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Delivered Long Beach 2/11/43; Kearney 14/11/43; Assigned 324BS/91BG [DF-K] Bassingbourn 21/1/44; detailed Eschweiler but mission called off through bad weather while forming up, then fire broke out in top turret 24/1/44, with Marco De Mara, Co-pilot: Everett Oltman, Navigator: Bill Lowery, Bombardier: Jim Baine{chute failed} (4 Killed in Service); Flight engineer/top turret gunner: John Webb{landed on back of a horse}, Radio Operator: Russ Shields, Ball turret gunner: Jim Moore, Waist gunner: Everett Dodd, Waist gunner: Leon Sterle,Tail gunner: Chas DeBona (6 Returned to Duty); crash landed Ickleton Abbey, Cambs. UK; Salvaged 2 SAD Watton, Nfk 26/1/44.
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People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 91st Bomb Group 324th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Bombardier
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 91st Bomb Group 324th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 91st Bomb Group 324th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
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- Site type: Airfield
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- Date: 24 January 1944