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Posted by Alan Morton http://www.457thbombgroup.org/Crews/bbc006.jpg http://www.457thbombgroup.org/aircrews/KRUMM%20GREEN%20BYERS%204%20MAY%201944.html The position your relative Charles Hrubos was identified was a Waist Gunner. The name Waist Gunner was derived from the waist of the aircraft's fuselage that had two (2) fifty (50) caliber machine gun positions. These two positions were on the Left and Right at the slimmest part (the waist) of the fuseage ... hence the name "Waist Gunners." Pilot Lt. Robert Krumm apparently returned to the States after being released by Sweden at the end of WWII; but was later KIA fighting in the Korean War. The Co-Pilot Leo R. Green died of Cancer in 1949. The Krumm Flight Crew number was C040. Some of the Robert Krumm Flight Crew had joined the 457th Bomb Group Association, in fact the Crew Radio Operator was Billie Hightower (now deceased) was President of the 457th BG Association back in 1993-97, as was Navigator Roland Orion Byers. The one photo above of the three Officers, includes the Crew Navigator Roland Orion Byers, age 87, of Moscow, Idaho passed away Dec. 9, 2006. One observation about the photo of the Krumm Flight Crew ... there is a question of the specific Krumm Flight crew members that ended in Sweden. It was not uncommon to hear of a flight crew that was a composit of different crew members than the Krumm Flight crew in the attached photo. What is not known at this time is the date the aircraft piloted by Krumm landed in Sweden and who was listed on the Loading List as the crew for that Mission? Well, it's a beginning but not the end! Sorry.
on 5/4/2007, 1:50 am, in reply to "Charles Hrubos"
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Click on these two photos: The one photo is of the entire Krumm Flight Crew. The other photo is of three of the Flight Crew Officers ...
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