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The Harvard Planes

From the 8th to the 12th of November, 1943,
sixty-two B-17s of the 447th Bomb Group left Harvard AAB
in Nebraska for a transatlantic flight to England.

Sixty arrived.

A year and a half later, the war in Europe had come to an end.
Of those sixty B-17s, five were left.

Aircraft	Transit Crew		Sqdn	Disposition
42-31082	75-33 Hickey		710	Lost 1/11/44 w/ Hickey
42-31088	75-48 Hudson	*HEAVEN CAN WAIT*	711	Crashed on takeoff, 4/12/44 w/King
42-31092	75-A-1 Harris, H.	*BUTCH II*	708	Damaged beyond repair and salvaged 4/45
42-31095	75-A-3 Newman/Hopla	*THE GROUND POUNDER*	708	Forced landing on Continent, 10/2/44
42-31096	75-46 Jellison	*SQUIRMIN SQUAW*	711	Lost 2/10/44 w/Jellison
42-31100	75-15 Lewis	*THE GIMP*	709	Crashed on takeoff, 1/1/45
42-31104	75-5 Dalzell		708	Damaged beyond repair and salvaged, 7/ 44
42-31107	75-17 Larson	*LADY JANE*	709	Lost 1/11/44 w/ Jarrell
42-31108	75-A-5 Sheppard/Goetz	*DEVIL'S MATE*	709	Lost 1/29/44 w/ Allen
42-31112	75-35 Graham	*PAPER DOLL*	710	Lost 3/3/44 w/ Graham
42-31124	75-45 Moore	*ROUGHHOUSE*	711	Lost 4/29/44 w/Davidson
42-31125	75-53 Lowry	*NO REGRETS*	711	Lost 12/31/43 w/Moore
42-31127	75-12 Stenvig		708	Damaged beyond repair and salvaged, 5/44
42-31128	75-14 Brown, W		709	Lost 7/20/44 w/Miller
42-31144	75-27 Rowland	*MISS AMERICA*	710	Lost 4/29/44 w/Hughes
42-31145	75-4 Gilleran	*HI JINX*	708	Lost 2/6/44 w/Reed
42-31146	75-11 Putnam		708	Lost 1/30/44 w/Putnam
42-31148	75-34 Johnson, K.A.	*MORNING STAR*	710	Ditched 3/3/44 w/Ralston
42-31154	75-10 Eastman	*SHACK HAPPY*	708	Lost 11/25/44 w/Wiggin
42-31155	75-41 Carmack		711	Damaged beyond repair and salvaged, 3/44
42-31156	75-9 Huff	*BIG STOOP*	708	Crashed 4/11/44 in Denmark w/Pauling
42-31157	75-23 Nance	*RED ASS*	709	Lost 2/13/44 w/Macdonald
42-31160	75-29 Kauffun	*MICKEY*	710	Crashed 2/13/44 in English Channel
42-31161	75-40 Johnson, W.H.	*SPARE PARTS*	711	Lost 4/29/44 w/Peper
42-31165	75-25 Jurnecka		709	Lost 3/4/44 w/Geyer
42-31167	75-8 Reed		708	Lost 2/10/44 w/Finfinger
42-31168	75-30 Guynn		710	Returned to US, Salvaged at Kingman
42-31169	75-38 Marcy	*HEY MABEL*	710	Crash-landed 3/9/44 at Honnington
42-31172	75-24 Johnson, P.W.		709	Transferred to 306BG, then interned Switz
42-31173	75-36 Beaty	*MAID TO PLEASE*	710	Lost 12/30/43 w/Schrero
42-31184	75-A-10 McQuire	*OLD CROW*	711	Lost 4/13/44 w/Kreuzer
42-31185	75-A-4 Smith/Socolofsky	*SATCHEL LASS*	708	Crash-landed 9/4/44
42-31186	75-A-6 Rall/Skinner	*DING'S DILEMMA*	709	Lost 2/28/44 w/C. Harris
42-31188	75-22 Perkins	*DEAD MAN'S HAND*	709	Lost 4/19/45 w/Glazner
42-31191	75-39 Esterline	*VIRGINIA LEE*	710	Lost 3/27/44 w/Gaskell
42-31204	75-47 Fouts		711	lost 2/28/44 w/Fouts
42-31206	75-42 Keller	*JOURNEY'S END*	711	Returned to US, Salvaged at Kingman
42-31207	75-6 Hitchcock		708	Damaged beyond repair and salvaged 3/44
42-31208	75-26 Sizer		709	Ditched 3/9/44 w/Jurnecka
42-31210	75-31 Leavitt	*PICCADILLY ANN / BUCCANEER*	710	Ditched 3/9/44 w/ McGuire
42-31217	75-32 Chardi	*SOLID SENDER*	710	Lost 4/29/44 w/Paris
42-31219	75-37 White		710	Lost over the Atlantic during crossing
42-31223	75-49 Huckins		711	Damaged beyond repair and salvaged 3/44
42-31225	75-18 MacDonald	*SCHEHERAZADE*	709	Returned to US, Salvaged at Kingman
42-31227	75-13 Morley	*DOTTIE JANE*	708	Damaged beyond repair and salvaged 3/44
42-37824	75-16 Greewell	*ICE COLD KATIE / MISS BOO*	709	Ditched 1/11/44 w/Fouts
42-37840	75-A-7 Elder/Finfinger	*COMBINED OPERATIONS*	710	Transferred to 306BG, then crashed in UK
42-37842	75-44 Kinsinger		711	Lost 4/8/44 w/Anderson
42-37854	75-2 Lagasse		708	Damaged beyond repair and salvaged 1/45
42-37855	75-A-9 McRay/Hodges		711	Damaged beyond repair and salvaged 3/44
42-37864	75-A-2 Bowman		708	Lost 5/20/44 w/Mitchell
42-37865	75-7 Theisen		708	Lost over the Atlantic during crossing
42-37866	75-3 Widstrom	*BLOATED BODY*	708	Lost 4/29/44 w/Donahue
42-37868	75-1 Jarrell	*DUE BACK*	708	Lost 4/29/44 w/Blom
42-37871	75-40 Bonham	*UNINVITED*	711	Returned to US, Salvaged at Kingman
42-37872	75-43 Duke		711	Lost 1/44 w/Huff
42-37873	75-A-8 Norris		710	Interned 7/11/44 w/Jacobs
42-39864	75-21 Smith, B		709	Accidental explosion at base 4/21/44
42-39865	75-28 Davis	*LADY LORRAINE*	710	Lost 5/9/44 w/Owens
42-39874	75-19 Kreuzer	*WICHITA WITCH*	709	Forced Landing in France 6/22/44, salvaged
42-39882	75-51 Palfrey	*MY GAL*	711	Returned to US, Salvaged at Kingman
42-39886	75-20 Tigh		709	Crash-landed 6/29/44

Two planes never reached England, lost somewhere over the north Atlantic, and never found. Those were:

42-37865 Crew 75-7
2nd Lt. Leonard Thiesen
2nd Lt. Floyd Fuller
2nd Lt. John Marslond
2nd Lt. Daniel Duffin
Sgt. Earl Schalk
Sgt. Raymond Wehner
Sgt. George Dunger
Sgt. Richard Doerk
Sgt. Eugene Darter
Pfc. Basil Garroa

42-31219 Crew 75-37
Capt. Lester White
2nd Lt. Frank Haag
2nd Lt. Thomas Cameron
2nd Lt. GIlligan Moseley
T/Sgt. Martin B. Slattery
Sgt. Lorenz Kirchoff
T/Sgt. Alfred Haag
Sgt. George Oakley
Cpl. Raymond Hodges
Sgt. Augustus Farmer

Sixty-two aircraft had been assigned to the group before its embarkation for the ETO. Yet the four squadrons, at full readiness, had eighty combat crews. Eighteen of those crews made the transit to England by ship, and have become known as the Boat Crews.

708th

Lt. Pauling
Lt. Donahue
Lt. Rozmus
Lt. Hopla
Lt. Socolofsky

709th

Lt. C. Harris
Lt. McKay
Lt. Allen
Lt. McGuire
Lt. Skinner

710th

Lt. Ralston
Lt. Overdorf
Lt. Kautt
Lt. Finfinger

711th

Lt. Leigh
Lt. Schrero
Lt. C. Leach
Lt. Hodges

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