William H Stepp Jr

Military ROLL OF HONOUR

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Units served with

The insignia of the 493rd Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: Peoria Belle
  • Unit: 493rd Bomb Group 860th Bomb Squadron

Revisions

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ContributorKlambert
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Sources

Flight of the Peoria Belle, Norman Pickstone, West Virginia 1990. Private memoire written for a crew reunion.

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I am in possession of an independent published memoire, The Flight of the Peoria Belle, which notes that T/Sgt. William H. Stepp, Jr. (3569458) survived the war, settling in Florida, and was retired and alive at the time of the booklet's writing in 1990.

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ContributorAAM
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Unit History, http://493bgdebach.co.uk/roster_list.php