[1] Paul Webber (06-25-2022 9:30 PM)

Second Lieutenant Joseph D. Perry from Brooklyn, New York is in this book. He was bombardier on the crew of 2/Lt Lorin D. McCleary in the 838th Bomb Squadron, 487th Bomb Group, at Lavenham, England. He and eight crewmates were killed in action when their B-24 was shot down by flak at Chateaudun, France on May 11, 1944. (Details here: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56374786/joseph-d-perry

[2] Paul Webber (10-09-2024 2:31 PM)

Second Lieutenant Henry J. Miller Jr from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is in this book. He was navigator/bombardier on the crew of 1/Lt Harold E. Oesch in the 836th Bomb Squadron, 487th Bomb Group at Lavenham, England. He and seven crewmates were killed in action when their aircraft collided with another aircraft just after bombs away over Bielefeld, Germany on September 30, 1944. (Details here: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/80878366/henry-j-miller)

[3] Paul Webber (10-10-2024 12:09 PM)

Second Lieutenant Edward Reichel from Ellenville, New York is in this book. He was bombardier on the crew of Lt Jay J Hatfield in the 837th Bomb Squadron, 487th Bomb Group at Lavenham, England. Lt Reichel died in a German Air Force hospital on August 8, 1944, due to injuries he sustained during a mission to Berlin, Germany on August 6, 1944. (Details here: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/77797984/edward-reichel)

[4] Paul Webber (10-14-2024 10:35 AM)

The following nine men, all in this book, went on to serve as bombardiers in the 487th Bomb Group at Lavenham, England. They survived the war.
1. Edward D. Crowcroft, 503 South Church Street, Jacksonville, Illinois
2. Harold L. Davis Jr, Box 2161, Greenville, South Carolina
3. David J. DuPre, 311 Hamilton Street, Ogdensburg, New York
4. Edward M. Gibbens, Box 363, Mountain Home, Idaho
5. James W. Hartley, 1209 Rice, Little Rock, Arkansas
6. Robert A. Klink, 341 Whittier Avenue, Syracuse, New York
7. Bill G. 'Billy' Malone, 1537 Houston, Muskogee, Oklahoma
8. Dennis E. 'Denny' Thompson, Staples, Minnesota
9. Ernest J. Vollmer, 126 South Greenwood Avenue, Kankakee, Illinois

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