“Ready and Willing”
Piloted by Packy Roche and Bob Brown, Ready & Willing made the North Atlantic crossing to England in September 1942 with faulty landing lights and instruments, putting down safely near Prestwick after a flight of ten and a half hours. Roche was again at the controls on August 1, 1943, when the aircraft flew as the last Circus ship over the target on the low-level Ploesti raid; it came home with five wounded men aboard.
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.