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42-30045 Delivered to Cheyenne, Wyoming on 3 April 1943; Sioux City, Iowa on 14 April 1943; Kearney, Nebraska on 3 May 1943; Bangor, Maine on 23 May 1943. Assigned 545th Bombardment Squadron, squadron code JD-?, 384th Bombardment Group, station 106, Grafton Underwood, UK on 29 May 1943. This ship did not fly any combat missions with the 384th bombardment Group. Transferred to the 334th Bombardment Squadron, squadron code BG-M, 95th Bombardment Group, station 119, Horham on 28 June 1943 and named SHE'S MY GAL The ship flew 12 missions and failed to return from a mission to Saarlautern, Germany on 4 October 1943 with pilot-Max Crowder, navigator-Paul Terrell, bombardier-William Savage, engineer/top turret gunner-Roy Lewis, radio operator-Duke Rosenburg, ball turret gunner-Andres Torres, waist gunner-Theodore Mayer, waist gunner-Melvin Hibbert, tail gunner-Arlie Arneson (9 Prisoner of War) The co-pilot-Edgar Taylor was KIA. The aircraft was shot down by enemy aircraft and ditched off Bayeux, France. Mission Air Crew Report (MACR) #744 & 1455. Aircraft Name: FIGHT'N -'N -BIT'N.
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