Accepted: 29 January 1944 - Boeing Aircraft Co, Seattle, Washington

Assigned: 3 February 1944 - United Airlines / Boeing Modification Center #10 - (Cheyenne Municipal)

Assigned: 18 February 1944 / 29 February 1944 - 2nd AF / 21st BTW / 7th Heavy Bombardment Processing - (Kearney AAF)

Staging Field

Assigned: 1 March 1944 - ATC / North Atlantic Wing - (Grenier AAF)

Assigned: 11 March 1944 / 14 March 1944 - 8th AF / VIII Service Command / BAD 1 - (RAF Burtonwood)

Assigned: 18 March 1944 - 8th AF / 3rd BD / 45th CBW / 388th BG / 562nd BS - (RAF Knettishall)

( Square-H ) ( H / Silver Lady & Double Trouble )

19 combat missions

Crashed (class 5): 8 June 1944 (Pilot error)

Plantation Farm (3/4 mile north from Shippea Hill Station / Burntfen), Cambridgeshire - England (52°26'41"N / 0°24'45"E).

With Clyde Bryant, Co-pilot: Edward Calo, Navigator: Bob Morgan, Bombardier: Bob Little, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Roger Morgan, Radio Operator: John Conde, Ball turret gunner: Curtis Reynolds, Waist gunner: Rich Ray, Waist gunner: Chas Walkovich,Tail gunner: Bob Boese

10 KIA (MACR 15176)

Crew had already taken-off for mission cancelled and was granted permission to remain in

flight for navigation training.

Aircraft touched the ground, 1 mile from the place of crash, where the #4 propeller and parts of the cowlings from #2, 3 and 4 engines were later found. Aircraft left the ground, went into a flat spin to the right and crashed.

42-97132 exploded on contact with the ground, the second time.

RAF Bomb Disposal Flight No 6213 Cambridge disarmed bombs.

AAF accident report: 44-6-8-529.

Salvaged: 9 June 1944 / 5 July 1944