Scanned from Special Orders #234 dtd 11 Dec 1944
Crew Details: A crew with a most curious history. They arrived in part or whole, sometime before the reorganization of the Group in August of 1944. Between then and 11 December of 1944 they seem to have been transferred to the 857th BS, perhaps after many of that squadron had completed their tours. In the orders above, issued from Harrington, they are again transferred, this time to the 859th BS. On 17 December 1944 Reilly and crew departed Harrington for Italy, when the squadron was sent on DS to the 15th Air Force. In April of 1945, they were one of the last B24s to be brought down by the enemy, killing Reilly, Proaps, Turner and Thomas Zinkand, Copilot who had replaced Irwin T. Kelly.
Reilly and Scott flew mission 1737 as observers in August of 1944. The next month, Reilly was part of the crew on C-47 mission #23. Kelly flew four missions in September 1944, all in B24s. None of the other crew members are listed as having flown any combat missions out of Harrington. However, they may have flown some of the gas-haul missions of late September, which were later qualified as combat missions.