Ralph L Oliver

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Two Intelligence Officers - Major John B. Wright, Group Intelligence Officer of New York and Major Ralph Oliver, Operations Officer of Palo Alto, California, both on the left - of the 306th Bomb Group interrogate a bomber crew, sat atop bombs, after a mission. The five bomb crew are Lieutenant Frank Yaussi of Glendale, California; Lieutenant R.J. Salitrink of Alhambra, California; Staff Sergeant Donald Tunstall of Darlington, South Carolina; Staff Sergeant Raymond R. Erikson of Chicago; and Staff Sergeant

Object Number - FRE 1148 - Two Intelligence Officers - Major John B. Wright, Group Intelligence Officer of New York and Major Ralph Oliver, Operations Officer of Palo Alto,...

Reported to group on 18 Mar 1942. CO 369th BS from March to December 1942. Assistant Group Ops Officer 6 December to 19 December 1942. Group Ops. Officer from 19 Decmber 1942 to March 19 1943. He retired USAF July 1969.

AM/ PH/ Croix de Guerre w/ gold star

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St Cloud, Minnesota

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Date27 Sep 2014 18:21:51
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306th BG Association Directory, 1 September 1999 Edition; Who's Who in the Eighth Air Force, February 1945, First Over Germany pg. 11, 23, 40, 52 &322-24, 306th BGA Collection, Russell Strong Index Cards, / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / http://www.306bg.org/crewphotos/Crew%20Pictures%20Adam-Rector/Crew%20Pi…

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Two Intelligence Officers - Major John B. Wright, Group Intelligence Officer of New York and Major Ralph Oliver, Operations Officer of Palo Alto, California, both on the left - of the 306th Bomb Group interrogate a bomber crew, sat atop bombs, after a mission. The five bomb crew are Lieutenant Frank Yaussi of Glendale, California; Lieutenant R.J. Salitrink of Alhambra, California; Staff Sergeant Donald Tunstall of Darlington, South Carolina; Staff Sergeant Raymond R. Erikson of Chicago; and Staff Sergeant

Object number: FRE 1148 - Two Intelligence Officers - Major John B. Wright...