Delivered Long Beach 18/9/43; Scott 21/10/43; Assigned 401BG Deenethorpe 4/11/43; transferred 510BS/351BG [TU-P] Polebrook 18/11/43; {25m} Missing in Action Sorau 29/5/44 with Alf Neal, Co-pilot: Bill Long, Navigator: Dave Rucker, n/g-Sgt Fred Hale, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Willis Hickman, Radio Operator: Bill Gough, Ball turret gunner: Jose Jiminez, Waist gunner: Gene Ingraham,Tail gunner: John Sado (9 Returned to Duty); flak ko’d two engines and was forced to head home, then lost another the load being too much. Crossing the coast flak hit the fourth engine, and Neal, on his first mission as first pilot forced to ditch in the Channel, where the ship floated for 20 minutes, the crew picked up by ASR; PAPA’S PASSION.