A bomber crew of the 92nd Bomb Group return to Podington following a mission flying B-17 Flying Fortresses to Wittenberg. A B-17 Flying Fortress (NV-K, serial number 42-29994) is visible in the background. Image stamped on reverse: 'Passed for Publication 23 Feb 1945' [stamp]. ' News Chronicle Copyright Picture' [stamp]. Printed caption on reverse: 'Crew back from Wittenberg.'

The Doc Furniss War, and Historic Film account by Captain William E Furniss, Flight Surgeon of the 92nd Bomb Group.

42-31898 Irene A and initial crew. Photo a gift from the pictured crew to Irene A, the namesake of the aircraft. - from family archives. Interested persons are invited to name members of the crew pictured here, if possible.

The Podington "Big Picture" on display at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford. This piece of "wall-art" represents a B-17 of the 92nd Bomb Group. United States Eighth Air Force. The 92nd was the oldest group in the Eighth Air Force having been the first group to make a non-stop crossing of the Atlantic to the UK in August 1942. This Picture was removed from a hut at the Podington site in October 1989 by the Eighth Wall Art Conservation Society with the assistance of the USAF Europe. After the closure of Podington in 1946 the airfield was returned to agricultural use and the hut converted into a pig sty. It is probably for this reason that the picture survived. Originally painted by S/Sgt Waldschmidt the picture will be conserved by a team led by H Bosowitz.

2ndLt Robert Lee Clayton B-17 Pilot 92nd Bombardment Group, 326th Bomb Squadron Flew eight missions. KIA on February 24, 1944

Crew of B17 #42-31180 92nd Bombardment Group, 326th Bomb Squadron Back Row, from left to right: Sgt Herman Rahn (radio), S/Sgt. Lewis Lilly (waist gunner), Sgt. Paul McDade (ball turret), M/Sgt. Nathan Grant (engineer), Sgt. Chester Zahaba (tail gunner), and Sgt. Samual Smith (waist gunner). Front row, left to right, Lt. Robert Clayton (pilot), Lt. Leon Cavender (co-pilot), Lt. John Gaibrath (navigator), Lt. Paul Alexander (bombardier).

2nd Lt Lawrence Cook Crew: Back Row L to R: Thomas Mikulka-TG; John J Alexander, Jr-WG; Milo Blakely-WG; Jay Joyce-RO; John R Kyler-BGT; John Booth-TT Front Row L to R: Emmett Bell-B; Donald Caylor-N (KIA); Robert Bangs-CP; Lawrence Cook-P

Aircraft # 42-30423 Shot down 4 February 1944 on mission to Frankfurt. Crew bailed out and Aircraft crashed in Koersel Belgium. The B-17 is a 326th Bomb Squadron plane shot down with a crew from the 407th Bomb Squadron, 2nd Lt Lawrence H Cook Crew.

Aerial photograph of Podington airfield looking south west, the main runway runs vertically, 9 May 1944. Photograph taken by 13th Photographic Squadron, 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group, sortie number US/7GR/LOC334. English Heritage (USAAF Photography).