Michael J Lorenz

Military

The 28th mission on 28 May 1944, codenamed Epicure, had aborted due to mechanical problems and was returning to base. There was an oil leak, then a dead engine, then another engine backfired. It was nearly midnight with only two engines.

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Units served with

A B-26 Marauder of the 654th Bomb Squadron, 25th Bomb Group, parked on a runway. Handwritten on reverse: '654 BS.'

25th Bomb Group

  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Reconnaissance

Aircraft

42-3279

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Unit: 100th Bomb Group 25th Bomb Group 350th Bomb Squadron 652nd Bomb Squadron

Revisions

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ContributorEmily
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Removed source information added by Wattonman from biography

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ContributorWattonman
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Norman Malayney, "The 25th Bomb Group (Rcn) in WWII" Schiffer Publications Ltd. 2011.

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Aerial Intelligence of the 8th Air Force, pg 39-42 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia