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Douglas C-47-DL 41-18413 to USAAF on the 29th of June 1942.
Used in training by 5th AF 317th TCG 41st TCS on the 21st of September 1942 to the 14th of December 1942.
To RFC on the 17th of October 1945.
 
Douglas C-47-DL 41-18513 to USAAF on the 11th of August 1942.
45th Troop Carrier Squadron (Nose #63), 316th Troop Carrier Group, Lawson Field, Fort Benning, GA in August 1942.
Del Valle AAB, Austin, TX on the 29th of September 1942.
Mobile Air Depot, Brookley Field, Mobile, AL on the 10th of November 1942.
Ferried overseas via the South Atlantic/African route departing Morrison Field, West Palm Beach, FL on the 16th of November 1942.
Routed via Borinquen Field, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico; Waller Field, Valencia, Trinidad; Val de Caes Field, Belém, Brazil on the 19th of November 1942. Panamirim Field, Natal, Brazil on the 20th of November 1942; Ascension Island on the 21st of November 1942; Accra, Gold Coast on the the 22nd of November 1942; Kano and Maiduguri, Nigeria; Khartoum, Sudan to Heliopolis, Cairo. Moascar AAB, Ismailia, Egypt on the the 25th of November 1942. Ninth Air Force, North Africa. Twelfth Air Force in August 43.
Borizzo, Trapani, Sicily. Ferried to England departing Borizzo on the 12th of February 1944.
Routed via Gibraltar; St Mawgan, Newquay, Cornwall to Cottesmore, Rutland (Station 489) in February 44.
Ninth Air Force, 313th Transport Squadron, 31st Air Transport Group, Bolleville (A-25), France.
Crashed on takeoff from Bolleville on the 4th of September 1944.
W/O for spares on the 4th of September 1944 at Bolleville, France.
 
Douglas C-53-DO 41-20113 to USAAF on the 27th of February 1942.
To Chinese National Aviation Corporation on the 19th of April 1942.
Crashed on landing at Dinjan on the 18th of February 1944.
 
Lockheed A-29-LO Hudson 41-23613 to RAF as BW751 but NTU and to Australia as A16-211 in Apr 1942.
Undercarriage collapsed due to battle damage on the 8th of May 1943 at Millingimbi while with 2 Sqdn and converted to components.
 
Consolidated B-24D-5-CO Liberator 41-23813 (44th BG, 68th BS, 8th AF, "Victory Ship") shot down by Fw 190A-6 flown by Lt Lebrecht Altmann of JG 26/1 and crashed near Bracquetuit, France on the 21st of January 1944.
5 KIA, 4 POW, one evaded capture.
 
Consolidated B-24D-20-CO Liberator 41-24213, 9th BS, 7th BG, 10th AF, based at Gaya Airfield (A-20), Gaya, India.
Shot Down 9n the 31st of March 1943 by gunfire from a japanese Mitsubishi A6M2 and crashed near Rangoon, Burma, while on a mission on to the Pyinmana Railroad Yards in Mandalay Burma.
5 crew were killed.
4 crew bailed out and were captured and became POWs.
 
Boeing B-17F-5-BO Fortress 41-24413 ("Birmingham Blitzkreig") assigned to 92nd BG at Bangor, on the 14th of July 1942.
Transferred to 97th BG, 414th BS at Polebrook, on the 24th of August 1942.
Transferred to 12th Air Force at Maison Blanche, on the 13th of November 1942.
Transferred to Tafaraoui, on the 22nd of November 1942.
Transferred to Biskra, on the 25th of December 1942.
MIA on mission to Bizerte, December 26, 1942, sustained a direct hit by AAA fire, exploded, 10KIA.
 
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