Delivered Cheyenne 9/7/42; Sacramento SAD with Capt Jay Rusek; Assigned 64BS/19BG Mareeba, Aus 1/9/42; transferred 64BS/43BG Fenton Fd, Aus, then Mareeba, Aus 21/1/43; Port Moresby, NG 11/5/43; shot down 26/6/43 near Rabaul with Capt Don McEachan, Co-pilot: Capt John Scott, Navigator: Sumner Beck, Bombardier: Mortimer Smith, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Rod Edwards, Radio Operator: John Barry, Waist gunner: Ralph Thomas, Waist gunner: Homer Harper (9 Killed in Action);Tail gunner: Joel Griffin (POW, but survived war in Japan). Missing Air Crew Report 15995. TAXPAYER’S PRIDE.