Appendix C
Hickam Field Maintenance Record*

Group Number		Serial Number	Discrepancies as of 1300 7 Dec 1941	Status as of 1845 8 Dec 1941
			5th Bomb Group (Heavy)
			B-17D
92		40-3082		In Commission
52		40-3089		In Commission
1		40-3085	Two oil tanks damaged, one engine bad, two tires destroyed, bullet holes	Repairable
41		40-3092	No engines, no left wheel, no oil tanks	Repairable
90		40-3071	Left and rear tires gone, control wires gone, badly shot up	Destroyed
20		40-3080	Burned up	Destroyed
			B-18
80		37-1	Hole in left wing and rudder	In commission
81		37-2		In Commission
31		36-339	Located at Hilo, Hawaii, TH	In Commission
62		36-342		In Commission
63		36-329		In Commission
64		36-433	Left wing, vertical fin, and rudder assembly damaged, rudder cables damaged	In Commission
92		?	Not the #92 in 11 Bomb Gp	In Commission
2		36-333	Right wing and elevator damaged	Repairable
83		36-310	Right engine shot, many bullet holes	Repairable
33		36-438	Left wing, ailerons, and elevator bullet holes, left tire bad	Repairable
35		36-337	Right engine prop bad	Repairable
36		36-334	Vertical fin and right tire badly shot up	Repairable
3		37-4		Destroyed
82		37-3	Burned up	Destroyed
32		37-11		Destroyed
37		37-19	Tail wheel, tail surface, right tire and engine badly shot up	Destroyed

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* Information extracted from Hickam Field maintenance records as recorded by retired Air Force Lt Col Charles P. Eckhert (deceased), from 1300 hours 7 December 1941 to 1845 hours 8 December 1941.

Group Number		Serial Number	Discrepancies as of 1300 7 Dec 1941	Status as of 1845 8 Dec 1941
			A-20A
5		40-125		In Commission
7		40-127		In Commission
8		40-128		In Commission
9		40-130		In Commission
11		40-133		In Commission
12		40-134		In Commission
13		40-135		In Commission
14		40-136		In Commission
16		40-150		In Commission
10		40-131		Repairable
15		40-137		Destroyed
17		40-151		Destroyed
			11th Bombardment Group (Heavy)
			B-17D
41		40-3084	Replace #2, #3, and main gas tanks, no tunnel, no nose gun	In Commission
40		40-3060	Change four props	In Commission
60		40-3090	Left wheel fin and stabilizer damaged, fuselage torn above radio compartment	Repairable
61				Destroyed
80		40-3077		Destroyed
81		40-3083		Destroyed
			B-18
50		36-327		In Commission
52		36-336		In Commission
53		37-20	Need airline patching materiel	In Commission
94		37-5		In Commission
54		36-328	Complete empennage metal work, replace all wheels	Repairable
77		36-436	Need vertical stabilizer, rudder, left wheel, and right aileron	Repairable
78		36-437	Major work required	Repairable
79		37-15	Patching for fin, right wheel, right elevator, oil leak right engine	Repairable
76		36-288	At HAD for complete repair	Repairable
93		37-6	Originally thought to be a complete loss	Repairable

Group Number		Serial Number	Discrepancies as of 1300 7 Dec 1941	Status as of 1845 8 Dec 1941
4		37-7	Major metal work, right landing gear	Repairable
51		36-335	Burned in HAD	Destroyed
92		36-270	Total loss	Destroyed
95		37-12	Parts being used for #64	Destroyed
			Hawaiian Air Force
			B-18
1		?	Completely demolished	Destroyed
			19th Transport Squadron
			C-33/DC-2
1		?	Heavily strafed	Repairable
2		?	Elevator damaged	Repairable
			18th Bombardment Wing Heavy
			B-18
1		?	Completely demolished	Destroyed
			58th Bombardment Squadron (Light)
			P-26
47		33-100		In Commission
49		33-186		Repairable
			A-12
34		33-227		In Commission
19		33-231		Repairable

Group Number		Serial Number	Discrepancies as of 1300 7 Dec 1941	Status as of 1845 8 Dec 1941
			Transient Aircraft
			B-24A
71		40-2371	Burned	Destroyed

 

NOTE: The B-24A was part of the 44th Bomb Group, assigned to the 1st Photo Group, attached to Ferry Command and had flown to Hawaii from Russia through the Middle East, Singapore, Australia, New Guinea, and Wake Island. It arrived at Hickam Field on 5 December to have guns installed prior to continuing on to the Philippines. Problems were encountered installing the weapons and it was still at Hickam the morning of the attack. The aircraft was assigned to the Philippines to fly reconnaissance missions over Japanese installations in the Marshalls and Carolines. Information extracted from Log of the Liberators by Steve Birdsall, Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1973, pp. 44-45; The Army Air Forces in World War II, Vol I, Craven and Cate, Washington DC, 1983, pp. 189-190; and correspondence 1990-1991 with Dave Aiken of Irving, TX.

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