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Crew #551
Seward M. Meinstma Crew
Standing Left to Right: Jack Veach (R/O), George Wood (BTG), William Osborne (NG), John O'Donnell (FE), Howard Wade (TG), Sherell Campbell (G)
Kneeling Left to Right: Seward Meinstma (P), Donald Vanderwall (CP), Eugene Gjertsen (N), Harvey Levine (B)
This crew completed a 35 mission tour. Gjertsen transferred to the Welsh Crew of the 784th BS at some point during the tour. Also Daniel Chadbourne replaced O'Donnell as Flight Engineer during the tour.
Group
The 466th Bomb Group flew B-24 Liberators from Attlebridge, Norfolk, during the last year of the war in Europe. The Group flew 232 missions in the course of the year and celebrated the 100th one by inviting local people onto the base to mark the...
Squadron
Military | Staff Sergeant | Gunner
July 1944 to March 1945. Plane 'Slick Chick. ' Mission list attached to database form.
AM w/ Oak Leaf Cluster/ ETO
Military | Technical Sergeant | Flight Engineer
Flew on the Slick Chick Crew 551
Military | First Lieutenant | Navigator; Radar Navigator
Flew about 15 missions with original crew, then transferred to 784th BS. Flew on B-24 #42-51240 (on overseas movement trip from U.S. This a/c was surrendered at Valley Wales. This a/c was eventually assigned to the 392nd BG)
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Military | First Lieutenant | Bombardier
35 missions over Germany.
AM w/ 5 Oak Leaf Cluster
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot
Completed a 35 mission tour
25 August 1944 - 16 February 1945
Military | Sergeant | Top Turret Gunner
Flew on B-24 #4251240.
Military | First Lieutenant | Co-Pilot
Flew 35 missions over Germany.
AM w/ 4 Oak Leaf Cluster
Military | Sergeant | Radio Operator Gunner
Flew on B-24 #4251240.
Military | Corporal | Gunner
Flew on B-24 #42-51240.
Military | Staff Sergeant | Ball Turret Gunner
16 February 1943
The port area and U-Boat pens at St. Nazaire, France are designated as the primary target of this mission of 71 B-17s and 18 B-24s. B-17s are from 91BG (18); 303BG (15); 305BG (18); 306BG (20) of these 59 are effective on the target and 6 are lost....
24 August 1944
26 August 1944
8 September 1944
We snafued on the bomb run and missed all the flak.
3 October 1944
6 October 1944
9 October 1944
Black Week
17 October 1944
19 October 1944
22 October 1944
Military site : airfield
Attlebridge was constructed for RAF use and completed to that standard in 1942. However, with news that it was to be assigned to the American Air Force, the runways were extended and additional hardstandings and outbuildings constructed for the heavy...
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 01 November 2014 23:19:37 | 466thHistorian | Created entry with caption, unit associations, person associations, place associations and mission associations |
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Attlebridge Arsenal - Brassfield & Wassom |
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