42-5852 The Natural
Front Row: Burnia Martin (WG), Preston Davis (RO), Joe Turlington (TT), Marion Rogers (WG), Robert E. Ralph (BT)
Photo courtesy of Johnny Butler. https://photos.384thbombgroup.com/picture.php?/37912/category/LeadCrews
Object Number - UPL 66018 - 384th Bomb Group Lead Crews / 15 August 1943/ Poix & Amiens Airfields, France. Back Row: Herman Wollenweber (OBS/TG), Edward J. Knowling (N), Joseph...
Delivered Long Beach 22/3/43; Sioux City 15/4/43; Kearney 4/5/43; Dow Fd 20/5/43; Assigned 547BS/384BG [SO-T] Grafton Underwood 24/5/43; battle damaged Schweinfurt 14/10/43 with Edmund Goulder, Co-pilot: Ernie Boyce (546bs), Navigator: Julius Schwartz (546bs), Bombardier: Mike Vodilko, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Ed Thomassen, Radio Operator: Bill Sears, Ball turret gunner: Claude Leslie, Waist gunner: Stan Wilson, Waist gunner: Paul Saunders, Tail gunner: Francis Seager, (10 Returned to Duty); crew bailed over RAF Oakley, enemy aircraft crashed Chetwode, Oxon, demolishing two cottages, and injuring a civilian, Mr Tew; Salvaged MRU 15/10/43. THE NATURAL.
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Revisions
Added a space before the words "Tail gunner" in the A/C “Description” to aid readability.