Eugene J Buszta

Military
media-13141.jpeg UPL 13141 Photo of Charles L. "Chuck" Walker's original crew in front of their B-24 Liberator "Bunnie".
Back row left to right:
Fred Fenske (co-pilot), Eugene Buszta (waist gunner), John Demshock (flight engineer), "Chuck" Walker (pilot), Marion Mechling (bombardier).
Centre: John Schmidlin (tail gunner).
Front row left to right: Floyd Bradley (navigator), Mervin Such (ball turret gunner), Russell Altman (radio operator).
Missing from photo: Earnest Fletcher (waist gunner).

The aircraft behind them named Bunnie, a B-24H-1 FO, tail number 42-7619, was an original aircraft and flew 103 missions before crashing on takeoff 24 Feb 45. 445th Bomb Group collection

NARA records of the 445th Unit Historian

Object Number - UPL 13141 - Photo of Charles L. "Chuck" Walker's original crew in front of their B-24 Liberator "Bunnie". Back row left to right: Fred Fenske (co-pilot),...

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A pathfinder B-24 Liberator (serial number 42-51681) of the 453rd Bomb Group flies in formation with a fellow Liberator of the 453rd and and a pathfinder Liberator of the 445th Bomb Group. Image via Alan Rowsell.

445th Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

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Birsic, SO#265 12 Oct 44 & p222 in the book SECOND AIR DIVISION edited by Randy Baumgardner, D790.A2S45 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia

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