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Posted by Alan Morton About the only thing I can think might help you is if you knew Lt Joe "Bud" Maguire's crew by name and here they are: Pilot - Lt Joseph Maguire It might well be in the next couple of days or so you'll know all the missions Lt Maguire flew in combat AND some of his crew might still be alive to give you a host of information for your classroom report of your famous relative. Good Luck!
on 12/4/2003, 2:05 am, in reply to "Re: Maguire's Chophouse"
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Hi John: Since I was in the 750th Bomb Squadron. I flew six (6) missions with the James L. Hall crew as the Flight Engineer and Top Turret gunner aboard Aircraft s/n 43-97211, "Maguire's Chophouse." It's a little misleading when you see a relative's name Maguire on the side of a B-17's nose. One immediately thinks that this aircraft had to be Lt Joe "Bud" Maguire plane exclusively. The sheer logistics of flying 10 or 12 hour missions would eventually exhaust the same crew if they flew every mission. So, when Lt Joe "Bud" Maguire's crew wasn't flying some other flight crew was flying good old Aircraft s/n 43-97211. But at least "Bud" got name on the nose of the plane.
Co Pilot - Lt Robert McMorrow
Navigator - Lt Jackson Tayloe
Bombardier - Lt Glyn Aleshire
Flight Engineer TT Gunner - T/Sgt Oliver Swischer
Radio Operator - T/Sgt Houston LaCombe
Ball Turret Gunner - S/Sgt Rudolph Schroer
Left Waist Gunner - S/Sgt Richard Kaminski
Tail Gunner - S/Sgt Horace Richardson
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