Hello,
Re: Liberator LB-30 AL589 (Post # 11).
https://www.pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/lb-30/AL589.html
AL589
AL611 - TRADER HORN later COMAIRFWD.
AL617 - FLIGHT CHIEF later AUSTRALIA
AL626 - FAST FREIGHT - Southern Cross Airways No.3, later FAST FREIGHT and SAMOA.
AL633 - OLD FAITHFUL later SEVENTH HEAVEN - did not participate in raid.
These aircraft operated initially as field-converted bombers, and later as C-87 conversions .
Two of the other pilots were; Roger Maxwell Ramey and Arthur W. Meehan, who went on to command the 90th BG.
See also:
Under The Southern Cross The B-24 Liberator in the South Pacific.
Livingstone,Bob
Paducah:Turner Publishing,1998.
pp.110 & 155.
Col.