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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

UPL 66570 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 (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.

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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.