Donald F Whittaker
Military
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Associated people records.
Original upload from Nina Gafni - User : https://www.americanairmuseum.com/user/43939
Object Number - UPL 39654 - Members of James Kerry Crockett’s crew at Old Buckenham Airfield, July 31, 1944. (See media item https://www.americanairmuseum.com/media/39655 for...
Member of James Kerry Crockett's crew, flew 35 missions, never lost a crew member. They afterwards transferred to the 389thBG doing pre-mission weather surveillance flights over Norfolk. He later moved to England, worked for a radio station then as a newspaper correspondent.
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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
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 453rd Bomb Group 735th Bomb Squadron
- Highest Rank: Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
Revisions
Removed the Connection to A/C 43-37563 since he flew on a B-24 with 453rd BG not on B-17's with the 452nd BG.
Added a connection to Pilot “James Kerry Crockett" mentioned in the "Summary biography".
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia
