Delivered Cheyenne 28/4/44; Kearney 10/5/44; Grenier 25/5/44; Assigned 570BS/390BG [DI-G] Framlingham 28/5/44; 571BS [FC-G]; battle damaged Frankfurt 5/1/45 with John Mitchell; force landed Sedan A/fd, near Stanay, Fr; Salvaged 30/1/45. THE JEANNIE BEE.

From Joe Baugher's USAAF database

Accepted by USAAF 1 May 44. United Air Lines, Modification Center #10, Cheyenne Municipal Airport, WY 2 May 44. 271st Base Unit (Staging Wing), 21st Bomb Wing, Kearney Field, NB 10 May 44. 1377th Base Unit (North Atlantic Wing, Air Transport Command), Grenier Field (Station 16), Manchester, NH 25 May'44. 570th Bomb Squadron [DI*G], 390th Bomb Group, Framlingham (Station 153), Suffolk 28 May 44. Named "The Jeannie Bee". {first combat mission 6 Jun 44}. 

Participated in an Operation Frantic II shuttle mission to the Braunkohle-Benzin AG synthetic oil refinery at Schwarzheide, Ruhland, Germany 21 Jun 44. After the target, the bomber continued east and landed at Mirgorod (Station 561), Ukraine. The Germans had identified the location of the USAAF bomber force so the plane was moved to a fighter airfield at Zaporozke, Ukraine 22 Jun 44. Ferried to Poltava (Station 559), Ukraine then operated a mission to the oil refinery and railway marshalling yards at Drohobycz, Poland 26 Jun 44, continuing on to Foggia #8, Lucera, a Fifteenth Air Force base in southern Italy. Operated a mission to the marshalling yard and railway shops at Arad, Romania 3 Jul 44. Operated a mission to railway marshalling yards at Beziers, France and landed back at Framlingham 5 Jul 44. 

Participated in an Operation Frantic V shuttle mission to the Flugzeugwerk Gotenhafen Kurt Kannenberg AG Focke-Wulf assembly works at Rahmel, Gdynia, Poland 6 Aug 44. After the target, the bomber continued east and landed at Mirgorod (Station 561), Ukraine. Operated a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Zili?tea, Romania 8 Aug 44, continuing on to a Fifteenth Air Force base in southern Italy. Returned to England on a mission to a Luftwaffe airfield at Francazal, Toulouse, France 12 Aug 44. 

Battle damaged on a mission to the Luftwaffe airfield at Wiesbaden, Germany 10 Nov 44 (1WIA:8RTD). Poor weather conditions over the target area forced the bomber to divert to the secondary target of a local chemical works. A waist gunner was wounded. 571th Bomb Squadron [FC*G]. Battle damaged during a mission to railway marshalling yards at Frankfurt am Main, Germany 5 Jan 45. Crash landed in a cabbage field at Stanay, France. {64 missions}. Salvaged 30 Jan 45.