30 combat missions, 26 as lead aircraft. 16 of lead missions were with two brothers, Billie Melton, Pilot and Wallace Melton, Navigator.



Les Ulvestad trained first as a navigator, then with a photo reconnaissance group, next a crash course in the use of the bombsight and finally gunnery school. He requested a transfer to bombers and joined up with a replacement B-17 crew at Drew Field Tampa FL. Assigned to t he 331 BS 94th BG at Rougham he flew on four missions before being sent to Alconbury for training on Radar. He then joined up with the 331st BS Lead Crew that of Billie Melton - whose Navigator was his brother - for a further 16 missions as Mickey Operator. His final mission, his 30th and the Group's 300th was on 15th March 1945 to Orianburg near Berlin.



WW II VM/ DUC/ DFC/ AM w/ 4 Oak Leaf Cluster/ ATO/ EAME