuttle
mission to the Flugzeugwerk Gotenhafen Kurt Kannenberg AG Focke Wulf assembly works
at Rahmel, Gdynia, Poland 6Aug44. After the target, the bomber continued east and landed
at Poltava (Station 559), Ukraine. Operated a mission to an oil refinery at Trzebinia,
Poland 7Aug44, returning to Ukraine. Operated a mission to an airfield at Buz?u,
Rumania 8Aug44, continuing on to Foggia #1, Celone, Italy, a Fifteenth Air Force
base in southern Italy. Returned to England on a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at
Francazal, Toulouse, France 12Aug44. Battle damaged, Frankfurt am Main,
Germany 5Jan45, force landed France. {89 missions}. Returned to US. 121st Base Unit
(Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 21Jun45. 4168th Base Unit
(Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 24Jun45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for
storage and disposal 19Dec45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
31868 (MSN 6982) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 29Dec43. Offutt Field, Omaha, NB 10Jan44. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 12Jan44.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 342nd Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Foggia #7,
Amendola, Italy 26Jan44. Air Depot 18Oct44. Salvaged 10Nov44
31869 (MSN 6983) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 29Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 12Jan44.
401st Bomb Squadron [LL*Y], 91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121),
Cambridgeshire 25Feb44. , Named "Hell And High Water" Failed to return from a mission to industrial areas
in the suburbs of Berlin Germany 6Mar44 (2KIA:8POW). Attacked by enemy
fighters north of Magdeburg, No.3 engine exploded setting the wing on fire.
The bomber crashed on Lowendorf Hill, Trebbin, fifteen miles south of Berlin,
Germany. {2 missions}. .
31870 (MSN 6984) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Dec43.
4115th Base Unit (Spokane Air Technical Service Command), Pendleton Field, OR 11Jan44.
Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 12Jan44. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 49th Bomb Squadron,
2nd Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 20Jan44. Battle damaged on a tactical
mission against German troop concentrations and defensive positions at Albano Laziale,
Rome, Italy 10Feb44. Damaged by ground fire from enemy tanks, an engine was
damaged by flak and the plane had 125 holes caused by shrapnel. Failed to return from a
mission to the Steyr-Daimler-Puch factory complex at Steyr, Austria 24Feb44 (8KIA:2POW).
The mission was a disastrous day for the 2nd Bomb Group; the 49th Bomb Squadron lost
all seven of its aircraft to enemy fighters. As the formation turned to the Initial Point,
the enemy became more aggressive. About halfway between the Initial Point and the target,
the enemy attacked from the rear, killing the tail gunner and damaging the elevators.
The plane went up into a stall, with the engines at full power, while the pilots tried to push
the control column forward with their feet; it was useless, just like pushing on a giant
spring and the plane fell off in a spin. The pilots tried to stop it with opposite full rudder
but it then started to wind the other way. At that point the crew was ordered to
bail out. The bomber crashed near Wels, Austria. {6 missions}.. MACR 2589.
31871 (MSN 6985) Accepted by USAAF 24Dec43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 23Jan44. 547th Bomb Squadron [SO*T], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton
Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 21Feb44. {first combat mission 24Feb44}.
Failed to return from a mission to the Dornier Flugzeugwerke factory at Oberpfaffenhofen,
Munich, Germany 18Mar44 (10INT). After the target, the pilot called the Group Leader
saying that he could not feather No.1 engine on the bomb run. Half power was obtained
from engines No.2 and 3 which were running rough. He had an escort of four friendly
fighters and made for Switzerland. The bomber force landed at D�bendorf, Z�rich,
Switzerland. The landing gear retracted during the landing, secret equipment was
destroyed but the aircraft could not be burned because of Swiss interference. {7 missions}..
MACR 3485.
31872 (MSN 6986) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport,
WY 30Dec43. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 11Jan44. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport
Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 24Jan44. Fifteenth Air
Force, Italy. 352nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Cerignola #1, Italy 26Jan44.
Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. Failed to return from a mission to the
Messerschmitt aircraft factory at Regensburg, Germany 25Feb44 (3KIA:6POW).
In the upper Adriatic the aircraft was attacked by German fighters of JG 53 and JG 77,
based at Maniago, Povoletto and Lavariano. The pilot was forced to jettison the
load of bombs before reaching the Alps and attempted to return to base. The bomber
lost contact with the rest of the formation approximately thirty miles west of Rijeka.
The pilot managed to fly the B-17 for a while to the south, as the crew bailed out
in a stretch of the Adriatic that was usually reached by the fishing boats from the
port of Ravenna, Italy. It was one of these vessels that took the bomber crew on board;
three crew members died in the cold water. The fishermen disembarked the survivors
in Ravenna, where they were taken over by the Germans and sent to the prison camps.
{5 missions}.
31873 (MSN 6987) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30Dec43.
Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 13Jan44. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison
Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 24Jan44. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 49th Bomb Squadron,
2nd Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 27Jan44. {first combat mission 10Feb44}.
Failed to return from a mission to the Steyr-Daimler-Puch factory complex at Steyr,
Austria 24Feb44 (10POW). The mission was a disastrous day for the 2nd Bomb Group;
the 49th Bomb Squadron lost all seven of its aircraft to enemy fighters. As the bomber
crossed the Italian coast it was intercepted by enemy fighters. They attacked from the rear,
flying four abreast, firing their cannons, staying out of range of the 0.50 caliber guns, then
rolling over and split S-ing, exposing their armored underside. The bomber took a hit
in No.3 engine, which started burning. The co-pilot activated the extinguisher and
feathered the propeller. Minus an engine, it was unable to keep up and became a sitting duck.
The crew jettisoned the bombs; as they jettisoned, a cannon shell exploded near the cockpit.
The pilot activated the auto-pilot, sounded the alarm and gave a verbal command to bail out.
The bomber crashed and exploded in the Austrian Alps north of Udine, Italy. {6 missions}.
MACR 2719
31874 (MSN 6988) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 30Dec43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training
Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 31Jan44. 331st Bomb Squadron, 94th Bomb Group,
Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 2Mar44. Failed to return from a
mission to the Heinkel Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory at Oranienburg,
Germany 18Apr44 (11POW). The bombers arrived over Oranienburg to find the town
covered by a thick undercast. Forced to decide between abandoning the mission
or bringing the formation down under the clouds, the air leader had the planes
drop down to 17,000ft in order to make their attack run. The bomber encountered
intense flak over Oranienburg. Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Neuruppin,
two miles northwest of Friesack, near Hanburg, Germany.
31875 (MSN 6989) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 31Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 12Jan44.
Ferried from Menara Airport, Marrakech, French Morocco to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 15Feb44. 511th Bomb Squadron [DS*P], 351st Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110),
Northamptonshire 25Feb44. Named "Liberty Ball". Named in the tradition of 511th Bomb
Squadron by incorporating the word 'Ball' in the title, after the squadron's first commander
Clinton F Ball. Battle damaged on a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical and
synthetic oil works at Leuna, Merseburg, Germany 29Jul44. The bombers encountered
heavy flak over the target which disrupted the formation. Crash landed on return at
Polebrook. {36 missions}. Salvaged 30Jul44.
31876 (MSN 6990) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 30Dec43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 3Jan44.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Jan44.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 13Jan44. Ferried from Menara Airport,
Marrakech, French Morocco to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 15Feb44.
412th Bomb Squadron [QW*Q], 95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 17Feb44.
Named "Fireball" artwork of a young woman putting on a red skirt / FIRE BALL RED.
Participated in an Operation Frantic V shuttle mission to the Flugzeugwerk
Gotenhafen Kurt Kannenberg AG Focke Wulf assembly works at Rahmel, Gdynia,
Poland 6Aug44. After the target, the bomber continued east and landed at Poltava
(Station 559), Ukraine. Operated a mission to an oil refinery at Trzebinia,
Poland 7Aug44, returning to Ukraine. Operated a mission to an airfield at
Buz?u, Rumania 8Aug44, continuing on to Foggia #1, Celone, Italy, a
Fifteenth Air Force base in southern Italy. Returned to England on a
mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Francazal, Toulouse, France 12Aug44.
Aborted after takeoff for a mission to the Rheinmetall Borsig armaments
factory at D�sseldorf, Germany 9Sep44 (10RTD). Over the North Sea, No.4
engine failed and the propeller feathered. The plane descended towards
Horham and broke out of the overcast at 1,500 feet. Cutting short in the
landing pattern, the lowering of the landing gear and flaps was delayed.
On final approach the landing gear had not fully extended and the pilot
instructed to go-around. He called for landing gear retraction but this
didn't happen and increasing engine power caused the plane to veer off
the centreline but the drag prevented an increase in altitude. Running out
of airfield, the pilot decided to land on the grass and put it down about
400 yards from the upwind end of the runway. Skidding on wet grass,
the bomber was unable to stop before crossing the perimeter track and
ran into a pile of concrete rubble, tearing off the chin turret and breaking
the back of the fuselage. {70 missions}. Salvaged 10Sep44.
31877 (MSN 6991) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 30Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 10Jan44.
4115th Base Unit (Spokane Air Technical Service Command), Pendleton
Field, OR 12Jan44. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 13Jan44. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy.
416th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella,
Italy 25Jan44 Named "Flak Holes" {10 missions}
Transferred to 20BS/2BG Amendola, Italy Mar 28, 1944;
{first combat mission 28Mar44}. Participated in the first Operation Frantic
shuttle mission to the railway marshalling yards at Debrecen, Hungary 2Jun44.
After the target, the bomber continued east and landed at Mirgorod (Station 561),
Ukraine. Operated a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Gala?i, Rumania 6Jun44,
returning to Mirgorod. Returned to base in Italy on a mission to a Luftwaffe
airfield at Foc?ani, Rumania 11Jun44. Battle damaged during a mission to
a synthetic oil refinery at Blechhammer, Prussia 27Aug44 (1WIA:9RTD).
Flak was intense, heavy, and accurate resulting in serious injury to the bombardier.
{final combat mission 20Nov44}. {77 missions}. Salvaged Jul 25, 1945
31878 (MSN 6992) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 30Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 18Jan44.
Ferried Marrakech, French Morocco to Valley (Station 568), Anglesey, Wales 8Feb44.
535th Bomb Squadron [MS*Z], 381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167),
Essex 20Feb44. Named *Spamcan* Failed to return from a mission to Berlin,
Germany 24May44 (6KIA:4POW). Fw 190s attacked the bomber north of Berlin
and pieces immediately flew off, followed by an explosion. Crashed near Niendorf
and Polchow, five miles south of Rostock, Germany. {5+ missions}.
31879 MSN 6993) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 24Dec43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 29Dec43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 13Jan44. 508th Bomb
Squadron [YB*Q], 351st Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 22Feb44.
Named "The Shark". Damaged when ground looped at Alconbury 2Oct44. {55 missions}.
2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton (Station 547), Huntingdonshire. Salvaged 4Oct44.
Returned to USA Oct 4, 1944
31880 (MSN 6994) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 30Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 12Jan44.
Damaged in collision with parked B-17G 42-31867 while taxying at Morrison Field,
West Palm Beach, FL 31Jan44. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison
Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 31Jan44. Barksdale Field, Bossier City, LA 15Apr44.
4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 19Apr44. 271st Base Unit
(Staging Wing), 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 24Apr44. 1377th Base Unit
(North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command), Grenier Field (Station 16),
Manchester, NH 29Apr44. 366th Bomb Squadron [KY*M], 305th Bomb Group,
Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 1944. Failed to return from a mission
to the railway marshalling yards at Ludwigshafen and Mannheim, Germany 27May44
(3KIA:7POW). Flak damaged No.2 and No.3 engines, crashed two miles north of
Bad D�rkheim, 16 miles west of Ludwigshafen, Germany.
31881 (MSN 6995) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 30Dec43. 4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 12Jan44.
Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 16Jan44. 302nd Base Unit (Staging Wing), Hunter Field,
Savannah, GA 19Jan44. Jacksonville Field, FL 30Jan44. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field,
Dallas, TX. Damaged taxying at Homestead 31Jan44. 1104th Base Unit (Caribbean Wing,
Air Transport Command), Homestead Field, FL 2Feb44. 332nd Bomb Squadron [XM*G],
94th Bomb Group, Rougham. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 352nd Bomb Squadron,
301st Bomb Group, Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 15Feb44. Failed to return from a
mission to the oil refineries at Ploe?ti, Rumania 22Jul44 (9POW). Damaged by flak
over the target, with No.3 engine on fire, the aircraft dropped out of formation.
The fire was extinguished and the aircraft appeared to be under control, last seen
over Plea?a heading east. The crew bailed out and the aircraft crashed in Rumania
31882 (MSN 6996) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 30Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 12Jan44.
Ferried Marrakech, French Morocco to Valley (Station 568), Anglesey, Wales 8Feb44.
511th Bomb Squadron [DS*F], 351st Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110),
Northamptonshire 17Feb44. Failed to return from a mission to the Junkers aircraft
factories at Halberstadt and Aschersleben, Germany 22Feb44. Unable to land
at Polebrook, ditched in North Sea off Cromer, Norfolk; crew rescued. {3 missions}.
31883 (MSN 6997) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 30Dec43. Combat Crew Training School, Casper Field, WY 4Jan44.
Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 4Feb44.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 12Feb44. 401st Bomb Squadron [LL*Y],
91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 22Mar44,'
Named "The JUBJUB BIRD" The name is taken from a poem 'The Jabberwocky'
written by Lewis Carroll in his 1871 novel 'Through the Looking-Glass'.
Failed to return from a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical and synthetic oil works at
Leuna, Merseburg, Germany 2Nov44 (7KIA:2POW). The Group was hit hard after turning
on the I.P. The box barrage of flak was heavy around the target. Turning off the target,
the plane received a direct hit from a 155mm flak gun amidship. The No.2 engine
disintegrated as the propeller spun off. The nose section blew off as flames swept
back to the tail. The aircraft fell away before exploding and crashed at Leipzig, Germany.
{69 missions}.
31884 (MSN 6998) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 30Dec43. Pueblo AAB, CO 12Jan44. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 13Jan44.
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm
Beach, FL 20Jan44. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 340th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group,
Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 26Jan4Named "Miss Maywood".
A gift to the Air Force from the American Legion Post 142, Maywood City, New Jersey.
(first combat mission 14Feb44}. {100th mission to Regensburg, Germany 9Dec44}.
Salvaged 30Nov45. War Bond Aircraf
31885 (MSN 6999) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 30Dec43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 10Jan44. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 12Jan44.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 347th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly),
Tortorella, Italy 25Jan44. Battle damaged by flak during a tactical mission against
German troop concentrations and defensive positions at Campoleone in support
of the Allied beachhead at Anzio, Italy 17Feb44. {14 missions}. 20th Bomb Squadron,
2nd Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy Mar44. Named "Lovely Ladies".
{first combat mission 28Mar44}. Participated in the first Operation Frantic shuttle
mission to the railway marshalling yards at Debrecen, Hungary 2Jun44. After the target,
the bomber continued east and landed at Mirgorod (Station 561), Ukraine.
Operated a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Gala?i, Rumania 6Jun44, returning to Mirgorod.
Returned to base in Italy on a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Foc?ani, Rumania 11Jun44.
Battle damaged on a mission to the oil refineries at Ploe?ti, Rumania 9Jul44 (8WIA:1RTD).
Flak was moderate to intense resulting in injury to eight airmen. Failed to return from a
mission to the oil refinery at Moravsk� Ostrava a P?�voz, Czechoslovakia 29Aug44 (9KIA:1POW).
It was a disastrous day for the 2nd Bomb Group, losing nine B-17s in a onesided,
nineteen-minute attack by the Luftwaffe on the way to the target; the 20th Bomb Squadron
lost all seven of its aircraft to enemy fighters. It was the second greatest, one day, aircraft loss
for the Group but one with the greatest loss of life. The bomber was the last in the formation,
the last in the Wing that day. At that time the enemy fighters attacked, the plane was immediately
hit by 20mm cannon shells; there were some strikes on the wing section. Shot down by German
fighters above the Moravian-Slovak border, the aircraft exploded and burning debris fell
on the Vop�kovy manor house in Vyskov, which caught fire. Other parts of the aircraft fell
in the surrounding forest near Vyskovec, Czechoslovakia. {54 missions}.
31886 (MSN 7000) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 30Dec43. Des Moines Municipal Airport, IA 12Jan44. Charleston, SC 17Jan44.
Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 18Jan44. 1104th Base Unit (Caribbean Wing, Air Transport
Command), Homestead Field, FL 1Feb44. 709th Bomb Squadron, 447th Bomb Group,
Rattlesden. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 32nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Foggia #8
(Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 5Feb44. Named "Amazin' Mazie"--Named for Maizie Ann Harding,
wife of the pilot. Painted by Sgt Eugene Townsend (32BS/301BG).Severely battle damaged
on a mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factories at Regensburg, Germany 22Feb44.
Required a replacement wing, four engines and propellers, a new chin turret, flaps and tail.
On 6th mission, severely battle damaged by flak; right wing replaced. On 7th mission,
severely battle damaged to wings; wings replaced. Severe battle damage to wing fuel tanks;
wings replaced. Several missions later the wings were badly battle damaged and replaced.
On 55th mission all four engines were damaged by flak and the left wing was replaced.
Failed to return from a mission to a synthetic oil refinery at Blechhammer,
Prussia 7Aug44 (10POW). Approaching the target, No.4 engine was shut down and
the propeller feathered. After the target, No.3 engine was also shut down and the
propeller feathered. Losing altitude and out of the formation, the aircraft was last seen
five miles west of Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, heading towards base and under control.
Crashed Wiener Neudorf, Vienna, Austria. MACR 11976
31887 (MParticipated in an Operation Frantic II shuttle mission to the Braunkohle-Benzin AG synthetic
oil refinery at Schwarzheide, Ruhland, Germany 21Jun44. After the target, the bomber
continued east and landed at Mirgorod (Station 561), Ukraine. The Germans had identified
the location of the USAAF bomber force so the plane was moved to a fighter airfield at
Kharkov, Ukraine later that evening. Operated a mission to the oil refinery and railway
marshalling yards at Drohobycz, Poland 26Jun44, continuing on to Foggia #2,
Tortorella, a Fifteenth Air Force base in southern Italy. Aborted a mission to the
railway marshaling yard and repair shops at Arad, Rumania 3Jul44. Operated a mission
to railway marshalling yards at Beziers, France and landed back at Horham 5Jul44.
Participated in an Operation Frantic V shuttle mission to the Flugzeugwerk Gotenhafen
Kurt Kannenberg AG Focke Wulf assembly works at Rahmel, Gdynia, Poland 6Aug44.
After the target, the bomber continued east and landed at Poltava (Station 559), Ukraine.
Operated a mission to an oil refinery at Trzebinia, Poland 7Aug44, returning to Ukraine.
Operated a mission to an airfield at Buz?u, Rumania 8Aug44, continuing on to Foggia #1,
Celone, Italy, a Fifteenth Air Force base in southern Italy. Aborted the final shuttle
mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Francazal, Toulouse, France 12Aug44.
Returned to England Aug44. Participated in an Operation Frantic VII mission
to drop supplies to the resistance forces in Warsaw, Poland 18Sep44. After the
target, the bomber continued east and landed at Poltava (Station 559), Ukraine.
Operated a mission to the railway marshalling yards at Szolnok, Hungary 19Sep44
and continued on to land at a Fifteenth Air Force base in southern Italy. Damaged
on the ground by a German strike force night of 18/19Sep44. Returned to England Oct44
Transferred to. 335th Bomb Squadron [OE*F] Nov44 , named"Big Casino".
Failed to return from a mission to the railway marshalling yards at Frankfurt am Main,
Germany 17Feb45 (9POW). With No.2 engine disabled, the plane dropped out of formation
and crashed at Tillowitz, Prussia. {103 missions}. MACR 12378
31888 (MSN 7002) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 30Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 13Jan44.
326th Bomb Squadron [JW*N], 92nd Bomb Group, Podington (Station 109),
Bedfordshire 19Feb44. Named "Homesick Angel". Failed to return from a mission to an
aircraft repair depot at Lippstadt, Germany 23Mar44 (8KIA:2POW). Shot down by Fw 190
fighters, broke up and crashed at Uentrop, ten miles east of Hamm, Germany. . MACR 3416
31889 (MSN 7003) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 30Dec43. Barksdale Field, Bossier City, LA 11Jan44. Hunter Field,
Savannah, GA 16Jan44. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison
Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 18Jan44. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy.
416th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 28Jan44.
{first combat mission 22Feb44}. Severely battle
damaged on a mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factories at Regensburg,
Germany 22Feb44 (10RTD). The target was clouded over and not bombed. Enemy fighters
attacked, dropping aerial rockets which damaged the left wing. Vibration caused by the
damage pulled a number of rivets throughout the plane which then had to fly at a
reduced speed but was able to return safely to Tortorella. {6 missions}.
Transferred to 429th Bomb Squadron,
2nd Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 28Mar44. {first combat mission 30Mar44}.
Battle damaged on a mission to the industrial centre of Sofia, Bulgaria 30Mar44 (1WIA:9RTD).
The tail gunner was wounded by shrapnel from a 20mm cannon shell during an enemy fighter
attack. Damaged in collision with B-17G 42-31789 taxying at Amendola 2May44.
Participated in the first Operation Frantic shuttle mission to the railway marshalling yards
at Debrecen, Hungary 2Jun44. After the target, the bomber continued east and landed
at Mirgorod (Station 561), Ukraine. Operated a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Gala?i,
Rumania 6Jun44, returning to Mirgorod. Returned to base in Italy on a mission to a Luftwaffe
airfield at Foc?ani, Rumania 11Jun44. Failed to return from a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield
and air depot at Memmingen, Germany 18Jul44 (10INT). About fifteen minutes before reaching
the I.P., the number three and four engines began throwing oil. The plane left the formation
and headed for home base. The number two engine began vibrating excessively above 30 inches
manifold pressure. The oxygen system had failed and the propellers on engines number
three and four could not be feathered. The fuel supply was running short. The crew jettisoned
the bombs south of Munich and headed for Switzerland. Swiss fighters escorted them to an
airfield at D�bendorf, Z�rich, Switzerland. {36 missions}. The Swiss found sand in the engine
oil systems and also counted 79 flak holes. The aircraft was salvaged and cut in half behind the wings.
Named *Mammy Yokum*.
31890 (MSN 7004) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30Dec43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 12Jan44. 94th Bomb Group 5Feb44.
During pre-flight inspection at RCAF Gander, Newfoundland 8Feb44, landing gear collapsed
31891 (MSN 7005) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 31Dec43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 12Jan44. 612th Bomb Squadron [SC*P],
401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 15Feb44. Named "The Shape".
Battle damaged on a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical works at Oppau, Ludwigshafen, Germany 3Sep44.
Flak shrapnel caused many holes in both wings and tail, as well as the fuselage. {78 missions}.
Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor
Locks, CT 1Jun45. 4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command),
South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 8Jun45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 10Dec45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
31892 MSN 7006) Accepted by USAAF 28Dec43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 31Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 12Jan44. 570th Bomb Squadron [DI*H], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham
(Station 153), Suffolk 19Feb44. Named I'LL BE AROUND named after an
American contemporary popular song. I'LL BE AROUND HERE aka THE SKILLET.
{first combat mission 3Mar44}. Accident on assembly for a mission to coastal
defences at Boulogne, France 4Jun44 (1KIA:9RTD). Aircraft suffered oxygen fire at 21,000ft.
The crew bailed out as the pilot remained on board in an attempt to land but was killed
when the plane crashed at Scotties Farm, Easthorpe, near Colchester, Essex. {28 missions}. Salvaged 5Jul44.
[44-85828 is on display at 390th Memorial Museum, Pima Air and Space Museum,
Tucson, AZ painted as B-17G 42-31892 "i'll Be Around"]
31893 (MSN 7007) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 30Dec43. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 16Jan44. Caribbean Wing, Air
Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 27Jan44.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 419th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Foggia #8
(Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. Named "Busy Bee". Failed to return from its
first combat mission to the railway marshalling yards at Verona, Italy 14Feb44 (8POW:1KIA).
En route to the target, the aircraft was hit by flak, then attacked by enemy fighters.
The crew, except the pilot, bailed out before the aircraft crashed and burned near Verona, Italy
MACR 2303
31894 (MSN 7008) Accepted by USAAF 28Dec43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 31Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 14Jan44. 369th Bomb Squadron [WW*Z], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh
(Station 111), Bedfordshire 28Feb44. Seriously battle damaged on a Crossbow
mission to a German V-weapon site at Watten, France 26Mar44. Crash landed
at Thurleigh on return. Salvaged 27Mar44.
31895 (MSN 7009) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 3Jan44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 14Jan44.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 3Feb44.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Grenier Field (Station 16),
Manchester, NH 11Feb44. 418th Bomb Squadron [LD*Y], 100th Bomb Group,
Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 16Feb44. Named "Miss Chief".
Failed to return from a mission to the Rhenania-Ossag Mineral�lwerke oil refinery
at Harburg, Hamburg, Germany 31Dec44 (9POW). Shot down by enemy fighters,
crash landed Weserm�nde, Germany. MACR 11365
31896 (MSN 7010) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 31Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 13Jan44.
339th Bomb Squadron [QJ*M], 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138),
Norfolk 8Feb44. Failed to return from a mission to the Heinkel Flugzeugwerke
aircraft factory at Marienehe, Rostock, Germany 11Apr44 (9POW:1KIA).
Flak damaged and dropped out of formation, shot down by enemy aircraft which
damaged two engines, crash landed Fehmarn Island, Germany. MACR 3813.
31897 (MSN 7011) Accepted by USAAF 29Dec43. United Air Lines, Modification
Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 31Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 19Jan44. 423rd Bomb Squadron [RD*S], 306th Bomb Group,
Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 25Feb44. Seriously battle damaged by flak
during a mission to the secondary target, the industrial area at Stettin, Prussia 13May44
(1KIA:8RTD). Battle damaged on a tactical mission to railway infrastructure at Nantes,
France 15Jun44. Over the target, No.3 engine was struck by flak and the propeller
could not be feathered. The plane dropped out of formation and returned alone to
England. The No.4 engine had also been struck by flak but didn't fail until the plane
crossed the French coast. The plane force landed at RAF Chilbolton, Wiltshire where,
on landing, the No.3 propeller fell off damaging the adjacent propeller.
2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton (Station 547), Huntingdonshire 15Jun44. Regained by Group.
Failed to return from a mission to the Junkers Flugzeug-und Motorenwerke at Dessau,
Germany 20Jul44 (9POW). Damaged by flak over Leipzig, the left Tokyo tank and No.1 engine
caught fire. The plane dropped out of formation and disappeared into the clouds but the
fire appeared to have extinguished. Crashed Vielau, southeast of Zwickau, Germany
MACR 7277.
31898 (MSN 7012) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 1Jan44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 13Jan44.
Ferried from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to UK 20Feb44. 326th Bomb Squadron [JW*A],
92nd Bomb Group, Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 2Mar44. Named "Irene A".
Crashed after an afternoon practice mission from Podington 15Jul44 (3KIS:3RTD).
Attempting to land after the mission the wheels bounced on the runway and the aircraft
was airborne again, with one wing bursting into flames. The pilot climbed to about 900
feet, levelled off and ordered the crew to bail out. The plane crashed and burned about
six miles south of the base at Freer's Wood between Pavenham and Carlton,
northwest of Bedford. Salvaged 15Jul44
31899 (MSN 7013) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport,
CO 3Jan44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 13Jan44. 510th Bomb
Squadron [TU*B], 351st Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 29Feb44.
Named *Chatterbox*. Failed to return from a mission to the railway marshalling
yards at Ludwigshafen and Mannheim, Germany 27May44 (10INT). Flak damaged No.3 engine,
then enemy aircraft attacked, force landed D�bendorf, Z�rich, Switzerland. {19 missions}.
31900 (MSN 7014) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 1Jan44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 15Jan44.
333rd Bomb Squadron [TS*N], 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468),
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 14Feb44. 331st Bomb Squadron [QE*O]. 332nd Bomb Squadron [XM*T].
Named "Sally". Failed to return from a mission to Geissen, Germany 11Dec44 (4MIA).
Enemy aircraft damaged engine No.2 & No.3 and losing power the bomber crash landed at Li�ge, Belgium.
31901 (MSN 7015) Accepted by USAAF 29Dec43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 1Jan44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 13Jan44.
Ferried from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Nutts Corner (Station 235), Belfast,
Northern Ireland 17Feb44. 369th Bomb Squadron [WW*Y], 306th Bomb Group,
Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 25Feb44. Failed to return from a mission
to the Dornier Flugzeugwerke factory at Oberpfaffenhofen, Munich,
Germany 24Apr44 (11POW). Shot down by enemy fighters. Crashed Straubing, near
Ingoldstadt, Germany
31902 (MSN 7016) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 31Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 18Jan44.
710th Bomb Squadron [IJ*H], 447th Bomb Group, Rattlesden (Station 126),
Suffolk 6Feb44. Named "Stormy Weather II".�Battle damaged on a mission
to Stuttgart, Germany Jul44. On a Cadillac mission to drop supplies to the French
resistance forces 14Jul44, the aircraft had mechanical problems and force landed
behind an invasion beach at a fighter advanced landing ground at Cardonville (A-3),
France. Battle damaged on a mission to Aachen, Germany 8Aug44. Salvaged 9Aug44. .
31903 (MSN 7017) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 3Jan44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 30Jan44.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Grenier Field (Station 16),
Manchester, NH 18Feb44. 350th Bomb Squadron [LN*T], 100th Bomb Group,
Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 23Feb44. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik,
Iceland to Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland 28Feb44. Named "Hard Luck II"
Failed to return from a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical and synthetic oil works
at Leuna, Merseburg, Germany 29Jul44 (5KIA:4POW). The bombers encountered
heavy flak over the target which disrupted the formation. Shot down by enemy
fighters, crashed Wuelfingerode, Germany. , MACR 7811.
31904 (MSN 7018) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 31Dec43. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 2Jan44.
Combat Crew Training School, Casper Field, WY 4Jan44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 13Jan44. HQ Squadron, 9th Heavy Bomb Processing Group,
Grand Island, NB. Crash landed Kearney Field, NB 2Feb44. Salvaged 10Feb44.
31905 (MSN 7019) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 3Jan44. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine),
Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 21Jan44. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized,
Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 4Oct44. 4108th Base Unit (Atlantic
Overeas Air Technical Service Command), Newark Field, NJ 5Jun45.
2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field,
Sebring, FL 28Sep45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41,
Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 1Nov45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
31906 (MSN 7020) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 31Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 13Jan44.
410th Bomb Squadron, 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds,
Suffolk 21Feb44. 331th Bomb Squadron [QE*J]. Battle damaged on a mission to
Brussels, Belgium 11May44; flak damage to stabilisers and left wing. Failed to
return from a mission to the Bayerische Motoren Werke aero engine works at
Munich, Germany 31Jul44 (1KIA:8POW). The aircraft was observed to be hit by flak
as the formation neared the target area which damaged two engines and set them ablaze.
It was then seen descending rapidly but under control. The aircraft exploded in mid?air;
some of the crew had bailed out and some were blown out by the force of the explosion.
The bomber crashed near G�nzenhausen, twelve miles north of Munich, Germany.
31907 (MSN 7021) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 3Jan44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 14Jan44.
326th Bomb Squadron [JW*J], 92nd Bomb Group, Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 19Feb44.
Named "J For Johnny/Homesick Angel II".. . Failed to return from a mission to the I.G. Farben
chemical and synthetic oil works at Leuna, Merseburg, Germany 11Sep44
31908 (MSN 7022) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 5Jan44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 14Jan44.
New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 24Jan44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Grenier Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 26Jan44. 337th Bomb Squadron [AW*L],
96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 3Feb44. Named "Sour Puss".
Mission to railway facilities around Berlin, Germany 29Apr44. The combat wing
was off course heading to Berlin, attacked by enemy fighters and bombed
Magdeburg. On return with landing gear problems the aircraft was ordered to
land at Honington (Station 375), Suffolk where the landing gear collapsed on
landing. Salvaged 1st Strategic Air Depot, Troston (Station 595), Suffolk 4May44
31909 (MSN 7023) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal .
Airport, WY 3Jan44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 12Jan44.
3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 24Jan44. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Grenier Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 29Jan44.
323rd Bomb Squadron [OR*R], 91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), C
Cambridgeshire 24Feb44. Named *Nine-O-Nine*, Jack Grosh
[radio operator] designed the cartoon motif of Christopher Columbus riding a
bomb and thumbing his nose at Hitler. Tony Starcer translated this sketch into nose art.
Named 7May44 {first combat mission 25Feb44}. Battle damaged by flak on a
mission to railway installations around Berlin, Germany 7May44.
Because of heavy smoke over the target, the railway marshalling yards two miles
west were bombed. Battle damaged on a mission to Berlin, Germany 24May44.
Battle damaged by flak on a mission to the Nord railway marshalling yard at
Mulhouse, France 3Aug44. Battle damaged on a mission to the Siebel Flugzeugwerke
aircraft factory at Halle, Germany 16Aug44. Battle damaged by flak on a mission
to the shipyards at Kiel, Germany 30Aug44. Battle damaged on a mission to the
L�tzkendorf oil facilities at M�cheln, west of Merseburg, Germany 11Sep44.
Battle damaged on a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical and synthetic oil works
at Leuna, Merseburg, Germany 2Nov44. The Group was hit hard
after turning on the I.P. The box barrage of flak was heavy around the target.
After the target, because of a supposedly malfunctioning compass, the Group Lead
aircraft rallied off the target at 330 degrees west rather than 270 degrees west, as
briefed. The rest of the Group followed the lead, in the process flying out of the protection
of the main bomber stream. German Fighter Command had been conserving its scarce
fuel for weeks so as to mount a major effort against the bomber attacks. An estimated
500 Luftwaffe fighters went up to meet the bomber force. Flak struck the plane in the
left and right wings and the No.2 engine supercharger oil reservoir, losing the oil.
After successfully completing 130 mission, the plane sustained damage to the No.2
engine resulting in a runaway propeller which eventually sheared off and sliced
into the nose just below the navigator's window. Modified with all guns, armament and
ball turret removed with a wooden floor built over the bomb bay. Operation Revival 12May45;
liberated prisoners of war from Russian controlled Stalag Luft No.I, Barth, Germany.
British POWs were flown to southern England. {140 missions without a single
turn back + 1 Revival}. By the end of the war in Europe, 'Nine O Nine' had made eighteen
trips to Berlin, dropped 562,000 pounds of bombs, and flown 1,129 hours. The aircraft had
twenty-one engine changes, four wing panel changes, fifteen main fuel tank changes,
and eighteen 'Tokyo' fuel tank changes (long-range fuel tanks). The bomber also suffered
from considerable flak damage. Flew more than 100 combat missions.
After European hostilities ceased, 'Nine O Nine', with its
six hundred patched holes, flew back to the United States with its long-serving crew chief
as passenger. Returned to US by 91st Bomb Group crew on Operation Home Run,
departing 8Jun45. Dow Field, Bangor, ME 12Jun45. 1321st Base Unit, Bradley Field, CT 13Jun45.
Love Field, Dallas, TX 18Jun45. 4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command),
South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 18Jun45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage
Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 7Dec45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped.
Boeing B-52G Stratofortress 57-6509 of the 2nd Bomb Wing carried a close
rendition of the Starcer nose art for Nine O Nine
31910 (MSN 7024) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Jan44.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 13Jan44. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field,
Detroit, MI 24Jan44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Grenier Field (Station 16),
Manchester, NH 25Jan44. 336th Bomb Squadron [ET*P], 95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119),
Suffolk 2Feb44. Failed to return from a mission to industrial areas in the suburbs of Berlin,
Germany 4Mar44 (7POW:3KIA). Flak hit, broke in two, crashed Gyhum, six miles
northwest of Rotenburg an der W�mme, near Hanover, Germany. {8 missions}. .MACR 2798.
31911 (MSN 7025) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 3Jan44. 242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB
16Apr44. 323rd Bomb Squadron [OR*Q], 91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121),
Cambridgeshire 24Feb44. Failed to return from a mission to industrial areas in the
suburbs of Berlin, Germany 6Mar44 (10POW). Attacked by enemy fighters north of
Magdeburg, the crew bailed out and the aircraft crashed at Ramstedt, thirteen miles
north of Magdeburg, Germany .MACR 2900.
31912 (MSN 7026) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 4Jan44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 14Jan44.
3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 24Jan44. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Grenier Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 25Jan44.
337th Bomb Squadron [AW*L], 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138),
Norfolk 3Feb44. Named "My Assam Dragon". Failed to return from a
mission to the Vereinigte Kugellagerfabriken AG (VKF) ball bearing factory at Erkner,
Berlin, Germany 8Mar44 (9POW:1KIA). All the way from the Netherlands to Berlin,
the bombers were hounded by Luftwaffe fighters. Shot down by enemy fighters,
crashed Metel, six miles northeast of Neustadt, on Steinhuder Meer, Wunstorf, Germany,�
MACR 3429
31913 (MSN 7027) Accepted by USAAF 30Dec43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 4Jan44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 13Jan44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Grenier Field
(Station 16), Manchester, NH 25Jan44. 571st Bomb Squadron [FC*E],
390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 3Feb44. Named "Shy Ann/Eto Itis"
{first combat mission 13Feb44}. Failed to return from a mission to industrial areas in
Berlin, Germany 8May44 (5KIA:5POW). Enemy aircraft damaged No.1 and No.2 engines
along with electrics. Crashed Hademstorf, twenty-two miles north of Hanover, Germany.
{24 missions}. MACR 4584
31914 (MSN 7028) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 4Jan44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 17Jan44.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Grenier Field (Station 16),
Manchester, NH 25Jan44. 326th Bomb Squadron [JW*S], 92nd Bomb Group,
Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 11Feb44. Named *Butch*.
Failed to return from a mission to the Luftwaffe air depot at Erding,
Germany 24Apr44 (10INT). Shot down by enemy fighters, crash landed
D�bendorf, Z�rich, Switzerland. .
31915 (MSN 7029) Accepted by USAAF 31Dec43. United Air Lines, Modification
Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 4Jan44. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 14Jan44. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field,
Detroit, MI 20Jan44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Grenier
Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 26Jan44. 527th Bomb Squadron [FO*Y],
379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 6Feb44.
Named "Mary Jo" aka "Sugar Foot"
Failed to return from a mission to the railway marshalling yards at Hamm,
Germany 19Sep44 (7POW:1EVD:1KIA). Damaged by flak, crashed Duppach,
Germany. {47 missions} MACR 9374.
31916 (MSN 7030) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 6Jan44. Kingman Field, AZ 19Jan44. 3018th Base Unit
(Flexible Gunnery School), Kingman Field, AZ 23Mar45. 3030th Base Unit
(Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 28Jun45. To Reconstruction
Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 4Jan46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company,
Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31917 (MSN 7031) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 4Jan44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 13Jan44.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Grenier Field (Station 16),
Manchester, NH 26Jan44. 551st Bomb Squadron, 385th Bomb Group,
Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 2Feb44. Named 'Off Spring'.
Failed to return from a mission to industrial areas of Munich, Germany 12Jul44
(9KIA:1POW). Crashed after B-17G 42-102606 collided with 42-31917 near
Perl�, Luxembourg. #606 had been caught in propeller wash and stalled. It
collided with #917, cutting off the fuselage just before the tail. MACR 7507
The people of Perl� have built a Museum and Memorial to honor these crews
and the 385th Bomb Group.
31918 (MSN 7032) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 4Jan44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 12Jan44.
Chicago Municipal Airport, IL 24Jan44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Grenier Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 25Jan44. 708th Bomb Squadron [CQ*K],
447th Bomb Group, Rattlesden (Station 126), Suffolk 2Feb44.
Named "Little Rock Blonde". Crash landed Attlebridge, Norfolk, 10Apr44.
No casualties. Salvaged 17Apr44.
31919 (MSN 7033) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 4Jan44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 13Jan44.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Grenier Field (Station 16),
Manchester, NH 25Jan44. Upon arrival in Europe, the scheduled arrival airfield at
Prestwick, Scotland, had difficult weather conditions for landing, so it diverted
and landed at RAF Evanton Bay, northeast of Dingwall, Scotland. The runway was
short and not designed for bombers, both tires blew out due to the accelerated stop.
The RAF ground crew painted a lady on the nose of the plane and called her "Evanton Babe".
731st Bomb Squadron [Z], 452nd Bomb Group, Deopham Green (Station 142), Norfolk 4Feb44.
Battle damaged during a mission to industrial areas in the suburbs of Berlin,
Germany 6Mar44 (1KIA:7POW:1EVD:1RTD). Aircraft was attacked by Bf 109s and No.4
engine began to burn intensely. The propeller was feathered but the fire kept burning.
With the imminent danger of an explosion, the crew was told to bail out; they bailed out
over the Netherlands. No.4 engine and nacelle then fell off. With the risk of fire and the
wing falling off now reduced, the pilot remained and continued back to England.
He landed the aircraft at Metfield (Station 366), Suffolk where the left landing gear
collapsed and the bomber ran off the runway. Salvaged 8Mar44.
31920 (MSN 7034) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 3Jan44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 28Jan44.
447th Bomb Group, Rattlesden (Station 126), Suffolk 9Feb44. Transferred to
334th Bomb Squadron [BG*G], 95th Bomb Group, Horham
Named "Able Mabel". Participated in an Operation Frantic II shuttle
mission to the Braunkohle-Benzin AG synthetic oil refinery at Schwarzheide,
Ruhland, Germany 21Jun44. After the target, the bomber continued east and landed
at Mirgorod (Station 561), Ukraine. The Germans had identified the location of the
USAAF bomber force so the plane was moved to a fighter airfield at Kharkov, Ukraine
later that evening. Operated a mission to the oil refinery and railway marshalling
yards at Drohobycz, Poland 26Jun44, continuing on to Foggia #2, Tortorella,
a Fifteenth Air Force base in southern Italy. Operated a mission to the railway
marshaling yard and repair shops at Arad, Rumania 3Jul44. Operated a mission
to railway marshalling yards at Beziers, France and landed back at Horham 5Jul44.
Participated in an Operation Frantic VII mission to drop supplies to the resistance
forces in Warsaw, Poland 18Sep44. After the target, the bomber continued east and
landed at Poltava (Station 559), Ukraine. Operated a mission to the railway marshalling
yards at Szolnok, Hungary 19Sep44 and continued on to land at a Fifteenth Air Force base
in southern Italy. Returned to England 23Sep44. Damaged landing at Horham 6Nov44.
{89 missions}. Salvaged Nov 9, 1944
31921 (MSN 7035) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 5Jan44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 14Jan44.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Grenier Field (Station 16),
Manchester, NH 26Jan44. 407th Bomb Squadron [PY*O], 92nd Bomb Group,
Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 5Feb44. Named "Li'l Brat".
Failed to return from a mission to the Luftwaffe air depot at Erding,
Germany 24Apr44 (10KIA). Enemy aircraft damaged No.3 and No.4 engines,
headed for Switzerland but crashed at Baltenswil, near Munich.
31922 (MSN 7036) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 6Jan44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 14Jan44.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Grenier Field (Station 16),
Manchester, NH 31Jan44. 550th Bomb Squadron, 385th Bomb Group,
Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 15Feb44. Substantially damaged when
the tail wheel collapsed landing at Honington (Station 375), Suffolk 1May44.
1st Strategic Air Depot, Troston (Station 595), Suffolk. Damaged while parked
in collision by B-17G 44-6008 taxying at Great Ashfield 7Jul44. Force landed at
Heesch (B-88), Nistelrode, Netherlands 15Mar45. Repaired and returned to Group.
Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor
Locks, CT 24Jun45. 4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command),
South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 26Jun45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 28Nov45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
31923 (MSN 7037) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 7Jan44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 14Jan44.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Grenier Field (Station 16),
Manchester, NH 26Jan44. Damaged taking off at Station 4, North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command 30Jan44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME 7Mar44. 750th Bomb Squadron [D], 457th Bomb Group,
Glatton (Station 130), Huntingdonshire 23Jun44. Named *Prop Wash*.
Failed to return from a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical and synthetic oil works
at Leuna, Merseburg, Germany 2Nov44 (4POW:5KIA). As the group approached
their target I.P., it suddenly made a change of direction to the north and left the
bomber stream. This later turned out to be a navigation error by the lead PFF plane.
The group proceeded further and further away from it's fighter protection and
dropped it's bombs on an unknown target. After bombs were dropped the group
made a turn to the right in an attempt to return to the protection of the bomber
stream and it's fighters. The bomber was hit on the first pass of the attacking
Fw 190's shortly after bombs were dropped. Shells from the fighters started
fires in both wings. It pulled up and over the adjacent aircraft and began a dive
before exploding to crash near Merseburg
31924 (MSN 7038) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 5Jan44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 15Jan44.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 29Jan44.
334th Bomb Squadron [BG*Q], 95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119),
Suffolk 2Feb44. Named "Ol' Dog". Battle damaged on a mission to the
Heinkel Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory at Oranienburg, Germany 18Apr44 (1KIA).
The bombers arrived over Oranienburg to find the town covered by a thick undercast.
Forced to decide between abandoning the mission or bringing the formation down
under the clouds, the air leader had the planes drop down to 17,000ft in order to
make their attack run. The bomber encountered intense flak over Oranienburg.
Failed to return from a mission to the aircraft component factories in Leipzig,
Germany 29May44 (10POW). The Luftwaffe dispatched around forty fighters to
intercept the bombers, their attack co-inciding with a ten-minute period when the
bombers were flying without an escort. Shot down by enemy fighters, crash landed
Packebusch, nineteen miles southwest of Salzwedel, Germany. {41 missions}.
MACR 5343
31925 MSN 7039) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 5Jan44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 14Jan44.
331st Bomb Squadron, 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St
Edmunds, Suffolk 7Feb44. Named "Goon Girl"
Failed to return from a mission to the Braunkohle Benzin AG synthetic oil refinery at
B�hlen-R�tha, Leipzig, Germany 7Oct44 (8KIA:1POW). Enemy aircraft blew tail off,
crashed Ostramonda, Germany.. MACR 9550
31926 (MSN 7040) Accepted by USAAF 3Jan44. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 6Jan44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 14Jan44. 1104th Base Unit (Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command),
Homestead Field, FL 27Jan44. 545th Bomb Squadron [JD*G], 384th Bomb Group,
Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 19Feb44,
named *Lovell's Hovel*. {first combat mission 21Feb44}. Failed to return
from a Crossbow mission to La Coupole V-2 rocket bunker at Wizernes, France
19Mar44 (6KIA:4POW). The plane was hit by flak near the radio room after the bombs
were dropped. The plane entered a spin and began burning, filling with smoke.
Two crew members were able to bail out. Twenty seconds later, the plane exploded.
Two other crew members were blown out of the plane; thankfully they had their
parachutes on. The bomber was seen spiraling down with flames pouring from all
parts of aircraft. It crashed near Wavrans-sur-Ternoise, north of Saint Pol-sur-Ternoise,
France. {10 missions}.
31927 (MSN 7041) Accepted by USAAF 3Jan44. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 6Jan44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 15Jan44. 526th Bomb Squadron [LF*F:LF*E], 379th Bomb Group,
Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 8Feb44. 524th Bomb Squadron.
Damaged taxying at Kimbolton 15May44. Failed to return from a mission
to the Heinkel Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory at Oranienburg,
Germany 13Aug44 (2KIA:7POW). Damaged by flak, crashed Falaise, France.
31928 (MSN 7042) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 7Jan44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 15Jan44. 551st Bomb Squadron, 385th Bomb Group, Great
Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 6Feb44. Named *Powerful Katrinka*. burned out in hanger at Great Ashfield
May 22, 1944 when hangar struck by bomb from intruding Me 410 of KG 51. This was the
only B-17 to have been destroyed on the ground at its English base by
the Luftwaffe.
31929 (MSN 7043) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 7Jan44. 242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand
Island Field, NB 15Jan44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME 21Feb44. 427th Bomb Squadron [GN*R], 303rd Bomb
Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 1Mar44.. Named "Tennessee Hillbilly".
Failed to return from a Crossbow mission to a German V-weapon site
at Watten, France 26Mar44 (9POW:1EVD). Damaged by flak, crashed
Cote de l'Haeneberg, Lederzeele, three miles north of Omer, France..
31930 MSN 7044) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 6Jan44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 14Jan44.
New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 24Jan44. 613th Bomb Squadron [IN*M],
401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 7Feb44.
Failed to return from a mission to the Junkers aircraft factories at Halberstadt
and Aschersleben, Germany 22Feb44 (9POW:1KIA)
Shot Down Feb 22, 1944 By Gunfire From German Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-8 at Brambsche & Crashed at
Luchtringen Germany.
Believed Fw 190A-8 Flown By Oblt. Herbert Christmann of JG 11/11. (10) Crew Bailed Out
(9) Captured & POWs. Released in 1945. (1) Killed Parachute. MACR 2660.
31931 (MSN 7045) Boeing Aircraft Corporation, Seattle, WA 3Jan44. Accident landing
at Boeing Field, WA 3Jan44. Experimental without top turret glazing. McChord Field,
Tacoma, WA 23Jul44. Spokane Field, WA 25Jul44. 20th Ferrying Group, Berry Field,
Nashville, TN 30Aug44. 1st EEL, Hanscom Field, Bedford, MA 1Dec44. 902nd Base Unit
(Base Complement), Orlando AAB, FL 19Jan45. 903rd Base Unit, Pinecastle Field, FL 23Jan45.
Damaged landing at Pinecastle Field 7May45. 4000th Base Unit, Air Materiel Command,
Wright Field, Dayton, OH 30Jun45. 4148th Base Unit, Hensley Field, Dallas, TX 2Aug45.
4000th Base Unit, Air Materiel Command, Wright Field, Dayton, OH 7Aug45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for
storage and disposal 5Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich
Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
42-31932/32116 Boeing B-17G-35-BO Fortress
MSN 7046/7230. Dispositions from B-17 Fortress Master Log, Dave Osborne (FORTLOG)
Production changes: B-22 high speed high altitude turbosupercharger. Revised elevator trim tabs.
31932 (MSN 7046) Accepted by USAAF 4Jan44. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27Jan44. Billings Municipal Airport, MT 14Jan44.
242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB 11Feb44.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Grenier Field (Station 16),
Manchester, NH 23Feb44. 571st Bomb Squadron [FC*H], 390th Bomb Group,
Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 23Feb44. Named "Rick-O-Shay IV",�
Later names: "Purdy Baby", "Sister Kate" & "Miss Cue",
{first combat mission 29Feb44}. Battle damaged on a Crossbow mission to a
German V-weapon site at La Glacerie, Cherbourg, France 20Apr44 (1WIA:9RTD);
the tail gunner was wounded by flak. Participated in an Operation Frantic V shuttle
mission to the Flugzeugwerk Gotenhafen Kurt Kannenberg AG Focke-Wulf assembly works
at Rahmel, Gdynia, Poland 6Aug44. After the target, the bomber continued east and landed
at Mirgorod (Station 561), Ukraine. Operated a mission to an oil refinery at Trzebinia,
Poland 7Aug44, returning to Ukraine. Operated a mission to a Luftwaffe
airfield at Zili?tea, Rumania 8Aug44, continuing on to a Fifteenth Air Force base in
southern Italy. Returned to England on a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Francazal,
Toulouse, France 12Aug44. Participated in an Operation Frantic VII mission to drop
supplies to the resistance forces in Warsaw, Poland 18Sep44. After the target, the bomber
continued east and landed at Mirgorod (Station 561), Ukraine. Operated a mission
to the railway marshalling yards at Szolnok, Hungary 19Sep44 and continued on to
land at a Fifteenth Air Force base in southern Italy. Returned to England. Damaged
taxying at Framlingham 16Mar45. The plane was being taxied to a runway to carry
out a compass swing. The hydraulic system, powered from No.3 engine, affected the
brakes. It ground looped, the left wing scraping a refuelling truck parked on a hardstand.
{final combat mission 16Apr45}. {102 missions}. Returned to US. 121st Base Unit
(Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 6Jul45. 4168th Base Unit
(Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 8Jul45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for
storage and disposal 18Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich
Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped.
31933 (MSN 7047) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 10Jan44. Flexible Gunnery School, Yuma Field, AZ 19Jan44.
3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 5Jun44.
82nd Flying Training Wing, Yuma Field, AZ. Accident landing at Yuma Field 20Dec44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for
storage and disposal 1Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich
Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped.
31934 (MSN 7048) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 6Jan44. 242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island
Field, NB 15Jan44. 731st Bomb Squadron, 452nd Bomb Group 4Feb44.
Ferried RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 6Feb44.
731st Bomb Squadron [Q], 452nd Bomb Group, Deopham Green (Station 142), Norfolk Feb44.
Named "Marie Helena". Battle damaged on a mission to railway
marshalling yards at Rouen, France 8Jul44 (2KIA). Flak over the target was
heavy and accurate, severely damaging the plane several times. The navigator
and co-pilot were killed, and the pilot, bombardier and radio operator injured.
Two engines had been disabled and radio system inoperative. The pilot was
looking for somewhere to force land, escorting P-47 Thunderbolts dipped their
wings and he thought that they were landing instructions. Suddenly the plane was
attacked by flak, machine guns and small arms; he quickly realised that he was
being warned off landing at a German airfield. The aircraft then force landed on
an American fighter advanced landing ground in France. Repaired and returned to base.
Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field,
Windsor Locks, CT 5Jul45. 4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service
Command), South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 25Aug45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 17Nov45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
31935 (MSN 7049) Accepted by USAAF 4Jan44. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 7Jan44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 28Jan44. 571st Bomb Squadron [FC*A], 390th Bomb Group,
Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 10Feb44. Named "Stark's Ark"--named after the pilot.
{first combat mission 24Feb44}. Failed to return from a mission to the Bosch
subsidiary, Dreilinden Maschinenbau GmbH, at Kleinmachnow, Germany
6Mar44 (3KIA:7POW). As the Group was passing by the town of Diepholz, attacking
German fighters caused heavy damage setting No.2 engine and wing on fire.
Seven crew members bailed out over Quakenbr�ck and the plane crashed 2.5km
southwest of Hemmelte, southwest of Cloppenburg, Germany. (4 missions}.
MACR 2989.
31936 (MSN 7050) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 10Jan44. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 20Jan44. 2114th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 2Sep44. 4152nd Base Unit,
Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 1Oct44. 2114th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized,
Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 29Sep45. 4152nd Base Unit,
Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 9Oct45.To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 7Jan46. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31937 (MSN 7051) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 10Jan44. 100th Bomb Group. Pilot School (Specialized, Four Engine),
Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 21Jan44. 2126th Base Unit (Central School
for Flexible Gunnery), Laredo Field, TX 28Jun44. 2126th Base Unit (Central School
for Flexible Gunnery), Laredo Field, TX 1Feb45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 8Jan46. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped..
31938 (MSN 7052) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 7Jan44. 242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island
Field, NB 16Jan44. HQ Squadron, 9th Heavy Bomb Processing Group, Grand Island, NB.
Destroyed in a collision with parked B-17G 42-32042 while taxying at Grand
Island 30Jan44. Salvaged 31Jan44.
31939 (MSN 7053) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 6Jan44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 15Jan44.
3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 23Jan44. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Grenier Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 25Jan44.
336th Bomb Squadron [ET*J], 95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 2Feb44.
Participated in an Operation Frantic V shuttle mission to the Flugzeugwerk Gotenhafen
Kurt Kannenberg AG Focke Wulf assembly works at Rahmel, Gdynia, Poland 6Aug44.
After the target, the bomber continued east and landed at Poltava (Station 559), Ukraine.
Operated a mission to an oil refinery at Trzebinia, Poland 7Aug44, returning to Ukraine.
Operated a mission to an airfield at Buz?u, Rumania 8Aug44, continuing on to Foggia #1,
Celone, Italy, a Fifteenth Air Force base in southern Italy. Returned to England on a mission
to a Luftwaffe airfield at Francazal, Toulouse, France 12Aug44. 412th Bomb Squadron [QW*J].
{98 missions} . Named "Spook Six". Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field,
Windsor Locks, CT 21Jun44. 4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command),
South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 23Jun45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 24Nov45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped.
31940 (MSN 7054) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 8Jan44. Flexible Gunnery School, Yuma Field, AZ 19Jan44. 233rd Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Davis-Monthan Field, Tucson, AZ 3Jun44. 82nd Flying
Training Wing, Yuma Field, AZ. Damaged in collision with parked B-17G 42-97925 while
taxying at Yuma 8Dec44. 3036th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Yuma Field, AZ 9Jun45.
3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 11Jun45.
Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment;
designated TB-17G. Crashed with engine failure after the crew bailed out eight miles northeast
of Hobbs 24Jul45. Reclaimed Aug45..
31941 (MSN 7055) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 7Jan44. 242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island
Field, NB 15Jan44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle
Field, ME 28Feb44. 350th Bomb Squadron [LN*W], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe
Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 3Mar44. Named "Big Stoop"--the name
was submitted by the original Radio Operator of this aircraft but was never applied.
Failed to return from a mission to Berlin, Germany 24May44 (8POW:2KIA).
Some 40 to 50 Fw 190s attacked the formation and shot down four B?17s in the first
pass. Crashed and exploded west of Buckwitzer, two miles southeast of
Wusterhausen, NW of Berlin, Germany. MACR 5167
31942 (MSN 7056) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 10Jan44. Flexible Gunnery School, Yuma Field, AZ 17Jan44.
3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 4Jun44.
Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment;
designated TB-17G. Damaged landing with mechanical failure at Hobbs Field 8Jun45.
Reclaimed 5Jul45.
31943 (MSN 7057) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 10Jan44. Flexible Gunnery School, Yuma Field, AZ 19Jan44. Alamogordo
Field, NM 20Mar44. 206th Base Unit, Alamogordo Field, NM 8Sep44. 203rd Base Unit
(16th Bomber Operational Training Wing), Jackson AAB, MS 22Apr45. 243rd Base Unit
(Operational Training Unit), Great Bend Field, KS 20Sep45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 7Nov45
31944 (MSN 7058) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 9Jan44. Flexible Gunnery School, Yuma Field, AZ 19Jan44. 3017th Base Unit
(Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 4Jun44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and
disposal 7Jan46. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company,
Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31945 (MSN 7059) Alamogordo Field, NM 10Feb44. 4208th Base Unit, Mines Field,
Los Angeles, CA 3Oct44. 231st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Alamogordo
Field, NM 6Oct44. 235th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Biggs Field,
El Paso, TX 10Dec44. Force landed with engine failure at Biggs Field 3Jan45.
224th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Sioux City AAB, IA 27Feb45.
Damaged taxying at Sioux City 19Apr45. 225th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training
Station), Rapid City Field, SD 15Jun45. 203rd Base Unit (16th Bomber Operational
Training Wing), Jackson AAB, MS 28Jun45. 234th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training
Station), Clovis Field, NM 23Sep45. Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament,
turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17G. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 16Feb46. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31946 (MSN 7060) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 10Jan44. Great Bend Field, KS 19Jan44. 333rd Bomb Squadron,
94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 9Feb44. Named "Esky".
Failed to return from a Crossbow mission to a German V-weapon site in the Pas-de-Calais,
France 20Apr44 (9POW:1EVD). Flak hit in right wheel well and ball turret door fell off,
then cockpit fire broke out and crew bailed out. Crashed Fauquembergues, 16 miles
southeast of Saint-Omer, France. MACR 4156
31947 (MSN 7061) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 9Jan44. Pilot School (Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB,
Columbus, OH 21Jan44. 3036th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Yuma
Field, AZ 5Jul44. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs
Field, NM 22Sep44. 4160th Base Unit (Sacramento Air Technical Service Command),
Hobbs Field, NM 5Nov44. Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41,
Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 8Dec45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
31948 (MSN 7062) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 9Jan44. Kingman Field, AZ 19Jan44. Albuquerque AAB, NM 26Mar44.
2543rd Base Unit, Waco Field, TX 28Nov44. 221st Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA 10Dec44. Damaged in ground collision with
B-17G 42-97340 at Alexandria 4Jan45. 329th Combat Crew Training Squadron,
Alexandria Field, LA 1Mar45. Crashed after a mid-air collision with B-17F 42-5355
on a 54-aircraft practice flight at Louisiana Rapides, ten miles northwest of
Alexandria 6May45 (9KIS). SOC Alexandria Field 7May45.
31949 (MSN 7063) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 10Jan44. Flexible Gunnery School, Yuma Field, AZ 19Jan44.
3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 4Jun44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and
disposal 20Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment
Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31950 (MSN 7064) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 9Jan44. Chanute Field, Rantoul, IL 20Jan44. 3501st Base Unit
(Technical School & Overseas Replacement Depot), Boca Raton Field, FL.
Damaged in collision with B-24D 42-40366 taxying at Boca Raton 22Jul44.
3501st Base Unit (Technical School & Overseas Replacement Depot), Boca Raton
Field, FL 28Nov44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41,
Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 22Feb46. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
31951 (MSN 7065) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 9Jan44. Flexible Gunnery School, Yuma Field, AZ 21Jan44.
3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 5Jun44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and
disposal 3Jan46. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment
Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31952 (MSN 7066) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 9Jan44. Hobbs Field, NM 28Jan44. 3021st Base Unit (Flexible
Gunnery School), Las Vegas Field, NV 28Sep44. 3022nd Base Unit (Flexible
Gunnery School), Indian Springs Auxiliary Field, NV 7Oct44. 2126th Base Unit
(Central School for Flexible Gunnery), Laredo Field, TX 9Apr45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage
and disposal 4Jan46. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway
Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31953 (MSN 7067) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 10Jan44. Flexible Gunnery School, Yuma Field, AZ 21Jan44.
3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 4Aug44.
4160th Base Unit (Sacramento Air Technical Service Command), Hobbs
Field, NM 3Nov44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41,
Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 2Dec45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped.
31954 (MSN 7068) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 10Jan44. Pilot School (Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB,
Columbus, OH 19Jan44. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine),
Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 17Nov44. 1377th Base Unit (North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command), Grenier Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 10Jan45.
4136th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), Tinker Field,
Oklahoma City, OK 30Jan45. Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament,
turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17G. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL. Damaged when ground looped
landing at Hendricks 15Jun45. Reclaimed 17Jul45.
31955 (MSN 7069) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 9Jan44. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 24Jan44. Ferried from Menara Airport,
Marrakech, French Morocco to St Mawgan (Station 512), Cornwall 20/21Feb44.
508th Bomb Squadron [YB*K], 351st Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110),
Northamptonshire 29Feb44. Failed to return from a mission to the Heinkel Flugzeugwerke
aircraft factory at Oranienburg, Germany 18Apr44 (9POW:1KIA). The bombers
arrived over Oranienburg to find the town covered by a thick undercast. Forced to
decide between abandoning the mission or bringing the formation down under the clouds,
the air leader had the planes drop down to 17,000ft in order to make their attack run.
The bomber encountered intense flak over Oranienburg. Flak set fire to bomb bay and
right wing. The crew bailed out and aircraft crashed at Bergsdorf/Ausbau, north of
Berlin, Germany. {13 missions}.
31956 (MSN 7070) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport,
WY 9Jan44. Montezuma, CO 17Jan44. Pilot School (Specialized, Four Engine),
Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 21Jan44. 3501st Base Unit (Technical School &
Overseas Replacement Depot), Boca Raton Field, FL 28Nov44. 4136th Base Unit
(Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 17Sep45.
3501st Base Unit (Technical School & Overseas Replacement Depot), Boca Raton
Field, FL 23Sep45. Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41,
Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 22Feb46. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
31957 (MSN 7071) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 9Jan44. Las Vegas Field, NV 18Jan44. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 18Nov44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ
for storage and disposal 14Nov45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped.
31958 (MSN 7072) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 9Jan44. Kingman Field, AZ 19Jan44. 1377th Base Unit (North Atlantic
Wing, Air Transport Command), Grenier Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 10Jan45.
3018th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Kingman Field, AZ 23Mar45.
3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 9Jun45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and
disposal 4Jan46. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment
Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31959 (MSN 7073) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 9Jan44. Las Vegas Field, NV 18Jan44. 3021st Base Unit (Flexible
Gunnery School), Las Vegas Field, NV 2Jun44. 3022nd Base Unit (Flexible
Gunnery School), Indian Springs Auxiliary Field, NV 16Jun44. 3021st Base Unit
(Flexible Gunnery School), Las Vegas Field, NV 23Mar45. 2126th Base Unit
(Central School for Flexible Gunnery), Laredo Field, TX 31Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage
and disposal 5Jan46. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway
Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31960 (MSN 7074) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 9Jan44. Albuquerque AAB, NM 24Jan44. Kingman Field, AZ 26Jan44.
236th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Pyote Field, TX 26Mar44.
Force landed with engine fire after some of the crew bailed out fifteen miles
west of San Angelo, TX 14May44. Crashed after catching fire and the crew
abandoned the aircraft one mile south of Valera, TX 29May44. Salvaged 30May44.
31961 (MSN 7075) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 10Jan44. Flexible Gunnery School, Yuma Field, AZ 22Jan44.
3021st Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Las Vegas Field, NV 2Jun44.
3022nd Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Indian Springs Auxiliary
Field, NV 14Jul44. 3021st Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Las Vegas
Field, NV 15Mar45. 2126th Base Unit (Central School for Flexible Gunnery), Laredo
Field, TX 31Mar45. Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets
and bombing equipment; designated TB-17G. Damaged while parked in collision
by TB-17G 42-31609 taxying at Laredo Field 30May45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 20Dec45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31962 (MSN 7076) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 9Jan44. Kingman Field, AZ 19Jan44. Albuquerque AAB, NM 30Mar44.
222nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Ardmore Field, OK Jan45.
332nd Base Unit, Ardmore Field, OK 16Jun45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 11Dec45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
31963 (MSN 7077) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 9Jan44. Kingman Field, AZ 19Jan44. 3018th Base Unit (Flexible
Gunnery School), Kingman Field, AZ 23Mar45. 1123rd Flexible Gunnery
Training Squadron, Kingman Field, AZ. Damaged in accident at Yucca
Field, AZ 11May44. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine),
Hobbs Field, NM 29Dec45
31964 (MSN 7078) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 9Jan44. Kingman Field, AZ 19Jan44. Pyote Field, TX 30Mar44.
235th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Biggs Field, El Paso, TX 28Jul44.
Damaged in collision with parked B-17F 42-6088 at Biggs 6Aug44. HQ Materiel
Command, Wright Field, Dayton, OH 14Aug44. 235th Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Biggs Field, El Paso, TX 16Aug44. 224th Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Sioux City AAB, IA 27Feb45. 222nd Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Ardmore Field, OK 14Jun45. 332nd Base Unit, Ardmore
Field, OK 16Jun45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR
for storage and disposal 26Sep45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31965 (MSN 7079) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 9Jan44. Spokane Field, WA 10Jan44. Palm Springs Field, CA 19Jan44.
3036th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Yuma Field, AZ.
Accident landing at Yuma Field 28Sep44. Reclaimed 29Jan45
31966 (MSN 7080) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 13Jan44. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 14Jan44.
242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB 24Jan44.
511th Bomb Squadron [DS*X], 351st Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110),
Northamptonshire 29Feb44. Failed to return from a mission to the Dornier
Flugzeugwerke factory at Oberpfaffenhofen, Munich, Germany 18Mar44 (9KIA:1POW).
Shot down by enemy aircraft on return from the target, crashed on the Uttenweiler-Hailtingen
road, twenty-six miles southwest of Ulm, Germany. {5 missions)
31967 (MSN 7081) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 11Jan44. Roswell Field, NM 26Jan44. 223rd Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN. Damaged in collision with parked
B-17G 44-8057 while taxying at Dyersburg Field 11Jul44. 347th Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Key Field, Meridian, MS 24Jan45.
330th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN 1Mar45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage
and disposal 19Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway
Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
31968 (MSN 7082) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 11Jan44. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 21Jan44. Caribbean Wing,
Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 2Feb44.
350th Bomb Squadron [LN*D], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139),
Norfolk 3Feb44. Named "Miss Irish"- artwork was a black four leafed clover.
Battle damaged on a Crossbow mission to the V-3 cannon bunker at Mimoyecques,
Pas-de-Calais, France 19Mar44 (1KIA:9RTD). Was hit by flak and radio operator was
sucked out of a gaping hole that nearly broke the fuselage
in two. Plane aborted, dropped bombs over
the Channel, then returned to land successfully at Radon Firfield, Suffolk, UL. Salvaged. MACR 15220.
31969 (MSN 7083) Accepted by USAAF 7Jan44. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 8Jan44. Billings Municipal Airport, MT 14Jan44.
Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 24Jan44. 381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167),
Essex 6Feb44. 369th Bomb Squadron [WW*F], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111),
Bedfordshire 22Feb44. Seriously battle damaged on a Crossbow mission to a German V-weapon
site at Watten, France 26Mar44 (1KIA). On return, force landed at the RAF Woodbridge
emergency landing ground, Suffolk. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton (Station 547),
Huntingdonshire 27Mar44. Regained by Group 9Apr44. Failed to return from a mission
to industrial areas in Berlin, Germany 8May44 (9KIA:1POW). B-17G 42-31969 was in a
mid-air collision which involved two other B-17g's, 42-97239 and 42-37942. B-17G 42-97239,
which was suffering from propeller-wash, came down on top of 42-37942 causing the tail
section of 42-37942 to be cut off. The tail section from 42-37942 came down on top of B-17G
42-31969. All three B-17's crashed near Perleberg, twelve miles west-southwest of Wittstock, Germany..
MACR 4553.
31970 (MSN 7084) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 10Jan44.
Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 22Jan44. 349th Bomb Squadron, 100th Bomb Group,
Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 3Feb44. Named "Bertha The Blues"
Failed to return from a mission to industrial areas of Berlin, Germany 3Mar44 (9POW).
Deteriorating weather conditions and dense contrails forced the formation to divert to an
alternate target of the industrial and port areas at Wilhelmshaven, Germany. The 1st Bomb Division
made a 180 degree turn to the left and flew head on into the 3rd Bomb Division which
had turned right. The aircraft collided with B-17G 42-39817 and crashed near Peissen,
six miles north of Itzhoe, Germany 10 crew bailed out, 9 became POWs, 1 crew died of injuries later.�
MACR 3022,
31971 (MSN 7085) Accepted by USAAF 7Jan44. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 8Jan44. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great
Falls, MT 12Jan44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 23Jan44.
Air Transport Command. On ferry flight RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland, force landed with fuel exhaustion at Rineanna Airport, Shannon, Eire 8Feb44.
Departed later same day and landed at Nutts Corner (Station 235), Belfast, Northern Ireland.
570th Bomb Squadron [DI*F], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 9Feb44.
Named "Twenty-One Or Bust" artwork of the King and Ace of Spades.
(first combat mission 24Feb44}. Battle damaged on a mission to the
Messerschmitt factory at Augsburg, Germany 13Apr44 (1KIA:1WIA:8RTD).
Encountered heavy flak over Augsburg, and later over Brussels. Belgium, as it made the journey
back to England. The pilot was killed and The engineer/top turret gunner wounded. Failed to
return from a mission to the railway marshalling yards at Li�ge, Belgium 11May44 (2KIA:8POW).
The bomber had strayed off course and ended taking two direct flak hits over a Luftwaffe
airfield near the Belgian city of Turnhout. Both the pilot and the co-pilot were killed in the
initial impact. The other eight airmen were able to bail out before the plane crashed at
Hultens Broek, two miles north of Gilze en Rijen, Netherlands. {20 missions}.
31972 (MSN 7086) Accepted by USAAF 7Jan44. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Jan44. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 21Jan44.
526th Bomb Squadron [LF*F], 379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117),
Huntingdonshire 22Feb44. 527th Bomb Squadron [FO*F]. Named "Game Cock". Failed to return from a
mission to Osnabr�ck, Germany 13May44 (9POW). Shot down by enemy fighters,
crash landed Beldringe airfield, Funen, Denmark
31973 (MSN 7087) Accepted by USAAF 7Jan44. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Jan44. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 24Jan44.
562nd Bomb Squadron [E], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 5Feb44
Named "Little Joe" . {first combat mission 29Feb44}. Battle damaged on a mission
to a railway marshalling yard at Li�ge, Belgium 25May44. Meagre flak was encountered
crossing the French coast in the Le Tr�port area but very accurate flak at Poix-de-Picardie,
France. On return force landed at RAF Manston, Kent. Battle damaged during a mission to the
Braunkohle Benzin A.G. synthetic oil refinery at Rothensee, Magdeburg, Germany 20Jun44.
Flak over the target was intense and accurate. Participated in an Operation Frantic II shuttle
mission to the Braunkohle-Benzin AG synthetic oil refinery at Schwarzheide, Ruhland,
Germany 21Jun44. After the target, the bomber continued east and landed at Poltava
(Station 559), Ukraine. Destroyed on the ground by a major German strike force night
of 21/22Jun44. {34 missions}. Salvaged 2Jul44.
31974 (MSN 7088) Accepted by USAAF 7Jan44. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 8Jan44. 4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal
Airport, TN 23Jan44. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 24Jan44. 570th Bomb Squadron [DI*G],
390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 5Feb44. Named "Bomboogie"�
(first combat mission 24Feb44}. Battle damaged on mission to the Rheinmetall Borsig
armaments factory at D�sseldorf, Germany 9Sep44 (1WIA:8RTD). A minute before the bombs
were released over the target, anti-aircraft guns unleashed intense flak that completely
engulfed the Group; the co-pilot was wounded. {final combat mission 10Mar45}.
{96 missions + 6 Chowhound}. Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing),
Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 3Jul45. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 4Jul45.
5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 5Jul45. 4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air
Technical Service Command), South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 6Jul45. Declared excess 23Oct45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage
and disposal 30Nov45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
31975 (MSN 7089) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Jan44.
Bendix Corporation, Bendix Field, South Bend, IN 23Jan44. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 24Jan44.
510th Bomb Squadron [TU*O], 351st Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 22Feb44.
Named "Queen Of The Air". Failed to return from a mission to the railway marshalling yards at
Ludwigshafen and Mannheim, Germany 27May44 (8KIA:1POW:1EVD). Shot down by enemy fighters,
crashed La Maxerelle, near Bas-sur-Meurthe Clefey in the Voges mountains, six miles north of
Gerardmer, west of Colmar, France. {29 missions}.
31976 (MSN 7090) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 12Jan44. Roswell Field, NM 20Jan44. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 26Dec44. 3010th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized,
Four Engine), Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 20Jan45. 3020th Base Unit (Pilot School, Advanced,
Two Engine), La Junta Field, CO 23Apr45. 2114th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized,
Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 25Jun45. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 18Aug45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for
storage and disposal 9Nov45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting
Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
31977 (MSN 7091) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY
12Jan44. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 26Jan44. 332nd Bomb Squadron [XM*Q],
94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 5Feb44.
Named "Flak Queen" aks "Filthy Hag". Failed to return from a mission
to the Messerschmitt factory at Augsburg, Germany 13Apr44 (10INT). Damaged by heavy
flak over Augsburg, force landed D�bendorf, Z�rich, Switzerland
31978 (MSN 7092) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 12Jan44. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 22Jan44. Caribbean Wing,
Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 13Feb44.
Ferried from Menara Airport, Marrakech, French Morocco to Valley (Station 568),
Anglesey, Wales 22/23Feb44. 326th Bomb Squadron [JW*Q], 92nd Bomb Group,
Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 2Mar44, named "Dottie G 2nd". .
Failed to return from a mission to an aero engine factory at Munich, Germany 16Jul44
(8POW:1KIA). Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Ebersbach, Germany. MACR 7571.
31979 MSN 7093) Accepted by USAAF 10Jan44. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 11Jan44. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 23Jan44. 423rd Bomb Squadron [RD*U],
306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 22Feb44. Failed to return from a
mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factory at Augsburg, Germany 25Feb44 (1KIA:9POW).
Shot down by enemy fighters. Crashed Kuppenheimer Forest, near Landau, Germany. {1 mission}.
MACR 3767.
31980 (MSN 7094) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Jan44.
Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 23Jan44. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison
Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 14Feb44. Ferried to Aguadilla, Puerto Rico
[Borinquen Field], Atkinson Field, Georgetown, British Guiana and Val de C�es Field,
Bel�m, Brasil. Damaged landing at Val de C�es Field, Bel�m, Brasil 6Feb44. Ferried
from Menara Airport, Marrakech, French Morocco to St Mawgan (Station 512),
Cornwall 24/25Mar44. 532nd Bomb Squadron [VE*J], 381st Bomb Group,
Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 26May44. Failed to return from a mission to motor
industry targets in Berlin, Germany 21Jun44 (2KIA:7POW). Shot down by enemy
fighters, crashed NE of Schonhauser, seventeen miles northwest of Prenzlau, Germany.
{4 missions}. MACR 5990.
31981 (MSN 7095) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Jan44.
Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 25Jan44. Ferried from Menara Airport, Marrakech, French Morocco
to Valley (Station 568), Anglesey, Wales 19Feb44. 350th Bomb Squadron [LN*E], 100th Bomb Group,
Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 6Feb44. Crash landed Honington (Station 375),
Suffolk 15May44. Salvaged 1st Strategic Air Depot, Troston (Station 595), Suffolk
31982 (MSN 7096) Accepted by USAAF 10Jan44. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great
Falls, MT 12Jan44. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 14Jan44. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 21Jan44. 322nd Bomb Squadron [LG*S],
91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 24Feb44.
Named "Superstitious Aloysius" the name of a popular cartoon character.
Chosen from a good luck card sent to a crew member. Battle damaged on a mission to a Luftwaffe
airfield at Oldenburg, Germany 8Apr44 (2WIA:8RTD). The 91st Bomb Group was the last group
over the target and took very heavy flak. Just after bomb release an 88mm shell exploded near No.3 engine
and the propeller could not be feathered. At the same time it shorted out the electrical controls for the
wheels and flaps, causing both to fully extend. Before the crew could crank them up manual1y, the
bomber found itself alone over Oldenburg, the very last bomber in the area. Flak crews began to take
pot shots at it and succeeded in knocking out the supercharger on No.2 engine and putting over 200
holes in the fuselage, wings, and nose. Both the navigator and bombardier received minor wounds.
The radio operator succeeded in contacting Air-Sea Rescue before the plane lost too much altitude.
Consequently, fighters were directed to escort the bomber out of enemy territory. For a while it appeared
that the plane would have to ditch in the IJsselmeer due to loss of altitude and difficulty in transferring fuel.
However, the fuel problem was solved and No.2 engine provided more power at low altitude, so the
decision was made to try for the North Sea. British Air-Sea Rescue set a course for the plane to
follow. Soon the reason became apparent as rescue boats were spotted all the way across the sea.
Finally, the bomber landed safely back at Bassingbourn, about forty-five minutes after the main group
had landed. Battle damaged on a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Metz, France 25Apr44. Battle damaged
on a tactical mission to coastal defences at Houlgate, France 5Jun44. Failed to return from a mission to an
oil refinery at Mockau, Leipzig, Germany 20Jul44 (3KIA:6POW). When the Luftwaffe decided to pick off
the 91st Bomb Group there were no friendly fighters in the area to defend it. As the formation drew close
to Leipzig, wave after wave of German fighters attacked. The plane survived the initial attack, although
sustaining some damage. Then a further attack destroyed No.2 engine and set the left wing on fire.
The pilot pulled out of the formation and ordered his crew to bail out. A section of right wing broke
off as the plane lost altitude rapidly while the pilot struggled to keep it in the air long enough for a
mortally wounded airman to bail out. Finally the plane blew up, hurling the pilot free. Crashed
Ruppertsgr�n, Germany. {11 missions}. 6 POW, 3 KIA (one by German civilians).
MACR 7282.
31983 MSN 7097) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Jan44.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 28Jan44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME 18Feb44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Grenier Field (Station 16),
Manchester, NH 2Mar44. 615th Bomb Squadron [IY*G], 401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128),
Northamptonshire 7Mar44. Named "Mary Alice" . 613th Bomb Squadron [IN*G]. Battle damaged on a
mission to Munich 13Jul44 when cannon shells severely damaged the right stabiliser and killed
the tail gunner (1KIA). {58 missions}. Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing),
Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 6Jun45. 4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service
Command), South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 9Jun45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage
Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 7Nov45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped.
[44-83735 is preserved and on display at the American Air Museum, Duxford, England in the markings
of 42-31983 as flown by the 615th Bomb Squadron, 401st Bomb Group based at Deenethorpe in
Northamptonshire, England 1944. MARY ALICE]
31984 (MSN 7098) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Jan44.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 18Jan44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Grenier Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 1Feb44. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik,
Iceland to Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland 23Feb44. 327th Bomb Squadron [UX*U],
92nd Bomb Group, Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 2Mar44. 407th Bomb Squadron [PY*U]
Named "Berlin Special". Accident departing for a mission to Munich, Germany 11Jul44.
Flying at 15,000ft southwest of Watford, Hertfordshire during formation assembly, the oxygen
exploded starting a fire. The pilot ordered the crew to bail out and then turned the plane towards
the North Sea. With the plane on autopilot, the pilot left his seat to check that his crew had
gone before bailing out. He was suddenly aware that the roar of the fire had stopped, presumably
because the oxygen had been burnt off. Beating out some small residual fires and with the panic
over, he regained his seat and started to look for somewhere to land. The bomber was still
near London and had a full bomb load. The pilot spotted an airfield with some B-17s parked
and approach to land. Warned off by red flares the plane regained altitude while the pilot
inspected the aircraft. Finding nothing wrong, he started an approach to a Martin B-26 Marauder
airfield. On touchdown there was a screeching sound; the ball turret guns had been left pointing
straight down so that the gunner could exit. Failed to return from a mission to the manufacturing
facilities of the Junkers Flugzeug-und Motorenwerke at Dessau, Germany 20Jul44 (4POW:5EVD).
Damaged by flak and with two engines shut down, crashed Leopoldsburg, Belgium
31985 (MSN 7099) Accepted by USAAF 10Jan44. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 13Jan44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 28Jan44.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Grenier Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 20Feb44.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 22Feb44.
570th Bomb Squadron [DI*P], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 27Feb44.
Named "Devil's Aces" {first combat mission 18Mar44}. Battle damaged on a
mission to the Heinkel Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory at Oranienburg, Germany 18Apr44 (1WIA:9RTD).
The bombers arrived over Oranienburg to find the town covered by a thick undercast.
Forced to decide between abandoning the mission or bringing the formation down under the clouds,
the air leader had the planes drop down to 17,000ft in order to make their attack run. The bomber
encountered intense flak over Oranienburg, wounding a waist gunner. Battle damaged on a
mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Athies, Laon, France 9May44 (1WIA:9RTD). The bombardier
was wounded. Failed to return from a mission to the Braunkohle Benzin A.G. synthetic oil
refinery at Rothensee, Magdeburg, Germany 28May44 (7KIA:3POW). Flak in the target area was
moderate, the formation encountered a large force of single and twin-engine Luftwaffe fighters
over the city, which proceeded to cause considerable damage to the bombers. Attacked by enemy
fighters causing heavy damage. Part of the vertical stabiliser was shot away. Crashed near
Lostau, six miles northeast of Magdeburg, Germany. {18 missions}. MACR 5258.
31986 MSN 7100) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 134Jan44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 22Jan44. North
Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 16Jan44.
349th Bomb Squadron [XR*M], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 27Feb44
Named "Once in a While" aka "Boomerang".
Battle damaged on a tactical mission to front line strong points around Metz and Thionville,
France 9Nov44. Complete undercast prevented the group from conducting a visual run
on the targets, and the formation diverted to the rail marshalling yards at Saarbr�cken,
Germany. Flak over the target was moderate and accurate. Force landed on the continent.
MACR 99933. Salvaged Dec 8, 1944.
31987 (MSN 7101) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Jan44.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 22Jan44. 3rd Ferrying Group,
Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 23Feb44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Grenier Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 28Feb44. 350th Bomb Squadron [LN*A],
100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 10Mar44. 418th Bomb Squadron [LD*D].
Named "Shilaylee/ The Little Skipper]. Failed to return from a mission to the
Rhenania-Ossag Mineral�lwerke oil refinery at Harburg, Hamburg, Germany 31Dec44 (6POW:3KIA).
The formation had run through heavy flak to drop their bombs, then turned to head out over the
North Sea back to England. It was attacked by German fighters al 22,000ft. The pilots fought to
remain in formation so that they could use each other's guns to defend the group. The pilot of this
B-17 saw a plane ahead of him burst into flames and slide out. He moved his plane forward to fill
in the gap and felt an impact. The big bomber shuddered and began losing altitude. The pilot
knew that he had collided with another plane, B-17G, 43-38457. The top turret of #457 was now
locked in the lower fuselage of #987 and the ball turret in #987 had smashed through the top of #457.
The two bombers were almost aligned, the tail of the lower plane was slightly to the left of the upper
plane's tail. Three of the engines on the bottom plane were still running as were all four of the upper.
The fourth engine on the lower bomber was on fire and the flames were spreading to the rest of
the aircraft. The two were losing altitude quickly. The pilot of #987 tried several times to break
free of the other plane but they were inextricably locked together. Fearing a fire, the pilot of #987
cut his engines and rang the bailout bell. lf his crew had any chance of parachuting, he had to
keep the plane under control. The ball turret gunner was trapped inside the fuselage of the
lower plane, unable to rotate the turret to exit. The pilot ordered his co-pilot to jump but he
wouldn't; he realised that it would take the strength of both of them to maintain any control.
In the cockpit, they held firmly to the controls. The ground came up faster and faster and they
slammed into the ground. The lower plane exploded, vaulting #987 upward and forward. It hit the
ground and slid along until its left wing slammed through a German headquarters wooden building
and came to a stop. The nose of the plane was relatively intact, but everything from the wings back
was destroyed. Crashed at R�stringen, Wangerooge, East Frisian island, Germany. MACR 11550
31988 (MSN 7102) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Jan44.
Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 26Feb44. 510th Bomb Squadron [TU*C], 351st Bomb Group, Polebrook
(Station 110), Northamptonshire 30Mar44. Named "The Blonde Bomber" Crashed taking off for a
training mission 22Apr44 (4KIS). Lost No.2 engine, then the co-pilot feathered No.1 propeller in error
causing aircraft to crash at Hemington, Northants. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton (Station 547),
Huntingdonshire. {3 missions}. Salvaged 24Apr44
31989 (MSN 7103) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Jan44.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 22Feb44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Grenier Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 25Feb44. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik,
Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 3Mar44. 336th Bomb Squadron [ET*B],
95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 27Feb44 Named *Black Magic*
(not painted on aircraft) Accident returning from an aborted mission to Ludwigshafen,
Germany 1Apr44. The landing gear would not lower and the bomber was diverted to
crash land at Honington (Station 375), Suffolk. 1st Strategic Air Depot, Troston (Station 595), Suffolk.
Regained by Group 19May44. Participated in an Operation Frantic V shuttle mission to the
Flugzeugwerk Gotenhafen Kurt Kannenberg AG Focke Wulf assembly works at Rahmel, Gdynia,
Poland 6Aug44. After the target, the bomber continued east and landed at Poltava (Station 559),
Ukraine. Operated a mission to an oil refinery at Trzebinia, Poland 7Aug44, returning to Ukraine.
Operated a mission to an airfield at Buz?u, Rumania 8Aug44, continuing on to Foggia #1, Celone,
Italy, a Fifteenth Air Force base in southern Italy. Returned to England on a mission to a Luftwaffe
airfield at Francazal, Toulouse, France 12Aug44. Participated in an Operation Frantic VII mission
to drop supplies to the resistance forces in Warsaw, Poland 18Sep44. After the target, the bomber
continued east and landed at Poltava (Station 559), Ukraine. Damaged on the ground by a German
strike force night of 18/19Sep44. Returned to England Oct44. Failed to return from a mission
to the railway marshalling yards at Munich, Germany 25Feb45 (9INT). About eight minutes from
the target at an altitude of about 6'000 meters, engine number four was hit by anti-aircraft fire
and started to disintegrate. The plane quickly lost altitude and veered off towards Colmar, France.
In the middle of heavy anti-aircraft fire, part of the nose was shot off and the wing tips were
also shot to pieces. It received a direct hit to engine number three and had to be shut down
immediately. The oxygen tanks were also hit. When it had a big hole in the radio room, the crew
prepared for an emergency landing. The radio tray had been hit, engine number two was on
fire and the wings were also burning when the order came to bail out. The bomber flew over
Hitzkirch, Switzerland and on towards Villmergen in the north. The crew bailed out between
Schongau and H�mikon, southwest of Z�rich after which it changed course and, pilotless
flew back over Richensee at low altitude to crash land in a forest on the west side of the
Baldeggersee, Switzerland. The right wing struck some fruit trees and the plane came to rest,
with its back broken, in a lumber yard on the edge of the Erlosen forest at St�fligen. {75 missions}.
The wreck was salvaged the following week and taken to the Hitzkirch railway station in military trucks.
31990 (MSN 7104) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 10Jan44. 535th Bomb Squadron [MS*R], 381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell
(Station 167), Essex 6Apr44. Named *Stage Door Canteen*. The London Stage Door
Canteen opened at Piccadilly, London on the same lines as similar organisations in America,
and which was solely for the use of the United Nations Armed Forces. In conjunction with the
new canteen a Flying Fortress was christened on April 21, 1944 by subaltern Mary Churchill
Soames [the youngest daughter of the Prime Minister], who smashed a bottle of Champagne
on the chin turret guns and named it "Stage Door Canteen". Other well known people attended t
he ceremony, including Vivian Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Alfred Lunt, and a representative
of The Royal Air Force. (113 missions}. Returned to US May45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 26Feb46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped. .
31991 (MSN 7105) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 13Jan44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 31Jan44. North
Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Grenier Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 22Feb44.
351st Bomb Squadron [EP*D], 100th Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110),
Northamptonshire 1Mar44. Named "Fever Beaver". Transferred to 350th BS, 100th BG at Thorpe
Abbotts, named "Miss Chief". Flew 122 missions. Damaged in a collision with parked B-17G 43-38681
while taxying at Thorpe Abbotts 14May45. During taxy, the hydraulic system failed when an
electrical short blew a fuse to the pump. Operation of the brakes depleted the hydraulic pressure
and the pilot's attempt to control the aircraft with engine power caused the tail wheel
shear pin to shear. Losing control of the aircraft, a wing tip struck the parked B-17G,
swinging the aircraft around into it head on. Salvaged 30Jul45.
31992 (MSN 7106) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Jan44.
Dalhart Field, TX 29Jan44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle
Field, ME 29Feb44. 92nd Bomb Group. 334th Bomb Squadron [BG*P], 95th Bomb Group,
Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 1Mar44. Named "Mirandy". Participated in an Operation
Frantic V shuttle mission to the Flugzeugwerk Gotenhafen Kurt Kannenberg AG Focke Wulf
assembly works at Rahmel, Gdynia, Poland 6Aug44. After the target, the bomber continued
east and landed at Poltava (Station 559), Ukraine. Operated a mission to an airfield at Buz?u,
Rumania 8Aug44, continuing on to Foggia #1, Celone, Italy, a Fifteenth Air Force base in
southern Italy. Returned to England on a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Francazal, Toulouse,
France 12Aug44. Failed to return from a mission to the I.G. Farben synthetic fuel works at P�litz,
Prussia 25Aug44 (9INT). Badly damaged by flak with several crew members seriously wounded.
Escorted by Swedish fighters and force landed at S�vde, Sweden. {54 missions}. Returned to UK 30Jun45.
Salvaged 12Oct45
31993 ((MSN 7107) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 13Jan44. Dalhart Field, TX 28Jan44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME 29Feb44. 334th Bomb Squadron [BG*F], 95th Bomb Group,
Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 3Mar44. Named *Genril oop/Lil Brat*. Failed to return
from a mission to Freidrichshafen, Germany 24Apr44 (9INT:1KIA), No.1 engine was out, No.2
engine was leaking oil fast and the bomb doors stuck open, force landed D�bendorf, Z�rich,
Switzerland. {12 missions}. Salvaged 12Oct45
31994 (MSN 7108) Training Command, Seattle, WA 13Jan44. 3715th Base Unit, Factory School, Lockheed
Aircraft Corporation, Lockheed Field, Burbank, CA 13Aug44. 3701st Base Unit (Technical School),
Amarillo Field, TX 7Sep45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41,
Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 28Dec45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
31995 (MSN 7109) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Jan44.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 28Jan44. 327th Bomb Squadron [UX*M],
92nd Bomb Group, Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 23Mar44. Named *Heavens Above* .
Failed to return from a mission to the oil refinery at Sindelfingen, Stuttgart, Germany 13Sep44 (9INT),
force landed D�bendorf, Z�rich, Switzerland. Returned to US. 1377th Base Unit (North Atlantic
Wing, Air Transport Command), Grenier Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 28Sep45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 2Jan46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
31996 (MSN 7110) Accepted by USAAF 10Jan44. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Jan44. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 14Jan44.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 23Jan44. 561st Bomb Squadron [E],
388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 8Feb44 Named "Lady Lylian/War Weary"..
{first combat mission 20Feb44}. Battle damaged on a mission to the Luftwaffe airfield at Achmer,
Germany 8Apr44 (1WIA:9RTD). There was accurate flak over the target, wounding the ball turret gunner.
Battle damaged on a mission to a railway marshalling yard at Li�ge, Belgium 25May44.
Meagre flak was encountered crossing the French coast in the Le Tr�port area but very accurate
flak at Poix-de-Picardie, France. Battle damaged during a mission to the Braunkohle Benzin A.G.
synthetic oil refinery at Rothensee, Magdeburg, Germany 20Jun44. Flak over the target was
intense and accurate. Battle damaged on a tactical mission to the front lines at Saint-L�,
France 25Jul44. The bomb load consisted of fragmentation bombs, one of which hit the bomb
bay catwalk. It exploded under the plane, split a control cable and blew out the tailwheel. Flak put
one hundred holes in the plane. On landing back at Knettishall the flat tail wheel caused the plane
to ground loop off the runway. Battle damaged on a mission to the Daimler-Benz tank assembly
works at Marienfelde, Berlin, Germany 6Aug44. Moderate to intense barrage and tracking flak
was encountered over the target. Battle damaged on a mission to the Braunkohlen Benzin AG
synthetic oil refinery northeast of Zeitz, Germany 16Aug44. Intense accurate flak was
encountered at the target. Battle damaged on a mission to the I.G. Farben synthetic fuel works
at P�litz, Prussia 25Aug44. Intense and accurate flak was encountered at the target, wounding
the co-pilot. Damaged landing at Knettishall 14Sep44. Battle damaged during a mission to an oil
refinery at Mittelfeld, Kassel, Germany 18Oct44 (9RTD). A secondary target, the Henschel und
Sohn Works #2, was attacked. Flak over the target was meagre but the formation encountered
accurate flak at Koblenz. Because of strong headwinds, the aircraft landed in Belgium with
fuel exhaustion. Returning later to base, the plane made a forced landing at RAF Manston, Kent.
Left wing replaced and returned to Group Nov44. Failed to return from a mission to the
ThyssenKrupp benzol works at Bruckhausen, Duisburg, Germany 6Nov44 (9RTD). After bomb
release over the target the aircraft was damaged by flak. There was an explosion by the No.3 engine.
The engine oversped immediately and there were a number of large flak holes in the wing by the engine.
The cockpit filled with black smoke. The electrical system was damaged, including all radios, and it
was impossible to feather No.3 engine or in any way stop it from overspeeding. Vibrations
in the plane were terrific. The windows came open. It was nearly impossible to keep the throttles on.
The aircraft couldn't hold altitude or airspeed and dropped from 27,000 to 17,000ft in a matter of
seconds. Then No.4 engine oversped and couldn't be feathered. The vibration died down and the
pilot was able to gain control of the plane. The aircraft had left the formation and took a heading
which would be shortest to allied territory. Flak hit the chin turret ammunition and knocked
off half the chin turret. It hit the right nose gun ammunition box, setting off six rounds of
ammunition which grazed the bombardier. The box was split open spreading shells all over the nose.
There was a big hole in the Plexiglas nose causing more drag. Flak burst in the runway under the
pilot's seat, knocking loose the armor plate. More flak made a huge hole in the right stabiliser
and set off ammunition in the tail gunner's compartment. The plane was in a 30 degree bank,
right wing up, which was necessary to hold a course. All armor plate and other equipment had been
thrown overboard and the crew was trying to get rid of the ball turret, but didn't have enough
time left for that. The ball turret gunner bailed out at 3,000ft. All the others went back to the radio
room and prepared for a crash landing. The bomber crash landed in a cabbage patch near
Gosselies, Belgium, where another Fortress had crash landed about a month before. The guards
from the other Fortress came running up. The landing was smooth, considering the terrain. Everyone
in the radio room got out easily, but the pilots had difficulty. {78 missions}. Salvaged 6Nov44
31997 (MSN 7111) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Jan44.
Adams Field, Little Rock, AR 23Jan44. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 25Jan44. Ferried from Menara Airport,
Marrakech, French Morocco to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 16Feb44. 360th Bomb Squadron [PU*F],
303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 22Feb44. Failed to return from a
mission to an oil refinery at Hamburg, Germany 20Jun44 (9POW). Flak damaged two engines, crash
landed near Piekas, Nordholz, thirteen miles southwest of Cuxhaven, Germany. {25 missions)
31998 (MSN 7112) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Jan44. Offutt Field,
Omaha, NB 1Feb44. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 4Feb44. 483rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, FL.
Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 4Mar44. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport
Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 8Mar44. Ferried South Atlantic route
Waller Field, Trinidad: Bel�m, Brasil: Natal, Brasil: Dakar, Senegal; Menara Airport, Marrakech,
French Morocco: Tunisia. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 815th Bomb Squadron, 483rd Bomb Group,
Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 28Mar44. {nil missions}. 347th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group,
Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 31Mar44. Participated in the first Operation Frantic shuttle mission
to the railway marshalling yards at Debrecen, Hungary 2Jun44. After the target, the bomber
continued east and landed at a Russian airfield near Poltava (Station 559), Ukraine. Operated a
mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Gala?i, Rumania 6Jun44, returning to Poltava. Returned to base in Italy
on a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Foc?ani, Rumania 11Jun44. Failed to return from a mission to
railway marshalling yards at Vinkovci, Croatia, Yugoslavia 2Jul44. Mechanical failure with two engine
superchargers. Crashed Sarajevo, Bosnia, Yugoslavia. {35 missions}. Named BARAZ TWINS
31999 (MSN 7113) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Jan44.
Dalhart Field, TX 28Jan44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 22Feb44. North Atlantic
Wing, Air Transport Command, Grenier Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 25Feb44.
412th Bomb Squadron, 95th Bomb Group 27Feb44. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 3Mar44. 412th Bomb Squadron [QW*X], 95th Bomb Group,
Horham (Station 119), Suffolk Mar44. Named "Chicken Ship/The Pickwickian".
Damaged taxying at Horham 2Jun44. Participated in an Operation Frantic V shuttle mission to the
Flugzeugwerk Gotenhafen Kurt Kannenberg AG Focke Wulf assembly works at Rahmel, Gdynia,
Poland 6Aug44. Battle damaged during the mission, the bomber continued east and landed
at Poltava (Station 559), Ukraine. {34 missions). . Repaired. . Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 815th Bomb
Squadron, 483rd Bomb Group, Sterparone, Foggia, Italy 20Dec44. Salvaged 7Feb45.
United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) 30Apr47. 10th Headquarters and Base Service Squadron,
Oberpfaffenhofen, Munich, Germany. Reclaimed 1Dec47. Named KING SALVO
32000 (MSN 7114) Accepted by USAAF 11Jan44. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Jan44. Dalhart Field, TX 26Jan44. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 22Feb44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Grenier Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 24Feb44. 524th Bomb Squadron [WA*P],
379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 27Feb44. Nmed "Mojo/twentieth Century".
was Gee-H pathfinder aircraft. Lost 2 engines to flak over
France Jul 4, 1944. When third engine began to lose power,
bellylanded in field at Felpham, England. Aircraft ended up
in back garden of No 18 Downview Road with wingtip within six
feet of back door of house. Two crew members had been slightly
injured. Pilot took tea with the lady of the house. 25 years
later to the day (Jul 4, 1969) he returned to take tea with her
again.
32001 (MSN 7115) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Jan44.
Dalhart Field, TX 28Jan44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 22Feb44. New Castle AAB,
Wilmington, DE 25Feb44. Drew Field, Tampa, FL 9Apr44. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 11Apr44. 326th Bomb Squadron [NV*N], 92nd Bomb Group,
Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 23Apr44. Crashed on takeoff from Podington for a mission
and burned out 20May44 (10KIS). 36 planes were scheduled to take off in groups of 12 each
starting just before daylight. The fog was so bad they walked along the side of the planes to the
runway. The pilots took off by 'stop watch' every 30 seconds. The high group was successfully
airborne and the lead group started taking off. B-17G 42-32001 was the 7th in this group. Apparently
its tail wheel unlocked during roll off and the B-17 veered off the runway. The pilot attempted to get
corrected and pulled back onto the runway, but just as it began to get airborne, the bomber struck
part of a concrete wall, and then crashed just beyond the edge of the runway. The B-17's load of bombs d
etonated, killing all the crew aboard. The next B-17 in line, 42-37934, had begun its run but stopped
approximately half way down the runway, apparently having seen the red warning flares fired by the
runway controller and heard the radio order from the control tower to stop takeoff. The pilot turned
his plane around and started back up the runway, but the following bomber in line, B-17G 42-97489
did not stop its run. Presumably the pilot could not see the flares through the low hanging fog, and when
he did see the other Fortress, it was far too late. The aircraft collided head on and burst into flames.
Five crew members managed to escape from each plane, all being near the rear, before the first of five
terrific explosions began, about three minutes after the collision. The final explosion was the aircraft
which had been the first to crash. All aircraft were carrying 6x 1000lb GP bombs. Eleven officers and
nine enlisted men were killed out right, and one officer died the following day. Four enlisted men were
severely injured, and the five other midly injured. The three aircraft were completely destroyed
32002 (MSN 7116) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Jan44.
242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB 30Jan44. 335th Bomb Squadron [OE*X],
95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 11Feb44. Named "Berlin First". . Failed to return from
a mission to industrial areas in the suburbs of Berlin, Germany 6Mar44 (10POW). Enemy aircraft
damaged engines No.3 & No.4, then No.2 caught fire. The crew bailed out and the bomber crashed near
Barnsdorf, near the rail track to Bremen, Germany. {9 missions}
32003 (MSN 7117) Accepted by USAAF 11Jan44. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 14Jan44. Dalhart Field, TX 26Jan44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 22Feb44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 24Feb44.
Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 3Mar44.
385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk Mar44. {nil missions}. Transferred to
561st Bomb Squadron [T], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk Mar44.
Named "Shoo Shoo Baby"--a popular song made famous by the Andrews Sisters.
{first combat mission 23Apr44}. Failed to return from a mission to an aviation industry at
Krepinki, Poland 11Apr44 (10KIA). As the formation approached the enemy coast near Stettin,
it became apparent that visual bombing was impossible, because of weather conditions.
It was decided to attack their secondary target, the Heinkel Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory
at Marienehe, Rostock, Germany. En route to the target, a force of enemy fighters attacked.
Just after bomb release over Rostock, the formation was attacked by a smaller force of fighters.
An enemy fighter shot off part of the vertical stabiliser. The aircraft stayed in the formation a
few minutes, then dove down and crashed into the water. Crashed in the Baltic Sea, off Rostock,
Germany. {7 missions}. .� MACR 3774.
32004 (MSN 7118) Accepted by USAAF 12Jan44. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Jan44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 23Jan44. 560th Bomb Squadron [B], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall
(Station 136), Suffolk 9Feb44. Named "Pride O The Yanks" {first combat mission 24Feb44)
Battle damaged on a a mission to the Heinkel Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory at Oranienburg,
Germany 9Mar44 (10RTD). Flak was meagre en route over Amsterdam, D�mmer See, and
Nienburg. Over Berlin, the flak was intense and accurate. Damaged by flak, the plane force
landed on return at RAF Beccles, Ellough, Suffolk. Battle damaged on a mission to railway
facilities around Berlin, Germany 29Apr44. The combat wing was off course heading to Berlin,
attacked by enemy fighters and bombed Magdeburg. Flak over the target was very accurate.
Failed to return from a mission to the Braunkohle Benzin A.G. synthetic oil refinery at Rothensee,
Magdeburg, Germany 20Jun44 (1MIA:2KIA:7POW). During the bomb run, the aircraft received
severe flak damage. The pilot turned back to England, feathered the propellers on the failed
left engines No.1 and 2, then lost oil pressure and power on right wing No.3 engine. With only
one engine producing power, it was impossible to hold altitude and he had to ditch in the
North Sea, north of Terschelling, West Frisian Islands. {54 missions}.
32005 (MSN 7119) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 12Jan44.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 28Jan44. 613th Bomb Squadron [IN*M],
401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 7Mar44.
Named "Annie/Command Performance II". . Failed to return from a tactical mission
to bomb enemy troop positions near Saint-L�, France 24Jul44 (1MIA:8RTD), caught fire, the crew
bailed out and the aircraft crashed in the English Channel, crew rescued by British Air-Sea Rescue launch.
{22 missions}.
32006 (MSN 7120) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 14Jan44.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 28Jan44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME 25Feb44. 339th Bomb Squadron [QJ*V], 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath 3Mar44.
Failed to return from a mission to the Luftwaffe airfield at Giebelstadt, Germany 3Oct44; force landed in
France. {85 missions}. Dismantled Jul45 and transported to Paris. Exhibited with other USAAF aircraft
31 July-15 September 1945 at the Exposition USAAF Forces A�riennes des �tats-Unis, Eiffel Tower, Paris,
France. Named as DURATION PLUS for the exposition. Ninth Air Force. Salvaged 15Nov45.
32007 (MSN 7121) Accepted by USAAF 11Jan44. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver
Municipal Airport, CO 15Jan44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 28Jan44.
533rd Bomb Squadron, 381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 21Feb44.
545th Bomb Squadron [JD*T], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106),
Northamptonshire 1Mar44. Failed to return from a mission to industrial areas in the
suburbs of Berlin, Germany 4Mar44 (7POW:1KIA:2EVD). Because of severe weather in the
assembly area, the group diverted to a target at Bonn, Germany. Shot down by flak over the
target and fell out of formation. The pilot was seriously wounded but managed to turn back
to England. By the time the plane reached Belgium the engines were not producing power
and it was out of control. The crew bailed out before the bomber crashed and burned 3km
north of Ransart, 6km north of Charleroi, Belgium. {1 mission}.. 7 crew POW, 2 evaded,
one killed when his chute hit a chimney. MACR 2740.
32008 (MSN 7122) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 15Jan44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 29Jan44. 551st Bomb Squadron [HR*T],
385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 21Feb44 Named "Li'l Audrey".
{first combat mission 6Mar44}. {111 missions}. Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing),
Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 24Jun45. 4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical
Service Command), South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 5Jul45. 237th Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Kirtland Field, Albuquerque, NM 10Dec45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 7Feb46. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped. LI'L AUDREY
32009 (MSN 7123) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 15Jan44.
242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB 29Jan44.
350th Bomb Squadron [LN*X], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 14Feb44.
Named "Buffalo Gal" aka "Black Cat 13"
Failed to return from a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical and synthetic oil works at Leuna,
Merseburg, Germany 28Jul44 (8MIA:1RTD). The aircraft were flying just above the undercast at
9,000ft when this aircraft climbed and struck 42-97621 with its vertical stabiliser. The bomber
broke in half at the waist and fell through the undercast. Aircraft 42-97621 had its left aileron
torn off and the aircraft went into a steep dive with pieces of wreckage falling off. Both aircraft
crashed in the North Sea off Lowestoft, Suffolk. MACR 8174
32010 (MSN 7124) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 15Jan44. 483rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 30Jan44. Hunter Field,
Savannah, GA 4Mar44. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command,
Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 9Mar44. Ferried South Atlantic route Waller Field,
Trinidad: Bel�m, Brasil: Natal, Brasil: Dakar, Senegal; Menara Airport, Marrakech, French Morocco:
Tunisia. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 840th Bomb Squadron, 483rd Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly),
Tortorella, Italy 31Mar44. Sterparone, Foggia, Italy 22Apr44. Failed to return from a mission to the
Dunai Rep�l?g�pgy�r aircraft factory at T�k�l, Budapest, Hungary 30Jul44 (10POW). Damaged
by flak, crashed near BudapesAll (10) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured
and Became POWs. Released in 1945. MACR 7107
32011 (MSN 7125) Accepted by USAAF 12Jan44. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Jan44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 28Jan44. 427th Bomb Squadron [GN*A], 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107),
Huntingdonshire 3Mar44. 562nd Bomb Squadron [J], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk
4Mar44. Named "Peg O My Heart/Sweet Adeline". {first combat mission 26Mar44}. Failed to return
from a Crossbow mission to a German V-weapon site at La Glacerie, Cherbourg, France 8May44
(2MIA:3KIA:5POW). Flak damaged No.2 engine and the plane caught fire. The crew bailed out
but some opened their parachutes too soon and drifted into the English Channel and drowned;
the ball turret gunner was killed when he stepped on a land mine coming on shore.
Crashed in English Channel three miles off Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte, nineteen miles
south of Cherbourg, France. {14 missions}. MACR 4599
32012 (MSN 7126) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 15Jan44.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 28Jan44. 614th Bomb Squadron [IW*P],
401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 5Mar44
Named "Shark Tooth". Damaged while parked at Deenethorpe 11Nov44. {67 missions}.
Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 8Jun45.
4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), South Plains Field,
Lubbock, TX 13Jun45. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI. Damaged in accident with
parked Douglas C-47 41-7839 on the ground at Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 13Jun45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and
disposal 5Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped. .
32013 (MSN 7127) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 15Jan44.
Offutt Field, Omaha, NB 1Feb44. 483rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 5Feb44. Hunter Field,
Savannah, GA 4Mar44. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command,
Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 11Mar44 Ferried South Atlantic route Waller Field,
Trinidad: Bel�m, Brasil: Natal, Brasil: Dakar, Senegal; Menara Airport, Marrakech, French
Morocco: Tunisia. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 817th Bomb Squadron, 483rd Bomb Group, Foggia #2
(Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 30Mar44.. Named OLE MOSE AIN'T DAID [the CO of 817BS
adopted Li'l Abner characters for the Squadron insignia] . {nil missions}. 347th Bomb Squadron,
99th Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 31Mar44. Failed to return from a mission
to the Steyr-Daimler-Puch ball bearing factory at Steyr, Austria 2Apr44 (1KIA:9POW). The aircraft
was hit by anti-aircraft fire over the target area. The pilot had difficulties keeping the plane in
formation and kept falling back. Over the Alps, German fighters swung in on the straggler and
hit the tail, fatally wounding the gunner. The crew bailed out before the plane exploded
and crashed on a farm near Sankt Paul im Lavanttal, south of Wolfsberg, Austria. {1 mission).
MACR 3887
32014 MSN 7128) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 15Jan44.
483rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 4Feb44. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 4Mar44.
15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11),
West Palm Beach, FL 8Mar44. Ferried South Atlantic route Waller Field, Trinidad: Bel�m,
Brasil: Natal, Brasil: Dakar, Senegal; Menara Airport, Marrakech, French Morocco: Tunisia.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 817th Bomb Squadron, 483rd Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly),
Tortorella, Italy 30Mar44. Named PAPPY YOKUM [the CO of 817BS adopted Li'l Abner characters
for the Squadron insignia]. {nil missions}. 347th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group,
Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 31Mar44. Battle damaged on a mission to the railway
marshalling yards at Treviso, Italy 7Apr44 (1KIA:2WIA:7RTD). Flak was heavy and accurate,
damaging the plane, killing a waist gunner and wounding two other gunners. Failed to return
from a mission to the Reggiane aircraft factory at Reggio Emilia, Italy 30Apr44.
Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Bologna, Italy. {14 mission. sMACR 4610
32015 MSN 7129) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 16Jan44.
483rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 3Feb44. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 4Mar44.
15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11),
West Palm Beach, FL 9Mar44. Ferried South Atlantic route Waller Field, Trinidad: Bel�m,
Brasil: Natal, Brasil: Dakar, Senegal; Menara Airport, Marrakech, French Morocco: Tunisia.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 815th Bomb Squadron, 483rd Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly),
Tortorella, Italy 30Mar44. {nil missions}. 416th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group,
Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 31Mar44. Named "Action Preferred"
Participated in the first Operation Frantic shuttle mission to the railway marshalling yards at
Debrecen, Hungary 2Jun44. After the target, the bomber continued east and landed at a Russian
airfield near Poltava (Station 559), Ukraine. Operated a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Gala?i,
Rumania 6Jun44, returning to Poltava. Returned to base in Italy on a mission to a Luftwaffe
airfield at Foc?ani, Rumania 11Jun44. Air Depot 22Sep44. Regained by Group 20Nov44. {final
combat mission 26Apr45}. {108 missions}. Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment
Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 18Jun45. 4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air
Technical Service Command), South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 21Jun45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and
disposal 28Nov45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped.
32016 (MSN 7130) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 15Jan44.
483rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 5Feb44. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 4Mar44.
15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11),
West Palm Beach, FL 12Mar44. Ferried South Atlantic route Waller Field, Trinidad: Bel�m, Brasil:
Natal, Brasil: Dakar, Senegal; Menara Airport, Marrakech, French Morocco: Tunisia. Fifteenth
Air Force, Italy. 817th Bomb Squadron, 483rd Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella,
Italy 30Mar44. {nil missions}. 347th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly),
Tortorella, Italy 31Mar44. Named "Swamp Gal" . Damaged in collision with B-17G 42-97744
while taxying at Tortorella 16Jul44; the right wing chewed into the tail of #744. Failed to return from a
mission to the Sudetenl�ndische Treibstoffwerke AG synthetic oil refinery at Z�lup�, Br�x,
Sudetenland 25Dec44 (2KIA:8POW). The bomber seemed to be ill fated from the beginning.
Long before it reached the target, the ball turret gunner spun his turret around and broke an oxygen
connection; thus the plane lost half of its oxygen supply. During the bombing run the plane was
hit by flak but held course until the bombs were dropped. The number two engine and the
hydraulic system had been knocked out; the number one engine was partially disabled.
Because the hydraulic system was inoperative the bomb bay doors had to be cranked shut by hand.
The propellers of the damaged engines could not be feathered; they kept wind milling and
sometimes caused the whole plane to shudder. The crew knew that they couldn't go back to
base and so a decision was made to head for friendly, Russian, territory. As it went on the
plane was losing altitude and so the crew threw out guns and whatever they could get their
hands on to lighten the load; the ball turret was jettisoned. An enemy fighter joined up and,
from his motions, he wanted the pilot to follow him to his base. The pilot refused because that
would have given the Germans a plane to study. The fighter attacked the bomber which was
now full of holes and on fire. Some of the crew tried to check on the pilot and co-pilot but the
fighter had killed them. The crew bailed out at low level, landing close to their burning
bomber. Crashed near Oslip, Austria. {87 missions}. MACR 10704.
32017 (MSN 7131) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Jan44.
Barksdale Field, Bossier City, LA 4Feb44. 483rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, FL. Hunter Field,
Savannah, GA 4Mar44. 1104th Base Unit (Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command),
Homestead Field, FL 14Mar44. Ferried South Atlantic route Waller Field, Trinidad: Bel�m, Brasil:
Natal, Brasil: Dakar, Senegal; Menara Airport, Marrakech, French Morocco: Tunisia.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 815th Bomb Squadron, 483rd Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly),
Tortorella, Italy 28Mar44. Sterparone, Foggia, Italy 22Apr44. Named "Sweet 17".
Flew more than 100 combat missions
Failed to return from a mission to an oil refinery at Alm�sf�zit?, Hungary 14Mar45 (10POW).
Crashed Mar 14, 1945 at Koprivnica Yugoslavia After Number (4) Engine Failed and Other Mechanical
Problems While Returning From a Mission on The Oil Refinery at Almasfuzito Hungary.
All (10) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs. Released in 1945. MACR 12822.
(144 missions)
32018 (MSN 7132) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY
15Jan44. 242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB 28Jan44.
351st Bomb Squadron [EP*L], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 11Feb44.
Named "Waticare". On an Operation Frantic II shuttle mission to the Braunkohle-Benzin AG
synthetic oil refinery at Schwarzheide, Ruhland, Germany 21Jun44, the aircraft force landed
with fuel exhaustion at Poltava (Station 559), Ukraine. Destroyed on the ground by a major
German strike force night of 21/22Jun44. Salvaged 25Nov45.
32019 (MSN 7133) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Jan44.
242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB 28Jan44.
336th Bomb Squadron [ET*R], 95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 9Feb44.
Failed to return from a mission to the Heinkel Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory at Marienehe,
Rostock, Germany 11Apr44 (1KIA:9POW). Enemy aircraft damaged engine No.1, then No.4
caught fire with a damaged wing. Crashed four miles south of Gnoien, nineteen miles southeast
of Rostock, Germany. {18 missions}MACR 3803.
32020 (MSN 7134) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY
18Jan44. 242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB 31Jan44.
1380th Base Unit (North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command), Presque Isle
Field (Station 2), ME 7Apr44. 331st Bomb Squadron [QE*U], 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468),
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 6Apr44. Named "Belle Of the Brawl II". Failed to return from a mission
to the Braunkohle Benzin AG synthetic oil refinery at B�hlen-R�tha, Leipzig, Germany 7Oct44 (6KIA:3POW).
Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Garnbach, near Wiehe, Germany. MACR 9551
32021 (MSN 7135) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 16Jan44.
Rosecrans Field, Saint Joseph, MO 1Feb44. 483rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 5Feb44.
Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 4Mar44. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air
Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 9Mar44. Ferried South
Atlantic route Waller Field, Trinidad: Bel�m, Brasil: Natal, Brasil: Dakar, Senegal; Menara Airport,
Marrakech, French Morocco: Tunisia. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 840th Bomb Squadron,
483rd Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy Mar44. {nil missions}. 346th Bomb Squadron,
99th Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 31Mar44. Battle damaged during a mission
to the Wiener Neust�dter Flugzeugwerke factory at Wiener Neust�dt, Vienna, Austria 10May44 (1WIA:9RTD
Flak was very intense, accurate and heavy, resulting in damage to the aircraft and injury to the ball
turret gunner. Participated in the first Operation Frantic shuttle mission to the railway marshalling y
ards at Debrecen, Hungary 2Jun44. After the target, the bomber continued east and landed at a
Russian airfield near Poltava (Station 559), Ukraine. Operated a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at
Gala?i, Rumania 6Jun44, returning to Poltava. Returned to base in Italy on a mission to a Luftwaffe
airfield at Foc?ani, Rumania 11Jun44. Accident returning from a recalled combat mission at
Tortorella 21Jun44. With a full bomb load and fuel tanks, on landing, the landing gear collapsed
destroying the ball turret and seriously damaging the fuselage when the ball turret was
forced up into it. {30 missions}. Salvaged
32022 (MSN 7136) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Jan44.
483rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 30Jan44. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 4Mar44.
15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11),
West Palm Beach, FL 5Mar44. Ferried South Atlantic route Waller Field, Trinidad: Bel�m, Brasil:
Natal, Brasil: Dakar, Senegal; Menara Airport, Marrakech, French Morocco: Tunisia.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 483rd Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 15Mar44.
{nil missions}. 49th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy Mar44.
Named "Lonesome Polecat". {first combat mission 29Mar44}. 96th Bomb Squadron 16Apr44.
Failed to return from a mission to �ntreprinderea de Construc?ii Aeronautice aircraft factory at Bra?ov,
Rumania 6May44 (7EVD:3POW). After the bomb run the engines were hit by flak; number
three and four were disabled, number three propeller was windmilling and could not be
feathered, and the number two engine was tearing itself off the wing. Unable to maintain
altitude, the order was given to bail out near Popega, Serbia, Yugoslavia. {21 missions}.
The Germans captured three, the remaining seven were assisted by Chetnik guerillas who
helped them to evade capture; rescued by the Halyard Mission from Pranjani 29May44. MACR 4793
32023 (MSN 7137) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Jan44.
Grandview Field, Kansas City, MO 1Feb44. 483rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 5Feb44.
Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 4Mar44. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport
Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 9Mar44. Ferried South Atlantic
route Waller Field, Trinidad: Bel�m, Brasil: Natal, Brasil: Dakar, Senegal; Menara Airport,
Marrakech, French Morocco: Tunisia. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 815th Bomb Squadron,
483rd Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy Mar44. {nil missions}. 416th Bomb Squadron,
99th Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 31Mar44. Named "Flak Happy".
Battle damaged on a mission to the oil refineries at Ploe?ti, Rumania 23Jun44 (2WIA:8RTD).
Air Depot 5Feb45. {87 missions}. Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing),
Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 6Jun45. 4104th Base Unit (Rome Air Technical Service Command),
Rome Field, NY 28Jun45. Chanute Field, Rantoul, IL 12Oct45. 4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City
Air Technical Service Command), South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 17Dec45. 4136th Base Unit
(Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 8Dec46.
4104th Base Unit (Rome Air Technical Service Command), Rome Field, NY 31Dec46. Reclaimed 19Jun47
32024 (MSN 7138) Accepted by USAAF 13Jan44. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 15Jan44. 242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island
Field, NB 30Jan44. 524th Bomb Squadron [WA*L], 379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117),
Huntingdonshire 20Feb44. Named "Swamp Fire". {first combat mission 21Feb44}.
Participated in the 'Grapefruit' mission to drop GB-1 glide bombs on a railway marshalling yard
at Cologne, Germany 28May44. First B-17 in 379th Bomb Group to reach 100 missions without an abort 1Nov44.
"After a new nose and tail section, a new ball turret, 20 engine changes, three wing replacements
and over 1000 bullet and flak hole patches, there's not much of the original plane left."
" No, there isn't much left of the original Swamp Fire, just the fighting spirit and tradition built into
her and maintained by her ground and combat crewmen. She is an excellent criterion of the greatest
bomber in the European Theater of Operations". Commander 379th USAAF at the 100th Mission
without an abort Celebration. Battle damaged on a mission 11Dec44. A rookie crew was flying this
mission and brought the bomber back in an hour after the rest of the formation. It was so shot up,
flying on one engine with fuel exhaustion and didn't even get to the end of the runway before drifting
off to the side. The pilot was asked why he took such a chance on getting the plane back. Why didn't the
crew bail out over friendly territory or abort the mission?. He said "Hell no, I didn't want to be known
as the one who cost her the record or lost her!" {117 missions}. Declared 'war weary' 12Dec44.
Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire 6Jan45. Reassigned for utility, training and weather check aircraft.
Named THE SCORPION. {30 weather missions}. Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing),
Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 12Jul45. 4185th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service
Command), Independence Field, KS 14Jul45. 4136th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service
Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 16Dec45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 29Dec45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
32025 (MSN 7139) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Jan44.
242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB 30Jan44. Ferried RCAF
Goose Bay, Labrador to Ballyhalbert, County Down, Northern Ireland 13Feb44. 533rd Bomb
Squadron [VP*P], 381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 25Feb44, named "Dreambaby"
{73+ missions}. 34th Bomb Group, Mendelsham (Station 156), Suffolk 9Jun45. total of 100+ missions. Returned to US by
34th Bomb Group crew on Operation Home Run. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing),
Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 23Jun45. 4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical
Service Command), South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 21Oct45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 20Dec45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped.
32026 (MSN 7140) Accepted by USAAF 13Jan44. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 16Jan44. 242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit),
Grand Island Field, NB 30Jan44. 568th Bomb Squadron [BI*E], 390th Bomb Group,
Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 10Feb44. Named "'Tis A Mystery". {first combat mission 23Mar44}.
Battle damaged on a mission to the railway marshalling yards at Hamm, Germany 22Apr44.
Struck by the propeller blades from a Fw 190 probably flown by Unteroffizier Heinz Weber of JG/1.
Participated in an Operation Frantic II shuttle mission to the Braunkohle-Benzin AG synthetic
oil refinery at Schwarzheide, Ruhland, Germany 21Jun44. After the target, the bomber continued
east and landed at Mirgorod (Station 561), Ukraine. The Germans had identified the location
of the USAAF bomber force so the plane was moved to a fighter airfield at Zaporozke, Ukraine 22Jun44.
Ferried to Poltava (Station 559), Ukraine then operated a mission to the oil refinery and railway
marshalling yards at Drohobycz, Poland 26Jun44, continuing on to Foggia #8, Lucera, a Fifteenth
Air Force base in southern Italy. Operated a mission to the railway marshaling yard and repair
shops at Arad, Rumania 3Jul44. Operated a mission to railway marshalling yards at Beziers,
France and landed back at Framlingham 5Jul44. Participated in an Operation Frantic V shuttle
mission to the Flugzeugwerk Gotenhafen Kurt Kannenberg AG Focke-Wulf assembly works at
Rahmel, Gdynia, Poland 6Aug44. After the target, the bomber continued east and landed
at Mirgorod (Station 561), Ukraine. Operated a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Zili?tea,
Rumania 8Aug44, continuing on to a Fifteenth Air Force base in southern Italy. Returned to
England on a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Francazal, Toulouse, France 12Aug44.
Participated in an Operation Frantic VII mission to drop supplies to the resistance forces
in Warsaw, Poland 18Sep44. After the target, the bomber was struck by flak damaging
the tail section and with numerous strikes all over the plane. It continued east and
landed at Mirgorod (Station 561), Ukraine. Repaired and returned to England. Damaged
when the left landing gear collapsed, presumably at Framlingham, date unknown.
Accident departing for a mission to the railway marshalling yards at Kassel, Germany
30Dec44 (9MIA). Believed to have iced up en route to the target and crashed in North Sea. {87 missions}. .
MACR 11247
32027 (MSN 7141) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 18Jan44.
242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB 31Jan44.
427th Bomb Squadron [GN*E], 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107),
Huntingdonshire 1Mar44 Named "Betty Jane" Participated in the 'Grapefruit' mission
to drop GB-1 glide bombs on a railway marshalling yard at Cologne, Germany 28May44.
Failed to return from a mission to the oil refinery at Gera, Germany 13Sep44 (1KIA:8POW).
Damaged by flak and enemy aircraft, crashed Oberhof, south of Gotha, Germany. {86 missions)
MACR 8824
32028 (MSN 7142) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 18Jan44.
483rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 2Feb44. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 4Mar44.
15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11),
West Palm Beach, FL 9Mar44. Ferried South Atlantic route Waller Field, Trinidad: Bel�m, Brasil:
Natal, Brasil: Dakar, Senegal; Menara Airport, Marrakech, French Morocco: Tunisia.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 840th Bomb Squadron, 483rd Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly),
Tortorella, Italy Mar44. {nil missions}. 346th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Foggia #2
(Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 31Mar44. Named "Mighty Mike". Participated in the first Operation
Frantic shuttle mission to the railway marshalling yards at Debrecen, Hungary 2Jun44. After
the target, the bomber continued east and landed at a Russian airfield near Poltava (Station 559),
Ukraine. Operated a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Gala?i, Rumania 6Jun44, returning to
Poltava. Returned to base in Italy on a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Foc?ani, Rumania 11Jun44.
Battle damaged on a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Oberpfaffenhofen, Munich,
Germany 13Jun44 (11RTD). Flak struck and exhausted the oxygen system. The plane had to fly
across the Austrian Alps before descending to a lower altitude; only the pilots had a limited
supply of oxygen. Failed to return from a mission to the oil refineries at Ploe?ti, Rumania 22Jul44
(2KIA:8POW). After the target, the plane developed engine problems and dropped out of formation.
It was then attacked by a flight of enemy fighters and shot down. Crashed near Bucharest,
Rumania. {43 missions}. MACR 6948
32029 (MSN 7143) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 16Jan44.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 19Jan44. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 2Feb44.
483rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 4Feb44. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 4Mar44.
1104th Base Unit (Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command), Homestead Field, FL Mar44.
Ferried South Atlantic route Waller Field, Trinidad: Bel�m, Brasil: Natal, Brasil: Dakar,
Senegal; Menara Airport, Marrakech, French Morocco: Tunisia. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy.
815th Bomb Squadron, 483rd Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 22Mar44.
Sterparone, Foggia, Italy 22Apr44. Named "Miss Treated". Battle damaged on
a mission to the railway marshalling yards at Salzburg, Austria 11Nov44 (1KIA:1WIA:1POW:7RTD).
crashed at Steparone after mission to Salzburg. Bombs were ettisoned into
the Adratic Sea, but one hung up. The plane landed with
a hung 500-lb bomb armed in the bomb bay with one engine dead and
another engine on fire. On landing the plane rolled up runway
matting, skidded and caught fire. Everyone got out before
the bomb blew.
32030 (MSN 7144) Accepted by USAAF 14Jan44. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 17Jan44. 242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit),
Grand Island Field, NB 4Feb44. 561st Bomb Squadron [G], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall
(Station 136), Suffolk 11Feb44. {first combat mission 25Feb44}. Named "Devil's Luck".
Severe battle damage on a mission to the Messerschmitt factory at Augsburg, Germany
13Apr44 (1KIA:1WIA:8RTD). Over the target, intense and accurate flak was experienced.
Enemy fighters attacked from the target until the formation reached the Belgian border.
The pilot was killed by a 20mm cannon shell and the engineer was wounded. Battle
damaged on a mission to the Dornier Flugzeugwerke factory at Lowenthal, Friedrichshafen,
Germany 24Apr44 (1WIA:9RTD). Flak over the target was intense and accurate,
wounding the co-pilot. Battle damaged on a mission to the Sudetenl�ndische
Treibstoffwerke AG synthetic oil refinery at Z�lup�, Br�x, Sudetenland 12May44 (10RTD).
En route to the target, between Koblenz and Frankfurt, the formation was attacked by a
large force of enemy fighters. The PFF aircraft of the Group had a malfunction on the
bomb run, held his bombs, and decided to make a second run. Just as the formation
was about to leave the target area, #030 suffered a direct flak hit and caused the
bombardier to salvo the bombs. On return to England the plane force landed at
Honington (Station 375), Suffolk. 1st Strategic Air Depot, Troston (Station 595),
Suffolk. Regained by Group Jul44. Failed to return from a mission to the Bayerische
Motoren Werke aero engine works at Munich, Germany 31Jul44 (8KIA:1POW).
Damaged by flak just before releasing bombs on the target. The bomber exploded
and crashed over Schleisheim, Germany. {25 missions}. MACR 7744
32031 (MSN 7145) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 19Jan44.
5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 4Feb44. 817th Bomb Squadron, 483rd Bomb Group,
MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 5Feb44. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 4Mar44. 15th Ferrying Group,
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL. Ferried South
Atlantic route Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL departing 10Mar44: Waller Field, Trinidad:
Bel�m, Brasil: Natal, Brasil: Dakar, Senegal; Menara Airport, Marrakech, French Morocco:
Tunisia arriving 22Mar44. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 429th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group,
Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy Mar44. Named MAMMY YOKUM. {first combat mission 30Mar44}.
Took off for a mission to the Wiener Neust�dter Flugzeugwerke factory at Fischamend Markt,
Vienna, Austria 8Apr44. The mission was recalled by 5th Wing headquarters because of bad
weather in the target area. Crash landed with a full load of bombs on landing back at Amendola
because the landing gear was not fully extended. {4 missions}. Salvaged 14Jan46.
32032 (MSN 7146) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 16Jan44.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Lincoln Field, NB 1Feb44. 483rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field,
Tampa, FL 4Feb44. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 4Mar44. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing,
Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 12Mar44.
Ferried South Atlantic route Waller Field, Trinidad: Bel�m, Brasil: Natal, Brasil: Dakar, Senegal;
Menara Airport, Marrakech, French Morocco: Tunisia. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy.
840th Bomb Squadron, 483rd Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy Mar44. {nil missions}.
346th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 31Mar44.
Named "Battlin' Bobby" artwork of a young lady wearing a bikini and boxing gloves.
Participated in the first Operation Frantic shuttle mission to the railway marshalling yards
at Debrecen, Hungary 2Jun44. After the target, the bomber continued east and landed at a
Russian airfield near Poltava (Station 559), Ukraine. Operated a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield
at Gala?i, Rumania 6Jun44, returning to Poltava. Returned to base in Italy on a mission to a Luftwaffe
airfield at Foc?ani, Rumania 11Jun44. {74 missions}. Declared 'war weary'. Reassigned for utility,
training and weather check aircraft 23Nov44 Damaged taxying 19Dec44. Salvaged
32033 (MSN 7147) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 16Jan44.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 19Jan44. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 31Jan44.
483rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 4Feb44. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 4Mar44.
15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11),
West Palm Beach, FL Mar44. Ferried South Atlantic route Waller Field, Trinidad: Bel�m, Brasil:
Natal, Brasil: Dakar, Senegal; Menara Airport, Marrakech, French Morocco: Tunisia.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 816th Bomb Squadron, 483rd Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly),
Tortorella, Italy Mar44. {nil missions}. 347th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group,
Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 31Mar44. Named "Rita Ann". Failed to return from a mission
to an oil refinery at Blechhammer, Prussia 13Oct44 (10POW). The bomber was a 'ground spare'
when the Bomb Group took off for the mission. Two B-17 bombers had trouble and returned to
base. This plane replaced one of the troubled bombers. It had engine problems and was unable
to catch the other planes; therefore, it went over the target almost alone. One of the group planes
fell back to try to protect this plane but it had to give up and go on. This B-17 was severely
damaged by flak which destroyed three of it's four engines,heavily damaged most of the
plane's structure and part of a wing had been torn off. The one good engine could not keep
it high enough to clear the mountains near Puchov, Czechoslovakia, therefore the crew was
ordered to bail out and the abandoned plane crashed in the vicinity of Hronsky Benadik,
Czechoslovakia. {57 missions MACR 9327
32034 (MSN 7148) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 17Jan44. 242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB 30Jan44.
407th Bomb Squadron [PY*W], 92nd Bomb Group, Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 20Feb44.
Failed to return from a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt,
Germany 24Apr44 (7POW:3KIA). Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Rasdorf-Nord, 15 miles
northwest of Cloppenburg, Germany. MACR 2759
32035 (MSN 7149) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 16Jan44.
Grandview Field, Kansas City, MO 1Feb44. 483rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 5Feb44.
Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 4Mar44. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command,
Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 9Mar44. Ferried South Atlantic route Waller Field,
Trinidad: Bel�m, Brasil: Natal, Brasil: Dakar, Senegal; Menara Airport, Marrakech, French Morocco:
Tunisia. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 815th Bomb Squadron, 483rd Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly),
Tortorella, Italy Mar44. {nil missions}. 416th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly),
Tortorella, Italy 31Mar44. Failed to return from a mission to the railway marshalling yards at Ploe?ti,
Rumania 24Apr44 (4KIA:7POW). Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Ploe?ti. {10 missions}
MACR 4390
32036 (MSN 7150) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Jan44.
483rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 5Feb44. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 4Mar44.
15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11),
West Palm Beach, FL 8Mar44. Ferried South Atlantic route Waller Field, Trinidad: Bel�m,
Brasil: Natal, Brasil: Dakar, Senegal; Menara Airport, Marrakech, French Morocco: Tunisia.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 816th Bomb Squadron, 483rd Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly),
Tortorella, Italy Mar44. {nil missions}. 348th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly),
Tortorella, Italy 31Mar44. Participated in the first Operation Frantic shuttle mission to the
railway marshalling yards at Debrecen, Hungary 2Jun44. After the target, the bomber
continued east and landed at a Russian airfield near Poltava (Station 559), Ukraine.
Operated a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Gala?i, Rumania 6Jun44, returning to Poltava.
Returned to base in Italy on a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Foc?ani, Rumania 11Jun44.
Accident on return from a mission to a synthetic oil refinery at Blechhammer, Prussia 7Jul44
(10RTD). Mid-air collision with B-17G 42-106997 which sheared off the tail of that bomber
near Manfredonia, Foggia, Italy. Nearly home, #997 suddenly lost airspeed and drifted into
the propellers of this bomber behind it. Force landed safely at Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy.
Air Depot 11Dec44. {74 missions}. Returned to US. 4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air
Technical Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 27Jul45. Reclaimed 2May46
32037 (MSN 7151) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Jan44.
242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB 20Jan44. 358th Bomb
Squadron [VK*F], 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 28Feb44.
Returned to base without the tail gunner after the tail gunners compartment was shot
off by flak on a mission to Hamm, Germany 23Mar44 (1KIA). Failed to return from a
mission to motor industry targets in Berlin, Germany 21Jun44 (5KIA:5POW). Flak hits
quickly followed by explosion, crashed near Schulzendorf rail station, Berlin, Germany.
{38 missions}. MACR 6540.
32038 (MSN 7152) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Jan44.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 18Jan44. 242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit),
Grand Island Field, NB 30Jan44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Grenier Field (Station 16),
Manchester, NH 15Feb44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 25Feb44.
27th Ferrying Squadron, 2nd Ferrying Group, RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador. Missing in North Atlantic
after becoming lost between Labrador and Iceland during the ferry flight en route to UK 10Mar44 (10MIS).
Last known position was 100 miles east of Meeks Field, Keflav�k, Iceland; the pilot called Reykjavik for a
bearing but no contact was made nor sign of the aircraft. MACR 2732.
32039 MSN 7153) Accepted by USAAF 14Jan44. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 18Jan44. 483rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 5Feb44.
Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 4Mar44. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport
Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 10Mar44. Ferried South Atlantic
route Waller Field, Trinidad: Bel�m, Brasil: Natal, Brasil: Dakar, Senegal; Menara Airport,
Marrakech, French Morocco: Tunisia. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 815th Bomb Squadron,
483rd Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy Mar44. . Named "Shoo Shoo Baby"
{nil missions}. Transferred to 416BS/99BG Tortorella Mar 31,1944;
Named "Rapid Rabbit"--artwork of a rabbit riding a bomb and chewing a carrot.
Participated in the first Operation Frantic shuttle mission to the railway marshalling yards at
Debrecen, Hungary 2Jun44. After the target, the bomber continued east and landed at a Russian
airfield near Poltava (Station 559), Ukraine. Operated a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Gala?i,
Rumania 6Jun44, returning to Poltava. Returned to base in Italy on a mission to a Luftwaffe
airfield at Foc?ani, Rumania 11Jun44. {70 missions}. Air Depot 26Nov44. Returned to US.
1103rd Base Unit (Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command), Morrison Field, West Palm
Beach, FL 2Apr45. Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage
and disposal 14Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment
Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
32040 (MSN 7154) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 17Jan44.
483rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 2Feb44. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 4Mar44.
15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11),
West Palm Beach, FL 7Mar44. Ferried South Atlantic route Waller Field, Trinidad: Bel�m,
Brasil: Natal, Brasil: Dakar, Senegal; Menara Airport, Marrakech, French Morocco: Tunisia.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 817th Bomb Squadron, 483rd Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly),
Tortorella, Italy Mar44. {nil missions}. Transferred to 416th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group,
Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 31Mar44. Named "Turnip Termite".
Battle damaged by flak during a mission to the Wiener Neust�dter Flugzeugwerke
factory at Wiener Neust�dt, Vienna, Austria 23Apr44. {66 missions}
Air Depot 26Nov44. Tenth Air Force, India. Headquarters Squadron, 7th Bomb Group, Pandaveswar,
India. Damaged while parked in collision by Curtiss C-46A Commando 42-96619 taxying at
Agra, India 25May45. Salvaged 12Mar46
32041 (MSN 7155) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 17Jan44. 483rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 2Feb44. Hunter Field,
Savannah, GA 4Mar44. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command,
Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 7Mar44. Ferried South Atlantic route
Waller Field, Trinidad: Bel�m, Brasil: Natal, Brasil: Dakar, Senegal; Menara Airport, Marrakech,
French Morocco: Tunisia. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 817th Bomb Squadron, 483rd Bomb
Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy Mar44. {nil missions}. 348th Bomb Squadron,
99th Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 31Mar44. Participated in the first
Operation Frantic shuttle mission to the railway marshalling yards at Debrecen, Hungary
2Jun44. After the target, the bomber continued east and landed at a Russian airfield near
Poltava (Station 559), Ukraine. Operated a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Gala?i,
Rumania 6Jun44, returning to Poltava. Returned to base in Italy on a mission to a Luftwaffe
airfield at Foc?ani, Rumania 11Jun44. Failed to return from a mission to railway marshalling
yards at Vinkovci, Croatia, Yugoslavia 2Jul44. Damaged by flak and shot down by enemy
fighters, crashed by Lake Balaton, Hungary. {38 missions}.. MACR 6518
32042 (MSN 7156) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 15Jan44. 242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island
Field, NB 30Jan44. HQ Squadron, 9th Heavy Bomb Processing Group, Grand Island, NB.
Damaged while parked in a collision by B-17G 42-31938 taxying at Grand Island 30Jan44.
Salvaged 31Jan44.
32043 (MSN 7157) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 18Jan44. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 23Jan44. 483rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 6Feb44. Hunter Field,
Savannah, GA 4Mar44. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command,
Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 8Mar44. Ferried South Atlantic route
Waller Field, Trinidad: Bel�m, Brasil: Natal, Brasil: Dakar, Senegal; Menara Airport,
Marrakech, French Morocco: Tunisia. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 815th Bomb Squadron,
483rd Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy Mar44. Sterparone, Foggia,
Italy 22Apr44. 817th Bomb Squadron. Named "Paper Doll"
Was one of two a/c conducted secret mission to Czechoslovakia on Sep 17, 1944, with supplies to
the resistance and returning with US evadees and politically important Czechs,
who were being sought by the Nazis ; Salvaged Apr 30, 1945
Production changes: Natural metal finish
32044 (MSN 7158) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 18Jan44. 483rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 4Feb44.
Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 4Mar44. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air
Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 9Mar44.
Ferried South Atlantic route Waller Field, Trinidad: Bel�m, Brasil: Fortaleza,
Brasil; delayed by mechanical problems and named 'Good Deal'. artwork of a nude young woman..
Dakar, Senegal; Menara Airport, Marrakech, French Morocco: Tunisia. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy.
815th Bomb Squadron, 483rd Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 31Mar44.
{first combat mission 12Apr44}. Sterparone, Foggia, Italy 22Apr44. {c80 missions}.
Declared 'war weary' Dec44. Pisa, Italy 15May45. Returned to US. Cincinnati, OH 20Sep45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and
disposal 17Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company,
Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
32045 (MSN 7159) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 19Jan44. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 25Jan44. Offutt Field, Omaha, NB 3Feb44. 302nd Base Unit (Staging Wing),
Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 15Feb44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Grenier Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 13Mar44. 339th Bomb Squadron [QJ*R],
96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 21Mar44. Named "Silver Slipper".
Failed to return from a mission to a ball bearing works at Schweinfurt, Germany 19Jul44
(10POW). Moments after the crew had released their bombs on the target, an anti-aircraft
shell crashed through the bomb bay and out the top of the plane, where it exploded.
A second shell knocked out two of the four engines. With greatly reduced power and
damaged controls, the aircraft dropped out of formation. The pilot managed to keep
up the bomber on course for about an hour. Finally, unable to control the plane, he
gave the order to bail out. The aircraft crashed at Reil on the Mosel near Bernkastel,
Germany. . MACR 7411
32046 Delivered Denver Jan 18, 1944; McDill Feb 3, 1944; Morrison Mar 9, 1944;
Assigned (first NMF a/c issued) to 817BS/483BG Tortorella Mar 13, 1944; Named "Lil Abner"
transferred to 347BS/99BG Tortorella Mar 31, 1944; "
(had 20mm cannon fitted in tail turret); Participated in the first Operation Frantic
shuttle mission to the railway marshalling yards at Debrecen, Hungary 2Jun44. After the target, the bomber
continued east and landed at a Russian airfield near Poltava (Station 559), Ukraine. Operated a mission to a
Luftwaffe airfield at Gala?i, Rumania 6Jun44, returning to Poltava. Returned to base in Italy on
a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Foc?ani, Rumania 11Jun44. 20mm cannon fitted in tail
turret. {63 missions}. Declared 'war weary'. Reassigned for utility, training and weather
check aircraft. Pisa, Italy 15May45. United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) Aug45.
Returned to US. 1103rd Base Unit (Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command), Morrison Field,
West Palm Beach, FL 19Sep45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR
for storage and disposal 18Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway
Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
32047 (MSN 7161) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 17Jan44.
483rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 4Feb44. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 4Mar44.
15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11),
West Palm Beach, FL 9Mar44. Ferried South Atlantic route Waller Field, Trinidad: Bel�m,
Brasil: Natal, Brasil: Dakar, Senegal; Menara Airport, Marrakech, French Morocco: Tunisia.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 840th Bomb Squadron, 483rd Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly),
Tortorella, Italy Mar44. {nil missions}. 346th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly),
Tortorella, Italy 31Mar44. Accident departing for a mission to railway marshalling yards
at Bucharest, Rumania 4Apr44 (1KIA). During takeoff the right landing gear collapsed, caused
by failure of the drag link. The pilot pulled the power off and started braking to counter the
slight turn that had started but there was no response. The landing gear had only partially
collapsed leaving the wheel free to rotate but severing the brake hydraulic and emergency
air lines. The plane was heading towards a solid nose-to-tail line of taxying bombers
waiting to takeoff. Without braking or directional control #047 ran into the side of
B-17G 42-32115, the impact causing its own landing gear to collapse, the ground stopping
the propellers from causing further damage. The nose compartment of #047 was destroyed,
killing the bombardier, and the two pilots were able to walk out of the opening onto the engine
nacelles of #115 and down to safety. {1 mission}. Salvaged 4Apr44
32048 (MSN 7162) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 17Jan44.
Billings Municipal Airport, MT 20Jan44. Amarillo Field, TX 4Feb44. 483rd Bomb Group,
MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 4Feb44. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 4Mar44. 15th Ferrying Group,
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 9Mar44.
Ferried South Atlantic route Waller Field, Trinidad: Bel�m, Brasil: Natal, Brasil: Dakar, Senegal;
Menara Airport, Marrakech, French Morocco: Tunisia. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 840th Bomb
Squadron, 483rd Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy Mar44. {nil missions}.
20th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy Mar44.. Named "Queen/Ball Of Fire".
{first combat mission 28Mar48}. Battle damaged on a mission to the railway marshalling yards
at Turin, Italy 29Mar44 (1KIA:9RTD). Attacked by enemy fighters after the target, the upper
turret gunner was mortally wounded by a 20mm cannon shell. Participated in the first
Operation Frantic shuttle mission to the railway marshalling yards at Debrecen,
Hungary 2Jun44. After the target, the bomber continued east and landed at Mirgorod
(Station 561), Ukraine. Operated a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Gala?i, Rumania 6Jun44,
returning to Mirgorod. Returned to base in Italy on a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Foc?ani,
Rumania 11Jun44. Failed to return from a mission to the oil refinery at Moravsk� Ostrava a P?�voz,
Czechoslovakia 29Aug44 (9KIA:1POW). It was a disastrous day for the 2nd Bomb Group,
losing nine B-17s in a onesided, nineteen-minute attack by the Luftwaffe on the way to the
target; the 20th Bomb Squadron lost all seven of its aircraft to enemy fighters. It was the second
greatest, one day, aircraft loss for the Group but one with the greatest loss of life. Shot down by
enemy fighters, only four airmen managed to bail out prior to an explosion but parachutes of
three airmen, apparently soaked with gasoline, caught fire. Crashed southwest of Krhov,
near Bojkovice, Czechoslovakia. {69 missions}. MACR 8098
32049 (MSN 7163) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 16Jan44.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 22Jan44.
242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB 17Feb44.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Grenier Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 20Mar44.
534th Bomb Squadron [GD*D], 381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 6Apr44.
Named *Yankee Rebel" Failed to return from a mission to railway marshalling yards
at Mulhouse, France 3Aug44 (9KIA). Damaged by flak, one engine out, crashed in North Sea off
Netherlands. {20+ missions). MACR 7883.
32050 (MSN 7164) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19Jan44.
Sheppard Field, Wichita Falls, TX 2Feb44. MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 4Feb44. Crashed and burned 18Feb44
32051 (MSN 7165) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 18Jan44.
242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB 31Jan44. North
Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Grenier Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 4Feb44.
749th Bomb Squadron [W], 457th Bomb Group, Glatton (Station 130), Huntingdonshire 27Feb44.
56th Fighter Group, Boxted (Station 150), Essex 12Jun44. 749th Bomb Squadron,
457th Bomb Group, Glatton (Station 130), Huntingdonshire 21Jun44.. Named "Lady Luck"
Accidental retraction of the landing gear while taxying at Glatton 1Nov44. Salvaged 2Nov44.
56th Fighter Group, Boxted (Station 150), Essex
32052 (MSN 7166) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19Jan44.
Amarillo Field, TX 2Feb44. 483rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 6Feb44. Hunter Field,
Savannah, GA 4Mar44. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command,
Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 12Mar44. Ferried South Atlantic route Waller Field,
Trinidad: Bel�m, Brasil: Natal, Brasil: Dakar, Senegal; Menara Airport, Marrakech, French Morocco:
Tunisia. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 840th Bomb Squadron, 483rd Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly),
Tortorella, Italy Mar44. {nil missions}. 416th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly),
Tortorella, Italy 31Mar44. Participated in the first Operation Frantic shuttle mission to the railway
marshalling yards at Debrecen, Hungary 2Jun44. After the target, the bomber continued east and
landed at a Russian airfield near Poltava (Station 559), Ukraine. Operated a mission to a Luftwaffe
airfield at Gala?i, Rumania 6Jun44, returning to Poltava. Returned to base in Italy on a mission to a
Luftwaffe airfield at Foc?ani, Rumania 11Jun44. Battle damaged on a mission to the oil refineries at
Ploe?ti, Rumania 23Jun44 (1WIA:9RTD); the pilot was wounded by flak. {91 missions}. Air Depot 5Feb45.
Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 6Jun45.
4104th Base Unit (Rome Air Technical Service Command), Rome Field, NY 4Jul45. Reclaimed 13Nov45
32053 (MSN 7167) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19Jan44.
Lambert Field, St Louis, MO 2Feb44. 483rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 5Feb44. Hunter Field,
Savannah, GA 4Mar44. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison
Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 9Mar44. Ferried South Atlantic route Waller Field, Trinidad:
Bel�m, Brasil: Natal, Brasil: Dakar, Senegal; Menara Airport, Marrakech, French Morocco: Tunisia.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 816th Bomb Squadron, 483rd Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella,
Italy Mar44. {nil missions}. 49th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 31Mar44.
{first combat mission 28Mar44}. 96th Bomb Squadron 16Apr44. Battle damaged during a mission
to the Wiener Neust�dter Flugzeugwerke factory at Wiener Neust�dt, Vienna, Austria 10May44
(1WIA:9RTD). Flak was very intense, accurate and heavy, resulting in damage to the aircraft and
injury to the ball turret gunner. Participated in the first Operation Frantic shuttle mission to the
railway marshalling yards at Debrecen, Hungary 2Jun44. After the target, the bomber continued
east and landed at Mirgorod (Station 561), Ukraine. Operated a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield
at Gala?i, Rumania 6Jun44, returning to Mirgorod. Returned to base in Italy on a mission to a
Luftwaffe airfield at Foc?ani, Rumania 11Jun44. 49th Bomb Squadron 16Jun44. Failed to return
from a mission to the railway marshalling yards at Budapest, Hungary 27Jun44 (8KIA:2POW).
Damaged by flak over the target causing a fire in the bomb bay. The gunners bailed out as the
plane went into a dive, then a spin, caught fire and exploded, ejecting the engineer; the officers
were found in the wreckage. Crashed about thirty miles southwest of Budapest. {45 missions}.
MACR 6428
32054 (MSN 7168) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Jan44.
242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB 9Feb44. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 21Feb44. 407th Bomb Squadron [PY*R],
92nd Bomb Group, Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 2Apr44 Named "Flak Shak". .
Failed to return from a mission to Cologne, Germany 28Jan45 (1KIA:8POW). Damaged by flak,
crashed Palmersheim, Euskirchen, Germany. MACR 12014
32055 (MSN 7169) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19Jan44.
483rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 4Feb44. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 4Mar44.
1104th Base Unit (Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command), Homestead Field, FL 17Mar44.
Ferried South Atlantic route Waller Field, Trinidad: Bel�m, Brasil: Natal, Brasil: Dakar,
Senegal; Menara Airport, Marrakech, French Morocco: Tunisia. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy.
840th Bomb Squadron, 483rd Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy Mar44. {nil missions}.
346th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 29Mar44
Named "Dinah Might". . {first combat mission 3Apr44}. Lead plane flown by the
99th Bomb Group Commander on the first Operation Frantic shuttle mission to the railway marshalling
yards at Debrecen, Hungary 2Jun44. After the target, the bomber continued east and landed at
a Russian airfield near Poltava (Station 559), Ukraine. Operated a mission to a Luftwaffe
airfield at Gala?i, Rumania 6Jun44, returning to Poltava. Returned to base in Italy on a mission
to a Luftwaffe airfield at Foc?ani, Rumania 11Jun44. Battle damaged on a mission to a synthetic
oil refinery at Blechhammer, Prussia 26Dec44. With three engines out, force landed on the
island of Vis, Croatia, Yugoslavia. {99 missions}. Air Depot 28Dec44. Salvaged 21Apr45.
32056 (MSN 7170) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20Jan44.
483rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 6Feb44. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 4Mar44.
15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11),
West Palm Beach, FL 9Mar44. Ferried South Atlantic route Waller Field, Trinidad: Bel�m, Brasil:
Natal, Brasil: Dakar, Senegal; Menara Airport, Marrakech, French Morocco: Tunisia. Fifteenth Air Force,
Italy. 815th Bomb Squadron, 483rd Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy Mar44. {nil missions}.
416th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 31Mar44.
Failed to return from a mission to the Steyr-Daimler-Puch ball bearing factory at Steyr, Austria 2Apr44
(10POW). Attacked before reaching the target by enemy fighters using 20mm cannons, the aircraft
received a hit causing a fire in the left wing near number one engine. The aircraft dropped back
in the formation but held altitude, it appeared to be caught in propeller wash and lost control
momentarily. The pilot regained control and the crew bailed out. Crashed at Hausleiten, southeast of
Sankt Florian, Austria. {1 mission}. MACR 3888.
32057 (MSN 7171) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19Jan44.
Lubbock, TX 3Feb44. 483rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 5Feb44. Hunter Field,
Savannah, GA 4Mar44. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison
Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 6Mar44. Ferried South Atlantic route Waller Field, Trinidad:
Bel�m, Brasil: Natal, Brasil: Dakar, Senegal; Menara Airport, Marrakech, French Morocco: Tunisia.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 816th Bomb Squadron, 483rd Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella,
Italy Mar44. {nil missions}. 348th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella,
Italy 31Mar44. Participated in the first Operation Frantic shuttle mission to the railway marshalling
yards at Debrecen, Hungary 2Jun44. After the target, the bomber continued east and landed at a
Russian airfield near Poltava (Station 559), Ukraine. Operated a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at
Gala?i, Rumania 6Jun44, returning to Poltava. Returned to base in Italy on a mission to a Luftwaffe
airfield at Foc?ani, Rumania 11Jun44. Failed to return from a mission to the Zw�lfaxing ammunition
depot, Vienna, Austria 8Jul44. Damaged by flak, one of the engines began to smoke and the crew
bailed out. The aircraft exploded and crashed at Novi Marof, south of Varapdin, Croatia, Yugoslavia.
{38 missions} MACR 6368.
32058 (MSN 7172) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 19Jan44.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 22Jan44.
876th Bomb Squadron, 483rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 5Feb44. Damaged by fire in a
ground accident at MacDill Field 15Feb44. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 4Mar44. 15th Ferrying Group,
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 9Mar44.
Ferried South Atlantic route Waller Field, Trinidad: Bel�m, Brasil: Natal, Brasil: Dakar, Senegal;
Menara Airport, Marrakech, French Morocco: Tunisia. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 840th Bomb Squadron,
483rd Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy Mar44. {nil missions}. 96th Bomb Squadron,
2nd Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 31Mar44. Failed to return from a mission to the Magyar
Waggon- �s G�pgy�r aircraft factory at Gy?r, Hungary 13Apr44 (1KIA:9POW). Struck by flak and
damaged over the target. A force of enemy fighter aircraft attacked the formation using rockets,
setting the rudder fabric alight and No.3 engine caught fire. A fighter attack had blown away
part of the fuselage along the waist, together with the gunner's ammunition belt. The plane
dropped out of formation, the crew bailed out before it exploded and crashed. {8 missions}. MACR 3917.
32059 (MSN 7173) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 21Jan44.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Jan44.
242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB 17Feb44. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Grenier Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 10Mar44.
550th Bomb Squadron, 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 12Mar44.
Named "Poltergeist/Vagabond". Failed to return from a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical and
synthetic oil works at Leuna, Merseburg, Germany 27Aug44, ditched English Channel.
32060 (MSN 7174) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 20Jan44.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Jan44. 7th Heavy
Bomb Processing Group, Kearney Field, NB 18Feb44. The aircraft was en route from Kearney Field, NB
to Presque Isle Field, ME, in a flight of twelve B-17G bombers heading for England 6Mar44.
Damaged in collision with B-17G 42-97221 taxying at Kearney 6Mar44. North Atlantic Wing, Air
Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 19Mar44. 535th Bomb Squadron [MS*V],
381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 6Apr44. Named "Boulder Buf"; Severe battle
damaged over Stuttgart, Germany 9Dec44 (6WIA:3RTD). A flak strike started a fire with the radio
and oxygen systems disabled. Force landed with No.2 & No.3 engines out at an American A-26
light bomber base Nancy, France. {48+ missions}. Salvaged 22Dec44.
32061 (MSN 7175) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 20Jan44.
Amarillo Field, TX 2Feb44. 483rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 5Feb44. Hunter Field,
Savannah, GA 4Mar44. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command,
Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 8Mar44. Ferried South Atlantic route Waller Field,
Trinidad: Bel�m, Brasil: Natal, Brasil: Dakar, Senegal; Menara Airport, Marrakech, French Morocco:
Tunisia. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 816th Bomb Squadron, 483rd Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly),
Tortorella, Italy Mar44. {nil missions}. 348th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly),
Tortorella, Italy 31Mar44. Named "Lucious Louise". Participated in the first Operation
Frantic shuttle mission to the railway marshalling yards at Debrecen, Hungary 2Jun44. After the target,
the bomber continued east and landed at a Russian airfield near Poltava (Station 559), Ukraine.
Operated a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Gala?i, Rumania 6Jun44, returning to Poltava.
Returned to base in Italy on a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Foc?ani, Rumania 11Jun44. {94 missions}.
Air Depot 12Jan45. Returned to US. 1103rd Base Unit (Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command),
Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 3Apr45. 4104th Base Unit (Rome Air Technical Service
Command), Rome Field, NY 2Jul45. Reclaimed 13Nov45.
32062 (MSN 7176) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal
Airport, CO 18Jan44. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21Jan44.
483rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 5Feb44. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 4Mar44.
15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11),
West Palm Beach, FL 9Mar44. Ferried South Atlantic route Waller Field, Trinidad: Bel�m, Brasil: Natal,
Brasil: Dakar, Senegal; Menara Airport, Marrakech, French Morocco: Tunisia. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy.
815th Bomb Squadron, 483rd Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy Mar44. {nil missions}.
416th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 31Mar44. Failed to return
from a mission to the Steyr-Daimler-Puch ball bearing factory at Steyr, Austria 2Apr44 (7POW:3EVD).
After the target No.2 and No.4 engines failed, then No.3 engine failed causing the plane to drop out of
formation and lose altitude. The engine failures were presumed to be from damage by flak before and
after the target, combined with attacks by single and twin-engined enemy fighters before and after
the target. Crash landed in a plowed field near Josipdol, 10km southeast of Ogulin, Croatia, Yugoslavia.
(1 mission}. The crew were uninjured, destroyed secret equipment and climbed over a snow
covered hill to escape German soldiers. Three of the crew evaded capture and were assisted by Partisans.
MACR 4909
32063 (MSN 7177) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20Jan44.
483rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 4Feb44. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 4Mar44. 15th Ferrying Group,
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 7Mar44.
Ferried South Atlantic route Waller Field, Trinidad: Bel�m, Brasil: Natal, Brasil: Dakar, Senegal; Menara Airport,
Marrakech, French Morocco: Tunisia. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 817th Bomb Squadron,
483rd Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy Mar44. {nil missions}. 347th Bomb Squadron,
99th Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 31Mar44. Severely battle damaged during a
mission to the Wiener Neust�dter Flugzeugwerke factory at Wiener Neust�dt, Vienna, Austria 23Apr44 (1KIA:9RTD).
Battle damaged on a mission to an aircraft factory at Varese, Italy 30Apr44 (10RTD). Crash landed and
burned out at Termoli, Campobasso, Italy; crew safe. {14 missions}..
32064 (MSN 7178) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20Jan44. Fort
Bragg, NC 4Feb44. 483rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 5Feb44. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 4Mar44.
15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm
Beach, FL 9Mar44. Ferried South Atlantic route Waller Field, Trinidad: Bel�m, Brasil: Natal, Brasil: Dakar,
Senegal; Menara Airport, Marrakech, French Morocco: Tunisia. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 840th Bomb Squadron,
483rd Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy Mar44. {nil missions}. 346th Bomb Squadron,
99th Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 31Mar44. Named "Going". {64 missions}
Declared 'war weary'. Converted as cargo aircraft 14Nov44. Returned to US. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 20Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway
Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
32065 (MSN 7179) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20Jan44.
483rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 5Feb44. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 4Mar44. 15th Ferrying Group,
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 12Mar44.
Ferried South Atlantic route Waller Field, Trinidad: Bel�m, Brasil: Natal, Brasil: Dakar, Senegal; Menara
Airport, Marrakech, French Morocco: Tunisia. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 346th Bomb Squadron,
483rd Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy Mar44. {nil missions}. 346th Bomb Squadron,
99th Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 31Mar44. Named "El Diablo" (The Devil).
Failed to return from a mission to an oil field in Rumania 16Apr44 (7MIA:1KIA:2POW). Unable to reach
the target through a heavy weather front, the pilot diverted to an alternate target of a ball bearing factory
at Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia. Prior to dropping its bombs, the aircraft was struck on the right wing
root by anti-aircraft fire while over the target area, the wing came off, the plane turned onto its back
and spiraled down. It exploded in mid-air and crashed into the Danube River, near the Belgrade- Pan?evo
road bridge. Two crew members managed to parachute out of the plane, while eight of the crew were
still inside at the time of the crash. The two surviving crew members were taken prisoner by the Germans.
German records indicate that the aircraft was deeply embedded in the river, and only one body was found.
{7 missions}. . MACR 4076
32066 (MSN 7180) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21Jan44.
242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB 11Feb44. North Atlantic
Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 11Feb44. 335th Bomb Squadron [OE*D],
95th Bomb Group, Horham 3Mar44. 412th Bomb Squadron ; Named "Silver Slipper/Silver Sliver".
Participated in an Operation Frantic V shuttle mission to the Flugzeugwerk Gotenhafen Kurt
Kannenberg AG Focke Wulf assembly works at Rahmel, Gdynia, Poland 6Aug44. After the target, the
bomber continued east and landed at Poltava (Station 559), Ukraine. Operated a mission to an oil refinery
at Trzebinia, Poland 7Aug44, returning to Ukraine. Operated a mission to an airfield at Buz?u,
Rumania 8Aug44, continuing on to Foggia #1, Celone, Italy, a Fifteenth Air Force base in southern Italy.
Returned to England on a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Francazal, Toulouse, France 12Aug44.
Battle damaged on a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical and synthetic oil works at Leuna, Meresburg,
Germany 28Sep44. Just as the bombs were released, flak burst adjacent to the right fuselage,
the shrapnel causing 45-50 holes in the plane and disabled No.2 engine. Battle damaged on a mission
to the railway marshalling yards at Stuttgart, Germany 16Dec44. On return to Horham the ran plane
into mud off end of the runway, then struck by B-17G 43-38453 which had also overshot the runway.
{67 missions}. Salvaged 17Dec44
32067 (MSN 7181) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20Jan44.
816th Bomb Squadron, 483rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 4Feb44. Crash landed MacDill 20Feb44.
901st Base Unit, Heavy Bombardment, Pinecastle Field, Orlando, FL 2Jun44. 327th Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Drew Field, Tampa, FL 14Jun44. Mid-air collision fifty miles west of Tampa, FL 10Jul45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 5Nov45
32068 (MSN 7182) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20Jan44.
483rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 3Feb44. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 4Mar44. 15th Ferrying
Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 9Mar44.
Ferried South Atlantic route Waller Field, Trinidad: Bel�m, Brasil: Natal, Brasil: Dakar, Senegal; Menara
Airport, Marrakech, French Morocco: Tunisia. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 840th Bomb Squadron,
483rd Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy Mar44. {nil missions}. 346th Bomb Squadron,
99th Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 31Mar44. Named "Heaven Can Wait"
Participated in the first Operation Frantic shuttle mission to the railway marshalling yards at
Debrecen, Hungary 2Jun44. After the target, the bomber continued east and landed at a Russian
airfield near Poltava (Station 559), Ukraine. Operated a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Gala?i,
Rumania 6Jun44, returning to Poltava. Returned to base in Italy on a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield
at Foc?ani, Rumania 11Jun44. Failed to return from a mission to the oil refineries at Ploe?ti,
Rumania 28Jul44. Damaged by flak, crashed Sjenica, Serbia, Yugoslavia. {46 missions}. MACR 7122.
32069 (MSN 7183) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20Jan44.
483rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 4Feb44. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 4Mar44.
15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11),
West Palm Beach, FL 8Mar44. Ferried South Atlantic route Waller Field, Trinidad: Bel�m, Brasil:
Natal, Brasil: Dakar, Senegal; Menara Airport, Marrakech, French Morocco: Tunisia.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 816th Bomb Squadron, 483rd Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly),
Tortorella, Italy Mar44. {nil missions}. 348th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly),
Tortorella, Italy 31Mar44. Participated in the first Operation Frantic shuttle mission to the railway
marshalling yards at Debrecen, Hungary 2Jun44. After the target, the bomber continued east and
landed at a Russian airfield near Poltava (Station 559), Ukraine. Operated a mission to a
Luftwaffe airfield at Gala?i, Rumania 6Jun44, returning to Poltava. Returned to base in Italy on
a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Foc?ani, Rumania 11Jun44. {81 missions}. Air Depot 27Oct44.
Returned to US. 4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field,
Dayton, OH 3Mar45. Reclaimed 24May46
32070 (MSN 7184) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21Jan44.
242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB 14Feb44. North Atlantic
Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 13Mar44. 729th Bomb Squadron [A],
452nd Bomb Group, Deopham Green (Station 142), Norfolk 13Mar44. Failed to return from a
mission to the Heinkel Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory which had been converted to Fw 190
production at Warnem�nde, Germany 9Apr44 (6POW:4EVD). Over the target the plane was
hit by flak, engine No.3 was disabled, and the radio operator was wounded. On return from
the target the Group was attacked by enemy fighters before reaching the Danish coast. The
pilot slipped out of the small formation and made a perfect crash landing in a field near Ryde
on Laaland, six miles southeast of Nakskov, Denmark. The crew tried to set fire to the plane
by collecting inflammable material, pouring petrol on it and igniting it with a signal-light
pistol. The fire was blazing when the nine crew members fled towards a wood, however the
fire soon died leaving the aircraft to be dismantled by the Wehrmacht and to be sent to
Rechlin in Germany to serve as spares for those B-17`s operated by the Luftwaffe. MACR 4363
32071 (MSN 7185) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21Jan44.
483rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 4Feb44. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 4Mar44.
15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11),
West Palm Beach, FL 7Mar44. Ferried South Atlantic route Waller Field, Trinidad: Bel�m, Brasil:
Natal, Brasil: Dakar, Senegal; Menara Airport, Marrakech, French Morocco: Tunisia.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 817th Bomb Squadron, 483rd Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly),
Tortorella, Italy Mar44. Named MOONBEAM McSWINE [the CO of 817BS adopted Li'l Abner
characters for the Squadron insignia]. Re-named NINE WOLVES AND A POPPA, later as FREDDY-H
{nil missions}. 416th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella,
Italy 31Mar44. Severely battle damaged during a mission to the Wiener Neust�dter Flugzeugwerke
factory at Wiener Neust�dt, Vienna, Austria 23Apr44 (1KIA:9RTD). Over the target an engine was
disabled by flak and the nose compartment was blown in by a direct hit, fatally killing the bombardier.
Dropped out of formation and attacked by two enemy fighters. Then escorted by two Lockheed P-38
Lightnings. A second engine failed over the Adriatic Sea and a third before reaching Foggia, The
fourth engine failed during the landing at Tortorella. Battle damaged during a a mission to the oil
refineries at Ploe?ti, Rumania 5May44. Flak was intense and accurate knocking off the No.1 propeller
and other damage but the plane returned safely to Tortorella. Participated in the first Operation Frantic
shuttle mission to the railway marshalling yards at Debrecen, Hungary 2Jun44. After the target, the
bomber continued east and landed at a Russian airfield near Poltava (Station 559), Ukraine. Operated
a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Gala?i, Rumania 6Jun44, returning to Poltava. Returned to base in
Italy on a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Foc?ani, Rumania 11Jun44. Failed to return from a mission
to communications targets in southeast Vienna, Austria 8Feb45 (8KIA:2POW). The formation ran into
bad weather with heavy cloud coverage and heavy flak so turned to an alternate target of the
railway marshalling yard at Graz, Austria. This plane was in the lead position and during the turn
the right wing plane failed to turn leading to a mid-air collision with B-17G 44-6691 over Knittelfeld,
Styria, Austria. The tail section was sheared off by the propellers of the other bomber. The tail gunner was
unable to reach his parachute and fell to earth still inside his compartment. With only minor injuries,
the gunner was able to walk away. Crashed at Mitterlobming, south of Zeltweg, Austria. {93 missions}.
MACR 12082
32072 (MSN 7186) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21Jan44.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 17Feb44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Grenier Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 24Feb44. 401st Bomb Squadron [LL*L],
91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 31Mar44. Named "Mary". Failed to return from a
Crossbow mission to a German V-weapon site at La Glacerie, Cherbourg, France 27Apr44 (1KIA:9POW).
Flak set No.3 and No.4 on fire, crew bailed out and aircraft crashed Rauville-la-Bigot, seven miles south
of Breuville, France. {9 missions}. . MACR 4258.
32073 (MSN 7187) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Jan44.
Billings Municipal Airport, MT 27Jan44. 242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island
Field, NB 21Feb44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 12Mar44.
339th Bomb Squadron [QJ*D], 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 13Feb44.
Failed to return from a mission to the Messerschmitt factory at Augsburg, Germany 13Apr44 (10INT).
Encountered heavy flak over Augsburg. Enemy aircraft damaged No.3 engine, force landed D�bendorf,
Z�rich, Switzerland. Repaired and used by Swiss Air Force to develop Swiss fighter tactics against the B-17.
Returned to US. 1377th Base Unit (North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command), Grenier Field (Station 16),
Manchester, NH 9Oct45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage
and disposal 7Jan46. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company,
Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped..
32074 (MSN 7188) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 21Jan44.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Jan44. Amarillo
Field, TX 2Feb44. 483rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 4Feb44. Hunter Field,
Savannah, GA 4Mar44; 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command,
Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 9Mar44. Ferried South Atlantic route
Waller Field, Trinidad: Bel�m, Brasil: Natal, Brasil: Dakar, Senegal; Menara Airport,
Marrakech, French Morocco: Tunisia. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 815th Bomb Squadron,
483rd Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy Mar44. {nil missions}. Tramsferred tp
16th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 31Mar44.
Named "Oh Josie". Participated in the first Operation Frantic shuttle mission
to the railway marshalling yards at Debrecen, Hungary 2Jun44. After the target, the bomber
continued east and landed at a Russian airfield near Poltava (Station 559), Ukraine. Operated a
mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Gala?i, Rumania 6Jun44, returning to Poltava. Returned to base
in Italy on a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Foc?ani, Rumania 11Jun44. Battle damaged on a
mission to the I.G. Farben oil refinery at Moosbierbaum, Vienna, Austria 11Dec44 (10RTD).
Flak was heavy resulting in damage to both wings, a fuel tank, rudder, radio room and the
Plexiglas nose. {82 missions}. Returned to US. 4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical
Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 14Mar45. 1103rd Base Unit (Caribbean Wing,
Air Transport Command), Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 26Mar45. Reclaimed 24May46
32075 MSN 7189) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 21Jan44.
483rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 7Feb44. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 4Mar44.
15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11),
West Palm Beach, FL 8Mar44. Ferried South Atlantic route Waller Field, Trinidad: Bel�m, Brasil:
Natal, Brasil: Dakar, Senegal; Menara Airport, Marrakech, French Morocco: Tunisia.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 817th Bomb Squadron, 483rd Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly),
Tortorella, Italy Mar44. Named FEARLESS FOSDICK [the CO of 817BS adopted Li'l Abner
characters for the Squadron insignia{nil missions}. Transferred to 347th Bomb Squadron,
99th Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 31Mar44. Participated in the first
Operation Frantic shuttle mission to the railway marshalling yards at Debrecen, Hungary 2Jun44.
After the target, the bomber continued east and landed at a Russian airfield near Poltava
(Station 559), Ukraine. Operated a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Gala?i, Rumania 6Jun44,
returning to Poltava. Returned to base in Italy on a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Foc?ani,
Rumania 11Jun44. Crashed after takeoff for a non-combat sortie and exploded at Foggia 5Oct44.
{63 missions}. Salvaged
32076 (MSN 7190) Accepted by the USAAF 17Jan44. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 24Jan44. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 28Jan44. 242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island
Field, NB 6Feb44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 29Feb44.
Base Air Depot No.1, Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire 2Mar44. 401st Bomb Squadron [LL*E],
91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 23Mar44"Shoo Shoo Shoo Baby (originally Shoo Shoo Baby after
a popular song by the Andrews Sisters)" Mar 23, 1944. A third "Shoo" was added to the same at some point in
May 1944. {first combat mission 24Mar44}. Arguably the most interesting sortie took place when
Gdynia on the Baltic coast in Poland was the assigned target 9Apr44. The 91st Bomb Group war diary
entry for that mission reads "9-4- 44. Gdynia recalled," with a cryptic addition: "1 A/C Marienburg, Completed."
The story behind this terse entry is remarkable. The crew took off from Bassingbourn in miserable weather.
Entering a holding pattern, the pilot spotted a formation of Fortress's from another bomb group,
though he couldn't see any other 91st Bomb Group B-17s. The bombers were heading northeast, toward the
Baltic Sea, but their target was not Gdynia. South of Sweden they turned toward the German coastline.
When they approached the coast the navigator immediately picked up Gdynia and Danzig, which
obviously were not the targets, and the aircraft changed course. About that time there was a terrific
flak barrage and hundreds of fighters. The crew opened the bomb bay doors and headed for the
target when the others did, though they really didn't know what it was. Having bombed a target
at Marienburg, the crew encountered an unusual problem. A shell burst ahead and above the
bomber emitting what appeared to be a big puff of brown smoke. Immediately, another burst just
above, and the whole plane was covered with what looked to be brown tobacco juice. The
windows and windshields were completely covered, and the wipers only made it worse.
The only way the pilot could see to fly for the rest of the trip was to slide back the windows a bit and stick
a head out. Just after the crew landed at Bassingbourn, having been airborne for 12 hours and 55 minutes,
the engines stopped dead due to fuel exhaustion. When the crew asked how many other Forts had
made it back, the response was, "Nobody, because nobody else left!" Due to a malfunctioning radio,
Shoo Shoo Baby hadn't received the recall message. Failed to return from a mission to the Focke-Wulf
aircraft factory at Pozna?, Poland 29May44 (9INT). Crossing the German border No.3 engine failed
and the propeller would not feather. Further trouble cropped up over the target, when another engine
was damaged by flak. Unable to make it back to England, the crew decided to head for Sweden. Loose
equipment was jettisoned to reduce weight. Just before reaching the Swedish coast a third engine failed,
and the bomber was losing altitude fast. A Swedish fighter came up and led it to Malm�, where a B-24,
also in trouble, landed just ahead and the B-17 had to swing wide to keep from colliding. Force l
anded at Bulltofta, near Malm�, Sweden. {24 missions}. . Traded to the Swedish government along with
eight other B-17's for $1 and the release of American airmen interned in Sweden. After replacing two engines,
the bomber flew again 30Jun44. Flown to Svenska Aeroplan A.B. in Link�ping. Converted to passenger
configuration by SAAB designated Boeing F-17 Felix. Registered as SE-BAP 2Nov45. AB Aerotransport / SILA,
Stockholm. Flown to Blackbushe Airport, England and transferred to Det Danske Luftfartselskab (DDL)
5Nov45. Registered OY-DFA and named STIG VIKING. Damagedwhen the left landing gear would not
come down and the pilot executed a one wheel landing with little damage and no injuries at
Blackbushe 27Nov45. Repaired and returned to Copenhagen 25Feb46. WFU 25Jun47. Danish Army Air
Corps 31Mar48 as 67-672. STORE BJOEM [Big Dipper]. Used for aerial photography assignments on
Greenland for the Danish Geodetic Institute (DGI). Royal Danish Navy 1Dec49 as 67-672.
Royal Danish Air Force 24Oct52 as 67-672. Eskadrille 721, V�rl�se, Copenhagen. WFU 1Oct53.
Sold to Babb Co. Inc. 2Feb55. Institute Geographique National, Creil, France 6Apr55. Registered 5Mar56
as F-BGSH to Institute Geographique National [IGN]. WFU at Creil, France after last flight 15Jul61.
Registration cancelled 23Feb70. Donated 23Jan72 by French Government to USAF Museum.
Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, OH 4Feb72. Dismantled, crated and shipped to Wiesbaden, Germany
then flown to Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, OH 14Jun72. Dover AFB, DE 19Jul78 for restoration by
volunteers of the 512th Antique Restoration Group. Ferried to USAF Museum, Wright-Patterson AFB,
Dayton, OH 13Oct88. 42-32076 is now on display at WPAFB Museum.
as *Shoo Shoo Shoo Baby* under its original serial number. The plane
is to be transferred to Smithsonian's Udvar-Hazy Center for display.
32077 (MSN 7191) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 21Jan44.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Jan44. 483rd Bomb Group,
MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 5Feb44. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 4Mar44. 1104th Base Unit (Caribbean Wing,
Air Transport Command), Homestead Field, FL 11Mar44. Ferried South Atlantic route Waller Field,
Trinidad: Bel�m, Brasil: Natal, Brasil: Dakar, Senegal; Menara Airport, Marrakech, French Morocco:
Tunisia. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 815th Bomb Squadron, 483rd Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly),
Tortorella, Italy 31Mar44. Sterparone, Foggia, Italy 22Apr44.. Named "Pantie Annie" Failed to return
from a mission to the oil refinery at Floridsdorf, Vienna, Austria 13Oct44 (10EVD). The plane couldn't
keep up with the formation and jettisoned six bombs. After the bomb run No.2 and 3 engines were
cutting out. The crew bailed out and were assisted by partisans in evading capture.
Crashed Bosanska Krupa, Bosnia, Yugoslavia. MACR 9142.
32078 (MSN 7192) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21Jan44.
242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB 17Feb44. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 4Mar44. 550th Bomb Squadron [SG*C],
385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 6Mar44. Named "Barbara B".
Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 26Jun45.
4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 21Oct44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and
disposal 3Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped.
32079 (MSN 7193) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21Jan44.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 15Feb44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Grenier Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 25Mar44. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 28Mar44. 749th Bomb Squadron [B],
457th Bomb Group, Glatton. Named *Jayhawk/Delayed Lady II*
Damaged in collision with B-17G 42-97131 taxying at Glatton 18May44. Failed to return
from a mission to the railway marshalling yards at Osnabr�ck, Germany 26Sep44 (2KIA:2POW:5EVD).
Damaged by flak at the Dutch coast, the plane took a direct hit near the nose of the plane,
blowing off the nose and damaging the pilots' compartment and top turret. Engines No.3 and No.4
were feathered, the plane lost altitude and disappeared to the group. Crashed near the hamlet of
De Engel, Lisse, Netherlands. Aircraft parts and pieces of the engines were recovered in November 1987.
Artifacts on display at Luchtoorlogmuseum Crash 40-45, Lisserbroek, Netherlands
32080 (MSN 7194) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21Jan44.
242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB 17Feb44. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 2Mar44. 708th Bomb Squadron, 447th Bomb Group,
Rattlesden (Station 126), Suffolk 17Mar44.. Named "Stinky".. Caught fire on training flight 2May45.
MACR 5030
32081 (MSN 7195) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Jan44.
242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB 6Feb44. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 4Mar44. 708th Bomb Squadron, 447th Bomb Group,
Rattlesden (Station 126), Suffolk 6Mar44. Named "Yellow Cab'. Failed to return from a mission to the
Rhenania-Ossag Mineral�lwerke oil refinery at Harburg, Hamburg, Germany 4Nov44 (9KIA). Damaged by flak,
crashed in English Channel. MACR 10162
32082 (MSN 7196) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 22Jan44. Billings
Municipal Airport, MT 25Jan44. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 30Jan44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 11Feb44. North Atlantic
Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 28Feb44. 728th Bomb Squadron,
452nd Bomb Group, Deopham Green (Station 142), Norfolk 3Mar44. Ferried Meeks Field,
Keflavik, Iceland to Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland 12Mar44 Named .PASSIONATE WITCH II. The pilot
named his original plane [42-38124] after the 1941 novel 'Passionate Witch' authored by Thorne Smith.
This novel was about a meek businessman marrying a beautiful witch. In the 1960's the popular TV
show 'Bewitched' was based upon this novel. This was his replacement plane, 'Passionate Witch II'.
Failed to return from a mission to the Luftwaffe air depot at Ch�teaudun, France 28Mar44 (7KIA:3POW).
Flak over the target was moderate and accurate. Flak hit No.4 fuel tank, the right wing broke off and the
aircraft spun in to crash near Ch�teaudun airfield, MACR 3488. 6 crew
members KIA, 4 POW. One died of injuries Mar 29.
32083 (MSN 7197) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21Jan44.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 19Feb44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Grenier Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 1Mar44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 10Mar44. 731st Bomb Squadron [J:J+], 452nd Bomb Group,
Deopham Green (Station 142), Norfolk 12Mar44. Named "Flatbush Floogie". Failed to return from a
mission to Berlin, Germany 26Feb45 (9RTD). Struck by flak just after the target, the No.4 propeller
was feathered and fuel was streaming across the wing. It was last seen at the rally point apparently
under control but losing altitude. The pilot started to head for home but, after assessing the situation,
realised that the fuel leakage would not allow the plane to reach allied lines. The pilot turned east
and headed for allied emergency airfields in Poland. Flying back over Berlin, the plane attracted
more flak but was then escorted by a flight of Mustangs and a single de Havilland Mosquito until
they needed to head home. With fuel exhaustion, the pilots selected a meadow and made a normal
landing at Szyszki, Poland. When it stopped, the wheels sank into the mud and the ball turret was in
water; the next morning the wheels were frozen to the ground. {100 missions}. Repaired by Soviet Air Force.
890th Aviation Regiment, 45th TBAP (Heavy Bomber Aviation Regiment), Balbasova, Orsha, Belorussia
MACR 12772.
32084 (MSN 7198) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 22Jan44.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 7Feb44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 18Feb44. 750th Bomb Squadron [Q], 457th Bomb Group,
Glatton (Station 130), Huntingdonshire 3Mar44 Named *Lil' Satan* artwork of the devil
riding a bomb Battle damaged on a mission to a target of an oil dump on the Seine River across
from the city of Rouen, France 22Jun44. No.3 engine fell off when landing back at base. Salvaged 24Jun44.
Tailplane used to repair B-17G 42-38064
32085 (MSN 7199) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Jan44.
25th Ferrying Squadron, 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT. Accident landing at Gore
Field 25Jan44. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20May44.
271st Base Unit (Staging Wing), 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 3Jun44. Dow Field, Bangor, ME 13Jun44.
324th Bomb Squadron [DF*H], 91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 10Jul44.
Named "Yankee Belle"--artwork of a female riding a bomb Painted by Tony Starcer. Failed to return from
an Operation Thunderclap mission to the railway marshalling yard at Tempelhof, Berlin, Germany
3Feb45 (9POW). Flak over the target was intense and accurate. A direct hit by a 120mm flak shell
struck the lead Fortress. This plane, flying on the left wing of the lead plane, was also struck by
flak and damaged two engines. The pilot was able to feather the No.4 propeller but the No.3
propeller was frozen and would not feather but continued to windmill. Finally, the shaft turned r
ed hot and snapped throwing the propeller up and over the plane. This reduced the drag and
permitted the pilot to gain a modicum of control and place the plane in a straight and level
pattern but too close to the ground to bail out. The bomber was covered by German fighters
and had virtually no maneuverability so had to crash land or be annihilated since the
armament had all been thrown overboard to lighten the plane. The plane crash landed in an
open field narrowly missing a barn before hitting the ground on farm land at Altentreptow,
Germany. {51 missions. MACR 12233
32086 (MSN 7200) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 22Jan44.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 7Feb44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 18Feb44. 401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128),
Northamptonshire 3Mar44. 749th Bomb Squadron [N], 457th Bomb Group, Glatton (Station 130),
Huntingdonshire 5Mar44. Named *You Never Know*. Battle damaged on a mission
to the Daimler-Benz engine factory at Gaggenau, south of Karlsruhe, Germany 10Sep44 (2KIA:7RTD).
The plane was hit by flak over the target. Two of the gunners, thinking the plane was doomed,
went out through the still open doors of the bomb bay. The pilot regained control of the plane
and flew it back as far as France. While flying at low altitude with only one good engine,
enemy soldiers on the ground were shooting at the plane and added damage to the plane.
The aircraft crash landed behind Allied lines at Joigny, France.. Salvaged 15Feb45.
MACR 8904.
32087 (MSN 7201) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Jan44.
242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB 17Feb44. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 12Mar44. 728th Bomb Squadron [M], 452nd Bomb Group,
Deopham Green (Station 142), Norfolk 13Mar44. Named "Old Glory/Ain't Misbehavin'".
Failed to return from an Operation Frantic V shuttle mission to the Flugzeugwerk Gotenhafen
Kurt Kannenberg AG Focke-Wulf assembly works at Rahmel, Gdynia, Poland 6Aug44 (9INT). Damaged by flak
prior to the target which disabled an engine. The propeller could not be feathered and the pilot headed towards
Sweden. Force landed at Resmo, Sweden. MACr 7387. Returned to UK 28May45. 862nd Bomb Squadron [C*M],
493rd Bomb Group, Debach (Station 152), Suffolk May45. Returned to US Jul45. Ditched in the south Atlantic
150 miles west of Lajes Field, Terceira Island, Azores 4Jul45 (15MIS). The aircraft had just stopped for
refuelling en route UK to US and shortly after takeoff it caught fire. The last radio contact reported that
No.3 engine had cut out, and, after trying to return, the plane was losing altitude. The crew was preparing
to ditch the aircraft. There were only four survivors, and fifteen others were still missing after a search of nine hours.
(MACR 15412).
32088 (MSN 7202) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Jan44. 242nd
Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB 6Feb44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Grenier Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 10Feb44. Ferried from RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador to
Stormoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland 14/15Feb44. 532nd Bomb Squadron [VE*M], 381st Bomb Group,
Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 6Apr44, Named "Dry Gulcher" Failed to return from a mission to
industrial areas of Berlin, Germany 19May44 (9POW). Severe flak damage, crashed in a forest eleven miles
south of Mohrin airfield, thirty-seven miles northeast of Berlin, Germany. {1+ missions}
32089 (MSN 7203) Accepted by USAAF 20Jan44. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 16Jan44. 242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB 11Feb44.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 21Feb44. 570th Bomb Squadron [DI*W],
390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 22Feb44. Named "Mountaineer". .
{first combat mission 6Mar44}. Failed to return from a mission to the Braunkohle Benzin A.G. synthetic oil
refinery at Rothensee, Magdeburg, Germany 28May44 (10POW). Flak in the target area was moderate, the
formation encountered a large force of single and twin-engine Luftwaffe fighters over the city, which
proceeded to cause considerable damage to the bombers. An attack by enemy fighters caused heavy
damage and tore away the cowling for the #1 engine. The aircraft went down and crashed near
Holzhausen, 21km west of Stendal, Germany. {28 missions}. . MACR 5257.
32090 (MSN 7204) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Jan44.
242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB 7Feb44. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Grenier Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 22Feb44. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 28Feb44. 350th Bomb Squadron [LN*R], 100th Bomb
Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 3Mar44. tramsferred to 418th Bomb Squadron [LD*R]. Named "Silver Dollar".
Accident returning from a practice formation sortie at Thorpe Abbotts 19Apr45. The aircraft had landed
and was slowing down when it was struck by B-17G 44-6817. This aircraft had the left tire blown
when hit and ran off onto the grass. Damage to the right horizontal stabiliser, vertical stabiliser and
rudder, right wing and aileron. {102 missions}. Salvaged 21Apr45. Repaired. 418th Bomb Squadron [LD*E].
Used as hack for Colonel Thomas Jeffrey, former 100th Bomb Group commander, deputy director of
operations of the US Strategic Air Force in Paris. Returned to US. 3505th Base Unit (Technical School),
Scott Field, Belleville, IL 19Sep45. Reclaimed 19Nov47
32091 (MSN 7205) Accepted by USAAF 20Jan44. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 26Jan44. 242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island
Field, NB 7Feb44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 11Mar44.
524th Bomb Squadron [WA*K], 379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 30Mar44.
Battle damaged, Saarbr�cken, Germany 13May44. Salvaged 16May44
32092 (MSN 7206) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Jan44.
483rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 5Feb44. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 4Mar44.
15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11),
West Palm Beach, FL 12Mar44. Ferried South Atlantic route Waller Field, Trinidad: Bel�m, Brasil:
Natal, Brasil: Dakar, Senegal; Menara Airport, Marrakech, French Morocco: Tunisia.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 817th Bomb Squadron, 483rd Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly),
Tortorella, Italy Mar44. {nil missions}. 347th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly),
Tortorella, Italy 31Mar44. Named "Miss Natural". Battle damaged on a mission to a
railway marshalling yard at Lyon, France 25May44 (2WIA:8RTD). Crossing Italy the Group inadvertantly
crossed over the front lines at 9,000ft and was shot at by heavy flak. The Group scattered to escape
and limped home without completing the mission. Two engines were disabled by flak and a third
engine failed as the plane approached an airfield near Naples, Italy. The bombardier and navigator
were wounded by shrapnel blowing in the Plexiglas nose; 53 flak holes were counted in the nose
compartment of the bomber. Participated in the first Operation Frantic shuttle mission to the
railway marshalling yards at Debrecen, Hungary 2Jun44. After the target, the bomber continued
east and landed at a Russian airfield near Poltava (Station 559), Ukraine. Operated a mission to a
Luftwaffe airfield at Gala?i, Rumania 6Jun44, returning to Poltava. Returned to base in Italy on a
mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Foc?ani, Rumania 11Jun44. {80 missions}. Air Depot 2Feb45.
Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 6Jun45.
4104th Base Unit (Rome Air Technical Service Command), Rome Field, NY 28Jun45. Reclaimed 13Nov45
32093 (MSN 7207) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Jan44.
242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB 3Feb44. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Grenier Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 1Mar44. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 12Mar44. 527th Bomb Squadron, 379th Bomb Group,
Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 15Mar44. 524th Bomb Squadron [WA*N].
Named "Big Barn Smell". Failed to return from a mission to a secondary target at Ulm, Germany 9Aug44
(3KIA:6POW). Damaged by flak, crashed Walheim, Germany MACR 7392
32094 (MSN 7208) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Jan44.
483rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 7Feb44. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 4Mar44.
15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11),
West Palm Beach, FL 9Mar44. Ferried South Atlantic route Waller Field, Trinidad: Bel�m, Brasil:
Natal, Brasil: Dakar, Senegal; Menara Airport, Marrakech, French Morocco: Tunisia.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 840th Bomb Squadron, 483rd Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly),
Tortorella, Italy Mar44. {nil missions}. 416th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly),
Tortorella, Italy 31Mar44. Battle damaged on a mission to the railway marshalling yards at
Ploe?ti, Rumania 24Apr44 (1WIA:9RTD). Participated in the first Operation Frantic shuttle
mission to the railway marshalling yards at Debrecen, Hungary 2Jun44. After the target,
the bomber continued east and landed at a Russian airfield near Poltava (Station 559),
Ukraine. Operated a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Gala?i, Rumania 6Jun44, returning
to Poltava. Returned to base in Italy on a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Foc?ani,
Rumania 11Jun44. {88 missions}. Air Depot 29Jan45. Returned to US. 1103rd Base Unit
(Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command), Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 11May45.
4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), South Plains Field,
Lubbock, TX 9Jun45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman
Field, AZ for storage and disposal 14Dec45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
32095 (MSN 7209) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY
28Jan44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 11Feb44. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 25Feb44. 457th Bomb Group, Glatton
(Station 130), Huntingdonshire 14Mar44. 322nd Bomb Squadron [LG*L], 91st Bomb Group,
Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 16Mar44 Named "Ack-Ack Annie".
Artwork based on the Gil Elvgren "Caught in the Draft". Painted by Tony Starcer.
Battle damaged on a mission to the Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau AG aircraft factory at Sorau,
Prussia 11Apr44. The primary target was covered with clouds; so the group headed to the
secondary target of the port area at Stettin, Prussia. Intense and accurate flak was
encountered in the vicinity of Hanover and Stettin. On return, the formation was
subjected to two hard-pressed attacks by enemy fighters. Battle damaged on a mission
to a Luftwaffe airfield at Metz, France 25Apr44. Major battle damage on a Crossbow
mission to a German V-weapon site at La Glacerie, Cherbourg, France 27Apr44.
Battle damaged by flak on a Crossbow mission to a German V-weapon site at Aire-sur-la-Lys,
Pas-de-Calais, France 6Jul44. The squadron made three 360 degree turns in the target area,
finally bombing a last resort target northeast of Estr�e-Blanche. Battle damaged on a
mission to the Schlesischer railway station and east marshalling yards at Berlin,
Germany 18Mar45. Moderate and accurate flak encountered over the target resulted in
damage to the plane. Flew on the final Eighth Air Force combat mission of the war to the
Vkoda armament works and airfield at Pilsen, Czechoslovakia 25Apr45. {143 missions}.
Flew a Trolley mission for 91st Bomb Group personnel 10May45. Modified with all guns,
armament and turrets removed with a wooden floor built over the bomb bay. Operation
Revival mission to H�rsching (R-87), Linz, Austria 11May45 to bring home POWs at end of war.
The 91st Group brought back 120 French POWs to Ch�teaudun (A-39), France and 30 British POWs
to England. Operation Revival 12/13 May45; liberated prisoners of war from Russian
controlled Stalag Luft No.I, Barth, Germany and flown to Laon-Couvron (A-70), France.
Returned to US by 91st Bomb Group crew on Operation Home Run. 121st Base Unit
(Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 11Jun45. 4168th Base Unit
(Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 16Jun45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage
and disposal 13Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrappe
32096 (MSN 7210) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Jan44.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 5Feb44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 18Feb44. 711th Bomb Squadron, 447th Bomb Group,
Rattlesden (Station 126), Suffolk 22Feb44. Failed to return from a mission to the industrial
area at Augsburg, Germany 16Mar44 (6POW:2KIA:2EVD). From Strasburg, Germany to Augsburg,
the bombers were attacked by Luftwaffe fighters in a running battle. Flak over the target was
moderate and accurate; flak en route was meagre and inaccurate. Returning, the bombers
were attacked between Nancy, France and the coast. Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed near
Perthes, seven miles west of Saint-Dizier, France. MACR 3187.
32097 (MSN 7211) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Jan44.
483rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 5Feb44. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 4Mar44.
15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11),
West Palm Beach, FL 9Mar44. Ferried South Atlantic route Waller Field, Trinidad: Bel�m, Brasil:
Natal, Brasil: Dakar, Senegal; Menara Airport, Marrakech, French Morocco: Tunisia.
Ferried South Atlantic route Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 9Mar44: Waller Field,
Trinidad: Bel�m, Brasil: Natal, Brasil: Dakar, Senegal; Menara Airport, Marrakech, French
Morocco: Tunisia. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 817th Bomb Squadron, 483rd Bomb Group,
Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy Mar44. {nil missions}. Named SADIE HAWKINS
[the CO of 817BS adopted Li'l Abner characters for the Squadron insignia]. Transferred to
347th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 31Mar44.
Named "Slipstream". Participated in the first Operation Frantic shuttle mission
to the railway marshalling yards at Debrecen, Hungary 2Jun44. After the target, the bomber
continued east and landed at a Russian airfield near Poltava (Station 559), Ukraine.
Operated a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Gala?i, Rumania 6Jun44, returning to Poltava.
Returned to base in Italy on a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Foc?ani, Rumania 11Jun44.
Failed to return from a mission to the Schaffgotsch Benzin synthetic oil refinery at
Deschowitz-Beuthen, Odertal, Prussia 18Dec44 (7KIA:3POW). After the target, as the group
rallies for the return flight, the bomber is attacked by German pilots flying the
Focke-Wulf FW-190A-8 from I. / EJG 1. On their first pass, the fighters cripple the plane by
shooting out all the control surfaces. At the same time, 88mm flak opened up from the
ground, scoring a direct hit in the nose. Being out of control, the plane was gradually
falling into a turn to the left. The pilot called the crew, telling them to bail out. The tail gunner and
both waist gunners were killed during the attacks; the remaining crew were about to jump.
At that moment, however, came the next German fighter attack, which killed the bombardier
and injured the navigator and pilot. Crashed between Belidla and Bystrovany, east of Olomouc,
Czechoslovakia. An explosion wiped out the bomber into small pieces. The fuselage
landed in a field on the right side of the river Byst?ice between the Theresian fortress
and the river; all four engines fell into a field on the left bank towards the cemetery.
Wings and small parts fell over a wide area of Belidla district. {91 missions}. MACR 10635.
32098 (MSN 7212) Accepted by USAAF 21Jan44. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Jan44. 242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit),
Grand Island Field, NB 7Feb44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME 21Feb44. 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136),
Suffolk 25Feb44. 750th Bomb Squadron [Y], 457th Bomb Group, Glatton (Station 130),
Huntingdonshire 4Mar44. Named *GI Virgin II* Battle damaged on a mission
to Erding airfield, Germany 24Apr44; an attack by Bf 109's damaged the rudder.
Battle damaged on a mission to an ordinance depot at Bettenhausen, Kassel,
Germany 2Oct44. Hit by flak over the target and lost No.2 and No.3 engines.
Left the formation and crash landed Belgium. Salvaged 14Nov44. All crew OK
32099 (MSN 7213) Accepted by USAAF 21Jan44. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Jan44. Seattle, WA 26Jan44. 242nd Base Unit
(Operational Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB 7Feb44. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 21Feb44. 390th Bomb Group,
Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 23Feb44. 457th Bomb Group, Glatton (Station 130),
Huntingdonshire 4Mar44. 367th Bomb Squadron [GY*S], 306th Bomb Group,
Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 12Mar44. Named FIGHTIN' CARBARN HAMMER SLAW
artwork of a cartoon airman, with boxing gloves on, punching a boxing bag with
Hitler's face on it. Painted by ground crew member Victor Slovak. Battle damaged during a mission to
the Braunkohle Benzin AG synthetic oil refinery at B�hlen-R�tha, Leipzig, Germany 16Aug44.
2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton (Station 547), Huntingdonshire 17Aug44 for
battle damage repair. Regained by Group 8Sep44. Battle damaged in support of Operation
Market Garden on a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Volkel, Netherlands 17Sep44
(1WIA:8RTD). Flak was very heavy and the plane received a direct hit in the middle.
The waist gunner was hit in the back of his leg just above the knee. All of the oxygen
lines were cut so the pilot had to drop below 10,000ft. The plane received another
hit and the control cables to the rudder were cut. The tail gunner did the best he could
to tie the cables together while the pilot looked for an emergency airfield to set down in.
On return, force landed at Lavenham (Station 137), Suffolk. Repaired by 2nd Strategic
Air Depot 17Sep44. The plane was parked in a dispersal at Lavenham when an adjacent
plane jumped the chocks during engine warming up causing the tail of that plane to
strike the tail of #099, seriously damaging the left horizontal stabiliser.
Regained by Group 24Sep44. Failed to return from a mission to the Rheinmetall-Borsig AG
works at Berlin, Germany 5Dec44 (9MIA). During flak and fighter attacks, the plane
was shot out of formation and disappeared. The pilot indicated that the plane could
not make it back to England and would try to ditch in the sea. Believe crashed into the
North Sea. {50 missions}. MACR 11039.
32100 (MSN 7214) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport,
WY 23Jan44. Billings Municipal Airport, MT 26Jan44. School of Applied Tactics,
Orlando AAB, FL 6Feb44. Modified for the VB-1 Azon guided bomb. Caribbean Wing,
Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 28Mar44.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 419th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Foggia #8 (Longskirt),
Lucera, Italy 19Apr44. Named "Ragged But Right". Damaged taxying at Lucera 19Jan45.
Failed to return from a mission to the I.G. Farben oil refinery at Moosbierbaum, Vienna,
Austria 1Feb45 (9POW:1MIA). Diverted by bad weather and bombed the railway
marshalling yards at Graz, Austria. Damaged by flak over Altenmarkt an der Triesting,
Austria with two engines out and other damage. The crew headed for safety to bail
out over Russian-held territory. The plane crashed at Sand, east of Nagykanizsa, Hungary
MACR 3258. The actual MACR says that this is 42-38100.
32101 (MSN 7215) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY
24Jan44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 5Feb44. Ferried Meeks Field,
Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 24Feb44. 748th Bomb Squadron [F],
457th Bomb Group, Glatton (Station 130), Huntingdonshire 6Mar44. Named "El Lobo II".
Battle damaged on a mission to the railway junction and marshalling yard at L�hne,
Germany 14Mar45. Disabled by flak over the target, with fuel exhaustion, crash landed
in France. {113 missions}. Salvaged
32102 (MSN 7216) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport,
WY 24Jan44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 14Feb44. Grenier Field,
Manchester, NH 25Feb44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle
Field, ME 28Feb44. 535th Bomb Squadron [MS*O], 381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell
(Station 167), Essex 3May44.
Named "Little Duchess, Male Call, Julie Linda".
Battle damaged on a mission to railway installations at Mannheim, Germany 1Feb45. Crash
landed on return to Ridgewell. {55 missions}. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton
(Station 547), Huntingdonshire. Salvaged 2Feb45.
32103 (MSN 7217) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Jan44.
Billings Municipal Airport, MT 28Jan44. 242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand
Island Field, NB 3Feb44. School of Applied Tactics, Orlando AAB, FL 8Feb44. Modified for the
VB-1 Azon guided bomb. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11),
West Palm Beach, FL 28Mar44. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 419th Bomb Squadron,
301st Bomb Group, Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 19Apr44. Failed to return
from a mission to bomb a railway bridge at Szolnok, Hungary 2Jul44 (1KIA;1WIA:8RTD).
Damaged by flak on its third pass over the target. On the return flight and when about twenty
miles from the Yugoslavian coast, a heavy barrage of shell fire was sent up to a height of
twenty thousand feet. The left wing and fuselage were perforated, seriously wounding the
port waist gunner whose legs were riddled by flying fragments. While over the Adriatic Sea,
the top of No.1 engine began to smoke and the tip of the wing glowed red with flames.
The ditching occurred between the islands of Korcula and Lastovo, off the southwestern
coast of Yugoslavia. The B-17 set down on the hard surface of the water with moderate
impact and remained afloat one minute and 30 seconds, during which brief interim
the occupants escaped with difficulty through the top hatch of the radio compartment,
greatly impeded by the gun which cou1d not readily be dismounted. The dinghies, which
should have sprung automatically inflated out of the wing stowage, were at last manually
released by the frenzied men. The raft in the left wing sank and was lost. That on the right
side floated upside down and had to be pneumatically distended with a hand pump while the
crew bobbed up and down in their life vests. The engineer, stunned by a blow on the head,
could not pull the release cord on his Mae West and drowned before help could reach him.
The dinghy was at last righted and although constructed to accommodate five, all nine climbed
aboard. The fliers were in the dinghy a total of two hours and twenty minutes before being
rescued by a crew in PBY Catalina No 958, which took-off from Foggia Main.
32104 (MSN 7218) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Jan44.
Billings Municipal Airport, MT 29Jan44. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 6Feb44.
School of Applied Tactics, Orlando AAB, FL 13Feb44. Modified for the VB-1 Azon guided bomb.
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 28Mar44.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 419th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Foggia #8 (Longskirt),
Lucera, Italy 19Apr44. Named "St. Francis".Failed to return from a mission to a
synthetic oil refinery at Blechhammer, Prussia 17Dec44 (8POW:1KIA:1EVD).
No.2 engine lost oil pressure and No.3 engine was hit by flak. The crew pulled out of formation
and headed towards Russian lines when No.4 engine was hit by flak near Bielsko, Poland.
The crew bailed out and the aircraft crashed near Wilamowice, about one mile south of
Brzescze-Auschwitz, Poland. .
32105 (MSN 7219) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 23Jan44. School of Applied Tactics, Orlando AAB, FL 8Feb44. Modified for t
he VB-1 Azon guided bomb. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field
(Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 30Mar44. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 419th Bomb Squadron,
301st Bomb Group, Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 19Apr44. Salvaged 2Aug45.
32106 (MSN 7220) Accepted by USAAF 22Jan44. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Jan44. 242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit),
Grand Island Field, NB 11Feb44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME 11Mar44. 711th Bomb Squadron, 447th Bomb Group, Rattlesden (Station 126),
Suffolk 13Mar44. 545th Bomb Squadron [JD*R], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton
Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 24Mar44. {first combat mission 27Mar44}.
{123 missions}. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton (Station 547), Huntingdonshire 28Apr45.
Converted for trooping, stripped of all armament and turrets, capable of carrying thirty
passengers on benches installed in the waist and bomb bay. Regained by Group 28May45.
384th Bomb Group, Istres (Station 195), Marseille, France.
Named "Snuffy/Worry Bird/Voan". Participated in the Green Project which
was the USAAF solution to expedite the return of troops to USA (code #34). It called for
the round-the-clock airlift of troops from Istres, France, to Casablanca, French Morocco,
the initial leg of their journey home. From Casablanca, Air Transport Command's
aircraft completed the journey and flew the troops to the United States. A secondary task
of the Green Project included flying French citizens who had been in exile during the war
on the return leg from NAS Port Lyautey, French Morocco to Istres. The Green Project
operated from 15Jun45 to 10Sep45. Adorned with airline type paint stripes on fuselage.
Salvaged 31Oct45
32107 (MSN 7221) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 24Jan44. School of Applied Tactics, Orlando AAB, FL 8Feb44.
Modified for the VB-1 Azon guided bomb. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command,
Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 26Mar44. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy.
419th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 19Apr44.
32nd Bomb Squadron. Failed to return from a mission to Weiner Neudorf, Austria 26Jul44
(3KIA.7POW). Shortly after crossing the Austrian border, the Group formation was attacked
by a large number of enemy fighters. Attacked by a Fw 190 fighter, the No.2 engine was
hit and caught fire. The bomber drifted out of the formation, apparently under control
then three Fw 190s attacked repeatedly. After a few approaches by the fighters, the bomber
suddenly went upwards, then fell over on the left wing and crashed at Sankt Jakob im Walde,
Austria, Hartberg-F�rstenfeld, Styria, Austria. MACR 7129
32108 (MSN 7222) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Jan44.
School of Applied Tactics, Orlando AAB, FL 7Feb44. Modified for the VB-1 Azon guided bomb.
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 28Mar44.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 419th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Foggia #8 (Longskirt),
Lucera, Italy 19Apr44. 353rd Bomb Squadron. Named "FUBAR". Substantially damaged taxying at
Lucera 31Jul44. Salvaged 20Apr45
32109 (MSN 7223) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Jan44.
483rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 5Feb44. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 4Mar44.
15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11),
West Palm Beach, FL 9Mar44. Ferried South Atlantic route Waller Field, Trinidad: Bel�m, Brasil:
Natal, Brasil: Dakar, Senegal; Menara Airport, Marrakech, French Morocco: Tunisia.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 840th Bomb Squadron, 483rd Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly),
Tortorella, Italy 31Mar44. Sterparone, Foggia, Italy 22Apr44.
Named "Mizpah", which means, "May the Lord watch between me
and thee while we are absent one from another". Failed to return from a mission to the Shell
oil refinery at Budapest, Hungary 14Jul44 (8POW:2KIA). After the bomb run over the target, a
direct hit by a 88mm flak shell peeled the nose compartment back over the top of the plane,
killing the navigator and bombardier. The plane was covered with blood as it nosed up into
the air then settled back as the pilot regained control long enough for the survivors to bail out.
Crashed between Dunavecse and Solt, south of Budapest, Hungary. MACR 6901.
32110 (MSN 7224) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Jan44.
483rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 5Feb44. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 4Mar44.
15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11),
West Palm Beach, FL 9Mar44. Ferried South Atlantic route Waller Field, Trinidad: Bel�m, Brasil:
Natal, Brasil: Dakar, Senegal; Menara Airport, Marrakech, French Morocco: Tunisia.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 840th Bomb Squadron, 483rd Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly),
Tortorella, Italy Mar44. {nil missions}. 416th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group,
Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 31Mar44. Participated in the first Operation Frantic
shuttle mission to the railway marshalling yards at Debrecen, Hungary 2Jun44.
After the target, the bomber continued east and landed at a Russian airfield near
Poltava (Station 559), Ukraine. Operated a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Gala?i,
Rumania 6Jun44, returning to Poltava. Returned to base in Italy on a mission to a
Luftwaffe airfield at Foc?ani, Rumania 11Jun44. Failed to return from a mission to the
Schaffgotsch Benzin synthetic oil refinery at Deschowitz-Beuthen, Odertal, Prussia 18Dec44
(1KIA:9EVD). En route to the target, the No.2 and No.3 engines were not producing full power.
Unable to see the target, the Group made a 360 degree turn for a second pass during
which enemy fighters attacked. Passing over the target the second time, flak and enemy
fighters struck the plane. German pilots flying the Focke-Wulf FW-190A-8 from I. / EJG 1
had attacked the bomber, fatally wounding the ball turret gunner. The fuselage was
damaged starting a fire in the bomb bay and the crew jettisoned the bombs. The aircraft
fell out of formation when the group rAllied after the target and the pilot headed for the
Russian front lines in Hungary. The plane made it as far as J�sz�roksz�ll�s, forty-five
miles east of Budapest, Hungary when it was attacked by Soviet Yakovlev fighters,
setting the right wing on fire and forcing the crew to bail out. {72 missions}..
32111 (MSN 7225) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport,
WY 24Jan44. 483rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 7Feb44. Hunter Field,
Savannah, GA 4Mar44. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command,
Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 9Mar44. Ferried South Atlantic route
Waller Field, Trinidad: Bel�m, Brasil: Natal, Brasil: Dakar, Senegal; Menara Airport,
Marrakech, French Morocco: Tunisia. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 816th Bomb Squadron,
483rd Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 31Mar44. Sterparone, Foggia,
Italy 22Apr44. Severely battle damaged on a mission to the Shell oil refinery at Budapest,
Hungary 14Jul44 (4WIA:6RTD). The mission was normal until they were over the
target with the bomb bay doors open. All of a sudden there was the loudest noise and
most violent concussion they had ever experienced from flak. The bomber had received a
direct flak hit and the controls reacted as if they had been severed by the blast. The crew
noted the plane was not perpendicular to the wings due to the air frame being warped.
When the automatic pilot was engaged, it brought the slack controls back into limited use,
making it possible to gain control over direction. The bomb bay caught fire and the catwalk
had been blasted where it terminated at the radio room wall, hundreds of holes in the fuselage
skin, and all electrical facilities had been knocked out. It was at this time that a plane from
another squadron dropped out of formation to fly escort for them as they were behind the
Group formation and losing altitude. The bomb bay fire was extinguished and the crew
began the sensitive job of prying four fully armed bombs from the racks to get at another
bomb wedged in the upper rack. The job to empty the bomb bay took 45 minutes,
using the only tools available a large screwdriver and a pair of pliers, and was
possible because one bomb bay door had been blown off when the shell exploded.
The oxygen system was completely destroyed, requiring the plane to drop to a lower altitude.
On reaching the Yugoslavian coast, the No.3 engine gave out and efforts to transfer
fuel proved futile. After what seemed like hours, they realized that they would make it back to Italy.
A check of the hydraulic system showed it was empty, indicating the aircraft would not
have brakes when landing. A check of the landing gear showed its power source was
non-existent and would have to be cranked into position. Needing a long runway, and
immediate hospital facilities, the crew decided to land at Foggia Main. With no radio
capability, they depended on emergency flares to warn of their approach. The bombardier
devised a braking system utilizing parachutes (attached to each waist gun mount) which
were opened as the aircraft touched down. A cross wind, catching the parachutes, caused
the plane to swing around and head for a row of parked planes. Fortunately the bomber
came to a stop before adding to the day of mishaps. The damage to the plane is reflected
in the way the crew members worked as a well-trained team to keep the plane in the air
long enough to reach Italy and a base with a long runway. An official survey of the flak-riddled
plane revealed a total of 30,748 holes, an Air Force record. Each crew member was
awarded a Silver Star and each of the four wounded members was presented with the
Purple Heart, making this the 'Most Decorated One Mission Crew' in Air Force history.
The pilot was also nominated for the Distinguished Service Cross, making this an
outstanding crew and a truly remarkable mission for the records. Salvaged 15Jul44
32112 (MSN 7226) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport,
WY 26Jan44. 302nd Base Unit (Staging Wing), Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 22Feb44.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 1Mar44.
337th Bomb Squadron [AW*F], 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138),
Norfolk 6Mar44. Damaged in mid-air collision with B-17G 44-6137 and P-47D 42-25690
on a training mission over Halstead, Essex 1Oct44. Crashed during assembly ten miles north
of base at Beachamwell, Swaffham, Norfolk 2Jan45 (9KIA)
32113 (MSN 7227) Accepted by USAAF 22Jan44. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Jan44. 242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit),
Grand Island Field, NB 6Feb44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Grenier Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 23Feb44. 457th Bomb Group [L], Glatton
(Station 130), Huntingdonshire. 368th Bomb Squadron [BO*G], 306th Bomb Group,
Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 12Mar44. Failed to return from a mission to Berlin,
Germany 24May44 (5POW:4KIA). Thirty seconds after releasing the bombs on the target,
a direct flak hit severed the tail and elevators. The aircraft went up into a steep stall,
stood on its back and then went almost straight down in a flat spin from 27,000ft.
The four crew in the rear were probably killed by the flak burst. Crashed Perleberger Br�cke, Berlin.
MACR 4952.
32114 (MSN 7228) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal
Airport, WY 24Jan44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 5Feb44.
447th Bomb Group, Rattlesden (Station 126), Suffolk 13Feb44. Destroyed in collision
with B-17G 42-32114 landing at Rattlesden 5Apr44. Salvaged 6Apr44
32115 (MSN 7229) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26Jan44.
483rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 7Feb44. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 4Mar44.
15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11),
West Palm Beach, FL 9Mar44. Ferried South Atlantic route Waller Field, Trinidad: Bel�m,
Brasil: Natal, Brasil: Dakar, Senegal; Menara Airport, Marrakech, French Morocco: Tunisia.
Ferried South Atlantic route Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 9Mar44: Waller Field,
Trinidad: Bel�m, Brasil: Natal, Brasil: Dakar, Senegal; Menara Airport, Marrakech,
French Morocco: Tunisia. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 840th Bomb Squadron, 483rd Bomb Group,
Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy Mar44. {nil missions}. 346th Bomb Squadron,
99th Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 31Mar44. Accident departing
for a mission to railway marshalling yards at Bucharest, Rumania 4Apr44. During takeoff
the right landing gear of B-17G 42-32047 collapsed, caused by failure of the drag link.
The pilot pulled the power off and started braking to counter the slight turn that had
started but there was no response. The landing gear had only partially collapsed
leaving the wheel free to rotate but severing the brake hydraulic and emergency air lines.
That plane was heading towards a solid nose-to-tail line of taxying bombers waiting to
takeoff. Without braking or directional control #047 ran into the side of #115, the impact
causing its own landing gear to collapse, the ground stopping the propellers from
causing further damage. {2 missions}. Salvaged 4Apr44
32116 MSN 7230) Accepted by USAAF 20Jan44. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26Jan44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME 1Mar44. 452nd Bomb Group, Deopham Green (Station 142),
Norfolk 3Mar44. 457th Bomb Group, Glatton (Station 130), Huntingdonshire 11Mar44.
323rd Bomb Squadron [OR*B], 91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 16Mar44.
Named HI-HO SILVER artwork of a cartoon cowboy riding a horse, based on the
radio show "The Lone Ranger". Painted by Tony Starcer
{first combat mission 22Mar44}. Battle damaged on a mission to aircraft factories at Stettin,
Prussia 11Apr44 (10RTD). Over Hanover, Germany, the flak was heavy and struck the plane
with an engine damaged. Ball turret removed. Battle damaged on a mission to railway
facilities around Berlin, Germany 29Apr44. Flak was heavy and accurate, severely
damaging the plane. Substantially battle damage on a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield
at Cazaux, France 19Jun44. Battle damaged on a mission to an oil refinery at Hamburg,
Germany 20Jun44 (1WIA:9RTD). The tail gunner was quite severely wounded by a piece
of flak which struck his hip and ranged upward toward his spine. Battle damaged on a
mission to the Siebel Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory at Halle, Germany 16Aug44.
Battle damaged by flak on a mission to the shipyards at Kiel, Germany 30Aug44.
Battle damaged on a mission to the L�tzkendorf oil facilities at M�cheln, west of
Merseburg, Germany 11Sep44. Battle damaged on a mission to the I.G. Farben
chemical and synthetic oil works at Leuna, Merseburg, Germany 2Nov44. The Group was
hit hard after turning on the I.P. The box barrage of flak was heavy around the target.
After the target, because of a supposedly malfunctioning compass, the Group Lead aircraft
rallied off the target at 330 degrees west rather than 270 degrees west, as briefed.
The rest of the Group followed the lead, in the process flying out of the protection
of the main bomber stream. German Fighter Command had been conserving its scarce
fuel for weeks so as to mount a major effort against the bomber attacks. An estimated
500 Luftwaffe fighters went up to meet the bomber force. Attacked by enemy aircraft, it
dropped out because two airmen were injured and control cables were shot up. it was
protected from further damage by wingman (42-97956) which was then shot down.
This plane returned safely to Bassingbourn; the tail had been riddled by 0.30 cannon fire.
322nd Bomb Squadron [LG*A]. 401st Bomb Squadron [LL*B]. {final combat mission 17Apr45}.
{130 missions}. Returned to US. Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41,
Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 27May45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
42-32117/32165 Fairchild UC-61 Forwarder
MSN 322/370. To RAF as Argus I FK313/FK361.
32117 (MSN 322) to RAF as Argus I FK313. Returned to USAAF
Mar 27, 1947. To civil registry as G-AJGW Apr 10, 1947, cancelled Jul 24, 1955, OO-ACF, registered
D-EKAS Jul 6, 1956, cancelled Nov 18, 1976,
OY-ALH and SE-AMU.
32118 (MSN 323) to RAF as Argus I FK314. Returned to USAAF
Mar 27, 1947
32119 (MSN 324) to RAF as Argus I FK315. Returned to USAAF
Mar 21, 1947. Probably never physically left UK as registered G-AJPC
Apr 21, 1947. Registration cancelled Jan 11, 1952 on sale as OH-FCJ.
OH-FCJ cancelled Jun 1, 1966 as "scrapped", but plane reported to still
exist at Helsinki.
32120 (MSN 325) to RAF as Argus I FK316. Returned to USAAF
Mar 26, 1947
32121/32122 (FK317/FK318) lost at sea enroute to Middle East 7/1942.
32123 (MSN 328) to RAF as Argus I FK319. SOC Feb 12, 1943
32124 (MSN 329) to RAF as Argus I FK320. Hit downdraft and
crashed while taking off from Muscat Sep 5, 1944.
32125 (MSN 330) to RAF as Argus I FK321. SOC 1/30/1947.
32126 (MSN 331) to RAF as Argus I FK322. No record of fate
32127 (MSN 332) to RAF as Argus I FK323. Crashed on takeoff
from Mukeiras Mar 3, 1943. SOC May 9, 1944.
32128 (MSN 333) to RAF as Argus I FK324. SOC 5/31/1945
32129 (MSN 334) to RAF as Argus I FK325. SOC 5/30/1943.
32130 (MSN 335) to RAF as Argus I FK326. To USAAAF 3/31/1943.
32131 (MSN 336) to RAF as Argus I FK327. No record of fate.
32132 (MSN 337) to RAF as Argus I FK328. SOC 9/26/1946.
32133 (MSN 338) to RAF as Argus I FK329. SOC 9/18/1944.
32134 (MSN 339) to RAF as Argus I FK330. Returned to USAAF May 10,
1947. However, it went to British civil registry as
G-AKJL in 1948, then to Australia as VH-ALF in July 1951.
32135 (MSN 340) to RAF as Argus I FK331. SOC 5/20/1945.
32136 (MSN 341) to RAF as Argus I FK332. SOC 7/7/1945.
32137 (MSN 342) to RAF as Argus I FK333. Returned to USAAF Apr 1947
32138 (MSN 343) to RAF as Argus I FK334. Returned to USAAF Jun 6, 1947
32139 (MSN 344) to RAF as Argus I FK335. Returned to USAAF Apr 8, 1947
32140 (MSN 345) to RAF as Argus I FK336. SOC 5/10/1945.
32141 (MSN 346) to RAF as Argus I FK337. SOC 5/20/1945.
32142 (MSN 347) to RAF as Argus I FK338. Returned to USAF
Jun 14, 1947. There is a conflict here, since the British
CAA has it becoming G-AJOZ Apr 21, 1947. Crashed at
Rennes, France Aug 16, 1982. Remains noted in storage at
Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington, England Mar 2004.
32143 (MSN 348) to RAF as Argus I FK339. No record of fate.
32144 (MSN 349) to RAF as Argus I FK340. SOC 5/29/1947.
32145 (MSN 350) to RAF as Argus I FK341. SOC 9/12/1945
32146 (MSN 351) to RAF as Argus I FK342 . DBR at Sherburn-in-Elmet
when Argus EV797 (42-38861) was blown on top of it during
a gale Feb 12, 1943.
32147 (MSN 352) to RAF as Argus I FK343. Returned to US 3/47.
32148 (MSN 353) to RAF as Argus I FK344. Wrecked when overturned
on landing at Sherburn-in-Elmet Aug 15, 1944.
32149 (MSN 354) to RAF as Argus I FK345. SOC Sep 6, 1945.
32150 (MSN 355) to RAF as Argus I FK346. SOC May 29, 1947.
32151 (MSN 356) to RAF as Argus I FK347. Returned to USAAF
Dec 11, 1946
32152 (MSN 357) to RAF as Argus I FK348. SOC Jul 7, 1945.
32153 (MSN 358) to RAF as Argus I FK349. Damaged Dec 20, 1943
in unspecified accident and SOC Mar 14, 1944.
32154 (MSN 359) to RAF as Argus I FK350. Returned to USAAF
Nov 1, 1946.
32155 (MSN 360) to RAF as Argus I FK351. Returned to USAAF
Dec 10, 1946. Noted 1988 in Air World, Wangaratta,
Australia
32156 (MSN 361) to RAF as Argus I FK352. Returned to USAAF
Apr 14, 1947.
32157 (MSN 362) to RAF as Argus I FK353. SOC Nov 30, 1942,
believed to have been DBR during transit to UK. Appears on Australian register as VH-CMB
32158 (MSN 363) to RAF as Argus I FK354. DBR when caught fire
in hangar White Waltham Jun 23, 1943
32159 (MSN 364) to RAF as Argus I FK355. Returned to USAAF
Jul 4, 1947
32160 (MSN 365) to RAF as Argus I FK356. SOC Jul 2, 1945.
32161 (MSN 366) to RAF as Argus I FK357. Returned to USAAF
Mar 11, 1947
32162 (MSN 367) to RAF as Argus I FK358. Returned to USAAF
Apr 14, 1947
32163 (MSN 368) to RAF as Argus I FK359. Returned to USAAF
Feb 28, 1947. Civilianized as G-AJFY
32164 (MSN 369) to RAF as Argus I FK360. SOC Jun 5, 1945
32165 (MSN 370) to RAF as Argus I FK361. Damaged Sep 6, 1943,
presumable thereafter SOC.
42-32166/32180 Lockheed C-60 Lodestar
MSN 2186/2200. Civilian Model 18-56 impressed by USAAF as C-60 and intended
for Lend-Lease to RAF as FK246/FK260 and allocated USAAF serials for contractual purposes, but all but one
(RAF FK246) were retained by USAAF and transferred to RAAF.
32166 (MSN 2186) to RAAF as FK246, callsign VH-CEG. Assigned to 221st Troop Carrier Squadron RAAF. W/o and
scrapped Sep 3, 1944.
32167 (MSN 2187) to RAAF as FK247, callsign VH-CEA. Assigned to 22 Troop Carrier Squadron, RAAF.
Crashed at Ward's Strip, Port Moresby, New Guinea, 3Dec42.
32168 (MSN 2188) to RAF as FK248, callsign VH-CEB. Assigned to 21 Troop Carrier Squqdron, later
to 22 TCS. Crashed on takeoff Dobodura, New Guinea Oct 1942.
32169 (MSN 2189) To NC45336/N45336, to N19M (Trinity Drilling Co), to N777, to N333A. Impounded for smuggling President
Stroessner at Asuncion. Cancelled Jan 1974
32170 (MSN 2190) to Eastman Oil Well Survey as NC74659/N74659, to TI-1030 1961, to ZP-CBU 1961, to PT-CGV
Apr 15, 1966. Stored derelict Santos Dumont Apr 1968 1975. To Museu de Bebeduoro, Brasil 1975. Current
32171 (MSN 2191) to NC17616 Aug 22, 1966, cancelled May 14, 1948. Cvtd Learstar I 1957. To N760AC, to N620S.
Crashed Chub Cay, Bahamas May 6, 1973.
32172 (MSN 2192) to RAAF as FK252, callsign VH-CEC. Assigned to 2 Troop Carrier Squadron, Oct 1942.
To Australian National Airways Jul 7, 1943. Returned to USAAF Apr 1944. Sold later to owner in USA
32173 (MSN 2193) to RAAF as FK253, callsign VH-CED. Assigned to 21 Troop Carrier Squadron, RAAF Sep 22, 1942.
To Australian National Airways Aug 23, 1943. Returned to USAAF Mar 13, 1944. SOC and scrapped Dec 17, 1945.
32174 (MSN 2194) to RAAF as FK254, callsign VH-CEE. Assigned to 21 Troop Carrier Squadron, RAAF Sep 1942.
To 36 Squadron Jul 8, 1943, namee "Tiki". Returned to USAAF Feb 10, 1944. To Guinea Airways as VH-CEE
Feb 29, 1944, returned to USAAF again Jun 29, 1945. Sold to Aircrafts Pty Ltd Feb 1946 and
registered as VH-BAG Nov 28, 1946. Sold to Truth and Sportsman LTd Dec 16, 1946 and operated by Aircrafts Pty
Ltd. Leased Jul 1948 to Guine Air Traders, Lae for one month while its DC-3 VH-GAT was being overhauled
The Lodestar was to be re-registered as VH-BYG as VH-BAG had become a prohibited registration. In
the event, this did not proceed. APL renamed Queensland Airlines Oct 18, 1948. Crashed into swampy
area after takeoff from Coolangatta (now Gold Coast Airport) Mar 10, 1949. The aircraft departed Coolangatta
bound for Brisbane on 10Mar49. As the undercarriage was retracting, the aircraft assumed an abnormally nose high attitude until,
at a height of approximately 200-300 feet, the starboard wing dropped and the aircraft began to lose altitude. The aircraft was
recovered briefly until the port wing dropped and it entered a curving descent to the left. Although a level attitude was regained,
the aircraft was seen to drop almost vertically into a swampy area at Bilinga, between the airstrip and the beach.
The Lodestar struck the ground heavily and immediately exploded in flames
32175 (MSN 2195) to RAAF as FK255, callsign VH-CEF. Assigned to 21 Troop Carrier Squadron, RAAF Oct 1942.
To US Navy as "The Texas Wrangler" but W/o New Guinea Dec 21, 1943.
32176 (MSN 2196) to RAAF as FK256, callsign VH-CEH. Assigned to 21 Troop Carrier Squadron, RAAF Oct 1942.
To Australian National Airways Jul 15, 1943. Returned to USAAF at Port Moresby May 4, 1944. Sold later
to owner in USA
32177 (MSN 2197) to RAAF as FK257, callsign VH-CEI. Assigned to 21 Troop Carrier Squadron, RAAF Oct 1942, later
to 22 TCS. Nosed over at Ward's Strip, New Guinea. SOC and scrapped Jan 15, 1943.
32178 (MSN 2198) to RAAF as FK258, callsign VH-CEJ. Assigned to 21 Troop Carrier Squadron, RAAF Oct 1942.
To 36 Squadron Jul 19, 1943, named "Rebel". Returned to USAAF Mar 7, 1944. WFU at Tacloban, Philippines Dec 1945.
32179 (MSN 2199) to Warren Petroleum Co as NC53286/N53286. Converted to Learstar II in 1956. To N28L in 1956,
Cancelled May 1990 but believe crashed in the 1970s.
42-32181/32232 Lockheed C-60A Lodestar
MSN 2201/2205, 2232/2239, 2284/2293, 2338/2351, 2412/2426. Model 18
Intended for RAF as FK261/FK312, but order was cancelled in lieu of C-47 aircraft and the planes were
retained on USAAF charge.
32181 (MSN 18-2201) became XB-BOC then XA-GUH of Aerovias Cohuila, Sold to American Aircraft Corp as N4652V in 1954,
to N668, to CF-IAZ Oct 1956, to N3779G Jun 1963. Cancelled Jan 1971. Stored long Beach 1970-Sep 1986.
Preserved at The Air Museum Chino, CA, since 1988. Current, painted as AM711.
32183 (MSN 18-2203) to Superior Oil Co as NC17639/N17639, to N55S,to N400M. Cvtd 18-08. Possibly cvtd Learstar. To N410M
Sep 8, 1961. Painted as "NC8125" of "International Airways" for film 1963. Crashed near Albuquerque, NM,
en-route Las Vegas to Dalhart, TX Dec 5, 1969
32184 (MSN 18-2204) to NC66184 Oct 29, 1946.
32185 (MSN 18-2205) incorrectly registered to W. W. Pawley as NR58360 should have been MSN 2502 / 42-56029.
To NC1230 [which had originally been incorrectly registered to MSN 2215], corrected Dec 17, 1946,
later N1230 with Island Creek Coal Co. Converted to Learstar. To N142PA
Jun 26, 1959. Cancelled Mar 26, 1969.
32186 (MSN 18-2232) to YS-26 1945, to XH-TAB Nov 1946, to XH-TAL, to NC75504/N75504 Aug 3, 1948, to N500W with
Groves and Sons Dec 17, 1952. Wiplinger mods. To N501W Jun 13, 1957. N504W allotted Jun 1958 but ntu.
To N510RA 12Dec 12, 1958. Used for development of Howard 250 tri-gear May-Nov61. To N250JG 10Oct 10, 1961,
to N250JR Apr 1, 1982. Current as tailwheel aircraft in US Navy colors
32188 (MSN 18-2234) To Cuba IM-21, later CU-T45, to FAEC 215. To N75397 Aug 15, 1955, to N770AC Jul 19, 1956.
Cvtd Learstar I Sep 14, 1956. Howard mods Feb 27, 1962. To N153T Jul 30, 1963. Derelict at Dorval,
Montreal after tailwheel collapse. US registration cancelled Apr 11, 2013. Stored near Huntingdon, Quebec
but reported being broken up Jun 2006
32189 (MSN 18-2235) became NC33348/N33348 of National Airlines. Converted 18-50, to CU-N655 Oct 31, 1958
32191 (MSN 18-2237) To Brazilian AF as FAB-01 May 4, 1943, later C60A-2000 10Jul 10, 1945. SOC Nov 4, 1948
32192 (MSN 18-2238) to RAF as Lodestar II. Transferred to Free French AF as FC-BAA Nov 14, 1942. No
RAF serials known and may never have been issued. To Aero
Africane as F-BAMJ Jun 27, 1946, to N9966F 1952 but ntu and cancelled May 9, 1952, to N2742A. Converted
Learstar Sep 14, 1956, to N26L, to N261L, to N61L, to N222B. Howard mods. To CF-XHA Jun 12, 1968,
cancelled Jan 23, 1974, to N577X Jan 30, 1974, to RP-C577 Sep 10, 1975, cancelled Sep 12, 1978, to N577X
Sep 12, 1978. Impounded Madrid AB, Colombia by Oct 1988. To garden of nearby house Jan 1989.
US registration cancelled Feb 1, 2013
32193 (MSN 18-2239) to RAF as Lodestar II. Transferred to Free French AF as FC-BAB Nov 14, 1942. No
RAF serials known and may never have been issued. To Aero Africaine as F-BAMK Jun 28, 1945, to N9967F
1952 but ntu and cancelled May 7, 1952, to N94544 with Monmount County Airport Jun 17, 1952. Wiplinger mods.
To N713SE Jul 11, 1955. Cvtd Learstar Jun 20, 1957, to N29L Apr 16, 1957. Damaged Arizona Oct 12, 1977,
cancelled Feb 11, 1982
32194 (MSN 18-2284) to civil registry as NC66015. To British Caribbean Airways of Jamaica Mar 3, 1947
as VP-JAN. To N1806M Jul 15, 1949, cancelled Jul 9 2009. Stored President Stroessner Airport,
Asuncion, Paraguay.
32197 (MSN 18-2287) 2523rd BU) crashed while flying in storm 4 km W of Keene, CA Dec 1, 1944. 9 killed.
32199 (MSN 18-2289) to C-1000 (Colombia)
32201 (MSN 18-2291) To YS-23, to N1229V Apr 24, 1951, cancelled Jun 2, 1953 to CF-EAE, stored Dorval,
Montreal, cancelled May 27, 1982
32202 (MSN 18-2292) To XH-TAY, to AN-ABZ, to N3948B, to N113DM, cancelled Nov 23, 1970
32203 (MSN 18-2293)
32204 (MSN 18-2338)
32205 (MSN 18-2339) to RAF as Lodestar II FK285. No reference to RAF use. To Belgium as OO-CAO
of SABENA (for Belgian Congo). At New England Air Museum, Connecticut
32206 (MSN 18-2340) to RAF as Lodestar II FK286. No reference to RAF use. To Belgium as OO-CAK
of SABENA (for Belgian Congo). DBR Dec 14, 1945 at Kouande, Benin
when caught fire after emergency forced landing.
32207 (MSN 18-2341) to NC44887/N44887, to N30PR Jul 31, 1956, to N307PR Dec 23, 1969, to N33LM May 22, 1972. Damaged
Brunswick, GA Jul 24, 1979. Cancelled Oct 2, 2012
32208 (MSN 18-2342) to NC58498/N58498. Cvtd Learstar II. To N700L. Impounded by Customs at Homestead, FL Jul 1976 due
to illegal flight. Cancelled Oct 31, 1979
32209 (MSN 18-2343) to XB-HOJ
32210 (MSN 18-2344) to NC44888 Aug 14, 1945, to N662 Dec 19, 1950, to N80E Sep 2. 1955. Cvtd Learstar Dec 6, 1955.
To N301TM Jan 29, 1962, to N190L May 2, 1963, to N200WW Sep 16, 1972. Impounded by Customs at Miami,
FL Jul76 due to illegal flight Nov 1, 1977. Cancelled Jun 7, 2011
32211 (MSN 18-2345) to NC66547/N66547, to N74V, to CF-IYS, to CF-PPL, to N4911M. Cancelled Mar 11, 2011
32212 (MSN 18-2346) to NC1083M/N1083M. Converted 18-50 Oct 6, 1951. Cancelled Jun 25, 2009
32213 (MSN 18-2347) to NC58492, to NC1201/N1201, to N40DC. Converted Howard 250 Sep 16, 1963. To N442D,
cancelled Mar 11, 2013
32214 (MSN 18-2348) to NC54431, to C-320, to HK-320
32215 (MSN 18-2349) to NC69415/N69415, cancelled Mar 7, 1974. Impounded for smuggling Florida, Uruguay.
Stored then to Museo Aeronautico, Montivedeo, Uruguay by Mar 1988. DBF at museum Dec 4. 1997
32216 (MSN 18-2350) in ground collision TEF Training School, Lubbock, TX Mar 12, 1943. 3 killed.
32217 (MSN 18-2351) to NC65912/N65912, to N80G. Crashed 7 mls east of Uniontown, PA Oct 6, 1957
32218 (MSN 18-2412) became NC60191/N60191 of Mary Construction Co. To N191P. Not registered by Jan 1967.
32219 (MSN 18-2413) to National Airlines as NC15578, later N15578. To LV-PKV and then to LV-GHB.
32220 (MSN 18-2414) initially to NC33369, then became N33369 of Defense Plant Corp. Went to
National Airlines. Crashed at St Petersburg, FL Jan 10, 1955.
32221 (MSN 18-2415) to NC33345/N33345 with Defense Plant Corp. To National
Airlines as N33345. To LV-PKW then LV-GHC.
32224 (MSN 18-2418) to NC44892/N44892.
32225 (MSN 18-2419) to RAF as Lodestar II FK305, but no record of RAF use. To Belgium as OO-CAR of
SABENA Jun 7, 1943 (for Belgian Congo). DBR Dec 24, 1947 near
Mitwaba, Congo (Democratic Republic)
32226 (MSN 18-2420) became OO-CAS of SABENA (Jun 7, 1943 (for Belgian Congo),
then VP-KHB of East African Airways Jun 9, 1949. Broken up for spares by Nov 1955.
32227 (MSN 18-2421) became OO-CAV of SABENA Aug 4, 1943 (for Belgian
Congo), then VP-KHE of East African Airways Jun 9, 1949, then went to
D. O. Bottle as N94537 Dec 1951. To N12L Jul 2, 1955. W/o Jan 28, 1953 when DBR in New Jersey.
Must have been repaired since converted to Learstar 1 Jul 29, 1955. To N777FK Jun 17, 1982.
Cancelled Mar 26, 2013.
32230 (MSN 18-2424) to NC69409/N69409. Converted to 18-50. became N6L of Tecon Corp in 1954. Cancelled Nov 23, 1970.
42-32233/32382 North American B-25C-10 Mitchell
MSN 94-12641/94-12790. Intended for delivery to RAF, but this order was cancelled in lieu of aicraft transferred
from USAAF release.
32233 w/o Aug 3, 1944 at Patterson Field, OH
32234/32242 to USSR
32245 experimentally fitted with Bendix upper turret in June 1944.
32247 missing in Caribbean area Feb 18, 1943.
32249/32254 to USSR
32253 not taken up for USSR, w/o Mar 23, 1943 at Ladd Field
32255 (42nd BG, 75th BS) hit by AAA and crashed into sea off
New Guinea Nov 23, 1943. MACR 1217. 6 KIA.
32256 converted to TB-25C; w/o 2�Dec 1944 at Haswell, CO
32262 (405th BS, 38th BG) lost Oct 18, 1943, Papua New Guinea. MACR 962
32263 lost Sep 17, 1944, India
32264 (22nd BS, 341st BG) shot down Jul 25, 1943, Bay of Bengal. Plane and crew never recovered. MACR 153
32272 to RAF as Mitchell II FR141 for service with Dutch No 320 Sq in UK - lost Mar 20, 1944
32273 to RAF as Mitchell II FR142 for service with Dutch No 320 Sq in UK - damaged by friendly fire from Mosquito and
crashed 3 mi NNE of Headcorn, England Apr 26, 1944
32274 to RAF as Mitchell II FR143 for service with Dutch No 320 Sq in UK - damaged by AAA and ditched in English
Channel Aug 9, 1944
32275 to RAF as Mitchell II FR144 for service with Dutch No 320 Sq in UK - stalled and crashed into North Sea Jul 30, 1943
32276 to RAF as Mitchell II FR145 for service with Dutch No 320 Sq in UK - Transferred to Dutch AF Jul 22, 1947.
WFU Sep 30, 1949, Scrapped 1949
32277 to RAF as Mitchell II FR146 for service with Dutch No 320 Sq in UK - lost Nov 26, 1943 from mission to
Martinvast
32280 to RAF as Mitchell II FR147 for service with Dutch No 320 Sq in UK - ditched after being damaged by AAA Aug 20, 1943
32281 modified as XB-25E deicing research aircraft and used by North American from 1942 to 1944 to test
hot gas anti-icing system. Assigned to NASA Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory, Lewis field,
Cleveland, OH Jul 10, 1944 to Feb 1953. Redesignated as ZXB-25E on 10 Jun 1948. Code BD-281,
named "Flamin' Mamie". Assigned to Wright Field, Ohio. Deliberately crashed in a program to develop
fire extinguishers for aircraft.
32282 to RAF as Mitchell II FR148 for service with Dutch No 320 Sq in UK - Missing from ferry flight
between Gander and Prestwick, Scotland Feb 23, 1943
32283 to RAF as Mitchell II FR149 for service with Dutch No 320 Sq in UK - Shot down by AAA into Grimbecq Forest
Jun 12, 1944
32284 to RAF as Mitchell II FR150 for service with Dutch No 320 Sq in UK - Collided with Mitchell FR182 (41-30724)
over Sussex, England June 8, 1944; crashed and exploded
32285 to RAF as Mitchell II FR151 for service with Dutch No 320 Sq in UK - Shot down by flak over Moyenville Jun 20, 1944
32286 to RAF as Mitchell II FR152 for service with Dutch No 320 Sq in UK - Wrecked when ran into bomb crater at
end of runway at Airfield B.110 (Achmer, Germany) Apr 28, 1943
32293 489th BS, 345th BG, "RHIP" lost at sea near coast SE of Port Moresby Jul 14, 1943. All 6 MIA.
32295/32300 to USSR
32304 w/o 3�Aug 1944 at Miami, FL�
32311 (42nd BG, 69th BS) w/o in landing accident in New Caledonia Nov 5, 1943.
32314 (345th BG, 500th BS, *Stubborn Hellion*) shot down by AAA
in attack on Kavieng, New Britain Feb 15, 1944. 1 of 6 crew
killed, 5 rescued.
32319 (42nd BG) lost Jan 22, 1944. MACR 1800
32324 converted to TB-25C
32327 w/o 13�Jun 1943 at Columbia, SC
32329 w/o 31�Mar 1944 at Sacramento, CA�
32334 w/o 7�Nov 1945 at Asmara, Eritrea�
32335 w/o 28�Jul 1943 at Hammer Field, CA�
32337 to NEIAF as N5-150 - lost in action 2 Jun 1943 at Lautem
32338 to NEIAF as N5-148, reserialled as M-348; to Indonesian AF as M-348 in June 1950
32339 to NEIAF as N5-153 - w/o 10 Sep 1943 at Batchelor, Australia
32342 to RAF as Mitchell II FR156 for service with Dutch No 320 Sq in UK -
Transferred to Dutch AF Jul 22, 1947. wfu 30 Sep 1949, Scrapped 1949
32343 to RAF as Mitchell II FR157 for service with Dutch No 320 Sq in UK - Transferred to Dutch AF Jul 22, 1947.
WFU Sep 30, 1949, scrapped 1949
32344 to RAF as Mitchell II FR158 for service with Dutch No 320 Sq in UK - lost July 29, 1944 at Loire, France.
32345 to RAF as Mitchell II FR159 for service with Dutch No 320 Sq in UK - Transferred to Dutch AF Jul 22, 1947.
WFU Sep 30, 1949, scrapped 1949
32346 to RAF as Mitchell II FR160 for service with Dutch No 320 Sq in UK - Transferred to Dutch AF Jul 22, 1947.
WFU Sep 30, 1949, scrapped 1949
32347 to RAF as Mitchell II FR161 for service with Dutch No 320 Sq in UK - Transferred to Netherlands Navy as A-11
Mar 6, 1947, Transferred to Dutch AF Jul 22, 1947. WFU Sep 30, 1949, scrapped 1949
32348 to RAF as Mitchell II FR162 for service with Dutch No 320 Sq in UK - Damaged by explosion of Mitchell
FR178 (42-64788) and damaged beyond repair when crashlanded and Perranporth, Wales Oct 25, 1943
32349 to RAF as Mitchell II FR163 for service with Dutch No 320 Sq in UK. Transferred to Dutch AF Jul 22, 1974
32350 to RAF as Mitchell II FR164 for service with Dutch No 320 Sq in UK - DBR in accident Dec 25, 1944
32351 to RAF as Mitchell II FR165 for service with Dutch No 320 Sq in UK - Collided with Mitchell FW212 (43-3478)
and crashed at Tirlemont Feb 9, 1945
32352 to RAF as Mitchell II FR166 for service with Dutch No 320 Sq in UK - Missing from mission to Lanveoc Oct 25, 1943
32353 to RAF as Mitchell II FR167 for service with Dutch No 320 Sq in UK -
Transferred to Royal Netherlands Navy Jul 22, 1947 as 18-3, reserialled as M-3, reserialled as B-3.
W/o Mar 26, 1954
32354 (MSN 94-12762/ 1/14/43: TOS USAAF. 1/15/43: Kansas City Modification Center, MO.
2/22/43: 66th Observation Group, Morris Field, NC. 3/24/43: Unit moved to Vichy, MO
May 2, 1943: Unit moved to Godman Field, KY. 10/15/43: 313th Base Unit, Esler Field, LA.
Aug 1, 44: 356th Base Unit, Marshall, KS. 9/20/45: Storage at Cincinnati, OH.
9/23/45: Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Santa Maria, CA for sale as surplus.
1960: Used in the filming of episode 37/season 2 of the TV show Twilight Zone,
"King Nine Will Not Return." Also used for several other minor film projects
but eventually ended up hidden in studio storage for many years.
Ca.1963: Jack Hardwick, El Monte, CA. Remained stored.
1988: Aero Trader/Carl Scholl, Ocotillo Wells, CA. Awaiting restoration.
32356 converted to TB-25C
32358 retained by USAAF, w/o Jan 15, 1943 at Fairfax Airport, KS
32359 retained by USAAF, w/o Jul 4, 1943 at Myrtle Beach, SC. Seen as a wreck in the African desert in a
Twilight Zone TV show.
32360 retained by USAAF, w/o Jul 7, 1943 at Birmingham AAB, AL
32362 retained by USAAF, converted to TB-25C
32363 retained by USAAF, w/o Jul 10, 1944 at Romulus AAF, MI
32364 retained by USAAF, converted to TB-25C
32366 retained by USAAF, w/o May 16, 1944 at Greenville AAF, SC
32367 retained by USAAF, w/o Feb 12, 1944 at Greenville, AAF, SC
32368 intended for RAF but cancelled and completed for USAAF; w/o 4�Jun 1944 at Palm Springs AAF, CA�
32369 intended for RAF but cancelled and completed for USAAF; w/o 7�Jul 1943 at Bunnell, FL�
32371 intended for RAF but cancelled and completed for USAAF; w/o 27�Mar 1944 at Hunter Field, GA�
32372 intended for RAF but cancelled and completed for USAAF; w/o 17�Feb 1945 at Dayton AAF, GA�
32373 intended for RAF but cancelled and completed for USAAF; w/o 27�Jun 1943 at Augusta, GA
32375 intended for RAF but cancelled and completed for USAAF; conv to TB-25C
32376 SOC at Searcy Field, Stillwater, OK. Sold by War Assets Corp to Paul Mantz Feb 19, 1946
32377 intended for RAF but cancelled and completed for USAAF; w/o 22�May 1944 at Columbia AAB, SC�
42-32383/32532 North American B-25C-15 Mitchell
MSN 93-12491/93-12640. Intended for delivery to China, but this order was cancelled in lieu of aircraft
transferred from theatre stocks in India, and this order was completed for USAAF.
32383 crashed after midair collision with AT-6C 41-32833 while filming "God Is My Co-Pilot" near
Lake Pleasant, thirty miles north of Luke Field 19Aug44. No one
was able to escape from either plane before they crashed on the desert terrain.
32384/32388 modified as B-25G-1
32385 to RFC. To Cuban AF as 301 Dec 14, 1945.
32388 converted to TB-25G. Crashed 9 mi E of Binger, OK Apr 14, 1945.
32390 w/o 23�Jan 1943 at Los Angeles Airport, CA�
32395 w/o 21�Oct 1943 at Myrtle Beach, SC�
32397 w/o 11�Jan 1944 at Rosecrans Field, MO�
32401 converted to TB-25C; w/o 22�Oct 1944 at Swartz, LA
32404 converted to TB-25C
32405 w/o 19�Nov 1943 at Tooele, UT�
32407 w/o 24�Feb 1944 at Lake Issaquena, SC�
32412 w/o 9�Nov 1944 in China/Burma/India
32414 (310th BG, 379th BS) shot down by Bf 109G-6 of JG 53/8 over Italy Aug 27, 1943.
MACR 639. 5 KIA
32421 (12th BG) lost Jan 13, 1944. MACR 2213
32422 (310th BG, 381st BS) shot down by AAA and ditched 37 km W of Oristano, Sardinia, Italy Jul 3, 1943.
5 KIA. MACR 341.
32424 w/o 29�Jan 1944 at Malir, India�
32426 w/o 13�Dec 1944 at Raleigh-Durham AAF, NC�
32428 w/o 30�Oct 1944 at Coligny, France�
32430 (321st BG, 447th BS, "Miss Virginity") shot down by AAA and ditched 10 mi N of Marettimo Island, Italy
Jul 10, 1943. 2 KIA, 4 POW, two of them liberated shortly thereafter. MACR 97.
32431 w/o 11�Apr 1945 at Grottaglie, Italy�
32432 (321st BG, 446th BS) hit by AA and ditched in Mediterranean
Sea 13 mi off Capo Bianco, Sicily Jul 5, 1943. Crew rescued.
32434 (321st BG, 445th BS, "Mississippi Gambler") crashed Jul 20, 1944
at Foggia, Italy
32435 (1st BG (Provisional), 1st BS (Provisional)) crashed in India
Dec 3, 1943.
32436 w/o 31�May 1944 at Capodichino, Italy�
32437 w/o in crash landing at Belem, Brazil May 26, 1943
32440 (310th BG, 428th BS) shot down by AA 1 km S of Chiauci, Italy Oct 3, 1943. MACR 797. 1 KIA,
2 POW, 2 evaded.
32441 missing off Marajo Island, Amazon River, Brazil Apr 27, 1943
32446 named "Mascot"
32449 w/o 19�May 1944 at Solenzara, France
32450 (321st BG) lost Jan 8, 1944. MACR 1825
32455 w/o 11�Jun 1943 at Auburn, AL�
32460 w/o 28�Sep 1944 at Mitchel Field, NY�
32463 w/o 5�Oct 1943 at Greenville AAB, MS
32464 lost May 3, 1944 in Brazil. MACR 4381
32466 (310th BG, 379th BS) shot down by Bf 109G-6 of JG 53/8 over Italy Aug 27, 1943.
MACR 638. 2 POW, 3 evaded.
32470 w/o 5�Apr 1944 at Woodruff, SC�
32471/32482 to USSR
32474 to USSR. Crashed in forest between Kismanayok and Nagymanyok, Hungary Aug 10, 1944. 6 KIA.
32483 to NEIAF as N5-152 - Crashed 23 May 1943 at Batchelor, Australia
32484 to NEIAF as N5-147. Shot down by AAA and crashed into deep water 1.5 mi SW of
of western shore of Saumlaki Bay May 21, 1943
32485 to NEIAF as N5-151. Reserialled as M-351; to Indonesian AF as M-351 in June 1950
32486 (321st BG, 445th BS) shot down by AAA at Araxos airfield,
Patras, Greece and crashed into Eleusis Bay, 1 km off Eleusis, Greece Nov 3, 1943. MACR 1198.
6 KIA.
32491 (ACR) lost Dec 18, 1944. MACR 10787
32492 w/o 6�Jul 1944 at Chisonaccia, France
32493 (321st BG) lost Feb 19, 1944. MACR 2476
32494 converted to TB-25C
32495 w/o 27�Jan 1944 at Alachua AAB, FL�
32497 (321st BG) damaged by AAA and crashlanded at Mateur, Tunisia
Jun 15, 1943. 4 injured.
32498 (321st BG) lost Mar 28, 1944. MACR 3518
32499 w/o 24�Jul 1943 at Orlando AAF, FL
32500 w/o 8�Jul 1944 at Maison Blanche, Algeria
32501 (341st BG, 491th BS) w/o in landing accident at Dinjan, India Sep 23, 1943.
32503 converted to B-25G. With 321st BG, 447th BS shot down by AAA
and ditched 8 mi N of Pizzo, Italy Aug 13, 1943. MACR 409.
The MACR lists this as 42-42503.
32508 w/o in takeoff accident at Wadi Seidna, Sudan May 11, 1943. Must have been repaired since
w/o 15�Aug 1944 at Barrackpore, India�
32509 converted to TB-25C; w/o 6�Oct 1944 at Orlando AAB, FL
32511 to NEIAF as N5-149, reserialled as M-349; to Indonesian AF as M-349 in June 1950
32512 to NEIAF as N5-146, reserialled as M-346; to Indonesian AF as M-346 in June 1950
32513 to RAF as Mitchell II FR168 for service with Dutch No 320 Sq in UK . Transferred to Royal Netherlands
Navy Jul 22, 1947 as R-1. reserialled as M-1; reserialled as B-1; wfu 6 Feb SOC Feb 6, 1954.
32514 to RAF as Mitchell II FR169 for service with Dutch No 320 Sq in UK. to Netherlands Navy as A-13 on 6 Mar 1947;
reserialled as M-4; w/o 15 Aug 1951.
32515 to RAF as Mitchell II FR170 for service with Dutch No 320 Sq in UK. to Netherlands Navy as A-14 on 6 Mar 1947;
to Netherlands AF as 1-14 Jul 22, 1947; to Netherlands Navy as A-14 in Aug 1948; wfu 30 Sep 1949
32516 to RAF as Mitchell II FR171 for service with Dutch No 320 Sq in UK. To Netherlands Navy on 6 March 1947;
Transferred to Dutch AF Jul 22, 1947. SOC Feb 11, 1948
32517/32532 to USSR
32523 to USSR. MIA at Markusfalva, Hungary Aug 16, 1944. 5 crew MIA.
42-32533/32534 Lockheed C-36B
Commercial Model 10-E Electra impressed into USAAF. Redesignated UC-36B-LO in 1943.
32533 was not taken up
32534 was MSN 1129 NC18987 with Idaho Maryland Mining, impressed
Mar 14, 1942. WFU Feb 3, 1943 ad Salinas, CA
42-32535 Lockheed C-36A
Commercial Model 10-A Electra MSN 1032 NC14945 impressed into USAAF Mar 14, 1942.
W/o Jan 7, 1944 (?) at Great Falls, MT.
Redesignated UC-36A-LO in 1943.
42-32536/32785 Cancelled contract for Stearman AT-15
42-32786/32923 Douglas C-47-DL
MSN 9012/9149--Contract No DAAC-1043
32786 (MSN 9012) to USAAF Jan 31, 1943. To RAAF as A30-17 Feb 27, 1943, but NTU.
Then re-registered as A65-3 Mar 4, 1943. Operated by 36 Sqdn as VH-DCA then as
VH-CTC May 11, 1943. Crashed Dec 14, 1943 off Turtle Head, QLD. Port engine failure
after a 2 hour flight from Cooktown, to Horn Island in rain squalls. Loaded with 660 gallons of fuel and 6046lbs
of cargo.(1206lbs overloaded). Pilot did not feather prop, causing excessive drag. Ditched in sea with location
40 miles South of Horn Island.
32787 (MSN 9013) to USAAF Feb 03, 1943 - To Chinese National
Aviation Corporation (CNAC) under Lend-Lease Apr 13, 1943.
Missing from flight from Kunming to Chungking Jun 1944.
32788 (MSN 9014) to USAAF Jan 31, 1943 - To Chinese National
Aviation Corporation (CNA) under Lend-Lease Mar 29, 1943.
Crashed 5 mi from Kambaiti, Burma during rice dropping
mission Jan 14, 1945.
32789 (MSN 9015) to USAAF Feb 03, 1943 - To RCAF as Dakota 1 650. 12 Comm Sqdn -
164 Sqdn Apr 1943 - Instructional airframe A.508 Jul 12, 1946. SOC Feb 02,1953.
32790 (MSN 9016) to USAAF Feb 03, 1943 - To Russia Mar 03, 1943
32791 (MSN 9017) to USAAF Jan 31, 1943 - To Russia Mar 30, 1943
32792 (MSN 9018) to USAAF Jan 30, 1943 - To Russia Mar 17, 1943
32793 (MSN 9019) to USAAF Jan 31, 1943 - To Russia Mar 23, 1943
32794 (MSN 9020) to USAAF Jan 31, 1943 - To Russia Apr 01, 1943
32795 (MSN 9021) to USAAF Feb 02, 1943 - To Russia Mar 29, 1943
32796 (MSN 9022) to USAAF jan 30, 1943 - To Russia Mar 17, 1943
32797 (MSN 9023) to USAAF Jan 31, 1943 - To Russia Mar 17, 1943
32798 (MSN 9024) to USAAF Jan 31, 1943 - To Russia Mar 24, 1943
32799 (MSN 9025) to USAAAF Jan 30, 1943. Scheduled for delivery to USSR, but
crashed Feb 22, 1943, Enterprise, UT prior to delivery.
32800 (MSN 9026) to USAAF Feb 03, 1943 - 5th AF, 375th TCG, 55th TCS as 112 Brisbane Jul 13, 1943 -
flown to Australia 13Jul43 left elevator damaged while loading Oct43 repaired Bofors gun damaged
floor Nov43 repaired struck by truck Nov43 repaired. To Pacific Wing
ATC Aug 27, 1944 - Returned to USA Jul 25, 1945 - To RFC Jan 17, 1946. To civil registry as
NC56801 AiResearch Mfg Co, Los Angeles, CA (1953) - N118M Galion Iron Works & Mfg Co, Galion,
OH (1963) - Bendix Corp, S Bend, IN R Benson, Pickens, WY (Jun 1971) - Flt Training, Baltimore, MD -
Mercantile Safe Deposit & Trust, Baltimore, MD Jun 19, 1979- Sold Nov82. Cancelled Nov 1982, NLR
32801 (MSN 9027) to USAAF Feb 08, 1943 - 13th AF, 403rd TCG, 63rd TCS Otaru Aug 17, 1943 - Brisbane.
Condemned Dec 03, 1944 (Spares)
32802 (MSN 9028) to USAAF Feb 10, 1943 - USA -Alliance, NB 22Feb43; Wright Field, OH 21Jun43;
Sedalia, MO 24Jul43; Lawson, GA 7Aug43; 805th Base Unit, Alliance, NB; damaged landing at Scottsbluff, NB 1Aug44;
George, CA 29Aug44; Baer, IN 23Mar45; Bowman, KY 14Apr45; 1010th Base Unit, Stout Field, Indianapolis, IN;
To RFC at Bush Field, GA Oct 11, 1945. National Air Transport Co, Detroit, Ml, 17Sep46; registered NC9562H;
National Automotive Fibres Inc, Detroit, MI "The Administrator", Nov 1953; registered N13875-
N75C Detroit Steel Corp, Detroit, MI (1963) - N7503 (Ohio University, Athens, OH. Nov 1968), reregistered N1800D
Oct 1969. (Jungle Aviation & Radio Service Inc, Waxhaw, NC. Nov 1971),
Instituto Linguistico de Verano, Colombia; registered CP-1020 23Mar73; Jungle Aviation & Radio Service Inc,
Waxhaw, NC 27Aug81; registered N92578; Missionary Aviation Fellowship, Redland, CA May84;
California Air Tours Inc, CA 3Aug89; Asher Ward, Van Nuys, CA, 29Jun90; Nostalgia Air Tours, Hawaii; DC-3 Inc,
Nantucket, MA, 7Jun91; Stored Hyannis, MA, 29May94; Santa Barbara Aerospace Inc, Santa Barbara, CA Sep97;
painted in USAF c/s with Norton AFB titles; Island Airlines, Nantucket, MA; Richard Brown, Rockwall, TX,
30Jul 2001; Airborne Imaging Inc, Wilmington, DE 29Jan04; Airborne Imaging Leasing LLC 30Sep14, current [Jul16]
Noted Mar 2, 2007 at Base Aerea Coronel Hector Carracioli
Moncada, La Celba, Honduras, believed on anti-narcotics work.
32803 (MSN 9029) to USAAF Feb 08, 1943 - Oran, Algeria 28May43. Twelfth Air Force.
62nd Troop Carrier Squadron, 314th Troop Carrier Group, Berguent, French Morocco May43; Kairouan,
Tunisia 26Jun43; Castelvetrano, Sicily 24Aug43. The aircraft was to transport paratroopers of the
504th Parachute Infantry Regiment from Comiso, Sicily to a drop zone at Salerno, Italy on 13Sep43
but the mission was aborted with electrical failure. Mission flown 14Sep43. Ninth Air Force 28Feb44.
Displayed with other USAAF aircraft August-September 1945 at the Exposition de l'Aviation Am�ricaine,
Eiffel Tower, Paris, France. Salvaged 15Nov45.
32804 (MSN 9030) to USAAF Feb 08, 1943 - USA - RFC Oct 11, 1945. To civil
registry as NC50041, TAM-09 (TAM, Bolivia). Crashed 15 mi from Tipuani, Bolivia Aug 1, 1960. Crashed
into Hayti Mountain while en route. All 6 onboard killed.
32805 (MSN 9031) to USAAF Jan 31, 1943 - 5th AF, 375th TCG, 56th TCS as 111, Brisbane Jul 11, 1943 -
Returned to USA Aug 23, 1945 - To RFC Nov 05, 1945. To civil registry as NC66016,
PP-VCD (Varig Jun 10, 1952). Wfu 1966, cancelled Dec 14, 1971, broken up Porto Alegre.
32806 (MSN 9032) to USAAF Feb 04, 1943 - Oran, Algeria 20May43. 53rd Troop Carrier Squadron,
61st Troop Carrier Group. Kairouan, Tunisia 21Jun43. Twelfth Air Force 22Aug43. Licata, Sicily 1Sep43. Sciacca,
Sicily 6Oct43. Ferried to England departing Sciacca 12Feb44. Routed via Anfa Field, Casablanca, French Morocco;
Valley (Station 568), Anglesey, Wales; Barkston Heath (Station 483) 18Feb44. Ninth Air Force.
Transported paratroopers of the 3rd Battalion, 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment to a drop zone near
Sainte-M�re-�glise, Normandy, France on Mission 'Boston' 6Jun44. The aircraft was towing a glider
transporting men and materials for the 101st Airborne Division to a landing zone near Groesbeek, south of
Nijmegen, Netherlands on Operation 'Market', 18Sep44. After releasing the glider over the landing zone,
the aircraft was hit by flak damaging both engines.The aircraft crash landed in a field at Horst, east of
Groesbeek, killing four cows, bounced over a couple of ditches and through several fences. The crew
was able to escape out of the aircraft without injury.
32807 (MSN 9033) to USAAF Feb 04, 1943 - Oran, Algeria 8May43. Twelfth Air Force. 14th Troop Carrier Squadron,
61st Troop Carrier Group. Crash landed at Constantine, Algeria 6Jul43. Its wheels had already touched
the landing strip when the airplane was suddenly and violently caught up in a crosswind which forced
it into a ditch on the side of the runway and which caused damage to the landing gear, right wing, and
to the right engine and propeller. No one was hurt as a result of the accident. The damage to the
airplane having been surveyed, it was decided that the airplane could be repaired for further service
with the squadron, however, before the squadron was able to fly in the necessary parts, units stationed
at Constantine had stripped the aircraft beyond repair, and the project had to be abandoned. Condemned 8Jul43.
32808 (MSN 9034) to USAAF Feb 06, 1943 - 15th Troop Carrier Squadron, 61st Troop Carrier Group,
Pope Field, Fort Bragg, NC. Damaged taking off at Warrenton, NC 14Mar43. Oran, Algeria 5May43.
Twelfth Air Force. 29th Troop Carrier Squadron, 313th Troop Carrier Group. Crashed in the Sierra de Fates,
Tarifa, Spain 22Feb44 [9KIA]. Condemned 8Jul44.
32809 (MSN 9035) to USAAF Feb 12, 1943. In USA. 5th Troop Carrier Squadron, 10th Troop Carrier
Group, Alliance AAB, NB. Damaged taxying at Alliance 30Mar44. 805th Base Unit, I Troop Carrier Command,
George Field, Lawrenceville, IL. Damaged in collision with parked Curtiss RA-25B Shrike ? 42-80185
while taxying at Stout Field, Indianapolis, IN 3Nov44. Rome Field, NY. Damaged taxying at Stewart Field, NY 25Jul45.
To RFC Nov 05, 1945. To civil registry as NC57136 (Probably for export) - NLR.
32810 (MSN 9036) to USAAF Feb 05, 1943 - Oran, Algeria 14May43. 29th Troop Carrier Squadron,
313th Troop Carrier Group, Ninth Air Force, Folkingham (Station 484). Transported paratroopers
of the 3rd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment to a drop zone one mile NW of Picauville,
Normandy, France on Mission 'Boston' 6Jun44; battle damaged by enemy ground fire. The pilot was
hit in the leg, the co-pilot landed the aircraft at an emergency strip in England.
to civil registry as EI-ACI (Aer Lingus 'St Aiden' Dec 14, 1945, later 'St Conice 1958 -
Lsd to Silver City Mar 11, 1959 to Nov 03, 1960), then EI-ALS (Benedar Air Ltd
Jan 02, 1961), Then to French Navy Jun 4, 1961 as 32810, operated by 56S until
wfu 1983. Sold to Republic of Chad AF as TT-LAC. Fate uncertain
32811 (MSN 9037) to USAAF Feb 05, 1943 - USA - To RFC Oct 03, 1945. To civil registry as
NC57539 (Delta Air Lines Feb 28, 1949 to 1959 to Charlotte Aircraft Corp ferry services Sep 30 1959).
Sold to Spanish AF Oct 29, 1961 and operated as T3-25. Wfu (Accident) Oct 02, 1973.
32812 (MSN 9039) to USAAF Feb 03, 1943 - 5th AF, 375th TCG, 58th TCS, Brisbane Jul 11, 1943 -
Damaged by loading truck Oct43, repaired. Struck oil drum taxiing Nov43, repaired. Pacific Wing
ATC Aug 26, 1944. Condemned Sep 21, 1945 (Spares)
32813 (MSN 9039) to US Navy as R4D-1 BuNo 37669 Feb 6, 1943
32814 (MSN 9040) to US Navy as R4D-1 BuNo 37670 Feb 6, 1943
32815 (MSN 9041) to US Navy as R4D-1 BuNo 37671 Feb 5, 1943
32816 (MSN 9042) to US Navy as R4D-1 BuNo 37672 Feb 8, 1943
32817 (MSN 9043) to USAAF Feb 13, 1943. To RAF Mar 7, 1943 as FD789. 24 Sqdn Apr 10, 1943 -
512 Sqdn Aug 23, 1943 - 105(T)OTU Mar 01, 1944 - 108 OTU Nov 26, 1944 -
1384(HT)CU Apr 05, 1946 - 22MU Apr 17, 1946. To civil registry as G-AKNB (Scottish
Aviation Ltd Nov 28, 1947 - J Jamieson Aug 19, 1948, operated with
Guinea Air traders colours - Field Aircraft Services Feb 14, 1950),
XY-ACN (Union of Burma Airways Mar 08, 1950), G-AKNB (BEA 'Sir Sefton
Brancker' Oct 19, 1950 - Silver City 'City of Bradford' Dec 11, 1959 - BUA Jan 23, 1962 -
BUIA Nov 01, 1968 - Ulster Air Transport Feb 1968 - Lsd to Autair Oct 1968 -
Intra Airways Feb 03, 1969), EI-BDU (Mercantile Aviation Oct 13, 1978, operated with
Clyden Aviation colours - Stored Dublin 1981) , G-AKNB (Aces High Ltd Jan 29, 1982 -
Harvest Air). Reported DBR Blackpool-Squires Gate Sep 27, 1982 and converted to
spares, but registered N59NA with Champlain Air, Plattsburgh, NY. Dec 13, 1995 and
current on USCAR Mar 2003. Probably fuselage only used for rebuilt.
As N59A to Basler Turbo Conversions and on August 10, 2018 registered
as N141PR to N141PR LLC, Wilmington, Delaware. Cancelled on September 27, 2019 on export to Canada.
32818 (MSN 9044) to USAAF Feb 12, 1943. To RAF Mar 09, 1943 as Dakota I FD790 (26 Sqdn, Middle
East May 01, 1943 - 216 Sqdn). Ditched off Bodrum, Turkey Nov 16, 1943.
32819 (MSN 9045) to USAAF Feb 12, 1943. To RAF Mar 16, 1943 as Dakota I FD791 (31 Sqdn, India
May 10, 1943). FLC Nov 27, 1947. NLR
32820 (MSN 9046) to USAAF Feb 08, 1943. To RAF Mar 26, 1943 as FD792 (31 Sqdn,
India Apr 30, 1943 - MAAF Jul 27, 1944 - 24 Sqdn - 133OCU, Bilbeis, Egypt -
107MU, Kasfareet, Egypt. SOC Mar 27, 1947. NLR.
32821 (MSN 9047) to USAAF Feb 8, 1943. To RAF Apr 6, 1943 as Dakota I FD793 (31 Sqdn, India
Nov 05, 1943). Shot down by Japanese fighters over Burma Nov 28, 1943.
32822 (MSN 9048) to USAAF Feb 08, 1943. To RAF Mar 28, 1943 as Dakota I FD794 (24 Sqdn, UK
May 21, 1943 - 512 Sqdn Aug 23, 1943 - MAAF 216 Gp Jan 26, 1944 - West Africa Mar 15, 1944 -
UK Dec 12, 1944 - 5MU May 01, 1946). DBR Jul 26, 1946, scrapped May 15, 1947.
32823 (MSN 9049) to USAAF Feb 10, 1943. To RAF Mar 27, 1943 as Dakota I FD795 (24 Sqdn,
UK May 24, 1943 - 512 Sqdn Aug 23, 1943 - 24 Sqdn Feb 21, 1944 - 22MU Jun 26, 1946).
To civil registry as G-AIJD with Shaef Trading Co Aug 1, 1946, to Ciro's Aviation Sep 17, 1946,
to S Rubin Dec 1946. To YV-C-AVK (Avensa Jan 23, 1951), N50F Beldex Corp - Holliston Mills Inc,
Norwood, MA (1963 to Oct71) - Raiche Mobile Homes Inc, Manchester, NH (Sep 1972) -
Ocean Technology, Anchorage, AK (1977). Cancelled Oct 1977. NLR.
32824 (MSN 9050) to USAAF Feb 10, 1943. To RAF UK Mar 28, 1943 as Dakota I FD796 - Operated as 'ODZFK'
Apr 22, 1943 by BOAC. To civil registry as G-AGGI (BOAC Apr 26, 1943 - Airways
Training Ltd Mar 10, 1948 - Westair Transport (Pty) Jun 25, 1948), to
ZS-DAG (Rr Jul 12, 1948, ntu), ZS-DCY (Universal Air Transport May 11, 1949, with
Universal Airways colours). Sold to Israel Defence Force Oct 1950 as 4X-FAJ. NLR.
32825 (MSN 9051) to USAAF Feb 10, 1943. To RAF UK Apr 07, 1943 as FD797 - 24 Sqdn Apr 30, 1943 -
512 Sqdn Aug 23, 1943 - 24 Sqdn Jan 22, 1944.
Transferred to US Navy Mar 25, 1946 as R4D-1 BuNo 91104 for US Naval Attach�, London.
Returned to RAF 16FU Jan 30, 1946. To civil registry as
G-AJZX (Field Aircraft Services Jun 23, 1947 - British Netherlands Air
Services Jun 30, 1948), PK-PAB (Garuda Oil Co Jun 06, 1951 - Caltex Indonesia),
PK-CAD (Indonesia Dept of Civil Aviation Jan 01, 1971). Last noted stored Jakarta Apr 1980.
32826 (MSN 9052) to USAAF Feb 11, 1943. To RAF UK Apr 19, 1943 as Dakota I FD798 - 24 Sqdn
Apr 30, 1943 - 512 Sqdn Aug 23, 1943 - MAAF 216 Gp Jan 26, 1944 - West Africa Mar 15, 1944 -
1384(HT)CU Apr 03, 1946 - 22MU Apr 23, 1946. To civil registry as CF-FKZ (World Wide Aviation
Agencies and Sales, Lt, Montreal), then to Hollinger Ungava Transport, Montreal, PQ. Nov 28, 1950 -
To Iron Ore Co of Canada Aviation, Montreal, PQ. Jan 20, 1959 - St Felicien Air Service Sep 28, 1971).
Dbr Asbestos Hill, PQ. May 20, 1976
32827 (MSN 9053) to USAAF Feb 10, 1943 - Oran, Algeria 14May43. 316th Troop Carrier Group,
Northwest African Troop Carrier Command, Enfidaville, Tunisia; 'Geronimo'. Transported sixteen paratroopers
of the 82nd Airborne Division to a drop zone at Sicily on Mission 'Husky I' 9/10Jul43. Transported men and
materials of the 376th Parachute Field Artillery Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment to a drop zone
near Gela, Sicily on Mission 'Husky II' during the night of 11Jul43. 47th Troop Carrier Squadron [N3*E],
313th Troop Carrier Group, Twelfth Air Force, Castelvetrano, Sicily. Ninth Air Force, Folkingham (Station 484)
16Feb44; named 'Ada Red' [Ada Red apparently came from the country and western song "Ida Red",
and was a tongue-in-cheek mix with the pilot's hometown of Ada, Oklahoma]. Transported sixteen
paratroopers of the 3rd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment to a drop zone one mile NW of Picauville,
Normandy, France on Mission 'Boston' 6Jun44; battle damaged by enemy ground fire damaging the rudder.
A resupply flight for the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment on Mission 'Freeport', 7Jun44 was aborted in bad
weather. Transported sixteen paratroopers of the Headquarters Compnay, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment,
82nd Airborne Division to a drop zone near Groesbeek, Netherlands on Operation 'Market', 17Sep44.
Returned to USA Jul45. 4126th Base Unit, San Bernardino Air Material Area, CA. To RFC, Walnut Ridge Field, AR 12Jan46.
To civil registry as NC63800, N1623, N1823 (Champion Spark
Plug Co, Toledo, Ohio), reregisterd N1820 in 1965. To CF-WCM (Millardair Feb 15, 1966 - Midwest
Aviation, Winnipeg, MAN. Dec 19, 1966, cancelled Mar 22, 1974). To N90765 with Falcon Owning Co in 1974.
To N47FJ with E&L Leasing Co, Vichy, MO 1974. With Baron Aviation Services, Vichy, MO. since Sep 1979.
Last registered to E & L Leasing, Vichy, MO. Heavily damaged by tornado Jan 8, 2008.
Reportedly due to be scrapped.
32828 (MSN 9054) to USAAF Feb 10, 1943 - North Africa May 05, 1943 - 12th AF, Italy.
Condemned Jun 13, 1945 (Spares).
32829 (MSN 9055) to USAAF Feb 11, 1943 - Ferried overseas via the South Atlantic/African route. Oran,
Algeria 20May43. 53rd Troop Carrier Squadron, 61st Troop Carrier Group. Kairouan, Tunisia 21Jun43.
Twelfth Air Force 22Aug43. Licata, Sicily 1Sep43. Sciacca, Sicily 6Oct43. Damaged at Sciacca 12Nov43 when
German planes came over the airfield and dropped two big (probably 250-pound) bombs. The bigger bombs
were apparently packed with smaller bombs about 5-inches long, by 2-inches in diameter. Two small holes
were found in the left elevator and rudder. Ferried to England departing Sciacca 12Feb44. Routed via Anfa Field,
Casablanca, French Morocco; Valley (Station 568), Anglesey, Wales; Barkston Heath (Station 483) 18Feb44.
Ninth Air Force. Wing tip damaged at Laon/Couvron (A-70), France 15Oct44; temporary repairs made and flown
back to Barkston Heath 17Oct44. Returned to USA Jun 25, 1945 - To RFC Nov 16, 1945. To civil registry as
NC67873 with Pacific Airways Aug 23, 1943 to Oct 29, 1947 - Hawaiian Airlines '22'
Jul 03, 1948. Stored Sep 6, 1966 - Aircraft Unlimited Inc Nov 30, 1968 -
Del Air Flying Service, Adel, GA. - Jim Hankins Air Service, Jackson, MS. -
Midwest Air Carrier, Louisville, KY Jun 1971 - S R Hulsey, Dallas, TX., Feb 02, 1978,
operated with Airgo Air Freight colours - Global Aircraft Parts Inc, Bethany, OK.
May 20, 1981, broken up for spares.
32830 (MSN 9056) to USAAF Feb 11, 1943 - 5th AF, 374th TCG 33rd TCS, Brisbane Apr 14, 1943 -
Right undercarriage collapsed landing at Leron Markham Valley NG 17Sep43, repaired. MIA Oct 12, 1943.
32831 (MSN 9057) to USAAF Feb 11, 1943 - 5th AF, 317th TCG, 39th TCS as 99, Brisbane Apr 06, 1943 -
Tacloban. Struck by taxiing a/c while parked 17Aug44, repaired. Reclamation Apr 29, 1948. NLR
32832 (MSN 9058) to USAAF Feb 11, 1943 - 5/43: 53rd Troop Carrier Squadron, 61st Troop Carrier Group, 8th Air Force.
Named 'Sky King' [the pilot's name was King]. Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL May 3, 1943
5/4/43: Received orders for ferrying to North African Theater of Operations.
Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 3May43. Ferried overseas via the South Atlantic/African route departing
Morrison Field May43. Routed via Borinquen Field, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico; Atkinson Field, Georgetown, British Guyana;
Val de Caes Field, Bel�m, Brazil; Panamirim Field, Natal, Brazil; Ascension Island 10May43. Slightly damaged
when a wing tip scraped against a rock wall after landing during taxy to the parking ramp. Accra, Gold Coast;
Anfa Field, Casablanca, French Morocco. Oran, Algeria 20May43
Jul 9, 1943: Flew paratrooper drop in Operation Husky, invasion of Sicily.
Jul 11, 1943: Flew paratrooper drop in Operation Husky, badly damaged.
Sep 1943: Flew combat mission in support of Operation Avalanche, invasion of Italy.
6/6/44: Carried 18 paratroopers from the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne Division
during invasion of Normandy.
9/17/44: Dropped paratroopers of the British 1st Airborne Division at DZ-X on the opening day of Operation
Market Garden.
9/18/44: Towed a glider to LZ-T during Operation Market Garden.
9/19/44: Dropped resupplies at DZ-O during Operation Market Garden.
3/24/45: Last paratroop mission of WWII into Germany, operation Varsity.
1943-1945: Flew hundreds of supply and hospital missions in-between the eight combat missions.
Returned to USA Jul 16, 1945 - Stored Sep 11, 1945 - To RFC Oct 1946. To civil
registry as NC75412 (Executive Transport Corp), Converted aircraft to DC-3C.
Ca. 1947: General Motors Inc, Detroit, MI, with c/r N5106.
5/67: Registered N5106X.
11/67: Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL. Installed 24-passenger configuration.
7/85: Henry Oliver III, Santa Fe, NM.
By 1995: Bygone Aviation, OK.
9/2/99: David Nicklas Organ Donor Awareness Foundation, Arlington, TX.
8/4/00: Don King, Mt. Pleasant, TX. Based with Mid-America Flight Museum, Mt. Pleasant, TX
Registered Jul 23, 2001 to Pleasant Aviation, Mount Pleasant, TX., current.
32833 (MSN 9059) to USAAF Feb 11, 1943 - Oran14th Troop Carrier Squadron, 61st Troop Carrier Group,
Pope Field, Fort Bragg, NC. Accident at Pope Field 31Mar43. Oran, Algeria 17Aug43. Kairouan, Tunisia 21Jun43.
Twelfth Air Force 22Aug43. Licata, Sicily 1Sep43. Sciacca, Sicily 6Oct43. Ferried to England departing Sciacca 12Feb44.
Routed via El Aounia, Tunis, Tunisia; Anfa Field, Casablanca, French Morocco; St Mawgan, Newquay, Cornwall;
Barkston Heath (Station 483) 18Feb44. Ninth Air Force. Transported paratroopers of the 2nd Battalion,
507th Parachute Infantry Regiment to a drop zone near Sainte-M�re-�glise, Normandy, France on Mission 'Boston'
6Jun44. 100th Troop Carrier Squadron, 441st Troop Carrier Group, Ninth Air Force, Dreux (A-41), France.
Damaged taxying at Dreux 1Jan45. Returned to USA Aug 17, 1945 - RFC Nov 06, 1945. To civil registry as
NC25641 (Various owners/operators, including... -Page Airways, Rochester, NY Sep 1970 -
... - Fleming Corp, lsd to Legion Airways 1977 - Basler Flight Services Feb 1984 -
Legend Airways Inc. Nashua, NH). Current with Legend Airways of Colorado LLC, Morrison, C0.
32834 (MSN 9060) to USAAF Feb 15, 1943 - Oran, Algeria 8May43. 14th Troop Carrier Squadron,
61st Troop Carrier Group, Twelfth Air Force, Kairouan, Tunisia 21Jun43. Licata, Sicily 1Sep43. Sciacca, Sicily 6Oct43.
Ferried to England departing Sciacca 12Feb44. Routed via El Aounia, Tunis, Tunisia; Anfa Field, Casablanca, French Morocco;
St Mawgan, Newquay, Cornwall; Barkston Heath (Station 483) 18Feb44. Ninth Air Force. Transported paratroopers
of the 2nd Battalion, 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment to a drop zone near Sainte-M�re-�glise, Normandy, France
on Mission 'Boston' 6Jun44. Returned to US. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA. Air Transport Command. Crashed taking off at Hunter Field 9Jul45.
32835 (MSN 9061) to USAAF Feb 11, 1943 - USA - RFC Jan 13, 1946. To civil
registry as NC54727 (Pan American Airways Mar 18, 1946), TI-17 (LACSA May 14, 1946).
Seized by Nicaragua government Apr 24, 1948), transfered to LANICA as AN-ADJ. To N5515A
Jan 21, 1958 for resale to LEBCA as YV-C-LBO Aug 30, 1960. Cancelled 1966, wfu.
32836 (MSN 9062) to USAAF Feb 17, 1943 - . Titled on fuselage 'Ambulance Plane #1'.
Believed to be the first ambulance plane purchased with War Bonds, equipped for medical evacuation duties and
assigned to the China-Burma-India region. Tenth Air Force, Karachi, India 14May43. India-China Wing,
Air Transport Command. Crashed taking off from Willingdon, New Delhi, India 27May45. Condemned 28May45.
32837 (MSN 9063) to USAAF Feb 11, 1943 - 53rd Troop Carrier Squadron, 61st Troop Carrier Group,
Pope Field, Fort Bragg, NC. Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 30Apr43. Ferried overseas via the South
Atlantic/African route departing Morrison Field May43. Routed via Borinquen Field, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico;
Atkinson Field, Georgetown, British Guyana; Val de Caes Field, Bel�m, Brazil; Panamirim Field, Natal, Brazil;
Ascension Island; Accra, Gold Coast; Anfa Field, Casablanca, French Morocco. Oran, Algeria 20May43.
Twelfth Air Force, Lourmel, Oran, Algeria. Kairouan, Tunisia 21Jun43. Licata, Sicily 1Sep43. Sciacca, Sicily 6Oct43.
Ferried to England departing Sciacca 12Feb44. Routed via Anfa Field, Casablanca, French Morocco;
Valley (Station 568), Anglesey, Wales; Barkston Heath (Station 483) 18Feb44. Ninth Air Force. Returning from
Warmwell (Station 454), near Dorchester, the aircraft was fired on by flak from maneuvers on the ground.
The control tower at Warmwell had cleared the flight to depart without warning the pilot of the danger area.
Transported paratroopers of the 3rd Battalion, 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment to a drop zone near
Sainte-M�re-�glise, Normandy, France on Mission 'Boston' 6Jun44. Towed a Waco CG-4A glider transporting
men and materials of the 325th Glider Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division to a landing zone near Grave,
Netherlands on Operation 'Market', 18Sep44; hit by flak damaging most of the control cables in the tail section.
Another hit damaged a control surface. The aircraft returned safely to Barkston Heath, arriving overhead in
a 'sidewise attitude' and landing with negligible rudder and elevator control.
Returned to USA Jun 25, 1945 - RFC Nov 14, 1945. To civil registry as
NC51171 (No details, probably for export). NLR
32838 (MSN 9064) to USAAF Feb 12, 1843. To civil registry as NC17885 (WAA 1946,
leased to United Air Lines May 26, 1946 to Aug 15, 1949). Returned to USAAF Aug 19, 1949,
Broken up to spares before Dec 21, 1949.
32839 (MSN 9065) to USAAF Feb 10, 1943 - 10th AF, India May 24, 1943 - India-China
Wing ATC May 29, 1943. Crashed at Wuting, China Nov 1, 1943. Condemned Nov 03, 1943.
32840 (MSN 9066) to USAAF Feb 10, 1943 - original 5th AF 375th TCG 55th TCS as 113 aircraft flown to Brisbane,
Australia 17Jul43- door buckled loading Dec43 repaired. damaged while parked Ward'd Drome NG 29Feb44, repaired. USA
Feb 05, 1945 - RFC Nov 05, 1945. To civil registry as NC49657 (Delta Air Lines '57'
Jan 05, 1946. Midair collision with BT-13 NC55312 Apr 22, 1947, crashed Muscogee,
Colombus, GA.
32841 (MSN 9067) to USAAF Feb 18, 1943 - 10th AF, India Mar 24, 1943 - India-China
Wing ATC May 29, 1943. Condemned May 29, 1945 (Spares)
32842 (MSN 9068) to USAAF Feb 13, 1943 - USA until Jul 30, 1943 - Overseas
until Apr 06, 1945 - To RFC Oct 29, 1945. To civil registry as NC54578 with Smith Kirkpatrick and
Co, Inc, to PP-AOB A J de Moura Andrade "Guanabara" Jun 19, 1953 - Serv
Aerofotogrametricos Cruzeiro do Sul leased Jul 19, 1965 LASA Engenhira c Prospeccoes SA (Dec 1972)
Aeromapa Brasil SA (Dec 1977) - Taxi Aerea Fortaleza bought Jun 24, 1980. WFU during 1980s
32843 (MSN 9069) to USAAF Feb 12, 1943 - 10th AF, India Apr 17, 1943 - India-China
Wing ATC May 29, 1943 - 10th AF, Karachi. Sold to Government of India Apr 10, 1946, NLR.
32844 (MSN 9070) to USAAF Feb 13, 1943 - 10th AF, India Apr 14, 1943 - India-China
Wing ATC May 29, 1943 - 10th AF, Karachi. Sold to Government of India Apr 10, 1946, NLR.
32845 (MSN 9071) to USAAF Feb 13, 1943 - 10th AF, India May 01, 1943 - India-China
Wing ATC - reported VH-ANM (ANA May 28, 1946). Destroyed by hangar fire, Sydney, NSW Sep 07, 1946
(See also 42-23485).
32846 (MSN 9072) to USAAF Feb 13, 1943 - 10th AF, India Mar 17, 1943 - India-China Wing
ATC May 29, 1943 - 10th AF, Karachi. Sold to Government of India Apr 10, 1946. To civil
registry as NC9076C, VT-DGQ (Hindustan Aircraft Ltd Jun 1953 - Indian Air Lines),
then to Indian AF 1956. NLR
32847 (MSN 9073) to USAAF Feb 13, 1943, to US Navy Feb 13, 1943 as R4D-1 37673
32848 (MSN 9074) to USAAF Feb 15, 1943, to US Navy Feb 15, 1943 as R4D-1 37674
32849 (MSN 9075) to USAAF Feb 13, 1943, to US Navy Feb 13, 1943 as R4D-1 37675
32850 (MSN 9076) to USAAF Feb 15, 1943, to US Navy Feb 15, 1943 as R4D-1 37676
32851 (MSN 9077) to USAAF Feb 1, 1943. To RAF in India May 10, 1943 as Dakota I FD799 - 31 Sqdn.
353 Sqdn RAF, 215 Sqdn RAF. 2 TAF CS RAF. 52 Sqdn RAF. FLC Nov 27, 1947, NLR.
32852 (MSN 9078) to USAAAF Feb 1943. To RAF India Apr 30, 1943 as Dakota I FD800 - 31 Sqdn.
SOC Nov 27, 1947. NLR
32853 (MSN 9079) to USAAF Feb 17, 1943. To RAF Mar 25, 1943 as Dakota I
FD801 - 31 Sqdn, India Apr 26, 1943 - FLC Nov 27, 1947. NLR
32854 (MSN 9080) to USAAF Feb 20, 1943. To RAF Mar 26, 1943 as Dakota I
FD802. 31 Sqdn, India Apr 30, 1943. Crashed Jan 10, 1944, Tibual,
Tiddim, Burma.
32855 (MSN 9081) to USAAF Feb 17, 1943. To RAF Mar 25, 1943 as Dakota I
FD803 - India May 31, 1943. 3 TAF CS RAF, 52 Sqdn RAF, 117 WG CF RAF.
SOC Sep 27, 1945. To N116SA. Converted to DC-3C Standard Mar 3, 1972
by Bradley Air Service. Currently with Barrett Aviation at North Little Rock Airport.
32856 (MSN 9082) to USAAF Feb 16, 1943. To RAF Mar 29, 1943 as Dakota I
FD804 - 216 Sqdn, Middle East May 01, 1943 - 44 Sqdn SAAF. 1330 CU Bilbeis - 107 MU,
Kasfareet. SOC Mar 27, 1947, last noted Kasfareet, Egypt Aug 1947.
32857 (MSN 9083) to USAAF Feb 16, 1943. To RAF Mar 24, 1943 as Dakota I
FD805 - 216 Sqdn, Middle East Apr 26, 1943 - 1 MECCU RAF, 1330 CU, Bilbeis - 107
MU, Kasfareet. SOC Mar 27, 1947, last noted Kasfareet, Egypt Aug 1947.
32858 (MSN 9084) to USAAF Feb 16, 1943. To RAF Mar 24, 1943 as Dakota I
FD806 - 216 Sqdn, Middle East May 01, 1943 - Ditched off Orax, Gulf
of Kerno, Aegean Sea Sep 19, 1943.
32859 (MSN 9085) to USAAF Feb 17, 1943. To RAF Mar 23, 1943 as Dakota I
FD807 - 216 Sqdn, Middle East May 01, 1943 - 31 Sqdn, India - 575
Sqdn - 107 MU, Kasfareet. SOC Mar 27, 1947, last noted Kasfareet,
Egypt Aug 1947.
32860 (MSN 9086) to USAAF Feb 16, 1943. To RAF Mar 26, 1943 as Dakota I
FD808 - 216 Sqdn, Middle East Jun 01, 1943 - 575 Sqdn - 1330 CU,
Bilbeis - 107 MU, Kasfareet. SOC Mar 27, 1947, last noted Kasfareet,
Egypt Aug 1947.
32861 (MSN 9087) to USAAF Feb 17, 1943 - 10th AF, India Mar 24, 1943 - India-China
Wing ATC May 01, 1943. Crashed while flying from Jorhat to Kunming
May 15, 1943. Condemned Jun 05, 1943.
32862 (MSN 9088) to USAAF Feb 15, 1943 - 10th AF, India Mar 12, 1943 - India-China
Wing ATC Mar 29, 1943 - USA Feb 18, 1945 - Stored Feb 24, 1945 - To RFC Nov 23, 1945.
To civil registry as NC59277 (Flying Tiger Line Sep 27, 1946), XA-JAN (CMA Nov 23,
1949 - Aerolineas Vega SA 1963 - Aerovias Rojas), XB-KOQ (Reregistered Apr 27, 1970),
XA-BIK (Transportes Aereos de Nayarit, Tepic Apr 19, 1971). Last noted USA Aug 22,
1977. Reported XA-TAN, owner unknown.
32863 (MSN 9089) to USAAF Feb 18, 1943 - Oran, Algeria 10May43. 48th Troop Carrier Squadron,
313th Troop Carrier Group, Ninth Air Force, Folkingham (Station 484). Transported paratroopers of the
3rd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment to a drop zone one mile NW of Picauville, Normandy, France
on Mission 'Boston' 6Jun44 and a resupply flight for the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment on Mission 'Freeport', 7Jun44.
Returned to USA Aug 22, 1945 - Stored Aug 27, 1945 - To RFC Nov 05, 1945.
To civil registry as NC16191, CF-INB (Associated Airways, Edmonton, ALB. Oct 24, 1955 -
Pacific Western Airlines 1955), CF-PWF (Reregisterdd Sep 09, 1958). Broke through ice on landing,
Snowdrift, NWT. May 24, 1961. Salvaged and rebuilt by Field Aviation
Co Ltd, Calgary, ALB. Feb 26, 1962 as CF-JWP (C M McAvoy, Yellowknife, NWT Apr 13, 1962 -
Gateway Aviation Ltd, Edmonton, ALB May 04, 1965 - Various owners/operators -
Great Northern Airways, Calgary, ALB. Sep 28, 1967 - Northward Aviation Ltd, Edmonton,
ALB. Jan 15, 1971 - Northward Airlines Ltd Apr 24, 1972), C-FJWP (Gateway Aviation Ltd,
ALB. 1975). WFU Oct 10, 1977 (CoA expired). Now in Reynolds Alberta Museum, Wetaskiwin,
Alberta, Canada.
32864 (MSN 9090) to USAAF Feb 17, 1943 - 10th AF, India Mar 20, 1943 - India-China Wing
ATC May 29, 1943 - USA Jan 23, 1945 - Stored Feb 19, 1945 - To RFC Oct 09, 1945.
To civil registry as NC88803, YS-31 (TACA de Salvador), YH-TAE (TACA de Honduras SA),
XH-SAE (SAHSA Jan 10, 1955), HR-SAE (Reregistered Feb 1961). Cancelled 1969, NLR.
32865 (MSN 9091) to USAAF Feb 18, 1943 - Oran, Algeria 7May43. 47th Troop Carrier Squadron,
313th Troop Carrier Group, Twelfth Air Force, Castelvetrano, Sicily. Ninth Air Force,
Folkingham (Station 484) 16Feb44. 15th Troop Carrier Squadron, 61st Troop Carrier Group,
Ninth Air Force, Barkston Heath (Station 483). Damaged by machine gun fire during an enemy
attack on the hangar at Barkston Heath 6Mar45. Drucat (B-92), Abbeville, France 13Mar45.
Ferried to Chipping Ongar (Station 162). Transported men and materials of the British 6th Airborne
Division to a drop zone at Wesel, Germany on Operation 'Varsity' 24Mar45; returned to Abbeville.
Returned to USA Aug 04, 1945 - To RFC Oct 30, 1945. To civil registry as NC21935,
HK-317 (LANSA - Avianca Oct 1951), HP-291 (Rutas Aereas Panamenas SA 1961).
Cancelled ca 1969, NLR.
32866 (MSN 9092) to USAAF Feb 17, 1943 - 10th AF, India Mar 30, 1943 - India-China
Wing ATC Oct 19, 1943. Missing on flight from Tingkawk
Sakan, India Jun 8, 1944. MACR 6298. Condemned Jun 26, 1944.
32867 (MSN 9093) to USAAF Feb 19, 1943 - Oran, Algeria 7May43. 47th Troop Carrier
Squadron, 313th Troop Carrier Group, Twelfth Air Force, Castelvetrano, Sicily. Ninth Air Force,
Folkingham (Station 484) 16Feb44. Transported paratroopers of the 3rd Battalion,
508th Parachute Infantry Regiment to a drop zone one mile NW of Picauville, Normandy, France
on Mission 'Boston' 6Jun44.
To civil registry as OO-AUS (Sabena Mar 14, 1946). Broken up Feb 27, 1948 (Spares).
32868 (MSN 9094) to USAAF Feb 18, 1943 - Tenth Air Force, India 9Mar43. India-China Wing,
Air Transport Command. 1st Ferrying Group, Chabua, Assam, India. Damaged in an accident at
Chabua 28Oct43. 2nd Troop Carrier Squadron, 443rd Troop Carrier Group, Sylhet, India.
Crashed near Tagap during a mission to northern Burma 25May44 [4MIA]. The aircraft impacted a
mountain during an air supply mission from Dinjan, Assam, India to Tingkawk Sakan, Burma.
Visibility had dropped to zero as the C-47 was flying in a valley. Initially all onboard survived.
The captain went for help and reached local villagers after eight days. He was then taken to Tagap, Burma.
A search party tried to trace the captain's route back to the plane but was unable to locate the crashed
plane and the survivors. MACR 4833. Condemned Jun 21, 1944.
32869 (MSN 9095) to USAAF Feb 18, 1943 - 10th AF, India Mar 24, 1943 - India
China Wing ATC May 01, 1943. W/o at Liangshan, China Apr 30, 1944. Condemned May 24, 1944.
32870 (MSN 9096) to USAAF Feb 17, 1943 - 53rd Troop Carrier Squadron, 61st Troop Carrier Group,
Pope Field, Fort Bragg, NC. Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 30Apr43. Ferried overseas via the
South Atlantic/African route departing Morrison Field May43. Routed via Borinquen Field, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico;
Atkinson Field, Georgetown, British Guyana; Val de Caes Field, Bel�m, Brazil; Panamirim Field, Natal, Brazil;
Ascension Island; Accra, Gold Coast; Anfa Field, Casablanca, French Morocco. Oran, Algeria 20May43.
Twelfth Air Force, Lourmel, Oran, Algeria. Kairouan, Tunisia 21Jun43. Licata, Sicily 1Sep43. Sciacca, Sicily 6Oct43.
Damaged at Sciacca 12Nov43 when German planes came over the airfield and dropped two big (probably 250-pound) bombs.
The bigger bombs were apparently packed with smaller bombs about 5-inches long, by 2-inches in diameter.
Two finger-sized holes were found in the aircraft. Ferried to England departing Sciacca 12Feb44.
Routed via Anfa Field, Casablanca, French Morocco; Valley (Station 568), Anglesey, Wales;
Barkston Heath (Station 483) 18Feb44. Ninth Air Force. Transported paratroopers of the 3rd Battalion,
507th Parachute Infantry Regiment to a drop zone near Sainte-M�re-�glise, Normandy, France on
Mission 'Boston' 6Jun44. 100th Troop Carrier Squadron, 441st Troop Carrier Group, Ninth Air Force,
Dreux (A-41), France. Damaged taxying at Aldermaston (Station 467) 24Dec44, possibly hit by
C-47B ? 43-48924 which crashed on takeoff from Aldermaston.
Condemned Apr 17, 1945 (Damaged by anti aircraft fire)
32871 (MSN 9097) to USAAF Feb 19, 1943. 15th Troop Carrier Squadron, 61st Troop Carrier Group,
Pope Field, Fort Bragg, NC. Crashed after striking trees during a forced landing in bad weather at Mechanicsburg, PA 11Mar43.
32872 (MSN 9098) to USAAF Feb 16, 1943 - Oran, Algeria 8May43. 14th Troop Carrier Squadron,
61st Troop Carrier Group, Twelfth Air Force, Berguent, French Morocco. Kairouan, Tunisia 26Jun43.
Castelvetrano, Sicily 24Aug43. The pilot was flying from Sicily to Italy transferring the 61st TCG records when
he decided to fly low at wave-top level and chase a seabird. The aircraft crashed in the Mediterranean Sea
2km off Pantelleria Island, Italy 3Sep43, taking the records with it.
32873 (MSN 9099) to USAAF Feb 16, 1943 - Oran, Algeria 5May43. 48th Troop Carrier
Squadron, 313th Troop Carrier Group, Ninth Air Force, Folkingham (Station 484). Transported
paratroopers of the 3rd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment to a drop zone one mile NW of
Picauville, Normandy, France on Mission 'Boston' 6Jun44 and a resupply flight for the 507th Parachute
Infantry Regiment on Mission 'Freeport', 7Jun44. 32nd Troop Carrier Squadron [S2*E], 314th Troop
Carrier Group, Ninth Air Force, Saltby (Station 538). On Christmas Eve 1944 the aircraft was part
of a group of aircraft transporting the 17th Airborne Division from Chilbolton (Station 404) to
Laon/Couvron (A-70), France to participate in the battle for the Bulge. The pilot crash landed the
aircraft after take off when he was unable to regain control of the aircraft probably due to frost
on the wings and entering the propeller wash from preceding aircraft. The plane crash landed in
a field near the airfield 24Dec44. Salvaged 26Dec44.
32874 (MSN 9100) to USAAF Apr 14, 1943 - 5th AF, Brisbane Jul 02, 1943 - USA Sep 01, 1944 -
To RFC Nov 19, 1945. To civil registry as NC61989 National Auto Fibers Division of Chrysler Corp,
General Motors Corp, Detroit, MI Nov 1948. Reregistered N5109, then to N51091 Board of Trusteesd,
University of Michigan, East Lansing, MI May 1967. Reregistered N510NR to Warren Basler, Oshkosh, WI,
Bought Oct 21, 19867l Noted with Indian Express titles at Oshkosh Sep 12, 1988. Intended for
conversion to Turbo-67 in 1989, but suffered engine failure on take-off and engine replaced with zero
time Wright R-1820. Converted to BT-67 by Basler Turbo Conversion (conversion no. 12)
and sold to Guatemala AF Sep 05, 1992 as TG-FAG-1, later FAG-580. Wfu Sept 1999, stored.
32875 (MSN 9101) to USAAF Feb 20, 1943 - North Africa May 05, 1943 - 12th AF, Italy -
FLC Dec 1945. To civil registry as I-LINC (Linee Aeree Italiane Nov 30, 1947).
Crashed Mt Ginet, en route Rome to Milan Dec 22, 1956.
32876 (MSN 9102) to USAAF Feb 20, 1943 - 55th Troop Carrier Squadron, 375th Troop Carrier Group,
Sedalia Field, MO. Accident taking off at Scott Bluff AAB, NB 31Mar43. Fifth Air Force, Brisbane QLD, Australia 2Jul43.
5th AF, 375th TCG 55th TCS as 106, Brisbane Jul 02, 1943.
Struck obstacle taxiing Nov43 repaired. Brake locked taxiing ran into ditch Dec43 to SerSqn for repair
5th AF 317th TCG 46th TCS. Condemned Brisbane Nov 15, 1944 (Spares)
32877 (MSN 9103) to USAAF Feb 19, 1943 - Oran, Algeria 5May43. 47th Troop Carrier Squadron,
313th Troop Carrier Group, Twelfth Air Force, Castelvetrano, Sicily. Ninth Air Force, Folkingham (Station 484) 16Feb44.
Transported paratroopers of the 3rd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment to a drop zone one mile NW of Picauville,
Normandy, France on Mission 'Boston' 6Jun44 and a resupply flight for the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment on Mission 'Freeport', 7Jun44.
To civil registry as SE-APW (Skandinaviska Aero AB 'Polaris' Mar 27, 1946 - ABA Apr 23, 1948 -
SILA Jun 16, 1948 - SAS Aug 01, 1948. To Swedish AF as TP79 ser. no. 79002 Nov 30, 1948. Operated by F9
as '72' May 27, 1949, F3 as '78' in 1974 and F13 as '72' in 1975, then '792' starting
1980. Wfu 1983. 79002 preserved with Skoklosters Motor Museum, Skoklosters
Castle, Batsta, Sweden, in Swedish AF colours. Now at Swedish Airborne Camp, Karlsborg Sweden.
32878 (MSN 9104) to USAAF Feb 19, 1943 - Oran, North Africa May 05, 1943. Condemned Jul 08, 1944.
32879 (MSN 9105) to USAAF Feb 20, 1943 - Otaru Aug 04, 1943 - Brisbane - US Navy Oct 29, 1944.
To civil registry as VH-ANJ (ANA 'Kadana' May 22, 1946 - Ansett-ANA Oct 04, 1957 -
Victorian Air Coach Service Dec 17, 1961 - Airlines of NSW May 20, 1962 - Ansett Jan 1965 -
Victorian Air Coach Services Apr 01, 1965. DBR Warrnambool, Vic, wfu May 1966,
broken up Essendon Nov 06, 1969.
32880 (MSN 9106) to USAAF Feb 19, 1943 - Oran, Algeria 14May43. 29th Troop Carrier Squadron,
313th Troop Carrier Group, Ninth Air Force, Folkingham (Station 484). Transported paratroopers of the
3rd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment to a drop zone one mile NW of Picauville, Normandy, France
on Mission 'Boston' 6Jun44; battle damaged by enemy ground fire. 50th Troop Carrier Squadron,
314th Troop Carrier Group, Ninth Air Force, Poix (B-44), France. On 6Apr45 the 314th TCG was flying a load
of gasoline to General George Patton's troops on the front line near Frankfurt. About 12 miles northwest of
Malmedy, Belgium six aircraft were involved in collisions in mist/low cloud. Damaged in collision
with other C-47 aircraft at Fagnes de Solwaster, N of Malmedy, Belgium 6Apr45.
9th AF, Belgium/Netherlands - To Poland Mar 20, 1947. Reported to
civil registry as SP-LCH (LOT Oct 22, 1947) and crashed Katowice Mar 13, 1953.
(See 42-93620). LOT had several C-47 aircraft registed as SP-LCH over the years.
32881 (MSN 9107) to USAAF Feb 20, 1943. To RAAF Mar 26, 1943 as A65-4. Operated by
36 Sqdn May 11, 1943 as VH-CTD for VIP flights, later 1st Comm Unit. Accident Dec 5, 1943
when port engine cut out on landing at Garbutt Strip. Later the engine burst into flames and was extinguished. Pilot
and crew not injured. Accident Dec 12, 1944 when aircraft made an emergency landing after losing oil in starboard
engine during transport flight, some 260 miles from Merauke DNG. Aircraft returned to Merauke. No injuries.
Accident May 19, 1946 when engine failed in flight near Cairns. Pilot and 12 passengers and crew not injured
To ANA Aug 18, 1946 for spares.
32882 (MSN 9108) to USAAF Feb 20, 1943. To RCAF as Dakota I 652 Apr 27, 1943 -
164 Sqdn - Instructional airframe A.509 Jul 12, 1946. SOC Nov 14, 1955.
Rebuilt as N45F, registered Apr 16, 1956 as CF-ITQ to Abitibi Power & Paper Co Apr 16, 1956 - Canadian
Steamship Lines Ltd Aug 4, 1960 - Canadian Inspection & Testing Co Ltd, Montreal, PQ Sep 2, 1969 -
New Brunswick Intl Paper Co Ltd, Montreal, PQ May 25, 1970 - Millardair Ltd, Malton, Ont Oct 12, 1972 -
cancelled Feb 1980. Sold to Trans Jamaican Mar 18, 1980 as 6Y-JJQ. To Colombia AF as 676A in Aug 1989,
later 1676; wfu Feb 1997 at Villavivacenco, Colombia
32883 (MSN 9109) to USAAF Mar 02, 1943. To Chinese National
Aviation Corporation (CNAC) under Lend-Lease Apr 13, 1943.
Crashed into hill during flight from Kunming to Dinjan
Aug 1, 1944. 3 occupants killed.
32884 (MSN 9110) to USAAF Mar 02, 1943. To Chinese National
Aviation Corporation (CNAC) under Lend-Lease Apr 17, 1943.
Shot down by Japanese fighters during flight from Dinjan to
Kunming Oct 13, 1943. 3 KIA.
32885 (MSN 9111) to USAAF Feb 20, 1943. To Royal New Zealand AF Feb 27, 1943 as NZ3501 - 40 Sqdn.
Collided with Ventura NZ4518 near Whenuapai, NZ. May 21, 1945, landed safely. Towed from Ohakea to Hobsonville 21Mar46
instructional airframe 114 with TTS Hobsonville, SOC in 1946. Towed Whenuapai Mar53 and used for
fire-crew training. Sold for scrap in 1962
32886 (MSN 9112) to USAAF Feb 22, 1943 - To Russia Feb 18, 1943.
32887 (MSN 9113) to USAAF Feb 22, 1943 - To Russia Feb 15, 1943.
32888 (MSN 9114) to USAAF Feb 22, 1943 - To Russia Feb 12, 1943.
32889 (MSN 9115) to USAAF Feb 23, 1943 - To Russia Feb 15, 1943.
32890 (MSN 9116) to USAAF Feb 23, 1943 - To Russia Feb 27, 1943.
32891 (MSN 9117) to USAAF Feb 23, 1943 - To Russia Feb 12, 1943.
32892 (MSN 9118) to USAAF Feb 24, 1943 - To Russia Mar 12, 1943. Seconded to Polyarnaya Aviatsiya for ice reconnaissance
Apr 16, 1943. Registered CCCP-N328 with Polyarnaya Aviats Nov 13, 1943. Flew ice reconnaissance missions
over the Kara Sea Oct 22/Nov 10, 1943 and from Amderma Jun 30/Jul24, 1944; trf to unknown operator (GVF ?)
in 1944; opb Chukotskaya aviagruppa by 1945; in olive drab c/s; possibly became CCCP-L1204 (at least on paper),
Made emergency landing in area of river Dudypty, N of village Volochanka Apr 13, 1947 due to engine failure.
Sat there for 20 days until discovered. 28 survived, 9 people who went to search for help never returned.
Hulk with damaged nose sat north-west of Volochanka (Taimyr peninsula), Jul 14, 2007;
s/n readable very well but registration faded, was probably painted on as 'H-328'. Salvaged in Aug 2016
"The aircraft will have a place of honor at the future Museum of the Exploration of the Russian North, in Krasnoyarsk,"
32893 (MSN 9119) to USAAF Feb 25, 1943 - To Russia Feb 12, 1943.
32894 (MSN 9120) to USAAF Feb 25, 1943 - To Russia Feb 21, 1943.
32895 (MSN 9121) to USAAF Feb 26, 1943 - To Russia Feb 28, 1943.
32896 (MSN 9122) to US Navy Feb 25, 1943 as R4D-1 37677
32897 (MSN 9123) to US Navy Feb 5, 1943 as R4D-1 37678
32898 (MSN 9124) to US Navy Feb 26, 1943 as R4D-1 37679
32899 (MSN 9125) to US Navy Feb 25, 1943 as R4D-1 37680
32900 (MSN 9126) to USAAF Mar 1, 1943. To RAF Mar 24, 1943 as Dakota I
FD809 - 353 Sqdn RAF. 31 Sqdn RAF, India Apr 20, 1943 - 52 Sqdn returned to USAAF at FLC
Nov 27, 1947. NLR.
32901 (MSN 9127) to USAAF Feb 27, 1943. To RAF Mar 27, 1943 as Dakota I
FD810 - 31 Sqdn, India May 31, 1943. SOC Jun 12, 1945.
32902 (MSN 9128) to USAAF Feb 27, 1943. To RAF Mar 26, 1943 as Dakota I
FD811. 31 Sqdn, India May 31, 1943. Crashed Jan 28, 1944, Khargpur, India.
32903 (MSN 9129) to USAAF Mar 01, 1943. To RAF Mar 22, 1943 as Dakota I
FD812 - 194 Sqdn, India May 29, 1943. SOC Mar 29, 1945.
32904 (MSN 9130) to USAAF Mar 01, 1943. To RAF Mar 24, 1943 as Dakota I
FD813 - 31 Sqdn, India Apr 30, 1943. SOC Jun 27, 1946.
32905 (MSN 9131) to USAAF Feb 27, 1943. To RAF Mar 26, 1943 as Dakota I
FD814 - 216 Sqdn, Middle East May 01, 1943 - 1330 CU, Bilbeis - FLC Payne
Field Sep 26, 1946. To civil registry as ZS-BJZ (President Motors Nov 26,
1946, operated with Suidair International Airways colours), XY-ACP (Union
of Burma Airways Apr 05, 1950), G-AOFZ (Field Aircraft
Services Nov 25, 1955 - Hunting Clan Air Transport Jul 06, 1956),
VP-YON (Hunting Clan (African) Airways Pvt Jul 25, 1956), G-AOFZ (Derby Aviation
'Dovedale' Feb 05, 1960, later 'Highland' - British Midland Airways Oct 01, 1964 -
Gulf Aviation ltd Apr 15, 1966). Crashed Azaiba, Muscat Aug 17, 1966.
32906 (MSN 9132) to USAAF Mar 01, 1943. To RAF Mar 25, 1943 as Dakota I
FD815 - 267 Sqdn, Middle East May 21, 1943. Crashed 3m NW El Aouina,
Tunisia Jul 11, 1943. The aircraft was returning from dummy parachute
dropping mission over Sicily when it crashed.
32907 (MSN 9133) to USAAF Mar 01, 1943. To RAF Mar 21, 1943 as Dakota I
FD816 - 216 Sqdn Middle East May 01, 1943 - 575 Sqdn - 1330 CU Bilbeis -
107 MU, Kasfareet. SOC Mar 27, 1947, last noted Kasfareet, Egypt Aug 1947.
32908 (MSN 9134) to USAAF Mar 01, 1943. To RAF Mar 26, 1943 as Dakota I
FD817 - 216 Sqdn, Middle East May 01, 1943 - 575 Sqdn. SOC Mar 27, 1947.
32909 (MSN 9135) to USAAF Mar 01, 1943. To RAF Mar 26, 1943 as Dakota I
FD818 - 216 Sqdn, Middle East May 01, 1943 - 267 Sqdn - 1330 CU, Bilbeis.
SOC Mar 27, 1947, last noted Kabrit May 1947.
32910 (MSN 9136) to USAAF Mar 02, 1943 Oran, Algeria 19May43. 28th Troop Carrier Squadron,
60th Troop Carrier Group, Twelfth Air Force, Thiersville, Algeria May43. El Djem, Tunisia Jun43.
Transported seventeen paratroopers of the British 1st Parachute Brigade, the 'Red Devils', to a drop zone
near the Primosole bridge, Sicily on Operation 'Fustian' 13Jul43. Shot down by enemy ground fire Jul 13, 1943 and crashed
in the Mediterranean Sea 10km SW of Catania, Sicily [4MIA]. MACR 415.
32911 (MSN 9137) to USAAF Mar 01, 1943 - .Oran, Algeria 9May43. 48th Troop Carrier Squadron,
313th Troop Carrier Group, Ninth Air Force, Folkingham (Station 484). Transported paratroopers of the
3rd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment to a drop zone one mile NW of Picauville, Normandy,
France on Mission 'Boston' 6Jun44; battle damaged by enemy ground fire. Returned to
USA Aug 17, 1945 - To RFC Nov 05, 1945. To civil registry as NC59794, PP-PCE (Panair do
Brasil Feb 20, 1947), PP-NAW (Navegacao Aerea Brasileira Aug 07, 1958, cancelled
Apr 12, 1962), HP-390 (Proveedora Aero Istmena Dec 1964), HP-446 (Cia Panamena de
Aviacion May 1967 - Alas Chiricanas Apr 1982), TI-TAG, YV-822C (Avensa). Noted flying
daily service CCS-Pto Ordaz Feb 2001. Current 2005.
32912 (MSN 9138) to USAAF Mar 01, 1943 - North Africa May 14, 1953. Condemned Jul 08, 1944.
32913 (MSN 9139) to USAAF Mar 02, 1943 - Oran, Algeria 12May43. 14th Troop Carrier Squadron,
61st Troop Carrier Group, Twelfth Air Force, Kairouan, Tunisia 21Jun43. Damaged taxying 80 miles east of
Telergma, Algeria 29Jun43. Licata, Sicily 1Sep43. Sciacca, Sicily 6Oct43. Ferried to England departing Sciacca
12Feb44. Routed via El Aounia, Tunis, Tunisia; Anfa Field, Casablanca, French Morocco; St Mawgan,
Newquay, Cornwall; Barkston Heath (Station 483) 18Feb44. Ninth Air Force. Transported paratroopers of the
2nd Battalion, 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment to a drop zone near Sainte-M�re-�glise, Normandy, France
on Mission 'Boston' 6Jun44. During a 14th TCS night formation flight 7Jan45, the radio operator parachuted
from the aircraft for no apparent reason. His body was found on the ground the next day with no parachute
attached and the parachute later found separately 4� miles away opened [1KIS]. Returned to
USA Jul 25, 1945 - Stored Jul 28, 1945 - To RFC Nov 08, 1945. To civil registry as NC54731,
C-117 (Avianca Aug 1946). Reregistred HK-117 1949, converted to Hyper DC-3.
Babb & Co, New York. United Nations Operation in the Congo (UNOC) 2Mar61 as 213. 3 Squadron,
UN Air Transport Force, N'Dolo Airport, L�opoldville, Republic of Congo. Stored Mar62. SOC 1Apr62.
Sold to European Research Co., Brazzaville c.Jan64.
32914 (MSN 9140) to USAAF Mar 04, 1943 - 15th Troop Carrier Squadron, 61st Troop Carrier Group,
Pope Field, Fort Bragg, NC. Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL. Ferried overseas via the South Atlantic/African
route departing Morrison Field May43. Routed via Borinquen Field, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico; Atkinson Field,
Georgetown, British Guyana; Val de Caes Field, Bel�m, Brazil; Panamirim Field, Natal, Brazil; Ascension Island;
Roberts Field, Liberia; Accra, Gold Coast; Anfa Field, Casablanca, French Morocco; Oran, Algeria 12May43.
Twelfth Air Force. Lourmel, Oran, Algeria. Kairouan, Tunisia 21Jun43. Licata, Sicily 1Sep43.
On 18Sep43, three C-47A's (two loaded with ammunition and one with a jeep and trailer) took off from Licata
South and proceeded to Battipaglia, Salerno, Italy. While taxying, this aircraft struck C-47A ? 42-23333,
shearing off the tail assembly. Sciacca, Sicily 6Oct43. Ferried to England departing Sciacca 12Feb44.
Routed via El Aounia, Tunis, Tunisia; Anfa Field, Casablanca, French Morocco; Valley (Station 568), Anglesey,
Wales; Barkston Heath (Station 483) 18Feb44. Ninth Air Force. 14th Troop Carrier Squadron,
61st Troop Carrier Group. Transported paratroopers of the 2nd Battalion, 507th Parachute Infantry
Regiment to a drop zone near Sainte-M�re-�glise, Normandy, France on Mission 'Boston' 6Jun44.
Drucat (B-92), Abbeville, France 13Mar45. Damaged landing at Gotha (R-4), Germany 17Apr45 when
it knocked over and set fire to a number of gasoline-filled jerricans, causing damage to the aircraft.
To civil registry as EI-ACD (Aer Lingus 'St Patrick' Dec 14, 1945,
later 'St Gall' (1954 to 1957), then 'St Seanan'), to CS-TAD (Soc. Acoriana Transportes Aereos
- SATA or Air Acores Jun 15, 1963), to N47027 May 1975, and HR-LAK (LANSA Jan 1976).
Fuselage only noted La Cebia Nov 1980.
32915 (MSN 9141) to USAAF Mar 04, 1943. Oran, Algeria 28May43. 44th Troop Carrier Squadron,
316th Troop Carrier Group, Ninth Air Force, North Africa, Moascar AAB, Ismailia, Egypt 4Dec42. El Adem,
Egypt 10Dec42. Fayid, Egypt Jan43. Nouvion, Algeria 9May43. Guercif, French Morocco 29May43.
Enfidaville, Tunisia 21Jun43. Transported paratroopers of the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment,
82nd Airborne Division to a drop zone near Gela, Sicily on Mission 'Husky II' 11/12Jul43. Hit by ground
fire in the right engine and setting the left engine on fire. Large holes appeared in both wings and the
lower fuselage was on fire. The aircraft was successfully crash landed in an olive grove near Biscari, Sicily
and destroyed by fire [crew survived].
32916 (MSN 9142) to USAAF Mar 05, 1943 - Oran, Algeria 10May43. 48th Troop Carrier Squadron,
313th Troop Carrier Group, Ninth Air Force, Folkingham (Station 484). Transported paratroopers of the
3rd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment to a drop zone one mile NW of Picauville, Normandy,
France on Mission 'Boston' 6Jun44; battle damaged by enemy ground fire. A resupply flight for the
507th Parachute Infantry Regiment on Mission 'Freeport', 7Jun44 was aborted in bad weather.
Returned to USA Jul 24, 1945 - To RFC Oct 30, 1945. To civil registry as XB-FAA, NLR.
32917 (MSN 9143) to USAAF Mar 05, 1943 - Oran, Algeria 12May43. 14th Troop Carrier Squadron,
61st Troop Carrier Group, Twelfth Air Force, Kairouan, Tunisia 21Jun43. Licata, Sicily 1Sep43. Sciacca,
Sicily 6Oct43. Ferried to England departing Sciacca 12Feb44. Routed via El Aounia, Tunis, Tunisia;
Anfa Field, Casablanca, French Morocco; Aberporth, Wales; St Mawgan, Newquay, Cornwall;
Barkston Heath (Station 483) 18Feb44. Ninth Air Force. Transported paratroopers of the 2nd Battalion,
507th Parachute Infantry Regiment to a drop zone near Sainte-M�re-�glise, Normandy, France on Mission 'Boston' 6Jun44.
Returned to USA Jul 19, 1945 - Stored Jul 26, 1945 - RFC Jan 14, 1946. To civil registry as
NC74598, VT-CIE (Orient Airways Feb 13, 1947, ntu), VT-CPD (Rr), AP-AAD (Rr Oct 01, 1947).
Crashed Sharjah, United Arab Emirates Aug 02, 1953. Shortly after taking off, the aircraft
entered a turn and crashed to the ground. The failure of the captain to supervise the
first officer in flying the plane who was not able to fly on instruments in the dark. One
passenger was killed.
32918 (MSN 9144) to USAAF Mar 08, 1943 - 53rd Troop Carrier Squadron, 61st Troop Carrier Group,
Pope Field, Fort Bragg, NC. Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 30Apr43. Ferried overseas via the
South Atlantic/African route departing Morrison Field May43. Routed via Borinquen Field, Aguadilla,
Puerto Rico; Atkinson Field, Georgetown, British Guyana; Val de Caes Field, Bel�m, Brazil; Panamirim Field,
Natal, Brazil; Ascension Island; Accra, Gold Coast; Anfa Field, Casablanca, French Morocco.
Oran, Algeria 12May43. Twelfth Air Force, Lourmel, Oran, Algeria. Kairouan, Tunisia 21Jun43.
Transported paratroopers of the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division to a drop
zone near Gela, Sicily on Mission 'Husky II' 11/12Jul43. Shot down by friendly fire Jul 11, 1943 from the US Navy
and crashed three miles northeast of Modica [4 crew + 17 paratroopers KIA; a paratroop officer standing by the
door was thrown clear and survived]..
32919 (MSN 9145) to USAAF Mar 08, 1943 - 53rd Troop Carrier Squadron, 61st Troop Carrier Group, Pope Field,
Fort Bragg, NC. Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 30Apr43. Ferried overseas via the South Atlantic/African route
departing Morrison Field May43. Routed via Borinquen Field, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico; Atkinson Field, Georgetown,
British Guyana; Val de Caes Field, Bel�m, Brazil; Panamirim Field, Natal, Brazil; Ascension Island; Accra, Gold Coast;
Anfa Field, Casablanca, French Morocco. Oran, Algeria 12May43. Twelfth Air Force, Lourmel, Oran, Algeria.
Kairouan, Tunisia 21Jun43. Licata, Sicily 1Sep43. Sciacca, Sicily 6Oct43. Ferried to England departing Sciacca
12Feb44. Routed via Anfa Field, Casablanca, French Morocco; Valley (Station 568), Anglesey, Wales; Barkston
Heath (Station 483) 18Feb44. Ninth Air Force. Transported paratroopers of the 3rd Battalion, 507th Parachute
Infantry Regiment to a drop zone near Sainte-M�re-�glise, Normandy, France on Mission 'Boston' 6Jun44.
Returned to USA Jul 15, 1945 - Stored Jul 23, 1945 - To RFC Oct 31, 1945. To civil registry as NC65284,
ZS-BWZ (Suidair International Oct 28, 1947 - Mercury Aviation Service (Pty) Nov 1947).
Crashed Wadi Halfa, Khartoum, Sudan Oct 12, 1948.
32920 (MSN 9146) to USAAF Mar 08, 1943 - Oran, Algeria 7May43. 47th Troop Carrier Squadron,
313th Troop Carrier Group, Twelfth Air Force, Castelvetrano, Sicily. Ninth Air Force, Folkingham (Station 484) 16Feb44. Returned to
USA Aug 09, 1945 - RFC Nov 14, 1945. To civil registry as NC88741 (John H. Patterson), XH-T002 (delivery
registration), XH-ANB (Aerovias Nacionales de Honduras Jun 26, 1950 - Operated by Servicio
Aereo de Honduras Nov 30, 1957), HR-ANB (Reregistered Feb 1961 - ANHSA, Tegucigalpa Nov 1980). NLR.
32921 (MSN 9147) to USAAF Mar 09, 1943 - . Oran, Algeria 7May43. 29th Troop Carrier Squadron,
313th Troop Carrier Group, Ninth Air Force, Folkingham (Station 484). Transported supplies for the 507th Parachute
Infantry Regiment to a drop zone one mile NW of Picauville, Normandy, France on Mission 'Freeport', 7Jun44.
Returned to USA Jul 29, 1945 - Stored Aug 01, 1945 - To RFC Nov 10, 1946. To civil registry as NC48132 (Leased
to Pioneer Airlines 'Mirabeau B Lamar' Aug 1947, later 'Ben Milam'). Returned to USAAF as
C-117C serial 42-32921 Mar 01, 1952 - HQ ATC - Stored Davis Monthan Aug 20, 1961.
It was derelict at Ryan Field in 1974. To civil registry again as N87624 for Aero American Corp, Tucson, AZ. Feb 25, 1974.
Cancelled Jan 18, 1979
32922 (MSN 9148) to USAAF Mar 11, 1943 - Oran, Algeria 21May43. Twelfth Air Force. 61st Troop
Carrier Squadron, 314th Troop Carrier Group, Berguent, French Morocco; Kairouan, Tunisia. Transported a
75mm Howitzer and ten paratroopers of the 504th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division
to a drop zone at Sicily on Mission 'Husky I' 9/10Jul43. The aircraft collided with another C-47, the
damage caused severe vibration and shaking of the control column. The only vertical control left intact
was with the trim tab. The pilot made a 180 degree turn, banking as little as possible to maintain control,
to head back out to sea. He made a very shallow left turn over the water to parallel the shore, where he
ditched around midnight into the Mediterranean Sea 500 yards offshore from Scoglitti, Sicily.
The airplane did not break up and everyone got out safely. The only damage was to elevators & rudder, and the bent propellers.
Reported 8th AF Feb 17, 1944. May have been a paper transaction
32923 (MSN 9149) to USAAF Mar 11, 1943 - Oran, Algeria 7May43. 47th Troop Carrier Squadron,
313th Troop Carrier Group, Twelfth Air Force, Castelvetrano, Sicily. Ninth Air Force, Folkingham (Station 484) 16Feb44.
Transported paratroopers of the 3rd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment to a drop zone one
mile NW of Picauville, Normandy, France on Mission 'Boston' 6Jun44; battle damaged by enemy ground fire.
59th Troop Carrier Squadron, 61st Troop Carrier Group, Ninth Air Force, Barkston Heath (Station 483) 22Feb45.
15th Troop Carrier Squadron 2Mar45. Returned to
USA Jul 19, 1945 - To RFC Nov 10, 1945. To civil registry as NC18106 Ford Gun & Machine Co,
New York, NY - N75W reregisterd - N175W Red Owl Stores Inc, Hopkins, MN - Falcon Acft Conversions
Inc, San Antonio, TX (Dec67) - Cohen Kerwin White & Assocs, Atlanta, GA (Jul 1969) - R F Holden
(Jun 1971) - Planes Inc Triple Seven Co, Kansas City, MO Dec 1973 - N77MM R Kyral Brownsville, TX
(Jun 1979) - N24RK R Kyral, registered 10Jan 19, 1978 ntu - (N77MM on reg Jan 1980) - cancelled Jan 1980.
42-32924/32935 Douglas C-47A-DL
MSN 9150/9161 -- Contract No. DA-AC-1043
32924 (MSN 9150) to USAAF Mar 04, 1943 - North Africa May 19, 1943 - 9th AF, 9th TCC Mar 06, 1944.
Condemned Jun 19, 1944 (Spares)
32925 (MSN 9151) to USAAF Mar 02, 1943 - Oran, Algeria 12May43. Twelfth Air Force.
` 15th Troop Carrier Squadron, 61st Troop Carrier Group, Lourmel, Oran, Algeria 15May43. Kairouan, Tunisia 21Jun43.
Transported paratroopers of the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division to a drop zone near
Gela, Sicily on Mission 'Husky II' 11/12Jul43.
Shot down by friendly fire from US Navy at Scoglitti, Sicily Jul 11, 1943 when 52nd TCW C-47s dropping parachutists.
504th PIR arrived during German air raid.
32926 (MSN 9152) to USAAF Mar 02, 1943 - USA - w/o 16 May 1947 takeoff accident at Mariscal Sucre A/p,
Quito, Ecuador. FLC Canal Zone Sep 9, 1947. NLR
32927 (MSN 9153) to USAAF Mar 05, 1943 - . Oran, Algeria 11May43. Twelfth Air Force.
59th Troop Carrier Squadron, 61st Troop Carrier Group, Lourmel, Oran, Algeria 15May43. Kairouan, Tunisia 21Jun43.
Transported paratroopers of the 504th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division to a drop zone at Sicily
on Mission 'Husky I' 9/10Jul43. Licata, Sicily 1Sep43. Sciacca, Sicily 6Oct43. Damaged at Catania, Sicily 2Dec43
when the aircraft was taxyed into a covered bomb crater resulting in damage to the left engine, propeller, and wingtip.
Ferried to England departing Sciacca 12Feb44. Routed via Anfa Field, Casablanca, French Morocco;
Valley (Station 568), Anglesey, Wales; Barkston Heath (Station 483) 18Feb44. Ninth Air Force.
Transported paratroopers of the 3rd Battalion, 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment to a drop zone near
Sainte-M�re-�glise, Normandy, France on Mission 'Boston' 6Jun44. Transported paratroopers of the British 1st
Parachute Brigade to a drop zone near Renkum, west of Arnhem, Netherlands on Operation 'Market' 17Sep44.
Ferried to Aldermaston (Station 467) to participate in a resupply flight for the 82nd Airborne Division to a
drop zone near Groesbeek, Netherlands on Operation 'Market', 19Sep44; damaged by flak and crashed in flames;
the crew escaped safely.
32928 (MSN 9154) to USAAF Mar 04, 1943 - USA - To RFC Aug 27, 1946. To civil registry as NC68220 (E. S. Douglas),
PP-AZA (Emp. Aerovaria Atlantica bought Feb 02, 1948), PP-PLC (Transportes Aereos Bandeirantes bought
May 16, 1949). Badly damaged Iguape Sep 30, 1949, sold to H Matiello, repaired. Reg PP-YPX for
REAL Dec 30, 1949, crashed Ubatuba, Sao Paulo Sep 17, 1951
32929 (MSN 9155) to USAAF Mar 4, 1943. 48th Troop Carrier Squadron, 313th Troop Carrier Group,
Laurinburg Maxton AAB, NC. Accident at Kershaw County, SC 29Mar43. 5th Troop Carrier Squadron,
10th Troop Carrier Group, Lawson Field, Fort Benning, GA. Crashed west of Tamaqua, PA 21Nov43 [7KIS].
Three C-47 aircraft took off from Lawson Field; they were heading to NAS Willow Grove, PA to pick up Waco CG-4A
gliders and tow them to Maxton AAB. In the vicinity of Washington, DC the aircraft entered a large weather
front and lost contact with each other. The pilot of this aircraft decided to divert to Barnseville Auxiliary Airfield, PA.
In poor visibilty the pilot failed to find the airfield. He circled the area but flew into a mountainous area.
The airplane struck the top of Locust Mountain, PA and broke up
32930 (MSN 9156) to USAAF Mar 04, 1943 Oran, Algeria 12May43. 15th Troop Carrier Squadron,
61st Troop Carrier Group, Twelfth Air Force, Kairouan, Tunisia 21Jun43; named 'Buzzing Buzzard'.
Licata, Sicily 1Sep43. Sciacca, Sicily 6Oct43. Ferried to England departing Sciacca 12Feb44.
Routed via El Aounia, Tunis, Tunisia; Anfa Field, Casablanca, French Morocco; Valley (Station 568), Anglesey, Wales;
Barkston Heath (Station 483) 18Feb44. Ninth Air Force. Transported supplies for the 507th Parachute Infantry
Regiment to a drop zone one mile NW of Picauville, Normandy, France on Mission 'Freeport', 7Jun44.
Transported paratroopers of the British 1st Parachute Brigade to a drop zone near Renkum, west of Arnhem,
Netherlands on Operation 'Market' 17Sep44. Towed a Waco CG-4A glider transporting men and materials
for the 320th Glider Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division to a landing zone near Groesbeek, Netherlands
on Operation 'Market', 18Sep44. Towed a Waco CG-4A glider transporting men and materials from the
325th Glider Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division to a landing zone near Grave, Netherlands on Operation 'Market',
23Sep44. 59th Troop Carrier Squadron [X5*X], 61st Troop Carrier Group 2Mar45. Drucat (B-92),
Abbeville, France 13Mar45. Ferried to Chipping Ongar (Station 162). Transported men and materials
of the British 6th Airborne Division to a drop zone at Wesel, Germany on Operation 'Varsity' 24Mar45; returned to Abbeville.
Returned to USA Sep 22, 1945 - RFC (Oct 11, 1945. To civil registry as PP-AVZ (Aerovias Brasil 'Ceara' Sep 20, 1946).
Crashed near Ih�os, east of Bahia May 30, 1950. During descent into dense cumulonimbus clouds,
severe turbulence was encountered which caused displacement of freight that led to an
uncontrolled dive which resulted in the wings separating from the fuselage. Structural
failure due to severe turbulence during a thunderstorm. Pilots decision to descend
without clearing the turbulent area of weather. All 4 crew killed, 9 of 11 passengers killed.
32931 (MSN 9157) to USAAF Mar 04, 1943 - Oran, Algeria 11May43. 59th Troop Carrier Squadron [X5*G],
61st Troop Carrier Group, Ninth Air Force, Barkston Heath (Station 483) 18Feb44. On take-off from
Barkston Heath 14Apr44, the right propeller was damaged beyond repair when the landing gear was raised too soon.
Transported paratroopers of the 3rd Battalion, 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment to a drop zone near
Sainte-M�re-�glise, Normandy, France on Mission 'Boston' 6Jun44. Transported paratroopers of the British
1st Parachute Brigade to a drop zone near Renkum, west of Arnhem, Netherlands on Operation 'Market' 17Sep44.
Drucat (B-92), Abbeville, France 13Mar45. Ferried to Chipping Ongar (Station 162). Transported men and materials
of the British 6th Airborne Division to a drop zone at Wesel, Germany on Operation 'Varsity' 24Mar45; returned to Abbeville.
Diverted to Czechoslovakia Aug 22, 1946. To civil registry as OK-WDR (CSA 1946) then
bought by French AF May 24, 1960 and operated as '32931'. Sold
to Tchad Apr 29, 1966, becoming TT-EAB for Air Tchad Jul 1966. Crashed Jan 29, 1978
32932 (MSN 9158) to USAAF Mar 05, 1943 - Oran, Algeria 11May43. 59th Troop Carrier Squadron [X5*I],
61st Troop Carrier Group, Twelfth Air Force, Kairouan, Tunisia 21Jun43. Licata, Sicily 1Sep43. Sciacca, Sicily 6Oct43.
Ferried to England departing Sciacca 12Feb44. Routed via Anfa Field, Casablanca, French Morocco; Valley (Station 568),
Anglesey, Wales; Barkston Heath (Station 483) 18Feb44. Ninth Air Force. Transported paratroopers of the
3rd Battalion, 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment to a drop zone near Sainte-M�re-�glise, Normandy, France on
Mission 'Boston' 6Jun44. Transported paratroopers of the British 1st Parachute Brigade to a drop zone near
Renkum, west of Arnhem, Netherlands on Operation 'Market' 17Sep44. Drucat (B-92), Abbeville, France 13Mar45.
Ferried to Chipping Ongar (Station 162). Transported men and materials of the British 6th Airborne Division
to a drop zone at Wesel, Germany on Operation 'Varsity' 24Mar45; returned to Abbeville.
To civil registry as PH-TCG (KLM Apr 19, 1946), F-BCYP (Soc. Africaine des Transports
Tropicaux Jan 25, 1947 - French Directorate of Civil Aviation Feb 1948 - Air France May 1948).
Crashed Djiring, Indochina Jul 07, 1948
32933 (MSN 9159) to USAAF Mar 04, 1943 - Oran, Algeria 12May43. 15th Troop Carrier Squadron,
61st Troop Carrier Group, Twelfth Air Force, Kairouan, Tunisia 21Jun43. Licata, Sicily 1Sep43. Sciacca, Sicily 6Oct43.
Ferried to England departing Sciacca 12Feb44. Routed via El Aounia, Tunis, Tunisia; Anfa Field, Casablanca,
French Morocco; Valley (Station 568), Anglesey, Wales; Barkston Heath (Station 483) 18Feb44. Ninth Air Force.
Transported paratroopers of the 2nd Battalion, 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment to a drop zone near
Sainte-M�re-�glise, Normandy, France on Mission 'Boston' 6Jun44. Transported paratroopers of the British
1st Parachute Brigade to a drop zone near Renkum, west of Arnhem, Netherlands on Operation 'Market' 17Sep44.
Towed a Waco CG-4A glider transporting men and materials for the 320th Glider Infantry Regiment,
82nd Airborne Division to a landing zone near Groesbeek, Netherlands on Operation 'Market', 18Sep44.
Towed a Waco CG-4A glider transporting men and materials from the 325th Glider Infantry Regiment,
82nd Airborne Division to a landing zone near Grave, Netherlands on Operation 'Market', 23Sep44.
Damaged when nosed over with heavy braking during landing to avoid C-47 ? 42-23309 which had landed
ahead with a blown tire at Achiet (B-54), France 4Mar45. Drucat (B-92), Abbeville, France 13Mar45.
Ferried to Chipping Ongar (Station 162). Transported men and materials of the British 6th Airborne Division
to a drop zone at Wesel, Germany on Operation 'Varsity' 24Mar45; returned to Abbeville. Struck trees on
top of a hill after takeoff and crashed two miles SSE from Senarpont, Somme, France 27Mar45 [6KIA].
Condemned Mar 29, 1945 (Spares)
32934 (MSN 9160) to USAAF Mar 04, 1943 - Oran, Algeria 12May43. 15th Troop Carrier Squadron,
61st Troop Carrier Group, Lourmel, Oran, Algeria 15May43; named 'Terry H' [named for a former squadron commander].
Kairouan, Tunisia 21Jun43. Transported paratroopers of the 504th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division
to a drop zone at Sicily on Mission 'Husky I' 9/10Jul43 and on Mission 'Husky II' 11/12Jul43. Twelfth Air Force 22Aug43.
Licata, Sicily 1Sep43. Sciacca, Sicily 6Oct43. Ferried to England departing Sciacca 12Feb44. Routed via El Aounia, Tunis,
Tunisia; Anfa Field, Casablanca, French Morocco; Valley (Station 568), Anglesey, Wales; Barkston Heath (Station 483)
18Feb44. Ninth Air Force. Transported paratroopers of the 2nd Battalion, 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment to a
drop zone near Sainte-M�re-�glise, Normandy, France on Mission 'Boston' 6Jun44. Transported supplies for the
507th Parachute Infantry Regiment to a drop zone one mile NW of Picauville, Normandy, France on Mission 'Freeport',
7Jun44. Transported paratroopers of the British 1st Parachute Brigade to a drop zone near Renkum, west of Arnhem,
Netherlands on Operation 'Market' 17Sep44. Towed a Waco CG-4A glider transporting men and materials from the
325th Glider Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division to a landing zone near Grave, Netherlands on Operation 'Market', 23Sep44.
Returned to USA Sep 29, 1945 - To RFC Oct 29, 1945. NLR. Spent some time in Brazil in Jun 1945 in transport
pilot school.
32935 (MSN 9161) to USAAF Mar 04, 1943 - Oran, Algeria 11May43. 59th Troop Carrier Squadron,
61st Troop Carrier Group, Lourmel, Oran, Algeria 15May43. Kairouan, Tunisia 21Jun43. Transported paratroopers
of the 504th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division to a drop zone at Sicily on Mission 'Husky I' 9/10Jul43.
Twelfth Air Force 22Aug43. Licata, Sicily 1Sep43. Sciacca, Sicily 6Oct43. Ferried to England departing Sciacca 12Feb44.
Routed via Anfa Field, Casablanca, French Morocco; Valley (Station 568), Anglesey, Wales; Barkston Heath (Station 483)
18Feb44. Ninth Air Force. Transported paratroopers of the British 1st Parachute Brigade to a drop zone near Renkum,
west of Arnhem, Netherlands on Operation 'Market' 17Sep44. 18h Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, Orly (A-47),
Paris, France. Damaged landing at Orly 19Sep45. Salvaged 27Dec45.
42-32936/32950 Douglas C-54 Skymaster
MSN 3111/3125). Originally intended for RAF under Lend Lease as FL996/9
and FR100/10. Retained by USAAF and never delivered to RAF.
32936 (MSN 3111) to civil registry as N88841 (Capital Airlines, merged
into United Airline 1961). Derelict by 1968 at Wilmington, NC. Scrapped.
32937 (MSN 3112) to civil registry as N88842 (Capital Airlines). Crashed
near Lookout Rock, WV Jun 13, 1947 with Pennsylvania-Central
Airlines on flight from Pittsburgh to Washington DC. Struck a ridge
in the Blue Ridge Mountains at 1425 foot elevation. All 50 onboard killed.
32938 (MSN 3113) to civil registry as N88843 (Capital Airlines, Mackey
Airlines, Eastern Airlines). NLR
32939 (MSN 3114) leased to TWA. Crashed near Paramaribo Jan 15, 1943.
32940 (MSN 3115) to civil registry as N86556 (Capital Airlines -- Northeast
Airlines, Modern Air Transport). To Japan Air Lines as JA6003
"Haruna". DBR during wheels-up landing at Osaka Apr 10,
1962. All 64 onboard OK. Displayed as JA6003 in park at Tokarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan in 1973.
32941 (MSN 3116, Line No. DO6) to civil registry in 1946 as N88747 (Capital Airlines (Jul 1946
to Nov 1955), Pacific Southwest Airlines (Nov 1955 to Nov 1960). To Starways of Liverpool
as G-ARIY in 1961. WFU at Liverpool Jul 1964, and broken up at Liverpool in 1965.
32942 (MSN 3117/D27) operated by TWA. Destroyed by fire when it
crashed on takeoff at Stephenville-Harmon Field, Newfoundland May 13, 1944.
32943 (MSN 3118) to civil registry as N88444 with Pennsylvania
Central Airlines in 1946. Bought by Northeast Airlines
Jun 1, 1947. Leased by Capital Airlines Sep 22, 1949, returned
Dec 4, 1949. Leased by National Airlines Dec 12, 1949,
returned May 16, 1950. Aircraft Investment Corp bought it
Aug 1, 1950. Modern Air Transport bought it Sep 1950.
Northwest Airlines bought it 1951. Leased by Japan Air Lines
Nov 2, 1950 as JA6005 "Tokachi", to Philippine Airlines as PI-C780 (NTU).
Scrapped as JA6005 Ansett, Hong Kong-Kai Tak Jul 1964. Remains sold
to Ansett for use as spares.
32944 (MSN 3119, line no. DC9) To RAF as FR104 (ntu); retained by USAAF; to civil registry as N86557
(Capital Airlines (1946-1955) - Pacific Southwest Airlines (1955-1960) - Stewart Air Services
(1960-1965) - Blatz Airlines (1965)). WFU Dec 15, 1971, BU at Chico, CA. NLR.
32945 (MSN 3120) To RAF as FR105 (ntu); retained by USAAF; to civil registry as N88863 (Capital Airlines - Mackey
Airlines), HK-753 (Aerocondor - SAM Colombia). Scrapped.
32946 (MSN 3121) To RAF as FR106 (ntu); retained by USAAF; to civil registry as N88851 (Capital Airlines - Merged
into United Airlines 1961). Derelict by 1968 at Wilmington, NC, Scrapped
32947 (MSN 3122) to RAF as FR107 (ntu); retained by USAAF; to civil registry as N88864 (Capital Airlines - Merged
into United Airlines 1961). Derelict by 1968 at Wilmington, NC. Scrapped
32948 (MSN 3123) to civil registry as N88852 (Capital Airlines - Northeast
Airlines - Leased to National Airlines - Modern Air Transport - Los
Angeles Air Service - Leased to Continental Airlines - Northwest
Airlines - Leased to Peninsular Air Transport). On flight
from Seattle to Newark Nov 17, 1955, crashed on takeoff at Seattle due to prop
failure. Of 70 passengers and 4 crew, 27 passengers and 1 crew killed.
32949 (MSN 3124) To RAF as FR109 (ntu); retained by USAAF; to civil registry as N88748 (Capital Airlines - Merged
into United Airlines 1961). Derelict by 1968 at Wilmington, NC. Scrapped.
32950 (MSN 3125) To RAF as FR110 (ntu); retained by USAAF; to civil registry as N88867 (Capital Airlines - Merged
into United Airlines 1961). Derelict by 1968 at Wilmington, NC. Scrapped
42-32951/33050 Douglas A-20C-1-DO Havoc
Built under Lend-Lease contract for delivery to RAF and Soviet Air
force. Substantial numbers retained by USAAF.
32951 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ196. Struck off charge Jul 3, 1945
32952 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ197. SOC Jun 6, 1947
32953 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ198. MIA from night intruder mission Aug 5, 1944
32954 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ199. SOC Jun 6, 1947
32955 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ200. Crashed 5 mi W of Crossmolina, Eira during
ferry flight Oct 25, 1942
32956 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ201. SOC Jun 6, 1947
32957 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ202. MIA from night intruder mission Aug 5, 1944
32958 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ203. Shot down by AAA near Veere Oct 22, 1943
32959 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ204. Crashed on approach to Hartfordbridge, England Mar 23, 1944
32960 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ205. Crashed on takeoff from Harwell, England Mar 24, 1945
32961 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ206. SOC Feb 21, 1946
32962 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ207. MIA on anti-shipping sweep off Ancona, Italy Apr 1, 1944
32963 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ208. SOC Jun 6, 1947
32964 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ209. Crashed during ferry flight Oct 20, 1942 at Bluie West One, Greenland
32965 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ210. Crashed on takeoff from Hartfordbridge, England Jul 31, 1944.
32966 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ211. SOC Jun 6, 1947
32967 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ212. Crashed 2 mi SSW of Finmere, England Nov 21, 1944
32968 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ213. Crashed in sea while laying smokescreen off Le Havre,
France Jun 6, 1944
32969 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ214. Show down by AAA off Normandy beaches Jun 6, 1944
32970 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ215. Crashed during ferry flight Nov 10, 1942
32971 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ216. Wrecked when crashlanded in mist at Stornara, Italy
after engine cut Jan 20, 1944
32972 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ217. Crashed after takeoff from Dishley, England Feb 19, 1944
32973 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ218. Wrecked when bellylanded at Hartfordbridge,
England after AAA damage Feb 9, 1944
32974 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ219. SOC Apr 26, 1945
32975 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ220. Crashed 1/2 mile E of Everley, England after engine
fire Sep 13, 1943
32976 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ221. SOC Jun 6, 1947
32977 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ222. Crashed during ferry flight Dec 8, 1942.
32978 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ223. Shot down by AAA with 107 Sqdn near Veere Oct 22, 1943.
32979 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ224. Ditched Aug 13, 1943.
32980 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ225. SOC Jun 6, 1947.
32981 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ226. Crashed near Arras, France after hitting HT cables Aug 16, 1943
32982 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ227. Crashed in flames off Ijmuiden, Holland May 3, 1943
32983 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ228. MIA from night intruder mission May 23, 1944
32984 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ229. SOC Jun 2, 1947
32985 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ230. MIA from mission to Courcelles, France Oct 22, 1943
32986 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ231. SO Mar 21, 1946
32987 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ232. Hit sea during turn and exploded Jul 29, 1943
32988 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ233. Crashlanded in France after engine fire Sep 2, 1943.
32989 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ234. Shot down by AAA near Veere Oct 22, 1943
32990 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ235. Collided with Boston BZ237 (42-32992) and crashed near
Gosnay Aug 27, 1943.
32991 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ236. SOC Jun 15, 1945.
32992 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ237. Hit by AAA, collided with Boston BZ235 (42-32990) and
crashed near Gosnay Aug 27, 1943
32993 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ238. Crashed during ferry flight Jan 4, 1943.
32994 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ239. SOC Jun 6, 1947
32995 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ240. SOC Oct 30, 1944
32996 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ241. Wrecked when crashlanded at Rougham, England upon
return from mission Jun 23, 1943
32997 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ242. Shot down by aaa near Denain, France Aug 16, 1943
32998 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ243. MIA from smokescreen-laying mission off Normandy
beaches Jun 6, 1944
32999 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ244. Wrecked when overshot landing at Finmere, England Nov 4, 1944
33000 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ245. Crashed during ferry flight Jan 12, 1943
33001 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ246. SOC Jun 6, 1947
33002 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ247. Crashed during ferry flight Dec 8, 1942
33003 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ248. SOC Jun 6, 1947
33004 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ249. Crashed on takeoff from Gerbini South,Sicily Sep 8, 1943
33005 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ250. SOC Aug 1, 1945
33006 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ251. SOC Jun 3, 1947
33007 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ252. SOC Oct 31, 1946
33008 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ253. Crashed during attempted forced landing at East Guldeford,
England Sep 21, 1944
33009 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ254. Crashed after takeoff from Hartfordbridge, England
Mar 18, 1944
33010 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ255. SOC Jun 6, 1947
33011 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ256. SOC Jun 6, 1947
33012 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ257. MIA from night intruder mission Jun 4, 1944
33013 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ258. SOC Feb 21, 1946
33014 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ259. SOC Jun 6, 1947
33015 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ260. Wrecked when crashlanded near West Malling, England
upon return from mission to Poix, France May 15, 1943.
33016 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ261. MIA from night intruder mission Aug 5, 1944
33017 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ262. MIA from night intruder mission over Normandy Jul 8, 1944
33018 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ263. SOC Apr 11, 1946
33019 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ264. SOC Jun 15, 1945
33020 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ265. SOC Jun 6, 1947.
33021 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ266. Shot down by AAA near Denain, France Aug 16, 1943
33022 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ267. Missing from mission to Langerbrugge
(aircraft was with 88 Sqn based in England) Jul 12, 1943
33023 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ268. Ditched in North Sea Jun 27, 1943
33024 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ269. Crashed in wood near Dunsfold, England while
returning from mission Dec 23, 1943
33025 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ270. SOC Jul 3, 1944
33026 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ271. Forcelanded at Eidhoven, Netherlands after flak
damage Nov 29, 1944
33027 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ272. Flew into hill near Dorval, Canada during ferry
flight Jun 22, 1943.
33028 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ273. SOC Feb 21, 1946
33029 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ274. Relegated to ground instructional airframe with
serial 5671M Sep 1945. Presumably subsequently scrapped.
33030 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ275. SOC Jun 6, 1947
33031 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ276. DBR Oct 16, 1943
33032 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ277. Crashed during ferry flight Dec 1942
33033 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ278. Crashed near Hartfordbridge, England while returning
from mission Nov 25, 1943.
33034 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ279. Shot down by AAA over Flottemanville Feb 15, 1944
33035 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ280. SOC Jun 6, 1947.
33036 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ281. SOC Oct 26, 1944
33037 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ282. Crashed near Lakenheath, England following
engine failure May 5, 1943
33038 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ283. SOC Jun 6, 1947
33039 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ284. SOC Feb 21, 1946
33040 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ285. SOC Jun 6, 1947
33041 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ286. SOC Dec 17, 1949
33042 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ287. Crashed at Meeks Field, Iceland during ferry
flight Oct 12, 1942.
33043 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ288. Flew into ground 1 mi NE of Rothersthorpe,
England Mar 30, 1944
33044 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ289. Shot down by fighters near Denain, France Aug 16, 1943.
33045 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ290. Wrecked when swung on landing at Hartfordbridge,
England and hit Wellington HZ760 May 10, 1945
33046 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ291. Wrecked when crashlanded on Romney Marsh,
England after engine cut whilst returning from mission Apr 8, 1944
33047 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ292. SOC Jun 2, 1947.
33048 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ293. Dived into North Sea whilst returning from
mission to Schiphol, Holland Jul 30, 1943.
33049 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ294. Crashed during attempted forced landing near
Benton, Canada during ferry flight Dec 8, 1942
33050 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ295. Crashed during ferry flight
42-33051/33200 Douglas A-20C-5-DO Havoc
Built under lend-lease contract for delivery to RAF and Soviet AF.
Substantial numbers retained by USAAF.
33051 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ296. Dove into ground 8 mi N of Rennes, France Jul 8, 1943
33052 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ297. SOC Jun 6, 1947
33053 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ298. Rolled over and dove into ground near Finmere,
England Nov 29, 1943.
33054 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ299. Collided with Boston BZ364 (ex 42-33119) and
crashed near Winchfield, England Dec 30, 1943
33055 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ300. Ditched off San Fernando, Trinidad Mar 4, 1943.
33056 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ301. SOC Feb 21, 1946.
33057 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ302. SOC Sep 12, 1944
33058 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ303. SOC Jun 6, 1947
33059 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ304. Wrecked when overshot landing at Friston,
England and fell into pit Apr 20, 1944.
33060 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ305. Hit by flak over Flixecourt and
crashlanded in Pevensey Bay, England Jan 14, 1944
33061 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ306. Abandoned 12 miles west of Faro, Portugal
during ferry flight Apr 2, 1943.
33062 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ307. Shot down by flak near Veere (88 Sqn
aircraft) Oct 22, 1943.
33063 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ308. Shot down by flak over Bois de la Justice
(aircraft was with 342 (Free French) Sqn based in England) Mar 2, 1944
33064 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ309. Missing from night interdictor mission Mar 18, 1944.
33065 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ310. Crashed on takeoff from Portreath, England Sep 26, 1943
33066 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ311. SOC Jun 6, 1947
33067 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ312. SOC Jun 6, 1947
33068 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ313. Wrecked when undercarriage collapsed on
landing at Great Massingham, England Aug 31, 1943
33069 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ314. Forcelanded at Grimbergen, Belgium after
receiving flak damage over Wesel, Germany Sep 27, 1944; not repaired, subsequently scrapped
33070 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ315. SOC Oct 15, 1947
33071 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ316. Ditched in English Channel Oct 3, 1943
33072 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ317. Abandoned by crew after striking pylon near
Douai, France Aug 16, 1943.
33073 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ318. Shot down by AAA near Boortmeerbeck, Belgium Oct 5, 1944. 1 KIA, 1 injured,
2 OK.
33074 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ319. Shot down by AAA over Chevilly Oct 3, 1943
33075 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ320. SOC Sep 26, 1946
33076 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ321. Crashed during attempted forced landing at
Ludgershall, England Sep 6, 1943.
33077 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ322. Ditched in English Channel Oct 3, 1943
33078 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ323. Crashed near Pulham St Mary, England after
both props feathered in error May 18, 1944
33079 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ324. Spun into ground whilst on approach to Great
Massingham, England Apr 10, 1943
33080 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ325. Crashed during attempted forced landing 2 miles
north-east of Eversley, England May 24, 1944
33081 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ326. SOC Feb 21, 1946
33082 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ327. Missing from shipping sweep off Ancona, Italy Apr 17, 1944
33083 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ328. SOC Jun 6, 1947
33084 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ329. Lost Feb 8, 1944.
33085 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ330. Flew into ground in bad weather 2 miles NNW
of Aprivena, Italy Dec 20, 1943
33086 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ331. Wrecked when bellylanded at Vitry-en-Artois,
France Nov 16, 1944
33087 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ332. Dived into sea off Lady Isle, Scotland after
being damaged by low-altitude bomb drop Dec 6, 1945
33088 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ333. Hit by flak and crashed near St Pol, France Feb 8, 1944
33089 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ334. SOC Jun 6, 1947
33090 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ335. Shot down by flak near Rennes, France Aug 8, 1943
33091 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ336. SOC Jun 6, 1947.
33092 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ337. SOC Apr 26, 1945
33093 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ338. Forcelanded at Eindhoven, Holland following
flak damage Sep 27, 1944
33094 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ339. Crashed during attempted forced landing at
Deepcut, England Nov 11, 1943.
33095 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ340. Damaged beyond repair when overshot landing at
Finmere, England Apr 11, 1944
33096 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ341. Missing from mission to Rennes, France Aug 8, 1943
33097 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ342. SOC Jun 6, 1947
33098 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ343. SOC Jun 6, 1947
33099 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ344. Missing from night intruder mission Aug 5, 1944
33100 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ345. Believe lost Jul 1944
33101 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ346. SOC Nov 31, 1946
33102 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ347. SOC Apr 26, 1945
33103 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ348. W/O Dec 22, 1942 at Gordon, TX before delivery to RAF
33104 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ349. SOC Sep 18, 1944
33105 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ350. Damaged beyond repair when crashlanded at
Hartfordbridge, UK after sustaining flak damage during mission May 20, 1944
33106 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ351. Shot down by enemy fighters near Denain,
France Aug 16, 1943
33107 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ352. Wrecked when undershot landing at
Vitry-en-Artois, France Feb 4, 1945
33108 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ353. Apparently not delivered to RAF
33109 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ354. Apparently not delivered to RAF
33110 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ355. Missing from night intruder mission Jun 7, 1944
33111 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ356. SOC Jun 2, 1947
33112 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ357. SOC Jun 6, 1947.
33113 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ358. Missing from night intruder mission over
Normandy Jul 30, 1944
33114 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ359. Shot down by enemy fighter near Denain,
France Aug 16, 1943
33115 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ360. Crashed at Tyneham, England after running
out of fuel Aug 8, 1943.
33116 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ361. Crashed after colliding with Boston
Z2280 (a direct purchase so no USAAF serial) on approach to Gerbini, Sicily Sep 26, 1943.
33117 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ362. SOC Mar 5, 1946.
33118 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ363. BZ363. Wrecked when undershot landing at
Tangmere, England May 11, 1945.
33119 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ364. Collided with Boston BZ299 (42-33054) and crashed
near Winchfield, England Dec 30, 1943
33120 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ365. Missing from night intruder mission Apr 22, 1944
33121 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ366. Missing from mission to Langerbrugge Jul 3, 1943
33122 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ367. Wrecked when overshot landing and hit
pillbox at Peterborough, England Aug 15, 1943.
33123 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ368. Wrecked when undershot landing at Gibraltar and hit
sea wall. Date Mar 7, 1942 is quoted but seems too early
33124 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ369. SOC Apr 11, 1946
33125 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ370. SOC Jun 6, 1947
33126 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ371. Crashed on takeoff at Foggia, Italy Nov 22, 1943
33127 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ372. SOC Jun 6, 1947
33128 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ373. Crashed on takeoff at Marcianise, Italy May 15, 1944
33129 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ374. SOC Jun 15, 1945
33130 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ375. Crashed after hitting trees during night takeoff
at Marcianise, Italy Mar 16, 1944
33131 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ376. Ditched in North Sea off Skegness, England Jun 27, 1943
33132 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ377. Wrecked when overshot landing at Eindhoven,
Holland after engine cut Feb 24, 1945.
33133 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ378. SOC Jun 6, 1947
33134 to RAAF as A28-27. Lost in action Jan 30, 1944 when hit by AAA over Lindenhafen, New Britain.
33135 converted to P-70A-1. W/o Jun 3, 1943 at Tinker AAB, OK
33136 W/o 24�Apr 1944 at Florence AAF, SC
33137 converted to P-70A-1
33139 W/o 15�Apr 1943 at Muskogee AAB, OK�
33140 W/o 28�Jul 1943 at Will Rogers Field, OK�
33141 converted to P-70A-1. w/o 22 Oct 1943 at Dunellon AAB, FL
33142 to RAAF as A28-28. Converted to components 5/45.
33143 (P-70A-1, 418th NFS, 5th AF) lost from unknown cause near Madang Papau New Guinea while on mission
to drop supplies Apr 2, 1944, SW Pacific. MACR 4074. Both crew killed. Wreckage found Jul 2, 1963, but
only one remains found.
33144 W/o 11�Jun 1943 at Lake Charles AAF, LA�
33145 W/o 1�Apr 1944 at Clarkton, NC�
33147 81st Depot Repair Squadron, 81st Air Depot Group, Eagle Farm, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
The aircraft was returning from an airfield where the three passengers had delivered Lockheed P-38 Lightning
fighters to an operational unit. It crashed after engine failure in a forced landing at Ipswich, Queensland 17Jul43. 3 killed
33148 converted to P-70A-1
33149 W/o 25�Jun 1943 at Newton, TX�
33150 to USSR
33151 to USSR
33152 converted to P-70A-1
33153 to USSR
33154 to RAAF as A28-23 - crash landed 9/43, converted to components.
33156/33158 to USSR
33159 W/o 10�Mar 1944 at Morris Field, NC�
33160 to USSR
33161 W/o 14�Feb 1943 at Eldorado, OK�
33162 W/o 15�Apr 1943 at Goodnight, TX�
33163 to RAAF as A28-24, crashed in sea 3/44.
33164 converted to P-70A-1; w/o 14 Aug 1943 at Titusville, FL
33165 converted to P-70A-1
33166 W/o 27�Mar 1943 at Will Rogers Field, OK�
33167 to USSR
33168 to RAAF as A28-31. Converted to components 5/45.
33169 to USSR
33170 converted to P-70A-1
33172 to RAAF as A28-25, converted to components 4/45.
33173 to USSR
33174 to RAAF as A28-30. Damaged in accident 8/44. Converted to components.
33175 to USSR
33177 converted to P-70A-1; w/o 26 Jul 1943 at Kissimmee AAB, FL
33178 to USSR
33179 converted to P-70A-1; w/o 1 Jul 1944 at Estrella AAF, CA
33180 to RAAF as A28-26. Crashed and burned 12 Oct 1943
33181 to USSR
33182 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ381. SOC Mar 6, 1947
33183 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ382. Missing from night intruder mission
ovr Normandy Aug 13, 1944
33184 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ383. Diverted to RCAF
33185 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ384. Wrecked when struck by Wildcat
JV782 (BuNo 73499) whilst parked at Boscombe Down, England Mar 16, 1945
33186 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ385. Spun into ground after takeoff from
Goose Bay, Canada Mar 10, 1943.
33187 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ386. SOC Nov 30, 1944
33188 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ387. Crashed during overshoot at Hartfordbridge,
England Jan 6, 1944
33189 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ388. Damaged by flak during mission to
Chevilly and failed to return Oct 3, 1943
33190 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ389. SOC Jun 6, 1947
33191 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ390. Missing from night intruder mission over Normandy Aug 5, 1944
33192 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ391. SOC Nov 30, 1944
33193 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ392. Shot down by flak near Belleville, France Dec 23, 1943
33194 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ393. Shot down by flak near Veere Oct 22, 1943.
33195 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ394.
33196 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ395. SOC Aug 29, 1944
33197 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ396. Spun into ground at St Urbain de Chateauguay,
Canada during test flight Mar 17, 1945.
33198 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ397. Wrecked when bellylanded at Finmere, England Oct 18, 1944
33199 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ398. SOC Jun 6, 1947
33200 to RAF as Boston IIIA BZ399. Missing from mission to Courtrai Jul 26, 1943
42-33201/33383 Douglas A-20C-10-DO Havoc
Built under lend-lease contract for delivery to RAF and Soviet Air
force. Substantial numbers retained by USAAF.
33203 to USSR
33206 W/o 16�Mar 1943 at Waller Field, BWI�
33207 to USSR (ntu); w/o 27�Mar 1943 at Morrison Field, FL�
33208 transferred to RAF from USAAF stocks. RAF serial (if ever allocated) is unknown by me.
33210 to USSR
33211 to RAAF as A28-29. Ditched into sea at Jacquinot Bay 11/43.
33213 W/o 28�Feb 1943 in Caribbean Sea
33214 to USSR
33215 transferred to RAF from USAAF stocks. RAF serial (if ever allocated) is unknown by me.
33216 transferred to RAF from USAAF stocks. RAF serial (if ever allocated) is unknown by me.
33219 to USSR
33220 W/o 26�Apr 1944 at La Senia, Algeria�
33221 modified as P-70A-1 night fighter
33224 transferred to RAF from USAAF stocks. RAF serial (if ever allocated) is unknown by me.
33225 W/o 8�Mar 1943 in Africa
33232 transferred to RAF from USAAF stocks. RAF serial (if ever allocated) is unknown by me.
33233 to USSR
33234 to USSR
33235 W/o 30�Dec 1942 at Santa Monica, CA�
33236/33238 to USSR
33239 W/o 27�Feb 1943 at Eglin Field, FL�
33240/33252 to USSR
33251 To USSR (ntu); w/o 22�May 1943 at Maiduguri, Nigeria
33253 to RAF as Boston III AL331 (ntu?); w/o 18�Mar 1943 at Centerville, AL�
33254/33257 to USSR
33260/33269 to USSR
33270 transferred to RAF from USAAF stocks. RAF serial (if ever allocated) is unknown by me.
33271 to USSR (ntu); w/o 3�Mar 1943 at Atkinson Field, British Guyana�
33272 W/o 16�Jan 1943 at Daggett, CA�
33273 to USSR
33274 to USSR
33276 W/o 21�Mar 1943 at Waller Field, Trinidad
33277/33279 to USSR
33280 transferred to RAF from USAAF stocks. RAF serial (if ever allocated) is unknown by me.
33281/33289 to USSR
33290 transferred to RAF from USAAF stocks. RAF serial (if ever allocated) is unknown by me.
33291 to USSR
33292 to USSR
33293 transferred to RAF from USAAF stocks. RAF serial (if ever allocated) is unknown by me.
33294/33302 to USSR
33298 To USSR (ntu); w/o 4�Apr 1943 in South Atlantic�
33303 transferred to RAF from USAAF stocks. RAF serial (if ever allocated) is unknown by me.
33304/33308 to USSR
33308 To USSR (ntu); w/o 4�Apr 1943 at Wideawake Field, Ascension Island
33309 W/o 17�Mar 1943 at Caborojo, Puerto Rico
33310 pilot buzzed Hunter Field, GA at 60 feet and wingtip hit control tower 3/11/1943. 3 killed.
33312 to USSR
33313 transferred to RAF from USAAF stocks. RAF serial (if ever allocated) is unknown by me.
33315 W/o 4�Apr 1943 at Tindouf, Algeria
33316 to USSR
33317 to USSR
33318 W/o 22�Jul 1943 at 1 Mi NW Kingman AAF, AZ�
33319 W/o 20�Mar 1943 at Borinquen Field�
33320 to USSR
33323 to USSR
33324 to USSR. CCCP-F245 GUGK TAS late 1940s ; converted to a photo survey aircraft; opb Glavnoye
upravleniye geodezii i kartografii (Main Directorate of Geodesy and Cartography) in Central Asia; in
dark c/s with light undersides, small 'Aerosyomka G.U.G.K.' titles on nose.
33325 to USSR (ntu); w/o 26�Mar 1943 at at sea enroute Trinidad�
33326 to USSR
33327 to USSR
33328 W/o 21�Mar 1943 at Paramaribo, Suriname�
33329 to USSR
33330 lost over Atlantic 23 km NNW of Trairi, Brazil Mar 20, 1943. 3 killed. MACR 15479.
33332/33360 to USSR
33250 (MSN 6712) Lend-Lease to USSR as 233250. Chief Administration of Hydrometeorological Service (GUGMS).
Registered as CCCP-M187. Operated by Lyotno Trenirovochny Aerologicheski Tsentr (LTATs).
Accident during a training flight from Naberezhnaya, Kuybyshev 5Aug47
33268 (MSN 6730) Lend-Lease to USSR as 233268. Armament removed, converted for photographic
surveys. Aeroflot, Uzbekistan Civil Aviation Directorate. Registered as CCCP-L1133
33324 (MSN 6786) Lend-Lease to USSR as 233324. Armament removed, converted for photographic
surveys. Chief Administration of Geodesy Surveying and Cartography (GUGK). Registered as
CCCP-F245. Operated in Central Asia. 'Aerosyomka G.U.G.K.' titles on the nose
33361 lost near Point B�hague, French Guiana Mar 20, 1943. 2 killed. MACR 15505
33362/33383 to USSR
33380 To USSR (ntu); w/o 8�Jun 1943 at Parnamirim Field, Natal�
42-33384/34418 Fairchild PT-19A-FA
Model M62A
33384 (MSN T42-3050) W/o 6�Feb 1943 at Bruce Field, TX�
33395 (MSN T42-3061) Lend-Lease to China (ntu); w/o 18�Jun 1943 at Clifton, TX�
33396 (MSN T42-3062) W/o 21�Oct 1943 at Richland, TX�
33397 (MSN T42-3063) W/o 6�Aug 1943 at Francena, TX�
33400 (MSN T42-3066) W/o 19�May 1944 at Francena, TX�
33405 (MSN T42-3071) W/o 19�Aug 1943 at Francena, TX
33406 (MSN T42-3072) W/o 7�Jul 1943 at Francena, TX
33407 (MSN T42-3073) W/o 17�Sep 1943 at Powell, TX�
33408 (MSN T42-3074) W/o 31�Jul 1944 at Cosicana Field, TX�
33409 (MSN T42-3075) W/o 8�Mar 1943 at Francena, TX�
33413 (MSN T42-3079) W/o 24�Jul 1944 at Alma, TX�
33417 (MSN T42-3083) W/o 19�Jul 1943 at Garner Field, TX�
33430 (MSN T42-3096) W/o 15�Oct 1942 at Garner Field, TX�
33432 (MSN T42-3098) W/o 26�Jun 1943 at Gray AAAF, TX�
33434 (MSN T42-3100) W/o 5�Aug 1943 at Stamford-Arledge Field, TX�
33435 (MSN T42-3101) W/o 27�Jan 1943 at Stamford-Arledge Field, TX�
33437 (MSN T42-3103) W/o 14�Jun 1944 at Avoca, TX�
33438 (MSN T42-3104) W/o 19�Feb 1943 at Stamford-Arledge Field, TX�
33444 (MSN T42-3110) W/o 1�Apr 1943 at Ft Reno AAAF, OK�
33445 (MSN T42-3111) W/o 26�May 1943 at Ft Reno AAAF, OK�
33446 (MSN T42-3112) W/o 18�Aug 1943 at Calumet AAAF, OK�
33450 (MSN T42-3116) W/o 16�Apr 1943 at Ft Reno AAAF #1, OK�
33451 (MSN T42-3117) W/o 18�Aug 1943 at Ft Reno AAAF, OK�
33453 (MSN T42-3119) W/o 19�Apr 1943 at Mustang Field, OK�
33458 (MSN T42-3124) Wfu; to N54140; w/o 15 Jun 1971 at Uplands, CA
33459 (MSN T42-3125) W/o 21�Oct 1943 at Chickasha, OK�
33465 (MSN T42-3131) W/o 16�Apr 1943 at Chickasha, OK�
33466 (MSN T42-3132) W/o 6�Mar 1944 at Chickasha, OK�
33467 (MSN T42-3133) W/o 28�May 1943 at Chickasha, OK�
33471 (MSN T42-3137) W/o 14�May 1943 at Randolph Field, TX�
33475 (MSN T42-3141) W/o 25�May 1943 at Bruce Field, TX�
33479 (MSN T42-3145) W/o 25�May 1943 at Jones Field, TX�
33481 (MSN T42-3147) W/o 13�Feb 1943 at Brown Field, TX
33488 (MSN T42-3154) W/o 23�Mar 1943 at Coleman, TX�
33490 (MSN T42-3156) W/o 29�Jan 1943 at Coleman, TX�
33505 (MSN T42-3171) W/o 2�Sep 1942 at Harrell Field, AR�
33519 (MSN T42-3185) W/o 20�May 1943 at Lafayette Field, LA�
33520 (MSN T42-3186) Lend-Lease to Brazil as FAB 61, later 0211
33521 (MSN T42-3187) Lend-Lease to Brazil as FAB 62, later 0212
33522 (MSN T42-3188) Lend-Lease to Brazil as FAB 64, later 0213
33523 (MSN T42-3189) Lend-Lease to Brazil as FAB 63, later 0214
33524 (MSN T42-3190) Lend-Lease to Brazil as FAB 65, later 0215
33532 (MSN T42-3198) W/o 30�Nov 1942 at Harrell Field, AR�
33536 (MSN T42-3202) W/o 17�Sep 1943 at Ft Stockton, TX�
33540 (MSN T42-3206) W/o 9�Nov 1942 at Lafayette Field, LA�
33542 (MSN T42-3208) Lend-Lease to Uruguay
33543 (MSN T42-3209) Lend-Lease to Uruguay
33544 (MSN T42-3210) Lend-Lease to Uruguay
33545 (MSN T42-3211) Lend-Lease to Uruguay
33548 (MSN T42-3214) W/o 7�Sep 1942 at Lafayette, LA�
33549 (MSN T42-3215) W/o 25�Sep 1942 at Lafayette, LA�
33551 (MSN T42-3217) W/o 15�Jan 1943 at Lafayette, LA�
33554 (MSN T42-3220) W/o 7�Nov 1942 at Breaux Bridge AAAF, LA
33556 (MSN T42-3222) W/o 21�Apr 1943 at Lafayette Field, LA�
33558 (MSN T42-3224) W/o 12�May 1943 at Maurice, LA�
33559 (MSN T42-3225) W/o 13�May 1943 at Breaux Bridge, LA�
33560 (MSN T42-3226) W/o 8�Mar 1943 at Jennings, LA�
33563 (MSN T42-3229) W/o 17�Jul 1944 at Union City AAAF, OK�
33564 (MSN T42-3230) W/o 25�May 1943 at Lafayette Field, LA�
33566 (MSN T42-3232) W/o 5�May 1943 at Youngsville, LA�
33567 (MSN T42-3233) W/o 5�Oct 1942 at Bosco, LA
33569 (MSN T42-3235) W/o 9�Dec 1942 at Scott, LA�
33573 (MSN T42-3239) W/o 22�May 1943 at Roanoke, LA�
33581 (MSN T42-3247) W/o 29�Nov 1943 at Stamford-Arledge Field, TX�
33586 (MSN T42-3252) W/o 7�Jan 1943 at Kelly Field, TX�
33594 (MSN T42-3260) W/o 23�Mar 1943 at Thompson-Robins Field, AR�
33603 (MSN T42-3269) W/o 14�Dec 1942 at Thompson-Robins Field, AR�
33606 (MSN T42-3272) W/o 14�Dec 1942 at Thompson-Robins Field, AR��
33607 (MSN T42-3273) registered as N49797
33612 (MSN T42-3278) W/o 29�Mar 1943 at 25 miles from Thompson-Robins Field, AR�
33621 (MSN T42-3287) W/o 7�Nov 1942 at Passmore AAAF, AL�
33625 (MSN T42-3291) W/o 7�Nov 1942 at Passmore AAAF, AL�
33628 (MSN T42-3294) W/o 22�Jul 1943 at Francena AAAF #2, TX�
33636 (MSN T42-3302) W/o 28�Sep 1942 at Passmore, AL�
33642 (MSN T42-3308) W/o 24�Mar 1943 at Thompson-Robins Field, AR�
33658/33662 (MSN T42-3324/3328) Lend-Lease to Brazil as FAB 66/70.
33664 (MSN T42-3330) W/o 3�Oct 1942 at Peel AAAF, AR�
33667 (MSN T42-3333) W/o 30�Aug 1943 at Gibbs Field, TX�
33684 (MSN T42-3350) W/o 10�Aug 1943 at Coleman, TX�
33686 (MSN T42-3352) W/o 13�Jul 1943 at Ft Stockton, TX�
33688 (MSN T42-3354) W/o 7�Apr 1943 at Thompson Robins Field, AR�
33690 (MSN T42-3356) W/o 20�Feb 1943 at Thompson-Robins Field, AR�
33692 (MSN T42-3358) W/o 16�Aug 1943 at Cross Plains, TX�
33693 (MSN T42-3359) W/o 22�Jul 1943 at Cuero, TX
33694/33696 (MSN T42-3360/3362) Lend-Lease to Nicaragua as GN-25/27
33695 To Nicaragua AF as GN-26; w/o 22�Nov 1942 at Moro, AR�
33698/33701 (MSN T42-3364/3367) Lend-Lease to Uruguay
33702 (MSN T42-3368) W/o 30�Jan 1943 at Poplar Grove, AR�
33709 (MSN T42-3375) W/o 9�Feb 1943 at Thompson-Robins Field, AR�
33714 (MSN T42-3380) W/o 19�Nov 1942 at Jackson, TN�
33721 (MSN T42-3387) W/o 17�Mar 1943 at Tulsa AAAF #6, OK
33723 (MSN T42-3389) W/o 1�Nov 1942 at Avon Park, FL�
33725 (MSN T42-3391) W/o 11 Dec 1943 at Augustine Field, MS
33731 (MSN T42-3397) W/o 23�Jul 1943 at Bruce Field, TX�
33736 (MSN T42-3402) W/o 14�Aug 1943 at Martinez, TX�
33737 (MSN T42-3403) W/o 9�Jul 1943 at Harvey Parks Airport, MO
33750 (MSN T42-3416) W/o 26�Nov 1942 at Spivey Field, TN�
33751 (MSN T42-3417) Lend-Lease to Uruguay
33752 (MSN T42-3418) to Uruguayan AF, probably as 621. Beleieved to have become
CX-BCU but see comments under 43-33752. Probably to Uruguyan AF as E-629 Feb 15, 1943.
33753 (MSN T42-3419) Lend-Lease to Uruguay
33754 (MSN T42-3420) Lend-Lease to Uruguay
33757 (MSN T42-3423) W/o 21�Mar 1943 at Gibbs Field, TX�
33764 (MSN T42-3430) W/o 8�Apr 1943 at Ft Stockton AAF, TX�
33765 (MSN T42-3431) Wfu; to NC59585; current 2011
33768/33772 (MSN T42-3434/3438) Lend-Lease to Brazil as FAB 71/75
33773/33795 (MSN T42-3439/3461) Lend-Lease to Chile
33777 To Chile AF; w/o 15�Jul 1943 at Vernon AAAF #6, TX�
33778 To Chile AF; w/o 14�Dec 1942 at Union City, TN�
33781 To Chile AF; w/o 23�Apr 1943 at Vernon AAAF A, TX�
33785 To Chile AF; w/o 12�Jun 1943 at Olfin, TX�
33786 To Chile AF; w/o 8�Oct 1943 at Ft Stockton, TX�
33787 To Chile AF; w/o 10�May 1943 at Ft Stockton, TX�
33791 To Chile AF; w/o 1�Sep 1943 at Dickey Auxiliary Field, TX�
33795 To Chile AF; w/o 6�Jun 1943 at Chickasha, OK�
33807 (MSN T42-3473) (601 Ferrying Squadron, 5th Ferrying Group) crashed Nov 7, 1943 6 mi SE of Blanchard, Oklahoma
while on flight to Oklahoma City. Engine failed, snagged power line on forced landing. WASP
pilot killed.
33808/33830 (MSN T42-3474/3496)
33831 (MSN T42-3497) Lend-Lease to Brazil as FAB 76, later 0226
33832 (MSN T43-3498) Lend-Lease to Brazil as FAB 77, later 0227
33833 (MSN T42-3499) Lend-Lease to Brazil as FAB 78 and later 0228
33834 (MSN T42-3500) Lend-Lease to Brazil as FAB 79, later 0229
33835 (MSN T42-3501) Lend-Lease to Brazil as FAB 80, later 0230
33836/33839 (MSN T42-3502/3505) Lend-Lease to Ecuador Nov 1942 in range EP-1 to EP-4, or as 6/9
33840 (MSN T42-3506) to Paraguayan AF Dec 1942 as FAP 40
33841 (MSN T42-3507) to Paraguayan AF Dec 1942 as FAP 41
33842 (MSN T42-3508) to Paraguayan AF Dec 1942 as FAP 42
33843 (MSN T42-3509) to Paraguayan AF Dec 1942 as FAP 43
33844 (MSN T42-3510) to Paraguayan AF as FAP 44
33845 (MSN T42-3511) to Paraguayan AF as FAP 45
33846 (MSN T42-3512) to Paraguayan AF as FAP 46
33847 (MSN T42-3513) to Paraguayan AF as FAP 47
33848 (MSN T42-3514) to Paraguayan AF as FAP 48
33849 (MSN T42-3515) to Paraguayan AF as FAP 49
33851 (MSN T42-3517) W/o 26�Mar 1943 at Thompson-Robins Field, AR�
33853 (MSN T42-3519) W/o 16�Aug 1943 at Francena AAAF #2, TX
33854 (MSN T42-3520) W/o 22�Feb 1944 at Garner Field, TX��
33864 (MSN T42-3530) delivered Nov 1, 1942. Assigned to 67th AAF Flying Training Detachment, Embry-Riddle
Field, Union City, Tennessee. Transferred to 2599 AAF Base Unit at Chickasha, Oklahoma. Transferred to
Wilson-Bonfils Flying School, Chickasha, Oklahoma. To RFC Nov 22, 1944. Sold to Hugh Bowman Apr 16 1945
and registered N49238. Currently with American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum (Commemorative Air
Force) of Midland, Texas.
33865 (MSN T42-3531) W/o 10�Apr 1944 at Broken Arrow, OK�
33867 (MSN T42-3533) W/o 27�Jul 1943 at Harvey Parks Arpt, MO
33875 (MSN T42-3541) Lend-Lease to Mexico. w/o 3�Aug 1943 at White AAAF, TX
33878 (MSN T42-3544) W/o 1�Jan 1943 at Jackson, TN�
33886 (MSN T42-3552) W/o 3�Dec 1942 at Fayetteville, NC�
33899 (MSN T42-3565) W/o 8�May 1943 at Long Field Auxiliary, AR�
33900 (MSN T42-3566) W/o 23�Jul 1943 at Long Field, AR�
33901 (MSN T42-3567) W/o 29�Feb 1944 at Long Field, AR�
33902 (MSN T42-3568) W/o 2�Mar 1944 at Grider Field Satellite, AR�
33904 (MSN T42-3570) W/o 24�Feb 1943 at Matthews Field, MO�
33911 (MSN T42-3577) W/o 12�Feb 1944 at Uvalde AAAF #3, TX�
33912 (MSN T42-3578) W/o 19�Nov 1943 at Ft Stockton. TX�
33919 (MSN T42-3585) W/o 7�Oct 1943 at White AAAF, TX�
33921 (MSN T42-3587) W/o 3�Sep 1943 at Curtis Field, TX�
33922 (MSN T42-3588) W/o 8�Jan 1943 at Curtis Field, TX�
33926 (MSN T42-3592) W/o 20�Dec 1943 at Bruce Field, TX�
33928 (MSN T42-3594) W/o 18�Aug 1943 at 34 miles from Grider Field, AR�
33941 (MSN T42-3607) W/o 20�Apr 1943 at Richland, TX�
33955 (MSN T42-3621) W/o 28�Jun 1943 at Uvalde AAAF #2, TX�
33964 (MSN T42-3630) W/o 14�Apr 1943 at Francena AAAF #4, TX�
33968 (MSN T42-3634) W/o 26�Jan 1943 at Cape Giradeau, MO�
33976 (MSN T42-3642) declared surplus at end of WW2. Fuselage
may have been used to repair PT-26 42-15491 after its accident
33979 (MSN T42-3645) W/o 6�Aug 1943 at Hicks Field, TX�.
33981 (MSN T42-3647) Lend-Lease to Mexico
33982 (MSN T42-3648) W/o 22�Dec 1942 at Muskogee, OK�
33983 (MSN T42-3649) W/o 22�Jan 1943 at Hatbos Field, OK�
33984 (MSN T42-3650) W/o 4�Dec 1942 at Lynchburg, VA�
33987 (MSN T42-3653) W/o 21�Oct 1943 at Cimarron, OK�
33990 (MSN T42-3656) W/o 23�Jun 1943 at Cimarron Field, OK�
33991 (MSN T42-3657) W/o 16�Jun 1943 at Hardin Field, AR�
33992 (MSN T42-3658) to Paraguayan AF as FAP 92
33993 (MSN T42-3659) to Paraguayan AF as FAP 93
33994 (MSN T42-3660) to Paraguayan AF as FAP 94
33995 (MSN T42-3661) to Paraguayan AF as FAP 95
33996 (MSN T42-3662) to Paraguayan AF as FAP 96
33997 (MSN T42-3663) to Paraguayan AF as FAP 97
33998 (MSN T42-3664) to Paraguayan AF as FAP 98
33999 (MSN T42-3665) to Paraguayan AF as FAP 99
34000 (MSN T42-3666) Lend-Lease to Brazil as FAB 81, later 0231
34001 (MSN T42-3667) Lend-Lease to Brazil as FAB 82, later 0232
34002 (MSN T42-3668) Lend-Lease to Brazil as FAB 83, later 0233
34003 (MSN T42-3669) Lend-Lease to Brazil as FAB 84, later 0234
34004 (MSN T42-3670) Lend-Lease to Brazil as FAB 85, later 0235
34005 (MSN T42-3671) W/o 24�Aug 1943 at Matthews AAAF, AR�
34011 (MSN T42-3677) W/o 26�Oct 1943 at Vernon AAAF #2, TX�
34013 (MSN T42-3679) W/o 9�Sep 1943 at Bruce Field, TX�
34021 (MSN T42-3687) W/o 31�Mar 1943 at Ft. Stockton, TX�
34022 (MSN T42-3688) W/o 17�Dec 1942 at Greenville, TN�
34023 (MSN T42-3689) delivered to Stamford, TX (308th AAFFTD) Dec 1942, to RFC Oct 1944. To civil registry
as N1070N. Now on display at National Museum of the US Air Force, painted as 41-14666.
34030 (MSN T42-3696) W/o 19�Nov 1943 at Hrdlicka AAAF, TX�
34034 (MSN T42-3700) W/o 11�Jun 1943 at Ft Stockton, TX�
34041 (MSN T42-3707) W/o 22�Jun 1943 at Avenger Field, TX�
34045 (MSN T42-3711) W/o 10�Jul 1944 at Petrolia AAAF, TX�
34061 (MSN T42-3727) Lend-Lease to Mexico
34070 (MSN T42-3736) Lend Lease to Mexico
34078 (MSN T42-3744) W/o 16�Aug 1943 at Hicks Field, TX�
34083 (MSN T42-3749) Lend Lease to Mexico
34086 (MSN T42-3752) W/o 27�Jul 1944 at Quanah, TX�
34089 (MSN T42-3755) W/o 26�May 1943 at Rochelle, TX�
34094 (MSN T42-3760) W/o 23�Apr 1943 at Moore Field, TX�
34103 (MSN T42-3769) W/o 15�Jan 1943 at Curtis Field, TX�
34106 (MSN T42-3772) W/o 11�May 1943 at Curtis Field, TX
34108 (MSN T42-3774) W/o 14�Jan 1944 at Chickasha AAAF #4, OK�
34112 (MSN T42-3778) W/o 23�Apr 1943 at Moore Field, TX��
34113 (MSN T42-3779) Lend-Lease to Brazil as FAB 86, later 0236
34114 (MSN T42-3780) Lend-Lease to Brazil as FAB 87, later 0237
34115 (MSN T42-3781) Lend-Lease to Brazil as FAB 88, later 0238
34116 (MSN T42-3782) Lend-Lease to Brazil as FAB 89, later 0239
34117 (MSN T42-3783) Lend-Lease to Brazil as FAB 90, later 0240. W/o 19�Aug 1943 at Richland AAAF
34120 (MSN T42-3786) W/o 10�Mar 1943 at Curtis Field, TX�
34128 (MSN T42-3794) W/o 8�Nov 1943 at Sneed AAAF, TX�
34130 (MSN T42-3796) Lend-Lease to Mexico as GIA at the Aviation Mechanics School
34146 (MSN T42-3812) W/o 8�Oct 1943 at Brady, TX�
34148 (MSN T42-3814) to US civil as N53956. (Fairchild M-62). Crashed Aug. 13, 2011 near the Des Moines River, 2 miles
south Madrid, IA while being registered to a private individual. It had been restored and was being operated
by the Iowa Aviation Heritage Museum. Two fatal.
34157 (318 AAFFTD, Avenger Fd, Sweetwater TX) crashed Aug 4, 1943 15 mi. NW of Avenger Fd. WASP trainee pilot
baled out, but too low for her 'chute to open.
34169 (MSN T42-3835) Lend-Lease to Mexico
34171 (MSN T42-3837) Lend-Lease to Mexico
34173 (MSN T42-3839) Lend-Lease to Mexico
34174 (MSN T42-3840) W/o 22�Nov 1943 at Cimmaron Field, OK�
34178 (MSN T42-3844) Lend-Lease to Mexico
34179 (MSN T42-3845) Lend-Lease to Mexico
34180 (MSN T42-3846) W/o 11�May 1943 at Cimarron Field, OK�
34183 (MSN T42-3849) W/o 16�Mar 1945 at Dohazari, India
34187 (MSN T42-3853) W/o 20�May 1943 at Mustang Field, OK�
34188 (MSN T42-3854) W/o 17�Jan 1944 at Cimarron Field, OK�
34194 (MSN T42-3860) W/o 14�Sep 1943 at Cimarron Field, OK�
34199 (MSN T42-3865) W/o 30�Nov 1943 at Cimarron Field, OK�
34200 (MSN T42-3866) W/o 14�Jun 1944 at Randolph Field, TX�
34216 (MSN T42-3882) W/o 14�Apr 1943 at Ft Reno AAAF, OK�
34218 (MSN T42-3884) W/o 24�Aug 1943 at Cimarron Field, OK�
34224/34233 (MSN T42-3890/3899) delivered "knocked down" to Brazil for assembly there.
34224 FAB 151, later 0241
34225 FAB 152, later 0242
34226 FAB 153, later 0252
34227 FAB 154, later 0253
34228 FAB 155, later 0254
34229 FAB 156, later 0255
34230 FAB 157, later 0256
34231 FAB 158, later 0257
34232 FAB 159, later 0258
34233 FAB 160, later 0259
34248 (MSN T42-3914) Lend-Lease to China
34252 (MSN T42-3918) W/o 23�Nov 1943 at Augustine Field, MS�
34253 (MSN T42-3919) W/o 16�Jun 1943 at Avenger Field, TX�
34254 (MSN T42-3920) W/o 22�Dec 1943 at Cimarron Field, OK�
34264 (MSN T42-3930) Lend Lease to Brazil as FAB 91, later 0243
34265 (MSN T42-3931) Lend Lease to Brazil as FAB 92, later 0244
34266 (MSN T42-3932) Lend Lease to Brazil as FAB 93, later 0245
34267 (MSN T42-3933) Lend Lease to Brazil as FAB 94, later 0246
34268 (MSN T42-3934) Lend Lease to Brazil as FAB 95, later 0247
34271 (MSN T42-3937) W/o 28�Oct 1943 at Ft Stockton, TX�
34272 (MSN T42-3938) W/o 9�Apr 1943 at Ft Stockton, TX�
34276 (MSN T42-3942) W/o 27�May 1943 at Ft Stockton, TX�
34280 (MSN T42-3946) W/o 23�Nov 1943 at Ft Stockton, TX�
34284/34293 (MSN T42-3950/3959) delivered "knocked down" to Brazil for assembly there.
34284 FAB 161, later 0260
34285 FAB 162, later 0261
34286 FAB 163, later 0262
34287 FAB 164, later 0248. To Paraugayan AF as FAP 0013 and later FAP 0248
34288 FAB 165, later 0263
34289 FAB 166, later 0264
34290 FAB 167, later 0265
34291 FAB 168, later 0249
34292 FAB 169, later 0250
34293 FAB 170, later 0251.
34287 (MSN T42-3953) to Brazil AF. To Paraugayan AF as FAP 0013 and later FAP 0248
34307 (MSN T42-3973) W/o 28�May 1943 at Melvin, TX�
34315 (MSN T42-3981) W/o 26�May 1943 at Konowa, OK�
34317 (MSN T42-3983) W/o 26�Jul 1943 at Chickasha, OK�
34320 (MSN T42-3986) W/o 25�Aug 1944 at Chickasha, OK�
34322 (MSN T42-3988) W/o 22�Nov 1943 at Chickasha, OK�
34329 (MSN T42-3995) W/o 7�Mar 1943 at Quitman, TX�
34350 (MSN T42-4016) Lend-Lease to Brazil as FAB 96, later 0266
34351 (MSN T42-4017) Lend-Lease to Brazil as FAB 97, later 0267
34352 (MSN T42-4018) Lend-Lease to Brazil as FAB 98, later 0268
34353 (MSN T42-4019) Lend-Lease to Brazil as FAB 99, later 0269
34354 (MSN T42-4020) Lend-Lease to Brazil as FAB 100, later 0270
34356 (MSN T42-4022) W/o 15�May 1944 at Francena Satellite Field, TX�
34357 (MSN T42-4023) W/o 16�Apr 1943 at Francena AAAF #2, TX�
34363 (MSN T42-4029) W/o 18�Nov 1943 at Francena Field, TX�
34364 (MSN T42-4030) W/o 8�Nov 1943 at Francena AAAF #2, TX�
34366 (MSN T42-4032) W/o 30�Aug 1943 at Francena Field, TX�
34368 (MSN T42-4034) W/o 23�Jul 1943 at Francena Satellite Field, TX
34370 (MSN T42-4036) W/o 23�Jul 1943 at Francena Satellite Field, TX�
34376 (MSN T42-4042) Lend-Lease to Mexico
34382 (MSN T42-4048) 3/13/43: Construction completed.
3/19/43: TOS USAAF; accepted at CPTP/War Training Service, Parks College, East St. Louis, IL. Canopy added.
6/44: 32nd Flying Training Wing, Perrin Army Air Field, TX.
6/30/44: Assigned for storage at San Antonio Air Technical Service Center, Kelly AAF, TX
9/12/44: Ferried to an unknown field for storage.
6/14/45: Declared surplus and sold.
By 1967: registered as N51090.
6/17/67: Landing accident causing gear to collapse, substantial damage to aircraft
1973: restored to PT-26A configuration.
5/9/80: Capock Flying Service, Vega, TN
7/12/00: Butler County Warbirds Inc, Fairfield, OH (current owner)
2000: Restored to PT-19A configuration, canopy kept and aircraft marked as when serving at Parks College.
34387 (MSN T42-4053) W/o 20�May 1943 at Mustang Field, OK�
34392 (MSN T42-4058) W/o 16�Jun 1943 at Mustang Field, OK�
34393 (MSN T42-4059) W/o 21�Sep 1943 at Mustang Field, OK�
34404 (MSN T42-4070) W/o 15�Nov 1943 at Rhome, TX�
34405 (MSN T42-4071) Lend-Lease to Mexico
34414 (MSN T42-4080) W/o 22�Jul 1943 at Cimarron Field, OK�
34418 (MSN T42-4084) Lend-Lease to China
42-34419 Fairchild PT-19B-FA
42-34420/34513 Fairchild PT-19A-FA
34420 (MSN T43-5086) in accident at Cimarron Field, OK Jan 16, 1944.
34426 (MSN T43-5092) being restored to flying condition as N51628.
34427 (MSN T43-5093) damaged in landing accident at Fort Stockton,
TX Jun 22, 1943.
34434 (MSN T43-5100) W/o 9�Oct 1944 at Canalou, MO�
34435 (MSN T43-5101) to civil registry as N51200. Revoked
34440 (MSN T43-5106) to civil registry as N54411. Revoked.
34444 (MSN T43-5110) W/o 28�Sep 1943 at Stamford-Arledge Field�
34445 (MSN T43-5111) to civil registry as N50278. Revoked
34451 (MSN T43-5117) W/o 5�Mar 1944 at Augustine Field, MS�
34452 (MSN T43-5118) to civil registry as N46353. Revoked
34458 (MSN T43-5124) W/o 21�Oct 1943 at Tulsa, OK�
34459 (MSN T43-5125) to civil registry as N51799. Revoked
34461 (MSN T43-5127) W/o 21�Oct 1943 at Tulsa, OK�
34462 (MSN T43-5128) Lend-Lease to Nicaragua as GN-18
34463 (MSN T43-5129) Lend-Lease to Brazil
34464 (MSN T43-5130) Lend-Lease to Nicaragua as GN-19
34465 (MSN T43-5131) Lend-Lease to Brazil
34466 (MSN T43-5132) Lend-Lease to Nicaragua as GN-20
34467 (MSN T43-5133) Lend-Lease to Mexico
34468 (MSN T43-5134) Lend-Lease to Mexico
34469 (MSN T43-5135) Lend-Lease to Mexico
34470 (MSN T43-5136) W/o 19�Jul 1943 at Collinsville, OK�
34475 (MSN T43-5141) Lend-Lease to Brazil
34479 (MSN T43-5145) Lend-Lease to Brazil
34484 (MSN T43-5150) W/o 23�Mar 1945 at Warzup, Burma
34487 (MSN T43-5153) Lend Lease to Mexico
34489 (MSN T43-5155) W/o 4�Jun 1943 at Victory Field, TX�
34491 (MSN T43-5157) Lend Lease to Mexico
34492 (MSN T43-5158) Lend Lease to Mexico
34494/34513 (MSN T43-5160/5179) Lend-Lease to Brazil
42-34514/34583 Fairchild PT-19B-FA
34515 (MSN T43-5181) W/o 22�Jul 1943 at Mustang Field, OK�
34516 (MSN T43-5182) W/o 22�Jul 1943 at Mustang Field, OK�
34517 (MSN T43-5183) W/o 6�Nov 1943 at Bruce Field, TX�
34522 (MSN T43-5188) W/o 23�Mar 1944 at Bailey, TX�
34529 (MSN T43-5195) W/o 30�Mar 1944 at Home Field, TX�
34532 (MSN T43-5198) W/o 16�Aug 1943 at Francena AAAF #3, TX�
34533 (MSN T43-5199) W/o 1�Nov 1943 at Francena, TX�
34539 (MSN T43-5205). A PT-19 registered N50429 but painted as 42-34539 attended the Popular Flying
Association Rally at Kemble, England during the weekend Jul 12-13, 2003; I don't
know whether it is the genuine original. Seen in Red Bull collection, Salzsburg, Austria Sep 2007.
N50429 in 2020 is reportedly based at Dunkeswell, England.
34540 (MSN T43-5206) W/o 4�Dec 1943 at 25 miles from Garner Field, TX�
34555 (MSN T43-5221) W/o 7�Apr 1944 at Muskogee, OK�
34556 (MSN T43-5222) Lend-Lease to Mexico
34560 (MSN T43-5226) became N58307. Still active as of Dec 2006.
34566 (MSN T43-5232) W/o 28�Jan 1944 at Harrell Field, AR�
34576 (MSN T43-5242) on civil registry as N56268 with Western Antique Aeroplane and Automobile Museum, Hood River, Oregon
34577 (MSN T43-5243) W/o 14�Sep 1943 at Dup, IL�
42-34584/35183 Globe AT-10-GF
34589 W/o 12�Jul 1943 at George Field, IL�
34595 W/o 21�Jun 1943 at Birmingham AAB, AL�
34596 W/o 4�Jul 1943 at Plum, PA�
34597 W/o 30�Sep 1943 at Derry, NH�
34599 W/o 12�Dec 1943 at Alliance, OH�
34603 W/o 17�Jul 1944 at Zenas AAAF, IN�
34605 W/o 31�Aug 1944 at Zuehl AAAF, TX�
34607 466th Two-Engine Flying Training Squadron, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. Crash landed after
takeoff at Freeman Field 6Jan44. After raising the landing gear, the cockpit filled with smoke.
Thinking that an engine was on fire, the pilot made a forced landing straight ahead with the
wheels retracted. On investigation it was found that the engines had been cleaned before the
flight and the smoke was caused by the cleaning fluid burning off and coming through the cockpit
heater tubes.
34611 1079th Two-Engine Flying Training Squadron, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. The landing gear collapsed
during landing at Freeman Field 3Oct43. The co-pilot raised the landing gear instead of the wing
flaps, causing damage to the engine nacelles and propellers.
34615 467th Two-Engine Flying Training Squadron, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. The landing gear collapsed
after landing at Freeman Field 7Jan44, damaging the propellers and engine nacelles
34618 W/o 17�Jul 1944 at Marion AAAF, TX�8
34619 1079th Two-Engine Flying Training Squadron, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. The students were r
eturning from a night formation training flight to land at Freeman Field 22Jul43 when the landing
gear would not lower normally. The pilot remained in the circuit while attempting to mechanically
extend the landing gear without success. The aircraft crash landed with power on and the pilot
jumped out of the plane as soon as it touched down. The other cadet remained with the plane and
brought it under control. The pilot was found unconscious on the runway and had suffered brain
concussion [1INJ].
34626 W/o 7�Mar 1944 at Vincennes, IN�
34629 W/o 22�Jul 1943 at St Thomas AAAF, IL�
34656 W/o 6�Nov 1943 at Montgomery, AL�
34670 W/o 27�Sep 1943 at George Field, IL�
34671 W/o 3�May 1944 at George Field, IL�
34697 W/o 19�Mar 1945 at Columbus AAF, MS�
34698 W/o 9�Jul 1944 at Carlisle AAAF, AR�
34724 W/o 26�Jan 1944 at George Field, IL�
34725 W/o 14�Mar 1944 at Flat Rock, IL�
34734 W/o 5�Nov 1944 at Boone Grove, IN�
34744 W/o 14�Aug 1944 at Lubbock, TX�
34752 W/o 6�Aug 1944 at Albany, GA�
34761 W/o 2�Dec 1943 at Stuttgart AAF, AR�
34771 701st Two-Engine Flying Training Squadron, Blytheville Field, AR. Landing after a
cross-country training flight from Blytheville Field to Freeman Field 24Nov43, the airplane
started to ground loop. The students used excessive force on the brakes and the aircraft
turned over onto its back.
34789 W/o 17�Jun 1944 at Blytheville, AR�
34795 W/o 8�Jul 1944 at Blytheville AAF, AR�
34800 W/o 3�May 1944 at Blytheville AAF, AR�
34804 W/o 17�Dec 1943 at Moody Field, GA�
34823 W/o 6�Jul 1944 at Carlisle AAAF, AR�
34825 W/o 20�Jan 1944 at W Memphis, AR�
34832 W/o 14�Apr 1944 at Lagrange, GA�
34839 W/o 25�Jun 1944 at Smyrna AAF, TN�
34841 W/o 30�Jan 1944 at Carlisle AAAF, AR�
34849 W/o 21�Feb 1945 at Blytheville AAF, AR�
34879 W/o 26�Sep 1944 at Columbus AAF, MS�
34912 W/o 6�Jul 1944 at Cooter AAAF, MO�
34916 W/o 23�Jan 1945 at Fisherville, TN�
34921 W/o 18�Jul 1945 at Columbus, MS�
34940 W/o 31�Mar 1945 at Columbus AAAF #6, MS�
34941 W/o 9�Jun 1944 at Humphrey, AZ�
34971 W/o 3�May 1944 at Vada AAAF, GA�
34991 W/o 16�Sep 1944 at Claude, TX�
34997 2139th Base Unit, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. Damaged in a mid-air collision with Beech
AT-10 41-27078 at Reddington, IN 30Sep44.
35009 Wfu; to Aero Industries in Aug 1946
35012 W/o 11�Apr 1945 at Tehachapi, CA�
35046 W/o 10�Oct 1944 at Coxey Field, IN�
35061 wing failed on navigation flight Jun 28, 1944 and
crashed near Blythville AAF, AK. 2 bailed, 1 killed.
35071 W/o 1�Jul 1944 at Zenas AAAF, IN�
35111 W/o 4�Jan 1945 at Columbus, MS�
35124 W/o 25�Apr 1945 at Columbus AAF, MS�
35141 W/o 12�Sep 1944 at Moody Field, GA�
35143 noted Jul 2005 at USAF Museum, painted as 41-27193.
35154 W/o 3�Sep 1944 at Moody Field, GA�
35155 W/o 25�Jul 1945 at Eupora, MS�
35160 W/o 6�Jul 1945 at Shawnee, OK
35179 W/o 22�Aug 1944 in Georgia
42-35184/35583 Martin B-33A
MSN 5794/6193. Contract cancelled
42-35584/35823 Waco C-62
Waco Model 2-FBH twin-engined wooden frame cargo transport
Contract cancelled Sep 1943
42-35824 Vultee XA-31A Vengeance
MSN 4101. Modified prototype RAF Vengeance AF745. Later upgraded to XA-31B. Overturned in a tobacco field
while making forced landing in Connecticut after engine failure Sep 15, 1942.
42-35825/36074 Taylorcraft O-57A Grasshopper
MSN 4286/4535. Redesignated L-2A Apr 1942
35826 (MSN 4287) w/o 25�Oct 1942 at San Antonio Canyon, CA�
35827 (MSN 4288) w/o 19�Jun 1943 at Florence AAF, SC�
35828 (MSN 4289) w/o 24�Feb 1944 at Mount Pleasant, TX�
35829 (MSN 4290) w/o 24�May 1943 at Salinas AAB, CA�
35831 (MSN 4292) w/o 4�Jul 1943 at Birmingham, AL�
35832 (MSN 4293) w/o 7�Jul 1943 at Godman Field, KY�
35836 (MSN 4297) w/o 24�May 1943 at Soledad, CA�
35837 (MSN 4298) w/o 5�Jul 1943 at Salinas, CA
35839 (MSN 4300) w/o 15�Mar 1943 at Corvallis, OR�
35847 (MSN 4308) w/o 2�Oct 1942 at Cle Elum, WA�
35849 (MSN 4310) w/o 15�May 1943 at 30 miles from Luke AAF, AZ�
35850 (MSN 4311) w/o 20�May 1943 at Davis-Monthan Field, AZ
35851 (MSN 4312) w/o 9�Jul 1942 at Davis-Monthan Field, AZ�
35856 (MSN 4317) w/o 22�Mar 1943 at Salinas, CA�
35861 (MSN 4322) w/o 21�Mar 1944 at Baton Rouge, LA�
35864 (MSN 4325) w/o 16�Jun 1942 at Fort Ord, CA�
35867 (MSN 4328) w/o 3�Jun 1942 at Spreckels, CA�
35870 (MSN 4331) became C-GUSA, then G-BWLJ Jan 16, 1996. Currently airworthy
at Nayland, England.
35872 (MSN 4333) on display at US Army Aviation Museum Dec 22, 2004
35875 (MSN 4336) w/o 15�Dec 1942 at Salinas, CA�
35880 (MSN 4341) w/o 5�May 1944 at Drew Field, FL
35897 (MSN 4358) w/o 22�Mar 1943 at Wrightsville, AR�
35898 (MSN 4359) w/o 19�Aug 1942 at Stillwater, MN�
35900 (MSN 4361) w/o 18�Jul 1942 at Monticello, MN��
35901 (MSN 4362) stalled on takeoff from Ft Sumner, NM 3/11/1943. Pilot killed.
35906 (MSN 4367) w/o 29�Jul 1942 at Monticello, MN�
35918 (MSN 4379) w/o 21�Aug 1942 at Monticello, MN�
35922 (MSN 4383) w/o 28�May 1943 at Littlefield, TX�
35927 (MSN 4388) w/o 31�Aug 1942 at Everly, IA�
35937 (MSN 4398) w/o 7�Nov 1942 at Viola, MN�
35939 (MSN 4400) w/o 11�Feb 1943 at Lubbock South AAAF, TX�
35940 (MSN 4401) w/o 27�Jul 1942 at Rochester, MN�
35941 (MSN 4402) w/o 12�Sep 1942 at Rochester, MN�
35947 (MSN 4408) w/o 17�Aug 1942 at Rochester AAAF, MN�
35950 (MSN 4411) w/o 30�Jan 1943 at Dalhart AAF, TX
35951 (MSN 4412) w/o 6�Nov 1942 at Eglin, MS�
35956 (MSN 4417) w/o 3�Sep 1942 at Rochester, MN�
35958 (MSN 4419) w/o 8�Dec 1942 at Fort Sumner, NM�
35959 (MSN 4420) w/o 21�Aug 1942 at Rochester, MN�
35961 (MSN 4422) w/o 17�Aug 1942 at Rochester AAAF, MN�
35963 (MSN 4424) w/o 14�Aug 1942 at Estherville, IA�
35970 (MSN 4431) w/o 14�Sep 1942 at Crookston, MN�
35974 (MSN 4435) w/o 6�Feb 1943 at Dalhart AAF, TX
35981 (MSN 4442) w/o 10�May 1943 at Glendale Field, KY�
35982 (MSN 4443) w/o 15�Jan 1943 at Dalhart, TX�
35986 (MSN 4447) w/o 25�Oct 1942 at Tarrant Field, TX�
35987 (MSN 4448) w/o 28�Nov 1942 at Hamilton, TX�
35990 (MSN 4451) w/o 7�Jul 1942 at Spencer, IA
35991 (MSN 4452) w/o 3�Jun 1943 at Matador, TX
35993 (MSN 4454)�w/o 4�Aug 1942 at Spencer, IA�
35995 (MSN 4456) w/o 2�Oct 1942 at Scott Field, IL�
36006 (MSN 4467) w/o 24�Jun 1942 at Lakeland, MN�
36015 (MSN 4476) w/o 10�Jul 1942 at St Croix River, MN
36023 (MSN 4484) w/o 9�Mar 1943 at Adams Field, AR����
36025 (MSN 4486) 1942: TOS USAAF, assigned to 16th Glider Training Detachment, 513th School Squadron, Janesville, WI.
Jul 25, 1942: Written off at Janesville, WI, after landing accident.�
By 8/63: Unknown owner with c/r N47625. Jun 9, 1998: �Wiley's Seaplanes Inc, Lake Oswego, OR.
Jan 11, 2010: Michael D. Brunson, Smithville, MO. Jan 24, 2018: C/r N47625 cancelled.
Apr 5, 2021: Dale A. McCaslin, Trustee, Kansas City, MO. with c/r N47625..
36032 (MSN 4493) w/o 24�Aug 1942 at Janesville, WI�
36038 (MSN 4499) crashed 12 mi SSW of Newland Apt, Waco, TX Jul 21, 1943. Instructor and
student pilot both killed.
36042 (MSN 4503) w/o 24�Sep 1943 at Dalhart AAB, TX�
36043 (MSN 4504) w/o 13�Jul 1942 at Janesville, WI�
36044 (MSN 4505) w/o 9�Apr 1943 at Charleston, IN�
36049 (MSN 4510) w/o 12�Jul 1942 at Clinton, WI�
36052 (MSN 4513) w/o 10�Oct 1942 at Newark, WI�
36065 (MSN 4526) w/o 4�Dec 1942 at Cherokee, IA�
42-36075/36324 Aeronca O-58A Grasshopper
Redesignated L-3B Apr 1942.
36079 w/o 9�Dec 1942 at Stuttgart AAF, AR
36080 w/o 4�Sep 1944 at Blackland AAF, TX�
36081 w/o 16�Sep 1943 at Bowman AAAF #1, KY�
36082 w/o 7�Aug 1943 at Oxford, MS�
36083 w/o 4�Sep 1943 at Bowman AAAF #1, KY�
36086 (MSN 058B-1122) to civil registry as N46248. Substantially
damaged after possible bird strike Sep 3, 2007
36088 w/o 21�Aug 1942 at Bolling Field, DC�
36090 w/o 13�Aug 1942 at Fort Benning, GA�
36092 w/o 20�Jul 1943 at Maxton AAB, NC�
36096 w/o 24�Aug 1942 at Birmingham, AL�
36097 w/o 15�Feb 1943 at Lawson Field, GA�
36100 w/o 13�Aug 1942 at Fort Benning, GA�
36102 (MSN O58B-1282) noted as N1282A at American Wings Air Museum, MN.
36107 w/o 22�Jul 1943 at Siesta Key, FL�
36108 w/o 27�Jun 1943 at Daniel Field, GA�
36112 w/o 6�Feb 1943 at Orlando AB, FL
36113 w/o 3�Jun 1943 at Leesburg Aux Base, GA
36114 w/o 1�Sep 1942 at Pope Field, NC�
36118 w/o 27�Feb 1945 at Aore Island, New Hebrides��
36119 noted without wings or engine at 29th Air Service Group, South Pacific late 1943
36120 w/o 30�Aug 1943 at Bowman Field, KY�
36122 w/o 11�Jun 1942 at Savannah, GA�
36123 (MSN 8092) w/o 2�Oct 1942 at Prescott, AR; repaired (?); wfu; became F-BELT. Registration F-PDID reserved.
36125 w/o 24�Aug 1942 at Ringold, LA�
36129 w/o 12�May 1943 at Pope Field, NC�
36131 w/o 29�Jul 1943 at Fayetteville, NC�
36133 w/o 8�Sep 1942 at Tucumcarii, NM�
36134 w/o 13�Nov 1942 at Tucumcari, NM�
36137 w/o 24�Jun 1942 at Clovis AAF #2, NM�
36143 w/o 11�Nov 1942 at Tucumcari, NM�
36148 w/o 4�Sep 1942 at Clovis, NM�
36149 w/o 11�Feb 1943 at Tucumcari, NM�
36150 w/o 1�Sep 1942 at Clovis, NM�
36151 w/o 29�Jun 1942 at Clovis, NM�
36152 (MSN 058B-1782) to civil registry as N52169
36155 w/o 23�Jan 1943 at Tucumcari, NM�
36158 w/o 7�Jun 1942 at Clovis, NM�
36161 w/o 11�Dec 1942 at Tucumcari, NM�
36162 w/o 12�Jun 1942 at Clovis, NM�
36165 w/o 6�Jun 1942 at Clovis, NM�
36166 w/o 22�Jul 1942 at Clovis, NM�
36167 w/o 3�Jun 1943 at Pope Field, NC�
36170 w/o 5�Aug 1942 at Clovis, NM�
36181 w/o 5�Aug 1942 at Okmulgee, OK�
36184 w/o 14�Mar 1943 at Rolla, MO�
36185 w/o 30�Nov 1942 at Okmulgee East Field, OK�
36188 w/o 12�Feb 1943 at Okmulgee West Field, OK�
36190 w/o 27�Jul 1942 at Okmulgee, OK�
36192 w/o 14�Aug 1942 at Okmulgee, OK�
36197 w/o 1�Sep 1944 at Nashville, TN�
36198 w/o 3�Apr 1943 at Lubbock AAF, TX�
36200 1942: TOS USAAF. 1942: 24th AAF Glider Training Detachment, Okmulgee, OK. 4/42: Redesignated L-3B.
Jul 8, 1942: Damaged in taxi accident, South Field, four miles south of main field at Okmulgee, OK
By 1984: Paul Grice, Waynesville, OH.
1984: Ferry flight to US Air Force Museum, Wright Field, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH. Donated by Mr. Grice.
oOn display at WPAFB Museum.
36201 w/o 12�Nov 1942 at Okmulgee West Field,OK�
36202 w/o 20�Feb 1943 at Okmulgee North Field, OK�
36203 w/o 8�Oct 1943 at Bowman AAAF #2, KY�
36204 W/o 24 Nov 1941 at Okmulgee, OK
36206 w/o 1�Oct 1943 at Bowman AAAF #2, KY; repaired (?); to civil registry as N5807N; current 2013
36210 w/o 22�Feb 1943 at Okmulgee West Field, OK�
36212 w/o 22�Jan 1943 at Pittsburg, KS�
36215 w/o 22�Oct 1942 at Minden Mines, KS�
36216 (MSN 058B-2422) to civil registry as N49152.
36217 w/o 28�Jun 1943 at Pittsburg, KS�
36221 w/o 1�Nov 1942 at Opolis AAAF #1, KS
36226 w/o 4�Dec 1943 at Pittsburg, KS�
36230 w/o 1�Nov 1942 at Opolis AAAF #1, KS�
36233 w/o 12�Nov 1942 at Opolis AAAF #1, KS�
36235 w/o 26�Aug 1943 at Pittsburg, KS�
36238 w/o 4�Feb 1943 at Pittsburg, KS�
36241 w/o 24�Apr 1943 at Wills Pt, TX�
36244 w/o 12�Jul 1942 at Lonoke, AR�
36246 w/o 31�Aug 1943 at Bowman Field, KY�
36248 w/o 16�Dec 1942 at Artesia, NM�
36254 w/o 6�May 1943 at Pope Field, NC��
36258 crashed near Alliance, Nebraska May 28, 1943. Pilot killed.
36259 w/o 23�Jul 1943 at Elizabethtown, KY
36265 w/o 8�Nov 1942 at Big Springs, TX�
36269 w/o 26�Jul 1942 at Spencer, IA��
36271 w/o 1�Oct 1943 at Bowman AAAF #2, KY�
36274 w/o 23�Oct 1942 at Bowie Airport, TX�
36281 w/o 23�Dec 1942 at Hamilton, TX�
36290 w/o 1�Oct 1943 at Bowman AAAF #2, KY�
36294 w/o 7�Jul 1942 at Fort Morgan, CO�
36295 w/o 6�Feb 1943 at Fort Morgan, CO�
36297 w/o 12�Mar 1943 at Fort Morgan, CO�
36310 w/o 11�Feb 1943 at Fort Morgan, CO�
36311 w/o 2�Jan 1943 at Okmulgee South Field, OK�
36313 w/o 19�Jul 1942 at Bush, CO�
36315 w/o 10�Sep 1943 at Bowman AAAF #1, KY
36321 w/o 23�Jan 1943 at Pittsburg, KS�
42-36325/36824 Piper O-59A Grasshopper
Model J3-65D. MSN 8449/8948. Redesignated L-4A in Apr 1942.
36325 (MSN 8449)
36326 (MSN 8450)
36327 (MSN 8451)
36328 (MSN 8452) 27th Base Headquarters and Air Base Squadron, Glider Combat Training Command, Bowman, KY;
damaged taxying at Bowman 11May43; damaged landing at Bowman 30Aug43; damaged landing 5�Oct 1943 at
Bowman Field, KY�
36329 (MSN 8453) 896th Two Engine Flying Training Squadron, Stuttgart, AR; damaged landing at Stuttgart
10Jan43; registered N1049, current [Oct16]
36330 (MSN 8454) 27th Base Headquarters and Air Base Squadron, Glider Combat Training Command, Bowman, KY;
forced landing at Bowman 19Jun43
36331 (MSN 8455) 111th Observation Squadron, 68th Observation Group, Daniel Field, Augusta, GA; damaged
when ground looped on landing 5 miles NE of Lancaster, SC 29Jul42
36332 (MSN 8456) 16th Photographic Squadron, 1st Mapping Group, Bolling, Washington, DC; damaged
when ground looped taxying at Bolling 31Dec42
36333 (MSN 8457)
36334 (MSN 8458)
36335 (MSN 8459) 91st Observation Squadron, 73rd Observation Group, Tullahoma, TN; damaged when
stalled landing at Pleasantville, TN 19Sep42; 121st Liaison Squadron, 76th Reconnaissance Group,
Napier, Dothan, AL; damaged when stalled at Camp Rucker, AL 8Oct43
36336 (MSN 8460) 2618th Base Unit, Sheppard, TX; damaged taxying at Petrolia Auxiliary Field,
Sheppard 13Feb45
36337 (MSN 8461) 3rd Liaison Training Detachment, Lamesa, TX; force landed engine failure 5 miles
SW of Lamesa 5Jul43
36338 (MSN 8462) Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron, 64th Two Engine Flying Training Group,
South Plains, Lubbock, TX; damaged taxying at Abernathy, TX 16Jun43
36339 (MSN 8463)
36340 (MSN 8464) 4th Glider Training Detachment, Hale, Plainview, TX; damaged taxying at Plainview 29Nov42
36341 (MSN 8465)
36342 (MSN 8466) 4th Glider Training Detachment, Hale, Plainview, TX; damaged taxying at Plainview 4Apr43;
9th Air Force, Europe; 396th Fighter Squadron,
368th Fighter Group, Buchschwabach [R-42], Germany; force landed Vielhausen, Germany 30Jun45.
36343 (MSN 8467) 2nd Ferrying Squadron, 5th Ferrying Group, Antigo, WI; damaged when nosed under taxying at
Rosecrans, MO 23Nov42; 2618th Base Unit, Sheppard, TX; damaged in ground collision with L-4A 42-36721
at Sheppard 31Jan45
36344 (MSN 8468) 4th Glider Training Detachment, Hale, Plainview, TX; damaged when nosed under during
forced landing engine failure 8 miles NW of Kress, TX 5Sep42;
3rd Liaison Training Detachment, Lamesa, TX; crashed after takeoff 3 miles SW of Lamesa 19Jul43;
registered N66493, cancelled 18Apr55
36345 (MSN 8469) 3rd Liaison Training Detachment, Lamesa, TX; damaged landing at Lamesa 6May43;
In mid air collision 4 miles W of Lamesa 16May43. Damaged landing 11�Jun 1943 at Lamesa Field, TX�
Registered 8May47 as OK-WIA with MSN 42-36345/24952; cancelled 1957
36346 (MSN 8470) 17th Glider Training Detachment, Antigo, WI. Destroyed when stalled and crashed
7�Nov 1942 24 miles from Antigo, WI�
36347 (MSN 8471)
36348 (MSN 8472) 19th Glider Training Detachment, Hays, KS; damaged when nosed under landing at
Auxiliary Field #2, 7 miles SE of Hays 14Aug42;
25th Glider Training Detachment, Hartlee, Denton, TX; damaged when nosed under landing at Denton 30Dec42;
damaged in collision with L-4A 42-15171 taxying at Denton, TX 9Apr43; registered N55931, sale reported 5Jan16
36349 (MSN 8473) 3rd Liaison Training Detachment, Lamesa, TX; damaged landing at Lamesa 20Aug43; registered N58379,
cancelled 23Apr13. On June 16, 1996 the aircraft sustained substantial damage when it collided with a fence
and trees during a forced landing in Ashton, Maryland. The flight originated from Kent Island, Maryland,
the intended destination was Laytonsville, Maryland. About 40 minutes after departing Kent Island, and
about 5 miles from the destination airport, the engine lost power; the cause of the loss of engine power
was fuel exhaustion.
36350 (MSN 8474)
36351 (MSN 8475) purchased 1946 by the Polish Ministry of Communications; to Polish civil registry as SP-AHS
36352 (MSN 8476)
36353 (MSN 8477) 17th Glider Training Detachment, Hartlee, Denton, TX; damaged landing at Denton 30Nov42; 2nd Liaison
Training Detachment, Pittsburgh, KS; damaged taxying at No.1 Field Opolis, KS 15Jan44
36354 (MSN 8478) 3rd Liaison Training Detachment, Lamesa, TX; damaged taking off at Lamesa 7Jun43.
w/o 4�Nov 1943 at Lamesa Field, TX� Registered 18Jan47 as OK-ZKN; cancelled 1957
36355 (MSN 8479) 4th Glider Training Detachment, Hale, Plainview, TX; damaged when stalled landing at Plainview 28Aug42;
damaged taxying at Plainview 3Feb43; 3rd Liaison Training Detachment, Lamesa, TX; damaged taxying at Lamesa 2Feb44
36356 (MSN 8480)
36357 (MSN 8481) 3rd Liaison Training Detachment, Lamesa, TX; damaged in collision with a parked TG-5
taxying at Lamesa 27May43; damaged taxying at Lamesa 21Jun43; damaged landing at Lamesa 28Jul43;
to LX-REX, to OO-MOA Jun 5, 1950 (cancelled Mar 14, 1961).
36358 (MSN 8482) 4th Glider Training Detachment, Hale, Plainview, TX; damaged in collision with L-4A 42-36558
landing at Plainview 6Jul42. Overshot landing and hit ditch Mar 11, 1943, Plainview, TX.
36359 (MSN 8483) 370th Air Base Squadron, South Plains, Lubbock, TX; damaged when nosed under landing at
South Plains 22Nov42; damaged when nosed under landing at South Plains 13Dec42. wfu; to VT-AYY
36360 (MSN 8484) 4th Glider Training Detachment, Hale, Plainview, TX; damaged landing at Plainview 12Mar43;
3rd Liaison Training Detachment, Lamesa, TX; damaged landing at Lamesa 3Jun43;
damaged taxying at Lamesa 1Jul43; 3rd Liaison Training Detachment, Lamesa, TX;
damaged when stalled landing at Auxiliary Field 1 mile NE of Lamesa 12Nov43
36361 (MSN 8485) Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron, Stuttgart, AR; forced landing engine failure at
Mount Holly, AR 24Apr43; registered N59937, cancelled 28Jan13 on export to Australia
36362 (MSN 8486) 3rd Liaison Training Detachment, Lamesa, TX; damaged landing at Lamesa Field, TX 7Jul43;
3706th Base Unit, Sheppard, TX;
36363 (MSN 8487)
36364 (MSN 8488) 106th Observation Squadron, 66th Observation Group, Jacksonville, FL; damaged landing at
Jacksonville 16Apr42
36365 (MSN 8489) Lubbock, TX; damaged landing at Lubbock 7Mar43; 553rd BTS, 325th BTG, Roswell, NM;
damaged landing at Roswell 19Apr44
36366 (MSN 8490) �
36367 (MSN 8491) 106th Observation Squadron, 66th Observation Group, Jacksonville, FL; destroyed while parked in
collision by B-18B 37-574 landing at Jacksonville 16Apr42. w/o 18�Apr 1942 at Jacksonville, FL�
36368 (MSN 8492) 27th Base Headquarters and Air Base Squadron, Glider Combat Training Command, Bowman Field, KY;
damaged landing at Bowman 10May43; damaged landing at Bowman 28Aug43; damaged taxying at Bowman 17Sep43;
damaged when stalled landing at Bowman 5Nov43
36369 (MSN 8493) 896th Two Engine Flying Training Squadron, Stuttgart, AR; w/o 16�Jan 1943 at Goldman Field, AR�
36370 (MSN 8494)
36371 (MSN 8495) 4th Glider Training Detachment, Hale, Plainview, TX; damaged taking off at Plainview 4Jul42;
3rd Liaison Training Detachment, Lamesa, TX; damaged taking off 5 miles N of Lamesa 3Jun43
36372 (MSN 8496) registered N55007, cancelled 8Jun62 on export to Canada; registered CF-OHZ, current [Oct16]
36373 (MSN 8497)
36374 (MSN 8498) 27th Base Headquarters and Air Base Squadron, Glider Combat Training Command, Bowman, KY;
damaged taxying in collision with Taylorcraft NC36150 at Bowman 12Sep43; damaged when stalled landing at
Bowman 30Sep43; damaged when stalled landing at Bowman 24Oct43; damaged when stalled landing at Bowman 7Nov43
36375 (MSN 8499) 127th Liaison Squadron, 75th Reconnaissance Group, Morris, Charlotte, NC; damaged in
collision with L-4A 42-36552 taxying at Cannon, Charlotte, NC 4Oct43; 12th Air Force, Italy Sep44;
to French Army as 236375, accident at Haiphong, Indochina;
Registered 25Jun51 as F-BFYL with MSN AN-1. Cancelled 4Mar82 as sold abroad. Registered Apr 19, 1982 as G-AKAZ.
Operated by The Fighter Collection at Duxford in US Army colors but no tail number and fuselage
code 57-H. Registration G-AKAZ cancelled Mar 27, 2017 on export to France.
Current Oct 2016 with private owner based in Paris, France, registeredas F-AYAY
36376 (MSN 8500)
36377 (MSN 8501) 370th Air Base Squadron, South Plains, Lubbock, TX; damaged when nosed under landing at
South Plains AAF, TX 4Dec42
36378 (MSN 8502) 3706th Base Unit, Sheppard, TX; damaged due weather taxying 3 miles W of Grandfield, OK 6May43
36379 (MSN 8503) 27th Troop Carrier Squadron, 10th Troop Carrier Group, Dunnellon, FL; damaged landing at
Dunnellon 12Mar43
36380 (MSN 8504)
36381 (MSN 8505) 4th Glider Training Detachment, Hale, Plainview, TX; damaged when nosed under landing at
Plainview 28Jul42; 3rd Liaison Training Detachment, Lamesa, TX; damaged landing at Lamesa 19Jun43
36382 (MSN 8506)
36383 (MSN 8507) 121st Liaison Squadron, 76th Reconnaissance Group, Morris, Charlotte, NC; damaged taking
off at Camp Crowder, MO 1Jul43; to VT-AVN in India and then upon partition of British India to Pakistan as AP-ACP.
AP-ACP cancelled in 1953.
36384 (MSN 8508)
36385 (MSN 8509)
36386 (MSN 8510)
36387 (MSN 8511) Biggs, TX; damaged landing 1 miles S of Montoya, TX 21Jan43; to French Army [ALAT] as 236387
36388 (MSN 8512) 2nd Army Air Force Poison Gas Detachment, Edgewood Arsenal, MD; damaged taxying in
collision with RA-24A 42-6818 at Edgewood 28Sep43
36389 (MSN 8513) 8th Observation Squadron, Camp Davis, Holly Ridge, NC; damaged when nosed under taking
off at Wrightville Beach, NC 20Jun42; used in Operation Torch, Nov42, operated from USS Ranger (CV-4)
36390 (MSN 8514)
36391 (MSN 8515) 27th Troop Carrier Squadron, 10th Troop Carrier Group, Dunnellon, FL; damaged landing at
Dunnellon, FL 17Mar43
36392 (MSN 8516) 14th Tow Target Squadron, Camp Davis, Holly Ridge, NC; damaged taking off at Elizabethtown, NC 7Jun43
36393 (MSN 8517)
36394 (MSN 8518) to French Army [ALAT] as 236394
36395 (MSN 8519) 30th Observation Squadron, 75th Observation Group, Hattiesburg, MS; damaged when nosed under force
landing due weather at State Line, MS 7Sep42
36396 (MSN 8520)
36397 (MSN 8521) 512th Fighter Squadron, 406th Fighter Group, 9th Air Force, Europe; damaged due weather while
parked at Mourmelon-le-Grand [A-80], France 4Dec44
36398 (MSN 8522) 118th Observation Squadron, 66th Observation Group, Gallatin, TN; destroyed when stalled
landing at Gallatin, TN 6Oct42
36399 (MSN 8523) delivered to USAAF at Lock Haven, PA; 12th Ferrying Squadron, 2nd Ferrying Group;
damaged in collision with L-4A 42-36811 landing at Effingham, IL 13Jun42;
91st Observation Squadron, 73rd Observation Group, Wheeler-Sack, NY; destroyed in mid air collision at
Marion, OH 9Sep42
36400 (MSN 8524)
36401 (MSN 8525) 91st Observation Squadron, 73rd Observation Group, Godman, Fort Knox, KY; damaged
landing at Prickett Airport, Sidnaw, MI 6Mar43
36402 (MSN 8526) 121st Liaison Squadron, I Air Support Command, Raleigh Durham, NC; damaged landing E of
Raleigh Durham 7Sep43
36403 (MSN 8527)
36404 (MSN 8528) registered N91565, current [Oct16]
36405 (MSN 8529)
36406 (MSN 8530) 127th Liaison Squadron, 75th Reconnaissance Group, William Northern Field, Tullahoma, TN;
destroyed when stalled and crashed 2 miles W of Manchester, TN 18May43
36407 (MSN 8531) delivered to USAAF at Lock Haven, PA; transferred to Army Ground Forces; 50th Mobile Reclamation
and Repair Squadron, received for repair 30Dec44; damaged by German air raid at Maastricht 1Jan45;
2nd Field Artillery Battalion 10Jan45; returned to USAAF; 9th Air Force, Europe; registered as
OO-AVC 29Jul47, cancelled 9Nov50;
registration N1383D reserved, not taken up; registered 11Jun52 as F-BGPA, current [Oct16]
36408 (MSN 8532) 113rd Observation Squadron, 77th Observation Group, Hattiesburg, MS; damaged landing when nosed over
5 miles N of Leesville, MS 23Aug42; 9th Air Force, Europe; 86th Troop Carrier Squadron, 437th Troop
Carrier Group, Coulommiers [A-58], France;
mid air collision at Chames-en-Brie, France 25Apr45; mid air collision at Pierre Levee, France 13May45
36409 (MSN 8533) 91st Observation Squadron, 73rd Observation Group, Wheeler-Sack, Pine Camp, NY;
damaged when nosed under taxying at Wheeler-Sack 16May42
36410 (MSN 8534)
36411 (MSN 8535, Frame No. 8644) delivered to USAAF at Lock Haven, PA 21Mar42; 113th Observation Squadron,
New Orleans, LA 21Mar42; Camp Shelby, MS 22Jun42; Camp Beauregard, LA 22Jul42; DeRidder, LA 22Aug42;
Abilene, TX 30Sep42; Camp Hood, Killeen, TX 17Oct42; Laurel, MS 25Nov42; Denton, TX 16May43;
Esler Field, LA 19May43; Pollock, LA 1Jul43; Esler Field, LA Jul43; Post Field, Fort Sill, Lawton, OK 2Aug43;
Class 012 30Nov46; SOC Post Field 15May47; registered in Sweden as SE-BEH 22Dec87 with Frame number 8644;
crashed at Karlstad when landed on a speedboat and sank 20May97; salvaged and restored; airworthy [2009]
36412 (MSN 8536) 20th Observation Squadron, 76th Observation Group, Vichy, MO; damaged taking off near
St James, MO 15Apr43
36413 (MSN 8537) 113th Observation Squadron, Hattiesburg, MS; force landed engine failure at Garwood, TX
7Jul42; 213th Base Unit, Newport, AR; destroyed landing at Elgin auxiliary Field, Newport, AR 11May44
36414 (MSN 8538)4th Glider Training Detachment, Hale, Plainview, TX; damaged when nosed over taking off at Plainview, TX
11Mar43; registered N75366, current [Oct16]
36415 (MSN 8539)
36416 (MSN 8540) 125th Liaison Squadron, 77th Reconnaissance Group, Abilene, TX; force landed engine
failure Fort Phantom Cemetery, TX 24Apr43
36417 (MSN 8541) 11th Ferrying Squadron, 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX; damaged when nosed under due
to weather at Lincoln AAF, NB 21Nov42; South Plains, Lubbock, TX; damaged taxying at South Plains 13Apr43
36418 (MSN 8542) 476th Bomb Squadron, 335th Bomb Group, Barksdale, LA; damaged landing at Belcher, LA 2Sep43
Registered 17Oct47 as OK-WFA; cancelled 1957
36419 (MSN 8543) 91st Observation Squadron, 73rd Observation Group, Godman, Fort Knox, KY; crashed taking off
at Prickett Airport, Sidnaw, MI 9Mar43
36420 (MSN 8544) 477th Bomb Squadron, 335th Bomb Group, Barksdale, LA; accident at Tyler, TX 2May43; destroyed
in mid air collision 4 miles S of Barksdale 4Nov43
36421 (MSN 8545)
36422 (MSN 8546)
36423 (MSN 8547) 113th Observation Squadron, 77th Observation Group, Alamo, San Antonio, TX; damaged
taxying at Alamo 6Feb43; 47th Liaison Squadron, II Tactical Air Division, Brownwood, TX; damaged
taxying 4 miles N of Burkett, TX 21Oct43
36424 (MSN 8548) 4th Tow Target Squadron, Camp Stewart, GA; damaged in collision with L-4B 43-1146 taxying
at Liberty Field, GA 31Aug 1943
36425 (MSN 8549) 12th Observation Squadron, 67th Observation Group, Esler, Alexandria, LA; crashed when
stalled landing at Alexandria Municipal Airport, LA 9May 1942
36426 (MSN 8550) 21st Observation Squadron, 75th Observation Group, Will Rogers, OK; damaged when nosed
over taxying at Will Rogers 23Dec42. To French Army [ALAT] as 236426
36427 (MSN 8551) 4th Glider Training Detachment, Hale, Plainview, TX; destroyed in collision with
L-4A 42-36804 landing at Plainview 29Dec42
36428 (MSN 8552) 9th Air Force, Europe; 1st Pathfinder Squadron (Provisional), Peronne [A-72], France;
damaged by strong winds at Peronne 19Jan45
36429 (MSN 8553) Morris, Charlotte, NC; mid air collision 3 miles NE Derita, NC 2Jan43
36430 (MSN 8554) 127th Liaison Squadron, 75th Reconnaissance Group, William Northern Field, Tullahoma, TN;
crashed engine failure at Mulberry, TN 23Apr43
36431 (MSN 8555)
36432 (MSN 8556)
36433 (MSN 8557) to Brazilian AF Sep 13, 1944 for use in Italy, returned to USAAF Sep 1945.
36434 (MSN 8558, Frame No. 8622) Headquarters, Central Flying Training Command, Randolph, TX. Damaged taxiing 17�Nov 1943
at Kerrville, TX�; repaired (?); to French Army [ALAT] as 236434. Registered D-ELLY Aug 26, 1960.
Destroyed Aug 28, 1987. Cancelled 1987.
36435 (MSN 8559) 21st Observation Squadron, 75th Observation Group, Will Rogers, OK; damaged landing at
Okmulgee, OK 3Mar43
36436 (MSN 8560) 2618th Base Unit, Sheppard, TX; damaged taxying at Sheppard 27Mar45
36437 (MSN 8561)
36438 (MSN 8562) 22nd Glider Training Detachment, Goodland, KS; crashed during takeoff with engine failure and
nosed over 1�Aug 1942 at Goodland Airport, KS�
36439 (MSN 8563) 2nd Liaison Training Detachment, Pittsburgh, KS; damaged when nosed under taxying at Nevada, MO 26Oct43;
purchased 1946 by the Polish Ministry of Communications; registered as SP-AIW
36440 (MSN 8564) 25th Glider Training Detachment, Hartlee, Denton, TX; damaged landing at Denton 12Feb43;
registered N56334, revoked 14Jan77;
destroyed at Exeter, CA 26Feb69 when a loss of power by failing to use carburettor heat caused the
aircraft to collide with power lines
36441 (MSN 8565) 22nd Glider Training Detachment, Goodland, KS; damaged forced landing 3 miles SE of Goodland 9Jul42
36442 (MSN 8566) delivered to USAAF at Lock Haven, PA; transferred to Army Ground Forces; 50th Mobile Reclamation
and Repair Squadron; Headquarters, Artillery Air Section, Ninth US Army, Munchen-Gladbach [Y-56],
Germany; 326th Ferrying Squadron, 1st Air Transport Group; ferried to Bielefeld, Germany 15Apr45;
Headquarters, Artillery Air Section, Ninth US Army, Braunschweig,
Germany 17Apr45; 50th Mobile Reclamation and Repair Squadron; 125th Liaison Squadron 2May45; returned to USAAF;
9th Air Force, Europe; registered OO-LAO 15Jul49, cancelled 12Jun52
36443 (MSN 8567) 97th Base Headquarters and Air Base Squadron, Jacksonville, FL; force landed engine failure 12 miles from
Jacksonville, FL 24Dec42; mid air collision at Jacksonville 16Jun43
36444 (MSN 8568)
36445 (MSN 8569)
36446 (MSN 8570) 3rd Liaison Training Detachment, Lamesa, TX; damaged landing at Lamesa 12Jun43; registered N42050;
the aircraft was donated in 1971 by the Greene County Composite Squadron, Civil Air Patrol, of Xenia, Ohio
to the USAF Museum; preserved and on display in Civil Air Patrol colors in the Cold War Gallery at the National Museum
of the United States Air Force, Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio
36447 (MSN 8571)
36448 (MSN 8572) 12th Observation Squadron, 67th Observation Group, Esler, Alexandria, LA; damaged when nosed under landing
at Esler, LA 31May42; 14th Observation Squadron, 26th Observation Group, William Northern Field, Tullahoma, TN;
force landed engine failure at Schuyler, VA 14Dec42
36449 (MSN 8573)
36450 (MSN 8574)
36451 (MSN 8575)
36452 (MSN 8576) to Brazilian AF Sep 13, 1944 for use in Italy. Returned to USAAF Sep 1945.
36453 (MSN 8577)
36454 (MSN 8578)
36455 (MSN 8579) Sub Depot, Esler, Alexandria, LA; damaged when nosed over landing at O'Keefe, MS 8Sep42
36456 (MSN 8580) 3rd Liaison Training Detachment, Lamesa, TX; damaged 2 miles NW of Lamesa 7May43; registered N53602,
current [Oct16]
36457 (MSN 8581) Camp Hood, Killeen, TX; crashed taking off at Camp Hood, TX 3Feb43; 9th Air Force, Europe;
Headquarters, 27th Air Transport Group, Villacoublay [A-42d], France; force landed engine failure at
Saint-Parres-aux-Tertres, France 28Jul48 125th Observation Squadron,
77th Observation Group, Abilene, TX; damaged landing at Otis, LA 4Sep42; 474th Bomb Squadron,
335th Bomb Group, Barksdale, LA; damaged landing 10 miles W of Shreveport, LA 8May43; 5th Tow
Target Squadron, Palacios, TX; destroyed landing due weather at Indianola, TX 3Mar44
36458 (MSN 8582) 125th Observation Squadron, 77th Observation Group, Abilene, TX; damaged landing at Otis,
LA 4Sep42; 474th Bomb Squadron, 335th Bomb Group, Barksdale, LA; damaged landing 10 miles W of Shreveport, LA
8May43; 5th Tow Target Squadron, Palacios, TX; destroyed landing due weather at Indianola, TX 3Mar44
36459 (MSN 8583) 5th Liaison Squadron, 74th Reconnaissance Group, Desert Center, CA; damaged landing
Camp Clipper, CA 3Jun43
36460 (MSN 8584) 21st Observation Squadron, 75th Observation Group, Will Rogers, OK; force landed and
crashed 2 miles E of Yukon, OK 31Dec42; to French Army (ALAT) as 236460
36461 (MSN 8585) 125th Observation Squadron, 77th Observation Group, Abilene, TX; damaged when nosed over taxying at
Slagle, LA 27Aug42; 27th Observation Squadron, 77th Observation Group, Alamo, San Antonio, TX;
damaged landing at Camp Hood, Killeen, TX 27Nov42
36462 (MSN 8586) 19th Glider Training Detachment, Hays, KS; damaged landing at Auxiliary Field #2 7 miles SE
of Hays 14Aug42
36463 (MSN 8587) 102nd Observation Squadron, 69th Observation Group, Esler, LA; crashed engine failure
6 miles SE of Alexandria, LA 2Apr43
36464 (MSN 8588) registered N48975; reregistered N798CP 20Dec10, current [Oct16]
36465 (MSN 8589)
36466 (MSN 8590) 13th Observation Squadron, 74th Observation Group, DeRidder, LA; force landed out of
gas at Bon Weir, TX
36467 (MSN 8591) 113rd Observation Squadron, 77th Observation Group, Hattiesburg, MS;
destroyed when stalled taking off at Hornbeck, LA 8Sep42
36468 (MSN 8592) 115th Observation Squadron, 69th Reconnaissance Group, Laurel, MS; force landed engine
failure 5 miles E of Laurel 21Dec42; 115th Liaison Squadron, 69th Reconnaissance Group, Esler, LA; damaged
while parked in collision by L-5 42-25016 taxying at Pollock, LA 5Jun43 wfu; to VT-CEZ
36469 (MSN 8593) 115th Liaison Squadron, II Tactical Air Division, Brownwood, TX; destroyed when force
landed due weather at Natchitoches, LA 27Feb44
36470 (MSN 8594) 125th Observation Squadron [Oklahoma Air National Guard], 77th Observation Group,
Brownwood, TX; destroyed when stalled and spun, crashing 10 miles NE of Copperas, TX 19Jun42
36471 (MSN 8595) 15th Observation Squadron, 73rd Observation Group, DeRidder, LA; damaged when
stalled landing and crashed at Lena, LA 5Sep42
36472 (MSN 8596) w/o 14�Dec 1942 at Plainview, TX�
36473 (MSN 8597) 128th Observation Squadron, 77th Observation Group, New Orleans, LA; destroyed when
force landed with engine failure at New Orleans, LA 19Oct42
36474 (MSN 8598) 27th Base Headquarters and Air Base Squadron, Glider Combat Training Command, Bowman, KY; damaged
taxying at Bowman 26Jun43; damaged landing at Bowman 29Aug43; damaged taxying at Bowman 23Sep43;
damaged taxying at Bowman 5Nov43
36475 (MSN 8599) 128th Observation Squadron, 77th Observation Group, Key Field, Meridian, MS; damaged when force
landed out of gas at Beaumont, MS 15Jun42
36476 (MSN 8600) 13th Observation Squadron, 74th Observation Group, DeRidder, LA; damaged landing at Bellwood, LA 3Dec42
36477 (MSN 8601)
36478 (MSN 8602) 2nd Liaison Training Detachment, Pittsburg, KS; damaged landing at Main Field 5Feb43
36479 (MSN 8603)
36480 (MSN 8604) 9th Air Force, Europe; 365th Fighter Squadron, 358th Fighter Group, Mannheim/Sandhofen [Y-79], Germany;
damaged landing at Fahrnau, Germany 15May45; purchased 1946 by the Polish Ministry of Communications;
registered as SP-ADD
36481 (MSN 8605) 27th Base Headquarters and Air Base Squadron, Glider Combat Training Command, Bowman, KY;
crashed landing at Auxiliary Field #1, Bowman, KY 24Jun43
36482 (MSN 8606) registered N58378, current [Oct16]; substantially damaged at Laceys Spring, AL 20Mar69 when fuel
contamination caused a loss of power and the aircraft stalled; substantially damaged at Moss Bluff, FL 22Apr78 when
the aircraft ran into a ditch during the landing roll.
36483 (MSN 8607) 2618th Base Unit, Sheppard, TX; force landed Frederick, OK 1May45; registered N58629, current [Oct16]
36484 (MSN 8608) 2nd Liaison Training Detachment, Pittsburgh, KS; damaged taxying at Main Field, Pittsburg 9Jan44;
to Brazilian AF for use in Italy, Sep 13, 1944. Returned to USAAF Sep 1945.
36485 (MSN 8609)
36486 (MSN 8610) 4th Glider Training Detachment, Hale, Plainview, TX; damaged taxying at Plainview 4Apr43;
3rd Liaison Training Detachment, Lamesa, TX; damaged landing at Lamesa 18Sep43
36487 (MSN 8611) registered N56274, current [Oct16]; substantially damaged at Tulsa, OK 10Dec66 when the
pilot made a steep turn downwind to observe Coyotes, the aircraft stalled and struck the ground
in a landing attitude.
36488 (MSN 8612)
36489 (MSN 8613)
36490 (MSN 8614) 11th Observation Squadron, 74th Observation Group, DeRidder, LA; mid air collision S of DeRidder 17May42
36491 (MSN 8615) 4th Glider Training Detachment, Hale, Plainview, TX; mid air collision 8 miles W of Kress, TX 9Apr43
36492 (MSN 8616) 3rd Liaison Training Detachment, Lamesa, TX; damaged taking off at Lamesa 16Jun43
36493 (MSN 8617)
36494 (MSN 8618) 2nd Liaison Training Detachment, Pittsburgh, KS; damaged landing at Auxiliary Field #1,
Opolis, KS 3Feb44; 9th Air Force, Europe; 390th Fighter Squadron, 366th Fighter Group, Bayreuth [R-26], Germany;
force landed engine failure at Gofweinstein, Germany 10Jul45
36495 (MSN 8619) to French Army [ALAT] as 236495
36496 (MSN 8620)
36497 (MSN 8621)
36498 (MSN 8622) Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron, 64th Two Engine Flying Training Group, South Plains, Lubbock, TX;
damaged in collision with L-4A taxying at Abernathy, TX 17Jun43
36499 (MSN 8623) 49th Air Base Squadron, Harding Field, Baton Rouge, LA; damaged taxying at Harding 22Nov42;
465th Bomb Squadron, Harding; destroyed when force landed due weather at Harding Field, LA 12Jan43
36500 (MSN 8624) 49th Air Base Squadron, Harding Field, Baton Rouge, LA; damaged when stalled landing at
East Baton Rouge Municipal Airport 20Aug42; 308th Bomb Squadron, 85th Bomb Group, Harding; damaged taxying at
Harding 18Apr43
36501 (MSN 8625)
36502 (MSN 8626) 111th Observation Squadron, 68th Observation Group, Daniel, Augusta, GA; damaged when the aircraft
stalled landing 7 miles SE of Wadesboro, NC 31Jul42; 124th Observation Squadron, 75th Observation Group, Pope, NC;
crashed after stalling 4 miles N of Pope Field, NC 22Oct42. Pilot and passenger killed.
36503 (MSN 8627) 12th Observation Squadron, 74th Observation Group, DeRidder AAB, LA; damaged taxying at DeRidder
24Nov42; 13th Observation Squadron, 74th Observation Group, Desert Center, CA; damaged taking off at
Sunflower Springs, CA 4Mar44;
registered N53222, current [Oct16]
36504 (MSN 8628) Morris, Charlotte, NC; damaged taxying at Morris 6Jan43; 9th Air Force, Europe; transferred
to Army Ground Forces; 79th Infantry Division Artillery [46-WW]; 50th Mobile Reclamation and Repair Squadron 21Mar45
� 36505 (MSN 8629)
36506 (MSN 8630) 25th Glider Training Detachment, Hartlee, Denton, TX; damaged taxying at Denton 15Dec42
Registered 16Sep46 as OK-XGA with MSN 36506; cancelled 1959
36507 (MSN 8631) Registered 1946 as OK-XHE with MSN 36507/30234; cancelled 28Nov50. Conflict with 43-30234
36508 (MSN 8632)
36509 (MSN 8633) to Philipines, registered as PI-C120; reregistered as RP-C120
36510 (MSN 8634)
36511 (MSN 8635)
36512 (MSN 8636) 19th Glider Training Detachment, Hays, KS; damaged when nosed over landing at Auxiliary Field #1,
7 miles E of Hays 22Jul42; 9th Air Force, Europe; 96th Depot Repair Squadron, 16th Air Depot Group,
Reims/Champagne [A-62], France; Crashed 13�Mar 1945 at Reims, France
36513 (MSN 8637) became N62752, then OE-ALA
36514 (MSN 8638) 17th Glider Training Detachment, Hartlee, Denton, TX; mid air collision with L-4A 42-36526
5 miles N of Denton 2Oct42
36515 (MSN 8639) 21st Observation Squadron, 75th Observation Group, Kellogg, Battle Creek, MI;
damaged taxying at Kellogg 26May42; 20th Observation Squadron, 76th Observation Group, Vichy, MO;
destroyed in mid air collision at Vichy AAF, MO 16Apr43
36516 (MSN 8640) 9th Tow Target Squadron, Chicago, IL; damaged due weather taxying at Rubinkam, IL 19Apr43
36517 (MSN 8641) purchased 1946 by the Polish Ministry of Communications; registered as SP-AHX
36518 (MSN 8642) 118th Observation Squadron, 66th Observation Group, Morris, Charlotte, NC; force landed out of gas near
Pineview, NC 5Mar43; 121st Liaison Squadron, 76th Reconnaissance Group, Morris, Charlotte, NC; destroyed in mid air
collision at Fort Meade, Sturgis, SD 14Jun43
36519 (MSN 8643) 20th Observation Squadron, 76th Observation Group, Vichy, MO; damaged taking off near Open Pond, AL
30Mar43; Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron, Glider Combat Training Command, Bowman, KY;
damaged landing at Bowman 25Aug43; damaged taxying at Bowman 9Sep43; Post war conversion to L-4K
36520 (MSN 8644) 2nd Liaison Training Detachment, Pittsburg, KS; damaged taxying at Pittsburg, KS 4Mar43;
damaged taxying at Auxiliary Field #1, Opolis, KS 11Oct43
36521 (MSN 8645)
36522 (MSN 8646) 127th Liaison Squadron, 75th Reconnaissance Group, Morris, Charlotte, NC;
damaged in collision with L-4A 42-15324 taxying at Cannon, Charlotte, NC 5Oct43
36523 (MSN 8647) 21st Observation Squadron, 75th Observation Group, Kellogg, Battle Creek, MI;
damaged when nosed under taxying at Kellogg 25Jul42; 72nd Liaison Squadron, 26th Reconnaissance Group,
New Cumberland, PA; w/o 13�May 1943 when crashed into Cotuit Bay, MA�
36524 (MSN 8648) 124th Observation Squadron, 75th Observation Group, New Orleans, LA;
destroyed in mid air collision with L-4A 42-36525 near Winder, GA 12Oct42
36525 (MSN 8649) 124th Observation Squadron, 75th Observation Group, New Orleans, LA;
damaged when nosed under during forced landing while lost 4 miles N of Union, SC 11Oct42;
destroyed in mid air collision with L-4A 42-36524 near Winder, GA 12Oct42
36526 (MSN 8650) 17th Glider Training Detachment, Hartlee, Denton, TX; mid air collision with
L-4A 42-36514 5 miles N of Denton 2Oct42; 2nd Liaison Training Detachment, Pittsburg, KS;
damaged landing at Auxiliary Field #1, Opolis, KS 16Sep43; 1st Liaison Training Detachment, Hartlee, Denton, TX;
damaged when stalled landing at Denton 21Oct43
36527 (MSN 8651)
36528 (MSN 8652) 25th Glider Training Detachment, Hartlee, Denton, TX; damaged taxying at Denton 15Dec42
36529 (MSN 8653) 21st Glider Training Detachment, Pittsburg, KS; damaged when force landed after engine
failure at Auxiliary Field #1, Opolis, KS 15Oct42; 9th Air Force, Europe; 173rd Liaison Squadron,
Querqueville [A-23], France; crash landed near Periers, France 9Jan45
36530 (MSN 8654)
36531 (MSN 8655) 106th Observation Squadron, 66th Observation Group, Gallatin, TN;
damaged taking off at Gallatin 14Oct42; 127th Liaison Squadron, 75th Reconnaissance Group, William
Northern Field, Tullahoma, TN; force landed engine failure 2 miles N of Manchester, TN 14May43
36532 (MSN 8656) 9th Air Force; Headquarters, 386th Bomb Group, Beaumont-sur-Oise [A-60], France;
force landed at Le Cynodrome, Paris, France 3Nov44
36533 (MSN 8657)
36534 (MSN 8658)
36535 (MSN 8659)
36536 (MSN 8660)
36537 (MSN 8661) 21st Glider Training Detachment, Pittsburg, KS; damaged landing at Main Field, Pittsburg 14Oct42;
damaged taxying at Auxiliary Field #1, Opolis, KS 9Jan43
36538 (MSN 8662) 125th Observation Squadron, 77th Observation Group, Alamo, San Antonio, TX;
damaged while parked in collision by L-4A 42-15323 at Alamo 5Jul43; 47th Liaison Squadron, II Tactical Air
Division, Brownwood, TX; destroyed when stalled and spun 1 miles W of Blanket, TX 9Nov43
36539 (MSN 8663)
36540 (MSN 8664)
36541 (MSN 8665) 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX; force landed mechanical failure 5 miles E of
Richmond, IN 18May44
36542 (MSN 8666)
36543 (MSN 8667) purchased 1946 by the Polish Ministry of Communications; registered as SP-AIG;
registered N5933V, current [Oct16]
36544 (MSN 8668)
36545 (MSN 8669)
36546 (MSN 8670) 127th Liaison Squadron, 75th Reconnaissance Group, William Northern Field, Tullahoma, TN;
crashed engine failure 4 miles E of Auxiliary Field, Manchester, TN 11Apr43
36547 (MSN 8671) 370th Air Base Squadron, South Plains, Lubbock, TX; damaged when nosed over landing at
South Plains 28Nov42; to Brazil for use in Italy, 13 Sep 1944. Returned to USAAF Sep 1945.
36548 (MSN 8672)
36549 (MSN 8673) 5th Liaison Squadron, 74th Reconnaissance Group, Desert Center, CA; damaged taking
off 10 miles E of Sale Flat, TX 5Jun43
36550 (MSN 8674) New Orleans, LA; damaged taxying at New Orleans 16Jan43; 127th Liaison Squadron,
75th Reconnaissance Group, Statesboro AAF, GA; destroyed when stalled at Statesboro AAF, GA 25Oct43
36551 (MSN 8675)
36552 (MSN 8676) 127th Liaison Squadron, 75th Reconnaissance Group, Morris, Charlotte, NC; damaged in
collision with L-4A 42-36375 taxying at Cannon, Charlotte, NC 4Oct43
36553 (MSN 8677) 4th Glider Training Detachment, Hale, Plainview, TX; crashed engine failure at Plainview 5Apr43;
9th Air Force; Headquarters, 53rd Troop Carrier Wing, Melun [A-55], France; damaged landing at Melun 17May45;
purchased 1946 by the Polish Ministry of Communications; registered as SP-ADB
36554 (MSN 8678) 127th Liaison Squadron, 75th Reconnaissance Group, William Northern Field, Tullahoma, TN;
crashed taking off at Mansfield Advance Airport, LA 18Sep42
36555 (MSN 8679) 22nd Observation Squadron, 74th Observation Group, DeRidder, LA; damaged taking off at a
landing strip 3 miles SE of Mansfield, LA 18Sep42; Desert Center, CA; destroyed landing 5 miles E of
Desert Center, CA 25Jan43
36556 (MSN 8680) 3rd Liaison Training Detachment, Lamesa, TX; damaged landing 3 miles SE of Lamesa 26May43;
9th Air Force, Europe; 173rd Liaison Squadron, Orly [A-47], Paris, France; damaged when force landed
out of gas at Vitre, France 2Dec44
36557 (MSN 8681) registered N66061, current [Oct16]; substantially damaged at Plant City, FL 9Nov74 when loss
of engine power caused the aircraft to nose over on landing
36558 (MSN 8682) 4th Glider Training Detachment, Hale, Plainview, TX; damaged in collision with L-4A 42-36358
landing at Plainview 6Jul42
36559 (MSN 8683) 1st Liaison Training Detachment, Hartlee, Denton, TX; crashed after the crew bailed out
when the aircraft stalled and spun in 10 miles S of Denton, TX 7Jun43
36560 (MSN 8684) 9th Air Force; 313th Fighter Squadron, 50th Fighter Group, Mannheim/Sandhofen [Y-79], Germany;
damaged taking off at Ansbach, Germany 28May45; purchased 1946 by the Polish Ministry of Communications;
registered as SP-AGC
36561 (MSN 8685) 124th Observation Squadron, 75th Observation Group, Pope, NC; crashed due engine failure at
Swan Station, NC 16Feb43
36562 (MSN 8686)
36563 (MSN 8687) Camp Davis, Holly Ridge, NC; damaged when force landed due engine failure at Camp Davis, NC 31Jan43;
to French Army [ALAT] as 236563
36564 (MSN 8688) 20th Observation Squadron, 71st Observation Group, Pope, Fort Bragg, NC; damaged when nosed
under landing at Balloon Field, Fort Bragg 18Aug42; 121st Liaison Squadron, 76th Reconnaissance Group, Morris,
Charlotte, NC; damaged in mid air collision at Spartanburg, SC 14May43.
to Brazil for use in Italy, 13 Sep 1944. Returned to USAAF Sep 1945.
36565 (MSN 8689) destroyed when force landed with engine failure 16�Jan 1943 at Vichy, MO�
36566 (MSN 8690) 2nd Liaison Training Detachment, Pittsburg, KS; damaged in collision with L-4A 42-36695 taxying at
Auxiliary Field #1, Opolis, KS 22May43
36567 (MSN 8691)
36568 (MSN 8692)
36569 (MSN 8693) 13th Observation Squadron, 74th Observation Group, DeRidder, LA; damaged at DeRidder 29Sep42
36570 (MSN 8694) 127th Liaison Squadron, 75th Reconnaissance Group, William Northern Field, Tullahoma, TN;
destroyed in ground accident at Dixie Corner, TN 21Jul42
36571 (MSN 8695) 127th Observation Squadron, 75th Observation Group, William Northern Field, Tullahoma, TN;
destroyed in mid air collision 4 miles E of Tullahoma, TN 23Mar43
36572 (MSN 8696)
36573 (MSN 8697) 14th Liaison Squadron, I Tactical Air Division, Lebanon, TN; damaged taxying at Lebanon 21Dec43
36574 (MSN 8698) 127th Liaison Squadron, 75th Reconnaissance Group, William Northern Field, Tullahoma, TN;
damaged when nosed over taking off at Camp Forrest, TN 1Jun42
36575 (MSN 8699) 127th Liaison Squadron, 75th Reconnaissance Group, Morris, Charlotte, NC; damaged landing at Wilgrove, NC 5Oct43
36576 (MSN 8700) Will Rogers, OK; stalled and crashed 2 miles SE of Will Rogers Field, OK 9Jan43; Morris, Charlotte, NC;
damaged landing at Pope, NC 21Jan43
36577 (MSN 8701)
36578 (MSN 8702) 127th Liaison Squadron, 75th Reconnaissance Group, William Northern Field, Tullahoma, TN;
damaged due weather landing at William Northern 13Apr43; Statesboro, GA; destroyed landing 2 miles W of Statesboro, GA 23Jan44
36579 (MSN 8703)
36580 (MSN 8704) 127th Liaison Squadron, 75th Reconnaissance Group, William Northern Field, Tullahoma, TN;
destroyed in mid air collision at Camp Forrest, TN 18Jul42
36581 (MSN 8705) 127th Liaison Squadron, 75th Reconnaissance Group, William Northern Field, Tullahoma, TN;
crashed 6 miles SE of Viola, TN 29May43
36582 (MSN 8706) 26th Glider Training Detachment, Aberdeen, SD; damaged when nosed over during forced landing \
1 mile N of Aberdeen, SD 22Jul42
36583 (MSN 8707) 370th Air Base Squadron, South Plains, Lubbock, TX; damaged when nosed over landing at
South Plains, TX 29Nov42; 3rd Liaison Training Detachment, Lamesa, TX; damaged taxying 2 miles NE of Lamesa, TX
16Aug43; damaged landing 6 miles SE of Lamesa, TX 5Oct43; 9th Air Force; 173rd Liaison Squadron, Orly [A-47],
Paris, France; damaged landing near Melun, France 8Feb45; 1st Pathfinder Squadron (Provisional), Venlo [Y-55],
Holland; crashed at Venlo 13May45
36584 (MSN 8708) 370th Air Base Squadron, South Plains, Lubbock, TX; damaged when ground looped due weather
landing at Pampa, TX 9Feb43
36585 (MSN 8709)
36586 (MSN 8710) 11th Glider Training Detachment, Grand Forks, ND; destroyed by engine failure taking
off at Grand Forks, ND 23Jul42
36587 (MSN 8711) 25th Glider Training Detachment, Hartlee, Denton, TX; damaged taxying at Denton 15Dec42;
damaged landing at Auxiliary Field #1, Denton 18Feb43; 9th Air Force; Headquarters, 50th Troop
Carrier Wing, Metz [Y-34], France; mid air collision 1 miles S of Metz 13May45
36588 (MSN 8712)
36589 (MSN 8713)
36590 (MSN 8714)
36591 (MSN 8715) to French Army [ALAT] as 236591
36592 (MSN 8716) Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron, Glider Combat Training Command, Bowman, KY;
destroyed landing at Bowman Field, KY 28Aug43
36593 (MSN 8717) 18th Observation Squadron, 65th Observation Group, Pope, Fort Bragg, NC;
ground accident at Pope 3Aug42
36594 (MSN 8718) 6th Air Force; 4th Reconnaissance Squadron, Antilles Air Command, Borinquen Field,
Puerto Rico; crashed at Mayaguez, Puerto Rico 23Nov43
36595 (MSN 8719)
36596 (MSN 8720)
36597 (MSN 8721)
36598 (MSN 8722) 27th Observation Squadron, 77th Observation Group, Camp Hood, Killeen, TX;
damaged after engine failure during takeoff at Camp Hood 12Feb43; Base Detachment, Barksdale, LA;
damaged taxying 4 miles N of Gilliam, LA 18Jan44
36599 (MSN 8723) 15th Observation Squadron, 73rd Observation Group, Godman, Fort Knox, KY;
damaged when nosed over during a forced landing due engine failure at one mile N of Kurthwood, LA 18Aug42
36600 (MSN 8724) 120th Observation Squadron, 77th Observation Group, Biggs, TX; destroyed when nosed under
landing at Nations East Wells, TX 12Nov42
36601 (MSN 8725)
36602 (MSN 8726) 26th Glider Training Detachment, Aberdeen, SD; damaged when nosed over during forced
landing 2 miles NW of Aberdeen, SD 6Jul42; 17th Glider Training Detachment, Antigo, WI; destroyed
when stalled and crashed 6 miles SW of Antigo, WI 1Oct42
36603 (MSN 8727) 6th Air Force; 4th Observation Squadron, 72nd Observation Group; damaged at Losey Field, Puerto Rico
36604 (MSN 8728)
36605 (MSN 8729) 47th Liaison Squadron, 426th Reconnaissance Group, Gainesville, GA; damaged when force landed with
engine failure at Gainesville 23Aug43; to French Army [ALAT] as 236605
36606 (MSN 8730) 20th Observation Squadron, 71st Observation Group, Pope, Fort Bragg, NC; damaged when nosed
under landing at Camp Sutton, NC 12Jun42; 351st Fighter Squadron, 353rd Fighter Group Norfolk, VA;
force landed at Langley, VA 29Oct42
36607 (MSN 8731)
36608 (MSN 8732) registered N5990V, expired 31Jul14
36609 (MSN 8733)
36610 (MSN 8734)
36611 (MSN 8735)
36612 (MSN 8736) 113th Observation Squadron, 77th Observation Group, DeRidder, LA; damaged taxying
3 miles S of Newton, TX 18Sep42
36613 (MSN 8737)
36614 (MSN 8738)
36615 (MSN 8739) Headquarters Squadron, 77th Observation Group, Biggs, El Paso, TX; damaged when nosed under
landing at Benson, LA 31Jul42; to French Army [ALAT] as 236615
36616 (MSN 8740) Headquarters Squadron, 6th Air Force; damaged in mid air collision at San Juan, Puerto Rico 6Jan43;
damaged taking off at Munoz Rivera Park, Puerto Rico 18Nov43
36617 (MSN 8741)
36618 (MSN 8742)
36619 (MSN 8743)
36620 (MSN 8744) 6th Air Force; 12th Bomb Squadron, 25th Bomb Group, Borinquen, Puerto Rico;
destroyed in mid air collision Isabella, Puerto Rico 18Dec42
36621 (MSN 8745)
36622 (MSN 8746) to civil user in Jamaica as VP-JAM, cancelled by 1953.
36623 (MSN 8747) 6th Air Force; 34th Service Squadron, 24th Service Group; damaged taking off at
Vernam Field, Jamaica 17May43
36624 (MSN 8748) 6th Air Force; 12th Bomb Squadron, 25th Bomb Group; destroyed when force landed with
engine failure at Dakota Field, Aruba 26Sep43
36625 (MSN 8749) 6th Air Force; damaged landing at Moengo, Suriname 10Nov43
36626 (MSN 8750) 121st Liaison Squadron, 76th Reconnaissance Group, Morris, Charlotte, NC;
damaged landing 1 mile N of Boxville, KY 27Jul43
36627 (MSN 8751) 22nd Glider Training Detachment, Goodland, KS; damaged when stalled landing 5 miles S of
Goodland 19Aug42; Pittsburg, KS; damaged taxying at Auxiliary Field #1, Opolis, KS 5Jan43
36628 (MSN 8752) 121st Liaison Squadron, 76th Reconnaissance Group, Morris, Charlotte, NC;
destroyed when stalled and spun in 10 miles ENE of Morris Field, NC 28May43
36629 (MSN 8753)
36630 (MSN 8754) transferred to France; 32nd Section of Observation of Artillery Aviation (SOAA),
Aviation Artillery Platoon, 2nd Armored Division [72-G] Jun44; registered as LX-WWT
36631 (MSN 8755)
36632 (MSN 8756) 23rd Observation Squadron, 79th Observation Group, Pope, Fort Bragg, NC;
damaged when nosed under landing at Pope 11Nov42; 94th Troop Carrier Squadron, 409th Troop Carrier Group,
Laurinburg-Maxton, NC; damaged when force landed 6 miles S of Rowland, NC 20Jan44
To Brazil AF on 13 Sep 1944; returned to USAAF in Sep 1945
36633 (MSN 8757) purchased 1946 by the Polish Ministry of Communications; to Polish civil registry as SP-AKB
36634 (MSN 8758) 17th Observation Squadron, 71st Observation Group, DeRidder, LA; crashed at DeRidderAAB, LA 13Feb43
36635 (MSN 8759)
36636 (MSN 8760) to Brazil AF on 13 Sep 1944; returned to USAAF in Sep 1945
36637 (MSN 8761) 122nd Observation Squadron, 68th Observation Group, Morris, Charlotte, NC;
damaged when force landed with engine failure at Stanley, NC 21Aug42; 79th Troop Carrier Squadron,
436th Troop Carrier Group, Laurinburg-Maxton, NC; damaged landing 6 miles S of Maxton 11Oct43
36638 (MSN 8762) 23rd Observation Squadron, 76th Observation Group, Pope, Fort Bragg, NC;
force landed engine failure at Blackstone, VA 16Jun42; registered N65918, cancelled 18Apr55
36639 (MSN 8763)
36640 (MSN 8764) 896th Two Engine Flying Training Squadron, Stuttgart, AR; forced landing at Stuttgart 7Feb43;
damaged landing at Stuttgart 16Mar43
36641 (MSN 8765) 6th Air Force; 63rd Service Squadron, 48th Service Group;
damaged taxying at Ponce Docks, Puerto Rico 27May43; damaged taking off at Esperanza Beach,
Isla de Vieques, Puerto Rico 25Jul43
36642 (MSN 8766) to Belgium registered as OO-AAH 21May46, cancelled 22Nov55; Modified to J-3C-85
registered D-EMOG 19Oct56, cancelled 1957; written off 4Aug57; restored as D-EMOG May63, modified 10Feb65 to J-3C-65
cancelled 16Nov76; registered on Danish civil registry as OY-ALM 1977, current [Oct16]
36643 (MSN 8767) Registered 17Jul47 as OK-WKA with MSN 4236643/4329461; accident 23Oct49. Conflict with 43-29461.
36644 (MSN 8768) Headquarters Squadron, 3 Air Support Command, Birmingham, AL; force landed engine failure 7 miles
S of Birmingham 8Oct42; 127th Liaison Squadron, 75th Reconnaissance Group, William Northern Field, Tullahoma, TN;
damaged landing at Tullahoma 21Apr43. wfu; to VT-CHV
36645 (MSN 8769) 24th Observation Squadron, 76th Observation Group, Pope, Fort Bragg, NC;
force landed engine failure 3 miles NE of Fayetteville, NC 19Sep42
36646 (MSN 8770) 24th Observation Squadron, 76th Observation Group, Pope, Fort Bragg, NC; crashed at Fort Bragg 24May42
36647 (MSN 8771) crashed landing 27�Jan 1943 at Vichy AAF, MO�
36648 (MSN 8772)
36649 (MSN 8773)
36650 (MSN 8774) 24th Observation Squadron, 76th Observation Group, Pope, Fort Bragg, NC; force landed engine
failure 3 miles SE of Blytheville, AR 14Dec42; 325th Service Squadron, 307th Service Group, Barksdale, LA;
destroyed when stalled and spun, crashing 6 miles E of Barksdale Field, LA 9Aug43.
36651 (MSN 8775)
36652 (MSN 8776) purchased 1946 by the Polish Ministry of Communications; to Polish civil registry as SP-AHG
36653 (MSN 8777) 3rd Tow Target Squadron, Camp Davis, Holly Ridge, NC; damaged when force landed with engine
failure near Camp Davis 28Jul43
36654 (MSN 8778)
36655 (MSN 8779) 11th Ferrying Squadron, 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX; mid air collision
at Spencer, IA 3Dec42; registered N62941, current [Oct16]
36656 (MSN 8780)
36657 (MSN 8781) to French Army as 236657, registered N46454, revoked Jan 14, 1977;
Registered F-BGXJ Aug 27, 1953, cancelled Apr 25, 1979 as sold abroad.
Registered G-BGSJ May 21, 1979, current (Oct 2016).
36658 (MSN 8782)
36659 (MSN 8783) Headquarters Squadron, I Air Support Command, Lebanon, TN;
mid air collision 1 mile W of Martha, TN 22Oct42
36660 (MSN 8784) 103rd Observation Squadron, 26th Observation Group, Fort Devens, MA; damaged when
nosed over landing at West Croton, MA 9Oct42
36661 (MSN 8785) to French Army [ALAT] as 236661
36662 (MSN 8786)
36663 (MSN 8787)
36664 (MSN 8788) 370th Air Base Squadron, South Plains, Lubbock, TX; damaged when nosed under taxying
at South Plains 28Nov42; 9th Air Force, Europe; 305th Troop Carrier Squadron, 442nd Troop Carrier
Group, St Andre de l'Eure [B-24], France; crashed at Pacy-sur-Eure, France 7May45�
36665 (MSN 8789) 2618th Base Unit, Sheppard, TX; damaged landing at Sheppard 9Mar45; damaged taxying at Sheppard 4Apr45;
damaged landing at Sheppard 6Apr45; 3706th Base Unit, Sheppard, TX; damaged landing at Sheppard 6Aug45
36666 (MSN 8790)
36667 (MSN 8791) 24th Observation Squadron, 76th Observation Group, Pope, Fort Bragg, NC; damaged landing
at Sanford, NC 10Oct42
36668 (MSN 8792) Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron, Glider Combat Training Command, Bowman, KY;
damaged landing at Bowman 30Aug43; To French Army [ALAT] as 236668
36669 (MSN 8793) purchased 1946 by the Polish Ministry of Communications; to Polish civil registry as SP-AKB
36670 (MSN 8794) registered N62710, current [Oct16]
36671 (MSN 8795) 122nd Observation Squadron, 68th Observation Group, Morris, Charlotte, NC; damaged when
force landed 1 mile E of Clover, SC 24Sep42; Vichy, MO; damaged landing at Cedartown, GA 2Jan43;
127th Liaison Squadron, 75th Reconnaissance Group, William Northern Field, Tullahoma, TN;
damaged by bird strike 8 miles NE of McMinnville, TN 29Jul43
36672 (MSN 8796) 698th Two Engine Flying Training Squadron, Blytheville, AR; damaged landing at
Blytheville 25Nov42; 121st Liaison Squadron, 76th Reconnaissance Group, Morris, Charlotte, NC;
damaged landing 3 miles E of Fairview, KY 23Jun43; 9th Air Force; 173rd Liaison Squadron, Orly [A-47],
Paris, France; damaged when force landed with engine failure at Laon [A-69], France 21Mar45
36673 (MSN 8797) Headquarters Squadron, 3rd Air Service Command, Memphis, TN; crashed when stalled and spun
15 miles SE of Memphis 15Jun42; 70th Sub Depot, Memphis, TN; damaged landing at Richardson Landing, TN 23Jun43
36674 (MSN 8798) 14th Glider Training Detachment, Monticello, MN; damaged when stalled landing at Monticello 27Oct42;
879th Glider Training Squadron, Dalhart, TX; damaged during maintenance at Dalhart 18Feb43
36675 (MSN 8799)
36676 (MSN 8800)
36677 (MSN 8801)
36678 (MSN 8802) Pittsburg, KS; damaged taxying at Main Field, Pittsburg 6Feb43; accident at Pittsburg 21May43
36679 (MSN 8803)
36680 (MSN 8804)
36681 (MSN 8805)
36682 (MSN 8806)
36683 (MSN 8807) 6th Air Force; 59th Bomb Squadron, VI Fighter Command, Hato, Cura�ao; damaged when nosed
under taxing at Hato 10Sep42; 309th Service Squadron, 92nd Service Group; damaged landing 29May43
36684 (MSN 8808) 516th Basic Flying Training Squadron, Victorville, CA; crashed engine failure near Auxiliary Field #3,
Victorville 14Feb43; purchased 1946 by the Polish Ministry of Communications; to Polish civil registry as SP-AGH
36685 (MSN 8809) 6th Air Force; 37th AWD; crash landed Atkinson Field, British Guiana 4Aug45
36686 (MSN 8810) 11th Ferrying Squadron, 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX; damaged due weather taxying at
Wahpeton, ND 12Nov42; 4th Glider Training Detachment, Hale, Plainview, TX; damaged taxying at Plainview 8Mar43;
366th Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group, Lechfeld [R-71], Germany; damaged taxying at Lechfeld 18Dec45;
damaged taxying at Lechfeld 19Dec45
36687 (MSN 8811) 6th Air Force; Headquarters, 99th Service Group; ditched engine failure 6 miles SE of
Port of Spain, Trinidad 24Feb43; 551st Service Squadron, 347th Service Group; damaged when force landed
due to engine failure near Atkinson Field, British Guiana 24Mar44
36688 (MSN 8812) 6th Air Force; 93rd Base Headquarters Squadron, 92nd Service Group; damaged taking
off at Waller Field, Trinidad 13Aug43
36689 (MSN 8813)
36690 (MSN 8814)
36691 (MSN 8815) 6th Air Force; 397th Bomb Squadron, 6th Bomb Group, Rio Hato, Panama; mid air collision
at Rio Hato 22Jun43
36692 (MSN 8816) 97th Observation Squadron, 66th Observation Group, Pope, NC; crashed at Shaw's Station, NC 23Mar43
36693 (MSN 8817) registered N47885 2Nov48, cancelled 1Feb52
36694 (MSN 881816th Ferrying Squadron, 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX;
destroyed in mid air collision 1 mile NW of Hammer, SD 19Nov42
36695 (MSN 8819) 2nd Liaison Training Detachment, Pittsburg, KS; damaged in collision with L-4A 42-36566
taxying at Auxiliary Field #1, Opolis, KS 22May43; to French Army [ALAT] as 236695
36696 (MSN 8820) 3706th Base Unit, Sheppard, TX; damaged at Minter Field, CA 9Nov45; registered N63540,
cancelled 25Jun76
36697 (MSN 8821) 9th Glider Training Detachment, Tucumcari, NM; damaged while parked when L-3B 42-36133
ground looped taking off 9 miles E of Tucumcari 8Sep42; 3rd Liaison
Training Detachment, Lamesa, TX; force landed engine failure 14 miles SE of Lamesa 7Sep43
36698 (MSN 8822) 21st Glider Training Detachment, Pittsburg, KS; damaged taxying at #3 Field, Minden Mines, KS 20Jan43;
damaged taxying at Main Field, Pittsburg 7Feb43
36699 (MSN 8823) 22nd Glider Training Detachment, Goodland, KS; damaged landing at Goodland 1Jul42;
21st Glider Training Detachment, Pittsburg, KS; mid air collision 4 miles N of Crestline, KS 24Oct42
36700 (MSN 8824) 4th Glider Training Detachment, Hale, Plainview, TX; damaged when nosed over landing at Plainview 13Aug42
36701 (MSN 8825) 3rd Liaison Training Detachment, Lamesa, TX; damaged landing at Lamesa 1Sep43
36702 (MSN 8826) 17th Glider Training Detachment, Hartlee, Denton, TX; damaged taxying at Denton 15Dec42;
1st Liaison Training Detachment, Hartlee, Denton, TX; damaged when stalled landing at Auxiliary Field #3,
Denton 5Oct43; to French Army [ALAT] as 236702
36703 (MSN 8827) 22nd Glider Training Detachment, Goodland, KS; damaged taking off 4 miles SE of Goodland, KS 6Jul42
36704 (MSN 8828) 4th Glider Training Detachment, Hale, Plainview, TX; damaged when stalled and
spun landing at Plainview, TX 22Jul42; 3rd Liaison Training Detachment, Lamesa, TX;
damaged landing at Lamesa, TX 1Jun43; damaged landing at Lamesa 3Jun43
36705 (MSN 8829) 3rd Liaison Training Detachment, Lamesa, TX; damaged taxying at Lamesa 2Jun43;
damaged landing at Lamesa 14Jul43; damaged landing at Lamesa 20Jul43; damaged landing 5 miles NE of Lamesa 27Aug43
36706 (MSN 8830) purchased 1946 by the Polish Ministry of Communications; to Polish civil registry as SP-AGD
36707 (MSN 8831) Denton, TX; accident 1 mile NW of Auxiliary Field #1, Denton 21May43
36708 (MSN 8832) 4th Ferrying Group, Goodland, KS; damaged when nosed under landing at North Platte, NB 13Sep42
36709 (MSN 8833)
36710 (MSN 8834) registered N58376, current [Oct16]
36711 (MSN 8835) 22nd Glider Training Detachment, Goodland, KS; damaged taxying at Auxiliary Field #5,
S of Goodland AAAF, KS10Jul42 registered N2032A, current [Oct16]
36712 (MSN 8836)
36713 (MSN 8837) to French Army [ALAT] as 236713
36714 (MSN 8838) purchased 1946 by the Polish Ministry of Communications; registered as SP-AFR Jun 27 1947;
modified 1950 by Central Institute of Aviation, Warsaw as an ambulance to carry stretcher patients,
fitted with a Praga D engine, first flown 12Nov50 Registration cancelled Dec 29, 1951
36715 (MSN 8839)
36716 (MSN 8840) 38th Troop Carrier Squadron, 10th Troop Carrier Group, Laurinburg-Maxton, NC; force landed
3 miles S of Latta, SC 16Apr44
36717 (MSN 8841)
36718 (MSN 8842) 511th School Squadron, Perrin, Sherman, TX; damaged while parked by L-4B 43-759 taxying
at Will Rogers Field, OK 16Dec42; Headquarter Squadron, Pittsburg, KS; damaged landing at Pittsburg 6Oct43;
purchased 1946 by the Polish Ministry of Communications; registered as SP-ALF
36719 (MSN 8843) 14th Liaison Squadron, 73rd Reconnaissance Group, Lebanon, TN; damaged taking off 9 miles NE
of Lebanon 21Jul43
36720 (MSN 8844) 22nd Glider Training Detachment, Goodland, KS; damaged when nosed over during forced landing
with engine failure 8 miles E of Goodland 30May42; Pittsburg, KS; damaged taxying at
Auxiliary Field #1, Opolis, KS 5Jan43; damaged landing at Auxiliary Field #1, Opolis, KS 12Aug43
36721 (MSN 8845) 2618th Base Unit, Sheppard, TX; damaged in ground collision with L-4A 42-36343 at Sheppard 31Jan45
36722 (MSN 8846) Stuttgart, AR; damaged taxying at Stuttgart 15Jan43; registered N52977, cancelled 9Oct97
36723 (MSN 8847) 6th Air Force; Headquarters Squadron, 92nd Air Base Group, Waller Field, Trinidad;
force landed engine failure at Waller Field, Trinidad 1Sep42
36724 (MSN 8848) 6th Air Force; 29th Bomb Squadron, 40th Bomb Group, Aquadulce AAAF, Panama;
destroyed landing at Aquadulce AAAF, Panama 2Oct42
36725 (MSN 8849)
36726 (MSN 8850) 6th Air Force; 15th Service Squadron, 15th Service Group; destroyed when force landed
with engine failure 26May43
36727 (MSN 8851) 6th Air Force; damaged in ground accident Panama 4Sep44
36728 (MSN 8852) 6th Air Force, Canal Zone
36729 (MSN 8853)
36730 (MSN 8854) 4th Glider Training Detachment, Hale, Plainview, TX; damaged taxying at Plainview 4Mar43;
3rd Liaison Training Detachment, Lamesa, TX; damaged landing at Lamesa 4May43; damaged landing at Lamesa 19Jul43
Registered N357BF, current [Oct16]
36731 (MSN 8855) Civil Air Patrol, 32nd Base Unit, Bolling, Washington, DC; damaged taxying at Rome, NY 4Oct47;
damaged taxying at Bolling 25Oct47
36732 (MSN 8856) 4th Glider Training Detachment, Hale, Plainview, TX; force landed with engine failure 10 miles
E of Plainview 30Jul42; 91st Observation Squadron, 73rd Observation Group, Godman, Fort Knox, KY;
damaged taking off at Prickett, Sidnaw, MI 11Mar43; 60th Troop Carrier Squadron, 63rd Troop Carrier
Group, Grenada, MS; forced landing engine failure 5 miles N of Grenada 30Aug43; 810th Base Unit,
Laurinburg-Maxton, NC; destroyed by fire at Laurinburg-Maxton, NC 18Aug44
36733 (MSN 8857) 122nd Observation Squadron, 68th Observation Group, Daniel Field, Augusta, GA;
damaged when nosed under landing at Monroe, NC 29Jul42
36734 (MSN 8858) 4th Glider Training Detachment, Hale, Plainview, TX; damaged when nosed under landing at
Plainview 9Sep42; 3rd Liaison Training Detachment, Lamesa, TX; damaged landing at Lamesa 12May43
36735 (MSN 8859) 22nd Glider Training Detachment, Goodland, KS; damaged forced landing grass strip
6 miles E of Goodland 10Jul42; registered N66208, cancelled 13Oct55
36736 (MSN 8860) Pittsburg, KS; damaged taxying at Pittsburg 11Feb43; 2nd Liaison Training Detachment,
Pittsburg, KS; damaged landing at Auxiliary Field #1, Opolis, KS 22May43
36737 (MSN 8861) registered N51573, revoked 14Jan77
36738 (MSN 8862) 4th Glider Training Detachment, Hale, Plainview, TX; damaged taxying at Plainview 21Mar43;
3rd Liaison Training Detachment, Lamesa, TX; damaged landing at Lamesa 13Jul43; registered N49535, current [Oct16]
36739 (MSN 8863) 11th Glider Training Detachment, Artesia, NM; damaged when ground looped landing at Artesia 23Dec42
36740 (MSN 8864)
36741 (MSN 8865) 6th Air Force; 108th Reconnaissance Squadron, 72nd Reconnaissance Group;
damaged taking off at Venado Beach, Canal Zone 15Jul43
36742 (MSN 8866) 6th Air Force; Headquarter Squadron, 336th Service Group, Talara, Peru;
accident at Talara, Peru 22Dec42; crashed on takeoff at Talara, Peru 24Feb43; mid air collision at Talara 27Feb43
36743 (MSN 8867)
36744 (MSN 8868) 3rd Liaison Training Detachment, Lamesa, TX; damaged landing at Lamesa 16Aug43
36745 (MSN 8869)
36746 (MSN 8870) Caribbean Air Force; 48th Air Base Squadron, 47th Service Group, Salinas, Ecuador;
force landed engine failure in sea 10ft offshore at Salinas, Ecuador 27Sep42
36747 (MSN 8871) purchased 1946 by the Polish Ministry of Communications; to Polish civil registry as SP-AIH
36748 (MSN 8872) purchased 1946 by the Polish Ministry of Communications; to Polish civil registry as SP-AGI
36749 (MSN 8873)
36750 (MSN 8874) 607th Single Engine Gunnery Training Squadron, 1st Single Engine Gunnery Training Group, Eglin, FL;
damaged landing at Auxiliary Field #1, Eglin 26Jan43; damaged landing at Auxiliary Field #1, Eglin 6Jun43;
registered N8370H, current [Oct16]; registered 4May10 to the Western Antique Aeroplane & Automobile
Museum, Hood River, OR
36751 (MSN 8875) Denton, TX; damaged forced landing engine failure 2 miles W of Denton 27Jan43
36752 (MSN 8876) 3rd Liaison Training Detachment, Lamesa, TX; damaged landing 3 miles N of Lamesa 28Apr43;
damaged landing at Lamesa 12May43; registered N50658, current [Oct16]
36753 (MSN 8877)
36754 (MSN 8878) delivered to USAAF at Lock Haven, PA; Ferrying Command, New Castle, DE; force landed due
to weather at Arden, WV 7Jun42; 1064th Basic Flying Training Squadron, Fort Sumner, NM; damaged
taking off at Fort Sumner 20Mar43
36755 (MSN 8879)
36756 (MSN 8880)
36757 (MSN 8881)
36758 (MSN 8882) 22nd Glider Training Detachment, Goodland, KS; damaged when stalled and spun landing
6 miles N of Goodland 1Aug42
36759 (MSN 8883) 2nd Glider Training Detachment, Clovis, NM; destroyed in mid air collision with L-4A
42-38398 at Clovis 15Jul42
36760 (MSN 8884)
36761 (MSN 8885)
36762 (MSN 8886) 3rd Liaison Training Detachment, Lamesa, TX; accident at Lamesa 3May43
36763 (MSN 8887)
36764 (MSN 8888) 2nd Liaison Training Detachment, Pittsburg, KS; damaged when stalled landing at
Auxiliary Field #1, Opolis, KS 19Dec43
36765 (MSN 8889)
38766 (MSN 8890) 2nd Glider Training Detachment, Clovis, NM; damaged taking off due engine failure and nosed
over at Clovis 10Aug42; 9th Air Force, Europe; transferred to Army Ground Forces; 45th Air Depot Group, Grove,
Berkshire; 50th Mobile Reclamation and Repair Squadron 31Mar45; Headquarters, Artillery Air Section, Ninth
US Army 10May45
36767 (MSN 8891) 22nd Glider Training Detachment, Goodland, KS; damaged taxying at Auxiliary Field #5, 6 miles
S of Goodland 20Aug42; 9th Air Force, Europe; 173rd Liaison Squadron, Querqueville [A-23], France; damaged
landing at Las Vigneres, France 6Jan45
36768 (MSN 8892) 11th Glider Training Detachment, Artesia, NM; damaged when nosed under landing at Artesia 8Dec42
36769 (MSN 8893) 6th Glider Training Detachment, Condor, Twenty-Nine Palms, CA; damaged taxying at
Biggs, El Paso, TX 19Jan43; 2nd Liaison Training Detachment, Pittsburg, KS; damaged in collision
taxying with L-4A 42-38409 at Auxiliary Field #1, Opolis, KS 6Jul43; purchased 1946 by the Polish
Ministry of Communications; to Polish civil registry as SP-ALT
36770 (MSN 8894). This aircraft apparently became N4055S sometime during
WW2, this registration being cancelled 22/1/44 as 'Class 26'. However, this
registration has been reinstated to this aircraft
Jun 4, 2003 by FAA - so where has it been in the intervening 59 years?
36771 (MSN 8895) 516th Basic Flying Training Squadron, Victorville, CA; damaged landing at Auxiliary Field #3,
Victorville 15Mar43
36772 (MSN 8896) 4th Glider Training Detachment, Hale, Plainview, TX; damaged when nosed under landing
at Plainview 21Oct42; damaged taxying at Plainview 29Nov42; 3rd Liaison Training Detachment, Lamesa, TX;
damaged taxying at Lamesa 3May43
36773 (MSN 8897) 2nd Glider Training Detachment, Clovis, NM; damaged when nosed under landing at Clovis 19Aug42;
9th Air Force, Europe; 406th Fighter Squadron, 371st Fighter Group, Furth/Industriehafen [R-30], Germany;
mid air collision 3 miles S of Nurnberg, Germany 6Jun45
36774 (MSN 8898) 3rd Liaison Training Detachment, Lamesa, TX; damaged taxying at Lamesa 5Jul43;
registered N58374, current [Oct16]
36775 (MSN 8899) 4th Glider Training Detachment, Hale, Plainview, TX; damaged taxying at Plainview 4Mar43;
3rd Liaison Training Detachment, Lamesa, TX; damaged when stalled landing at Lamesa 2Nov43
36776 (MSN 8900)
36777 (MSN 8901) 4th Glider Training Detachment, Hale, Plainview, TX; damaged due weather landing at Plainview 15Dec42;
3rd Liaison Training Detachment, Lamesa, TX; damaged landing 2 miles NW of Lamesa 7Sep43 registered N1979M,
current [Oct16]
36778 (MSN 8902) registered N50730 10Sep48, cancelled 28Nov55
36779 (MSN 8903)
36780 (MSN 8904)
36781 (MSN 8905) 4th Glider Training Detachment, Hale, Plainview, TX; damaged landing 5 miles SE of
Plainview 27Jan43; Atlantic Overseas Air Service Command, Newark, NJ;
Damaged while parked by taxying AT-6D 42-85122 aircraft at Newark Field, Newark, NJ 18Jul44.
Registered as HB-ODD, Cancelled Mar 8, 1974
36782 (MSN 8906) 2nd Liaison Training Detachment, Pittsburg, KS; damaged landing at Auxiliary Field #1, Opolis, KS 4Aug43
36783 (MSN 8907)
36784 (MSN 8908) 22nd Glider Training Detachment, Goodland, KS; damaged landing at Auxiliary Field #5, S of
Goodland 9Jul42
31785 (MSN 8909) 896th School Squadron, Stuttgart, AR; damaged when nosed over landing at
Stuttgart 30Nov42; 2618th Base Unit, Sheppard, TX; damaged force landing 3 miles W of Grandfield, OK 5May45
36786 (MSN 8910) registered N58371, cancelled 20Mar68 on export to West Germany;
registered D-EHXA 7Aug68, cancelled 19Jul73; registered OH-PAK Nov74, cancelled 8Apr86
36787 (MSN 8911) 4th Glider Training Detachment, Hale, Plainview, TX; damaged landing at
Plainview 18Feb43; damaged landing with engine failure at Plainview 7Apr43; 9th Air Force, Europe;
transferred to Army Ground Forces; 16th Air Depot Group, Munchen-Gladbach [Y-56], Germany;
83rd Infantry Division Artillery 26May45; returned to USAAF; 9th Air Force, Europe;
registered F-BFQJ 7Jul50, cancelled 31Jul78 as sold abroad; registered as EI-BFO 29Jul92, cancelled 18Oct12
36788 (MSN 8912) delivered to USAAF at Lock Haven, PA; Ferrying Command; force landed engine failure 1 mile W of
Clayton, KS 2Jun42; 9th Air Force, Europe; 173rd Liaison Squadron, Querqueville [A-23], France;
damaged by strong winds while parked near Vire, France 19Jan45
36789 (MSN 8913)
36790 (MSN 8914) 370th Air Base Squadron, South Plains, Lubbock, TX; damaged when nosed
over taxying at South Plains 2Dec42; registered N5777N, cancelled 9May95;
On display since April 1995 in the World War II Gallery at the National Museum
of the United States Air Force, Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio;, marked as 43-36389,
an L-4 that flew in support of the Allied invasion of North Africa in Nov 1942.
36791 (MSN 8915)
36792 (MSN 8916) 6th Air Force; 33rd Service Squadron, 24th Service Group; crashed taking off due
mechanical failure at Carlson, Trinidad 17Jul44
36793 (MSN 8917) 6th Air Force; 43rd Fighter Squadron, 16th Fighter Group, La Chorrere, Panama; crashed due
engine failure 20 miles SW of Mandinga, Panama 30Oct43
36794 (MSN 8918) 6th Air Force; 39th Reconnaissance Squadron, Antilles Air Command, Waller, Trinidad;
destroyed landing at Manzanilla Beach, Trinidad 22Jul43
36795 (MSN 8919) 12th Air Force; 3rd Bomb Squadron, Casablanca, French Morocco;
crashed 15 miles NE of Casablanca 26Mar43
36796 (MSN 8920) 6th Air Force; 24th Fighter Squadron, 16th Fighter Group; damaged landing at Albrook, Canal Zone
20Feb43; damaged taxying at Albrook, Canal Zone 17May43; damaged taxying at Howard, Canal Zone 26Feb44
36797 (MSN 8921)
36798 (MSN 8922) 6th Air Force; 20th Troop Carrier Squadron, 16th Service Group; damaged taxying at Howard,
Canal Zone 7Feb43
36799 (MSN 8923) 6th Air Force; 1st Reconnaissance Squadron, 72nd Reconnaissance Group;
damaged taxying at Howard, Canal Zone 12Jul43
36800 (MSN 8924) 6th Air Force, Canal Zone
36801 (MSN 8925) 6th Air Force, Canal Zone; 16th Air Base Group, Howard, Panama Canal Zone;
damaged when nosed under taxying at Chame Auxiliary Airdrome #1, Panama 28Jul42; Tow Target Detachment, Howard;
damaged when nosed under taxying at Howard 22Sep42
36802 (MSN 8926) 6th Air Force, Canal Zone; 108th Reconnaissance Squadron, 72nd Reconnaissance Group,
Howard, Panama Canal Zone; damaged taxying at Howard 7Aug43; destroyed when force landed
15 miles NW of Chorrear, Panama 19Aug43
36803 (MSN 8927)22nd Glider Training Detachment, Goodland, KS; damaged when nosed over landing 5 miles
S of Goodland 5Aug42; 21st Glider Training Detachment, Pittsburg, KS; damaged landing at Auxiliary Field #1,
Opolis, KS 8Feb43; 2nd Liaison Training Detachment, Pittsburg, KS; damaged taxying at Field #3,
Minden Mines, MO 1Nov43; 9th Air Force; Headquarters, 2nd Advanced Air Depot Area; damaged while parked
at Villacoublay [A-42], France 1Dec44; registered as F-PFQR 11Apr51 with MSN 1 BIS, cancelled 7Nov61 as sold abroad;
registered HB-OXT. Registered Sep 19, 2005 as F-GOXT.
36804 (MSN 8928) 4th Glider Training Detachment, Hale, Plainview, TX; destroyed in collision with L-4A
42-36427 landing at Plainview 29Dec42
36805 (MSN 8929) 17th Glider Training Detachment, Hartlee, Denton, TX; damaged in collision with L-4A 42-15321
and 42-36353 landing at Denton 30Nov42
36806 (MSN 8930)
36807 (MSN 8931) 26th Glider Training Detachment, Aberdeen, SD; damaged when nosed over landing in a rye
field adjacent Field #1, Aberdeen 17Jul42; 425th Field Artillery Group, Camp Bowie, TX; damaged landing
W of Brownwood, TX 3Feb45
36808 (MSN 8932)
36809 (MSN 8933) Stuttgart, AR; damaged when ground looped taking off at Goldman Auxiliary Field, AR 13Jan43
36810 (MSN 8934) 2nd Ferrying Squadron, 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX; damaged due
weather taxying at Wahpeton, ND 12Nov42
36811 (MSN 8935) delivered to USAAF at Lock Haven, PA; 12th Ferrying Squadron, 2nd Ferrying Group;
damaged in collision with L-4A 42-36399 landing at Effingham, IL 13Jun42
36812 (MSN 8936) registered N58347, current [Oct16]
36813 (MSN 8937) 3rd Liaison Training Detachment, Lamesa, TX; damaged due weather taxying at
Lamesa 14Apr43; damaged when nosed under taxying at Lamesa 30Sep43; damaged landing 3 miles
NW of La Mesa, TX 7Oct43; registered N5821V to Civil Air Patrol, Liberal, KS 31Mar52, cancelled 4Jan71;
registered N43391 as a Piper/Port DE J3C-65/L4 A CU with MSN 8937-A; reregistered 16Aug10 as N36813, current [Oct16]
36814 (MSN 8938)
36815 (MSN 8939) 3rd Liaison Training Detachment, Lamesa, TX; damaged landing 2 miles S of Lamesa 4Sep43;
registered N58368, current [Oct16]; registered to the Prop and Jet Air Museum, Hemet, CA
36816 (MSN 8940)
36817 (MSN 8941) to French Army [ALAT] as 236817
36818 (MSN 8942) to French Army [ALAT] as 236818
36819 (MSN 8943) 1st Liaison Training Detachment, Hartlee, Denton, TX; damaged landing at Denton, TX 21Sep43
36820 (MSN 8944) 11th Glider Training Detachment, Grand Forks, ND; destroyed when stalled and
force landed at Grand Fork, ND 14Jul42
36821 (MSN 8945) 4th Glider Training Detachment, Hale, Plainview, TX; damaged landing at Plainview 15Mar43
36822 (MSN 8946)
36823 (MSN 8947) to French Army [ALAT] as 236823
36824 (MSN 8948) Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron, 54th Basic Flying Training Group, Waco, TX;
damaged landing 6 miles N of Waco 22Jun43
42-36825 Beech UC-43C Traveler
Civilian Model F-17D MSN 250 NC2595 impressed by USAAF Mar 14, 1942. To RFC Feb 19, 1945. To NC49301.
Current 2014.
42-36826/37713 Beech AT-11 Kansan
Alternative c/n for 42-36826/37713 are 3206/3209, 4390/4404, 3225/3297, 4420/4422, 3301/3547, 3691/3713, 3734/3753,
3774/3814, 3857/3896, 3925/4093, 4497/4639, 4941/5010, ie 838 aircraft instead of 888.
36826 (MSN 3206) W/o 7 Mar 1943 at Midland, TX.
36827 (MSN 3207) W/o 3�Apr 1945 at Midland AAF, TX�
36828 (MSN 3208) to Turkish AF as 6827 May 15, 1948
36829 (MSN 3209) W/o 11�Nov 1943 at Deming AAF, NM�
36830 (MSN 4390)
36831 (MSN 3211) in accident Dec 3, 1942 at Williams Field, Arizona, repaired. To N12718. Current 2011.
Also listed as MSN 4391, to N5543
36832 (MSN 4392) Redesignated as T-11 on 11 Jun 1948; wfu; to N75506 in 1957; to N556T in 1963; wfu 1976
36833 (MSN 4393) to Turkish AF as 6828 May 15, 1948.
36835 (MSN 4395) W/o 27�May 1944 at Deming AAF, NM; repaired (?); redesignated as T-11 on 11 June 1948;
remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11691 in 1952.
36836 (MSN 4396) redesingnated as T-11 on 18 Jun 1948; wfu; to N6663C in 1964
36837 (MSN 4397) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10852 in 1954.
36838 listed as MSN 4398. To N6663C in 1964.
36839 (MSN 4399) W/o 16�Apr 1945 at Big Springs, TX �
36841 (MSN 4401) W/o 24�Jun 1944 at Midland AAF, TX�
36842 (MSN 4402) to Turkish AF as 6829 May 15, 1948. Crashed May 14, 1957
near Munyan, Kayseri, Turkey. 2 crew killed.
36843 (MSN 4403) W/o 8�Dec 1942 at Midland AAF, TX�
36844 (MSN 4404) W/o 3�Jun 1944 at Midland AAF, TX�
36845 (MSN 3225) to Turkish AF as 6830 May 15, 1948. THK 6830, then 3-880. To Turkish AF Museum, Ankara
36847 (MSN 3227) W/o 16�Nov 1942 at Carlsbad AAB, NM; repaired (?); wfu; to N75907
36848 (MSN 3228) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11665 in 1952.
36849 (MSN 3229) Wfu in 1946; to NC62497, N62497
36850 (MSN 3230) W/o 28�Jan 1944 at 47 miles from Indian Springs, NV�
36851 (MSN 3231) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10659 in 1953
36852 (MSN 3232) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10643 in 1953.
36853 (MSN 3233) wfu in 1947. To NC75202, N75202. Destroyed by fire following engine fire on start up
at Clarksville, Texas Sep 25, 1964.
36854 (MSN 3234) wfu in 1946. to NC62286. To Chile AF in 1945, To XB-RAU, XA-JIA, XA-TAS, XA-TAV
36855 (MSN 3235) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11821 in 1953.
36858 (MSN 3238) to N57195, N194AL, N194L
36859 (MSN 3239) WFU; to N69574 Aug 7, 1946, ZS-CFN in 1957. Broken up in South Africa Oct 1962.
36861 (MSN 3241) to N57198
36862 (MSN 3242) W/o 14�Oct 1942 at Artesla, NM�W/o 29�Jul 1943 at Elk Mountain, NM�
36864 (MSN 3244) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10869 in 1954.
36865 (MSN 3245) W/o 29�Jul 1943 at Elk Mountain, NM�
36866 (MSN 3246) Wfu; to LV-XHO on 28 Apr 1947; to Argentine AF as Ea-09 in 1947
36868 (MSN 3248) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11678 in 1952.
36870 (MSN 3250) remaufactured by Beech as TC-45G 51-11556 in 1952.
36871 (MSN 3251) W/o 22�Apr 1944 at Midland AAF, TX�
36872 (MSN 3252) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11669
36873 (MSN 3253) (3021 BU) crashed on Mount Charleston, Nevada Jul 18, 1944 after being diverted from training
flight to look for a reported parachute. All on board killed, including WASP copilot.
36874 (MSN 3254) Redes as T-11 on 11 Jun 1948; wfu 1957; to N7338C Oct 14, 1960; wfu Sep 25, 1971.
36876 (MSN 3256) Wfu; to LV-XHI on 17 Apr 1947; to Argentine AF as Ea-06 in 1957
36877 (MSN 3257) Wfu; to LV-XHV on 12 Jun 1947; to Argentine AF as Ea-16 in 1947
36878 (MSN 3258) in accident Apr 7, 1943 at Carlsbad AAF, New Mexico, repaired. To N65494 Aug 16, 1946.
Current 2011.
36879 (MSN 3259) to N69575. Crashed Datallia Beach, AK Sep 25, 1963.
36880 (MSN 3260) destroyed in crash Lovington, New Mexico Feb 20, 1945.
36881 (MSN 3261) to NC52790 in 1947, to N588K in 1963. Crashed during forced landing, Chicago, IL Dec 24, 1971.
36882 (MSN 3262) W/o 22�Aug 1943 at Fort Worth AAF�
36884 (MSN 3264) redesignated as T-11 on 11 Jun 1948; wfu Jan 1957; to N6951C Aug 29, 1960
36885 (MSN 3265) W/o 16�Aug 1944 at Dover, NH�
36886 (MSN 3266) WFU, to N75505, to N104PA in 1963
36887 (MSN 3267) WFU Mar 15, 1944. To NC61396 Aug 23, 1946, to HI-19 Sep 8 1949, N61396, to N3983C May 3, 1954.
WFU. Preserved at 8th AF Museum, Barksdale, Louisiana as 23267.
36888 (MSN 3268) Wfu; to LV-XHS on 3 Jun 1947; to Argentine AF as Ea-13 in 1947; w/o 19 Aug 1957
36889 (MSN 3269) to US Navy as SNB-2
36890 (MSN 3270) W/o 21�Oct 1942 at Carlsbad AAF, NM�
36891 (MSN 3271)
36892 (MSN 3272) W/o 19�Jul 1944 at Carlsbad AAF, NM�
36893 (MSN 3273) to Turkish AF as 6831 May 15, 1948
36894 (MSN 3274) redesignated as T-11 on 11 Jun 1948; w/o 18�Jul 1950 at Memphis, TN�
36895 (MSN 3275) W/o 7�Dec 1943 at Odessa, TX�
36896 (MSN 3276) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11789
36897 (MSN 3277) W/o 1�Sep 1944 at San Angelo AAF, TX�
36898 (MSN 3278) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10768 in 1954
36899 (MSN 3279) Wfu; to LV-XHS on 1 Jun 1947; to Argentine AF as Ea-11 in 1947
36901 (MSN 3281) Wfu; to N7362C. Wfu Jan 1971
36902 (MSN 3282) W/o 24�May 1943 at Kelly AAAF #3, TX; repaired (?); redesignated as T-11 on 11 Jun 1948;
remanufactured by Beech as TC-45G 51-11550 in 1952.
36903 (MSN 3283) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10559 in 1953.
36904 (MSN 3284) W/o 22�Mar 1943 at Midland, TX�
36905 (MSN 3285) Wfu; to LV-XGV on 11 Jul 1947; to Argentine AF as S-9 in 1947
36906 (MSN 3286) W/o 20�Jun 1944 at Kirtland Field, NM�
36907 (MSN 3287) to Turkish AF as 6832 May 15, 1948
36908 (MSN 3288) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11870 in 1953.
36909 (MSN 3289) to N7358C
36910 (MSN 3290) to N76779, N112PH, N122P, N107RS. Crashed when gear retracted prematurely on takeoff at
Chicago Midway Airport, Illinois May 19, 1965
36911 (MSN 3291) W/o 12�Mar 1944 at Midland AAF, TX; repaired (?); to NC75485 in 1946, N75485
36913 (MSN 3293) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11720.
36914 (MSN 3294) To US Navy as SNB-2 67273; conv to SNB-4
36915 (MSN 3295) to N801
36916 (MSN 3296) remauufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11829 in 1953
36917 (MSN 3297) to Turkish AF as 6833 May 15, 1948. On display as 6-833 at Bandirma AB, Balikesir, Turkey
Also listed as MSN 4420, to XB-YUX
36918 (MSN 3298, also listed as MSN 4421). To LV-XHX in 1947; to Argentine AF as Ea-18 in 1947, later E-111;
wfu 1 Feb 1966, to LV-ITC (also linked to c/n 4411 and 4421)
36919 (MSN 3299) Wfu; to LV-XHF in 1947; to Argentine AF as Ea-03 in 1947, later E-107 (also linked to c/n 4422)
36920 (MSN 3300, also listed as 4422) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10712 in 1954.
36921 (MSN 3301) redesignated as T-11 on 11 Jun 1948; wfu; to N75507 in 1964
36922 (MSN 3302) W/o 23�Feb 1944 at Big Spring AAF, TX�
36923 (MSN 3303) to N63008 in 1946
36924 (MSN 3304) to PP-CCG Jan 2, 1947, Cruzeiro do Sul, Brazil. Crashed Piloes, Bahia, Brazil Dec 25, 1955.
36925 (MSN 3305) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11709
36926 (MSN 3306) redesignated as T-11 on 11 Jun 1948; wfu; to N6960C on 14 Feb 1957; current 2011
36927 (MSN 3307) to Turkish AF as 6834 May 15, 1948.
36928 (MSN 3308) W/o 6�Mar 1943 at San Fernando, CA
36929 (MSN 3309) to NC95497 in 1947, N95497.
36930 (MSN 3310) Wfu; to LV-XGU on 11 Jul 1947; to Argentine Air Force as S4 in 1947
36931 (MSN 3311) to NC61102 in 1946, N61102. wfu 23 Feb 1972
36932 (MSN 3312) to N67997
36933 (MSN 3313) Wfu; to LV-XGZ on 11 Jul 1947; to Argentine AF as S-10 in 1947
36934 (MSN 3314) W/o 22�Aug 1944 at Malaga, NM�
36935 (MSN 3315) Wfu; to LV-XHG on 21 Apr 1947; to Argentine AF as Ea-04 in 1947; w/o 24 Oct 1957
36936 (MSN 3316) to Turkish AF as 6835 May 15, 1948
36938 (MSN 3318) to Turkish AF as 6836 May 15, 1948
36941 (MSN 3321) to NACA 1119 at Lewis Research Center in 1946. WFU Jul 1953. Remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10934
36942 (MSN 3322) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11667 in 1952.
36943 (MSN 3323) to Turkish AF as 6837 May 15, 1948
36944 (MSN 3324) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11872
36945 (MSN 3325) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10549 in 1953.
36946 (MSN 3326) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10677 in 1954.
36947 (MSN 3327) W/o 15�Mar 1944 at San Angelo AAF, TX�
36948 (MSN 3328) remanufactured by Beech as TC-45G 51-11576 in 1952.
36949 (MSN 3329) to N7326C, cancelled May 4, 2015
36950 (MSN 3330) redesignated T-11 Jun 11, 1948; wfu; to civil registry as N4830N Oct 12, 1953,
to Laos as XW-PAG. 1959-61 Bird Air to XW-TBF. To Bird and
Sons. In Sep 1965 to CASI. DBR by shellfire at Vientaine, Laos 1961.
36952 (MSN 3332) W/o 21�Jul 1943 at Roswell AAF, NM�
36953 (MSN 3333) Wfu 25 Oct 1945 at RFC Ponca City, OK; to N73533 Feb 1957, ET-ABM (Ethiopian Airlines)
Mar 31, 1965; w/o 1 Mar 1967 at Gondar, Ethiopia
36954 (MSN 3334) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10704 in 1954.
36957 (MSN 3337) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10727 in 1954.
36958 (MSN 3338) to N6249C
36959 (MSN 3339) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11877
36960 (MSN 3340) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10546 in 1953
36961 (MSN 3341) to N6651C
36963 (MSN 3343) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10595 in 1953
36964 (MSN 3344) to Turkish AF as 6889 May 15, 1948
36966 (MSN 3346) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10610 in 1953.
36967 (MSN 3347) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10753
36968 (MSN 3348) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10874 in 1954.
36969 (MSN 3349) to Mexican AF as BHB-1527 Aug 1951
36970 (MSN 3350) W/o 4�Sep 1943 at Victorville AAF, CA�
36971 (MSN 3351) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11828 in 1953.
36972 (MSN 3352) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11663 in 1952.
36973 (MSN 3353) to Turkish AF as 6890 May 15, 1948
36974 (MSN 3354) to Turkish AF as 6838 May 15, 1948. Remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10598 in 1953.
36975 (MSN 3355) to Turkish AF as 6839 May 15, 1948. Remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10744 in 1954.
36976 (MSN 3356) to Turkish AF as 6891 May 15, 1948
36977 (MSN 3357) Redes as T-11 on 11 Jun 1948; wfu Jan 1951; to N7669C; wfu Jan 8, 1971
36978 (MSN 3358) W/o 4�Dec 1942 at San Angelo AAF, TX; repaired (?); redesignated as T-11 on 11 Jun 1948; wfu;
to N7350C
36980 (MSN 3360) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10885 in 1954
36982 (MSN 3362) to TG-O-CIV
36983 (MSN 3363) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10871 in 1954.
36984 (MSN 3364) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10773 in 1954.
36985 (MSN 3365) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11792
36986 (MSN 3366) W/o 19�Mar 1944 at San Angelo AAF, TX; repaired (?); wfu; to N7052N
36987 (MSN 3367) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11671 in 1952.
36989 (MSN 3369) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10738
36990 (MSN 3370) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10718 in 1954.
36991 (MSN 3371) to N7352C; repaired (?); wfu; to N7352C; to LV-XGT on 11 Jun 1947; to Argentine AF as S-8 in 1947;
w/o 24 Jun 1954�
36992 (MSN 3372) W/o 23�Jan 1943 at Tahoka, TX�
36993 (MSN 3373) W/o 5�Mar 1943 at Mertzon, TX�
36994 (MSN 3374) Redes as T-11 on 11 Jun 1948; wfu; to N7342C in 1963
36995 (MSN 3375) remanufactured by Beech as TC-45G 51-11546 in 1952.
36996 (MSN 3376) Redes as T-11 on 11 Jun 1948; wfu Jan 1957; to N7339C
36997 (MSN 3377) to Turkish AF as 6840 May 15, 1948. On display as 4-840 at Akinci (Murted) AB, Ankara, Turkey
36998 (MSN 3378) W/o 7�Dec 1944 at College Park, GA�
37000 (MSN 3380) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10716 in 1954
37002 (MSN 3382) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10887 in 1954
37005 (MSN 3385) W/o 5�Dec 1942 at Mertzon, TX�
37006 (MSN 3386) W/o 26�Feb 1943 at San Angelo AAF, TX�
37007 (MSN 3387) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11786 in 1953.
37008 (MSN 3388) Redes as T-11 on 11 Jun 1948; wu; to N7360C; wfu Jan 8, 1971
37009 (MSN 3389) to Turkish AF as 6892 May 15, 1948
37010 (MSN 3390) W/o 25�Oct 1943 at Big Spring AAF, TX�
37011 (MSN 3391) W/o 31�Jul 1943 at Chicago, IL�
37014 (MSN 3394) W/o 9�Aug 1943 at San Angelo, TX�
37015 (MSN 3395) W/o 18�Aug 1943 at Orlando AB�
37016 (MSN 3396) W/o 2�Feb 1945 at Bryan AAF, TX�
37018 (MSN 3398) remanufactured by Beech as TC-45G 51-11553 in 1952.
37020 (MSN 3400) W/o 19�Aug 1943 at Big Spring, TX�
37023 (MSN 3403) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11672 in 1952.
37024 (MSN 3404) to N8069H. Seen derelict at Cahokia, Illinois in 1977.
37025 (MSN 3405) W/o 8 Feb 1946 in Indiana
37026 (MSN 3406) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10667 in 1953
37027 (MSN 3407) to N1267V
37028 (MSN 3408) to Turkish AF as 6894 May 15, 1948
37029 (MSN 3409) To Mexican AF
37030 (MSN 3410) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11785 in 1953.
37032 (MSN 3412) to Turkish AF as 6841 May 15, 1948
37033 (MSN 3413) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11873 in 1953.
37035 (MSN 3415) to Turkish AF as 6842 May 15, 1948
37036 (MSN 3416) Redes as T-11 on 11 Jun 1948; wfu Jan 1957; to N10008, D-ILIS
37037 (MSN 3417) to Turkish AF as 6895 May 15, 1948. Crashed May 14, 1957
near Bingol, Turkey. 3 crew killed.
37039 (MSN 3419) W/o 12�Dec 1942 at Love Field, TX; repaired (?); redes as T-11 on 11 Jun 1948;
remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11864 in 1953.
37040 (MSN 3420) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11707 in 1953.
37041 (MSN 3421) to Turkish AF as 6896 May 15, 1948
37042 (MSN 3422) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11670 in 1952.
37043 (MSN 3423) wfu; to N7180C; wfu 29 Nov 1957
37045 (MSN 3425) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10682
37046 (MSN 3426) W/o 29�Jan 1943 at Tracy, CA�
37047 (MSN 3427) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10737 in 1954
37049 (MSN 3429) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10650 in 1953.
37050 (MSN 3430) W/o 3�Nov 1944 at Carlsbad AAF, NM; repaired (?); wfu; to LV-XHD on 21 Apr 1947;
to Argentine AF as Ea-02 in 1947; w/o 24 Oct 1975
37051 (MSN 3431) W/o 31�Mar 1943 at Condron Field, NM�
37053 (MSN 3433) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10683
37054 (MSN 3434) to Mexican AF as BHB-1528 Aug 1951
37055 (MSN 3435) remanufactured by Beech as TC-45F 51-11586
37057 (MSN 3437) Wfu; to LV-XHW on 3 Jun 1947; to Argentine AF as Ea-20 in 1947; w/o 24 Sep 1959
37058 (MSN 3438) to N65630, YV-C-LBK. Crashed Jan 28, 1956
37059 (MSN 3439) to N19927
37060 (MSN 3440) to NC1600, NC1600F, N1600F
37061 (MSN 3441) to Japan Air Lines in 1952 as JA5101. In 1957 to Willis
H. Bird as N9886F. To Laos Air Transport as XW-TIS
37062 (MSN 3442) Wfu; to LV-XHN on 3 Jun 1947; to Argentine AF as Ea-19 in 1947; w/o 8 Aug 1956
37064 (MSN 3444) to Mexican AF as BHB-1529 Aug 1951
37065 (MSN 3445) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10758 in 1954.
37066 (MSN 3446) remanufactured by Beech as TC-45G 51-11589 in 1952.
37067 (MSN 3447) to Turkish AF as 6897 May 15, 1948
37069 (MSN 3449) wfu; to N7188C; wfu 29 Nov 1957
37071 (MSN 3451) remanufactured by Beech as TC-45G 51-11577.
37072 (MSN 3452) to Turkish AF as 6843 May 15, 1948
37073 (MSN 3453) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10736 in 1954.
37074 (MSN 3454) W/o 24�Dec 1944 at Alamo, GA�
37075 (MSN 3455) Wfu; to LV-XGY on 11 Jul 1947; to Argentine AF as S-6 in 1947
37076 (MSN 3456) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10602 in 1953
37077 (MSN 3457) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10858 in 1954.
37079 (MSN 3459) to N68100.
37080 (MSN 3460) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11658 in 1952.
37081 (MSN 3461) to Turkish AF as 6844 May 15, 1948
37082 (MSN 3462) W/o 8�Oct 1943 at Lake Helen, FL�
37083 (MSN 3463) Redesignated as T-11 on 18 Jun 1948; wfu; to N7370C; wfu 8 Jan 1971
37084 (MSN 3464) to N6949C
37085 (MSN 3465) W/o 14�Jun 1944 at Stewart Field, NY; repaired (?); redes as T-11 on 11 Jun 1948;
remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10685 in 1954.
37088 (MSN 3468) to N4655S, N4609V
37089 (MSN 3469) assigned to Bombardier School, Midland AAF, Texas Jan 11, 1943, code 233.
Assigned to Training Command at Craig Field, AL. Transferred to US Navy at Pasco, WA Feb 1946 as BuNo 67381
37091 (MSN 3471) to Mexican AF as BHB-1530 Aug 1951
37092 (MSN 3472) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10649 in 1953.
37093 (MSN 3473) To US Navy as SNB-2 67358; conv to JRB-6
37094 (MSN 3474) W/o 16�Dec 1943 at Bendix, NJ�
37097 (MSN 3477) Lend-Lease to Mexican AF Sep 1944
37098 (MSN 3478) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10850 in 1954
37099 (MSN 3479) WFU; To N4141A. to CF-KJI Nov 4, 1957. Was operating as CF-KJI with
Bradley Air Services at Carp, Ontario in 1973
37101 (MSN 3481) to Turkish AF as 6845 May 15, 1948
37102 (MSN 3482) to Turkish AF as 6898 May 15, 1948
37103 (MSN 3483) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10762 in 1954.
37104 (MSN 3484) wfu; to NC61991. Wfu 22 Jan 1957
37105 (MSN 3485) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11865 in 1953.
37106 (MSN 3846) remanufactured by Beech as TC-45G 51-11578
37107 (MSN 3487) To US Navy as SNB-2 67331
37108 (MSN 3488) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10671 in 1954
37109 (MSN 3489) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11660 in 1952.
37110 (MSN 3490) W/o 21�Feb 1944 at Merida, Mexico
37111 (MSN 3491) Wfu; to LV-XGQ on 11 Jul 1947; to Argentine AF as S-2 in 1947
37112 (MSN 3492) Wfu; to LV-XHT on 3 Jun 1947; to Argentine AF as Ea-14 in 1947
37113 (MSN 3493) remanufactured by Beech as TC-45G 51-11591 in 1952.
37114 (MSN 3494) transferred to US Navy as SNB-1 BuNo 67355.
37115 (MSN 3495) wfu; to LV-XHM in 1947. To Argentine AF as Ea-7 in 1947, lateras E-110. Wfu;
To Museo Nacional de Aeronautica, Buenos Aires-Aeroparque
in 1964. To Museo Nacional de Aeronautica, Moron AB 2003.
37116 (MSN 3496) W/o 27�Nov 1946 at Lowry Field�, CO�
37117 (MSN 3497) to N67266
37118 (MSN 3498) W/o 4�Nov 1943 at Deming AAF, NM�
37119 (MSN 3499) Wfu; to LV-XHL on 21 Apr 1947; to Argentine AF as Ea-07 in 1947
37121 (MSN 3501) W/o 12�Aug 1947 at Manchester, NH�in midair collision wit B-26 44-35447.
37122 (MSN 3502) to N12566
37123 (MSN 3503) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11823 in 1953.
37124 (MSN 3504) Wfu; to LV-XHR on 3 Jun 1947; to Argetine AF as Ea-12 in 1947
37125 (MSN 3505) W/o 4�Jul 1943 at Carlsbad AAF, NM; repaired (?); wfu; to NC62365 in 1947, N62365.
wfu 5 Jun 1965�
37126 (MSN 3506) Wfu; to NC65473 in 1947, XA-JIH, XB-LIW, XB-TOJ
37127 (MSN 3507) Wfu; to N57197; wfu 27 Aug 2012
37128 (MSN 3508) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10759 in 1954
37129 (MSN 3509) W/o 23�Apr 1943 at Lacoochee, FL�
37130 (MSN 3510) W/o 18�Jan 1944 at Deming AAF, NM�
37131 (MSN 3511) to Turkish AF as 6899 May 15, 1948
37132 (MSN 3512) W/o 1�Aug 1943 at Carlsbad AAF, NM; repaired (?); to N73407
37133 (MSN 3513) to US Navy as SNB-1 BuNo 67365
37134 (MSN 3514) to NC64611, N41D
37135 (MSN 3515) W/o 29�May 1945 at McMinville, TN�
37136 (MSN 3516) to NC65411, N65411. To Haitian Army as 3516
37137 (MSN 3517) to Turkish AF as 6900 May 15, 1948
37138 (MSN 3518) to Mexican AF as BHB-1531. Preserved at Museu Mineractivo de Ci Nia tecnologia, Aguascalienters,
Mexico.
37139 (MSN 3521) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10700 in 1954.
37141 (MSN 3521) W/o 18�Dec 1943 at Childress AAF, TX�
37142 (MSN 3522) to Turkish AF as 6846 May 15, 1948
37143 (MSN 3523) remanufactured by Beech as TC-45G 51-11584 in 1952.
37144 (MSN 3524) W/o 20�Sep 1943 at 46 miles from Chickasha, OK�
37145 (MSN 3525) to Turkish AF as 6901 May 15, 1948
37146 (MSN 3526) To Venezuela AF in 1945
37147 (MSN 3527) to US Navy as SNB-2 67299.
37148 (MSN 3528) to Turkish AF as 6902 May 15, 1948
37149 (MSN 3529) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11831
37151 (MSN 3531) to Turkish AF as 6903 May 15, 1948
37152 (MSN 3532) W/o 17�Jul 1944 at Childress AAF, TX; redes as T-11 on 11 Jun 1948;
remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10701 in 1954.
37153 (MSN 3533) W/o 2�Sep 1943 at Childress AAF�
37154 (MSN 3534) to Turkish AF as 6847 May 15, 1948
37155 (MSN 3535) W/o 8�Jul 1943 at Childress AAF, TX. Also listed as being remanufactured by Beech as TC-45G 51-11551
37156 (MSN 3536) W/o 25�Oct 1943 at Childress AAF, TX�
37157 (MSN 3537) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11722 in 1953.
37158 (MSN 3538) to Turkish AF as 6904 May 15, 1948. On display as 7-904 at Erhac AB, Malatya, Turkey.
37159 (MSN 3539) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11798 in 1953
37160 (MSN 3540) remanufactured by Beech as TC-45H 51-11592 in 1952.
37161 (MSN 3541)
37163 (MSN 3543) W/o 8�Nov 1943 at Matedor, TX�
37164 (MSN 3544) W/o 4�Mar 1943 at Childress AAF, TX�
37165 (MSN 3545) to Turkish AF as 6905 May 15, 1948
37166 (MSN 3546) to N1040M, PP-MFH, PP-CDE. Ditched Bay of Guanabara, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil May 15, 1971.
37167 (MSN 3547) to US Navy as SNB-2 67309
37169 (MSN 3598) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10761 in 1954.
37170 (MSN 3599) to Turkish AF as 6906 May 15, 1948
37171 (MSN 3600) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10707 in 1954
37172 (MSN 3601) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10747 in 1954.
37173 (MSN 3602) to N66878, XB-TOU
37174 (MSN 3603) rebuilt as C-45G 51-11795 May 1953.
37175 (MSN 3604) To Brazil AF as 1528
37176 (MSN 3605) to Turkish AF as 6907 May 15, 1948
37177 (MSN 3606) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10877
37178 (MSN 3607) W/o 30�Jul 1944 at Childress AAF, TX�
37179 (MSN 3608) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11692 in 1952.
37180 (MSN 3609) to Turkish AF as 6848 May 15, 1948
37181 (MSN 3610) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10688
37182 (MSN 3611) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10558 in 1953;
37183 (MSN 3612) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11880 in 1953
37184 (MSN 3613) W/o 23�Jan 1944 at Trumbull, CT�
37185 (MSN 3614) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10763 in 1954.
37186 (MSN 3615) W/o 10�Feb 1945 at Cambridge, NY�
37187 (MSN 3616) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10553 in 1953.
37188 (MSN 3617) W/o 11�Apr 1943 at Bolling Field AAB, DC�
37189 (MSN 3618) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10657 in 1953
37191 (MSN 3620) W/o 5�Oct 1943 at Camp Davis, NC; repaired (?); wfu; to N6672C May 12, 1957,
to Guatemala May 25, 1965.
37192 (MSN 3621) W/o 8�Mar 1944 at Biggs Field, TX�
37193 (MSN 3622) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10609
37194 (MSN 3623) To Chile AF in 1945
37195 (MSN 3624) W/o 23�Nov 1943 at Langley Field, VA; repaired (?); redesignated as T-11 on 11 Jun 1948;
remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11655 in 1952.
37196 (MSN 3625) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11723 in 1953.
37198 (MSN 3627) redesignated as T-11 on 11 Jun 1948; wfu Jan 1957; to N7178C Aug 13, 1957, cancelled Nov 29, 1957
37199 (MSN 3628) remanufactured by Beecn as C-45H 52-10894 in 1954.
37200 (MSN 3629) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10669 in 1954
37202 (MSN 3631) to Turkish AF as 6849 May 15, 1948
37203 (MSN 3632) to US Navy as SNB-2 67301
37204 (MSN 3633) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10694 in 1954.
37205 W/o 20�Jun 1943 at Childress, TX�
37207 W/o 24�Oct 1944 at Carpenter, OH�
37208 (MSN 3691) to ZK-AHO Feb 1944, operated by NZ Aerial Mapping Co as ZK-AHO. WFU Dec 31, 1980;
Now on display with Museum of Transport, Technology, and Social History, Auckland, New Zealand.
37209 (MSN 3692) to Turkish AF as 6850 May 15, 1948
37210 (MSN 3693) W/o 26�Apr 1943 at Roaring Springs, TX�
37211 (MSN 3694) To US Navy as SNB-2 67307
37212 (MSN 3695) to Turkish AF as 6851 May 15, 1948
37213 (MSN 3696, also listed as MSN 4400). TO NC52617, N52617, to TF-BVB Aug 1955, to LN-BWN Apr 27, 1961.
Derelict in 1971 at Oslo-Fornebu. WFU Jan 29, 1973.
37215 (MSN 3698) to Turkish AF as 6908 May 15, 1948. WFU. To PP-MFI in 1949, to PP-CDF Jun 5, 1950,
PT-CDY (ntu), to PP-VTE in 1968
37216 (MSN 3699) W/o 6�Dec 1945 at Pinal AAAF, AZ�
37217 (MSN 3700) in accident when struck by taxiing AT-11 41-9473 Jul 4, 1943.
Redesignated T-11 Jun 11, 1948. WFU Oct 1954. To N6956C Feb 14, 1957
37218 (MSN 3701) to Turkish AF as 6909 May 15, 1948
37219 (MSN 3702) to Chile AF in 1945.
37220 (MSN 3703) to Brazil AF as 1524, sold as PT-KUS in 1976
37222 (MSN 3705) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10721 in 1954.
37224 (MSN 3707) W/o 13�Apr 1945 at 1M W Cimmeron, KS�
37225 (MSN 3708) W/o 2�Jun 1943 at Childress, TX; repaired (?); redesignated as T-11 on 11 Jun 1948;
remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11796 in 1953.
37226 (MSN 3709) To Chile AF in 1945
37227 (MSN 3710) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10541 in 1953.
37228 (MSN 3711) to Uruguay AF as 102 in 1947, later 502
37229 (MSN 3712) W/o 14�Nov 1944 at between Dover-Olmstead PA MIA�
37230 (MSN 3713) W/o 10�Sep 1943 at La Jolla, CA�
37235 (MSN 3738) to Uruguay AF as 101 . Displayed as 101 at Museo Aeonautico, Montevideo
37236 (MSN 3739) W/o 3�Apr 1944 at Republic Field, NY; repaired (?); redes as T-11 on 11 Jun 1948;
remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10772 in 1954.
37237 (MSN 3740) remamufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10933 in 1954
37238 (MSN 3741) WFU, to Haiti AF as 3741 in Apr 1948
37239 (MSN 3742) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11724 in 1953
37240 (MSN 3743) redesignated as T-11 on 11 Jun 1948; wfu; to N7431C on 7 May 1957; to N81Y on 30 Mar 1960;
Reported Mar 2005 airworthy with Lone Star Flight Museum, Galveston, TX as N81Y.
To N218TX on 5 Mar 2015; current 2015. As N218TX registered on March 23,
2019 to Eagle's Strike Llc, Bellingham, Washington and on October 7, 2019 moved to the Heritage Flight
Museum, Burlington, Washington.
37241 (MSN 3744) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11832 in 1953.
37242 (MSN 3745) W/o 26�Jun 1945 at Sidney, IA�
37243 (MSN 3746) WFU, to N6657C Dec 2, 1957, to LV-GFU Sep 10, 1958, to LQ-FFU Sep 11, 1959.
W/o Nov 19, 1963.
37244 (MSN 3747) Wfu; to LV-XHJ on 21 Apr 1947; to Argentine AF as Ea-08 in 1947; wfu; to N5670N
37245 (MSN 3748) W/o 11�Dec 1946 at Rantoul, IL�
37246 (MSN 3749) to US Navy as SNB-1 67311.
37247 (MSN 3750) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10726 in 1954
37248 (MSN 3751) to Turkish AF as 6910 May 15, 1948
37249 (MSN 3752) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10861 in 1954.
37250 (MSN 3753) remanufactured as TC-45G 51-11594 in 1952.
37251 (MSN 3774) to N6954C
37252 (MSN 3775) to LV-RYO
37254 (MSN 3777) to Brazilian AF as 1529, to Uruguayan AF as 108 in 1947
37255 (MSN 3778) to US Navy as SNB-2 67320.
37256 (MSN 3779) to Brazilian AF
37257 (MSN 3780) W/o 22�May 1944 at Tahoka, TX�
37258 (MSN 3781) to Turkish AF as 6841 May 15, 1948
37260 (MSN 3783) to NC62499 in 1946, N62498, N319SC in 1963
37261 (MSN 3784) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10932 in 1954
37262 (MSN 3785) W/o 8�Jul 1944 at Kelly AAAF # 2, TX�
37263 (MSN 3786) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10719 in 1954.
37265 (MSN 3788) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10542 in 1953.
37266 (MSN 3789) to Turkish AF as 6852 May 15, 1948
37267 (MSN 3790) W/o 15�May 1944 at Fort Dix AAB, NJ�
37268 (MSN 3791) W/o 1�Feb 1944 at Mitchel Field, NY�
37269 (MSN 3792) Ntu by USAAF; to N21936 in Jun 1943; to N60V in 1957
37270 (MSN 3793) W/o 14�Mar 1945 at Williamstown, WV�
37271 (MSN 3794) to Turkish AF as 6913 May 15, 1948
37272 (MSN 3795) remanufactued by Beech as C-45H 52-10597 in 1953
37273 (MSN 3796) W/o 24�Apr 1945 at Big Springs AAF, TX �
37274 (MSN 3797) to N6694C
37275 (MSN 3798) to PP-CDB
37276 (MSN 3799) W/o 24�Aug 1943 at Commonwealth Airport, MA; repaired (?); wfu; to N8059H in 1965;
to N63802 on 14 May 1999
37277 (MSN 3800) to N6865C
37278 (MSN 3801) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10705 in 1954
37280 (MSN 3803) o US Navy as SNB-2 67287
37282 (MSN 3805) to Turkish AF as 6914 May 15, 1948. Collided in
midair Dec 12, 1950 with AT-11 44-72010 over Eskisehir AB,
Turkey. 2 crew died later in hospital.
37284 (MSN 3807) to Turkish AF as 6853 May 15, 1948
37287 (MSN 3810) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10675 in 1954.
37288 (MSN 3811) Wfu; to N7193C on 25 Sep 1957; wfu 29 Nov 1957
37289 (MSN 3812) Wfu, to N6942C in 1966
37290 (MSN 3813) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11693.
37291 (MSN 3814)
37292 (MSN 3857) Wfu; to N4656V, to XA-NUG in 1967 with Baja Airlines, Mexico. SOC in 1969.
37293 (MSN 3858) W/o 14�May 1946 at Spokane, WA�
37294 (MSN 3589) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11673.
37295 (MSN 3860) Wfu; to N7357C; wfu Jan 8, 1971
37296 (MSN 3861) Wfu; to N7367C; wfu Jan 8, 1971
37297 (MSN 3862) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11694.
37299 (MSN 3864) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10696 in 1954.
37300 (MSN 3865) to N8072H, N7742B. Crashed at Reynoldsburg, Ohio Aug 29, 1963.
37301 (MSN 3866) Wfu; to N4142A in 1963.
37302 (MSN 3867) W/o 4�Sep 1945 at Big Springs, TX�
37303 (MSN 3868) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10730 in 1954.
37304 (MSN 3869) Wfu; to N6948C on 12 Apr 1957; wfu 19 Feb 1958
37305 (MSN 3870) Wfu Jan 1957; to N7368C on 6 Mar 1958; to LV-GEV on 24 Apr 1958;
Retired, abandoned Dan Husto, Argentina in 1974.
37306 (MSN 3871) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11725 in 1953.
37308 (MSN 3873) W/o 1�Jul 1944 at Midland AAF, TX; repaired (?); redes as T-11 on 11 Jun 1948;
remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10890 in 1954
37309 (MSN 3874) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10851 in 1954.
37310 (MSN 3875) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10937
37311 (MSN 3876) W/o 26�Oct 1944 at Laughlin Field, TX�
37312 (MSN 3877) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 52-10723 in 1954
37313 (MSN 3878) W/o 1�Jul 1944 at Springfield, MO�
37315 (MSN 3880) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11680
37316 (MSN 3881) To US Navy as SNB-2 67283
37317 (MSN 3882) remanufactured by Beech as TC-45G 51-11585 in 1952.
37318 (MSN 3883) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11827 in 1953.
37319 (MSN 3884) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11681 in 1952.
37320 (MSN 3885) Lend Lease to Mexican AF as BHB-1519 Sep 1944. To XB-ALU in 1993
37321 (MSN 3886) to Turkish AF as 6854 May 15, 1948
37322 (MSN 3887) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11826 in 1953.
37323 (MSN 3888) Wfu; to N6656C Jan 20, 19671. WFU Jul 18, 1974
37324 (MSN 3889) Redesignated as T-11 on 11 Jun 1948; wfu; to N69727 in 1964.
37325 (MSN 3890) to US Navy as SNB-2 67316.
37326 (MSN 3891) Wfu; to Uruguayan AF as 104 in 1947, later 504.
37327 (MSN 3892) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10648 in 1953
37328 (MSN 3893) W/o 11�Dec 1945 at Grass Valley, OR�
37329 (MSN 3894) Lend-Lease to Mexican AF Sep 1944; w/o 23�Oct 1944 at Kirtland Field, NM�
37330 (MSN 3985) Wfu; to LV-XGR on 11 Jul 1947; to Argentine AF as S-7 in 1947
37331 (MSN 3896) to N4830N. To Laos Oct 1953 as XW-PAG. Feb 1963 to Air Laos
Commerciale as XW-TBF, Bird and Sons, Sep 1956 to CASI. DBR by
shellfire at Vientaine 1961.
37332 (MSN 3925) remanufactured by Beech as TC-45G 51-11593 in 1952
37333 (MSN 3926) remanufactured by Beech ad C-45G 51-11797.
37335 (MSN 3928) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11713 in 1953
37336 (MSN 3929) WFU; to N6969C in 1957, to N509MH Mar 1958. Crashed on aerial photographic flight Jul 23, 1962.
37337 (MSN 3930) Delivered to USAAF. 812th Bombardier Training Squadron, 78th Bombardier
Training Group, Big Spring Field, TX 18Sep43. 67th Two-Engine Flying Training Group, Ellington Field,
Houston, TX. Damaged by fire landing at Ellington Auxiliary Field, Damon, TX 13Mar44. 2517th Base
Unit (Navigation School & Instructor School), Ellington Field, Houston, TX. Accident caused
by mechanical failure taking off from Ellington Field 27May45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Aircraft Sales Co, Meecham Field, Fort Worth, TX 14Mar46.
Registered as NC62364; N62364. Civil conversion including rectangular cabin windows and metal
nose Jul46. Beech C18S nose installed May48. Reregistered 19Apr60 as N364R. Accident when the
pilot retracted the landing gear prematurely on takeoff from North Las Vegas Airport, NV 23Oct67.
Reregistered 28Jul78 as N15KK with incorrect MSN 4000. AT-11 nose, porthole cabin windows,
clear Plexiglas dome, & AT-11 door installed Apr90.
Registration current [Nov21]. Based in Germany..
37338 (MSN 3931) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10853 in 1954.
37339 (MSN 3932) W/o 4�Sep 1944 at Big Springs AAF, TX�
37340 (MSN 3933) to Turkish AF as 6915 May 15, 1948
37341 (MSN 3934) to Mexican AF Sep 1944, later as BHB-1520 . W/o Feb 16, 1967
37343 (MSN 3936) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10680 in 1954.
37344 (MSN 3937) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11682 in 1952.
37345 (MSN 3938) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10766 in 1954.
37347 (MSN 3940) Wfu; to El Salvador AF as 100 in Oct 1947; wfu Jun 1954; to YV-1933P in 1980
37348 (MSN 3941) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10658 in 1953
37350 (MSN 3943) Wfu; to NC16583 in 1946
37353 (MSN 3946) To US Navy as SNB-2 67361
37354 (MSN 3947) to N95496
37355 (MSN 3948) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10770 in 1954.
37356 (MSN 3949) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11695
37357 (MSN 3950) to Turkish AF as 6855 May 15, 1948
37358 (MSN 3951) to Mexican AF
37359 (MSN 3952) to Mexican AF Jul 1943, later as BHB-1501
37360 (MSN 3953) to Mexican AF Jul 1943, later as BHB-1502. W/o Dec 4, 1964
37361 (MSN 3954) to Mexican AF Aug 1943, later as BHB-1503.
37362 (MSN 3955) to Mexican AF Jul 1943, later as BHB-1504. W/o Aug 29, 1949
37363 (MSN 3956) Lend Lease to Bolivia as FAB 61
37364 (MSN 3957) Lend-Lease to Bolivia as FAB 62
37365 (MSN 3958) to Mexican AF Jul 1943, later as BHB-1505
37366 (MSN 3959) to Mexican AF Jul 1943, later as BHB-1506
37367 (MSN 3960) to Mexican AF Jul 1943, later as BHB-1507
37368 (MSN 3961) to Mexican AF Jul 1943, later as BHB-1508. W/o Nov 1, 1961
37369 (MSN 3962) to Mexican AF Jul 1943, later as BHB-1509.
37370 (MSN 3963) to Mexican AF Jul 1943, later as BHB-1510.
37371 (MSN 3964) to Mexican AF Jul 1943, later as BHB-1511 .
37372 (MSN 3965) to Mexican AF Jul 1943, later as BHB-1512. W/o Oct 16, 1960
37373 (MSN 3966) to Mexican AF Jul 1943, later as BHB-1513.
37374 (MSN 3967) to Mexican AF Jul 1943, later as BHB-1514
37375 (MSN 3968) to Mexican AF Jul 1943, later as BHB-1515
37376 (MSN 3969) to Mexican AF Jul 1943, later as BHB-1516
37377 (MSN 3970) to Mexican AF Jul 1943, later as BHB-1517.
37378 (MSN 3971) to US Navy as SNB-2 67371
37381 (MSN 3974) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10651 in 1953.
37382 (MSN 3975) to US Navy as SNB-2 67374
37383 (MSN 3976) remanufactured by Beecn as C-45H 52-10706 in 1954.
37384 (MSN 3977) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10593 in 1953
37385 (MSN 3978) to Turkish AF as 6916 May 15, 1948
37387 (MSN 3980) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10686
37388 (MSN 3981) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10864 in 1954.
37389 (MSN 3982) To Venezuelan AF in 1945
37390 (MSN 3983) to Turkish AF as 6917 May 15, 1948
37391 (MSN 3984) to US Navy as SNB-2 67116
37393 (MSN 3986) remanufactured by Beech as C-45 G 51-11784 in 1953.
37394 (MSN 3987) to Turkish AF as 6918 May 15, 1948
37396 (MSN 3989) to US Navy as SNB-2 67324
37397 (MSN 3990) to US Navy as SNB-2 67317;
37398 (MSN 3991) Wfu, to N59001 Feb 4, 1946, N701BA Oct 1987. To California Antique Aircraft
Museum, San Martin, California 2010.
37399 (MSN 3992) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10681 in 1954.
37400 (MSN 3993) Wfu, to NC90643 in 1947, to N23L in 1958
37401 (MSN 3994) to Turkish AF as 6856 May 15, 1948. Crashed Jul 23, 1949
near Eskisehir, Turkey. 4 crew killed
37403 (MSN 3996) Redes as T-11 on 11 Jun 1948; wfu Jan 1957; to N7351C May 10, 1957
Registration cancelled Oct 21, 2004.
37404 (MSN 3997) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11714 in 1953.
37405 (MSN 3998) to Guatemalan AF
37406 (MSN 3999) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11666 in 1952.
37407 (MSN 4000) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 51-11879 in 1953.
37408 (MSN 4001) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10889 in 1954
37409 (MSN 4002) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11656 in 1952.
37410 (MSN 4003) W/o 19�Jun 1944 at Childress AAF, TX�
37411 (MSN 4004) to Turkish AF as 6919 May 15, 1948
37412 (MSN 4005) W/o 10�May 1944 at Childress AAF, TX�
37413 (MSN 4006) To US Navy as SNB-2 67339;
37414 (MSN 4007) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10663 in 1953
37415 (MSN 4008) To US Navy as SNB-2 67312;
37416 (MSN 4009) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11866 in 1953.
37418 (MSN 4011) Ca.1943: TOS USAAF.
By 12/44: 34th Flying Training Wing, Childress Army Air Field, TX. 9/18/47: TOS USAF.
1948: Redesignated T-11. Remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10866 in 1954.
37419 (MSN 4012) To US Navy as SNB-2 67278;
37420 (MSN 4013) to Turkish AF as 6920 May 15, 1948
37421 (MSN 4014) to Turkish AF as 6921 May 15, 1948
37422 (MSN 4015) to Turkish AF as 6922 May 15, 1948
37423 (MSN 4016) to Uruguayan AF as FAU-100 in 1947
37424 (MSN 4017) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11683 in 1952.
37425 (MSN 4018) W/o 15�Sep 1944 at San Angelo AAF, TX. Remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11715
37426 (MSN 4019) to Turkish AF as 6857 May 15, 1948
37427 (MSN 4020) remanufactured by Beech as TC-45G 51-11580
37428 (MSN 4021) To US Navy as SNB-2 67321;
37430 (MSN 4023) to N62363. Crashed Surinam May 3, 1960.
37431 (MSN 4024) WFU, to N7181C sEP 25, 1957; WFU Nov 29, 1957
37432 (MSN 4025) Redes as T-11 on 11 Jun 1948; wfu; to civil registry as N6652C Dec 12, 1956,
then N311Y Feb 27, 1958, wfu 8 Jul 2013
37433 (MSN 4026) to Turkish AF as 6923 May 15, 1948. On display as
8-923 at Diyarbakir AB, Turkey
37434 (MSN 4027) to US Navy as SNB-2 67329
37435 (MSN 4028) to US Navy as SNB-2 67327
37437 (MSN 4030) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10881
37438 (MSN 4031) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10560 in 1953
37439 (MSN 4032) to US Navy as SNB-2 67325
37440 (MSN 4033) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11822
37441 (MSN 4034) to US Navy as SNB-2 67276
37443 (MSN 4036) to US Navy as SNB-2 67323
37444 (MSN 4037) Wfu; to civil registry as N63158 in 1960. Fitted with a D-18 nose and
ended up in Tallmantz Aviation. Registered as N63158, it can
be seen in the movie "It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World". WFU Sep 10, 1974
37445 (MSN 4038) to Turkish AF as 6924 May 15, 1948
37446 (MSN 4039) to US Navy as SNB-2 67310
37447 (MSN 4040) Wfu; to N7173C Aug 9, 1957; wfu Nov 29, 1957
37448 (MSN 4041) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10717
37449 (MSN 4042) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10554
37450 (MSN 4043) wfu; to N7346C May 20, 1957; wfu Jun 6, 1957
37451 (MSN 4044) remanufactured as C-45G 51-11871 in 1953.
37452 (MSN 4045) W/o 8�Oct 1945 at Brownsville, TX�
37453 (MSN 4046) wfu; to Uruguyan AF as 103 in 1947, later 503
37454 (MSN 4047) wfu; to N1099M in 1963
37455 (MSN 4048) to Turkish AF as 6925 May 15, 1948
37456 (MSN 4049) wfu; to N7327C in 1963
37457 (MSN 4050) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11805 in 1953.
37458 (MSN 4051) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10888
37459 (MSN 4052) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11878 in 1953.
37460 (MSN 4053) wfu; to N6955C in 1963
37461 (MSN 4054) to US Navy as SNB-2 67302.
37462 (MSN 4055) Wfu; to N6665C in 1961; wfu May 26, 1976
37464 (MSN 4057) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10900 in 1954.
37465 (MSN 4058) to US Navy as SNB-2 67346
37467 (MSN 4060) Wfu; to civil registry as N87VA in 1961
37468 (MSN 4061) to Brazilian AF
37469 (MSN 4062) wfu; to N7184C Sep 25, 1957; wfu Nov 29, 1957
37471 (MSN 4064) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10664 in 1953.
37472 (MSN 4065) W/o 14�Jun 1944 at Childress AAF, TX; repaired (?); w/o 10 Aug 1946 at Waynoka, OK�
37473 (MSN 4066) to Brazilian AF
37474 (MSN 4067) to N7334C
37475 (MSN 4068) 50th Air Intelligence Squadron, 50th Air Base Group; stalled on take-off and crash-landed at
Shaw AFB, SC on 07JAN53; repaired. WFU; to N7365C in 1964. WFU Oct 10, 1964
37476 (MSN 4069) to Turkish AF as 6926 May 15, 1948
37478 (MSN 4071) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10856 in 1954. To N67857
37479 (MSN 4072) to Portuguese Navy as BC-7 then to Portuguese AF as 2506
37480 (MSN 4073) to Turkish AF as 6927 May 15, 1948
37481 (MSN 4074) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 51-11875 in 1953
37482 (MSN 4075) Wfu; to N6654C in 1961
37484 (MSN 4077) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10767 in 1954.
37485 (MSN 4481) to Peru
37486 (MSN 4079) Redesignated as T-11 on 11 Jun 1948; wfu Jan 1957; to N7366C; wfu 8 Jan 1971
37487 (MSN 4080) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11882 in 1953.
37488 (MSN 4081) W/o 19�Sep 1943 at Victorville AAF, CA�
37489 (MSN 4082) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10740 in 1954
37490 (MSN 4083) Wfu; to Argentine Army as 0265 on 21 Apr 1947; to Argentine Navy as 1-E-243,
later 1-E-242, 1-E-252, 2-B-6, 3-B-8, 3-G-3; wfu 22 Dec 1967
37491 (MSN 4084) Wfu; to N65458 in 1960. Crashed and destroyed during landing Barter Island,
DEW Line, Alaska Jan 14, 1963. 5 killed, 1 survived.
37492 (MSN 4085) to US Navy as SNB-2 67326
37493 (MSN 4086) 9/20/43: Bombardier Training School, Roswell Army Air Field, NM
To RFC Ponca City, OK Oct 2, 1946. To Abrams Aerial
Survey Corp, Lansing, MI by 1946 as NC64044 with incorrect
MSN of 1046. Damaged in storm Apr 29, 1955 at Broward IAP, Ft
Lauderdale, FL. Reregistered by same company as N341X
in 1967. Donated in 1969 to USAF Museum and put on display
in 1976 marked as 237493. There was a mixup when the FAA assigned incorrect Beech MSNs
to AT-11s that were registered in the late 1950s. The plane at the Air Force Museum was recorded as
MSN 1406, which was 41-27561. The FAA registration card had the USAF serial as 42-37493 but with the
MSN 1406 for N64044 later N341X. The USAF serial was correct, but not the MSN.
37494 (MSN 4087) Redesignated as T-11 on 11 Jun 1948; wfu Jan 1957; to N6958C; to N501 in 1963
Gear collapsed on landing at Athol, Idaho Aug 7, 1977
37495 (MSN 4088) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11867 in 1953.
37496 (MSN 4089) 98th Bombardier Training Squadron, Carlsbad Field, NM. Substantially damaged
when crashed into terrain at Carlsbad Field 3Feb44. Registered as NC16443;N16443;
cancelled 25May51 on export to Mexico. Registered as XB-RAT; cancelled 25Dec54.
Registered 13Jan55 as N201. FAA, Oklahoma City, OK 16Apr59/65. Damaged landing at
Colorado Springs, CO 18Dec60. Registration cancelled 30Aug67. Noted dismantled at
Opa Locka, FL marked as Generic Air, N86-1D. Later noted at an aeronautical school adjacent
to Denver Stapleton Airport, Colorado [Oct91. USAF Museum Loan Program; on loan to
Lowry AFB, Denver, CO. Renamed: Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum
37497 (MSN 4090) Wfu; to NC16439, N16439 May 28, 1946
37500 (MSN 4093) Wfu; to NC65456, N65456 in 1947
37501 (MSN 4497 to Chilean AF in 1945
37502 (MSN 4498) WFU, to N57634, to N59M in 1963
37503 (MSN 4499) Wfu, to NC16220 in 1946.
37504 (MSN 4500) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10660
37505 (MSN 4501) wfu; to N6648C, to N211Y Mar 21, 1958. WFU May 18, 1965
37506 (MSN 4502) redesignated as T-11 on 11 Jun 1948; w/o 18�Feb 1950 at Dobbins AFB, GA�
37509 (MSN 4505) Wfu; to Uruguyan AF as 105 in 1947, later 505.
37510 (MSN 4506) to Venezuealan AF. Noted at Maracay AB in museum.
37511 (MSN 4507) Wfu; became NC53209 Feb 11, 1946, then N33E Aug 22, 1952. WFu Nov 6, 2012.
Noted autumn 2003 in Selfridge Military Air Museum, Michigan.
37512 (MSN 4508) to US Navy as SNB-2 67295.
37513 (MSN 4509) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10600 in 1953
37514 (MSN 4510) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10594 in 1953.
37516 (MSN 4512) W/o 16�Apr 1945 at Andrews Field, MD�
37517 (MSN 4513) to Turkish AF as 6928 May 15, 1948
37518 (MSN 4514) to N6968C
37519 (MSN 4515) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10751 in 1954.
37520 (MSN 4516) W/o 18�Jan 1944 at Deming AAF, NM�
37521 (MSN 4517) remanufactured by Beech as TC-45G 51-11554 in 1953.
37522 (MSN 4518) to Turkish AF as 6858 May 15, 1948
37523 (MSN 4519) To US Navy as SNB-2 67372
37525 (MSN 4521) To US Navy as SNB-2 67328
37526 (MSN 4522) Wfu; to N6659C in 1961
37527 (MSN 4523) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11783 in 1953.
37528 (MSN 4524) to N69135
37529 (MSN 4525) to US Navy as SNB-2 67364
37531 (MSN 4527) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 51-10883 in 1954.
37532 (MSN 4528) to Turkish AF as 6929 May 15, 1948
37533 (MSN 4529) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10543 in 1953.
37534 (MSN 4530) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10862 in 1954.
37535 (MSN 4531) 9/30/43: TOS USAAF By 11/46: War Assets Administration.
11/19/46: Tennessee Valley Authority, Wilson Dam, AL with c/r NC65860. Purchased for $7500.
5/47: Civil conversion completed: turret (and) bombardier seat removed, new cabin windows, C-45 cabin door, five�
C-45 seats. 1953: Reregistered as N65860. 9/53: D18 windows installed.
1/73: Centre spar reinforcement modification kit and outer wing reinforcement modifications completed.
11/14/77: John P. Silberman, Key West, FL (later Tampa, FL). Crashed and destroyed after takeoff from Peter O'Knight Airport
Tampa, Florida Feb 27, 1999. 2 killed.
37536 (MSN 4532) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10552 in 1953
37537 (MSN 4533) W/o 17�Sep 1945 at Carlsbad AAF, NM�
37538 (MSN 4534) Wfu; to N64463 May 22, 1946, to XH-317 Aug 21957, back to N64463 in 1963. Current 2011.
37539 (MSN 4535) to N66065
37540 (MSN 4536) Wfu; to LV-XGX on 11 Jul 1947; to Argentine AF as S-1 in 1947
37542 (MSN 4538) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10896 in 1954.
37544 (MSN 4540) Wfu; to LV-XGW on 11 Jul 1947; to Argentine AF as S-5 in 1947
37545 (MSN 4541) Wfu; to NC65432 May 29, 1946, to N65432. Damaged when ground-looped on landing,
Mayaguez, Puerto Rico Jan 18, 1965.
37546 (MSN 4542) Wfu, to NC57842 in 1946, to LV-ABD Aug 19, 1946
37547 (MSN 4543) Wfu; to NC65451 in 1947, N65451.
37548 (MSN 4544) W/o 31�Jan 1944 at Fort Worth AAF, TX�
37549 (MSN 4545) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11804 in 1953.
37550 (MSN 4546) Wfu; to N6650C in 1966
37551 (MSN 4547) WFU; to NC58724, N58724 in 1947,
37552 (MSN 4548) W/o 14�Jun 1944 at Carlsbad AAF, NM�
37553 (MSN 4549) W/o 24�May 1944 at Deming AAF, NM�
37554 (MSN 4550) to N75575, N3471V, N68T, N68Y. Crashed and burned on takeoff at Naples, FL Apr 3, 1960.
37555 (MSN 4551) to US Navy as SNB-2 67318
37556 (MSN 4552) W/o 2�Oct 1944 at Midland AAF, TX�
37557 (MSN 4553) became NC17082, then N393M, then PT-ANT, then PP-APE, then PT-BTZ, then PT-ECY
37559 (MSN 4555) Wfu to N75168 in 1963.
37560 (MSN 4556) to US Navy as SNB-2 67340
37562 (MSN 4558) to US Navy as SNB-2 67337
37563 (MSN 4559) to US Navy as SNB-2 67319
37564 (MSN 4560) W/o 1�Jun 1944 at Kirtland Field, NM�
37565 (MSN 4561) to Turkish AF as 6930. Noted 1987 in Turkish Aviation Museum, Ataturk AP, Istanbul.
Reported 2007 at Havacilik Muzeki, Yesilkoy, Turkey.
37566 (MSN 4562) to US Navy as SNB-2 67336
37567 (MSN 4563) W/o 23�Sep 1944 at Santa Fe, NM�
37568 (MSN 4564) to Turkish AF as 6931 May 15, 1948
37569 (MSN 4565) to LV-PGQ, N6962C. Crashed and burned after takeoff on fire bombing mission Dec 1, 1959.
37570 (MSN 4566) remanufactured by Beech as TC-45G 51-11547
37571 (MSN 4567) Redesignated as T-11 on 11 Jun 1948; w/o 15�May 1951 at Norton AFB, CA�
37573 (MSN 4569) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10713.
37574 (MSN 4570) to US Navy as SNB-2 67341
37575 (MSN 4571) to Turkish AF as 6932 May 15, 1948
37576 (MSN 4572) To Chile AF in 1945
37577 (MSN 4573) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10865 in 1954.
37578 (MSN 4574) wfu; to N7183C Aug 14, 1957; wfu Nov 29, 1957
37580 (MSN 4576) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10936 in 1954.
37581 (MSN 4577) to Venezuelan AF
37582 (MSN 4578) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10652 in 1953
37583 (MSN 4579) Wfu; to N8066H Jun 14, 1962. Crashed while crop spraying Sep 28, 1962.
37585 (MSN 4581) to Turkish AF with serial 6933. Noted 1996 on display as 1-933 at
Aviation Park and Plane Museum, Eskisehar AB, Turkey
37586 (MSN 4582) to Chile AF in 1945; wfu; to N5072N in 1963. WFU Jun 2, 1976
37587 (MSN 4583) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11869 in 1953
37588 (MSN 4584) transferred to US Navy as SNB-1 BuNo 67300
37590 (MSN 4586) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11684 in 1952.
37591 (MSN 4587) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10693 in 1954.
37592 (MSN 4588) to Brazilian AF as FAB 1363, wfu, sold as PT-KUT Nov 1976
37593 (MSN 4589) to Brazilian AF as FAB 1364.
37594 (MSN 4590) to Brazilian AF as FAB 1365
37595 (MSN 4591) to Brazilian AF as FAB 1366
37596 (MSN 4592) to Brazilian AF as FAB 1367
37597 (MSN 4593) to Brazilian AF as FAB 1368
37598 (MSN 4594) to Brazilian AF as FAB 1369
37600 (MSN 4597) W/o 10�Sep 1944 at Ukiah, CA�
37601 (MSN 4597) Redesignated as T-11 on 18 Jun 1948; wfu; to N7337C May 7, 1957, N508MH Mar 1958,
N11TA (ntu), to N508MH again; registration N7337C reserved February 2003 and
taken up Dec 18, 2003. Current 2011.
37603 (MSN 4599) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10703 in 1954.
37604 (MSN 4600) To US Navy as SNB-2 67366
37605 (MSN 4601) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10872
37606 (MSN 4602) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10674 in 1954.
37607 (MSN 4603) to Turkish AF as 6934 May 15, 1948
37610 (MSN 4606) to US Navy as SNB-1 BuNo 67359.
37611 (MSN 4607) Redes as T-11 on 11 Jun 1948; wfu; to N7336C
37612 (MSN 4608) to Turkish AF as 6859 May 15, 1948
37614 (MSN 4610) to Turkish AF as 6935 May 15, 1948
37615 (MSN 4611) remanufactured by Beech as TC-45G 51-11582.
37616 (MSN 4612) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10647 in 1953
37617 (MSN 4613) to Brazilian AF as FAB 1370
37618 (MSN 4614) W/o 23�Apr 1944 at Childress AAF, TX; repaired (?); wfu; to N6943C in 1964
37619 (MSN 4615) to Brazilian AF as 1371. At Museu Aeroespacial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
37620 (MSN 4616) Redes as T-11 on 11 Jun 1948; wfu Oct 1954. To N6870H in 1957, to CF-JNW in Jul 1957.
WFU. Preserved at Camp Meade Motel and Museum, Middlesex, VT
37621 (MSN 4617) to Brazilian AF
37622 (MSN 4618) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10665 in 1953
37623 (MSN 4619) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10590 in 1953
37624 (MSN 4620) WFU; to Uruguyan AF as 107 in 1947.
37625 (MSN 4621) Wfu; to N7169C in 1963; wfu 18 Nov 1970
37626 (MSN 4622) W/o 6�May 1944 at Childress AAF, TX; repaired (?); redesignated as T-11 on 11 Jun 1948;
remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10739 in 1954
37627 (MSN 4623) To Cuban AF as 160 in Jul 1947; returned to USAAF (?); redesignated as T-11 on 11 Jun 1948;
wfu; to N7859B on 3 Jul 1957; to CF-LFW on 16 Feb 1959; wfu 25 Jan 1973
37628 (MSN 4624) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11657 in 1952.
37629 (MSN 4625) W/o 9�Jan 1945 at Eutopia, FL�
37630 (MSN 4626) to US Navy as SNB-2 67363
37631 (MSN 4627) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10873 in 1954.
37632 (MSN 4628) to Turkish AF as 6860 May 15, 1948
37633 (MSN 4629) wfu; to N6653C Jan 8, 1959. WFU Feb 24, 1971.
37634 (MSN 4630) Redesignated as T-11 on 11 Jun 1948; wfu; to N7355C on 7 May 1957; current 2015
37635 (MSN 4631) W/o 16�Apr 1945 at Big Springs, TX �
37636 (MSN 4632) W/o 4�Jul 1944 at Lake Lancaster, FL�
37638 (MSN 4634) (902nd AAFBU) crashed and burned during attempted forced landing near Lake George, FL
Jun 30, 1944. 3 injured.
37639 (MSN 4635) to US Navy as SNB-2 67303
37640 (MSN 4636) to Turkish AF as 6861 May 15, 1948
37641 (MSN 4637) WFU; to N6655C in 1964
37642 (MSN 4638) to US Navy as SNB-2 67303.
37643 (MSN 4639) Wfu; to N63344 in 1963
37644 to US Navy as SNB-2 67284
37645 to US Navy as SNB-2 67297.
37646 (MSN 4943) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11708
37647 to Mexican AF
37649 to US Navy as SNB-2 67298
37650 (MSN 4947) remanufactured by Beech as TC-45G 51-11588
37651 (MSN 4948) to Turkish AF as 6862 May 15, 1948. Crashed Aug 25, 1948
near Eskisehir, Turkey. Two crew killed.
37652 (MSN 4949) Redesignated as T-11 on 11 Jun 1948; to N7329C Feb 14, 1957
37653 (MSN 4950) to US Navy as SNB-2 67322
37654 (MSN 4951) assigned to Bombardier School, Midland AAF, Texas Dec 22, 1943. Transferred to US Navy at
Pasco, WA as BuNo 67338
37655 (MSN 4952) to US Navy as SNB-2 67370
37656 (MSN 4953) to Peru.
37657 (MSN 4954) to US Navy as SNB-2 67362
37658 (MSN 4955) to US Navy as SNB-2 67315
37659 (MSN 4956) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10746 in 1954
37660 (MSN 4957) to US Navy as SNB-2 67275.
37661 (MSN 4958) modified for cold-weather operations Jan 1944 and redesignated AT-11B. WFU.
To civil registry as NC45377 Nov 1945. Became N45377 with South American Trading Corp November 1945,
later LV-AAZ Aug 19, 1946 with Compania Argentina de Aeronavegacion Dodero SA Aug 19, 1946.
To Aviacion del Litoral Flwvial Argentino Jan 22, 1947.
Destroyed in hangar fire at Buenos Aires, Argentina Dec 24, 1948
37662 (MSN 4959) Wfu; to N7174C on 8 Aug 1957; wfu 29 Nov 1957
37663 (MSN 4960) modified for cold-weather operations Jan 1944 and redesignated AT-11B. Wfu. To NC45359
in 1946, to N41E in 1957. Crashed and destroyed at Moses Point, Alaska Mar 5, 1962. Two injured.
37664 (MSN 4961) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10769 in 1954.
37665 (MSN 4962) W/o 1�Feb 1945 at Galena, AK�
37666 (MSN 4963) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10715 in 1954
37667 (MSN 4964) To US Navy as SNB-2 67352;
37668 (MSN 4965) to US Navy as SNB-2 67342;
37669 (MSN 4966) Redesignated as T-11 on 11 Jun 1948; wfu Jan 1957 to TG-TAG-64 Aug 1957, to TG-CUS Jun 1958,
to TG-DIK Jul 1958
37670 (MSN 4967) to Turkish AF as 6863 May 15, 1948
37671 (MSN 4968) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10709
37672 (MSN 4969) to Turkish AF as 6864 May 15, 1948
37673 (MSN 4970) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10697
37674 (MSN 4971) Wfu; to N6278C in 1964
37675 (MSN 4972) to US Navy as SNB-2 67343.
37676 (MSN 4973) Redes as T-11 on 11 Jun 1948; wfu; to N6946C on 10 May 1957; wfu 20 May 1965.
To Hamilton Aircraft Co, Tucson, AZ for parts. Noted derelict in Hamilton
compound in 1972.
37677 (MSN 4974) wfu; to N6964C in 1964
37678 (MSN 4975) to Turkish AF as 6865 May 15, 1948. On display as 9-865 at Balikesir AB, Turkey
37679 (MSN 4976) wfu; to N4146A in 1957, to CF-KJH Apr 15, 1958. WFU Jun 8, 1965
37681 (MSN 4978) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11710 in 1953
37682 (MSN 4979) to Turkish AF as 6866 May 15, 1948
37683 (MSN 4980) to Venezuelan AF in 1945.
37684 (MSN 4981) redesignated as T-11 on 11 Jun 1948; w/o 14�Aug 1951 at Langley AFB, VA�
37685 (MSN 4982) W/o 26�Mar 1944 at Deming AAF, NM; repaired (?); redes as T-11 on 11 Jun 1948;
remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10863 in 1954.
37686 (MSN 4983) W/o 21�Feb 1944 at Deming AAF, NM�
37687 (MSN 4984) to Turkish AF as 6867 May 15, 1948; wfu
37689 (MSN 4986) to Turkish AF as 6868 May 15, 1948
37690 (MSN 4987) remaufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10655
37691 (MSN 4988) W/o 28�Dec 1945 at Ortiz, TX�
37692 (MSN 4989) remanufactured by Beech as TC-45G 51-11558.
37693 (MSN 4990) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10548 in 1953
37694 (MSN 4991) to US Navy as SNB-2 67117
37695 (MSN 4992) redesignated as T-11 on 11 Jun 1948; wfu; to N6664C in 1961 as agricultural sprayer.
WFU May 8, 1971.
37697 (MSN 4994) redesignated as T-11 on 11 Jun 1948; wfu Jan 1957; to N7347C on 20 May 1957; wfu 6 Jun 1957
37698 (MSN 4995) W/o 6 Feb 1946 at Selman Field, LA�
37699 (MSN 4996) to Uruguayan AF as 109 in 1947
37700 (MSN 4997) to Brazilian AF
37701 (MSN 4998) W/o 2�Feb 1944 at Roswell AAF, NM�
37702 (MSN 4999) to US Navy as SNB-2 67304
37703 (MSN 5000) redesignated as T-11 on 11 Jun 1948; w/o 16�Mar 1951 at Houghton, MI�
37704 (MSN 5001) to Brazilian AF
37705 (MSN 5002) to US Navy as SNB-2 67308
37706 (MSN 5003) Wfu; to N6959C, to N53L in 1963
37707 (MSN 5004) Wfu; to Uruguayan AF as 106 in 1947
37708 (MSN 5005) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10731 in 1954.
37709 (MSN 5006) W/o 26�Jan 1946 at Snowflake, AZ�
37710 (MSN 5007) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10644 in 1953.
37711 (MSN 5008) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10743 in 1954.
37712 (MSN 5009) to Brazilian AF
37713 (MSN 5010) W/o 29�May 1945 at San Jose, CA�
42-37714/37715 Douglas-Long Beach B-17G-80-DL Fortress
MSN 8500/8501. Dispositions from B-17 Fortress Master Log, Dave Osborne (FORTLOG)
37714 (MSN 8500) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 6Aug43. Scott Field,
Belleville, IL 20Oct43. Assigned 401st Bomb Group. 510th Bomb Squadron [TU*T],
351st Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 11Nov43. Named "Ronchi".
Failed to return from a mission to railway installations around Berlin, Germany 7May44 (10POW).
Struck by Flak near the target, ditched in the North Sea, 15km from Noordwijk aan Zee,
Netherlands. {17 missions}. MACR 4953.
37715 (MSN 8501) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 5Aug43. Operational
Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 20Sep43.
351st Bomb Squadron [EP*G], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 25Sep43,
Named "Sugar Foot". . Failed to return from a mission to the industrial areas of Emden,
Germany 11Dec43 (9KIA:1POW). The Luftwaffe was waiting for the bombers; the moment the
bombers crossed over into mainland Europe, six twin-engine fighter dived out of the sun
upon the formation, concentrating all their fire on the lead plane. Once the leader had been
downed, the fighters swept through the lead Squadron. Before the deputy lead had a chance
to reassemble the formation, a large force of single-engine fighters joined the fray,
attacking the other bomber, Shot down by Oblt Herbert Christmass
in Bf 109G-5 of JG 11/Stat and crashed inot North Sea between Nordeney and Baltrum,
Germany. MACR 1570.
42-37716 Douglas-Long Beach B-17G-10-DL Fortress
Disposition from B-17 Fortress Master Log, Dave Osborne (FORTLOG)
Production changes: Fuselage reinforcement aft of radio room against damage
from gun discharge. Oli cooler drain cock and AN hose fittings
MSN 8502. Douglas Aircraft Company, Modification Center, Air Force Plant #3,
Tulsa Municipal Airport, OK 10Aug43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 9Oct43. 338th Bomb Squadron [BX*P],
96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 14Oct43. 95th Bomb Group,
Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 15Oct43. 1st Strategic Air Depot, Troston (Station 595), Suffolk.
Damaged at Honington (Station 375), Suffolk 7Jun44. 1st Strategic Air Depot, Troston
(Station 595), Suffolk. Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field,
Windsor Locks, CT 12Jul45. 4185th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command),
Independence Field, KS 10Oct45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41,
Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 20Dec45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
42-37717/37720 Douglas-Long Beach B-17G-85-DL Fortress
MSN 8503/8506. Dispositions from B-17 Fortress Master Log, Dave Osborne (FORTLOG)
Production changes: Fuselage reinforcement aft of radio room against damage
from gun discharge. Oli cooler drain cock and AN hose fittings
37717 (MSN 8503) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 6Aug43. 2nd Heavy Bomb
Processing Group, Scott Field, Belleville, IL 8Oct43. Damaged while parked in
collision by B-17G 42-39759 taxying at Scott Field 29Sep43. 422nd Bomb Squadron [JJ*B],
305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 20Dec43.
Experimented in night bombing alongside the RAF and operated night leaflet and
propaganda missions. 858th Bomb Squadron, 492nd Bomb Group, North Pickenham 20Jun44.
Special operations and electronic countermeasure (ECM) missions. Harrington (Station 179),
Northamptonshire Aug44. Declared 'war weary'. 1st Strategic Air Depot, Troston (Station 595),
Suffolk. Modified as lifeboat carrier for Air-Sea Rescue. Redesignated B-17H. 5th Emergency
Rescue Squadron, 65th Fighter Wing, Halesworth (Station 365), Suffolk 1945. Returned to US.
121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 29Jun45.
4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), South Plains Field,
Lubbock, TX 21Oct45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman
Field, AZ for storage and disposal 18Nov45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped.
Named "Channel Fever Baby"
37718 ((MSN 8504) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 7Aug43. Redmond Field, OR 15Aug43.
92nd Bomb Group 10Sep43. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 17Sep43. 368th Bomb Squadron [BO*H], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111),
Bedfordshire 19Sep43. Failed to return from a mission to the Arado Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory,
Anklam, Prussia 9Oct43 (1KIA:9POW). The formation was attacked by a large force of
Luftwaffe fighters soon after it crossed the coast. They followed all the way in, attacking
on the bomb run and over the target. On the return flight the bomber was attacked by German
Bf 110G-4 night fighters of I./NJG 2 lead by Geschwader-Kdre. Karl H�lsdorf. Major Rolf Jung flying
Bf 110G-4 Werk nummer 5677 hit the B-17G in the left hand engines which started smoking. The B-17
left the group formation and headed north. Again the bomber was attacked and this time the right
waist gunner was hit in the chest and died instantly. Once again Jung with his crew prepared to attack
but refrained from doing so due to the landing gear of the B-17 coming down. When the B-17G was over
the island of Sams� the crew left it by parachute and the aircraft crashed at the edge of Alstrup village,
Sams� Island, Denmark. When the B-17 hit the ground, fuel from the aircraft set a house on fire; a
nearby farm 'Alstrupgaard' was set on fire and also burned down. MACR 870.
[Jung's Bf 110G-4 had been hit by return fire from the bomber which had rendered most of the
instruments unserviceable. Jung chose to land at Kiel-Holtenau air base, but had to crash land
the Bf 110G-4 due to the landing gear not operating. After the landing he counted more that 50
bullet holes in the aircraft
37719 (MSN 8505) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 6Aug43. Walla Walla
Field, WA 15Aug43. 533rd Bomb Squadron [VP*X], 381st Bomb Group,
Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 8Oct43. Named "Dinah Mite/Hellcat"
Damaged on a mission to the synthetic oil refinery at Gelsenkirchen, Germany 5Nov43 (1WIA).
Before the target, flak damaged No.4 engine and holed the wing either side. More flak struck
the fuselage, damaging the hydraulic system and a burst hit the ball turret. Without brakes,
the pilot made a slow approach to land back at Ridgewell with the intention of ground looping
off the runway to stop in a muddy patch of the infield. With people lining both sides of the
runway to watch the group arrive back, the pilot had to remain on the runway and, at an excessive
speed, ran over rough ground, a road and ditches. Heading towards a country lane, an English
soldier was cycling along, unaware of what was about to happen. He missed the propellers as the
plane rode over his bicycle. The plane headed for a ditch near where two elderly women were
sitting on a fence. The wheels dropped into the ditch throwing one wing into the ditch and the
other up at an angle. The women and soldier escaped injury. Failed to return from a mission
to the AGO-Flugzeugwerke Fw 190 manufacturing factory at Oschersleben, Germany 11Jan44
(5KIA:4MIA:1POW). While the aircraft were airborne, the weather closed in over English bases
and a recall signal was issued. B/Gen. Robert F. Travis, Air Commander of the 1st Bomb Division,
continued on to the target. This left the 1st Bomb Division with greater exposure to enemy
fighter attacks. Good fighter support was provided by P-47 Thunderbolts on the penetration
and by P-51 Mustangs over the target. P-47s were airborne to provide withdrawal support but
they obeyed the recall order to return to England and left the bombers to fend for themselves
on the return trip. Luftwaffe attacks started over the IJsselmeer and intensified when the
American fighters returned home. Meagre and fairly accurate flak was experienced on the bomb run,
with intermittent inaccurate flak on the return trip. Flak damaged three engines and attacked by
enemy fighters, claimed by Feldwebel Gerd Wiegand flying a Fw 190 of 4./JG 26. Ditched in the
IJsselmeer at Enkhuizerzand, Netherlands. (12 missions}. . MACR 1881
Aircraft found in June 1966. Recovered from IJsselmeer in Feb 1975
37720 (MSN 8506) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 6Aug43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 14Aug43. 367th Bomb Squadron [GY*N],
306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 18Sep43. Named "Jackie Ellen"
Named by the bombardier whose wife was expecting a baby; a boy would be named Jackie,
a girl would be named Ellen. Failed to return from a mission to the ball bearing factories
at Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43 (9KIA:1POW). En route to the target area, the bomber formation
was repeatedly attacked by a large number of Luftwaffe fighters. After the target, the Group
turned and headed westward for England. German fighters, having landed and refueled,
attacked again, damaging the horizontal stabiliser. The plane exploded and broke in half
at the radio room. Crashed Belgium
Shot down by fighter over Schweinfurt, Germany Oct 14, 1943.
9 KIA, 1 POW. MACR 823.
42-37721/37803 Douglas-Long Beach B-17G-10-DL Fortress
MSN 8507/8589. Dispositions from B-17 Fortress Master Log, Dave Osborne (FORTLOG)
Production changes: Fuselage reinforcement aft of radio room against damage from gun discharge. Oli cooler drain cock and AN hose fittings
37721 (MSN 8507) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Aug43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 10Aug43. Redmond Field, OR 15Aug43.
534th Bomb Squadron [GD*L], 381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 1Oct43.
Named "Sugar". Crash landed Ridgewell 18Nov43. 448th Sub-Depot, Air Service Command,
Ridgewell Hangar No.1 for repairs. This aircraft had previously been in twice for major
battle damage repair. Battle damaged on a mission to industrial areas of Berlin,
Germany 19May44. Salvaged 2Jun45.
37722 (MSN 8508) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Aug43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 8Oct43. Walla Walla Field, WA 21Oct43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 15Nov43.
612th Bomb Squadron, 401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 21Jan44.
On a post maintenance test flight 28Jan44, at 20,000ft the crew noticed aviation fuel fumes.
The bomber landed safely at Deenethorpe but a fire was noticed in the bomb bay, the fire burned
through the aircraft exploding the fuel tanks and ammunition, destroying the aircraft;
37723 (MSN 8509) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 10Aug43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 10Aug43. Redmond Field, OR 15Aug43.
569th Bomb Squadron [CC*D:CC*U], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 9Sep43.
Named "Paydola". {first combat mission 20Oct43}. Battle damaged on a mission to the
C.A.M. ball bearing works in Paris, France 31Dec43. On return, force landed at
RAF Woodbridge emergency landing ground, Suffolk. Battle damaged on a mission
to the Heinkel Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory at Oranienburg, Germany 22Mar44 (1WIA).
The weather confounded efforts to attack the Heinkel Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory,
the bombers diverted to Berlin to destroy the Friedrichstra�e railway station.
Flak over Berlin was more intense than previous missions. {final combat mission 24Dec44}.
{86 missions}. Declared 'war weary'. 836th Bomb Squadron, 487th Bomb Group, Lavenham
(Station 137), Suffolk 29Jan45. Mamed "Johnny Walker". Returned to US. 121st Base Unit
(Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 16Jul45. 4168th Base Unit
(Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 12Sep45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage
and disposal 14Nov45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped.
37724 (MSN 8510) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 10Aug43. Walla Walla Field, WA 15Aug43.
368th Bomb Squadron [BO*Z], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 20Sep43.
2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little Staughton (Station 127), Bedfordshire 26Sep43. Regained by Group 27Sep43.
Battle damaged by flak on a mission to industrial areas at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 4Oct43.
Flak over the target was moderate and accurate. A large force of enemy fighters were encountered,
some using rockets which were fired from a distance beyond the range of the bombers' guns.
Serious damage to No.1 engine nacelle, left outer wing, rudder, left elevator and right landing gear.
Base Air Depot No.2, Warton (Station 582), Lancashire; repair by Mobile Repair Unit 4Oct43.
Damaged landing at Thurleigh 27Dec43. Eighth Air Force Service Command (AFSC) 2May44; not
equipped with 'Tokyo' long range fuel tanks. Returned to US. 4136th Base Unit (Oklahoma City
Air Technical Service Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 14Aug44. 3022nd Base Unit
(Flexible Gunnery School), Indian Springs Auxiliary Field, NV 2Sep44. Force landed with engine
failure fifteen miles west of Indian Springs 5Jan45. Damaged by mechanical failure forty-five miles
west of Las Vegas Field 22Feb45. 3021st Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Las Vegas Field, NV 23Mar45.
Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment;
designated TB-17G. 2126th Base Unit (Central School for Flexible Gunnery), Laredo Field, TX 10Apr45.
Damaged while parked by B-17G 44-6047 taxying at Laredo Field 9Jul45. Damaged taxying at
Laredo Field 4Aug45. 233rd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Davis-Monthan Field,
Tucson, AZ 14Aug45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage
and disposal 5Jan46. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company,
Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
37725 (MSN 8511) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Aug43. 28th Ferrying Squadron,
6th Ferrying Group, Long Beach Field, CA. Damaged taxying at Las Vegas Field, NV 8Aug43.
Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 10Aug43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 20Aug43.
546th Bomb Squadron [BK*G], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106),
Northamptonshire 19Dec43. {first combat mission 30Dec43}. Crashed returning from an
aborted mission to bomb a blockade runner ship 'Orsone' at the mouth of River Garonne,
Gironde, France 31Dec43 (1INJ:9RTD). The crew found bad weather on return to base.
Unable to find an airfield and running out of fuel, the crew bailed out safely over Chailey, East Sussex.
The pilot ditched the aircraft in the English Channel about seventeen miles off Eastbourne, East Sussex.
{2 missions}. No MACR.
37726 (MSN 8512) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Aug43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 10Aug43. Redmond Field, OR 15Aug43.
366th Bomb Squadron [KY*N], 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 1Oct43.
422nd Bomb Squadron [JJ*L]. Experimented in night bombing alongside the RAF and operated night
leaflet and propaganda missions. 856th Bomb Squadron, 492nd Bomb Group, Cheddington (Station 113),
Buckinghamshire 26Jun44. Special operations and electronic countermeasure (ECM) missions.
Harrington (Station 179), Northamptonshire Aug44. Salvaged 18Jul45. Named "SHADY LADY"
37727 (MSN 8513) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 11Aug43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 11Aug43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 16Sep43.
303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 10Oct43. Base Air Depot No.1,
Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire 23Oct43. 545th Bomb Squadron [JD*Z], 384th Bomb Group,
Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 2Nov43.
Named ELISE. Named for the wife of the 384th Bomb Group commander
(first combat mission 26Nov43}. Failed to return from a mission to an aircraft assembly plant
at Brunswick, Germany 30Jan44 (7POW:3KIA). Damaged by enemy fighters before reaching
the target, the aircraft exploded and crashed at Rohrsen, near Eimbeckhausen,
sixteen miles southwest of Hanover, Germany. {8 missions) MACR 2265
37728 (MSN 8514) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 10Aug43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 10Aug43. Redmond Field, OR 15Aug43.
525th Bomb Squadron [FR*G], 379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 3Oct43.
Failed to return from a mission to the Arado Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory, Anklam,
Prussia 9Oct43 (10POW). The formation was attacked by a large force of Luftwaffe fighters
soon after it crossed the coast. They followed all the way in, attacking on the bomb run
and over the target. Damaged by flak, crashed Odense, Denmark.
37729 (MSN 8515) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Aug43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 10Aug43. 468th Bomb Squadron,
333rd Bomb Group, Dalhart Field, TX. En route to Dalhart Field, accident landing at Keesler
Field, Biloxi, MS 26Aug43. 3701st Base Unit, Love Field, Dallas, TX. SOC 15Dec43.
37730 (MSN 8516) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Aug43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 10Aug43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 3Sep43. Ferried RCAF Gander,
Newfoundland to Aldergrove, Belfast, Northern Ireland 12/13Sep43. 533rd Bomb Squadron [VP*U],
381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 20Sep43. Failed to return from a mission
to the AGO-Flugzeugwerke Fw 190 manufacturing factory at Oschersleben, Germany 11Jan44 (9POW:1KIA).
While the aircraft were airborne, the weather closed in over English bases and a recall signal was
issued. B/Gen. Robert F. Travis, Air Commander of the 1st Bomb Division, continued on to the target.
This left the 1st Bomb Division with greater exposure to enemy fighter attacks. Good fighter support
was provided by P-47 Thunderbolts on the penetration and by P-51 Mustangs over the target. P-47s
were airborne to provide withdrawal support but they obeyed the recall order to return to England
and left the bombers to fend for themselves on the return trip. Luftwaffe attacks started over the
IJsselmeer and intensified when the American fighters returned home. Meagre and fairly accurate flak
was experienced on the bomb run, with intermittent inaccurate flak on the return trip. Damaged by
enemy fighters, aircraft exploded and crashed near Schlagen, eight miles north of Paderborn,
Germany. {15+ missions}.. MACR 1887
37731 (MSN 8517) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Aug43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 10Aug43. Dalhart Field, TX 17Aug43.
510th Bomb Squadron [TU*A], 351st Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 22Sep43.
Failed to return from a mission to the Luftwaffe air depot at M�rignac, Bordeaux, France 31Dec43
(3KIA:8POW including the 510th Bomb Squadron and 351st Bomb Group commanding officers).
The target was covered by smoke and cloud so the group diverted to the secondary target, a Luftwaffe
airfield at Ch�teaubernard, Cognac, France. Intelligence reports indicated that very little opposition
could be expected from this target, but unknown to the Americans, a Luftwaffe Flak unit had just
completed their training at a gunnery school at St. Nazaire and were being transported to their
new assignments. They, along with their guns, were on railway trucks close to the airfield, the gunners
watching in amazement as the bombers headed towards them following the railway lines! Added to
this was the fact that because of the supposed weak opposition expected, the bomber force had
descended to a lower altitude to ensure pin-point accuracy with their bombing, thus presenting the
Germans with a target they just could not fail to miss. The bomber was heavily damaged,
having two engines knocked out, but continued to hold its course, releasing its bomb load
and then fell out of formation. The crew bailed out before the plane crashed on Medis airfield,
northwest of Royan, France. {12 missions}.. MACR 1984.
37732 (MSN 8518) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 10Aug43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 10Aug43. Dalhart Field, TX 17Aug43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island
Field, NB 5Sep43. 526th Bomb Squadron [LF*R], 379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117),
Huntingdonshire 19Oct43. Named "The Celestial Siren". Failed to return from a mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft
factory at Augsburg, Germany 25Feb44 (10POW). Damaged by flak, crashed near Saarbr�cken,
Germany. MACR 2879
37733 (MSN 8519) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Aug43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 10Aug43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 3Sep43. Topeka Field, KS. Navigator
was killed when stepping from aircraft into still spinning propeller at Buffalo Municipal
Airport, NY 4Sep43 (1KIS). 813th Bomb Squadron [PC*W], 482nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102),
Huntingdonshire 12Sep43. Equipped with Oboe Mk I radar. 535th Bomb Squadron [MS*M],
381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 22Feb44, Named "Patches n' Prayers"
Damaged taxying at Ridgewell 16Mar44. Failed to return from a mission to the Heinkel Flugzeugwerke
aircraft factory at Oranienburg, Germany 18Apr44 (9POW). The bombers arrived over Oranienburg
to find the town covered by a thick undercast. Forced to decide between abandoning the mission or
bringing the formation down under the clouds, the air leader had the planes drop down to 17,000ft
in order to make their attack run. The bomber encountered intense flak over Oranienburg. Flak
damaged No.4, then No.2 caught fire, crew bailed out, aircraft crashed Eldena, six miles southwest
of Ludwigslust, Germany.. MACR 4051
37734 (MSN 8520) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Aug43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 10Aug43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training
Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 3Sep43. 336th Bomb Squadron [ET*G], 95th Bomb Group, Horham
(Station 119), Suffolk 8Sep43. Named "Cuddle Cat". Damaged on a mission to the port
area at Bremen, Germany 13Nov43. On return, force landed at RAF Lissett, Bridlington, Yorkshire.
Damaged on a mission to the submarine construction yard at Vegesack, Bremen, Germany 16Dec43.
On return, force landed at Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk. Failed to return from a mission
to the Jaeger ball bearing factory at Elberfeld, Wuppertal, Germany 5Jan44 (1KIA:7POW:2EVD).
Poor weather conditions and malfunctioning pathfinder equipment forced the bombers to instead
attack a small town near Elberfeld as a target of opportunity. After the target, flak disabled an
engine and the plane dropped out of the formation. Losing altitude, it was attacked by enemy fighters,
fatally wounding a waist gunner. Shot down by Oblt. Hans Ehlers in FW-190A-6 of JG 1/3.
and crashed at Ermeton-sur-Biert, four miles northeast of Florennes, Belgium. (19 missions)
1 KIA, 7 POW, 2 evaded.�MACR 1686.
37735 (MSN 8521) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Aug43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 10Aug43. Long Beach Field, CA 13Aug43. 813th Bomb Squadron [PC*X],
482nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire 8Sep43. Equipped with Oboe Mk I radar.
326th Bomb Squadron [JW*X], 92nd Bomb Group, Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 20Feb44.
Returned to US. 121 Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT Field 13Jul45. 4185th Base Unit (Oklahoma City
Air Technical Service Command), Independence Field, KS 27Jul45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 18Dec45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
37736 (MSN 8522) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Aug43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 11Aug43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 5Sep43.
324th Bomb Squadron [DF*G], 91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121),
Cambridgeshire 24Sep43. Named "Duke of Paducah". Named after an American country
comedian, radio host and banjo player.. Nose damaged while parked by B-17F 42-29895 taxying
at Bassingbourn 30Dec43. {29 missions}. Declared 'war weary'. Eighth Air Force Fighter Command.
Radio relay aircraft. 82nd Fighter Squadron, 78th Fighter Group, Duxford (Station 357), Cambridgeshire.
Damaged landing in collision with B-17G 43-37979 taking off at Lavenham (Station 137), Suffolk 20Oct44.
Salvaged 6Nov45.
37737 (MSN 8523) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Aug43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 10Aug43. Long Beach Field, CA 13Aug43. Ferried to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland Sep43. Damaged while parked in ground accident when
B-17F 42-3411 ground looped at Prestwick 16Sep43. 401st Bomb Squadron [LL*K], 91st Bomb Group,
Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 26Sep43. Named "Tennessee Toddy/Hell's Belle".
Failed to return from a mission to railway installations at M�nster, Germany 10Oct43 (8POW:1EVD:1KIA).
As they approached the city, the formation was swarmed by a large force of enemy aircraft for an
estimated forty-five minutes of vicious fighting. By the time their friendly fighter escorts arrived to
drive off the Luftwaffe, the damage had already been done. Shot down by Uffz
Josef Hulzmann in Bf 110G-2 of ZG 1/1 , lost No.2 and No.4 engines, crash landed
Brocklanderweg, near Apeldoorn, Netherlands. MACR 941. Salvaged by the Germans.
37738 (MSN 8524) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Aug43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 11Aug43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 3Sep43. 322nd Bomb Squadron [LG*T],
91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 24Sep43. Named ."Miss America II".
{first combat mission 8Oct43}. Battle damaged on a mission to the Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau
Aktiengesellschaft (Deschimag) shipyard at Bremen, Germany 8Oct43. The formation was met with stiff
resistance by German fighters and flak crews on the ground the entire way, from the Dutch coast all
the way into the German heartland. In addition, a large force of German fighters launched vicious
attacks against the planes. Over the target, the formation encountered intense flak. The plane was
full of holes from flak and bullets. Battle damaged on a mission to the port area at Wilhelmshaven,
Germany 3Nov43. Moderate inaccurate flak was encountered over the target. Escort fighters were
scheduled to cover the whole route over enemy territory but were not on hand for approximately
ten minutes between the I.P. and the target, during which time the group was attacked by enemy fighters.
Battle damaged on a mission to the port at Bremen, Germany 26Nov43. Damaged by flak, the plane
collided with B-17G 42-31079 just after leaving the target. With No.4 engine damaged, it returned
safely to Bassingbourn. Accident during a mission to the Deschimag shipyards at Bremen, Germany
20Dec43 (1KIA:9RTD); the tail gunner froze to death. Failed to return from a mission to the
railway marshalling yards at Osnabr�ck, Germany 22Dec43 (1M�IA:9POW). Subjected to intense
flak and attacked by enemy fighters over the Netherlands east of Staphorst returning from the target.
Damaged and unable to cross the North Sea back to England, near Texel Island it left formation
and turned south, following the Dutch coast line. The crew bailed out but the ball turret gunner, the
first to bail out just over the sea, drowned and is missing. The others landed on the premises of the
Koninklijke Nederlandse Hoogovens en Staalfabrieken foundry at Vesel-Noord, near IJmuiden,
Netherlands. The bomber exploded and also crashed on the foundry.
MACR 1715.
37739 (MSN 8525) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Aug43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 10Aug43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 3Sep43. 337th Bomb Squadron [AW*N],
96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 8Sep43. Failed to return from a
mission to the submarine construction yard at Vegesack, Bremen, Germany 16Dec43 (10KIA).
On return from mission enemy aircraft attacked over Frisian Islands. Collided with
B-17G 42-31086 and crashed between Poppenwier and Raerd, nine miles south of Leeuwarden,
Netherlands. MACR 1566.
37740 (MSN 8526) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Aug43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 12Aug43. 365th Bomb Squadron [XK*E],
305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 15Sep43. Named "Sundown Sal"
Failed to return from a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 14Oct43 (10POW).
En route to the target area, the bomber formation was repeatedly attacked by a large number of
Luftwaffe fighters, setting the left wing on fire. The pilot continued and the bomb load was released
over the target before the crew bailed out. The plane crashed at Schweinfurt, Germany. MACR 920
37741 (MSN 8527) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Aug43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 14Aug43. 366th Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston
(Station 105), Northamptonshire 18Sep43. Failed to return from a mission to industrial areas at
Frankfurt am Main, Germany 4Oct43 (7POW:3KIA). Flak over the target was moderate and accurate.
A large force of enemy fighters were encountered, some using rockets which were fired from a distance
beyond the range of the bombers' guns. Damaged by flak, crashed Troisdforf, near Winterscheid,
southeast of Cologne, Germany. MACR 779.
37742 (MSN 8528) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 13Aug43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 3Sep43. 401st Bomb Squadron [LL*J],
91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 22Sep43.
Named "Vagabond Lady". Failed to return from a mission to the port area at Wilhelmshaven,
Germany 3Nov43 (10KIA). Moderate inaccurate flak was encountered over the target. Escort fighters
were scheduled to cover the whole route over enemy territory but were not on hand for approximately
ten minutes between the I.P. and the target, during which time the group was attacked by enemy fighters.
Shot down by a Fw 190 fighter and crashed in North Sea. {5 missions}. . MACR 1154.
37743 (MSN 8529) Accepted by USAAF 12Aug43. Douglas Aircraft Company, Modification Center, Air Force Plant #3,
Tulsa Municipal Airport, OK 16Aug43. Long Beach Field, CA 17Aug43. 333rd Bomb Squadron [TS*M],
94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 11Sep43. Named "Yankee Doodle Dandy".
Modified for radio counter measures. 803rd Bomb Squadron (Heavy) Provisional, RAF Sculthorpe,
Fakenham, Norfolk Jan44. Base Air Depot No.1, Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire. Modified as a
drone for Operation Aphrodite and Castor missions. Designated BQ-7. 562nd Bomb Squadron,
388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk, later at Fersfield (Station 554), Norfolk.
Expended on Aphrodite mission to the "Nordsee III" submarine bunker at Heligoland, Germany 15Oct44,
missed target due to poor weather conditions.
37744 (MSN 8530) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Aug43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 13Aug43. Tulsa Municipal Airport, OK 17Aug43. Scott Field,
Belleville, IL 1Oct43. 11th Combat Crew Replacement Unit, 1st Combat Crew Replacement Group,
Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire. Eighth Air Force Weather Flight, Bovingdon (Station 112),
Hertfordshire 6Oct43. Crashed on takeoff from Bovingdon 9Dec43 (10KIS:USAAF crew with two RAF
Met Observers from 517Sq). Took off using all of runway and crashed down a slope through the trees
in Bourne Wood, burning as it hit the ground. During the summer of 1943 at RAF St Eval, Padstow,
Cornwall, No.1404 Meteorological Flight became No.517 Squadron and began re-equipping with the
Handley-Page Halifax. Because of this No.517 was unable to maintain its operational committment
of twice-daily meteorological reconnaissance sorties to the southwest over Biscay (code-named EPICURE).
Such was the importance of these flights that the USAAF offered four B-17s of the 379th Bomb Group to
make up the shortfall - adding another four aircraft later. Initially these were detached to RAF St Eval
and operated to the west of the UK (code-named ALLAH), but during the autumn it was decided the
USAAF aircraft should operate from an American base - Bovingdon. As the USAAF didn't have aircrew
trained in meteorological observing, the crews always flew with an RAF Meteorological Air Observer (MAO).
The crash was witnessed by a ten year old boy, Roy Payne, and over the years he kept returning to the
crash site, collecting small pieces of debris. Forty-three years after the accident (1976) he found two
gold rings. One was a pilot's ring inscribed with the name William Holcom, the other was a Bombadier's
ring inscribed with the intials HJ. 2nd Lt Holcomb was the co-pilot of 42-37744, and in 2003 Roy
eventually traced the American's family and returned the ring to them. For the second ring, the initials
did not match those any of the American crew-members nor, as far as could be determined, any of those
who dealt with the aftermath of the crash. It was thought possible it might have been given to the RAF
met observer as a mark of respect..
37745 (MSN 8531) Douglas Aircraft Company, Modification Center, Air Force Plant #3, Tulsa Municipal
Airport, OK 16Aug43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand
Island Field, NB 25Sep43. Rome Air Depot, NY. Pathfinder Force [PFF] aircraft. 812th Bomb Squadron [MI*M],
482nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire 28Sep43. 563rd Bomb Squadron [U],
388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk Apr44. {first combat mission 12May44}.
Battle damaged on a mission to the L�tzkendorf oil facilities at M�cheln, west of Merseburg,
Germany 20Jul44 (1WIA:9RTD). Because of haze and an effective smoke screen, the target was not
bombed. On the return course home the secondary target of the Leica factory at Wetzlar, Germany,
was attacked. Meagre flak was encountered at Koblenz and moderate, accurate flak over the
primary target area. On the way out, flak from heavy guns was experienced at Eisenach. The
navigator was wounded by flak. Battle damaged on a mission to the Daimler-Benz tank assembly
works at Marienfelde, Berlin, Germany 6Aug44. Moderate to intense barrage and tracking flak was
encountered over the target. Battle damaged on a mission to the Braunkohlen Benzin AG synthetic
oil refinery northeast of Zeitz, Germany 16Aug44. Intense accurate flak was encountered at the target.
Battle damaged on a mission to the I.G. Farben synthetic fuel works at P�litz, Prussia 25Aug44.
Intense and accurate flak was encountered at the target. {26 missions}. Salvaged 22Jun45
37746 MSN 8532) Douglas Aircraft Company, Modification Center, Air Force Plant #3,
Tulsa Municipal Airport, OK 14Aug43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 15Aug43. 401st Bomb Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT Sep43.
Scott Field, Belleville, IL 25Oct43. 401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 1Nov43.
323rd Bomb Squadron [OR*T], 91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 20Nov43.
Named "Paper Dolly" --artwork of a Betty Boop cartoon character astride a giant bomb.
The popular song 'Paper Doll' performed by the British singer Vera Lynn, known as the forces 'Sweetheart',
spawned the aircraft title and several cut-out paper dolls were incorporated into the design.
Painted by Tony Starcer. Failed to return from a mission to the Junkers Flugzeugwerke aircraft
factory at Aschersleben, Germany 22Feb44 (3KIA:7POW). On the way to the target, the formation
met with the 381st Bomb Group. Since these planes were late following the main formation, no escort
was available. Heavy cloud cover over the target forced the formation to divert to the industrial area
of B�nde, Germany. The bomber formation was exposed to the attack of German fighters for over
forty minutes without interruption, most of which were Fw 190s. When the fighter attacks started,
the bomber took several hits head on, ripping open the nose and destroying two engines. Then the
cables to the rudder and elevators were servered. A roaring oxygen fire started in the radio room.
Machine gun ammunition was popping in the radio room and waist gunner area. Seven of the crew
bailed out over B�singfeld before bomber broke in two at the radio room. Crashed on a frozen field
at Gut Rohbraken, 1km east of K�kenbruch, south of Rinteln, Germany. {18 missions}. MACR 2643
37747 (MSN 8533) Douglas Aircraft Company, Modification Center, Air Force Plant #3, Tulsa Municipal
Airport, OK 14Aug43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 15Aug43.
Scott Field, Belleville, IL 26Sep43. 332nd Bomb Squadron [XM*A], 94th Bomb Group,
Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 30Sep43. Named "Bucket of Bolts"
Failed to return from a mission to the Luftwaffe air depot at M�rignac, Bordeaux, France 5Dec43 (10KIA).
When the target was found to be completely obscured, the Group turned to its secondary target, the
Luftwaffe airfield at Cognac. Finding this target also obscured and facing a fuel shortage, the planes
began jettisoning their bomb loads. Meagre flak along the route intensified over target and about a
dozen fighters attacked. Shot down by two Fw 19A-6 of
JG 2/2 and crashed near Callac, Brittany, France. MACR 1174.
37748 (MSN 8534) Douglas Aircraft Company, Modification Center, Air Force Plant #3, Tulsa Municipal
Airport, OK 16Aug43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 24Sep43. Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander,
Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 27Sep43. 418th Bomb Squadron [LD*V],
100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 27Sep43. Failed to return from a
mission to the synthetic oil refinery at Gelsenkirchen, Germany 5Nov43 (8MIA:2EVD).
Damaged by flak, on return crashed in English Channel. The formation met intense and
accurate flak shelling as it reached landfall. The aircraft was hit several times with
the loss of more than one engine, the compass, and the electrical system. The bomb load
was jettisoned to prevent an explosion, and the pilot turned the aircraft back onto a
return route to England. It soon proved difficult to fly, so he ordered the crew to bail
out. Two members bailed out, but with the help of French patriots, managed to evade
capture and returned to military control in August, 1944. The other crew members were
in the plane when it went down, presumably in the English Channel, as no wreckage
or remains were found. MACR 1156.
37749 (MSN 8535) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Aug43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 16Aug43. 337th Bomb Squadron [AW*O],
96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 11Sep43. Battle damaged,
D�ren, Germany 20Oct43, all crew bailed (10RTD). On return the airplane was originally
flying approximately SSW to cross the English coast at Beachy Head, Sussex. Engine trouble
developed when over the Channel, and two engines cut out. The pilot intended to alight on the sea,
but a third engine cut out and the crew bailed out. The wind blew the aeroplane away from the sea
and it crashed in an open field on the side of a hill at Furlong Farm, Beddingham, East Sussex,
where it burst into flames
37750 (MSN 8536) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Aug43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 16Aug43. Long Beach Field, CA 17Aug43.
366th Bomb Squadron [KY*M], 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 16Sep43,
Named "Mary T". Failed to return from a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt,
Germany 14Oct43 (1KIA:7POW:2EVD). En route to the target area, the bomber formation was
repeatedly attacked by a large number of Luftwaffe fighters. After the target, the Group turned
and headed westward for England. German fighters, having landed and refueled, attacked again.
Shot down by enemy fighters, the crew bailed out, the plane disintegrated and crashed near Beek, Netherlands,
MACR 915
37751 (MSN 8537) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Aug43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 7Aug43. 12th Ferrying Squadron, 2nd Ferrying Group, New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE.
Damaged taxying at Presque Isle Field, ME 4Sep43. 365th Bomb Squadron [XK*P], 305th Bomb Group,
Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 16Sep43. Failed to return from a mission to an aircraft factory
at Bremen, Germany 8Oct43 (9POW:1EVD). En route to the target the plane was attacked above Friesland by
German fighters. During a frontal attack, the cockpit was badly damaged, the pilot and bombardier were
seriously injured. The tail was also attacked and tail gunner sustained minor injuries to his neck.
Engines No.3 and No.4 were on fire, then a third engine was hit. The co-pilot pulled the plane out of
formation and set a course for home. The engineer fired green-green flares and four P-47 Thunderbolts
came down to cover the bomber down to 12,000ft. The co-pilot ordered the cew into the radio room
to prepare for a crash landing. After landing the navigator put his papers on a pile of parachutes i
n the radio room and set the whole plane on fire. The plane had made a successful emergency landing
in the Noordoostpolder, approximately 5km northeast of Urk. Claimed by Lt Franz Ruhl flying a Bf 109G-6 of JG3/4
MACR 871.
37752 (MSN 8538) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Aug43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 17Aug43. 339th Bomb Squadron [QJ*A], 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath
(Station 138), Norfolk 8Sep43. Failed to return from a mission to an aircraft factory at Bremen,
Germany 8Oct43 (10POW). The formation was met with stiff resistance by German fighters and flak
crews on the ground the entire way, from the Dutch coast all the way into the German heartland.
In addition, a large force of German fighters launched vicious attacks against the planes. Over the target,
the formation encountered intense flak. Shot down by Obstlt Hans Philipp in Fw 190A-6 of JG 1/Stab at
Lohne, Germany Oct 8, 1943 and crashed Bremen, Germany. MACR 853.
37753 (MSN 8539) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Aug43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 17Aug43. 813th Bomb Squadron [PC*O], 482nd Bomb Group 19Sep43.
Equipped with Oboe Mk I radar. Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander,
Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 21/22Sep43. 482nd Bomb Group,
Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire Sep43. Air Depot rebuild. 326th Bomb Squadron [JW*Q],
92nd Bomb Group, Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 21Feb44. Converted for trooping, stripped
of all armament and turrets, capable of carrying thirty passengers on benches installed in the waist
and bomb bay. 92nd Bomb Group, Istres (Station 195), Marseille, France. Participated in the
Green Project which was the USAAF solution to expedite the return of troops to USA. It called for
the round-the-clock airlift of troops from Istres, France, to Casablanca, French Morocco,
the initial leg of their journey home. From Casablanca, Air Transport Command's aircraft
completed the journey and flew the troops to the United States. A secondary task of the Green
Project included flying French citizens who had been in exile during the war on the return
leg from NAS Port Lyautey, French Morocco to Istres. The Green Project operated from
15Jun45 to 10Sep45. Salvaged 13Oct45. . Named "Mortimer"
37754 (MSN 8540) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Aug43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 17Aug43. 534th Bomb Squadron [GD*I],
381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 20Sep43. Named "Who Dat Ding Bat"
Crash landed Ridgewell 18Nov43. 448th Sub-Depot, Air Service Command, Ridgewell Hangar No.1
for repairs. Stations 4 - 9 were severely damaged, this was the third time in the hangar for this
aircraft for major repairs. Twenty six days later however, this plane was out again on a combat mission.
It took 2,464 man hours, four new engines, four propellers, two flaps, landing gear and considerable
sheet metal work, to get the aircraft back into the air. Battle damaged on a mission to the Luftwaffe
airfield at Champagne, Reims, France 28Mar44 (3KIA:6RTD). The bomber sustained severe battle
damage, the pilot bringing the aircraft home for crew to bail out over base, before heading the
aircraft towards the North Sea along with three dead gunners. Pilot and co-pilot bailed out
out over Bawdsey on the Suffolk coast. {9 missions}.
37755 (MSN 8541) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Aug43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 17Aug43. 325th Bomb Squadron [NV*A],
92nd Bomb Group, Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 16Sep43. Named *Dottie G*.
Failed to return from a mission to the industrial area at Augsburg, Germany 25Feb44 (10INT).
Damaged after the target in an attack by Bf 110 fighters. Engine No.1 was on fire and engine No.2
was smoking and disabled from flying debris. The pilot put the plane into a 5,000 foot nose dive
to put out the fire. Losing fuel and flying with only two good engines, both on the same side of
the aircraft, and the other two engines feathered, the aircraft shook violently. Additionally, the
hydraulic and electrical systems were inoperable. Crashed landed on a snowy field on the
shores of Lake Constance, Switzerland. {12 missions}. The first B-17G to crash land in Switzerland.
Salvaged Switzerland. MACR 2755
37756 (MSN 8542) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Aug43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 17Aug43. 335th Bomb Squadron [OE*Q],
95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 6Sep43 Named "Roarin' Bull".
Failed to return from a mission to the BIAG Zukunft power station at Eschweiler, Germany 24Jan44 (1KIA:6POW:3EVD
Sht down by Oblt. Ivo von L�bich-Edler Milowa in Me-109G-6 of JG 2/7 and
crashed Court St Etienne, seven miles southeast of Waterloo, Belgium. {23 missions}..�MACR 2259.
37757 (MSN 8543) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Aug43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 19Aug43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 16Sep43.
360th Bomb Squadron [PU*N], 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 18Oct43.
Crash landed on a slow timing local flight, landing on the grass beside the runway at Little Staughton (Station 127),
Bedfordshire when the landing gear failed 10Dec43. Salvaged by 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little Staughton
(Station 127), Bedfordshire 11Dec43.
37758 (MSN 8544) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 17Aug43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 20Aug43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 18Aug43. 545th Bomb Squadron [JD*W],
384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 3Oct43. Named "Kentucky Kernel"
{first combat mission 3Nov43}. Battle damaged during a mission to a power station at Ludwigshafen,
Germany 7Jan44 (1WIA). The plane force landed on return at Nuthampstead (Station 131),
Hertfordshire. Participated in the 'Grapefruit' mission to drop GB-1 glide bombs on a railway
marshalling yard at Cologne, Germany 28May44. {28 missions}. Declared 'war weary' Jun44.
Salvaged 10Dec44. Returned to US. 1377th Base Unit (North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command),
Grenier Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 12Jan45. Modified for training, stripped of armor,
armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17G. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM. Damaged while parked by TB-17F 42-29969 at
Hobbs 5May45. 4124th Base Unit (Air Technical Service Command), Altus Field, OK 16Aug45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 9Oct45.
37759 (MSN 8545) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 18Aug43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 19Aug43. 367th Bomb Squadron [GY*V],
306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 19Sep43. Battle damaged on a
mission to the Arado Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory, Anklam, Prussia 9Oct43. The formation
was attacked by a large force of Luftwaffe fighters soon after it crossed the coast. They
followed all the way in, attacking on the bomb run and over the target. On returning,
crash landed at Thurleigh. Salvaged 10Oct43
37760 (MSN 8546) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 18Aug43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 19Aug43. 532nd Bomb Squadron [VE*F],
381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 20Sep43. Named AVENGER{.
(6 missions}. Air Force Service Command. Modified for the VB-1 Azon guided bomb.
487th Bomb Group, Lavenham (Station 137), Suffolk 4Jun44. Modified as a drone
for Operation Aphrodite missions. Designated BQ-7. 562nd Bomb Squadron,
388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk.. Not expended, withdrawn from use Aug 1944
37761 (MSN 8547) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Aug43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 21Aug43. Ferried on the North Atlantic route from
RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 15/16Sep43. Damaged while
parked in ground accident when B-17F 42-3411 ground looped at Prestwick 16Sep43.
323rd Bomb Squadron [OR*L], 91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 4Oct43
Named "Blue Dreams" - artwork of a stylish blonde woman based on the December Esquire
Calendar 1944. Named by the pilot's crew. Painted by Tony Starcer. When news came through
that the pilot's wife was expecting a baby, the rest of the crew arranged for Starcer,
without the pilot's knowledge, to add a stork and baby motif near the cockpit.
The baby was a girl and the crew had Starcer at work again later adding her
name, 'Mona Gail', below the motif. Damaged while parked in ground accident when
B-17F 42-3411 ground looped at Prestwick 16Sep43. 323rd Bomb Squadron [OR*L],
91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 4Oct43. Battle damaged
on a Crossbow mission to a German V-weapon site at Andres in the Pas-de-Calais,
France 24Dec43. Flak over the target was heavy and accurate. Severely battle damaged
on a mission to the AGO-Flugzeugwerke Fw 190 manufacturing factory at Oschersleben,
Germany 11Jan44. Accident departing for a mission to industrial areas in the suburbs
of Berlin, Germany 6Mar44. Shortly after taking off the crew noticed fuel was streaming
from the starboard wing by No.3 engine. The pilot decided to land the heavily laden plane
to check what was wrong, planning to take off again and catch up with the formation.
With bombers still taking off from Bassingbourn the pilot had to find somewhere else to
land quickly. He began the let down and approach to the fighter base at Steeple Morden
(Station 122), Cambridgeshire, just a short distance from the end of Bassingbourn's
main runway. In the rush to land the pilot forgot to lower the landing gear. {29 missions}.
Crew OK. Salvaged by 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton 7Mar44
37762 (MSN 8548) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 19Aug43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 20Aug43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 16Sep43.
303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 22Oct43. 545th Bomb Squadron [JD*A],
384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 1Nov43.
Named *Chaplain's Office*. {1 mission with 384BG}. Failed to return from a
mission to the port at Bremen, Germany 26Nov43 (9POW:1KIA). Badly damaged
by Hptm Anton Hackl on Bf 109G-6 of JG 11/III Stab. and
fell out of the formation. During the heavy fighting the ball turret gunner sustained severe injuries.
pilot and bombardier spotted a German airfield and flew the gravely wounded bomber in
several circuits over the field as the crew bailed out. The gunner was seen sitting on the
catwalk with the open parachute in his arms. When he jumped, his parachute shrouds
snagged on the open bomb bay doors. The bombardier tried vainly to pull the gunner
inside the aircraft. As the pilot skimmed over the buildings below, the gunner finally fell free.
Unfortunately, he died after colliding with a hangar, his parachute partially deployed.
The pilot brought Chaplain's Office in for a crash landing on the German naval airfield
at Zwischenahn near Bremen, Germany. The surviving nine crewmen became prisoners of war.
MACR 1580.
37763 (MSN 8549) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 19Aug43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 20Aug43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 29Sep43.
571st Bomb Squadron [FC*D], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 5Nov43.
Named "Ground Loop" . Named after the crew 74 mascot, a British mongrel puppy
{first combat mission 13Dec44}. Failed to return from a mission to the Deschimag shipyards at
Bremen, Germany 20Dec43 (1KIA:9POW). Attacked by a large force of enemy fighters and flak
over the target area was very intense. The plane was observed over the target behind the main
formation and unable to keep up. Attacked by three Fw 190 fighters, shot down and crashed
at Sillenstede, six miles northwest of Wilhelmshaven, Germany. {3 missions}.
37764 (MSN 8550) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 20Aug43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 21Aug43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 18Sep43. 526th Bomb Squadron [LF*P],
379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 21Oct43 Named "Dragon Lady".
Battle damaged 14Jan44 (1KIA). Seriously battle damaged by enemy fighters on a mission to the
VKF ball bearing works at Erkner, Berlin, Germany 6Mar44. The bomber returned to base but was
declared a write off. Salvaged by 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton 8Mar44.
37765 (MSN 8551) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 20Aug43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 20Aug43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 8Nov43.
457th Bomb Group, Glatton (Station 130), Huntingdonshire 18Nov43. 367th Bomb Squadron [GY*D],
306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 14Dec43. Damaged when the undercarriage
failed landing at Thurleigh 20Mar44. Eighth Air Force Service Command (AFSC) 12May44; not equipped
with 'Tokyo' long range fuel tanks. Modified as lifeboat carrier. Returned to US. 8th ETA, Tinker Field,
Oklahoma City, OK 13Jul45. 4136th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command),
Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 19Jul45. Reassigned USAAF 31Mar47. 4141st Base Unit (Air Material
Command), Pyote Field, TX 20May47. Reclaimed at Pyote AFB, TX 1Jun48.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, 1Jun49
37766 (MSN 8552) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Aug43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 25Aug43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 30Sep43. 334th Bomb Squadron [BG*F],
95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 13Oct43. Failed to return from a mission to a
communication center at M�nster, Germany 22Dec43 (4KIA:5POW:1EVD . Shot down before
reaching the target by Bf 109G-6/U4 flown by Lt. Karl-Heins Kempf of JG26/11
and crashed near Lageveen, Zuidwolde, Netherlands. {10 missions). MACR 1702.
Luftwaffe salvage teams dismantled the aircraft 5Jan44 and transported it to Utrecht, Netherlands 13Jan44
37767 (MSN 8553) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Aug43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 24Aug43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 29Sep43. 332nd Bomb Squadron,
94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 4Oct43. 401st Bomb Squadron [LL*D],
91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 5Nov43. Named "Vox Pop" Accident returning from a
mission to the port area at Bremen, Germany 20Dec43 (10RTD). Attacked by a large force of enemy
fighters and flak over the target area was very intense. No.2 engine was disabled before reaching
the target and No.4 engine was struck leaving the target. The plane was also badly damaged by flak shrapnel but
made it back to England on two engines. With fuel exhaustion, the plane crash landed on the grassy
airfield at Cambridge operated by Marshall's of Cambridge. Salvaged by 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little
Staughton (Station 127), Bedfordshire 23Dec43
37768 (MSN 8554) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 21Aug43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 23Aug43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 18Sep43.
526th Bomb Squadron [LF*J], 379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 19Oct43.
Failed to return from a mission to the AGO-Flugzeugwerke Fw 190 manufacturing factory at Oschersleben,
Germany 11Jan44 (8POW:2KIA). While the aircraft were airborne, the weather closed in over English
bases and a recall signal was issued. B/Gen. Robert F. Travis, Air Commander of the 1st Bomb Division,
continued on to the target. This left the 1st Bomb Division with greater exposure to enemy fighter
attacks. Good fighter support was provided by P-47 Thunderbolts on the penetration and by P-51
Mustangs over the target. P-47s were airborne to provide withdrawal support but they obeyed the
recall order to return to England and left the bombers to fend for themselves on the return trip.
Luftwaffe attacks started over the IJsselmeer and intensified when the American fighters
returned home. Meagre and fairly accurate flak was experienced on the bomb run, with intermittent
inaccurate flak on the return trip. Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Gifhorn/Hanover road
junction, one mile south of Hanigsen, Germany. MACR 1943
37769 (MSN 8555) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Aug43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 23Aug43. Damaged in accident by an AAF Inspector
on the ground at the Modification Center, Denver 31Aug43. Salvaged 24Sep43
37770 (MSN 8556) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Aug43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 23Aug43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 23Oct43.
Force landed Dow Field, Bangor, ME 29Oct43. 614th Bomb Squadron [IW*A], 401st Bomb Group,
Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 1Nov43. Named "Flak Rat". Failed to return
from a mission to the Luftwaffe air depot at M�rignac, Bordeaux, France 31Dec43. The target was
covered in solid cloud so the secondary target, a Luftwaffe base at Ch�teaubernard, Cognac,
France was bombed (4EVD:5KIA:1POW). Just before the bomb run, shot down by Fw Schmid
in Fw 190A of JGr. West/3 and crashed at Arjuzanx, north of Dax, France
MACR 1871.
37771 (MSN 8557) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Aug43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 23Aug43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 30Sep43.
422nd Bomb Squadron [JJ*Q], 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 18Oct43.
Experimented in night bombing alongside the RAF and operated night leaflet and propaganda missions.
858th Bomb Squadron, 492nd Bomb Group, North Pickenham 24Jun44. Special operations and electronic
countermeasure (ECM) missions. Harrington (Station 179), Northamptonshire Aug44. Returned to US.
121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 3Jul45. 4168th Base Unit
(Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 21Sep45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and
disposal 19Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
37772 (MSN 8558) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Aug43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 24Aug43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 21Sep43. 350th Bomb Squadron [LN*S], 100th Bomb Group 27Sep43. Ferried on the
North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 29/30Sep43.
100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk Oct43. Named "Flyin' Jenny" .
After a formation practice flight 27Dec43, this was the second aircraft to land at Thorpe Abbotts
in poor visibility and landed long. It was unable to stop before running into the first aircraft,
B-17F 42-6094 which was clearing the end of the runway, striking the right wing and spinning it around.
Further damaged when B-17F 42-3474 also overshot landing and ran into this aircraft. Salvaged 31Jan44
37773 (MSN 8559) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 23Aug43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 23Aug43. 410th Bomb Squadron,
94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 10Oct43.
563rd Bomb Squadron, 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 11Oct43
Named "Full House". {first combat mission 16Nov43}. Battle damaged on a mission to the
port area at Bremen, Germany 20Dec43 (10RTD). Attacked by a large force of enemy fighters
and flak over the target area was very intense. Failed to return from a mission to a communication
center at M�nster, Germany 22Dec43 (3MIA:5KIA:2POW). Presumably damaged by flak, the bomber
was last seen with No.1 propeller feathered. The aircraft reached the Dutch North Sea coastline,
but it became clear that England could not be reached. It turned back inland, losing height, into the
direction of Edam-Volendam and the IJsselmeer. Here it passed over the dike. Two gunners
jumped first and landed on the dike between Volendam and Edam. The remaining crew bailed out
too low and drowned in the very cold water; most washed ashore Jun44. {7 missions}. MACR 3148
The wreck was recovered in 1966; it had bullet holes in it. The center fuselage lay in Edam
on the RWS wharf near Fort Edam for many years.
37774 (MSN 8560) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Aug43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 24Aug43. 401st Bomb Group 27Oct43. Ferried Meeks Field,
Keflavik, Iceland to Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland 6Nov43. 401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe
(Station 128), Northamptonshire Nov43. 508th Bomb Squadron [YB*N], 351st Bomb Group,
Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 21Nov43. Battle damaged on a mission to the
Luftwaffe air depot at M�rignac, Bordeaux, France 31Dec43. The target was covered in solid
cloud so the secondary target at Ch�teaubernard, Cognac, France was bombed.
Abandoned over England due to fuel shortage and bad weather, crashed Whitwell, Herts.
{6 missions}. Salvaged 1Jan44
37775 (MSN 8561) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Aug43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 25Aug43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 29Sep43.
333rd Bomb Squadron, 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 8Oct43.
Damaged while parked by B-17F 42-30612 landing at Rougham 24Dec43. 410th Bomb Squadron.
On a training flight, the landing gear collapsed on landing at Rougham 2Jul44. Salvaged 3Jul44
37776 (MSN 8562) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 24Aug43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 25Aug43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 19Sep43. 303rd Bomb Group 18Oct43.
Base Air Depot No.1, Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire 23Oct43. 546th Bomb Squadron [BK*R],
384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 2Nov43.
{first combat mission 16Nov43}. Battle damaged during a mission to a railway marshalling
yard at Lingen Germany 21Feb44 (3WIA). Battle damaged during a mission to Alfred Teves Maschinen
und Ar maturenfabrik GmbH at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 2Mar44. Turned back when a burst
of flak struck No.4 engine, causing the oil pressure to drop and necessitating the feathering of
the propeller. No.1 & 3 superchargers failed, and No.2 lagged excessively. Bombs were jettisoned
in a wooded area in occupied France. Battle damaged during a mission to the Luftwaffe airfield
at Coulommiers, France 14Jun44 (1WIA). Over the target four enemy fighters dove through the
formation, shooting off a big chunk of this B-17's stabiliser, a cannon shell went through a
wing, grazing a fuel tank and a mass of controls, but did no damage. Declared 'war weary' Jun44.
{33 missions with 384BG}. 486th Bomb Group, Sudbury (Station 174), Suffolk 16Jul44.
Returned to US 21Mar45. 1103rd Base Unit (Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command),
Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 16Apr45. Patterson Field, Dayton, OH Jan46.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and
disposal 14Jan46. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped. Named ":Lady Drew".
37777 (MSN 8563) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Aug43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 25Aug43. Albuquerque AAB, NM 19Jan44.
222nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Ardmore Field, OK 22Jan44. 332nd Base Unit,
Ardmore Field, OK 16Aug44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for
storage and disposal 19Sep45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment
Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
37778 (MSN 8564) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Aug43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 25Aug43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 30Sep43.
366th Bomb Squadron [KY*G], 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 20Nov43.
Named "Betty Club". Failed to return from a mission to the secondary target, the industrial area at Stettin,
Prussia 13May44 (10INT). Flak damaged No.3 engine, force landed Bulltofta airfield, Malm�, Sweden. . MACR 4871
Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 2Aug45.
4185th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), Independence Field, KS 12Aug45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and
disposal 16Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
37779 (MSN 8565) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Aug43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 25Aug43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 23Oct43. 401st Bomb Group,
Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 14Nov43. 324th Bomb Squadron [DF*B],
91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 20Nov43.
Named "Pistol Packin' Mama"- artwork inspired by the Vargas' "Pistol Packin' Mama"
Esquire centrefold of March 1944. Battle damaged on a Crossbow mission to a German V-weapon
site at Andres in the Pas-de-Calais, France 24Dec43. Flak over the target was heavy and accurate.
Battle damaged by flak on a mission to the Luftwaffe air depot at M�rignac, Bordeaux, France 31Dec43.
The target was covered by smoke and cloud so the group diverted to the secondary target, a
Luftwaffe airfield at Ch�teaubernard, Cognac, France. Battle damaged on a mission to railway
marshalling yards at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 4Feb44. As the planes were passing over
the Netherlands en route to Germany, local cross winds carried the bombers straight into
enemy flak. Over Frankfurt, the plane again sustained major damage from flak and the
pilot was forced to jettison the bomb load near Koblenz to stay with the formation. Over the Ruhr Valley
heavy flak damaged two engines and also forced the group lead plane to fall from the formation.
In spite of the damage, the pilot of this plane took over and led the sixty-plane formation back
towards England with the No.1 propeller feathered. Over Texel Island the No.2 engine failed and the
plane was forced to drop from the formation and go it alone. Eighth Air Force Service Command (AFSC) 3May44;
not equipped with 'Tokyo' long range fuel tanks. Returned to US. 1104th Base Unit (Caribbean Wing, Air
Transport Command), Homestead Field, FL 11Jun45. 4136th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical
Service Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 14Aug45. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized,
Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 1Sep45. Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR f
for storage and disposal 3Jan46. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment
Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
37780 (MSN 8566) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Aug43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 26Aug43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 20Oct43. 401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe
(Station 128), Northamptonshire 27Oct43. 511th Bomb Squadron [DS*G], 351st Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110),
Northamptonshire 18Nov43. Named . GOLDEN BALL. Named in the tradition of 511th Bomb Squadron by
incorporating the word 'Ball' in the title, after the squadron's first commander Clinton F Ball.
Crash landed at Polebrook 26Apr44. The pilot, who had been slow-timing an engine, found that as he was
preparing to land, the right landing gear would not extend. After flying around to use up fuel, he decided to
make a one-wheel landing, rather than the customary wheels up landing. In front of a large crowd of
spectators, who always gathered when they heard of a possible crash landing, the pilot accomplished
the landing on the first approach. The only damage sustained was to the right wing tip and both propellers
on the right wing. This successful landing was much publicized and became a standard within the 351st
Bomb Group training procedures. {26 missions}. 836th Bomb Squadron, 487th Bomb Group,
Lavenham (Station 137), Suffolk 14Jul44. Battle damaged 16Jul44. Declared 'war weary'. {2 missions}.
848th Bomb Squadron, 490th Bomb Group, Eye (Station 134), Suffolk. Destroyed in collision with parked
B-17G 42-37940 while taxying at Eye 15Aug44.
37781 (MSN 8567) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 25Aug43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 26Aug43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 18Sep43. 303rd Bomb Group,
Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 19Oct43. Base Air Depot No.1, Burtonwood (Station 590),
Lancashire 23Oct43. 546th Bomb Squadron [BK*U], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood
(Station 106), Northamptonshire 2Nov43, Named *Silver Dollar*. Battle damaged
during a mission to the port area at Bremen, Germany 29Nov43 (1KIA:2INJ). On the initial run
over the target the bomber was damaged by flak with a hole in the bomb bay doors. With the target
obscured by clouds, a second run was made during which the left aileron control cables were
shot away by cannon fire from an enemy fighter causing the bomber to veer out of formation.
Regaining control and returning to its position, the bomber was attacked head-on by a Fw 190
fighter. Around that time the crew experienced problems with their oxygen supplies. The ball
turret gunner was instructed to exit his turret but did not do so, nor could the waist gunners
extract him. As soon as the pilot was sure that they were clear of the Frisian Islands he left the
formation and descended through breaks in heavy cumulus clouds to 800 feet. They reached
the English coast four or five miles east of Cromer, Norfolk. By that time a combination of
darkness and extremely poor visibility made navigation difficult. About two or three minutes
after crossing the coast a searchlight was turned on almost directly beneath the bomber and
directed it to an airfield which was about ten miles away. The bomber landed safely at RAF
Coltishall near Norwich, Norfolk. It is likely that loss of oxygen caused the gunner to die of anoxia.
Both waist gunners suffered from frostbite and nervous shock and were removed to a US Hospital.
The B-17 was repaired and returned to Grafton Underwood 2Dec43. Following a routine formation
practice mission 26Dec43, the right main landing gear would not extend, caused by failure
of the gear motor drive shaft. The pilot was directed to crash land at Little Staughton. 2nd Strategic
Air Depot, Little Staughton (Station 127), Bedfordshire 28Dec43. Regained by Group 28Feb44.
{5 missions with 384th Bomb Group}. Failed to return from a mission to the Heinkel Flugzeugwerke
aircraft factory at Oranienburg, Germany 9Mar44 (8KIA:2POW). The aircraft was hit by a bomb from
the 379th Bomb Group above which knocked off the complete tail causing the bomber to enter a
spin with all four engines still producing power. It crashed and exploded at Osdorf, southwest
Marienfelde, Berlin, Germany
37782 (MSN 8568) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Aug43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 27Aug43. Crash landed with mechanical failure at Lowry
Field, Denver, CO 8Sep43. Materiel Command, Seattle, WA. Surveyed 7Jul44. Salvaged 5Aug44
37783 MSN 8569) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 25Aug43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 26Aug43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 29Sep43.
384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 2Nov43.
349th Bomb Squadron [XR*B], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 2Nov43,
Named "Dobie". Failed to return from a mission to the railway marshalling yards at
Hamm, Germany 22Apr44 (3KIA:7POW). Enemy aircraft damaged No.3 engine and the bomber
lagged behind, crashed at Obershelden, four miles north of Siegen, Germany. MACR 4166
37784 (MSN 8570) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 26Aug43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 27Aug43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 29Sep43.
525th Bomb Squadron [FR*P], 379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 19Oct43.
Named "Little Barney/The Old Fox" {first combat mission 3Nov43}. Failed to return
from a mission to Berlin, Germany 24May44 (1POW:2KIA:6MIA). Leaving the flak zone after the
target, the bomber formation was attacked by enemy fighters. The pilot took evasive action when
it struck the underside of B-17G 42-38082. The pilot dropped down out of formation and noticed fire
in the cockpit and around the No.2 engine. With the oxygen system burning fiercely, some of the
crew bailed out before the plane spun down on fire and crashed at Melchow, near Eberswalde,
northeast of Berlin, Germany. {60 missions. MACR 5322.
37785 (MSN 8571) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 26Aug43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 27Aug43. 303rd Bomb Group 18Oct43.
Base Air Depot No.1, Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire 23Oct43. Transferred to
544th Bomb Squadron [SU*N], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106),
Northamptonshire 2Nov43. Named "Little Barney". {first combat mission 16Nov43}.
The crew aborted a mission to the port area at Bremen, Germany 13Dec43. With low
oil pressure in No.2 engine and an engine on fire, the bombs were jettisoned over the
North Sea and force landed at Attlebridge (Station 120), Norfolk. Participated in the
'Grapefruit' mission to drop GB-1 glide bombs on a railway marshalling yard at Cologne,
Germany 28May44. Declared 'war weary' Jun44. {24 missions}. Ninth Air Force 21Mar45.
Istres (Station 195), Marseille, France. Used for mapping. Force landed because of
an electrical fire at Quarteira, Portugal 27Mar45
37786 (MSN 8572) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 27Aug43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 27Aug43. 401st Bomb Group,
Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 2Nov43. Transferred to 532nd Bomb Squadron [VE*B],
381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 21Nov43. Named "Hit Parader". Failed to return from a
mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factory at Augsburg, Germany 25Feb44 (6KIA:4POW). No.4 engine
was hit by flak and leaking fuel, then the turbo-chargers on No.2, 3 & 4 were playing up and the bomber fell
behind the formation. It was then attacked by three Bf 109 fighters led by Curt Clemens
of "Udet" 8 Staffel, III./JG3.3, the other two being shot down by the bomber crew.
At low level over Stuttgart, flak damaged both wings and the bomber was again attacked by the remaining Bf 109.
Crashed Willmandingen, nine miles southwest of Reutlingen, Germany. {11 missions) MACR 2933.
37787 (MSN 8573) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 27Aug43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 28Aug43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque
Isle Field, ME Oct43. iseman Provisional Bomb Group. Damaged in a collision with B-17G 42-39856 while
taxying at Presque Isle Field 9Oct43. 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 19Oct43.
Base Air Depot No.1, Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire 23Oct43. 544th Bomb Squadron, 384th Bomb Group,
Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 2Nov43. {nil missions}. Transferred to
526th Bomb Squadron [LF*C], 379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 11Nov43.
Failed to return from a mission to the port at Bremen, Germany 26Nov43 (10POW).
Shot down by Oblt Friedrich Freyschmidt in Bf 110G-2 of ZG 26/8
and crashed at Branneger, near Borger, Netherlands
MACR 1330. 10 POW. (FORTLOG)
37788 (MSN 8574) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 28Aug43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 28Aug43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 16Sep43. 546th Bomb Squadron [BK*D],
384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 7Nov43.;
Named "Hell's Messenger". Damaged by flak on first combat mission to the port at Bremen,
Germany 26Nov43 (2WIA). Flak struck the top turret, the No.3 propeller and the nose was blown off injuring
the bombardier and radio operator. On return to England, force landed at RAF Warboys, Huntingdonshire
with injured crew members. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little Staughton (Station 127), Bedfordshire for
repair 27Nov43. Regained by Group 24Dec43. 547th Bomb Squadron [SO*N] Dec43. 2nd Strategic Air Depot,
Abbots Ripton (Station 547), Huntingdonshire 30May44. Regained by Group 21Jun44. Battle damaged
during a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical works at Oppau, Ludwigshafen, Germany 5Sep44 (1WIA).
Damaged by fire at Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire 10Oct44. The bomber landed at
Alconbury during a training mission and turned off the runway onto the perimeter track. The pilot
then noticed smoke from the left wing, the situation was reported to the control tower and the crew
abandoned the aircraft with no injuries. The cause of the fire was believed to have been a loose
connection in the fuel system allowing gasoline to leak into the wing and possibly ignited by
lighting wiring. Damage was caused to the front of 'Tokyo' tanks numbers 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 as well
as the number one main fuel tank which had to be replaced. The left inner and outer wings, as well
as engine number one were changed because of excessive heat damage. 2nd Strategic Air Depot,
Abbots Ripton (Station 547), Huntingdonshire 10Oct44. Regained by Group 28Oct44.
547th Bomb Squadron [SO*O] Oct44. 547th Bomb Squadron [SO*N] 5Nov44. Flew on the final Eighth Air Force
combat mission of the war to the Vkoda armament works and airfield at Pilsen, Czechoslovakia 25Apr45. {104 missions}.
364th Fighter Group, Leiston, (Station 373), Suffolk May45. 1st Strategic Air Depot, Troston (Station 595),
Suffolk 25May45. Regained by Group 10Jun45. 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106),
Northamptonshire. Returned to US 30Jun45. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field,
Windsor Locks, CT 14Jul45. 4185th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command),
Independence Field, KS 17Jul45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ
for storage and disposal 18Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
37789 (MSN 8575) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 27Aug43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 29Aug43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 16Sep43. 303rd Bomb
Group 18Sep43. Base Air Depot No.1, Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire 23Oct43.
544th Bomb Squadron [SU*H], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106),
Northamptonshire 2Nov43. Base Air Depot No.1, Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire Nov43.
Regained by Group 10Nov43. Named "The Loose Goose". {first combat mission 26Nov43}.
On return from a mission to the port at Bremen, Germany, force landed at Snetterton Heath
(Station 138), Norfolk 26Nov43. Damage repaired and regained by Group 12Dec43.
2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton (Station 547), Huntingdonshire 10Jan44. Regained by Group 2Feb44.
Crash landed at base during a training flight from Grafton Underwood 24Apr44. The bomber was
taking off for a practice and test flight when the pilot noticed fuel leaking from No.1 engine.
He decided to land immediately and, having completed the circuit, the plane was on final
approach and about to cross the end of the runway when the fuel caught fire. Still about
twenty feet in the air, the left wing exploded and was blown off outboard of the No.1 engine.
The plane fell off to the left and hit the runway hard which caused the left landing gear to collapse.
It careened off to the left onto the grass where it tipped to the side minus the wing portion and caught fire.
The fuselage and left wing were consumed in the fire. {9 missions}. Salvaged 25Apr44
37790 (MSN 8576) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Aug43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 29Aug43. 418th Bomb Squadron [LD*Y],
100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 28Sep43. Named "Ain't Miss Behavin'".
Failed to return from a mission to the Focke-Wulf aircraft factory at Pozna?, Poland 20Feb44
(9POW:1EVD). Heavy cloud cover over Pozna? forced the formation to divert to their secondary
target, the Heinkel Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory at Marienehe, Rostock, Germany.
Flak hit No.2 engine, then attacked by FW 190s. Headed for Sweden, but crashed Harsley Mark,
four miles south of Bogense, Funen Island, Denmark.
37791 ((MSN 8577) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 30Aug43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 30Aug43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 27Sep43.
303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 19Oct43. Base Air Depot No.1,
Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire 23Oct43. 546th Bomb Squadron, 384th Bomb Group,
Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 10Nov43. {no combat missions with 384BG}.
526th Bomb Squadron [LF*S], 379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 7Nov43.
Named "Blues In the Night". Failed to return from a mission to railway installations around Berlin,
Germany 7May44 (8KIA:1POW). Damaged by flak which damaged engine No.3, the aircraft
exploded before the crew could bail out, crashing on the Wittenburg-Zarrentin road, 28 miles
southeast of Lubeck, Germany. MACR 4558
37792 (MSN 8578) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 30Aug43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 29Aug43. 545th Bomb Squadron [JD*B],
384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 2Nov43. Base Air Depot No.1,
Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire Nov43. Regained by Group 10Nov43. {first combat mission 29Nov43}.
2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little Staughton (Station 127), Bedfordshire 3Feb44. Regained by Group 7Feb44.
Declared 'war weary' Jun44. {24 missions}. Named ELEANOR MAUREEN. 836th Bomb Squadron, 487th Bomb Group,
Lavenham (Station 137), Suffolk 16Jul44. 34th Bomb Group, Mendelsham (Station 156), Suffolk 9Jun45.
Returned to US by 34th Bomb Group crew on Operation Home Run. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing),
Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 24Jun45. 4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command),
South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 12Sep45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41,
Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 14Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich
Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped.. Named "Bermondsey" As an appreciation
of �800,000 raised during Bermondsey's Wings for Victory Week, the people of Bermondsey christened the
U.S. Fortress bomber "BERMONDSEY" at the U.S. bomber base, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 15Feb44.
Three other bombers were named by their crews also in honour of Bermondsey
37793 (MSN 8579) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 30Aug43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 30Aug43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 17Sep43.
547th Bomb Squadron [SO*X], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106),
Northamptonshire 2Nov43. Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 26Nov43/2Dec43
Named *Spirit of Winsome Winn II*. . {first combat mission 13Dec43}.
Battle damaged during a mission to the railway marshalling yards at Frankfurt am Main,
Germany 8Feb44 (1WIA). It was just after dropping bombs on the target that a huge blast of
black flak appeared above the nose, a short distance ahead of the aircraft. The oil pressure
start to fall on the left outboard engine and the pilot quickly feathered the propeller.
A few seconds later the same thing occured to the right outboard engine and that was feathered too.
The pilot knew they could get home on just two engines but would lose a lot of speed.
Just then the nose dropped, and despite full throttle on the two inboard engines the plane
started losing height at about 150ft a minute as well as the speed dropping down to just 95mph.
The position worsened as the plane returned from its mission and by now three of the four
engines were out of action. It was touch and go whether it would cross the Channel.
The pilot brought the bomber in over the gasworks at Black Rock, Brighton, Sussex and
followed the line of Wilson Avenue up to the racecourse looking desperately for somewhere
to land. At last he found a field but the fuel was low in the one remaining engine which kept
cutting out. Somehow the pilot managed to avoid landing on houses in Patcham on the northern
outskirts of Brighton. He steered the plane under power lines and past a post supporting them
before crash landing in a ploughed field at Braypool. Despite travelling at 70mph on impact,
the crew were uninjured apart from one man who sprained his ankle. The B-17 was repaired and took
off a few days later, watched by a large crowd. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton (Station 547),
Huntingdonshire 10Feb44. Regained by Group 12Mar44. Failed to return from a mission to the
Dornier Flugzeugwerke factory at Oberpfaffenhofen, Munich, Germany 18Mar44 (10INT).
As the plane turned at the I.P. for the bomb run, flak struck No.3 engine rupturing an oil line.
The engine was still producing some power and the plane was able to maintain position in
the formation. Just as the bombs were released, the No.1 engine was hit and started to burn.
By now the bomber is lagging behind the formation with two engines inoperative. The pilot
headed for Switzerland, escorted by P-38s through a mountain pass to the south. The supercharger
on No.2 engine was inoperative 30 minutes before reaching the initial point, was running rough
and lost oil. The No.1 engine propeller would not feather, vibrated badly and oversped over the target.
The supercharger on No.3 engine did not function properly. Two engines were on fire when the bomber
crash landed on the small airfield at Altenrhein, near Lake Constance, Switzerland. {13 missions).
MACR 3484
37794 (MSN 8580) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 1Sep43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO Sep43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 27Sep43. 388th Bomb Group,
Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 30Sep43. Named "Ann Howe Too/Nip-On-ESE"
Declared 'war weary'. Transferred to 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton
Heath (Station 138), Norfolk. Damaged taxying at Rattlesden 18Apr45. Salvaged.
37795 (MSN 8581) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 1Sep43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 1Sep43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 22Sep43.
388th Bomb Group 24Sep43. Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander,
Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 27/28Sep43. 562nd Bomb Squadron [U],
388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk Sep43. {first combat mission 7Jul44}.
Battle damaged on a mission to the Rhenania-Ossag Mineral�lwerke oil refinery at Harburg,
Hamburg, Germany 4Aug44. Moderate accurate flak was encountered at the target.
Battle damaged on a mission to the Braunkohlen Benzin AG synthetic oil refinery
northeast of Zeitz, Germany 16Aug44. Intense accurate flak was encountered at the target.
Battle damaged on a mission to the I.G. Farben synthetic fuel works at P�litz, Prussia 25Aug44.
Intense and accurate flak was encountered at the target, wounding the engineer.
{final combat mission 5Sep44}. {23 missions}. Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing),
Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 6Jun45. 4185th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service
Command), Independence Field, KS 6Aug45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 20Dec45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped.
37796 (MSN 8582) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Sep43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 3Sep43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 27Sep43.
350th Bomb Squadron [LN*T], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 28Sep43.
Named "Fletcher's Castoria III". Failed to return from a mission to bomb
aircraft factories at Brunswick, Germany 21Feb44 (10POW). The aircraft was actually quite a
wreck and had never completed a mission giving one mechanical problem after another.
The crew completed their bomb run over the target and as they flew back over the North Sea
lost two engines due to oil loss. The navigator advised the pilot that they were 130 miles from
the English coast. Then they lost a 3rd engine and their speed fell to 60 odd miles an hour and falling.
They would never make it back to base at that speed and ditching in the North Sea in February
would have spelled certain death for the crew. The crew requested that the pilot crash land the
aircraft rather than having the crew bail out. The pilot turned back to the Dutch coast and broke
out of the low cloud over Amsterdam. At that point the German anti-aircraft flak opened up.
The pilot dove to roof top level and crash landed the bomber on the first large field he saw at
Inlaagpolder just east-southeast of Spaarndam, Netherlands. The pilot stated that there were no
German bullet holes in the aircraft, it was simply a matter of mechanical failure three of them!
None of the airmen were injured. The crew, after leaving the aircraft, set it on fire and were
captured by German troops. . MACR 2761.
37797 (MSN 8583) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Sep43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 1Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 23Sep43. 410th Bomb Squadron [GL*T],
94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 29Sep43.
Named PANTHER / GINMILL SPECIAL / WOLVERINE II.Failed to return from a mission to the
Heinkel Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory at Oranienburg, Germany 18Apr44 (8POW:2KIA).
The bombers arrived over Oranienburg to find the town covered by a thick undercast. Forced to
decide between abandoning the mission or bringing the formation down under the clouds,
the air leader had the planes drop down to 17,000ft in order to make their attack run.
The bomber encountered intense flak over Oranienburg. Enemy aircraft damaged two engines
and other damage, crashed Lodderitz, twelve miles northwest of Dessau. Germany. MACR 4155
37798 (MSN 8584) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Sep43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 1Sep43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 22Sep43. 331st Bomb
Squadron [QE*X], 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 27Sep43. Named "Big Stoop"
Failed to return from a mission to the aero engine complex at Brunswick, Germany 11Jan44 (8POW:2KIA).
As weather conditions began to deteriorate over the English bases, a recall order was sent to the bomber
groups en route to the city. While some the groups received the message and turned back for England,
others did not receive the order, and pressed onwards. When they arrived at the target area, they met stiff
resistance from the Luftwaffe. The B-17 was badly damaged by anti-aircraft and enemy fighter fire.
The crew bailed out before it crashed one kilometer east of Wehe, northeast of Rahden, Germany,
and burned out completely. Since the German salvage command was overloaded at the time,
as crashed German aircraft had priority, the wreckage of the American bomber was recovered by the
residents of the community of Wehe. It was shipped from Rahden railway station and sent to Handorf
airfield, near M�nster 20Apr44.. MACR 1883
37799 (MSN 8585) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Sep43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 1Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 1Oct43. 326th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 21Oct43.
Named "Homesick Angel". Crash landed at Podington after a non-operational flight 15Feb44. The bomber
ran off the runway into the mud, tipped onto its nose causing severe damage then fell back,
buckling the rear fuselage. Salvaged 2nd Strategic Air Depot 17Feb44
37800 (MSN 8586) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Sep43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 1Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB Sep43. 351st Bomb Squadron [EP*A], 100th Bomb Group 24Sep43.
Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 27/28Sep43. 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk Sep43.
Named "Piccadilly Lilly II" artwork of a nude with a halo and holding a glass of champagne
{first combat mission 5Nov43}. Overran the runway taking off from Thorpe Abbotts 27Jun44. Having sliced
across a road and drainage ditch before ending its run on a field, the plane was too badly
damaged to be repaired. Crash was blamed on a warped airframe, leading to the aircraft being
unwieldy and difficult to control or steer. {32 missions}. Salvaged 27Jun44.
37801 (MSN 8587) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 2Sep43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 2Sep43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 1Oct43.
547th Bomb Squadron [SO*G], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106),
Northamptonshire 25Nov43. Named "The Dutchess/Dynamite Express"
{first combat mission 1Dec43}. Failed to return from a mission to the aircraft assembly and
repair works at Oberpfaffenhofen, Munich, Germany 16Mar44 (8POW:2KIA). The bomber was
observed jettisoning bombs and stayed in formation until the target was reached where it
left formation with all four engines going and appeared to be diving down into the low group.
The bombardier was killed and blown out of the bomber by a burst of gunfire. A waist gunner
was also killed by gunfire. The aircraft crash landed north of Lhu�tre, six miles south of
Mailly-le-Camp, France injuring several crew members. The forward part of the aircraft was
destroyed by the post-crash fire. {19 missions}.
37802 (MSN 8588) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Sep43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 2Sep43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 20Sep43. 338th Bomb Squadron,
96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 30Sep43. Failed to return from a mission
to the port area of Bremen, Germany 29Nov43 (10MIA); crashed in North Sea, no trace of crew or aircraft
MACR 1390.
37803 (MSN 8589) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 2Sep43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 3Sep43. Operational Training Unit,
Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 20Sep43. 571st Bomb Squadron,
Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 3Oct43. Detailed for a mission to pick up a
bombardier from hospital, the plane skidded on the wet grass and was badly damaged at
RAF Hucknall, Nottinghamshire 22Oct43. {nil missions}. Salvaged 30Oct43
42-37804/37893 Douglas-Long Beach B-17G-15-DL Fortress
MSN 8590/8679. Dispositions from B-17 Fortress Master Log, Dave Osborne (FORTLOG)
Production changes: Electronic turbosupercharger. Fuel valve change. SCR-522, SCR-695 or SCR-535 radio.
Increased capacity ammunition boxes for waist guns
37804 (MSN 8590) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 6Sep43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 15Oct43. 333rd Bomb Squadron [TS*P],
94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 26Oct43.
Named "Pride Of The Yanks". Failed to return from a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Athies, Laon,
France 9May44 (3POW:7EVD). Enemy aircraft set right wing on fire then No.3 engine fell off, crew
bailed out over French coast and aircraft crashed in English Channel off Dieppe, France. MACR 4853
37805 (MSN 8591) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 3Sep43. Long Beach Field, CA 6Sep43. Operational
Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 23Sep43.
525th Bomb Squadron [FR*R/B], 379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 2Dec43.
527th Bomb Squadron [FO*B]. Named "Carol Dawn". {127 missions}. Returned to US.
121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 12Jun45. 4168th Base Unit
(Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 15Jun45.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and
disposal 5Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
37806 (MSN 8592) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 3Sep43. Long Beach Field, CA 6Sep43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 27Sep43.
571st Bomb Squadron [FC*Z], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 15Oct43.
Named "Stark's Ark" artwork of an ark flying among clouds. Named after the pilot.
{first combat mission 11Nov43}. Battle damaged on a mission to railway marshalling yards
at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 4Feb44. As the planes were passing over the Netherlands en
route to Germany, local cross winds carried the bombers straight into enemy flak. On return force
landed at RAF Manston, Kent for repairs. Failed to return from a mission to the Braunkohle Benzin A.G.
synthetic oil refinery at Rothensee, Magdeburg, Germany 28May44 (9POW:1KIA). Flak in the target
area was moderate, the formation encountered a large force of single and twin-engine Luftwaffe
fighters over the city, which proceeded to cause considerable damage to the bombers. Attacked by
enemy fighters causing heavy damage to No.2 and No.3 engines and the left wing caught fire.
Last seen in a vertical dive at about 7,000ft, crashed near Walternienburg, seventeen miles
southeast of Magdeburg, Germany. {40 missions}. MACR 5256.
37807 (MSN 8593) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 7Sep43. 350th Bomb Squadron [LN*O],
100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 28Sep43;
Named "Superstitious Aloyius" aka "Rogers' Raiders". .
Failed to return from a mission to industrial areas of Berlin, Germany 19May44, enemy aircraft
damaged three engines, ditched North Sea when tail broke off. Crew of 10 survived.
RAF Hudson dropped a lifeboat. Crew picked up by Danish fishing
vessel before transferring to British SAR.
37808 (MSN 8594) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 5Sep43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 21Sep43. 339th Bomb Squadron [QJ*S],
96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 7Oct43. Failed to return from a
mission to the Luftwaffe air depot at M�rignac, Bordeaux, France 5Jan44 (5EVD:5POW).
Damaged by flak, crashed Les Baynasses, near Maubisson, five miles west of Carcansin,
30 miles northwest of Bordeaux, France.. MACR 2015
37809 (MSN 8595) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 6Sep43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 22Oct43.
615th Bomb Squadron [IY*G], 401st Bomb Group, Deenthorpe 26Oct43. Named "Carolina Queen".
Failed to return from a
mission to the AGO-Flugzeugwerke Fw 190 manufacturing factory at Oschersleben, Germany 11Jan44
(5POW:5KIA). While the aircraft were airborne, the weather closed in over English bases and a
recall signal was issued. B/Gen. Robert F. Travis, Air Commander of the 1st Bomb Division, continued
on to the target. This left the 1st Bomb Division with greater exposure to enemy fighter attacks.
Good fighter support was provided by P-47 Thunderbolts on the penetration and by P-51 Mustangs
over the target. P-47s were airborne to provide withdrawal support but they obeyed the recall order
to return to England and left the bombers to fend for themselves on the return trip. Luftwaffe attacks
started over the IJsselmeer and intensified when the American fighters returned home.
The plane was attacked by two enemy fighters. About five minutes before the target three or
four objects that looked like ammunition boxes came out of the bomb bay. It started losing
altitude, the right wing broke off and the bomber crashed near Halberstadt, Germany
Shot By Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6 and Crashed Near Halberstadt Germany
Believed BF 109G-6 Flown By Ofw. Erwin Laskowski of JG 11/8.
MACR 2506.
37810 (MSN 8596) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 6Sep43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 12Oct43. 561st Bomb Squadron [A],
388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 15Oct43. {first combat mission 13Nov43}.
Battle damaged on a mission to the port area at Bremen, Germany 20Dec43 (10RTD).
Attacked by a large force of enemy fighters and flak over the target area was very intense.
{final combat mission 20Dec43}. Crash landed at Honington (Station 375), Suffolk 21Dec43.
{8 missions}. Salvaged 1st Strategic Air Depot, Troston (Station 595), Suffolk 18Apr44)
37811 (MSN 8597) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 7Sep43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 3Oct43. 338th Bomb Squadron,
96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 8Oct43. Failed to return from a
mission to Hamm, Germany 29Nov43 (10MIA), no trace of aircraft or crew. MACR 1391.
37812 MSN 8598) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 6Sep43. Long Beach Field, CA 7Sep43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 1Oct43.
570th Bomb Squadron [DI*O], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 26Oct43.
Named "Heavenly Body". {first combat mission 5Dec43}. Failed to return from a mission to the Vereinigte
Kugellagerfabriken AG (VKF) ball bearing factory at Erkner, Berlin, Germany 8Mar44 (1DOI:9POW).
All the way from the Netherlands to Berlin, the bombers were hounded by Luftwaffe fighters.
Attacked by enemy fighters, damaging and setting fire to engine No.2. Fuel was reported leaking
from a wing tank. Crashed in Poucher Forest, six miles southeast of Bitterfeld, twenty-five miles
west of Torgau, Germany. {23 missions. MACR 2990
37813 (MSN 8599) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 10Sep43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 2Nov43. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 21Dec43.
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 5Jan44.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 32nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Cerignola #1, Italy 7Jan44.
Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. Failed to return from a mission to the oil refineries at
Ploe?ti, Rumania 23Jun44 (3KIA:7POW). Crossing the Yugoslav coastline outbound, the No.3 engine
was losing power but the pilot continued in formation. Reaching the Rumanian border, the engine
ran hot, was shut down and the propeller feathered but by now, with No.1 and 4 engines also
losing power, the bomber lost touch with the formation and was attacked by Bf 109 fighters.
With No.4 engine on fire, the pilot dove towards some clouds and turned back towards Italy.
The fire in No.4 extinguished but then the top turret was hit by a cannon shell and holes in the
right wing were causing fuel leakage. By this time the bomber was over the Balkans. When
fire engulfed the right wing, the pilot ordered the crew to bail out. Shot down by enemy fighters,
the aircraft crashed in Bulgaria, close to the Rumanian/Yugoslav border. {64 missions}. MACR 16203.
37814 (MSN 8600) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 5Oct43. Las Vegas Field, NV 25Oct43.
4126th Base Unit, San Bernardino Field, CA 13Jan45. 3018th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School),
Kingman Field, AZ 23Jan45. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 22Jun45.
Accident at Yucca Field, AZ 12Aug45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field,
AR for storage and disposal 2Jan46. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment
Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
37815 (MSN 8601) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 7Sep43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 27Sep43. Damaged taxying at
Presque Isle Field, ME 4Oct43. 333rd Bomb Squadron, 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468),
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 9Oct43. Named "Miss Lace". Failed to return from a mission
to the ball bearing factories at Paris, France Nov 26, 1943 (5KIA:3POW:2EVD) Shot down by Oblt Gerd
Schaedle in Bf 109G-6 of JG 2/5 and crashed Plessis-au-Bois, northeast of
Bellville, Paris, France, MACR 1124.
37816 (MSN 8602) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 7Sep43. Long Beach Field, CA 10Sep43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 27Sep43.
545th Bomb Squadron [JD*S], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106),
Northamptonshire 18Oct43, Named *Big Stupe V*. {first combat mission 5Nov43}. Battle damaged
during a mission to an aircraft assembly plant at Brunswick, Germany 30Jan44 (2WIA). The crew
jettisoned the bombs when an engine was shot away by an enemy aircraft and had to leave formation.
Failed to return from a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 13Apr44 (6POW:4EVD).
On the way into the target, the bomber was attacked by enemy fighters which damaged two engines.
the target, the bomber dropped out of formation. Back over France, the plane was struck by flak as it
passed over a factory at 5,000ft. Down at 800ft, the bomber was struck by machine gun fire then
the remaining engines were knocked out by flak from an armed train just before crashing.
The aircraft crash landed near Rambucourt, twelve miles northwest of Toul, France. Three crew members
were badly wounded by the gun fire while the others scattered from the scene. {20 missions}.. MACR 3868
37817 (MSN 8603) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 10Sep43. Scott Field,
Belleville, IL 28Sep43. 510th Bomb Squadron [TU*A], 351st Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110),
Northamptonshire 24Oct43. Named "Aristocrap". . Missing in action Bremen, Germany
26Nov43 (3KIA:7POW). Damaged by flak and shot down by Hptm. Walter
Hoeckner in Fw 190A-6 of JG 1/II Stab 1 mi S of Gross
Mackenstedt, Germany Nov 26, 1943 on mission to Bremen.
MACR 1576. The crew normally flew MURDER INCORPORATED but when the pilot began
starting the engines, one engine was not working properly. They transferred to the standby
aircraft 'Aristocrap'. The bombardier bailed out and was captured by the Germans wearing
a flight jacket emblazoned with the name of his aircraft 'Murder Incorporated'.
Nazi propaganda claimed that this was an admission of deliberate terror bombing of residential areas.
Murder Incorporated was the name the news media gave to organized crime groups in the 1930s and '40s
that acted as the enforcement arm of the Italian-American Mafia, Jewish mob, and connected organized
crime groups in New York and elsewhere.
37818 (MSN 8604) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 7Sep43. Long Beach Field, CA 10Sep43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 30Sep43.
568th Bomb Squadron [BI*D], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 7Oct43.
Named "Pub Pete/Dinah Mite". {first combat mission 3Nov43}. Failed to return
from a Crossbow mission to a German V-weapon site at Heuringhem, Pas-de-Calais, France 21Jan44
(4KIA:6POW). An intense barrage of flak over Saint-Omer knocked the aircraft out of formation.
Crashed in English Channel off Wissant, between Boulogne and Calais, France. {20 missions}.
MACR 2270
37819 (MSN 8605) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 8Sep43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 7Oct43.
560th Bomb Squadron [P], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 25Oct43. Named "Jimmy Lee".
{first combat mission 26Nov43}. Battle damaged on a mission to the port area at Bremen,
Germany 20Dec43 (10RTD). Attacked by a large force of enemy fighters and flak over the target
area was very intense. Failed to return from a mission to the Vereinigte Kugellagerfabriken AG (VKF)
ball bearing factory at Erkner, Berlin, Germany 8Mar44 (4KIA:6POW). All the way from the
Netherlands to Berlin, the bombers were hounded by Luftwaffe fighters. The primary target was
not able to be bombed as planned, so diverted to a factory complex at Wildau, southeast of Berlin.
Flak was not heavy or effective over the target, but a large force of enemy fighters engaged the
bomber formation as it headed for home. An attack by enemy aircraft set off an explosion in the
radio room. The aircraft crashed at Mieste, east of Wolfsburg, Germany. {26 missions}. .
MACR 3087
37820 (MSN 8606) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 9Sep43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 17Oct43. 331st Bomb Squadron [QE*R],
94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds 26Oct43. 333rd Bomb Squadron [TS*F:TS*R].
The 94th Bomb Group flew a formation training mission 29Dec43. The No.3 en gine was losing oil
pressure and the propeller feathered. The plane returned to base and reported the issue to the Crew Chief;
failure of this engine was going to be instrumental during the next combat mission the following day.
Failed to return from a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical works at Oppau, Ludwigshafen, Germany 30Dec43.
Approaching the I.P. the No.3 engine failed, losing oil so quickly that there was insufficient to feather
the propeller. The bomb bay was awash with oil and the propeller was windmilling. The pilots
started a diving turn to the left and headed back to England, levelling off at 8,000 feet. The plane was
attacked by a flight of Fw 190D fighters but were soon dispersed by the gunners. With Paris in the
distance, the pilot drop down to tree top level. The bombs were disarmed and jettisoned, bouncing
back up to the height of the bomber, about 100 feet. Following the Seine river westwards took the
plane to Le Havre, the crew forgetting about the heavy flak defences along the harbour. The pilots jinked the
plane over the surface of the river to avoid flak bursts then passed over two German destroyers
and turned north to hit the English south coast. The pilot was given a course over the Thames
estuary east of London and on into East Anglia. Having used excessive fuel avoiding flak defences,
the pilots became aware that the fuel was nearly exhausted. Then it went quiet. The co-pilot set up
an approach to a meadow for a crash landing. The meadow was the spongy turf of a marsh and
the plane slid along on a slight upgrade, plowed through a flock of grazing sheep and dropped into a
depression, stopping the plane dead and snapping the fuselage at the radio hatch with the wings
detached outboard of the engines. The plane had crashed at St Marys-in-the-Marsh, Romney
Marsh, Kent, England. MACR 1755
37821 (MSN 8607) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 10Sep43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 13Oct43. 410th Bomb Squadron,
94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 26Oct43.
Named "The Sweetest One". Failed to return from a mission to the ball bearing
factories at Paris, France (9KIA:1EVD). Mid-air collision with Fw 190, crashed at Chevry-Cossigny,
seven miles north of Melun, France, MACR 1126.
37822 (MSN 8608) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 8Sep43. Long Beach Field, CA 9Sep43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 17Oct43.
Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 17Dec43; crashed on landing at Prestwick when the landing gear collapsed.
544th Bomb Squadron [SU*C], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106),
Northamptonshire 12May44. {first combat mission 20May44}. During a training flight, the aircraft
was involved in a hard, overweight landing at RAF Ringway, Manchester 16Mar45. The bomber
had not been airborne long enough to burn off sufficient fuel to reduce the gross weight for a
landing. Although a normal approach had been made, the pilot levelled off too high and
stalled onto the hard runway from 10-15ft. Two bolts on the right landing gear drag link
sheared and that landing gear collapsed back into the nacelle. The plane ground looped
180 degrees to the right before stopping. {63 missions}. Salvaged by Eighth Air Force Service
Command 19Mar45. Named THE LED BANANA / THE 'LEAD BANANA' artwork of a flying banana.
37823 (MSN 8609) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 9Sep43. Long Beach Field, CA 9Sep43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 6Oct43.
390th Bomb Group 26Oct43. Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 11/12Nov43. 569th Bomb Squadron [CC*D], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153),
Suffolk 26Oct43. {first combat mission 5Dec43}. Failed to return from a mission to Emden,
Germany 11Dec43 (8KIA:2POW). The Luftwaffe was waiting for the bombers; the moment the
bombers crossed over into mainland Europe, six twin-engine fighter dived out of the sun
upon the formation, concentrating all their fire on the lead plane. Once the leader had been
downed, the fighters swept through the lead Squadron. Before the deputy lead had a chance
to reassemble the formation, a large force of single-engine fighters joined the fray, attacking the
other bombers. Damaged by flak and shot down by Uffz.
Leo Demetz in Bf 109G-6 of JG 11/9 and crashed at Leezdorf near Norden,
north of Emden, Germany. {2 missions}.. MACR 1726.
37824 (MSN 8610) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Sep43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 11Sep43. 447th Bomb Group, Harvard Field, NB.
447th Bomb Group, Rattlesden (Station 126), Suffolk 21Oct43 Named "Miss Boo".
Failed to return from a mission to the aero engine complex at Brunswick, Germany 11Jan44.
As weather conditions began to deteriorate over the English bases, a recall order was sent to
the bomber groups en route to the city. While some the groups received the message and turned
back for England, others did not receive the order, and pressed onwards. When they arrived
at the target area, they met stiff resistance from the Luftwaffe. An attack by enemy aircraft
set fire to No.3 engine, then No.1 was hit. The bomber ditched in the North Sea, broke in half
almost immediately and sank. An RAF Hudson found the crew and circled until RAF Air-Sea
Rescue saved the crew and took them to Great Yarmouth, Norfolk No MACR.
37825 (MSN 8611) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 9Sep43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 11Sep43. Scott Field,
Belleville, IL 23Sep43. 379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 7Oct43.
511th Bomb Squadron [DS*Q], 351st Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 21Oct43.
Named *Super Ball* Named in the tradition of 511th Bomb Squadron by incorporating
the word 'Ball' in the title, after the squadron's first commander Clinton F Ball
Failed to return from a mission to Landsberg-am-Lech airfield 18Mar44 (10INT),
attacked by Fw 190s after the bomb run, damaged two engines and other damage,
crash landed D�bendorf, Z�rich, Switzerland. {26 missions}. MACR 3237.
37826 (MSN 8612) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Sep43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 13Sep43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 28Sep43.
335th Bomb Squadron [OE*O], 95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 30Sep43.
Named "No Excuse". Failed to return rom a mission to the industrial area
at Brunswick, Germany 10Feb44 (3KIA:7POW). 17 missions. Shot down by enemy aircraft and
craahed in street at Engden-Schuttorf, near Jackering, SE of Nordhorn, Germany.
MACR 2543.
37827 (MSN 8613) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Sep43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 11Sep43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 29Sep43.
509th Bomb Squadron [RQ*J], 351st Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire
27Oct43. 508th Bomb Squadron [YB*J]. Failed to return from a mission to the ball bearing factories
at Schweinfurt, Germany 13Apr44 (1KIA:9POW). Shot down by six BF 109s, knocking off half of
right stabiliser, jettisoned bombs before bailing out, aircraft crashed at Oberelsbach,
twenty-eight miles north of Schweinfurt. {24 missions} MACR 3863.
37828 (MSN 8614) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 11Sep43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 15Sep43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 29Sep43.
544th Bomb Squadron [SU*C], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106),
Northamptonshire 18Oct43. {first combat mission 3Nov43}. Accident returning to Grafton
from a mission to the port area of Bremen, Germany 29Nov43. The aircraft ran off the perimeter
track during taxying and stuck in mud. The plane was pulled out and towed to the entrance to its regular
parking location waiting to be properly positioned for servicing. Although now after dark, there were
lights and personnel working around the plane but a truck didn't see the bomber and crashed
into the tail assembly. The horizontal stabilisers, vertical stabiliser and dorsal fin were all
severely damaged and thrown out of alignment. {4 missions}. Salvaged 3Jan44
37829 (MSN 8615) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Sep43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 13Sep43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 30Sep43.
332nd Bomb Squadron [XM*F], 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds,
Suffolk 11Oct43. Named "The Better Half". On engine slow timing flight 2Mar44, crash landed at Rougham with
landing gear still retracted. Crash landed at Honington (Station 375), Suffolk 15Oct44.
1st Strategic Air Depot, Troston (Station 595), Suffolk. Salvaged 18Oct44.
37830 (MSN 8616) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Sep43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 16Sep43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 29Sep43. 410th Bomb Squadron [GL*N],
94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 8Oct43.
332nd Bomb Squadron [XM*F]. 413th Bomb Squadron [MZ*V], 96th Bomb Group,
Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk Oct43. Failed to return from a mission to the
port area of Bremen, Germany 13Nov43 (7KIA:1EVD:2POW). Mid-air collision with a B-17
while taking evasive action and crashed near Ommen, Netherlands. Also listed as shot down by Oblt Wolfgang Neu in Fw 190A-6
of JG 26/4 near Ommen, Netherlands. MACR 1388.
37831 (MSN 8617) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Sep43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 16Sep43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 25Sep43.
331st Bomb Squadron [QE*M], 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds,
Suffolk 7Oct43. Detailed for a practice mission and ran off runway onto road, when
electrical fault caused brake failure 10Nov43. Salvaged 13Nov43.
37832 (MSN 8618) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Sep43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 19Sep43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 2Oct43.
509th Bomb Squadron [RQ*N], 351st Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110),
Northamptonshire 24Oct43. Named "Casa Dembriagps". Failed to return from a mission to the
Dornier works at Oberpfaffenhofen, Munich, Germany 18Mar44 (6KIA:4POW). Vertical stabiliser shot
off by enemy aircraft, fell out of formation but was still under control. Later it blew up and crashed at
Erbstetten, nineteen miles west of Ulm, Germany. {15 missions}. MACR 6168 and 3238
37833 (MSN 8619) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Sep43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 17Sep43. 401st Bomb Group,
Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 25Sep43. 615th Bomb Squadron [IY*F], 401st Bomb Group,
Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 4Nov43., named "Omar the Dentmaker".
Failed to return from a Crossbow mission to a German V-weapon site at Watten, France 26Mar44
(8KIA:2POW). Flak hit between No.3 and No.4 engines, wing broke off, crashed at Souich rail station,
Bouquemaison, 22 miles NNE of Abbeville, France. MACR 3599.
37834 (MSN 8620) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 17Sep43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 28Sep43.
Assigned Eighth Air Force, England 7Oct43. Ninth Air Force. United States Air Forces in
Europe (USAFE) Aug45. Salvaged 31Oct45
37835 (MSN 8621) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 16Sep43. 401st Bomb Group, Gore Field,
Great Falls, MT 21Sep43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 24Oct43. 612th Bomb Squadron [SC*J],
401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 5Nov43. Named "Channel Express".
On return from Osnabr�ck, Germany 22Dec43, the bomber was hit over enemy territory by a bomb
from another B-17 in a higher element. The crew brought it back to Deenethorpe but could not land
it so they bailed out over the base. The plane went on to crash near the town of Washingley,
Huntingtonshire. Salvaged 2nd Strategic Air Depot
37836 (MSN 8622) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 14Sep43. Long Beach Field, CA 16Sep43.
368th Bomb Squadron [BO*P], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 30Dec43.
Named "Rain Check/Lady Winifred". Battle damaged on a mission to the Junkers aircraft factory at
Halberstadt, Germany 11Jan44. An enemy fighter attack after the target struck causing severe damage.
On return, force landed at Hethel (Station 114), Norfolk. Battle damaged on a mission to the
railway marshalling yards at Berlin, Germany 22Mar44. During the bomb run over the target,
a flak burst disabled No.4 engine and damaged No.3. Another burst damaged No.2 engine and the
oil pressure dropped to zero. With that propeller feathered, the plane was eased out of formation
and started a slow descent. With only one engine operating and now in danger of overheating the
pilot attempted to remain close to the protection of the bomber stream. At a lower altitude, engine
power was sufficient to maintain altitude above stalling speed. A ground fog kept Luftwaffe fighters
grounded and the bomber made it through a weather front west of Hanover. Dropping down further
to avoid radar and setting a course avoiding flak batteries over the Netherlands. In contact with
Air-Sea Rescue over the North Sea, the bomber made it back to force land at Leiston, (Station 373), Suffolk.
On landing it was found that the main and emergency brakes had been shot out.
To stop, the pilot kicked right rudder and headed for the grass and mud as the nose tipped over
slightly before the tail settled back on the ground. The crew had nicknamed the plane 'Lady Winifred'.
Eighth Air Force Service Command Mar44. Regained by Group Apr44. 2nd Strategic Air Depot,
Little Staughton (Station 127), Bedfordshire 28Jul44. Regained by Group 29Jul44. Failed to return
from a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical and synthetic oil works at Leuna, Merseburg,
Germany 11Sep44 (9POW). Damaged by flak losing an engine and dropping back from the
formation but under control. Crashed at Koenigswald, Germany. MACR 8830
37837 (MSN 8623) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 21Sep43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 30Sep43.
401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 4Oct43. 413th Bomb Squadron [MZ*P],
96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 5Oct43. Crash landed at Snetterton Heath 20Jan44.
Accident returning from a mission to the industrial areas of Frankfurt am Main, Germany 20Mar44.
High clouds frustrated bombing attempts and the squadron diverted to a target of opportunity.
Flak over Bonn was intense and accurate, enemy fighters attacked northeast of Paris on the way home.
The aircraft crash landed on a beach at Worth, Kent. Salvaged 23Mar44.
37838 (MSN 8624) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 21Sep43. 401st Bomb Group, Gore Field,
Great Falls, MT 25Sep43. 612th Bomb Squadron [SC*F], 401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128),
Northamptonshire 26Oct43. Named "Fancy Nancy". During a mission to the port of Bremen,
Germany 26Nov43 (1KIA), the aircraft was damaged in a mid-air collision with B-17F 42-30317
of the 388th Bomb Group. The ball turret was knocked off, complete with gunner (who was killed), by the vertical
stabiliser of the other bomber when it was forced into it by a flak burst. Badly damaged and with
an engine out, the bomber force landed at RAF Detling, Kent. {1 mission}. Salvaged by 2nd Strategic
Air Depot, Little Staughton (Station 127), Bedfordshire 9Dec43.
37839 (MSN 8625) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 15Sep43. Douglas Aircraft Company,
Modification Center, Air Force Plant #3, Tulsa Municipal Airport, OK 20Sep43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 14Oct43.
563rd Bomb Squadron [D], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 26Oct43. Named "Little Willie"
{first combat mission 19Nov43}. Battle damaged on a mission to the port area at Bremen,
Germany 20Dec43 (10RTD). Attacked by a large force of enemy fighters and flak over the target
area was very intense. Battle damaged on a Crossbow mission to a German V-weapon site
in the Pas-de-Calais, France 24Dec43 (10RTD). Just inside the French coast at Dieppe, the aircraft
was struck by flak. Failed to return from a mission to the Heinkel Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory
at Oranienburg, Germany 9Mar44 (10POW). Flak was meagre en route over Amsterdam, D�mmer See,
and Nienburg. Over Berlin, the flak was intense and accurate. Shortly after dropping bombs on the
target, flak ruptured an oil line in No.2 engine and set it on fire. The propeller would not feather
and the fire spread in the wing. The crew was ordered to bail out. The plane crashed in Pr�tze forest
near Liebenthal, twelve miles northeast of Oranienburg, Germany. {32 missions}.
37840 MSN 8626) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 15Sep43. Long Beach Field, CA 21Sep43.
401st Bomb Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 13Oct43. 447th Bomb Group, Harvard Field, NB.
457th Bomb Group, Glatton (Station 130), Huntingdonshire 20Feb44. 367th Bomb Squadron [GY*Y],
306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 12Mar44.
Named "Combined Operations" Named because it had been recycled using the front
half of a Douglas-manufactured B-17 and the back half of a Boeing built plane . Seriously battle
damaged during a mission to the Focke-Wulf aircraft factory at Waggum, Brunswick, Germany
29Mar44 (1KIA:1WIA:8RTD). The tail gunner was killed and the ball turret gunner wounded
during an attack by enemy fighters. On return, the plane landed at Eye (Station 134), Suffolk;
returned to Thurleigh 30Mar44. Battle damaged by flak during a mission to railway marshalling
yards at Metz, France 23May44 (1WIA:8RTD). En route to the target, flak damaged No.4 engine
which started smoking. The propeller would not feather and the bombardier had been
injured by splinters from the Plexiglas nose. The pilot jettisoned the bomb load and returned
safely to base with an escort of friendly fighters. Damaged taxying at Thurleigh 15Aug44.
The plane had landed after a series of night landings and takeoffs and was returning to its
dispersal when it was seen to stop and remained there. The pilot told air traffic that the tail
wheel had collapsed. On reaching the plane it was found that the fuselage had broken
where the tail gunner's compartment was attached. Battle damaged on a mission to the
railway bridge at Hohenzollern, Cologne, Germany 14Jan45 (2WIA:7RTD). The waist and
tail gunners were wounded by flak. The plane was detailed for a weekend R&R and whiskey
sortie to Langford Lodge (Station 597), County Antrim, Northern Ireland with a crew of five
and six passengers, including a Red Cross nurse. En route it encountered low cloud and was
flying at about 350 feet above sea level. Off course, the pilot saw land ahead, attempted to
pull the aircraft up and to the left to miss the hill but struck the ground. The plane skidded,
struck a stone wall and caught fire. It had crashed on the Chasms, Glen Chass above
Perwick Bay, west of Port St Mary, Isle of Man 14Apr45 (11KIS). Salvaged 15Apr45.
37841 (MSN 8627) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 21Sep43. Operational Training
Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 22Jan43.
360th Bomb Squadron [PU*P], 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire
18Nov43. Named "Banshee". Battle damaged over the target of Esbjerg, Denmark 27Aug44 (1KIA).
On its 97th mission the aircraft sustained flak damage which blew off parts of the tailplane and ruddder,
killing the tail gunner. The pilot managed to fly it back to England, then ordered the crew to bail out as he
nearred base. The bomber crash landed at Badingham, Suffolk. Salvaged by 2nd Strategic Air Depot,
Abbots Ripton 30Aug44
37842 (MSN 8628) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 19Sep43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 13Oct43. 447th Bomb Group,
Harvard Field, NB. 711th Bomb Squadron [IR*R], 447th Bomb Group, Rattlesden (Station 126),
Suffolk 26Nov43. Failed to return from a mission to the Luftwaffe airfield at Achmer,
Germany 8Apr44 (10POW). Damaged by flak, crashed Welbregen, near Ochtrup, ten miles
southwest Rheine, Germany. MACR 3658
37843 (MSN 8629) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 19Sep43. 401st Bomb Group, Gore Field,
Great Falls, MT 25Sep43. 615th Bomb Squadron [IY*H], 401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128),
Northamptonshire 2Nov43. Named "Dry Run"
Failed to return from a mission to the Luftwaffe airfield at Le Bourget, Paris, France 14Jun44 (1KIA:9EVD).
Shot Down by Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6 and Crashed at Germigny-sous-Coulombs
8 km West of Chateau-Thierry France
BF 109G-6 Flown By Major Klaus Mietusch of JG 26/III Stab.
MACR 5801.
37844 (MSN 8630) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 17Sep43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 26Sep43.
561st Bomb Squadron [Y], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 10Oct43
{first combat mission 16Nov43}. On a cross-country training flight, the aircraft crash landed
when the pilot failed to extend the landing gear at Hethel (Station 114), Norfolk 24Nov43.
Participated in an Operation Frantic II shuttle mission to the Braunkohle-Benzin AG synthetic
oil refinery at Schwarzheide, Ruhland, Germany 21Jun44. After the target, the bomber
continued east and landed at Poltava (Station 559), Ukraine. Destroyed on the ground by a
major German strike force night of 21/22Jun44. {29 missions}.
37845 (MSN 8631) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 19Sep43. Scott Field,
Belleville, IL 26Sep43. 509th Bomb Squadron [RQ*F], 351st Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110),
Northamptonshire 25Nov43 Named "Wildfire". . Failed to return from a tactical mission to
Saint-Nazaire, France 12Jun44 (2KIA). Damaged by flak, ditched in English Channel twenty-five
miles off Dungeness, Kent. {55 missions}.
37846 (MSN 8632) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Sep43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 20Sep43. Operational
Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 6Oct43.
331st Bomb Squadron [QE*S], 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds,
Suffolk 9Oct43, named "Vern Scott/Lucky 13". 69 missions. Salvaged Jun 2, 1945.
37847 (MSN 8633) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Sep43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 19Sep43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 26Sep43. 511th Bomb Squadron [DS*R],
351st Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 24Oct43. Failed to return from a mission
to the I.G. Farben chemical works at Leverkusen, Germany 1Dec43 (10POW). Clouds obscured the target
so the formation diverted to the secondary target, a non-ferrous metals works at Solingen, Germany.
Shot down by fighters and crashed near Daun, thirty-seven miles
southwest of Koblenz, Germany. {3 missions}. MACR 1658.
37848 (MSN 8634) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 20Sep43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 20Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 30Sep43. 447th Bomb Group, Rattlesden (Station 126),
Suffolk 8Oct43. 546th Bomb Squadron [BK*E], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106),
Northamptonshire 18Oct43, Named *Sissy" {first combat mission 5Nov43}. Failed to return from a
mission to the industrial area at Augsburg, Germany 16Mar44 (10POW). From Strasburg, Germany to
Augsburg, the bombers were attacked by Luftwaffe fighters in a running battle. Flak over the target was
moderate and accurate; flak en route was meagre and inaccurate. After bombing the target, the bomber
lost altitude and flew just above the undercast. It continued in this way for 1.5 hrs and then was lost
from sight. Believed to have oxygen failure caused by enemy action, the aircraft crash landed at Grivillers,
twenty-two miles southeast of Amiens, France. {23 missions}. . MACR 3244.
37849 (MSN 8635) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 20Sep43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 20Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 30Sep43. 560th Bomb Squadron [G], 388th Bomb Group,
Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 11Oct43, named "Miss Fortune". {first combat mission 13Nov43}.
Battle damaged during a mission to the industrial area at Brunswick, Germany 10Feb44 (10RTD).
Meagre to heavy flak was seen when crossing the enemy coast at IJmuiden, Netherlands.
In the vicinity of Lingen, Germany the formation was attacked by enemy fighters in groups of three.
As they neared the target, twin-engined aircraft fired rockets into the formation. Intense flak was
encountered at the target where the aircraft received flak damage. The formation was under fighter
attack until it neared the IJsselmeer on the return home. Friendly fighters were outnumbered,
especially in the target area. Battle damaged on a mission to the Vereinigte Kugellagerfabriken AG (VKF)
ball bearing factory at Erkner, Berlin, Germany 8Mar44 (2WIA:8RTD). Very determined enemy fighter
opposition was met en route to the target during a lapse of the friendly escorts, wounding the two
waist gunners. Battle damaged on return from a mission to an aviation industry at Krepinki,
Poland 11Apr44 (1WIA:9RTD). As the formation approached the enemy coast near Stettin, it became
apparent that visual bombing was impossible, because of weather conditions. It was decided to attack
their secondary target, the Heinkel Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory at Marienehe, Rostock, Germany.
En route to the target, a force of enemy fighters attacked. Just after bomb release over Rostock, the
formation was attacked by a smaller force of fighters. Damaged in these attacks, the engineer
was wounded. Battle damaged on a mission to a railway marshalling yard at Li�ge, Belgium 25May44.
Meagre flak was encountered crossing the French coast in the Le Tr�port area but very accurate flak
at Poix-de-Picardie, France. Battle damaged during a mission to the Braunkohle Benzin A.G. synthetic
oil refinery at Rothensee, Magdeburg, Germany 20Jun44. Flak over the target was intense and accurate.
Battle damaged during a Crossbow mission to a German V-weapon site at Houppeville, north of Rouen,
Normandy, France 17Jul44 (8RTD). The formation encountered moderate and accurate flak at Rouen and
Saint-Martin. The ailerons of the aircraft had been shot away by flak and the pilot gave his crew the
choice of bailing out or staying with the plane for an emergency landing. Six of the crew, except the
co-pilot, had bailed out over Knettishall. Battle damaged on a mission to the Daimler-Benz tank
assembly works at Marienfelde, Berlin, Germany 6Aug44. Moderate to intense barrage and tracking
flak was encountered over the target. Battle damaged on a mission to the Braunkohlen Benzin AG
synthetic oil refinery northeast of Zeitz, Germany 16Aug44. Intense accurate flak was encountered at the
target. Battle damaged on a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical and synthetic oil works at Leuna,
Meresburg, Germany 28Sep44. Battle damaged on a tactical mission in support of the Battle of the
Bulge to a Luftwaffe airfield at Griesheim, Darmstadt, Germany 24Dec44; force landed on the continent.
{final combat mission 24Dec44}. Damaged taxying at Knettishall 15Feb45. {72 missions}. Salvaged 31May45.
Also named RED X DARLING [it was called RED X because it always had a long list of after and
before mission 'squawks' and DARLING because she always got them back].
37850 (MSN 8636) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Sep43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 20Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 30Sep43. 413th Bomb Squadron [MZ*V], 96th Bomb Group,
Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 9Oct43. Named "Boots IV" IV artwork of a motif displaying cowboy
boots and a red and white striped top hat. Mission symbols were added in a circle around the outer
rim of the design. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1944. 1402nd Base Unit (European Division, Air Transport Command),
Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire. Mid-air collision with Douglas C-47B 43-48506 two miles south of
Bovingdon 31Mar45 (4KIS). The B-17 was on a local flight in the airfield circuit at 800 feet and preparing to
land. The pilot failed to observe the C-47B which had taken off and was in a blind spot just below the bomber.
The No.4 engine of the B-17 took off the tail empennage of the C-47B which then crashed killing the two crew
members. After the collision, the B-17G stalled and crashed. One of the crew killed was WAC Emma Jane
Windham, training as the first WAC crew chief and flight engineer. She was the first WAC to give her life
in the line of duty in the European Theater of Operation
37851 (MSN 8637) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 20Sep43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 20Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 12Oct43. 527th Bomb Squadron [FO*C], 379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117),
Huntingdonshire 13Dec43. Failed to return from a mission to the port area at Bremen, Germany 20Dec43
(7KIA:3POW). Attacked by a large force of enemy fighters and flak over the target area was very intense.
Shot down by enemy fighters and crashed at Westerbek, near Osterholz-Scharmbeck, twelve miles north
of Bremen, Germany. MACR 1719.
37852 (MSN 8638) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Sep43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 20Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training
Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 3Oct43. 410th Bomb Squadron [GL*T], 94th Bomb Group, Rougham
(Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 9Oct43. Named "The Pay Off/Grand Old Lady"
Failed to return from a mission to the Heinkel Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory at Oranienburg, Germany
18Apr44 (9POW:1KIA). The bombers arrived over Oranienburg to find the town
covered by a thick undercast. Forced to decide between abandoning the mission or bringing the
formation down under the clouds, the air leader had the planes drop down to 17,000ft in
order to make their attack run. The bomber encountered intense flak over Oranienburg.
Shot down by enemy fighters. The aircraft was on the bomb run flying at 25,000ft. Clouds were
encountered as the bomb run progressed. Clouds became solid so the Group began descent so as to
get under them. Just as the Group emerged, from the upper clouds and leveled off, flying at 23,000ft,
the Group was attacked by a close formation of about 40-70 enemy fighters. Two passes were made
on this Group, both being head-on in close formation and well pressed. About 80 enemy aircraft
were in the formation making the second attack. This bomber dropped out of formation and was
last seen in the target area. Crashed at Vietznitz, four miles east of Freisack, Brandenburg, Germany
MACR 4157.
37853 (MSN 8639) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 21Sep43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 21Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 10Oct43. 452nd Bomb Group, Deopham Green (Station 142),
Norfolk 14Oct43. 563rd Bomb Squadron [E], Transferrred to 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk..
Named "Miss Fury". {first combat mission 26Nov43}. Battle damaged on a Crossbow mission
to a German V-weapon site in the Pas-de-Calais, France 24Dec43 (10RTD). Just inside the French coast
at Dieppe, the aircraft was struck by flak. Battle damaged on a mission to the railway marshalling yards
at M�nster, Germany 4Jan44 (10RTD). Crash landed at RAF Eastchurch, Kent. {final combat mission 4Jan44}.
{8 missions}. 1st Strategic Air Depot, Troston (Station 595), Suffolk. Salvaged 18Apr44.
37854 (MSN 8640) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Sep43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 23Sep43. 447th Bomb Group, Harvard Field, NB 9Oct43.
708th Bomb Squadron, 447th Bomb Group, Rattlesden (Station 126), Suffolk 19Nov43.
Named "Round Trip" artwork of a globe showing North and South America with "Round"
wrapped above and "Trip" wrapped below
Declared 'war weary'. Reassigned for utility, training and weather check aircraft. Takeoff accident at Rattlesden 6Jan45.
37855 (MSN 8641) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Sep43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 21Sep43. 447th Bomb Group, Harvard Field, NB 10Oct43. 92nd Bomb Group,
Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 18Nov43. 447th Bomb Group, Rattlesden (Station 126), Suffolk Dec43.
Named "Mr. Terrific". On a mission to Ch�teau-Bernard, Cognac, France, sustained multiple damage
from flak and fighter cannon shells. Sustained battle damage on a mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft
factory at Regensburg, Germany 25Feb44 (1KIA:9RTD). After crossing the coastline into mainland Europe,
the formation encountered frequent flak and fierce aerial attacks from the Luftwaffe, causing heavy damage
to some of the bombers. The planes arrived at Regensburg and encountered intense flak over the target area.
With one engine damaged, crashed after fuel exhaustion in woods at Starvecrow Hill, near Gravesend,
one mile north of Tonbridge, Kent. The pilot was trying to make it to Penshurt emergency airfield about
3-4 miles west of Tonbridge. Seeing that he was not going to make it, he ordered the crew to bail out
but the pilot left it too late and his parachute did not have time to open. Salvaged 3Mar44
37856 (MSN 8642) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Sep43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 21Sep43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 7Oct43. 612th Bomb Squadron [SC*B],
401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 23Dec43. Named "Fancy Nancy III"
Failed to return from a mission to an aircraft assembly plant at Brunswick, Germany 30Jan44 (5KIA:5POW). Flak damaged then
Shot Down By Gunfire From German Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-7 and Crashed at Beienrode 8 km North
of Konigslutter Germany Fw 190A-7 Flown By Unknown Pilot and Unit.
MACR 2276.
37857 (MSN 8643) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Sep43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 22Sep43. Scott Field, Belleville, IL 7Oct43. 336th Bomb Squadron [ET*P],
95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 15Nov43. During a local training flight the aircraft crash
landed after the landing gear malfunctioned at Honington (Station 375), Suffolk 10Jan44. {4 missions}.
Salvaged 1st Strategic Air Depot, Troston (Station 595), Suffolk 3Apr44
37858 (MSN 8644) Douglas Aircraft Company, Modification Center, Air Force Plant #3, Tulsa Municipal
Airport, OK 23Sep43. Las Vegas Field, NV 21Oct43. 3021st Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School),
Las Vegas Field, NV 2Jun44. Damaged by fire landing at Las Vegas Field 22Nov44. 237th Base
Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Kirtland Field, Albuquerque, NM 4Jun45. 3017th Base Unit
(Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 10Jul45. 4200th Base Unit, Mines Field,
Los Angeles, CA 29Sep45. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 18Oct45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 10Jan46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
37859 (MSN 8645) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 24Sep43. Douglas Aircraft Company,
Modification Center, Air Force Plant #3, Tulsa Municipal Airport, OK 24Sep43. Operational
Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 2Oct43.
306th Ferrying Squadron, 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI.
Substantially damaged in collision with parked B-17G 42-37880 & 42-39900 while taxying at Grand
Island Field 1Nov43. Accident landing at RAF St Angelo, Enniskillen, Northern Ireland 12Feb44.
524th Bomb Squadron [WA*S], 379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 12Apr44.
Named "Miss Mary/Sweet Sue/Fightin'Cock". Failed to return from a mission to the Mitteldeutsche
Motorenwerke aero engine factory at Taucha, Leipzig, Germany 7Jul44. Shot down by enemy fighters,
ditched North Sea, crew rescued by Air-Sea Rescue launch.
37860 (MSN 8646) Douglas Aircraft Company, Modification Center, Air Force Plant #3, Tulsa
Municipal Airport, OK 23Sep43. Las Vegas Field, NV 20Oct43. 3021st Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School),
Las Vegas Field, NV 28Oct43. 2126th Base Unit (Central School for Flexible Gunnery), Laredo Field, TX 4Oct45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 5Jan46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
37861 (MSN 8647) Douglas Aircraft Company, Modification Center, Air Force Plant #3, Tulsa
Municipal Airport, OK 23Sep43. Las Vegas Field, NV 20Oct43. 225th Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Rapid City Field, SD. Damaged in a collision on the ground with B-17G 42-37916
at Rapid City Field 20Nov44. 225th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Rapid City Field, SD 1May45.
2158th Base Unit, Pueblo AAB, CO 7Sep45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK
for storage and disposal 21Nov45.
37862 (MSN 8648) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 23Sep43. Amarillo Field, TX 20Oct43.
3701st Base Unit (Technical School), Amarillo Field, TX 10Dec44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 17Oct45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
37863 (MSN 8649) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Sep43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 27Sep43. Las Vegas Field, NV 25Oct43.
225th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Rapid City Field, SD. Crashed on fire 9 miles
northeast of Pierre AAB, SD 17Aug44 (6KIS). Salvaged 20Aug44
37864 (MSN 8650) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Sep43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 25Oct43. 447th Bomb Group,
Harvard Field, NB 29Oct43. 709th Bomb Squadron [IE*K], 447th Bomb Group, Rattlesden (Station 126),
Suffolk 21Nov43. Failed to return from a mission to the railway marshalling yards in Brussels,
Belgium 20May44 (7EVD:3POW), hit by friendly fire from another 447th Bomb Group B-17,
crashed Neerbeck, seven miles northeast of Maarstricht, Netherlands.
37865 (MSN 8651) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Sep43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 24Sep43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 21Oct43. 798th Bomb Squadron,
447th Bomb Group, Harvard Field, NB. In November 1943, sixty-two B-17s of the 447th Bomb
Group left Harvard Field in Nebraska for a transatlantic flight to England. Sixty arrived.
Two were lost with their crew over the Atlantic and never found. One of them was B-17G 42-37865
of 798th Bomb Squadron that took off on November 27, 1943 from RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador
for a direct flight to Prestwick, Scotland. It went missing without a trace, being unaccounted
for since radar equipment at Goose Bay lost track of it 85 miles out and on course.
Weather conditions en route and at the terminal were considered satisfactory for the trip
and were proved so by the successful completion of flights by two other similarly routed
B-17s which departed the same night. No radio contact was made with the subject aircraft
after it was cleared from the tower frequency, except that the pilot of one of the B-17s that
completed the trip reported at Prestwick that he contacted on Channel B, VHF, an aircraft
believed to be 42-37865 one and one half hours out of Goose Bay, which reported "everything OK".
An aerial search was scheduled to start at daybreak the next day but a blizzard through the
Goose Bay area prevented it being launched on 28 November (9KIS). .MACR 1119.
37866 ((MSN 8652) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Sep43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 25Sep43. 447th Bomb Group, Harvard Field, NB 17Oct43.
708th Bomb Squadron [CQ*D], 447th Bomb Group, Rattlesden (Station 126), Suffolk 19Nov43.
Failed to return from a mission to railway facilities around Berlin, Germany 29Apr44 (8POW:2KIA).
The combat wing was off course heading to Berlin, attacked by enemy fighters and bombed Magdeburg.
Enemy aircraft severely damaged the tail and set the aircraft on fire, crashed Abbenrode, nine miles east
of Brunswick, Germany. MACR 4250
37867 (MSN 8653) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 24Sep43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 24Sep43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 7Oct43. 561st Bomb Squadron [B],
388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 15Oct43.. Named "Berlin Ambassador".
. {first combat mission 26Nov43}. The aircraft was battle damaged on a mission to the industrial
area of Solingen, Germany 30Nov43 (3WIA:7RTD). Various concentrations of flak were encountered
between the I.P. and the target, with intensity varying from meagre to moderate. The pilot, co-pilot
and engineer were wounded by flak. Failed to return from a mission to the aero engine complex
at Brunswick, Germany 11Jan44 (4KIA:6POW). As weather conditions began to deteriorate over the
English bases, a recall order was sent to the bomber groups en route to the city. While some the
groups received the message and turned back for England, others did not receive the order, and
pressed onwards. When they arrived at the target area, they met stiff resistance from the Luftwaffe.
Damaged by flak, crashed on a sports ground, avoiding the town of Zwolle, Netherlands. {5 missions}
MACR 3140.
37868 (MSN 8654) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Sep43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 25Sep43. 447th Bomb Group,
Harvard Field, NB 15Oct43. 708th Bomb Squadron [CQ*B], 447th Bomb Group, Rattlesden
(Station 126), Suffolk 19Nov43. Named "Due Back". Failed to return from a mission to Friedrichshafen,
Germany 29Apr44 (6POW:4KIA). Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Grasleben, six miles
north of Helmstedt, Germany. MACR 4251
37869 (MSN 8655) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Sep43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 25Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 7Oct43. Combat Weather Detachment,
1st Combat Crew Replacement Group, RAF St Eval, Padstow, Cornwall 25Oct43. Bovingdon (Station 112),
Hertfordshire 23Nov43. Accident on return from an Atlantic weather flight to St Eval (Station 129),
Cornwall 25Dec43 (5KIS:3RTD). Crashed on Tigers Marsh, Corn Ridge, Dartmoor, three miles
southeast of Bridestowe, near Okehampton, Devon. Salvaged 21Jan44.
During the summer of 1943 at RAF St Eval, Padstow, Cornwall, No.1404 Meteorological Flight
became No.517 Squadron and began re-equipping with the Handley-Page Halifax. Because of
this No.517 was unable to maintain its operational committment of twice-daily meteorological
reconnaissance sorties to the southwest over Biscay (code-named EPICURE). Such was the
importance of these flights that the USAAF offered four B-17s to make up the shortfall - adding
another four aircraft later. Initially these were detached to RAF St Eval and operated to the
west of the UK (code-named ALLAH), but during the autumn it was decided the USAAF aircraft
should operate from an American base - Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire. As the USAAF
didn't have aircrew trained in meteorological observing, the crews always flew with an RAF
Meteorological Air Observer (MAO
37870 (MSN 8656) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Sep43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 25Sep43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 16Oct43. 447th Bomb Group,
Rattlesden (Station 126), Suffolk 2Nov43. 333rd Bomb Squadron [TS*R], 94th Bomb Group,
Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 3Nov43. 364th Bomb Squadron [WF*F],
305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 23Nov43.
Failed to return from a mission to the docks at Kiel, Germany 22May44 (3POW:7KIA).
Flak direct hit, crashed Kiel-Ellerbeck navy depot. MACR 4950. Named "Palma II"
37871 (MSN 8657) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Sep43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 25Sep43. 447th Bomb Group,
Harvard Field, NB 13Oct43. 711th Bomb Squadron, 447th Bomb Group, Rattlesden
(Station 126), Suffolk 25Nov43., Named "Uninvited"-artwork of the Grim Reaper
declared war weary Jan 1945, Returned to US. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 8Nov45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
37872 (MSN 8658) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Sep43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 27Sep43. 447th Bomb Group, Harvard Field, NB 13Oct43.
708th Bomb Squadron, 447th Bomb Group, Rattlesden (Station 126), Suffolk 21Nov43.
Failed to return from a mission to the Luftwaffe air depot at M�rignac, Bordeaux, France 5Jan44
(7KIA:3POW). Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Bassin d'Arcachon, near Gujan on
Bay of Biscay, France. MACR 1688
37873 ((MSN 8659) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Sep43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 28Sep43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 21Oct43. 447th Bomb Group,
Harvard Field, NB. 710th Bomb Squadron [IJ*F], 447th Bomb Group, Rattlesden (Station 126),
Suffolk 25Nov43. Failed to return from a mission to the BMW aircraft engine factory at Allach,
Munich, Germany 11Jul44 (10INT). Damaged by flak, force landed D�bendorf, Z�rich, Switzerland.
MACR 7223. Returned to US. 1377th Base Unit (North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command),
Grenier Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 13Sep45. 4185th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical
Service Command), Independence Field, KS 30Nov45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 12Dec45. War Assets Administration. S
old to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped.
37874 (MSN 8660) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Sep43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 1Oct43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 21Oct43. 709th Bomb Squadron,
447th Bomb Group, Rattlesden (Station 126), Suffolk 2Nov43. 548th Bomb Squadron,
385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 3Nov43, Named "Who Dat Ding Bat"
Failed to return from a mission to the port area of Bremen, Germany 29Nov43 (10KIA). Possibly damaged
by flak, the aircraft dropped out of formation as the pilot stated that he had only 30 minute fuel supply left,
but would try to reach England. It was last seen going down through the clouds near Texel, West Frisian Islands.
As the aircraft did not crash near Texel and as it was on its way back to base, it is assumed that the aircraft
crashed somewhere in the middle of the North Sea. It is possible that the pilot tried to ditch the aircraft
on the water as one of the crew members was found dead in a 5-man dinghy a few weeks after the crash. .
MACR 1532.
37875 (MSN 8661) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Sep43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 29Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 20Oct43. 427th Bomb Squadron [GN*A], 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107),
Huntingdonshire 18Nov43, named "Flying Bison" aka "Empress of D Street".
The bomber was damaged in sustained attacks by enemy fighters on a mission to the Luftwaffe airfield at
aden, Germany 15Aug44 (1KIA:2WIA). A 20mm cannon shell killed the engineer instantly. Two other crew were
ed. The rudder was damaged. Upon return to England the pilot made two passes at the Molesworth airfield,
firing distress flares, before being cleared to land. Salvaged by 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton 16Aug44.
The Ground Crew considered this B-17 a "Jinx aircraft and a real piece of junk." It was originally named
Empress of "D" Street when it was assigned to the 427th Bomb Squadron. The last Crew Chief changed the name
to Flying Bison in May 1944 in hopes that the name change would remove the "Jinx" label from his B-17.
It didn't work and the "Jinx" continued up to the time it was salvaged. Flying Bison flew a total of 48 combat missions
37876 (MSN 8662) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Sep43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 28Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 21Oct43. 412th Bomb Squadron [QW*S], 95th Bomb Group, Horham
(Station 119), Suffolk 3Nov43, named "Struggle Bunny/Miss Raps-O-Dee/Batcha's Patches"
Failed to return from a mission to a Heinkel Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory at Marienehe, Rostock,
Germany 11Apr44 (9MIA:1KIA), hit by rockets from enemy fighters damaging the left wing,
crashed Baltic Sea off Bornholm Island, Denmark. {30 missions}. . MACR 3804
37877 (MSN 8663) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Sep43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 28Sep43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 20Oct43. 325th Bomb Squadron [NV*K],
92nd Bomb Group, Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 20Oct43. Named "Popcorn Fort".
Failed to return from a mission to the Focke-Wulf aircraft factory near Cottbus, Germany 29May44
(6POW:3KIA). Enemy aircraft set aircraft on fire, exploded and crashed Denzig, five miles
southwest of Kallies, east of Stettin, Poland. MACR 5357.
37878 (MSN 8664) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 28Sep43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 28Sep43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 20Oct43. 560th Bomb Squadron [S],
388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 2Nov43. Named "Millie K".
Named after the wife of the pilot.{first combat mission 5Dec43}. Battle damaged
on a mission to the port area at Bremen, Germany 20Dec43 (10RTD). Attacked by a large force of enemy
fighters and flak over the target area was very intense. Damaged en route for a mission to a
communication center at M�nster, Germany 22Dec43. The pilot was forced to turn back after a
0.50 caliber slug had knocked out a couple of cylinders in the No.4 engine spraying oil over the wing.
The plane had crossed the enemy coast at the time and was hit by what was apparently test-firing
of guns in the formation. Battle damaged on a mission to the Luftwaffe air depot at M�rignac,
Bordeaux, France 5Jan44 (1KIA:9RTD). Flak was encountered in the target area which was accurate
and moderate in intensity. Fighter attacks were encountered in the Bordeaux area and again over the
Brest Peninsula. The bombardier was killed when hit by flak over the target. Battle damaged on a
mission to the Vereinigte Kugellagerfabriken AG (VKF) ball bearing factory at Erkner, Berlin,
Germany 8Mar44 (1KIA:9RTD). Very determined enemy fighter opposition was met en route to the
target during a lapse of the friendly escorts, a 20mm cannon shell killing the bombardier. Battle
damaged on a mission to railway installations around Berlin, Germany 7May44 (1WIA:9RTD).
Accurate flak was encountered in the D�mmer See area but the flak was inaccurate over Berlin,
wounding the radio operator. Battle damaged during a mission to the Braunkohle Benzin A.G.
synthetic oil refinery at Rothensee, Magdeburg, Germany 20Jun44. Flak over the target was intense
and accurate. Battle damaged on a mission to the Rhenania-Ossag Mineral�lwerke oil refinery at
Harburg, Hamburg, Germany 4Aug44. Moderate accurate flak was encountered at the target. Battle
damaged on a mission to the I.G. Farben synthetic fuel works at P�litz, Prussia 25Aug44. Intense
and accurate flak was encountered at the target. Battle damaged on a mission to a synthetic oil
refinery at Magdeburg, Germany 12Sep44. Flak was encountered at the target and then the Group was
attacked by a large force of enemy fighters. Failed to return from a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical
works at Oppau, Ludwigshafen, Germany 28Sep44 (9POW). Flak was intense in the target area and to
the Rally Point. Damaged by flak just after the target, disabling two engines. Crashed Saalfeld, Germany.
{83 missions}. MACR 9376
37879 MSN 8665) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Sep43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 29Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 22Oct43. 95th Bomb Group 11Nov43. Ferried Stephenville,
Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 15Nov43. Crash landed at Honington (Station 375),
Suffolk 12Dec44. 1st Strategic Air Depot, Troston (Station 595), Suffolk. 335th Bomb Squadron [OE*U],
95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk. Named "Wrinkled Belly Baby".
Battle damaged on mission to the Braunkohle-Benzin AG synthetic oil refinery at Schwarzheide,
Ruhland, Germany 21Jun44 (1KIA). Failed to return from a mission to the Braunkohlen Benzin AG
synthetic oil refinery northeast of Zeitz, Germany 16Aug44 (4KIA:5POW), the bomber was hit
on the stabiliser in a mid-air collision with flak damaged B-17G 42-97797, on fire and crashed
at Rehmsdorf, NE of Zeitz, Germany. {46 missions}. MACR 8176
37880 MSN 8666) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 29Sep43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 29Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 22Oct43. HQ Squadron, 9th Provisional Bomb Group,
Grand Island Field, NB Oct43. 570th Bomb Squadron [DI*T], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham
(Station 153), Suffolk 11Nov43. Named "Liberty Bell-E" artwork of a naked lady
astride a winged liberty bell {first combat mission 5Dec43}. Failed to return from a mission
to the Messerschmitt aircraft factory at Regensburg, Germany 25Feb44 (6KIA:4POW). After
crossing the coastline into mainland Europe, the formation encountered frequent flak and
fierce aerial attacks from the Luftwaffe, causing heavy damage to some of the bombers.
The planes arrived at Regensburg and encountered intense flak over the target area.
Shot down by enemy fighters, with an engine on fire. Crashed Poix-Terron, 20km
southwest of Sedan, France. {20 missions}. MACR 2658.
37881 (MSN 8667) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 2Oct43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 22Oct43. 365th Bomb
Squadron [XK*K], 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 23Nov43.
Named "Leap Year Lady". Failed to return from a mission to a secondary target at Ulm,
Germany 9Aug44 (4POW). Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Sinzheim, Germany. MACR 8069
37882 (MSN 8668) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 4Oct43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 22Oct43. 412th Bomb Squadron [QW*T],
95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 18Nov43,
Named "Hard Time/A-Good-Bett/Blues in the Reich".
Participated in an Operation Frantic V shuttle mission to the Flugzeugwerk Gotenhafen
Kannenberg AG Focke Wulf assembly works at Rahmel, Gdynia, Poland 6Aug44. After the target,
the bomber continued east and landed at Poltava (Station 559), Ukraine. Operated a mission
to an oil refinery at Trzebinia, Poland 7Aug44, returning to Ukraine. Operated a mission to an
airfield at Buz?u, Rumania 8Aug44, continuing on to Foggia #1, Celone, Italy, a Fifteenth Air
Force base in southern Italy. Returned to England on a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Francazal,
Toulouse, France 12Aug44. Accident returning from a mission to industrial, oil and rail installations
in Cologne, Germany 15Oct44. Force landed Ghent, Belgium. Force landed Laon-Couvron (A-70),
France 22Feb45. Accident returning from a mission to the Carl Zeiss optical works at Jena,
Germany 19Mar45. Crash landed when the right landing gear collapsed during a forced landing at
Merville (B-53), France. 5th Strategic Air Depot, Merville. Crash landed Honington (Station 375),
Suffolk 15Apr45. {98 missions}. 1st Strategic Air Depot, Troston (Station 595), Suffolk. Salvaged 16Apr45
37883 (MSN 8669) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 1Oct43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 1Oct43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 22Oct43. 571st Bomb Squadron [FC*H],
390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 10Nov43,{first combat mission 5Dec43}.
Failed to return from a mission to the Deschimag shipyards at Bremen, Germany 20Dec43 (2KIA:8POW)
(flown by 569th BS crew) Attacked by a large force of enemy fighters and flak over the
target area was very intense. Damaged by flak, crashed between Eggestedt and Brundorf, twelve
miles northwest of Bremen, Germany. {4 missions}. MACR 1729.
37884 (MSN 8670) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 1Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 22Oct43. 534th Bomb Squadron [GD*J], 381st Bomb
Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 20Dec43. Failed to return from a mission to the industrial
area at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 29Jan44 (4KIA:6POW). . Shot down by�a Me-110G-2
rashed between Eppelsheim and Flomborn,�Germany. MACR 2241
37885 (MSN 8671) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 2Oct43. Continental Airlines,
ication Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 2Oct43. Operational Training Unit,
Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 22Oct43. 544th Bomb Squadron [SU*L],
384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 22Nov43.
Named "Mrs. FDR/Frostie" . Failed to return from a mission to the Dornier
Flugzeugwerke factory at Oberpfaffenhofen, Munich, Germany 24Apr44 (10INT). When the
formation crossed the French Coast, flak wounded the tail gunner. Over the target the bomber
was damaged by flak which hit the number one engine oil tank and set it on fire. The pilot
could not feather the propeller which was windmilling, and number three propeller
oversped on the bomb run. On the last half of the bomb run the number four engine was
off balance. The windmilling propeller caused a loss of airspeed and the bomber could
not stay with the formation. The engines that were operating were running hot. The pilot
tried to stay with the formation but saw he had no chance of returning home, so he headed
for Switzerland. The bomber was attacked by flak from both the Swiss and the German side
as it crossed Lake Constance. It received medium and accurate Swiss flak about half way
into Zurich. The Swiss fighters came up, shot flares and escorted it into the airfield at Dubendorf,
Switzerland. The pilot circled the field once and landed at D�bendorf, Z�rich, Switzerland. {20 missions}.
MACR 4287.
37886 (MSN 8672) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 2Oct43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 2Oct43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 21Oct43. 562nd Bomb Squadron [U],
388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 25Oct43. Named "Blitzing Betsy"
(several of the crew had wives or girlfriends named Betty or Betsy]. {first combat mission 5Dec43}.
Battle damaged on a mission to the port area at Bremen, Germany 20Dec43 (10RTD).
Attacked by a large force of enemy fighters and flak over the target area was very intense.
Failed to return from a mission to the Robert Bosch electrical factory at Berlin, Germany 6Mar44
(4KIA:6POW). Approximately fifteen to twenty Fw 190s were met near D�mmer See en route
to the target. Instead of attacking the assigned target, the formation circled the outskirts
of the city to a textile works on the banks of the Elbe River at Oranienburg. After the problems
in the target area caused the 388th Bomb Group crews to miss their escort home, they
were hit hard by Luftwaffe fighters over the German / Dutch border. A head-on attack by Fw 190s
saw Blitzing Betsy's cockpit shattered by exploding 20mm shells. Seconds later the front end of
the bomber was engulfed in flames, which were fed by shattered fuel, hydraulic and oxygen lines.
The tail was also shot to pieces by simultaneous attacks from the rear, injuring the tail gunner.
Out of control, the aircraft nosed up and collided with the Group Wing leader flying B-17G 42-40054,
before becoming inverted and diving away. Minutes later it exploded in mid-air; the pilot, co-pilot and
navigator all managed to bail out before the bomber exploded, while the remaining four survivors were blown
out when the aircraft disintegrated. The wreckage crashed in a peat bog near Zwartemeer,
near Emmen, Netherlands. {26 missions}.
MACR 3089. In April 1974 the Ball Turret was recovered by the Royal Netherlands Air Force
37887 (MSN 8673) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 1Oct43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 24Oct43. 527th Bomb Squadron [FO*S],
379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 22Nov43. On takeoff in poor visibility
from Kimbolton, the left wing touched the ground and the aircraft crashed at Covington, Huntingdonshire 5Jan44 (7KIA)..
37888 MSN 8674) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 4Oct43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 4Oct43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 28Oct43. 527th Bomb Squadron [FO*J],
379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 21Nov43
Named "Aces n' Eights/Happy Warrior". Damaged on multiple missions, including a forced landing
at RAF Alconbury May 15, 1944, after which it was repaired.
The bomber had been on an early morning tactical bombing mission to occupied Europe before
taking off again on a training flight. Crashed at Weyhill Road, Andover, Hampshire 5Jul44 (6KIS). Salvaged 5Jul44.
37889 (MSN 8675) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 2Oct43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 22Oct43. 336th Bomb Squadron [ET*Y],
95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 11Nov43. To "Pride of Vhelhalis".
Failed to return from a mission to B�hlen oil depot, Germany 29Jun44 (8POW:2EVD),
lost two engines, crash landed in a potato field near Vroomshoop, Netherlands. {66 missions}.
MACR 6741
37890 (MSN 8676) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 4Oct43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 4Oct43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 24Oct43. 568th Bomb Squadron [BI*R],
390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 8Nov43. Named "Rovin' Romona II/Big Friend"
{first combat mission 16Dec43}. Failed to return from a Crossbow mission to a German V-weapon
site at La Glacerie, Cherbourg, France 20Apr44 (9KIA:1POW). Immediately after the target, flak struck
an engine and set it on fire. The bomber fell out of formation and exploded before the crew
bailed out. The tail gunner was ejected by the explosion and fell to his death. The radio operator,
the only survivor, was also ejected but was wearing his parachute. Crashed Th�ville, nine miles
east of Cherbourg, France. {35 missions}. MACR 4169
37891 (MSN 8677) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 4Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 4Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 22Oct43. 568th Bomb Squadron [BI*Q], 390th Bomb Group,
Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 11Nov43. Named "Minnie-So-Tan"
{first combat mission 11Dec43}. {final combat mission 29Feb44}. On a training flight,
overshot the runway causing severe damage landing at Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire 3Mar44.
{17 missions}. Salvaged 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton 4Mar44
37892 (MSN 8678) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 4Oct43. Las Vegas Field, NV 26Oct43.
225th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Rapid City Field, SD 1May45. 2114th Base Unit
(Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 22Jun45.
2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 14May45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 4Jan46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
37893 MSN 8679) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 5Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 20Oct43. 358th Bomb Squadron [VK*O],
303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 18Nov43. Named "Bam Bam".
Damaged on a mission to the industrial area at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 29Jan44.
Lockheed P-38 Lightning escort fighters dropped their auxiliary fuel tanks too close to the
Group formation. This bomber was struck by a fuel tank falling on the left wing which left
a large hole in the wing and destroyed the left aileron. The pilots managed to limp back to
base with limited controls. Damaged landing at Molesworth 24Apr44. The bomber crashed
shortly after takeoff for a mission to Nantes, France 10Jun44, just after joining the formation.
When last seen, the left wing dipped down and the B-17 went into a dive. The pilot brought
it out of the dive and climbed to the level of the formation. The bomber went into a second dive
and in to a spin. An explosion followed, apparently from the bombs, and the tail was blown off.
The B-17 crashed one quarter of one mile southwest of Great Gidding, Huntingdonshire, England.
Four crewmen managed to bail out but the other six died in the crash. Salvaged 2nd Strategic
Air Depot, Abbots Ripton.
42-37894/37988 Douglas-Long Beach B-17G-20-DL Fortress
MSN 8680/8774. Dispositions from B-17 Fortress Master Log, Dave Osborne (FORTLOG)
Production changes: Removable cockpit windshield panel added. National insignia change incorporated
37894 (MSN 8680) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 29Sep43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 23Oct43. 334th Bomb Squadron [BG*L], 95th Bomb Group,
Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 11Nov43. Named "Pegasus IV". Accident on return from a mission
at Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire 10Jun44. With engine out and other problems,
crash landed, went off the end of the runway, through an orchard and several hedges. No Injuries.
{42 missions}. Salvaged 12Jun44.
37895 (MSN 8681) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 8Oct43. Las Vegas Field, NV 30Oct43.
2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL.
Crash landed after engine failure 2 miles SSE of Hendricks Field 16May44. Salvaged 20May44)
37896 (MSN 8682) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 7Oct43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 29Oct43. 360th Bomb Squadron [PU*B],
303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 27Dec43. Failed to return from a
mission to the AGO-Flugzeugwerke Fw 190 manufacturing factory at Oschersleben, Germany 11Jan44
(2KIA:8POW). While the aircraft were airborne, the weather closed in over English bases and a
recall signal was issued. B/Gen. Robert F. Travis, Air Commander of the 1st Bomb Division,
continued on to the target. This left the 1st Bomb Division with greater exposure to enemy
fighter attacks. Good fighter support was provided by P-47 Thunderbolts on the penetration
and by P-51 Mustangs over the target. P-47s were airborne to provide withdrawal support but
they obeyed the recall order to return to England and left the bombers to fend for themselves
on the return trip. It proved to be the most disastrous of the 303rd Bomb Group combat missions
flown to date. The 303rd lost eleven of the forty B-17s flying the mission. Luftwaffe attacks
started over the IJsselmeer and intensified when the American fighters returned home.
Meagre and fairly accurate flak was experienced on the bomb run, with intermittent inaccurate
flak on the return trip. Enemy aircraft shot off tail, crashed Kirchlengern, twenty-two miles
east of Osnabr�ck, Germany. {3 missions}. MACR 1930
37897 (MSN 8683) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 6Oct43. 50th Flexible Gunnery Training Squadron,
Las Vegas Field, NV. Damaged in collision with B-17G 42-31269 taxying at Las Vegas Field, NV 25Oct43.
3021st Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Las Vegas Field, NV 1Dec44. 3017th Base Unit
(Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 28Jun45. To Reconstruction Finance
Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 11Jan46. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
37898 (MSN 8684) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 7Oct43. Las Vegas Field, NV 24Oct43. 3021st Base Unit
(Flexible Gunnery School), Las Vegas Field, NV 8Oct43. Damaged by mechanical failure taxying at
Las Vegas Field 5Sep44. 2126th Base Unit (Central School for Flexible Gunnery), Laredo Field, TX 31Mar45.
4136th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 26Aug45.
2126th Base Unit (Central School for Flexible Gunnery), Laredo Field, TX 1Sep45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 4Jan46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
37899 (MSN 8685) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 7Oct43. Las Vegas Field, NV 27Oct43.
3021st Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Las Vegas Field, NV 8Oct44. 4134th Base Unit (Spokane
Air Technical Service Command), Spokane Field, WA 16Sep44. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 31Jan45. 3021st Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery
School), Las Vegas Field, NV 3Feb45. 2126th Base Unit (Central School for Flexible Gunnery),
Laredo Field, TX 24Apr45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for
storage and disposal 5Jan46. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment
Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
37900 (MSN 8686) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 8Oct43. Las Vegas Field, NV 25Oct43. 3021st Base Unit
(Flexible Gunnery School), Las Vegas Field, NV 9Oct44. 3018th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School),
Kingman Field, AZ 26Feb45. 3702nd Base Unit, Buckley Field, CO 4Oct45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and
disposal 8Nov45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped.
37901 (MSN 8687) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 7Oct43. Las Vegas Field, NV 23Oct43. 3021st Base Unit
(Flexible Gunnery School), Las Vegas Field, NV 9Oct44. Crew bailed out after engine failure
and crashed five miles northwest Las Vegas Field, NV 12Jan45. Reclaimed 22Jan45
37902 (MSN 8688) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 8Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 8Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 27Oct43. 568th Bomb Squadron [BI*K], 390th Bomb Group,
Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 8Nov43. Named "Hell's Bells" aka "Sure Thing".
{first combat mission 4Feb44}. Failed to return from a mission to the Heinkel Flugzeugwerke aircraft
factory at Oranienburg, Germany 18Apr44 (10POW). The bombers arrived over Oranienburg to
find the town covered by a thick undercast. Forced to decide between abandoning the mission
or bringing the formation down under the clouds, the air leader had the planes drop down to 17,000ft
in order to make their attack run. The bomber encountered intense flak over Oranienburg and was
struck in the bomb bay. It dropped out of formation immediately after dropping its bombs and No.2
engine caught fire. The crew bailed out before the plane crashed at Barnewitz, ten miles northeast of
Brandenburg, Germany. {23 missions}.
37903 (MSN 8689) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 9Oct43. 50th Flexible Gunnery Training Squadron, Las Vegas Field, NV 29Oct43
Crash landed and destroyed by fire at Las Vegas AAF base
Apr 13, 1944; W/o Apr 16, 1944.
Also listed as with 527th Bomb Squadron, 379th Bomb Group,
Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire. 525th Bomb Squadron. Damaged by flak on a mission to
Merseberg, Germany 24Aug44 (8MIA:1KIA) and crashed Leeuwarden, Netherlands
37904 (MSN 8690) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 8Oct43. 50th Flexible Gunnery Training Squadron,
Las Vegas Field, NV 24Oct43. Crash landed after engine failure at Las Vegas Field 14Feb44.
Salvaged 16Feb44
37905 (MSN 8691) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 9Oct43. 50th Flexible Gunnery
Training Squadron, Las Vegas Field, NV 26Oct43. 3022nd Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School),
Indian Springs Auxiliary Field, NV. Damaged by 'friendly fire' twenty miles northwest of Indian
Springs 16Dec44. Damaged by mechanical failure forty-three miles northwest of Indian Springs
25Feb45. 3021st Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Las Vegas Field, NV 23Mar45.
2126th Base Unit (Central School for Flexible Gunnery), Laredo Field, TX 21Apr45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 11Jan46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
37906 (MSN 8692) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 8Oct43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 8Oct43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 24Oct43. 568th Bomb Squadron [BI*V],
390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 11Nov43; Named "Angel In The Skies/Angel in
Disguise/Wild Children II" . {first combat mission 16Dec43}. Battle damaged on a Crossbow mission
German V-weapon site at Heuringhem, Pas-de-Calais, France 21Jan44 (2WIA:10RTD); the bombardier
and a waist gunner were wounded. Battle damaged on a mission to the Braunkohle Benzin A.G. synthetic
oil refinery at Rothensee, Magdeburg, Germany 28May44 (2WIA:8RTD); the co-pilot and bombardier
were wounded. {51 missions}. Failed to return from a tactical mission to a railroad bridge near Saint-
Quentin, France 2Aug44 (9POW). As it approached the target, an engine failed. The pilot feathered the
propeller and continued on the bomb run but fell behind the formation and was losing altitude. The
anti-aircraft fire was heavy at this time, the plane took a direct hit and lost another engine. After
dropping its bombs, it was still losing altitude, the pilot ordered the crew to lighten the plane and
throw everything out. He told the crew that he intended to ditch and ordered that the ball turret be
jettisoned. Now down low the crew could see gardens, rooftops, rows of cabbage etc. - they proceeded
to get in position for ditching. As soon as they sat on the floor the plane had a direct hit from an
anti-aircraft gun on the right side of the radio room, just above where the crew was positioned.
Five of the crew were injured by flak shrapnel. The plane was ditched in the North Sea, the pilot
landed so well that the crew all survived. It was late afternoon and they were about five miles
from the coast. In their life rafts they headed out to sea towards England, which was about forty
miles away. At daylight the next day they were out of sight of land. About twenty-four hours
after ditching, the crew saw a boat on the horizon coming towards them from the east. There
were two Dutch fishing boats, which came up to the life rafts. A couple of their crew members
pulled the airmen into their boats and quickly helped them to go below deck to a small cabin to
hide. In a very short time another boat the German Navy came along side and there was a
shouting match between the fishermen and the Germans, who were angry that the Dutch had
rescued the crew. The airmen transfered to the German boat and taken prisoner. The bomber
had ditched in the North Sea 10km west of Cadzand, Netherlands. MACR 7749.
37907 (MSN 8693) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 11Oct43. Las Vegas Field, NV 26Oct43. SOC 19Dec43
37908 (MSN 8694) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 11Oct43. Las Vegas Field, NV 1Nov43.
3021st Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Las Vegas Field, NV 23Mar45. 2126th Base Unit
(Central School for Flexible Gunnery), Laredo Field, TX 16May45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 7Jan46. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
37909 (MSN 8695) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 9Oct43. Las Vegas Field, NV 25Oct43.
3021st Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Las Vegas Field, NV 9Oct44. 3018th Base Unit
(Flexible Gunnery School), Kingman Field, AZ 20Jun45. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 26Jun45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 4Jan46. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
37910 (MSN 8696) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 12Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 27Oct43. 339th Bomb Squadron,
96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 15Dec43. Named "Stormy Weather".
Failed to return from a mission to the Messerschmitt factory at Augsburg, Germany 13Apr44 (10POW).
Encountered heavy flak over Augsburg. Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Eglingen, near Aalen,
Wurtemberg, Germany. 10 crew bailed out and became POW. MACR 3768
37911 (MSN 8697) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 11Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 28Oct43. 401st Bomb Squadron [LL*C], 91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121),
Cambridgeshire 10Jan44. Named "The Heat's On/Jeanne Marie" Battle damaged on a mission to the
L�tzkendorf oil facilities at M�cheln, west of Merseburg, Germany 11Sep44. Battle damaged during a
mission to industrial, oil and rail installations in Cologne, Germany 15Oct44. En route to the target,
flak was meagre and inaccurate. From the I.P. to the target, flak was continuous, increasing in intensity
and accuracy. Some meagre, inaccurate flak was experienced on the route back. Battle damaged
during a mission over Kassel, Germany 1Jan45 (10KIA). Engine trouble caused a crash landing at
Steeple Morden (Station 122), Cambridgeshire, colliding with P-51s 44-11359, 44-13571, 44-13591,
44-14374, 44-14434, 44-14704, 44-15279 and 44-15346 parked at dispersal; the bomber exploded.
{92 missions}. Salvaged by 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton 2Jan45
37912 (MSN 8698) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 12Oct43. 50th Flexible Gunnery Training
Squadron, Las Vegas Field, NV 4Nov43. Damaged while parked in an accident between
B-17G 42-31280 and B-17G 42-31284 at Las Vegas Field 5Nov43. 225th Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Rapid City Field, SD. Damaged in accident on the parking ramp at Rapid City
Field 19Jun44. 225th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Rapid City Field, SD 1May45.
2114th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 6Jul45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 14Jan46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
37913 (MSN 8699) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 13Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 29Oct43. 349th Bomb Squadron, 100th Bomb Group,
Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 18Nov43. The aircraft was being ferried from Thorpe Abbotts
to the Air Depot at Troston, Honington 20Dec43. The pilot was unable to lower the main landing gear
either by electrical or manual means. The ball turret was jettisoned over the Rushford bombing range
and the plane landed on the grass alongside the runway at Honington (Station 375), Suffolk.
1st Strategic Air Depot, Troston (Station 595), Suffolk. 418th Bomb Squadron [LD*W], 100th Bomb
Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk. Failed to return from a mission to the Dornier
Flugzeugwerke factory at Oberpfaffenhofen, Munich, Germany 18Mar44 (8KIA:1EVD:1POW),
mid-air collision with B-17G 42-39830, two engines broke away and nose with only No.4 engine
operating, crashed Place de Moulin, Campeaux, two miles north of Hericourt-St Samson, east of Rouen, France
37914 (MSN 8700) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 13Oct43. Las Vegas Field, NV 27Oct43.
3021st Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Las Vegas Field, NV 9Oct44. 3017th Base Unit
(Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 25Mar54. Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 5Jan46. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
37915 (MSN 8701) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 13Oct43. Las Vegas Field, NV 28Oct43. 3021 Las Vegas
Field, NV 9Oct43. 3018th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Kingman Field, AZ 20Feb45.
C Squadron, 3702nd Base Unit, Buckley Field, CO 2Jun45. Damaged taxying at Buckley Field 7Sep45.
3706th Base Unit, Basic Training Center, Sheppard Field, Wichita Falls, TX 7Nov45. Reclaimed 20Mar46
37916 (MSN 8702) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 13Oct43. Las Vegas Field, NV 27Oct43.
225th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Rapid City Field, SD. Damaged in a collision
on the ground with B-17G 42-37861 at Rapid City Field 20Nov44. 225th Base Unit (Combat
Crew Training Station), Rapid City Field, SD 1May45. 2114th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized,
Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 27Jun45 .To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 4Jan46. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
37917 (MSN 8703) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 15Oct43. Las Vegas Field, NV 29Oct43. 3021st Base
Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Las Vegas Field, NV 2Jun44. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 29May45.To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 4Jan46. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
37918 (MSN 8704) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 14Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 26Oct43. 94th Bomb Group 14Dec43.
Ferried Patterson Field, Reykjavik, Iceland to Scotland 19Dec43. 333rd Bomb Squadron [TS*R],
94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk Dec43. Named "Dog Tired"
Failed to return from a mission to a Heinkel Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory at Marienehe,
Rostock, Germany 11Apr44 (10POW). Hit by flak and enemy fighters and crashed Nemitz, 10 mi SE of Cammin, Pommerania,
Germany. 10 crew bailed out and beame POW. MACR 3861.
37919 (MSN 8705) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 14Oct43. Las Vegas Field, NV 26Oct43. 3021st Base Unit
(Flexible Gunnery School), Las Vegas Field, NV 9Oct44. 3018th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School),
Kingman Field, AZ 22Feb45. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM
25Jun45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 8Jan46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
37920 (MSN 8706) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 15Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 27Oct43. Headquarters Squadron, 9th Provisional Bomb Group,
Grand Island Field, NB Nov43. Damaged while parked in collision by B-17G 42-37859 taxying at
Grand Island Field 1Nov43. 338th Bomb Squadron [BX*N], 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath
(Station 138), Norfolk 4Dec43. Failed to return from a mission to the Heinkel Flugzeugwerke
aircraft factory at Marienehe, Rostock, Germany 11Apr44 (10KIA). Shot down by enemy fighters,
crashed Baltic Sea, about 55 miles east of Sassnitz, R�gen Island, Germany.
37921 (MSN 8707) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 14Oct43. 50th Flexible Gunnery
Training Squadron, Las Vegas Field, NV 27Oct43. Damaged in collision with parked
B-17F 42-31003 while taxying at Las Vegas 27Nov43. 3022nd Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School),
Indian Springs Auxiliary Field, NV. Damaged in accident with B-17G 43-37772 taxying at Indian
Springs Auxiliary Field 1Dec44. Damaged by 'friendly fire' twenty miles northwest of
Indian Springs 16Feb45. 3021st Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Las Vegas Field, NV 15Mar45.
2126th Base Unit (Central School for Flexible Gunnery), Laredo Field, TX 1Apr45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 11Jan46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
37922 (MSN 8708) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 16Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 3Nov43. 331st Bomb Squadron [QE*M], 94th Bomb Group,
Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 18Nov43. Battle damaged on a mission to
Brussels, Belgium 11May44; flak damage to engines and fuselage. Battle damaged on a
mission to Germany Aug44 (2WIA:7RTD). A barrage of flak while heading home peppered
the aircraft from nose to tail. One heavy burst shattered the pilot's side window, hitting the pilot
and wounding the engineer. The navigator and bombardier managed to get the pilot into the nose
of the aircraft and applied first aid while the co-pilot flew the aircraft back to base.
Battle damaged on a mission to the railway marshalling yard at Giessen, Germany 7Mar45.
Force landed on the continent. Salvaged. Was first 94th BG aircraft to complete 100 missions.
37923 (MSN 8709) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 15Oct43. Las Vegas Field, NV 26Oct43.
225th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Rapid City Field, SD 1May45. 2144th Base Unit,
Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 17Jul45. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine),
Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 10Sep45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR
for storage and disposal 3Jan46. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment
Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
37924 (MSN 8710) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 15Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 15Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 29Oct43. 547th Bomb Squadron [SO*T], 384th Bomb Group,
Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 2Dec43. {first combat mission 13Dec43}.
On a local training mission, on return to Grafton the right landing gear would not lower caused by
failure of the gear motor drive shaft. The plane was diverted to and crash landed at Little Staughton
(Station 127), Bedfordshire 9Jan44. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little Staughton 10Jan44. {8 missions}.Salvaged 16Jan44)
37925 (MSN 8711) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 18Oct43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 19Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 1Nov43. 571st Bomb Squadron [FC*K],
390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 16Nov43. {first combat mission 24Dec43}.
Named "Rick-O-Shay III". Failed to return from a mission to the Messerschmitt
factory at Augsburg, Germany 18Mar44 (7KIA:3POW). A thick undercast over the factory prevented
the planes from seeing the target and diverted to the Messerschmitt service test airfield at Lechfeld, Augsburg,
which housed around seventy-five enemy aircraft. During the flight back to England it was attacked
by enemy fighters, the bomber suffered serious damage and went down in a slow spiral with the
two engines on the left wing burning. Only three members of the crew were able to bail out before it
exploded and ctrashed Wallburg, near Ettenheim, south of Lahr, Germany. {19 missions}.
MACR 3182
37926 (MSN 8712) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Ogden Air Depot, Hill Field,
Ogden, UT 15Oct43. 617th Base Unit, Dugway Proving Ground, Tooele, UT 1Nov43. 3021st Base Unit
(Flexible Gunnery School), Las Vegas Field, NV 9Oct44. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized,
Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 22May45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR
for storage and disposal 4Jan46. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company,
Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
37927 (MSN 8713) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 16Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 27Oct43. 358th Bomb Squadron [VK*P],
303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 18Nov43. Failed to return
Wilhelmshaven, Germany 3Feb44 (10MIA). Damaged by flak, last seen forty miles off Terschelling,
West Frisian Islands, Netherlands. {11 missions}. MACR 2238.
37928 (MSN 8714) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 19Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 31Oct43. 407th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group,
Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 1Dec43. While parked at Little Staughton (Station 127),
Bedfordshire was hit by B-17G 42-40002 which had ground looped with loss of hydraulic
brake pressure while taxying 1Jan44. Salvaged by 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little Staughton
(Station 127), Bedfordshire 6Jan44
37929 (MSN 8715) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 19Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 6Nov43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 11Nov43. 335th Bomb Squadron [OE*Y], 95th Bomb Group,
Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 15Nov53. Named "Diana"
Failed to return from a mission to Berlin, Germany 8Mar44 (10POW). Dropped oiut of formation,
crew bailed out, aircraft crashed near Magdeburg, Germany. {25 missions}. MACR 2983
37930 (MSN 8716) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 18Oct43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 19Oct43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 1Nov43. 388th Bomb Group 11Nov43.
Ferried Stephenville, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 15Nov43. 388th Bomb Group,
Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk Nov43. 365th Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105),
Northamptonshire 3Dec43. Battle damaged during a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical works
at Leverkusen, Germany 1Dec43 (2WIA:8RTD). Clouds obscured the target so the formation
diverted to the secondary target, a non-ferrous metals works at Solingen, Germany. En route
to the target the bomber was attacked by enemy fighters firing rockets. A 210mm rocket exploded
in the bomb bay and a waist gunner was injured. Another fighter shot out the rudder control
cables while a third fighter sent a rocket which disabled the hydraulic system. The fuselage was
full of holes. By the time the bomber had reached Belgium on the return it was low on fuel.
Attempting to make an emergency landing at an airfield in southern England, the plane was
being cut up by other planes trying to land with their wounded so the pilot elected to fly back
to base at Chelveston. Landing without brakes, the bomber was swung off the runway into the
mud to stop it Failed to return from a mission to the port area at Bremen, Germany 20Dec43
(9POW:1KIA). Attacked by a large force of enemy fighters and flak over the target area was
very intense. Damaged by flak on the bomb run, No.2 propeller was knocked off then the engine
fell off. The flak burst splintered the Plexiglas nose and fragments injured the navigator.
The bomber left the formation and lost altitude turning back towards England.
One engine shot off by AAA at Bremen then shot down by Fw Karl Laub
in Bf 109G-6 of JG 26/11 at Dreeke, . The crew bailed out and the bomber circled
several times when it came down over a small village. It then crashed on the edge of a bog on a
meadow and slid into a ditch where the nose of the aircraft shattered, the remaining engines were torn
out of the wings and hurled over a dirt road. Crashed at Dreeke, northeast of Diepholz, Germany.
MACR 1708.
37931 (MSN 8717) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 13Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 5Nov43. Dow Field, Bangor, ME 7Nov43.
364th Bomb Squadron [WF*D], 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 5Jan44.
Named "Bertie Lee" Battle damaged on a mission to Stettin, Prussia 12Apr44 (3RTD:7POW).
The aircraft was in a group which was attacked by a swarm of fighters. This plane was singled out
and the fighters pressed their attacks home recklessly, completely disregarding the Allied fighter escort
and their own intense flak. This plane was riddled from nose to tail with exploding cannon shells
and knocked out of formation, with a large number of fighters following it down, blasting it with
cannon fire as it descended. A cannon shell exploded in the cockpit, wounded the co-pilot,
wrecked the instruments, and blew out the side window. The pilot was seriously and painfully
wounded in the right thigh. Hydraulic fluid filmed over the windshield making visibility impossible,
and smoke filled the cockpit. The controls failed to respond and 3,000ft were lost before he succeeded
in leveling off. The radio operator informed him that the whole bomb bay was in flames as a result
of the explosion of three cannon shells, which had ignited the incendiaries. With a full load of
incendiaries in the bomb bay and a considerable fuel load in the tanks, the danger of fire enveloping
the plane and the tanks exploding seemed imminent. When the emergency release lever failed to
function, the pilot at once gave the order to bail out and seven of the crew left the plane. Seeing the
bombardier firing the navigator's gun at the enemy planes, the pilot ordered him to bail out as the
plane was liable to explode at any minute. When the bombardier looked for his parachute he found that
it had been riddled with 20mm fragments and was useless. The pilot, seeing the ruined parachute,
realized that if the plane was abandoned the bombardier would perish and decided that the only chance
would be a crash landing. Completely disregarding his own painful and profusely bleeding wounds,
but thinking only of the safety of the remaining crew members, he gallantly evaded the enemy,
using violent evasive action despite the battered condition of his plane. After the plane had been under
sustained enemy attack for fully 45 minutes, the pilot finally lost the persistent fighters in a cloud bank.
Upon emerging, an accurate barrage of flak caused him to come down to treetop level where flak towers
poured a continuous rain of fire on the plane. He continued into France, realizing that at any moment a
crash landing might have to be attempted, but trying to get as far as possible to increase the escape
possibilities if a safe landing could be achieved. The pilot flew the plane until he became exhausted
from the loss of blood, which had formed on the floor in pools, and he lost consciousness. The co-pilot
succeeded in reaching England and sighted an RAF airfield near the coast. The pilot finally regained
consciousness and insisted upon taking over the controls to land the plane. The undercarriage was useless.
The bomb bay doors were jammed open. The hydraulic system and altimeter were shot out. In addition,
there was no airspeed indicator, the ball turret was jammed with the guns pointing downward, and the
flaps would not respond. Despite these apparently insurmountable obstacles, he crash landed the plane
without mishap at RAF Waltham, near Grimsby, Lincolnshire. Salvaged by 2nd Strategic Air Depot,
Abbots Ripton. MACR 3818
37932 MSN 8718) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 18Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 19Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 1Nov43. 570th Bomb Squadron [DI*P],
390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 12Nov43. {first combat mission 30Nov43}.
Named "Ole Basser". Failed to return from a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Chartres, France 2Mar44
(5KIA:1EVD:4POW). The bombers arrived over the target on time but a combination of thick clouds, haze,
and mechanical issues with some of the planes' bomb bay doors, forced them to cancel their attack run
after making two passes over the target area. The bombers attempted to make a pass on their secondary
target at Comeilles-en-Vexin, but the dense undercast foiled their efforts once again. They next tried to
locate a target of opportunity, but by the time they were able to pinpoint its location, it was too late for
them to conduct a bombing run. On the way back to England, extreme flak over Abbeville struck the
tail blowing off pieces of vertical and horizontal stabilisers as well as several feet of rear fuselage,
killing the tail gunner. Aircraft attempted to climb, stalled and dove down steeply then crashed
east of Oisemont, ten miles south of Abbeville, France. {22 missions}. MAC 2886
37933 (MSN 8719) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 19Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 1Nov43. 535th Bomb Squadron [MS*R], 381st Bomb Group,
Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 1Jan44. Named "Superstitious Aloyisius" Battle damaged
on a mission to the Luftwaffe airfield at Champagne, Reims, France 28Mar44 (10RTD).
The crew bailed out over Kent on return, crash landed Lympne, Kent. Salvaged by 2nd Strategic
Air Depot, Abbots Ripton 29Mar44
37934 (MSN 8720) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 19Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 1Nov43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 8Nov43. 325th Bomb Squadron [NV*E], 92nd Bomb Group,
Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 30Nov43. 326th Bomb Squadron. Crashed on takeoff
from Podington 20May44. Thirty-six planes were scheduled to take off in groups of 12 each
starting just before daylight. The fog was so bad they walked along the side of the planes
to the runway. The pilots took off by 'stop watch' every 30 seconds. The high group was
successfully airborne and the lead group started taking off. B-17G 42-32001 was the 7th in
this group. Apparently its tail wheel unlocked during roll off and the B-17 veered off the runway.
The pilot attempted to get corrected and pulled back onto the runway, but just as it
began to get airborne, the bomber struck part of a concrete wall, and then crashed
just beyond the edge of the runway. The B-17's load of bombs detonated, killing all the
crew aboard. The next B-17 in line, 42-37934, had begun its run but stopped approximately
half way down the runway, apparently having seen the red warning flares fired by the
runway controller and heard the radio order from the control tower to stop takeoff.
The pilot turned his plane around and started back up the runway, but the following bomber
in line, B-17G 42-97489 did not stop its run. Presumably the pilot could not see the
flares through the low hanging fog, and when he did see the other Fortress, it was far too late.
The aircraft collided head on and burst into flames. Five crew members managed to escape
from each plane, all being near the rear, before the first of five terrific explosions began,
about three minutes after the collision. The final explosion was the aircraft which had
been the first to crash. All aircraft were carrying 6x 1000lb GP bombs. Eleven officers
and nine enlisted men were killed out right, and one officer died the following day. Four enlisted
men were severely injured, and the five other midly injured. The three aircraft were completely destroyed
37935 (MSN 8721) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 20Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 2Nov43. 336th Bomb Squadron [ET*K],
95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 25Nov43. Named *Wee Miss America*. .
Failed to return from a mission to the Heinkel Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory at Marienehe,
Rostock, Germany 11Apr44 (7KIA:3POW). Flak and enemy aircraft set No.2 and No.3 engines
on fire. The crew bailed out over Bad Dorkran, aircraft crashed near Rerik-Mecklenberg,
nineteen miles west of Rostock, Germany. {31 missions MACR 3805
37936 (MSN 8722) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 19Oct43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 5Nov43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 7Nov43.
351st Bomb Squadron [EP*M], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 11Nov43
Named "On Mark", later "The All American Gal"- artwork of Statue of Liberty
Failed to return from a mission to Cologne, Germany 10Jan45 (9KIA). Damaged by flak,
crashed Gladbach, Germany. {98 missions MACR 11744. Last seen disappearing into cloud with one
prop feathered. Aircraft believed crashed into sea, crew of 9 missing, presumed lost.
37937 (MSN 8723) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 19Oct43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB. Assigned Eighth Air Force,
England 10Nov43. Base Air Depot No.2, Warton (Station 582), Lancashire. While crew chief
was taxying to the technical site at Base Air Depot No.2, Warton 21Dec43, the aircraft nosed
over then fell back on its tailwheel. Salvaged non battle damage 3Jan44.
37938 (MSN 8724) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 21Oct43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 4Nov43.
71st Ferrying Squadron, 20th Ferrying Group, Nashville, TN. Damaged taxying at
RCAF Gander, Newfoundland 29Nov43. Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander,
Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 6Mar44. 323rd Bomb Squadron [OR*E],
91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 30Mar44.
Named "Betty Lou's Buggy" artwork of a Betty Boop cartoon character Battle damaged
on a mission to the Luftwaffe airfield at Eschwege, southeast of Kassel, Germany 19Apr44 (2WIA).
Attacked by enemy fighters, 20mm cannon shells damaged the plane. A fire started in
the bomb bay until extinguished by the engineer. Further hits wounded the navigator
and co-pilot. The plane fell into a flat spin with pilot struggling at the shattered controls
in a cockpit which was so thick with acrid smoke that he was forced to open the side window
to peer out and see where the horizon was. Finally the plane leveled out at around 15,000ft
enabaling the pilot to regain control and the bomb load to be jettisoned somewhere in the
vicinity of the target. Damage assessment established that most of the instruments were
shot out and the rudder cables severed; there was a large hole blown through the
vertical stabiliser; one turbocharger was out and an engine damaged; elevators and
ailerons were also damaged and fuel leaked from the main left wing tank. This bomber
had taken off for five missions but had a record of three aborts which were caused
by many things, but all the pilots claimed it was slow. The squadron CO personally
flew it and found to be defective, so he grounded it for combat operations.
324th Bomb Squadron [DF*E]. 401st Bomb Squadron. Damaged in accident at
Bassingbourn 26Sep44. Declared 'war weary'. Substantially damaged taxying at
Bassingbourn 9Oct44. Returned to US by 401st Bomb Squadron crew on Operation Home Run,
departing Bassingbourn for Valley (Station 568), Anglesey, Wales 8Jun45. Ferried via Reykjavik,
Iceland and RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador to Grenier Field, Manchester, NH. 121st Base Unit
(Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 12Jun45. 4168th Base Unit
(Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 21Oct45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for
storage and disposal 4Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting
Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
37939 (MSN 8725) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 21Oct43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 9Nov43. Departed USA on
ferry flight to UK 11Nov43. 323rd Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121),
Cambridgeshire 20Dec43; Named "Sugar Blues" artwork of a half-nude, grass-skirted
woman. Painted by Tony Starcer. {first combat mission 24Dec43}. Severely battle damaged on a
mission to the AGO-Flugzeugwerke Fw 190 manufacturing factory at Oschersleben, Germany 11Jan44.
Failed to return from a mission to the Junkers Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory at Aschersleben,
Germany 22Feb44 (1INJ:9RTD). On the way to the target, the formation met with the 381st Bomb Group.
Since these planes were late following the main formation, no escort was available. Heavy cloud
cover over the target forced the formation to divert to the industrial area of B�nde, Germany.
The bomber formation was exposed to the attack of German fighters for over forty minutes
without interruption, most of which were Fw 190s. The plane was hit during repeated passes
disabling No.1 engine and causing severe damage to others. The airspeed was dropping forcing
the plane out of formation and the pilot jettisoned the bombs. Faced with the prospect of a long flight
back without the safety of the formation, the pilot dropped the bomber down to the ground and
tree- topped his way towards the coast, barely able to remain flying at times. No.3 engine was
inoperative and the propeller was windmilling. To conserve fuel, all gun barrels, ammunition
and loose equipment were jettisoned. The bomber passed over flak towers, anti-aircraft guns
and an army camp but was too low for them to shoot at it. When the people on the ground
started waving at the bomber, the crew knew that they had crossed the border into
enemy occupied Netherlands. Out over the sea and in relative safety from aerial attack and
flak the crew assessed their predicament. It was clear they would not make it back across the
water to England; ditching was the only option. A short time later one of the remaining engines
quit, and another racked the plane with violent vibrations. As the plane hit the water, fifty-five miles
from the coast of the Netherlands, the engines tore loose. The ditching was carried out successfully
and only the co-pilot sustained any injuries. Having scrambled into their life rafts and paddled
clear of the plane, the crew watched the bomber slide silently below the surface. They were in the water
for about four and a half hours before Air-Sea Rescue arrived and rescued all 10 of them. {15 missions}
37940 (MSN 8726) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 21Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 5Nov43. 323rd Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn
(Station 121), Cambridgeshire 13Dec43; Named "Spirit of '44" Severe battle damaged
on a mission to the AGO-Flugzeugwerke Fw 190 manufacturing factory at Oschersleben, Germany 11Jan44
(10RTD). While the aircraft were airborne, the weather closed in over English bases and a recall signal
was issued. B/Gen. Robert F. Travis, Air Commander of the 1st Bomb Division, continued on to the target.
This left the 1st Bomb Division with greater exposure to enemy fighter attacks. Good fighter support
was provided by P-47 Thunderbolts on the penetration and by P-51 Mustangs over the target. P-47s
were airborne to provide withdrawal support but they obeyed the recall order to return to England
and left the bombers to fend for themselves on the return trip. Luftwaffe attacks started over the
IJsselmeer and intensified when the American fighters returned home. Meagre and fairly
accurate flak was experienced on the bomb run, with intermittent inaccurate flak on the return trip.
Attacked by enemy fighters which shot out two engines and destroyed the oxygen system.
A 20mm shell had exploded in the wings and the bomb bay doors, which had been hit, were
partly open. Then began the chase between the crippled bomber and enemy fighters, a race
that lasted for an hour and a half and spread over 200 miles. Two Bf 109s which tackled the
Fortress deep inside Germany hung on until the coast was reached. Between attacks they flew
like an escort on either side of the bomber, about 1,000 yards away. The pilot alternately dived,
climbed, then dived again to skim along the ground, barely avoiding electric cables. Whenever possible
he flew below tree-top level, alongside a wooded area. When he saw a village, he pulled over and
flew down the streets, so that fighters would have to shoot into their own houses to shoot at the bomber.
At one point they passed twenty-five feet above the crashed wreckage of another Fortress, and the tail
gunner strafed and killed a German soldier guarding the crashed Fortress. Three times the exhausted
crew prepared for a crash landing inside enemy territory. The bomber finally crossed the enemy
coast so low that the flak towers had to shoot down at it. When the bomber landed in England its
nose had been shot out, cannon shells had blown gaping holes in its wings and fuselage, and it was
riddled from tail to nose with cannon shells, but none of the crew members were injured. The aircraft
crash landed at Shipdham (Station 115), Norfolk. {6 missions}. Salvaged by 2nd Strategic Air Depot,
Abbots Ripton 16Jan44. 490th Bomb Group, Eye (Station 134), Suffolk. Damaged while parked in collision
by B-17G 42-37780 taxying at Eye 15Aug44.
37941 (MSN 8727) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 22Oct43. Walla Walla Field, WA 9Nov43. 728th Bomb Squadron,
452nd Bomb Group, Deopham Green (Station 142), Norfolk 16Nov43. Named "Lucky Lady"
Failed to return from a mission to the Heinkel Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory which had been converted
to Fw 190 production at Warnem�nde, Germany 9Apr44 (3KIA:7POW). On return from the target the
Group was attacked by enemy fighters before reaching the Danish coast. A waist gunner was killed
by a 20mm cannon shell and the plane crashed near Linnau, 14km southwest of Flensburg, Germany.
MACR 3784
37942 (MSN 8728) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 21Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 21Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 5Nov43. 367th Bomb Squadron [GY*A], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111),
Bedfordshire 19Dec43. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton (Station 547), Huntingdonshire 27Dec43. Regained by Group.
Named "Four Leaf Clover"-artwork of a four-leafed clover.
. Battle damaged on a mission to the Junkers aircraft factory at Halberstadt, Germany 11Jan44 (3WIA:7RTD).
An enemy fighter attack after the target struck the fuel line to No.4 engine starting a fire. The engineer/top turret
gunner had been wounded. The rudder controls had been severed, injuring the tail gunner, and there was a
large hole in the left wing. The pilot dived down to the safety of the cloud deck. Returning to England in cloud,
the plane was icing up but when over the coast, dropped down to cross the North Sea. With Thurleigh
closed by fog, the pilot spotted a runway somewhere and landed. The plane ground looped during the forced
landing at Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire. Mobile Repair Unit, 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots
Ripton (Station 547), Huntingdonshire 12Jan44. Regained by Group Feb44. Battle damaged on a mission
to the industrial areas at Augsburg, Germany 16Mar44. From Strasburg, Germany to Augsburg, the bombers
were attacked by Luftwaffe fighters in a running battle. Flak over the target was moderate and accurate; flak
en route was meagre and inaccurate. Returning, the bombers were attacked between Nancy, France and the
coast. Severely damaged during the bomb run when fragmentation clusters dropped from B-17G 42-38042
and 42-31758 caught in the slipstream and struck the wings. Seriously battle damaged during a mission to the
Focke-Wulf aircraft factory at Waggum, Brunswick, Germany 29Mar44 (1KIA:1WIA:8RTD). Damaged by flak
and enemy fighter attacks, the plane force landed on return at RAF Beccles, Ellough, Suffolk. Failed to return
from a mission to industrial areas in Berlin, Germany 8May44 (10KIA). B-17G 42-37942 was in a mid-air
collision which involved two other B-17G's, 42-97239 and 42-31969. B-17G 42-97239, which was suffering
from propeller-wash, came down on top of 42-37942 causing the tail section of 42-37942 to be cut off. The
tail section from 42-37942 came down on top of B-17G 42-31969. All three B-17's crashed near Perleberg,
twelve miles west-southwest of Wittstock, Germany. MACR 4554
37943 (MSN 8729) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 21Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 21Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 4Nov43. 368th Bomb Squadron [BO*L], 306th Bomb Group,
Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 12Dec43. Named "Weary Bones" artwork of a pair of dice.
The crew adopted a mongrel. Named Boike - before leaving the US and became the crew's mascot in England.
During a slow time flight the dog was initiated as a fully fledged crew member by being dropped in his
bespoke parachute over Thurleigh 5Jun44. Boike was still fit and resident at Thurleigh long after the crew returned home.
Battle damaged on a mission to the Junkers aircraft factory at Halberstadt, Germany 11Jan44 (1KIA:9RTD).
An enemy fighter attack after the target struck causing severe damage to the left horizontal
stabiliser and right inner wing. The nose was struck by shell fire killing the navigator. On return, with
fog at base, force landed at Hethel (Station 114), Norfolk. Accident departing for a mission to industrial
areas of Berlin, Germany 19May44. During takeoff the No.1 and 2 propellers oversped. The plane pulled
to the right and departed the runway about one third the way down, coming to rest near the perimeter
of the 368BS area. The tail hit a pole on a tractor parked to the right of the runway and damaged the
left horizontal stabiliser. Damaged in a collision with parked B-17G 42-97397 while taxying at Thurleigh 31Jul44.
The pilot increased power on No.4 engine to straighten out when the hydraulic system failed. This plane ran
off the perimeter track, turned to the left, knocked over a tent then ran into the tail of the aircraft that was
parked on a dispersal. Battle damaged on a mission to the hydrogenation works at Scholven-Buer,
Gelsenkirchen, Germany 26Aug44 (1WIA:8RTD). The engineer/top turret gunner was wounded by flak. Accident
while positioned on the runway in preparation for a combat mission in support of Operation Market
Garden at Thurleigh 17Sep44. The brakes failed on B-17G 42-31454 and collided with this plane.
Considerable damage was caused to both planes. The vertical stabiliser, left elevator and horizontal
stabiliser and left wing were all destroyed. {70 missions}. Salvaged and taken to the scrap dump beind
Marshall's at Cambridge; dump cleared by Mar46
37944 (MSN 8730) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 22Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 5Nov43. 365th Bomb Squadron [XK*P],
305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 12Dec43. Failed to return
from a mission to the secondary target, the industrial area at Stettin, Prussia 13May44 (11INT).
Flak damaged No.2 engine, force landed Echenforde, Sweden, .MACR 4872.
Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 24Jul45.
4168th Base Unit, Independence Field, KS 18Oct45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 15Dec45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
37945 (MSN 8731) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 21Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 5Nov43. 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105),
Northamptonshire 21Dec43. Damaged in collision with B-17G 44-8268 taxying at RAF Harwell,
Oxfordshire 18Nov44. Salvaged by 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton 20Nov44
37946 (MSN 8732) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 23Oct43. Walla Walla Field, WA 7Nov43.
729th Bomb Squadron, 452nd Bomb Group, Deopham Green (Station 142), Norfolk 3Jan44.
Named "The Worry Bird". . The crew of this plane thought their pilot was a "worry bird",
so they aptly named the plane. Failed to return from a mission to the rail marshalling yards at
Frankfurt am Main, Germany 8Feb44 (9POW:1EVD). En route to the target the No.3 engine lost oil
pressure and the propeller could not be feathered. The plane was flying lead for the Group but
unable to keep in formation so the command pilot, the 452nd Bomb Group Commander,
aborted ten minutes before the I.P., jettisoned the bomb load and turned back to England.
Vibration from the windmilling propeller caused it to come loose and flew off. Within
sight of the French coast, three enemy fighters attacked the lone bomber, causing major
damage to the tail section, and The engineer/top turret gunner bailed out at 15,000 feet
about fifteen miles south of Le Havre, France. The remaining crew stayed as the aircraft
crash landed near Goderville, northeast of Le Havre, France. MACR 2520.
37947 (MSN 8733) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 23Oct43. Walla Walla Field, WA 9Nov43.
730th Bomb Squadron, 452nd Bomb Group, Deopham Green (Station 142), Norfolk 4Jan44. .
Named "Princess Pat". Failed to return from a mission to the Sudetenl�ndische
Treibstoffwerke AG synthetic oil refinery at Z�lup�, Br�x, Sudetenland 12May44 (10POW).
En route to the target, between Koblenz and Frankfurt, the formation was attacked by a
large force of enemy fighters. Shot down by enemy fighters, the crew bailed out before the
bomber crashed near Daxberg, five miles northeast of Aschaffenburg, Germany. MACR 4816
37948 (MSN 8734) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 22Oct43. 3018th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School),
Kingman Field, AZ 16Nov43. 99th Bomb Squadron, 9th Bomb Group, Orlando AAB, FL. Damaged
when nosed over taxying at Brooksville Field, FL 21Dec43. 223rd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training
Station), Dyersburg Field, TN. Damaged while parked in collision by B-17G 42-102776 taxying at
Dyersburg Field 11Nov44. 330th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN.
Damaged while parked in collision by B-17G 43-37638 taxying at Dyersburg 26Apr45. 327th Base
Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Drew Field, Tampa, FL 28Aug45. 330th Base Unit (Combat
Crew Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN 11Sep45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 14Feb46. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
37949 (MSN 8735) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 23Oct43. Walla Walla Field, WA 9Nov43.
730th Bomb Squadron [Q], 452nd Bomb Group, Deopham Green 4Jan44. Named "Sunrise Serenade"
Named after the Glenn Miller classic; the pilot's mother loved this song , . Failed to return from a mission
to railway marshalling yards at Reims, France 1May44 (1KIA:9POW). Not being sure of the aiming
point at the target, the Group retained their bombs and proceeded to a secondary target, the
railway marshalling yards at Schaarbeek, Brussels, Belgium. With poor visibility, a short bomb
run was made at 18,000ft; flak was moderate and accurate. As the plane flew around
Brussels, flak damaged No.2 engine and set fire to the cockpit. The crew bailed out and the
aircraft exploded. It dived in the direction of Asse, but then made a left turn to disappear
behind the houses and trees of Asse Dorp. A witness living in the Sin-Godardusstraat in Bekkerzeel
was standing at the gate when he saw that the plane had been hit and watched the crew leave the
plane with their parachutes. When it started to dive down he called his wife outside with their son
because he knew from experience that it is safer outside at such times than inside. When he saw the
plane make a turn and head straight for them, he pushed his wife and son into the canal and then
jumped in while keeping an eye on the crashing plane. Just above the municipality of Bekkerzeel, the plane
turned twice more at a fairly low altitude and then broke in two. The tail with the rear fuselage
fell to "De Meil" at the cafe of Cooman. The forward fuselage section with wings and engines flew a
few hundred meters further and crashed into the grounds of the castle owned by Viscount de Ghellinck.
Crashed at Sint-Ulriks-Kapelle, seven miles northwest of Brussels, Belgium MACR 4492
The plane was salvaged in the 1950s by a Dutch scrap merchant. An archaeology dig took place with
two of the crew attending 21Jul01. Pieces of the Sunrise Serenade are exhibited in the BAHAAT
Collection of the For Freedom museum in Knokke / Ramskapelle, and in the Luchtvaartmuseum, Brussels
37950 (MSN 8736) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 23Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 23Oct43. Walla Walla Field, WA 9Nov43. 731st Bomb Squadron [D],
452nd Bomb Group, Deopham Green 4Jan44. Named *Dinah Might* The crew of this plane all put
names into a hat and drew out the winning name which just happened to be the one submitted
by their pilot. The name had no special meaning to him. Failed to return from a mission to the
industrial area at Brunswick, Germany 10Feb44 (9POW:1EVD). Attacked and damaged by enemy
fighters, the plane dropped out of formation near the Dutch-German border on the return to
England. As a loner, the plane was again attacked and damaged by enemy fighters and the pilot
ordered the crew to bail out. The No.1 engine was disabled, caught fire and the propeller feathered.
The co-pilot had been injured and was helped by the navigator and bombardier, the only three
airmen to bail out. The pilot and enlisted airmen remained on board and crash landed with the
plane in the Noordoostpolder, south of Emmeloord, Netherlands; the polder had been drained
but was still a mud flat. The crew attempted to set fire to the bomber but only succeeded in burning
off the camouflage paint. {1 mission}. . MACR 2538. The plane wreckage was barely
accessible by vehicles, so the Germans limited themselves to removing the weapons and a few
other parts. The wreckage remained until salvaged Spring 1948. One engine including
propeller was dismantled and smuggled out and fixed on the wall in the workshop of coffee
roasters Kanis & Gunnink at Kampen. After the liberation May45, with fuel from Canadian liberators,
the engine was run for a few minutes but had to be shut-off because the wall cracked. So many
people visited the crash site that a path was formed and became a well used bike path.
As a memorial, the path was named 'Dinah Mightpad' on 30Oct1
37951 (MSN 8737) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 25Oct43. Walla Walla Field, WA 7Nov43. 728th Bomb Squadron,
452nd Bomb Group, Deopham Green (Station 142), Norfolk 6Jan44. Named "Mavoureen". Failed to return from a mission
to the Focke-Wulf aircraft factory at Pozna?, Poland 20Feb44 (5MIA:3KIA:2POW). En route to the
target the plane was attacked over the island of Fyn, Denmark by four Ju 88 enemy fighters using rockets
and 20mm cannon. A fire started to the left of No.1 engine and a big hole was observed on the leading
edge of the left wing. Most of the crew bailed out but landed in the Store B�lt, the pilot remaining
on board. Crashed and broke up in a field at Haldagerlille, northwest of Fuglebjerg, 25km east of Kors�r,
Zealand, Denmark. Two German pilots were granted claims; Hauptmann Eduard Tratt of Stab II/ZG 26
and Oberleutnant D�rkopp of 6./ZG 26. MACR 2779
37952 (MSN 8738) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 25Oct43. Walla Walla Field, WA 7Nov43. 551st Bomb Squadron,
385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 12Mar44. Named "Babe".
Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT. 4168th
Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 21Oct45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and
disposal 17Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped.
37953 (MSN 8739) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 26Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 26Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 9Nov43. Ferried on the North Atlantic route
from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 30Nov43.
369th Bomb Squadron [WW*L], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 4Jan44.
Failed to return from a mission to the Focke-Wulf aircraft factory at Waggum, Brunswick,
Germany 29Mar44 (10POW). Returning home passing Hanover, the plane was attacked by enemy
fighters wounding the navigator and damaging two engines. Fighting back, the bomber was losing
altitude then fire broke out in the bomb bay. The pilot dived and managed to extinguish the fire.
Now down at low level, the plane was being attacked by ground fire when the No.4 engine started to falter.
The pilot crash landed across irrigated farm land at Winzlar, southwest of Steinhuder Meer, Wunstorf,
Germany MACR 3480
37954 (MSN 8740) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 25Oct43. Walla Walla Field, WA 9Nov43. 729th Bomb Squadron,
452nd Bomb Group, Deopham Green (Station 142), Norfolk 3Jan44. Named "Hank From Dixie".
The name 'Hank' was the name of the pilot; 'Dixie' was named after his wife
Failed to return from a mission to the Vereinigte Kugellagerfabriken AG (VKF) ball bearing factory
at Erkner, Berlin, Germany 8Mar44 (8POW:2KIA). All the way from the Netherlands to Berlin,
the bombers were hounded by Luftwaffe fighters. En route to the target it was attacked by enemy
fighters and the bomb load was jettisoned. The bombardier and navigator bailed out early and
landed near where the bombs fell on civilian houses, watched by angry Germans; the remaining
crew members bailed out well away from the area of the bombing. Crashed 300m northeast of Toeppel,
3km northwest of Zerbst, southeast of Magdeburg, Germany. MACR 3192
37955 (MSN 8741) Delivered to Santa Monica 3Nov43. Mat. Comm. Seattle, WA 1Dec43.
Topeka Field, KS 28Dec43. Grandview Field, Kansas City, MO 5Jan44. Robins Field,
Warner Robins, GA 8Jan44. 302nd Base Unit (Staging Wing), Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 18Mar44.
5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 13May44. Long Beach Field, CA 14May44
37956 (MSN 8742) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 26Oct43. Walla Walla Field, WA 9Nov43.
729th Bomb Squadron, 452nd Bomb Group, Deopham Green (Station 142), Norfolk 3Jan44.
Named "The Hard Way" Failed to return from a Crossbow mission to a German V-weapon site
in the Pas-de-Calais, France 20Apr44 (4MIA:6RTD). .The mission was a failure, the I.P. being
missed by cloud cover and the bombs were jettisoned in the sea. Returning to England, the
plane was struck by flak damaging No.2 and No.3 engines. With two engines on fire and
losing altitude over the North Sea, the pilot turned back towards the French mainland.
The crew bailed out over water as the plane was making the turn and then it exploded at
about 18,000ft. The wreckage crashed into the Strait of Dover just outside Calais harbour,
France. Six airmen were rescued by a Royal Air Force Air-Sea Rescue Supermarine Walrus
amphibious aircraft of 278 Squadron about ninety miles off the coast of England. Overloaded,
the Walrus had to taxy back towards England until it could be towed by a high-speed launch into
the harbour at Harwich, Essex MACR 4179
37957 (MSN 8743) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 26Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 12Nov43. 366th Bomb Squadron [KY*K],
305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 12Dec43.
Named "Betty Lee" Named for the pilot's wife. Failed to return
from a mission to the Heinkel Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory at Oranienburg, Germany 22Mar44
(5KIA:5POW). The weather confounded efforts to attack the Heinkel Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory,
the bombers diverted to Berlin to destroy the Friedrichstra�e railway station. Flak over Berlin
was more intense than previous missions. With severe flak damage, the plane crashed at
Pfarlhausen, ten miles east of Oldenburg, Germany. Less than one hour from Berlin the number
one engine was damaged by anti-aircraft fire. The propeller could not be feathered
so it wind-milled causing drag that made the aircraft difficult to control and maintain altitude.
The bombardier jettisoned the bomb load through the cloud cover in an attempt to maintain
group airspeed and altitude. Still, the loss of power and drag kept the aircraft from maintaining
position with the rest of the bomb group. The pilot turned the aircraft back towards England
with one P-51 Mustang as escort. He flew just above the cloud cover to use the clouds as an
aid against attack by German fighters from below. But struggling to fly the airplane back
to Chelveston, strong shifting winds caused the B-17 to drift over Bremen, an anti aircraft
defensive bastion, where the airplane was again hit by flak. This time the blasts were fatal.
A flak shell exploded near the front of the airplane where the bombardier, navigator and co-pilot
were killed. Also killed was the left waist gunner. The pilot's left leg was damaged, but he
continued to fly the airplane in order that the surviving crew members could bail out.
The pilot was killed in the crash of the bombe. MACR 3432
37958 (MSN 8744) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 27Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 11Nov43. Ferried from RCAF Goose Bay,
Labrador to RAF West Freugh, Stranraer, Scotland 24Nov43. 401st Bomb Squadron [LL*G],
91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 16Dec43, . Named "Old Faithful".
Battle damaged on a mission to an aircraft assembly plant at Brunswick, Germany 30Jan44 (1KIA:1WIA).
Attacked by enemy fighters killing the radio operator and wounding the top turret gunner.
Battle damaged when a 88mm shell hit the nose during a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Frescaty,
France 25Apr44. Non-operational, used for transition and practice missions. Battle damaged on
a non-combat mission to the Normandy beaches on D-Day 6Jun44. Brigadier General William Gross,
Commander of the First Combat Wing wanted to catch up with the First Combat Wing formation to
observe the bombing and the landings. The plane didn't have bombs, guns or ammunition aboard
but a skeleton crew was found. After Gross's arrival and a quick briefing the crew took off. The pilot
climbed at full power and, halfway across the English Channel, identified the combat wing.
The plane flew beside the wing until the target. The pilot prepared to return to England but the
General wanted to go down and observe the landings. The plane descended into the solid
overcast into a forbidden area with a stream of planes pouring through it. The plane broke
out of the overcast at about 700-800 feet above the water in light rain and low clouds. After a
run along the beachhead, the pilot began the climb back into the overcast and headed back to England.
The plane had been hit by flak during the sortie for which the crew did not receive combat credit.
Sustained battle damage during a tactical mission in support of Operation Overlord to a Luftwaffe
airfield at Toulouse, France 25Jun44 (9KIA). Flak damaged No.3 engine, the bomber dropped back
from the formation and the pilot headed initially for Spain while extinguishing the engine fire
and taking stock of the situation and his chances of a return to base. He turned the aircraft around
and began the long haul of over 900 miles back to England, now on its own at considerably lower
altitude and crippled. For nearly six hours the pilot coerced his ailing bomber across the Bay of
Biscay and the English Channel, transferring fuel from tank to tank maintaining a state of balance
and supply of fuel for the remaining engines. Upon crossing the English coast at Lyme Bay the
right wing was trailing thick smoke, and the pilot may have been making for an early landing
while his Fortress was still in one piece. They had finally made it to the safety of England; all
he had to do now was set the burning aircraft down. At tree-top height the right wing collapsed,
severed at the number four engine, and the bomber rolled over. Within seconds it exploded upon
impact in a farm yard at Snag Farm, Bayford, near Wincanton, Somerset. {37 missions}.
Salvaged by 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton
37959 (MSN 8745) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 25Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 12Nov43. 550th Bomb Squadron, 385th Bomb Group,
Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 5Dec43. Named "Eksy". Failed to return from a
mission to M�nster, Germany 23Mar44 (4POW:6KIA).
Shot down by enemy aircraft and crashed Oerrel, 7 mi SW of Wittingen, N of
Brunswick, Germany. MACR 3317
37960 (MSN 8746) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 27Oct43. Walla Walla Field, WA 7Nov43. 728th Bomb Squadron,
452nd Bomb Group, Deopham Green (Station 142), Norfolk 4Jan44, Named "Delta Girl". .
Named by the pilot whose wife was born and raised in the Mississippi Delta Failed to return
from a mission to the industrial area at Brunswick, Germany 10Feb44 (7POW:3KIA). After dropping the
bombs, the plane was attacked by German fighters. A frontal attack shot up the top turret and
disabled No.1 and No.4 engines. No.3 engine was then hit and caught fire. The tail and both waist
gunners were killed during the attacks; the pilot, engineer and radio man were all wounded.
The survivors bailed out and the plane crashed at Dankern, near Altharen, 15km northwest of Meppen, Germany
37961 (MSN 8747) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 26Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 12Nov43. 327th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Podington (Station 109),
Bedfordshire 30Dec43. Landing gear failed to lower after a ferry flight, crash landed at Little Staughton
(Station 127), Bedfordshire 23Jan44. Salvaged 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little Staughton (Station 127), Bedfordshire 25Jan44
37962 (MSN 8748) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 26Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 12Nov43. 532nd Bomb Squadron [VE*L], 381st Bomb Group,
Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 20Dec43. Named "Betty Lou". Failed to return from a mission to the
AGO-Flugzeugwerke Fw 190 manufacturing factory at Oschersleben, Germany 11Jan44 (8KIA:2POW).
While the aircraft were airborne, the weather closed in over English bases and a recall signal was
issued. B/Gen. Robert F. Travis, Air Commander of the 1st Bomb Division, continued on to the target.
This left the 1st Bomb Division with greater exposure to enemy fighter attacks. Good fighter support
was provided by P-47 Thunderbolts on the penetration and by P-51 Mustangs over the target. P-47s were
airborne to provide withdrawal support but they obeyed the recall order to return to England and
left the bombers to fend for themselves on the return trip. Luftwaffe attacks started over the IJsselmeer
and intensified when the American fighters returned home. Meagre and fairly accurate flak was
experienced on the bomb run, with intermittent inaccurate flak on the return trip. Enemy aircraft
exploded near by and its engine hit the bomber breaking it in half, crashed Mittelberg Forest,
near Gellenbeck, six miles southwest of Osnabr�ck, Germany. {4 missions}.
37963 (MSN 8749) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 26Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 10Nov43. 549th Bomb Squadron [XA*O], 385th Bomb Group,
Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 24Nov43. Named "Sleepy Time Gal" .
Accident returning from a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Deipholz, Germany 21Feb44 (11KIA).
Mid-air collision with B-17G 42-31370. According to the British TV program 'Time Team', the evidence
they uncovered from the site revealed that 42-37963 had an engine problem in the clouds and while
trying to feather the propeller, the pilot became disoriented. He then powered the other engines to
maximum and when coming out of the clouds, realized he was very close to crashing. So he pulled
up hard to gain altitude, colliding with 42-31370, which cut 42-37963 in half. The front section
continued to climb until stalling, falling back and colliding again with 42-31370 from above,
knocking the wing off 42-31370, and both planes crashed in Reedham marshes, near Acle, Norfolk
37964 (MSN 8750) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 29Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 11Nov43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 419th Bomb Squadron,
301st Bomb Group, Oudna #2, Tunis, Tunisia 5Dec43. Cerignola #1, Italy 10Dec43. Battle damaged by
flak during a mission to Verona, Italy 30Dec43 (1WIA:9RTD). The primary target could not be reached
because of bad weather and diverted to the railway marshalling yards at Padua, Italy. Battle damaged
by flak on a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Fr�jorgues, Montpellier, France 27Jan44 (1WIA:9RTD).
A waist gunner was wounded and on return the plane force landed safely on Sardinia for medical
assistance. Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. Battle damaged by flak during a tactical mission
against German troop concentrations and defensive positions at Campoleone in support of the Allied
beachhead at Anzio, Italy 17Feb44. Battle damaged on a mission to the submarine pens at Toulon,
France 7Mar44 (1WIA:9RTD). The plane was attacked by Bf 109s and Fw 190s, cannon shell shrapnel
wounding an airman and force landed in Sardinia for medical assistance. Crashed when a tire burst
during takeoff for a combat mission, the plane ground looped off the runway and exploded at
Lucera 11Jun44 (1INJ). {76 missions}.
37965 (MSN 8751) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 28Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 12Nov43. 323rd Bomb Squadron [OR*U],
91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 20Dec43. Named "My Desire"
first combat mission 30Dec43}. Severely battle damaged on a mission to the Junkers
Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory at Aschersleben, Germany 22Feb44 (1KIA:9RTD). On the way
to the target, the formation met with the 381st Bomb Group. Since these planes were late following
the main formation, no escort was available. Heavy cloud cover over the target forced the formation
to divert to the industrial area of B�nde, Germany. The bomber formation was exposed to the attack
of German fighters for over forty minutes without interruption, most of which were Fw 190s.
Fighters struck the plane head-on and fatally wounded the bombardier. Failed to return from a
mission to industrial areas of Berlin, Germany 3Mar44 (5MIA:5RTD). Deteriorating weather
conditions and dense contrails forced the formation to divert to an alternate target of the industrial
and port areas at Wilhelmshaven, Germany. Flak damaged engine No.2, so dropped back and headed
home but hit again by flak, damaging engine No.3. Finally, the bomber got out of the gunners range
and was out over the sea. The pilot took stock of the possibilities of reaching England. Two engines
were out and the propellers were windmillling which cut the speed down to 115 miles per hour, even
when using full power on the other two engines. This meant that it was only able to maintain a
speed of 5mph over landing speed and this could be done only by using full emergency power,
which is supposed to be used only five minutes at a time. He knew that it would take at least 1� hours
to make it to England at that speed, if the other two engines held up. The pilot thought that they
had maybe a 50-50 chance to make it and so called the crew and asked them if they wanted to
take the chance. To a man, they all wanted to take their chances of getting back to England.
The crew started throwing everything that they could overboard: guns, ammunition, flak suits,
parachutes, flak helmets, all the radio equipment but one set, and everything else that they could
get loose. By this time, the plane was down at 3,000ft and still losing altitude very gradually.
Also, at this time it started running into low cloud banks and all of the vacuum instruments
were inoperative because both the inboard engines, from where the vacuum instruments are
powered, were out. All this time the pilot was having to run the two outboard engines at full
emergency power to maintain speed and try to hold altitude. Finally the plane was down to 1,500 feet
and only about fifteen miles from England. At this point, the No.1 engine finally burned out
and quit. This left no choice but to crash land and at once. They had passed over a fairly large
ship just before then and so the pilot turned around and started in for the landing. He was
trying to land as close as possible to this ship. The sea was pretty rough, the waves had
crests of from four to five feet but made a comparatively smooth landing. The plane did not
break up and none of the crew members were injured. The crew could see the ship coming
their way at full speed and there was a P-51 Mustang flying overhead showing the ship
where they were; they were out of sight to the ship because of the high wave crests.
The bomber floated for six minutes after it landed, then the crew had to get in the water.
One life raft was damaged and the other destroyed. Crew members grouped around the dinghy
that was partly inflated and held on to it but the cold water was causing hypothermia.
The location was too shallow for the ship to come up directly alongside, and yet it was
too deep for the plane to remain afloat. So they had to send a small row-boat over to the crew.
The small boat was too small to carry all ten crew members in addition to the crew from the
trawler, so it took five back to the ship. About fifteen minutes after they were picked up a
Royal Air Force Air-Sea Rescue Supermarine Walrus amphibious aircraft arrived but found
four bodies floating face down, the other body had already sunk. {13 missions). MACR 3222
37966 (MSN 8752) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 29Oct43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 9Nov43. 550th Bomb Squadron,
385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 18Nov43. Named "Swinging Door". Battle damaged and
accident when the flaps failed landing at Great Ashfield 8Jul44. The bomber overran the runway
and came to rest in a sugar beet field (one civilian fatally injured). Salvaged 10Jul44
37967 (MSN 8753) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 29Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 12Nov43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 353rd Bomb Squadron,
301st Bomb Group, Cerignola #1, Italy Jan44. Damaged during a mission to the harbor at
Piraeus, Greece 11Jan44. Vertical stabiliser and rudder damaged. On that fateful day, the
briefed mission was for the 5th Wing composed of the 2nd, 97th, 301st and 99th Bomb Groups,
to fly on a southerly course through the heel of Italy to the town of Lecce
where the Wing would then take a heading out over the Adriatic Sea, to a point over the
Peloponnese peninsula of Greece. From this point the crews were briefed to complete
a 90� degree turn to the Initial Point over Lagousa Island. From there the mission
dictated a straight run in to the target, reassemble, and return to base. After
the formation was organized and began making its way to the target, the Groups
ran into a weather front of 10/10 clouds. At eighteen thousand feet they entered
an overcast. The clouds were very thick and visibility was not much beyond the
wingtips, making it almost impossible to see other aircraft in the formation.
At that altitude, and with the thickness of the clouds, ice began to form on
their wings. In such situations it was standard operating procedure for trailing
squadrons in the formation to fly off course for a couple minutes to obtain
some spacing from the lead squadron, which would continue to maintain its course.
However, as the 97th Bomb Group began making a left turn for their bomb run
on the target, the lead plane of the 342nd Bomb Squadron encountered severe
turbulence made by the preceding elements of the Wing. The turbulence was
so severe that the lead aircraft of the squadron was forced into a
steep left bank before it plummeted temporarily out of control and
lost altitude at a rate of 1,000ft per minute. By the time the pilot was
able to recover and regain his place in formation, the two sister planes
in the flight were nowhere to be seen. Meanwhile, the pilots of the two
sister planes from the flight, B-17F No.42-3251 and B-17F No.42-29918 found
themselves alone in 10/10 visibility, unsure where the formation had
disappeared to, with ice forming on their wings, and experiencing
engine trouble. From what was deduced later in the accident report,
the doomed B-17s made the decision to abort and turn back for the
relative safety of Italy. In a tragic turn of events, their decision
to return home took them directly into the path of the oncoming
301st Bomb Group. According to the official report of the Board of
Inquiry, the two B-17s of the 97th Bomb Group experienced engine
trouble and left the formation. Instead of making a 180-degree right turn,
away from the formation, the aircraft made a turn to the left and flew
head-on into the 301st formation. According to a Bombardier assigned
to the lead ship of the 301st Bomb Group, and flown by the Group
Commanding Officer, he was startled to see a pair of 97th Bomb Group
B-17s emerge out of a cloud about 20 degrees to the left and
aimed straight at his aircraft. Almost Instantly, both B-17s bracketed
his aircraft, with one passing closely over his right wing that
clipped the vertical stabiliser, and the other closely passing
beneath the left wing. Almost immediately, the tail gunner witnessed
a big ball of fire that lit up the clouds as the B-17s collided
with one fortress in the lead element, and two B-17s in the second
element. {7 missions}. 2nd Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 1Feb44. Salvaged 8Jul44
37968 (MSN 8754) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 28Oct43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 13Nov43.
410th Bomb Squadron [GL*X], 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 9Dec43.
Named "Little Audrey". Failed to return from a mission to Augsburg, Germany 18Mar44 (7POW:3KIA).
Damaged by flak, two engines on fire, then tail snapped off, crashed Johanneskirchner Moos, seven miles
east of Munich, Germany.. MACR 3418
37969 (MSN 8755) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Oct43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 29Oct43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 13Nov43. 532nd Bomb Squadron [VE*L],
381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 23Dec43, Named "Old Iron Gut"
Damaged taxying at Ridgewell 13May44. {54 missions}. Salvaged after non battle damage
by 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little Staughton (Station 127), Bedfordshire 31May44
37970 (MSN 8756) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 1Nov43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 11Nov43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy.
20th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 21Dec43. Failed to return
from a mission to the Steyr-Daimler-Puch factory complex at Steyr, Austria 24Feb44 (1KIA:9POW).
The mission was a most disastrous day for the 2nd Bomb Group, losing fourteen aircraft to
enemy fighters. Fighters started attacking the Group about five miles north of Fiume, Italy and
continued for one hour. The plane had its vertical stabiliser shot off as the formation was
turning on the IP. The bombs were jettisoned, an engine was on fire and the tail was shredded.
The crew, other than the pilot, bailed out before the plane exploded. Crashed Obernau, Austria.
{23 missions}.. MACR 2621
37971 (MSN 8757) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 1Nov43. Operational Training
Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 12Nov43.
335th Bomb Squadron [OE*W], 95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 1Dec43.
Failed to return Brunswick, Germany 10Feb44 (8POW:2KIA), left formation with No.1 and
No.4 engines on fire, crashed Aloys Meiman's farm at Recke-Langenakker, Germany. {8 missions)
37972 (MSN 8758) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 1Nov43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 12Nov43. 349th Bomb Squadron [XR*F],
100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 27Nov43. Named "Gold Brick".
Battle damaged on a mission to Buchen, Germany 7Apr45 when flak shot off the right horizontal
stabiliser. Damaged in mid-air collision with B-17G 43-38514 but limped home and repaired.
482nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire 20May45. {100+ missions}.
Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 1Jun45.
4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 5Jun45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage
and disposal 17Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
37973 (MSN 8759) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 1Nov43. Bolling Field, Washington, DC 16Nov43.
305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 1Dec43. Returned to US.
533rd Base Unit, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 15Jul44. 611th Base Unit, Proving Ground Command,
Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 26Aug44. Air Technical Service Command, Wright Field, Dayton, OH 3Oct44.
610th Base Unit (Proving Ground Command), Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 30Oct44. 1454th Base Unit,
Alaskan Division, Station 11, Air Transport Command, Wold-Chamberlain Field, Minneapolis, MN 25Jan45.
4000th Base Unit, Air Materiel Command, Wright Field, Dayton, OH 3Sep45. 611th Base Unit,
Proving Ground Command, Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 21Dec45. Salvaged Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 31Oct46.
37974 (MSN 8760) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 2Nov43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 2Nov43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 14Nov43. 545th Bomb Squadron [JD*D], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood
(Station 106), Northamptonshire 21Jan44. Named *Section 8*, {first combat mission 29Jan44}.
544th Bomb Squadron [SU*M] 22Mar44. Participated in the 'Grapefruit' mission to drop GB-1 glide bombs
on a railway marshalling yard at Cologne, Germany 28May44. Failed to return from a mission to
the manufacturing facilities of the Junkers Flugzeug-und Motorenwerke at Dessau, Germany 20Jul44 (2KIA:7POW).
The bomber was under attack by four Bf 109s and two Fw 190s. The tail gunner was killed by a cannon
shell and there was a fire in the fuselage. Unable to keep up with the formation, the aircraft dropped
back and released its bombs. The remainder of the crew bailed out but the co-pilot was killed when
this parachute failed to open. It went down in a glide, apparently under control but later exploded
before it crashed near Zetteritz, Germany. {42 missions}. The wreckage was salvaged by the Luftwaffe
at Altenburg 10Aug44
37975 (MSN 8761) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 2Nov43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 12Nov43. 418th Bomb Squadron [LD*U],
100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 1Dec43. Failed to return from a mission
to railway marshalling yards at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 4Feb44 (4KIA:6MIA). As the planes
were passing over the Netherlands en route to Germany, local cross winds carried the bombers
straight into enemy flak. Damaged by flak near Vlissingen, the aircraft was seen to pull out of
formation on fire but appeared to be under control. Attacked by Fw 190s of the 1./JG 26 (from
Florennes airfield, Belgium) over Goeree-Overflakkee, Zuid-Holland. Crashed in the North Sea
off the coast of Ouddorp, Goeree-Overflakkee, SW of Rotterdam, Netherlands
MACR 2343.
37976 (MSN 8762) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 2Nov43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 21Nov43. 407th Bomb Squadron [PY*Y],
92nd Bomb Group, Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 8Jan44. , named *Manchester Leader*.
Battle damaged on mission 7May44 (1KIA). Failed to return from a mission to railway marshalling
yards at Munich, Germany 11Jul44 (9INT). Damaged by flak, lost two engines, then hit by Swiss
flak (lost 4ft off wing) and attacked by aircraft on approach to force landed Switzerland. {45 missions}
37977 (MSN 8763) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 3Nov43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 13Nov43.
549th Bomb Squadron, 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 1Dec43.
Named "Blue Champagne"
Failed to return from a mission to aircraft factories at Stettin, Prussia 11Apr44 (10POW).
Flak damaged No.2 engine, crashed Dargen, north of Oderhaff, Germany near Polish border. MACR 3823
37978 (MSN 8764) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 2Nov43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 12Nov43. 365th Bomb Squadron,
305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 5Jan44. Failed to return
from a mission to the secondary target, the industrial area at Stettin, Prussia 13May44 (10INT),
with fuel exhaustion, force landed Bulltofta, Malm�, Sweden. Returned to England 25May45. Salvaged 21Jun45.
37979 (MSN 8765) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 2Nov43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 11Nov43. 364th Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group,
Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 5Jan44. Failed to return from a mission to the
docks at Kiel, Germany 22May44 (10KIA). Flak damage, crashed Kiel, Germany Navy Yard, Germany.
MACR 4951.
37980 (MSN 8766) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 3Nov43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 3Nov43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 14Nov43.
562nd Bomb Squadron [D], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall 1Dec43. {first combat mission 22Mar44}.
Failed to return from a mission to railway facilities around Berlin, Germany 29Apr44 (10POW).
The combat wing was off course heading to Berlin, attacked by enemy fighters and bombed Magdeburg.
Flak over the target was very accurate, damaging two engines. The plane crash landed on fire and burned
out at Watou, west of Poperinge, Belgium. {15 missions). MACR 4244
37981 (MSN 8767) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 3Nov43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 12Nov43. 401st Bomb Group 3Dec43. 8th Ferrying Squadron, 4th Ferrying Group,
Memphis Municipal Airport, TN. Damaged in collision at RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador 5Dec43. 615th Bomb Squadron [IY*P],
401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire. Named "Belle of the Barbary Coast"
.Failed to return from a mission to the Mitteldeutsche Motorenwerke aero engine factory at Taucha, Leipzig, Germany 7Jul44 (7POW:2KIA),
Shot Down Jul 7, 1944 By Gunfire From German Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-8 and Crashed 25 km West of Gardelegen Germany
While Returning From a Mission on The Aircraft Plant at Leipzig Germany. Fw 190A-8 Flown By Unknown Pilot and Unit.
(2) Crew Were Killed. (7) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs. Released in 1945. MACR 7222.
37982 (MSN 8768) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 3Nov43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 3Nov43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 12Nov43. Ferried RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 20Jan44. 544th Bomb Squadron [SU*K], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106),
Northamptonshire 21Jan44. .Named *The Tremblin' Gremlin*.
{first combat mission 29Jan44}. Participated in the 'Grapefruit' mission to drop GB-1 glide bombs on a railway
marshalling yard at Cologne, Germany 28May44. Battle damaged during a mission to a Luftwaffe controlling station at
Langenhagen, Hanover, Germany 5Aug44 (1KIA:4WIA). A flak shell exploded beside the nose of the bomber during the
bomb run. The bombardier was struck by a shell fragment but he remained at his bombsight until bombs-away,
then collapsed; he had been hit in the chest, and subsequently died of his wounds. The pilot and engineer were
also wounded, and the plane was severely damaged. The right inboard engine had been hit and ceased to function;
the radio compartment was riddled with holes and the radio equipment destroyed; the trim tabs that control the
plane's balance, was shredded; the hydraulic brake system was shot out, and part of the oxygen system was eliminated, n
ecessitating that the men up forward use emergency supplies or tap other lines. The left inboard engine failed as the
bomber reached the English coast and the pilot headed for the nearest airfield. With his brakes inoperative,
he brought the plane in for the landing and slid it off onto the grass to reduce the speed. The airplane was force
landed at Halesworth (Station 365), Suffolk on two engines, without brakes. It had many flak holes.
Regained by Group 25Aug44. Failed to return from a mission to the railway marshalling yards at Hamm,
Germany 19Sep44 (2WIA:7RTD). The aircraft was struck by flak just before the IP. After dropping bombs on the
target, it left formation, apparently under control. The crew bailed out over Binche, Belgium. {61 missions}.
37983 (MSN 8769) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 4Nov43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 14Nov43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 9Dec43. 532nd Bomb Squadron [VE*A],
381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 22Jan44. Damaged when overshot landing at Ridgewell 23Jan44.
448th Sub-Depot, Air Service Command, Ridgewell 23Jan44 for repair. The aircraft had to be retrieved
from a nearby ditch to have the right wing changed, all four engines and propellers changed, tail section
and lower fuselage rebuilt and right stabiliser changed. However in 16 days it was flying again. Damaged
taxying at Ridgewell 8Feb44. 532nd Bomb Squadron [VE*N]. Battle damaged on a mission to industrial
areas in the suburbs of Berlin, Germany 6Mar44, crash landed below the cliffs at North Foreland, Broadstairs, Kent
37984 (MSN 8770) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 4Nov43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 12Nov43.
326th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 6Jan44.
Failed to return from a mission to the rail marshalling yards at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 8Feb44 (9EVD:1POW)
On mission to Frankfurt, engine # 2 damaged by
fighter, returning to UK, aircraft crashed Crevecouver'Le-Grand, near
Le Mesnil-Conteville, 18 miles SW of Amiens, France,�
10 crew bailed out, 9 evaded capture, 1 crew a POW.� MACR 2364
37985 (MSN 8771) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 4Nov43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 13Nov43. 96th Bomb Group 3Dec43. RCAF Gander, Newfoundland 9Dec43. During the
ferry flight from Gander to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 17/18Dec43, the aircraft encountered
bad weather which had closed the airport at Prestwick and turned back for Northern Ireland.
Stormy weather blew the bomber off course; with fuel exhaustion after circling the area for an hour,
the aircraft landed at Rineanna Airport, County Clare, Eire for fuel. Departed for Northern Ireland 19Dec43.
Base Air Depot No.2, Warton (Station 582), Lancashire. 311th Ferrying Squadron, 27th Air Transport Group.
On a flight from Warton the aircraft was damaged when it nosed over landing at Maghaberry (Station 239),
County Down, Northern Ireland 20Dec43. 338th Bomb Squadron [BX*V], 96th Bomb Group,
Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk. Named "The Saint". Battle damaged during a mission
to the Messerschmitt aircraft factory at Regensburg, Germany 25Feb44 (1KIA). After crossing the coastline
into mainland Europe, the formation encountered frequent flak and fierce aerial attacks from the Luftwaffe,
causing heavy damage to some of the bombers. The planes arrived at Regensburg and encountered intense
flak over the target area. Failed to return from a mission to the Focke-Wulf aircraft factory at Krzesiny,
Pozna?, Poland (10INT). Damaged by flak, force landed Bulltofta, Malm�, Sweden. Returned to England 25May45.
Salvaged 31May45.
37986 (MSN 8772) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 5Nov43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 14Nov43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME Nov43. Ferried on the North Atlantic
route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 18Dec43. 534th Bomb
Squadron [GD*K], 381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 15Jan44. Failed to return from a
mission to industrial areas of Berlin, Germany 3Mar44 (10POW). Deteriorating weather conditions
and dense contrails forced the formation to divert to an alternate target of the industrial and port
areas at Wilhelmshaven, Germany. Shot down by flak and crashed at Lutje-Saaksum, near Baflo,
Netherlands. {2 missions; MACR 2737.
37987 (MSN 8773) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 4Nov43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 15Nov43. 322nd Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 21Dec43
Named "Man O' War--Horsepower Ltd" Man O' War was an American thoroughbred racehorse
widely regarded as one of the greatest racehorses of all time.. {first combat mission 29Jan44}. Battle damaged
on a mission to the industrial area at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 29Jan44 (1KIA:1WIA:8RTD).
The bomber was crippled by direct flak hits that knocked out two engines. Attacked by enemy fighters,
two gunners were struck by a 20mm cannon shell explosion, one fatally. With the third engine
damaged, the aircraft crashed in a turnip field at Bredgar, Sittingbourne, Kent. {1 mission}.
Salvaged by 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton 2Feb44
37988 (MSN 8774) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 5Nov43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 14Nov43. 336th Bomb Squadron [ET*M], 95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119),
Suffolk 3Dec43. Named "Floozie Flossy/Flagship". Failed to return Berlin, Germany 29Apr44
(9POW:1EVD). The combat wing was off course heading to Berlin, attacked by enemy fighters and bombed
Magdeburg. Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed near Nendorf, thirteen miles west of Steinhuder Meer,
Wunstorf, Germany. {27 missions}.
42-37989/38083 Douglas-Long Beach B-17G-25-DL Fortress
MSN 8775/8869. Dispositions from B-17 Fortress Master Log, Dave Osborne (FORTLOG)
Production changes: Staggered nose side gun positions; staggered enclosed waist gun positions.
Provision for RC-103 localiser receiver
37989 (MSN 8775) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 5Nov43. School of Applied Tactics,
Orlando AAB, FL 21Nov43. 901st Base Unit, Heavy Bombardment, Pinecastle Field, Orlando, FL 2Jun44.
902nd Base Unit (Base Complement), Orlando AAB, FL 29Jul44. 903rd Base Unit, Pinecastle
Field, FL 10Sep44. Air Technical Service Command, Wright Field, Dayton, OH 7Jul45.
4000th Base Unit, Air Materiel Command, Wright Field, Dayton, OH 13Aug45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 5Jan46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
37990 (MSN 8776) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 5Nov43. School of Applied Tactics, Orlando AAB, FL 20Nov43.
906th Base Unit, Pinecastle Field, FL 3Jun44. 903rd Base Unit, Pinecastle Field, FL 10Sep44.
902nd Base Unit (Base Complement), Orlando AAB, FL 6Jan45. 903rd Base Unit, Pinecastle
Field, FL 30Mar45. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field,
Sebring, FL 30Jul45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 21Nov45
37991 (MSN 8777) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 7Nov43. School of Applied Tactics, Orlando AAB, FL 21Nov43.
225th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Rapid City Field, SD 1Jun44. 211th Base Unit,
Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 22Jun45.To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 5Jan46. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
37992 (MSN 8778) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 7Nov43. School of Applied Tactics,
Orlando AAB, FL 20Nov43. 232nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dalhart Field, TX.
Damaged while parked in collision by B-17F 42-5173 taxying at Dalhart 17Apr44.
224th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Sioux City AAB, IA. Crashed after takeoff
when an engine failed 2.5 miles east of Sioux City 15Sep44. Salvaged 18Sep44
37993 (MSN 8779) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 7Nov43. School of Applied Tactics, Orlando AAB, FL 26Nov43.
903rd Base Unit, Pinecastle Field, FL 10Sep44. 902nd Base Unit (Base Complement),
Orlando AAB, FL 24Nov44. 621st Base Unit, Pinecastle Field, FL. 613th Base Unit (Proving Ground
Detachment), Phillips Field, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 17Dec45
37994 (MSN 8780) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 8Nov43. School of Applied Tactics, Orlando AAB, FL 22Nov43.
224th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Sioux City AAB, IA 6Mar45. 332nd Base Unit,
Ardmore Field, OK 20Apr45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for
storage and disposal 25Sep45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment
Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
37995 (MSN 8781) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 8Nov43. School of Applied Tactics, Orlando AAB, FL 22Nov43.
903rd Base Unit, Pinecastle Field, FL 10Sep44. 621st Base Unit, Pinecastle Field, FL 9Jul45.
4000th Base Unit, Air Materiel Command, Wright Field, Dayton, OH 13Aug45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 4Jan46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
37996 (MSN 8782) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 10Nov43. School of Applied Tactics, Orlando AAB, FL 21Nov43.
901st Base Unit, Heavy Bombardment, Pinecastle Field, Orlando, FL 10Sep44. 902nd Base Unit
(Base Complement), Orlando AAB, FL 16Jan45. 903rd Base Unit, Pinecastle Field, FL 30Jan45.
902nd Base Unit (Base Complement), Orlando AAB, FL 29Mar45. 621st Base Unit, Pinecastle
Field, FL 9Jul45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage
and disposal 18Jan46. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company,
Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
37997 (MSN 8783) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 9Nov43. Long Beach Field, CA 19Dec43. United Air Lines,
Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27Dec43. 775th Bomb Squadron,
463rd Bomb Group, Lakeland Field, FL 10Jan44. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison
Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL. Ferried overseas via the South Atlantic / Africa route.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 775th Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group; attached to the 2nd
Bomb Group effective 14Mar44. Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 17Mar44. 775th Bomb Squadron,
463rd Bomb Group, Foggia #1, Celone, Italy 28Mar44. Named "Miss Behaven".
Failed to return from a mission to the railway marshalling yards at Mestre, Venice, Italy 10Jun44
(5KIA:5MIA). Damaged by flak over the target, the partially disabled plane continued with the
formation until reaching the vicinity of Adria, Italy when it dropped out. The aircraft started
to spin with the right wing leaking fuel and on fire. Having dropped down to about 5,000 fett,
the wing folded up and the aircraft exploded, ejecting some crew members. It crashed into
the Adriatic Sea southeast of Venice, Italy
37998 (MSN 8784) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 9Nov43. Kingman Field, AZ 21Nov43.
3018th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Kingman Field, AZ 23Mar45. 3017th Base Unit
(Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 22Jun45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 18Jan46. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
37999 (MSN 8785) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 9Nov43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME 29Nov43. Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland
to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 30Nov43. 482nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102),
Huntingdonshire 2Dec43. 366th Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105),
Northamptonshire 10Dec43. Damaged taxying at Chelveston 11Dec43. 422nd Bomb Squadron [JJ*E].
Experimented in night bombing alongside the RAF and operated night leaflet and propaganda
missions. 366th Bomb Squadron. Battle damaged on a mission to industrial areas in the
suburbs of Berlin, Germany 6Mar44, crashed landing at Chelveston. Salvaged by 2nd Mobile
Reclamation and Repair Squadron, 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton)
38000 (MSN 8786) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 9Nov43. School of Applied Tactics, Orlando AAB, FL 21Nov43.
224th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Sioux City AAB, IA. With fuel exhaustion en route to
Sioux City AAB, the crew bailed out, the aircraft crashed five miles west of Worthington, MN 24Oct44.
Salvaged 28Oct44
38001 (MSN 8787) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 11Nov43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 12Dec43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 14Dec43. 338th Bomb Squadron,
96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 17Dec43. Failed to return from a mission
to the industrial area at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 29Jan44 (10KIA). Collided with Bf 109.
Crashed in quarry near Reichweiler, near Schwarzerden, eight miles northeast of Sankt Wendel,
Germany. MACR 2380
38002 (MSN 8788) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 9Nov43. Grenier Field, Manchester, NH 4Dec43.
614th Bomb Squadron [IW*Q], 401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 21Jan44.
Failed to return from a mission to the Junkers aircraft factories at Halberstadt and Aschersleben,
Germany 22Feb44 (8POW:2KIA). Shot Down By Gunfire From German Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-8 and Crashed 21 km Northwest of
Brunswick Germany, Fw 190A-8 Flown By Unknown Pilot and Unit.
MACR 2661. Tail gunner was unable to bail out with the other crew members because his parachute was riddled
with machine gun fire but he survived because the plane landed itself in a field.
38003 (MSN 8789) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 11Nov43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 16Nov43. School of Applied Tactics, Orlando AAB, FL 29Nov43.
241st Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Fairmont Field, Geneva, NB 7Jul44. 225th Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Rapid City Field, SD 28Dec44. 2114th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine),
Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 6Jul45. 2317th Base Unit, Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 18Aug45.
to Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and
disposal 15Oct45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped.
38004 (MSN 8790) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 10Nov43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME 30Nov43. Ferried to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 7Dec43.
534th Bomb Squadron [GD*A], 381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 6Jan44.
Named "Ol' Man Tucker". . Named after Captain Alan F Tucker of 534th Bomb Squadron.
He was in his late 20s when he joined the squadron as a pilot which is where the 'ol' man' originated.
He did twenty-five missions with the 381st Bomb Group. The men respected him and named this aircraft after him
Failed to return from a mission to the Luftwaffe airfield at Eschwege, southeast of Kassel,
Germany 19Apr44 (3KIA:6POW). Shot down by enemy fighters, causing the B-17 to catch on fire
inboard of the No.1 engine. The plane then went into a steep dive and exploded. Crashed
Rohrsburg, northwest of Frettenrode, Germany. {6 missions}. . MACR 4052
38005 (MSN 8791) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 10Nov43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 21Nov43. Ferried to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 7Dec43. 509th Bomb Squadron [RQ*G],
351st Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 4Jan44. 511th Bomb Squadron [DS*G].
Named "Stormy Weather". {first combat mission 21Jan44}. Failed to return from a mission to Berlin,
Germany 24May44 (10POW). The aircraft suffered shutdown on two of the four engines. The pilot
turned back towards base in England after jettisoning the bomb load. Over Heligoland a third engine
was hit by flak. The pilot then headed for Sweden. When the plane passed Als, S�nderborg, the aircraft
was so low that an emergency landing became necessary. Over the Lilleb�lt the plane turned over
NordAls and the pilot gave the crew the order to bail out. Eight crew members bailed out over Svenstrup.
Too low to bail out, the pilot and co-pilot tried to control the plane on only one engine. Struggling to
maintain height, the plane crossed an embankment for a new road, hit some telephone cables, and
crashed through a stand of willow trees neatly removing their tops. It then hit the ground very hard
approximately 100 meters from the embankment, just in front of a small farm and forest house
called "Myrholm". It broke into two just behind the wings, rotated through nearly 180 degrees, and
came to rest in the opposite direction to its approach. The plane had crash landed in a field at the
Sk�rtoft farm, N�rreskov, Als, Denmark. {22 missions}. MACR 5175
38006 (MSN 8792) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification
Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Nov43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 1Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 17Dec43. 324th Bomb Squadron [DF*H], 91st Bomb Group,
Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 8Jan44. Named "Hoosier Hot Shot" artwork based
on a Varga girl illustration in Esquire magazine.Failed to return from a mission to aircraft factories
at Kassel, Germany 19Apr44 (8POW:2KIA). Enemy aircraft damaged three engines, set the aircraft
on fire and exploded on way down to crash near Waldkappel, twenty miles southeast of Kassel,
Germany. {21 missions}. MACR 4046
38007 MSN 8793) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification
Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Nov43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 3Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 14Dec43. Nutts Corner (Station 235), Belfast, Northern Ireland 20Dec43.
332nd Bomb Squadron [XM*F], 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds,
Suffolk 21Dec43. Named "Hello MR Maier". Failed to return from a mission to the
Bayerische Motoren Werke aero engine works at Munich, Germany 31Jul44 (10RTD)
Damaged by flak and ditched in North Sea. Crew members all rescued by British Navy PBY-5.
Many years later a fishing trawler draggged up a cylinder ring with a bent prop attached.
Donated to museum at Rougham, England.
38008 (MSN 8794) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 12Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification
Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Nov43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 1Dec43. New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 7Dec43.
Ferried from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Nutts Corner (Station 235), Belfast, Northern Ireland 17Dec43.
367th Bomb Squadron [GY*V], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 21Jan44.
Named "Clay Pidgeon" . Seriously battle damaged during a mission to railway marshalling yards at
Frankfurt am Main, Germany 4Feb44. As the planes were passing over the Netherlands en route to Germany,
local cross winds carried the bombers straight into enemy flak. Bomb bay doors hit by its own bombs.
Vertical stabiliser, dorsal fin, left and right fuselage at waist positions all struck by flak. Seriously battle
damaged during a mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factory at Augsburg, Germany 25Feb44 (1WIA:9RTD).
Widely damaged by flak and also struck by the propeller of another plane. Failed to return from a mission
to industrial areas in Berlin, Germany 8May44 (10INT). En route to the target, oil pressure on No.1 engine
dropped but the propeller could not be feathered. The plane could not keep up with the formation.
Before the I.P., the No.4 engine started to mis-fire, vibrate and run hot. The bombs were jettisoned before
the I.P. and was seen turning away from the formation, then the plane was hit by flak. The pilot headed
north with the intention of following the Baltic coast westwards. In an overcast, bad weather pushed the
plane further north. Over Kalmar, southeast Sweden, the other engine stopped and Swedish fighters
attempted to get the American bomber to land at Kalmar. However, with the landing strips too short,
the aircraft continued along the coast but when the fuel was exhausted the flight ended when the pilot
ditched in the Baltic Sea off V�ll�, M�nster�s, about two miles southeast of Sand�, Sweden.
The tail section broke off and the plane started to sink rapidly but the entire crew managed to escape
and, despite a heavy storm, local fishermen went out and helped the Americans to safety. MACR 4669
After several failed attempts to locate the aircraft wreck in the 1960's and 1970's, in 1982 a fisherman
stuck in the wreck with his nets. He picked up metal fragments from the bottom and immediately realized
that it had to be from the Flying Fortress. He contacted some divers who found the plane at a depth of 39 meters.
A sonar image taken 2001 shows the plane still remarkably intact but with the rear fuselage broken.
The divers managed to salvage one of the four propellers weighing about 200kg. Today, the refurbished propeller
can be viewed at Virkvar Airport outside Oskarshamn as a monument to the American airmen during World War
38009 (MSN 8795) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Nov43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 1Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 13Dec43.
381st Bomb Group 8Jan44. Ferried Marrakech, French Morocco to Valley (Station 568), Anglesey, Wales 2Feb44.
534th Bomb Squadron [GD*N], 381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 8Jan44. Failed to return from
Bordeaux, France 15Jun44 (9EVD). Flak damaged two engines, followed by bad vibration. Crashed Coimeres,
four miles southeast of Lagon, southwest of Bordeaux, France. {12 missions}. MACR 5799
38010 (MSN 8796) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Nov43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 3Dec43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 13Dec43. 532nd Bomb Squadron [VE*J],
381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 13Jan44. Failed to return from Berlin, Germany 24May44
(7POW:2KIA). Enemy aircraft damaged No.1 engine, then the aircraft exploded and crashed between
Melchow and Biesenthal, 18 miles north of Berlin, MACR 5178
38011 (MSN 8797) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Nov43. New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 7Dec43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 11Dec43. 351st Bomb Squadron [EP*P], 100th Bomb Group,
Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 17Dec43. Named "Kinda Ruff". Failed to return from a mission
to the Robert Bosch electrical factory at Berlin, Germany 6Mar44 (8KIA:2POW). A BF 109 hit the wing fuel tanks,
the right wing and tanks began to burn. The bomber then exploded, ejecting two crew members and crashed at
Jardinghausen, east of Bassum, Germany. 8 KIA, only 2 bailed out, both taken prisoner.
MACR 3023
38012 (MSN 8798) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Nov43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 2Dec43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 4Dec43. 615th Bomb Squadron [IY*M],
401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 21Jan44. Failed to return from a mission
to the industrial area at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 29Jan44 (7POW:3KIA). Hit by a rocket from a Bf 110 fighter,
the plane crashed at B�rrstadt, near Worms, Germany. Believed BF 110G-4 Flown By Lt. Karl-Heinz Grunert of NJG 6/5.
(3) Crew Were Killed. (7) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs. Released in 1945. MACR 2275.
38013 (MSN 8799) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 15Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26Nov43. New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 10Dec43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 15Dec43. 547th Bomb Squadron [SO*C], 384th Bomb Group,
Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 21Jan44, Named "Nevada Avenger".
{first combat mission 29Jan44}. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton (Station 547), Huntingdonshire 19Feb44.
Regained by Group 12Mar44. Accident returning to Grafton from a recalled operational mission 31Mar44.
The left main landing gear would not extend caused by a failed landing gear drive shaft. The pilot jettisoned the
bomb load and ball turret over The Wash, then flew locally to use up fuel. He then made a successful landing
using only the right main gear and tail wheel, resulting in a ground loop but causing minimal damage to the
aircraft, and no injury to crew. {final combat mission 22Feb45}. Declared 'war weary' Feb45. Tail damaged while
parked in collision by B-17G 43-39138 which had ground looped with faulty brakes caused by a flak damaged
hydraulic system landing at Grafton Underwood 25Apr45. Salvaged 27Apr45. {104 missions)
38014 (MSN 8800) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 16Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification
Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Nov43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 3Dec43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 9Dec43. 546th Bomb Squadron [BK*G],
384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 6Jan44. Named "Little America II"
artwork of a penguin and a flag worded 'Flag Ship'. (first combat mission 14Jan44}. Battle damaged on a
mission to the Dornier Flugzeugwerke factory at Oberpfaffenhofen, Munich, Germany 24Apr44. Flak struck the
hydraulic system disabling the wing flaps and brakes. Returning to Grafton, with another B-17 burning in the
middle of the runway, the bomber was landed on the grass and stopped rolling just before a hardstand.
Battle damaged during a mission to the railway marshalling yards at Hamm, Germany 19Sep44 (9RTD).
The bomber was struck by flak just before the IP. After dropping bombs on the target it left formation,
apparently under control. Force landed in France. Regained by Group 17Dec44. Accident on return from
a mission to the oil depot at Derben, Germany 1Jan45 (9RTD). About fifteen minutes after passing through
flak on the German coast, the No.2 started to leak oil. The pilot watched the engine oil gauges and continued
the sortie. Ten minutes later the oil temperature started to rise and the pressure dropped. At that point the
pilot tried to feather the propeller. The engine vibrated, the propeller would not feather and started to windmill.
It continued to winmill until it seized. The bomb load was jettisoned in an attempt to stay with the formation.
The pilot could hold altitude but not speed but, being deep in Germany, followed the formation for protection.
Near Frankfurt, the bomber was attacked by a Me 262 fighter jet but no damage was done. By now back over
France, the No.1 engine started to run hot and rough. The power was reduced and the engine ran smoothly.
Without charts for airfields in France, the pilot elected to continue back to England. With heavy cloud over
southern England, the pilot headed for RAF Detling, Kent. Circling in an attempt to make contact, eventually the
pilot made a pass over the runway as the visibility deteriorated. In low cloud, the pilot was too high on the
first approach and was unable to correctly align with the runway and the second approach. With low fuel
and a rough engine, coming out of low cloud for a third approach, the pilot found he was about twenty degrees
off the runway heading. He landed and found that the runway sloped downhill delaying the plane from
setting down. The airplane could not be stopped after landing and ran off the runway, rolling across a field,
through an anti-aircraft pit, across a road and through a wire fence. The left wing struck a small building
housing WAAFs then ran through a row of trees, jumped an embankment as the left landing gear hit a knoll
which swung the bomber around. {66 missions}. Salvaged by Eighth Air Force Service Command 3Jan45
38015 (MSN 8801) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Nov43. 393rd Base Headquarters and Air Base Squadron,
Syracuse AAB, NY 9Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 11Dec43.
338th Bomb Squadron, 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 16Dec43.
Failed to return from a mission to �vreux, France 6Jan44 (9KIA:1POW).
Shot down by Fw 190 flown by Lt Willius Karl, CO of 2./JG 26 and
crashed at Pisseleux, France Feb 6, 1944. MACR 2342.
38016 (MSN 8802) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 16Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification
Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Nov43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 8Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 9Dec43.
350th Bomb Squadron [LN*B], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 16Dec43.
Namee "Seaton's Sad Sack". Failed to return from a mission to industrial areas in the suburbs of
Berlin, Germany 6Mar44 (9POW:1KIA). Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed and exploded 1km north
of Kesseling, Ahrweiler, Germany. MACR 3024
38017 (MSN 8803) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Nov43. 393rd Base Headquarters and Air Base Squadron,
Syracuse AAB, NY 7Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 15Dec43.
349th Bomb Squadron [XR*O], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 28Dec43.
Named "One Mission Lu Lu" When the crew saw the that the aircraft's first mission was to Berlin,
they said that they were never coming back. Failed to return from a mission to Schwelswig airfield,
Germany 3Mar44 (10POW). Damaged by Fw 190 fighters. With aircraft damage, an engine on fire and
crew injuries, the pilot headed for Sweden. The aircraft went into a dive and the engine fire was extinguished.
Approaching the Baltic Sea, five Ju 88s appeared and surrounded the bomber. With no choice, t
he pilot surrendered the bomber by lowering the landing gear and landed at the Schlezwig-Jagel
airfield in the north of Germany 10 POW. MACR 3025.
Aircraft salvaged by Luftwaffe and operated by KG200, perhaps as A3+GE. Destroyed
at Jagel by P-51s.
38018 MSN 8804) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 17Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY Nov43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 6Dec43.
Ferried from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Machrihanish, Scotland Dec43. Nutts Corner (Station 235),
Belfast, Northern Ireland 27Dec43. 349th Bomb Squadron [XR*J], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139),
Norfolk Dec43. 351st Bomb Squadron. Named "Waticare/Laden Maiden II". Salvaged battle damaged, 25Apr44
38019 (MSN 8805) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 17Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification
Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Nov43. Grenier Field, Manchester, NH 12Dec43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 14Dec43. Ferried from RCAF Gander,
Newfoundland to Machrihanish, Scotland 17Dec43. 369th Bomb Squadron [WW*Q], 306th Bomb Group,
Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 21Jan44. Seriously battle damaged during a mission to railway
marshalling yards at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 4Feb44. As the planes were passing over the Netherlands
en route to Germany, local cross winds carried the bombers straight into enemy flak. No.4 engine nacelle,
left and right wings, fuselage, elevators and rudder all struck by flak. Failed to return from a mission to
aircraft factories at Stettin, Prussia 11Apr44 (10POW). Flak hit fuel tank and crew bailed out. Crashed Glentorf,
eleven miles northeast of Brunswick, Germany MACR 3677
38020 (MSN 8806) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Nov43. 393rd Base Headquarters and Air Base Squadron,
Syracuse AAB, NY 17Dec43. Valley (Station 568), Anglesey, Wales, UK 22Dec43. 427th Bomb Squadron [GN*L],
303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 20Jan44. Named "V-Packett".
Battle damaged on a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Metz, France 25Apr44 (10RTD). The B-17 was hit by flak.
One engine gave out and the pilot was unable to keep up with the formation. Friendly fighters picked up the
damaged B-17 and stayed with the crew. The B-17 became low on fuel. With only two engines operating, no
flaps and a flat tire, the pilot headed for a fighter base and crash landed at RAF High Halden, Kent. Salvaged 29Apr44
38021 (MSN 8807) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 17Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 16Nov43. 457th Bomb Group, Wendover Field, UT 7Dec43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB.
Ferried North Atlantic route to UK departing 17Jan44. 748th Bomb Squadron [K], 457th Bomb Group,
Glatton (Station 130), Huntingdonshire 26Jan44. 751st Bomb Squadron [K, named "Mission Maid".
Force landed on the continent 14Feb45. {75+ missions}. Declared 'war weary'. 5th Strategic Air Depot,
Merville (B-53), France. Modified as lifeboat carrier for Air-Sea Rescue 24Mar45. Redesignated B-17H.
5th Emergency Rescue Squadron, 65th Fighter Wing, Halesworth (Station 365), Suffolk Returned to US.
121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 11Jul45. 4185th Base Unit
(Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), Independence Field, KS 13Jul45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and
disposal 19Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped.
38022 (MSN 8808) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification
Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 16Nov43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 4Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 10Dec43. 410th Bomb Squadron [GL*M], 94th Bomb Group,
Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 16Dec43. , named "Jeanne".
Failed to return from a mission to Kleinmachnow, Berlin, Germany 6Mar44 (2KIA:8POW).
An attack by enemy aircraft over western germany started a fire in the cockpit. The crew bailed out,
aircraft crashed and destroyed after hitting a tree two miles south of Wieste, 15 miles west of
Cloppenberg, Germany. MACR 2977.
38023 (MSN 8809) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 17Nov43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 9Dec43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 14Dec43. Ferried to Prestwick
(Station 500), Scotland 19Dec43. 508th Bomb Squadron [YB*H], 351st Bomb Group,
Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 1Jan44. Named "Yankee Rebel" Accident on return from
a mission to aircraft factories at Bernberg, Germany 22Feb44; crash landed at Framlingham
(Station 153), Suffolk. {10 missions}. Salvaged
38024 (MSN 8810) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification
Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 17Nov43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 7Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 8Dec43.
336th Bomb Squadron [ET*Q], 95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 16Dec43.
Force landed RAF Martlesham, Suffolk 10Feb44. Failed to return from a mission to industrial
areas in the suburbs of Berlin, Germany 6Mar44 (1KIA:9POW). Attacked by enemy fighters, the bomber
left formation with No.3 engine on fire. Nine of the crew bailed out before the aircraft crashed at
Theolstedt, near Colnrade, Germany. {13 missions}, .MACR 2984.
38025 (MSN 8811) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification
Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 17Nov43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 8Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 12Dec43. 327th Bomb Squadron [UX*Q], 92nd Bomb Group,
Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 4Jan44. Named "Flak Happy".
Failed to return from a mission to an aero engine factory at Munich, Germany 16Jul44 (9POW),
mechanical failure, crashed Mittenwald, Germany. MACR 7565
38026 (MSN 8812) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification
Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 18Nov43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 5Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 22Dec43.
Departed US 6Jan44. Ferried Lajes Field, Terceira Island, Azores to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 14Jan44. 612th Bomb Squadron [SC*N], 401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128),
Northamptonshire 2Feb44. Named "My Day/Sad Sack II", Accident returning from a
mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Carpiquet, Caen, France 6Feb44. The landing gear collapsed on
landing at Deenethorpe. Damaged when ground looped at Deenethorpe 1Apr44. Failed to return
from a mission to Kiel, Germany 19May44 (9KIA:1POW). Flak hit just after bomb release, the nose
to the radio room was blown off, the aircraft caught fire after a wing fell off, exploded and
crashed Kiel, Germany, MACR 4815.
38027 (MSN 8813) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification
Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 18Nov43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 4Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 15Dec43.
322nd Bomb Squadron [LG*A], 91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 10Jan44.
Named "Heavenly Body". Battle damaged on a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Oldenburg,
Germany 8Apr44. The 91st Bomb Group was the last group over the target and took very heavy flak.
Battle damaged on a mission to the Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau AG aircraft factory at Sorau,
Prussia 11Apr44. The primary target was covered with clouds; so the group headed to the
secondary target of the port area at Stettin, Prussia. Intense and accurate flak was encountered
in the vicinity of Hanover and Stettin. On return, the formation was subjected to two hard-pressed
attacks by enemy fighters. Battle damaged on a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Metz, France 25Apr44.
Battle damaged on a Crossbow mission to a German V-weapon site at Aire-sur-la-Lys, Pas-de-Calais,
France 6Jul44 (1WIA:9RTD). The squadron made three 360 degree turns in the target area, finally
bombing a last resort target northeast of Estr�e-Blanche. The bombardier was wounded by flak
shrapnel. Failed to return from a mission to an oil refinery at Mockau, Leipzig, Germany 20Jul44
(5KIA:4POW). When the Luftwaffe decided to pick off the 91st Bomb Group there were no friendly
fighters in the area to defend it. As the formation drew close to Leipzig, wave after wave of
German fighters attacked. The plane survived the initial attack, although sustaining some damage.
Then in a further attack it was shot down. Crashed Lichtenstein, 11km northeast of Zwickau, Germany.
{31+ missions). MACR 7285
38028 (MSN 8814) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification
Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 18Nov43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field,
Detroit, MI 9Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 11Dec43.
510th Bomb Squadron [TU*Q], 351st Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 1Jan44.
Named "Pappy's Pride". Damaged by flak on a mission to Bernberg/Magdeburg, Germany 22Feb44 (2KIA).
Failed to return from a mission to industrial areas of Munich, Germany 12Jul44 (5KIA:4POW).
Damaged by flak, crashed Munich. {37 missions}.. MACR 7505
38029 (MSN 8815) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification
Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 18Nov43. 393rd Base Headquarters and Air Base
Squadron, Syracuse AAB, NY 10Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle
Field, ME 15Dec43. Ferried from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Valley (Station 568), Anglesey,
Wales 17Dec43. Damaged landing at Warton (Station 582), Lancashire 11Jan44. Base Air
Depot No.2, Warton. 532nd Bomb Squadron [VE*M], 381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167),
Essex 1Mar44. Failed to return from a mission to the Vereinigte Kugellagerfabriken AG (VKF)
ball bearing factory at Erkner, Berlin, Germany 8Mar44 (8POW:2EVD). All the way from the
Netherlands to Berlin, the bombers were hounded by Luftwaffe fighters. Shot down by flak and
enemy fighters, crashed near Lettele, Netherlands. {1 mission} MACR 3002
38030 (MSN 8816) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification
Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 18Nov43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 3Dec43. 337th Bomb Squadron, 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 6Dec43;
Named "The Merry Widow". Failed to return from a mission to the railway marshalling
yards at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 4Feb44 (10POW). As the planes were passing over the Netherlands
en route to Germany, local cross winds carried the bombers straight into enemy flak. Struck by flak, the plane
turned back towards England with two engines disabled, one of them burning. The fire was extinguished but t
he propeller could not be feathered and was windmilling. A third engine was struck by flak as the plane
passed over Aachen, Germany and the crew bailed out. The plane crashed north of Aachen at Schaesberg,
Limburg, Netherlands. . MACR 2195.
38031 (MSN 8817) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19Nov43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 9Dec43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 12Dec43. 385th Bomb Group 16Dec43.
Ferried Patterson Field, Reykjavik, Iceland to Scotland 19Dec43. 549th Bomb Squadron [XA*M],
385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 16Dec43
Named "Hit Parade", aka "Hit Parade, JR" aka "Joker"
Damaged landing at Great Ashfield 15Oct44. Damaged landing at Great Ashfield 15Apr45. Returned to US.
121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 19Jun45. 4168th Base Unit
(Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 12Sep45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and
disposal 20Nov45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
38032 (MSN 8818) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 22Nov43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 5Dec43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 23Dec43. 509th Bomb Squadron [RQ*X],
351st Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 27Dec43. Named "My Gal"
Failed to return from a mission to the Dornier Flugzeugwerke factory at Oberpfaffenhofen, Munich,
Germany 18Mar44 (5POW:5KIA). Enemy aircraft damaged engine No.3 & No.4, crashed near
Andelfingen, 12 miles northeast of Sigmaringen, Germany. MACR 3239
38033 (MSN 8819) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19Nov43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 15Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME 21Dec43. 612th Bomb Squadron [SC*M], 401st Bomb Group,
Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 6Jan44. Named "Man O' War". Man O' War was an American
thoroughbred racehorse widely regarded as one of the greatest racehorses of all time.
Failed to return from a mission to the industrial areas of Frankfurt am Main, Germany
20Mar44 (4POW:2EVD:4KIA). High clouds frustrated bombing attempts and the squadron
diverted to a target of opportunity. The aircraft had difficulty keeping formation. Close to the
Initial Point a bomb-loaded aircraft, out of control, fell from the formation above, almost wiping
out this aircraft. The pilot put the aircraft into a dive to avert collision. His quick thinking
maneuver avoided a collision and possible explosion of the two planes that would have
caused the loss of planes and crews. The centrifugal force rendered the crew helpless, stuck
to the fuselage, unable to move. The aircraft was now in a rough, turbulent downdraft as the
plane dropped over several thousand feet before the pilot was able to bring the aircraft under
control. Now, the pilot had to regain the lost altitude to return to the group formation.
The formation was nowhere to be found. The pilot decided to continue on to target with the
expectation of meeting up with the group. At this time, while busy with lifesaving activity and
observing radio silence, the pilot was unaware of the Eighth Air Force recall due to bad weather
conditions. Navigator set the plane on course for Frankfurt. The weather cleared giving a
visible target. Bombardier sighted the factory through his Norden bomb sight, and set the
plane on a steady run to drop the bombs for a direct hit on target. Over the target the flak
was heavy, accurate and intense, knocking out the two inboard engines, numbers two and three,
and peppering the plane with a rain of steel fragments. After bomb release, the pilot took
control and banked the aircraft away to the left from the target out of flak range only to be
joined in the furor by attacking Bf 109 fighter planes. There were four or five of them, and their
assault was vicious, guns and cannons blazing, determined and unrelenting. After one pass and
doing considerable damage to the men and plane, they circled and returned for a second pass,
this time hitting the aircraft on all sides timing their individual attacks. Bullets and 20mm cannon
shrapnel fire was exploding all over the fuselage and ripping up the plane. Now, they attacked fast
and at close range and caused grievous injury to the bomber and its crew. The weather cleared
bright and German fighters continued their attacks from all directions, killing the tail-gunner
and the top-turret gunner near Reims, France. The crew was running low on ammunition. Shrapnel hit the left-waist
gunner in the neck, severing a neck artery. Some of the fighters bull-dogged the stricken aircraft all the way
back to Reims, France, chewing it up for target practice, wanting to knock it out of the sky.
The right wing was on fire. The plane was teetering from damage and loss of two engines,
and the pilot was having difficulty keeping the plane under control. Fearing an explosion,
the pilot gave the alarm to bail out. The plane was on fire and the pilot, again gave the
alarm to bail. And unaware that the crew was looking after the wounded and the gunner
trapped in the ball-turret, set the plane with two feathered engines on automatic pilot and
bailed out behind the navigator, bombardier and co-pilot. The aircraft stalled and crashed
near Brueil, fourteen miles west of Reims, France. MACR 3332
38034 (MSN 8820) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification
Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20Nov43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 4Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 19Dec43.
332nd Bomb Squadron [XM*E], 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 16Dec43.
Named *Twat's it to you?*. Failed to return from a mission to the Bayerische
Motoren Werke aero engine works at Munich, Germany 31Jul44 (9INT). Only two of the five
bombs could be dropped on the target; the rest of the bombs had to be jettisoned by the crew
outside of the target area. Anti-aircraft fire over the target was successful and struck the plane
in No.4 engine; this had to be shut down. Engine No.1 ran out of oil pressure and had to be switched
off as well. With only two engines left there was little hope of reaching England so the navigator
calculated the course for Switzerland. Force landed D�bendorf, Z�rich, Switzerland. MACR 7740
38035 (MSN 8821) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification
Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21Nov43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 7Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 12Dec43.
550th Bomb Squadron [SG*B], 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 16Dec43.
Named "Mr. Lucky". . Battle damaged on a mission to a railway marshalling yard at Ulm,
Germany 1Mar45 (8KIA), mid-air collision with 43-38273, crashed on a farm near Ostend, Belgium.
The Armbruster crew in 42-38035 was cut in half by the Rusecki crew in 43-38273 over Ostend, Belgium.
The only two survivors were a waist gunner of the Rusecki crew who bailed out, and the tail gunner
of the Armbruster crew. Unable to bail out, he rode the severed tail down from 12,000ft. A local farmer
cut him out of the tail wreckage and carried him to a British field hospital. He had only minor injuries,
and since the war has visited his Belgian rescuers
38036 (MSN 8822) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification
Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21Nov43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field,
Detroit, MI 10Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 13Dec43.
525th Bomb Squadron [FR*T], 379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 21Jan44.
527th Bomb Squadron [FO*T]. On practice flight 2Feb44, landing gear collapsed plus right tyre
blew out. Salvaged by 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton 4Feb44..
38037 (MSN 8823) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification
Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21Nov43.. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field,
Detroit, MI 20Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 20Dec43.
351st Bomb Group. 422nd Bomb Squadron [JJ*M], 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105),
Northamptonshire 22Jan44. Named "Liberty Run". Experimented in night bombing
alongside the RAF and operated night leaflet and propaganda missions. 365th Bomb Squadron.
Crash landed at Chelveston 6Oct44. Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing),
Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 13Jun45. 4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service
Command), South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 12Sep45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 8Dec45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped.
38038 (MSN 8824) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 21Nov43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 4Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME 15Dec43. 510th Bomb Squadron [TU*R], 351st Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110),
Northamptonshire 14Jan44.. Named "April Girl II". {111 missions}. Returned to US. 121st Base Unit
(Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 13Jun45. 4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City
Air Technical Service Command), South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 12Sep45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 26Nov45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped. .
38039 (MSN 8825) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 23Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY Nov43. 393rd Base Headquarters and Air Base Squadron,
Syracuse AAB, NY 12Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 15Dec43.
447th Bomb Group. 561st Bomb Squadron [B], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 20Dec43.
{first combat mission 26Mar44}. Failed to return from a mission to the Focke-Wulf aircraft factory at Krzesiny,
Pozna?, Poland 9Apr44 (1KIA:7POW:2EVD). Damaged by flak, crashed Berkel en Rodenrijs, four miles
east of Delft, Netherlands. {3 missions}. (two evaded capture at crash site, but caught two
weeks later in civilian clothes)
38040 (MSN 8826) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 24Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Nov43. Headquarters Squadron, 7th Heavy Bomb Processing Group,
Kearney Field, NB 5Dec43. Damaged in an accident on the runway at Kearney 19Dec43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 23Dec43. Ferried to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 4Jan44.
568th Bomb Squadron [BI*H], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 12Jan44.
Named "Little Butch/El Lobo/Esquire". {first combat mission 3Feb44}. Battle damaged
on a mission to railway facilities around Berlin, Germany 29Apr44 (2WIA:8RTD). The combat wing was
off course heading to Berlin, attacked by enemy fighters and bombed Magdeburg. The bombardier
and tail gunner were wounded. Participated in an Operation Frantic II shuttle mission to the
Braunkohle-Benzin AG synthetic oil refinery at Schwarzheide, Ruhland, Germany 21Jun44. After the target,
the bomber continued east and landed at Mirgorod (Station 561), Ukraine. The Germans had identified the
location of the USAAF bomber force so the plane was moved to a fighter airfield at Zaporozke, Ukraine 22Jun44.
Ferried to Poltava (Station 559), Ukraine then operated a mission to the oil refinery and railway
marshalling yards at Drohobycz, Poland 26Jun44, continuing on to Foggia #8, Lucera, a Fifteenth Air Force
base in southern Italy. Operated a mission to railway marshalling yards at Beziers, France and landed
back at Framlingham 5Jul44. Participated in an Operation Frantic VII mission to drop supplies to the
resistance forces in Warsaw, Poland 18Sep44. After the target, the bomber continued east and landed at
Mirgorod (Station 561), Ukraine. Operated a mission to the railway marshalling yards at Szolnok,
Hungary 19Sep44 and continued on to land at a Fifteenth Air Force base in southern Italy. Returned to
England 23Sep44. Severe battle damaged on a mission to railway marshalling yards at Giessen,
Germany 21Nov44. With two engines out, force landed Ossogne-Florinchamps, near Brussels, Belgium.
{81 missions}. Salvaged by 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton 28Nov44.
38041 (MSN 8827) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 22Nov43. La Guardia Field, New York City, NY 21Dec43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 23Dec43. 379th Bomb Group. 358th Bomb Squadron [VK*D],
303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 18Jan44. Named "Hell's Angels II"
Accident when assembling for a mission to the Junkers aircraft factories at Halberstadt and Aschersleben,
Germany 22Feb44 (9KIA:1RTD). The 384th Bomb Group at Grafton Underwood and the 303rd Bomb Group at
Molesworth were in the process of forming up for a combat mission. Each was circling their own airfields
and, climbing up through clouds, the 384BG found the 303BG on a collision course. The 384BG leader
tightened the formation turn to avoid collision but the 303BG leader reacted late to dive his formation.
The 303BG aircraft collided with the 384BG plane, B-17G 42-31516, shearing off its tail section.
This aircraft was cut in two at the rear door. One man managed to bail out, and survive. The aircraft
entered a spin and crashed at Irthlingborough, Northants, UK. Salvaged 24Feb44
38042 (MSN 8828) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 27Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification
Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Nov43. New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 17Dec43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 25Dec43. 367th Bomb Squadron [GY*P],
306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 9Jan44. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton (Station 547),
Huntingdonshire 12Jan44. Regained by Group 14Jan44. 367th Bomb Squadron [GY*N] Feb44.
Failed to return from a mission to the Braunkohle-Benzin AG synthetic oil refinery at Schwarzheide,
Ruhland, Germany 12Sep44 (8POW). Damaged by flak and shot down by enemy fighters.
Crashed Lichterfelde, Berlin, Germany. MACR 8831. Named "Lady Luck"
38043 (MSN 8829) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. United Air Lines,
Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Nov43. Operational Training
Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 4Dec43. North Atlantic Wing,
Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 10Dec43. Ferried to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 17Dec43. 413th Bomb Squadron, 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138),
Norfolk 18Dec43. Failed to return from a mission to the industrial area at Augsburg,
Germany 25Feb44 (2KIA:8POW). En route to the target the aircraft was shot down by fighters in the
area of Crailsheim, Germany. The pilot remained at the controls until all other crew members
had bailed out and was killed in the crash. MACR 2861
38044 (MSN 8830) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification
Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY24Nov43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field,
Detroit, MI 16Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 24Dec43.
351st Bomb Squadron [EP*R], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 27Dec43.
Named "Spirit of '44" Failed to return from a mission to Kleinmachnow, Berlin, Germany 6Mar44 (4KIA:6POW).
Shot down during attack by fighters near Hasel�nne, caught fire and tail broke off. Seven crew members
bailed out before the bomber crashed at Aschenbehal Berg, Vohr Estate, Germany. MACR 3026.
38045 (MSN 8831) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification
Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Nov43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME 11Dec43. Ferried RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador to Nutts Corner (Station 235),
Belfast, Northern Ireland 20Dec43. 534th Bomb Squadron [GD*C], 381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell
(Station 167), Essex 22Jan44. Failed to return from a mission to Brunswick, Germany 29Jan44 (5KIA:5POW).
Enemy aircraft set bomb bay on fire, crashed Offenthal Estate, near Reichenburg, 16 miles southeast
of Koblenz, Germany. The bomber, as well as another bomber, were delayed in take off due to a
problem on the runway and as a result, lagged behind in the Group formation, leaving them
vulnerable for attack by enemy fighters. The plane was attacked and shot down by German fighters,
possibly by night-fighters of the Nachtjagdgeschwader 6 Squadron who were in operation in that area.
The plane exploded before hitting the ground. All of the officers were killed on the plane along with
one crewman. The rest of the enlisted crew bailed out and survived with one being wounded by German
forces while trying to escape capture. {2+ missions) MACR 2242
38046 (MSN 8832) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification
Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Nov43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field,
Detroit, MI 16Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 19Dec43.
Valley (Station 568), Anglesey, Wales 24Dec43. 339th Bomb Squadron, 96th Bomb Group,
Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 26Dec43. 413th Bomb Squadron [MZ*M]. Named "Queen Bea".
Battle damaged on a mission to the industrial areas of Brunswick, Germany 23Mar44 (10RTD).
Ditched off Aldeburgh, Suffolk; all crew rescued. No MACR
38047 (MSN 8833) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Nov43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 6Dec43. Grenier
Field, Manchester, NH 19Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 3Jan44.
100th Bomb Group 9Jan44. Ferried RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Valley (Station 568), Anglesey, Wales 14Jan44.
351st Bomb Squadron [EP*O], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk Jan44
Named "Fever Beaver" Accident returning from an engineering slow time flight at Thorpe
Abbotts 21Nov44. The aircraft was damaged when the right landing gear failed during the landing roll,
caused by failure of a bolt securing the drag strut. {125 missions}. Returned to US. 4185th Base Unit
(Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), Independence Field, KS 21Jul45. 4168th Base Unit
(Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 10Nov45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and
disposal 21Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped)
38048 (MSN 8834) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 26Nov43. Palm Springs Field, CA 27Nov43.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27Nov43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 6Dec43. Des Moines Municipal Airport, IA 17Dec43. 393rd Base
Headquarters and Air Base Squadron, Syracuse AAB, NY 17Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 24Dec43. 571st Bomb Squadron [FC*D], 390th Bomb Group,
Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk Jan44.. Named "Bomb Bay Ann" aka "Dorothy Dee"
{first combat mission 24Jan44}. Battle damaged on a mission to the Braunkohlen Benzin AG synthetic
oil refinery northeast of Zeitz, Germany 16Aug44 (1KIA:8RTD); the waist gunner was killed.
Battle damaged on a mission to the railway marshalling yards at Ludwigshafen, Germany 25Sep44 (1KIA:8RTD).
The bomber encountered intense flak over the city; the tail gunner was killed. {final combat mission 7Apr45}.
{103 missions}. Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 3Jul45.
4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 12Sep45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and
disposal 18Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
38049 (MSN 8835) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Nov43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB 6Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 21Dec43.
551st Bomb Squadron [HR*K], 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 16Feb44.
Named "The Golden Goose". Returned to US. 1103rd Base Unit (Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command),)
Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 15Jun45. 4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), South Plains
Field, Lubbock, TX 21Oct45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage
and disposal 5Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
38050 (MSN 8836) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 26Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification
Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY Nov43. 393rd Base Headquarters and Air Base Squadron,
Syracuse AAB, NY 18Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 22Dec43.
Ferried RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador to Nutts Corner (Station 235), Belfast, Northern Ireland 4Jan44.
359th Bomb Squadron [BN*U], 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 18Jan44,
Named "Thunderbird" Nose art sketched by James S. Andrus on the Moncur Crew. The name Thunderbird
was suggested by the pilot, saying it was "an Indian symbol for luck - and we sure will need it".
{first combat mission 29Jan44}. Battle damaged on a mission to the industrial area at Frankfurt am Main,
Germany 29Jan44. Flak damaged the left wing main spar requiring replacement of the wing.
Participated in the 'Grapefruit' mission to drop GB-1 glide bombs on a railway marshalling yard at
Cologne, Germany 28May44. Damaged landing at Molesworth 15Oct44. {112 missions}.
The original Thunderbird Crew, piloted by Lt. Vern L. Moncur, was the first crew in the 303rd Bomb Group
to complete their combat missions without anyone on board being injured. Lt Moncur's crew was the
only crew ever assigned to Thunderbird as their primary aircraft. After Moncur's Crew finished their 28 mission
combat tour, Thunderbird became a 'first mission ship', given to new crews to get them off to a good start -
and a good start it was, as no regular crew member was ever injured on a Thunderbird mission
Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 11Jul45.
4185th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), Independence Field, KS 1Jul45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 21Dec45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
The bomber features in Keith Ferris' mural 'Fortresses Under Fire' in the World War II gallery of
ational Air & Space Museum on the Mall in Washington, DC.
44-85718 owned by Lone Star Flight Museum, Texas, painted as 238050 "Thunderbird"
38051 (MSN 8837) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification
Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 25Nov43. Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 15Dec43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 18Dec43. 427th Bomb Squadron [GN*P],
303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 13Jan44. Named "My Yorkshire Dream"
Failed to return from a mission to the aero engine factory near Leipzig, Germany 29Jun44 (8KIA:1POW).
Flak scored a direct hit on the aircraft, it went into a steep dive, the crew bailed out and the plane exploded.
Crashed between Zettweil and P�hla, 5km west of Gro�r�de and 10km west of Altenburg, Thuringia, Germany.
(41 missions}. MACR 6739
38052 MSN 8838) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 25Nov43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 23Dec43.
379th Bomb Group 25Dec43. 711th Bomb Squadron, 447th Bomb Group, Rattlesden (Station 126), Suffolk Jan44.
Named "HOTSHOT GREEN / EL MAL CENTAVO ('The Bad Penny') / LUCKY STEHLEY BOY". Named in honor of
Dr. Stehley of Cumberland, MD. {first combat mission 4Feb44}. Battle damaged on a mission to the synthetic
oil refinery at Sterkrade, Germany 2Nov44 (1KIA). The bomber, of which 2nd Lt. Femoyer was the navigator,
was struck by three enemy antiaircraft shells. The plane suffered serious damage and 2nd Lt. Femoyer was
severely wounded in the side and back by shell fragments which penetrated his body. In spite of extreme pain
and great loss of blood he refused an offered injection of morphine. He was determined to keep his mental
faculties clear in order that he might direct his plane out of danger and so save his comrades. Not being able
to arise from the floor, he asked to be propped up in order to enable him to see his charts and instruments.
He successfully directed the navigation of his lone bomber for 2-� hours so well it avoided enemy flak and
returned to its base without further damage. Only when the plane had arrived in a safe area over the
English Channel did he feel that he had accomplished his objective. Then, and only then, he permitted
an injection of a sedative. He died shortly after being removed from the plane. Awarded the Medal of Honor.
5th Strategic Air Depot, Merville (B-53), France. Crash landed at Honington (Station 375), Suffolk 27Mar45.
1st Strategic Air Depot, Troston Repaired and regained by Group. Returned to US. 121st Base Unit
(Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 9Jul45. 4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air
Technical Service Command), South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 12Sep45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 8Nov45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
38053 (MSN 8839) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification
Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26Nov43. Wendover Field, UT 20Dec43. Ferried from
RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador to Nutts Corner (Station 235), Belfast, Northern Ireland 19Jan44.
The right landing gear would not lower so the aircraft diverted to Langford Lodge and after
ditching the ball turret into Lough Neagh and burning off most of the fuel a successful crash
landing with landing gear retracted was carried out causing only minor damage. Lockheed
Overseas Corporation, 403rd Air Depot, Base Air Depot No.3, Langford Lodge (Station 597), County
Antrim, Northern Ireland Jan44. 457th Bomb Group, Glatton (Station 130), Huntingdonshire 10Feb44.
349th Bomb Squadron [XR*G], 100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 21Feb44.
Named "Cap'n Crow/Jenny Lee" Accident departing for a mission to railway installations around
Berlin, Germany 7May44 (5KIA:5RTD). Very pistol flares stored in the upper turret caught fire, it was
too fierce to extinguish and there was an explosion in the cockpit, probably caused by the oxygen
system. Five crew members safely bailed out and the aircraft crashed into the walled garden and
greenhouse at Herringfleet Hall, Lowestoft, Suffolk. Salvaged 8May44.
38054 (MSN 8840) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification
Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26Nov43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME 23Dec43. 334th Bomb Squadron [BG*V], 95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119),
Suffolk 30Dec43. 412th Bomb Squadron [QW*V] Named "Hamawa/Holy Matrimony".
Failed to return from a mission to the I.G. Farben synthetic fuel works at P�litz, Prussia 25Aug44 (1KIA:8POW).
With No.3 engine on fire, aircraft peeled off, crashed and exploded at West Hofen, Germany. {45 missions) ��
MACR 8282
38055 (MSN 8841) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26Nov43. 457th Bomb Group, Wendover Field, UT 11Dec43. Operational
Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB. Ferried North Atlantic
route to UK departing 17Jan44. Grenier Field, Manchester, NH Jan44. 748th Bomb Squadron [K],
457th Bomb Group, Glatton (Station 130), Huntingdonshire 23Jan44. Failed to return from a mission
to the railway marshalling yards at Ludwigshafen and Mannheim, Germany 27May44 (5EVD:5POW).
Enroute to the target the group was attacked by fifty to sixty Bf 109 fighters. The plane had two
engines shot out during the fighter attack. The pilot turned and considered heading towards
Switzerland but before he could set the direction the plane was hit by flak and No.3 engine was
set on fire. The crew fought the fire for some time, trying to make it to the English Channel but were
forced to bail out over Belgium. The plane crashed one mile northeast of Overslag, Netherlands
MACR 5298.
38056 (MSN 8842) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification
Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28Nov43. 457th Bomb Group, Wendover Field, UT 11Dec43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB.
Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Nutts Corner (Station 235), Belfast, Northern Ireland 31Mar44.
751st Bomb Squadron [M], 457th Bomb Group, Glatton (Station 130), Huntingdonshire 7Apr44
Named *Queen Bea* Named for the pilot's wife, Bea Jaraslow. Destroyed after a mission to a target
of an oil dump on the Seine River across from the city of Rouen, France 22Jun44. Flak was very heavy
at the target, damaging the hydraulic system on B-17G 42-31620. The pilot brought his damaged plane
back to base and prepared for a crash landing. When he touched down without brakes the plane
veered to the right and hit the wing of another aircraft, and then crashed head-on into 42-38056,
parked on its hardstand. Both caught fire immediately and were completely consumed by flames,
shooting two and three hundred feet into the air. 0.50 caliber shells were exploding; projectiles
and pieces of metal flew through the air. Flares were going off continually and the heat was terrific.
Miraculously the entire crew escaped. An assistant engineering officer with the 749th and a flight
chief raced to the scene. The wing of the first aircraft to be hit, before the head- on collision, was
actually overlapping the fuselage of one of the burning aircraft. The fuel tanks were partially filled,
and that if the fire developed, the aircraft would explode. Despite the difficulties encountered and
the danger involved, the two airmen succeeded in moving the aircraft a safe distance from the fire.
After this was accomplished, the two men returned to the scene of the fire and repeated the performance
by moving another Fortress away from the flames. It was found later that the wing on the first aircraft
to be taxied away had actually begun to melt. Salvaged 22Jun44
38057 (MSN 8843) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28Nov43. 457th Bomb Group, Wendover Field, UT 11Dec43. Operational
Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB. Ferried North Atlantic
route to UK departing 17Jan44. 457th Bomb Group, Glatton (Station 130), Huntingdonshire 26Jan44.
526th Bomb Squadron [LF*K], 379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 18Mar44.
Named "Flak Rabbit"
Battle damaged on a mission to the L�tzkendorf oil facilities at M�cheln, west of Merseburg, Germany 11Sep44.
Force landed at an airfield near Paris, France. {111 missions}. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton
(Station 547), Huntingdonshire 10Nov44. Salvaged. MACR 8282
38058 MSN 8844) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification
Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28Nov43. Albuquerque AAB, NM 3Dec43. 457th Bomb Group,
Wendover Field, UT 3Jan44. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing,
Grand Island Field, NB. Ferried North Atlantic route to UK departing 17Jan44. 457th Bomb Group,
Glatton (Station 130), Huntingdonshire 22Jan44. 526th Bomb Squadron [LF*C], 379th Bomb Group,
Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 18Mar44. 527th Bomb Squadron [FO*E]. ;
Named "The Wish Bone"; {103 missions}. Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment
Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 9Jul45. 4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical
Service Command), South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 12Sep45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 8Nov45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
38059 (MSN 8845) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Nov43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 11Dec43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 19Dec43. 457th Bomb Group,
Glatton (Station 130), Huntingdonshire 20Dec43. 418th Bomb Squadron [LD*-A], 100th Bomb Group,
Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 25Dec43. Failed to return from a mission to Kleinmachnow,
Berlin, Germany 6Mar44 (4KIA:6POW). Shot down during attack by fighters near Hasel�nne. With engine No.3
damaged, the aircraft broke up and rolled over. Six crew members bailed out and the aircraft crashed at
Addrupp, near Quakenbr�ck, Germany. MACR 3027. 4 killed, 6 bailed out and taken prisoner.
38060 (MSN 8846) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Nov43. 457th Bomb Group, Wendover Field, UT 12Dec43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB.
Ferried North Atlantic route to UK departing 17Jan44. Grenier Field, Manchester, NH Jan44.
750th Bomb Squadron [K], 457th Bomb Group, Glatton (Station 130), Huntingdonshire 29Jan44.
Named "Texas Bluebonnet". Failed to return from a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt,
Germany 24Feb44 (8POW:2KIA). The aircraft took a flak hit that disabled engines No.1 and 2, and No.3 and 4
engines oversped and the propellers could not be feathered. The navigator was seriously injured
and the right waist gunner was killed at his station. The decision was made to crash land the aircraft
in an attempt to better afford the navigator the opportunity to receive medical aid and survive. The aircraft
crash landed west of Flensungen-Mueke, 12 miles northeast of Giessen, Germany. .
MACR 2917.
38061 (MSN 8847) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Nov43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 17Dec43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 2Jan44. 535th Bomb Squadron [MS*P],
381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 2Feb44; Named "Georgia Rebel II"
Failed to return from a mission to the Luftwaffe airfield at Avord, France 28Apr44 (7KIA:3POW).
Flak damaged No.3 engine and aircraft went down immediately, crashed Avord, twelve miles s
outheast of Bourges, France. {5+ missions}. MACR 4241.
38062 (MSN 8848) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Nov43. United Air Lines, Modification
Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Nov43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 12Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 19Dec43.
338th Bomb Squadron [BX*U], 96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 25Dec43.
Named "Laura Jane". Failed to return from a mission to industrial areas in Berlin, Germany 8May44
(8POW:2KIA). Shot down by enemy fighters, crash landed Ostenholz, 18 miles northwest of Celle, Germany. .
MACR 4566
38063 (MSN 8849) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 1Dec43.
457th Bomb Group, Wendover Field, UT 12Dec43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB. Ferried North Atlantic route to UK departing 17Jan44.
749th Bomb Squadron [S], 457th Bomb Group, Glatton (Station 130), Huntingdonshire 26Jan44.
750th Bomb Squadron. Named "The GI Virgin" Crash landed without brakes, ground
looped then the right landing gear collapsed at Glatton 17Mar44. Badly damaged on a mission to industrial
areas of Munich, Germany 12Jul44. Hit by flak over the target, the pilot managed to keep the plane airborne
till they reached the coast where the crew bailed out. Ditched in North Sea off Felixstowe, Suffolk.
Crew rescued by Air-Sea Rescue launch.
Production changes: Circumferential waist gun armour deleted
38064 (MSN 8850) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 1Dec43.
457th Bomb Group, Wendover Field, UT 11Dec43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB. Ferried North Atlantic route to UK departing 17Jan44. Grenier Field,
Manchester, NH Jan44. 749th Bomb Squadron [G], 457th Bomb Group, Glatton (Station 130),
Huntingdonshire 26Jan44. Badly damaged while parked in a collision at Glatton 23Jul44 by B-17G 42-97591,
the right wing of which sliced into the tail. Repaired using the tail from 42-32084. 749th Bomb Squadron [G].
Named "Arf & Arf" (half and half) artwork of a glass of beer, a mix of Guinness draught and Bass Pale Ale.
42-38064 was an olive drab painted aircraft, repaired using the tail from a natural metal aircraft, 42-32084, hence the name.
Failed to return from a recalled mission to the I.G. Farben chemical and synthetic oil works at Leuna,
Merseburg, Germany 8Nov44 (9MIA). Mid-air collision in thick haze with B-17G 44-8418. The propellers
of 44-8418 sliced into the lower fuselage and the bomber broke in two just behind the radio room.
The forward fuselage went down in a steep glide, then went into a spin and disappeared in clouds,
crashed in North Sea, 15km west of Petten, Netherlands. The tail gunner was seen floating in a Mae West
and later seen to get hold of a small partially inflated dinghy which had been dropped by B-17G 43-38537
MACR 10344. All aboard KIA.
38065 (MSN 8851) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 1Dec43. 748th Bomb Squadron,
457th Bomb Group, Wendover Field, UT 12Dec43. Damaged after a mid-air collision with B-17G 42-31541
during a training mission at Wendover 23Dec43. The 457th Bomb Group flew a 54 aircraft practice formation
to camera bomb Omaha, Nebraska. They had fighter escorts to the target and then the fighters were to act
as enemy attack planes on the return trip to Wendover. The mission was a success and when they landed
back at Wendover the visiting high ranking officer wanted to see another take off and forming up of a
six plane squadron. The 748th Squadron was chosen to make the flight. The first three planes of the
lead element were already in place. The No.4 plane [42-31541] was forming a three plane element with
the No.5 & No.6 planes. The three planes were racing to catch up with the lead element and came on too fast.
It was obvious to No.5 and No.6 that No.4, flying element lead, was overshooting. Each peeled off to the right
and left. All this was happening at about 1,500 feet. No.4 did in fact overshoot and pulled his tail up into
the No.3 plane [42-38065]. No.1 and 2 engines immediately cut-off the tail of 42-31541. The navigator or
bombardier in 42-38065 bailed out with no injuries and the pilot was able to land his badly damaged
plane. 42-31541 crashed before anyone could bail out. 875th Bomb Squadron, 498th Bomb Group, Great Bend
Field, KS. Damaged landing with mechanical failure at Great Bend Field, KS 16Jul44. 242nd Base Unit
(Operational Training Unit), Great Bend Field, KS 3Aug44. 232nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Dalhart Field, TX 27Aug44. 242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB 14Sep44.
249th Base Unit (Special), Alliance Field, NB 12Feb45. 202nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Galveston Field, TX 15Feb45. 268th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Peterson Field, Colorado
Springs, CO 30Mar45. 252nd Base Unit, Lubbock, TX 23Jun45. 253rd Base Unit, Randolph Field, San Antonio, TX 13Jan46.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 9Mar46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
38066 (MSN 8852) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 1Dec43.
457th Bomb Group, Wendover Field, UT Dec43. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 21Dec43.
Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 30Dec43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 20th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group,
Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 29Jan44. Named "Marishka". Named for the pilot's fianc�e; painted
by CPl. F. Eugene Smith (when the war began, he was in second year study of design at Cleveland
Institute of Art, OH). . {first combat mission 2Feb44}. Battle damaged on a mission to the Steyr-Daimler-Puch
ball bearing factory at Steyr, Austria 2Apr44 (1KIA:3WIA:6RTD). After turning off the target and heading for home,
a Ju 88 fighter approached from the rear and fired a rocket from a range of about 2,000 yards. The radio
compartment had a hatch in the roof so the radio operator had a good view in that direction. He saw the
rocket approach and pass over the top of the plane. Evidently it exploded just over the cockpit.
The navigator was killed by a large piece of shrapnel that struck him in the neck. The co-pilot was
struck in the left leg by a fairly large piece and the pilot was hit in the hand by a small piece.
The plane returned to base and landed normally. It was rolling down the runway before the pilot
realised that the left tire was flat. Knowing that another airplane was right behind and already
touching down, he kept the speed up as long as he could, but saw that he would be unable to turn
off at the end of the runway. So, he pulled off the runway to the left and the other airplane rolled on by.
Participated in the first Operation Frantic shuttle mission to the railway marshalling yards at Debrecen,
Hungary 2Jun44. After the target, the bomber continued east and landed at Mirgorod (Station 561),
Ukraine. Operated a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Gala?i, Rumania 6Jun44, returning to Mirgorod.
Returned to base in Italy on a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Foc?ani, Rumania 11Jun44.
Temporarily modified with decking in the bomb bay to evacuate prisoners of war from Popesti,
Bucharest, Rumania to Bari, Italy during Operation Reunion 31Aug44-3Sep44. {98 missions}.
32nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy Feb45. Salvaged 1Aug45)
38067 (MSN 8853) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 2Dec43.
Chanute Field, Rantoul, IL 21Dec43. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 29Dec43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy.
49th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 9Jan44.
Named "Maidin USA" artwork of a beautiful girl stretched out horizontally, being carried in a diaper by a stork
Failed to return from a tactical mission against German troop concentrations and defensive positions at
Campoleone in support of the Allied beachhead at Anzio, Italy 17Feb44 (6KIA:4POW). Approaching the I.P.,
struck by flak with a direct burst in the tail and probably killing the tail gunner. The tail separated from
the airplane; the two waist gunners bailed out of the opening where the tail had been. Another burst
struck the cockpit, killing the two pilots, and set No.2 engine and the left wing on fire. It then dropped
out of formation in a spin as some of the crew bailed out. Crashed and disintegrated over the German
and Allied lines near Stazione di Campoleone, Latina, Italy. {3 missions}. MACR 2387
38068 (MSN 8854) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 2Dec43.
5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 17Dec43. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 22Dec43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 20th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 3Jan44.
Badly damaged when force landed at Bouficha, southeast of Tunis, Tunisia 20Jan44. {1 mission}. Salvaged 24Jan44.
38069 (MSN 8855) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 2Dec43.
4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 20Dec43. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 5Jan44.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 96th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 26Jan44.
Named "Big Widget". {first combat mission 29Jan44}. Participated in the first Operation Frantic shuttle
mission to the railway marshalling yards at Debrecen, Hungary 2Jun44. After the target, the bomber
continued east and landed at Mirgorod (Station 561), Ukraine. Operated a mission to a Luftwaffe
airfield at Gala?i, Rumania 6Jun44, returning to Mirgorod. Returned to base in Italy on a mission
to a Luftwaffe airfield at Foc?ani, Rumania 11Jun44. Battle damaged during a mission to the railway
marshalling yards at Budapest, Hungary 27Jun44 (1KIA:9RTD). The left waist gunner was killed by flak
shrapnel. Failed to return from a mission to the Schaffgotsch Benzin synthetic oil refinery at Deschowitz-
Beuthen, Odertal, Prussia 22Aug44 (8POW:2KIA). Damaged and dropped back after leaving the target.
The tail gunner was killed instantly by a direct hit in the tail, remaining crew started to jettison
unwanted equipment and the ball turret and one crew member bailed out. The bomber was then
attacked by enemy fighters as more crew bailed out. The aircraft exploded and crashed near S�rv�r,
Hungary. {76 missions}. . MACR 11270
38070 (MSN 8856) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 2Dec43.
Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 27Dec43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 20th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group,
Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 7Feb44. {first combat mission 14Feb44}. Battle damaged during a mission
to the Steyr-Daimler-Puch factory complex at Steyr, Austria 24Feb44 (1WIA:9RTD). The mission
was a most disastrous day for the 2nd Bomb Group, losing fourteen aircraft to enemy fighters.
Fighters started attacking the Group about five miles north of Fiume, Italy and continued for one hour.
The engineer/top turret gunner was wounded by a 20mm cannon shell. Failed to return from a
mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factory at Regensburg, Germany 25Feb44 (10POW).
After crossing the coastline into mainland Europe, the formation encountered frequent flak
and fierce aerial attacks from the Luftwaffe, causing heavy damage to some of the bombers.
The planes arrived at Regensburg and encountered intense flak over the target area.
The plane was hit by flak over the target and lost two engines on the left side. About twenty minutes
after the target the plane slid back out of position with a feathered propeller in a right turn
and collided with B-17G 42-31679. #679 came back up and forward and its left horizontal stabiliser
hit the nose of #070. The nose was completely knocked off of #070 and the tail of #679. The tail gunner of
#679 found himself in the nose of this plane and bailed out. #070 was out of control, did a wing-over
and went down in a tight spiral. It lost altitude but seemed under control. The crew was incensed,
claiming that the other plane had climbed into them. Crashed Ergolding, Germany. {7 missions}. MACR 2829
38071 (MSN 8857) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 2Dec43. Hunter Field,
Savannah, GA 21Dec43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 342nd Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, San Giovanni,
Cerignola, Italy 10Jan44. Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44.. Named "Magnetic Maggie"
Completed 100 missions on Jan 19, 1945, to Brod, Yugo w/?; salvaged 2/8/45
38072 delivered Cheyenne Dec 2, 1943, Salt Lake city Dec 24, 1943.
850th BS, 490th BG, 8th Air Force, based at RAF Eye Airfield, Station USAAF-134, Suffolk, England
Landing Accident Aug 18, 1944 at RAF Eye Airfield, Station USAAF-134, Suffolk, England. All (9) Crew Survived.
Aircraft Badly Damaged. Must have been repaired. 3018 BU Kingman, AZ Mar 23, 1945. Damaged at Kingman when parked Apr 18, 1945.
Reclamtio complete Jan 11, 1946
18/4/45; 3018 BU Kingman 23/3/45; Recl Comp 11/1/46.
38073 (MSN 8859) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 16Dec43.
457th Bomb Group, Wendover Field, UT Dec43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 27Dec43. Ferried North Atlantic route to UK departing 17Jan44.
750th Bomb Squadron [F], 457th Bomb Group, Glatton (Station 130), Huntingdonshire 3Feb44.
Named *Luck of Judith Ann* Failed to return from a mission to Brest, France 11Aug44 (10RTD).
Having dropped their bomb load on a coastal gun battery at Crozon, south of Brest, flak damaged the
aircraft. No.3 engine stopped dead while No.4 engine became detached from the wing after several hits.
The plane continued eastwards, losing altitude before the crew started to bail out over Saint-Gilles-les-Bois;
all bailed out safely and were returned to England. The plane, probably set on auto-pilot, was cutting down
the treetops in a wood before crash landing in a field, then it bounced and crossed the embankment
which bordered the railway of the train which passed right there at that time. The plane went a hundred
meters and turned to the left before coming to a stop facing the nearby sea. No.2 engine was torn
loose and was found at the bottom of the field. The aircraft didn't explode or catch fire either.
It had crashed near the village of Boulsec'h in Lanloup on the east coast of the Brest Peninsula,
France. Salvaged. 1st Strategic Air Depot, Troston (Station 595), Suffolk 16Aug44
38074 (MSN 8860) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 4Dec43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 17Dec43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 10Jan44. Ferried to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 14Jan44. 367th Bomb Squadron [GY*Q], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 16Jan44.
Failed to return from a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 24Feb44 (6KIA:4POW).
Enemy aircraft hit No.1 & No.2 engines and knocked off a wing tip. Crashed Herzlake, Meppen, Germany. MACR 2770
38075 (MSN 8861) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Dec43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 14Dec43. Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland
to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 4Jan44. 331st Bomb Squadron [QE*Q], 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468),
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 7Jan44. Failed to return from a mission to industrial areas of Berlin, Germany 3Mar44 (10KIA).
Deteriorating weather conditions and dense contrails forced the formation to divert to an alternate target of the i=
industrial and port areas at Wilhelmshaven, Germany. The 1st Bomb Division made a 180 degree turn to the left and
flew head on into the 3rd Bomb Division which had turned right. The aircraft collided with B-17G 42-31112 over the
German coast NW of Hamburg, Germany, exploded and crashed Itzeho, Germany. MACR 2794
38076 (MSN 8862) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 3Dec43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Lincoln Field, NB 19Dec43. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 22Dec43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 32nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Cerignola #1, Italy 8Jan44. Foggia #8
(Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. Failed to return from a mission to the Messerschmitt aircraft factory at
Regensburg, Germany 25Feb44 (7KIA:3POW). Enemy fighters started to attack fifteen miles east of Klagenfurt,
Austria. Shot down with No.3 engine on fire, electrical and radio system failures and the upper turret destroyed.
Several crew bailed out, the bomber fell over on the right wing, dropped about 2,000ft then exploded,
crashing at Metnitz, Austria. {11 missions}. MACR 2594
38077 (MSN 8863) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 3Dec43. Hunter Field,
Savannah, GA 21Dec43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 353rd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Cerignola #1,
Italy 4Jan44. Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. Failed to return from a mission to the railway
marshalling yards at Verona, Italy 22Mar44 (9POW:1KIA). Hit by flak in the right wing which caught fire.
The crew jettisoned the bombs and the aircraft dropped out of the formation. The crew started to bail out
but the aircraft entered a spin then exploded before crashing near Verona, Italy. {13 missions). MACR 3303
38078 (MSN 8864) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 6Dec43. Hunter Field,
Savannah, GA 23Dec43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 347th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly),
' Tortorella, Italy 7Jan44. {14 missions}. Transferred to 429th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Foggia #7,
Amendola, Italy 28Mar44. Named "Sweet Pea/Mammy Yokum II". {first combat mission 28Mar44}.
Participated in the first Operation Frantic shuttle mission to the railway marshalling yards at Debrecen,
Hungary 2Jun44. After the target, the bomber continued east and landed at Mirgorod (Station 561), Ukraine.
Operated a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Gala?i, Rumania 6Jun44, returning to Mirgorod. Returned to base
in Italy on a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Foc?ani, Rumania 11Jun44. Severely battle damaged on a
mission to railway marshalling yards at Debrecen, Hungary 21Sep44 (2KIA:2WIA: 6RTD). Crash landed on
return to Amendola and broke in half. This mission produced one of the great Flying Fortress survival stories
of the war. 2nd Lt Guy M Miller and crew of 'Sweet Pea' were approaching the target when an 88mm
anti-aircraft shell slammed into the plane's mid-section, exploded, and nearly tore the Fortress in two.
Huge sections of the waist on both sides instantly disappeared, control cables were cut, electrical and
communications systems went powerless and silent. Half of the bombs fell out of the bomb bay, the
lower turret was jammed with the gunner inside, and the explosion blew deadly debris in all directions.
The left waist gunner, Elmer H Buss was killed instantly. The right waist gunner, James F. Maguire had
multiple wounds but was saved by his back pack parachute serving as a flak suit, saving his life.
The tail gunner, S/Sgt James E Totty was mortally wounded and died on the airplane. The radio operator,
S/Sgt Anthony Ferrara was peppered like buckshot with shrapnel fragments in the chest. The stunned
crew started its battle for survival. Lt Miller and his co-pilot, Lt Thomas M. Rybovich struggled for control
of the airplane and begin assessing what they had left to do it with. Most of the control cables were cut
and his major control was through use of the engines which miraculously, were undamaged. Lt. Miller
thought about ordering bail out but decided against that when he learned he had one dead, three wounded,
and one stuck in the ball turret. The wounded were gathered in the radio room for first aid. The
bombardier/gunner, S/Sgt Robert R Mullen came back from the nose compartment and helped Sgt Gerald McGuire,
upper turret gunner, bring the mortally wounded S/Sgt Totty from the tail to the radio room. McGuire did finally
succeed in freeing Cpl William F Steuck from the ball turret. Later it was learned that turret was resting on only
three safety fingers which were all that kept the turret from falling out of the airplane with Steuck inside.
There were still six bombs hung up in the racks and Mullen climbed into the bomb bay and released them
one by one with a screwdriver. Against seemingly impossible odds, Lts Miller and Rybovich now faced
the reality of trying to nurse their mangled airplane and its battered crew across several hundred miles
of enemy territory and almost 600 miles back to base. Navigator, 2nd Lt. Theodore Davich plotted a course
and the pilots very gingerly set what was left of 'Sweet Pea' on the long trek homeward. Arriving back at
Amendola, the pilot made a long, low straight-in approach and landed on a mud covered unfinished airstrip,
landing gear down, tail wheel up. The only controls the pilot had were aileron, and a little up elevator.
A B-17 becomes nose heavy when the throttles are retarded, and that's all the controls he had available
to land the plane. Miraculously the landing was as good as could be expected and the tail section,
although twisted out of shape, held together. Miller landed off the runway. The wing spar broke when the
plane hit a drainage area, resulting in further damage. 'Sweet Pea' was repaired by 339th Service Squadron
at Amendola. They removed the fuselage at the radio room and put on another tail section. The original pilot,
Lt Guy M. Miller took the plane up on its next and final combat mission to railway marshalling yards at
Blechhammer, Germany 2Dec44. {48 missions}. Group Headquarters thought that it should be retired.
The guns and turrets were removed and made it into a transport plane. After that the plane was used as
a hack and put onto the ferry service between Amendola and Casablanca, French Morocco. Boeing considered
it the most damaged B-17 that ever came back after being hit while on a mission. The plane departed Amendola
to Bari, Italy, to pick up General Strother, commander of the Fifteenth Fighter Command, for a flight to Casablanca,
French Morocco 1Jun45. While on the landing approach at Bari, the entire left wing and the left side of the bomb
bay caught fire. A normal landing was made and the crew safely evacuated the airplane. The fire was so intense,
the base fire fighters could not control it, and the airplane was destroyed in a few minutes
38079 (MSN 8865) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 6Dec43. Langley Field,
Hampton, VA 12Jan44. 532nd Bomb Squadron [VE*R], 381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 20Feb44
Named "Carnival Queen" Battle damaged over the target 5Mar44, crash landed at Ridgewell on return.
{46 missions}. Salvaged 16May45
38080 (MSN 8866) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 7Dec43.
Chicago Municipal Airport, IL 24Dec43. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 31Dec43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy.
341st Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, San Giovanni, Cerignola, Italy 4Jan44. Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44.
Failed to return from a mission to the BMW aircraft engine factory at Allach, Munich, Germany 22Sep44 (4KIA:6POW).
Flak struck the left wing knocking off the No.1 engine, No.2 engine was damaged and smoking and the
wing was on fire. The wing came off and the aircraft was seen to explode. Crashed near Munich, Germany.
38081 (MSN 8867) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 6Dec43. Hunter Field,
Savannah, GA 20Dec43. 341st Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44.
Failed to return from a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Centocelle, Rome, Italy 20Jan44 (10MIA).
The formation had received moderate, accurate flak just turning off the I.P. Attacked by enemy fighters,
the crew was seen to bail out as the plane started to disintegrate on fire. Crew and plane presumed
to be missing in the Tyrrhenian Sea off Rome Shot down by Fw. Helmut Baumann in Me-109G-6 of JG 51/5. over
Tyrrhenian Sea 9 km W of Anzio, Italy Jan 20, 1944. 9 bailed out, but all 10 KIA. MACR 1953
38082 (MSN 8868) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 6Dec43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 26Dec43. Nutts Corner (Station 235), Belfast, Northern Ireland 14Jan44.
525th Bomb Squadron [FR*L], 379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 29Jan44.
Failed to return from a mission to Berlin, Germany 24May44 (9KIA). Mid-air collision with B-17G 42-37784 which
swerved when hit by flak. Crashed between Melchow and Biesenthal, northeast of Berlin, Germany.. MACR 5321
38083 (MSN 8869) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 6Dec43. Staging Base,
21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 24Dec43. Nutts Corner (Station 235), Belfast, Northern Ireland 14Jan44.
322nd Bomb Squadron [LG*V], 91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 1Feb44.
Named "Man O' War II-Horsepower Ltd". Man O' War was an American thoroughbred racehorse widely
regarded as one of the greatest racehorses of all time, Battle damaged on a mission to industrial areas
in the suburbs of Berlin, Germany 4Mar44 (1WIA:9RTD). Because of severe weather in the assembly area,
the group diverted to a target at Cologne, Germany. Intense and accurate flak at the target struck the plane
wounding the navigator. Major battle damage on a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Metz, France 25Apr44.
Failed to return from a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical and synthetic oil works at Leuna, Merseburg,
Germany 2Nov44 (4POW:5KIA). The Group was hit hard after turning on the I.P. The box barrage of flak was
heavy around the target. After the target, because of a supposedly malfunctioning compass, the Group Lead
aircraft rallied off the target at 330 degrees west rather than 270 degrees west, as briefed. The rest of the
Group followed the lead, in the process flying out of the protection of the main bomber stream.
German Fighter Command had been conserving its scarce fuel for weeks so as to mount a major effort
against the bomber attacks. An estimated 500 Luftwaffe fighters went up to meet the bomber force.
The formation was flying at approximately 27,500 feet, about five minutes after bombing the target,
when it was attacked by a flight of enemy fighters. The aircraft was hit in the trailing edge of the right
wing and the empennage. Fragments came off the wing and the tail and as they came off the aircraft
turned over on its side. There was fire in the right wing. The aircraft broke in half and crashed near
Gnetsch, south of Bernburg, Germany. {77 missions}. MACR 10144
42-38084/38213 Douglas-Long Beach B-17G-30-DL Fortress
MSN 8870/8999. Dispositions from B-17 Fortress Master Log, Dave Osborne (FORTLOG)
Production changes: Provision for SCR-521 ASV search radar deleted. A-2A revised ball turret
38084 (MSN 8870) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 6Dec43.
3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 29Dec43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 348th Bomb Squadron,
2nd Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 1Jan44. {17 missions}. Transfered to 429th Bomb Squadron,
2nd Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 28Mar44. {first combat mission 28Mar44}. Battle
damaged on a mission to the industrial centre of Sofia, Bulgaria 30Mar44 (1WIA:9RTD).
The navigator was wounded by shrapnel from a 20mm cannon shell during an enemy fighter attack.
Participated in the first Operation Frantic shuttle mission to the railway marshalling yards at Debrecen,
Hungary 2Jun44. After the target, the bomber continued east and landed at Mirgorod (Station 561),
Ukraine. Operated a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Gala?i, Rumania 6Jun44, returning to Mirgorod.
Returned to base in Italy on a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Foc?ani, Rumania 11Jun44.
Temporarily modified with decking in the bomb bay to evacuate prisoners of war from Popesti,
Bucharest, Rumania to Bari, Italy during Operation Reunion 31Aug44-3Sep44. Crash landed on
a transition flight at Amendola 15Oct44. {83 missions}. Salvaged 18Oct44. Named 100 MISSION.
38085 (MSN 8871) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 8Dec43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 24Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 8Jan44. Ferried to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 17Jan44.
711th Bomb Squadron, 447th Bomb Group, Rattlesden (Station 126), Suffolk 2Jan44. Crashed
departing in thick fog for a mission to a Luftwaffe air depot at M�rignac, Bordeaux, France 27Mar44 (10KIA).
The right wing caught fire, the pilot lost control and the aircraft crashed at Green Farm, Bullswood Lane,
Cockfield, Suffolk. The bomb load exploded minutes after impact. Salvaged 3Apr44
38086 (MSN 8872) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 7Dec43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 23Dec43. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport
Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 30Dec43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy.
346th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 3Jan44. Accident
returning from a tactical mission in support of the US Fifth Army at Anzio to Cisterna di Latina,
northeast of Anzio, Italy 10Feb44. The landing gear failed to lower and crash landed at Foggia #8
(Longskirt), Lucera, Italy. {15 missions}. Air Depot. Transferred to 840th Bomb Squadron,
483rd Bomb Group, Sterparone, Foggia, Italy. A new crew was scheduled for a mission to
railway marshalling yards at Salzburg, Austria 17Nov44. A veteran pilot was flying with the
rookie crew that day when the plane lost Number 2 and 3 engines on take-off. A successful crash
landing with full bomb load and fuel load occurred a few miles from Sterparone airfield.
There were no serious injuries. Salvaged 18Nov44
38087 (MSN 8873) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 8Dec43.
5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 30Dec43. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 10Jan44. Ferried
overseas via the South Atlantic / Africa route. Damaged in collision with
B-26 42-95975 taxying at Val de Caes, Bel�m, Brasil 23Jan44. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy.
49th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 2Feb44. Named "Tail Crazy".
{first combat mission 14Feb44}. Had a 20m cannon fitted in the tail. Temporarily modified with
decking in the bomb bay to evacuate prisoners of war from Popesti, Bucharest, Rumania to Bari,
Italy during Operation Reunion 31Aug44-3Sep44. {95 missions}. Returned to US. 4134th Base Unit
(Spokane Air Technical Service Command), Spokane Field, WA 12Jul45. Reclaimed 2May46.
38088 (MSN 8874) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 8Dec43.
Barksdale Field, Bossier City, LA 29Dec43. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field
(Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 31Dec43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 348th Bomb Squadron,
99th Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 3Jan44. {15 missions}. 20th Bomb Squadron,
2nd Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 28Mar44. {first combat mission 28Mar44}. Battle
damaged on a mission to the railway marshalling yards at Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia 17Apr44 (10RTD).
On return, the crew was unable to extend the landing gear and the pilot crash landed the plane at
Amendola. {10 missions}. Salvaged 18Apr44
38089 (MSN 8875) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 8Dec43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 3Jan44. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 17Jan44.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 301st Bomb Group, Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 18Jan44. {nil missions}.
49th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 28Jan44. {first combat mission 30Jan44}.
Battle damaged during a a mission to the oil refineries at Ploe?ti, Rumania 5May44 (1WIA:9RTD).
Flak was intense and accurate causing injury to the ball turret gunner. Failed to return from a mission
to the oil refinery at Florisdorf, Vienna, Austria 16Jun44 (10EVD). Struck by flak, with No.2 engine
leaking oil and No.4 propeller feathered, the plane dropped out of formation and lost altitude.
Crash landed with the crew at ?ur?evac, Yugoslavia. {49 missions}. MACR 6032.
38090 (MSN 8876) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 9Dec43.
3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 29Dec43. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command,
Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 30Dec43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy.
340th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, San Giovanni, Cerignola, Italy 3Jan44. Foggia #7,
Amendola, Italy 16Jan44l. Named "Miss Windy City"
Had a 20m cannon fitted in the tail by Jul44. Damaged on a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Kalamaki,
Athens, Greece 15Sep44. When the bombs were dropped over the target, one bomb exploded, injuring the
bombardier, punctured fuel tanks, severed hydraulic lines and flattened the left tire, as well as
causing many holes. Declared 'war weary'. Converted as a cargo aircraft 10Oct44. Salvaged 27Feb45.
38091 (MSN 8877) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 9Dec43.
Tulsa Municipal Airport, OK 21Dec43. School of Applied Tactics, Orlando AAB, FL 31Dec43.
901st Base Unit, Heavy Bombardment, Pinecastle Field, Orlando, FL 2Jun44. 903rd Base Unit,
Pinecastle Field, FL 10Sep44. 621st Base Unit, Pinecastle Field, FL 9Jul45. Damaged by mechanical
failure at Pinecastle 28Jul45. 6138th Base Unit, Phillips Field, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 19Jun46
38092 (MSN 8878) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 9Dec43.
School of Applied Tactics, Orlando AAB, FL 31Dec43. 901st Base Unit, Heavy Bombardment,
Pinecastle Field, Orlando, FL. 902nd Base Unit (Base Complement), Orlando AAB, FL 19Jun44.
901st Base Unit, Heavy Bombardment, Pinecastle Field, Orlando, FL 13Jul44. 903rd Base Unit,
Pinecastle Field, FL 10Sep44. Damaged in collision with parked B-17G 42-40042 while taxying
at Pinecastle 8Nov44. 610th Base Unit (Proving Ground Command), Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 27Aug45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 7Jan46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
38093 (MSN 8879) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 11Dec43. United Air Lines, Modification
Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 10Jan44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Grenier Field (Station 16),
Manchester, NH 16Jan44. 368th Bomb Squadron [BO*J], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111),
Bedfordshire 28Feb44. 368th Bomb Squadron [BO*V] 3Mar44.
Battle damaged on a mission to the Braunkohle-Benzin AG synthetic oil refinery at Schwarzheide,
Ruhland, Germany 12Sep44 (2KIA:7WIA). North of Berlin the aircraft came under heavy flak and fighter
attack and was badly shot up. The tail gunner was killed, the radio operator and top turret gunner
wounded and one of the engines shot up. The aircraft continued to the target and on the return flight
came under renewed fighter attack with another engine and the intercom put out of action.
Escorted part of the way by P-51 Mustangs the bomber, now with just a single engine, crossed the
Belgian coast and went out over the North Sea rapidly losing height. One airman bailed out in sight
of the coast and rescued by Air-Sea Rescue. As soon as the English coast was crossed the pilot ordered
the remaining crew to bail out but only four had time to do so. On the final approach to RAF Manston,
Kent the last engine quit and the aircraft crash landed on a smooth area, crossed a ditch and knocked
down a search light tower before coming to a halt, then catching fire five miles southeast of Manston;
the bombardier was killed in the crash. Salvaged by 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton 13Sep44
38094 (MSN 8880) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 9Dec43.
Wichita Municipal Airport, KS 26Dec43. 99th Bomb Squadron, 9th Bomb Group, Orlando AAB, FL 30Dec43.
Mid-air collision head-on with B-17G 42-40038 during training exercises ten miles southwest of
Brooksville Field, FL 13Jan44 (5KIS). Salvaged 31Jan44
38095 (MSN 8881) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Dec43.
Offutt Field, Omaha, NB 24Dec43. School of Applied Tactics, Orlando AAB, FL 31Dec43.
225th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Rapid City Field, SD. Collision on the ground
with B-17G 42-102381 at Rapid City 26Mar45. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine),
Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 24Jun45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR
for storage and disposal 28Jan46. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment
Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
38096 (MSN 8882) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 10Dec43.
4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 4Jan44. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport
Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 6Jan44. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy.
347th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 9Jan44.
{first combat mission 10Feb44}. Severely battle damaged during a tactical mission in support
of the US Fifth Army at Anzio to Cisterna di Latina, northeast of Anzio, Italy 10Feb44 (2WIA:8RTD).
Just after the target, four bursts of flak severed control cables, destroyed the oxygen system and
punctured No.2 and No.3 fuel tanks. The autopilot was able to keep the plane in fairly level flight
on the way home. While the crew dealt with the carnage inside the fuselage, the engineer and co-pilot
braced their knees against the control column while the pilot repaired the flight controls by using
bomb arming wires and extension cords from the crew's electrically heated suits so that he had
some control when trying to land. The crew elected to remain onboard instead of bailing out.
The plane had been riddled with holes caused by flak shrapnel but managed to return safely to
Tortorella. The ground crew stopped counting when they reached 500 holes in the plane. Initially
pushed aside for salvage, the squadron later repaired the plane. {7 missions}.
Transferred to 20th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy Mar44.
{first combat mission 28Mar44}. Failed to return from a mission to the oil refinery at Moravsk�
Ostrava a P?�voz, Czechoslovakia 29Aug44 (9KIA:1EVD). It was a disastrous day for the
2nd Bomb Group, losing nine B-17s in a onesided, nineteen-minute attack by the Luftwaffe
on the way to the target; the 20th Bomb Squadron lost all seven of its aircraft to enemy fighters.
It was the second greatest, one day, aircraft loss for the Group but one with the greatest loss of life.
Attacked by enemy fighters, the attack began with Fw 190s launching rockets, one of which
exploded to the left of the airplane between the two engines. In the front section of the aircraft,
the instrument panel began to burn. With fire in the fuselage, the crew was preparing to bail out
when a strong explosion broke the bomber into several parts. Burning debris fell to the ground in
an area east of Vanov and between Kochavec and Valentov�, Czechoslovakia. The front part fell
on a hillside in Jablon� behind the village of Vanov, and the rear part, where a trapped gunner
remained, fell between Vanov and Kochavec. Other parts of the aircraft, apparently the rudder,
fell into the area of Valentov�. {58 missions}. MACR 8110 Named BIG TIME. The ball turret and remains of the
gunner were found near Vanov 29Aug06 .
38097 (MSN 8883) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 13Dec43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 31Dec43. Nutts Corner (Station 235), Belfast,
Northern Ireland 17Jan44. 711th Bomb Squadron [IR*A], 447th Bomb Group, Rattlesden (Station 126),
Suffolk 18Jan44. On local flight 29Feb44 (12RTD), unable to lower landing gear so diverted and crash
landed at Honington (Station 375), Suffolk. Crew OK. Salvaged by 1st Strategic Air Depot, Troston 18Apr44.
38098 (MSN 8884) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 13Dec43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 23Dec43. Ferried RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 20Jan44. 366th Bomb Squadron [KY*E], 305th Bomb Group,
Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 22Feb44. Accident landing at Chelveston 7Jun44.
Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 13Jun45.
4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 12Sep45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage
and disposal 27Nov45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
38100 (MSN 8886) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 13Dec43.
5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 31Dec43. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command,
Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 4Jan44. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy.
96th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 5Jan44. {first combat mission 23Jan44}.
Severely battle damaged on a mission to railway marshalling yards at Sofia, Bulgaria 24Jan44 (1WIA:9RTD).
Over the target, the formation found it impossible to bomb and proceeded to a secondary target at Nis, Yugoslavia.
After going 80 to 100 miles beyond Sofia, the group turned and headed for home base. Heavy cloud
formations were encountered along the route. Attacked by enemy fighters, the radio operater was
struck by shrapnel from a 20mm cannon shell. 96th Bomb Squadron Mar44. Failed to return from a
mission to a ball bearing factory at Steyr, Austria 19Mar44 (1KIA:3EVD:6POW). Solid clouds covered
that target and the group turned to bomb the air depot at Klagenfurt, Austria. Damaged by flak,.
The aircraft took a direct hit by an 88mm shell knocking out No.3 and No.4 engines and the right
wing was on fire. After a complete 360-degree turn to the right losing altitude, the pilot recovered
control and held the aircraft straight and level until the crew members bailed out. The plane nosed up,
the left wing separated and crashed near Klagenfurt, Austria. {9 missions} MACR 3258.
38101 (MSN 8887) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Dec43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 30Dec43. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field,
Detroit, MI 21Jan44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Grenier Field (Station 16),
Manchester, NH 2Feb44. 327th Bomb Squadron [UX*O], 92nd Bomb Group, Podington (Station 109),
Bedfordshire 20Feb44. Named "Hurbert" Battle damaged on a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical
and synthetic oil works at Leuna, Merseburg, Germany 11Sep44 (1POW:8RTD). As the bomber
approached the target and about to release its bombs, flak hit the No.1 engine, another flak shell
hit the vertical stabiliser. The No.1 propeller would not feather. The radio operator bailed out
prematurely. The pilot managed to bring the bomber back to base. MACR 8808.
Accident departing for a tactical mission in support of the Battle of the Bulge to a Luftwaffe
airfield at Giessen, Germany 24Dec44 (6KIA:3WIA). Crashed on takeoff and exploded at Podington. Salvaged
38102 (MSN 8888) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Dec43.
457th Bomb Group, Wendover Field, UT Dec43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber
Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 27Dec43. Ferried North Atlantic
route to UK departing 17Jan44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle
Field, ME Jan44. 457th Bomb Group, Glatton (Station 130), Huntingdonshire 26Jan44.
532nd Bomb Squadron [VE*A], 381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 11Mar44.
Crashed on takeoff to Frankfurt am Main, Germany on the bomber's first mission 24Mar44
at Bailey Hill Farm, Birdbrook, Essex, two miles from base. All were killed as the aircraft
exploded with wreckage all over the farm and orchard, while for many years patches of soil
would not grow anything due the contamination by aviation fuel and oil.
38103 (MSN 8889) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Dec43.
457th Bomb Group, Wendover Field, UT Dec43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 29Dec43. Ferried North Atlantic route to UK departing 17Jan44.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 25Jan44. 457th Bomb Group, Glatton
(Station 130), Huntingdonshire 26Jan44. Transferred to 532nd Bomb Squadron [VE*B], 381st Bomb Group,
Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 11Mar44. , Named *Our Boarding House*.
Battle damaged on a mission to an aero engine factory at Munich, Germany 16Jul44, force landed
RAF Manston, Kent. The fuel-return line on number two engine from the carburetor overflow to the
fuel tank was broken so there was excessive fuel consumption for that engine. The crew calculated
that they could make it to the target and back if they could feather that engine after the target and fly
back on three engines. To make matters worse, the sky was so full of contrails that they had to climb to
30,200 feet for the bomb run. Then, to make things really bad, the propeller governor on number three
engine got hit by flak and started spewing oil, so it had to be feathered immediately. That changed the
plan to feather number two. The navigator's new calculations indicated that they could barely make the
English coast with the number two engine operating if they left the formation and made a slow descent
all the way home. Finally the long slow descent brought the bomber in low over the white cliffs of Dover,
and then saw RAF Manston, Kent with a 10,000 foot long, 500 foot wide concrete strip. As the bomber
landed and started to roll, the number two engine cut out and, as it turned off of the runway to taxy,
number four engine cut out. The crew had to tow the plane back to the parking ramp. Battle damaged
over Oberpfaffenhofen, Munich, Germany 9Apr45. Crash landed RAF Lympne, Kent. {44 missions}. Salvaged
38104 (MSN 8890) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Dec43.
457th Bomb Group, Wendover Field, UT Dec43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 27Dec43. Ferried North Atlantic route to UK departing 17Jan44.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 26Jan44. 457th Bomb Group
Glatton (Station 130), Huntingdonshire 17Feb44. Transferred to 325th Bomb Squadron [NV*I],
92nd Bomb Group, Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 11Mar44. Failed to return from a mission to
an aircraft repair depot at Lippstadt, Germany 23Mar44 (9POW:1EVD). Damaged by flak and attacked by
Fw 190 fighters, causing a large hole in the left horizontal stabiliser. Out of formation, the plane
attempted to join another squadron but entered propeller wash which caused the pilot to lose control.
Recovering control, the pilot turned away to the left and was last seen being escorted by four P-38 Lightnings.
The crew bailed out safely over the Netherlands. The plane crashed northwest of Durnal, 11km northeast
of Dinant, Belgium
38105 MSN 8891) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Dec43.
775th Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Lakeland Field, FL 7Jan44. Caribbean Wing,
Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL. Ferried overseas via the
South Atlantic / Africa route. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 775th Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group;
attached to the 2nd Bomb Group effective 14Mar44. Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 17Mar44.
775th Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Foggia #1, Celone, Italy 28Mar44. Failed to return
from a mission to the oil refinery at Budapest, Hungary 14Jun44 (1KIA:9POW). Mid-air collision
with B-17G 42-31845. Crashed in the Hvarski Channel, Croatia, Yugoslavia. MACR 6093.
Named THE CLUB 105
38106 (MSN 8892) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 14Dec43.
Mitchel Field, Hempstead, Long Island, NY 7Jan44. Ferried Marrakech, French Morocco to Prestwick
(Station 500), Scotland 2/3Feb44. 366th Bomb Squadron [KY*B], 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston
(Station 105), Northamptonshire 11Feb44. Failed to return from a mission to the Focke-Wulf aircraft
factory at Waggum, Brunswick, Germany 29Mar44 (9KIA:1POW). Shot down by enemy fighters,
exploded and crashed Lingwedel, 28 miles north of Brunswick, Germany MACR 3476
38107 (MSN 8893) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 15Dec43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 31Dec43. 331st Bomb Squadron, 94th Bomb Group,
Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 5Jan44. Failed to return from a mission to the
industrial area at Brunswick, Germany 10Feb44 (10POW). Shot down by enemy fighters,
crashed Stedden, just west of Gross Hehlen, Germany. MACR 2372.
38108 (MSN 8894) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 15Dec43.
Mitchel Field, Hempstead, Long Island, NY 18Jan44. Ferried Lajes Field, Terceira Island, Azores to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 13Feb44. Nutts Corner (Station 235), Belfast, Northern Ireland 29Feb44.
366th Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 16Feb44.
Named "Barbara II" Failed to return from a mission to the Focke-Wulf aircraft factory at Waggum,
Brunswick, Germany 29Mar44 (4KIA:6POW). Shot down in a head on attack by enemy fighters,
broke up in the air, crashed and destroyed by fire at Huxahl-Dieste, 12 miles north of Celle, Germany. .
MACR 3477
38109 (MSN 8895) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 15Dec43.
Mitchel Field, Hempstead, Long Island, NY 20Jan44. 364th Bomb Squadron [WF*P],
305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 10Feb44. Named "Cabin In The Sky"
Battle damaged on a mission to the Erla Maschinenwerk Bf 109 aircraft factory at Mockau, Leipzig,
Germany 20Feb44 (1KIA). Over the target, the bombs had frozen and would not release. Flak struck an
outer engine which caught fire. Unable to keep up with the formation during the rally for return to
England, the bomber was being attacked by enemy fighters. The co-pilot was killed by a 20mm cannon
shell and the pilot was wounded by shrapnel. Another engine caught fire and the plane was in a dive.
The pilot managed to level out and assessed that only two airmen had not been injured, several too
badly to consider bailing out. Still with the bombs on board and smoke trailing from an engine,
the pilot attempted to return home. Eventually the engine fires were extinguished and the bombs
jettisoned. Finally over England, a third engine stopped with fuel starvation. The badly wounded
pilot spotted an airfield through the low cloud and crash landed at RAF Redhill, Surrey; the pilot
was awarded the Medal of Honor. Salvaged by 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton 23Feb44
38110 (MSN 8896) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 15Dec43.
457th Bomb Group, Wendover Field, UT Dec43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 29Dec43. Ferried North Atlantic route to UK departing 17Jan44.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 21Jan44. 457th Bomb Group [H],
Glatton (Station 130), Huntingdonshire 26Jan44. 407th Bomb Squadron [PY*H], 92nd Bomb Group,
Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 11Mar44. Aborted a mission to railway marshalling yards at
Mannheim, Germany 9Sep44. No.1 engine developed an oil leak and the propeller could not be feathered.
The pilot chose to force land at RAF Little Rissington, Gloucestershire. On landing, the landing gear
collapsed under load and the aircraft slid 400ft. Salvaged 10Sep44.
38111 (MSN 8897) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 16Dec43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 27Dec43. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME 9Jan44. Ferried Lajes Field, Terceira Island, Azores to Nutts Corner (Station 235),
Belfast, Northern Ireland then to Valley (Station 568), Anglesey, Wales 2Feb44. 525th Bomb Squadron [FR*H],
379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 12Feb44. Named "Mairzy Doats"
Aborted a mission to the Erla Maschinenwerk Bf 109 aircraft factory at Mockau, Leipzig, Germany 7Jul44;
the landing gear collapsed at the end of the runway. Salvaged by 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton 9Jul44
38112 (MSN 8899) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 17Dec43. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 18Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 31Dec43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 20Jan44. Nutts Corner (Station 235),
Belfast, Northern Ireland 27Jan44. 545th Bomb Squadron [JD*J], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood
(Station 106), Northamptonshire 10Feb44. {first combat mission 20Feb44}. Named "Mrs Geezil'.
Failed to return from a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 13Apr44 (6POW:4KIA).
On the way into the target, the bomber was attacked by enemy fighters, the aircraft caught fire and injured
the pilots. Six crew members bailed out as the bomber was spinning down, exploded and crashed 2km
northeast of Elmshausen, east of Bensheim, Germany. {19 missions}. . MACR 3869.
38113 (MSN 8899) The 1000th B-17 aircraft built by the Douglas Aircraft Company in Long Beach, California.
War Bond Aircraft. FROM THE EMPLOYEES OF THE B-17 PROJECT DOUGLAS LONG BEACH / PISTOL PACKIN MAMA.
Paid for by the workers who helped build the aircraft. Presented to the USAAF as a Christmas Gift, accepted by
the 457th Bomb Group commander, Lieutenant Colonel James Luper. [the inscription had been removed by the
time the bomber was on operations at Glatton]. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 16Dec43. 457th Bomb Group, Wendover Field, UT Dec43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 29Dec43. HQ Squadron, 457th Bomb Group,
Grand Island Field, NB. Ferried Grand Island to Presque Isle Field, ME 18Jan44. Presque Isle to RCAF Gander,
Newfoundland 19Jan44. Gander to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland and Glatton 20Jan44. 749th Bomb
Squadron [A], 457th Bomb Group, Glatton (Station 130), Huntingdonshire 20Jan44. Named "Rene III"
III [named after wife of the 457th Bomb Group commander, Lieutenant Colonel James Luper] {first combat mission 21Feb44}.
Extensive battle damage on a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 13Apr44;
force landed at Boxted (Station 150), Essex. Extensive battle damage on a mission to the manufacturing
facilities of the Junkers Flugzeug-und Motorenwerke at Dessau, Germany 28May44. The left landing gear
failed to lower, crash landed at Glatton. Failed to return from a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Hopsten,
Germany 21Mar45 (1POW:8EVD). Damaged by flak before reaching the target area and left the
formation. No.4 engine was hit and the wing was on fire. The crew bailed out before the aircraft crashed
near Hopsten. {105 missions}
38114 (MSN 8900) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 16Dec43.
772nd Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Lakeland Field, FL 7Jan44. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport
Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 21Jan44. Ferried overseas via the South
Atlantic / Africa route. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 772nd Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Foggia #1,
Celone, Italy 11Mar44. Named "The Atoner"--Named for its pilot, James H Toner
Failed to return from a mission to the railway marshalling yards at Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia 6Jun44
(1POW:9EVD). Two engines damaged by flak. The crew bailed out in the vicinity of Ub, Serbia, Yugoslavia.
The bomber crashed near Upice, Serbia, Yugoslavia. One airman was captured by quisling forces and
handed over to the Germans, the remaining crew was assisted by Chetnik guerillas to evade capture;
rescued by the Halyard Mission from Pranjani 9/10Aug44. MACR 5847.
38115 (MSN 8901) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 18Dec43.
773rd Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Lakeland Field, FL 6Jan44. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport
Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 20Jan44. Ferried overseas via the South
Atlantic / Africa route. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 773rd Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Foggia #1,
Celone, Italy 11Mar44. Battle damaged on a mission to the submarine pens at Toulon, France 29Apr44.
On return, crash landed at Celone. Salvaged 1May44
38116 (MSN 8902) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 18Dec43.
772nd Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Lakeland Field, FL 8Jan44. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport
Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 16Jan44. Ferried overseas via the South
Atlantic / Africa route. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 772nd Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Foggia #1,
Celone, Italy 11Mar44. Named "Here Again". Returned to US. 4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical
Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 27Mar45. Reclaimed 24May46
38117 (MSN 8903) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 18Dec43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 31Dec43. 535th Bomb Squadron [MS*T],
381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 26Feb44 Named *Touch the Button Nell II*
Mid-air collision with B-17G 42-39906 twenty miles southwest of Ridgewell 5Mar44. Lost on a tactical
mission to a bridge near Tours, France 4Jul44 (7KIA:2EVD). Mechanical failure of No.2 engine;
with the loss of oil pressure the pilot was unable to feather the propeller. With the propeller
windmilling the plane had to leave formation and jettison the bombs. After that the pilot tried
to get back in formation, but didn't make it because then lost No.3 engine. After that loss, the
crew began to throw out everything they could get loose from the plane, except for the radio
equipment. Some time soon after that the radio man bailed out. After him the bombardier or navigater
bailed out of the nose; whom ever it was that bailed out was over run by the plane and his parachute
was caught in a propeller. At about or between 500 or 700 feet, the gunners decided to bail out.
A waist gunner was the first to jump with his parachute opening just in time to break his fall.
The tail and ball gunners followed out but their parachutes didn't open in time. The remaining
crew failed to bail out before the plane crashed at L'Etang de Chaume, near Amboise, Persac, France.
{4+ missions}. MACR 6773. Dug up by French archeological group in February 1986 looking
for Roman remains, via crop marks showing from the air, when a farmer pointed out that a US
aircraft crashed in that field in WW II.
38118 (MSN 8904) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 18Dec43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 31Dec43. Nutts Corner (Station 235), Belfast,
Northern Ireland 8Jan44. 323rd Bomb Squadron [OR*N], 91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121),
Cambridgeshire 25Feb44. Failed to return from a mission to the Vereinigte Kugellagerfabriken AG (VKF)
ball bearing factory at Erkner on the southeast edge of Berlin, Germany 6Mar44 (2KIA:8POW).
When the formation crossed the North Sea it was attacked by a force of Luftwaffe fighters.
The plane was badly damaged on the first pass; the top turret was blown off, the right outboard
engine was disabled and the propeller could not be feathered causing it to overspeed, and the
nose section was damaged. The engineer/top turret gunner was badly injured. At this point the
plane was unable to keep up with the formation and fell back to a trailing Group. It was then hit by
flak and a little later attacked by more fighters. The right inboard engine failed and the propeller was
feathered. No longer able to keep up, the plane dropped out of formation. The crew had a choice
to bail out. or try to return home. There were clouds below which would offer protection from
enemy fighters but the plane was soon in clear sky so dropped down to the ground. It was doing
fine until it passed over a German fighter airfield. A fighter was airborne and, keeping out of
range from the bombers guns, fired 20mm cannon shells and set the bomber on fire. The bomber was
attacked by Oblt. Georg Greiner in a Bf 110 night fighter of NJG 1 over Quakenbr�ck airfield.
Also engaged by Light Flak Abteilung 844. Out of control, the plane crash landed at Nortrup,
seven miles southwest of Quakenbr�ck, Germany.. MACR 2901.
38119 (MSN 8905) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 18Dec43.
7th Heavy Bomb Processing Group, Kearney Field, NB 31Dec43. Crash landed Kearney 2Feb44.
The third and last fatal crash involving a B-17 near the Kearney Army Air Field occurred
when a crew of ten, who were part of a large formation leaving the field in preparation for
overseas duty, crashed during takeoff. Shortly after becoming airborne, the pilots of B-17G 42-38119
should have switched to instruments, but they continued to fly by contact and misjudged their altitude
in the early morning darkness. They flew the plane into the ground which skidded along and then
caught on fire. Six of the crew who could not escape the burning wreckage of the plane died.
The other four airmen (including the two pilots) managed to escape the plane and survived. Salvaged 4Feb44.
38120 (MSN 8906) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 20Dec43. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY Dec43. Columbus, OH 23Jan44. 561st Bomb Squadron [J],
388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 5Feb44. {first combat mission 25Feb44}.
Failed to return from a mission to Messerschmitt service test airfield at Lechfeld, Augsburg,
Germany 18Mar44 (2WIA:8RTD). Finding the target covered by clouds, it was decided to make
a visual bomb run on the Dornier Flugzeugwerke works at Oberfaffenhofen. Enemy fighters
attacked just south of Strasbourg on the return route. Damaged by 20mm cannon shells
wounding the navigator and bombardier. Failed to return from a mission to the industrial
areas of Brunswick, Germany 23Mar44 (1KIA:9POW). The formation was about fifteen minutes
early when it crossed the enemy coast and even earlier when it reached the target.
Consequently, no friendly fighter escort was met until the formation was near the I.P.
During this time a large force of enemy fighters was encountered between D�mmer See
and Steinhuder Meer, Wunstorf, Germany. The route home was south of the briefed course
and the formation flew through the northern defenses of the Ruhr Valley, encountering
intense flak. Struck by flak over the northern tip of the Ruhr Valley. Flak struck the No.3 engine
and smoke filled the cockpit. The bomber dropped out of formation and the crew started to bail out.
About that time, the plane went into a spin and four airmen still in the plane (pilot, co-pilot,
navigator and engineer) could not move. Then the plane started to break-up and finally exploded.
Crashed two miles west of Reken, east of Borken, Germany. {11 missions) MACR 3543
38121 (MSN 8907) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 19Dec43.
Phoenix, AZ 2Jan44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 3Jan44.
551st Bomb Squadron [HR*E], 385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 28Jan44.
Named "Hit Parade". Failed to return from a Crossbow mission to a German V-weapon site in the Pas-de-Calais,
France 28Feb44 (8KIA:2POW). Flak knocked tail off directly behind the waist windows,
crashed in Boulogne town, France.. MACR 2882.
38122 (MSN 8908) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19Dec43.
Rosecrans Field, Saint Joseph, MO 4Jan44. 772nd Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group,
Lakeland Field, FL 10Jan44. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11),
West Palm Beach, FL. Ferried overseas via the South Atlantic / Africa route. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy.
772nd Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Foggia #1, Celone, Italy 11Mar44. Named "A Touch Of Venus"
Severely battle damaged by flak on a mission to the Magyar Waggon- �s G�pgy�r aircraft factory at
Gy?r, Hungary 13Apr44. Badly battle damaged by flak on a mission to a synthetic oil refinery at
Blechhammer, Prussia 7Jul44. Believed to have crash landed Italy. {8 missions}. Salvaged 7Jul44
38123 (MSN 8909) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 19Dec43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 1Jan44.
Ferried RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 6Feb44.
334th Bomb Squadron [BG*E], 95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 8Feb44.
Named "To Hell or Glory". Failed to return from a Crossbow mission to a German
V-weapon site in the Pas-de-Calais, France 23Jun44 (2KIA:3POW:5EVD), mechanical faults,
crashed Outer-Lebeke, southwest of Aalst, Belgium. A short circuit caused a fire that did not seem
to go out. Shortly after, the engines failed. The aircraft became uncontrollable and slowly but
surely lost altitude. The pilot tried to regain control. The bombardier jettisoned the bombs.
Smoke made visual communication very difficult. The ammunition also began to explode,
and the flames reached through the cockpit. Most of the crew bailed out but the pilot and a
gunner remained. The bomber circled a few moments around the Lebeke and the Grote Veld in
Outer, to crash into the Lebeke. The wheels rolled towards the street injuring a civilian woman
on the leg. The barn at her home was seriously damaged. The salvage of the wreck and the bodies
was carried out in the following days by the "Bergungskommando" of Sint-Denijs-Westrem. {38 missions}. .
MACR 5915.
38124 (MSN 8910) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20Dec43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 6Jan44.
728th Bomb Squadron, 452nd Bomb Group, Deopham Green (Station 142), Norfolk 14Feb44.
Named *Passionate Witch*. The pilot named his plane after the 1941 novel 'Passionate Witch'
authored by Thorne Smith. This novel was about a meek businessman marrying a beautiful witch.
In the 1960's, the popular TV show 'Bewitched' was based upon this novel, Battle damaged on a mission
to the industrial areas of Frankfurt am Main, Germany 20Mar44 (3WIA:7RTD). High clouds frustrated
bombing attempts and the squadron diverted to a target of opportunity. Flak over Bonn was intense
and accurate, enemy fighters attacked northeast of Paris on the way home. The bomber was riddled
by 20mm cannon shells, wounding the waist and tail gunners. The pilot dropped down and flew back
just above the trees, dodging flak barrages and made it across the English Channel just above the waves.
Badly damaged and with wounded airmen, the pilot force landed at RAF Dunsfold, Surrey. While parked,
the aircraft was damaged beyond repair in a night time collision by a RAF Avro Lancaster bomber which
crash landed with battle damage at RAF Dunsfold, Surrey 24Mar44. Salvaged 27Mar44.
38125 (MSN 8911) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 20Dec43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 16Jan44. 332nd Bomb Squadron,
94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 16Feb44. .Named "Puddin'".
Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 30Jun45.
4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 12Sep45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and
disposal 16Nov45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
38126 (MSN 8912) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 20Dec43.
Salt Lake City AAB, UT 27Dec43. Palm Springs Field, CA 22Jan44. 328th Flexible Gunnery Training Group,
Kingman Field, AZ. Damaged landing at Kingman 30Apr44. 3018th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School),
Kingman Field, AZ. Damaged by 'friendly fire' at Kingman Auxiliary Field, Yucca, AZ 2Dec44.
3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 24Jun45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 3Jan46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
38127 (MSN 8913) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 21Dec43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 24Jan44.
336th Bomb Squadron [ET*F], 95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 6Feb44.
Named "Liberty Ship". Damaged in a ground accident 7Feb44. Caught fire and ditched
on Air-Sea Rescue mission 24Apr44 (2KIA:8RTD). Fire broke out in cockpit and forced the pilot to ditch
in North Sea off Ostend, Belgium. Picked up by a Royal Air Force Air-Sea Rescue Supermarine Walrus
amphibious aircraft which had to taxy back to the English coast. {11 missions}. MACR 4263.
38128 (MSN 8914) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 21Dec43.
Las Vegas Field, NV 26Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 12Jan44.
324th Bomb Squadron [DF*Z], 91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 25Feb44.
Named CUTTY SARK. {36 missions}. Re-named RED ALERT. Battle damaged on a mission to the I.G. Farben
chemical works at Oppau, Ludwigshafen, Germany 8Sep44 (1WIA:8RTD). Just before the target, the
co-pilot heard a click and saw a small flak hole appear in the windshield directly in front of the pilot.
He then saw a hole in the front of the pilot's helmet and blood running down over his face. As the pilot
pitched forward onto the control column, the co-pilot could see a hole in the back of the helmet with
blood streaming down the back of his neck. When the pilot fell onto the control column, he also hit
the rudder pedal. This caused the plane to swerve to the right almost hitting another bomber. The plane
then pitched over in to a dive. The co-pilot gained control of the aircraft after it had dropped down
to about 12,000 feet and tried to pull it back up into formation. The pilot was not dead and came to
about this time. Unfortunately he was completely disoriented and started struggling with his co-pilot
to take over control of the plane. The engineer went into the cockpit, restrained Lthe pilot and moved
him down into the nose of the plane where he lost consciousness again. The engineer and navigator r
emoved the pilot's helmet. The piece of flak had cut a groove through the top of his skull, exposing the brain.
Because of damage to the plane, the co-pilot could not get the plane back into formation, set a course for
Bassingbourn and headed back alone. In a short while the pilot once again regained consciousness and
dragged himself back into his seat. He took over the controls and flew the plane with one arm until eventually
becoming too weak to continue. The engineer moved him back to the nose compartment and got into the
pilot's seat to assist the co-pilot in flying the plane back to Bassingbourn. As they crossed the continental
coast a German flak battery opened up striking the No.2 engine. On approaching Bassingbourn, it was
discovered that the left landing gear and landing flap electrical systems had been knocked out.
The engineer had to hand crank down the left wheel in order that they could land. The pilot survived
but did not fly again. Failed to return from a mission to a railway viaduct at Altenbeken, Germany 26Nov44 (1KIA:8POW).
About five minutes before the I.P. the formation was attacked by a large flight of enemy fighters.
Shot down by enemy fighters, exploded and crashed Furstenau, Germany. {83 missions}. MACR 10838.
Also listed as named DEAR BECKY. Named after the pilot's wife.
38129 (MSN 8915) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 22Dec43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 12Jan44. 367th Bomb Squadron [GY*L], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111),
Bedfordshire 25Feb44. Named "Skippy". Crash landed 26Nov44. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton (Station 547),
Huntingdonshire 28Nov44. Regained by Group. {100+ missions}. Detached to 29th Tactical Air Command,
Waggum (R-37), Brunswick, Germany 14May45. 398th Bomb Group, Nuthampstead (Station 131),
Hertfordshire 24May45. 100+ missions. Returned to US. 1407th Base Unit, European Wing, Air Transport Command,
Valley (Station 568), Anglesey, Wales. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field,
Windsor Locks, CT 2Jun45. 4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command),
South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 12Sep45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41,
Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 28Dec45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped.
38130 (MSN 8916) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 23Dec43. United Air Lines, Modification
Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Dec43. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing,
Kearney Field, NB 24Jan44. 570th Bomb Squadron [DI*B], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153),
Suffolk 8Feb44. Named "Devil's Frolic". {first combat mission 24Feb44}. Failed to return from a mission to the railway
marshalling yards at Hamm, Germany 22Apr44 (2KIA:8POW). The bomber was flying
alongside fourteen planes of the 95th Bomb Group which ended up being thrown off
course and ultimately dropped their bombs over the city of Soest to the southeast of Hamm.
Caught outside the bomber stream, the group was attacked by forty Luftwaffe Fw 190 fighters.
An enemy fighter damaged No.3 engine and had control cables shot out. Crashed near Alsbach,
north of H�hr-Grenzhausen, northeast of Koblenz, Germany. {23 mission). sMACR 4170.
38131 (MSN 8917) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 22Dec43.
Roswell Field, NM 2Jan44. 364th Bomb Squadron [WF*D], 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105),
Northamptonshire 8Feb44. Named *Bertie Lee*. Failed to return from a mission to the
Focke-Wulf factories at Cottbus and Sorau, Prussia 5Apr44. The bomber fell victim to a combination
of vicious and persistent attacks by enemy fighters, Bf 110s from ZG 26 in particular and a
concentrated flak barrage over the target. Despite both pilots being badly wounded (along
with were several other members of the crew), they pulled the Fortress out of a 3,000ft dive,
before ordering most of the crew to bail out. It was then that the wounded bombardier
found that his parachute had been damaged, forcing him to stay aboard the B-17.
The pilot then decided to attempt to fly the aircraft back to England, and after dodging enemy fighters
over Germany, he descended to low altitude in order to avoid the attention of flak batteries.
Barely airworthy, the bomber was somehow coaxed back across the North Sea, where an extremely
weak pilot successfully crash landed the B-17 at an RAF airfield near Grimsby, despite his
undercarriage and flaps having been put out of operation and the ball turret being stuck
in the lowered position, with its guns pointing downwards. The airspeed indicator was also
inoperable, and the bomb-bay doors were jammed fully open. The pilot's miraculous feat
had saved the bombardier's life, and he became the second member of the 364th Bomb
Squadron to receive the Medal of Honor.
38132 (MSN 8918) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 22Dec43.
Hobbs Field, NM 21Jan44. 3021st Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Las Vegas Field, NV 26Sep44.
3022nd Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Indian Springs Auxiliary Field, NV 3Oct44.
Damaged landing at Indian Springs 28Dec44. Damaged by 'friendly fire' twenty miles northwest
of Indian Springs 5Jan45. 3021st Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Las Vegas Field, NV 15Mar45.
3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 25Jun45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage
and disposal 5Jan46. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
38133 (MSN 8919) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Dec43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 7Jan44. 337th Bomb Squadron [AW*O],
96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 15Jan44. Named *Reluctant Dragon*
Severe battle damage on a mission to industrial areas in Berlin, Germany 8May44
(1KIA:3RTD:6POW). Fighter attacks killed a gunner and shattered much of the tail section.
Six men bailed out, but the remaining three returned with the plane to Snetterton Heath.
Accident while parked 6Aug44. Failed to return from a mission to Berlin, Germany 30Nov44
(3KIA:6POW). Damaged by flak, crashed Elfgen, Grevenbroich, Germany. .
[B-17G 44-85599 is preserved and on display at Linear Air Park, Dyess AFB as 42-38133 RELUCTANT DRAGON.]
38134 (MSN 8920) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Dec43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Lincoln Field, NB 10Jan44. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 8Feb44.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 429th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 14Feb44.
Named "Blow it Out Your....." Failed to return from the aircraft factory at Pr�fening, Regensburg,
Germany 22Feb44 (10MIA). The plane was last sighted on the way to the target, east of Ancona, Italy.
Observers saw smoke in the cabin, the aircraft went into a diving spin, disappearing into the clouds.
Eight parachutes were seen. Crashed in Adriatic Sea sixty-six miles east of Ancona, Italy. {1 mission}.
MACR 2631.
38135 (MSN 8921) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 23Dec43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 15Jan44. 549th Bomb Squadron, 385th Bomb Group,
Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 9Feb44. Named "Dear Mom". Failed to return from a mission to
motor industry targets in Berlin, Germany 21Jun44 (3KIA:7INT). Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed at D�rr�d, Sweden.
MACR 5920
38136 MSN 8922) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 23Dec43. Operational
Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 14Jan44. Diverted by bad weather
during delivery flight to Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire; departed 23Feb44. 615th Bomb Squadron [IY*G],
401st Bomb Group, Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 23Feb44.
Failed to return from a mission to the Vereinigte Kugellagerfabriken AG (VKF) ball bearing factory, Erkner, Germany 6Mar44 (10POW).
Shot Down Mar 6, 1944 By Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6 and Crashed West of Biesow
East of Berlin Germany.
Believed BF 109G-6 Flown By Gefr. Heinz Jeworrek of JG 3/12. All (10) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs. Released in 1945.
MACR 2743.
38137 (MSN 8923) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 23Dec43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 28Dec43.
Boca Raton Field, FL 20Jan44, 3501st Base Unit (Technical School & Overseas Replacement Depot), Boca
Raton Field, FL 28Nov44. 3704th Base Unit (Technical School), Keesler Field, Biloxi, MS 15Jan45.
3704th Base Unit, Boca Raton Field, FL 1Aug45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41,
Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 8Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich
Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
38138 (MSN 8924) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 24Dec43. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 24Dec43. Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational
Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 16Jan44. Damaged taxying 7Feb44. 560th Bomb Squadron [A],
388th Bomb Group, Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk 8Feb44. {first combat mission 24Feb44}. Failed to
return from a mission to the Vereinigte Kugellagerfabriken AG (VKF) ball bearing factory at Erkner, Berlin,
Germany 8Mar44 (4KIA:6POW). Very determined enemy fighter opposition was met en route to the target
during a lapse of the friendly escorts. One of the enemy aircraft, with its cockpit on fire, collided with the
bomber, striking the left elevator and rudder and sending the plane into a dive. Some of the crew were
thrown out when the plane exploded in the vicinity of Celle, Germany. The wreckage crashed at Oegenbostel,
two miles north of Wedemark, west of Celle, Germany. {6 missions}
38139 (MSN 8925) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 23Dec43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 12Jan44.
410th Bomb Squadron [GL*N], 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 8Feb44.
Named "Lonesome Polecat"
Failed to return from a mission to the Heinkel Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory at Oranienburg,
Germany 18Apr44 (10POW). The bombers arrived over Oranienburg to find the town covered by a thick
undercast. Forced to decide between abandoning the mission or bringing the formation down under the
clouds, the air leader had the planes drop down to 17,000ft in order to make their attack run. The bomber
encountered intense flak over Oranienburg. Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed near Friesack, Germany.
MACR 4158
38140 (MSN 8926) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26Dec43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 12Jan44. 335th Bomb Squadron, 95th Bomb Group,
Horham (Station 119), Suffolk. Named "Dolly's Daughter" {first combat mission 22Feb44)
95th BG, 412th BS, named "E.T.O. Happy". 95th BG, 335th BS,
named "The Pregnant Goose". 95th BG, 335th BS, named "Lackanookie".
Damaged taxying at Horham 9Aug44. Participated in an Operation Frantic VII mission to drop supplies
to the resistance forces in Warsaw, Poland 18Sep44. After the target, the bomber continued east and landed
at Poltava (Station 559), Ukraine. Damaged on the ground by a German strike force night of 18/19Sep44.
Returned to England Oct44. {104 missions}. Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing),
Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 26Jun45. 4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command),
South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 12Sep45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41,
Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 12Nov45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
38141 (MSN 8927) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26Dec43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 12Jan44. 525th Bomb Squadron [FR*D], 379th Bomb Group,
Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 28Feb44. 524th Bomb Squadron [WA*D]. Named "Pansy Yokum"
Battle damage on a mission to the Vereinigte Kugellagerfabriken AG (VKF) ball bearing factory at Erkner,
Berlin, Germany 8Mar44 (1KIA). All the way from the Netherlands to Berlin, the bombers were hounded
by Luftwaffe fighters. Failed to return from a tactical mission in support of Operation Overlord to Luftwaffe
airfields in France 9Jul44 (9KIA first, and only, combat mission for crew). Damaged by flak, ditched North Sea
MACR 7359.
38142 (MSN 8928) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26Dec43.
Long Beach Field, CA 29Dec43. Wichita Municipal Airport, KS 10Jan44. 774th Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group,
Lakeland Field, FL 17Jan44. Damaged by mechanical failure taxying at Lakeland 12Feb44. Salvaged 13Feb44.
326th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 20Apr44. 247th Base Unit
(Operational Training Unit), Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS. Crashed in bad weather two miles northeast of Smolen, KS 17Jul45
38143 (MSN 8929) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26Dec43. Hunter Field,
Savannah, GA 17Jan44. 775th Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group, Lakeland Field, FL Jan44. Caribbean Wing,
Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL Feb44. Ferried overseas
via the South Atlantic / Africa route. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 775th Bomb Squadron, 463rd Bomb Group;
attached to the 2nd Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy. 96th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Foggia #7,
Amendola, Italy. {first combat mission 14Feb44}. 49th Bomb Squadron 19Feb44. Failed to return from a
mission to a ball bearing factory at Steyr, Austria 19Mar44 (10KIA). Mid-air collision with B-17G 42-31823
(97th Bomb Group). The airplane started the take off roll in its normal position in the formation, then
slowed, turned off the runway and returned to the ramp. The pilot asked that the pitot tube cover be removed.
This was done, and the plane taxied out again, fifteen minutes late. The 2nd Bomb Group was well ahead
by then, so the pilot elected to join the 97th Bomb Group formation. Collision took place at commencement of
the last turn. Aircraft #823 was in diamond position about three minutes before collision, flying at 3,500 to 4,000ft.
Aircraft from the 2nd Bomb Group #143 came in and flew on #823's right wing, started to slide underneath
it but slid into the right wing of #823. Immediately the aircraft from the 2nd Bomb Group broke in half and fell.
#823 banked off to the left, went down apparently out of control and hit the water. Both planes crashed in the
Gulf of Manfredonia, about three miles off shore of Manfredonia, Italy. Air-Sea Rescue was called and found
four bodies. {5 missions}.. MACR 3286.
38144 (MSN 8930) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26Dec43.
Biggs Field, El Paso, TX 4Jan44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 14Jan44.
Ferried from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Nutts Corner (Station 235), Belfast, Northern Ireland 17Feb44.
401st Bomb Squadron [LL*O], 91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 28Feb44
Named "Jezebel". Painted by Tony Starcer. Battle damaged on a mission to the
L�tzkendorf oil facilities at M�cheln, west of Merseburg, Germany 11Sep44. Battle damaged during a
mission to industrial, oil and rail installations in Cologne, Germany 15Oct44. En route to the target,
flak was meagre and inaccurate. From the I.P. to the target, flak was continuous, increasing in
intensity and accuracy. Some meagre, inaccurate flak was experienced on the route back. Force landed
on fire at Bassingbourn 24Oct44. Battle damaged on a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical and synthetic
oil works at Leuna, Merseburg, Germany 21Nov44 (1KIA:8RTD). Upon approaching the target the Strike Force
encountered very high and dense cloud cover. Other groups turned away to head for alternate targets.
The 91st Bomb Group leader had been in radio contact with a scouting force checking on weather over
the target. They informed him that there was an opening at 17,000 feet. Upon receiving this information,
the 91st Bomb Group dropped down from its briefed bombing altitude of 27,000 feet to 17,000 feet and
went under the weather front. After leaving the target, the formation swung extra wide to the east taking it
within range of the heavy concentration of flak batteries at nearby Leipzig. The plane was hit by flak
with only minor damage to the aircraft. However, one small piece of shrapnel went in on the side of the
tail, hitting and fatally wounding the tail gunner. Battle damaged on a mission to railway marshalling
yards at Dresden, Germany 14Feb45. Bad weather caused the group to divert to an alternate target
of the industrial areas at Prague, Czechoslovakia. Crash landed at Marbais, near Brussels, Belgium.
Salvaged 13Mar45
38145 (MSN 8931) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 27Dec43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 14Jan44.
730th Bomb Squadron [T+], 452nd Bomb Group, Deopham Green (Station 142), Norfolk 6Feb44.
Named "Rosalie Ann". A joint name honoring two of the crew member's wives. The lead navigator wife's
name was Rosalie; the pilot wife's name was Ann Accident departing for a mission to industrial areas
of Berlin, Germany 19May44 (2KIA:8RTD). Mid-air collision with B-17G 42-31242 when two Groups
crossed over each other in bad weather forming up over East Dereham, Norfolk. This plane was
a 'flying spare' and climbing to fill in a vacant position withing the squadron. The left propellers
on #242 chewed into the fuselage forward of the tail of #145. With the tail section gone, #145 went
into an uncontrollable loop, stalled then spun down. Most of the crew bailed or were thrown out.
The plane crashed and was destroyed by fire at New Buckenham, Norfolk. The tail section landed
on the edge of a cemetery in Folly Road, New Buckenham. Three bombs had fallen free and exploded
injuring two civilians and damaging property. Salvaged 20May44. 42-31242 landed safely.
38146 (MSN 8932) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 27Dec43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 6Jan44.
598th Bomb Squadron [YB*D], 351st Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 29Feb44.
Battle damaged on a mission to the manufacturing facilities of the Junkers Flugzeug-und Motorenwerke
at Dessau, Germany 28May44. En route to the target the bomber was slow and had to use more power
than usual. The two right wing engines were running hot. At about 120 miles inland and southeast of
Hanover, the No.3 engine lost oil pressure, the propeller was feathered and the aircraft dropped
back from the formation. Turning back towards England and still with their bomb load, the crew
noticed a military barracks and dropped the bombs. Making it safely to the North Sea, the pilot
landed at a RAF airfield in East Anglia. Failed to return from a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical and
synthetic oil works at Leuna, Merseburg, Germany 29Jul44 (9KIA). The bombers encountered
heavy flak over the target which disrupted the formation. Damaged by flak, crashed Beendorf,
Germany. {37 missions}. MACR 7323
38147 (MSN 8933) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 27Dec43.
Boca Raton Field, FL 21Jan44. 123rd Base Unit, Seymour Johnson Field, Goldsboro, NC 29Aug44.
3501st Base Unit (Technical School & Overseas Replacement Depot), Boca Raton Field, FL 16Sep44.
3704th Base Unit (Technical School), Keesler Field, Biloxi, MS 16Jan45. 554th Base Unit,
4th Ferrying Group, Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 10Jun45. Reclaimed 31Jul46
38148 (MSN 8934) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 30Dec43. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO Dec43. Operational Training Unit,
17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 12Jan44. 368th Bomb Squadron [BO*K],
306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 9Apr44. Named "Mamu"--artwork of a dragon
and lightning bolt. Damaged during a mission to industrial areas of Berlin, Germany 19May44 (9RTD).
After bombing the target, a generator fault started an electrical fire under the top turret setting fire
to the oxygen system. The crew was able to extinguish the fire after about fifteen minutes and
returned safely to base. Battle damaged by flak on a mission to the docks at Wilhelmshaven,
Germany 27Aug44 (1WIA:8RTD). Battle damaged on a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Gymnich,
Erftstadt, southwest of Cologne, Germany 10Jan45 (2WIA:7RTD). The bombardier and navigator
were wounded by flak. The plane dropped out of formation and joined another group for a few
miles before returning home alone. 381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 23May45.
Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 7Jun45.
4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 12Sep45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and
disposal 3Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
38149 (MSN 8935) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 27Dec43.
Operational Training Unit, 17th Bomber Operational Training Wing, Grand Island Field, NB 16Jan44.
364th Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 22Feb44.
Failed to return from a mission to aircraft factories at Stettin, Prussia 11Apr44 (9POW:1KIA).
Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Paplitz, north of Schopsdorf, Germany. MACR 4011.
38150 (MSN 8936) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Dec43.
Roswell Field, NM 28Jan44. 3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 2Jun44.
3021st Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Las Vegas Field, NV 22Sep44. 3022nd Base Unit
(Flexible Gunnery School), Indian Springs Auxiliary Field, NV 6Oct44. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 22May45. 3028th Base Unit, Pilot School, Advanced,
Single-Engine, Luke Field, Arizona, AZ 30Sep45. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine),
Hobbs Field, NM 10Oct45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage
and disposal 7Jan46. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company,
Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped. Also listed as to Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, England
Dec 28, 1944 for unspecified trials. Duration of stay
not known.
38151 (MSN 8937) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Dec43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 12Jan44. 336th Bomb Squadron [ET*L], 95th Bomb Group,
Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 6Feb44. Severely battle damaged during a mission to industrial areas
in the suburbs of Berlin, Germany 6Mar44 but returned to base. Failed to return from a mission
to the industrial area at Augsburg, Germany 16Mar44 (10POW). From Strasburg, Germany to Augsburg,
the bombers were attacked by Luftwaffe fighters in a running battle. Flak over the target was moderate
and accurate; flak en route was meagre and inaccurate. Shot down by fighters and crash landed
near Grossorheim, seven miles southeast of Nordlingen, Germany. {4 missions}. MACR 3230.
38152 (MSN 8938) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Dec43.
Albuquerque AAB, NM 5Jan44. Flexible Gunnery School, Yuma Field, AZ 17Jan44. 3017th Base Unit
(Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 4Jun44. 4160th Base Unit (Sacramento Air
Technical Service Command), Hobbs Field, NM 6Nov44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 7Dec45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
38153 (MSN 8939) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Dec43.
Long Beach Field, CA 2Jan44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Grenier Field (Station 16),
Manchester, NH 4Feb44. Ferried from RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador to RAF Grangemouth, Falkirk,
Scotland 14/15Feb44. 511th Bomb Squadron [DS*F], 351st Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110),
Northamptonshire 25Feb44. Named "Bedlam Ball". Named in the tradition of 511th Bomb Squadron by
incorporating the word 'Ball' in the title, after the squadron's first commander Clinton F Ball'
Failed to return from a mission to the railway marshalling yards at Hamm, Germany 19Sep44 (9RTD).
Damaged by flak, ditched English Channel. {49 missions}.
38154 (MSN 8940) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Dec43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 12Jan44. 358th Bomb Squadron [VK*E],
303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 18Feb44. Crash landed at
Molesworth 23Feb44. Participated in the 'Grapefruit' mission to drop GB-1 glide bombs
on a railway marshalling yard at Cologne, Germany 28May44. Failed to return from a mission to
fuel storage facilities at Montbartier, north of Toulouse, France 25Jun44 (9RTD), eventually ran out of fuel,
crashed near Yate, Gloucestershire. {13 missions}. Salvaged 25Jun44
38155 (MSN 8941) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 1Jan44. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO Jan44. Phoenix, AZ Jan44. 368th Bomb Squadron [BO*J],
306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 25Feb44. Damaged when brakes failed
landing at Thurleigh. Eighth Air Force Service Command 1944. Regained by Group 14Aug44.
Accident at Thurleigh 9Oct44. The plane was parked outside hangar one at night but was not
protected by lights. A jeep drove into the left horizontal stabiliser, driving a two foot wedge into
the elevator. The driver was injured and taken to hospital with concussion. Base Air Depot No.1,
Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire [7Jan45]. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton (Station 547),
Huntingdonshire 12Jan45. Regained by Group. Base Air Depot No.1, Burtonwood (Station 590),
Lancashire [6Mar45]. Base Air Depot No.2, Warton (Station 582), Lancashire 21Mar45.
Air Transport Command 29Mar45. Returned to US. 4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service
Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 30Apr45. 4126th Base Unit, San Bernardino Field, CA 16May45.
4119th Base Unit (Mobile Air Technical Service Command), Brookley Field, Mobile, AL 13Sep45.
4112th Base Unit (Middletown Air Technical Service Command), Middletown Air Depot, PA 16Dec45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 8Apr46.
Modified as cargo/transport aircraft. Designated CB-17G. US Navy
38156 (MSN 8942) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 31Dec43.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 7Jan44. 326th Bomb Squadron [JW*E],
92nd Bomb Group, Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 23Mar44. 325th Bomb Squadron [NV*E],
Named "Mary B". Converted for trooping, stripped of all armament and turrets, capable
of carrying thirty passengers on benches installed in the waist and bomb bay. 92nd Bomb Group,
Istres (Station 195), Marseille, France. Participated in the Green Project which was the USAAF solution
to expedite the return of troops to USA. It called for the round-the-clock airlift of troops from Istres, France,
to Casablanca, French Morocco, the initial leg of their journey home. From Casablanca, Air Transport
Command's aircraft completed the journey and flew the troops to the United States. A secondary task
of the Green Project included flying French citizens who had been in exile during the war on the return
leg from NAS Port Lyautey, French Morocco to Istres. The Green Project operated from 15Jun45 to 10Sep45.
Salvaged Ninth Air Force, Germany 31Oct45
38157 (MSN 8943) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 1Jan44.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Grenier Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 16Jan44.
731st Bomb Squadron, 452nd Bomb Group, Deopham Green (Station 142), Norfolk 24Feb44
Named "Four Freedoms" . The original crew of this plane recognized being fortunate to live in the
United States and enjoy the four basic freedoms bestowed to every citizen: 1) The freedom of speech
and expression everywhere in the world. 2) The freedom of every person to worship God in his
own way everywhere in the world. 3) The freedom from want--which, translated into world terms,
means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its
inhabitants--everywhere in the world. 4) The freedom from fear--which, translated into world terms,
means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion
that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any
neighbor--anywhere in the world. The crew was not so sure of the last freedom while flying
combat missions! They named the plane "Four Freedoms" while they were still training in the
United States and had the name written on the nose. Battle damaged on a mission to the industrial
areas of Brunswick, Germany 23Mar44 (8POW:2RTD). En route to the target, the plane was struck
by enemy fighters which shot away the left wing tip and both left engines were damaged. Flak
wounded a waist gunner; as the gunner was being given first aid by the bombardier, he was also
struck by flak and wounded. Badly damaged, the two pilots were having difficulty in maintaining
level flight. Loose equipment was throw overboard and the crew instructed to bail out; they landed
near Eindhoven, Netherlands. The co-pilot refused to leave knowing that the pilot could not control
the plane long enough for his own safe escape. The plane crossed the Dutch coast at about 1,200ft
and was losing about 200ft a minute as it headed across the North Sea. The pilots brought the aircraft
back to crash land in a meadow near Ashford, Kent. Repaired and returned to Group. Participated in an
Operation Frantic II shuttle mission to the Braunkohle-Benzin AG synthetic oil refinery at Schwarzheide,
Ruhland, Germany 21Jun44. After the target, the bomber continued east and landed at Poltava (Station 559),
Ukraine. Destroyed on the ground by a major German strike force night of 21/22Jun44. Salvaged 2Jul44.
MACR 3657.
38158 (MSN 8944) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 3Jan44. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 1Jan44. 242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit),
Grand Island Field, NB 13Jan44. 547th Bomb Squadron [SO*L], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood
(Station 106), Northamptonshire 1Mar44. Named "Jean". {first combat mission 8Mar44}. Failed to return
from a mission to the Dornier Flugzeugwerke factory at Oberpfaffenhofen, Munich, Germany 24Apr44 (8KIA:2POW).
Damaged by flak during the bomb run, the aircraft received a direct hit in the cockpit area after the bombs
were released. The plane lost altitude, exploded and crashed in a swamp at Einbettl, south of Leutstetten,
eleven miles southwest of Munich, Germany. {14 missions}. MACR 4352.
38159 (MSN 8944) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 3Jan44. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 1Jan44. 242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB 13Jan44.
547th Bomb Squadron [SO*L], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 1Mar44.
{first combat mission 8Mar44}. Failed to return from a mission to the Dornier Flugzeugwerke factory at
Oberpfaffenhofen, Munich, Germany 24Apr44 (8KIA:2POW). Damaged by flak during the bomb run,
the aircraft received a direct hit in the cockpit area after the bombs were released. The plane lost altitude,
exploded and crashed in a swamp at Einbettl, south of Leutstetten, eleven miles southwest of Munich, Germany.
{14 missions}. . Named COLONEL BUB
38160 (MSN 8946) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Jan44.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 14Jan44. 385th Bomb Group 6Feb44.
Ferried from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to UK 20Feb44. 550th Bomb Squadron [SG*J],
385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk Feb44. Named *Lonesome Polecat*
Failed to return from a mission to the industrial area at Augsburg, Germany 16Mar44 (9INT:1KIA). From Strasburg,
Germany to Augsburg, the bombers were attacked by Luftwaffe fighters in a running battle. Flak over the
target was moderate and accurate; flak en route was meagre and inaccurate. After the target the bomber
was attacked by enemy fighters. A fighter disabled No.4 engine, a crewman was injured and the pilot headed
for Switzerland. At the Swiss border the bomber was escorted by Swiss fighters. They told the pilot to land,
but he was unable to control the plane. At a height of 500 feet, he gave the order to bail out. When the crew
left the aircraft over Baar, the Swiss shot at the crew, believing they were enemy paratroopers.
The pilot was forced to ditch the plane in Lake Zugersee, Lucerne,. MACR 3246.
Recovered by a scrap merchant from Suhr from the lake 23-25Aug52. Substantially complete, the bomber
was displayed at various locations in Switzerland, Cham, Basel, Biel, Lausanne and B�mpliz before finally
placing it next to the gas station in Suhr. Sold after the death of the owner Oct65. Displayed at St. Gallen-Winkeln,
Switzerland 1968. Displayed as St. Moritz, Switzerland 1970-1972. Scrapped at Suhr, Switzerland, circa 1972.
Artefacts on display at Luchtoorlogmuseum Crash 40-45, Lisserbroek, Netherlands Jun94.
38161 (MSN 8947) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Jan44. Staging
Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 14Jan44. 525th Bomb Squadron [FR*O], 379th Bomb Group,
Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 19Feb44. Named "Sarah Jane". Failed to return from a mission
to railway installations around Berlin, Germany 7May44 (5POW:4EVD). Flak damaged No.4 engine,
then No.3 engine failed, aircraft crashed Wolvega near Nijelamer, Netherlands. MACR 4559
38162 delivered Cheyenne Jan 3, 1944, Greater Island Jan 16, 1944. Assigned to 401st BG, 614th BS Mar 22, 1944
at (RAF Deenethorpe Airfield) Station USAAF-128 Northamptonshire England.
(MSN 8948) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Jan44. 242nd Base Unit
(Operational Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB 16Jan44. 614th Bomb Squadron [IW*R], 401st Bomb Group,
Deenethorpe (Station 128), Northamptonshire 22Mar44. Failed to return from a mission to the Focke-Wulf aircraft
factory at Marienburg, East Prussia 9Apr44 (10KIA).
Shot Down Apr 9, 1944 By Gunfire From German Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-7 and Crashed 6 Miles Off Rugen Island Germany
in The Baltic Sea After its Nose Was Blown off While Returning From a Mission on The Focke-Wulf Fw 190 Factory
Marienburg Germany. Fw 190A-7 Flown By Unknown Pilot and Unit. All (10) Crew Were Killed. MACR 3940.
38163 (MSN 8949) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 3Jan44. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Jan44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 14Jan44.
379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 6Feb44. 311th Ferrying Squadron,
27th Air Transport Group, Maghaberry (Station 239), County Down, Northern Ireland. During ferry flight from
Maghaberry to Thurleigh, diverted because of bad weather to Warton (Station 582), Lancashire 27Feb44.
367th Bomb Squadron [GY*N], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 29Feb44.
Seriously battle damaged on a Crossbow mission to a German V-weapon site at Watten, France 26Mar44
(2WIA:8RTD). Seriously battle damaged on a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Li�ge, Belgium 31May44.
No.3 and 4 engines were disabled by flak over the target. On return the plane force landed at RAF Manston,
Kent. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton (Station 547), Huntingdonshire 1Jun44. Regained by Group 5Jun44.
Failed to return from a tactical mission in support of Operation Overlord to a Luftwaffe airfield at Bricy, Orl�ans,
France 17Jun44 (1KIA:3POW:6EVD). En route to the target the plane was damaged by flak as it entered French air
space but stayed in formation. After the target, the plane was seen with one engine on fire, dropped out of
formation, went into a short spin then a 360 degree spiral. The crew bailed out as the plane continued to
spin and disappeared into clouds. Crashed Torc�-Viviers-en-Charnie, 22 miles northwest of Le Mans, France
MACR 5896.
38164 (MSN 8950) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Jan44.
242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB 16Jan44. 709th Bomb Squadron,
447th Bomb Group, Rattlesden (Station 126), Suffolk 6Feb44. Named "Virginial Lee".
Failed to return from a diversionary mission to an aircraft depot at Zwickau, Germany 12May44 (10POW).
Enemy aircraft caused severe damage, crash landed Angolsheim, near Neuf-Brisach, France, twelve miles
southeast Colmar, Germany. MACR 4767.
38165 (MSN 8951) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 3Jan44.
Long Beach Field, CA 5Jan44. Albuquerque AAB, NM 20Jan44. Modified for training, stripped of armor,
armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17G. 224th Base Unit (Combat Crew
Training Station), Sioux City AAB, IA 6Mar45. 225th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Rapid City Field, SD 14Mar45. 224th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Sioux City AAB, IA.
Damaged landing with mechanical failure at Sioux City AAB 26Apr45. 203rd Base Unit (16th Bomber
Operational Training Wing), Jackson AAB, MS 4Jul45. 215th Base Unit, Pueblo AAB, CO 9Sep45.
422nd Base Unit, Tonopah, NV 27Sep45. 215th Base Unit, Pueblo AAB, CO 9Oct45. 240th Base Unit
(Combat Crew Training Station), Sioux City AAB, IA 7Dec45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 20Dec45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped.
' 38166 (MSN 8952) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 3Jan44.
Kingman Field, AZ 18Jan44. 225th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Rapid City Field, SD.
Damaged taxying at Rapid City 3Apr44. 225th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Rapid City Field, SD 1May45. 237th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Kirtland Field,
Albuquerque, NM 9Jul45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 7Nov45
38167 (MSN 8953) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Jan44. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 4Jan44. 242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island
Field, NB 16Jan44. 422th Bomb Squadron [JJ*L], 305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105),
Northamptonshire 22Feb44. 858th Bomb Squadron, 492nd Bomb Group, North Pickenham.
Special operations and electronic countermeasure (ECM) missions. 1st Strategic Air Depot, Troston
(Station 595), Suffolk. Modified as lifeboat carrier for Air-Sea Rescue 25Jun44. Redesignated B-17H.
Harrington (Station 179), Northamptonshire Aug44. 384th Bomb Group, Istres (Station 195), Marseille,
France (Jun-Jul45). Supported the Green Project which was the USAAF solution to expedite the
return of troops to USA. Salvaged 11Oct45.
38168 (MSN 8954) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 4Jan44.
Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 21Jan44. Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field
(Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 2Feb44. 359th Bomb Squadron [BN*M], 303rd Bomb Group,
Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 22Feb44. Named "Dear Mom".
Damaged after landing from a training sortie when the landing gear collapsed 5Apr44.
Salvaged by 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton 22Apr44.
38169 (MSN 8955) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 4Jan44.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 14Jan44. 331st Bomb Squadron [QE*B],
94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk 5Feb44. 410th Bomb Squadron [GL*B].
Failed to return from a mission to industrial areas in the suburbs of Berlin, Germany 4Mar44
(5KIA:4POW:EVD). Because of severe weather in the assembly area, the group diverted to a
target in the Ruhr valley, Germany. Battle damaged, the plane caught fire in the radio compartment
and peeled out of formation. The aircraft went into a spin and crashed in the Calais area, France
MACR 2998.
38170 (MSN 8956) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 3Jan44.
Kingman Field, AZ 14Jan44. 3018th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Kingman Field, AZ 23Mar45.
3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 26Jun45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and
disposal 4Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
38171 (MSN 8957) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 3Jan44.
3501st Base Unit (Technical School & Overseas Replacement Depot), Boca Raton Field, FL 28Nov44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage
and disposal 22Feb46. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
38172 (MSN 8958) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 5Jan44.
3705th Base Unit (Technical School), Lowry Field, Denver, CO. Damaged while parked in collision by
Consolidated AT-22 (C-87 Liberator trainer) 43-30561 at Lowry Field 26Apr44. Materiel Command,
Lockheed Field, Burbank, CA 22Jun44. 3715th Base Unit, Factory School, Lockheed Aircraft Corporation,
Lockheed Field, Burbank, CA 25Jun44. 3701st Base Unit (Technical School), Amarillo Field, TX.
Modified for training, stripped of armor, armament, turrets and bombing equipment; designated TB-17G.
Damaged while parked in collision by TB-17F 42-29678 at Amarillo Field, TX 6Mar45. 3715th Base Unit,
Amarillo Field, TX 31Aug45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman
Field, AZ for storage and disposal 27Nov45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting
Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped.
38173 (MSN 8959) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 5Jan44.
Boca Raton Field, FL 19Jan44. 3501st Base Unit (Technical School & Overseas Replacement Depot),
Boca Raton Field, FL 26Nov45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41,
Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 22Feb46. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
38174 (MSN 8960) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 5Jan44.
22nd Air Base Squadron, Lowry Field, Denver, CO. Substantially damaged taxying at Lowry Field 26Mar44.
3705th Base Unit (Technical School), Lowry Field, Denver, CO 2Sep44. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 31Jan46. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
38175 (MSN 8961) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Jan44.
Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 22Jan44. 418th Bomb Squadron [LD*O/X], 100th Bomb Group,
Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 15Feb44. Battle damaged on a mission to the Rhenania-Ossag
Mineral�lwerke oil refinery at Harburg, Hamburg, Germany 31Dec44. Salvaged 2Jan45
38176 (MSN 8962) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 5Jan44.
242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB 16Jan44. Ferried RCAF Goose Bay,
Labrador to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 6Feb44. 366th Bomb Squadron [KY*W],
305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 16Feb44. Crash landed
at Chelveston 29Feb44. Failed to return from a mission to the Focke-Wulf aircraft factory
near Cottbus, Germany 29May44 (8KIA:2POW). Shot down by enemy fighters, crashed
Baltic Sea, off R�gen, Germany. MACR 5337.
38177 (MSN 8963) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 7Jan44. United Air Lines, Modification
Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY Jan44. 242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit),
Grand Island Field, NB 10Jan44. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Grenier Field
(Station 16), Manchester, NH 24Jan44. Ferried from RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador to Cork, Eire 14/15Feb44.
561st Bomb Squadron [H], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall 14Feb44. Named "Shack Rabbits".
{first combat mission 4Oct43}. Failed to return from a mission to the Robert Bosch electrical
factory at Berlin, Germany 6Mar44 (5KIA:5POW). Approximately fifteen to twenty Fw 190s
were met near D�mmer See en route to the target and were again encountered in the same
area on the return route home. Instead of attacking the assigned target, the formation circled
the outskirts of the city to a textile works on the banks of the Elbe River at Oranienburg.
The Group did not drop its bombs on this target. They instead bombed a target in the residential
area near the marshalling yards and the Heinkel Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory at Wittenberge.
Damaged by flak and fell out of formation on the return flight. Later shot down by enemy fighters
near the German-Dutch Border and crashed in a swamp at Neuringer Wiesen, fourteen miles
north of Nordhorn, Germany. {6 missions}. . MACR 3091.
38178 (MSN 8964) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 6Jan44.
242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB 16Jan44. 334th Bomb Squadron [BG*K],
95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 11Feb44. Named "Ten Aces" Failed to return
from a mission to a ball bearing works at Schweinfurt, Germany 19Jul44 (10POW). No.2 propeller feathered,
shot down by enemy fighters, crashed Vielbrunn, southeast of Darmstadt, Germany. {45 missions}.. MACR 7409.
38179 (MSN 8965) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 6Jan44. Air Depot,
Brookley Field, Mobile, AL 24Jan44. 611th Base Unit, Proving Ground Command, Eglin Field,
Valparaiso, FL 8Jun44. 610th Base Unit (Proving Ground Command), Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 4Sep44.
4119th Base Unit (Mobile Air Technical Service Command), Brookley Field, Mobile, AL 10Nov44.
611th Base Unit, Proving Ground Command, Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 1Apr45. Damaged when
caught fire four miles southwest of Valparaiso, FL 19Apr45. 2137th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Hendricks Field, Sebring, FL 13Aug45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 16Nov45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
38180 (MSN 8966) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 6Jan44.
Albuquerque AAB, NM 8Jan44. 3705th Base Unit (Technical School), Lowry Field, Denver, CO.
Damaged taxying at Lowry Field, Denver, CO 28Jun45. 3705th Base Unit (Technical School), Lowry Field,
Denver, CO 10Sep45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for
storage and disposal 9Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped.
38181 (MSN 8967) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 7Jan44.
569th Flexible Gunnery Training Squadron, Las Vegas Field, NV 12Jan44. Damaged landing with
mechanical failure at Las Vegas Field 10Mar44. 3021st Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Las Vegas
Field, NV 23Mar45. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 22May45.
2114th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 25Jun45.
3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 23Aug45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 4Jan46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
38182 (MSN 8968) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 9Jan44.
Materiel Command, Lockheed Field, Burbank, CA 22Jun44. 3715th Base Unit, Factory School,
Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, Lockheed Field, Burbank, CA 26Jun44. 3701st Base Unit (Technical School),
Amarillo Field, TX 21Oct44. Damaged taxying at Amarillo 19Jan45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 2Jan46. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
38183 (MSN 8969) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 10Jan44. Continental Airlines,
Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 8Jan44. Albuquerque AAB, NM 12Jan44.
525th Bomb Squadron [FR*C/G], 379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 10Feb44
Named "Lost Angel" first combat mission 21Feb44}. Crash landed at Kimbolton 10Apr44.
Battle damaged by flak on a mission to the Braunkohle Benzin A.G. synthetic oil refinery at
Rothensee, Magdeburg, Germany 28Sep44 (8RTD:1POW). Tail gunner bailed out and became POW.
Unable to lower the landing gear, the bomber crash landed on return to Kimbolton.
524th Bomb Squadron [WA*G]. {116 missions}. Declared 'war weary' 19Apr45. Grafton Underwood
(Station 106), Northamptonshire 23Apr45 for modifications. Regained by Group 15May45.
2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton (Station 547), Huntingdonshire 1Jun45. Converted for
trooping, stripped of all armament and turrets, capable of carrying thirty passengers on benches
installed in the waist and bomb bay. 384th Bomb Group, Istres (Station 195), Marseille, France Jun45.
cipated in the Green Project which was the USAAF solution to expedite the return of troops to USA.
lled for the round-the-clock airlift of troops from Istres, France, to Casablanca, French Morocco,
nitial leg of their journey home. From Casablanca, Air Transport Command's aircraft completed
the journey and flew the troops to the United States. A secondary task of the Green Project included
flying French citizens who had been in exile during the war on the return leg from NAS Port Lyautey,
French Morocco to Istres. The Green Project operated from 15Jun45 to 10Sep45. Ninth Air Force.
United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) Aug45. Salvaged 31Oct45
38184 (MSN 8970) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 9Jan44.
Las Vegas Field, NV 17Jan44. 3021st Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Las Vegas Field, NV.
Damaged by fire in #1 hangar at Las Vegas 22May44. 3021st Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School),
Las Vegas Field, NV 16Mar45. 3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine),
Hobbs Field, NM 22Jun45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for
storage and disposal 9Jan46. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment
Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
38185 (MSN 8971) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 9Jan44.
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 4Feb44.
526th Bomb Squadron [LF*J], 379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 22Feb44.
Battle damaged on a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 24Feb44 (1KIA).
On return from a mission 8Jun44, landing gear collapsed halfway down the runway.
Salvaged by 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton 14Jun44
38186 (MSN 8972) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 9Jan44.
Roswell Field, NM 22Jan44. Damaged by mechanical failure in a ground accident at Roswell Field 31Jul44.
3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, VH), Roswell Field, NM 28Dec44. 3010th Base Unit
(Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 20Jan45. 3020th Base Unit
(Pilot School, Advanced, Two Engine), La Junta Field, CO 20Apr45. 2114th Base Unit (Pilot School,
Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 25Jun45. 4152nd Base Unit, Lockbourne AAB,
Columbus, OH 1Oct45. Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and
disposal 8Jan46. War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
38187 (MSN 8973) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 10Jan44. United Air Lines, Modification
Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY Jan44. 242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit),
Grand Island Field, NB 21Jan44. 560th Bomb Squadron [D], 388th Bomb Group, Knettishall 9Feb44.
{first combat mission 10Apr44}. Battle damaged on a mission
to railway facilities around Berlin, Germany 29Apr44. The combat wing was off course heading to
Berlin, attacked by enemy fighters and bombed Magdeburg. Flak over the target was very accurate.
Battle damaged on a mission to a railway marshalling yard at Li�ge, Belgium 25May44. Meagre flak
was encountered crossing the French coast in the Le Tr�port area but very accurate flak at
Poix-de-Picardie, France. Battle damaged on a tactical mission to the railway junction at Ach�res, Paris,
France 2Jun44 (1KIA:2WIA:7RTD). Accurate flak was encountered at the target, killing the radio operator
and wounding the bombardier and a waist gunner. Participated in an Operation Frantic II shuttle
mission to the Braunkohle-Benzin AG synthetic oil refinery at Schwarzheide, Ruhland, Germany 21Jun44.
After the target, the bomber continued east and landed at Poltava (Station 559), Ukraine. Damaged on
the ground by a major German strike force night of 21/22Jun44. {final combat mission 21Jun44}.
{30 missions}. Repaired and returned to England. Returned to US. 4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air
Technical Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 23Mar45. Reclaimed 2May46
38188 (MSN 8974) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 10Jan44.
242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB 23Jan44. 533rd Bomb Squadron [VP*K],
381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 6Apr44. Named "Connie" Failed to return from a
mission to the manufacturing facilities of the Junkers Flugzeug-und Motorenwerke at Dessau,
Germany 30May44 (4KIA:5POW). Enemy aircraft damaged No.2 engine, with the aircraft losing altitude
the crew bailed out, crashed near Koethen airfield, twelve miles southwest of Dessau, Germany.
{21 missions}. . MACR 5234.
38189 (MSN 8975) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 10Jan44. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 10Jan44. Kingman Field, AZ 19Jan44. 2120th Base Unit,
Greenville AAB, SC 4Jul44. 221st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Alexandria Field, LA 7Jul44.
3290th Base Unit, Alexandria Field, LA 1Mar45. 330th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station),
Dyersburg Field, TN 25Jun45. 327th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Drew Field, Tampa, FL 30Aug45.
330th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN 4Sep45. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 14Dec45. War Assets Administration.
Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
38190 (MSN 8976) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 10Jan44.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 20Jan44. 339th Bomb Squadron [QJ*K], 96th Bomb Group,
Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 27Feb44. Named "Ain't Misbehavin'" Failed to return from a
mission to industrial areas in Berlin, Germany 8May44 (9KIA:1POW). Shot down by enemy fighters,
exploded and crashed at Lindhorst, near Celle, Germany. MACR 4568.
38191 (MSN 8977) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 10Jan44.
242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB 28Jan44. 350th Bomb Squadron [LN*W],
100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 2Mar44. Failed to return from a mission to
industrial areas of Berlin, Germany 19May44 (9KIA:1POW). Shot down by Oberleutnant Heinz-Helmut Brandes
of III/JG 11, crashed off R�dbyhavn, Denmark, the injured survivor who had bailed out was rescued by
Danish fishing boat. MACR 4947.
38192 (MSN 8978) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA Jan44. Continental Airlines, Modification
Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 12Jan44. 242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit),
Grand Island Field, NB 28Jan44. 524th Bomb Squadron [WA*C], 379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117),
Huntingdonshire 1Mar44. Named "Coral Princess". {first combat mission 4Mar44}. Failed to return
from a mission to industrial areas of Munich, Germany 12Jul44 (8KIA:1POW). Damaged by flak,
crashed Stubenwasen, Germany. {58 missions}. . MACR 7506.
38193 (MSN 8979) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 11Jan44.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 2Feb44. 338th Bomb Squadron [BX*H],
96th Bomb Group, Snetterton Heath (Station 138), Norfolk 13Mar44. Sustained battle damaged
and crash landed at Honington (Station 375), Suffolk 13Apr44. 1st Strategic Air Depot, Troston
(Station 595), Suffolk. Landing accident at Honington 1May45. Returned to US. 121st Base Unit
(Redeployment Processing), Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 2Jul45. 4168th Base Unit
(Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 13Oct45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage
and disposal 10Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
38194 (MSN 8980) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 11Jan44.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 11Feb44. Damaged in accident
at RCAF Gander, Newfoundland 20Feb44. 533rd Bomb Squadron [VP*V], 381st Bomb Group, Ridgewell.
Named *Baboon McGoon*. Failed to return from Berlin, Germany 21Jun44 (7INT:2POW).
Damaged by enemy fighters, force landed at Rinkaby, southeast of Kristianstad, Sweden. {28 missions}.
MACR 5992. The aircraft was repaired and flown back to UK. Returned to US. 121st Base Unit (Redeployment Processing),
Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 22Aug45. 4185th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command),
Independence Field, KS 30Nov45. Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman
Field, AZ for storage and disposal 14Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting
Company, Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
38195 (MSN 8981) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Jan44.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 26Jan44. 549th Bomb Squadron [XA*R], 385th Bomb Group,
Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 8Feb44. Named "Damn Yankee". Failed to return from a mission to the
industrial area at Augsburg, Germany 16Mar44 (8INT:2POW). From Strasburg, Germany to Augsburg, the
bombers were attacked by Luftwaffe fighters in a running battle. Flak over the target was moderate
and accurate; flak en route was meagre and inaccurate. Shot down by enemy fighters, crew bailed out
and aircraft crashed at Wildhaus, 18 miles south of St Gallen, Switzerland. MACR 3247.
38196 (MSN 8982) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Jan44.
242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB 21Jan44. 550th Bomb Squadron [SG*K],
385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 9Feb44. Failed to return from a mission to the
ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 13Apr44 (10INT). Flak damage plus more damage from
Swiss AA at the border, force landed D�bendorf, Z�rich, Switzerland. MACR 3772.
38197 (MSN 8983) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Jan44.
242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB 27Jan44. 350th Bomb Squadron [LN*T],
100th Bomb Group, Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk 10Feb44. Named "Half And Half".
Failed to return from a mission to Kleinmachnow, Berlin, Germany 6Mar44 (1KIA:9POW).
Shot down during attack by fighters near Hasel�nne. Two gun turrets and oxygen system were
damaged and the bomber was on fire. It exploded and crashed at Halter, three miles west of Visbek,
seven miles southwest of Wildeshausen, Germany. MACR 3028.
38198 (MSN 8984) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 14Jan44. United Air Lines, Modification
Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Jan44. Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney
Field, NB 25Jan44. 369th Bomb Squadron [WW*D]. 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111),
Bedfordshire 6Apr44. Seriously battle damaged during a mission to railway marshalling yards
at Saarbr�cken, Germany 11May44 (1WIA:9RTD). 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton (Station 547),
Huntingdonshire 27Nov44. Regained by Group 2Dec44. 92nd Bomb Group, Podington (Station 109),
Bedfordshire 9May45. Base Air Depot No.1, Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire. Salvaged 9May45
38199 (MSN 8985) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Jan44.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 24Jan44. 548th Bomb Squadron [GX*P],
385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 8Feb44, Named 'Hairs Breath'
Failed to return from a mission to the Rhenania-Ossag Mineral�lwerke oil refinery at Harburg,
Hamburg, Germany 4Aug44 (9POW). Damaged by flak and shot down by enemy fighters, crashed
Midlam, Germany. MACR 7743.
38200 MSN 8986) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 15Jan44.
242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB 20Jan44. 551st Bomb Squadron [HR*R],
385th Bomb Group, Great Ashfield (Station 155), Suffolk 27Feb44. Failed to return from a mission to the
railway marshalling yards at Hamm, Germany 22Apr44 (10POW). Shot down by a Fw 190 and flak which
had punched a hole in the wing behind No.3 engine, crashed Hilbeck, two miles north of Werl, Germany.
MACR 4167. MISS CHEYENNE. The crew had been recently assigned to a new aircraft and were
debating names. The pilot had wanted 'Miss Cheyenne' because he and his wife had been school
sweethearts in Cheyenne, WY. The aircraft was shot down before it could be christened with this name
38201 (MSN 8987) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 13Jan44.
483rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, FL Feb44. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 4Mar44. 15th Ferrying Group,
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL.
Ferried South Atlantic route Waller Field, Trinidad: Bel�m, Brasil: Natal, Brasil: Dakar, Senegal; Menara
Airport, Marrakech, French Morocco: Tunisia. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 815th Bomb Squadron,
483rd Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 30Mar44. {nil missions}. 346th Bomb Squadron,
99th Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 31Mar44. {first combat mission 2Apr44}.
Battle damaged on a mission to the Wiener Neust�dter Flugzeugwerke factory at Wiener Neust�dt,
Vienna, Austria 23Apr44 (10RTD). During the bomb run, a flak burst severed the aileron control cables.
After the target, the plane eased into a shallow diving left turn and then enemy fighters started to attack.
20mm cannon shells were stitching a pattern across the right wing. More 20mm cannon shells had ripped
into the leading edge of the vertical stabiliser, creating a large hole. During the approach to land back
at base, when the landing gear was lowered the left tire was noted ripped to shreds and the wing flaps
were not working. The pilot was able to land safely and let the bomber run off the side of the runway to stop.
When returned to its parking dispersal, a machine gun bullet was found embedded in a blade of the
No.2 propeller and the crew chief counted more than 1,100 holes caused by flak shrapnel and
cannon shells but none of the crew had been injured. Named 2ND PATCHES artwork of shark's mouth on
chin turret. Named and painted after the mission to Wiener Neust�dt 23Apr44. Having originally been
painted in olive drab, the replacement right outer wing panel, flaps, rear entry door, rudder and vertical
stabiliser remained in natural aluminium. Participated in the first Operation Frantic shuttle mission to the
railway marshalling yards at Debrecen, Hungary 2Jun44. After the target, the bomber continued east and
landed at a Russian airfield near Poltava (Station 559), Ukraine. Operated a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield
at Gala?i, Rumania 6Jun44, returning to Poltava. Returned to base in Italy on a mission to a Luftwaffe
airfield at Foc?ani, Rumania 11Jun44. 347th Bomb Squadron. Crashed on takeoff for a mission to the
Luftwaffe airfield at Pardubice, Czechoslovakia 24Aug44 (2KIA). The aircraft skidded on the runway PSP
into a railway embankment and broke up. {41 missions}. Salvaged.
38202 (MSN 8988) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 15Jan44.
242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB 21Jan44. 729th Bomb Squadron [Q],
452nd Bomb Group, Deopham Green (Station 142), Norfolk 10Feb44. Named "BTO In The ETO". Failed to return
from an Operation Frantic II shuttle mission to the Braunkohle-Benzin AG synthetic oil refinery at Schwarzheide,
Ruhland, Germany 21Jun44 (7EVD:3POW). Heading for a Russian airfield in Ukraine after the target, the
formation was under attack by German fighters about 12km west of Bia?a Podlaska, Poland. Damaging the
left wing, later No.2 engine caught fire then No.3 engine was disabled by cannon fire. After the pilot gave the
order to bail out, the bomber blew up and crashed at Swory, northwest of Bia?a Podlaska, Poland.
MACR 10282.
38203 (MSN 8989) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 14Jan44.
242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB 19Jan44. HQ Squadron,
9th Heavy Bomb Processing Group, Grand Island Field, NB. Crash landed Grand Island Field 25Feb44 (9KIS).
The aircraft was part of a large group that were preparing to depart for overseas combat. In the early
morning hours the crew made a successful takeoff, but failed to begin flying by instruments.
Preoccupation in the cockpit caused the bomber to crash land into the ground where it skidded along
until striking a berm. The impact with the berm caused the plane to explode. Nine of the crew were killed
during the impact or the resulting fire. The pilot survived with only minor injuries. Salvaged 26Feb44
38204 (MSN 8990) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 14Jan44.
242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB 31Jan44. 358th Bomb Squadron [VK*H],
303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 29Feb44. 360th Bomb Squadron [PU*H].
Failed to return from a mission to the Dornier Flugzeugwerke factory at Oberpfaffenhofen, Munich,
Germany 24Apr44 (10INT). Enemy aircraft and flak damaged No.3 engine, crash landed Cointrin airfield,
Geneva, Switzerland. {19 missions}. Repaired and used by Swiss Air Force for familiarisation flights.
Ferry flight from Cointrin to D�bendorf, Zurich 13Jul45. Salvaged Switzerland.MACR 4271.
38205 (MSN 8991) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Jan44.
483rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, FL. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 4Mar44. 15th Ferrying Group,
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL.
Ferried South Atlantic route Waller Field, Trinidad: Bel�m, Brasil: Natal, Brasil: Dakar, Senegal;
Menara Airport, Marrakech, French Morocco: Tunisia. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 816th Bomb Squadron,
483rd Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 30Mar44. {nil missions}. 49th Bomb Squadron,
2nd Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 31Mar44. {first combat mission 2Apr44}.
429th Bomb Squadron 16Apr44. Named "Winged Fury". Participated in the first Operation Frantic
shuttle mission to the railway marshalling yards at Debrecen, Hungary 2Jun44. After the target, the bomber
continued east and landed at Mirgorod (Station 561), Ukraine. Operated a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield
at Gala?i, Rumania 6Jun44, returning to Mirgorod. Returned to base in Italy on a mission to a Luftwaffe
airfield at Foc?ani, Rumania 11Jun44. 49th Bomb Squadron 22Jun44. Failed to return from a mission
to the oil refinery at Winterhafen, Vienna, Austria 16Jul44 (3KIA:7POW). Immediately after dropping
bombs on the target, flak struck the nose and cockpit, probably killing the pilot. A second burst started
a fire in the bomb bay. The right wing was on fire and the No.3 engine cowling blown off. The plane
went into a dive and slow spin when the navigator was knocked unconciuos and the bombardier was
knocked off his seat. When the plane stabilised the crew bailed out. Exploded and crashed near G�tzendorf,
Austria. {50 missions}. MACR 6906
38206 (MSN 8992) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Jan44.
242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB 26Jan44. Ferried from
RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador to RAF Ballykelly, Northern Ireland 14/15Feb44. 364th Bomb Squadron [WF*K],
305th Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 1Mar44;
Named "Thundermug" artwork of a steaming drinks mug with lightning strikes,� Failed to return
from a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical and synthetic oil works at Leuna, Merseburg, Germany 12Dec44.
Force landed on the continent.
38207 (MSN 8993) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Jan44.
483rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, FL 6Feb44. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 4Mar44. 15th Ferrying Group,
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL.
Ferried South Atlantic route Waller Field, Trinidad: Bel�m, Brasil: Natal, Brasil: Dakar, Senegal;
Menara Airport, Marrakech, French Morocco: Tunisia. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 815th Bomb Squadron,
483rd Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 30Mar44. {nil missions}. 346th Bomb Squadron,
99th Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 31Mar44. {first combat mission 5Apr44}.
Failed to return from a mission to railway marshalling yards at Ploe?ti, Rumania 5Apr44. Damaged by flak,
crashed at Caracal, Rumania. {1 mission}. MACR 3695.
38208 (MSN 8994) Accepted by USAAF at Long Beach Field, CA 13Jan44. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 16Jan44. 242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island
Field, NB 6Feb44. 331st Bomb Squadron [QE*X], 94th Bomb Group, Rougham (Station 468), Bury St Edmunds,
Suffolk 10Feb44. Named "Georgia's Peaches"
Transferred to 547th Bomb Squadron [SO*A], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106),
Northamptonshire 1Mar44; Named "Lilly Belle". {first combat mission 4Mar44}. Battle
damaged during a mission to Delitzsch airfield and Luftwaffe air equipment depot near Leipzig, Germany 16Aug44 (1KIA).
Force landed at Thorpe Abbotts (Station 139), Norfolk on return. Major battle damage on a mission to railway
marshalling yards at Cologne, Germany 28Jan45. Eighth Air Force Service Command Jan45. Salvaged 1Feb45.
Repaired and regained by Group Mar45. 547th Bomb Squadron [SO*R] Mar45. Flew on the final Eighth Air Force
combat mission of the war to the Vkoda armament works and airfield at Pilsen, Czechoslovakia 25Apr45.
The plane suffered major battle damage on that final mission. {99 missions}.
Transferred to 398BG Nuthampsted May 27, 1945;
To RAF Valley for Return to USA 1407th Base Unit, European Wing, Air Transport
Command, Valley (Station 568), Anglesey, Wales. Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 7Jun45.
4168th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 21Oct45.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and
disposal 1Dec45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Wunderlich Contracting Company,
Jefferson City, MO Jul46; scrapped
38209 (MSN 8995) United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 16Jan44.
483rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, FL 4Feb44. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 4Mar44. 15th Ferrying Group,
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL.
Ferried South Atlantic route Waller Field, Trinidad: Bel�m, Brasil: Natal, Brasil: Dakar, Senegal;
Menara Airport, Marrakech, French Morocco: Tunisia. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 817th Bomb Squadron,
483rd Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 30Mar44.
Named "Earthquake McGoon" [[the CO of 817BS adopted Li'l Abner characters for the Squadron insignia)
{nil missions}. Transferred to 347th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 31Mar44.
Named "Earthquake McGoon" [[the CO of 817BS adopted Li'l Abner characters for the Squadron insignia)
Participated in the first Operation Frantic shuttle mission to the railway marshalling yards at Debrecen,
Hungary 2Jun44. After the target, the bomber continued east and landed at a Russian airfield near Poltava (Station 559),
Ukraine. Operated a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Gala?i, Rumania 6Jun44, returning to Poltava. Returned to base
in Italy on a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Foc?ani, Rumania 11Jun44. Air Depot 5Dec44. {58 missions}.
Returned to US. 4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 1Aug45.
Reclaimed 2May46.
38210 (MSN 8996) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 16Jan44. 483rd Bomb Group,
MacDill Field, FL 6Feb44. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 4Mar44. 15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Wing, Air Transport
Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL. Ferried South Atlantic route Waller Field, Trinidad:
Bel�m, Brasil: Natal, Brasil: Dakar, Senegal; Menara Airport, Marrakech, French Morocco: Tunisia. Fifteenth Air
Force, Italy. 840th Bomb Squadron, 483rd Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 30Mar44. {nil missions}.
Transferred to 346th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 31Mar44.
{first combat mission 2Apr44}. Failed to return from mission to the Wiener Neust�dter Flugzeugwerke factory at
Fischamend Markt, Vienna, Austria 12Apr44 (7KIA:4POW). The aircraft was struck by flak which knocked it out of
formation. The nose and central fuselage area were in flames. More hits followed. No.1 engine was on fire burning
the left wing. The pilot tried to keep the aircraft, which was constantly tipping over, stable so that the crew could
bail out but he could no longer save himself. The burning plane quickly nose dived, lost one wing, and exploded
in mid-air. Crashed Zw�lfaxing, southeast of Vienna, Austria. {6 missions. MACR 3955
38211 ((MSN 8997) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 16Jan44.
North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME Jan44. 731st Bomb Squadron [M],
452nd Bomb Group, Deopham Green (Station 142), Norfolk 9Feb44. Named "Sleepy Time Gal"
Failed to return from a mission to the Vereinigte Kugellagerfabriken AG (VKF) ball bearing factory at
Erkner, Berlin, Germany 8Mar44 (2KIA:8POW). All the way from the Netherlands to Berlin, the bombers
were hounded by Luftwaffe fighters. Attacked by enemy fighters setting fire to No.2 engine, the bomber,
still with its bomb load, was losing altitude. Another enemy fighter attack set fire to No.3 engine.
When a fire started in the nose and bomb bay the pilot ordered the crew to bail out, then crash
landed the plane in a marsh at Nienburg, 25km northwest of Wunstorf, Germany. Claimed by
Heinz Knoke flying in a Bf 109. MACR 3193.
38212 (MSN 8998) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 17Jan44.
483rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, FL. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 4Mar44. 15th Ferrying Group,
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL.
Ferried South Atlantic route Waller Field, Trinidad: Bel�m, Brasil: Natal, Brasil: Dakar, Senegal;
Menara Airport, Marrakech, French Morocco: Tunisia. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 817th Bomb Squadron,
483rd Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy Mar44. {nil missions}.
Transferred to 429th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy Mar44.
{first combat mission 29Mar44}. 49th Bomb Squadron Jun44. Battle damaged on a mission to the
Luftwaffe airfield at Pardubice, Czechoslovakia 24Aug44 (2WIA:8RTD). Three enemy Fw 190 fighters
attacked as it made a second run over the target, wounding the bombardier and tail gunner.
Temporarily modified with decking in the bomb bay to evacuate prisoners of war from Popesti,
Bucharest, Rumania to Bari, Italy during Operation Reunion 31Aug44-3Sep44. {82 missions}.
Salvaged 1Oct46.
38213 (MSN 8999) Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 17Jan44.
483rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, FL 6Feb44. Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 4Mar44. 15th Ferrying Group,
Caribbean Wing, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL.
Ferried South Atlantic route Waller Field, Trinidad: Bel�m, Brasil: Natal, Brasil: Dakar, Senegal;
Menara Airport, Marrakech, French Morocco: Tunisia. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy. 815th Bomb Squadron,
483rd Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 30Mar44. {nil missions}. 20th Bomb Squadron,
2nd Bomb Group, Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 31Mar44. {first combat mission 7Apr44}. Participated in the
first Operation Frantic shuttle mission to the railway marshalling yards at Debrecen, Hungary 2Jun44.
After the target, the bomber continued east and landed at Mirgorod (Station 561), Ukraine. Operated a
mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Gala?i, Rumania 6Jun44, returning to Mirgorod. Returned to base in
Italy on a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Foc?ani, Rumania 11Jun44. Failed to return from a mission
to a synthetic oil refinery at Blechhammer, Prussia 7Jul44 (10KIA). Struck by flak which blew off the nose
back to the cockpit. The plane stalled then dropped straight down and crashed near Friedernau, Austria.
{38 missions}.. MACR 6519.
42-38214/38215 Grumman OA-13A Goose
Civilian G-21As taken over by USAAF.
Used by Pan American Airways to support the South Atlantic ferry route in Africa and the Middle East
38214 (MSN 1058) ex NC3021. Impressed Nov 29, 1941. w/o in landing accident at Monrovia, Liberia
Sep 14, 1944 while in Pan American service.
38215 (MSN 1006) was ex NC16915, impressed Mar 1942. W/o in 1944.
42-38216/38223 Grumman OA-14
Commercial G-44 Widgeons impressed into USAAF.
38216 (MSN 1207) was ex NC28668 impressed Mar 14, 1942. Broken up in 1944
38217 (MSN 1218) was ex-NC28679 impressed May 20, 1942. To RFC May 5, 1945. Returned to civil registry as N58337 in 1945,
then N3103Q in 1966. Registered G-DUCK Nov 15, 1988 and for some time on rebuild at Ipswich, England.
Moved incomplete to France October 1992 and British registration cancelled
Mar 24, 1993. Reported 2005 preserved at Musee de l'Hydraviation de Biscarosse.
38218 (MSN 1202) was ex NC28644 impressed Jul 6, 1942. W/o Sep 11, 1944 at American Falls Reservoir, ID
38219 (MSN 1230) was ex-NC1700 impressed Mar 14, 1942. To RFC Apr 3, 1945. Returned to civil registry as N54096 in 1945.
To VO-ABU Nov 17, 1948, to CP-GPJ May 12, 1949, to N501M Apr 2, 1968, to N5AS Jun 18, 1974, to N1AS
Aug 11, 1974. Current 2014
38220 (MSN 1234) was ex-NC1920 impressed Mar 14, 1942. W/o Feb 27, 1944 at Lake Butler, FL. WFU Jul 1944.
38221 (MSN 1232) was ex-NC37182 impressed May 9, 1942. To RFC Aug 17, 1945. Returned to civil registry as N37182
Aug 23, 1945. Was registered to Woods Air fuel, registration expired Dec 31, 2011
38222 (MSN 1238) was ex NC37188 impressed Mar 14, 1942. Crashed Mar 25, 1942 at Fort Washington, MD
38223 (MSN 1206) was ex NC28667 impressed Apr 11, 1942. To RFC Aug 18, 1945. Returned to civil registry as N52742
Sep 11, 1945, N160W May 11, 1961, N7GZ Aug 16, 1985. To N6647K Jan 17, 1991. Current 2014
42-38224/38225 Cancelled contract for Lockheed C-40D
42-38226/38231 Beech UC-43A Traveller
Civilian Model D-17R impressed by USAAF.
38226 MSN 214 was NC18789 impressed Mar 14, 1942. Wfu 19 Oct 1945 at RFC
38227 MSN 215 was NC18790 impressed Apr 16, 1942. Crashed aty McClellan, California Mar 27, 1943
38228 MSN 313 was NC20776 impressed Mar 31, 1942. W/o 14 Sep 1942 at March Field, CA
38229 MSN 289 was NC20752 impressed Mar 31, 1942; wfu 12 Oct 1944 at RFC; to NC47939 in 1946;
to N47D on 30 Jan 1956; current 2014
38230 MSN 405 was NC21919 impressed May 9, 1942. WFU Oct 12, 1944 at RFC.
Returned to civil registry as NC48973 in 1946. Crashed Nov 8, 1947 at Campbell, CA
38231 MSN 167 was NC18565 impressed Mar 1942. To NC46292 in 1946, to N35E in 1963. Current 2014.
42-38232/38236 Beech UC-43B Traveller
Civilian Model D-17S impressed by USAAF.
38232 MSN 146 was NC18027 impressed Mar 26, 1942. To NC71 in 1946, to N67769 in 1967. Current 2014
38233 MSN 396 was NC129M impressed Mar 14, 1942. W/o Mar 15, 1943 at Agra, India
38234 MSN 199 was NC18776 impressed Mar 14, 1942. To NC126 in 1946, NC6, NC65297 Jun 7, 1946.
Crashed after takeoff Jun 20, 1976 from Amerillo, Texas when an aileron cable clamp disconnected.
38235 MSN 186 was NC18582 impressed Apr 27, 1942. Wfu 15 Dec 1945 at RFC; to NC41679 on 15 Dec 1945
38236 MSN 416 was NC1244 impressed Mar 14, 1942. W/o 12 Mar 1943 at Old Biggs Field, TX
42-38237/38241 Beech UC-43C Traveller
Civilian Model F-17Ds impressed by USAAF.
38237 MSN 391 was NC21921May 9, 1942. WFU Nov 14, 1942
38238 MSN 333 was NC20798 impressed Mar 14, 1942. Wfu 30 Sep 1944; to NC20798 again on 30 Jun 1956;
Displayed at Tullahoma, TN
38239 MSN 275 was NC20789 impressed May 16, 1942. ; wfu 5 Nov 1944 at RFC; to N53754; to N115A in 1971;
current 2014
38240 MSN 394 was NC20786 impressed 14 Mar 1942; wfu 21 Feb 1945 at RFC; to NC46492 in 1946;
w/o 1950s at Three Rivers, MI
38241 MSN 310 was NC20772 impressed 26 May 1942; wfu 23 Nov 1944 at RFC; to NC50587 in 1945
42-38242 Beechcraft UC-43C-BH Traveller
Reserved for impressment, not used
42-38243/38244 Beech UC-43C Traveller
Civilian Model F-17Ds impressed by USAAF.
38243 MSN 393 was NC21922 impressed May 20, 1942. WFU Jan 30, 1943
38244 MSN 312 was NC20774 impressed Mar 31, 1942. Accident Mar 11, 1942 March Field, CA
42-38245 Beech UC-43A Traveller
Civilian Model D-17R MSN 278 NC20792 and NC203W impressed by USAAF May 1, 1942.
Accident May 17, 1942 on ground at Palm Springs, CA in collision with Lockheed Ventura AF 875
42-38246/38248 Beech UC-43C Traveller
Civilian Model F-17Ds impressed by USAAF.
38246 MSN 242 was NC19454 impressed Mar 14, 1942. Wfu 6 Dec 1944 at RFC; to NC57828 in 1946
38247 MSN 390 was NC1244 and NC303W impressed 31 Mar 1942; wfu 14 Nov 1944 at RFC;
to NC48034 on 9 Sep 1946; wfu 2 Feb 1951
38248 MSN 276 was NC20790 impressed Mar 31, 1942. WFU Nov 20, 1943
42-38249 Beech UC-43C-BH
Reserved for impressment, not used
42-38250/38251 Douglas C-49H
DC-3-277D bought from American Airlines by US Government Jul 09, 1941 and operated by
PAA-Africa Oct 1941.
38250 MSN 4116. NC33653 with American Airlines May 5, 1941. 42-38250 issued Mar 14, 1942 but NTU - Aircraft delivered
to RAF (India) May 01, 1942 - 117 Sqdn May 07, 1942 and 31 Sqdn, Lahore
May 27, 1942 (with US registration). Serialed MA925 Sep 19, 1942 for RAF AHQ
India Comm. Flight, New Delhi. To civil registry as VT-ATB (Indian National
Airlines, registered Apr 11, 1945 but operated since 1943). To Government of India
1952, wfu Apr 06, 1953.
38251 DC-3-277D MSN 4118 to American Airlines May 5, 1941. To USAAF Jul 9, 1941- Aircraft delivered to RAF (India)
Mar 04, 1942 - 31 Sqdn Aug 09, 1942 - Civil registration G-AGEN expected for BOAC Jul 1942,
NTU, serialed MA943 Sep 25, 1942 - 194 Sqdn Apr 29, 1943. To the Government of India as
VT-ARI, leased to Indian National Airlines, then Air India and wfu May 26, 1954.
42-38252 Douglas C-49G
DC-3-201 MSN 1915 ex Eastern Air Lines NC16094 impressed by USAAF. Operated by PAA-Africa
Oct 1941, alloted serial 42-38252 Apr 13, 1942, NTU. Aircraft delivered to RAF (India) as LR231
Apr 01, 1942. Operated by 117 Sqdn Apr 15, 1942 and 31 Sqdn (with registration NC16094)
later that month. Known on RAF books as LR231 but probably NTU. Bombed by Japanese at
Mytikyina, Burma May 06, 1942.
42-38253/38254 Douglas C-49H
Impressed aircraft for Lend-Lease
38253 DC-3-313D MSN 4130 ex NC33675 Pennsylvania Central Airlines. Was operated by PAA-Africa
Oct 1941. Serial 42-38253 given Mar 14, 1942 for administrative purpose only and NTU.
Aircraft delivered to RAF (India) Mar 04, 1942. Operated by 31 Sqdn, crashed Allahabad,
India Nov 04, 1942. Repairs abandoned and aircraft SOC. British serial LR232 most probably ntu.
38254 DC-3-228 MSN 1993 ex NC18117 Pan American Airways) was operated by
PAA Africa Oct 1941. Serialed Mar 14, 1942 and crashed Apr 19, 1942, Freetown, Sierra Leone
42-38255 Douglas C-49G
DC-3-201 MSN 1949 to NC16082 with Eastern Air Lines May 12, 1937. Operated by PAA-Africa Oct 1941. Serial 42-38255
given Mar 14, 1942 for administrative purpose, but NTU. Aircraft delivered to RAF (India)
Apr 01, 1942. To 31 Sqdn Apr 1942 and 194 Sqdn Apr 29, 1943 as LR235. Crashed
Tezpur, India, 1943 and SOC Sep 4, 1943
42-38256 Douglas C-49D
DC-3B-202 MSN 1923 ex-TWA NC17313. Operated by PAA-Africa Oct 1941. Serial given for
administrative purpose Mar 14, 1942 but NTU. Aircraft delivered to RAF (India) Apr 01, 1942.
To 31 Sqdn but SOC Dinjan Oct 25, 1942. British serial LR233 probably NTU.
42-38257 Douglas C-49H
Ex Canadian Colonial Airlines DC-3-270 MSN 2126 NC21750. Operated by PAA-Africa Oct 1941, DBF
Khartoum, Sudan Mar 10, 1942. Alloted serial 42-38257 for administrative purpose Mar 14, 1942.
42-38258/38260 Douglas C-48C
Commercial airliners commandeered by USAAF.
38258 DC-3A-269C MSN 3276 ex Northwest Air Lines NC25623 to USAAF Jul 12, 1941.
Transferred to PAA Africa Oct 1941 and serialed Mar 14, 1942 only, after
transfer to UK Mar 4, 1942. No further report.
38259 DST-A-207D MSN 4114 ex United Air Lines NC33642. To USAAF as C-52S
33642 Jun 10 1941. Operated by PAA Africa then RAF 267 Sqdn Mar 4, 1942.
Changed to C-48C serial 42-38259 Mar 14, 1942, probably NTU. Africa and
Middle East May 29, 1943. North Africa Wing ATC (still 33642). Operated by United
Oct 3, 1943. Pacific Wing ATC Aug 30, 1944. To civil registry as NC33642 (United
*Allentown* Nov 20, 1944. Plains Airways Apr 1, 1949, Fram Corp, Providence, RI
Dec 1953), N22MA (Manhattan Airlines, Syracuse, NY 1975, operated for Air Commuter
Express since 1974. Leased Oct 18, 1977 to Airgo Air
Freight and from Jun 4, 1979 leased to Bo-S-Aire airlines
38260 MSN 3275 Swiftlite NC1000, later NC41831. Flew as C-52 42-6505 from 3/42 to 9/43.
I have a reference which indicates that this serial number 42-38260 did not actually get used.
42-38261 Lockheed C-56A Lodestar
Civilian Model 18-07 (MSN 1957) NC17395 impressed by USAAF Mar 14, 1942. WFU Jun 15, 1943
42-38262/38263 Lockheed C-56B Lodestar
Civilian Model 18-40 impressed by USAAF.
38262 (MSN 18-2084) returned to Lockheed, quoted as NC18818 delivered Apr 7, 1941 to Pacific Alaska Airways but NTU.
To CF-BTY with Yukon Southern Airways. Impressed Mar 14, 1942 by USAAF and modified to C-56B.
Went to BOAC as G-AGEI Sul 24, 1942 before being flown by Norwegian crews on services to Sweden. Registration
cancelled Jul 9, 1945 on sale to Norwegian AF as 2084/T-AB, being used as transport by
Norwegian royal family. Became OH-VKO Feb 27, 1951 and SE-BZK Mar 18, 1953. Swedish certificate of
airworthiness expired Jul 13, 1962, after which aircraft was scrapped. Cancelled Mar 29, 1966.
38263 (MSN 18-2085) NC18822, to Yukon Southern Airways as CF-BTZ Apr 16, 1941. impressed by USAAF Sep 1941
and modifed to C-56B Mar 14, 1942. quodes as lend-lease to Norwegian government Jun 12, 1942.
To G-AGEJ Jul 10, 1942. Unlikely that it was at Little Norway in Canada. W/o Sep 4, 1943 over North Sea
42-38264 Howard UC-70 Nightingale
Civilian DGA-15P MSN 504 NC22403 commandeered by USAAF, was registered to Defense Supplies Corp Mar 10, 1942,
cancelled Sep 10, 1942.
42-38265/38269 Spartan C-71
Model 7W Executives commandeered for USAAF.
38265 (MSN 7W-12). Rolled out of factory Nov 15, 1937. Registered and owned by Spartan Aircraft Company,
Tulsa, OK, as NC17613.
7/26/38: American Manufacturing Company, Ft. Worth, TX.
12/30/40: Reed Pigman, Ft. Worth, TX. Impresssed Feb 6, 1942.
To USAAF Mar 16, 1942 and used as staff transport, returned to Reed Pigman Jul 6, 1944.
9/16/49: South Bend Tool and Die Company, South Bend, IN.
4/10/54: J. Curtiss McKinney, Titusville, PA.
4/4/55: Industrial Colloids Company, Emlenton, PA.
12/5/57: Betty L. Plackard, Alexandria, IN.
6/4/58: J. E. Miller Drilling Company, Abilene, TX.
10/11/60: Jack Adams Aircraft Sales, Walls, MS.
11/19/60: James W. Phillips, Hackensack, NJ.
4/1/64: John L. Boyce, Flanders, NJ.
11/11/78: Lowell Blosso, Zionsville, IN.
1/29/82: MarJon Realty (Peter Hawks, son of movie producer Howard Hawks), San Carlos, CA.
9/23/89: Stanley P. Kavrik, Tucson, AZ.
4/10/00: John T. Venaleck, Painesville, OH.
7/6/00: Crashed at Ashtubula County Airport, Jefferson, OH, suffering substantial damage.
Still on registry in 2001 registered to John Venaleck of Painesville, OH as N17613.
8/14/12: Sterling Aviation, Lexington, KY.
38266 was N17657 MSN 7W-26. Manufactured 2Nov39. Registered 28Nov39 as NC17657 to Register & Tribune Co,
Des Moines, IA; 'Good News VII'. Defense Supply Corp, Washington, DC 17Jan42. War Department, Washington, DC.
Delivered to USAAF at Romulus Field, Wayne County, Detroit, MI 16Mar42; designated UC-71. 3rd Ferrying Group.
1st Staff Squadron, Bolling Field, Washington, DC 9May42. Damaged in collision with Cessna C-78 Bobcat 42-58142
when taxying at Bolling Field 19Oct42. Miller Field, Winston-Salem, NC 21Oct42. 4th Ferrying Group, Memphis
Municipal Airport, TN 31Oct42. Charleston AAB, SC 13Nov42. Brookley Field, Mobile, AL. Fairmont, MN 14Jun44.
Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 19Aug44. Dalhart Field, TX. Reconstruction Finance Corporation 31Jan45.
Registered 31Jan45 as NC17657 to Register & Tribune Co, Des Moines, IA. Reregistered 18Jul50 as N46481 to
Hollywood Studios Inc, Atlanta, GA. Registered 26Jun64 as YV-T-VTC; cancelled 28Jan69 on export to USA.
Registered Apr69 as N5053; current [Sep20].
38267 was NC17631 MSN 7W-18. Originally sold to E. K. Warren of Indiana, resold
to Bernard Baruch of N. Y. Manufactured 22Mar39. Registered 31Mar39 as NC17631.
Defense Supply Corp, Washington, DC 5Mar42. War Department, Washington, DC. Delivered to USAAF at
Bolling Field, Washington, DC 14Mar42; designated UC-71. Lindley Field, Greensboro, NC 24Mar42.
Bolling Field, Washington, DC 15May42. Roosevelt Field, Mineola, Long Island, NY 21Sep42. Mitchel Field,
Long Island, NY 23Sep42. Substantially damaged landing at Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 14Dec42.
2nd Ferrying Group, New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE Jun43. Fairfield Air Depot, Patterson Field,
Dayton, OH 28Jul43. Brookley Field, Mobile, AL 14Feb44. Air Materiel Command, Robins Field, Warner
Robins, GA 4Mar44. Fairfield Air Depot, Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 4Apr44. Reconstruction Finance
Corporation Dec44. Registered 12Dec44 as NC4444 to Belmont Radio Corp, Chicago, IL. Reregistered 2Jun50
as N4444 to Instrument Flight Academy, Reno, NV. Ground looped and landing gear collapsed landing at
Reno Municipal Airport, NV 1Apr72. Reregistered 28Jun73 as N3LL. Reregistered 12Apr75 as N4444; expired 30Jun20.
38268 was NC17655 MSN 7W-24. Manufactured 24Aug39. Registered 26Aug39 as NC17655 to Spartan
Aircraft Company, Tulsa, OK. Flown in the 1939 National Air Races at Cleveland, Ohio. Delivered to
Thomson Equipment Corp, Jamaica, NY 7Oct39. Defense Supply Corp, Washington, DC 6May42.
War Department, Washington, DC. Delivered to USAAF at Buffalo Municipal Airport, NY 9May42;
designated UC-71. Fort Dix, Trenton, NJ 12May42. Orlando AAB, FL 1942. Fort Dix, Trenton, NJ 19Nov42.
3rd Service Squadron, 91st Service Group, Orlando AAB, FL 30Dec42. Force landed after engine failure
at Barberville, FL 28Feb43. Leesburg Field, VA 14Mar43. Orlando AAB, FL 15Apr43. Class 26 ground
instructional airframe 27May43. Greenville, SC 14Jul43. SOC 1Jul44. Registered 24May44 as NC17655
to Frontier Fuel & Oil Corp, Buffalo, NY. 21 Feb 1951 Vest Aircraft & Finance Co, Denver, CO 21Feb51.
Crashed at Casper, WY 11Apr52. Registration cancelled 16Sep52..
38269 ws NC17614 MSN 7W-13. Manufactured Nov37. Registered 14Nov37 as NC17614 to Spartan Aircraft
Company, Tulsa, OK. Delivered to Standard Oil Co, Cleveland, OH 10Oct38. Returned to Spartan Aircraft
Company, Tulsa, OK 4Mar40. Defense Supply Corp, Washington, DC 12Apr42. War Department, Washington, DC.
Delivered to USAAF at Berry Field, Nashville, TN 13Apr42; designated UC-71. 4th Ferrying Group. Bolling Field,
Washington, DC 29Apr42. 2nd Ferrying Group, New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 17Jun42. Bolling Field,
Washington, DC 2Jul42. Fairfield Air Depot, Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 6Aug42. Fairfield-Suisun Army Air
Base, CA 31Dec42. Miller Field, Winston-Salem, NC 29May43. Fairfield Air Depot, Patterson Field,
Dayton, OH 20Jul43. Reconstruction Finance Corporation. Registered 18Oct44 as NC17614 to Packard
Motor Company, Detroit, MI. Reregistered 19Feb73 as N13PH. Substantially damaged when the airplane
ground looped and the landing gear collapsed at Shaw AFB, Sumter, SC 25Apr87. The pilot reported that the
airplane began to turn to the left after landing when the tail wheel touched down; subsequent efforts to
counteract the turn were not successful. The airplane ran off the side of the runway and hit a depression
in the terrain, collapsing the main landing gear. The wind at the time was reportedly calm. Registration current [Sep20]
42-38270/38273 Waco UC-72
Civilian Model SREs impressed by USAAF.
38270 ex ???
38271 (MSN 5086) was NC20961. To CAA as N571
38272 (MSN 5096) was NC20969 impressed Mar 1942. WFU Mar 8, 1945
38273 (MSN 5082) ex NC20960
42-38274/38275 Boeing C-73
Civilian Model 247 impressed by USAAF.
38274 (MSN 1730) originally to Pacific Air Transport as NC13348
Jul 27, 1933. To United Airlines as NC13348 May 1, 1934.
To Pennsylvania Central Airlines as NC13348 Jan 20, 1937.
Impressed by USAAF Mar 14, 1942. w/o 24 Aug 1943 at Love Field, TX; WFU Oct 1944.
38275 (MSN 1733) originally to Pacific Air Transport as NC13351
Aug 9, 1933. To United Airlines as NC13351 May 1, 1934.
To Pennsylvania Central Airlines as NC123351 Mar 22, 1937.
Impressed by USAAF Mar 14, 1942. WFU Sep 6, 1942.
42-38276/38278 Cessna UC-78A Bobcat
Model T50 impressed by USAAF
38276 ex NC34752 MSN 1311
38277 ex NC34753 MSN 1312 impressed Mar 1942. W/o 5 Aug 1944 at Nashville, TN
38278 ex NC34755 MSN 1315 impressed Mar 1942. W/o 7 Jan 1944 at Rock Sprtings, WY
42-38279 Martin B-33
Static test airframe. MSN 6394. Contract cancelled.
42-38280 Lockheed UC-40D
MSN 1276. Civilian Model 12A Electra Junior with Sky Kraft as
NC18147. Impressed by USAAF Mar 14, 1942. W/o Mar 30, 1942
at Tampico, Mexico.
42-38281 Beech UC-43B Traveller
Civilian Model D-17S MSN 422 NC1600 impressed by USAAF Mar 1942.
Accident Oct. 21, 1942 at Ogden Air Depot, UT.
W/o in fatal crash at Challis, IN Apr 5, 1943
42-38282 Beech UC-43A Traveller
Civilian Model D-17R MSN 166 NC400 impressed by USAAF.
In accident Mar 12, 1942 at Pope AAF, NC
42-38283/38284 Beech UC-43C Traveller
Civilian Model F-17Ds impressed by USAAF.
38283 MSN 331 was NC19451 impressed 14 Mar 1942; wfu 22 Aug 1945 at RFC
38284 MSN 259 was NC289Y impressed 14 Mar 1942; wfu 17 Oct 1944 at RFC; to NC289Y again in 1946
42-38285 Grumman OA-14
Commercial G-44 MSN 1211 ex-NC28672 with Defence Supplies Corp, impressed by USAAF
Mar 14, 1942. WFU Nov 1943 at Hamilton.
42-38286/38288 Spartan C-71
Model 7W Executive commandeered for USAAF Mar 14, 1942.
38286 (MSN 33) Manufactured 10Jul40. Registered as NC17667. Delivered 1940 to Standard Oil Co,
Ohio. Defense Supply Corp, Washington, DC Feb42. War Department, Washington, DC. Delivered
to USAAF at Bolling Field, Washington, DC 14Mar42; designated UC-71. HQ Squadron, Fourth Air Force,
Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA 17Mar42. Damaged when ground looped landing at Hamilton Field 1Oct42. SOC
38287 (MSM 31) Manufactured 17May40. Registered 17May40 as NC17665 to Spartan Aircraft Company,
Tulsa, OK. Defense Supply Corp, Washington, DC 11Feb42. War Department, Washington, DC.
Delivered to USAAF at Savannah, GA 14Mar42; designated UC-71. Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, PA
3Apr42. Mitchel Field, Long Island, NY 8Jun42. Stout Field, Indianapolis, IN 13Aug42. 110th Base Unit,
Mitchel Field, Long Island, NY. Damaged by mechanical failure landing at Raleigh Municipal Airport, NC 3May44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation 31Dec44. Registered 13Jan45 as NC46426. Nosed over landing in soft
ground at Pampa Airport, TX 26Sep71, en route Springfield, MO to Los Angeles, CA. Reregistered 24Dec74
as N17665; current [Sep20]
38288 (MSN 25) Manufactured 31Oct39. Registered 31Oct39 as NC17656 to Spartan Aircraft Company, Tulsa, OK.
Defense Supply Corp, Washington, DC 6Feb42. War Department, Washington, DC. Delivered to USAAF at
Bolling Field, Washington, DC 14Mar42; designated UC-71. Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA 17May42.
Sacramento Air Depot, McClellan AFB, Sacramento, CA 26Jun42. 18th Ferrying Squadron, 11th Ferrying
Group, Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA Jul42. Substantially damaged when nosed over landing at Camp
Pendelton, Oceanside, CA�10Dec42. Long Beach Field, CA 31Jan43. West Coast Wing, Air Transport
Command 1May43. Pacific Wing, Air Transport Command 29May43. Reconstruction Finance Corporation 23Jan45.
Registered 12Jul45 as NC17656 to Paul Mantz Air Service, Balboa Island, CA; based at Culver City.
Reregistered 28Dec54 as N47W. Substantially damaged in a ground loop when the landing gear collapsed
following brake failure landing at Willett Field, Lemoore, CA 15Jul69. Registration current [Sep20]. Based in
France; arrived at the A�ro Restauration Service hangar at Dijon-Darois in a crate at the end of a journey from
Canton, Connecticut 17Aug17
42-38289 Lockheed C-36B
Commercial Model 10-E Electra MSN 1054 NC14994 of Continental
impressed into USAAF serviice Mar 14, 1942. Redesignated UC-36B-LO in 1943.
WFU May 12, 1944 and returned to commercial use as NC14994, later N14994. Last
reported with Reeve Aleutian in 1957.
42-38290 Cessna UC-77
Commercial DC.6A Airmaster NC302M MSN 238 impressed by USAAF
42-38291 Cancelled contract for Cessna UC-77
42-38292/38295 Cessna UC-77A
Commercial DC.6B Airmasters impressed by USAAF.
38292 ex NC631K MSN 211
38293 ex NC633K MSN 219
38294 ex NC14452 MSN 290 impressed Mar 1942. W/o 28 Apr 1942 at Hamilton, OH
38295 ex NC9865 MSN 200
42-38296 Lockheed C-36B
Commercial Model 10-E Electra MSN 1140 originally NC21791, going to Colombia as C-114 1940 and returned
to USA as NC1621 and NR1621 of Texaco. Impressed into USAAF service Mar 14, 1942. Redesignated
UC-36B-LO in 1943. WFU Feb 15, 1943
42-38297/38300 Stinson UC-81E-ST Reliant
Model SR.9F impressed by USAAF
38297 not taken up
38298 ex NC18441 MSN 5718 impressed Mar 1942. wfu 30 Dec 1944
38299 ex NC18450 MSN 5719
38300 not taken up.
42-38301/38303 Stinson UC-81F-ST Reliant
Model SR.10F impressed by USAAF
38301 ex NC18479 MSN 5815 impressed Mar 1942. WFU Mar 11, 1945
38302 ex NC21108 MSN 5933
38303 ex NC26261 MSN 5918
42-38304 Lockheed C-36B
Commercial Model 10-E Electra MSN 1117 NC18139 of United Gas impressed by USAAF Mar 14, 1942
Redesignated UC-36B-LO in 1943. Returned to commercial service as NC18139 May 12, 1944
42-38305/38322 Curtiss P-36G
Hawk 75A-8s MSN 14546/14581 bought by Norway for use at the Norwegian flying training centre known as
'Little Norway' at Toronto Island, Canada. Norwegian serials were 401/471 [odd numbers only].
There were too many for flying training needs, half being put up for sale. Bought by the US and delivered
June/July 1942 for Lend-Lease to Peru. 38307/38322 were FAP 303/318.
38307 to Peruvian AF as 303 in 1942. W/o Sep 19, 1942 at Memphis, TN
38322 to Peruvian AF as 318 in 1942. W/o Sep 1, 1942 at Memphis, tN
42-38323 Northrop XB-35
MSN 1485. Converted to EB-35. WFU Aug 1949
42-38324/38326 Douglas C-48B-DO
Commercial ex-United Air Lines DST-As commandeered by USAAF.
38324 DST-A-207B MSN 2223 ex United Air Lines NC25683 to USAAF Mar 26, 1942.
Operated by American Airlines Aug 1, 1942 and Braniff Oct 5, 1942. W/o Dec 6, 1942 at Fort Chimo,
Canada.
38325 DST-A-207C MSN 3263 ex United Air Lines NC25619. To USAAF Mar 26, 1942.
To Alaska Wing ATC Jun 19, 1942. SOC Jun 19, 1943, Alaska. MACR 5
38326 DST-A-207C MSN 3264 ex United Air Lines NC25620. To USAAF Mar 17, 1942. To
Alaska Wing ATC Apr 1942. To Africa Oct 12, 1943. To USA Jun 17, 1944.
To civil registry as NC25620 (United *Toledo* Jul 03, 1944 - Ford Motor Co.
Dearborn, MI. Jun 18, 1949), N301K, CF-VQV (various owners/operators).
Registered to Arctic Outpost Camps Ltd, Edmonton, Alta Jun 1970, current
42-38327 Douglas C-48C-DO
Commercial DC-3A-149H MSN 2147 ordered by KLM (registered PH-AXH Dec 17, 1939) not delivered
due to military situation in Europe. Converted to DC-3A-269 for United Air Lines as NC25675
and sold to USAAF Mar 15, 1942 - To North Atlantic Wing ATC May 29, 1943.
Returned to United as NC25675 *Tacoma* Dec 05, 1943. Crashed Mt Elko, WY. Jan 31, 1946.
The aircraft crashed into Elk Mountain after the crew made an unauthorized deviation from
the prescribed route at an altitude insufficient to assure adequate clearance over
Elk Mountain. Flight had originally filed for 13,000 ft. But later amended the flight
plan to 11,000 ft. Elk Mountain is 11,152 ft. MSL. All 21 onboard killed.
42-38328/38331 Douglas C-49H
Impressed DC-3 from various airlines.
38328 (DC-3-313D MSN 4133 ex NC33678 Pennsylvania Central Airlines) to USAAF
Mar 15, 1942. Operated by Eastern Air Lines May 27, 1942. To civil registry as NC33678
(Pennsylvania Central Jul 02, 1944 - Merge to Capital Airlines
*Morgantown/227C* Apr 21, 1948 to Aug 07, 1959 - B07 Aug59 Interstate Aim Inc, St Louis, MO,
1963 Jack Richards AircraftCO US Inc, Oklahoma City, OK US 1970 Bay Alws Inc,
Cambridge, MA 1971 CD Stoltzfus, Coatesville, PA US
38329 (DC-3-313C MSN 4099 ex NC25689 Pennsylvania Central Airlines) to USAAF
mar 26, 1942 - Operated by Eastern Air Lines May 27, 1942. To civil registry as NC25689
(Pennsylvania Central Jun 24, 1944 - Merge to Capital Airlines *Hickory/221B*, later
*Memphis/221B* Apr 21, 1948 to Aug 14, 1959 - B14Aug59 Beldex Corp DC-3A Remmert Werner
Jun70-Courtesy Aircraft Ltd, Loves Peak, IL 1971 C Evers, Jan72 E J Drew & Co, Miami, FL,
1972-Canc by 1975 -wfu at Opa Locka Feb80 General Svces Inc, Boca Raton, FL, converted to DC-3A
during the 60's
38330 (DC-3-270B MSN 2272 ex NC28361 Canadian Colonial, sold to TWA Feb 17, 1942) to USAAF
Mar 17, 1942 - Caribbean Wing ATC Mar 17, 1942. To civil registry as NC25694 (Pennsylvania
Central Airlines Oct 20, 1944 - Mergo to Capital *Grand Rapids/223B* Apr 21, 1948 to
Oct 25, 1959), N176K Jack Adams Aircraft Sales Inc 25Oct59 Bank Lithograph 12Aug60
Hi-Air Iric, Memphis, TN DC-3A R. Pickett, Atlanta, GA US 1965 N686RP Reregistered Sep 68
Cancelled WFU 28Jun76
38331 (DC-3-314B MSN 4107 ex NC28363 Braniff) to USAAF Mar 15, 1942 - Operated
by Eastern, Braniff and PAA. To civil registry as NC28363 (Braniff Jun 22, 1944, converted
to DC-3A, sold to Southern Airlines Dec 1950). Rr N64SA, later N564S, then PI-C941
(Fairways Dec 23, 1964) and RP-C941 (Philippines Air Lines). WFU, scrapped Manilla Jul
1978 or Nov 1980.
42-38332/38338 Douglas C-48C-DO
Commercial DC-3A-414s commandeered by USAAF before delivery to PAA.
38332/38334 MSN 4170/4172, should have been NC30001/3. All three to USAAF Dec 18, 1942
and sent to 10th AF India Dec 26, 1942 and SOC Jun 30, 1943
38335/38336 MSN 4175/4176, should have been ex NC30006/7. Both to USAAF Dec 18, 1942.
38335 DC-3A-414 NC30006 to USAAF as C-48C 42-38335 18Dec41 AMMISCA 08May42 10thAF India 26Dec42 -
India China Wg ATC 29May43- to civil registry as VT-AUG (Tata Airlines Nov 28, 1945 and
Air India Aug 1946). Crashed Korangi Creek, Pakistan Dec 27, 1947. The aircraft lost
control and crashed just after taking off. The captain losing control in conditions
of poor visibility, resulted in the aircraft flying into the ground. The loss of
control was most likely caused by inadequate illumination of the flying instruments
due to faults in the lighting system. Decision to take off in poor weather conditions
and faulty lighting system. All 23 onboard killed.
38336 DC-3A-414 NC30007 to USAAF as C-48C 42-38336 18Dec41 AMMISCA 10May42 10th AF India 26Dec42
India China Wg ATC 29May43. Salvaged at Karachi Jun 11 1943. To YV-AVE of AVENSA
38337 MSN 4178, should have been NC30009. To USAAF Dec 18, 1941. To 10th AF in India
Dec 26, 1942. SOC Jan 30, 1943. To Peruvean AF as FAPe-487 Dec55 to OB-XAB-535 13Jun60 WFU 1974
38338 MSN 4182, should have been ex NC30013. To USAAF Dec 18, 1941. To 10th AF in India
Dec 26, 1942. To India China Wing ATC May 29, 1943. To civil registry as VT-ATV
(Tata Airlines Dec 4, 1945, Air India Nov 1, 1946, Indian Airlines Aug 1, 1953).
WFU Aug 1969, stored at Delhi Safdarjang.
42-38339/38340 Grumman OA-14
Commercial G-44 impressed by USAAF.
38339 (MSN 1233) was ex-NC37183 impressed Mar 14, 1942. To RFC Feb 26, 1945. To NC37183
again Sep 10, 1945, To TI-1050L May 3, 1956, To AN-BEC Oct 1968, to N6291 Mar 14, 1972.
Registered as N9AS Nov 21, 1975, cancelled May 17, 2013.
38340 (MSN 1205) was ex-NC777 impressed Mar 14, 1942. To RFC Aug 8, 1945.
Back to civil registry as NC61900 in 1946, cancelled Nov 8, 1963.
42-38341/38344 Lockheed C-36A
Commercial Model 10-A Electra impressed into USAAF. Redesignated UC-36A-LO in 1943.
38341 MSN 1075 NC1700 impressed Mar 14, 1942. W/o Jun 13, 1942 at
Miami, FL
38342 MSN 1076 NC20Y impressed Mar 14, 1942. To CF-BXE Apr
7, 1943, to N2405 Aug 29, 1969. WFU 2005
38343 MSN 1072 NC16084 impressed Mar 14, 1942. Redesignated
UC-36A Jan 1943. To NC16084 in 1945, to N57L in 1962,
to N227M Feb 21, 1963. W/o Aug 25, 1968 Painsville, OH
38344 MSN 1029 NC14940 of National impressed Mar 14, 1942.
Redesignated UC-36A Jan 1943. To unknown US registry
Nov 10, 1944. To PP-VAT Aug 6, 1945, PP-NBB Nov 29, 1950
but NTU. WFU.
42-38345 Lockheed C-36C
Commercial Model 10-B Electra MSN 1051 NC14992 of Waterman
Airlines impressed into USAAF Mar 14, 1942.
Redesignated UC-36C-LO in 1943. to NC14992 May 12, 1944.
W/o Jun 29, 1952 at Hot Springs, VA
42-38346/38352 Lockheed UC-40D
Civilian Model 12 Electra Jr. impressed by USAAF.
38346 MSN 1213 NC16057 of Rieke Metal impressed Mar 14, 1942.
To RAF as LA619. Wrecked at Maydown, Northern Ireland
Feb 20, 1944 after stalling on takeoff. SOC Feb 23, 1944
38347 MSN 1215 was NC17341 of Byrd and Frost impressed by USAAF
Mar 14, 1942, returned to NC17341 then N17341. Crashed at Palm Beach,
Florida at unknown date. Remains used for spares in restoration of MSN 1208
38348 MSN 1275 NC18977 of Pittsburgh Steel impressed Mar 14,
1942. To RAF as LA623. To G-AGWN, then VH-BHH (civilianized
by Short after RAF service with MSN SH.50C). To VH-FMS
Jun 24, 1959. W/o Mar 17 1960 at Ceduna, Australia.
Displayed Nowra, Australia as VH-BHH.
38349 MSN 1277 NC18900 of Nevada Development Co (owned by E. L. Cord)impressed
Mar 14, 1942. To RAF as LA621 Apr 1942 (rumored to have
flown Winston Churchill during the war). To UK civil registry as G-AGVZ
Dec 1945, then to US civil registry as NC79820 Nov 22, 1946, then N79820 Nov 1951.
To France as F-BFUD Feb 3, 1960, French registration cancelled
Apr 12, 1984. then back to USA as N4992V Apr 12, 1984. To N112LH
Nov 19, 1984. Sold Jun 1995, returned to flight Feb 26,
1996 and used in northern New England fly-ins painted
in spurious RAF markings. Registered N18906 in 2002.
38350 MSN 1282 NC19967 of Vaucluse Aviation impressed Apr
14, 1942. To RAF as LA622. WFU Nov 30, 1943
38351 MSN 1284 NC2002 impressed Mar 14, 1942. WFU Jan 1, 1945
38352 MSN 1211 NC17311 of Walgreen Drug Co impressed Mar 14,
1942. To RAF as LA620. To UK civil registry as G-AGWM Feb 1946,
then OO-DFA Mar 9, 1947, to OO-AFA Mar 1947, then F-BHVT
May 6, 1957. Civilianized by Short after RAF service with SH.49C.
W/o Nov 20, 1971 at Briare, France.
42-38353 Northrop XP-56 Black Bullet
Made first flight Mar 23, 1944. After program was cancelled, aircraft
was shipped to Park Ridge, IL. Held there for Smithsonian
collection. Shipped to NASM, Suitland, MD. Now on display at Udvar-Hazy
facility of NASM, Chantilly, Virginia
42-38354 Boeing C-73-BO
Reserved for impressment of Model 247D NC13365 (MSN 1958), not used
42-38355/38356 Grumman OA-14
Commercial G-44 impressed by USAAF.
38355 (MSN 1204) was ex NC28666 with Defense Supplies Corp, impressed May 20, 1942. Registration cancelled May 22, 1942.
w/o Feb 28, 1945 at Lake Trafford, Florida
38356 (MSN 1209) was ex-NC28670 impressed Mar 15 1942. W/o Sep 4, 1944 at Lake Worth, Florida. Broken up in 1944.
42-38357/38358 Beech UC-43A Traveller
Civilian Model D-17R impressed by USAAF.
38357 MSN 148 ex NC18029 impressed Mar 1942. Accident May 30, 1942 Tampa, FL
38358 MSN 180 ex NC18576. Accident June 21, 1942 Greenville, MS
42-38359 Beech UC-43B Traveller
Civilian Model D-17S MSN 362 NC900 impressed by USAAF Mar 15, 1942. WFU Feb 2, 1944.
42-38360 Beechcraft UC-43C-BH Traveller
reserved for impressment, not used.
42-38361/38363 Beech UC-43C Traveller
Civilian Model F-17Ds impressed by USAAF.
38361 MSN 272 ex NC238Y impressed Apr 18, 1942. wfu 6 Dec 1942 at RFC; to N59701 in 1947; to N127J on 21 Sep 1956;
to N238Y again on 1 Apr 2010; current 2014
38362 MSN 241 ex NC18783 impressed Mar 1942. Accident Jan. 12, 1943 Newberrytown, PA
38363 MSN 273 ex NC292Y impressed 26 Mar 1942; wfu 27 Sep 1946; to NC2927 (ntu?)
42-38364/38366 Howard UC-70 Nightingale
Civilian DGA-15Ps commandeered by USAAF.
38364 (MSN 511) was NC22412 impressed Mar 1942; wfu 6 Oct 1944
38365 (MSN 509) was NC22410 Mar 1942; wfu;
8/17/74: Harold J. Weatherman, Concord, NC with c/r N38973.
7/20/01: Michael R. Vaughan, Charleston, IL with c/r N22410. Current 2011
38366 (MSN 528) was NC22429. Sold Dec 12, 1944 as N47941, Post war to N46S, N224JT, and N42429 in 1988. Current.
42-38367/38369 Spartan C-71
Model 7W Executive commandeered by USAAF.
38367 (MSN 21) Manufactured 29Jul39. Registered 5Aug39 as NC17633 to Rock Glycerin Co, Odessa, TX; 'The Rocket'.
Registered 13Aug41 to Spartan Aircraft Company, Tulsa, OK. Defense Supply Corp, Washington, DC 21Feb42.
War Department, Washington, DC. Delivered to USAAF at New Castle AAB, Wilmington, DE 15Mar42;
designated UC-71. 2nd Ferrying Group, New Castle AAB. San Antonio Air Depot, Duncan Field, San Antonio, TX 1Apr42.
Registration cancelled 14Jul42. 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 5Jun43. San Antonio Air Depot,
Duncan Field, San Antonio, TX 13Aug43. Flight Test Squadron, Brookley Field, Mobile, AL. Damaged when
ground looped landing at Love Field, Dallas, TX 30Mar44. Keesler Field, Biloxi, MS 20Aug44. Brookley Field,
Mobile, AL 21Nov44. Reconstruction Finance Corporation 31Jan45. Registered 19Feb45 as NC17633 to Spartan
Aircraft Company, Tulsa, OK. Registered 18Apr45 to Noble Drilling Corp., Tulsa, OK. Sold at Sheriff's sale
following seizure14 Sep 1961. Damaged when the pilot landed hard and the left main landing gear sheared
off at Franklin, VA 3May99. The airplane then veered off the runway shearing off the right main landing gear.
Registration current [Sep20]. Based in UK
38368 (MSN 14) Manufactured 15Feb38. Registered as NC17615. Reregistered 15Sep38 as NX17615. Flown in the
1938 Bendix Trophy Race as Race No. '72' by John Hinchley and Charles LaJotte; 177.449 mph.
Registered 5Nov38 as NC17615 to Spartan Aircraft Company, Tulsa, OK. Defense Supply Corp,
Washington, DC 28Feb42. War Department, Washington, DC. Delivered to USAAF at Fairfield Air Depot,
Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 11Apr42; designated UC-71. 3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Wayne County,
Detroit, MI 20Apr42. Felts Field, Parkwater, WA 16May42. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 14Jul42.
Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 24Oct42. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA Nov42. Fairfield Air Depot,
Patterson Field, Dayton, OH Nov42. Stout Field, Indianapolis, IN 1Dec42. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 16Dec42.
Oakland, CA 20Mar43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 20Mar43. Rapid City Field, SD 2May43. Gore Field,
Great Falls, MT 22May43. 498th Base Headquarters and Air Base Squadron, Spokane Field, WA 26Jun43.
Damaged landing at South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 29Feb44. Reconstruction Finance Corporation 5Sep44.
Registered 17Oct44 as NC49075 to Airpath Instrument Co, St. Louis, MO. Reregistered 30Mar70 as N111PB.
Reregistered 30Jul73 as N17615. Reregistered 18Mar74 as N22JP. Reregistered 9Jan75 as N17615; current [Sep20].
Based in UK
38369 (MSN 30) Manufactured 24Apr40. Registered 16May40 as NC17664 to Spartan Aircraft Company, Tulsa, OK.
Defense Supply Corp, Washington, DC 16Mar42. War Department, Washington, DC. Delivered to USAAF at
Romulus Field, Wayne County, Detroit, MI 31Mar42; designated UC-71. 3rd Ferrying Group. Middletown Air
Depot, Olmsted Field, PA 25Apr42. Harbor Field, Baltimore, MD 6May42. 2nd Ferrying Group, New Castle AAB,
Wilmington, DE 3Jun42. 2nd Ferrying Squadron, 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX. Damaged when
nosed over taxying at Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 15Dec43. Reconstruction Finance Corporation 14Sep44.
Registered 7Oct44 as NC17664. Registered 9Feb46 to The Texas Co, New York, NY; 'Texaco 51'. Registration
cancelled. Registered 10Jul57 as N17664. Reregistered 26Jul76 as N111PB. Reregistered as N97DC. Substantially
damaged when the airplane struck a ridge of snow landing at Martinsville, IN 12Jan79. Reregistered 23Oct03
as N17664; current [Sep20].
42-38370/38371 Waco UC-72-WO
Model SRE impressed by USAAF.
38370 (MSN 5081) ex NC20956. To CAA as NC247, NC2347E
38371 (MSN 5158) ex NC31657
42-38372 Waco UC-72-WO
reserved for impressment, not used
42-38373 Stinson UC-81F Reliant
Model SR-10F NC21134 MSN 5935 impressed by USAAF.
42-38374/38375 Cessna UC-78A Bobcat
Model T50 impressed by USAAF
38374 ex NC4400 MSN 1008 impressed Mar 1942; wfu 23 Feb 1945
38375 ex NC4500 MSN 1005 impressed Mar 1942; wfu 4 Oct 1944
42-38376 Cessna UC-78A-CE Bobcat
Reserved for impressment, not used
42-38377 Cessna UC-78A Bobcat
Model T50 NC21939 MSN 1018 impressed by USAAF.
42-38378 Cessna UC-78A-CE Bobcat
Reserved for impressment, not used
42-38379 Cessna UC-78A Bobcat
Model T50 NC27299 MSN 1001 impressed by USAAF Mar 1942; wfu 26 Sep 1944.
42-38380 Lockheed UC-40D
Civilian Model 12 Electra Jr. impressed by USAAF
(conflict here)
42-38380/38457 Piper L-4A Grasshopper
Model J3C-65D. MSN 8949/9026.
38380 (MSN 8949) 370th Fighter Squadron, 359th Fighter Group, Mitchel, NY; damaged due engine
failure taking off at Milldale, CT 5Jun43
38381 (MSN 8950) registered N51574, current [Oct16]
38382 (MSN 8951) 896th School Squadron, Stuttgart, AR; damaged taking off with engine failure
at Stuttgart 26Oct42
38383 (MSN 8952) 64th Two Engine Flying Training Group, South Plains, Lubbock, TX; damaged by fire
while parked at South Plains 27Jul43
38384 (MSN 8953) to French Army as 238384, then became F-BGXF (with MSN 10291 which may be a frame
number). Registered G-GHVV Jun 27, 1980 (but with MSN 10291 which was really 43-1430
and became F-BEGF), current Oct 2016.
38385 (MSN 8954) 812th Transport Squadron, 316th Transport Group, Pope, NC; damaged by weather
while parked at Pope 2Jun45;
damaged taking off at Auxiliary Field #1, Pope 26Jun45; registered N52844, current [Oct16]
38386 (MSN 8955) 3rd Liaison Training Detachment, Lamesa, TX; damaged landing at Lamesa 26Apr43;
damaged landing at Lamesa 29Apr43; damaged landing on a road 5 miles W of Lamesa 2Sep43;
2nd Liaison Training Detachment, Pittsburg, KS; damaged when stalled landing at Auxiliary
Field #1, Opolis, KS 19Dec43
38387 (MSN 8956) 22nd Glider Training Detachment, Goodland, KS; damaged taxying at Auxiliary
Field #5, S of Goodland 10Jul42. W/o 10�Jul 1942 at Goodland AAAF #5, KS�
38388 (MSN 8957) Wfu; to VT-AYO
38389 (MSN 8958) 6th Air Force; 45th Bomb Squadron, 40th Bomb Group, David, Panama; force landed with
engine failure 7 miles NW of David 18Nov42; 3rd Bomb Squadron, David, Panama; destroyed in forced
landing 5 miles W of David 18Apr43
38390 (MSN 8959) to French Army as 238390
38391 (MSN 8960) 22nd Glider Training Detachment, Goodland, KS; damaged taking off at Auxiliary Field #6,
6 miles SW of Goodland 23Jul42; 21st Glider Training Detachment, Pittsburg, KS; damaged taking off at
Pittsburg 3Jan43; damaged taxying at Pittsburg 19Feb42; damaged landing at Capaldo, KS 25Sep43;
purchased 1946 by the Polish Ministry of Communications; to Polish civil registry as SP-AHW.
38392 (MSN 8961) delivered to USAAF at Lock Haven, PA; 12th Ferrying Squadron, 2nd Ferrying Group;
mid air collision at Colby, KS 15Jun42; 21st Glider Training Detachment, Pittsburg, KS; damaged taxying at Auxiliary
Field #1, Opolis, KS 9Jan43; damaged landing at Auxiliary Field #1, Opolis, KS 16Jan43
38393 (MSN 8962) registered Jul 11, 1947 HB-ODM; cancelled Oct 14, 1955.
registered D-EDUT 25Oct55, cancelled 23Jul69; written off 5Jul69; cancelled Jul 23, 1969
Restored as D-EDUT May78
38394 (MSN 8963) 4th Glider Training Detachment, Hale, Plainview, TX; damaged taxying at Plainview 22Mar43;
3rd Liaison Training Detachment, Lamesa, TX; damaged landing at Lamesa 17Jun43
38395 (MSN 8964)
38396 (MSN 8965)
38397 (MSN 8966) 19th Glider Training Detachment, Hays, KS; damaged when stalled landing at
Auxiliary Field #1, 7 miles E of Hays 11Aug42; damaged when stalled landing at Hays 14Aug42;
1st Liaison Training Detachment, Hartlee, Denton, TX; destroyed by fire on maintenance at Denton, TX 1Jun43
38398 (MSN 8967) 2nd Glider Training Detachment, Clovis, NM; destroyed in mid air collision with L-4A
42-36759 at Clovis 15Jul42
38399 (MSN 8968) delivered to USAAF at Lock Haven, PA; 12th Ferrying Squadron, 2nd Ferrying Group;
damaged in collision landing at Effingham Field, IL 13Jun42
38400 (MSN 8969) 3rd Liaison Training Detachment, Lamesa, TX; damaged landing at Lamesa 11May43;
damaged landing 7 miles W of Lamesa 11Jun43; to French Army as 238400.
To French civil registry as F-PHFZ. Registered G-BDHK Jul 24, 1975.
F-PHFZ was registered with MSN 261 as an amateur built aircraft; also quoted with Frame No. 9068; G-BDHK is registered
with MSN 261; Air-Britain does not link 42-38400 to G-BHDK]
38401 (MSN 8970) 3rd Liaison Training Detachment, Lamesa, TX; damaged landing at Lamesa 10Jun43
38402 (MSN 8971) 26th Glider Training Detachment, Aberdeen, SD; damaged taking off in a wheat field
3 miles NW of Auxiliary Field #2, Aberdeen 8Aug42
38403 (MSN 8972)
38404 (MSN 8973)
38405 (MSN 8974) 4th Glider Training Detachment, Hale, Plainview, TX; damaged when stalled
landing at Plainview 1Jul42; purchased 1946 by the Polish Ministry of Communications;
to Polish civil registry as SP-ANX
38406 (MSN 8975) 370th Air Base Squadron, South Plains, Lubbock, TX; damaged when nosed
under landing at South Plains 31Dec42; 4th Glider Training Detachment, Hale, Plainview, TX;
damaged landing at Plainview 25Mar43
38407 (MSN 8976)
38408 (MSN 8977) 26th Glider Training Detachment, Aberdeen, SD; damaged when nosed over during
forced landing with engine failure 5 miles S of Aberdeen 13Jul42
37409 (MSN 8978) 2nd Liaison Training Detachment, Pittsburg, KS; damaged in collision taxying
with L-4A 42-36769 at Auxiliary Field #1, Opolis, KS 6Jul43
38410 (MSN 8979; Frame No. 9098) 4th Glider Training Detachment, Hale, Plainview, TX; damaged when stalled landing
at Plainview 1Nov42; crashed at Plainview 22Mar43; to French Air Force as 238410. Registered 14Dec63 as F-BEPK with
MSN 12161; cancelled 4Feb80 as sold abroad. Registered 26Feb80 as G-BHPK with MSN 12161; current [Oct20]. --
[frame number known to be 9098]
Conflict:
F-BFYD registered 16Feb51 with MSN 4238410; current [Oct20]. Frame number not known
38411 (MSN 8980)
38412 (MSN 8981) 26th Glider Training Detachment, Aberdeen, SD; damaged landing in an oat field 18 miles NW
of Aberdeen, SD 6Aug42; 895th School Squadron, Stuttgart, AR; damaged when nosed over landing at Stuttgart, AR 12Dec42
38413 (MSN 8982)3rd Liaison Training Detachment, Lamesa, TX; damaged landing at Lamesa 6Jul43;
409th Sub Depot, Kearney, NB; damaged taxying at Kearney 29Oct43; 9th Air Force, Europe;
Headquarter Squadron, Conde-sur-Marne [Y-45], France; damaged taxying at Conde-sur-Marne 9Feb45
38414 (MSN 8983) 4th Glider Training Detachment, Hale, Plainview, TX; damaged when nosed over
landing at Auxiliary Field #2, Plainview 17Sep42; damaged landing at Auxiliary Field #3, Plainview 5Feb43;
6th Air Force; 24th Fighter Squadron, Panama; damaged taking off 6 miles W of La Joya, Panama 19May44
38415 (MSN 8984) 3rd Liaison Training Detachment, Lamesa, TX; accident at Lamesa 22Apr43; registered N58382,
revoked 14Jan77, cancelled 21Feb13
38416 (MSN 8985)
38417 (MSN 8986) 6th Weather Squadron, Albrook, Panama; destroyed in mid air collision at David, Panama 25Jun44
W/o 25�Jun 1944 at David Field, Panama.
38418 (MSN 8987)
38419 (MSN 8988)
38420 (MSN 8989)
38421 (MSN 8990) 3rd Liaison Training Detachment, Lamesa, TX; damaged landing at Lamesa 24Aug43
38422 (MSN 8991) 26th Glider Training Detachment, Aberdeen, SD; damaged when stalled landing
at Aberdeen 19Aug42; 4th Glider Training Detachment, Hale, Plainview, TX; damaged taxying at Plainview 22Mar43;
to French Army as 238422.
38423 (MSN 8992) 4th Glider Training Detachment, Hale, Plainview, TX; damaged when stalled landing at Plainview 10Jul42
38424 (MSN 8993)
38425 (MSN 8994)
38426 (MSN 8995) 6th Air Force; 1st Reconnaissance Squadron, 72nd Reconnaissance Group; crashed at Tole, Panama 23Jul43
38427 (MSN 8996) 4th Glider Training Detachment, Hale, Plainview, TX; destroyed landing at Plainview 29Dec42
38428 (MSN 8997) 879th School Squadron, Dalhart, TX; damaged when nosed under taxying at Dalhart 27Nov42; 4th Glider
Training Detachment, Hale, Plainview, TX; damaged in forced landing at Plainview 19Mar43
38429 (MSN 8998) 64th Two Engine Flying Training Group, South Plains, Lubbock, TX; destroyed by fire while
parked at South Plains 27Jul43
38430 (MSN 8999)
38431 (MSN 9000)
38432 (MSN 9001) to French Army as 238432, then became F-BGQC Oct 1, 1954. Current (Oct 2016).
38433 (MSN 9002) 3rd Liaison Training Detachment, Lamesa, TX; damaged landing at Lamesa 16Aug43;
damaged landing at Lamesa 2Oct43; registered N58365, current [Oct16]
38434 (MSN 9003) 9th Air Force, Europe; Headquarter Squadron, Conde-sur-Marne [Y-45], France; damaged by
strong winds while parked at Conde-sur-Marne 20Jan45; purchased 1946 by the Polish Ministry of Communications;
to Polish civil registry as SP-AKU
38435 (MSN 9004) 7th Air Force, Hawaii; crashed and destroyed 5 miles E of Mokuleia, Oahu, Hawaii 25Jan43
38436 (MSN 9005) Caribbean Air Force; 48th Air Base Squadron, 47th Service Group, Salinas, Ecuador; mid air collision
at Salinas, 14Oct42; Headquarters Squadron, 47th Service Group; damaged landing at St Elanz Point, Ecuador 29Jan43;
crashed and destroyed at Guayaquil, Colombia 16Jun43
38437 (MSN 9006) 11th Ferrying Squadron, 5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, TX; damaged taxying at Pampa, TX 10Dec42;
Hartlee, Denton, TX; accident 1 mile NW of Auxiliary Field #1 Denton 21May43
38438 (MSN 9007) 6th Air Force; 22nd Fighter Squadron, 36th Fighter Group, Waller, Trinidad;
damaged taxying at Edinburgh 21Mar43; 10th Bomb Squadron, 25th Bomb Group, Edinburgh, Trinidad;
crashed and destroyed at Edinburgh AD, Trinidad, Sep 1, 1943
38439 (MSN 9008) W/o 13�Jun 1943 at Las Minas, Panama�
48440 (MSN 9009)
38441 (MSN 9010) 6th Air Force; 48th Air Base Squadron, 47th Service Group; damaged taking off at Portobelo, Panama 9Aug44
38442 (MSN 9011) 6th Air Force; 31st Fighter Squadron, 37th Fighter Group, Howard, Panama Canal Zone; destroyed
when force landed with engine failure, 2 miles SW of La Chorrera, Panama 15Aug43
38443 (MSN 9012) 7th Air Force, Hawaii; stalled, crashed and destroyed 5 miles at Kubloa, Oahu, Hawaii 27Oct42
38444 (MSN 9013) �
38445 (MSN 9014) registration HB-OXT reserved, NTU; registered F-GOXT 19Sep05, current [Oct16]
38446 (MSN 9015)
38447 (MSN 9016)
38448 (MSN 9017)
38449 (MSN 9018) 6th Air Force; 26th Fighter Squadron, 16th Fighter Group, Albrook, Panama Canal Zone;
destroyed when force landed with engine failure at Madden Field, Panama 30Mar43
38454 (MSN 9023) 7th Air Force, Hawaii; crashed and destroyed off Waikiki Beach, Honolulu 12May44
38455 (MSN 9024) 7th Air Force, Hawaii; Headquarters Squadron, Hickam, Ohau; damaged landing at Hickam 3Apr45
42-38458/38497 Aeronca L-3B Grasshopper
38458 W/o 19�Aug 1942 at Okmulgee East AAAF, OK�
38464 W/o 18�Aug 1942 at Opolis AAAF #1, MO�
38473 W/o 15�Mar 1943 at Denton, TX
38475 W/o 11�May 1943 at Gainesville, TX�
38476 W/o 19�Nov 1942 at Denton,TX�
38479 W/o 15�Mar 1943 at Denton, TX
38486 W/o 29�Oct 1942 at Okmulgee North AAAF, OK�
38488 W/o 7�Aug 1943 at Prospect, KY�
38490 W/o 18�Sep 1943 at Bowman AAAF #1, KY
38491 W/o 21�Dec 1942 at Okmulgee South AAAF, OK�
38494 W/o 20�Oct 1943 at 14 Mi S Laurinburg-Maxton AAF, Maxton, NC�
38495 W/o 12�Nov 1942 at Prte-Glider AAAF, Cuero, TX�
42-38498/38537 Taylorcraft L-2A Grasshopper
38498 W/o 7�Apr 1943 at Ft Sumner, NM�
38502 W/o 26�Oct 1942 at Stillwater, MN�
38506 W/o 13�Aug 1942 at Lakeland, MN�
38507 W/o 13�May 1944 at Patterrson Field, OH�
38510 W/o 14�Jul 1942 at Crookston, MN�
38513 W/o 17�Aug 1942 at Crookston AAAF, MN�
38528 W/o 20�Jul 1942 at Rochester AAAF #1, MN�
38531 W/o 10�Jul 1942 at Rochester AAAF #1, MN�
42-38538/38662 Culver PQ-8-CL Cadet
Model LCA modified as radio-controlled target. Survivors redesignated Q-8A in 1948
38552 70th Ferrying Squadron, 20th Ferrying Group, Berry Field, Nashville, TN. Destroyed when force
landed after becoming lost at Glenville, GA 30Apr43
38588 4th Tow Target Squadron, Hunter Field, Savannah, GA. Destroyed landing at Camp Stewart, GA 20Dec42.
38627 4th Ferrying Group, Memphis MAP, TN. Damaged taking off at Memphis MAP, TN 24Mar43.
38631 142nd Base Unit, Camp Stewart Field, Hinesville, GA. Destroyed after engine failure taking off at
Camp Stewart, GA 8Jul44.
42-38663/38664 Cancelled contract
42-38665/38691 Beech UC-43 Traveller
38665/38670 ex US Navy 12348/12353
38665/38673 (MSN 3189/3197) Lend-Lease to Chinese AF
38674 (MSN 3117) to RAF as FL653 for use in Middle East. Wfu 25 Jul 1946
38675 (MSN 3118) to RAF as FL654 for use in Middle East. Wfu 26 Sep 1946
38676 (MSN 3119) to RAF as FL655 for use in Middle East. Wfu Dec 1946; to OO-TAX on 7 Jan 1947;
to LX-TAX; to F-BEEK on 27 Oct 1951; wfu 28 Nov 1966
38677 (MSN 3120) to RAF as FL656 for use in Middle East. Wfu 26 Apr 1945
38678 (MSN 3121) to RAF as FL657 for use in Middle East. Wfu Nov 1946; To H. Lumiere Apr 1, 1948
as F-BDRX; wfu 28 Nov 1966
38679 (MSN 3122) to RAF as FL658 for use in Middle East. wfu 26 Sep 1946
38680/38691 (MSN 3123, 3124, 3187, 3188, 3198/3205) were to be delivered to RAF in Middle
East as FL659/FL670) went down on torpedoed ship SS Agwimonte on convoy CD-20 in South Atlantic May 29, 1943
off Quoin Point, Cape Province, South Africa. Sunk by U-177
42-38692/39157 Cessna AT-17B
MSN 2901/3366)
38698 (MSN 2907) W/o 12�May 1944 at Douglas, AZ�
38704 (MSN 2913) W/o 18�Jul 1944 at Ft Sumner AAF, NM�
38705 (MSN 2914) W/o 30�Dec 1942 at Lordsburg, NM�
38712 (MSN 2921) W/o 10�Nov 1942 at Douglas AAF, AZ�
38718 (MSN 2927) W/o 22�Jun 1944 at Salt Flat, TX�
38722 (MSN 2931) W/o 31�Aug 1943 at Valentine, TX�
38725 (MSN 2934) W/o 31�Dec 1943 at Marfa AAF, TX�
38729 (MSN 2938) W/o 1�Jun 1944 at Ryan Field, TX�
38732 (MSN 2941) W/o 28�Dec 1943 at 30 miles from Douglas AAF, AZ�
38733 (MSN 2942) W/o 13�May 1943 at Hereford, AZ�
38734 (MSN 2943) W/o 7�Apr 1943 at Douglas AAF, AZ�
38739 (MSN 2948) crashed in Chiracahua Mountains, AZ Dec 28, 1943. 2 killed.
38740 (MSN 2949) W/o 4�Jun 1943 at 11 Mi NW Lordsburg, NM�
38744 (MSN 2953) W/o 28�Dec 1943 at 30 miles Douglas AAF, AZ�
38745 (MSN 2954) W/o 4�Dec 1942 at Artesia, NM�
38746 (MSN 2955) W/o 19�Dec 1943 at Alpine, TX�
38753 (MSN 2962) W/o 15�Oct 1943 at Osborne, AZ�
38756 (MSN 2965) W/o 14�Jun 1943 at Stockton Field, CA�
38762 (MSN 2971) W/o 19�Nov 1942 at Tracy, CA�
38772 (MSN 2981) W/o 4�Apr 1944 at Angels Camp, CA�
38777 (MSN 2986) W/o 4�May 1944 at Helm Field, CA�
38779 (MSN 2988) W/o 5�Oct 1943 at Nicasio, CA�
38786 (MSN 2995) W/o 4�May 1944 at Helm Field, CA�
38792 (MSN 3001) W/o 4�Mar 1944 at Palestine Arpt, TX�
38793 (MSN 3002) W/o 10�May 1943 at Lubbock AAF, TX�
38801 (MSN 3010) W/o 20�Nov 1942 at Lubbock AAF, TX�
38802 (MSN 3011) W/o 2�Mar 1944 at Olustee AAAF, OK�
38803 (MSN 3012) W/o 10�Jun 1944 at Altus AAF, OK�
38805 (MSN 3014) W/o 27�Jan 1943 at Lubbock AAF, TX�
38812 (MSN 3021) W/o 16�Jan 1944 at Coalinga AAAF, CA�
38818 (MSN 3027) W/o 20�Mar 1944 at Huron AAAF, CA�
38823 (MSN 3032) W/o 14�Feb 1944 at Taiban AAAF, NM�
38824 (MSN 3033) W/o 20�Nov 1944 at Love Field, TX�
38829 (MSN 3038) W/o 10�Jan 1943 at Roswell AAF, NM
38831 (MSN 3040) W/o 25�Dec 1942 at Twin Lakes, CA�
38832 (MSN 3041) W/o 16�Jan 1944 at Coalinga Field, CA�
38833 (MSN 3042) W/o 5�May 1943 at Williams Field, AZ�
38844 (MSN 3053) W/o 29�Jan 1943 at Roswell AAF, NM�
38845 (MSN 3054) W/o 10�Sep 1944 at Randolph Field, TX�
38849 (MSN 3058) W/o 21�Dec 1942 at Pecos, TX�
38853 (MSN 3062) W/o 20�Sep 1943 at Valentine, TX�
38856 (MSN 3065) W/o 16�Feb 1943 at Mesa, AZ�
38863 (MSN 3072) W/o 29�Jan 1943 at Roswell AAF, NM�
38865 (MSN 3074) W/o 19�Mar 1944 at Naco, Mexico
38866 (MSN 3075) W/o 20�Nov 1943 at Douglas AAF, AZ�
38871 (MSN 3080) W/o 5�May 1944 at Lubbock North AAAF, TX�
38875 (MSN 3084) Wfu; to civil registry as NC59188 May 24, 1957. Current 2011
38876 (MSN 3085) W/o 5�Mar 1944 at Plainview, TX�
38896 (MSN 3105) W/o 28�Feb 1943 at Roswell AAF, NM. Registered as N69702.
38897 (MSN 3106) W/o 3�Jan 1944 at Cochise Range, AZ�
38901 (MSN 3110) W/o 23�May 1944 at Wink, TX�
38903 (MSN 3112) W/o 5�Jul 1944 at Crystal AAAF, TX�
38904 (MSN 3113) W/o 17�Jan 1943 at 60 miles from Gila Bend, AZ�
38905 (MSN 3114) W/o 24�Mar 1943 at Hammer Field, CA�
38924 (MSN 3133) W/o 19�Jan 1944 at Yuma AAF, AZ�
38930 (MSN 3139) W/o 26�Jul 1944 at Pecos AAF, TX�
38935 (MSN 3144) W/o 6�Oct 1943 at Yuma AAF, AZ�
38938 (MSN 3147) W/o 6�May 1943 at Yuma AAF, AZ�
38940 (MSN 3149) W/o 24�Mar 1944 at Crystal AAAF, TX�
38942 (MSN 3151) W/o 12�Jun 1943 at Stockton Field, CA�
38944 (MSN 3153) W/o 25�Apr 1944 at Taiban AAAF, NM�
38948 (MSN 3157) W/o 9�Mar 1943 at Stockton Field, CA�
38951 (MSN 3160) W/o 19�Aug 1944 at Dunlap AAAF, CA�
38952 (MSN 3161) W/o 2�Jun 1944 at Pecos AAF, TX�
38954 (MSN 3163) W/o 27�Mar 1944 at Fort Sumner AAF, NM�
38956 (MSN 3165) W/o 24�Mar 1943 at La Junta AAF, CO�
38964 (MSN 3173) W/o 13�May 1944 at Pampa AAF, TX�
38966 (MSN 3175) crashed at Maplewood, Ohio
38974 (MSN 3183) W/o 21�Sep 1943 at Altus AAF, OK�
38978 (MSN 3187) W/o 22�Jan 1943 at Turner Field, GA�
38989 noted derelict at Marysville, CA in 1972
38991 (MSN 3200) W/o 8�Jun 1943 at Jourdanton, TX�
38994 (MSN 3203) W/o 22�Dec 1943 at MacDonald Field, TX�
38999 (MSN 3208) W/o 18�Nov 1943 at Tucumcari, NM�
39002 (MSN 3211) W/o 24�Feb 1944 at Valentine, TX�
39003 (MSN 3212) W/o 4�Apr 1945 at 35 miles from Marfa, TX�
39005 (MSN 3214) W/o 19�Mar 1943 at Marfa AAF, TX�
39010 (MSN 3219) W/o 30�Aug 1943 at Marfa, TX�
39013 (MSN 3222) W/o 22�Mar 1943 at 30 miles from Pampa, TX�
39015 (MSN 3224) W/o 27�Jul 1943 at Luccock West AAAF, TX�
39016 (MSN 3225) W/o 11�Sep 1943 at Gonzales, TX
39018 (MSN 3227) W/o 2�Oct 1943 at Lubbock, TX�
39019 (MSN 3228) W/o 27�Apr 1944 at Blackland AAF, TX�
39027 (MSN 3236) W/o 28�Jan 1943 at La Junta, CO�
39028 (MSN 3237) W/o 20�Mar 1944 at Aragone AAAF, TX�
39032 (MSN 3241) W/o 29�Mar 1943 at Douglas AAF, AZ�
39033 (MSN 3242) W/o 3�Apr 1943 at Douglas AAAF #1, AZ�
39035 (MSN 3244) W/o 9�Mar 1944 at Hereford AAF, AZ�
39039 (MSN 3248) W/o 8�May 1944 at Tombstone, AZ�
39041 (MSN 3250) W/o 30�Jun 1944 at 35 miles from Marfa, TX�
39046 (MSN 3255) W/o 24�Mar 1944 at Aragon AAAF, TX�
39052 (MSN 3261) W/o 29�Jul 1943 at Chinati Peak, TX�
39055 (MSN 3264) W/o 24�Jul 1944 at Wink, TX�
39058 (MSN 3267) W/o 15�Aug 1943 at Rosecrans Field, MO�
39062 (MSN 3271) W/o 26�May 1944 at Marfa AAF, TX�
39064 (MSN 3273) W/o 3�Feb 1944 at Marfa AAF, TX�
39066 (MSN 3275) W/o 21�Nov 1943 at 60 miles from Marfa AAF, TX�
39068 (MSN 3277) W/o 30�Sep 1943 at Kent, TX�
39077 (MSN 3286) W/o 14�May 1943 at Marfa AAF, TX�
39078 (MSN 3287) W/o 19�Feb 1943 at Marfa AAF, TX�
39079 (MSN 3288) W/o 27�Oct 1944 at Ryan AAAF, TX�
39080 (MSN 3289) W/o 14�Oct 1943 at Ryan Field, TX�
39093 (MSN 3302) W/o 25�Feb 1943 at Marfa AAF, TX�
39095 (MSN 3304) W/o 21�Sep 1943 at Alpine, TX�
39097 (MSN 3306) W/o 31�Aug 1943 at Valentine, TX�
39100 (MSN 3309) W/o 27�Jan 1944 at Deleware Springs, TX�
39101 (MSN 3310) W/o 14�Jun 1943 at Douglas AAF, AZ�
39110 (MSN 3319) W/o 1�Jan 1943 at Big Spring, TX�
39126 (MSN 3335) W/o 23�Feb 1944 at Douglas AAF, AZ�
39130 (MSN 3339) W/o 2�Jul 1943 at Douglas AAF, AZ�
39132 (MSN 3341) to USAAF, Attached to Yuma Flying School at Yuma, AZ. On Dec 2, 1943 damaged by a
UC-78 (43-7340) while parked in a taxi accident at Thermal AAF, CA. On Jun 16, 1944 while attached
to 3016BU at Ft Summer AAF, NM damaged in a landing accident at Tucumcari, Aux Field, NM
39133 (MSN 3342) to USAAF, On Jun 27, 1943 belly landing accident after an engine failure while
assigned to 950SEFTS at Yuma AAF, AZ.
39134 (MSN 3343) to RFC at Pecos Feb 27, 1945
39135 (MSN 3344) wrecked at Roswell AAF, NM Mar 4, 1943
39136 (MSN 3345) to RFC at Stockton Apr 18, 1945
39137 (MSN 3346) to RFC at Stockton Feb 27, 1945
39138 (MSN 3347) wrecked at Roswell AAF, NM Mar 4, 1943
39139 (MSN 3348) to RFC at marfa May 19, 1945
39140 (MSN 3349) to RFC at Stockton Apr 10, 1945
39141 (MSN 3350) to RFC at Pecos Nov 20, 1944
39142 (MSN 3351) to RFC at Marfa May 19, 1945
39143 (MSN 3352) to RFC at Stockton Field Feb 21, 1945
39144 (MSN 3353) to RFC at Stockton Field Apr 18, 1945
39145 (MSN 3354) to RFC at Marfa Apr 1945
39146 (MSN 3355) to RFC at Stockton AAF Apr 8, 1945
39147 (MSN 3356) to RFC at Marfa AAF May 19, 1945
39148 (MSN 3357) surveyed at Douglas AAF, AZ Jun 9, 1944
39149 (MSN 3358) crashed on takeoff at Roswell AAF, NM Mar 4, 1943. 3 killed
39150 (MSN 3359) to RFC at Pecos Feb 27, 1945
39151 (MSN 3360) to RFC at Greenwood Oct 28,1944
39152 (MSN 3361) to RFC at Frederick Jan 7, 1945
39153 (MSN 3362) to RFC at Greenville Dec 16, 1944
39154 (MSN 3363) to RFC at Altus May 5, 1945
39155 (MSN 3364) to RFC at Cincinatti Nov 29, 1944
39156 (MSN 3365) to CL-26 at Kelly AAF, TX Jun 30, 1944
39157 (MSN 3366) to RFC at Vernon, TX Oct 21, 1944.
42-39158/39346 Cessna UC-78B Bobcat
MSN 3367/3555. Ordered as AT-17B
39158 to RFC at Altus May 4, 1945
39159 to RFC at Altus May 5, 1945
39160 to RFC at Altus May 5, 1945
39161 to RFC at Blackland Nov 13, 1944
39162 (MSN 3371) to RFC at Pampa Oct 21, 1944. Registered as a T-50 NC75994, N75994.
Cancelled Oct 24, 1955.
39163 to RFC at Greenville Dec 2, 1944
39164 to RFC at Altus May 6, 1945
39165 to RFC at Altus May 6, 1945
39166 to RFC at Pampa Oct 21, 1944
39167 to RFC at Altus Feb 23, 1945
39168 wrecked at Turner Field, GA Apr 30, 1943
39169 to RFC at Altus Feb 23, 1945
39170 to RFC at Pampa Oct 21, 1944
39171 to RFC at Pampa Oct 19, 1944
39172 surveyed at Pampa AAF Jul 25, 1943
39173 (MSN 3382) to China Oct 31, 1944
39174 surveyed at Pampa AAF Apr 5, 1944
39175 to RFC at Goodfellow AAF Apr 29, 1945
39176 to RFC at Altus Apr 30, 1945
39177 to RFC at Frederick AAF Feb 8, 1945
39178 surveyed at Lubbock AAF Jun 8, 1943
39179 to RFC at Altus Feb 23, 1945
39180 to RFC at Frederick AAF Jan 24, 1945
39181 to RFC at Greenville AAF Dec 16, 1944
39182 to RFC at Randolph Field Jan 29, 1945
39183 wrecked at Lubbock, TX when caught fire while parked Feb 7, 1943
39184 to RFC at Altus May 5, 1945
39185 to RFC at Randolph Field Jan 29, 1945
39186 to RFC at Pampa AAF Oct 21, 1944
39187 to RFC at Altus May 5, 1945
39188 to RFC at Pampa Oct 21, 1944
39189 to RFC at Cincinatti, OH Nov 29, 1944
39190 to RFC at Altus May 5, 1945
39191 to RFC at Pampa Oct 21, 1944
39192 to RFC at Altus May 10, 1945
39193 to RFC at Altus Mar 1, 1945
39194 to RFC at Altus May 3, 1945
39195 to RFC at Pampa Oct 21, 1944
39196 to RFC at Greenville, MS Oct 28, 1944
39197 to RFC at Altus May 4, 1945
39198 to RFC at Altus May 6, 1945
39199 to RFC at Randolph Field, TX Jan 29, 1945
39200 to RFC at Lubbock AAF, TX Oct 19, 1944
39201 to RFC at Blackland AAF, TX Nov 4, 1944
39202 to RFC at Independence, MO May 20, 1945
39203 to RFC at Altus May 4, 1945
39204 to RFC at Altus Mar 10, 1945
39205 to RFC at Cincinatti, OH Nov 25, 1944
39206 wrecked at Pampa, TX Apr 28, 1943 and DBR
39207 to RFC at Altus Feb 23, 1944
39208 to RFC at Altus Mar 10, 1945
39209 to RFC at Altus Aug 3, 1945
39210 surveyed at Pampa AAF Apr 2, 1944
39211 to reclamation at Pampa AAF, TX Apr 1, 1946
39212 (MSN 3421) w/o 30�Mar 1943 at Pampa AAF, TX�
39213 to RFC at Altus May 5, 1945
39214 to RFC at Altus Mar 10, 1945
39215 to RFC at Altus May 4, 1945
39216 to RFC at Altus May 4, 1945
39216 to RFC at Altus May 5, 1945
39217 to RFC at Pampa AAF Oct 21, 1944
39218 surveyed at Brooks AAF, TX Jul 3, 1943
39219 to RFC at Greenville Nov 25, 1944
39220 to RFC at Altus May 5, 1945
39221 to RFC at Altus Mar 8, 1945
39222 to RFC at Altus Mar 8, 1945
39223 to RFC at Childress AAF, TX Jan 10, 1945
39224 to RFC at Blackland AAF Mar 21, 1945
39225 to RFC at Blackland AAF Nov 13, 1944
39226 to RFC at Greenville AAF Oct 21, 1944
39227 to RFC at Frederick AAF Jan 23, 1945
39228 to RFC at Altus May 3, 1945
39229 to RFC at Aloe AAF, TX Jan 8, 1945
39230 to RFC at Greenville AAF Dec 9, 1944
39231 to RFC at Pampa AAF Oct 8, 1945
39232 to RFC at Pampa AAF May 17, 1945
39233 to RFC at Frederick AAF Apr 5, 1945
39234 to RFC at Blackland AAF Nov 7, 1944
39235 to RFC at Greenville AAF Mar 23, 1945
39236 to RFC at Pampa AAF Oct 21, 1944
39237 to RFC at Altus Mar 10, 1945
39238 to RFC at Altus Feb 23, 1945
39239 to RFC at Altus Feb 23, 1945
39240 to RFC at Altus Mar 10, 1945
39241 surveyed at Altus AF, OK Jun 14, 1944
39242 surveyed at Dodge City AAF, KS Jan 31, 1944
39243 to RFC at Greenville AAF Oct 21, 1944
39244 to RFC at Randolph Field Jan 29, 1945
39245 to RFC at Altus Jun 13, 1945
39246 to RFC at Perrin AAF Apr 29, 1945
39247 to RFC at Greenville AAF Oct 21, 1944
39248 to RFC at Dodge City AAF, KS Jan 16, 1945
39249 to RFC at Frederick AF Feb 5, 1945
39250 to RFC Nov 29, 1944
39251 to RFC Mar 20, 1945
39252 to RFC May 20, 1945
39253 wrecked Jul 30, 1943 and DBR
39254 to RFC at Altus May 6, 1945
39255 to RFC at Greenville AAF Oct 21, 1944
39256 to RFC at Greenville AAF, MS Nov 18, 1944
39257 to RFC at greenwood AAF, MS Dec 9, 1944
39258 surveyed at Lubbock AAF, TX Mar 29, 1944
39259 to RFC at Greenville AAF, MS Nov 25, 1944
39260 to RFC at Blackland AAF Nov 4, 1944
39261 to RFC at Greenville AAF Dec 16, 1944
39262 (MSN 3471) w/o 14 Jan 1944 at Littlefield, TX; surveyed at Lubbock, TX Jan 15, 1944
39263 to RFC at Greenville AAF Nov 4, 1944
39264 to RFC at Greenville AAF Dec 9, 1944
39265 to RFC at Frederick AAF Jan 26, 1945
39266 to RFC at Randolph AAF Jan 26, 1945
39267 to RFC at Frederick AAF Jan 26, 1945
39268 to RFC at Greenville Oct 28, 1944
39269 to RFC at Altus Apr 16, 1945
39270 to RFC at Altus May 4, 1945
39271 to reclamation at Frederick AAF Mar 16, 1945
39272 to RFC at Pampa AAF Oct 21 1944
39273 to RFC at Greenville AF Oct 28, 1944
39274 to RFC at Altus Apr 17, 1945
39275 to RFC at Altus Jun 13, 1945
39276 to RFC at Pampa AAF Oct 21, 1944
39277 to RFC at Pampa AAF Oct 21, 1944
39278 to RFC at Altus May 3, 1945
39279 to rFC at Pampa AAF, TX Oct 21, 1944
39280 to RFC at Pampa AAF Ot 21, 1944
39281 (MSN 3490) surveyed at Pampa AAF Jun 1, 1944. W/o 14�Jun 1944 at Stinnet, TX
39282 to RFC at Altus Apr 16, 1945
39283 (MSN 3492) to China Sep 12, 1944
39284 to RFC at Greenville AAF Nov 25, 1944
39285 to RFC at Independence AAF, MO Mar 12, 1945
39286 to RFC at Frederick AAF Jan 12, 1945
39287 (318 AAFFTD) crashed Aug 30, 1943 10.5 mi NE of Big Spring, Texas while on routine
night radio navigation training flight. All 3 POB (USAAF instructor and two WASP trainees) killed.
Plane surveyed at Big Springs AAF Sep 4, 1943
39288 to RFC at Altus Apr 13, 1945
39289 to RFC at Frederick AAF Jan 16, 1945
39290 to RFC af Frederick AF Jan 31, 1945
39291 to RFC at Freceric AAF Feb 5, 1945
39292 to RFC at Perrin AAF, TX May 3, 1945
39293 to RFC at Lubbock AAF, TX Oct 19, 1944
39294 to RFC at Pampa AAF Jan 8, 1945
39295 to RFC at Blackland AAF, TX Nov 7, 1944
39296 (MSN 3505) to RFC at Altus May 5, 1945. was registered N75609, cancelled 2 March 1990, now with
Aerospace Museum, Campos dos Alfonsos, Rio de Janeiro
39297 to RFC at Randolph Field Jan 8, 1945
39298 to RFC at Greenville AAF Oct 21, 1944
39299 (MSN 3508) w/o 23�Dec 1943 at Omaha, NE; surveyed at Waco AAF, TX Jan 1, 1944
39300 to RFC at Greenville AAF Oct 28, 1944
39301 to RFC at Frederick AAF Feb 5, 1945
39302 to RFC at Greenville AAF Dec 2, 1944
39303 to RFC at Pampa AAF, TX Oct 21, 1944
39304 to RFC at Altus Mar 10, 1945
39305 to RFC at Altus May 5, 1945
39306 to rFC at Greenville AAF, MS Dec 2, 1944
39307 to RFC at Altus Jun 13, 1945
39308 to RFC at Altus Apr 13, 1945
39309 to RFC at Altus May 6, 1945
39310 to RFC at Frederick AAF, OK Jan 11, 1945
39311 to RFC at Frederick AAF, OK Jan 8, 1945
39312 to RFC at Altus, OK May 5, 1945
39313 to RFC at Ft Sumner AAF, NM Oct 28, 1944
39314 (MSN 3523) surveyed at Randolph Field Aug 31, 1943. W/o 15�May 1944 at Frederick, OK
39315 to RFC at Greenville AAF Nov 25, 1944
39316 (MSN 3525) w/o 23 Aug 1943 at Giddings, TX; surveyed at Randolph Field, TX Sep 2, 1943
39317 to RFC at Ft Sumner AAF, NM Oct 28, 1944
39318 (MSN 3527) w/o 7 Jun 1943 at Eagle Pass AAAF #1, TX; surveyed at Eagle Pass AAF, TX Jun 8, 1943
39319 to RFC at Greenville AF, MS Nov 25, 1944
39320 to RFC at Altus Jun 13, 1945
39321 to RFC at Altus Mar 18, 1945
39322 to RFC at Greenville AF, MS Oct 28, 1944
39323 to RFC at Cincinatti, OH Sep 24, 1944
39324 to RFC at Greenville AF, MS Dec 2, 1944
39325 to RFC at Greenville AF, MS Nov 4, 1944
39326 to RFC at Frederick AAF Feb 8, 1945
39327 to RFC at Cincinnatti, OH Nov 22, 1944
39328 to RFC at Frederick AAF, OK Jan 10, 1945
39329 to RFC at Blackland AAF, TX Nov 13, 1944
39330 to RFC at Randolph Field, Jan 29, 1945
39331 (MSN 3540) w/o 27�Jul 1944 at Martindale Field, TX; surveyed at Rendolph Field Jul 29, 1944
39332 to RFC at Altus Jun 13, 1945
39333 to RFC at Greenville AF, MS Dec 9, 1944
39334 to RFC at Pampa AAF Apr 17, 1945
39335 to RFC at Pampa AAF, TX Oct 19, 1944
39336 to RFC at Waco AAF, TX Feb 14, 1945
39337 to RFC at Waco AAF, TX Feb 14, 1945
39338 (MSN 3547) w/o 14�Dec 1943 at Devine, TX; surveyed at Randolph Field, TX Dec 15, 1943
39339 to RFC at Randolph Field Jan 29, 1945
39340 to RFC at Cincinatti Nov 20, 1944
39341 (MSN 3550) w/o 4�Sep 1943 at Bandera, TX; surveyed at Liberal AAF, KS Oct 5, 1943
39342 to RFC at Cincinatti Sep 24, 1944
39343 to RFC at Randolph Field, TX Jan 29, 1945
39344 to RFC at Altus May 3, 1945
39345 to RFC at Greenville AAF, MS Nov 25, 1944
39346 to RFC at Cincinatti Sep 24, 1944
42-39347 Curtiss CW-24B
Lightweight low-powered mockup of XP-55 fighter. First flight Dec 2, 1941. To NACA Langley
Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory, Virginia Sep 1942 to Nov 1942 for study by NACA
42-39348/39374 Northrop P-61A-10-NO Black Widow
MSN 867/893.
39348 condemned crash Dec 31, 1945
39349 (427th NFS, 10th AF) crashed 8 mi S of Youchh, 7u5 mi N of chungking, China after ran out of fuel
due to bad weather Feb 21, 1945. MACR 12586. Both crew bailed out and were rescuded by friendly Chinese.
39350 condemned salvage crash May 9, 1945
39351 condemned salvage crash May 9, 1945
39352 (427th NFS, 10th AF) crashed from unknown cause in valley E of Chinkiang, India May 2, 1945. MACR 14347.
Both crew bailed out and returned.
39353 (427th NFS, 10th AF) shot down by AAA 38 mi from Nanning, China Jul 29, 1945. MACR 14804.
One crewman killed, one bailed out and evaded capture.
39354 to CL-26 at Hammer Field, CA Nov 17, 1944
39355 to reclamation at Tinker Field Nov 18, 1948
39356 to reclamation at Hill Field, UT Oct 7, 1948
39357 (MSN 876) W/o 5�Oct 1944 at McFarland, CA; surveyed at Visalia AAF, CA Oct 6, 1944
39358 to reclamation at Hill Field, UT Jul 19, 1948
39359 to reclamatin at Tinker Field Nov 10, 1948
39360 (MSN 879) W/o 25�Sep 1944 at Delano, CA; to CL-26 at Visalia AAF, CA Sep 26, 1944
39361 (426th NFS) w/o due to structural failure at Ondal, India
Feb 18, 1945. condemned structural failure Feb 25, 1945
39362 condemned salvage Dec 31, 1945
39363 (426th NFS) w/o in crash landing near Barrackpore, India
Apr 17, 1945. condemned salvage Apr 25, 1945
39364 (427th NFS, 10th AF) crashed from unknown cause S of Wanyan, India Apr 23, 1945. MACR 14313.
Both crewmen later killed.
39365 (MSN 884) condemned crash Aug 3, 1945
39366 condemned salvage Dec 31, 1945
39367 to reclamation at Clark Field, Philippines May 27, 1948
39368 to reclamation at Tinker AF Aug 29, 1948
39369 surveyed at Howard AAF, CA Apr 5, 1945
39370 to reclamation at Hill Field, UT May 27, 1948
39371 surveyed at Hammer AAF Dec 1, 1944
39372 to reclamation at Tinker Field Nov 10, 1948
39373 condemned salvage Nov 25, 1946. To reclamation Apr 29, 1948
39374 to reclamation at Tinker Field Nov 1, 1948
42-39375/39384 Northrop P-61A-11-NO Black Widow
MSN 894/903
39375 to excess inventory list Aug 5, 1945
39376 condemned inventory Jun 11,1945
39377 to reclamation at Oberpaffafe, Germany Nov 4, 1948
39378 condemned salvage Jun 26, 1947. To reclamation Nov 19, 1949
39379 condemned salvage Nov 27, 1946. To reclamation Jul 13, 1949
39380 condemned salvage accident Mar 20, 1945
39381 to reclamation at Clark Field Jun 9, 1949
39382 to reclamation at Clark Field Jun 9, 1949
39383 (418th NFS, V Fighter Command, 5th AF) shot down by AAA near Clark Field, Manila, Luzon,
Philippines Jan 1, 1945. MACR 13296. Both crew killed.
39384 condemned accident Jan 13, 1945
42-39385/39386 Northrop P-61A-10-NO Black Widow
MSN 904/905
39385 condemned salvage obsolete Sep 27, 1945
39386 condemned accident Nov 29, 1944
42-39387 Northrop P-61A-11-NO Black Widow
MSN 906. To reclamation at Clark Field, Philippines Apr 7, 1949
42-39388/39397 Northrop P-61A-10-NO Black Widow
MSN 907/916
39388 to reclamation at Clark Field, Philippines Oct 1, 1948
39389 condemned salvage obsolete Sep 28, 1945
39390 condemned combat Apr 29, 1945
39391 condemned salvage obsolete Sep 27, 1945
39392 condemned salvage obsolete Sep 28, 1945
39393 to reclamation at Clark Field, Philippines Jul 29, 1949
39394 condemned salvage obsolete Sep 28, 1946
39395 (425th NDA, XIX Tactical Air Command, 9th AF) crash landed and burst into flames at Verdun/Etain-Rouvres
airfield A-82, Verdun, France after being hit in one engine by friendly fire from a B-24 Dec 24, 1944.
All crew survived, aircraft destroyed by fire
39396 condemned salvage no battle damage Oct 29, 1946
39397 condemned salvage May 13, 1946
42-39398/39401 Northrop P-61B-1-NO Black Widow
MSN 917/920
39398 condemned salvage Dec 31, 1945
39399 condemned air loss Jun 20, 1945
39400 (426th NFS, attached to 312th FW, 14th AF) crashed from unknown cause 45 mi SE of Hankow,China Apr 11, 1945.
MACR 14255. Both crew bailed out and one was killed, one survived.
39401 condemned salvage Dec 31, 1945
42-39402 Northrop P-61B-2-NO Black Widow
MSN 921. Crashed 23 mi NW of Fairbanks, AK Feb 23, 1945. Condemned Feb 24, 1945
42-39403/39405 Northrop P-61B-1-NO Black Widow
MSN 922/924
39403 condemned inventory Jun 11,1 95
39404 to reclamation at Clark Field, Philippines Jun 6, 1949
39405 to reclamation at Clark Field, Philippines Jun 6, 1949
42-39406 Northrop P-61B-2-NO Black Widow
MSN 925. With 549th NFS, DBR on ground at South Field,
Iwo Jima Jun 1, 1945. Condemned salvage weather Aug 16, 1946. To reclamation Sep 22, 1947
42-39407 Northrop P-61B-1-NO Black Widow
MSN 926 Condemned Nov 26, 1946. To reclamation Apr 28, 1948
42-39408 Northrop P-61B-2-NO Black Widow
MSN 927. To reclamation at Clarke Field, Philippines Jun 6, 1949
42-39409/39411 Northrop P-61B-1-NO Black Widow
MSN 928/930
39409 to reclamation at Johnson AB, Japan Jan 24, 1950
39410 to reclamation at BoFu AB, Japan Jun 30, 1949
39411 condemned MIA Apr 14, 1945
42-39412/39414 Northrop P-61B-2-NO Black Widow
MSN 931/933
39412 (MSN 931) named "Hop 'n Ditty". Condemned Nov 26, 1946. To reclamation Aug 28, 1948
39413 lost at sea due to battle damage over target Jun 22, 1945. Crew bailed out and were rescued.
39414 to excess inventory list Aug 5, 1945
42-39415/39417 Northrop P-61B-1-NO Black Widow
MSN 934/936
39415 (414th NFS) w/o in landing accident at Florennes, Belgium
Jan 29, 1945. Condemned Jan 31, 1945
39416 wrecked at Scott AAF, IL Sep 16, 1944
39417 condemned salvage Apr 23, 1947. To reclamation Nov 19, 1947.
Jeff Colin says that this plane was stolen from the USAAF
by Communist troops in the final days of WW 2. Put on
display at Beijing Aeronautics Institute museum outside Beijing.
42-39418 Northrop P-61B-2-NO Black Widow
MSN 937. Condemned Nov 26, 1946. To reclamation Apr 29, 1948
42-39419/39423 Northrop P-61B-1-NO Black Widow
MSN 938/942
39419 to RFC at Hawthorne, CA Jan 21, 1946. To civil registry and
given FAA number NX30020 and later N30020
Converted to air tanker. Crashed Aug 23, 1963,
killing pilot Robert Savaria.
39420 (417th NFS) w/o in landing accident at Giebelstadt, Germany
Apr 27, 1945. Condemned crashlanding Apr 27, 1945
39421 to reclamation at Eglin AB, FL Nov 3, 1948
39422 condemned salvage Aug 6, 1947
39423 condemned salvage obsolete Sep 10, 1945
42-39424 Northrop P-61B-2-NO Black Widow
MSN 943. Condemned Nov 26, 1946. To reclamation Apr 29, 1948
42-39425 Northrop P-61B-1-NO Black Widow
MSN 944. W/o 21�Apr 1945 at Kipepa, HI; Condemned inventory Jun 11, 1945
42-39426 Northrop P-61B-2-NO Black Widow
MSN 945. 549th NFS, lost NW of Iwo Jima Jul 31, 1945.
Condemned combat Aug 10, 1945
42-39427 Northrop P-61B-1-NO Black Widow
MSN 946. To reclamation at Jama, Japan Jan 7, 1949
42-39428 Northrop P-61B-2-NO Black Widow
MSN 947. To excess inventory list Aug 5, 1945
42-39429 Northrop P-61B-1-NO Black Widow
MSN 948. To reclamation at Eglin AFB, FL Nov 1, 1948
42-39430 Northrop P-61B-2-NO Black Widow
MSN 949. Condemned Nov 26, 1946. To reclamation Apr 29, 1948
42-39431 Northrop P-61B-1-NO Black Widow
MSN 950. To reclamation at Brookley Field Jun 22, 1949
42-39432 Northrop P-61B-2-NO Black Widow
MSN 951. With 549th NFS in landing accident at South Field,
Iwo Jima May 17, 1945, repaired. W/o 14�Jul 1945 at South Field, Guam.
Condemned salvage Jul 20, 1945
42-39433/39451 Northrop P-61B-1-NO Black Widow
MSN 952/970
39433 (550th NFS) w/o in landing accident at Dulag, Leyte,
Philippines Mar 22, 1945. To reclamation at Clark Field, Philippines Oct 1, 1948
39434 condemned salvage accident Jan 26, 1945
39435 condemned salvage Feb 16, 1945
39436 condemned salvage Apr 25, 1945
39437 to reclamation at Clark Field, Philippines Aug 6, 1948
39438 condemned destroyed Mar 9, 1945
39439 condemned salvage Jun 13, 1945
39440 condemned salvage obsolete Sep 28, 1945
39441 condemned combat Jan 30, 1945
39442 condemned salvage obsolete Sep 27, 1945
39443 condemned combat Jun 2, 1945
39444 to reclamation Clark Field, Philippines Jun 6, 1949
39445 crashed on the slopes of Mt Cyclops in New Guinea Jan 10, 1945. Four crew survived. Wreck returned
to USA in 1991 for restoration to flight status by Mid-Atlantic Air Museum at Reading, PA as N550NF.
Still under restoration Sep 2015. Goal is o make i the only flyable Black Widow.
39446 (414th NFS) w/o in landing accident at Florennes, Belgium
Feb 3, 1945. To excess inventory list Dec 31, 1945
39447 condemned accident Jan 31, 1945
39448 to reclamation at Clark Field, Philippines Jun 9, 1948
39449 to reclamation at Clark Field, Philippines Jun 9, 1948
39450 condemned missing Jul 4, 1945
39451 to reclamation at Clark Field, Philippines Aug 6, 1948
42-39452/39456 Northrop P-61B-2-NO Black Widow
MSN 971/975
39452 condemned accident Jun 14, 1945
39453 to reclamation at Clark Field, Philippines Jun 6, 1949
39454 to reclamation at Clark Field, Philippines Jun 6, 1949
39455 (549th NFS, VII Fighter Command, 20th AF) crashed from unknown cause 5 m S of Kita Iwo Jima Mar 31, 1945,
MACR 14254. All three crew killed, aircraft never found.
39456 to reclamation at Misawa AB, Japan Jun 6, 1949
42-39457/39460 Northrop P-61B-1-NO Black Widow
MSN 976/979.
39457 to reclamation at Eglin AF, FL Mar 14, 1949
39458 (MSN 977) W/o 2�Dec 1944 at Fresno, CA; surveyed at Hammer AAF, CA Dec 4, 1944
39459 to reclamation at Chanute Field Aug 18, 1947
39460 to reclamation at Hill Field, UT Jan 20, 1949
42-39461/39462 Northrop P-61B-2-NO Black Widow
MSN 980/981
39461 to reclamation at Clark Field, Philippines Aug 6, 1948
39462 condemned salvage Sep 16, 1946. To reclamation Sep 22, 1947
42-39463/39465 Northrop P-61B-1-NO Black Widow
MSN 982/984
39463 w/o in forced landing at Salinas AAF, CA Jan 13, 1945. Surveyed at McClellan AAF, CA Apr 24, 1945
39464 surveyed at Hammer AAF, CA Aug 27, 1945
39465 condemned accident not combat Jul 10, 1945
42-39466 Northrop P-61B-2-NO Black Widow
MSN 985 Condemned accident not combat Sep 13, 1945
42-39467/39470 Northrop P-61B-1-NO Black Widow
MSN 986/989
39467 condemned salvage obsolete Jun 16, 1947. To reclamation Apr 29, 1948
39468 (MSN 987) to reclamation at Clark Field, Philippines Jun 6, 1949.
39469 condemned combat Jul 9, 1945
39470 condemned accident not combat Feb 22, 1946
42-39471/39473 Northrop P-61B-2-NO Black Widow
MSN 990/992
39471 to reclamation at Clark Field, Philippines Oct 1,1948
39472 condemned combat Jul 18, 1945
39473 to reclamation at Clark Field, Philippines Jun 6, 1949
42-39474 Northrop P-61B-1-NO Black Widow
MSN 993. Condemned salvage Jul 25, 1945
42-39475 Northrop P-61B-2-NO Black Widow
MSN 994. Condemned accident Jul 15, 1945
42-39476/39477 Northrop P-61B-1-NO Black Widow
MSN 995/996
39476 to reclamation at Jama, Japan Jun 30, 1949
39477 condemned salvage obsolete Jul 13, 1947. To reclamation Jan 15, 1948
42-39478/39480 Northrop P-61B-2-NO Black Widow
MSN 997/999
39478 (416th NFS) crashlanded at Fano, Italy Jul 10, 1945.
Condemned crash Jul 11, 1945
39479 condemned salvage Sep 4, 1945
39480 to reclamation at Clark Field Jun 6, 1949
42-39481/39482 Northrop P-61B-1-NO Black Widow
MSN 1000/1001
39481 to reclamation at Brookley Field Jun 22, 1949
39482 w/o in takeoff accident at Oran, Algeria Feb 24, 1945.
Condemned salvage Oct 26, 1945
42-39483/39490 Northrop P-61B-2-NO Black Widow
MSN 1002/1009
39483 condemned accident Apr 4, 1945
39484 (318th FG, 548th NFS) damaged in takeoff accident
at Ie Shima, Okinawa Jul 2, 1945.
Condemned accident not combat Sep 12, 1945
39485 to excess inventory list Sep 30, 1947
39486 (414th NFS, 12th Tactical Air Command, 12th AF) shot down by AAA near Reggiold, Italy Apr 22, 1945.
MACR 14012. One crewman killed and one bailed out and MIA.
39487 to reclamation at Oberpaffaffe, Germany Nov 8, 1948
39488 condemned salvage Oct 24, 1945
39489 condemned salvage Jul 19, 1945
39490 to reclamation at Oberpaffafe, Germany Jan 10, 1948
42-39491 Northrop P-61B-1-NO Black Widow
MSN 1010. To reclamation at Brookley Field Jul 14, 1949
42-39492/39493 Northrop P-61B-2-NO Black Widow
MSN 1011/1012
39492 condemned salvage Oct 26 1945
39493 condemned salvage Mar 30, 1947. To reclamation Nov 19, 1947
42-39494 Northrop P-61B-1-NO Black Widow
MSN 1013. To reclamation at Johnson AB, Japan Nov 23, 1949
42-39495 Northrop P-61B-2-NO Black Widow
MSN 1014. With 549th NFS, w/o in landing accident at South Field,
Iwo Jima Apr 30, 1945. Condemned salvage Oct 20, 1945
42-39496/39497 Northrop P-61B-1-NO Black Widow
MSN 1015/1016
39496 to reclamation at Brookley Field Jun 22, 1949
39497 condemned salvage obsolete Dec 25, 1945
42-39498/39500 Northrop P-61B-5-NO Black Widow
MSN 1017/1019
39498 to reclamation at Hill Field, UT Jan 20, 1949
39499 condemned salvage Oct 26, 1945
39500 condemned salvage Oct 26, 1945
42-39501/39547 Northrop P-61B-6-NO Black Widow
MSN 1020/1066
39501 (549th NFS, VII Fighter Command, 20-th AF) crashed from unknown cause 5 mi SW of Iwo Jima
Jun 17, 1945. MACR 16159. All 3 crew killed.
39502 condemned salvage Mar 13, 1947. To reclamation Nov 19, 1947
39503 w/o in landing accident at South Field, Iwo Jima
May 23, 1945. Condemned combat Jul 20, 1945
39504 condemned Nov 26, 1946. To reclamation Apr 29, 1948
39505 to reclamation at Oberpaffaffe, Germany Nov 4, 1948
39506 condemned salvage May 17, 1945
39507 condemned salvage May 5, 1947. To reclamation Nov 19, 1947
39508 (44th NFS, 12th Tactical Air Command, 12th AF) lost to flak over Italy Feb 21, 1945. MACR 12570
Both crew bailed out and returned to duty.
39509 condemned salvage Aug 20, 1946
39510 condemned salvage Oct 20, 1945
39511 (34 DRS, 11 ADG) w/o in landing accident at Bari-Palese,
Italy Jun 27, 1945. condemned salvage not combat Jul 21, 1945
39512 condemned salvage Nov 30,1945
39513 condemned salvage Oct 30, 1945
39514 condemned salvage Feb 27, 1947. To reclamation Nov 19, 1947
39515 (414th NFS, 12th Tactical Air Command, 12th AF) shot down by Fw Werner Hensel in Fw 190A-8 of
NSGr.9 Mediterranean Apr 11, 1945. MACR 13803. All 3 crew MIA.
39516 condemned salvage Seo 16, 1946. To reclamation Sep 22, 1947
39517 condemned salvage May 24, 1946
39518 excess inventory list Dec 31, 1945
39519 condemned salvage Oct 26, 1945
39520 condemned salvage Oct 26, 1945
39521 condemned salvage Feb 12, 1947. To reclamation Nov 19, 1947
39522 condemned crash on takeoff Jun 13, 1945
39523 w/o in landing accident at Ondal, India Apr 19, 1945. Condemned salvage Apr 26, 1945
39524 condemned salvage Dec 31, 1946. To reclamation Jan 5, 1947
39525 condemned salvage Dec 31, 1945
39526 to reclamation at Clark Field, Philippines Jun 6, 1949
39527 (549th NFS) damaged in landing accident at Central Field,
Iwo Jima Nov 2, 1945. Condemned Nov 26, 1946. To
reclamation Apr 29, 1948
39528 condemned salvage Oct 30, 1945
39529 w/o in takeoff accident at Pontedera, Italy Feb 5, 1945. Condemned crash Feb 10, 1945
39530 to reclamation at Naha AB, Japan Dec 12, 1949
39531 (328th FRS) w/o in crash landing at Pomigliano, Italy Mar 31, 1945.
Condemned salvage non combat Apr 24, 1945
39532 condemned salvage Oct 30, 1946
39533 to reclamation at Oberpaffaffe, Germany Nov 4, 1948
39534 (MSN 1053) condemned salvage no battle damage Oct 10, 1946
39535 (427th NFS) w/o in takeoff accident at Braunschardt,
Germany Jul 22, 1945. MACR 14804
39536 to reclamation at Oberpaffaffe, Germany Nov 4, 1948
39537 (417th NFS) w/o in takeoff accident at Saint Dizier, France
Apr 9, 1945. condemned accident Apr 11, 1945
39538 to reclamation at Naha AB, Japan Oct 1, 1948
39539 to reclamation at Brookley Field Aug 3, 1948
39540 to reclamation at Tachikawa, Japan Jun 28, 1950
39541 redesignated F-61B Jun 11, 1948. WFU at Mitchel Field, NY May 2, 1949
39542 to reclamation at Tachikawa AB, Japan Dec 12, 1949
39543 to reclamation at Naha AB, Japan May 10, 1949
39544 (MSN 1063) surveyed at Hammer AAF, CA Aug 29, 1945
39545 (MSN 1064) W/o 20�Apr 1945 at Hammer Field, CA; scrapped at McClellan AAB 9/27/45
39546 to reclamation at Itazuki AB, Japan Oct 1948
39547 (415th NFS) w/o in landing accident at Halle, Germany
May 23, 1945. Condemned salvage no battle damage May 25, 1945
42-39548/39572 Northrop P-61B-10-NO Black Widow
MSN 1067/1091
39548 to reclamation at Westover AF, UT Jun 22, 1949
39549 converted to XP-61E, later converted to XF-15-NO. Condemned for salvage
Sep 18, 1947, to reclamation Apr 29, 1948
39550 condemned salvage Oct 30, 1945
39551 to reclamtion at Mitchel Field, NY Jul 25, 1949
39552 to reclamation at Clark Field, Philippines Jun 6, 1949
39553 (548th NFS) crashed on takeoff at Kipapa Field, HI Mar 19, 1945.
39557 converted to XP-61E
39559 (417th NFS, 64th Fighter Wing, 12th AF) shot down by friendlyh AAA 5 mi NW of Dillingen,
Germany Apr 26, 1945. MACR 14078. Both crew killed.
39560 (549th NFS) crew bailed and crashed at Iwo Jima
Apr 20, 1945. Condemned inventory Jun 11, 1945
39561 condemned inventory Jun 11, 1945
39562 to reclamation at Eglin AFB, FL Nov 10, 1948
39563 (417th NFS) crashed and w/o near Chateau Thierry, France
Jun 28, 1945. condemned salvage no battle damage Jun 29, 1945
39564 salvaged inOberpaffaffe, Germany Nov 8, 1948
39565 condemned salvage May 5, 1947. To reclamation Nov 19, 1947
39566 condemned salvage May 5, 1947. To reclamation Nov 19, 1947
39567 to reclamatin at Brookley Field Jun 22, 1949
39568 crashed 9 mi W of Pond, CA Jan 2, 1945. Surveyed at Hammer AAF, CA Jan 5, 1945
39569 to reclamation at Brookley Field, AL Feb 24, 1949
39570 to reclamation at Eglin AFB, FL Nov 3, 1948
39571 to reclamation at San Bernardino, CA Dec 12, 1949
39572 to reclamation at Eglin AFB, FL Nov 3, 1948
42-39573/39611 Northrop P-61B-15-NO Black Widow
MSN 1092/1130
39573 to reclamation at Johnson AFB, Japan Jan 7, 1949
39574 to reclamation at Itazuke AB, Japan Oct 21,1948
39575 to reclamation at Tachikawa AB, Japan Feb 14, 1950.
39576 condemned salvage obsolete Jun 24, 1946
39577 condemned accident non combat Sep 25, 1946
39578 to reclamation at Tachikawa, Japan Jun 28, 1950
39579 to reclamation at Naha AB, Japana Mar 8, 1949
39580 condemned salvage obsolet Oct 8, 1945
39581 condemned accident non combat Oct 14, 1945
39582 to reclamation at Tachikawa AB, Japan Nov 23, 1949
39583 to reclamation at Jama, Japan Oct 21, 1948
39584 condemned salvage obsoletee Jul 10, 1947. To reclamation Apr 29, 1948
39585 condemned salvage obsoledt Aug 6, 1947. To reclamtion Jan 7, 1949
39586 to reclamation at Naha AB, Japan Aug 6, 1948
39587 to reclamation at Clark AB, Philippines Mar 14, 1949
39588 (418th NFS, attached to 308th Bombardment Wing, V Fighter Command, 5th AF) lost
crashed from unknown cause near Ryukyu Islands Aug 10, 1945, South Pacific. MACR 14875.
Both crew killed.
39591 (MSN 1110) (418th NFS, attached to 308th Bombardment Wing, V Fighter Command, 5th AF) crashed from
unknown cause between Japan and Okinawa while on mission to Kanoya, Kyushu, Japan Aug 4, 1945.
MACR 14886. All three crew killed.
39592 (MSN 1111) W/o 7 Apr 1947 at Komaki AD, Japan
39598 condemned salvage Dec 31, 1945
39589 to reclamation at Clark AB, Philippines Jun 6, 1949
39590 to reclamation at Tachikawa AG, Japan Jun 28, 1950
39591 condemned MIA Aug 6, 1945
39592 condemned salvage obsolete Jun 16, 1947. To reclamation Apr 29, 1948
39593 salvaged at Pinecastle AAF, FL Aug 7, 1946. To reclamation Oct 2, 1946
39594 condemned salvage Oct 26, 1945
39595 condemned salvage Dec 31, 1945
39596 condemned salvage Oct 27, 1945
39597 condemned salvage Nov 16, 1945
39598 condemned salvage Dec 31, 1945
39599 condemned salvage Dec 31, 1945
39600 to reclamation at Eglin Field, FL Jun 7, 1944
39601 condemned salvage Dec 31, 1945
39602 condemned salvage Oct 24, 1945
39603 condemned salvage Oct 27, 1945
39604 condemned salvage May 5, 1947. To reclamation Nov 19, 1949
39605 condemned salvage Sep 6, 1946. To reclamation Nov 19, 1949
39606 condemned salvage Apr 23, 1947. To reclamatin Nov 19, 1947
39607 to reclamation at Oberpaffafe, Germany Nov 4, 1948
39608 US Aircraft Section, Air Materiel Command, Freeman Field, Seymour, Indiana.
Set aside for proposed USAAF aviation museum. Flown to the aircraft storage area,
803rd Special Depot at Orchard Place Airport, Park Ridge, Illinois May 1946
To storage at Davis Monthan Aug 1, 1946. To reclamation Aug 3, 1949
39609 condemned salvage May 5, 1947. To reclamtion Nov 19, 1947
39610 to reclamation at Oberpaffafe Nov 4, 1948
39611 condemned salvage Oct 30, 1946
42-39612 Northrop P-61B-10-NO Black Widow
MSN 1131. 39612 surveyed at McClellan AAF, CA May 4, 1945
42-39613 Northrop P-61B-25-NO Black Widow
MSN 1132. 39613 to reclamation at Mitchel Field, NY Jun 14, 1949
42-39614 Northrop P-61B-15-NO Black Widow
MSN 1133. 39614 condemned salvage Oct 26, 1945
42-39615 Northrop P-61B-10-NO Black Widow
MSN 1134. 39615 to reclamtion at Sheppard Field, TX Mar 22, 1951
42-39616 Northrop P-61B-15-NO Black Widow
MSN 1135. To reclamation at Mitchel Field, NY Jun 18, 1948
42-39617 Northrop P-61B-10-NO Black Widow
MSN 1136. To reclamtion at Brookley Field Aug 3, 1948
42-39618 Northrop P-61B-15-NO Black Widow
MSN 1137. Condemned salvage May 5, 1947. To reclamtion Nov 14, 1947
42-39619 Northrop P-61B-10-NO Black Widow
MSN 1138. To reclamtion at Rapid City Mar 17, 1947
42-39620 Northrop P-61B-16-NO Black Widow
MSN 1139. To reclation at Oberpaffafe, Germany May 27, 1948
42-39621 Northrop P-61B-11-NO Black Widow
MSN 1140. Transferred to US Navy as F2T-1 in range BuNo 52750/52761 Dec 11, 1945
42-39622 Northrop P-61B-16-NO Black Widow
MSN 1141. To reclamation at Eglin Field Nov 3, 1948
42-39623 Northrop P-61B-11-NO Black Widow
MSN 1142. To reclamation at Brookley Field Jul 14, 1949
42-39624 Northrop P-61B-16-NO Black Widow
MSN 1143. Crash landed due to engine failure near
Furth-Industriehafen, Germany Dec 6, 1945.
Condemned salvage Jan 5, 1946
42-39625 Northrop P-61B-11-NO Black Widow
MSN 1144. To reclamation at Rapid City, SD Apr 2,1947
42-39626 Northrop P-61B-16-NO Black Widow
MSN 1145. To reclamation at Oberpaffafe, Germany Nov 4, 1948
42-39627 Northrop P-61B-11-NO Black Widow
MSN 1146. W/o 21 Jan 1946 at Long Beach AAF, CA; To reclamation at Long Beach AAF, CA Mar 4, 1946
42-39628 Northrop P-61B-16-NO Black Widow
MSN 1147. Condemned salvage May 5, 1947. To reclamatin Nov 19, 1947
42-39629 Northrop P-61B-11-NO Black Widow
MSN 1148. To reclamation at Panama, CZ Jun 30, 1949
42-39630 Northrop P-61B-16-NO Black Widow
MSN 1149. To excess inventory list Dec 31, 1945
42-39631/39633 Northrop P-61B-15-NO Black Widow
MSN 1150/1152
39631 condemned New Zealand Nov 26, 1946. To reclamation Apr 29, 1948
39632 condemned salvage Sep 16, 1946. To reclamation Sep 22, 1949
39633 condemned salvage Sep 16, 1946. To reclamation Sep 22, 1949
42-39634/39636 Northrop P-61B-10-NO Black Widow
MSN 1153/1155
39634 crashlanded near Fresno, CA Feb 2, 1945. Surveyed at Hammer AF Feb 22, 1945
39635 transferred to US Navy as F2T-1 in range BuNo 52750/52761 Dec 11, 1945
39636 to reclamation at Brookley Field Aug 3, 1948
42-39637/39639 Northrop P-61B-15-NO Black Widow
MSN 1156/1158
39637 condemned salvage obsolete Sep 14, 1945
39638 to reclamatin at Achikawa, Japan Nov 23, 1949
39639 condemned salvage Oct 29, 1945
42-39640/39641 Northrop P-61B-10-NO Black Widow
MSN 1159/1160
39640 to reclamation at Hill Field, UT Dec 22, 1949
39641 to reclamation at Hill Field, UT Sep 24, 1948
42-39642 Northrop P-61B-15-NO Black Widow
MSN 1161. To reclamtion at Mitchel Field, NY Nov 18, 1944
42-39643 Northrop P-61B-10-NO Black Widow
MSN 1162. w/o Aug 26, 1947 at Adak AAF, AK. Condemned salvage Aug 27, 1947. To reclamation Dec 9, 1947
42-39644 Northrop P-61B-15-NO Black Widow
MSN 1163. To reclamation at Oberpaffafe, Germany Jan 10, 1948
42-39645 Northrop P-61B-10-NO Black Widow
MSN 1164. W/o Jul 6, 1945 at Los Banos, CA. Surveyed at Hammer AAF, CA Jul 7, 1945
42-39646 Northrop P-61B-15-NO Black Widow
MSN 1165. Condemned salvage May 5, 1947
42-39647 Northrop P-61B-10-NO Black Widow
MSN 1166. To reclamation at Panama, CZ Jun 30, 1949
42-39648/39649 Northrop P-61B-15-NO Black Widow
MSN 1167/1168
39648 to reclamation at Eglin Field Dec 16, 1948
39649 transferred to US Navy as F2T-1 in range BuNo 52750/52761 Dec 11, 1945
42-39650 Northrop P-61B-10-NO Black Widow
MSN 1169. To reclamation at Brookley Field Jun 14, 1949
42-39651 Northrop P-61B-15-NO Black Widow
MSN 1170
Transferred to US Navy as F2T-1 in range BuNo 52750/52761 Dec 11, 1945
42-39652 Northrop P-61B-10-NO Black Widow
MSN 1171
To reclamation at Mitchel Field, NY Nov 2, 1948
42-39653 Northrop P-61B-15-NO Black Widow
MSN 1172. Transferred to US Navy as F2T-1 in range BuNo 52750/52761 Dec 11, 1945
42-39654 Northrop P-61B-10-NO Black Widow
MSN 1173. To reclamation at Brookley Field Jul 14, 1949
42-39655 Northrop P-61B-15-NO Black Widow
MSN 1174. Hammer, Fresno, CA; SOC 11Dec45; intended for transfer to US Navy as F2T-1 for use by Marines;
wrecked on delivery to USN while taking off at El Paso, TX 12Dec45; 3058th Base Unit, Biggs, TX;
to reclamation at Biggs Field, TX Apr 4, 1946
42-39656 Northrop P-61B-10-NO Black Widow
MSN 1175. To reclamation at Rapid City AB, SD Mar 31, 1947
42-39657 Northrop P-61B-15-NO Black Widow
MSN 1176. To reclamation at Clark Field, Philippines Jun 6, 1949
42-39658 Northrop P-61B-10-NO Black Widow
MSN 1177. To reclamation at Spokane, WA Apr 17, 1947
42-39659/39661 Northrop P-61B-15-NO Black Widow
MSN 1178/1180
39659 to reclamation at Naha AB, Japan Mar 8, 1949
39660 to reclamation at Tachikawa, Japan Nov 23, 1949
39661 condemned for salvage Oct 16, 1947. To reclamation Oct 1, 1948
42-39662 Northrop P-61B-10-NO Black Widow
MSN 1181. To reclamation at Eglin Field Mar 8, 1949
42-39663/39665 Northrop P-61B-15-NO Black Widow
MSN 1182/1184
39663 condemned salvage non combat Oct 7, 1945
39664 condemned salvage Jun 29, 1945
39665 to reclamation at Naha AB, Japan Mar 8, 1949
42-39666/39667 Northrop P-61B-10-NO Black Widow
MSN 1185/1186
39666 to reclamation at Rapid City AAB, SD Apr 24, 1947
39667 to reclamation at Brookley Field, AL Jun 22, 1949
42-39668/39757 Northrop P-61B-15-NO Black Widow
MSN 1187/1276
39668 surveyed at Metropolitan Apt, Van Nuys, CA Sep 27, 1945. To reclamation Oct 3, 1945
39669 transferred to US Navy as F2T-1 in range BuNo 52750/52761 Dec 11, 1945
39670 condemned MIA Feb 8, 1945
39671 (MSN 1190) W/o 6�Jun 1945 at Van Nuys AAF, CA; to reclamation at Metropolitan Apt,
Van Nuys, CA Jun 19, 1945
39672 condemned salvage May 9, 1947
39673 condemned salvage Sep 20, 1945
39674 condemned salvage Apr 23, 1947
39675 to reclamation at Oberpafeafe, Germany Nov 4, 1948
39676 (310th FRS) w/o in takeoff accident at Burtonwood, England
Apr 29, 1945. Condemned salvage non battle damage Jun 11, 1945
39677 to reclamation at Hill Field, UT Mar 23, 1949
39678 condemned salvage Sep 3, 1946
39679 condemned salvage Dec 26, 1945
39680 crashlanded at Ondal, India Aug 17, 1945.
Condemned salvage Aug 22, 1945
39681 condemned salvage Jul 14, 1946
39682 condemned salvage Oct 29, 1945
39683 condemned salvage Oct 27, 1945
39684 (416th NFS) engine failed on takeoff and crashed at
Linz-Horsching, Austria Oct 30, 1945. Condemned salvage
crash Nov 5, 1945
39685 condemned salvage Oct 26, 1945
39686 (414th NFS) w/o in takeoff accident at Pontedera, Italy
Apr 26, 1945. Condemned crash Apr 26, 1945
39687 condemned salvage Oct 25, 1945
39688 to reclamation at Achikawa AB, Japan Jun 28, 1950
39689 condemned accident non combat Oct 14, 1945
39690 condemned salvage accident Aug 12, 1945
39691 to reclamation at Clark Field, Philippines Jun 6, 1949
39692/39695 condemned salvage not combat Oct 14, 1945
39696 condemned salvage obsolete Jun 12, 1947
39697 condemned salvage obsolete Jun 16, 1947
39698 condemned accident not combat Oct 14, 1945
39699 condemned accident not combat Sep 8, 1945
39700 to reclamation at Tachikawa AB, Japan Feb 14, 1950
39701 condemned accident Oct 7, 1945
39702 (MSN 1221) condemned salvage Sep 26, 1946. To reclamation Sep 27, 1947
39703 to reclamation at Naha AB, Japan Nov 23, 1949
39704 condemned accident Aug 21, 1946
39705 salvaged at Oberpaffaffe, Germany Nov 4, 1946
39706 scrapped at Eglin Field, FL Nov 20, 1946
39707 (416th NFS) crashed at Zimdorf, Germany Oct 7, 1945.
Condemned salvag Oct 16, 1945
39708 (MSN 1227) condemned salvage Oct 26, 1945
39708 condemned salvage May 5, 1947. To reclamation Nov 19, 1947
39709 condemned salvage May 5, 1947. To reclamation at Clark AB, Philippines Nov 19, 1947
39710 condemned salvage May 5, 1947. To reclamation Nov 19, 1947
39711 condemned salvage May 5, 1947. To reclamation Nov 19, 1947
39712 to reclamation at Brookley Field Nul 14, 1949
39713 condemned salvage Dec 31, 1945
39714 condemned salvage Dec 31, 1945
39715 condemned salvage Dec 31, 1945. A plane bearing the plaque
for construction number N1234 is on display at the Beijing
Institute of Aeronautical Engineering, China. The plane was left
in China at the end of the war and was seized by Communist
troops. the P-61B serialed 42-39715 was sent to Newark, New Jersey, on February 16, 1945
and departed the US ten days later for the China Burma India Theater. It was then
assigned to the Tenth Air Force, being allotted to the 427th Night Fighter Squadron
on March 3, 1945. At the end of the war the Communist Chinese came to one of the
forward airfields in Sichuan Province and ordered the Americans out, but instructed
them to leave their aircraft.
39716 condemned salvage Oct 29, 1945
39717 condemned salvage Oct 27, 1945
39718 condemned salvage Oct 27, 1945
39719 (427th NFS, 10th AF) crashed on takeoff near Dinjan, India
Jul 10, 1945. MACR 15504. Both crew killed. Aircraft condemned salvage Jul 17, 1945
39720 to reclamation at Panama, CZ Jun 30, 1949
39721 condemned salvage Oct 25, 1945
39722 condemned salvage Dec 31, 1945
39723 condemned salvage Oct 23, 1945
39724 condemned salvage Oct 25, 1945
39725 condemned salvage Dec 31, 1945
39726 to reclamation at Tinker AFB, OK Aug 26, 1948
39727 transferred to US Navy as F2T-1 in range BuNo 52750/52761 Jan 22, 1946
39728 to reclamation at Brookley Field Jul 14, 1949
39729 condemned salvage Apr 10, 1946
39730 to reclamation at Eglin AFB, FL Dec 20, 1948
39731 to reclamatin at Hamilton AFB, CA Jul 20, 1949
39732 to reclamation at Brookley Field Jun 22, 1949
39733 to reclamation at Eglin AFB, FL Jan 7, 1949
39734 condemned salvage May 5, 1947. To reclamation Nov 19, 1947.
39735 to reclamation at Hamilton AFB, CA Aug 30, 1949
39736 to reclamation at San Bernardino, CA Dec 12, 1949
39737 to reclamation at Hill AFB, UT Dec 31, 1949
39738 to reclamation at San Bernardino, CA Dec 21, 1949
39739 to reclamation at Oberaffafe, Germany Nov 4, 1948
39740 condemned salvage Jan 29, 1947
39741 condemned salvage Oct 25, 1945
39742 crashed 5 feet below the top of Quarry Peak, Yosemite, California Aug 28, 1944. Both crew killed.
Condemned salvage Oct 25, 1945
39743 condemned salvage Oct 16, 1945
39744 (MSN 1263) XOC Dec 22, 1945, transferred to US Navy in range BuNo 52750/52761 Jan 22, 1946 for use by Marines.
39745 condemned salvage obsolete Sep 14, 1945
39746 condemned salvage obsolete Sep 12, 1947
39747 condemned salvage Dec 25, 1945
39748 to reclamation at Hill Field, UT Feb 18, 1945
39749 (12th BG, 82nd BS) crashed at Madheiganj, India
Sep 22, 1945. Condemned salvage obsolete Sep 27, 1945
39750 condemned salvage Oct 23, 1945
39751 to reclamation at Brookley Field, AL Jul 17, 1949
39752 to reclamation at Tachikawa AB, Japan Dec 21, 1949
39753 to reclamation at Brookley Field, AL Apr 7, 1949
39754 assigned to NACA Aircraft engine Research Laboratory, Lewis Field, Cleveland, Ohio Oct 1945.
Used in flight test with ramjet engine. To reclamation at
Cleveland Muni Airport, OH Mar 18, 1949
39755 to reclamation at San Bernardino, CA Dec 12, 1949
39756 to reclamation at San Bernardino, CA Dec 12, 1949
39757 to reclamation at Naha AB, Japan Mar 8, 1949.