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"Crew of the 96th Bomb Group* pose beside their Boeing B-17 'Kipling's Error The III'** at an 8th Air Force base in England. 29 June 1943."
*Actually 305th Bomb Group
**Actually 'Nora 2nd'
Crew are - 1st Lt. Lester Personeus Jr, F/O Charles J. Harpool, Lt Norbert A. Zwycke, Lt Wiiliam J. Byrd, T/Sgt William C. Reese Jr, Sgt Roger M. Link, Sgt James O. Gillespie, Sgt George W. James, Sgt William J. Hess, Sgt Euel Jenkins.
Group
The 305th Bombardment Group (Heavy), nicknamed "Can Do" was activated 1-March-1942 at Salt Lake City Air Base, Utah which was their primary training base until 11-Jun-1942 when they relocated to Geiger Field, Washington until 29-Jun-1942, then on to...
Squadron
Military | Second Lieutenant | Bombardier
Assigned to 422BS, 305BG, 8AF USAAF. 25 x combat missions. ETD
Awards: AM, WWII Victory, EAME.
Military | Technical Sergeant | Radio operator
Assigned to 422BS, 305BG, 8AF USAAF. 25 x combat missions. ETD
Awards: AM, WWII Victory, EAME.
Military | Captain | Co-pilot
Assigned to 422BS, 305BG, 8AF USAAF. 25 x combat missions. ETD
Awards: AM, WWII Victory, EAME.
Military | Technical Sergeant | Waist Gunner
Assigned to 364BS, 305BG, 8AF USAAF. Completed tour of duty. Returned to ETO with the 449BS, 322BG, 9AF USAAF until July 1945 [Documents accompany database form]
Awards: DFC, AM (4OLC), GC, WWII Victory, EAME, DUC.
Military | Staff Sergeant | Waist Gunner
Assigned to 422BS, 305BG, 8AF USAAF. 25 x combat missions. ETD
Awards: DFC, AM (3OLC), GC, WWII Victory, EAME (1 Battle Star).
Military | Staff Sergeant | Waist gunner
Assigned to 422BS, 305BG, 8AF USAAF. ETD
Awards: WWII AM, Victory, EAME.
Military | Staff Sergeant | Tail Gunner
Assigned to 422BS, 305BG, 8AF USAAF. ETD
Awards: AM, WWII Victory, EAME.
Military | Colonel | Pilot
Assigned to 422BS, 305BG, 8AF USAAF. 25 x combat missions ETO. Ended tour Duty (ETD). Went on to complete 23 x combat missions on B-29's in the pacific.
Awards: DFC (2OLC), AM (6OLC), WWII Victory, EAME.
Military | Technical Sergeant | Flight engineer
Assigned to 422BS, 305BG, 8AF USAAF. 25 x combat missions. ETD
Awards: AM, WWII Victory, EAME.
Military | Colonel | Navigator
Assigned to 422BS, 305BG, 8AF USAAF. 26 x combat missions. ETD
Awards: LOM (OLC), DFC (OLC), AM (4OLC), WWII AM, Victory, EAME.
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 31/12/42; Salina 10/1/43; Morrison 5/3/43; Brookley 8/3/43; Assigned 369BS/306BG Thurleigh 24/3/43; transferred 422BS/305BG [JJ-L] Chelveston 10/43; then to 545BS/384BG [JD-U] Grafton Underwood 6/11/43; returning from Bremen 13/12/43...
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 09 October 2019 18:47:58 | Al_Skiff | Created entry with caption, unit associations, person associations and aircraft associations |
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