“Big Noise”
Big Noise, featuring nose art of the Walt Disney character Donald Duck, served with the 330th Bomb Squadron, 93rd Bomb Group under call letters A and H. The aircraft aborted the low-level Operation Tidal Wave raid on the Ploesti oil refineries, Romania, on 1 August 1943.
According to a list compiled by Adrian Streather, Big Noise landed at Dübendorf, Switzerland on 16 March 1944. The aircraft did not return to Allied control and remained interned in Switzerland. Pilot: Richard J. Pettit. MACR 3531.
Sortie Log
A sortie is a single combat mission flown by an aircraft and its crew. The entries below document known sorties associated with this airman, drawn from flight logs, mission records, and archival sources. This list represents verified flights but may not be complete; gaps may reflect missing documentation, transferred assignments, or records lost to time.