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Eleven men in Air Force uniform posed in front of a military airplane. Five men standing to the rear, six men kneeling in front. Large canvas bags are laying in front of kneeling men

UPL 67784 UPL 67784 384th Bomb Group Lead Crews / 27 December 1944/Altenahr, Germany.
Back L-R: Emil Edward Pluhar (TG/OBS, Albert J. Merlis (N), Alfons Francis Urwal (N), Arthur Martin Stone Jr. (AC), Carl Warren Schwob (N).
Front L-R: Carl Richard Euting (FG), Robert Frank Brown (FG), John Henry Herzog Jr. (P), James B. Saunders (B), Henry Bauer (TT), George Frank Palacek, (RO).
John Herzog’s last mission.

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545th Bomb Squadron 384th Bomb Group 764 44-8008 Grafton Underwood Emil E Pluhar Albert L Merlis Alfons Francis Uriwal Arthur M Stone Carl W Schwob Carl R Euting Robert Brown John H Herzog James B Saunders Henry Bauer George F Palecek On

Object Number - UPL 67784 - 384th Bomb Group Lead Crews / 27 December 1944/Altenahr, Germany. Back L-R: Emil Edward Pluhar (TG/OBS, Albert J. Merlis (N), Alfons Francis Urwal...

Delivered Dallas 12/5/44; Langley 26/6/44; Grenier 9/7/44; Assigned 385BG [---Q] Gt Ashfield 10/7/44; transferred 544BS/384BG [SU-Y] Grafton Underwood 13/8/44; Missing in Action Plauen 19/3/45 with Bill Kramer, Emmett Culhane, Chas Fell, Walt Robitzki, Dwight Scrivner, Bill Brooks, Jack Pheiffer, Francis Lukosavich, Keith Krauss (9 Killed in Action); flak, crashed Ostend, Bel; Missing Air Crew Report 13366.