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The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Mustin (DD-413) at Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii, on 14 June 1942, following the search for survivors of the Battle of Midway. She is painted in Camouflage Measure 12 (Modified).

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A U.S. Navy Curtiss SBC-3 Helldiver scout bomber of Scouting Squadron VS-6 from the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CV-6) flies low past the Sims-class destroyer USS Mustin (DD-413), during exercises on 26 May 1940.


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Douglas C-47-DL 41-7813 to USAAF on the 24th of April 1942.
29th Transport Squadron, 313th Transport Group, Daniel Field, GA April 1942.
Bowman Field, Louisville, KY 21Jun42. Ferried overseas via the North Atlantic.
Patterson Field, Reykjavik, Iceland to Prestwick (Station 500), Scotland on the 16th of July 1942.
Eighth Air Force on the 22nd of September 1942.
12th AF, Italy - To Foreign Liquidation Commission Dec 11, 1945. To civil registry as I-REGI (Aero Teseo) on the 30th January 1947.
Crashed at Colle Salveti, en route Palermo-Florence on the 20th of February 20 1948.
 
Boeing B-17E Fortress 41-9013 assigned to 97BG/341BS in March 1942, made a courier trip to North Africa on the 18th of December 1942, transferred to 92BG/327BS at Bovingdon on the 27th of August 1943, transferred to 482BG at Alconbury on the 27th of August 1943, transferred to 94BG Bury St. Edmunds (Rougham) on the 10th of November 1943, RETUS to 4136 BU Tinker on the 22nd of May 1944, reclaimed for scrap on the 9th of Feb 1944.
 
Boeing B-17E Fortress 41-919213 delivered to Cheyenne on the 22nd of May 1942, assigned to 11th BG, 42nd BS at Hickham, Hawaii, on the 3rd of June 1942, named "Jap Basher"; MIA Gudalcanal on the 24th of September 1942.
No MACR issued.
W/O 31 Jul 1944 at NAS Honolulu, HI.
 
Consolidated B-24D-CO Liberator 41-11613 was HALPRO #10 'Florine Jo Jo/Blue Streak', later to 93rd BG.
Lost with 93rd BG on Ploesti raid Rumania Aug 1, 1943. There's another reference (Al Blue) which has this plane as having been scrapped on the 20th of November 1944.
The IARC has this plane as returning to USA on the 26th of February 1944-2nd of March 1944, and going to reclamation at Keesler AAF, MS on the 20th of November 1944, and reclamation completed as RB-24D on the 24th of May 1946.
 
Consolidated B-24D-CO Liberator 41-11713 to RAF as Liberator III FK239.
Missing on the the 24th of August 1943, Andaman Islands, Bay of Bengal.
 
Consolidated B-24D-CO Liberator 41-11913 (98th BG, 343rd BS, 9th AF, *Snow White* based at Benina Airfield, Benghazi, Libya.
Shot Down on the 1st of May 1943 by Anti-Aircraft fire and crashed into Reggio di Calibre Harbor, Italy while on a mission to Reggio di Calibre Harbor, Italy.
Aircraft went into a spin and crashed in the water and burst into flames.
All 10 crew were killed.
 

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