Martin V Stanford
Military
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FRE 3854
Brigadier-General Fred L. Anderson and a crew of the 94th Bomb Group with their B-17 Flying Fortress (XM-Z) at Bury St. Edmunds (Rougham). 19 May 1943.
Printed caption on reverse: '51783 AC- Brig. General Fred L. Anderson with crew of the 94th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force, beside a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress.
Back row, left to right:
S/Sgt. Jefferson D. Polk, ball turret gunner, Okla. City, Okla.;
S/Sgt. A.W. Hornden[?], top turret gunner;
T/Sgt. Charles H. McNemar, Radio Operator, Weston, W. Va.;
General Fred L. Anderson;
Col. John G. Moore, co-pilot, Los Animas, Col.;
Capt. Kenneth S. Steele, pilot, Santa Rosa, Calif.;
Capt. John F. Watters, Group Bombardier, Slema, Ala.;
1st Lt. Robert Schaefer, Navigator, Minn.
Front row, left to right:
S/Sgt. Earl L. Porath, waist gunner, Naleigh, Neb.;
S/Sgt. Eino Asiala, tail gunner, Freda, Mich.;
S/Sgt. Richard H. Lewis, waist gunner, Chicago, Ill.;
and 1st Lt. Martin V. Stanford, bombardier, Kokomo, Ind.
U.S. Air Force Photo.'
Handwritten on reverse: '19/5/43.' Roger Freeman Collection
Printed caption on reverse: '51783 AC- Brig. General Fred L. Anderson with crew of the 94th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force, beside a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress.
Back row, left to right:
S/Sgt. Jefferson D. Polk, ball turret gunner, Okla. City, Okla.;
S/Sgt. A.W. Hornden[?], top turret gunner;
T/Sgt. Charles H. McNemar, Radio Operator, Weston, W. Va.;
General Fred L. Anderson;
Col. John G. Moore, co-pilot, Los Animas, Col.;
Capt. Kenneth S. Steele, pilot, Santa Rosa, Calif.;
Capt. John F. Watters, Group Bombardier, Slema, Ala.;
1st Lt. Robert Schaefer, Navigator, Minn.
Front row, left to right:
S/Sgt. Earl L. Porath, waist gunner, Naleigh, Neb.;
S/Sgt. Eino Asiala, tail gunner, Freda, Mich.;
S/Sgt. Richard H. Lewis, waist gunner, Chicago, Ill.;
and 1st Lt. Martin V. Stanford, bombardier, Kokomo, Ind.
U.S. Air Force Photo.'
Handwritten on reverse: '19/5/43.' Roger Freeman Collection
Completed names; corrected Asiala's last name
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
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Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Lingering Contrails of the Big Square A, pg 2