Delivered Denver 1/6/43; Dow Fd 1/7/43; Assigned 418BS/100BG [LD-Y] Thorpe Abbotts 5/7/43; battle damaged Bremen 8/10/43 with Capt Everett Blakely, Co-pilot: Chas Via wia-shot down two enemy aircraft, Navigator: Harry Crosby, Bombardier: Jim Douglas, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Monroe Thornton shot down 3 enemy aircraft, Radio Operator: Edmund Forkner, Ball turret gunner: Bill McClelland wia-shot down 2 enemy aircraft, Waist gunner: Lester Saunders wia-shot down one enemy aircraft, but died 15 Oct, Waist gunner: Ed Yevich wia-KO’d Me 210, Tail gunner: Lyle Nord KO’d Me210, mission P-Maj John Kidd (9 Returned to Duty); flak KO’d #4, hydraulics and brakes t,he ship hit a large tree as it crash landed RAF Ludham, Nfk., UK; Salvaged 12/10/43. DID YOU SAY TEN CENTS? aka BLAKELY’S PROVISIONAL GROUP aka JUST-A-SNAPPIN'.