90th Bomb Group

Your uncle was in the thick of it and actually went down in 1943. The site should let you email me directly so I can send you information that will make for a very interesting story for you family history. No one in the Fifth Air Force surpassed his combat record.

Bob Tupa. rjtupa@yahoo.com.

Joe, I have not been in contact with his son Charles in quite a few years but when I did he was still 'Stuck in Lodi' on S Corinth Ave. The key to contacting him if he is still there is that he changed his last name to Old World Karlsson. We worked for years sharing information on Ellis and he has n...

I have checked a post war roster that I have and crew lists and there is no Richard S Cook listed as having served with the 90th Bomb Group. The only Richard Cook was middle initial B and he was a gunner.
Bob Tupa

The 90th shot down more enemy planes than any other bomb group in the 5th Air Force. The 319th Squadron shot down more enemy planes than any other squadron in the 5th Air force and despite being shot down and lost this crew shot down more than any other bomb crew.

His crew pic

GUDIM, ORLIN A. #721712, 321st Sqdn. Cordova, Abraham #720194, (cp), Quelly, Joseph R. #2063471, (n), Malm, Eugene A. #2061400, (b), Scroggins, Morris L. #38410725, (e), Rook, Charley M. #7103610, (ae), Skipper, Marion F. #34547873, (g), Holmes, Silas A. #14171148, (ro), D’Auray, Francio M. #1200369...

Weezie in flight.

Sean I checked the documents that I have and I could not find anything. I did check the index for the Univ of Memphis McWherter Library that has the documents archived that were used on the History of the 90th Bomb group. There were 7 items dated in March, July and August of 1944 and listed Walter a...

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