42-97151 Sherrifs Posse
Object Number - UPL 25573 - Sheriff's Posse
Available: 1 February 1944 - Boeing Aircraft Co, Seattle, Washington
Accepted: 2 February 1944
Assigned: 11 February 1944 - Cheyenne
Assigned: 18 February 1944 / 2 March 1944 - Grand Island AAF
Assigned: 4 March 1944 - ATC / North Atlantic Wing - Presque Isle AAF
Assigned: 17 March 1944 / 21 March 1944 - 8th AF / VIII Service Command / BAD 1 - (RAF Burtonwood)
Assigned: 22 March 1944 - 8th AF / 1st BD / 1st CBW / 91st BG / 323rd BS - (RAF Bassingbourn)
( Triangle-A ) ( OR * L / Sheriff’s Posse )
16 combat missions
Crew Chief: M/Sgt David Lloyd
Damaged: 1 May 1944, Troyes, France
Pilot: Nenad Kovachevich, Co-pilot: William C Motsinger
Navigator: Dan B Jordan, Bombardier: Roy L Jones
Flight engineer: Marvin Powers Jr, Radio Operator: Phillip R Merrill,
Ball turret gunner: Merritt W Metzger, Waist gunner: Roy J Schleich Jr
Waist gunner: Robert J Grabowski, Tail gunner: Charles Kolence
(10 Returned to Duty)
crash landed base, loss of brake power on landing collided with parked trucks;
Salvaged: 3 May 1944 / 17 June 1944.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 91st Bomb Group 323rd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 31317700
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 427th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 12173117
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio Operator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 335th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio Operator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 91st Bomb Group 323rd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-802582 and 15080361 on enlisting
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: PIAAF / Presque Is
Revisions
original was a mess -- wrong dates, crew spelled wrong and in wrong positions.....
Corrections bases on Aircraft card, squadron records and 91st BG load-outs
