Maynard V Gibbs

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media-33057.jpeg UPL 33057 "GI ingenuity takes strange twists - GI gadgets have saved many hours and made tedious tasks easier. Here, M/Sgt. Maynard V. Gibbs of Portland, MI, demonstrates an electric screw driver which he made from parts of damaged top turret ammunition motor. Europe 1944."

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Object Number - UPL 33057 - "GI ingenuity takes strange twists - GI gadgets have saved many hours and made tedious tasks easier. Here, M/Sgt. Maynard V. Gibbs of Portland, MI,...

Flew on 'My Gal II'.

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Units served with

The insignia of the 351st Bomb Group.

351st Bomb Group

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

Revisions

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Contributorgeneral ira snapsorter
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Sources

General Order 580 from Headquarters 1st Bombardment Division, Office of the Commanding General, by Command of Brigadier General Turner, dated 3 December 1944.

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ContributorAAM
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / www.351st.org/ken.harbour/

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Object number: UPL 33057 - "GI ingenuity takes strange twists - GI gadgets...