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Posted by Alan Morton The 457th Bomb Group Association membership was initially compiled from a Roster of Association members that were asked to identify when joining, who the others members were that made up that individual's specific flight crew. This roster became the bible. Concurrent with the Association Roster was the knowledge of actual 8th Air Force, 457th Bomb Group "Loading Lists" that identified each Mission flown and the complete account of each flight crew member that participated. These records were stored in the National Archives in Washington, DC. It took many years to slowly photo copy all of these Archive Loading List records at great personal expense and finally, only recently add their contents onto this web site by Webmaster Hap Reese. Naturally, the Association Roster listings and the actual 457th BG Loading Lists were in some cases in conflict. Now finally, the Loading List records posted on the web site became the authentic bible. My sincere apologies to Peggy Racine and Craige Cupp for confusing the issue. At the time (2004) I posted my comments, I only had the Association Roster to peruse. I'd ask Craige to send Hap the Photo with names he references for inclusion in the website Photo section. Cheers, Alan Morton
on 4/14/2007, 11:19 am, in reply to "Emile Racine And Tailgunner Cupp"
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Dear Peggy and Craig,
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