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Posted by Alan Morton
on 1/4/2008, 1:50 pm, in reply to "hallie l. bennett, 751st squadron"
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My posting this date 1/4/2008 has some obvious errors! Pilot Jack B. Owens, Co-Pilot Hays Brica, Navigator Armen Topakian, Sgt. John Ward and Sgt. R. Zeagle could not have ditched in the English Channel and ended up as POW's at the same time. Why? Because two of these three officers were back flying on Mission #95 aboard A/C #827 on July 25, 1944 ... AND these Officer's names are not posted as POW's on the Prisoner Of War section of this web site.
See:http://www.457thbombgroup.org/NARRATIVES/MA95.HTML
By the way the Model B-17F was easily identified because it had no Chin Turret like the later Model B-17G.
Lastly, Son Burt A Bennett wants to know if there are any photos of the Lt. Jack B. Owens crew. It's not likely, but we'll look. The son of Lt. Hays Brica lives in Florida, His Dad is deceased. No account of the whereabouts of Lt. Jack B. Owens. I'm trying to contact the Topakian family in Rhode Island. Unfortunately, we
former Flight Crew members are dying off like flies.
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