For the pedantics. (Robert Morgan makes clear HIS last flight was on 17th)
Captain Robert Morgan’s crew flew 29 combat missions with the 324th Bomb Squadron, all but four in the Memphis Belle. The aircraft’s 25 missions were:
7 November 1942 – Brest, France
9 November 1942 – St. Nazaire, France
17 November 1942 – St. Nazaire
6 December 1942 – Lille, France
20 December 1942* – Romilly-sur-Seine, France
30 December 1942 – Lorient (flown by Lt. James A. Verinis)
3 January 1943 – St. Nazaire
13 January 1943 – Lille
23 January 1943 – Lorient, France
14 February 1943 – Hamm, Germany
16 February 1943 – St. Nazaire
27 February 1943* – Brest
6 March 1943 – Lorient
12 March 1943 – Rouen, France
13 March 1943 – Abbeville, France
22 March 1943 – Wilhelmshaven
28 March 1943 – Rouen
31 March 1943 – Rotterdam, Netherlands
16 April 1943 – Lorient
17 April 1943 – Bremen, Germany
1 May 1943 – St. Nazaire
13 May 1943 – Meaulte, France (flown by Lt. C.L. Anderson)
14 May 1943 – Kiel, Germany (flown by Lt. John H. Miller)
15 May 1943 – Wilhelmshaven
17 May 1943 – Lorient
19 May 1943* – Kiel (flown by Lt. Anderson)
* Sources disagree on which two of these three missions the Memphis Belle received mission credits for.
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