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Posted by Alan Morton
on 5/12/2008, 2:27 am, in reply to "Grandfather Brothers Crew"
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Wow Phillip (philsk8thrill@yahoo.com) ... You're really bouncing around between the "Bloody Hundredth" 100th BG and the 457th BG. Joe was a Flight Engineer and would have normally entered through the Nose Hatch. BUT, NOT WITH THE ENGINES RUNNING! The clearance from a turning propeller to the hatch door is really, really marginal. If you lose your balance ... you're toast. He should have gone to the waist door to enter.
Joseph T. Schembri flew 12 combat missions with the 457th BG. Click on this URl: http://www.457thbombgroup.org/Search_home/searchresults.asp?searchField=Joseph%20T.%20Schembri&srcriteria=phrase&range=1
Joe was with the 750th Bomb Squadron. He flew with a variety of Pilots ... one pilot was Lt. Scott B. Ormsby with Joe as the Flight Engineer Top Turret Gunner. He flew a total of 12 Combat Missions
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