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Posted by Alan Morton
on 10/17/2008, 4:06 am, in reply to "Photo of Sweater Out Crew"
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Norman ...
Odds are this photo was taken in the USA during State Side B-17 Flight Crew training and is not A/C 42-315. 94.
Flight Crews in the States consisted of 10 men Flight Crews. Where as in England the 457th Bomb Group Flight
Crews consisted of nine (9) men Flight Crews.
On Mission No. 52, May 27, 1944, A/C 42-31594 was shot down with the following Flight Crew listed as:
See: http://www.457thbombgroup.org/Narratives/MA52.HTML
See A/C # 594 attached to the 751st Squadron. Pilot: A. Whitlow.
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