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Harold E Newsome

Military

3 December 1943 crashed off South Wales in C-47#42-100511 on flight from Marrakech. Ditched on Bristol Channel. 6 RTD

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Units served with

First Lieutenant Richard Steck of the 392nd Bomb Group instructs his crew and 10 passengers before a flight from Wales in a B-24 Liberator (serial number 42-95151) nicknamed "Monotonous Maggie".

Image via BL Davies.

Image stamped on reverse: 'Official USAAF Photograph By AIR TRANSPORT COMMAND.' [stamp]

Printed caption on reverse: 'June 1945. ATC Euro Pro Release No. G-128 AIR TRANSPORT COMMAND SPEEDS US EIGHTH AAF ON ITS WAY: Flying Air Transport Command routes and using ATC facilities, the U

Air Transport Command

Unit Hierarchy: Command

Colonel Neal Creighton, General H.H. Arnold, Major General Henry J.F. Miller, and General Ira C. Eaker. Image stamped on reverse: 'Passed for publication 3 Sept 1943.' [stamp], '34579.' [censor no.] Printed caption on reverse: 'US ARMY AIR FORCES OFFICIAL PHOTO. From left to right: Colonel Nel Creighton, of Chapel Hill, NC, Post Commander of Camp Griffiss, General H H Arnold, Major General Henry JF Miller, Commanding General of VIII Air Force Service Command, and General Ira C Eaker, commanding General of

VIII Air Force Service Command

Unit Hierarchy: Command
Air Force: Eighth Air Force

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Date27 Sep 2014 18:12:02

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Sources

Losses of 8th & 9th AFs Vol I by Bishop & Hey p. 407 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia