44-6340 Remember Me
Delivered Hunter 8/7/44; Grenier 17/7/44; Assigned 414BS/97BG Amendola 23/7/44; Missing in Action Ploesti 18/8/44 with Ken Lloyd, (crew ?); no gas, crashed Paramithia; Missing Air Crew Report 7970. REMEMBER ME.
Pilot: 2Lt Kenneth C. Lloyd: POW
Co-pilot: 2Lt Herman T. Crane, Jr.: RTD
Nav: 2Lt Alexander Krajewski: RTD
Bomb: 2Lt Aurel J. Granger: RTD
FE: S/Sgt John E. Kyle: RTD
RO: S/Sgt Wayne D. Wavrin: RTD
BTG: Sgt Richard M. Fortner: RTD
WG: Sgt Harold E. King: RTD
WG: Sgt Walter C. Johnson: RTD
TG: Sgt Gerald K. Marshall: RTD
Damaged by flak on raid to Ploesti. Granger and the enlisted men bailed out over Albania and returned to duty August 27, 1944. Lloyd, Crane, and Krejewski bailed out over Greece: Lloyd captured and POW at Stalag Luft 7, Moosberg, Bavaria; Crane and Krejewski evaded and returned to duty August 26, 1944. Lloyd repatriated 1945.