Albert R Krassman Jr
MilitaryPage 28, The Mighty Eighth in Color, Roger Freeman
Born in Colorado, Krassman enlisted in 1943 and served as ground crew with the 706th Bomb Squadron of the 446th Bomb Group, based at Bungay in Suffolk. He worked as a gunsight, turret and armour mechanic, referring to himself playfully as a ‘bomb-stuffer-inner’. His crucial work helped maintain the B-24s for combat missions.
Krassman painted nose art on many of the 446th Bomb Group aircraft. His subjects included scantily-clad women, cartoon characters and the plane names themselves. Such images were usual for USAAF crews who also decorated aircraft with song titles, puns and even depictions of wives or girlfriends left behind.
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Associated photos that Al Krassman took and later shared with aviation historian Roger Freeman.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / www.446bg.com/