Don C Neville

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media-14143.jpeg UPL 14143 The Totten Crew: Standing: Charles May, Charles Nystrom, Don Neville, Thomas Seale, Don Orgain, Joe Galterio
Sitting: David Totten, Walter Stynetski , Lewis Anderson, Mike Lavonsky

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Object Number - UPL 14143 - The Totten Crew: Standing: Charles May, Charles Nystrom, Don Neville, Thomas Seale, Don Orgain, Joe Galterio Sitting: David Totten, Walter Stynetski...

Plane crashed on his second mission; target was Point De Grave. Don and one othr crew member survived the crash. He was in a full body cast for one year after the crash. He stays in contact with a man in England who built a radio controlled replica of his plane. . . and even received a piece of the plane found at the crash site. His story has been published in a Nov 2003 issue of RC Report







magazine and his crew picture and a copy of that story is on a website. Plane was B-24 #4295120 'Hookem Cow'. http://hookemcow. com/ My uncle (Don C. Neville) was a member of the B-24H crew stationed at Horsham St. Faith UK. In honor of his memory and the crew of the 'Hookem Cow'.



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Personnel of the 458th Bomb Group gather around a B-24 Liberator (serial number 41-29303) nicknamed "Liberty Lib" in order to transfer a casualty into a waiting ambulance. Image via Harry Holmes. Written on slide casing: '458th BG.'
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Hookem Cow/Betty/Stinky
  • Unit: 458th Bomb Group 754th Bomb Squadron

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Born

Hartselle, Alabama 24 August 1925

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Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / self & Page 364 in the book 2ND AIR DIVISIONby Turner Publishing Company, 1998 edition (D790.A2S45)

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