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Top row, from left to right : Sgt Cleve C. Rush; 2nd Lt Harold J. Kuhn; 2nd Lt Benajah C. Burkitt; 2nd Lt Fred J. Reith; 2nd Lt Herbert A. Foote Jr
Front, from left to right :
Sgt William E. Stoffregen; S/Sgt Alvin D. Cantrell; Sgt Lee E. Brown; S/Sgt Philip H. Gatewood, Sgt Arthur O. Berntzen (Official USAAF photo)
Corrected placing in photo caption
Object Number - UPL 30672 - Lt Benajah C. Burkitt's crew on 26 November 1943. Top row, from left to right : Sgt Cleve C. Rush; 2nd Lt Harold J. Kuhn; 2nd Lt Benajah C. Burkitt;...
Delivered Cheyenne 3 November 1943. Kearney 16 November 1943. Assigned 360BS/303BG Molesworth 4 January 1944. Lost in collision with a B-17 from another group (42-29747 of the 379th Bomb Group) during the take-off climb to the Group formation area. The mission was to Kiel, Germany. All ten men on board were killed : Pilot 2nd Lt Benajah G. Burkitt, Co-pilot 2nd Lt Harold J. Kuhn, Navigator 2nd Lt Herbert A. Foote Jr, Bombardier 2nd Lt Fred J. Reith, Flight engineer/top turret gunner Philip H. Gatewood, Radio Operator Alvin Cantrell, Ball turret gunner Sgt Arthur Berntzen, Left Waist gunner William E. Stoffregen, Right Waist gunner: Lee E. Brown, Tail gunner Cleve C. Rush. Crashed Catworth, Huntingdonshire, United Kingdom. Salvaged by 2 SAD at Little Staughton.
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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: 303rd Bomb Group 360th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 20273063
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: Ball Turret Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 360th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 14126466
- Highest Rank: Sergeant
- Role/Job: waist gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 360th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 14043208 at enlistment, then O-802529
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Pilot
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 360th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 38211532
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Radio Operator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 303rd Bomb Group 360th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 11008973 at enlistment, then O-809569
- Highest Rank: Second Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
Places
- Site type: Aircraft crash site
- Site type: Airfield
Missions
- Date: 5 January 1944
