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Aircraft Loss - 14 September 1942 - 08/21/2008 12:22:13 PM
Looking for details and tail number of the B-25 Mitchell aircraft flown by Col Charles G Goodrich and Major Harold B Houston of the 81st Bomb Sq.  I have only found the names of the personnel on board and this was a MACR that was prepared later on and did not have any eyewitness statement. The only comment on the MACR states "the plane failed to return".  Thanks in advance for any information
Randy Watkins
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Re:Aircraft Loss - 14 September 1942 - 08/21/2008 12:34:28 PM
Randy -
Lack of Witnesses probably because this was a Night Mission
to Bomb Sidi Haneish. 
4 of the 6 B - 25s dispatched were shot down.
12th BG Commander Col. Charles Goodrich POW.
All I can Find so far.
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Re:Aircraft Loss - 14 September 1942 - 08/21/2008 08:21:29 PM
Thanks Mike. That is about all I have found

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Re:Aircraft Loss - 14 September 1942 - 09/13/2008 12:17:21 PM
Hallo Randy,

It was B-25D, 41-29681.  Shot down over Tobruk.

This information from the excellent  RAF BOMBER LOSSES IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND MEDITERRANEAN, Vol. 1 1939-1942  by David Gunby and Pel Temple.  From Midland Publishing, 2006.

It includes losses of the 12th BG while attached to the RAF in North Africa.

Hope this helps,

Martin Gleeson.

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