USAAF 41-31641 Martin B-26B-15-MA Marauder

USAAF serial number S/N: 41-31641 Martin B-26B-15-MA Marauder

1941031641, 41-31641 Martin B-26B-15-MA Marauder Fate: Damaged Unit: 387BG556BS

Remarks: 387BG556BS (Chipping Ongar) - Tiger Tails Code:FW-R named: Sheezabeech Damaged in enemy action. Crash landed at RAF airbase at Gosfield on 24 October 1943 after 18 missions. This was the squadron's first replacement aircraft, replacing the first Sheezabeech which cracked-up on on landing as the squadron arrived at Chipping Ongar. The aircraft was assigned to 1st. Lt. Houston N. Bartley's crew, which flew it on seven of its eighteen sorties. It last flew on October 24, 1943 in an attack on the Beauvais-Nivillers Airdrome in France. Heavily damaged by flak during the engagement, the crew brought the aircraft back to England on a single engine and crash-landed at the RAF airbase at Gosfield. 2nd Lt. Cleo C. Terrio, the Bombardier/Navigator, was killed in the crash. The crew on that day was the same one that flew the original Sheezabeech to from the United States to England:

WIA KIA WIA

Pilot CP B/N EG ROG AG

1st Lt. 2nd Lt. 2nd Lt. S/Sgt. T/Sgt. Sgt.

Houston N. Bartley Charles W. Dickson Cleo C. Terrio Burns P. Gillespie Lloyd H. Allen Peter Smiljanich

 

Disposal: 01-Oct-43