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![Ten men in Air Force uniform posed in two rows in front of an airplane. Six men standing to the rear and five men kneeling in front. There are canvas bags on the ground in front of the men](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/2023-10/20111223074306-73e2525e-me.jpg)
Back L-R: 2nd Lt. B. Melchionni (N), 1st Lt. Q Wilson (P), Maj. Gordon Stallings (CA/CP), 1st Lt. Leo Leahy (B), 1st Lt. James Umstattd (N), TSgt. E.C. Morlan (RO).
Front L-R: 1st Joseph Sarto (VN), 2nd Lt. D.R. Baker (OBS/TG), Sgt. S. Markoff (FG), TSgt. CLifford E. Berg (TT).
The Quentin Bland Collection.
https://photos.384thbombgroup.com/picture.php?/35740/category/LeadCrews
Object Number - UPL 66570 - 384th Bomb Group Lead Crews/4 August 1944, Peenemunde (R&D). Back L-R: 2nd Lt. B. Melchionni (N), 1st Lt. Q Wilson (P), Maj. Gordon Stallings...
Delivered Denver 31/1/44; 1SAG Langley 11/3/44; Dow Fd 21/4/44; Assigned (H2X) 482BG Alconbury 22/4/44; transferred 305BG Chelveston 16/5/44; 384BG Grafton Underwood 1/8/44; 303BG Molesworth 4/8/44; 2 SAD 25/9/44; 67FW Troston (radio relay?); 351BG Polebrook 7/11/44; Returned to the USA Bradley 8/8/45; 4185 BU Independence 25/10/45; Reconstruction Finance Corporation (sold for scrap metal in USA) Kingman 7/1/46.
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Units served with
![Official emblem of the 303rd Bomb Group approved 7 November 1942.](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/max_650x650/public/freeman/media-395045.jpg?itok=caWLp9v9)
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
![Unofficial emblem, 305th Bomb Group.](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/max_650x650/public/freeman/media-395050.jpg?itok=yTXjBhMl)
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
![The insignia of the 384th Bomb Group.](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/max_650x650/public/freeman/media-395075.jpg?itok=Z2H16PVo)
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
![Lieutenant John C "Red" Morgan of the 482nd Bomb Group with a B-17 Flying Fortress. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Lt Red Morgan, Cong, Med of Hon.'](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/max_650x650/public/freeman/media-380811.jpg?itok=DMJ3qg2j)
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
![](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/max_650x650/public/media/media-25779.jpeg?itok=E5y2kpR2)
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Places
![Aerial photograph of Alconbury airfield, looking east. The technical site is at the top, the bomb dump is on the left, 9 May 1944. Photograph taken by 13th Photographic Squadron, 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group USAAF, sortie number US/7GR/LOC334. English Heritage (USAAF Photography).](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/max_650x650/public/eh/eh-2.jpg?itok=Q4O78Fzi)
- Site type: Airfield
![Ground crews of 305th Bomb Group B-17 Flying Fortresses wait for their aircraft to return to Chelveston airbase after a raid on the 30 June 1943; a B-17 Flying Fortress is coming in to land. Passed for publication 30 Jun 1943. Printed caption on reverse: 'At A Fortress Station In Britain. From an American base in Britain the Flying Fortresses carry out operational activities which result in terrible blows against the German industrial war machine. This series of pictures shows scenes at a Flying Fortresse](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/max_650x650/public/freeman/media-458191.jpg?itok=LzuZ2zXF)
- Site type: Airfield
![Aerial photograph of Grafton Underwood airfield looking north east, Geddington village is on the left, 22 April 1944. Photograph taken by 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group, sortie number US/7PH/GP/LOC309. English Heritage (USAAF Photography).](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/max_650x650/public/eh/eh-258.jpg?itok=i-QQOssr)
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Grafton Undermud
![](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/max_650x650/public/media/media-37651.jpeg?itok=c467BsS4)
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Langley Air Force Base
![Aerial photograph of the east end of Molesworth airfield looking north, the control tower and two T2 hangars are right of the vertical runway, 5 October 1945. Photograph taken by No. 541 Squadron, sortie number RAF/106G/UK/889. English Heritage (RAF Photography).](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/max_650x650/public/eh/eh-94.jpg?itok=WdxJYMU6)
- Site type: Airfield
Missions
![A mission log for Lieutenant Colonel Paul Chryst of the 91st Bomb Group, 3 August 1944 -15 December 1944. Image via Lieutenant Colonel Paul Chryst, 91st Bomb Group.](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/max_650x650/public/freeman/media-388030.jpg?itok=Mpevmoij)
- Date: 5 August 1944
![B-17 Flying Fortresses of the 305th Bomb Group fly in formation.](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/max_650x650/public/freeman/media-458197.jpg?itok=g7VBH3Lg)
- Date: 4 August 1944
![](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/max_650x650/public/media/media-20355.jpeg?itok=MlK_cLN1)
- Date: 31 July 1944
![](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/max_650x650/public/media/media-38797.jpeg?itok=lhxlF-Te)
- Date: 29 July 1944
![](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/max_650x650/public/media/media-23854.jpeg?itok=5fA1Co4k)
- Date: 19 July 1944
- Official Description: