William R Gaylor Jr
Military
Top Row left to right: Willis, Burnett, Sunkel, Gaylor
Bottom Row left to right: Marvin, engineer top turret; Kimber, radio operator; Brown, lower ball gunner; Miller, waist gunner; Gaerditz, 2nd engineer, gunner. Bovino, another crew member, was getting a haircut, Willis noted on the back of the photo. Robert H. Willis
Associated Group and people.
Object Number - UPL 37517 - Crew for Captain Robert H. Willis Top Row left to right: Willis, Burnett, Sunkel, Gaylor Bottom Row left to right: Marvin, engineer top turret;...
Member of Willis crew;
Remained an Air Force officer until 1972, retired as Lt. Colonel;
Was an Electronics Engineer for the Air Force;
Did the same job as a civilian after retiring.
Died February 1986.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Missions
- Date: 15 January 1945
- Date: 24 December 1944
- Date: 30 November 1944
- Date: 21 November 1944
- Date: 16 November 1944
Places
- Site type: Memorial
- Known as: Eye Airfield Industrial Estate
Revisions
He was my father.
Mission are from his combat diary, but most of January 1945 is not available. January 1945 information is from the 490th BG(H) Memorial organization.
Rotated out on or about 02-02-1945.
490th Bomb Group Unit Personnel / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia
