Harold Adams
Military | Technical Sergeant | MOS 757 - Radio Operator / Mechanic / Gunner, AAF | 384th Bomb Group
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11 November 1944
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The B-24 Liberator (serial number 42-50468) nicknamed "Sleeping Dynamite" of the 93rd Bomb Group flies over countryside with a formation of fellow Liberators. First handwritten caption on reverse: 'Photo ex a/c 617 11/11/44. Archer.' Second handwritten caption on reverse: '1044/R.F. 93BG Libs on way to enemy target 11/11/44.'
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Crew #551 Seward M. Meinstma Crew Standing Left to Right: Jack Veach (R/O), George Wood (BTG), William Osborne (NG), John O'Donnell (FE), Howard Wade (TG), Sherell Campbell (G) Kneeling Left to Right: Seward Meinstma (P), Donald Vanderwall (CP), Eugene Gjertsen (N), Harvey Levine (B) This crew completed a 35 mission tour. Gjertsen transferred to the Welsh Crew of the 784th BS at some point during the tour. Also Daniel Chadbourne replaced O'Donnell as Flight Engineer during the tour.
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Crew #664 Elmo Maiden Crew 466th BG - 786th BS Standing Left to Right: Bernard M. Atkins (TG), Vernon R. Hayden (WG), William R. Hoopes (B), Gustave J. Roussel (E), Guerino G. Petti (N), Herbert Rosenkoff (CP), William A. Thomason (TT), Elmo Maiden (P), Kenneth W. Chester (NG), Joseph R. Zebrowski (R/O) B-24J-5-DT #42-51532 Code: U8-W Photo taken on 27 December 1944 after crash landing at an airfield in Belgium.
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Mission list kept by 2nd Lt. Donald Muckerman of the 8th Airforce, 305th Bomb Group, 422nd Squadron (back)
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Overall Missions Map for the 493rd BG - USAAF Station 152 -Debach, UK noting missions flown by the Lt Bernard E Vaughan Crew
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BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY
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2. BOTTROP/WELHEIM
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OIL REFINERY
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A mix of 98 P-47s and P-51s provide escort. Mix not given in available data.
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3. GELSENKIRCHEN/BUER
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OIL REFINERY
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4. KOBLENZ
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MARSHALLING YARDS
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5. OBERLAHNSTEIN
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MARSHALLING YARDS
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A mix of 170 P-47s and P-51s provide escort. Mix not given in available data.
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6. OBERLAHNSTEIN
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SCREENING MISSION
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7. RECKLINGHAUSEN
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BOMB TARGETS OF OPPORTUNITY
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8. RHEINE
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MARSHALLING YARDS
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Service
People
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Curtis Adamy
Military | First Lieutenant | Navigator | 466th Bomb Group
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George Asprocolas
Military | First Lieutenant | Bombardier | 95th Bomb Group
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Jackie Bishop
Military | First Lieutenant | Bombardier | 466th Bomb Group
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David Bridgers
Military | Captain | Pilot | 466th Bomb Group
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Richard Garlichs
Military | Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade) | Radio Operator | 466th Bomb Group
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Guy Greene
Military | Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade) | Radio Operator | 95th Bomb Group
Flew 35 missions, total of two hundred fifty three hours and thirty minutes in combat. AM w/ 5 Oak Leaf Cluster -
John Gross
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 95th Bomb Group
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Eugene Hassing
Military | Major | Pilot | 384th Bomb Group
Assigned to 546BS, 384BG, 8AF USAAF. Earl McDaniel crew. 35 x combat missions. ETD Awards: AM, WWII Victory, EAME. -
Robert Hill
Military | Technical Sergeant (2nd Grade) | Radio Operator | 466th Bomb Group
Aircraft
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42-97105 Paper Doll
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Selfridge Fld 3/2/44; Dorval 4/3/44; Assigned RAF [HB-768]; transferred 561BS/388BG Knettishall 13/3/44; Missing in Action Parchim 7/4/45 with Lew Hickman, Arnold Wolf, Cawthorn Perdue, Albt Vawter, Herman Meyer (5 Prisoner of War); John... -
43-38501 SWEET CHARIOT
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 10/8/44; Kearney 21/8/44; Grenier 7/9/44; Assigned 546th Bomb ... -
44-6583 Cadet Nurse
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Lincoln 16/9/44; Dow Fd 2/10/44; Assigned 336BS/95BG [ET-Y] Horham 13/10/44; battle damaged Nurnberg 20/2/45 with R. Lee Young, #2 feathered, crash landed near A-78 AF Florennes, Bel; 9RTD; 39m, sal 28/2/45. CADET NURSE. -
44-8144 Hell's Belle
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Dallas 27/6/44; Langley 27/7/44; Dow Fd 4/8/44; Assigned 335BS/95BG [OE-O] Horham 10/8/44; 336BS [ET-O], then 412BS [GW-O]; with W.V. Owen force landed Framlingham afb, Sfk 25/12/44; battle damaged Hamburg 30/3/45 with E.R. Parrish[wia];... -
42-50468 Sleeping Dynamite
B-24 Liberator
B-24 Liberator (serial number 42-50468, AG-F) nicknamed "Sleeping Dynamite", flew most of the war with the 330th Bomb Squadron of the 93rd Bomb Group and was then transferred in March 1945 to the 713th Bomb Squadron of the 448th Bomb Group (New...
Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 13 November 2014 14:21:41 | Emily | Changes to media associations |
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Associated Media based on images associated with missions in Freeman, The Mighty Eighth War Diary. |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:43:08 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Lee Cunningham, 8th Air Force missions research database / Stan Bishop's 'Losses of the US 8th and 9th Air Forces', the Combat Chronology of the US Army Air Forces and the work of Roger Freeman including the 'Mighty Eighth War Diary'. |
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