Richard S Atkins

Military
media-55273.jpeg UPL 55273 Clayton Hutcheson Crew - 487t Bomb Group, 838th Squadron with B-24 42-52662 'Dream'
Back row (L to R): T/Sgt James P. Curley (radio operator), S/Sgt Herbert A. Smiley (top turret gunner), S/Sgt Roy R. Roberts (waist gunner), S/Sgt Stephen G. Pitoniak (nose gunner), S/Sgt Charles W. Meadows (ball turret gunner)
Front row (L to R): 2nd Lt Russell E. Jurgens (bombardier), 1st Lt Clayton L. Hutcheson (pilot), 2nd Lt Richard S. Atkins (copilot), T/Sgt Burnis G. Hopper (flight engineer)
(Photo provided by Samuel Liebert, grandson of Edmund Liebert)

http://www.487thbg.org/Photos/HutchesonCrew.shtml

Object Number - UPL 55273 - Clayton Hutcheson Crew - 487t Bomb Group, 838th Squadron with B-24 42-52662 'Dream' Back row (L to R): T/Sgt James P. Curley (radio operator), S/Sgt...

Shot down 30 May 1944 in B-24 42-52739 'Red Growler'. Plane ditched in North Sea. Returned to base.

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Units served with

The insignia of the 487th Bomb Group.

487th Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

42-52739

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Unit: 487th Bomb Group

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MACR 15237

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 15237 / http://www.487thbg.org/Photos/McCartyCrew.shtml

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