Daniel A Walton

Military

UPL 67884 UPL 67884 384th Bomb Group Lead Crews / 10 November 1944/Koehne Carnes, Ostheim Airfield and Butzweilerhof Airfield, Cologne, Germany.
Back Row L-R: Raymond A. Panici (FG), Roy E. Dobson (OBS/TG), Alfred D. Benjamin (NAV), George H. Koehne (AC), Tommy P. Bolger (NAV), Merle L. Gibson (NAV).
Front Row L-R: Samuel Markoff (FG), Joe R. Carnes (P), Charles W. Ford (ETTG), Daniel A. Walton (BOM), Albert K. Sherriff (ROG).

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544th Bomb Squadron 384th Bomb Group 709 44-8007 Grafton Underwood Raymond A Panici Roy E Dobson Alfred D Benjamin George H Koehne Tommy P Bolger Merle L Gibson Samuel Markoff Joe Ross Carnes Charles W Ford Daniel A Walton Albert K Sherriff On

Object Number - UPL 67884 - 384th Bomb Group Lead Crews / 10 November 1944/Koehne Carnes, Ostheim Airfield and Butzweilerhof Airfield, Cologne, Germany. Back Row L-R: Raymond...

Used Norden Bombsight was Lead Bombardier for group. Flew 28 missions. Left Europe returned to his job in San Antonio at the army depot where he had been a messenger. They told him he was going into something new and when he asked what it was called they said 'IBM'. He witnessed the birth of the computers and data processing and spent 33 years in that field. He ended up in the Pentagon where he finally got approval to convert the city government of Washington to computers.

Air Medal w 3/Oak Leaf Cluster; DFC; 4 bronze stars