John A Schmidlin
Military
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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
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
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Revisions
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Sources
Birsic, SO#265 12 Oct 44 & Page 400 in the book 2ND AIR DIVISIONby Turner Publishing Company, 1998 edition (D790.A2S45) / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia