William Abner Shelton Jr
Military![Ten men in Air Force combat flying gear posed in front of a military airplane. Six men standing to the rear and five men kneeling in front. Large canvas bags are laying in front of kneeling men](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/2024-02/20111230091204-049d73f4-me.jpg)
Back Row, L-to-R: MAJ. Seldon L McMillin (Obs/Lwg), Gordon Hankinson (Cp), James H Foister (N), David Wilmot (N), Charles D Bonnett (B), Col. Budd J Peaslee (P).
Front Row, L-To-R: William Shelton (Rwg), William Ralston (Tt), Clyde Savage (Bt), Roy Griffith (Ro), Julius Mcnutt (Tg).
Object Number - UPL 65881 - 384th Bomb Group Lead Crews / 22 June 1943/Antwerp, Belgium. Back Row, L-to-R: MAJ. Seldon L McMillin (Obs/Lwg), Gordon Hankinson (Cp), James H...
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![A B-17 Flying Fortress of the 100th Bomb Group that has crash landed. Written on slide casing: 'Raunchy crash TA.'](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/max_650x650/public/freeman/media-387940.jpg?itok=Ks4JkpxZ)
- Date: 12 August 1943
![A Dutch soldier surveys the wreckage of a B-17 Flying Fortress of the 381st Bomb Group that has crashed near Apeldoorn. First Handwritten caption on reverse: '381BG, 30/7/43 by Fighters.' Second Handwritten caption on reverse: '42-3100, 381 BG, 532 BS. 3 KM SE of Apeldoorn, 30-7-43 10:45 Hrs. RNAF'](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/max_650x650/public/freeman/media-380066.jpg?itok=D4e2vTxF)
- Date: 30 July 1943
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- Date: 29 July 1943
- Date: 28 July 1943
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- Date: 24 July 1943
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / http://384thbombgroup.com/_content/_pages/PersonnelSearch.php?LastName=…