67th Bomb Squadron
Squadron
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42-95193
B-24 Liberator
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42-95193 - B-24H-25 Tail gunner Booth cleaning up tail turret - Serial number on this photo, on base at Shipdham Time frame 13 June to 3 August 1944. Their first mission in this aircraft (their 8th overall) was on 14 June 1944 to Chateaudun, France and returned to base at 1015 hours so I mark the earliest date for this photo taken in daylight as the 13th of June. Dad's inscription on the back is the next photo.
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Back of previous photo with Dad's signature. I expect he wrote it in the late 1990's
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42-95193 - B-24H-25 I-Bar 193, Gilbert crew waiting for go signal flares at Shipdham; June, July early August 1944. Dad (S/Sgt Woodrow Peterson RO/G) seated at right facing camera. In Dad's words, "Waiting for word to go. Held up for awhile.
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Dad's caption on back of previous photo.
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Shipdham, England some time between 30 May 1944 and 3 August 1944. Lt. William Gilbert Crew, 67th Bomb Squadron, 44th Bomb Group. My father S/Sgt. Woodrow Peterson RO/G is second from left of those lying down. In his words: "Waiting to take off hamming it up speech by gunner Lardierre (Lardiers) standing left, then left to right Cudd, Crew Chief - Peterson R.O., Thompson Co Pilot, Jewell Navigator, Joe Beane Bombardier lying in front of Lardierre (Lardiers)"
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Back of previous photo
Known as 193 I-Bar, this aircraft was received by the 67th squadron, 44th bomb group on 6 June 1944 and survived 83 missions to be returned to the Zone of the Interior (USA) on 27 May 1945. The picture is of Sgt. Jack L. Booth, 193 I-Bar's tail gunner with the 67th 14 June 1944 until 3 August 1944, doing a little house keeping. The photo is from my father Radio Operator/Gunner T/Sgt Woodrow Peterson who flew all 30 of his missions with Sgt. Booth as members of the Lt. William Gilbert Crew.
Service
Units
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68th Bomb Squadron
Squadron
People
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Joe Beane
Military | Bombardier | 44th Bomb Group The Flying Eightballs
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Jack Booth
Military | 44th Bomb Group The Flying Eightballs
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Leslie Collins
Military | 44th Bomb Group The Flying Eightballs
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Charles Cudd
Military | Technical Sergeant | Flight Engineer | 44th Bomb Group The Flying Eightballs
Flew on 'JBar' flew 35 missions, pilot was Gilbert. -
William Gilbert
Military | 44th Bomb Group The Flying Eightballs
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Frank Jewell
Military | 44th Bomb Group The Flying Eightballs
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Phillip Lardiers
Military | 44th Bomb Group The Flying Eightballs
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Woodrow Peterson
Military | Technical Sergeant | Radio Operator/Gunner | 44th Bomb Group The Flying Eightballs
T/Sgt. Woodrow "Woody" Peterson joined the AAF to have a choice how he would fight the war. He went to pilot training, but washed out and was sent to gunnery school in Kingman Arizona. After gunnery school, his intelligence got him sent to radio... -
Ralph Thompson
Military | 44th Bomb Group The Flying Eightballs
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Junior Vaughan
Military | Sergeant | Tail Gunner | 44th Bomb Group The Flying Eightballs
Purple Heart, 5 Air Medals
Places
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Shipdham
Military site : airfield
Shipdham was built in 1941-1942, the first US heavy bomber airfield in the English county of Norfolk. It was a standard design, with T2-type hangars and a domestic site dispersed to the south east. Improvements were carried out to increase the number...
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Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 23 January 2016 00:29:42 | Fishguy | Created entry with serial number, aircraft type, production block number, manufacturer, nicknames, markings, description, unit associations, person associations and place associations |
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Memories written, photographic and oral from my father T/Sgt Woodrow Peterson, RO/G with the 67th of the 44th from 30 May to 03 August 1944 who flew 20 of his 30 missions in this aircraft. |
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