556TH BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON, MEDIUM

Sheezabeech II
The Payoff
Martin B-26B-15-MA Marauder
Sn: 41-31641
Squadron Code: FW-R

First Sortie
Last Sortie
Total
19 Aug 43
24 Oct 43
18

Crew chief: S/Sgt. Dwight J. Hemphill
Asst. Crew Chief: Cpl. Clinton I. Dean *

        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