Crew # 13, 708th Sqdn, 447th Bomb Group. Rattlesden, UK 1944. Ed Wright was the captain of the bombing mission on which he was killed, May 12, 1944. My uncle, SSgt William James McQuoid, Jr. was the tail gunner on that mission. Some of the crew must have been replaced because they were on leave. Unsure. This is the data concerning the B-17 on which Ed Wright was captain when he was killed: Aircraft No. 42-107020: Delivered Cheyenne 27/1/44; Kearney 14/2/44; Grenier 7/3/44; Assigned 398BG Nuthampstead 11/3/44; transferred 708BS/447BG Rattlesden 12/3/44; Missing in Action Brux 12/5/44 with Edwin Wright, Co-pilot: Capt George Hughes, Navigator: Wray Hylton, Bombardier: Nick Dekoning, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Roy Williams, Radio Operator: Rudi Palumbo, Waist gunner: Bernie McDonald, Waist gunner: Clarry Brown,Tail gunner: Bill McQuoid (9 Killed in Action); Ball turret gunner: Bob Johnston (Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft badly damaged ship, two engines KOd, crashed Reinachmuhle near Ailingen, three miles N of Friedrichshafen, Ger. Missing Air Crew Report 4773.