Bascom P Smith
Military
BACK ROW - LEFT TO RIGHT:
Sgt. Perry ("Squeaky") Wofford, assistant AEG and Waist Gunner (Fresno, CA); T/Sgt. Edmund Crafton, Radio Operator (Portageville, MO); Sgt. Wayne ("Stormy") Wrightsman, Flight Engineer.
FRONT ROW - LEFT TO RIGHT:
Bascom P. ("Smitty") Smith, Co-pilot (from NC); 1st Lt. Walter M. Pickard, Pilot (Luverne, AL)
Added named crewmen.
Object Number - UPL 51243 - Ramblin Rebel (43-37540 OR B/Z) Pickard Crew, 323rd BS, 91st BG BACK ROW - LEFT TO RIGHT: Sgt. Perry ("Squeaky") Wofford, assistant AEG and Waist...
Damaged by flak and forced to ditch in the North Sea on the return from a mission to Wilhelmshaven, GR on 3 Mar 1944 in B-17G #42-37965 'My Desire'. RTD.
POW
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 91st Bomb Group 323rd Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 14067779 / O-745933
- Highest Rank: Colonel
- Role/Job: Pilot
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: My Desire
- Unit: 91st Bomb Group 323rd Bomb Squadron
Events
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Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
English Channel | 3 March 1944 |
Revisions
Corrected a typo in the "Summary biography" - "North" was misspelled.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 3222 / MACR 3222, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database
