41-24340/24389 Boeing B-17F-1-BO Fortress
Information from Stewart Lanham and FORTLOG
MSN 3025/3074. Boeing Model 299P. Defence Aid contract for the Royal Air Force as
serial FA675/FA724. Diverted to USAAF after the Japanese attacks in Hawaii and the Philippines
Production changes: R-1820-97 engines. Frameless Plexiglass nose. Wide (paddle)-blade propellers.
Leak-proof oil tanks. Oxygen system change. Engine cowlings modified to permit
unimpeded propeller feathering
24340 (MSN 3025) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 30May42.
Bailed back to Boeing, Seattle, WA 26Jun42. Used for acceptance performance
testing at Seattle, WA. Flight Section, Materiel Command, Wright Field, Dayton, OH 26Jun42.
Ferrying Division, Air Transport Command, Cincinnati, OH 15Nov44.
223rd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN 3Dec44.
4136th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Materiel Area), Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 15Feb45.
330th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN 1Mar45.
2132nd Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Very Heavy), Maxwell Field, Montgomery, AL 1May45.
330th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN 2May45.
Ferrying Division, Air Transport Command, Cincinnati, OH Sep45.
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
Was not the plane that crashed Mar 13, 1943 (this was 42-29932)
24341 (MSN 3026) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 30May42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Jun42.
Sacramento Air Depot, McClellan Field, CA 2Aug42.
Class 26 ground instructional airframe 17Sep42.
Modified by Vega Aircraft Corporation as a bomber-escort aircraft [Vega project V-139].
The aircraft differed from the standard B-17 in that a second manned dorsal turret was
installed in the former radio compartment, just behind the bomb bay and forward of the
ventral ball turret's location. The single 0.50 calibre Browning machine gun at each waist position
was replaced by two mounted side by side.
The bombardier's equipment was replaced by two 0.50 calibre Browning AN/M2 machine guns in
a remotely operated Bendix designed chin turret. The cheek machine guns on the forward fuselage,
initially removed from the configuration, were restored in England to provide a total of sixteen guns,
and the bomb bay was converted as an ammunition magazine. Additional armor plating was
installed to protect the crew. A new tail gun made by the United Shoe Manufacturing Corporation
was installed. First flight 10Nov42. Douglas Aircraft Company, Modification Center #16, Tulsa Municipal Airport, OK 27Nov42.
Picked up from Class 26 28Nov42. Designated XB-40 28Nov42. Proving Ground Command, Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 19Nov42.
Loan to Wright Field, Dayton, OH 28Feb43.
Headquarters Materiel Command, Wright Field, Dayton, OH 15Mar43 as armament test bed.
610th Base Unit (Air Proving Ground Command), Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 30Jul44.
144th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training School), Moody Field, Valdosta, GA.
Headquarters Materiel Command, Wright Field, Dayton, OH 28Aug44.
1st Electronics Experimental Squadron, Air Service Command, Bedford Field, MA 29Aug44.
4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 2Nov44.
556th Base Unit (6th Ferrying Group, Air Transport Command), Long Beach Field, CA 24Nov44.
Ferried Dayton – Little Rock, AR - Biloxi, MS 24/27Nov44.
3704th Base Unit (Technical School), Keesler Field, Biloxi, MS 27Nov44.
Reclaim complete 4Apr45. Artwork of a gunslinger on left fuselage forward of the ‘star and bar’; “Let them come gang, I’ll take care of them!”
24342 (MSN 3027) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 30May42.
Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 28Jun42.
325th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, FL 13Jul42.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) 16Aug42.
North Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via Goose Bay, Labrador; from Gander,
Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 19/20Aug42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
325th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire Aug42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 7Aug42.
414th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 24Aug42.
Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 8Sep42.
Departed RAF Hurn, Bournemouth, Hampshire to North Africa 20Nov42.
Twelfth Air Force, Operation Torch Nov42.
414th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Maison Blanche, Algiers, Algeria 20Nov42.
Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 22Nov42.
Biskra, Algeria 25Dec42. Châteaudun-du-Rhumel (Helen), Constantine, Algeria 8Feb43.
Assigned to GLEN (Twelfth Air Force, Oran, Algeria) 23Apr43.
Failed to return from a mission to the satellite airdromes at Foggia, Italy 7Sep43 (7KIA:2POW:1EVD).
Flak was heavy and accurate, a burst of flak in the cockpit had blown the bombardier through the metal framed Plexiglas nose.
The plane received another direct hit between no.3 and 4 engines.
The explosion tore most of the wing off, disabling the two engines as the plane nosed over and crashed near the airdromes at Foggia.
Assigned to DUKO (Twelfth Air Force, Italy). Condemned 25Sep44. Named STINKY Jr.
24343 (MSN 3028) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 30May42.
Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 28Jun42.
92nd Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, FL 13Jul42.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) 16Aug42.
North Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via Goose Bay, Labrador.
VIII Bomber Command, England. 325th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire Aug42.
Named BLOOMING GROVE - artwork of the insignia of the 325th Bomb Squadron ‘Alley Oop’ riding a saber-toothed tiger.
342nd Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 24Aug42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 26Oct42.
Departed RAF Hurn, Bournemouth, Hampshire to North Africa 22Nov42.
Twelfth Air Force, Operation Torch Nov42.
342nd Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 22Nov42.
Biskra, Algeria 25Dec42.
Châteaudun-du-Rhumel (Helen), Constantine, Algeria 8Feb43.
414th Bomb Squadron. Condemned salvage in Oran, Algeria 15Mar43.
Named PEGGY D JR / PEGGY D II.
24344 (MSN 3029) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 11Jun42.
Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 28Jun42.
326th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 13Jul42.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) 12Aug42.
North Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 15/16Aug42.
VIII Bomber Command, England. 326th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire Aug42.
341st Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 24Aug42.
Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 8Sep42. 414th Bomb Squadron.
Failed to return from a mission to the submarine yards at Lorient, France 21Oct42 (8KIA:2POW).
The mission encountered adverse weather disturbances, and many of the planes were forced to turn back.
However, the formation that this bomber was in continued onto the briefed target.
Upon arrival over the target, the formation was met by heavy enemy fighter opposition.
Shot down with an engine on fire and crashed at Plouescat, near Morlaix, France.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 22Oct42.
MACR 15352.
24345 (MSN 3030) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 11Jun42.
Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 28Jun42.
326th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 13Jul42.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) 12Aug42.
North Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 15/16Aug42.
VIII Bomber Command, England. 326th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire Aug42.
342nd Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 24Aug42.
Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 8Sep42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 26Oct42.
Assigned to GLEN (Twelfth Air Force, Oran, Algeria) 6Nov42. Departed RAF Hurn, Bournemouth, Hampshire to North Africa 20Nov42.
Twelfth Air Force, Operation Torch Nov42.
342nd Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Maison Blanche, Algiers, Algeria 20Nov42.
Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 22Nov42. Biskra, Algeria 25Dec42.
Châteaudun-du-Rhumel (Helen), Constantine, Algeria 8Feb43.
Pont-du-Fahs, Tunisia 11Aug43.
Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 15Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43.
20th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Massicault, Tunis, Tunisia 14Nov43.
Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 10Dec43. {first combat mission 14Dec43}.
Failed to return from a mission to the airfield at Eleusis, Athens, Greece 20Dec43 (1POW:9EVD).
Struck by flak on leaving the target which disabled no.2 and 3 engines and set no.4 engine on fire.
Having dropped out of formation, and unable to turn with squadron, the plane was seen to bank and
side slip rapidly as the crew bailed out.
Enemy fighters attacked the plane but the airmen landed safely.
Crashed thirty-two miles westnorthwest of Eleusis, Greece. {5 missions}.Condemned 20Dec43
MACR 1514.
24346 (MSN 3031) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 17Jun42.
San Antonio Air Depot, Duncan Field, San Antonio, TX 19Jun42.
419th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 7Jul42.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) 6Aug42.
North Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via Goose Bay, Labrador; Patterson Field, Reykjavik,
Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 16Aug42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
419th Bomb Squadron [D], 301st Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire Aug42.
{first combat mission 26Sep42}.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 14Sep42.
RAF Hurn, Bournemouth, Hampshire 22Nov42.
Departed to North Africa 23Nov42. Twelfth Air Force, Operation Torch Nov42.
419th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 23Nov42.
Maison Blanche, Algiers, Algeria 6Dec42. Biskra, Algeria 21Dec42.
General Depot No.1, La Sénia, Oran, Algeria for engine replacement.
Aïn M’lila (Onyx), Constantine, Algeria.
Battle damaged by flak on a tactical mission to hit troops retreating through the Kasserine Mountain Pass, Boulaaba, Tunisia 23Feb43.
Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 8Mar43.
Battle damaged by flak on a tactical mission to the docks and shipping at Marsala, Sicily 11May43.
Battle damaged by enemy fighters on a mission to the Luftwaffe air depot at Cancello Arnone, Naples, Italy 21Jun43.
Battle damaged on a mission to Messina, Sicily 25Jun43.
Heavy flak and enemy fighters were encountered, 20mm cannon shells causing damage to the wings.
Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43.
348th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy, 13Dec43.
{56 missions}.
Air Depot Mar44.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom).
Returned to US 3Jun/4Jul44.
4136th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Service Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 6Aug44.
4136th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Technical Service Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 1Sep44.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Arledge Field, Stamford, TX for storage 23Nov44.
Named AVENGER
24347 (MSN 3032) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 16Jun42.
San Antonio Air Depot, Duncan Field, San Antonio, TX 19Jun42.
352nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 7Jul42.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) 6Aug42.
North Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via Goose Bay, Labrador.
VIII Bomber Command, England. 352nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire Aug42.
Accident en route Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire to Chelveston.
Crash landed with landing gear retracted after fuel exhaustion at RAF Church Lawford, Warwickshire 9Aug42 (9RMC).
Salvaged; first B-17 aircraft salvaged in UK.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 31Oct44. Named DOC STORK..
24348 (MSN 3033) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 16Jun42.
San Antonio Air Depot, Duncan Field, San Antonio, TX 19Jun42.
353rd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 1Jul42.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) 6Aug42.
North Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via Goose Bay, Labrador.
Damaged when force landed in bad weather and crashed into parked Lockheed P-38F Lightning 42-12578
at Bluie West One, Narsarsuaq, Greenland en route UK 3Aug42.
Ferried Patterson Field, Reykjavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 9Sep42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
353rd Bomb Squadron [E], 301st Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire Sep42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 26Oct42.
RAF Hurn, Bournemouth, Hampshire 22Nov42.
Departed to North Africa 23Nov42.
Twelfth Air Force, Operation Torch Nov42. 353rd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 23Nov42.
Maison Blanche, Algiers, Algeria 6Dec42.
Substantially damaged landing at Maison Blanche 7Dec42. {41 missions}.
Assigned to DUKO (Twelfth Air Force, Italy). Condemned salvage 24Sep44.
Named PEGASUS.
24349 MSN 3034) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 4Jun42.
6th Ferrying Group, Air Transport Command, Long Beach Field, CA.
Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 23Jun42.
6th Ferrying Group. Crashed and destroyed landing at Bellefonte CAA Intermediate Landing Field, PA 26Jun42.
Condemned and salvaged by Middletown Air Depot 1Jul42
24350 (MSN 3035) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 12Jun42.
Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 28Jun42.
352nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 13Jul42.
Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 14Jul42.
352nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 17Jul42.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) 6Aug42.
North Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via Goose Bay, Labrador.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
352nd Bomb Squadron [G], 301st Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire Jul42.
Operated weather flights between Prestwick, Scotland and Patterson Field, Reykjavik, Iceland Jul/Aug42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 13Sep42.
RAF Hurn, Bournemouth, Hampshire 22Nov42.
Departed to North Africa 23Nov42.
Twelfth Air Force, Operation Torch Nov42.
32nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 23Nov42.
Battle damaged on a mission to the docks at Bizerte, Tunisia 4Dec42 (2WIA:8RMC).
Force landed on a fighter airfield at Bône, Algeria. 36th Air Depot, Maison Blanche, Algiers, Algeria, for repair.
On return flight to the Group, now at Biskra, Algeria, the plane exploded in mid-air and crashed at Maoussa,
six miles east of Mascara, Algeria 7Jan43 (crew of nine and three passengers were killed). {8 missions}.
Assigned to GLEN (Twelfth Air Force, Oran, Algeria). Condemned.
Named DUMBO - artwork of a flying elephant. Painted by Sgt Eugene Townsend (32BS/301BG).)
Also listed as being lost Nov 30, 1942 with 301st BG, 352nd BS. MACR 16242.
24351 (MSN 3036) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 11Jun42.
Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 28Jun42.
353rd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 12Jul42.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) Aug42.
North Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via Goose Bay, Labrador; Patterson Field,
Reykjavik, Iceland to RAF Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland 3Aug42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
353rd Bomb Squadron [B], 301st Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire Aug42.
{first combat mission 5Sep42}.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 13Sep42.
RAF Hurn, Bournemouth, Hampshire 22Nov42.
Departed to North Africa 23Nov42.
Twelfth Air Force, Operation Torch Nov42.
352nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 23Nov42.
Substantially damaged in an accident taking off Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 30Nov42.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. {55 missions}.
416th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 14Dec43. {21 missions}.
840th Bomb Squadron, 483rd Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 31Mar44.
Sterparone, Foggia, Italy 22Apr44.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom).
Returned to US 13/17Jun44.
1104th Base Unit (Caribbean Division, Air Transport Command), Homestead Field (Station 8), FL 17Jun44.
4136th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Service Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 6Aug44.
Ferrying Division, Air Transport Command, Cincinnati, OH 13Feb45.
4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 14Feb45.
4160th Base Unit (Sacramento Air Technical Service Command), Albuquerque AAB, NM 13Jul45.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 17Jul45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to American Compressed Steel Corporation, Cincinnati, OH Jul46; scrapped.
Named HEINIE HEADHUNTERS / TAIL END CHARLIE
Also listed as (*My Lovin' Dove*) ditched after enemy action near Nauri Island, SW Pacific
Feb 9, 1942. Crew picked up after 66 days at sea.
24352 MSN 3037) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 11Jun42.
Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 28Jun42.
352nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 12Jul42.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) 6Aug42.
North Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via Goose Bay, Labrador.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
352nd Bomb Squadron [H], 301st Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire Jul42.
Operated weather flights between Prestwick, Scotland and Patterson Field, Reykjavik, Iceland Jul/Aug42.
{first combat mission 5Sep42}.
Severely battle damaged on a mission to the Compagnie de Fives steel works at Lille, France 9Oct42.
The crew prepared to bail out but the bomber made it back to Chelveston with one engine on fire,
two propellers feathered and a couple of hundred holes in it.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 27Sep42.
RAF Hurn, Bournemouth, Hampshire 22Nov42.
Departed to North Africa 23Nov42.
Twelfth Air Force, Operation Torch Nov42.
352nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 23Nov42.
Maison Blanche, Algiers, Algeria Dec42.
Biskra, Algeria Dec42.
Assigned to GLEN (Twelfth Air Force, Oran, Algeria) 20Jan43.
Aïn M’lila (Onyx), Constantine, Algeria Jan43.
Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria Mar43.
Accident returning from a mission to the town of Palermo, Sicily 9May43.
Crash landed at Mateur, Tunisia. Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia Aug43.
Flak damage on a mission over Italy 6Nov43. {40 missions}.
Returned to US Oct45.
1103rd Base Unit (Caribbean Division, Air Transport Command), Morrison Field (Station 11), West Palm Beach, FL 22Oct45.
Ferrying Division, Air Transport Command, Cincinnati, OH Oct45.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 31Oct45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
Named HOLEY JOE. Named after the plane was badly damaged 9Oct42
24353 (MSN 3038) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 11Jun42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28Jun42.
Sacramento Air Depot, McClellan Field, CA 27Jul42.
West Coast Wing, Air Transport Command, Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA 29Jul42; preparation for overseas service.
Assigned to SUMAC (Fifth Air Force, Australia) 31Jul42.
Ferried on the South Pacific route via Hickam Field, Hawaii then across the Pacific to Australia.
Fifth Air Force. 63rd Bomb Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group, Charleville, QLD, Australia 31Jul42.
Torrens Creek, QLD 3Aug42. Mareeba, QLD 20Aug42.
Jackson Field (7 Mile Drome), Port Moresby, New Guinea 23Jan43.
The B-17 took off from Jackson Field (7 Mile Drome) 5Sep43 with General Kenney
aboard to observe the US Army's 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment paratrooper drop on Nadzab.
The flight was dubbed by General Kenney as the ‘Brass Hat's Flight’.
Also in the flight was B-17F ‘The Mustang’ 41-24554 carrying General Richard Sutherland, plus
B-17F ‘Talisman’ 41-24537 with General MacArthur aboard.
{final combat mission with 43BG 18Oct43}. {81 missions}.
4th Air Depot, RAAF Garbutt, Townsville, QLD Nov43.
Converted as an armed transport to drop supplies to forward Allied patrols in enemy territory.
69th Troop Carrier Squadron [371], 433rd Troop Carrier Group, 54th Troop Carrier Wing, Dobodura, New Guinea 13Dec43.
It was one of eight B-17 armed transports that took off from Finschhafen airfield to make supply runs dropping
weapons, ammunition, barbed wire and blood plasma to the US Army 1st Calvary Division that had landed
on Los Negros Island, Admiralty Islands, and strafed enemy positions in the area 1-2Mar44.
Nazab, New Guinea 12Mar44. WFU and returned Australia 10Aug44.
Assigned as the personal transport of General Robert Eichelberger, commanding Officer of
US Eighth Army based at Hollandia, New Guinea Sep44. {final flight with US Eighth Army 6Aug45}.
{160 flights with US Eighth Army}. {63 combat missions with US Eighth Army}.
Nichols Field, Manila, Philippines 6Aug45.
Assigned to OSSO (Fifth Air Force, Tacloban, Leyte, Philippines).
Condemned salvage at Tacloban, Leyte, Philippines 30Apr46.
Named CAP'N & THE KIDS / MISS EM. Eichelberger nicknamed the bomber "MISS EM" in
honor of his wife, Emaline
24354 (MSN 3039) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 11Jun42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28Jun42.
Sacramento Air Depot, McClellan Field, CA 6Aug42.
West Coast Wing, Air Transport Command, Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA 6Aug42; preparation for overseas service.
Assigned to SUMAC (Fifth Air Force, Australia) 21Aug42.
Ferried on the South Pacific route via Hickam Field, Hawaii then across the Pacific to Australia.
Fifth Air Force. 93rd Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group, Mareeba airfield, QLD, Australia.
One of eight B-17s that took off from Mareeba airfield on a mission against a Japanese convoy
off Milne Bay, New Guinea 26Aug42.
The formation bombed from roughly 1,500 feet and experienced accurate anti-aircraft fire from the ships.
At the start of the bomb run, the plane suffered a direct hit from anti-aircraft fire in the no.2 engine
and fuel tank setting it on fire. Immediately, the bomber nosed over upside down and crashed into
Milne Bay with the loss of the entire crew (9MIA).
Before sinking, the B-17 skidded along the surface leaving behind a trail of burning fuel in the sea.
Assigned to LEFT (Fifth Air Force, Brisbane, Australia). Condemned 31Oct44.
24355 (MSN 3040) Accepted by USAAF 11Jun42. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 28Jun42. Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA for preparation for overseas
duty. Ferried on the South Pacific route via Hickam Field, Hawaii then across the Pacific to
Australia. Departed from Hamilton Field, CA 28Jul42. Hickam Field, Hawaii; Christmas Island,
Line Islands; Canton Island, Phoenix Islands; Nadi, Viti Levu, Fiji; Plaines des Gaiacs airfield,
Nouméa, New Caledonia, arriving at Brisbane, QLD, Australia 6Aug42. Fifth Air Force.
30th Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group, Charleville, QLD, Australia Aug42. TDY for training
purposes for the crew to gain experience. 63rd Bomb Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group,
Torrens Creek, QLD 12Aug42. Mareeba airfield, QLD 20Aug42. Jackson Field (7 Mile Drome),
Port Moresby, New Guinea 23Jan43. Took off from Jackson Field on a night bombing mission
armed with 300 pound and 100 pound wire wrapped bombs as one of five B-17s on a night
harassment mission over Rabaul, New Britain 1Feb43 (1KIA). Earlier in the night, seven B-17s
from the 64th Bomb Squadron harassed the area until departing as this formation arrived.
Over the target, the formation bombed Lakunai airfield causing fires and secondary explosions.
The plane was struck by anti-aircraft fire that killed the tail gunner. Shrapnel caused roughly
fifty holes in the bomber but returned to land safely at Jackson Field. 64th Bomb Squadron,
43rd Bomb Group 20Feb43. The aircraft took off on a training flight from Jackson Field 17Apr43.
While flying in close formation over the sea near Hood Point, thirty miles southeast of
Port Moresby, B-17F 41-24425 was caught in a sudden down draft and the propellers
collided with #355. This aircraft sustained damage to the vertical stabiliser and rudder
and returned to land safely at Jackson Field. The other bomber crashed into the sea, killing
the entire crew. {final combat mission 13Jul43}. 65th Bomb Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group 22Jul43.
Damaged when it was taxied into a ditch at Jackson Field (7 Mile Drome), Port Moresby 16Sep43.
SOC 21Sep43. Named DINAH MIGHT ?.
24356 (MSN 3041) Accepted by USAAF 11Jun42. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 28Jun42. Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA for preparation for overseas
duty. Ferried on the South Pacific route via Hickam Field, Hawaii then across the Pacific to
Australia. Fifth Air Force. 63rd Bomb Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group, Torrens Creek, QLD 12Aug42.
Mareeba airfield, QLD 20Aug42. {first combat mission 14Sep42}. Jackson Field (7 Mile Drome),
Port Moresby, New Guinea 23Jan43. Took off from Jackson Field during the Battle of the Bismarck Sea
on a mission against a Japanese convoy of transports and destroyers bound for Lae 3Mar43 (10MIA).
Over the target this aircraft and two others were attacked by Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighters.
During a firing pass, one of the Zeros attacked from below and hit the fuselage causing a fire to
ignite inside the plane that extended out the waist windows and tail. Damaged, the aircraft
released its bombs on the target and seven crew were observed to bail out. Of the seven that bailed
out, one fell out of his parachute harness and fell to his death; the other six parachutes deployed
successfully but were strafed unmercifully by ‘clipped wing’ [A6M3] Zeros. With the pilots still at the
controls, at 1,000 feet the tail of the B-17 wrenched off and floated downward. The rest of the
bomber exploded and disintegrated just before it crashed into the sea; a few moments later it sank
beneath the waves. Named KA-PUHIO-WELA (Hawaiian for ‘double trouble’) / DOUBLE TROUBLE.
24357 (MSN 3042) Accepted by USAAF 11Jun42. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 28Jun42. Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA for preparation for overseas duty.
Ferried on the South Pacific route via Hickam Field, Hawaii then across the Pacific to Australia.
Departed from Hamilton Field, CA 28Jul42. Hickam Field, Hawaii; Christmas Island, Line Islands;
Canton Island, Phoenix Islands; Nadi, Viti Levu, Fiji; Plaines des Gaiacs airfield, Nouméa, New Caledonia,
arriving at Brisbane, QLD, Australia 6Aug42. Fifth Air Force. 19th Bomb Group, Charleville, QLD,
Australia Aug42. TDY for training purposes for the crew to gain experience. 63rd Bomb Squadron,
43rd Bomb Group, Torrens Creek, QLD 12Aug42. Mareeba airfield, QLD 20Aug42. Jackson
Field (7 Mile Drome), Port Moresby, New Guinea 23Jan43. {final combat mission Oct43}. 4th Air Depot,
RAAF Garbutt, Townsville, QLD Nov43. Converted as an armed transport to drop supplies to forward
Allied patrols in enemy territory. 41st Troop Carrier Squadron [75], 317th Troop Carrier Group,
54th Troop Carrier Wing, Port Moresby, New Guinea. WFU and returned Australia Jul44. 4th Air
Depot, RAAF Garbutt, Townsville, QLD. Scrapped Australia Sep45.
Named MAMA MAXIE / TOJO’S NITE MARE / BLONDE BOMBER / THE SUPER CHIEF..
24358 (MSN 3043) Accepted by USAAF 11Jun42. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 28Jun42. Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA for preparation for overseas duty.
Ferried on the South Pacific route via Hickam Field, Hawaii then across the Pacific to Australia.
Fifth Air Force. 63rd Bomb Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group, Torrens Creek, QLD 14Aug42. Mareeba
airfield, QLD 20Aug42. Jackson Field (7 Mile Drome), Port Moresby, New Guinea 23Jan43.
Battle damaged during the Battle of the Bismarck Sea on a mission against a Japanese
convoy of transports and destroyers bound for Lae 3Mar43. Over the target the aircraft was
attacked by Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighters. Took off from Jackson Field as one of
seven B-17s from the 63rd BS on a night mission to bomb the Japanese airfield at Lakunai
near Rabaul, New Britain 9Jun43 (1WIA). Early the following morning the bombers reached
the target area and saw search lights on the ground and anti-aircraft fire. While flying at
around 7,000 feet, the plane was fired on from below by a Japanese Navy J1N1 Irving night
fighter piloted by W/O Satoru Ono that scored hits on the left wing and fuselage while other
tracers were observed just missing the nose. One of the gunners was wounded by 20mm cannon
shell fragments. {final combat mission 17Oct43}. 4th Air Depot, RAAF Garbutt, Townsville, QLD Nov43.
Converted to a staff transport; during the modification, the bomber was stripped to bare metal
finish and the gun turrets and armament were removed. 68th Troop Carrier Squadron, 433rd Troop
Carrier Group, 54th Troop Carrier Wing, Port Moresby, New Guinea Nov43. During 1944-1945,
used as staff transport aircraft for Fifth Air Force headquarters in New Guinea, operating from
Nadzab and Hollandia. During 1945, operated from the Philippines where it was scrapped.
Salvaged 13Sep45. Named LULU BELLE - artwork of a cartoon figure smoking a cigar, giving a
thumbs up and wearing a white sweater.
24359 (MSN 3044) Accepted by USAAF 12Jun42. 301st Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee
Falls, MA 8Sep42. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME.
Ferried to RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador. Ferried Patterson Field, Reykjavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 6Sep42. 32nd Bomb Squadron [F], 301st Bomb Group, Chelveston, UK 16Sep42. {4 missions}.
The plane was a hangar queen and left behind when the 301st Bomb Group went to North Africa.
813th Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106),
Northamptonshire 25Nov42. Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 11Dec42.
RAF Wyton, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire (RAF Pathfinder base) for installation of Oboe Mk I
radar equipment. 325th Bomb Squadron [NV*F], 92nd Bomb Group, Podington (Station 109),
Bedfordshire 24Apr43. 813th Bomb Squadron, 482nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102),
Huntingdonshire 25Aug43. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton (Station 547),
Huntingdonshire 21Jan44. Regained by Group 20Feb44. Air Force Service Command 15Mar44.
Returned to US 8Apr44. Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 11Jun44. 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. Name TURD BURD.
24360 (MSN 3045) Lend-Lease to Royal Air Force as Fortress Mark II, serial FA675. Diverted to USAAF
prior to delivery. Accepted by USAAF 13Jun42. 419th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Westover
Field, Chicopee Falls, MA Jul42. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME.
Ferried to RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador. Ferried Patterson Field, Reykjavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 16Aug42. 419th Bomb Squadron [J], 301st Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105),
Northamptonshire Aug42. {first combat mission 5Sep42}. Damaged taxying at Chelveston 17Oct42.
Twelfth Air Force, North Africa Nov42. RAF Hurn, Bournemouth, Hampshire 22Nov42. Departed to
North Africa 23Nov42. 419th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 23Nov42.
Operation Torch Nov42. Maison Blanche, Algiers, Algeria Dec42. Biskra, Algeria Dec42. Aïn M’lila (Onyx),
Constantine, Algeria 16Jan43. Battle damaged on a mission to the naval base at Bizerte, Tunisia 23Jan43.
Intense flak and enemy fighters were encountered, flak causing damage to this plane.
Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria Mar43. Battle damaged by flak on a tactical mission to a
railway bridge at Messina, Sicily 12Jul43. Battle damaged by flak on a mission to railway marshalling
yards at Naples, Italy 15Jul43. Substantially battle damaged by flak on a mission to the docks at Naples,
Italy 4Aug43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia Aug43. {100th combat mission 15Sep43}. Damaged by
flak during final combat mission to transportation infrastructure in Italy 16Sep43. {101 missions}.
Total aircraft flying hours 760.15. Returned to US departing Oudna 27Sep43. To Reconstruction Finance
Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 27Aug45. Named HELL'S KITCHEN.
24361 MSN 3046) Lend-Lease to Royal Air Force as Fortress Mark II, serial FA676. Diverted to USAAF
prior to delivery. Accepted by USAAF 14Jun42. 301st Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee
Falls, MA 18Jul42. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME. Ferried
to RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador. Ferried Patterson Field, Reykjavik, Iceland to RAF Stornoway,
Isle of Lewis, Scotland 6/Sep42. 32nd Bomb Squadron [J], 301st Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105),
Northamptonshire Sep42. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa 24Nov42. RAF Hurn, Bournemouth, Hampshire 22Nov42.
Departed to North Africa 23Nov42. 32nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 23Nov42.
Operation Torch Nov42. Maison Blanche, Algiers, Algeria 6Dec42. Biskra, Algeria 16Dec42. Aïn M’lila (Onyx),
Constantine, Algeria 16Jan43. Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 8Mar43. {52 missions}.
99th Bomb Group, Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia Oct43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. {5 missions}.
96th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Massicault, Tunis, Tunisia 14Nov43. {first combat mission 16Nov43}.
Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 10Dec43. Battle damaged during a mission to the ball bearing works at Villar
Perosa, Turin, Italy 3Jan44 (2WIA:8RTD). Two to four enemy fighters attacked the formation before
and after the target; the attacks were very aggressive. This action, and flak, accounted for damage
to the plane, wounding the co-pilot and a waist gunner. Battle damaged on a mission to the business
district of Sofia, Bulgaria 10Jan44 (1KIA:9RTD). Attacked by enemy aircraft over Sofia, The engineer/top
turret gunner was killed by cannon fire. Operated a mission to the railway marshalling yards at
Padua, Italy 11Mar44. A group of lower flying B-24 Liberators on a different axis of attack caused the
planes of the 2nd Bomb Group 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 formation, consisting of B-17Gs, pulled ahead and left this B-17F
trailing and exposed. The pilot had trained on Curtiss P-40 Warhawks and treated this bomber
as if it was a fighter to avoid several rocket attacks. Surprised that the bomber was still flying,
a couple of Bf 109s came close to inspect but the bomber had not been damaged and returned
safely to base. {46 missions}. 348th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly),
Tortorella, Italy 28Mar44. 840th Bomb Squadron, 483rd Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly),
Tortorella, Italy 31Mar44. Sterparone, Foggia, Italy 22Apr44. {98 missions in total}. Returned to US 11Jun44.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 20Aug45.
Named WABASH CANNON BALL. Painted by Sgt Eugene Townsend (32BS/301BG).
24362 (MSN 3047) Lend-Lease to Royal Air Force as Fortress Mark II, serial FA677. Diverted to USAAF
prior to delivery. Accepted by USAAF 12Jun42. 419th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Westover Field,
Chicopee Falls, MA. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME.
Ferried to RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador. Ferried Patterson Field, Reykjavik, Iceland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 26Jul42. 419th Bomb Squadron [B], 301st Bomb Group,
Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 6Aug42. {first combat mission 5Sep42}. Failed to
return from a mission to the Compagnie de Fives steel works at Lille, France 9Oct42 (10RTD).
Enemy fighters disabled two engines and damaged a third. Losing altitude during the return
to base and unable to make landfall across the North Sea, the bomber was ditched close to
Margate, Kent. The crew was saved by British Air-Sea Rescue launch within twenty minutes.
First rescue-at-sea for 8th AF. Aircraft had logged 3 missions
24363 (MSN 3048) Lend-Lease to Royal Air Force as Fortress Mark II, serial FA678. Diverted to USAAF
prior to delivery. Accepted by USAAF 14Jun42. 352nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group,
Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA Jul42. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME Jul42. Ferried to RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador. Ferried Patterson Field,
Reykjavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 26Jul42. 352nd Bomb Squadron [D],
301st Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 6Aug42. Aircraft and crew
reviewed by King George VI at Podington 13Nov42. [the aircraft was still marked as serial FA678
when reviewed by King George VI]. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa 24Nov42. RAF Hurn, Bournemouth,
Hampshire 22Nov42. Departed to North Africa 23Nov42. Operation Torch Nov42. 32nd Bomb Squadron,
301st Bomb Group, Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 23Nov42. Failed to return from a mission to the docks
at Bizerte, Tunisia 28Nov42 (9KIA). Attacked by a Bf 109 fighter shortly after completing its bomb
run and exploded. {6 missions}. Claimed by Feldwebel Anton Hafer of II./JG 51.
Named BAD PENNY. Painted by Sgt Eugene Townsend (32BS/301BG MACR 16197
(issued after the end of the war)
24364 (MSN 3049) Lend-Lease to Royal Air Force as Fortress Mark II, serial FA679. Diverted to USAAF
prior to delivery. Accepted by USAAF 17Jun42. 353rd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group,
Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 6Aug42. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME. Ferried to RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador. Ferried Patterson Field, Reykjavik,
Iceland to Stansted (Station 169), Essex 22Aug42. 353rd Bomb Squadron [H], 301st Bomb Group,
Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire Aug42. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa Nov42. RAF Hurn,
Bournemouth, Hampshire 22Nov42. Departed to North Africa 23Nov42. Operation Torch Nov42.
353rd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 23Nov42. Maison Blanche,
Algiers, Algeria Dec42. Biskra, Algeria Dec42. Aïn M’lila (Onyx), Constantine, Algeria Jan43.
Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria Mar43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia Aug43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. {64 missions}. 419th Bomb Squadron 13Nov43. 429th Bomb Squadron,
2nd Bomb Group, Massicault, Tunis, Tunisia 14Nov43. {first combat mission 16Nov43}.
Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 10Dec43. Failed to return from a mission to the railway marshalling yard
and a road bridge at Certaldo, Florence, Italy 15Jan44 (5POW:5EVD). The plane was hit by flak over
Northern Italy en route to the target. No.2 engine oil line was broken; oil covered the ball turret,
fire was put out and the propeller feathered. The pilot tried staying with the formation and the
crew jettisoned the bombs into Lago Trasimeno to lighten the aircraft. The Group did not encounter
enemy fighters or flak in the target area, but because of confusion and errors in navigation,
flew in the vicinity of Perugia airfield. The twenty-five to thirty airfield defense guns threw up a
flak barrage over a stretch of fifteen miles. A short while later the No.1 engine began to run hot,
the No.3 and No.4 engines were running okay, but the plane was losing altitude at the rate of
300 feet a minute. At 16,000ft, the crew threw out everything not bolted down. The bomber was
last seen forty-eight miles northeast of Terni, Italy, with number one propeller feathered and smoke
coming from number four engine, as the airplane lost altitude. When the aircraft was down to
13,000ft, the pilot informed the crew to bail out. The navigator and bombardier bailed out and
the rest of the crew followed; they had bailed out near Radicofani and the aircraft crashed at Chiusi,
Siena, Italy. {18 missions}. MACR 1814. Named ETHEL. Named after the girlfriend of one of the crewmen.
The ball turret had been jettisoned into Lago di Bolsena; it was recovered 2013 and exhibited
in the Museum of Bolensa, Italy. "Eileen Lois" is painted on the turret .
24365 (MSN 3050) Lend-Lease to Royal Air Force as Fortress Mark II, serial FA680. Diverted to USAAF
prior to delivery. Accepted by USAAF 12Jun42. 407th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 28Jun42. Accident landing at Dow Field 20Jul42. Salvaged. North
Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME. Ferried to RCAF Goose Bay,
Labrador. Ferried Patterson Field, Reykjavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 1Apr43.
364th Bomb Squadron [WF*E:WF*Z], 305th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106),
Northamptonshire 29Apr43. Used for Standard Beam Approach training. Returned to US.
Grenier Field, Manchester, NH 18Jan44
24366 (MSN 3051) Lend-Lease to Royal Air Force as Fortress Mark II, serial FA681. Diverted to USAAF
prior to delivery. Accepted by USAAF 14Jun42. 353rd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group,
Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 7Jul42. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME. Ferried to RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador. Ferried Patterson Field, Reykjavik,
Iceland to Stansted (Station 169), Essex 22Aug42. 353rd Bomb Squadron [G], 301st Bomb Group,
Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire Aug42. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa Nov42.
RAF Hurn, Bournemouth, Hampshire 22Nov42. Departed to North Africa 23Nov42.
Operation Torch Nov42. 353rd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 23Nov42.
Maison Blanche, Algiers, Algeria Dec42. Biskra, Algeria Dec42. Aïn M’lila (Onyx), Constantine,
Algeria Jan43. Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria Mar43. {6 missions}. General
Depot No.1, La Sénia, Oran, Algeria Mar43. 346th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group,
Navarin (Overcoat), El Eulma, Algeria 3Apr43. General Depot No.1, La Sénia, Oran, Algeria 5Jul43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. 429th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group. Foggia #7, Amendola,
Italy 10Dec43. {first combat mission 25Dec43}. Battle damaged during a mission to Verona,
Italy 30Dec43 (2WIA:8RTD). The primary target could not be reached because of bad weather
and diverted to the railway marshalling yards at Ravenna, Italy. A flight of twenty to thirty
enemy fighters attacked the Group just before bombing, 20mm cannon shells wounding the
co-pilot and navigator. Severely battle damaged on a mission to the business district of Sofia,
Bulgaria 10Jan44 (1KIA:5WIA:4RTD). Flak was moderate and accurate. Enemy fighters, Ju 88s
and Bf 109s, attacked the formation aggressively, for nineteen minutes before, during, and after
the bomb run. The engineer/top turret gunner was killed by fighter cannon fire. {10 missions}.
Air Depot Mar44. 99th Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 3Apr44. Declared ‘war weary’.
14th Fighter Group, Triolo, Italy. Used as the group hack. Coming in for a landing, The pilot aborted
the landing and increased power to go around the aircraft went straight up in the air, stalled and
fell off on the right wing. Crashed and exploded at Aghione, Corsica 17Aug44 (13KIS). Salvaged.
Named PUFFIN’ HUSSY II / K.O. .
24367 (MSN 3052) Lend-Lease to Royal Air Force as Fortress Mark II, serial FA682. Diverted to USAAF
prior to delivery. Accepted by USAAF 14Jun42. 419th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group,
Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 7Jul42. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME. Ferried to RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador. Ferried Patterson Field, Reykjavik,
Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 26Jul42. 419th Bomb Squadron [E], 301st Bomb
Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 6Aug42. {first combat mission 5Sep42}.
Twelfth Air Force, North Africa Nov42. Departed RAF Hurn, Bournemouth, Hampshire to North
Africa 25Nov42. Operation Torch Nov42. 419th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Tafraoui,
Oran, Algeria 25Nov42. Maison Blanche, Algiers, Algeria Dec42. Biskra, Algeria Dec42. The plane
was out of commission; it had been suffering problems with No.3 engine since leaving Chelveston.
In addition, the No.2 fuel tank had a bullet hole in it and begun to leak, so was waiting a replacement.
Damaged beyond repair during a Luftwaffe Ju 88 night raid on the air base at Biskra 10Jan43.
Three planes were damaged; this B-17, a Douglas C-47 got a direct hit and a Lockheed P-38 Lightning
was hit by bomb fragments and set on fire. This plane was in the maintenance area for repairs
and two of the above were within twenty yards of it. One bomb hit in front of the B-17 and two
at the rear making a triangle and it got hit from all angles. {20 missions}. Salvaged 14Jan43.
24368 (MSN 3053) Lend-Lease to Royal Air Force as Fortress Mark II, serial FA683. Diverted to USAAF
prior to delivery. Accepted by USAAF 17Jun42. 352nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group,
Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA Jul42. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME. Ferried to RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador. Ferried Patterson Field, Reykjavik,
Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 16Aug42. 352nd Bomb Squadron [B], 301st Bomb Group,
Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire Aug42. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa Nov42.
RAF Hurn, Bournemouth, Hampshire 22Nov42. Departed to North Africa 23Nov42. Operation
Torch Nov42. 352nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 23Nov42.
Battle damaged by flak and enemy fighters on a mission to the docks at Bizerte, Tunisia 4Dec42.
On return, crash landed at Bône, Algeria. {6 missions}. Condemned and salvaged 8Dec42.
Named MAVERICK
24369 (MSN 3054) Lend-Lease to Royal Air Force as Fortress Mark II, serial FA684. Diverted to USAAF
prior to delivery. Accepted by USAAF 17Jun42. 32nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group,
Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 6Jul42. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME. Ferried to RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador. 32nd Bomb Squadron [J],
301st Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 6Aug42. Twelfth Air
Force, North Africa Nov42. RAF Hurn, Bournemouth, Hampshire 22Nov42. Departed to
North Africa 23Nov42. Operation Torch Nov42. 32nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group,
Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 23Nov42. Maison Blanche, Algiers, Algeria Dec42. Battle damaged
by flak and enemy fighters on a mission to the docks at Bizerte, Tunisia 4Dec42. On return,
crash landed at Maison Blanche. Biskra, Algeria Dec42. Battle damaged on a mission to the
docks at Bizerte, Tunisia 15Dec42. [the aircraft was still marked as serial FA684 when p
hotographed at Biskra, Algeria Dec42]. {86 missions}. Salvaged at Biskra, Algeria 28Jul43.
Named SPECIAL DELIVERY. Painted by Sgt Eugene Townsend (32BS/301BG
24370 (MSN 3055) Lend-Lease to Royal Air Force as Fortress Mark II, serial FA685. Diverted to USAAF
prior to delivery. Accepted by USAAF 17Jun42. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 24Jun42. 92nd Bomb Group, Dow Field, ME Jun42. North Atlantic
Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME. Ferried to RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador.
92nd Bomb Group, Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire Aug42. 342nd Bomb Squadron,
97th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 24Aug42. {first combat
mission 28Aug42}. Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 8Sep42. Twelfth Air Force,
North Africa Nov42. Departed RAF Hurn, Bournemouth, Hampshire to North Africa 20Nov42.
Operation Torch Nov42. 342nd Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Maison Blanche, Algiers,
Algeria 20Nov42. Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 22Nov42. Biskra, Algeria 25Dec42.
Châteaudun-du-Rhumel (Helen), Constantine, Algeria 8Feb43. Pont-du-Fahs, Tunisia 11Aug43.
Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 15Aug43. The first MTO B-17 to complete 100 missions. {103 missions}.
Returned to US 26Sep43. MacDill Field, Tampa, FL. Intended for a War Bond tour, the crew was
split up and the plane was sent to Eglin Field. Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 12Oct43. Was due to
return to Boeing but shot down as a drone before paperwork completed. SOC Jan45.
Named PALE FACE / BERLIN SLEEPER II
24371 (MSN 3056) Lend-Lease to Royal Air Force as Fortress Mark II, serial FA686. Diverted to
USAAF prior to delivery. Accepted by USAAF 21Jun42. 353rd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb
Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 23Jun42. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Presque Isle Field, ME. Ferried to RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador. Ferried Patterson Field,
Reykjavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 16Aug42. 353rd Bomb Squadron [A],
301st Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire Aug42. Twelfth Air
Force, North Africa Nov42. RAF Hurn, Bournemouth, Hampshire 22Nov42. Departed to
North Africa 23Nov42. Operation Torch Nov42. 353rd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group,
Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 23Nov42. Maison Blanche, Algiers, Algeria 5Dec42. Biskra, Algeria
16Dec42. Aïn M’lila (Onyx), Constantine, Algeria 16Jan43. Saint-Donat (New Zealand),
Tadjenanet, Algeria 8Mar43. Failed to return from a mission to railway marshalling
yards at Palermo, Sicily 18Apr43 (9MIA). Attacked by Bf 110 fighters, No.2 engine was
damaged and dropped out of formation. The bomber caught fire and crashed into the
sea off Palermo, Sicily. {39 missions}. . MACR 16508. Named DEVILS FROM HELL
24372 (MSN 3057) Lend-Lease to Royal Air Force as Fortress Mark II, serial FA687. Diverted to
USAAF prior to delivery. Accepted by USAAF 17Jun42. 352nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group,
Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 23Jun42. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME. Ferried to RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador. Ferried Patterson Field, Reykjavik,
Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 3Aug42. 352nd Bomb Squadron [D], 301st Bomb
Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 9Aug42. {first combat mission 5Sep42}.
Twelfth Air Force, North Africa Nov42. RAF Hurn, Bournemouth, Hampshire 22Nov42.
Departed to North Africa 23Nov42. Operation Torch Nov42. 352nd Bomb Squadron,
301st Bomb Group, Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 23Nov42. Maison Blanche, Algiers, Algeria 5Dec42.
Biskra, Algeria 16Dec42. Aïn M’lila (Onyx), Constantine, Algeria 16Jan43. Saint-Donat (New Zealand),
Tadjenanet, Algeria 8Mar43. Battle damaged by flak on a mission to the docks at Tunis,
Tunisia 11Apr43. {27 missions}. Salvaged at Saint-Donat. Named HELL'S BATTLEWAGON.
24373 (MSN 3058) Lend-Lease to Royal Air Force as Fortress Mark II, serial FA688. Diverted to USAAF
prior to delivery. Accepted by USAAF 17Jun42. 326th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 15Jul42. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME.
Ferried to RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador. 92nd Bomb Group, Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire Aug42.
341st Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 24Aug42.
Twelfth Air Force, North Africa Nov42. Departed RAF Predannack, Cornwall to North Africa 17Nov42.
Operation Torch Nov42. 341st Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Maison Blanche, Algiers,
Algeria 17Nov42. Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 22Nov42. Biskra, Algeria 25Dec42.
Châteaudun-du-Rhumel (Helen), Constantine, Algeria 8Feb43. General Depot No.1, La Sénia, Oran,
Algeria 1Jul43. Pont-du-Fahs, Tunisia 11Aug43. Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 15Aug43. Fifteenth
Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. 429th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Massicault, Tunis, Tunisia 14Nov43.
Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 10Dec43. {first combat mission 3Jan44}. {1 mission}. Salvaged 31Jan44.
Named PEACHES II.
24374 (MSN 3059) Lend-Lease to Royal Air Force as Fortress Mark II, serial FA689. Diverted to USAAF
prior to delivery. Accepted by USAAF 17Jun42. 353rd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Westover Field,
Chicopee Falls, MA 23Jun42. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME.
Ferried to RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador. Ferried Patterson Field, Reykjavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 16Aug42. 353rd Bomb Squadron [B], 301st Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105),
Northamptonshire Aug42. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa Nov42. RAF Hurn, Bournemouth,
Hampshire 22Nov42. Departed to North Africa 23Nov42. Operation Torch Nov42. 353rd Bomb Squadron,
301st Bomb Group, Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 23Nov42. Failed to return from a mission to the docks
at Bizerte, Tunisia 28Nov42 (9MIA). Attacked by Bf 109 fighters from JG 51 and JG 53, one engine was
hit before the bomb run. After bomb release, the bomber was set upon by six Bf 109s from JG 53
led by Oberstleutant Freiherr Gunther von Maltzahn, mortally damaging the aircraft
which crashed into the Mediterranean Sea. {4 missions}.; All crew KIA.
MACR 16038 (issued after the war).
24375 (MSN 3060) Lend-Lease to Royal Air Force as Fortress Mark II, serial FA690. Diverted to USAAF
prior to delivery. Accepted by USAAF 17Jun42. Delivered to Military Air Depot (MAD), Salt Lake City Jun 23, 1942
and sustained a crashlanding with severe damage on arrival. Salvaged for parts.
24376 (MSN 3061) Lend-Lease to Royal Air Force as Fortress Mark II, serial FA691. Diverted to USAAF
prior to delivery. Accepted by USAAF 20Jun42. 327th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 14Jul42. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME.
Ferried from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 20/21Aug42.
327th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire Aug42.
341st Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 24Aug42.
Battle damaged during a mission to the submarine pens at Lorient, France 21Oct42; vertical
stabiliser damaged. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa Nov42. Departed RAF Predannack, Cornwall
to North Africa 15Nov42. Operation Torch Nov42. 341st Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group,
Maison Blanche, Algiers, Algeria 17Nov42. The aircraft was parked on the airfield at Maison
Blanche with a full bomb load when German bombers attacked the base during the evening
of 20Nov42. The B-17 was hit by a bomb and blown to pieces. The crew was sleeping
on the plane, killing nine of the crew (9KIA:1INJ). Named HELLZAPOPPIN.
24377 (MSN 3062) Lend-Lease to Royal Air Force as Fortress Mark II, serial FA692. Diverted to USAAF
prior to delivery. Accepted by USAAF 18Jun42. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME. Ferried from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 26/27Aug42. 92nd Bomb Group, Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire Aug42.
342nd Bomb Squadron [E], 97th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106),
Northamptonshire Aug42. Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 8Sep42. Twelfth Air Force,
North Africa Nov42. RAF Hurn, Bournemouth, Hampshire 29Oct42. Stripped down only the top-
turret, ball-turret, one nose gun and a bare minimum of ammunition. Baggage racks and extra
seats took all available space. Departed to North Africa 5Nov42. This aircraft was part of a
group of six B-17´s that departed transporting a group of high ranking American and British
officers via Gibraltar to the opening of Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of French
North Africa; took General Mark Clark. Operation Torch Nov42. 342nd Bomb Squadron,
97th Bomb Group, Maison Blanche, Algiers, Algeria 5Nov42. Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 22Nov42.
Biskra, Algeria 25Dec42. Châteaudun-du-Rhumel (Helen), Constantine, Algeria 8Feb 43.
Returned to US Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 14Jul43. To Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
Arledge Field, Stamford, TX. Salvaged 22Nov44. Named BOOMERANG II
24378 (MSN 3063) Lend-Lease to Royal Air Force as Fortress Mark II, serial FA693. Diverted
to USAAF prior to delivery. Accepted by USAAF 18Jun42. 326th Bomb Squadron,
92nd Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 24Jun42. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Presque Isle Field, ME. Ferried from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 15/16Aug42. 92nd Bomb Group, Bovingdon (Station 112),
Hertfordshire Aug42. 342nd Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Grafton
Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 24Aug42. Polebrook (Station 110),
Northamptonshire 8Sep42. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa Nov42. Departed RAF Hurn,
Bournemouth, Hampshire to North Africa 20Nov42. Operation Torch Nov42.
342nd Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Maison Blanche, Algiers, Algeria 20Nov42.
Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 22Nov42. Biskra, Algeria 25Dec42. Châteaudun-du-Rhumel (Helen),
Constantine, Algeria 8Feb43. Pont-du-Fahs, Tunisia 11Aug43. Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia
15Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. {125 missions}. 99th Bomb Group,
Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy Nov43. {12 missions}. {final combat mission 5Apr44}.
{total - 137 missions}. Air Depot Mar44. Returned to US 26Apr44. Morrison Field,
West Palm Beach, FL 18May44. Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Bush Field,
Augusta, GA for storage and disposal 19May45. Named WAR EAGLE..
24379 (MSN 3064) Lend-Lease to Royal Air Force as Fortress Mark II, serial FA694.
Diverted to USAAF prior to delivery. Accepted by USAAF 19Jun42. 407th Bomb Squadron,
92nd Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME Aug42. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Presque Isle Field, ME. Ferried from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick
(Station 500), Scotland 26/27Aug42. 92nd Bomb Group, Bovingdon (Station 112),
Hertfordshire Aug42. 341st Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110),
Northamptonshire Aug42. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa Nov42. Departed RAF Predannack,
Cornwall to North Africa 17Nov42. Operation Torch Nov42. 341st Bomb Squadron,
97th Bomb Group, Maison Blanche, Algiers, Algeria 17Nov42. Tafraoui, Oran,
Algeria 22Nov42. Biskra, Algeria Dec42. Châteaudun-du-Rhumel (Helen), Constantine,
Algeria Feb43. 419th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Saint-Donat (New Zealand),
Tadjenanet, Algeria 20Mar43. Battle damaged on a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at
Castelvetrano, Sicily 13Apr43. The No.2 engine was disabled by flak. Battle damaged
by enemy fighters on a mission to the Luftwaffe air depot at Cancello Arnone,
Naples, Italy 21Jun43. {18 missions}. Salvaged RAF Gatwick, Sussex 9Nov44.
Named FLYING PATCH
24380 (MSN 3065) Accepted by USAAF 18Jun42. 327th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 24Jun42. Accident landing at Dow Field 26Jul42. 407th Bomb Squadron,
92nd Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME Aug42. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command,
Presque Isle Field, ME. Ferried from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 26/27Aug42. 92nd Bomb Group, Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire Aug42.
341st Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire Aug42.
Twelfth Air Force, North Africa Nov42. Departed RAF Predannack, Cornwall to North Africa 10Nov42.
Operation Torch Nov42. 341st Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Maison Blanche, Algiers,
Algeria 17Nov42. Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 22Nov42. Biskra, Algeria 25Dec42. Châteaudun-du-Rhumel (Helen),
Constantine, Algeria 8Feb 43. Pont-du-Fahs, Tunisia 11Aug43. Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 15Aug43.
Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43. San Giovanni, Cerignola, Italy 20Dec43. Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44.
Designated RB-17F. Returned to US. 515th Air Support Group. Ditched in the Atlantic, near Fernando
Island, Brasil 15Sep45. Named SUPERMAN
24381 (MSN 3066) Accepted by USAAF 19Jun42. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 26Jun42. Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA for preparation for overseas duty.
Ferried on the South Pacific route via Hickam Field, Hawaii then across the Pacific to Australia.
Departed from Hamilton Field, CA 28Jul42. Hickam Field, Hawaii; Christmas Island, Line Islands;
Canton Island, Phoenix Islands; Nadi, Viti Levu, Fiji; Plaines des Gaiacs airfield, Nouméa,
New Caledonia, arriving at Brisbane, QLD, Australia 6Aug42. Fifth Air Force. 19th Bomb Group,
Charleville, QLD, Australia Aug42. TDY for training purposes for the crew to gain experience.
63rd Bomb Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group, Torrens Creek, QLD 12Aug42. Mareeba airfield, QLD
20Aug42. Jackson Field (7 Mile Drome), Port Moresby, New Guinea 23Jan43. Battle damaged
during the Battle of the Bismarck Sea on a mission against a Japanese convoy of transports
and destroyers bound for Lae 3Mar43. Over the target the aircraft was attacked by Japanese
Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighters. {final combat mission 18Oct43}. 4th Air Depot, RAAF Garbutt,
Townsville, QLD Nov43. Modified to remove the top turret and used as a transport. 433rd Troop
Carrier Group, 54th Troop Carrier Wing, Port Moresby, New Guinea Nov43. Transferred to the
Fifth Air Force Bomber Command replacement pool for use as a personal transport by General
Paul Wurtsmith, Commanding Officer 5th Fighter Command 8Dec43. Stripped to a bare metal
finish and converted into a VIP transport with blue leather added to the radio compartment.
During 1944-1945, the plane flew as a transport in Australia, New Guinea and the Philippines.
At the end of the war, the regular flight crew left the transport on Okinawa. SOC 10Apr47.
Scrapped at Clark Field, Luzon, Philippines Jul48.
Name PANAMA HATTIE - artwork of a woman in a cocktail dress. Painted by Sgt Ernie Vandal.
Named WELL GODDAM - artwork of a baby's face inside a circle
24382 (MSN 3067) Accepted by USAAF 19Jun42. 325th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 26Jun42. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME.
Ferried from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 19/20Aug42.
325th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire Aug42.
341st Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 24Aug42.
Twelfth Air Force, North Africa Nov42. Departed RAF Predannack, Cornwall to North Africa 17Nov42.
Operation Torch Nov42. 341st Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Maison Blanche, Algiers,
Algeria 17Nov42. Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 22Nov42. Biskra, Algeria Dec42. Battle damaged by
flak on a mission to the Luftwaffe airfield at Castel Benito, Tripoli, Libya 12Jan43 (1KIA).
A shell passed through the navigator’s table and struck him in the head, killing him.
Châteaudun-du-Rhumel (Helen), Constantine, Algeria Feb43. Pont-du-Fahs, Tunisia 11Aug43.
Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 15Aug43. Foggia Main, Italy 15Dec43. San Giovanni, Cerignola,
Italy 20Dec43. Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 16Jan44. {100 missions}. 2nd BTS. Destroyed in
collision with B-17F 41-24392 taxying 4May44. Salvaged 5Jun44. Named MIGHTY MIDGET.
24383 (MSN 3068) Accepted by USAAF 19Jun42. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 26Jun42. Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA for preparation
for overseas duty. Ferried on the South Pacific route via Hickam Field, Hawaii then across
the Pacific to Australia. Departed from Hamilton Field, CA Jul42. Hickam Field, Hawaii;
Christmas Island, Line Islands. Delayed by engine problems. Canton Island, Phoenix Islands;
Nadi, Viti Levu, Fiji; Plaines des Gaiacs airfield, Nouméa, New Caledonia, arriving at Brisbane,
QLD, Australia Aug42. Fifth Air Force. 63rd Bomb Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group, Torrens Creek,
QLD 12Aug42. Mareeba airfield, QLD 20Aug42. Damaged when taxied into a telegraph pole
at Mareeba airfield 25Aug42. 61st Service Squadron for repairs. 64th Bomb Squadron,
43rd Bomb Group, Fenton, Hayes Creek, NT 7Sep42. The aircraft took off early evening from
Jackson Field (7 Mile Drome), Port Moresby, New Guinea on a mission against a Japanese
convoy bound for Lae, New Guinea 6Jan43 (6MIA:3INJ). The bomber had two bomb bay fuel
tanks for extended range plus thirty flares to shadow the convoy and drop flares to assist
with a possible night attack against the convoy. Flying alone at 10,000 feet, the crew located
the convoy before dark, spotting the ships and escorting fighters, but they didn’t fly up to
challenge them. Near the end of their patrol, the crew attempted to contact the squadron to
learn if another bomber would replace them, but had radio problems. The bomber continued
to shadow the convoy until early morning 7Jan43. Turning back for base, the bomber
encountered bad weather over the Owen Stanley mountains. The pilot was forced to make
repeated attempts to cross the mountains and climbed to 29,000 feet but was unable to
locate Port Moresby. Out of fuel, the plane ditched into the Gulf of Papua roughly thirty
miles off the southern coast of New Guinea. During the ditching, six of the crew went missing.
The three surviving crew were badly injured but managed to deploy a life raft. Later that same
day, a RAAF Anson from No.1 Communication Unit spotted the survivors and reported their
position. A Short Empire flying boat overflew the three men, spotted the life raft and reported
the downed crew. Thirteen hours after the crash, a boat rescued the three surviving crew
and transported them back to Port Moresby. SOC 30Apr45.
24384 (MSN 3069) Accepted by USAAF 22Jun42. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 26Jun42. Sacramento Air Depot, McClellan Field, Sacramento, CA.
Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA for preparation for overseas duty. Ferried on the South Pacific
route via Hickam Field, Hawaii then across the Pacific to Australia. Departed from Hamilton
Field, CA 28Jul42. Hickam Field, Hawaii; Christmas Island, Line Islands; Canton Island,
Phoenix Islands; Nadi, Viti Levu, Fiji; Plaines des Gaiacs airfield, Nouméa, New Caledonia,
arriving at Brisbane, QLD, Australia 6Aug42. Fifth Air Force. 19th Bomb Group, Charleville, QLD,
Australia 6Aug42. TDY for training purposes for the crew to gain experience. 63rd Bomb Squadron,
43rd Bomb Group, Torrens Creek, QLD 14Aug42. Mareeba airfield, QLD 20Aug42. TDY 93rd Bomb
Squadron, 19th Bomb Group, Mareeba airfield, QLD Aug42. Flew combat familiarization flights
over northern Australia. 63rd Bomb Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group, Mareeba airfield, QLD Sep42.
Modified for long range photographic reconnaissance missions. Took off from Jackson Field
on a bombing mission against a Japanese convoy off Tonolei Harbor on southern Bougainville
13Nov42. Over the target, the formation descended to 2,000 feet and was fired on by
anti-aircraft guns. The plane was struck in the No.4 engine before skip bombing a 10,000 ton
transport ship. When it made a second bomb run on a 8,000 ton transport ship, an anti-aircraft
shell exploded close to the plane and broke the nose Plexiglas. Departing the area,
another engine was only operating at half power. Damaged, the B-17 overcame both bad weather
and damage but manage to returned to Jackson Field. Jackson Field (7 Mile Drome), Port Moresby,
New Guinea 23Jan43. Battle damaged on a mission to shadow a Japanese task force in the Bismarck
Sea 1Mar43. With two long-range fuel tanks in the bomb bay, the bomber monitored the convoy
for more than eleven hours. During that time the plane was struck by anti-aircraft fire and hit
repeatedly in attacks by enemy fighters but survived to return to Port Moresby. Took off from
Jackson Field on a reconnaissance/administrative flight to Merauke, New Guinea and Horn
Island, QLD, Australia 26Mar43 (12MIA). The pilot was Brigadier General Howard K. Ramey;
aboard were passengers from Headquarters, Fifth Bomber Command. Twenty minutes after
takeoff, the radio operator checked in with the ground station; there was no further
communication with the aircraft. After the loss, General Douglas MacArthur was concerned
that Brigadier General Ramey might have fallen into Japanese hands but there was no
evidence that a Japanese aircraft intercepted this B-17 or that any of the crew became
prisoner of war. {17 missions}. Named PLUTO - artwork of the Walt Disney character Pluto
sniffing the ground. While the plane was being equipped at McClellan Field, the navigator
was in charge of outfitting the bomber. Afterwards, he was asked what if he wanted to name
the plane. He liked dogs so suggested 'Pluto". Borinquen Field, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico
was renamed Ramey Air Force Base after Brigadier General Howard Knox Ramey
During February 2007 Australian news erroneously reported the discovery of an aircraft
wreck off Cape York, claimed it to be this bomber. This claim was unsupported with serial
number evidence; photos and video of the wreckage point to the wreckage being of a Douglas C-47
or derivative.
24385 (MSN 3070) Accepted by USAAF 22Jun42. 326th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 19Jul42. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque
Isle Field, ME. Ferried from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 15/16Aug42. 92nd Bomb Group, Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire Aug42.
340th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 24Aug42.
Twelfth Air Force, North Africa oct42. RAF Hurn, Bournemouth, Hampshire 29Oct42.
Stripped down only the top-turret, ball-turret, one nose gun and a bare minimum of
ammunition. Baggage racks and extra seats took all available space. Departed to North
Africa 5Nov42. This aircraft was part of a group of six B-17´s that departed transporting
a group of high ranking American and British officer's via Gibraltar to the opening of
Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of French North Africa. Returned to RAF Predannack,
Cornwall 9Nov42. Departed RAF Predannack, Cornwall to North Africa 10Nov42. Operation
Torch Nov42. 340th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Maison Blanche, Algiers, Algeria 13Nov42.
Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria Nov42. Biskra, Algeria Dec42. Failed to return from a mission to the Luftwaffe
airfield at Castel Benito, Tripoli, Libya 18Jan43 (9POW:1EVD). Nine Macchi MC.202 fighters of 3º Stormo,
Regia Aeronautica Italiana, made a head-on attack and the bomber dropped back from formation.
It dropped from 20,000 to 10,000 feet and was attacked again by ten Guglielmo Specker firing 370 rounds
of 12.7mm ammunition. The crew started to bail out as the plane went into a 360 degree spiral before
reaching the ground. A wing struck first, folding up to the outboard engine at which point the
bomber exploded. SOC 31Oct44..
24386 (MSN 3071) Accepted by USAAF 19Jun42. 353rd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Geiger Field,
Spokane, WA. Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA Jul42. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport
Command, Presque Isle Field, ME. Ferried to RCAF Goose Bay, Labrador. Ferried Patterson Field,
Reykjavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 16Aug42. 353rd Bomb Squadron [D],
301st Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire Aug42. Twelfth Air Force,
North Africa Nov42. Departed RAF Predannack, Cornwall to North Africa 24Nov42.
Operation Torch Nov42. 353rd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 23Nov42.
Maison Blanche, Algiers, Algeria 5Dec42. Biskra, Algeria 16Dec42. Battle damaged on a mission
to the harbor and shipping at La Goulette, near Tunis, Tunisia 2Jan43 (2WIA). Struck by cannon
fire from a Bf 109 flown by Hptm Hartmann Grasser of II./JG 51. Left behind at Biskra when the
group moved on to Ain M'Lila 17Jan43. Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria Mar43.
Battle damaged during a mission to the Messina Strait, Sicily 14Jul43. An 88mm cannon shell,
fired horizontally from a mountain at the low level bomber, had decapitated the co-pilot,
destroyed the lower half of the upper gun turret and damaged the right wing. The crew continued
to the target and nursed the aircraft back to base to make a normal landing. {20 missions}.
Salvaged. Named QUEEN BEE-17. The radio call sign tag was salvaged by the pilot as a memento
of the aircraft which brought him safely home.
24387 (MSN 3072) delivered to Air Material Command at Boeing, Seattle, July 9, 1942; W/O Oct 8, 1943. Reclaimed for
scrap Nov 20, 1945.
24388 (MSN 3073) Accepted by USAAF 21Jun42. 327th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 31Jul42. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME.
Ferried from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 20/21Aug42.
327th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire Aug42.
340th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 24Aug42.
Damaged UK 7Sep42. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa Nov42. RAF Hurn, Bournemouth, Hampshire
29Oct42. Stripped down only the top-turret, ball-turret, one nose gun and a bare minimum of
ammunition. Baggage racks and extra seats took all available space. Taxying out for takeoff 5Nov42,
the plane developed an hydraulic leak causing a loss of brakes and departure was delayed.
Departed to North Africa 6Nov42. This aircraft was part of a group of six B-17´s that departed
transporting a group of high ranking American and British officer's via Gibraltar to the opening
of Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of French North Africa; took Generals Doolittle and Lemnitzer.
En route, the bomber was attacked by four German Ju 88s patrolling over the Bay of Biscay.
Since guns were lacking ammunition, the pilot decided to drop down to about 100 feet above the sea.
The German planes joined them, two on each side and although the two turret guns were aimed
at them, little firing was done, for ammunition was being rationed. Soon the German leader
turned and made his pass followed by the others. The co-pilot was wounded by a bullet and
General Doolittle, who had never been checked out in a B-17, replaced him. Low on fuel,
the enemy returned home before further damage could be done. No.3 engine had been struck
by a cannon shell and the propeller feathered. Operation Torch Nov42. 340th Bomb Squadron,
97th Bomb Group, Maison Blanche, Algiers, Algeria 13Nov42. Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 22Nov42.
Biskra, Algeria Dec42. Struck and set on fire by an enemy Ju 88 ground attack on Biskra,
Algeria 10Jan43. Shrapnel from exploding bombs damaged several other planes. Salvaged 14Jan43.
Named SUMMERS’ SLEEPERS. Named after the pilot.
24389 (MSN 3074) Accepted by USAAF Jun42. 352nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Westover Field,
Chicopee Falls, MA 8Jul42. Assigned to Eighth Air Force. Transferred to Air Materiel Command.
Substantially damaged taxying at Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT 14Jul42. Bradley Field,
Windsor Locks, CT 3Sep42. 393rd Base Headquarters and Air Base Squadron, Syracuse AAB, NY 1Oct42.
Wright Field, Dayton, OH 10Feb43. Salvaged Mar44. Reclaimed 3Apr46.
41-24390/24439 Boeing B-17F-5-BO Fortress
Information from FORTLOG
MSN 3075/3124. Boeing Model 299P. Defence Aid contract for the Royal Air Force as serial FA725/FA774.
Diverted to USAAF after the Japanese attacks in Hawaii and the Philippines.
Production changes: Circumferential armour at waist guns added. No.3 bulkhead armour deleted
24390 (MSN 3075) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 24Jun42.
San Antonio Air Depot, Duncan Field, San Antonio, TX 26Jun42.
419th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 8Jul42.
North Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) 6Aug42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via Goose Bay, Labrador; Patterson Field,
Reykjavik, Iceland to Stansted (Station 169), Essex 22Aug42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
419th Bomb Squadron [L], 301st Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire Aug42.
(first combat mission 5Sep42}.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 14Sep42.
Departed Portreath (Station 504), Cornwall to North Africa 23Nov42.
Twelfth Air Force, Operation Torch Nov42.
419th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 23Nov42.
Maison Blanche, Algiers, Algeria 5Dec42. Biskra, Algeria 16Dec42.
General Depot No.1, La Sénia, Oran, Algeria for engine replacement.
Aïn M’lila (Onyx), Constantine, Algeria 6Feb43.
Battle damaged by flak on a tactical mission to hit troops retreating through the Kasserine Mountain Pass, Boulaaba, Tunisia 23Feb43.
Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 8Mar43.
Battle damaged by flak on a tactical mission to a railway bridge at Messina, Sicily 12Jul43.
Assigned to GLEN (Twelfth Air Force, Oran, Algeria) 17Jul43.
Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43.
Foggia #1, Cerignola, Italy 10Dec43. Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44. {60 missions}.
Damaged taxying 22Mar44. Assigned to DUKO (Twelfth Air Force, Italy). Condemned salvage 20Feb45.
24391 (MSN 3076) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 26Jun42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28Jun42.
Sacramento Air Depot, McClellan Field, CA 29Jul42.
Assigned to SUMAC (Fifth Air Force, Australia) 3Aug42.
West Coast Wing, Air Transport Command, Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA Aug42; preparation for overseas service.
Departed from Hamilton Field, CA Aug42. Hickam Field, Hawaii.
An artist at Hickam Field painted the nickname ‘HOOMALIMALI’.
Departed to Christmas Island, Line Islands 6Aug42; Canton Island, Phoenix Islands 7Aug42;
Nadi, Viti Levu, Fiji; Plaines des Gaiacs airfield, Nouméa, New Caledonia 10Aug42,
arriving at Brisbane, QLD, Australia 11Aug42. Fifth Air Force. 63rd Bomb Squadron,
43rd Bomb Group, Torrens Creek, QLD Aug42. Mareeba airfield, QLD 20Aug42.
TDY 93rd Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group, Mareeba airfield, QLD Aug42.
Flew combat familiarization flights over northern Australia.
63rd Bomb Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group, Mareeba airfield, QLD Sep42.
The aircraft took off just after midnight from Mareeba airfield 13/14Sep42 (9KIA:1KIS).
Half way through the takeoff roll the right outboard engine began to misfire and quit.
Takeoff speed was too high to abort so the pilot apparently applied full war power to the
other engines and appeared to hauled back on the control yoke thus pitching the aircraft into a nose high attitude.
The aircraft lifted off but overloaded and under powered flew for 1/4 of a mile off the end of the bomber airstrip
then crashed into a woodland and dry creek bed. It caught fire and the bomb load exploded,
killing one person on the ground. Assigned to LEFT (Fifth Air Force, Brisbane, Australia).
Condemned 14Sep42. SOC 10Oct46. Named HOOMALIMALI (Hawaiian for ‘kid-em-along’).
Parts noted in Beck Military Museum, Mareeba, QLD, Australia May05.
Other parts were donated to the Cairns Historical Society Museum, Cairns, QLD, Australia.
24392 (MSN 3077) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 28Jun42.
San Antonio Air Depot, Duncan Field, San Antonio, TX 30Jun42. 4
07th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 13Jul42.
North Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) 25Aug42.
North Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 26/27Aug42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
407th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire Aug42.
414th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire Aug42.
Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 8Sep42.
Battle damaged by enemy fighters during a mission to the submarine yards at Lorient, France 21Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 26Sep42.
Departed RAF Hurn, Bournemouth, Hampshire to North Africa 20Nov42.
Twelfth Air Force, Operation Torch Nov42.
414th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Maison Blanche, Algiers, Algeria 20Nov42.
Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 22Nov42. Biskra, Algeria 25Dec42.
Châteaudun-du-Rhumel (Helen), Constantine, Algeria 8Feb43.
Battle damaged on a tactical mission to a convoy of Italian cruisers forty miles off Palermo, Sicily 26Feb43 (3WIA:7RMC).
Attacked by enemy Bf 109 and Fw 190 fighters. With his guns frozen, the tail gunner was injured when struck by a 20mm cannon shell.
Seeing the fighters attacking the tail, the ball turret gunner instructed the pilot to raise the tail but
at that moment a cannon shell struck the ball turret, originally aimed at the tail.
The shell exploded in the turret, injuring the gunner. The radio operator had also been wounded,
the no.3 engine propeller was feathered and the no.1 engine was on fire.
As the pilot headed back to Châteaudun, the fire in no.1 engine had extinguished.
On approach to land, a tire was found to have been shot out but the plane landed safely
then grounded looped when the flat tire touched the runway, bending a couple of propellers.
Assigned to GLEN (Twelfth Air Force, Oran, Algeria) 1Jun43. Pont-du-Fahs, Tunisia 11Aug43.
Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 15Aug43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43.
2nd Bomb Group, Massicault, Tunis, Tunisia 14Nov43.
Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 10Dec43.
Destroyed in collision with B-17F 41-24382 while taxying 4May44.
Assigned to DUKO (Twelfth Air Force, Italy). Condemned salvage 6May44.
Named HELL'S KITCHEN
24393 (MSN 3078) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 22Jun42.
San Antonio Air Depot, Duncan Field, San Antonio, TX 26Jun42.
419th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 8Jul42.
North Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) 6Aug42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via Goose Bay, Labrador; Patterson Field,
Reykjavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 26Jul42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
419th Bomb Squadron [K], 301st Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire Aug42. {first combat mission 5Sep42}.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 12Sep42.
Departed RAF Hurn, Bournemouth, Hampshire to North Africa 28Nov42.
Operation Torch 28Nov42.
419th Bomb Squadron [K], 301st Bomb Group, Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 28Nov42.
Biskra, Algeria 25Dec42.
Battle damaged on a mission to the harbour and shipping at La Goulette, near Tunis, Tunisia 2Jan43 (10RMC).
Flak was intense and attacked by enemy fighters.
No.3 engine was struck and fell off the wing, damaging the fuselage as it departed but the plane returned safely to Biskra.
Aïn M’lila (Onyx), Constantine, Algeria.
Battle damaged on a mission to the harbour at Sfax, Tunisia 28Jan43.
Heavy flak and enemy fighters were encountered damaging the rudder but the plane returned safely to Aïn M’lila.
Battle damaged by flak on a tactical mission to hit troops retreating through the Kasserine Mountain Pass, Boulaaba, Tunisia 23Feb43.
Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 8Mar43. Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. {59 missions}. 96th Bomb Squadron,
2nd Bomb Group, Massicault, Tunis, Tunisia 14Nov43. {first combat mission 6Dec43}.
Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 10Dec43.
Battle damaged during a mission to Eleusis airfield, 18km northwest from the centre of Athens, Greece 14Dec43
(2WIA:8RMC).
Due to a solid overcast, the Hassani airfield, Kalamaki, was bombed instead.
The formation was jumped by Fw 190s.
The first pass wounded the tail gunner in the foot.
Not only did they riddle the tail but the whole airplane looked like someone ripped it open with an axe.
The right wing tip was gone right up to the aileron and the plane was vibrating.
P-38 Lightnings came in and escorted the bomber out of trouble.
A waist gunner had also been wounded by 20mm cannon shells during fighter attacks.
Battle damaged during a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Mostar, Bosnia, Yugoslavia 14Jan44 (1WIA:9RMC).
Flak was moderate, fairly accurate and damaged the bomber; the togglier received a serious flak wound.
Assigned to ELMS (Northwest African Air Forces) 23Jan44.
Damaged while parked by B-17G 42-31458 taxying at Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 14Feb44. {25 missions}.
483rd Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 31Mar44.
Sterparone, Foggia, Italy 22Apr44. Returned to US 16Jun44. 1104th Base Unit (Caribbean Division, Air Transport Command),
Homestead Field (Station 8), FL 24Jul44.
4136th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Service Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 26Jul44.
4117th Base Unit (Warner Robins Air Materiel Area), Robins Field, Warner Robins, GA 21Dec44.
4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 6Jan45.
Ferrying Division, Air Transport Command, Cincinnati, OH May45.
Defense Plant Corporation, Bush Field, Augusta, GA 1Jun45.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Bush Field, Augusta, GA for storage and disposal.
War Assets Administration.
Named EAGER BEAVER.
24394 (MSN 3079) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 24Jun42.
San Antonio Air Depot, Duncan Field, San Antonio, TX 26Jun42.
353rd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 12Jul42.
Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 15Jul42.
353rd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 24Jul42.
North Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) 6Aug42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via Goose Bay, Labrador; Patterson Field,
Reykjavik, Iceland to Stansted (Station 169), Essex 22Aug42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
419th Bomb Squadron [J], 301st Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire Aug42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 17Oct42.
RAF Hurn, Bournemouth, Hampshire 22Nov42.
Departed to North Africa 23Nov42.
Twelfth Air Force, Operation Torch Nov42.
419th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 23Nov42.
Maison Blanche, Algiers, Algeria 5Dec42. Biskra, Algeria 16Dec42.
Aïn M’lila (Onyx), Constantine, Algeria 16Jan43.
Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 8Mar43.
Failed to return from a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Castelvetrano, Sicily 13Apr43 (9MIA:1KIA).
Attacked by Lt. Kientsch of II./JG 27 and entered a steep spin. At about 6,000ft, an Regia Aeronautica Italiana
Macchi MC.202 fighter, flown by Serg Magg Sandini, fired at the bomber which then exploded and
crashed into the sea ten miles west of Capo Granitola, Sicily. {21 missions}.
Assigned to GLEN (Twelfth Air Force, Oran, Algeria)
Condemned 13Apr43. SOC 8Dec44.
Named HOCKAMOLOCK JOCK VI B.B.. No MACR.
24395 (MSN 3080) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 24Jun42.
San Antonio Air Depot, Duncan Field, San Antonio, TX 26Jun42.
353rd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 8Jul42.
North Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) 6Aug42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via Goose Bay, Labrador; Patterson Field,
Reykjavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 31Jul42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
419th Bomb Squadron [F], 301st Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 9Aug42.
{first combat mission 5Sep42}.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 13Sep42.
RAF Hurn, Bournemouth, Hampshire 22Nov42.
Departed to North Africa 23Nov42. Twelfth Air Force, Operation Torch Nov42.
419th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 23Nov42.
Battle damaged on a mission to the docks at Bizerte, Tunisia 4Dec42.
Maison Blanche, Algiers, Algeria 5Dec42.
Biskra, Algeria 16Dec42. Aïn M’lila (Onyx), Constantine, Algeria 16Jan43.
Badly damaged on a mission to the port at La Goulette, Tunis, Tunisia 1Feb43.
A wing was damaged in an attack by enemy aircraft and the plane force landed at Telergma, Algeria;
returned to Aïn M’lila 17Feb43.
Badly damaged on a tactical mission to hit troops retreating through the
Kasserine Mountain Pass, Boulaaba, Tunisia 23Feb43.
Struck by flak disabling the hydraulic system and other damage.
Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 8Mar43.
Battle damaged on a tactical mission to an enemy shipping convoy off Bizerte, Tunisia 6Apr43 (3WIA:7RMC).
Light flak and enemy fighters were encountered, shrapnel struck the tail and upper turret and three
airmen were wounded by the explosion of a 20mm cannon shell.
Battle damaged on a tactical mission to an enemy shipping convoy off Bizerte, Tunisia 12Apr43.
Intense flak and enemy fighters were encountered, shrapnel damaging a wing, the tail and upper turret.
Battle damaged by flak and enemy fighters on a tactical mission to an enemy airfield at La Marsa,
northeast of Tunis, Tunisia 20Apr43.
Battle damaged on a mission to Messina, Sicily 25Jun43.
Heavy flak and enemy fighters were encountered, 20mm cannon shells causing damage to the rudder and left wing. {54 missions}.
Air Depot 15Jul43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43.
49th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Massicault, Tunis, Tunisia 14Nov43.
Assigned to ELMS (Northwest African Air Forces) 22Nov43. {first combat mission 22Nov43}.
Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 10Dec43.
Failed to return from a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Laviarano, Italy 30Jan44 (5KIA:5POW).
Attacked by enemy fighters, struck by a rocket and dropped out of formation.
The fighters ganged up on the bomber and the left wing was trailing black smoke.
In spite of this it was gaining on the formation.
Then it banked slowly to the left, the smoke increased in volume and went into a steep dive.
The plane went down about 2,000ft then came back up to its former level and the smoke seemed to stop.
When it was back up, the fighters attacked again and fired another rocket which exploded in the radio room;
this time all the engines were damaged.
Airmen forward of the bomb bay perished, those aft of the bomb bay bailed out.
Black smoke poured out of the left wing again and the plane spiralled down,
losing altitude gradually and crashed near Udine, Italy. {26 missions}.
Assigned to DUKO (Twelfth Air Force, Italy). Condemned 30Jan44. SOC 14Jan46.
Named I DO DIT. MACR 2060
24396 (MSN 3081) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 23Jun42.
San Antonio Air Depot, Duncan Field, San Antonio, TX 26Jun42.
419th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 8Jul42.
North Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via Goose Bay, Labrador; Patterson Field,
Reykjavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 26Jul42.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) 6Aug42.
VIII Bomber Command, England. 419th Bomb Squadron [G],
301st Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 9Aug42.
{first combat mission 5Sep42}. Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom)
13Sep42. RAF Hurn, Bournemouth, Hampshire 22Nov42.
Departed to North Africa 23Nov42.
Twelfth Air Force, Operation Torch Nov42.
419th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 23Nov42.
Maison Blanche, Algiers, Algeria 5Dec42. Biskra, Algeria 16Dec42.
General Depot No.1, La Sénia, Oran, Algeria for engine replacement.
Aïn M’lila (Onyx), Constantine, Algeria. Badly damaged on a tactical mission
to hit troops retreating through the Kasserine Mountain Pass, Boulaaba,
Tunisia 23Feb43. Struck by flak disabling no.3 engine and other damage.
Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 8Mar43.
Battle damaged by enemy fighters on a mission to the Luftwaffe air depot at
Cancello Arnone, Naples, Italy 21Jun43.
Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43.
Battle damaged on a mission to railway marshalling yards at Bolzano, Italy 10Nov43.
With fuel exhaustion, the plane was force landed at Ajaccio, Corsica. {52 missions}.
346th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 14Nov43. {28 missions}.
419th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy Apr44.
Assigned to GLEN (Twelfth Air Force, Oran, Algeria). Returned to US by original pilot who took it home for a
War Bond tour.
The pilot was Major O’Carroll who had been Commanding Officer of the 419th Bomb Squadron
and then 301st Bomb Group Operations Officer.
The co-pilot was Captain Boyd, the 419th Bomb Squadron Operations Officer.
The bomber had been covered with names and addresses of personnel of the
301st Bomb Group and inscriptions.
Departed Lucera, Italy 28Apr44.
4104th Base Unit (Rome Air Technical Service Command), Rome Field, NY 1Sep44.
Designated TB-17F. Ferrying Division, Air Transport Command, Cincinnati, OH 30Sep44.
3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM Oct44.
344th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station-Fighter), Punta Gorda Field, FL 21Oct44.
3010th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Williams Field, Mesa, AZ 6Jan45.
3020th Base Unit (Pilot School, Advanced, Two Engine), La Junta Field, CO 30Apr45.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Searcy Field, Stillwater, OK for storage and disposal 29Jun45.
War Assets Corporation. Sold to Paul Mantz, Glendale, CA 19Feb46; scrapped.
Named RELUCTANT GREMLIN / EIGHT BALL.
24397 (MSN 3082) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 23Jun42.
San Antonio Air Depot, Duncan Field, San Antonio, TX 26Jun42.
352nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 8Jul42.
North Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) Aug42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via Goose Bay, Labrador; Patterson Field,
Reykjavik, Iceland to RAF Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland 3Aug42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
352nd Bomb Squadron [E], 301st Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 9Aug42.
{first combat mission 5Sep42}.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 13Sep42.
Severely battle damaged on a mission to the former Potez aircraft factory at
Méaulte, France 2Oct42 (3WIA:7RMC).
After the target the formation was attacked by a force of enemy fighters.
The bomber was ‘tail end charlie’ and being shot at from the rear.
A 20mm cannon shell exploded behind the upper turret.
The right wing had been badly damaged and holed by machine gun fire.
Two engines had been disabled, no.4 had an over speeding propeller
and the controls were damaged preventing the propeller from being feathered.
The no.2 engine was disabled and tail control surfaces had their control cables shot up.
With part of the oxygen system damaged, the pilot dropped down to 20,000ft
but a couple of gunners passed out with anoxia.
The plane went into a steep climb but the two pilots managed to bring it back under control.
With enemy fighters still attacking, the pilot advised the crew to prepare to bail out.
Then The engineer/top turret gunner collapsed between the two pilots
and was in no state to bail out. By now over the English Channel and with a RAF Spitfire escort,
the pilot continued towards England and looked for an airfield to force land at.
Finding an airfield, the aircraft struck a hangar but crash landed at RAF Gatwick, Sussex.
The nose had to be cut off to release injured crewmen; sixteen cannon holes,
over 300 bullet holes plus flak damage.
Base Air Depot No.1, Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire.
Regained by Group. Twelfth Air Force, Operation Torch Nov42.
352nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 26Nov42.
Maison Blanche, Algiers, Algeria 5Dec42. Biskra, Algeria 16Dec42.
Aïn M’lila (Onyx), Constantine, Algeria 16Jan43.
Severely battle damaged during a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Fatnassa, Tunisia 4Feb43
(1KIA:1WIA:8RMC).
Attacked by enemy fighters; claimed by Hpt. Karl Rammelt of II./ JG 77.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned salvage 7Mar43. Named PHYLLIS..
24398 (MSN 3083) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 23Jun42.
San Antonio Air Depot, Duncan Field, San Antonio, TX 26Jun42.
419th Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 8Jul42.
North Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via Goose Bay, Labrador.
Operated weather flights between Prestwick, Scotland and Patterson Field, Reykjavik, Iceland Jul42.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) 6Aug42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
419th Bomb Squadron [H], 301st Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 9Aug42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 12Sep42.
Accident on a training flight from Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire to
Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire 3Oct42 (11RMC).
Crash landed when the landing gear would not extend on approach to RAF Newmarket, Suffolk.
All but the pilot and co-pilot bailed out before they attempted the forced landing at RAF Newmarket (11RMC).
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom).
Condemned salvage 7Mar43. SOC 4Nov44.
Named HITLER’S HEARSE
24399 (MSN 3084) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle,
WA 24Jun42. Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 26Jun42.
407th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 13Jul42.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain).
Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 18Jul42.
407th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 28Jul42.
Severely damaged in an accident landing at Olmsted Field, PA 20Aug42.
Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 29Aug42.
407th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 23Sep42.
North Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
323rd Bomb Squadron [OR*V], 91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 29Oct42.
Failed to return from a mission to the Gerhard Fieseler Werke (GFW) aircraft works at
Waldau, Kassel, Germany 30Jul43 (8KIA:2POW).
Returning from the target and damaged by flak, the bomber was intercepted and
attacked by Fw 190 fighters of JG 26.
A fierce fight ensued during which this and a second B-17 were forced to leave the
relatively protective realm of the bomber formation.
This bomber was last seen leaving the formation, burning from under the wings
with both inboard (no.2 and no.3) engines out and losing altitude.
The German fighters pressed home their attacks on the straggler.
After fierce fighting from both sides,
Hptm. Johannes Neumann, a leading fighter pilot with VI./JG 26 flying a Fw 190A-6,
finally claimed the aircraft five kilometres south of Est, close to Opijnen, Netherlands.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 30Jul43. SOC 11Nov43.
Named MAN O' WAR.
Man O’ War was an American thoroughbred racehorse widely regarded as one of the
greatest racehorses of all time. In 2006 a memorial was revealed by John Bruce,
the co-pilot and Bonney Jean McCammon (wife of the pilot).
In the surroundings of the memorial ten streets are named after those who crashed
in Opijnen: Brucestraat, McCammonplein, Blackwoodstraat, Dugganstraat, Cianfichipoort,
Sparksstraat, Kruegerpad, Ohmanpad, Polingsstraat, and Perrottastraat.
These names were officially revealed on 4May04 MACR 148.
24400 (MSN 3085) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 24Jun42
Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 26Jun42.
327th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 13Jul42.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) 19Aug42.
North Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland
to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 20/21Aug42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
327th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire Aug42.
414th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 24Aug42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 27Aug42
Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 8Sep42.
Battle damaged during a mission to the submarine yards at Lorient, France 21Oct42 (1WIA:9RMC).
The tail section received damage.
On return, the plane force landed at RAF Exeter, Devon.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom).
Condemned salvage 25Oct42.
Repaired and returned to service.
Twelfth Air Force, North Africa.
414th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Biskra, Algeria Jan43.
Flown in by Margaret Bourke-White, correspondent of LIFE Magazine,
on a combat mission to the Luftwaffe airfield at El Aouina, Tunis, Tunisia 22Jan43;
her report was published 1Mar43. {25+ missions}. Fate not known
Named LITTLE BILL.
24401 (MSN 3086) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 26Jun42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Jun42.
Sacramento Air Depot, McClellan Field, CA 29Jul42.
Assigned to SUMAC (Fifth Air Force, Australia) 3Aug42.
West Coast Wing, Air Transport Command, Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA; preparation for overseas service.
Ferried on the South Pacific route via Hickam Field, Hawaii then across the Pacific to Australia.
Fifth Air Force. 63rd Bomb Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group, Mareeba airfield, QLD, Australia Aug42.
Damaged when it hit a tree in an accident taxying at Mareeba.
65th Bomb Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group, Jackson Field (7 Mile Drome), Port Moresby, New Guinea.
63rd Bomb Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group. {final combat mission Oct43}.
Returned to US 3Nov43.
Oklahoma City Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK.
Ferried Oklahoma City - Rapid City, SD 29Jan/2Feb44.
398th Bomb Group, Rapid City AAB, SD 2Feb44.
4134th Base Unit (Spokane Air Technical Service Command), Spokane Field, WA.
245th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), McCook Field, NB 8Jun44.
9th Bombardment Group, McCook Field, NB 6Jul44.
245th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), McCook Field, NB 21Aug44.
232nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dalhart Field, TX 22Aug44.
235th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Biggs Field, Fort Bliss, TX 5Jan45.
Designated TB-17F 17Jan45.
420th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station-Heavy), March Field, Riverside, CA 13May45.
235th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Biggs Field, Fort Bliss, TX 18May45.
215th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Pueblo AAB, CO 7Jul45.
235th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Biggs Field, Fort Bliss, TX 30Oct45.
Designated RB-17F Oct45.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 14Nov45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Martin Wunderlich Company, Jefferson City, MO 9Aug46; scrapped.
Named LAK-A-NOOKIE [Hawaiian for ‘lack of sexual activity among males’]
24402 (MSN 3087) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 26Jun42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30Jun42.
Sacramento Air Depot, McClellan Field, CA 27Jul42.
West Coast Wing, Air Transport Command, Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA
29Jul42; preparation for overseas service.
Assigned to SUMAC (Fifth Air Force, Australia) 31Jul42.
Ferried on the South Pacific route via Hickam Field, Hawaii then across the Pacific to Australia.
Fifth Air Force. 63rd Bomb Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group, Mareeba airfield, QLD 20Aug42.
Wrecked in an accident landing at Mareeba airfield, QLD, Australia 16Nov42.
Assigned to LEFT (Fifth Air Force, Brisbane, Australia).
Condemned 17Nov42. SOC 29Mar44. Named E-Z MARY 4th
24403 (MSN 3088) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 26Jun42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 30Jun42.
Ogden Air Depot, Hill Field, Ogden, UT 28Jul42.
Sacramento Air Depot, McClellan Field, CA 29Jul42.
West Coast Wing, Air Transport Command, Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA 31Jul42; preparation for overseas service.
Assigned to SUMAC (Fifth Air Force, Australia) 21Aug42.
Ferried on the South Pacific route via Hickam Field, Hawaii then across the Pacific to Australia.
Damaged in Hawaii; vertical stabiliser replaced with unit salvaged from 41-2413.
Fifth Air Force. 30th Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group, Mareeba airfield, QLD, Australia.
Took off from Mareeba airfield on a shuttle mission and landed to refuel at
Jackson Field (7 Mile Drome), Port Moresby, New Guinea 5Oct42.
Departed on a bombing mission against a Japanese airfield at Vunakanau near Rabaul, New Britain 6Oct42.
Over the target at dawn at 24,000 feet, although the weather was clear a cloud was over the target,
requiring the formation to go around for another bomb run.
Because of the delay, the formation was attacked by a force of Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero
fighters that made head-on attacks.
The plane was struck in the nose, knocking out the no.2 engine and wounding the navigator.
Damaged, the bomber fell back from the formation but returned safely to base.
63rd Bomb Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group, Jackson Field (7 Mile Drome), Port Moresby, New Guinea 23Jan43.
Battle damaged on a solo reconnaissance mission over the Solomon Sea and Gasmata,
New Britain 8Mar43.
When it overflew Gasmata airfield, thirteen Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighters
intercepted the bomber. The bomber jettisoned the bomb bay long range fuel tank
and bomb load as it was attacked by the Zeros for forty-five minutes before it was
able to reach the clouds and escape.
The pilot was shot so bad that he was unconscious for the flight home; the co-pilot
was also wounded. The navigator was badly wounded plus two other crew members
had sustained minor wounds. The top turret gunner, who had washed out of flight school,
landed the B-17 at Dobodura airfield, New Guinea with the help of one of the wounded pilots.
Took off from Jackson Field for a night bombing mission against a Japanese airfield
at Vunakanau near Rabaul, New Britain 12/13Jun43.
Tracked by searchlights, the bomber was attacked by Japanese night fighters.
Cannon shells tore holes in the left wing, radio compartment, waist section
and the tail gunner’s compartment. {final combat mission 18Aug43}.
Became a transport hack for General Ennis Clement Whitehead, Commanding Officer,
Fifth Air Force Fighter Command.
Assigned to UCIP (Seventh Air Force, Manila, Luzon, Philippines
Excluded inventory 24Oct46. Salvaged 24Jan47.
13th Air Repair Squadron, Clark Field, Luzon, Philippines 5Feb48.
358th Air Service Group, Clark Field, Luzon, Philippines 6Apr48.
6th Air Service Group, Clark Field, Luzon, Philippines 9Apr48.
Reclaimed at Clark Field, Luzon, Philippines 9Jul48.
Named BLITZ BUGGY. Re-named THE OLD MAN Jan43.
Artwork of Uncle Sam giving the thumbs up and wearing a top hat.
24404 (MSN 3089) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 26Jun42.
San Antonio Air Depot, Duncan Field, San Antonio, TX 30Jun42.
352nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 14Jul42.
North Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain).
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via Goose Bay, Labrador; Patterson Field,
Reykjavik, Iceland to RAF Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland 3Aug42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
352nd Bomb Squadron [K], 301st Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 24Aug42.
{first combat mission 5Sep42}.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 16Sep42.
RAF Hurn, Bournemouth, Hampshire 22Nov42.
Departed to North Africa 23Nov42.
Twelfth Air Force, Operation Torch Nov42.
352nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 23Nov42.
Maison Blanche, Algiers, Algeria 5Dec42.
Biskra, Algeria 16Dec42. Aïn M’lila (Onyx), Constantine, Algeria 16Jan43.
Damaged when the right landing gear collapsed landing at Casablanca, French Morocco 19Jan43.
Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 8Mar43.
Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43.
Crash landed 11Sep43.
Crash landed 9Nov43. {17 missions}.
Assigned to GLEN (Twelfth Air Force, Oran, Algeria).
Condemned 9Nov43. Salvaged. NamedCAROL JEAN III
24405 (MSN 3090) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 26Jun42.
San Antonio Air Depot, Duncan Field, San Antonio, TX 29Jun42.
353rd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 12Jul42.
Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 18Jul42.
353rd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 24Jul42.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) 6Aug42.
North Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via Goose Bay, Labrador; Patterson Field,
Reykjavik, Iceland to Stansted (Station 169), Essex 22Aug42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
353rd Bomb Squadron [E], 301st Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire Aug42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 12Sep42.
RAF Hurn, Bournemouth, Hampshire 22Nov42.
Departed to North Africa 23Nov42.
Twelfth Air Force, Operation Torch Nov42.
353rd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 23Nov42.
Maison Blanche, Algiers, Algeria 5Dec42.
Biskra, Algeria 16Dec42.
Aïn M’lila (Onyx), Constantine, Algeria 16Jan43.
Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 8Mar43.
Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. {56 missions}.
96th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Massicault, Tunis, Tunisia 14Nov43.
Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 10Dec43.
Assigned to ELMS (Northwest African Air Forces) 2Jan44.
{first combat mission 16Jan44}. Battle damaged during a mission to the Wiener
Neustädter Flugzeugwerke factory at Fischamend Markt, Vienna, Austria 17Mar44
(3WIA:7RMC).
The Group got to within sixty miles of the target and ran into 10/10 cloud cover.
The Group circled several times but could find a way through.
While circling, the Group was attacked by Bf 109s, Fw 190s, and Ju 88s.
Three gunners were wounded.
Failed to return from a mission to a ball bearing factory at Steyr, Austria 19Mar44
(8KIA:2POW).
Solid clouds covered that target and the group turned to bomb the air depot at Klagenfurt, Austria.
Shot down by fighters firing rockets. Left wing caught fire but the plane was under control
as the crew bailed out over Andraž before the plane crashed at Celje, Slovenia, Yugoslavia. {26 missions}.
Assigned to OHAM (Fifteenth Air Force, Italy). Condemned 19Mar44.
Assigned to DUKO (Twelfth Air Force, Italy). Condemned 19Mar44. Named DARK EYES
MACR 3287
24406 MSN 3091) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 28Jun42.
Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 1Jul42.
327th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 13Jul42.
North Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) 19Aug42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 20/21Aug42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
327th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire Aug42.
414th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 24Aug42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 27Aug42.
Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 8Sep42.
Departed RAF Hurn, Bournemouth, Hampshire to North Africa 20Nov42.
Twelfth Air Force, Operation Torch Nov42.
414th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Maison Blanche, Algiers, Algeria 20Nov42.
Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 22Nov42.
Biskra, Algeria 25Dec42.
Assigned to GLEN (Twelfth Air Force, Oran, Algeria) 26Jan43.
Badly damaged on a mission to the port at La Goulette, Tunis, Tunisia 1Feb43.
The ‘All American’ was part of a formation of bombers attacking the German-controlled seaport.
The bomber was hit by an out of control Bf 109 almost slicing off the rear fuselage and
tailplane but made it back to Biskra and repaired.
When they were returning home, about 50km west of Tunis,
two German Bf 109 fighters attacked together from the formation’s right front,
as the bombers left the target area.
One went after the lead ship, ‘Flaming Mayme’ [41-24477], and sent that bomber
down smoking; the second attacked ‘All American’.
As this one rolled to dive below and behind the B-17, defensive fire killed or
at least wounded the pilot, a 16-victory ace, Feldwebel Erich Paczia (VI/JG 53).
The fighter passed over ‘All American’, tore a significant slash in the rear of the fuselage
and removed the left horizontal stabiliser.
The bomber lurched upward, but the pilots found that they could use their
throttles to manage the pitch. The remaining parts of the tail section,
the vertical and right stabiliser seemed like they could shake loose at any moment.
Miraculously, none of the B-17?s crew was injured and the men all donned their parachutes,
ready to abandon the bomber should the tail break off. The other crews in the formation,
seeing that the B-17 was crippled, but remaining aloft, slowed to a speed the injured plane
could maintain and formed a formation around it until they were out of range from enemy territory.
Once the formation was outside of the maximum range for the German fighter planes,
the rest of the formation went on ahead and ‘All American’ limped on alone.
Before the other B-17s left, Lieutenant Charles “Cliff” Cutforth, navigator of ‘Flying Flit Gun’ (41-24412),
took a now-famous photo of the stricken ‘All American’ as it flew home over the desert.
It landed safely, though without the tail wheel which was inoperative.
The 50th Air Service Squadron took up the challenge and rebuilt the bomber,
out in the open desert, over a period of six weeks, using the rear fuselage from another
damaged B-17 which was on the salvage heap.
Assigned to OHAM (Fifteenth Air Force, Italy) 4Mar43.
353rd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria Mar43.
{final combat mission 10May43}. Declared ‘war weary’.
Reassigned for utility, training and weather check aircraft. Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43.
Foggia #1, Cerignola, Italy 10Dec43.
Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44.
Headquarters, Fifteenth Air Force Service Command, Bari, Italy.
Damaged in an accident with parked Douglas C-47A 42-100955 while taxying
at Gioia del Colle Field, Bari, Italy 19Jan45.
Condemned salvage at Gioia del Colle 6Mar45. SOC 13Apr45. Named ALL AMERICAN.
24407 (MSN 3092)Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 26Jun42.
San Antonio Air Depot, Duncan Field, San Antonio, TX 29Jun42.
352nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 13Jul42.
North Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) 6Aug42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via Goose Bay, Labrador; Patterson Field,
Reykjavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 16Aug42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
352nd Bomb Squadron [A], 301st Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 18Aug42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 19Sep42.
RAF Hurn, Bournemouth, Hampshire 22Nov42.
Departed to North Africa 23Nov42.
Twelfth Air Force, Operation Torch Nov42.
32nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 23Nov42.
Maison Blanche, Algiers, Algeria 5Dec42.
Biskra, Algeria 16Dec42.
Aïn M’lila (Onyx), Constantine, Algeria 16Jan43.
Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 8Mar43.
Battle damaged on a tactical mission to an enemy shipping convoy off Bizerte, Tunisia 12Apr43 (1KIA:8RMC).
Intense flak and enemy fighters were encountered.
Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43. {48 missions}.
346th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia Oct43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 13Dec43.
{34 missions}.
Air Depot Mar44. {82 missions}.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Returned to US 9/17May44.
3701st Base Unit (Technical School), Amarillo Field, TX 7Jul44.
3706th Base Unit (Basic Training Center), Sheppard Field, Wichita Falls, TX 26May45.
3701st Base Unit (Technical School), Amarillo Field, TX.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 26Nov45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
Named THE GOON. Painted by Sgt Eugene Townsend (32BS/301BG).
24408 (MSN 3093) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 26Jun42.
San Antonio Air Depot, Duncan Field, San Antonio, TX 29Jun42.
32nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 10Jul42.
North Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) 6Aug42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via Goose Bay, Labrador; Patterson Field,
Reykjavik, Iceland to RAF Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland 6Sep42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
32nd Bomb Squadron [H], 301st Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire Sep42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 15Sep42.
RAF Hurn, Bournemouth, Hampshire 22Nov42.
Departed to North Africa 23Nov42.
Twelfth Air Force, Operation Torch Nov42.
32nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 23Nov42.
Maison Blanche, Algiers, Algeria 5Dec42. Biskra, Algeria 16Dec42.
Aïn M’lila (Onyx), Constantine, Algeria 16Jan43.
Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 8Mar43.
Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. {42 missions}.
49th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Massicault, Tunis, Tunisia 14Nov43.
Assigned to ELMS (Northwest African Air Forces) 26Nov43. {first combat mission 26Nov43}.
Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 10Dec43.
Battle damaged during a tactical mission against German troop concentrations
and defensive positions at Albano Laziale, southeast of Rome, Italy 10Feb44 (1WIA:9RMC).
Flak, both heavy and light type, was intense and accurate due to the low bombing
altitude necessary to get under an undercast.
The navigator suffered severe flak wounds. {36 missions}.
483rd Bomb Group, Sterparone, Foggia, Italy 29Apr44.
Returned to US Jul/Aug44.
122nd Base Unit, First Air Force, Camp Springs AAB, MD 5Aug44.
552nd Base Unit (2nd Ferrying Group, Air Transport Command), New Castle Field, Wilmington, DE Aug44.
4104th Base Unit (Rome Air Service Command), Rome Field, NY 23Aug44.
4104th Base Unit (Rome Air Technical Service Command), Rome Field, NY 4Jan45.
4160th Base Unit (Sacramento Air Technical Service Command), Albuquerque AAB, NM.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 28Jun45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to American Compressed Steel Corporation, Cincinnati, OH Jul46; scrapped
Named PLUTOCRAT (E) - artwork of the Disney cartoon character ‘Pluto’ sitting on a yellow bomb.
Named for ‘Pluto’ the puppy which the crew adopted as a mascot soon after arriving England.
Painted by Sgt Eugene Townsend (32BS/301BG).
24409 (MSN 3094) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 28Jun42.
San Antonio Air Depot, Duncan Field, San Antonio, TX 29Jun42.
352nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 10Jul42.
North Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) 12Aug42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via Goose Bay, Labrador; Patterson Field,
Reykjavik, Iceland to Stansted (Station 169), Essex 22Aug42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
352nd Bomb Squadron [E], 301st Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire Aug42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 17Oct42.
RAF Hurn, Bournemouth, Hampshire 22Nov42.
Departed to North Africa 23Nov42.
Twelfth Air Force, Operation Torch Nov42.
32nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 23Nov42.
Maison Blanche, Algiers, Algeria 5Dec42. Biskra, Algeria 16Dec42.
Aïn M’lila (Onyx), Constantine, Algeria 16Jan43.
Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 8Mar43.
Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. {35 missions}.
416th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 14Nov43.
Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 13Dec43. {39 missions}.
816th Bomb Squadron, 483rd Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 31Mar44.
Sterparone, Foggia, Italy 22Apr44.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom).
Returned to US Jun/Jul44.
1104th Base Unit (Caribbean Division, Air Transport Command), Homestead Field (Station 8), FL 4Jul44.
4136th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Service Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 26Jul44.
Ferrying Division, Air Transport Command, Cincinnati, OH 13Feb45.
4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 14Feb45.
4124th Base Unit (Air Technical Service Command), Altus Field, OK.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 16Sep45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Esperado Mining Company, Altus, OK 25Jun47; scrapped.
Named PLAYBOY. Painted by Sgt Eugene Townsend (32BS/301BG).
24410 (MSN 3095) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 26Jun42.
San Antonio Air Depot, Duncan Field, San Antonio, TX 29Jun42.
301st Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 14Jul42.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain); not delivered.
Langley Field, Hampton, VA 20Jul42. Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 1Sep42.
Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 2Sep42.
Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 6Sep42.
2nd Ferrying Group, New Castle Field, Wilmington, DE 4Oct42.
Air Service Command, Houlton Field, ME 25Oct42.
346th Bomb Group, Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 22Dec42.
383rd Bomb Group, Ainsworth Field, NB 1Mar43.
398th Bomb Group, Rapid City AAB, SD 9Apr43.
383rd Bomb Group, Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43.
447th Bomb Group, Harvard Field, NB 30Aug43.
Assigned to GLEN (Twelfth Air Force, Oran, Algeria).
Returned to US 18Apr44.
498th Bomb Group, 73rd Bomb Wing, Great Bend Field, KS.
243rd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit, Very Heavy), Great Bend Field, KS 3Jun44.
Designated TB-17F 7Oct44.
232nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dalhart Field, TX 7Oct44.
Ferrying Division, Air Transport Command, Cincinnati, OH May45.
4160th Base Unit (Sacramento Air Technical Service Command), Albuquerque AAB, NM 20Jun45.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 30Jun45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to American Compressed Steel Corporation, Cincinnati, OH Jul46; scrapped
24411 (MSN 3096) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 26Jun42.
San Antonio Air Depot, Duncan Field, San Antonio, TX 30Jun42.
325th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 13Jul42.
Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 23Jul42.
325th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 13Jul42.
San Antonio Air Depot, Duncan Field, San Antonio, TX 10Aug42.
North Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) 16Aug42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 19/20Aug42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
325th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire Aug42.
414th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 24Aug42.
Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 8Sep42.
Severely battle damaged during a mission to the submarine yards at Lorient, France 21Oct42.
Returned to Polebrook with extensive damage and declared a loss.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom).
Condemned 25Oct42.
Wreck transported to Base Air Depot No.1, Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire to be salvaged.
SOC 4Nov44. Named DOTTIE.
24412 (MSN 3097) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 28Jun42.
San Antonio Air Depot, Duncan Field, San Antonio, TX 30Jun42.
Atlanta, GA 14Jul42. 301st Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 15Jul42.
407th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 6Aug42.
North Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) 25Aug42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 26/27Aug42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
407th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire Aug42.
340th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire Aug42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 5Sep42.
Departed RAF Predannack, Cornwall to North Africa 10Nov42.
Twelfth Air Force, Operation Torch Nov42.
340th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Maison Blanche, Algiers, Algeria 13Nov42.
Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 22Nov42. Biskra, Algeria 25Dec42.
Châteaudun-du-Rhumel (Helen), Constantine, Algeria 8Feb43.
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.
Assigned to ELMS (Northwest African Air Forces) 16Feb44.
Returned to US 9/13Nov44.
302nd Base Unit (Staging Base), Hunter Field, Savannah, GA 13Nov44.
4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 23Nov44.
Reclaim complete 6Jul45.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation for storage and disposal. War Assets Administration.
Named FLYING FLIT GUN – artwork of a flit gun aimed at fly caricatures of Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito.
Margaret Bourke-White, correspondent of LIFE Magazine, suggested the name and the plane was christened by her 1Oct42
24413 (MSN 3098) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 28Jun42.
San Antonio Air Depot, Duncan Field, San Antonio, TX 30Jun42.
327th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 14Jul42.
Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 8Aug42.
North Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) 19Aug42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 20/21Aug42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
327th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire Aug42.
414th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 24Aug42.
Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 8Sep42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 19Oct42.
Departed RAF Hurn, Bournemouth, Hampshire to North Africa 20Nov42.
Twelfth Air Force, Operation Torch Nov42.
414th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Maison Blanche, Algiers, Algeria 20Nov42.
Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 22Nov42.
Biskra, Algeria 25Dec42.
Failed to return from a mission to the docks at Bizerte, Tunisia 26Dec42 (10KIA).
Over the target, a direct hit by flak in the bomb bay exploded all the bombs before
they could be released, killing the crew and damaging adjacent B-17F 41-24532,
an engine narrowly missing a wing of #532.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom).
Condemned 31Oct44.
SOC 10Dec44. Named BIRMINGHAM BLITZKREIG II
24414 (MSN 3099) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 28Jun42.
Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 30Jun42.
407th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 14Jul42.
Fairfield Air Depot, Air Service Command, Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 19Jul42.
407th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 15Aug42.
North Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) 25Aug42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 26/27Aug42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
407th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire Aug42.
342nd Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire Aug42.
Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 8Sep42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 26Oct42.
Departed RAF Hurn, Bournemouth, Hampshire to North Africa 20Nov42.
Assigned to GLEN (Twelfth Air Force, Oran, Algeria) 20Nov42.
Twelfth Air Force, Operation Torch Nov42.
342nd Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Maison Blanche, Algiers, Algeria 20Nov42.
Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 22Nov42. Biskra, Algeria 25Dec42.
Châteaudun-du-Rhumel (Helen), Constantine, Algeria 8Feb43.
Pont-du-Fahs, Tunisia 11Aug43. Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 15Aug43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43.
49th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Massicault, Tunis, Tunisia 14Nov43.
Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 10Dec43. {first combat mission 25Dec43}.
{26 missions}.
Assigned to OHAM (Fifteenth Air Force, Italy). Condemned 6Apr44.
Returned to US 21Apr44.
4136th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Service Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 3Jun44.
Ferrying Division, Air Transport Command, Cincinnati, OH 6Jun44.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 9Jun44.
4134th Base Unit (Spokane Air Technical Service Command), Spokane Air Depot, WA 22Jan45.
4124th Base Unit (Air Technical Service Command), Altus Field, OK Sep45.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 19Sep45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Esperado Mining Company, Altus, OK 25Jun47; scrapped.
Named JARRIN' JENNY II
24415 (MSN 3100Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 28Jun42.
Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 30Jun42.
325th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 14Jul42.
North Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) 16Aug42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 19/20Aug42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
325th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire Aug42.
414th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 24Aug42.
Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 8Sep42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 19Aug42.
Battle damaged during a mission to the submarine yards at Lorient, France 21Oct42;
wings damaged by 20mm cannon shells.
Departed RAF Hurn, Bournemouth, Hampshire to North Africa 20Nov42. T
welfth Air Force, Operation Torch Nov42.
414th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Maison Blanche, Algiers, Algeria 20Nov42.
Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 22Nov42. Biskra, Algeria 25Dec42.
Châteaudun-du-Rhumel (Helen), Constantine, Algeria 8Feb43.
Assigned to GLEN (Twelfth Air Force, Oran, Algeria) 26Apr43.
Mid-air collision with B-17F 42-5147 during a mission to Palermo, Sicily 9May43
(1KIA:2WIA:7RMC).
Two engines were damaged by an enemy fighter and dropped back into a collision with #147.
A propeller on #147 sheared off part of the rudder, vertical and horizontal stabilisers
as well as the tail gunner’s position.
The tail gunner was seen to bail out over the Mediterranean Sea; life rafts were dropped
in his area but he was not found.
Claimed by Hauptmann Werner Schroer flying a Bf 109G of II./JG 27 1km east of Capo Gallo, Palermo, Sicily.
The plane was flown back to base but, without hydraulics or brakes, the pilot was unable to
obtain clearance to land on the runway. He asked for information as to the nearest hospital.
Told it was 4.5 miles from the airfield, with no.1 propeller feathered, he crash landed the plane
in a poppy field within a few yards of the hospital entrance.
Assigned to DUKO (Twelfth Air Force, Italy).
Condemned 9May43.
Salvaged. SOC 14Jan46. MACR 16254. Named YANKEE DOODLE II
24416 (MSN 3101) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 28Jun42.
Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 30Jun42.
326th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 14Jul42.
North Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) 12Aug42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 15/16Aug42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
326th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire Aug42.
342nd Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 24Aug42.
Severely battle damaged on a mission to the former Potez aircraft factory at Méaulte, France 2Oct42.
95th Bomb Group, Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 1943.
359th Bomb Squadron [BN*V], 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 17Jun43.
Battle damaged on a mission to the Luftwaffe airfield at Gilze en Rijen, Netherlands 19Aug43
(1WIA:9RMC). With haze prior to the I.P., over the target moderate and accurate flak
was coming from the centre of the target and the lead bombardier was unable to synchronize the bomb sight.
Going round for another run over the target, this time the formation was heading into the sun
causing the bombers to drop their bombs haphazardly, none hitting the target.
By this time other groups were heading home along with their fighter escort.
The formation was then attacked by a small force of enemy fighters, seriously wounding the tail gunner.
On return the plane landed at Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk to seek medical assistance.
Eighth Air Force Service Command 20Aug43.
Regained by Group 26Sep43.
Battle damaged during a mission to the port area at Bremen, Germany 29Nov43.
The lead Combat Wing fired a red flare, but failed to drop any bombs.
At this time flak appeared and fighters were encountered after passing through the flak area.
After several sharp turns, bombs were released on the Combat Wing leader's bombs;
they landed about twelve miles west of the city of Bremen.
Fighter attacks from every direction became persistent; many used the excessive
contrails to sneak up on the formation. Rockets were fired into the formation
from several directions. On return, force landed at RAF Woodbridge emergency landing ground, Suffolk.
Regained by Group 14Jan44. Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom).
Returned to US 7/13May44.
Valley (Station 568), Anglesey, Wales.
2nd Ferrying Group, New Castle Field, Wilmington, DE.
Oklahoma City Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK
for use by Public Relations and a War Bond Tour.
Basic Training Center, Sheppard Field, Wichita Falls TX 5Jul44.
3701st Base Unit (Technical School), Amarillo Field, TX 9Jul44.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 4Nov45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped.
Named BLACK DIAMOND EXPRESS
24417 (MSN 3102) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 28Jun42.
Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 30Jun42.
325th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 14Jul42.
North Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) 16Aug42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland
to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 19/20Aug42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
325th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire Aug42.
414th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 24Aug42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 19Aug42.
Battle damaged during a mission to the submarine yards at Lorient, France 21Oct42;
wings damaged by 20mm cannon shells.
Base Air Depot No.1, Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire 24Oct42.
369th Bomb Squadron [WW*F], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire.
Battle damaged on a mission to the submarine yards at Wilhelmshaven, Germany 22Mar43
(1WIA:9RMC). Attacked by enemy fighters, wounding the radio operator and shooting
out all the instruments.
Flak damaged the elevators and both wings.
Mobile Repair Unit, Air Force Service Command 22Mar43.
Regained by Group 4Apr43.
Base Air Depot No.2, Warton (Station 582), Lancashire 6Apr43.
Regained by Group 17Apr43.
Failed to return from a mission to the Continental Gummi-Werke synthetic
rubber factory at Hanover, Germany 26Jul43 (10RMC).
Ditched in North Sea, 1/4 mile off Norfolk coast at Cromer; crew rescued by Air-Sea Rescue.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned salvage 26Jul43.
Named TIGER ROSE / DIXIE DEMO II
24418 (MSN 3103) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 28Jun42.
Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 30Jun42.
352nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 12Jul42.
Sub Depot, Langley Field, Hampton, VA 18Jul42.
352nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 21Jul42.
North Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) 26Jul42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via Goose Bay, Labrador;
Patterson Field, Reykjavik, Iceland to RAF Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland 3Aug42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
Bomb Squadron [F], 301st Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 9Aug42.
{first combat mission 5Sep42}.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 13Sep42. {11 missions}.
RAF Hurn, Bournemouth, Hampshire 22Nov42.
Departed to North Africa 23Nov42. Twelfth Air Force, Operation Torch Nov42.
352nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 23Nov42.
Assigned to GLEN (Twelfth Air Force, Oran, Algeria) 20Jan43.
32nd Bomb Squadron Feb43. {total 79 missions}.
Returned to US 10/15Nov43.
Oklahoma City Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK.
Ferried Oklahoma City - Rapid City, SD 31Jan/3Feb44.
398th Bomb Group, Rapid City AAB, SD 3Feb44.
497th Bomb Group, 73rd Bomb Wing, Pratt Field, KS.
499th Bomb Group, 73rd Bomb Wing, Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 28Apr44.
247th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit, Very Heavy), Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 14Jun44.
232nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dalhart Field, TX 9Jul44.
3701st Base Unit (Technical School), Amarillo Field, TX Oct44.
Class 26 ground instructional airframe 20Oct44. Reclaim complete 9Apr46.
Named MICKEY FINN [352nd] / SPECIAL DELIVERY II [32nd]. Painted by Sgt Eugene
Townsend (32BS/301BG)..
24419 (MSN 3104) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 28Jun42.
Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 1Jul42.
327th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 14Jul42.
North Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) 19Aug42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 20/21Aug42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
327th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire Aug42.
341st Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 24Aug42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 26Oct42.
Departed RAF Predannack, Cornwall to North Africa 17Nov42.
Twelfth Air Force, Operation Torch Nov42.
341st Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Maison Blanche, Algiers, Algeria 17Nov42.
Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 22Nov42.
Biskra, Algeria 25Dec42.
Badly damaged by bombs during a Luftwaffe raid on the air base at Biskra 3Jan43.
Set on fire and damaged beyond repair during a Luftwaffe Ju 88 night raid on the
air base at Biskra 9Jan43.
Assigned to GLEN (Twelfth Air Force, Oran, Algeria).
Condemned 10Jan43. Salvaged.
Named VIRGIN STURGEON
24420 MSN 3105) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 29Jun42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 1Jul42.
Sacramento Air Depot, McClellan Field, CA 4Aug42.
West Coast Wing, Air Transport Command, Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA 6Aug42; preparation for overseas service.
Assigned to SUMAC (Fifth Air Force, Australia) 21Aug42.
Ferried on the South Pacific route via Hickam Field, Hawaii then across the Pacific to Australia.
Fifth Air Force Aug42.
28th Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group, Mareeba airfield, QLD, Australia Aug42.
65th Bomb Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group, Mareeba airfield, QLD 16Nov42.
Jackson Field (7 Mile Drome), Port Moresby, New Guinea 20Jan43.
Departed on a reconnaissance mission over Lae, New Guinea 9Jan43 (1KIA:2WIA).
During the flight, the bomber entered a thunderstorm forcing the radio operator to
quickly close the radio hatch. This caused the 0.50 calibre machine gun to accidentally discharge,
killing the tail gunner and wounding two other gunners.
Accident on a photo reconnaissance mission over New Britain 20Feb43.
Returning, the plane overshot the runway and became stuck in mud.
Transferred to the 5th Bomber Command replacement pool for repairs.
403rd Bomb Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group, Jackson Field (7 Mile Drome), Port Moresby, New Guinea.
During takeoff from Jackson Field the tail wheel was damaged 5Mar43.
The B-17 circled to burn off fuel then crash landed.
The B-17 was to be salvaged but was instead repaired.
65th Bomb Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group, Jackson Field (7 Mile Drome), Port Moresby, New Guinea.
63rd Bomb Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group. {final combat mission Oct43}.
4th Air Depot, RAAF Garbutt, Townsville, QLD Nov43.
Converted as an armed transport to drop supplies to forward Allied patrols in enemy territory.
58th Troop Carrier Squadron [176], 375th Troop Carrier Group, 54th Troop Carrier Wing,
Port Moresby, New Guinea. It was one of eight B-17 armed transports that took off from
Finschhafen airfield to make supply runs dropping weapons, ammunition, barbed wire
and blood plasma to the US Army 1st Calvary Division that had landed on Los Negros Island,
Admiralty Islands, and strafed enemy positions in the area 1-2Mar44.
Nadzab airfield, New Guinea 22Apr44.
Mokmer airfield, Biak, Netherlands East Indies 27Sep44.
McGuire Field, San Jose, Mindoro, Philippines 18Feb45.
WFU Mar45. Condemned 1May46. SOC 23Jul46.
Named SUPER SNOOPER / CAROLINE / G.I. Jr.
24421 (MSN 3106) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 28Jun42.
Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 30Jun42.
326th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 14Jul42.
Substantially damaged by mechanical failure taxying at Dow Field, 15Jul42.
407th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME Aug42.
North Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) 25Aug42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 26/27Aug42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
407th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire Aug42.
341st Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire Aug42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 26oct42.
Departed RAF Predannack, Cornwall to North Africa 17Nov42.
Twelfth Air Force, Operation Torch Nov42.
341st Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Maison Blanche, Algiers, Algeria 17Nov42.
Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 22Nov42.
Biskra, Algeria 25Dec42.
Châteaudun-du-Rhumel (Helen), Constantine, Algeria 8Feb43.
Assigned to GLEN (Twelfth Air Force, Oran, Algeria) 27Apr43.
Pont-du-Fahs, Tunisia 11Aug43.
Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 15Aug43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43.
347th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 14Nov43.
Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 11Dec43.
483rd Bomb Group, Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 31Mar44.
Sterparone, Foggia, Italy 22Apr44.
Returned to US 24/29Jun44.
1104th Base Unit (Caribbean Division, Air Transport Command), Homestead Field (Station 8), FL 29Jun44.
Designated TB-17F.
3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Very Heavy), Roswell Field, NM 12Aug44.
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.
3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Very Heavy), Roswell Field, NM Aug45.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Searcy Field, Stillwater, OK for storage and disposal 11Aug45.
War Assets Corporation. Sold to Paul Mantz, Glendale, CA 19Feb46; scrapped. Named WONGO
24422 (MSN 3107) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 28Jun42.
Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 30Jun42.
352nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 12Jul42.
North Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) Aug42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via Goose Bay, Labrador;
Patterson Field, Reykjavik, Iceland to RAF Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland 3Aug42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
352nd Bomb Squadron [G], 301st Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 9Aug42.
(first combat mission 5Sep42}.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 13Sep42.
RAF Hurn, Bournemouth, Hampshire 22Nov42.
Departed to North Africa 23Nov42.
Twelfth Air Force, Operation Torch Nov42.
352nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 23Nov42.
Maison Blanche, Algiers, Algeria 6Dec42.
Biskra, Algeria 16Dec42.
Incident during a mission to the harbour and docks at Sousse, Tunisia 29Dec42.
The plane returned early because of severe icing.
Flying over the Atlas mountains in an overcast, icing caused the plane to verge
on stalling. The pilot ordered the crew to bail out and the navigator bailed out.
The bombardier jettisoned the bombs and, without the excess weight, the plane
became safer to fly. The rest of the crew remained onboard and returned safely to base.
After being held, along with two German flyers, by French authorities for a few days,
the navigator returned to base.
Aïn M’lila (Onyx), Constantine, Algeria 16Jan43.
Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 8Mar43.
Assigned to GLEN (Twelfth Air Force, Oran, Algeria) 18Jul43.
Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43.
Foggia #1, Cerignola, Italy 10Dec43. Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44.
{61 missions}. 1st Air Service Command, Twelfth Air Force.
Substantially damaged caused by engine failure at El Aouina AAB, Tunisia 23Jul44.
Assigned to ACHE (Africa, Middle East). Excluded inventory 1Jul45.
SOC 8Aug46. .Named DICKIE DOODLE II. SHOOT YOU'RE FADED tail art and a heart for
the tail gunner’s girlfrield.
24423 (MSN 3108) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 28Jun42.
Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 1Jul42.
353rd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 12Jul42.
Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 18Jul42.
353rd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 22Jul42.
North Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) 6Aug42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via Goose Bay, Labrador;
Patterson Field, Reykjavik, Iceland to Stansted (Station 169), Essex 22Aug42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
353rd Bomb Squadron [F], 301st Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire Aug42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 11Sep42.
RAF Hurn, Bournemouth, Hampshire 22Nov42.
Departed to North Africa 23Nov42.
Twelfth Air Force, Operation Torch Nov42.
353rd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 23Nov42.
Maison Blanche, Algiers, Algeria 5Dec42.
Biskra, Algeria 16Dec42. Aïn M’lila (Onyx), Constantine, Algeria 16Jan43.
Assigned to GLEN (Twelfth Air Force, Oran, Algeria) 21Feb43.
Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 8Mar43. Badly damaged when the co-pilot selected landing gear instead of flaps after landing at Saint-Donat 28May43. {42 missions}. Salvaged. Condemned 8Dec44. ITZABITCH. Named at Westover Field by the pilot who had an ‘old jalopy’ by the same name
24424 (MSN 3109) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 28Jun42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 1Jul42.
Sacramento Air Depot, McClellan Field, CA 6Aug42.
West Coast Wing, Air Transport Command, Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA Aug42; preparation for overseas service.
Assigned to SUMAC (Fifth Air Force, Australia) 21Aug42.
Ferried on the South Pacific route via Hickam Field, Hawaii then across the Pacific to Australia.
Fifth Air Force. 28th Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group, Mareeba airfield, QLD, Australia Aug42.
64th Bomb Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group, Fenton, Hayes Creek, NT 6Aug42.
65th Bomb Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group, Mareeba, QLD Nov42.
64th Bomb Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group, Jackson Field (7 Mile Drome), Port Moresby, New Guinea Jan43.
The aircraft took off in the evening from Jackson Field on a mission to bomb a
Japanese convoy off Wewak, New Guinea 15Mar43 (7MIA:2RMC).
The weather was poor and the bomber experienced four hours of turbulence and icing.
Unable to reach the target and low on fuel, the pilot aborted the mission,
jettisoned the bombs and plotted a course bound for Dobodura on the north coast of New Guinea.
The crew released flares and realized they were over the sea. The pilot turned towards land to ditch
with the crew assuming crash positions in the radio compartment.
The bomber ditched nose first at roughly 100 mph and rapidly sank approximately fifteen to
twenty miles north of Buna, New Guinea early on 16Mar43.
Assigned to LEFT (Fifth Air Force, Brisbane, Australia). Condemned 17Mar43. SOC 10Aug46..
Named HELL FROM HEAVEN MEN
24425 (MSN 3110) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 29Jun42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 1Jul42.
Sacramento Air Depot, McClellan Field, CA 9Aug42.
West Coast Wing, Air Transport Command, Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA Aug42; preparation for overseas service.
Assigned to SUMAC (Fifth Air Force, Australia) 21Aug42.
Ferried on the South Pacific route via Hickam Field, Hawaii then across the Pacific to Australia.
Fifth Air Force. 30th Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group, Mareeba airfield, QLD, Australia Aug42.
64th Bomb Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group, Fenton Field, Hayes Creek NT. Iron Range, Lockhart, QLD 12Oct42.
Mareeba, QLD 8Nov42. Jackson Field (7 Mile Drome), Port Moresby, New Guinea 20Jan43.
The aircraft took off on a training flight from Jackson Field 17Apr43 (7KIS).
While flying in close formation over the sea near Hood Point, thirty miles southeast of
Port Moresby, the plane was caught in a sudden down draft and the propellers collided with
B-17F 41-24355, causing some damage to its tail. After the collision, the engines caught fire,
then the plane dropped down, quickly losing altitude, crashed into the sea, and broke apart on impact. 7 killed
The other B-17 returned to Port Moresby safely.
Assigned to LEFT (Fifth Air Force, Brisbane, Australia).
Condemned 19Apr43. SOC 10Oct46(7KIS).
24426 (MSN 3111) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 29Jun42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 1Jul42.
Sacramento Air Depot, McClellan Field, CA 6Aug42.
West Coast Wing, Air Transport Command, Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA 6Aug42;
preparation for overseas service.
Assigned to SUMAC (Fifth Air Force, Australia) 21Aug42.
Ferried on the South Pacific route via Hickam Field, Hawaii then across the Pacific to Australia.
Fifth Air Force. 42nd Bomb Squadron, 11th Bomb Group, Bomber 1 airfield (Palikulo Field),
Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides 11Aug42.
Assigned to POPPY (Thirteenth Air Force, Solomon Islands) 30Aug42.
Henderson Field (Cactus), Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands Sep42.
Seventh Air Force, Hawaii 9Dec42. Hawaiian Air Depot, Hickam Field, O’ahu,
Honolulu, TH. Bellows Field, Waim?nalo, O’ahu, TH 8Apr43.
Returned to US 18Aug43.
Sacramento Air Depot, McClellan Field, CA 18Aug43.
Hawaiian Air Depot, Hickam Field, O’ahu, Honolulu, TH 29Jan44.
Assigned to IRON (Seventh Air Force, Hawaii) 1Feb44.
Returned to US 28Jul44.
West Coast Wing, Air Transport Command, Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA 28Jul44.
SOC 31Aug44
24427 (MSN 3112) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 30Jun42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 1Jul42.
Sacramento Air Depot, McClellan Field, CA 2Aug42.
West Coast Wing, Air Transport Command, Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA 6Aug42; preparation for overseas service.
Assigned to SUMAC (Fifth Air Force, Australia) 21Aug42.
Ferried on the South Pacific route via Hickam Field, Hawaii then across the Pacific to Australia.
Fifth Air Force. 30th Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group, Mareeba airfield, QLD, Australia Aug42.
Took off from Jackson Field (7 Mile Drome), Port Moresby, New Guinea for a night bombing mission
against a Japanese airfield at Vunakanau near Rabaul, New Britain 15Sep42 (9MIA).
After takeoff, no further contact was made from this bomber.
Assigned to LEFT (Fifth Air Force, Brisbane, Australia).
Condemned 15Sep42. SOC 10Oct46
24428 (MSN 3113) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 29Jun42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 1Jul42.
Sacramento Air Depot, McClellan Field, CA 4Aug42.
West Coast Wing, Air Transport Command, Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA 6Aug42; preparation for overseas service.
Assigned to SUMAC (Fifth Air Force, Australia) 21Aug42.
Ferried on the South Pacific route via Hickam Field, Hawaii then across the Pacific to Australia.
Fifth Air Force. 30th Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group, Mareeba airfield, QLD, Australia 21Aug42.
Departed from Mareeba airfield to Jackson Field (7 Mile Drome), Port Moresby, New Guinea
on a shuttle mission against shipping in Simpson Harbor near Rabaul, New Britain 5Sep42.
Experienced bad weather, snow, rain, and icing during the flight to the target.
On return to Mareeba the landing gear collapsed on landing, the plane running into trees
at the side of the runway. Assigned to LEFT (Fifth Air Force, Brisbane, Australia).
Condemned 7Sep42. SOC 10Oct46.
Named MISS CARRIAGE.
24429 (MSN 3114) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 29Jun42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 1Jul42.
Sacramento Air Depot, McClellan Field, CA 29Jul42.
West Coast Wing, Air Transport Command, Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA Jul42; preparation for overseas service.
Assigned to SUMAC (Fifth Air Force, Australia) 3Aug42.
Ferried on the South Pacific route via Hickam Field, Hawaii then across the Pacific to Australia.
Fifth Air Force. 63rd Bomb Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group, Torrens Creek, QLD, Australia 3Aug42.
Mareeba, QLD 20Aug42.
This was one of eight B-17s that took off late at night from Jackson Field (7 Mile Drome),
Port Moresby, New Guinea on a shuttle mission to locate and bomb a Japanese cruiser
reported in the vicinity of Buna, New Guinea 3Dec42 (9MIA).
Over the target area the following morning, the cruiser was not located,
despite good weather conditions. After leaving the Buna area, this B-17 was never seen
or made contact by radio.
The formation then proceeded to a secondary target of Lae, New Guinea, but it was clouded in,
with a low ceiling, poor visibility and thunderstorms.
While trying to skirt a severe storm five miles off Finschhafen a light, possibly from this B-17,
was seen to signal "S.O..." and about 30 seconds later, directly ahead, a reddish yellow explosion was seen.
The aircraft had crashed roughly eight miles southwest of Finschhafen to the east of the
Mongi River in the Mongi valley at roughly 1,000 feet elevation.
Assigned to LEFT (Fifth Air Force, Brisbane, Australia).
Condemned 5Dec42. SOC 10Oct46.
Namws DUMBO - artwork of the Walt Disney baby elephant cartoon character ‘Dumbo’.
Painted by Sgt Ernie Vandal, Crew Chief, 43rd Bomb Group.
A Royal Australian Air Force search team located the wreckage 1Aug46
24430 (MSN 3115) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 29Jun42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 1Jul42.
Bolling Field, Washington, DC 12Aug42.
Sacramento Air Depot, McClellan Field, CA 18Aug42.
West Coast Wing, Air Transport Command, Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA Aug42; preparation for overseas service.
Assigned to POPPY (Thirteenth Air Force, Solomon Islands) 1Sep42.
Ferried on the South Pacific route via Hickam Field, Hawaii then across the Pacific to Solomon Islands.
Assigned to LEFT (Fifth Air Force, Brisbane, Australia).
Condemned inventory 31Oct44.
Apparently, this B-17 was never assigned to a specific Bomb Group.
During 1942 it was photographed parked and being serviced at Whenuapai,
Waipapakauri and Ohakea Airfield in New Zealand.
May have been in New Zealand for a high-level meeting or conference,
possibly to make final plans for the imminent arrival of the American forces to New Zealand,
which was to be used as a springboard for the war in the Pacific. Fate not known.
24431 (MSN 3116) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 29Jun42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 1Jul42.
Gowen Field, Boise, ID 27Aug42. 91st Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Sep42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 11Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland
to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 15Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
401st Bomb Squadron [LL*G], 91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire Oct42.
Battle damaged on a mission to the torpedo store of the submarine base at
Saint-Nazaire, France 3Jan43 (1KIA:5WIA).
West of Nantes, France, the anti-aircraft fire was strong; south of the
Loire the fire of the battery of Château Bougon, Couffé, was very heavy,
and a strong defence was encountered in the region of Paimboeuf.
Strong head winds slowed the advance of the formation during the last part of the flight.
Flak was intense and precise above the objective.
German fighters quickly intercepted the formation, attacking first the bombers
damaged by anti-aircraft fire.
Detailed for a ferry flight to 1st Strategic Air Depot, Troston (Station 595), Suffolk,
severely damaged in an accident at Bassingbourn 12Feb43 (7RMC).
While on the runway attempting to takeoff, strong winds lifted the tail causing
the plane to nose over. {5 missions}.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned salvage 16Feb43.
Named THE SAINT.
24432 (MSN 3117) Accepted by USAAF 29Jun42. Air Service Command, Dow Field, Bangor, ME Aug42.
91st Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Sep42. Ferried RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to
Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland 2/3Oct42. 401st Bomb Squadron [LL*E], 91st Bomb Group,
Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire. Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 14Oct42
(named *Danellen*) 324th Bomb Squadron [DF*E]. Failed to return from a mission
to Rouen, France 20Dec42. shot down by Maj Priller of JG26 Dec 20, 1942, France and
crashed next to Seine River between Tosny and Bernieres, Les Andes, Normandy.
MACR 5381. 8 of 9 crew aboard KIA. One POW.
24433 (MSN 3118) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 30Jun42.
Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 9Jul42.
Bolling Field, Washington, DC 28Jul42.
Fairfield Air Depot, Air Service Command, Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 1Aug42.
Modified for long range photo reconnaissance.
15th Photographic Mapping Squadron, 3rd Photographic Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 17Sep42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 29Sep42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 2Oct42.
Membury (Station 466), Berkshire. Steeple Morden (Station 122), Cambridgeshire 27Oct42.
Departed RAF Hurn, Bournemouth, Hampshire to North Africa 18Nov42.
Twelfth Air Force, Operation Torch Nov42.
Assigned to GLEN (Twelfth Air Force, Oran, Algeria).
15th Photographic Mapping Squadron, 3rd Photographic Group, La Sénia, Oran, Algeria 6Dec42.
Algiers, Algeria 25Dec42.
The 3rd Photographic Group required unique supplies and equipment not readily
available from local sources.
The demand for supplies became so great the group enlisted B-17s from the
15th Photographic Mapping Squadron for the sole purpose of resupply.
The aircraft made regular flights to England to obtain the needed materials,
especially print paper, to continue operations.
Le Kroub, Algeria 5Jun43. La Marsa, Tunisia 28Jun43. Grottaglie, Italy 4Oct43.
Bari, Italy 28Dec43. Assigned to DUKO (Twelfth Air Force, Italy). Condemned 1May44
24434 (MSN 3119) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 30Jun42.
Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 9Jul42.
Bolling Field, Washington, DC 29Jul42.
Lowry Modification Center, Lowry Field, Denver, CO 2Aug42.
Fairfield Air Depot, Air Service Command, Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 30Aug42.
Modified for long range photo reconnaissance.
15th Photographic Mapping Squadron, 3rd Photographic Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 17Sep42.
Ferried on the North Atlantic route via Gander, Newfoundland.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 2Oct42.
15th Photographic Mapping Squadron, 3rd Photographic Group, Membury (Station 466),
Berkshire. Steeple Morden (Station 122), Cambridgeshire 27Oct42.
Departed RAF Hurn, Bournemouth, Hampshire to North Africa 18Nov42.
Twelfth Air Force, Operation Torch Nov42.
15th Photographic Mapping Squadron, 3rd Photographic Group, La Sénia, Oran, Algeria 6Dec42.
Algiers, Algeria 25Dec42.
The 3rd Photographic Group required unique supplies and equipment not readily available from local sources.
The demand for supplies became so great the group enlisted B-17s from the
15th Photographic Mapping Squadron for the sole purpose of resupply.
The aircraft made regular flights to England to obtain the needed materials,
especially print paper, to continue operations.
Le Kroub, Algeria 5Jun43.
Assigned to GLEN (Twelfth Air Force, Oran, Algeria) 7Jun43.
La Marsa, Tunisia 28Jun43. Assigned to DUKO (Twelfth Air Force, Italy).
Returned to US. 1104th Base Unit (Caribbean Division, Air Transport Command),
Homestead Field (Station 8), FL 14Jul44.
4136th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Service Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 6Aug44.
Ferrying Division, Air Transport Command, Cincinnati, OH Nov44.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation 22Nov44.
Registered NX60475 to Sperry Gyroscope Co, NY 1945.
Registered N60475 to Charles Babb & Co, NY.
Registered CB-79 to Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano, La Paz, Bolivia 5Aug51.
Reregistered CB-579 to Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano, La Paz, Bolivia.
Leased to Grigotá Refrigerators, Uncía. Crashed Uncia, Bolivia 29Dec58 and destroyed
24435 (MSN 3120) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 30Jun42.
San Antonio Air Depot, Duncan Field, San Antonio, TX 9Jul42.
327th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Aug42.
San Antonio Air Depot, Duncan Field, San Antonio, TX 15Aug42.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) 19Aug42.
North Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 20/21Aug42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
327th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire Aug42.
340th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 24Aug42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom). RAF Hurn, Bournemouth, Hampshire 29Oct42.
Stripped down only the top-turret, ball-turret, one nose gun and a bare minimum of ammunition.
Baggage racks and extra seats took all available space.
Departed to North Africa 5Nov42.
This aircraft was part of a group of six B-17´s that departed transporting a group of
high ranking American and British officer's via Gibraltar to the opening of Operation Torch,
the Allied invasion of French North Africa.
Returned to RAF Predannack, Cornwall 9Nov42.
Departed RAF Predannack, Cornwall to North Africa 11Nov42.
Twelfth Air Force, Operation Torch Nov42.
340th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Maison Blanche, Algiers, Algeria 13Nov42.
Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 22Nov42. Biskra, Algeria 25Dec42.
Châteaudun-du-Rhumel (Helen), Constantine, Algeria 8Feb43.
Assigned to GLEN (Twelfth Air Force, Oran, Algeria) 23Apr43.
Pont-du-Fahs, Tunisia 11Aug43. Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 15Aug43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43.
429th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Massicault, Tunis, Tunisia 4Nov43.
Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 10Dec43.
{first combat mission 29Jan44}.
Failed to return from a mission to the Luftwaffe airfield at Villaorba, Italy 18Mar44
(3KIA:2EVD:5POW). Attacked by enemy fighters using rockets, a fire started
in the bomb bay and the crew was instructed to bail out near Trieste.
One of the waist gunners had been wounded and his parachute destroyed;
he may have been given a spare and bailed out.
It is believed that the pilot, co-pilot and engineer attempted a crash landing to save the gunner.
The plane was last seen under control at low level but trailing flame and smoke when it
suddenly nosed into the ground. Crashed and destroyed by fire a few miles north of
Trieste, Italy. {11 missions}.
Assigned to DUKO (Twelfth Air Force, Italy).
Condemned 18Mar44.
Named RAMBLIN' RECK / YANKEE DOO DIT.
MACR 3259. 3 KIA, 5 POW, 2 evaded.
24436 (MSN 3121) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 30Jun42.
San Antonio Air Depot, Duncan Field, San Antonio, TX 9Jul42.
Substantially damaged in a collision with parked B-17E 41-9077 while taxying at Duncan Field 25Jul42.
Lowry Modification Center, Lowry Field, Denver, CO 27Jul42.
Sub Depot, Lowry Field, Denver, CO.
Substantially damaged in an accident caused by mechanical failure landing at Lowry Field 30Jul42.
Substantially damaged in an accident landing at Lowry Field 24Sep42.
2nd Ferrying Group, New Castle Field, Wilmington, DE 11Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 22Nov42; not delivered.
Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 2Jan43.
21st Bomb Wing, Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 25Jan43.
29th Bomb Group, Gowen Field, Boise, ID 5Mar43.
Wendover Field, UT 29May43. Sioux City AAB, IA 11Jun43.
Oklahoma City Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 26Jun43.
330th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dyersburg Field, TN.
497th Bomb Group, 73rd Bomb Wing, Pratt Field, KS 6Aug44.
246th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Pratt Field, KS 10Aug44.
Designated TB-17F 29Aug44.
29th Bomb Group, 17th Bomb Operational Training Wing, Pratt Field, KS 12Sep44.
246th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Pratt Field, KS 15Sep44.
Ferrying Division, Air Transport Command, Cincinnati, OH 11Oct44.
4009th Base Unit (San Bernardino Air Technical Service Command), San Bernardino Field, CA 17Oct44.
Class 26 ground instructional airframe 18Oct44.
4126th Base Unit (San Bernardino Air Technical Service Command) San Bernardino Field, CA Mar45.
Designated RB-17F 31Mar45.
Class 01Z; aircraft which are not beyond economical repair 31Mar45. Reclaim complete 20Mar46
24437 (MSN 3122) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 30Jun42.
San Antonio Air Depot, Duncan Field, San Antonio, TX 9Jul42.
327th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 1Aug42.
North Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) 19Aug42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 20/21Aug42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
327th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire Aug42.
341st Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 24Aug42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 26Oct42.
RAF Hurn, Bournemouth, Hampshire 29Oct42.
Stripped down only the top-turret, ball-turret, one nose gun and a bare minimum of ammunition.
Baggage racks and extra seats took all available space.
Departed to North Africa 5Nov42. This aircraft was part of a group of six B-17´s that departed
transporting a group of high ranking American and British officer's via Gibraltar to the
opening of Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of French North Africa.
Returned to RAF Predannack, Cornwall 9Nov42.
Departed RAF Predannack, Cornwall to North Africa 17Nov42.
Twelfth Air Force, Operation Torch Nov42.
341st Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Maison Blanche, Algiers, Algeria 17Nov42.
Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 22Nov42. Biskra, Algeria 25Dec42.
Battle damaged on a mission to the Luftwaffe airfield at Castel Benito, Tripoli, Libya 12Jan43.
Over the target an engine was struck by flak.
A few minutes later the other engine on that wing failed.
Dropping out of formation the bomber was attacked and badly damaged by Macchi 202
fighters of 4º Stormo, Regia Aeronautica Italiana.
It was being protected by P-38 Lightnings but they had to turn away for home.
Fortunately, soon the enemy fighters also turned back to their base.
Still some four hundred miles from Biskra, nearly out of ammunition and without a radio,
the plane was losing altitude. The crew was offered the chance to bail out but elected to stay
as long as the plane could still fly. By now down to 900 feet, it was too low to clear the
mountain ranges ahead so the pilot turned to follow the coast.
The plane started to gain altitude sufficient for it to skim across a mountain pass.
The plane was flying with a wing down, threatening to roll over or touch the ground.
With a headwind and a dwindling supply of fuel, the bomber was now forty miles from Biskra.
Having been given up as lost in action, it was now dusk when the crew shot a red flare
and, a short time later, received a green flare from the Biskra controllers.
The pilot landed with no brakes and ground looped the plane when he ran out of runway.
It spun around five times and then rolled backwards for fifty yards before it stopped.
The flight was reported by War Correspondent Ernie Pyle and may have inspired the
song ‘Comin’ In on a Wing and a Prayer’, first performed by The Song Spinners [but see 41-24617].
Châteaudun-du-Rhumel (Helen), Constantine, Algeria 8Feb43.
Battle damaged on a mission to the ferry terminal and railway marshalling yards at
Messina, Sicily 18Jun43.
No.3 and 4 engines quit for unknown reasons, possibly flak, as the bomb bay doors
were opened approaching the target. The bombs were jettisoned and as the plane
lost altitude, enemy fighters came in to attack.
The pilot dived down to increase speed and skimmed along the surface of the sea.
The enemy fighters continued their attacks for some time until their fuel was running low.
The bomber crew jettisoned excess weight to allow the plane to climb enough to cross Sicily
and head for Pantelleria Island.
The Twelfth Air Force had been pounding the airfield on Pantelleria until a few days
previously but, conveniently, their bombs fell wide enough to retain a usable landing strip.
The plane force landed safely at Margana airfield, Pantelleria Island, Sicily.
That night the crew slept in a cave and dined with members of an engineering detachment.
The following morning, aided by truck and diesel mechanics they got all four engines running.
The navigator calculated the amount of gasoline needed to get them to Tunis and borrowed
same from the engineers. The men climbed aboard and started the engines.
They were halfway down the runway when engine no.3 quit.
The speed necessary for takeoff was lacking and the port engines were reduced in power to
keep from pulling the Fort off the runway.
At the end of the runway was a steep drop of several hundred feet.
By skilful handling the nose was headed downwards giving them the speed to stay airborne.
Tunis was but another hour away. Assigned to GLEN (Twelfth Air Force, Oran, Algeria) 19Jun43.
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. {100 missions}.
Assigned to DUKO (Twelfth Air Force, Italy). Condemned salvage 9Nov44.
Named THUNDERBIRD. Salvaged 9Nov44. .
24438 (MSN 3123) Accepted by USAAF 30Jun42. Middletown Air Depot, Middletown Field, Middletown, PA 9Jul42.
Damaged caused by mechanical failure landing at Lowry Field, Denver, CO 30Jul42. Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 3Aug42. 306th Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA Aug42. Peterson Field,
Colorado Springs, CO 29Aug42. Air Service Command, Fairfield Air Depot, Patterson Field, Dayton, OH.
Modified for long range photo reconnaissance. Designated F-9. 15th Photographic Mapping Squadron,
3rd Photographic Group 7Sep42. Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland
to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 29Sep42. Membury (Station 466), Berkshire. Steeple Morden (Station 122),
Cambridgeshire 27Oct42. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. Departed RAF Hurn, Bournemouth,
Hampshire to North Africa 18Nov42. Operation Torch Nov42. 15th Photographic Mapping
Squadron, 3rd Photographic Group, Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 18Nov42. Algiers, Algeria 25Dec42.
The 3rd Photographic Group required unique supplies and equipment not readily available from
local sources. The demand for supplies became so great the group enlisted B-17s from the 15th
Photographic Mapping Squadron for the sole purpose of resupply. The aircraft made regular
flights to England to obtain the needed materials, especially print paper, to continue operations.
Le Kroub, Algeria 5Jun43. La Marsa, Tunisia 28Jun43. Grottaglie, Italy 4Oct43. Bari, Italy 28Dec43.
Returned to US. Robins Field, Warner Robins, GA 3Aug44. Reclaimed 28Nov45.
24439 (MSN 3124) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 1Jul42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 12Jul42.
322nd Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 30Aug42.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) 29Sep42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via Gander, Newfoundland 29Sep42;
Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 30Sep/1Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England. 322nd Bomb Squadron [LG*Q],
91st Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 2Oct42.
Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 14Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 27Oct42.
Battle damaged on a mission to the Luftwaffe air depot at Romilly-sur-Seine, France 20Dec42
(1WIA:9RMC).
Enemy fighters attacked most of the way from entering France until returning to the English Channel.
Badly damaged by flak and attacked by enemy fighters, the navigator was wounded
by a machine gun bullet.
The aircraft was riddled with holes and just limped home across the English Channel.
It made it over the South Downs before crash landing at Parsonage Farm, Fletching, Uckfield, Sussex.
The propellers cut grooves through the turf as the plane smashed through a hedge
into a sheep pasture and stopped in a ploughed field on a gentle slope.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom).
Condemned 20Dec42. Salvaged by 322nd Bomb Squadron. Named CHIEF SLY
41-24440/24489 Boeing B-17F-10-BO Fortress
MSN 3125/3174. Details from Stewart Lanham and FORTLOG
Boeing Model 299P. Defence Aid contract for the Royal Air Force as serial FA775/FA823 and FH467.
Diverted to USAAF after the Japanese attacks in Hawaii and the Philippines.
Production changes: Modified tail wheel structure
24440 (MSN 3125) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 2Jul42.
San Antonio Air Depot, Duncan Field, San Antonio, TX 9Jul42.
Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 20Jul42.
5th Ferrying Group, Love Field, Dallas, TX 22Jul42.
Lowry Modification Center, Lowry Field, Denver, CO 26Jul42.
Fairfield Air Depot, Air Service Command, Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 4Sep42.
Modified for long range photo reconnaissance.
15th Photographic Mapping Squadron, 3rd Photographic Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 17Sep42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
15th Photographic Mapping Squadron, 3rd Photographic Group, Membury (Station 466), Berkshire.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 2Oct42.
Steeple Morden (Station 122), Cambridgeshire 27Oct42.
Twelfth Air Force, North Africa. Departed RAF Hurn, Bournemouth, Hampshire to North Africa 19Nov42.
Twelfth Air Force, Operation Torch Nov42. Assigned to GLEN (Twelfth Air Force, Oran, Algeria) 18Nov42.
15th Photographic Mapping Squadron, 3rd Photographic Group, La Sénia, Oran, Algeria 6Dec42.
Algiers, Algeria 25Dec42.
The 3rd Photographic Group required unique supplies and equipment not readily available from local sources.
The demand for supplies became so great the group enlisted B-17s from the 15th Photographic
Mapping Squadron for the sole purpose of resupply.
The aircraft made regular flights to England to obtain the needed materials, especially print paper,
to continue operations.
Condemned 5Mar43. Le Kroub, Algeria 5Jun43. Picked up from condemned 10Jun43. La Marsa, Tunisia 28Jun43.
Grottaglie, Italy 4Oct43. Bari, Italy 28Dec43.
Returned to US.
4104th Base Unit (Rome Air Service Command), Rome Field, NY 20Aug44.
4104th Base Unit (Rome Air Technical Service Command), Rome Field, NY 4Jan45.
552nd Base Unit (2nd Ferrying Group, Air Transport Command), New Castle Field, Wilmington, DE 10Jan45.
3704th Base Unit (Technical School), Keesler Field, Biloxi, MS 11Jan45.
4160th Base Unit (Sacramento Air Technical Service Command), Albuquerque AAB, NM.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 25Jun45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to American Compressed Steel Corporation, Cincinnati, OH Jul46; scrapped
Named I GOT SPURS
24441 (MSN 3126) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 2Jul42.
Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 9Jul42.
326th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 31Jul42.
North Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) 12Aug42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 15/16Aug42.
VIII Bomber Command, England. 326th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire Aug42.
342nd Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 24Aug42.
Failed to return from a mission to the submarine yards at Lorient, France 21Oct42
(6KIA:4POW).
The mission encountered adverse weather disturbances, and many of the planes were forced to turn back.
However, the formation that this bomber was in continued onto the briefed target.
Upon arrival over the target, the formation was met by heavy enemy fighter opposition.
Eye witnesses reported seeing the aircraft on fire, flying about 500ft above the ground,
and reported that no one had bailed out.
Crashed in the Baie de Douarnenez north of Douarnenez, France. {1 mission}. 6 KIA, 4 POW
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom).
Condemned 21Oct42. SOC 4Nov44.
Named FRANCIS X. Named after the pilot (‘Baron’ Francis Xavier Schwarzenbek .
24442 (MSN 3127) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 3Jul42.
Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 9Jul42.
326th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 31Jul42.
North Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) 12Aug42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 15/16Aug42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
326th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire Aug42.
342nd Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 24Aug42.
Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 8Sep42. {6 missions}.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 26Oct42.
Departed RAF Hurn, Bournemouth, Hampshire to North Africa 20Nov42.
Twelfth Air Force, Operation Torch Nov42.
Assigned to GLEN (Twelfth Air Force, Oran, Algeria) 16Nov42.
342nd Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Maison Blanche, Algiers, Algeria 20Nov42.
Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 22Nov42.
Biskra, Algeria Dec42.
Set on fire and damaged beyond repair during a Luftwaffe raid on the air base at Biskra 23Dec42.
{13 missions}. Assigned to OHAM (Fifteenth Air Force, Italy).
Condemned 23Dec42. Salvaged. Named LITTLE EVA
24443 (MSN 3128) Accepted by USAAF 2Jul42. 325th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 1Aug42. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque
Isle Field, ME. Ferried from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 19/20Aug42. 92nd Bomb Group, Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire Aug42.
414th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106),
Northamptonshire 24Aug42, named "Johnny Reb II". Polebrook (Station 110),
Northamptonshire 8Sep42. Failed to return from a mission to the submarine pens at Lorient,
France 21Oct42 (9POW:1EVD). Over the Brest peninsula, just under the 13,000 foot cloud
ceiling, Fw 190's and flak wounded the navigator and shot away one engine, the ball turret,
the top turret, the intercom system and the elevator controls. The bombardier jettisoned the
bombs and bailed out over land. The plane ditched in the Bay of Biscay ten miles from
the French shore and remained afloat for thirty seconds, giving the crew time to escape.
The half-inflated large dinghy supported all of the crew except the engineer who sat in his
own small dinghy. The crew was picked up by a French fishing boat and turned over to the
Germans at Quimper, France. POW Ewart Sconiers suffered an accident in Stalag Luft 3
and died in hospital Jan 29, 1944 and was buried 3 days later. Two months before he was taken prisoner,
Sconiers made headlines around the world for his actions in an Aug. 21, 1942 bombing raid over The
Netherlands. A German fighter plane attacked the B-17 in which he serving as bombardier, and a
shell that hit the cockpit killed the co-pilot and severely injured the pilot. Sconiers, called
to the cockpit by the pilot, pulled the co-pilot out of his seat and took the controls of the
stricken bomber. With coaching from the pilot, Sconiers landed the plane safely at the air base
in the English village of Horsham St. Faith. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his heroics.
U.S. military officials had initally concluded Sconiers had been buried in a mass grave in Lubin.
The military’s Graves Registration Service had all but abandoned any search for him by 1948 as Russian
influence closed off eastern Europe. But ongoing work by the Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting
Agency, members of the Sconiers family and other people who became known informally as “Ewart’s Army”
traced him to the French section of a cemetery in Gdansk, Poland. American officials pursued the lead, and
after working with Polish and French officials, they were able to bring his remains back to the United States
in January of 2018.
24444 (MSN 3129) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 2Jul42.
Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 9Jul42.
325th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Aug42.
North Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command, 325th Bomb Squadron, Presque Isle Field, ME.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) 16Aug42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 19/20Aug42.
VIII Bomber Command, England. 92nd Bomb Group, Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire Aug42.
340th Bomb Squadron [R], 97th Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 24Aug42.
Departed to North Africa 19Oct42.
This aircraft was one of two B-17´s that departed transporting high ranking American officers
to Gibraltar on a covert mission to French North Africa to meet with pro-Allied officers
of the Vichy French forces (Operation Flagpole).
Flown by Major Paul Tibbets, took General Mark Clark and a large box of 20 Franc gold currency
[subsequently lost in the water when being transhipped].
Returned to Polebrook 25Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 26Oct42.
Twelfth Air Force, North Africa Oct42.
RAF Hurn, Bournemouth, Hampshire 29Oct42.
Stripped down only the top-turret, ball-turret, one nose gun and a bare minimum of ammunition.
Baggage racks and extra seats took all available space.
Departed to North Africa 5Nov42.
This aircraft was part of a group of six B-17´s that departed transporting a group of high
ranking American and British officers via Gibraltar to the opening of Operation Torch,
the Allied invasion of French North Africa; flown by Major Paul Tibbets, took General Eisenhower.
Twelfth Air Force, Operation Torch Nov42.
340th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Maison Blanche, Algiers, Algeria 13Nov42.
Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 22Nov42.
Biskra, Algeria 25Dec42.
Assigned to GLEN (Twelfth Air Force, Oran, Algeria) 20Jan43.
Châteaudun-du-Rhumel (Helen), Constantine, Algeria 8Feb43.
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.
Returned to US Jul44.
1104th Base Unit (Caribbean Division, Air Transport Command), Homestead Field (Station 8), FL 13Jul44.
4136th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Service Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 6Aug44.
Ferrying Division, Air Transport Command, Cincinnati, OH 18Feb45.
4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 19Feb45.
400th Base Unit (Headquarters, Fourth Air Force), Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA 5May45.
461st Base Unit (Continental Air Forces), Lemoore Field, CA 16May45.
400th Base Unit (Headquarters, Fourth Air Force), Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA 22Jun45.
464th Base Unit (Continental Air Forces), McChord Field, Tacoma, WA 23Jul45.
460th Base Unit (Air Transport Command), Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA 12Oct45.
401st Base Unit (Air Defense Command), Redmond Field, OR 6Jun46.
1st Base Unit (Headquarters, Strategic Air Command), Bolling Field, Washington, DC 9Jun46.
554th Base Unit (4th Ferrying Group, Air Transport Command), Memphis Municipal Airport, TN 6Jun46.
613th Base Unit (Air Proving Ground Command), Phillips Field, Aberdeen, MD 6Jun46.
Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD. Salvaged.
Named THE RED GREMLIN / SUPERMAN.
24445 (MSN 3130) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 3Jul42.
Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 9Jul42.
326th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 31Jul42.
North Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) 12Aug42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 15/16Aug42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
326th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire Aug42.
Named SIX BITS.
340th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 24Aug42.
Failed to return from a mission to the Potez aircraft factory at Méaulte, France 6Sep42 (10POW).
The formation was attacked by a large flight of enemy fighters from the French coast
all the way to the target.
Three engines had been hit and disabled by the time the bomber dropped its bomb load;
the fourth engine propeller was feathered.
The vertical stabiliser was damaged, as was the intercom and oxygen systems.
Shot down and claimed by the commander of II./JG 26, Hptm. Karl-Heinz Meyer.
Rapidly losing altitude, the plane crash landed in a wheat field at Flesselles,
northwest of Amiens, France.
The right wing was torn off and the ball turret was ripped out through the tail on impact.
First Eighth Air Force B-17 bomber lost over Europe.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 6Sep42. SOC 4Nov44.
Named SOUTHERN BELLE / SIX BITS
24446 ((MSN 3131) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 10Jul42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 10Jul42.
West Coast Wing, Air Transport Command, Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA 6Aug42; preparation for overseas service.
Ferried on the South Pacific route departing Hamilton Field Aug42 via Hickam Field, Hawaii.
Assigned to 19th Bomb Group, Mareeba airfield, QLD, Australia.
From Honolulu and Palmyra Atoll Northern Line Islands, the route took it via
Christmas Island, Line Islands; Canton Island, Phoenix Islands to Nadi, Viti Levu, Fiji.
After departing Fiji 15Aug42, the crew received a message to land in New Caledonia.
Assigned to SUMAC (Fifth Air Force, Australia) 21Aug42.
Plaines des Gaiacs airfield, Nouméa, New Caledonia.
42nd Bomb Squadron, 11th Bomb Group, Bomber 1 airfield (Palikulo Field),
Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides 30Aug42.
When a propeller governor failed there were no replacement parts on Espiritu Santo.
After removal of excess equipment, guns and ammunition, the plane departed on
three engines to Efate Island, New Hebrides where the US Navy manufactured a new gear.
Departing, the propeller was out of balance and oversped; the plane returned to Espiritu Santo on three engines.
431st Bomb Squadron, 11th Bomb Group 15Sep42.
Henderson Field (Cactus), Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands 4Oct42.
72nd Bomb Squadron, 5th Bomb Group.
23rd Bomb Squadron, 5th Bomb Group, Bomber 1 airfield (Palikulo Field),
Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides 14Apr43.
Assigned to POPPY (Thirteenth Air Force, Solomon Islands) 1May43.
Assigned to EPIC (Thirteenth Air Force, South Central Pacific) 5May43.
Returned to US 18/25Jan44.
2135th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Tyndall Field, Panama City, FL.
Crashed while trying to land in a torrential downpour at Tyndall Field 10Jul44 (5KIS).
Surveyed 11Jul44. Named JEZEBEL
24447 (MSN 3132) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 3Jul42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 9Jul42.
Gowen Field, Boise, ID 27Aug42.
91st Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Sep42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 1Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 9/10Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
401st Bomb Squadron [LL*H], 91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 14Oct42.
Failed to return from a mission to the port at Bremen, Germany 26Feb43 (10MIA).
The primary target was overcast so the plane diverted to the docks and harbour at Wilhelmshaven, Germany.
Flak hit caused fire in no.4 engine and the aircraft crashed in the North Sea. {11 missions}. MACR 3575
Named KICKAPOO
24448 (MSN 3133) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 6Jul42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 9Jul42.
Sacramento Air Depot, McClellan Field, Sacramento, CA 8Aug42.
West Coast Wing, Air Transport Command, Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA Aug42; preparation for overseas service.
Assigned to SUMAC (Fifth Air Force, Australia) 21Aug42.
Ferried on the South Pacific route via Hickam Field, Hawaii then across the Pacific
to Australia via Christmas Island and Canton Island. Fifth Air Force.
19th Bomb Group, Mareeba airfield, QLD, Australia 1Sep42.
64th Bomb Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group, Fenton Field, Hayes Creek NT 1Sep42.
Iron Range, Lockhart, QLD 12Oct42. Mareeba, QLD 8Nov42.
Jackson Field (7 Mile Drome), Port Moresby, New Guinea 20Jan43.
Battle damaged on a mission 1Apr43; a 40mm anti-aircraft shell struck the left wing root.
The aircraft took off from Dobodura airfield, New Guinea on a mission against a
Japanese airfield at Vunakanau near Rabaul, New Britain 26Jun43 (9MIA:1POW).
Over the target, it successfully bombed the target then turned for home base.
Within minutes after the bomb run, a Nakajima J1N1 Irving fighter made a firing pass
using the night fighter's oblique 20mm cannons.
The bomber was hit, set on fire then crashed into the jungle near
Viveran Plantation, Mount Varzin, New Britain.
Assigned to LEFT (Fifth Air Force, Brisbane, Australia).
Condemned inventory 31Oct44. Named TAXPAYER’S PRIDE.
The largest portion of wreckage is the centre section of the wing; the nose section is missing.
Holes have been cut into some of the aluminium.
Separated from the wing section is a debris field, including the roof of the radio
compartment and spine portion of the tail [2006].
24449 (MSN 3134) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 3Jul42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 9Jul42.
91st Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 31Aug42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 1Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 2/3Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
401st Bomb Squadron [LL*B], 91st Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117),
Huntingdonshire. Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 14Oct42.
{first combat mission 8Nov42}.
Battle damaged during a mission to the Luftwaffe fighter airfield at Abbeville, France 8Nov42 (2WIA).
After the target, fourteen Bf 109 fighters attacked the formation.
Later, shrapnel from 88mm anti-aircraft shells broke the window in front of the plane and
punctured the no.1 fuel tank.
Picking out the damaged bomber, three Focke-Wulf Fw 190s pressed their own attack
and hit all four of the B-17’s propellers and both wings.
Additional damage was inflicted by a 20mm cannon shell that penetrated the no.4 engine
cowling and a second shell that exploded in the rear of the fuselage and hit the VHF radio transmitter.
Also destroyed were the elevator control and auxiliary cables as well as the oxygen line to the
radio compartment.
Nevertheless, the pilot brought his aircraft and its crew back to base with only two wounded crew members.
Battle damaged during a mission to Romilly-sur-Seine airfield, France 20Dec42.
Bf 109s and Fw 190s fighters began harassing the bomber stream thirty-five miles inland from the French coast.
The attacks continued up to the target and on the return. During one of those attacks a 20mm shell
exploded in the cockpit, and another badly damaged the no.4 engine.
Subsequent attacks left two small holes in the ball turret, one in the left horizontal stabiliser,
four in the tail section and one in the tail assembly. Large holes were also blown in the nose
and left wing just back of the no.2 engine nacelle, as well as three others in the left wing.
None of the crew were wounded during these attacks.
Failed to return from a mission to the submarine yards at Lorient, France 30Dec42 (10KIA).
Over such an important target, the opposition was intense.
Heavy flak tore into the bombers and approximately thirty Fw 190 fighters attacked
while over Lorient. The bomber was hit in the no.3 engine just as it cleared the target.
Dropping out of formation and heading down, about five minutes after it had been hit
two chutes were seen coming from the plane, but seconds later the bomber exploded
in a ball of fire and crashed in the Bay of Biscay off Lorient, France.
None of the ten-man crew survived. MACR 3265.
The bomber’s destruction was credited to III/JG.2’s commander, Captain Egon Meyer, his 56th victory.
{3 missions}.
Named SHORT SNORTER. Named after the good luck charm that members of the ‘Grand Order of the Short Snorter’ -
an elite group of inter-war air travellers who had made transoceanic air crossings - all carried
24450 (MSN 3135Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 6Jul42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 9Jul42.
Bolling Field, Washington, DC 9Aug42.
Sacramento Air Depot, McClellan Field, CA 18Aug42.
West Coast Wing, Air Transport Command, Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA Aug42; preparation for overseas service.
Assigned to POPPY (Thirteenth Air Force, Solomon Islands) 1Sep42.
Ferried on the South Pacific route via Hickam Field, Hawaii then across the Pacific.
Thirteenth Air Force. Henderson Field (Cactus), Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands 6Feb43.
Used by General Millard Harmon Jr, Commanding General of U.S. Army Forces in the South Pacific Area.
72nd Bomb Squadron, 5th Bomb Group, Bomber 1 airfield (Palikulo Field), Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides.
The aircraft took off from Henderson Field on Guadalcanal for a reconnaissance mission
over Nauru Island 9Feb43 (9WIA).
It was intercepted by eight Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighters and attacked for ten minutes
until some of the B-17's guns jammed.
The Zeros circled the crippled bomber, raking it with machine gun fire for an hour and a half,
wounding all nine of her crew.
The bomber had its no.1 engine seized by damage, then a second engine failed.
When a third engine failed, it caused the plane to ditch over 450 miles from the nearest island.
The B-17 hit a wave, nosed into another and sank within sixty seconds.
The crew found themselves in the water, clinging to an inflated life boat and pumping another
and managed to tie the two boats together and drifted away from the oil slick from the sunken bomber.
The crew spent sixteen days in a life raft, until making landfall on an island off Buka,
Bougainville, New Guinea. Spotted by friendly natives, the crew was divided among several villages.
In an attempt to move closer to the Allied lines, the group tried to buy a canoe from locals,
but it failed to be seaworthy with only four loaded aboard.
Later, they hired another native and his canoe to sail down the coast for four days and
met another group of natives, who had been sent by a pair of coast-watchers to find them.
Escorted over a jungle trail to the coast-watcher's mountain observation post,
where they met the coast-watchers and arranged their rescue by radio.
More than fifty days after their ditching, a rescue PBY Catalina piloted from VP-44,
escorted by two PB4Y-1 Liberators from VB-101 carried out a search.
The group in an outrigger was spotted and the PBY landed to rescue them, and
then planned the rescue of the remaining airmen.
Assigned to LEFT (Fifth Air Force, Brisbane, Australia).
Condemned inventory 31Oct44. NamedMY LOVIN' DOVE.
24451 (MSN 3136) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 6Jul42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 10Jul42.
Gowen Field, Boise, ID 27Aug42.
401st Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Sep42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 1Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 2/3Oct42.
En route from Gander in poor weather, the aircraft crashed in boggy ground
30 feet below the summit of Slieve-na-Aura mountain, Cushendall, County Antrim,
Northern Ireland 3Oct42 (8KIS:2INJ).
The rear left-hand side of the plane first struck the northwest side of the mountain
about thirty feet below the summit.
The plane continued for approximately one hundred feet across a gully before
impacting the hillside. it burst into flames and the right wing and all four engines
were torn off. Five of the airmen were thrown clear of the crash, the remaining
five were trapped in the wreckage. Salvaged. Condemned 23Nov42.
24452 (MSN 3137) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 6Jul42. United Air Lines,
Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 9Jul42.
Gowen Field, Boise, ID 27Aug42. 91st Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Sep42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 1Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland; Gander to
RAF Machrihanish, Scotland 2/3Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
401st Bomb Squadron [LL*E], 91st Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire.
Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 14Oct42.
Failed to return from a mission to the Luftwaffe air depot at Romilly-sur-Seine, France 20Dec42
(1KIA:2DOI:7POW). Enemy fighters attacked most of the way from entering France until
returning to the English Channel.
Damaged in an attack by enemy fighters and crashed at Orgeval, west of Paris, France.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 20Dec42
MACR 16243.
24453 (MSN 3138) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 6Jul42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 9Jul42.
Gowen Field, Boise, ID 28Aug42. Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Sep42.
322nd Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 6Sep42.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) 29Sep42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland 29Sep42; Gander
to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 30Sep/1Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
322nd Bomb Squadron [LG*O], 91st Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 2Oct42.
Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 14Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 26Oct42. {first combat mission 7Nov42}.
Accident returning from a mission to the submarine base at La Pallice, La Rochelle, France 18Nov42.
On return, ten miles southwest of Exeter, Devon, the aircraft collided with B-17F 41-24499
ten miles southwest of Exeter, Devon 18Nov42; force landed at RNAS Yeovilton, Yeovil, Somerset.
Battle damaged on a mission to the railway marshalling yards at Hamm, Germany 4Mar43.
The weather was bad from takeoff through to Germany preventing four other groups
rendezvousing with the 91st Bomb Group which proceeded alone to the target.
Sixteen planes faced the toughest fighter defence of the war, the heaviest flak areas,
and on the deepest penetration yet into Germany.
The reception was immediate with German fighters determined to stop the attack;
the return flight home was no easier, flying into the wind of a strong jet stream.
Received a field modification Jun43 to counter the German tactic of head on attacks;
the bomb sight was removed, a twin 0.50caliber gun was installed and armoured
plate to protect the gunner. Battle damaged on a mission to the Chemische Werke
synthetic rubber works at Hüls, Marl, Germany 22Jun43.
Flak over the target was intense and the Group encountered strong enemy fighter attacks
on the way home. Battle damaged by flak on a mission to the Klöckner Flugmototenbau
aero engine factory at Hamburg, Germany 25Jul43.
Flak was experienced from Cuxhaven to the target.
At the target flak was intense and accurate.
Battle damaged on a mission to the Gerhard Fieseler Werke (GFW) aircraft works at
Waldau, Kassel, Germany 30Jul43.
At the target flak was accurate and intense; there was large enemy fighter opposition
en route to and returning from target.
Failed to return from a mission to ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 17Aug43
(5KIA:5POW).
The formation was subject to continuous fighter attacks from the time it crossed over
the enemy coast.
In addition, the bombers were hit by flak as they passed over anti-aircraft defence zones.
Shot down by Hptm Gunther Specht in Bf 109G-6 of JG 11/11 Stab at Vlatten, Germany.
Damaged along top of fuselage and damaged engine no.2.
Unable to continue, the bomber turned back before reaching the River Rhine and
crashed at Mayen, fifteen miles west of Koblenz, Germany. {28 missions}. MACR 275.
Named THE BEARDED BEAUTY - MIZPAH.
24454 (MSN 3139Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 10Jul42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Jul42.
Lowry Modification Center, Lowry Field, Denver, CO 3Aug42.
Sacramento Air Depot, McClellan Field, CA 8Aug42.
West Coast Wing, Air Transport Command, Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA Aug42; preparation for overseas service.
Ferried on the South Pacific route via Hickam Field, Hawaii then across the Pacific to Australia.
Assigned to SUMAC (Fifth Air Force, Australia) 21Aug42.
28th Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group, Mareeba airfield, QLD, Australia 21Aug42.
65th Bomb Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group, Mareeba airfield, QLD.
Accident on a night mission over Rabaul, New Britain 23Feb43 (1POW).
Over the target, the plane was caught in searchlights and dived steeply to escape the beam.
Incorrectly believing the bomber was hit and going down, the tail gunner bailed out.
He landed in the sea south of Tavurvur, New Guinea and was rescued by the Japanese destroyer Makinami.
Jackson Field (7 Mile Drome), Port Moresby, New Guinea 11May43.
Took off from Jackson Field for a night bombing mission against a Japanese airfield
at Vunakanau near Rabaul, New Britain 12/13Jun43 (8MIA:2POW).
Over the target, the plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire while flying at 6,000ft but continued
under control for about five minutes after the bombs were released, and then went down.
It had been intercepted from below by a Nakajima J1N1 Irving night fighter after it had been
caught in search light beams. The bomber was struck by 20mm cannon shells and fatally damaged.
The two pilots and top turret gunner had been killed.
On fire, the plane crashed and exploded northeast of Ubili airfield, Sule near Ulamona, New Britain.
Assigned to LEFT (Fifth Air Force, Brisbane, Australia).
Condemned 15Jun43. SOC 10Oct46.
Named GEORGIA PEACH - artwork of a seated red-headed woman wearing high heels and lingerie,
holding a paper with "V" spelled in Morse code (... -).
24455 MSN 3140) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 7Jul42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 9Jul42.
Sacramento Air Depot, McClellan Field, CA 6Aug42.
West Coast Wing, Air Transport Command, Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA 6Aug42; preparation for overseas service.
Ferried on the South Pacific route via Hickam Field, Hawaii then across the Pacific to Australia.
Assigned to SUMAC (Fifth Air Force, Australia) 21Aug42.
63rd Bomb Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group, Mareeba airfield, QLD, Australia 21Aug42.
Jackson Field (7 Mile Drome), Port Moresby, New Guinea 23Jan43.
Battle damaged on a mission to shadow a Japanese task force in the Bismarck Sea 2Mar43.
During a bomb run on a ship, the plane was attacked by Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighters.
To escape, the pilot put the plane in a steep dive which tore the fabric off the elevators.
Somehow the two pilots used their strength to pull the plane out of the dive but, without the
elevator fabric, the plane would not fly level. The slightest turbulence would cause the bomber to climb or dive.
For three hours the two pilots struggled to keep the plane level but somehow managed to cross the
Owen Stanley mountains and landed safely at Port Moresby.
Battle damaged during the Battle of the Bismarck Sea on a mission against a Japanese convoy of
transports and destroyers bound for Lae 3Mar43.
Failing to find the destroyers, landing barges were spotted about ten miles offshore Lae.
The pilot dropped down to strafe the barges but was damaged in an attack by Japanese Zero fighters,
wounding the pilot and two airmen. {final combat mission Oct43}.
Returned to US 12/13Nov43. Oklahoma City Air Depot, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK.
398th Bomb Group, Rapid City AAB, SD 12Nov43.
242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit, Very Heavy), Grand Island Field, NB.
6th Bomb Group, Grand Island Field, NB 8Jul44.
235th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Biggs Field, El Paso, TX 22Jul44.
Wrecked in a forced landing after engine failure ten miles north of Biggs Field 3Sep44.
Surveyed 3Sep44.
Named OLD BALDY - artwork of a circle with an eagle in flight with stars.3Sep44.
24456 (MSN 3141) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 12Jul42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 16Jul42.
Substantially damaged when a wheel sank into soft earth over a drain causing the
right landing gear to collapse at Cheyenne Municipal Airport 13Aug42.
Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 13Nov42.
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 31Jan43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 23Feb43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 30Apr43.
Walla Walla Field, WA 9May43. Spokane Field, WA 25Jun43.
II Bomber Command, Great Falls AAB, MT 1Aug43.
498th Bomb Group, 73rd Bomb Wing, Great Bend Field, KS.
Substantially damaged in an accident taxying at Great Bend Field, KS 3Feb44.
243rd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit, Very Heavy),
Great Bend Field, KS 3Jun44.
Designated TB-17F 28Sep44.
268th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 12Jan45.
243rd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit, Very Heavy), Great Bend Field, KS 25Jan45.
Ferrying Division, Air Transport Command, Cincinnati, OH 25May45.
4160th Base Unit (Sacramento Air Technical Service Command), Albuquerque AAB, NM 20Jun45.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 30Jun45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to American Compressed Steel Corporation, Cincinnati, OH Jul46; scrapped
24457 MSN 3142) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 10Jul42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Jul42.
Lowry Modification Center, Lowry Field, Denver, CO 3Aug42.
Sacramento Air Depot, McClellan Field, CA 8Aug42.
West Coast Wing, Air Transport Command, Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA Aug42; preparation for overseas service.
Assigned to SUMAC (Fifth Air Force, Australia) 21Aug42.
Ferried on the South Pacific route via Hickam Field, Hawaii then across the Pacific.
Seventh Air Force, Hawaii. 26th Bomb Squadron, 11th Bomb Group, Wheeler Field, Honolulu, Hawaii 21Aug42.
26th Bomb Squadron, 11th Bomb Group, Bomber 1 airfield (Palikulo Field), Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides.
Took off from Bomber 1 airfield (Palikulo Field), Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides and landed at
Henderson Field (Cactus), Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands to refuel then took off again on a
bombing mission against Tonolei Harbor, southeast Bougainville 29Sep42.
Over the target was thick fog, the formation dove down to make their bombing run and
were attacked by fifteen Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighters.
The formation was unable to locate the target due to bad weather and instead patrolled the
western coast of Bougainville before spotting a Japanese cruiser which the formation bombed from 5,500ft.
During the bomb run, the bomb release mechanism failed and made a second bomb run,
facing heavy anti-aircraft fire.
The bomber had sustained damage from the attack by enemy fighters and anti-aircraft fire.
Took off from Bomber 1 on Espiritu Santo armed with four 500 pound bombs as
one of nine B-17s flying in three plane elements on a bombing mission against five Japanese
transports off Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands 15Oct42.
Following the bomb run, the formation was intercepted by a flight of Japanese
Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighters that made aggressive attacks.
Although the plane sustained some damage, it returned safely.
Thirteenth Air Force.
31st Bomb Squadron, 5th Bomb Group, Henderson Field (Cactus), Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands Feb43.
Damaged when ground looped after brake failure on landing 23Apr43.
The plane was not damaged until the tug knocked off the tail guns.
Salvaged 30Apr43.
Assigned to POPPY (Thirteenth Air Force, Solomon Islands) 1May43.
Assigned to YELP (Thirteenth Air Force, Auckland, New Zealand) 24Nov43.
Assigned to UCIP (Seventh Air Force, Manila, Luzon, Philippines).
Condemned 30Apr45.
Named THE AZTEC'S CURSE
24458 (MSN 3143) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 8Jul42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Jul42.
Lowry Modification Center, Lowry Field, Denver, CO 3Aug42.
Sacramento Air Depot, McClellan Field, CA 8Aug42.
West Coast Wing, Air Transport Command, Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA Aug42; preparation for overseas service.
Ferried on the South Pacific route via Hickam Field, Hawaii then across the Pacific to Australia.
Assigned to SUMAC (Fifth Air Force, Australia) 21Aug42.
93rd Bomb Squadron, 19th Bomb Group, Mareeba airfield, QLD, Australia 21Aug42.
64th Bomb Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group, Mareeba, QLD Nov42.
The aircraft took off from Jackson Field (7 Mile Drome), Port Moresby, New Guinea
leading a formation of six B-17s and six B-24 Liberators from the 90th Bomb Group on a
mission against the harbour, shipping and the airfield at Rabaul, New Britain 5Jan43 (9MIA:2POW).
Aboard were two observers: Brigadier General Kenneth N. Walker, Commanding Officer,
5th Bomber Command and Major Jack W. Bleasdale.
Arriving over the target area the B-17s bombed shipping in Keravia Bay.
This bomber was last seen over the target area at 5,000ft going into clouds, closely
pursued by four to five Japanese Nakajima Ki-43-I Oscar fighters from the 11th Hiko Sentai.
The left outboard engine was observed to be smoking.
The pilot and co-pilot bailed out and initially taken as POW.
The plane was not seen again and was reported as Missing in Action.
Assigned to LEFT (Fifth Air Force, Brisbane, Australia).
Condemned 7Jan43. SOC 1Apr44. . The wreckage has never been located
Named SAN ANTONIO ROSE
24459 ((MSN 3144) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 13Jul42.
Douglas Aircraft Company, Modification Center #16, Tulsa Municipal Airport, OK 16Jul42.
2nd Ferrying Group, Air Transport Command, New Castle Field, Wilmington, DE 27Aug42.
91st Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Sep42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 1Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 2/3Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
401st Bomb Squadron [LL*B], 91st Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire.
Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 14Oct42.
Failed to return from a mission to the Focke-Wulf aircraft factory at Bremen, Germany 17Apr43 (5KIA:5POW).
On the bomb run, heavy flak was encountered. Enemy fighters, disregarding their own flak,
made attacks on the formation.
Bombing was accomplished, but on the turn-off target, a flak shell exploded beneath the B-17.
At the same time, a head-on pass by three enemy fighters severely damaged the aircraft.
Major Reinhard Seiler of III/JG 54 and Hauptmann Heinz Knoke made claims for this bomber.
A large hole appeared in the nose, all Plexiglas was shot out, the pilot had been shot in the head,
and a fire erupted in the radio room, fuelled by oxygen supplies.
The co-pilot, navigator, bombardier, engineer, and radio operator were all wounded.
The engineer checked the aircraft, saw the fire was spreading, then opened the bomb bay doors
and dropped out. Four more of the crew managed to bail out before the aircraft broke in two
at the radio room. The bomber crashed near Bassum, 25km south of Bremen, Germany. MACR 15520
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 17Apr43. SOC 4Nov44.
Named HELLZAPOPPIN.
24460 (MSN 3145) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 9Jul42.
San Antonio Air Depot, Duncan Field, San Antonio, TX 16Jul42.
423rd Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 16Aug42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to UK 5/6Sep42.
VIII Bomber Command, England. 423rd Bomb Squadron [RD*A],
306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 8Sep42. {first combat mission 9Oct42}.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 13Oct42.
Damaged when the life raft latch broke loose and the raft tangled around the horizontal stabiliser;
the plane force landed at RAF Sutton Bridge, King's Lynn, Lincolnshire 21Oct42.
Severely battle damaged on a low-level mission to the submarine base at Saint-Nazaire, France 9Nov42.
On return, force landed at RAF Portreath, Cornwall.
RAF Ballyhalbert, County Down, Northern Ireland 17Mar43.
423rd Bomb Squadron [RD*A], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire Mar43.
Used for Standard Beam Approach training 2Apr43.
482nd Bomb Group, Alconbury (Station 102), Huntingdonshire 22Sep43.
379th Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 27Mar44.
Special Purpose Flight, 1st Bomb Division, Kimbolton 31Mar44.
Returned to US 22/30Oct44. Continental Air Forces, Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 8Dec44.
233rd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Davis-Monthan Field, Tucson, AZ 3Jan45.
Continental Air Forces, Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 7Oct45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Martin Wunderlich Company, Jefferson City, MO 9Aug46; scrapped
24461 (MSN 3146) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 13Jul42.
Douglas Aircraft Company, Modification Center #16, Tulsa Municipal Airport, OK 16Jul42.
369th Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 22Aug42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 10Sep42.
VIII Bomber Command, England. 369th Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111),
Bedfordshire 11Sep42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 2Oct42.
{first combat mission 9Oct42}.
Battle damaged on a mission to the Chemin de fer du Nord workshops at Hellemmes, Lille, France 8Nov42;
left wing badly damaged and replaced.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned salvage after non battle damage 27Feb43. SOC 4Nov44. .
24462 (MSN 3147) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 13Jul42.
Ogden Air Depot, Hill Field, Ogden, UT 16Jul42.
369th Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 21Aug42.
411th Bomb Squadron, 29th Bomb Group, Gowen Field, Boise, ID 17Dec42.
Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 7Apr43.
Lewistown Field, MT 25Apr43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 19May43.
Pocatello Field, ID 2Jun43. Spokane Field, WA 17Jun43.
429th Sub Depot, Moses Lake Field, WA 20Sep43.
593rd Bomb Squadron, 396th Bomb Group, Third Air Force, Drew Field, Tampa, FL.
Substantially damaged in an accident with parked B-17F 42-29593 while taxying at Drew Field, Tampa, FL 20Nov43.
327th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Drew Field, Tampa, FL.
4007th Base Unit (Mobile Air Service Command), Brookley Field, Mobile, AL 14Jun44.
4117th Base Unit (Warner Robins Air Service Command), Robins Field, Warner Robins, GA 16Jul44.
327th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Drew Field, Tampa, FL 19Oct44.
4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 27Oct44.
Ferrying Division, Air Transport Command, Cincinnati, OH 18Jan45.
327th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Drew Field, Tampa, FL Jan45.
331st Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station-Very Heavy), Barksdale Field, Shreveport, LA 25Feb45.
Designated TB-17F 10Apr45.
Ferrying Division, Air Transport Command, Cincinnati, OH 13Jun45.
4160th Base Unit (Sacramento Air Technical Service Command), Albuquerque AAB, NM 20Jun45.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 30Jun45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to American Compressed Steel Corporation, Cincinnati, OH Jul46; scrapped.
24463 (MSN 3148) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 13Jul42.
Ogden Air Depot, Hill Field, Ogden, UT 16Jul42.
423rd Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 16Aug42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; departed from Gander, Newfoundland en route
Thurleigh, England 5Sep42.
Exploded over North Atlantic about an hour out and crashed off Greenland (10KIS).
The explosion coincided with the time that the bomb bay overload fuel tank was due to be switched on and may have been caused by an electrical fault..
24464 (MSN 3149) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 13Jul42.
Ogden Air Depot, Hill Field, Ogden, UT 16Jul42.
306th Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 17Aug42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to UK 5/6Sep42.
VIII Bomber Command, England. 367th Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111),
Bedfordshire 8Sep42.
{first combat mission 9Oct42}.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 13Oct42.
Severely battle damaged on a low-level mission to the submarine base at
Saint-Nazaire, France 9Nov42 (1KIA:9RMC).
On return, force landed at RAF Portreath, Cornwall.
324th Bomb Squadron [DF*J], 91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 20Feb43.
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 armoured plate to
protect the gunner 25Feb43. {first combat mission 26Feb43}.
Failed to return from a mission to the railway marshalling yards at Hamm, Germany 4Mar43 (3KIA:7RMC).
The weather was bad from takeoff through to Germany preventing four other groups rendezvousing
with the 91st Bomb Group which proceeded alone to the target.
Sixteen planes faced the toughest fighter defence of the war, the heaviest flak areas,
and on the deepest penetration yet into Germany. The reception was immediate with German fighters
determined to stop the attack; the return flight home was no easier, flying into the wind of a
strong jet stream. About ten minutes after going in over Texel, Germany, the radio gunner
was wounded. The pilot turned off after the target run and then the plane was struck by
several fighter cannon shells in both wings; gasoline was pouring out of the wings.
No.1 and no.4 engines were hit; the no.1 engine continued to run and finally it set up a terrific
vibration, which seemed as though it would shake off the whole wing, before the engine
finally stopped. No.4 engine oversped and finally stopped. The plane fell back from the
formation and, back over Texel, the right waist gunner received wounds from fragments
from a 20mm cannon shell. The bomber had been attacked by Lt. Oskar Köstler of the 10./NJG 1,
flying a Bf 110 fighter. Crossing the coast, no.3 engine was damaged and began losing oil.
By now the plane was flying about fifty feet above the water and the crew was preparing to ditch.
Upon impact the plane must have struck a wave head-on.
The bombardier went right through the radio room bulkhead and immediately into the water.
There was a ten foot gap in the bomb bay as both wings were broken off and the ball turret
had been pushed up into the fuselage.
The nose of the plane was slowly going down as the two pilot swam away to prevent being
sucked down; unable to reach a dinghy, they drowned in the waves.
The tail section was standing up, struck and fatally wounded the ball turret gunner as it sank.
The plane had ditched in the North Sea forty miles west of Texel, West Frisian Islands, Netherlands.
Seven crew members were rescued twelve hours later by a Royal Navy minesweeper and landed
at Grimsby, England. {2 missions}.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 4Mar43. SOC 4Nov44.
Named EXCALIBUR. In Arthurian legend, King Arthur’s sword. Named and painted at Bassingbourn 25Feb43.
24465 MSN 3150) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 13Jul42.
Ogden Air Depot, Hill Field, Ogden, UT 16Jul42.
368th Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 21Aug42.
Mitchel Field, Hempstead, Long Island, NY 25Aug42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 11/12Sep42.
The plane arrived at Prestwick with fuel exhaustion and landed without brakes.
It overran the runway, slowed down on the grass and came to an abrupt halt in a peat bog.
VIII Bomber Command, England. 368th Bomb Squadron [BO*N], 306th Bomb Group,
Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 13Sep42. {first combat mission 9Oct42}.
Battle damaged on a mission to the Compagnie de Fives steel works at Lille, France 9Oct42 (1DOI:9RMC).
Flak damaged an engine during the bomb run and no.4 propeller had to be feathered
after the bombs were released.
Enemy fighters attacked, fatally wounding a waist gunner.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 16Oct42.
Severely battle damaged on a mission to the submarine base at La Pallice, La Rochelle, France 18Nov42.
On return, force landed at RAF Exeter, Devon (1KIA:1WIA:8RMC).
The navigator was killed by flak and the co-pilot wounded.
Failed to return from a mission to the Erla GmbH aircraft factory at Mortsel, Antwerp, Belgium 5Apr43
(3KIA:6POW:1EVD). Shortly after crossing the Belgian coast en route to the target, flak
struck the propeller dome on no.1 engine. The feathering mechanism was destroyed
and the propeller oversped. The no.4 engine was struck by flak of the Flak Abteilung 295 over
the target and the plane could not keep up with the formation.
Subsequently attacked by German fighters, claimed by Oblt Otto Stammberger of 4/JG 26.
By this time the navigator and top turret gunner had been killed.
When the no.4 engine caught fire, the crew was ordered to bail out.
The plane broke in three and crashed by De Zwarte Hond in the hamlet of Heikant,
4km south west of Kalmthout, near Westkapelle, north of Antwerp. MACR 15534
After the mission, the Belgian Ambassador to the U.S. protested about the inaccurate bombing
that resulted in many civilian casualties (936 dead, among them hundreds of Belgian factory workers
and 209 schoolchildren).
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom).
Condemned 5Apr43. SOC 4Nov44.
Named MONTANA POWER - artwork of four dwarfs carrying a bomb
24466 (MSN 3151) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 13Jul42.
Ogden Air Depot, Hill Field, Ogden, UT 19Jul42.
Substantially damaged in an accident taxying at Hill Field, Ogden, UT 14Aug42.
368th Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 21Aug42.
Mitchel Field, Hempstead, Long Island, NY 25Aug42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland 10Sep42;
Gander to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 11/12Sep42.
VIII Bomber Command, England. 368th Bomb Squadron [BO*N],
306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 13Sep42. {first combat mission 9Oct42}.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 16Oct42.
Bomb sight removed and replaced by a pair of 0.50 calibre guns.
Lockheed Overseas Corporation, 403rd Air Depot, Base Air Depot No.3,
Langford Lodge (Station 597), County Antrim, Northern Ireland 11Apr43.
Used for Standard Beam Approach training. VIII Air Service Command 16Apr43.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom).
Condemned salvage after non battle damage 18Jun45. SOC 30Jul45.
24467 (MSN 3152) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 13Jul42.
Ogden Air Depot, Hill Field, Ogden, UT 21Jul42.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT.
Severely damaged in an accident during takeoff when it ground looped at Hill Field, Ogden, UT 19Aug42.
Damaged when the brakes failed during taxying and causing the bomber to strike a parked
Douglas DC-3, NC18889, operated by United Air Lines, at Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 7Sep42.
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 8Sep42.
Assigned to BRONZE (Eleventh Air Force, Kodiak, Alaska); not delivered.
Rome Air Service Command, Syracuse AAB, NY 27Sep42.
422nd Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group, Presque Isle Field, ME 19Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Valley (Station 568), Anglesey, Wales 24/25Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 25Oct42.
422nd Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 25Oct42.
Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 6Dec42.
368th Bomb Squadron [BO*V], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 20Jan43.
Battle damaged on a mission to the industrial area of Emden 4Feb43 (2WIA).
Battle damaged on a mission to the submarine base at Saint-Nazaire, France 16Feb43.
Flak sliced through hydraulics lines and punched holes in the Plexiglas nose.
Battle damaged on a mission when flak sliced into the cockpit side Mar43 (1WIA).
Failed to return from a mission to the Focke-Wulf aircraft factory at Bremen, Germany 17Apr43 (2KIA:8POW)
Flak hit the no.3 engine and was then attacked by fighters.
Caught fire in the cockpit and crashed at Aurich, near Wilhelmshaven, Germany.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 17Apr43. SOC 4Nov44.
Named GRIM REAPER. [Grim Reaper was the nickname for the 423BS].
The name was not painted on the plane and the artwork was of a Viking wielding a ball
and chain [similar to the 368BS logo] painted by Sgt Lee Kessler.
24468 MSN 3153) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 13Jul42.
Ogden Air Depot, Hill Field, Ogden, UT 19Jul42.
369th Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 20Aug42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 9/10Sep42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
369th Bomb Squadron [WW*C], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 11Sep42.
{first combat mission 9Oct42}.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 13Oct42.
Battle damaged on a mission to the Chemin de fer du Nord workshops at Hellemmes, Lille, France 8Nov42
(1WIA:9RMC).
Tail gunner’s compartment, left wing tip, vertical and horizontal stabilisers damaged,
one engine inoperative.
VIII Air Service Command Maintenance Unit 54 for repairs 8Nov42.
Battle damaged on a mission to the Luftwaffe air depot at Romilly-sur-Seine, France 12Dec42.
Finding the primary target covered by clouds, the formation turned west towards the secondary
target at Le Havre.
A flight of Fw 190 fighters attacked the formation, continuing when the formation had to turn back
towards the third alternative target, railway marshalling yards at Sotteville-lès-Rouen.
Shot at by heavy flak during two runs over this target, the plane was being badly damaged. Fighter attacks
damaged the tail and wounded the tail gunner, then a 20mm cannon shell entered the bomb bay.
The no.4 engine had been disabled and the no.3 would not operate above 10,000ft.
Rudder and aileron controls had been damaged and the hydraulic system disabled.
Salvaged 13Jan43. Regained by Group. VIII Air Service Command 26Mar43.
11th Combat Crew Replacement Unit, 1st Combat Crew Replacement Group,
Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire 26Mar43.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom).
Condemned salvage after non battle damage 31May45.
Named WA-HOO! - artwork of a cartoon dog holding Hitler’s head by the scalp.
24469 (MSN 3154) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 13Jul42.
San Antonio Air Depot, Duncan Field, San Antonio, TX 16Jul42.
367th Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 16Aug42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to UK 5/6Sep42.
VIII Bomber Command, England. 367th Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group,
Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 8Sep42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 2Oct42.
{first combat mission 9Oct42}.
Severely battle damaged on a low-level mission to the submarine base at Saint-Nazaire, France 9Nov42.
On return, force landed at RAF Portreath, Cornwall.
On return from a mission to the submarine base at Saint-Nazaire, France, the aircraft was
diverted by bad weather and landed at St. Eval (Station 129), Cornwall 3Jan43.
The plane was weather bound for three days there.
Took off 7Jan43 for return to Thurleigh but weather closed in and the pilot was forced
to return to St. Eval.
The first landing attempt was unsuccessful and the plane pulled up to make a
second attempt but was never seen or heard from again.
Believed to have crashed in the Celtic Sea, off the Cornish coast 7Jan43 (10MIS).
An extensive sea search, in which the Royal Air Force lost two planes,
was conducted to locate any trace of plane or crew but it was never found.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 5Jan43. SOC 4Nov44.
24470 (MSN 3155) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 13Jul42.
San Antonio Air Depot, Duncan Field, San Antonio, TX 16Jul42.
369th Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 22Aug42.
Substantially damaged while parked in collision by B-17F 41-24493 when the hydraulic
system failed taxying at Westover Field 26Aug42 (1INJ).
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 11/12Sep42. VIII Bomber Command, England.
369th Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 11Sep42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 2Oct42. {first combat mission 9Oct42}.
Battle damaged on a mission to the Chemin de fer du Nord workshops at Hellemmes, Lille, France 8Nov42 (2WIA).
Attack by enemy Fw 190 fighters caused holes in the bombardier's window;
the right wing, fuselage and vertical fin were damaged by bullet holes.
The aircraft and crew were presented to King George VI at Thurleigh 13Nov42.
Failed to return from a mission to a torpedo dump at Saint-Nazaire, France 3Jan43 (10KIA).
West of Nantes, France, the anti-aircraft fire was strong; south of the Loire the fire of the
battery of Château Bougon, Couffé, was very heavy, and a strong defence was
encountered in the region of Paimboeuf. Strong head winds slowed the advance of the
formation during the last part of the flight. Flak was intense and precise above
the objective. German fighters quickly intercepted the formation,
attacking first the bombers damaged by anti-aircraft fire.
Badly damaged by enemy anti-aircraft fire over the target,
disabling no.3 engine and forced out of formation.
A large force of enemy fighter planes then concentrated their attacks on this lone airplane,
finally driving it to a crash landing in the sea. The damaged aircraft made a perfect water landing
in the Celtic Sea forty miles northwest of Brest, France. Enemy fighters attacked the helpless crew in the water.
As the Fortress sank in the sea, the engineer, manning the top turret, continued to fire at the attacking fighters
to save his crew. His twin guns were firing as the waves closed over the top of the turret.
T/Sgt Arizona Harris received the Distinguished Service Cross posthumously.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 3Jan43. SOC 4Nov44.
Named SONS OF FURY.
24471 (MSN 3156) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 13Jul42.
San Antonio Air Depot, Duncan Field, San Antonio, TX 16Jul42.
369th Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 17Aug42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 9/10Sep42.
VIII Bomber Command, England. 369th Bomb Squadron [WW*C}, 306th Bomb Group,
Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 11Sep42. {first combat mission 9Oct42}.
Battle damaged on a mission to the Compagnie de Fives steel works at Lille, France 9Oct42 (10RMC).
The plane was in the lead being flown by Colonel Charles ‘Chip’ Overacker Jr, the Commanding Officer
of 306th Bomb Group.
Nearing the target the plane was struck by flak disabling the no.2 engine and the Colonel was
forced to relinquish the lead.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 2Oct42.
Failed to return from a mission to the Chemin de fer du Nord workshops at Hellemmes, Lille, France 13Jan43
(3KIA:7POW).
Mid-air collision with B-17F 41-24498 and broke in two just north of the target at Lille, France.
Crashed Marcq-en-Barœul, near Lille. MACR 15502
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom).
Condemned 13Jan43. SOC 4Nov44.
Named FOUR OF A KIND
24472 MSN 3157) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 13Jul42.
San Antonio Air Depot, Duncan Field, San Antonio, TX 16Jul42.
369th Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 19Aug42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 10Sep42.
VIII Bomber Command, England. 369th Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111),
Bedfordshire 11Sep42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 2Oct42.
Failed to return from a mission to the Chemin de fer du Nord workshops at Hellemmes, Lille, France 8Nov42
(5KIA:4POW:1EVD). During the first run over the target, the plane was struck by flak making a large hole
in the left wing between the engines and causing a fuel leak.
The no.2 engine was on fire but the controls were damaged preventing the engine being switched off.
Further flak disabled instruments and the oxygen system.
Without flight controls the plane was increasing its bank angle and the crew bailed out.
Crashed near a farm at Bondues, north of Lille, France.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom).
Condemned 8Nov43. SOC 4Nov44.
24473 (MSN 3158) Accepted by USAAF 13Jul42. 327th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 2Aug42. North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME.
327th Bomb Squadron, 92nd Bomb Group. Flown from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to RAF Benbecula,
Outer Hebrides, Scotland 21Aug42. Departed to Tiree, Inner Hebrides, and on to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 22Aug42. 92nd Bomb Group, Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire. Namws EXTERMINATOR..
414th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106),)Northamptonshire 24Aug42
Named "Kiss-me Kowboy" [named by the pilot who came from Kissimmee, Florida].
Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 8Sep42. Twelfth Air Force, North Africa Nov42. Departed
RAF Hurn, Bournemouth, Hampshire to North Africa 20Nov42. Operation Torch Nov42.
414th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Maison Blanche, Algiers, Algeria 20Nov42.
Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 22Nov42. Biskra, Algeria 25Dec42. Châteaudun-du-Rhumel (Helen),
Constantine, Algeria 8Feb43. 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. Salvaged 1Aug45
24474 (MSN 3159) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 13Jul42.
San Antonio Air Depot, Duncan Field, San Antonio, TX 16Jul42.
367th Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 17Aug42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to UK 5/6Sep42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
367th Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 8Sep42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 26Oct42.
Failed to return from a mission to the submarine base at La Pallice, La Rochelle, France 18Nov42
(1MIA:9POW).
Damaged no.3 engine which oversped and caught fire.
The fire was extinguished but the propeller shaft sheared which prevented the propeller
from being feathered. The longitudinal movement of the broken propeller shaft
caused severe vibration and prevented the bomb bay doors from being closed.
The drag caused a loss of airspeed and the plane dropped out of formation. T
he crew considered ditching but, being some fifteen miles off the coast, the chances of survival were minimal.
The bombardier possibly slipped off the bomb bay catwalk into the sea and was not found.
The pilot dropped down to wave height for protection.
The engineer/top turret gunner was wounded in another fighter attack.
Now out of fuel, the pilot carried out a good ditching about two miles off Ile d'Oussant,
on the tip of the Brest Peninsula. The aircraft floated long enough to allow the crew to
extricate an injured man. Two French fishermen rescued the crew and were then handed
over to a German patrol boat. Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 31Oct44.
SOC 10Dec44.
NamedFLOOZY
24475 MSN 3160) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 15Jul42.
San Antonio Air Depot, Duncan Field, San Antonio, TX 17Jul42.
423rd Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 16Aug42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to UK 5/6Sep42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
423rd Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 8Sep42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 13Oct42.
Severely battle damaged on a low-level mission to the submarine base at Saint-Nazaire, France 9Nov42.
On return, force landed at RAF Portreath, Cornwall. Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom).
Condemned salvage 5Dec42. SOC 4Nov44.
Named OLDE FAITHFUL
24476 (MSN 3161) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 13Jul42.
San Antonio Air Depot, Duncan Field, San Antonio, TX 16Jul42.
423rd Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 16Aug42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to UK 5/6Sep42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
423rd Bomb Squadron [RD*D], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 8Sep42.
{first combat mission 9Oct42}.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 13Oct42.
Severely battle damaged on a mission to the submarine base at La Pallice, La Rochelle, France 18Nov42.
On return, force landed at RAF Exeter, Devon.
Damaged when the plane ran off the perimeter track at the northeast end of the NE-SW runway
when taxying at Thurleigh 25Jan43.
Battle damaged on a mission to the railway marshalling yards at Hamm, Germany 4Feb43 (10RMC).
Cloud cover prevented bombing of the primary target at Hamm and the formation diverted to the
industrial area of Emden, Germany. No.3 engine was damaged by flak, the propeller could not
be feathered and wind milled causing severe vibration.
On return, the plane force landed at Bungay (Station 125), Suffolk.
Mid-air collision with B-17F 42-5251 during a local training flight 1Mar43.
The pilot of the other plane was the Squadron commander leading an 18-plane formation
on a practice bombing mission.
The formation had returned and was overflying base prior to landing.
The pilot in this plane did not follow procedures during the peel off for landing and flew into the leader.
With the underside on fire, the pilot crash landed at Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire (10RMC).
VIII Air Service Command 2Mar43. Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom).
Condemned salvage at Chelveston 3Mar43. SOC 4Nov44.
Named ADORABLE / UNBEARABLE
24477 MSN 3162) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 13Jul42.
San Antonio Air Depot, Duncan Field, San Antonio, TX 16Jul42.
369th Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 16Aug42.
North Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) 25Aug42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 26/27Aug42.
VIII Bomber Command, England. 340th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group,
Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire Sep42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 19Oct42.
Departed RAF Predannack, Cornwall to North Africa 10Nov42.
Twelfth Air Force, Operation Torch Nov42.
340th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Maison Blanche, Algiers, Algeria Nov42.
Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria Nov42.
Battle damaged by enemy fighters over Tunis on a mission to the Luftwaffe airfield
at Castel Benito, Tripoli, Libya 12Jan43.
Biskra, Algeria 20Jan43. Failed to return from a mission to the port at La Goulette, Tunis, Tunisia 1Feb43
(7KIA:3POW).
When they were returning home, about 50km west of Tunis, a German Bf 109G fighter,
piloted by a 16-victory ace, Feldwebel Eric Paczia of VI./JG 53, crashed into the B-17
leading the formation, ‘Flaming Mayme’, destroying it.
The plane crashed in the desert. MACR 3516
The remains of Paczia’s aircraft then went on to strike the tail of ‘All American’ [41-24406].
Assigned to DUKO (Twelfth Air Force, Italy). Condemned 10Feb43.
In December 1943 the tail section up to the radio compartment was found by the armament
officer of the 340th Bomb Squadron who went to salvage parts from a plane reported to have
crashed near Tunis. SOC 4Nov46. Named JOAN OF ARC / FLAMING MAYME
24478 (MSN 3163) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 17Jul42.
San Antonio Air Depot, Duncan Field, San Antonio, TX 21Jul42.
369th Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 19Aug42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 9/10Sep42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
369th Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 11Sep42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 13Oct42.
Failed to return from a mission to the submarine base at Saint-Nazaire, France 23Nov42 (8KIA:2POW).
Nearing the target, enemy fighters attacked damaging engine no.1 & no.2 and 10ft off end of wing.
Only two airmen bailed out before the aircraft exploded and crashed in the sea 1.5 miles
off Piriac-Sur-Mer, near Saint-Nazaire, France.
Claimed by Maj. Egon Mayer flying a FW 190 of III./JG 2.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 23Nov42. SOC 4Nov44
24479 (MSN 3164) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 15Jul42.
Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 17Jul42.
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Sep42.
322nd Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 6Sep42.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) 29Sep42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via Gander, Newfoundland 29Sep42;
Gander to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 30Sep/1Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
322nd Bomb Squadron [LG*R], 91st Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 2Oct42.
Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 14Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 26Oct42. {first combat mission 7Nov42}.
Failed to return from a mission to the submarine base at Saint-Nazaire, France 23Nov42 (11MIA).
The Group managed to assemble a force of ten aircraft from all four squadrons but five of them
had to abort because of mechanical and other problems; the remaining five missed the rendezvous
with the other bomb groups. On a direct route to Saint-Nazaire over land instead of by sea,
the five plane formation immediately encountered flak as it crossed the French coast.
The pilot feathered no.2 propeller and turned back towards base.
Last seen thirty miles from the English coast, presumably German fighters shot it down and it
crashed into the English Channel. {4 missions}.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 31Oct44. SOC 10Dec44.
Named SAD SACK.
Also listed as in midiar collision with
B-17F 41-24499 and crashed into sea Nov 23, 1942. MACR 16273.
24480 (MSN 3165) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 15Jul42.
Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 19Jul42.
2nd Ferrying Group, Air Transport Command, New Castle Field, Wilmington, DE 27Aug42.
324th Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 31Aug42.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) 26Sep42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via Gander, Newfoundland 27Sep42;
Gander to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 29/30Sep42.
VIII Bomber Command, England. 324th Bomb Squadron [DF*B],
91st Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire. Bassingbourn (Station 121),
Cambridgeshire 14Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 26Oct42. {first combat mission 17Nov42}.
Sustained battle damage on a mission to the submarine yards at Saint-Nazaire, France 17Nov42 (10RMC).
Flak over the target was inaccurate but caused damage to the plane.
Substantial battle damage on a mission to the Luftwaffe air depot at Romilly-sur-Seine, France 20Dec42.
Enemy fighters attacked most of the way from entering France until returning to the English Channel.
Used as camera plane to film Major William Wyler's ‘Memphis Belle’ winter 1942-43.
Major William Wyler also used the plane to shoot an instructional film for the US Army Air Force
showing how a 'Flying Fortress' protected itself against attack by enemy fighters.
The Fortress was loaded with cameras in place of the guns and Spitfires fighters,
piloted by US Army Air Force pilots, acting the part of enemy aircraft, were making the attacks,
which were recorded by the cine-men and their cameras.
Battle damaged on a mission to the submarine yards at Pointe de Keroman, Lorient, France 23Jan43
(1WIA:9RMC). Battle damaged on a mission to the railway marshalling yards at Hamm, Germany 4Feb43
(1WIA:9RMC). Cloud cover prevented bombing of the primary target at Hamm and the formation
diverted to the industrial area of Emden, Germany.
Aircraft sustained damage from flak over the target and later fighter attacks by Bf 110
night fighters and Ju 88s.
Battle damaged on a mission to the railway marshalling yards at Hamm, Germany 4Mar43 (1WIA:9RMC).
The weather was bad from takeoff through to Germany preventing four other groups
from rendezvousing with the 91st Bomb Group which proceeded alone to the target.
Sixteen planes faced the toughest fighter defence of the war, the heaviest flak areas,
and on the deepest penetration yet into Germany.
The reception was immediate with German fighters determined to stop the attack;
the return flight home was no easier, flying into the wind of a strong jet stream.
The radio operator was wounded. Battle damaged on a mission to the submarine yards at
Wilhelmshaven, Germany 21May43.
As the bomber reached the target, the crew could see enemy aircraft in the area but
standing off to the side. When they reached the Initial Point of the bomb run, the
enemy fighters attacked head on with six to eight enemy fighter line abreast.
The Germans didn’t fire flak but intended to scatter the Group with its fighters
before bomb release.
322nd Bomb Squadron [LG*A], 91st Bomb Group May43.
Lockheed Overseas Corporation, 403rd Air Depot, Base Air Depot No.3,
Langford Lodge (Station 597), County Antrim, Northern Ireland 2Jul43.
Assigned Eighth Air Force, England Headquarters Squadron, Hendon (Station 575), Middlesex 15Aug43 for VIP duties.
87th Air Transport Squadron, 27th Air Transport Group, Hendon (Station 575), Middlesex.
Accident landing at Florennes (A-78), near Charleroi, Belgium 7Oct44. {44+ missions}.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned salvage 21Oct44.
Repaired and returned to service 28Nov44. SOC 14Nov46.
Named THE BAD PENNY.
24481 (MSN 3166) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 15Jul42.
Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 19Jul42.
322nd Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Sep42.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) 26Sep42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via Gander, Newfoundland 29Sep42;
Gander to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 30Sep/1Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
322nd Bomb Squadron [LG*M], 91st Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117),
Huntingdonshire 2Oct42. Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 14Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 26Oct42. {first combat mission 7Nov42}.
Battle damaged on a low-level mission to the submarine base at Saint-Nazaire, France 9Nov42 (1WIA:9RMC).
Battle damaged on a mission to the railway marshalling yards at Hamm, Germany 4Mar43.
The weather was bad from takeoff through to Germany preventing four other groups
from rendezvousing with the 91st Bomb Group which proceeded alone to the target.
Sixteen planes faced the toughest fighter defence of the war, the heaviest flak areas,
and on the deepest penetration yet into Germany. The reception was immediate with German fighters
determined to stop the attack; the return flight home was no easier,
flying into the wind of a strong jet stream.
Failed to return from a mission to the submarine yards at Kiel, Germany 14May43 (2MIA:8KIA).
Little resistance was encountered on the way to and at the target, but on the return trip,
the formation was attacked by a large force of German fighters. The B-17 was seen to drop out of
formation, with a large hole in the rudder, and with no.2 engine inoperative.
Attacked by enemy aircraft in heavy attack, possibly by Unteroffizier Hans Meissner of the 6./NJG 3,
flying a Bf 110 from Schleswig airfield. Headed home and seemed to be under control but
ditched into the North Sea near Amrum Island, Frisians. {10+ missions}. MACR 15498
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom).
Condemned 14May43. SOC 4Nov44. Named HELL'S ANGELS
24482 (MSN 3167) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 15Jul42.
Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 19Jul42.
322nd Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Sep42.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) 29Sep42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via Gander, Newfoundland 29Sep42;
Gander to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 30Sep/1Oct42. VIII Bomber Command, England.
322nd Bomb Squadron [LG*S], 91st Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 2Oct42.
Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 14Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 26Oct42. {first combat mission 7Nov42}.
Battle damaged on a mission to the torpedo store of the submarine base at Saint-Nazaire, France 3Jan43
(3WIA:7RMC).
West of Nantes, France, the anti-aircraft fire was strong; south of the Loire the fire of the
battery of Château Bougon, Couffé, was very heavy, and a strong defence was encountered
in the region of Paimboeuf. Strong head winds slowed the advance of the formation
during the last part of the flight. German fighters quickly intercepted the formation,
attacking first the bombers damaged by anti-aircraft fire.
As the last bomb was released, the bomber was hit by flak on the right wing.
Two large flak fragments struck the right wing; one fragment severed the oil line
on no.4 engine, which caught on fire and unable to feather the propeller while no.3
engine was malfunctioning.
Unable to keep up, the plane fell out of formation, and Luftwaffe fighters immediately descended upon it.
The battle was intense, and a frontal attack left the pilot, bombardier and navigator injured.
The crew was nearly defeated, but their luck turned as the engine fire was extinguished.
As they 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.
With a ditching imminent, the pilot flew the plane close to the water
while the men threw out anything they could to lighten the load.
The crew was lost; the radio operator sent out his SOS repeatedly until British Air-Sea Rescue picked it up.
He was given the heading to the RAF coastal airfield of St. Eval, Padstow, Cornwall.
By the time it approached the base, the plane was operating on only one engine.
Peppered with holes and lacking brakes, it landed and ground looped.
Badly damaged, it didn’t fly again; it was salvaged after that mission. {4 missions}.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Salvaged 15Jan43. Condemned 27Feb43. SOC 4Nov44.
Named HEAVYWEIGHT ANNIHILATORS
24483 (MSN 3168) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 15Jul42.
Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 19Jul42.
322nd Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Sep42.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) 29Sep42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via Gander, Newfoundland 29Sep42;
Gander to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 30Sep/1Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
322nd Bomb Squadron [LG*U], 91st Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 2Oct42.
Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 14Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 26Oct42. {first combat mission 7Nov42}.
Battle damaged on a low-level mission to the submarine base at Saint-Nazaire, France 9Nov42 (2WIA:8RMC).
Lockheed Overseas Corporation, 403rd Air Depot, Base Air Depot No.3, Langford Lodge (Station 597),
County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
Regained by Group 30Mar43.
Battle damaged on a mission to the submarine construction yards at Wilhelmshaven, Germany 15May43.
A large force of enemy fighters attacked the formation viciously during the bomb run.
Flak was meagre and inaccurate.
Damaged by flak and 0.50 calibre cannon shells.
Failed to return from a mission to the Deutsche Werke Kiel AG shipyard at Kiel, Germany 19May43
(6KIA:4POW, plus a British news correspondent reporting on the American air war).
Attacked by enemy fighters which disabled no.3 engine out.
Dropping out of formation, the bomber was attacked again and exploded upon hitting the water in the Kiel estuary.
Shot down by Lt. Heinz Knoke in Bf 109G of JG 11/5. MACR 15632.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom).
Condemned 19May43. SOC 4Nov44.
Named SPIRIT OF ALCOHOL
24484 (MSN 3169) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 15Jul42.
Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 19Jul42.
2nd Ferrying Group, Air Transport Command, New Castle Field, Wilmington, DE 27Aug42.
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 31Aug42.
401st Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Sep42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 2/3Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
401st Bomb Squadron [LL*C], 91st Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117),
Huntingdonshire. Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 14Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 25Oct42.
{first combat mission 8Nov42}.
Serious battle damage on a mission to the submarine yards at Lorient, France 30Dec42.
Over such an important target, the opposition was intense.
Heavy flak tore into the bombers and approximately thirty Fw 190 fighters attacked while over Lorient.
On the return route strong westerly winds took the formation of three planes,
one from the 306th Bomb Group, over the Brest peninsula.
Holes in no.1 fuel tank, oil tank and supercharger oil tank; no.1 supercharger
damaged; no.2 intercooler punctured by 20mm cannon shell; left wing spar
peppered with 20mm cannon shells; shell holes in the fuselage, wings and the radio wiring destroyed.
Battle damaged on a mission to the railway marshalling yards at Hamm, Germany 4Mar43.
The weather was bad from takeoff through to Germany preventing four other groups
rendezvousing with the 91st Bomb Group which proceeded alone to the target.
Sixteen planes faced the toughest fighter defence of the war, the heaviest flak areas,
and on the deepest penetration yet into Germany.
The reception was immediate with German fighters determined to stop the attack;
the return flight home was no easier, flying into the wind of a strong jet stream.
Battle damaged during a mission to ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 17Aug43 (1KIA:9RMC).
The formation was subject to continuous fighter attacks from the time it crossed over the enemy coast.
In addition, the bombers were hit by flak as they passed over anti-aircraft defence zones.
After the target, and before the formation could rendezvous with a P-47 Thunderbolt escort home,
the squadron was subjected to further and continuous fighter attacks for about ninety minutes.
By the end of November 1943, there was little left of the original plane.
As a result of battle damage repairs, all that was left was the left wing, vertical stabiliser
and parts of the main fuselage. ‘Tokyo’ long-range fuel tanks and nose guns had been installed.
Battle damaged during a mission to the port area at Bremen, Germany 20Dec43 (1WIA).
Flak over the target was heavy and accurate damaging the ball turret and wounding the gunner.
Accident returning from a mission to the Luftwaffe air depot at Mérignac, Bordeaux, France 31Dec43 (10RMC).
On return with fuel exhaustion, the plane force landed at a RAF night fighter airfield on the
south coast of England. It landed with only one engine operating, the other three having failed
on approach; the fourth engine failed as the plane touched down on the runway.
Refuelled and headed for Bassingbourn, thick fog prevented the pilot from seeing the airfield.
He was diverted to Great Dunmow (Station 164), Essex, then to Andrewsfield (Station 485), Essex
where it crashed while landing when it struck a jeep crossing the runway, killing the driver
who was putting out marker lights to assist the landing bomber.
Badly damaged, declared salvage and taken to 2nd Strategic Air Depot,
Abbots Ripton (Station 547), Huntingdonshire 1Jan44. {43+ missions}.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Salvaged 4Jan44.
Front half used to repair B-17G 42-31229, 390th Bomb Group.
Named BAD EGG - Donald Duck nose art. Named after returning from Lorient with serious battle
damage 30Dec42. Painted by Jack Gaffney.
24485 (MSN 3170) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 15Jul42.
Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 19Jul42.
2nd Ferrying Group, Air Transport Command, New Castle Field, Wilmington, DE 28Aug42.
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 31Aug42.
324th Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Sep42.
Flown on a shake-down flight to Memphis, TN.
Named MEMPHIS BELLE in honor of the pilot's wartime sweetheart, Ms. Margaret Polk.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) 26Sep42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 29/30Sep42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
324th Bomb Squadron [DF*A], 91st Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 1Oct42.
Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 14Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 26Oct42.
{first combat mission 7Nov42}.
Battle damaged on a mission to the submarine yards at Pointe de Keroman, Lorient, France 23Jan43.
Battle damaged during a mission to the port at Bremen, Germany 26Feb43.
The primary target was overcast so the plane diverted to the docks and harbour at Wilhelmshaven, Germany.
The plane had been riddled by flak with skin missing from a wing exposing internal ribs, holes in the rudder and nose.
Battle damaged on a mission to the railway marshalling yard in Sotteville-lès-Rouen, France 28Mar43
(1WIA:9RMC).
{25th - and final - mission to Lorient, France 17May43}.
One of first in Group to complete twenty-five missions.
Reviewed by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth at Bassingbourn 26May43.
Assigned 3Jun43 for a publicity tour of USA.
Flown back to the United States by a composite crew chosen by the VIII Bomber Command
from those who had flown combat, for a >31-city War Bond tour, departing 8Jun43.
Their mascot, a Scotty dog named "Stuka", travelled across the Atlantic with them and participated in the tour.
Ferried Prestwick, Scotland, to Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland 13Jun43.
Arrived USA 25Jun43.
Fairfield Air Depot, Air Service Command, Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 9Jul43.
N.A.C.A. Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory (AERL), Lewis Field, Cleveland, OH Jul43.
Roswell Field, NM Jul43.
San Antonio Air Depot, Duncan Field, San Antonio, TX 18Jul43.
42nd Sub Depot, Harlingen Field, TX Jul43.
81st Air Base Squadron, Harlingen Field, TX 21Jul43.
388th Sub Depot, Laredo Field, TX 25Jul43.
324th Bomb Squadron, Laredo Field, TX 25Jul43.
388th Sub Depot, Flexible Gunnery School, Tyndall Field, Panama City, FL 6Aug43.
324th Bomb Squadron, Harlingen Field, TX 7Aug43.
91st Bomb Group, Orlando AAB, FL 10Aug43.
85th Sub Depot, Orlando AAB, FL 10Aug43.
Long Beach Field, CA Aug43.
Santa Monica Municipal Airport, CA Aug43.
Mines Field, El Segundo, CA Aug43.
2nd Ferrying Group, Air Transport Command, New Castle Field, Wilmington, DE. Spokane Air Depot, Spokane, WA 27Sep43.
Ferried Spokane to Tampa, FL 23/31Dec43.
62nd Sub Depot, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 31Dec43.
483rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 1Jan44.
97th Air Base Squadron, Jacksonville, FL 31Jan44.
483rd Bomb Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 1Feb44.
488th Bomb Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 25Feb44.
326th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 2May44.
129th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station-Light), Columbia Field, SC 21Oct44.
326th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 18Nov44.
Substantially damaged in an accident taxying at MacDill Field 25Nov44.
326th Sub Depot, MacDill Field, Tampa, FL 8Apr45.
327th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Drew Field, Tampa, FL 23Apr45.
Designated TB-17F 4May45.
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.
Declared excess 8Jun45.
Ferrying Division, Air Transport Command, Cincinnati, OH 1Jul45.
4124th Base Unit (Air Technical Service Command), Altus Field, OK 2Jul45.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 8Aug45.
War Assets Administration. Purchased by City of Memphis Mar46 and stored outside
the National Guard Armory, Memphis until displayed 1949.
Moved to display at Memphis Airport 1965. Donated by the city to the USAF Museum.
Restored by Memphis Air National Guard 1984-87.
On display at Mud Island Museum, Memphis, TN May87 to 2003.
To Millington, TN 29Mar03.
Restored for future display.
Reclaim complete USAF Museum, Wright-Patterson, OH and arrived 7Oct05.
Undergoing extensive restoration at the National Museum of the United States Air Force at
Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio [2014].
Unveiled at the National Museum after a full restoration 17May18.
Named MEMPHIS BELLE.
The nose art was painted on by a civilian worker at Dow Field; repainted later by Cpl. Tony Starcer.
The logo was based on a design by the artist George Petty, who created a series of pin-up girls for
Esquire Magazine know as the "Petty Girls".
The crew access door had the name STUKA written on it; this was the name of a Scottish terrier dog
belonging to Memphis Belle’s co-pilot and became the crew’s mascot.
24486 (MSN 3171) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 17Jul42.
San Antonio Air Depot, Duncan Field, San Antonio, TX 21Jul42.
Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 17Aug42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to UK 5/6Sep42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
367th Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 8Sep42.
{first combat mission 9Oct42}.
Sustained battle damage on a mission to the Compagnie de Fives steel works at Lille, France 9Oct42 (10RMC).
The plane bombed the secondary target of the Luftwaffe airfield at Courtrai, Belgium.
No.2 engine was damaged and stopped with fuel exhaustion.
The two outer engines overheated and damaged their bearings.
Unable to keep up with the formation and slowly losing altitude,
the pilot considered ditching in the English Channel as unlikely to make it
over the cliffs on the coast of England.
About to do so, a RAF Spitfire arrived, flew ahead and indicated that an airfield was just over the cliff.
Crash landed at RAF Manston, Kent, England.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 26Oct42.
Failed to return from a low-level mission to the submarine base at Saint-Nazaire, France 9Nov42 (11MIA).
Struck by flak, engine no.2 and two others damaged.
Crashed in Bay of Biscay, approximately ten miles off Saint-Nazaire.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom).
Condemned 9Nov42. SOC 4Nov44.
Named MAN O' WAR - artwork of the head of a horse. Man O’ War was an American thoroughbred
racehorse widely regarded as one of the greatest racehorses of all time.
24487 (MSN 3172) Accepted by USAAF 15Jul42. 368th Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group,
Westover
Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 15Jul42.
Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 21Jul42.
368th Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 25Aug42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 11/12Sep42.
VIII Bomber Command, England. 368th Bomb Squadron [BO*Q],
306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 13Sep42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 26Oct42. {first combat mission 8Nov42}.
Severely battle damaged on a low-level mission to the submarine base at Saint-Nazaire, France 9Nov42.
On return, force landed at RAF Portreath, Cornwall.
Battle damaged on a mission to the Luftwaffe air depot at Romilly-sur-Seine, France 12Dec42 (1WIA:9RMC).
Finding the primary target covered by clouds, the formation turned west towards the secondary target at
Le Havre. A flight of Fw 190 fighters attacked the formation, continuing when the formation had to turn
back towards the third alternative target, railway marshalling yards at Sotteville-lès-Rouen.
Returning home across the English Channel, the plane was attacked by Fw 190 fighters, injuring the navigator.
Cannon shells struck the right wing causing a large hole between no.3 and 4 engines,
another shell making a large hole behind the ball turret.
Battle damaged on a mission to the submarine yards at Wilhelmshaven, Germany 21May43 (2WIA:8RMC).
As the bomber reached the target, the crew could see enemy aircraft in the area but standing off to the side.
When they reached the Initial Point of the bomb run, the enemy fighters attacked head on with
six to eight enemy fighter line abreast.
The Germans didn’t fire flak but intended to scatter the Group with its fighters before bomb release.
Both pilots were wounded. Battle damaged on a mission to the Gerhard Fieseler Werke (GFW)
aircraft works at Waldau, Kassel, Germany 30Jul43.
At the target flak was accurate and intense; there was large enemy fighter opposition en route
to and returning from target. The plane had considerable damage from flak and 20mm cannon shells.
Two engines failed during a mission to bomb a submarine supply ship in the Loire River at Nantes, France 16Sep43.
En route to the target no.1 engine caught fire and the propeller was feathered.
With the fire extinguished, the crew continued and dropped their bombs over the target.
Returning home, a second engine failed and the pilot force landed the plane at RAF Predannack, Cornwall.
VIII Air Service Command 17Sep43.
Regained by Group 5Oct43.
Declared ‘war weary’. {45 missions}.
Eighth Air Force Service Command; not equipped with ‘Tokyo’ long range fuel tanks 1May44.
Was longest serving B-17F in Eighth Air Force Bomber Command.
Returned to US.
4136th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Technical Service Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 28Jul44.
4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 14Feb45.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation 20Jun45.
Named EAGER BEAVER - artwork of a cartoon beaver carrying a bomb, painted by Sgt Lee Kessler.
Ferried to Williamsport Technical Institute, PA 20Jun45 for aeronautical programme.
Scrapped 1954.
The left nose compartment featuring the nose art was retained.
Pennsylvania College of Technology.
The nose art was displayed at Penn College's Kathryn Wentzel Lumley Aviation Center from 1992.
Donated to the museum, the nose art is on display at the Mighty Eighth Air Force Heritage Museum, Pooler, Savannah, GA [Aug00]
24488 (MSN 3173) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 15Jul42.
Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 21Jul42.
2nd Ferrying Group, Air Transport Command, New Castle Field, Wilmington, DE 30Aug42.
369th Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 30Aug42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), S
cotland 10Sep42. VIII Bomber Command, England.
369th Bomb Squadron [WW*F], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 11Sep42.
{first combat mission 9Oct42}.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 26Oct42.
Severely battle damaged on a low-level mission to the submarine base at Saint-Nazaire, France 9Nov42.
On return, force landed at RAF Portreath, Cornwall.
Battle damaged on a mission to the submarine base at Saint-Nazaire, France 16Feb43.
Engine nacelles and wings struck by flak.
367th Bomb Squadron [GY*M].
Failed to return from a mission to the Focke-Wulf aircraft factory at Bremen, Germany 17Apr43
(5KIA:5POW).
An attack by enemy aircraft knocked out three engines.
As it crossed the Dutch coast the remaining engine oversped and the pilot turned back towards
land and enemy territory.
The radio operator and four gunners had already been killed as the remaining crew bailed out at 23,000ft,
relying on the wind to carry them towards land. Claimed by Oberleutnant Rudolf Sigmund of the 10./NJG 1,
flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Leeuwarden, Netherlands.
Also claimed by heavy Flak units.
Crashed in a dyke near Greetsiel, north of Emden, Germany. MACR 15445
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom).
Condemned 17Apr43. SOC 4Nov44.
Named BANSHEE - artwork of a clenched fist emitting lightning strikes .
24489 (MSN 3174) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 17Jul42.
San Antonio Air Depot, Duncan Field, San Antonio, TX 19Jul42.
367th Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 17Aug42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to UK 5/6Sep42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
367th Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 8Sep42.
{first combat mission 9Oct42}.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 13Oct42.
Severely battle damaged on a low-level mission to the submarine base at Saint-Nazaire, France 9Nov42.
On return, force landed at RAF Portreath, Cornwall.
The aircraft and crew were presented to King George VI at Thurleigh 13Nov42.
Failed to return from a mission to the Luftwaffe air depot at Romilly-sur-Seine, France 20Dec42
(3KIA:7POW).
Enemy fighters attacked most of the way from entering France until returning to the English Channel.
Attacked by enemy aircraft and crashed near Paris.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom).
Condemned 20Dec42. SOC 4Nov44.
Named TERRY AND THE PIRATES. Named for the pilot and based on the WWII comic strip
41-24490/24503 Boeing B-17F-15-BO Fortress
MSN 3175/3188. Boeing Model 299P. Defence Aid contract for the Royal Air Force as serial FH468/FH481.
Diverted to USAAF after the Japanese attacks in Hawaii and the Philippines, Information from FORTLOG
24490 (MSN 3175) Accepted by USAAF 16Jul42. 324th Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Group, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 31Aug42. Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 29/30Sep42. 324th Bomb Squadron [DF*C], 91st Bomb Group,
Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 1Oct42. Named 'Jack the Ripper'.
Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 14Oct42. {first combat mission 8Nov42}. Battle
damaged on a mission to the Luftwaffe airfield at Drucat, Abbeville, France 8Nov42. A wing tip
and stabilizer were badly damaged. Battle damaged on a low-level mission to the submarine
base at Saint-Nazaire, France 9Nov42. Two gunners were wounded by flak. Battle damaged
during a mission to the submarine pens at Lorient, France 30Dec42. Over such an important
target, the opposition was intense. Heavy flak tore into the bombers and approximately thirty
Fw 190 fighters attacked while over Lorient. On the return route strong westerly winds took
the formation of three planes, one from the 306th Bomb Group, over the Brest peninsula.
Battle damaged on a mission to the naval yards at Wilhelmshaven, Germany 27Jan43 (1WIA:9RTD).
Damaged in an accident at Bassingbourn 14Feb43. Preparing for a mission, a turret maintenance
mechanic accidently fired the 0.50 caliber guns in the ball turret. The slugs hit the pavement and
ricocheted up through the tail and the right stabilizer and rudder. Battle damaged on a mission
to the submarine base at Saint-Nazaire, France 16Feb43 (1KIA:9RTD). Flak over the target was
moderate and accurate, shrapnel hitting the plane several times. Attacked by enemy fighters a
few minutes after bomb release, the inside half of the pilot’s windshield fell down. No.2 engine
was knocked out and No.1 manifold pressure dropped off to about five inches, probably from
a hit in the induction system. The pilot feathered No.2 propeller and adjusted No.1 engine until
he found a throttle position that gave maximum power of twenty-five inches. The ball turret
gunner showed great presence of mind in not firing his guns when the ball turret became
saturated with fuel escaping from No.2 engine. The radio operator was killed by a 20mm
cannon shell. The fighters continued their attacks until midway across the English Channel.
2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little Staughton (Station 127), Bedfordshire 5Jul43. Regained by
Group 11Jul43. Battle damaged on a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt,
Germany 17Aug43 (1WIA:9RTD). Enemy fighters pressed home vicious attacks both going in
and coming out. Damaged during a frontal attack by enemy fighters. Battle damaged on a
tactical mission to the Luftwaffe airfield at Glisy, Amiens, France 31Aug43. Battle damged
during a mission to bomb a submarine repair ship at Nantes, France 23Sep43. Battle damaged
on a mission to the Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau Aktiengesellschaft (Deschimag) shipyard
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. In addition, a large force of German fighters launched vicious attacks
against the planes. Over the target, the formation encountered intense flak. A gunner was
wounded by flak. 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. Failed to return
from a mission to the Junkers Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory at Aschersleben, Germany 22Feb44 (1KIA:9POW).
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 Bünde, Germany. The bomber formation
was exposed to the attack of German fighters for over forty minutes without interruption, most of
which were Fw 190s. Two Bf 109s damaged engine No.2, the bomber dropped back aiming for
cloud cover but more enemy aircraft knocked out two more engines. The aircraft crashed at
Gremmendorf, near Albersloh, southeast of Münster, Germany. {27+ missions}.
24491 (MSN 3176) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 17Jul42.
San Antonio Air Depot, Duncan Field, San Antonio, TX 21Jul42.
423rd Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 15Aug42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to UK 5/6Sep42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
423rd Bomb Squadron [RD*H], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 8Sep42.
{first combat mission 9Oct42}.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 13Oct42.
Failed to return from a low-level mission to the submarine base at Saint-Nazaire, France 9Nov42
(6KIA:3POW:1EVD).
Struck by flak during the bomb run, the no.3 engine was knocked off the wing.
The co-pilot was blown out of the plane by the force of the explosion but survived;
the pilot was believed to have been killed by the same burst.
Another flak burst took off the Plexiglas nose, the plane went into a dive and the
bombardier fell out but was wearing his parachute and survived.
The bomber crashed at Ranlieu, Saint-André-des-Eaux, France.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom).
Condemned 9Nov42. SOC 11Apr46.
Named MAN O’WAR. Man O' War was an American Thoroughbred racehorse widely
regarded as one of the greatest racehorses of all time.
The pilot and bombardier were from Kentucky, hence the choice of a Derby great as a namesake.
24492 (MSN 3177) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 17Jul42.
San Antonio Air Depot, Duncan Field, San Antonio, TX 21Jul42.
367th Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 16Aug42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 5Sep42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to UK 5/6Sep42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
367th Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 8Sep42.
Crashed at Cowbit near Spalding, Lincolnshire during a practice formation bombing
mission over the Wash 2Oct42 (6KIS:2RMC).
The waist gunner became unconscious caused by problems with the oxygen supply.
The pilot dived the plane to 15,000ft but pulled out too sharply, control cables snapped,
part of one wing broke away and the plane caught fire.
Both bomb doors broke away, one severing the tail.
The tail gunner was able to bail out.
One other crew member bailed out but was injured; rest of crew were killed when the
aircraft crashed. {nil missions}. Condemned 1Mar43
24493 (MSN 3178) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 17Jul42.
San Antonio Air Depot, Duncan Field, San Antonio, TX 21Jul42.
368th Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 16Aug42.
Substantially damaged in a collision with parked B-17F 41-24470 when the hydraulic
system failed while taxying at Westover Field, 26Aug42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 10/11Sep42.
VIII Bomber Command, England. 368th Bomb Squadron [BO*C],
306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 13Sep42. {first combat mission 9Oct42}.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 13Oct42.
Sustained battle damage on a mission to the submarine yards at Saint-Nazaire, France 17Nov42.
Flak over the target damaged no.2 engine and the propeller could not be feathered.
Causing severe vibration, losing airspeed and altitude, the pilot dropped down to evade
enemy fighters and flew back to England at low level.
Intending to return to base, the plane made its way across southern England and
force landed at Membury (Station 466), Berkshire.
The following day, and without authority, the pilot took off on three engines for the return flight to Thurleigh.
Finding fog over the base, the plane landed at Podington (Station 109), Bedfordshire 18Nov42.
The following day the pilot took off on three engines for the ferry flight to Thurleigh 19Nov42.
Standard Beam Approach trainer 11Apr43.
VIII Air Service Command 16Apr43.
Returned to US.
Ferried Prestwick, Scotland to Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland 6Oct43.
Seattle, WA 2Jun44. Wright Field, Dayton, OH 27Jun44.
Eglin Field, Valparaiso, FL 9Dec44.
Willow Run Airport, Ypsilanti, MI 22Jun45.
Designated RB-17F.
Ferrying Division, Air Transport Command, Cincinnati, OH 18Sep45.
4124th Base Unit (Air Technical Service Command), Altus Field, OK.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 29Oct45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Esperado Mining Company, Altus, OK 25Jun47; scrapped.
Named SONS OF FURY - artwork of a skeleton and ghostly titling painted by Sgt Lee Kessler..
24494 (MSN 3179) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 17Jul42.
San Antonio Air Depot, Duncan Field, San Antonio, TX 21Jul42.
367th Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 16Aug42.
Damaged while parked by North American B-25 Mitchell 41-12823 taking off with
mechanical failure from Westover Field 31Aug42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to UK 5/6Sep42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
367th Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 8Sep42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 13Oct42.
Severely battle damaged on a low-level mission to the submarine base at Saint-Nazaire, France 9Nov42
(1KIA:9RMC).
Over the target the bombardier was killed instantly by flak while leaning over his bombsight.
On return, crash landed, overshot the runway, over a dirt bank and into a field at RAF Portreath, Cornwall.
The navigator was catapulted through the Plexiglas nose but survived.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom).
Condemned salvage 12Nov42. SOC 4Nov44
24495 (MSN 3180) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 17Jul42.
San Antonio Air Depot, Duncan Field, San Antonio, TX 21Jul42.
367th Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 17Aug42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to UK 5/6Sep42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
367th Bomb Squadron [GY*G], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 8Sep42.
{first combat mission 9Oct42}.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 13Oct42.
Severely battle damaged on a low-level mission to the submarine base at Saint-Nazaire, France 9Nov42.
On return, force landed at RAF Portreath, Cornwall.
Failed to return from a mission to the Luftwaffe air depot at Romilly-sur-Seine, France 20Dec42
(1KIA:1EVD:8POW).
Enemy fighters attacked most of the way from entering France until returning to the English Channel.
Attacked by enemy fighters which were coming in head on to the nose of the plane; at that time
it didn't have.50 cal guns so couldn't get them.
They damaged the number three engine and came under and killed the ball turret gunner.
The pilot ordered the crew to bail out because the plane was losing altitude.
They bailed out from 20,000ft near Vilcroy, France.
The bomber crashed at Creil, France.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 12Dec42. SOC 4Nov44.
Named ROSE O' DAY
24496 (MSN 3181) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 21Jul42.
San Antonio Air Depot, Duncan Field, San Antonio, TX 24Jul42.
423rd Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 15Aug42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to UK 5/6Sep42.
VIII Bomber Command, England. 423rd Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111),
Bedfordshire 8Sep42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 20Oct42.
Severely battle damaged on a low-level mission to the submarine base at Saint-Nazaire, France 9Nov42.
On return, force landed at RAF Portreath, Cornwall.
Sustained battle damage on a mission to the submarine yards at Saint-Nazaire, France 17Nov42
(1KIA:3WIA:6RMC).
The aircraft received severe damage from German Fw 190 fighters, killing the engineer/top turret
gunner and wounding three others.
Cannon shells had ripped large areas of fabric off the elevators making the plane difficult to control.
More shells struck the left and right wings creating large holes and another burst in the radio room
setting the insulation alight.
The no.2 engine was damaged and vibrating badly and the no.3 engine was leaking fuel.
Members of the crew managed to extinguish the radio room fire.
The rudder control cables had been cut but the pilot managed to fly the damaged aircraft back to England,
making a forced landing at RAF Exeter, Devon.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom).
Condemned salvage 17Nov42.
SOC 4Nov44.
Named CHENNAULT'S PAPPY - artwork of shark’s teeth under nose.
The name was the creation of a pilot who thought that the B-17 was a suitable father for the Curtiss
P-40 Warhawks flown by Chennault’s Flying Tigers
24497 (MSN 3182) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 21Jul42.
San Antonio Air Depot, Duncan Field, San Antonio, TX 24Jul42.
7th Ferrying Squadron, 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT.
Substantially damaged in an accident taxying at Berry Field, Nashville, TN 15Aug42.
322nd Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 2Sep42.
2nd Ferrying Group, Air Transport Command, New Castle Field, Wilmington, DE 9Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 30Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 2Dec42.
VIII Bomber Command, England. 322nd Bomb Squadron [LG*P], 91st Bomb Group,
Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire Dec42.
Battle damaged by flak on a mission to the Klöckner Flugmototenbau aero engine factory
at Hamburg, Germany 25Jul43.
Flak was experienced from Cuxhaven to the target.
At the target flak was intense and accurate.
Battle damaged during a mission to the Kriegsmarinewerft Kiel shipyard at Kiel, Germany 29Jul43.
Flak was intense and accurate at the target; meagre but accurate from Flensburg; meagre and
inaccurate from South Sylt and Amrum islands.
There was large enemy fighter opposition but did not press home their attacks.
Damaged by enemy fighters and flak.
Battle damaged on a mission to the Gerhard Fieseler Werke (GFW) aircraft works at
Waldau, Kassel, Germany 30Jul43.
At the target flak was accurate and intense; there was large enemy fighter opposition
en route to and returning from target.
Accident on a mission to the synthetic oil refinery at Gelsenkirchen, Germany 12Aug43 (1INJ:9RMC).
En route to the target, the ball turret gunner was seriously injured as result of part of an engine
supercharger breaking loose and striking him in the head.
No.2 and no.4 superchargers failed to function properly so the pilot aborted the mission.
Battle damaged on a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 17Aug43.
The formation was subject to continuous fighter attacks from the time it crossed over the enemy coast.
In addition, the bombers were hit by flak as they passed over anti-aircraft defence zones.
After the target, and before the formation could rendezvous with a P-47 Thunderbolt escort home,
the squadron was subjected to further and continuous fighter attacks for about ninety minutes.
Battle damaged during a mission to the air depot at Villacoublay, Paris, France 24Aug43.
Struck by flak and damaged in an attack by enemy fighters.
Failed to return from a mission to industrial targets at Stuttgart, Germany 6Sep43 (10RMC).
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 started to have red lights showing on his fuel tanks as the plane crossed occupied France.
He put the bomber into a long, slow glide from high altitude and did not let down from the
designated altitude, thus violating the flight plan of the mission.
The entire 91st Bomb Group adopted this policy in order to get as far home as possible before
ditching. The crew threw everything overboard so they could lighten the load, such as flak jackets
and.50 cal guns. The bombardier threw the bomb site into the English Channel trying to gain a few more yards.
The plane struck the sea a mile or so off the coast of Bexhill on Sea, West Sussex.
The pilot put the B-17 down in the swell and the entire crew clambered into the dinghies.
One inflated and one did not, only partially filling with air.
The five members aboard the second dinghy were in a real plight, with the tail gunner just
out of the hospital the previous day suffering from hypothermia.
They put him aboard the dinghy while the other four guys held onto the side, treading water.
The dinghy that popped out onto the other wing, fully inflated, tried to battle towards them to help
but the waves were too strong and the cold September waters in the English Channel soon
began to take their toll on the ailing crew.
The British Air-Sea Rescue were so busy that day attending to the crews that ditched further
out to sea that no help came to this crew, who were relatively close to the shore line.
Then, above the crest of a wave, came two men in a row boat.
Two fishermen who had seen the bomber ditch had rowed out from Bexhill to rescue the crew.
The B-17 had sunk by now but the crew were on their way to dry land.
Someone from the town brought the crew a bottle of scotch that they drunk right on the beach.
The B-17 washed up onto shore over the next day or so with the strong currents and tides that
are found in that area of the Channel. It was then winched onto the beach, cut up on the spot,
and taken away for scrap. {26 missions}. Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom).
Condemned 6Sep43. SOC 11Apr46. Possibly MIZPAH II painted on one side and FRISCO JENNIE the other.
24498 (MSN 3183) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 21Jul42.
Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 24Jul42.
369th Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 23Aug42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 10Sep42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
369th Bomb Squadron [WW*L], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 11Sep42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 17Sep42.
Battle damaged on a mission to the Luftwaffe air depot at Romilly-sur-Seine, France 20Dec42
(1KIA:3WIA:6RMC).
Enemy fighters attacked most of the way from entering France until returning to the English Channel.
Attacks damaged the upper gun turret, wings, propellers and the nose.
The bombardier was killed and three other airmen wounded.
The plane returned to base and landed without brakes.
Failed to return from a mission to the Chemin de fer du Nord workshops at Hellemmes, Lille, France 13Jan43 (
6KIA:4POW). Mid-air collision with B-17F 41-24471 just north of the target at Lille, France.
Crashed at Marcq-en-Barœul, near Lille. Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom).
Condemned 13Jan43. SOC 4Nov44
24499 (MSN 3184) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 21Jul42.
Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 24Jul42.
2nd Ferrying Group, Air Transport Command, New Castle Field, Wilmington, DE 28Aug42.
322nd Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 6Sep42 NaMed "Fury"
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) 29Sep42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via Gander, Newfoundland 29Sep42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 30Sep/1Oct42. VIII Bomber Command, England.
322nd Bomb Squadron [LG*P], 91st Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 2Oct42.
Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 14Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 26Oct42. {first combat mission 7Nov42}.
Accident returning from a mission to the submarine base at La Pallice, La Rochelle, France 18Nov42 (11RMC).
During the mission bombs could not be released so were jettisoned in an open field.
On return, ten miles southwest of Exeter, Devon, the aircraft collided with B-17F 41-24553 and
crash landed later at RAF Turweston, Brackley, Buckinghamshire. {3 missions}.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned salvage 26Nov42. SOC 4Nov44.
24500 (MSN 3185) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 21Jul42.
Assigned to Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 24Jul42; not delivered.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT.
Severely damaged in an accident when ground looped landing at Billings Municipal Airport, MT 24Jul42.
Ogden Air Depot, Hill Field, Ogden, UT 9Aug42.
Scott Field, Belleville, IL 15Oct42.
Bowman Field, Louisville, KY 17Oct42.
2nd Ferrying Group, Air Transport Command, New Castle Field, Wilmington, DE 27Oct42.
North Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 25Nov42.
Rome Air Depot, Rome, NY 1Jan43.
North Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 13Feb43.
Took part in a combat mission to bomb the German communications centre and weather station
at Sabine Island, Greenland 25May43.
Assigned to UGLY (Great Britain) 27May43.
Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 27May43.
VIII Bomber Command, England. 535th Bomb Squadron [MS*Y], 381st Bomb Group,
Ridgewell (Station 167), Essex 27May43. Named ANNIE FREEZE.
11th Combat Crew Replacement Unit, 1st Combat Crew Replacement Group,
Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire 18Jul43.
Ninth Air Force. United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) Aug45.
Landed at Langford Lodge, Northern Ireland and ran off the runway into the mud.
Lockheed Overseas Corporation, 403rd Air Depot, Base Air Depot No.3, Langford Lodge (Station 597),
County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
Assigned to GLUE (United States Air Forces in Europe - USAFE).
Condemned salvage 29Nov45.
SOC 28Jan46.
Removed from condemned 11Feb46.
Modified as cargo/transport aircraft.
10th Headquarters and Base Service Squadron, USAFE, Oberpfaffenhofen AB, Munich, Germany.
Salvaged 24Feb48. Reclaim complete, Germany 7Jan49. Named "Annie Freeze"
24501 (MSN 3186) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 21Jul42.
Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 26Jul42.
368th Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 28Aug42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 11/12Sep42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
368th Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 13Sep42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 2Oct42.
Severely battle damaged on a low-level mission to the submarine base at Saint-Nazaire, France 9Nov42.
On return, force landed at RAF Portreath, Cornwall.
Failed to return from a mission to a torpedo dump at Saint-Nazaire, France 3Jan43 (4KIA:6POW).
West of Nantes, France, the anti-aircraft fire was strong; south of the Loire the fire of the
battery of Château Bougon, Couffé, was very heavy, and a strong defence was encountered
in the region of Paimboeuf.
Strong head winds slowed the advance of the formation during the last part of the flight.
Flak was intense and precise above the objective.
German fighters quickly intercepted the formation, attacking first the bombers damaged by
anti-aircraft fire. The bomber had two engines shot out by flak over the target.
The pilot flew the severely damaged aircraft out to sea but conditions worsened as
another engine quit.
He then turned back to France and with German fighters attacking the aircraft, gave the bailout signal.
The navigator and bombardier fell to their deaths in the sea.
Two gunners were killed by gunfire and parachute failure.
The pilot chose the runway of a German fighter airfield near the coast at Le Croisic, southwest
of Guarande, to ensure early capture of his remaining wounded crew.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 3Jan43. SOC 4Nov44
24502 (MSN 3187) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 21Jul42.
Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 24Jul42.
2nd Ferrying Group, Air Transport Command, New Castle Field, Wilmington, DE 27Aug42.
368th Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 27Aug42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 11/12Sep42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
368th Bomb Squadron [BO*B], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 13Sep42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 26Sep42.
{first combat mission 9Oct42}.
Severely battle damaged on a low-level mission to the submarine base at Saint-Nazaire, France 9Nov42.
On return, force landed at RAF Portreath, Cornwall. Sustained battle damage on a mission
to the Fieseler aircraft factory at Kassel, Germany 28Jul43.
The bomber crash landed on return at Sudbourne, Suffolk (10RMC). Salvaged.
Base Air Depot No.1, Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 28Jul43. SOC 11Apr46
24503 (MSN 3188) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 21Jul42.
Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 24Jul42.
324th Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 30Aug42.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) 26Sep42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 29/30Sep42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
324th Bomb Squadron [DF*E], 91st Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire.
Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 14Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 26Oct42.
{first combat mission 8Nov42}.
Failed to return from a mission to the submarine base at Saint-Nazaire, France 23Nov42 (11MIA).
The Group managed to assemble a force of ten aircraft from all four squadrons
but five of them had to abort because of mechanical and other problems;
the remaining five missed the rendezvous with the other bomb groups.
On a direct route to Saint-Nazaire over land instead of by sea, the five plane
formation immediately encountered flak as it crossed the French coast.
The plane was attacked by twelve Fw 190 fighters and later an additional four Fw 190 fighters
joined in just before the I.P. Over the target, the bomber was hit in two engines and the ball turret,
dropped out of formation and turned towards the sea.
It was last observed down at 2,000ft and a life raft could be seen hanging from the tail.
The aircraft's last known location was roughly five hundred feet offshore and thirty miles
northwest of Saint-Nazaire. Presumed to have crashed in the Bay of Biscay. {3 missions}.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 23Nov42. SOC 4Nov44.
Named PANDORA'S BOX.
41-24504/24539 Boeing B-17F-20-BO Fortress
MSN 3189/3224. Boeing Model 299P. Defense Aid contract for the Royal Air Force as serial FH482/FH517.
Diverted to USAAF after the Japanese attacks in Hawaii and the Philippines
Production changes: Ball and socket gun mounts in Plexiglass nose deleted. Improved propeller governor
24504 MSN 3189) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 21Jul42.
Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 24Jul42.
2nd Ferrying Group, Air Transport Command, New Castle Field, Wilmington, DE 25Aug42.
324th Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 30Aug42.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) 26Sep42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 29/30Sep42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
324th Bomb Squadron [DF*D], 91st Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117),
Huntingdonshire. Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 14Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 26Oct42.
{first combat mission 8Nov42}.
Battle damaged on a diversionary mission to the Luftwaffe airfield at Drucat, Abbeville, France 8Nov42
(1WIA:9RMC). Damaged by flak, a gunner was wounded.
Severely battle damaged on a mission to the submarine yards at Pointe de Keroman, Lorient, France 23Jan43
(1KIA:4WIA:5RMC).
On return, force landed at RAF Little Horwood, Buckinghamshire.
Battle damaged on a mission to the submarine yards at Wilhelmshaven, Germany 22Mar43.
Flak over the target was heavy and accurate.
As the bombers returned home out over the North Sea near Heligoland Island,
Luftwaffe fighter command experimented with a new tactic to disrupt American bomber formations,
aerial bombing. Two engines were disabled and the plane was escorted home by another bomber.
Battle damaged on a mission to the port area at Emden, Germany 27Sep43 (1WIA:9RMC).
An officer was wounded by fragments of a 20mm cannon shell.
Battle damaged on a mission to industrial areas at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 4Oct43 (1KIA:9RMC).
The tail gunner was fatally injured during an attack by enemy fighters.
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. {42 missions}.
Base Air Depot No.1, Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire 15Mar44.
Returned to US for War Bond tour.
En route from French Morocco to Brazil, power failure caused a force landing two miles west of Kraffy, Côte d'Ivoire 3May44.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 3May44. SOC 10May44.
Named TAURUS / THE SAD SACK - painted by Tony Starcer.
24505 (MSN 3190) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 22Jul42.
Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 26Jul42.
324th Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 30Aug42.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) 26Sep42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 29/30Sep42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
324th Bomb Squadron [DF*E], 91st Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire.
Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 14Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 26Oct42.
{first combat mission 8Nov42}.
Battle damaged on a low-level mission to the submarine base at Saint-Nazaire, France 9Nov42
(2WIA:8RMC).
Struck by a 40mm shell just aft of the ball turret, wounding both waist gunners.
With the controls barely working and the fuselage threatening to break apart,
the pilot managed to return and force landed at RAF Exeter, Devon.
Battle damaged on a mission to the submarine base at Saint-Nazaire, France 23Nov42
(3WIA:7RMC).
The Group managed to assemble a force of ten aircraft from all four squadrons but
five of them had to abort because of mechanical and other problems;
the remaining five missed the rendezvous with the other bomb groups.
On a direct route to Saint-Nazaire over land instead of by sea, the five plane formation
immediately encountered flak as it crossed the French coast.
Three Fw 190 fighters attacked and damaged the bomber, followed by a further flight of three.
The rudder control lever and elevator trim tabs were shot away. Controls to the right elevator
were damaged.
A propeller was damaged and there were cannon holes all over the wings and fuselage.
A 20mm cannon shell exploded in the cockpit, wounding both pilots and the radio operator.
The radio receiver and compass were damaged.
Hydraulic oil obscured the vision from the ball turret and there were more than two hundred holes
in the tail gunner’s compartment.
After the bomber was levelled off above the English Channel, the bombardier relieved the
wounded pilot and help fly it back to England.
With a badly wounded tail gunner on board, the pilot headed for a diversion airfield at RAF Chivenor, Devon.
Arriving after dark and below a 200ft cloud base, the tail wheel would not lower and the rudder
controls wouldn’t respond. The plane was landed on the grass alongside the runway.
Repaired and returned to Bassingbourn Dec42.
The plane remained in a hangar, constantly raided for spares, before being restored to combat flying condition.
324th Bomb Squadron [DF*C].
Battle damaged during a mission to bomb a submarine repair ship at Nantes, France 23Sep43.
Battle damaged on a mission to the industrial area of Emden, Germany 2Oct43 (1WIA:9RMC).
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.
Over the I.P. and the target, the formation encountered intense flak.
Accident during a mission to the industrial area at Wesel, Germany 7Nov43 (1KIA:9RMC);
a gunner died of anoxia.
Battle damaged during a mission to the port area at Bremen, Germany 16Dec43.
Another plane in formation dropped a 500lb bomb which went through the left wing causing a large
hole but the plane was able to return and landed safely at Bassingbourn.
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 Mérignac, Bordeaux, France 31Dec43.
The target was covered by smoke and cloud so the group diverted to the secondary target,
a Luftwaffe airfield at Châteaubernard, Cognac, France.
Air Force Service Command 15Mar44 as trainer.
Returned to US 14/19Jun44.
4136th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Technical Service Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 19Jun44.
Ferrying Division, Air Transport Command, Cincinnati, OH Nov44.
Arledge Field, Stamford, TX 10Nov44.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Arledge Field, Stamford, TX for storage 22Nov44.
Named QUITCHURBITCHIN
24506 ((MSN 3191) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 22Jul42.
Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 26Jul42.
2nd Ferrying Group, Air Transport Command, New Castle Field, Wilmington, DE 27Aug42.
324th Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Sep42.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) 26Sep42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 29/30Sep42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
324th Bomb Squadron [DF*G], 91st Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire.
Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 14Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 26Oct42.
{first combat mission 8Nov42}.
Failed to return from a mission to the submarine base at Saint-Nazaire, France 23Nov42 (5KIA:5RMC).
The Group managed to assemble a force of ten aircraft from all four squadrons but five of them had
to abort because of mechanical and other problems; the remaining five missed the rendezvous
with the other bomb groups.
On a direct route to Saint-Nazaire over land instead of by sea, the five plane formation
immediately encountered flak as it crossed the French coast.
The Group was unable to bomb because of 10/10 cloud cover and headed back to Bassingbourn.
This aircraft was attacked three different times by enemy aircraft, but managed to return to England.
However the airfield was fogged in, so the pilot attempted a landing at Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire.
The bomber struck a pylon and crashed in a field near the Black Boy public house, Leavesden, Hertfordshire.
Two of the crew were killed outright; three others died of their injuries later.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned salvaged 28Nov42. SOC 4Nov44.
Named THE SCHIFTLESS SKONK – artwork of the head of Hitler on the body of a skunk
24507 (MSN 3192Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 22Jul42.
Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 26Jul42.
368th Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 25Aug42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 11/12Sep42. VIII Bomber Command, England.
368th Bomb Squadron [BO*G], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 13Sep42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 17Sep42.
{first combat mission 9Oct42}.
Severely battle damaged on a mission to the submarine base at La Pallice, La Rochelle, France 18Nov42
(1KIA:3WIA:6RMC). Struck by flak, the co-pilot was mortally wounded but continued to assist the pilot.
Two engine superchargers had failed before going into the target.
On return force landed at RAF Exeter, Devon.
Standard Beam Approach trainer 11Apr43.
Air Force Service Command 16Apr43.
Regained by Group 29Jun43.
4th Strategic Air Depot, Hitcham (Station 470), Suffolk 9Aug43.
Regained by Group 10Aug43.
Seriously battle damaged by flak on a mission to the synthetic oil refinery at Gelsenkirchen, Germany 12Aug43.
Because of solid clouds, the group diverted and bombed the synthetic oil refinery at Recklinghausen, Germany.
Damage to the fuselage, elevator trim tab cables, no.3 engine and no.2 propeller.
VIII Air Service Command 12Aug43.
546th Bomb Squadron [BK*B], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 23Aug43.
{first combat mission 27Aug43}.
Failed to return from a mission to the Bosch magneto factory at Stuttgart, Germany 6Sep43
(1KIA:6POW:3EVD).
From the Initial Point until leaving the target area, there was a complete undercast except for
small sparse patches of farm land.
This group followed the lead group 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.
No.1 engine was not running smoothly but the plane stayed in formation while looking for a target.
After that no.3 engine stopped with fuel exhaustion; the propeller was initially feathered then a
restart was attempted but the propeller oversped.
The supercharger on no.4 engine failed and the plane dropped back from the formation.
By the time the bomber had reached the Paris area, enemy fighters attacked and pushed the
plane towards a flak area severely damaging the bomber and set it on fire from the bomb bay to the cockpit.
Rapidly losing height, most of the crew bailed out over occupied France before the bomber
crashed on Étrépagny airfield, seven miles northwest of Gisors, France. {2 missions}. MACR 772
Condemned 6Sep43. SOC 11Nov43. Named YANKEE RAIDER - artwork painted by Sgt Lee Kessler
24508 (MSN 3193) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 22Jul42.
San Antonio Air Depot, Duncan Field, San Antonio, TX 24Jul42.
423rd Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 15Aug42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 5Sep42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to UK 5/6Sep42.
VIII Bomber Command, England. 423rd Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group,
Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 8Sep42.
{first combat mission 9Oct42}.
Battle damaged on a mission to the Compagnie de Fives steel works at Lille, France 9Oct42.
Attacked by Fw 190 fighters and later found with 127 machine gun holes in the plane.
While flying in a two-plane low level practice formation mission,
the aircraft hit trees and force landed at RAF Graveley, five miles south of Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire 27Oct42.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned salvage 5Nov42. SOC 4Nov44
24509 Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 22Jul42.
San Antonio Air Depot, Duncan Field, San Antonio, TX 26Jul42.
423rd Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 15Aug42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to UK 5/6Sep42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
423rd Bomb Squadron [RD*G], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 8Sep42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 27Sep42.
{first combat mission 9Oct42}.
Failed to return from a low-level mission to the submarine base at Saint-Nazaire, France 9Nov42
(4KIA:6POW).
Between the I.P. and the target, struck by flak in no.3 engine which caused an uncontrollable fire.
The crew was forced to bail out and the aircraft crashed into the Bay of Biscay 8km northwest of Saint-Nazaire.
MACR 16010. Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 9Nov42. SOC 4Nov44.
.Named MISS SWOOSE.
24510 (MSN 3195) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 22Jul42.
San Antonio Air Depot, Duncan Field, San Antonio, TX 26Jul42.
367th Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 16Aug42.
Named *Snoozy II*. Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to UK 5/6Sep42.
VIII Bomber Command, England. 367th Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111),
Bedfordshire 8Sep42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 27Sep42.
{first combat mission 9Oct42}.
Failed to return from a mission to the Compagnie de Fives steel works at Lille, France 9Oct42
(6KIA:2EVD:1POW).
The plane bombed the secondary target of the Luftwaffe airfield at Courtrai, Belgium.
Struck by flak approaching the target, engine no.3 was hit and set on fire.
The co-pilot managed to extinguish the fire as the plane went over the target when four bombs
hung up preventing the closing of the bomb bay doors.
With only three engines operating, the formation made a 360 degree turn over enemy territory,
encouraging enemy fighters to attack.
The bomber started to lag behind the formation and tried to reach the English coast as it was being
attacked by four Fw 190s.
In an attack 20mm cannon shells ripped into the cockpit as the pilots lost control sending the
plane into a flat spin. Some of the crew bailed out before it crashed near the village of Néchin,
in the hamlet of Pré-Tasson, near the railway line from Tournai to Mouscron, Belgium. MACR 6706
Claimed by Hauptmann Josef Priller of III/JG 26 flying a Fw 190. {1 missions}.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 9oct42. SOC 4Nov44
24511 (MSN 3196) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 22Jul42.
San Antonio Air Depot, Duncan Field, San Antonio, TX 26Jul42.
423rd Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 15Aug42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to UK 5/6Sep42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
423rd Bomb Squadron [RD*W], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111),
Bedfordshire 8Sep42. {first combat mission 9Oct42}.
Damaged after a mission to the Compagnie de Fives steel works at Lille, France 9Oct42.
The plane landed without a tail wheel and became a hangar queen for a while.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 13Oct42.
May have been named GRIM REAPER [Grim Reaper was the nickname for the 423BS].
322nd Bomb Squadron [LG*W], 91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire Mar43.
Battle damaged on a mission to the submarine yards at Wilhelmshaven, Germany 22Mar43;
the number four propeller was shot off the engine.
Accident taxying at Bassingbourn 16Apr43.
Battle damaged on a mission to the Deutsche Werke Kiel AG shipyard at Kiel, Germany 19May43.
Flak over the target was moderate and accurate, striking and damaging the plane.
Battle damaged by flak on a mission to the Klöckner Flugmototenbau aero engine factory at
Hamburg, Germany 25Jul43.
Flak was experienced from Cuxhaven to the target.
At the target flak was intense and accurate.
Battle damaged on a mission to the Luftwaffe airfield at Vlissingen, Netherlands 15Aug43.
Moderate, accurate flak was experienced over target area.
Battle damaged on a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 17Aug43 (1WIA:9RMC).
The formation was subject to continuous fighter attacks from the time it crossed over the enemy coast.
In addition, the bombers were hit by flak as they passed over anti-aircraft defence zones.
After the target, and before the formation could rendezvous with a P-47 Thunderbolt escort home,
the squadron was subjected to further and continuous fighter attacks for about ninety minutes:
the left waist gunner was wounded.
Battle damaged during a mission to the air depot at Villacoublay, Paris, France 24Aug43.
Struck by flak and damaged in an attack by enemy fighters.
Accident on a tactical mission to the Luftwaffe airfield at Glisy, Amiens, France 31Aug43.
Soon after assembly had been completed and the formation left the English coast high over
Sussex, the plane was damaged and forced out of formation by the explosion from a
mid-air collision above between 41-24523 and 42-29816.
2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little Staughton (Station 127), Bedfordshire 4Sep43.
Regained by Group 7Sep43.
Battle damaged on a mission to bomb a submarine supply ship in the Loire River at Nantes, France 16Sep43.
There was moderate and accurate flak from Rennes but at Nantes the flak was moderate and inaccurate.
A large force of enemy fighters was encountered.
Flak damaged the no.2 engine oil pump, nose, right wing and no.3 engine.
Battle damaged on a mission to the industrial area of Emden, Germany 2Oct43.
Damaged by a 20mm cannon shell in the tail assembly.
Battle damaged on a mission to the Arado Flugzeugwerke aircraft factory, Anklam, Prussia 9Oct43
(1WIA:9RMC).
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.
The radio operator was wounded by flak shrapnel.
The plane was struck by 20mm cannon shells and flak, damaging the rudder, wings and horizontal stabiliser.
Failed to return from a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical works at Leverkusen, Germany 1Dec43 (1KIA:9POW).
Clouds obscured the target so the formation diverted to the secondary target,
the Rudolf Rautenbach aero engine casting foundry at Solingen, Germany.
The formation received some moderate flak over the Netherlands but it grew more intense as they
approached the Ruhr Valley. The fighter escort reached the limit of their range and had to head for home.
As soon as they left Luftwaffe came in to attack.
On their first pass the fighters put a 20mm cannon shell into the number three engine and on their next pass
they apparently hit the batteries in the wing root because the plane lost all electrical power.
There was some trouble feathering the propeller.
With number three propeller wind milling the plane couldn’t keep up with the formation.
Without electrical power the top turret and ball turret were useless.
Fortunately, about this time a new fighter escort arrived and two P-47 Thunderbolts
took up a position, protecting the bomber from further attacks by the Luftwaffe.
The pilot got the propeller on number three engine feathered and jettisoned the bombs
while descending to reach the protection of cloud cover below.
The plane was receiving radar directed flak. An 88mm shell went right up through the
cockpit behind the pilot’s seat and out of the roof right next to the top turret.
The number two engine was hit and the oil tank behind it caught on fire.
That’s when the pilot ordered the crew to bail out. Nine of the crew managed to bail out
before the bomber crashed on the bank of the River Rhine between Düsseldorf and Duisburg,
Germany. {22+ missions}. MACR 1323. Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom).
Condemned 1Dec43. SOC 4Feb44. Named WHEEL 'N DEAL
24512 (MSN 3197) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 22Jul42.
Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 26Jul42.
2nd Ferrying Group, Air Transport Command, New Castle Field, Wilmington, DE 29Aug42.
322nd Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 1Sep42.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) 29Sep42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via Gander, Newfoundland 29Sep42;
Gander to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 30Sep/1Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
322nd Bomb Squadron [LG*N], 91st Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 2Oct42.
Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 14Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 26Oct42.
Battle damaged on a mission to the Luftwaffe air depot at Romilly-sur-Seine, France 20Dec42.
Enemy fighters attacked most of the way from entering France until returning to the English Channel.
The no.3 engine caught fire, losing no.3 propeller when landing back at Bassingbourn.
Damaged by an accidental discharge of a gun at Bassingbourn 17Jan43.
A squadron of P-39 Airacobra fighter planes, en route to North Africa,
landed at Bassingbourn for several days of rest for the pilots, and maintenance for their aircraft.
One of those fighters, during pre-flight checkout, accidentally put a couple of 0.30 calibre rounds
through the bomber which had been undergoing repairs since the Romilly sur Seine mission.
Failed to return from a mission to the railway marshalling yards at Hamm, Germany 4Mar43
(5MIA:2KIA:3POW).
The weather was bad from takeoff through to Germany preventing four other groups
rendezvousing with the 91st Bomb Group which proceeded alone to the target.
Sixteen planes faced the toughest fighter defence of the war, the heaviest flak areas,
and on the deepest penetration yet into Germany.
The reception was immediate with German fighters determined to stop the attack;
the return flight home was no easier, flying into the wind of a strong jet stream.
Attacked by enemy aircraft which set no.2 engine ablaze.
The bomber ditched in the Waddenzee, 4km southeast from Oudenschild, Texel,
West Frisian Islands, Netherlands. {7+ missions}. MACR 3721
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 4Mar43. SOC 1Jun44.
Named ROSE O'DAY.
24513 (MSN 3198) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 24Jul42.
Lowry Modification Center, Lowry Field, Denver, CO 29Jul42.
Sacramento Air Depot, McClellan Field, CA 31Aug42.
West Coast Wing, Air Transport Command, Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA 30Aug42;
preparation for overseas service 30Aug42.
Ferried on the South Pacific route via Hickam Field, Hawaii then across the Pacific to Australia.
Assigned to SUMAC (Fifth Air Force, Australia) 20Sep42.
403rd Bomb Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group, Torrens Creek, QLD 20Sep42.
Iron Range, Lockhart, QLD 17Oct42. Milne Bay, New Guinea 23Nov42.
Mareeba, QLD 21Jan43. Jackson Field (7 Mile Drome), Port Moresby, New Guinea 11May43.
Assigned to LEFT (Fifth Air Force, Brisbane, Australia). Condemned 31Oct44
24514 (MSN 3199) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 23Jul42.
Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 26Jul42.
368th Bomb Squadron,
306th Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 24Aug42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 11/12Sep42.
VIII Bomber Command, England. 368th Bomb Squadron [BO*R],
306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 13Sep42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 23Sep42.
{first combat mission 9Oct42}.
Failed to return from a mission to the railway marshalling yards at Rennes, France 8Mar43
(1KIA:8POW:1EVD).
En route to France it was discovered that no.2 and 3 engines were not producing enough power,
making it difficult to stay in position, which happened to be the last plane in the last group of
four groups. Crossing the French coast, after the fighter escort returned home, it was
attacked from the rear by a Fw 190 fighter. 20mm cannon shells struck both wings,
severing control cables and another hit the top turret.
Difficult to keep the wings level, some of the crew bailed out.
The pilots made an attempt to turn the bomber back to England but were kept under attack
by the Fw 190. With no.3 engine now on fire, the remaining crew bailed out except the
pilot who was killed in the attack. Crashed at Colline, Servon-sur-Vilaine, east of Rennes, France.
MACR 6088. Condemned 8Mar43.
24515 MSN 3200) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 23Jul42.
Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 26Jul42.
324th Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 2Sep42.
Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) 26Sep42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 29/30Sep42. VIII Bomber Command, England. 324th Bomb Squadron [DF*H],
91st Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire. Bassingbourn (Station 121),
Cambridgeshire 14Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 26Oct42.
{first combat mission 7Nov42}. Battle damaged on a mission to the torpedo store of the
submarine base at Saint-Nazaire, France 3Jan43 (1KIA:1WIA:8RMC).
West of Nantes, France, the anti-aircraft fire was strong; south of the Loire the fire of the
battery of Château Bougon, Couffé, was very heavy, and a strong defence was encountered
in the region of Paimboeuf.
Strong head winds slowed the advance of the formation during the last part of the flight.
Flak was intense and precise above the objective.
German fighters quickly intercepted the formation, attacking first the bombers damaged by
anti-aircraft fire. Received a field modification Feb43 to counter the German tactic of
head on attacks; the bomb sight was removed, a twin 0.50caliber gun was installed and
armoured plate to protect the gunner.
Failed to return from a mission to the submarine yards at Wilhelmshaven, Germany 21May43 (10MIA).
As the bomber reached the target, the crew could see enemy aircraft in the area but standing off to the side.
When they reached the Initial Point of the bomb run, the enemy fighters attacked head on with
six to eight enemy fighter line abreast.
The Germans didn’t fire flak but intended to scatter the Group with its fighters before bomb release.
With severe battle damage the pilot started across the north Sea to try to reach England but
crashed and is missing. {25+ missions}. MACR 3458. Condemned 21May43. SOC 1Jun44.
Completed twenty-five combat missions two weeks before Memphis Belle but Hollywood overruled.
Named MARIE JANE / JERSEY BOUNCE (a 1942 song)
24516 (MSN 3201) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 23Jul42.
Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 26Jul42.
368th Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group, Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 24Aug42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 11/12Sep42.
About one hour after departing Gander, an engine failed and the propeller was feathered.
The pilot elected to continue although, flying on three engines, the increased power
would increase fuel consumption.
Midway across the North Atlantic a second engine failed and the propeller feathered,
increasing the load on the remaining two engines.
With fuel exhaustion, the pilot ditched in Lough Foyle off Magilligan Point, Londonderry,
Northern Ireland when a third engine started to overheat.
The nine crew and two passengers were rescued.
It was one of the remarkable World War II stories of survival as all of the men were saved thanks,
in part, to the piloting skills of Captain Curtis Melton and a brave local teenager,
Elisabeth Ferguson (nee Benson) OBE. Seeing the bomber crash into the sea near her home in the
fishing village of Greencastle, County Donegal, Eire, the local Presbyterian minister’s daughter
rowed out in her small boat to the stricken men.
She managed to help Melton and several of his men aboard while the others also managed
to get to safety wearing life jackets and using the plane's inflatable dinghies.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned inventory 31Oct44. SOC 10Dec44.
Named MELTON POT. Named because of the mix of nationalities of its crew and its captain's
name, Curtis Melton. The wreck of the ‘Melton Pot' was discovered almost intact by Inishowen
Sub Aqua Club in August 2001. A stash of 120 Tommy Dorsey records by the American trombonist
and band leader as well as a record player were among the items yet to be salvaged..
24517 (MSN 3202) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 26Jul42.
Douglas Aircraft Company, Modification Center #16, Tulsa Municipal Airport, OK 29Jul42.
427th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group, Kellogg Field, Battle Creek, MI 23Sep42.
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 5Oct42. Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 25Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 31Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England. 427th Bomb Squadron [GN*O],
303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire Nov42.
Failed to return from a mission to the torpedo storage area at Saint-Nazaire, France 3Jan43 (10MIA).
West of Nantes, France, the anti-aircraft fire was strong; south of the Loire the fire of
the battery of Château Bougon, Couffé, was very heavy, and a strong defence was encountered
in the region of Paimboeuf. Strong head winds slowed the advance of the formation during the
last part of the flight. German fighters quickly intercepted the formation, attacking first
the bombers damaged by anti-aircraft fire. Shot down before reaching the target by German
fighters of III./JG 2. Crashed in the Loire estuary off Saint-Brevin-les-Pins, France. MACR 6141
Condemned 3Jan43. . Named KALI.
24518 (MSN 3203) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 23Jul42.
Lowry Modification Center, Lowry Field, Denver, CO 29Jul42.
Sacramento Air Depot, McClellan Field, CA 27Aug42.
West Coast Wing, Air Transport Command, Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA 31Aug42;
preparation for overseas service 31Aug42.
Assigned to SUMAC (Fifth Air Force, Australia) 9Sep42.
Ferried on the South Pacific route via Hickam Field, Hawaii then across the Pacific to Australia.
Fifth Air Force. 403rd Bomb Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group, Torrens Creek, QLD Sep42.
Iron Range, Lockhart, QLD 17Oct42.
Milne Bay, New Guinea 23Nov42. Mareeba, QLD 21Jan43.
63rd Bomb Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group, Jackson Field (7 Mile Drome), Port Moresby, New Guinea Feb43.
Force landed with fuel exhaustion on a beach at Hood Point, southeast of Port Moresby 19Feb43.
Enough fuel was flown in for the bomber to reach Jackson Field.
The aircraft took off from Jackson Field on a solo photographic reconnaissance mission
over Kavieng, New Ireland and Rabaul, New Britain 7May43 (3KIA:8POW).
Over Kavieng at an altitude of 16,500 feet the plane began a photographic run and
immediately encountered sporadic anti-aircraft fire.
Six Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighters from the 253 Kokutai took off from
Kavieng airfield to intercept it.
The Zeros made firing passes that hit the B-17's no.2 engine setting it on fire,
knocked off the ball turret door and badly wounded the gunner.
The pilot dove down to sea level to avoid being attacked from below and headed southward
until the no.2 engine failed. Repeated attacks by the Zeros disabled the no.1 engine.
During the attacks three crew members were hit by gunfire and killed; three others were severely wounded.
Damaged, the B-17 ditched onto a coral reef roughly fifty yards offshore Komalu on the southern coast of New Ireland.
During the crash, the nose compartment impacted the reef and broke the fuselage rear of the top turret.
The rest of the aircraft remained above water largely intact. No MACR issued
Assigned to LEFT (Fifth Air Force, Brisbane, Australia). Condemned 10May43.
SOC 1Apr44.
Named THE RECKLESS MOUNTAIN BOYS. Named from the folk song, ‘The Martins and the Coys’ in
reference to the feud between the Hatfields and McCoys. The nose art depicted a flintlock
musket and power horn; the tail had dark green ‘tiger stripes’. Japanese soldiers and native
police investigated the B-17 crash site 8May43. A tripod was mounted over the nose to extract the
Norden bombsight and other equipment. The Japanese dismantled the B-17; one engine was
shipped to Rabaul, and the fuselage of the plane was cut up and stacked on the beach under trees.
After the salvage, all that was left on the reef off Komalu were three of the engines.
Today there are just two propellers and a couple of lumps of rusted metal, partially encrusted in coral.
24519 (MSN 3204) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 23Jul42.
Material Command, Wright Field, Dayton, OH 29Jul42. Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 29Jul42.
Material Command, Wright Field, Dayton, OH 19Oct42.
Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 25Apr43.
Material Command, Wright Field, Dayton, OH 30Apr43.
Biggs Field, El Paso, TX 25May43.
Material Command, Wright Field, Dayton, OH 28May43.
Northwest Airlines, Inc., Modification Center #11, Dayton Municipal Airport, Vandalia, OH 15Aug43.
Used for glider testing. Glider Test, Materiel Command, Clinton County Field, Wilmington, OH.
Materiel Command, Lockheed Field, Burbank, CA 28Jul43.
Glider Test, Materiel Command, Clinton County Field, Wilmington, OH 29Jul43.
4143rd Base Unit (Glider Test, Air Technical Service Command), Clinton County Airport, Wilmington, OH 5Mar44.
4139th Base Unit (Mobile Air Technical Service Command) Birmingham Field, AL 8Mar44.
4143rd Base Unit (Glider Test, Air Technical Service Command), Clinton County Airport, Wilmington, OH 9Mar44.
Used to tow the General Airborne Transport XCG-16 at Oxnard, CA.
Towed the XCG-16 from Oxnard to Clinton County AAF, Wilmington, OH 1944, a distance of nearly 2,000 miles.
Designated RB-17F 25Aug44.
4120th Base Unit (Mobile Air Technical Service Command), Freeman Field, Seymour, IN 10Dec44.
4000th Base Unit (Flight Test Division, Air Materiel Command), Wright Field, Dayton, OH 21Apr45.
SOC 30Apr46. Named MISS BARBARA.
24520 (MSN 3205) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 24Jul42.
Lowry Modification Center, Lowry Field, Denver, CO 29Jul42.
Sacramento Air Depot, McClellan Field, CA 27Aug42.
West Coast Wing, Air Transport Command, Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA 31Aug42; preparation for overseas service.
Assigned to SUMAC (Fifth Air Force, Australia) 1Sep42.
Ferried on the South Pacific route via Hickam Field, Hawaii then across the Pacific to Australia.
Fifth Air Force. 63rd Bomb Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group, Mareeba, QLD 7Sep42. {first combat mission 14Sep42}.
403rd Bomb Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group, Torrens Creek, QLD 16Sep42.
Took off from Jackson Field (7 Mile Drome), Port Moresby, New Guinea in a storm
armed with 500 pound bombs on a mission to bomb a light cruiser reported off Buna, New Guinea 29Sep42.
Searching for two hours in the storm without results, the crew was notified the report was in error
and instead bombed the Japanese airfield at Buna.
The plane was fired on by anti-aircraft fire that put a hole in the right wing and two holes
in the left wing but returned safely. 63rd Bomb Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group, Mareeba, QLD Oct42.
Took off from Jackson Field (7 Mile Drome), Port Moresby, New Guinea armed with four 1,000 pound bombs
on a low-altitude mission to skip-bomb targets off Rabaul, New Britain 2Oct42.
Battle damaged by anti-aircraft fire but without injury to the crew.
Took off from Jackson Field on a search mission 18Dec42.
Over Astrolabe Bay the crew spotted a convoy of four destroyers, two transports and a light cruiser
off Madang, New Guinea.
Intercepted by five Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighters that hit the no.1 engine,
the pilot jettisoned the bomb load to lighten the damaged bomber and returned safely.
Damaged in a collision with B-17F 41-24357 while taxying at Mareeba 20Jan43.
63rd Bomb Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group, Jackson Field (7 Mile Drome), Port Moresby, New Guinea 23Jan43.
During the Battle of the Bismarck Sea the plane that took off from Jackson Field on a bombing mission
against Japanese shipping 4Mar43 (3WIA).
Finding no targets, but observing wreckage and lifeboats and rafts, the plane dove to low level
and strafed the lifeboats and barges for thirty minutes.
During the attack, the bomber was intercepted by two Japanese Nakajima Ki-43-I Oscar
fighters that made a frontal attack, shattering the nose Plexiglas and wounding the navigator
and bombardier with glass fragments; the pilot was also grazed by a bullet on his elbow.
The aircraft took off from Jackson Field on an armed reconnaissance mission to Madang and Saidor
on the northern coast of New Guinea 8May43 (10MIA).
Its last reported position was fifty miles north of Madang when the crew reported Japanese shipping.
The B-17 had been spotted by three Nakajima Ki-43-I Oscar fighters from the 11th Sentai, 1st Chutai
escorting the convoy and made at least two head on passes against the bomber that caused the engines
to smoke. Though damaged, the B-17 headed for some of the clouds and rain squalls in the area.
Unwilling to let the B-17 escape, one enemy aircraft commenced a head-on attack and the bomber
was intentionally rammed by Ki-43 Oscar pilot Tadao Oda who was killed in the ramming attack
with both aircraft bursting into flames and crashing into the sea.
Subsequent searches both at the time and after the war yielded no signs of the crew or plane. MACR 15689
Assigned to LEFT (Fifth Air Force, Brisbane, Australia). Condemned 11May43. SOC 10Oct46.
Named ’ SWEDE. Named in honor of the pilot who was of Swedish descent. The artwork had a pair of
boxing gloves hanging off the top edge of the first letter
24521 (MSN 3206) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 23Jul42.
Lowry Modification Center, Lowry Field, Denver, CO 29Jul42.
Sacramento Air Depot, McClellan Field, CA 30Aug42.
West Coast Wing, Air Transport Command, Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA 31Aug42; preparation for overseas service.
Assigned to SUMAC (Fifth Air Force, Australia).
Ferried on the South Pacific route via Hickam Field, Hawaii then across the Pacific to Australia.
Fifth Air Force. 63rd Bomb Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group, Mareeba, QLD, Australia 7Sep42.
Took off from Jackson Field (7 Mile Drome), Port Moresby, New Guinea armed with four 1,000 pound bombs
on a low-altitude mission to skip-bomb targets off Rabaul, New Britain 2Oct42.
Battle damaged by anti-aircraft fire but without injury to the crew. The aircraft took
off on a mission against Japanese destroyers in Huon Gulf, New Guinea 24Nov42 (3WIA).
Over the ships, the pilot performed a skip bombing attack from 200 feet with bombs
impacting off the stern of the destroyer Hayashio.
Anti-aircraft fire hit the tail gunner’s ammunition box on board the bomber and started
a fire in the tail section that was successfully extinguished.
On the second bomb run the B-17 was hit again and three crew were injured.
On the third run the left outboard engine was hit, the propeller did not feather
and controls were damaged.
The pilot made two more attacks from higher altitude and the right outboard engine failed
caused by a hit in the fuel system.
Out of bombs, the plane departed for home.
On the return flight the damaged left engine's propeller broke and spun off.
Losing altitude, the crew jettisoned all equipment possible and managed to
restart the right engine and climb over the Owen Stanley mountains back to Port Moresby.
Later that night, RAAF Beaufort crews reported a destroyer sinking.
During the B-17 attacks, the destroyer Hayashio was hit and later scuttled by the Japanese.
Jackson Field (7 Mile Drome), Port Moresby, New Guinea 23Jan43.
Field modified with an extra 0.50 calibre machine gun rigged into the nose to fire forward.
Took off from Jackson Field on a night mission to Simpson Harbor, Rabaul, New Britain 14/15Feb43.
Pulling out after the bomb run, it was caught by searchlights and experienced intense anti-aircraft fire.
A shell went through the no.3 engine supercharger and up through the nacelle, damaging oil lines and control cables.
Feathering the propeller, the pilot continued round for another bomb run.
Returning to base, the no.2 engine supercharger failed but managed to return safely to Jackson Field on two engines.
The aircraft took off from Jackson Field about midnight on a mission against a Japanese airfield at
Vunakanau near Rabaul, New Britain 10/11Jul43 (3WIA:7RMC).
During the flight, problems developed with the right wing's no.3 and no.4 engines but the bombs
were successfully dropped over the target. Returning, the bomber was caught in a violent storm,
with the two engines on the right wing malfunctioning, the pilots could not hold a straight course,
got lost and ran low on fuel. Since the co-pilot had previously ditched a B-17, the pilot handed the
controls over to him.
The B-17 ditched off Kakau and the Makau Mission near Boga Boga off Cape Vogel, New Guinea.
During the ditching, three of the crew were injured.
The entire crew escaped the aircraft, deployed their life rafts and were aided ashore by friendly
villagers who gave them food and shelter in their village.
The B-17 settled into 45m of water, off a coral reef, narrowly missing deeper water where it might
never have been found. The nose compartment was crushed from either the landing, or impacting
the bottom when it sank.
Named BLACK JACK / THE JOKER'S WILD. Because the serial number ended in 121’, the right side
of the nose had the nose art of two playing cards: Jack and Ace making 21 in blackjack.
Painted by Sgt Ernest ‘Ernie’ J. Vandal. The co-pilot was later allocated this aircraft.
He added to the nose art, adding ‘The Joker's Wild’ to the left side of the nose.
The wreck was discovered by scuba divers 27Dec86.
Nearly intact, the nose is torn and crumpled from impacting the sea floor nose first.
Aside from the two waist guns and radio transmitters, jettisoned prior to ditching, all other weapons and gear were still aboard
24522 (MSN 3207) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 23Jul42.
Lowry Modification Center, Lowry Field, Denver, CO 29Jul42.
Sacramento Air Depot, McClellan Field, CA 30Aug42.
West Coast Wing, Air Transport Command, Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA 31Aug42; preparation for overseas service.
Assigned to SUMAC (Fifth Air Force, Australia) 1Sep42.
Ferried on the South Pacific route via Hickam Field, Hawaii then across the Pacific to Australia.
Fifth Air Force. 403rd Bomb Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group, Torrens Creek, QLD, Australia 17Sep42.
Iron Range, QLD 17Oct42.
Destroyed while parked when Consolidated B-24D Liberator 41-23942 collided with this B-17
and another three parked B-24D bombers during takeoff at Iron Range 16Nov42.
Twelve B-24 Liberators of the 90th Bomb Group taxyed into their takeoff position just before
midnight 16Nov42. takeoff arrangements were disorderly due to confused briefing instructions,
some mechanical problems, and a lack of coordinated night time dispatch communications.
The dust blown up by the first B-24's taking off had obscured the dim airfield lights.
The eleventh B-24 in line, 41-23942, veered off the runway into three parked B-24 Liberators
and the B-17 Flying Fortress. Assigned to LEFT (Fifth Air Force, Brisbane, Australia).
Condemned inventory 31Oct44. SOC 9Jan45
24523 (MSN 3208) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 24Jul42.
Douglas Aircraft Company, Modification Center #16, Tulsa Municipal Airport, OK 29Jul42.
323rd Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 13Sep42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 11Oct42.
Frried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 15Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England. 323rd Bomb Squadron [OR*N],
91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 10Nov42.
Battle damaged during a mission to the submarine yards at Lorient, France 30Dec42 (3WIA:7RMC).
Over such an important target, the opposition was intense.
Heavy flak tore into the bombers and approximately thirty Fw 190 fighters
attacked while over Lorient. Attacked by enemy fighters, the tail gunner was seriously wounded.
On the return route strong westerly winds took the formation over the Brest peninsula.
The pilot was badly hurt and, although also wounded, his co-pilot took control of the
plane with the help of the engineer to remain with the formation and returned safely to Bassingbourn.
Failed to return from a tactical mission to the Luftwaffe airfield at Glisy, Amiens, France 31Aug43 (7MIA:3KIA).
Soon after assembly had been completed and the formation left the English coast high over Sussex,
the plane was involved in a mid-air collision with B-17F 42-29816.
At 25,000ft, #523 lurched into #816 and split that aircraft in two sending both planes
into the sea below. Crashed in the English Channel off the Sussex coast at Beachy Head. {19 missions}.
MACR 563. Condemned 31Aug43.
Named GOLLY / SNOOKS / LI'L AUDREY. Named after the popular comic strip character of a little girl who laughed and laughed.
24524 (MSN 3209) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 26Jul42.
Douglas Aircraft Company, Modification Center #16, Tulsa Municipal Airport, OK 29Jul42.
323rd Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 10Sep42.
Named'The Eagle's Wrath'--The name and the eagle were painted on the nose by a
young lady on the maintenance staff at Dow Field.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 11Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 15Oct42. VIII Bomber Command, England. 323rd Bomb Squadron [OR*O],
91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 16Oct42.
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.
Battle damaged on a mission to the railway marshalling yards at Hamm, Germany 4Mar43.
The weather was bad from takeoff through to Germany preventing four other groups rendezvousing
with the 91st Bomb Group which proceeded alone to the target.
Sixteen planes faced the toughest fighter defence of the war, the heaviest flak areas, and on the
deepest penetration yet into Germany. The reception was immediate with German fighters
determined to stop the attack; the return flight home was no easier, flying into the wind of a
strong jetstream. Failed to return from a mission to ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 17Aug43
(3KIA:7POW). The formation was subject to continuous fighter attacks from the time it crossed
over the enemy coast. In addition, the bombers were hit by flak as they passed over anti-aircraft defence zones.
Under constant attack from Antwerp to Frankfurt, four enemy fighters from 2 /JG 51 struck and shells
ripped into the oxygen bottles stored below the co-pilot's seat starting a devastating fire.
The ball gunner was hit twice, in the chest and head, and could not be freed from his position.
A waist gunner also died in the hail of bullets and the navigator was wounded. The remainder of the
crew bailed out as the bomber dropped from formation east of Frankfurt it went into violent maneuvers
ending in a spin and a tight spiral into the ground at Gelnhausen, near Harxheim, twelve miles east of
Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany. {16 missions}. .MACR 279. demned 17Aug43.
THE EAGLE'S WRATH. was selected on the occasion of visits when the authorities were reluctant
to show-off other planes with more earthy names and graphics. C.E. Turner selected The Eagle's Wrath
as the subject for an oil painting which was reproduced as a double spread in the 'Illustrated London News,'
August 1943. The plane was also one of those deemed suitable for presentation to the King and Queen
on the occasion of their visit to Bassingbourn 26May43
24525 (MSN 3210) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 26Jul42.
Douglas Aircraft Company, Modification Center #16, Tulsa Municipal Airport, OK 29Jul42.
422nd Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group, Syracuse AAB, NY 17Sep42. Presque Isle Field, ME 19Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 24/25Oct42. VIII Bomber Command, England.
422nd Bomb Squadron [JJ*O], 305th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 27Oct42
Named "What's Cooking Doc"--artwork of Bugs Bunny riding on a bomb..
To Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 11Dec42. Battle damaged on a mission to the
Focke-Wulf aircraft factory at Bremen, Germany 17Apr43. Flak over the target was heavy, damaging
engine cowlings, puncturing de-icer boots and shattering the Plexiglas nose. 1st Strategic Air Depot,
Troston (Station 595), Suffolk 24Apr43. Battle damaged on a mission to the U-boat base and
shipyard at Saint-Nazaire, France 1May43. Flak damaged the left wing and left horizontal stabiliser.
On return the bomber landed at St Eval (Station 129), Cornwall as planned, returning to Chelveston
the following day. 547th Bomb Squadron [SO*Y], Transferred to 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106),
Northamptonshire 22Sep43. Fitted with Gee-H radio navigation system equipment. {first combat mission
8Oct43}. {15 missions with 384BG}. Failed to return from a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical works at
Oppau, Ludwigshafen, Germany 7Jan44 (2KIA:7POW:1EVD). Shot down by enemy fighters after bombing
the target and left formation. The navigator was killed by cannon fire. With a wing on fire, some of the
crew bailed out near Amiens. The aircraft started to spin, then the rest of the crew bailed out near
Abbeville, France. The plane exploded and crashed near Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, France
Claimed by Oblt. Otto Hummel in FW-190A-6 of JG 26/6. MACR 1608.
The MACR report wrongly lists plane as 42-24525.
24526 (MSN 3211) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 26Jul42.
Douglas Aircraft Company, Modification Center #16, Tulsa Municipal Airport, OK 29Jul42.
358th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group, Kellogg Field, Battle Creek, MI 18Sep42.
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 11Oct42. Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 29Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 21Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England. 358th Bomb Squadron [VK*J], 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire Oct42. ,
named "Leapin Liz"
Failed to return from a mission to the torpedo storage areas at Saint-Nazaire, France 3Jan43 (10KIA).
West of Nantes, France, the anti-aircraft fire was strong; south of the Loire the fire of the battery of
Château Bougon, Couffé, was very heavy, and a strong defence was encountered in the region of
Paimboeuf. Strong head winds slowed the advance of the formation during the last part of the flight.
German fighters quickly intercepted the formation, attacking first the bombers damaged by
anti-aircraft fire. Shot down before reaching the target by German fighters of III./JG 2. Crashed
in the Loire estuary off Saint-Brevin-les-Pins, France. MACR 7650
24527 (MSN 3212) Accepted by USAAF 26Jul42. 401st Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Group, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 6Sep42. Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 2/3Oct42. 401st Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Group,
Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire. Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 14Oct42. {1 mission}.
Transferred to 91st BG, 324th BS Jan 1943, named "The Sky Wolf II"
Also named "the Great Speckled Bird" Painted by Jack Gaffney
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. Battle damaged on a mission
to the railway marshalling yards at Hamm, Germany 4Feb43. Cloud cover prevented bombing of the
primary target at Hamm and the formation diverted to the industrial area of Emden, Germany. Attacked by
enemy fighters, a 20mm cannon shell hit right behind the top turret. Another 20mm blew up in the No.3 engine
nacelle. No.1 engine supercharger was hit and lost all the oil out of the supercharger tank. No.2 engine
was hit tearing a big hole in the induction system resulting in considerable loss of power. A little over
half way back to England the pilot had to drop down to less than 3,000ft to maintain airspeed. He tried to
feather No.2 propeller but it would not feather. So he started it again and did get some power from it.
By that time he wasn’t getting full power from any of the engines but No.1 was the best. Had to go on
instruments for about an hour through cloud and a snow storm. The wings started to ice up and the
controls and instruments in the cockpit and the nose iced up. Then the inter-phone went out. The plane
finally broke through the clouds over England at about 3,000 feet. Arriving back at base the right
landing gear wouldn’t go down and the pilot had to circle the airfield twice while it was cranked down
manually. When it landed, No.1 engine was the only one left to taxy with so the plane had to be towed
in from the end of the runway. There were scattered flak strikes in the tail, wings and fuselage. The spars
in both wings were damaged. Eighth Air Force Service Command. Regained by Group 28Mar43.
Battle damaged on a mission to the submarine yards at Wilhelmshaven, Germany 21May43.
As the bomber reached the target, the crew could see enemy aircraft in the area but standing off to the side.
When they reached the Initial Point of the bomb run, the enemy fighters attacked head on with six to eight
enemy fighter line abreast. The Germans didn’t fire flak but intended to scatter the Group with it’s fighters
before bomb release. Failed to return from a mission to the ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt,
Germany 17Aug43 (10POW). Attacked by enemy fighters after crossing the German border en route to the
target, damaging engines No.3 and No.4, smoking as it dropped behind the formation. The aircraft crashed
at Waldeschaff, six miles east of Aschaffenburg, Germany. {27+ missions}. Claimed by Fw. Hans Meissner in
Bf 109G-6 of JG 1/9. MACR 274.
24528 (MSN 3213) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 29Jul42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 2Aug42.
Sacramento Air Depot, McClellan Field, CA 31Aug42.
Sacramento Municipal Airport, CA 1Sep42.
Sacramento Air Depot, McClellan Field, CA 3Sep42.
West Coast Wing, Air Transport Command, Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA Sep42; preparation for overseas service.
Assigned to SUMAC (Fifth Air Force, Australia) 4Sep42.
Ferried on the South Pacific route via Hickam Field, Hawaii then across the South Pacific.
Assigned to POPPY (Thirteenth Air Force, Solomon Islands) 13Sep42.
431st Bomb Squadron, 11th Bomb Group, Bomber 1 airfield (Palikulo Field), Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides Sep42.
While parked the bomber was riddled by shell fragments from the Imperial Japanese Naval (IJN)
bombardment by Japanese battleships Kongo and Haruna on Henderson Field (Cactus), Guadalcanal,
Solomon Islands 13/14Oct42. Salvaged. Assigned to LEFT (Fifth Air Force, Brisbane, Australia).
Condemned 31Oct44. SOC 9Jan45
24529 (MSN 3214) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 29Jul42.
Douglas Aircraft Company, Modification Center #16, Tulsa Municipal Airport, OK 2Aug42.
422nd Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group, Syracuse AAB, NY 14Sep42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 24/25Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
422nd Bomb Squadron [JJ*T], 305th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 27Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 29Oct42.
Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 11Dec42.
Battle damaged on a mission to the Ford and General Motors plants at Antwerp, Belgium 4May43;
flak caused several holes in the wings.
Battle damaged on a mission to the naval facilities on Heligoland island, Germany 15May43 (2WIA:8RMC).
Weather over the target was bad and conditions were unfavourable for bombing.
The group turned to an alternate target, the airfield at Wangerooge, East Frisian island, Germany.
During an attack on the formation by enemy fighters, 0.50 calibre shell casings and fragments of a
shell crossed through the windshield, shattering the glass and wounding the pilot and co-pilot.
422nd Bomb Squadron [JJ*J] Aug43.
Experimented in night bombing alongside the RAF and operated night leaflet and propaganda missions.
546th Bomb Squadron [BK*E], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 22Sep43.
{nil missions, 384BG}. The aircraft took off for the purpose of slow-timing two engines
(another pilot had aborted this aircraft from the morning combat mission) 9Oct43.
After flying for one-and-a-half hours, the no.3 engine started leaking fuel caused by an overflow vacuum
created by transferring fuel, so the pilot returned to base.
The other two runways were blocked with recovering a combat aircraft which had blown a tire
blocking the intersection and the pilot was instructed to land on the short runway.
On his first approach he overshot and went around for another go.
Distracted by ATC advising that the longer runway was now clear, the pilot was fast on final
approach to the shorter runway and landed long. Still loaded with bombs and a combat fuel load,
the brakes were not too effective in slowing the bomber. Selecting emergency brakes did not slow
the aircraft and it appeared that the brakes had failed.
With insufficient runway to go around and unable to ground loop with parked aircraft on the right
and buildings to the left of the runway, the plane ran off the end of the runway, across the grass,
through a high hedge and barbed wire fence bordering a public road. It was stopped by a four foot
deep ditch which the landing gear dropped into and rested on its nose and four engines,
blocking the road (4RMC). Air Force Service Command 11Oct43. (the airplane was still painted black
and marked as JJ*J from the 422BS). Condemned 6Jul43. Salvaged 17Oct43. SOC 4Feb44.
24530 (MSN 3215) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 29Jul42.
Douglas Aircraft Company, Modification Center #16, Tulsa Municipal Airport, OK 2Aug42.
366th Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group, Syracuse AAB, NY 14Sep42.
Presque Isle Field, ME 19Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom).
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route.
Crashed on takeoff departing from Gander, Newfoundland 24Oct42.
The aircraft clipped a pillbox during an aborted night takeoff and crash landed on the adjacent runway (10RMC).
The runways at Gander were exceptionally wide and the pilot attempted to takeoff across instead of
along the runway. Salvaged. Condemned 23Nov42. Named MISSOURI
24531 (MSN 3216) Accepted by USAAF 29Jul42. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 2Aug42. Sacramento Air Depot, McClellan Field, CA 1Sep42. Ferried on the
South Pacific route via Hickam Field, Hawaii then across the South Pacific. 26th Bomb Squadron,
11th Bomb Group, Bomber 1 airfield (Palikulo Field), Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides 12Sep42.
{first mission 25Sep42 – a search mission}. {first combat mission 29Sep42}. Flown to Henderson
Field (Cactus), Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands 3Oct42; joined four other B-17s from the 26th Bomb
Squadron, 11th Bomb Group for a mission the following day. Took off from Henderson Field leading
the formation armed with twenty 100 pound bombs on a mission against a Japanese airfield at
Buka, Bougainville, New Guinea 4Oct42. Inbound to the target, the formation encountered bad weather,
could not find the target and turned back for Guadalcanal. Off New Georgia, the bombers
encountered six Japanese warships including Japanese destroyers Nowaki, Maikaze, Akitsuki,
Nisshin and Chitose. The B-17s were intercepted by Japanese floatplanes flying combat air
patrol over the fleet. During the combat, the No.3 engine was damaged and disabled. Took off
from Henderson Field (Cactus), Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands leading a mission against
shipping at Tonolei Harbor off southern Bougainville 18Nov42 (1MIA:1KIA:2WIA:6RTD). Over
the target, the Bombardier was unable to release the bombs so the formation started to circle
around for another bomb run. Appearing to head for home, the P-38 Lightning escort fighters
departed to chase some Japanese fighters. On the second bomb run, anti-aircraft fire was heavy
and nearly accurate. Just as the bomber was to drop its bombs, it was intercepted by Japanese
fighters. Twice the B-17 was attacked by fighters making head-on firing passes, concentrating on
the bomber's nose. Again, the bombs wouldn’t release. The enemy fighters continued their attacks
as the bomber headed home. The attacks ripped up the nose section, wounding the bombardier,
and injuring both pilots. Another attack killed the pilot and mortally wounded the co-pilot.
A Colonel observer took over the controls to fly the plane home. Damaged during the attacks,
the No.2 propeller was feathered and No.1 engine was overspeeding and smoking; No.2 fuel tank
was on fire. The ball and upper turrets were damaged and few guns were still working. With
what instruments were still working, the plane was noted in a spin. The Colonel pilot was
reluctant to open the bomb bay doors to jettison the bombs for fear that the bomber would stall.
Flying from the right side, the Colonel was unable to move the dead pilot out of the way to access
the trim tab controls. The crippled bomber was escorted by the other B-17s away from the target
and was losing altitude but able to fly on only two engines. Having escaped the Japanese fighters
by flying into cloud, coming out the other side found the bomber at just 500 feet above the sea
and the pilot had little choice but to ditch in the sea. The plane was ditched off Baga Island (Mbava),
Solomon Islands near Vella Lavella and broke in two before sinking. The crew successfully
deployed their life rafts, reached the beach of an island and were rescued the following day
by a US Navy PBY. Assigned to LEFT (Fifth Air Force, Brisbane, Australia). Condemned 14Jul43. SOC 3May44
24532 (MSN 3217) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 28Jul42.
Douglas Aircraft Company, Modification Center #16, Tulsa Municipal Airport, OK 31Jul42.
422nd Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group, Syracuse AAB, NY 14Sep42.
Presque Isle Field, ME 19Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 24/25Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England. 305th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 25Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 29Oct42.
414th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 4Nov42.
Departed RAF Hurn, Bournemouth, Hampshire to North Africa 20Nov42.
Twelfth Air Force, Operation Torch Nov42. 414th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group,
Maison Blanche, Algiers, Algeria 20Nov42.
Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 22Nov42.
Biskra, Algeria 25Dec42.
Failed to return from a mission to the port at Bizerte, Tunisia 26Dec42 (2WIA:2POW:6RMC).
Badly damaged by flak and the explosion of B-17F 41-24413, two crew members bailed out over enemy territory.
Crash landed close to the trenches of British army troops near Souk-el-Arba, Tunisia.
Vital parts of the plane were destroyed and it was then set on fire by the crew.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 31Oct44. SOC 10Dec44
Named DIXIE DEMO III.
24533 (MSN 3218) Accepted by USAAF 28Jul42. 365th Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group, Presque
Isle Field, ME 19Oct42. Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland
to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 24/25Oct42. 365th Bomb Squadron [XK*T], 305th Bomb Group,
Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 25Oct42. Chelveston (Station 105),
Northamptonshire 11Dec42. Battle damaged during a mission to the submarine pens at Lorient,
France 30Dec42 (1KIA:1WIA). During the mission, visibility was excellent and the crew saw their
target some time before the bombing run. Over the intercom the crew heard the bombardier
call ‘bombs away’. At almost the same moment heavy flak tore up through the nose of the Fortress
and enemy fighters dove in to attack. The bomber was knocked out of the formation. In the nose,
the bombardier was killed. A piece of flak hit the navigator in the arm, passing through his flight
jacket and knocking him off his seat. Simultaneously, an explosive shell ripped the bottom out
of the ball turret. Blinded by oil and escaping fumes, with his oxygen supply destroyed and his
ammunition jammed so tightly against him that he thought his leg was off, the gunner stayed
in the turret. In the tail turret the gunner was badly hit. Despite his wounds, the gunner continued
to fire his gun, and as one Fw 190 charged in on the tail he shot half of one of its wings off, sending it down.
Two minutes earlier a waist gunner had destroyed another enemy aircraft. The fighter attacked from
the nose, passing close to the sights of the right waist gun. As the Fortress staggered away from the
target more enemy fighters came in, attacking the nose in pairs. The first attack had broken the drive
shaft of the No.1 engine. The No.2 engine had been hit on the top cylinder and soon had only a
little emergency power left. The propellor would run away when the throttle was advanced a little
bit. The oil pressure was giving out and flak had put a large dent in one of the propeller blades of
the No.3 engine. There was a big hole in the nose, the ball turret was shattered, the bomb bay doors
had been shot up by shellfire, the oxygen lines were cut and the de-icing fluid was punctured.
The radio equipment was damaged and the control cable had been knocked off the elevator.
Despite these handicaps, the pilot kept making for the cover of the clouds, keeping up such skillful
evasive action that the enemy fighters were unable to score any more hits. A waist gunner worked the
slipping elevator cable back on its pulley. In its effort to keep up with the formation the Fortress
was losing altitude at the rate of 2,000ft a minute. At 10,000ft, The engineer/top turret gunner
brought down a third enemy fighter in flames. The radio operator had to leave his gun to put
out a fire in his radio compartment. The bomber finally ducked away into the temporary safety of
the clouds. When it came out again over the English Channel, it was alone, still losing altitude
at 2,000ft a minute. All the crew were still at their posts except the bombardier. The crew were
looking for land so hard that when they saw some a little off to the right they started right in.
They thought it was England and started to look at the roads to see which side the cars were
driving on. Then, all of a sudden, they saw the submarine pens they'd bombed before and knew
it was Brest. By this time the Fortress was down to six hundred feet and still losing altitude.
Cutting across to the open channel, the pilot flew directly between two destroyers, neither of
which had time to fire.They were now flying on two engines and the pilot was worried about the No.2
propeller which was running away, threatening to wreck the plane. Several times the ball
turret bounded on the sea and they hoped the propeller would jar loose. Presently the Captain
gave orders to prepare for a crash landing in the sea. Finally they made it. The pilot managed
to pull the plane up eight hundred feet and they crossed safely over the English coast, landing
soon after at a Royal Air Force airfield in England. Failed to return from a mission to the
Chemische Werke synthetic rubber works at Hüls, Marl, Germany 22Jun43 (4KIA:6POW). The
aircraft was struck by a flak shell which ignited the right wing. The No.2 engine caught fire
and exploded. The aircraft went into a flat spin and crashed at Slijk-Ewijk on River Waal,
near Valburg, Netherlands. MACR 16205.. Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 22Jun43. SOC 4Nov44.
German records ssy that it was shot down by Fw. Herbert Buschmann in Bf 109G of JG 3/1. 5 km S of Valburg,
Netherlands Jun 22, 1943
Named BOOM TOWN. Named because 'it was always shooting oil' .
24534 (MSN 3219) Accepted by USAAF 29Jul42. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 2Aug42. Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA for preparation for overseas duty 5Sep42.
Assigned to the 403rd Bomb Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group. Departed from Hamilton Field on a ferry flight
via Hickam Field bound for Australia 5Sep42. Halway to Australia, the plane was diverted to the South
Pacific. 11th Bomb Group, New Caledonia. While in New Caledonia, this B-17 was assigned to the 11th Bomb
Group. Disobeying orders, the pilot, irritated by the sudden change of orders and with classmates in
the 43rd Bomb Group, instead flew to Brisbane, Australia, and the next day to Torrens Creek, QLD.
Assigned to the 403rd Bomb Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group, Torrens Creek, QLD. When officials caught up
with the B-17 it was removed from the squadron and again assigned to the 11th Bomb Group.
98th Bomb Squadron, 11th Bomb Group, New Caledonia. {first combat mission 4Oct42}. The aircraft took
off from Henderson Field (Cactus), Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands on a photo reconnaissance and
search mission over the southern end of Bougainville 1Dec42 (9MIA:1RTD). Returning from the mission,
while flying at 17,000ft, it was intercepted by six Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighters over Cape
Friendship. Another seven Zeros intercepted over the northern end of Choiseul. Six circled and
maneuvered out of range of the bomber's guns. Over New Georgia, a seventh unseen Zero dove at the
nose and dropped four aerial bombs that were ineffective. The same Zero continued to dive and
collided with this B-17 behind the radio compartment and broke the bomber into two pieces.
The front half caught fire and all aboard perished. The rear half descended in almost perfect
equilibrium, knocking the gunner unconscious briefly. When he awoke, he opened the escape hatch
and bailed out around 2,000ft and again blacked out. Awakening again, he slipped out of his
parachute a few feet above the sea, landing 150 yards off an island. Two hours later, he met
friendly locals; sixty-seven days later, he was returned to his unit. The tail gunner bailed out and was the only survivor.
Assigned to LEFT (Fifth Air Force, Brisbane, Australia). Condemned 31Oct44. SOC 9Jan45
Named. OMAR KHAYYAM / THE PLASTERED BASTARD
24535 (MSN 3220) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 30Jul42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 2Aug42.
Sacramento Air Depot, McClellan Field, CA 2Sep42.
West Coast Wing, Air Transport Command, Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA 11Sep42; preparation for overseas service.
Departed from Hamilton Field on a ferry flight via Hickam Field bound for the South Pacific.
Assigned to SUMAC (Fifth Air Force, Australia) 17Sep42.
431st Bomb Squadron, 11th Bomb Group, Bomber 1 airfield (Palikulo Field), Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides 19Sep42.
Assigned to POPPY (Thirteenth Air Force, Solomon Islands) 20Mar43.
Returned to US 2Sep43. West Coast Wing, Air Transport Command, Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA 12Sep43.
Ferrying Division, Air Transport Command, Cincinnati, OH 14Sep43.
Rome Air Technical Service Command, Rome Field, NY 21Dec43.
Assigned to SUMAC (Fifth Air Force, Australia).
Assigned to EPIC (Thirteenth Air Force, South Central Pacific).
Returned to US 2/14Sep44. Designated RB-17F.
4147th Base Unit (Rome Air Technical Service Command), Bedford Field, MA 11Aug45.
Ferrying Division, Air Transport Command, Cincinnati, OH Sep45.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 23Sep45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
24536 (MSN 3221) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 29Jul42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Aug42.
Sacramento Air Depot, McClellan Field, CA 5Sep42.
Assigned to ADOBE; not delivered.
West Coast Wing, Air Transport Command, Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA 4Sep42; preparation for overseas service.
Ferried on the South Pacific route via Hickam Field, Hawaii then across the Pacific to Australia.
Assigned to SUMAC (Fifth Air Force, Australia) 14Sep42. 403rd Bomb Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group,
Torrens Creek, QLD, Australia 14Sep42.
65th Bomb Squadron, Iron Range, Lockhart, QLD, Australia 17Oct42.
Mareeba, QLD 7Nov42.
Jackson Field (7 Mile Drome), Port Moresby, New Guinea 20Jan43.
Returned to US Jun44.
4136th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Service Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 18Jun44.
1503rd Base Unit (West Coast Wing, Pacific Division, Air Transport Command) Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA 19Jun44.
Assigned to SUMAC (Fifth Air Force, Australia) 8Jul44.
Returned to US.
4136th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 1Sep44.
4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 11Mar45.
Damaged taxying at Patterson Field 12Mar45.
Ferrying Division, Air Transport Command, Cincinnati, OH 26May45.
4160th Base Unit (Sacramento Air Technical Service Command), Albuquerque AAB, NM 30Jun45.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 30Jun45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to American Compressed Steel Corporation, Cincinnati, OH Jul46; scrappe
24536 (43rd BG, 63rd BS, *Double Trouble*) also listed as being lost Mar 3, 1943,
Battle of the Bismarck Sea.
24537 (MSN 3222) Accepted by USAAF 30Jul42. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 2Aug42. Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA for preparation for overseas duty 4Sep42.
Ferried on the South Pacific route via Hickam Field, Hawaii then across the Pacific to Australia.
Fifth Air Force. 63rd Bomb Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group, Mareeba airfield, QLD, Australia 10Sep42, named ("Talisman");
Bomb Group, Mareeba airfield, QLD 20Sep42. Jackson Field (7 Mile Drome), Port Moresby,
New Guinea 23Jan43. Took off from Jackson Field transporting General Walter Kruger,
Commanding Officer 6th Army 23Apr43. Deposited the General at Milne Bay, New Guinea
then flew to Dobodura, New Guinea. Landing accident at Jackson Field 24Apr43. The plane
departed Dobodura on the flight back to Jackson Field and while landing, the right landing
gear failed and collapsed, causing damage to the bomber but no one aboard was injured.
Repaired by a Service Squadron for two months. This B-17 took off from Jackson Field with
General Douglas MacArthur aboard to observe the US Army's 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment
paratrooper drop on Nadzab, New Guinea 5Sep43. The flight was dubbed by General Kenney
as the "Brass Hat's Flight". Also in the flight was B-17F "The Mustang" 41-24554 carrying
General Richard Sutherland, plus B-17F "Cap'n & The Kids" 41-24353 with General Kenney
aboard. {final combat mission 18Sep43}. Declared ‘war weary’. Used as the personal transport
of Major General James L. Frink, US Army services and supply commander in the South-West
Pacific Area (SWPA). Salvaged Tacloban, Leyte, Philippines 9Sep45. Named TALISMAN - artwork of a
green three leafed clover to pay tribute to the pilot’s Irish ancestry. Painted by Sgt Ernest ‘Ernie’ J. Vandal.
Renamed USASOS painted in black with every other letter in subscript ((USASOS). ). Later ‘War Horse’
was added in black forming the name USASOS WAR HORSE.
24538 (MSN 3223) Accepted by USAAF 30Jul42. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 3Aug42. Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA for preparation for overseas duty 11Sep42.
Assigned to SUMAC (Fifth Air Force, Australia) 15Sep42
Ferried on the South Pacific route via Hickam Field, Hawaii then across the Pacific to Australia. Fifth Air Force.
403rd Bomb Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group, Torrens Creek, QLD, Australia 15Sep42. Iron Range,
Lockhart, QLD 17Oct42. Milne Bay, New Guinea 23Nov42. Took off from Jackson Field (7 Mile Drome),
Port Moresby, New Guinea on a mission against the Japanese airfield at Lakunai near Rabaul,
New Britain 5Jan43 (10RTD). The approach was to be made by coming over Raratuna Crater
on a heading at 1,700ft making a diving ninety degree turn crossing 2,000ft and make a thirty
second run then make 100 degree turn away from the target area and return base. The B-17
continued on making three dry runs over the target but was unable to drop bombs because
clouds obscured the target. It experienced intense anti-aircraft fire over Simpson Harbor and
was attacked by Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighters of the 582 Kokutai joined by
Nakajima Ki-43-I Oscar fighters from 11th Hiko Sentai. During the first pass by the enemy
fighters, the ball turret was shot out and the radio compartment was damaged. The No.1 engine
was shot out and the propeller failed to feather, either hit by machine gun bullets or cannon shells.
The left wing was shot through by a cannon shell, just inboard of the No.1 nacelle damaging the
main spar, engine controls, oil cooler and putting a hole in the fuel tank. The plane ditched
in the sea roughly 200 yards offshore Urasi Island, New Guinea, northwest of the passage
between Furgeson and Goodenough Islands. The entire crew survived the ditching and
successfully deployed both life rafts and paddled ashore to Urasi Island to await rescue.
The next day two Allied aircraft searching independently located the downed B-17 and crew.
Later that day, the entire crew was rescued by Short S.25C ‘Coriolanus’, VH-AKP.
The crew paddled out to the flying boat and returned to Fairfax Harbour off Port Moresby, New Guinea.
Assigned to LEFT (Fifth Air Force, Brisbane, Australia). Condemned inventory 31Oct44. SOC 9Jan45
24539 (MSN 32240 Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 2Aug42.
Douglas Aircraft Company, Modification Center #16, Tulsa Municipal Airport, OK 10Aug42.
358th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group, Kellogg Field, Battle Creek, MI 15Sep42.
Oklahoma City Air Depot, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 10Oct42.
358th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group, Kellogg Field, Battle Creek, MI 10Oct42.
Named "Jersey Bounce" (a 1942 song).
WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 16Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 24/25Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
358th Bomb Squadron [VK*K], 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire Oct42.
{first combat mission 17Nov42}. {14 missions}.
11th Combat Crew Replacement Unit, 1st Combat Crew Replacement Group, Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire 27Jul43.
384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 22Sep43.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Salvaged after non battle damage 31May45. SOC 27Jun45
41-24540/24584 Boeing B-17F-25-BO Fortress
MSN 3225/3269. Boeing Model 299P. Defence Aid contract for the Royal Air Force as serials FH518/FH562.
Diverted to USAAF after the Japanese attacks in Hawaii and the Philippines,
Production changes: Minor detail differences
Information from Stewart Lanham and FORTLOG
24540 (MSN 3225) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 2Aug42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 2Aug42.
Sacramento Air Depot, McClellan Field, CA 31Aug42.
Sacramento Municipal Airport, CA 1Sep42.
Sacramento Air Depot, McClellan Field, CA 3Sep42.
West Coast Wing, Air Transport Command, Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA 11Sep42; preparation for overseas service.
Assigned to SUMAC (Fifth Air Force, Australia) 11Sep42.
Ferried on the South Pacific route via Hickam Field, Hawaii then across the Pacific to Australia.
Fifth Air Force. 63rd Bomb Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group, Mareeba airfield, QLD, Australia 14Sep42.
403rd Bomb Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group. Iron Range, QLD, Australia 17Oct42.
Milne Bay, New Guinea 23Nov42.
The aircraft was parked in a revetment made of coconut logs at Turnbull Field (No.3 Strip) near Milne Bay, New Guinea 17Jan43.
It was destroyed during a Japanese air raid by Mitsubishi G4M1 Betty bombers escorted by Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighters.
The bomber burned and was completely destroyed. Assigned to LEFT (Fifth Air Force, Brisbane, Australia). Salvaged 18Jan43.
Condemned 14Jul43. SOC 3May44
24541 MSN 3226) Accepted by USAAF 7Aug42. 358th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group,
Kellogg Field, Battle Creek, MI 14Sep42. Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF
Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 21Oct42. 358th Bomb
Squadron [VK*G], 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire
Oct42, named "Spook"--artwork on the vertical stabiliser of a skeleton holding a bomb.
Damaged by ‘friendly fire’ and aborted mission to the Wilhelmshaven
Naval Base, Germany 27Jan43. A life raft, released by the vibration from the firing of the
top turret struck the left waist gunner. The left waist gun went wild, shooting holes
in the side of the aircraft and wounding the tail gunner. The bomber turned for
home when ten miles over the English Channel. Failed to return from a mission to
the submarine base at Saint-Nazaire, France 16Feb43 (6KIA:4POW). Shot down by
enemy fighters, ditched English Channel off Brest peninsular. On returning after
dropping bombs on the target the bomber was nearing the English Channel. Over the
interphone, the pilot called to the crew’s attention a B-17 about 15,000ft below being
attacked by Bf 109 fighters. He asked if they wanted to go to their aid. They all agreed.
The bomber left the formation at approximately 25,000ft, descended, and circled the
crippled bomber at approximately 10,000ft. A flight of fifteen Luftwaffe Bf 109 fighters
accumulated in seconds. Some of the members of the crippled bomber bailed out,
leaving this crew to face the worst that was to come. Being close to the French coast
and the English Channel, they tried to make it back to the base at Molesworth but was
eventually shot down and crashed twenty miles from the English coast in the English
Channel. On crashing in the water, the plane broke into parts. MACR 15476
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 16Feb43. SOC 4Nov44
24542 (MSN 3227) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 2Aug42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 17Aug42.
Westover Field, Chicopee Falls, MA 18Aug42.
366th Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group, Syracuse AAB, NY 20Aug42.
Seriously damaged in a gunnery accident at Syracuse AAB 10Oct42.
Rome Air Depot, Rome Field, NY 14Nov42.
2nd Ferrying Group, New Castle Field, Wilmington, DE 9Dec42.
21st Bomb Wing, Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 17Dec42.
15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Division, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 15Jan43.
Ferried overseas on the South Atlantic/Africa route.
Assigned to BLOT (Twelfth Air Force, French Morocco) 24Jan43.
Assigned to GLEN (Twelfth Air Force, Oran, Algeria) 23Apr43.
Assigned to UGLY (Great Britain) 5May43.
306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire May43.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom) 4Jan44.
Assigned to ELMS (Northwest African Air Forces) 29Jan44.
4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 5Aug44.
Ferrying Division, Air Transport Command, Cincinnati, OH 17Oct44.
3701st Base Unit (Technical School), Amarillo Field, TX 21Oct44.
Class 26 ground instructional airframe at Amarillo Field, TX 24Oct44. Reclaimed 20Nov45. Reclaim complete 9Apr46.
24543 (MSN 3228) Accepted by USAAF 1Aug42. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne
Municipal Airport, WY 2Aug42. Sacramento Air Depot, McClellan Field, CA 1Sep42. Hamilton
Field, San Rafael, CA for preparation for overseas duty 16Sep42.
Assigned to SUMAC (Fifth Air Force, Australia) 11Sep42. Ferried on the South Pacific
route via Hickam Field, Hawaii then across the Pacific to Australia. Fifth Air Force. 403rd Bomb
Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group, Torrens Creek, QLD, Australia. Field modification of a B-17E nose
cone installed with a reinforced gun mount allowing a single 0.50 caliber machine gun to be
mounted in the center of the nose. Took off from Jackson Field (7 Mile Drome), Port Moresby,
New Guinea in a storm armed with 500 pound bombs on a mission to bomb a light cruiser
reported off Buna, New Guinea 29Sep42. Searching for two hours in the storm without results,
the crew was notified the report was in error and instead bombed the Japanese airfield at Buna.
The plane was fired on and damaged by anti-aircraft fire but returned safely. Took off from
Jackson Field armed with four 1,000 pound bombs on a low-altitude mission to skip-bomb
targets off Rabual, New Britain 2Oct42. Battle damaged by anti-aircraft fire but without injury
to the crew. Took off from Torrens Creek on a shuttle mission and landed to refuel at Jackson
Field 8Oct42. Departed on a night bombing mission to Rabaul, New Britain 8/9Oct42. Caught
in the searchlights and battle damaged by anti-aircraft fire. Departed on a follow-up night
bombing mission to Rabaul, New Britain 9/10Oct42. Again, the plane was caught in the
searchlights and battle damaged by anti-aircraft fire. Iron Range, Lockhart, QLD 17Oct42.
Took off from Iron Range on a shuttle mission and landed to refuel at Jackson Field 12Oct42.
Departed on a night bombing mission to Tonolei Harbor, southeast Bougainville 13Oct42.
Starting the descent for the bomb run, an anti-aircraft shell struck No.4 engine. The pilot
feathered the propeller, steadied the plane and dropped two 1,000lb bombs on a ship.
Turning for another attack, the plane passed over an airfield and was attacked by more
anti-aircraft fire. After dropping two more bombs on another ship, an anti-aircraft shell
tore through the Plexiglas nose, creating a hole about two feet in diameter. The air stream
rushed in through the nose blowing items around including the crew’s mascot, a small dog
named ‘Pluto’ but was unharmed. With the loss of power on a second engine, the pilot
turned back for Port Moresby. The plane had to climb to cross the Owen Stanley mountains
in a violent storm but made it back to Jackson Field where a third engine quit with fuel
exhaustion on landing. Milne Bay, New Guinea 23Nov42. Mareeba, QLD 21Jan43.
63rd Bomb Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group, Jackson Field (7 Mile Drome), Port Moresby,
New Guinea Feb43. Accident on a reconnaissance mission over the north coast of New
Guinea 9Apr43 (1WIA). Over Finschafen the plane was intercepted by three Nakajima Ki-43-I
Oscar fighters. Aboard, the bombardier was wounded when his 0.30 caliber machine gun
jammed and a round detonated in the chamber. Equipped with an experimental radar
detection apparatus with a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) airman assigned to the crew
as radar operator Jun43. Took off from Dobodura, New Guinea as part of a strike force on
an early morning bombing mission against a Japanese airfield at Vunakanau near Rabaul,
New Britain 30Jun43 (10MIA). Over the target, the B-17 was spotted and intercepted by a
Nakajima J1N1 Irving night fighter which opened fire with its oblique 20mm cannons and
observed the bomber's crash into the mountains southeast of Cape Lambert. The crash site
was near Kulit village on the Gazelle Peninsula, roughly six miles inland from the Mandres
Plantation on New Britain. Named I DOOD IT. Named after comedian Red Skelton's
character "Mean Widdle Kid" Junior from his Raleigh Cigarette radio program, whose
favorite phrase: "I dood it!" became part of the American lexicon. PLUTO - artwork depicted
the Walt Disney character "Pluto" sniffing the ground with a chain extending to the co-pilot's
window on the left and right sides of the nose. Painted by Sgt Ernie Vandal Apr43No MACR.
24544 (MSN 3229) Accepted by USAAF 3Aug42. 323rd Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Group, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 10Sep42. Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 11Oct42.
Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 15Oct42. 323rd Bomb Squadron [OR*O], 91st Bomb Group,
Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 16Oct42. , named ("Pennsylvannia Polka");
Failed to return from a mission to the railway marshalling yards at Hamm, Germany 4Feb43 (10MIA).
Cloud cover prevented bombing of the primary target at Hamm and the formation diverted to
the industrial area of Emden, Germany. Aircraft sustained damage from flak over the target
and later fighter attacks by Bf 110 night fighters and Ju 88s. Lagging behind the formation
it was then attacked by a Fw 190 fighter damaging engine No.3 which caught fire, along with
other damage to the right wing. Other cannon shells and debris were seen to hit the vertical
stabiliser and tail. Crew started to bail out before the bomber crashed in the North Sea,
20km northwest of Terschelling, West Frisian Islands, Netherlands. Claimed by Oberfeldwebel
Heinz Grimm of the 12./NJG 1, flying Bf 110 F-4 Wnr. 4618. {7+ missions) Listed
on MACR 3557 and 4635. Aircraft had logged 7 missions. Condemned 4Feb43. SOC 1Jun44
24545 (MSN 3230) Accepted by USAAF 3Aug42. 322nd Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Group, Dow Field,
Bangor, ME 6Sep42. Assigned to BOLERO (strategic movement of aircraft to Great Britain) 29Sep42.
Ferried to RCAF Gander, Newfoundland 29Sep42. Ferried on the North Atlantic
route from RCAF Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 30Sep/1Oct42.
322nd Bomb Squadron [LG*T], 91st Bomb Group, Kimbolton (Station 117), Huntingdonshire 2Oct42.
Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 14Oct42. {first combat mission 7Nov42}.
Battle damaged on a low-level mission to the submarine base at Saint-Nazaire, France 9Nov42
(2WIA:8RTD). Battle damaged on a mission to the Luftwaffe air depot at Romilly-sur-Seine,
France 20Dec42 (1WIA:9RTD). Departing to join the formation, the No.3 engine supercharger
failed caused by a breakage in the exhaust stack, making it difficult to maintain position
in formation. As the Group crossed the coast of France a formation of enemy fighters made
a head-on attack. On one of these attacks the bomber was raked with three 0.30 caliber
machine gun shells. One went in above the nose and apparently exploded in the control
panel, sending up a sheet of flame between the pilots. The second bullet entered the
right side of the plane, not more than a few inches from the co-pilot, penetrated five
bulkheads, giving a waist gunner a flesh wound, and then the bullet veered out the
right side of the plane, just before reaching the tail gunner. The third bullet did little
or no damage. Since the main hydraulic line was damaged, the plane would not have
brakes on landing, Then pilot made a dead-stick landing on a grass area; it was a
very slow, tail-first landing and the pilots scarcely had to touch the emergency brakes
to bring the plane to a stop. Battle damaged on a mission to the railway marshalling
yards at Hamm, Germany 4Mar43. The weather was bad from takeoff through to Germany
preventing four other groups rendezvousing with the 91st Bomb Group which proceeded
alone to the target. Sixteen planes faced the toughest fighter defence of the war, the
heaviest flak areas, and on the deepest penetration yet into Germany. The reception
was immediate with German fighters determined to stop the attack; the return flight home
was no easier, flying into the wind of a strong jetstream. Two engines failed, assumed
knocked out during the fighter attacks, but back at Bassingbourn it was found that both
inboard engines had been hit by 0.50 caliber shells from the tail gunner of the lead ship.
Destroyed by fire during maintenance at Bassingbourn 23Mar43. An internal fire probably
started by ground crew’s cigarette. {16+ missions}. Salvaged. Possibly
named LUFTWAFFE WATERLOO / MARNITA, made up from the first names of the two
pilot’s wives. The plane was better known as MOTSIE, the nickname of the pilot’s wife
24546 (MSN 3231) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 2Aug42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 2Aug42.
Sacramento Air Depot, McClellan Field, CA 2Sep42. West Coast Wing, Air Transport Command,
Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA 11Sep42; preparation for overseas service.
Ferried on the South Pacific route via Hickam Field, Hawaii then across the Pacific to Australia.
Assigned to SUMAC (Fifth Air Force, Australia) 17Sep42.
403rd Bomb Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group, Torrens Creek, QLD, Australia 17Sep42.
Iron Range, Lockhart, QLD 17Oct42. Milne Bay, New Guinea 23Nov42.
Failed to return from a mission to Vitiaz Strait, New Guinea 29Nov42 (12MIA).
The aircraft took off from Turnbull Field (No.3 Strip) near Milne Bay, New Guinea on a
mission to shadow a Japanese convoy of four destroyers, sent to reinforce Buna, that had been
bombed earlier in the day. The crew radioed that they had made contact with the convoy near
Umboi Island in the Vitiaz Straight. This was the last contact with the B-17 and it failed to return from the mission.
Assigned to LEFT (Fifth Air Force, Brisbane, Australia). Condemned 31Oct44. SOC 9Jan45.
24547 (MSN 3232) Accepted by USAAF 3Aug42. 323rd Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Group,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 10Sep42. . Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 11Oct42
Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander,
Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 15Oct42. 323rd Bomb Squadron [OR*P],
91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 16Oct42. Battle damaged
during a low-level mission to the submarine base at Saint-Nazaire, France 9Nov42
(1KIA:1WIA:8RTD). Just prior to bombing, flak exploded directly in front of the plane,
punched holes in the Plexiglass and mortally wounded the bombardier; a gunner
was also wounded. Battle damaged on a mission to the naval yards at Wilhelmshaven,
Germany 27Jan43 (1WIA:9RTD). 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. Battle damaged on a mission
to the Focke-Wulf aircraft factory at Bremen, Germany 17Apr43. The plane came
under intense fighter attack and took several hits through the nose compartment
which dotted the aircraft's name with machine gun bullets. Failed to return from
a mission to the U-boat base and shipyard at Saint-Nazaire, France 1May43 (5KIA:5POW).
On the return route a navigational error took the entire formation at low level
over the Brest peninsula where heavy flak fired from navy flak boats fragmented
the group. German fighters arrived on the scene, quickly exploited the situation
and began concerted attacks. Attacked by Hauptmann Jürgen Hepe of 1./JG 2
flying a Fw 190, 20km from l’île de Bréhat and 25km north of Saint Brieuc. The pilot
was killed instantly in their first pass as 20mm shells and bullets slammed through
the cockpit and exploded inside. The co-pilot on this occasion was a squadron
commander from 94th Bomb Group, and he too was hit. The bomber bucked and
fell out of the formation with No.2 engine on fire and fire consuming the cockpit.
The interphone was shot out and it was not possible for the wounded co-pilot
to warn the crew of the impending impact as the plane plummeted towards the
sea, almost out of control. Just before ditching the right waist gunner was killed
by a 20mm cannon shell from the pursuing fighters. The aircraft ditched into
15-foot waves in the Celtic Sea about four miles northwest of Brest, France.
The plane broke in half near the radio room, came to rest with a snapped wing
folded over the fuselage and quickly sank. The crew, including several wounded
members, scrambled from the plane and attempted to get into the life rafts but
the tail gunner was swept away by the current and two others drowned, probably
as a result of their wounds. After having drifted in their life raft, the five surviving
airmen were embarked on a fishing boat and disembarked in the port of Saint-Malo,
France and taken POW. {9+ missions}. Condemned 1May43. SOC 1Jun44. Named VERTIGO. MACR 3573
24548 (MSN 3233) Accepted by USAAF 1Aug42. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10,
Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 3Aug42. Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA for preparation
for overseas duty 4Sep42. . Assigned to SUMAC (Fifth Air Force, Australia) 14Sep42
Ferried on the South Pacific route via Hickam Field, Hawaii
then across the Pacific to Australia. Fifth Air Force. 403rd Bomb Squadron, 43rd Bomb
Group, Torrens Creek, QLD, Australia 28Sep42. Field modification of a B-17E nose cone
installed with a reinforced gun mount allowing a single 0.50 caliber machine gun to be
mounted in the center of the nose. Iron Range, Lockhart, QLD 17Oct42. Milne Bay, New
Guinea 23Nov42. 65th Bomb Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group, Jackson Field (7 Mile Drome),
Port Moresby, New Guinea 20Jan43. 64th Bomb Squadron Jun43. 65th Bomb Squadron Jul43.
{final combat mission Oct43}. 4th Air Depot, RAAF Garbutt, Townsville, QLD Nov43. Converted
as an armed transport to drop supplies to forward Allied patrols in enemy territory.
57th Troop Carrier Squadron [167], 375th Troop Carrier Group, 54th Troop Carrier
Wing, Port Moresby, New Guinea. In Troop Carrier service, the B-17 was completely
repainted with a new coat of olive drab paint and nicknamed "Harry the Horse". Assigned
field number "167" painted in yellow on both sides of the cockpit, behind the co-pilot's
window. On the outer side of the No.4 engine cowl was painted "Betty Jo" with a heart.
Another name was painted on the No.3 engine cowl. It was one of eight B-17 armed
transports that took off from Finschafen airfield to make supply runs dropping weapons,
ammunition, barbed wire and blood plasma to the US Army 1st Calvary Division that had
landed on Los Negros Island, Admiralty Islands, and strafed enemy positions in the
area 1-2Mar44. Took off from Nadzab airfield on a mission to drop supplies over
Hollandia 4May44. Returning, the bomber ran short of fuel and attempted to land at
Tadji airfield, New Guinea. During the landing the right wheel collapsed causing the B-17
to skid off the runway in a ‘wild run’ that ended ‘within the limits of a bomb dump’.
The B-17 sustained damage to the outer wing. Beyond repair, the wreckage was
stripped for parts and partially disassembled from the wings and abandoned in a
salvage area. The wing center section remains at Tadji in the former American salvage
yard. Reportedly part of the fuselage section is in a swamp nearby. Salvaged 5May44.
Assigned to LEFT (Fifth Air Force, Brisbane, Australia). Condemned 5May44. SOC 10Oct46
Named LITTLE POOPSIE ADELE / HARRY THE HORSE
24549 ((MSN 3234) Accepted by USAAF 3Aug42. 323rd Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Group,
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 10Sep42. Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 11Oct42.
Ferried on the North Atlantic route from RCAF Gander,
Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 15Oct42. 323rd Bomb Squadron [OR*Q],
91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 16Oct42. named"Stupen-Taket"
Damaged on a mission to the submarine base at Saint-Nazaire, France 16Feb43. An engine quit
on the return flight and the propeller could not be feathered. The resultant drag caused the
ship to fall behind the formation, a sitting target for the Luftwaffe Fw 190 fighters. The
pilot took violent evasive action by diving and climbing to avoid the incoming shells
and eventually made it back to Base. Failed to return from a mission to the railway
marshalling yards at Hamm, Germany 4Mar43 (8KIA:2POW). The weather was bad
from takeoff through to Germany preventing four other groups rendezvousing with
the 91st Bomb Group which proceeded alone to the target. Sixteen planes faced the toughest
fighter defence of the war, the heaviest flak areas, and on the deepest penetration
yet into Germany. The reception was immediate with German fighters determined to
stop the attack; the return flight home was no easier, flying into the wind of a strong
jetstream. Machine gun bullets killed a waist gunner. The aircraft sustained a direct
hit from flak just after leaving the target. The captain ordered a bail out, but only two
crewmen managed to parachute from the aircraft before it exploded. The aircraft
crashed at Buldern, near Münster, Germany. {14 missions}. MACR 15596.
24550 ((MSN 3235) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 3Aug42.
Lowry Modification Center, Lowry Field, Denver, CO 6Aug42.
Sacramento Air Depot, McClellan Field, CA 5Sep42.
West Coast Wing, Air Transport Command, Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA 15Sep42.
Sacramento Air Depot, McClellan Field, CA 17Sep42.
West Coast Wing, Air Transport Command, Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA; preparation for overseas service.
Ferried on the South Pacific route via Hickam Field, Hawaii then across the Pacific to Australia.
Assigned to SUMAC (Fifth Air Force, Australia) 24Sep42.
403rd Bomb Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group, Torrens Creek, QLD 24Sep42.
63rd Bomb Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group. Mareeba, QLD.
Took off from Jackson Field (7 Mile Drome), Port Moresby, New Guinea on a reconnaissance mission
over Milne Bay, New Guinea 14Dec42 (2INJ:6RMC).
After takeoff, the plane climbed to 300 feet and the no.4 engine cut out.
The pilot increased power to the other three engines but soon afterwards the no.2 and no.1 engines also died.
With only the no.3 engine working, the bomber ditched into Bootless Bay onto a coral reef
into shallow water near shore and was partially sunk with the upper wing surface above water.
During the ditching, the tail section broke off at the rear fuselage and the no.4 engine broke off
from the engine mount and fell forward submerged underwater.
Salvaged 18Dec42. Later, the crash was blamed on clogged intakes into the engine which were
stuffed with rags and attributed to sabotage. Assigned to LEFT (Fifth Air Force, Brisbane, Australia).
Condemned 18Dec42. SOC 10Oct46.
Named THE STINGAREE no. 2. Named after the Hollywood movie Stingaree (1934).
The B-17 remained above the waterline until at least the late 1940s.
Only the wing and centre section remained in Bootless Bay [Oct95].
24551 (MSN 3236) Accepted by USAAF 4Aug42. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 7Aug42. Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA for preparation
for overseas duty Sep42. Ferried on the South Pacific route via Hickam Field, Hawaii
then across the Pacific to Australia. Fifth Air Force. 63rd Bomb Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group,
Mareeba, QLD, Australia 18Sep42. 403rd Bomb Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group,
Milne Bay, New Guinea 23Nov42, named *Fire Ball Mail*. The aircraft was
parked in a revetment made of coconut logs at Turnbull Field (No.3 Strip) near Milne Bay,
New Guinea 17Jan43. It was destroyed during a Japanese air raid by Mitsubishi G4M1 Betty
bombers escorted by Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighters. The bomber burned and was completely
destroyed. Assigned to LEFT (Fifth Air Force, Brisbane, Australia). Condemned 18Jan43. SOC 10Oct46
24552 (MSN 3237) Accepted by USAAF 4Aug42. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13,
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 7Aug42. Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA for preparation for
overseas duty 6Oct42. Ferried on the South Pacific route via Hickam Field, Hawaii then
across the Pacific to Australia. Assigned to SUMAC (Fifth Air Force, Australia) 5Nov42
Fifth Air Force. 65th Bomb Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group,
Iron Range, Lockhart, QLD 5Nov42. Mareeba, QLD 7Nov42. Jackson Field (7 Mile Drome),
Port Moresby, New Guinea 20Jan43. Named *Listen Here, Tojo*- artwork of a
gremlin figure holding a blunderbuss rifle, wearing red shorts and yellow gloves.
Accident during an attempted take off from Jackson Field armed with ten 100 pound bombs
on a mission against Salamaua and Kela Point, New Guinea 29Jul43. During take off the
airspeed indicator failed, the pilot cut the throttles and applied the brakes but the bomber
slid into vegetation at the end of the runway, damaging both wings, tires and the ball turret.
None of the crew were injured and the bombs did not detonate. The aircraft took off from Jackson
Field as part of a mission armed with 1,000lbs bombs to the Chinatown area of Lae, New Guinea
15Sep43 (11MIA). Over the target, clouds obscured the ground compelling the bomber to not
release the bombs as Australian Army troops were in the vicinity. The plane was struck by
anti-aircraft fire over Lae. On the return flight to Port Moresby, the bomber was last seen
peeling off in the face of a thunderstorm over the Wau area. It disappeared into a cloud and
was never seen again. It had impacted a mountain side at 8,300ft in the Black Cat Gap area
of the Hidden Valley. This was the last B-17 Flying Fortress lost on a combat mission in the Pacific.
MACR 648. . Assigned to LEFT (Fifth Air Force, Brisbane, Australia). Condemned 15Sep43. SOC 10Oct46.
Wreckage found in 1992.
24553 (MSN 3238) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 4Aug42.
Lowry Modification Center, Lowry Field, Denver, CO 7Aug42.
422nd Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group, Syracuse AAB, NY 16Sep42.
Chanute Field, Rantoul, IL 9Oct42. 422nd Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group, Syracuse AAB, NY 13Oct42.
North Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 19Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 24/25Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
422nd Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 27Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 29Oct42.
Failed to return from a mission to the Chemin de fer du Nord workshops at Hellemmes, Lille, France 6Dec42
(9KIA:1POW).
Shot down by Uffz Schnell of III/JG 26 and crashed near Lille.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 6Dec42. SOC 4Nov44.
Named CHERRY.
24554 (MSN 3239) Accepted by USAAF 5Aug42. Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver
Municipal Airport, CO 7Aug42. Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA for preparation for overseas
duty 6Oct42. Assigned to SUMAC (Fifth Air Force, Australia) 10Oct42.
Ferried on the South Pacific route via Hickam Field, Hawaii then across the Pacific
to Australia. Fifth Air Force. 403rd Bomb Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group, Iron Range, Lockhart, QLD 17Oct42.
Milne Bay, New Guinea 23Nov42. Mareeba, QLD 21Jan43. Accident on a reconnaissance mission
over New Britain 9Apr43 (1WIA). Over Open Bay, New Britain, the pilot observed enemy fighters
following and dove into a rain storm to evade them. Aboard, a photographer was injured during
the dive, cutting his right hand and fracturing his right arm. Jackson Field (7 Mile Drome), Port
Moresby, New Guinea 11May43. 63rd Bomb Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group, Jackson Field,
Port Moresby. The plane took off from Jackson Field with General Richard Sutherland aboard
to observe the US Army's 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment paratrooper drop on Nadzab,
New Guinea 5Sep43. The flight was dubbed by General Kenney as the "Brass Hat's Flight".
Also in the flight was B-17F "Talisman" 41-24537 carrying General MacArthur, plus
B-17F "Cap'n & The Kids" 41-24353 with General Kenney aboard. 13th Air Depot Group,
Tontouta, New Caledonia. {final combat mission Oct43}. Returned to US Nov43.
398th Bomb Group, Rapid City Field, SD 2Dec43. Walker Field, Victoria, KS.
To Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and
disposal 25Jun45. War Assets Administration. Sold to Compressed Steel Corporation Jul46; scrapped.
Named LADY LUCK / BUCK SHOT / THE MUSTANG - artwork painted by Sgt Ernie Vandal.
On the right side, the Mustang was painted with a cowgirl. A secondary piece of artwork was
added behind the right waist window with a female figure with "Lady Luck". This is Ernie Vandal's
most spectacular art. Fuselage markings credit 17 enemy fighter kills, nine
ship shinkings, seven Purple Hearts, and 96 bombing missions
While 41-24554 didn't fly anything like the number of missions (and Purple Hearts) painted on
her nose in New Caledonia, she was around for a long time
. "The Mustang” had an outstanding record, but all these elaborate markings for missions, planes
shot down, ships sunk, and Purple Hearts were simply decoration, applied at the 13th Air Depot on
New Caledonia shortly before the plane returned to US 2Dec43
24555 (MSN 3240) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 6Aug42.
Lowry Modification Center, Lowry Field, Denver, CO 9Aug42.
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 12Aug42.
3rd Ferrying Group, Wayne County Airport, Romulus, Detroit, MI 31Oct42.
21st Bomb Wing, Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 11Nov42.
Assigned to BLOT (Twelfth Air Force, French Morocco) 29Dec42.
Assigned to GLEN (Twelfth Air Force, Oran, Algeria) 6Mar43.
353rd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 8Mar43.
Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43.
Foggia #1, Cerignola, Italy 10Dec43. Foggia #8 (Longskirt), Lucera, Italy 2Feb44.
{34 missions}. Returned to US 13/17May44.
4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 23Jun44.
243rd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit, Very Heavy), Great Bend Field, KS 24Jun44.
901st Base Unit (Tactical Center), Pinecastle Field, Orlando, FL 30Jul44.
232nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Dalhart Field, TX 7Oct44.
3701st Base Unit (Technical School), Amarillo Field, TX 20Oct44.
Class 26 ground instructional airframe at Amarillo Field, TX 20Oct44.
Surveyed 16Dec44.
Class 01Z; aircraft which are not beyond economical repair. Reclaim complete 9Apr46
24556 (MSN 3241) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 5Aug42.
Lowry Modification Center, Lowry Field, Denver, CO 9Aug42.
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 12Aug42.
21st Bomb Wing, Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 16Nov42.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 8May43.
II Bomber Command, Great Falls Field, MT 11May43.
II Bomber Command, Glasgow Field, MT 14May43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 5Jun43.
395th Bomb Group, Ephrata AAB, WA 18Jun43.
4117th Base Unit (Warner Robins Air Technical Service Command), Robins Field, Warner Robins, GA.
242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB 14Jun44.
6th Bomb Group, Grand Island Field, NB 8Jul44.
242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB 16Sep44.
Ferrying Division, Air Transport Command, Cincinnati, OH 25Oct44.
4121st Base Unit (San Antonio Air Materiel Area), Kelly Field, San Antonio, TX 5Jan45.
Class 26 ground instructional airframe 5Jan45.
Designated RB-17F 17Jan45.
Ferrying Division, Air Transport Command, Cincinnati, OH Jan46.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Storage Depot No.41, Kingman Field, AZ for storage and disposal 7Jan46.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Martin Wunderlich Company, Jefferson City, MO 9Aug46; scrapped
24557 (MSN 3242) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 6Aug42.
Lowry Modification Center, Lowry Field, Denver, CO 9Aug42.
423rd Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 12Aug42.
2nd Ferrying Group, New Castle Field, Wilmington, DE 13Nov42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 18Nov42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 23Nov42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
423rd Bomb Squadron [RD*T], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 28Nov42.
Bedfordshire 20Apr43. Battle damaged on a mission to the submarine yards at Bremen,
Germany 13Jun43. Enemy fighter opposition was light but heavy and accurate flak was encountered
over the target.
VIII Air Service Command 29Jun43. Regained by Group 16Jul43.
Fitted with Gee-H radio navigation system equipment.
545th Bomb Squadron [JD*O], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106),
Northamptonshire 22Aug43. . Named "Damn Yankee". (first combat mission 6Sep43}.
Failed to return from a mission to the I.G. Farben chemical works at Leverkusen,
Germany 1Dec43 (5KIA:4POW:1EVD). Clouds obscured the target so the formation diverted
to the secondary target, a non-ferrous metals works at Solingen, Germany. An engine was
damaged by flak over the target causing the bomber to drop back from formation and
attracting the attention of enemy fighters. A fighter shot at the bomber disabling a second
engine and killing the tail gunner. Losing altitude, another fighter attack destroyed the tail,
killing and wounding most of the crew; those who were able to bailed out. The left horizontal
stabiliser had gone and most of the rudder was shot away. No.2, 3 and 4 engines were destroyed. T
he bomber went out of control about 4,000ft, crashed nose first and caught fire near Snellegem,
six miles southwest of Bruges, Belgium. Claimed by Hptm Herbert Huppertz in Fw 190A-6 of JG 2/11 at Jabbeke,
Belgium Dec 1, 1943. MACR 1334. Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 2Dec43. SOC 4Feb44
24558 MSN 3243) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 7Aug42.
Douglas Aircraft Company, Modification Center #16, Tulsa Municipal Airport, OK 10Aug42.
358th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group, Kellogg Field, Battle Creek, MI 14Sep42. Dow Field, Bangor, ME 14Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 16Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 21Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England. 358th Bomb Squadron [VK*F],
303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire Oct42. Named "Hunga Dunga"
(first combat mission 17Nov42}.
Battle damaged on a mission to the submarine base at La Pallice, La Rochelle, France 18Nov42.
Following another formation to the target, the 303rd Bomb Group attacked the secondary target,
the submarine base at Saint-Nazaire, France by mistake; the group had veered over one hundred
miles off course. Intense heavy flak was encountered over the target area. A flight of Fw 190 fighters
attacked the group eighteen miles off Cape Frehel, France; the attack continued for twenty minutes.
Failed to return from a mission to the Bremen Vulkan submarine construction yards at
Vegesack, Bremen, Germany 18Mar43 (5KIA:5POW).
Attacked by enemy aircraft and flak near Helgoland island, the aircraft crashed at Seefeld,
on the Jadebusen, Germany.
Claimed by Oblt. Walter Borchers of the 8./NJG 3, flying a Bf 110 fighter. {12 missions}.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 18Mar43. SOC 4Nov44
24559 (MSN 3244) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 6Aug42.
Lowry Modification Center, Lowry Field, Denver, CO 9Aug42.
360th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group, Kellogg Field, Battle Creek, MI 30Sep42.
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 14Oct42. Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 16Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 21Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
360th Bomb Squadron [PU*C], 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire Oct42,
Named "Ooold Soljer"– nose art inspired by a Disney cartoon featuring
Pluto in the US Army.. {first combat mission 17Nov42}.
Participated on a mission to the port at Bremen, Germany 26Feb43.
The primary target was overcast so the plane diverted to the docks and harbour at Wilhelmshaven, Germany.
Journalist Homer Bigart of the New York Herald Tribune flew with the crew to report on the mission.
Accident during the formation in thick cloud for a mission to the Wilton-Fijenoord shipyard at
Rotterdam, Netherlands 31Mar43 (8KIA:2RMC). Aircraft 42-29573 collided with the right wing,
losing the no.4 engine and outer wing, crashing at Mears Ashby, Wellingborough, Northants.
Destroyed. {19 missions}. Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 1Apr43. SOC 4Nov44.
24560 (MSN 3245) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 6Aug42.
Lowry Modification Center, Lowry Field, Denver, CO 9Aug42.
368th Bomb Squadron, 306th Bomb Group, New Castle Field, Wilmington, DE 4Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 26Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 24Nov42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
369th Bomb Squadron [WW*D], 306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire Nov42.
Battle damaged on a mission to the submarine base at Saint-Nazaire, France 16Feb43.
Fuselage and right wing struck by flak, splitting the aileron cable.
Wing panels and left aileron, tail section left side and rudder, pilot and co-pilot windshields
all pierced by 0.303 shells coming back from lead planes.
VIII Air Service Command 15May43. Regained by Group 5Jul43.
369th Bomb Squadron. 544th Bomb Squadron [SU*A], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106),
Northamptonshire 5Sep43. Named LITTLE AUDREY. {first combat mission 27Sep43}. {18 missions, 384BG}.
{final combat mission 25Feb44}. Base Air Depot No.1, Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire 15Mar44.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Returned to the US 14/19Jun44.
1104th Base Unit (Caribbean Division, Air Transport Command), Homestead Field (Station 8), FL 14Jun44.
4136th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Service Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 6Aug44.
Ferrying Division, Air Transport Command, Cincinnati, OH Nov44. Arledge Field, Stamford, TX 13Nov44.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Arledge Field, Stamford, TX for storage 23Nov44.
24561 (MSN 3246) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 6Aug42.
Douglas Aircraft Company, Modification Center #16, Tulsa Municipal Airport, OK 9Aug42.
359th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group, Kellogg Field, Battle Creek, MI 16Sep42.
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 3Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 20/21Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
359th Bomb Squadron [BN*T], 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire Oct42.
Named "The Duchess" aka "Sure Stuff". Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 25Oct42.
{first combat mission 17Nov42}. Battle damaged on mission to the Bremen Vulkan submarine
construction yards at Vegesack, Bremen, Germany 18Mar43 (1KIA).
Leading the 359th Bomb Squadron formation, approaching the target a flak burst to the right of the nose,
smashing the Plexiglas and mortally wounding the bombardier. With an arm almost severed,
he went back to the bomb sight to release the bombs on target.
The bombardier was awarded VIII Bomber Command’s first Medal of Honor.
This was the first mission to use Automatic Flight Control Equipment (AFCE) linked with a Norden bomb sight.
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 armoured plate to protect the gunner. {59 missions}.
Base Air Depot No.1, Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire Jun44.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Returned to US 28Jun/3Jul44.
1104th Base Unit (Caribbean Division, Air Transport Command), Homestead Field (Station 8), FL 3Jul44.
4136th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Air Service Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK Jul44.
Ferrying Division, Air Transport Command, Cincinnati, OH 13Feb45.
4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 14Feb45.
4124th Base Unit (Air Technical Service Command), Altus Field, OK 7Jul45.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 18Aug45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Esperado Mining Company, Altus, OK 25Jun47; scrapped.
24562 MSN 3247) Center #16, Tulsa Municipal Airport, OK 10Aug42.
358th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group, Kellogg Field, Battle Creek, MI 15Sep42.
Fairfield Air Depot, Air Service Command, Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 8Oct42.
303rd Bomb Group, Kellogg Field, Battle Creek, MI 11Oct42.
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 14Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 16Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 21Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
358th Bomb Squadron [VK*A], 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire Oct42.
Named "Sky Wolf"– artwork of a winged wolf shooting a
bomb-tipped arrow. {first combat mission 17Nov42}.
Battle damaged on a mission to the Deutsche Werke Kiel AG shipyard at Kiel, Germany 19May43.
Moderate but accurate flak was experienced from the German coast and on into the target.
A large force of enemy fighters began their attacks before reaching the German coast.
There were approximately eight to ten concentrated attacks, but they stayed with the formation
for over two hours. Eighth Air Force Service Command 20May43. Regained by Group 24May43.
Failed to return from a mission to the AGO-Flugzeugwerke Fw 190 manufacturing factory at
Oschersleben, Germany 11Jan44 (1KIA:9POW).
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. Crashed at Wolsdorf, four miles southwest of Helmstedt, Germany. {60 missions}.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 11Jan44. SOC 28Feb44.. MACR 1925
24563 MSN 3248) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 9Aug42.
Douglas Aircraft Company, Modification Center #16, Tulsa Municipal Airport, OK 11Aug42.
360th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group, Kellogg Field, Battle Creek, MI 15Sep42.
Fairfield Air Depot, Air Service Command, Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 4Oct42.
303rd Bomb Group, Kellogg Field, Battle Creek, MI 11Oct42.
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 14Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 16Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 21Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
360th Bomb Squadron [PU*H], 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire Oct42
Named GARBAGE. On a training flight, poor weather caused a force landing on the
third attempt at RAF Luton, Bedfordshire 11Nov42 and damaged RAF Avro Anson EF939 (10RMC).
One wing of the B-17 was damaged and the plane was declared repairable.
When inspected again on 1Dec42, the plane had been completely cannibalised and was considered
to be beyond economical repair. Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 27Nov43. SOC 4Nov44.
24564 MSN 3249) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 11Aug42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Aug42.
365th Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group, Syracuse AAB, NY 13Oct42.
305th Bomb Group, Presque Isle Field, ME 19Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 24/25Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
365th Bomb Squadron [XK*W], 305th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 25Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 29Oct42.
Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 11Dec42.
2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little Staughton (Station 127), Bedfordshire 6Aug43. Regained by Group 8Aug43
Named "Patches". Failed to return from a mission to ball bearing factories at Schweinfurt, Germany 17Aug43
(2KIA:1DOI:7POW). The formation was subject to continuous fighter attacks from the time it crossed over the enemy coast.
In addition, the bombers were hit by flak as they passed over anti-aircraft defence zones.
After the target, and before the formation could rendezvous with a P-47 Thunderbolt escort home,
the squadron was subjected to further and continuous fighter attacks for about ninety minutes.
Returning from the target, the bomber was attacked by Fw 190 fighters of II/JG 26 just before
reaching the German/Belgian border where it was hoped that the American fighter escort would be rejoined.
An attack by a Fw 190 piloted by Adolf Glunz set fire to the left wing and both engines were destroyed.
While the crew were bailing out, the plane exploded, killing three crew members and then crashed at Averbode,
five miles northwest of Diest, Belgium.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 17Aug43. SOC 11Nov43.
Salvaged at Zichem by the Bergungskommando from Melsbroek, Brussels Sep43. MACR 300.
24565 MSN 3250) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 9Aug42.
Douglas Aircraft Company, Modification Center #16, Tulsa Municipal Airport, OK 11Aug42. 3
59th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group, Kellogg Field, Battle Creek, MI 17Sep42.
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 3Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 20/21Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England. 359th Bomb Squadron [BN*P], 303rd Bomb Group,
Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 25Oct42.
Named "Idaho Potato Peeler" aka "Rambling Wreck".
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 25Oct42.
{first combat mission 17Nov42}.
Battle damaged on a mission to the submarine yards at Pointe de Keroman, Lorient, France 23Jan43 (10RMC).
Intense and heavy flak was encountered; a large force of enemy fighters was seen with numerous attacks.
On return, badly damaged, the bomber crash landed at RAF Chipping Warden, Northamptonshire 23Jan43.
Eighth Air Force Service Command 9Apr43. Regained by Group 28Apr43.
Failed to return from a mission to the synthetic oil refinery at Gelsenkirchen, Germany 5Nov43 (1KIA:9POW).
Fighter opposition was weak but intense, heavy and accurate flak was encountered over the target.
Damaged by flak and enemy fighters, most of the crew had already bailed out with the exception of the two
waist gunners who were struggling with a damaged door, and the tail gunner when the emergency release
failed to function properly on the escape hatch in the tail.
The two waist gunners were at the waist door trying to get out by holding the door open against the slipstream.
This door also would not drop off because of damage to the emergency release by enemy action.
The tail gunner advised the two of them to leave the door and go cut the waist windows but they continued struggling with the door.
One of the gunners had been wounded by flak over the target area but said he was OK.
The three gunners then bailed through the waist windows but the wounded gunner was not seen again.
Crashed at Wouw, four miles west of Roosendal, Netherlands. {28 missions}.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 5Nov43. SOC 4Oct44. {28 missions}.
Claimed by Uffz Hand Ahrend in Fw 190A-6 of JG 2/3
MACR 1157.
24566 MSN 3251) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 9Aug42.
Douglas Aircraft Company, Modification Center #16, Tulsa Municipal Airport, OK 11Aug42.
359th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group, Kellogg Field, Battle Creek, MI 17Sep42.
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 3Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 24/25Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
359th Bomb Squadron [BN*W], 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 25Oct42,
Named "Zombie". Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 25Oct42
{first combat mission 18Nov42}. Failed to return from a mission to the Luftwaffe air depot
at Romilly-sur-Seine, France 20Dec42 (6MIA:4KIA).
Enemy fighters attacked most of the way from entering France until returning to the English Channel.
Attacked by enemy aircraft and crashed in English Channel off Dieppe, France. {4 missions}.
Condemned 4Mar43. MACR 15708
24567 (MSN 3252) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 11Aug42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Aug42.
360th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group, Kellogg Field, Battle Creek, MI 10Sep42.
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 14Oct42. Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 16Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 21Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
360th Bomb Squadron [PU*J], 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire Oct42.
Named "Beats Me". Failed to return from a mission to the submarine yards at
Pointe de Keroman, Lorient, France 23Jan43 (7KIA:3POW).
Intense and heavy flak was encountered; a large force of enemy fighters was seen with numerous attacks.
Struck by bombs from the Group above and crashed at Bois de Keronic, Pluvinger, France. {5 missions}.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 23Jan43. SOC 4Nov44. MACR 15571
24568 (MSN 3253) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 9Aug42.
Douglas Aircraft Company, Modification Center #16, Tulsa Municipal Airport, OK 11Aug42.
359th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group, Kellogg Field, Battle Creek, MI 17Sep42.
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 3Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 20/21Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
359th Bomb Squadron [BN*U], 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 25Oct42.
Named "Lady Fairweather". Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 25Oct42.
{first combat mission 18Nov42}.
Failed to return from a mission to the submarine base at Saint-Nazaire, France 23Nov42 (10KIA:1POW).
A force of Fw 190 fighters made close attacks in groups of two or three immediately after the bombers
left the intense flak over the target. Attacked by enemy fighters, caught fire and ditched off Belle Île,
Bay of Biscay. {3 missions}.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 23Nov43. SOC 4Nov44. .
24569 (MSN 3254) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 9Aug42.
Douglas Aircraft Company, Modification Center #16, Tulsa Municipal Airport, OK 11Aug42.
427th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group, Kellogg Field, Battle Creek, MI 16Sep42.
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 5Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 25Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 31Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
427th Bomb Squadron [GN*W:GN*V], 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire Nov42
Named "Memphis Tot". Severe battle damage on a mission to the submarine yards at
Pointe de Keroman, Lorient, France 23Jan43.
Intense and heavy flak was encountered; a large force of enemy fighters was seen with numerous attacks.
The radio failed and the bombs were jettisoned when the bombardier determined that they wouldn't drop near the target.
Failed to return from a mission to the railway marshalling yards at Hamm, Germany 4Feb43
(2MIA:1KIA:7POW).
Cloud cover prevented bombing of the primary target at Hamm and the formation diverted to the
industrial area of Emden, Germany.
The bomber was last seen turning out of formation somewhere near Leeuwarden.
The crew later reported that most of their guns froze while over the Netherlands en route to the target.
The aircraft left the formation to return to base and was soon attacked by Bf 109s and Fw 190s.
Badly damaged, two crew bailed out before the B-17 ditched in the IJsselmeer at Zwolle near Den Helder,
Netherlands. It broke in two parts upon contact with the water.
The surviving members of the crew were picked up by a Dutch fishing boat, transferred to a
German Marine boat, and turned over to German authorities and made POWs.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 4Feb43. SOC 4Nov44. MACR 15348.
24570 (MSN 3255) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 11Aug42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Aug42.
323rd Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 10Sep42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 11Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 15Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
323rd Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 16Oct42.
{first combat mission 8Nov42}. Severely battle damaged on a diversionary mission to the
Luftwaffe airfield at Drucat, Abbeville, France 8Nov42 (2WIA:8RMC).
Badly damaged by flak, the navigator and bombardier were seriously wounded.
Despite severe damage, the pilot coaxed the bomber back to a safe landing at Bassingbourn. {1 mission}.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 27Nov42. SOC 4Nov44.
Salvaged; used as a ‘hangar queen’ and cannibalized for its parts.
NamedPANHANDLE DOGIE [‘dogie’ is a motherless or neglected calf].
24571 (MSN 3256) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 9Aug42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Aug42.
323rd Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 11Sep42.
Severely damaged at Mitchel Field, Hempstead, Long Island, NY 6Oct42.
Poor weather during a long training flight caused the aircraft to be diverted to Mitchel Field.
A maintenance crew taxyed the B-17 into two other aircraft, one of which was
Lockheed C-40D Electra Junior 41-57504 which was parked and had to be written off.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 4Oct42.
Mitchel Field, Hempstead, Long Island, NY 29Oct42.
Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 5Nov42.
2nd Ferrying Group, New Castle Field, Wilmington, DE Nov42.
15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Division, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 24Nov42.
Assigned to BLOT (Twelfth Air Force, French Morocco) 17Dec42.
97th Bomb Group, Biskra, Algeria Jan43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43.
49th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Massicault, Tunis, Tunisia 14Nov43.
Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 10Dec43. {first combat mission 8Jan44}.
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
(3KIA:7POW).
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 tail was badly damaged,
the no.3 propeller was feathered and the right wing on fire as it pulled out of formation.
Some of the crew were believed to have been killed in the attacks, the remainder bailed out near
Ampflwang, Austria.
The bomber crashed on a farmhouse and exploded on the Hocheck, southwest of Vienna, Austria. {18 missions}.
Assigned to DUKO (Twelfth Air Force, Italy). Condemned 24Feb44. SOC 4Nov46. MACR 2619
Named DELTA REBEL / INDIANAPOLIS WAR BIRD.
24572 (MSN 3257) Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Aug42.
364th Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group, Syracuse AAB, NY 2Oct42.
305th Bomb Group, Presque Isle Field, ME 19Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 24/25Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
305th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 29Oct42.
414th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 4Nov42.
Departed RAF Hurn, Bournemouth, Hampshire to North Africa 20Nov42.
Twelfth Air Force, Operation Torch Nov42.
414th Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Maison Blanche, Algiers, Algeria 20Nov42.
Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 22Nov42. Biskra, Algeria 25Dec42.
Assigned to GLEN (Twelfth Air Force, Oran, Algeria) 20Jan43.
Châteaudun-du-Rhumel (Helen), Constantine, Algeria 8Feb43.
Pont-du-Fahs, Tunisia 11Aug43.
Depienne, Sminja, Tunisia 15Aug43.
Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43.
346th Bomb Squadron, 99th Bomb Group, Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 24Nov43.
Foggia #2 (Sandfly), Tortorella, Italy 13Dec43.
(final combat mission 30Mar44}. {20 missions}.
Air Depot Apr44. Assigned to DUKO (Twelfth Air Force, Italy).
Returned to US 8/12Jun44.
4136th Base Unit (Oklahoma City Technical Service Command), Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 12Jun44.
Ferrying Division, Air Transport Command, Cincinnati, OH 9Aug44.
3501st Base Unit (Technical School & Overseas Replacement Depot), Boca Raton Field, FL 10Aug44.
2114th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 5May45.
Substantially damaged by fire in an accident at Lockbourne AAB 17May45.
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..
24573 (MSN 3258) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 12Aug42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 16Aug42. 3
64th Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group, Syracuse AAB, NY 1Oct42.
305th Bomb Group, Presque Isle Field, ME 19Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 24/25Oct42 but returned to Gander.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 31Oct42 but returned to Gander.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 29Oct42.
Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 6/7Nov42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
364th Bomb Squadron [WF*S:WF*N], 305th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire Nov42.
Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 11Dec42.
Failed to return from a mission to the Deutsche Werke Kiel AG shipyard at Kiel, Germany 19May43
(6KIA:4POW).
Attacked by enemy aircraft and ditched in shallow waters southwest of Husum, Germany.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 18Feb43. SOC 4Nov44
24574 (MSN 3259) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 11Aug42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Aug42.
Sacramento Air Depot, McClellan Field, CA 2Nov42.
West Coast Wing, Air Transport Command, Hamilton Field, San Rafael, CA 9Nov42; preparation for overseas service.
Assigned to SUMAC (Fifth Air Force, Australia) 14Nov42.
Ferried on the South Pacific route via Hickam Field, Hawaii then across the Pacific to Australia.
Fifth Air Force. 63rd Bomb Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group, Mareeba airfield, QLD, Australia Nov42
Nmed "Tuffy"--artwork of a cartoon cat.
Battle damaged on a shuttle mission via Jackson Field (7 Mile Drome), Port Moresby, New Guinea
to a force of Japanese destroyers heading for Buna, New Guinea 8Dec42 (1WIA).
The plane had been attacked during the mission by enemy fighters and returned to Port Moresby
with more than one hundred bullet holes and a wounded airman.
Jackson Field (7 Mile Drome), Port Moresby, New Guinea 23Jan43.
(final combat mission 16Oct43}.
Returned to US 3/9Nov43; departed Port Moresby 3Nov43.
Oklahoma City Air Depot, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK.
Assigned to 2114th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 25Jan44;
assignment cancelled 27Jan44.
Sub Depot, 398th Bomb Group, Rapid City AAB, SD 28Jan44.
2135th Base Unit (Flexible Gunnery School), Tyndall Field, Panama City, FL.
3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 15Sep44.
Designated TB-17F 24Jan45.
4124th Base Unit (Air Technical Service Command), Altus Field, OK 16Jul45.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 9Sep45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Esperado Mining Company, Altus, OK 25Jun47; scrapped
24575 (MSN 3260) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 11Aug42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 14Aug42.
365th Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group, Syracuse AAB, NY 1Oct42.
305th Bomb Group Presque Isle Field, ME 19Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 24/25Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
365th Bomb Squadron [XK*S], 305th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 25Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 29Oct42.
Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 11Dec42.
Air Force Service Command 24Apr43. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little Staughton (Station 127), Bedfordshire 9Aug43.
Regained by Group 10Aug43.
Air Force Service Command 18Aug43.
Regained by Group 29Aug43.
544th Bomb Squadron [SU*J], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 19Sep43.
Named "Sunrise Serenader". Fitted with Gee-H radio navigation system equipment.
{first combat mission 8Oct43}.
Accident on a recalled mission to the port area of Bremen, Germany 13Nov43 (9KIA:1INJ).
The plane had joined formation and reached 10,000ft when it began to vibrate badly but maintained speed.
The bombardier had just returned to the radio room after pulling the safety pins from the bombs.
Shortly after the plane began to vibrate, it went over sharply on its left wing and then turned abruptly over
onto its right wing and went into a tight spin.
On fire, the pilot succeeded in pulling the plane out of the spin but as it levelled out it broke in two
in the centre of the radio room. The radio operator was the only crew member to survive,
having been ejected from the open end of the radio room, the others trapped by centrifugal force.
The bomber crashed in flames on ploughed fields at Shiplake Bend, opposite Creekside House,
Wargrave, Berkshire. {3 missions}.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 13Nov43. SOC 4Feb44.
24576 MSN 3261) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 12Aug42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 16Aug42.
365th Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group, Syracuse AAB, NY 1Oct42.
305th Bomb Group Presque Isle Field, ME 19Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 24/25Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
305th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 29Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 29Oct42.
341st Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Polebrook (Station 110), Northamptonshire 4Nov42.
Departed RAF Predannack, Cornwall to North Africa 17Nov42.
Twelfth Air Force, Operation Torch Nov42.
341st Bomb Squadron, 97th Bomb Group, Maison Blanche, Algiers, Algeria 17Nov42.
Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 22Nov42. Biskra, Algeria 25Dec42.
Châteaudun-du-Rhumel (Helen), Constantine, Algeria 8Feb43.
Assigned to GLEN (Twelfth Air Force, Oran, Algeria) 26Apr43.
Battle damaged on a mission to rail installations at Messina, Sicily 25May43 (1KIA:1WIA:8RMC).
Flak over target area was intense and accurate as to altitude.
Flak struck the no.3 engine causing it to catch fire and later fall off.
Attacked by enemy fighters 40km northwest of the island of Marettimo, Sicily.
The bombardier bailed out of a waist window, hit a horizontal stabiliser
and his parachute opened just as he hit the water but was killed.
The plane crash landed at Tunis. Assigned to OHAM (Fifteenth Air Force, Italy).
Condemned 25May43. MACR 16525. SOC 11Dec44. Name PEGGY D II.
24577 (MSN 3262) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 13Aug42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 16Aug42.
358th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group, Kellogg Field, Battle Creek, MI 10Sep42.
303rd Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 14Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 16Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 21Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
358th Bomb Squadron [VK*D], 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire Oct42.
{first combat mission 17Nov42}.
First Eighth Air Force B-17 to complete twenty-five combat missions, 13May43.
Substantially damaged taxying at Molesworth 25Apr43.
Assigned to RAF No.100 Group, but retained by 803rd Bomb Squadron (H) Provisional,
ATD (American Training Detachment), RAF Sculthorpe, Norfolk.
{final combat mission 26Nov43; completed 48 missions without an abort or any crewman injured}.
The fuselage was autographed by hundreds of 303rd Bomb Group personnel.
Returned to US for a War Bond and industrial morale tour 10/21Feb44.
Fairfield Air Depot, Air Service Command, Patterson Field, Dayton, OH Feb44.
Assigned to Industrial Service Officer, Newark Municipal Airport, NJ 1Mar44.
Assignment delayed by weather and cancelled 6Mar44 caused by engine change.
Assigned to Industrial Service Officer, Newark Municipal Airport, NJ 7Mar44; arrived 9Mar44.
Air Transport Command, Newark Municipal Airport, NJ 9Mar44.
3030th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Very Heavy), Roswell Field, NM.
Designated TB-17F 1Sep44.
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.
Searcey Field, Stillwater, OK 30Jun45. Searcey Field, Stillwater, OK.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Searcey Field, Stillwater, OK for storage and disposal 7Aug45.
War Assets Corporation. Sold to Paul Mantz, Glendale, CA 19Feb46.
Sold to an oil company, dismantled and trucked to Oklahoma City, OK, as part of an unsuccessful
plan to incorporate the aircraft in service station sites to be known as ‘The Flying Service’.
Named HELL'S ANGELS. The name ‘Hell's Angels’ was adopted after the 4th or 5th mission.
The artwork was designed and painted on the right side of the fuselage in late November or early December 1942.
VIII Bomber Command Headquarters later issued a directive that squadron and aircraft Ietters would be painted
on the side of the fuselage of all bombers. The original artwork was removed to permit the painting of the
squadron and aircraft letters (VK*D). The artwork was then repainted on the nose.
Following several weeks of suggestions, debates and arguments, and by a vote of the 303rd BG(H) staff and
Squadron commanders, the name ‘Hell's Angels’ was adopted by the 303rd Bomb Group (H) on 7Jan44.
At that time the numerical designation of bomb groups in England was still on the secret list, and
the men of the 303rd wanted a name that was simple, descriptive and appropriate for one of the Eighth Air Force's top organizations.
24578 (MSN 3263) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 12Aug42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 16Aug42.
365th Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group, Syracuse AAB, NY 2Oct42.
305th Bomb Group, Presque Isle Field, ME 19Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 24/25Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
365th Bomb Squadron [XK*R:XK*F], 305th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 25Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 29Oct42. Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 11Dec42.
Air Force Service Command 21May43.
Returned to Group 26May43. 2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little Staughton (Station 127), Bedfordshire 3/4Aug43.
Air Force Service Command 5Sep43. 547th Bomb Squadron [SO*U], 384th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 7Oct43]
Named "Problem Child/Old Reliable". (first combat mission 20Oct43}.
Damaged at Horham (Station 119), Suffolk 6Feb44.
Regained by Group 12Feb44. {16 missions, 384BG}. {final combat mission 25Feb44}. {69 missions}.
Base Air Depot No.1, Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire 15Mar44.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom).
Returned to the US 21/25May44.
Oklahoma City Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 14Jun44.
Ferrying Division, Air Transport Command, Cincinnati, OH 15Jul44.
3701st Base Unit (Technical School), Amarillo Field, TX 16Jul44.
Landing accident at Amarillo Field 20Nov44. Surveyed 28Nov44
24579 (MSN 3264) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 13Aug42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 16Aug42.
360th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group, Kellogg Field, Battle Creek, MI 14Sep42.
Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 3Oct42.
Fairfield Air Depot, Air Service Command, Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 6Oct42.
360th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group, Kellogg Field, Battle Creek, MI 11Oct42.
303rd Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 14Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 16Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 21Oct42. VIII Bomber Command, England.
360th Bomb Squadron [PU*F], 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire Oct42,
Named"Thumper"– artwork of Thumper the rabbit holding a bomb with a burning fuse.
Named after the pilot saw the film ‘Bambi’. first combat mission 17Nov42}.
Battle damaged on a mission to the submarine yards at Pointe de Keroman, Lorient, France 23Jan43
(1KIA:5WIA:5RMC).
Intense and heavy flak was encountered; a large force of enemy fighters was seen with numerous attacks.
Damaged by flak, crash landed at RAF Lulsgate Bottom, near Bristol.
Eight crewmen bailed out before the two pilots carried out the crash landing.
The hydraulic system and two engines were damaged.
During the landing the rear fuselage twisted when the ball turret suspension frame was forced
up through the spine aft of the radio room. Salvaged 30Jan43. {5 missions}.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 30Jan43. SOC 4Nov44.
24580 (MSN 3265) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 14Aug42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 17Aug42.
358th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group, Kellogg Field, Battle Creek, MI 14Sep42.
303rd Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 11Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 16Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 21Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England. 358th Bomb Squadron [VK*C],
303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire Oct42.
Named "No Monkey Business/Hell Cat Agnes".
{first combat mission 18Nov42}.
Failed to return from a mission to the submarine yards at Pointe de Keroman, Lorient, France 23Jan43
(8POW:2EVD).
Intense and heavy flak was encountered; a large force of enemy fighters was seen with numerous attacks.
Damaged in an attack by enemy fighters, with the no.4 propeller feathered and the no.1 engine smoking,
the crew bailed out near Brest, France before the plane crashed in the Bay of Biscay. {4 missions}.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 23Jan43. SOC 4Nov44 MACR 15473
24581 (MSN 3266) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 13Aug42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 16Aug42.
359th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group, Kellogg Field, Battle Creek, MI 13Sep42.
Fairfield Air Depot, Air Service Command, Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 24Sep42.
303rd Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 4Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 20/21Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
359th Bomb Squadron [BN*O], 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 21Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 25Oct42.
(first combat mission 17Nov42}. Battle damaged on a mission to the Luftwaffe air depot at
Romilly-sur-Seine, France 20Dec42 (10RMC).
Enemy fighters attacked most of the way from entering France until returning to the English Channel.
The plane had just passed Paris, France, on its way back from the target when attacked by enemy fighters.
The first flight of Fw 190s did damage to the bomber with 20mm cannon fire, hitting an engine and a wing.
Unable to feather the propeller, the vibration caused the need to reduce power to keep the vibration
within limits and the plane started to lag behind.
Uncertain if the wing would hold together, most of the crew bailed out over England while the
pilot and co-pilot brought the aircraft back to crash land at Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 23Dec42. SOC 4Nov44. Named THE 8 BALL
24582 (MSN 3267) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 13Aug42. United Air Lines,
Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 16Aug42.
358th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group, Kellogg Field, Battle Creek, MI 13Sep42.
Fairfield Air Depot, Air Service Command, Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 6Oct42.
Substantially damaged in collision with parked B-17E 41-9181 while being taxyed
by a civilian mechanic at Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 8Oct42.
303rd Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 11Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 16Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500),
Scotland 21Oct42. VIII Bomber Command, England.
358th Bomb Squadron [VK*G], 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire Oct42
Named "One O'Clock Jump" (Count Basie blues instrumental) {first combat mission 23Nov42}.
Failed to return from a mission to the Luftwaffe air depot at Romilly-sur-Seine, France 12Dec42
(2KIA:5POW:3EVD).
Badly damaged in an attack by enemy fighters twenty-five miles east of Paris, the aircraft went into a spin
and crashed near Fountainbleu, southeast of Paris, France. {3 missions}.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 12Dec42. SOC 4Nov44. .
24583 (MSN 3268) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 13Aug42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 9Sep42.
379th Bomb Group, New Castle Field, Wilmington, DE 6Oct42.
2nd Ferrying Group, New Castle Field, Wilmington, DE Oct42.
North Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME Nov42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 2Nov42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route via Goose Bay, Labrador Nov42.
Departed Goose Bay to Bluie West One (BW-1), Narsarsuaq, Greenland Nov42.
Used to drop supplies during the rescue of B-17F 42-5088 at Koge Bay, Narsarssuak, Greenland
Nov42 to Apr43. {34 supply missions over the ice cap}.
Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland. Participated in a mission to bomb a German
communications centre and weather station, Sabine Island, Greenland 25May43.
Ferried Meeks Field, Keflavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 27May43.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
11th Combat Crew Replacement Centre, Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire.
Headquarters Squadron, 328th Service Group, Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire.
Substantially damaged in an accident taxying at Bovingdon 11Aug43.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned salvage after non battle damage 5May45. SOC 27Jun45
24584 (MSN 3269) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 14Aug42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20Aug42.
427th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group, Kellogg Field, Battle Creek, MI 16Sep42.
303rd Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 5Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 25Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 31Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
427th Bomb Squadron [GN*Q], 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire Nov42.
{first combat mission 18Nov42}.
Failed to return from a mission to the submarine yards at Pointe de Keroman, Lorient, France 23Jan43
(2KIA:6POW:2EVD). Intense and heavy flak was encountered; a large force of enemy fighters was seen
with numerous attacks.
Shot down by Fw 190 fighter and crashed at Pleyben Abbey, near Edern, ten miles northeast of Quimper, France.
{5 missions}. Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 23Jan43. SOC 4Nov44. Named SUSFU; MACR 15571. .
41-24585/24639 Boeing B-17F-27-BO Fortress
MSN 3270/3324. Boeing Model 299P. Defence Aid contract for the Royal Air Force as
serial FH563/FH617. Diverted to USAAF after the Japanese attacks in Hawaii and the Philippines
Production changes: Strengthened landing gear drag strut.
Information from Stewart Lanham and FORTLOG
24585 (MSN 3270) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 14Aug42. United Air Lines,
Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20Aug42.
Kellogg Field, Battle Creek, MI 30Sep42.
360th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group, Kellogg Field, Battle Creek, MI
1Oct42. Dow Field, Bangor, ME 14Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 16Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 21Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
360th Bomb Squadron [PU*B], 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire Oct42. .
Named *Wulf Hound*– artwork of a hound with a broken German fighter in its mouth. {first combat mission 18Nov42}.
Failed to return from a mission to the Luftwaffe air depot at Romilly-sur-Seine, France 12Dec42 (4POW:6EVD).
Badly damaged in an attack by enemy fighters twenty-five miles east of Paris.
The pilot dived out of formation five minutes later and headed back, trailed by five Fw 190 fighters.
The bomber started to go down and was last observed going into a cloud formation.
After the fighters departed, the pilot continued westerly a short distance,
descending to approximately 500 feet.
He had to set the plane down because it was no longer airworthy and, at that altitude,
if the engines quit, the crew would likely be killed in the crash.
Clearing some electrical high tension wires, the pilot made a good wheels-up landing,
with the ball turret guns pointing downward, in a hay field in the midst of startled French workers.
The crew smashed the radio and IFF equipment, exited the plane, did as much damage to the
aircraft as possible, and retired to a nearby copse. The plane had crash landed near Melun, Paris, France. {3 missions}.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 12Dec42. SOC 4Nov44.
First B-17 captured and flown by the Luftwaffe.
The Germans were able to make repairs and put the plane into a flyable condition; the damaged ball turret was not replaced.
The aircraft was painted with Luftwaffe Insignia and side code DL+XC, with yellow paint on the under surfaces.
Flown to Rechlin for testing at the Luftwaffe Test and Evaluation Center 14Dec42.
‘Wulf Hound’ was first flown by the Germans on 17Mar43, followed by more testing and development of fighter tactics
against B-17s. Exhibited at the exhibition of trophies at Lärz, Germany 12Jun43.
Equipped for glider towing and used in testing the Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Segelflug (DFS) 230
combat transport glider. It was transferred to the Luftwaffe "Kampfgeschwader" KG200 Squadron
as A3+AE at Rangesdforf, Germany 11Sep43 and took part in training and highly secretive
clandestine missions between May and June 1944. It was known that a captured B-17 was
left at the Ordnance and Equipment Depot, Oranienburg, Germany during the last days of the war.
The right wing was damaged, also the complete tail section and the plane stood in an oblique
position, which meant that the right landing gear was broken.
Right behind the damaged tail a small bomb crater is visible.
It is believed that the B-17 was damaged during a USAAF raid by, ironically, the 303rd Bomb Group 10Apr45.
The Russians had used the airfield since they reached Oranienburg, Germany around 24Apr45.
After the war they used it as a bomber base. The Russian base was closed in 1994.
The local authorities decided to change the field to a business area and the former main runway
was used for a new highway. But before this could happen, the area had to be cleared of all supposed
ammunition, scrap and ruins. The first findings of the B-17 were made in the late 1990's.
An elevator was found, later noted on an eBay auction.
The Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp Memorial received some parts of a B-17 found at the former
Oranienburg, Germany airfield.
In August 2008, the airfield was being prepared for a new building.
Members of the ammunition recovery service were working at the place where all the parts of the B-17 were recovered.
Some of the parts were clearly stencilled with the serial number 41-24585
24586 (MSN 3271) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 14Aug42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20Aug42.
365th Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group, Syracuse AAB, NY 2Oct42.
305th Bomb Group, Presque Isle Field, ME 19Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 24/25Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England. 365th Bomb Squadron [XK*U:XK*A],
305th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 26Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 29Oct42.
Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 11Dec42.
Base Air Depot No.1, Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire 20Mar44.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom).
Returned to US Jul/Aug44.
1104th Base Unit (Caribbean Division, Air Transport Command), Homestead Field (Station 8), FL 2Aug44.
4117th Base Unit (Warner Robins Air Technical Service Command), Robins Field, Warner Robins, GA 4Aug44.
Surveyed 23Jun45. Reclaim complete 30Aug45. Named WHAM BAM.
24587 (MSN 3272) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 16Aug42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 20Aug42.
427th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group, Kellogg Field, Battle Creek, MI 30Sep42.
303rd Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 5Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 25Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 31Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
427th Bomb Squadron [GN*P], 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire Nov42.
Named"Bad Check"– artwork of Bugs Bunny cartoon character. Named because a bad check always comes bac-
Battle damaged on a mission to the submarine yards at Pointe de Keroman, Lorient, France 23Jan43.
Intense and heavy flak was encountered; a large force of enemy fighters was seen with numerous attacks.
The starboard inner engine had failed after being damaged by flak and both wings were damaged by
cannon shells from Fw 190 and Bf 109 fighters. On return force landed at RAF Exeter, Devon.
Accident landing at Molesworth 25Nov43.
Failed to return from a mission to the AGO-Flugzeugwerke Fw 190 manufacturing factory at Oschersleben,
Germany 11Jan44 (4KIA:6POW).
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. Attacked by enemy aircraft and crash landed at Lienen, Tecklenburg, Germany. {45 missions}.
MACR 1922 Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 11Jan44. SOC 28Feb44 {45 missions).
24588 (MSN 3273) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 14Aug42.
Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 23Aug42.
Syracuse AAB, NY 14Sep42. Middletown Air Depot, Olmsted Field, Middletown, PA 21Sep42.
Syracuse AAB, NY 25Sep42. 305th Bomb Group, Syracuse AAB, NY Oct42.
364th Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group, Presque Isle Field, ME 19Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 24/25Oct42. VIII Bomber Command, England.
364th Bomb Squadron [WF*A], 305th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106),
Northamptonshire 25Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 29Oct42.
Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 11Dec42.
Failed to return from a mission to the submarine construction yard at Vegesack, Bremen, Germany 18Mar43 (10KIA).
Attacked by enemy aircraft and ditched in English Channel ten miles off Selsey Bill, England on return.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 8Mar43. SOC 4Nov44.MACR 15718
Named CARTER AND HIS LITTLE PILLS (a patent medicine).
24589 (MSN 3274) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 16Aug42.
Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 23Aug42.
323rd Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 15Sep42.
Accident at Dow Field 5Oct42.
During the turn from the taxyway to the runway into takeoff position, the tail wheel ran off the edge
and the tail section severed from the rear bulkhead.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 11Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to RAF Limavady, Derry, Northern Ireland 15Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
323rd Bomb Squadron [OR*R], 91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 16Oct42.
Failed to return from a mission to the railway marshalling yards at Hamm, Germany 4Feb43 (2KIA:8POW).
Cloud cover prevented bombing of the primary target at Hamm and the formation diverted to the
industrial area of Emden, Germany.
Aircraft sustained damage from flak over the target and later fighter attacks by Bf 110 night fighters and Ju 88s.
The bombardier had been killed during the fighter attacks and the radio operator was fatally wounded.
Crash landed on the beach at Terschelling, West Frisian Islands, Netherlands. {6+ missions}.
Claimed by Hauptmann Joachim Jabs, a Staffelkapitan
of IV./NJG 1. MACR 15124.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 4Feb43. SOC 4Nov44.
Named TEXAS BRONCO. Luftwaffe salvage teams dismantled the aircraft and transported it to Utrecht, Netherlands
24590 (MSN 3275) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 16Aug42.
Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 23Aug42.
303rd Bomb Group, Kellogg Field, Battle Creek, MI 1Oct42.
364th Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group, Syracuse AAB, NY 3Oct42.
305th Bomb Group, Presque Isle Field, ME 19Oct43.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 24/25Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England. 364th Bomb Squadron [WF*B],
305th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 25Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 29Oct42.
Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 11Dec42.
Failed to return from a mission to the Deutsche Werke Kiel AG shipyard at Kiel, Germany 19May43
(7KIA:3POW).
Damaged in an attack by enemy fighters and crashed Tetenhusen, west of Rendsburg, Germany.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 31Oct44. SOC 10Dec44
24591 (MSN 3276) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 17Aug42.
Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 23Aug42.
305th Bomb Group, Syracuse AAB, NY 2Oct42.
366th Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group, Presque Isle Field, ME 20Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 29Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 6/7Nov42.
VIII Bomber Command, England. 366th Bomb Squadron [KY*B], 305th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106),
Northamptonshire Nov42.
Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 11Dec42.
Telecommunications Research Establishment, RAF Defford, Worcestershire, 16Apr43.
Regained by Group 30Jul43. Eighth Air Force Service Command 6Aug43.
Regained by Group 7Aug43.
Failed to return from a mission to industrial targets at Stuttgart, Germany 6Sep43 (1KIA:6POW:3EVD).
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 aircraft suffered mechanical failure and crashed at Buchy, nineteen miles southeast of Dieppe, France.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 6Sep43. SOC 4Feb44. Named RIGOR MORTIS. MACR 1344 and 2155.
24592 (MSN 3277) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 18Aug42.
Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 23Aug42.
305th Bomb Group, Syracuse AAB, NY 3Oct42.
366th Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group, Presque Isle Field, ME 19Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 24/25Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England. 366th Bomb Squadron [KY*G], 305th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 25Oct42
Named *Madame Butterfly*. Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 29Oct42.
Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 11Dec42.
Bomb Squadron [JJ*G] Aug43. Failed to return from a mission to industrial targets at
Stuttgart, Germany 6Sep43 (10INT). 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. With fuel exhaustion, the aircraft force landed
at Dübendorf, Zürich, Switzerland and was interned. MACR 1345. Returned to UK 1Sep45. Base Air
Depot No.1, Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire. Assigned to GLUE (United States Air Forces in Europe - USAFE).
Returned to US 15Sep45. Condemned salvage 12Oct45. SOC 10Dec45.
24593 (MSN 3278) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 18Aug42.
Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 23Aug42.
303rd Bomb Group, Kellogg Field, Battle Creek, MI 1Oct42.
305th Bomb Group, Syracuse AAB, NY 3Oct42.
364th Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group, Presque Isle Field, ME 19Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 24/25Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
364th Bomb Squadron [WF*G], 305th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 25Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 29Oct42.
Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 11Dec42.
Failed to return from a mission to the railway marshalling yards at Hamm, Germany 4Feb43 (6KIA:4POW).
Cloud cover prevented bombing of the primary target at Hamm and the formation diverted to the
industrial area of Emden, Germany.
Damage by flak led to a mid-air collision with an enemy aircraft and crashed at Filsum, east of Leer, Germany.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 4Feb43. SOC 4Nov44. Named EL LOBO.
24594 (MSN 3279) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 17Aug42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28Aug42.
3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 12Oct42.
Loan to Royal Air Force as Fortress Mark II, serial FA695 at Dorval, Montreal 14Nov42.
No.45 Group, Ferry Command, Dorval, Montreal.
Ferried on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to RAF Prestwick, Ayr, Scotland 22Nov42.
Scottish Aviation, Prestwick, Scotland 22Nov42.
Air Service Training, Hamble, Hants 9Apr43.
No.218 Maintenance Unit, RAF Colerne, Bath, Wiltshire 16Jun43.
USAAF loan to RAF made permanent 21Jun43.
No.206 Squadron [V], RAF Benbecula, Outer Hebrides, Scotland 28Jun43.
No.3502 Servicing Unit, RAF Thorney Island, Hampshire. No.206 Squadron, Lajes Field, Terceira Island, Azores 8Nov43.
No.247 Group Detachment, RAF Bircham Newton, Norfolk 31Mar44 for storage.
RAF Thornaby, North Yorkshire 19Apr44 for overhaul.
Signals Flying Unit, RAF Honiley, Wroxall, Warwickshire 1Oct44 for secret tests relating to new radio equipment.
No.3502 Servicing Unit (Gosport Pool), RAF Gosport, Hampshire Nov44.
No.519 Squadron [Z9-C], RAF Wick, Scotland 2Dec44.
No.51 Maintenance Unit, RAF Lichfield, Staffordshire 17Sep45. SOC 31Jul47
24595 (MSN 3280) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 18Aug42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28Aug42.
Delivery delayed when the no.4 propeller gear stripped in flight and the engine burned out 12Oct42.
Ogden Air Service Command, Casper Field, WY 13Nov42.
3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 28Nov42.
Loan to Royal Air Force as Fortress Mark II, serial FA696 at Dorval, Montreal 2Feb43.
No.45 Group, Ferry Command, Dorval, Montreal 2Feb43.
Ferried on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to RAF Prestwick, Ayr, Scotland 14Feb43.
No.12 Maintenance Unit, RAF Kirkbride, Cumberland 22Feb43.
Air Service Training, Hamble, Hants 15Mar43.
USAAF loan to RAF made permanent 21Jun43.
No.218 Maintenance Unit, RAF Colerne, Bath, Wiltshire 6Sep43.
No.206 Squadron [Y], RAF Benbecula, Outer Hebrides, Scotland 9Sep43.
No.3502 Servicing Unit, RAF Thorney Island, Hampshire.
No.206 Squadron [2-Y], Lajes Field, Terceira Island, Azores 8Nov43.
No.247 Group Detachment, RAF Bircham Newton, Norfolk 31Mar44 for storage.
RAF Thornaby, North Yorkshire 21Apr44 for overhaul.
No.3502 Servicing Unit (Gosport Pool), RAF Gosport, Hampshire 21Nov44.
No.519 Squadron [Z9-J], RAF Wick, Scotland 12Dec44.
No.251 Squadron [AD-B], Reykjavik, Iceland 1Aug45.
Named BORGANES BESS.
No.521 Squadron [B], RAF Langham, Norfolk 19Nov45.
RAF Chivenor, Devon. No.51 Maintenance Unit, RAF Lichfield, Staffordshire 15Mar46 for storage.
Sold to International Alloys Ltd 11Mar47. SOC 11Mar47
24596 (MSN 3281) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 17Aug42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28Aug42.
3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 12Oct42.
Loan to Royal Air Force as Fortress Mark II, serial FA697 at Dorval, Montreal 28Oct42.
No.45 Group, Ferry Command, Dorval, Montreal.
Ferried on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to RAF Prestwick, Ayr, Scotland 7Nov42.
No.12 Maintenance Unit, RAF Kirkbride, Cumberland 16Nov42.
USAAF loan to RAF made permanent 21Jun43.
Air Service Training, Hamble, Hants 16Jul43.
No.218 Maintenance Unit, RAF Colerne, Bath, Wiltshire 18Aug43.
No.3502 Servicing Unit, RAF Thorney Island, Hampshire.
No.220 Squadron [2-T], Lajes Field, Terceira Island, Azores 8Nov43.
Attempting to land in very poor visibility, the aircraft landed long, the pilot retracting the
landing gear to prevent a runoff into a quarry at the end of the runway at Lajes 19Dec43. SOC 31Jan44
24597 (MSN 3282) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 19Aug42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28Aug42.
3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 12Oct42.
Loan to Royal Air Force as Fortress Mark II, serial FA698 at Dorval, Montreal 14Nov42.
No.45 Group, Ferry Command, Dorval, Montreal.
Ferried on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to RAF Prestwick, Ayr, Scotland 23Nov42.
No.29 Maintenance Unit, RAF High Ercall, Shropshire 28Nov42.
No.22 Elementary Flying Training School, Hamble, Hants 29Jan43.
No.59 Squadron [V], RAF Chivenor, Devon 6Feb43.
Accident returning from an anti-submarine patrol over the Bay of Biscay 26Mar43 (3KIA:4INJ).
The pilot failed to carry out a full and correct Blind Approach Beam System (BABS) procedure
and had begun his decent outside the centreline of the beam in low cloud, at night and at the
end of a ten hour patrol. The aircraft crashed into a hill at Luscott Barton, Braunton, Devon. Salvaged 31Mar43
24598 (MSN 3283) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 18Aug42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 27Aug42.
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 11Oct42.
3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 12Oct42.
Loan to Royal Air Force as Fortress Mark II, serial FA699 at Dorval, Montreal 21Nov42.
No.45 Group, Ferry Command, Dorval, Montreal.
Ferried on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to RAF Prestwick, Ayr, Scotland 24Feb43.
Scottish Aviation, Prestwick, Scotland 24Feb43.
No.29 Maintenance Unit, RAF High Ercall, Shropshire 28Feb43.
Air Service Training, Hamble, Hants 13Mar43.
No.29 Maintenance Unit, RAF High Ercall, Shropshire 29Apr43.
Air Service Training, Hamble, Hants 19Jun43.
USAAF loan to RAF made permanent 21Jun43.
No.218 Maintenance Unit, RAF Colerne, Bath, Wiltshire 30Jun43.
No.206 Squadron [O], RAF Benbecula, Outer Hebrides, Scotland 8Jul43.
No.3502 Servicing Unit, RAF Thorney Island, Hampshire.
No.206 Squadron [2-O], Lajes Field, Terceira Island, Azores 8Nov43.
No.247 Group Detachment, RAF Bircham Newton, Norfolk 31Mar44 for storage.
RAF Thornaby, North Yorkshire 14Apr44 for overhaul.
No.220 Squadron [2-K], Lajes Field, Terceira Island, Azores Jun44.
Named KITTIE.
No.3502 Servicing Unit (Gosport Pool), RAF Gosport, Hampshire 23Dec44.
No.519 Squadron [Z9-L], RAF Wick, Scotland 3Feb45.
No.251 Squadron [AD-H], Reykjavik, Iceland 24Jul45. Named HEKLA HETTIE. SOC 29Dec45..
24599 (MSN 3284) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 20Aug42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 28Aug42.
Denver Municipal Airport, CO 11Oct42.
3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 19Oct42.
Loan to Royal Air Force as Fortress Mark II, serial FA700 at Dorval, Montreal 12Jan43.
No.45 Group, Ferry Command, Dorval, Montreal 11Feb43.
Ferried on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to RAF Prestwick, Ayr, Scotland 20Feb43.
Scottish Aviation, Prestwick, Scotland 25Feb43.
No.29 Maintenance Unit, RAF High Ercall, Shropshire 28Feb43.
Air Service Training, Hamble, Hants 15Mar43.
No.218 Maintenance Unit, RAF Colerne, Bath, Wiltshire 20Jun43.
USAAF loan to RAF made permanent 21Jun43.
No.206 Squadron [R], RAF Benbecula, Outer Hebrides, Scotland 27Jun43.
No.3502 Servicing Unit, RAF Thorney Island, Hampshire.
Equipped with Long Range Air to Surface Vessel (LRASV) radar aerials in nose and fuselage.
No.206 Squadron [2-R], Lajes Field, Terceira Island, Azores 8Nov43.
Submarine U-575 was sunk in the North Atlantic north of the Azores 13Mar44 by the
combined efforts of the Canadian frigate HMCS Prince Rupert, the American destroyer
USS Hobson and destroyer escort USS Haverfield, a British Vickers Wellington
of no.172 Squadron RAF, two B-17 Flying Fortresses of no.206 [FA700/41-24599] and
208 Squadrons [FL459/41-9241] and a TBM Avenger from USS Bogue.
Depth charges, gunfire and rockets were used in the attack; 18 men died and there were 37 survivors.
No.247 Group Detachment, RAF Bircham Newton, Norfolk 31Mar44 for storage.
RAF Thornaby, North Yorkshire 13Apr44 for overhaul. No.220 Squadron [R],
RAF Aldergrove, Northern Ireland 17Jun44.
RAF Thornaby, North Yorkshire 11Jul44. No.220 Squadron [R], RAF Aldergrove, Northern Ireland 11Jul44.
No.3502 Servicing Unit (Gosport Pool), RAF Gosport, Hampshire 18Dec44.
No.519 Squadron [Z9-K], RAF Wick, Scotland 3Feb45.
No.251 Squadron, Reykjavik, Iceland 20Jul45. SOC 22Dec45.
24600 (MSN 3285) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 17Aug42.
Bailed back to Boeing, Seattle, WA 26Aug42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 29Nov42.
Great Falls AAB, MT 5Dec42. Glasgow Field, MT 7Dec42.
Great Falls AAB, MT 9Jan43.
385th Bomb Group, Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 12Mar43.
401st Bomb Group, Ephrata AAB, WA 24Mar43.
401st Bomb Group, Spokane Field, WA 4Apr43.
401st Bomb Group, Ephrata AAB, WA 15Apr43.
401st Bomb Group, Spokane Field, WA 15Jul43.
401st Bomb Group, Ephrata AAB, WA 15Aug43.
Air Service Command, Fairfield Air Depot, Patterson Field, Dayton, OH.
497th Bomb Group, 73rd Bomb Wing, Pratt Field, KS 28Jun44.
246th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Pratt Field, KS.
233rd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station-Very Heavy), Davis-Monthan Field, Tucson, AZ 20Aug44.
224th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Sioux City AAB, IA 14Oct44.
Force landed after fuel exhaustion one mile east of Orchard, NB 10Jan45.
Surveyed 12Jan45. Reclaim complete 9Feb45.
24601 (MSN 3286)Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 18Aug42.
Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 26Aug42.
305th Bomb Group, Syracuse AAB, NY 30Sep42.
365th Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group, Presque Isle Field, ME 19Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 24/25Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
365th Bomb Squadron [XK*P], 305th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 25Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 29Oct42.
Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 11Dec42.
Failed to return from a mission to the Chemin de fer du Nord workshops at Hellemmes, Lille, France 13Jan43 (10KIA).
Shot down by Unteroffizier Erich Scheyda of III./JG 26.
The bomber exploded in mid-air and crashed near Pollinkhove, Belgium. MACR 15639
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 13Jan43. SOC 4Nov44.
Named BUCKEYE BLITZ.
Salvaged by Flugzeug Bergungs Truppe mot. 3 B / N, based in Wevelgem, Belgium.
24602 (MSN 3287) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 19Aug42.
Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 25Aug42.
Kellogg Field, Battle Creek, MI 20Sep42.
Air Service Command, Fairfield Air Depot, Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 8Oct42.
360th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group, Kellogg Field, Battle Creek, MI 11Oct42.
Dow Field, Bangor, ME 14Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 16Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 21Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
360th Bomb Squadron [PU*A], 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire Oct42.
{first combat mission 17Nov42}.
Failed to return from a mission to the docks at Saint-Nazaire, France 29May43 (1KIA:9POW).
Damaged by flak, later shot down by enemy fighters. Crashed and exploded at Provine, France. {25 missions}.
One died in hospital a few days after being taken POW. No MACR
24603 (MSN 3288) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 19Aug42.
Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 25Aug42.
359th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group, Kellogg Field, Battle Creek, MI 20Sep42.
303rd Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 3Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 20/21Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England. 359th Bomb Squadron [BN*V],
303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 22Oct42.
Named "The Green Hornet". Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 25Oct42.
{first combat mission 17Nov42}. Battle damaged on a mission to the torpedo storage areas at
Saint-Nazaire, France 3Jan43 (1WIA:9RMC).
West of Nantes, France, the anti-aircraft fire was strong; south of the Loire the fire of the battery
of Château Bougon, Couffé, was very heavy, and a strong defence was encountered in the region of Paimboeuf.
Strong head winds slowed the advance of the formation during the last part of the flight.
Flak was intense and precise above the objective.
German fighters quickly intercepted the formation, attacking first the bombers damaged by anti-aircraft fire.
The bombardier was injured from flying glass broken by enemy aircraft bullets.
Failed to return from a mission to the submarine yards at Pointe de Keroman, Lorient, France 23Jan43
(1KIA:5POW:4EVD).
Intense and heavy flak was encountered; a large force of enemy fighters was seen with numerous attacks.
Struck by flak, causing loss of three engines.
After leaving the formation, it was damaged by Fw 190s in a head-on attack.
The crew, except for the pilot and co-pilot, bailed out, the pilots had only one parachute between them
and they both elected to stay with the B-17 for a crash landing.
The aircraft crash landed on the side of a hill at Kergolay, near Motreff, France.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 23Jan43. SOC 4Nov44.
24604 (MSN 3289) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 21Aug42.
Continental Airlines, Modification Center #13, Denver Municipal Airport, CO 25Aug42.
305th Bomb Group, Syracuse AAB, NY 3Oct42.
366th Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group, Presque Isle Field, ME 19Oct42.
Ferried Gander, Newfoundland to RAF Acklington, Northumberland, England 24/25Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
366th Bomb Squadron [KY*D], 305th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 25Oct42.
Accident when overshot landing at RAF Wittering, Stamford, Northamptonshire 26Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 29Oct42.
Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 11Dec42.
Battle damaged on a mission to a power house at Vegesack, Bremen, Germany 27Jan43 (2POW - bailed out).
The target was obscured by clouds so the formation turned to the secondary target, the naval base at
Wilhelmshaven, Germany.
Moderate, heavy and inaccurate anti-aircraft fire was observed in the target area;
a small force of enemy fighters was encountered.
Failed to return from a mission to the port at Bremen, Germany 26Feb43 (12POW).
The primary target was overcast so the plane diverted to the docks and harbour at
Wilhelmshaven, Germany.
Attacked by enemy aircraft and crashed at Hookseil, ten miles north of Wilhelmshaven, Germany.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom).
Condemned 26Feb43. SOC 4Nov44. MACR 15443
Named ARKIE. Named after the pilot’s wife.
24605 MSN 3290) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 20Aug42.
Douglas Aircraft Company, Modification Center, Air Force Plant #3, Tulsa Municipal Airport, OK 26Aug42.
359th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group, Kellogg Field, Battle Creek, MI 21Sep42.
Fairfield Air Depot, Air Service Command, Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 24Sep42.
303rd Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 4Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 20/21Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
359th Bomb Squadron [BN*R], 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 22Oct42
Named *Knock-out Dropper*– artwork of an eye dropper dispensing two bombs.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 25Oct42.
{first combat mission 18Nov42}.
Battle damaged on a mission to the railway marshalling yards at Hamm, Germany 4Feb43.
Cloud cover prevents bombing of the primary target at Hamm and the formation diverted
to the industrial area of Emden, Germany.
A fighter cannon shell struck the radio room wounding the radio operator.
First VIII Bomber Command aircraft to complete fifty missions 16Nov43,
then first to complete 75 missions 27Mar44. {final combat mission 27Mar44}.
The fuselage was autographed by hundreds of 303rd Bomb Group personnel.
Base Air Depot No.1, Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire 5Jun44.
Returned to US 5/12Jun44 for a War Bond tour.
Oklahoma City Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK Jun44.
Oklahoma City Air Technical Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 1Sep44.
Ferrying Division, Air Transport Command, Cincinnati, OH 13Feb45.
4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 14Feb45.
Ferrying Division, Air Transport Command, Cincinnati, OH Jun45.
Searcy Field, Stillwater, OK 27Jun45.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Searcy Field, Stillwater, OK for storage and disposal 19Jul45.
War Assets Corporation. Sold to Paul Mantz, Glendale, CA 19Feb46.
Sold to an oil company, dismantled and trucked to Oklahoma City, OK, as part of an
unsuccessful plan to incorporate the aircraft in service station sites to be known as ‘The Flying Service’.
Put up on pylons in downtown Oklahoma City and displayed at a gas station.
Once the novelty wore off and the downtown development started, the aircraft was bulldozed and buried.
The remains of the aircraft are now under a large building constructed in the late 1940s, early 1950s in Oklahoma City
Production changes: Bladder main fuel tanks
24606 (MSN 3291) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 20Aug42.
Douglas Aircraft Company, Modification Center, Air Force Plant #3, Tulsa Municipal Airport, OK 26Aug42.
358th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group, Kellogg Field, Battle Creek, MI 6Sep42.
303rd Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 14Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 16Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 21Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
358th Bomb Squadron [VK*H], 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire Oct42.
{first combat mission 17Nov42}.
Battle damaged on a mission to the submarine yards at Pointe de Keroman, Lorient, France 23Jan43 (10RMC).
Intense and heavy flak was encountered; a large force of enemy fighters was seen with numerous attacks.
Struck by flak over the target, the aircraft returned with only one engine working to force land on a rugby
field in the grounds of a mental hospital at Dawlish, Devon.
The crew, except pilot, bailed out over the south coast of England. {4 missions}.
Salvaged 23Jan43.
Originally thought to be beyond repair, VIII Service Command later decided to repair the plane and fly it out.
They changed three engines, and cleared trees, walls, and hedges to made a 2,500 foot runway.
The take-off was successful and it was flown to Honington (Station 375), Suffolk.
Repaired at 1st Strategic Air Depot, Troston (Station 595), Suffolk.
401st Bomb Squadron [LL*G], 91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire 22Apr43.
{nil missions}.
Lockheed Overseas Corporation, 403rd Air Depot, Base Air Depot No.3, Langford Lodge (Station 597),
County Antrim, Northern Ireland 11Jun43.
2nd Strategic Air Depot, Little Staughton (Station 127), Bedfordshire 14Jun43.
11th Combat Crew Replacement Unit, 1st Combat Crew Replacement Group, Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom).
Condemned salvage after non battle damage 18Jun45. SOC 30Jul45.
Named WEREWOLF.
24607 (MSN 3292) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 21Aug42.
Douglas Aircraft Company, Modification Center, Air Force Plant #3, Tulsa Municipal Airport, OK 26Aug42.
Kellogg Field, Battle Creek, MI 23Sep42.
427th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group, Kellogg Field, Battle Creek, MI 24Sep42.
303rd Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 5Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 25Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 31Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
427th Bomb Squadron [GN*W], 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire Nov42
Named "Jerry Jinx" aka "What's Up Doc?" first combat mission 22Nov42}.
Failed to return from a mission to the submarine yards at Pointe de Keroman, Lorient, France 23Jan43 (10MIA).
Intense and heavy flak was encountered; a large force of enemy fighters was seen with numerous attacks.
Attacked by enemy fighters and ditched in Bay of Biscay. {6 missions}. MACR 15473
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 23Jan43. SOC 4Nov44.
24608 (MSN 3293) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 21Aug42.
Douglas Aircraft Company, Modification Center, Air Force Plant #3, Tulsa Municipal Airport, OK 26Aug42.
359th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group, Kellogg Field, Battle Creek, MI 22Sep42.
303rd Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 3Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 20/21Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England. 359th Bomb Squadron [BN*S], 303rd Bomb Group,
Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire Oct42. Named "Yahoodi" aka "Green Hornet"
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 25Oct42.
Failed to return from a mission to the torpedo storage areas at Saint-Nazaire, France 3Jan43 (5MIA:2KIA:3POW).
West of Nantes, France, the anti-aircraft fire was strong; south of the Loire the fire of the battery of
Château Bougon, Couffé, was very heavy, and a strong defence was encountered in the region of Paimboeuf.
Strong head winds slowed the advance of the formation during the last part of the flight.
Flak was intense and precise above the objective.
German fighters quickly intercepted the formation, attacking first the bombers damaged by anti-aircraft fire.
Immediately after the target, the pilot turned and headed for sea to escape a very intense flak barrage.
Unfortunately, a direct hit from a 105mm shell destroyed the right engine number three (nicknamed MARY).
Then German fighters concentrated their attack on the left engines number one (nicknamed DELL) and two.
The bomber was rapidly losing altitude and with only one engine a crash was inevitable.
The pilot ordered the crew to bail out. Too low to parachute, the two pilots managed to ditch in the
Bay of Biscay seven miles south of Pointe du Croisic, west of Saint-Nazaire, France. {2 missions}.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 3Jan43. SOC 4Nov44.
24609 (MSN 3294) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 21Aug42.
Douglas Aircraft Company, Modification Center, Air Force Plant #3, Tulsa Municipal Airport, OK 27Aug42.
359th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group, Kellogg Field, Battle Creek, MI 23Sep42.
303rd Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 3Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 20/21Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
359th Bomb Squadron [BN*Q], 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 22Oct42, named "Holy Mackerel".
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 25Oct42.
Battle damaged on a mission to the submarine base at Saint-Nazaire, France 23Nov42 (1POW).
A force of Fw 190 fighters made close attacks in groups of two or three immediately after the
bombers left the intense flak over the target.
Damaged by flak causing considerable damage which made the interphone inoperative.
Hydraulic fluid flowing into the navigator's compartment led the navigator to assume
that it was blood and that his pilot had been killed.
He bailed out over the target in a panic situation and was last seen descending near bursting flak.
Failed to return from a mission to the Renault armament and motor factory at Paris, France 4Apr43 (6KIA:4POW).
Attacked by enemy aircraft and crashed at Le Bocasse, twelve miles north of Rouen, France. MACR 15069
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 4Apr43. SOC 4Nov44..
24610 MSN 3295) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 23Aug42.
Douglas Aircraft Company, Modification Center, Air Force Plant #3, Tulsa Municipal Airport, OK 28Aug42.
427th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group, Kellogg Field, Battle Creek, MI 23Sep42.
303rd Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 5Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 25Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 31Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
427th Bomb Squadron [GN*T], 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire Nov42.
Named "Joe Btfsplk II"--named for a Li’l Abner character. {first combat mission 17Nov42}.
Severely battle damaged during a mission to the submarine base at Saint-Nazaire, France 16Feb43.
A collision by a Fw 190 fighter sliced off a large piece of the vertical stabiliser.
Failed to return from a mission to the submarine base at Saint-Nazaire, France 1May43 (7KIA:3POW).
With two engines damaged by flak, the bomber dropped to low level to take cover from the clouds
returning home, helpless, with ammunition exhausted.
Last seen not far from Belle Île with a motor on fire. Two Fw 190 fighters flown by Unteroffizier Rudolf Gerhardt
and Oberleutnant Joseph Wurmheller of the IX./JG 2 caused further damage.
The aircraft crashed in the sea between Noirmoutier-en-l'Île and Belle Île, west of Saint-Nazaire, France.
MACR 15727
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 1May43. SOC 4Nov44.
24611 (MSN 3296) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 30Aug42.
Douglas Aircraft Company, Modification Center, Air Force Plant #3, Tulsa Municipal Airport, OK 30Aug42.
422nd Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group, Syracuse AAB, NY 27Sep42.
305th Bomb Group, Presque Isle Field, ME 19Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 24/25Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
422nd Bomb Squadron [JJ*W], 305th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 27Oct42.
Named "Boomerang". Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 29Oct42.
Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 11Dec42. Flew General Eaker to Casablanca, French Morocco 15Jan43.
Failed to return from a mission to the submarine base at Saint-Nazaire, France 16Feb43 (1KIA:8POW:2EVD).
Attacked by enemy Fw 190 fighter aircraft setting no.2 and no.4 engines on fire.
The bomber dropped out of formation and was held in stable flight while the crew bailed out.
It crashed in the pond Étang du Grand Gournava, southwest of Pleucadeuc, France. MACR 16236
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 16Feb43. SOC 4Nov44.
24612 (MSN 3297) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 24Aug42.
Douglas Aircraft Company, Modification Center, Air Force Plant #3, Tulsa Municipal Airport, OK 28Aug42.
427th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group, Kellogg Field, Battle Creek, MI 24Sep42.
Air Service Command, Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 3Oct42.
303rd Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 5Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 25Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 31Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
427th Bomb Squadron [GN*R], 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire Nov42.
Named "The Devil Himself"--artwork of Bugs Bunny, insignia of the 427BS
Force landed on Mullaghmore Beach, County Sligo 5Dec42.
The crew reported they were on a test flight from Molesworth in the UK to Northern Ireland and had to force land.
After two days attempted repairs with ground engineers from Northern Ireland, it was determined that an
engine would need to be replaced.
The aircraft was repaired and departed 22Dec42 for RAF Eglinton, Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
Lockheed Overseas Corporation, 403rd Air Depot, Base Air Depot ? 3, Langford Lodge (Station 597),
County Antrim, Northern Ireland Feb43.
Fitted with prototype cheek guns on a ball-bearing installation.
Returned to Group Mar43.
Battle damaged during a mission to the submarine yards at Kiel, Germany 14May43.
Flak hit the top turret and left aileron plus a blown right tire.
Air Force Service Command 25May43 for special gun tests.
11th Combat Crew Replacement Unit, 1st Combat Crew Replacement Group, Bovingdon (Station 112), Hertfordshire 1943.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom).
Returned to US 20/27Dec44. 1105th Base Unit (Caribbean Division, Air Transport Command), Miami Field, FL 27Dec44.
4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 2Jan45.
Ferrying Division, Air Transport Command, Cincinnati, OH 19Jun45.
4124th Base Unit (Air Technical Service Command), Altus Field, OK 20Jun45.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 19Sep45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Esperado Mining Company, Altus, OK 25Jun47; scrapped
24613 (MSN 3298) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 24Aug42.
NACA Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, NAS Moffett Field, Mountain View, CA 28Aug42.
Air Technical Service Command, Wold-Chamberlain Field, Minneapolis, MN 9Jun44.
Designated XB-17F for aerodynamic and performance testing 5Nov44.
1454th Base Unit (Alaskan Division, Air Transport Command), Minneapolis Municipal Airport, MN 10Nov44.
Ferrying Division, Air Transport Command, Cincinnati, OH 26May45.
613th Base Unit (Air Proving Ground Command), Phillips Field, Aberdeen, MD 26May45.
Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 30Apr46. Salvaged.
24614 (MSN 3299) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 23Aug42.
Douglas Aircraft Company, Modification Center, Air Force Plant #3, Tulsa Municipal Airport, OK 28Aug42.
422nd Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group, Syracuse AAB, NY 27Sep42.
305th Bomb Group, Presque Isle Field, ME 19Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 24/25Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
422nd Bomb Squadron [JJ*R], 305th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 27Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 29Oct42.
Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 11Dec42.
Battle damaged on a mission to the U-boat base and shipyard at Saint-Nazaire, France 1May43.
Flak punctured the left and right wings in several locations.
20mm cannon shells damaged the no.1 engine. On return the bomber landed at St. Eval (Station 129),
Cornwall as planned, returning to Chelveston the following day.
422nd Bomb Squadron [JJ*A] Aug43. Accident returning from a night leaflet and propaganda mission
over Belgium and France 8Jan44.
After circling the airfield at Chelveston on its first attempt to land, the left landing gear strut
collapsed. {the plane was completing its fiftieth mission}. Base Air Depot No.1, Burtonwood (Station 590),
Lancashire 4May44. Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom).
Returned to US 14/19Jun44. Air Service Command, Atlanta Municipal Airport, GA Jun44.
Designated TB-17F. 1st Motion Picture Unit, Culver City, CA 10Aug44.
Used for training and propaganda films.
Ferrying Division, Air Transport Command, Cincinnati, OH 4Sep44.
3017th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Hobbs Field, NM 9Oct44.
3010th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Williams Field, Chandler, AZ 5Jan45.
3020th Base Unit (Pilot School, Advanced, Two Engine), La Junta Field, CO 23Apr45.
Searcey Field, Stillwater, OK 29Jun45.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Searcey Field, Stillwater, OK for storage and disposal 31Jul45.
War Assets Corporation. Sold to Paul Mantz, Glendale, CA 19Feb46; scrapped. S
Named SNAFU / WE THE PEOPLE / BETTY CENTRAL 0149 – artwork of a ginger-haired woman
in a red bathing suit reclining and talking on the phone
24615 (MSN 3300) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 27Aug42.
Douglas Aircraft Company, Modification Center, Air Force Plant #3, Tulsa Municipal Airport, OK 30Aug42.
422nd Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group, Syracuse AAB, NY 30Sep42.
305th Bomb Group, Presque Isle Field, ME 19Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 24/25Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England. 422nd Bomb Squadron [JJ*P], 305th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106),
Northamptonshire 27Oct42
Named "Target for Tonight"--artwork of a naked lady reclining.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 29Oct42.
Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 11Dec42.
Battle damaged on a mission to the U-boat base and shipyard at Saint-Nazaire, France 1May43.
Flak punctured the wings in several locations and the Plexiglas nose.
The bombardier was struck over the left eye by 20mm cannon fire from enemy fighters.
He was thrown onto the bomb release switch, causing one 2,000lb bomb to drop.
As the plane was on the bomb run with bomb bay doors open, two other bombardiers,
believing that the target had been sighted, released their bombs.
A freak accident but with good results; photographs revealed that the target had been hit with good accuracy.
On return the bomber landed at St. Eval (Station 129), Cornwall as planned, returning to Chelveston the following day.
422nd Bomb Squadron [JJ*F] Aug43.
Experimented in night bombing alongside the RAF and operated night leaflet and propaganda missions.
Damaged departing for a night leaflet mission to France 24Oct43.
Brake failure while taxying and as the plane swung round on a dispersal, it crashed into a
ground crew tent starting a fire, quickly extinguished, and the mechanics narrowly avoided injury.
Accident during a night leaflet and propaganda mission over France 8Jan44.
No.3 engine exploded and the no.4 propeller was feathered.
Now overpowered, no.1 and no.2 engines were overheating and running rough and the
plane force landed at RAF Woodbridge emergency landing ground, Suffolk.
{the plane was completing its sixty-fourth mission}.
Base Air Depot No.1, Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire 22Mar44.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom).
Returned to US 2/12May44.
Designated RB-17F.
3701st Base Unit (Technical School), Amarillo Field, TX 7Jul44.
3706th Base Unit (Basic Training Center), Sheppard Field, Wichita Falls, TX 17Apr45.
3701st Base Unit (Technical School), Amarillo Field, TX.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Walnut Ridge Field, AR for storage and disposal 4Nov45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Texas Railway Equipment Company, Houston, TX Sep46; scrapped
24616 (MSN 3301) (MSN 3301) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 28Aug42.
Douglas Aircraft Company, Modification Center, Air Force Plant #3, Tulsa Municipal Airport, OK 28Aug42.
422nd Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group, Syracuse AAB, NY 24Sep42.
305th Bomb Group, Presque Isle Field, ME 19Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 24/25Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
422nd Bomb Squadron [JJ*U], 305th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 27Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 29Oct42.
Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 11Dec42.
Eighth Air Force Service Command 8Apr43.
Regained by Group 27Apr43.
Battle damaged on a mission to the submarine yards at Lorient, France 17May43 (1KIA:9RMC).
Attacked by enemy fighters, a 20mm cannon shell burst threw a waist gunner against the ball turret mechanism.
He had to be cut from the mechanism and was fatally wounded.
The bomber returned to Chelveston with the tail strut damaged, the right wing and fuel tank
pierced and a large hole in the fuselage.
422nd Bomb Squadron [JJ*K] Aug43.
Experimented in night bombing alongside the RAF and operated night leaflet and propaganda missions.
Accident during a night leaflet and propaganda mission over Germany 2Dec43.
The plane encountered an over speeding propeller over enemy territory and did not reach the target.
On returning to England the landing gear collapsed during a forced landing at Bungay (Station 125), Suffolk.
2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton (Station 547), Huntingdonshire 3Dec43.
Base Air Depot No.1, Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire 21Mar44.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom).
Returned to US 4/12May44.
Designated TB-17F.
Ferrying Division, Air Transport Command, Cincinnati, OH 7Jul44.
3701st Base Unit (Technical School), Amarillo Field, TX 8Jul44.
3704th Base Unit (Technical School), Keesler Field, Biloxi, MS 6Nov44.
3701st Base Unit (Technical School), Amarillo Field, TX.
Searcy Field, Stillwater, OK 1Aug45.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Searcy Field, Stillwater, OK for storage and disposal 24Sep45.
War Assets Corporation. Sold to Paul Mantz, Glendale, CA 19Feb46; scrapped
Named SAM'S LITTLE HELPER
24617 (MSN 3302) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 27Aug42.
Douglas Aircraft Company, Modification Center, Air Force Plant #3, Tulsa Municipal Airport, OK 30Aug42.
364th Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group, Syracuse AAB, NY 3Oct42.
305th Bomb Group, Presque Isle Field, ME 19Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 24/25Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England. 364th Bomb Squadron [WF*J],
305th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 25Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 29Oct42.
Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 11Dec42. Named"Southern Comfort"
Battle damaged during a mission to the port at Bremen, Germany 26Feb43.
The primary target was overcast so the plane diverted to the docks and harbour at Wilhelmshaven, Germany.
The plane had been riddled by flak and was severely damaged with a hole four feet square in the rudder.
A cannon shell exploded in the nose knocking out the navigator for a few minutes and breaking his table.
Number three engine had been hit and was spewing out oil and although a fire was extinguished,
the propeller could not be feathered.
As they approached the shores of Britain, the pilot told his men over the intercom “Those who want to, please pray”.
Miraculously, he got the bomber back to its home base and landed it safely, generating news in the USA
about the pilot and crew that ‘prayed’ their plane back.
May have inspired the song ‘Comin’ in on a Wing and a Prayer’, first performed by The Song Spinners [but see 41-24437].
Severely battle damaged during a mission over shipyards at Rotterdam, Netherlands 31Mar43 (1KIS:9RMC).
Attacked by enemy fighters en route to the target, the left wing caught fire between the engines and the
tail section was badly damaged.
The pilot turned back towards England and found refuge in the clouds. With a raging fire and limited control
of the plane, the crew bailed out over Essex but the pilot eventually brought the aircraft back to
crash landed in woods at Beacon Hill, near Wickham Bishops, Essex. Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom).
Condemned 1Apr43. SOC 4Nov44.
24618 ((MSN 3303) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 27Aug42.
Douglas Aircraft Company, Modification Center, Air Force Plant #3, Tulsa Municipal Airport, OK 30Aug42.
2nd Ferrying Group, New Castle Field, Wilmington, DE 4Oct42.
393rd Base Headquarters and Air Base Squadron, Syracuse AAB, NY 6Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 27Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 27/28Oct44.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
352nd Bomb Squadron [A], 301st Bomb Group, Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire Nov42.
RAF Hurn, Bournemouth, Hampshire 22Nov42. Departed to North Africa 23Nov42.
Twelfth Air Force, Operation Torch Nov42.
352nd Bomb Squadron, 301st Bomb Group, Tafraoui, Oran, Algeria 23Nov42.
Maison Blanche, Algiers, Algeria 6Dec42. Biskra, Algeria 21Dec42.
Aïn M’lila (Onyx), Constantine, Algeria 16Jan43.
Assigned to GLEN (Twelfth Air Force, Oran, Algeria) 4Mar43.
Saint-Donat (New Zealand), Tadjenanet, Algeria 8Mar43.
Oudna #1, Mohammedia, Tunisia 6Aug43. Fifteenth Air Force, Italy 1Nov43. {60 missions}.
49th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Bomb Group, Massicault, Tunis, Tunisia 14Nov43. {first combat mission 24Nov43}.
Assigned to ELMS (Northwest African Air Forces) 2Dec43.
Foggia #7, Amendola, Italy 10Dec43. {35 missions}.
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. Attacked by enemy fighters crossing the Alps en route to the target, the left
wing was hit and no.2 engine was damaged, reducing its power. The bomb load was jettisoned to
save weight and enable the plane to remain in formation. Strips of metal were hanging behind the
aileron and wing trailing edge. A horizontal stabiliser had been damaged. The bomber made it over
the target but flak damaged the no.3 engine and the bomb bay doors would not close.
The drag caused the plane to drop back from formation. Most of the ammunition had been used up,
the plane was losing altitude and a 20mm cannon shell struck the upper turret. Enemy fighters appeared again
and damaged flight controls then another attack set the bomb bay on fire.
The crew bailed out before the aircraft crashed at Kranj, Slovenia, Yugoslavia. MACR 2614
Assigned to DUKO (Twelfth Air Force, Italy).
Condemned 24Feb44. SOC 4Nov46. Named LIL JO - artwork of a pair of dice
24619 (MSN 3304) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 26Aug42.
Douglas Aircraft Company, Modification Center, Air Force Plant #3, Tulsa Municipal Airport, OK 28Aug42.
427th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group, Kellogg Field, Battle Creek, MI 26Sep42.
303rd Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 5Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 25Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 31Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
427th Bomb Squadron [GN*S], 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire Nov42
Named "S for Sugar/Hi Doc"– artwork of Bugs Bunny, insignia of the 427BS.
Participated on a mission to the port at Bremen, Germany 26Feb43.
The primary target was overcast so the plane diverted to the docks and harbour at Wilhelmshaven, Germany.
A journalist of United Press flew with the crew to report on the mission; his account transformed Walter Cronkite
into a world famous correspondent.
Battle damaged on a mission to the submarine yards at Kiel, Germany 14May43 (1KIA:9RMC).
Attacked by enemy fighters, a cannon shell exploded against the pilot’s seat and killing him.
He slumped against the controls and the plane went into a dive so steep that a waist gun fell out of its mount.
The co-pilot and engineer regained control and flew the plane back to a safe landing at Molesworth.
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.
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.
Approaching the I.P., enemy fighters attacked and severely damaged the left wing and rudder;
the no.1 engine was on fire.
Expecting the plane to explode or the wing to drop off, the crew bailed out.
The bomber flew on and crashed in woods at Oderhaus, between Bad Lauterberg and Braunlage, Germany. MACR 1923
{52 missions}. Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 11Jan44. SOC 28Feb44 {52 missions}.
24620 (MSN 3305) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 26Aug42.
Douglas Aircraft Company, Modification Center, Air Force Plant #3, Tulsa Municipal Airport, OK 28Aug42.
360th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group, Kellogg Field, Battle Creek, MI 27Sep42.
303rd Bomb Group, Dow Field, Bangor, ME 14Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 16Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 21Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
360th Bomb Squadron [PU*O], 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire Oct42.
Named "Snap! Crackle! Pop!". Named by Capt. Jacob Fredericks, 360th Bomb Squadron,
who flew this B-17 from USA to England. Before entering the Air Force, he had worked for the Kellogg
company, the creators of the Rice Krispies cereal and its Snap! Crackle! Pop! promotional slogan.
Artwork of the three elves trademark cartoon characters riding a bomb. Painted at Kellogg Field
by staff artist Clinton H. Dole. {first combat mission 17Nov42}.
Failed to return from a mission to the torpedo storage area at Saint-Nazaire, France 3Jan43 (7KIA:3POW).
West of Nantes, France, the anti-aircraft fire was strong; south of the Loire the fire of the battery of
Château Bougon, Couffé, was very heavy, and a strong defence was encountered in the region of Paimboeuf.
Strong head winds slowed the advance of the formation during the last part of the flight.
Flak was intense and precise above the objective.
German fighters quickly intercepted the formation, attacking first the bombers damaged by anti-aircraft fire.
Damaged by flak and lost a wing causing the aircraft to spin.
The ball turret gunner, though suffering shrapnel wounds, was thrown from the wreckage
without his parachute at 20,000ft, lost consciousness due to altitude, freefell and plunged through
a glass roof of the Gare de Saint-Nazaire. He was found alive but with serious injuries tangled in the
steel roof girders of the railway station. Saved by German medical care, he spent the rest of war in prison camps.
The aircraft crashed in Escoublac forest at La Bauleles Pins, west of Saint-Nazaire, France. {5 missions}. MACR 15464
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 3Jan43. SOC 4Nov44.
24621 (MSN 3306) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 28Aug42.
34th Bomb Group, Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 1Sep42.
Blythe Field, CA 11Dec42. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 4Feb43.
Wendover Field, UT 26Feb43. Sioux City AAB, IA 25Apr43.
461st Bomb Squadron, 331st Bomb Group, Casper Field, WY 4May43.
Substantially damaged taxying at Casper Field 9May43.
McClellan Field, Sacramento, CA 2Jun43.
331st Bomb Group, Casper Field, WY 6Jun43. Sioux City AAB, IA 21Jun43.
Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 12Jul43.
Oklahoma City Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 2Aug43.
Sub Depot, 469th Bomb Group, Alexandria Field, LA 8Aug43.
Crashed after a mid-air collision with B-17F 42-6031 over the Gulf of Mexico, forty miles
southeast of Galveston Field, TX 10Sep43 (11MIS).
The planes were part of a formation on a training mission which had flown to the Mississippi delta
where there was a bombing range and dropped 100 pound practice bombs.
After dropping the bombs, they continued out over the Gulf to practice gunnery by firing at a towed target.
Another plane was flying the diamond position, which was the leader position of the second echelon,
with two wing men on the bombing run.
After leaving the target, the instructor who was flying on the left wing, called and asked the pilot to
drop back and let them take the diamond position and to reform on his left wing.
Shortly after he made the formation change, the pilot of #031, who was flying right wing in the first echelon,
for some reason lost control of his airplane, dropped back and down and its propellers cut through the
cockpit of #621. Both airplanes came apart and both sank immediately afterwards.
Only a few parachutes were seen; no survivors were recovered. SOC 11Sep43..
24622 (MSN 3307) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 28Aug42.
34th Bomb Group, Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 1Sep42. Walla Walla Field, WA 17Nov42.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 20Nov42. Blythe Field, CA 9Dec42.
Oklahoma City Air Depot, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 6Feb43.
94th Bomb Group, Pueblo AAB, CO 19Feb43.
Rapid City AAB, SD. Glasgow Field, MT 22Apr43.
7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT 18May43.
Moses Lake Field, WA 25May43. Spokane Field, WA 26May43.
595th Bomb Squadron, 396th Bomb Group, Moses Lake Field, WA 10Jun43.
Substantially damaged while parked by B-17F 42-2983 taxying with mechanical failure at Moses Lake Field 31Jul43.
Air Service Command, Rome Air Depot, NY.
Designated RB-17F.
3501st Base Unit (Technical School & Overseas Replacement Depot), Boca Raton Field, FL.
Force landed due to fire and mechanical failure at Boca Raton Field 27May44.
Class 26 ground instructional airframe 24Jun44. Reclaimed 31Jan45.
Class 01Z; aircraft which are not beyond economical repair 31Jan45. Reclaim complete 9Dec46
24623 (MSN 3308) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 26Aug42.
Douglas Aircraft Company, Modification Center, Air Force Plant #3, Tulsa Municipal Airport, OK 30Aug42.
365th Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group, Syracuse AAB, NY 30Sep42.
Substantially damaged in an accident taxying at Syracuse AAB 5Oct42.
305th Bomb Group, Presque Isle Field, ME 19Oct42.
North Atlantic Division, Air Transport Command, Presque Isle Field, ME 19Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 24/25Oct42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
365th Bomb Squadron [XK*V], 305th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106), Northamptonshire 25Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 29Oct42. Chelveston Dec42.
Failed to return from a mission to the port at Bremen, Germany 26Feb43 (5KIA:5POW).
The primary target was overcast so the plane diverted to the docks and harbour at Wilhelmshaven, Germany.
Attacked by enemy fighters en route to the target and damaged by flak.
Ditched off Jadebusen, east of Wilhelmshaven, Germany.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned Feb43. SOC 4Nov44
24624 (MSN 3309) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 27Aug42.
Douglas Aircraft Company, Modification Center, Air Force Plant #3, Tulsa Municipal Airport, OK 30Aug42.
366th Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group, Syracuse AAB, NY 3Oct42.
305th Bomb Group, Presque Isle Field, ME 22Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 29Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 31Oct42. VIII Bomber Command, England.
366th Bomb Squadron [KY*J], 305th Bomb Group, Grafton Underwood (Station 106),
Northamptonshire Nov42. Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 11Dec42.
422nd Bomb Squadron [JJ*J].
Failed to return from a mission to the Deutsche Werke Kiel AG shipyard at Kiel, Germany 19May43 (3KIA:7POW).
Damaged by flak and ditched in the mouth of Kiel harbour, Germany. MACR 15549
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 19May43. SOC 4Nov44. Named MADAM BETTERFLY.
24625 (MSN 3310) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 28Aug42.
34th Bomb Group, Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 1Sep42.
Wold-Chamberlain Field, Minneapolis, MN 17Nov42.
29th Bomb Group, Gowen Field, Boise, ID 20Dec42. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 718Dec42.
Biggs Field, El Paso, TX 31Jan43. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 17Mar43.
Severely damaged when landing with mechanical failure at Stewart Field, West Point, NY 25Jul43.
301st Sub Depot, Stewart Field, West Point, NY 25Jul43 Surveyed 15Oct43.
24626 (MSN 3311Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 28Aug42.
34th Bomb Group, Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 1Sep42.
463rd Bomb Squadron, 331st Bomb Group, Casper Field, WY 31Oct42.
Seriously damaged when force landed after fuel exhaustion at Lusk, WY 1Dec42. Condemned WY 18Dec42
24627 (MSN 3312) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 28Aug42.
31st Bomb Squadron, 34th Bomb Group, Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 1Sep42.
Crashed twenty-five miles southeast of Enterprise, OR 10Sep42 (7KIS). Surveyed 25Mar43
24628 (MSN 3313) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 30Aug42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 9Sep42.
3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 2Nov42.
21st Bomb Wing, Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 11Nov42.
15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Division, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 15Dec42.
Ferried overseas on the South Atlantic/Africa route.
Assigned to BLOT (Twelfth Air Force, French Morocco) 22Dec42.
Assigned to GLEN (Twelfth Air Force, Oran, Algeria). Condemned 8Jul44
24629 (MSN 3314) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 30Aug42.
34th Bomb Group, Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 1Sep42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 13Sep42.
3rd Ferrying Group, Romulus Field, Detroit, MI 30Oct42.
2nd Ferrying Group, New Castle Field, Wilmington, DE 26Nov42.
21st Bomb Wing, Smoky Hill Field, Salina, KS 22Dec42.
15th Ferrying Group, Caribbean Division, Air Transport Command, Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL 14Jan43.
Ferried overseas on the South Atlantic/Africa route.
Assigned to BLOT (Twelfth Air Force, French Morocco) 23Jan43.
Assigned to GLEN (Twelfth Air Force, Oran, Algeria) 26Feb43.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 27Feb43.
VIII Bomber Command, England. 369th Bomb Squadron [WW*O],
306th Bomb Group, Thurleigh (Station 111), Bedfordshire 28Feb43.
Maintenance Unit 5Mar43. Regained by Group 23Mar43.
Battle damaged on a mission to the Chemische Werke synthetic rubber works at Hüls, Marl, Germany 22Jun43.
The formation was only fair and when the lead crew aborted, the formation broke up.
Then at 24,000ft in cumulus clouds no.4 engine failed and the propeller oversped.
It was feathered and the bombs were jettisoned.
The plane stayed in formation until engine no.3 quit and the propeller was feathered.
About this time nine enemy fighters were preparing to attack the lone bomber as it turned
back towards England. The pilot instructed the crew to prepare to bail out but, after the crew
voted to try to go home, the plane was descended. It was then attacked by a lone Bf 109 at about 18,000ft
which may have been shot done by the gunners.
Down at treetop level the bomber had to run the gauntlet of flak between the islands of
Vlieland and Terschelling, and the flak boats in the channel between the islands and mainland.
Because of the lack of power on one side and low airspeed, the pilot could only take weak evasive action.
The concussion from a close flak burst blew out the right life raft which knocked a large dent
in the right horizontal stabilizer.
Airspeed was dropping and the plane was losing precious altitude. The crew threw out all
of the ammunition but kept the guns.
Even though it had only two operating engines the speed and altitude slowly improved because
of the decreasing fuel weight.
There was enough altitude to fly to home base and landed safely.
Battle damaged on a mission to the Luftwaffe air depot at Romilly-sur-Seine, France 3Sep43.
Flak cut all the wiring to the tail section and damaged the right horizontal stabiliser.
358th Bomb Squadron [VK*G], 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire 25Sep43.
Failed to return from a mission to the industrial area at Düren, Germany 20Oct43 (2KIA:8POW).
Shot down by Bf 109 fighters, fire in left wing tank, the aircraft exploded with wreckage crashing at
Valenciennes, France near the Belgian border. {4 missions}. MACR 1032.
Claimed by Hptm Peter-Paul Steindl in Bf 109G-6 of JG 26/11.
24630 (MSN 3315) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 30Aug42.
34th Bomb Group, Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 2Sep42.
18th Bomb Squadron, 34th Bomb Group, Blythe Field, CA 11Dec42.
Wrecked in accident on the ground with B-17F 42-5100 at Blythe Field 16Dec42. Condemned 27Jan43
24631 (MSN 3316) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 28Aug42.
34th Bomb Group, Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 1Sep42.
Walla Walla Field, WA 3Jan43.
29th Bomb Group, Gowen Field, Boise, ID 7Jan43.
Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 15Apr43.
395th Bomb Group, Ephrata AAB, WA. South Plains Field, Lubbock, TX 4May43.
588th Bomb Squadron, 395th Bomb Group, Ephrata AAB, WA.
Crashed en route to Glasgow, MT, after fuel exhaustion in rainy overcast eight miles southwest
of Wakeeney, KS 7May43 (2INJ); five crew members bailed out.
Radio static prevented the crew from communicating and using navigation aids to locate their position.
The plane crashed but did not burn. Class 26 ground instructional airframe 10May43.
400th Sub Depot, Walker Field, Victoria, KS 12May43. Condemned 13May43
Also listed as crashed 5 mi S of Walla Walla, WA Jul 15, 1942. All 5 crew killed.
24632 (MSN 3317) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 30Aug42.
34th Bomb Group, Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 2Sep42.
Ephrata AAB, WA 6Oct42. Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 8Oct42.
Blythe Field, CA 9Dec42. Davis-Monthan Field, Tucson, AZ 17Jan43.
Blythe Field, CA 31Jan43. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 1Feb43.
383rd Bomb Group, Ainsworth Field, NB 26Feb43.
398th Bomb Group, Rapid City AAB, SD 9Mar43.
383rd Bomb Group, Ainsworth Field, NB 13Mar43.
398th Bomb Group, Rapid City AAB, SD 27Apr43.
383rd Bomb Group, Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43.
593rd Bomb Squadron, 396th Bomb Group, Moses Lake Field, WA 2Aug43.
593rd Bomb Squadron, 396th Bomb Group, Drew Field, Tampa, FL, FL 5Nov43.
Ditched off Indian Rocks, Tampa, FL 4Feb44 (6KIS). Surveyed 5Feb44.
24633 (MSN 3318) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 30Aug42.
34th Bomb Group, Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 2Sep42. Ephrata AAB, WA 6Oct42.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 11Oct42. 331st Bomb Group, Casper Field, WY 29Oct42.
29th Bomb Group, Gowen Field, Boise, ID 13Nov42.
331st Bomb Group, Casper Field, WY 17Dec42.
331st Bomb Group, Scottsbluff Field, NB 19Feb43.
331st Bomb Group, Casper Field, WY 12Mar43.
393rd Bomb Group, Sioux City AAB, IA 22Jun43.
393rd Bomb Group, Watertown Field, SD.
331st Bomb Group, Casper Field, WY 6Jul43.
Staging Base, 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 3Aug43.
Combat Crew Training School, 395th Bomb Group, Ardmore Field, OK.
Seriously damaged when crash landed at Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 1Mar44.
The bomber was on a navigation training flight direct to St. Louis, Missouri and return.
Arriving at Ardmore to land, the crew was unable to lower the landing gear and were
advised to prepare for a crash landing at the Air Depot, Tinker Field.
The crew contacted Tinker Field tower and advised that they could not lower the left
landing gear and would have to make an emergency, wheels-up landing on arrival.
The crew was given landing instructions and advised to land with the tail wheel fully extended.
The aircraft slid for approximately 1,500 feet and ground looped off the runway on the dirt
for approximately fifty feet.
Oklahoma City Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 1Mar44.
497th Bomb Group, 73rd Bomb Wing, Pratt Field, KS. 29th Bomb Group, Pratt Field, KS 2Sep44.
Designated TB-17F 9Sep44.
246th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Pratt Field, KS 16Sep44.
581st Base Unit (4th Ferrying Group, Air Transport Command), Adams Field, Little Rock, AR 31Jan45.
582nd Base Unit (5th Ferrying Group, Air Transport Command),
Tulsa Municipal Airport, OK 9Feb45.
246th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Pratt Field, KS Feb45.
4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 14Feb45.
Ferrying Division, Air Transport Command, Cincinnati, OH 21Apr45.
2114th Base Unit (Pilot School, Specialized, Four Engine), Lockbourne AAB, Columbus, OH 24Apr45.
Personal injury accident over Columbus, OH 14May45 (1INJ).
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
24634 (MSN 3319) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 30Aug42.
34th Bomb Group, Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 2Sep42.
New Castle Field, Wilmington, DE 13Nov42. 34th Bomb Group, Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 20Nov42.
4th Bomb Squadron, 34th Bomb Group, Ephrata AAB, WA 2Dec42.
Substantially damaged when caught fire while taxying at Great Falls AAB, MT 26Jan43.
34th Bomb Group, Great Falls AAB, MT 28Jan43.
34th Bomb Group, Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 11Jul43.
383rd Bomb Group, Pendleton Field, OR 25Jul43.
383rd Bomb Group, Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 8Aug43.
Great Falls AAB, MT 12Aug43.
34th Sub Depot, Great Falls AAB, MT 10Sep43. B-
17 Instructor’s Standard School.
242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB.
6th Bomb Group, Grand Island Field, NB 8Jul44.
242nd Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Grand Island Field, NB 5Sep44.
249th Base Unit (Special), Alliance Field, NB 9Sep44.
248th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Walker Field, Victoria, KS 18Dec44.
Substantially damaged while parked in an accident with B-17F 42-30746 taxying at Base
Aérea de San Antonio de Los Baños, San Antonio Delos, Cuba 13Mar45.
268th Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Peterson Field, Colorado Springs, CO 20Apr45.
248th Base Unit (Operational Training Unit), Walker Field, Victoria, KS 1May45.
Ferrying Division, Air Transport Command, Cincinnati, OH 29Jun45.
4124th Base Unit (Air Technical Service Command), Altus Field, OK 10Aug45.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Altus Field, OK for storage and disposal 30Jul45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Esperado Mining Company, Altus, OK 25Jun47; scrapped
Also listed (41st BG) lost Feb 11, 1944, China. MACR 3011
24635 (MSN 3320) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 30Aug42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 9Sep42.
359th Bomb Squadron, 303rd Bomb Group, New Castle Field, Wilmington, DE 6Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 20Nov42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 6Dec42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
359th Bomb Squadron [BN*O], 303rd Bomb Group, Molesworth (Station 107), Huntingdonshire Dec42
Named "The 8 Ball Mk II"
The actor Clark Gable was stationed at Polebrook to produce a recruiting film for aircraft gunners.
This aircraft was used for his first combat mission when it took off May 4, 1943 from RAF Molesworth on a mission
to the Ford and General Motors plants at Antwerp, Belgium. Gable fired a few rounds from a .50-caliber
machine gun mounted in the radio room and suffered a minor case of frostbite from wearing leather
gloves in the extreme cold. The B-17 was lightly damaged by 20mm shells from German fighters but
returned safely to England. Gable was filming sessions for the documentary
that was to become 'Combat America'. Mobile Repair Unit 27Jun43.
Regained by Group 7Jul43. Eighth Air Force Service Command 20Aug43.
Regained by Group 1Sep43. Base Air Depot No.1, Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire 7Apr44.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom).
Returned to US 6Jul44. Oklahoma City Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK Jul44.
4100th Base Unit (Fairfield Air Technical Service Command), Patterson Field, Dayton, OH 13Jan45.
Ferrying Division, Air Transport Command, Cincinnati, OH 26Jul45.
4160th Base Unit (Sacramento Air Technical Service Command), Albuquerque AAB, NM Jul45.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Oxnard Field, Albuquerque, NM for storage and disposal 2Aug45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to American Compressed Steel Corporation, Cincinnati, OH Jul46; scrapped
24636 (MSN 3321) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 30Aug42.
34th Bomb Group, Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 3Sep42.
Combat Crew Training School, Casper Field, WY 29Oct42.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 11Nov42.
Walla Walla Field, WA 24Nov42.
Ephrata AAB, WA 3Dec42.
Blythe Field, CA 18Dec42. Air Service Command, Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, OK 3Feb43.
398th Bomb Group, Rapid City AAB, SD 31Mar43. Pierre Field, SD 1Apr43.
398th Bomb Group, Rapid City AAB, SD 13Apr43.
Combat Crew Training School, Casper Field, WY 20Apr43.
398th Bomb Group, Rapid City AAB, SD 29Apr43.
Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 10May43. 398th Bomb Group, Rapid City AAB, SD 12May43.
542nd Bomb Squadron, 383rd Bomb Group, Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 22Jun43.
447th Bomb Group, Harvard Field, NB 30Aug43.
222nd Base Unit (Combat Crew Training Station), Ardmore Field, OK.
Designated TB-17F 2Dec44.
Ferrying Division, Air Transport Command, Cincinnati, OH Jun45.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Cal-Aero Field, Ontario, CA for storage and disposal 6Jun45.
War Assets Administration. Sold to Sharp & Fellows Contracting Company Jul46; scrapped.
24637 (MSN 3322) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 31Aug42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 9Sep42.
366th Bomb Squadron, 305th Bomb Group, New Castle Field, Wilmington, DE 11Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 24Oct42.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 2Dec42.
VIII Bomber Command, England. 366th Bomb Squadron [KY*F], 305th Bomb Group,
Chelveston (Station 105), Northamptonshire 11Dec42.
Failed to return from a mission to a power house at Vegesack, Bremen, Germany 27Jan43 (5KIA:5POW).
The target was obscured by clouds so the formation turned to the secondary target,
the naval base at Wilhelmshaven, Germany.
Moderate, heavy and inaccurate anti-aircraft fire was observed in the target area;
a small force of enemy fighters was encountered.
Attacked by enemy aircraft on approach to the target and crashed at Tossens, outside the sea dyke,
east of Wilhelmshaven, Germany. Claimed by Lt Paul Arlt in Bf 109G-1 of
JG 1/1 MACR 15501. Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom).
Condemned 27Jan43. SOC 4Nov44
24638 (MSN 3323) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 30Aug42.
34th Bomb Group, Geiger Field, Spokane, WA 3Sep42.
18th Bomb Squadron, 34th Bomb Group, Blythe Field, CA 9Dec42.
Severely damaged in a forced landing after engine failure at Blythe Field 21Jan43.
Condemned 21Feb43
24639 (MSN 3324) Accepted by USAAF at Boeing Field, Seattle, WA 31Aug42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 9Sep42.
Substantially damaged on landing with a broken engine crankshaft 16Sep42.
Gowen Field, Boise, ID 16Sep42.
United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 11Oct42.
3rd Ferrying Group, Wayne County Airport, Romulus, Detroit, MI 2Nov42.
2nd Ferrying Group, New Castle Field, Wilmington, DE 12Nov42.
323rd Bomb Squadron, 91st Bomb Group, Presque Isle Field, ME.
Ferried overseas on the North Atlantic route; Gander, Newfoundland to
Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 15Oct42.
Assigned to WILDFLOWER (Eighth Air Force, United Kingdom) 20Nov42.
VIII Bomber Command, England.
323rd Bomb Squadron [OR*W], 91st Bomb Group, Bassingbourn (Station 121), Cambridgeshire
Named *The Careful Virgin* – painted by Tony Starcer.
Battle damaged during a mission to the submarine yards at Lorient, France 30Dec42 (1WIA:9RMC).
Over such an important target, the opposition was intense.
Heavy flak tore into the bombers and approximately thirty Fw 190 fighters attacked while over Lorient.
Attacked by enemy fighters, the bombardier was seriously injured.
On the return route strong westerly winds took the formation over the Brest peninsula.
Battle damaged on a mission to the railway marshalling yards at Hamm, Germany 4Mar43.
The weather was bad from takeoff through to Germany preventing four other groups rendezvousing
with the 91st Bomb Group which proceeded alone to the target.
Sixteen planes faced the toughest fighter defence of the war, the heaviest flak areas,
and on the deepest penetration yet into Germany. The reception was immediate with
German fighters determined to stop the attack; the return flight home was no easier,
flying into the wind of a strong jet stream.
First in group to have Automatic Flight Control Equipment [AFCE] fitted;
the device enabled the bombardier to fly the aircraft on the bomb run by linking up with the
auto-pilot. {first combat mission with AFCE 18Mar43}.
Battle damaged by enemy fighters during a mission to the port area of Emden, Germany 21May43 (2WIA).
Battle damaged on a mission to the Gerhard Fieseler Werke (GFW) aircraft works at
Waldau, Kassel, Germany 30Jul43.
At the target flak was accurate and intense; there was large enemy fighter opposition en route to
and returning from target. Battle damaged on a mission to the Luftwaffe airfield at Vlissingen, Netherlands 15Aug43.
Moderate, accurate flak was experienced over target area.
Battle damaged on a mission and landed back without brakes at Bassingbourn Nov43.
It ran off the runway and struck B-17F 42-29591 which was parked outside the 401st Squadron
hanger for repairs, destroying the elevator and vertical stabilizer section with its number four
engine propeller [the rear fuselage of 42-29591 was written off]. {50+ missions}.
2nd Strategic Air Depot, Abbots Ripton (Station 547), Huntingdonshire 18Mar44.
Regained by Group 5May44. 1st Strategic Air Depot, Troston (Station 595), Suffolk 7May44.
Modified as a drone for Operation Aphrodite missions. Combat equipment was removed
except for the navigation table, the VHF and an extinguisher in the cockpit.
Those having ‘Tokyo’ fuel tanks were emptied, degassed and sealed.
The bomb bay was sealed; the navigator’s seat put in place of the co-pilot’s seat.
Base Air Depot No.1, Burtonwood (Station 590), Lancashire.
Two radio operator AZON control systems were installed and connected with the flight control
systems and the autopilot system. A radar altimeter (AN/APN-1) was installed to make it
possible to maintain a constant altitude. A television camera was installed in the cockpit
making it possible to see the all the flight instruments by the operator in the ‘mother ship’.
A second TV camera was placed behind the Plexiglas nose, which allowed the operator
to guide the drone to its target. Designated BQ-7. 562nd Bomb Squadron, 388th Bomb Group,
Knettishall (Station 136), Suffolk, later at Fersfield (Station 554), Norfolk.
20,000lbs of Torpex explosives, was installed between the cockpit, the radio operator room
and the bomb bay. The bomb bay was reinforced by beams to support the extra weight of Torpex.
Expended on Aphrodite mission to the V-3 cannon bunker at Mimoyecques, Pas-de-Calais, France 4Aug44.
The control pilot realised that the plane was too high and tried to lower its altitude too quickly.
Loaded with ten tons of explosives, the plane crashed and exploded 500 yards short of the target.
Assigned to SOXO (United Kingdom). Condemned 4Aug44. .
41-24640/24689 Curtiss C-46A-20-CU Commando
MSN 26561/26610. Information about MASDC from amarcexperience website.
24640 (MSN 26561) condemned Feb 9, 1944. Wo Feb 22, 1944 at Chabua, India
24641 (MSN 26562) w/o 31 Dec 1943, Crash near Mohanbari, India (Out of gas-crew
bailed out). Condemned Jan 5, 1944
24642 (MSN 26563) w/o Dec 12, 1943 at Ledo, India, condemned Dec 14, 1943
24643 (MSN 26564) w/o Feb 11, 1944 in China/Burma/India area, condemned Sep 5, 1944
24644 (MSN 26565) condemned Sep 28, 1943
24645 (MSN 26566) w/o Nov 13, 1943 at Mohanbari, India, condemned Nov 15, 1943
24646 (MSN 26567) w/o Sep 21, 1943 at Mohanbari, India, condemned Sep 22, 1943
24647 (MSN 26568) wrecked when struck by C-46 41-12427 at
Chabua Aug 26, 1943
24648 (304th TPS, 30th TPG) MIA IndoChina Oct 23, 1943. MACR 985
24649 (MSN 26570/CU210) to MASDC Feb 27 1958, to reclamation Feb 2, 1959
24650 (MSN 26571/CU211) to RFC Dec 15, 1945. WFU and stored Ontario, CA.
Bought by Ben Widtfeldt May 1954 and registered as N69095. Bought by
Zantop Air Transport Jun 1954, later in 1961 reregistered it as N609Z.
Crashed into mountain 16 km NW of Nederland, CO Dec 7, 1963. 3 killed.
24651 (MSN 26572/CU212) crashed after takeoff following engine failure and
crew bailed out at Tohiehtu, Chinal Sep 16, 1943.
24652 (MSN 26573) w/o 19 Sep 1943 (engine failure) Mohanbari, India 6FRS. Condemned Oct 14, 1943
24653 (MSN 26574) w/o Feb 22, 1944 in fatal crash at Mohanbari, India. Condemned Feb 24, 1944
24654 (MSN 26575) w/o in landing acident Oct 29, 1943, Yunnanyi, China.
24655 (MSN 26576, 29th TPG, 100th TPS) lost Oct 12, 1943. MACR 806. MACR wrongly lists this as 41-23655, but
it was really 41-24655. Condemned Oct 23, 1943.
24656 (MSN 26577) Landing accident on 28 Nov 1943 at Homestead AAF, FL HQSQ
24658 lost Jan 31, 1944. MACR 3970
24659 to civil registry as N91369. Scrapped Tucson, AZ in 1965
24660 (MSN 26581) lost Jan 18, 1944. MACR 1996
24661 (MSN 26582) w/o Dec 22, 1943 in fatal takeoff crash at Sookerating, India
24662 (MSN 26583) damaged Nov 10, 1943 in landing at Sookerating, India. condemned Feb 18, 1944, India
24663 (MSN 26584) missing Nov 18, 1943 near Chengkung, China. Condemned Nov 20, 1943
24664 (MSN 26565) to MASDC Jan 16, 1958, to reclamation Feb 2, 1959. to N5099K, to CP-687 Sep 1960. W/o Sep 12, 1961.
24665 (MSN 26566) w/o in landing accident Nov 23, 1943 Mohanban, India. To MASDC Oct 28, 1957, to
reclamatin Apr 9, 1964
24666 MIA IndoChina 11/2/1943. MACR 1082
24667 (29th TCG) lost Oct 20, 1943. MACR 1056
24668 (MSN 26589) w/o Jun 5, 1944. Condemned Jun 5, 1944
24672 (MSN 26593/CU233) to US Navy as 39507
24673 (MSN 26594) w/o Mar 3, 1944 in landing at Chengkung, China
24674 MIA Burma Feb 28, 1945. MACR 12796
24675 (MSN 26596) damaged Jul 2, 1944 in taxi accident at Chengkung, China.
Condemned for salvage Jan 18, 1946 by Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.
24676 (MSN 26597) damaged Jan 18, 1944 when ground looped at sookerating, India.
24677 (MSN 26598) w/o Jun 4, 1944 when engine failed on takeoff at Chittagong, India
24678 (MSN 26599) w/o Jul 31, 1944 in crash 10 mi NW of Kunming, China. Crew bailed out.
Aircraft condemned Aug 2, 1944.
24679 (MSN 26600) damagd Jan 28, 1944 at Sookerating, India. Damaged Jul 11, 1945 in landing
at Misamari, India
24680 lost Mar 3, 1944 at Kunming, China. MACR 4220
24681 (MSN 26602) w/o in China/Burma/India area and condemned for salvage May 23, 1944
24682 lost Feb 17, 1944, China. MACR 3010
24684 (MSN 26605) w/o Jun 1, 1944 at Calcutta, India and DBR in accident Jun 13, 1944
24685 (MSN 26606) lost Jan 14, 1944 at Ledo, India. MACR 1997
24686 (MSN 26607) condemned for salvage Jan 14, 1946
24687 (MSN 26608) crashed Feb 27, 1945 6 mi eSE of Lake Tali, China due to engine failure.
Condemned Feb 28, 1945.
24688 (MSN 26609) lost Mar 27, 1944 over the eastern Himalayas in Tibet. MACR 3282. Wreckage discovered on the
Ruoguo Glacier in Nyingchi, Tibet by a local hunter in Sep 1993. Remains of five crewmen
were recovered and returned, but much of the wreckage remained. In Aug 2015 the wreckage debris was moved
from Tibet to Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China. They will be sent to Jianchuan Museum.
24689 (MSN 26610) w/o Jan 17, 1944 in landing at Yunnanyl, China. Condemned Jan 20, 1944.
41-24690/24739 Curtiss C-46A-25-CU Commando
MSN 26611/26660. Information about MASDC from amarcexperience website.
24690 (MSN 26611) w/o Jun 19, 1944 in takeoff accident at Misamari, India. Condemned for salvage Aug 2, 1944.
24691 lost Aug 1, 1944. MACR 7104
24692 (MSN 26613) w/o Aug 10, 1944 in fatal crash at Mohanbari, India. Condemned Aug 11, 1944
24693 (MSN 26614) lost Jul 17, 1944 in India. MACR 7134
24694 lost May 27, 1944. MACR 5323
24695 (MSN 26616) condemned for salvage Jan 23, 1946 by Army-Navy
Liquidation Commission.
24696 (MSN 26617) lost Jan 31, 1944 at Yankai, China. MACR 2092
24697 (MSN 26618) condemned for salvage Sep 6, 1944.
24698 (MSN 26619/CU259) lost Aug 4, 1944, CBI theatre. MACR 7179 (lists
date as July 4, 1944). Crew bailed out after engine problems.
24699 (MSN 26620) lost Jun 19, 1944 Chabua, India. MACR 5888. Condemned Jul 5, 1944
24700 (MSN 26221/CU261) delivered to USAAF Sep 1943. Rereg. USAF Sep 18, 1947.
To MASDC Jan 10, 1958, tko reclamation Feb 2, 1959. L.B.Smith
Aircraft Corp bought 1960, reg N9346R. Navegaco Aero Brasileira bought Nov 6, 1960, reg. PP-NML mgd
by VASP in 1962. WFU & stored Sept 1964. Broken up Santos Dumont, Rio de Janerio, Brazil Jun 1969.
24701 lost May 8, 1944 in China. MACR 4883
24702 lost Dec 18, 1943 at Balourou Village, French Guiana. MACR 1244
24703 (MSN 26624) w/o Aug 23, 1944 in fatal crash 10 mi NW of Kunming, China
24704 (MSN 26625) lost May 25, 1944 at Sookerating, India. MACR 5293. Condemned Aug 28, 1944
24705 MIA China 3/13/1945. MACR 13019
24706 (MSN 26627) damaged Sep 26, 1944 in forced landing at Chanyl, China due to engine
failure. damaged Apr 6, 1945 in landign at Chengkung, China.
Condemned for salvage Jan 24, 1946 by Army-Navy Liquidation Commission.
24707 (MSN 26628) damaged Dec 25, 1943 in landing at Kunming, China. Condemned Jan 31, 1944.
24708 (MSN 26629) lost Jan 31, 1944 at Mohanbari, India. MACR 2093
24709 (MSN 26630) condemned for salvage Sep 9, 1944.
24710 (MSN 26631) damaged Apr 26, 1944 in taxi accident at Sookerating, India. Condemned May 2, 1944
24711 (MSN 26632) w/o Oct 13, 1944 in crash at Hsingching, China due to engine failure.
Crew bailed out. Condemned Oct 26, 1944
24712 (MSN 26633) w/o Sep 1, 1944 in landing at Chengkung, China. Condemned for salvage Sep 12, 1944
24713 (MSN 26634) in crash at Sookerating, India Dec 30, 1943 due to engine failure. Condemned Dec 31, 1943
24714 lost Mar 30, 1944 in China/Burma/India area. MACR 3503
24715 (MSN 26636) crashed NNE of Chabua, India May 7, 1945.
24716 lost Jun 21, 1944. MACR 6295
24717 MIA Mar 24, 1944, CBI theatre on cargo mission from Chabua to
Ondal, India. MACR 3504. Wreckage discovered 2007. All 4 crew killed.
24718 (MSN 26639) condemned for salvage Feb 10, 1946 by Army-Navy
Liquidation Commission.
24719 (cn 26640/CU280) delivered to USAAF Sep 1943. Oct 27, 1955 operated by Temco Acft. Corp. for the
Air Material Command had a landing accident at Majors Field, Greenville, TX.
To MASDC Mar 29, 1958, to reclamation May 3, 1960. WFU & stored 1963.
24720 (cn 2641/CU281) delivered to USAAF Sep 16, 1943. landing accident Bethel Alaska Jan 2, 1944. WFU & stored
Oct 1946. Wien Alaska bought Jun 17, 1948 reg. N79917 (used for spares). W.G.Spillman & H. Crawford bought
Aug 1950. Don Cardiff bought Jun 1951. Varig bought Jul 31, 1951 reg. PP-VCB. Ditched into Guanabara
Bay after take off from Santos Dumont, Rio de Janeiro Brazil Feb 21, 1952.
24721 (MSN 26642) crashed 7 mi SW of Ledo, India Jul 18, 1944.
24722 lost Mar 22, 1944, Indochina. MACR 3604 and 3271
24723 lost Mar 27, 1944. MACR 3495
24724 (MSN 26645) missing on flight from Kunming, China to Misamari, India Jan 25, 1944.
MACR 2819. Pilot was apparently lost in very bad weather. 4 presumed killed.
Wreckage found near Mangung village, Arunachal Pradesh, India Oct 1, 2006
24725 (MSN 26646) condemned for salvage Jan 23, 1946 by Army Navy
Liquidation Commission.
24726 (MSN 26647) lost Feb 7, 1944, India/China. MACR 2662. Condemned Feb 25, 1944.
24727 (MSN 26648) condemned for salvage Jan 29, 1946 by Army-Navy
Liquidation Commission.
24728 (MSN 26649) damaged Feb 3, 1944 in landing at Misamari, India. damaged Jan 13, 1945
in ground accident at Chabua, India. Condemned for salvage Jan 29, 1946 by Army-Navy
Liquidation Commission.
24729 (MSN 26650) w/o Feb 11, 1944 in taxi accident at Mismari, India. Condemned Feb 14, 1944,
24730 (MSN 26651) lost Apr 11, 1945 in China/Burma/India area. MACR 142676
24731 (MSN 26652/CU292) crashed with belly landing at Gaya, Station
20, India Oct 29, 1944. W/o Nov 22, 1944.
24732 (MSN 26653/CU293) in landing accident Apr 3, 1944 at Kunming
Station 13, China and repaired. Damaged at Myikyina South,
Burma when had structural failure due to engine fire Dec 23, 1944.
W/o Feb 23, 1945.
24733 (MSN 26654/CU294) w/o in takeoff accident at Sookersting,
Station 7, India Oct 30, 1944.
24734 (MSN 26655/CU295) to N4087A; OB-QAL
24735 (MSN 26656/CU296) delivered to USAAF Oct 26, 1943, transferred to US Navy Nov 23, 1943 as 39509
24736 (MSN 26657/CU297) to US Navy as 39510
24737 (MSN 26658/CU298) to US Navy as 39511
24739 lost Jan 29, 1944, Assam, India. MACR 2318
41-24740/24775 Curtiss C-46A-30-CU Commando
MSN 26661/26696
24740 (MSN 26661/CK301) delivered to USAAF Oct 27, 1943. Tfd to Reconstruction Finance Corp. Sep 28, 1945.
WFU & stored Bush Field, GA. Cvtd to ZC-46A returned to USAF May 21, 1948. Redesignation as "obsolete"
and WFU & stored Robins Air Force Base, GA Dec 1948.
24741 (MSN 26662/CK302) delivered Nov 5, 1943 to USAAF. DBR
Jan 19, 1944 in fatal explosion when it crashed and burned
on takeoff at Chabua Station 6, India
24742 (MSN 26663/CK303) delivered Nov 1, 1943 to USAAF. DBR
Feb 25, 1944 in landing accident due to fire at Mohanbari
Station No. 9, India.
24743 (MSN 26664) MIA between Mohanberi and Chanyi, China Mar 27, 1944.
MACR 3495. Also reported as being DBR in landing accident Yunnanyi, China Dec 26, 1943.
Condemned Jan 11, 1944. Hulk used as lunchroom for crews.
24744 (MSN 26665/CK305) delivered Nov 1, 1943 to USAAF. Damaged
in landing accident Jan 9, 1944 at Chabua Station 6, India.
Damaged again in landing accident May 27, 1945 at Chabua,
India. Crashed 5 km SW of Mohanbari AB, India
Jul 11, 1945 when the crew bailed out.
24745 (MSN 26666) lost Feb 7, 1944, China. MACR 2319
24746 (MSN 26667) crashed Apr 1, 1945 at Shingbwiyang, Burma after crew bailed out.
MACR 13171
24747 (MSN 26668) damaged Feb 7, 1944 in taxi accident (without pilot) at Smoky Hill AAF, Salina, KS
Reportedly w/o May 30, 1945.
24748 (MSN 26669) could not land due to heavy fog, ran out of fuel and crashed in India
Jan 1, 1944. MACR 1546. Crew OK
24749 (MSN 26670) MIA May 25, 1945, Myitkyina, Burma. MACR 14504
24750 (MSN 26671/CK311) delivered Nov 8, 1943 to USAAF. Crashed
on landing Apr 6, 1945 in India and DBR.
24751 (MSN 26672/CU312) delivered Nov 12, 1943 to USAAF. Damaged
on takeoff at Kunming Station 13, China early 1944. DBR
Jul 24, 1944.
24752 (MSN 26673/CK313) both engines failed and crashed near Likiang Mountain, W of
Yunnanyi, China Jan 1, 1944. MACR 1630
24753 (MSN 26674/CK314) delivered Nov 7, 1943 to USAAF. DBR in
landing accident at Chittagong, India Apr 2, 1944. WFU
the next day.
24754 (MSN 26675) lost Jan 18, 1944 Yunnanyi, China. MACR 1998
24755 damaged Mar 24, 1944 in taxi accident at Imphal, India
24756 (MSN 26677) damaged Feb 2, 1944 in China. W/o Sep 30, 1944 in forced landing at
Kunming, China. Condemned for salvage Jan 15, 1946 by Army-Navy
Liquidation Commission.
24757 (MSN 26678/CK318) delivered Nov 12, 1943 to USAAF. DBR
Apr 13, 1945.
24758 (MSN 26679) lost Sep 21, 1944 in China/Burma/India area. MACR 8716
24761 (MSN 26682/CK322) To LV-FTX, to Bolivian AF as TAM60, w/o 17 Feb 1971
24762 (MSN 26683/CK323) to US Navy as 39516
24763 (MSN 26684/CK324) to US Navy as 39517. To N4091A, to Associated Air Transport of
Miami, FL as N46Q. W/o Feb 13, 1960 at McGuire AFB, NJ
when crashed on final approach. All survived.
24764 (MSN 26685/CK325) transferred to US Navy Nov 13, 1943, but no record of BuNo assigned. May
have been BuNo 39518. WFU and stored 1948
24765 (MSN 26686/CK326) transferred to US Navy Dec 4, 1943 but no record of BuNo assigned. May
have been BuNo 39519. WFU and stored 1958.
24766 (MSN 26687/CK327) Delivered to USAAF 16Nov43. Transferred to US Marine Corps 7Jan44 as BuAer 39522; designated R5C-1.
24767 (MSN 26688/CK328) transferred to US Navy as 39521
24768 (MSN 26689) condemned for salvage Feb 6, 1946 by Army-Navy
Liquidation Commission.
24769 (MSN 26690) w/o Apr 22, 1944 in landing at Tulihal, India. Condemned May 18, 1944
24770 (MSN 26691) condemned for salvage Feb 10, 1946 by Army-Navy
Liquidation Commission.
24771 (MSN 16692) damaged feb 19, 1944 in taxi accident at Mohanbari, India
24772 (MSN 26693) damaged May 22, 1944 in taxi accident at Misamari, India.
W/o Apr 4, 1945 in takeoff accident at Luliang, China. Condemned Apr 4, 1945
24773 (MSN 26694) w/o Feb 2, 1944 Bhagalpur, India. Condemned Feb 6, 1944
24774 (MSN 26695) damaged Jul 22, 1945 in landing at Tezagon, India. Condemned for salvage Sep 24, 1945.
24775 lost Feb 26, 1944 in China/Burma/India area. MACR 2715
41-24776/25195 Curtiss P-40E-1
Model H87-A4. MSN 18795/19214. Lend-Lease contract for RAF as Kittyhawk IA ET100/ET519. Many remained stateside,
some diversions to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, USSR. Six to Brazil as 01/06.
24776/24914 were RAF ET100/ET238, but were diverted elsewhere and not delivered to RAF.
24776 (ET100, MSN 18795) to USSR
24777 (ET101, MSN 18796) to USSR
24779 (ET103, MSN 18798) to RAF as ET107. Damaged beyond repair Feb 22, 1942 at West Maitland NSW.
24780 (ET104, MSN 18799) remained in USA and crashed Sep 26, 1942, Bedford, MA
24781 (ET105, MSN 18800) remained in USA and w/o 16 Jul 1942 at East Hampton, NY. Also listed as being
salvaged Apr 15, 1942 at Luke Field, AZ.
24782 (ET106, MSN 18801) remained in USA and crashed Jun 5, 1942, Quonset Point, RI.
24783 (ET107, MSN 18802) remained in USA and w/o 15 Apr 1943 at Richmond, VA, also listed as being
salvaged Apr 5, 1942.
24784 (ET108, MSN 18803) to USSR
24785 (ET109, MSN 18804) remained in USA and crashed into sea near Langley, VA Apr 6, 1942.
24786 (ET110, MSN 18805) remained in USA and crashed on takeoff at Groton airfield Mar 8, 1942.
24787 (ET111, MSN 18806) remained in USA and w/o 13 Sep 1942 at Greneir Field, NH; repaired(?);
w/o 13 Oct 1943 at Luke AAF, AZ
24788 (ET112, MSN 18807) retained by USAAF. In midair collision with 41-24863 Apr 3, 1943 off Cape Ward
Point PNG. Both pilots killed.
24789 (ET113, MSN 18808) to RAF as ET113, but diverted to RAAF as A29-153 Aug 1942. Crashed Mildura,
VIC, Australia Oct 5, 1944.
24791 (ET115, MSN 18810) remained in USA ; used by Royal Neth Military Flying Service in USAAF markings;
returned to USAAF; w/o 29 Apr 1942 at Philadelphia, PA and salvaged May 14, 1942.
24793 (ET117, MSN 18812) to USSR
24794 (ET118, MSN 18813) remained in USA and converted to Class 26 after crash landing Nov 10, 1942
at Hillgrove Field, RI.
24795 (ET119, MSN 18814) to USSR
24797 to RAAF as A29-?.
24798 (CW583, MSN 19309, ET122) to USSR
24801 (CW586, MSN 19312, ET125) to USSR
24804 (ET128) to USSR
24806 (ET130) To RAAF as A29-?
24807 (ET131) remained in USA and converted to Class 26 at Roma Air Depot Mar 28, 1942.
24808 (ET132) to RAF as ET132 but diverted to RAAF as A29-152 Aug 1942. Forced landing at Goodenough
Island Mar 3, 1943. Converted to components. I also have as being shot down by Zeros with 49th PG,
9th PS of USAAF 11 mi S of Darwin, NT Jul 30, 1942,
24809 (9th FS, 49th FG) wrecked on landing at Livingstone strip, NT Jul 17, 1942 and w/o
24810 (ET134, MSN 18829) to RAF as ET134, but diverted to USSR
24812 (ET136) to Netherlands Indies AF Feb 1942. Destroyed Mar 8, 1942.
24813 (49th PG, 9th PS) wrecked in taxying accident Aug 3, 1942, Livingston airstrip, NT.
24815 (CW 600, MSN 18834, ET139) diverted to USSR
24816 (49th FG, 8th FS) wrecked 29 mi S of Darwin, NT June 4, 1942 when pilot passed
out due to lack of oxygen and dove in.
24817 to RAF as ET141. Crashlanded at Tumut in NSW, Australia during
haze Feb 2, 1942. Total loss.
24818 (49th FG, 7th FS) wrecked at Batchelor strip in taxiing accident, NT Aug 20, 1942.
Condemned Sep 7, 1942. Also listed as to RAAF as A29-162 Sep 1942
24819 to RAF as ET143. Forced landed at Nowra, NSW Mar 1942.
24820 to RAAF as A29-?
24821 (49th PG, 9th PS) crashed due to fuel exhaustion Nov 17, 1942 60 mi from
Pt Hood, PNG. Pilot bailed out.
24822 (49th PG, 9th PS) salvaged at Teak, PNG Jun 16, 1943
24823 (ET147, MSN 18842) to RAAF as A29-160 Sep 1942. Collided with
A29-163 (41-5503) Onsloe, WA, Australia
24824 (ET148, MSN 18843) to USSR
24825 (ET149, MSN 18844) to RAAF as A29-30 Mar 1942. Crashlanded at Turnbull airstrip, Papua Jun 1943.
24827 (ET151, MSN 18846) to USSR
24829 w/o Apr 28, 1942, NT.
24831 (MSN 18850) To RAF as ET155 (ntu); retained by USAAF; w/o 16 Jan 1943 at Kila, New Guinea
24833 (MSN 18833) to RAF AS ET157 (ntu); to Netherlands East Indies AF Feb 1942. W/o Mar 8, 1942
24834 to RAAF as A29-?
24835 SOC Apr 7, 1942.
24836 (MSN 18855) to RAF as ET160 (ntu); to Netherlands East Indies AF Feb 1942. W/o Mar 8, 1942
24837 (MSN 18856) to RAF as ET161 (ntu); to Netherlands East Indies AF Feb 1942. W/o Mar 8, 1942
24838 SOC Apr 7, 1942.
24839 (MSN 18858) to RAF as ET163 (ntu); to Netherlands East Indies AF Feb 1942. W/o Mar 8, 1942
24840 in belly landing at Agra, India afer engine failure Dec 31, 1942
24841 (MSN 18860) to RAF as ET165 (ntu); to Netherlands Indies AF Feb 1942. Destroyed Mar 8, 1942.
24842/24859 (MSN 18861/18878, ET166/ET183) to USSR Dec 1941
24860 (ET184) to RAAF as A29-1 Mar 1942. Crashed Mar 7, 1942 at Wauchope NSW on ferry flight. Pilot killed.
24861 (MSN 18880) to RAF as ET185 (ntu); to RAAF as A29-158 Sep 1942. Crashed near Mildura, Vic Oct 6, 1943.
24862 (MSN 18881) to RAF as ET186 (ntu) to RAAF as A29-74 Mar 1942. Crashlanded at Port
Moresby Jul 20, 1942. Reduced to components.
24863 (MSN 18882) to RAF as ET187 but retained by USAAF. (49th PG, 8th PS) in midair collision
with 41-24788 ET112 off Cape Ward Point, PNG Apr 4, 1943. Both pilots killed.
24866 (49th PG) shot down by AA off Buna, PNG Nov 26, 1942. Pilot KIA.
24868 (49th FG, 7th FS) crashed 15 mi NW of Batchelor Field, NT Aug 23, 1942 due to engine
seizure. Pilot OK.
24870 (MSN 18889) to RAF as ET194 (ntu); to RAAF as A29-80 Apr 1942. Crashed near Mildura, Vic Nov 26, 1943.
24871 (ET195) to RAAF as A29-3 Mar 1942. Crashed Mar 19, 1943 at Mildura, killing the pilot. Aircraft converted to
components
24872 (7th PS, 49th PG) damaged in heavy landing at Cloncurry Mar 11, 1942, repaired
24874 (49th FG, 7th FS) crashed Sep 11, 1942 during ferry flight from Cairns to
Port Moresby.
24875 (MSN 18894, ET199) to RAAF as A29-151 Aug 1942. Destroyed at Werribee bombing range Apr 1948
24876 SUMAC/LEFT ET200 7thPS/49thPG on 49thFG Books Feb 21, 1942 w/o Aug 20, 1942
Batchelor Strip NT landing accident. Condemned Sep 7, 1942
24877/24914 (MSN 18896/18933) to RAF as ET201/ET238 but all diverted to USSR
24915/24921 (MSN 18934/18940, RAF ET239/ET245) to RAF Desert Air Force
24915 (ET239) SOC Feb 1, 1944
24916 (ET240) crashed after being abandoned in spin 5 mi
N of Fayid Sep 9, 1944.
24917 (ET241) SOC Mar 1, 1944
24918 (ET242) force landed on ferry flight over Sudan May 9, 1942. Pilot died
of thirst and crash site not found until May 29, 1942. (RAF Accident Form 1180)
24919 (ET243) RAF records say that it with 73 OTU and
collided with another Kittyhawk 10 mi SE of Abu Sueir
Sep 2, 1943. Although it survived, damage was such
that it was SOC on return to base. Another report
has it never leaving the USA and being severely
damaged and converted to Class 26. in Jun 1942.
24920 (ET244) SOC Feb 1, 1944
24921 (ET245) SOC Feb 1, 1944
24922/24997 were RAF ET246/ET321 but were all diverted elsewhere and not delivered to RAF
24922 (MSN 18941) to RAF as ET246 but remained in USA w/o Oct 3, 1943 at El Paso, Texas
and salvaged at Orlando, FL Jan 7, 1944
24923 (ET247) remained in USA and crashed on takeoff at Orlando, FL Mar 25, 1943.
24924 (MSN 18943) To RAF as ET248 (ntu); retained by USAAF; w/o 2 Mar 1943 at Zephyrhills AB, FL
24925 (ET249) remained in USA. (313th FS/50th FG) dove in during formation
flight Nov 29, 1942 near Daytona Beach, FL. Pilot killed.
24926 (MSN 18945) to RAF as ET250, retained in USA, crashed May 3, 1942 in landing
at Zephyrhills AB, FL due to engine failure, pilot killed.
24928 (ET252) retained in USA, crashed after midair collision Dec 19, 1942 Keistmere Field, FL.
24929 (ET253) retained in USA, crashed on takeoff N of Key Field, Meridian, MS Feb 20, 1942,
pilot killed.
24930 (ET254) retained in USA. To Class 26 Apr 12, 1943 at De Ridder Field.
24931 (MSN 18950) to RAF as ET255; retained in USA. W/o Mar 21, 1943 at Caney, LA.
Surveyed at De Ridder Field Mar 23, 1943
24933 (ET257) retained in USA. Collided in midair with B-17E Apr 29, 1942 over Orlando, FL.
Pilot killed
24934 (MSN 18958) to RAF as ET258; retained in USA. Crashed Feb 9, 1942, Orlando FL with 50th PG.
24935 (ET259) retained in USA and to 318th FG. Condemned Mar 2,1943
24937 (ET261) retained in USA and to 318th FG. Condemned Jul 10, 1943.
24938 (ET262) retained in USA and to 318th FG.
24939 (MSN 18958) to RAF as ET263; retained in USA. W/o Jul 14, 1942 at Orlando AB, FL. Condemned Jul 30, 1942
24940 (ET264) retained in USA. Collided with gas truck May 17, 1942, Orlando, FL. Pilot killed.
24941 (MSN 18960) to RAF as ET265; retained in USA. Condemned Jul 5, 1942
24942 (ET266) retained in USA. Wrecked at Orlando, FL Nov 29, 1942.
24943 (MSN 18962) to RAF as ET267; retained in USA. Wrecked at Orlando, FL Dec 7, 1942. Condemned Jan 31, 1943
24944 (MSN 18963) to RAF as ET268; retained in USA. W/o Jan 30, 1943 at Halliwa, HI, Condemned May 28, 1943
24945 (ET269) retained in USA. Crashed 10 mi E of Lake Wales, FL with 50th PG. Pilot killed.
24946 (ET270) retained in USA. Crashed near Sanford, FL Apr 28, 1942.
24948 (MSN 18967) to RAF as ET272; retained in USA. ; w/o 29 Mar 1943 at Leesburg AAAF, FL. Condemned Apr 15, 1944
24949 (MSN 18968) to RAF as ET273; retained in USA. w/o 8 Oct 1943 at Salinas AAB, CA; Condemned Oct 10, 1943
24950 (ET274) retained in USA. Condemned Aug 7, 1943.
24951 (MSN 18970) to RAF as ET275; retained in USA. w/o 24 Sep 1943 at William Northern Field, TN, to Class 26
Sep 25, 1943
24952 (MSN 18971) to RAF as ET276; retained in USA. w/o 22 Sep 1943 at Salinas AAB, CA; Condemned Sep 24, 1943
24953 (ET277) retained in USA. Crashed at Orlando, FL Nov 5, 1942. Pilot killed.
24954 (ET278) retained in USA. Wrecked at Duncan Field, FL Apr 17, 1942. Destroyed by fire
24955 (MSN 18974) to RAF as ET279; retained in USA. Wrecked at Orlando Field, FL with 50th PG Dec 10, 1942 and
w/o May 10, 1943 and relegated to Class 26.
24956 (MSN 18975) To RAF as ET280 (ntu); retained by USAAF; w/o 19 Dec 1942 at Kissimmee, FL
24957 (MSN 18976) to RAF as ET281 (ntu); retained by USAAF; w/o 8 Apr 1943 at Landhi, India
24960 (ET284) retained in USA. Crashed at Meridian, MS Mar 4, 1942.
24962 (ET286) retained in USA. Crashed on landing at Hillgrove, RI Dec 1, 1942.
Repaired, off Jul 30, 1944
24963 (MSN 18962) To RAF as ET287 (ntu); retained by USAAF; w/o 18 Jul 1943 at Landhi Field, India
24964 (MSN 18963) To RAF as ET288 (ntu); retained by USAAF; w/o 17 Jun 1942 at Karachi AB, India
24966 (MSN 18985) to RAF as ET290; retained in USA. wrecked at Elizabeth City Apr 4, 1942. Pilot killed.
24967 (ET291) retained in USA. Ground-looped at Key Field, MS Mar 14, 1942.
24968 (ET292) retained in USA. Wrecked in taxi accident at Orlando, FL Nov 20, 1942
24969 crashed Apr 1942
24970 (MSN 18989) To RAF as ET294 (ntu); retained by USAAF; w/o 13 May 1942 at Maiduguri, Nigeria
24972 (MSN 18991) To RAF as ET296 (ntu); retained by USAAF; It crashed at Khartoum
9/29/42, was repaired, sent to India, crashed 23 Dec 1943 at Landhi Field, India
24973 (MSN 18992) to RAF as ET297; retained in USA. Ground looped at Key Field, MS Mar 14, 1942. Repaired,
off Feb 11, 1944 at Englewood, FL
24974 (MSN 18993) to RAF as ET298; retained in USA. Wrecked at Orlando, FL Mar 25, 1942 in collision with
another aircraft. Repaired (?); w/o 12 Oct 1942 at Orlando, FL, Salvaged Oct 25, 1942
24975 (ET299) retained in USA. Wrecked Dec 7, 1942 at Martha's Vineyard.
24976 (MSN 18995) to RAF as ET300) retained in USA. Involved in accidental gun blast while firing guns Dec 6, 1942
at Hillgrove AAB, RI. Repaired. W/o Jun 21, 1943 at Luke AAAF #1, AZ
24977 (MSN 18996) to RAF as ET301 (ntu), retained in USA. Brakes locked during taxying and nosed over Dec 7, 1942,
Hillgrove AAB, RI
24978 (MSN 18997) To RAF as ET302 (ntu); retained by USAAF; w/o 30 Mar 1944 in India
24979 (MSN 18998) To RAF as ET303 (ntu); retained by USAAF;w/o 4 Apr 1943 at Landhi Field, India
24980 (MSN 18999) To RAF as ET304 (ntu); retained by USAAF; w/o 15 Jul 1942 at Karachi AB, India
24981 (ET305) retained in USA. Wrecked at Bolling Field Apr 15, 1942.
24983 (ET307) retained in USA. wrecked in swamp near Leesburg, FL Jan 26, 1943
24984 (MSN 19003) To RAF as ET308 (ntu); retained by USAAF; w/o 5 Apr 1943 at Oahu, HI
24985 (MSN 19004) to RAF as ET309 (ntu); retained by USAAF. w/o 30 Aug 1943 at Salinas AAB, CA.
SOC at Orlando Sep 1, 1943
24986 (MSN 19005) to RAF as ET310 (ntu) retained by USAAF. wrecked in landing accident at Tuskegee,
AL Oct 9, 1942. SOC Jan 6, 1943. repaired (?); w/o 29 Jun 1943 at Oscoda AAF, MI
24988 (MSN 19007) To RAF as ET312 (ntu); retained by USAAF; w/o 21 Mar 1943 at Mokalbari, India
24990 (ET314) retained in USA. Wrecked at Hillgrove, RI due to engine failure Jun 24, 1942.
Pilot killed
24991 (MSN 19010) to RAF as ET315; retained by USAAF. Crashed 5.5 mi WNW of Tuskegee, AL Apr 10, 1943.
Pilot killed. W/o May 10, 1943 at Tuskegee, AL
24993 (ET317) retained in USA. Collided in midair with 41-36174 Dec 23, 1942 near Orlando, FL
24994 (ET318) retained in USA. Crashlanded (50th PG) near Orlando, FL Mar 29, 1942. SOC Jul 30, 1943
24995 (ET319) retained in USA. Wrecked NE of Key Field, MS Feb 26, 1942.
24996 (MSN 19015) to RAF as ET320; retained by USAAF. Wrecked at Rice AAF, CA Jul 15, 1943. To CL-26 Oct 9, 1943
24997 (MSN 19016) To RAF as ET321 (ntu); retained by USAAF; w/o 23 Dec 1943 at Landhi Field, India
24998 (MSN 19017) to RAF as Kittyhawk I ET322. DBR when bellylanded at Zuara Jul 20, 1943
24999/25185 were RAF ET323/ET509 but were all diverted elsewhere, not delivered to RAF.
25000 (MSN 19019) to RAF as ET324 (ntu); retained in USA. Nosed over on landing Feb 21, 1942 at Key Field, MS.
repaired (?); w/o 6 Aug 1942 at Orlando AAF, FL; SOC Mar 24, 1944.
25001 (ET325) retained in USA. Wrecked at Leesburg AAB May 5, 1942. SOC Jun 5, 1943
25002 with 87th FS, 79th FG in Egypt Feb 1943.
25003 (MSN 19022) To RAF as ET327 (ntu); retained by USAAF; w/o 24 Apr 1945 at Shemya, AK
25004 (ET328) retained in USA. Landing gear collapsed at Key Field. To CL-26 Apr 6, 1943
25005 (ET329) retained in USA. Crashed at Key Field Mar 19, 1942 at Key Field. Pilot killed
25006 (ET330) retained in USA. Crashed into James River, VA near Williamburg, VA Mar 30, 1942
due to midair fire.
25007 (MSN 19026) To RAF as ET331 (ntu); retained by USAAF; w/o 18 Sep 1943 at Landhi Field, India
25008 (ET332) retained in USA. Used for tests at Wright Field. To CL-26 Aug 27, 1945
25009 (MSN 19028) To RAF as ET333 (ntu); retained by USAAF; w/o 18 Sep 1942 at Karachi AB, India
25010 (MSN 19029) To RAF as ET334 (ntu); retained by USAAF; w/o during emergency landing 22 Apr 1942
at Jessup, GA; repaired (?); w/o 7Mar 1943 at Will Rogers Field, OK
25011 (MSN 19030) To RAF as ET335 (ntu); retained by USAAF; w/o 20 Nov 1942 at Sookerating, India
25012 (MSN 19031) To RAF as ET336 (ntu); retained by USAAF; w/o 14 Dec 1943 at Malir AB, India
25014 (MSN 19033) To RAF as ET338 (ntu); retained by USAAF; w/o 13 May 1942 at Maiduguri, Nigeria
25015 (ET339) retained in USA. SOC Jul 30, 1944
25016 (MSN 19035) To RAF as ET340 (ntu); retained by USAAF; w/o 23 Nov 1942 at Orlando, FL; repaired (?); w/o
9 Mar 1944 at Punta Gorda AAF, FL
25018 (MSN 19037) To RAF as ET342 (ntu); retained by USAAF; w/o 24Nov 1943 at Malir AB, India
25019 (ET343) retained in USA. Crash landed on beach 1 M NE of Portem, RI Jun 11, 1942. Pilot
swerved off pbeach to miss kids on the beach and crashed into sea and pilot was killed.
25020 (MSN 19039) To RAF as ET344 (ntu); retained by USAAF; w/o 7 Dec 1942 at Hillsgrove, RI
25021 (MSN 19040) To RAF as ET345 (ntu); retained by USAAF; w/o 29 Mar 1942 at Orlando AAF, FL
25022 (ET346) retained in USA. Wrecked at Meridian, MS Feb 13, 1942. To CL-26 May 28, 1942
25023 (MSN 19042) To RAF as ET347 (ntu); retained by USAAF; w/o 19 Sep 1942 at Karachi AB, India
25024 (MSN 19043) To RAF as ET348 (ntu); retained by USAAF; w/o 5 Jun 1942 at Venore, TN; repaired (?); w/o 9 Apr 1943
at Zephyrhills AB, FL
25025 (MSN 19044) To RAF as ET349 (ntu); retained by USAAF; wfu 13 Aug 1943. To CL-26 Aug 13, 1943
25026 (MSN 19045) To RAF as ET350 (ntu); retained by USAAF; w/o 17 Mar 1943 at Lecanto, FL. To CL-26 Mar 20, 1943
25027 (MSN 19046) To RAF as ET351 (ntu); retained by USAAF; w/o 17 Mar 1943 at Lecanto, FL. To CL-26 Mar 20, 1943
25028 (ET352) retained in USA. Crashed E of Norfolk, VA due to inflight fire Mar 22 1942.
25030 (MSN 19049) To RAF as ET354 (ntu); retained by USAAF; w/o 1 Apr 1944 in India
25032/25038 (MSN 19051/19057 ET356/ET362) all diverted to USSR Feb 3, 1942
25039 (ET363) retained in USA. Crashlanded on strip Dec 12, 1942 at Hillgrove AAB, RI. Later
crashed 40 mi NE of Luke AAB Sep 16, 1943. Pilot killed.
25043/25049 (MSN 19062/19068, ET367/ET373) to USSR Feb 5, 1942
25050 (CW 836, MSN 19069, ET374) w/o in taxiing accident Malir, India Dec 14,1944
25054/25060 (MSN 19073/19079, ET378/ET384) to USSR
25061 (ET385) to RAAF as A29-117 Jun 1942. Crashed near Mildura, VIC, Australia
Jul 16, 1943, killing the pilot.
25062 (MSN 19081) To RAF as ET386 (ntu); retained by USAAF;w/o 25 May 1943 at Landhi Field, India
25064/25073 (MSN 19083/19092, ET388/ET397) to USSR
25066 (ET390) allocated to USSR but crashed Apr 4, 1942 prior to delivery.
25075/25082 (MSN 19094/19101, ET399/ET406) to USSR
25083 (ET407) retained in USA. Wrecked Feb 17, 1943 San Barnadeen AD. SOC Mar 6, 1945
25084 (MSN 19103, ET408) to USSR
25085 (MSN 19104) To RAF as ET409 (ntu); retained by USAAF; w/o 19 Aug 1942 at Stewart Field, NY.
25086/25093 (MSN 19105/19112, ET410/ET417) to USSR
25094 ((MSN 19113) To RAF as ET418 (ntu); retained by USAAF; w/o 20 Jan 1944 in forced landing at Moore Field, TX
25095 (MSN 19114, ET419) to USSR
25097 (MSN 19116, ET421) to USSR
25098 (MSN 19117, ET422) to USSR
25099 (MSN 19118, ET423) reposessed by USAAF Sep 30, 1942. W/o 3 Aug 1942 at Tongatabu Field, Tonga; repaired (?);
w/o 13 Sep 1942 in New Guinea
25100 (MSN 19119, ET424) taken over by 15 Sqdn of RNZAF from USAAF 68th PS at Fua'amotu in the Kingdom of Tonga but
wrecked prior to the allocation of a NZ serial number. Destroyed in midair collision with SBD-3
BuNo 06589 of VB-11 Mar 25, 1943 over Nandi Bay, Fiji. All 3 crew killed.
25101 (ET425, MSN 19120) handed over from 68th PS of USAAF to the RNZAF 15 Sqdn as NZ3102 on 27 Oct 1942 at
Fua'amotu in the Kingdom of Tonga. Scrapped in NZ Mar 2, 1948.
25102 (ET426, MSN 19121) handed over from 68th PS of USAAF to the RNZAF 15 Sqdn as NZ3101 on 27 Oct.1942 at
Fua'amotu in the Kingdom of Tonga. Crashed during aerobatics when with No.4 OTU RNZAF Base
Ohakea Oct 5, 1944. Written off.
25103 (ET427, MSN 19122) taken over by 15 Sqdn of RNZAF from USAAF 68th PS at Fua'amotu in the Kingdom of Tonga
but wrecked prior to the allocation of a NZ serial number. Spun in after high-speed stall at low
altitude Nov 7, 1942. Pilot killed.
25104 (ET428, MSN 19123) delivered to Australia but repossessed by USAAF in Australia. Crashed on training flight
with 68th FS, 58th PG off the Tonga Islands May 27, 1942. MACR 723
25106 (ET430) to New Zealand as NZ3096, handed over from USAAF 68th PS to the RNZAF 15 Sqdn on 27 Oct 27, 1942
at Fua'amotu in the Kingdom of Tonga. Sold for scrap in NZ Mar 2, 1948
25107 (MSN 19618, alternate 19618) retained in USA. Wrecked at Grenier Field Oct 31, 1942. w/o 25 Jun 1943 at Luke AAF, AZ.
To CL-26 Jun 27, 1943.
25108 (MSN 19127, alternate 19619, ET432) to New Zealand as NZ3091, taken over from USAAF 68th PS at Fua'amoto in Kingdom
of Tonga Oct 27, 1942. Ground looped at Espirtu Santo Jul 12, 1943. Written off the books at
Espiritu Santo Nov 31, 1944.
25109 (ET433, MSN 19128, alternate 19620) was to have gone to RAF as ET433, but diverted to USAAF and served with 68th PS at
Tonga. Transferred to New Zealand as NZ3094 Oct 27, 1942 at Fua'amotu in Kingdom of Tonga. At end of
war sent to scrapyard but sold Feb 2, 1948. Remains unconverted until 1996 when
after several changes of ownership, went under restoration with Col Pay in Australia. Registration
VH-KTH reserved but not taken up. Registered as VH-KTY Apr 30, 2004. Made first flight
Dec 6, 2004 but as VH-KTH.
25110 (ET434, MSN 19129, alternate 19621) to RAAF as A29-82 Apr 1942. W/o 28 Jun 1943 at Eustgon, Australia.
25111 (ET435, MSN 19130, alternate 19622) to RAAF as A29-83 Apr 1942. Crashed at Bundaberg, QLD 7/1943.
25112 (ET436, MSN 19131, alternate 19623) to RAAF as A29-84 Apr 1942. Lost to enemy action over
Goodenough Island Aug 11, 1942.
25113 (MSN 19132, alternate 19624) To RAF as ET437 (ntu); to Australian AF as A29-85; w/o 8 Feb 1945 at Thurla, Australia
25114 (ET438, MSN 19133) to RAAF as A29-104. Crashed into jungle on training flight from Tongatabu
Jun 27, 1942. Authorized for w/o Jun 1948 (may have been
a catch-up paperwork exercise)
25115 (MSN 19134, alternate 19626, ET439) to RAAF as A29-86 Apr 1942. Collided with A29-26 at Bankstown NSW
12/1943.
25116 (MSN 19135, ET440) retained in USA. To 58th PG, 33rd BS, Langley, VA. Wrecked near Elizabeth City Apr 12, 1942 in midair
with 41-25118
25117 (MSN 19136, ET441) to New Zealand as NZ3092, taken over from USAAF 68th PS at Fua'amoto in Kingdon of Tonga
Oct 27, 1942. Crashed at Guadalcanal Oct 1, 1943. 18 Sqdn, RNZAF. Written off the books Nov 1, 1943.
25118 (ET442) retained in USA. to 58th PG, 33rd PS, Langlay, VA. Wrecked near Elizabeth City Apr 12, 1942 in midair
with 41-25116. Pilot killed
25119 (MSN 19138, ET443) to RAAF as A29-87 Apr 1942. Returned to USAAF Apr 1942.
25120 (ET444, MSN 19139) to New Zealand as NZ3107, handed over from USAAF 68th PS to the RNZAF 15 Sqdn on
Oct 27, 1942 at Fua'amotu in the Kingdom of Tonga. Crashed on T/O while with 14 Sqdn RNZAF at Espiritu Santo,
New Hebrides Jun 3, 1943. Written off the books Jul 12, 1943.
25121 (MSN 19140, ET445) to RAAF as A29-88 Apr 1942. Damaged at Turnbull strip 6/1943 and
converted to components. Also listed as being A29-101.
25122 (MSN 19141, alternate 19633, ET446) to RAAF as A29-85 Apr 1942. Crashed 2/1945 Mildura VIC.
Also listed as w/o 28 Sep 1942 at Coomealla, Australia
25123 (MSN 19142, ET447) to RAAF as A29-90. Crashed near Lake Victoria Jan 4, 1942 while
on strafing stortie. Pilot killed
25125 (ET449, MSN 19144, alternate 19636) to New Zealand as NZ3097, handed over from USAAF 68th PS to
the RNZAF 15 Sqdn on Oct 27, 1942 at Fua'amotu in the Kingdom of Tonga. Damaged in forced landing
after engine failure. RNZAF Base Ohakea, NZ. Jun 31, 1945. Written off the books at Ohakea Aug 6, 1945.
25126 (ET450, MSN 19145) to New Zealand as NZ3106, handed over from USAAF 68th PS to the RNZAF 15 Sqdn on
Oct 27, 1942 at Fua'amotu in the Kingdom of Tonga. Crashed and burned Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides,
Sep 23, 1943. Written off the books Nov 1, 1943.
25127 (MSN 19146, alternate 19638) (ET451) intended for Australia but crashed on delivery Feb 26, 1942
at Skulton, PA on flight from Bohling AAF.
25128 (ET452, MSN 19148) to New Zealand as NZ3098, handed over from USAAF 68th PS to the RNZAF 15 Sqdn on 27 Oct 27, 1942
at Fua'amotu in the Kingdom of Tonga. Engine failure after T/O. Crashed. 4 Operational Training Unit,
RNZAF Base, Ohakea NZ. Aug 8, 1944. Written off.
25129 (MSN 19640) To RAF as ET453 (ntu); retained by USAAF; w/o 17 Jan 1944 at Karachi, India
25130 (ET454, MSN 19149) to New Zealand as NZ3107, handed over from USAAF 68th PS to the RNZAF 15 Sqdn on
Oct 27, 1942 at Fua'amotu in the Kingdom of Tonga. Not brought on charge until March 1944. To instructional
airframe no. INST96 and sent to the Electrical and Wireless School, Wigram, near Christchurch, NZ in
May 44. Transferred to the NZ Education Dept, Apr 23, 1948, and shifted to Christchurch Boys High
School. Fate unknown.
25131 (ET455, MSN 19150) to New Zealand as NZ3103, handed over from USAAF 68th PS to the RNZAF 15 Sqdn on
Oct 27, 1942 at Fua'amotu in the Kingdom of Tonga. Dived into sea while night flying, near
Toutouba Island, New Hebrides Jun 24, 1943. Pilot killed. Written off books Jul 12, 1943.
25132 (ET456, MSN 19151) to New Zealand as NZ3099, handed over from USAAF 68th PS to the
RNZAF 15 Sqdn on 27 Oct 27, 1942
at Fua'amotu in the Kingdom of Tonga. Crash-landed Espiritu Santo, Jan 1944. Written off the
books Mar 9, 1944.
25133 (ET457, MSN 19152) to New Zealand as NZ3093, taken over from USAAF 68th PS at Fua'amoto in Kingdon of Tonga
Oct 27, 1942. Sold to private user Nov 12, 1947.
25134 (ET458, MSN 19153) 347th FG lost May 17, 1942, Solomons. Pilot bailed out while on training flight.
Also have an MACR (724) having this as being lost with 68th FS, 58th PG Jul 1, 1942, Solomons
25135 (ET459, MSN 19154) to New Zealand as NZ3100, handed over from USAAF 68th PS to the RNZAF
15 Sqdn on 27 Oct 27, 1942
at Fua'amotu in the Kingdom of Tonga. Collided with US F4U Corsair while with 17 Sqdn RNZAF
Espiritu Santo Aug 13, 1943.
Written off Aug 23, 1943.
25136 (ET460, MSN 19155) to New Zealand as NZ3105, handed over from USAAF 68th PS to the RNZAF 15 Sqdn on
Oct 27, 1942 at Fua'amotu in the Kingdom of Tonga. Damaged on ground with No.4 OTU, Ohakea
when another a/c taxied into it Sep 27, 1944. Written off.
25137 (ET461, MSN 19156) taken over by 15 Sqdn of RNZAF from USAAF 68th PS at Fua'amotu in the Kingdom of Tonga but
wrecked prior to the allocation of a NZ serial number. Pilot bailed out May 8, 1943 after being nearly
overcome by gasoline fumes over Espiritu Santo. Pilot rescued.
25138 (ET462) retained in USA. Wrecked Mar 7, 1942 near Delmere Bay, NJ
25139 (ET463, MSN 19158 to New Zealand as NZ3095, handed over from USAAF 68th PS to the RNZAF 15 Sqdn on 27 Oct 27, 1942
at Fua'amotu in the Kingdom of Tonga. Sold for scrap in NZ Nov 12, 1947
25140 (MSN 19159, alternate 19651) o RAF as ET464 (ntu); retained by USAAF; w/o 30 Sep 1943 at Eagle Pass AAF, TX
Condemned at Foster Field Oct 3, 1943
25141 (MSN 19160, alternate 19652) To RAF as ET465 (ntu); to Australian AF as A29-101 in Apr 1942; w/o 4 Oct 1944 at
Mildura, Australia
25142 (MSN 19161, alternate 19653) To RAF as ET466 (ntu); to Australian AF as A29-102 in Apr 1942; Damaged in
midair collision with A19-82 Jun 22, 1942.
Repaired. Aircraft caught fire during line astern attack Jul 25, 1944 and pilot
bailed out. Aircraft crashed 20 mi SW of Mildura Aerodrome.
25143 (MSN 19162, alternate 19654) To RAF as ET467 (ntu); to RAAF as A29-110 Apr 1942.
Missing near Dawson Island Aug 26, 1942
25144 (MSN 19163, ET468) to RAAF as A29-104 May 1942. Destroyed at Werribee bombing range Nov 1947
25145 (MSN 19164, alternate 19656) To RAF as ET469 (ntu); to RAAF as A29-105 May 1942. w/o 6 Dec 1944
at Broken Hill, Australia.
25146 (ET470, MSN 19165) to New Zealand as NZ3104, handed over from USAAF 68th PS to the RNZAF 15 Sqdn on
Oct 27, 1942 at Fua'amotu in the Kingdom of Tonga. Crashed Sep 22, 1944 during training flight, Sampson,
New Zealand. Pilot bailed out, but was killed. Written off at Ohakea.
25147 (MSN 19166, ET471) to New Zealand as NZ3001. Crshed near Feilding Aug 5, 1942.
25148 (MSN 19167, ET472) to New Zealand as NZ3002. Damaged at Ohakea Jun 28, 1942. Reduced to spares.
25149 (ET473) missing in CBI Theatre Dec 5, 1944. MACR 10396
25150 (MSN 19661) o RAF as ET474 (ntu); retained by USAAF; w/o 25 Feb 1942 at Wayne County, MI
25152 (MSN 19171, ET476) to New Zealand as NZ3003. Crashed near Otaki Beach during formation flying
exercise Jan 29, 1943.
25153 (MSN 19172, ET477) to New Zealand as NZ3004. Crashed near Taihape Dec 12, 1942.
25154 (MSN 19173, ET478) to New Zealand as NZ3005. Crashed on takeoff from Ohakea Dec 1, 1943.
25155 (MSN 19174, ET479) to New Zealand as NZ3006. Crashed near Ohakea Jan 5, 1943.
25156 (MSN 19175, ET480) to New Zealand as NZ3007. Sold to private user Mar 2, 1948.
25157 (MSN 19176, ET481) to New Zealand as NZ3008. Damaged during landing collision with NZ3041 at
Ohakea Oct 5, 1943. SOC and converted to instructional airframe INST89. Scrapped Apr 13, 1945.
25158 (MSN 19177, ET482) to New Zealand as NZ3009. Brought on charge (BOC) at RNZAF Base Hobsonville, Auckland at the
beginning of Apr 1942. Recovered from scrapyard at Rukuhia, NZ in 1959. Loaned to Museum of
Transport and Technology, Auckland 1964-1994. Static restoration using wings of NZ3203.
To Old Flying Machine Co of Duxford, England 1994-1997. Restored to airworthy condition.
To Pacific Aircraft Ltd of Auckland, NZ Dec 9, 1997 to 1998, registered as ZK-RMH. First flight Dec 1997.
To Old Flying Machine Co of Auckland, NZ May 5, 1998-2002. Shipped to Duxford, UK Mar 19, 1999.
Operated by Old Flying Machine Co, Duxford 2000-2002. Registered Mar 10, 2003 to Classic Aviation Ltd
of Duxford, England as G-CCBE. Registration ZK-RMH was reserved Jun 18, 2003
25159 (MSN 19178, ET483) to New Zealand as NZ3010. In midair collision with NZ3024 during formation training
from Ohakea Apr 3, 1944.
25161 (ET485) retained in USA. Wrecked at Metropolitan, MA Jun 16, 1942. To CL-26 Aug 16, 1942.
25162 (MSN 19181, alternate 19673) To RAF as ET486 (ntu); retained by USAAF; w/o 29 Jul 1943 at Karachi, India
25163 (ET487, MSN 19182) was to have gone to Netherlands East Indies AF, but after arrival in Australia
Apr 1942 was transfered to RAAF as A29-94 but returned to USAAF two days later. In landing accident
prior to transfer at 17Mile Aerodrome, PNG. A29-94 serial later allocated to 41-25176.
25164 (MSN 19183, ET488) was to have gone to Netherlands East Indies AF, but after arrival in Australia
diverted to RAAF as A29-92 Apr 26, 1942. Returned to USAAF after
only two days. To 49th PG. Shot down by enemy fighters over New Guinea Dec 26, 1942.
25165 (MSN 19184, ET489) was to have gone to Netherlands East Indies AF, but after arrival in Australia it
was diverted to 49th PG. WFU Dec 29, 1943.
25166 (MSN 19185, alternate 19677) To RAF as ET490 (ntu). Was to have gone to Netherlands East Indies AF,
but after arrival in Australia in Apr 1942 it was diverted to RAAF as A29-92 May 13, 1942. Lost to
enemy action 9/1/1942 at Sanderson's Bay, New Guinea
25167 (ET491, MSN 19186) was to have gone to Netherlands East Indies AF, but after arrival in Australia
in Apr 1942 it was diverted to RAAF as A29-98 late Apr 1942. Returned to USAAF after only 4 days and
allocated to 49th PG. Serial A29-98 reallocated to 41-35973. The plane was shipped back to USA and
was WFU Jun 9, 1944
25168 (MSN 19187, ET492) was to have gone to Netherlands East Indies AF, but after arrival in Australia
in Apr 1942 it was diverted to RAAF as A29-93 May 13, 1942. Lost to enemy action 8/12/1942
25169 (MSN 19188, ET493) was to have gone to Netherlands East Indies AF, but after arrival in Australia
in Apr 1942 it was diverted to USAAF 49th PG. Shipped back to USA and WFU.
25170 (MSN 19189, ET494) was to have gone to Netherlands East Indies AF, but after arrival in Australia
in Apr 1942 it was diverted to USAAF 49th PG, 9th PS. W/o Jul 15, 1943.
25171/25173 (MSN 19190/19192, ET495/ET497) to USSR Feb 27, 1942
25174 (ET498, MSN 19193) was to have gone to Netherlands East Indies AF, but after arrival in Australia
in Apr 1942 it was diverted to RAAF as A29-97 in late Apr 1942. Returned to USAAF after only 4 days.
w/o Oct 24, 1943. 41-35970 (ET616) later became A29-97.
25175 (MSN 19194, ET499) was to have gone to Netherlands East Indies AF, but after arrival in Australia
in Apr 1942 it was diverted to USAAF 49th PG. W/o Aug 17, 1943 at Gonotu Point
25176 (MSN 19195, alternative c/n 19687) To RAF as ET500 (ntu);was to have gone to Netherlands East Indies AF,
but after arrival in Australia in Apr 1942 it was diverted to RAAF as A29-94. w/o 24 Feb 1944
in forced landing at Taren Point, Australia
25177 (MSN 19196, ET501) to RAAF as A29-99 May 1942. Returned to USAAF after only 4 days. Serial A29-99
reallocated to 41-35974. Was transferred again to RAAF as A29-95 May 1942 and
W/o Nov 8, 1942 at Milne Bay
25178 (MSN 19197, ET502) was to have gone to Netherlands East Indies AF, but after arrival in Australia
in Apr 1942 it was diverted to USAAF, 49th PG, 8th PS. Wrecked Nov 8, 1942 Kokoda Area due to engine failure.
25179 (MSN 19198, ET503) was to have gone to Netherlands East Indies AF, but after arrival in Australia
in Apr 1942 it was diverted to USAAF 49th PG, 9th PS. Shipped back to USA and WFU
25180 (MSN 19199, ET504) was to have gone to Netherlands East Indies AF, but after arrival in Australia
in Apr 1942 it was diverted to RAAF as A29-93 in Apr 26, 1942. Returned to USAAF 49th PG after
only 4 days. WFU Aug 18, 1944
25181 (MSN 19200, ET505) was to have gone to Netherlands East Indies AF, but after arrival in Australia
in Apr 1942 it was diverted to RAAF as A29-96 on Apr 26, 1942. Returned to USAAF after only 4 days.
With (49th FG, 8th FS) shot down over Gun Point, NT Jun 13, 1942. A29-96 later allocated
to 41-35966. Location of crash discovered May 22, 1944 by RAAF. Pilot had bailed out.
25182 (MSN 19201, ET506) to USSR
25183 (MSN 19202, ET507) to USSR
25184 (MSN 19203, ET508) was to have gone to Netherlands East Indies AF, but after arrival in Australia
in Apr 1942 it was diverted to RAAF as A29-100 Apr 26, 1942 but returned to USAAF with 49th PG
2 days later.
25185 (MSN 19204, ET509) was to have gone to Netherlands East Indies AF, but after arrival in Australia
in Apr 1942 it was diverted to RAAF as A29-95 Apr 26, 1942. Returned to USAAF after only 4 days. Serial A29-95
later allocated to 41-25177. Wrecked Jul 22, 1942 1 mi NE of Livingston Strip, NT.
25186 (MSN 19205) to RAF as Kittyhawk I ET510
25187 (MSN 19206) to RAF as Kittyhawk I ET511
25188 (MSN 19207) to RAF as Kittyhawk I ET512
25189 (MSN 19208) to RAF as Kittyhawk I ET513. SOC Oct 27, 1944
25190 (MSN 19209) to RAF as Kittyhawk I ET514. SOC Feb 1, 1944
25191 (MSN 19210) to RAF as Kittyhawk I ET515. SOC Sep 28, 1944
25192 (MSN 19211) to RAF as Kittyhawk I ET516. Crashed and destroyed by fire
when engine cut on takeoff from Sorman West Jun 2, 1942
25193 (MSN 19212, ET517) not delivered to RAF. To USSR
25194 (MSN 19213, ET518) not delivered to RAF, to USSR Apr 4, 1942
25195 (MSN 19214) to RAF as Kittyhawk I ET519. SOC Feb 1, 1944.
41-25196 Erco XPQ-13
Engineering & Research Corp Model 415-C. Evaluated for use as an aerial target.
(MSN 110) Registered NC37143. Purchased by USAAC 19Aug41. Accepted into inventory 8Dec41. Material Division, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
Registered as N37143, current [Mar18]. Substantially damaged when the airplane collided with parked Piper PA-24 registration N5113P
when the Ercoupe was started by the pilot with the cockpit unoccupied at Van Nuys, CA 22Aug55. Restored 1994. Resident at the Frontiers
of Flight Museum at Love Field, Dallas, Texas.
41-25197/25201 Fairchild PT-19A
25198 W/o 2 Nov 1942 at Jones Field, TX
25199 W/o 26 Feb 1944 at Jones Field, TX
41-25202/25736 Stearman PT-17
Model A75N1
25202/25323 MSN 75-2691/75-2812
25203 (MSN 75-2692) W/o 27 Jul 1942 at Haldeman-Elder Aux Airport, FL
25205 (MSN 75-2694) W/o 3 Nov 1942 at Bennettsville, SC
25214 (MSN 75-2703) W/o 19 May 1942 at Welles AAAF, FL
25218 (MSN 75-2707) restored in US Navy colors and active as N56275.
25224 (MSN 75-2713) W/o 20 Sep 1943 at Dorr Field, Arcadia, FL
25227 (MSN 75-2716) W/o 7 Feb 1942 at Aubrey, AR
25231 (MSN 75-2720) W/o 21 Dec 1942 at Glendale, AZ
25234 (6 AAFFTD) stalled on landing and w/o at Auxiliary Field No. 1, Glendale, AZ Jul 9, 1942.
25235 (MSN 75-2724) W/o 3 Sep 1942 at Thunderbird Field, AZ ; repaired; flying in Australia as VH-STM
25240 (MSN 75-2729) 1941: TOS USAAF and 6th AAF Flying Training Detachment, Thunderbird Field, Glendale, AZ.
Aug 3, 1942: Damaged in landing accident. 9/15/43: Damage colliding with ground during landing.
12/29/82: Schwans Sales Enterprises Inc, Marshall, MI with new c/r N805RB. Installed 300 hp engine. “Red Baron” team.
Ca.1996: 450 hp engine installed. Left the Red Baron Pizza team.
Nov 5, 2008 to current (3/2022): North Valley Aircraft Inc, Valley City, ND, still as N805RB
25246 (MSN 75-2735) Became N53166, then N9182Z. Registered Jul 21, 2003 to
W. F. Leslie of Canberra, Australia as VH-WFL
25247 (MSN 75-2736) W/o 30 Sep 1944 at White AAAF, TX
25249 (MSN 75-2738) crashed May 11, 1943 5 mi E of Thunderbird, AZ on student solo flight.
25250 (MSN 75-2739) W/o 27 Jun 1944 at Hemet AAAF A-3, CA
25251 (MSN 75-2740) 12/19/41: TOS USAAF and assigned to 6th AAF Flying Training Detachment,
Thunderbird Field, Glendale, AZ. Operated by CPS Cal-Aero Academy, Glendale.
6/19/42: Damaged in landing accident with ground loop.
6/21/43: Clairborne Flight Academy, 4th Air Division, 3010th Base Unit, Wickenburg, AZ.
Unknown date: 2548th Army Air Force Base Unit, Curtiss Field, Brady, TX.
1945: 3rd Air Division, 2148th Base Unit, CPS Carlstrom Field, Arcadia, FL.
May 12, 1945: Damaged in take-off accident.
7/17/45: SOC at Carlstrom Field, turned over to Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
By 1956: Edward Blocker, Platte, SD with c/r N59223.
2/18/57: Clarence Staton, Staton Aerial Service, Rochelle, IL. Used for aerial application.
Mar 5, 1957 until 2006: Staton Aerial Service Inc, Steward, IL.
Jun 12, 2006: Jay C. Rud, Newark, IL. 450 hp engine installed
8/21/21: Paramount Overseas Productions Inc, Los Angeles, CA.
C/r N59223 current to 3/2022
25252 (MSN 75-2741) W/o 21 Aug 1943 at Glendale, AZ
25254 (MSN 75-2743) to civil registry as N41EE. In 2008 was
with Military Aviation Museum, Virginia Beach, VA. In 2014 was painted as a Navy N2S-3 "743"
and still registred as N41EE and is flown regularly at Military Aviation Museum in Pungo, VA
25255 (MSN 75-2744) W/o 8 Apr 1942 at Carlstrom Field, FL
25256 (MSN 75-2745) on display at IAF Museum, Heratzim, Israel as 4X-ACH (not carried) and carries the
false serial "31"
25257 (MSN 75-2746) W/o 24 Aug 1943 at Taylor Field, FL
25258 (MSN 75-2747) W/o 18 Jun 1943 at Van De Graaff Field, AL
25261 (MSN 75-2750) W/o 12 Oct 1942 at Ocala, FL
25265 (MSN 75-2754) was registered as N66219, cancelled May 5, 2015
25268 (MSN 75-2757) to US civil registry as N60885. Painted as N2S-3.
25269 (MSN 75-2758) W/o 2 Nov 1942 at Dorr Field, FL
25270 (MSN 75-2759) Registered N46592
25271 (MSN 75-2760) W/o 27 Jul 1942 at Dorr Field, FL
25273 (MSN 75-2762) W/o 30 Jan 1944 at Decatur, AL
25274 (MSN 75-2763) 12/41: TOS USAAF.
By 11/44: 2533rd Army Air Force Base Unit (Central Flying Training Command), Goodfellow Field, TX.
11/28/44: Damaged in landing accident at Goodfellow Field.
5/64: Registered N61043. Used for aerial application.
5/16/97 to current; Registered N44SN
25275 (MSN 75-2764) Registered as N49948; cancelled 26Jan68 on export to Canada. Registered
1965 as CF-UCB. Glenair Aerial Spraying, Bright, Ontario. Operated for Canadian Forest Protection
Limited spruce budworm spray program New Brunswick 1966-68; sprayer code 41. Midair (Canada) Ltd.,
Norwich, Ontario. Substantially damaged during aerial application when the pilot lost directional
control landing in a crosswind and ground looped at Atikokan airstrip, Ontario 28Aug74. Registration
cancelled 27May82. Registered as C-FUCB; cancelled 14Jun87. Registered Feb88 as D-EDLL; current [Jun18]
25276 (MSN 75-2765) W/o 19 May 1944 at Dorr Field, FL
25279 (MSN 75-2768) was registered N61335, cancelled Oct 9, 1977
25281 (MSN 75-2770) Lend-Lease to Bolivia Oct 9, 1944. Damaged when ground looped on landing at
Ellington Field, TX Dec 3, 1944.
25283 (MSN 75-2772) W/o 22 Feb 1942 at Dorr Field, FL
25284 (MSN 75-2773) became N264H, then N264HC. Noted 1990 on display at Hill AFB Museum, Utah
25286 (MSN 75-2775) ground looped on landing at Taylor Field, FL 3/10/1943.
25290 (MSN 75-2779) Registered as N1323N. Farm-Air Company, West Sacramento, CA. Operated for
Canadian Forest Protection Limited spruce budworm spray program New Brunswick 1957; sprayer code 103.
Operated for Canadian spruce budworm spray program Quebec 1958; sprayer code 43. Operated for Canadian
spruce budworm spray program 1966; sprayer code 11. Registered as CF-VOB. General Airspray Ltd.,
St Thomas, Ontario. Operated for Canadian spruce budworm spray program 1967-68; sprayer code 76.
One of three Stearmans used to spray fenitrothion pesticide in the Burchell Lake and French Lake areas
of northwestern Ontario 6-18Jun69. Operated on floats. Accident 1970 and WFU. Rebuilt 1987-89.
Reregistered 19Dec97 as C-FBYI. Substantially damaged when the engine failed and force landed
in the woods in a boggy area close to Vernon, British Columbia 2006. The landing gear was torn
out of the fuselage, a lot of the fuselage frame was damaged as well as lower wings, engine, propeller, etc.
Fairflight Ltd., Canada. Repaired and restored by Larry Johnson in Washington State, USA 2009-15.
Reregistered 21Jan11 as CF-MMB to Sportair Ltd, Coldstream, BC; not flown as registered. Registration
cancelled 30Jul13. Reregistered 30Jul13 as CF-VOB prior to completion of repairs. Post-restoration flight 2015.
Substantially damaged en route from Revelstoke, BC to Saskatchewan when the airplane impacted
mountainous terrain near the summit of Rogers Pass in Glacier National Park, British Columbia 30May17.
Registration current [Dec20].
25291 (MSN 75-2780) W/o 31 Jan 1944 at Decatur, AL; repaired; wfu; to N63701, restored, active.
25297 (MSN 75-2786) W/o 7 Sep 1947 at Choses, Costa Rica
25298 (MSN 75-2787) W/o 31 May 1943 at Taylor Field, FL
25300 (MSN 75-2789) 55th Army Air Force Flying Training Detachment (Primary), East Coast Training Center,
Palmer Field, Bennettsville, SC; operated by Georgia Air Service, Inc. Damaged landing at Palmer Field 23Mar43.
Damaged in a collision with PT-17 41-25666 landing at Palmer Field 23Sep43. Damaged in a mid-air collision
with an object at Palmer Field 30Dec43. Registered as N62638. Registered 13Feb53 as CF-DQP.
Skyway Air Services Ltd., Langley, BC. Operated for Canadian Forest Protection Limited spruce budworm
spray program New Brunswick 1953; sprayer code 73. Substantially damaged when the pilot missed setting
a course for Budworm City airstrip three times because of darkness, the airplane struck a fence during the
forced landing and turned over near Robinsonville, new Brunswick 6Jun53. Bradley Air Services Ltd., Carp,
Ontario. Operated for Canadian Forest Protection Limited spruce budworm spray program New
Brunswick 1954-58, 1960; sprayer code 73. Northcana Ltd., Toronto, Ontario. Substantially damaged during
aerial application when the engine failed caused by fuel exhaustion during a swathe run and force landed
in a tobacco field three miles west of Mount Brydges, Ontario 9Aug61. The fuel filter drain cock had been
left open and the engine had failed because of fuel exhaustion. It was found that the fuel sight gauge had
been damaged by a bird strike on the previous day; it had been removed and a standard A.N. plug was used
to seal the opening in the bottom of the fuel tank. Registration cancelled 26Sep62. Sold in Honduras
25301 (MSN 75-2790) W/o 20 Jan 1942 at Bennington, SC
25306 (MSN 75-2795) 6th Army Air Force Flying Training Detachment (Primary), West Coast Training Center,
Thunderbird Field #1, Glendale, AZ; operated by Southwest Airways. Damaged taxying at Thunderbird Field #1
14Jun43. Registered as N53091. Marsh Aviation Company, Mesa, AZ. Operated for Canadian Forest Protection
Limited spruce budworm spray program New Brunswick 1957; sprayer code 246. Registration current [Dec20]
25309 (MSN 75-2798) W/o 4 May 1944 at Kight AAAF, GA
25310 (MSN 75-2799) W/o 24 Jun 1944 at Woodward Field, SC
25312 (MSN 75-2801) W/o 23 May 1943 at Camden, SC
25313 (MSN 75-2802) registered as TG-JEE
25314 (MSN 75-2803) Ca.1/42: TOS USAAF By 12/42: 729th Navigation Training Squadron, Selman Field, Monroe, LA.
12/14/42: Mid-air collision at Selman Field. 11/49 to current: Registered N57940.
25316 (MSN 75-2805) W/o 24 Jun 1943 at Bennettsville, SC
25318 (MSN 75-2807) W/o 4 Oct 1944 at Dorr Field, FL
25323 (MSN 75-2812) W/o 19 Mar 1943 at Taylor Field, FL
25324/25383 MSN 75-2819/75-2878
25324 (MSN 75-2819) 65th Flying Training Detachment, Decatur MAP, AL; operated by Southern Regional Airways, Inc.
Accident during landing four miles northwest of Decatur MAP, AL 1Jan43. Accident on the ground at Decatur MAP, AL 24Nov43
25325 (MSN 75-2820) Became N104H at Wings of History museum, San Martin, California. .
Registration cancelled 30Jan13. Reregistered 22Jul14 as N104H; current [Jun20].
25326/25329 (MSN 75-2821/2824)
25326 (MSN 75-2821) 55th Flying Training Detachment, Palmer Field, Bennettsville, SC; operated by
Georgia Air Service, Inc. Accident landing at Palmer Field 18Jun43
25327 (MSN 75-2822)
25328 (MSN 75-2823) 62nd Flying Training Detachment, Augustine Field, Madison, MS; operated by
Mississippi Institute of Aeronautics. Accident landing at Augustine Auxiliary Field, Ratliff, Madison, MS 26Apr43.
Accident taxying at Augustine Auxiliary Field, Ratliff, Madison, MS 16Aug43.
25329 (MSN 75-2824) 2563rd Base Unit (Women Air Service Pilots), Avenger Field, Sweetwater, TX.
Accident when ground looped landing at Avenger Auxiliary Field #2, Sweetwater, TX 6May44.
Accident landing at Avenger Auxiliary Field #2, Sweetwater, TX 15May44. 2533rd Base
Unit (Pilot School, Primary-Basic), Goodfellow Field, San Angelo, TX. Damaged in an accident with
North American AT-6D 42-86318 at Goodfellow Field 20Dec44.
25331 (MSN 75-2826) W/o 24 Aug 1943 at Douglas, GA
25338 (MSN 75-2833) Registered as N62938. Reserved c.1961 in Kenya as VP-KRR; not taken up.
Registration cancelled 2Feb71 on export to Central African Republic
25340 (MSN 75-2835) W/o 10 Sep 1942 at Douglas, GA
25344 (MSN 75-2839) became N6072Y, then N60724. Registered Sep 2003 in Australia as VH-VIP
25348 (MSN 75-2843) W/o 4 Feb 1944 at Anderson Field, Decatur, AL when destroyed in midair collision
with PT-17 41-25670
25353 (MSN 75-2848) W/o 30 Jul 1943 at Tuskegee, AL
25355 (MSN 75-2850) registered as N55045.
25359 (MSN 75-2854) W/o 1 Nov 1943 at Echeverria Field, AZ
25362 (MSN 75-2857) became N57336, the N7122T. To user in
Australia Oct 18, 2006 as VH-EYB
25364 (MSN 75-2859) 1st Army Air Force Flying Training Detachment (Primary), West Coast Training Center,
Hancock Field, Santa Maria, CA; operated by the Hancock College of Aeronautics. Damaged
when ground looped landing at Hancock Auxiliary Field, Souza, CA 22Jun42. Registered as N57049.
Central Aircraft Inc., Yakima, WA. Operated for Canadian Forest Protection Limited spruce budworm
spray program New Brunswick 1953-55; sprayer code 9. Flown in 1955 by communist defector and
legendary air show pilot Mira Slovak. Registration expired, cancelled 23Apr13
25370 (MSN 75-2865) was registered N59758, then N65RL, then N65PG. Crashed on takeoff
Sep 1, 2007 at Edmond, OK. Pilot uninjured. Now N59758.
25371 (MSN 75-2866) W/o 12 Apr 1943 at Paradise Valley, AZ
25373 (MSN 75-2868) W/o 29 Jan 1943 at Phoenix, AZ
25377 (MSN 75-2872) was registered N53412, then N73695, back to N53412, which was cancelled 10/27/14.
25378 (MSN 75-2873) W/o 19 Dec 1943 at Echeverria Field, AZ
25380 (MSN 75-2875) W/o 25 Jan 1942 at Santa Rosa Ranch, AZ
25381 (MSN 75-2876) W/o 25 Jan 1942 at Santa Rosa Ranch, AZ
25382 (MSN 75-2877) to USAAF Jan 25, 1942. Wrecked Feb 19, 1942. Landing accident Mar 31, 1942.
In Canada awaiting restoration.
25383 (MSN 75-2878) W/o 1 Dec 1942 at Phoenix, AZ
25384/25467 MSN 75-2885/75-2968
25387 (MSN 75-2888) to civil registry as N56608
25388 (MSN 75-2889) W/o 28 May 1942 at Hancock Field, CA)
25390 (MSN 75-2891)12th Flying Training Detachment, Thunderbird Field #2, Scottsdale, AZ; operated by
Southwest Airways. Damaged when ground looped landing at Thunderbird Field #2 3Nov42. Damaged when
ground looped landing at Thunderbird Auxiliary Field, Paradise Valley, AZ 10Jun43. Damaged in a collision
with PT-17 41-25408 landing at Paradise Valley 11Apr44
25391 (MSN 75-2892) 16th Flying Training Detachment, Echeverria Field, Wickenburg, AZ; operated by
Claiborne Flight Academy. Damaged when ground looped landing at Echeverria Field 19Apr43
25392 (MSN 75-2983) 16th Flying Training Detachment, Echeverria Field, Wickenburg, AZ; operated
by Claiborne Flight Academy. Damaged when ground looped landing at Echeverria Auxiliary Field, Aguila, AZ 6May43.
25393 (MSN 75-2894) 3048th Base Unit (Contract Pilot School, Primary), Southwest Airways,
Thunderbird #2, Scottsdale, AZ. Accident landing at Thunderbird #2 Auxiliary Field #1, Paradise Valley, AZ 28Jun44.
25394 (MSN 75-2895) 12th Flying Training Detachment, Thunderbird Field #2, Scottsdale, AZ; operated by
Southwest Airways. Damaged when ground looped landing at Thunderbird Auxiliary Field, Paradise
Valley, AZ 27Nov43. 2528th Base Unit (Bombardier School & Instructor School), Midland Field, TX.
Accident landing at Midland Field 18Sep45
25395 (MSN 75-2896)
25396 (MSN 75-2897) 12th Army Air Force Flying Training Detachment (Primary), West Coast Training Center,
Thunderbird Field #2, Scottsdale, AZ; operated by Hayward and Connelly. Damaged when ground looped
landing at Thunderbird Field #2 23Nov43. 3048th Base Unit (Contract Pilot School, Primary), Thunderbird Field #2,
Scottsdale, AZ; operated by Hayward and Connelly. Damaged when force landed after engine failure at
Thunderbird #2 Auxiliary Field #2, Paradise Valley, AZ 28Aug44. Registered as N48769. Marsh Aviation
Company, Mesa, AZ. Operated for Canadian Forest Protection Limited spruce budworm spray program
New Brunswick 1957; sprayer code 263. Registered 7Jan57 to Mid Continent Aerial Sprayers Inc., Hayti, MO.
Operated for Canadian spruce budworm spray program 1958; sprayer code 435. Registration cancelled 24May65
on export to Costa Rica
25399 (MSN 75-2900) W/o 27 Jul 1943 at Thunderbird No 1,AZ
25400 (MSN 75-2901) W/o 5 May 1943 at Paradise Valley, AZ. Registered N25400.
25401 (MSN 75-2902) Registered as N53025. Marsh Aviation Company, Mesa, AZ. Operated for Canadian
Forest Protection Limited spruce budworm spray program New Brunswick 1953-55; sprayer code 88.
Operated for Canadian spruce budworm spray program 1956-58; sprayer code 201. Registered 1974
as C-GCEH. Registration N5302J assigned 9Aug89; not taken up, cancelled 18May11. Registration C-GCEH current [Dec20]
25403 (MSN 75-2904) W/o 4 Jul 1945 at Salem, WV
25404 (MSN 75-2905) is registered N59742.
25405 (MSN 75-2906) is registered N59743.
25409 (MSN 75-2910) Current 2020 in US civil register as N22D
25411 (MSN 75-2912) 6th Army Air Force Flying Training Detachment (Primary), West Coast Training Center,
Thunderbird Field #1, Glendale, AZ; operated by Southwest Airways. Damaged when ground looped
taking off at Thunderbird Field #1 23Nov43. Damaged landing at Thunderbird Field #1 2Dec43.
Registered as N53033. Marsh Aviation Company, Mesa, AZ. Operated for Canadian Forest Protection
Limited spruce budworm spray program New Brunswick 1957-58; sprayer code 202. Reregistered 2Dec99 as N9856F;
current [Dec20]
25412 (MSN 75-2913) W/o 9 Apr 1943 at Twenty Nine Palms, CA
25419 (MSN 75-2920) W/o 14 Aug 1944 at Thunderbird Field 2, AZ
25421 (MSN 75-2922) W/o 11 Sep 1942 at Thunderbird Field #2, AZ
25422 (MSN 75-2923) 12th Army Air Force Flying Training Detachment (Primary), West Coast Training Center,
Thunderbird Field #2, Scottsdale, AZ; operated by Hayward and Connelly. Damaged when ground looped
landing at Thunderbird Field #2 6Dec43. Damaged when ground looped landing at Thunderbird Field #2
Auxiliary Field #2, Paradise Valley, AZ 4Apr44. Registered as N53132. Hammer Crop Dusters Inc.,
Sacramento, CA. Operated for Canadian Forest Protection Limited spruce budworm spray program
New Brunswick 1958; sprayer code 357. Registration cancelled. Reregistered 12Jun98 as N53132; current [Dec20]
25426 (MSN 75-2927) W/o 14 Aug 1942 at Thunderbird Field #2, AZ
25429 (MSN 75-2930) W/o 25 May 1943 at Phoenix, AZ
25431 (MSN 75-2932) W/o 21 Oct 1943 at Paradise Valley, AZ
25433 (MSN 75-2934) W/o 14 May 1942 at Hancock Field, CA
25434 (MSN 75-2935) on civil registry as N4410 with Vintage Aeroplane Collection.
25435 (MSN 75-2936) civil registration N74188 cancelled May 24, 1989. Later as ZS-MIC.
25436 (MSN 75-2937) W/o 17 Nov 1942 at Phoenix, AZ
25439 (MSN 75-2940) 6th Army Air Force Flying Training Detachment (Primary), West Coast Training Center,
Thunderbird Field #1, Glendale, AZ; operated by Southwest Airways. Damaged landing at
Thunderbird Field #1 20May43. 2548th Base Unit (Contract Pilot School, Primary), Curtis Field, Brady, TX;
operated by the Dallas Aviation School and Air College. Damaged landing at Curtis Field 25Jun45.
Registered as N59727. Central Aircraft Inc., Yakima, WA. Operated for Canadian Forest Protection Limited
spruce budworm spray program New Brunswick 1953-55; sprayer code 47. Russell Dusting Company,
San Antonio, TX. Operated for Canadian spruce budworm spray program 1956-57; sprayer code 47.
Registered to San Antonio Air College, Stinson Field, San Antonio, TX. Registration revoked 14Jan77.
Registered 26Feb03 as N59727; current [Dec20]
25440 (MSN 75-2941) crashed on landing at Thunderbird Field, Arizona May 7, 1942.
25442 (MSN 75-2943) W/o 15 Sep 1943 at Glendale, AZ
25446 (MSN 75-2947) 6th Flying Training Detachment, Thunderbird Field, Glendale, AZ. Force landed after engine failure four miles
west of Sacaton, AZ 18Sep42. While on a routine cross country training flight the pilot noticed an excessive amount of
oil coming, apparently, from the top cylinder head. At that time there was no apparent loss of power since the
tachometer indicated normal functioning. But later he noticed a steady increase in oil temperature. After the
indicator read above the green line he cut the switch and looked for a landing spot. The pilot chose a dirt road
and attempted a landing, only to be stopped by a truck traveling very slowly and in the same direction.
He turned the switch on again and attempted to make another approach. He could not gain enough
altitude, the landing being made out of the last turn, which was very low. The pilot overshot his turn
and landed on the edge of the road, rolling approximately 150 feet before hitting a small tree on the left.
The aircraft then went into a wash (Arizona term for a ‘roadside ditch’). It nosed down, damaging the propeller,
two lower wings and the landing gear. The forced landing was caused by failure of the crankshaft ball bearing retainer.
25451 (MSN 75-2952) W/o 30 Oct 1942 at Thunderbird Field, AZ
25453 to RCAF Mar 1942, returned to USAF Jun 1942.
25454 (MSN 75-2955) to civil registry as N634JM with Massey Air Museum, Massey, MD
25455 (MSN 75-2956) W/o 21 Aug 1942 at Bennettsville, SC
25459 (MSN 75-2960) W/o 24 Jul 1943 at Americus, GA; repaired (?); wfu; to civil registry as N60739.
Seen at Hanover Airport, Virginia May 1990.
25461 (MSN 75-2962) W/o 17 Oct 1942 at Notasulga, AL
25468/25726 MSN 75-2975/75-3233
25472 (MSN 75-2979) Ca.1/42: TOS USAAF. By 1/64 to current (3/2022): Registered N57762
25480/25485 (MSN 75-2987/2992)
25480 (MSN 75-2987) 55th Flying Training Detachment, Palmer Field, Bennettsville, SC; operated by
Georgia Air Service, Inc. Accident when ground looped landing at Palmer Field 14Mar44.
2549th (Contract Pilot School, Primary) Chickasha Municipal Airport, OK. Damaged when
ground looped at Chickasha Auxiliary Field #2, OK 19Dec44.
25481 (MSN 75-2988) 55th Flying Training Detachment, Palmer Field, Bennettsville, SC; operated by
Georgia Air Service, Inc. Accident when ground looped landing at Palmer Field 21Mar44. 2549th
(Contract Pilot School, Primary) Chickasha Municipal Airport, OK. Accident during landing
3.5 miles west of Chickasha Auxiliary Field #4, OK 31Jul45.
25482 (MSN 75-2989) 55th Flying Training Detachment, Palmer Field, Bennettsville, SC; operated by
Georgia Air Service, Inc. Damaged when nosed over landing at Palmer Field 5May42. Accident when
ground looped landing at Palmer Field 31Jul42.
25484 (MSN 75-2991) 64th Flying Training Detachment, Woodward Field, Camden, SC; operated by
Southern Aviation School. Crashed after the pilot lost control at Woodward Field 17Jul43.
25485 (MSN 75-2992) Registered as N66658. Vince Dusters, Buttonwillow, CA. Sub-contracted to
Marsh Aviation Company, Mesa, AZ. Operated for Canadian Forest Protection Limited spruce
budworm spray program New Brunswick 1957; sprayer code 378. Stearman Restorations Inc,
Cottage Grove, OR. Registered 9Oct91 as N450JN. The Stearman experienced an in-flight fire during
landing approach at Roy Williams Airport, Joshua Tree, California 18May09. The airplane, which was
registered to Stearman Restorations, Inc., Cottage Grove, Oregon, sustained substantial damage.
The flight had departed from Chino, California, with an intended destination of Joshua Tree.
While on the downwind leg for landing, the pilot added power and observed flames coming out
of the top and right side of the engine’s cowling. He initiated a turn towards the runway, landed
uneventfully and came to a stop about midfield. The pilot, who was an airframe and power plant
mechanic, reported that he had recently installed the engine following a major overhaul; the airplane
had flown 3.5 hours since installation of the engine. Fuselage frame only survives at Chino. Registration cancelled 10Jul20.
25488 (MSN 75-2995) W/o 23 Mar 1943 at Bennettsville, SC
25491 (MSN 75-2998) W/o 29 Apr 1943 at Taylor Field, FL
25498 (MSN 75-3005) Registered as N61522. Farm-Air Company, West Sacramento, CA. Operated for
Canadian Forest Protection Limited spruce budworm spray program New Brunswick 1957; sprayer code 115.
Registered as N1MD; current [Dec20
25502 (MSN 75-3009) W/o 28 Aug 1943 at Taylor Field, FL
25503 (MSN 75-3010) W/o 29 May 1944 at Dorniney Field, GA
25508 (MSN 75-3015) Date of manufacture 22Nov41. 2549th (Contract Pilot School, Primary),
Wilson-Bonfils Flying Schools, Chickasha Municipal Airport, OK. Accident at Chickasha
Field, OK 15Mar45. Registered as NC60015; cancelled 15Jun50. Sold to Israel 1951. Registered as 4X-ACH
On display at IAF Museum, Heratzim, Israel as 4X-AII and carries the false serial "32"
25519 (MSN 75-3026) W/o 22 Sep 1942 at Tuskegee, AL
25520 (MSN 75-3027) W/o 21 Nov 1943 at Moton Field, AL
25521 (MSN 75-3028) W/o 6 Nov 1942 at Tuskegee, AL
25522 (MSN 75-3029) W/o 23 Jul 1943 at Tuskegee, AL
25525 (MSN 75-3032) W/o 24 Feb 1944 at Douglas, GA
25530 (MSN 75-3037) is registered N79466
25531 (MSN 75-3038) registered N55481.
25532 (MSN 75-3039) became N55381, then TG-JEN. As TG-JEN written off on September
14, 2014 at Juan Gaviota, Guatamala when the aircraft impacted the surface of the sea
while performing low altitude aerobatics.
25533 (MSN 75-3040) registered as N8012E
25536 (MSN 75-3043) W/o 13 Aug 1943 at Pearson, GA
25541 (MSN 75-3048) registered as N62663
25542 (MSN 75-3049) 52nd Army Air Force Flying Training Detachment (Primary), Southeast Training
Center, Albany Field, GA; operated by Darr Aero Tech, Inc. Accident taking off at Albany Auxiliary Field #1,
Haley, GA 5Mar43. Registered as N63266. Mid Continent Aerial Sprayers Inc., Hayti, MO. Operated for
Canadian Forest Protection Limited spruce budworm spray program New Brunswick 1958; sprayer code 433.
Substantially damaged during instructional training when the pilot failed to maintain directional control,
ground looped and nosed over landing at Shreveport Downtown Airport, LA 12Mar77. Registration current [Dec20]
25543 (MSN 75-3050) Registered as NC62611; N62611 and now N175DG. Restored, Active.
25546 (MSN 75-3053) was registered N62934, cancelled Aug 9, 1977.
25547 (MSN 75-3054) W/o 9 Mar 1943 at Albany, GA
25553 (MSN 75-3060) TOS USAAF and assigned to 63rd Army Air Forces Contract Pilot School, Douglas, GA.
1963 to current (3/2022): Registered N52283
25556 (MSN 75-3063) Wfu; to NC308
25557 (MSN 75-3064) W/o 31 Jul 1942 at Decatur, AL
25559 (MSN 75-3066) W/o 22 Jul 1942 at Souther Field, GA
25565 (MSN 75-3072) W/o 19 Dec 1942 at Tuskegee, AL
25569 (MSN 75-3076) W/o 21 Feb 1944 at Bennettsville, SC
25579 (MSN 75-3086) W/o 14 Jul 1943 at Hagood AAAF, SC
25586 (MSN 75-3093) W/o 3 Aug 1942 at Tuscaloosa, AL
25589 (MSN 75-3096) 51st Army Air Force Flying Training Detachment (Primary), Southeast Training Center,
Hargrove Van de Graaff Field, Tuscaloosa, AL; operated by the Alabama Institute of Aeronautics.
Damaged landing at Hargrove Van de Graaff Field 29Jul42. Accident taking off from Hargrove
Van de Graaff Field 1Jan43. Registered as N62465. Operated for Canadian Forest Protection Limited
spruce budworm spray program New Brunswick 1966; sprayer code 442. Substantially damaged during
aerial application spraying crops when the pilot failed to maintain directional control during landing,
ground looped and nosed over at Waymon Gillcoat private airstrip, De Witt, AR 24Jun72. Damaged
when the pilot made a precautionary landing in an open field due to a rough running engine; the wingtip
struck a hay bale at Rurledge, TN 3Oct86. Substantially damaged when the pilot failed to maintain
directional control during landing and nosed over at Dietz Air Park (OR40), Canby, OR 4Jul13. After the airplane
touched down, it veered to the left and departed the runway onto a grassy area. The pilot applied power in
an effort to return to the runway; however, the airplane went into a ditch and nosed over, which resulted
in damage to the tail section. He stated that gusty wind conditions may have been a factor. Registration current [Dec20].
25591 (MSN 75-3098) W/o 14 Jun 1944 at Victory Field, TX
25594 (MSN 75-3101) registered N5806V (initially with wrong MSN of 75-1315), cancelled Jan 22, 1952.
25597 (MSN 75-3104) W/o 30 Aug 1943 at Americus, GA
25599 (MSN 75-3106) Registered as N57042. Baxter Aircraft Inc., Yakima, WA. Registration cancelled 17Jun59
on export to Yugoslavia. Registered 1965 as YU-BBR to Jugoslovenski Aerotransport (Agricultural Division).
CofA expired 27Jan70. Registration cancelled.
25601 (MSN 75-3108) W/o 22 Jun 1943 at Northwest AAAF, FL
25604 (MSN 75-3111) W/o 15 Aug 1942 at Prattville, AL
25605 (MSN 75-3112) W/o 28 Jan 1944 at Camden, SC
25606 (MSN 75-3113) Originally assigned to Maxwell Field, Alabama. Sold in 1947 and converted to
450 Hp duster. became N53098, deregistered, then became N422DE, soon to be changed to N22700.
Originally assigned to Maxwell Field, Alabama.
25611 (MSN 75-3118) W/o 5 May 1944 at Bennettsville, SC
25614 (MSN 75-3121) Ca.2/42: TOS USAAF and assigned to 57th AAF Flying Training Detachment, Ocala, FL
W/o 26 Apr 1943 at Ocala, FL 1945 to current (3/2022): Registered N52518
25617 (MSN 75-3124) W/o 25 Jul 1942 at Bennettsville, SC
25620 (MSN 75-3127) was registered N59250, cancelled Jan 14, 1977
25622 (MSN 75-3129) became N68494, registration SE-AMW reserved Oct 26, 1999.
25625 (MSN 75-3132) Became N65501, then G-BTGA. Sold to owner in New
Zealand January 2003. Registered as ZK-TGA Aug 7, 2003
25626 (MSN 75-3133) W/o 8 Jul 1944 at Woodward Field, SC
25629 (MSN 75-3136) delivered to USAF Apr 29, 1942. To Colombian AF until 1957 when returned to USA.
Now on civil registry as N74031
25632 (MSN 75-3139) W/o 26 Jul 1943 at Taylor Field, FL
25637 (MSN 75-3144) Ca.2/42: TOS USAAF and assigned to 65th AAF Contract Pilot School, Decatur, AL.
2/21/44: Damaged in take-off accident with ground loop at Harris Auxiliary Field, Decatur, AL.
By 2/45: 2162nd AAF Base Unit, Orangeburg AAF, SC.
2/22/45: Damaged in taxi accident at Braksdale Field. By 1964: Registered N38960.
By 8/77 to current (3/2022): Registered N42DB.
25640 ground looped on landing at Greenburn, SC 3/11/1943
25643 (MSN 75-3150) W/o 8 Dec 1942 at Lakeland, FL
25645 (MSN 75-3152) W/o 6 Sep 1943 at Taylor Field, FL
25647 (MSN 75-3154) W/o 6 Jan 1944 at Taylor Field, FL
25648 (MSN 75-3155) W/o 27 Mar 1943 at Camden, SC
25650 (MSN 75-3157) 64rd Army Air Force Flying Training Detachment (Primary), East Coast Training Center,
Woodward Field, Camden, SC; operated by Southern Aviation School. Damaged in a collision with
PT-17 41-25343 landing at Woodward Field 1Jun43. 2153rd Base Unit (Contract Pilot School, Primary),
Woodward Field, Camden, SC; operated by Southern Aviation School. Damaged when ground looped
landing at Woodward Auxiliary Field #2, SC 12May44. Registered as N61433. Marsh Aviation Company,
Mesa, AZ. Operated for Canadian Forest Protection Limited spruce budworm spray program
New Brunswick 1957; sprayer code 221. Reregistered 23Apr99 as N9856G; current [Dec20].
25651 (MSN 75-3158) W/o 7 Apr 1943 at Clarksdale, MS
25652 (MSN 75-3159) to Uruguay as CX-AKX and still active Sep 2016.
25653 (MSN 75-3160) became N59734. Registration ZS-PNE allocated to
Grant Lake Trading 24/PL, Virginia, South Africa. Apr 15, 2005
Apr 2005.
25655 (MSN 75-3162) 2/42: TOS USAAF and assigned to 56th Army Air Force Flight Training Detachment,
Souther Field, Americus, GA. 7/26/42: Damaged in taxi accidenRegistered N59990
25656 (MSN 75-3163) Wfu; to Dominican Rep AF as 23, later 1304 in Aug 1944; wfu 1957
25663 (MSN 75-3170) W/o 12 Apr 1943 at Tuscaloosa, AL
25666 (MSN 75-3173) W/o 23 Sep 1943 at Camden, SC
25668 (MSN 75-3175) W/o 7 Jul 1942 at Decatur, AL
25670 (MSN 75-3177) with 65th Flying Training Detachment W/o 4 Feb 1944 at Anderson Field, AL
in midair collision with PT-17 41-25670. Registeratin N62850 assigned, NTU.
25671 (MSN 75-3178) Lend-Lease to Bolivia Oct 9, 1944. Shipped from Newark, NJ Mar 1945.
25674 (MSN 75-3181) W/o 28 Jun 1945 at Brady, TX
25678 (MSN 75-3185) W/o 1 Nov 1943 at Orangeburg, SC
25682 (MSN 75-3189) became N56188, registration SE-BEU reserved Nov 27, 2002
25690 (MSN 75-3197) W/o 21 Jan 1943 at Decatur, AL
25692 (MSN 75-3199) W/o 9 Sep 1942 at Fletcher Field, MS
25695 (MSN 75-3202) W/o 11 May 1943 at Clarksdale, MS
25699 (MSN 75-3206) W/o 22 Jul 1943 at Clarksdale, MS
25704 (MSN 73-3211) in 2012 was under restoration in France. Expected to fly in summer 2013 as F-AZYX.
25707 (MSN 75-3214) became N67963. Sold to owner in Austria
Feb 2008
25709 (MSN 75-3216) Wfu; to Dominican Rep AF as 24, later 1305 in Aug 1944; wfu 1957
25712 (MSN 75-3219) 63rd Army Air Force Flying Training Detachment (Primary), Southeast
Training Center, Douglas Municipal Airport, GA; operated by the Raymond-Richardson Aviation Company.
Code 58. Damaged landing at Douglas Municipal Airport 27Mar43. Registered as N66005. Marsh Aviation
Company, Mesa, AZ. Operated for Canadian Forest Protection Limited spruce budworm spray program
New Brunswick 1957; sprayer code 251. Substantially damaged during aerial application dusting beans
when the engine failed caused by fuel exhaustion after a swathe run and struck power lines during the
forced landing near Gainesville, FL 6Sep67. Substantially damaged en route Gainesville to St Augustine
for aerial application dusting pasture when a propeller blade failed and collided with trees during the
forced landing near St Augustine, FL 21Aug70. Registration cancelled 26Jun73
25714 (MSN 75-3221) 6/42: TOS USAAF. 2/43 to 8/44: 318th AAF Flying Training Detachment,
31st Flying Training Wing, Avenger Field, Sweetwater, TX. Operated by Aviation Enterprises.
(Women Airforce Service Pilots training plane).
By 1945: 2533rd Army Air Forces Base Unit, Goodfellow Field, TX.
1/27/45: Weather related landing incident at Goodfellow Field.
Ca.1946 to current (4/2022): Registered N59293
2006-2008: Restored to WASP configuration. Won EAA Award at Oshkosh 2012.
25716 (MSN 75-3223) W/o 30 Mar 1943 at Arcadia, FL
25718 (MSN 75-3225) 2160th Base Unit (Contract Pilot School, Primary), Lodwick Field, Lakeland, FL;
operated by Lodwick School of Aeronautics. Damaged when nosed over landing at Lakeland Field 7Aug44.
Registered as N69881. Aerial Crop Service, Carlsbad, CA. Operated for Canadian Forest Protection Limited
spruce budworm spray program New Brunswick 1955-56; sprayer code 98. Operated for Canadian spruce
budworm spray program 1957; sprayer code 55. Registration current [Dec20].
25719 (MSN 75-3226) W/o 23 Jun 1943 at Decatur, AL
25721 (MSN 75-3228) W/o 25 Jan 1944 at Tanner Field, AL
25724 (MSN 75-3231) W/o 20 Jan 1944 at Beaver Dam Field, WI
25726 (MSN 75-3233) Accepted by USAAF 18May42. 68th Army Air Force Flying Training Detachment (Primary), Jackson, TN.
Nosed over landing at Spivey Auxiliary Field, TN Aug 15, 1 942. 53rd AAF Flying training detachment,
Albany Field, GA. W/o in accident taking off 26 Jul 1943 at Haley AAAF, GA
25727/25731 (MSN 75-3334/3338) Lend-Lease to Bolivia, crated but not delivered.
25732/25736 MSN 75-3339/3343
Intended for Paraguay, but cancelled and transferred to USAAF units
25732 2148th Base Unit, Carlstrom Field, Arcadia, FL. Accident landing at Southwest Auxiliary Field, FL 5Dec44.
25733 63rd Army Air Force Flying Training Detachment (Primary), Douglas, GA. Accident landing at Douglas, GA 23Jan43.
Destroyed in a collision landing at Douglas 29Sep43
25736 66th Army Air Force Flying Training Detachment (Primary), Tuskegee Institute, AL. Accident when ground looped
taking off at Tuskegee, AL 22May43. Accident when ground looped landing at Tuskegee, AL 23Nov43.
41-25737/25740 Stearman PT-17
MSN 75-3234/3237. Lend-Lease to Bolivia. By road to Port of Embarkation, Los Angeles 7Sep42.
Not delivered, diverted to US Navy 1Oct42 as BuNo 27960/27963. Accepted 22Oct42. Naval Reserve Aviation Base, Dallas, TX.
41-25741/25747 Stearman PT-17
Model A75N1. MSN 75-3348/3353
25741 (MSN 75-3348) Lend-Lease to Cuba Jul 1942 as FAEC 38, arrived Aug 7, 1942
25742 (MSN 75-3249) Model A5N1. Wright Field, OH. 56th Army Air Force Flying Training Detachment (Primary), Americus Field, GA.
Crashed after losing control and destroyed 3 miles E of Ellaville, GA 29Jun42; pilot killed.
25743/25747 (MSN 75-3349/3353) Lend-Lease to Cuba Jul 1942 as FAEC 39/43. Arrived in Cuba Aug 7, 1942
41-25748 Stearman PT-17-BW Kaydet
MSN 75-3450. I have this plane as being intended for Lend-Lease to Bolivia but not delivered and
diverted to US Navy as N2S-4 BuNo 34111
41-25749/25801 Stearman PT-17
Model A75N1
25749/25753 MSN 75-3451/75-3455. Intended for Lend lease to Paraguay AF in 1942, but cancelled and transferred
to USAAF units
25749 2157th Base Unit, Douglas, GA. Crashed after losing control and destroyed 7 miles NW of Douglas, GA 14Jun44..
25754/25759 Lend-Lease to Colombia, Delivered Aug 20-Sep 2, 1942
25754 (MSN 75-3492). Lend-Lease to Colombia as FAC 54. W/o Oct 29, 1946.
25755 (MSN 75-3493). Lend-lease to Colombia as FAC 55
25756 (MSN 75-3566) Lend-Lease to Colombia as FAC 56
25757 (MSN 75-3567) Lend-Lease to Colombia as FAC 57. Wo Feb 1, 1954
25758 (MSN 75-3568) Lend-Lease to Colombia as FAC 58
25759 (MSN 75-3569) Lend-Lease to Colombia as FAC 59 and w/o Sep 20, 1954.
25760/25767 MSN 75-3570/75-3577
25760 (MSN 75-3570) W/o 1 Nov 1943 at Carlstrom Field, FL
25762 (MSN 75-3572) W/o 18 Sep 1943 at Carlstrom Field, FL
25768/25801 MSN 75-3725/75-3758
25770 (MSN 75-3727) W/o 21 Dec 1942 at Augustine Field, MS
25772 (MSN 75-3729) registered as N57989.
25782 (MSN 75-3739) registered to John Bormes as N63794 Jul 27, 2007
25784 (MSN 75-3741) W/o 6 Apr 1943 at Taylor Field, FL
25786 (MSN 75-3743) 57th Army Air Force Flying Training Detachment (Primary), Southeast Training Center,
Taylor Field, Ocala, FL; operated by Greenville Aviation School. Damaged when ground looped
landing at Taylor Field 28Apr43 and 18Aug43. Registered as N57935. Aero-Agricultural Service,
Garwood, TX. Operated for Canadian Forest Protection Limited spruce budworm spray program
New Brunswick 1957; sprayer code 43. Registration revoked 14Jan77, cancelled 28Jul04
25787 (MSN 75-3744) W/o 23 Oct 1943 at Camden, SC
25790 (MSN 75-3747) registered as N55900.
25792 (MSN 75-3749) restored and active as N8264E
25793 (MSN 75-3750) W/o 29 May 1943 at Bennetsville, SC
25796 (MSN 75-3753) registered as N59295
25797 (MSN 75-3754) W/o 11 Apr 1946 at Morrilton, AR
25801 (MSN 75-3758) W/o 27 May 1943 at Americus, GA
41-25802/26251 Stearman PT-17-BW Kaydet
Serials allocated, but not used by USAAF. Converted to N2S-4 for Navy.
25848 to US Navy as N2S-4 BuNo 28011
41-26252/27331 Beechcraft AT-10-BH
MSN 1527/2606
26254 (MSN 1529) W/o 20 Jun 1944 at League Davis AAAF, TX
26255 (MSN 1530) W/o 2 Mar 1944 at Texas City, TX
26256 (MSN 1531) W/o 19 May 1944 at Ellington Field, TX
26258 (MSN 1533) W/o 13 Jan 1943 at George Field, IL
26260 (MSN 1535) assigned to Ellington Field, TX damaged in a mid-air with AT-10 91-9408 on Jan. 03, 1943.
Damaged again on Jun 21, 1943 after a belly landing 1 1/2 Mi NW Weimer, TX due to engine failure.
26261 (MSN 1536) W/o 21 Apr 1944 at George Field, IL
26263 (MSN 1538) W/o 24 May 1944 at George Field, IL
26264 (MSN 1539) W/o 12 Dec 1943 at West Middlesex, PA
26265 (MSN 1540) W/o 10 Aug 1943 at Ellington Field, TX
26266 (MSN 1541) W/o 20 May 1943 at Smithville AAAF #2, GA
26268 (MSN 1543) W/o 10 Nov 1942 at Kelly Field, TX
26269 (MSN 1544) W/o 28 Apr 1943 at League Davis AAAF, TX
26271 (MSN 1546) W/o 16 Dec 1942 at George Field, IL
26274 (MSN 1549) W/o 24 Oct 1942 at Kelly Field, TX
26275 (MSN 1550) W/o 12 Jan 1943 at George Field, IL
26276 (MSN 1551) W/o 4 May 1943 at George Field, IL
26277 (MSN 1552) W/o 14 Jan 1943 at George Field, IL
26278 (MSN 1553) W/o 26 Aug 1944 at Yoakum Field, TX
26279 (MSN 1554) W/o 15 Apr 1943 at Petersburg, IN
26280 (MSN 1555) W/o 23 Sep 1943 at Majors AAF, TX
26291 (MSN 1566) W/o 31 Mar 1943 at Ellington Field, TX
26293 (MSN 1568) W/o 27 Oct 1942 at Ingram, TX
26294 (MSN 1569) W/o 13 Jul 1944 at Claremont, IL
26295 (MSN 1570) W/o 11 Jun 1944 at Xenia, IL
26298 (MSN 1573) W/o 1 Mar 1943 at George AAF, IL
26299 (MSN 1574) W/o 28 Oct 1942 at George Field, IL
26301 (MSN 1576) W/o 12 Dec 1943 at Nankin, OH
26304 (MSN 1579) W/o 4 Apr 1944 at Ellington Field, TX
26307 (MSN 1582) W/o 4 Jul 1943 at NAS New Orleans, LA
26310 (MSN 1585) W/o 31 Mar 1943 at Ellington Field, TX
26312 (MSN 1587) lost in training accident Ellington Field, TX Mar 10, 1943. One bailed out OK.
26313 (MSN 1588) W/o 1 Feb 1943 at George AAF, IL
26316 (MSN 1591) W/o 23 Dec 1943 at Presbyterian AAAF, IL
26317 (MSN 1592) W/o 10 Dec 1942 at Terre Haute, IN
26318 (MSN 1593) W/o 21 Jun 1943 at Leesburg AAAF #1, GA
26323 (MSN 1598) W/o 3 Nov 1942 at Greenville AFS, MS
26325 (MSN 1600) W/o 9 Mar 1943 at Turner Field, GA
26326 (MSN 1601) W/o 29 Feb 1944 at Turner Field, GA
26327 (MSN 1602) W/o 27 Nov 1942 at Kelly Field, TX
26329 (MSN 1604) W/o 3 Feb 1943 at Laketon AAAF
26330 (MSN 1605) W/o 10 Nov 1942 at Kelly Field, TX
26331 (MSN 1606) W/o 7 Mar 1944 at 8 Mi SSE Turner Field, Albany, GA
26337 (MSN 1612) W/o 13 Aug 1943 at Randolph Field, TX
26346 (MSN 1621) W/o 21 Dec 1943 at George Field, IL
26347 (MSN 1622) W/o 10 Jun 1944 at Columbus AAF, MS
26350 (MSN 1625) W/o 5 Jul 1944 at Ellington Field, TX
26355 (MSN 1630) W/o 20 Nov 1942 at Kelly Field, TX
26358 (MSN 1633) W/o 30 Mar 1943 at Columbus AAAF #6, MS
26359 (MSN 1634) W/o 2 Jan 1943 at Ellington Field, TX
26360 (MSN 1635) W/o 9 Aug 1943 at Ellington Field, TX
26363 (MSN 1638) W/o 6 Jun 1943 at Columbus, MS
26368 (MSN 1643) W/o 27 Feb 1943 at Vicksburg, MS
26370 (MSN 1645) W/o 22 Feb 1943 at Turner AAF, GA
26372 (MSN 1647) W/o 8 Oct 1943 at Turner AAF, GA
26374 (MSN 1649) W/o 3 May 1943 at Turner AAF, GA
26376 (MSN 1651) W/o 10 Nov 1942 at Blytheville, AR
26379 (MSN 1654) W/o 9 Jan 1945 at Lubbock, TX
26380 (MSN 1655) W/o 18 Nov 1942 at Rich Field, TX
26385 (MSN 1660) W/o 6 Jul 1943 at Ellington Field, TX
26387 (MSN 1662) W/o 22 Feb 1944 at Turner Field, GA
26389 (MSN 1664) W/o 7 Dec 1942 at Blackland AFS, TX
26390 (MSN 1665) W/o 20 Dec 1943 at Franklinton, LA
26391 (MSN 1666) wheels up landing Columbus AAF, MS 3/10/1944. Minor damage.
26393 (MSN 1668) W/o 30 May 1944 at Bainbridge AAF, GA
26395 (MSN 1670) W/o 18 Feb 1944 at Marshall, IL
26397 (MSN 1672) W/o 23 Dec 1942 at Blackland AFS, TX
26400 (MSN 1675) W/o 4 Mar 1943 at Leesburg AAAF #1, GA
26404 (MSN 1679) W/o 1 Apr 1943 at Blackland AFS, TX
26405 (MSN 1680) W/o 4 Apr 1944 at Ellington Field, TX
26409 (MSN 1684) W/o 19 Apr 1943 at Columbus, MS
26411 (MSN 1686) W/o 7 May 1943 at Columbus AAF, MS
26412 (MSN 1687) W/o 31 May 1944 at Hamilton, MS
26413 (MSN 1688) W/o 17 Nov 1942 at Waco AFS, TX
26422 (MSN 1697) W/o 20 Jul 1943 at 3 Mi N Marion Field, TX
26423 crashed in forced landing after fuel exhaustion Blytheville AAF, AK 3/10/1943. 1 killed, 2 injured.
26426 (MSN 1701) W/o 28 Dec 1942 at Waco AFS, TX
26430 (MSN 1705) W/o 23 Feb 1943 at Columbus, MS
26438 (MSN 1713) W/o 8 Sep 1943 at Columbus AAF, MS
26441 (MSN 1716) W/o 11 Jul 1944 at Preston AAAF, TX
26447 (MSN 1722) W/o 6 Feb 1944 at Patersburg, IN
26448 (MSN 1723) W/o 9 Jun 1943 at Blytheville AAF, AR
26451 (MSN 1726) W/o 26 May 1944 at Turner AAAF #3, GA
26454 (MSN 1729) W/o 16 Dec 1943 at Ellington Field, TX
26457 (MSN 1732) W/o 24 Mar 1944 at Red Bluff AAAF, TX
26460 (MSN 1735) W/o 3 Mar 1943 at Ellington Field, TX
26463 (MSN 1738) W/o 2 Mar 1944 at Bethal, NY
26468 (MSN 1743) W/o 5 Jan 1944 at Bainbridge AAF, GA
26469 (MSN 1744) W/o 5 Apr 1944 at Conroe, TX
26470 (MSN 1745) W/o 3 Mar 1943 at Turner Field, GA
26472 (MSN 1747) landing gear collapsed during landing Turner Field, GA 3/10/1943. repaired (?); w/o 4 Mar 1944 at
Tuskegee AAF, AL
26475 (MSN 1750) W/o 16 Mar 1943 at Galena Park, TX
26477 (MSN 1752) W/o 27 Feb 1943 at Georgetown, MS
26480 (MSN 1755) W/o 4 Jan 1944 at Smithville AAAF #6, GA
26483 (MSN 1758) W/o 19 Jul 1943 at Columbus AAAF #5, MS
26484 (MSN 1759) W/o 15 Apr 1944 at George Field, IL
26485 (MSN 1760) W/o 4 May 1943 at Houston Mun Arpt, TX
26486 (MSN 1761) W/o 5 Jun 1944 at Houston, MS
26487 (MSN 1762) W/o 2 Aug 1943 at Blytheville AAF, AR
26491 (MSN 1766) W/o 30 Jan 1943 at Blytheville AAF, AR
26492 (MSN 1767) W/o 13 Jan 1943 at Blackland AFS, TX
26495 (MSN 1770) W/o 10 Nov 1943 at Turner Field, GA
26496 (MSN 1771) W/o 16 Mar 1944 at Bainbridge AAF, GA
26498 (MSN 1773) W/o 31 Jul 1943 at Ellington Field, TX
26501 (MSN 1776) W/o 29 Jul 1943 at Auburn, AL
26503 (MSN 1778) W/o 22 Dec 1943 at Tupelo, MS
26505 (MSN 1780) W/o 23 Dec 1942 at Waco AFS, TX
26507 (MSN 1782) W/o 29 Apr 1943 at Columbus, MS
26508 (MSN 1783) W/o 26 Feb 1943 at Turner Field, GA
26509 (MSN 1784) W/o 28 Apr 1944 at Walesboro AAAF, IN
26524 (MSN 1799) W/o 27 Jan 1943 at Blackland AFS, TX
26525 (MSN 1800) W/o 20 Oct 1943 at Blytheville AAF, AR
26529 (MSN 1804) W/o 27 Feb 1944 at Cordele, GA
26530 (MSN 1805) W/o 23 Sep 1943 at Turner Field, GA
26534 (MSN 1809) W/o 9 Jul 1943 at Ellington Field, TX
26539 (MSN 1814) W/o 29 Mar 1943 at Turner AAF, GA
26542 (MSN 1817) W/o 12 May 1943 at Turner AAF, GA
26558 (MSN 1833) W/o 21 Jun 1943 at Blytheville AAF, AR
26559 (MSN 1834) W/o 26 Jun 1944 at Columbus AAF, MS
26564 (MSN 1839) W/o 2 Jun 1943 at Abilene Mun Arpt, TX
26569 (MSN 1844) W/o 24 Apr 1943 at Columbus, MS
26571 (MSN 1846) W/o 23 Dec 1942 at George Field, IL
26573 (MSN 1848) W/o 13 Apr 1943 at Leesburg AAAF #1, GA
26574 (MSN 1849) W/o 27 Oct 1943 at Rockford, IL
26582 overshot landing Waco AAF, TX and hit fence 3/11/1943
26583 (MSN 1858) W/o 10 Aug 1943 at Turner Field, GA
26588 (MSN 1863) W/o 22 Oct 1943 at Blytheville AAF, AR
26589 (MSN 1864) W/o 18 Aug 1943 at Stout Field, IN
26596 (MSN 1871) W/o 14 Jan 1943 at Temple, TX
26599 (MSN 1874) W/o 13 Apr 1944 at Presbyterian AAAF, IL
26601 (MSN 1876) W/o 6 Feb 1944 at Turner Field, GA
26602 (MSN 1877) 2127th Base Unit, George Field, Lawrenceville, IN. Mid-air collision with Beech AT-10
41-26916 at George Field 28Jun44
26604 (MSN 1879) W/o 23 Apr 1943 at Randolph Field, TX
26607 (MSN 1882) W/o 13 Dec 1943 at Effingham, IL
26608 (MSN 1883) W/o 6 Aug 1943 at George Field, IL
26609 (MSN 1884) W/o 28 Jul 1943 at St Thomas AAAF, IL
26611 (MSN 1886) W/o 10 Oct 1943 at George Field, IL
26616 (MSN 1891) W/o 12 Sep 1943 at Scott Field, IL
26619 (MSN 1894) W/o 18 May 1943 at George Field, IL
26624 (MSN 1899) W/o 15 Jan 1943 at George Field, IL
26627 (MSN 1902) W/o 7 Feb 1943 at George AAF, IL
26629 (MSN 1904) W/o 27 Jul 1943 at Higginsport, OH
26638 (MSN 1913) W/o 7 Jan 1944 at Stuttgart, AR
26639 (MSN 1914) W/o 22 Jun 1944 at Bainbridge AAF, GA
26640 (MSN 1915) W/o 17 Jun 1944 at Donalsonville AAAF, GA
26650 (MSN 1925) W/o 29 Mar 1943 at Stewart Field, NY
26654 (MSN 1929) W/o 29 Mar 1943 at Blytheville AAF, AR
26655 (MSN 1930) W/o 11 Apr 1944 at Shaw Field, SC
26656 (MSN 1931) W/o 6 Dec 1943 at Stewart Field, NY
26657 (MSN 1932) W/o 7 Apr 1944 at Freeman Field, IN
26658 (MSN 1933) W/o 29 Sep 1944 at Shaw Field, SC
26659 (MSN 1934) W/o 17 Jul 1943 at Cochran Field, GA
26663 (MSN 1938) W/o 14 Sep 1944 at Blytheville AAF, AR
26665 (MSN 1940) W/o 21 Jan 1944 at Moody Field, GA
26668 (MSN 1943) W/o 9 Oct 1943 at Manila AAAF, AR
26677 (MSN 1952) W/o 18 Nov 1943 at Manila AAAF, AR
26682 (MSN 1957) W/o 6 Feb 1943 at Blytheville AAF, AR
26683 (MSN 1958) W/o 6 Apr 1944 at Leesburg AAAF, GA
26699 (MSN 1974) W/o 23 Jun 1944 at Columbus AAF, MS
26701 (MSN 1976) W/o 17 Feb 1944 at Turner Field, GA
26704 (MSN 1979) W/o 27 Feb 1943 at Kansas City, MO
26706 (MSN 1981) W/o 1 Sep 1943 at Turner Field, GA
26707 (MSN 1982) W/o 5 Feb 1943 at Blackland AFS, TX
26712 (MSN 1987) W/o 23 Jan 1943 at Blackland AFS, TX
26713 (MSN 1988) W/o 15 Oct 1943 at New River AAAF, GA
26714 (MSN 1989) W/o 29 Mar 1943 at Blackland AAFS, TX
26721 (MSN 1996) W/o 10 Dec 1944 at Columbus AAB, MS
26722 (MSN 1997) W/o 3 May 1943 at George AAF, IL
26724 (MSN 1999) W/o 27 Jan 1943 at Blackland AFS, TX
26727 (MSN 2002) W/o 9 Jun 1943 at Turner AAF, GA
26731 (MSN 2006) W/o 27 Jun 1943 at Turner Field, GA
26732 (MSN 2007) W/o 30 Nov 1943 at Ellington Field, TX
26737 (MSN 2012) W/o 9 Apr 1943 at Castroville, TX
26738 (MSN 2013) W/o 16 Oct 1944 at Freeman Field, IN
26739 (MSN 2014) W/o 20 Sep 1944 at Moody Field, GA
26741 (MSN 2016) W/o 13 Apr 1943 at Bemis AAAF, GA
26742 (MSN 2017) W/o 4 Apr 1944 at Weir, MS
26747 (MSN 2022) W/o 27 Mar 1943 at Marion, TX
26749 (MSN 2024) W/o 8 Nov 1944 at Lacosta, TX
26758 (MSN 2033) W/o 26 Feb 1944 at Arab, AL
26760 (MSN 2035) W/o 31 May 1944 at Columbus AAF, MS
26762 (MSN 2037) W/o 20 Feb 1943 at Belmont, MS
26772 (MSN 2047) W/o 5 May 1944 at Moro, AR
26773 (MSN 2048) W/o 23 Jun 1943 at Randolph Field, TX
26774 (MSN 2049) W/o 9 Aug 1943 at Columbus AAF, MS
26775 (MSN 2050) W/o 10 Apr 1943 at Blackland AAF, TX
26778 (MSN 2053) W/o 7 Jun 1943 at Cochran, GA
26786 (MSN 2061) W/o 26 Aug 1943 at Ellington Field, TX
26794 (MSN 2069) W/o 4 Oct 1943 at Randolph Field, TX
26798 (MSN 2073) W/o 13 Jul 1944 at Lufkin, TX
26800 (MSN 2075) W/o 4 Nov 1943 at George Field, IL
26813 (MSN 2088) W/o 10 Feb 1944 at George Field, IL
26814 (MSN 2089) W/o 18 Jan 1944 at Leesburg AAAF #1, GA
26817 (MSN 2092) W/o 23 Dec 1943 at Cochean, GA
26818 (MSN 2093) W/o 11 Jun 1943 at Turner AAF, GA
26821 (MSN 2096) W/o 5 Jun 1943 at Turner Field, GA
26827 (MSN 2102) W/o 7 Mar 1944 at Turner Field, GA
26829 (MSN 2104) W/o 18 Feb 1944 at Darr Aero Tech, GA
26833 (MSN 2108) W/o 15 Jun 1943 at Turner Field, GA
26837 (MSN 2112) W/o 27 May 1943 at White River, IL
26839 (MSN 2114) W/o 5 Mar 1943 at Warwick, GA
26848 (MSN 2123) W/o 10 Jan 1945 at Lubbock, TX
26851 (MSN 2126) Advanced Flying School, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. The landing gear collapsed during
landing at Greensboro High Point Airport, NC 7Jul43, damaging the propellers and engine nacelles
26852 (MSM 2127) 1079th Two-Engine Flying Training Squadron, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. On approach to l
and, the student pilot struck a dirt mound at the end of the runway. The instructor took over control,
retracted the landing gear and flew around the traffic pattern. On the next approach only one
wheel was down, the landing gear was raised and the aircraft crash landed at Freeman Field 23Mar43.
26854 (MSN 2129) 1080th Two-Engine Flying Training Squadron, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. The landing
gear collapsed during takeoff at Freeman Field 15Sep43, causing damage to the engine nacelles
and propellers.
26859 (MSN 2134) W/o 17 Aug 1943 at Blytheville AAF, AR
26862 (MSN 2137) W/o 14 Dec 1944 at Whitthand, TX
26863 (MSN 2138) W/o 19 Jun 1943 at Blytheville AAF, AR
26866 (MSN 2141) W/o 6 Feb 1944 at Columbus AAF, MS
26868 (MSN 2143) W/o 15 Oct 1943 at Blytheville AAF, AR
26871 (MSN 2146) HQ and Headquarters Squadron, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. Landing after a local
training flight, the student used excessive force on the left brake and the aircraft turned over
onto its back at Freeman Field 17May43. 2139th Base Unit, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. Crashed after
a fatal mid-air collision five miles SW of Freeman Auxiliary Field #1, Walesboro, IN 20Oct44.
26872 (MSN 2147) 466th Two-Engine Flying Training Squadron, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. After practicing
short field landings at Freeman Auxiliary Field #1, Walesboro, IN 16Nov43, the pilot raised the
landing gear instead of the wing flaps before the airplane had stopped rolling, causing damage to
the engine nacelles and propellers. Destroyed when crash landed in bad weather at Milroy Auxiliary
Field, Anderson, IN 22Feb44W/o 22 Feb 1944 at Milroy AAAF, IN
26874 (MSN 2149) 466th Two-Engine Flying Training Squadron, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. Crashed after
takeoff from Freeman Field 13Jan44 [2KIS]. The aircraft was observed taking off normally and the
landing gear retracted until reaching an altitude of about 70 ft when it settled back onto the
runway, skidded off the end, struck a ditch and caught fire.
26875 (MSN 2150) W/o 10 May 1943 at Hornersville AAAF, AR
26876 (MSN 2151) 466th Two-Engine Flying Training Squadron, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. Having completed a
normal landing at Freeman Auxiliary Field #2, St Anne, IN 11Dec43, the landing gear was accidently
selected ‘up’ instead of the wing flaps. During the subsequent takeoff roll, as the aircraft
gained lift, the landing gear retracted causing the aircraft to settle on the engine nacelles,
damaging the propellers and stopping the engines.
26879 (MSN 2154) 1077th Two-Engine Flying Training Squadron, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. Unable to
lower the landing gear either electrically or manually, the aircraft was crash landed with
the gear retracted at Freeman Field 3Mar43. During a sequence of night landings at Freeman
Field 4Jun43, the crew had difficulty in raising the landing gear after takeoff. Unable to lower
the landing gear either electrically or manually, the aircraft was crash landed, causing damage
to the engine nacelles and propellers.
26884 (MSN 2147) HQ and Headquarters Squadron, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. The landing gear was accidently
selected ‘up’ during takeoff at Freeman Field 25Apr43, causing damage to the engine nacelles and propellers.
26887 (MSN 2162) W/o 14 Dec 1943 at Shaw Field, SC
26890 (MSN 2165) 1079th Two-Engine Flying Training Squadron, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. In violation of
regulations, the cadet pilot flew below 1,000ft and struck some trees ten miles north of
Robinson, IL 24Mar43, damaging the left wing, engine nacelle and propeller. 2139th Base Unit,
Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. Force landed after engine failure two miles SW of Freetown, IN 19May44.
26895 (MSN 2170) W/o 27 Jul 1943 at Brazil, IN
26897 (MSN 2172) W/o 15 Jun 1944 at Muscle Shoals AAAF, AL
26899 (MSN 2174) W/o 25 Jun 1943 at George Field, IL
26901 (MSN 2176) W/o 12 Mar 1943 at George AAF, IL
26902 (MSN 2177) W/o 5 Aug 1944 at Stout Field, IN
26903 (MSN 2178) W/o 19 Jul 1943 at George Field, IL
26904 (MSN 2179) W/o 3 Jan 1944 at George Field, IL
26910 (MSN 2185) HQ and Headquarters Squadron, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. Prior to landing at Freeman
Field 10Apr43, the student raised the landing gear instead of the wing flaps, causing damage to
the engine nacelles and propellers.
26916 (MSN 2191) HQ and Headquarters Squadron, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. During a sequence of night
landings at Freeman Field 3Jun43, the student raised the landing gear before the aircraft reached
flying speed, causing damage to the engine nacelles and propellers. 2127th Base Unit, George Field,
Lawrenceville, IN. Mid-air collision with Beech AT-10 41-26602 at George Field 28Jun44.
26918 (MSN 2193) W/o 14 Jul 1944 at Blytheville AAF, AR
26920 (MSN 2195) 1077th Two-Engine Flying Training Squadron, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. Destroyed when
ground looped landing with faulty brakes and turned over onto its back at Freeman Field 13Mar43.
26921 (MSN 2196) W/o 26 May 1944 at Shaw Field, SC
26924 (MSN 2199) HQ and Headquarters Squadron, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. Prior to takeoff from Freeman
Field 31May43, the student pilot carelessly placed the landing gear switch in the ‘up’ position,
believing it to be the flap switch. During the takeoff roll, as the aircraft gained lift,
the landing gear retracted causing the aircraft to settle on the engine nacelles, damaging
the propellers and stopping the engines.
26925 (MSN 2200) 1079th Two-Engine Flying Training Squadron, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. Taxying for
takeoff, the landing gear was accidently selected up during takeoff at Freeman Field 9Jun43,
causing damage to the engine nacelles and propellers.
26926 (MSN 2201) 1079th Two-Engine Flying Training Squadron, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. Damaged
when ground looped landing at Freeman Field 9Mar43.
26927 (MSN 2202) W/o 21 Feb 1944 at New Hackensack, NY
26928 (MSN 2203) 1079th Two-Engine Flying Training Squadron, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. The landing
gear was accidently selected up during takeoff at Freeman Field 27Apr43, causing damage to the
engine nacelles and propellers.
26930 (MSN 2205) 1080th Two-Engine Flying Training Squadron, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. The aircraft
was damaged in a wheels-up landing at Freeman Auxiliary Field #2, St Anne, IN 10Oct43. On takeoff
the landing gear did not retract when selected ‘up’. When landing, the wheels folded up into
the nacelles causing damage to the propellers and engine nacelles. The landing gear selector
switch was found dirty and operated intermittently. 2139th Base Unit, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN.
Accident caused by mechanical failure taking off from Freeman Field 2May44.
26932 (MSN 2207) 1077th Two-Engine Flying Training Squadron, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. Destroyed when
ground looped landing at Freeman Field 8Mar43.
26935 (MSN 2210) 1080th Two-Engine Flying Training Squadron, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. After landing
at Freeman Field 27Mar43, the student raised the landing gear instead of the wing flaps, causing
damage to the engine nacelles and propellers
26937 (MSN 2212) W/o 30 May 1944 at Freeman Field, IN
26939 (MSN 2214) 467th Two-Engine Flying Training Squadron, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. The landing gear
collapsed during landing at Freeman Field 25Nov43, damaging the propellers and engine nacelles.
26941 (MSN 2216)467th Two-Engine Flying Training Squadron, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. The student pilot
forgot to lower the wheels prior to landing at Freeman Field 23Jan44, damaging the propellers
and engine nacelles.
26943 (MSN 2218) 1080th Two-Engine Flying Training Squadron, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. During a night
training flight, the instructor made a poor landing and continued around the traffic pattern
at Freeman Field 4May43. Concentrating on the next landing, the instructor forgot to lower the
landing gear. When the propellers struck the ground, he opened the throttles and went around for
another landing. Destroyed when force landed after takeoff from Freeman Field 22Nov43. The
student took off and the airplane had climbed to about 300-400ft when the instructor noticed a
loss of power from both engines, possibly caused by carburettor icing. To low and slow to manoeuvre,
the instructor landed the airplane straight ahead in a corn field three miles west of Seymour.
Both occupants suffered minor lacerations.
26944 (MSN 2219) W/o 6 Jun 1944 at Tuskagee AAF, AL
26945 (MSN 2220) W/o 5 Aug 1943 at Auburn, GA
26955 (MSN 2230) W/o 9 Feb 1944 at Columbus AAAF #3, MS
26957 (MSN 2232) 1080th Two-Engine Flying Training Squadron, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. During takeoff,
the aircraft drifted off-line, struck a pile of dirt and sheared off the left landing gear.
The landing gear was retracted and the aircraft returned for a crash landing at Freeman Field 24Mar43.
26958 (MSN 2233) W/o 16 Mar 1944 at Turner Field, GA
26959 (MSN 2234) W/o 9 Apr 1943 at Turner AAF, GA
26960 (MSN 2235) W/o 6 Apr 1943 at Blytheville AAF, AR
26966 (MSN 2241) W/o 19 May 1944 at Columbus AAAF #1, MS
26967 (MSN 2242) W/o 6 Jun 1943 at Blytheville AAF, AR
26971 (MSN 2246) W/o 14 Nov 1943 at Bemis AAAF, GA
26973 (MSN 2248) W/o 25 Jan 1944 at Moody Field, GA
26974 (MSN 2249) W/o 9 Apr 1943 at Bemis AAAF, GA
26976 (MSN 2251) W/o 30 Apr 1944 at Freeman Field, IN
26977 (MSN 2252) HQ and Headquarters Squadron, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. The landing gear collapsed
during landing at Freeman Field 6May43, damaging the propellers and engine nacelles.
26978 (MSN 2253) W/o 5 May 1943 at Moody Field, GA
26982 (MSN 2257) 1080th Two-Engine Flying Training Squadron, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. The aircraft was
damaged when the landing gear collapsed on takeoff at Freeman Field 21Apr43; the landing gear
was accidently selected ‘up’ caused by a broken switch guard which allowed the switch to move
when the cowl flap switch was operated. During student circuit training following two normal
takeoffs from Freeman Field 21Jul43, on the next downwind landing check, only one wheel extended.
By visual inspection it was noted that the left landing gear was turned at right angles and
retracted as far as possible. A successful crash landing was made on the grass causing damage
to the propellers and engine nacelles. Landing after a local training flight at Freeman Field 7Aug43,
the aircraft started to ground loop and ran off the runway. The student used excessive force
on the brakes and the aircraft turned over onto its back.
26985 (MSN 2260) W/o 24 Apr 1944 at Freeman Field, IN
26989 (MSN 2264) 1079th Two-Engine Flying Training Squadron, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. The landing gear
collapsed caused by mechanical failure during landing at Freeman Field 8Mar43, damaging the
propellers and engine nacelles. During student night circuit training following two normal takeoffs
from Freeman Field 20Aug43, on the next landing the landing gear collapsed causing damage to the
engine nacelles and propellers. A fuse had blown and prevented the landing gear from fully extending.
26990 (MSN 2265) 466th Two-Engine Flying Training Squadron, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. The landing gear
collapsed during landing at Freeman Field 18Sep43, causing damage to the engine nacelles and propellers.
26991 (MSN 2266) W/o 28 Jan 1944 at St Anne AAAF, IN
26992 (MSN 2267) 466th Two-Engine Flying Training Squadron, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. During student
night circuit training following two normal takeoffs from Freeman Field 10Sep43, on the next landing
the control tower instructed the pilot not to land. Downwind with the landing gear extended,
the pilot raised the landing gear expecting to go-around from the next approach. Noticing the
aircraft ahead landing normally, the pilot decided to land anyway but forgot to extend the
landing gear. The aircraft crash landed causing damage to the engine nacelles and propellers.
Crashed taking off from Freeman Auxiliary Field #2, St Anne, IN 28Jan44. The left engine failed
causing a yaw which let the left wing tip strike the ground. The aircraft cart wheeled and
came to rest on its back, a complete wreck.
26992 (MSN 2267) 467th Two-Engine Flying Training Squadron, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. The aircraft
departed Freeman Field on a late night navigational training flight via Coldwater and
Lafayette, IN 21Feb44 but ran into an unexpected warm front producing rain and low cloud.
The aircraft flew into the ground five miles west of Lebanon, IN in the early hours of 28Feb44 [2KIS].
The wreckage was discovered later that afternoon by a bus driver.
26995 (MSN 2270) W/o 22 Feb 1944 at Freeman Field, IN
26996 (MSN 2271) 1080th Two-Engine Flying Training Squadron, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. On the student’s
first landing in the AT-10, the aircraft bounced twice before the instructor took over and landed
the aircraft at Freeman Field 5Mar43. Caught in a crosswind, the aircraft ground looped and ended
on its nose after excessive use of the brakes.
26997 (MSN 2272) HQ and Headquarters Squadron, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. On a student navigation
training flight via Muncie, IN, the aircraft bounced heavily and broke the landing gear landing
at Muncie 31Mar43.
26998 (MSN 2273) W/o 30 Jan 1944 at George Field, IL
26999 (MSN 2274) W/o 4 Dec 1944 at Brunswick, GA
27000 (MSN 2275) W/o 13 Jul 1944 at Moody Field, GA
27004 (MSN 2279) W/o 25 May 1943 at Cross City, FL
27005 (MSN 2280) W/o 30 May 1943 at Moody Field, GA
27009 (MSN 2284) W/o 29 Feb 1944 at Nashville AAAF, TN
27017 (MSN 2292) W/o 4 Oct 1943 at Blytheville AAF, AR
27022 (MSN 2297) W/o 6 Jun 1944 at Manila AAAF, AR
27023 (MSN 2298) W/o 29 Mar 1943 at Columbus AAAF #1, MS
27024 (MSN 2299) W/o 30 Oct 1943 at Turner Field, GA
27027 (MSN 2302) W/o 5 Aug 1943 at Brinkley AAAF
27032 (MSN 2307) W/o 30 Mar 1944 at Cairo, GA
27035 (MSN 2310) W/o 17 Mar 1943 at Comer, AL
27037 (MSN 2312) W/o 22 Dec 1943 at Leesburg AAAF #3, GA
27041 (MSN 2316) W/o 22 Jul 1943 at Columbus AAAF #1,MS
27043 (MSN 2318) W/o 24 Mar 1943 at Columbus AAAF #4, MS
27046 (MSN 2321) W/o 18 Aug 1943 at Columbus AAAF #1, MS
27049 (MSN 2324) W/o 6 Apr 1943 at Moody Field, GA
27053 (MSN 2328) W/o 7 May 1943 at Valdosta Mun Arpt, GA
27055 (MSN 2330) W/o 27 Dec 1943 at Tuskegee, OK
27066 (MSN 2341) 466th Two-Engine Flying Training Squadron, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. The landing gear
collapsed during takeoff from Freeman Auxiliary Field #3, Grammer, IN 11Oct43, damaging the
propellers and engine nacelles. The student pilot, attempting his first takeoff in a twin-engine plane,
was too keen and selected landing gear ‘up’ before flying speed was attained.
27068 (MSN 2343) 1079th Two-Engine Flying Training Squadron, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. Preparing to
land at Freeman Field 8Sep43, the student was unable to lower the landing gear either electrically
or manually. The aircraft crash landed, causing damage to the engine nacelles and propellers.
27073 (MSN 2348) 466th Two-Engine Flying Training Squadron, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. Crash landed
with the gear retracted at Freeman Field 6Jan44 when the student pilot was unable to lower the
gear using the emergency procedure, damaging the propellers and engine nacelles.
27074 (MSN 2349) 466th Two-Engine Flying Training Squadron, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. The landing gear
collapsed during takeoff from Freeman Field 23Jan44, damaging the propellers and engine nacelles.
2139th Base Unit, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. Fatal crash six miles west of Seymour 18Jan45.
27075 (MSN 2350) 467th Two-Engine Flying Training Squadron, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. Damaged when
ground looped in a crosswind and nosed over after excessive use of the brakes at Freeman Field 5Feb44.
27076 (MSN 2351) W/o 14 Oct 1943 at Freeman AAF, IN
27078 (MSN 2353) 1079th Two-Engine Flying Training Squadron, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. During a local
instrument training flight, the aircraft was flown in violation of regulations below 500ft and struck
a power line. A wire wrapped around the left propeller hub causing engine failure and necessitating
a forced landing at Freeman Field 14May43. 467th Two-Engine Flying Training Squadron, Freeman Field.
Crash landed when the student pilot forgot to lower the wheels prior to landing at Freeman Auxiliary
Field #2, St Anne 19Oct43, damaging the propellers and engine nacelles. 2139th Base Unit,
Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. Crashed after a mid-air collision with Beech AT-10 42-34997 and bailed
out at Reddington, IN 30Sep44.
27081 (MSN 2356) 1080th Two-Engine Flying Training Squadron (F-419), Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. The
student was on a navigation training flight from Freeman Field to Monroe, LA, Stuttgart, AR and
return 17Dec43. En route, the left engine oil pressure dropped to zero. With nowhere to make an
immediate landing, the engine was kept running to gain altitude but at 2,500ft the engine ran hot.
Approaching the grass strip at Grider Field, Pine Bluff, AR the pilot elected to land wheels-up
and skidded to a stop, damaging the propellers and engine nacelles.
27082 (MSN 2357) W/o 28 Apr 1944 at Walesboro AAAF, IN
27085 (MSN 2360) 1079th Two-Engine Flying Training Squadron, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. The aircraft
suffered structural failure of the right wing causing a spin and crashed five miles east of
Columbus, IN 29Jan44 [2KIS].
27087 (MSN 2362) 466th Two-Engine Flying Training Squadron, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. The landing gear
retracted because of mechanical failure landing at Freeman Field 27Jan44, damaging the propellers
and engine nacelles.
27091 (MSN 2366) 1079th Two-Engine Flying Training Squadron, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. The aircraft
was damaged when the landing gear collapsed on takeoff at Freeman Field 29Sep43, damaging the
propellers and engine nacelles. The pilot did not check the position of the landing gear selector
switch which had been accidently selected ‘up’.
27092 (MSN 2367) 1080th Two-Engine Flying Training Squadron, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. Preparing to
land at Freeman Field 7Oct43, the pilot was unable to lower the landing gear either electrically
or manually. About 45 minutes was spent in the circuit trying to lower the landing gear but a
visual check by the control tower suggested that the landing gear was jammed in the nacelle.
The aircraft crash landed, causing damage to the engine nacelles and propellers. Structural
failure of a landing gear fitting during extension had caused the landing gear to jam.
27093 (MSN 2368) 1080th Two-Engine Flying Training Squadron, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. Crash landed
when the student pilot forgot to lower the wheels prior to landing at Freeman Field 31Mar43,
damaging the propellers and engine nacelles.
27094 (MSN 2369) W/o 23 Aug 1944 at Angelica, NY
27095 (MSN 2370) HQ and Headquarters Squadron, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. Two students took off for a
local training flight. Immediately after takeoff, the aircraft went into a steep climb, stalled
and spun into the ground at Freeman Field 17May43. One pilot escaped the post-accident fire but
the other pilot was killed [1KIS].
27096 (MSN 2371) 1079th Two-Engine Flying Training Squadron, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. Ground looped
landing at Freeman Field 13Jul43, causing the left landing gear to collapse, damaging the left
propeller and engine nacelle.
27097 (MSN 2372) HQ and Headquarters Squadron, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. The landing gear collapsed
during takeoff from Freeman Field 5Apr43, damaging the propellers and engine nacelles.
27098 (MSN 2373) W/o 21 Jan 1944 at Ellington Field, TX
27103 (MSN 2378) 1080th Two-Engine Flying Training Squadron, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. The landing
gear collapsed caused by mechanical failure during landing at Freeman Field 7Oct42, damaging the
propellers and engine nacelles. 2139th Base Unit, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. Destroyed in a
landing accident at Freeman Field 10May44.
27104 (MSN 2379) HQ and Headquarters Squadron, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. The landing gear collapsed
caused by mechanical failure during takeoff at Freeman Field 9Jul43, damaging the engine nacelles
and propellers. 1080th Two-Engine Flying Training Squadron, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN.
The landing gear collapsed caused by mechanical failure during landing at Freeman Field 15Nov43,
damaging the propellers and engine nacelles.
27114 (MSN 2389) W/o 14 Oct 1943 at Lake Minnewaska, NY
27115 (MSN 2390) W/o 4 Jan 1944 at Stewart Field, NY
27116 (MSN 2391) W/o 21 Sep 1943 at Ellington Field, TX
27119 (MSN 2394) W/o 21 Oct 1943 at Preston AAAF, TX
27122 (MSN 2397) W/o 6 Jun 1944 at Ellington Field, TX
27127 (MSN 2402) W/o 12 Apr 1944 at Turner Field, GA
27128 (MSN 2403) W/o 4 Aug 1943 at Turner Field, GA
27146 (MSN 2421) W/o 7 Apr 1943 at Hamilton, MS
27154 (MSN 2429) W/o 27 Apr 1943 at Ellington Field, TX
27157 (MSN 2432) W/o 29 Feb 1944 at Ellington Field, TX
27158 (MSN 2433) W/o 10 Jun 1943 at Moody Field, GA
27159 (MSN 2434) W/o 20 Dec 1944 at Waco, TX
27161 (MSN 2436) W/o 8 May 1944 at Freeman Field, IN
27162 (MSN 2437) W/o 2 Mar 1944 at Freeman Field, IN
27164 (MSN 2439) 466th Two-Engine Flying Training Squadron, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. During takeoff
for an engineering check flight at Freeman Field 18Oct43, the landing gear collapsed believed
caused by mechanical failure, damaging the engine nacelles and propellers.
27165 (MSN 2440) W/o 29 Mar 1944 at League Davis AAAF, TX
27166 (MSN 2441) W/o 26 May 1944 at Freeman Field, IN
27168 (MSN 2443) W/o 5 Oct 1943 at Houston, TX
27171 (MSN 2446) 1080th Two-Engine Flying Training Squadron, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. During a
student navigation training flight 1May43, the aircraft was flown In violation of regulations
below 500ft and struck a power line. The aircraft was sufficiently damaged to make a forced
landing at Waldron, IN during which it was further damaged. Ground looped landing in a crosswind,
departed the runway hitting a soft spot caused by rain, breaking off the right landing gear
and causing damage to the right engine nacelle and propeller at Freeman Field 15Jun43.
27173 (MSN 2448) W/o 5 May 1944 at Moro, AR
27176 (MSN 2451) W/o 17 Jun 1943 at Navasota, TX
27177 (MSN 2452) W/o 24 Jun 1943 at Red Bluff AAAF, TX
27178 (MSN 2453) W/o 20 Jan 1944 at Ellington Field, TX
27180 (MSN 2455) W/o 20 Dec 1944 at Waco, TX
27183 (MSN 2458) W/o 26 Jan 1944 at Moody Field, GA
27186 (MSN 2461) W/o 17 Jan 1944 at Valdosta, GA
27188 (MSN 2463) W/o 6 Jun 1944 at Moody Field, GA
27192 (MSN 2467) W/o 20 Jul 1943 at Ellington Field, TX
27193 (MSN 2468) Wfu; the plane marked as 41-27193 preserved at USAF Museum, Dayton, OH is actually 42-35143
27200 (MSN 2475) W/o 8 Feb 1945 at Blackland AAF, TX
27202 (MSN 2477) W/o 9 Dec 1943 at Reidsville, GA
27203 (MSN 2478) W/o 13 Dec 1943 at Bemis AAAF, GA
27204 (MSN 2479) W/o 20 Jan 1944 at Moody Field, GA
27205 (MSN 2480) W/o 15 Dec 1943 at Columbus, MS
27207 (MSN 2482) W/o 12 May 1944 at Columbus AAF, MS
27211 (MSN 2486) W/o 11 Dec 1943 at Palestine, TX
27212 (MSN 2487) W/o 19 Oct 1943 at Ellington Field, TX
27213 (MSN 2488) W/o 11 Aug 1943 at Ellington Field, TX
27215 (MSN 2490) W/o 3 Jul 1944 at League Davis AAAF, TX
27221 (MSN 2496) W/o 12 Sep 1943 at Ellington Field, TX
27223 (MSN 2498) W/o 21 Jul 1943 at Hornersville AAAF, AR
27228 (MSN 2503) W/o 28 Apr 1944 at Siloam, GA
27232 (MSN 2507) W/o 16 Jan 1945 at Helton, TX
27236 (MSN 2511) W/o 11 May 1943 at Ellington Field, TX
27241 (MSN 2516) W/o 3 Jul 1944 at Ellington Field, TX
27247 (MSN 2522) W/o 19 Jul 1944 at DeWitt, AR
27249 (MSN 2524) W/o 31 Dec 1943 at Greenwood, MS
27257 (MSN 2532) W/o 2 Jun 1943 at Ellington Field, TX
27263 (MSN 2538) W/o 11 Feb 1944 at Stuttgart AAF, AR
27267 (MSN 2542) W/o 28 Aug 1944 at Prairieville AAAF, AR
27269 (MSN 2544) W/o 12 Jul 1944 at Ellington Field, TX
27273 (MSN 2548) W/o 27 Aug 1943 at Blackland AAF, TX
27277 (MSN 2552) W/o 16 Aug 1944 at Blackland AAF, TX
27287 (MSN 2562) W/o 9 Jul 1944 at Bald Knob, AR
27288 (MSN 2563) W/o 30 Nov 1943 at Randolph Field, TX
27296 (MSN 2571) 1079th Two-Engine Flying Training Squadron, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. The
aircraft departed Freeman Field on a navigational training flight via Coldwater and Lafayette, IN
22Feb44 but ran into an unexpected warm front producing rain and low cloud. The crew was recalled
to base and diverted to land at Freeman Auxiliary Field #2, St Anne, IN where the weather was
marginally better. The pilot overshot and was seen turning to the right, losing altitude until
the aircraft disappeared from view, crashed in a vertical position and caught fire [2KIS].
27298 (MSN 2573) W/o 16 Jun 1943 at Randolph Field, TX
27305 (MSN 2580) W/o 17 Aug 1943 at Blackland AAAF #1, TX
27308 (MSN 2583) W/o 22 Nov 1943 at Huntingburg, IN
27310 (MSN 2585) W/o 9 Mar 1944 at Columbus AAF, MS
27313 (MSN 2588) W/o 5 Jun 1944 at Manila AAAF, AR
27319 (MSN 2594) W/o 30 Dec 1943 at George Field, IL
27324 (MSN 2599) 1079th Two-Engine Flying Training Squadron, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. Mid-air
collision with Beech AT-10 42-2260 on final approach to land at Freeman Auxiliary Field #2,
St Anne, IN 13Nov43. While on base leg, the pilot noticed another airplane on the outside and
almost parallel with his traffic pattern. The pilot turned to make a normal approach.
About 50 ft from the ground, the aircraft was struck by the left engine of the airplane above,
breaking off the tail section. This airplane struck the ground hard, tearing off both engines
and the right wing. Neither occupant was seriously injured.
27326 (MSN 2601) 1079th Two-Engine Flying Training Squadron, Freeman Field, Seymour, IN. The aircraft
departed Freeman Field for a night formation flight to Franklin, IN 11Aug43. The element leader
led the flight to pass over Franklin below 1,000ft in violation of regulations and this aircraft
struck a tree, tearing off about 2.5ft of the right wing tip. The pilot left the formation and,
finding that the aircraft controls were responding normally, returned to Freeman Field for a
successful landing. Crashed after structural failure at Millport Knobs, IN 19Oct43 [1KIS:1INJ].
The student pilots decided to test the airplane to see what its limits were; they climbed to
about 10,000ft but decided not to go any higher. The pilot started a normal let-down when the
co-pilot took the controls and pushed the airplane into a steeper rate of descent. Unable to
take back control, the aircraft steepened into a vertical dive and started to disintegrate.
The pilot was thrown clear and landed safely by parachute; the co-pilot perished in the crash
and subsequent fire.
41-27332/27681 Beech AT-11 Kansan
27332 (MSN 1177) to civil registry as N6783C. In Walter Soplata collection.
27333 (MSN 1178) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10748 in 1954.
27334 (MSN 1179) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10557 in 1953
27335 (MSN 1180) W/o 30 Jul 1943 at Kingman AAAF, AZ; repaired (?); redes as T-11 on 11 Jun 1948.
Remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10678 in 1954.
27336 (MSN 1181) W/o 7 Dec 1943 at Midland AAF, TX
27338 (MSN 1183) W/o 5 Jan 1945 at Midland, TX
27340 (MSN 1185) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10731 in 1954.
27341 (MSN 1186) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10882 in 1954.
27342 (MSN 1187) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10708 in 1954.
27343 (MSN 1188) to Turkish AF as 6876 May 15, 1948
27344 (MSN 1189) to civil registry as NC79505, N79505, N241X, N345AT, N919W
27345 (MSN 1190) to Turkish AF as 6816 May 15, 1948
27346 (MSN 1191) W/o 20 Jan 1943 at Big Spring, TX
27347 (MSN 1192) remanufactured by Beech as TC-45G 51-11567 in 1952.
27349 (MSN 1194) W/o 20 Jun 1944 at Kirtland Field, NM
27350 (MSN 1195) to N61394, CF-IBT. Broken up for parts in 1971.
27351 (MSN 1196) W/o 13 Dec 1943 at Albuquerque, NM; repaired (?); wfu; to N7353C
27352 (MSN 1197) W/o 26 Apr 1945 at Elsie, NE
27353 (MSN 1198) to Mexican AF as BHB-1521 Sep 1944.
27354 (MSN 1199) to N66875
27355 (MSN 1200) W/o 19 May 1942 at Midland, TX; repaired (?); redes as T-11 on 11 Jun 1948;
Remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10935 in 1954
27356 (MSN 1201) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10551 in 1953
27357 (MSN 1202) Ca.1942: TOS USAAF. By 8/45: B Squadron, 2534th Army Air Force Base Unit,
San Angelo Army Air Field, TX. 9/18/47: TOS USAF.
1948: Redesignated T-11. Remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10687 in 1954.
27358 (MSN 1203) W/o 9 Oct 1942 at Midland AAF, TX; repaired (?); wfu; to N8078H, N57TA
27359 (MSN 1204) to N8077H
27360 (MSN 1205) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10673 in 1954.
27361 (MSN 1206) W/o 11 Aug 1943 at Hatch, NM
27363 (MSN 1208) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10640 in 1953
27364 (MSN 1209) W/o 4 Nov 1942 at Victorville AAF, CA; repaired (?); redes as T-11 on 11 Jun 1948;
Remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11801 in 1953.
27365 (MSN 1210) W/o 23 Jun 1944 at Victorville AAF, CA
27366 (MSN 1211) to N6667C
27369 (MSN 1214) delivered Apr 12, 1942. Registered N666AC Feb 5, 1957, cancelled on export to Mexico in
1958 Aerolineas Fierro, Tepic, Mexico 1971-1977 as XA-MOL. To Castle AFB Museum, California 1981-1990.
To Sero Traders, Chino, CA for restoration in 1992.
27370 (MSN 1215) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11881 in 1953.
27371 (MSN 1216) W/o 25 Jun 1943 at 7Mirage Lake, CA
27372 (MSN 1217) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10771 in 1954.
27373 (MSN 1218) remanufactured by Beech as TC-45G 51-11568.
27374 (MSN 1219) W/o 21 Feb 1944 at Roswell AAF, NM
27377 (MSN 1222) to Turkish AF as 6877 May 15, 1948
27378 (MSN 1223) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11686 in 1952.
27379 (MSN 1224) To Chile AF in 1945
27380 (MSN 1225) to N7363C
27381 (MSN 1226) W/o 6 Dec 1942 at Victorville, CA
27384 (MSN 1229) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10670 in 1954
27385 (MSN 1230) to Turkish AF as 6878 May 15, 1948
27386 (MSN 1231) W/o 16 Jan 1943 at Elm Dale, TX
27388 (MSN 1233) W/o 22 Dec 1943 at Kingman AAAF #6, AZ
27389 (MSN 1234) W/o 11 Nov 1942 at Victorville AAF, CA; repaired (?); wfu; to N7186C
27390 (MSN 1235) remanufactured by Beech as 51-11569 in 1952.
27391 (MSN 1236) to civil registry as N6669C.
27392 (MSN 1237) to N6944C, N2261D. Noted derelict at Saginaw, Michigan May 1973.
27393 (MSN 1238) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10878
27394 (MSN 1239) W/o 4 Jul 1943 at Midland, TX
27395 (MSN 1240) remanufactured by Beech as 51-11570 in 1952.
27399 (MSN 1244) to N6669C. Preserved at Dobbins AFB.
27401 (MSN 1246) remanufactured by Beech as 52-10562 in 1953
27402 (MSN 1247) W/o 2 Apr 1947 at Biggs Field, TX; repaired; wfu; (4101 AAFBU) damaged in taxiing accident
at O'Hare APT, Chicago, IL Jun 11, 1951. To PP-CDA with Cruzeiro do Sol, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Derelict at Sao
Paulo-Sorocaba in 1980
27403 (MSN 1248) remanufactured by Beech as 51-11571 in 1952.
27405 (MSN 1250) remanufactured by Beech as 51-11572 in 1952.
27406 (MSN 1251) to NC61395, N61395
27407 (MSN 1252) remanufactured by Beech as 52-10745 in 1954
27408 (MSN 1253) to N6670C
27409 (MSN 1254) to Mexican AF as BHB-1525 Aug 1951. Displayed at Zapopan AB Museum, Jalisco, Mexico.
27412 (MSN 1257) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10606 in 1953
27413 (MSN 1258) to N805
27414 (MSN 1259) W/o 6 Jan 1944 at Albuquerque AAB, NM
27416 (MSN 1261) W/o 31 May 1947 at Kelly Field, TX
27417 (MSN 1262) W/o 29 Apr 1943 at Kirtland Field, NM
27418 (MSN 1263) to N803
27420 (MSN 1265) to NC66440 (transocean Air Lines), EP-ADH (ranian Airways).
Crashed Abdullah Airport, Ahwaz, Iran Aug 26, 1956.
27425 (MSN 1270) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10656 in 1953
27426 (MSN 1271) to N75427, YS-05, XB-JOD
27428 (MSN 1273) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10666 in 1953.
27429 (MSN 1274) W/o 13 Aug 1943 at 35 miles from Victorville AAF, CA
27431 (MSN 1276) to N7191C
27432 (MSN 1277) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10897 in 1954.
27433 (MSN 1278) remanufactured by Beech as TC-45G 51-11559 in 1952
27434 (MSN 1279) to Turkish AF as 6817 May 15, 1948
27435 (MSN 1280) W/o 23 Feb 1944 at Victorville AAF, CA. Remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11876
27436 (MSN 1281) W/o 19 May 1942 at Victorville, AFS, CA
27437 (MSN 1282) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11675.
27438 (MSN 1283) remanufactured by Beech as TC-45G 51-11557 in 1952
27439 (MSN 1284) To US Navy as SNB-2 67115; conv to SNB-5
27441 (MSN 1286) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10672 in 1954.
27442 (MSN 1287) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11791
27443 (MSN 1288) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11830
27444 (MSN 1285) to N75542
27445 (MSN 1290) to NC95442, PT-AFP, PP-SLI
27446 (MSN 1291) to US Navy as SNB-1 BuNo 67334.
27448 (MSN 1293) W/o 5 Jun 1942 at Victorville AFS, CA
27449 (MSN 1294) to RFC in 1945. To NC56263, N56263. Dismantled for salvage in 1988
27451 (MSN 1296) May 9, 1942: to USAAF May 9, 1942: to RFC Sep 22, 1945 , Ponca City, AR
In 1957 to Consolidated Radio Products, Chicago IL with c/r N73360
To Erickson Ralph, Marseilles, IL Feb 7, 1961. c/r cancelled Jul 18, 1977: .
WFU 1978, derelict at Griffith, IN airport.
To Norwegian Implement Co, Norway IL in 1988. Stripped and derelict displayed nosed-in outside
Norwegian Implement farm as a memorial to the 1980s US agricultural crash, which ruined many
local farmers. After August 1993 the display includes the tailplane of C-45H 51-11904.
27452 (MSN 1297) to N7185C
27453 (MSN 1298) W/o 27 May 1943 at Kirtland Field, NM
27454 (MSN 1299) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11706 in 1953.
27455 (MSN 1300) W/o 18 Sep 1945 at Sioux City AAF, IA
27457 (MSN 1302) W/o 6 Nov 1944 at Ludlow, CA
27459 (MSN 1304) to N8077H
27460 (MSN 1305) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10692
27461 (MSN 1306) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11718 in 1953.
27464 (MSN 1309) To US Navy as SNB-2 67354; conv to SNB-4
27465 (MSN 1310) w/o in forced landing at AFS Victorville, CA Jan 18, 1943
27466 (MSN 1311) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11802 in 1953.
27467 (MSN 1312) to Turkish AF as 6818 May 15, 1948
27469 (MSN 1314) remanufactured by Beech as TC-45G 51-11590 in 1952.
27470 (MSN 1315) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10760 in 1954.
27471 (MSN 1316) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10599 in 1953.
27472 (MSN 1317) W/o 12 Jun 1943 at Kirland Field, NM
27473 (MSN 1318) to NC6800, N6800. Destroyed by fire Mar 21, 1951.
27474 (MSN 1319) W/o 21 Mar 1944 at Victorville AAF, Victorville, CA
27477 (MSN 1322) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H in 1952.
27478 (MSN 1323) remanufactured by Beech as TC-45G 51-11573 in 1952.
27479 (MSN 1324) to Turkish AF as 6879 May 15, 1948
27480 (MSN 1325) to PP-XEX, PP-ARZ
27481 (MSN 1326) to Turkish AF as 6880 May 15, 1948. On display
at 3-880 at Turkish AF Aviation Museum Etimesgut, Ankara, Turkey
27483 (MSN 1328) To US Navy as SNB-2 67379.
27484 (6th Ferry Group) crashed 3 mi SSW of Lonoke, AR Jul 2, 1946
27485 (MSN 1339) (MSN 1330) w/o in forced landing at Carr Field, TX Jan 11, 1943.
27486 (MSN 1331) to Turkish AF as 6820 May 15, 1948
27487 (MSN 1332) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11676 in 1952.
27489 (MSN 1334) to US Navy as SNB-1 Bu No 67379
27490 (MSN 1335) remanufactured by Beech as TC-45G 51-11574 in 1952.
27491 (MSN 1336) to N7361C
27492 (MSN 1337) to N9179H
27493 (MSN 1338) to Mexican AF as BHB-1526
27494 (MSN 1339) W/o 22 Jul 1943 at Midland, TX; repaired (?); wfu; to N6945C
27495 (MSN 1340) W/o 11 Mar 1944 at Midland AAF, TX
27496 (MSN 1341 to N8979H
27497 (MSN 1342) to N54TA. Crashed on mountain near Tabriz, Iran Jul 10, 1958.
27498 (MSN 1343) to N6947C
27501 (MSN 1346) to Portugal as 2501
27502 (MSN 1347) to N75549, N777T, CF-MCL. SOC Oct 12, 1967
27503 (MSN 1348) to N75573
27504 (MSN 1349) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10555 in 1953
27505 (MSN 1350) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10561 in 1953
27506 (MSN 1351) to NC58768, N58768,
27507 (MSN 1352) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10547 in 1953
27508 (MSN 1352) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10892 in 1954.
27509 (MSN 1354) W/o 4 Oct 1942 at Chandler Field, AZ; repaired (?); Redes as T-11 on 11 Jun 1948;
Remanufactured by Beech as TC-45G 51-11575 in 1952.
27510 (MSN 1355) W/o 6 Jul 1942 at Florence Junction, AZ
27512 (MSN 1357) W/o 24 Jul 1942 at 6 mi S of Florence, AZ; repaired (?); wfu; to N49332, N506MH.
Stripped hulk parked at Santa Barbara, California c 1964.
27513 (MSN 1358) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10722 in 1954
27514 (MSN 1359) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10540 in 1953.
27515 (MSN 1360) W/o 11 Oct 1942 at 10 mi E of Roswell AFS, NM
27516 (MSN 1361) to civil registry as N6671C. Stored dismantled at Denver, Colorado, 2001. Moved
to Beechcraft Heritage Museum, Tullahoma, Tennessee Oct 15, 2014.
27517 (MSN 1362) W/o 22 Apr 1944 at Deming AAF, NM
27518 (MSN 1363) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10756
27519 (MSN 1364) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10611 in 1953
27521 (MSN 1366) To US Navy as SNB-2 67375
27522 (MSN 1367) W/o 24 Nov 1944 at Trintity, TX
27523 (MSN 1368) to N1322M. Crashed McFadden, Wyoming Apr 2, 1972.
27526 (MSN 1371) W/o 23 May 1944 at Roswell AAF, Roswell, NM
27527 (MSN 1372) W/o 11 Aug 1943 at Deming AAF, NM
27528 (MSN 1373) to N7349C
27529 (MSN 1374) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10641 in 1953
27530 (MSN 1375) W/o 12 Sep 1944 at Deming AAF, NM
27531 (MSN 1376) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10612 in 1953
27533 (MSN 1378) to N65405.
27534 (MSN 1379) to Turkish AF as 6881 May 15, 1948
27537 (MSN 1382) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10729 in 1954
27540 (MSN 1385) W/o 8 Dec 1943 at Victorville AAF, CA
27541 (MSN 1386) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11861 in 1953.
27542 (MSN 1387) W/o 11 Nov 1943 at Roswell AAF, NM
27543 (MSN 1388) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11793 in 1953.
27545 (MSN 1390) to Turkish AF as 6882 May 15, 1948
27546 (MSN 1391) to Turkish AF as 6821 May 15, 1948
27547 (MSN 1392) to Turkish AF as 6822 May 15, 1948
27548 (MSN 1393) W/o 24 Feb 1943 at San Angelo AAF, TX
27549 (MSN 1394) to Mexican AF as BHB-1522 Sep 1944
27550 (MSN 1395) To French AF
27551 (MSN 1396) to N1022M, PP-RZN
27552 (MSN 1397) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11688 in 1952.
27553 (MSN 1398) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10550 in 1953.
27554 (MSN 1399) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10859 in 1954.
27556 (MSN 1401) To US Navy as SNB-2
27557 (MSN 1402) to N81V, N81Y
27558 (MSN 1403) to N8080H, N55TA. Crashed in 1962
27559 (MSN 1404) W/o 19 Apr 1944 at Midland, TX; repaired (?); to RFC Jun 24, 1946. To NC65917, N65917, N32Q.
27560 (MSN 1405) to N52934 in 1951. To N77750, N111G, N231P
27561 (MSN 1406) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10702 in 1954. To USAF Museum, marked as one in
service during 1943. This serial may be incorrect. The real 27561 was used to remanufacture
C-45H 52-10702. The plane at the USAF Museum is probably
42-37493. There was a mixup when the FAA assigned incorrect Beech MSNs to
AT-11s that were registered in the late 1950s. The AFM's plane was recorded as MSN 1406,
which was 41-27561, but the FAA registration card had the USAF serial as 42-37493, with the
MSN 1406 for N64044 later N341X. The USAF serial was correct, but not the MSN.
27562 (MSN 1407) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10749 in 1954
27564 (MSN 1409) W/o 28 Nov 1942 at Big Springs AAFBS, TX
27566 (MSN 1411) to Turkish AF as 6883 May 15, 1948
27567 (MSN 1412) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10661
27569 (MSN 1414) w/o in takeoff accident at Deming AAF, NM Jan 30, 1943. To civil registry as N61236.
27570 (MSN 1415) to N5051N
27571 (MSN 1416) remanufactured by Beech as TC-45G 51-11560.
27572 (MSN 1417) To US Navy as SNB-2 67378
27573 (MSN 1418) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11668.
27574 (MSN 1419) to US Navy as SNB-2 67353
27575 (MSN 1420) W/o 27 Apr 1944 at Mountainaire, NM
27576 (MSN 1421) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10754 in 1954.
27577 (MSN 1422) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11689.
27578 (MSN 1423) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G- 52-10690 in 1954.
27579 (MSN 1424) W/o 13 May 1943 at Harlingen AAF, TX; repaired (?); redes as T-11 on 11 Jun 1948;
remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10591 in 1953
27580 (MSN 1425) Ca. 1942: TOS USAAF.
By 5/43: 538th Flexible Gunnery Training Squadron, of the Army Air Force Flexible Gunnery School,
Kingman Army Air Field, AZ.
9/18/47: TOS USAF.
1948: Redesignated as T-11 under the new USAF system.
Remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11719 in 1953.
27581 (MSN 1426) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10895 in 1954
27583 (MSN 1428) (2237 AFRTC) crashlanded at New Castle APT, DE Jul 19, 1950. Remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11787.
27585 (MSN 1430) W/o 11 Oct 1945 at Prescott, AZ
27586 (MSN 1431) to NC66876.
27587 (MSN 1432) W/o 14 Jun 1943 at Roswell AAF, NM
27588 (MSN 1433) to N78035, N8329.
27589 (MSN 1434) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11862 in 1953.
27590 (MSN 1435) to Turkish AF as 6823 May 15, 1948
27591 (MSN 1436) W/o 8 Sep 1942 at Roswell AFS, NM
27592 (MSN 1437) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10653 in 1953
27594 (MSN 1439) 2347 AFRTC; damaged in taxiing accident at Long Beach MAP, CA on 09AUG 1951, then remanufactured
by Beech as C-45H 52-10868 in 1954.
27595 (MSN 1440) W/o 19 Nov 1943 at Kirtland Field, NM
27596 (MSN 1441) W/o 4 Dec 1942 at Roswell AFS, NM; repaired (?); redes as T-11 on 11 Jun 1948;
remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11883 in 1953.
27599 (MSN 1444) to French AF
27600 (MSN 1445) 1942: TOS USAAF, 7/3/42: Higley Army Air Field, AZ.
UNK: 975th Bombardier Training Squadron, 321st Bombardier Training Group, Deming Army Air Field, NM.
3/22/44: Damaged in a landing accident and was not repaired, but instead was placed in storage with the 975th BTS.
9/18/47: TOS USAF. Ca.1951: Transferred (unknown if ferried or trucked) to Herrington AFB, KS.
Remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10893 in 1954.
27601 (MSN 1446) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10603 in 1953.
27602 (MSN 1447) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10711 in 1954
27603 (MSN 1448) to civilian market as N74629. In 2009 was undergoing
restoration at Vintage Aircraft, Inc.
27604 (MSN 1449) to Canadian civil registry as CF-GJS. To US civil registry as N3632 in 1970. W/o at
Fort Lauderale, FL May 13, 1975 when blown into a DC-4 by high wind
27605 (MSN 1450) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10605
27606 (MSN 1451) W/o 3 May 1944 at Deming AAF, NM. Remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11874.
27607 (MSN 1452) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10752 in 1954.
27608 (MSN 1453) to Turkish AF as 6824 May 15, 1948
27609 (MSN 1454) to N75191
27610 (MSN 1455) to N7192C
27611 (MSN 1456) to N7356C
27613 (MSN 1458) (1275 ATS, 1700 ATG) crashed in bad weather 20 mi W of Sanderson, TX May 23, 1951. To
N8053H in 1956, to N507MH in 1958. Ended up derelict Dar-es-Salam, Tanzania in 1975.
27614 (MSN 1459) to French AF
27615 (MSN 1460) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10604 in 1953.
27616 (MSN 1461) to NC69715 in 1946, to N69715 in 1950. Registered as N74R Aug 27, 1981. Noted May 2, 1997
at Travis AFB Museum. N74R deregisted as expired May 8, 2013
27617 (MSN 1462) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10870 in 1954.
27618 (MSN 1463) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11677 in 1952.
27619 (MSN 1464) W/o 24 Jul 1942 at Atresia Apt, NM
27620 (MSN 1465) W/o 24 Sep 1942 at Florence, AZ
27621 (MSN 1466) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10698 in 1954.
27622 (MSN 1467) to Portuguese Navy as BC-5, then to Portuguese AF
as 2505. Restored 2007 for display at Museu do Ar, Alverca AB, Portugal, displayed as FAP 2504.
27623 (MSN 1468) W/o 24 Jun 1943 at Avenger Field, TX; repaired (?); redes as T-11 on 11 Jun 1948;
remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10886 in 1954
27624 (MSN 1469) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10854 in 1954.
27625 (MSN 1470) to N4660N in 1963.
27626 (MSN 1471) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11825 in 1953.
27627 (MSN 1472) W/o 27 Jul 1942 at Roswell AFS, NM; repaired (?); Redes as T-11 on 11 Jun 1948;
remanufactured by Beech as TC-45G 51-11583.
27629 (MSN 1474) to N6666C, N56TA, HB-GDA (ntu), N56TA
27630 (MSN 1475) W/o 24 Sep 1942 at Florence, AZ
27631 (MSN 1476) to Turkish AF as 6884 May 15, 1948
27634 (MSN 1479) to Turkish AF as 6885 May 15, 1948
27636 (MSN 1481) To US Navy as SNB-2 67289
27637 (MSN 1482) W/o 8 Sep 1942 at Roswell AFS, NM
27639 (MSN 1483) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10544 in 1953
27641 (MSN 1486) W/o 2 Nov 1942 at Santa Ana, CA
27642 (MSN 1487) W/o 19 Sep 1944 at Deming AAF, NM
27643 (MSN 1488) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11803 in 1953.
27645 (MSN 1490) to Turkish AF as 6886 May 15, 1948
27647 (MSN 1492) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 41-27647 in 1953.
27648 (MSN 1493) to Turkish AF as 6887 May 15, 1948
27650 (MSN 1495) to N68255. To WASP Aviation Museum, Quartsite, Arizona
27651 (MSN 1496) noted Jul 2005 at USAF Museum painted as 42-37493. Also reported as having been remanufactured
by Beech as C-45H 52-10765 in 1954
27652 (MSN 1497) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10849 in 1954.
27653 (MSN 1498) to N7348C
27654 (MSN 1499) to NC69138 in 1947
27655 (MSN 1500) To US Navy as SNB-2 67286
27658 (MSN 1503) to Turkish AF as 6888 May 15, 1948
27659 (MSN 1504) (61st AAFBU) crashed 60 mi W of Petersburg, VA Nov 29, 1946
27660 (MSN 1505) W/o 18 Nov 1943 at Carlsbad, NM; repaired (?); wfu;to N79091 in 1962. Struck snowdrift
landing on frozen lane, Barrow, Alaska Nov 21, 1968
27661 (MSN 1506) By 9/43: 812th Bombardier Training Squadron, Big Springs Army Air Field, TX.
By 3/44 it was operating out of Randolph AAF, TX.
By 1946: 61st Army Air Force Base Unit, Richmond Army Air Base, VA.
9/18/47: TOS USAF. 1948: Redesignated T-11. Remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10539 in 1953.
27662 (MSN 1507) W/o 11 Apr 1944 at Midland AAF, TX
27663 (MSN 1508) to Colombian AF in Jul 1947
27665 (MSN 1510) remanufactured by Beech as TC-45G 51-11552 in 1952.
27667 (MSN 1512) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10725 in 1954.
27668 (MSN 1513) to NC66647 in 1947, to PT-ANS in 1965. Damaged landing Sao Paulo, Congonhas, Brazil Oct 10, 1972.
27669 (MSN 1514) to N241X but with MSN BA-455. Remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10642 in 1953.
27670 (MSN 1515) to Turkish AF as 6825 May 15, 1948
27671 (MSN 1516) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10875 in 1954.
27672 (MSN 1517) W/o 24 Jul 1944 at Randolph Field, TX
27673 (MSN 1518) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 51-11664 in 1952.
27674 (MSN 1519) to Turkish AF as 6826 May 15, 1948
27675 (MSN 1520) W/o 20 Apr 1943 at Midland, TX
27676 (MSN 1521) To US Navy as SNB-2 67377
27677 (MSN 1522) remanufactured by Beech as C-45H 52-10710
27678 (MSN 1523) remanufactured by Beech as C-45G 51-11662 in 1952.
27679 (MSN 1524) W/o 21 Dec 1942 at Waco AFS, TX
27680 (MSN 1525) To US Navy as SNB-2 67332;
41-27682/27962 Martin A-30
MSN 3787/4067. All to RAF as Baltimore IIIA (FA100/FA380)
27682 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA100. Bellylanded at Gianaclis, Egypt Jun 4, 1943
after undercarriage jammed. Not repaired
27683 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA101. SOC Mar 14, 1946
27684 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA102. Crashed before delivery to RAF 2 Sep 1942 at New Castle AAB, DE
27685 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA103. Crashed before delivery to RAF
27686 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA104. Crashed before delivery to RAF 4 Feb 1943 at Patterson Field, OH
27687 assigned to NACA Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory, Virginia Jun 10, 1943 to
Mar 10, 1944. To RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA105. Crashed on landing at Ikeja, Nigeria
on ferry flight Jul 28, 1944
27688 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA106. Crashed before delivery to RAF
27689 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA107. DBR when swung on takeoff and undercarriage
collapsed at Shandur, Egypt Feb 8, 1945
27690 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA108. SOC Mar 14, 1946
27691 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA109. SOC Oct 25, 1943
27692 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA110. SOC Aug 9, 1945
27693 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA111. Crashed with 503rd BS, 346th BG at Pirangi do Norte, Brazil
Jan 27, 143 before delivery to RAF
27694 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA112. SOC Mar 29, 1945
27695 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA113. SOC Jul 19, 1945
27696 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA114. DBR when hit while parked by Baltimore FW377
(USAAF 43-8534) at Belem, Brazil Sep 19, 1943
27697 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA115. Crashlanded at Monastir, Tunisia May 8, 1943
after engine failure while returning from mission to Pantellaria.
27698 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA116. DBR when bellylanded at Kasfareet, Egypt
Jun 27, 1945 after tire burst on takeoff
27699 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA117. Crashed before delivery to RAF
27700 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA118. DBR when undershot landing at Nakaru, Keyna
Mar 26, 1943 when engine cut during approach
27701 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA119. SOC Mar 14, 1946
27702 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA120. Crashed before delivery to RAF
27703 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA121. Flew into control tower at Oakes Field,
Bahamas Apr 17, 1943 when engine cut during takeoff
27704 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA122. SOC Mar 29, 1945
27705 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA123. DBR when swung on landing and tipped up
at Castel Benito, Libya Jun 8, 1943
27706 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA124. DBR when tire burst on landing at Windsor
Field, Bahamas May 24, 1943.
27707 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA125. Crashed near Montreal, Canada Jan 12, 1943
27708 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA126. SOC Mar 14, 1946
27709 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA127. SOC Mar 29, 1945
27710 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA128. Crashed before delivery to RAF 5 Jan 1943 at Saint Francis, KY
27711 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA129. SOC Mar 29, 1945
27712 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA130. SOC Mar 14, 1946
27713 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA131. SOC Mar 29, 1945
27714 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA132. SOC Mar 14, 1946
27715 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA133. SOC Mar 14, 1946
27716 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA134. FA134 not taken up. Damaged in takeoff accident at Nassau Satellite Airfield,
Bahamas Jul 19, 1943. SOC Oct 11, 1945
27717 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA135. Crashed before delivery to RAF
27718 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA136. SOC Mar 29, 1945
27719 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA137. Stalled and crashed during emergency
approach 7 mi W of Piarco, Trinidad Jul 10, 1943
27720 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA138. SOC Oct 27, 1944
27721 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA139. Wrecked at Medenine Main, Tunisia Apr 7, 1943
when engine cut on takeoff. Aircraft swung and hit B-55
27722 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA140. Ditched north of Cabedelo,Paraiba, Brazil during ferry
flight Nov 29, 1942. Crew of 3 OK.
27723 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA141. SOC Oct 27, 1944
27724 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA142. SOC Mar 29, 1945
27725 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA143. SOC Mar 8, 1944
27726 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA144. SOC Mar 14, 1946
27727 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA145. SOC Oct 27, 1944
27728 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA146. Crashed on landing at Shandur, Egypt Jun 4, 1944
27729 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA147. SOC Oct 27, 1944.
27730 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA148. Crashed on takeoff at Accra, Gold Coast on
ferry flighte Dec 12, 1942
27731 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA149. Bellylanded after engine failure 5 mi S of
Cape Bon Jun 28, 1943
27732 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA150. SOC Mar 29, 1945
27733 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA151. crashed 3 mi SE of Gianaclis, Egypt Jul 9, 1943
27734 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA152. SOC Oct 27, 1944
27735 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA153. SOC Mar 29, 1945
27736 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA154. Wrecked when engine cut on takeoff, swung, and
undercarriage raised to stop, Bilbeis, Egypt Feb 10, 1944
27737 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA155. Crashed before delivery 7 Dec 1942 at Springfield, TX
27738 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA156. Crashed before delivery
27739 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA157. Missing on exercixe Jan 17, 1944
27740 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA158. SOC Mar 29, 1945
27741 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA159. Crashed on landing at Shandur, Egypt Jun 3, 1944
27742 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA160. SOC Aug 31, 1944
27743 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA161. SOC Oct 27, 1944
27744 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA162. SOC Mar 29, 1945
27745 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA163. SOC Mar 29, 1945
27746 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA164. SOC Mar 29, 1945
27747 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA165. DBR when bellylanded at Accra, Gold Coast
after undercarriage failed to lock down Feb 9, 1943
27748 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA166. DBR when bellylanded at Kasfareet, Egypt
after undercarriage jammed Aug 30, 1944
27749 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA167. SOC May 31, 1945
27750 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA168. Crashed before delivery to RAF 6 Dec 1942 in Atlantic Ocean from Natal, Brazil
27751 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA169. Craqshed in forced landing at Geneifa, Egypt
on ferry flight Dec 31, 1942
27752 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA170. DBR in accident in May 1944
27753 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA171. Wrecked when overshot at Luqa, Malta when tire
burst on takeoff Aug 7, 1943.
27754 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA172. SOC Mar 14, 1946
27755 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA173. Destroyed by fire when stalled on takeoff from
Hal Far, Malta Aug 9, 1943
27756 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA174. Crashed before delivery to RAF Oct 1942 at New Castle AAB, DE
27757 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA175. SOC Mar 29, 1945
27758 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA176. Crashed in forced landing near Nakuru, Kenya
after cowling detached Mar 5, 1943
27759 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA177. Damaged when taxying at Oakes Field Jul 3, 1943
27760 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA178. SOC Mar 8, 1944
27761 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA179. Crashed on takeoff from Geneifa, Egypt on
ferry flight Nov 20, 1942
27762 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA180. SOC Mar 29, 1945
27763 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA181. Destroyed by fire at Tortorella, Italy when
engine cut on takeoff, aircraft swung and hit windsock Nov 28, 1943
27764 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA182. Caught fire on ground at Natal, Brazil Dec 31, 1943
27765 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA183. SOC Oct 27, 1944
27766 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA184. DBR in heavy landing at Shandur, Egypt Dec 22, 1944
27767 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA185. SOC Mar 29, 1945
27768 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA186. DBR when hit by Baltimore FA956 (41-28178) while
taxying at Setif, Algeria Dec 22, 1944
27769 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA187. Ran out of fuel while returning from raid and
crew bailed out Apr 14, 1943.
27770 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA188. SOC Mar 29, 1945
27771 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA189. Crashed into sea during antisubmarine patrol
Jul 21, 1943
27772 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA190. SOC Oct 27, 1944
27773 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA191. SOC Mar 29, 1945
27774 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA192. SOC Mar 29, 1945
27775 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA193. DBR when hit by AA over Mahares Apr 2, 1943.
27776 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA194. SOC Mar 8, 1944
27777 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA195. SOC Aug 31, 1944
27778 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA196. SOC Mar 29, 1945
27779 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA197. SOC Jun 29, 1944
27780 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA198. Crashed before delivery to RAF
27781 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA199. SOC May 31, 1945
27782 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA200. MIA on mission of Naples, Italy Aug 5, 1943
27783 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA201. SOC Mar 29, 1945
27784 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA202. Engine cut on approach to Shandur, Egypt
Sep 29, 1943 and crashed into lake
27785 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA203
27786 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA204. Engine cut on approach to La Fauconneire,
Tunisia May 15, 1943, stalled and crashed
27787 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA205. Crashed before delivery to RAF 22 Nov 1942 at Patterson Field, OH
27788 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA206. SOC Mar 29, 1945
27789 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA207. SOC Mar 29, 1945
27790 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA208. SOC Mar 14, 1946
27791 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA209. SOC Mar 2, 1945
27792 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA210. SOC Mar 14, 1946
27793 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA211. SOC Mar 1, 1944
27794 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA212. SOC Oct 27, 1944
27795 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA213. Crashed before delivery to RAF 3 Jan 1943 at Morrison Field, FL
27796 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA214. Crashed before delivery to RAF
27797 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA215. SOC May 31, 1944
27798 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA216. Crashed near Helwan, Egypt Mar 25, 1944
27799 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA217. SOC Mar 29, 1945
27800 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA218. Crashed before delivery to RAF
27801 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA219. SOC Oct 27, 1944
27802 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA220. SOC Mar 29, 1945
27803 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA221. SOC Mar 29, 1945
27804 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA222. FA222 not taken up, crashed at Borinquen Field, PR Dec 2, 1942. SOC Mar 14, 1946
27805 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA223. SOC Oct 27, 1944
27806 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA224. MIA on mission to Crete Jul 23, 1943
27807 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA225. SOC May 31, 1945
27808 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA226. SOC Aug 31, 1944
27809 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA227. Crashed when engine cut on takeoff from
Oakes Field, Bahamas May 30, 1943
27810 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA228. Bellylanded 7 mi W of Ben Gardane, Tunisia
following engine failure Mar 21, 1943
27811 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA229. SOC Mar 14, 1946
27812 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA230. SOC Dec 30, 1943 after being damaged by
friendly fire off Rosetta, Egypt
27813 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA231. SOC Oct 27, 1944
27814 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA232. Abandoned by crew over Trapani, Sicily after
AAA damage Jul 6, 1943
27815 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA233. SOC Mar 14, 1946
27816 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA234. SOC Mar 14, 1946
27817 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA235. SOC Mar 14, 1946
27818 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA236. Crashed near LG.86, Western Desert Feb 3, 1943
after collision with another Baltimore
27819 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA237. SOC Mar 29, 1945
27820 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA238. DBR after hitting sea when taking evasive
action of coast of Greece Aug 14,1943
27821 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA239. SOC May 31, 1945
27822 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA240. SOC Apr 11, 1946
27823 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA241. DBR Feb 25, 1944
27824 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA242. SOC Mar 14, 1946
27825 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA243. Crashed before delivery to RAF
27826 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA244. Crashed on takeoff from Shandur, Egypt Jun 7, 1944
27827 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA245. DBR when both engines cut during takeoff from
Gianaclis, Egypt Oct 1, 1943
27828 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA246. SOC Mar 29, 1945
27829 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA247. MIA on mission to Crete Jul 23, 1943
27830 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA248. Dove in to ground at night 6 mi NE of Kabrit,
Egypt Aug 17, 1943
27831 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA249. SOC Mar 14, 1946
27832 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA250. DBR Jun 22, 1944
27833 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA251. DBR when undercarriage collapsed on landing at
Shandur, Egypt May 19, 1945
27834 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA252 MIA on flight between Accra, Gold Coast and
Apapa, Nigeria Dec 24, 1942
27835 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA253. Ditched following engine failure Sep 3, 1943
27836 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA254. Shot down by AAA near Sfax, Tunisia Mar 30, 1943
27837 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA255. SOC Mar 29, 1945
27838 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA256. SOC Aug 31, 1944
27839 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA257.
27840 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA258. DBR when caught fire on ground at Ben Gardane,
Tunisia Apr 1, 1943
27841 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA259. DBR when bellylanded 5 mi SW of Gancilis,
Egype Nov 29, 1943 following engine failure
27842 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA260. DBR when swung on landing at Nakuru,
Keyna Apr 22, 1943 and undercarriage collapsed
27843 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA261. SOC Oct 27, 1944
27844 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA262. Hit bird in flight 5 mi NE of Gianaclis, Egypt
Dec 15, 1944. Landed safely but DBR
27845 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA263 SOC Mar 29, 1945
27846 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA264. DBR when undercarriage jammed and overshot
landing at Zuara, Liby Apr 1, 1943
27847 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA265
27848 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA266. SOC Aug 31, 1944
27849 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA267. SOC Aug 31, 1944
27850 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA268. SOC Mar 14, 1946
27851 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA269. SOC Oct 27, 1944
27852 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA270. SOC Mar 12, 1943
27853 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA271. SOC Mar 29, 1945
27854 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA272. SOC Jul 19, 1945
27855 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA273. SOC Oct 27, 1944
27856 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA274. DBR when engine cut on takeoff from Liten Nov 14, 1943
27857 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA275.
27858 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA276. Crashed near Wadi Akarit Apr 2, 1943 after
being hit by AAA
27859 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA277. SOC Mar 29, 1945
27860 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA278. Tire burst on takeoff from Gerbini,
Sicily Sep 16, 1943
27861 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA279. SOC May 31, 1945
27862 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA280. SOC Mar 14, 1946
27863 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA281. SOC Oct 27, 1944
27864 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA282. SOC Aug 31, 1944
27865 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA283. DBR when bellylanded at Kasfareet, Egypt
Apr 30, 1945 after undercarriage jammed
27866 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA284. SOC Mar 29, 1945
27867 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA285. DItched at sea 3 mi E of Sollum, Egypt Aug 26, 1943
27868 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA286. DBR when bellylanded at Gianaclis, Egypt
Sep 27, 1943 after undercarriage jammed.
27869 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA287. SOC Oct 27, 1944
27870 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA288. SOC May 31, 1944
27871 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA289. SOC Aug 31, 1944
27872 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA290. SOC Aug 31, 1944
27873 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA291. SOC Aug 31, 1944.
27874 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA292. Dove in to sea Jul 20, 1943.
27875 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA293. Collided with Baltimore AG991 and crashed into
Mediterranean Jan 13, 1944
27876 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA294. DBR when swung on takeoff and hit wall at
Medenine, Tunisia Apr 7, 1943.
27877 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA295. DBR when engine cut on overshoot causing aircraft
to swing and hit parked Baltimore AH112 at Shandur, Egypt Oct 6, 1943
27878 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA296. SOC Sep 1, 1943
27879 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA297. SOC Jul 23, 1945
27880 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA298. Shot down off Sicily by Bf 109s Jul 7, 1943
27881 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA299. Crashed into lake on takeoff from Kabrit,
Egypt Aug 4, 1944
27882 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA300. SOC Mar 29, 1945.
27883 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA301. Overturned during forced landing following engine
failure, Shandur, Egypt Sep 1, 1943
27884 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA302. SOC Oct 27, 1944
27885 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA303. Crashlanded at Lentini, Sicily Jul 29, 1943 after
being damaged by AAA.
27886 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA304. DBR in bellylanding at Shandur, Egypt Apr 22, 1944
27887 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA305. Blew up over Novara, Italy Jul 25, 1943 after
being hit by AAA
27888 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA306. SOC Oct 27, 1944
27889 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA307. SOC Aug 31, 1944
27890 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA308. DBR in bellylanding at LG. 07 in Western Desert
Nov 10, 1943 when undercarriage leg jammed up.
27891 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA309. Undercarriage collapsed on landing at Shandur,
Egype Jul 2, 1943 and relegated to instructional airframe with serial 4024M
27892 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA310. DBR when bounced on landing and stalled
at La Fauconnerie, Tunisia May 21, 1943
27893 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA311. SOC Oct 27, 1944
27894 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA312. DBR Feb 25, 1944.
27895 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA313. SOC Mar 14, 1946
27896 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA314. Destroyed by fire after crashing at Georgetown,
St Vincent Apr 12, 1943 during ferry flight
27897 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA315. SOC May 31, 1945
27898 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA316. Crashed on landing at Gianaclis, Egypt Feb 11, 1944
27899 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA317. DBR when overshot landing at Windsor Field,
Bahamas Apr 13, 1943
27900 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA318. SOC Oct 27, 1944
27901 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA319. SOC Mar 14, 1946
27902 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA320. SOC Mar 14, 1946
27903 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA321. SOC May 31, 1945
27904 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA322. MIA from patrol mission off Sardinia Jul 9, 1943
27905 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA323. SOC May 31, 1945.
27906 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA324. DBR when stalled on landing at Protville,
Tunisia Sep 4, 1943
27907 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA325. SOC Mar 14, 1945
27908 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA326. SOC Feb 22, 1945
27909 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA327. Crashed near Gianaclis, Egypt Apr 3, 1944
27910 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA328. DBR when prop detached and damaged airframe
Nov 15, 1943
27911 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA329. Crashed in forced landing at Hertslia, Palestine
Jun 21, 1943 after engine failure
27912 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA330. Ditched between Natal and Asension Island
Apr 19, 1943 following engine failure.
27913 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA331. Shot down by AAA over Trapani, Italy Jul 9, 1943
27914 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA332. SOC May 31, 1946
27915 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA333. SOC Mar 14, 1946
27916 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA334. Crashed before delivery to RAF, at Wideawake Field, Ascension Island
during ferry flight Feb 26, 1943.
27917 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA335. SOC Apr 1, 1944
27918 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA336. DBR when bounced on landing at Shallufa, Egypt
Feb 12, 1945
27919 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA337. SOC Feb 22, 1945
27920 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA338. SOC Mar 24, 1945
27921 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA339. SOC Mar 14, 1946
27922 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA340. Bounced on landing and crashed at Windsor Field,
Bahamas Mar 25, 1943
27923 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA341. SOC Sep 28, 1944
27924 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA342. SOC Mar 29, 1945
27925 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA343. SOC Sep 28, 1944
27926 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA344. Rolled on approach to Luqa, Malta and crashed Aug 18, 1943
27927 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA345. MIA on mission to Trapani, Italy Jul 3, 1943
27928 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA346. DBR when swung on landing at Gianaclis, Egypt Sep 14, 1944
27929 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA347. SOC Aug 31, 1944
27930 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA348.
27931 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA349. SOC Oct 27, 1944
27932 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA350. SOC May 31, 1946
27933 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA351. SOC Oct 10, 1944
27934 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA352. SOC Oct 10, 1944
27935 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA353. SOC Aug 31, 1944
27936 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA354. Staled on overshoot and crashed at Oakes Field,
Bahamas Mar 18, 1943
27937 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA355. SOC Mar 14, 1946
27938 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA356. SOC May 31, 1945
27939 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA357. SOC Jul 29, 1945
27940 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA358. Crashed on takeoff from Shandur, Egypt Apr 6, 1944
27941 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA359. DBR Jun 22, 1944
27942 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA360. MIA on recon mission to Aegean Sea Oct 2, 1943
27943 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA361. DBR when bounced and swung during landing at
Luqa, Malta Aug 3, 1943
27944 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA362. SOC Apr 11, 1946
27945 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA363. Crashed before delivery to RAF
27946 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA364. DBR when undercarriage collapsed after swing on
takeoff at Shandur, Egypt Sep 25, 1944
27947 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA365. DBR while taxying at Gianaclis, Egypt Aug 3, 1944
27948 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA366. SOC Jun 29, 1944
27949 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA367. Dove into ground after losing control during night
takeoff from Protville, Tunisia Jul 28, 1943
27950 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA368. DBR whun swung on takeoff and hit Ju 52/3m at Ben
Hagan, Libya Jul 8, 1943. Several Ju 52/3ms were captured in North Africa and used as
communications aircraft by the RAF; this may have been one of the pair serialled
HK919/20.
27951 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA369. SOC Oct 27, 1944.
27952 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA370. Crashed on takeoff from Protville, Tunisia Aug 2, 1943
27953 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA371.
27954 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA372. SOC May 25, 1944
27955 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA373. Damaged when taxied into obstruction at Gianaclis,
Egypt Oct 31, 1943. Relegated to instructional airframe 4217M
27956 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA374. SOC Feb 22, 1945
27957 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA375. Crashed on landing at Gianaclis, Egypt Feb 7, 1944
27958 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA376. SOC Mar 29, 1945
27959 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA377. SOC Mar 14, 1946
27960 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA378. SOC Aug 31, 1944
27961 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA379. Stalled on takeoff from Gambut, Libya Jan 10, 1944 and
crashed
27962 to RAF as Baltimore IIIA FA380. DBR Jan 2, 1944.
41-27963/28081 Martin A-30A-1-MA
Martin Model 187. MSN 4068/4186. All to RAF as Baltimore IV FA381/FA499
27963 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA381. DBR Apr 3, 1944. RAF database has this as Baltimore IIIA
27964 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA382. SOC Aug 1, 1944
27965 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA383. SOC Mar 14, 1946
27966 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA384. SOC Jul 27, 1944
27967 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA385. Transferred to Royal Navy Feb 1946. Suffered
engine fire over Hal Far, Malta Apr 21, 1946. Landed safely but SOC.
27968 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA386. SOC Apr 26, 1945
27969 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA387. SOC Apr 30, 1944
27970 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA388. Swung on takeoff and crashed at Biferno, Italy Sep 11, 1944.
27971 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA389. Shot down by AAA Oct 15, 1943
27972 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA390. Hit by AAA over Kastelli, Crete and ditched offshore Jul 23, 1943.
27973 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA391. SOC Mar 8, 1944
27974 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA392. DBR when tire burst on landing at Oakes Field,
Bahamas during ferry flight Mar 20, 1943
27975 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA393. SOC Feb 22, 1945
27976 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA394. Crashed near San Benedetto, Italy Mar 15, 1944 after
collision with Baltimore FW293 (43-8450)
27977 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA395. SOC Feb 22, 1945
27978 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA396. SOC May 31, 1946
27979 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA397. SOC May 29, 1947
27980 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA398. DBR when groundlooped on takeoff at Berka, Libya
Nov 26, 1943 when tire burst.
27981 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA399. DBR when overshot landing at Pomiglaiano, Italy Feb 26, 1945
and undercarriage raised to stop
27982 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA400. Destroyed by fire after swung on takeoff and
undercarriage collapsed at Derna, Libya Dec 8, 1943
27983 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA401. SOC Aug 1, 1944
27984 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA402. SOC Mar 14, 1946
27985 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA403. SOC Jul 19, 1945
27986 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA404. SOC Mar 14, 1946
27987 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA405. SOC Jul 27, 1944
27988 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA406. Crashed on ferry flight 13 mi SE of Kirumu Oct 23, 1945
27989 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA407. DBR Apr 21, 1944
27990 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA408. SOC Mar 29, 1945
27991 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA409. MIA on mission to Crete Jul 23, 1943
27992 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA410. DBR Apr 28, 1944
27993 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA411. SOC Mar 14, 1946
27994 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA412. DBR when undercarriage collapsed on landing at Biferno,
Italy Mar 17, 1944
27995 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA413. SOC Aug 1, 1944.
27996 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA414. Crashed into lake after takeoff from Kabrit, Egypt
Aug 17, 1944.
27997 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA415. Transferred to Italian AF Jun 27, 1946
27998 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA416. SOC Aug 1, 1944
27999 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA417. DBR when hit bump during takeoff and wing hit runway,
LG 91, Western Desert Oct 13, 1943.
28000 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA418. Crashed after colliding with Baltimore FA493 (41-28075)
over Isernia, Italy Oct 18, 1943
28001 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA419. SOC Mar 29, 1945
28002 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA420. Transferred to Italian AF Jun 27, 1946
28003 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA421. SOC Jun 27, 1946
28004 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA422. SOC Mar 28, 1946
28005 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA423. DBR when bellylanded at Gambut, Libya Nov 24, 1943
after catching fire in air
28006 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA424. DBR when swung to avoid other aicraft after
overshooting landing at Perugia, Italy Nov 6, 1944
28007 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA425. Shot down by AAA near Mignano Oct 20, 1943
28008 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA426.
28009 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA427. Destroyed by fire after hitting obstruction when swung
on takeoff from Oakes Field, Bahamas Mar 28, 1943.
28010 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA428. Crashed into Aegean Sea Sep 17, 1943
28011 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA429. SOC Mar 14, 1946.
28012 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA430. SOC Mar 27, 1947.
28013 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA431. Crashed on landing at El Ballah, Egypt Oct 4, 1945
after engine failed.
28014 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA432. Transferred to Italian AF Jun 27, 1946
28015 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA433. SOC Mar 14, 1946. Served with RAAF 454
Sqdn under RAF control Jul 1944 to Aug 1945
28016 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA434. Wrecked when hit jeep after overshooting landing
at Accra, Gold Coast Mar 31, 1943.
28017 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA435. Transfered to Royal Navy Dec 1945. Port engine failed
when operating form Hal Far, Malta Nov 9 1946. Aircraft landed safely but was disposed
of by being pushed off a nearby cliff into the Mediterranean.
28018 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA436. Damaged by AAA over Lanciano, Italy Nov 30, 1943. Returned
to base but SOC as being DBR.
28019 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA437. SOC Sep 28, 1944
28020 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA438. SOC Jun 30, 1944
28021 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA439. Transferred to Italian AF Jun 27, 1946
28022 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA440. SOC May 31, 1945
28023 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA441. SOC Mar 14, 1946
28024 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA442. Shot down by AAA over Campobasso, Italy Oct 17, 1943.
28025 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA443. SOC Apr 26, 1945
28026 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA444. SOC May 29, 1947
28027 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA445. SOC Mar 14, 1946
28028 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA446. MIA on mission to island of Kos, Greece Nov 13, 1943
28029 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA447. SOC Feb 22, 1945
28030 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA448. Hit fence on takeoff from Piarco, Brazil Apr 10, 1943.
DBR when undercarriage collapsed on subsequent landing at Belem, Brazil
28031 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA449. SOC Aug 1, 1944
28032 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA450.
28033 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA451. SOC Aug 1, 1944
28034 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA452. SOC Aug 1, 1944
28035 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA453. SOC Aug 1, 1944
28036 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA454. SOC Mar 14, 1946
28037 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA455. SOC Apr 25, 1946
28038 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA456. Crashed near Luqa, Malta Sep 2, 1943 after colliding
with Spitfire EN507
28039 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA457. SOC Jun 27, 1946
28040 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA458. SOC Dec 1, 1943
28041 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA459. SOC Mar 14, 1946
28042 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA460. DBR Apr 3, 1944
28043 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA461. DBR in crash landing at Luqa, Malta Jul 27, 1943
following AAA damage.
28044 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA462. SOC Mar 14, 1946
28045 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA463. SOC Aug 1, 1944
28046 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA464. Transferred to Italian AF Jun 27, 1946
28047 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA465. SOC Aug 1, 1944
28048 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA466. Transferred to Royal Navy Sep 13, 1944. DBR
when landing at Castel Vetrano, Italy Oct 2, 1944 when starboard undercarriage
jammed in up position.
28049 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA467. SOC May 31, 1945
28050 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA468. DBR in crash landing at Derna, Kibya Feb 27, 1944
after damage by Bf 109s
28051 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA469
28052 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA470. DBR when caught fire starting up at Bilbeis,
Egypt Aug 16, 1943
28053 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA471. MIA on mission to Candia, Crete Feb 23, 1944
28054 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA472. Transferred to Italian AF 1945
28055 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA473. SOC Mar 14, 1946
28056 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA474. Crashed at Alfedena after colliding with another
aircraft Nov 3, 1943.
28057 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA475. DBR when struck by falling object near Lucera, Italy
Oct 29, 1943
28058 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA476. SOC Mar 29, 1945
28059 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA477. DBR when undercarriage collapsed on landing
at LG 07, Western Desert Sep 16, 1943
28060 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA478. Crashed on takeoff from Maidaguru, Nigeria Jul 18, 1943
28061 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA479. Blew up when hit by AAA over Migliano Dec 8, 1943
28062 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA480. SOC Aug 1, 1944
28063 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA481. SOC Jan 25, 1945
28064 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA482. SOC Apr 26, 1945
28065 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA483. MIA on mission to Crete Oct 24, 1943
28066 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA484. DBR when swung on landing and undercarriage
collapsed, Khormaksar, Aden Nov 7, 1944.
28067 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA485. SOC Mar 1, 1944
28068 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA486. SOC Aug 29, 1946
28069 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA487. DBR when swung on takeoff and undercarriage collapsed
at Piarco, Trinidad May 25, 1943
28070 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA488. Crashed in forced landing 5 mi N of Cuttichio, Italy
Oct 5, 1943 after aileron control jammed.
28071 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA489. SOC Aug 1, 1944
28072 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA490. Crashed on takeoff from Biferno, Italy Jun 9, 1944
28073 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA491. SOC Mar 28, 1946
28074 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA492. SOC Nov 30, 1944
28075 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA493. Crashed after colliding with Baltimore FA418 (41-28000)
over Isernia, Italy Oct 18, 1943
28076 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA494. SOC Mar 14, 1946
28077 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA495. SOC Mar 14, 1946
28078 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA496. DBR when undercarriage prematurely raised during
takeoff from Gambut, Libya Aug 30, 1943
28079 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA497. SOC Mar 14, 1946
28080 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA498. SOC May 31, 1945
28081 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA499. Missing from recon mssion off Greece Feb 27, 1944
41-28082/28256 Martin A-30A-5-MA
Martin Model 187. MSN 4187/4361. All to RAF as Baltimore IV FA500/FA674
28082 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA500.
28083 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA501. SOC Mar 14, 1946
28084 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA502. SOC Apr 11, 1946
28085 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA503. Transferred to Italian AF in 1945
28086 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA504. Transferred to Italian AF in 1945
28087 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA505. SOC Mar 14, 1946. Served with RAAF 454 Sqdn
under RAF control Jul 1944 to Aug 1945
28088 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA506. DBR when ran off runway while landing in crosswind
at Borizzo, Sicily Dec 4, 1943
28089 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA507. SOC Mar 14, 1946
28090 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA508. Wrecked when overturned in forced landing while
lost 60 mi W of Geneina, Egypt May 22, 1943
28091 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA509. SOC Apr 30, 1944
28092 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA510. SOC May 31, 1945
28093 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA511. SOC Aug 1, 1944
28094 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA512.
28095 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA513. Crashed on takeoff from Luqa, Malta Nov 23, 1943
28096 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA514. SOC Mar 14, 1946
28097 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA515. SOC Aug 1, 1944
28098 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA516.
28099 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA517. DBR when swung on attempted overshoot and undercarriage
collapsed, Cesenatico, Italy Jan 20, 1945
28100 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA518. SOC Mar 27, 1947
28101 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA519. SOC Mar 13, 1946
28102 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA520. Destroyed by fire when ran off runway at Atkinson Field,
Georgetown, British Guiana May 20, 1943
28103 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA521. SOC Mar 14, 1946
28104 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA522. SOC Mar 14, 1946
28105 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA523. Missing from shipping reconnaissance mission to Island of
Naxos, Greece Nov 8, 1943
28106 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA524. Crashed before delivery to RAF
28107 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA525. Missing from anti-shipping sweep over Aegean Sea Oct 28, 1943
28108 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA526. DBR when overshot landing at Stewart Field, NY May 30, 1943
28109 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA527. Missing from anti-shipping sweep over Aegean Sea Dec 12, 1943
28110 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA528. Wrecked when bounced on landing and undercarriage torn
off, LG 07, Western Desert Nov 8, 1943
28111 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA529. SOC Mar 14, 1946
28112 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA530. SOC Mar 14, 1946
28113 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA531. SOC Aug 1, 1944
28114 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA532. DBR when tire burst during takeoff from Luxor, Egypt Jul 3, 1943
28115 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA533. SOC May 31, 1945
28116 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA534. SOC Mar 1, 1944
28117 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA535. DBR in belly landing at Berka, Libya Dec 24, 1943 after
undercarriage jammed.
28118 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA536. SOC Dec 28, 1944
28119 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA537. SOC Mar 14, 1946
28120 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA538. SOC Aug 29, 1946
28121 to RAF Apr 30, 1943 as Baltimore IV FA539. Ferried to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland 13May43.
Scottish Aviation, Prestwick, Ayr. Controller Research and Development.
Retained by Cunliffe Owen, ‘foster parent’ to Glenn L. Martin for the Baltimore in UK
and evaluated for the RAF at Marwell and Southampton, England. SOC Aug 7, 1947
28122 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA540. Crashed near Foggia, Itay Feb 17, 1944 after engine
cut in bad weather
28123 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA541. SOC Aug 1, 1944
28124 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA542. SOC Jun 27, 1946
28125 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA543. DBR in belly landing at Brindisi, Italy Oct 9, 1943
after undercarriage jammed.
28126 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA544. SOC Aug 1, 1944
28127 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA545. DBR May 19, 1944
28128 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA546. SOC Mar 14, 1946
28129 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA547. Stalled and crashed after bouncing on landing at
L.G.07, Western Desert Sep 10, 1943
28130 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA548. Missing Dec 4, 1943
28131 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA549. SOC Mar 14, 1946
28132 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA550. DBR when swung on landing and hit parked Baltimore at Borizzo,
Sicily Nov 7, 1943
28133 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA551. SOC Mar 14, 1946
28134 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA552. SOC Aug 29, 1946
28135 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA553. Transferred to Italian AF Jun 27, 1946
28136 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA554. Shot down by enemy fighter over island of Leros, Greece
Feb 20, 1944
28137 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA555. SOC Mar 14, 1946
28138 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA556. SOC Aug 29, 1946
28139 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA557. Crashed into Aegean Sea Oct 5, 1943
28140 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA558. SOC Aug 1, 1944
28141 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA559. SOC Dec 30, 1943
28142 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA560. Transferred to Italian AF Jun 27, 1946
28143 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA561. SOC Aug 1, 1944
28144 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA562. SOC May 31, 1945
28145 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA563. Dove into ground at Tzumaides, Crete Dec 18, 1944.
28146 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA564
28147 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA565. Crashed on takeoff from Amriya South, Egypt Feb 28,1944
28148 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA566. SOC Mar 14, 1946
28149 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA567. SOC Aug 29, 1946
28150 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA568
28151 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA569. SOC Aug 1, 1944
28152 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA570. SOC Mar 14, 1946
28153 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA571. Crashed in forced landing due to fuel flow failure
1 mile NW of La Montonne, France Nov 10, 1944
28154 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA572. SOC May 31, 1945
28155 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA573. Wrecked when swung on takeoff and tipped up,
Bilbeis, Egypt Jul 19, 1945.
28156 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA574. Missing from mission to Aegean Sea Sep 21, 1943.
28157 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA575. SOC Dec 27, 1945
28158 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA576. SOC Aug 29, 1946
28159 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA577. SOC Mar 14, 1946
28160 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA578. SOC Jul 12, 1945
28161 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA579. SOC Aug 29, 1946
28162 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA580. Destroyed by fire when stalled and crashed on overshoot
after heavy landing at Mariut (probably in Libya, as aircraft was with 459 Sqn based at Berka)
Oct 6, 1944
28163 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA581. SOC Apr 30, 1944
28164 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA582. SOC Mar 14, 1946
28165 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA583.
28166 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA584. SOC Feb 22, 1945
28167 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA585. SOC May 31, 1945
28168 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA586. MIA from mission to Chieti, Italy Feb 28, 1944
28169 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA587. DBR when hit by AAA over Fornia Oct 25, 1943
28170 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA588. Crashed near Amriya, Egypt Feb 15, 1944
after colliding with Baltimore FW257 (43-8514)
28171 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA589. SOC Mar 14, 1946
28172 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA590. SOC Mar 14, 1946
28173 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA591. SOC Jul 19, 1945
28174 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA592. Transferred to Italian AF Jun 27, 1946
28175 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA593. SOC Aug 29, 1946
28176 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA594. SOC Mar 14, 1946
28177 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA595. SOC Aug 29, 1946
28178 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA596. DBR when swung on landing at Setif, Algeria
Oct 17, 1943 and hit Baltimore FA186 (41-27768)
28179 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA597. SOC Mar 14, 1946
28180 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA598. SOC Mar 14, 1946
28181 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA599. SOC Feb 27, 1947
28182 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA600. SOC Mar 14, 1946
28183 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA601. MIA on mission to Suda Bay Mar 3, 1944
28184 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA602. MIA Nov 29, 1943
28185 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA603. SOC Mar 27, 1947. Served with RAAF 454 Sqdn
under RAF control in 1944
28186 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA604. SOC Jul 19, 1945
28187 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA605. SOC Oct 31, 1946
28188 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA606. SOC Mar 14, 1946
28189 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA607. Transferred to Italian AF Jun 27, 1946
28190 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA608. SOC Jan 25, 1945
28191 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA609. SOC Mar 29, 1945
28192 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA610. SOC Mar 14, 1946
28193 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA611. SOC Feb 22, 1945
28194 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA612. SOC Jun 14, 1945
28195 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA613. SOC Mar 14, 1946
28196 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA614. SOC Apr 26, 1945
28197 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA615. Collide with Hellcat JX773 (BuNo 71196) on approach
to Jiwani in duststorm Apr 6, 1945. Landed safely but SOC
28198 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA616. DBR Mar 24, 1944
28199 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA617. SOC Mar 14, 1946
28200 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA618. SOC Mar 14, 1946
28201 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA619. SOC Jul 5, 1945
28202 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA620. SOC Aug 29, 1946
28203 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA621. Iced up and crashed near Foggia, Italy Feb 17, 1944
28204 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA622. SOC Apr 26, 1945
28205 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA623. Shot down by Bf 109s near Terni, Italy Apr 7, 1944
28206 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA624. DBR when undercarriage collapsed on landing
at Gambut, Libya Nov 18, 1943
28207 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA625. SOC Sep 28, 1944
28208 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA626.
28209 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA627. SOC Apr 11, 1946
28210 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA628. DBR Oct 27, 1944
28211 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA629. SOC Apr 26, 1946
28212 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA630. Transferred to Italian AF Jun 27, 1946
28213 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA631. SOC May 29, 1947
28214 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA632. Missing Jan 1, 1945
28215 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA633. Crashed during bombing practice Jan 4, 1944
28216 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA634. SOC Nov 30, 1944
28217 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA635. SOC May 25, 1944
28218 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA636. SOC Mar 14, 1946
28219 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA637. SOC May 31, 1945
28220 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA638. DBR Aug 25, 1944.
28221 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA639. SOC Mar 29, 1945
28222 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA640. SOC Mar 29, 1945
28223 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA641. SOC Jul 19, 1945
28224 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA642. Crashed on landing at Brindisi, Italy May 11, 1944
28225 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA643. SOC Apr 30, 1944
28226 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA644. SOC Apr 21, 1946
28227 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA645. MIA on mission to Campoleone Mar 2, 1944
28228 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA646. SOC Aug 29, 1946
28229 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA647. SOC Aug 1, 1944
28230 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA648. SOC Jul 29, 1947
28231 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA649.
28232 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA650. SOC Feb 22, 1945
28233 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA651. SOC Mar 14, 1946
28234 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA652. DBR Apr 12, 1944
28235 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA653. DBR when struck by Baltimore FA662 (41-28244) while
parked at Gambut, Libya Oct 17, 1943
28236 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA654. DBR when swung on landing at Biferno, Italy Sep 19 1944
and undercarriage raised to stop
28237 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA655. SOC Mar 14, 1946
28238 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA656. Ditched in Aegean Sea Nov 22, 1943 after collision
with Baltimore FA667 (41-28249)
28239 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA657. Crashed on approach to Foggia, Italy Oct 30, 1943
following flak damage
28240 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA658. SOC Mar 14, 1946
28241 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA659. MIA on antishipping sweep over Aegean Sea Oct 28, 1943
28242 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA660. SOC Aug 1, 1944
28243 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA661. SOC Aug 1, 1944
28244 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA662. Wrecked when struck parked Baltimore FA653 (41-28235) during
takeoff from Gambut, Libya Oct 17, 1943
28245 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA663. SOC Apr 21, 1946
28246 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA664. SOC Mar 8, 1944
28247 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA665. Shot down by flak at Cervia, Italy Dec 15, 1944
28248 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA666. SOC Aug 1, 1944
28249 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA667. Ditched in Aegean Sea Nov 22, 1943 after collision
with Baltimore FA656 (41-28238)
28250 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA668. DBR Apr 29, 1945
28251 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA669. MIA on mission to Aegean Sea Nov 10, 1943
28252 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA670. SOC Apr 30, 1944
28253 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA671. SOC OCt 31, 1946
28254 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA672. Missing Nov 19, 1943 after reporting engine trouble
28255 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA673. Damaged Jan 1, 1944
28256 to RAF as Baltimore IV FA674. SOC Aug 1, 1944.
41-28257-28406 Bell P-39D-1-BE Airacobra
28288,28340,28367,28370,28375,28400,28402 modified as P-39D-4 recon variant.
28257 to USSR
28259 W/o 31 Oct 1942 at San Pablo Bay, CA
28264 W/o 12 Jun 1943 at Ascension Is
28267 W/o 27 May 1943 at Tonopah, NV
28268 W/o 19 Jan 1943 at Oakland Mun Arpt, CA
28270 W/o 8 Jan 1943 at Perris, CA
28271 W/o 14 Apr 1943 at Sanibel Island, FL
28272 W/o 22 Jul 1942 at Rosemont, CA
28273 W/o 1 Oct 1942 at Hamilton Field, CA
28274 W/o 18 May 1943 at Studio City, CA
28275 W/o 2 Apr 1943 at Coco Junction, CA
28277 W/o 24 Oct 1942 at Paine Field, WA
28278 W/o 2 Feb 1943 at Tonopah, NV
28279 W/o 1 Aug 1942 at Muroc AAB, CA
28280 W/o 19 Nov 1942 at Mills Field, CA
28281 W/o 22 May 1943 in Atlantic Ocean off South Carolina
28282 crashed 3 mi SE of Petaluma, CA Sep 24, 1942. Pilot killed.
28283 W/o 9 May 1943 at Ft Myers AAF, FL
28284 W/o 4 Dec 1942 at San Rafael, CA
28285 W/o 27 May 1943 at Tonopah, NV
28287 W/o 21 Oct 1942 at Petaluma, CA
28288 W/o 14 Sep 1942 at Hamilton Field, CA
28290 crashed at Point Reyes, CA between Olema and Inverness, CA Oct 4, 1942. Pilot killed.
28291 W/o 19 Sep 1942 at Sarasota, FL
28292 crashed at Muroc Field Aug 3, 1942 while pilot was practicing general air work. Pilot killed.
28293 W/o 1 Feb 1944 at Concord AAF, CA
28295 W/o 16 Sep 1942 at Muroc AAB, CA
28297 W/o 12 May 1944 at Medras, OR
28298 W/o 31 Aug 1942 at Muroc, CA
29299 W/o 24 Nov 1942 at San Fracisco Bay, CA
28301 W/o 12 Nov 1942 at Mills Field, CA
28302 W/o 30 Dec 1942 at Hamilton Field, CA
28303 W/o 24 Nov 1942 at Paine Field, WA
28304 W/o 6 Jul 1942 at Burlington, IA
28305 W/o 26 Dec 1942 at Rutherford, CA
28306 W/o 8 Feb 1943 at Hayward, CA
28307 W/o 28 Jan 1943 at Alameda, CA
28309 W/o 30 Dec 1942 in San Francisco Bay, CA
28310 W/o 14 Feb 1943 at Page Field, FL
28311 W/o 3 Oct 1942 at Hamilton Field, CA
28312 W/o 5 Feb 1943 at Revielle Valley, NV
28313 444th Fighter Squadron, 328th Fighter Group, Hamilton Field, CA. TDY Concord Field, CA Sep43.
Substantially damaged in an accident with P-39Q 42-20762 taxying at Concord, CA 31Oct43.
Lend-Lease to the Soviet Union; noted in Russian markings waiting delivery at Abadan, Iran.
28314 W/o 25 Dec 1942 at Paine Field, WA
28315 W/o 3 Oct 1942 at Hamilton Field, CA
28316 W/o 16 Jun 1942 at Dale Mabry Field, FL
28317 W/o 20 Jun 1942 at Grenier Field, NH
28319 W/o 30 Jun 1943 at Tonopah, NV
28320 W/o 27 Oct 1942 at Lakeville, CA
28321 W/o 10 Nov 1942 at Everett, WA
28322 W/o 21 Oct 1942 at Mills Field, CA
28323 W/o 16 Jul 1942 at Mojave, CA
28326 W/o 6 Aug 1944 at Odessa, WA
28327 W/o 10 Jan 1943 at March Field, CA
28328 W/o 30 Jun 1943 at Tonopah, NV
28329 W/o 25 Nov 1942 at Hosford, FL
28333 W/o 13 Aug 1942 at Muroc AAB, CA
28334 W/o 5 Nov 1942 at Mills Field, CA
28335 W/o 16 Jul 1942 at Drew Field, FL
28336 W/o 12 Nov 1942 at Oakland Muni Airport, CA
28337 W/o 1 Jul 1943 at Ft Myers AAF, FL
28339 W/o 13 Jul 1942 at Drew Field, FL
28340 W/o 1 Mar 1944 at Thermal AAF, CA
28341 W/o 25 Jul 1942 at Drew Field, FL
28342 W/o 17 Jan 1943 at Drew Field, FL
28343 W/o 28 Oct 1942 at Novato, CA
28344 W/o 12 Jun 1944 at Stratford, WA
28345 W/o 9 Jun 1943 at Ft Myers AAF, FL
28346 W/o 26 Aug 1942 at Dale Mabry Field, FL
28347 W/o 6 May 1943 at Ft Myers AAF, FL
28348 W/o 13 Apr 1943 at William Northern AAF, TN
28349 W/o 9 Feb 1943 at Page Field, FL
28352 W/o 9 Jun 1942 at Niagara Falls Airport, NY
28354 W/o 23 Jul 1942 at Dale Mabry Field, FL
28355 W/o 31 Oct 1942 at Dale Mabry Field, FL
28356 W/o 21 Feb 1943 at Great Falls, SC
28357 W/o 25 Jun 1942 at Dale Mabry Field, FL
28358 W/o 25 Feb 1943 at Page Field, FL
28359 W/o 23 Aug 1942 at Dale Mabry Field, FL
28360 W/o 25 Oct 1942 at Townsend, FL
28361 W/o 8 Apr 1944 at Marshall Field, KS
28363 W/o 16 Jan 1943 at Drew Field, FL
28366 W/o 14 Feb 1943 at Page Field, FL
28367 W/o 6 Apr 1943 at Godman Field, KY
28368 W/o 21 Oct 1942 at Sarasota AAB, FL
28369 W/o 18 Sep 1942 at Pinellas County Airport, FL
28370 W/o 19 Jul 1944 at Ephrata AAB, WA
28371 W/o 2 Sep 1943 at Venice AAF, FL
28372 W/o 3 Oct 1942 at Rice, CA
28373 W/o 25 Aug 1942 at Blythe, CA
28374 W/o 11 Sep 1942 at Sarasota, FL
28375 W/o 7 May 1943 at Bowling Green, KY
28376 W/o 5 Jan 1943 at Page Field, FL
28377 (15th FS, 53rd FG lost in training accident
Page Field, Fl Mar 11, 1943. Pilot bailed out OK
28378 assigned to Wright Field, Ohio. Assigned to NACA Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory,
Virginia Jan 5, 1943 to APR 23, 1943. Assigned to USAAF at Langley Field, VA
28379 W/o 13 Oct 1942 at St Petersburg, FL
28382 W/o 6 Sep 1943 at Robins Field
28383 W/o 6 Aug 1942 at Spartanburg, SC
28384 W/o 1 Aug 1942 at Morris Field, NC
28385 W/o 17 Sep 1942 at Sarasota AAB, FL
28387 W/o 25 Jan 1943 at Cross City AAB, FL
28388 W/o 19 Jun 1943 at Ft Myers, FL
28389 W/o 14 Oct 1942 at Drew Field, FL
28390 (53rd FG) hit parked jeep during landing 3/11/1943 at Page Field, FL
28391 W/o 6 Jul 1942 at Spartanburg, SC
28392 W/o 20 Aug 1942 at Sarasota, FL
28394 W/o 5 Jul 1942 at Conyers, GA
28395 W/o 29 Mar 1943 at Hopkinsville, KY
28397 W/o 6 Jun 1943 in Gulf of Mexico off Captiva Pass, FL
28399 W/o 3 Jul 1942 at Thompson, GA
28401 W/o 5 Jul 1944 at Ephrata AAB, WA
28402 W/o 24 Nov 1943 at Brookley Field, AL
28403 W/o 21 Aug 1942 at Dale Mabry Field, FL
28404 W/o 8 Mar 1943 at Page Field, FL
28405 W/o 21 Feb 1943 at Estero, FL
41-28407/28408 Martin XB-33
MSN 4362/4363. Contract cancelled. Numbers reused for XB-33A and again cancelled
41-28409/28416 Douglas-Tulsa B-24E-1-DT Liberator
MSN 1/8, Douglas MSN 15524/15531
28409 W/o 15 Jan 1944 at Ft Worth AAF, TX
28411 W/o 9 Sep 1943 at Fort Worth AAF
28413 crashed into side of canyon wall near Merna, Nebraska
Apr 29, 1944 while on flight from Chicago to Denver.
All 10 onboard killed.
28414 W/o 16 Jul 1943 at Fort Worth AAF. TX
28416 W/o 17 Mar 1944 at Fort Worth AAF, TX
41-28417/28444 Douglas-Tulsa B-24E-10-DT Liberator
MSN 9/36, Douglas MSN 15532/15559
28418 Redes as RB-24E; w/o 1 Sep 1944 at Buckingham AAF, FL
28420 W/o 4 Feb 1944 at Biggs Field, TX
28423 W/o 29 Jun 1943 at Alamorgordo, NM
28424 Redes as RB-24E; w/o 5 Jan 1944 at Liberal AAF, KS
28428 SOC at Searcy Field, Stillwater, OK. Sold by War Assets Corp to Paul Mantz Feb 19, 1946
28432 W/o 28 Jul 1943 at Biggs Field, TX
28436 W/o 5 Dec 1944 at Casper AF, WY
28441 W/o 4 Jul 1943 at Kelly Field, TX
28442 W/o 29 Aug 1943 at Wendover Field, UT
28444 W/o 29 Jan 1944 at Casper AAB, WY
41-28445/28476 Douglas-Tulsa B-24E-15-DT Liberator
MSN 37/68, Douglas MSN 15560/15591
28448 Redes as RB-24E; w/o 19 Aug 1944 at Maxwell Field, AL
28451 Redes as RB-24E; w/o 5 Jun 1944 at Smyrna AAF, TN
28452 W/o 17 Sep 1944 at Pittsburg, PA. SOC at Searcy Field, Stillwater, OK. Sold by War Assets Corp
to Paul Mantz Feb 19, 1946
28454 W/o 14 Nov 1943 at Sioux City AAB, IA
28459 W/o 5 Aug 1943 at Wendover Field, UT
28463 went missing in Kings Canyon National Park, Dec 5, 1943. Found July 17, 1960 by geologists.
28464 W/o 16 Aug 1943 at Gowen Field, ID
28465 W/o 22 Nov 1943 at Tonopah, NV
28471 Redes as RB-24E; w/o 9 Dec 1943 at La Mosca Peek, NM
28474 SOC at Searcy Field, Stillwater, OK. Sold by War Assets Corp to Paul Mantz Feb 19, 1946
28475 W/o 24 Sep 1943 at Mountain Home AAB, ID
28476 Redes as RB-24E; w/o 31 Oct 1944 at Courtland AAF, AL
41-28477/28500 Douglas-Tulsa B-24E-20-DT Liberator
MSN 69/92, Douglas MSN 15592/15615
28480 Redes as RB-24E; w/o 22 May 1945 at Denver, CO
28481 August 7, 1943 579th Bombardment Squadron 392nd Bombardment Group 2nd Air Force Topeka Army
Airfield Topeka Kansas. Transfered to Topeka Army Airfield Topeka Kansas. Aircraft Fate Unknown. Believed Scrapped.
28483 (445th BG) salvaged at Tibenham Jun 22, 1944
28485 Redes as RB-24E; w/o 26 Apr 1945 at Centerville, TN
28488 Redes as RB-24E; w/o 28 Jan 1944 at Kirtland Field, NM
28490 W/o 31 Oct 1943 at 30 miles from Wendover Field, UT
28491 Redes as RB-24E; w/o 31 Mar 1944 at Gate, OK
28492 W/o 26 Jun 1944 at Olney AAAF, TX
28493 W/o 19 Mar 1945 at Wheeler, AL
28494 (RB-24E, 610th PTTS) crashed Mar 5, 1944 Maxwell Field, AL.
28495 SOC at Searcy Field, Stillwater, OK. Sold by War Assets Corp to Paul Mantz Feb 19, 1946
28497 Redes as RB-24E; w/o 3 Jan 1944 at Davis Monthan Field, AZ
28500 W/o 7 Apr 1944 at Kirtland Field, NM
41-28501/28573 Douglas-Tulsa B-24E-25-DT Liberator
MSN 93/165, Douglas MSN 15616/15688
28501 Redes as RB-24E; w/o 6 Jun 1945 at Courtland AAF, AL
28502 W/o 23 Feb 1944 at Gulfport Field, MS. SOC at Searcy Field, Stillwater, OK. Sold by War
Assets Corp to Paul Mantz Feb 19, 1946
28508 colllided with 42-7347 May 18, 1944 near
Westover Field, MA. Landed safely. 42-7347 crashed.
28510 Redes as RB-24E; w/o 11 Feb 1944 at Alamogordo, NM
28511 SOC at Searcy Field, Stillwater, OK. Sold by War Assets Corp to Paul Mantz Feb 19, 1946
28513 W/o 9 May 1944 at Casper AAF, WY
28514 W/o 8 Mar 1944 at Kuna, ID
28515 W/o 12 Sep 1944 at Walla Walla AAF, WA
28518 SOC at Searcy Field, Stillwater, OK. Sold by War Assets Corp to Paul Mantz Feb 19, 1946
28520 W/o 28 Nov 1943 at Cobb Island, VA
28523 W/o 24 Oct 1943 at Biggs Field, TX
28525 Redes as RB-24E; w/o 26 Mar 1944 at Melbourne NAS, FL
28528 SOC at Searcy Field, Stillwater, OK. Sold by War Assets Corp to Paul Mantz Feb 19, 1946
28530 (302nd BG, 356th BS) crashed Mar 5, 1944 30 mi SE of Jacksonville, FL
during gunnery training mission. Plane experienced a fire in #2 engine,
resulting in midair explosion. All 10 onboard killed.
28532 W/o 13 Feb 1944 at Midas, NV
28539 Redes as RB-24E; w/o 24 Nov 1943 at Biggs Field, TX
28541 W/o 2 Jun 1944 at Hunter Field, GA
28543 W/o 28 Feb 1944 at Chatham Field, GA
28544 (34th Combat Crew Training Squadron) crashed Jan 25, 1944 4 mi N of Quartzsite, AZ.
All 7 onboard kiilled.
28545 nosewheel collapsed on landing at Westover Field,
MA May 3, 1944. Plane destroyed. One killed.
28547 W/o 7 Jan 1944 at Gowen Field, ID
28548 (302nd BG, 356th BS) missing on formation flight from
Chatham Field, GA to Batista Field, Cuba
Feb 26, 1944. Last seen going down off Jacksonville, FL.
10 crewmembers missing.
28555 Redes as RB-24E; w/o 21 Sep 1944 at Casper AAF, WY. SOC at Searcy Field, Stillwater, OK.
Sold by War Assets Corp to Paul Mantz Feb 19, 1946
28556 (738th BS, 454th BG, 15th AF, based at San Giovanni Airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Landing accident 22 May 1944 at San Giovanni Airfield, Foggia, Italy. All (10) Crew Survived.
Aircraft Was Destroyed. Washed Out.
28559 Redes as RB-24E; w/o 25 Jul 1944 at Liberal AAF, KS #4 engine caught fire and wouldn't f
feather to permit a 3-engine landing. Pilot and copilot killed, 3 survived.
28562 Redes as RB-24E; w/o 22 Nov 1944 at Homestead, FL
28564 W/o 23 Feb 1945 at Hartselle, AL
28568 SOC at Searcy Field, Stillwater, OK. Sold by War Assets Corp to Paul Mantz Feb 19, 1946
28569 Redes as RB-24E; w/o 11 Apr 1944 at Casper AAF, Casper, WY
28572 W/o 12 Sep 1944 at Ft Worth AAF, TX
41-28574/28639 Douglas-Tulsa B-24H-1-DT Liberator
MSN 166/231, Douglas MSN 15689/15754
28575 W/o 29 Oct 1943 at Biggs Field, El Paso, TX
28576 W/o 21 Feb 1944 at Eads, CO
28577 W/o 16 Nov 1943 at Tonopah AAB, NV
28579 723rd Bombardment Squadron 450th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy
Condemned From Unknown Cause on July 13, 1944 at Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy. Aircraft Fate Unknown.
28580 W/o 7 Nov 1943 at Herrington AAB, KS
28583 (448th BG, 713rd BS, 8th AF, "Rum Runner", based at RAF Seething, Station USAAF-146, Norfolk, England)
Landed Apr 25, 1944 at Dubendorf airfiled near Zurich, Switerland for unknown reason while on mission
to marshalling yards at Mannheim, Germany. All 9 crew survived and were interned in Switzerland
MACR 4300. Crew returned in 1945, aircraft returned Oct 15, 1945.
28584 W/o 13 May 1944 at Batista Field, Cuba
28588 (448th BG, 714th BS, "Sad Sack") shot down by Lt Detlef
Grossfuss in Fw 190A-6 of JG 2/2y at Pontoise, France
Dec 30, 1943, Germany. MACR 4176. 1 KIA, 8 POW, 1 evaded.
28589 (389th BG, 566th BS) shot down by Oblt Hugo Frey of FG 11/7 14 km S of Aurich, Germany and crashed at
Altenwalde,Germany Dec 20, 1943. MACR 1972. 10 POW. MACR wrongly list this as 42-28589.
28590 (93rd BG, 328th BS) crashed and exploded Mar 29, 1944 at Henham Park, Suffolk 6mi E of Halesworth,
Suffolk, England during assembly for mission to V-1 rocket site at Watten, France after
midair collision with B-24J 42-110033 Mar 29, 1944. MACR 15212. 7 crew killed, 2 bailed out and
survived. After crashing at Henham Park, the 8,000lb bomb load
of one of the bombers exploded. The crash of both aircraft and the subsequent explosion caused 36 fatalities
out of 89 casualties. Nineteen of the dead and 38 of the injured were members of the 56th Fighter Group
based nearby at Halesworth; only three of the 20 airmen survived. Also listed as being lost with
449th BG Oct 13, 1944, with MACR number 13505
28591 (453rd BG, 735th BS, 8th AF, based at RAF Old Buckenham Airfield) Station USAAF-144, Norfolk, England)
Shot down Jun 21, 1944 By Gunfire From German Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-7 and Crashed at Muckendorf Teltow Near
Berlin, Germany While on a Mission on Diesel Engine Works at Nordban, Berlin, Germany. Fw 190A-7
Believed Flown By Hptm. Kurd Peters of JG 300/II Stab. All (10) Crew Bailed Out & Captured & Became POWs.
MACR 5933
28592 721st Bombardment Squadron 450th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy
Shot Down Jul 27, 1944 By Anti-Aircraft Fire and Exploded in Mid Air and Crashed off France in The
Gulf of Lion While on a Mission on The Istres-Le Tube Airfield Istres France. (9) Crew Were Killed.
(1) Crewman Bailed Out and Was Captured and Became a POW. Released in 1945. MACR 2396
28593 (448th BG, 712nd BS, 8th AF, based at RAF Seething, Station USAAF-146, Norfolk, England)
Shot down Jan 11, 1944 by Bf 109G-6 flown by Fw Otto Zorner of JG 27/6 and crashed in a meadow near
Dwingelo, Netherlands while returning from mission to Brunswick, Germany. 5 crew killed, 5 bailed out
and became POW. MACR 2519
28594 (449th BG, 719th BS) ditched at sea Jan 15, 1944 off Elba after
loss of two engines. 4 crew bailed out and taken POW, 6 remained
with plane and died in the ditching. MACR 2397
28596 (MSN 188, 449th BG, 717th BS, *Reluctant Liz*, 15th AF, based at Grottaglie Airfield, Taranto, Italy)
Shot down Apr 4, 1944 By Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6 Over Rumania While on a Mission to
Bucharest, Rumania. BF 109G-6 Flown By Uffz. Wilhelm Skreba of JG 77/9. All (10) Crew Bailed Out.
(2) Crew Were Killed. (8) Were Captured and Became POWs. MACR 3701
28597 (718th BS, 449th BG, 15th AF, based at Grottaglie Airfield, Taranto, Italy)
Shot down Apr 16, 1944 By Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6 Over Rumania While on a Mission to
Brasov, Rumania. BF 109G-6 Flown By Unknown Pilot of JG 51. (1) Crewman Was Killed. (9) Crew Bailed
Out and Were Captured and Became POWs. MACR 4385.
28598 W/o 2 Jan 1944 at Agadir AB, Morocco
28599 (448th BG, 714th BS, 8th AF, based at RAF Seething, Station USAAF-146, Norfolk, England)
crashed at Cul-des-Sarts, Belgium Dec 30, 1943 after two engines failed while on mission to oil
refinery at Ludwigshafen, Germany. 3 crew killed, 6 bailed out (5 beame POW, one evaded). One
crewman stayed with the aircraft and survived and became POW. MACR 4177.
9 KIA, 1 evaded.
28600 (449th BG, 718th BS) lost Jul 26, 1944 near Split, Yugoslavia. Attempted
to reach the Island of Vis after suffering AAA damage over Graz, Austria. 1 KIA,
3 POW, 8 returned. MACR 7340
28601 (448th BG, 715th BS, "Heaven Can Wait") bellylanded at Yeovilton,
UK Dec 31, 1943. Salvage Jan 17, 1944.
28602 (448th BG, 713rd BS, *Commando*, 8th AF, based at RAF Seething, Station USAAF-146, Norfolk, England)
Crash landed at Payerne airfield, Switzerland Apr 25, 1944 for unknlown reason while on mission
to marshalling yards at Mannheim, Germany. All 10 crew survived, and were interned in Switzerland.
MACR 4364 and 15161
28603 722nd Bombardment Squadron 450th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy
Crashed Apr 12, 1944 Making a Wheels Up Belly Landing 800 Meters South of Luzani Yugoslavia Due to
Engine Failure While on a Mission on The Aircraft Factory at Weiner Neustadt Austria. (4) Crew Bailed Out
(2) Were Captured With (1) Still in Aircraft and Became POWs. Released in 1945. (7) Crew Evaded Capture.
MACR 3919
28604 (450th BG, 721st BS) lost Feb 22, 1944. MACR 3161. Bellied in at Csaktornya, Hungary (now Cakovec,
Croatia) after downed by AA gunners of Lispe, Hungary enroute home to Manduria after hitting Austrian targets.
28605 (718th BS, 449th BG, 15th AF, based at Grottaglie Airfield, Taranto, Italy)
Shot down Jan 30, 1944 By Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6/R1 500 Meters North of Campolongo
and Crashed Near Gradisca South of Gorizia, Italy While on a Mission on Udine Airfield at Udine, Italy.
Believed BF 109G-6/R1 Flown By Lt. Alfred Hammer of JG 53/6. (6) Crew Killed. (5) Crew Bailed Out & Became POWs.
MACR 2404
28606 (449 BG, 718 BS, 15th AF, *White Fang*, based at Grottaglie Airfield, Taranto, Italy)
Crashed Jan 14, 1944 Near Mostar, Yugoslavia After Hit By Bomb From Above B-24H While on a Mission to
Mostar, Yugoslavia. Aircraft Burst into Flames and Tail Broke off and Aircraft Exploded. (9) Crew
Were Killed. (2) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs. MACR 2070
28607 (723rd BS, 450th BG, "Sage Lady") shot down over Adriatic Sea Feb 16, 1945 by two Fw 190s. MACR 12103 The sole
survivor was the copilot who was captured.
28608 (454th BG, 738th BS, 15th AF, based at San Giovanni Airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Made emergency landing Jun 12, 1944 From Unknown Cause on an Airstrip on Corsica While on a Mission to France.
All (9) Crew Survived. Aircraft Damaged Beyond Repair. MACR 6592
28609 (448th BG, 714th BS) shot down by Oblt Peter Jenne in Bf 110G-2 of
ZG 26/1and crashed into Waddenzee E of Texel, Netherlands Dec 22, 1943.
8 MIA, 2 POW. MACR 2442
28610 (733rd BS, 453rd BG, 8th AF, based at RAF Old Buckenham Airfield) Station USAAF-144, Norfolk, England)
Assigned to 733rd BS 453rd BG 8th Air Force in December 1943. (Original Aircraft). Last Mission
Flown on December 24, 1944. Transfered to 491st BG in 1945. Believed Returned to U.S.A. in 1945 and Scrapped.
28611 (448th BG, 712nd BS, 8th AF, based at RAF Seething, Station USAAF-146, Norfolk, England)
Crashed from unnow cause 6 km N of Arendonk, Belgium Mar 9, 1944 while returning from mission to
Brandenburg, Germany. All 10 crew bailed out over Belgium, 8 became POW, 2 evaded capture. MACR 3339
28612 720th Bombardment Squadron 450th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy
Shot Down Mar 24, 1944 By Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6 and Crashed Near Pola Italy
in The Adriatic Sea While on a Mission on The Ball Bearing Plant at Steyr Austria.
BF 109G-6 Flown By Unknown Pilot and Unit. All (10) Crew Bailed Out Over The Sea and Were Killed. MACR 3584
28613 (732nd BS, 453rd BG, 8th AF, based at RAF Old Buckenham Airfield) Station USAAF-144, Norfolk, England)
Assigned to 733rd BS 453rd BG 8th Air Force in December 1943. (Original Aircraft). Transfered to
732nd BS 453rd BG Between August 4 and 6, 1944. Last Mission Flown on August 16, 1944.
Declared War Weary and Salvaged on May 29, 1945 By BAD 3 at (RAF Langford Lodge Airfield) Station
USAAF-597, Lough Neagh, Ireland.
28614 (727th BS, 451st BG) named "Crater Maker" salvaged Jan 8, 1946
28615 (453rd BG, 733rd BS, 8th AF, based at RAF Old Buckenham Airfield) Station USAAF-144, Norfolk, England)
Shot down Feb 22, 1944 By Gunfire From German Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-7 and Crashed in The Water Near
Steenbergen, Holland While on a Mission to The Aircraft Assembly Plant at Gotha Germany.
Aircraft Exploded on Impact. Fw 190A-7 Flown By Unknown Pilot and Unit. All (10) Crew Were Killed. MACR 2895
28616 (716th BS, 449th BG, 15th AF, based at Grottaglie Airfield, Taranto, Italy)
Crashed Feb 22, 1944 North of Bari, Italy Italy Due to Severe Combat Damage While Returning From a
Mission on The Me 109 Aircraft Factory at Regensburg, Germany. All (10) Crew Bailed Out and Survived.
Aircraft Was Destroyed.
28617 576th Bombardment Squadron 392nd Bombardment Group 8th Air Force (RAF Wendling Airfield)
Station USAAF-118 Norfolk England. Declared War Weary on September 18, 1944 and Transferred on
October 15, 1944 to (RAF Greencastle Airfleld) Station USAAF-237 Down Northern Ireland. Aircraft Fate Unknown.
28618 721st Bombardment Squadron 450th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy
Shot Down May 24, 1944 By Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6 North of Ptuj Yogoslavia While
on a Mission on The Wollersdorf Airfield at Weiner Neustadt Austria. BF 109G-6 Flown By Unknown Pilot
and Unit. (1) Crewman Was Killed. (9) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs. Released in 1945.
MACR 5644.
28619 (453rd BG, 732nd BS, 8th AF, based at RAF Old Buckenham Airfield Station USAAF-144, Norfolk, England)
Shot down Jun 23, 1944 By Anti-Aircraft Fire and Crashed 2km Northeast of Vlissingen, Holland
While on a Mission to The Airfield at Juvencourt, France. (4) Crew Were Killed. (5) Crew Bailed Out and
Were Captured and Became POWs. MACR 6232
28620 723rd Bombardment Squadron 450th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy
Condemned From Unknown Cause on May 25, 1944 at Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy. Aircraft Fate Unknown.
28621 (718th BS, 449th BG, 15th AF, based at Grottaglie Airfield, Taranto, Italy)
Flew 22 Missions. Declared War Weary at Grottaglie Airfield, Taranto, Italy in 1945. Salvaged on August 16, 1945.
28622 721st Bombardment Squadron 450th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy
Crashed and Burned Oct 10, 1944 3 Miles West of Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy After (1) Engine Failed
While on a Training Flight on Take off and Landings. While on Third Take off Aircraft Never Got
Above 100 Feet and Was in a Sharp Left Turn and Crashed into a Stone Fence. All (4) Crew Were Killed.
Aircraft Was Destroyed. Washed Out.
28623 (449th BG, 719th BS, *Maui Maid*) nose crushed after ran into embankment Jan 30, 1944.
28625 (719th BS, 449th BG, 15th AF, based at Grottaglie Airfield, Taranto, Italy)
Shot down Jan 19, 1944 By Anti-Aircraft Fire Near Perugia, Italy While on a Mission on Perugia Airfield,
Perugia Italy. All (10) Crew Bailed Out and (6) Were Captured and Became POWs. (4) Crew Evaded Capture.
MACR 2326.
28626 (93rd BG, 409th BS, 8th AF) crashed from unknown cause 1 km N of Danze, 24 km SSW of
Chateaudun, France Feb 5, 1944. MACR 2925. All 10 crew bailed out and became POW.
28627 (733rd BS, 453rd BG, 8th AF, based at RAF Old Buckenham Airfield Station USAAF-144, Norfolk, England)
Assigned to 733rd BS 453rd BG 8th Air Force in December 1943. (Original Aircraft). Last Mission
Flown on September 13, 1944. Believed Declared War Weary and Salvaged on May 29, 1945 By BAD 3
at (RAF Langford Lodge Airfield) Station USAAF-597, Lough Neagh, Ireland).
28628 758th Bombardment Squadron 459th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Giulia Airfield Foggia Italy
Was Flown to England in January 1944 and Assigned to 753rd BS 458th BG Then Transfered to The
446th BG in February 1944. Transfered Again in 1944 to The 758th BS 459th BG. Aircraft Fate Unknown.
Believed Scrapped
28629 (453rd BG, 734rd BS, 8th AF, based at RAF Old Buckenham Airfield) Station USAAF-144 Norfolk England)
landed at Dubendorf airfield near Zurich, Switzerland Apr 13, 1944 After Number (4) Engine Leaking Oil
and Oxygen System Failure While on a Mission on Aviation Industry Targets at Oberpfaffenhafen, Germany.
All (10) Crew Survived and Were Interned in Switzerland. Returned in 1945. Aircraft scrapped in Switzerland.
MACR 3834.
28630 758th Bombardment Squadron 459th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Giulia Airfield Foggia Italy
Aircraft Fate Unknown. Believed Scrapped.
28631 (ex "Queenie", coded H6-Q of 735th BS, 453rd BG, repainted as Witchcraft II of 790th BS, 467th BG,
130 missions exibited in France after VE day, Paris Aug-Sep 1945.
28632 W/o 22 Dec 1943 at Morrison Field, FL
28633 (456th BG, 747th BS, 15th AF, based at Stornara Airfield, Cerignola, Italy)
Shot down May 10, 1944 by Rocket From German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6 in The Wiener Neustadt, Austria
Area While on a Mission to Wiener Neustadt, Austria. BF 109G-6 Flown By Unknown Pilot and Unit.
(1) Crewman Was Killed. (9) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs. Released in 1945.
MACR 4715
28635 (456th BG, 745th BS, 15th AF, based at Stornara Airfield, Cerignola, Italy)
Shot down Apr 12, 1944 By Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6 Southwest of Wiener Neustadt
Over Bad Voslau, Austria While on a Mission on The Airfield at Bad Voslau, Austria.
Believed BF 109G-6 Flown By Lt. Horst Grimm of JG 27/1. (6) Crew Were Killed. (5) Crew Bailed
Out & Captured & Became POWs. Released in 1945. MACR 4085
28637 W/o 26 Jun 1944 in Austria
28638 (456th BG, 746th BS, 15th AF, based at Stornara Airfield, Cerignola, Italy)
Shot down Jun 26, 1944 by Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6 and Crashed Near Unterloisdorf,
Austria While on a Mission on The Oil Refinery at Moosbierbaum, Austria. BF 109G-6 Flown By
Unknown Pilot and Unit. All (10) Crew Bailed Out and (1) Killed on Ground. (9) Crew Were
Captured and Became POWs. Released in 1945. MACR 6427
41-28640/28668 Douglas-Tulsa B-24H-5-DT Liberator
MSN 232/260, Douglas MSN 15755/15783
28640 (742nd BS, 455th BG, 15th AF, based at San Giovanni airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Shot down Apr 21, 1944 by Bf 109G-6 flown by unknown pilot and unit and crashed near
Draganesti, Rumania while on mission to marshalling yards at Bucharest, Rumania.
2 crew killed (one after his parachute failed to open). 8 crew bailed out and became POW. MACR 4387.
28641 (453rd BG, 732BS) force-landed at Luftwaffe airfield in
France Feb 4, 1944. MACR 2968. Repaired and flown by KG200 as A3+KB.
Recaptured at Salsburg, Austria in May 1945.
28642 (453rd BG, 734th BS) crashlanded at Old Buckenham Mar 2, 1944. Salvaged after
being declared beyond economical repair.
28644 (734th BS, 453rd BG, 8th AF, based at RAF Old Buckenham Airfield) Station USAAF-144, Norfolk, England)
Crash Landed Apr 22, 1944 at (RAF Tibenham Airfield) Station USAAF-124, Norfolk, England While
Returning From a Mission to Hamm, Germany After Damaged By Gunfire From German Messerschmitt
Me 410A Which Infiltrated The Formation That Evening. Right Landing Gear Collapsed. All (10) Crew
Survived. Aircraft salvaged April 23 to 26, 1944.
28645 (453rd BG, 733rd BS, 8th AF, *The Golden Gaboon*, based at RAF Old Buckenham Airfield Station
USAAF-144, Norfolk) England). Crash landed May 30, 1944 at Old Buckenham, UK May 30, 1944
While Returning From a Mission on The Airfield at Oldenburg, Germany. All (10) Crew Survived.
Aircraft Was Destroyed and salvaged on May 30 and 31, 1944.
28646 759th Bombardment Squadron 459th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Giulia Airfield Foggia Italy
Aircraft Fate Unknown. Believed Scrapped
28647 (719th BS, 449th BG, 15th AF, based at Grottaglie Airfield, Taranto, Italy)
Crash landed Apr 12, 1944 in Yugoslavia Due to Combat Damage While on a Mission to Wiener Neustadt,
Austria. All (10) Crew Survived and Evaded Capture. MACR 4030
28649 (453rd BG, 733rd BS, 8th AF, based at RAF Old Buckenham Airfield Station USAAF-144, Norfolk, England)
Crashed Mar 18, 1944 West of Vernon/Seine France Ran Out of Fuel Due to Flak Damage While Returning
From a Mission to Friedrichshafen, Germany. All (10) Crew Bailed Out and (8) Were Captured and
Became POWs. Released in 1945. (2) Crew Evaded Capture. MACR 3552.
28650 (453rd BG, 732nd BS, 8th AF, based at RAF Old Buckenham Airfield, Station USAAF-144, Norfolk, England)
Shot down Apr 8, 1944 by Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6 and Crashed at Wesendorf, Northeast of
Brunswick, Germany While on a Mission on a Bearing Factory at Brunswick, Germany. Believed BF 109G-6
Flown By Oblt. Karl-Heinz Bendert of JG 27/5. (1) Crewman Killed. (11) Crew Bailed Out & Captured & POWs.
MACR 3929
28651 576th Bombardment Squadron 392nd Bombardment Group 8th Air Force (RAF Wendling Airfield) Station USAAF-118
Norfolk, England. Collided Mar 18, 1944 With B-24H (41-29174) in Mid Air Over St-Justen-en-Chaussee France
and Crashed About 1 Mile South of The Village of Dorfront, France While on a Mission to Friedrichshafen,
Germany. All (10) Crew Were Killed. MACR 3324
28655 (719th BS, 449th BG, 15th AF, based at Grottaglie Airfield, Taranto, Italy)
Shot down Apr 4, 1944 By Anti-Aircraft Fire and Crashed Southeast of Bucharest, Rumania While on a
Mission on The Marshalling Yards at Bucharest Rumania. (8) Crew Were Killed. (3) Crew Bailed Out and
Were Captured and Became POWs. MACR 3978
28657 757th Bombardment Squadron 459th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Giulia Airfield Foggia Italy
Aircraft Fate Unknown. Believed Scrapped.
28659 (738th BS, 454th BG, 15th AF, based at San Giovanni Airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Shot down Mar 19, 1944 By Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6 and Crashed at Reichenstein,
Austria While on a Mission on The BF 109 Factory at Steyr, Austria. BF 109G-6 Flown By Unknown
Pilot and Unit. (1) Crewman Was Killed. (9) Crew Bailed Out and (8) Were Captured and Became POWs.
(1) Evaded Capture. MACR 3467.
28661 (747th BS, 456th BG, 15th AF, based at Stornara Airfield, Cerignola, Italy)
Shot down Apr 23, 1944 By Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6 Near Breitenau, Austria
While on a Mission on The Airfield at Bad Voslau, Austria. BF 109G-6 Flown By Unknown Pilot and
Unit. (2) Crew Were Killed (1) After Bailed Out. (8) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and
Became POWs. Released in 1945. MACR 4203
28662 759th Bombardment Squadron 459th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Giulia Airfield Foggia Italy
Aircraft Fate Unknown. Believed Scrapped.
28663 (747th BS, 456th BG, 15th AF, based at Stornara Airfield, Cerignola, Italy)
Crashed 30 Jan 1944 on Take off 1 1/2 Mile North of The Runway of Eknes Field, Dakar, French Morocco
After Hitting Tree Tops While on a Ferry Flight to Italy. All (9) Crew Were Killed. Aircraft Was Destroyed.
28664 (466th BG, 785th BS, 8th AF, *Merchant of Venice*) shot down by friendly fighters
by mistake May 11, 1944, while on mission to Epinal, France. MACR 4802. All 11 crew killed.
28665 (743rd BS, 455th BS, 15th AF, based at San Giovanni airfield, Foggia, Italy)
In takeoff accident 15 May 1944 at San Giovanni, Italy. All 10 crew survived, aircraft was destroyed.
28666 (445th BG, 703rd BS, 8th AF based at RAF Tibenham) shot down by Fw 1290A-8 flown by Major
Kurt Buhligen of GG 2/2/II Stab on mission to Friedrichshafen Mar 18, 1944 and crashed
about 15 mi ENE of Rouen, France. MACR 3334. 4 crew killed, 6 bailed out (5 became POW and one evaded capture)
28667 (458th BG, 752nd BS, 8th AF "Jayhawker", based at RAF Horsham St. Faith Airfield, Station USAAF-123,
Norfolk England) landed Apr 9, 1944 at Bulltofta Airfield, Malmo, Sweden Due to Number 3 Engine Fire
After Damaged By German Fighter Over Kaiet Channel While on a Mission on The Airfield at
Tutow, Germany. All (10) Crew Survived and Were Interned in Sweden. MACR 3835.
28668 crashlanded Mar 17, 1944 Grindavik, Iceland and w/o.
41-28669/28752 Douglas-Tulsa B-24H-10-DT Liberator
MSN 261/344, Douglas MSN 15784/15867
28669 (MSN 261) 752nd BS, 458th BG, 8th AF, based at RAF Horsham St. Faith Airfield, Station USAAF-123,
Norfolk, England) crashed on takeoff at Hellesdon, Norwich, UK due to wing icing Mar 2, 1944
While on a Mission on The Marshalling Yards at Frankfurt Germany. (7) Crew Were Killed. (3) Crew Survived.
Aircraft Was Destroyed. MACR 15202
28670 (461st BG, 767th BS, "Malfunction--Sired by Ford") SBD Apr 17, 1944
28671 (753rd BS, 458th BG, 8th AF, based at RAF Horsham St. Faith Airfield, Station USAAF-123,
Norfolk, England) in takeoff accident 12 May 1944 (RAF Horsham St. Faith Airfield, Station USAAF-123,
Norfolk England. All (10) Crew Survived. Aircraft Was Destroyed. Washed Out.
28672 756th Bombardment Squadron 459th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Giulia Airfield Foggia Italy
Aircraft Fate Unknown. Believed Scrapped
28673 W/o 23 Mar 1944 at Old Buckenham, UK. 564th Bombardment Squadron 389th Bombardment Group 8th Air Force
(RAF Hethel Airfield) Station USAAF-114 Norfolk England
Taxiing Accident at (RAF Old Buckenham Airfield) Station USAAF-144 Norfolk England. All Crew Survived.
Aircraft Was Destroyed. Washed Out.
28674 758th Bombardment Squadron 459th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Giulia Airfield Foggia Italy
Shot Down Jun 26, 1944 By Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6 Near Vienna Austria
while on a Mission on The Oil Refinery at Moosbierbaum Austria. BF 109G-6 Flown By SSgt. Gustav Lang
of JG 52/13 (13 Slow) Czechoslovakia Air Force Unit. All (9) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and
Became POWs. Released in 1945. MACR 6398. Reported to have been an assembly ship with 458th BG,
754th BS and Horsham Saint Faith, England. W/o when landing gear collspsed Mar 9, 1945.
28675 759th Bombardment Squadron 459th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Giulia Airfield Foggia Italy
Shot Down Apr 13, 1944 By Anti-Aircraft Fire and Tail Section Was Blown off and Aircraft
Crashed at Imotski Yugoslavia While on a Mission on The Airfield at Budapest Hungary.
(7) Crew Were Killed. (3) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs.. MACR 3976
28676 564th Bombardment Squadron 389th Bombardment Group 8th Air Force
(RAF Hethel Airfield) Station USAAF-114 Norfolk England
Shot Down Apr 29, 1944 By Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6 Near Nienburg Germany While
on a Mission to Berlin Germany. Bf 109G-6 Flown By Ofw. Jantzen of JG 11/2. (2) Crew Were Killed.
(9) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs. MACR 4494
28677 759th Bombardment Squadron 459th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Giulia Airfield Foggia Italy
Shot Down Mar 3, 1944 By Gunfire From German Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-6 and Crashed Southwest of
Viterbo Italy in The Tyrrhenian Sea While on a Mission on The Airfield at Viterbo Italy.
Fw 190A-6 Flown By Ofw. Franz Malsch of JG 4/1. (9) Crew Were Killed. (1) Crewman Bailed Out
and Was Captured and Became a POW. Released in 1945. MACR 3369
28678 (458th BG, 755th BS, 8th AF, based at RAF Horsham St. Faith Airfield, Station USAAF-123,
Norfolk, England) crashed Mar 22, 1944 at Ourtzen Near Hannover, Germany Due to Engine Problems
While Returning From a Mission on The The BMW Aircraft Engine Works in Berlin Germany.
(1) Crewman Was Killed. (9) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs. MACR 3555
28679 (766th Bombardment Squadron 461st Bombardment Group 15th Air Force "Heaven Can Wait"
Torretto Airfield Cerignola Italy
Shot Down Jun 26, 1944 By Gunfire From German Messerschmitt Me 410A and Crashed Near Gajary
Slovakia Near Austria While on a Mission on The Oil Refinery at Korneuburg Austria.
Believed Me 410A Flown By Fw. Meier of ZG 26/7. (3) Crew Were Killed. (7) Crew Bailed Out and
Were Captured and Became POWs. Released in 1945. MACR 6399
28680 (461st BG, 766th BS) transferred to 47th BW Feb 28, 1944. Also listed as being with
724th BS, 451st BG, 15th AF, based at Castelluccio Airfield, Foggia, Italy named "Ten Aces and a Queen"
Destroyed 23 Mar 1944 Destroyed By Explosion From Unknown Cause in Italy. Unknown Number of Crew
Were Killed. Aircraft washed Out.
28681 (461st BG, 765/767th BS, "Our Baby") An original 765th BS aircraft, transferred in April 1944 to the 767th BS
15th Air Force Torretto Airfield Cerignola Italy
Crashed Near Wien Austria Due to Engine Failure While Returning From a Mission on The Underground
Oil Storage at Vienna Austria. All (10) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs. Released in 1945.
MACR 8096
28683 (461st BG, 766th BS) lost Mar 11, 1944? at Townplan Field, Italy Fell into Luftwaffe hands?
28685 765th Bombardment Squadron 461st Bombardment Group 15th Air Force "Leading Lady" Torretto Airfield Cerignola Italy
Shot Down May 31, 1944 By Anti-Aircraft Fire and Crashed on Korcula Island Yugoslavia While Returning
From a Mission on The Concordia Vega Oil Refinery at Ploesti Rumania. All (10) Crew Bailed Out and
Were Captured and Became POWs. Released in 1945. MACR 6126
28686 754thBS 458thBG Crashed 15 miles S of Cedar City, UT, 04JAN44 while on a flight from Tonopah AAF, NV. Rear gunner killed.
28688 578th Bombardment Squadron 392nd Bombardment Group 8th Air Force (RAF Wendling Airfield) Station USAAF-118,
Norfolk, England. Crashed Apr 24, 1944 12 km Southwest of Freudenstadt Near Schappach Schwarzwald (Black Forrest),
Germany After (3) Engine Failed While on a Mission to Leipheim, Germany. (2) Crew Were Killed. (8) Crew
Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs. Released in 1945. MACR 4362
28689 (767th Bombardment Squadron 461st Bombardment Group 15th Air Force "Sweet Chariot" Torretto Airfield Cerignola Italy
Shot Down Aug 23, 1944 By Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6 and Crashed at Bischofstetten Austria While
on a Mission on The Markersdorf Airfield at St. Polten Austria. BF 109G-6 Flown By Lt. Eberhard Schade
of JG 27/6. (1) Crewman Was Killed. (9) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs. Released in 1945.
MACR 8766
28690 (44th BG, 66th BS) while leading the 489th BG on mission to Moulogne-sur-Mer was
hit by flak Jun 5, 1944 and pilot was killed. Copilot turned for England
but killed the three remaining good engines. Ship made the coast
in a powerless glide. All except the dead pilot and the mission
commander (who was in shock) bailed out over land. Mission commander revived and
turned the ship back to sea to avoid built up areas and ditched in North Sea.
Mission commander survived and was picked up. He was awarded
the Medal of Honor for his actions.
28692 (392nd BG, 576th BS, "Hells's Wagon") damaged and landed at Dubendorf, Switzerland Mar 18, 1944
and interned. MACR 3318
28693 764th Bombardment Squadron 461st Bombardment Group 15th Air Force "War Eagle" Torretto Airfield Cerignola Italy
Shot Down Jun 25, 1944 By Gunfire From German Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-8 and Crashed Near St. Peter in der Au
8 km East of Steyer Austria While on a Mission on The Herman Goering Tank Works at Linz Austria.
Fw 190A-8 Flown By Unknown Pilot and Unit. (2) Crew Killed. (8) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured
and Became POWs. Released in 1945 MACR 11977
29695 (467th BG, 790th BS, "Ruth Marie") crashed at Hardwick airfield
after running out of fuel and suffereing battle damage during
mission to Munich, Germany Jul 11, 1944. 8 injured.
28697 after combat career ended, became formation assembly ship for 458th BG, replacing
42-40127. Crashed Mar 1945 and replaced by 42-100366. 754th Bombardment Squadron,
named ‘Dixie Bell II’. Later as 458th Bombardment Group assembly ship, nick-named ‘Spotted Ass Ape’
aka ‘Spotted Ape’, also nick-named ‘Wonderbread’. Damaged 9Mar45 when landed heavy and landing gear collapsed
at RAF Horsham St Faith, UK.
28698 (763rd BS, 460th BG, 15th AF, based at Spinazzola Airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Shot Down Apr 2, 1944 By Anti-Aircraft Fire and Crashed at Mostar, Yugoslavia While on a Mission on The
Airfield at Mostar, Yugoslavia. Aircraft Caught Fire and Went into a Spin and Crashed and Exploded on
Impact. (5) Crew Were Killed. (5) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs. Released in 1945. MACR 3971
28699 (739th BS, 454th BG, 15th AF, "Who Nose", based at San Giovanni Airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Shot down Feb 25, 1944 By Anti-Aircraft Fire at Perbersdorf, Southeast of Graz, Austria
While on a Mission on The Me 109 Factory at Graz, Austria. (3) Crew Were Killed. (7) Crew
Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs. MACR 3160
28700 577th Bombardment Squadron 392nd Bombardment Group 8th Air Force (RAF Wendling Airfield) Station USAAF-118,
Norfolk, England, Flew (8) Missions. Transfered Feb 4, 1945 to 492nd Bombardment Group. Aircraft Fate Unknown.
28701 (777th GS, 464th BG, 15th AF, based at Pantanella Airfield, Cerignola, Italy)
Taxiing accident Sep 8, 1944 at Pantanella Airfield, Cerignola, Italy. All (10) Crew Survived.
Aircraft Damaged. Unknown if Repaired.
28703 (761st BS, 460th BG, 15th AF, based at Spinazzola Airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Shot Down May 5, 1944 By Anti-Aircraft Fire and Crashed Near Ploesti, Rumania While on a Mission on
The Marshalling Yards at Ploesti, Rumania. All (10) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs.
Liberated and Returned on October 23, 1944. MACR 4613
28704 757th Bombardment Squadron 459th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force "Irish Lassie" Giulia Airfield Foggia Italy
Landed Jul 24, 1944 in Barcelona Spain Due to Damaged By Enemy Fighters While on a Mission on The
Airfield at Les Chanoines France. All (9) Crew Survived and Were Interned in Spain.
Returned in 1945. MACR 6998
28707 723rd Bombardment Squadron 450th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy
Crashed on Take off Mar 4, 1944 at The End of The Runway and Exploded at Manduria Airfield
Manduria Italy. All (10) Crew Were Killed. Aircraft Was Destroyed. Washed Out.
28708 (461st BG, 766th BS, "The Mountaineer") transferred to 47th BW Aug 16, 1944.
To 721st Bombardment Squadron 450th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy
Take off Accident Aug 13, 1944 at Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy While on a Mission on The
Gun Positions at Toulon France. Left Landing Gear Collapsed During Take off. All (10) Crew Survived.
Aircraft Damaged Beyond Repair. Salvaged and Washed Out.
28709 (755th BS, 458th BG, 8th AF, based at RAF Horsham St. Faith Airfield, Station USAAF-123, Norfolk, England)
Nosed over while taxying when landing gear collapsed Nov 4, 1944 at RAF Horsham St Faith.
All (10) Crew Survived. Aircraft Was Destroyed. Salvaged in November or December 1944..
28710 (448th BG, 712th BS, 8th AF, based at RAF Seething, Station USAAF-146, Norfolk, England)
Shot down by AAA Jun 12, 1944 and crashed 2 km N of Bonnemain, France while on mission to
Porcaro, France. All 9 crew bailed bailed out. One was killed when his parachute collapsed on the
way dow. One became POW. Seven evaded capture. MACR 5803
28711 (448th BG, 712th BS, *Little Sheppard*, 8th AF, based at RAF Seething, Station USAAF-146, Norfolk, England)
Landed at Dubendorf airfield in Switzerland Jul 21, 1944 after being damaged by flak and fighters
while om mission to Allach, Germany. All 10 crew interned in Switzerland, returned in 1945.
Aircraft returned Oct 18, 1945. MACR 7251
Aircraft went into spin over English Channel Apr 21, 1944 with 448th BG but pilot regained control and
returned. MACR 4343.
28712 (MSN 313) was originally in 753rd BS as J4 L. It was transferred to 752nd BS as 7V V
between 19 may and 20 Jun 44. On 8 Jul 44 it survived a mid-air collision over
Horsham St. Faith. It was involved in a landing accident at 1 SAD, Troston, on
16 Aug 44. By the time it went on missions on 18 and 21 Sep 44, it
had reverted to 753rd BS but as J4 G. It was transferred to 445th BG, 700th BS,
as IS B+ and was later salvaged as a war weary aircraft by BAD 3, Langford Lodge.
28713 564th Bombardment Squadron 389th Bombardment Group 8th Air Force
(RAF Hethel Airfield) Station USAAF-114 Norfolk England
Crashed Jul 11, 1944 at Noyelles 8 km Southwest of Lille France After Ran Out of Fuel While
Returning From a Mission to Munich Germany. All (13) Crew Bailed Out. (1) Crewman Was Killed When
His Parachute Failed to Open. (4) Crew Were Captured and Became POWs. (8) Crew Evaded Capture. MACR 7491
28715 564th Bombardment Squadron 389th Bombardment Group 8th Air Force
(RAF Hethel Airfield) Station USAAF-114 Norfolk England
Shot Down May 12, 1944 By Anti-Aircraft Fire and Crashed 6 km Southwest of Butzbach Germany While on
a Mission to Bohlen Germany. (13) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs. MACR 5217
28716 759th Bombardment Squadron 459th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Giulia Airfield Foggia Italy
Shot Down Apr 2, 1944 By Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6 Over The Adriatic Sea
While Returning From a Mission on The Ball Bearing Factory at Steyr Austria.
BF 109G-6 Flown By Unknown Pilot and Unit. All (11) Crew Were Killed.. MACR 3884
28717 765th Bombardment Squadron 461st Bombardment Group 15th Air Force "Big Stinky" Torretto Airfield Cerignola Italy
Shot Down Apr 24, 1944 By Anti-Aircraft Fire and Crashed into a Hill at Kavaji Albania While
Returning From a Mission on The Chitila Marshalling Yard at Bucharest Rumania. All (10) Crew Bailed Out
and (3) Were Killed. (7) Crew Were Captured and Became POWs. Released in 1945. MACR 4627
28718 (458th BG, 752nd BS, "Bo") attacked by Fw 190 during mission to Berlin
and landed at Rinkaby, Sweden Apr 29, 1944. MACR 4451. Reportedly
returned Jul 12, 1945.
28720 (458th BG, 755th BS, 8th AF, based at RAF Horsham St. Faith Airfield, Station USAAF-123, Norfolk, England)
Shot down Mar 8, 1944 By Anti-Aircraft Fire and Gunfire From German Fighter and Crashed at
Finsterwalde, Germany While on a Mission on The Ball Bearing Works at Berlin, Germany.
(5) Crew Were Killed. (5) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs. MACR 3345
28721 (458th BG, 753rd BS, 8th AF, based at RAF Horsham St. Faith Airfield, Station USAAF-123, Norfolk, England)
Landing accident 16 Aug 1944 at RAF Troston Airfield, Station USAAF-595, Suffolk, England.
All (10) Crew Survived. Aircraft Was Destroyed. Washed Out.
28722 578th Bombardment Squadron 392nd Bombardment Group 8th Air Force (RAF Wendling Airfield) Station USAAF-118,
Norfolk, England. Flew (40) Missions. Returned to U.S.A. in June 1945 and Scrapped.
28723 W759th Bombardment Squadron 459th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Giulia Airfield Foggia Italy
Lost Jan 14, 1944 From Unknown Cause in The Caribbean Sea While on a Ferry Flight From Morrison
Field Palm Beach Florida to Waller Field Trinidad in The Caribbean and Then to Italy.
All (9) Crew Were Killed. MACR 1506
28724 (461st BG, 767th BS, "Jizzy Outch") crashed Apr 23, 1944
28725 (461st BG, 765th BS, "Invictus") salvaged Aug 4, 1945.
28726 (461st BG, 764th BS) "Mister Period (.)") crash landed Jun 10, 1944
28727 758th Bombardment Squadron 459th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Giulia Airfield Foggia Italy
Lost From Unknown Cause Over Rumania While on a Mission to Bucharest Rumania. Fate of Crew Unknown.
MACR 3711 (MACR not found)
28728 757th Bombardment Squadron 459th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Giulia Airfield Foggia Italy
Aircraft Fate Unknown. Believed Scrapped
28729 (458th BG, 753rd BS, 8th AF, based at RAF Horsham St. Faith Airfield, Station USAAF-123, Norfolk, England)
Crash landed 8 Mar 1944 at RAF Neaton Airfield, Station USAAF-505, Nottingham, England While
Returning From a Mission on The Bal Bearing Factory at Erkner, Berlin, Germany. All (10) Crew Survived.
Aircraft Was Destroyed. Washed Out.
28730 (790th BS, 467th BG, 8th AF) shot down by Fw 190A-7 flown by unknown pilot of JG-11 and
crashed 3 km NE of Essel near Schwarmstedt, Germany Apr 29, 1944. MACR 4942. 4 crew killed,
6 bailed out and became POW.
28731 576th Bombardment Squadron 392nd Bombardment Group 8th Air Force (RAF Wendling Airfield) Station USAAF-118.
Norfolk, England. Collided Jul 5, 1944 With B-24H (42-95092) in Mid Air and Crashed Near Foxley, Norfolk, England
During a Practice Formation Flight. Aircraft Rammed in The Rear By (42-95092). All (5) Crew Were Killed.
Aircraft Was Destroyed..
28732 764th Bombardment Squadron 461st Bombardment Group 15th Air Force "Swee' Pea" Torretto Airfield Cerignola Italy
Landed Jul 25, 1944 With Blown Tires and Flak Damage at Torretto Airfield Cerignola Italy While
Returning From a Mission on The Herman Goering Tank Works at Linz Austria. All (10) Crew Survived.
Aircraft Damaged Beyond Repair. Salvaged.
28733 (458th BG, 753rd BS, "Rhapsody in Junk") hit by flak over
Kiel, Germany Jun 18, 1944. Crew bailed out, 1 KIA, 9 POW.
Plane crashed near Blick, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. MACR 5908
28734 (461st BG, 764th BS, "Nov Schmoz Ka Pop") crashed Aug 12, 1944. MACR 16376
28736 (783rd BS, 465th BG, 15th AF) crashed from unknown cause near Pecs, Hungary Jun 30, 1944. MACR 6334.
(3) Crew Were Killed (2) After Bailed Out. (9) Crew Bailed Out and (8) Were Captured and
Became POW. (2) Were Killed. (6) Released in 1945. (1) Evaded Capture.
28737 (765th BS, 461st BG, "Rhode Island Red" damaged in ground
explosion at Torreto, Italy May 8,1944
28738 (458th BG, 754th BS, 8th AF, *Meat Around the Corner*, based at RAF Horsham St. Faith Airfield, Station USAAF-123,
Norfolk, England) crashed near Jegenstorf, Switzerland May 11, 1944 Due to Engine Failure While
Returning From a Mission on The Marshalling Yards at Epinal, France. All (10) Bailed Out and Were
Picked Up By Swiss Soldiers Near Sumiswald, Switzerland and Interned By Switzerland.
(2) Crew Escaped and Returned to England. (8) Crew Returned in 1945.. MACR 4801
28740 (461st BG, 765th BS, "The Bat") transferred to 725th BS, 451st BG, 15th AF, based at
Castelluccio Airfield, Foggia Italy Feb 28, 1944. Named "Rhoda"
Crashed Apr 12, 1944 From Unknown Cause at Kiseljak 30 km Northwest of Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
While on a Mission to Zagreb, Yugoslavia. All (10) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs.
Released in 1945. MACR 4192
28742 579th Bombardment Squadron 392nd Bombardment Group 8th Air Force (RAF Wendling Airfield) Station USAAF-118,
Norfolk, England. Shot Down Mar 18, 1944 By Gunfire From German Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-6 1,500 Meters Northwest of Hardt,
Near Schramberg, Germany While Returning From a Mission to Friedrichshafen, Germany. Fw 190A-6- Flown By
Unknown Pilot and Unit. (9) Crew Were Killed. (1) Crewman Bailed Out and Was Captured and Became a POW.
Released in 1945. MACR 3319
28745 (453rd BG, 733rd BS, 8th AF, based at RAF Old Buckenham Airfield, Station USAAF-144, Norfolk, England)
Shot down May 8, 1944 By Anti-Aircraft Fire and Crashed 6 km South of Brunswick 1.5 km South of
Stockheim, Bavaria, Germany While on a Mission to Brunswick, Germany. (7) Crew Were Killed.
(3) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs. MACR 4590
28746 (466th BG, 785th BS, 8th AF) crashed in North Sea Sept 25, 1944 while
ferrying fuel to Allied forces in France. MACR 9575. All 6 aboard killed.
28747 (466th BG, 787th BS, 8th AF, *Gruesome Goose*) ditched in English Channel Aug 12, 1944
after being hit by AAA on mission to Mourmelon, France. MACR 7911. All 10 crew killed.
28748 (777th BS, 464th BG, 15th AF, *Target for Tonight*, based at Gioia del Colle Airfield, Apulia, Italy)
Shot down May 29, 1944 By Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6 and Crashed Near Petrinja, Yugoslavia
While Returning From a Mission on The Aircraft Factory at Atzgersdorf, Austria. BF 109G-6 Flown By
Unknown Pilot and Unit. (2) Crewmen were Killed. (8) Crew Bailed Out and (2) Captured & Became POWs.
Released in 1945. (6) Evaded. MACR 5471
28749 (467th BG, 790th BS, 8th AF) shot down by Fw 190A-7 and crashed 1.5 N of Darenhorst near
Uetze, Germany Apr 29, 1944. MACR 4943. & crew killed, 3 bailed out and became POW.
28750 (467th BG, 789th BS, "Thunder Mug") returned to USA Mar 21, 1945.
28752 (785th BS, 466th BG, 8th AF) W/o 28 Jul 1944 in takeoff accident at RAF Attlebridge (USAAF
120), Norfolk, UK. Unknown how many crew were killed, aircraft was destroyed.
41-28753/28941 Douglas-Tulsa B-24H-15-DT Liberator
MSN 345/533, Douglas MSN 15868/16056
28753 in accident 30 Jan 1944 at Mc Cook AAB, NE. With 782nd BS, 465th BG, 15th AF in taxiing accident at
Pantanella Airfield, Foggia, Italy Feb 5, 1945. All crew survived, aircraft badly damaged, unknown
if repaired.
28754 (466th BG, 787th BS, 8th AF) made belly landing at Wilp-Achterhoek, Gelderland,
Netherlands Apr 29, 1944 due to flak damage while on mission to Berlin,
Germany. Crew of 10 POW. MACR 4447
28755 (778th BS, 464th BG, 15th AF, based at Pantanella Airfield, Cerignola, Italy)
Shot down Jun 6, 1944 By Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6 Southwest of Ploesti, Rumania
While Returning From a Mission on The Oil Refineries at Ploesti, Rumania. BF 109G-6 Flown By
Unknown Pilot of JG 3. (6) Crew Were Killed. (4) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs.
MACR 5431
28756 721st Bombardment Squadron 450th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy
Shot Down May 24, 1944 By Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6 and Crashed at Murzzuschlag
Austria While on a Mission on The Wollersdorf Airfield at Weiner Neustadt Austria.
BF 109G-6 Flown By Unknown Pilot of JG 27. All (10) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs.
Released in 1945. MACR 5440
28757 720th Bombardment Squadron 450th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy
Shot Down Apr 5, 1944 By Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6 and Crashed at Corbi Rumania
While on a Mission on The Marshalling Yards at Ploesti Rumania. BF 109G-6 Flown By Unknown Pilot of JG 77.
All (11) Crew Bailed Out and (2) Were Killed and (9) Were Captured and Became POWs. Released in 1945. MACR 3953
28759 578th Bombardment Squadron 392nd Bombardment Group 8th Air Force (RAF Wendling Airfield) Station USAAF-118,
Norfolk, England. Crashed Apr 29, 1944 Near The German and Holland Border Due to Battle Damage While
Returning From a Mission to Berlin, Germany. (3) Crew Were Killed in The Crash. (7) Crew Bailed Out and
Were Captured and Became POWs. Released in 1945. MACR 4462
28760 721st Bombardment Squadron 450th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy
Transferred From 716th Bombardment Squadron 449th Bombardment Group in 1944.
Believed Returned to U.S.A. in 1945 and Scrapped
28761 (465th BG, 780th BS, 15th AF) shot down by AAA Dec 2, 1944 over Blechhammer, Germany. 3 KIA, 6 POW.
MACR 10109
28762 (515th BS, 376th BG, 15th AF) crashed Sep 12, 1944 30 mi W of Vis Island, Yugoslavia in
Adriatic Sea due to mechanical failure. MACR 8747. 4 crew killed, 7 bailed out and were rescued by
an air sea rescue cutter.
28763 564th Bombardment Squadron 389th Bombardment Group 8th Air Force
(RAF Hethel Airfield) Station USAAF-114 Norfolk England
Crash Landed Apr 1, 1944 at Arras France After Damaged By Flak While on a Mission to Pforzheim Germany.
(1) Crewman Bailed Out and Was Killed When His Parachute Failed to Open. (8) Crew Were Captured and
Became POWs. (3) Crew Evaded Capture. (NOTE) MACR Not Found. MACR 3596
28764 W/o 29 Apr 1944 in North Sea
28766 (725th BS, 451st BG, "Janet Lee") crashed at Tindouf, Algeria Mar 9, 1944 while enroute from Dakar to
Marrakech when engines 3 and 4 were lost. No serious injuries, but aircraft was W/o and salvaged for parts.
28767 (66th BS, 44th BG, 8th AF) crash landed between Lowesoff and Southwold at Covehite, Suffolk, England
due to engine failure Jun 29, 1944 while returning from mission. All 11 crew survived, but aircraft was destroyed.
28768 (456th BG, 747th BS, 15th AF, based at Stornara Airfield, Cerignola, Italy)
Crash landed Oct 20, 1944 Near The Mouth of The Po River, Italy After (3) Engines Failed While
Returning From a Mission to Bad Aibling, Germany. All (10) Crew Survived. (6) Crew Were
Captured and Became POWs. Released in 1945. (4) Crew Evaded Capture. MACR 9213
28769 (757th Bombardment Squadron 459th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Giulia Airfield Foggia Italy
Shot Down Jul 28, 1944 By Anti-Aircraft Fire Over Ploesti Rumania While on a Mission on Oil
Refineries at Ploesti Rumania. Aircraft Caught Fire and Exploded Before Hitting The Ground.
(9) Crew Were Killed. (1) Died of His Wounds After Bailed Out. (2) Crew Bailed Out and Were
Captured and Became POWs. Released in 1945. MACR 7313
28770 to 44th BG, 66th BS, then to 492nd BG, 858th BS. Returned to USA Jul 8, 1945.
SOC at Searcy Field, Stillwater, OK. Sold by War Assets Corp to Paul Mantz Feb 19, 1946
28771 756th Bombardment Squadron 459th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Giulia Airfield Foggia Italy
Crashed Jun 16, 1944 West of Kittsee Austria After Bombs Fell Through The Bomb Bay Doors
Causing a Fire in The Bomb Bay While on a Mission on The Oir Refinery at Vienna Austria.
All (11) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs. Released in 1945. MACR 6321
28773 lost Mar 1, 1944 in Caribbean Sea. MACR 2452 and 2602
28774 721st Bombardment Squadron 450th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy
Believed Returned to U.S.A. in 1945. Salvaged on August 9, 1945.
28775 (718th BS, 449th BG, 15th AF, based at Grottaglie Airfield, Taranto, Italy)
Flew 40 Missions. Declared War Weary at Grottaglie Airfield, Taranto, Italy in March 1945. Aircraft Fate Unknown.
28776 (B-24HSH, 44th BG, 66th BS, 8th AF) crashed and exploded 3 km SE of Bergues, 8 km SE of Dunkirk,
France Jul 11, 1944 after being damaged by AAA over Munich, Germany. MACR 7511. 8 crew killed, 4 bailed out
(1 became POW, 3 evaded capture)
28777 (98th BG, 343rd BS, 15th AF, based at Lecce Airfield, Lecce, Italy)
Shot Down Jun 26, 1944 By Anti-Aircraft Fire and Burst into Flames Over Schwechat Austria and Crashed
at Essling Austria While on a Mission on The Aircraft Factory at Schwechat Austria. (3) Crew Were Killed.
(8) Crew Bailed Out and (5) Were Captured and Became POWs. (3) Crew Evaded Capture. MACR 6332.
28778 564th Bombardment Squadron 389th Bombardment Group 8th Air Force
(RAF Hethel Airfield) Station USAAF-114 Norfolk England
Pathfinder aircraft Shot Down Jul 31, 1944 By Anti-Aircraft Fire and Crashed at Weinheim 12 km Northeast
of Mannheim Germany While on a Mission on The Chemical Works at Ludwigshafen Germany.
(2) Crew Were Killed. (11) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs. MACR 7747
28779 564th Bombardment Squadron 389th Bombardment Group 8th Air Force
(RAF Hethel Airfield) Station USAAF-114 Norfolk England
Made an Emergency Landing Jun 20, 1944 at Alt Kabelich Germany After Hit By Flak While on a Mission
to Politz Germany. MACR 6533. 1) Crew Killed. (12) Crew Captured and Became POWs.
Plane repaired and flown by KG200 as KO+XA. Lost its nose gear on takeoff and burned by Germans Apr 13, 1945.
28780 (824th BS, 484th BG, 15th AF, based at Torretto airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Shot down by AAA May 29, 1944 and crashed 2 km S of Seebenstein, Austria while mission to industrial
area at Weiner Neustadt, Austria. 3 crew killed, 8 bailed out and became POW. One was killed while
trying to escape. MACR 5666.
28781 (858th BS, 492nd BG, 8th AF) shot down by AAA Mar 7-8, 1945 over Dortmund, Germany. MACR 12908. All 9 aboard KIA.
28782 (485th BG, 829th BS, 15th AF) shot down by Bf 109G-6 flown by unknown pilot and unit Marchreisenspitze,
Fulpmes, Austria and crashed near Innsbruck, Austria. MACR 6042. All 10 crew bailed out and became POW.
28783 (44th BG, later 491st BG). Declared war weary Nov 30, 1944 and went to Northern
Ireland depot Nov 30, 1944, where it was salvaged May 29, 1945.
28784 (564th Bombardment Squadron 389th Bombardment Group 8th Air Force
(RAF Hethel Airfield) Station USAAF-114 Norfolk England.
Ditched Apr 29. 1944 30 Miles off England in The North Sea Due to Electrical Problens and Low on Fuel While Returning From a
Mission to Berlin Germany. (3) Crew Were Killed. (7) Crew Were Rescued By British Royal Marine Launch 498.
MACR 5473
28786 (727th BS, 451st BG, 15th AF, "Diddlin' Dolly", based at Castelluccio Airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Landing accident Jan 15, 1945 at Castelluccio Airfield, Foggia, Italy. All (10) Crew Survived.
Aircraft Badly Damaged. Unknown if Repaired.
28787 564th Bombardment Squadron 389th Bombardment Group 8th Air Force
(RAF Hethel Airfield) Station USAAF-114 Norfolk England
Crash Landed Jun 20, 1944 at Bulltofta Airfield Malmo Sweden Due to Flak Damage While on a Mission on
The Synthetic Oil Refinery at Politz Germany. All (11) Crew Survived and Were Interned in Sweden For (5) Months.
Returned in December 1944. Aircraft Fate Unknown. MACR 5922
28790 (454 BG, 739th BS, 15th AF, *Bright Eyes*, based at San Giovanni Airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Shot down Aug 17, 1944 By Anti-Aircraft Fire Over Ploesti, Rumania While on a Mission on The Astra
Romana Oil Refinery at Ploesti, Rumania. All (10) Crew Bailed and (1) Was Killed When His
Parachute Failed to Open. (9) Crew Survived and Believed Evaded Capture. MACR 7633
28793 564th Bombardment Squadron 389th Bombardment Group 8th Air Force
(RAF Hethel Airfield) Station USAAF-114 Norfolk England
Shot Down Jun 25, 1944 By 88mm Anti-Aircraft Fire and Crashed at Chartres France While on a Mission
on An Airfield in The Southwest Area of Paris France. Right Wing Broke off Between Engines and Aircraft
Went into a Spin. (9) Crew Were Killed. (3) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs. MACR 6772 and 6778
28795 (66th BS, 44th BG, 8th AF) crashed from unknown cause 8 May 1944 8 mi W of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, UK.
2 crew killed, 6 bailed out and survived. Aircraft was destroyed.
28796 (389th BG, 564th BS) hit by AAA by barge on R. Seine
on return from Buc A/D, France Jul 25, 1944. 2 gunners
bailed out and became POW. MACR 6736. Crash landed at RAF Woodbridge,
damaged beyond repair and salvaged.
28797 (829th BS, 485th BG, 15th AF) shot down by AAA and crashed 8 km NE of Zara, Yugoslavia
May 29, 1944. MACR 6893. All 10 crew bailed out and became POW.
28798 (738th BS, 454th BG, 15th AF, based at San Giovanni Airfield, Foggia, Italy)
W/o 12 May 1945 in landing accident at San Giovanni, Italy. All 10 crew survived, but aircraft
was destroyed.
28800 flew with the 66th Bomb Squadron, 44th Bomb Group (H). There are mission logs showing her being flown as late as 05 Aug 44
going to Brunswick as a PFF lead for the 446th Bomb Group (H). (858th BS, 492nd BG, 8th AF, based at RAF Harrington
Airfield, Station USAAF-179, Northamptonshire, England).
Taxiing Accident Jun 8, 1945 at RAF Harrington Airfield. Only Ground Crew Involved and None Injured.
Aircraft Badly Damaged Unknown if Repaired.
28801 579th Bombardment Squadron 392nd Bombardment Group 8th Air Force (RAF Wendling Airfield) Station USAAF-118,
Norfolk, England. Transfered to 446th or 467th Bombardment Group on May 26, 1945. Aircraft Fate Unknown.
28802 756th Bombardment Squadron 459th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Giulia Airfield Foggia Italy
Badly Damaged By Flak on June 13, 1944 Mission. Converted to Radar Equiped Mickey Ship While
in 757th BS. Transfered to The 756th BS and Used as a Courier Ship. Never Flew a Combat Mission Again.
Aircraft Fate Unknown. Believed Scrapped.
28803 (826th BS, 484th BG, 15th AF, based at Torretto airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Crashed at Dobretin, Yugoslavia Oct 14, 1944 due to engine failure while returning from mission
to marshalling yards at Edrsekujvac, Hungary. All 11 crew bailed out and returned. MACR 9605
28804 727th BS, 451st BG, "Consolidated Mess/Special Mission" SOC at Searcy Field, Stillwater, OK. Sold by
War Assets Corp to Paul Mantz Feb 19, 1946
28805 (460th BG, 762nd BS) crashlanded and burned Jan 31, 1945
due to malfunction with three engines.
28806 (415th BS, 98th BG, 15th AF, based at Lecce Airfield, Lecce, Italy)
Taxiing accident 30 Apr 1944 at San Pancrazio airfield, San Pancrazio, Salentiono, Italy. All crew
survived but aircraft was destroyed.
28807 (700th BS, 445th BG, 8th AF, based at RAF Tibenham) in takeoff accident Jan 29, 1945 at RAF Tibenham.
Aircraft Took off Then Made a Wheels Up Belly Landing For Unknown Cause. All Crew Survived.
Aircraft Badly Damaged. Salvaged January 27 to 30, 1945. Aircraft Had Been Declared War Weary Before Accident.
28809 (739th BS, 454th BG, 15th AF, based at San Giovanni Airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Crashed 2 Jun 1945 during night landing 1 mi S of runway at San Giovanni airfield, Italy
due to pilot error. Aircraft was too low on landing approach. All 5 crew survived. Aircraft caught
fire and burned and was destroyed. Washed out Jun 2, 1945
28810 (745th BS, 456th BS, 15th AF, based at Stornara Airfield, Cerignola, Italy)
Taxiing accident Oct 24, 1944 at Stornara Airfield. All (10) Crew Survived. Aircraft Badly Damaged.
Unknown if Repaired.
28811 (738th BS, 454th BG, 15th AF, based at San Giovanni Airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Shot down Apr 13, 1944 By Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 110G-2 Near Budapest, Hungary
While on a Mission on The Tokol Airfield at Budapest, Hungary. Believed BF 110G-2 Flown By Ofw. Bohn
of ZG 76/4. (2) Crew Were Killed. (9) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs. MACR 3914
28814 (446th BG, 705th BS, 8th AF) shot down by small arms fire Mar 24, 1945 N of Wessel, Germany while on
low-level supply drop missin in support of 17th Airborne Division during Operatin Varsity.
Four crew killed, 2 afterbailed out and parachutes failed to open, 4 bailed out and survived. MACR 13537
28815 (739th BS, 454th BG, 15th AF, based at San Giovanni Airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Shot down Aug 10, 1944 By Anti-Aircraft Fire at Crsons, Rumania. All (10) Crew Bailed Out and Believed
Were Captured and Became POW. MACR 7200
28816 (451st BG, 725th BS, 15th AF, *Scrappy*, based at Castelluccio Airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Crashed Aug 22, 1944 at Konsarnoz, Yugoslavia Due to Engine Failure While Returning From a
Mission on The Lobau Oil Storage Installations at Vienna, Austria. All (11) Crew Bailed Out
and (7) Were Captured and Became POWs. Released in 1945. (4) Crew Evaded Capture. MACR 8005
28817 (456th BG, 744th BS, 15th AF, based at Stornara Airfield, Cerignola, Italy)
Shot down Jun 13, 1944 By Anti-Aircraft Fire and Crashed Near Schnaitsee, Germany While on a
Mission on The BMW Works at Munich, Germany. All (11) Crew Bailed Out and (1) Crewman Was
Killed Trying to Escape. (10) Crew Were Captured and Became POWs. Released in 1945. MACR 8530
28818 (489th BG, 844th BS, 8th AF) collided in midair with B-24H 42-94776 and crashed near Dedweiler,
Germany July 31, 1944 while on mission to Ludwigshaven, Germany. MACR 7752. 6 crew killed, 3 bailed
out and became POW.
28820 (491st BG, 854th BS, 8th AF "Four-Five Time") shot down by AAA Dec 11, 1944, Uhrwiller, Germany. MACR 11335.
All 9 crew killed.
28821 723rd Bombardment Squadron 450th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy
Landing Accident Jul 11, 1944 at Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy Due to Landing Gear Failure While
Returning From a Practice Mission. Aircraft Lost Lift During Landing and Dropped Down Hard Causing
Main Wheels to Be Torn Loose From Wing Pivot Points. All (6) Crew Survived. Aircraft Damaged Beyond Repair.
Washed Out.
28822 (487th BG, 836th BS, 8th AF) shot down by AAA SW of Brussels, Belgium while returning
from mission to airfield at Juvincourt, France Jun 23, 1944. MACR 6263. All 10 crew killed.
28823 758th Bombardment Squadron 459th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Giulia Airfield Foggia Italy
Crashed Apr 15, 1944 From Unknown Cause Northeast of Nis Yugoslavia While on a Mission on The
Marshalling Yards at Nis Yugoslavia. All (10) Crew Bailed Out and Evaded Capture and Returned
With Help From The Chetniks. MACR 3996
28824 (389th BG, 566th BS, 8th AF, "Sackwarmer") lost Jul 7, 1944 when Shot Down By Gunfire From German
Fighter and Crashed 1 km Southeast of Brumby Germany While on a Mission to Halle Germany. Aircraft Went
into a Spin and Crased and Exploded on Impact. (8) Crew Were Killed. (2) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured
and Became POWs. MACR 7363
28825 (415th BS, 98th BG, 15th AF, based at Lecce Airfield, Lecce, Italy)
Shot Down May 29, 1944 By Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6 and Crashed at Seimetzbach, Austria
While on a Mission on The Aircraft Factory at Wiener Neustadt Austria. Aircraft Exploded in Mid Air.
(9) Crew Were Killed. (2) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs. MACR 5460
28826 crashed Mar 8, 1944 after mid-air collision Walnut, Iowa.
28827 721st Bombardment Squadron 450th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy
Crashed Jun 13, 1944 From Unknown Cause on Vis Island Yugoslavia While on a Mission on The Bayerische
Allach Motornworks at Munich Germany. All (10) Crew Bailed Out and (1) Was Killed. (9) Crew Survived
and Returned
28828 757th Bombardment Squadron 459th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Giulia Airfield Foggia Italy
Ditched Aug 22, 1944 South of Vis Island in The Adriatic Sea After (3) Engines Failed While
Returning From a Mission on The Synthetic Oil Refinery at Blechhammer Germany.
(1) Crewman Was Killed. (9) Crew Survived and Got in (2) Life Rafts and Later Returned to Base. MACR 8942
28829 (44th BG, 506th BS, 8th AF, 'My Everlovin' Gal') hit by AAA in bomb bay area and struck by right wing of
42-51181 near top turret Jun 29, 1944. Caught fire and exploded and crashed at Gerwisch, 12 km SSW of
Burg Near, Germany. MACR 7093. 6 crew killed, 3 bailed out and became POW.
28830 W/o 12 Mar 1944 at Lincoln AAF, NE
28831 (456th BG, 746th BS) crashed Jul 25, 1944 due to engine failure on return from mission near Zapponetta, Italy
28832 (489th BG, 845th BS, 8th AF) crashed from unknown cause at Ursem, 8 km E of Alkmaar, Netherlands Jun 29, 1944 while
on mission to Oschersleben, Germany. 10 crew bailed out and became POW. MACR 6986
28833 (719th BS, 449th BG, 15th AF, based at Grottaglie Airfield, Taranto, Italy)
Hit by bombs from B-24H from 376th BG above Apr 13, 1944 Over Budapest, Hungary While on a Mission on
Vesces Airfield, Budapest, Hungary. Right Wing Was Blown off and Aircraft Exploded in Mid Air.
All (10) Crew Were Killed. MACR 4096
28834 ("Tail Heavy", 15th AF) flown to Giola, Italy and destroyed probably in Jun 1945.
28836 767th Bombardment Squadron 461st Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Torretto Airfield Cerignola Italy
Shot Down Jul 25, 1944 By Gunfire From German Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-8 and Crashed Near Hofkirchen Austria
While on a Mission on The Herman Goering Tank Works at Linz Austria. Fw 190A-8 Flown By Unknown Pilot
of JG 300. (2) Crew Were Killed. (8) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs. Released in 1945.
MACR 7038
28837 named "Trade Winds" in 837th BS, 487th BG
28838 7th Bomb Squadron [R2*K], 34th Bomb Group, 8th AF, "Misery Agent" Mendlesham (Station 156), Suffolk.
Accident returning from a tactical mission to Caen, France 6Jun44 (9KIA). The bomber was carrying
twelve 500 lb bombs but these were not dropped. Returning to England and presumably lost,
It ran out of fuel, crash landed in the Olde Woode at Corfe Castle, Dorset, England. The aircraft
came in low below the barrage balloons in Poole Harbour, (below 800ft) heading south and losing
altitude. The Coast Guard thought the plane had crashed on one of the islands
in the harbour. It may have been that they intended to ditch into the water as several inflated
life jackets were recovered. Possibly the aircraft didn't lose sufficient airspeed and ballooned
into the wood where it crash landed, exploded, and burned. Eight airmen were killed in the crash;
one survivor died later in hospital. MACR 5792.
Was previously "Tommy Thumper" with 486th BG
28839 (763rd BS, 460th BG, 15th AF, based at Spinazzola Airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Shot Down Jun 26, 1944 By Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6 and Crashed at Easling, Near Wien,
3 km East of Himberg, Austria While on a Mission on The Florisdorf Oil Refinery at Vienna, Austria.
BF 109G-6 Flown By Unknown pilot and Unit. (4) Crew Were Killed. (6) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured
and Became POWs. Released in 1945. MACR 6177
28840 (34th BG, 18th BS, 8th AF "Smoky") crashed at airfield at Rheine, Germany due to engine
failure while om mission to Diepholz, Germany May 30, 1944. MACR 5238. All 9 crew bailed out,
8 became POW, one evaded capture.
28841 577th Bombardment Squadron 392nd Bombardment Group 8th Air Force (RAF Wendling Airfield) Station USAAF-118,
Norfolk, England. Crashed Feb 9, 1945 From Unknown Cause in The North Sea While on a Mission to Magdeburg,
Germany. Aircraft Was Low on Fuel at The Time of Crash. All (9) Crew Were Killed. (4) Crew Bodies Washed
Ashore in Holland and Were Buried. MACR 12216
28842 (830th BS, 485th BG, 15th AF) crashed from unknown cause 20 mi W of Banjaluka, Yugoslavia
Aug 22, 1944, Austria. MACR 7969. All 10 crew bailed out and evaded capture.
28843 (448 BG, 715 BS, 8th AF "Repulsor", based at RAF Seething, Station USAAF-146, Norfolk, England)
Crashed Apr 22, 1944 near Kessingland, England, killing all 10 onboard.
Was returning from raid on Hamm, Germany marshaling yards and was attacked over East Anglia by a
group of Me 410 night fighters led by Staffelkapitaen Hauptmann Dieter
Puttfarken of II/KG51.
28844 (98th BG, 345th BS, *Specht's Wreck*) exploded on takeoff from Lecce, Italy Aug 15, 1944
28845 (717th BS< 449th BG, 15th AF, based at Grottaglie Airfield, Taranto, Italy)
Flew 60 Missions. Declared War Weary at Grottaglie Airfield Taranto Italy on February 9, 1945.
Aircraft Fate Unknown.
28846 (449th BG, "Gidi-Gidi Boom-Boom") lost Jun 24, 1944 in raid on
Romano American Oil Refinery, Ploesti, Romania. On return
trip shot down by enemy fighters 3 mi S of Sophia,
Bulgaria. Crew all POW. MACR 6403
28848 (343rd BS, 98th BG, 15th AF, based Lecce Airfield, Leece, Italy)
Take off Accident Sep 4, 1944 at Lecce Airfield, Leece, Italy. All Crew Survived. Aircraft Was Destroyed.
Washed Out.
28849 (34th BG, "Fightin' Rebel")
28850 766th Bombardment Squadron 461st Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Torretto Airfield Cerignola Italy
Shot Down Jul 25, 1944 By Gunfire From German Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-8 and Crashed at Schwertberg Austria
While on a Mission on The Herman Goering Tank Works at Linz Austria. Fw 190A-8 Flown By Unknown
Pilot of JG 300. (3) Crew Were Killed. (8) Crew Bailed Out and (6) Were Captured and Became POWs.
Released in 1945. MACR 10000
28851 (34th BG, 7th BS, "The Near Sighted Robin") damaged by flak over target
during mission to Kiel and interned in Sweden Aug 24, 1944. MACR 8461.
Repaired and flown back to UK in 1945.
SOC at Searcy Field, Stillwater, OK. Sold by War Assets Corp to Paul Mantz Feb 19, 1946
28852 578th Bombardment Squadron 392nd Bombardment Group 8th Air Force (RAF Wendling Airfield) Station USAAF-118,
Norfolk, England. Declared War Weary on September 18, 1944. Transfered on October 16, 1944 to Maintance Depot.
Transfered on May 29, 1945 to SNBD. Aircraft Fate Unknown.
28853 (783rd BS, 465th BG, 15th AF) shot down by AAA Nov 20, 1944 over Heydebrock, Germany while on
mission to Blechhammer, Germany. 6 KIA, 5 bailed out and became POW. MACR 9889
28854 721st Bombardment Squadron 450th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy
Shot Down Feb 28, 1945 By Anti-Aircraft Fire and Exploded in Mid Air and Crashed at Conegliano North
of Treviso Italy While on a Mission on a Railroad Bridge at The Isarco/Albes Area in Italy.
(3) Crew Were Killed. (6) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs. Released in 1945. MACR 12514
28855 (762nd BS, 460th BG, 15th AF, based at Spinazzola Airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Shot Down May 10, 1944 By Anti-Aircraft Fire and Crashed and Exploded Just Before Hitting The Ground Near
Wiener Neustadt, Austria While on a Mission on The Aircraft Factory at Wiener Neustadt, Austria.
(5) Crew Were Killed. (5) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs. Liberated on April 29, 1945. MACR 4889
28856 (780th BS, 465th BG, 15th AF, "Lady Duzz") W/o in landing accident 17 Jul 1944 at Pantanella, Italy.
All crew survived, aircraft was condemned Dec 18, 1944
28857 (781st BS, 465th BG, 15th AF) ground looped 12 Dec 1944 at Pantanella, Italy. All crew survived,
but aircraft was destroyed.
28858 (461st BG, 765th BS, "Lady Edith") condemned Apr 14, 1945
28859 723rd Bombardment Squadron 450th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy
Shot Down Oct 7, 1944 By Anti-Aircraft Fire and Crashed at Mullendorf Austria While on a Mission
on The Winter Hafen Oil Depot Vienna Austria. (3) Crew Were Killed. (8) Crew Bailed Out and Were
Captured and Became POWs. Released in 1945. MACR 9027
28860 726th BS/451st BG "T. S. Chaplain" transfered from 484th Nov 6, 1944
28861 (724th BS/451st BG "Burma Bound AKA Little Boy Too"
28862 (743rd BS, 455th BG, 15th AF, based at San Giovanni airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Shot down by AAA Aug 26, 1944 and crashed 5 mi E of Vladieki, Yugoslavia while returning from
a mission to Bucharest, Rumania. 7 crew killed, 5 bailed out and became POW. MACR 8086
28863 (828th BS, 485th BG, 15th AF) in taxiing accident at Venosa Airfield, Foggia, Italy Apr 16, 1945.
All crew survived, aircraft badly damaged, unknown if repaired.
28865 (492nd BG, 857th BS) returned to USA May 26, 1945.
28866 (719th BS, 449th BG, 15th AF, based at Grottaglie Airfield, Taranto, Italy)
Shot down Oct 13, 1944 By Anti-Aircraft Fire and Crashed Near Drnis, Yugoslavia While on a
Mission to Vienna, Austria. All (11) Crew Bailed Out and (9) Were Captured and Became POWs.
rew Evaded Capture. MACR 9317
28867 765th Bombardment Squadron 461st Bombardment Group 15th Air Force "Sleepy Time Gal"
Torretto Airfield Cerignola Italy
Shot Down Juil 25, 1944 By Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6 Over Rechberg East Northeast
of Linz Austria While on a Mission on The Herman Goering Tank Works at Linz Austria.
BF 109G-6 Flown By Unknown Pilot of JG 300/2. All (10) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs.
Released in 1945. MACR 7113
28868 (449th BG) lost Oct 13, 1944, Yugoslavia
28868 (MSN 460,15983) 851BS 490BG 8AF Station 134 Eye Suffolk England, [Coded Q], named "Devil's Step-Child",
Lend Lease UK Liberator B Mk.IV TS520 Oct 1944, 223Sqn RAF Oulton Norfolk England 24 Aug 1944, [
Coded 6G-J, MIA SE of Dortmund Germany 20 Feb 1945, SOC 22 Feb 1945.
28869 (406th BS, 8th AF) Landing accident 26 Nov 1944 at RAF Manston, UK. All crew survived, aircraft
was destroyed
28871 (486th BG, "The Leading Lady") later to 406th BS, 34th BG, 8th AF. Crash landed 14 Mar 1945 at
RAF Harrington, UK. All crew survived, aircraft was destroyed
28872 756th Bombardment Squadron 459th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Giulia Airfield Foggia Italy
Made a Wheels Up Belly Landing Apr 4, 1944 at Bari Airfield Foggia Italy While Returning From a
Mission on The Marshalling Yards at Bucharest Rumania. All (9) Crew Survived. Aircraft Badly
Damaged. Unknown if Repaired.
28873 (736th BS, 454th BG, 15th AF, named "Lady Katherine", based at San Giovanni Airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Shot down Apr 13, 1944 By Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 110G-2 Near Budapest, Hungary
While on a Mission on The Tokol Airfield at Budapest, Hungary. Believed BF 110G-2 Flown By
Ofw. Lothar Uhlig of ZG 1/4. (4) Crew Were Killed (7) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and
Became POWs. MACR 4079
28874 crashed in Santa Catalina Mountain range, AZ Mar 18, 1944 on ferry flight from Hamilton Field
to Tucson, AZ. All onboard killed.
28875 (489th BG, 864th BS "Heavenly Body") transferred to 392nd BG, 577th BS at RAF Wending (Station USAAF 118
at Norfolk, England. Damaged by small arms fire and crashlanded at Wendling Mar 24, 1945. While Returning
From Supply Drop Mission to Allied Troops at Wesel & Stormede, Germany. Aircraft Overshot The Runway Due
to Brake Failure. All (9) Crew Survived. Aircraft Was Destroyed. Salvaged.
28876 (727th BS/451st BG, "Nickle Plate Crate") salvaged Feb 11, 1945 as war weary.
28877 (34th BG, 7th BS, "Sooner") ran off runway on landing at Mendlesham, UK
Jul 9, 1944. Salvaged Jul 10, 1944
28878 (34th BG, 18th BS, "The Heavenly Body") transferred to 450th BG.
Returned to USA and salvaged at Altus, OK Aug 9, 1945.
28879 salvaged as battle damaged Dec 14, 1944.
28880 to 34th BG, 391st BS as "The Ghost Ship", then to 486th BG, 833rd BS (later 834th BS), then to 34th BG, 18th BS,
then to 406NL SQ. Returned to USA Jul 8, 1945. Salvaged at Altus, OK
Sep 18, 1945. SOC at Searcy Field, Stillwater, OK. Sold by War Assets Corp to Paul Mantz Feb 19, 1946
28882 (455th BG, 700th BS) named "Silver Wolf". Flew 27 missions. Returned to USA May 21, 1945 with 489th BG.
28883 (762nd BS, 460th BG, 15th AF, based at Spinazzola Airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Exploded in Mid Air From Unknown Cause and Crashed in Flames Southeast of Graz, Austria While on a Mission on
The Aircraft Factory at Graz, Austria. (2) Crew Were Killed. (8) Crew Bailed Out and (5) Were Captured and
Became POWs. Released in 1945. (3) Crew Evaded Capture. MACR 9198.
Also (MACR 5068) on May 10, 1944. Aircraft Not Lost.
28884 (491st BG, 853rd BS, 8th AF, "Problem Child") Shot Down Nov 26, 1944 By Gunfire From German
Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-8 East of Misburg Germany While on a Mission on The Oil Refinery at Misburg
Germany. Fw 190A-8 Flown By Unknown Pilot of JG 301. All (9) Crew Were Killed.
MACR 10762
28887 (741st BS, 455th BG, 15th AF, based at San Giovanni airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Crashed after exploded in midair Jul 21, 1944 from unknown cause at Borovnica, Yugoslavia while
returning from mission to Brux, Germany. All 11 crew bailed out, 6 became POW, 5 evaded capture with
help from partisans. MACR 6972
28889 (746th BS, 456th BG, 15th AF, based at Stornara Airfield, Cerignola, Italy)
In takeoff accident Mar 7, 1945 at Stornara Airfield. All (10) Crew Survived. Aircraft Badly Damaged.
Unknown if Repaired.
28890 (824th BS, 484th BG, 15th AF, based at Torretto airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Shot down by AAA Feb 1, 1945 and crashed SE of Pecs, Hungary while returning from mission to oil
refinery at Moosbierbaum, Austria. MACR 11836. All 10 crew bailed out over Russian lines and returned.
28891 579th Bombardment Squadron 392nd Bombardment Group 8th Air Force (RAF Wendling Airfield) Station USAAF-118,
Norfolk, England. Flew unknown number of missions. Returned to U.S.A. in June 1945 and Scrapped.
28892 Converted to TB-24H
28893 W/o 27 Dec 1944 at Hampton, VA
28894 (747th BS, 456th BG, 15th AF, based at Stornara Airfield, Cerignola, Italy)
Shot down May 10, 1944 by Anti-Aircraft Fire and Crashed in The Weiner Neustadt, Austria Area While
on a Mission to Weiner Neustadt, Austria. (9) Crew Were Killed. (3) Crew Bailed Out and Were
Captured and Became POWs. Released in 1945. MACR 5469
28897 (725th BS/451st BG, "Sally D II/Faye") returned to USA Jun 10, 1945
28899 (392 BG, 576 BS) crashed in UK Dec 28, 1944.
28900 (21st BS, attached to 28th Composite Group, 11th AF) Crashed from unknown cause in Cape Adagdak, near Adak,
Alaska Jan 18, 1943. MACR 15680. All 10 crew killed. The MACR might actually refer to 41-23900
28902 (717th BS, 449th BG, 15th AF, based at Grottaglie Airfield, Taranto, Italy)
Shot down Mar 22, 1945 By Anti-Aircraft Fire and Crashed 2 km North of Krapina, Yugoslavia While on a Mission
to Vienna, Austria. (1) Crewman Was Killed. (8) Crew Bailed Out and (6) Were Captured and Became POWs.
(2) Crew Evaded Capture. MACR 13273.
28903 (461st BG, 764th BS, "Myra G") crashed Apr 16, 1945.
28904 (781st BS, 465th BG, 15th AF) hit by Flak while on mission to Friedrichshafen, Germany Aug 16, 1944 and
landed at Dubendorf Fairfield near Zurich, Switzerland. MACR 7689. All 10 crew survived and were interned
in Switzerland.
28905 interned in Switzerland
28906 (782nd BS, 465th BG, 15th AF) crash landed at Russian-held airfield at Peca, Hungary due to
mechanical failure Mar 4, 1945 while on mission to Szombathely, Hungary. MACR 12829. All 9 crew
survived and returned to their unit. Aircraft listed as ending up in USSR
28909 W/o 26 Oct 1944 at Langley Field, VA
28910 (858th BS, 492nd BG, 8th AF) crashed from unknown cause off coast of Norway Apr 19, 1945. MACR 14191.
All 11 crew killed.
28911 (512th BS, 376th BG, 15th AF) crashed near Bihac, Yugoslavia due to mechanica failure Jan 31, 1945.
All 12 crew bailed out, 10 became POW and 2 evaded capture. MACR 12066
28912 (Headquarters, 456th BG, 15th AF, based at Stornara Airfield, Cerignola, Italy)
Shot down Nov 5, 1944 by Anti-Aircraft Fire and Aircraft Went into a Spin and Crashed at
Mitrovice, Yugoslavia While on a Mission on Enemy Troops at Mitrovice, Yugoslavia.
(9) Crew Were Killed. (2) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs. Released in 1945. MACR 9599
28913 767th Bombardment Squadron 461st Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Torretto Airfield Cerignola Italy
Crash Landed Dec 17, 1944 Near Roznava Hungary After Damaged By Gunfire From German Fighter at
Prerov Olomouc Czechoslovakia. All (10) Crew Survived. (2) Were Injured and Were Taken to a
Hospital in Hungary. They Were Liberated in February 1945 By Russian Soldiers. (8) Captured and Became POWs.
Released in 1945. MACR 10652
28914 (736th BS, 454th BG, 15th AF, based at San Giovanni Airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Ground accident 1 Sep 1944 While Parked at San Giovanni Airfield, Foggia, Italy.
Aircraft Was Destroyed By Explosion of B-24H (42-52311) While Was Parked Close By. Washed Out.
28915 (781st BS, 465th BG, 15th AF) shotdown by Me 410A flown by unknown pilot and unit Jun 30, 1944 and crashed in the
Lake Balaton, Hungary area while om mission to Blechhammer, Germany. MACR 6335. 3 crew killed, 7 bailed out
and became POW.
28916 576th Bombardment Squadron 392nd Bombardment Group 8th Air Force (RAF Wendling Airfield) Station USAAF-118,
Norfolk, England. Flew (91) Missions. Returned to U.S.A. in June 1945 and Scrapped.
28918 (7021st BS, 445th BG, 8th AF based at RAF Tibenham) in landing accident 10 May 1944 at Tibenham, UK.
All crew survived, aicraft was destroyed and washed out.
28919 723rd Bombardment Squadron 450th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy
Shot Down Sep 10, 1944 By Anti-Aircraft Fire and Crashed and Exploded on Impact Southeast of Vienna Austria
While on a Mission on The Southeast Industrial Center Vienna Austria. All (10) Crew Bailed Out and Were
Captured and Became POWs. Released in 1945. MACR 8746
28920 (376th BG, 513th BS, 15th AF) shot down by Bf 109G-6 flown by Uffz Willi Reschke of JG 302/1 at Budapest,
Hungary on mission to Hungary Jul 14, 1944. MACR 6958. One crewman killed, 10 bailed out and became POW.
28921 (MSN 513, 491st BG, 854th BS) salvaged after being involved in a ground
collision at Watton Sep 22, 1944.
28922 (445th BG, 701st BS, 8th AF) Shot Down By Gunfire From Fw 190A-8/R2 Sep 27, 1944 and vrashed at
Giessen am Schiffenberg Germany While on a Mission to Kassel Germany. Fw 190A-8/R2 Flown By Unknown Pilot
of JG 3 or JG 4. (2) Crew Were Killed. (7) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs. MACR 9386
28923 723rd Bombardment Squadron 450th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy
Shot Down Apr 24, 1944 By Anti-Aircraft Fire and Crashed Northeast of Ploesti Rumania While on a Mission
on The Marshalling Yards at Ploesti Rumania. All (10) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs.
Released in 1945. MACR 4400
28924 (448th BG, 715th BS, 8th AF, based at RAF Seething, Station USAAF-146, Norfolk, England)
Shot down by AAA Aug 26, 1944 and crashed at Mannheim, Germany while on mission to chemical works at
Ludwigshafen, Germany. 9 crew killed, one bailed out and became POW. MACR 8467
28925 (448th BG, 714th BS, 8th AF, 'Little Jo', based at RAF Seething, Station USAAF-146, Norfolk, England)
Shot down by Me 262A-1a flown by unknown pilot of Kdo. Nowotny Nov 21, 1944 and crashed at Ruegen Island,
Germany while returning from mission to oil refineries at Hamburg, Germany. O8 crew killed, one bailed
and became POW. MACR 10407
28926 (512th BS, 376th BG, 15th AF) crashed 31 May 1944 at San Pancrazio airfield, Salentino, Italy due to
engine failure. All crew survived, aircraft was destroyed.
28927 765th Bombardment Squadron 461st Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Torretto Airfield Cerignola Italy
Ground Accident and Explosion May 8, 1944 at Torretto Airfield Cerignola Italy. Aircraft Was Destroyed.
Six B-24H aircraft Were Destroyed in The Explosion.
28928 (343rd BS, 98th BG, 15th AF, based at Lecce airfield, Lecce, Italy)
Shot Down Jun 5, 1944 By Anti-Aircraft Fire and Crashed at Forli, Italy While in attack on
The Marshalling Yards at Bologna Italy. All (11) Crew Bailed Out. (1) Crewman Was Killed.
(10) Crew Were Captured and Became POW. MACR 6318
28929 721st Bombardment Squadron 450th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy
Shot Down Apr 16, 1944 By Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6 Northeast of Petrila Rumania
while on a Mission on The Marshalling Yards at Brasov Rumania. BF- 109G-6 Flown By Unknown Pilot
of JG 51. All ten crew killed. MACR 4033
28930 (761st BS, 460th BG, 15th AF, based at Spinazzola Airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Shot Down Jul 19, 1944 By Anti-Aircraft Fire and Crashed near Kelschau, Austria in the Langer Grund area While Returning From a
Mission on The Allach Engine Factory at Munich, Germany. All (10) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and
Became POWs. Released in 1945. MACR 6913.
28931 (451st BG, 724th BS, 15th AF, "Tings is Tuff" based at Castelluccio Airfield, Foggia, Italy)
In taxiing accident at Castelluccio Airfield, Italy May 30, 1944. All (10) Crew Survived.
Aircraft Was Destroyed.
28932 (466th BG, 787th BS, 8th AF) shot down by Bf 109G-6 flown by unknown pilot and
unit Aug 15, 1944 and crashed at Gelderingen, 5 km W of Steenwijk, Holland. MACR 8430.
3 crew killed, 7 bailed out (4 became POW, 3 evaded capture)
Parts of aircraft recovered 1977; Steenwijk
28933 (725th BS, 451st BG, 15th AF, "Ferp Finesco" based at Castelluccio Airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Shot down Jul 28, 1944 By Anti-Aircraft Fire and Crashed Near Bor, Yugoslavia While Returning From a
Mission on The Standard Oil Refinery at Ploesti, Rumania. All (10) Crew Bailed Out and (3) Were
Captured and Became POWs. Released in 1945. (7) Evaded Capture. MACR 7060
28934 (456th BG, 746th BS, 15th AF, based at Stornara Airfield, Cerignola, Italy)
Crashed Oct 20, 1944 From Unknown Cause East of Bergamo, Italy While Returnng From a Mission
to Bad Aibling, Germany. All (10) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs. Released in 1945.
MACR 9214
28936 (760th BS, 460th BG, 15th AF, Spinazzola Airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Crashed Apr 21, 1944 Near Bubrovnik, Yugoslavia After Ran Out of Fuel While Returning From a Mission on
The Marshalling Yards at Bucharest, Rumania. All (11) Crew Bailed Out and Evaded Capture. MACR 4391.
28937 (824th BS, 484th BG, 15th AF, based at Torretto airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Hit by AAA Nov 16, 1944 at Salsburg, Germany and ditched in E Adriatic Sea while on mission to
west marshalling yards at Munich, Germany. MACR 9886. 1 crewman killed, 7 were captured and became POW.
One crewman evaded capture.
28938 (732nd BS, 453rd BG, 8th AF, based at RAF Old Buckenham Airfield, Station USAAF-144, Norfolk, England)
Assigned to 732nd BS 453rd BG 8th Air Force on May 23, 1944. Transfered to 855th BS 491st BG 8th Air Force
on June 6, 1944. To RFC at Altus, OK Oct 2, 1945
28939 (740th BS, 455th BG, 15th AF, based at San Giovanni airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Shot down by AAA Sep 12, 1944 and crashed at Osoppo, Italy while returning from mission to airfield
at Lechfeld, Germany. All 10 crew bailed out and became POW. MACR 8351.
28940 (461st BG, 765th BS, "Mary L") crashed Nov 12, 1944 at Toretto Field, Italy
41-28942/29006 Douglas-Tulsa B-24H-20-DT Liberator
MSN 534/598, Douglas MSN 16057/16121
28942 (458th BG, 752nd BS, 8th AF, based at RAF Horsham St. Faith Airfield, Station USAAF-123, Norfolk, England)
Shot down Aug 9, 1944 By Anti-Aircraft Fire and Crashed at Waldrach, Germany While on a Mission on
The Marshalling Yards at Saarbrucken, Germany. All (9) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs.
MACR 7890
28943 (732nd BS, 453rd BG, 8th AF, based at RAF Old Buckenham Airfield, Station USAAF-144, Norfolk, England)
Assigned to 735th BS 453rd BG 8th Air Force on May 22, 1944. Transfered to 732nd BS 453rd BG on April 1, 1945.
Transfered to 491st BG 8th Air Force After April 7, 1945. Returned to U.S.A. in 1945 and Scrapped.
28944 (44th BG, 67th BS, 8th AF) collided in midair with B-24H 42-50381 over Belgium and crashed
1 km fro Petegem Deinze, Belgium Oct 18, 1944. MACR 15421. 9 crew killed, 2 bailed out and were
rescued by Canadian troops.
28945 (448th BG, 714th BS, 8th AF, based at RAF Seething, Station USAAF-146, Norfolk, England)
Landed Aug 6, 1944 at Swedish fighter base 50 mi E of Malmo, Sweden after being damaged by flak while on mission
to naval installation at Kiel, Germany. All 10 crew interned in Sweden. MACR 8217
28947 (456th BG, 744th BS, 15th AF, based at Stornara Airfield, Cerignola, Italy)
Shot down Jul 2, 1944 by Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6 and Crashed South of Budapest,
Hungary While on a Mission on The Shell Oil Refinery at Budapest, Hungary. Believed BF 109G-6 Flown
By Uffz. Gerhard Walter of JG 302/2. (4) Crew Were Killed. (6) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured
and Became POWs. Released in 1945. MACR 6442
28948 (389th BG, 565th BS) interned in Switzerland Jul 12, 1944. MACR 7570
28949 (733rd BS, 453rd BG, 8th AF, based at RAF Old Buckenham Airfield, Station USAAF-144, Norfolk, England)
Assigned to 733rd BS 453rd BG 8th Air Force on October 5, 1944. Transfered to 466th BG 8th Air Force After
April 9, 1945. Returned to U.S.A. in 1945 and Scrapped.
28950 (724th BS, 451st BG, 15th AF, "Wolf Wagon II" based at Castelluccio Airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Shot down Jul 28, 1944 By Anti-Aircraft Fire and Crash Landed at Krusevac, Yugoslavia While Returning
From a Mission on The Standard Oil Refinery at Ploesti, Rumania. All (10) Crew Survived
and Believed Evaded Capture. MACR 7041
28951 (514th BS, 376th BG, 15th AF) collided in midair with B-24J 42-109844 over Adriatic Sea
Jul 8, 1944. MACR 6821. All 10 crew killed.
28952 (455th BG, 743rd BS, 15th AF, "Home, James", based at San Giovanni airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Shot down by Hungarian Bf 109G-6 near Budapest, Hungary on mission to Manfred Weiss Armament Works,
Budapest, Hungary Jul 27, 1944. All 10 crew bailed out and became POW. Correlates with claim by Lort Szentgyorgyi
Dezeo of 2nd V.Sz101 Puma fighter group, Bf 109 ace with 33 confirmed kills. MACR 12390
28953 756th Bombardment Squadron 459th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Giulia Airfield Foggia Italy
Landing Accident May 8, 1944 at Giulia Airfield Foggia Italy. All Crew Survived. Aircraft Was
Destroyed. Washed Out
28954 758th Bombardment Squadron 459th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Giulia Airfield Foggia Italy
Landing Accident Sep 6, 1944 at Giulia Airfield Foggia Italy. All Crew Survived. Aircraft Was
Destroyed. Washed Out.
28955 (726th BS, 451th BG, 15th AF, "Klunker" based at Castelluccio Airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Crashed Nov 17, 1944 Near The Coast of Yugoslavia Due to Losing Fuel Fast From Unknown Cause
While Returning From a Bomber Escort Mission on The South Synthetic Oil Refinery at
Blechhammer, Germany. (10) Crew Bailed Out and Evaded Capture With Help From Yugoslavia Underground.
MACR 9884
28956 758th Bombardment Squadron 459th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Giulia Airfield Foggia Italy
Crashed Aug 29, 1944 at Esseg Cepin Yugoslavia After Ran Out of Fuel Due to a Fuel Leak
While Returning From a Mission on The Tank Factory at Mor Ostrava Czechoslovakia.
All (9) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs. Released in 1945.. MACR 8103
28957 727th BS, 451st BG, "Bigger Boober Gal", condemned May 14, 1944
28958 (448th BG, 713rd BS) crash landed in field near Herne, Belgium Feb 27, 1945 after running out of fuel
while attempting emergency landing. Crew OK. Plane salvaged Mar 13, 1945.
28960 (515th BG, 376th BG, 15th AF) shot down by Bf 109G-6 flown by unknown pilot and unit and
crashed SW of Bucharest, Rumania Jul 3, 1944. MACR 6754. 7 crew killed, 3 bailed out and beceme POW.
28961 759th Bombardment Squadron 459th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Giulia Airfield Foggia Italy
Shot Down Apr 15, 1944 By Anti-Aircraft Fire and Crashed Near Belica Yugoslavia While on a Mission
on The Marshalling Yards at Nis Yugoslavia. All (10) Crew Bailed Out. (1) Was Captured By Chetniks
and Turned Over to Germans and Became a POW. Released in 1945. (9) Crew Evaded Capture With Help
From Partisens. Aircraft Burned By Partisens. MACR 4209
28963 (458th BG, 752nd BS, 8th AF, based at RAF Horsham St. Faith Airfield, Station USAAF-123, Norfolk, England)
Landed in Sweden Jan 17, 1945 After Flak Hit in Gas Tank and Gasoline Streaming Out While on a
Mission on The Oil Refinery at Harburg, Germany. (3) Crew Bailed Out Over Falkenberg, Sweden and
Were Interned in Sweden. (7) Crew Stayed With Aircraft and Were Interned in Sweden. MACR 11730
28964 (456th BG, 747th BS, 15th AF, *O'Reilly's Datter", based at Stornara Airfield, Cerignola, Italy)
Crashed Dec 16, 1944 at Stecken, Near Iglau, Yugoslavia Due to Engine Trouble While Returning
From a Mission on The Synthetic Oil Refinery at Brux, Czechoslovakia. (1) Engine Had Failed and a
Supercharger Failed on Another Engine. All (9) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs.
Released in 1945. MACR 10610
28965 (513rd BS, 376th BG, 15th AF) shot down by AAA and crashed at Toulon, France Aug 6, 1944. MACR 7317.
5 crew killed, 5 bailed out (one killed after bail out, 2 became POW, 2 evaded capture)
28967 (780th BS, 465th BG, 15th AF) hit by AAA and crash landed near Rzeszow, Poland Dec 2, 1944 while on
mission to Blechhammer, Germany. MACR 10110. One crewman killed, 8 survived and evaded capture.
28968 (450th BG, 723rd BS "Swamp Rat") departed USA Apr 17, 1944. 723rd Bombardment Squadron
450th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy
Salvaged on August 10, 1945. Believed Salvaged in Italy.
28969 (776th BS, 464th BG, 15th AF, based at Gioia del Colle Airfield, Apulia, Italy)
Shot down May 29, 1944 By Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6 at Bosnaska Krupa, Yugoslavia
While Returning From a Mission on Amme Luther Seck Aircraft Components Factory at Atzgersdorf, Austria.
Believed BF 109G-6 Flown By Fw. Richard Kura of JG 77/4. (5) Crew Killed. (5) Crew Bailed Out & Became POWs.
MACR 5436
28970 765th Bombardment Squadron 461st Bombardment Group 15th Air Force "Liberty Belle"
Torretto Airfield Cerignola Italy
Crashed Aug 3, 1944 Northeast of Ravena Italy Due to Mechanical Failure While Returning From a
Mission on The Zahnradfabrik Aircraft Factory at Friedrichshafen Germany. All (10) Crew Survived.
(4) Crew Were Captured and Became POWs. Released in 1945. (6) Crew Evaded Capture.MACR 7199.
May have been shot down by fighters.
28972 (718th BS, 449th BG, 15th AF, based at Grottaglie Airfield, Taranto, Italy)
Shot down May 26, 1944 By Anti-Aircraft Fire and Exploded in Mid Air and Broke in Half and
Crashed South of Nice, France in The Mediterranean Sea While on a Mission to Var, France.
All (10) Crew Were Killed. MACR 5435
28973 721st Bombardment Squadron 450th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy
Shot Down Aug 10, 1944 By Anti-Aircraft Fire and Crashed Near Ploesti Rumania While on a Mission
on The Oil Refineries at Ploesti Rumania. All (10) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs.
Released 22 Days Later and Returned to Base Due to Russian Army Closing in. MACR 7675
28975 (720th Bombardment Squadron 450th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy
Shot Down May 24, 1944 By Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6 North of Hochschwab Austria
While on a Mission on The Wollersdorf Airfield at Weiner Neustadt Austria. BF 109G-6 Flown By
Fw. Karl Rohr of JG 27/1. (7) Were Killed. (3) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs.
Released in 1945. MACR 5457
28977 (783rd BS, 465th BG, 15th AF) shot down by AAA Sep 13, 1944, and crashed at Radinac, Yugoslavia while
returning from mission to Oswiecim, Poland. MACR 2728. All 9 crew bailed out, 6 became POW, 3 evaded capture.
28978 (705th BS, 446th BG, 8th AF) in landing accident 5 Oct 1944 at RAF Bungay (USAAF 125), Suffolk, UK.
All crew survived, but aircraft was destroyed.
28981 (467th BG, 789th BS, "Wolves Inc") went out of control and crashed into
North Sea 10 mi off Cromer Mar 4, 1945 following mission
to Stuttgart, Germany. 8 killed, 2 saved. Rumored to have
been brought down by a British coastal battery.
28982 (743rd BS, 455th BG, 15th AF, based at San Giovanni airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Crashed Adony, Hungary Dec 17, 1944 after engine cauht fire while returning from mission to
synthetic oil refinery at Odertal, Germany. MACR 10495.
All 10 crew bailed out safely, but copilot was killed by Soviet troops, mistaking
him for a German paratrooper.
28983 crashed April 8, 1944 near Millington, TN.
Attributed to severe weather. Only 1 survived.
28984 757th Bombardment Squadron 459th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Giulia Airfield Foggia Italy
Aircraft Fate Unknown. Believed Scrapped.
28985 723rd Bombardment Squadron 450th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force, "Rocky" departed USA Apr 23, 1944.
based at Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy. Salvaged Feb 11, 1945, believed salvaged in Italy
28986 (717th BS, 449th BG, 15th AF, based at Grottaglie Airfield, Taranto, Italy)
Crashed 11 Aug 1944 on takeoff at at Grottaglie airfield During a Local Training Flight.
All Crew Survived. Aircraft Was Destroyed. Washed Out.
28987 (854th BS, 491st BG, 8th AF) shot down by AAA and crased at Baltringen near Biberach an der Riss,
Germany Jul 21, 1944. MACR 7256. One crewman kiled, 9 bailed out and became POW.
28988 (760th BS, 460th BG, 15th AF, based at Spinazzola Airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Shot Down Jun 30, 1944 By Gunfire From German Messerschmitt Me 410A and Crashed South of Lake Balaton, Hungary
While on a Mission on The South Synthetic Oil Refinery at Blechhammer, Germany. Me 410A Flown By Unknown Pilot
of ZG 76/2. (2) Crew Were Killed. (9) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs. Released in 1945. MACR 6395
28989 (455th BG, 742nd BS, 15th AF, *Reddy Teddy Too*, based at San Giovanni airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Suffered engines smoking while om mission to airfield at Lechfeld, Germany and landed at
Dubendorf airfield near Zurich, Switerland Sep 12, 1944. All 10 crew survived and were interned
in Switzerland, returned in 1945. MACR 8359. Aircraft returned Oct 20, 1945.
28990 720th Bombardment Squadron 450th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy
Crash Landed Sep 24, 1944 After Nose Landing Gear Collasped at Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy
While Returning From a Mission on The Kalamaki Airfield at Athens Greece. All (10) Crew Survived.
Aircraft Damaged Beyond Repair. Salvaged.
28991 576th Bombardment Squadron 392nd Bombardment Group 8th Air Force (RAF Wendling Airfield) Station USAAF-118,
Norfolk, England. Flew (59) Missions. Returned to U.S.A. in June 1945 and Scrapped.
28992 721st Bombardment Squadron 450th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy
Take off Accident May 28, 1944 at Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy While on a Practice Mission. Right
Landing Gear Collapsed During Take off. All (8) Crew Survived. Aircraft Badly Damaged.
Aircraft Turned in to The 331st Service Squadron For Repairs. Washed Out.
28994 (455th BG, 740th BS, 15th AF, *Chatanooga Choo Choo*, based at San Giovanni airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Damaged by flak while om mission to airfield at Lechfeld, Germany Sep 12, 1944 and landed at
Payern airfield, Payerne, Switzerland. All 10 crew were interned in Switzerland, returned in 1945.
MACR 8353. Aircraft returned Oct 15, 1945.
28995 (885th BS (Special), 15th AF based at Maison Blanche Airfield, Algeria, North Africa)
Landing accident 28 Aug 1944 at Maison Blanche airfield, Algeria. All crew survived, aircraft was
destroyed.
28996 759th Bombardment Squadron 459th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Giulia Airfield Foggia Italy
Crashed Oct 28, 1944 into The Adriatic Sea While on a Mission to Munich Germany. Aircraft
Possiably Collided With Another Aircraft in The Clouds and Broke Up. Aircraft Came Out of The
Clouds and Was Spinning Down With large Pieces of Wreckage Following it Down and Crashed in
The Water and Sank. All (10) Crew Were Killed. MACR 9582
28997 (761st BS, 460th BG, 15th AF, "Naughty Nan", based at Spinazzola Airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Landed Sep 22, 1944 at Dubendorf Airfield, Near Zurich, Switzerland Due to Damage From Anti-Aircraft Fire
While on a Mission on The Northeast Industrial Area in Munich, Germany. All (11) Crew Survived and Were
Interned in Switzerland. Returned in 1945. MACR 8744
28998 (761st BS, 460th BG, 15th AF, based at Spinazzola Airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Landing Accident Jun 25, 1944 at Spinazzola Airfield, Foggia, Italy. All (10) Crew Survived. Aircraft Badly Damaged.
Unknown if Repaired.
28999 (464th BG, 779th BS, *The Flying Phartsac*) interned in Spain after landing in
Barcelona Jul 12, 1944 during raid on Nimes, France. MACR 6589
29001 (461st Bombardment Group, Fifteenth Air Force, Torretta Field, Cerignola, Italy) Departed US Apr 17 1944,
Crash landed following Blechhammer Mission on Jul 7 1944.
29002 (392nd BG, 578th BS) shot down by AAA Sept 21, 1944 Vershoven, near Euskirchen. 3 KIA, 6 POW. MACR 10206
29003 (719th BS, 449th BG, 15th AF, based at Grottaglie Airfield, Taranto, Italy)
Crash Landed Aug 17, 1944 on Vis Island, Yugoslavia While Returning From a Mission to Ploesti, Rumania.
All (10) Crew Survived. Aircraft Was Destroyed.
29004 (448th BG, 714th BS, 8th AF, based at RAF Seething, Station USAAF-146, Norfolk, England)
Shot down by AAA Jun 27, 1944 on mission to airfieldat Creil, France. All 10 aboard KIA. MACR 6728
29005 (453rd BG, 734th BS, 8th AF, based at RAF Old Buckenham Airfield, Station USAAF-144, Norfolk, England)
Landed Nov 21, 1944 at Bulltofta Airfield, Malmo, Sweden Due After (1) Engine Lost Over
Haamburg, Germany After Mission on The Oil Refinery at Hamburg Germany. All (10) Crew Survived and
Were Interned in Sweden. Returned on May 28, 1945. MACR 10406
29006 765th Bombardment Squadron 461st Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Torretto Airfield Cerignola Italy
Ditched Nov 20, 1944 off The Coast of Italy in The Adriatic Sea After Ran Out of Fuel While
Returning From a Mission on The South Synthetic Oil Refinery at Blechhammer Germany.
(5) Crew Were Killed. (6) Crew Survived and Were Rescued.
41-29007/29008 Douglas-Tulsa B-24E-DT Liberator
These two airframes were assigned AAF serial numbers at the end of their respective orders so that the
material could be accepted as contract fulfillments and be billed.
The two Douglas were instructional airframes according to Al Blue. He assumed them to be the first the two
Ford knock down assembles sent to Tulsa, however those may have been two San Diego assembles sent to Tulsa
with the few D production familarization assemblies.
41-29009/29023 Consolidated B-24E-10-CF Liberator
MSN 1/15
29011 W/o 6 Jun 1944 at Paloxy, TX
29013 Redes as RB-24E; w/o 3 Jan 1944 at Matheson, CO
29014 W/o 11 Aug 1943 at Biggs Field, TX
29018 W/o 15 Sep 1943 at Gowen Field, ID
29019 W/o 3 Jul 1944 at Gowen Field, ID
29022 Redes as RB-24E; w/o 14 Nov 1944 at Lowry Field, CO
41-29024/29042 Consolidated B-24E-15-CF Liberator
MSN 16/34
29026 W/o 11 Aug 1943 at Mitchell AAB, SD
29027 crashed Jul 19, 1943 in Taylor Canyon near Gunnison, CO due to structural failure to tail surfaces. All 11 onboard killed.
The right horizontal stabilizer failed, folded over, and grok off the left horizontal stabilizer while recovering
from a dive.
29028 SOC at Searcy Field, Stillwater, OK. Sold by War Assets Corp to Paul Mantz Feb 19, 1946
29029 SOC at Searcy Field, Stillwater, OK. Sold by War Assets Corp to Paul Mantz Feb 19, 1946
29032 (453rd BG, 735th BS) crashed into side of mountain 13 mi S of Dubois, WY while on training
mission. All 11 onboard killed.
29036 Redes as RB-24E; w/o 1 Jul 1944 at Muroc AAF, CA
29037 W/o 28 Jul 1943 at Biggs Field, TX
29038 July 11, 1943 579th Bombardment Squadron 392nd Bombardment Group 2nd Air Force Alamogordo Army
Airfield New Mexico. Transfered to Alamogordo Sub Depot Alamogordo Army Airfield New Mexico.
Aircraft Fate Unknown. Believed Scrapped.
41-29043/29061 Consolidated B-24E-20-CF Liberator
MSN 35/53
29043 W/o 2 Sep 1943 at Tonopah AB, NV
29044 crashed Jul 5, 1943, 5 mi east of Bakersfield, CA. 7 killed,
2 injured. Crashed on approach, believed to be out of fuel.
29045 W/o 18 Aug 1943 at Biggs Field, TX
29047 W/o 18 Feb 1944 at Lake Ontario
29048 Redes as RB-24E; w/o 13 Dec 1943 at Westover Field, MA
29049 W/o 26 Jul 1943 at Camp Haan
29050 SOC at Searcy Field, Stillwater, OK. Sold by War Assets Corp to Paul Mantz Feb 19, 1946
29052 (392nd BG, 579th BS) based at Topeka AAB, KS crashed 10 mi SW
of Boone, Iowa after losing part of starbord wing during
thunderstorm Jul 18, 1945. 5 killed.
29056 August 7, 1943 579th Bombardment Squadron 392nd Bombardment Group 2nd Air Force Topeka Army Airfield
Topeka, Kansas. Transfered to Topeka Army Airfield Topeka Kansas. Aircraft Fate Unknown. Believed Scrapped.
29057 Redes as RB-24E; w/o 12 May 1945 at Liberal AAF, KS
29058 August 8, 1943 579th Bombardment Squadron 392nd Bombardment Group 2nd Air Force Alamogordo Army Airfield,
New Mexico. Transfered to 331st Bombardment Group at Casper Army Airfield Wyoming. Aircraft Fate Unknown.
Believed Scrapped.
29059 August 11, 1943 579th Bombardment Squadron 392nd Bombardment Group 2nd Air Force Alamogordo Army Airfield,
New Mexico. Transfered to Fairmont Army Airfield Nebraska. Believed Transfered to The 241st Army Air Force
Base Unit 15th Bombardment Training Wing. Aircraft Fate Unknown. Believed Scrapped.
29060 August 11, 1943 579th Bombardment Squadron 392nd Bombardment Group 2nd Air Force Alamogordo Army Airfield,
New Mexico. Transfered to 331st Bombardment Group at Casper Army Airfield Wyoming. Aircraft Fate Unknown.
Believed Scrapped.
29061 July 15, 1943 579th Bombardment Squadron 392nd Bombardment Group 2nd Air Force Alamogordo Army Airfield,
New Mexico. Transfered to Tucson Army Airfield Tucson Arizona. Aircraft Fate Unknown. Believed Scrapped.
41-29062/29115 Consolidated B-24E-25-CF Liberator
MSN 54/107
29065 W/o 25 Dec 1943 at Gowen Field, IA
29066 (91st Pilot Trans Training Sq) crashed Mar 21, 1944 near Maxwell Field, AL.
29067 Redes as RB-24E; crashed on training flight Aug 1, 1944 at Liberal, Kansas. 3 killed, 1 survivor.
29068 W/o 26 Dec 1943 at Hammer Field, CA
29069 Redes as RB-24E; w/o 10 Feb 1944 at Mountain Home AAB, ID
29070 Redes as RB-24E; w/o 9 Mar 1944 at Liberal AAF, KS
29071 W/o 4 Sep 1943 at Moville, IA
29072 crashed Aug 27, 1943, Cheyenne Mtn. CO. 10 killed
29073 W/o 21 Aug 1944 at Pooler, GA
29075 Redes as RB-24E; w/o 22 Jan 1944 at Langley Field, VA
29078 W/o 26 Aug 1943 at Mitchell Bomb Range, SD
29079 SOC at Searcy Field, Stillwater, OK. Sold by War Assets Corp to Paul Mantz Feb 19, 1946
29083 Redes as RB-24E; w/o 4 Apr 1944 at Kano, Nigeria
29086 crashlanded at March Field, Riverside, California feb 13, 1944 5 killed when it struck a parked aircraft.
29087 Redes as RB-24E; w/o 1 Jul 1944 at Turpin, OK
29088 Redes as RB-24E; w/o 14 Jun 1944 at Liberal AAF, KS
29089 Redes as RB-24E; w/o 21 Jul 1944 at Liberal AAF, KS
29091 SOC at Searcy Field, Stillwater, OK. Sold by War Assets Corp to Paul Mantz Feb 19, 1946
29093 crashed in Kansas Nov 19, 1943. MACR 4205 wrongly lists this
plane as being shot down in Rumania Apr 4, 1944. This should be
41-29193
29094 Redes as RB-24E; w/o 30 Jan 1944 at Santa Rosa, NM
29095 W/o 28 Apr 1944 at Anniston, AL
29101 Redes as RB-24E; w/o 24 Feb 1944 at Liberal AAF, KS
29102 Redes as RB-24E; w/o 13 Jun 1944 at Maxwell Field, AL
29106 Conv to RB-24E; (39th CCTS) crashed Jan 16, 1944 near Ciudad Obregon, Mexico while lost on
night training mission. All crew uninjured.
29111 Conv to TB-24E
29115 SOC at Searcy Field, Stillwater, OK. Sold by War Assets Corp to Paul Mantz Feb 19, 1946
41-29116/29187 Consolidated B-24H-1-CF Liberator
MSN 154/225
29116 (700th BS, 445th BG, 8th AF) crashed from unknown cause 5 Jan 1944 2 mi NW of RAF Hardwick (USAAF
Station 104), Norfolk, UK. All crew bailed out and survived, aircraft was destroyed.
29117 (445th BG, 702nd BS, 8th AF 'Lady Marie' based at RAF Tibenham)
Shot Down Feb 24, 1944 By Gunfire From German Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-6 at Unterwelt Germany While on a Mission
on The Messerschmitt BF 110 Aircraft Factory at Gotha Germany. Fw 190A-6 Flown By Unknown Pilot and Unit.
(1) Crewman Killed. (9) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs. (1) Evaded Capture. MACR 2552
29118 (445th BG, 703rd BS) lost Apr 12, 1944, Belgium. MACR 3829
29119 (701st BS, 445th BG, 8th AF based at RAF Tibenham) Crashed Jan 7, 1944 near Mendlesham West of Wetheringsett Suffolk
14 Miles South of (RAF Tibenham Airfield) Station USAAF-124 Norfolk England After Ran Out of Fuel
While Returning From a Mission to Ludwigshaven Germany. (5) Crew Were Killed. (5) Crew Were Injured and Survived.
MACR 15103
29123 (445th BG, 703rd BS, "Big Joe") badly damaged by fighter and ditched
in English Channel 3 mi off Beachy Head, UK Dec 30, 1943. MACR 5210,
4 killed, 2 POW, 4 rescued.
29124 (446th BG, 707th BS, *Connie*) shot down by AAA Jun 21, 1944 on mission to Genshagen/Marienfelde,
Germany and crashed into Zuider Zee. MACR 6159. 9 KIA, 1 POW. Wreckage recovered 1997:Vijfhuizen
29125 (392nd BG, 578th BS) interned in Sweden Jun 20, 1944
29127 (392nd BG, 579th BS, *Li'l Gipsy*) engines malfunctioned en-route to target and interned Mar 18, 1944
at Dubendorf, Switzerland. MACR 3517. Returned Mar 18, 1944
29128 (446th BG, 704th BS, *Lady Luck*) hit by by AAA Oct 15, 1944 on mission to Cologne and made
emergency landing at St. Trond, Belgium. AAA killed 3 of the crew.
29129 576th Bombardment Squadron 392nd Bombardment Group 8th Air Force (RAF Wendling Airfield) Station USAAF-118,
Norfolk, England. Shot Down May 19, 1944 By Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6 Over Abbernrode,
6.5 km North of Bad Harzburg, Germany While on a Mission on The Marshalling Yards at Brunswick, Germany.
BF 109G-6 Flown By Unknown Pilot and Unit. (8) Crew Were Killed. (2) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured
and Became POWs. Released in 1945. MACR 5096
29130 (445th BG, 701st BS, 8th AF based at RAF Tibenham) Shot Down Feb 24, 1944 By Gunfire From Fw 190A-6
Southwest of Gotha Germany While on a Mission on The Messerschmitt BF 110 Aircraft Factory at Gotha Germany.
(5) Crew Were Killed. (5) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs. MACR 2556
29131 576th Bombardment Squadron 392nd Bombardment Group 8th Air Force (RAF Wendling Airfield) Station USAAF-118,
Norfolk, England. Ground Accident at RAF Wendling. All Crew Survived. Aircraft Damaged. Unknown if Repaired.
Declared War Weary on September 18, 1944. Transfered to (RAF Greencastle Airfleld) Station USAAF-237 Down,
Northern Ireland on November 26, 1944. Fate Unknown.
29132 (445th BG, 703rd BS, 8th AF based at RAF Tibenham)
Shot Down Apr 13, 1944 By Anti-Aircraft Fire and Crashed at Tenovus Belgium While Returning From a
Mission to Oberpfaffenhofen Germany. (1) Crewman Was Killed. (9) Crew Bailed Out and (8) Were Captured
and Became POWs. (1) Crewman Evaded Capture. MACR 3830
29133 (93rd BG, 328th BS, 8th AF) crashed at Aachen, Germany due to flak damage Feb 4, 1944. MACR 2181.
One crewman killed, 9 bailed out and became POW.
29135 (392 BG, 579 BS, "Last Frontier") crashlanded at Wendling, UK
Dec 20, 1943 after 3 working engines stopped. 1 killed.
29137 (446 BG, 705 BS, 8th AF *Dry Run*) shot down by AAA Aug 4, 1944 and crashed at Bussin, 12 km SE of Barth, Germany
while on mission to Rostock, Germany. 3 KIA, 8 bailed (one killed, 7 POW). MACR 7709
29138 W/o 5 Oct 1943 at Grand island AAB, NE
29139 (44th BG, 68th BS) shot down by fighter and crashed into
North Sea off Norway Nov 18, 1943. MACR 1381. 10 KIA
29140 (446th BG, 705th BS, 8th AF, *Banger*) shot down by AAA on return from mission to Mulhouse, France May 25, 1944.
and crashed at Waasmunster, 17 km Ne of Ghent, Belgium. 5 crew POW, 5 evaded. MACR 5250.
29144 (704th BS, 446th BS, 8th AF) in landing accident 2 Sep 1944 at RAF Bungay (USAAF 125), Suffolk, UK.
All crew survived, aircraft badly damaged, unknown if repaired, but washed out Sep 2, 1944.
29147 (707th BS, 446th BG, 8th AF) in landing accident at RAF Bungay (USAAF Statin 125), Suffolk, UK Jan 28, 1944.
All crew survived, aircraft badly damaged, unknown if repaired.
29148 (44th BG, 66th BS, 8th AF) shot down by Bf 109G-6 believed flown by Fj.Ofw Hans Grunberg of JG 3/5
Feb 24, 1944, at Zella, 40 km W of Bad Hsrsfeld, Germany. MACR 2923. One crewman killed, 9 bailed out
and became POW.
29149 (445th BG, 700th BS, 8th AF based at RAF Tibenham)
Shot Down Feb 24, 1944 By Gunfire From Fw 190A-6 and Crashed 2.5 km North of Brotterode,
Germany While on a Mission on The Messerschmitt BF 110 Aircraft Factory at Gotha Germany.
Fw 190A-6 Flown By Unknown Pilot and Unit. (9) Crew Killed. (1) Bailed Out and Was Captured and Became a POW.
MACR 2557
29150 (705th BS, 446th BG, 8th AF) in landing accident 18 Apr 1944 at RAF Bungay (USAAF 125), Sufffolk, UK.
All crew survived, but aircraft was destroyhed and washed out.
29151 (446th BG, 705th BS, 8th AF, *Joker*) shot down by AAA and crashed NE of Gustrow, Germany while mission
to Berlin Mar 22, 1944. 1 KIA, 9 bailed out and became POW. MACR 3336
29153 (44th BG, 506th BS, 8th AF) shot down by AAA Apr 8, 1944, near Bischofshagen Lohne 10 km
N of Herford, Germany. MACR 3850. All 10 crew bailed out and became POW.
29154 (446th BG, *The Big Drip*) crashed on takeoff on mission to Andernech Jan 1, 1945.
All 10 crew killed.
29155 (707th BS, 446th BG, 8th AF) in ground accident 8 May 1944 at RAF Bungay (USAAF 125), Suffolk, UK.
Aircraft was destroyed and washed out.
29157 (44th BG, 66th BS, 8th AF) shot down at Nieder-Florsheim Krs Worms, Germany by Fw 190A-7 flown by
Oblt Rudolf Leuschel of JG 26/8 Jan 29, 1944. MACR 2356. 7 crew killed, 3 bailed out and became POW.
29160 (704th BS, 446th BG, 8th AF) in landing accident 20 Nov 1943 at RAF Bungay (USAAF Station 125), Suffolk, UK.
All crew survived, but aircraft was destroyed.
29161 (44th BG, 67th BS) severely damaged by Bf 109s while returning from mission to
Oslo Nov 18, 1943. On return to England crew were ordered
to bail out but a badly-wounded gunner was unable to comply.
Pilot remained with the aircraft and made a successful
crashlanding at Shipdham.
29162 W/o 28 Sep 1943 at Foutain, CO
29163 578th Bombardment Squadron 392nd Bombardment Group 8th Air Force (RAF Wendling Airfield) Station USAAF-118,
Norfolk, England. Aircraft Declared War Weary Jun 23, 1944 and Transfered to (RAF Neaton Airfield)
Station USAAF-505, Nottingham, England. Aircraft Fate Unknown
29164 (44th BG, 67th BS) damaged by fighter, ran out of fuel and
ditched in North Sea 50 mi from UK Nov 18, 1943. MACR 1379. 10 KIA
29168 (44th BG, 66th BS) hit a tree during landing and wrecked in
UK Nov 13, 1943.
29169 W/o 5 Dec 1943 at Manzanar, CA
29172 (44th BG, 506th BS, 8th AF) shot down by AAA and crashed near Le Translay, 18 km SW of
Abbeville, France Mar 18, 1944. MACR 3404. All 10 crew bailed out, 9 became POW, one evaded capture.
29174 577th Bombardment Squadron 392nd Bombardment Group 8th Air Force (RAF Wendling Airfield) Station USAAF-118,
Norfolk, England. Collided Mar 18, 1944 With B-24H (41-28651) in Mid Air Over St-Justen-en-Chaussee, France
and Crashed About 1 Mile South of The Village of Dorfront, France While on a Mission to Friedrichshafen, Germany.
(9) Crew Were Killed. (1) Crewman Bailed Out and Evaded Capture.. MACR 3320
29175 724th BS/451st BG, Pilsto Packing Mama crashed Feb 2 1944
29177 (446th BG, 706th BS, 8th AF, *Ginger*) shot down by AAA and crashed at Schoenecken, Germany while on
mission to Ludwigshafen, Germany Aug 26, 1944. All 10 crew bailed out, four executed by SS, 1 died on
bail out, 4 became POW. One MIA and presumed killed. MACR 8471.
29178 (93rd BG, later 330th BG) declared war weary Dec 24, 1944.
29179 Weather Reconnaissance Squadron (Provisional) 496th Fighter Training Group 8th Air Force,
based at RAF Halesworth Airfield, Station USAAF-365, Suffolk, England.
Taxiing Accident Mar 11, 1945 at RAF Halesworth Airfield, Station USAAF-365, Suffolk, England.
All Crew Survived. Aircraft Badly Damaged. Unknown if Repaired.
29181 crashed near Wayne, Nebraska Oct 10, 1943 while enroute to Santon Bombing Range in western Nebraska.
6 crew killed.
29182 (329th BS, 93rd BG, 8th AF) crash landed at RAF Metfield, Suffolk, England 20 Jan 1944. All crew
survived, but aircraft was destroyed.
29183 W/o 4 Oct 1943 at Vermillion, SD
29186 W/o 2 May 1944 at Charleston, SC
41-29188/29258 Consolidated B-24H-5-CF Liberator
29188/29211 MSN 226/249, 29212/29258 MSN 261/307
29188 721st Bombardment Squadron 450th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy
Crash Landed Jan 14, 1944 in Italy After 3 Engines Failed Due to Flak Damage While Returning From a
Mission on The Town of Mostar Yugoslavia. All (10) Crew Survived. Aircraft Was Destroyed.
29191 (448th BG, 712th BS) damaged by flak over Berlin.
Landed in Sweden Mar 6, 1944 and crew interned. MACR 3548. Crew returned
July-September 1944. Aircraft returned to USA in 1945.
29192 577th Bombardment Squadron 392nd Bombardment Group 8th Air Force (RAF Wendling Airfield) Station USAAF-118,
Norfolk, England. Shot Down Feb 24, 1944 By Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6 Near Wetzlar, Germany
While on a Mission on Messerschmitt BF 110 Aircraft Factory at Gotha, Germany. BF 109G-6 Flown By
Fw. Emil Hecker of JG 54/9. All (10) Crew Bailed Out and (9) Captured and Became POWs. Released in 1945.
(1) Killed After Bailed Out. MACR 2945
29193 (449th BG, 719th BS, "Dixie Bell", 15th AF, based at Grottaglie Airfield Taranto Italy)
Shot down by Bf 109G-6 near Alexandria, Rumania Apr 4, 1944 While on a Mission on The Marshalling
Yards at Bucharest, Rumania. Believed BF 109G-6 Flown By Ofw. Anton Gutweniger of JG 77/4.
(2) Crew Killed. (8) Crew Bailed Out & Captured & Became POWs. MACR 4205.
The MACR wrongly lists the serial number as 41-29093
29194 (716th BS, 449th BG, 15th AF, "Shack Wolf!", based at Grottaglie Airfield, Taranto, Italy)
Shot down Feb 25, 1944 By Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 110G-2 25 km South Southwest of
Regensburg, Germany While on a Mission on The Messerschmitt BF 109 Factory at Regensburg, Germany.
BF 110G-2 Flown By Hptm. Siegfried Bogs of ZG 76/I Stab. (6) Crew Killed. (4) Crew Bailed Out
and Captured and Became POWs. MACR 2617
29195 (724th BS, 451st BG, 15th AF, "Gashouse" based at Castelluccio Airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Destroyed by fire 8 May 1944 on ground at Castelluccio Airfield. Washed out
29197 W/o 12 Jul 1944 at Harlingen AAF, TX
29199 (727th BS, 451st BG, 15th AF, "Big Boober Girl" based at Castelluccio Airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Crashed Apr 24, 1944 into The Side of a Mountain at Nisch, Yugoslavia After (2) Engines Failed
While Returning From a Mission to Bucharest, Rumania. All (10) Crew Bailed Out and (1) Was
Captured and Became a POW. Released in 1945. (9) Crew Evaded Capture. MACR 4396
29200 SOC at Searcy Field, Stillwater, OK. Sold by War Assets Corp to Paul Mantz Feb 19, 1946
29201 W/o 8 Mar 1944 at Biggs Field, TX
29202 Conv to TB-24H
29205 W/o 4 Sep 1944 at Laredo AAF, TX
29207 W/o 14 Feb 1944 at Jackson, GA
29209 727th BS/451st BG, "Hop Scotch" salvaged Mar 19, 1945
29210 (744th BS, 453rd BG, 8th AF, based at RAF Old Buckenham Airfield, Station USAAF-144, Norfolk, England)
Assigned to 733rd BS 453rd BG 8th Air Force in December 1943. (Original Aircraft). Last Mission
Flown on September 17, 1944. Returned to U.S.A. in 1945. Scrapped at Altus Oklahoma on August 7, 1945.
29211 W/o 15 Apr 1944 at Chatham Field, GA
29212 (450th BG, 720th BS) crashed at Manduria, Italy when left main collapsed. SOC next day.
29213 723rd Bombardment Squadron 450th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy
Shot Down Feb 23, 1944 By Anti-Aircraft Fire and Crashed 2 km East of Gruenau Austria While on a
Mission on The Aircraft Engine Works at Steyr Austria. (8) Crew Were Killed. (2) Crew Bailed Out
and Were Captured and Became POWs. Released in 1945. MACR 3366
29214 (449th BG, *Sophisticated Lady*) hit by AAA Feb 25, 1944 over Regensberg and lost #2 engine and
fell behind the formation. A running battle with enemy fighters ensued, the gunners
claiming 15 fighters shot down over the next hour with 1 gunner killed. Crew bailed
out over Yugoslavia (Todorovo, Cazin, Bosnia and Hercegovina) and 9 evaded. MACR 2695.
29215 (449th BG, "Betty Ann") crashed near Meknes, Morocco Dec 15, 1943 en route to Europe due to excessive
icing on the plane. Entire crew bailed out but pilot's chute did not open and he was killed.
29216 (449th BG, 717th BS, 15th AF, "Peerless Clipper", based at Grottaglie Airfield, Taranto, Italy)
Crashed Apr 2, 1944 After Hit By By Debris From 2 B-24H Collision B-24H (42-52086) & (42-52136) in
Mid Air Over The Target at Steyr, Austria. (1) Engine Caught Fire and Aircraft Suffered Other Damage.
All (11) Crew Were Killed. MACR 4024
29217 (718th BS, 449th BG, 15th AF, based at Grottaglie Airfield, Taranto, Italy)
Shot down Jan 30, 1944 By Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6/R6 and Crashed 28 km Southeast
of Udine, Italy While on a Mission on Udine Airfield, Udine, Italy. Believed BF 109G-6/R1 Flown By
Uffz. Hans Ewald of JG 53/4. (9) Crew Were Killed. (1) Crewman Bailed Out and Was Captured and Became a POW.
MACR 2711
29219 (725th BS, 451st BG, 15th AF, "Boomerang" based at Castelluccio Airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Landing accident 20 Sep 1944 at Pomigliano airfield, Naples, Italy. All (10) Crew Survived.
Aircraft Was Destroyed and washed Out.
29220 (725th BS, 451st BG, 15th AF, "Honey Chile" based at Castelluccio Airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Shot down Apr 17, 1944 By Anti-Aircraft Fire and Rolled Over and Crashed into a Building at
Mostar, Yugoslavia While on a Mission on The Zemun Airfield Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
(7) Crew Were Killed. (3) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs. Released in 1945. MACR 4078
29221 722nd Bombardment Squadron 450th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy
Crashed Jun 26, 1944 Near Schlosshof Lassee Austria After Number (3) Engine Caught Fire and Wing Broke
off While on a Mission on The Heinkel Aircraft Factory Schwechat Austria Due to Mechanical Failure.
All (10) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs. Released in 1945. MACR 6342.
29222 (450th BG, 721st BS, 15th AF, *Deuces Wild* based at Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy )
Collided in midair with 42-52109 over Adriatic Sea Mar 24 1944 While on a Mission on The Ball
Bearing Plant at Steyr Austria. All 10 crew KIA. MACR 3522
29223 (449th BG, 717th BS, 15th AF, "Lurchin' Urchin", based at Grottaglie Airfield, Taranto, Italy)
Shot down Jan 31, 1944 By Anti-Aircraft Fire and Crashed into a Mountain Side and Exploded Near
Aviano, Italy While on a Mission on Aviano Airfield, Aviano, Italy. (3) Crew Were Killed.
(8) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs. MACR 2403
29224 721st Bombardment Squadron 450th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy
Hit Jul 9, 1944 By Taxiing B-24G (42-78290) While Parked at Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy.
Aircraft B-24G Was Returning From Mission and Landing With Hydraulic System Shot Out By Flak.
While Taxing Brakes Failed. Aircraft Damaged Beyond Repair. Washed Out.
29225 (717th BS, 449th BG, 15th AF, "Old Tub" based at Grottaglie Airfield, Taranto, Italy)
Crawshed 29 Mar 1944 on takeoff 5 mi N of Grottaglie Airfield, Grottaglie, Italy.
All Crew Survived. Aircraft Was Destroyed. Washed Out.
29226 723rd Bombardment Squadron 450th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force, "Leaky Tub", Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy
Shot Down Feb 23, 1944 By Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6 Over Lambach Austria While
on a Mission on The Aircraft Engine Works at Steyr Austria. BF 109G-6 Flown By Fw. Reinhold Fackenthal
of JG 27/3. (10) Crew Were Killed. (1) Crewman Bailed Out and Was Captured and Became a POW. Released in 1945.
MACR 3206
29227 721st Bombardment Squadron 450th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy
Shot Down Jun 24, 1944 By Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6 and Crashed South of Ploesti
Rumania While on a Mission on The Romano/Americano Oil Refinery at Ploesti Rumania.
BF 109G-6 Flown By Unknown Pilot and Unit. (8) Crew Were Killed. (2) Crew Bailed Out and Were
Captured and Became POWs. Released in 1945. MACR 6367
29228 723rd Bombardment Squadron 450th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy
Shot Down Feb 23, 1944 By Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6 Southwest of Wels Austria
While on a Mission on The Aircraft Engine Works at Steyr Austria. BF 109G-6 Flown By
Lt. Friedrich W. Schulte of JG 27/2. All (10) Crew Were Killed.. MACR 3208
29232 (712th BS, 448th BG, 8th AF, based at RAF Seething, Station USAAF-146, Norfolk, England)
In landing accident at RAF Seething 23 Jul 1944 at Seething, UK. All crew survived, aircraft was destroyed.
29233 15th AF, 451st BG, 727th BS, named "The Sod-Buster". Condemned/salvaged on 20 September 1944.
It was credited with five enemy fighters and sixty-nine missions
29234 (448th BG, 715th BS, 8th AF, based at RAF Seething, Station USAAF-146, Norfolk, England)
Shot down Jan 5, 1944 by German fighter and crashed 3 km N of Horst, Germany while on mission to shipyard
at Kiel, Germany. 8 crew killed, two bailed out and became POW. MACR 2517. MACR wrongly lists as 42-29234
29235 (715th BS, 448th BG, 8th AF, based at RAF Seething, Station USAAF-146, Norfolk, England)
Made forced landing Feb 25, 1944 at RAF Chipping Ongar, USAAF 162 Essex, England after ran out of fuel
while returning from mission to aircraft factor at Furth, Germany. All crew survived, aircraft badly
damaged, unknown if repaired
29236 (66th BS, 44th BG, 8th AF) in takeoff accident 9 Feb 1944 at RAF Shipdam (USAAF Statin 115), Norfolk, UK.
All crew survived, but aircraft was destroyed.
29237 (757th Bombardment Squadron 459th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Giulia Airfield Foggia Italy
Crashed Mar 17, 1944 in The Adriatic Sea While Returning From a Mission to Vienna Austria
Due to Engine Supercharger Failure. All (10) Crew Were Killed. MACR 3298
29238 727th BS/451st BG, "Susan Diane", Soc Nov 3, 1945
29239 (727th BS, 451st BG, 15th AF,"Shilay Lee" based at Castelluccio Airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Shot down May 5, 1944 By Anti-Aircraft Fire and Crashed Near Craiova, Rumania While on a Mission
on The Marshalling Yards at Ploesti, Rumania. Aircraft Exploded Before Hitting The Ground.
(2) Crew Were Killed. (8) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs. Liberated and
Returned on September 28, 1944. MACR 5446
29240 crashlanded Apr 22, repaired.
29241 727th BS/451st BG, "Royal Prod" returned to USA Jun 9, 1945
29242 726th BS/451st BG, "Flabbergasted Fanny" salvaged Apr 28, 1945
29243 (716th BS, 449th BG, 15th AF, based at Grottaglie Airfield, Taranto, Italy)
Shot down Apr 12, 1944 By Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6 and Crashd 1.5 km Northeast of
Stuben Near Hochneukirchen, Austria While on a Mission to Wiener Neustadt, Austria.
BF 109G-6 Flown By Hptm. Walter Blume of JG 27/3. (4) Crew Were Killed. (6) Crew Bailed Out and Were
Captured and Became POWs. MACR 4034
29244 (725th BS, 451st BG, 15th AF, "Double Trouble", based at Castelluccio Airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Shot down Feb 25, 1944 By Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6 North of Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
While on a Mission on The ME 109 Aircraft Factory at Regensburg, Germany. BF 109G-6 Flown By
Unknown Pilot and Unit. (3) Crew Killed. (6) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs.
Released in 1945. MACR 3709
29245 (725th BS, 451st BG, 15th AF, based at Castelluccio Airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Shot down Apr 2, 1944 By Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6 and Crashed South of
Tirana, Albania While on a Mission to Steyr, Austria. All (10) Crew Bailed Out (2) Over Austria
and (8) Over Albania and All (10) Were Captured and Became POWs. Released in 1945. MACR 3718 and 5094
29246 (738th BS, 454th BG, 15th AF, based at San Giovanni Airfield Foggia Italy)
Crashed May 18, 1944 From Unknown Cause Between Nivoras and Molic, Rumania While on a Mission
on The Redevente Oil Refinery at Ploesti, Rumania. All (10) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured
and Became POWs. MACR 5067
29247 720th Bombardment Squadron 450th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy
Crashed Jan 21, 1944 on Take off at Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy Due to Runaway Propellers
on Number (3) and (4) Engines While on a Mission on The Marshalling Yard at Prato Italy.
All (10) Crew Survived With (1) Injured. Aircraft Was Destroyed.
29248 (448th BG, 713rd BS, 'Cold Turkey') shot down by AAA at
Cognac, France Dec 31, 1943. MACR 3605. 10 KIA
29249 (734th BS, 453rd BG, 8th AF, based at RAF Old Buckenham Airfield, Station USAAF-144, Norfolk, England)
Declared War Weary at Grottaglie Airfield Taranto Italy on September 13, 1944. Salvaged at (RAF Langford
Lodge Airfield, Station USAAF-597, Lough Neagh, Ireland on May 29, 1945 By BAD 3.
29250 (735th BS, 435rd BG, 8th AF, based at RAF Old Buckenham Airfield, Station USAAF-144, Norfolk, England)
Crashed in Flames Sep 27, 1944 Over The Front Lines in France After Number (2) Engine Caught Fire and
Then Another Engine Failed and Aircraft Caught Fire While on a Mission on The Henschel Aircraft Factory
at Kassel, Germany. All (10) Crew Bailed Out Over Front Lines and Returned.
29251 (724th BS, 451st BG, 15th AF, "Impatient Virgin/Shehasta" based at Castelluccio Airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Shot down Jun 11, 1944 By Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6 at Guvedze and Crashed South
of Ruse, Bulgara While on a Mission to Giurgiu, Rumania. Believed BF 109G-6 Flown By Uffz. Heinz
Wassermann of JG 77/7. (1) Crew Killed. (9) Crew Bailed Out & Captured & Became POWs.
(8) Released in 1945. (1) Died of Wounds. MACR 5668
29252 720th Bombardment Squadron 450th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force, "Tail Wind", Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy
Shot Down Mar 24, 1944 By Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6 Over Italy and Crashed
About 68 Miles East of Mesola Italy in The Adriatic Sea While on a Mission on The Ball Bearing
Plant at Steyr Austria. BF 109G-6 Flown By Unknown Pilot and Unit. All (10) Crew Were Killed. MACR 3957
29253 (724th BS, 451st BG, 15th AF, "Easy Does It" based at Castelluccio Airfield, Foggia, Italy
Landing accident 26 Jun 1944 at Castelluccio airfield, Italy. All (10) Crew Survived. Aircraft Was Destroyed.
Washed Out.
29254 (734th BS, 453rd BG, 8th AF, based at RAF Old Buckenham Airfield, Station USAAF-144, Norfolk, England)
Crash landed 10 Feb 1944 From Unknown Cause at Ash Hill Farm, Hilgay Near Southery, Norfolk, England
While Returning From a Mission on The Gilze-Rijen Airfield in Holland. All (10) Crew Survived.
Aircraft Was Destroyed. Washed Out. Salvaged on February 11 and 12, 1944.
29255 721st Bombardment Squadron 450th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy
Shot Down Feb 23, 1944 By Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6 Near St. Valentin Austria
While on a Mission on The Aircraft Engine Works at Steyr Austria. BF 109G-6 Flown By
Fw. Bruno Gerard JG 27/3. (4) Crew Were Killed. (5) Crew Were Captured and Became POWs.
Released in 1945. MACR 3956
29256 724th BS/451st BG, "Sakinsjak" salvaged Jun 20, 1945
29257 (734th BS, 453rd BG, 8th AF, based at RAF Old Buckenham Airfield, Station USAAF-144, Norfolk, England)
Crash Landed May 30, 1944 at RAF Halesworth Airfield, Station USAAF-365, Suffolk, England After
One Engine Caught Fire and Burned Out. Aircraft Aborted on mission to The Aviation Depots at
Oldenburg, Germany. (2) Crew Bailed Out and Were Rescued. (8) Crew Stayed With Aircraft and Survived.
Aircraft Badly Damaged. Salvaged on May 31, 1944.
29258 (724th BS/451st BG, "Satam's Sister/Born To Lose" transferred to 449th BG .
(719th BS, 449th BG, 15th AF, based at Grottaglie Airfield, Taranto, Italy)
Shot down Apr 4, 1944 By Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6 and Crashed Along The Bank of The Danube River
in Rumania While on a Mission to Bucharest, Rumania. BF 109G-6 Flown By Unknown Pilot and Unit.
(5) Crew Were Killed. (5) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs. MACR 3702
41-29259/29335 Consolidated B-24H-10-CF Liberator
MSN 358/434
29259 (734th BS, 453rd BG, 8th AF, based at RAF Old Buckenham Airfield, Station USAAF-144, Norfolk, England)
Collided in midair with B-24H 42-95171 Jul 21, 1944 and Crashed 1.5 km North of Aidlingen, Germany
While on a Mission on The Marshalling Yards at Saarbrucken, Germany. (6) Crew Were Killed. (3) Crew
Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs. MACR 7252.
29260 722nd Bombardment Squadron 450th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy
Aircraft Fate Unknown. Believed Scrapped.
29261 (742nd BS, 455th BG, 15th AF, based at San Giovanni airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Shot down by Fw 190A-8 flown by unknown pilot of JG 300 Jun 26, 1944 and crashed at Tulln, Austria
while on mission to oil refinery at Moosbierbaum, Austria. 3 crew killed, 7 bailed out and
became POW. MACR 6404
29265 (737th BS, 454th BG, 15th AF, based at San Giovanni Airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Crash landed Apr 29, 1944 at a Small Airport Outside of Barcelona, Spain Due to Flak Damage
While on a Mission on the Munitions Factory at Toulon, France. All (12) Crew Survived and Were
Interned in Spain. Returned on June 6, 1944 at Gibraltar. Aircraft Fate Unknown. MACR 4629
29266 (741st BS, 455th BG, 15th AF, based at San Giovanni airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Shot down by Fw 190A-8/R2 believed flown by Fw Konrad Bauer of JG 300/5 and crashed SW of
Budapest, Hungary Jul 27, 1944 while on mission to armament factory at Budapest, Hungary.
5 crew killed, 5 bailed out and became POW. MACR 6999.
29267 (743rd BS, 455th BG, 15th AF)
Crashed on takeoff 6 Jan 1944 at Eknes Fld, Dakar,French West Africa while on ferry flight to
San Giovanni airfield, Foggia, Italy. All 10 crew survived, aircraft was destroyed
29268 (766th BS, 461st BG, "Tou Jour Gay") salvaged due to battle damage Jun 22, 1944
29269 720th Bombardment Squadron 450th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy
Shot Down Apr 29, 1944 By Anti-Aircraft Fire and Ditched Near Toulon France in The Mediterranena Sea
While on a Mission on The Harbor Installations at Toulon France. (1) Crewman Was Killed.
(9) Crew Survived and Were Captured and Became POWs. Released in 1945. MACR 4855
29271 (743rd BS, 455th BG, 15th AF, based at San Giovanni airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Hit by AAA over Munich, Germany Jun 9, 1944, able to fly until crshed at Guastally, Italy
All 10 crew bailed out, 5 became POW, one killed when his parachute failed to open, 4
evaded capture. MACR 5839
29272 721st Bombardment Squadron 450th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy
Shot Down Apr 25, 1944 By Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6 and Exploded in Mid Air and
Crashed Near Marradi Italy While on a Mission on The Marshalling Yards at Varese Italy.
BF 109G-6 Flown By Unknown Pilot and Unit. (6) Crew Were Killed. (5) Crew Bailed Out and
Evaded Capture With Help From Partisans. MACR 4631
29273 (458th BG, 753rd BS, 8th AF, *Flak Magnet*, based at RAF Horsham St. Faith Airfield,
Station USAAF-123, Norfolk, England) shot down by Fw 190A-7 Apr 22, 1944 near
Hoetmar, Germany while om mission to Hamm, Germany. 1 crewman killed, 9 bailed out and were
captured and became POWs. MACR 4180. Credited to Maj Heinz Bar of JG-1, this being his
200th kill.
29275 (777th BS, 464th BG, 15th AF, based at Pantanella Airfield, Cerignola, Italy)
Blew up after being hit by flak over target Jul 28, 1944
in raid on Ploesti, Rumania. MACR 6996. Disputed story of bombs from
another plane or another flak hit, but there was a large explosion
destroying the plane. 8 crew killed, 2 thrown clear and survived and became POW.
29276 crash landed Jan 12, 1945 and salvaged.
29277 (458th BG, 752nd BS, *Dear Mom*) landed in Spanish Morocco Feb 7, 1944
29279 (367th BG, 512th BS, 15th AF) made emergency landing on Italian beach, unknown date. MACR 3712.
All 10 crew survived, aircraft badly damaged, unknown if repaired.
29280 (464th BG, 778th BS) crashed on takeoff at Pocatello AB Jan 16, 1944. 2 killed.
29281 722nd Bombardment Squadron 450th Bombardment Group 15th Air Forc "Tanta Lisa", Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy
Shot Down Feb 25, 1944 By Anti-Aircraft Fire and Crashed 3 km North of Furstenfeldbruck Germany While
Returning From a Mission on The Prufening Aircraft Factory at Regensburg Germany. (1) Crewman Was Killed.
Nine crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs. Released in 1945. MACR 3178
29282 (740th BS, 455th BG, 15th AF, based at San Giovanni airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Shot down Apr 2, 1944 by Bf 109G-6 flown by unknown pilot and unit and crashed at Deutschlandsberg, Austria
while om mission to ball bearing factor at Steyr, Austria. 5 crew killed, 5 bailed and became POW. MACR 3368
29284 (461st BG, 765th BS, "The Plastered Bastard") W/o 7 Aug 1944 at Torretta, Italy, condemned Jul 27, 1945.
29285 (456th BG, 744th BS, 15th AF, based at Stornara Airfield, Cerignola, Italy)
Hit by AAA Jun 13, 1944 Over Munich, Germany While on a on The Marshalling Yards at Mission to
Munich, Germany. While Returning From Mission With Control Cables Broken By Flak. Aircraft Went
into a Spin and Crashed in The Gulf of Venice. (6) Crew Were Killed. (4) Crew Bailed Out and Were
Rescued By Air Sea Rescue. MACR 5858
29286 (458th BG, 753rd BS, 8th AF, based at RAF Horsham St. Faith Airfield, Station USAAF-123, Norfolk, England)
Shot down by flak Mar 6, 1944 while o mission to Daimler Benz motor works at Berlin, Germanu.
Aircraft crashed 10 km E of Almelo, near Tubberge, Holland. Four crew killed, 6 bailed out (4 were
caputred and became POW, 2 evaded capture. MACR 3346
29287 720th Bombardment Squadron 450th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy
Landed Apr 20, 1944 From Unknown Cause a Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy. All Crew Survived.
Aircraft Badly Damaged. Unknown if Repaired.
29288 (458th BG, 755th BS, "Big Time Operator")
29289 764th Bombardment Squadron 461st Bombardment Group 15th Air Force "Battle Crate"
Torretto Airfield Cerignola Italy
Crashed Juil 3, 1944 Near Trebijne Yugoslavia After Number (2), (3), and (4) Engines Failed While
Returning From a Mission on The Mogasaia Oil Storage at Bucharest Rumania. Aircraft Burst into
Flames on Impact. (1) Crewman Was Killed. (9) Crew Bailed Out and Evaded Capture With Help From Partisans.
MACR 6377
29290 (455th BG, 741st BS, 15th AF, based at San Giovanni airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Collided with B-24H 42-64456 that was hit by AAA in midair over Porto San Stefano, Italy Apr 28, 1944
while om mission to port at San Stefano, Italy. Aircraft crashed and exploded on impact. All 10 crew
killed. MACR 4620
29291 (760th BS, 460th BG, 15th AF, "Miss Fortune", based at Spinazzola Airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Shot Down Jun 30, 1944 By Gunfire From German Messerschmitt Me 410A and Crashed Near Lake Balaton, Hungary
While on a Mission on The South Synthetic Oil Refinery at Blechhammer, Germany. Me 410A Flown By Unknown
Pilot of ZG 76/2. (3) Crew Were Killed. (7) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs. Released in 1945.
MACR 6394. Body of missing tail gunner recovered Aug 2007 near Nemesvita, Hungary beside Lake Balaton.
29292 (446th BG, 705th BS, 8th AF) shot down by Fw 190A-7 flown by Hptm Rolf-Gunther Hermichen of JG 11/I Stab
Mar 8, 1944 on mission to Erkner, Germany. All 10 crew KIA. MACR 2964
29293 (459th BG) 758th Bombardment Squadron 459th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Giulia Airfield Foggia Italy
Lost Feb 8, 1944 From Unknown Cause Over The Atlantic Ocean After Leaving Fortaleza Brazil For
Dakar Africa While on a Ferry Flight. Never Heard From Again. All (10) Crew Were Killed. MACR 2448.
Roger Freeman has this one becoming formation assembly ship Pete the PQM Inspector of 467th BG after
42-40370 was written off.
29294 (512th BS, 376th BG, 15th AF) shot down by Bf 109G-6 flown by Fw. Hans-Wilhelm Schellner of JG 302/2 while returning from
mission to Yakia Apollo oil refinery, Brataslava, Czechoslovakia and crashed S of Somoroa, Hungary
Jun 16, 1944. MACR 6033. 8 crew killed, 2 bailed out and became POW. Released in 1945
29295 (458th BG, 754th BS, 8th AF, *Bomb Totin' Mama*, based at RAF Horsham St. Faith Airfield, Station USAAF-123,
Norfolk, England) shot down Apr 9, 1944 By Gunfire From German Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-6 and Crashed 3.5 km Southwest
of Wintermoor, Germany While on a Mission on The Airfield at Tutow, Germany. Fw 190A-6 Flown By
Unknown Pilot and Unit. (3) Crew Were Killed. (7) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs.
MACR 3836
29296 (455th BG, 740th BS, 15th AF, based at San Giovanni airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Collided with B-24H 42-64497 in midair Mar 19, 1944 and crashed near Tremiti Island, Italy in the
Adriatic Sea while on mission to Austria. All 10 crew killed. MACR 4021
29298 (458th BG, 755th BS, 8th AF, based at RAF Horsham St. Faith Airfield, Station USAAF-123, Norfolk, England)
Crashed Mar 3, 1944 From Unknown Cause in The North Sea While on a Mission on The Daimler Benz Aircraft
Works at Berlin, Germany. Aircraft Signaled They Were Had Trouble and Were Returning to Base.
Never Seen Again. All (10) Crew Were Killed. MACR 3347
29299 (458th BG, 754th BS, 8th AF, based at RAF Horsham St. Faith Airfield, Station USAAF-123, Norfolk, England)
Shot down by AAA and crashed into Zuider Zee near Nijkerk, Holland Mar 6, 1944 While on a Mission to
The Daimler Benz Auto Works in Berlin, Germany. All (10) Crew Bailed Out and (4) Were Captured and
Became POWs. (6) Crew Evaded Capture. MACR 3348. Parts recovered 1983;Nijkerk
29300 (458th BG, 755th BS, 8th AF, based at RAF Horsham St. Faith Airfield, Station USAAF-123, Norfolk, England)
Crashed Jul 11, 1944 From Unknown Cause in The North Sea While on a Mission on The Marshalling Yards at
Munich, Germany. All (10) Crew Were Killed. MACR 6927
29301 (732nd BS, 453rd BG, 8th AF, based at RAF Old Buckenham Airfield, Station USAAF-144, Norfolk, England)
Assigned to 732nd BS, 453rd BG, 8th Air Force in December 1943. (Original Aircraft).
Last Mission Flown on September 17, 1944. Returned to U.S.A. in 1945. Scrapped at Altus Oklahoma
October 29, 1945.
29302 (752nd BS, 458th BG, 8th AF, based at RAF Horsham St. Faith Airfield, Station USAAF-123, Norfolk, England)
Crashed on landing Apr 29, 1944 at RAF Horsham St Faith, UK. All 10 crew survived, aircraft was destroyed.
29303 (752nd BS, 458th BG, 8th AF, based at RAF Horsham St. Faith Airfield, Station USAAF-123, Norfolk, England)
Landing accident Jul 15, 1944 atRAF Horsham St. Faith Airfield. All 10 crew survived, aircraft badly
damaged, unknown if repaired.
29305 (458th BG, 755th BS, "I'll Be Back", laer "Hypochondriac")
29306 (700th BS, 445th BG, 8th AF based at RAF Tibenham)
Shot Down Apr 22, 1944 By Anti-Aircraft Fire and Crashed at Espierres 12 km North of Tournai, Belgium
While on a Mission on The Marshalling Yards at Hamm Germany. (2) Crew Were Killed. (8) Crew Bailed
Out and (7) Were Captured and Became POWs. (1) Crewman Evaded Capture. MACR 4172
29307 (449th BG) declared war weary and assigned to administrative work Sep 1944. Missing on flight
from Grottaglia, Italy to Naples Dec 10, 1944 with crew of 4 and 12 passengers. Found in
deep gorge SE of Naples July 1945. MACR 10576
29309 (719th BS, 4490th BG, 15th AF, based at Grottaglie Airfield, Taranto, Italy)
Take off Accident May 4, 1944 at Grottaglie Airfield, Taranto, Italy. All (10) Crew Survived.
Aircraft Badly Damaged. Salvaged on August 11, 1944.
29310 (738th BS, 454th BG, 15th AF, based at San Giovanni Airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Shot down Mar 19, 1944 By Anti-Aircraft Fire in The Wildon Austria Area After Attacked By
German BF 109G-6 Fighters While on a Mission to Steyr, Austria. All (10) Crew Were Killed. MACR 3466
29312 (745th BS, 456th BG, 15th AF, based at Stornara Airfield, Cerignola, Italy)
Crashed 3 Apr 1944 at Ortanova, Italy Due to Engine Failure. All (10) Crew Survived. Aircraft Was Destroyed. Washed Out.
29313 (461st BG, 766th BS) crashed Jul 22, 1944
29314 (763rd BS, 460th BG, 15th AF, based at Spinazzola Airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Landing Accident Mar 4, 1944 at Spinazzola Airfield, Foggia, Italy. All (10) Crew Survived. Aircraft Badly Damaged.
Unknown if Repaired.
29315 757th Bombardment Squadron 459th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Giulia Airfield Foggia Italy
Shot Down Mar 3, 1944 By Gunfire From German Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-6 Near Viterbo Italy While on
a Mission on The Airfield at Viterbo Italy. Fw 190A-6 Flown By Unknown Pilot and Unit.
(9) Crew Were Killed. (1) Bailed Out and Was Captured and Became a POW. Released in 1945. MACR 3296
(NOTE) MACR Has Serial Number as (41-25315) Which is a PT-17
29317 759th Bombardment Squadron 459th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Giulia Airfield Foggia Italy
Taxiing Accident Jan 22, 1944 at Waller Field Trinidad in The Caribbean While on a Ferry Flight.
All (10) Crew Survived. Aircraft Was Destroyed. Washed Out
39318 758th Bombardment Squadron 459th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Giulia Airfield Foggia Italy
Shot Down May 6, 1944 by Anti-Aircraft Fire Over Campina Rumania While on a Mission on
Campina Rumania. Left Wing Broke off at Number (1) Engine and Aircraft Went into a Spin and
Crashed and Exploded on Impact. (6) Crew Were Killed. (4) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured
and Became POWs. Released in 1945. MACR 4668
29319 757th Bombardment Squadron 459th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Giulia Airfield Foggia Italy
Hit By Anti-Aircraft Fire Jul 15, 1944 in Number (3) Engine and Crashed at Dudraj Yugoslavia
While Returning From a Mission on The Oil Refineries at Ploesti Rumania. All (9) Crew Bailed
Out and Were Captured and Became POWs. Released in 1945. MACR 6861
29320 (763rd BS, 460th BG, 15th AF, based at Spinazzola Airfield, Foggia, Italy
Collided Apr 5, 1944 With B-24H (42-52375) in Mid Air and Exploded and Crashed at Altamura, Italy While
on a Mission on The Marshalling Yards at Nis, Yugoslavia. All (10) Crew Were Killed. Aircraft Was Destroyed.
Washed Out.
29321 (461th BG, 767th BS) declared war-weary, returned to USA Jun 8, 1945
29322 759th Bombardment Squadron 459th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Giulia Airfield Foggia Italy
Aircraft Fate Unknown. Believed Scrapped
29324 (763rd BS, 460th BG, 15th AF, based at Spinazzola Airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Shot Down Apr 23, 1944 By Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6 and Crashed at Nagykanizsa, Hungary
While Returning From a Mission on The Nord Airfield at Wiener Neustadt, Austria. BF 109G-6 Flown By Unknown
Pilot and Unit. All (10) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs. Released in 1945. MACR 4394
29325 (461st BG, 765th BS, "Hare Power") transferred to 454th BG Jul 28, 1944
with 344th BS, 98th BG, 15th AF based at Lecce airfield, Lecce, Italy collided Mar 8, 1945
With B-24J (44-10599) in Mid Air Over Lecce Airfield, Leece, Italy. Able to Land. All Crew Survived.
Aircraft Badly Damaged. Unknown if Repaired.
29326 (763rd BS, 460th BG, 15th AF, based at Spinazzola Airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Shot Down Apr 23, 1944 By Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6 and Crashed and Exploded Near Altendorf,
Austria While Returning From a Mission on The Nord Airfield at Wiener Neustadt, Austria. (7) Crew Were Killed.
(3) Crew Bailed Out and (2) Were Captured and Became POWs. Released in 1945. (1) Crewman Evaded Capture. MACR 4397
29327 (760th BS, 460th BG, 15th AF, based at Spinazzola Airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Crashed Jul 8, 1944 at Afram, Yugoslavia Due to Flak Damage While Returning From a Mission on The Florisdorf
Oil Refinery at Vienna, Austria. (6) Crew Were Killed. (4) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs.
Released in 1945. MACR 6814
29329 (458th BG, 752nd BS, 8th AF, based at RAF Horsham St. Faith Airfield, Station USAAF-123, Norfolk, England)
Shot down Mar 23, 1944 By Anti-Aircraft Fire and Exploded in Mid Air and Broke Up Near Osnabruck, Germany
After Mission on Achmer Airfield 8 Miles Northwest of Osnabruck, Germany. All (10) Crew Were Killed.
(1) Crewman Was Seen to Bail Out But Did Not Have His Leg Straps Fastened and Slid Out of His
Parachute and Was Killed. MACR 3556.
29331 (458th BG, 755th BS, 8th AF, "Blondie's Folly", based at RAF Horsham St. Faith Airfield, Station USAAF-123,
Norfolk, England) damaged by German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6 fighter and
ditched in English Channel Mar 16, 1944 While Returning From a Mission on The Dornier Werke Aircraft
Factory at Friedrichshafen, Germany. BF 109G-6 Flown By Uffz. Heinz Gehrke of JG 26/11.
(8) Crew Were Killed. (2) Crew Survived and Rescued By RAF Search and Rescue. MACR 3490.
29332 (461st BG, 767th BS) transfereed to 47th BW Feb 28, 1944
722nd Bombardment Squadron 450th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy
Salvaged on April 17, 1945 at Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy Due to Non Battle Damage.
29333 (461st BG, 764th BS, "Stinky") W/o 4 Nov 1944 at Torretto, Italy, SBD Nov 5, 1944
29334 (461st BG, 764th BS, "Ol Bird") salvaged Jun 20, 1945.
29335 (461st BG, 764th BS, "Evil Weevil") salvaged Feb 11, 1945.
41-29336/29606 Consolidated B-24H-15-CF Liberator
MSN 435/705
29336 766th Bombardment Squadron 461st Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Torretto Airfield Cerignola Italy
Collided Apr 2, 1944 With B-24H (42-52388) in Mid Air Near Bihac Yugoslavia While on a Mission on
The Marshalling Yards at Bihac Yugoslavia. Aircraft Crashed. (1) Crewman Was Killed.
(9) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs. Released in 1945. MACR 4087
29337 766th Bombardment Squadron 461st Bombardment Group 15th Air Force 'Dwatted Wabbit'
Torretto Airfield Cerignola Italy. Attacked by German fighters Jul 12, 1944 during raid on Nimes, France
and hit water and broke in half when attempt failed to ditch in Mediterranean about
70 mi S of Porquerolles Island off Hyeres, Var Department, France. All ten crew killed. MACR 6808
29338 (461st BG, 764th BS, "Scrounch") transferred to 47th BW Feb 28, 1944.
723rd Bombardment Squadron 450th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy.
Shot Down Apr 25, 1944 By Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6 and Crashed 20 km South of
Forli Italy While on a Mission on The Marshalling Yards at Varese Italy.
BF 109G-6 Flown By Obstlt. Helmut Bennemann of JG 53/Stab. (1) Crewman Was Killed. (9) Crew Bailed Out
and Were Captured and Became POWs. Released in 1945. MACR 3209 and 4630.
3209 has loss date of Feb 23, 1944, and 4630 has the loss date
of Apr 25, 1944. 3209 may have the wrong serial number, but
the data about the incident and the crew is correct. A second
MACR (9093) was done to cover the wrong serial number mentioned
in 3209.
29339 (760th BS, 460th BG, 15th AF, based at Spinazzola Airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Crashed Feb 19, 1944 Due to Weather at Acerenza, Italy. Unknown Number of Crew Were Killed. Aircraft Was Destroyed.
Washed Out.
29341 (461st BG, 767th BS) crashed Apr 20, 1944 at Toretto Field, Italy
29342 (458th BG, 755th BS, 8th AF, based at RAF Horsham St. Faith Airfield, Station USAAF-123, Norfolk, England)
Crashed Sep 9, 1944 Koblenz, Germany Due to Engine Failure While on a Mission on The Marshalling
Yards at Mainz, Germany. Aircraft Turned Over on its Back and Crashed and Exploded on Impact.
All (9) Crew Bailed Out and (2) Were Captured and Became POWs. (7) Crew Evaded Capture. MACR 8610.
29343 756th Bombardment Squadron 459th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Giulia Airfield Foggia Italy
Shot Down May 6, 1944 By Anti-Aircraft Fire and Crashed About 3 Miles From Bor Yugoslavia
While Returning From a Mission on Campina Rumania. All (10) Crew Bailed Out and Evaded
Capture and Returned. MACR 4757
29344 756th Bombardment Squadron 459th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Giulia Airfield Foggia Italy
Shot Down May 6, 1944 By Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6 Near Campulung Rumania While
on a Mission on Campina Rumania. Aircraft Exploded in Mid Air. BF 109G-6 Flown By
Unknown Pilot and Unit. (5) Crew Were Killed. (5) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured
and Became POWs. Released in 1945.MACR 4888
29345 723rd Bombardment Squadron 450th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy
Crashed Jun 9, 1944 Near Trieste Italy in The Adriatic Sea Due to Mechanical Failure While on a
Mission on The Oberpfaffenhofen Airfield at Munich Germany. (6) Crew Were Killed. (5) Crew Bailed Out
and Were Captured and Became POWs. Released in 1945. MACR 6091
29346 crashed on maiden flight from Ford Willow Run Nov 30, 1943.
29347 (782nd BS, 465th BG, 15th AF, "Alley Oop") crashed from unknown cause Jul 28, 1944, Raska, Yugoslavia
while on mission to oil refineries at Ploesti, Rumania. MACR 7106. All 9 crew bailed out, 6 became POW,
3 evaded capture.
29348 (788th BS, 467th BG, 8th AF) in taxi accident at 4 Apr 1944 at RAF Rackheath, UK. All 10 crew
survived, but aircraftwas destroyed.
29349 (464th BG) crashed 11 mi SW of Pocatello Jan 20, 1944. 7 killed.
29350 (466th BG, 785th BS, 8th AF) shot down by AAA and crashed in English Channel
off Granville, France July 18, 1944. MACR 8163. 4 crew killed, 6 survived and became POW.
29351 (779th BS, 464th BG, 15th AF, "Paper Doll", based at Pantanella Airfield, Cerignola, Italy)
Crashed and burned Aug 25, 1944 8 km South of Predlitz, Austria After Ran Out of Fuel While
Returning From a Mission on The Airfield at Prostejov Czechoslovakia. All (10) Crew Bailed
Out and Were Captured and Became POWs. MACR 8391.
29353 (466th BG, 786th BS, 8th AF) shot down b Fw 190A-6 flown by unknown pilot
and unit Apr 11, 1944 and crashed at Dielmissen, 22 km SW of Hildesheim, Germany.
MACR 3839. 2 crew killed, 8 bailed out and became POW.
29354 (459th BG) lost Feb 14, 1944 in Atlantic Ocean. MACR 2447
29356 (781st BS, 465th BG, 15th AF) shot down by Bf 109G-6 flown by unknown pilot and unit May 30, 1944
and crashed NE of Zagreb, Yugoslavia while returning from mission to Neudorfl, Austria. MACR 5438.
2 crew killed, 8 bailed out and evaded capture.
29359 (458th BG, 755th BS, , 8th AF, "Tailwind") ditched from unknown cause in English Channel Aug 5, 1944
while on mission to Brunswick, Germany. MACR 8675. One crewman killed, 9 were rescued.
29360 (783rd BS, 465th BG, 15th AF) shot down by AAA and crashed SW of Lake Balaton, Hungary Sep 10, 1944
while on mission to Vienna, Austria. MACR 8374. All 10 crew bailed out and became POW.
29361 (779th BS, 464th BG, 15th AF, based at Pantanella Airfield Cerignola Italy)
Ditched from unknown cause off Lastovo Island, Yugoslavia in Adriatic Sea Jun 2, 1944 while
returning from attack on marshaling yards at Cluj, Rumania. 4) Crew Were Killed. (6) Crew Survived
and Were Rescued. MACR 6320. 4 KIA.
29362 764th Bombardment Squadron 461st Bombardment Group 15th Air Force "Lucky Seven"
Torretto Airfield Cerignola Italy
Crash Landed Jul 22, 1944 3 Miles West of Alexandria Rumania Due to Engine Failure While Returning
From a Mission on The Romana Americana Oil Refinery at Ploesti Rumania. (6) Crew Bailed Out.
(1) Crewman Was Killed When He Slipped Out of His Parachute. (5) Crew Stayed With Aircraft.
(10) Crew Evaded Capture. MACR 6853
29363 (467th BG, 789th BS, 8th AF) lost Aug 5, 1944. MACR 7377. Aircraft shot down by Bf 109G-6
flown by Lt Johann Funder of JG 53/III Stab while leaving target at Brunswick, Germany. Crew
of 10 bailed out near Minden. 7 crew members may have been murdered by civilians,
3 made POW.
29364 (784th BS, 466th BG, 8th AF) crashed shortly after takeoff 27 Mar 1944 at Gressenhall,
Norfolk, UK. All 10 crew killed.
29365 (466th BG, 787th BS, 8th AF) shot down by Fw 10A-8/R8 Apr 8, 1944 at Suelfeld, 1 km W of
Fallersleben, Germany. MACR 3840. All 10 crew bailed out, one was killed on bailout,
9 became POW.
29367 (461st BG, 765th BS, "Lady Bird") damaged in ground explosion at Torretto, Italy May 8, 1944.
29368 (467th BG, 789th BS, 8th AF) shot down by AAA between Ramecourt and Escalles, 4 km S of
Sangatte, France Jul 11, 1944 and crashed into North Sea while returning from mission to
Munich, Germany. MACR 6931. 3 crew killed, 7 bailed out and became POW.
29369 crashed near Tarskavaig on island of Skye Jul 23, 1945 while flying from RAF Valley
to Meeks Field, Iceland. All 13 onboard killed.
29371 (466th BG, 786th BS, 8th AF) shot down by AAA near Britagny, France Jun 25, 1944. MACR 6723
6 crew killed, 4 bailed out and became POW.
29373 (788th BS, 467th BG, 8th AF) shot down by AAA over Hamburg, Germany Aug 6, 1944. MACR 7378.
1 crewman killed, 9 bailed out and became POW.
29374 (466th BG, 785th BS, 8th AF) shot down by AAA Aug 9, 1944 at Rozenburg, The Netherlands.
MACR 7380. 2 crew killed, 8 bailed out and became POW.
29376 (450th BG, 722nd BS) crashed after crew bailed out at Pierrefeu du Var in southern France Apr 29, 1944
on mission to Toulon. 12 crew bailed out and became POW. MACR 4837
29377 (465th BG, 783rd BS, 15th AF) shot down by Bf 109G-6 flown by unknownpilot of JG 3 and
crashed Hauland, Stams, Austria Aug 3, 1944 while returning frm mission to Friedrichshafen, Germany. MACR 7532.
All 10 crew bailed out and became POW.
29378 ("Homeward Bound" lost Dec 24, 1944.
29379 (777th BS, 464th BG, 15th AF, based at Pantanella Airfield, Cerignola, Italy)
Shot down Jun 6, 1944 By Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6 and Crashed Near Brasov, Rumania
While Returning From a Mission on The Oil Refineries at Ploesti, Rumania. BF 109G-6 Flown By Unknown
Pilot of JG 53. (1) Crewman Was Killed. (10) Crew Bailed Out and Evaded Capture. MACR 6098.
29380 to RFC at Altus, OK Sep 28, 1945
29381 (760th BS, 460th BG, 15th AF, based at Spinazzola Airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Lost Feb 19, 1944 From Unknown Cause Between Tunisia, North Africa and Foggia, Italy While on a Ferry Flight
From Oudna Airfield, Tunisia, North Africa to Spinazzola Airfield, Foggia, Italy. All (10) Crew and (4) Passengers
Were Killed. MACR 2822
29382 (777th BS, 464th BG, 15th AF, *Lucky Lady*, based at Pantanella Airfield, Cerignola, Italy)
shot down by AAA and fighters May 25, 1944 3 km East of Agay 25 km Southwest of Cannes, France
and Crashed in L'Esterel Forest, France While on a Mission to Givors, France. Crew of 9 KIA,
pilot bailed out and was captured but died Aug 25, 1944 in German
hospital. MACR 5055. There is a memorial put at the crash site by the city of
St. Raphael, but the serial number on the memorial is 41-29582, which is wrong.
29384 (787th BS, 466th BG, 8th AF, based at RAF Attlebridge, USAAF Station 120, Norfolk, England)
Crash landed 28 May 1944 at RAF Attlebridge, Norfolk, England due to engine failure. All crew survived,
aircraft was destroyed.
29386 W/o 2 May 1945 at Strangford, UK
29387 (466th BG, 785th BS, 8th AF) crash landed at RAF Manston, Kent after returning
from mission to Clastres, France Aug 8, 1944. Aircraft was put through violent actions
to avoid flak over France. 4 crew bailed out over Lille, France and became POW. MACR 7381
6 stayed with the plane and survived, aircraft was destroyed.
29388 to RFC at Altus, OK Aug 9, 1945
29391 (466th BG, 787th BS, 8th AF) shot down by Fw 190A-8 flown by Oblt Heinz Helmut Brandes
of JG 11/8 and crashed 3 km W of Boostedt, Germany Jun 13, 1944. MACR 4824. 8 crew
killed, 2 bailed out and became POW.
29393 "Shoo Shoo Baby’. After minor battle damage during combat, the nose of Shoo Shoo Baby was modified
to resemble a “D” model. Transferred to the 467th Bombardment Group and became the second assembly
aircraft of the Group as 41-29393WW named ‘Pete The Pom Inspector 2nd’.
29394 (778th BS, 464th BG, 15th AF, *Big Ed*, based at Gioia del Colle Airfield, Apulia, Italy)
Crash landed on Corsica May 25, 1944 While on a Mission on The Marshalling Yards at Givors, France.
All (10) Crew Survived. Aircraft Was Destroyed..
29396 W/o 7 Feb 1944 at Wendover Field, UT; repaired (?); crashed on takeoff at Dakar, French West Africa Mar 25, 1944.
4 crew killed.
29397 to RFC at Altus, OK Sep 14, 1945.
29398 (779th BS, 464th BG, 15th AF, "The Black Fox", based at Pantanella Airfield, Cerignola, Italy)
Shot down Jul 16, 1944 By Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6 and Crashed at Andau, Austria
While on a Mission on The Aircraft Engine Factory at Wiener Neudorf, Austria. Believed BF 109G-6
Flown By Uffz. Walter Berlinska of JG 302/2. All (10) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs.. MACR 6903.
29399 (466th BG, 784th BS, 8th AF) crashed from unknown cause Apr 29, 1944 at Hellendoorn,
The Netherlands. MACR 4448. 9 crew bailed out (8 became POW, one evaded capture)
29400 Transfered on January 1, 1945 From 834th BS 486th BG to 716th BS 449th BG,
based at Grottaglie Airfield, Taranto, Italy. Declared War Weary at Grottaglie Airfield,
Taranto, Italy on April 19, 1945 and Flown to Gioia Depot Italy. Aircraft Fate Unknown But Believed Scrapped.
29401 (514th BS, 376th BG, 15th AF) shot down by AAA and crashed near Zagreb, Yugoslavia Feb 7, 1945,
while on mission to Moosbierbaum, Austria. MACR 12143. All 11 crew survived and evaded capture.
29402 (466th BG, 786th BS, "The Mad Monk") hit trees while taking
off from Attlebridge Jul 25, 1944 and crashlanded at Swanton-Morley, UK. Condemned for salvage.
29404 (790th BS, 467th BG, 8th AF) in landing accident 20 Mar 1944 at RAF Rackheath, UK.
All 10 crew survived, but aircraft was destroyed.
29405 (721st Bombardment Squadron 450th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy
Transfered From 465th Bombardment Group in 1944. Salvaged on November 23, 1944 Due to Battle Damage
29406 (780th BS, 465th BG, 15th AF) crashed at st Peter Bolzani, 15 km W of Klausen, Italy Sep 12, 1944
after 2 engines failed while returning from mission to Wasserburg, Germany. MACR 8443. All 9 crew
bailed out and became POW.
29407 (742nd BS, 455th BG, 15th AF, based at San Giovanni airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Shot down Apr 2, 1944 by Bf 109G-6 flown by unknown pilot unit and crashed near Litva, Yugoslavia
while on mission to ball bearing factor at Steyr, Austria. All 10 crew bailed out 5 became POW,
5 evaded capture. MACR 3464
29408 (790th BS, 467th BG, 8th AF) based at RAF Rackheath Airfield, Station USAAF-145, Norfolk, England)
Crashed 15 Oct 1944 into North Sea due to engine failure. All 10 crew survived, aircraft was lost.
One source has it converted to CB-24H
29409 W/o 6 Feb 1944 at Wendover Field, UT
29410 (776th BS, 464th BG, 15th AF, "Pappy's Puss/Pappy's Pride", based at Pantanella Airfield, Cerignola, Italy)
Shot Down Jun 6, 1944 By Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6 Northwest of Ploesti, Rumania While
Returning From a Mission on The Oil Refineries at Ploesti, Rumania. BF 109G-6 Flown By Unknown
Pilot of JG 53. All (10) Crew Bailed Out and Unknown if Captured or Evaded But Were Later
Returned to Military Control. MACR 5455
29411 (704th BS, 446th BG) crashed on landing at RAF
Woodvale Oct 25, 1944, 5 injured, 7 killed.
29412 (464th BG, 778th BS, 15th AF, *Strictly From Hunger*, based at Gioia del Colle Airfield, Apulia, Italy)
Shot down May 25, 1944 By Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6 After Hit By Flak and Crashed
at Croix de Gardes, Cannes, France While Returning From a Mission on The Marshalling Yards at
Givors, France. BF 109G-6 Flown By Unknown Pilot & Unit. (7) Crew Killed. (3) Crew Bailed Out and
were Captured and Became POWs. MACR 5415
29414 (781st BS, 465th BG, 15th AF) crashed near Dunafoldvar, Hungary Dec 18, 1944 due to mechanical
failure while returning from mission to Brux, Czechosolvakia. MACR 10637. All 10 crew bailed out and
evaded capture.
29415 (781st BS, 465th BG, 15th AF) shot down at Zagreb, Yugoslavia by Bf 109G-6 flown by unknown pilot
and unit Jul 16, 1944 while om mission to Wiener Neudorf, Austria. MACR 7196. All 10 crew bailed out and became POW.
29416 (466th BG, 786th BS, 8th AF) shot down by AA and then collided with B-24H 41-29434
and crashed W of Oranienburg, Germany Mar 22, 1944 while on mission to Berlin, Germany.
MACR 3491. 8 crew killed, 2 bailed out and became POW.
29417 (779th BS, 464th BG, 15th AF, based at Pantanella Airfield, Cerignola, Italy)
Landing accident 28 Sep 1944 at Pantanella AAB, Italy. All (10) Crew Survived. Aircraft Was Destroyed. Washed Out.
29418 (44th BG, 68th BS) crashed due to ice buildup Apr 21, 1944, Taverham Mill
Lake near Norwich, UK. 8 crew killed, 2 bailed out and survived. Aircraft was destroyed.
29420 (791st BS, 467th BG, 8th AF) crashlanded 25 Aug 1944 at Belton, Suffolk, UK while returning from
mission to Lubeck, Germany after ran out of fuel. All 10 crew bailed out and survived, aircraft
was destroyed. Aircraft salvaged Sep 4/5, 1944.
29421 (467th BG, 791st BS, 8th AF) shot down by AAA over Hamburg, Germany Aug 6, 1944. MACR 7374.
7 crew killed, 3 bailed out and became POW.
29422 (784th BS, 466th BG, 8th AF) shot down by Fw 190A-6 believed flown by Oblt Fritz Kalbr
of JG 11/9 N of Hannover, Germany Apr 8, 1944, Germany. MACR 3841.
One crewman killed, 9 bailed out and became POW.
29423 (466th BG, 787th BS, 8th AF) shot down by Fw 190A-6 flown by unknown pilot and
unit and crashed at Ranzal Diepholz, Germany Apr 11, 1944 while on mission to Oschersleben,
Germany. MACR 3797. 9 crew killed, one bailed out and became POW.
29424 (783rd BS, 465th BG, 15th AF) shot down SW of Tieberslhlag, Czechoslovakia by Bf 109G-6
flown by Uffz Heinemann of JG 3/16 Aug 24, 1944 while on mission to Pardubice, Czecholslovakia. MACR 8085
2 crew killed, 10 bailed out and 9 became POW.
29426 (725th BS, 451st BG, 15th AF, based at Castelluccio Airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Landing accident 21 Dec 1944 at Foggia main airfield, Italy Due to Weather While on a Ferry Flight
Returning Personnel From Naples, Italy. All (18) Crew and Passengers Survived. Aircraft Was Destroyed.
Washed Out. Condemned on December 22, 1944. Aircraft had been Declared War Weary in November 1944.
29427 577th Bombardment Squadron 392nd Bombardment Group 8th Air Force (RAF Wendling Airfield) Station USAAF-118,
Norfolk, England. Aircraft Exploded in Mid Air Apr 29, 1944 Over RAF Wendling while in a Landing Pattern
While Returning From a Mission to Berlin, Germany. Aircraft Had Suffered Extensive Battle Damage Over Germany.
All (10) Crew Were Killed.
29428 (449th BG, 719th BS, 15th AF, "Patches", based at Grottaglie Airfield, Taranto, Italy)
Shot down Jul 14, 1944 By Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6 South of Budapest, Hungary
While on a Mission to Budapest. Hungary. Aircraft Caught Fire and Exploded in Mid Air.
BF 109G-6 Flown By Unknown Pilot and Unit. (2) Crew Were Killed. (8) Crew Bailed Out and Were
Captured and Became POWs. MACR 6823
29431 (44th BG, 506th BS, *Shoo Shoo Baby*) damaged by flak and interned at Dubendorf, Switzerland Mar 18, 1944.
MACR 3405
29432 W/o 21 Jan 1944 at Rock Springs, WY
29433 (392 BG, 576 BS) crash-landed May 29, 1944
at Sporle, near Little Fransham, UK.
29434 (466th BG, 786th BS, 8th AF) collided in midair with B-24H 41-29416 that had just
been shot down Mar 22, 1944 and crashed W of Oranienburg, Germany while on
mission to Berlin, Germany. MACR 3492. 5 crew killed, 5 bailed out and became POW.
29435 (514th BS, 376th BG, 15th AF) shot down by AA Apr 23, 1944, and crashed near Zagreb, Yugoslavia
while on mission to Schwechat, Austria. MACR 4353. All 11 crew bailed, out, 3 became POW, 8 evaded capture
29436 (736th BS, 454th BG, 15th AF, based at San Giovanni Airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Shot down May 7, 1944 By Anti-Aircraft Fire and Crashed 2 Miles Northeast of Prokuplja, Yugoslavia
While on a Mission on The Marshalling Yards at Bucharest, Rumania. (8) Crew Were Killed. (2) Crew
Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs. MACR 4663
29438 56th Bombardment Squadron 459th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force "Fearless Fosdick" Giulia Airfield Foggia Italy
Crashed Jul 2, 1944 From Unknown Cause South of Budapest Hungary While on a Mission on The
Marshalling Yards at Budapest Hungary. (1) Crewman Was Killed. (8) Crew Bailed Out and
Were Captured and Became POWs. Released in 1945.. MACR 6331
29439 (466th BG, 787th BS, 8th AF, "Gallopin' Ghost") crashed near Lyancourt,
France Sept 24, 1944 due to engine failure while returning from leaflet dropping mission
at St Dizier, France. All 6 crew killed. MACR 15774
29440 757th Bombardment Squadron 459th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Giulia Airfield Foggia Italy
Take off Accident May 30, 1944 at Giulia Airfield Foggia Italy While on a Mission on The
Airfield at Wels Austria. All (9) Crew Survived. Aircraft Was Destroyed. Washed Out.
29441 (777th BS, 464th BG, 15th AF, "Southern Comfort", based at Pantanella Airfield, Cerignola, Italy)
Shot down Oct 17, 1944 By Anti-Aircraft Fire at Ebergassing, Austria While on a Mission on The
South Ordnance Depot at Vienna, Austria. Aircraft Exploded in Mid Air Blowing Both Wings off.
(9) Crew Were Killed. (1) Crewman Bailed Out and Was Captured by AAA crew and Became a POW. MACR 9209.
29443 720th Bombardment Squadron 450th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy
Aircraft Exploded Apr 16, 1944 After Refueling Auxiliary Power Unit at Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy
While Loading Bombs For Mission. Believe Gasoline Spilled Inside Aircraft During Refueling Auxiliary
Power Unit. Bombs in Front Bomb Bay Exploded. (4) Personnel Were Killed. Aircraft Was Destroyed. Washed Out.
29444 (777th BS, 464th BG, 15th AF, based at Gioia del Colle Airfield, Apulia, Italy)
Crashed May 27, 1944 East of Ferrera, Italy Due to Very Low on Fuel While Returning From a
Mission on The Marshalling Yards at Nimes, France. All (10) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured
and Became POWs. MACR 6124
29445 (791st BS< 467th BG, 8th AF) crashed during wheels-up belly landing 8 Jun 1944 at RAF Rackheath, UK.
All 10 crew survived, but aircraft was destroyed.
29447 (733rd BS, 453rd BG, 8th AF, based at RAF Old Buckenham Airfield, Station USAAF-144, Norfolk, England)
Crash landed 11 May 1944 at Forncett, Norfolk, England After Ran Out of Fuel While Returning From a
Mission to Chaumont, France. All (10) Crew Survived. Aircraft Was Destroyed. Washed Out.
Salvaged From May 12 to 14, 1944.
29448 577th Bombardment Squadron 392nd Bombardment Group 8th Air Force (RAF Wendling Airfield) Station USAAF-118,
Norfolk, England. Flew (73) Missions. Returned to U.S.A. in June 1945 and Scrapped.
29449 (466th BG, 786th BS, 8th AF) shot down by Fw 190A-8 flown by unknown pilot of
JG 300 and crashed 2 km W of Zuidveen, 5 km SW of Steenwijk, The Netherlands Aug 15, 1944.
MACR 8429. 5 crew killed, 5 bailed out (4 became POW, one evaded capture)
29450 (467th BG, 791st BS, 8th AF) shot down by AA and crashed 2 km NE of Peenemunde, Germany
May 29, 1944. MACR 5225. 4 crew killed, 6 became POW.
29451 lost May 9, 1944. MACR 4933. 567th Bombardment Squadron 389th Bombardment Group 8th Air Force
(RAF Hethel Airfield) Station USAAF-114 Norfolk England
Crashed in The English Channel After Hit By Gunfire From Another B-24 Testing its Guns While on a
Mission on The Airfield at Florennes Belgium. Aircraft Caught Fire and Went into a Spin. Some Crew
Bailed Out and (8) Crew Were Killed Some Died While in The Water. (2) Crew Were Rescued By Air Sea
Rescue Boat an Hour Later.
29452 (754th BS, 458th BG, 8th AF, based at RAF Horsham St. Faith Airfield, Station USAAF-123, Norfolk, England)
Landing Accident SDep 30, 1944 at RAF Watton Airfield, Station USAAF-376, Norfolk, England While Returning
From a Fuel Supply Mission to France. All (10) Crew Survived. Aircraft Badly Damaged. Unknown if Repaired.
29453 (*Big Fat Mama*) involved in midair collision with 42-52454 May 2, 1944 on raid to Parma, Italy.
Recovered to Corsica.
with 779th BS, 464th BG, 15th AF, based at Pantanella Airfield, Cerignola, Italy
Crashed Feb 2, 1945 During Landing Making a Wheels Up Belly Landing After Landing Gear Collapsed
on The Runway at Pantanella Airfield, Cerignola. Italy While Returning From a Mission to
Linz, Austria. All (10) Crew Survived. Aircraft Badly Damaged. Salvaged.
29455 721st Bombardment Squadron 450th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy
Taxiing Accident Feb 24, 1945 at Foggia Main Airfield Foggia Italy Due to Pilot Error. Pilot Taxied
Over Rough Ground and Over a Drainage Ditch and Buckled The Nose Wheel While Taxiing to Taxi Strip
For Take off. All (4) Crew Survived. Aircraft Damaged. Aircraft Repaired. Fate Unknown.
29456 (328th BS, 93rd BG, 8th AF) made forced landing in Russian-held territory Feb 26, 1945 while on mission to
Berlin, Germany. MACR 12793. All 10 crew survived and returned. Fate of aircraft unknown.
29457 757th Bombardment Squadron 459th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Giulia Airfield Foggia Italy
Aircraft Fate Unknown. Believed Scrapped.
29458 (464th BG, "Shoo Shoo Baby", "Black Y") crashed on passenger flight
2 miles from base at Pantanella, Italy Jan 1, 1945.
29460 (716th BS, 449th BG, 15th AF, based at Grottaglie Airfield, Taranto, Italy)
Crashed Aug 26, 1944 at Ulcinj, Montenegro After Ran Out of Fuel While Returning From a Mission on
The Ferry Terminal at Giurgiu, Rumania. (1) Crewman Was Killed. (10) Crew Bailed Out and (7) Were
Captured and Became POWs. (3) Crew Evaded Capture. MACR 8334
29461 (486th BG, 835th BS, 8th AF,*Monty*) left undercarriage leg failed on landing,
aircraft DBR May 16, 1944 at RAF Sudbury, UK. All crew survived, aircraft was destroyed.
29462 W/o 5 Mar 1944 at Waller Field, Trinidad
29463 W/o 4 Jun 1944 at Olmsted Field, PA
29464 (491st BG, 853rd BS, 8th AF) shotdown by Fw 190A-8 flown by unknown pilot of JG 301 Nov 26, 1944
and crashed at Pattensen 12.5 km S of Hannover, Germany. MACR 10763. 4 crew killed, 5 bailed out
and became POW. Was "The Un-Limited") when with the 34th BG.
29465 (448th BG, 713rd BS, 8th AF, based at RAF Seething, Station USAAF-146, Norfolk, England)
Ditched in North Sea Aug 5, 1944 due to engine trouble while returning from mission to
Fallerslaben, Germany. Tail section broke off and sank on impact. 8 crew killed, 2 survived and
were rescued by air-sea rescue boat. MACR 8669
29466 (466th BG, 785th BS, 8th AF) collided in midair with B-24H 42-52587 and crashed
NW of Vollenhoven, Holland Mar 23, 1944. MACR 3456. All 9 crew killed.
Fuselage parts recovered 1981; Boswiede/Geithoorn
29467 (44th BG, 67th BS, 8th AF) shot down by AAA Apr 27, 1944 and crashed near Tilley-Floriville
25 km SW of Abbeville, France while on raid on Moyenneville, France. MACR 4257. 8 crew killed,
2 bailed out and became POW.
29468 (487th BG, 838th BS, 8th AF) shot down by AAA at Bretoncelles, 144 km W of Chartres,
France May 11, 1944. MACR 4750. All 11 crew bailed out and became POW.
29470 (492nd BG, 856th BS, 8th AF) shot down by AAA Jun 23, 1944, Brussels, Belgium. MACR 6242. 8 crew KIA,
2 bailed out and became POW.
29471 (44th BG, 68th BS, 8th AF) shot down by Fw 190A-7 flown by unknown pilot of JG 11 Apr 29, 1944, N of
Hannover, Germany. MACR 4472. 7 crew killed, 3 bailed out and became POw
29473 (493rd BG, 861st BS, 8th AF) shot down by AAA 2 mi W of Boussicourt, France Aug 18, 1944 while
on mission to Picardy, France. MACR 8413. 8 crew killed, 1 bailed out and became POW.
29474 579th Bombardment Squadron 392nd Bombardment Group 8th Air Force (RAF Wendling Airfield) Station USAAF-118,
Norfolk, England. Shot Down May 19, 1944 By Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6 Near Hessen, 21 km
Northwest of Wernigerode, Germany and Exploded in Mid Air While on a Mission on The Marshalling Yards at
Brunswick, Germany. All (10) Crew Were Killed. MACR 4936
29476 576th Bombardment Squadron 392nd Bombardment Group 8th Air Force (RAF Wendling Airfield) Station USAAF-118,
Norfolk, England. Named "Gashouse Gus". Crash Landed Mar 24, 1945 at Hechtel-Eksel, Belgium After Hit By Small Arms Fire
and (3) Engines Failed While on a Low Level Supply Mission For Allied Troops at Wesel, Germany.
All (9) Crew Survived But (2) Were Injured. Aircraft Was Destroyed. Salvaged on April 1, 1945 By 5th SAD.
29479 (448th BG, 715th BS, 8th AF, based at RAF Seething, Station USAAF-146, Norfolk, England)
Shot dwon by AAA Apr 29, 1944 and crashed on south coast of Bornholm, Denmark while returning from
mission to railroad facilities in Berlin, Germany. All 10 crew bailed out. One was killed when his
parachute failed to open. 4 became POW. 5 evaded capture. MACR 4488
29480 Conv to TB-24H
29481 (837th BS, 487th BG, 8th AF) based at RAF Lavenham. flown by 839th BS crew, damaged by AAA
and crashed May 5, 1944, Chichester, Sussex, UK on way back to base. Crew bailed out successfully
29482 (487th BG, 839th BS) cut in half at end of runway at
Lavenham when struck by landing 42-52745 May 30, 1944.
Crew OK.
29483 (701st BS, 445th BG, 8th AF based at RAF Tibenham) crash landed Jun 21, 1944 at RAF Tibenham Airfield.
All Crew Survived. Aircraft Badly Damaged. Salvaged.
29485 578th Bombardment Squadron 392nd Bombardment Group 8th Air Force (RAF Wendling Airfield) Station USAAF-118,
Norfolk, England. Collided Apr 9, 1944 With B-24J (42-99982) in Mid Air Over (RAF Foulsham Airfield),
Norfolk, England Due to Thick Overcast During Division Assembly While on a Mission on The Airfield
and Air Park at Tutow, Germany. Both Aircraft Disintegrated. (8) Crew Were Killed. (2) Crew Bailed Out
and Survived.
29486 (406th BS, "Old 486") salvaged after crash landing at Cheddington on return from
mission Dec 30/31, 1944.
29489 after combat career ended became formation assembly ship "The Striped Ape"
of 448th BG, replacing 42-63981 Feb 1945. Lead Assembly Ship for the 448th Bombardment Group,
712th Bombardment Squadron based at RAF Seething. Nick-named ‘Striped Ape II’.
29490 (725th BS/451st BG, "Gemini") salvaged Aug 9, 1945
29491 (828th BS, 485th BG, 15th AF) shot down by AAA and crashed at Pressbaum, Austria Jun 26, 1944.
MACR 6822. One crewman killed, 9 bailed out and became POW.
29493 W/o 7 Jul 1944 at Venosa AB, Italy
29495 (831st BS, 485th BG, 15th AF) shot down by AAA and crashed at Oinacu Viascu 5 mi NE of Guirgiu,
Rumania Jun 23, 1944. 2 crew killed, 8 bailed out (3 became POW, 5 evaded capture). MACR 12527
29496 (44th BG, 506th BS, 8th AF) shot down by AAA Jun 27, 1944 and crashed 500 meters SE of Creil,
France. MACR 6744. 7 crew killed, 3 bailed out and became POW.
29497 (829th BS, 485th BG, 15th AF) shot down by Bf 109G-6 flown by Fw Kurt Nachtgall of JG 302/2 and crashed
near Velden, south of Landshut, Germany Jun 9, 1944. MACR 5643. 7 crew killed, 3 bailed out and
became POW.
29498 W/o 11 Sep 1944 at Venosa AB, Italy
29500 (34th BG, "Ramblin' Reck"). Later assigned to 445th BG, 702nd BS from Dec 29, 1944 to
Feb 26 1945. Crashed in Belgium after crew bailed out.
29501 758th Bombardment Squadron 459th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Giulia Airfield Foggia Italy
Crashed on Take off Apr 25, 1944 at Giulia Airfield Foggia Italy While on a Mission
on The Aircraft Factory at Turin Italy. All (9) Crew Were Killed. Aircraft Was Destroyed.
29505 (392 BG, 577 BS) crashed Apr 27, 1944. 857th BS, 492nd BG, 8th AF crashed at Lyuon/Bron Airfield Y-6 due to
engine failure Feb 6, 1945. Unknown number of crew killed, aircraft was destroyed.
29508 (761st BS, 460th BG, 15th AF, based at Spinazzola Airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Shot Down Jun 16, 1944 By Anti-Aircraft Fire and Crashed 2 km South of Gotzendorf, Austria While on a Mission
on The Lobau Oil Refinery at Vienna, Austria. Aircraft Exploded in Mid Air. (7) Crew Were Killed. (3) Crew
Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs. Released in 1945. MACR 6095
29509 578th Bombardment Squadron 392nd Bombardment Group 8th Air Force (RAF Wendling Airfield) Station USAAF-118,
Norfolk, England. Crashed Apr 27 1944 off the beach Near Westgate-on-Sea, Kent, England While Returning
From a Mission in France. Aircraft Was Damaged By flak Over France. (5) Crew Were Killed. (4) Crew Were
Injured and Survived and Were Rescued. (1) Crewman Bailed Out Over France and Was Captured and Became a POW.
Released in 1945. MACR 5215
29511 576th Bombardment Squadron 392nd Bombardment Group 8th Air Force (RAF Wendling Airfield) Station USAAF-118,
Norfolk, England. Flew (150) Missions. Had Taxiing Accident Oct 3, 1944 at RAF Mepal Airfield), Cambridgeshire,
England. All (10) Crew Survived. Aircraft Badly Damaged. Washed Out. Repaired and Returned to U.S.A. in June 1945
and Scrapped.
29512 (716th BS, 449th BG, 15th AF, based at Grottaglie Airfield, Taranto, Italy)
Shot down May 5, 1944 By Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6 Near Ploesti, Rumania While
on a Mission on The Marshalling Yards at Ploesti, Rumania. Believed BF 109G-6 Flown By Lt. Hans Riedel
of JG 77/7. (3) Crew Were Killed. (7) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs. MACR 4667
29513 (827th BS, 484th BG, 15th AF, based at Torretto airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Shot down May 10, 1944 by AAA and crashed in Sankt Margarethen
im Burgenland, Austria while on mission to Weiner Neustadt, Austria. MACR 4711. 8 KIA 2 bailed out
and became POW.
29515 (489th BG, 846th BS, 8th AF) crashed from unknown cause 2 km S of Schale Tecklenburg 18 km W of
Hannover, Germany Oct 7, 1944 while on mission o Magdeburg, Germany. MACR 9752. All 9 crew killed.
29517 (461st BG, 766th BS, "Pisces") transferred to 484th BG, condemned Jun 19, 1945.
29519 (461st BG, 767th BS) salvaged Jun 9, 1945.
29518 (34th BG, "Picadilly Lucy")
29519 (461st BG, 767th BS) salvaged Jun 9, 1945
29520 (839th BS, 487th BG, 8th AF) in taxiing accident at RAF Warton, Lancashire, England 1 May 1944
All crew survived, but aircraft was destroyed.
29522 (34th BG, 'Dynamite 'n Dodo') crashed into trees when landing on return from operation at Woodbridge, UK on night
of Dec 11/12, 1944.
29523 (448th BG, 713rd BS, 8th AF, based at RAF Seething, Station USAAF-146, Norfolk, England)
Shot down Apr 29, 1944 by Fw 1i90A-8 flown by unknown pilot and unit and crashed at Pennigsehl, 13 km W
of Nienburg, Germany while om mission to railroad facilities in Berlin, Germany.
One crewman killed, 9 bailed out and became POW. MACR 4489
29524 (707th BS, 446th BG, 8th AF) in takeoff accident 1 Jan 1945 at RAF Bungay (USAAF 125), Suffolk, UK. All 10 crew
killed, aicraft was destroyed.
29526 W/o 17 Feb 1944 at Alamogordo, NM
29527 named "Foxy Phoebe" in 837th BS, 487th BG. Transferrred to 576th Bombardment Squadron 392nd Bombardment Group
8th Air Force (RAF Wendling Airfield) Station USAAF-118, Norfolk, England. Flew (5) Missions.
Returned to U.S.A. in June 1945 and Scrapped.
29528 W/o 12 Aug 1944 at Langford Lodge, UK
29529 765th Bombardment Squadron 461st Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Torretto Airfield Cerignola Italy
Shot Down Jul 25, 1944 By Gunfire From German Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-8 and Crashed 9 km South of Linz Austria
While on a Mission on The Herman Goering Tank Works at Linz Austria. Fw 190A-8 Flown By Unknown Pilot
of JG 300. (1) Crewman Was Killed. (9) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs. Released in 1945.
MACR 9844
29530 (724th BS, 451st BG, 15th AF, "American Beauty" based at Castelluccio Airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Shot down Jun 23, 1944 By Anti-Aircraft Fire and Crashed North of Prizren, Yugoslavia While Returning
From a Mission on The Oil Storage at Giurgiu, Rumania. All (10) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured
and Became POWs. Released in 1945. (1) Was Shot and Killed as He Tried to Escape. MACR 10720
29531 (827th BS, 484th BG, 15th AF, based at Torretto airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Shot down by AAA May 10, 1944 and crashed at Weiner Neustadt, Austria. MACR 4746. 9 crew killed, 3 bailed
out and became POW.
29533 (489th BG, 846th BS, 8th AF) hit by AAA and crashed in north Sea Jul 7, 1944 while on mission o Aschersleben,
Germany. MACR 7549. All 9 crew killed.
29535 W/o 24 Mar 1944 at Macon, GA
29538 (68th BS, 44th BG, 8th AF) crashed on takeoff at RAF Shipdham Mar 23, 1944. All 11 crew survived, but aircraft DBR.
29540 759th Bombardment Squadron 459th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Giulia Airfield Foggia Italy
Crash Landed Jul 21, 1944 at 10 Miles North of Giulia Airfield Foggia Italy After Ran Out of
Fuel While Returning From a Mission on The Oil Refinery at Brux Czechoslovakia. All (10) Crew Survived.
Aircraft Was Destroyed. Washed Out.
29541 (726th BS, 451st BG, 15th AF, "Peace Terms/Ice Cold Katie II" based at Castelluccio Airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Crashed Jul 28, 1944 From Unknown Cause Near Cuprija, Yugoslavia While Returning From a Mission
on The Standard Oil Refinery at Ploesti, Rumania. All (11) Crew Bailed Out and (1) Was Captured
and Became a POW. Released in 1945. (10) Evaded Capture and were Picked Up By Chetniks and
Returned on August 12, 1944. MACR 7036
29542 (445th BG, 702nd BS, 8th AF based at RAF Tibenham)
Shot Down Sep 27, 1944 by Fw 190A-8/R2 and Crashed 1 km East of Doringsdorf Germany While on a Mission to
Kassel Germany. Fw 190A-8/R2 Flown By Unknown Pilot of JG 3 or JG 4. (3) Crew Were Killed. (7) Crew Bailed
Out and Were Captured and Became POWs. MACR 9570
Was "Rough House Kate" when with 34th BG
29543 (706th BS, 446th BG, 8th AF) crashed at Cliftonville, Kent, England Apr 27, 1944 after two engines
failed while returning from mission to Blainville, France. 8 of 10 aboard killed. Aircraft was destroyed.
29544 (44th BG, 68th BS, 8th AF) ditched in English Channel due to flak damage Jul 11, 1944. MACR 8250.
5 crew killed, 4 were rescued by a British destroyer.
29545 (861st BS, 493rd BG, 8th AF) crashed Jul 17, 1944 at Ipswich, UK after ran out of fuel.
All crew bailed out and survived, aircraft was destroyed.
29546 (847th BS, 489th Bg, 8th AF) collided with 42-94868 in midair over Tibenham/Tivetshall, England May 29, 1944
and crashed. Unknown number of crew killed, aircraft was destroyed.
29548 (861st BS, 493rd BG, 8th AF "The Flying Devil") in landing accident 16 Aug 1944 at RAF Debach, UK.
All crew survived, but aircraft was destroyed.
29549 (93rd BG) forced landing in Belgium after raid on Clasthal-Zellerfeld munitions
factory Oct 7, 1944. I have an MACR (number 10611) which has this one as being lost
Dec 16, 1944 with the 456th BG, 745th BS, 15th AF, based at Stornara Airfield Cerignola Italy.
Crashed From Unknown Cause at Klando, Czechoslovakia While Returning From a Mission on The
Synthetic Oil Refinery at Brux, Czechoslovakia. All (11) Crew Bailed Out and (1) Crewman Was Killed.
(10) Crew Evaded Capture and Returned.
29552 (392 BG, 579 BS) crashed on takeoff at Wendling, UK May 11, 1944.
29553 (837th BS, 487th BG, 8th AF) in midair collision 10 Jun 1944 at Poslingford, East Sussex, UK
and crashed. 2 crew killed, 7 survived. Aircraft was destroyed.
29554 (44th BG, 67th BS, 8th AF) crash landed at Bilbao, Spain due to flak damage Mar 27, 1944. MACR 3588.
All 10 crew survived and were interned in Spain.
29555 (34th BG, "Powerful Katrinka")
29556 (376th BG, 515th BS, 15th AF) shot down by flak and crashed N of Bailestri, Rumania Apr 24, 1944
while on mission to Ploesti, Rumania. MACR 4208. 6 crew killed, 4 bailed out and became POW.
29557 (34th BG, 7th BS, 8th AF, "Shadrach") shot down by AAA and crashed at Stubben, 18 km
SE of Wesermunde, Germany Aug 5, 1944. MACR 7697. One crewman killed, 8 bailed out and
became POW.
29558 W/o 31 Jan 1944 at Selman Field, LA
29559 (34th BG "Belchin' Bessie") 11 Aug 1944 at Mendlesham, UK
29560 Was "Rat Poison" when with 34th BG. 577th Bombardment Squadron 392nd Bombardment Group 8th Air Force
(RAF Wendling Airfield) Station USAAF-118, Norfolk, England. Crash Landed Jan 1, 1945 During Wheels Up
Belly Landing in a Cornfield Near Mons, Belgium After Ran Out of Fuel While Returning From a Mission
on The Kronprinz Bridge Near Engers, Germany. All (9) Crew Survived. Salvaged on March 16, 1945
29561 (34th BG "Mizry Merchant")
29562 (34th BG "Tommy Thumper") in landing accident 12 May 1944 at RAF Mendlesham, Suffolk, UK after
training flight. All crew survived, aircraft was destroyed and salvaged.
29563 (376th BG, 514th BS, "Constant Menace")
29564 (486th BG, "Queenie")
29565 (448th BG, 715th BS, 8th AF, based at RAF Seething, Station USAAF-146, Norfolk, England)
Shot down by AAA Apr 19, 1944 and crashed in North Sea while returning from a mission to Watten, France.
9 crew killed, 3 after bailout. One bailed out and evaded capture. MACR 4303
29566 (34th BG "War Eagle")
29567 (458th BG, "My Bunnie"), "Bambi" with 34th BG. 752nd BS, 458th BG, 8th AF based at RAF Horsham St. Faith Airfield,
Station USAAF-123, Norfolk, England
Landing Accident Apr 18, 1944 at RAF Horsham St. Faith Airfield. All (10) Crew Survived.
Aircraft Badly Damaged. Unknown if Repaired.
29568 (MSN 667) 5FyGp Love Field TX, Accident Cox Field TX 10 Feb 1944, RTS, 850BS 490BG 8AF
Station 134 RAF Eye Suffolk England, named "Why Worry", Lend Lease UK Liberator Mk.IV TS519,
223Sqn RAF Oulton Norfolk England 24 Aug 1944, [Coded 6G-C], [Coded 6G-S],
Airwork 05 Jul 1945, 6MU RAF Brize Norton Oxon. May 1946, Sold as scrap to J Dale & Co 07 Jul 1948..
29569 (34th BG "Cock of the Sky")
29570 (742nd BS, 455th BG, 15th AF, based at San Giovanni airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Shot down by Fw 190A-8 Jun 26, 1944 flown by unknown pilot of JG 300 and crashed S of Vienna, Austria
during raid on oil refineries at Moosbierbaum, Austria. MACR 6401
29571 (453rd BG, 735th BS, 8th AF, based at RAF Old Buckenham Airfield, Station USAAF-144, Norfolk, England)
Shot down Apr 8, 1944 By Gunfire From German Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-7 at Uelzen, Germany While on a Mission
to Brunswick, Germany. Believed Fw 190A-7 Flown By Oblt. Josef Zwernemann of JG 11/1. (3) Crew Were Killed.
(7) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs. MACR 3928
29572 (18th BS, 34th BG, *Glamour Girl*) shot down at nightfall returning from mission
over France Jun 7, 1944 and went down near Nedging, Suffolk, UK. 3 killed,
7 parachuted to safety. MACR 6725
29573 (760th BS, 460th BG, 15th AF, based at Spinazzola Airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Shot Down Jul 26, 1944 By Anti-Aircraft Fire and Crashed Near Vienna, Austria While on a Mission on The
Airfield at Zwolfaxing, Austria. Number (2) Engine Caught Fire and Exploded and Part of Wing Broke off and
Aircraft Went into a Spin and Exploded. (6) Crew Killed. (4) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs.
Released in 1945. MACR 7338
29574 (345th BS, 98th BG, "Queen of Hearts") lost Oct 16, 1944 near Foggia, Italy .
29575 (714th BS, 448th BG, 8th AF, based at RAF Seething, Station USAAF-146, Norfolk, England)
Crashed in English Channel 6 Jan 1945 offshore from Harwich, Essex, UK due to engine failure.
All crew bailed out and were rescued. Aircraft was destroyed.
29576 758th Bombardment Squadron 459th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Giulia Airfield Foggia Italy
Crashed May 18, 1944 From Unknown Cause in Yugoslovia While Returning From a Mission on The Oil
Refineries at Ploesti Rumania. All (10) Crew Bailed Out and (2) Were Captured and Became POWs.
Released in 1945. (8) Crew Evaded Capture and Returned on August 10, 1944 With Help From The Chetniks.
MACR 5048
29578 759th Bombardment Squadron 459th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Giulia Airfield Foggia Italy
Shot Down Jun 16, 1944 By Gunfire From German Messerschmitt BF 109G-6 at Szombathely Hungary
While on a Mission to Nova Schwechat Vienna Austria. BF 109G-6 Flown By Unknown Pilot and
Unit. (2) Crew Were Killed. (8) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs. Released in 1945. MACR 6128
29579 (445th BG, 703rd BS, 8th AF based at RAF Tibenham)
Shot Down Sep 27, 1944 By Fw 190A-8/R2 and Crashed 1 km Southwest of Lindenau Germany While on a
Mission to Kassel Germany. Fw 109A-8/R2 Flown By Unknown Pilot of JG 3 or JG 4. (4) Crew Were Killed.
(5) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs. MACR 9387
29580 726th BS/451st BG, "Snapper/Screamin' Meemie II" crashed Aug 22, 1944 after being hit by AAA. Deemed unfit for combat and salvaged.
29581 (739th BS, 454th BG, 15th AF, based at San Giovanni Airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Shot down Aug 24, 1944 By Anti-Aircraft File Near Uzmarkt, Austria While on a Mission on The
Oil Refineries at Kolin, Czechoslovakia. (8) Crew Were Killed. (2) Crew Bailed Out and Were
Captured and Became POWs. MACR 7992
29582 (722nd Bombardment Squadron 450th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy
Shot Down Apr 29, 1944 By Anti-Aircraft Fire Over Toulon France and Crashed in The Mediterranean Sea
While on a Mission on The Harbor Installations at Toulon France. (3) Crew Were Killed. (7) Crew Bailed
Out and Were Captured and Became POWs. Released in 1945. MACR 4614
29583 723rd Bombardment Squadron 450th Bombardment Group 15th Air Force Manduria Airfield Manduria Italy
Returned to U.S.A. on June 25, 1945 and Scrapped.
29586 (93rd BG, 328th BS, *The US Express*) caught fire at Hardwick, Norfolk, UK
after landing from mission to Cologne Oct 15, 1944. Airframe destroyed.
29587 (848th BS, 490th BG, 8th AF) W/o in takeoff accident 9 May 1944 at RAF Eye, Suffolk, UK.
All crew survived, but aircraft was destroyed.
29588 (451st BG, 725th BS, 15th AF, based at Castelluccio Airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Crashed Aug 20, 1944 From Unknown Cause South of Kaposvar, Hungary While on a Mission to
Szolnok, Hungary. (2) Crew Were Killed. (8) Crew Bailed Out and Were Captured and Became POWs.
Released in 1945. MACR 7694
29589 (745th BS, 456th BG, 15th AF, based at Stornara Airfield, Cerignola, Italy
Crashed Apr 23, 1944 in The Adriatic Sea After Rudder Cable Shot in Half By German Fighter While
Returning From a Mission on The Airfield at Bad Voslau, Austria (6) Crew Bailed Out Near Gyor,
Hungary and (1) Was Killed. (5) Crew Were Captured and Became POWs. Released in 1945.
(4) Crew That Flew Aircraft Back Bailed Out Over Italy. MACR 4198
29590 737th BS/451st BG, "Ford's Mistake" transferred to 449th BG.
(717th BS, 449th BG, 15th AF, *Peepy*, based at Grottaglie Airfield, Taranto, Italy)
lost Oct 13, 1944 when hit by AAA over Vienna and all 11 crew bailed out over
the Adriatic. 3 were lost at sea, 8 rescued by PBY. MACR 13505. The MACR and MACR index show
41-28590, but this was a typo in the delayed report.
29591 W/o 8 Mar 1944 at Wendover Field, UT
29592 (738th BS, 454th BG, 15th AF, based at San Giovanni Airfield, Foggia, Italy)
Crashed May 7, 1944 From Unknown Cause Near Denilovgrad, Yugoslavia While on a Mission on The
Marshalling Yards at Bucharest, Rumania. All (9) Crew Bailed Out and (8) Were Captured and Became POWs.
(1) Crewman Was Killed After Bail Out. MACR 4624
29593 (785th BS, 466th BG, 8th AF) crashed 15 Apr 1945 near Mattishall, Norfolk, UK
due to engine failure. Unknown number of crew killed, aircraft was destroyed.
29595 (453rd BG, 733rd BS) fuel transfer pumps froze up during Jan 21, 1945
mission to Heilbronn marshaling yards. Crew bailed out and plane
crashed at Charleville, 6 mi N of Sexanne, France. Salvaged Jan 28, 1945.
29596 (458th BG) collided with 42-50449 during assembly Mar 23, 1945.
Aircraft crashed at Lodge Farm, Felmingham, Norfolk, UK. 5 killed,
5 survived.
29598 SOC at Searcy Field, Stillwater, OK. Sold by War Assets Corp to Paul Mantz Feb 19, 1946
29599 (34th BG, 406th BS, 8th AF, "Boots") taxiing Accident Mar 18, 1945 at RAF Harrington Airfield
Station USAAF-179 Northamptonshire England. All Crew Survived. Aircraft Badly Damaged.
Unknown if Repaired.
29602 (34th BG "The Loretta Ann")
29604 (445th BG, 702nd BS) damaged landing gear in crash landing Aug 1, 1944 at Westley
Waterless, near New Market and salvaged the next day.
29605 (486th BG, "Leo")
29606 (514th BS, 376th BG, 15th AF) shot down by AAA and crashed at Wiener Neustadt, Austria Dec 18, 1944.
MACR 10920. All 10 crew bailed out and became POW.
41-29607/29608 Consolidated B-24H-20-CF Liberator
MSN 706/707
29607 (*California Baby*) to 486th BG, modified as Carpetbagger, to 801th BG, then 492nd BG,
later 857 BG, later 856th BG. Returned to USA Jul 9, 1945.
SOC at Searcy Field, Stillwater, OK. Sold by War Assets Corp to Paul Mantz Feb 19, 1946
29608 579th Bombardment Squadron 392nd Bombardment Group 8th Air Force (RAF Wendling Airfield) Station USAAF-118,
Norfolk, England. Taxiing Accident Oct 19, 1944 at RAF Wendling Airfield While Going on a Practice Mission.
Aircraft Turned off The Runway and Taxied Through 3 Bays of Fresh Cement. The Nose Wheel Was Sheared off
and Aircraft Came Down on its Nose. All (9) Crew Survived. Aircraft Badly Damaged. Unknown if Repaired.
41-29609/29611 Frankfort XTG-1
Frankfort Sailplane Company tandem two seat glider prototypes based on the Cinema IIB.
Acquired by USAAF as assault glider trainer.
29609 registered as NC24204. Bought by USAAF 12Apr41
29610 registered as NC24205. Bought by USAAF 12Apr41
29611 registered as NC24206. Bought by USAAF 12Apr41
41-29612/29614 Schweizer XTG-2-SW
Schweizer Aircraft Corporation Model SGS 2-8 two seat training glider. Three modified sailplanes ordered 18Jun41.
29612--The Elmira Area Soaring Corporation (EASC) Army Glider School had its maiden public presentation for the
American media during 12th Annual National Gliding and Soaring Contest at Elmira between June 28th and
July 13th, 1941. Major Frederic R. Dent presented the TG-2 glider, s/n 41-29612. Flight Department,
Wright Field, Dayton, OH. Fatal crash after losing control adjacent to Patterson Field, Ohio 18Nov41.
29613 Redesignated TG-2. 6th Glider Training Detachment, Twentynine Palms Air Academy, Condor Field, CA.
Damaged at Condor Field, CA 17Aug42.
41-29615 Frankfort XCG-1-FR
Frankfort Sailplane Company model TCG-41 eight seat glider prototype. Ordered 7May41; cancelled 31Mar42 after
failure of the static test airframe. Contract cancelled.
41-29616 Frankfort XCG-2-FR
Frankfort Sailplane Company model TCG-21 15-seat glider prototype. Ordered 7May41; cancelled 31Mar42
after failure of the XCG-1 static test airframe. Contract cancelled.
41-29617 Waco XCG-3
Waco Aircraft Company model NYQ eight seat glider. Ordered 6Jun41. First flight 3Feb42.
Clinton County Field, Wilmington, OH. Used for glider retrieval trials Dec42.
41-29618 Waco XCG-4
Waco Aircraft Company model NZR 15-seat glider prototype. Ordered 6Jun41. First flight May4
41-29619 St. Louis XCG-5-SL
St. Louis Aircraft Corporation SL.5 eight seat troop glider. Ordered 28Jun41. First flight at Lambert
Field, St Louis 3Oct42. The aircraft was found to be unsatisfactory and on 1Sep43 the program was cancelled.
41-29620 St. Louis XCG-6-SL
St. Louis Aircraft Corporation SL.6 15-seat troop glider. Ordered 28Jun41. Following the cancellation of
the XCG-5, the XCG-6 was cancelled before construction began.
41-29621 Bowlus/Douglas XCG-7
MSN 1359. Experimental troop-carrying glider built under contract from Bowlus
Sailplanes, Inc by Douglas El Segundo. Delivered to Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio for testing
in Feb42 where it failed structural testing. The glider was repaired but failed again. First flight 15Jul42
but the aircraft was found to be overweight. Further development was cancelled Aug43. Donated
to High Voltage Laboratory of National Bureau of Standards on 25 Aug 1943
for testing of ways of protecting aircraft against lightning. MSN 1360 not built
41-29622 Bowlus/Douglas XCG-8
MSN 1361. Experimental troop-carrying glider built under contract from Bowlus
Sailplanes, Inc by Douglas El Segundo. Failure of XCG-7 caused cancellation of CG-8.
Damaged in a storm Jun43. It failed structural tests and the program was terminated in August 1943.
Kept in storage until it was destroyed 17 Jul 1944 at Wilmington, OH. MSN 1362 not built
41-29623/29632 Lockheed C-59 Lodestar
Civilian Model 18-07s MSN 2140/2146, 2151/2153 impressed by USAAF and earmarked for Lend-Lease
to RAF as Lodestar MK.1A EW973/EW982 and allocated USAAF serials for contractual purposes.
First three (41-29623/29625) retained by USAAF.
29623 (MSN 18-2140) converted to 18-56/C-60. to Sunray Oil Corp as NC57780/N57780. Cancelled Feb 1, 2013
29625 (MSN 18-2142) To NC49953 as 18-08, to N49953, to N100V with Avco Manufacturing Co. Converted to Howard 250.
To N250Z Sep 4, 1963, to N250E. Cancelled Jan 1970
29626 (MSN 18-2143) to RAF as Lodestar Mk.1A EW976 Sep 1942. To BOAC as G-AGIL "Lake Nyasa" Sep 17, 1943.
Returned to RAF Nov 19, 1947 as HK855. Sold to Spanish AF Jan 1949. reported broken up at Kasfareet,
Canal Zone
29627 (MSN 18-2144) to RAF as Lodestar Mk.1A EW977. To BOAC Sep 27, 1943 as G-AGIM "Lake Tanganyika".
Registration cancelled Nov 26, 1947 on return to RAF as EW977. To Spanish civil registry as EC-AED (NTU).
To Spanish AF Jan 1949 as T.4-3. To N9926F in 1955. Derelict at Wold, Minneapolis, Minnesota by 1962.
29628 (MSN 18-2145) to RAF as Lodestar Mk.1A EW978. Crashed during ferry flight Jan 1943
29629 (MSN 18-2146) to RAF as Lodestar Mk.1A EW979. RAF record card gives no record
of fate, but CAA records show that MSN 2146, formorely EW979 registered
to BOAC as G-AGIN "Lake Timsah" Sep 27, 1943, registration cancelled Dec 3,1947 on return
to RAF, and sold to Spanish AF Jan 1949 as T.4-9
29630 (MSN 18-2151) to RAF as Lodestar Mk.1A EW980. Registered to BOAC Jul 15, 1943
as G-AGIG, registration cancelled Nov 26, 1947 on return to RAF. To Spanish civil registry s EC-AEA (Ntu). Sold to
Spanish AF Jan 1949 as T.4-7. To N9929F Jan 11, 1955, to N134G, to N234AG, to N458CM, to N220R.
Cancelled prior to Jan 1971.
29631 (MSN 18-2152) to RAF as Lodestar Mk.1A EW981. To Spanish AF as EF-22. To N9930F Sep 1955.
Converted to 18-56. To ZK-BUV. WFU Gisborne Nov 1972 and cancelled Jan 19, 1973. Flown to
Gisbourne, New Zealand Jan 8, 1973 and became gate guard. Reported as being destroyed by fire Oct 22, 1942
after hitting tent while taking off from Bilbeis, but no evidence of this. Aa CK-BUF current with Gisborne
Aviation Preservation Society, Gisborne Airport, North Island, New Zealand.
29632 (MSN 18-2153) to RAF as Lodestar Mk.1A EW982. Registered to BOAC Nov 1, 1943
as G-AGJH "Lake Tana". Registration cancelled Dec 3, 1947 on return to RAF. Sold
to Spanish AF in 1948 but believed NTU. Broken up at Kasfareet, Canal Zone
41-29633/29647 Lockheed C-60 Lodestar
Civilian Model 18-56s impressed by USAAF for Lend-Lease to RAF.
Transferred to RAF as Lodestar Mk II EW983/EW997 and allocated USAAF serials for contractual purposes .
29633 (MSN 18-2138) to RAF as Lodestar II EW983. DBR St Thomas Mount, India Aug 28, 1944. Probably w/o and SOC Jan 1, 1947
29634 (MSN 18-2139) to RAF as Lodestar II EW984. Destroyed by fire after hitting
tent during takeoff from Bilbeis Oct 22, 1942
29635 (MSN 2147) to RAF as Lodestar II EW985. To BOAC as G-AGEH "Lake Baringo" May 21, 1942. Registration
cancelled Nov 19, 1947 when believed returned to RAF as HK851. TO EC-ADT Jan 27, 1949 but NTU
Sold to Spanish AF in 1949 as T.4-4. To N9927F 1955, to N420L. Cvtd Learstar Aug 1, 1956. To N420H
Jul 28, 1960, cancelled Nov 30, 1960, to CF-MYC, cancelled Feb 28, 1963, to N420H Apr 8, 1963. May have been dbf in hangar
at Fort Lauderdale, FL 31Aug 31, 1965
29636 (MSN 2154) to RAF as Lodestar II EW986. Overshot and crashed, Heliopolis Jan 4, 1943
29637 (MSN 2155) to RAF as Lodestar II EW987. SOC Nov 28, 1946
29638 (MSN 2156) to RAF as Lodestar II EW988. SOC Jun 21, 1945
29639 (MSN 2157) to RAF as Lodestar II EW989. SOC Sep 28, 1946
29640 (MSN 2158) to RAF as Lodestar II EW990. SOC Dec 31, 1947
29641 (MSN 2159) to RAF as Lodestar II EW991. SOC Dec 1, 1943
29642 (MSN 2160) to RAF as Lodestar II EW992. SOC Apr 30, 1947
29643 (MSN 2161) to RAF as Lodestar II EW993. SOC Apr 30, 1947
29644 (MSN 2162) to RAF as Lodestar II EW994. No record of fate
29645 (MSN 2163) to RAF as Lodestar II EW995. Transferred to Free French AF Sep 1942. To FL-AXM Sep 20, 1942, to
FC-AXM Nov 16, 1942, to F-BAMM but ntu. Destroyed in accident Tripoli, Libya Sep 30, 1945 still as ‘AXM’
29646 (MSN 2164) to RAF as Lodestar II EW996. SOC Aug 29, 1946
29647 (MSN 2165) to RAF as Lodestar II EW997. SOC Jan 4, 1943
41-29648/29847 North American B-25D Mitchell
MSN 87-7813/8012
29652 (21st BG, 389th BS) crashed near Whistler, AL Jun 3, 1942. 7 killed.
29653 W/o 29 Jan 1943 at Placerville, CA
29654 W/o 14 Oct 1942 at Richburg, SC
29655 (340th BG, 486th BS) crashed at Columbia AAB, SC Oct 24, 1942. 5 killed.
29656 W/o 24 Mar 1943 en route to Savannah, GA
29657 W/o 19 Sep 1942 at Columbia AAB, SC
29658 W/o 4 Aug 1942 at Columbia AAB, SC
29660 W/o 26 Apr 1942 at Kansas City, KS
29661 W/o 29 Sep 1942 at Eglin Field, FL
29662 W/o 5 Oct 1943 at Columbia AAB, SC
29663 W/o 17 Aug 1942 at Newberry, SC
29664 W/o 18 Mar 1943 at Winnsboro, SC
29666 W/o 16 Jul 1942 at Columbia AB, SC
29667 Conv to TB-25D
29669 W/o 9 Nov 1942 at Ridgeway, IL
29675 W/o 1 Jan 1943 at Yunnan-Yi, China
29681 (12th BG) shot down by AAA over Sidi Haneish, Egypt Sep 14, 1942
29692 (417th BG) lost May 22,1944. MACR 6136
29693 (12th BG, 81st BG) lost shot down by AAA N of Adrano, Italy Sep 5, 1943. MACR 180 and 700.
3 KIA, 2 POW.
29703 W/o 23 May 1943 in New Guinea
29704 (38th BG, *Torpedo Junction*) nosewheel collapsed on landing and sheered nose off Aug 14, 1942.
at Grafton NSW, Australia.
29705 (3rd BG, 13th BS, 5th AF, "Baby Blitz", based at Durand Airfield, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea)
Badly damaged on ground at Durand Drome during Japanese raid
Apr 12, 1943. Saw no more combat. Later converted to components and scrapped
29706 (90th BS, 3rd BG, 5th AF, based at Charters Towers Airfield, Queensland, Australia)
Crashed Dec 20, 1942 Northeast of Queensland Australia 70 Miles North of Osprey Reef in The Coral Sea
Due to Bad Weather Conditions While on a Transport Mission. Aircraft Burst into Flames on Impact.
All (11) Onboard (2) Crew and (9) Passengers were killed. MACR 16428
29709 (13th BS, 3rd BG, 5th AF, based at Schwimmer Airfield, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea)
Ditched Dec 20, 1942 25 Miles North of Cooktown Airfield, Queensland, Australia in The Coral Sea
Due to Engine Failure While Enroute From Cooktown Airfield, Queensland, Australia to Schwimmer Airfield,
Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. Aircraft Sank in 3 Minutes. All (12) Survived (1) Crew and (11) Passengers.
29713 to NEIAF as N5-133. With 18 sqdn damaged by Zeros and forcelanded
at Melville Island, Australia Mar 30, 1943. 1 injured. Wreck was
still there in 1986.
29714 (3rd BG, 13th BS, 5th AF, "Fair Dinkum", based at Durand Airfield, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea)
destroyed on ground at 17 Mile Drome (Durand) during Japanese air raid Apr 12, 1943.
29716 to NEIAF as N5-142. Reserialled as M-342; to Indonesian AF in June 1950
29717 to NEIAF as N5-144 - ditched Feb 19, 1943 at Dili, East Timor.
29718 (MSN 87-7883) to China
29719 (13th BS, 3rd BG, 5th AF, based at Durand Airfield, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea)
Bombed Apr 12, 1943 By Japanese Bomber Mitsubishi G4M1 (Betty) at Durand Airfield, Port Moresby,
Papua New Guinea. Aircraft Was Destroyed.
29720 (MSN 87-7885) to China
29722 to NEIAF as N5-143. WFU 946
29723 to NEIAF as N5-140 - ditched Apr 6, 1943 at Darwin, Australia
29725 to NEIAF as N5-141 - crashed Nov 7, 1944 at Mascot, Australia
29728 (90th BS, 3rd BG, 5th AF, based at Charters Towers Airfield, Queensland, Australia)
Collided Dec 1, 1942 With Another Aircraft in Mid Air 7 Miles West of Charters Towers Airfield,
Queensland, Australia. All Crew Survived. Aircraft Was Destroyed.
29729 W/o 18 Jul 1942 at Kansas City, MO
29730 W/o 18 Oct 1942 at Dinjan, India
29731 (90th BS, 3rd BG, 5th AF, based at Durand Airfield, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea)
Crashed Oct 30, 1942 From Unknown Cause North of Little Myola Dry Lake, Moyla, Papua New Guinea in The
South Pacific While on a Armed Reconnaissance Mission Over Lae Airfield, Gasmata and Hood Point,
Papua New Guinea. All (6) Crew Were Killed. MACR 16429
29735 to NEIAF as N5-137 - Missing Jan 15, 1944 at Tenau
29741 W/o 17 May 1943 at Umnak, AK
29742 W/o 2 Dec 1942 at Fort Glenn, AK
29743 W/o 29 Nov 1943 at Malir AB, India
29744 W/o 18 Oct 1942 at Dinjan, India
29747 (77th BS, 28th Composite Group (Med), 11th AF) shot down by Japanese AAA during raid on Kiska Harbor
Dec 30, 1942. All 6 crew MIA. The lost crewmembers were
1st Lt. Jules Joseph Constantin, Jr., Pilot
1st Lt. Thomas Pfeiler, Co-pilot
2nd Lt. Edward A. Supinski, Bombardier
1st Lt. Sam P. Couris, Navigator
S/Sgt. Henry S. Jones, Jr., Gunner
S/Sgt. Andrew A. Malchau, Radio Operator
A PBY sent to search for the crew was also lost.
29750 W/o 4 Apr 1944 at Glenn AB, AK
29753 lost Aug 16, 1944 at Bay of Tanaga, AK. MACR 7861
29755 W/o 12 Apr 1943 at Perry Field, AK
29757 W/o 15 Aug 1944 at Elmendorf Field, AK
29758 W/o 6 Mar 1944 at Los Angeles Airport, CA
29766 W/o 9 Oct 1942 at Whitehall, SC
29767 (321st BG, 445th BS) right engine failed after takeoff and crashlanded
near Souk-el-Arba, Tunisia Jun 7, 1943. No injuries.
29768 W/o 29 Sep 1942 at Columbia AAB, SC
29771 W/o 24 May 1944 at Spinazzola, Italy
29774 W/o 8 Oct 1943 at Foch Field, Tunisia
29775 (321st BG) lost Feb 19, 1944. MACR 2618
29782 W/o 8 Jan 1943 at Fort Glenn, AK
29784 (MSN 87-7949) Delivered to USAAF 31Aug42. To North American Aviation Modification Center,
Kansas City, KS Sep42. 7th Ferrying Group, Gore Field, Great Falls, MT; ferried to Alaska 3Nov42.
La Junta Field, CO. Mather Field, CA 1943. Modified as TB-25D. To RFC, Altus Field, OK Jan46.
Registered Feb49 as N5078N. Registered May53 as N122B. Executive conversion by AiResearch, LAX, CA
May-December 1953. Registered Jul76 as N2DD. Registered Feb79 as N2XB; cancelled. Preserved
and on display aboard USS Yorktown (CV-10) Apr81, part of the Patriots Point Naval and Maritime
Museum. Named ‘Furtle Turtle’.
29785 W/o 23 Jan 1943 at Adak, AK
29788 W/o 3 Dec 1943 at Amchitka,AK
29789 W/o 2 May 1943 in Greenland
29791 W/o 23 Jan 1943 at Adak, AK
29794 W/o 23 Jan 1944 at Anderson, SC
29802 W/o 20 Jul 1943 at La Junta, CO
29803 W/o 27 May 1943 at Coronaca Airfield, SC
29804 W/o 18 May 1944 at Myrtle Beach AAF, SC
29806 W/o 7 Mar 1944 at Selfridge Field, MI
29809 W/o 25 Feb 1943 at Joliet, IL
29812 W/o 28 Jan 1944 at Phoenix, AZ
29813 W/o 8 Feb 1944 at Jewell, GA
29815 W/o 21 Oct 1942 at Independence, MO
29816 W/o 1 Feb 1943 at Columbia, SC
29817 W/o 21 Feb 1943 at Columbia, SC
29818 W/o 28 Oct 1943 at Baxley, GA
29819 W/o 16 Jan 1943 at Columbia AAB, SC
29820 W/o 31 Jul 1943 at Congaree AAF, SC
29822 converted to TB-25D
29825 W/o 28 Sep 1944 at Attenbury AAF, IN
29827 Conv to TB-25D; w/o 11 Apr 1945 at Douglas AAF, AZ
29828 (309th BG) crashed NW of Bedford, VA Feb 2, 1943. Crew of 5 killed.
29830 W/o 27 Nov 1942 at Columbia AAB, SC
29834 W/o 6 Sep 1944 at Greenville AAB, SC
29836 W/o 10 May 1943 at Sprague, WA
29837 W/o 15 Feb 1943 at Harrisburgh, MO
29841 (561 ABU, Rosecrans Field MO) crashed Jul 10, 1944 in a blizzard at night while on an instrument
training flight 7 mi. SW of Tecumseh NV. All 3 POB including one WASP killed.
29845 W/o 20 Jan 1943 at Cleveland, OH
41-29848/29947 North American B-25D-1 Mitchell
MSN 87-8013/8112
29854 W/o 25 Jan 1943 at Miami, FL
29855 W/o 30 Dec 1942 at Columbia AAB, SC
29856 W/o 22 Jul 1943 at Columbia AAB, SC
29858 W/o 24 Jul 1943 at Love Field, Dallas, TX
29860 W/o 4 Apr 1943 at Lake Murray, SC
29861 W/o 4 Sep 1943 at Greenville AAB
29863 W/o 12 Feb 1944 at Greenville AAB, SC
29864 W/o 27 Jun 1943 at Columbia AAB, SC
29867 Conv to TB-25D; w/o 1 Oct 1944 at El Reno, OK
29869 W/o 17 Jun 1943 at Newton, NJ
29870 W/o 27 Jan 1943 at Columbia, SC
29871 W/o 6 Jan 1943 at Myrtle Beach, SC
29872 W/o 22 Jul 1943 at Columbia AAB, SC
29873 W/o 29 Jan 1944 at Coronaca AAF, SC
29875 modified as F-10
29876 modified as F-10. w/o 14 Jul 1943 at Keene, NH
29877 modified as F-10. Delivered to RCAF as 894 Apr 23, 1945. WFU May 14 1948.
29878 modified as F-10
29879 modified as F-10
29880 modified as F-10
29881 modified as F-10
29882 modified as F-10. Conv to TB-25D; w/o 7 Jun 1945 at McNeal AAASF, AZ
29883 modified as F-10
29884 modified as F-10
29885 modified as F-10. W/o 16 Dec 1944 at Starkville, MS
29886 modified as F-10 - Delivered to RCAF as 891 Mar 23, 1944. WFU Nov 23, 1956.
29887 modified as F-10
29888 modified as F-10
29889 modified as F-10; w/o 16 Mar 1944 at Mather Field, CA
29890 modified as F-10.
29891 modified as F-10. w/o 28 Apr 1944 in Alaska
29892 modified as F-10. Conv to TB-25D
29893/29897 modified as F-10.
29898 (12th BG, 83rd BS) lost on night bombing mission to Trapani, Sicily, Italy Jul 10, 1943. 6 KIA. MACR 55.
29899 W/o 20 Aug 1944 at Barrackpore, India
29901 W/o 13 May 1943 at Takoradi, British West Indies
29902 W/o 24 Feb 1944 at Jungshahi, India
29903 W/o 2 May 1943 at Chakulia AB, India
29905 W/o 26 Dec 1944 at Pandaveswar, India
29909 W/o 22 Mar 1944 at Landhi, India
29911 Conv to TB-25D; wo 8 Feb 1945 at Douglas AAF, AZ. Appears in the film "30 Seconds over Tokyo" on deck of USS Hornet.
29914 Conv to TB-25D
29915 W/o 30 Sep 1943 at La Junta AAF, CO
29916 Conv to AT-24A; w/o 6 Jul 1944 at La Junta AAF, CO
29918 W/o 19 Aug 1943 at La Junta AAF, CO
29921 W/o 10 Sep 1943 at La Junta AAF, CO
29922 Conv to AT-24A; w/o 28 Dec 1943 at Dalheart, TX
29924 modified as F-10 - Delivered to RCAF
as 892 Mar 31, 1944. WFU Jun 12, 1955.
29926 modified as F-10. w/o 26 Dec 1944 at Lunken AAF, OH
29927 modified as F-10. w/o 4 Nov 1943 at MacDill Field, FL
29929 modified as F-10. w/o 15 May 1945 at Rowe, NM
29930 modified as F-10. w/o 4 Mar 1944 at Asmera, Eritrea
29931 modified as F-10.
29932 modified as F-10
29933 W/o 29 Aug 1943 at Rocky Ford Auxiliary, CO
29934 W/o 5 Aug 1943 at Camp Beale, CA
29935 W/o 4 Oct 1943 at Roseville, CA
29938 W/o 8 Jun 1943 at March Field, CA
29939 W/o 14 May 1943 at La Junta, CO
29941 W/o 24 Oct 1943 at Richvale, CA
29942 Conv to TB-25D
29944 W/o 23 Jan 1943 at Midland, TX
29946 Conv to TB-25D; w/o 11 Jul 1945 at Douglas AAF, AZ
29947 Conv to TB-25D
41-29948/30172 North American B-25D-5 Mitchell
MSN 87-8113/8337
29951 W/o 28 Dec 1943 at Datelan AAF, AZ
29952 Conv to TB-25D; w/o 26 Aug 1944 at Dixon, CA
29953 W/o 12 Mar 1943 at Fort Dix, NJ
29963 W/o 27 Apr 1943 at Las Animas AAAF, CO
29964 W/o 9 Apr 1943 in French Guyana
29970 modified as F-10
29976 W/o 22 Nov 1943 at Nashville, TN
29978 W/o 30 Mar 1943 at Red Bluff, CA
29979 W/o 12 Apr 1944 at McKittrick, CA
29983 assigned to NACA Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, NAS Moffett Field, CA Mar 26, 1943 to 1943.
used by NACA for flying qualities, stability and control, and performance evaluations.
29984 modified as F-10. w/o 15 Oct 1946 at Peterson Field, CO
29986 W/o 26 Feb 1943 at Apalachicola Gunnery Camp, FL
29987 modified as F-10
29988 modified as F-10. w/o 2 Nov 1943 at Valrico, FL
29989 modified as F-10
29990 modified as F-10
29991 modified as F-10
29992 (345th BG, 500th BS, *Jack Rabbit Express*) shot down by AAA
during attack on Kavieng, New Britain Feb 15, 1944
29996 (310th BG, 380th BS) shot down by Bf 109G-6 of JG 53/I flown by Fhr. Joachim Worlitzsch and crashed into sea 18 km NE
of Stromboli, Italy Sep 8, 1943. MACR 716. 6 KIA
29997 W/o 15 Feb 1945 at El Aouina, Tunis
29998 W/o 3 Feb 1944 at Vincenzo AF, Italy
30001 W/o 1 May 1945 at Grosseto, Italy
30009 W/o 26 Feb 1943 at Morrison Field, FL
30010 ("Matilda") missing during flight from Chengjung, China to Dinjan, India Jul 4, 1945. 15 aboard.
30011 Conv to TB-25D; w/o 15 Jul 1943 at La Junta AAF, CO
30017 (345th BG, 499th BS, "Flying Ginny") lost Oct 5, 1943, Papua New Guinea. MACR 754. All 5 KIA
30018 W/o 6 May 1943 in Pacific Ocean
30019 (499th BS, 345th BG, "Hell's Belles") lost off N Center of Jefman Island Jun 16, 1944. All 5 KIA.
30020 (345th BG, 499th BS, *Stingeroo*) ditched east of Kar Kar Island due to
engine failure Apr 16, 1944 during infamous Black Sunday mission to
Hollanida. Crew rescued.
30021 (490th BS, 345th BG, "Shif'less Skonk") lost Dec 22, 1943 Gusap Airfield. Crew sufvived
30024 (500th BS, 345th BG, "Pannell Job") lost west of Nadzab Jun 11, 1944. All crew lost
30028 (499th BS, 345th BG, *Blunder Bus*) crashed Jul 8, 1943 in takeoff accident. 3 crew members injured.
30029 (499th BS, 345th BG, W/o 10 May 1943 in Pacific Ocean between Tutuila and Nandi, Fiji. MACR 15751. All 5 MIA.
30036 (501th BS, 345th BG) lost Jul 7, 1944 east of Biak. MACR 6472. All 5 MIA
30039 (345th BG) converted to D-1 (345th BG, 499th BS, "Miss Ellen",
loaned to 500th BS. Hit by AAA and crashed 3 mi SW of
Rabaul, New Guinea Nov 2, 1943. MACR 1071. 5 KIA
30040 (489th BS, 345th BG, "Hit and Miss") lost Mar 29, 1944 1 m SE of east end of Dagua drome. MACR 4110. All 7 KIA
30041 (345th BG, 498th BS, *Gremlins Holiday*) shot down by AAA
in attack on Kavieng, New Britain Feb 15, 1944. All crew rescued.
30042 (499th BS, 345th BG, "The Snatch") lost just ofshore of Jacquinot Bay, NB Jan 16, 1944. MACR 16488. All 6 crew KIA.
30045 (345th BG, 498th BS) blew tire on takeoff at Woodstock airfield, Queensland, Australia
May 28, 1943. Plane crashed off the side of the runway and was destroyed. Crew injured.
30046 (345th BG, 498th BS, "Impatient Virgin") converted to D-1. Damaged by
light AAA from a freighter and ditched into Murik Lagoon,
New Guinea Nov 27, 1943. MACR 1248. 6 crew POW, all died in
prison camp.
30052 W/o 12 Apr 1943 at Ridgeland, SC
30053 (500th BS, 345th BG, "Axis Fate") wrecked at Moresby Sep 29, 1943. All 7 crew killed
30054 (500th BS, 345th BG, "SNAFU/MFUTU") damaged by enemy fighters on mission to Rabaul and ditched
off Cape Kwoi Oct 18, 1943. MACR 1339.
Four of the crew survived but only two made it ashore. They were rescued by friendly natives.
30056 to 500th BS, 345th BG, 5th AF). Converted to D-1 strafer in Australia.
(345th BG, 500th BS, "Sorry Satchul") shot down by enemy fighters Oct 18, 1943, Papua New Guinea. MACR 987
All 6 crew MIA
30058 (499th BS, 345th BG, "Lucky Bat") lost Jul 30, 1944 SE of Sorong. MACR 7182. All 6 crew MIA
30061 500th BS, 345th BG lost Feb 21, 1944 30 mi S of Finschafen, NG
30065 W/o 29 Jun 1943 at Charleston AAB, SC
30071 converted to D-1 strafer (345th BG, 501st BS) damaged by AAA,
then ran out of fuel and crashlanded 12 mi from Dumpu, New
Guinea Dec 22, 1943. MACR 13996. All 5 crew returned. Tail section recovered
and used in restoration of 41-12442.
30072 Conv to AT-24A; w/o 29 Mar 1944 at Broocks Field, TX
30073 (500th BS, 345th BG, "Dittum Dottom") W/o 16 May 1943 at Plaines Des Gaiacs, New Caledonia. Crew survived.
30074 (345th BG, 501st BS, "Tin Liz") shot down May 21, 1944 near Dagua, New Guinea airstrip. MACR 16180.
All 6 crew KIA.
30075 (345th BG, 500th BS, "Lil De Icer") lost Oct 24, 1943, 30 mi off Hardy Point, NG. MACR 996. All crew rescued.
30078 (501st BS, 345th BG, "The Eager Beaver") lost Aug 28, 1944 Se Of Mokmer airdrome. Crew survived
30080 converted to D-1 strafer (345th BG, 501st BS) damaged and
4 crew bailed out, then continued and crashlanded in vicinity
of Annanburg, New Guinea Dec 22, 1943. MACR 1463. 4 KIA, one rescued.
4 crew were killed, pilot returned.
30084 (345th BG, 499th BS, "Hung Lo") lost Aug 13, 1944, 75 ft offshore in Wasile Bay, SW Pacific. MACR 8639
All 6 crew MIA.
30088 Conv to TB-25D; w/o 12 Jan 1945 at Douglas AAF, AZ
30094 (345th BG, 501st BS, "Hellzapoppin") shot down and ditched
off Rapopo, S of Rabaul, New Guinea Nov 2, 1943. MACR 1219.
4 POW, 3 of them murdered in 1944.
30095 Conv to TB-25D
30096 W/o 5 Nov 1943 at New Orleans AAB, LA
30099 (498th BS, 345th BG, "The Wolf Pack") lost Sep 11, 1944, New Guinea. MACR 13283. All crew rescued.
30112 W/o 17 Mar 1943 at Tulsa, OK
30114 (Bombardier Training School) crashed near Grey Butte Aux field, CA Oct 2, 1944. All 3 onboard killed
including WASP copilot.
30117 (405th BS, 38th BG) shot down by AAA over Dagua Aug 18, 1943. Crew KIA.
30118 crashed Aug 4, 1942 off Wangat Island. One crew KIA, rest
captured by Japanese. All but one were murdered.
30128 (12th BG, 434th BS) shot down by AAA and crashed into sea 10 km SE of
Siracusa, Sicily Aug 7, 1943. MACR 179. 3 KIA, 3 returned.
30129 W/o 29 Jun 1943 at 50 miles from Colorado Springs, CO
30132 modified as F-10
30134 Conv to TB-25D
30135 W/o 9 Dec 1943 at La Junta AAF, CO
30138 W/o 30 May 1943 at La Junta AAF, CO
30140 W/o 16 Jun 1944 at Sunday Peak, CA
30141 (340th BG, 489th BS) during violent evasive action two crew bailed out over Italy Aug 31, 1943.
Both POW, rest landed safely with plane. MACR 1199
30144 W/o 18 May 1943 at Charleston AAB, SC
30145 W/o 26 Mar 1943 at 250 miles from Belem, Brazil
30148 (341st BG) lost Feb 6, 1944. MACR 2315
30152 (341st BG) lost Feb 6, 1944. MACR 12970
30154 W/o 30 Mar 1944 at Ratio Lake, India
30157 W/o 27 Jul 1944 at Barrackpore, India
30158 W/o 7 Nov 1943 at Bhopal, India
30160 Conv to AT-24A; w/o 11 Mar 1944 at Mather Field, CA
30161 (345th BG, 500th BS, *Avoca Avenger*) downed in attack on
Kavieng, New Britain Feb 15, 1944
30163 on static display at National Museum, Port Moresby, Papua
New Guinea. The plane had left USAAF service in Aug 26, 1943
when it ran off the runway with 501st BS, 345th BG, "Butch" at Port Moresby, PNG and was
written off.
30164 (499th BS, 345th BG, "Doodle Jr") lost 30 mi W of Halmahera Sep10, 1944. Crew survived
30165 (499th BS, 355th BG, "Slopsy") lost May 9 1944 Nadzab. All 6 crew KIA.
30167 (405th BG) lost May 14, 1944, SW Pacific. MACR 12970
30172 Conv to TB-25D
41-30173/30352 North American B-25D-10 Mitchell
MSN 87-8338/8517
30175 Conv to AT-24A; w/o 31 May 1944 at Eads, CO
30178 (42nd BG) lost Jan 18, 1944. MACR 1802
30179 (38th BG) lost Jan 16, 1944. MACR 1690
30180 W/o 6 Feb 1944 at Peterson Field, CO
30181 modified as F-10; w/o 31 Jul 1944 at Esler Field, LA
30182 (38th BG) lost Jul 1, 1944. MACR 7344
30183 (38th BG, 405th BS, "Lucky Star") damaged by Japanese fighters and ditched Oct 16, 1943 near Madang,
Dutch East Indies. MACR 901. 5 crew MIA.
30185 (499th BS, 345th BG "Miss Ellen") lost Mar 19, 1944 Mum Ptn Cape Moen, Wewak, NG. MACR 6734. All 6 crew KIA
30187 disappeared enroute from Hickam Field, HI to Christmas Island
May 3, 1943. No information regarding crashe ever discovered.
30189 collided with B-25D during ending of landing roll at Saidor during
infamous Black Sunday mission to Hollanida. Aircraft was repaired.
30190 (38th BG) shot down at Rabaul, New Guinea Nov 2, 1943. MACR 1218
30191 W/o 10 Jul 1943 at Pueblo, CO
30192 W/o 19 Oct 1943 at Rocky Ford Aux, CO
30193 W/o 5 Jun 1943 at Mather Field, CA
30195 modified as F-10 - delivered to RCAF as 893 on 6 Apr 1944; wfu 6 Dec 1947.
30209 W/o 7 Feb 1944 at Hamilton AAF, CA
30211 (42nd BG) lost Apr 11, 1944. MACR 3793
30212 (13th BS, 3rd BG, 5th AF, based at Dobodura Airfield, Papua New Guinea)
Shot down by AAA and crashed near Kokopo, East New Britain, Papua New Guinea
while on mission to Rabaul, New Guinea Nov 2, 1943. MACR 1013. All 4 crew killed.
30213 (13th BS, 3rd BG, 5th AF, based at Dobodura Airfield, Papua New Guinea)
Shot Down Nov 2, 1942 By Anti-Aircraft Fire From Japanese Ships Over Simpson Harbor, East New Britain,
Papua New Guinea in The South Pacific While on a Mission on Shipping in Simpson Harbor. Left Engine
Caught Fire. Crashed Near Kokopo East New Britain. All (4) Crew Were Killed.
30216 W/o 28 Apr 1943 at Yokohl Valley, CA
30221 (38th BG) lost Aug 2, 1943. MACR 4698
30222 (MSN 87-8387) with 345th BG, 498th BS force-landed in Tanami
Desert, Australia Jan 25, 1945. Recovered Jun 1974 by
Aviation Historical Society and displayed at East Point
Museum, Darwin, NT. Reported 1976 under restoration for
Darwin Aviation Museum, Australia.
30223 W/o 26 Apr 1943 at Hunter Field, GA
30228 W/o 25 Jul 1943 at Santa Fe Beach, Cuba
30229 Conv to AT-24A; w/o 12 Apr 1944 at Turner Field, GA
30231 Conv to F-10
30235 Conv to AT-24A; w/o 22 Jan 1944 at La Junta AAF, CO
30239 (38th BG, 405th BS) lost Oct 12, 1943, Papua New Guinea. MACR 811
30240 (38th BG) shot down and crashed into Simpson Harbor, Rabaul
New Guinea Nov 2, 1943. MACR 1246. 2 KIA, 2 POW
30243 Conv to TB-25D
30244 W/o 13 Feb 1944 at Nelson, MO
30247 (38th BG) shot down 3 mi NW of Wewak, New Guinea Sep 2, 1943.
MACR 4508. Some crew bailed out but were executed.
30252 (38th BG) lost Feb 29, 1944, SW Pacific. MACR 408?
30254 (499th BS, 345th BG) lost Mar 5, 1944, SW Pacific. MACR 3143. All 6 crew KIA.
30255 (38th BG, 405th BS) shot down by Japanese fighter and crashed
into Bismarck Sea 15 mi off Wewak, New Guinea Sep 2, 1943. MACR 13287
30259 (499th BS, 345th BG, "The Ringmaster") lost Mar 26, 1944. MACR 4496. All 4 crew MIA
30261 Conv to TB-25D; w/o 9 Jan 1945 at La Junta AAF, CO
30262 W/o 19 Jun 1943 at Miami, FL
30265 W/o 3 Jun 1943 at Fort Dix AAB, NJ
30266 W/o 25 Jul 1943 at Santa Fe Beach, Cuba
30268 W/o 18 Apr 1943 at Homestead AAF, FL
30269 W/o 1 Aug 1943 at Langley Field, VA
30274 (3rd BGF, 8th BS, "The Hot Horse") damaged by AAA and crashlanded
at Dobodura Nov 2, 1943. Rebuilt and transferred to 345th BG
30277 W/o 5 Jul 1944 at Gaffney, SC
30278 (500th BS, 345th BG, "Hell's Fire") lost Sep 2, 1944 base of Mt Tongkoko, Celebes. MACR 15337. All 6 crew MIA.
30279 converted to D-1 strafer with 3rd BG, 90th BS, then to
345th BG, 500th BS, "Here's Howe". Shot down by friendly
AA fire from ships NW of Silimati Point, New Britain Dec 26, 1943. MACR 1847.
6 KIA.
30284 Conv to AT-24A; w/o 8 Jul 1944 at Chandler Field, CA
30289 W/o 19 Jul 1943 at Columbia AAB, SC
30290 W/o 4 May 1944 at Lakeland AAF, FL
30292 W/o 19 Oct 1944 at Morris Field, NC
30302 W/o 17 Mar 1944 at Redding, CA
30303 converted to D-1 strafer. (38th BG, 71st BS) shot down by
AAA at Alexishafen, New Guinea Dec 20, 1943. MACR 1418. 5 KIA.
30305 Conv to TB-25D; w/o 17 Apr 1945 at Waco AAAF #1, TX
30306 (38th BG, 71st BS, *Pissonit*) lost Feb 15, 1944, SW Pacific in
attack on Kavieng, New Britain. MACR 3502
30309 W/o 9 Aug 1943 at Jenkinsville, SC
30311 (3rd BG, 8th BS, "Fifi") shot down by AA while strafing a
Japanese heavy cruiser at Simpson Harbor, Rabaul, New
Gunea Nov 2, 1943, SW Pacific. MACR 2527, 14581. 4 KIA. Pilot
Maj. Raymond H. Wilkins posthumously awarded Medal of Honor.
30312 (500th BS 345th BG, "Dittum Dottum II") lost Jan 25, 1944 Salami Plantation, Los Negros Island.
All 6 crew KIA
30313 (8th BS, 3rd BG, 5th AF, based at Jackson Airfield, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea)
Hit Jul 9, 1943 By Gunfire From Japanese Nakajima Ki-43 (Oscar) Near Salamaua Morobe, Papua New Guinea
in The South Pacific. Ki-43 (Oscar) Flown By SgtMaj. Katsuaka Kira of 24th Sentai. Ditched off
Salamaua. (1) Crewman Was Killed. (4) Crew Survived and Swan to an Island and Met By Australian
Coast Watcher. Rescued By a U.S. Navy LCI.
30315 (345th BG, 500th BS, *Tinkie*) missing NW of Saidor, NG Jun 4, 1944. MACR 4338
30316 (90th BS, 3rd BG, 5th AF, based at Dobodura Airfield, Papua New Guinea
Ditched Nov 2, 1943 Near Kiriwina Airfield Milne Bay Papua New Guinea in The South Pacific After One
Engine Damaged By Japanese Fighters While Returning From a Mission on Shipping in Simpson Harbor.
All (5) Crew Survived and Were Rescued.
30317 (345th BG, 499th BS) crashed on takeoff on raid on
Kavieng, New Britain Feb 15, 1944. All 6 crew killed.
30318 (90th BS, 3rd BG, 5th AF, based at Dobodura Airfield, Papua New Guinea)
Shot Down Oct 30, 1943 By Anti-Aircraft Fire Over Garowe Island in The Vitu Island Group, New Britain,
Papua New Guinea in The South Pacific While on a Mission to Vitu Islands. Crashed into The Sea off
Genta Bay on The West Side of The Island. All (4) Crew Were Killed.. MACR 995
30319 (405th BG) hit by AAA and ditched in Bismarck Sea near Wewak,
New Guinea Sep 2, 1943. MACR 13282
30321 to NEIAF as N5-169 - missing Aug 25, 1944 at Larat
30324 W/o 17 Jul 1943 at Port Moresby, New Guinea
30326 (321st BG, 448th BS) shot down by AAA NW of Chieti, Italy
Dec 2, 1943. MACR 1516. 5 KIA, 2 returned
30330 Lend-Lease to France. Crashed Nov 28, 1947, killing French General LeClerc.
30334 W/o 16 May 1943 at Borinquen Field, Puerto Rico
30337 (38th BG, 405th BS) collided with F-5A 42-67350 in poor visibility at Saidor Apr 16, 1944
during infamous Black Sunday mission to Hollanida. 4 crew killed.
30338 accidentally landed near Melilla, Spanish Morocco Apr 1944 while enroute from Gibraltar to Tunis.
Impressed by Spanish AF as 74-17 and used as staff transport. Scrapped in 1956.
30344 W/o 8 Nov 1945 at Ritzenbergen, Germany
30345 (8th BS, 3rd BG, 5th AF, based at Jackson Airfield, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea)
Crashed Aug 28, 1943 into Hansa Bay, Madang, Papua New Guinea in The South Pacific While on a Mission There.
Aircraft Hit By Explosion From Bomb Blast From Another B-25 Which Knocked off The Right Wing and Tail.
All (3) Crew Were Killed.
30348 W/o 13 May 1943 at Sao Luiz, Brazil
30349 W/o 25 May 1943 at San Pablo Bay, CA
30352 (321st BG, 448th BS) shot down by AAA 10 km NW of Spoleto, Italy Jan 7, 1944. 1 KIA, 6 POW. MACR 1818
41-30353/30532 North American B-25D-15 Mitchell
MSN 87-8518/8697
30355 (321st BG, 448th BS) shot down by 88 mm Flak SE of Cisterna di Latina, Italy Jan 27, 1944. 5 KIA, 1 POW. MACR 2474
30362 (Sector Search Squadron) shot down by Japanese fighter
in India Dec 10, 1943, India. MACR 1700. 5 KIA, 1 returned.
30363 (115th BG) lost Oct 9, 1943. MACR 1057
30367 (341st BG) lost Dec 20,1943. MACR 1492
30369 (341st BG) lost Dec 12, 1944. MACR 2137
30372 (500th BS, 345th BG) lost Aug 1, 1944, near Roemberpon Island Geelvink Bay, New Georgia. MACR 8552.
All 6 crew MIA
30376 (3rd BG, 8th BS, 5th AF, based at Dobodura Airfield, Papua New Guinea)
Crashed Oct 24, 1943 at Kabanga Point, Papua New Guinea in The South Pacific After it Possibly Collided
With a Japanese A6M Zero While on a Mission to Rabaul, New Britain, Papua New Guinea. Aircraft Caught
Fire and Crashed After The Right Wing Broke off. All (4) Crew Were Killed. MACR 979
30378 W/o 28 Apr 1943 at Love Field, TX
30382 W/o 24 Nov 1943 at Bhopal, India
30383 (341st BG) lost Mar 13, 1944. MACR 3009
30386 (340th BG) lost Feb 12, 1944. MACR 2401
30388 (310th BG, 380th BS) crashed into sea 5 mi N of Tabarka, Tunisia Jul 25, 1943. MACR 207 and 237. 3 killed.
30391 (12th BG, 81st BS) shot down by AAA N of Randazzo, Sicily Aug 7, 1943. MACR 701 and 181.
4 POW, 1 KIA
30393 (321st BG, 446th BS) W/o 17 Dec 1943 at Elaricha, Morocco
30394 Conv to TB-25D
30395 (21st ASS) crashed into Gulf of Mexico 120 mi SW of Tampa, FL Jun 23, 1943. 8 killed. MACR 16352.
30406 (341st BG) lost Jan 15, 1945. MACR 11966
30412 (TB-25D, 3020BU, USAAF La Hunta AAF). Crashed on training flight Aug 10, 1944 1 mi. SE
of Rocky Ford Aux. AF. Stalled, did not recover. All 3 onboard killed..
30414 to NEIAF as N5-167; w/o 19 Dec 1944 at Batchelor, Australia. Also listed as going to RAF as Mitchell II FV940
and ditched following AAA damage Mar 20, 1944.
30416 To Neth East Indies AF as N5-168; to Australian AF as A47-35 on 28 Aug 1944
30418 W/o 10 Aug 1943 at 50 miles from La Junta AAF, CO
30419 to RAF as Mitchell II FV941. Stalled off turn and dived into ground at Colkirk,
England Nov 14, 1943
30423 Conv to TB-25D
30424 to RAF as Mitchell II FV942. Crashed and burnt out near Kirkbride, Scotland Jun 30, 1943.
30426 modified as F-10
30427 modified as F-10
30428 Conv to TB-25D; w/o 26 May 1945 at White Oaks, MD
30429 W/o 8 Jun 1943 in San Francisco Bay, CA
30431 to RAF as Mitchell II FV943. Struck off charge Jun 5, 1947.
30432 to RAF as Mitchell II FV944. Damaged by Fw 190s and ditched in English Channel Sep 21, 1943
30433 (38th BG) shot down and crashed into Simpson Harbor, Rabaul,
New Guinea Nov 2, 1943. MACR 1086. 4 KIA
30434 (3rd BG, 8th BS, 5th AF, based at Dobodura Airfield, Papua New Guinea)
Shot down Sep 27, 1943 By Anti-Aircraft Fire and Crashed in Kairuru Strait, East Sepik, Papua New Guinea
in The South Pacific While on a Mission to Kairuru Island, East Sepik, Papua New Guinea in The South Pacific.
Aircraft Cartwheeled and Broke Up When Hitting The Water. All (4) Crew Were Killed. MACR 731
30438 lost Jan 10, 1944. MACR 1644
30441 lost Sep 27, 1943. MACR 1312
30444 W/o 1 Sep 1943 at Harrisonburg, LA
30445 W/o 19 Oct 1943 at Hartsville AAF, SC
30453 W/o 10 Jun 1943 at Luray, SC
30455 (341st BG) lost Oct 26, 1943. MACR 1058
30456 W/o 18 Sep 1944 at Piardoba, India
30457 (341st BG, 11th BS) during low level bomb run the right wing
struck the mast of the targeted ship and crashed on north bank
of Yangtzee River 10 mi W of Anking, China Dec 30, 1943. MACR 1631.
4 KIA. Wreckage found by fishermen in the Yangtzee River in 2013
30458 (11th BS, 341st BG) lost Jul 13, 1943. MACR 305
30462 to RAF as Mitchell II FV945. Damaged beyond repair during German air raid on
Melsbroek Airfield, Belgium Jan 1, 1945
30467 W/o 8 Sep 1943 at Chatham Field, GA
30471 to RAF as Mitchell II FV946. Crashed into sea off New Providence Island, Bahamas Apr 9, 1945
30476 to RAF as Mitchell II FV947. Struck off charge Nov 21, 1946
30477 to RAF as Mitchell II FV948. Struck off charge Jun 5, 1947
30478 to RAF as Mitchell II FV949. Struck off charge Aug 23, 1945.
30480 W/o 12 Sep 1943 at Lake Charles AAF, LA
30481 Conv to TB-25D
30483 W/o 24 Mar 1944 at Greenville AAB, SC
30485 W/o 30 Jan 1944 at Adams Field, AR
30486 to RAF as Mitchell II FV950. Struck off charge Jun 5, 1947.
30487 W/o 7 May 1943 at Florence AAF, SC
30490 to RAF as Mitchell II FV951. Struck off charge Aug 23, 1945
30492 W/o 11 Feb 1944 at Sacramento, CA
30493 to RAF as Mitchell II FV952. Crashed into sea off Bimini, Bahamas Nov 23, 1943.
30495 to RAF as Mitchell II FV953. Crashed after takeoff from Nassau, Bahamas Aug 7, 1943
30498 to RAF as Mitchell II FV954. Struck off charge Aug 23, 1945
30499 W/o 9 Apr 1944 at Van Nuys AAF, CA
30501 Conv to TB-25D
30503 W/o 2 Jun 1943 at Florence AAF, SC
30504 W/o 17 Jun 1943 at Florence AAF, SC
30506 W/o 5 Jun 1943 in Atlantic Ocean off South Carolina
30509 W/o 10 Apr 1944 at Morris Field, NC
30510 W/o 16 Oct 1943 at Will Rogers Field, OK
30511 (3rd BG) w/o at Greenville AF, MS Apr 14, 1944. MACR 1458
presumably belongs to 41-30311.
30515 W/o 6 Dec 1945 at Naha AF, Japan
30516 (499th BS, 345th BG, "Jelly Belly 2nd") lost Sep 9, 1943 near Saidor,NG. MACR 15469. All 5 crew KIA.
30517 converted to D-1 strafer (345th BG, 498th BS, "Crabb 2nd").
Hit by friendly AA fire from ships and ditched into Borgen Bay
6 mi off Silimati Point, New Britain Dec 26, 1943.
Crew paddled ashore and returned.
30518 (501st BS, 345th BG, "Quich") lost off Kamiri, Noemforr Island Aug 15, 1944 Crew survived.
30522 (500th BS, 345th BG) lost 2 mo off Mawok, NG Nov 20, 1943. MACR 1146. All 6 crew MIA
30525 (312th BG) lost Oct 11, 1944. MACR 9457
30526 (8th BS, 3rd BG, 5th AF, based at Jackson Airfield, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea)
Shot Down Aug 18, 1944 By Anti-Aircraft Fire and Crashed at Wewak, East Sepik, Papua New Guinea
in The South Pacific After Both Engines Were Shot Out While on a Mission to Wewak. All (4) Crew Were Killed.
30527 (38th BG, 823rd BS, *Fer-de-Lance*) force landed at Yamai Apr 16, 1944
during infamous Black Sunday mission to Hollanida.
30531 (500th BS, 345th BG0 lost Feb 15, 1944 3/4 mi from tip of Kavieng. All crew rescued.
30532 (90th BS, 3rd BG, 5th AF, based ad Dobodura Airfield, Papua New Guinea)
Crashed Feb 1, 1944, on Mount Kenevi, Papua New Guinea in The South Pacific During Bad Weather While
on a Ferry Flight From Horanda Airfield to Dobodura Airfield, Papua New Guinea. All (2) Crew
and (9) Passengers Were Killed. Several Passengers Were From The 27th Air Depot. MACR 2565
41-30533/30847 North American B-25D-20 Mitchell
MSN 87-8698/9012
30544 487th Bomb Squadron, 340th Bomb Group; The aircraft departed the servicing depot at El Aouna, Tunis, Tunisia for
return to base at San Pancrasio, Italy. In poor visibility, the crew could not locate their airfield and bailed out over Sava, Italy 6Nov43.
30548 to RAF as Mitchell II KL133 - retained in Canada, no RAF service.
30551 (321st BG) lost Feb 19, 1944. MACR 2577
30552 Conv to AT-24A; w/o 21 Apr 1944 at Tucson Mun Arpt 2, AZ
30554 modified as F-10
30555 (341st BG) lost Jan 10, 1944. MACR 1645
30561 (500th BS, 345th BG) lost Oct 16, 1943, Papua New Guinea. MACR 935. All 5 crew MIA
30562 Lend-Lease to USSR
30566 (42nd BG) lost Jan 14, 1944. MACR 1668
30567 (69th BS, 42nd BG) shot down by AAA 10/6/1943
Kahili, Solomon Islands. 6 KIA. MACR 786
30568 Lend-Lease to USSR
30569 Lend-Lease to USSR
30570 Lend-Lease to USSR
30572 (345th BG, 500th BS) damaged by AAA and ditched near
Uligan, New Guinea Nov 20, 1943. MACR 1146. All