NAME	TP	-	M#	SER	-	BLK	-	MF	SERIAL #	AF	BG	BS	SC	RCL/#	V#-P	PHOTO CREDITS
PEERLESS CLIPPER	B	-	24	H	-	5	-	CF	41-29216	15	449	717	~	39	00-2	N/A

Starboard (Right) Side - Lost 2 Apr 44, AUT - MACR 4024 Pg1 / Pg2 - Pilot Jacob F. Kury
Featured in "Tucson to Grottaglie"

Contributor - Mark Coffee
An original cadre ship purchased by the employees of the Peerless Woolen Mills of Chattanooga, TN. She was originally assigned to the Lawrence Sies crew (Sies was from Chattanooga - Standing 2nd from left). Lost 2 Apr 44 over Steyr, Austria in a three-way collision with MISS BEHAVIN' (42-52086) and SUPERSTITIOUS AL-O-YSIUS (42-52136). Just after the target, a rocket attack by fighters scored a hit on MISS BEHAVIN' which banked out of control into the tail of SUPERSTITIOUS AL-O-YSIUS. PEERLESS CLIPPER, with Jake Kury's crew aboard, then flew into the debris of the other two ships. 11 KIA, MACR 4024. Thirty men were killed in the three ships with only S/Sgt. Mark Schneider, BTG on MISS BEHAVIN' surviving (POW).

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