Earl Cranston Garey

Military
media-43096.jpeg UPL 43096 1LT Earl Cranston Garey, Jr.
Navigator - Gridley, Ramsey & O'Brien Crew
388th BG - 562nd BS

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Object Number - UPL 43096 - 1LT Earl Cranston Garey, Jr. Navigator - Gridley, Ramsey & O'Brien Crew 388th BG - 562nd BS

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Units served with

The insignia of the 388th Bomb Group.

388th Bomb Group

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

People

Clarence Asbury Gridley

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 388th Bomb Group 562nd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-800876
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Albert Reynolds Montgomery

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 388th Bomb Group 562nd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-797579
  • Highest Rank: Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Patrick D O'Brien

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 388th Bomb Group 562nd Bomb Squadron
  • Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot
A bomber crew of the 388th Bomb Group with their B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-5898) nicknamed "Little Lass". The airmen (left to right) are: Standing- Paul Williams (Pilot), Israel Rogg (Co-Pilot) and Edwin Garver (Navigator). Kneeling- Ralph Cornwall (Waist Gunner), Alfred Gardin (Radio Operator), Ray Harwood (Top Turret Gunner), Roland Conners (Tail Gunner), Maynard Rollins (Waist Gunner) and Harold Moore (Ball Turret Gunner).

Paul Edwin Williams

  • Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
  • Nationality: American
  • Unit: 388th Bomb Group 562nd Bomb Squadron
  • Service Numbers: O-794733
  • Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
  • Role/Job: Pilot

Aircraft

42-30212

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Quarterback
  • Unit: 388th Bomb Group 562nd Bomb Squadron
Personnel of the 388th Bomb Group walk past a B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-30625) nicknamed "Joho's Jokers", on their return to base after a mission. Image stamped on reverse: 'News Chronicle.' [stamp], 'Tapsell.' [stamp], 'Passed for publication 4 Nov 1943.' [stamp] and '291415.' [Censor no.] Printed caption on reverse: 'Back from the 1,000 [a censor has amended this to say 'Largest'] plane US day raid on Germany. Some of the air crews leaving the aerodrome with a Flying Fortress in the backgro

42-30625

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Joho's Jokers
  • Unit: 388th Bomb Group 563rd Bomb Squadron

42-31253

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 388th Bomb Group 562nd Bomb Squadron

42-31802

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Gyndia
  • Unit: 388th Bomb Group 561st Bomb Squadron

Missions

883

  • Date: 12 March 1945

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Born

Minco, Oklahoma 6 August 1919

Enlisted

Oklahoma City, OK 30 March 1942

Other

388th BG Combat Tour

Knettishall Airfield, UK 16 September 1943 - 28 May 1944 Flew 39-40 combat missoins

Died

Vian, OK 2 June 1995

Buried

Muskogee, OK 5 June 1995 Greenhill Cemetery Muskogee, Muskogee County, Oklahoma, US

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / www.388bg.info/Personnel.html

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